UFO1970

Dr. Doug Jackson:
[playing catch with a lighter] Did you see it stop?

Col. Paul Foster:
Stop?

Dr. Doug Jackson:
Look, I throw it up, then it falls back into my hand. But for a split second just at the top of trajectory, it stops. Did you see it? [Foster shrugs] But it did stop!

Col. Paul Foster:
If you say so.

Dr. Doug Jackson:
No, Foster, it didn't. It's moving forward at five hundred knots like everything else in this plane. And yet again, this whole aircraft is moving in rotation with the earth. Confusing, but fact. But then facts can be confusing in an aircraft at night at two hundred and fifty thousand feet.