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/lying Sall~er Photo Ain\
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GRAND BLANC, .May 5J e Perry, the talented pizza
man, fet:ls the Pentagon
peo9le have sabotaged him
or som..?thing.
No, the Washington experts haven't fussed with
~oP-'s saucy pies, but tJ y
.certainly done so ea
thi g to his flying sau er,
Joe claims.

"IT AIN'T whal it used to
be since they got their
bands on it," said Joe, who
takes potshots at the moon
with a h~memade telescopecamera.
Joe, 44, took a~other look
at. his color-slide p oto,
pped last February o 1he
se ond nigh': of the full
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moon.
"Jt's not the same," he said
dejectedly. "The flying
saucer bas faded . . . something has happened to it."
The Washingto1 t x perts
retlned the color slide a tw
ijay ago.
E l<' ED ER AL age ts
pkKed it up last March w en

thi heard Joe's pi ct u r
sh . ¥ed a saucer-like obje t
sill ouetted against the moo .
lost of JoP.':; customers t
his piz-za palac1., here were
~~winced the object was a
•~flyin\S~•."
di!~ire11n1e'even mol'e con·
ce ned over his picture w~,
an Unidcuti:ed Flying ObJc t
gr up wanted to buy
s
rights to the slide.

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He also got an offer t.lom a
natirtal magazine to b .Y th~
pict re. Other inquiries came
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so JOE was anxious to Et
hlpicttp·e back.
e called the FBI.
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ta ·ed to the air force. e
n de a trip_to Selfridge, •
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be pict!lre was retur,ted
sh ·Uy after be sent a lo er
to resident Eisenhower.
letter inf uded in he
parkage from the Pentagon
said the strange object in the
pi·ture wac; the result of
! 4 lty development lnd
n bing more.
mong other 1hings, · he
Pentagon folks have ad ed
in:rnlt 1o injury, ,Toe said.

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3 'Objects' Trailed P'mtre
45.Minlites, Pilot Says
DETROIT, Feb. 25 (AP) Killian and co-pilot John
~he pilot of an American Air- Dee of Nyack, N. Y., said they
li~es today
DC6 three
passenger
p~ane lost
the three strange opjects
said
mysterious
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objgcts that looked like shin- lll the haze when they started
ing _saucers appeared to ac- their descent for landing at
company the plane for 45 Detroit's Metropolitan Airminutes last nighc on its non- port while the plane was over
stop flight from Newark, N. J., Cleveland, Ohio.
to Detroit.
The three bright whitii
Capt. Peter Killian of Syos- lights first were sighted whil ,
set, N. Y., who has flown pas- the plane was flying at 85
senger planes for 15 years, feet between Philipsburg an
said "I have never seen any- Bradford, Pa., at 8:45 p. m.
thing like it before."
Killian said other members
of the crew and the 35 passe~rsalso saw the flying
obj ~ • The plane left Newark
at 7:1
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tlyi ng~s Show Sign
OfGuidance,Jung Says
ALAMOGORDO, N. Mex., What such a fact might mean
July 29 (JP).-Dr. Carl Jung, for humanity cannot be pre..
Swiss psychologist, says in a dieted.
report that Unidentified Flying "But it would put us without
Objects are real and "show doubt in the extremely precarisigns of lhtelligent guidance ous position of primitive comby quasi-human pilots."
munities in conflict with the
"I can only say for certain superior culture of the whites.
these things are not a mere "That the construction of
rnmor, something has been these machines proves a scienseen," Dr. Jung said in the re- tific technique immensely suport released yesterday. "A perior to ours cannot bekpw·ely psychological explana- gued."
tion is ruled out."
The Air Force has said Dr. Jung, who started his re- vestigation of flying sau rs
search on UFO's in 1944, re- reported over the past 10 y ars
leased his report through the has Produced no evidence that
f UFO filter Center of the Aerial such things exist.
, Phenomena Research Organ- It has contended that not a
lzation here. It was released shred of evidence has turned
by L. J. Lorenzen of Holloman up to show the existence of a
Afr Force Base.
flying saucer or interplanetary
"I have gathered a mass of space ship or that the objects
observations of unidentified fly. sighted indicate developments
ing objects since 1944," Dr. beyond the range of current
scientific knowledge or pose a
, Jung said.
"The discs do not behave threat to the Nation's secm·ln accordance with physical ity.
laws. but as though without The Air Force said last Noweight. . . . ,
vember that investigations ot
, "If the extra-terrestial origin 5,700 reported sightings showed
of 'is phenomena should be the mysterious objects were
con rmed this would prove the balloons, aircraft, astronomical
exi nee of an intelligent In- phenomena, birds, fire!'!Q.!.'.k.!_ or
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b Air Force investigat ·s
fr m the Continental_Air
fense Command. 0 11 fo d
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near the alleged landing spot
•d .I,of the space ship was identiA . F. . Che c kS SChffil t, fiecr as ordinary but will be
Kearney Amus ed
! tested by the University of
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I Nebraska.
Tales of fJying saucers and
Wt,ile the Schmidt tale was
other such space cliiff got giving Kearney a sensational
an u n off i c i al raspberry conversation piece, most of
Wednesday night ·from an the talk was of a skeptical
Air Force official.
variety:
Newsmen Busy
A top official of the Air
Technical lntelligence Cen"Everybody downtown
ter at Wright-Patterson Air seems to think it's a big joke,"
Force Base in Ohio told the one business man said.
Dayton Journal-Herald his inA Kearney clothier put up
vestigators have found no a sign advertising "space ship
evidence in the past 10 years l specials." A window s ign in
that flyin~ saucers are real. i a car agency announced:
He s a 1 d 5,700 reported "Space Ships Tuned Up."
The Ke a r n e y car-rental
sightings wete investigated
between 1947 _and_ 1957. !'fot operat or reported business
a single landmg 1mpress10n, was so good all of his cars
footprint, saucer or little . were in use. They were being
green man was found.
1 rented by visiting newsmen,
Investigation Goes On
• Presence of the newsijn
1n .JSS!nrney N~ . Ee~-111 w s n_e arly the only sign t at
hc-!dw"S:chmidJs ;tory of n a ythmg unusual had h paftei'n~iffl'!' - ~ with be P ned - or may have h pcrew of a space ship near he pened.
city Tuesday was still under
·nvesti ation officials said.

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Kearney, Neb.-A grain
J uyer who said he saw a
space ship Tuesday in a
field near here and chatted
amicably with its six occupants had more pleasant
dealings with the visitors
from outer space than with
skeptical authorities.
The sensational report
by R. 0 . Schmidt, about 50,
of Bakersfield, Cal., which
topped a host of reports
across the nation Tuesday
of seeing mysterious flying
objects, had these consequences:
-State Penitentiarv records showed a •man of' the
~ame name served a term
for embezzlement from
Scotts Bluff County in the
l 930's. Scotts Bluffs CounSheriff Steve W'lrrick
id he talked to Schmidt
phone and was convinced
"saw nothing."
- He turned down a
chance to take a liedetector t~st.
--2.schmidt was kept up
most of the night for
questioning. He finally
asked for an attorney.
Ward Minor of Kearney
was named.
-Wednesday forenoon
he went to the scene of the
space ship's landing with
investigators from tije Continental Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs,
Colo., Kearney Police Chief
Thurston Nelson and Buffalo County Attorney
Kenneth Gotobed. They
said Schmidt's story "appeared to be weakening."
-Oi l drippings on the
ground from the space
machine were being analyzed at Kearney State
College. In v es tiga_tors
said the "mys t er 1ous
green oil" closely resembled that in a partiallyemptied can of co1:1mercial auto oil found in the
b1,Ck of Schmidt's car and a
arly-emp1y can f o u n d
~ ar 'the site of the "landi p;."
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The Schmidtnik . • . As descr ibed by the grain buyer.
light when, white-faced and
shaken, he appeared in
Kearney Tuesday and asked
to see a minister. Taken to
police, he told this story:
Tuesday he inspected a
field of milo about two
miles south and a mile east
of Kearney. When ready to
leave he clrove clown a side
road seeking a place to

turn around. Near the
Platte River he saw what
appeared to be a wrecked
balloon. As he neared il
Schmidt said, his car en
gine conked out.
Schmidt said he got ou
and walked toward the machine. Proximity revealed

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'Spoke Gennan'
gar· shaped device abouj
Tl1e ship o cc u pa n ts
one hundred feet long, 3
talked among themselves in1
et wide and about 14 fee
Hf;g
h Germ an. w h ic h
gh. Schmidl said tha
S midt says he under
hen he was 25 or 30 fee
nds to a limited extent
~ vay. two men got out st
0 e man spoke excellent
and waved what looked English
and interpreted for
like a flashlight.
the others.
"I couldn't move. I don't
Schmidt said the interknow whether I was iust preter told him repeatedly
afraid or what, but it was he had nothing to fear. The
like being paralyzed,'' he visitors refused to answer
said.
any questions but said he
'ln Business Suits' .
would "find out all a6'out
Schmidt said the men, It in a couple of weeks."
dressed in business suits,
When repairs were comsearched him for weapons pleted. Schmidt said he w11.s
then remarked that as long p.sked to leave but was told
as they were going to be he would be unable to start
there for some time "you his car until the machine
might as well come in and had disappeared.
see thin~s for a few min'Disappeared'
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Outside the machine
utes."
Inside the machine were Schmidt said, he turned t~
two other men and two watch as the fans started
women working on wires in motion without a sound.
and instruments. The de- He said the machine lifted
,•ice had a fan at each end. about one hundred or two
By a strang1> coincidence hundred feet into the air
one of the crewmen''·Jooked and disappeared.
"It ~ust blended into the
exactly like" a hoto?I acquaintance \Yith whom he si►.Y-h!,e it changed cor.r
has been watch;ng televi- J r disappeared into th
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sf· n programs.
chmidt Pressed t e
1/hen the o cc up an t i
w nted to move f>rom plac s ter of his car. The mot place they would ste
tor ~arted right off.
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There was an unof,·
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personnel at neaJ.'by A · cen, S. C., spotted the object on radar and issued
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The object appeared to be
a "constant red light," according to Augusta Chronicle executlve editor Louis Harris,
who saw the object from the
downtown newspaper building. "Lt could have been a
tiny red light a short distance away or a g igant ic
thing at a great dis tance," he
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ne witness, J. T. James,
eaid he saw the object on two
occasions from his home near
Aiken. Lt was cigar-shaped,
he said, and would alternate
from bright to amber and
occasionally got out altoether.
strange "sauc'' sightings were r eported.
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NEBRASKA

Mlitary authorities ~pparntly gave c1·edence to a reAt Kearney, Neb., authoriort by an electroni
enties held a "heart-to-heart" gineer wh,o said he s v an
talk with Rein h o Id 0. object which made car enSchmidt, a salesman, later gines stall near the Whi.te
discovered to be an ex-con­ Sands proving grounds.
vict, who said he talked to ,
tour men and two women in
Col. John Mccurdy, Air
a transport space ship which Force public relations officer
had landed. He said the space a~ White Sands, sa id the enpeople spoke in English and gineer, James S tokes, 42, will
German.
be given a thoro medical examination and a radiation
, Police roped off the area count test. Col. McCurdy
where the "whatnik" alleg- said he was "personally satedly landed and exa mined isfled" With M r. Stokes' r evarious impressions and oil port.
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A Civil Service worker a l
stains
the grou nd •
At Long Beach, Calif., th ree Lackland Air Force Base i n
i\ir Force weather observers, San Antonio, Tex ., said he
one of t hem the comma nding saw an egg-shaped object
officer of the spotting unit, land in a ravine about 200
late yes terday reported s ight- ya1·ds from him as he drove
ing six unidentified, saucer- near the eity. He said his
~haped .flying objects over car engine and lights went
Long Beaah Air F orce base. off, and the object took off
in a few minutes, enabling
The Coast Guard reported h im to dr ive away.
eking up an unidentified
ylng object on radai- over
At about the same time,
1e Gulf of Mexico south of
,the Grou nd Observer Corps
ew Orleans. A Coast Guard at Midland, Tex., said it saw
ommander said the object a large, red objert and picked
~ aused over the cutter Se- up unlntelllgible cmwersal)ago In the Gull and was on frm on a sound dl'trctor. cu_>,
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U.S.Cutterh1Gulf of Mexico Reports
Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sliy
Associated Pre.,
f:av€ling at an estimated 1000 of light with no definite -~hape,
A brilliant mystery object niles per hour, International 1r esembling the planet Venus."
was reported sighted yester- ews Service reported. How-/Shockley said there were no
day in southern skies by a ve1·, at one poi nt, the object vapor trails or any other inCoast Guard cutter . even as ppeared to remain stationary clications as to the object's
Air Force special investigat•j and hover above the waters be-}method of propulsion. One
~rs c~ec_ked a flurry of ear- ror e it resumed Its erratic ,estimate of its height place{!
1flight.
Iler,, s1mllar reports.
it at 2000 feet.
The Co~t G1:1ard cut~er Se- [The cutter's captain, Cmdr. [G I e n n Nor t hcutt. Willis,
bag?_, crmsrng m th~ Gulf of 1c. H. War ing, said the objC'ct /Okla., r~nch~r and member o
:\lex1co_~bout 200_miles south first ap. peared on thP. ship's the Un1vers1ty of Oklahom
of _Lou1s1ana, r_ad1oed th_at_ an , .dar screen as a "good trong Board of Regents, reported
obJect resembling "a br1lha.ni
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that on Satur day he and fiv
planet with a high rate of p" at..5:10 m. and w s lost others had watched '·a bril
\ speed" \\ as seen for about • a northerly direction t 5:37 liant. mysterious light tha
three seconds at 5:21 a. m. . m.
,looked like the planet Venu
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LJn this time, the sl<ipper !~agnif~ed many, _many ti~~s."
The Sebago s message !'aid said the object which came as 1 he obJect, he said. was VISlble
the object was tracked on the ~lose as two ~ iles to
ves- more than half an hom·.]_
,·csscl's rad;ir screen for 27 cl was actually seen y four Sightings of strange obJ~cts J
minutes and that, during that 1e~11bers of the cr ew One, have been reporte~ from W\de
period, the object flitted 0 11 1 ns. Wayne D. Shock y, de- If scattered sections of i~
and off the screen sevcr:il cr ibed it as a "brigh poi11t lJnited States, most of the
mes. Crewmen caught &i~t
near i ecret miUtary installa
r it only for a few seconds.
lions i the Southwest.
[The Sebago radioed "N
The ir Force said the rad
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Command was keeping watch, ported objects may be some:::str' fat ~vith no results-and thing from anotherplanM. '- •
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"Assuming they ate real," he
that specially quallfie_d mves- said, "they would be secret
tigators had been assigned to weapons made on ear th or
look into the reports.
are interplanetary." Any naFor several years the Air tion with the secret, he added,
farce has checked all rel_)orts would b;,r now ~ave abandon~d
of unidentified flying objects. c~mvent1onal aircraft or misInvestigators work under the siles.
Air Defense Command at Col- Cosmic Energy
orado Springs, Colo., and r e- " 1 k
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port to the Air Technical In- . It 0 0 5 as ,,iough they _are
t 1r
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mterplanetary, Keyhoe said.
He said one source of pow•
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Judgmg from past findmg~, er for such repor ted objects
the chances are 50-1 the A1r could be cosmic r ay ener gy.
orce w_ill offer a humdrum Some of the citizens, peace
explanation far the current officers and servicemen who
sightings.
reported sighting mystery ob• During th_e •first half_ of this jects in the Southwest since
year, the Air Force said, only the weekend said the objects
1.9 per cent of the 250 report- stalled auto engines and
ed sightings of flying saucers caused radios to fade.
and other fantastic ae1•ial ob• J ames Stokes, an engineer
jects have wound up in the at the Air Force missile de"unknown" category.
velopment center at AlamaAir Force Skeptical
gordo. N. M., reported 10 autos
were stalled Monday on a desAnd the Air Force said firm- ert highway between Alamaly-though not all flying \sau- gordo and the White Sands
cer buffs may agree-that it (N. M.) Proving Grounds.
doesn't believe even the 1.9 He reported seeing a sound
per cent residue is made up less, "brilliant colored egg.
of the things you read about shaped object" which flitted
( in science fiction magazines. err atically across t he country.
Balloons, aircraft and such side and left a sort of heat
astronomical .sights as meteor- wav.e, "like radiation from a
ites and bright stars account 1giant sun lamp," in its wake.
at. least to th~ Air Force's Device sought
offic1aJ satisfaction - for al.
ost four-fifths of the sigh . Leonard Hardlu~d, chief en•
• gs.
gi,neer for t~e National Invenrrhe director of a private o t ors Coun?11 in Washington,
anization set up to inve said a device that could s~ll
igate flying saucers and sue aut<?s or other mecharucal
aid he couldn't evaluate a eq_u1pment was one of t he
thmgs the armed forces would
b1·s POI•nt •the •current rash of like
to see developed.
cported s~ghtmgs. ..
I But Hardlund said he knew
But retired Mai ~ne Maj_ of no research in this country
on aid ~- Keyhoe, ~ector of!aimed at produeing such a dethe National Invest1ga ti on s vice
ommitlee on Aerial Phe-1 'l'~o teen-age g£i-Js reported
dded that the re-I eeing a mysterious object in
I the sky over Annapolis, Md.,
~ last week.
Tean Hunt, 13, and Sylvia
Fowler, 15, said they saw
n egg-shaped object which
l'>wed like a neon light. They
potted it while trick-or-treat·ng with Jean's two younger
isters on Halloween night in
rlmrose Acres1 a housing development on tne outskirts of
Annapolis.
Jean said the girls became
frightened and ran home but
no one would believe their
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s h a p e d o b j e c t flying
through the sky while he
and his family were driving
near Amariito, Tex., in
August, 1956. The photo
was turned over to the FBI
and has just been releasr.d
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from va.rious parts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico are
mirages stemming from natural causes.
Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College
Observatory, said yesterday in Cambridge; Mass., that the
whole thing amounts to "another flying saucer scru·e."
The Air Force has started an investigation of the reported
sightings of the strange gJow-1-- - - - - - - - - - ing objects in the sky. The mosphere which would give a
fo~ . yeru·s
has ~ad radar reflection."
Air Force
the
responslbJhty
of checkmg
reports of unidentified flying A~ for rep_o rts of the auto
objects •,but as one officer put engmes stalling, he said, "It
it, "We don't investigate all of would not be surprising that a
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rash of sueh r epor ts h as nervous
. ,, foot could stall an endeveloped sinde Sunda.y, with gme.
some of the sightings said to Dr. Menzel, author of a book
have been made near secret about flying saucers, said he
military installations in the has been studying them for
Southwest. Some of the per- about 10 Years and has yet to
so11s making the reports said hear of one Which could not
tlie objects caused their auto be explained by natural pheengines to stall and their radios nomena.
to fade.
"They are caused by a layer
Cutte11 Claims Sighting
of h~ated air : . . acting as a
Yesterday the Coast Guard le~s and formmg an lmag~ of'
Cutter Sebago radioed from the ObJects as !!1Uch ~s 40 01 50
Gulf of Mexico that an object miles away, he said.
resembling a brllllant planet
Common in West
with a high rate of speed was "They are nothing more than
rseen
for a1:>out
three
seconds,
and that
it was
tracked
by a mirage. They
. are prevalent
radar. ,
just after nightfall as the
Dr. Menzel said it is probable heated air begins to cool off at
the cutter's prewmen got a the ground, and they are comfalse image "quite ~kely from mon in the West where they
bubbles of
3 hot air m the at- have clear air."
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only 1.9 per cent of the 250 reported sightings of flying
saucers and other strange objects in the air have been
classed as "unknown." And the
Ah- Force ·wasul't ready to . believe that even this small per•
centage has sinister implicatlons.
It seemed a good bet the
Air Force will agree with Dr.
Menzel's opinion that the current' sightings have explanaUons in nature, or that the
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J. G. Kirby of Dalla., made
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through the sky while he
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near Amarillo, Tex., In
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of ·H ugh L. Dryden. director of
James
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.,. st ain't so" that Nazi Ger- Mr. Dryden said "there is no
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truth" in a statement t hat
many deve.loped a flying saucerlGerman engineers desig~1ed a
and a bomber that could at~ack flying saucer which attamed a
the United states and -return height of 40,000 feet and speed
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of 1,250 miles an hour.
•'This is an advertisement for
without refuelmg.
The veteran airman, chairman a book which includes material
of the National Advisory Com- discovered by our groups who
mittee for Aeronautics, last went into Germany after the
month gave a House Approprla- war." he said.
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of reports published in Germany to have designed the bomber
of great aviation accomplish- that could cross the Atlantic
ents under Hitler. These were twice without refueling had writnta.ined In a book by Rudolf ten a book of his own with ~
usa.r, former German War Min- mention of any such inventio .
try special weapons chief.
Gen. Doolittle, asked a.bo
Gen. Doolittle's testimony was both the saucer and the bombe ,
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WASIIlNGTON, Jan. 15 (AP).
-Reteired Rear Adm. Delmer S.
Fahrney once head of the Navy's
guided missiles program, said
Wednesday reliable reports indicate that " there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very
high speeds."
Fahrney told a news conference that "no a gency in this
.country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and
ac~elerations wblch radar and
observers indicate these flying
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FAHRNEY SAID he never has
seen a flying saucer, but has
talked with a number of scientists and engineers who reported
seeing strange flying objects.
Fahrney called a news con1erence following an organizational
meeting of a new private group,
the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, of
which he is board c:hailman.
Fahrney said the committee
was set up largely to tie to- .
gether a number of UFO-meaning ~nidenti1ied flying objects"
- clubs being formed throughout
the world. Fahrney said his
ittee wll collect and investig te
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SAGINAW, July 30. - IA'I State Police at Bridgeport Post
received seven reports of a "fly("
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and 7 a.m. today.
One officer said he saw a flying object himself.
The first report, which came
from the nearby B urt Ground
Observer Corps. station, said the
object appeared about 12 feet in
diameter, had red and blue
lights and was moving swiftly.
Various reports put the object's
height at between 1,200 and
25,000 feet.
The reports came from Saginaw, Mi d 1 a n d and Gratiot
counties. Police said the ca!Jers
told them the object was seen
over Freeland, Clare, Alma ar-d
Breckinridge, all west of Saginaw.
Midland police said they re1
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ot the object.
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'Confidential Files' Gefsk
10-Cent 'Saucer' Inquiry 1
BY th• Assoc'.ated Press
:might have confidential files.
If you want mformation on sent it to the Federal Bureau
flying saucers, don't address your 1of Investigation.
request to "Confidential Files, The FBI, never one to pass
Washington, D. C."
out military secrets, made disTakes too long. And besides creet inquiries.
you may be inv~stigated by the Then the FBI Jorwarded the
FBI.
letter to the Air Force, advising
A woman out in Los Angeles that nothing derogatory or 1n(name withheld by various Gov- dicative of subversion could be
ernment agencies) dashed off a found in the woman's activities.
note on January 15. It said:
So the Air Force reached into
"Confidential Files
its nonclassified files and _plucked
"Wash., D. C.
out the latest summary on the
Dear Sirs-Please send me a number of sightings of UFO <unbulletin of flying saucers, or the identified flying objects>, toaddress where I can get infor- gether with an explanauon of
mation about them. I am inclos- why people think they see flying
ing 10 cents.
saucers-or what it is they see
"Thanks.",
which the Air Force can or can't
Seemed like a simple, direct explain.
approach-except for the ad- The lady's 10 cents was taped
to the summary and both were
dress.
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The Air Force· feels a , very definite obligation to id,e ntify and
analyze things thit happeri in ·the air that 'may h~ve in them menace to
the United States and; because of that reeling of obligation and pur~uit of that interest, t _h~- Air .Forc:e established an activity known as
the Unidentified Flyi~~: :object Program.· ·
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objects were being reported in varioµs · parts of the United States.
The reports of . sightings reached a · peak of 1,700 in 1952 and dropped
to a total of 429 111 1953. • During the· first pine months· of 1951+ o_nly
~54 sightings were rep6rte~ .
From a survey of the volume of sightings received by the ~ir
Force, ·1t , has been 0.etermfned that over ·80 percent are explainable as
being known . objects. , Generaliy, sighted oojects fall into the category of: . balloons, ·aircraft~ · astronomical bodies , atmospheric reflections~ and birds. All reports of unidentified flying objects result
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civilian r~dar facilities are as follows :
1. Temperature inversion reflections ca:n give a return on a
radar scope. that is as shatp· as that received from an aircraft.
Speeds of these ret~rns reportedly ran~e -f~6m ~e~o to fantastic rates.
The "objects" alsc:, appear to move in a:11 directions. Such sigh~:i:ngs
have resulted in ·many fruitiess ,j_ntercept efforts. •
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refl.ect.ion is an. incident which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge,
Tennessee. Two Air Force aircraft attempt·ed to intercept an unidentified "object" and actually established a radar "lock" on the obje6t.
Their altitude at the time· was 7,000 feet, The unidentified object,
according to theiP radar, appeared to be at an elevation of 1o · to ~5
degrees from . this altitude . Three passes were made in an attempt to
close on the qbject. In each instance the p1lots repo~ted that their
radar led them first upward and then down toward a specif1c point on
the ground. (One scientlfic theory holds that light can be . similarly
reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth. If thiQ proves ·
to be correct; many visual , night sighting s could be ~ccounted for.) '
2. Ionized ,clouds have causeq.some un1dentified radar returns
Thunderstorms are identifiable by rada1° and radar ·returns have also•
been received from ice formations in the air, balloons, ground reflections, frequency interference between ~ther radar stationi, ~nd windborn objects. Obviously, such returns are very difficult to . identify,
especially whe n t hey occur during darkness.

