"See if you can get any lead on that," Purdy told me. "That F.B.I.
business puzzles me. Where would they come in?"

I said I would try to find out. But it was almost four months before
we learned the answer: The F.B.I. men had been witnesses. (This was
later admitted in an obscure cross-reference in the final Project
"Saucer" report. But all official answers to the strange green-light
sightings had been carefully omitted. The cases concerned were 223,
224, 225, 226, 227, 230, and 231, which will be discussed later.)

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"When you go back to Washington," said Purdy, "see what reaction you
get to the interplanetary idea."

I had a pretty good idea what the reaction would be, but I nodded.
"O.K. I'll go flag a space ship and be on my way."

"O.K.--gag it up," said Purdy. "But don't sell it short, If by any
chance it's true, it'll be the biggest story since the birth of
Christ."

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CHAPTER VII

IT WAS DARK when the airliner limousine reached La Guardia Field. I