Like many other puzzling UFO reports, the objects in the Tremonton movies were living lights—a case for the ornithologist rather than the Air Force.
A bright light moving erratically as it crossed and recrossed the field of view caused an experienced pilot and copilot to execute violent and evasive maneuvers in a flight over the dark Pacific.[[VI-14]] The errant UFO proved to be only a firefly inadvertently trapped between the panes of the double windshield.
[[VI-1]] Rolfe, F. Eastern Daily Press, January 16, 1908.
[[VI-2]] Purdy, R. J. “The occasional luminosity of the White Owl (Strix flammea),” Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society, Vol. VIII (1904–1909), p. 547.
[[VI-3]] Gurney, J. H. The Zoologist, No. 802 (April 1908), p. 121.
[[VI-4]] Boston Traveller, Oct. 30, 1961.
[[VI-5]] London Daily Telegraph, November 8, 1958.
[[VI-6]] Maney, C. A., and Hall, R. The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects. Washington, D.C., 1961.
[[VI-7]] Ruppelt, E. J. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1956.
[[VI-8]] Air Force Files.