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Mr. Tolson__
/lying Sall~er Photo Ain\
\Vhat _It Used to Be---JG!f
y Charles Manosl
dff Writer
GRAND BLANC, .May 5­
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J e Perry, the talented pizza
man,
fet:ls the Pentagon
peo9le have sabotaged him
or som..?thing.
No,
perts
~oP-'s
a
thi g
the Washington ex­
haven't fussed with
saucy pies, but tJ y
.certainly done so e-
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 telescope­
camera.
Joe, 44, took a~other look
at.
his
color-slide
p oto,
pped last February o 1he
se ond nigh': of the full
I
moon.
"Jt's not the same," he said
dejectedly. "The flying
saucer bas faded . . . some­
thing 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 pict 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
ro
all sections o
the
cou try.
so JOE was anxious to Et
hlpicttp·e back.
e called the FBI.
e
ta ·ed to the air force.
e
n de a trip_to Selfridge, •
orce Bast, all in vain.
be pict!lre was retur,ted
sh ·Uy after be sent a lo er
to resident Eisenhower.
Fletter infuded 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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Mr, Parsons_ _
Mr, Belmont_ _
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46 JUN 3 1960

0-19 (Rev. 1-28-59)
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Centr~l !l~s earoh Seotion '
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 DC6 passenger p~ane lost the three strange opjects
said today three mysterious .
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
Air­
minutes 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 pas­
se~rsalso saw the flying
obj ~ • The plane left Newark
at 7:1
m.
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OfGuidance,Jung Says
ALAMOGORDO,
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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 precari­
signs of lhtelligent guidance ous position of primitive com­
by 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 scien­
seen," Dr. Jung said in the re- tific technique immensely su­
port released yesterday.
"A perior to ours cannot bek­
pw·ely psychological explana- gued."
tion is ruled out."
The Air Force has said
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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
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
Jung said.
scientific knowledge or pose a
"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 No­
weight. . . .
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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
ter
planetary
relationship. hOaxes, among other th~
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Schm1al, 48, an ex-Nebras-
Q Sauc ers'J
.I ~fin a2:a1:i-~\~va: q~:~i:~;·n·~
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Air Force investigat ·s
m the Continental_Air
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Trace Foll d fr
fense Command. 0 11 fo
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near the alleged landing spot
•d . , Iof the space ship was identi­
A. F. . Ch e c kS SChffil t, fiecr as ordinary but will be
Kearney Amus ed
! tested by the University of
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INebraska.
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:
A top official of the Air
Newsmen Busy
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 in-
A Kearney clothier put up
vestigators have found no a sign advertising "space ship
evidence in the past 10 years l specials." A window sign in
that flyin~ saucers are real. i a
car agency announced:
He s a 1 d 5,700 reported "Space Ships Tuned Up."
sightings wete investigated I The Ke a r n e y car-rental
between 1947 _and_1957. !'fot operator 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
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1n .JSS!nrney
N~ . Ee~-111 w s n_early the only sign t at
hc-!dw"S:chmidJs ;tory of
n a ythmg unusual had h p­
aftei'n~iffl'!' -~ with
be P ned -
or may have h p­
crew of a space ship near he pened.
city Tuesday was still under
·nvesti ation officials said.
5 2 NOV 261957.
0:¥.iAHl-l. WORLD-HERALD
0:VJAHJ.I. , NEBR.ASKA
11- 7-57
SUNRISE EDITION
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\Yorlrl•Hernld's Xe,1'1!1 ScrTke.
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 occu­
pants 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 conse­
quences:
-State Penitentiarv rec­
ords showed a • man of' the
~ame name served a term
for embezzlement from
Scotts Bluff County in the
l 930's. Scotts Bluffs Coun-
Sheriff Steve W'lrrick
id he talked to Schmidt
phone and was convinced
"saw nothing."
1
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chance to take a lie-
detector 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 Con­
tinental Air Defense Com­
mand at Colorado Springs,
Colo., Kearney Police Chief
Thurston Nelson and Buf­
falo County Attorney
Kenneth Gotobed. They
said Schmidt's story "ap­
peared to be weakening."
-Oil drippings on the
ground from the space
machine were being ana­
lyzed at Kearney State
College. In ves tiga_tors
said the "mys t er1ous
green oil" closely resem­
bled that in a partially­
emptied can of co1:1mer­
cial 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 "land­
i p;."
Schmidt's story came to
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Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson . . • In
"heart-to-heart" talk.
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The Schmidtnik . • . As described by the grain buyer.
light when, white-faced and
turn around. Near the
shaken, he appeared in
Platte River he saw what
Kearney Tuesday and asked
appeared to be a wrecked
to see a minister. Taken to
balloon. As he neared il
police, he told this story:
Schmidt said, his car en
Tuesday he inspected a
gine conked out.
field of milo about two
Schmidt said he got ou
miles south and a mile east
and walked toward the ma­
of Kearney. When ready to
chine. Proximity revealed
leave he clrove clown a side
road seeking a place to
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it to be a translucent, Cl·
gar· shaped device abouj
one hundred feet long, 3
et wide and about 14 fee
gh.
Schmidl said tha
hen he was 25 or 30 fee
~ vay. two men got out
and waved what looked
like a flashlight.
"I couldn't move. I don't
know whether I was iust
afraid or what, but it was
like being paralyzed,'' he
said.
'ln Business Suits' .
Schmidt said the men,
dressed in business suits,
searched him for weapons
then remarked that as long
as they were going to be
there for some time "you
might as well come in and
see thin~s for a few min­
utes."
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Inside the machine were
two other men and two
women working on wires
and instruments. The de­
,•ice had a fan at each end.
By a strang1> coincidence
one of the crewmen''·Jooked
exactly like" a hoto?I ac­
quaintance \Yith whom he
has been watch;ng televi­
sf· n programs.
1/hen the o cc up an t i
w nted to move f>rom plac
t
place they would ste
'Spoke Gennan'
Tl1e ship o cc u pa n ts
talked among themselves in1
Hf;g h Germ an. w h ic h
S midt says he under
st nds to a limited extent
0 e man spoke excellent
English and interpreted for
the others.
Schmidt said the inter­
preter told him repeatedly
he had nothing to fear. The
visitors refused to answer
any questions but said he
would "find out all a6'out
It in a couple of weeks."
When repairs were com­
pleted. Schmidt said he w11.s
p.sked to leave but was told
he would be unable to start
his car until the machine
had disappeared.
'Disappeared'
Outside the machine
Schmidt said, he turned t~
watch as the fans started
in motion without a sound.
He said the machine lifted
about one hundred or two
hundred feet into the air
and disappeared.
"It ~ust blended into the
si►.Y-h!,e it changed cor.r
J
r disappeared into th
" he said.
chmidt Pressed t e
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ter of his car. The mo­
tor ~arted right off.
in a ce1·tain location and b
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without movm .

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cist to Coast
Rash of
There was an unof,·
cial report that Air For
personnel at neaJ.'by A · c­
en, S. C., spotted the ob­
ject on radar and issued
an alert.
The object appeared to be
a "constant red light," accord­
ing to Augusta Chronicle ex­
ecutlve editor Louis Harris,
who saw the object from the
downtown newspaper build­
ing. "Lt could have been a
tiny red light a short dis­
tance away or a gigantic
thing at a great distance," he
said.
, 0
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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 alto-
ether.
Elsewhere, strange "sauc­
1,r'' sightings were reported.
WHITE SANDS
NEBRASKA
Mlitary authorities ~ppar­
ntly gave c1·edence to a re­
At Kearney, Neb., authori­
ort by an electroni
en­
ties held a "heart-to-heart" H
gineer wh,o said he s v an
talk with Rein h o Id
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object which made car en­
Schmidt, a salesman, later
near the
gines stall
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, said the en­
people spoke in English and
gineer, James Stokes, 42, will
German.
be given a thoro medical ex­
amination and a radiation
, Police roped off the area
count test.
Col.
McCurdy
where the "whatnik" alleg-
said he was "personally sat­
edly landed and examined
isfled" With M r. Stokes' re­
various impressions and oil
port.
stains 011 the ground•
A Civil Service worker a l
At Long Beach, Calif., three
Lackland Air Force Base in
i\ir Force weather observers,
San Antonio, Tex ., said he
one of them the commanding
saw an egg-shaped object
officer of the spotting unit,
land in a ravine about 200
late yesterday reported sight-
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 Force base.
off, and the object took off
in a few minutes, enabling
The Coast Guard reported
him to drive 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
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ommander said the object
a large, red objert and picked
aused over the cutter Se-
up unlntelllgible
cmwersa­
~ l)ago In the Gull and was on
frm on a sound dl'trctor. cu_>,
'1e 1•adar scope for ahouf 27 ~
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Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sliy
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f:av€ling at an estimated 1000 of light with no definite -~hape,
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A brilliant mystery object niles per hour, International 1resembling 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 point, the object vapor trails or any other in­
Coast 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
y. ~
~rs c~ec_ked a flurry of ear- rore it resumed Its erratic,estimate of its height place{!
Iler,, s1mllar reports.
1flight.
it at 2000 feet.
The Co~t G1:1ard cut~er Se-
[The cutter's captain, Cmdr.
[G I e n n Northcutt. Willis,
bag?_, crmsrng m th~ Gulf of1c. H. Waring, 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 J
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 Saturday he and fiv
planet with a high rate of
p" at..5:10 a. m. and w s lost others had watched '·a bril
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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
(CST).
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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 ie
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 crew
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 cribed 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
rl!'ans Coast Guard >le .
netwo
of the Ail· Defens
( I1arters that the object w
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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 earth or
look into the reports.
are interplanetary." Any na-
For 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 mis­
Investigators work under the siles.
Air Defense Command at Col- Cosmic Energy
orado Springs, Colo., and re-
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k
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port to the Air Technical In- . It 100 5 as ,,iough they _are
t 1r
Center
mterplanetary, Keyhoe said.
e 1ge~ce
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He said one source of pow­
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Judgmg from past findmg~, er for such reported objects
the chances are 50-1 the A1r could be cosmic ray energy.
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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•
James Stokes, an engineer
jects have wound up in the at the Air Force missile de­
"unknown" category.
velopment center at Alama-
Air Force Skeptical
gordo. N. M., reported 10 autos
were stalled Monday on a des­
And the Air Force said firm- ert highway between Alama­
ly-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. erratically across the country.
Balloons, aircraft and such side and left a sort of heat
astronomical .sights as meteor- wav.e, "like radiation from a
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ites and bright stars account giant 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 Inven­
rrhe director of a private o tors 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 the
b1·s
•nt the current rash of thmgs the armed forces would
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cported s~ghtmgs. ..
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But retired Mai ~ne Maj_ of no research in this country
on aid ~- Keyhoe, ~ector of! aimed at produeing such a de­
the 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
Ithe 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 de­
velopment on tne outskirts of
Annapolis.
Jean said the girls became
frightened and ran home but
no one would believe their
tory until weekend
per accounts tola o
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J} •G. Kirby of Dallas macle
this photo of a diamond
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
after intensive study. The
Air Force descyibed the
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Mystery Objects Calfed ..
Mirage by Astron9mer·
By the A.ssocJated Press
A Harvard astronomer says plYsterious objects reported
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
Air Force fo~ . yeru·s has ~ad radar reflection."
the responslbJhty of checkmg
reports of unidentified flying
A~ for rep_orts 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
th
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developed 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 phe­
engines 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
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Gulf of Mexico that an object miles away, he said.
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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, a mirage. They are prevalent
and that it was tracked by
.
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 com­
false image "quite ~kely from mon in the West where they
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bubbles of hot air m the at- have clear air."
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ing the first half of this year
only 1.9 per cent of the 250 re­
ported sightings of flying
saucers and other strange ob­
jects in the air have been
classed as "unknown." And the
Ah- Force ·wasul't ready to. be­
lieve that even this small per•
centage has sinister implica­
tlons.
It seemed a good bet the
Air Force will agree with Dr.
Menzel's opinion that the cur­
rent' sightings have explana­
Uons in nature, or that the
reported objects are actually
aircraft or similar man-made
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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
August, 1956. The photo
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and has just been released
after Intensive study. The
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Doolittle Scoffs at Repm1
Of Nazi Fl'yi~g Saucer~\
By the A
elated Press
Iof ·Hugh L. Dryden. director of
James
. Doolittle says it the advisory committee. •
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Mr. Dryden said "there is no
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truth" in a
statement that
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
.
of 1,250 miles an hour.
without refuelmg.
•'This is an advertisement for
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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He said also the man supposed
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 writ­
j,
nta.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 ,
published today, along with that said, "it just ain't so."
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Saucers, IV
Expert Says
By VERN HAUGLAND
WASIIlNGTON, Jan. 15 (AP).
-Reteired Rear Adm. Delmer S.
Fahrney once head of the Navy's
guided missiles program, said
Wednesday reliable reports indi­
cate that "there are objects com­
ing into our atmosphere at very
high speeds."
Fahrney told a news confer­
ence that "no agency in this
.country or Russia is able to dupli­
cate at this time the speeds and
ac~elerations wblch radar and
observers indicate these flying
objects are able to achieve."
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FAHRNEY SAID he never has
seen a flying saucer, but has
talked with a number of scien­
tists and engineers who reported
seeing strange flying objects.
Fahrney called a news con1er­
ence following an organizational
meeting of a new private group,
the National Investigations Com­
mittee 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-mean­
ing ~nidenti1ied flying objects"
- clubs being formed throughout
the world. Fahrney said his ij•
ittee wll collect and investig te
ying saucer reports, evalu e
em and make public its • d­
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State Police at Bridgeport Post
received seven reports of a "fly("
ing saucer" between midnight
and 7 a.m. today.
One officer said he saw a fly­
ing object himself.
The first report, which came
from the nearby Burt 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 Sag­
inaw, 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 Sag­
inaw.
Midland police said they re1
ceived one call but i:ould no
ot the object.
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f om the Cadillac area early
S~ lurday, but Air Force invesli•
gating planes found nothing.
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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 of Investigation.
request to "Confidential Files,
The FBI, never one to pass
Washington, D. C."
out military secrets, made dis­
Takes too long. And besides creet inquiries.
you may be inv~stigated by the
Then the FBI Jorwarded the
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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 <un­
bulletin of flying saucers, or the identified flying objects>,
to­
address 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
dress.
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The post office, casting abou.t mailed to her address ill Los
for some Federal agency that Angeles.
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Concerning the Unidentifie<;l Flying ObJept P~ogram
The Air Force· feels a, very definite obligation to id,entify 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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This program was established i n ''1.94i when u,nidentified :f~yir:ig
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 cate­
gory of: . balloons, ·aircraft~ · astronomical bodies , atmospheric reflec­
tions~ and birds.
All reports of unidentified flying objects result
from either radar or visual sightings.
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Explanations pertaining to sightings reported from military and
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.
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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. •
To possibly bear out the theory of t emperature inversion
refl.ect.ion is an. incident which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge,
Tennessee.
Two Air Force aircraft attempt·ed to intercept an unidenti­
fied "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 sightings 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 reflec­
tions, frequency interference between ~ther radar stationi, ~nd wind­
born objects.
Obviously, such returns are very difficult to . identify,
especially when t hey occur during darkness.
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The -r~darCreen ha-s picked· up· -birp.•$
1~-.:o~e case a
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Flight int.erc.ept);ons··p_rove·d thes_e 1>henomena.
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Present-day jet aircraft, flying at great speeds and high
altitudes, a1'e often .mis,~aken for. unknown objects by• t.he untrained
observer.
Sun;t.ight r?flecfions· f'.ronr the pol.ished surf~ces of air-.
craf.t can be· seen pla.inly .ey!:!p,_:wpen the -airc.r_a.ft , itself is too dis­
tant ·to· -~e ·visiple, _The_exhaust: bf j~~ aircraft .emits~,a t.rail. and
often this is seen rather than the aircraft itself. ·
2.
Weather balloons ac.-count fo:r;. a substantial number of. ;s.ight..:'
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'lective qualities, ·carry small :p~ghts. when -launched
after dark, and can be seen at very hig~_ altitudes,
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In additio~·.eo the ordinari weather ~all6on, hug~ 90-foot
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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Frequently, unusually bright meteors 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 periods.
