Military Transcript, 2-Jan-1949 declass: 10/3/52 0411 hours - flight controllers identified faint "non-regulation" radar signals from an undetermined number of craft approaching from the east. Approaching aircraft failed to respond to repeated requests for identification. 0412 to 0416 hours - Four reports of strange-looking objects in the sky were phoned-in from the eastern perimeter of the base. 0417 hours - Base Commander Bradley Harmer notified. Acting upon standing RLU DOD Order 445-90, Colonel Harmer orders three Pogos scrambled to intercept the objects - or destroy them - if necessary. 0425 hours - Three Pogos (Alpha Flight) lift off from pad 10. Major Steven Fisher (Red1) is flight leader. Captain2 Matt Cantor (Green1) and Lieutenant3 Dillon Arness (Blue3) pilot the other three ships. 0430 hours - Red1 makes visual contact with the intruders; he radios back to control that two disc-shaped craft have been sighted at 5000 feet in 80% overcast and that they are traveling due east at 400 knots. Green1 and Blue3 confirm the sighting. Over a period of two minutes Alpha Flight makes repeated attempts to contact the discs. There is no response. At this time the intruders begin maneuvering into the overcast. 0433 hours - Colonel Harmer, acting upon standing RLU DOD Order 445-90, orders Alpha Flight to engage the "enemy". Alpha Flight begins pursuit. At the same time Colonel Harmer orders Beta Flight, three Pogos on pad 3, to aid in the intercept. 0436 hours - Beta Flight lifts off from pad 3. Captain1 John Kirby is flight leader. Lieutenants Bud Rose and Jeffrey Seaburger pilot the other two Pogos. At the same time Alpha Flight launches a volly of Whizz Needle Darts at the fleeing craft. Furthermore Red1 opens up with his 75 caliber chain guns. Ten seconds later all three pilots notice a brief green flash in the overcast. 0437 hours - both disks are lost, visually, to Alpha Flight. Red1 and Blue3 are able to identify faint radar images of the discs. Green1 loses them entirely. Radar images show that the two discs have now split up: one disc veering north, the other south west. Radar displays at Del Rio show the same thing. 0438 hours - the radar signatures of both discs abruptly disappear. 0439 hours - Beta Flight arrives in the vicinity of the last known disc sighting. 0440 hours - Colonel Harmer orders the pursuit to end.