FBI Case File 62-HQ-83894: Unidentified Flying Objects, Investigative Records, Eyewitness Accounts, and Media Reports (1947,1968)

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# Flying Saucer Photo Ain't
What It Used to Be---Joe

# Flying Saucer Photo Ain't
What It Used to Be---Joe (cont.)

## DETROIT DIVISION

Detroit, Mich.

By Charles Manos
Staff Writer

GRAND BLANC, May 25—
Joe Perry, the talented pizza
man, feels the Pentagon
people have sabotaged him
or something.

No, the Washington ex-
perts haven't fussed with
Joe's saucy pies, but they
have certainly done some-
thing to his flying saucer,
Joe claims.

"IT AIN'T what it used to
be since they got their
hands on it," said Joe, who
takes potshots at the moon
with a homemade telescope-
camera.

Joe, 44, took another look
at his color-slide photo,
snapped last February on the
second night of the full
moon.

"It's not the same," he said
dejectedly. "The flying
saucer has faded . . . some-
thing has happened to it."
The Washington experts
returned the color slide a few
days ago.

THE FEDERAL agents
picked it up last March when

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# Flying Saucer Photo Ain't
What It Used to Be---Joe (cont.)

## DETROIT DIVISION (cont.)

they heard Joe's picture
showed a saucer-like object
silouetted against the moon.
lost of Joe's customers at
his pizza palace here were
convinced the object was a
flying sauce."

Joe became even more con-
cerned over his picture when
an Unidenti ed Flying Object
group wanted to buy his
rights to the slide.

He also got an offer from a
national magazine to buy the
picture. Other inquiries came
from all sections of the
country.

SO JOE was anxious to get his picture back. He called the FBI. He talked to the air force. He made a trip to Selfridge, Air Force Base, all in vain.

The picture was returned shortly after he sent a letter to President Eisenhower.
A letter included in the package from the Pentagon said the strange object in the picture was the result of faulty development and nothing more.
Among other things, the Pentagon folks have added insult to injury, Joe said.

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Editor: Lee Hills

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Editor: Martin S. Hayden

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Editor: John C. Manning

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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT;
JOSEPH PERRY, GRAND BLANC,
MICHIGAN - COMPLAINANT
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# Flying Saucer Photo Ain't
What It Used to Be---Joe (cont.)

## 3 'Objects' Trailed Plane
45 Minutes, Pilot Says

Flying

DETROIT, Feb. 25 (AP)
The pilot of an American Air-
lines DC6 passenger plane
said today three mysterious
objects that looked like shin-
ing saucers appeared to ac-
company the plane for 45
minutes last night on its non-
stop flight from Newark, N. J.,
to Detroit.

Killian and co-pilot John
Dee of Nyack, N. Y., said they
lost the three strange objects
in the haze when they started
their descent for landing at
Detroit's Metropolitan Air-
port while the plane was over
Cleveland, Ohio.

Capt. Peter Killian of Syos- set, N. Y., who has flown pas- senger planes for 15 years, said "I have never seen any- thing like it before."

The three bright whitish lights first were sighted while the plane was flying at 850 feet between Philipsburg an Bradford, Pa., at 8:45 p. m.

Killian said other members
of the crew and the 35 pas-
sengers also saw the flying
objects. The plane left Newark
at 7:10, m.

# Flying Saucer Photo Ain't
What It Used to Be---Joe (cont.)

## 3 'Objects' Trailed Plane
45 Minutes, Pilot Says (cont.)

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# Flying Discs Show Sign
Of Guidance, Jung Says

ALAMOGORDO, N. Mex.,
July 29 (P).-Dr. Carl Jung,
Swiss psychologist, says in a dicted.
report that Unidentified Flying
Objects are real and "show
signs of intelligent guidance
by quasi-human pilots."

What such a fact might mean for humanity cannot be pre-

# Flying Discs Show Sign
Of Guidance, Jung Says (cont.)

"But it would put us without doubt in the extremely precari- ous position of primitive com- munities in conflict with the superior culture of the whites.

"I can only say for certain
these things are not a mere
rumor, something has been
seen," Dr. Jung said in the re-
port released yesterday. "A
purely psychological explana- gued."
tion is ruled out."

"That the construction of
these machines proves a scien-
tific technique immensely su-
perior to ours cannot be ar-

# Flying Discs Show Sign
Of Guidance, Jung Says (cont.)

The Air Force has said n-
vestigation of flying saucers
reported over the past 10 years
has produced no evidence that
such things exist.

Dr. Jung, who started his re- search on UFO's in 1944, re- leased his report through the UFO filter Center of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organ- ization here. It was released by L. J. Lorenzen of Holloman Air Force Base.

It has contended that not a
shred of evidence has turned
up to show the existence of a
flying saucer or interplanetary
space ship or that the objects
indicate developments
beyond the range of current
scientific knowledge or pose a
threat to the Nation's secur-

"I have gathered a mass of
observations of unidentified fly-sighted
ing objects since 1944," Dr.
Jung said.

"The discs do not behave
in accordance with physical ity.
laws, but as though without
weight.

The Air Force said last No-
vember that investigations of
5,700 reported sightings showed
the mysterious objects were
balloons, aircraft, astronomical
phenomena, birds, fireworks or
hoaxes, among other things.

"If the extra-terrestial origin
of this phenomena should be
confirmed this would prove the
existence of an intelligent in-
terplanetary relationship.

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pament

## No Saucers'
Trace Found

# Flying Discs Show Sign
Of Guidance, Jung Says (cont.)

## A.F. Checks Schmidt;
Kearney Amused

Tales of flying saucers and
other such space craft got
an unofficial raspberry
Wednesday night from an
Air Force official.

He said 5,700 reported
sightings were investigated
between 1947 and 1957. Not
a single landing impression,
footprint, saucer or little
green man was found.

A top official of the Air
Technical Intelligence Cen-
ter at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base in Ohio told the
Dayton Journal-Herald his in-
vestigators have found no
evidence in the past 10 years
that flying saucers are real.

Schmidt, 48, an ex-Nebras- kan and now a Californja grain dealer, was questioned by Air Force investigators from the Continental Air De- fense Command. Oil found near the alleged landing spot of the space ship was identi- fied as ordinary but will be of the space ship was identi- tested by the University of Nebraska.

While the Schmidt tale was
giving Kearney a sensational
conversation piece, most of
the talk was of a skeptical
variety:

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# Space-Ship Story Raises Eyebrows

## The World-Herald's News Service.

Kearney, Neb.-A grain
Huyer 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.

# Space-Ship Story Raises Eyebrows (cont.)

## The World-Herald's News Service. (cont.)

The sensational report
by R. O. 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 Penitentiary rec-
ords showed a man of the
same name served a term
for embezzlement from
Scotts Bluff County in the
1930's. Scotts Bluffs Coun-
ty Sheriff Steve Warrick
said he talked to Schmidt
by phone and was convinced
he "saw nothing."

-He turned down a
chance to take a lie-
detector test.

-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 the 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. Investigators
said the "mysterious
green oil" closely resem-
bled that in a partially-
emptied can of commer-
cial auto oil found in the
back of Schmidt's car and a
nearly-empty can found
near the site of the "land-

# Space-Ship Story Raises Eyebrows (cont.)

## The World-Herald's News Service. (cont.)

Schmidt's story came to

World-Herald News Service Photo.

Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson . . . In "heart-to-heart" talk.

SIDE VIEW
OUTSIDE

FLOOR PLAN
INSIDE

This is a floor plan of the inside of a ship. Key areas include:

*   **Instruments:** Located towards the front.
*   **Lounge:** Adjacent to the instruments.
*   **Sealed Compartment:** Separated from the lounge.
*   **Conveyor:** Runs to the back of the ship.
*   **Fans:** Located in the roof at both ends of the ship.

The Schmidtnik... As described by the grain buyer.

light when, white-faced and
shaken, he appeared in
Kearney Tuesday and asked
to see a minister. Taken to
police, he told this story:

Tuesday he inspected a field of milo about two miles south and a mile east of Kearney. When ready to leave he drove down a side road seeking a place to

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it to be a translucent, ci-
gar shaped device about
one hundred feet long, 30
feet wide and about 14 feet
high. Schmidt said that
when he was 25 or 30 feet
away, two men got out
and waved what looked
like a flashlight.

"I couldn't move. I don't
know whether I was just
afraid or what, but it was
like being paralyzed," he
said.

# Space-Ship Story Raises Eyebrows (cont.)

## In 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 things for a few min
utes.

Inside the machine were
two other men and two
women working on wires
and instruments. The de-
vice had a fan at each end.

By a strange coincidence
one of the crewmen looked
quaintance with whom he exactly like a hotel ac-
has been watching televi-
sign programs.

When the occupants
wanted to move from place
to place they would step
in a certain location and be
pulled to the new location.
without moving.

## Spoke German'

The ship occupants
talked among themselves inj
High German, which
Schmidt says he under
stands to a limited extent
One 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 about
it in a couple of weeks."

When repairs were com-
pleted, Schmidt said he was
asked to leave but was told
he would be unable to start
his car until the machine
had disappeared.

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Coast to Coast

# Rash of 'Flying Saucer
Reports Floods U. S.

Several persons reported seeing a "red ball" hovering over the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River plant near Augusta, Ga last night.

There was an unoffi
cial report that Air Force
personnel at nearby Ark-
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-
ecutive editor Louis Harris,
who saw the object from the
downtown newspaper build-
ing. "It could have been a
tiny red light a short dis-
tance away or a gigantic
thing at a great distance," he
said.

One witness, J. T. James,
said he saw the object on two
occasions from his home near
Aiken. It was cigar-shaped,
he said, and would alternate
from bright to amber and
occasionally got out alto-
gether.

Elsewhere, strange "sauc-
er" sightings were reported.

# Rash of 'Flying Saucer
Reports Floods U. S. (cont.)

## NEBRASKA

At Kearney, Neb.,
ties held a "heart-to-heart"
talk with Reinhold O.
Schmidt, a salesman, later
discovered to be an ex-con-
vict, who said he talked to
four men and two women in
a transport space ship which
had landed. He said the space
people spoke in English and
German.

Police roped off the area
where the "whatnik" alleg.
edly landed and examined
various impressions and oil
stains on the ground.

At Long Beach, Calif., three
Air Force weather observers,
one of them the commanding
officer of the spotting unit,
late yesterday reported sight-
ing six unidentified, saucer-
shaped flying objects over
Long Beach Air Force base.

The Coast Guard reported
picking up an unidentified
lying object on radar over
the Gulf of Mexico south of
New Orleans. A Coast Guard
commander said the object
baused over the cutter Se-
bago in the Gulf and was on
he radar scope for about 27
nutes.

OFlying Saucers

# Rash of 'Flying Saucer
Reports Floods U. S. (cont.)

## WHITE SANDS

Miitary authorities appar
ently gave credence to a re-
authori-port by an electronics en-
gineer who said he saw an
object which made car en-
gines stall near the White
Sands proving grounds.

Col. John McCurdy, Air
Force public relations officer
at White Sands, said the en-
gineer, James Stokes, 42, will
given a thoro medical ex-
amination and a radiation.
count test. Col. McCurdy
said he was "personally, sat-
isfied" with Mr. Stokes' re-
port,

A Civil Service worker at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Tex., said he saw an egg-shaped object land in a ravine about 200 yards from him as he drove near the city. He said his car engine and lights went off, and the object took off in a few minutes, enabling him to drive away.

At about the same time, the Ground Observer Corps at Midland, Tex., said it saw a large, red object and picked up unintelligible conversa- tion on a sound detector. (LP)

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Saucers

## Tracked 27 Minutes on Radar

# U.S. Cutter in Gulf of Mexico Reports Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sky

Associated Press

traveling at an estimated 1000 of light with no definite shape,

A brilliant mystery object miles per hour, International resembling the planet Venus."

was reported sighted yester
day in southern skies by a
Coast Guard cutter, even as
Air Force special investigat-
ors checked a flurry of ear-fore
lier,, similar reports.

The Coast Guard cutter Se- bago, cruising in the Gulf of Mexico about 200 miles south of Louisiana, radioed that an object resembling "a brilliant planet with á high rate of speed" was seen for about three seconds at 5:21 a. m. a. m. (CST).

The Sebago's message said
the object was tracked on the
vessel's radar screen for 27
minutes and that, during that
period, the object flitted on
and off the screen several
times. Crewmen caught sight
of it only for a few seconds.
[The Sebago radioed New
Orleans Coast Guard Head-
Quarters that the object was

News Service reported. How-
ever, at one point, the object
appeared to remain stationary
and hover above the waters be-
it resumed its erratic
flight.

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# U.S. Cutter in Gulf of Mexico Reports Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sky (cont.)

[The cutter's captain, Cmdr. C. H. Waring, said the object first appeared on the ship's dar screen as a "good, strong pip" at 5:10 a. m. and was lost a northerly direction at 5:37

Shockley said there were no
vapor trails or any other in-
dications as to the object's
method of propulsion. One
estimate of its height placed
it at 2000 feet.

[In this time, the skipper said the object, which came as glose as two miles to the ves- el, was actually seen by four members of the crew One, Ens. Wayne D. Shockley, de- cribed it as a "bright point

[Glenn Northcutt, Willis.
Okla., rancher and member of
the University of Oklahoma
Board of Regents, reported
on Saturday he and five that
others had watched "a bril-
liant, mysterious light that
looked like the planet Venus
magnified many, many times."
The object, he said, was visible
more than half an hour.]

Sightings of strange objects
have been reported from wide-
ly scattered sections of the
United States, most of them
near secret military installa-
tions in the Southwest.
The Air Force said the radar
network of the Air Defense
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Command was keeping watch
So far with no results-and
that specially qualified inves
tigators had been assigned to
look into the reports.

For several years the Air
Force has checked all reports
of unidentified flying objects.
Investigators work under the siles.
Air Defense Command at Col-
orado Springs, Colo., and re-

ported objects may be some-
thing from another planet.

"Assuming they are real," he
said, "they would be secret
weapons made on earth or
are interplanetary." Any na-
tion with the secret, he added,
would by now have abandoned
conventional aircraft or mis-

# U.S. Cutter in Gulf of Mexico Reports Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sky (cont.)

## Cosmic Energy

port to the Air Technical In-interplanetary," Keyhoe said. telligence Center. "It looks as though they are

er for such reported objects He said one source of pow- could be cosmic ray energy.

Judging from past findings,
the chances are 50-1 the Air
Force will offer a humdrum
explanation for the current
sightings.

Some of the citizens, peace
officers and servicemen who
reported sighting mystery ob-
jects in the Southwest since
the weekend said the objects
report-stalled auto engines and
caused radios to fade.

During the first half of this
year, the Air Force said, only
1.9 per cent of the 250
ed sightings of flying saucers
and other fantastic aerial ob-
jects have wound up in the
"unknown" category.

# U.S. Cutter in Gulf of Mexico Reports Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sky (cont.)

## Air Force Skeptical

And the Air Force said firm-ert
ly-though not all flying sau-
cer buffs may agree-that it
doesn't believe even the 1.9
per cent residue is made up
of the things you read about
in science fiction magazines.

James Stokes, an engineer
at the Air Force missile de-
velopment center at Alama-
gordo. N. M., reported 10 autos
were stalled Monday on a des-
highway between Alama-
gordo and the White Sands
(N. M.) Proving Grounds.

He reported seeing a sound- less, "brilliant colored egg- shaped object" which flitted erratically across, the country- side and left a sort of heat wave, "like radiation from a giant sun lamp," in its wake.

Balloons, aircraft and such
astronomical sights as meteor-
ites and bright stars account
at least to the Air Force's
official satisfaction for al-
most four-fifths of the sight
ings.

The director of a private or
ganization set up to inves
said he couldn't evaluate at tigate flying saucers and such
this point the current rash of
reported sightings.

But retired Marine Maj.
Donald E. Keyhoe, director of
the National Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phe-
numana added that the

# U.S. Cutter in Gulf of Mexico Reports Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sky (cont.)

## Device Sought

Leonard Hardlund, chief en-
gineer for the National Inven-
tors Council in Washington,
said a device that could stall
autos or other mechanical
equipment was one of the
things the armed forces would
like to see developed.

But Hardlund said he knew aimed at producing such a de- in this country of no research in this country vice.

re-seeing Two teen-age girls reported a mysterious object in
the sky over Annapolis, Md.,
last week.

Tean Hunt, 13, and Sylvia
Fowler, 15, said they saw
an egg-shaped object which
glowed like a neon light. They
spotted it while trick-or-treat-
ing with Jean's two younger
sisters on Halloween night in
Primrose Acres, a housing de-
velopment on the outskirts of
Annapolis.

Jean said the girls became
frightened and ran home but
no one would believe their
story until weekend newspa-
per accounts told of a mystery
object sighted in Texas.

Associated Press

J. G. Kirby of Dallas made
this photo of a diamond
shaped object flying
through the sky while he
and his family were driving
near Amarillo, Tex., in
August, 1956. The photo
was turned over to the FBI
and has just been released
after intensive study. The
Air Force described the
glow as radiation vapor."

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# Mystery Objects Called
Mirage by Astronomer®

By the Associated Press

A Harvard astronomer says mysterious objects reported from various 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 scare."

The Air Force has started an investigation of the reported

Air Force for years has had mosphere which would give a ing objects in the sky. The radar reflection."

sightings of the strange glow-)

the responsibility of checking
reports of unidentified flying
objects,but as one officer put
it, "We don't investigate all of
them."

A rash of such reports has nervous foot could stall an en-

As for reports of the auto engines stalling, he said, "It would not be surprising that a

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developed since Sunday, with gine."
some of the sightings said to
have been made near secret
military installations in the
Southwest. Some of the per-
sons making the reports said
the objects caused their auto
engines to stall and their radios nomena.
to fade.

# Mystery Objects Called
Mirage by Astronomer® (cont.)

## Cutter Claims Sighting

Yesterday the Coast Guard
Cutter Sebago radioed from the
Gulf of Mexico that an object
resembling a brilliant planet
with a high rate of speed was
seen for about three seconds,
and that it was tracked by
radar.

Dr. Menzel said it is probable the cutter's crewmen got a false image "quite likely from bubbles of hot air in the at-

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Dr. Menzel, author of a book about flying saucers, said he has been studying them for about 10 years and has yet to hear of one which could not be explained by natural phe-

"They are caused by a layer
of heated air . . . acting as a
lens and forming an image of
objects as much as 40 or 50
miles away," he said.

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# Mystery Objects Called
Mirage by Astronomer® (cont.)

## Common in West (cont.)

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Belmont <empty>
Mohr <empty>
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Trotter <empty>
Nease <empty>
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Holloman <empty>
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Saucers
OFlying

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Associated Press

J. G. Kirby of Dallas made
this photo of a diamond
shaped object flying
through the sky while he
and his family were driving
near Amarillo, Tex., in
August, 1956. The photo
was turned over to the FBI
and has just been released
after intensive study. The
Air Force described the
glow as “radiation vapor.”

52 NOV 8 1957

Wash. Post and 11=6=57
Times Herald page A-6

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B.R. Webber
BRANIGAN

UP42 (OBJECT) LEVELLAND TEX.--FIVE PERSONS INCLUDING A SHERIFF REPORTED TODAY SEEING A MYSTERIOUS EGG-SHAPED OBJECT WHICH LOOKED LIKE A BLINDING-RED SUNSET OVER LEVELLAND IN VEST TEXAS. THREE MOTORISTS SAID IT KILLED THEIR AUTO ENGINES AND PUT OUT THEIR HEADLIGHTS WHEN THEY GOT NEAR IT. IN EACH CASE, THE MOTORISTS SAID THEIR ENGINES AND HEADLIGHTS WERE ALL RIGHT AFTER THE OBJECT SUDDENLY TOOK OFF AND DISAPPEARED. SHERIFF WEIR CLEM AND A DEPUTY ALSO SAW THE OBJECT AT 1830 AM EDT WHEN THEY WENT OUT TO LOOK FOR IT AFTER GETTING EARLIER REPORTS. THE SHERIFF SAID IT STREAKED NOISELESS ACROSS THE ROAD SOME 200 YARDS IN FRONT OF HIM, BUT DID NOT AFFECT HIS CAR. 11/3--0053 OP

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# Mystery Objects Called
Mirage by Astronomer® (cont.)

## Common in West (cont.)

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| Mr.   | Boardman    |
| Mr.   | Belmont [ ] |
| Mr.   | Mohr        |
| Mr.   | Parsons [ ] |
| Mr.   | Rosen       |
| Mr.   | Tamm [ ]    |
| Mr.   | Trotter [ ] |
| Mr.   | Nease       |
| Tele. | Room [ ]    |
| Mr.   | Holloman    |
| Miss  | Gandy [ ]   |

# Mystery Objects Called
Mirage by Astronomer® (cont.)

## Common in West (cont.)

UP44 ADD OBJECT, LEVELLAND, TEX. ONE MOT OR IST, JAMES LONG OF WACO, TEX., TOLD THE SHERIFF NE DROVE UP ON THE OBJECT SITTING IN THE ROAD ABOUT 200 FEET FROM HIM. LONG TOLD THE SHERIFF NE DROVE UP WITH HIS LIGHTS ON THE OBJECT, WHICH GLOWED INTERMITTENTLY LIKE A BLINDING NEON LIGHT. HE SAID IT APPEAR ED TO BE ABOUT 200 FEET LONG AND EGG SHAPED. HE SAID IT CASED HIS ENGINE TO DIE AND HIS HEADLIGHTS TO GO OUT. CAUSED WHEN LONG STARTED TO GET OUT OF HIS CAR TO INVESTIGATE, THE OBJECT SUDDENLY ROSE SOME 200 FEET STRAIGHT UP AND DISAPPEARED IN A FLASH OF LIGHT HE TOLD THE SHERIFF. CLEM SAID AUTHORITIES COULD FIND NO BURN MARKS OR OTHER INDICATIONS AT THE SPOT WHERE LONG SAID THE OBJECT HAD LANDED. CLEM SAID REESE AIR FORCE BASE OFFICIALS AT LUBBOCK, ABOUT 50 MILES EAST OF LEVELLAND CHECKED FOR A POSSIBLE PLANE CRASH IN THE AREA, BUT REPORTED NOTHING. PEDRO SACIDO, A LEVELLAND MOTORIST, WAS THE FIRST TO REPORT SIGHTING THE THING. "IT SOUNDED LIKE AN EAR-SPLITTING CLAMP OF THUNDER-AS IF SOMETHING HAD EXPLODED," SACIDO TOLD THE SHERIFF. ME SAID IT KILLED HIS ENGINE AND KNOCKED OUT HIS HEADLIGHTS UNTIL AFTER IT PASSED OVER. A KERMIT TEX., MOTORIST, WHOSE NAME THE SHERIFF DID NOT GET, ALSO REPORTED SPOTTING THE OBJECT WHILE DRIVING ON STATE HIGHWAY 51 ABOUT EIGHT MILES NORTH OF LEVELLAND. HE TOLD THE SHERIFF IT HAD THE SAME AFFECT ON HIS CAR ENGINE AND LIGHTS AS THE OTHERS REPORTED. CLEM SAID HE COULD NOT OFFER A GUESS AS TO WHAT THE OBJECT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. 11/3--W0543P

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Flying Jaucins Заис

Brafigan

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Nichols <empty>
Boardman <empty>
Belmont <empty>
Mohr <empty>
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Rosen <empty>
Tamm <empty>
Trotter <empty>
Nease <empty>
Tele. Room <empty>
Holloman <empty>
Gandy <empty>

# NOTHING REMOTELY RELATED!
Mysterious Object Amazes Saucer Skeptic

A veteran airline pilot
who once denounced fly-
ing saucers as "bunk" has
reported encountering a
mysterious unidentified
flying object near Mobile,
Ala.

