equipment to blanket the nation, but that its pilots were on the
lookout for the saucers.

One report mentioned a curious report from Twin Falls, Idaho. The disk
sighted there was said to have flown so low that the treetops whirled
as if in a violent storm. Someone had phoned Purdy about a disk
tracked

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by weather-balloon observers at Richmond, Virginia. There was another
note on a sighting at Hickam Field, Honolulu, and two reports of
unidentified objects seen near Anchorage, Alaska.

A typed list of world-wide sightings had been made up by the staff at
True. It contained many cases that were new to me, reports from
Paraguay, Belgium, Turkey, Holland, Germany, and the Scandinavian
countries. At the bottom of this memo Purdy had written: "Keep
checking on rumor that the Soviet has a Project Saucer, too. Could be
planted."

From the mass of reports, John DuBarry, the aviation editor of True,
had methodically worked out an average picture of the disks: "The
general report is that they are round or oval (this could be an
elliptical object seen end-on), metallic looking, very bright--either
shining white or silvery colored. They can move at extremely high
speed, hover, accelerate rapidly, and outmaneuver ordinary aircraft.

"The lights are usually seen singly--very few formations reported.
They seem to have the same speed, acceleration, and ability to