Blue Book MISC-PBB1 565-576 (PDF)

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DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 1 (P).—Jet interceptor pilots reported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base officials today that they saw an object in the sky which they did not think was a light reflection.
It was the first time pilots checking on flying saucer reports here had made such a positive element.
The two interceptors were sent up about 1:45 a.m. after the Air Force base had received five or six reports of "flying saucers."
They told officers they went up about 17,000 feet and for about ten seconds watched a bright object which hovered above them. It then disappeared at "a high rate of speed."
"We deliberately maneuvered around to make sure it wasn't a light refraction. At first it appeared red and white and then white only," they said.
The pilots attached to the With Fighter Wing, were Maj. James B. Smith, and 1st Lt. Donald J. Heffer, recently transferred from Other Air Force Base, Park Ridge, Ill.
The Air Technical Intelligence Center, in charge of "flying saucer" investigations, immediately ordered the two pilots to stop commenting further on their experiences and ordered a ban on pictures of the two.
In the report to Capt. K. J. Suppelt, in charge of "flying saucer" studies, the two pilots said they were unable to estimate the object's location because "It was dark and there was nothing to compare it with."
Although the official report said the pilots observed the object far about ten seconds, that probably referred to the brief time they got a good look at it.
One of the pilots reported: "I don't think the light was a reflection. I deliberately maneuvered around it at several angles to make sure it wasn't a light reflection! If it had been, there would have been a change."