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got my wings down in corpus christi

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texas in 1944

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may the 15th

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we were called to the flight line to

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investigate a

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object that was flying over the or

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moving around over this

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hanford ordnance works

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the

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objects had been detected on a radar

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down in the

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neck of the columbia river

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just west of

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the naval air station near pasco

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when we got down there they told us that

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this bogey was out there right over the

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hanford ordnance works and

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directed the lieutenant commander brown

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to take off and challenge him

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and since ct neil from

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south carolina

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and i stayed on the ground ct went down

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and got in another success to back up

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with brown if he needed it and i went up

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to the control tower to

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relay the information from a

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radar office to brown and we talked back

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and forth we got brown up there behind

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us objects and i was asking what he saw

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he said all i can see is a bright red or

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a reddish-orange

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fireball right up in front of me

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there's no form no

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substance to us whatsoever this is

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bright light at the time he started in

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africa the radar man estimated that the

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speed was probably around

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60 to 70 knots okay translated into

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miles per hour that's probably 65 to

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75.76

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miles an hour

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but when brown got behind it it started

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moving away and he kept getting closer

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and far enough that s6 faster and faster

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and faster

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but anyway when he did that

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the objects whatever it was just took

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off and went boom boom

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just here out of sight no noise and i

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thought he wouldn't hurt his enemies

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stuff if there was any noise

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but that i just went off and left him

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and he circled up there

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for oh i would say probably half hour

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maybe three quarters of an hour

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and nothing ever happened again but it

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had headed off into the northwest

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towards seattle so can you tell me a

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little bit more about what the object

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looked like

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all that object was was a fireball

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and

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figure out what it was he said it was so

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bright he couldn't hardly stand it when

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he was getting closer to it but he said

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he soon got out of range where it was

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nothing more than just a bowl of light

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there was no form or no

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noise to it that he could detect but the

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worst part of all of this is that my

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wrong book never showed

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our experience and i don't know yet why

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but

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the navy ignored that or at least did

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not tell anybody about that and didn't

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put anything in my logbook so i could

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refer back to know what night it was