He said the "meteor" was descending rapidly, but in usual flash, "it abruptly halt- stead of burning out with the ed directly in front of us."

Capt. W. J. Hull of Capital
Airlines described the inci-
dent in a report_published by
The UFO Investigator,"
magazine of the unofficial Na-
tional Investigations Commit
tee on Aerial Phenomena,
1536 Connecticut-av nw.

Capt. Hull said he was fly-
ing a Viscount at about 10,-
000 feet near Mobile, at 10:10
n. m., when he and his co-
plot spotted what we
thought was a brilliant
meteor."

60 OCT 14 1957
F492

# NOTHING REMOTELY RELATED!
Mysterious Object Amazes Saucer Skeptic (cont.)

Capt. Hull wrote an article
for a pilots' magazine in 1953
titled "The Obituary of the
Flying Saucer." His experi-
ence described in the "Investi-
gator" took place Nov. 14,
1956. He did not suggest
what he saw was a flying
saucer.

"It was an intense blue
white light, approximately
seven or eight times as bright
as Venus when this planet is
at its brightest magnitude,"
he wrote.

He said he thought the ob- ject might be a jet fighter,

turning away from the air-
liner and giving the pilots a
view of its glowing tailpipe.
But he said instead of grow
ing smaller, the light re-
mained in front of the Vis-
count.

Capt. Hull wrote that the
"UFO)) (unidentified flying
object) then began a series
of violent maneuvers, "sharp-
er than any known aircraft,
sometimes changing direction

90 degrees in an instant." It finally zoomed up at an ex- tremely sharp angle and shot out of sight, he added.

He said his own plane was
above the clouds, "preclud
ing any reflections of search
lights from below.".

There's accent local
sports in The Newsports
pages.

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Mohr <empty>
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Tamm <empty>
Trotter <empty>
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Holloman <empty>
Gandy <empty>

BRANIGAN

# Doolittle Scoffs at Report
Of Nazi Flying Saucer

of Hugh L. Dryden. director of

By the Associated Press
James H. Doolittle says it
"just ain't so" that Nazi Ger-
many developed a flying saucer
and a bomber that could attack
the United States and return
without refueling.

the advisory committee.
Mr. Dryden said "there is no
truth" in a statement that
German engineers designed a
flying saucer which attained a
height of 40,000 feet and speed
of 1,250 miles an hour.

"This is an advertisement for
a book which includes material
discovered by our groups who
went into Germany after the
Appropria-war," he said.

The veteran airman, chairman
of the National Advisory Com-
mittee for Aeronautics, last
month gave a House
tions Subcommittee his estimate
of reports published in Germany
of great aviation
ments under Hitler. These were
contained in a book by Rudolf
usar, former German
istry special weapons chief.

He said also the man supposed
to have designed the bomber
accomplish-that could cross the Atlantic
twice without refueling had writ-
ten a book of his own with no
War Min-mention of any such invention
Gen. Doolittle, asked about

Gen. Doolittle's testimony was both the saucer and the bomber

published today, along with that said, "it just ain't so."

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Gandy <empty>

Flying Saucers

# There Are
Saucers, N
Expert Says

# There Are
Saucers, N
Expert Says (cont.)

## By VERN HAUGLAND

WASHINGTON, 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-
nce that "no agency in this
country or Russia is able to dupli-
cate at this time the speeds and
accelerations which radar and
observers indicate these flying
objects are able to achieve."

FAHRNEY SAID he never has
seen a flying saucer, but has
talked with a number of scien-
tists and engineers who reported
sehrney strange flying objects. strange called flying a news objects. confer-

ence following an organizational
meeting of a new private group,
the National Investigations Com-
mittee on Aerial Phenomena, of
which he is board chairman.

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191 JAN 23 1957

Fahrney said the committee
was set up largely to tie to-
gether a number of UFO-mean-
ing unidentified flying objects"
clubs being formed throughout
the world. Fahrney said his com-
hittee wil collect and investigate
flying saucer reports, evaluate
them and make public its find-
ings.

30 JAN 23 1957

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FLYING

CANCERS

Mr. Tolson
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Boardman
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Mason
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tamm
Mr. Nease
Mr. Winterrowd
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy
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<empty>

# Saucer' Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw

SAGINAW, July 30. (AP) -
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, Midland and Gratiot
counties. Police said the callers
told them the object was seen
over Freeland, Clare, Alma and
Breckinridge, all west of Sag-
inaw.

Midland police said they re-
ceived one call but could not
Spot the object.

Similar reports were received
from the Cadillac area early
Saturday, but Air Force investi-
gating planes found nothing.

Gescock

Beokugan
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Date: 7-30-56
Edition: 5 STAR
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Flying Saucers

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Nichols [x]
Boardman [x]
Belmont [x]
Mason [x]
Mohr [x]
Parsons [x]
Rosen [x]
Tamm [x]
Nease [x]
Winterrowd [x]
Tele. Room [x]
Holloman [x]
Gandy [x]

## 'Confidential Files' Gets
10-Cent 'Saucer' Inquiry

By the Associated Press

If you want information on
flying saucers, don't address your
request to "Confidential Files,
Washington, D. C."
Takes too long. And besides
you may be investigated by the
FBI.

A woman out in Los Angeles (name withheld by various Gov- ernment agencies) dashed off a note on January 15. It said:

## "Confidential Files

"Wash., D. C. Dear Sirs Please send me a bulletin of flying saucers, or the address where I can get infor- mation about them. I am inclos- ing 10 cents,

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B 9180 ORO DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

# Saucer' Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw (cont.)

## "Thanks." (cont.)

Boub 30 loc

Office of Public Information
25, D. C.

W10 say word to not ensigns n

sawellgt

U. S. Air Force Summary of Events and Information. Concerning the Unidentified Flying Object Program

deid ons eboge

The Air Force feels a very definite obligation to identify and analyze things that happen in the air that may have in them menace to the United States and, because of that feeling of obligation and pur- suit of that interest, the Air Force established an activity known as the Unidentified Flying Object Program.

ado

# Saucer' Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw (cont.)

## "Thanks." (cont.)

This program was established in 1947 when unidentified flying objects were being reported in various parts of the United States. The reports of sightings reached a peak of 1,700 in 1952 and dropped to a total of 429 in 1953. During the first nine months of 1954 only 254 sightings were reported.

010

From a survey of the volume of sightings received by the Air Force, it has been determined that over 80 percent are explainable as being known objects. Generally, sighted objects 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.

Explanations pertaining to sightings reported from military and civilian radar facilities are as follows:

1. Temperature inversion reflections can give a return on a radar scope that is as sharp as that received from an aircraft.. Speeds of these returns reportedly range from zero to fantastic rates. The "objects" also appear to move in all directions. Such sightings have resulted in many fruitless efforts.

sed

# Saucer' Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw (cont.)

## "Thanks." (cont.)

193

To possibly bear out the theory of temperature inversion reflection is an incident which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge, Tennessee. Two Air Force aircraft attempted to intercept an unidenti- fied "object" and actually established a radar "lock" on the object. Their altitude at the time was 7,000 feet. The unidentified object, according to their radar, appeared to be at an elevation of 10 to 25 degrees from this altitude. Three passes were made in an attempt to close on the object. In each instance the pilots reported that their OM radar led them first upward and then down toward a specific point on the ground. (One scientific theory holds that light can be similarly reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth. If this proves to be correct, many visual night sightings could be accounted for.)

W

2. Ionized clouds have caused some unidentified radar returns. Thunderstorms are identifiable by radar and radar returns have also been received from ice formations in the air, balloons, ground reflec- tions, frequency interference between other radar stations, and wind-t especially when they occur during darkness. born objects. Obviously, such returns are very difficult to identify,

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3. The radar creen has picked up birds ad in one case a flock of ducks. Flight interceptions proved these phenomena.

An explanation of known types of visual sightings are as. follows:

and touto anive

# Saucer' Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw (cont.)

## "Thanks." (cont.)

mono

1. Present-day jet aircraft, flying at great speeds and high altitudes, are often mistaken for unknown objects by the untrained observer. Sunlight reflections from the polished surfaces of air-se craft can be seen plainly even when the aircraft itself is too dis- tant to be visible. The exhaust of jet aircraft emits a trail and often this is seen rather than the aircraft itself. bet

2. Weather balloons account for a substantial number of sight- ings. These balloons, sent to altitudes of 40,000 feet and higher,rootdo are launched from virtually every airfield in the country. They are made of rubber or polyethylene, swell as they gain altitude, have very good reflective qualities, carry small lights when launched after dark, and can be seen at very high altitudes.

3. In addition to the ordinary weather balloon, huge 90-foot balloons, which sometimes drift from coast to coast, are used for upper air research. These balloons also have a highly reflective and are visible at extreme altitudes. 1:..abild be

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# Saucer' Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw (cont.)

## "Thanks." (cont.)

4° Frequently, unusually bright meteors and planets will cause a flurry of reports, sometimes from relatively experienced observers. At certain times of the year, Venus, for instance, is low on the th horizon and will appear to change color and move erratically due to hazy atmospheric conditions. Since the stars are charted and most of their characteristics known, many cases are traced to them. Meteors on the other hand are of rapid single-direction movement and are only visible for a few 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.

me cases arise which will on

# Saucer' Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw (cont.)

## "Thanks." (cont.)

5. Some which, on the basis of information received are of a weird and peculiar nature. The objects display erratic movements and phenomenal speeds. Since maneuvers and speeds of this kind cannot be traced directly to aircraft, balloons, or known astro- nomical sources, it is believed that they are reflections from ob- jects rather than being objects themselves. For example: suppose we would hold a mirror in hand under a light, causing a reflection on the ceiling. Only a slight, quick movement of the hand would result in erratic movements and phenomenal speeds of the reflected beam. Reflections may be projected to clouds and haze both from the ground and air. Many things which are common to the sky have highly reflective qualities, such as balloons, aircraft, and clouds. Accu- rate speeds are also difficult to determine due to the inability of the reporter to judge distance, angles, and time.

# Saucer' Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw (cont.)

## "Thanks." (cont.)

In the analysis a vestigation of the radar and visual sightings described, re are some yardsticks whi have been established from experience and trends to measure and attempt to determine the source of UFO's. Some of these are general in nature and are subject to change as new scientific and factual information is received. It should be remembered that any object viewed from a great distance appears to be round. Nearly all the sightings reported are described as round and would tend to indicate that most of the objects are at a greater distance from the observer than is generally estimated.

Another misconception centers about photographs of unidentified flying objects. At best the majority of photographs have proven non-conclusive as evidence to this program mainly due to type cameras used. Also, it might be mentioned that because still photographs can be so easily faked, either by using a mock-up or model against a legitimate background, or by retouching the negative, they are worth- less as evidence. Innumerable objects, from ashtrays to wash basins, have been photographed while sailing through the air. Many such photos have been published without revealing the true identity of the objects. set,do Leo Do

# Saucer' Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw (cont.)

## "Thanks." (cont.)

More attention is given to moving pictures of unidentified fly- FLOW ing objects since they are more difficult to retouch. However, only a very few movie-type films have been received by the Air Force and they reveal only pinpoints of light moving across the sky. The Air Force has been unable to identify the source of these lights because the images are too small to analyze properly. Since ownership of these films remains with the persons taking them, the Air Force is now in a position to give them out.

The difficulty of evaluating reports of all types is based largely upon the lack of basic data surrounding the sightings. The drop in sightings during 1953 is largely due to the increased accuracy and the completeness of reports being received. To be of value, a report should include such basic data as size, shape, composition, speed, altitude, direction, and the maneuver pattern of the objects. Without such information, it is almost impossible to establish the identity of the object sighted. In addition, a recent study has shown a direct correlation between the number of sightings reported and the publicity given to "saucers" by the nation's press.

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# Saucer' Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw (cont.)

## "Thanks." (cont.)

30 auf at

no photographs of detail have been produced. The photographs on hand are, at best, only large and small blobs of light which, in most cases, are explainable.

ow bus buch as bodies

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 of various books and articles on the subject; however, this trend has been noted several times previously.

In order to overcome the lack of basic data, and to standardize all reports, a detailed questionnaire is now submitted to each person reporting an unidentified aerial object. It is felt that the infor- mation thus obtained will lower still more the number of unexplained sightings.

For observers who wish to report unidentified aerial objects, the Air Force would welcome the information. Attached to this report is a brief basic summary form. It would be appreciated if observers would send the completed form to the nearest Air Force Base. ados

If and when new developments turn up in this program, the Air Force will keep the public informed.sh?"

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Mr. Boardman <empty>
Mr. Nichols <empty>
Mr. Belmont <empty>
Mr. Harbo <empty>
Mr. Mohr <empty>
Mr. Parsons <empty>
Mr. Rosen <empty>
Mr. Taum <empty>
Mr. Sizoo <empty>
Mr. Winterrowd <empty>
Tele. Room <empty>
Mr. Holleman <empty>
Miss Gandy <empty>
<empty>
<empty>

# A NEW SLANT ON
SAUCERS

INDEXED 24 FLYING

(Air force Inte) form

2 ENCL

REYNOLDS NEWS
DECEMBER 19, 1954
LONDON, ENGLAND J

# A NEW SLANT ON
SAUCERS (cont.)

By FORSAITH REES

HERE is the "real truth"
about Flying Saucers,
as told by Georg Klein,
former secret weapons ex-
pert in the German War
Production Ministry, and
now an engineer in
Switzerland.

"Flying Saucers," he says,
are top secret weapons of the
USA and Russia.
"They are a continuation of
German wartime experi-
ments.

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

Klein says the Russians
captured a scale model and top
technicians at Breslau. The
technicians have not returned
to Germany.

And

Walter Miethe, V
weapon inventor and key man
in Saucer development, ed
West and now works in the
United States.
Klein in a Zurich interview

[page 27]
Mr. Tolson
Mr. Boardman
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tamm
Mr. Sizoo
Mr. Winterrowd
Tele. Room
Mr. Holleman
Miss Gandy

## 'Flying Saucer?':
Weird Spy Disc
Sighted By Ship

Boule

пож

# A NEW SLANT ON
SAUCERS (cont.)

## 'Flying Saucer?':
Weird Spy Disc
Sighted By Ship (cont.)

<signature>
OLEPUNG FROM THE
N. Y. JOURNAL AMERICAN
DATED JUL 29 1954
FORWARDED BY N. Y. DIVISION
53 AUG 9 1954

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Jaucers.

Hyping Lauren

Mostag

# A NEW SLANT ON
SAUCERS (cont.)

## 'Flying Saucer?':
Weird Spy Disc
Sighted By Ship (cont.)

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Mr. Boardman <empty>
Mr. Nichols <signature>
Mr. Belmont <empty>
Mr. Harbo <empty>
Mr. Mohr <empty>
Mr. Parsons <empty>
Mr. Rosen <empty>
Mr. Tamm <empty>
Mr. Sizoo <empty>
Mr. Winterrowd <empty>
Tele. Room <empty>
Mr. Holloman <empty>
Miss Gandy <empty>

<signature>

# A NEW SLANT ON
SAUCERS (cont.)

## 'Flying Saucer?':
Weird Spy Disc
Sighted By Ship (cont.)

(OBJECT) NEW YORK-THREE CREW MEMBERS OF A TRANS-WORLD AIRLINES PARIS- NEW YORK FLIGHT REPORTED TODAY THEY SIGHTED AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OJECT ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF BOSTON THE PILOT CAPT. CHARLES J. KRATOVIL OF PORT WASHINGTON, L.I SAID ME SAW A LARGE, WHITE-COLORED, DISC-LINE OBJECT AT 9:30 AM tot. KRATOVIL SAID THE OBJECT WAS PURUSING A PARALLEL COURSE AHED OF HIS PLANE BUT HE COULD NOT GET A CLEAR LOOK AS IT MOVED ABOVE HIGH CLOUDS. AFTER THE PLANE ARRIVED AT IDLEWILD AIRPORT, KRATOVIL RECEIVED A MESSAGE FROM TRANS-WORLD AIRLINES IN BOSTON STATING THAT A WEATHER BALLOON HAD BEEN RELEASED FROM GRENIER AIR FORCE BASE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, ABOUT 90 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOSTON, AT 4:30 A.M. EDT. THE MESSAGE SAID THE BALLOON WAS OVER BOSTON AT 9:19 A.M. EDT KRATOVIL SAID THE MESSAGE DESCRIBED THE BALLOON AS ABOUT 100 FEET IN DIAMETER AND JUST ABOUT FITS THE DESCRIPTION OF WHAT YOU SAV COMMENTING ON THE MESSAGE, KRATOVIL, WHO HAS BEEN FLYING SINCE 1927, SAID IT SOUNDS LIKE A COVER-UP TO ME, IF THIS IS A WEATHER BALLOON, IT'S THE FIRST TIME I EVER SAW ONE TRAVELING AGAINST THE WIND.". KRATOVIL'S STATEMENT ABOUT THE OBJECT WAS SUPPORTED BY THE CO-PILOT, NR. DAVIS OF HICKSVILLE, L.I., AND BY THE FLIGHT ENGINEER, HAROLD RANEY OF BAYSIDE, QUEENS KRATOVIL SAID THE LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TOWER IN BOSTON SAID EXCHT EMPLOYES THERE TOLD OF SEEING THE OBJECT, AND IT DID NOT APPEAR to BE BALLOON. 6/1--MJ315P

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<signature> Mr. Boardman
<signature> Mr. Nichols
<signature> Mr. Belmont
<signature> Mr. Harbo
<signature> Mr. Mohr
<signature> Mr. Parsons
<signature> Mr. Rosen
<signature> Mr. Tamm
<signature> Mr. Sizoo
<signature> Mr. Winterrowd
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<signature> Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy <empty>

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Nichols <empty>
Belmont <empty>
Clegg <empty>
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## Air Force Hushes Up Saucer Probe

# A NEW SLANT ON
SAUCERS (cont.)

## By ROBERT CRATER

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

Air Force leaders have
slammed down a "brass" curtain
at the Dayton (O.) Air Technical
Intelligence Center (ATIC),
where flying saucer reports are
investigated.

"The Air Force will be unable to honor visits (including the press) to the ATIC because the volume of requests for information has seri- ously interferred with investiga- tions," an Air Force spokesman here said today.

He said the original official policy d been to exclude visits by news-

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# 'THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE'

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# Are They Hiding Those
Lights Under a Bushel?

# Are They Hiding Those
Lights Under a Bushel? (cont.)

## 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- 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 careful-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.

# Are They Hiding Those
Lights Under a Bushel? (cont.)

## FIRST SIGHTING

Pfc. Viets was standing sentry duty at the Tank Park 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."

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 of his post.
"It was about a foot and a half in
diameter," he said, "only Boing about
10 lowed the tree or 15 miles an hour. tree line about 50 yards to it fol-
the right and went down.

"It went straight down, all of a

sudden. Fifteen minutes later it went straight up and moved over here toward the tank shed.

"I saw it two times after that. It weirdest looking thing I ever saw. did the same thing. It was the There was no engine noise and no shape-just the light."

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## NO SALE

By the time The News talked to Pfc. 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.

# Are They Hiding Those
Lights Under a Bushel? (cont.)

## CONFLICT

First reports had it that troops were sent into the area to look for the lights. Yesterday Maj. A. B. Ferguson, the base information of ficer, said that report was errone ous.

"We did at no time dispatch troops to fight off the invaders or "We did at no time dispatch capture then or welcome them 8:23 aboard or anything else," he said.

However, this is what the official

record says:

"A 13-man detail arrived (at 11:15 p. m., Dec. 30) from Camp Barrett and made a search of the area in which the light was first The search proved fruit-

Fifty minutes later Pfc. Viets' re- lief "reported seeing the same red light." Sergt. Salinder saw nothing.

## HOVERS

The next night the light was seen
again, at 6:25 p. m., by a tank
park sentry and the guard tower.
At 7:10, it appeared again. This
time the sergeant of the guard last night.
"came out and checked the area l

# Are They Hiding Those
Lights Under a Bushel? (cont.)

## HOVERS (cont.)

Pfc. Bennett (top front) grabbed a butcher knife and said: "It's land- ing in the tank shed!" Maj. Pomerleau (middle photo) is skeptical, but still curious. Pfc. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convince him "that was no airplane." -News Staff Photos by Gene Thomas

with troops," the official report
says.

Thirty minutes later, the sergeant of the guard saw it again, and at lights were seen. 8:23 p. m. three lights were seen. (This was New Year's Eve.) At 9:01 it was seen again, and at 4:20 New Year's morning it moved northeast, then south, then north and remained "over the tank shed at an elevation of about 3500 feet."

That was the time Pfc. Viets said, "when they saw it come up there and lay under the moon until morning."

# Are They Hiding Those
Lights Under a Bushel? (cont.)

## HOVERS (cont.)

sible way to describe the light's size, shape and intensity was to it to "the way a traffic light appears to a compare blinking red motor- traffic light appears to a red motor- ist as he pulls up to an intersec tion."

He heard no noise and saw no shape. He said the light was "sharp- ly delineated."

Pfc. Viets' relief of the night be- fore got so excited he "grabbed a butcher knife and headed for the tank shed to help out his troops," his barracks mates said.

"But I have friends and a pro- fessional reputation," he said, "and as far as I'm concerned just say it's an aircraft navigation light."

The light came back three times Friday night, once Saturday night, five times Sunday night and twice

Maj. Pomerleau said the best pos-

Several airlines that fly in and out of Washington say they began in- stalling new lights atop the tails of planes six months ago. They blink on and off, are red, and can be seen much farther away than older types.

"Nobody in the barracks knows,"
Pfc. Viets said.. "They're just talking
flying saucers, that's all. They're
talking about men from Mars and
leverything else you could name."

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## Mystery Is Dissolved

## Marines Decide 'Objects'
Are New Airliner Lights

as the Marine Corps is con- cerned, a spokesman said.

Authorities at the Quantico
Marine Base last night took a
long, searching look at those
strange flying objects with flash-done
ing lights seen near the base for
the past five nights-and de-a
cided they were commercial air-
liners.

# Are They Hiding Those
Lights Under a Bushel? (cont.)

## Marines Decide 'Objects'
Are New Airliner Lights (cont.)

Until last night, however, the lights were reported to have Until last night, however, the
about everything. Nine-
teen Marines reported sighting
mysterious reddish "blinking
or revolving" light over the base
the nights of December 30 and
January 1, 2 and 3. Rumors that
platoons of infantry had been
the objects and a report that a sent to the "landing site" of a
helicopter flew to intercept the
lights were discounted by the
Marine Corps earlier yesterday.
The base provo marshal,
Maj. D. D. Pomerleau, who saw
the lights twice, guessed that
they came from an airliner, but
added that he couldn't be sure.
But last night the Marine
Corps had this final word:

# Are They Hiding Those
Lights Under a Bushel? (cont.)

## Marines Decide 'Objects'
Are New Airliner Lights (cont.)

Quick as a flash, op- erating out of Washington con- Quick as a flash, airlines op- firmed the Marine Corps' guess. An American Airlines spokes- man said flashing red lights, vis- ible for 10 to 15 miles, have been installed recently atop the ver- tical stabilizer, or tail, of its planes. Other airlines also have put in such lights, he said. A group of Marine officers last night made a field trip to the "Guadacanal" area of the base, west of U. S. 1. They re- ported: "This flashing red light, when seen for the first time by the unaided eye, creates an un- usual impression and an illu- sion of nearness." closed the matter as far tion."

