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Trace F ouitd

A.F., Checks Schmidt;
Kearngy Amused

Tales of flying saucers and
(other such “SpaCe— trate got
an unofficial raspberry
Wednesday night ‘from an
Air Force official.
| 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-
yestigators have found no
|evicence in the past 10 years
that flying saucers are real.
| 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.

. Investigation Goes On

Ah Syst arney, Neb.
fa chinid

x tory of fan
afte’ isit with ie
crew of a space ship near the
city Tuesday was still under
investigation, officials said.

‘| Schmidt, 48, an ex-Nebias-)
Hs m and now a Californja
g
b:

/gifain dealer, was question¢d
| Air Force investigato}s
|frpm the Continental Air De-|
|fénse Command, Oil fouhd
‘near the alleged landing spot
lof the space ship was identi-
‘fied as ordinary but will be}
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: |
| Newsmen Busy

“Everybody downtown
| seems to think it’s a big joke,”
one business man said.

A Kearney clothier put up
a sign advertising “space ship
specials.” A window sign in
a car agency announced:
“Space Ships Tuned Up.”

The Kearney car-rental
| operator reported business
was so good all of his cars
_were in use. They were being
rented by visiting newsmen.
| Presence of the newsmen

is nearly the only sign tat
‘yjything unusual had hep
; pdned — or may have hgp
pened.

‘Th World-Herald's News Service:

Kearney, Neb.—A grain
Wduyer who said he saw a
space ship Tuesday in a
field near here and chatted

| amicably with its six occu-
pants had more pleasant
dealings with the visitors
from outer space than with
skeptical authorities.

The sensational report
by R. 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
spid he talked to Schmidt
by phone and was convinced

“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 landin with

investigators from the Con-

tinental Air Defense Com-
| mand at Colorado Springs,
Colo., Kearney Police Chief

Thurston Nelson and Buf-

alo County Attorney

enneth 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~
pled that in 3 partially-

mptied can of commer-
cial auto oil found in the

ick of Schmidt's cee and e

arly-empty can foun
a ar i site of the “land-

Sanatatts story came to _

pace-Ship Story Raises

Vorld-Herald News Service Photo.

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

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

light when, white-faced and
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

turn around, Near the
Platte River he saw what
appeared fo be a wrecked
balloon. As he neared i
Schmidt said, his car en|
gine conked out. |
Schmidt said he got oui
and walked toward the ma-
chine. Proximity revealed

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it to bela translucent, ci-
gar-shaped devi abouyy
one hundred feet long, 3!
fdet wide and about 14 fee:
high. Schmidt said tha
yyhen he was 25 or 30 feet

Away, two men got out
and waved what looked
like a flashlight.

“JT couldn't move. 1 don't
know whether I was just
afraid or what, but it was
like being paralyzed,” he
said

‘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
exactly like’ a hotel ac-
quaintance with whom he
has been watching televi-
siqn programs

When the occupant
wanted to move from plac
td place they would ste)
jn a certain location and b
pulled to the new location
without moving

‘Spoke German’

The ship occupants
talked among themselves in
High German, which
Sdhmidt he under.
stands to a limited extent
Ode 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.

‘Disappeared’

Qutside the machine,
Schmidt said, he turned to
svatch as the fans started
in motion without a sound.
He said the machine lifted
about one hundred or two
hundred feet into the air
and disappeared,

“It just blended into the
sky—like it changed colgr
pr disappeared into th

aij.” he said.

chmidt pressed the
starter of his car. The mo:
tor started right off.

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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)
Air Defense Command at Col-)
orado Springs, Colo. and re-)
port to the Air Technical In-
telligence Center.

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

- During the’first half of this
year, the Air Force said, only
1.9 per cent of the 250 report)
ed sightings of flying saucers]
and other fantastic aerial ob-|
jects have wound up in the
“unknown” category,

|Air Force Skeptical

And the Air Force said firm-
|ly—though not all flying ‘sau-
leer bufis may agree—that it
|doesn’t believe even the 1.9)
per cent residue is made up
(es the things you read about!
in science fiction magazines.

Balloons, aircraft and such’

astronomical sights as meteor-| w:

ites and bright stars account
“sat least to the Air Force's
official satisfaction—for al-|
most four-fifths of the sight,|
ings.

‘The director of a private o1
ganization set up to inve:
tigate flying saucers and suc!

said he couldn’t evaluate a

this point the current rash of

reported sightings.

But retired Marine Maj.|

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-|
siles.

Cosmic Energy

“It looks as though they are
interplanetary,” Keyhoe said.

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

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

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-
ert 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
wratically across, the country-
side and left a sort of heat
ve, “like radiation from a
giant sun lamp,” in its wake.

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
of no research in this country

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

Donald &, Keyhoe, director of
the National le tions| ico,
Committee on Aerial Phe-|" ‘two teen-age girls report
numena__added, that the re-|.ceing a mysterious once

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 tol a myste
| [oh222£ Stohted din Teas,

aimed at! produaine/such/aide: after intensive study. ‘The

Air Force described the
glow as “ragiation vapor.”

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Office of Public’ Information
_ Washington 25, D, C.

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

The Air Force’ feels avery définite 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 Peeling of obligation and pur-
suit of that interest, the Air Force eStablished an activity known as
the Unidentified Flying Object Program. * 4

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, p

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 appearto move in all directions, Such sightings
have resulted in many fruitless intercept efforts.

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
radar led them first upward and then down toward a specifiée point on
the ground, (One scientific theory holds that light can be similarly
reflected froma layer of warm air above the earth. If this proves
to be correct, many visual night sightings could be accounted for, )

2, TIonized.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, grouna reflec-
tions, frequency interference between other radar stations, and wind-
porn objects. Obviously, such returns are very difficult to identify
especially when they occur during darkness, -

A

MORE,

- .
Saueene radar Breen has; picked up; birds ¥ im-one case a ,
flock of ducks, Flight interceptions proved these phenomena.

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

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-
eraft 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,

2,. Weather balloons account for, a substantial number of ‘sight -
ings. These balloons, sent to altitudes. of 40,000 feet» and higher,
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
surface and are visible at extreme altitudes. ary

4, Frequently, unusually bright meteors and planets will cause
a flurry of reports,.sometimes from relatively experienced observers,
At certain times of thé year, Venus, for instance, is low on the
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 1s more’ common”
at certain times of the year than others, and reports of UFO's have
shown a tendency to increase during these periods.

