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fields. "... minutes later, after the big jet had made its turn and come in over the area where the UFO was first seen, the pilot contacted Main Control again and reported ‘It's on the ground!"" Then, according to Terry Clarke's information source photo crews were asked to stand by just before radio communications ceased, and a major security clamp-down was put into effect. Because of the stringent security measures applied, Mrs. Lorenzen was unable to learn to her complete satisfaction whether the pilot had been suffering from or the standard Air Force "optical illusions" or whether U.S.A.F. did indeed have a flying saucer secreted away in a hangar at Holloman. Subsequent investigation served only to reveal another story of a UFO on the ground which had been discovered by a guard on the range at night. When the distraught soldier was returned to Headquarters, according to Mrs. Lorenzen s info he required sedation and hospitalization. 14. The Saucer That Chased a Japanese Airliner Yashika Inaba eased back on the throttle of the TOA Airlines Convair 240 he piloted as it taxied down the runway. It was the beginning of another routine flight. He carried 28 passengers on this March 18, 1965 flight, and after lift off, he and his co-pilot, Tetsu Umashima, went through routine checks of all the plane's systems before settling back to cruise along the sky ways. At 7:00 P.M., an object appeared in the dark sky just after the plane had passed the small island of Himeji. Inaba checked his altimeter and found it registering the proper 6,000 feet, and he wondered what else was flying at that level. As the object approached, he found that it was nothing that was supposed to inhabit the airways of the earth. His description had the object emitting a greenish color, and as it approached, it disrupted the normal operation of his automatic direction finder and cut off radio communication with the nearby landing