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Some cases arise which, on the ha.sis of information recei'vec;. · :
are of a weird and peculiar natur~.
The obj~cts display erratic
,
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 .themselves.
Fr;>r example:
suppose··
we would hold a mirror in hand under a light, causing a r eflection
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 air~ Many things whiq~ are common to the sky have highly
reflective qualities, such ·as balloons, aircraft, and clouds. Accu­
rate speeds are also difficult tq determine due to the ~nability
of the r eportf;r..to judge d1stanc~, ·angles, and time.
6, Brilliant 'flashing lights that sometimes appear r~d and
wh1te in. col or 'have been report ed_by observers.
This type has been·
traced to a .new lighting system of commercial airlines· and military
aircraft ,
Atop the tail section of these aircraft highly reflective
red and white flasher type lights have been installed and are many
times misinterpreted by the ground observer.
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_ vestigation of the radar and-~isual
,..sightings described,
e are some yardsticks whil have been
: established from exper cnce and trends to measure' d attempt to
de termine the source of UFO•s .
Some of these are general in nature
r and ar e subject to ·cr:i.ange· as l')ew scientific and factual inf·ormation
i s r eceived.
I t should be remembered that any object viewed from a
grea t distance appears to be round .
Nearly all the sightings r eportecl
ar e de scribed as round and would tend to indicate that most of the
objects ·are at a grea.ter ·.d.1s-tahce from the observer .than is gen~r ally
estima t ed,
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Another misconception centers about photographs of unident ified
flying objects. At best ·tl!le. majority of photographs have proven
non-conclusive as evidence· to this program ,mainl y_due _to type camera s
used. • Also, 'it might be ·mehti'c1ned that because still photogr aphs·.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 , they are worth­
l e ss a s eyidence .
I nnumerable objects, f ~om ashtrays to wash basins,
have been photogr·aphed wh+1e sailing thrpugh :the air.
Many su·ch
photoB have been publ i~he~ ·wi thout revealing the true identity ·of the
objects.
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More attention is given to moving picture s of unidentified fly­
ing objects since tHey ar e more difficult to retouch.
However, only
a very f ew movie - type fil ms have been received by the Air Force and
they r eveal only pinpoints of light moving across the sky. · The Air
Force has been unable to identify the source -of the se lights because
the image s are too small to analyze properly.
Since ownership of
the se films remains with the persons taking them, the Air Force is
now in a position to give them out.
The difficulty of evaluating •rep.orts of all · types is ba sed
l ar gely upon the lack of basic da t a surrounding the sightings. The
drop in sightings during 1953 is l argely due to the increased accuracy
and the compl e teness of r eports being r ece ived.
To be of value , a
r eport should include such basic da t a as size , shape , composition,
speed, altitude, direction, and the maneuver pattern of the obj ects .
Without such inf ormation, it is almost impossible to establish the .
identi ty of the object sighted.
In addition, a r ecent study has shown
a direct correlation between the number of sightings r eported and the
publicity given to
1'saucers" by the na tion's press.
The Air Force took a further step in early 1953 by procur~ng
Videen cameras for the purpose of photogr aphing this phenomena ~ These
camer a s we re distributed to various military installa tions . This type
0amer a has two lenses , one of which t akes an ordinary photograph, and
the other has a di ffraction gr a ting wh1ph sepa r a t es l i ght int o its
component pa rts.
This aids in de t er mining the composition of t he ob­
j ect phot ogr aphed.
A small number of photogr aphs have been r eceived
from t his camer a ; however, only light spots of no de t ail have been
i ndicated in the photos t o da t e.
As mor e photogr aphs ar e taken by
the se obser vers , it is be lieved tha t a great deal of t he myst ery wi ll
be lifted from the progr am.
The Ai r For ce would like to state t ha t no evidence ha s been
r ece ived which woul d t end to i ndicate t ha t the Uni t ed Stat e s is being
Qbserved by machi ne s from outer spa ce or a for eign government, No
objec t or particle of an unknown substance ha s been r eceived and
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no photographs of detail have' been. produced • . Th~ ..photogr~phs on
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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. · It may be concluded from the above and from past experience .that
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·orts, a detailed· quest..fonnaire 1-s no.w submitte.d to eacl:) person
reporting ·an unidentif.ied aerial abject. It ;ts felt tha~, the infor­
mation thus obtained will lo~er s.tfll ·more_Jhe numpe.r of unexplained
sightings.
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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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about Flying c.cers,
as told by Geor
Klein,
former secret wea ons ex­
pert in the Gern,an War
Production Mintstry,• and
now an e n g i n e e r in
Switzerland.
"Flying Saucers," he says,
are top secret weapons of the
SA and Russia.
" They are a continuation of
.:re rm an wartime experi­
~.1ents.
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"Prototype Flying Saucers [
were built in Germany during
the war. I saw one reach a
height of 40,000 feet in three
minutes,
near
Prague
in
1945."
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Klein
says the Russians
captured a scale model and top
technicians at Breslau.
The
technicians have not returned
to Germany.
And
Walter
Micthe,, V
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pon inventor and key
an
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Saucer development,
ed
\ est and now works in he
1itcd States
lein in a Zurich interview
• spected
by
Field-Mar al
Montgomery. says Klein.
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Flying Saucer built to-day­
one with a diameter of 48ft.
powered by five jets and a
larger model with a diameter
of 126ft. and 12 jets.
This, he says, accounts for
the rumour that Saucers often
appear to change size sud­
denly.
Raised wing flaps liCt both '
a\roraft like a helicopter. The
big 9ne c_an keep stationary by
turmng Jets _down to counter­
balan~e gravity.
Flyrng Saucers,.teveloped in
Canada by Joh%:'_!·ost, former
colleague of Sh Fi:ank Whittle,
have reached speeds upf to
1,500 mph and have been in-
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,WeirdSpy Disc
•Sighted By Ship i
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fll'!;t and tlien brl«hter, llk@ tlie
' moon, sho0Ll11g 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.
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"l don't know what it was,"
11aid Capt. Jan P. Boshoff, a
veteran shlpmaster, who sa.id
he watched t he obJeot through
his binoculars. "It might have
t been what has been described
I
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 bino­
culars.
Capt. Boshoff described it as
"a flat object, resembling t he I
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 lights." 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
tural In the sky."
Mr. Tolson
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Mr. Boardnum­
Mr, Nicbols­
Mr. Belmont­
Mr. Harbo­
Mr. Mohr.­
Mr. Paraons­
Mr. Rosen.­
M-r. Tamm­
Mr. Siz•,O·--­
M-r. Winterrowd­
Tele. Roo!n..-­
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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.
MAJ . 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 ~
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OUND AND LEFT NO TRAIL BUT GAVE EVIDENCE OF DEFINITELY BEING
MANEUVERED."
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1~!RT~~~ce H~p~~~~.,.~~olie~~~~~J~ng ~~,~~d
Scripps-Howard staff w riter
been relaxed in recent months.
ed" and "Flying Saucers From Out­
Air Force Iea-de rs have
Most of the mail receive<:l at the
Dayton o'fflce is from persons over
slammed down a "brass" curtain the nation who are curious about
at the Dayton (0.) Afr Technical flying sauee,s.
Intelligence Cent e 1• (ATIC),
"The mail has become so heavy
where flying saucer reports are that the two or three persons de­
investigated.
tailed to investigating unidentifie ,
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 investi­
ou 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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said the original official policy magazine articles about flying sau­
•.n.,i heen to exclude visits by news- cers. Singled out were two current
er Space."
Just how banning the press was
expected to ease the situation was
not explained- unless the ~•~•
figures this will reduce the n mber
of flying saucer stories.
Times-Herald
l ash. Post
Wash. News
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'THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE'
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 delib­
erate attempt to cover up cer­
tain facets of the longest con­
tinuous ''flying· saucer" run in
history.
The first man to see the light
was Pfc. Norman Viets, 18, of
Greenville, Pa. Since' then, at least
,. 30 other Marines, including half a
, dozen officers, have seen It, too.
On one occasion, sentries report­
I ed seeing three lights 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
skeptical-observer, the base prov­
ost marshal, Maj. D. D. Pomerleau,
admitted the lights had character­
istics he never expected to find on
an airliner.
FIRST SIGHTING
Pfc. Viets was standing sentry
duty at the Tank Parle a few miles
north of Camp Barrett on the south­
western 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."
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Pfc. Viets told The News the light
first appeared to come straight
toward him over a line of trees about
200 yards to the south o.f his post.
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"It was about a foot and a half in
diameter," he said, "only going about
10 or 15 miles an hour. Then it fol•
lowed the tree line about 50 yards to
the righ t and went down.
"It went straight ~own, all of _a
sudden.
F'itteen minutes later 1t
went straight up and moved over
here toward the tank shed.
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"I saw it two times aiter that. It
did the sarne thin~-
It was the
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There was no en~ine"n~e"' a~<!. no
shape-just the light.
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By the time The News talked to
Pk. 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 shape."
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
Pfc. Bennett (top front) ~rabbed a butcher knife and said: "It's land­
First 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
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Ferguson, the base information of­
ficer, 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 to "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 motor­
capture then or welcome them (This was New Year's Eve.)
At ist as he pulls up to an intersec­
aboard 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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record says:
New Year's
morning it moved
He heard no noise and saw no
"A IS-man detail arrived (at
northeast, then south, theri north shape. He said the light was "sharp­
and remained "over the tank shed ly delineated."
11:15 p. m., Dec. 30) f rom Camp
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 fruit-
said, "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 in­
light." Se1>gt. Salinder saw nothing. fore got so excited he "grabbed a stalling new lights atop the tails of
HOVERS
butcher knife and headed for the planes six m011ths ago. They blink
tank shed to help out his troops,'' on and off, are 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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i\.re N~w Airliner Lights
Authorities at the Qu~ntico as the Marine Corps is con­
Marine Base last night took a cerne~, a spo~esman said.
long searching look at those . Until laSt night, however, the
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hghts were reported to have
strange flymg obJects with flash- done about everything. Nine­
ing 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 air­
sion of nearness."
liners flying near the reserva­
~::.. t ..l&&t:d the matter as far tion."
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Mystery 'Flying. Ob i'!ct' Lands
N,ear Quantico, Say Sentries
lone of those mysterious flyin the sky and described it as a the two sentries, and the spokes­
objects reportedly landed near flying saucer," according to the man said the investigation was
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pokesTltan. They notified the now in the hands of "higher
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 re­
rines 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
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man was not able to supply thefr
A spokesman ~ester~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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By Unit.ed Preas
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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5000 .teet above the ground.
Capt. Christiernsson said the object headed southward over a low-
lying 'cloud layer which would obscure it from ground observers. He
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
station at Peenemunde, now operated by the Russians.
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Keyhoe's inter-planetary theory
was bolstered by a letter pub­
lished on the jacket of his book
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Force civilian expert on the·
saucer project, who now is with
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Hits AF Stand On
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 real­
and if they are, what are they?
That, in essence, is the ques­
tion that faces the Air Force­
and 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 that the saucers
are some revolutionary type of
weapon perfected either by this
country or some other nation.
The Air Force, however, dep•
recates this possibility. In a re­
cent statement, it said:
"The Air Force has stated in
the past, and reaffirms at the
present time, that unexplained
aerial phenomena are not a se-.
cret weapon, missile or aircraft
developed by the United States.
None of the three military de­
partments nor any other agencyJ 1
in the government is conducting
experiments, classified or other­
wise, 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 that it is •believed
impossible the saucers could be
a foreign weapon.
Regarding the question as to
whether flying saucers exist, Lt.
Robert White, public informa­
tion officer, said the Air Force
helleves reliable observers such
as veteran airline pilots are sin­
cere when they report sighting
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unidentified objects.
The 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-plane­
tary origin.
Furthermote, Keyhoe contends
that the so-called "utah film•
possessed by the Air Force proves
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California.
In the letter, Chop stated:
•"The Air Force, and its investi­
gative 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 ·re­
ma.ining explanation is the inter­
planetary answer."
Upon publication of the letter
- written on Defense department
stationery-the Ail' Force chal­
lenged Chop's claim and said he
was merely expressing his per­
sonal 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 con­
tacts with these various indi·
vid1tals" and insisted that it was
"a true statement."
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 system­
such as Mars or Venus-or from
some other system or universe.
Kehoe charges that the Air
Force is convinced that the
saucers are space ships from
another world, but that it ls cov­
ering 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
aft! \\itllheld, and re~lwil)l
divulge the capabilities of our
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
Air Force should release
the
the
final intelligence
the utah film.
analysis on
In connection with this, Key­
hoe recently sent a1telegram to
high Air Force officials charging
that since the Air Force had Im­
plied 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 the 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
d~i!111~~ also ~ontends the an~ l-
y, 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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intelhi!Bllte experts reached the tic physical evidenc~ey
following conclusions:
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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 evi­
2. 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:
maneuvering in a circular or el-
"So far, .the Q u es ti.on of
Jiptical 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 aircraft.
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6. The sighting could not be ex­
Meanwhile, Keyhoe plans • to
plained by any conventional an­ continue his campaign to com­
swer.
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 Discounting 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.
etary theory.
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terms, but after all , the Air
Brig, Gen. Sory Smith. Air Force has, in, effect, been calling
Force public relations chief, put it
this way:
me a liar and I'm getting tired
of it."
"We do not know enough about
Regardless of the charges and
it to deny that flying saucers
long
the
counter-charges, so
as
exist. Conversely, we have no Air Force has unsolved sightings
.Proof that they do exist.
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"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?
Times Herald
Interested in anyone who might
If so. what are they? i
be using the air over the United
The final chapter is yet to b
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ed Labels
'Saucers'
U.S. Fiction
LONDON - fA'h- A S o v i e t
commentator Saturday accused
"aggressive force<;" in the Unit­
ed States and ~ t
countries
of inventing fl in
saucers to
fan war hysteria.
Moscow radio broadcast ex­
cerpts
from
an
aritcle by
K. Khachaturov In the So\'let
army newspape1· Red Star, say­
ing:
"Those who spread these fa­
bl~s are endeavoring to create
the impression that the myste­
.rious object originate from Mos­
cow.
"The mythical 'saucers' take
off from the pages of the bour­
geois press every time the t'ul­
ing circles of this or that ca~
talist country, on orders fro
1/ashington, are trying to fois
pon their,people the new hur­
f., n of miliUu·y ~p,nditm•e.''
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O.••A PRIVATE PLANE PILOT SAID TODAY HE SAW "AN
OBJECT BRIGHTER fHAN THE SUN FOR ABOUT FIVE S[CONDs . n WHILE CRUISING
AT ABOUT 80 MI LES PER HOUR TWO MIU: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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TOOK Off WITHIN r VE SECONDS . •
THE PILOT SAID THE OBJ£CT WAS TRAVELLING FASTER THAN ANY JET PLANE
AND WAS COING SOUTH WHEN HE FIR!;T SAW IT.
J-IE SAI D T.H£ Sl<Y WAS CLEAR
AI\JD THERE WERE NO OTHER Pl.ANES IN SIGHT AT THE TI 1£.
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HE SAID HE DION ' T THINK IT COULD KAVE BEEN ANY REFLECTION.
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Top Experts Hold
OTTAWA, Nov. 12 lCTPSl­
Establlshment 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-ree 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 sec­
tion, receives constant reports of
sighting of flying saucers. The
total number; he said, is classi­
fied as restricted information.
"The optical illusion explana­
tion is lovely," he said, "but in
every sighting there 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 equip­
ment Is wired to alarro bells. The
equipment includes an iono­
spheric reactor, electronic de­
vices for measurement of sounds,
a gamma ray detector, a gravi­
meter, and other paraphernalia,
Jet planes may be sent up from
the air force field near Ottawa
to Investigate any saucers re­
ported by the station.
Defense resea.rcb
scientista
here never have pooh-poohed flv­
ing saucers, which have been pub­
licly reported in nightmarish
shapes and forms over .Canadian
cities. some of them have been
described as multicolored cigar
, figurations.
Frequency of t he saucer sight­
ings h&.6 been noted here to rise
With the increase in prox1mity
of the planet Mars to the earth.