5. Some cases arise 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’ isuppose
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 spéeds of the reflected
beam, Reflections may be projected to clouds and haze bath 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,

6, Brilliant ‘flashing Tights that sometimes appear red and
white in color ‘have been reported by observers, This type has been
traced to a new lighting system of commercial airlines and military
aircraft, Atop the tail section of these aircraft highly reflective
red and white flasher type lights have been installed and are many
times misinterpreted by the ground observer,

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In the analysis @ vestigation of the radar and visual
» sightings described, re are some yardsticks wh. have been
+ established from experfence and trends to measure a attempt to
determine the source of UFO's. Some of these are general in nature
Pand 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.

More attention is given to moving pictures of unidentified fly-
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.

The Air Force took a further step in early 1953 by procuring
Videon cameras for the purpose of photographing this phenomena, These
cameras were distributed to various military installations. This type
camera has two lenses, one of which takes an ordinary photograph, and
the other has a diffraction grating which separates light into its
zomponent parts, This aids in determining the composition of the ob-
ject photographed, A small number of photographs have been received
from this camera; however, only light spots of no detail have been
indicated in the photos to date, As more photographs are taken by
these observers, it is believed that a great deal of the mystery will
be lifted from the program,

The Air Force would like to state that no evidence has been
received which would tend to indicate that the United States is being
observed by machines from outer space or a foreign government, No

object or particle of an unknown substance has been received and
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no photographs of detail have been produced... The photographs on
hand are, at best, only large and small blobs of light wbieks in
mast cases, are explainable.

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 abject. It 1s felt that) the infor-
mation thus paeaines will lower still -more ane number of unexplained
sightings.

For observers who wish to report unidentified exer 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.

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

PLEASE SEND TO

DATE: _

TIME OF SIGHTING: _

SHAPE:

COMPOSITION:

SPEED:

ALTITUDE:

DIRECTION OF TRAVEL:

MANEUVER PATTERN:

COLOR:

SOUND:

LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED:

SKY CONDITIONS:

VISIBILITY:

GROUND DIRECTION OF WIND:

NAME, AGE, MAILING ADDRESS OF OBSERVER: ___

REMARKS: (General desceiption of what you saw--use back af necessary)

inpesn 24, FL ITIN FLYIN

/

By FORSAITH FORSAITH REES

HERE is the “real truth” —

about Flying Sastcers,
as! told by Georg/Klein,
former secret weapons ex-
pext in the German War

Production Ministry, and

now’ an engineer in
Switzerland.
“lying Saucers,” he says,
are top secret weapons of ihe
ISA and Russia.
“They are a continuation of
ie, : Py ios wartime experi-
Bien!
oprototype Flying Saucers
were built in Germany during
the war. Saw one reach a

height of 40,000 fect in three |’

minutes, _ hear
1945.”

Klein says the Russians
captured a scale model and top | |
technicians at Breslau, The

technicians PAG not returned | |
to Germ Js

Prague, in

man.
And Walter ‘Micthe, pV
eapon inventor and. key i

it Saucer develo, ent,
est re now Works td
hited States.
ein in a uel interview |
Ji tec!

ia ae ON

AUCERS

mrdla alate pawn types

Flying Saucer built to-day—
one with a diameter of 48ft.
dae by five jets and a

larger model with a diameter
of 126ft. and 12 jets.

This, he) says, accounts for
the rumour that Saucers often
appear to change size sud-
denly.

Raised wing flaps lift both
airoraft like a helicopter. The
big one can keep stationary by
turning jets down to counter-
balance gravity,

Flying Snucets veloped in
Canada ‘by Johyffrost, former
colleague of Si frank Whittle,
have ‘reached speeds upf to
1,500 mph ae have been}in-

spected Field-Marshal -

ontgomery, says Klein.

[OCR skipped on page(s) 27-30]"THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE’

Are They Hiding Those
Lights Under a Bushel?

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 aireraft
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.

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.

“Tt was about a foot and a haif in
diameter,” he said, “only going about
40 or 15 miles an hour. ‘Then it fol-
jowed the tree line about 50 yards to
the right and went down.

“qt went straight down, all of a
sudden. Fifteen minutes later it
went straight up and moved over 2
here toward the tank shed. G2 K

“t saw it two times after that. Tt fr J DAILY NEWS
dia the same ‘thing. It was the “NOT RECORDED a t - Ps ty ut XN
weirdest looking thing I ever saw. 2 a} 1zton Edition
There was no engine noise and no
ghape—just the hight.

' Jt 6

NO SALE

By the time The News talked to
Pic. Viets at Quantico yesterday,
the airplane navigation light theory
already had been offered. The News
asked Pfc. Viets about it, and he
said:

“That was no airplane. I first
thought it might be a weather
balloon, but it wasn’t. Either way,
you could have seen the shape.”

Pfc. Viets and. Sergt. Salinder saw
the light again at 10:15 the same
night. Five minutes later they called
in the roving guard from a nearby
guard tower, but the light was gone.

CONFLICT

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

capture then or welcome them
aboard or anything else,” he said.

However, this is what the official
record says:

“4 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
seen, ‘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 710, it appeared again. Th
time the sergeant of the guard
“came out and checked th r

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Pfc. Bennett (top front) grabbed a butcher knife and said: “It’s land-
Maj. Pomerleau (middle photo) is skeptical,
Pfc. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convince

ing in the tank shed!”
but still curious.
him “that was no airplane.”

the offi

with troops,”
says.

Thirty minutes later, the sergeant
of the guard saw it again, and at

1 report

2 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.”

Pfe. 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.

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

Maj. Pomerleau said the best pos-

—News Staff Photos by Gene Thomas

sible way to describe the light’s
size, shape and intensity was to
compare it to “the way a blinking
red traffic light appears to a 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.”

“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.”

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,”
Pfe, Viets said.. “They're just talking |
flying sauce: that's all, They're
talking about men from Mars and
everything else you could name,”

[OCR skipped on page(s) 33-35]” SROCERSHELD
SPACE snlPS
BY EXMARINE,

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.)

BY RICHARD REILLY ~

yh

Are the-fiying 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, it said:

“The Air Force has stated in
the past, and reaffirms at the
present, time, that unexplained
aerial phenomena are not a se-
ret 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.”

Weapon Theory Discounted

In addition, a high-ranking Air
Force (officer indicated to the
"Times-Herald that it is -believed
impossible the saucers could he
® 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
. 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
Haan that ey are of inter-plane-

Me Keyhoe contends
that so-called “Utah film”

Tae” the Air Force proves
f ae —

aaneory Bolte,

“Keyhoe'’s '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,

In_the letter, Chop stated:
-“The Air Force, and its inyesti-
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-
Jenged 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.”

