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Mr. Tolson
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Callahan
Mr. Malone
Mr. McGuire
Mr. Rosen
RARR
Mr. Tamm
Mr. Trotter
Mr. W.C.Sullivan
Tele. Room
Mr. Ingram
Miss Gandy
Flying Sauter Photo Ain't
What It Used to Be---Joe
DEPROIT DIVISION
Detroit, Mich.
Ry Charles Manos
they heard Joe's picture
Staff Writer
showed a saucer-like object
sillouetted against the moon.
( ) Detroit Free Press
GRAND BLANC, May 25-
Most of Joe's customers at
Editor: Lee Hills
Joe Perry, the talented pizza
his pizza palace here were
man, feels the Pentagon
convinced the object was a
( Detroit News
people have sabotaged him
flying saucer."
or something.
doe became even more con-
Editor: Martin S. Hayden
No, the Washington ex-
cerned over his picture whom
perts haven't fussed with
(
an Unidenti. Flying Object
Dorrett Times
Joe's saucy pies, but they
group wanted to buy his
Editor: John C. Manning
have certainly done some-
rights to the slide.
thing to his flying sauger,
He also got an offer from a
national magazine to buy the
files,
Editor:
Joe claims.
"IT AIN'T what it used to
picture. Other inquiries came
Date: 5-25-60
be since they got their
from all sections 014 the
hands on it," said Joe, who
country.
Edition: Final
takes potshots at the moon
1a e: 7 Col: 2
with a homemade telescope-
so JOE was anxious to get
Title of Case:
his picture back.
camera.
He called the FBI. He
Joe, 44, took another look
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT;
talked to the air force. He
at his color-slide photo,
JOSEPH PERRY, GRAND BLANC,
made a trip to Selfridge, Air
snapped last February on the
MICHIGAN - COMPLAINANT
Force Base, all in vain.
second nigh2. of the full
(Defile 65-2477-105)
moon.
The picture was returned
"It's not the same," he said
shortly after he sent a letter
dejectedly. "The flying
to President Eisenhower.
saucer has faded some-
A letter included in the
thing has happened to it."
package from the Pentagon
The Washingtor experts
said the strange object in the
EX 109 70H
returned the color slide a few
picture was the result of
days ago.
faulty development and
nothing more.
THE FEDERAL agents
Among other things, he
picked it up last March when
Pentagon folks have added
REC-
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insult to injury, Joe said.
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Tolson
Belmont
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McGuire Mohr DeLoach and
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Tamm
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W.C. Sullivan
Tele. Room
Holloman
Gandy
3 Objects' Trailed Plane
45. Minutes, Pilot Says
DETROIT, Feb. 25 (AP)
The pilot of an American Air-
Killian and co-pilot John
lines DC6 passenger plane
Dee of Nyack, N. Y., said they
oFlying
said today three mysterious
lost the three strange objects
objects that looked like shin-
in the haze when they started
ing saucers appeared to ac-
their descent for landing at
company the plane for 45
Detroit's Metropolitan Air-
minutes last night on its non-
stop flight from Newark, N. J.,
port while the plane was over
Cleveland, Ohio.
to Detroit.
The three bright whitish
Capt. Peter Killian of Syos-
set, N. Y., who has flown pas-
lights first were sighted while
the plane was flying at 8500
senger planes for 15 years,
said "I have never seen any-
feet between Philipsburg and
thing like it before."
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.
Donahop
The Washington Post and A3
Times Herald
The Washington Daily News
The Evening Star
New York Herald Tribune
New York Journal-American
New York Mirror
New York Daily News
New York Post
The New York Times
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The New Leader
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The Wall Street Journal
117 MAR 3 1959
Date
0 FLYING SAUCERS
PI
9
SP
H
M.
LIKE IOW
ERED FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR NEAR HERE LAST NIGHT AND
-- A GROUP OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS "CLUSTERED
THEN STAR
D A TOTAL 07 NINE PERSONS HAD REPORTED SEEING THE
OR THE AERIAL RESEARCH PHENOMENA ORGANIZATION FILTER
ROKE APART AND DISAPPEARED, It WITNESSES SAID TODAY.