"Officials here are convinced
that the unusual phenomenon
was a new navigational light of
greater intensity used on air-
liners flying near the reserva-

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## Marines Investigating

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# Mystery Flying Object' Lands
Near Quantico, Say Sentries

One of those mysterious flying
objects reportedly landed near
Quantico on New Year's Eve but
took off again before the Ma-
rines could get the situation in
hand.

the sky and described it as a flying saucer," according to the spokesman. They notified the Officer of the Day that it had landed, and the helicopter took off from Quantico. By the time it arrived, the mystery ship had risen and was out of sight.

A spokesman yesterday con- firmed that a flying object had been reported near the base. Two sentries on duty at Camp Barrett, a Marine installation about 15 miles from Quantico, reported seeing an object in

The news spread swifty
among Quantico personnel. One
report had it that two platoons
were deployed to capture the
thing but this was denied by the
official spokesman.

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## Swedish Pilot Reports 'Saucer'

## By United Press

Branigan
WAR Чери

# Mystery Flying Object' Lands
Near Quantico, Say Sentries (cont.)

## By United Press (cont.)

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 in complete reports from all Swedish radar stations after 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 circular object," Capt. Christiernsson said. "I was not at all scared, but curious, very curious." 33

Capt. Christiernsson said the object flew faster than sound about 5000 feet 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 in the direction of East Germany's Baltic shore, near the former Nazi research station at Peenemunde, now operated by the Russians.

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# SAUCERS HELD
SPACE SHIPS
BY EX-MARINE
Hits AF Stand On
Flying Disks

(This is the last of three arti- cles on the controversial subject of "flying saucers" and their investigation by the Air Force.)

# SAUCERS HELD
SPACE SHIPS
BY EX-MARINE
Hits AF Stand On
Flying Disks (cont.)

## BY RICHARD REILLY

Are the flying saucers 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.

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, 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 agency in the government is conducting experiments, classified or other- wise, with flying objects which could be a basis for the reported phenomena."

# SAUCERS HELD
SPACE SHIPS
BY EX-MARINE
Hits AF Stand On
Flying Disks (cont.)

## Weapon Theory Discounted

In addition, a high-ranking Air
Force officer indicated to the
Times-Herald that it is believed
impossible the saucers could be
& foreign weapon.

Regarding the question as to
whether flying saucers exist, Lt.
Robert White, public informa-
tion officer, said the Air Force
believes reliable observers such
as veteran airline pilots are sin-
cere when they report sighting
unidentified objects.

The Air Force was tossed a hot potato recently by Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, 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.

Furthermore, Keyhoe contends
that the so-called "Utah film"
possessed by the Air Force proves

## Theory Bolstered

Keyhoe's inter-planetary theory
was bolstered by a letter pub-
lished on the jacket of his book
from Albert M. Chop, former Air
Force civilian expert on the
saucer project, who now is with
the Douglas Aircraft company in
California.

# SAUCERS HELD
SPACE SHIPS
BY EX-MARINE
Hits AF Stand On
Flying Disks (cont.)

## In the letter, Chop stated:

"The Air Force, and its investi-
gative agency, 'Project Bluebook,'
are aware of Maj. 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 that 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-
maining explanation is the inter-
planetary answer."

Upon publication of the letter
written on Defense department
stationery-the Air 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
viduals" and insisted that it was
"a true statement."

# SAUCERS HELD
SPACE SHIPS
BY EX-MARINE
Hits AF Stand On
Flying Disks (cont.)

## 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 is 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 that it is holding back no important facts from the public.

Lt. White said the names of
persons involved in the htings

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afe withheld, and reports which
divulge the capabilities of our
aircraft, radar and electronic
equipment are classified. All
other information with respect
to sightings is a matter of pub-
lic 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 connected with the incidents could be de- leted, if necessary.

# SAUCERS HELD
SPACE SHIPS
BY EX-MARINE
Hits AF Stand On
Flying Disks (cont.)

## Wants Film Released

Keyhoe also claims that the
Air Force should release the
final intelligence analysis on
the Utah film.

In connection with this, Key-
hoe recently sent a telegram to
high Air Force officials charging
that since the Air Force had im-
plied that he had misrepresented
the analysis of the Utah film,
eithe either he or the Air Force was
lying.

The Times-Herald asked a top
Air Force spokesman if Keyhoe
had, in fact, misrepresented the
Utah film analysis. He declined
to comment.

In his telegram as in his
book-Keyhoe stated:

"The final analysis proved
that the saucer formation could
not be explained as any known
aircraft or other conventional
objects."

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intelligence experts reached the
following conclusions:

1. The average speed of the
unknown objects was somewhere
between 653 and 980 miles per
hour.

2. All the objects appeared round, of the same size, and gave off a bluish-white glow of very high intensity.

Continuing, Gen. Smith stated:

4. Because of these high speeds, the objects obviously could not be balloons or birds.

3. The objects seemed to be maneuvering in a circular or el- liptical pattern within the group, at very high speeds.

5. They were not any type of
known aircraft.

6. The sighting could not be ex-
plained by any conventional an-
swer.

However, the spokesman said
the film could be viewed at
Wright field, Ohio.

# SAUCERS HELD
SPACE SHIPS
BY EX-MARINE
Hits AF Stand On
Flying Disks (cont.)

## Not Discounting Theory

"For the Air Force to admit that flying saucers exist, it would want indisputable physical evi- dence. For such an admission, it would want stronger evidence than it now has."

Summing up the problem, he
said:

"So far, the question of whether flying saucers exist, and if so, what they are, has not been conclusively answered either

Brig. Gen. Sory Smith, Air
Force public relations chief, put it
this way:

"In our investigation we are
not discounting the possibility
that the saucers if they exist-person
could be interplanetary. We are
interested in anyone who might
be using the air over the United
States.

tic physical evidence that they
are interplanetary."

Asked if the Times-Herald could see the final analysis re said that there were certain re- port, an Air Force spokesman ports the Air Force could not make public for security reasons, risk of libel, and other reasons.

"However, we have no authen.

The Air Force officially neither
accepts nor rejects the interplan
etary theory.

# SAUCERS HELD
SPACE SHIPS
BY EX-MARINE
Hits AF Stand On
Flying Disks (cont.)

## Will Push Campaign

But one thing is certain, he added. The Air Force will con- tinue to seek the answer.

way."

Meanwhile, Keyhoe plans to continue his campaign to com pel the Air Force to disclose the facts he says it is concealing. He told the Times-Herald he will continue to make his claims in print and on television, and will challenge the Air Force to deny them.

# SAUCERS HELD
SPACE SHIPS
BY EX-MARINE
Hits AF Stand On
Flying Disks (cont.)

## Will Push Campaign (cont.)

"We do not know enough about it to deny that flying saucers exist. Conversely, we have no proof that they do exist.

"If any official, after reading
the final analysis on the Utah
film, says that it did not rule
out birds, known aircraft or
conventional objects as the
cause of those objects, I will call
him liar to his face. him a

"I do not like to use such
terms, but after all, the Air
Force has, in effect, been calling
me a liar and I'm getting tired
of it."

Regardless of the charges and
counter-charges, so long as the
Air Force has unsolved sightings
in its files and until it is
definitely known what the fly.
ing saucers are the average
is bound to wonder...

Are the flying saucers real? If so, what are they?

The final chapter is yet to be written in this strange drama. The answer is not yet available to us.

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## To Fan Hysteria
Red Labels
'Saucers'
U.S. Fiction

LONDON -- A Soviet
commentator Saturday accused
"aggressive forces" in the Unit-
ed States and other countries
of inventing flying saucers to
fan war hysteria.

Moscow radio broadcast ex-
cerpts from an aritcle by
K. Khachaturov in the Soviet
army newspaper Red Star, say-
ing:

"Those who spread these fa-
bles 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 rul ing circles of this or that cap Italist country, on orders from Washington, are trying to foist upon their people the new bur- den of military expenditure."

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BOWLING GREEN, O.--A PRIVATE PLANE PILOT SAID TODAY HE SAW "AN OBJECT BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN FOR ABOUT FIVE SECONDS," WHILE CRUISING AT ABOUT 80 MILES PER HOUR TWO MILES WEST OF HERE.

THE PILOT, WHO ASKED THAT HIS IDENTITY NOT BE REVEALED, SAID HIS PLANE WAS AT ABOUT 2,000 FEET THIS MORNING WHEN HE SAW THE UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT.

"IT LOOKED LIKE A BALL OF FIRE," HE SAID. "IT WAS BRILLIANT WHITE, LIKE MOLTEN STEEL, THEN IT TURNED BLUE AND TOOK OFF STRAIGHT WEST. IT TOOK OFF WITHIN FIVE SECONDS."

THE PILOT SAID THE OBJECT WAS TRAVELLING FASTER THAN ANY JET PLANE AND WAS GOING SOUTH WHEN HE FIRST SAW IT. HE SAID THE SKY WAS CLEAR AND THERE WERE NO OTHER PLANES IN SIGHT AT THE TIME. HE SAID HE DIDN'T THINK IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY REFLECTION. HE SAID IT APPEARED ABOUT A FOOT IN DIAMETER AND WAS ABOUT THE SAME "files Sty ALTITUDE AT WHICH HE WAS FLYING. 12/11--TS151P

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# CANADA PLANS
FLYING SAUCER
OBSERVATORY

# Not Optical Illusions,
Top Experts Hold

OTTAWA, Nov. 12 YCTPS)-
Establishment of a Canadian
government observatory for fly.
ing saucers, the first in the world,
has been announced here.

"There is a very high degree 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, fold 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.

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# Not Optical Illusions,
Top Experts Hold (cont.)

tion "usion explana- The 18 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, on the Ottawa river 10 miles west of here. Smith said any one locaion in Canada is sure to have at least one saucer sighting a year. Associated with Smith in the project, "which 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 alarm bells. The
equipment includes an iono-
spheric reactor, electronic de-
vices for measurement of sounds, ment
a gamma ray detector, a gravi-
meter, and other paraphernalia.

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# Not Optical Illusions,
Top Experts Hold (cont.)

[ ] FLYING SaucERS

(SAUCERS)

THE AIR FORCE STILL INSISTS THAT "FLYING SAUCERS" ARE WEATHER FREAKS DESPITE A RETIRED MARINE OFFICER'S ATTEMPT TO PROVE THEY ARE SPACE SHIPS FROM ANOTHER PLANET.

A SPOKESMAN SAID THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN AIR FORCE'S OFFICIAL VIEW. ALTHOUGH DONALD E. KEYHOE, IN A BOOK "FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE," CLAIMED THE AIR FORCE HAS SECRET MOVIES PROVING THE OFT-SEEN GLOWING OBJECTS ARE INTERPLANETARY CRAFT.

BOTH THE AIR FORCE AND THE WEATHER BUREAU, AFTER EXHAUSTIVE STUDIES, AGREED MANY MONTHS AGO THAT THE FIERY, FAST-MOVING OBJECTS SEEN BY OBSERVERS FROM COAST TO COAST WERE LIGHT EFFECTS CAUSED BY TEMPERATURE "INVERSION."

KEYHOE, HOWEVER, CLAIMED HE SUPPORTS HIS INTERPLANETARY SHIP THEORY WITH OFFICIAL AIR FORCE DOCUMENTS. A PRESS RELEASE PREPARED BY HIS PUBLISHER "REVEALED" WHAT IT SAID WAS A BITTER STRUGGLE IN HIGH AIR FORCE CIRCLES OVER WHETHER TO MAKE THE ALLEGED PICTURES PUBLIC. KEYHOE SCHEDULED A COCKTAIL PARTY AT 4:00 P.M. FOR THE PRESS TO PLUG HIS BOOK. 9/29- GE1024A

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Flying Saucers

Plastic Moby Dicks' Flying Since 1950

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# Whale-Like Air Force Balloons Rise 20 Miles, Solve Flying Saucer Riddle, Wind Secrets

## By the Associated Press

(loons sometimes seem to be
racing at tremendous velocities,
whereas they actually are mov-
ing at 60 miles an hour or less.

The magazine Aviation Week
published a new report yester-
day on what the Air Force has
found out about the upper at-
mosphere with its "Moby Dick"
ballons-whale-like bags which
have often been mistaken for
flying saucers.

One evening after sunset many units of the Strategic Air Command in Texas were kept busy trying to catch and shoot down a flying object that was actually a Moby Dick drift- ing along at about 90,000 feet in a glow of dust-refracted sun-

Since the big helium-filled balloons made their appear ance three years ago, the maga- light. zine said, more than 90 percent of the "saucer" sightings have coincided with their logged as- cents and charted courses.

# Whale-Like Air Force Balloons Rise 20 Miles, Solve Flying Saucer Riddle, Wind Secrets (cont.)

## By the Associated Press (cont.)

The shiny surface of the plas- tic balloons is an excellent re- flector of light. Long after the sun has set and darkness has covered the earth, they shine brillantly with the light re- flected from the sun at alti- tudes of from 90,000 to 100,- 000 feet, almost 20 miles up in the sky.

Vapor dust or other foreign particles in the atmosphere make the light appear white, red, purple, or green. Because of the difficulty of judging speed at high altitudes, the bal-

Another mysterious object, later identified positively as a research balloon, floated over San Francisco last spring during a parade welcoming Gen. James A. Van Fleet home from Korea. It shone as a brilliant white sphere as jet fighters vainly tried to reach it. On another day, Dayton, Ohio, was filled with "saucer" reports as anoth- er balloon floated over the city. The balloon flights have con-

B-36 bomber crews, accus-
tomed to flying high altitudes,
gave up the chase when they
were left behind at 45,000 feet,
and jet fighters stalled trying
to pursue the object above their
altitude ceiling.

# Whale-Like Air Force Balloons Rise 20 Miles, Solve Flying Saucer Riddle, Wind Secrets (cont.)

## By the Associated Press (cont.)

firmed the fact that air current
travel in opposite directions at
different altitude layers. The
prevailing wind moves from
West to East across the United
States at about 50,000 feet.
About 10,000 feet higher, how-
ever, the flow is sometimes re-
versed.

Balloons have also carried
various kinds of animal life,
ranging from fruit flies to mice
and monkeys, up to 80,000 feet.
The experimental animals have
survived such altitudes for 24
hours and have been recovered
to provide living data for scien-
tific research.

The Moby Dick balloons are released almost daily at Tilla- mook, Ore.; Vernalis, Calif., and Edwards Air Force Base in Cali fornia. Two more sites will be used to take advantage of late summer winds-the Moody Air Force base near Valdosta, Ga., and Sedalia, Mo.

The big bags are made so that
they destroy themselves auto-
matically when they descend to
33,000 feet. Recording machines
and instruments are parachuted
to earth.

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Chasing F-84 Over Japan

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# Pilot Sights Small Flying Disc
Chasing F-84 Over Japan (cont.)

## By the Associated Press

UNITED STATES AIR BASE,
Northern Japan, Jan. 28.-The
United States Air Force last night
reported a small, metallic, disc-exhaust
shaped object made a controlled,
sweeping pass at an American
jet fighter-bomber and was ob-
served at very close range by
another pilot.

"about eight inches in diameter,
very thin, round, and as shiny as
polished chromium; had no ap-
parent projections and left no
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.

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, Ill.

It 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.

It was a bright, cloudless day. Lt. Brigham said he got a very godd look at the object from about 30 to 50 feet for about 10 seconds.

On January 21, the Air Force disclosed that "rotating clusters of red, white and green lights" had been sighted over Northern Japan by American airmen.

pilot describe

The pilot described

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Chasing F-84 Over Japan (cont.)

## By the Associated Press (cont.)

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SANTA FE, N.M.--THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN SAID TODAY THAT "FANTASTIC STRIDES HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE FIELD OF GUIDED MISSILE RESEARCH AND THAT IT IS "POSSIBLE" THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MAY SOON CLEAR UP THE MYSTERY OF THE FLYING SAUCERS

THE NEWS PAPER SAID "SOME WRAPS MAY BE REMOVED FROM SOME ASPECTS OF THE HUSH-HUSH PROGRAM" AT A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED AT THE WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER THIS SPRING.

"IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE DISCLOSURE SOON TO BE MADE BY THE DEPART- MENT OF DEFENSE MAY, IN PART AT LEAST, EXPLAIN SOME OF THE THINGS SIGHTED IN SOUTHWESTERN SKIES BY BEWILDERED OBSERVERS WHO HAVE TERMED THEM FLYING SAUCERS FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME," THE PAPER SAID.

(HOWEVER COL. M. G. HENDRICKS, COMMANDANT OF THE PROVING GROUNDS, SAID TODAY THAT RESEARCH THERE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE THE SO-CALLED FLYING SAUCER. WE ARE STRICTLY IN THE GUIDED MISSILE BUSINESS. THERE CERTAINLY WON'T BE ANYTHING LIKE A FLYING SAUCER DEMONSTRATED.")

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SANTA FE, N.M.--THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN SAID TODAY THAT "FANTASTIC STRIDES HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE FIELD OF GUIDED MISSILE RESEARCH AND THAT IT IS POSSIBLE" THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MAY SOON CLEAR UP THE MYSTERY OF THE FLYING SAUCERS

THE NEWS PAPER SAID SOME WRAPS MAY BE REMOVED FROM SOME ASPECTS OF THE HUSH-HUSH PROGRAM AT A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED AT THE WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER THIS SPRING.

"IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE DISCLOSURE SOON TO BE MADE BY THE DEPART- MENT OF DEFENSE MAY IN PART AT LEAST, EXPLAIN SOME OF THE 'THINGS SIGHTED IN SOUTHWESTERN SKIES BY BEWILDERED OBSERVERS WHO HAVE TERMED THEM FLYING SAUCERS FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME," THE PAPER SAID,

CHOWEVER COL. M. G. HENDRICKS, COMMANDANT OF THE PROVING GROUNDS, SAID TODAY THAT RESEARCH THERE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE THE SO-CALLED FLYING SAUCER, WE ARE STRICTLY IN THE GUIDED MISSILE BUSINESS THERE CERTAINLY WON'T BE ANYTHING LIKE A FLYING SAUCER DEMONSTRATED.">

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(RELEASE AT 7:00 P.M. EST)
NEW YORK--THOSE LIGHTS IN THE SKY NEXT WEEK WILL NOT BE FLYING CAUCERS, BUT MERELY "SUDDEN TRAILS OF LIGHT CAUSED BY SOLID PARTICLES FROM OUTER SPACE THAT ENTER OUR ATMOSPHERE AT TREMENDOUS SPEEDS AND ARE HEATED TO INCANDESCENCE BY THE RESISTANCE OF AIR TO THEIR FLIGHT."
THEY'LL BE ESPECIALLY BAD ABOUT THE 10TH AND THE 16TH OF THE MONTH.
ROBERT R. COLES, CHAIRMAN OF THE HAYDEN PLANETARIUM OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, GAVE FAIR NOTICE OF THE LIGHTS TODAY. THE TWO PRINCIPAL METEOR SHOWERS IN NOVEMBER, COLES SAID, ARE THE SO-CALLED TAURID METEORS, WHICH SHOW OFF BEST ABOUT THE 10TH OF THE MONTH, AND THE LEONID METEORS, WHICH STEAL THE SHOW ABOUT THE 16TH.
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(SAUER)
HELENA, MONT. -- THE FBI, HIGHWAY PATROL AND POLICE OFFICERS INVESTI-
GATED TODAY A STRANGE WHITE OBJECT WHICH REPORTEDLY STREAKED ACROSS THE
SKY OVER MONTANA FOR ABOUT 100 MILES.
THE STRANGE OBJECT APPEARED LATE LAST NIGHT, AND THE LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIALS TRACED IT FROM BOZEMAN, MONT., TO THIS CITY. IT WAS ALSO
SIGHTED OVER BUTTE AND BOULDER, MONT.
CAA OFFICIALS SAID THERE WAS NO PLANE IN THE SKY THAT COULD HAVE
SEEN MISTAKEN FOR THE WHITE OBJECT.

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# FIVE-STATE WHATZIT
Well, It Sure Was
Some Ball of Fire

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It has been pretty well established today that the "mass of flaming, incandescent material" which flashed across the sky over Washington and five eastern states last night was a meteor, a flying saucer "as big as a washtub," or a mass of flaming, in- candescent material.

The Naval Observatory, the
Weather Bureau and observers at urbanite.)
National Airport lean toward the
meteor theory.

Scores of Washingtonians, who saw it, leaned in all directions. Police remained stolidly upright, and the FBI had no comment.

# FIVE-STATE WHATZIT
Well, It Sure Was
Some Ball of Fire (cont.)

## 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 of bright greenish fire with a long tail." (This was a housewife).

"I thought it was a flying saucer. I thought it was 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 plane on fire, it was that big. It

was sun-colored with a tail." (Sub-

• Shaped like a star "about as big as the inside of a tennis racket." (12-year-old boy.)

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Mr. Tolson
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Laughlin
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Winterrowd
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy

# High-Flying Bomber
Caused New Disc Tale

Bro Bigon

## Special to The Inquirer

quent, to keep interceptor teams on
the alert.

READING, Pa., Aug. 28.-Air Na-
tional Guard officers and control
tower operators of the C1
Aeronautics Administration today
"cleared up" the latest flying saucer
mystery, as evolved in the skies over
Berks county last Monday.
The saucers, seen by a large num-
ber of persons at that time, a
spokesman said, were vapor trails
of a B-36 inter-continental bomber
and a jet plane. which CAA tower-
men said were flying at an altitude
of 40,000 to 45,000 feet.

The aerial display on Monday was witnessed by hundreds of Guards- men of the 112th Fighter Wing, Pennsylvania-Maryland tional Guard, as well as officers who Air Na- Pennsylvania-Maryland Air Na- watched the maneuvers through binoculars.

Air National Guard officers said report submitted by Harry Fein the auer, 43, Birdsboro, who said he Birdsboro, who said thought he saw a plane release flying saucer in the air Monda morning, probably had to do with

the jet which he saw diving on the
bomber.

# High-Flying Bomber
Caused New Disc Tale (cont.)

## Special to The Inquirer (cont.)

The jet left a bigzag trail as it dived in on the big bomber in a mock interception attack. The spokesman said such air shows were frequent when atmospheric condi- tions were right for the hot exhausts from engines to freeze at high alti- tude.

Nor did the Guard's explanation dovetail very closely with the ac- very closely with count given by Herbert Long, 29, the ac- Kutztown insurance salesman, who told of seeing a flying saucer 30 feet in front of his automobile Monday night, off the Allentown pike near Maxatawny. Long said he saw the object so clearly that he was able to make a detailed drawing of its

The big bombers, the spokesman explained, often fly far out over the appearance. ocean, and when they approach the coastline on their return journeys hey are observed on radar screens and jets are sent up to intercept them. Such tests, he added, are fre- |

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PHILADELPHIA, PA.
PAGE: 1 COLUMN: 7
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Mr. Teleon
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Clogie
Me. Glavin,
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Iaughlin.
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Tele. Rm..
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# High-Flying Bomber
Caused New Disc Tale (cont.)