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 el
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—fhat it
4s holding back no important
facts from the public.

White said the names of
peabmemneives in thezhtings

lent

NOT RECORDED
44 JAN 12 1954

uf 1

afe-witimreld, and reportsehish)
divulge the capabilities of our
aircraft, yadar 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 colild be de-
leted, if necessary.

Wants Film Released

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

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

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

In his telegram — as in was|
book-—Keyhoe stated:

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

Gites Conclusions

The spokesman was asked if
this statement were true or false.
He said that, to date, the Air
Force has neither affirmed nor
denied it.

eyhoe also contends the anpl-
y#s concluded the objects were
nqt birds and were not caustd
by Weather conditions.

pecifically, Keyhoe elaims the

Times Herald
Wash. Post
Wash. News
Wash. Star
N. Y. Times

_N. Y. Compass

Date:

lh ° 2 B-S GF

infeMgerree 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.

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

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

5. They were not any type of
known aircraft.

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

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

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

Not Discounting Theory

The Air Force officially neither
accepts nor sieges the interplan-
etary theory. J

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

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

“In our inyestigation we are
not discounting the possibility
that the saucers—if they exist—
could be interplanetary. We are
interested in anyone who might
be using the air over the United
3 ¢

8.
¥ , we have no authen-

tic physical evidence#h2t.they
are interplanetary.”

Continuing, Gen. Smith stated:

“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

“So far, the question of
whether flying saucers exist, and
if so, what they are, has not been
conclusively answered either
way.” *

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

Will Push Campaign

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 wilt
continue to make his claims in
print and on television, and will
challenge the Air Force to deny
them,

“Tf 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 a liar to his face.

“I do not like to use such
terms, but after all, the Air
Force has, in-effect, been calling
me fe 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
person 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.
etd answer is not yet available

us, —=

SS

[OCR skipped on page(s) 38]BOWLING GREEN, 0,°<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 Mbyte 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, I?
TOOK OFF WITHIN FIVE SECONDS,"

THE PILOT SAID THE OBJECT WAS TRAVELLING FASTER THAN ANY JET PLANE
SND WAS GOING SOUTH WHEN ME FIRST SAW IT. HE SAID THE SKY WAS CLEAR
AND. THERE WERE NO OTHER PLANES IN SIGHT AT THE TIME, P

HE SAID HE DIDNT THINK IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY REFLECTION. HE (

AID IT APPEARED ABOUT A FOOT IN DIAMETER AND WAS ABOUT THE SAME, (,S
ALTITUDE AT WHICH HE WAS FLYING,
12/412-TS151P

FLYING SAUCER|

~ Top Experts Hold

OTTAWA, Noy. 12 \\CTPS)—
Establishment of a>Ganadian
fy saucers, the tise in the World,
ing saucers, the first in the world,
‘| has been announced here.

“There is a yery 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,
told reporters.

He said the federal transport
department, in which he has
charge of the telecommunications
broadcast and measurement sec-
tion, receives constant reports of
sighting of flying saucers. The
total number, he said, is classi-
_|fied_as restricted information,

“The optical illusion explana-
tion is lovely,” he said, “but in
every sighting there is always
some factor that precludes this
explanation. We have decided to
try to learn just what they are.”

Canada’s sighting station will
be at Shirley bay, 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 is
under the transport department
and the defense research board,
will be a theoretical physicist and

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, |
@ gamma ray detector, a gravi-
meter, and other paraphernalia.

the air force field near Ottawa

ported by the station,
Defense research _ scientists

have been pub-
din ‘nightmarish

lem have beer
as multicolored cigar

OBSERVATORY!

Not Optical Illusions,}

a specialist in gravitational];

Jet planes may be sent up from | ,
to investigate any saucers re-|

hhere never haye pooh-poohed fly- |’

NOT REGORDED
MB JAN 4 1904

——s ee

Times Herald
Wash. Post
Wash. News
Wash. Ster

N. Y. Times

N. Y. Compass

Date:

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SANTA FE, Netfaeo HE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN SAID TODAY) THAT tt
“opanttas tres? STRIDES |HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE FIELD OF GUIDED MISSILE
RESEARCH AND THAT IY IS: "POSSIBLE Bie DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MAY SOON
CLEAR UP THE MYSTERY OF, TH! Ny
THE NEWSPAPER SAND *S0 OVED FROM SOME ASPECTS
OF THE HUSH@HUSH PRUGRAM" AT A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATE ON TENTATIVELY
Springs AT THE WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER THIS
“IT 1S" POSSIBLE WHAT THE be lg SOON TO SE 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
his, THEM #FLYING BAUCERS * FOR LACK OF A BETTER } NAME, ® THE PAPER

flowever..c COL, Me HENDRICKS, COMMANDANT OF THE PROVING GROUNDS,
SAID TODAY. THAT RES t ied THERE "HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYING LIke ?

- BUSINESS THERE CERTAINLY WON'T BE ANYTHING LIKE A FLYING SAUCER )
) -—~£ ; ;

THE SO*CALLED FLYING ALNLY WE ARE STRECTLY IN THE GUIDED MISSILE a ue

EW Auer as ised Stn aD, SKY _NEZT WEEK 0 vk

p N ted te | PT

SAUCERS. BUT MERELY *SUDDEN TRAILS OF LIGHT ex fur for Fi 7
RTICLES FROM OUTER SPACE THAT, ENTER OUR ATMOSPUER REMEND

pid AND. ARE HEATED TO TNGANDESCENCE SY THE. RESTSTANGE. oF AIR *t8

THEE TLL Be ESPECIALLY. BAD, ABOUT THE 10TH AND THE agtH OF THE

HoNTH
RT Rp COLES Suntan OF ‘THE HAYDEN PLANETARI HERTGAN
seu NATURAL. GAVE FAIR NOTICE OF Tite E LGN a THE
FHE TWO. PRINCIPAL erat OMERS-IN COLES CAD. "ane THE.
SO-CALLED, TAURID METEORS HS HOW. OFF. BEST. AROUT T THE
MONTH, AND THE Le bono tee ons > WHICH STEAL THE SHOW fo out THE ON tl,
4

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[OCR skipped on page(s) 48-49]THIS 1S IT A sketch of the flying saucer Which Her-
bert Long, 29, a Kutztown, Pa., insur-

ance salesman, contends hesaw parked on a road 30 feet
fyom his car. He said he was too frightened to approach it.
He’s shown (left, below) giving Leroy Gensler, artist,

directions for the sketch. (AP Wirephotos)

What Is It?

