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Over the White House. Barnes began to get worried when he saw the blips apparently flying over the White House and other prohibited areas. He called the airport control tower. Sure enough, its radar showed the strange blips too. When the towermen measured the speed of a fast blip, they found that it had flown for eight miles at 7,200 m.p.h...
...blips on Barnes's scope were moving toward Andrews Air Force Base about ten miles to the east. Barnes called the Andrews tower. Nothing strange showed on its radar, but both towermen and an enlisted man on the field saw a single, round, orange light drifting in the southern sky. That was enough for Barnes. He called the Air Defense Command and reported an unidentified object was over the Washington area. Then he told an airline pilot, C. S. Pierman of Capital Airlines, who was about to take off for Pittsburgh, to watch for mysterious objects. Pierman climbed...
...rest of the week, a few strange blips appeared now & then. Then on Saturday night they broke out all over, crisscrossing the capital as they had the week before. This time, the radar at Andrews was seeing the things too. One blip hung over Boiling Field, across the Potomac from the airport, but observers at Boiling saw nothing in the sky. Some airline pilots saw mysterious lights; others saw nothing...
...earth and raises general hell with the tides. Enormous glaciers crash into the sea, earthquakes rumble, and, in a particularly satisfying scene, New York City is destroyed and inundated by the Atlantic ocean. The actual collision between earth and the second planet is shown as a mild pink blip on the TV screen of an escaping rocket ship...
Near week's end Captain Richard M. Heyman, flying a B-26 Invader near Seoul, dropped down to investigate a suspicious blip picked up by radar. At 500 ft., he sighted an enemy plane that looked in the moonlight as though it might be Bed Check Charlie's crate. Captain Heyman fired a single burst from his .50-cahber guns, and the plane flew apart in midair. Air Force officers were pretty sure they had finished off Bed Check, but refused to say so definitely, suggested that other Bed Checks might turn up. If that happened...