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altitudes, a1'e often .m is,~ aken for. unknown objects by• t.he untrained
observer. Sun;t.ight r?flecfions· f'.ronr the pol.i shed surf~ces of air- .
craf.t can be· seen pla.inly .ey!:!p,_:wpen the -airc.r_a.f t , itself is too distant ·to· -~e ·visiple, _The_exhaust : bf j~~ aircraft .emits~, a t.rail. and
often this is seen rather than the aircraft itself. ·
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ings. • These balloons, sen·t · .t"6' altitudes. of 40,000 feet•> and . high'er,
are launghed from virtually every airfield in the coun,try. They q.re
made of rubber or polyethylene, s:t--1e,ll a.~,·they gain . altitude, have
very good ref'lec tive qualities, ·c arry small :p~ghts. when -launched
after dark, and can be seen at very hig~_ altitudes,
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balloon~, which. sometimes dr~ft from coast to coast, .a~e used for
upper air research. · These bal loons also have a highly reflective
surface .and. are visible at ext-:ireme altitudes.
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and planets
will cause
a flurry of reports,.. sometimes from relatively experienced observers.
At certain times of the year, V~n~s, for instance, is low on the
horizon and will appear to change color and move erratically due to
hazy atmospheric conditions. Since the .sta~s are char·ted. ar,id most
of their characterist~ci known, many cases are traced · to. the-m.
Meteors on the ot_her ·hand are ·of rapid single-direction movemen-t· and.
are· only visible for a Tew seconds. Meteor activity is more' common ·
at certain times of the year than others, and reports of UFO's have
shown a tendency to increase during ·these
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are of a weird and peculiar natur~. The obj~cts display erratic
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movements .and phenomenal speeds. Since maneuvers and .speeds · of this •
kind cannot ,be traced directly to. aircraft, ball0ons, or ,kncwn astro.~
nomical sources, it: is b~lieved ' that they are reflections from ob•
jects rather · than being ·objects .themse lves. Fr;>r example: suppose··
we would hold a mirror in hand under a light, causing a r e fl e ction
on the ·c~iling. Only a slight, quick movement of. the hand would
result in erratic movements and phe!'lomena~ speeds of the -reflected
beam. Refl~ct1ons may be projected to clouds and haze both from the
ground and a ir ~ Many things whiq~ are common to the sky have highly
reflec tive qua litie s, such ·as balloons, aircraft, and clouds. Accurate speeds are also difficult tq determine due to the ~nability
of the r eportf;r. .to judge d1stanc~, ·a ngles, and time.

6, Brilliant 'flashing lights that sometimes appear r~d a nd
wh1 te in. col or 'have been report ed_ by observers. This type has been·
traced to a .new lightin g system of commercial a irlines· and military
aircraft , Atop the tail s e ction of these aircraft highly reflective
red and white flasher type lights have been installed and are many
times misinterpreted by the ground obse rver.
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_ vestigation of the radar a nd- ~isua l
,.. sightings described,
e are some yar dsticks whil have been
: e stablished from exper cnce and trends to measure' d atte mp t to
de termine the source of UFO•s . Some of these are ge ne ral in nature
r and a r e subject to ·cr:i.a nge· as l')ew scien tific and factual inf·o rmation
i s r ece ived. I t should be remembered that any object vie wed from a
grea t distance appears to be round . Nearly all the sightings r eportecl
a r e de scribed as round and would tend to indicate that most of the
objec ts ·a re at a grea.te r ·.d.1s-tahce from the observer .than is gen~r a lly
estima t ed,
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Another misconception centers about photographs of unident ified
flying obje cts. At be st ·tl!le. majority of photographs have proven
non - conclusive as e vide nce· to this program ,mainl y_due t_o type camera s
used. • Also, 'i t might be ·mehti'c1ned that because still photogr a phs· .can
be so easil y faked, either by using a mock-up or model against a
l egitimate background~ or · by retouching the negat,ive , the y a re worthl e ss a s e yidence . I nnumerable objects , f ~om ashtrays to wash basins ,
have been photogr·a phed wh+1e sailing thrpugh :the air. Ma ny su·ch
photoB have bee n publ i~he~ ·wi thout revealing the true ide ntity ·of the
objects.
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a ve ry f ew movie - type fi l ms have bee n received by the Air Force and
the y r e veal only pinpoints of light moving a cross the sky. · The Air
Force has been unable to identify the source -of the s e lights because
the ima ge s are too small to analyze properly. Since owne rship of
the s e films remains with the pe rsons taking the m, the Air Force is
now in a position to give the m out .
The difficulty of evaluating •rep.o rts of all · types is ba s ed
l a r ge ly upon the lack of basic da t a surrounding the sigh tings. The
drop in sightings during 1953 is l a rgely due to the increased a ccura cy
a nd the compl e tene ss of r e ports being r e ce ived. To be of value , a
r eport should include such basic da t a as size , shape , composition,
spe ed, altitude, direction, a nd the mane uve r pattern of the obj ec ts .
Without such inf ormation, it is almost impossible to e sta blish the .
identi ty of the object sighted. In addition , a r e ce nt study has shown
a dire ct corre lation1 be twee n the numbe r of sightings r eported a nd the
publicity g iven to ' saucers" by the na tion's pre ss .
The Air Force took a furthe r ste p in early 1953 by procur~ng
Vide en came ras for the purpose of photogr aphing this phe nome na ~ The s e
came r a s we re distributed to va rious military installa tions . This type
0a me r a ha s two lense s , one of which t a ke s a n ordina ry photograph, a nd
the o the r has a d i ff raction gr a ting wh1ph sepa r a t e s l i gh t int o its
compone nt pa rts. This a ids in de t e r mining the composition of t he obj e c t pho t ogr a phed. A sma ll numbe r of photogr aphs ha ve bee n r e ce ived
from t his ca me r a ; howe ve r, only light spots of no de t ail ha ve been
i ndicated in the photos t o da t e. As mor e photogr aphs a r e take n by
the se obser ve rs , it is be lie ved tha t a grea t deal of t he mys t ery wi ll
be lifte d from the progr am.
The Ai r For ce would like to state t ha t no e vide nce ha s been
r e ce ived which woul d t end to i ndicate t ha t the Un i t ed Sta t e s is be ing
Qbs e rved by mach i ne s from oute r spa ce or a fo r e ign gove rnment, No
objec t or pa rticle of a n unknown substa nce ha s bee n r e ce ived a nd
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hand are, at best, only larg_e and sma11 '·blobs of l+ght which, in
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mqst cases,_ are explainable • .
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no new significant trends have developed out of these cases. .There.
was an increase in public interest which occurred simultaneously with
the publication 0f various books and articles on the ~ubject; however,
this trend has been noted several times previo-us_ly.
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all rep·o rts, a detailed· quest..f onnaire 1-s no.w submi tte.d to eacl:) person
reporting ·an unidentif.ied aerial abject. It ;ts felt tha~ , the information thus obtained will lo~er s.tfll ·more _Jhe numpe.r of unexplained
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the Air Force would welcome the informa tion . Attached to this report
is a brief basic summary form. It would be apprecJated if observers
would send the completed f,orm to the neare-st Air Forqe Base.
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Flying Saucer built to-dayone with a diameter of 48ft.
powered by five jets and a
as told by Geor Klein,
larger model with a diameter
former secret wea ons exof 126ft. and 12 jets.
This, he says, accounts for
pert in the Gern,an War
Production Mintstry,• and
the rumour that Saucers often
appear to change size suddenly.
now an e n g i n e e r in
Raised wing flaps liCt both '
Switzerland.
"Flying Saucers," he says,
a\roraft like a helicopter. The
are top secret weapons of the
big 9ne c_an keep stationary by
SA and Russia.
turmng Jets _down to counter" They are a continuation of
balan~e gravity.
.:re rm an wartime experiFlyrng Saucers,.teveloped in
.1ents.
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Canada
by Joh%:'_!·ost, former
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"Prototype Flying Saucers [ colleague of Sh Fi:ank Whittle,
were built in Germany during
have reached speeds upf to
the war. I saw one reach a
1,500 mph and have been inheight of 40,000 feet in three • spected by
Field-Mar al
minutes, near Prague in
Montgomery. says Klein.

is e rea trut
H about
Flying c.cers,

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captured a scale model and top
technicians at Breslau. The
REYI'KJ LDS I!E':IS
have not returned
DECEW3ER 19, .,19 5l°i ' technicians
to Germany.
LONI.DI! , ENGLAIID J \ '
And
Walter Micthe,, V
pon inventor and key an
i Saucer development, ed
\ est and now works in he
1itcd States
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' moon, s ho0Ll11g up from n cai· .sea

level and disappearing in clouds

at .5,000 feet, was sighted at sea
last night 80 miles east of New
York. OWcers of t he Dutch
liner Groote Beer 1·eported the
incident when the vessel arrived
in Hoboken.
"l don't know what it was,"
11aid Ca pt. Ja n P. Boshoff, a
veteran shlpmaster, who sa.id
he watched t he obJeot t hrough
his binoculars. "It might have
t been what has been described
r as a flying saucer, but I don't
j know what it was."
1 Through his most powerful
binoculars, the captain trained ,'
them on the object. 40 degrees
off the port side. Several other
officer similarly trained binoculars.
Capt. Boshoff described it as
"a flat object, resembling t he
mon, at first kind of rray and
t hen t urning brighter on t~
lower part. and around t he
edges having bright spots as If
they were ligh ts." He said it
was moving- "directly upward,
wltb great speed.''
He said he never had seen
anything like it before, an
added :
"l am positive It was not a
meteor. Nor was it anytbinr
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MOBILE ALA.--BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE REPOR.TED THAT AN
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\ "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. BRILLIANT AND SILVER COLORED" WAS TRACKED
BY RADAR OVER MOBILE AND THE ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST LAST NIGHT.
MA J . JAMES ZICHERALI, PUBL.IC INFORMATION OFFICER AT BROOKLEY, SAID
\ THE OBJECT "APPEARED TO BE A JET-TYPE AIRCRAFT OF NEW DESIGN WITH SHORT
1STUBBY WINGS•"
FIVE OTHER RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI ALSO REPORTED
SIGHTING THE OBJECT.
ZI CHERALI SAID THE OBJE~T APPEARED ON THE BASE CONTROL TOWER RADAR
· S EEN AT 6:50 P. M. CST, HE SAID RADAR OPERATORS REPORTED IT "MADE ~
N OUND AND LEFT NO TRAIL BUT GAVE EVIDENCE OF DEFINITELY BEING
MANEUVERED."
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Scripps -Howard s taff w riter

been relaxed in recent months.

ed" and "Flying Saucers From Out­

Force I ea-de rs have Dayton
Most of the mail receive<:l at the er Space."
o'fflce is from persons over
Just how banning the press was
slammed down a "brass" curtain the nation who are curious about expected to ease the situation was
at the Dayton (0.) Afr Technical flying sauee,s.
not explained- unless the ~ • ~ •
Intelligence Cent e 1• (ATIC), "The mail has become so heavy figures this will reduce
the n mber
where flying saucer reports are that the two or three persons de- of flying saucer stories.
investigated.
tailed to investigating unidentifie ,
Air

flying objects- called UFO's- are
"The Air Force will be unable to not getting anything else done," the
honor visits (including the press) Air Force official sai.d.
to the ATIC because the volume of
"Actually, UFO's are supposed to
refests for information has seri- be only a small part of the investiou y interferred with investiga- gative work done at the ATIC."
tio s," an Air Force spokesman here
The flood of mai) from the public
sai today.
was attributed to newspaper and
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Are 11,ey Hiding Tl,ose

Lights Under a Bushell
By EVERT CLARK

Mysterious red lights which have flown over the Quantico Marine Base 22 times in
the past six nights were officially explained away today as a new type of aircraft
navigation light. But most of the Marines who saw them still don't believe that's what
they were.

In addition, The News ran
into what seems to be a deliberate attempt to cover up certain facets of the longest continuous ''flying· saucer" run in
history.

The first man to see the light
was Pfc. Norman Vie ts, 18, of
Greenville, Pa. Since' then, at least
,. 30 other Ma rines, including half a
, dozen officers, have seen It, too.
On one occasion, sent ries reportI ed seeing three ligh t s at once. They
( say they have seen the lights drop
straight down, fly straight up and
stand still.
Even the most • c a r e f u I-and
skep tical-observer, the base pr ovost ma rshal, Maj. D. D. Pomerleau,
admitted the lights had characteristics he never expected to find on
an airliner.
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Pfc. Viets was standing sentry
duty at the Tank Parle a few miles
north of Camp Barrett on the southwestern side of the Quantico reser•
vation at 9:05 p. m . Dec. 30 when
he "reported a moving, blinking red
light near his post which he could
not explain."
The sergeant of the guard, Sergt.
Francis R. Salinder , "investigated
and saw the light but could not ex•
plain it."
Pfc. Viets told The News the light
fi rst appeared to come s traight
toward him over a line of t rees about
200 yards to the south o.f his post.
"It was about a foot a nd a ha lf in
diameter," he said, "only going about
10 or 15 miles a n hour. Then it fol•
lowed the tree line about 50 yards to
the righ t and went down.
"It went straigh t ~own, all of _a
sudden. F'itteen minutes later 1t
went straight up and moved over
h ere toward the tank shed.
"I saw it two times aiter that. It
did the sarne thin~- It was the
weirdest looking thmg I. ever saw.
There was no e n~ine"n~e"'a~<!. no
s hape-just the light.
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By the time The News talked to
P k. Viets at Quantico yesterday,
the airplane navigation light theory
already had been offered. The News
asked Pfc. Viets about it, and he
said:
"That was no airplane. I first
thought it might be a weather
balloon, but it wasn't. Either way,
you could have seen the s hape."

Pfc.- Viets and Sergt. Salinder saw
the light again at 10:15 the same
night. Five minutes later they called
in the roving guard from a nearby
guard tower, but the light was gone.
CONFLICT
P fc. Bennett (top front) ~rabbed a butcher knife and said: "It's landFirst reports had It that troops h1g in Ule tanlt shed!" 1\'la.i. Pomerleau (middle photo) i.s skeptical,
were sent into the area to look for but still curious. Pfc. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convb1ce
the lights. Yesterday Maj. A. B. hhn "that was no alrplane."
-News stare Photos by Gene ThomBa
\ Ferguson,
the base information officer, said that report was errone- • with troops," the official report sible way to describe the light's
ous.
says.
size, shape and intensity was to
"We did at no time dispatch
Thirty minutes later, the sergeant compare it t o "the way a blinking
troops to fight off the invaders or of' the guard saw it again, and at
8:23 p. m. three lights .wet'e seen. red traffic light appears to a motorcapture then or welcome them (This was New Year's Eve.) At ist as he pulls up to an intersecaboard or anything else," he said.
tlon "
However, this is what the official 9:01 it was seen again, and at 4:20
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He heard no noise and saw no
record says:
"A IS-man detail arrived (at northeast, then south, theri north shape. He said the light was "sharp11:15 p. m., Dec. 30) f rom Camp and remained "over the tank shed ly delineated."
Barrett and made a search of the at an elevation of about 3500 feet."
"But I have friends and a pro·
area in which the light was first
1'hat was the time Pfc. Vie'ts
fessional reputation," he said, "and
seen. 1'he search proved fruitsaid, "when they saw lt oome u1>
as far as I'm concemed just say
less.''
there and lay under the moon until
it's an aircraft navigation light.''
Fifty minutes later Pfc. Viets' re- morning."
Sev.eral ail:lines that fly in and out
lief "reported seeing the same red
Pfc. Viets' relief of the night be- of Washington say they began inlight." Se1>gt. Salinder saw nothing. fore got so excited he "grabbed a stalling new lights atop the tails of
HOVERS
butcher knife and h eaded for the planes six m011ths ago. They blink
tank shed to help out his troops,'' on and off, a re red, and can be seen
The next night the light was seen his barracks mates said.
much farther away than older types.
again, at 6 :25 p. m ., by a tank
The light came back three times
"Nobody in the barracks knows,''
park sentry and the guard tower. Friday night, once Saturday night, Pfc. Viets said.. ''They're just talking
At 7:10, it appeared again. This five times Sunday night and twice flying saucers, that's a:11. They're
time the sergeant of the guard last night.
talking about men from Mars and
"came out and check~~ the c:,rea
Maj. Pomerleau said the best pos- everything else you could name."

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Authorities at the Qu~ntico as the Marine Corps is conMarine Base last night took a cerne~, a spo~esman said.
long searching look at those . Until laSt night, however, the
hghts were reported to have
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strange flymg obJects with flash- done about everything. Nineing lights seen near the base for teen Marines reported sighting
the past five nights-and de- a mysterious reddish "blinking
cided they were commercial air- or revolving" light over the base
liners.
the nights of December 30 and
Quick as a flash, airlines op- January l, 2 ~nd 3. Rumors that
erating out of Washington con- platoons of 1?,fant~y ha~ ~een
firmed the Marine Corps' guess. sent t? the landmg site of
An American Airlines spokes- the_ obJects and a ~eport that a
man said flashing red lights, vis- ~ehcopter fie\~ to mtercept th
ible for 10 to 15 miles have been llghts were discounted by the
installed recently atop the ver- Marine Corps earlier yesterday.
tical stabilizer, or tail, of its T_he base provo ' marshal,
planes. Other airlines also have MaJ. D. D. Pomerleau, who sa"-1
put in such lights, he said.
the lights twice, guessed tha
A group of Ma1·ine officers they came from an airliner, bu
last night made a field trip to added that he couldn't b sure.
the "Guadacanal" area of the But last night the Marine
base, west of U. S. 1. They re- Corps had this final word:
ported: "This flashing red light, "Officials here are convinced
when seen for the first time. by that the unusual phenomenon
the unaided eye, creates an un- was a new navigational light of
usual impression and an illu- greater intensity used on airsion of nearness."
liners flying near the reserva~::..t ..l&&t:d the matter as far tion."
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Mystery 'Flying. Obi'!ct' Lands
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lone of those mysterious flyin the sky and described it as a the two sentries, and the spokesobjects repor tedly landed near flying saucer," according to the man said the investigation was
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Quantico on ~ew Years Eve but Officer of lbe Day that it had authorities."
took off again before the Ma- landed, and the helicopter took The two sentries were rerines could get the situation in off from Quantico. By the time ported off the base on pass last
band
it arrived, the mystery ship had night and the Marine spokes•
risen and was out of sight.
man was not able to supply thefr
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A spokesman ~e er~ay con- The news spread swifty description of the objects, or
firmed that a flymg obJect had among Quantico personnel. One their report of its actions.
been reported near the base. report had it that two platoons The spokesman reported the~
Two sentries on duty at Camp were deployed to capture the had been summoned to appea
iarrett, a Marine installation thing but this was denied by the before high officers of the Ma
bout 15 miles from Quantico, official spokesman.
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Swedish Pilot ~eports 'Saucer'
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 18-The .Swedish Royal Air Force
ordered a full investigation today of an airliner crew's report of seeing
a saucer-shaped object over Sweden near secret Soviet bases.
Gen. Bengt Norderskjold, air force commander-in-chief, called 1n
complete reports from all Swedish radar stations aft_.er joining the
defense staff in promising a detailed inquiry.
Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, pilot of the passenger liner, told the defense
staff he· and his crew saw the disc-shaped metallic object shortly after
noon yesterday over the southern Swedish town of. Haessleholm, about
·300 miles from the strategic Baltic coast.
"It was entirely an unorthodox, metallic, symmetrical and •ci1scular
object," Capt. Christiernsson said. "I was not at all scared, but curious,
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Capt. Christiernsson said the object headed southward over a low- ,
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said he watched it for about six seconds before it disappeared ln the
dire~tion of East Germany's Baltic shore. near the former Nazi research j
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Flying Disks
(This is the last of three arti cles on the controversial subject
of "flying sauce'rs" and their
investigation by the Air Force.)
BY RICHARD REILLY

Are th~ ~ f ! erJ r ealand if they are, what are they?
That, in essence, is the quest ion that faces the Air Forceand the American public as.well.
Altho it remains unanswered. it
has stirred no end of opinions and
theories.
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One theory advanced from
time to time is t hat the saucers
are some revolutionary type of
weapon perfected either by this
country or some other nation.
The Air Force, however, dep•
r ecates t his possibility. In a recent statement, it said:
"The Air Force has stated in
the past, and reaffirms at the
p resent t ime, that unexplained
aerial phenomena are not a se-.
cret weapon, missile or aircraft
developed by the United States.
None of the three military dep artments nor any other agencyJ1
in t he government is conducting
experiments, classified or otherwise, with flying objects which
could be a basis for the reported
phenomena."
Weapon Theory Discounted
In a¥ition, a high-ranking Air
Force officer indicated to the
Times-Herald t hat it is •believed
impossible t he saucers could be
a foreign weapon.
Regarding the question as to
whether flying saucers exist, Lt.
Robert White, public informat ion officer, said the Air Force
helleves reliable observers such
as veteran airline pilots are sincere when they report sighting
unidentified objects.
T he Air Force was tossed a hot
potato recently by Maj. Donald
E. Kcyhoe, U.S.M.C. <ret.> , who
claimed in his recent book, "Fly•
ing Saucers from Outer Space;•
that the saucers not only are real
but that they are of inter-planet ary origin.
Furthermote, Keyhoe contends
that the so-called "utah film•
possessed by the Air Force proves

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was bolstered by a letter published on the j acket of his book
from Albert M. Chop, former Air
Force civilian expert on the·
saucer project, who now is with
the Douglas Aircraft company in
California.
In the letter, Chop stated :
•"The Air Force, and its investigative agency, 'Project Bluebook.'
are aware of Mai . Keyhoe's con•
clusion that the flying saucers
are from another planet. The
Air Force has never denied that
this possibility exists. Some of
the personnel believe tbat there
may be some strange natural
phenomena completely unknown
to us, but that if the apparently
controled maneuvers reported
by many competent observers
are correct, then the onlY ·rema.ining explanation is the interplanetary answer."
Upon publication of the letter
- written on Defense department
stationery-the Ail' Force challenged Chop's claim and said he
was merely expressing his personal opinion.
Chop subsequently admitted
that he was not speaking for
the Air Force, but maintained
that some of the investigative
personnel had subscribed to the
interplanetary theory. He said
this was based on "personal contacts with these various indi·
vid1tals" and insisted that it was
"a true statement."

and re~lwil)l
aft! \\itllheld,
divulge
the capabilit
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aircraft, radar and electronic
equipment are classified. All
other information with respect
to sightings is a matter of pub•
lie record, he said. •
Keyhoe maintains. tho, that
the Air Force has refused to re•
lease many analyses of sighting
reports. He points out that the
names and locations 1cotinected
with the incidents could be de•
leted, if necessary. •
Wants Film Released
Keyhoe also claims that the
Air Force should release the ,
final intelligence analysis on
the utah film.
In connection with this, Keyhoe recently sent a 1 telegram to
high Air Force officials charging
that since the Air Force had Implied that he had misrepresented
the analysis of the Utah film,
either he or the Air Force wa
lying.
The Times-Herald asked a top
Air Force spokesman if Keyhoe
had, in fact, misrepresenteC: the
Utah film analysis. He declined
to comment.
In his telegram - as in his
bOOHi,,-Keyhoe stated:
"The final analysis proved
that t he saucer formation could
not be explained as any known
aircraft or other conventional
objects: ·
Cites Conclusions

