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The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe
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"We were at about twelve thousand feet," he said, when we saw this
thing pacing us. It didn't have any running lights, but we could see
the moonlight reflecting from something like bright metal. There was a
glow along the side, like some kind of light, or exhaust."

"Could you make out the shape?" I asked.

Blake grinned crookedly. "You think we didn't try? I cut in toward it.
It turned in the same direction. I pulled up about three hundred feet,
and it did the same. Finally, I opened my throttles and cut in fast,
intending to pull tip if we got too close. I needn't have worried. The
thing let out a burst of reddish flame and streaked up out of sight.
It was gone in a few seconds."

"Then it must have been piloted," I said.

"If not, it had some kind of radar-responder unit to make it veer off
when anything got near it. It matched every move I made, until the
last one."

I asked him what he thought the saucer was. Blake hesitated, then he
gave me a slow grin.

"Well, my copilot thinks it was a space ship. He says no pilot here on
earth could take that many G's, when the thing zoomed."

{p. 50}

I'd heard some "men from Mars" opinions about the saucers, but this
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