Stokes said there were ten other carloads of people stopped but if this is true no one ever found out who they were. The Air Force wrote off Stokes' story as, "Hoax, presumably suggested by the Levelland, Texas, reports." Maybe the Air Force didn't believe James Stokes but when the Coast Guard Cutter _Seabago_ radioed in their report from the Gulf of Mexico wheels began to turn--fast. On Tuesday morning, the 5th, the _Seabago_ was about 200 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River on a northerly heading. At 5:10A.M. her radar picked up a target off to the left at a distance of about 14 miles. This was really nothing unusual because they were under heavily traveled air lanes. The early morning watch is always rough and as the small group of officers and men in the Combat Information Center quietly watched the target, with a noticeable lack of enthusiasm, it moved south, made a turn, and headed back to the north again. A few of the men noticed that the turn looked "a little different," but this early in the morning they didn't give it much thought. At 5:14 the target went off the scope to the north. At 5:16 it was back and the lassitude was instantly gone. Now the target was 22 miles _south_ of the ship. No one in the CIC had to draw a picture. Something, in two minutes, had disappeared off the scope to the north, made a big swing around the ship, out of radar range, and had swung in from the south! Word went up to the lookouts. They tensed up and began to scan the sky. The radar contacts continued. This second contact, south of the ship, was held for two full minutes as the target moved out from 22 to 55 miles. Then it faded. At 5:20 the target was back but now it was _north_ of the ship again, and it was hovering! Again the lookouts were called. Could they see anything now? Their "No" answers didn't hold for long because seconds later their terse reports began to come into the CIC. A "brilliant light, like a planet" was streaking across the northwest sky about 30 degrees above the horizon. Unfortunately the radar had lost contact for a moment when the visual report came in. At 5:37 the target disappeared from the scopes and was gone for good. The _Seabago_ Case was ended but the UFO's continued to fly. Reports continued to come into the Air Force and a lot of investigators lost a lot of sleep. The next day at 3:50P.M. the C.O. of an Air Force weather detachment at Long Beach, California, and twelve airmen watched six saucer- shaped UFO's streak along _under_ the bases of a 7000 foot high cloud deck. On the same day, also in Long Beach, officers and men at the Los Alamitos Naval Air Station saw UFO's almost continuously between the hours of 6:05 and 7:25P.M. Long Beach police reported "well over a hundred calls" during this same period.