FLYING SAUC! -—The unknown object
ever the building in the picture, photographed above
Anacortes, moves swiftly through the sky, seeming-
ly « part of a cloud formation. But is it? Walter
Elliott of Anacortes was preparing to take « picture

ofthe building when he noticed the unusual saucer
Jike object in his view finder, so he snapped the pic-
ture at 1/100th of a second, Elliott was unable to
determine the nature of the unusual object which
jizz (Associated, Press Wirephoto.)

[OCR skipped on page(s) 52-55]By RICHARD CARTER

The swift-moving celestial lumi-
nosities which the American pub-
lp has come to call “flying saucers”

re phenomena with a recorded
History dating back at least 200
Years and perhaps several thou-
sknd.

‘The Biblical Ezekiel’s airborne
|wheels, for example, had some of
the earmarks of what modern
|American science fiction readers,
televiewers and “cold worrie!
on the verge of regarding as inter-
planetary scouts or missiles from
Moscow.

Dr. Donald H. Menzel, profes-
sor of astrophysics at Harvard
University, made this point in
mn interview last month with

ime magazine. He produced

locumentary evidence that there
vas a saucer scare in Chicago

m Apsil10_1897, when man$r

“motionless, before darting into a
cloud and disappearing forever:
others move at what seems t
e an impossible rate of speed)
eversing direction instantane
usly, swooping and climbing in
manner which no man-made

sky-watchers ciaimed to hav
seen two flying cigar-shaped ob.
jects.
Cigar-shaped objects have be

spotted skyward by innumerabi

participants in America’s postwar
saucery.
Fly

g 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-
counts of the phenomena diffe
hardly at all from those contrib’
uted by recent viewer:

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
——sContinued on Page—16\_.

stje speeds, or
hovering, depending on conditions.
Headlights, aerial searchlight},
efen street lights in a city can
rfiracted by the atmosphere an|
bpcome “flying saucers” out in ti
country miles away, he says.

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

Qne of the reasons the Air Force
has felt impelled to take part jn
he public debate on the subjcét,

fter having satisfied itsqt

Ihrough research that the sauces,

re something akin to what Men#]

lescribes, is that. radar scopes in
Washington have been described)
otting the saucers at the same
time pilots and ground observers
were seeing them with the nakeq
eye.
Until further returns are ji
the only explanation availabif.

is one known to anyone who h:

ver had anything to * wit!

jadar—you see all kinds i as

jccountable things on
nsidered noteworthy tay "K

nachine or human pilot_ could

survive.

Since one of the foundations of
modern science is to believe noth-
ing that cannot be proved, mopt

about the  skitteriie.
have to be rejectefi.

s which have gaingd

y are based on facts
” But no
on

its
any theo
yjide curren
which ave “probably true.
scientist bases conclusions
things which only are probable.
The closest anyone has ome
not only to explaining the phe-
momena, but duplicating them, is
of. Menzel. He believes th
acers are fancy mirages—actuq}
nages of lighis, but displac
rough miles of space by refraf-|
fon. He explains that light moves
slower through a dense, medium

like cold air than in warm, air.
‘When it passes from a layer of
dense cold air into a layer of less
dense warm air at an appropriate

it is bent. and may Bee seen.

as if dis

jorce radar in the same regio:
failed to pick up the impuls
which the CAA now has adde|
to flying sau ore.

[OCR skipped on page(s) 57]"ve in the Sky Again

‘Radar Spots More Mystery Objects Hees

Fliers Report Sighting Glowing Lights

Washington received another| away. ‘The pilot said he wasn’t

visit last_night Hie “able to nd they
|tified aerial objects similar to were He lost

|those repor re last_Mor sight of them two minutes later,
At least a dozen of the mys-|

The. same pilot observed a
Hterious objects were reported to steady white light 10 miles east
Yhave been seen glowing in the

of Mount Nears at ae ». Be
ithi dlonradi ‘The light, about five miles ahea
|sky within a 30-mile radius of| o¢'him, faded in a minute.
the city. l_picked| ‘Phe interceptors did not sight
the} any more lights after that. Al-
ic Control|though the radar screen still
igton National! picked up the objects. One
Airport. t
‘At 11:25 p. m., two F-94 jet/night, and the other about 12:15
fighters were sent up by the|a. m.
Air Defense command to inves- i
tigate the lights. The pilots re- objects have been picked up by,
{ported seeing the Tig! its but radar. Last night’s visitors
were not able to get any closer showed up first on the screen
to them than about 7 Wiles-~—~fat 9:08 p. m. and remayred for’
“ye jet pilots described the some time. — yi
lights as hard to see and track) Airline, private and’ military
down: ‘pilots all reported seeing them.
‘At 11:33 p. m., One jet pilot |Some pilots said they came with-
obseryed four lights in the vicin-|in two or three miles of the ob-
‘ity of Andrews Air Force base. |jects.
‘Phe lights were about 500 feet! They were variously described
above him and about 10 miles'as looking like blue lights, the

mV

( VAUG4 1952

plane landed shortly before mid-| '@di

| “It was the second time these|-! lip

lighted end of a cigaret, or a
cluster of orange and red lights.
| Radar operators plotted their
|speed at from 38 to 90 miles per
jhour. They were not able to de-
termine their altitude. Some

pilots reported flying over them
and some under them.

on fl
however, caus

rather than
A CAA spokesman
jects picked up last night gave
off blips similar to those of reg-
ular aireraft.
Air Force has been inyes-
|tigating/ last week’s objects.
reports of fly! cers

this_mont
est_since 194°
were seen.

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ny ;
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b GHT M4

AN. “ALMOS mr 9
BY TWO. OTHER IDE
OF ALL ELGHT FLICKE

LIGHTS
10,009 BUT THEY WERE
HE SAID,

SANTOS. CEYANES
ID THE FLYING SAUCE
RIGHEN OF TH
NASH, A NAVY. TRANS “PILOT IN
97008, Aik HOURS, FORTENBERRY, FOR
Al OYE OF PAA SINCE THE WAR,
MADE BY. NAS
PORT:
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OULD HAVE HESTI TATED
WATCHED -THE, WHOLE

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OUR ALTITUE my
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ALMOST DIR ECTLY
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SHT
HAD
SELOW THE
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FORTENBERRY "OBVIOUSLY WERE

WAR It

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TODAY WAS. THE LATEST oF
TH

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[OCR skipped on page(s) 61-63]SUNDAY DIS
LONDON, ENG
DEC. 3, 1950

—_—

WHAT FLEW ACROSS
ENGLAND YESTERDAY ?