## (SAUCERS)

PHYSICIST NOEL W SCOTT SAID TODAY THAT THOSE FLYING "THINGS" PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SEEING MAY BE ANODE GLOWS" CAUSED BY IONIZATION OF THIN AIR IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE.

ONE REASON SCOTT FEELS THAT WAY IS THAT HE HAS PRODUCED "FLYING SAUCERS IN HIS LABORATORY AT FORT BELVOIR, VA., WHICH POSSESS ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS ATTRIBUTED TO THE RADAR-SPOTTED "OBJECTS" REPORTED HERE IN RECENT WEEKS.

SCOTT WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT THE BRIGHT METEOR WHICH FLASHED ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN SKIES HERE SUNDAY NIGHT, BUT ABOUT WHATEVER IT IS THAT HAS BEEN PRODUCING "BLIPS" ON AIR FORCE 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 LABORATORIES AT FORT BELVOIR, SCOTT SAID, "I AM CONVINCED THAT THESE FLYING THINGS ARE NATURAL PHENOMENA."

SCOTT HAS BEEN CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS WITH A LARGE VACUUM JAR UNDER CONDITIONS SIMULATING THE RAREFIED AND IONIZED UPPER ATMOSPHERE. BY IONIZING THE THIN AIR IN HIS BELL JAR WITH STATIC ELECTRICITY 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 RADAR.

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Harbo
Rosen [ ]
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Holloman.
Gandy

# High-Flying Bomber
Caused New Disc Tale (cont.)

## (SAUCERS) (cont.)

| (SAUCERS)<br />THE COAST GUARD TODAY RELEASED A PHOTOGRAPH OF FOUR BRILLIANT WHITE                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
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| LIGHTS SNAPPED OVER ITS SALEM, MASS., AIR STATION SEVERAL WEEKS AGO                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| THE PICTURE, TAKEN BY A 21-YEAR OLD COAST GUARD PHOTOGRAPHER, WAS<br />THE LATEST EPISODE IN THE NATIONWIDE OUTBURST OF "FLYING EAUCER<br />MYSTERIES.                                                                                                                                   |
| IT CLEARLY SHOWS FOUR RAGGED-EDGED ROUND OBJECTS IN V-FORMATION                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| EACH APPEARS TO HAVE TWO IDENTICAL SHAFTS OF LIGHT EXTENDING ACROSS                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| ITS CENTER AND PROTRUDING FORE AND AFT LIKE A WING.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| A SPOKESMAN SAID THE NEGATIVE HAS BEEN EXAMINED BY COAST GUARD                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERTS WHO ARE SATISFIED "THERE IS NO RETOUCHING OR                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| FAKERY INVOLVED."<br />"WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OBJECTS ARE," A COAST GUARD OFFICER SAID,                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| "BUT THAT BOY'S CAMERA CAUGHT SOMETHING"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| A UNITED PRESS REPORTER WAS ALLOWED TO SEE THE NEGATIVE WHICH WAS<br />FLOWN LATER TODAY TO DAYTON, O., WHERE IT WILL BE EXAMINED BY AIR<br />FORCE INVESTIGATORS.<br />THE NEGATIVE SHOWS NO SIGN OF RETOUCHING, EVEN UNDER AN ENLARGER<br />WHICH PRESUMABLY WOULD SHOW UP ANY FAKING. |
| THE PHOTOGRAPHER WAS SHELL ALPERT, A COAST GUARD ENLISTED                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
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# Just Nature
Says Air Force Cutting Up, Disc Flying
of 'Saucers'

Flying

# Just Nature
Says Air Force Cutting Up, Disc Flying
of 'Saucers' (cont.)

THE LATEST NEWS: Washington, July 29-Air Force ex- perts said today that they are convinced "natural causes" account for the "flying saucers" which have been dotting local skies for more than a week and have been appearing intermittently throughout the country for more than five years.

Maj. Gen. John A. Samford, director of Air Force intelligence, offered the further assurance that a six-year study shows "no pattern vaguely resembling any threat to the United States."

Referring to the fact that radar screens are picking up what appear to be natural phenomena, Gen. Samford said:

"I think radar is beginning to tell us a great many things it was not built to discover-for instance, about Northern Lights and atmospheric conditions after a heat wave."

Despite the reassurance, which was delivered in an atmosphere of confusion, public concern over the mystery of the skies reached an all-time high.

Twelve more unidentifiable dots on a Civil Aeronautics Administra- tion radar scope here early today threw the city into a dither.

(Jersey City reported track-
ing flying disks and one observer
offered a photo of an oddly-
shaped chunk of light to prove
it.)

# Just Nature
Says Air Force Cutting Up, Disc Flying
of 'Saucers' (cont.)

they saw nothing. Air Force radar equipment at a field near the CAA installation also spotted nothing.

For that reason, the Air Defense planes remained grounded, giving rise to rumors that the Pentagon somehow was surrendering to the "saucers." The Air Force took pains to deny this, and promised pursuit the next time a flying mystery is sighted with the naked, eye.

The Air Force fiew the experts
from Wright-Paterson Field, Day-
ton, O., to quell the gathering
alarm, but meanwhile, USAF
planes were equipped with special
astronomical cameras, with which
it is hoped pursuing pilots may be
ble to take pictures of the phe-
omena.

Air Defense Command planes re-
hained on 24-hour alert to chase
the "interlopers" and, if possible,
"shoot them down."

Meanwhile, other responsible
Pentagon officials reiterated de-
nials that the strange aerial lights
or whatever they are represent
some new phase of U. S. military
experimentation. They expressed
firm conviction, too, that the
things are no threat to the na-
on's security.

Today's rash of "saucers" ap-| eared on the CAA screen from :30 a.m. to 6 a.m. Airline pilots ho were asked to scan the skies or signs of the things repted

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# Just Nature
Says Air Force Cutting Up, Disc Flying
of 'Saucers' (cont.)

## By RICHARD CARTER

The swift-moving celestial lumi-p
nosities which the American pub-|
lic has come to call "flying saucers"
are phenomena with a recorded
History dating back at least 200
years and perhaps several thou-
sand.

sky-watchers ciaimed to have
seen two flying cigar-shaped ob-
jects.

Cigar-shaped objects have been
spotted skyward by innumerable
participants in America's postwar
saucery.

The Biblical Ezekiel's airborne
wheels, for example, had some of
the earmarks of what modern
American science fiction readers,
televiewers and "cold worriers" are
on the verge of regarding as
planetary scouts or missiles from
Moscow.

Flying lights which differ in all
apparent respects from shooting
stars, meteors, and the like, have
been seen by multitudes of sailors
over the centuries, and their ac-
inter-counts of the phenomena differ
hardly at all from those contrib
uted by recent viewers.

Dr. Donald H. Menzel, profes- sor of astrophysics at Harvard University, made this point in An interview last month with Time magazine. He produced documentary evidence that there was a saucer scare in Chicago bn April 10, 1897, when man

# Just Nature
Says Air Force Cutting Up, Disc Flying
of 'Saucers' (cont.)

## By RICHARD CARTER (cont.)

Some people see white lights moving in formation; others see kelly green fire balls; others see orange fire balls; others see fly- ing disks; others see the cigar- shaped mysteries. Some of the objects seem to hover, virtually Continued on Page 16

motionless, before darting into a
cloud and disappearing forever
others move at what seems to
pe an impossible rate of speed
reversing direction instantane-
usly, swooping and climbing in
manner which no man-made
machine or human pilot could
survive.

Since one of the foundations of
modern science is to believe noth-
ing that cannot be proved, most
theories about. the skittering.
whatizzits have to be rejected.
Many theories which have gained
wide currency are based on facts
which are "probably true." But no
scientist bases conclusions on
things which only are probable.

moving at fantastic speeds, or just hovering, depending on conditions. Headlights, aerial searchlights, even street lights in a city can be refracted by the atmosphere and become "flying saucers" out in the country miles away, he says.

To prove it, he has produced
startlingly similar phenomena in
his own laboratory.

# Just Nature
Says Air Force Cutting Up, Disc Flying
of 'Saucers' (cont.)

## By RICHARD CARTER (cont.)

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# Radar Spots More Mystery Objects Here, Fliers Report Sighting Glowing Lights

Washington received another away. The pilot said he wasn't lighted end of a cigaret, or a

visit last night from the uniden- able to close on them, and they cluster of orange and red lights.

tified aerial objects similar to were "really moving." He lost Radar operators plotted their

those reported here last Monday. At least a dozen of the mys- terious objects were reported to have been seen glowing in the sky within a 30-mile radius of the city. They were all picked up on the radar screen of the CAA Air Route Traffic Control center at Washington National Airport.

At 11:25 p. m., two F-94 jet
fighters were sent up by the a. m.
Air Defense command to inves-
tigate the lights. The pilots re-
ported seeing the lights, but
were not able to get any closer
to them than about 7 miles.
The jet pilots described the
lights as hard to see and track
down.

At 11:33 p. m., one jet pilot observed four lights in the vicin- ity of Andrews Air Force base. The lights were about 500 feet above him and about 10 miles

# Radar Spots More Mystery Objects Here, Fliers Report Sighting Glowing Lights (cont.)

sight of them two minutes later. The same pilot observed a steady white light 10 miles east of Mount Vernon at 11:49 p. m. The light, about five miles ahead of him, faded in a minute.

any more lights after that. Al- The interceptors did not sight though the radar screen still picked up the objects. One plane landed shortly before mid- night, and the other about 12:15

It was the second time these
objects have been picked up by
radar. Last night's visitors
showed up first on the screen
at 9:08 p. m. and remained for
some time.

Airline, private and military
pilots all reported seeing them.
Some pilots said they came with-
in two or three miles of the ob-
jects.

They were variously described as looking like blue lights, the

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SAUCERS)

# Radar Spots More Mystery Objects Here, Fliers Report Sighting Glowing Lights (cont.)

MIAMI, FLA.--(UNITED PRESS-WCNS--TWO VETERAN PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS PILOTS REPORTED TODAY THEY SAW EIGHT HUGE FLYING SAUCERS" FLYING AT 000-MILE-AN-HOUR CLIP NEAR NORFOLK, VA LAST NIGHT. NASH SAID HE AND WH FORTENBERRY SAW SIX OF THE STRANGE CAFT, ESTIMATED TO BE 100 IN DIAMETER AND "GLOWING ORANGE-RED LINE HOT COALS, FLY IN FORMATION SOME 6,000 FEET BENEATH THEIR DC-4. THE SIX "THINGS TURNED WESTWARD SHARPLY WHEN THE PAA PLANE PASSED OVERHEAD AND WERE JOINED BY TWO OTHER SIMILAR FLYING DISCs, NASH SAID THE EIGHT "SAUCERS ZOOMED UPWARD TO AN ESTIMATED 10,000 FEET ALTITUDE BEFORE THE GLOWING LIGHT EMANATING FROM THE "PULSATED OFF" AND THEY DISAPPEARED INTO THE SKY, NASH SAID.

NASH 35 ESTIMATED THAT HE AND FORTENBERRY, 30, "WATCHED THE WHOLE MANEUVER" FOR BETWEEN 10 AND 12 SECONDS

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"WE FEEL BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE MISSILES ACTED AND BECAUSEOF ALL THE OTHER REPORTS THAT HAVE BEEN HEARD, THAT THEY MUST BE FROM SOME EXTRA-TERRES TRIAL SOURCE, NASH SAID.

# Radar Spots More Mystery Objects Here, Fliers Report Sighting Glowing Lights (cont.)

"IF EITHER OF US HAD SEEN THE THINGS ALONE, WE WOULD HAVE HESTI TATED TO TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT," THE PILOT SAID. "BUT WE WATCHED THE WHOLE THING TOGETHER,"

NASH SAID THE OTHER PASSENGERS ON THE DC-4 WERE WITTING WHERE THEY COULD NOT HAVE SEEN THE EIGHT MISSILES,

"GIVING CONSIDERATION TO THE DIFFERENCE IN OUR ALTITUDE AND THEIRS, WE JUDGED THAT THEY WERE APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET IN DIAMETER AND BETWEEN 10 AND 15 FEET THICK," NASH SAID.

"AS THEY NEARED US STHEY APPEARED TO BE SOLID BODIES OF LIGHT, GLOWING ORANGE-RED LIKE RED HOT IRONS," NASH SAID. "BUT THEY HAD DEFINITE OUTLINES.

NASH SAID WHEN THE STRANGE OBJECTS GOT ALMOST DIRECTLY BELOW THE PAA PLANE, THEY MADE A SHARP, 150-DEGREE TURN TO THE WEST, THEN BANKED UPWARD AT AN ALMOST 90 DEGREE TURN, AS THEY GAINED ALTITUDE, THEY WERE JOINED BY TWO OTHER IDENTICAL THINGS."

THE LIGHTS OF ALL EIGHT FLICKERED OFF IN SUCCESSION AT PERHAPS 10,000 BUT THEY WERE GOING SO FAST IT WAS DIFFICULT TO ESTIMATE." HE SAID.

SANTOS CEYANES, ACTING OPERATIONS MANAGER FOR PAN AMERICAN HERE, SAID THE FLYING SAUCERS SEEN BY NASH AND FORTENBERRY "OBVIOUSLY WERE NOT FIGMENTS OF THEIR IMAGINATION."

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## (SAUCERS)

DENVER--(UNITED PRESS-WCNS)--FOUR FLORIDA PILOTS THREE OF THEM WORLD WAR II VETERANS. TOLD TODAY OF SEEING A FLYING SAUCER HOVERING OVER THE HANFORD ATOMIC PLANT AT RICHLANDS WASH.

CAPT. JOHN BALDWIN OF CORAL GABLES, FLA., AN AIR FORCE PILOT IN THE PACIFIC DURING WORLD WAR II WHO HAS 7,000 HOURS OF AIRLINE PILOT EXPERIENCE, SAID THE OBJECT HE AND HIS COMPANIONS REPORTED SEEING EARLY 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 "JUST BELOW A DECK OF WISPY CLOUDS ABOUT 10,000 TO 15,000 FEET DIRECTLY ABOVE US.

"ALL OF US HAVE BEEN FLYING A NUMBER OF YEARS AND WE'VE SEEN ALL KINDS OF CLOUDS AND FORMATIONS, BUT NONE OF US HAD EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE," BALDWIN SAID.

"THE OBJECT SEEMED TO BACK AWAY FROM US AND CHANGE SHAPE. IT WAS PERFECTLY ROUND AND STILL AT FIRST. THEN IT SEEMED TO BACK AWAY FROM US AND CHANGE SHAPE. IT BECAME FLAT, GAINED SPEED AND THEN DISAPPEARED QUICKLYW 7/5--N643P

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At dusk on a cool summer eve- ning is the best time to see the balloon "saucer," it adds.

## Navy Calls Saucers
Only Its Big Balloons

NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (P)-Fly- Ing saucers are real-but they're only huge balloons used in cosmic ray studies, Look magazine will say Tuesday, quoting Dr. Urner Liddel, chief of the nuclear physics branch of the Office of Naval Re- search. He is in charge of the cosmic ray-balloon project.

The balloons are huge plastic bags, 100 feet in diameter, that may rise 19 miles high--about 100,000 feet. Winds may sweep them along at 200 miles an hour. At dusk, the slanting rays of the sun light up their bottoms, giving them a saucer-like appearance, the article says.

They carry instruments aloft to record what happens when cosmic rays hit atoms in the earth's at- mosphere. This splitting gives a clue to how atoms are put to- gether, and how to release their energy.

# Radar Spots More Mystery Objects Here, Fliers Report Sighting Glowing Lights (cont.)

## Navy Calls Saucers
Only Its Big Balloons (cont.)

Look says "the Liddel report is
considered to be the most authori-
tative scientific explanation of the
flying-saucer phenomenon. As far
as Dr. Liddel is concerned per-
sonally, he considers his answer
incontrovertibly right."

"When this project first began it was kept secret," the magazine quotes Dr. Liddel. "Now there is no longer any need for secrecy on a scientific basis. And certainly, there is no longer any need to keep the public in the dark about what flying saucers are."

The balloons, called skyhooks,
were first sent aloft in 1947, and
it was then that flying saucer re-
ports began, it adds. There were
more balloons in the next two
years and more "saucers" seen.
There were fewer balloons sent
up in 1950, and fewer
ports.

A picture, taken by telescope. of a balloon at 77,0 feet over Minnesota, convinced Dr. Liddel even more, the magazine says The photo fits descriptions of fly-

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# Radar Spots More Mystery Objects Here, Fliers Report Sighting Glowing Lights (cont.)

## Navy Calls Saucers
Only Its Big Balloons (cont.)

"The lateral rays of the sun at dusk illuminate the base of the balloon. There is no chance of your ever seeing the full round- ness of it because you are so far below it. You see only the illumi- nated cup of the bottom. If your imagination soars, the light re- flection on the side may impress you as the glow of an atomic en- gine. The wisp of the balloon's instrument-filled tail may impress you as the exhaust. The sun's rays may suffuse the plastic bag with a fiery glow.

"Even seasoned airmen have no way of estimating the size and speed of an object they see. To peg size and speed, the mind must know the nature of the ob- ject." know the natur

Look says Dr. Liddel and asso-
ciates studied 2000 reports of
flying saucers, eliminating those
"seeming to be the visions of
crackpots or psycopaths" or
"clearly the result of inaccurate
vision."

"This left a solid base of re ports from airplane pilots, scien tific observers and reliable laymen which could not be brushed aside After a thorough investigation, Dr. Liddel said: "There is not a single reliable report of an ob- servation which is not attributable to the cosmic balloons"."

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# WHAT FLEW ACROSS
ENGLAND YESTERDAY?

# Football
Crowds See
'Flying Saucer'

# Football
Crowds See
'Flying Saucer' (cont.)

## By Sunday Dispatch Reporter

G. 1. R. -10

THOUSANDS 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:

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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 in the stand cried "Oh!" as the white, liquid form sped inland from the direction of the English Channel.

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Other people described it as a
"blob of brilliant whiteness
and a "sheet of white het
metal

## Airmen Saw It

## Snake-Shape

Chairman of Chard F.C., Mr. William Taunton, sitting in the stand, said: "It came right over the top of us like a brilliant streak and then seemed to dissolve before our eyes."

Pilots of four jet aircraft of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force coming in to land at Llandaw, near Car- diff, reported a flash of light at 15,000ft. to the north-east of the airfield.

# Football
Crowds See
'Flying Saucer' (cont.)

## Snake-Shape (cont.)

Miss Myra Scott, who was watch- ing a football match at Perry Street, three miles south of Chard, said she saw a "low-flying, silvery four o'clock. star with a tail" shortly before

At a football match at Easton- In-Gordano, near Bristol, specta- tors saw a flash. Mr. M. V. Perrett, of Ham Green, said: "It looked like a rocket coming down from 2,000ft. There was an intense white flash which left a trail of vapour."

At North Petherton, near Bridg- water, spectators at another match saw an object in the north-west sky shortly before four o'clock.

Spectators at the match between
Shaftesbury and Longfleet St.
Mary reported what appeared like
a giant rocket. It seemed to fall
from the sky.

It was described as "a long snake-shape thing which streaked through the sky at a terrific rate."

Mr. T. Hollinghurst, of North
Petherton, said: "It appeared sud-
denly and went away suddenly,
leaving a creamy smoke. There
planes about." was no noise and there were no

Bovingdon airport in Hertford- shire, 150 miles east of Llandaw, also reported to the Air Ministry that a brilliant white light was seen a long way to the west at 4.5 p.m. Observers estimated that it was at about 20,000ft. and say that it vanished in a trail of smoke.

# Football
Crowds See
'Flying Saucer' (cont.)

## Channel Explosion

Air Ministry said last night: "A thorough check has been made and no aircraft is missing or believed to have blown up in the air

"It is most unlikely that an un- scheduled private flight could have taken place at such a height. We cannot explain the phenomenon.

A few minutes later a flash, as though from an explosion, was north of Chard. seen at a great height over the Bristol Channel, 50 miles to the

"No aircraft was flying in the
Portishead area."

130 miles apart were received at the Air Ministry. Reports from places as much as

## Game Stopped

# Football
Crowds See
'Flying Saucer' (cont.)

## Game Stopped (cont.)

Portishead (near Bristol) police
reported that a white flash was seen between 4.5 and 4.10 p.m.
sion. integrated. The estimated height was 20,000ft. which appeared to be an explo- It turned pink and dis-

At Towyn, near Rhyl, North
Wales, Rugby players dropped the
ball and, with spectators, stared
into the sky as a yellow object
tr 2 spars flashed across it.

It vanished over Tower Hill,
Abergele, within ten seconds.

Weston-super-Mare police re-
ported to the Air Ministry that
they saw a similar flash in the
Fortishead direction at the same
time.

At about 4 o'clock spectators at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, foot- ball ground saw a brilliant object "like a huge star" flash across the sky, leaving a volume of smoke in its wake.

Another sighting was reported from as far away as Durham,

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# What Did The
People Of
Devon See
Last Week?

The names listed are:
* Mr. Wales
* Mr. Tond
* Mr. Gleary
* Mr. Olson
* Mr. Whitish
* Mr. Warren
* Mr. Tracy
* Mr. Harbo
* Mr. Belmont
* Mr. Mohr
* Tela. Boom
* Mrs. Meona
* Miss Gandy

# What Did The
People Of
Devon See
Last Week? (cont.)

By Sunday Dispatch Reporter

WEST VEST OF ENGLAND newspapers gave much
saucers over Devon. publicity last week to reports of "flying "

The saucers were reported by a number of independent witnesses from places as far apart as Woolacombe (near Ilfracombe), Exeter, Cullompton, Sidmouth Junction, and Paignton (60 miles south of Woolacombe).

Eye witnesses' descriptions of what they saw are sub- stantially in agreement-there was no noise and a trail of fire streamed from the back. The observations were at about 11 p.m. in all instances.

Mr. J. Stewart, 70-year-old Woolacombe pensioner, who

has worked in aircraft fac- they had seen. tories in two wars, was one of the five people who told the Exeter Express and Echo what

noticed an object come inshore from the direction of the north end of Lundy at a "terrific speed." At 10.50 on Monday evening, he

lane, Whipton, near Exeter, wrote to the paper that while at Coun- tess Wear (two miles south-east of Exeter) on Monday night, he saw two circular objects. Mr. H. A. Franklin, of Beacon-

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# What Did The
People Of
Devon See
Last Week? (cont.)

## Long Red Trail'

"They passed swiftly," he said, "in a southerly direction and ap- 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."

"Two 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.
Bearne, 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

This is a map showing various locations in Devon, England, connected by roads.

Key locations identified:
* Ilfracombe
* Woolacombe
* Cullompton
* Exeter
* Sidmouth
* Torquay
* Paignton
* Exmouth

in the Western Morning News as having seen "circular objects travelling at an incalculable speed and emitting a trail of fire" late on Monday night.

The quay Herald Frrass
quotes four other people who saw
similar objects.

