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eek my HIGHBOY DESK in genuine | . SOLID mahogany from the New | Ariingies Group by Kling. A: distinctive addition to any room. Ac beading stores. Full color bookler. “Your Bed- room and You" contains helpful fugRestions on the care of fur- anure and bedroom decoration end atfangement. Send 2$f in coin to Kling Factories, Dept. ¥9. Mayvilic, NL ¥. KLING MEANS ss MAILOGANY ee MAPLE ® CHERRY aig a routine patrol dor thes wort adie kata National Guard, and ju ked the tower at the Fargo Municip 7” port for clearance to land when . wed what seemed to be another planc’s tail- light a thousand yards away. He queried the tower, and the men there reported that the onty ather aircraft over the field was Piper Cul, Gorman could see the Cub plainly outlined below him. Curi- ous, he flew toward the light. “It was aheut six to cight inches in diameter, clear white, and completely round, with a sort of fuzz at the edges,” Gorman later told investigaters, adding that he saw “no outline of anything” around the edges. “Tt was blinking on and off. AsT appr ached, however, the light sud- denly became steady and pulled into asharp left bank, . 2d dived after it and brought my inaaifeld: pressure up toosixty inches, bue Po coukda't cateh ap with the dhing. Tt started gaining: alti- tude and again made a feft hank. F put my F+51 into a sharp turn and tried tecut the Halt off in its tarn. By then, we Were atoabout seven thousand feet. Suddenly it made a sharp right turn and we headed straight at each other. Just when we were about to collide, I guess I got scared. J went inta a dive and the hight passed over my canapy at about five hundred fect Thea it made aleft cirele about a thousind feet above, and | gave chase again.” Gorman fol- lowed the tight up to fourteen thousand feet, where, after another nese collision, his ship went into a pawer stall and the light disippe: ared tthe aerthwest. Zeeeavesnen ceentigtatad ange ae mins ar awh ect e UH ACTS a RA Se aba sea trail odors. He had gunned his plane up to four hundred miles an hour with- out gaining on the light. Ic was able to maintain an extremely steep angle of awent, far greater than that of his Air Force fighter. “When I attempted to turn with [the light], I blacked out temporarily, duc to excessive speed,” he said, “J am in fairly good physical condi- tion and I do not believe there are many, if any, pilots who could withstand the turn and speed effected by that light and remain consckius.” Project Saucer suspected that Gor- mit was Glting with a weather balloon, For one thing, t learned thatthe Fargo weather station had released a lighted hafloon only ten minutes befure Gor- man’s patrul stopped being routine, The object’s steady, practically vertical climb suggested the behavior uf a bal- loon. A technician who once worked on Project Saucer tald me recently that chasing a weather baJloon with an air- plane is comparable to diving to the bottom of a pool after a hollow rubber pare "1, 72