A UDDENL
CENTE OKES
MYSTER US OBJECTS.
A CHECK OF NEARBY MOLITARY BASES, AIRPORTS, AND THE U.S. WEATHER
BUREAU DISCLOSED THERE WERE NO JETS OR WEATHER BALLOONS ALOFT AT OR
NEAR THE TIME OF THE SIGHTINGS BETWEEN 10 P.M. AND 11:30 P.M., FILTER
CEN R DIRECTOR L.J. LORENZEN SAID.
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59 AUG 12 1958
1: AUG 12 1958
Boardman
Belmont
Mohr
Nease
Parsons
Rosen
Tamm
Trotter
Clayton
Tele. Room
2mge
Holloman
Flying Discs Show Sign
Gandy
Of Guidance, Jung Says
ALAMOGORDO, N. Mex.,
What such a fact might mean
July 29 (P).-Dr. Carl Jung,
for humanity cannot be pre-
Prophie
Swiss psychologist, says in a
dicted.
report that Unidentified Flying
"But it would put us without
Objects are real and "show
doubt in the extremely precari-
signs of intelligent guidance
ous position of primitive com-
by quasi-human pilots."
munities in conflict with the
"I can only say for certain
superior culture of the whites.
these things are not a mere
"That the construction of
rumor, something has been
these machines proves a scien-
seen," Dr. Jung said in the re-
tific technique immensely su-
port released yesterday. "A
perior to ours cannot be ar-
purely psychological explana-
gued."
tion is ruled out."
The Air Force has said n-
Dr. Jung, who started his re-
vestigation of flying saugers
search on UFO's in 1944, re-
reported over the past 10 ygars
leased his report through the
has produced no evidence that
UFO filter Center of the Aerial
such things exist.
Phenomena Research Organ-
It has contended that not a
ization here. It was released
shred of evidence has turned
by L. J. Lorenzen of Holloman
up to show the existence of a
Air Force Base.
flying saucer or interplanetary
"I have gathered a mass of
space ship or that the objects
observations of unidentified fly-
sighted indicate developments
ing objects since 1944," Dr.
beyond the range of current
your
Jung said.
scientific knowledge or pose a
"The discs do not behave
threat to the Nation's secur-
in accordance with physical
ity.
laws, but as though without
The Air Force said last No-
weight.
vember that investigations ot
"If the extra-terrestial origin
5,700 reported sightings showed
Wash. Post and
of this phenomena should be
the mysterious objects were
Times Herald
confirmed this would prove the
balloons, aircraft, astronomical
existence of an intelligent in-
phenomena, birds, fireworks or
Wash. News
ter
planetary relationship.
hoaxes, among other things.
Wash. Star
A-1
N. Y. Herald
Tribune
N. Y. Journal-
American
N. Y. Mirror
file
N. Y. Daily News
N. Y. Times
Daily Worker
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The Worker
New Leader
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117 AUG 1 1958
Date 7-29-58
67AUG1 1958
Paint
Robert
Schmidt, 48, an ex-Nebras-
No Saucers'
kan and now a California
grain dealer, was questioned
by Air Force investigators
Trace Found
from the Continental Air De-
fense Command. Oil found
near the alleged landing spot
ROACK
A.F. Checks Schmidt;
of the space ship was identi-
fied as ordinary but will be
Kearney Amused
tested by the University of
Nebraska.
which
Tales of flying saucers and
While the Schmidt tale was
other such space craft got
giving Kearney a sensational
an unofficial raspberry
conversation piece, most of
Wednesday night from an
the talk was of a skeptical
Air Force official.
variety.
A top official of the Air
Newsmen Busy
Technical Intelligence Cen-
"Everybody downtown
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
ter at Wright-Patterson Air
seems to think it's a big joke,"
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
Force Base in Ohio told the
one business man said.