Football
Crowds See
‘Flying Saucer’

By Sunday Dispateh Reporter

ol FU rete of people in many parts of
Britain, including spectators at foot-
ball matches, saw what many of them
believed to be a flying saucer yesterday.

In each case the phenomenon—a strange
white flash which darted across the sky at terrific
speed—was seen about 4 p.m,

These reports of the passage of this object
through the sky were received by the Sunday
Dispatch last night:

More than 500 spectators at a Soccer cup match at
Chard, Somerset, saw a strange white phenomenon dart
across the clear sky high above the grandstand at about
3.45. Within a split second of passing it seemed to disperse
on the horizon.

Spectators Cried ‘Oh’

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

Spectators at a Rugby match two fields away saw it.
One, Mr. Arthur H, Jenkins, postmaster of Chard, said :
“Tt was like a diamond flash; its shape was like a big

peardrop, with the thin end tapering behind. Suddenly it
“mmeived’’ into nothingness.” - 2

rman of Chard F.C. Mr
‘William peantons Sitting: in the
stand, sa: ame right
the top of us us lies ke at ant streak
and then | Seemed to dissolve before

"Snake-Shape

‘Miss Myra Scott, who was watch-
ing a football match at Perry
Street, three miles south of Chard,

said she saw a “low-fiying, silvery |,
a tail” shortly before |

star with

four o'clock,
At North Petherton, near Bridg-

‘water, spectators at another ma’

saw an object in the north-west |

sky shortly before four o'clock.
It was described as “a ot
_ snake-s shape thing which streake
through the sky at a terrific rate.”
Mr. T. Hollinghurst, of North

"Petherton, said: “Tt appeared suc: |

denly and went away suddenly,
Jeaving a creamy smoke. There
Was no noise and there were no
planes about.”

mit later
“though m panes "explost tea
seen at a great height cover, tne
| Channel, 50 miles to the
Chard.”

as much as}

places
apart were received

tishead (near Bristol) poli
Feported that’ @ whi metas was

The estimat
20,000.
caer saper jare police
rs ed to the erate “Ministry”

In-Gordano, near 2

tors saw a flash. Mr.
of Ham Green, sai
like a rocket coming down

2,000ft. There was an intense

flash which left a trail of vapour.”
Spectators at the match betrvea
Shaftesbury. and Lonefleet
Mary reported | what sppearey
a giant rocket. Tt seemed to f
from the Sky.
_ Bovingdon airport Berti
shire, 150 miles east ta, Hest
also reported to the Air Minist
that a brilliant white light Ww
to the west,

it was at about 20,000ft
tht it vanished in a trail of smoke

Air Ministry said last night
“A thorough) yen been

“Tt is mo:

a edul aD Sy te at could
genedued private

ae at su oa
annot soins
“No ait “er a

—_

What Did The WS.
People Of a
Devon See
Last Week? [||

v7

By Sunday Dispatch Reporter
EST OF ENGLAND newspapers gave much
publicity last week to reports of “’ flying
saucers “’ over Devon.

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

pye 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 obsérvations were at

about 41 p.m. in all instances.

J. Stewart, 70-year-old Woolacombe pensioner,
Mr. vied in aircraft fac pensioner, who
he

as worl
two wars, was one of They were of a prillis il
tories 19 eo ple who told the| | vay blue, travelfin S aaltthy anes be:
tee ter Gapress and Echo what | |hind the other in close formation,”
they had seen. “After
passing overh
‘At 10,50 on Mondey, elon 1 Be | | rear obiect appeared to catch Up
noticed AM “ection, of the north with the front one and collide,
from tbe, dy at a tere speed” whereon they disintegrated.”
ent i) .
lin, of Beacon- H
se HA near Exeter, wrote Bright Disc
whipton.,.it while at Coun-|| The object was described by Miss
Pwo miles south-east of | | J. . BpUEYrY, of Exeter-hill, Cul-
onday night, he saw||lompton (2 miles north-east of
‘opjects. Exeter), 95 “a bright diso travel.
De oced ,circular movement at
pamouthy ‘the ‘object. was" seen 8
. was seen a
NTSPATCH 11_p.m. by Mr. and Mrs. L. Mus-
SUNDAY ee ( gel’ of Hillorest, Lympsione, who
LONDON, iNGLAN described it as having
Faeeg0 \ parts “apparently attached
5-5

some way with alighted tail.”

peel) pinib witness uci as Oy

ress and -Echo ir. A. J.
Bowell, of Sidmouth Junction, who,
ile ‘between Patterson's Cross,

‘St. Mary and Sidmouth
‘brillis

a TL p.m. on Monger,
tes.

da bank of mists

aan
~iLong Red Trail

“They passed swiftly,” he said,
“in a southerly direction and a)
peared to be ‘in line astern’ with
@ long red trail to the rear...
both lights seemed to fizzle out as
I watched them—they were ‘In @
clear patch of sky whén this hap-
pened ... I heard no sound,”

“Two large circular objects
travelling south in a horizontal

osition looking something like
large white flames” is the descrip-
ton 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 pm. on
Monday.

Members of the crew of a libert!
boat plying between Flagsta
Steps, Devonport Dockyard, and
H.MS. Defiance are also/ reported

in the Western Morning News as

having seen “circular objects

at an incalculable speed
itting a trail of fire” lateon
Monday night. :
=zojuay Herald" *>ress
quotes four other people who saw
similar objects.

|i] light trailing behind th

r— Bluish Light

Frederick Bray, fisherman, age
39, was lying in the bunk of hi:
boat in Torquay outer harbour;
when he saw a “bluish-white
light” appear over Princess Pier
at about 11 pm. “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
peach was overtaken by the main
jody.

‘Like Feeble Rocket’

“Then aos bluish-white light
(aes and a broken stream of
ue its seemed to fall from it. The}
all seemed to be following eac!
other straight across the sky, then
ths end ot the breken pieces lust

e ie broken pieces—jus'
like ‘a feeble rooken” >

‘The last of the witnesses, Mr. H.
Warren, of East-street, Torre, Tor-
uay, saw from his bedroom’

low an object “going towards
Brixham, dtie south of Torquay.”
Describing it in, a letter to the
paper, he said : “I thought it was
tik. three stars with a long=tall of

em...

[OCR skipped on page(s) 68-73]“FLYING SAUCER _

SUNDAY DISPATCH
JULY 9, 1950
LONDON, ENGLAND

RIDDLE

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
plotographs of disc-type aircraft.

jarlier pictures published in
tHe Spanish Press last April, ard
alkeged 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.

