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15,000 feet. at least, very retrograde regions of France, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and South America ... Landings made in populated areas were of extremely short duration." If the saucer crews are intelligent enough to pilot their craft through several million miles of space, we may safely assume that they have technical data processing machines that would advise them that New Guinea, with one of the poorest communications systems in the world, would be a good place to "change a flat tire." 12. So Why Don't They Visit Washington? Six Army Signal Corps engineers looked out of the windows of then: offices in downtown Washington, D.C at the behest of one of their group who had observed. some strange spots in the sky. It was 4:20 P.M. on January 11, 1965. The offices were located in the Munitions Bilding, and the engineers had a chance to observe the spots, which were reflecting the low afternoon sun, long enough to agree on the number and approximate shape of the objects and to estimate their altitude at between 12,000 and As the engineers watched, the discs zig-zagged easily across the sky toward the capitol building, moving from north to south. Suddenly two delta wing jets burst onto the scene and began chasing the discs, but the objects outran their pursuers, seemingly without effort. Two of the engineers, Paul M. Dickey and Ed Shad, reported seeing a commercial airliner make a regular approach to the National Airport in about the same area of the sky. The incident was one of many reported around the nation's capital in January of 1965. The press, eager for a statement or an explanation of the discs and the presence of the two jet pursuit planes in the area, tried to squeeze a statement out of the Defense Department. The official reaction was: "There was no such incident. It just didn't happen." As if regimented by some unspoken law, officials of the military installation around Washington gave exactly the same reply to reporter's inquiries.