# What Did The
People Of
Devon See
Last Week? (cont.)

## Bluish Light

Frederick Bray, fisherman, aged 39, was lying in the bunk of his 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 above 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.

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# Reports Plentiful Saucers' Nit (cont.)

## By Drew Pearson Pearson

Though a large part of the American public appears to be convinced that flying saucers do exist, so far the Air Force has not

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VI. His space radio was a chunk of metal that utterly failed to pick up a message or even a wheeze from space.

# Reports Plentiful Saucers' Nit (cont.)

## Missing GIs

These files show that consider-
able time was even spent check-
ng the report received from
Movie Actor Bruce Cabot and the
Wyandotte Echo, a newspaper
published in Kansas City, that
corpses of blond, beardless 3-
foot men from Venus had been
seen arriving on a flying saucer
by a man named Coulter.

One tragic and unpublicized fact this writing the Army has only about the Korean war is that at been able to release 138 prisoners. of war from Korean prison camps.

cers, but of PEARSON ets from Venus, shooting stars, and such weird phenomena as mig- ets from Venus, shooting stars, and even an old washtub.

In the face of this evidence, Koehler still claimed knowledge of the little men, but refused to divulge his source and drastically revised his story.

According to the confidential Air Force report, "Koehler stated that he had no parts of flying saucers in his possession at pres- ent. He denied having ever seen any flying saucer or its occupants."

# Reports Plentiful Saucers' Nit (cont.)

## Flying Washtub

This leaves approximately 4000 Americans still missing. Originally the Army believed that most of these missing GIs had been killed action. However, since U. N. troops have now traveled the n- re length of Korea without recov ering the bodies of these missing men, it is believed they must have to Siberia. been taken prisoners and removed

Another hot tip which Air Force investigators patiently tracked down was that a flying saucer had Minn. The report was traced to actually crashed near Warren, was traced to Walter Sirek, a service station op: erator, who directed the erator, who directed the investiga to

But if the 4000 GIs were trans- ported into Siberia by the Rus- many of them to American lines. But if the 4000 GIs were trans- many allies, returning of them to American lines. American almost prisoners as if they were allies, returning treated American prisoners almost So far, Chinese troops have great concern. may be different. this possibility is giving the Army

# Reports Plentiful Saucers' Nit (cont.)

## Flying Washtub (cont.)

This column has now been able to examine Air Force files, and it is quite evident that the Air Force has done a painstaking job of trying to establish whether or not flying saucers do exist.

tors to look behind Nish's Tavern. sians, the story may be different.

in the secret Air Force files as files as What the secret Air Force they saw was summed up follows: "The machine was ob- viously made from various objects such as an old washing machine cover, part of a radio set chassis. and a spent insecticide bomb,"

NOTE-As of the last official
count, 4144 GIs were listed a
missing.

It developed that Ted Heyen Capital Capsules

and Robert Schaeffer, who run the the "flying saucer" as a joke. local hardware store, had made

pictures of saucers in flight. The The Air Force has even received most spectacular was a movie of two silvery discs streaking over two silvery discs streaking over the baseball park at Great Falls, Mont., sent in by Nick Mariana, park manager.

# Reports Plentiful Saucers' Nit (cont.)

## Flying Washtub (cont.)

Dead on arrival, these space- traveling midgets had no cavities in their teeth, and wore shoes re- sembling human skin according to the story told the Air Force. Furthermore, Coulter was sup- posed to have as proof of this visit from Venus-a lunar clock op- erating on a 28-day cycle, a space radio, and, gear from the flying saucer, all of them supposedly ar- riving with the blond midgets from Venus.

# Reports Plentiful Saucers' Nit (cont.)

## Flying Washtub (cont.)

Lady Diplomats-Madame Min- ister Perle Mesta put up a gallant fight but she lost. She's going to have to be satisfied with being a plain "Minister" instead of a full- fledged "Ambassador" to Luxem bourg. Main reason Perle came back to Washington was to persuade the President to raise her bassy. Even though she's a close American Legation to a full Em- friend of Mr. Truman's, he said no... Meanwhile, the other lady diplomat, Eugenie Anderson in Denmark, will continue to reign supreme as the only lady Ambas- sador in the United States diplo matic corps.

Treaty for Japan President
Truman has told Secretary Ache-
ap-son within within the next month, he is in that the unless next month, Russia answers
favor of going ahead and holding

Acheson and John tives. The President told this to Acheson ence without Soviet representa- tives. The President told this to
Acheson and John Foster Dulles
during a secret meeting at which
they reported that Russia has not
yet even indicated it will attend
ence.

# Reports Plentiful Saucers' Nit (cont.)

## Flying Washtub (cont.)

However, investigators found that the pictures were taken be- teen 11:20 and 11:35 a. m. pn Agust 15. By coincidence, two silvery F-84 jet fighters from Ladd Ar Force Base, Alaska, flew high over Great Falls at exactly that

time. The sun was shining so that
reflections from the high-flying
jets appeared as two silvery blurs,
like saucers.

# Reports Plentiful Saucers' Nit (cont.)

## Flying Washtub (cont.)

So the Air Force, as it does with
most of these rumors, painstak-
ingly and patiently investigated.
turned turned of han for radio station KMYR. He The mysterious Mr. Coulter The Denver, out out to to an be advertising George Koehler He
Produced the
But it turned out to be a mun this planet, be a mun this planet,
Jane product of
stamped with the Roman numeral

Once the Air Force's own radar
screen near Wright Field, Ohio,
picked up what appeared to be a
flying saucer drifting eastward at
20 miles per hour. But prompt in-
dense black cloud charged vestigation showed it to be only a
dense black cloud so charged with electronic particles that it electronic particles that it
sales-peared on on radar. radar.

No Aid for Tibet-United States Ambassador Austin has privately advised El Salvador to give up its campaign to get the United Na tions to rescue Tibet. The United Nations, Austin said, has enough trouble in Korea without taking on more headaches in the most moun- tainous and inaccessible country in the world.

Meanwhile, flying saucer reports Meanwhile, Force at the rate of five or six per day but, so far, not one as per day but, so far, not one as Lever materialized.

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# The World Today

Four Philadelphia policemen said they saw a saucer-like object land in a field. Before FBI men could join them, however, the six-foot gadget had evaporated. One of the policemen who touched the thing said the portion he handled dis solved at once, leaving a sticky dorless residue.

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## (SAUCER)

POPLAR BLUFF, MO.--FOUR PLANES CHASED AFTER A STRANGE SPHERICAL OBJECT WHICH HUNDREDS OF PERSONS SAW ROARING ACROSS THE SKY, BUT THE PILOTS SAID TODAY THEY COULDN'T GET NEAR IT.

POLICE, AIRPORT AND RADIO STATION PERSONNEL SAID "JUST ABOUT EVERYONE IN POPLAR BLUFF SAW THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECT FOR FIVE OR SIX HOURS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

CAA WORKERS AT MALDEN, 28 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HERE, PLOTTED ITS SOUTHEASTERLY COURSE FROM 4 P.M. UNTIL DARK, DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OBJECT AND GUESSES AS TO ITS IDENTITY WERE VARIED.

NATIONAL GUARD AUTHORITIES AT MEMPHIS, TENN., SENT TWO F-51 FIGHTERS UP FOR A CHECK.

A NATIONAL GUARD SERGEANT CONFIRMED THAT THE F-51 'S. CLIMBED TO 30,00 FEET BUT COULD NOT MAKE CONTACT WITH THE OBJECT. HE DID NOT SAY WHETHER THE PILOTS ACTUALLY SAW THE OBJECT.

A CAA OFFICIAL AT MALDEN, WHO MAINTAINED TWO-WAY RADIO CONTACT WITH THE F-51'S, SAID THE PILOT OF THE FIRST PLANE UP REPORTED FROM AN ALTITUDE OF $1,000 FEET:

"IT'S STILL WAY ABOVE ME, APPARENTLY MOTIONLESS. I'M NOT GETTING ANY NEARER. FUEL SUPPLY ALMOST EXHAUSTED."

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# The World Today (cont.)

## ("SAUSAGE")

SPRINGFIELD, ILL--PILOT JIM GRAHAM CLAIMED TODAY THAT A "FLYING SAUSAGE COLLIDED WITH HIS PLANE AND "EXPLODED LIKE A BOMB"--BUT CAUSED NO DAMAGE.

GRAHAM, CHIEF PILOT FOR THE CAPITAL AVIATION COMPANY HERE, WAS FLYING TO SPRINGFIELD FROM CHICAGO LAST NIGHT WHEN HE SIGHTED THE OBJECT AS HE FLEW OVER WILLIAMSVILLE, JUST NORTH OF HERE.

HE SAID THE OBJECT WAS A "BLUE STREAK ABOUT 10 FEET LONG AND SHAPED LIKE A SAUSAGE." HE SAID IT WAS TRAILING YELLOW FIRE.

THE OBJECT, WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE HIS PLANE, DIVED SUDDENLY AND PLOUGHED DIRECTLY INTO HIS PROPELLER.

"IT EXPLODED LIKE A BOMB WHEN IT STRUCK, " HE SAID.

GRAHAM MANAGED TO STAY ON COURSE AND LANDED AT CAPITAL AIRPORT HERE. HE EXPECTED TO FIND HIS PLANE EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED, HE SAID, BUT A THOROUGH INSPECTION SHOWED NOTHING.

SEVERAL OTHER SPRINGFIELD RESIDENTS ALSO REPORTED SEEING THE "FLYING SAUSAGE." ONE WOMAN SAID SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE SITTING ON THEIR PORCH AND SAW IT PASS OVER SPRINGFIELD.

OBSERVERS AT THE WEATHER BUREAU SAID THE ONLY EXPLANATION THEY COULD OFFER WAS THAT THE OBJECT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A METEOR THAT APPEARED TO HIT GRAHAM'S PLANE BUT EXPLODED RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT. THEY SAID THEY DID NOT SEE THE OBJECT.

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# 'Flying Saucer'
Tracked on Navy
Radar Screen

MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 13 (UP). 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 past
their training planes, about 10
miles northeast of Osceola, Ark.,
last night.

Electronics technician G. D. Wehner, who was flying with en- listed pilot R. E. Moore, said he "caught it on the radar scope. It was helmet-shaped. The outline of the edges were all right, but glare from the center of it pre- ented getting a better look.""

# 'Flying Saucer'
Tracked on Navy
Radar Screen (cont.)

## First Thought Jet

"At first we thought it was a jet plane distorted by glare off the aluminum body," said Lt. (j.g.) J. W. Martin, the second pilot.

"When I first spotted the saucer it was about two miles off and appeared to be a round ball. It was in sight for about three min- utes and at one time we were within one mile of it.'

Moore said, "It was on our left and traveled across in front of us and disappeared in the distance to our right. 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 a shiny We shallow bowl turned upside down. 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 air station near here, estimated the object was flying at an altitude of 8,000 feet at a speed of 200 miles per hour.

The navy declined comment.
Similar flying saucer stories
hee heen discounted by the
armed forces.

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# FLYING SAUCER
RIDDLE

S O far flying saucers have been treated by
the majority of British
people with incredulity and
polite ridicule. But why?

I have studied all the reports available. I have seen photo- graphs-those in the Sunday Dispatch last week were particu- lagly clear-and I believe they are photographs of disc-type aircraft. Earlier pictures published in the Spanish Press last April, and aleged to 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.

# FLYING SAUCER
RIDDLE (cont.)

control or
travelling at
prodigious
speeds, vanish-
ing suddenly,
and associated

with brilliant light, fringes of fire or flames of peculiar colour and generally rotating or whirling.

From many parts of the word come these reports. The very fact that their descriptions are so consistent has led to their being dismissed as hallucinations, de- fective vision, or mild hysteria.

It might be that the solution of this riddle could lie in a very unorthodox approach, and I have wondered if there could possibly be turbulences set up in our atmosphere which could cause whirling 'dust devils" of luminous gases caused by jet or other high speed experiments which might be responsible for the generation of small atomic whirlpools in the atmosphere.

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# FLYING SAUCER
RIDDLE (cont.)

## SECRET TRIALS

N all the reports the objects
fall into three groups. The
most substantial of them come
from America.

First group are those saucers
which are capable of being ex-
plained away as glimpses of ex-
perimental trials of various.
devices.

Under this heading fall many of the objects, seen in Southern U.S. and other areas where secret experiments are in pro- gress. For this group I am pre- pared to accept the explanation given by the United States Army Air Force as "misinterpretations of conventional objects.

Group Three reports suggest
that the saucers are high speed
aircraft of circular or disc shape
travelling at speeds much higher
than those attained by normal
planes.

# FLYING SAUCER
RIDDLE (cont.)

## SECRET TRIALS (cont.)

These conventional objects are
giant experimental cosmic ray
balloons which fill out to 100ft.
long and 70ft. in diameter as they
rise, radar target balloons capable
of rising to 70,000ft. and trailing
glittering aluminium foil strip.
guided missiles, and stratospheric
experiments. from Los Alamos,

The descriptions are remark-
aby consistent and generally the
obect is either white or silver
darting about without direction

Before 1910 it had been shown that square and circular surfaces had very good non-stalling char- acteristics up 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 air from the wing tips was to increase the span of wings while keeping them narrow.

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aircraft,' says―

# FLYING SAUCER
RIDDLE (cont.)

## SAFETY SEARCH (cont.)

G. TILGHMAN RICHARDS,
senior Research assistant
and official lecturer at the
South Kensington Science
Museum, London, who has
studied all the
evidence.

Enlargements from flying saucer
pictures-front-paged last week
which set everyone talking.
They were taken by Farmer
Trent, McMinnville, Oregon, U.S.

must, of necessity, be subject to
these dangers. They turned aside
to investigate possible, wing forms
which should be safe from stalling
and spinning.

Among these "rebels" a few
names have become air history.
Jose Weiss and Arthur Keith with
their completely stable swallow-
like monoplane in 1909. Etrich
and Wels in Austria in 1911,
evolving a stable wingform based
on the Zannonia leaf from which
Rumpler and the majority of Ger-
man builders developed the Taube
monoplane. Dunne, with his too.
stable, tailless, back-swept wing
biplane in 1912, and the Lee-
Richards annular monoplane of
1910-14, with which I was asso-
ciated.

# FLYING SAUCER
RIDDLE (cont.)

## NOT PERFECT

WITH the outbreak of the
1914 war research of
this type was abandoned, and
study concentrated on perform-
ance rather than safety.

By 1918 the modern plane was
established, and earlier research
was forgotten.

Civil airlines naturally used
adapted war planes, and then
Same World War II. Once more
Amitations were imposed.

In spite of the orthodoxy of design there was throughout the inter-war years, and onwaay

there is still, a considerable body
of technical opinion not satisfied
that perfection has been reached.
And here. I think, lies the real
answer.

This body of opinion has been
continually searching for the
"safe" design. Designers of many
nationalities have been striving
since the early 1920's with great
success toward a foolproof plane
of disc type.

In 1934-35 Charles H. Zimmer- mann, in the United States, built a disc wing airplane combined with a helicopter capable of vertical ascent and descent and a high forward speed.

# FLYING SAUCER
RIDDLE (cont.)

## NAVY STEPS IN

IN 1937 he granted licences
for his patents to the
Chance Vought Aircraft Division
of the United Aircraft Corpora-
tion in the U.S.

But at that point the U.S. Navy stepped in, and all further devel- opment has been of a secret nature, though it has been stated that this combination is capable of speeds from 0 to 500 miles per hour.

This performance is in accord
with reports that flying saucers
travel at great speeds, hover,
ascend and descend with little
forward motion.

It is perhaps, a little hard to believe that there can, as yet, ex- ist enough of these types to meet the many reports, but there is no reason at all why such aircraft should not have been seen provid- ing that full scale work followed the experimental period. And the secrecy would suggest that this is so.

And there could lie the most
solid proof that flying saucers do exist.

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# FLYING SAUCER
RIDDLE (cont.)

## FLYING SAUCERS AS

FUNDADO EN MADRID EN 1922

SPAIN

SEES IT

First picture of a flying
saucer comes from the
Spanish newspaper
Informaciones.

DAILY GRAPHIC соrrespondent
in Madrid explains:

The caption stated that this
picture was obtained at
3 a.m. in the Balearic
Islands by Enrique Haus-
mann Muller, a newsreel
cameraman.

It added that he and his
assistants/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.

FOOTNOTE from Texas:
Ira Maxey, wartime mem-
ber of a U.S. bomber crew,
photographed two groups
of "flying saucers near
Fort Worth. "But," he
said, "they were more like
flying bananas than flying
saucers."

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# Saucer Denial Held
Valuable to Russia

Nobody is in it," he said, "but it carries 70 pounds of instruments to record cosmic rays. . . It is an 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 percent of its capacity with helium. At high altitudes, expansion causes it to blow itself up into a gigantic monster 100 feet tall and 70 feet in diameter, tall as an eight-story building, all in pulsating plastic."

New York, April 10 (UP).-Air Force denials that "flying saucers" exist are "worth a billion dollars to the Russians in the 'cold war,' Radio Commentator Henry J. Tay- lor said tonight.

Taylor said over the ABC net- work that this country has several unconventional air vehicles that could be taken for "flying saucers."

Taylor said some of these ve- hicles travel all over America, 20 miles up in the sky. At sunset, the whole contraption glows and can be seen as long as 30 minutes

# Saucer Denial Held
Valuable to Russia (cont.)

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# Saucer Denial Held
Valuable to Russia (cont.)

He described one as a fantastic after darkness.
contraption "in pulsating plastic," The struments are floated back
as tall as an eight-story building to earth by parachute, Taylor said.
and used to record cosmic rays. Then the huge contraption "breaks

"What has happened to our into pieces in the sky or explodes," brains?" Taylor asked. "These showering plastic pieces over the denials are worth a billion dollars land.

to the Russians in the cola
war...

President Truman and the Air
Force both denied similar reports
by Taylor last week that "flying,
saucers" are top-secret United.
States military inventions.

Taylor warned that if the Rus-
sians suddenly announced they
were sending "flying saucers"
around the world, United States
officials would have no way to stem
American hysteria.

Taylor said the United States
should announce:

"We have no further comment about anything in the skies ex- cept that America is creating many helpful and incredible things. All are harmless and good news for freedom-loving people."

And this would be a true state. ment, the commentator said.

Taylor said that at an airfield near Minneapolis and also at other places, the Navy is "launching into our high skies an enormous and fantastic type of vehi

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## FLYING SAUCER
REPORT

MAY BE BALLOON

# Saucer Denial Held
Valuable to Russia (cont.)

## From Our Own Correspondent
PRESTON, Monday.

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An object which they thought might have been a flying saucer" was seen by three girls 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 star," they 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 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 was a common error for people to speak of something travelling in a certain direction when they really meant that it was coming from that direc- tion. If that was the case here it was possible that the object could have been a meteorological balloon blown over from Northern Ireland.

Many Londoners reported on April that they had seen a "flyng aucer." The Air Ministry explained that it was a balloon used for par- cute jumping which had broken from its mooring at an R.A.F. station in Oxfordshire.

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Saucers

Flying

## By United Press

They said none of the armed services is messing around with saucers, and that nobody else is far far as they knew. The people, they said, are seeing things.

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# House Member
Swears He Saw
Flying Saucer

# House Member
Swears He Saw
Flying Saucer (cont.)

## Not Informed

"I am quite sure the military establishment would have told us if they were working on such a thing as a saucer. But the fact is they haven't said a a word about it."

As far as Mahon is concerned, the saucer is "just a fantasy."

One House member who should know said flatly today there is no such thing as a flying saucer. But another member equally quali fied said maybe not, but he has seen one himself.

Rep. Mahon (D) 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 of support.

President Truman, Defense Sec. retary Johnson, the Air Force and the Navy all backed him up.

It happened about 1 p.m. one day last summer at Elsie, Mich. Several other citizens, all of them sober and well thought of, saw it, too. Two of them chased it in a plane, but the thing unfortunately was too high and too fast and got was

"I guess my subcommittee would know if there were anything to this flying saucer business. We even knew about the atomic en- ergy experiments several years be- fore the story was tol

# House Member
Swears He Saw
Flying Saucer (cont.)

## Mahon put it this way:

He Saw One He Saw One 7.
Ale

Rep Engel (R) of Michigan,
is the man 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 It takes to keep the military in
business.

Engel said maybe so, maybe not.
It is perfectly true, he said, that
nesses ever owned up to any con- none of the subcommittee's wit- the
nection with saucers. But then, as
far as he could recall, nobody
ever asked them about it.

"I am confident of this," Engel said. "If there are any such things as saucers, they are ours, not somebody else's. If another coun- try were sending them over, I am sure the subcommittee would have heard about it."

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## Statement by Air Force

## Truman, Other Officials Deny

# House Member
Swears He Saw
Flying Saucer (cont.)

## Saucers 'News'
To Officials

Knowledge of Flying Saucers raised the question at yesterday's

By John G. Norris
Post Reporter

Top officials and agencies of the Government-from President Tru-hoaxes." man on down-joined yesterday in public that "flying saucers" an effort to convince the American public that "flying saucers" do not exist. exist.

mild form of mass hysteria,

# House Member
Swears He Saw
Flying Saucer (cont.)

## Saucers 'News'
To Officials (cont.)

of Forces Pol- icy Council, which includes the departmental secretaries and Joint Chiefs of Staff. Navy Secretary or Francis Matthews and Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval operations, as well as other offi- cials, assured him the denials were sincere and truthful. cials, assured him the

Earlier, President Truman an- tary at Key West, Fla., that he nounced through his press secre- nounced through his press secre- knew absolutely nothing of such Fla., that he the United States or any other na- tion.

A formal statement issued by lying objects being developed by terest in the saucers resulted from

the Air Force last night was most explicit. It declared flatly that:

1. None of the armed forces is
conducting secret experiments with
"disc-shaped flying objects which
could be a basis for the reported phenomena."
phenomena."

2. There is no evidence that the latter stem from "the activities of any foreign nation."

"We are not denying this be- cause of any development of secret weapons," said Secretary Charles now of nothing to support these G. Ross, "but purely because we G. Ross, "but purely because we rumors."

# House Member
Swears He Saw
Flying Saucer (cont.)

## Saucers 'News'
To Officials (cont.)

The latest flareup of public in- statements by Radio Commentator Henry J. Taylor and the weekly news magazine United States News and World Report that the saucers do exist and are revolutionary American aircraft probably devel- oped by the Navy. A Navy spokes- American aircraft probably devel- man flatly denied this Monday.

# House Member
Swears He Saw
Flying Saucer (cont.)

## Saucers 'News'
To Officials (cont.)

3 Evaluation of reports of re- cent "sightings" bears out early conclusions that all can be ex- plained away as "misinterpretation of various conventional objects, a

Defense Secretary Louis Johnson said about the same thing at a news conference. He told reporters he was "satisfied there is nothing in the reports."

Johnson said he had facetiously See SAUCER, Page 3, C2

Johnson said he is convinced the saucers could not be experiments conducted by any other Govern- ment agency outside his depart- ment because the Pentagon's Re- search and Development Board co- lordinates all such activity.

Despite the denials, new reports of "saucers" continued. At Tipp City, Ohio, nine persons said they saw saucers over the Air Force base at Wright Field, early Sunday. Jerry Robinson, a 22-year-old Marine veteran, speaking for the group, said they saw "two bright lights in the sky" which later were discerned as brilliant dises trailing a small streak of orange flame. After hovering for a time, they shot straight up in the air and disappeared, he said.