SEGRET TRIALS

JN. 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~
plhined away as Fiiaaset of €x-
pqrimental trials of various
dqvices,
Inder this nesding fall many
of the objects seen in Souther
iS. and other areas whe!
secret experiments are in pro-
gress. For this group I am pre-
pared to accept the explanation

‘iven by the United States Army

ir Force as “ misinterpretations
of conventional objects.”

‘These conventional objects are
plant experimental’ cosmic ray
balloons which fill out to 100ft.
Jong 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,
stated to have

above the
urface,

wo consists of those

Jed
woe ships, missiles from
planes ane inter-planetary
viet ‘inti } ark
ions are remark-
18 ids and generally the
ier white or silver.
ib without directivsues

b

eontrol or
travelling at
prodigious
speeds, vanish-
ing suddenly,
and associated
with brilliant light, fringes of fire
or flames of peculiar colour ayd
generally rotating or whirling.
From many parts of the wor
come these reports. The vejy
fact that their descriptions are
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
Juminous gases caused by jet or
other high speed experiments
which might be responsible for
the generation of small atomic
whirlpools in the atmosphere.
Group Three reports suggest
that the saucers are high speed
aircraft of circular or dise shape
travelling at speeds much higher
than those attained by normal
planes.

SAFETY SEARCH

“J BERE is no reason at all
why amnular and circula
disc-like aireratt should not have
been common objects at any time
during the past 30 years.

‘The early history of these very ,

unorthodox-looking aircraft was,
ironically, based on a search for

safety.

Before 1910 it had been shown
that square and cireular susfaces
had yery 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.

‘This compromise brought other
trouble. Barly planes reached
their stalling Anal ab some 1
degrees, and stalling must resu!!
in a dive since fhe only. correcti
oF a stall is a. gue b y somne ape
greater than fe stalling speed,
eae rae B ee .

ni e © people wl
would no! ‘accept fa airer 6

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NOT RE

85

ORDED
AUG 111950

eae

“| believe they are disc-type
aircraft,’ says—

G. TILGHMAN RICHARDS,
senior Research assistant
and _ official

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
tolinvestigate possible, wing forms
wijich should be safe from stalling
anfi spinning.

mong. these “rebels” a. few
names ave become air history.
Jose Weiss and Arthur Keith wit!
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,
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

daptea war planes, and then

fame World War Il. Once more
jitations were imposed.

In spite of the orthodoxy of

sign there was throughout the
inter-war years, aNd \=swuny

South Kensington Science
Museum,

lecturer at the

London, who has
studied all the

evidence.

. there is still, a considerable botiy’

of technical opinion not satisfied
pear pentecion has been reached.

d here. I think, lies the real
answer.

This body of opinion has been
continually searching for the
“safe” design. Designers of many
nationalities haye 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.

NAVY STEPS IN

JN, 1987 he granted licendes

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
on Speeds from 0 to 500 miles per

‘This performance 1s in accord
with reports that flying saucers
travel at great speeds, hover,
ascend and descend with little
forward motion.

Js perhaps, a little hard to
believe that there can, as yet, ex.
ish enough of these types to meet
the many Tenors, but there) is no
reason at all why such aircraft
should not have been seen provid.
ing that full scale work followe,
the experimental period. And ti
pesrecy, Would suggest that thi

0.
And there could lie thi
sole proof that flying sattoers’

[OCR skipped on page(s) 76-81]/ 1A

Saucers’ New-T ype Aircraft,
robably Navy, Magazine Says|

By Joha G. Norris

Post Reporter
in fact

con turning off the rear jets, turning

pacgey ee ava aircraft, como the side and front nozzles.
forming to known areodynamic, “Great speed can be obtained
laws and probably developed by by focusing to the rear all nozzles
the' United States Navy, the maga- in the after half of the aircraft.
zine United States and World Re-| With all nozzles pointed down-
port said yesterday jward the saucer could rise
‘This latest effort to explain the Sttaight off the ground, and with
continuing reports of strange ‘fly-|!¢8s power, could descend the
ing disks at various points over |Same way ...
the country brought a prompt} “Jet helicopter action
denial from the Navy Department | Makes takeoffs and landings alm
{hat it is now “conducting research |completely safe.”
or flying” any such plane or) ‘The magazine said that an early
missile. model of the saucer was built by
‘A spokesman pointed out that|National Advisory Committee for
the Navy did/develop the “pan-|Aeronautics experts in 1942 and
cake-shaped” Chance-V ou ght/Made 100 successful flights. The
XF5U-1, but that it never flew and|Navy then took over development

@ i oeh

(secs

2

[But the Navy Says ‘No’

lying saucers” are

ost

was scrapped more than a year| 4nd

‘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.

‘Phe weekly news magazine did
{not quote any authority for its
|ctatement that the “fying sauce
‘aregreal American planes, but sai
tha} “engineers competant to ap-

praife reports of reliable observ
reagh these conclusions:
iphiey are aircraft of a revolu-)
tionary type, 2 combination of heli-|
ter and fast jet plane. They
barra! to well-known principles of
co

aerodynami
They are

I

t Pots ||
woxactly 105 feet in di-
ular in ape’ "and “arel

Le garveg e petel alloy, with a dull
lor. There are no rud-
sh coms or other protruding
ailerfom thie side, the caucer
es. Fe about 10 feet thick.
© Meer appears to have a
variable-direction jet
nd its rims... fuel
_. Direction of

its veloci

a jy ave controlled by
widen ich the fet nozzles
the number operating

co)

°
¢ arow
unknowD.
aft and

* applied.
wer APPUC nich nozzles to

D) sing
By ¢hoo be and the le of
oF fot could make

descend yer
ahead or make

yight-angle turn
iid be made by

or
“ eraight
y straight

ns
cou
for example: S

"lect now active,

“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-

i joint to research
centers of the United States Navy's
vast guided-missile project as the
scene of present flying-saucer de-|
velopment.” The project, it was|
said, has the “scientists, the en-
gineers, the dollars, the motive
and the background” for the Baer

“This likelihood will remain, de-| |
spite any future denials by the
Navy. front office, until secrecy is
lifted,” the magazine added.

‘The- Navy declared ityawas true)
that its abandoned “fying pan-|
cake” was designed by Zimmer-|
man, and was called the “Zimmer-
man Skimmer,” It added that a
stl smaller scale model—one-|
tHird of actual size—is still at

te ‘Associated Press Pholp

del of aircraft developed in 1948 and Rown by the Navy unddr |
Mode! control full-size eraft never few, the Navy has announced |

NOT RWOGRYRD

ACA’ Langley, Va.. laborat
for wind-tunnel tests,
Navy insisted it had no such pro}

The Air Force, after ihs|
months of investigation of “fiying!
isaucer” reports, concluded that all
the evidence pointed to “misin:
terpretation of various convel-
ional objetts, a mild form of mass
ysteria, or hoaxes.”