The spokesman was asked if
/ his statement were true or false.
He said that. to date. the Air
Force has neither affirmed nor

Charges Cover-Up

Amplifying his theory that the
saucers come from another
planet, Kehoe claims they could
originate from some other body
in the earth's solar systemsuch as Mars or Venus-or from
some other system or universe.
Kehoe charges tha t the Air
Force is convinced that the
saucers are space ships from
another world, but that it ls covering up because of a fear that
such a disclosure would result in
widespread panic.
The Air Force, however, in•
sists that this is not so- tr.at it
is holding back no important
facts from the public.
J4_ White said the names of
P: rsufWift\rolved in th~ t ~ngs

d~i!111~~ also ~ontends the an~ ly, s concluded the objects w ·e
n t birds and were not caus d
b weather conditions.
pccifically, Keyhoe claims the

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following conclusions:
• are interplanetary."
1. The average speed of the
Continuing, Gen. Smith stated:
unknown objects was somewhere
"For the Air Force to admit
bf.tween 653 and 980 miles per that flying saucers exist. it would
hour.
wa.nt indisputable physical evi2. All the objects appeared dence. For such an admission, It
round, of the same size, and gave would want stronger evidence
off a bluish-white glow of very than it now has."
high intensity.
Sunvning up the problem, he
3. The objects seemed to be said:
"So far, . the Q u es ti.on of
maneuvering in a circular or elJiptical pattern within the group, ~vhether flymg sa~cers exist, and
at very high speeds.
•1f so, wl_1at they a1e, has n~t bee~
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conclusively answered e 1th e 1
4. B~cause of these high speeds, way."
the obJects. ob_v_lously could not be
But one thing is certain, he
balloons 01 buds.
added. The Air Force will con·
5. They were not any type of tinue to seek the answer.
known a ircraft.
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6. The sighting could not be exMeanwhile,
Keyhoe plans • to
plained by any conventional ancontinue his campaign to comswer.
pel the Air Force to disclose the
Asked if the _Times-Herald facts he says 1t is concealing.
could see •the final analysis re­ He told the Times-Herald he wil:
port, an Air Force spokesman continue to make his claims in
said that there were certain re­ print and on television. and will
ports the Air Force could not challenge the Air Force to deny
make public for security reasons, them.
risk of libel, and other reasons.
"If any officia1. after reading
However, the spokesman said the final ana,lysis on the Utah
the film could be viewed at film, says that it did not rule
Wright field, Ohio.
out birds, known aircraft or
Not Discoun t ing Theo1·y
conventional obj e c ts as the
The Air Force officially neither cause of those objects, I will call
accepts nor rejects the interplan- him a liar to his face.
"I do not like to use such
etary theory.
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Force public relations chief, put it Force has, in, effect, been calling
me a liar and I'm getting tired
this way:
of it."
"We do not know enough about
Regardless of the charges and
it to deny that flying saucers counter-charges, so long as the
exist. Conversely, we have no Air Force has unsolved sightings
.Proof that they do exist.
ln its files - and until it is
"In our investigation we are definitely known what the fly.
not discounting the possibility ing saucers are - the average
that. the saucers--if they exist,....­ person is bound to wonder . . .
could be Interplanetary. We are
Are the flying saucers real?
Interested in anyone who might
If so. what are they?
be using the air over the United
The final chapter is yet to b
5t
written in this strange drama.
!4{1g;,vcvei we have no authen- The answer.J,s not yet available
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LONDON - fA'h- A S o v i e t
commentator Saturday accused
"aggressive force<;" in the Unitcountries
ed States and ~ t
of inventing fl in saucers to
fan war hysteria.
Moscow radio broadcast excerpts from an aritcle by
K. Khachaturov In the So\'let
army newspape1· Red Star, saying:
"Those who spread these fabl~s are endeavoring to create
the impression t hat the myste.r ious object originate from Moscow.
"The mythical 'saucers' take
off from the pages of the bourgeois press every time the t'uling circles of this or that ca~
talist country, on orders fro
1/ashington, are trying to fois
pon their, people the new hurf., n of miliUu·y ~p,nditm•e.''

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DECEMBER 28, 1953

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OBJECT BRIGHTER fHAN THE SUN FOR ABOUT FIVE S[CONDs . n WHILE CRUISING

AT ABOUT 80 MI LES PER HOUR TWO MI U:S WEST Of H£RE •
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PLANE WAS AT ABOUT 2 . 000 FEET THIS MORNING WHEN Ht SAW THE UNIDENTIFIED

OBJECT.
"lT LOOKED LIKE A BALL OF FIRE•" HE SAID.

"IT WAS BRILLIANT WHITE•

LIKE f-10LTEN ST£Elf THEN IT TURNED BLUE AND TOOK OFF STRAIGHT WEST•

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AI\JD THERE WERE NO OTHER Pl.ANES IN SIGHT AT THE TI 1£.
HE SAID HE DION ' T THINK IT COULD KAVE BEEN ANY REFLECTION. Ht
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OTTAWA, Nov. 12 lCTPSlEstabllshment of a~nadian
government observatory for fly.
Ing sauc ers, the first In the world,
has been announced here.
"There is a very high deg-r ee of
probability that flying saucers
are real objects, and a 60 per
cent probability that they are
alien vehicles," Wilbert B. Smith.
scientist appointed to supervise
the new saucer sighting station,
told reporters.
He said the federal transport
department, in which he has
charge of the telecommunications
broadcast and measurement section, receives constant reports of
sighting of flying saucers. The
total number; he said, is classified as restricted information.
"The optical illusion explanation is lovely," he said, "but in
every sighting t here is always
some factor that precludes this
explanation. We have decided ·to
try to learn just what they are."
Canada's sighting station will
be at Shirley bay, OD the Ottawa
river 10 miles west of here. Smith
said any one Iocaion in Canada
is sure to have at least one saucer
sighting a year. Associated with
Smith In the project, "which is
under the transport department
and the defense research board,
will be a theoretical physicist and
a specialist in gravitational
studies.
A 24-hour watch will be kept
for saucers. Specially built equipment Is wired to alarro bells. The
equipment includes an ionospheric r eactor, electronic devices for measurement of sounds,
a gamma ray detector, a gravimeter, and oth er paraphernalia,
Jet planes may be sent up from
the air force field near Ottawa
to Investigate any saucers reported by the station.
Defense r esea.rcb scientista
here never have pooh-poohed flving saucers, which have been publicly reported in nightmarish
shapes and forms over .Canadian
cities. some of them have been
described as mult icolored cigar
, figurations.
Frequency of t he saucer sightings h&.6 been noted here to rise
With the increase in prox1mity
of the planet Mars to the ear th.
Smith said he does l'ioC ,aie'UUt
the possV>l*ty that the saucers
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THE AIR FORCE STILL I NSISTS THAT ttfLYI NG SAUCERS" ARE WEATHER FREAKt
DESPITE ,C.. RE:TIPED W-ARHJE OFFTIER ' S ATTEMPT T0 PROVE THEY ARE SPACE
SHIPS FROM ANnTHEP. PLANET .
A SPOKESMAN SA!~ THERE jAS N° CHANGE IN AI R FORCE ' S OFFI CIAL VIFW.
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CLAI\1ED THE AIR FORCE. HAS SECRET i'IJ')VI ES PROV I NG THE OFT - SEEN GL'"'WING
OBJ ECTS ARE I NTER?LA NETARY CRAFT.
BOTH THE AIR FORCE AND THE WEATYER BUREA U, AFTER EXHAUSTIVE STUDIES s
AGREED MANY ~ONTHS AGO THAT THE FIERY~ FAST - ~O VI NG OBJ ECTS SEEN BY
OBSERVERS FROM C0AST TC COAST ~E~E LI GHT EFFECTS CAUSED BY !E~P~qATURE
" Irv ER s I I) N. "
~EYHOE , HO~EVER. CLAI~ED HE SUPPORTS HIS I NTERPLANETARY SHIP T~E'"'RY
WITH OFFICIAL ~IR FORCE D0CU~ENTS. A PRESS RE LEASE PREPARED 8Y PIS
PUBLISHER "REVEALED " WHAT IT SAI D WAS A BITTER STRUGG LE I N HI Gu Aiq
FORCE CIRCLES OVER WHETHER T0 ~AKE THE ALL EGED 0 I CTURES PUBLI
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The magazine Aviation Week racing at tremendous velocities, travel in opposite directions at
published a new report yester- whereas they actually are mov• different altitude layers. •rhe
day on \\That the Air Force has ing at 60 miles an hour or less. prevailing wind moves f~·om
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One evenmg after sunset West to East across the U111ted
found out about the upper at- many units of the Strategic States at about 50 000 feet.
n:osphere with its "l\loby Dick" Air Command_ in Texas were About 10.000 feet higher. how•
ballons-whale-like bags which kept busy try111g to catch and ever, the flow is sometimes rehave often been mistaken for shoot down a flying object that versed.
flying saucers.
was actually a Moby Dick drift- Balloons have also carried
Since the big helium-filled ing along at about 90,000 feet various kinds or animal Ji[e
'balloons made their appear- in a glow of dust-refracted sun- ranging from fruit flies to mic
ance three years ago, the maga- tight.
and monkeys, up to 80,000 feet
zine said more than 90 percent B-36 bomber crews, accus- The experimental animals hav
(of the '·saucer" sightings have tomed to flying high altitudes, survived such altitudes for 2
coincided with their Jogged as- gave up the _chase when they hours and have been recovered
cents and charted, courses.
were left belund at 45,000 feet, to provide living d:;ila for scienThe shiny surface of the plas- and jet fighters_ stalled tryin_g tific research.
tic balloons is an excellent re- to pur~ue th~ 0bJect above their Th~
oby Dic~
lloons are
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teleased almost daily at Tillafleclor of light. Long after the altitude ce1l111g. .
sun has set and darkness has Another mystenous obJect, mook, Ore.; Vernalis Calif.. an
covered the earth, they shine llater identified positively as a Edwards Air Force Base in Cali
brillantly with the light re- research balloon, fl'oated over fornia. Two more Bites will b
fleeted from the sun at alti- San Francisco last sp1•it1g during used to take advantage of lat
tudes of from 90,000 to 100,- a parade welcoming Gen. James summer winds-the Moody Air
000 feet, almost 20 miles up in A. Van Fleet home from Korea. Force base near Valdosta, Ga.,
the skY.,
It shone as a brilliant white and Sedalia, Mo.
Vapor· dust or other foreign sphere as jet fighters vai11ly The big bags are made so that
particles in the atmosphere tried to reach it. On another they destroy themselves automake the light appear white, day, Dayton, Ohio. was filled matically when they descend to
redr purple, 01· green. Because !with "saucer" reports as anoth• 33,00,0 fee(. Recording nrachines
of the difficulty of judging er balloon floated over the city. and uu;truments a1·e parachuted
speed at high altitudes, the bal- The balloon flights have coll-; to earth.
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Chasing F-84 Over Japan
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UNITED STATES AIR BASE, very thin, round, and as shiny as
Northern Japan. Jan. 28.-The polished chromium; had no apUnited States Air Force last night pannt projections and left no
reported a small, metallic, disc­ exhaust trails or vapor trails."
shaped object made a controlled,
He said it caught up with an
sweeping pass at an American F-84 Thunderj et, hovered a few
jet fighter-bomber and was ob­ moments and then shot out of
served at very close range by sigh t. The F -84 pilot, whose
another pilot.
name was not revealed, did not
The report, from Air Force see it.
intelligence files, said the sight1t was the second disclosure
ing was made over Northern in a week by Air Force intelliJapan at 11 :20 a .m., March 29.
1952, by Lt. David C. Brigham of gence of mysterious flying objects over Northern J apan near
Rockford, DJ.
It was a bright, cloudless day. the Russian-Siberia area.
Lt. Brigham said he got a very
On January 21, the Air F~ ce
goi look at the object from disclosed that "rotating clus rs
ab t 30 to 50 feet for about 10 of red, white and green lig s"
sec nds.
had been sighted over North rn
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SANTA F E N. M. -- THE SANTA FE NEW MEX ICA N SAI D TODAY THAT
"FANTASTIC"'STRIDES HAVE BEEN MADE I N THE FIELD OF GUIDED MISS ILE
RES EARCH AND THAT IT I S •P~ IBLE• THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MAY SOON
CLEAR UP THE MYS TERY OF TH
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THE NEWSPAPER SAjD "SOMO.RAPS MAY BE REMOVED FROM SOME ASPECTS
OF THE HUSH- HUSH PROGRAM" AT A SPECIAL DEMONS TRA TI ON TENTATIVELY
SCHEDULED AT THE WH lTE SANDS PROVI NG GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER THI S
SPR I NG.
nI T IS POSSI BLE THAT THE DIS CL OS URE SOON TO BE MADE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MAYT IN PART AT LEAST, EXPLAI N SOME OF THE ' THI NGS '
SIGHTED IN SOUTHWES ERN SKIES BY BEWILDERED OBSERVERS WHO HAVE
TERMED THEM ' FLYI NG SAUC ERS ' FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME, " THE PAPER
SAID.
( HOWEVER COL . M. G. HENDR ICKS~. COMMANDANT OF THE PROVI NG GROUNDS,
SAI D TODAY THAT RESEARCH THERE " HAS NOTHI NG TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE
THE SO-CALLED FLYI NG SAUCER .
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It has been pretty well established today that the "mass of
flaming, incandescent matel'ial" which flashed across the sky
over Washington and five eastern-states last night was a meteor,
a flying saucel' "as big as a washtub," or a mass of flaming, incandescent material.
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The Naval Observatory, the was sun-colored with a tail." (SubWeather Bureau and observers at urbanite.)
National Airport lean toward the
• Shaped like a sta1· "about as big
meteor theory.
as the inside of a tennis raclcet."
Scores of Washingtonians, who {12-year-oJd boy.)
SHOCICING
saw it, leaned in all directions.
Police remained stolidJy upright,
Four Frederick farmers saw "a
ball shooting across the horizon."
and the FBI had no comment.
Near Washington, three United
HOW IT LOOKED
correspondents said it was like
But citizens here, in Maryland, Press
this:
Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsyl• "A rocket with a fiery tall ...
vania and Ohio couldn't be silenced. It shocked us, it lool<ed so close."
(Frank Eleazer.)
They said:
• "Suddenly this thing came
• "A big magnesium f lare . . . It
swooping down from the eastern gave off sparks." (Robe1·t Loftus.)
skies. It looked like it was right
• It plunged out ot the sky "very
. above the housetops. It was a ball fast," like a plane shot down in the
o! bright greenish fire with a long war. It was trailing a tail of
tail." (T his was a housewife).
flame."- (John A. Goldsmith.)
• "I thought it was a flying
George Lincoln, of 756 S. Greensaucer. I thought it \vas a flare a t brier-st, Arlington, saw something
first-that is, I thought it was a "about as big as a wash tub. I was
flare until the darned thing swooped sure it was going to crash, some
down- and then up again. It seemed place," he said.
to follow the contours of the road.''
A Maryland state trooper, sitting
(Army veteran).
out his lonely vigil atop Negro
• "It looked at first look like a Mountain in far Western Maryland,
P,lane on fire, it was that big. It said "it" passed over him, too.
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Mr. Laughlin _
Mr. Mohr_ __
Mr. Winterrowd.
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Caused New Disc Tale
Special to The Inquirer
to keep interceptor teams on
READING. Pa., Aug. 28.- Air Na- quent.
the alert.
tional Guard officers and control The aerial display on Monday waa
tower operators of t he C ~1 witnessed by hundreds of Guards.
Aeronautics Admlnist;\l,tion today men of . t h.e 112~h Fighte~ Wing,
"cleared up" the lates~ ying saucer J:'.0 nnsylvama-Maryland Air Na.
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t1ona l Guard, as well as officers who
mystery, as evolved m the skies over watched the maneuvers throUgh
rks county last Monday.
binoculars.
'Ihe saucers, seen by a large num- Ai: N~tional .Guard officers ~~ii
r of persons a t that time, a the 1epo1 t sub1:rntted by Han-y F em
. auer, 43, of Birdsboro, who said h
okesman said, were vapor trails thought he saw a plane release
of a B-36 inter-continental bomber flying saucer In the air Monda
and a jet plane. which CAA tower- morning, probably had to do with
men said were flying at an altitw;le the jet which he saw div;; ~n the
of 40.000 to 45.000 feet.
bomber.
T he j~t left a bigzag •trail as it Nor .did the Guard's e,·planat!on
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mock mterception attack. The Kutztown insurance salesman, Wi>')
spokesman said such air shows were bold of seeing a flying saucer 30 feet
frequent when atmospheric condi- in front of his automobile Mopd
tions were right for the hot exhausts night. off tbe All11ntowt1 pike ne 1·
from engines to freeze at high alti- Maxatawny. Long said he saw t e
object so clearly t hat he Was ab p
tude.
The big• bombers, the spokesman to make a. detailed drawing ot •
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from his car. He said he was too f rightened to approach it,
He's sh<1Wn (left, below) giving L~roy Gensler, artist,
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c,ver the bwldin-g in the picture, photographed above

An11c9rtes, m o,·cs swiftly through the d,y, seemingly • p ort of e cloud formation. Rut is it ? Wa lter
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like objtct in his ,.iew finder, so h e , napped the picture at l / J 00th of • 1econd. E lliott w u unable to
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SAN FRANC ISCO--A FORMER AI R FORCE B29 TEST MECHANIC AND SCI ENTI FIC
CTURER SA I D TODAY HE SAW TWO SILVER GREY OBJECTS FLYI NG ERRATI CALLY
OVER SAN FRANCIS CO AI RPORT "AT TERRIFI C SPEEDS . "
ROBERT G. GARNER 38 SAN FRANCISCO SAID HE AND HIS WIFE BOTH
OBSERVED THE OBJECT~ AT' 5 : 30 P.M. YESTERDAY AND HE WAS CONVINCED THEY
WERE "NOT OF THE EARTH."
GARDNER WHO SAID HE WAS WI TH THE AIR FORCE IN THE PACIFIC
DURING WOR l D WAR II 1 SA I D THE OBJECTS LOOKED LI KE "CROSS SECTI ONS OF
A CONE CLI PPED OFF AT BOTH ENDS."
"THEY WERE SILVER GREY IN COLOR AND APPEARED TO HAVE A DIAMETER OF
BOUT 1 50 TO 200 FEET EACH" HE SAID.
"80TH OF THEM FLEW AT A~ ALTI TUDE OF ABOUT 12t000 FEET," GARNER
AID• "AND I 'D ES TI MATE THEY WERE GOING AT LEA-5 1800 MI LES AN
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SAUCERS• IN HIS LABORATORY AT FORT BELVOIR VA. WHICH POSSESS ALL
THE CHAlrACTERISTICS ATTRIBUTED TO THE RADA~-SPOfTED •OBJECTS• REPORTED
HERE IN RECENT WEEKS.
SCOTT WAS . NOT TALKING ABOUT THE BRIGHT METEOR WHICH FLASHED ACROSS
THE NORTHWESTERN SKIES HERE SUNDAY NIGHT 1 BUT ABOUT WHATEVER IT IS
THAT HAS BEEN PRODUCING •BLIPS• ON AIR FuRCE RADAR SCREENS.
FIVE SUCH •UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS• WERE SPOTTED BY RADAR AT NEARBY
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE IN MARYLAND SHORTLY BEFORE LAST MIDNIGHT.
AS A RESULT OF HIS CREATIONS IN THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
BORATORIES AT FORT BELVOIR~ SCOTT .SAID, •I AM CONVINCED THAT THESE ,
LYING THINGS' ARE NATURAL YHENOMENA.•
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NDITIONS SIMULATING THE RAREFIED AND IONIZED UPPER ATMOSPHERE.
BY IONIZING THE THIN AIR IN HIS BELL JAR WITH STATIC ELECT8ICITY
SCOTT AT WILL PRODUCED BALLOON-LIKE BLOBS OF LIGHT WHICH HE COULD MOVE
AROUND AT ANY DESIRED SPEED. ALL, HE SAID, COULD HAVE BEEN
•DETECTED~ BY RAD4R.
IN A DEMONSTRATION YESTERDAY FOT LT. GEN. LEWIS A. PICK CHIEF OF
ARMY ENGINEERSL AND OTHERS~ SCOTT SAID HE MADE THE LIGHTS ~TAND STILL
REVERSE THEMS E VES, OR WINK OUT•
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ORANGE TO WHITE OR BLUE OR WHITE WITH A GREEN HALO. HE COULD MAKE THE
BLOBS APPEAR TO LEAVE AN INCANDESCENT TRAIL LIKE A JET DISCHARGE
SCOTT EXPLAINED THAT AN •ANODE GLOW• FORMS ON AN IONIZED
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UNITED PRESS REPORTER WAS ALL OWED TO SEE THE NEGA TIVE WHICH WAS
FLOWN LATER TODAY TO DAYTON , O. , WHERE I T WILL BE EXAMI NED BY AIR
FORCE I NVES TI GA TORS .
THE NEGATIVE SHOWS NO SIG N OF RETOUCHING , EVEN UNDER AN ENLARGER
WHI CH PRESUMABL Y WOUL D SHOW UP NY FAl<I NG .
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p~ts said today th at they are convinced " natura l causes!"
a count for th e "flying saucers" which h ave been dottin
.l al skies for m ore than a week a nd h ave been ap pearin
i termittently throtighout the country for more tha n flv
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offer ed the further assurance that a six- year study shows
'·no pattern vaguely resembling a ny th reat to the United
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ppear to· be natural phenomena, Gen. Samford said :
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not built to discover- for iustance. about Northe rn Lights alll
atmos pheric conditions aft.er a beat wave ."
Despite the reassurance, wh ich was delivered in an at mosphere o
confusion, public concern over the m ystery of the skies rP.ached a
all-t ime higll.
Twelve more un ident ifiable dots on a Civil Aet·onautics Administration radar scope here early today th rew the city into a dither.
(.lel'seY City reporte_d trackng flying disks and one observer
)ffered a photo ~f an oddlyh
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equipment at a field near the CA
installa tion ~lso spotted nothing.
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For that r~ason. the Air Defens
from Wright-Paterson Field. Day- planes remained ground~d . giving
\ ton o. to quell tlle gather ing nse to rnmors that lhe Pentagon
ala;·m . ' but meanwhile, USAF somehow was surre_ndering to the
planes were equipped with spee;ial "s~ucers." The 11!:u- Force took
astronomica l cameras,_ with which parns. to deny U ~. !lnd prom ised
is hop ed pursuing pilots may be pursuit the 1.1ext tnn e a flying
ble to take pictures of the phe- m~·stery is sighted with the nake~
omena.
eye.
Meanwh ile. other responsibl
\ Air Defense Command planes r e1 ained on 24-hour alert to chase Pentagon officials reiterated dethe ''interlopers" and, il possible. nials t hat the strange aerial light
"shoot them down."
- or whatever they are- repres<'nt
Today's rash of "saucers" ap-\some _new ph_ase or U. S . military
red on t.lle CAA screen f.r om expenmcntation. They expressed
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\\·e1·e nskcd to s~nn the skies l_hin~s 11re no threat to the na10 suzns of the thmgs re, - •tpn j,j n's ,-ecu1 tl, .