Police Chief J. C. Lee of Eliza- beth City, Ill., reported that "a weird red and blue disc-like ob- ject" whizzed over the town early Sunday, "traveling at a high rate of speed.

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## But the Navy Says 'No'

# Saucers' New-Type Aircraft,
Probably Navy, Magazine Says

# The Original Flying Saucer'?

By John G. Norris
Post Reporter

"Flying saucers" are in fact
radically new type aircraft, con
forming to known areodynamic
laws and probably developed by
the United States Navy, the maga-
zine United States and World Re-
port said yesterday.

This latest effort to explain the continuing reports of strange fly- ing disks at various points over the country brought a prompt denial from the Navy Department that it is now "conducting research or flying" any such plane or missile.

A spokesman pointed out that the Navy did develop the "pan- cake-shaped" Chance-Vought XF5U-1, but that it never flew and was scrapped more than a year ago. A small, 3000-pound scale model of the plane was flown and pictures of it have been released, but this model is now at Norfolk awaiting shipment to the National Air Museum here.

# The Original Flying Saucer'? (cont.)

The weekly news magazine did not quote any authority for its statement that the "flying saucers" are real American planes, but said tha "engineers competant to a praise reports of reliable observers reach these conclusions:

"They are aircraft of a revolu-gineers,
tionary type, a combination of heli-
copter and fast jet plane. They
coform to well-known principles of
aerodynamics."

# The Original Flying Saucer'? (cont.)

They are "exactly 105 feet in di-

about ders, the caucers surfaces. From the side, 10 feet thick. at the angle are tilted, the number operating are no a made of a metal alloy, with dull appear to be about to have a appears surfaces. 10 feet thick. is the aircraft and its velocity, in by used unknown.... controlled series used is unknown.... Direction of ders, ailerons or other protruding the caucers the side, ameter, circular in shape" and "are a alloy, with dull whitish nozzles around its rims turn, evidently are controlled by the angle at which the jet nozzles "Each saucer appears to have a of color. variable-direction jet There other are protruding no .. fuel choosing "By tur on or off and the angle of could make the tilt pilot the descend tur on or off could make the tilt pilot the saucer rise or descend or make ahead the power applied. hofer, fly straight ahead or make for example, could be made by sharp turns. power choosing which nozzles to "By and the angle of A right-angle turn. vertically, vertically,

turning off the rear jets, turning on the side and front nozzles.

# The Original Flying Saucer'? (cont.)

"Great speed can be obtained by focusing to the rear all nozzles in the after half of the aircraft. With all nozzles pointed down- ward, the saucer could rise straight off the ground, and with less power, could descend the same way...

"Jet helicopter action
makes takeoffs and landings almost
completely safe."

The magazine said that an early model of the saucer was built by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics experts in 1942 and made 100 successful flights. The Navy then took over development and "much more advanced models now are being built."

NACA Engineer Charles H. Zim- merman designed the first model, which had a speed of from 400 to 500 miles an hour and was pow- ered by two piston propellers, said the article.

"Surface indications," the mag-
azine went on, "point to research
vast guided-missile project as the centers of the United States Navy's
scene of present flying-saucer de-
velopment." The project, it was
said, has the "scientists, the en-
the dollars, the motive
likelihood will remain, and the background" for the i "This "This likelihood will remain, de-
lifted," the magazine added. spite any future denials by the Navy front office, until secrecy is

# The Original Flying Saucer'? (cont.)

The Navy declared it was true
that its abandoned "flying pan-
cake" was designed by Zimmer-
rud-man, and was called the "Zimmer-
man Skimmer." It added that a
third of stil smaller scale model-one-
third of actual size-is still at

NACA's Langley, Va., laborato for wind-tunnel tests, but the Navy insisted it had no such proj- ect now active. ect now active.

The Air Force, after many of investigation of "flying saucer" reports, concluded that all months saucer" reports, concluded that all form of mass Hysteria, or hoaxes." tional objects, a mild Hysteria, or hoaxes." conven- the evidence pointed to "misin- terpretation of various terpretation of various tional objects, a mild conven-

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NEW YORK, Sunday.
VER since Ken-
E neth Arnold,
30 year old,
ordinary business-man
pilot from Boise, Idaho,
touched off the "flying
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
quite certain.

Nobody has yet proved de-
finitely that such things do or
do not exist.

# The Case
for the
FLYING
SAUCER (cont.)

## Air Force finding

THIS includes the U.S. Air
Force, still investigating
reports about "celestial crockery,"
though officially last December,
after checking 375 cases, it closed
down "Project Saucer," a special
investigation group of Intelli-
gence officers with headquarters
in Ohio.

At that time it was stated in a
banket turn-down that all re-
ports were:
. Misinterpretation of "con-

ventional" aerial objects. These
included giant experimental
cosmic-ray balloons, radar target.
balloons with dangling strips of
aluminium foil, meteor trains,
wisps of or whole vapour traks
from high-flying aircraft, bright planets,

2. Mild form of mass hysteria.

# The Case
for the
FLYING
SAUCER (cont.)

## 3. Hoaxes,

But 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 also, 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 almost
conventional flying disc or
"saucer" sometimes with
"fuzzy" edges, or lit up at night
to torpedo shaped wingless
'space ships" showing regular

rows of fights in the dark and
orange flames coming from the
tail.

Sometimes they have been re-
ported shaped like tubes, pillars,
spheres.

But two facts seem to remain constant. They are all said to be either white or silver, and to move across the sky in an undulat- ing way, tilting first in one direc- tion, then the other, rising and falling, before finally disappear- ing into nothing or over the horizon.

# The Case
for the
FLYING
SAUCER (cont.)

## His last report

FOR 25 minutes Mante and the two other pilots tried vainly to close in. Mantel reported the object was climbing and moving at 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 heard from
him.

His body was later found near Fort Knox and the wreckage of his machine scattered over half a nile around. Obviously his plane jad disintegrated in mid-air.

Official Air Force version was
hat Mantell had probably
blacked out" from lack of
oxygen and had not regained con-
sciousness before he crashed, out
of control.

# The Case
for the
FLYING
SAUCER (cont.)

## Still a mystery

B UT one of his fellow-pilots later commented:" "I
think that was a cover-up. Man-
tell was too experienced a pilot
for that. He was quite familiar
with signs of approaching anoxia
[lack of oxygen], 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.

Engineers later added that the
type of machine Mantell was fly
ing, starting a dive at 20.000ft
would not have disintegrated s
horoughly.

During the past two and three

quarter years a multitude of beople on the ground claim to have seen these "flying saucers hor have they always been seen with the naked eye; many say them through binoculars.

But the fact 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
sent in startling reports of what
they claimed to have seen.

One of the theories along which
"P.S" investigators worked was
evident from the fact that every
plane whose pilot reported close
encounters with "flying saucers"
was checked with Geieger
counters for possible radio-
activity.

# The Case
for the
FLYING
SAUCER (cont.)

## Head-on meeting

TAKE the case, for in- stance, of Captain Clar- ence Chiles, former Air Transport Command pilot, and John B. Whitted, who flew B.29 Super- forts during the war. Both are Happily married men with fama ies, good jobs and no need, o apparent desire for publicity. They were flying a schedule airline service near Montgomery Alabama, one night last summer,

when & brilliant, fast-moving
object suddenly appeared ahead
f them.

"We saw it at the same time, Chiles told investigators late Whatever it was flashed down to- wards us and we veered to the left It veered sharply too and passed about 700 feet to our right and above us."

"The thing was about 100 feet
long, cigar-shaped and wingless,
about twice the diameter of a
B.29 without protruding fins,"
said Whitted.

"There was a tremendous burst of orange flame from the rear. It zoomed into clouds, its jet or prop wash rocking our DC3."

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In the huge Pentagon building in Washington, headquarters of the Defence Department, there is an Air Force major whose duty it is to repeat to all inquirers the substance of the last Air Force statement on flying saucers, issued on December 27, 1949.

# SECRET INQUIRY
INTO FLYING
SAUCERS
U.S. 'LOSES' REPORT
BY AIRMEN (cont.)

## "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
redible witnesses who say they
have seen flying saucers are still
being examined by Intelligence
fficers.

It was noted, too, how quickly
and how thoroughly one of the
most comprehensive of the
newest reports has been officially
"lost."

# SECRET INQUIRY
INTO FLYING
SAUCERS
U.S. 'LOSES' REPORT
BY AIRMEN (cont.)

## Ours?

Employees of the Civil Aero 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 revolving vanes that might enable it to hover or to fly at high speed.

If this or something like it urns out to be the answer, there hay be good reason for hoping here that it is one of ours.

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ROME, Thursday.—A flying saucer was reported over Milan today. Then later it was discovered that three boys had attached rockets to a large metal disc and set them off from the roof of a high building.—Express News Service.

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Fluing saucers—
N.E., S. and W.

ROME, Wednesday. — Flying saucers again—over Italy now. This is what people in five different areas reported:
Salo, on Lake Garda.—A disc as large as a full moon streaking towards the north-east.
Carrara.—Four, three miles up, flying southwards, Calabria.—Disc “like a moon with a wake of fire” speeding westwards.
Sardinia. — A flying saucer remained suspended 20 seconds, then disappeared to the south.
Val d'Aosta.—A disc flying overhead.—Reuter.

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Key information:
*   **Headline:** "Flying"
*   **Illustration:** A cartoon witch riding a broomstick.
*   **Text below illustration:** "YOU"
*   **Context from surrounding text:** The article is titled "Flying fact or flight of fancy?" by Richard Garrett, and it discusses an aerial phenomenon that caused "sky-war jitters" in America.

Flying fact or flight of fancy? RICHARD GARRETT traces the history of an aerial phenomenon which gave America sky-war jitters

Saucery

# SECRET INQUIRY
INTO FLYING
SAUCERS
U.S. 'LOSES' REPORT
BY AIRMEN (cont.)

## YOU TOO CAN SEE THEM

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 sky about a mile away.

Within ten minutes 22 members of the class were seeing saucers."

The hallucination was merely the effect of red blood corpuscles passing in front of the eye retina.

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Fback in the news. LYING saucers" are

From New York comes a
report that Captain Jack
Adams, pilot of the Chicago
and Southern Airlines, radioed
that he and a co-pilot had
crossed the path of a large fly-
ing saucer, 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 the North
Portugal coast flying in line
and other formations and
moving west "faster
tracer bullets."

So the 1950 "saucer season" seems to have 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
doughnut, cutting capers over
his back-yard.

Presently he saw five more
planes" rotating round a
seventh.

# SECRET INQUIRY
INTO FLYING
SAUCERS
U.S. 'LOSES' REPORT
BY AIRMEN (cont.)

## 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 grey back background.

The U.S. Navy said that
the descriptions fitted its new
wingless plane-the "Flying
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 hinted at an inter-
planetary solution.

The San Francisco corre-
spondent was soon to find his
idea carried a stage further,
Mr. Mead Layne, publisher
of an occult magazine, pro-

# SECRET INQUIRY
INTO FLYING
SAUCERS
U.S. 'LOSES' REPORT
BY AIRMEN (cont.)

## Speculations (cont.)

duced an article in which he
claimed to have received a
message, via a medium, that
there were people aboard the
saucers."

They came from another
planet, and wished to try liv- ing on earth,

In Britain "saucers were
than 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 nen men
and bats living on the moon.

The neatest "flying saucer"
quipping came from Mr.
Gromyko 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 Russian discus thrower training for the Olympic Games who does not know his own strength."

The first flying saucer fever

died down under sheer weight
of explanation, but reports still came in.

# SECRET INQUIRY
INTO FLYING
SAUCERS
U.S. 'LOSES' REPORT
BY AIRMEN (cont.)

## Spain suspected

In May, 1948, a U.S. Air
Force intelligence officer
opined that the discs" were
the work of ex-Nazi scientists
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, bus in 1944 the Germans had repeated it, using jet engines.

It was believed that the
scientists responsible had
escaped from the Russian
zone, through France, and
were now working for the
Spanish Government.

In December, 1949, the
official body which had bem
established in America to probe
the "saucers" was disbanded.
It had been in operation for
two years, and had investigated
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; (c) hoaxes.

And there, one might have
imagined, the story would have
ended. But the "flying
saucers refused to be
grounded.

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By United Press

ROME, March 25-Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo, 73-year-old Italian turbine engineer, said today that designs for "flying saucers" were prepared for Hitler and Mussolini in 1942.

"According to those designs," he said in an interview, "the disks could carry a cargo of 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 foundation in fact, Sr. Belluzzo said:

"It has passed my mind that some
great power is experimenting with
flying disks without explosives or
atomic bombs.

# Expert 'Explains'
Flying Saucers (cont.)

## 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 had drafted plans for a "flying disk" 32 feet in diameter, but claimed they disappeared with Mus- solini when he fled to northern' Italy 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 tubes are adjustable to permit maximum and minimum speeds.

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# 'Saucers' Spies
From Planets,
Writer Claims

NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (AP)-A

monthly magazine says the so-
called flying saucers are real-ve-
hicles for systematic observation
of the earth by visitors from other
planets.

The conclusions are contained
in an article by Donald E. Keyhoe
in the January issue of True, pub-
Tished by Fawcett Publications,
Inc. Keyhoe is a former informa-
tion chief for the aeronautics
branch, U. S. Commerce depart
ment.

The magazine said the conclu-
sions were based on an eight-
month investigation.

Keyhoe says True "learned that
a rocket authority stationed at
Wright field has told 'Project
Saucer personnel flatly that the
saucers are interplanetary and
that no other conclusion is pos-
sible."

Last April the Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald that the Air Force, although conceding the saucers were no "joke," had discounted the theory that the discs repre sented visitations from suck planets as Mars, where human life is believed by some to exist.

60 FEB 9-1950

Today, an Air Force spokesman sad that "Air Force studies of 'flying saucers' lend no support o the view that they come from anbther planet."

Dises
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## MENU OF THE FUTURE:

# It's 'Wild New World'
Dished Up in Saucers

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dence to reports of satellite mis-

"Flying saucers," observatories on the moon, high-flying rockets siles. and earth satellite vehicles carry- ing weapons and possibly men to whirl endlessly far out in space, today seem like pipe dreams of a mad world of fantasy.

The air force, as early as
last spring, said officially that
the flying saucers "are not a
joke."

They may be harbingers of a wild new world to come.

That would seem to remove the flying discs from the realm of old wives' tales and the bubble talk of guys who have had one or two snifters too many.

Possibilities that the sau-
cers are missiles launched
from a foreign planet are
given serious consideration.

The U.S. defense department's announcement of plans consider- ing a super spaceship, to be kept undatrol while traveling an orbit around, the earth, lend cre-

Air force authorities even now may be preparing an announce- ment stating that the flying discs are real objects, not merely fig- ments of imagination as far as the air force is concerned, The Mirror learned yesterday.

THE MIRROR-LOS ANGELE

# Missing Inventor Hunted
for Clue to 'Saucers'

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## By United Press

Air Force investigators-skeptical but intrigued are trying today to locate an eccentric inventor who more than 10 years ago built two contraptions that 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.

# Missing Inventor Hunted
for Clue to 'Saucers' (cont.)

## NO REAL PROOF

An Air Force officer last night described the two craft as "definite prototypes of flying saucers," but the service hedged today.

A spokesman objected to the word "prototype," saying The Air Force has only reports of what flying saucers ook like and has never established that such things ac- ually were seen.

The Maryland inventor, Jonathan E. Caldwell, disap- peared in 1940. The only possibility of any connection between his old abandoned devices and the rumored "fly- ing saucers" of recent years would lie in the possibility

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for Clue to 'Saucers' (cont.)

## NO REAL PROOF (cont.)

that he went to some other part of the country, devel oped better models and flew them successfully.

A good many officers find it difficult to believe he could have done that without coming to public attention during the periodic excitement over "flying 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 farm hastily nine years ago, after getting into financial trouble with the state. He took with him. his wife 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.

# Missing Inventor Hunted
for Clue to 'Saucers' (cont.)

## 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 sold stock, and he continued to run the business as tho, it were his own. He wasn't the ordinary type of frau- dulent stock salesman. I believe he sincerely thought

he had something and I doubt if he thought he was being dishonest."

For two years Air Force investigators have been run- ning down clues from coast to coast on reports of flying saucers. The Air Force in the main has taken 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.

# Missing Inventor Hunted
for Clue to 'Saucers' (cont.)

## ONE TESTED HERE

Some of the flying saucers have been reported seen 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 flying saucer.

flew here briefly around 1939. It was said to have gotten only 75 feet in the air. One of the craft found in the Maryland barn reportedly

blades it had a disc-like device about 16 feet in diameter. The device resembled two saucers revolving top to top. One ship resembled a helicopter. But instead of rotor

Small rotor blades jutted from between the two saucers.

The other craft, named the "Roto-Plane," looked like and bottom rims of the tub were four-bladed propellers which revolved in opposite directions. in the middle. The engine was in the tub. a plywood tub about 14 feet in diameter. The pilot sat Around top

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# Flying Saucer'
Story Deflated
By Air Force

# Flying Saucer'
Story Deflated
By Air Force (cont.)

## Experimental Craft
Will Be Examined
For Other Clues

The Air Force's long search for "flying saucers" has turned up two contraptions almost as weird as anything yet described by the most wild-eyed "witnesses" of two sum- mers ago.

Held for the examination of ex- perts are two weather-beaten remnants of an inventor's dream uncovered yesterday in a tobacco shed near Glen Burnie, Md., an outer suburb of Baltimore.

An official Air Force statement
issued today said "the two ex-
perimental aircraft found near
Baltimore yesterday have abso
lutely no connection with the re-
ported phenomenon of flying sau-
çers." This does not mean, how-
ever, that they will not be
examined for other clues by Air
Force representatives, it was said.
The relics are more than 10
years' old, and so far as can be
determined, only one of them ever
got off the ground under its own
power. This occurred in Wash-
ington almost 10 years ago,
and ended in near-disaster after
a flight of about 60 seconds.

# Flying Saucer'
Story Deflated
By Air Force (cont.)

## Pilot Tells of Test Hop,

The inventor, Jonathan E eald- well, who is now over 70, if still living, and his wife and son left Glen Burnie in 1940 after Mary- land authorities ordered Mr. Caldwell to "cease and desist" from selling stock to finance his aeronautical ideas. None of the neighbors have heard from them since.

Willard E. Driggers of 1530 Olive street N.E., now with the Civil Aeronautics Administration at Na- tional Airport, 'made the first and only test hop in Mr. Caldwell's helicopter, the Gray Goose, at the old Benning Race track in 1940.

Mr. Driggers said he helped de-
sign the helicopter.

The machine rose about 40 feet and after some 60 seconds in the air, Mr. Driggers became aware the controls were not operating properly, he told The Star.

He decided if he took it any higher he might not get down afely and he crash landed the race track. He was uni ured, but the machine was dant- aged.

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Story Deflated
By Air Force (cont.)

## Lived Here Several Years.

Mr riggers said the sauce
rou the rotors was designed
to ac as a wing after the ship
had attained cruising altitude.
The rotor would then be stopped
and the ship flown with the con-
ventional propeller. He explained,
however, that this was theory,
because the ship was never flown
again.

Mr. Caldwell lived in Washing-
ton for several years before his
disappearance, and seems to have
returned here briefly from Glen
Burnie before dropping from
sight. The model tested here was
a small helicopter whose rotors
projected from a saucerlike disc
mounted on a tripod above the
cockpit.

Tattered remnants of this disc, covered with cloth, and the bat- tered fuselage were found in the shed, along with a plywood box, like a huge circular cheesebox, whose top and bottom sections were designed to revolve in oppo- site directions with short rotors. projecting from the rims. The pilot was to have ridden in the middle, near the motor mount.

# Flying Saucer'
Story Deflated
By Air Force (cont.)

## Lived Here Several Years. (cont.)

Capt. Claudius Belk, head of the Baltimore office of Special Investi- gation of the Air Force, revealed that his office has "been investi- gating the machines for months" as possible prototypes of the flying saucers reported so frequently. He said efforts are being made to locate Mr. Caldwell in the hope of getting engineering data on his roto-plane ideas.

The remains of the two ma- chines were placed in storage by Maryland State police, who helped locate them at the request of the Air Force. The material will be held, it was said, until it can be determined if experts from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, Ohio, wish to exam- ne it.

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## Builder Was Carpenter.

The helicopter nsisted of
ight wingless ge with
propeller in front and a tripo
Over the cockpit which mounte
the saucer-like rotor and its
projecting blades.

Except for the pancake struc- ture around the inner sections of the rotor, the model was much the same as other experimental jobs of that time.

Mr. Caldwell, a former carpen-
ter, whose friends said he had
studied the science of aeronautics|
in several books, had a far less
conventional idea in his "flying
cheesebox."

# Flying Saucer'
Story Deflated
By Air Force (cont.)

## Builder Was Carpenter. (cont.)

The upper and lower lids, con-
taining short rotor blades jutting
from their outer rims, were sup-
posed to rotate in opposite direc-
tions, giving rapid life and some.
stability in flight, Mr. Caldwell's
friends said. They admitted the
1,500-pound contraption never
flew, but said Mr. Caldwell had
claimed that a light model prove
successful.

The inventor earlier had tried
a third model.

This looked something like a complicated hay rick on wheels, and had rotors designed to fan the air somewhat after the fashion of the paddle wheels on old steam- boats. There were no claims that this machine ever left the ground, and Mr. Caldwell abandoned it in favor of later ideas.

Attorney Robert E. Clapp, who was Assistant Attorney General of Maryland at the time of Mr. Caldwell's disappearance, and helped administer the blue-sky laws, conducted a hearing in 1940. into the affairs of two of Mr. Cald- Well's companies Gray Goose

# Flying Saucer'
Story Deflated
By Air Force (cont.)

## Builder Was Carpenter. (cont.)

Arways, Inc., and Rotor Plans, Inc. He later restrained the firms from selling stock in Maryland.

"All he had was models," Mr. Clapp said, "and whenever one failed and he needed more funds, he went out and sold stock."

In his report, Mr. Clapp said:

"The literature used connec- tion with these stock sales clearly indicates that the public was led to believe that the invention was on the verge of perfection and would be completed and ready for general production within a very short time, whereas, the fact as testi- fied by Mr. Caldwell indicate that no machine on which he had ever worked had been successfully flown or was in any condition for manu facture and sale upon a satisfac- tory commercial basis. ***

ment of these companies indicates "The history of the develop that they were organized merely for the purpose of raising money to develop the ideas of Mr. Cald- well, and that as soon as this; money was raised, it was treated as belonging solely to him and as the subject of any use which he deemed proper.

"No meeting of stockholders has
ever been held by either company
and no financial report to stock-
holders has ever come out since organization.

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AIR FORCE FINDS FLYING SAUCERS'-This is Jonathan E. Caldwell's "Gray Goose" helicopter pictured before it made a near-disastrous test flight of about a minute in Washington nearly 10 years ago.

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Troopers J. J. Harbaugh and Peter Kosirowsky of the Maryland State police are shown yesterday looking over remnants of Mr. Caldwell's helicopter, which had a pancakelike struc- ture around the inner part of the rotors.

