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Navy Flying Boat Pilot Gives Testimony According to a 1947 secret Soviet intelligence report commissioned by Joseph Stalin on Operation Highjump. A never before known testimony was released from two US Navy servicemen with Operation Highjump. The most telling was by Lieutenant John Sayerson, a flying boat pilot, who is quoted as saying: "The thing shot vertically out of the water at tremendous velocity, as though pursued by the devil, and flew between the masts [of the ship] at such a high speed that the radio antenna oscillated back and forth in its turbulence. An aircraft [Martin flying-boat] from the Currituck that took off just a few moments later was struck with an unknown type of ray from the object, and almost instantly crashed into the sea near our vessel…. About ten miles away, the torpedo-boat Maddox burst into flames and began to sink… Having personally witnessed this attack by the object that flew out of the sea, all I can say is, it was frightening."