:
WASHINGTON POST

Dated 4-4-50

f flying
s, comes this up-to-the-minute
ry of report and rumour about
2 modern mystery of the skies.

HARD GREENOUGH

OFFICE OF THR LECAL, arr,
AMERICAN ExEassy ““™®
THE DAILY MAIL

APRIL 3, 1950 | 4
LONDON, ENGLAND

New Yorr, Sunday.
VER since Ken-
neth Arnold,
30 - year - old,
t nary pusiness-man
ilot from Bolse, Idaho,
ched off the “flying
‘s” mystery by report-
the afternoon of
(24 1947, that he had
“nine shiny discs like

‘along at about 1,200
a.” only one fact seems

has yet proved de-
ly that such ene do or
a t.

a en it was stated in a
Bris that all re-

ts in the «
orange Ria coming |
Ce

fide bes. il
pestedt ea like ie pill
spheres.
But two facts se
constant. They are
have across thes
move acr
ee way. ag
ion,
falling,
ing.

ventional.” aerial object
included jant — eer Seimentht 1
cosmic-ray jlloons, radar targpt.
balloons wit dangling strips pf
alumin: foil, meteor trait
wisps Pot ‘or whole vapour tral
pees igh-flying aircraft, bright
2. Mild form of mass hysteria,
3. Hoaxes. t
But teadlily, front, 1947) up, till
1 few , reports of
objects. that ee wh in the &
ki all over
‘United "at

Ore, US tt
‘Capt. Thom
st is fe s "ome a

yoked Poe
a one topped: with’
‘An experienced war-t

nee wae

‘ia, Africa,

have rang

fms
wit

Chi
The 25 ae seen, he here |

His last report
Fond 25 minutes

+ In broken cloud at 18,000ft. the

_ other two pilots lost f sight of him,
later broke off and lanx ded.

venta Gave once more to say

2b were no closer ai

- 20.000ft. he'd abandon th

geek © te ndanj#te|.chase
_ That was the last heard from

lis body was later found near
rt Knox and thi

lousness bel
_ of control.

‘Still a mystery

ee hae Thad not meretaetcon con.

‘he crashed,

was a cover-up, ©
weg spe rie! P

uarter years @ multitude

deopie’ on, the ground claim
ave, Seen these “ flying saucers}
lor have they always been se
ith the naked cye; many saj
em through binoculars.

NEWS CHRONICLE OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACIR
LONDON, ENGLAND AMERICAN EvBassy
APRIL 3, 1950 LONDON, BNGLAND

In the huge Pentagon, building
Washington, headquarters 2f
e Defence Department, there|is
in Air Force major whose dufy
is to repeat to all inquirers the
bstance of the last Air Forte
statement on flying saucers,
issued on December 27, 1949.

‘© Mass hysteria”

On the basis of inquiries into
375 alleged occurrences over a
period of two years, it was an-
nounced: “Reports of  un-
identified flying objects are the

result of misinterpretation of

various conventional objects or a |
mild form of mass hysteria or|
hoaxes.”

It was said a continuance of

the inquiry was “ unwarranted.”

But in fact it has appeared
luring the last month that
i re. ble witnene ah, pay the
ave se ing saucers are S|
eng ecamined by. Intelligence |
Micers. s

|d_It was noted, too.
and how thoroughly «
most | comprehensive
| newest reports ha
“lost.” RL

DAILY EXPRESS ,
London, England ; -&3
cl ae ae Ie OF RECORDED

85 APR 191950

[OCR skipped on page(s) 89-90]saucers” are »

the news.
om New ‘ York comes a
report that Captain Jack
JAdams, pilot of the Chicago
and Southern Airlines, radioed
that he and a co-pilot had
Pee the path of a large fly-
Be ERC t, with lighted
sae dows and a _ peculiarly
blinking light on

duced an article in which he

In December, 1949,

ravelling at about claimed to have received a official body which had ‘bi

ver Arkansas,

message, via a medium, that

established in America to proje

“This was followed by a news there were people aboard the the “saucers” was disband

le from Lisbon: Scores 0:
flying saucers reported by
Se eh

co! ing

nt formations and

ving west “faster than

yullets.””

fey 1950 “ saucer season”
to have opened early,

st geen! of these strange

1e on June 25, 1947,

. Dahl of Tacoma,

‘and other

joticed a circular around that there were men Saucers *

reales like a silver
hut

cutting capers over _

ie saw five more
"rotating pone a

speculations. sen 3
ntre craft then be;
fmetaie rain Dost of
one piec
Pi Fone ana yard ;
, the first
Weaving se

cette

saucers.”

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

In Britain
reported over e
and another was seen by a
clergyman’s wife at Sandwich.

ck in America President

‘Truman compared
to the scare of over a hundred
years ago, when word got

and bats living on the e
The neatest “ flying saucer
‘quipping nay from Mr.
Grom a ko at UN.
quarte:
Some,” “atts
them to the Briley for
ina too much w! to the
others that it is a Russian —
fais thrower training for
the Olympic Games) who does.
ne nae his own sti
e first fly’

the rumours —

It had been in operation
two years, and had investiga
375 incidents.

It said that the phenomenon

vas caused by : (a) mi:
pretation of various conven-,

tional objects; (b) a mild. form’

of mass hysteria; (c) hoaxes.

And there, one might, haye

imagined, the story would have
But . the

ended. oe
‘grounded. "4

Bhs

eee eae Ge
Lie “ disc”
sin

“not
nite

"Cot
< Pa oneto, Ee
thre eit eh
le | une

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PAGE 6 wD?

[OCR skipped on page(s) 98]ean haat

IR, 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}
0 years ago. Ns ,

Washington Star
Page A 18

Washington Star
Page A 18

[OCR skipped on page(s) 101-105]Tolson

r.
by r. B. A. Tamm

a Mr. Clegg_

Gander for Saucers

—

FW Chief Awaiting Messagé

rom Capital on Flying Discs _

| he national leader of the Vet=,
jerans of Foreign Wars said yeste
day in Columbus, Ohio, that he}
was momentarily expecting word]
from Washington which would ex-|
plain the ‘flying saucers” mystery.
Louis £. Starr,
mander of the VEW, told the Ohio!

