barnes had two controllers check nugent's radar; they found that it was working normally. barnes then called national airport's radar-equipped control tower; the controllers there, howard cocklin and joe zacko, said that they also had unidentified blips on their radar screen, and that they had seen "a bright light hovering in the sky...[it] took off, zooming away at incredible speed." cocklin told zacko "did you see that? what the hell was that?"