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the horizon. vacated. Unable to do anything but watch, the two men looked on as the flying V passed within 500 feet of them. They both clearly described the object later. The top leg of the V was a full third longer than the bottom, and the entire object moved at a "fantastic rate of speed." In a very short time, it had disappeared over Minutes after the thing had vanished, two highway patrolmen arrived on the scene. They were too late to see the strange object, but both Crawford and Soenichsoen related what they had seen. The state police put in an immediate call to Toledo Express Airport, which is located 10 miles west of Toledo, and, after explaining the sighting, asked for a radar check of the area. "There is nothing in your area within a radius of 45 miles," came the reply. The men standing in the parking lot of the food market reasoned that either the object was too low or else it had moved out of the district and the range of the radar. As they discussed the sighting, a propeller-driven plane appeared in the sky. It was easily identifiable as a plane, for its wings and fuselage were properly lighted and the sound of its motor was completely audible. But the plane itself was acting very strangely. It circled dangerously near the ground for night-time flying, yet at no time did it appear to be in any sort of trouble. Furthermore, it combed the area that the bright object had just Puzzled, the highway patrol officers put in another call to the airport and requested a radar search of the area. The immediate response: "I'm sorry, there's nothing in your area within a radius of 45 miles." The highway patrolman laughed, explained that four men had a propeller-driven plane in perfect view, and asked the operator to check again. After a pause, the voice explained that a plane practicing night landings had wandered over Elmore. The radar operator suggested that perhaps that was what Crawford and Soenichsoen had seen. The suggestion was not convincing to the two men who had watched the antics of a strange object passing over the Ohio skies. Too many things were not accounted for by that explanation. The sound of