Encounter

The narrator starts off by talking about UFOs. He talks about witnesses which includes people from the military and other pilots. He says the physical evidence seems 'to disappear into thing air.'

One guy is manning some kind of communications equipment and the other just arrived. The guy standing up is angry at the pilot since he didn't take the course back he expected him to while the radio guy says the pilot took a different course due to bad weather.

The other guy is also angry because the company will have to spend time trying to find the pilot and his plane which appears to be missing. The radio guy wanted him to listen to a recording from the pilot but the other guy refuses to listen to it.

The radio man plays the recording anyway and the other guy comes in to listen to it. The pilot is referring to seeing something strange and that it was coming right at his plane. The recording then shuts off.

His plane disappeared over Loon lake which is an actual place south of Lake Tahoe.

The boss is really nasty. It seems they are building a road and he wants it to go further than planned. The other guy says he doesn't have enough men but the boss says work the men double shifts if he has to. He's still also mad at the downed pilot. (He lacks the 'milk of human kindness.') The road is supposed to lead to a mine.

The boss planes to use a plane to find the missing pilot and the other guy says using a helicopter will be best but the boss insists on just using a plane.

The guy says that the pilot saw some kind of cigar-shaped object in the sky. The boss says the pilot just ended up hitting a tall mountain. The week before that missing pilot had told the boss he had seen a flying saucer.

The pilot of the hunting plane questions the boss who says the helicopter will only become part of the search if the plane finds the missing pilot. That's two guys that have now said that the helicopter is the thing that should be used in the search.

The missing pilot's wife shows up and says she wants to help in the search. The boss refuses her request. There's some kind of bad blood between the two. Apparently she 'walked out' on him for the Rand, the missing pilot.

The search pilots call and say they saw the missing pilot's parachute.

They find something hanging from the trees and the boss says he'll send it to the lab. The other search pilot calls what was found 'angel hair' and reads about another occurrence. (Check Google. Angel hair is at times associated with UFOs.)

The angel hair starts to disintegrate in front of them. That's another characteristic of angel hair, by the way.

Then there's scenes of a major storm. The boss tells one of the search pilots that they are to return to head quarters and he will use a fixed plane to do the search himself. The storm lasted for three days.

Word comes that they have found the missing pilot alive. Rand said he had been kidnapped. He was found in a desert over a thousand miles away. Later the boss talks to one of the pilots and it proves that Rand's plane could not possibly have gone a thousand miles on the fuel it had. The pilot also talks about an instance where a military plane was sent to investigate a UFO. On the radar the two objects merged and the plane was never seen again. (This is also based on real UFO report.)

The pilot also says that some scientists said the moons of Mars were artificial. This is based on an article I actually read, written by Carl Sagan and a Russian astronomer. We know now, of course, that they moons are not at all artificial.

I found this on the Net:

Russian radio astronomer, I.S. Shklovskii, in his and Carl Sagan’s book, Intelligent Life in the Universe theorizes, 'The ideas that the moons of Mars are artificial satellites may seem fantastic, at first glance. In my opinion, however, it merits serious consideration. A technical civilization substantially in advance of our own would certainly be capable of constructing and launching massive satellites.'

Rand dies. The doctor says he died of 'very deep shock.' He adds that Rand had not been in the desert for more than a half hour.

The narrator adds that Rand had been missing four four days and had landed in the desert by parachute. He adds that no trace of his plane or the film he took has ever been found.

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