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By R ICHARD Ci\RTER
T h e swif t- moving celestial lumi- sky-watch ers cia imed to havl
nosiUes which the America n pub- seen t wo flying cigar-shaped ob
has come to call "flying sa ucers" jccts.
Cigar-shaped objects havt: be
·e phenomena wit h a recorded
l ·story da t in g back at least 200 spotted skyward by in nu me ra b
ars a nd perhaps severa l t hou- pa rticipa nts in America's postwa1;
nd.
saucery.
The 'Biblical Ezekiel's airborne
Flying ligh ts which d iffer in a ll
wheels, for example, h ad some of a ppa ren t respec ts from shoot.ing
the ·earmarks of wlrn.t modern stars. meteors . and the like, have
American science fiction readers, ' been seen by mult it udes of sailors
televiewers and "cold worriers" a re over th e centuries. a nd their a eon t he V'erge of regarding as inter- .counts of the phenomena diffel
planetary scouts or missiles from h ardly at all .from those contrib
Moscow.
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Dr. Dona ld H . Men zel, p rofes Some J>eople see whit e ligh ts
moving in formation: others .,ee
s or of a strophysics at Harvard
kelly green £ire ba lls ; ot hers see
University, made t his point in
n i11tel'View la st month with
orange fire ba lls ; others '!;ee fly ime ma gazin e. H e prod uced
fog d is ks ; others ,;ee the cigarshaped mysterie_s_. Some of tlie
ocumentary evidence that t here
•as a saucer scare in Chicago
objects seem to hover, "irtua lly
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cloud a nd disa ppearing forever[
o thers move a t what seems t
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e vers ing direction in~ta~tan~
usly. swooping and clnubmg 1
manner which no man- made
HLchine or human pilot. couhl
survive.
S ince one or t he f oundations of
modern science is t o believe notiing that cannot be proved. mo t
eories about t he sk itteri Rha tizzits have to be rejecLe .
a ny t heories which have gain d
1de cur rency a re based on fac s
1ich are " probably t rue." B ut no
scientist bases conclusions rm
things which only a re proba ble.
The closest an yone has ~ome
no t only to ex pla inin g the phe nomena. but duplicating th em. is
·of. Menzel. He believes tf
auce1.·s are fancy mirages- actu, 1
1a.1es of lights. but d isplac
,rou!'.\h m iles of -space by refra on. He explains that light mov
slowe r t hroug-h a dense medium
• like cold air than in warm air.
When it passes from a layer of
d ense cold air into a layer of less
d ense warm air at an appropriflte
ande. it is bent. and mav be :::e~n
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overing, depending on conditio:1
Headlights. aerial searchligh t .
en street ligh ts in a city ca n
1 fracted by t he atmosphere an
b come " flying _saucers" ou t in th
untry miles away, he says.
To p rove it. he has pr od uced
startlingly similar phenomena in
h is own la bora t ory.
qne of the reasons the Air For ce
h as felt impelled to take pa r t t ·n
he puolic deba te on t he sub.it) t,
fter having s a t i s f i e d Its lf
rough resear ch t hat the sauc ·s
e something akin to what Men I
[ escribes. is t hat radar scopes m
ashington have been describer!
a s spotting t he saucers at the ;ame
time pilots and ground observers
: :~·.e seeing them with t he nal'"d
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Until further returns are ;
the only ex1>la na tion availah '
is one known to ·a n yone who h.
e1· ha d a n ything t o dq wit 1
du-you see a ll kin ds of imcountable t hing'., on it. It wa
nsider·ed notewor t h y t hat
~ 01·c e radar in t he sa me t'egio
failed to pick up the lmpuls ,
whic h the CAA now has adde
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Studies Weather
One of the Washington area'sl
•flying saucers has been track4:
down finally.
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Last week a Martinsburg ( .
Va.) woman found a mysterious
five-foot sqmu·e piece of aluminum
covered material on her farm.
She wanted to know what it was
but nobody seemed to be able
to tell and there was the usual
speculation about flying saucers.
Andrews Air Force Base cleared
ui the mystery today. A spokesm n said the object was used by
th Air Weather Service. It is
at ached to a balloon and sent
in o the sky.
It is then tracked by radar
and the direction and speed of
the wind calculated. The device
is in constant use, the air base
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R,adar Spots More Mystery Objects Here,
Fliers Report ~igl1ti1~g Glo,ving Lights
_\Y,<1shingt_on ...:::c:tect anol!!._e..:J_away. The iloL said he wasn·t I lighted end of a cigaret.· or a
v1s1t l~ t..E.!11~ from t1ie uui~
ble to close qn__th9.!ll. and the cluster of orange and red lights.
'reall~ 1n.,ovin?." He lost
Radar operators plotted their
ti ~ e rial objects ~n:ilar lo 1~
~..9rtcd here_ last Mond~Y· sight of them two mrnutes later. speed al from 38 to 90 miles per
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At least a dozen of the mys- The same pilot observed a hour. They were not able to deterious objects were reported to steady while light 10 miles east termine their altitude. Some
have b22n seen glowing in lh~ of M?unt Vernon _a t ll:49 P- 111• pilots reported fl ying over them
sky within a 30-mile radius of The _light, abo~t five miles ahead and some under them
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t!JLQ.!L 1J1e radar sc~e~n of t he any more lights after that. Al- ,1e . myst~nous ,,hghts, so-~alleg
CAA Air ""Rot~ _Traffic.J:;_ontrol though the radar screen still
rs ar~ believed_.
ceqte..i.:.. at WashJngtQ!l. Naticinal picked up the objects. One l\e~ to.l1lJ.Ye_ ~ n_p1cked t!_p on
- -- 1plane landed shortly before mid- radar ...S c re_e.JL§: • T_he O?Jects ~ i,!11...QLt....
At. 11:25 p. m., two F-94 jet \' night, and the ot11er about 12:15 show.!! on the NationaT /\Jrp~rr
!;aa_ar,,,lfowever , caused defimte
fighters were sent up by the a. m.
Air Defense command to inves- It was the second time these bhn..s on the screen, wlucii
tigatc the lights. Tlli ~ilots re- , objects have been picked up by eans contacf with solid ooj~cts,
ported seeing th<L...: .!JU~ radar. Last night's visitors rather than hghts 01· r: '\ect1ons.
wei·e 11ot able to get any""2!oser•showed up first on the screen A CAA spokesman ' d the obtoUiefo- tfiari aoout7mi1eS:- -tat 9:08 p. m. and rema»ied for jects picked up last night gave
--,,;e Set pTio'ts descrioecrthe some time.
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off blips similar to those of reglights as hatd to see and track 1 Airline, private and military ular aircraft.
down.
1pilots all reported seeing them.
'.Cbe ,t.ir Force has been invcsAi 11:33 p. m., one jet pilot , Some _pilots said they came with- tig_ating'last wecl<'s objects. It
observed four lights in the vicin- 1i_n two or three miles or the ob- ~aid rgports of flying saucers
'\itY of Andrews Air Force base. Jecls.
this, mont11 have b een (he 11·
'l'lle lights were about 500 feet 'rhey were variously described es.t..sl11.ce 1947, when they -~t
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"WE FEEL .t BECAUSE OF THE t-TAY THE MISS I LES ACTED AND BECAUSEOF ALL

THE OTHER Th.PORTS THAT HAVE BEEN HEARD, THAT THEY MUST BE FROM SOME
FXTRA ... TERRESTRIAL SOURCE * NASH SAID.
"IF EITJfER OF US HAD 1F.EN THE THINGS ALONE,. WE WOULD HAVE HESTITATED
TO TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT," THE PILOT SAID.
THI NG TOGETHER•"

"BuT WE WATCHED THE WHOLE

NASH SAID THE OTHER PASSENGERS ON THE DC- 4 UERE WITTING WHERE THEY

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~GIVING CONSIDERATION TO THE DIFFERENCE IN OUR ALTITUDE AND
THEIRS.1.._WE JUDGED THAT THEY WERE APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET IN DIAMETH1 \
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GLOWING ORANGE- RED LI~E RED HOT IRONS," NASH SAID. "BUT THEY HAb
'DEFINITE OUTLINts.NASH SAID WHEN THE ':TRANGE OBJECTS GOT ALMOST DIRECTLY BELOW THE
PAA PLANE THEY MADE A SHARP 150-DEGREE· TURN TO THE WEST THEN
BANKED ureARD AT AN ALMOST sb DEGREE TIJRN.t. AS THEY GAINED'ALTITUDE,
THEY WERE JOINED BY TWO OTHER IDENTICAL "rHINGS . "
THE LIGHTS OF ALL EIGHT FLICKERtD OFFclN SUCCESSION AT "PERHAPS
101 000 BUT THEY UERE GOING ~O FAST IT UAS DIFFICULT TO ESTIMATE,"
HE SAID.
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C,AlD THE FLYING sAuCF.:RS -::;E£N BY NASH AND FORTENpERRY "0 VIOUSLY ~E~F.'
NOT FIGr1ENTS OF THFIR lrtAGINATI ON."
NASH A NAVY TRANSPORT PILOT IN WORLD WAR I I IS A VETERAN OF
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J0,000 lIR HOURS . FORTENBERRY% FORMERLY A NAVY'FIGHTER PILOT, HAS BEEN
AN EMPLOYE OF PAA INCE THE WAK,.
TllE EPORT MADE BY NASH AND FORTENBERRY TODAY WAS THE LATEST OF

r,EVERAL RECENT REPORTS OF MY5TERIOUS 08JECT5 lN THE AIR.
ON JULY 6,_ roun PILOT~ FOR A NON- CCHEDIJLtD AIRLINE R£PORT D SEEI 'G fl
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MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS IN THE SKY IN THE CHICAGO VICINITY THIS WEEK.
BUT OFFICERS .DENIED REPORTS THAT A SPECIAL •FLYING SAUCER• ALERT
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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS SAID JET PATROLS NORMALLY ARE ON THE
ALERT •24 HOURS A DAY.•
OFFICERS SAID THE AIR FORCE ENCOURAGES CALLS ON OBJECTS SIGHTED.
TiiEY AID THE REPORTS ARE •PASSED ON TO HIGHER AUTHORITY• FOR
!VALUATION.
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PT. JOHN BALDWIN OF CORAL GA BLES, FLA.l AN AIR FORCE PI LOT IN THE
PACIFIC DUR! NG WORLD l'1AR I I WHO HAS 7 000 HuURS OF AIRLINE PI LOT
EXPERIENCE~ SAID THE OBJECT HE AND HI~ COMPANIONS REPORTED SEEING
FARLY TODAY WAS A "PERFECTLY ROUND DISC WHITE IN COLOR AND ALMOST
TRANSPARENT WITH SMALL VAPOR TRAILS OFF'IT LIKE THE TENTACLES OF AN
OCTOPUS." •
HE SAID HE WAS FLYING AT ABOUT 9 000 FEET AND SAW THE OBJECT
"JUS T BELOW A DECK OF WISPY CLOUDS ABOUT 10,000 TO 1 s, 000 FEET
DIRECTLY ABOVE US .
"ALL OF US HAVE BEEN FLYING A NUMBER OF YEARS AND WE'VE SEEN ALL
KINDS OF CLOUDS AND FORMATIONS 1 BUT NONE OF US HAD EVER SEEN ANYTHING
LIKE THIS BEFORE" BAL DWIN SAiu.
"THE OBJECT S fEMED TO BACK AWAY FROM US AND CHANGE SHAPE.
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• ,EERFECTL* RQUijU,ND SULL AUI.RST . THEN IT Sf.EME.D. T O BACK AWAY FROt:1
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At dusk on a cool summer eve-I
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"sauce1·,"
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"The lateral rays of the sun at
dusk illuminate tqe base of the
balloon. There is no chance of
your ever seeing th"e full round•
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,ng saucers are rej!l- but they.'re 1magmat1on soars, the light reonly huge balloons used in cosmic flection _on the side may impress
ray studies, Look magazine will Y?U as the g~ow of an atomic en.
gme. The wisp o( the -balloon's
sa_y Tues~ay, quotmg Dr. Urne,r Iinstn.1,ment-filled tail may lfflpress
.de!, clue( of the nuclear physics I you as t he exhaust. The sun's
-- of the Office of Naval Re- I ra_ys may suffuse the plastic bag
branch
search. He is in charge of the wi~h a fiery glow. .
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cosmic my-balloon proJect.
I way of estimating the size and
The balloons are liuge plastic I speed ol an object they see. To
bags, 100 feet in diameter, that I peg size and speed, the mind ,
may rise 19 miles high--about ~us~. know the nature bf the ob100•000 •f eet. Winds
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Look says Dr. Liddel and asso~em along at 200 miles an hour. ciates studied 2000 reports of
At dusk, the slanting rays of the flying saucers, eliminating those
sun light up their bottoms, giving "seeming to be the visions of
the_m a saucer-like appearance, the ~rackpots or psycopaths" or
a~cle says.
clearly the result of inaccurat~
hey carry instruments aloft to vision."
re ord what happens when, cosmic
"This left a solid base of re
ra s hit atoms in the earth's at- ports from airplane pilots, scien
m ~phere. This splitting gives a till~ observers and reliable layme
clue to how atoms are put to- which could not be brushed asid
gether, and how to release their After a thorough investigation,
energy.
Dr. Liddel said: 'There is not a
"When this project first began it single reliable report of an obwas kept secret," the magazine servation which is not attributable
quotes Dr. Liddel. "Now there is to the cosmic balloons'."
It quotes Dr. Liddel as saying
no longer any need for secrecy 00
a scientUic basis. And certainly, that Ca~t. Thomas F. Mant~ll, a!r
there is no longer any need to force pilot found dead m his
keep the public in the dark about crashed plane after radioing that
what flying saucers are."
he was pursuing a stt-ange sky
Look says "the Liddel report is object, was chasing "a balloon
considered to ,lie the most authori- of the skyhook type.''
tative scientific explanation of the
Tlfere have been several reports
flying-saucer phenomenon. As far of squadrons of flying disks, and
as Dr. Liddel is concerned per- "this is explained by Dr. Liddel
~onally, he considers bis answer as clusters _of 2~ to ~o bal1~ons 10
incontrovertibly right."
to 15 feet m d1ame(er. which are
The balloons 0 called skyhooks sometimes• used in place of the
wet·e first sent aloft in 1947 and huge skyhook,"
it was then that flying sauc;r reDr. Liddel checked othet• Govports began, it adds. There were ernment. agencies and "is Satisfied
more balloons in the next two that no other research or experiyears and more "saucers'' seen. mental project has utilized anyThere were fewer balloons sent thing even roughly resem~
up in 1950, and fewer saucer
,'ib.g saucer."
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of a linlloon at 77.f ·" feet over
ne~ota, convinced Dr. Liddel
n mo1·e, the magazine §'1¥9>
photo fits deRcript io:fs' of ff~ .
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By Sunday ~ ispatch Reporter

NDS of people in many parts of
T HOUSA
Britain, inc luding spectators at football matches, saw what many of them
believed to be a flying saucer yesterday.
In each case the phenomenon-a strange
white flash which darted across the sky at terrific
speed-was seen about 4 p.m.
These reports of the passage of this object
.through the sky were received by the Sunday
Dispatch last night :
More th an 500 spectators at a Soccer cup ma tch at
Chard, Somerset, saw a strange white phenomenon dart
across the clear sky high above the grandstand at about
3.45. Within a split second of passing it seemed to disperse
on the horizon.

Spectators Cried 'Oh'
Spectators ip the stand cried " Oh ! " as the white,
liquid form sped inland from the direction of the English
Channel.
Spectators at a Rugby match two fields away saw it.
One, Mr. Ar thur H. Jenkins, postmaster of Chard, said :
" It was like a diamond flash ; its sh ape was like a big
peardrop, with the thin end tapering behind. Suddenly it
"rnercel'.i'' into nothingness."
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Airmen Saw It
"blob of brilliant whiteness "
and a " sheet of white h~=r==~-·1ots of four jet aircraft of . e
m e tal "
Royal Auxiliary Air Force corru g
in to land at Llandaw, near C rChairman of Chard F.C., Mr.
d •fI renorted a flash of llght t
l5,o·oort: to the north-east of the
William Taunton, sitting in the
stand, said : "It came right over
a irne:d.
the top of us like a brilliant streak
At a football match at Easton~~1 ~~:~ s eemed to dissolve before
ln-Gordano, near Bristol, spectators saw a flash. Mr. M.y. Perrett,
of H::1m Green, said: It looked
S n k Sh
a eape
like a rocket coming_ down frqm
2,000ft. There was an 1ntense whit~
Miss Myra Scott, who was watching a football match at Perry
flash which left a trail of vapour.
Street, three miles south of Chard,
Spectators at the match between
said she saw a "low-flying, silvery
Shaftesbury and Longfleet _s t.
star with a tail " shortly before
Mai·y reported what appeared hke
four o'clock.
a gi:.1.nt rocket. It seemed to fall
At North Petherton, near Bridgfrom the sky.
Bovlngdon airport In Hertfordwater, spectators at another match
saw an object in the north-west
shire 150 miles east of Llandaw.
sky shortly before four o'clock.
also 'reported to the _Air Ministry
It was described as "a Jong
that a brilliant white light was
snake-shape thing which streaked
senn a long way to t he west at
through the sky at a terrific rate."
4.5 n.m Observers estimated that
Mr. T. Hollinghurst, of North
it ,i:>.s at about 20,000ft. anrt say
P etherton, said : "It appeared sudth, t it vanished in a trail of smoke.
A'.r Ministry said last, night:
d enly and went away suddenly,
l eaving a _creamy smoke. There
" A thorough check _has b_eei:i made
was no noise and there were no
and no aircraft is missii:ig or
planes about."
b:1'.eved to have blown up m the
a•~
• • Channel Explosio n
·: , I t is most unlikely t hat an unscheduled private flight could have
A f ew minutes later a- flash, as
ta'.~en place at such a height. We
though from an explosion, was
.can:1ot explain the phenome_non.
s een at a great height over the
"No aircraft was flying m the
Bristol Channel. 50 miles to the
north of Chard.
Port'.she3.d area.."
Repo~ts from plates as much as
Game Stopped
130 miles apart were received
at the Air Ministry.
At Towyn, near Rhyl, North
Portfshead (near Bristol) police
W ,ies, Rugb.v players dropped the
rel)orted that' a white flash was
b ?.ll a!ld, with spectators, sta_red
s een between 4.5 and 4 10 p.m.
in!o the sky as a yellow ob,Ject
which appeared to be an explo,: s~c1.:·,· , flas:ied ar.i·oss rt.
t1
s10n. It turned pink and disIt vanished over Tower Hill.
integrated. The estimated height
Ab?rge!e,
within ten seconds.
was 20.000ft.
At about 4 o'clock spectators at
Weston•super-Mare police reAmersham: ~uc~inghamshire, f9otted to the Air Ministr,Y tha t
ball ground saw a brilliant obJect
y saw a similaa· flash m the
" like a huge star " flash across ti:ie
•tishead direction at the same
sky, leaving a volume of smoke m
t ~
- ~ its wake.
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~ Another sighting was re;;;ted
Among people who saw the obJeet
f rom as far away as Durham.
at Launceston, Cornwa ll, were r~o
ex-R.A.F. officers who were wa c •
ing a Rugby match.
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The object. which was _c11 cula1 ,
ga ,e off a bright bluish-white light.
•s •o•n<Jte : One theory advanced
1- . - n'l(ht by Profea.,sor F. A.
F '. ~·'i•(P"ofessor of Chem:stry at
:c; •::7!';im Unlvers:ty a:1d a lea~l'.ng
e o:n o:i m"teorites> :,yas that the
obiect w~s a meteor. If pi~es..of
mi:eor:Le are found," he said. 1t
w'll be only the tenth to have
fi:len in this country
" I would like to appea_J to anyone in the areas from which it was
r eported to report at once if the:y
notice a hole in the ground or a
damaged tree that was ,nf?t.l!lfile
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EST OF ENGLAND newspapers gave much
publicity last week to reports of " flying
sa ucers " over Devon.
The saucers were reported by a number
of independent witnesses from places as far
a part• as Woolacombe (near llfracombe),
Exeter, Cullompton, Sidmouth Junction, and
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'Tht-y were of a brillia.nt silhas . t wo wars, was one of
t or!e~,Ye1 people who told the v y blue. travelling south, one behind
the other In close formation: •
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Ex; n a d seen.
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noticed a ndirection of the north
from f endY at a " terrific speed."
I end O Hu A Franklin, of Beacon.Mr. •. ton near Exeter, wrote
Jane V'{h1P . that while at Counto the pa.P({wo miles ~outh-east of
tess wea1 1',1ondaY night, he saw
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T he object was described by Miss
J .. spurway, of Exeter-hill° CulIompton (12 miles north-eas t of
Exeter) 1 as " a bright disc travelling with a circular movement a t
great speed."
Two and a half miles north of
Exmouth, the object was seen at
11 p.m. br. Mr. and Mrs. L. Mus, sell, of H1ll-crest, Lympstone. who
, described it as having been in ~wo
parts " apparently attached in
some way with a lighted tail."
The sixth witness quoted in thll
Express and ,Echo is Mr. A. J.
Powell, of Sidmouth J unc:tion, who,
while between Patterson's Cross,
Otlerv St. Mary and Sldmouth
Jnnc(ion at 11 p.m. on Mondav,
, saw " two brilliant wh.l~J.!.!:.!l[s
t.ome 11no view to the ncinh-west,
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"They passed swiftly," he saJd,
Bluish Light
" in a southerly direction and aPBray_ fisherman, age
peared to. be ' In line astern ' with 39,Frederick
lying in the bunk of hi
a long red trail to the rear . . . boatwas
outer harbour
both lights seemed to fizzle out as when inheTorquay
saw a " bluish-white
I watched them-they were In a light"
appear
over
Pier
clear patch of sky when this hap­ at about 11 p.m. " I Princess
watched the
pened .•. I heard no sound."
flames for about ten seconds. They
·" Two large circular objects seemed
to surround a roundish obtravelling south in a horizontal ject
which was travelling towards
position looking something like Thatcher
Rock" (to the East).
large white flames " is the descriPWhile walking along the sea
tion given in the Western Morning front
Station, Mr. D .
News of what Mr. Arthur N. Jeffery,toofTorquay
Winner-street, Paignton,
Beame. 55-year-old estate agent, of saw
something
in
the sky. "I
Southfield-avenue. Preston, Devon,
saw at Paignton at 11 p.m. on thought at first it was a rocket firework," he told the Herald Express.
Monday.
I noticed it was maintainMembers of the crew of a liberty "Then
ing
a constant speed at a constant
boat plying between Flagstaff height
... It was absolutely silent.
Steps, Devonport Dockyard, and It seemed
to disintegrate suddenly
H.M.S. Defiance are also' reported a nd disappear."
A "ball of bluish-white light .,
was seen at about 11 p.m. in the
sky abovef Paignton travelling
south towards Brixham. Mr.
Harry Cove-Clark, of Marine-drive,
Paignton, said : "The ball of light
was preceded by a thin blue blur
which was overtaken by the main
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"Then another bluish-white light
appeared and a broken stream of
lights seemed to fall from it. They
all seemed to be following each
other straight across the sky, then
there was a spurt of flame from
th~ end of the broken pieces-just
like a feebJe rocket."
The last of the witnesses, Mr. H.
Warren, of East-street, Torre, Torquay, saw from his bedroom window an object "going towards
Brixham, due soutli of Torquay."
Describing it in a letter to the
Paper he said : "I though ~ -~ ~~
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Light trailing behind them. . .
in the Western Morning News as
having seen "circular objects
travelling at an incalculable speed
and emitting a t rail oJ fire " late on
Monday night.
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PILOTS SAID fODAY THEY COOLDR'T C:ff IIEAR IT. · .