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
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CLAI\1ED THE AIR FORCE. HAS SECRET i'IJ')VI ES PROVI NG THE OFT - SEEN GL'"'WING
OBJECTS ARE I NTER?LA NETARY CRAFT.
BOTH THE AIR FORCE AND THE WEATYER BUREAU, AFTER EXHAUSTIVE STUDIES s
AGREED MANY ~ONTHS AGO THAT THE FIERY~ FAST - ~OVI NG OBJECTS SEEN BY
OBSERVERS FROM C0AST TC COAST ~E~E LI GHT EFFECTS CAUSED BY !E~P~qATURE
" IrvER 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 RELEASE 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 C.
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So~v~·~~.:~~g s~:~::,~.~~~!~: ~~:d~ho~,~~~-,~~~u,rnnli 1Y,-~
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
.
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 re­
have 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 scien-
The 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
fleclor of light. Long after the altitude ce1l111g.
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teleased almost daily at Tilla­
sun has set and darkness has
Another mystenous obJect, mook, Ore.; Vernalis Calif.. an
covered the earth, they shinellater 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 auto­
make 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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Pilot" Sights Small Flying Oise
Chasing F-84 Over Japan
By the Associated Preu
UNITED STATES AIR BASE,
Northern Japan. Jan. 28.-The
United States Air Force last night
reported a small, metallic, disc­
shaped object made a controlled,
sweeping pass at an American
jet fighter-bomber and was ob­
served at very close range by
another pilot.
The report, from Air Force
intelligence files, said the sight­
ing was made over Northern
Japan at 11 :20 a.m., March 29.
1952, by Lt. David C. Brigham of
Rockford, DJ.
It was a bright, cloudless day.
Lt. Brigham said he got a very
goi
look at the object from
ab t 30 to 50 feet for about 10
sec nds.
T e
pilot
described it as
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"about eight inches in diameter,
very thin, round, and as shiny as
polished chromium; had no ap­
pannt projections and left no
exhaust trails or vapor trails."
He said it caught up with an
F-84 Thunderjet, hovered a few
moments and then shot out of
sight.
The F-84 pilot, whose
name was not revealed, did not
see it.
1t was the second disclosure
in a week by Air Force intelli­
gence of mysterious flying ob­
jects over Northern Japan near
the Russian-Siberia area.
On January 21, the Air F~ ce
disclosed that "rotating clus rs
of red, white and green lig s"
had been sighted over North rn
Japan by American airmen:
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N. M. -- THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICA N SAI D TODAY THAT
"FANTASTIC"'STRIDES HAVE BEEN MADE I N THE FIELD OF GUIDED MISSILE
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 WHlTE SANDS PROVI NG GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER THI S
SPRI NG.
nI T IS POSSI BLE THAT THE DIS CLOS URE SOON TO BE MADE BY THE DEPART­
MENT 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 SAUCERS ' FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME, " THE PAPER
SAID.
( HOWEVER COL . M. G. HENDRICKS~. COMMANDANT OF THE PROVI NG GROUNDS,
SAI D TODAY THAT RESEARCH THERE " HAS NOTHI NG TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE
THE SO-CALLED FLYING SAUCER .
WE ARE STR I CTLY I N THE GUIDED MISS ILE
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Well, It Sure Was
Some Ball of Fire
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, in­
candescent material.
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Naval
Observatory,
the
Weather Bureau and observers at
National Airport lean toward the
meteor theory.
Scores of Washingtonians, who
saw it, leaned in all directions.
Police remained stolidJy upright,
and the FBI had no comment.
HOW IT LOOKED
But citizens here, in Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsyl­
vania and Ohio couldn't be silenced.
They said:
• "Suddenly this
thing
came
swooping down from the eastern
skies. It looked like it was right
.above the housetops. It was a ball
o! bright greenish fire with a long
tail." (This was a housewife).
• "I thought it was a flying
saucer. I thought it \vas a flare at
first-that is, I thought it was a
flare until the darned thing swooped
down- and then up again. It seemed
to follow the contours of the road.''
(Army veteran).
• "It looked at first look like a
P,lane on fire, it was that big. It
was sun-colored with a tail." (Sub­
urbanite.)
• Shaped like a sta1· "about as big
as the inside of a tennis raclcet."
{12-year-oJd boy.)
SHOCICING
Four Frederick farmers saw "a
ball shooting across the horizon."
Near Washington, three United
Press correspondents said it was like
this:
• "A rocket with a fiery tall ...
It shocked us, it lool<ed so close."
(Frank Eleazer.)
• "A big magnesium flare . . . It
gave off sparks." (Robe1·t Loftus.)
• It plunged out ot the sky "very
fast," like a plane shot down in the
war. It was trailing a tail of
flame."- (John A. Goldsmith.)
George Lincoln, of 756 S. Green­
brier-st, Arlington, saw something
"about as big as a washtub. I was
sure it was going to crash, some
place," he said.
A Maryland state trooper, sitting
out his lonely vigil atop Negro
Mountain in far Western Maryland,
said "it" passed over him, too.
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Special to The Inquirer
quent. to keep interceptor teams on
READING. Pa., Aug. 28.- Air Na- 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 . th.e 112~h Fighte~ Wing,
"cleared up" the lates~ ying saucer J:'.0 nnsylvama-Maryland
Air
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t1onal 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 ~~i
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auer, 43, of Birdsboro, who said h
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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.
The j~t left a bigzag •trail as it
Nor .did the Guard's e,·planat!on
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d1 ved m on the. big bombei m a count given by Herbert Long, 29,
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
tude.
object so clearly that he Was ab p
The big• bombers, the spokesman to make a. detailed drawing ot •
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·plained, often fly far out over the ~
.
e)I are observed on radar screens
nd jets are sent; up to intercept
ean, and when they approach th[
astline on their return journeys
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THIS fSIT A sketch of the flying saucer which Her.
bert Long, 29, a Kutztown, Pa., insur.
ance salesman, contends he saw parked on a road 30 feet
from his car. He said he was too frightened to approach it,
He's sh<1Wn (left, below) giving L~roy Gensler, artist,
directions for the ·ketch. (AP Wirephotos)
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c,ver the bwldin-g in the picture, photographed above
An11c9rtes, mo,·cs swiftly through the d,y, seeming­
ly • port of e cloud formation. Rut is it ? Walter
Elliott of Anacortes was preparing to take a picture
of• the building when .he noticed the unusual a ■ ucer•
like objtct in his ,.iew finder, so he , napped the pic­
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SAN FRANCISCO--A FORMER AIR FORCE B29 TEST MECHANIC AND SCI ENTI FIC
CTURER SA ID TODAY HE SAW TWO SILVER GREY OBJECTS FLYING ERRATI CALLY
OVER SAN FRANCIS CO AIRPORT "AT TERRIFI C SPEEDS . "
ROBERT G. GARNER
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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 150 TO 200 FEET EACH" HE SAID.
"80TH OF THEM FLEW AT A~ ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 12t000 FEET," GARNER
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"AND I 'D ES TI MATE THEY WERE GOING AT LEA-5
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OPLE HAVE BEEN s EING MAY BE •ANODE GLOWS• CAUSED BY IONIZATION or
T IN AIR IN THE UPPER ATMQ;PHERE.
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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 NIGHT1 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
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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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BY ALTERING THE AIR PRESSURE HE CHANGED THE COLOR FROM A NEON-LIKE
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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SUCH GLOWS COULD OCCUR ANYWHERE FROM SO
200 MILES UPi HE SAID, DEPENDING ON CONDITIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC
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THE LATEST NEWS: Washington, J uly 29- Air Force ex~
p~ts said today that they are convinced "natural causes!"
a count for the "flying saucers" which have been dottin
.l al skies for more than a week and have been appearin
i termittently throtighout the country for more than flv
years.
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offered the further assurance that a six-year study shows
'·no pattern vaguely resembling any threat to the United \ 0~ ~.. :if.o2c-
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ppear to·be natural phenomena, Gen. Samford said:
" I think radar is beginning to tell us a great. many thiugs it was
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not built to discover- for iustance. about Northern Lights alll
atmospheric conditions aft.er a beat wave."
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Despite the reassurance, which was delivered in an atmosphere o
confusion, public concern over the mystery of the skies rP.ached a
all-time higll.
Twelve more unidentifiable dots on a Civil Aet·onautics Administra­
tion radar scope here early today threw the city into a dither.
(.lel'seY City reporte_d track-I
ng flying disks and one observer
they saw nothini,;. Air Force radaJ
)ffered a photo ~f an oddly-
equipment at a field near the CA
ha11cd clmnk of hght to f)l"O\'e
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installa tion ~lso spotted nothing.
Wash. Pose
The Air Force flew the experts I For that r~ason. the Air Defens
from Wright-Paterson Field. Day- planes remained ground~d. giving
\ ton o. to quell tlle gathering nse to rnmors that lhe Pentagon
Wash. News
ala;·m. ' but
meanwhile,
USAF somehow was surre_ndering to the
planes were equipped with spee;ial "s~ucers." The !:u-
Force took
astronomical cameras,_ with which parns.to deny U11~. !lnd promised
Wash. Star
is hoped pursuing pilots may be pursuit the .
tnne a flying
11ext
ble to take pictures of the phe- m~·stery is sighted with the nake~
omena.
eye.
N.Y. Mirror
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Meanwhile.
other responsibl
1 ained on 24-hour alert to chase Pentagon officials reiterated de­
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N.Y. Compass-u-,r­
"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.rom expenmcntation. They expressed
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\\·e1·e nskcd to s~nn the skies l_hin~s 11re no threat to the na­
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By RICHARD Ci\RTER
Th e swift-moving celestial lumi­
sky-watch ers ciaimed to havl
nosiUes which the American pub-
seen two flying cigar-shaped ob
has come to call "flying saucers" jccts.
·e phenomena with a recorded
Cigar-shaped objects havt: be
l ·story datin g back at least 200 spotted skyward by innumerab
ars and perhaps several thou-
participants in America's postwa1;
nd.
saucery.
I iThe 'Biblical Ezekiel's airborne
Flying ligh ts which differ in all
wheels, for example, h ad some of appa ren t respects from shoot.ing
the ·earmarks of wlrn.t modern stars. meteors. and the like, have
American science fiction readers, 'been seen by multitudes of sailors
televiewers and "cold worriers" are over th e centuries. and their ae­
on the V'erge of regarding as inter- .counts of the phenomena diffel
planetary scouts or missiles from hardly at all .from those contrib
Moscow.
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Dr. Donald H. Men zel, profes-
Some J>eople see white ligh ts
sor of astrophysics at Harvard
moving in formation: others .,ee
University, made this point in
kelly green £ire balls ; others see
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n i11tel'View last month with
orange fire balls ; others '!;ee fly­
ime magazin e. He produced
fog disks ; others ,;ee the cigar­
ocumentary evidence that there
shaped mysterie_s_. Some of tlie
•as a saucer scare in Chicago
objects seem to hover, "irtually
n A.1~ i! JO_ 1'!97, wl1en man.f"r~nlinued on Pa§<. l.i l
nHJ ionfess. before darting in to a
cloud and disappearing forever[
others move at what seems t
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an
ra te of speed
1 e
impa.;sible
eversing direction in~ta~tan~
usly. swooping and clnubmg 1
manner which no man-made
HLchine or human pilot. couhl
survive.
Since one or the foundations of
modern science is to believe noti­
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ing that cannot be proved. mo t
eories
about
t he
skitteri R­
hatizzits have to be rejecLe .
a ny t heories which have gain d
1de currency are based on fac s
1ich are "probably true." But no
scientist
bases
conclusions
rm
things which only are probable.
The closest anyone has ~ome
no t only to expla ining the phe­
nomena. but duplicating th em. is
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·of. Menzel. He
believes tf
auce1.·s are fancy mirages- actu, 1
1a.1es of lights. but displac
,rou!'.\h m iles of -space by refra ­
on. He explains that light mov
slower throug-h a dense medium
• like cold air than in warm air.
When it passes from a layer of
dense cold air into a layer of less
dense warm air at an appropriflte
ande. it is bent. and mav be :::e~n
11flies ain\Y, as if di1;'lluwoC1ied.
m oving a~fantast,ic speeds. or .iu:;t
overing, depending on conditio:1
Headlights. aerial searchligh t .
en street lights in a city can
1 fracted by the atmosphere an
b come " flying_saucers" ou t in th
untry miles away, he says.
To prove it. he has produced
startlingly similar phenomena in
h is own laboratory.
qne of the reasons the Air For ce
has felt impelled to take part t ·n
i
he puolic debate on the sub.it) t,
fter having s a t i s f i e d Its lf
rough research that the sauc ·s
e something akin to what Men I
[ escribes. is that radar scopes m
ashington have been describer!
as spotting the saucers at the ;ame
time pilots and ground observers
: :~·.e seeing them with the nal'"d
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Until further returns are ;
the only ex1>lanation availah '
is one known to ·anyone who h.
e1· had anything to dq wit 1
du-you see all kin ds of im­
countable thing'., on it. It wa
nsider·ed noteworthy that "I
~01·ce radar in the sa me t'egio
failed to pick up the lmpuls ,
which the CAA now has adde
to flving sa,ucl\r lore.

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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 spokes­
m n said the object was used by
th
Air Weather Service. It is
at ached to a balloon and sent
in o the sky.
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It is then tracked by radar
and the direction and speed of
the wind calculated. The device
is in constant use, the air base
said.
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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.
ti~erial objects ~n:ilar lo 1~
'reall~ 1n.,ovin?." He lost
Radar operators plotted their
t~
~..9rtcd here_last Mond~Y· isight of them two mrnutes later. speed al from 38 to 90 miles per
At least a dozen of the mys-
The same pilot observed a hour. They were not able to de­
terious objects were reported to steady while light 10 miles east termine
their altitude. Some
49 P- 111
have b22n seen glowing in lh~ of M?unt Vernon _at ll:
• pilots reported flying over them
sky within a 30-mile radius of The _light, abo~t five miles ahead and some under them
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of lum, faded m a mmute.
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The interceptors did not sight
Befote l~
we~k s i epor.L Q.[
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 Ithough 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
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--- 1plane landed shortly before mid- radar ...S c re_e.JL§: • T_he O?Jects -
At. 11:25 p. m., two F-94 jet \' night, and the ot11er about 12:15 show. !! on the NationaT /\Jrp~rr
fighters were sent up by the a. m.
!;aa_ar,,,lfowever, caused defimte
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 ob­
toUiefo- tfiari aoout7mi1eS:- -tat 9:08 p. m. and rema»ied for jects picked up last night gave
--,,;e Set pTio'ts descrioecrthe some time.
fr
off blips similar to those of reg-
lights as hatd to see and track1 Airline, private and military ular aircraft.
down.
1pilots all reported seeing them.
'.Cbe ,t.ir Force has been invcs-
Ai 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
'\itY of Andrews Air Force base. Jecls.
this,
saucers
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'l'lle lights were about 500 feet
'rhey were variously described es.t..sl11.ce 1947, when they
above him and about 10 miles as looking like blue lights, the were seen.
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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.
"BuT WE WATCHED THE WHOLE
THI NG TOGETHER•"
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NASH SAID THE OTHER PASSENGERS ON THE DC- 4 UERE WITTING WHERE THEY
COULD NOT HAV£ S£EN THE EIGHT MISSILES•
~GIVING CONSIDERATION TO THE DIFFERENCE IN OUR ALTITUDE AND
THEIRS.1.._WE JUDGED THAT THEY WERE APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET IN DIAMETH1 \
AND ..:f
1"¥~f~ ~~A~~g M{~ijlvr¾i~~A~E~A1~ ~:
1~ot10 aon1rs or LIGHT
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
101000 BUT THEY UERE GOING ~O FAST IT UAS DIFFICULT TO ESTIMATE,"
HE SAID.
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ACTING OPERATION~ MANAGER FOR PAN AMERICAN HERE
C,AlD THE FLYING sAuCF.:RS -::;E£N BY NASH AND FORTENpERRY "0 VIOUSLY ~E~F.'
NOT FIGr1ENTS OF THFIR lrtAGINATI ON."
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FORTENBERRY% FORMERLY A NAVY'FIGHTER PILOT, HAS BEEN
AN EMPLOYE OF PAA
INCE THE WAK,.
