Excellent book, indeed.



Bruce Maccabee:
'UFO FBI connection
 - The Secret History of the Government's Cover-Up'
Llewellyn Publications, Minnesota 2000
p.263/264
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The next sighting of interest to the FBI was made about a year
later _by an FBI employee_ (Scully and Mulder, are you paying
attention ?):

  [Name censored] on 4/9/56 reported the following rather
  unusual occurence which is in the 'flying saucer' category. On
  4/5/46 [sic. 1956 ? - J.] ... left Washington by car with her
  fiance ... (employee of the National Security Agency), to go
  to Morven, North Carolina to meet the ... family. Around 5
  A.M. on 4/6/56 as dawn was breaking amd while driving on Route
  1 north of Henderson, North Carolina, the pair was startled by
  what appeared to be a round low-flying object coming directly
  toward the car. The object appeared to pass over the car and
  [they] turned to see it appear to speed up and then veer off
  out of sight. She and ... both felt they had seen something
  unusual which was difficult to explain and certainly did not
  appear to be an optical illusion. ... stated that the object
  as she saw it appeared round, was spinning and was bright as
  though containing a series of lights in a zig-zag pattern. The
  object appeared to be flying very low as it came toward them,
  moving at a great speed and gave off no particular sound. The
  object, to the best of her belief, was at least as wide as the
  highway and appeared no more than two to four feet in
  thickness. ... , who is one of our best employees, stated
  heretofore she has placed little credence in 'flying saucer'
  stories and felt that had she and her boyfriend not seen the
  same object she would be inclined to think she had imagined
  something. She appreciates that what they saw may have been
  some kind of optical illusion; however, at the time, the
  object appeared very real to them.

The FBI decided that she should be interviewed again before
passing the information on to the Air Force. On April 12, she
reviewed the information from the April 9 interview, and then
added the following information:

  She advised she had seen the object for only a few seconds,
  that it was still dark when she observed it, although it was
  near daylight on April 6, 1956. She stated when daylight came,
  she observed the sky to be cloudy and it started raining
  approximately 30 minutes after she had observed the object.
  She recalled the object had approached their car on the
  driver's side from straight ahead at a height which she
  thought to be less than 25 feet. She was unable to estimate
  the speed of the object. She described it as being oval
  shaped, being very bright and having a light blue color. It
  made no sound that she could hear. She advised her fiance
  would be able to state exactly where they had observed the
  object in North Carolina, inasmuch as he was familiar with
  that area. She was unable to recall any additional pertinent
  information.

On August 16, the FBI wrote a letter based on the above
information to Air Force intelligence. However, this appears to
be yet another credible sighting that fell through the cracks.
It does not appear in the Project Blue Book sighting file.