26 | John W. Warner IV their way with the XB-29 long range, high altitude bomber program. Computerized defensive gun placements and pressurized fuselage testing is slow but up-and-coming. Theyre scheduled to be combat-ready by mid-forty-four. The SC-5 Tesla-based scalar microwave testing is on schedule in New Mexico at Los Alamos. Professor Trump and the Varian brothers are hard at work at making it heavy-vehicle-portable when it matures in an estimated twenty-four months. It utilizes a neutrino tracking system, and if all goes well, any high-speed aircraft up to 150,000 feet should be disabled according to their data. Good. Let us move on to infamous File B, said Roosevelt. Make sure Secretary of War Stimson is read-in on this. Ill brief him personally. Marshall pulled out the thick blue file. File B, sir. Roosevelt smiled. Winston, what do you know about our little aerial fracas in Los Angeles back in February? Sir, only that the reports said it was a possible Japanese aircraft, a blimp or dirigible of sorts. Somehow it escaped unharmed to the south at a leisurely pace after much artillery and ack-ack ground fire. Roosevelt squinted through his specs. So far so good. Marshall took the cue. He used his finger to trace the text under the heading Battle of Los Angeles. I asked Professor Bush and his team about it after they saw the Ultra and Cosmic Classified footage of the craft molting smaller scout craft from its belly; we silenced a few papers on that detail. When Rear Admiral Anderson picked one up in the sea, Secretary Stimson ordered him to have it examined by a special clearance Navy unit at the San Diego naval base; it had no markings, weapons, or pilot. Another craft crashed in the Santa Ana mountains, an Army G2 unit was quickly on the scene. No ordinance other than scout aircraft was dropped by the larger unidentified airship. P-40 pursuit aircraft with low-light cameras confirmed this action. Professors Bush, Lawrence, and Compton concluded it was most likely not Japanese. Since the antiaircraft fire went on for hours with searchlights having acquired the target, they said its most likely, and I quote, non-Earthly, and therefore interplanetary.All similarly classified reports from now on will go to the Office of the Coordinator of Information Director after my approval, Colonel William Donovan. Roosevelt laughed a little. Old Wild Bill, what a character. Ultra and Cosmic designations refer to my new little program headed by General Jimmy Doolittle, Winston, the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit, or IPU. The General and his team will