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EPORT MADE BY NASH AND FORTENBERRY TODAY WAS THE LATEST OF
r,EVERAL RECENT REPORTS OF MY5TERIOUS 08JECT5 lN THE AIR.
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REPORTS HAVE PICKED UP LATELY•
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THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE SAID IT HAS RECEIVED 16 REPORTS OF
MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS IN THE SKY IN THE CHICAGO VICINITY THIS WEEK.
BUT OFFICERS .DENIED REPORTS THAT A SPECIAL •FLYING SAUCER• ALERT
~ BEEN ORDERED•
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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C 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 1s, 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" BALDWIN SAiu.
"THE OBJECT S fEMED TO BACK AWAY FROM US AND CHANGE SHAPE.
I T WAS
• ,EERFECTL* RQUijU,ND SULL AUI.RST. THEN IT Sf.EME.D. TO BACK AWAY FROt:1
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·avy a s aucers
pjw.{ is the· best time ee eea ille -~
.balloon "sauce1·," it adds.
C II S
"The lateral rays of the sun at
dusk illuminate tqe base of the
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balloon. There is no chance of
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a oons
your ever seeing th"e full round­
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NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (.IP).-Fly- ~ate~ cup of the bottom. If your
,ng saucers are rej!l- but they.'re 1magmat1on soars, the light re­
only huge balloons used in cosmicIflection _on the side may impress
ray studies, Look magazine will Y?U as the g~ow of an atomic en­
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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 the exhaust. The sun's I
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search. He is in charge of the wi~h a fiery glow. .
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cosmic my-balloon proJect.
Iway of estimating the size and
The balloons are liuge plastic Ispeed ol an object they see. To
bags, 100 feet in diameter, that Ipeg size and speed, the mind ,
may rise 19 miles high--about ~us~. know the nature bf the ob­
100 000 • f
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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 ob­
was kept secret," the magazine servation which is not attributable
quotes Dr. Liddel. "Now there is to the cosmic balloons'."
no longer any need for secrecy 00
It quotes Dr. Liddel as saying
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 re-
Dr. Liddel checked othet• Gov­
ports began, it adds. There were ernment. agencies and "is Satisfied
more balloons in the next two that no other research or experi­
years and more "saucers'' seen. mental project has utilized any­
There were fewer balloons sent thing even roughly resem~
up in 1950, and fewer saucer
,'ib.g saucer."
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A picture, taken by telescope
of a linlloon at 77.f ·" feet over
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By Sunday ~ispatch Reporter
HOUSANDS of people in many parts of
Britain, including spectators at foot­
ball 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 than 500 spectators at a Soccer cup match 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. Arthur H. Jenkins, postmaster of Chard, said :
" It was like a diamond flash ; its shape 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 etal "
Royal Auxiliary Air Force corru g
in to land at Llandaw, near C r-
Chairman of Chard F.C., Mr.
d •fI renorted a flash of llght t
William Taunton, sitting in the
l5,o·oort: to the north-east of the
stand, said : "It came right over
airne:d.
the top of us like a brilliant streak
At a football match at Easton­
~~1 ~~:~ ..seemed to dissolve before
ln-Gordano, near Bristol, specta­
tors saw a flash. Mr. M.y. Perrett,
S n k
Sh
of H::1m Green, said:
It looked
a e -
ape
like a rocket coming_ down frqm
Miss Myra Scott, who was watch-
2,000ft. There was an 1ntense whit~
ing 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 _st.
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 Bridg­
from the sky.
water, spectators at another match
Bovlngdon airport In Hertford­
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 the 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
Petherton, said : "It appeared sud-
th, t it vanished in a trail of smoke.
denly and went away suddenly,
A'.r Ministry said last, night:
leaving 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
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·:, It is most unlikely that an un­
scheduled private flight could have
A few minutes later a- flash, as
ta'.~en place at such a height. We
seen at a great height over the
though from an explosion, was
.can:1ot explain the phenome_non.
Bristol Channel. 50 miles to the
"No aircraft was flying m the
north of Chard.
Port'.she3.d area.."
Repo~ts from plates as much as
Game Stopped
at the Air Ministry.
130 miles apart were received
At Towyn, near Rhyl, North
Portfshead (near Bristol) police
W 0 ,ies, Rugb.v players dropped the
rel)orted that' a white flash was
b ?.ll a!ld, with spectators, sta_red
seen between 4.5 and 4 10 p.m.
in!o the sky as a yellow ob,Ject
which appeared to be an explo­
t1
,: s~c1.:·,·, flas:ied ar.i·oss rt.
s10n.
It turned pink and dis­
It 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
re-
Amersham: ~uc~inghamshire, f9ot­
ted 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
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- ~ its wake.
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~ Another sighting was re;;;ted r
Among people who saw the obJeet
f rom as far away as Durham.
at Launceston, Cornwall, were r~o
ex-R.A.F. officers who were wa c •
ing a Rugby match.
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The object. which was _c11cula1,
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 any­
one 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
saucers " over Devon.
The saucers were reported by a number
of independent witnesses from places as far
apart• as
Woolacombe
(near
llfracombe),
Exeter, Cullompton, Sidmouth Junction, and
Poignton (60 miles south of Woolacombe).
Eye witnesses' descriptions of what they saw are sub­
t ntiallY in agreement-there was no rnuise and a trail
s/fire streamed from the back. The observations were at
0 bout 11 p.m. in all instances.
a
Mr J. Stewart. 70-year-old
oolacombe pensioner, who
worked in aircraft fac.­
has
. two wars, was one of
tor!e~,Ye1 people who told the
the ter Express and Echo what
Ex;
n ad seen.
th Y
On Monday evening, he
A.t 10.so
object come insnore
noticed a ndirection of the north
from f tf endYat a " terrific speed."
I end O Hu A Franklin, of Beacon­
.Mr.
•. ton near Exeter, wrote
Jane V'{h1P . that while at Coun­
to the pa.P({wo miles ~outh-east of
tess wea1 1',1ondaY night, he saw
:Exete~\irar objeC~·
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v y blue. travelling south, one be­
hind the other In close formation: •
he said.
" After passing overhead
the
rear object appeared to catch up
with the front one and collide
whereon they disintegrated."
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Bright Disc
T he object was described by Miss
J.. spurway, of Exeter-hill° Cul­
Iompton (12 miles north-east of
Exeter) 1 as " a bright disc travel­
ling 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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peared to. be ' In line astern ' with
a long red trail to the rear . . .
both lights seemed to fizzle out as
I watched them-they were In a
clear patch of sky when this hap­
pened .•. I heard no sound."
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large
circular
objects
travelling south in a horizontal
position looking something like
large white flames " is the descriP­
tion given in the Western Morning
News of what Mr. Arthur N.
Beame. 55-year-old estate agent, of
Southfield-avenue. Preston, Devon,
saw at Paignton at 11 p.m. on
Monday.
Members of the crew of a liberty
boat
plying
between
Flagstaff
Steps, Devonport Dockyard, and
H.M.S. Defiance are also' reported
in the Western Morning News as
having
seen
"circular objects
travelling at an incalculable speed
and emitting a trail oJ fire " late on
Monday night.
T1-,,,~uay Heral4. §-""!!'"~
quot.es four other people who saw
.similar objects.
Bluish Light t
Frederick Bray_ fisherman, age
39, was lying in the bunk of hi
boat in Torquay outer harbour
when he saw a
" bluish-white
light" appear over Princess Pier
at about 11 p.m. " I watched the
flames for about ten seconds. They
seemed to surround a roundish ob­
ject which was travelling towards
Thatcher Rock" (to the East).
While walking along the sea
front to Torquay Station, Mr. D .
Jeffery, of Winner-street, Paignton,
saw something in the sky.
"I
thought at first it was a rocket fire­
work," he told the Herald Express.
"Then I noticed it was maintain­
ing a constant speed at a constant
height ... It was absolutely silent.
It seemed to disintegrate suddenly
and 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
body.
1 Like Feeble Rocket '
"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, Tor­
quay, saw from his bedroom win­
dow an object "going towards
Brixham, due soutli of Torquay."
Describing it in a letter to the
Paper he said : "I though~ -~ ~~
ht,- cthree stars with a Ion
a
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./ OIJECT WRICH RUNJiREIS or PDSOtiS s,, ROARING ACROSS THE sn, IUT TIE
PILOTS SAID fODAY THEY COOLDR'T C:ff IIEAR IT. · .
POLIClf AIIPO T AID .RADIO STATION PERSONNEL SAIi •JUST ABOUT
fflRTQH I POPLAR 11.urr• saw THI lllSTERIOUS OBJECT roa rIVE 01 SIX
IDJIS IISTERMT artERNOON.
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n,;TUI TU PILOT.I ACtUALLt SAW TIE OIJECT.
A cu o,,1c1,1. lT tlALIEN IHO IIAIIITAJNEI Tl'0"4A'f IADIO COITACT
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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
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FARGO, N. D.--FOUR PERSONS REPORTED THEY WATCHED FIVE STRANGE,
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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
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The Navy studied a report ·today
•:from two 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 •
ented getting a better look."
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lrst Thought Jet
"At first we thought it• was a
jet plane distorted by glare off
the aluminum b~dY," said Lt.
(j ,g . ) J. w. Martm, the second
pilot.
"When I first spotted the saucer
it was about two miles off and
appea.red to be a round ball. It
was in sight for about three min­
utes and at _one time we were
within one mlle of 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 the side.
or 11, shiny &'hallow bowl turned
upside down. We wanted to fol­
low it, but our training ships
couldn't keep up with the saucer,
or whatever it was."
The pilots,. based . at the Milling.
ton naval all' station near he1·e,
estimated the object was Hying at
11n alt(tucle of 8.000 feet nt a speed
of 200 miles per houl'.
The navy dcl'llned comment.
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o far flying saucer s
have been treated by
t he m ajority of British
people with incredulity and
polite r id icule. But wny ?
I have studied all the report.s
available.
I have seen photo­
graphs-those in the • Sunday
Dispatch last week were particu­
la}y clear-and I believe they are
p otographs of disc-type aircraft.
arlier pictures published in
t e Spanish Press last April. a1ld
al ged Lo have been taken in the
Balearic Islands, might have been
anytning and could have been a
leg-pull. It is not always easy to
sort the wheat from the chaff.
SECRET TRIALS
c on tr o I or
t r a veiling at
prod ig ious
speeds, vanish­
! n g suddenly,
and associated
with brilliant light, fringes of flt
or flames of peculiar colour a d
generally rotating or whirling.
From many parts Of t,he wor
come these reports.
The ve
fact that their descriptions are
consistent has led to their being
dismissed as hallucinations, de­
fective vision. or mild hysteria.
lt might be that the solution
of this riddle could lie in a ve\·y
unorthodox approach. and I have
wondered if there could possibly
be turbulences 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 high speed experiments
which might be responsible f<?r
the generation of small aton11c
whirlpools in the atmosphere.
Group Three reports suggest
that the saucers are high speed
aircraft of circular or disc shape
travcllin.,; at speeds much hi~hcr
than those attained by normal
planes.
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H ERE Is no reason at a I
T why annular and c1rcula
disc-like all'craft should not have
been common objects at any ttme
during the past 30 years.
The 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 char­
acteristics 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
assistant
senior Research
lecturer at the
and official
Kensington Science
South
Museum, London,
who
has
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evidence.
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of technical opinion not satisfied
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 the early 1920's with great
success toward a foolproof p"lane
Enlar gements from flying saucer
pictures- front-paged last week
of disc type.
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 .!~!! h~T!~~,~~"}1 "
n . es have become air history.
for his patents to ~ e
Jose Weiss and Arthur Keith with
Chance Vought Aircraft Division
their completely stable swallow­
of the United Aircraft Corpora­
like monoplane In 1909.
Etnch
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 devel­
on the Zannonia leaf from which
opment has been of a secret
Rumpler and the majority of Ger­
nature. though it has been stated
man builders developed the Taube
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 great speedsl hover,
ciated.
ascend and descend wh h little
forwa;rd motion.
It 1s perhaps a liUle hard to
NOT PERFECT
\)elieve that the1·e can, as yet, ex­
1st enough of these types to meet
WITH the outbreak of the
the many re11orts, bu't there, is no
1914 war research of
reason at a I whv such aircraft
this type was abandoned. and
;;hould not have been seen provid­
study concentrated on perform­
mg that full scale work followe
ance rather than safety.
the experimental period. And tl
Bv 1918 the modern plane was
~ecrecy would suggest that th
established, and earlier research
1S SO.
was forgotten.
And t liere could lie the m t
c ivil airlines naturally used
sol.id proof that flying saucers
aptea war planes. and then
ex1St.
me w orld War II. once more
itations were Imposed.
n spite of thr orthodoxy t,f
si!(Tl there was t h ro~
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First pict ure of a flying
s ucer comes from th e
p a n i s h
newspaper
I ntormaciones.
DAILY GRAPHIC correspondent
in Madrid explains:
The caption stated that this
picture was obtained at
3 a.m. i
the Balearic
lslanct,s
' Enrique Haus­
man
I ullef,· a· n~ree"J
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'a · an.
I t added that he and
1iS
assistants I heard a
loud
noise and saw a luminous
trail crossing the sky. He
pulled out his camera and
obtained a
picture-but
expresses no opinion about
flying saucers.
FO~
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from
Texas:
Ir
axey, wartime mem­
f a U.S. bomber crew.
photographed two groups
of " flying saucers " near
NFOAMACfOHES,- elemp;o • 1, ·,~rviolo di . t lfllo do nvettro J)Criodr~o al •01r6otr
Fort Worth. '' But.'' h
t'.:liaalt rwi, p ara do.,u,ntni. t n la apMJO-
1ltan tubray-&rM. IHFORM ACIOHtt 1
said, " they were more lik
ntt ,-1tmtoa a.c.roa d t ••• platllfos v Ian,
ete-atlm~o mad !o, par• poder
flying bananas than flyiQ
saucers."
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it carries 70 po~tnds of instrume¼ts
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to record cosm11! rays .. . It is an
~aitcer' Denial
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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
Valuable to Russia
pe1·cent Of its capacity with helium.
---9 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 ve-
Taylor said over the ABC net-lhicles travel all over America, 20
~vork that U1is country has several Imiles up in the ,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 land-
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aucers"
are top-secret United
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tates military inventions.
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Taylor warned that ii' the Rus­
sians suddenly announced they
were sending "flying saucers"
around the world, United States:
officials would have no way to stem
merican hysteria.
Taylor said the United States
hould an,:iounce:
"We have no further coromen
about anything in the skies ex
cept that America is creating man
elpful and incredible things. All
1are harmless and good news for
freedom-loving people."
And this would he a true state.
ment, the commentator said.
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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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F"rnm Our Own Correspondent
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 Spen­
cer, of Pole-street. Preston. said : "It
was oval-shaped and resembled the
wing of a silver plane caught in the I
sunlight. There was no sound of an
engine and it had a peculiar swing­
ing 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 direc­
tion. 1f that wa$ the 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
Its mooring at an R.A.F. statJ
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One House member who should
know said flatly today there is
no such thing as a flying saucer.
But anotl1er member equally quali­
fied said maybe not, but he has
aeen one himself.
Rep. Mahon <DJ of Texas. chair­
man of the House military appro­
priations subcommittee, said it
just isn't so what they say about
those discs. He had no concrete
evidence-but the solidest kind or
aupport.
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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 subcommit­
tee, 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
::!;~o 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• ,
tore the story was tols,
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"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."
'
~gel said maybe so, maybe not.
It 1s perfectly true, he said, that
none of the subcommittee's wit­
nesses ever owned up to any con­
nection 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 coun­
try were sending them over. I am
11ure the subcommittee would have
heard about It."
Denials Repeated
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 de­
hials.
But indications were t hat re­
ports of the mysterious flying ob­
ject would continue. L. Nobel Rob•
inson, managing editor of the
U. s. News and World Report said
his magazine had expected ' offi.
eial denials of Its story that the
aaucers ~re a ''revolutionary type
of new aircraft," probably built by
the Na~r=
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icy Council, which includes the
Post Reporter
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:"
.
' Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval
man on down-joined yesterday in
Earlier, Pres1den~ Truman an-· operations, as well as other offi­
an effort to convince the American nounced through lus press secre- cials, assured him the denials were
public that "flying saucers" do not tary at Key West. F~a., that he sincere ·and truthful.
exist.
kn~w ab~olutely nothing of such
The latest flareup of public in-
A formal statement issued by flyrng ob3ects being developed by terest in the saucers resulted from
the Air Force last night was most t!1eUnited States or any other' na- statements by Radio Commentator
explicit. It declared flatly that:
tion.
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Henry J. Taylor and the weekly
1. None of the armed forces Is
"We are not denying this 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 Secretary Charles do exist and are revolutionar~
could be a basis for the 1·eportcd G. Ross. "but purely because we American aircraft probably devel­
phenomena."
'.now of nothing to support these oped by the NavY, A Navy spokes­
2. There is no evidence that the rumors."
man flatly denied this Monday!.
latter stem from "the activities orl ~ efense Secretary 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 Govern­
cen "sightings" bears out early ~1e was ''satisfied there is nothing ment agency outside his depart­
co lusions that all can be ex- 10 the reports."
ment because the Pentagon's Re­
pla ed away as "misinterpretation
Johnson said' he had facetiously sea~·ch and Developme~t. Board co•
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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 in the sky" which later wer
discerned 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 Eliza­
beth City, 111., reported that "a
weird red and blue disc-like ob­
ject" whizzed o~er the town early
SundaY, "traveling at a high rate
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ut the Navy Says 'No'
e Orig·inal 'Flying Saucer'?
Sazicers' Neiv0 Type Air.craft, :_
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radically new type aircraft, cOl'. ltµrnw~ ?ff the rear Jets, turnmg
forming to known areodynamic, on_,the side and front nozzles.
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Great speed can be obtained
laws and probably developed byIby focusing to the rear all
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tile• United States Navy, the maga-' in the after half of the afr~~~ft
zine United States and World Re- ' With all nozzles pointed down­
port 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
ago.
A small, 3000-pound scale now are being built."
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model oL the plane was flown and., NACA Engineer Charles :a". Zim­
pictures 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 shipment to the National 500 miles an hour and was pow- I
Air Museum here.
~
i ered l'>y two piston propellers, said, ,
'fhe weekly news magazine did the a1ticle.
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not quote any authority for its
:•surface indications," the mag.
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
.
scene of present flying-saucer de•
pra· e reports of rel_iable obs:rv
velopment."
The project, it was
l
y
A>SOC!ated PreS3 Pho
reac these conclus10ns:
s~id, has the ''scientists, the en­
''Tl1 e
are aircraft of a revolu- glneers, the dollars, the motive
Model ol o.ircraFt derJaloped in 1948 and Rou>n by the Navy uncl
l
radio cantrol-full-aire cralt neuer Rew, the Navy ho.• announced
.
1 yt
e a combination of heli- and the background'' for the • •
uonary YP •
.
"This likelihood will remain de•
copter and fa5t Jct pl~ne: They, spite any future denials by' the
, fo ·m to well-known pr1nciples of1 Navy front office, until secrecy is
co
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e magazine a
ed.
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ae!,_
Y ai·e "exact.I~• L05 feet in di-
The Navy declared it w~s true
~ o ·l" R ~'.,
,.-u,J<\Q
.,_1tr circular in shape·• and "are that its abandoned "flying pan­
an1e e ·f a metal alloy. with a dull cake" was designed by Zlmmer­
&
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ma~l~ ~ color. There are no r~d- man, and was called t he " Zimmer­
wl11t15 uerons or other proh'udmg man Skimmer." It added that a
ders, a From the side, the caucersf'l smaller scale model---one­
surfacesto be about 10 feet thick." t ~rd of actual size-is still at
appear
aucer appears to have a ,
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t·
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of
vari~ble•. irec ion Je
ACA's Langley, Va., laborato
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.oj­
used 1~ . ft and ils velocity, m ect now active.
the a1rc~a tlY are controlled by
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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 . 11J
~aucer reports, concluded that all
f ;~: power appJ1e ,~·hich nozzles toIthe evid_encc pointe? to "misin­
"lW choo~1ng and the angle ol t.~rpretah_on of ~ar1ous convan­
01· off
lei nrnk
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t10111tl obJects, a mild form of mass
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the, pilO~ cl~~~cnd v~i-t ca y,
terlo, or hoaxes.''
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110 er. flY •
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Fr01n America, the 'home '
flying
saucers, comes this up-to-the-minute
\ su1111nary of report and rumour about
{ the modern mystery of th1 skies.
liy RICHARD GREEI'\TOUGH
Cll'PICII or TD LlnAL AffAOIII
.&M!RlCAIJ IMBAssy
THE DAILY MAIL
.J.GIDOI.., ■Fl•HD
. APRIL 3, 1950
LONDON, EOOLAND l
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NEW YoRx, Sunday.
VER since Ken-l
neth Ar no I d,
30 - y e a r - old,
o rd in a r y business-man
pilot from Boise, Idaho,
'
off
"flying
touched
the
saucers " mystery by report­
ing, on the afternoon of
June 24, 1947, that he had
seen " nine shiny discs like
metal hub-caps flip-flap­
ping 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
T HIS includes the U.S. Air
'
Force. still investigating
reparts about "ce\estial crockery,"
though officially last December,
after checking 375 cases, it closed
down "Project Saucer." a special
investigation group of Intelli­
gence officers with headquarters
i~Ohio.
At that time it was stated in a
b nket turn-down that all re­
p ·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 Mexi­
can 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
"sa u c er "
sometimes
wi
" fuzzy " edges. or lit up at night
to
torpedo· shaped
wingles
" space ships" showing regular
1 bws vi rrghts in the 4 Mk• a:i!d
orange flames coming from the
tail.
Sometimes they have been re­
wrted 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 inan und~lat­
ing way, tut!ng first in ime direc­
tion then the other, rising and
falli'ng, before flnallv disappear­
ing into nothing or over the
horizon.
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'Pilot's chase
ONE 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 .at 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 rl
orted :
•• I'm clOSin!f In now to take
ood look. Its directly ahead
e and moving at a go!)d spee .
he thing l,?oks metallic and ,
tremendous.
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hen a
orilliant, fast-mov·1
bject suddenly appeared ahea
His last report $
f them.
"We saw It at the same time,
h1les
told investigators
late
F OR 25 minutes Mante' I
• Whatever it was flashed down
­
t
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
other 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 wreckagef
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
~
\
blacked out "
from
lack of
oxygen a.nd had not regained con­
sciousness before he crashed. out
of control.
Still a mystery
BUT one of his fellow-pilots
later
commented:
"I
think that was a cover-up. Man­
tell was too experienced a J?ilot
for that
He was quite familiar
with signs of approaching anoxia_
flack of oxygenl. and would have
taken steps to prevent It.
· " Some of us think he may have
collided with whatever he saw and
that It knocked him out In the
air."
Enginee1·s later added that t~
t
pe of machine Mantell was fl
g starting a dive at 20.000f
uld not have disintegrated s
oroup;hly.
During the past two and thre
wards us and -we veered to th'e
left
It veered sharply too and
passed about 700 feet to our right
and above us."
quarter years a multitude I
eople on the ground claim
ave seen these "flying saucers :•
or have they always been se
ith the naked tye ; many sa
hem through binoculars.
lBut the fa.ct that first started
the U.S. Air Force to sit up, take
notice, and then institute "Pro­
ject Saucer "
was
the
large
number of apparently responsible
pilots and aircrew members who
sem in startling reports of what
they claimed'to have seen.
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One of the theories along which
" P.S " investigators worked was
evident from the fact that every
plane whose pilot reported close
encounters with "flyir.g saucers"
was
checked
with Ge I e g e r
counters
for
possible
radio­
activity . .
Head-on meeting
T
AKE the case, for in•
stance. of c~ptain Clar­
ence Ohiles, fonner Air Tran.sport
Command pilot. and John B.
Wl1itted. who flew B.29 Super·
forts during the war. Both are
appily married men with fa;
!es good Jobs and no need.
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pparent desire for publicitv.
They wei-e flying a schedule
irline service near Montgomer
Jabama, one night last summe ,
l
"The thing was about 100 feet
Jong cigar--shaped and wingless,
about twice the diameter of a
B.29 wtthout protruding fins,"
said Whitted.
" There was a tremendous burst
of orange flame from the rear.
It zoomed int.o clouds, Its Jet or
prop wash rocking our DC3."
Seeing's believing~
MORE recently, two wee
ago. two other alrli
pilots, Captain J~ck. Ada~. wit •
some 8,000 hou_rs flying time, and
co-pilot G. W. Anderson reported
a "flying saucer " ;with windows
cm the bott.om and a. blinking
light near the top as they passed
over Arkansas.
" It was flying almost due north
and we crossed its path at about
a 45 degree angle,' said Adams.
"It was about 1,000ft. above us
and travelling at a tremendous
rate. It had a peculiarly coloured
and very intense light. near the
top which blinked very rapldtv.
"We kept the object In sight
for about 45 seconds.
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"I've been a sceptic all my
e
about such things, but wl~at c. n
you do when you see a thmg h e
that ? " he concluded. "We we
both flabbergasted."

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halluci nations
alternatively
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. ependent detail
1u.s. 'LOSES' REPORT
BY AIRMEN
From ROBERT WAITHMAN, News Chronicle Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sunday.
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N the United States in the last month it has
become a good deal harder to dismiss as
reports that flying saucers- or
" flying objects of non-conventional
design "-have lately been seen in the ski,es.
It has become harder, firs't because the reports have
coming in from such sources and with such in­
'that it would be remarkable indeed if
hey were all the product of too vivid imaginations; and
econd because there has been some rather peculi'a:r bfiI!!ial
behaviour in the matter.
J
NE\'i;S CHHONICLE
CIIP?CB OP TD LBQAL A'l'TAOIIII
LONDON, E!IGLAND
AMIRICAlf IJmASSY
APRIL 3, 1950
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In the huge Pentagon building
.
Washington. headquarters ., f
e Defence Department, there~·s
n Air Force major whose du y
is to repeat to all inquirers t e
I bstance of the last Air For e
statement
on
flying
sauce ,
issued on December 27. 1949.
" Mass hysteria"
On the basis of inquiries into
375 alleged occurrences over a
period of two years. it was an­
nounced :
"Reports
of
un­
identified 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
F
and how thoroughly one of the
most
comprehensive
of
the
newest reports has been officiaily
" lost."
Ours ? 1
Employees of the Civil Aer
nautics Authority at work in
control tower at Dayton muni
cipal airport in Ohio. in conjunc­
tion with U.S Weather Bureau
observers and four pilots of the
Air National Guard who took off
in fighters to look at the " un­
identified object "- they all saw
and submitted their testimony
to the administrator of C.A.A.
The Idea-sometimes seriously
advanced
and
often
half­
believed- that the saucers could
be exploratory craft from another
planet has infinite possibilities.
But until it is proved it may
be more profitable to wonder
whether
there has been
de­
veloped somewhere a disc-like
plane with a circle of swiftly
t·evolving
vanes
that
might
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
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here that it is one of ours.

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Mr. Cl"~
t,•r. Glc'PI.D
'Rocket saucer'
ROME, Thursd .-A flying sauce
was reported
ver Milan todl..
Then later it
as discovered th t
three boys had at.tached rockets o
a large metal disc and set th
/ off from the
roof or
a
hi h
building.- E:,press News Service.
QilCI OP TBS LICJAL AffACIIII
AIIIRICAII BIIBASSY
LONDON• BIIJLAMD
DAILY EXPRESS
London, England
MARCH 3l, 1950
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f Juing saucers-\
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ROME,
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Flyin
;;aucers again-over
Ua ly now.
This
is
what
people
in
five
different areas reported:
Salo, on Lake Garda .-A disc as
large as a full 1. ,00 11 slreaking
towards the north-east.
Carrara.- Four. three miles up,
flying
southwards.
Calabria.­
Disc "like ll moon with a wake of
. e" speeding westwar ds.
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Sardinia. -
A
flying
sauc •
r mained suspended 20 second ,
t en
disappeared to the sout .
I tl'Aosta.- A disc flying ave
ib .ad.- Reuler.
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liistoJ·y of an aerial phenomenon
which gave America sky-war jitter~
Professor F. S. Cotton, of Sydney University, was discus­
sing with his students the mystery of the flying saucers. He
asked them to stand still, train their eyes on a point in the
1
sky about a mile away.
Within ten minutes 22 members of the class were seeing }
"s~ucers."
The hallucination was merely the effect of red blood
corpuscles passing in front of the eye retil)a.
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"FLYING saucers" are
back in the news.
, From New · York comes a
eport that
Captain
Jack
dams, pilot of the Chicago
~nd Southern Airlines, radioed
that he and a co-pilot had
crossed the path of a large fly­
ing s a u c e r, with lighted
windows and
a
peculiarly
coloured
blinking
light on
top and travelling at about
600 m.p.h, over Arkansas.
This was followed by a news
cable from Lisbon: Scores of
flying
saucers reported
by
coastguards
of
bfie
North
Portugal coast flying in line
and other
formations and
moving
west " faster than
tracer bullets."
So the 1950 "saucer season"
seems to pave opened early.
First report of these strange
craft came on June 25, 1947,
when a Mr. Dahl of Tacoma,
Washington, noticed a circular
flying machine, like a silver
oughnut, cutting capers over
is back-vard.
Presently he saw five more
planes " rotating round a
venth.t
Speculations
The centre craft then began
to shed metallic rain. Most of
it fell seawards, but one piece
landed in Mr. Dahl's yard.
On July 4, the first photo­
graph of a •• flying saucer"
was taken by a Seattle coast­
guard.
The snap revealed a
small white oblong, set against
a dark gre:Y background.
The U.S. Navy said that
the descriptions fitted its new
wingless plane-the " Flyi11g
Pancake "-but there was only
one of these, and it had never
ventured outside Connecticut.
A
meteorologist suggested
that solar reflections on low
cloud would produce similar
effects. and a
Los Angeles
scientist talked about "trans­
mutation of atomic energy."
A letter to a San Francisco
newspaper hinled at an inter-
p~netary solution.
e San Francisco corre­
s ndent was soon to find his
icJ a carried a stage further.
•. Mead Layne, publisher
an occult magazine, pro-
l
duced an a,1·Ucle in which he
claimed to have received a
message, via a medium that
t,here were people aboa1'.d the
"saucers."
• They came from another
planet, and wished to try liv­
mg on earth.
In Britain "saucers" were
reported over Brighton beach,
and another was seen by a
clergyman·s wife at Sandwich.
Back in America President
Truman compared the rumours
to the scare of over a hundred
years ago, when
word got
around that there were men
and bats living on the moon.
The neatest "flying saucer"
quipping
came
from
Mr.
Grom Y k o at U.N.- head­
quarters.
" Some," he said, "attribute
them to the British for export­
ing too much whisky to the
U.S., others that it is a Russian
discus thrower training for
the Olympic Games who does
not know hL~ 9wn strength."
The first flying saucer fever
died down under sheer weight
of explanation, but reports
still came in.
Spain suspected
In May, 1948, a U.S. Air
F o r c e
intelligence
officer
opined that the " discs " were
the work of ex-Nazi s:ientists
in Spain.
During Franco's 1938 siege
of Madrid his German allies
had tried out a circular missile,
with an explosive centre and
four engines around the cir­
cumference.
The experiment had failed,
bu~ in 1944 the Germans had
repeated it, using jet engines.
It was believed that the
scientists
responsible
h a tl
escaped from
the Russian
zone,
through
France, and
\\'ere now working for Wle
Spanish Government.
It: D ec em be 1·, 1949, the
offi.c1al body which had bi
established in America to pro e
the " saucers" was disba.nd .
It had been in operation f r
two years, and had investigat
375 incidents.
It· said that the phenomenon
was caused by : (a) misinter­
pretation of various conven­
tional objects; (b) a mild form'
of mass hysteria; (cl hoaxes.
. An~ the1·e, one might have
11nag111ed, the story would have
end e·d.
But
the
•· flying
saucers "
r e f u s e d
to
be
grounded.