POLIClf AIIPO T AID .RADIO STATION PERSONNEL SAIi •JUST ABOUT
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SPRINGFIELD, ILL--PILOT JIM GRAHAM CLAIMED TODAY THAT A "FLYING
SAUSAGE" COLLIDED WI TH Hrs: PLANE AND "EXPLODED LIKE A BOMB"--BUT CAUSED_
NO DAMAGE.
GRAHAM, CHIEF PILOT FOR THE CAPITAL AVIATION COMPANY HERE, WAS
FLYING TO SPRINGFIELD FROM CHICAGO LAST NIGHT WHEN HE SIGHTED THE
OBJECT AS HE FLEW OVER WILLIAMSVILLE, JUST NORTH OF HERE.
HE SAID THE OBJECT WAS A "BLUE STREAK ABOUT 10 FEET LONG AND SHAPED
LIKE A SAUSAGE." HE SAID IT WAS TRAILING YELLOW FIRE.
THE OBJECT, WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE HIS PLANE, DIVED SUDDENLY AND
PLOUGHED DIRECTLY INTO HIS PROPELLER.
"IT EXPLODED LIKE A _BOMB WHEN IT STRUCK," HE SAID.
GRAHAM MANAGED TO STAY ON COURSE AND LANDED AT CAPITAL AIRPORT HERE.
HE EXPECTED TO FIND HIS PLANE EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED, HE SAID, BUT A
THOROUGH INSPECTION SHOWED NOTHING.
SEVERAL OTHER SPRINGFIELD RESIDENTS ALSO REPORTED SEEING THE
"FLYING SAUSAGE." ONE WOMAN SAID SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE SITTING ON
THEIR PORCH AND SAW rr PASS OVER SPRINGFIELD.
OBSERVERS AT THE WEATHER BUREAU SAID THE ONLY EXPLANATION THEY COULj
OFFER WAS THAT THE OBJECT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A METEOR THAT APPEARED TO HI
GRAHAM'S PLANE BUT EXPLODED RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT. THEY SAID THEY DID
NOT SEE THE OBJECT.
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FARGO, N. D.--FOUR PERSONS REPORTED THEY WATCHED FIVE STRANGE,
MOON-LIKE OBJECTS FLYING IN FORMATION SOUTH OF FARGO FOR 34 MINUTES.
THE BRIGHTLY-SHINING OBJECTS WERE SPOTTED AT 3:07 A. M. CS T BY FARGO
WEATHER BUREAU EMPLOYE RAY WILSON. HE SAID HE WATCHED THEM UNTIL 3:41
WHEN CLOUDS OBSCURED VIS ION.
MARIAN EDDY, AN AIRLINES EMPLOYE, AND MIKE ENDERSBY AND MARGARET
LAWSON OF THE CAA SAID THEY SAW THE OBJECTS FROM THE FARGO AIRPORT.
WILSON SAID ONLY ONE OF THE OBJECTS WAS VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE.
vilTH TELESCOPES AND FIELD GLASSES THE FARGOANS SAID THEY COULD SEE TWO
SMALL OBJECTS ON EACH SIDE OF THE nTHING.•
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MANEUVERABILITY. ENDERSBY SAID THEY LOOKED LIKE A WHITE FLAME
MANEUVERING IN THE AIR.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 13 CUP) .
The Navy studied a report ·today
•:from t wo pilots and an electronics
instructor who claimed to have
tracked a flying saucer or some
strange craft on a radar screen
for eight miles.
Both fliers reported seeing a
shiny round object whizzing pa.st
their training planes, about 10
miles northeast of Osceola, Ark.,
last night.
Electronics technician G. D.
Wehner, who wa-s flying with en•i
li9ted pilot R. E. Moore, said he
"caught
it on the radar scope. It
was helmet-shaped. The outline
of the edges were all right, bit
lare from the center of it p •
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(j ,g . ) J. w. Martm, the second
pilot.
"When I first spotted the saucer
it was about two miles off and
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appea.red to be a round ball. It ,_ ]... ,
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and traveled across in front of us
and disappeared ln the distance
to our 1·ight. I think it would be
about 25 to 45 feet across and
about seven feet high.
"The thing looked like a World
War I helmet seen from t he side.
or 11, shiny &'hallow bowl turned
upside down. We wanted to follow it, but our training ships
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couldn't keep up with the saucer,
or whatever it was."
The pilots,. based .at t he Milling.
Wash . Star
t on n aval all' station n ear he1·e,
estimated the object was Hying at
11n alt(tucle of 8.000 feet nt a speed
N.Y. Mirror
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The navy dcl'llned comment.
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people with incredulity and
polite r id icule. But wny ?
I have s tudied all the report.s
available. I have seen photographs-those in the • Sun day
Dispatch last week were particula} y clear-and I believe they are
p otographs of d isc-type a ircraft.
a rlier pictures published in
t e Spa nish Press last April. a1ld
al ged Lo have been taken in the
Ba lear ic Islands, migh t have been
anytn ing a nd could have been a
leg-pull. I t is not a lways easy to
sort the wheat from the chaff.

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c on tr o I or
t r a veiling at
prod ig ious
speeds, va n ish! n g suddenly,
a nd associated
with brillian t light, f ringes of flt
or fla mes of peculiar colour a d
generally rotating or whirling.
From ma ny par ts Of t,he wor
come these reports. The ve
fa ct t ha t their descriptions a re
cons istent has led to t heir being
d ismissed as hallucinations, d efective vision. or mild hysteria.
lt might be that t he solution
of th is riddle could lie in a ve\·y
u northodox a pproach. and I have
wondered if there could possibly
be t urbulences set up In our
atmosphere which could cause
w h i r I i n g " dust devils " of
luminous gases caused by jet or
other h igh speed experimen ts
which might be responsible f<?r
the generation of small aton11c
whirlpools in the atmosphere.
Group Three reports suggest
that the saucers are h igh speed
aircraft of circular or disc sha pe
travcllin.,; at speeds much hi~hcr
t ha n those attained by normal
planes.

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d isc-like all'craft should not have
been common objects at any ttme
d uring the past 30 years.
T he early history of these very
unorthodox-looking aircraft was,
ironically. based on a search for
safety.
Before 1910 It had been shown
that square and circular sm:faces
had very good non-stalling characteristics llP to large angles. But
when powered aircraft arrived it
was found that the easiest way to
minimise the losses due to the end
slip of the iur from the wing Ups
was to increase the span o! wiugs
while keeping them narrow.
This compromise brought other
trouble. Earlv plnncs renclleg
their stalling angle u t some \;,
dr.grers, and stalling must r C'sU,L
In a d.ivc since t11e onlv corrcct1;
of R stall Is ,1 flight nt. some spr.
greater than the stalling sprcd.
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G. TILGHMAN RICHARDS,
senior Research a ssistant
and official lecturer at the
South Kensington Science
Museum, London, who has
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evidence.
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of technical opinion not sat isfied
that perfection has been reached •
.4lid here. I think. lies the real
answer.
This body of opinion has been
conUnually searclling for the
" safe" design. Designers of many
nationalities have been striving
since t he early 1920's with great
success toward a foolproof p"lane
Enlar gem ents from flying saucer
of disc type.
pictures- front-paged last week
In 1934-35 Charles H. Zimmer- which set everyone talking.
They were taken bY Farmer mann. in the United States, built
a
disc wing airplane combined
Trent, McMl'nnvllle, Oregon, U.S.
with a helicopter capable of
verUcal
ascent and descent and
must, of necessity, be subject to a high forward
speed.
these dangers. TheY. turned aside
tolvestigate possible wing forms
w 'ch should be safe from stalling
an spinning.
nong these " rebels " a f ,::w
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for his patents to ~ e
Jose Weiss and Arthur Keith with Chance Vought Aircraft Division
their completely stable swallow­ of the Uni ted Aircraft Corporalike monoplane In 1909. Et nch tion in the U.S.
and Weis in Austria In 1911,
But at that point tne O.S. Navy
evolving a stable wingform oased stepped In, and all further develon t he Zannonia leaf from which opment has been of a secret
Rumpler and t he majority of Ger­ nature. though it has been stated
man builders developed the T aube that t his combination is capable
monoplane. Dunne, with his too of speeds from o to 500 miles per
stable, tailless, back-swept wing hour.
biplane •in 1912. and the Lee_This performance IS !n accord
R ichards annular monoplane of with reports that. flying saucers
1910-14, with which I was asso­ travel at grea t speedsl hover,
ascend and descend wh h little
ciated.
forwa;rd motion.
It 1s perhaps a liUle hard t o
\)elieve that the1·e can, as yet, exenough of these types to meet
WITH the outbreak of t he 1st
many re11orts, bu't there, is no
1914 war research of the
reason at a I whv such a ircraft
t his type was a bandoned. and ;;hould not ha ve been seen providstudy concen trated on perform­ mg that full scale work followe
ance rather t han safety.
t he experimen tal period. And tl
Bv 1918 the modern plane was ~ecrecy would suggest tha t th
established , and earlier research 1S SO.
was forgotten.
And t lier e could lie the m t
c ivil a irlines natura lly used sol.i d p roof t hat flying saucers
aptea war planes. and then ex1St.
me w orld Wa r II. once more
itations were Imposed.
n spite of thr orthodoxy t,f
si!(Tl t here was t h ro~ ~u;_,t.he
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First pict ure of a flying
s ucer comes fr om th e
p a n i s h n ewspaper
I ntorm aciones.
DAILY GRAPHIC correspondent
in Madrid explains :
The caption stated that this
picture was obtained at
3 a.m. i
the Balearic
lslanct,s ' Enrique Hausman I ullef,· a· n~ree"J
ca 'a · an .
I t added that he and 11iS
assistants I heard a loud
noise and saw a luminous
trail crossing the sky. He
camera and
pulled out ahis picture-but
obtained
expresses no opinion about
flying saucers.
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axey, wartime memf a U.S. bomber crew.
photographed two groups
of " flying saucers " near
Fort Worth. '' But.'' h
said, " they were more lik
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1 body is in it," he said., "!],ut
it carries 70 po~tnds of instrume¼ts
t o record cosm11! rays .. . It is an
1 enormous translucent thing with
a long tail and flies up to 100,000
feet in the air. When the weird
contraption is launched off the
ground, it is filled to only one
pe1·cent Of its capacity with helium.
New York, Apri~ l_O (U.PJ.-Air ~t bigh alt!tu9es, ex_Pansion causes
Force denials tbat ' fl~1~g saucers" it to blow itself up into a gigantic
exist are " worth a billion dollars monster 100 feet tall and 70 feet
to the Russi'ans in the 'cold war,'" in diameter. tall as au eight-story
Radio Commentator Hem-y J. Tay-I building, all in pulsating plastic."
lor said tonight.
1'aylor said some of these veTaylor said over the ABC net-lhicles travel all over America, 20
~vork that U1is country has several I miles up in t he ,s~y. At sunset.
'unconventional air vehicles t)jat the whole contraption glows and
could be taken for "flying saucers." can be seen as long as 30 minute~
He described one as a fantastic af!e1·•darkness.
contraption "in pulsating plastic," rhe .struments are floated bac
as tall as an eight-story building to earth by parachute, Taylor said.
and used to record cosmic rays.
Then the huge contraption " break
"What bas happened to our into pieces in the sky or explodes,'
brains?" Taylor asked. "These showering plastic pieces over: : :
denials are worth a billion dol ars l and _____ "'21'=<:a;;;;§~:..LJL
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aucers" are top-secret United
tates military inventions.
Taylor warned that ii' the Russians suddenly announced they
were sending "flying saucers"
around the world, United States:
officials would have no way to stem
merican hysteria.
Taylor said t he U nited Stat es
hould an,:iounce:
"We have no further coromen
about anything in t he skies ex
cept t hat America is creat ing man
e lpful and incredible t hings. All
1are harmless and good news for
freedom-loving people."
And this would he a true state.
ment, the commentator said.
Taylor said that at an airfield
near l\linneapolis and also al othe1
places, the NaYY is "lai1nching int
our high skies an enormous and
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PB.ESTON, Monday.
An object whictv they thought
might have been a " flving saucer"
was seen by th!·ee gi1:1s who were
walking along the Preston-Lancaster
main road near Preston yesterday
afternoon. "It looked like a very
bright star in the east. but was
brighter than any sl.llr." thev said.
One of the girls. Miss Lilian Spencer, of Pole-street. Preston. said : "It
was oval-shaped and resembled the
wing of a silver plane caught in the
sunlight. There was no sound of an
engine and it had a peculiar swinging movement." It was going against
the wind.
An Air Ministry meteorological
official pointed out that it wa.s a
common error for people to speak of
something travelling in a certatn
direction when they really meant
that i~ was coming from that direction. 1f that wa$ t he case here it
was possible that the object cou!d
have been a metoorologica1 balloon
blown over from Northern Ire!Md.
Many Londoners reported on AQril
that they had seen a " fly.
, ucer." Tne Air Ministry explain
t at it was a balloon used for pa c ute Jumping which had brok
fr
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Not Inforr-1.\l!f)l== ==--~
"I am quite sure the military
establishment would have told us
if they were working on such a
thing a.s a saucer. But the fact is
they haven't said a word about it."
As far as Mahon is concerned
the saucer is "just a fanta.sy."
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~gel said maybe so, maybe n ot.
It 1s perfectly true, he said, that
none of the subcommittee's witnesses ever owned up to any connection with saucers. .But then, as
far as he could recall, nobody
•ver asked them about it.
"I am confident of this." Engel
a&ld. "If there are any such things
as saucers, they are ours, not
aomebody else's. It another country were sending them over. I am
11ure the subcommittee would have
heard about It."

B7 United l'ress

One House member who should
know said flatly today there is
no such thing as a flying saucer.
But anotl1er member equally qualified said maybe not, but he has
aeen one himself.
Rep. Mahon <DJ of Texas. chairman of the House military appropriations subcommittee, said it
just isn't so what they say about
those discs. He had no concrete
evidence-but the solidest kind or
aupport.
President Truman. Defense Sec•
retary Johnson. the Air Force and
the Navy all backed him up.
They said none of the armed
,ervices is messing around with
HUcers, and that nobody else is
:far far as they knew. The pe[ple,
they said, are seeing things.
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an who says he saw one.
A member of Mahon's subcommittee, he also is a candidate for
governor of Michigan when he
Isn't helping dole out the money
1t takes to keep the military In
business.
He said the fact that he saw
a flying disc may not be evidence,
but it sure was convincing.
It happened about 1 p.m. one
day last summer at Elsie, Mich.
Several other citizens. all of the:tr).
gober and well thought of, saw it,
too. Two of them chased it in a
plane, but the thing un!d'rtunately
high and too fast and got
Mahon put it this way :
"I guess my subcommittee would
know if to.ere were anything to
this flying sauce1· ousiness. We
even knew about the atomic en=='"'=-=="=
~rgy experiments seve!al yeai-s, be• ,
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Ai;r Force and Navy officials I
ha.ve been denying the existence]
of "flying saucers'\ all along. And
& Defense department statement
late yesterday reiterated the dehials.
But indications were t hat reports of the mysterious flying object would continue. L. Nobel Rob•
inson, managing editor of the
U. s. News and World Report said
his magazine had expected ' offi.
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aaucers ~re a ''revolutionary type
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departmental secretaries and Joint
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• Chiefs of Staff. NavY Secretary
Top offic1a s and agen~ies of the mild form of mass hysteria, or Francis Matthews and Admiral
Government-from President Tru- hoaxes:"
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' Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval
man on down-joined yesterday in Earlier, Pres1den~ Truman an-· operations, as well as other offian effort to convince the American nounced th rough lus press secre- cials, assured him the denials were
public that "flying sauce rs" do not tary at Key West. F~a., that he sincere ·and truthful.
exist.
kn~w ab~olutely not hing of such The latest flareu p of public inA formal statement issued by flyrng ob3ects being developed by terest in the saucers resulted from
the Air Force last night was most t!1 e United States or any ot her' na- statements by Radio Commentator
tion.
• Henry J. Taylor and the weekly
explicit. It declared flatly that:
1. None of the armed forces Is
"We are not denying t his be- news magazine United States News
conducting secret experiments with cause of any development of secret and World Report that the saucers
"disc-shaped flying objects which weapons." s~id Secretar y Charles do exist and are revolutionar~
could be a basis for the 1·eportcd G. Ross. "but purely because we American aircraft probably devel'.now of nothing to support t hese oped by the NavY, A Navy spokesphenomena."
2. There is no evidence that the rumors."
man flatly denied this Monday!.
latter stem from "the activities orl ~ efense Secretar y Louis Johnson1 Johnson said he is convinc_ed the
any foreign nation."
lsatd about the same thmg at a· saucers could not be experiments
Evaluation of reports of re- 11ews conference. He told reporters conducted by any other Governcen "sightings" bears out early ~1e was ''satisfied there is nothing ment agency outside his departco lusions that all can be ex- 10 the reports."
ment because the Pentagon's Repla ed away as " misinterpretation Johnson said' he had facetiously sea~·ch and Developme~t. Board co•
of arious conventional objects, a
See SAUCER, Page 3, _, ,, 9l dmates all such activity.
Despite the denials, new reports
of "saucers" continued. At Tipp
City, Ohio, nine persons said they
saw saucers over the Ail" Force
base at Wright Field, early Sunday.
Jerry Robinson, a 22-year-old
Marine veteran, speaking for the
group, said they saw "two brigh
lights i n the sky" which later wer
d iscerned as brilliant discs trailin
a ~-~n streak of 01·ange flame.
Nter hover ing for a time, thel
shot. straight up in the air 1md
disappeared, he said.
Police Chief J . C. Lee of Elizabeth City, 111., reported that "a
weird red and blue disc-like object" whizzed o~er the town early
SundaY, "t raveling at a high rate
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forming to known areodynamic, on_,the side and front nozzles.
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laws and probably developed by I by focusing to the rear all
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zine United States and World Re- ' With all nozzles pointed downport said yesterday.
jward, the saucer co u Id rise
This latest effo1·t to explain the straight off the ground, and with
continuing reports of strange 'fly- less power, could descend the
ing disks at various points over same way • , •
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the counh'y brought a prompt "Jet helicopter action • • •
denial from the Navy Department makes takeoffs and landings almost
that it is now "conducting research completely safe."
or flying" any such plane or I The magazine said that an early
missile.
!, model of the saucer was built by
A spokesman pointed out that, National Advisory Committee for
the Navy did , develop the "pan- Aeronautics experts in 1942 and
cake-shaped"
Chance-Vought made 100 successful flights, The
XF5U-l. but that it never flew and Navy then took over development
was scrapped more than a year and "much more advanced models
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model oL the plane was flown and., NACA Engineer Charles :a". Zimpictures of it have been released.' me~man designed the first model,
but this model is now at Norfolk which had a speed of from 400 to
awaiting s hipment to the National 500 miles an hour and was pow- I
Air Museum here.
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'fhe weekly news magazine did the a1ticle.
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statement that the "flying saucers" azme went on, "point to research
arelreal American planes, but sai ' centers _of the ~n_ited St'.'tes Navy's
tha •·engineers competant to a . vast gwded-miss1le proJect as the
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scene of present flying-saucer de•
pra· e reports of rel_iable obs:rv
velopment." The project, it was
A>SOC!ated P reS3 P ho
reac these conclus10ns:
s~id, has the ''scientists, the en- y
Model ol o.ircraFt derJaloped in 1948 and Rou>n by the Navy uncl
''Tl1 e are aircraft of a revolu- glneers, the dollars, the motive
1 yt
radio cantrol-full-aire cralt neuer Rew, the Navy ho.• announced
.
e a combination of heli- and the background'' for the • •
uonary YP •
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"This likelihood will remain de•
copter and fa5t Jct pl~ne: They , spite any futur e denials by' the
, fo ·m to well-known pr1nciples of1 Navy front office, until secrecy is
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• a dded.
co ·odynan11csae!,_ Y ai·e "exact.I~• L05 feet in di- The Navy declared it w~s true
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.,_ 1tr circular in s hape·• and "are that its abandoned "flying panan1 e e ·f a metal alloy. with a dull cake" was designed by ZlmmerAPR 111950
ma~l~ ~ color. There are no r~d- man, and was called t he " Zimmerw l11t 15 uerons or other proh'udmg man Skimmer." It added that a
ders, a From the side, the caucers
l smaller scale model---ones urfacesto be about 10 feet thick." t ~rd of actual size-is still at
appear aucer appears to have a ,
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"Eachof5 vari~ble•.cJ'irect·ion •Jet ACA's Langley, Va., laborato
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serles around its riu,s . • • : iuel for wind-tunnel tests, but he
nozzle_5 unknown. •,- · Direc~wn ?f NavY insisted it had no such pr.ojused 1~ . ft and ils velocity, m ect now active.
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t,urn, evlden ,,·hich the jet nozzles The Air. For~e, . after many
angle at
mber operating. month~, of mvest1gation of "flying
t1,e tilted, the . 11
~aucer reports, concluded that all
power appJ1e ,~·hich nozzles to Ithe evid_encc pointe? to "misin"lW choo~1ng and the angle ol t.~rpretah_on of ~ar1ous convan01· off
lei nrnk I
t10111tl obJects, a mild form of mass
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terlo, or hoaxes.'' , s • 'Al
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flying
saucers, comes this up-to-the-minute
\ su1111nary of report and rumour about
{ the modern mystery of th1 skies.

liy RICHARD GREEI'\TOUGH

THE DAILY MAIL
. APRIL 3, 1950
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1bws vi rrghts in the 4 Mk• a:i!d
orange flames coming from the

tail.

Sometimes they have been rewrted shaped like tubes. pillars,
spheres.
But two facts seem to remain
constant. They a.re all said to be
either white or silver, and to
move across the sky in an und~lating way, tut!ng first in ime direction then the other, rising and
falli'ng, before flnallv disappearing into nothing or over the
horizon.
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neth Ar no I d,
30 - y e a r - old,

o rd in a r y business-man
pilot from Boise, Idaho,
'touched off the "flying
saucers " mystery by reporting, on the afternoon of
June 24, 1947, that he had
seen " nine shiny discs like
metal hub-caps flip-flapping along at about 1,200
m.p.h." only one fact seems
uite certain.
Nobody has yet proved de­

nitely that such things do or
o not exist.

Air Force finding
HIS includes the U.S. Air
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though officially last December,
after checking 375 cases, it closed
down "Project Saucer." a special
investigation group of Intelligence officers with headquarters
i~Ohio.
At
that time it was stated in a
b nket turn-down that all rep ·ts were :
. Misinterpretation of " con-

ventiona.l " aerial objects. Thie
Included g i an t experimen I
cosmic-ray balloons. radar targ t
balloons with dangling strips r
aluminium foil, meteor trai s.
wisps of or whole vapour tra s
from high-flying aircraft, bright
planets.
2. Mild form of mass hysteria..
3. Hoaxes.
B'ut steadily, from 1947 up till
a. few days ago, reports of curious
objects that "go whizz in the air "
keep on coming in from all over
the United States.
They have now been reported
from 43 out of the 48 States, with
the majority coming from the
south and east and near the Mexican border.
They have a.1so. of course, been
reports from other parts of the
world, from Scandinavia, Africa,
China, the Far East.
The objects allegedly seen here
have ranged from the now almol
conventional flying disc o
"s a u c er "
sometimes
wi
" fuzzy " edges. or lit up at night
to
torpedo· shaped
wingles
" space ships" showing regular

'Pilot's chase
NE u.s. Air Force pil~ot
capt. Thomas Mantel
st his life some months aizo ~
11: to catch up w).th somethl!)
a-t looked like a s!lvei;, 1c
earn cone tooped with. red. .
An experienced war-time pilot,
with several thousand _hours'
flying time Mantell was m his
fighter plane leading two others
near Fort Knox, Kentucky,. when
'the control tower .a t his. airbase,
Godman Field, radioed him to t,ry
to locate a strange object s!ght~d
from the ground and movmg m
his direction.
Mantell later called back that
he had spotted the " thing " at
" l2 o'clock high " (directly ahead
and above him), and that It
looked like a silver ice-cream cone
topped with red.
His air-to-ground conversation
was logged at the air base and I
ave checked it. He later
orted :
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ood look. It s directly ahead
e and moving at a go!)d spee .
he thing l,?oks metallic and ,
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"We saw It at t he same time,
h1les told investigators late
• Whatever it was flashed down wards us and -we veered to t h'e
left It veered sharply too and
passed about 700 feet to our right
and above us."
"The thing was about 100 feet
Jong cigar--shaped and wingless,
about twice the diameter of a
B.29 wtthout protruding fins,"
said
Whitted.
quarter years a multitude
eople on the ground claim
" There was a tremendous burst
ave seen these "flying saucers :• of orange flame from the rear.
or have they always been se
It zoomed int.o clouds, Its Jet or
ith the naked tye ; many sa
prop wash rocking our DC3."
hem through binoculars.
But the fa.ct that first started
Seeing's believing~
the U.S. Air Force to sit up, take
notice, and then institute "ProORE recently, two wee
ject Saucer " was the large
ago. two other alrli
number of apparently responsible pilots, Captain
Ada~. wit •
pilots and aircrew members who some 8,000 hou_rsJ~ck.
flying time, and
sem in startling reports of what co-pilot G. W. Anderson
reported
they claimed'to have seen.
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saucer " ;with windows
One of the theories along which acm"flying
the
bot
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and
a.
" P.S " investigators worked was light near the top as theyblinking
passed
evident from the fact that every over Arkansas.
plane whose pilot reported close
" It was flying almost due north
encounters with "flyir.g saucers"
Still a mystery
we crossed its pat h at about
was checked with Ge I e g e r and
a
degree angle,' said Adams.
counters for possible radio­ "It45 was
UT one of his fellow-pilots
about 1,000ft. above us
activity . .
later commented: "I
and travelling at a t remendous
think that was a cover-up. Manrate. It had a peculiarly coloured
tell was too experienced a J?ilot
Head-on meeting and very intense light. near the
for that He was quite familiar
top which blinked very rapldtv.
with signs of approaching anoxia_
AKE the case, for in•
"We kept t he object In sight
flack of oxygenl. and would have
stance. of c~pt ain Cla r­ for about 45 seconds.
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taken steps to prevent It.
ence Ohiles, fonner Air Tran.sport
"I've
been a sceptic all my e
· " Some of us think he may have
Command pilot. and John B. about such t h in gs, but wl~at c. n
collided with whatever he saw and Wl1itted. who flew B.29 Super· you do when you see a t hmg h e
t hat It knocked him out In the
forts during the war. Both are t hat ? " he concluded. "We we
air."
appily married men with fa; both flabbergasted."
Enginee1·s lat er added tha t t~
!es good Jobs and no need.
pe of machine Mantell was fl
pparent
desire for publicitv.
g s tarting a dive at 20.000f
They wei-e flying a schedule
uld not have disintegrated s
irline service near Montgomer
oroup;hly.
Jaba ma , one n ight last summe ,
During the past t wo and thre

OR 25 minutes Mante' I
and the two other pllo
tried vainly to close in. Manf I
reported the object was climbing
and moving i;it a speed equal to
his own. which he gave as 360
m.p.h.
In broken cloud at 18,000ft the
ot her two pilots lost sight of him,
later broke off and landed.
Mantell called once more to say
that if he were no closer at
20,000ft. he'd abandon the chase
as he hadn't the oxygen.
That was the last beard from
him.
His body was later founct near
Fort Knox and the wreckage
is machine scattered over hal a
ile around. Obviously his pla e
ad disintegrated in mid-air.
Official Air Force version w
at Mantell had
probab
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oxygen a.nd had not regained consciousness before he crashed. out
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From ROBERT WAITHMAN, News Chronicle Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sunday.

