of the incidents and concluded that they were all explainable in
terms of astronomical phenomena. Since this was UFO history, I made
several attempts to get some detailed and official information on
this report and the sightings, but I was never successful.

The ghost rockets left in March, as mysteriously as they had arrived.

All during the spring of 1948 good reports continued to come in.
Some were just run-of-the-mill but a large percentage of them were
good, coming from people whose reliability couldn't be questioned.
For example, three scientists reported that for thirty seconds they
had watched a round object streak across the sky in a highly erratic
flight path near the Army's secret White Sands Proving Ground. And on
May 28 the crew of an Air Force C-47 had three UFO's barrel in from
"twelve o'clock high" to buzz their transport.

On July 21 a curious report was received from the Netherlands. The
day before several persons reported seeing a UFO through high broken
clouds over The Hague. The object was rocket-shaped, with two rows of
windows along the side. It was a poor report, very sketchy and
incomplete, and it probably would have been forgotten except that
four nights later a similar UFO almost collided with an Eastern
Airlines DC-3. This near collision is Volume II of "The Classics."

On the evening of July 24, 1948, an Eastern Airlines DC-3 took off
from Houston, Texas. It was on a scheduled trip to Atlanta, with
intermediate stops in between. The pilots were Clarence S. Chiles and
John B. Whitted. At about 2:45 A.M., when the flight was 20 miles
southwest of Montgomery, the captain, Chiles, saw a light dead ahead
and closing fast. His first reaction, he later reported to an ATIC