United States Air Force. helicopter in a tobacco shed on a farm near Glen Burnie, Md., after a search requested by the State troopers with the "flying cheesebox" invented by Mr. Caldwell and found with his old

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## Glen Burnie 'Saucer'
Clips 'Confidential,
but They Aren't

Newspaper clips on the "flying
saucers" found in a Glen Burnie
barn last week have been sent to
Washington marked "Classified-
Confidential."

As part of an OSI report which contains other data, the clips are crammed into a folder marked "Confidential." But that doesn't mean a thing.

"You can take that file and pull those clippings out and show them to anybody," an Air Force spokes- man said. "But if a folder is marked 'Confidential,' a fellow wants to look out because he knows some of the other stuff in there is a lot more important."

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Flying Discs

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## Flying Saucers'
On Secret List

came from Russia. The Air Force
said:

"To date there has been no ta gible evidence which would sup gible port a theory that any of the in- cidents are attributable to activity of a foreign nation. On the other hand, there is no evidence to deny categorically such a possibility.

# Flying Saucer'
Story Deflated
By Air Force (cont.)

## Flying Saucers'
On Secret List (cont.)

The Air Force disclosed yes-
terday that secrecy restrictions
have been clamped on certain
incidents connected with the mys-
terious "flying saucers" seen in
the skies last year.

"Many of the reported incidents
have definitely been determined
to be meteoroligical balloons or
natural celestial phenomena. How-
ever, there are some incidents
ported by reliable and competent
observers which are still unex
plained.".

At the same time, the Air Force admitted it is impossible to "deny categorically" that the weird ob- jects 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.

The statement was issued as
the Air Force continued to re-
ceve inquiries arising out of a
commentator's broadcast. The
commentator said the "saucers"

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This clipping is from
the evening edition of
The Washington Times Herald
4-8-99
Date

58 APR 20 1949

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Disco
Flying

German Spy Calls Self
Flying Disc' Inventor

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 5
(INS) — Nils Christensen, a convicted German spy in Brazil, claimed today to be the inventor of "flying discs" which have been sighted in many parts of the world, including the United States.

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Mr. Rosen

Mr. Tract

Me. Eigan

Mh. Garnes

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Mr. Quia Tax

Ca

# Soviet Still
Wants Answer
To Saucers'

[page 106]
# cers'-Some e 'Em and Some Do [x]

## Gander for Saucers

## YFW Chief Awaiting Message
From Capital on Flying Discs

The national leader of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars said yester- day in Columbus, Ohio, that he was momentarily expecting word from Washington which would ex- plain the "flying saucers" mystery.

# cers'-Some e 'Em and Some Do [x] (cont.)

## YFW Chief Awaiting Message
From Capital on Flying Discs (cont.)

Louis E. Starr, national com- mander of the VFW, told the Ohio State encampment of the VFW that he might have "within a few hours" an explanation from Wash-| ington. He had expected the mes- sage at 3 p. m. but it did not ar- rive, he said.

Too little is being told the peo- ple of this country," Starr told the de gates.

Hundreds of persons in about
30 States have reported seeing
the silvery saucer-shaped discs
speeding through the skies at 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 Washington Friday night at about midnight.

David Atamian, 5160 Shoemaker

lane, Friendship Heights, Md., re- ported that he had seen three or four of the flying saucers trav-| eling northward at a rapid rate of speed at about that time. He said they were at an altitude of between 1000 and 2000 feet and appeared to be of a bright, bluish hue. The flying saucers produced a series of speculations and at- See SAUCERS, Page 3, Column 2.

# cers'-Some e 'Em and Some Do [x] (cont.)

## YFW Chief Awaiting Message
From Capital on Flying Discs (cont.)

Associated Press WIREPHOTO IS IT?-Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, 27, made this picture with a Speed Graphic camera from the front porch of his Seattle, Wash., residence. 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

Mr. Tolson,
Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Clegg.
Mr. Glavin G1avin
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

Fletcher

# cers'-Some e 'Em and Some Do [x] (cont.)

## YFW Chief Awaiting Message
From Capital on Flying Discs (cont.)

**Key Information:**

*   **Name:** DAVID ATAMIAN
*   **Address:** 5160 Shoemaker la., Friendship Heights, Md.
*   **Statement:** Saw three or four flying discs Friday about midnight.
*   **Source:** Post Staff Photo

Post Staff Photo
DAVID ATAMIAN,
f 5160 Shoemaker la., Friend
ship Heights, Md., said he say
three or four flying discs Fr
day about midnight

# cers'-Some e 'Em and Some Do [x] (cont.)

## YFW Chief Awaiting Message
From Capital on Flying Discs (cont.)

THIS IS NOT ONE OF 'EM, SAYS THE NAVY-The "flying pancake," a wingless plane developed by the Navy, is the only have been seen in the skies over the West Coast and as far plane it has which might resemble the reported "flying sau thorities are still skeptical that the mystery missiles said to cers," but officials in Washington said yesterday that thi strange-looking aircraft has never left Bridgeport, Conn. Au East as the Carolinas are any sort of new airplane

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Capt E. Duvall, assistant super-
nter of the Naval Observa-
tory, that the saucer "does not
seem to be an astronomical phe-
bomena.' "

Credence in the saucers-widely
laughed off at their first reported
appearance June 25-grew as hun-
dreds of observers, some of them
fliers, reported seeing

# YFW Chief Awaiting Message dreds of From Capital on Flying Discs

tempted explanations throughout Guard, announced that the guard's the country yesterday.

A Los Angeles newspaper
quoted an unidentified scientist
in nuclear physics at the California
Institute of Technology as saying
the flying discs have resulted from
experiments in "transmutation of notice.
atomic energy" being conducted at
Muroc Lake, Calif., White Sands,
N. Mex.; Portland, Oreg., and
elsewhere,

squadron would attempt to photo-
graph any future apparitions of the
discs. He said six P-51 fighter
scopic cameras, would be kept planes, equipped with gun and tele-police
ready to take off on a moment's

A crowd of 200 observed a disc
at Hauser Lake, Idaho, Friday and
a group of 60 picnickers saw them
at Twin Falls, Idaho. And in
Portland, Oreg., so many residents
witnessed them that same day the
department sent out an all-
cars broadcast.

The crew of a United Airlines The crew
plane said several of the round,
flat objects were visible for about
12 minutes.

# YFW Chief Awaiting Message dreds of From Capital on Flying Discs (cont.)

Col. F. J. Clark, commanding officer of the Hanford Engineering Works in the Pacific Northwest where the largest saucer influx has news- been reported, said the saucers a re- were not coming from the atomic plant there.

The scientist, whom the
paper said had worked as
searcher on the atomic bomb
"Manhattan Project," was quoted
as saying:

"People are not seeing things.
Such flying discs actually are in
experimental existence.

"These saucers so-called are capable of high speeds but they mystery. can be controlled from the ground.

"They are 20 feet in width at the center and are partially rocket- made." ropelled on the takeoff."

"I have been waiting for some- one to tie the discs to the Han- ford atomic plant," he said. He declared that as far as he knew no experiments were under way there which would explain the

Two Chicago astronomers said
the discs are probably "man-

However, other scientists were
Septical about the claims of the
unnamed California physicist. Dr.
Harold Urey, famed atomic scien-
tist at the University of Chicago,
said the term "transmutation of
atomic energy" is "gibberish."

"You can transmute metals, but not energy," and Dr. Urey.

# YFW Chief Awaiting Message dreds of From Capital on Flying Discs (cont.)

"They couldn't be meteors," said
Dr. Girard Kiuper, director of
the University of Chicago's Yerkes
Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis.
Dr. Oliver Kee, director of
Northwestern University's Dear-
born Observatory, said:

"We realize that the Army and Navy are working on all sorts of things we know nothing about."

David Lilienthal, chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission,
declared the unexplained discs are
in no way connected with atomic
experiments. Lilienthal said he
couldn't shed any light on the
mystery and added:

# YFW Chief Awaiting Message dreds of From Capital on Flying Discs (cont.)

He said the mystery disks may represent an accomplishment simi- lar to that of sending radar sig- nals to the moon," one of the great- est technological achievements of the war and accomplished in abso- lute secrecy."

Here in Washington, Dr. News bern Smith of the National Bureau opinion that all the excitement is akin to of Standards expressed the of Standards expressed the opinion "those Loch Ness Monster stories. The only comment offered by

"Until someone has the facts about this phenomenon, "I can't how anyone can say definite about it." see anything definite about it."

And 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 himself, had
made "such a statement."

He expressed the opinion that
the discs "have nothing to do with
nuclear physics."

Strangely enough, the Murco, Calif., Army Air Base, identified as one of the sites where the "secret experiments" are being carried out, announced that it had a PB0 fighter plane standing by to give chase if one of the flying saucers made an appearance. Col. Al Dutton, commanding officer of the Oregon National

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Flying Saucer Found
Add latest reports on flying saucers—a garage sign with a garbage can lid and an ingenious “buzzer” found on the lawn of the home of Thaddeus Elder, 111 6th st., Laurel, Md.
The “saucer” was discovered Friday night shortly before 10 o’clock. Two small aerials projected from the contraption. It contained a dry cell battery, a flashlight bulb, a camera lens and a ticker that caused the buzzing.
The “saucer” was turned over to Laurel police who kept a straight face while informing the FBI of the “discovery.” The FBI wasn’t interested.

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Mr. Ladd
M r. Nichols.
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy. [ ]
Mr. Carson [ ]
Mr. Egan, [ ]
Mr. Gurnea, [ ]
Mr. Harbo [ ]
Mr. Hendon, [ ]
Mr. Jones,
Mr. Pennington _
Mr. Quinn Tamm_
Mr. Nease, [x]
Miss Gand

## Boys Flying Saucer Hoax
Stirs Police, FBI and Army

# YFW Chief Awaiting Message dreds of From Capital on Flying Discs (cont.)

## By the Associated Press

Fletcher

TWIN FALLS, Idaho, July 12.- Four la with imaginations that run to dying discs may or may not be laughing up their sleeves today after their version of a fiving saucer had practically the entire populace, the FBI. Army intelligence officers and police on the-run.

The boys created and planted in
a vard yesterday an object that
looked to them, as wel as well as to the
Army and civilian officers, just like
a flying disc should look.

G. I. R.5

Their hoax was exposed after As- sistant Police Chief L. D. McCracken was tipped off that one of the boys knew something about the disc.

The creation, which took two days to complete, was made from parts of an old phonograph, burned-out radio tubes and other discarded elec- trical parts. It had a plexiglass dome, radio tubes, burned wires and glistening gold and silver sides.

Since the boys are juveniles, their names were withheld. They will not be prosecuted, Chief McCracken

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# Juke Box Birthed
This Flying Disc,
Army Expert Finds

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Hofchen

# Juke Box Birthed
This Flying Disc,
Army Expert Finds (cont.)

## Saucer-Shaped Gadget Found
By Californian in Flower Bed

saaants
Cacht

# Juke Box Birthed
This Flying Disc,
Army Expert Finds (cont.)

## Saucer-Shaped Gadget Found
By Californian in Flower Bed (cont.)

| By the Associated Press                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | B. Hood, Federal Bureau of Investi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
|-|-|
| NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | gation chief here, said an FBI man                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| saucer-shaped mechan-                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | had taken a look at the device and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| July 10.-A                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | that it would be turned over to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ical contraption, resembling a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | military authorities. The FBI office                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| chicken brooder top with a few                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | said Mr. Hood had not other com                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| gadgets added, was found in a ger-<br />anium bed at the home of Russell sell<br />Long, construction engineer, last<br />night, and the first official reaction<br />was from Fire Battalion Chief Wal-<br />lace E. Newcombe, who looked at it<br />skeptically and said:<br />"It fly doesn't look to me like it<br />could fly."<br />Mr. Long called the Van Nuys | ment. the<br />Chief Newcombe exhibited<br />object. A radio tube on top was<br />set down into the upper half of the<br />saucer, which was about 5 inches.<br />thick at the middle and tapered to<br />a thin perimeter. There were wires<br />leading to a plug embedded in the<br />center of the lower half. There<br />was a rudder-type wing on top. |
| Fre Department and excitedly                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Mr. Long told reporters he was                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| pointed to the metal saucer, 30                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | awakened by a pop, not as loud as                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| inches in diameter, which he said                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | an explosion, and rushed outside to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| had been belching smoke from two<br />ehaust pipes and emitting a blue-<br />white glare. The office of Richard                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | find the device. He declared the<br />object had nudged a few bricks but<br />of the border of his flower bed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |

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Mr. Nichols [x]
Mr. Rosen [ ]
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Mr. Hendon [ ]
Mr. Pennington [ ]
Mr. Quinn Tamm [ ]
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## While Science Sneers

# Juke Box Birthed
This Flying Disc,
Army Expert Finds (cont.)

## Air Forces Intelligence Joins
Search for Flying Saucers

Army Air Forces intelligence yesterday disclosed it has joined the search for a flying saucer.

and about 50 other persons saw a group of about "50 of the saucers in triangular formation near Au- burn Saturday."

Bizarre reports on the whirling, high-speed discs continued to pour in, drawing an official statement from the AAF, much cynicism from science and the offer of $1000 for the first one downed.

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-shaped
airplanes" out of the Montana sky.
He admitted the story was a hoax.
In Washington, Dr. L. R. Haf-
stad, executive secretary of the
Joint Research and Development
Board and former director of the
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
Laboratory, said:

The Air Forces, which has juris-
diction over the White Sands (N.
Mex.) Rocket Proving Grounds, de-
nied the saucers are any of its
doing. "No such phenomena can
be explained by any experiments
being conducted," the statement
sad.

# Juke Box Birthed
This Flying Disc,
Army Expert Finds (cont.)

## "Poppycock!"

From the Naval Research Lab-
ofatory's Rear Admiral Paul F.
Lee came the curt comment: "We
concur in the Army announce-
ment."

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.

Neither denied existence of the discs, but the AAF said statements of witnesses are being correlated "in an effort to identify the re- ported objects."

Dr. Ivan E. McDougle of Balti- more's Goucher College, said he guessed "it's one of those phycho- logical epidemics where people see things that aren't there."

With few States in the Nation
without at least one flying saucer
report, the AAF has a chore.
years'

A Navy flier with five
experience tabbed the discs as
"space ships" after at first consid-
ering all reports as "crazy." He
changed his mind, he said in Ala-
meda, Calif., yesterday, after he

But C. J. Zohn, 440 Mellon st.
se., who works in the rocket-sonde,
high altitude research section of
the Naval Research Laboratory,
yesterday reported he and three
other men saw one "saucer" h
New Mexico June 29. He described
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## SAUCERS From Page

## Flying Discs
Interest AAF

it as a bright, silvery disc, travel-
ing at 10,000 feet.
"It was clearly visible-and
then it wasn't there."

The FBI here was noncommittal. In Milwaukee, Wis., the FBI said it was "not interested" in what appeared to be a circular saw, rigged with a few wires, which the Rev. Joseph Brasku said crashed into his yard at Grafton, Wis. He admitted it probably was a joke, but was holding the disc for FBI's attention.

Atomic experts in session at Lake Success, N. Y., did not dis- cuss officially the flying saucer

## Flying Saucers Traced

## To Wife's Pitching Arm

Pittsburgh, July 7 (P).-Many
persons have seen the mysterious
"flying saucers," but Connie
Dunbar, 35, knows the source of
he ones he saw.

Dunbar, who said he was struck by saucers thrown by his wife, Mrs. Bessie Dunbar, was granted a divorce today by Judge Harry H. Roward.

# Report New Bed
Planes Resemble
Flying Saucers'

Special to the N. Y. Journal-American

LOS ANGELES, July 7.-Federal agents today investi- gated a letter to The Examiner describing Russian supersonic atom-powered planes resembling the "flying saucers.'

A top-flight atomic scientist
to whom The Examiner referred
the letter said it was "not all
nonsense," and suggested the
matter be turned over to
FBL

said he met the Russian officer in Wilmington and, because he wanted to hear about Russia, in- the vited him to be his guest at dinner.

The letter writer said he got the information from an officer aboard a Russian tanker re- cently in Los Angeles harbor.

The Russian, he said, also
described experiments with con-
trolled radioactive cled the
Arctic, where birds, animals au
even worms were killed

# Report New Bed
Planes Resemble
Flying Saucers' (cont.)

## 13 INCHES THICK.

The planes, as descried by the

Russian to the writer, are only 18 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
are convex, like a giant lens.
The lifting force is an entirely
different principle found about
10 years ago among unpub-
lished papers of a Russian
chemist.

"Energy is required only for
climbing, but no energy is
needed for support when the
hirplane goes along the earth's
gravitational contour lines."

The writer of the strange letter

Bureau Interest

# Report New Bed
Planes Resemble
Flying Saucers' (cont.)

## DESTROYS ALL LIFE.

The Russian first asked where
he could sell 18 Polar bear pelts
which he received "for very
dangerous work"

He said he had been assigned to go over the route of the radio- active cloud near Lake Bakal (or Baykal) and pick up dead animals.

The loaded a few small ships with all kinds of animals and directed the cloud over them" the writer said.

Capon

"During this experiment, a vio- lent storm blew the cloud far north into the tundra, but be- fore it dissipated it destroyed all life on its way.

GLR.-5

"The cloud may be controlled from land, from a plane or from a robot-piloted 'leader.' As I understand it, the control is based on electro-magnetic waves and the cloud has two compo- nents: The carrier and the killer.

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# Report New Bed
Planes Resemble
Flying Saucers' (cont.)

## FBI CHECKING
RUSS DISC TIP

Federal agents yesterday in-
vestigated a letter to the Exam-
iner describing Russian super-
sonic atom-powered planes re-
sembling the flying saucers."
A top-flight atomic scientist
to whom the Examiner referred
the letter said it was "not all
nonsense," and suggested the
matter be turned over to the FBI.
The letter writer said he got
the information from an officer
aboard a Russian tanker recently
in Los Angeles Harbor.

# Report New Bed
Planes Resemble
Flying Saucers' (cont.)

## DEATH CLOUDS-

The Russian, he said, also de scribed experiments with con trolled radioactive clouds in the Arctic, where birds animals and even worms were killed. The planes as described by the Russian to the writer, are only 18 inches thick, with a kidney- shaped outline and no propellers. The pilot lies on his stomach, the Russian said, and is artifi- cially cooled against the heat de- veloped by air friction.

60 AUG 6-1947

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found years about 10 ago among unpublished papers of a plane is highly polished," the giant lens. The lifting force is him. found about 10 years writer said the Russian told surfaces an entirely different principle "The outer surface of the "Both upper and lower are convex, like a ago
Dussian chenist and developed recently at one of Russia's re- search laboratories.

climbing, but no energy is need. ed for support when the ai plane goes along the earth's gravitational contour lines." "Energy is required only for

# Report New Bed
Planes Resemble
Flying Saucers' (cont.)

## DEATH CLOUDS- (cont.)

Peports of the flying des

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Leonard Posella.

dro bed es area off sharply yesterday in the and Lowaverly poof 20
said they had received no
cal about them in the city or
county since Saturday.

drive, red a flight
near Grif Park going
west at 500 feet, i said they
were round and silvery "with
noses pointing upward," and
watched them for three

The writer of the strange let-their
ter said he met the Russian offi-he
cer in Wilmington and, because mmuta
he wanted to hear about Russia,
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 them," the writer said.

"During this experiment, a I violent storm blew the cloud far north into the tundra, but before it dissipated it de- stroyed all life on its way.

"The cloud may be controlled
from land, from a plane or
from a robot-piloted leader.'
As I understand it, the control
is based on electro-magnetic
waves and the cloud has two
components: The carrier and
the killer.

# Report New Bed
Planes Resemble
Flying Saucers' (cont.)

## ANIMALS KILLED (cont.)

"I asked him if the Russians
have an atomic bomb. He said
he doubted it, because the
atomic bomb cannot be used
without killing innocent people,
such as children and women.
But they have atomic energy,
which they use for propelling
supersonic airplanes."

The writer said he asked the Russian officer to another dinner, but when he came the second time his tanker was leaving unex. pectedly and he could only say good-by.

The nuclear physicist consulted by the Examiner said it was dif- ficult to appraise the value of the letter because of the writer's technical ignorance."

"The remark implying that
the Russians wouldn't use the
atom bomb if they had it is
nonsense. The Russians would
like very much to have the
bomb."

On the other hand, he decried the efforts of some groups who take advantage of "all this flying disc talk" to stir up suspicion of Russia's intentions.

RE

The Examiner had two more Fred Dodge of 738 South In reports of flying discs yesterday. Fred Dodge of 738 South In avenue said he was in West ke Park at 12:02 p. m. when saw one flying westward at 2500 to 3000 feet. He said it was silent, round and shiny and was not an airplane,

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# Planes to Chase Flying Saucers') 'Something to This, AAF Feels

the "saucers" had nothing to do
with atomic experiments.

pseudo-scientific explanations of the

With aircraft, including a jet plane, alerted along the West Coast in mystery. hopes of chasing and explaining the mystery of the "flying saucers," an Army Air Forces spokesman here disclosed today that the AAF be- lieves "there's something to this" but is completely mystified as to just what.

Capt. Tom Brown of AAF public
relations said the tales of flat,
round objects zipping through the
sky are too widespread to be ground-bluish hue.
less. He pointed out that a number
of competent airmen have reported
seeing phenomena that the have
been the talk of the Nation since
June 25.

For 10 days, he declared, the AAF
has been checking on the stories "and we still
"and we still haven't the slightest idea what the things can be." idea what the things can be."

Meanwhile, from Washington and
the rest of the country came more
reports "flying saucers" as well
as a bumber of scientific and

# Planes to Chase Flying Saucers') 'Something to This, AAF Feels (cont.)

David Atamian, 5610 Shoemaker lane, Bethesda, Md., said he saw three or four "flying saucers" trav-|| eling north at great speed at 11:45 p.m. Friday. Mr. Atamian, who de- scribed himself as a writer of poetry. said he was sure he wasn't mis- taken. The discs, he said, were fly- ing at between 1,000 and 2,000 feet and appeared to be of a bright,

Government sources denied that
any tests are being conducted that
might be the answer to the mystery.
A Navy official said the Navy had
checked all its facilities to deter-
mine whether were sending aloft objects that could account for any mine whether any were sending
could account for the strange sights. The answers
were negative.

David Lilienthal, chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission, said
(See FLYING SAUCERS, Pg. A-3.)

# Planes to Chase Flying Saucers') 'Something to This, AAF Feels (cont.)

A Los Angeles newspaper story quoting an unidentified California Institute of Technology scientist as saying the "flying saucers" must have something to do with experi- ments in "transmutation of atomic energy" caused a brief flurry by the institute quickly denied the report Dr. Harold Urey, atomic scientist at the University of Chicago, called it "gibberish" and said elements could be "transmuted" but energy could not.

P-80 fighter at the Muroc, Calif., Army Airfield in California and six fast conventional fighters at Port- land, Oreg., stood ready to take off on an instant's notice should any flying saucers" be sighted in those areas. Some of the planes carried photographic equipment.

# Planes to Chase Flying Saucers') 'Something to This, AAF Feels (cont.)

## Air-Ground Search Slated.

An air-ground search was sched- uled to get under way today to in- vestigate a report that eight flying discs had landed on a mountain- side near St. Maries, Idaho, in full view of 10 persons.

