Transit from Saigon to Veintiane and arrival.<br/><br/>Michelle Jane Rawlinson<br/><br/>Choppers are noisy vibrating bonewrackers.  Nevertheless you manage to get up to speed with your briefing documents.  You learn why the Ambassador is on edge from a handwritten not in his own hand:  (this is a summary and not verbatim)<br/><br/>Nobody can quite put a finger on it, but something unusual is happening.  The Americans, the British the French, even unofficial contacts with the Russians and Chinese, all agree that there is something in the air both figuratively and literally.  There have been sightings.  At first  they were brushed off as the usual UFO folderol.  But these, these are different.  A "typical" UFO is a light in the sky that often is detected by radar.  Not these.  They are damned hard to see, in fact and radar does not register them at all.  They seem to avoid military installations, radar sites both military and civilian in particular seem free of their presence  But something is there.  And not just in the air.  The Americans are beginning work on a new detection network, SOSUS, a system of passive sonar listening devices.  There have been hints of activity in the water of the North Atlantic.<br/><br/>And there is  more. The Russian contact insists that yesterday one of their ships in the North Pacific witnessed an "engagement" between two airships - the contact was no more precise than that.     The report stresses that the Russian used the word "airship" and not "aircraft" and that the crew is being held incommunicado.<br/><br/>Sir Henry urges you to speak with Etienne Gervais as quickly as possibly, he has been In Laos since the previous evening and has almost certainly begun his own investigation.  He is scheduled  to be at the meeting with the Laotian Foreign Minister.  But as a Field Agent, he may well have set his own priorities.  Upon landing, the Australian consular officials inform you that Gervais is in the vicinity of Vientiane and they have a rough idea of his whereabouts.