United States in the last month it has
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become a good deal harder to dismiss as

halluci nations reports that flying saucers- or
alternative ly " flying objects of non-conventional
design "-have lately been seen in the ski,e s.

It has become harder, firs't because the reports h ave
een coming in from such sources and with such in. ependent detail 'that it would be remarkable indeed if
hey were all the product of too vivid imaginations; and
econd because there h as been some rather peculi'a:r bfiI!!ial
behaviour in the matter.
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Washington. headquarters ., f
e Defence Department, there~·s
n Air Force major whose du y
is to repeat to all inquirers t e
bstance of the last Air For e
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statement on flying sauce ,
issued on December 27. 1949.
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" Mass hysteria"
On the basis of inquiries into
375 alleged occurrences over a
period of two years. it was announced : "Reports of unidentified flying objects are the
result of misinterpretation of
various conventional objects or a
mild form of mass hysteria or
hoaxes.''
It was said a continuance of
the inquiry was " unwarranted."
But in fact it has appeared
during the last month that
edible witnesses who say . they
ave seen flying saucers are still
ing examined by Intelligence
fficers.
It was noted, too. how quickly
a nd how thoroughly one of the
most comprehensive of the
newest reports has been officiaily
" lost."

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Employees of the Civil Aer
nautics Authority at work in
control tower at Dayton muni
cipal airport in Ohio. in conjunction with U.S Weather Bureau
obser vers and four pilots of the
Air National Guard who took off
in fighters t o look at the " unidentified object "- they all saw
and submitted their testimony
to t he administrat or of C.A.A.
The Idea-sometimes seriously
advanced
and
often
halfbelieved- that the saucers could
be exploratory craft from another
planet h as infinite possibilit ies.
But unt il it is proved it m ay
be more profitable to wonder
whether there has been developed somewhere a disc-like
plane with a cir cle of swiftly
t·evolving vanes that m ight
able it to hover or to flv at
1gb speed.
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If this or something like lt
urns out to be the answer. th re
aY be good i;eason for hop
h ere that it is one of ours.

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'Rocket saucer '

ROME, Thursd .-A flying sauce
was reported ver Milan todl..
Then later it as discovered t h t
three boys had at.tached rockets o
metal d isc and set t h
/ aoffla rge
from the roof or a h i h
building.- E:,press News Service.

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ROME, Wednesday. - Flyin
;;aucers again-over Ua ly now.
This is wha t people in five
differ ent ar eas reported:
Salo, on Lake G ard a .-A disc a s
large a s a full 1. ,00 11 slreaking
towards the north-east.
Carrara .- Four. three miles up,
fly ing southwards.
Calabria.Disc "like ll moon with a wake of
. e" speedin g westwar ds.
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Sardinia . - A flyin g sauc •
r mained suspended 20 second ,
t en disa ppea red to the sout .
I tl'Aosta.- A disc flying ave
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41CHARD GARRETT traces the
liistoJ·y of an aerial phenomenon
which gave America sky-war jitter~

Professor F. S. Cotton, of Sydney University, was discussing with his students the mystery of the flying saucers. He
asked them to stand still, train their eyes on a point in the
sky about a mile away.
Within ten minutes 22 members of the class were seeing }
"s~ucers."
The hallucina tion was merely the effect of red blood
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eport that Captain Jack
dams, pilot of t he Chicago
nd Southern Airlines, radioed
that he and a co-pilot had
crossed the path of a large flying s a u c e r, with lighted
windows and a peculiarly
coloured blinking light on duced an a,1·Ucle in which he
It: D ec em be 1·, 1949, the
top and travelling at about claimed to have received a
body which had b i
600 m.p.h, over Arkansas.
message, via a medium that offi.c1al
established in America to pro e
t,here
were
people
aboa1'.d
the
This was followed by a news
the " saucers" was disba.nd .
cable from Lisbon: Scores of " saucers."
It had been in operation f r
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came
from
another
flying saucers reported by
two years, and had investigat
coastguards of bfie North planet, and wished to try liv­ 375 incidents.
Portugal coast flying in line mg on earth.
I t · said that the phenomenon
In Britain "saucers" were
and other formations and
caused by : (a) misintermoving west " faster than reported over Brighton beach, was
and another was seen by a pretation of various conventracer bullets."
tional objects; (b) a mild form'
So the 1950 "saucer season" clergyman·s wife at Sandwich. of
mass hysteria; (cl hoaxes.
Back in America President
seems to pave opened early.
First report of these strange Truman compared the rumours . An~ the1·e, one might have
craft came on June 25, 1947, to the scare of over a hundred 11nag111ed, the story would have
But the •· flying
when a Mr. Dahl of Tacoma, years ago, when word got end e·d.
Washington, noticed a circular around that there were men saucers " r e f u s e d to be
grounded.
flying machine, like a silver and bats living on the moon.
The neatest "flying sa ucer"
oughnut, cutting capers over
quipping came from Mr.
is back-vard.
Fellow travellers?
Presently he saw five more Grom Y k o at U.N.- headThe present phase of flying
planes " rotating round a quarters.
reached _its climax
venth.
" Some," he said, "attribute saucerisms
March 9, when a U.S.
them to the British for export­ on
business man, tra ,·eJJi.ng in
ing too much whisky to the Mexico, claimed to have seen a
Speculations
U.S.,
others
that
it
is
a
Russian
streamlined " d isc •· in \\'hich a
The centre craft then began
to shed metallic ra in. Most of discus thrower training for 23in. tall pilot had perished.
the
Olympic
Games
who
does
it fell seawards, but one piece
A Mexican denial inuueiinot know hL~ 9wn strength."
landed in Mr. Dahl's yard.
followed publication f
The first flying saucer fever ately
On July 4, the first photothe
story, but not J,ef e
down
under
sheer
weight
died
graph of a •• flying saucer"
Denver, C9lorado, h ad
cwas taken by a Seattle coast­ of explanation, but reports portcd that a similar "sauce "
guard. The snap revealed a still came in.
bad co~e to grief near by a:;1d
small white oblong, set against
three httle men bad been disSpain suspected
a dark gre:Y background.
In May, 1948, a U.S. Air covered inside it.
The U.S. Navy said that
The Defence Department of
the descriptions fitted its new F o r c e intelligence officer
wingless plane-the " Flyi11g opined that t he " discs " were the U.S., repeating its denial
of
" flying saucers.'' said : " If
Pancake "-but there was only the work of ex-Nazi s:ientists these
saucers start landing,
one of t hese, and it had never in Spain.
During Franco's 1938 siege and litt le men with radar
ventured outside Connecticut.
A meteorologist suggested of Madrid his German allies sticking out of t heir ears clilnb
we shall have to do somethat solar reflections on low had t ried out a circular missile, out,
cloud would produce similar with an explosive centre and thing about it."
" Flying saucers" have now
effects. and a Los Angeles four engines around the cirbeen seen in pretty well every
scientist talked about "trans­ cumference.
The experiment had failed, country of the world. They
mutation of atomic energy."
A letter to a San Francisco bu~ in 1944 the Germans had have been chased by jet planes,
newspaper hinled at an inter- repeated it, using jet engines. and observed by scientists and
It was believed that the have baffled all attempts to
p~netary solution.
~
e San Francisco corre- scientists responsible h a tl explain them away.
Are they sheer fantasy. or s
s ndent was soon to find his escaped from the Russian
zone, through France, and there a grt1in of t.rulh. in t
icJ a carried a stage further.
•. Mead Layne, publisher \\'ere now working for Wle accounts? Your guess is •
good as mine.
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ROME, March 25-Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo, 7g_year-old Italian turbine engineer, said today that
designs for "flying saucers" we1;e J)11ep?u.'ed for Hitler and Mussolini in 1942.

"According to those designs," ·hel" - - - -- - - - - - - - - -- - ~
said in an interview, "the disks
•could carry a cargo ot explosives
of any kind- and today an atomic
bomb- to destroy entire cities."
Of the present rash of reports of
' "flying saucers," which the U. S.
·Air Force has declared are without
.toundation in fact, Sr. Belluzzo said:
"It has passed my mind that some
great power is experimenting with
t]ying· disks-without explosives or
atomic bombs.

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DRAFTED PLANS

"There Is nothing supernatural
about flying disks. It's just the
most rational use of recentlyevolved techniques."
Sr. Belluzzo said he personally
bad drafted plans for a "flying
disk" 32 feet in diameter, but
·c1aimed they disappeared with Mussolini w hen he fled to northern ·
Jtaly in 1943.
"Both Hitler and Mussolini were
interested in flying discs,'' he said.
"The principle of the flying disc
is very simple. Its construction is
easy and . can be done with very
light metal.
"Two jet pipes placed on either
side of the rim of the disk, provide
the locomotion. The orifices of
these jet tu~es are adjust?~le to
-permit maximum and mm1mum
speeds.
PILOT N OT NEEDED
''Propulsion comes from a mixture of compressed air and naphtha
- the same fuel used in modern jet
planes.
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"The air 1s mixed under pressure
and ignited at first by cartridges
and then by an . electrical device.
Terrific pressure 1s set up and the
expanding gas forced out thru the
jet pipes.
_
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"The reaction, c~mmg _from the
osing pipes on ~1ther side of the
0
start th~ en_tJre. appara,~us revolving, ma_kmg 1t airborr:ie.
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The missiles could be a imed like
e war-time German I V-2 rockets,
said, and would descend when
e fuel was exhausted or cut off
an automatic timing d.cy,,ire No
uman pilot would be requJred, =

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NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (AP) - A
monthlY magazine says the so•
called flying saucers are real-Ve•
hie es for s stema i observation
of the earth by visitors from other
planets.
e c
tained
in an article by Donald E Ke;vhoe
in the January issue oL~ pubf1snea by Fawcett :eublication§.
.(pc. Keynoe Fi a tormeF-inforlna•
•ef_.!oi:.-the-aer&~cs
branch, U. s. Commei:ce--depa.tml!nt.

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'"Keyhoe says,Tr!.le "learned that
a. rock~ uthotlty_ s.tl!J,loned at
Wriglit field has told 'Pro1ect
Saucer' personnel flatly that the
saucers are interplanetary and
that no other conclusion is P0S•
sible.''
Last April the Dayton (Ohio)
Journal Herald that the Air Force,
although conceding the saucers
were no "joke,'' bad discounted
the theory that the discs repr"'•
sented visitations from sucl2
planets as Mars, where human
life is believed by some to exist.
day, an Air Force spokesml
ss that "Air Force studies f
'f
g saucers' lend no support o
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._'.'Flying saucers, :' observatories clence to repor ts of satellite misbette1· ntct~Js have been deon the moon, high-fly ing rockets siles.
veloped.
_ No su ch s hitl h as a s y et
and earth satellite vehicles car ry1t is the wildes t kind of s ecing weapo1is and possibly men to ,...been built, a ccor di ng to t he
ulation, but the flying discs rt ay
whirl endlessly far out in s pace,
best infonn ed soun:es. B ut
be' the first calling cards from an
today seem like pipe dreams of a
i<leas fo1· 0 110 have n't been
interstellar neighbor.
forgotte11.
n1ad world of fan tasy.
They ma_v be harbingers of a
Gravity gradually falls off far
wild ryew world to come.
out in space beyond -the ear th,
'J'hr: a ir force, as eat·ly as scienti.,ts explain. It never quite
last s1n·ing, said officiall~• that ends, they say, but at 5000 miles
the 11, ·iug sa,u-ers "at·e not a it is r elatively weak.
jo](e."
" A spaceship could easily be
Ai1· force authorities even now !rnpt in positio~ere,"
1t
accordmay be preparing an announce- mg to _D r. ~Joy
otz, a Columment stating that the flying discs b1a Umvers1ty a ·tronomer.
"If left to its l"lf it would
, are real objects, not merely figments of imagination as far as the
g 1•a<l11ally ret111·11 to earth," h e
air Corcc is concerned, The Mirror
sarn. "ll11t it would take VCl'Y
learned yesterday.
littll" thmst, fro,11 s mall 1·ockThat woirlcl seem to remove the
eta disd,:u-gecl a t i,'.lervals
flying discs from the realm of old
to k ec11 it w h e 1·e 1t w as
wives' talcs and the bubble talk
wanted."
of guys who have had one or two To get it up there, the spaces nifters too many .
ship would have to leave the
ear th at an initial velocity of 25,Possjbilities that t h e satt•
000 miles an hour, to escape the
cet-s a ,·e missilrs launch ed
pull of gravity.
from a foreig n planet are
At s uch speeds, presen t known
given sel'ious co11sidemtiou.
metals would melt Qeca~ ~r
The U.S. defense department's friction.
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annonncement of plans considerB 11t in other woi1W, fa,,
ing a super spaceship, to be kept from om• ow n earth,· p et·haps
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Mr. Clegg
Mr. Gl avin
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nic,liols_
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurne a
Mr . Harbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington_
Mr. Quinn T amm _
Mr. Neas e
Miss Gandy

for Clue to 'Saucers
By Unftcd Press

Air Force investigators-skeptical but intrigued
are trying today to locate an eccentric inventor
10 more than 10 years ago built two contraptions
.,hat look like "flying saucers."
The disc-type ships, battered and damaged, were
found yesterday in an abandoned barn near Glen
Burnie, Md., where they had lain untended for nine
years.

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ance of flying discs,'' an Air Force spokesman said.

NO REAL PROOF
An Air Force officer last night described the two craft
as "definite prototypes o.f flying saucers,'' but the service
h edged today.
A spokesman objected to the word "prototype," saying
he Air Force has only reports of what fJying saucers
ook like and has never established that such things acually were seen.
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The Maryland inventor, Jonathan ~
!dwell, disapeared in 1940. The only possibility of' arr;.. connection
between his old abandoned devices and the rumored "flying saucers" of recent years would lJe in the possibility

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that he went to some oth er part of the country, deved•
oped better models and flew them successfolly.
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A good many officers find it difficult to believe he
could have done that without coming to [Yublic attentio
during the periodic excitement over "£lying saucers" >in
the past two years. But they would like to find out what
happened to Mr. Caldwell after he left Maryland and talk
with him, if he still is alive.
Mr. Caldwell, who would be about 70 today, left the
Maryland ·.earm hastily nine years ago, after getting into
financial trouble with the state. He took with him
his wite and son. Maryland authorities at that time had
ordered him to stop selling any more stock in his enter•
prise, "Gray Goose Airways, Inc." Previously, he had
been ordered to stop selling stock in New Jersey and
New York.
N OT NATURALLY DISHONEST
Robert E. Clapp, who as assistant Attorney General for
Maryland, conducted the investigation of Mr. Caldwell's
operations in 1940, said in Baltimore today:
"Whenever he needed more funds he went out and
so.Id stock, and he continued to run the business as tho.
it were his own. He wasn't t,he ordina~·y type of frau1
dulent stock salesman. I believe ne smcerely though
he had something and I doubt if he thought he was ,
eing dishonest."
For two years Air Force investigators have been runn ing down clues from coast to coast on reports of flying
saucers. The Air Force in the main has tal<en a skeptical
attitude toward the reports. Its last official report said
it just didn't have conclusive evidence that they either
did or didn't exist.
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Some of the flying saucers have been repo1·ted s0en
from the air, but traveling at such high speed as to make
pursuit impossible. One military pilot crashed to his
death, reportedly while chasing a fJying saucer.
One of the craft found in the Maryland barn repol'tedly
flew here bri~fly aro~md 1939. It was said to have gotlen
only 75 feet m the atr.
One ship resembled a helicopter. But instead of :roto
blades it had a disc-like device about 16 feet in diam
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The device resembled two saucers revolving top t etter.
SmaU rotor blades jutted from between the two sa~ op.
The other craft, named the "Roto-PJane" looked cr~s.
a plywood tub about 14 feet in diameter ' The pil t 1 e~
in the middle. The engine was in the tub Aro od ~a
and bottom rims of the tub were four-bJad·
un °_r
\.'cllicb re.yolved in opposite directions.
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Experimental Craft
Will Be Examined
For Other Clues
fl ·The Air Force·s long search for

"flying saucers" has turned up two
contraptions almost as weird as
anything, yet descnbed by the most
wild-eyed "witnesses" of two summers ago.
.11elct for the examination of experts are two weather-beaten
remnants of an inventor's dream
uncovere
e e•
m a tobacco
she ne 1
urme,
., an
outer suburb of Baltimore.
An official Air Force statemett
jssued today said "the two e perimental aircraft found ne r
Baltimore yesterday have abs
lutely no connection with the reported phenomenon of flying sauers." This does not mean, howver, that they will not be
xam!ned for other clues by Air
orce representatives, it was said.
~ The r • s are more than 10
years' old, and so far as can e
determme . only one of them ever
jgt off the _ground under Its
power. This occurred in Wash.,i.!)K
almost
·ears aao
and ended in near-disaster after
~ flight of abou t 60 seconds.
Pilot Tells of Test ~ll,- ~
The inventor. J ~
~awell, who is now over 70, if still
J(vfug, and his wife and son left
Glen Burnie in 1940 after Maryland authorities ordered Mr.
Caldwell to "cease and desist"
from selling stock to finance his
aeronautical ideas. None of th e
n eighbors have heard from them
since.
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Willard E. Driggers of 1530 Olive
street N.E., no": _with . tile Civil
Aeronaut ics Admm1strat1on at National Airport, ' made the first and
only test hoP in Mr. Caldwell's
h elicopter, the Gray Goose, at the
old Benning R!lce. track in 1940.
Mr. Driggers said he helped design the helicopter.
TJ1 e macl1ine rose about 40 feet
and after some 60 seconds in the
air, Mr. Driggers became aw~re
the controls were not operating
properly, he told The Star_.
He decided if he took 1t an:v
gher he might not get do!~
afelY and he crash landed . 1
he race track. He was unu , red. but the machine was da • -

