SOURCE: FLYING SAUCERS SERIOUS BUSINESS, pgs 67-68
Document by Dan Wilson/Transcription by Rich Vitello In January of 1965 the ubiquitous Unidentified Flying Objests returned to one of their favorite stomping grounds-Washigton D.C. About 4:20 p.m., January 11, a group of Army
communications specialists in the Munitions Building
at Nineenth Street and Constition Ave., N.W., rushed
to the windows to watch an interesting spectacle to
which they had been alerted by friends in the radar
section.
There were twelve of these Army specialists,
including Paul M. Dickey, Jr., and Ed Shad, gathered
at the windows, here they observed twelve to fifteen
white, egg-shaped objects, moving across the sky in
erratic fashion at altitudes at 12,000 to 15,000
feet above the Capitol building. And the objects
were clearly being pursued by two delta-wing jets,
which they easily outmaneuvered in the brief
interval the spectacle was in sight from the Army
center.
One of the first news sources on the scene was
the Washington Star. In addition to the specialists
just mentioned, The Star interviewed Sam Webb, Jack
McBride, and Sam XXXXXXX. Said the Star. (January
13):
"They agree on the shape and approximate number
of the discs and the fact that the things were
speeding faster than the jet interceptors."
When the Star inquired of the Defense Department
what the objects might have been, the paper was
curtly informed that the twelve Army communications
specialists had seen NOTHING AT ALL! "There was no
such incident. It just did not happen."
Even more intriguing was the experience of a
television station which made arrangements to
interview the Army group which had seen the strange
objects. The interview was to be made on sound film
and aired that night.
Word of this development got to the Pentagon and
a "spokeman" was rushed to the Army center on the
double quick. He found the television crew setting
up their gear. The communications specialists who
were about to be interviewed were taken into another
room and informed that they could not discuss the
incident for public consumption. When some of the
civilian specialists demanded to know in what in
what manner the Pentagon could force THEM to
maintain silence, the flustered officer told them
that - "since they had observed the objects through
a government window they came under the government
regulations on the subject!"
There was no television interviews with those
witnesses.
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