'that he might have “within a few

hours” an explanation from Wash-|
lington. He had expected the mes
|sage at 3 p. m. but it did not ar
\vivg, he said.

00 little is being told the peo-|
|plq of this country,” Starr told the
defrgates, |

undreds of persons in about}
30’ States have reported seeing
the silvery .saucer-shaped discs
speeding through the skies at tre-
mendous speeds. x
An exhaustive check with the
War Department and other agen-
cies disclosed Jast 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-
viously was apparent. As the
mystification waxed, the scoffing
waned.

State encampment of the ou

Some of the mystery missiles] ”

may have passed over Washington
friday night at about midnight.

Dayid Atamian, 5160 Shoemaker
lane, Friendship Heights, Md., re-
ported that he had seen three
or four of the flying saucers tray-
eling northward at a rapid rate of
speed at about that time. He said
{ljey were at an altitude of between
i400 and 2000 feet and appeared
{d be of a bright, bluish hue.

he flying saucers produced a
seties of speculations and at-

national com-|@

See SAUCERS, Page 3, Column 2,

* eter eid ie

Associated Pross WIREEHOTO
IS 11?—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 w=

R.
POOR Dn,
EA- ob

Mr £@1Gin
Msp Dae
. Nichols
. Rosen
Tracy.
Carson.
. Egan.
. Gurnea
Harbo.
. Hendon
. Jones
Pennington
+ Quinn Tamm_

Post Stait Photo
DAVID ATAMIAN,

ff 5160 Shoemaker la., Frient

‘ip Heights, Md., said he sa

vee or four flying discs Fr
day about midnight

THIS 18. NOT ONE OF ‘KM, SAYS THE NAVY—The «fyi

paneake,” a wingless plane developed by the Navy, is the only
plane it lias which might resemble the reported “lying ont.
cers,” but officials, in Washington said yesterday time sul
strangelooking aircraft has never left Bridgeport, Comm ca
thorities are still skeptical that the mystery silesllbe ae

n seen in the skies over the West (ef
4 i ast Coas
Kast as the Carolinas are any sort of ie is

8974-4

Jil 28 1947
WASHINGTON POST
Page 1=M & 3=M

FW Chief Awaiting Message
rom Capital on Flying Dises

fempted explanations throughout|
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
atomic energy” being conducted at)
Muroe Lake, Calif., White Sands,|
N. Mex.; Portland, Oreg., and
elsewhere,

The scientist, whom the news-|
paper said had worked as a re-
searcher on the atomic bomb
“Manhattan Project,” was quoted!
as saying:

“People are not seeing things.
Such fiying discs actually are in
experimental existence.

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

“They are 20 feet in width at

e center and are partially rocket-

opelled on the takeoff.”

However, other scientists were
SKeptical about the claims of the
utnamed California physicist. Dr.
Harold Urey, famed atomic scien-'
tist at the University of Chicago,
said the term “transmutation of
atomie energy” is “gibberish.”

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

David Lilienthal, chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission, |
declared the unexplained dises are
in no way connected with atomic’
‘experiments. Lilienthal said he
couldn’t shed any light on the
mystery and added:

“Until someone has the facts)
about this phenomenon, “I can’t)
see how anyone can say anything
definite about it.”

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 PSO
fighter plane standing by to give

ne if one of the flying saucefs

a appearance, ,
0) Dutton, commandi
Py the Oregon National

|

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

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

.“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
mystery.

Two Chicago astronomers said
the discs are probably ‘“man-'
made.”

“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.”

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. New:
bern Smith’ of the National Bureay4
of Standards expressed the opinion
that all the excitement is akin to}

I wDuvallyjassistant’ su
inte! of the Nayal Obs
ory, “PE that the saucer “does|
geem to be an astronomical

mena.” §

Credence in the saucers—widely-
laughed ‘off at theic first reported
appearance June 25—grew as hun-
‘dreds of observers, some of them
[trained fliers, reported seeing),
them. 4]
| 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!
police department, sent out an a¥-
‘cars broadcast.

The crew of a United Airlinds
plane said seyeral of the rounf,
flat objects were visible for aboSt
12 minutes: oe

x)
hot!
SH

|

“those Loch Ness Monster stories.”*

The only comment offered by’

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nder discussion as a possible solution to the “sauber’

ystery is the Navy’s “Flying Flapjack,” shown alive.

Yipping along with its landing gear retracted, this plane
vould seem to be a supper plate spinning through the sky.

JUL

59 e sky. She is the first?
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 dise 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.”

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.

May Be Real, He Says

He was quoted as saying “trans-
mutation of atomic energy” ex-
periments might be responsible.
He was said to have been a re-
searcher on the Manhattan proj-
ect that made the atom bomb, and
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 “discs”
were reported as being in progress
at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif.; White
Sands, N. M.; Portland, Oreg., and
other places.

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.”

Col. F, J, Clarke, in command
of the Hanford Engineering works
of the atomic energy project, said
he knew of no experiments involv-
ing “flying saucers.”

“I have been waiting several
days for someone to get the idea
the so-called flying saucers were
tied up in some way
are doing,” ub as
ie as I know, there is no connec:

jon.”

The “piece” found in Ohio was}
discovered near Circleville, Tt was
a six-pointed star covered with tin-
foil and attached to part of a hal-
Joon, It was reported to be a device
used by the Army air forces in

adar research to check on high|
wind speeds, There was no co)
ment from the air forces, |

A War Department spokesmdn|
revealed Army intelligence hhs|
es csererking for a year on

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ports of strange objects seep in
the sky and had reached the{con-
clusion that some sort of meteo!
ites were responsible.

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 their powerful telescopes, in-
sisted they not only had not seen
any but knew of no astronomical
theory that might account for the,
reports,

Kenneth Arnold, the privat@
pilot who was first to announe
seeing the saucers, expressed gratil
fication: at the support he yas
getting but insisted he still didu't:
believe he had seen nine discs
whizzing by at 1,200 miles an
hour, although he had seen them.

Arnold started yesterday on #
flying fishing trip over the Pa-
cific northwest armed with a nev
camera in the hope of gettin!
Pictures if he encountered any
more saucers. He took along Col,
Paul W. Weiland, World War 1
artillery officer, just in case he
sees some more and needs a
witness.

Arnold announced he has been
getting tons of letters commenting
on his report of the saucers. Man:

of Atlantis who are preparing f
an atomic war in 1960.

Army, Navy and civil aeron:
tics officials agreed none of the,
had any ‘reliable informati
about the discs and would
frain from commenting until tht
Saw one, or at least a picture,

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