Dayton Journal-Herald his in-
11-7-57
A Kearney clothier put up
vestigators have found no
a sign advertising "space ship
evidence in the past 10 years
specials." A window sign in
that flying saucers are real.
a car agency announced:
He said 5,700 reported
"Space Ships Tuned Up."
sightings were investigated
The Kearney car-rental
between 1947 and 1957. Not
operator reported business
a single landing impression,
was so good all of his cars
SUNRISE Signature EDITION
footprint, saucer or little
were in use. They were being
green man was found.
rented by visiting newsmen.
Investigation Goes On
Presence of the newsmen
In Kearney. Neb., Rein
was nearly the only sign that
holdt Schmidt's story of an
anything unusual had hap-
afternoon's visit with the
pened - or may have hap-
crew of a space ship near the
pened.
city Tuesday was still under
investigation, officials said.
feagur
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INDEXED
117 NOV 22 1957
The Space-Ship World-Herald's News Service. Story Raises Eyebrows
Kearney, Neb.-A grain
huyer who said he saw a
Banoat
space ship Tuesday in a
field near here and chatted
amicably with its six occu-
pants had more pleasant
dealings with the visitors
oFlying
from outer space than with
skeptical authorities.
SAUCERS
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-
file
ords showed a man of the
same name served a term
for embezzlement from
-World-Herald News Service Photo.
Scotts Bluff County in the
Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson
In
1930's. Scotts Bluffs Coun-
"heart-to-heart" talk.
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
ty Sheriff Steve Warrick
said he talked to Schmidt
SIDE VIEW
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
by phone and was convinced
OUTSIDE
11-6-57
he "saw nothing."
WALL STREET EDITION
-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
LENGTH: APPROX. 100 FEET
was named.
-Wednesday forenoon
he went to the scene of the
FLOOR PLAN
space ship's landing with
INSIDE
investigators from the Con-
tinental Air Defense Com-
mand at Colorado Springs,
INSTRUMENTS
LOUNGE
Colo., Kearney Police Chief
FAN
FAN
IN
Thurston Nelson and Buf-
SEALED
IN
ROOF
COMPARTMENT
ROOF
falo County Attorney
8
Kenneth Gotobed. They
said Schmidt's story "ap-
METO
CONVEYOR TO BACK OF SHIP
peared to be weakening."
-Oil drippings on the
ground from the space
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A
machine were being ana-
The Schmidtnik
As described by the grain buyer.
lyzed at Kearney State
light when, white-faced and
NOT
College. tigators
turn around. Near the
said the "mysterious
shaken, he appeared in
Platte River he saw what
117 NOV 22 1957
green oil" closely resem-
Kearney Tuesday and asked
appeared to be a wrecked
bled that in a partially-
to see a minister. Taken to
balloon. As he neared it
emptied can of commer-
police, he told this story:
Schmidt said, his car en
cial auto oil found in the
Tuesday he inspected a
gine conked out.
back of Schmidt's car and a
field of milo about two
Schmidt said he got out
1433
nearly-empty can found
miles south and a mile east
and walked toward the ma-
near the site of the "land-
of Kearney. When ready to
chine. Proximity revealed
52 NOV 261957
ing."
leave he drove down a side
Schmidt's story came to
road seeking a place to
it to be a translucent, ci-
'Spoke German'
gar shaped device about
The ship occupants
one hundred feet long, 30.
talked among themselves inf
feet wide and about 14 feet
High German, which
high. Schmidt said that
Schmidt says he under-
when he was 25 or 30 feet
stands to a limited extent.
away, two men got out
One man spoke excellent
and waved what looked
English and interpreted for
like a flashlight.
the others.
"I couldn't move. I don't
Schmidt said the inter-
know whether I was just
preter told him repeatedly
afraid or what, but it was
he had nothing to fear. The
like being paralyzed," he
visitors refused to answer
said.
any questions but said he
'In Business Suits'
would "find out all about
Schmidt said the men,
it in a couple of weeks."
dressed in business suits,
When repairs were com-
searched him for weapons
pleted, Schmidt said he was
then remarked that as long
asked to leave but was told
he would be unable to start
as they were going to be
his car until the machine
there for some time "you
might as well come in and
had disappeared.
see things for a few min-
'Disappeared'
Outside the machine,
utes."
