that candle and just imagined the light's maneuvers--confused it with
my own movement, because of the dark."

Gorman grinned. "They had it just about wrapped up--until they talked
to George Sanderson. He's the weather observer. He was tracking the
balloon with a theodolite, and he showed them his records. The time
and altitudes didn't fit, and the wind direction was wrong. The
balloon was drifting in the opposite direction. Both the tower men
backed him up. So that killed the weather-balloon idea."

The next step by Project "Saucer" investigators had been to look for
some unidentified aircraft. This failed, too. Obviously, it was only
routine; the outline of a conventional

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plane would certainly have been seen by Gorman and the men in the
tower.

An astronomical check by Professor Hynek ruled out stars, fireballs,
and comets--a vain hope, to begin with. The only other conventional
answer, as the Project report later stated, was hallucination. In view
of all the testimony, hallucination had to he ruled out. Finally, the
investigators admitted they had no solution.

The first Project "Saucer" report, on April 27, 1949, left the Gorman
"mystery light" unidentified.

In the Saturday Evening Post of May 7, 1949, Sidney Shallett analyzed
the Gorman case, in the second of his articles on flying saucers.