Flashing through the sky over Florida one morning last week, a pair of F-86 Sabre jets headed out to sea, engines shrieking at full power. Their fleeing quarry was a huge red "bird" that had shot up 35,000 feet from the Air Force's Guided Missile Test Center at Banana River, leveled off, and sped out over the Atlantic. At top speed, the 670-m.p.h. Sabre jets could barely keep up with it. A few minutes later, the strange race was suddenly over. Radio signals bleeped out from Banana River, and the giant bird dived into...
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