Inside the machine were
Schmidt said, he turned to
watch as the fans started
two other men and two
in motion without a sound.
women working on wires
and instruments. The de-
He said the machine lifted
vice had a fan at each end.
about one hundred or two
By a strange coincidence
hundred feet into the air
one of the crewmen looked
and disappeared.
exactly like" a hotel ac-
"It just blended into the
quaintance with whom he
sky-like it changed color
has been watching televi-
or disappeared into thin
air." he said.
sign programs.
When the occupants
Schmidt pressed the
wanted to move from place
starter of his car. The mo-
to place they would step
tor started right off.
in a certain location and be
pulled to the new location
without moving.
0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56)
Coast to Coast
Tolson
Rash of 'Flying Sauce
Nichols
Boardman
Belmont
Mohr
Reports Floods U. S.
Parsons
Rosen
Tamm
Several persons reported seeing a "red ball" hovering over the
Trotter
Atomic Energy Commussion's Savannah River plant near Augusta, Ga,
Nease
last night.
Tele. Room
Holloman
There was an unoffi
Gandy
cial report that Air Force
personnel at nearby Aik-
Roach
en, S. C., spotted the ob-
ject on radar and issued
an alert.
Bedgegan
The object appeared to be
a "constant red light," accord-
ing to Augusta Chronicle ex-
ecutive editor Louis Harris,
oflying saucers
spending
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,
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he said, and would alternate
from bright to amber and
140 NOV 12 1957
occasionally got out alto-
gether.
Elsewhere, strange "sauc-
er" sightings were reported.
WHITE SANDS
NEBRASKA
Miitary authorities appar-
ently gave credence to a re-
At Kearney, Neb., authori-
port by an electronics en-
ties held a "heart-to-heart"
gineer who said he saw an
talk with Reinhold O.
object which made car en-
Schmidt, a salesman, later
gines stall near the White
discovered to be an ex-con-
Sands proving grounds.
Wash. Post and
vict, who said he talked to
Col. John McCurdy, Air
Times Herald
four men and two women in
a transport space ship which
Force public relations officer
had landed. He said the space
at White Sands, said the en-
please
Wash. News p.7
people spoke in English and
gineer, James Stokes, 42, will
Wash. Star
German.
be given a thoro medical ex-
N. Y. Herald
amination and a radiation
Tribune
Police roped off the area
count test. Col. McCurdy
where the "whatnik" alleg-
said he was "personally sat-
N. Y. Journal-
edly landed and examined
isfied" with Mr. Stokes' re-
American
various impressions and oil
port,
stains on the ground.
Air Force weather observers,
one of them the commanding
saw an egg-shaped object
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N. Y. Mirror
A Civil Service worker at
At Long Beach, Calif., three
Lackland Air Force Base in
N. Y. Daily News
San Antonio, Tex., said he
N. Y. Times
officer of the spotting unit,
land in a ravine about 200
Daily Worker
late yesterday reported sight-
yards from him as he drove
The Worker
ing six unidentified, saucer-
near the city. He said his
shaped flying objects over
car engine and lights went
New Leader
Long Beach Air Force base.
off, and the object took off
in a few minutes, enabling
The Coast Guard reported
him to drive away.
picking up an unidentified
Date 11-6-57
flying object on radar over
At about the same time,
the Gulf of Mexico south of
the Ground Observer Corps
New Orleans. A Coast Guard
at Midland, Tex., said it saw
commander said the object
a large, red object and picked
baused over the cutter Se-
up unintelligible conversa-
ago in the Gulf and was on
tion on a sound detector. (LP)
he radar scope for about 27
NOV 1957 oh
nutes.