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riggers said the sauci·
The helicopte
sisted of
1ge witl~
ro
e rotors was des1gne
l ght wingless
o ac s a wing after the sh
ropeller' in front and a tnpo
ad attained cruising altitu • ver the cockpit, which mount~
.' ~ ~ n / /
The rotor would then be stopp
he saucer-like rotor and 1
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and the ship flown with the con- projecting blades.
ventional propeller. He explained,
Except for the pancal<e strucGlavin , ! ' ,
however, that this was theory, ture around the inner sections of
becaus~ the ship was never flown the rotor. the model was much
Nicho lr ~
a gain.
the sama as other experimental
Rosen--'-- Mr. Caldwell lived in Washing- jobs of that time.
Tr
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ton for several years before his
Mr. Caldwell. a former carpendisappea.rance, and seems to have ter. whose friends said he had
Barbo_ _ _ _
returned here briefly from Glen studied t he science of aeronautics
Mohr _ _ __
Burnie before dropping from in several books, had a far less
sight. The model tested here was conventional idea in his "flying
Te le. Ro om_
a small helicopter whose rotors cheesebox."
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The upper and lower lids, conprojected from a saucerlike disc
mounted on a trlpod above the taining short rotror blades '-jutting
from their outer rims, were supcockpit.
Tattered remnants of this disc, posed to rotate in oppos1·te direct tions, giving rapid life and some
covered with cloth, and the ba - stability in flight. Mr. Caldwell's
th
nd
tered fuselage were fou
in e friends ~aid. They admitted the
shed, along with a plywood box, 1,500-pound ce,ntraption neve!
like a l1Uge circular cheesebox, flew, buL said Mr. Caldwell ha
hose top and bottom sections claimed that a light model prove
·ere designed to revolve in oppo- successful.
ite directions with sh~rt rotors
The inventor earlier had trie.
rojecting from th.e nms. The a third model.
p ilot was to have ridden in the
This looked some.t hing like a
middle, near the motor mount.
complicated hay rick on wheels,
c apt. Claudius Belk, head of the a nd had rotors designed to fan the
Baltimore office of Special Investi- a ir.,somewhat after the fashion of
gation of the Air Force, reveale_d the paddle wheels on old steamthat his office has "been lnvest1- boats. There were no claims that
gating the machines for months" this machine ever left the ground,
as possible prototypes of the flying and Mr. Caldwell abandoned it in I
saucers reported so frequently. He favor of later icieas.
Attorney Robert E. Clapp, who
said efforts are being made to
locate Mr. Caldwen in the hope of was Assistant Attorney General
getting engineering data on his of Maryland at t.he time of Mr.
rota-plane ideas.
Caldwell's disappearance, and
The remains of the two ma- helped administer the blue-sky
chine;; were placed in storage by laws, conducted a hearing in 1940
Maryland state police, who helped lnLo the affail:s of two of Mr. Caldlocate them at the re4uest of the ell's companies-Gray Gole
Air Force. The material will be ,
held it was said, until it can be -...~ - - dete~·mined if experts from the A ·ways, Inc.. and _Rotor Plan s,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Inc. He Jate1· restrained the fir s
at Dayton, Ohio, wish to exam- from selling stock in Maryland.
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"All he had was models," Mr.
file 1t. 3
Clapp said. "and whenever one
failed and he needed more funds,
he went out and sold st◊~k."
In his report, Mr. Clap(t-4laid :
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indicates that the public•~as led to
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believe that tl1e invention was on
the verge -of perfection and would
be completed and ready for general
production within a very short
time. wherens, the fact as testified by Mr. Caldwell indicate that
no machine on which he had ever
~
. worked had been successfully flown
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or was in any condition for manu]
facture and sale upon a satisfac
c; JI , /_ tory commercial ba.sis. • • •
~ ~ rr- "The history of 1,~e _develop
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ment·of these comPam_es indicate.
t-:
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for the purpose of raising money
to develop the ideas of Mr. Caldwell. and that as soon as this
money w~s raised, it was trt!atea.
as belonging solely to him and as
the subject of any use which he
deemed proper.
"No meeting ot stockholders ha
e~er been held by either company
and no financial report to stockholders has e@o.CS2!!le ou~ sinci
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CJips 'Confiden:lc1I,-I
but They Aren't 1
Newspaper clips on the "flyina _
saucers" found in a Glen lrorn!e
..-t5afif"iast week have been s:mt to
Washington marked "C!assi1ieclCo11;itlen tiaJ. ,.
As part of an OSI report which
contains other data, the clips are
crammed into a folder marked
"Confidential." But that doesn't
mean a thing.
"You can take that file and pull
those clippings out and show them
anybody," an Air Force spokesan said. "But if a folder is mark~
' onfidential,' a fellow wants t
l k out because he knows som
o ·the other stuff in there is a 1
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Mr. N ichols
Mr . Rosen
Mr. T ra cy
Mr . E gan
Mr. Gurne a
Mr . H arbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington_
Mr. Quinn T amm_
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dJs~" and "fast-moving
jeUJanes" i;iatJjad some Cplca::r:ns warned were identified
to __y a~ gas baltooos n<ed ijy Jitre
Up~1tv of Cllicago for cosmi6
r'U'. researcn. Large numbers of l
1cagoan~ reported seeing my~
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Y morning. Descriptions varie
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said:
"To date there has been no ta •
gible eviclence which would su
port a. theory that,anY of the in·
cidents are attributable to activity
of a foreign nation. On the other
hand, there is no evidence to deny
The Air Force disclosed yes- categorically such a possi~ili_ty.
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"Many of the reported mc1dents
teldaY that secrecy restnct1ons have deflnite!Y been determined ,
have been clamped on _certain to be meteoroligical balloons or •
incidents connected with the mys- natural celestial phenomena. How• •
terious. "flying saucers" seen in ever,
are some
compete~ -portedthere
by reliable
andincidents
the skies last year.
observers which are still une •
At_the s_ame time, the Air Force plained."
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categorically" that the weird ob·
ject.s originated in the Soviet
Union or some other foreign na•
tion.
A statement declared that some
incidents linked with the "flying
saucers still are unexplained." A
spokesman said some of the "inexplicable" incidents have been
placed in the "classified" category;
denied to all persons except authorized military personnel.
e statement was issued as
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c mentator's broadcast. The
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vlet agents ln the United States
have been Ol'dfij?d to solve the
myste!'y of the~ Jylng Saucers,"
It was learned todaY~::-.- - - Whlle ihe guessing game in this
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Soviet Union continues to be
acutely interested in the Phenomena, according to American investigative agencies.
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was momentarily expecting word
from Washington which would explain the "flying saucers" mystery.
Louis E. Starr, national commander of the VFW, told the Ohio
State encampment of the VFW
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bours" an explanalion from Washington. He had expe~ted_the mes-1
sage at 3 p. m. but 1t did not arrivt be said.
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de •gates.
undreds 0£ persons in about
30 States have reported seeing
the silvery . saucer-shaped discs
speeding through the skies a} tremendous speeds.
An exhaustive check with the
War Department and other agencies disclosed last night that no
new-' formation was available in
Washington. No one knew anything, But a new tendency to
take the reports a bit more ser iously was apparent. As the
mystification waxed, the scoffing
8WJ1if_:Jt~ :)~.~·~
waned.
ASSOClat ed Pre.. Wlltlll'HOTO
Some of the mystery missiles
may have passed over W_ash_ington JS IT?-Coast Guardsman Frank
Friday night at about m1dmght.
Ryman, 27, made this picture
David Atamian, 5160 Shoemaker with a Speed Graphic camera
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Friendship
Heights,
Md.,
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aort~d that he had seen three from the front porch of his
~r' fou1• of the flying sau~ers trav­ Seattle, Wash., 1·esidence. It
eling northward at a.rapid rate ?£ shows, says Ryan, a "white saued at about that tune. He said cer" (arrow) that is neither an
:p~
e wer e at an altitude of between airplane, a cloud, nor a silver
2000 feet and appeared balloon. So, is it a "flapjack" or
1 0~ and
of a bright, bluish hue.
t b: flying saucers produced a a saucer? Or maybe a bottle
. e of speculations and at­ cap? Photo is enlar ged about
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TBIS IS NOT ONE OF 'El.\l , SAYS THE NA'1Y- The "filing
pancake," a wingless plane developed by the Navy, is the only
plane it ha.$ which might resemble the repol'ted "flying 58 1'.
cers," but officials in Washington said yesterday that th~
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of the Naval Obse vaory, . : that the saucer "does 10t
eem to be an astronomical 1eomena."
Credence in the saucers-wi ly
laughed off at thei,: first reported
71:,i11ppeai:ance June 25-grew as hun•
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squadron would attem:i_>t_ to photo- at Twin Falls, Idaho. And in
A Los A1~gele~ • new~pap_e r g~aph any futll!e al?pant~ons of tbe Portland, Oreg., so many residents
~uoted an un_1dentified sc_1 enti~ discs. He. said s_1x P-al fighter witnessed them that same day the
m nuclear physics at the Cal!forma planes, equipped with gun and t~le- police department sent out an ~ Institute of Technology as saying scopic cameras, would be kept cars broadcast.
Ute fl~ing dis~s ~?ve 1·esulte~ from rea~y to take off on a moment's The crew of a United Airlin s
. plane said several of the roun ,
expe1:iments 1~ ~ansm!;ltaho11 of notice.
atomic energy b~mg co~ducted at Col. F. J. Clark, com':1and~ng flat objects were visible for ab
Muroc Lake, Calif., White Sands, office1· of the Hanford Engmeermg l 2 minutes
N. Mex.; Portland, Oreg., and Works in the Pacific Northwest
1-~lsewhere.
where the largest saucer influx has
The scientist, whom the news- been reported, said the saucers
paper said had worked as a re- were not coming from the atomic
searcher on the atomic bomb p1ant there.
"Manhattan Project," was quoted ."I have been waiting for some•
as saying:
one to tie the discs to the Han•
. "People are not seeing things. fprd atomic plant," he said. He
Such flying discs actually are in declared that as far as he knew
experimental existence.
no experiments were under way
"These saucers so-called are there which would explain the
capable of hlgh speeds but they mystery.
can be controlled from the gl'owid. Two Chicago astrouolli.ers said
"They are 20 feet Ju width at the discs are probably "manhe center and are pat1:ially rocket- made."
"They couldn't be meteors," said
ropelled on the takeoff."
However, other scientists were Dr. Girard Kiuper, director of
s eptical about the claims of the the University of Chlcagp's Yerkes
m . amed Cahfornia physicist. Dr, Observatory at Williams Bay, W-is.
Hatold Urey, famed atomic scien· Dr. Oliver Kee, director of
tist at the University o'f Chicago, Northwestern University's Dearsaid the term "transmutation of born .Observatory, said:
atomic energy" is "gibberish."
_"We realize that the Army and
"You can transmute metals, but Navy are working on all sorts of
not energy," and Dr. Urey.
things we know nothing about."
David Lilienthal, chairman of He said the mystery disks may
the Atomic Energy Commission, represent an accomplishment simideclai-ed the unexplained discs are lar to tbat of sending radar sigin no way connected with atomic nals to the moon." one of the greatexpel'iments. Lilienthal said he est technological achievements of
couldn't shed any light on the the war and accomplished in absomystery and added:
lute sec~ecy." _
"Until someone has the facts Here m Washmgton, Dr. New:~
about this phenomenon, "I can't. bern Smiih of the National Burea
see how anyone can say anything of Stand~rds exl?ressed the opin!o
definite about it."
~~at all LIie excitement is akin to
./1.nd Dr. C. C. Lauritsen, head th05e Loch Ness Monster stories.'
of the nuclear physics department The. !till.Ya coiument off red b
at California Institute of Technology, said he was certain nobody
in his department, which includes
four former Manhattan Project
researchers including himsel!, had
made "such a statement."
He expressed the opinion that
the discs "have nothing to do with
:nuclear physics."
SlTangely e11ough, the Murco,
Calif., Arm.v Air Base. identified as
one of the sites whrre the •·secre
experiments" are being carrie~
o1~, announced that it had a P~O
tl hter plane standing by to gi 'e
cl ase if one of I he flying sauc s
m de an appearance.
Col. Al Outlon, commandi11g
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ccin lid and an ingenious "b11 z;er"
found on the lawn of the home of
Thad<J,eus Elder, 111 6th st., Lau­

rel: ~4T~e "saucer" was discovered Friday night shortly befo1·e 10 o'clock.
Two smaU aerials projected from
the ·i.ontrciption. It contained a dryl
c en battery, a flashlight butb, a
camera !ens and a ticker that
caused the bm:zing.
The '1saycer" 11,ns tuxrted ou~r
o Lautci police who f>eut a st.ratnhtJ
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had 'practically the entire populace,
the FBI Army Intelligence officers
and police nu the-run.
The boys created and manted in
a yard Ye.:i~erdav_.an-o e.cl...3:..t!at
looked to them as well as to the
Arm4' gnd cl vllian office1·s1 just like
" :fl~n disc sbanld Jnok.
Tlleir hoax was exposed after Assls"tant Police Chief L. D. McCracken
was tipped off that one cf the boys
knew something about the disc.
The cre.atioo, wllicb tool;" two da,vs
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• SALT LAKE CITY, July 12-The
"Flying Disc" that fell with a thud
in the yard of a Twin Falls, Idaho,
housewife was found today to have
been manufactured by four teenage boys from the parts of a rundown juke box.
Discovery of the disc was an•
nounced yesterday by an agent of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
who turned it over to Army offi.
cers ·at Twin Falls. They in turn
put it aboard a plane and rushed it
to Ft. Douglas near here for examination by experts.
The examination showed the
fancy gadget-complete with plexi•
glass dome, three radio tubes,
chromium-plated edges. and nuerous wires- was a ,hoax and, acording to the Army, had "no ot~
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Long. construction engineer, last objecL. A radio t.ube on Lop was I
, night. and !,he first, official reaction set down into the upper half of the I
i w,i.l' from Fire Battalion Chief Wal- saucer. which was abou t 5 inches
lace E. Newcombe. who looked at it !Lhick at Lhe middle ,ind tapered to l
skeptically and said:
thin perimder. There were wires
"It doesn't look to me like it leading t.o a plug embedded in the
' could fly.''
·center of the lower half. There
Mr. Long called the Van Nuys was a rudder-type wing on top.
J,i e D:?partment and excitedly Mr. Long told reporters he was
p inted to tbe metal saucer, 30 awakened by a pop. not as loud as
i1 hes in diameter, which he said an explosion. and ru~hed out,sidf to
h d been belching smoke from two find the device. He declared ,he
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Armi Air Forces intelligence and about 50 other persons saw a
yesterdai disclosed it has joined group of about "50 of the saucers
in triangular formation near Authe se11ri:b fQ[ a lllling saucer.
burn Saturday.''
Bizarre re12qrts on the whirling, One report which won't trouble
hiSh-s2eed discs continued to 12our the AAF is that of a commercially
i.u, di:ai~iog au Qfficial ~.51t operated, converted P-38, whose
from the AAF, much cynicism pilot said he had knocked one of
from scien£~ i!D'1 tbe otiec Qf $lDOO the "pearl-colored. clam-shape
airplanes" out of the Montana sky.
.fgc tbe first one downed.
He admitted the story was a hoax.
The Air Forces, which has juris- In Washington, Dr. L. R. Hafdiction over the White Sands (N. stad, executive secretary of t i
Mex.) Rocket Proving Grounds, de- Joint Research and Developme
11ied the saucers are any of its Board and former director of t
doing. "No such phenomena can Johns Hopkins Applied Physi s
be explained by any experiments Laboratory, said:
bing conducted," the statement "Poppycock!"
s d,
Dr. Jesse Sprowls. psychology
E:rom the N11,val Research L~b- professor at the University of
o ator:,:'s Bear Admin1I Eanl F. Maryland, said, "There is absoLee !:!!me U!e £Urt !,Omment; "~e lutely no limit to the delusion that
concur in the Armi annowce- the mind can harbor. A tremend,!!!fil1L:.
ously interesting social psychologiNi:itb§r denied existence of $he cal delusion," he added.
discs. but the AAF said statements Dr. Ivan E. McDougle of Baltiof witnesses are being correlated more's Goucher College, said he
"in an effort to identify the re- guessed "it's one of those phychoIogical epidemics where people see
ported objects."
With few States in tlie Nation things that aren't there."
without at least one flyi ng saucer But C. J. Zohn, 440 Mellon st.
se., who works in the rocket-sonde.
report, the AAF has a chore.
A Navy flier with five years' high altitude research section of
experience tabbed the discs as t he Naval Research Laboratory,
"space ships" afte1· at first consid- yesterday reported he and three
e ng all reports as "crazy." He other men saw one "saucer" ~
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"It was clearly visible-and
then it wasn't there.''
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The FBI here was noncommittal.
In Milwaukee, Wis., the FBI said
it was "not interested" in what ,
,appeared to be a circular saw,
Jrigged with a few wires, which the
Rev. J oseph Brasku said crashed
into his yard at Grafton, Wis. He
admitted it probably was a joke,
but was holding the disc for FBI's
a ttention.
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Atomic experts in session at
Lake Success, N. Y., did not dis- 1
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To Wife's Pitching Arm.
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persons have seen the mysterio
ying saucers," but Conni
unbar, 35, knows the source o
e ones he saw.
Dunbar, who said he was
m ck by saucers J hrown by his
wife, Mrs. Bessie Dunbar, was
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reports, but made no secret of
their interest. They were reported
as "baffled."
Not so was·a 34-year-old watch1maker in Chattanooga, Tenn., who
1said he invented the flying saucer
in 1943 but "got tired of the runaround" when he tried to peddle
it to the Government or an aircraft concern. His model was
powered with a rubber band.
A $1000 r eward was posted in
Northbrook, Ill., "for the captur e
of a flying disc-or t he true explanation of the phenomena." The
offer, made by E . ,J. Culligan, is
made "solely through an interest
in science."
A theory that the saucers might
be artificial satellites came from
the British physicist Prof. A. M.
Low. The artificial satellite, he e~plained, might. be created by unknown scientists and could serve
many purposes, such as deflecting
television or radar beams.
Lester P. Barlow, a Stamfori
onn., inventor, said he believ
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_a om- gwered planes· resernbliug JJ:ie " f)zm.g .~auQ.er2; _ _
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the letter said it was "not all in W1lmmgton and, because h e
nonsense," f.nd suggested t he ,vanted t o hear about .Russia, In- I
matter bg uxn,e[_o~er to tM' vited him to be his gul;;st at cl1nn er. ,
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The letter writer said he got
The Russian first asked where
the information from an officer he could sell 18 Polar bear pelts
aboard a Russian tanker re- which he received "for very
cently in Los Angeles h arbor.
d,an gerous work "
'I11e Russian, he said, also He said he had been assignee!
(:scribed experimen ts with con• ,to go over th e route of the radioti•olled radioactive cl<r:.:=:: ::::. ~" active cloud near Lake Baka! <I
Arctic, where birds'. animal.s ltr,ti BaykaD and pick up dead anima .
even worms were k11ledt
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INCHES THICK.
l'ri'th all klnds of animals an The planes. as descried by the directed the _cloud over them,:' 1
ssian to the writer, are only the writer said.
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inches thick, with a kidney- " During this experiment, a. vio- ,
shaped outline and no propellors. lent storm blew the cloud far
The pilot lies on his stomach north_ int? the tun~ra., but beand is artificially cooled against fore i t dISsipated it destroyed
the heat developed bY air friction. all life on its way.
"The outer surface ih highly
"The cloud may be controlled
polished," the Russian said. from land, from ~ plan~ ,or from
''Both upper and lower surfaces a robot-pilot_ed leadet. As .1
a.re convex, like a gia.nt lens. understand 1t, the co!ltrol 1s
The lifting force is an entirely based on electro-magnetic waves
different principle found about an d the cloud has two compo10 years ago among unpubn.ents: The carrier and the killer.
lished paper1, of a R ussian HAVE ATOMIC ENERGY.
chemist.
"I asked him if the Russians
."Enero is required only for h a'Ve an atomio bomb. He said
limbing, but no energy is he doubted it, because the atomic
eeded for support when tlle bomb cannot be used without
trplan e r oes along the ea.rth's killlnr innocent people, such
gravita tional contour lines.''
children and women. But the
The writer or the strange Jetter h ave atomic energy which tht
use for propelllni supersonf '
airplanes."
The writer said h e asked the
Russian officer t o another dinner,
but when he came the second time
his father was leaving unexpectedly and he could only say good·
bye.
Bureau Intere lllt
I' The nuclear physicist consulted11
by The Examiner said It was diffi~
cult to appraise tile value of the
llett.er because of the wllte1·'s
I"l.echnlcul ignorance."
''1'he remark tmplyinr that the
Ru~sians wouJlln't use the atom
br.mh If thf';v had It Is nonscnst'.
't'h-, Rus~ian.<1 would like very
f.i'ifo7, •if> bilVfl the bomb," the
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feel. ..d s s::iid I hi:lv
PDSS IlfTELLIGDCE ca!, _ about, them m the city or I ~ :: 500
Mr. Glavin
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Th. e-_wril!?r of the stra_nge !~_!· their noses pointing up·Nard," a1
IllFO~ ION SERVICE ter said he met the Russian ott1- he watched them foe tii,ree
Mr . Ni chols
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Mr . Rosen
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Mr . T r acy_ _ __
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The Russian first asked where
Mr . Carson_ __
SI ~ V Bl~g,
he could sell 18 polar bear pelts
Mr . Egan_ _ __
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Mr. Gurne a_ __
He said he had been assigned
Mr . Harbo_ __
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violent storm blew the cloud
f ar north into the tundra, bu t
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before It .dissipated it destroyed all life on its way.
1 ~ "The cloud m a y be controlled .
om land, from a plane or
om a. robot-piloted 'leader.'
s I under,stand it, the control ;
F ederal agents ye erday in- is based ow- electro-ma gnetij
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vestigated a letter to _the Exam- waves and the cloud has tw
iner describing Russian super• components: The carrier a n · · ,
sonic atom-~ered planes re- the killer.
sembling t~E!--"fly i~ aucers.". •
"I asked him If the R ussia
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to whom the-It""
xp.miner referred he doubted it, because t he
the Jetter said 1t was "not all atomic bomb cannot be used
nonsense.'' a.,pd I suggested the without kllllng innocent people,
matter be lu1~4 over to the FBI. such as children and women.
The Jetter writer said he gotj But they have atomic energy,
the informat"o_n from an officer which t hey use for propelJlng
•aboard a Ru an lan~er recently s 111>ersonic airplanes."
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when he came the second
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he said, also d
time his tanker was leaving unex.b d expet·lments with co
pectedly and he could only say
scri ~ radioact ive gd 1ds in ! he good-by.
The nuclear physicist consulted
tr~llt~ whef ~
·rd.."' iimal.s ~nd
At c ic,
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by the Examiner said it was difeven worm
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The plane .
d er· ed 1',Jl"the !lcult to appraise the value ol
Russian to thfl
. ' areaonly tl ~e ~et~erl ~ecause of,,thq writer's
ec mca 1gnoran~e.
18 inches thick, with a { J n(!y''The.._[_e~ 11n1>l31 ng that
ed outline and n9 propellers..
1 sh~e pilot }lcs on his .stomach, the Russians woulUn' us~ the
he Russian .said, and i.s artifi• ittom bomb It thel· 111 1t ts'
t !ally cooled .Blfa!n~t tH'e heat de- ~ ~ • H I P T hP Ru11
111·ould
c Joped by a+t-R'ictio'i.
, like very murh o htt,·e t hP
ve "'fhe outer surr~,' e o!, the • bomh.''
Jane is hiptlY .;6h~h~d, the
On thr other url, he decried
P •ter i,ald the Russian told the efforts of some g!'oups who
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"Both upper and lower take advantage of "all this flying
~;'faces are c~n".ex, like a disc talk'' to stir up suspicion of
iant Jens. Th_e lifting fore~ is Rus~i1!'<; inl~otionli.
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tirely diffei ent principle
The Examinrr h:id lv.·o mon,
;:;: abou( . '10 yeal's. alo ppod<; ~f flyrn~ di:,ci; y -;t<'rday.
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With aircraft, including a jet plane, pEeudo-scientific explanations of the have something to do with exper!•
alerted along the West Coast In mystery.
ments In "transmutation of atomic
hopes of chasing and explaining David Atamian, 5610 Shoemaker energy'.' caused a brief flurry by t~e
the mystery of the "flying saucers," lane. Bethesda, Md.. said he saw in&.titute quickly denied the repo1t
an Army Air Forces spokesman he1·e three or four "flying saucers·• travDr., Earnld Urey, atomic scientist
disclosed today tl\at the AAF be- eling north at great speed at 11 :45 at the University of Chicago, called
lieves "there's something to this" p.m. Friday, Mr. Atamian. who de- it "gibberish" and saLd eleme1~s
out is completely mystified as to scribed himself as a writer of poetry, could be "transmuted" but energy
Just what. ,
said he was sure he wasn't mis- could not.
Capt. Tom Brown o! AAF public taken. The discs, he said, were flyP -80 fighter at the Muroc, Calif..
relations said the ta.Jes of flat, Jng at between 1,000 and 2,000 feet Army .Airfield in California and six
round objects zipping through the and appeared to be of a bright, fast conventional fighters at Portsky are too widespread to be ground- bluish hue.
land, Oreg., stood ready to \ake off
less. He Pointed out that a number Government sources denied that on an instant's notice should any
of competent airmen have reported any tests ii.re being conducted that " 1;ng saucers" be sighted in those
:;eeing the phenomena that have might be the answer to t he mystery. areas. some of the planes carried
been the talk of the Nation since A Navy official said the Navy had photographic equipment.
June 25•
checked all its facilities to deter - ,
Air -Ground Search Slated.
For 10 days, he declared. the AAF
has been checking on the stories mine wheth er an/ were se!!ciing
An air-ground search was sch~d"and we sUII haven't the slightest aloft objects that could account fo1: uled to get under way today to 111·
the strange sights. The answers vestigate a report that eight flying
idea, whithe things can be."
Meanw le, from Washington and wet uegative.
discs had landed on a mou;taln•
the rest f the country came mor
avid Lilienthal. chairman of t h
sicie near St. Maries, Idaho,
full
reoorts f "flying saucers'' as wel
ic Energy Commission, sai
view of 10 persons.
as· a iumber o! scientific an
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Mrs. Walter Johnson. Di man,
Wash .. said the "saucers" cam down
in timber near st. Maries Thursday
evening, but were not reported untU she returned to her home in
'.)ishman vesterday.
She said they came into view at
xtreme speed, traveling north .
uddenlv she said. they slowed and
hen "fl~ttered like leaves to the
round."
"The mysterious part was that we
couldn't see them after they landed,"
Mrs. Johnson s aid. "We could see
them flutter down into the timber
yet we couldn't see that they did
anything to the trees."
She described them as "about the
size of a. five-room house'' and
shaped more like washtubs tha.n
discs.
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Col. o. R. Do son of the Oregoni
Air Guard anno need a patrol would
leave PorUand Ore., today to in- I'
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tonight that a round, mefal disc, The flying discs have been rewhi~ might be one of the myster• ported "seen" by persons in 30
ious flying saucers," had crashed States but Brasky's disc was the
into his"'"'parish %'td and that he first ~ne that actually lnld been
·s holding it for the Federa~ found-if that is what wa-. found.
Bureau of Investigation.
His report came a few hours
The Rev. Joseph Brasky of St. after a military plane made an
:Joseph's Church. at Grafton_, 45 unsuccessful speeti dash in an atniles north o_f ~I1lwaukee, sa_1d _he tempt to track down onr of the
heard a sw1sl11ng and whirring discs and the Army and scie ntists
noise this morning. A second later, sought to ascertain ,1 hether coasthe said, he_ heard a thud and a jto-coast reports ~ 'Jc,ut the discs
mild explosion.
zooming through t .1c sky were fact
He investigated and found a or fancy,
f.heet metal disc ab?ut 18 inches in Army planes scoured the 11orth·
diameter, resemhlmg a circular west Pacific skies for them without
saw blade.
Sltccess today and one ·•eyewitness"
"The object still was warm, even reported havin!i,' seen one of
weighed about £ou1· or five pouo~s the discs take off in Arizona. A
and was about one eighth of an St. Louis railroad man exhibited
inch thick," he said.
some paper "discs'' he said he had
I There was a hole about one seen floating over St. Louis.
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the disc. he said. and in the open- The flymg saucers which have
ing were "gadgets and some been reported skimming through
vires."
America's skies at speeds up to
Th_e pr~esf· said he did _not know 1200 miles have eluded tb.e...usuak'
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f his d1sco~rery. were importantly keen e~,e of radar.
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,r whether. 1t ~1ght be an _elab- Capt. Tom Brown of the Armt
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,rate practical Joke. He ~aid he Air Fore.es public relations sta •
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th~,r:s : ~ !t"n; arby and large on:;l
at great pis tances.
"The one outstanding fact abo f
virtually all the saucers is th
they had no structure - the.
seemed merely round and flat.
SATTCEPS Frou, Page 1
--i~w:111,, aircraft designer, told The Thjt description fits exactly with
Post by telephone from ffilew £o ft the tricks that eyes play. This
that until he see, a flying saucer trickiness varies with differences
he "wouldn't like to pass- ;fudg- in weather and lighting."
However, Nova Ha1·t, St. Louis
ment."
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mechanic who was trained during
He agreed with Dr. Overholser service in the war to spot all types
said the Army Air ways Communi- 'The best way I can describe it," that much if not all of the' story of aircr;aft, yesterday offered a
•cations Service had reported late $aid Kennedy, "was that it looked may be because of hysteria.
minute description of one o,f the
yesterday that so fat• its radar like an orange Jamp bulb without
"After all," he said, "we are flying P_atterns whic~ he claimed he
scopes throughout the country 1the socket. It was going faster than more o1· less an hysterical Nation." ! aw flymg at an altitude of about
have been _u nabl_e to. pi• ck up any any jet ,nlane I've ever seen•"
.Major de Seversky said it was pos- .,oo feet •
s trange ob3ects m flight.
In Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Mad- .
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And in the Pacific Northwest- elyn Ganoe, 30, said she had seen sible that the persons who claim He described it as circular with
where most of the fly-happy plat- five of the discs, r acing in 2-1-2 to have seen the aerial discs have a ribbed frfmework and silver
ters have been report!!d- the Army1formation at "terrific speed," from instead .glimpsed the exhaust of gray in color. He said it appeared
has radar equipment which can/her backpoxch. "They sounded like 1 jet-propelled planes.
to have a motor with a propeller
pierce fog and dar kness and pick a faraway train," she said.
il He conceded, too, -that they attached i_n thl: center and that it
up objects in the sky 200 miles _In the wake of these new e~e- h night b~ guided missil~s let loose ~ept turnmg hke an airplane do•
away.
witness accounts oame a new senes , as part of an experiment, but mg a slow roll.
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Although m a n y explanations
Even so, Brown acknowledgeci1of comments, and·explanations, but added,
that the Air Forces had decided most of them were tinged with a "I don't think the Government have been offered, none has been
"thcn:'s something to this" and slight te1_1dency to laugh off the would fire them so promiscuously. convincing. A Los Angeles news-[
had b€en ch~king it for 10 days. whole th_mg.
.
They would test them in one spot, I pape~ _quoted a~ unna~ed nuclear !
"And we still haven't the slight- Dr. Wmfred O~er~olser, n ation- fn an isolated area, like they did phys!Clst as saying the silvery discs
Ilresulted from experiments in the
est idea what they could be," he ally known psych1atr1st and super- the atomic bomb."
added.
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11'.tendent of. S! • •~lizabeths Hos- Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who "transmutation of atomic energy"
And a new wnnkle-the report- p1tal here, said 1~ has s?me of the as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for ' This report was rapidly her1
ed landing of a fleet of eight skim- ear_m~,rks of being national hys- Reseat·ch and Development would i~t? the hoax. .:!olunm by Da •
ming platters-:-was r eported from te~V1•
know if the saucers involved ex- ILihenthal, cba1~~11n of the Atom
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Idaho in Iull view of 10 persons. A. . Everytime someone com~s up periments with guided missiles !Energy Commission, and sever 1
Dishman, Idaho housewife, said I with a sea-ser,~ent story,'.' said _D_r. commented:
' prominent atomic scientists.'
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0thers with vivid "Whatever these people have Starr Expects Word
she and others ill her party had! ~ver~olsti~r,
th
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on a moun- . seen the same thing
seer>, it hasn't been anything re• Louis E. Starr, national comst
tarn: ide ~de~~ • ane\
ld~ho. t
"The cri tical faculty In man the suiting from experiments by the mander of the Veterans of Foreign ·
S e _sai
ey came 111 0 view a last one he received is still' not Army Air Forces. As for as I'm Wars. announced Saturday at Coan extiem~.~P~fd'. ~u~d:nli Slowed, : very well developed. ' Scratch the concerned there's nothing to itl lumbus, Ohio, that he was expecta nd tJien d ,,u ere I e eaves to surface and you find the same mass at all. The whole thing is u11- 1ing "momentarily" infomtation
the groun •
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hysteria which predominated dur- fortunate."
from Washington which would ex"The m~5tenous part was that ,1 ing the witchcraft scare, So e General Le.May refused to dis-, plain the dashing. discs. But the
we couldn t see them after theyjlpersons are quite r eady to
cuss whether the Air Forces has message never a1T1ved.
anded," she said. "We could see things and follow beliefs..
,guided missiles which can attain I The Air Forces said U1at Gen.
them flutter down into the timber
Di·. Overholser ~aid th~t when ' speeds of 1200 miles.
j~arl Spaatz,. Air Forces chief, was
yet we couldn't see that they did~ he made bis rounds of the menlal "There's been too much said ,m the Pacific Northwest whe1•e
patients yesterday at St. Eliza-1about guided missiles now," he most of the saucers have b~en r~any thing. to the trees." .
She said s he hoped to hike into beths not a one commented on the ,said.
ported, but added that his trip
t he timber tomorro~ and search flyi ng saucers stoi~.
Howard W. Blakeslee, Assoei• there was planned two months
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!or the objects which she said were
"I think they may be a little _ated· Press science editor, said the ago, long before Ute saucers scare.
saucer-shaped but resembled wash- skeptical," he added.
whole business may be an optical General Spaatz is expected back in
tubs more than dislts and were
However , Dr. Overholser said he 1muslon.
Washington late t?mo~ow•.
"about the size of • five-room wasn't trying to dismiss the matt er "At any distance wl1ich is close M1;1roc Anny A~r Field in Call.
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as a Joke
eca~St! ere are so to the li,~mt of how f~r a pe!son ing by, and the National Guard
Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 ~: a!1y strange th1~gs going .?n to- can see, he wrote, all ob3ects Oregon had prepared silt r egula
4th st. ne. reported he had swn -~l that one can ,, be sure.
1 appear ro_und or nearly so. This fighters
to givf! chase shout
one passing over the Northeasti Maj. Alexander P , de Seversky, j~aw , of sight codrs both small ~aucers be reported nearb~·.
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others have been reported over
nearby Maryland.
Kennedy, who has 125 hours
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Ii Army Ah· Forces to his credit.
·a d he believed the saucer he
•r seen was traveling at "well
o r" 1000 1nile~ an bow· at a
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nder discussion as a possible solution to the "sajer"
ystery is the Navy's "Fly_ing Flapjack," show:r1: a ve.
r. ipping along ,vith its landmg ge~r ~etract!!d, this ane
would seem to be a supper plate spmrung thl:ough the sky.
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known observer to claim what she the sky a,nd had reached the consaw was stationary. All the rest clusion that some sort of m~ eorhave spoken of tremendous speeds. ites were responsible.
Mrs. Kole said all she could think Astronomers at the Naval obof was a blazing disc. Alexandria servatory and Georgetown unipolice looked in the direction she versity, who admitted they have
indicated but the disc had gone. be.en on the alert for flyir:g
Jack Labous, an artist 3500 saucers as they swept the skie;;
block East Capitol St., r~ported "".ith their powerful telescopes, inseeing one of the "things" flying sISted they not only had not s_een
over Bethesda. He described it as any but knew of no astronomical
"a flat disc with a cone shape theory that might account for the
undcr it and a stick like a radio reports.
antenna projecting from the .Kenneth Arnold, the privat1
bottom "
Pilot who was first to announ"
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seeing the saucers, expressed grrtr
The sc1ent1St y;ho claimed to fication at the support he r .JS
know s om et h 1 n g about the getting but insisted he still dictkt
"saucers" was described by a Los believe he had seen nine discs
Angeles newspaper as a member whizzing by at 1,200 miles an
of the California Institute of hour, although he had seen them.
Technology staff.
Arnold started yesterday on a
flying fishing trip over the PaMay Be Real, He Says
c!fic northwest armed with a ne v
He was quoted as saying "trans- camera in the hope of gettin.
mutation of atomic energy" ex- pictures if he encountered an,
periments m;aht be responsible. more saucers. He took along Col.
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Paul W. Weil.a nd, World War II
He was said to have been a re• artillery officer, just in case he
searcher on the Manhattan project that made the '7tom bomb, and :it~e:s~me more and needs a
was quoted as saymg:
Arnold
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"These so-called saucers are ca.
announce 1e 1as ~- n
pable of high spee(j but can be gett1~g tons of letters commentmt
controlled from the ground. They on his rep~rt _of the saucers. Man
are 20 feet wide in the center and of them Pted1ct they are the fore
are partially rocket propelled on runner of an atom bomb attach.
the take off. People are not seeing One c_o~-re~pondent blamed ~hern
things. such flying discs actually on smv1v~:ns of the lost co~tmetl
are in experimental existence." of Atlan~1s who_ are prepanng f
Experiments with these "discs" an atonuc war m 196_0•.
were reported as being in progress
Arm:\'., _Navy and c1v1l aeron
nt Muroc Dry Lake, Calif.; White tics offlc1als ag:reed none of the
Sands, N. M.; Portland, Oreg., and had any reliable informatit
other places.
about the discs and would
Dr. Harold Urey, atom scientist frain from commenting _until th
at the University of Chicago, com- saw one, or at least a picture.
mented:
"Transmutation
of
atomic energy sounds like gibberish. You can transmute metals, not
energy."
Col. F. J . Clarke, in command
of the Hanford Engineering works•
of the atomic energy project, said
he knew of no experiments involv•
ing "flying saucers."
"I have been waiting several
days for someone to get the idea
the so-called flying saucers were
tied up in some way with what we
are doing," Clarke said. "But as
:far as I know, there is no connec.
tion."
The "piece" found in Ohio was
discovered near Circlevill.e. It was
a six-pointed star covered with tinfoil and attached to part of a balloon. It was reported to be a device
used by the Army ail· forces in
radar Tesearch to check on h.igh
wind speeds. There was no cot
ment from the atr for..:es.
A War Department spokesm
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Mr. Ca r son
Mr. Egan
Mr . Gurne a
Mr . Ha r bo
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ton area.
Scientists, for the most part dismissed the
but unto the chosen t he signs s.h all be revealed
"saucers" as optical illusions. figments of the
and they will have wisdom and knowledge."imagination or "someone having a little fun,"
Ancient prophecy.
but the reports continued to pour in.
By now they have been seen in every p&rt of
By JAMES COLLIGAN
the
country, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico
The words of the prophecy were being ful•
and from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
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The reports grew in "authenticity·• with thei
he nation as thousands of official a.nd scientific Increase in volume. A ·farmer in Ohio came UJ
bservers and jus~ ordinary people searched the with a piece of one, a "scientist. in nuclear physics
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threw out hints of mysterious
atomic energy experiments, an•
other observer claimed to have a
picture to back up what he saw.
Louis E. Starr, national command<,;;· of the Veteran'$ of Foreign
, vars, announced he expected an
"explanation from.. Washington"
within a matter of hours. He
hinted to newsmen at Columbus,
Ohio that the Government is
(holdi'ng out on the , public about
the "saucers," and commented:
"Too little is being told the people
of this cowitry."
StationarY at Alexandria
A mother and daughter in
[Northeast Washington reported
esterda~ they , saw three huge
rthings hurtling through the sky
l ast Thursday but were afraid to
say anything for fear of what
might be said about them. Eve_n
yesterday they asked that then·
names be withheld.
Th8 "things," accordin~ to these
!Observers, looked like_ dishes and
made a noise like Jet-pr'?pelled
J1!,es. They were trave~mg
st so
~a stterthey
an m ant
tbey disappeared
were observed.
Mrs. Mai·tin Kole, 3200 block
lley Dr., Alexandria, called her
ooal police station_ to a~k about

