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or Halfway along the fuselage there was a porthole about two feet in diameter. It was divided into four equal sections, and there was a small door below it, measuring about 4-1/2 feet high and 2-1/2 feet wide. This door was open and white light was pouring through it. Directly outside the object a human-looking man was examining the underside of the craft with some kind of flashlight. As Eddie climbed out of his car, this person turned, climbed up a metal ladder, and entered the door. ‘‘I’m sure it was aluminum,” Laxton noted. ‘When the door snapped shut, it sounded like when a door closes.” He described the pilot as weighing about 180 pounds and being 5 feet 9 inches tall with a light complexion. He was wearing what looked like a mechanic’s cap with the bill turned up. “T got the impression due to his stooped shoulders he was about thirty to thirty-five years old,’ Eddie said. ‘“‘He wore either coveralls or a two-piece suit that looked like greencolored fatigues. I got the idea that he had three stripes above and three below [on his sleeve]. The above stripes were in an arch and the below stripes were in a wide V shape.” A few seconds later ‘‘the craft started up... it sounded like a high speed drill. It lifted off the ground about fifty feet high and headed toward the Red River. In about five seconds it was a mile away.”” When the machine took off, Laxton reported, ‘“‘The hair on the back of my hands and neck stood up.” Admittedly excited by what he had seen, Eddie got back into his car and drove about 100 yards when he came upon a huge tank truck parked beside the road. The driver, C. W. Anderson of Snyder, Oklahoma, said that he had seen something following him in his mirror and that he had also watched it fly away toward the Red River. After their story appeared in local papers, other truck drivers came forward with reports of having seen similar objects along Highway 70 earlier in the year. Eddie Laxton faithfully reported the incident to his employer, the Air Force, and a couple of days later a line of jeeps pulled up in front of his office. ‘‘A colonel and other officers wanted to see the spot where the object had been,”’ Laxton said. ‘I went out with them and showed them 160 / Operation Trojan Horse