(Rev. 9-7-56)
Flying soucers
Tolson
HAN
Michols
Boardman
Belmont
Tracked 27 Minutes on Radar
Mohr
Parsons
U.S. Cutterin Gulf of Mexico Reports
Rosen
Tamm
Trotter
Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sky
Nease
Tele. Room
Holloman
Associated Press
traveling at an estimated 1000 of light with no definite shape,
Gandy
A brilliant mystery object
miles per hour, International
resembling the planet Venus."
was reported sighted yester-
News Service reported. How-
Shockley said there were no
day in southern skies by a
ever, at one point, the object
vapor trails or any other in-
Coast Guard cutter, even as
appeared to remain stationary
dications as to the object's
Benegan
Air Force special investigat-
and hover above the waters be-
method of propulsion. One
ors checked a flurry of ear-
fore it resumed its erratic
estimate of its height placed
lier,, similar reports.
flight.
it at 2000 feet.
The Coast Guard cutter Se-
bago, cruising in the Gulf of
[The cutter's captain, Cmdr.
[Glenn Northcutt, Willis,
Mexico about 200 miles south
C. H. Waring, said the object
Okla., rancher and member of
of Louisiana, radioed that an
first appeared on the ship's
the University of Oklahoma
object resembling "a brilliant
radar screen as a "good, strong
Board of Regents, reported
that on Saturday he and five
planet with a high rate of
pip" at 5:10 a. m. and was lost
others had watched "a bril-
speed" was seen for about
in a northerly direction at 5:37
liant, mysterious light that
three seconds at 5:21 a. m.
a. m.
looked like the planet Venus
(CST).
[In this time, the skipper
magnified many, many times.'
The Sebago's message said
said the object, which came as
The object, he said, was visible
the object was tracked on the
alose as two miles to the ves-
more than half an hour.]
vessel's radar screen for 27
sel, was actually seen by four
Sightings of strange objects
minutes and that, during that
members of the crew. One,
have been reported from wide-
form
period, the object flitted on
Ens. Wayne D. Shockley, de-
ly scattered sections of the
and off the screen several
cribed it as a "bright point
United States, most of them
times. Crewmen caught sight
near secret military installa-
of it only for a few seconds.
tions in the Southwest.
[The Sebago radioed New
The Air Force said the radar
Orleans Coast Guard Head-
network of the Air Defense
Quarters that the object was
See MYSTERY, A6, Col. 3
Wash. Post and
A1
Times Herald
Wash. News
Wash. Star
N. Y. Herald
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Tribune
N. Y. Journal-
American
N. Y. Mirror
N. Y. Daily News
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Daily Worker
The Worker
New Leader
6NOV 13 1957 336
Date NOV 6 1957
Command was keeping watch ported objects may be some-
SO far with no results-and
thing from another planet.
that specially qualified inves-
"Assuming they are real," he
said, "they would be secret
tigators had been assigned to
weapons made on earth or
look into the reports.
are interplanetary." Any na-
For several years the Air
tion with the secret, he added,
Force has checked all reports
would by now have abandoned
of unidentified flying objects.
conventional aircraft or mis-
Investigators work under the
siles.
Air Defense Command at Col-
Cosmic Energy
orado Springs, Colo., and re-
port to the Air Technical In-
"It looks as though they are
telligence Center.
interplanetary," Keyhoe said.
He said one source of pow-
Judging from past findings,
er for such reported objects
the chances are 50-1 the Air
could be cosmic ray energy.
Force will offer a humdrum
Some of the citizens, peace
explanation for the current
officers and servicemen who
sightings.
reported sighting mystery ob-
During the first half of this
jects in the Southwest since
year, the Air Force said, only
the weekend said the objects
1.9 per cent of the 250 report-
stalled auto engines and
ed sightings of flying saucers
caused radios to fade.
and other fantastic aerial ob-
James Stokes, an engineer
jects have wound up in the
at the Air Force missile de-
"unknown" category.
velopment center at Alama-
Air Force Skeptical
gordo. N. M., reported 10 autos
were stalled Monday on a des-
And the Air Force said firm-
ert highway between Alama-
ly-though not all flying sau-
gordo and the White Sands
cer buffs may agree-that it
(N. M.) Proving Grounds.
doesn't believe even the 1.9
He reported seeing a sound-
per cent residue is made up
less, "brilliant colored egg-
of the things you read about
shaped object" which flitted
in science fiction magazines.
erratically across the country-
Balloons, aircraft and such
side and left a sort of heat
astronomical sights as meteor-
wave, "like radiation from a
ites and bright stars account
giant sun lamp," in its wake.
