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brilliant—just like a spotlight." He’s convinced that what he saw was a UFO. “My conclusion," he added, only half in jest, “is that on Route 611, there’s a secret flying saucer base.” (Editor's note: It turns out that the alleged sightings of UFOs are probably "close encounters of the Quantico kind.” The Marine Base's public affairs office reports that war games were conducted on February 6, 7 and 8 which included firing of "eliminations” from an 81 millimeter mortar. According to a Marine Corps spokesman, a flare goes up a couple of thousand feet and pops, releasing a parachute.
(The sighting in January is probably attributable to larger flares, “great big cannister jobs” that are dropped in a string from airplanes and burn for three to four minutes at about a half million candlewatts, according to the public affairs office.
(“They look like they’re flying in formation. You can see them from everywhere. We can’t say positively but they were probably our flares
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