Gorman called the tower to recheck his clearance. He was told the only
other plane in the area was a Piper Cub. Gorman Could see the Cub
plainly outlined below him. There was a night football game going on,
and the field was brightly lighted.

But the Cub was nowhere near the strange light.

As the mystery light raced above the football field. Gorman noticed an
odd phenomenon. Instead of seeing the silhouette of a plane, he saw no
shape at all around the light. By contrast, he could see the Cub's
outline clearly.

Meantime, the airport traffic controller, L. D. Jensen, had also
spotted the queer light. Concerned with the danger of collision--he
said later that he, too, thought it a plane's tail light--he trained
his binoculars on it. Like Gorman, he was unable to distinguish a
shape near the light. Neither could another C.A.A. man who was with
him in the tower, a Fargo resident named Manuel E. Johnson.

Up in the F-51, Gorman dived on the light, which was steadily blinking
on and off.

"As I closed in," he told Project "Saucer" men later, "it suddenly
became steady and pulled up into a sharp left turn. It was a clear
white and completely roundabout six to eight inches in diameter.

"I thought it was making a pass at the tower. I dived after it and
brought my manifold pressure up to sixty, but I couldn't catch the
thing."