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Reports of "flying saucers" were laughed off by authorities 1mtil many witnesses, inclut)
ing reliable pilots
and
they had seen the plate-like obJ:e,,ts
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. serYicemen, said
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head. Above 1s the p1cture Y_eoman Frank Ryman, 27, took in the Seattle twilight when )1 _
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The Nation was baffled toda_y by o!
e greateS t
t echno1ogi
"flying saucers" reported seen m Jl achievements of the war and a cs tates by hundreds or persons, and complished _In absolute secrecy."
conjectures came ·from scores of Da".fd Lllienth al, ch_alrman of the
named and unnamed
sources Atomic Ener~ Commission, told ~he
Denver Post m a br;et telephone mt hroughout the country.
to k tervlew t hat the flying saucers were
Official Governmen t sources E> In no way connected wit h experla "Let's see one" stan~ oi:i the phe- ments in.atomic energy, the t ransnomen~>n, and no _sc1ent1st offered mutat ion o,.f metals or similar researcn
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a detailed explanation.
T wo Chlc;.go astronomers said the C 1 ·F J Cl k
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ar • comman ~ng 0 . •
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,611, undulating, flas hing objects cer of
e Hanfor? Engmeermg
/QJuldn't be meteors," said Dr. Works In the Paci.fie Northwest
Fs1rard Kieupel' director of t he Uni- where the largest saucer influx has
:Crsity of Chicago's Yerkes Ob- been reported, said the saucers were
ser vatory at Williams Ba y. Wis.
not coming from . the atomic plant
''We realize," s~id Dr. Oliver Lee, there.
· d_l£ ctor of Northwestern UnlverCredence in the saucers- widely
sl~ 's Dearborn Observatory, "that laughed off a t th eir fli•st' repoid
th Army and Navy are working on appearance June 2S- grew as h •
an r ts of things we know nothing dreds of observers, many of t m
trained flyers, reported seeing ~h m.
ab ut."
Dr. Lee said t he discs might repreA crowd of 200 observed a dis a t
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war . a , a n re race
ts course before vanishing Into a
cloud
An · Army Air Forces spokesman
In Washington on J uly 3 sa id there
was not enough !act to "warrant
furt her investiga t ion" b t th A·
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Materiel Command a t Wright Fleld,
Dayton, Ohl~. satd It was _rn akmg a
study. Sat.uiday at Washmgton an
Ar my researcher admitted "we·re
mystified" and the Navy said it had
no theories.
First Reported June 25.
. The first published report of "fly m g saucers·· came from Kenneth

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Mr . E . A . TammMr. 'C legg
Mr. G l avin
Mr . Ladd
Mr. Nichols
- - Mr . Rosen
Mr . Tracy
Mr . Carson
Mr . Egan ·
Mr . Gurne a - - Mr. Harbo
Mr . Hendon
--Mr . Jones
Mr. Pennington
Mr . Quinn TammMr . Nease
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Arnold, Boise, I daho, businessma n
pilot, who
reported
Oreg.,
on June
25 thata th eP endleton,
had seen
nine of them flying a t 1,200 miles an
hour in formation, shifting position
"like the tail of a k ite," over Washin gton State's Cascade Moun tains.
Before SC'lffers had more than begun to offer explanations such as
"reflections." ''persistent vision" and
"snow blindness," an Oklahoma City
private flyer, BY_ron Savage, said he
had seen a slm1larly shaped object
some weeks ear lier but fear of ridiround or oval in shape, flat and t1,-.
cule kept him quiet.
T hen the reports began to filter l i with a peculiar undulating t CI•
in, mostly fr om Individual~. T he t n. Size was moot a nd expre sed
SCS
discs were seen in Texa-s, ln New b Capt. Smith of Un ited Air L e~
Mexico, In Washington, Oregon, a. "hard to judge" without kn w(Continued From First P age )
Idaho, Missouri, Colorado, Callfor- 1 the distance from the o~e 'er
' -,.__ _ _ __ _ _ _ _....;._·_ _ , ma, Arizona and Nebraska. The to the objects.
H er Lake, Idaho, on the Fourt.h ' number varied from one to a dozen, 2 D. C. Area Residents Say
of July. A _group o! 60 picnickers seen mostly by one or two people.
saw them a t Twin FaJJs, Idaho. And
Sel'n by Group of 200.
They Saw 'Flying Saucers'
in Portland, Oreg., so ma ny res!T hen the July -l deluge hit. T wo
Two Washington 11rea resident.~
dents witnessed t hem on t he Fourth hundred person.~ In one group and
that t.he police department sent out' 60 in another saw them ln Idaho; t.oda:v were on record as having oban 1111-cArs, broadcast.
hundreds saw them In Oregon. served the m~•sterlous "flying
here11bou1s.
A United Air Lin.es pilot o! 14 1Washington
and other States saucers"
A BethesdR lMd.) man was rr,·ears experience walked up the ramp throughout the Wei;t. I n Augusta, ported
to
have seen three or four
10 hi.~ plane a t Boise, Joking that Me., the Civil Aeronautic.• A<imin'TII believe in these disc.~ when I istratlon received I\ report that a of these objerts at midnight Frld11,·
while In the vicinity of Fri•.mdship
see them.'' Ten minutes l at-er he •dozen !)f the discs had been seen Height.«,
Md. They were <il'llcrlhc,1
ra dioed, i<hRken, that he had spot- l there.
being rapid. bluish 1md bright
te<i ftve of them from hl11 plane. He And , for the flrst time. the East­ RS
WM Capt. A. J , Smith. His co-pilot, em States had their report.~. Ob­ traveling north wnrd.
Mr~. Martin Koll', 3202 V111Jey
Ralph Stevens, and h lA stewardess, servers came In with report.~ from
Ml~ Marty Monro, told the sRme Michigan, Louisiana, Pennsylvania. drive. Alexandria housewife, ~~It
I New Jersey, Indiana. K entucl , earlr Friday she s11w R l11.r1te roun
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ltne1111ei; in two points of Cali- Georgia, South Oarolina and ca • ob,iect floRtlng In thP 11outhwe11t
si•· Shr de<'IArerl II lli:ht i;hlnlnll
la. and In Spokane-one of them 1ada's Atlantic seaboard.
i her face RWakenPd hn aho~ 4
Anny Air F orces sergeanl,-re-1 Near unanlrnlty was recorMd
led seeing the discs Saturday. some of the discs' characteristics _ a. . She went to the window n
on.s in ditrerl:1l1 e~tions., te • 1fic S.R ed, brl ht reflections. 11R • something rounrl anrl lar,iP th
II '('<idlsh I ln·g...
It 11rrmrd to hP
lit 11ding Hill. Aftrr looklnl! at it
a few minutes, Mri;. Kole .saict llht'
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Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
Mr. Egan
Mr . Gu r ne a
Mr. Harbo
Mr . Hendon- - Mr . Jones
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said they saw the discs yesterday
The '•flying saucer" mystery afternoon. A party of seven firs,
reached fever pitch today, after ''I saw some and 10 mlnutees later, ,
saw them myselt" statements from a crowd of 20 or 30 people saw an
a veteran United Air Lines crew, other batch of nine or ten. Wore
scores of Portland (Oreg.) residents, passed around, and soon the waltin(
and 60 picknickers at Twin Falls crowd saw another batch circling
Park in Idaho.
and climbing.
The UAL pilot copilot and stew- At Seattle, Frank Ryman, coast
ardess, who had ; coffed consistently ~uard yeoman, said he took a
at "flying saucer" tales, said they picture of what some residents north
saw such objects last night while of Seattle thought was a flyirig disc.
flying a passenger plane from Boise, 1'.he photograph showed a pinheadIdaho, to Portland.
size light spot agamst the dark
Their statements followed a day evening sky. .
during which the "saucers" were The Oregoruan dispatched a plane
reported seen In many parts of the to hunt Portla nd's saucers. It foul )
Nation
nothing but empty sky.
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Strange Cr aft Over Philadelphia .
. Many P~rtlanders-mcludlng po- In Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leis ,
lice, experienced flyers and three a junior lnteme at the Peru1sylvan
ewspap~rmen-declared they saw Hospital for Mental Diseases, and
Ivery discs over Portland.
other persons In the western secI n New Orleans, Miss Lillian Law- tion of t he city, reported seeing
ss said she saw an object, shining strange craft in the skies last night.
ke silver or chromium, flying at a It was something round with a
great height and at a terrific speed luminous halo about It, Dr. Leisk
In a northeasterly direction over declared. It was not shiny, but
Lake Pontchartrain.
dark In color and seemed to be
propelled by whirling wings. Dr.
"Pancake Sta nding on End."
Describing what they saw as fiat, Leisy &aid the object he saw was
tran~lucent plates 12 to 15 Inches moving at approximately the speed
in diameter, several Port Huron of the wind, b_elow the clouds. tt
(Mich.) residents reported seeing eventually vs.n~hed m the clouds,
the "saucers."
he added.
A dl&patch from Summerslde,
Capt. E. J . Smith, Seattle, a ve~- Cana, said farmers in the Prince
eran of ~• years \\lth United Air Edward Island region claim to have
Lines, said he observed the round seen more of the mysterious discflat objects-'·Jike a pancake stand- like missiles reported flying through
lng on end"-for about 12 minutes northern skies earlier this wcet
while flying trom Emmet,t Idaho, to J ames Harris, farmer at She •
a point sout heast of Ontario, Ore. brooke, 1 mile norlll of here, a1 l
He radioed the Ontario airport but his hired man, Herman Linklettc
said they saw one of the objec ~
airport officials saw nothing.
1 Sixty persons plcknlcking at 'I\v!n last; night traveling from the northf'nlls Park, near Twin Falls, Idaho, west toward the southeast.
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Mr. Cl egg
Mr. Gl avi n
Mr. Ladd
Mr . Nich ols
Mr. Rose n
Mr . T r acy
Mr . Ca r son- - Mr. Egan
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As rumors persisted (and wer e denied) that the "flying saucers" are rndio controlled rocket or jet planes being tested secretly, Washington got in the act today with a report from two
District women of strange goings-on overhead.
Meanwhile, assorted scientists~· - -- - - -- - - - - - -came up with widely varying theo• opined that people "are seeing spots
ries as to .w hat-if anything-the before their eyes."
heavenJy wanderers may be.
But unnamed scientists quoted by
Dr . John G. Lynn, human be­ Science Service expressed doubt
havior expert of Valhalla, N. Y., that a purely opt ical illusion would
said people. have the atomic jitters. make people think they were seeNavy Observatory a str onomer s ing flying disks. Science Service
here said that so far as they can also pointed out tha t some o.f t he ·,
judge fr om description, the obj2ct s saucers have been r eported by "rea re not astronomical phenomena. liable observers accustomed to lookA n o t h er as tronomer-civilian- ing at the sky."'

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MINNESOTA-AV NE, July 5.­ looked up and saw these things goScientists from ma ny Washington's ing thru the air. There were three
top-drawer institut ions are expected of them, shaped like dishes and goto flock to this street t oday after ing fast a s a j et plane. They ¥:ere
the first a uth enticated reportt of bright golden in color, but that may RECORDED
flying saucers within t he city lim­ have been from th sun· being re- '
its of Washington was made by f leeted from some brigh t metal obtwo startled matrons.
The ladies spotted the , things je;,~s. c~)Uldn't estimate the size of <--l
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night beiore last, but were under­ the thmgs, but they seemed to be
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standably reluctant to report it at fairly far away. I looked away Ior
once.
an instant to tell mother to look at
"I know what you'll t hink," the the things."
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The witness' mother looked ,1p
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interview with The News, ''but and also saw the "dishes." .ihen
mother saw them, too, and sh e they swished over the hori;;lll andl '
~ocsn't drink.
disappeared.
"We were shopping on Minni!•
Th e two women asked rat their
sota-ave ne at about 7 Thul·srlay names be withheld from p,hlication,
night," she said, "when I heard a
1noise like a jet-propelled plane. I lest skep tical neighbors p~e fun at
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Cloud, ·Nor ·Balloon" .:,
overhead. It disappeared in thre~ or
Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, four seconds.
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27, had a picture today snapped• Two Portland, Ore., _police scout
;from the front porch of his home cars three miles apart notified headnear Seattle which authorities quarters at 1:15 p. m. yesterday
hoped wouJd clear up the mystery that they had sighted a group of
of the flying saucers.
strange objects weaving in a "play(It didn't.)
ful manner" 10,000 feet above the
He said what he saw was ground over the southern suburbs
neither an airplane, a cloud nor a of Portlan'd. Clark County (Wash.)
Deputy Sheriff Fred K,rlves, across
"silver balloon."
~Ile pilot and co-pilot of a Unit- the Columbia from Portland, said
ed Airlines plane said they turned he saw 20 flying discs "slewing off
their craft off its c o u r se near , to one side, almost in single iile"
Boise, Idaho, and c h as ed. a .over the county court hou·se. .
"strange object" for 15 miles. beT. L Huckaby of Pinc Bluff,
fore it outdistanced them or 'dis•
Ark., s11iil he saw a flying objec~
integrated in the dusk. Ca11t. R. J. • "about the size and color of a
Smith and Second Officer R. E.
Bluff area. . Decatur, 111., and
Stevens, both of Seattle, said "we
Salt Lake City also reported in
can definitely say that what we
today.
saw was not smoke, not a cloud,
At Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leisy
and not another airplane."
, of the Pennsylvania Hospital .fo1•
A similar object '-Vas seen by John MentaJ Diseases, said he saw a big
~orlett, United Press staff ~orre- dark saucer-like ?bject move slowly
ondent his wi.fe, and two friends across the sky Just beiore sunset
fom MJ. . Corlett's back yard in yesterday. f'!.e said it was surroundoise. He said it was a white disc ea by a luminous halo .a~d a~peared
ying about 10,000 feet directly to be propelled by whirlmg Jets.
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