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closing fast." Luna, Peru. "Then last March | saw them on two successive nights in San Miguel. At that time Echo II was orbiting the earth and | believe the crew of the flying saucer was closely following the U.S. man-made satellite to study its characteristics. "We are not certain of the existence of other intelligent beings similar to ourselves, but on the other hand, we have no evidence to the contrary," said Father Reyna. Strangely enough, Astronaut James McDivitt claimed to have photographed an unknown flying object while on the Gemini-4 space-flight. On his second full day in orbit, McDivitt transmitted that he had seen something "with big arms sticking out." The astronaut took several feet of film of the mystery object with his movie camera and one snap with his Hasselblad still camera. The developed film gave evidence of nothing that looked remotely like either an already-placed U.S. or Russian satellite or the flying object that McDivitt had described. Space Agency officials issued a statement that McDivitt had seen the 23,100-pound Pegasus-2, which might be considered to have "big arms sticking out." It must be noted, however, that Pegasus-2 was 1,200 miles away at the time when McDivitt declared that his object was "about 20 miles away and A brilliant object streaked across the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania skies at extremely high speed on the night of July 24th. Police switchboards became jammed with calls of sightings by nervous citizens. Nearly all residents of the Pittsburgh area described the object as a white-hot light with an orange tail. Personnel at radar stations in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Luther Air Station hi Canada reported spotting several UFO's at varying altitudes of 5,200 to 17,000 feet. Luther Air Station said that its radar had become electrically jammed by the mysterious objects. Jet interceptors gave chase to the UFO's over Duluth, Minnesota but were unable to match the speeds of the glowing objects. It seemed as though the one-night excursion to North America may only have been in the nature of a scouting expedition. On July 25th, the UFO's were once again reported in South America - this time at