Something that bright had to have caused a fire. I also concluded that if there was a crash of anything, there had to be some kind of crew trying to recover the plane or the saucer if there was one. We had reports of a recovery crew, but it was your classic X-files type of scenario. I received a newspaper report that said that a tire fire had broken out in Tracy. 7 million tires were ablaze .
Tire fires are the worst fires of all.
They cause black smoke and they are seldom put out. Some burn for months. That is when I decided that this smoke screen was a convenient smoke screen. Whenever there is something out of the ordinary there is always something to screw up the investigation. This Tire fire was it.