Mrs. Walter Johnson, Dishman, Wash., said the "saucers" came down in timber near St. Maries Thursday evening, but were not reported un- til she returned to her home in Dishman yesterday.

She said they came into view at
extreme speed, traveling north.
Suddenly, she said, they slowed and
then "fluttered like leaves to the
ground."

"The mysterious part was that we couldn't see them after they landed," Mrs. Johnson said. "We could see them fiutter down into the timber yet we couldn't see that they did anything to the trees."

She described them as "about the
size of a five-room house" and
shaped more like washtubs than
discs.

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Planes to Comb Area. Col. G. R. Dodson of the Oregon Air Guard announced a patrol would leave Portland Ore., today to in- vestigate the report and Sheriff

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# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI

Chicago, July 6 (UP).-A Catho- FBI office said he hadn't heard lic priest at Grafton, Wis., said yet about the disc but that an offi- tonight that a round; metal disc, cial report might be at his office. which 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 yard and that he first one that actually hrad been is holding it for the Federal found-if that is what was found. Bureau of Investigation.

The flying discs have been re-

His report came few hours
after a military plane made an
unsuccessful speed dash in an at-
tempt to track down one of the
discs and the Army and scientists
sought to ascertain whether coast-
to-coast reports about the discs
zooming through the sky were fact
or fancy.

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

The Rev. Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Church at Grafton, 45 miles north of Milwaukee, said he heard a swishing and whirring noise this morning. A second later. he said, he heard a thud and a mild explosion.

He investigated and found a
sheet metal disc about 18 inches in
diameter, resembling a
saw blade.

Army planes scoured the north- circular west Pacific skies for them without success today and one "eyewitness" even reported having seen one of the discs take off in Arizona. A St. Louis railroad man exhibited some paper "discs" he said he had seen floating over St. Louis.

"The object still was warm, weighed about four or five pounds and was about one eighth of an inch thick," he said.

There was a hole about one
inch in diameter in the middle of
the disc, he said, and in the open-
ing were "gadgets and some
wires."

The priest said he did not know his or whether it might be an elab- his discovery were important had notified the FBI of his find. brate practical joke. He said he H. K. Johnson of the Milwaukee

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things seen nearby and large ones
at great distances.

## SAUCERS From Page 1

"The one outstanding fact about
virtually all the saucers is that
they had no structure the
seemed merely round and flat.
That description fits exactly with
the tricks that eyes play. This
trickiness varies with differences
weather and lighting."

## Priest Finds 'Whirring Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI

Inoted aircraft designer, told The
Post by telephone from New York
that until he sees a flying saucer
he "wouldn't like to pass judg-in
ment."

He agreed with Dr. Overholser that much if not all of the story may be because of hysteria.

said the Army Airways Communi-
cations Service had reported late
yesterday that so far its radar
scopes throughout the country
have been unable to pick up any
strange objects in flight.

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## Priest Finds 'Whirring Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

However, Nova Hart, St. Louis mechanic who was trained during service in the war to spot all types of aircraft, yesterday offered a minute description of one of the flying patterns which he claimed he Saw flying at an altitude of about 300 feet.

"The best way I can describe it,"
said Kennedy, "was that it looked
like an orange lamp bulb without
the socket. It was going faster than
any jet plane I've ever seen."

And in the Pacific Northwest-elyn
where most of the fly-happy plat-
ters have been reported-the Army
has radar equipment which can
pierce fog and darkness and pick a
up objects in the sky 200 miles
away.

Ganoe, 30, said she had seen
five of the discs, racing in 2-1-2
formation at "terrific speed," from
her backporch. "They sounded like
faraway train," she said.

In Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Mad-Major de Seversky said it was pos- Reporter Sees One

"After all," he said, "we are
more or less an hysterical Nation."

sible that the persons who claim.
to have seen the aerial discs have
instead glimpsed the exhaust of
jet-propelled planes.

"The mysterious part was that we couldn't see them after they landed," she said. "We could see them flutter down into the timber yet we couldn't see that they did anything to the trees."

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## Priest Finds 'Whirring Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

He described it as circular with
a ribbed framework and silver
gray in color. He said it appeared
to have a motor with a propeller
attached in the center and that it
kept turning like an airplane do-
ing a slow roll.

He conceded, too, that they
might be guided missiles let loose
as part of an experiment, but
added:

In the wake of these new eye-
witness accounts came a new series
of comments, and explanations, but
most of them were tinged with a
slight tendency to laugh off the
whole thing.

Although many explanations
have been offered, none has been
convincing. A Los Angeles news-
paper quoted an unnamed nuclear
physicist as saying the silvery discs
resulted from experiments in the
"transmutation of atomic energy"

Even so, Brown acknowledged
that the Air Forces had decided
"there's something to this" and
had been checking it for 10 days.
"And we still haven't the slight-
est idea what they could be," he
added.

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## Priest Finds 'Whirring Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

"I don't think the Government
would fire them so promiscuously.
They would test them in one spot,
an isolated area, like they did
the atomic bomb."

Dr. Winfred Overholser, nation-in
ally known psychiatrist and super-
intendent of St. Elizabeths Hos-
report-pital here, said it "has some of the as
earmarks of being national hys-

And a new wrinkle-the
ed landing of a fleet of eight skim-
ming platters-was reported from teria."
Idaho in full view of 10 persons. A.
Dishman, Idaho housewife, said
she and others in her party had
seen the saucers land on a moun-
tainside near St. Maries, Idaho.

She said they came into view at an extreme speed, suddenly slowed, and then "fluttered like leaves to the ground."

She said she hoped to hike into
the timber tomorrow and search
for the objects which she said were
saucer-shaped but resembled
tubs more than disks and were
"about five-room the size of a house."
house."

This would be the first one re-
ported over the District, although
others have been reported over
nearby Maryland.

Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 4th st. ne. reported he had seen one passing over the Northeast section of the city at about 8:40 p. m

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## Priest Finds 'Whirring Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who
Deputy Chief of Air Staff for
Research and Development would
know if the saucers involved ex-
periments with guided missiles,
commented:

"Everytime someone comes up with a sea-serpent story," said Dr. Overholser, "others with vivid imaginations are sure they have seen the same seen the same thing.

"Whatever these people have seen it hasn't been anything re- Army Air Forces. As for as I'm concerned there's nothing to it at all. The whole thing is un-

This report was rapidly herded
into the hoax column by David
Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission, and several
prominent atomic scientists.

## Starr Expects Word

THE WASHINGTON POST
PAGE
DATE <empty>

However, Dr. Overholser said he illusion. as a joke wasn't trying to dismiss the matter as a joke because there are so day that one can't be sure." many strange things going on to-

"I think they may be a little
wash-skeptical," he added.

Kennedy, who has 125 hours flying time as a student pilot in the Army Air Forces to his credit said he believed the saucer he had seen was traveling at "well over" 1000 miles an hour at an altitude of between 1200 and 1500 feet.

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## Starr Expects Word (cont.)

"The critical faculty in man, the sulting from experiments by the mander of the Veterans of Foreign

last one he received, is still not
very well developed. Scratch the surface and you find the same mass
hysteria which predominated dur- fortunate."
ing the witchcraft scare. Some
things and follow beliefs."

General LeMay refused to dis-

guided missiles which can attain
speeds of 1200 miles.

persons are quite ready to see cuss whether the Air Forces has message never arrived.

Dr. Overholser said that when patients yesterday at St. Eliza- beths not a one commented on the flying saucers story.

he made his rounds of the mental "There's been too much said in the Pacific Northwest where

about guided missiles now," he
said.

Louis E. Starr, national com- Wars, announced Saturday at Co- lumbus, Ohio, that he was expect- ing "momentarily" information from Washington which would ex- plain the dashing discs. But the

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Acme Telephoto

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## Can This Be the Secret?

Under discussion as a possible solution to the "saucer" mystery is the Navy's "Flying Flapjack," shown above. Zipping along with its landing gear retracted, this plane would seem to be a supper plate spinning through the sky.

saw in the sky. She is the first ports of strange objects seen in

known observer to claim what she saw was stationary. All the rest have spoken of tremendous speeds. Mrs. Kole said all she could think of was a blazing disc. Alexandria police looked in the direction she indicated but the disc had gone.

Jack Labous, an artist, 3500 block East Capitol St., reported seeing one of the "things" flying over Bethesda. He described it as "a flat disc with a cone shape under it and a stick like a radio antenna projecting from the bottom."

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The scientist who claimed to
know something about the
"saucers" was described by a Los
Angeles newspaper as a member
of the California Institute of
Technology staff.

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## May Be Real, He Says

He was quoted as saying "trans- mutation of atomic energy" ex- periments might be responsible. searcher on the Manhattan proj- He was said to have been a re- ect that made the atom bomb, and witness. was quoted as saying:

"These so-called saucers are ca pable of high speed but can be controlled from the ground. They are 20 feet wide in the center and are partially rocket propelled on the take off. People are not seeing things. Such flying discs actually are in experimental existence."

Experiments with these "dises"

Dr. Harold Urey, atom scientist
at the University of Chicago, com-
mented: "Transmutation of
atomic energy sounds like gibber-
ish. You can transmute metals, not
energy."

The "piece" found in Ohio was discovered near Circleville. 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 air forces in radar research to check on high wind speeds. There was no com ment from the air forces.

"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."

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## May Be Real, He Says (cont.)

the sky and had reached the con- clusion that some sort of meteor ites were responsible.

were reported as being in progress at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif.; White Sands, N. M.; Portland, Oreg., and other places.

Army, Navy and civil aeron tics officials agreed none of the had any reliable informatio about the discs and would frain from commenting until th saw one, or at least a picture.

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."

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## May Be Real, He Says (cont.)

Astronomers at the Naval ob-
servatory and Georgetown uni-
versity, who admitted they have
been on the alert for flying
saucers as they swept the skies with with their powerful telescopes, in with
sisted they not only had not seen
any but knew of no astronomical
theory that might account for the
reports.

Kenneth Arnold, the private pilot who was first to announc PHO seeing the saucers, expressed grati fication at the support he getting but insisted he still didn't believe he had seen nine discs whizzing by at 1,200 miles an hour, although he had seen them.

Arnold started yesterday on a flying fishing trip over the Pa- cific northwest armed with a nev camera in the hope of getting pictures if he encountered any more saucers. He took along Col. Paul W. Weiland, World War II artillery officer, just in case he sees some more and needs a

Arnold announced he has been getting tons of letters commenting on his report of the saucers. Many of them predict they are the fore runner of an atom bomb attack One correspondent blamed them on survivors of the lost continent of Atlantis who are preparing fo an atomic war in 1960.

A War Department spokesman
revealed Army intelligence has
orking for a year on e-

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Atom Experiments or Bunk?

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| Mr.   | Clegg.      |
| Mr.   | Glavin,     |
| 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.      |

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## Delusions or Factual, Those Flying Saucers Have Nation Eyeing Skies; 5 Seen in D. C. Area Mr. Tracy

"And there shall be signs in the heavens. And wise men will mock them and the learned revile, but unto the chosen the signs shall be revealed and they will have wisdom and knowledge."- Ancient prophecy.

were seeing them, including five in the Washing- ton area.

Scientists, for the most part dismissed the "saucers" as optical illusions, figments of the imagination or "someone having a little fun," but the reports continued to pour in.

The words of the prophecy were being ful- filled last night in Washington and throughout he nation as thousands of official and scientific observers and just ordinary people searched the skies for flving saucers-and plenty of watchers

## By JAMES COLLIGAN

By now they have been seen in every part of the country, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

The reports grew in "authenticity" with their increase in volume. A farmer in Ohio came up with a piece of one, a "scientist in nuclear physics

(Turn to Page 8, Col. 1)

## Flying Saucers
Intrigue Nation;
Five Seen Here

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## (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-
mander of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, announced he expected an
"explanation from Washington"
within a matter of hours. Не
hinted to newsmen at Columbus,
Ohio, that the Government is
holding out on the public about
the "saucers," and commented:
Too little is being told the people
of this country."

# More About Saucers
Priest Finds Whirring' Disc
In Yard and Holds It for FBI (cont.)

## Stationary at Alexandria

A mother and daughter in
Northeast Washington reported
yesterday they saw three huge
things hurtling through the sky
last Thursday but were afraid to
say anything for fear of what
might be said about them. Even
yesterday they asked that their
names be withheld.

The "things," according to these
observers, looked like dishes and
made a noise like jet-propelled
planes. They were traveling so
fast they disappeared an instant
after they were observed.

Mrs. Martin Kole, 3200 block Valley Dr., Alexandria, called her local police station to ask about the round flat bright light she

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# Hundreds in 31 States Report
Seeing Weird Flying Saucers'

ing radar signals to the moon, "one the greatest technological achievements of the war and ac- complished in absolute secrecy."

By the Associated Press

The Nation was baffled today by of "flying saucers" reported seen in 31 States by hundreds of persons, and conjectures came from scores of named and unnamed sources throughout the country.

Official Government sources took a "Let's see one" stand on the phe- nomenon, and no scientist offered a detailed explanation.

"We realize," said Dr. Oliver Lee, there.

Two Chicago astronomers said the eas are probably "man-made." "man-made." are probably undulating, flashing objects said uldn't be meteors," Dr. Girard Kieuper, director of the Uni- uldn't be meteors," said Dr. versity of Chicago's Yerkes Ob- servatory at Williams Bay, Wis.

dilector of Northwestern Univer-
sity's Dearborn Observatory, "that
the Army and Navy are working on
all sorts of things we know nothing
about."

Dr. Lee said the discs might repre- sent the same sort of thing as send-l

# Hundreds in 31 States Report
Seeing Weird Flying Saucers' (cont.)

David Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, told the Denver Post in a brief telephone in- terview that the flying saucers were in no way connected with experi- ments in atomic energy, the trans- mutation of metals, or similar re- search.

Col. F. J. Clark, commanding offi- cer of the Hanford Engineering Works in the Pacific Northwest where the largest saucer influx has Works in the Pacific Northwest the atomic plant been reported, said the saucers were not coming from the atomic plant

of Charleston, S. C.-one of them a paper reporter-said a flying saucer passed over Charleston head- ing east at 7:20 p.m. Saturday at bout the same time two men in lbany, Oreg., saw a single disc aash southward, halt, and retrace cloud. its course before vanishing into a

An Army Air Forces spokesman in Washington on July 3 said there was not enough fact to "warrant further investigation," but the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, said it was making a study. Saturday at Washington an Army researcher admitted "we're mystified" and the Navy said it had no theories.

# Hundreds in 31 States Report
Seeing Weird Flying Saucers' (cont.)

## First Reported June 25.

The first published report of "fly- ing saucers" came from Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, businessman pilot, who reported at Pendleton, Oreg., on June 25 that he had seen nine of them flying at 1,200 miles an hour in formation, shifting position "like the tail of kite," over Wash- ington State's Cascade Mountains.

Credence in the saucers-widely laughed off at their first reported appearance June 25-grew as han- dreds of observers, many of them trained flyers, reported seeing them. A crowd of 200 observed a diso at (See DISCS, Page A-9.)

# Hundreds in 31 States Report
Seeing Weird Flying Saucers' (cont.)

## First Reported June 25. (cont.)

Discs
(Continued From First Page.)

Hauser Lake, Idaho, on the Fourth of July. A group of 60 picnickers saw them at Twin Falls, Idaho, And in Portland, Oreg., so many resi- dents witnessed them on the Fourth that the police department sent out an all-cars, broadcast.

years experience walked up the ramp. A United Air Lines pilot of walked up the ramp. "I'll believe in these discs when I to his plane at Boise, joking that see them." Ten minutes later he radioed, shaken, that he had spot- there. ted five of them from his plane. He was Capt. A. J. Smith. His co-pilot, Ralph Stevens, and his stewardess, Miss Marty Monro, told the same story

Witnesses in two points of Cali-
fonia and in Spokane-one of them
an Army Air Forces sergeant-re-
ported seeing the discs Saturday.
Two persons in different sections

# Hundreds in 31 States Report
Seeing Weird Flying Saucers' (cont.)

## First Reported June 25. (cont.)

Before scoffers had more than be-
gun to offer explanations such as
"reflections," ions," "persistent vision" and
"snow blindness," an Oklahoma City
private flyer, Byron Savage, said he
had seen similarly shaped object
some weeks earlier but fear of ridi-
cule kept him qu 1 qu quiet.

Then the reports began to filter in, mostly from individuals. The discs were seen in Texas, in New Mexico, in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Missouri, Colorado, Califor- nia, Arizona and Nebraska. The number varied from one to dozen, seen mostly by one or two people.

# Hundreds in 31 States Report
Seeing Weird Flying Saucers' (cont.)

## Seen by Group of 200.

Then the July 4 deluge hit. Two
60 in another saw them in Idaho; hundred persons in one group and
hundreds saw them thron the West. In Augusta, and other States in Oregon,
Me., the Civil Aeronautics Admin-
istration received a report that a
dozen of the discs had been seen

And, for the first time, the East-
ern States had their reports. Ob-
servers came in with reports from
Michigan, Louisiana, Pennsylvania.
New Jersey, Indiana, Kentucky,
Georgia, South Carolina and Car
ada's Atlantic seaboard.

Near unanimity was recorded
some of the discs' characteristics-an.
terrific speed, bright reflections,

round or oval in shape, flat and fly- ing with a peculiar undulating mo- ton. Size was moot and expressed by Capt. Smith of United Air Lines as "hard to judge" without know- ing the distance from the observer to the objects.

## 2 D. C. Area Residents Say

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leaver. Mr. E. A. Tamm
Mr. Clegg_
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Ladd [x]
Mr. Lad
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

Hatcher

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# 'Flying Saucers' Reported Seen
By Scores of 'Eyewitnesses'

By the Associated Press

The "flying saucer" mystery reached fever pitch today, after "I saw them myself" statements from a veteran United Air Lines crew, scores of Portland (Oreg.) residents, and 60 picknickers at Twin Falls Park in Idaho.

The UAL pilot, copilot and stew- ardess, who had scoffed consistently at "flying saucer" tales, said they saw such objects last night while flying a passenger plane from Boise, Idaho, to Portland.

Their statements followed a day
during which the "saucers" were
reported seen in many parts of the
Nation.

Many Portlanders-including po-
lice, experienced flyers and three
newspapermen-declared they saw
ilvery discs over Portland.

In New Orleans, Miss Lillian Law- ess said she saw an object, shining Ake silver or chromium, flying at a great height and at a terrific speed in a northeasterly direction over Lake Pontchartrain.

# 'Flying Saucers' Reported Seen
By Scores of 'Eyewitnesses' (cont.)

Describing what they saw as flat, "Pancake Standing on End."
translucent plates 12 to 15 inches
(Mich.) residents reported seeing in in diameter, several Port Huron
the "saucers."

Capt. E. J. Smith, Seattle, a vet- eran of 14 years with United Air Lines, said he observed the round flat objects-"like a pancake stand- ing on end"-for about 12 minutes while flying trom Emmett Idaho, to a point southeast of Ontario, Ore. He radioed the Ontario airport but airport officials saw nothing.

Sixty persons picknicking at Twin Falls Park, near Twin Falls, Idaho,

Isaid they saw the discs yesterday afternoon. A party of seven firsi saw some and 10 minutees later, a crowd of 20 or 30 people saw an other batch of nine or ten. Word passed around, and soon the waitin crowd saw another batch circling and climbing.

At Seattle, Frank Ryman, Coast
Guard yeoman, said he took a
picture of what some residents north
of Seattle thought was a flying disc.
The photograph showed a pinhead-
size light spot against the dark
evening sky.

ever

to hunt Portland's saucers. It found The Oregonian dispatched a plane nothing but empty sky.

# 'Flying Saucers' Reported Seen
By Scores of 'Eyewitnesses' (cont.)

Strange Craft Over Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leis, junior interne at the Pennsylvani Hospital for Mental Diseases, and other persons in the western sec- tion of the city, reported seeing strange craft in the skies last night. It was something round with a luminous halo about it, Dr. Leisk declared. It was not shiny, but dark in color and seemed to be propelled by whirling wings. Dr. Leisy said the object he saw was moving at approximately the speed of the wind, below the clouds. It eventually vanished in the clouds, he added.

A dispatch from Summerside, Cana, said farmers in the Prince Edward Island region claim to have seen more of the mysterious disc- like missiles reported flying through northern skies earlier this week. James Harris, farmer at Sher brooke, 1 mile north of here, an his hired man, Herman Linklette said they saw one of the objects last night traveling from the north- west toward the southeast.

RECORDED 62-83894-A
FBI
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JUL 5 1947

WASHINGTON STAR
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OFlying Discs

# Saucers Here,
Saucers There-

# Saucers Here,
Saucers There- (cont.)

## Including Washington

As rumors persisted (and were denied) that the "flying sau- cers" are radio 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
heavenly wanderers may be.

opined that people "are seeing spots
before their eyes."

Dr. John G. Lynn, human be- havior expert of Valhalla, N. Y., said people have the atomic jitters.

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 of the saucers have been reported by "re- liable observers accustomed to look- at the sky.""

Navy Observatory astronomers
here said that so far as they can
judge from description, the objects
are not astronomical phenomena.
Another astronomer-civilian-ing

# Saucers Here,
Saucers There- (cont.)

## There Were Three-
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 report of
flying saucers within the city lim-
its of Washington was made by
two startled matrons.

The ladies spotted the things
night before last, but were under-
standably reluctant to report it at
once.

"I know what you'll think," the younger one said in an exclusive interview with The News, "but mother saw them, too, and she doesn't drink.

# Neither Airplane, Nor
Cloud, Nor Balloon'

By United Press

Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, 27, had a picture today snapped from the front porch of his home near Seattle which authorities hoped would clear up the mystery of the flying saucers.

(It didn't.)

He said what he saw was neither an airplane, a cloud nor a "silver balloon."

The pilot and co-pilot of a Unit- ed Airlines plane said they turned their craft off its course near Boise, Idaho, and chased a "strange object" for 15 miles be- fore it outdistanced them or dis- integrated in the dusk. Capt. R. J. Smith and Second Officer R. E. Stevens, both of Seattle, said "we can definitely say that what we saw was not smoke, not a cloud, and not another airplane."

A similar object was seen by John Corlett, United Press staff corre- Spondent, his wife, and two friends from Mr. Corlett's back yard in Boise. He said it was a white disc ying about 10,000 feet directly

# Neither Airplane, Nor
Cloud, Nor Balloon' (cont.)

overhead. It disappeared in three or
four seconds.

Two Portland, Ore., police scout cars three miles apart notified head- quarters at 1:15 p. m. yesterday that they had sighted a group of strange objects, weaving in a "play- ful manner" 10,000 feet above the ground over the southern suburbs of Portland. Clark County (Wash.) Deputy Sheriff Fred Krives, across the Columbia from Portland, said he saw 20 flying discs "slewing off to one side, almost in single file" over the county court house.

T. L. Huckaby of Pine Bluff, Ark., said he saw a flying object "about the size and color of Bluff area. Decatur, Ill., and Salt Lake City also reported in today.

At Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leisy of the Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental Diseases, said he saw a big dark saucer-like object move slowly across the sky just before sunset. yesterday. He said it was surround- ed by a luminous halo and appeared to be propelled by whirling jets.

JUL 5 1947
WASHINGTON NEWS