Fellow travellers?
The present phase of flying
saucerisms reached _its climax
on March 9, when a U.S.
business man, tra,·eJJi.ng in
Mexico, claimed to have seen a
streamlined " disc •· in \\'hich a
23in. tall pilot had perished.
A Mexican denial inuueii­
ately followed publication
f
the
story,
but not J,ef e
Denver,
C9lorado,
had
c­
portcd that a similar "sauce "
bad co~e to grief near by a:;1d
three httle men bad been dis­
covered inside it.
The Defence Department of
the U.S., repeating its denial
of " flying saucers.'' said : " If
these saucers start landing,
and little men with radar
sticking out of their ears clilnb
out, we shall have to do some­
thing about it."
" Flying saucers" have now
been seen in pretty well every
country of the world. They
have been chased by jet planes,
and observed by scientists and
have baffled all attempts to
explain them away.
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Are they sheer fantasy. or s
there a grt1in of t.rulh. in t
accounts?
Your guess is
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:Sy UnHcd Pres.,
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.
DRAFTED PLANS
"There Is nothing supernatural
about flying disks. It's just the
most
rational use
of recently­
evolved techniques."
Sr. Belluzzo said he personally
bad drafted plans for a "flying
disk" 32 feet in diameter, but
·c1aimed they disappeared with Mus­
solini when 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 NOT NEEDED
''Propulsion comes from a mix­
ture of compressed air and naphtha
- the same fuel used in modern jet
planes.
_
.
"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.
_
.
"The reaction, c~mmg _from the
osing pipes on ~1ther side of the
ifc, start th~ en_tJre. appara,~us re­
volving, ma_kmg 1t airborr:ie.
_
The missiles could be aimed like
l
e war-time German I V-2 rockets,
said, and would descend when
e fuel was exhausted or cut off
an automatic timing
No
d.cy,,ire
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~ pub­
f1snea by Fawcett :eublication§ .
.(pc. Keynoe Fi a tormeF-inforlna­
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branch, U. s. Commei:ce--depa.t­
ml!nt.
-nie magazine said the conclu•
siC!._I!§_ wer.e=tllrs~cr:=on an eight;.
month investigation.
'"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
th view that they come fro
a
her planet."
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Dished ·u in~Saucers
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._'.'Flying saucers,:' observatories clence to reports of satellite mis­
on the moon, high-flying rockets siles.
and earth satellite vehicles carry­
ing weapo1is and possibly men to
whirl endlessly far out in space,
today seem like pipe dreams of a
n1ad world of fantasy.
They ma_v be harbingers of a
wild ryew world to come.
'J'hr: air force, as eat·ly as
last s1n·ing, said officiall~• that
the 11,·iug sa,u-ers "at·e not a
jo](e."
_ No such shitl has as yet
,...been built, according to t he
best infonned soun:es. But
i<leas fo1·
0 110
haven't been
forgotte11.
Gravity gradually falls off far
out in space beyond -the earth,
scienti.,ts explain. It never quite
ends, they say, but at 5000 miles
it is relatively weak.
"A spaceship could easily be
Ai1· force authorities even now !rnpt in positio~ere,"
1t
accord-
may be preparing an announce- mg to _Dr. ~Joy
otz, a Colum­
ment stating that the flying discs b1a Umvers1ty a ·tronomer.
, are real objects, not merely fig­
ments of imagination as far as the
air Corcc is concerned, The Mirror
learned yesterday.
That woirlcl seem to remove the
flying discs from the realm of old
wives' talcs and the bubble talk
of guys who have had one or two
s nifters too many.
Possjbilities that the satt•
cet-s a,·e
missilrs launched
from a
foreign planet are
given sel'ious co11sidemtiou.
The U.S. defense department's
annonncement of plans consider­
ing a super spaceship, to be kept
un·'
0
e, •rol while tl'aveling an
•
orbit ,aroun? , the earth, lepd ere•
"If left to its l"lf it would
g1•a<l11ally ret111·11 to earth," h e
sarn. "ll11t it would take VCl'Y
littll" thmst, fro,11 s mall 1·ock­
eta disd,:u-gecl a t i,'.lervals
to k ec11 it w he1·e 1t
was
wanted."
To get it up there, the space­
ship would have to leave the
earth at an initial velocity of 25,­
000 miles an hour, to escape the
pull of gravity.
At s uch speeds, present known
metals would melt Qeca~~r
friction.
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B 11t in other woi1W, fa,,
from om• own earth,· pet·haps
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be' the first calling cards from an
interstellar neighbor.
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Mr. E. A. Tamm_
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd
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Mr.
for Clue to 'Saucers
Mr.
Mr.
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
fu
.,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.
"It is apparent that both ships would give the appear­
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
hedged 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 ac­
ually were seen.
.
.
The Maryland inventor, Jonathan ~
!dwell, disap­
eared in 1940. The only possibility of' arr;.. connection
!
between his old abandoned devices and the rumored "fly­
ing saucers" of recent years would lJe in the possibility
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Mr.
Mr .
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
in the middle. The engine was in the tub
and bottom rims of the tub were four-bJad·
\.'cllicb re.yolved in opposite directions.
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that he went to some other part of the country, deved•
oped better models and flew them successfolly.
,.
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.
NOT 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 run­
n 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.
ONE TESTED HERE
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
~
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~
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Story Deflated
By Air force
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 sum­
mers ago.
.11elct for the examination of ex­
perts
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 re­
ported phenomenon of flying sau­
ers." This does not mean, how­
ver,
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 own '
power. This occurred in Wash­
.,i.!)K
almost
·ears
aao
and ended in near-disaster after
~ flight of about 60 seconds.
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Pilot Tells of Test ~ll,- ~
The inventor. J ~
~a­
well, who is now over 70, if still
J(vfug, and his wife and son left
Glen Burnie in 1940 after Mary­
land
authorities
ordered
Mr.
street N.E., no": _with . tile Civil
Aeronautics Admm1strat1on at Na­
,
tional 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 de­
sign the helicopter.
TJ1e 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 • ­
E
..ue.g,
i
,Lived Here Several Years.
Builder Wa. ,.. rpenter.
M..
riggers said the sauci·
The helicopte
sisted of J
ro
e rotors was des1gne
l ght wingless
1ge witl~
o ac
s a wing after the sh
ropeller' in front and a tnpo
ad attained cruising altitu •
ver the cockpit, which mount~
The rotor would then be stopp
he saucer-like rotor and
1
and the ship flown with the con-
projecting blades.
ventional propeller. He explained,
Except for the pancal<e struc­
however, that this was theory,
ture around the inner sections of
becaus~ the ship was never flown
the rotor. the model was much
again.
the sama as other experimental
Mr. Caldwell lived in Washing-
jobs of that time.
ton for several years before his
Mr. Caldwell. a former carpen­
disappea.rance, and seems to have ter. whose friends said he had
returned here briefly from Glen studied the science of aeronautics
Burnie
before
dropping
from in several books, had a far less
sight. The model tested here was conventional idea in his "flying
a small helicopter whose rotors cheesebox."
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projected from a saucerlike disc
The upper and lower lids, con­
mounted on a trlpod above the taining short rotror blades '-jutting
from their outer rims, were sup-
cockpit.
·t d
Tattered remnants of this disc, posed to rotate in oppos1 e irec­
t
tions, giving rapid life and some
covered with cloth, and the ba -
stability in flight. Mr. Caldwell's
tered fuselage were found in the 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.
f
pilot was to have ridden in the
This looked some.thing like a
middle, near the motor mount.
complicated hay rick on wheels,
c apt. Claudius Belk, head of the and had rotors designed to fan the
Baltimore office of Special Investi-
air.,somewhat after the fashion of
gation of the Air Force, reveale_d the paddle wheels on old steam­
that 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.
said efforts are being made to
Attorney Robert E. Clapp, who
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. Cald­
locate 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.
Clapp said. "and whenever one
failed and he needed more funds,
Caldwell to "cease and desist"
he went out and sold st◊~k."
from selling stock to finance his
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In his report, Mr. Clap(t-4laid:
aeronautical ideas. None of the
neighbors have heard from them
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indicates that the public•~as led to
Willard E. Driggers of 1530 Olive
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 testi­
fied by Mr. Caldwell indicate that
no machine on which he had ever
~
. worked had been successfully flown
(:3
or was in any condition for manu]
facture and sale upon a satisfac
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"The history of 1,~e _develop
~1-U~CORU~l>
ment·of these comPam_es indicate.
t-:
that they were organized merely
84 SEP 23 1949
for the purpose of raising money
to develop the ideas of Mr. Cald­
well. 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 stock­
holders has e@o.CS2!!le ou~ sinci
organization."
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IR FORCE FINDS 'FLYING SAUCERS'-This is Jonathan E. Caldwell's "Gra.y Goose" helicopter
ictured before it made a near-disastrous test flight of about a minute in Washington nearly
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CJips 'Confiden:lc1I,-I
but They Aren't 1
Newspaper clips on the "flyina _
saucers" found in a Glenlrorn!e
..-t5afif"iast week have been s:mt to
Washington
marked
"C!assi1iecl­
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Co11;itlen tiaJ. ,.
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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.
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"You can take that file and pull
those clippings out and show them
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anybody," an Air Force spokes­
an said. "But if a folder is mark~
' onfidential,' a fellow wants t
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k out because he knows som
o ·the other stuff in there is a 1
'@Ore important."
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Mr . Clegg
Mr . Glavi~
Mr. Ladd
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Mr. N ichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. T racy
Mr . E gan
Mr.
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jeUJanes" i;iatJjad some Cpl­
ca::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 ofl
1cagoan~ reported seeing my~
r!ous obJects In the sky yester
Y morning. Descriptions varie
om Jet planes to silvery globule
to 5~ long.
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said:
"To date there has been no ta •
'~ying Saucers'
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
dn Secret list
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, there are some incidents ~ ­
.
ported by reliable and compete
the skies last year.
observers which are still une •
At_the s_ame time, the Air Force plained."
admitted 1t is impossible to "deny
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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 "in­
explicable" incidents have been
placed in the "classified" category;
denied to all persons except au­
thorized military personnel.
e statement was issued as
t
Air Force continued to re­
c
e inquiries arising out of a
c
mentator's
broadcast.
The
c
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This clipping is from
the evening edition of
The Washington Times Herald
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By DAVID SENTNER
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N. T. Joarnal•.\mer-lc:an Wa.sblai-ton Burua
WASHINGTON, Aug_ 14.-So­
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
1 country has bui-ned itself out, the
Soviet Union continues to be
acutely interested in the Phen­
omena, according to American in­
vestigative agencies.
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the Kremlin belleves the sa~
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enemy:
radar
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The national le&<ler of the Vet­
erans of Foreign Wars said yester­
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day in Columbu3, Ohio, that he
was momentarily expecting word
from Washington which would ex­
plain the "flying saucers" mystery.
Louis E. Starr, national com­
mander of the VFW, told the Ohio
State encampment of the VFW
• that he might havt: "within a few
bours" an explanalion from Wash­
ington. He had expe~ted_ the mes-1
sage at 3 p. m. but 1t did not ar­
rivt be said.
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pl of this country/' Starr told the
de •gates.
undreds 0£ persons in about
30 States have reported seeing
the silvery . saucer-shaped discs
speeding through the skies a} tre­
mendous speeds.
An exhaustive check with the
War Department and other agen­
cies disclosed last night that no
new-' formation was available in
Washington. No one knew any­
thing,
But a new tendency to
take the reports a bit more se­
riously was apparent.
As the
mystification waxed, the scoffing
waned.
Some of the mystery missiles
may have passed over W_ash_ington
Friday night at about m1dmght.
David Atamian, 5160 Shoemaker
1 ne Friendship Heights, Md., re­
aort~d that he had seen three
~r'fou1• of the flying sau~ers trav­
eling northward at a.rapid rate ?£
ed at about that tune. He said
:p~e were at an altitude of between
~ and 2000 feet and appeared
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of a bright, bluish hue.
t b: flying saucers produced a
. e of
speculations and at­
se es
1See SAUCERS, Page 3, Column:!.
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ASSOClat ed Pre.. Wlltlll'HOTO
JS IT?-Coast Guardsman Frank
Ryman, 27, made this picture
with a Speed Graphic camera
from the front porch of his
Seattle, Wash., 1·esidence.
It
shows, says Ryan, a "white sau­
cer" (arrow) that is neither an
airplane, a cloud, nor a silver
balloon. So, is it a "flapjack" or
a saucer?
Or maybe a bottle
cap? Photo is enlarged about
20 times ~,,.=
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Mr. Rosen
Mr . Tracy
Mr . Carson
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr . Harbo
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ip Heights, Md., said he sa,
ree or four flying discs Fr
day about 11!idnigbt
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
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cers," but officials in Washington said yesterday that th~i
strange-looking aircraft has never left Bridgeport, Conn. A
thorities are stil~ skeptic~) that the mystery missiles said t
~n seen m t he. skies over the West Coast and as faL
East as the CM.Qlmas are aJlY smt o
ew aitn.lane
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nte
of the Naval Obse va­
ory, . : that the saucer "does 10t
eem to be an astronomical
1e­
tomena."
Credence in the saucers-wi ly
laughed off at thei,: first reported
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11ppeai:ance June 25-grew as hun•
ie .t-1.Waiting 1uessage1dre_ds of O?Servers, some of th~m
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reported seelllg
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tempted explanations throughout Gua1 d, announced that the guards a gt"Oup of 60 picnickers saw them
the country yesterday.
squadron would attem:i_>t_ to photo- at Twin Falls, Idaho.
And in
A
Los
A1~gele~ • new~pap_er g~aph any futll!e al?pant~ons of tbe Portland, Oreg., so many residents
~uoted an un_1dentified sc_1enti~ 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
expe1:iments 1~ ~ansm!;ltaho11 of notice.
.
plane said several of the roun ,
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
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1-~lsewhere.
where the largest saucer influx has
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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 "man­
he center and are pat1:ially rocket- made."
ropelled on the takeoff."
"They couldn't be meteors," said
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 Dear­
said 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 simi­
declai-ed the unexplained discs are lar to tbat of sending radar sig­
in no way connected with atomic nals to the moon." one of the great­
expel'iments. Lilienthal said he
couldn't shed any light on the
mystery and added:
"Until someone has the facts
about this phenomenon, "I can't.
see how anyone can say anything
definite about it."
./1.nd Dr. C. C. Lauritsen, head
of the nuclear physics department
at California Institute of Tech­
nology, 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
~<' r ot t.he
·t on Nntio l
est technological achievements of
the war and accomplished in abso­
lute sec~ecy."
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Here m Washmgton, Dr. New:~
bern Smiih of the National Burea
of Stand~rds exl?ressed the opin!o
~~at all LIie excitement is akin to
th05e Loch Ness Monster stories.'
The. !till.Ya coiument off red b
JUL
6 1947
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Add latest reports on flying scm­
cers-ci garage sign with a ga1·bage
ccin lid and an ingenious "b11z;er"
found on the lawn of the home of
Thad<J,eus Elder, 111 6th st., Lau­
rel: ~4­
T~e "saucer" was discovered Fri­
day night shortly befo1·e 10 o'clock.
Two smaU aerials projected from
the·i.ontrciption. It contained a dryl
cen battery, a flashlight butb, a
camera !ens and a ticker that
caused the bm:zing.
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The '1saycer" 11,ns tuxrted ou~r
o Lautci police who f>eut a st.ratnhtJ
a~•wlJ.ife .iufonufa1g 1ba fi'BI 0/1
he "discovep,," TIJe FBT wa.s.n·t:
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Stirs Police, FBI and Army.
ly the Associated Prus
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·§!;S may or m~ not
~~i!~C C 3- sleeves today
aft!¥· their version of a, flylng__gucer
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 As­
sls"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
to complete, was made from Rarts
of an old phonograpp. burneg-out
radio tu
and other discarded elec­
tr cal
arts. It ha
a
ex lass
dom: radio tubes, burned wires and
.@ste0foii gaia and sUYei:::.fil:llts.
Since the boys are juveniles. their
names were withheld.