-at least to the Air Force's
official satisfaction for al-
Device Sought
Associated Press
most four-fifths of the sight-
Leonard Hardlund, chief en-
J. G. Kirby of Dallas made
ings.
gineer for the National Inven-
this photo of a diamond
The director of a private or
tors Council in Washington,
shaped object flying
ganization set up to inves
said a device that could stall
tigate flying saucers and such
autos or other mechanical
through the sky while he
equipment was one of the
and his family were driving
said he couldn't evaluate at
this point the current rash of
things the armed forces would
near Amarillo, Tex., in
reported sightings.
like to see developed.
August, 1956. The photo
But retired Marine Maj.
But Hardlund said he knew
was turned over to the FBI
Donald E. Keyhoe, director of
of no research in this country
aimed at producing such a de-
and has just been released
the National Investigati
Committee on Aerial Phe-
vice.
after intensive study. The
Two teen-age girls reported
Air Force described the
nomena added that the re-
seeing a mysterious object in
glow as Tadiation vapor."
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
ob tent sighted in Texas.
Nichols
Boardman
Belmont
Mohr
Parsons
Mystery Objects Called
Rosen
Tamm
Trotter
Mirage by Astronomer®
Nease
Tele. Room
Holloman
By the Associated Press
A Harvard astronomer says mysterious objects reported
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mirages stemming from natural causes.
from various parts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico are
Observatory, said yesterday in Cambridge, Mass., that the
Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College
Road
whole thing amounts to "another flying saucer scare."
The Air Force has started an investigation of the reported
Brobygan
sightings of the strange glow-
ing objects in the sky. The
Air Force for years has had
mosphere which would give a
the responsibility of checking
radar reflection."
reports of unidentified flying
As for reports of the auto
objects ,but as one officer put
it, "We don't investigate all of
engines stalling, he said, "It
them."
would not be surprising that a
A rash of such reports has
nervous foot could stall an en-
developed since Sunday, with
gine."
Flying saucers
some of the sightings said to
have been made near secret
Dr. Menzel, author of a book
military installations in the
about flying saucers, said he
Southwest. Some of the per-
has been studying them for
sons making the reports said
about 10 years and has yet to
the objects caused their auto
hear of one which could not
engines to stall and their radios
be explained by natural phe-
nomena.
Septems
to fade.
"They are caused by a layer
Cutter Claims Sighting
of heated air
acting as a
Yesterday the Coast Guard
lens and forming an image of
Cutter Sebago radioed from the
objects as much as 40 or 50
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Gulf of Mexico that an object
miles away," he said.
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resembling a brilliant planet
with a high rate of speed was
Common in West
140 NOV 13 1957
seen for about three seconds,
"They are nothing more than
radar. and that it was tracked by
a mirage. They are prevalent
just after nightfall as the
Dr. Menzel said it is probable
the cutter's crewmen got a
heated air begins to cool off at
false image "quite likely from
the ground, and they are com-
Wash. Post and
bubbles of hot air in the at-
mon in the West where they
Times Herald
have clear air."
The Air Force aid that dur-
Wash. News
ing the first half of this year
Wash. Star A-10
only 1.9 per cent of the 250 re-
ported sightings of flying
N. Y. Herald
saucers and other strange ob-
Tribune
jects in the air have been
classed as "unknown." And the
N. Y. Journal-
Air Force wasnl't ready to be-
lieve that even this small per-
It seemed a good bet the
per
American
N.Y. Mirror
tions. centage has sinister implica-
N. Y. Daily News
Air Force will agree with Dr.
N. Y. Times
Menzel's opinion that the cur-
Daily Worker
rent sightings have explana-
tions in nature, or that the
The Worker
reported objects are actually
New Leader
things. aircraft or similar man-made
Date 11-6-57
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Wash. Post and 11=6=57
Times Herald page A-6
Associated Press
Wash. News
J. G. Kirby of Dallas made
this photo of a diamond
Wash. Star
shaped object flying
N. Y. Herald
through the sky while he
Tribune
and his family were driving
N. Y. Journal-
near Amarillo, Tex., in
American
August, 1956. The photo
was turned over to the FBI
N. Y. Mirror
and has just been released
N. Y. Daily News
after intensive study. The
N. Y. Times
Air Force described the
glow as "radiation vapor."
