which Hilton had forwarded. As in the majority of cases, he had seen
just one disk. It had hovered at a very high altitude, gleaming in the
sun, then had suddenly accelerated and raced off to the north.

"I couldn't tell its size or speed," said Green. "But if it was as
high as I think, it must have been pretty big."

Pete told me later that Green believed the disk had been at least
twenty miles high, because it was well above clouds at thirty thousand
feet.

"It's kind of hard to believe," said Pete. "The thing would have to be
a lot bigger than a B-twenty-nine, and the speed over two thousand
miles an hour."

"You know what they said about the Mantell saucer," I reminded him.
"Some of the Godman Field people said it was at least three hundred
feet in diameter."

"I've heard it was twice that," said Pete.

{p. 78}

"You know any Kentucky National Guard pilots?" I asked.

"One or two," said Pete. "But they couldn't tell me anything. It was
hushed up too fast."

That evening I talked with the airline official, whom I knew well
enough to call by his first name. I put it to him bluntly.