They will
not b~.lllil§ecuted, Chief McGr~J;l,en
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This Flying Discc_
Army Expert Finds
By United Press
• 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 teen­
age boys from the parts of a run­
down 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 ex­
amination by experts.
The
examination
showed
the
fancy gadget-complete with plexi•
glass dome, three radio tubes,
chromium-plated edges. and nu­
erous wires- was a ,hoax and, ac­
ording to the Army, had "no ot~
r function than to be ornament
n a. limited manner and to cause
onsiderable expense to. Federal
~ agencies investigating it."
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Calif., gation chief here. said an FBI man lj
July 10.~A saucer-shaped mechan- 1 ad
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contraption,
resembling
a militarv a tho·· • .
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chicken brooder top wibh a few 1sa1
Mr. Hood .ha~ not other caw­
gadgets added, was found in a ger- ment.
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anium bed at the home of Russe!J
. 1ef
Newcombe exhibited the '
Long. construction engineer, last objecL.
A radio t.ube on Lop wasI
,night. and !,he first, official reaction set down into the upper half of theI
i w,i.l' from Fire Battalion Chief Wal- saucer. which was about 5 inches
lace E. Newcombe. who looked at it!Lhick at Lhe middle ,ind tapered to l
skeptically and said:
la 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,ie 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
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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
e haust pipes and emitting a blue- ob.lect had nudged R. few br!cl:s ut
, white glare.
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Search fo,liFlying Saucers
Armi Air Forces intelligence and about 50 other persons saw a
yesterdai disclosed it has joined
the se11ri:b fQ[ a lllling saucer.
Bizarre re12qrts on the whirling,
hiSh-s2eed discs continued to 12our
i.u, di:ai~iog au Qfficial ~.51t
from the AAF, much cynicism
from scien£~ i!D'1 tbe otiec Qf $lDOO
.fgc tbe first one downed.
The Air Forces, which has juris­
diction over the White Sands (N.
Mex.) Rocket Proving Grounds, de­
11ied the saucers are any of its
doing. "No such phenomena can
be explained by any experiments
bing conducted," the statement
s d,
E:rom the N11,val Research L~b­
o ator:,:'s Bear Admin1I Eanl F.
Lee !:!!me U!e £Urt !,Omment; "~e
concur in the Armi annowce­
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Ni:itb§r denied existence of $he
discs. but the AAF said statements
of witnesses are being correlated
"in an effort to identify the re­
ported objects."
With few States in tlie Nation
without at least one flying saucer
report, the AAF has a chore.
A Navy flier with five years'
experience tabbed the discs as
"space ships" afte1· at first consid­
e ng all reports as "crazy." He
t
anged bts mind, he said in Ala­
da. Oa-li!., yesterday,
after he
group of about "50 of the saucers
in triangular formation near Au­
burn Saturday.''
One report which won't trouble
the AAF is that of a commercially
operated, converted P-38, whose
pilot said he had knocked one of
the "pearl-colored. clam-shape
airplanes" out of the Montana sky .
He admitted the story was a hoax.
In Washington, Dr. L. R. Haf­
stad, executive secretary of ti
Joint Research and Developme
Board and former director of t
Johns Hopkins Applied Physi s
Laboratory, said:
"Poppycock!"
Dr. Jesse Sprowls. psychology
professor at the University of
Maryland, said, "There is abso­
lutely no limit to the delusion that
the mind can harbor. A tremend­
ously interesting social psychologi­
cal delusion," he added.
Dr. Ivan E. McDougle of Balti­
more's Goucher College, said he
guessed "it's one of those phycho­
Iogical epidemics where people see
things that aren't there."
But C. J. Zohn, 440 Mellon st.
se., who works in the rocket-sonde.
high altitude research section of
he Naval Research Laboratory,
t yesterday reported he and three
other men saw one "saucer" ~
N~w Mexico June 29. l{e describ d
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it as a bright, silvery disc, travel­
ing at 10,000 feet.
"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. Joseph Brasku said crashed
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into his yard at Grafton, Wis. He
admitted it probably was a joke,
but was holding the disc for FBI's
lattention.
,
Atomic experts in session at
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Lake Success, N. Y., did not dis-
c,uss officially the
flying saucer
Fl-ying Sauaers Traced
To Wife's Pitching Arm.
Pittsburgh, July 7 (IP).-Ma!
persons have seen the mysterio
ying saucers,"
but Conni
unbar, 35, knows the source o
e ones he saw.
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Dunbar, who said he was
mck by saucers J hrown by his
wife, Mrs. Bessie Dunbar, was
granted a divorce today by Judge
Harry H. Roward.
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reports, but made no secret of
their interest. They were reported
as "baffled."
Not so was·a 34-year-old watch­
1maker in Chattanooga, Tenn., who
1said he invented the flying saucer
in 1943 but "got tired of the run­
around" when he tried to peddle
it to the Government or an air­
craft concern.
His model was
powered with a rubber band.
A $1000 reward was posted in
Northbrook, Ill., "for the capture
of a flying disc-or t he true ex­
planation 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 un­
known scientists and could serve
many purposes, such as deflecting
television or radar beams.
Lester P. Barlow, a Stamfori
onn., inventor, said he believ
e discs are jet-propelled missil .
eing manufactured for the Nav
y the Martin Airci-aft Co.,
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Planes ReseD1ble
0 Flying Saue_ers':
Special lo lhe N. Y. Jourool-.\mtrlc,,n
LOS ANGELES, J uly 7.-Fede al a ents today investi­
gated a 1
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u.ss1an supersomc
_a om- gwered planes· resernbliug JJ:ie "f)zm.g .~auQ.er2; _ _
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A top-flight atomic scientist
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to whom The Examiner referred said he ~et the Russian officer J
the letter said it was "not all in W1lmmgton and, because he
nonsense," f.nd suggested
the ,vanted to hear about .Russia, In- I
matter bg
uxn,e[_o~er to tM' vited him to be his gul;;st at cl1nner. ,
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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 harbor.
d,angerous work "
'I11e Russian,
he said, also
He said he had been assignee!
(:scribed experiments with con• ,to go over the route of the radio­
ti•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.
The planes. as descried by the
ssian to the writer, are only
inches thick, with a kidney-
shaped outline and no propellors.
The pilot lies on his stomach
and is artificially cooled against
the heat developed bY air friction.
"The outer surface ih highly
polished," the Russian said.
''Both upper and lower surfaces
a.re convex, like a gia.nt lens.
The lifting force is an entirely
l'ri'th all klnds of animals an
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directed the _cloud over them,:' 1
the writer said.
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"During this experiment, a. vio- ,
lent storm blew the cloud far
north_ int? the tun~ra., but be­
fore i t dISsipated it destroyed
all life on its way.
"The cloud may be controlled
from land, from ~ plan~ ,or from
a robot-pilot_ed leadet.
As .1
understand 1t, the co!ltrol 1s
based on electro-magnetic waves
different principle found about
and the cloud has two compo­
10 years ago among unpub-
n.ents: The carrier and the killer.
lished paper1, of a Russian HAVE ATOMIC ENERGY.
chemist.
"I asked him if the Russians
I
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."Enero is required only for
ha'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
trplane r oes along the ea.rth's
killlnr innocent people, such i
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gravita tional contour lines.''
children and women. But the
The writer or the strange Jetter have atomic energy which tht
I
use for propelllni
supersonf '
airplanes."
The writer said he asked the
Russian officer to another dinner,
but when he came the second time
his father was leaving unexpect­
edly and he could only say good·
Bureau Interelllt
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bye.
The nuclear physicist consulted11
' by The Examiner said It was diffi~
cult to appraise tile value of the
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lett.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
t,h,·sici«t said.
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F ederal agents ye erday in­
vestigated a letter to _the Exam­
iner describing Russian super•
sonic atom-~ered planes re­
sembling t~E!--"flyi~
aucers.".
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to whom the-It""xp.miner referred
the Jetter said 1t was "not all
nonsense.'' a.,pd I suggested the
matter be lu1~4 over to the FBI.
The Jetter writer said he gotj
the informat"o_n from an officer
•aboard a Ru
an lan~er recently
in ELoA·s TAJ1g ces
az!P
or.s-J
scri ~ radioactive gd 1ds in !he
tr~llt~
whef~·rd.."'
iimal.s ~nd
At c ic,
s
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even worm
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The plane .
d er· ed 1',Jl"the
Russian to thfl
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' areaonly
18 inches thick, with a
{ J n(!y­
ed outline and n9 propellers..
1sh~e pilot }lcs on his .stomach,
he Russian .said, and i.s artifi•
t !ally cooled.Blfa!n~t tH'e heat de­
c Joped by a+t-R'ictio'i.
ve "'fhe outer surr~,'e o!, the
Jane is hiptlY .;6h~h~d,
the
P •ter i,ald the Russian told
"'._fl
"Both upper and lower
~;'faces are c~n".ex, like a
iant Jens. Th_e lifting fore~ is
g
tirely diffei ent principle
;:;: abou( . '10 yeal's. alo
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011g 1mpulih~h41 pa.peis
a
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t •nd developed
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usslan chen s
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recently a.tone ?f
uss as re•
carclJ Ja.bo~·iitorie1. d oulY l
'')l:nergy is req1 ;effY Is~..,. .
c irnbil'I~, hut 11:1; ,;:,. thll :,i .
f>d tor 1111PP0t,
(l}P ·'ilurt s
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ed off sh~ '):)ly m
·e~ area ,y1'jstcrday am
aid they ha~ rcceiv_'d
ca!,_ about, them m the city
county sinl:"e Saturday. I
Leonard Posella. 14J _}Jf ~7
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1g:;'!,_l'T1X-"-=
po of 20 near Grif
flarlc going
no we!'t
t 500 feel. ..d s s::iid I hi:lv
or I~ :: ==x:~•:;:c ::,-::: = r~
were round and ~ t,•ery "with
Th.e-_wril!?r of the stra_nge !~_!· their noses pointing up·Nard," a1
ter said he met the Russian ott1- he watched them foe
tii,ree
cer in Wilmington \ltld, because \nl'mvt=::.
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• he wanted to hear about Russia, __ ._
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. stroyed all life on its way.
1 ~ "The cloud may be controlled .
om land, from a
plane or
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' th~~~~i!!'; ~;~:ere!:~ :iment, a
violent storm blew the cloud
far north into the tundra, but
before It .dissipated it
de-
Russian officer to anothet· dinner, ,
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but when he came the second
The Rus •
he said, also d
time his tanker was leaving unex­
.b d expet·lments with co ·1pectedly and he could only say
,
very
o htt,·e
• bomh.''
On thr other
url, he decried
the efforts of some g!'oups who
take advantage of "all this flying
disc talk'' to stir up suspicion of
Rus~i1!'<; inl~otionli.
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invited him to dinner.
The Russian first asked where
he could sell 18 polar bear pelts
which he_received "for very dan­
gerous work."
He said he had been assigned
to go over the route of the run­
away radioactive cloud near Lake
Baikal and pick up dead animals.
ANIMALS KILLED­
"They loaded a few small
ships with all kinds of animals
and directed the cloud over
om a. robot-piloted 'leader.'
s I under,stand it, the control ;
is based ow- electro-magnetij
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waves and the cloud has tw
components:
The carrier an · · ,
the killer.
"I asked him If the Russia
have an atornic bomb. He said
he doubted it, because the
atomic bomb cannot be used
without kllllng innocent people,
such as children and women.
But they have atomic energy,
which they use for propelJlng
s 111>ersonic airplanes."
The writer said he asked the
good-by.
The nuclear physicist consulted
by the Examiner said it was dif­
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!lcult to appraise the value ol
tl~e ~et~erl ~ecause of,,thq writer's
ec mca 1gnoran~e.
''The.._[_e~ 11n1>l31 ng that
the Russians woulUn' us~ the
ittom bomb It thel·
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~~•HIP T hP Ru11
111·ould
like
murh
thP
The Examinrr h:id lv.·o mon,
ppod<; ~f flyrn~ di:,ci; y -;t<'rday.
tt••d Dnrt11;P or i::lR ~ 'l'it•h l "·
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1, , ~v,·nu,, !-\111d tw was in \\ •st:
I,"" P,111< at 12 02 p. m. 'lwn
saw one flying westwai
at
00 to :JOOO feet. He said it vas
silent, round and shiny and was
not an airplanr.
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Mr. E . A. Tamm_
Mr. C l egg___
Mr. Glavin- - ­
Mr. Ladd_. ___
Mr . Ni chols
Mr . Rosen-­
Mr . T r acy_ ___
Mr . Carson___
Mr . Egan____
Mr. Gurnea___
Mr . Harbo___
Mr.
•Mr. Jones_ ___
Mr. Leonard
Mr. P enn ington_
Mr . Qu inn Tamm_
Mr . Nease_ _ _ _
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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·• trav-
Dr., 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 fly-
P-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 Port­
sky 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 whether 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·
idea, whithe things can be."
the strange sights. The answers vestigate a report that eight flying
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 th
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
FLYING SAUCERS, Pg. A-3.
Mrs. Walter Johnson. Di man,
tU
hen
round."
yet
size
shaped
discs.
lf/:1'J.~~
Wash .. said the "saucers" cam down
in timber near st. Maries Thursday
evening, but were not reported un­
she returned to her home in
'.)ishman vesterday.
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She said they came into view at
xtreme
speed,
traveling
north .
uddenlv she said. they slowed and
"fl~ttered like leaves to the
"The mysterious part was that we
couldn't see them after they landed,"
Mrs. Johnson said. "We could see
them flutter down into the timber
we couldn't see that they did
anything to the trees."
She described them as "about the
of a. five-room house'' and
more like washtubs tha.n
Planes to Comb Area.
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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'
vestlgate the report and Sheriff'
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·d yet about the disc but that an offi­
hc pnest at Gia on,
is., s_a1
cial report might be at llis office.
tonight that a round, mefal disc,
The flying discs have been re­
whi~ 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 at­
niles north o_f ~I1lwaukee, sa_1d _he tempt to track down onr of the
heard a sw1sl11ng and whirring discs and the Army and scientists
noise this morning. A second later, sought to ascertain ,1 hether coast­
he said, he_ heard a thud and aj to-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.
~nch in diameter in the middle of
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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' mn
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,r whether. 1t ~1ght be an _elab-
Capt. Tom Brown of the Armt
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He ~aid he Air Fore.es public relations sta •
L.>
iad notified the FBI of hlli find.
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th~,r:s : ~ !t"n; arby and large on:;l
at great pistances.
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"The one outstanding fact abo f
virtually all the saucers is th
they
had
no
structure-
the.
seemed merely round and flat.
SATTCEPS
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--i~w:111,, aircraft designer, told The Thjt description fits exactly with
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Post by telephone from ffilew £oft the tricks that eyes play.
This
that until he see, a flying saucer trickiness varies with differences
Priest Finds 'Whirring' Disc
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
In Yard and Holds It for FBI
He agreed with Dr. Overholser service in the war to spot all types
said the Army Airways 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 the socket. It was going faster than more o1· less an hysterical Nation." !aw flymg at an altitude of about
1any jet nlane I've ever seen "
.,oo feet
have been _unabl_e to. pi
•ck up any
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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, racing 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 1jet-propelled planes.
to have a motor with a propeller
pierce fog and darkness and pick a faraway train," she said.
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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.
Even so, Brown acknowledgeci1of comments, and·explanations, but added,
,
Although m a ny explanations
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, Ipape~ _quoted a~ unna~ed nuclear !
"And we still haven't the slight-
Dr. Wmfred O~er~olser, nation- fn an isolated area, like they did phys!Clst as saying the silvery discs
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est idea what they could be," he ally known psych1atr1st and super- the atomic bomb."
lresulted from experiments in the
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 reported from te~V1•
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know if the saucers involved ex- ILihenthal, cba1~~11n of the Atom
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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with
she and others ill her party had! ~ver~olsti~r,
ers
vivid
"Whatever these people have Starr Expects Word
th
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I1magma ons are sure they have
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~e~n. e sai,tcers tP .on a moun-. seen the same thing
seer>, it hasn't been anything re•
Louis E. Starr, national com-
tarn: ide ~de~~ st•
ane\ ld~ho. t I "The critical faculty In man the suiting from experiments by the mander of the Veterans of Foreign ·
111 0
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ey came
view a
last one he received is still' not Army Air Forces. As for as I'm Wars. announced Saturday at Co-
an extiem~.~P~fd'. ~u~d:nli Slowed, : very well developed. ' Scratch the concerned there's nothing to itllumbus, Ohio, that he was expect­
and 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 ready to J: cuss whether the Air Forces has message never a1T1ved.
anded," she said. "We could see things and follow beliefs..
