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We stood at the window watching his progress along the street capes swaying, broad bonnet of blue cocked at an angle on top, red double-chinned face looking straight ahead. Amelia came over to my shoulder and looked too. But all she said was, "And now, when it's past and gone, will ye tell me if Yon is what you learned folk caa' an avalanche?"
Courtesy is a good thing; and if you thought that, after staying a month in a house, you were bound by etiquette to propose to the marriageable part of it, it is pardonable, only don't do it again, please." "I'll take caa I'll take caa. I say your tempaa is not quite what those other fools think it is no, by Jove;" and the captain glared. "Nonsense: I am only a little fiendish on this one point.
At 7:59P.M. the people in the CAA radio facility at Blackstone saw it. At 8:00P.M. jets arrived from Langley AFB to attempt to intercept it, but at 8:05P.M. it disappeared. This was a good report because it was the first time we ever received a series of reports on the same object, and there was no doubt that all these people had reported the same object.
When I finished calling I got an aeronautical chart out of the file and plotted the points of the sighting. The CAA employee had seen the UFO disappear over the northwestern horizon. The pilot had been flying from Greencastle, Indiana, to Paris, Illinois, so he'd have been flying on a heading of just a little less than 270 degrees, or almost straight west.
Individually they weren't too good, but when I lined them up chronologically and plotted them on a map they took the form of a hot report. At 3:40P.M. a woman at Unionville, Virginia, had reported a "very shiny object" at high altitude. At 4:20P.M. the operators of the CAA radio facility at Gordonsville, Virginia, had reported that they saw a "round, shiny object."
One such message came in about 4:30A.M. on May 8, 1952. It was from a CAA radio station in Jacksonville, Florida, and had been forwarded over the Flight Service teletype net. I received the usual telephone call from the teletype room at Wright-Patterson, I think I got dressed, and I went out and picked up the message.
Malise, my man, caa' ye no that an honour, a privileege? Is that no owing to me being the sister on my faither's side o' Ninian Halliburton, merchant and indweller in Dumfries?" "Nay, nay, good dame," laughed the Earl, "'tis all for the sake of your own very sufficient charms!
From the description the CAA employee gave, what he'd seen had been a clear-cut, distinct, flattened sphere, with no smoke trail, no sparks and no tail. A daylight meteor, so low as to be described as "a 50-cent piece held at arm's length," would have had a smoke trail, sparks, and would have made a roar that would have jolted the Sphinx. This one was quiet.
Their final comment was the one we all had heard so many times, "I always thought these people who reported flying saucers were crazy, but now I don't know." When Lieutenant Rothstien returned to Dayton he triple-checked with the CAA for aircraft in the area but there were none. Could there have been airplanes in the area that CAA didn't know about? The answer was almost a flat "No."
The very name of the Cordillera of Caaguazu bears testimony to the abundance of the yerba, caa meaning maté in the Guaranian language, and guazu, "great" or "much." As seen from the elevation on which Villa Rica stands, this mountain-range, twelve leagues distant, stretches along the horizon an undulating mass of blue.
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