,guided missiles which can attainI 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
anything.to the trees."
.
patients yesterday at St. Eliza-1 about guided missiles now," he most of the saucers have b~en r~­
She said she hoped to hike into beths not a one commented on the,said.
ported, but added that his trip
!:the timber tomorro~ and search flying saucers stoi~.
Howard W. Blakeslee, Assoei• there was planned two months
!or the objects which she said were
"I think they may be a little 1_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 matter
"At any distance wl1ich is close
M1;1roc Anny A~r Field in Call­
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th
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forma had a P-80 Jet fighter stan
house.''
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 regula
4th st. ne. reported he had swn -~l that one can ,, be sure.
1appear 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~·.
section of the city at about 8:40
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This would be the first one re-
po1-ted over the District, although
others have been reported over
nearby Maryland.
Kennedy, who has 125 hours
flying time as a student pllot hl
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
1t1tude of betweert 1200 and 1500
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Ac,:no Telephoto
Can This Be the Secret?
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.
'
~iw .in thr sky. She is the first•ports of strange objects see~ 1n
known observer to claim what she the sky a,nd had reached the con­
saw was stationary. All the rest clusion that some sort of m~ eor­
have spoken of tremendous speeds. ites were responsible.
Mrs. Kole said all she could think
Astronomers at the Naval ob­
of was a blazing disc. Alexandria servatory and Georgetown uni­
police 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, in­
seeing 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 Pa-
May 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.
....
Paul W. Weil.and, World War II
He was said to have been a re• artillery officer, just in case he
searcher on the Manhattan proj­
ect that made the '7tom bomb, and :it~e:s~me more and needs a
was quoted as saymg:
Arnold
d 11 11
b "
"These so-called saucers are ca-
.
announce
e as ~-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 gibber­
ish. 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."
I
The "piece" found in Ohio was
discovered near Circlevill.e. It was
a six-pointed star covered with tin­
foil and attached to part of a bal­
loon. It was reported to be a device
used by the Army ail· forces inl
radar Tesearch to check on h.igh
wind speeds. There was no cot
ment from the atr for..:es. I
A War Department spokesm
revealed Army tntelligenco h s
:.
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6 1947
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Mr . Clegg
tJm Experiments or Bunk?'
Mr. Glavin
Mr . Ladd
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Mr . Nichols-,-­
elusions or Factual, ThoseFl'ying, Saucers_•
Mr. Rosen
Mr. T r acy
Mr. Car son
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)H_~n~~~~lf!~~' ::~,~?,,~ ~~;:~:s~n~:::,!:ng~:!:,~~:.
Mr. Egan
\..../ wise men will mock them and the learnea revile.
ton area.
Mr . Gurnea
Scientists, for the most part dismissed the
but unto the chosen t he signs s.hall be revealed
Mr . Har bo
"saucers" as optical illusions. figments of the
and they will have wisdom and knowledge."­
Mr . Hendon
Ancient prophecy.
but the reports continued to pour in.
Mr. Jones
By now they have been seen in every p&rt of
imagination or "someone having a little fun,"
By JAMES COLLIGAN
Mr. Penni ngton
the country, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico
­
The words of the prophecy were being ful•
Mr . Qui nn Tamm­
!
and from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
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lied last night in Washington and throughout
The reports grew in "authenticity·• with thei
Mr. Nease
he nation as thousands of official a.nd scientific
Increase in volume. A·farmer in Ohio came UJ
Mi ss Gandy
bservers and jus~ ordinary people searched the
with a piece of one, a "scientist. in nuclear physics
.Skie! for flyJnl!'_. saucer_s-and l)lenty of watcti.ers
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flying Saucers
~ntrigue Nation;
Five Seen Here
(Continued from First Page)
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 com­
mand<,;;· 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
last 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
I.N.P. Photo by u.s. coast uu"rd
nd
!Observers, looked like_ dishes a
Is It Saucer, Sorcery, or Just Plain Sausage?
made a noise like Jet-pr'?pelled
J1!,es. They were trave~mgst so
Reports of "flying saucers" were laughed off by authorities 1mtil many witnesses, inclut)
~ st they disappeared an m ant
ing reliable pilots and serYicemen, said they had seen the plate-like obJ:e,,ts ......hizzing OYel'
a ter tbey were observed.
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Mrs. Mai·tin Kole, 3200 block
head. Above 1s the p1cture Y_eoman Frank Ryman, 27, took in the Seattle twilight when )1
lley Dr., Alexandria, called her
observed wJ., t seemed to h1m to be a £lying saucer 10 000 feet hin-h traveling at 5
ooal police station_ to a~k about
miles per hour.___~-
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Hunclrei-1s in~ States Report
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,saucer passed over Charleston hea!
ee1ng·
e1r
y1ng ~aucers
•b~u1a.l~eatsa%~
0 ri: ~~~~UJ~:~ t
&y the Associoted Press
ing radar signals to the moon, "one
as
lbhanJs'o, uothreg,,d sahwlta slndgle t di
th
·ca,1
war .
a , an
re race
1
The Nation was baffled toda_y by o!
e
greateSt
t echno ogi
ts course before vanishing Into a
"flying saucers" reported seen m Jl achievements of the war and ac-
cloud
s tates by hundreds or persons, and complished _In absolute secrecy."
An · Army Air Forces spokesman
conjectures came ·from scores of
Da".fd Lllienthal, ch_alrman of the In Washington on July 3 said there
named
and
unnamed
sources Atomic Ener~ Commission, told ~he was not enough !act to "warrant
throughout the country.
Denver Post m a br;et telephone m-
further investigation" b t th
A·
to k tervlew that the flying saucers were
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Official Government sources
E>
In no way connected with experl-
Materiel Command at Wright Fleld,
a "Let's see one" stan~ oi:i the phe- ments in.atomic energy, the trans-
Dayton, Ohl~. satd It was _rnakmg a
nomen~>n, and no _sc1ent1st offered mutation o,.f metals or similar re-
study. Sat.uiday at Washmgton an
a detailed explanation.
searcn
'
Army researcher admitted "we·re
Two Chlc;.go astronomers said the
F J Cl k
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mystified" and the Navy said it had
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are
probably "man-made."
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no theories.
,611,
undulating, flashing objects cer of the Hanfor? Engmeermg
First Reported June 25.
/QJuldn't be meteors," said Dr. Works In the Paci.fie Northwest
Fs1rard Kieupel' director of the Uni- where the largest saucer influx has . The first published report of "fly­
:Crsity of Chicago's Yerkes Ob- been reported, said the saucers were m g saucers·· came from Kenneth
servatory at Williams Bay. Wis.
not coming from. the atomic plant Arnold, Boise, Idaho, businessman
''We realize," s~id Dr. Oliver Lee, there.
pilot, who reported at Pendleton,
~
Oreg., on June 25 that h e had seen
·d_l£ ctor of Northwestern Unlver-
Credence in the saucers- widely nine of them flying at 1,200 miles an
sl~ 's Dearborn Observatory, "that laughed off at their fli•st' repoid hour in formation, shifting position
lth Army and Navy are working on appearance June 2S- grew as h
• "like the tail of a kite," over Wash-
an
rts of things we know nothing dreds of observers, many of t
m ington State's Cascade Mountains.
ab ut."
trained flyers, reported seeing ~h m.
Before SC'lffers had more than be-
Dr. Lee said the discs might repre-
A crowd of 200 observed a dis at gun to offer explanations such as
sent..the same 50rt o! th!~
M send-
(See DIS S,
age A-9.)
"reflections." ''persistent vision" and
"snow blindness," an Oklahoma City
private flyer, BY_ron Savage, said he
had seen a slm1larly shaped object
some weeks earlier but fear of ridi­
cule kept him quiet.
Then the reports began to filter
in, mostly from Individual~.
The
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discs were seen in Texa-s, ln New
Mexico, In Washington, Oregon,
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Idaho, Missouri, Colorado, Callfor­
'-,.__ ________....;._·__ , ma, Arizona and Nebraska.
The
H
er Lake, Idaho, on the Fourt.h ' number varied from one to a dozen,
of July. A _group o! 60 picnickers Iseen mostly by one or two people.
saw them at Twin FaJJs, Idaho. And
Sel'n by Group of 200.
in Portland, Oreg., so many res!-
Then the July -l deluge hit. Two
dents witnessed them on t he Fourth hundred person.~ In one group and
that t.he police department sent out' 60 in another saw them ln Idaho;
an 1111-cArs, broadcast.
hundreds saw them In Oregon.
A United Air Lin.es pilot o! 141Washington
and
other
States
,·ears experience walked up the ramp throughout the Wei;t. In Augusta,
10 hi.~ plane at Boise, Joking that Me., the Civil Aeronautic.• A<imin­
'TII believe in these disc.~ when I istratlon received I\ report that a
see them.'' Ten minutes lat-er he • dozen !)f the discs had been seen
radioed, i<hRken, that he had spot-lthere.
te<i ftve of them from hl11 plane. He
And, for the flrst time. the East­
WM Capt. A. J , Smith. His co-pilot, em States had their report.~. Ob­
Ralph Stevens, and hlA stewardess, servers came In with report.~ from
Ml~ Marty Monro, told the sRme Michigan, Louisiana, Pennsylvania.
610 .
INew Jersey, Indiana. Kentucl ,
ltne1111ei; in two points of Cali- Georgia, South Oarolina and ca •
la. and In Spokane-one of them 1ada's Atlantic seaboard.
Anny Air Forces sergeanl,-re-1 Near unanlrnlty was recorMd
led seeing the discs Saturday.
some of the discs' characteristics _
on.s in ditrerl:1l1 e~tions., te • 1fic
S.R ed, brl ht reflections.
tlru . 11ll son
Mr . E . A . Tamm­
Mr. 'C legg
Mr. G l avin
Mr . Ladd
Mr. Nichols- - -
Mr . Rosen
Mr . Tracy
Mr . Carson
Mr . Egan ·
Mr . Gurnea- -­
Mr. Harbo
Mr . Hendon--­
Mr . Jones
Mr. Pennington-
Mr . Quinn Tamm­
Mr . Nease
Miss Gandy___ .
round or oval in shape, flat and t1,-.
li with a peculiar undulating t CI•
t n. Size was moot and expre sed
b Capt. Smith of United Air L e~
a. "hard to judge" without kn w­
1
the distance from the o~e 'er
to the objects.
2 D. C. Area Residents Say
They Saw 'Flying Saucers'
Two Washington 11rea resident.~
t.oda:v were on record as having ob­
served
the
m~•sterlous
"flying
saucers" here11bou1s.
A BethesdR lMd.) man was rr­
ported to have seen three or four
of these objerts at midnight Frld11,·
while In the vicinity of Fri•.mdship
Height.«, Md. They were <il'llcrlhc,1
RS being rapid. bluish 1md bright
traveling northwnrd.
Mr~. Martin Koll', 3202 V111Jey
drive. Alexandria housewife, ~~It
earlr Friday she s11w R l11.r1te roun
ob,iect floRtlng In thP 11outhwe11t
si•· Shr de<'IArerl II lli:ht i;hlnlnll
i
her face RWakenPd hn aho~ 4
a. . She went to the window n
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'
el urned lo bed.

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Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
'Flying Saucers' Reported Seen"
Mr. Egan
Mr .
sy Scores of'Eyewitnesses'
Gur ne a--­
By th• Auocloted Pms
said they saw the discs yesterday
Mr. Harbo
The
'•flying
saucer"
mystery afternoon. A party of seven firs,
Mr . Hendon--­
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
Mr . Jones
a veteran United Air Lines crew, other batch of nine or ten. Wore
Pennington_
scores of Portland (Oreg.) residents, passed around, and soon the waltin(
and 60 picknickers at Twin Falls crowd saw another batch circling
Quinn T amm_
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 pinhead­
Idaho, 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 Portland's saucers. It foul )
Nation
nothing but empty sky.
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Strange Craft Over Philadelphia .
. Many P~rtlanders-mcludlng po-
In Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leis ,
l
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 sec­
In New Orleans, Miss Lillian Law- tion of the 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
"Pancake Standing on End."
propelled by whirling wings.
Dr.
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 disc­
flat 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 southeast of Ontario, Ore.
brooke, 1 mile norlll of here, a1 l
He radioed the Ontario airport but his hired man, Herman Linklettc
airport officials saw nothing.
said they saw one of the objec ~
1 Sixty persons plcknlcking at 'I\v!n last; night traveling from the north­
f'nlls Park, near Twin Falls, Idaho, west toward the southeast.
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Mr.-Tols~
Of)y111j J>~5
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·saucers Here,
Saucers There­
1nc1uding Washington
As rumors persisted (and were denied) that the "flying sau­
cers" are rndio controlled rocket or jet planes being tested se­
cretly, 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•
ries as to .what-if anything-the
heavenJy wanderers may be.
Dr. John G. Lynn, human be­
havior expert of Valhalla, N. Y.,
said people. have the atomic jitters.
Navy Observatory astronomers
here said that so far as they can
judge from description, the obj2cts
are not astronomical phenomena.
A n o t h er astronomer-civilian­
opined that people "are seeing spots
before their eyes."
But unnamed scientists quoted by
Science Service expressed doubt
that a purely optical illusion would
make people think they were see­
ing flying disks.
Science Service
also pointed out that some o.f the ·,
saucers have been reported by "re­
liable observers accustomed to look­
ing at the sky."'
'There Were Three­
j
Shaped Like Dishes•
MINNESOTA-AV NE, July 5.­
Scientists from many Washington's
top-drawer institutions are expected
to flock to this street today after
the first authenticated reportt of
flying saucers within the city lim­
its of Washington was made by
two startled matrons.
The ladies spotted the , things
night beiore last, but were under­
standably reluctant to report it at
once.
"I know what you'll think," the
youngee one said in an exclusive
interview with The News, ''but
mother saw them, too, and she
~ocsn't drink.
"We were shopping on Minni!•
sota-ave ne at about 7 Thul·srlay
night," she said, "when I heard a
1noise like a jet-propelled plane. I
1
looked up and saw these things go­
ing thru the air. There were three
of them, shaped like dishes and go­
ing fast as a jet plane. They ¥:ere
bright golden in color, but that may
have been from th sun· being re- '
fleeted from some bright metal ob-
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr .
Mr.
Mr .
Mr .
Mr.
Mr.
Mr .
Mr.
Mr .
Mr.
Mr.
Miss
E . A. Tamm_
Clegg
Glavi n
Ladd
Nichols
Rose n
T r acy
Car son- - -
Egan
Gurne a _ _ _
Harbo
Hendon
P ennington_
Quinn T amm-
Nease___ _
Gandy _ _ _
RECORDED
je;,~s. c~)Uldn't estimate the size of <--l ~
<) ; ~ 3 '6o/'+ _.-,4
the thmgs, but they seemed to be
, • \
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fairly far away. I looked away Ior
F
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an instant to tell mother to look at
the things."
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The witness' mother looked ,1p
41
JUl 89 19
and also saw the "dishes." .ihen
they swished over the hori;;lll andl '
disappeared.
The two women asked rat their
names be withheld from p,hlication,
lest skeptical neighbors p~e fun at
them.
JUL
51947_
WASHINGTON NEWS
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{Neither A.irPlilne, Nbr ,
Cloud, ·Nor ·Balloon" .:,
B:r Unite<! P1·ess
overhead. It disappeared in thre~ or
Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, four seconds.
.
27, had a picture today snapped•
Two Portland, Ore., _police scout
;from the front porch of his home cars three miles apart notified head­
near
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.)
"silver balloon."
Deputy Sheriff Fred K,rlves, across
~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. be-
T. 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 surround­
oise. He said it was a white disc ea by a luminous halo .a~d a~peared
lying about 10,000 feet directly to be propelled by whirlmg Jets.
JUL
51947
WASHINGTON NEWS
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