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BRANIGAN
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(OBJECT)
SEEING SUNSET A MYSTERIOUS ECG-SHAPED OBJECT WHICH LOOKED LIKE A BLINDING-RED TODAY
LEVELLAND, TEX.--FIVE PERS ONS INCLUDING A SHERIFF REPORTED
THEIR OVER LEVELLAND IN VEST TEXAS. THREE MOTORISTS SAID IT KILLED
IN AUTO ENGINES AND PUT OUT THEIR HEADLIGHTS WHEN THEY GOT NEAR IT.
EACH CASE, THE MOTORISTS SAID THEIR ENGINES AND HEADLIGHTS VERE
WHEN ALL SHERIFF RIGHT THEY WENT AFTER WEIR OUT CLEM THE TO OBJECT AND LOOK A FOR SUDDENLY DEPUTY IT AFTER ALSO TOOK SAW GETTING OFF THE AND OBJECT EARLIER DISAPPEARED. AT 1830 AM EDT
FRONT SHERIFF SAID IT STREAKED NOISELESS ACROSS THE ROAD SOME 200 REPORTS. YARDS THE IN
OF HIM, BUT DID NOT AFFECT HIS CAR.
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Mr. Nichols
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Mr. Belmont
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tamm
Mr. Trotter
Mr. Nease
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy
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ADD OBJECT, LEVELLAND, TEX.
ONE MOTORIST JAMES LONG OF VACO, TEX., TOLD THE SHERIFF HE: DROVE UP
ON THE OBJECT SITTING IN THE ROAD ABOUT 200 FEET FROM NIM.
LONG TOLD THE SHERIFF NE BROVE UP WITH HIS LIGHTS on THE OBJECT,
WHICH GLOWED INTERNITTENTLY LIKE A BLINDING NEON LIGHT. NE SAID IT APPEAR-
ED TO BE ABOUT 200 FEET LONG AND EGG SHAPED. ME SAID IT CASED HIS ENGINE
TO DIE AND HIS HEADLIGHTS TO GO OUT.
CAUSED
WHEN LONG STARTED TO CET OUT OF HIS CAR TO INVESTIGATE. THE OBJECT
SUDDENLY ROSE SOME 200 FEET STRAIGHT UP AND DISAPPEARED IN A FLASH OF
I
LIGHT, MK TOLD THE SHERIFF.
CLEN SAID AUTHORITIES COULD FIND NO BURN MARKS OR OTHER INDICATIONS
AT THE SPOT VHERE LONG SAID THE OBJECT HAD LANDED.
CLEN 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 MOTHING.
PEDRO SACIDO, A LEVELLAND MOTORIST, VAS THE FIRST TO REPORT SIGNTING
THE THING.
"IT S OUNDED LIKE AN EAR-SPLITTING CLAMP OF THUNDER--AS IF SOMETHING
I
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 NE COULD NOT OFFER a GUESS AS TO WHAT THE OBJECT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN.
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Gandy
NOTHING REMOTELY RELATED'
Mysterious
Object Amazes
Saucer
Skeptic
A veteran airline pilot
He said the "meteor" was
turning away from the air-
90 degrees in an instant." It
who once denounced fly-
descending rapidly, but in-
liner and giving the pilots a
finally zoomed up at an ex-
stead of burning out with the
ing saucers as "bunk" has
usual flash, "it abruptly halt-
view of its glowing tailpipe.
tremely sharp angle and shot
reported encountering a
ed directly in front of us."
But he said instead of grow-
out of sight, he added.
mysterious unidentified
ing smaller, the light re-
"It was an intense blue-
mained in front of the Vis-
He said his own plane was
flying object near Mobile,
white light, approximately
count.
above the clouds, "preclud
seven or eight times as bright
ing any reflections of search
Ala.
as Venus when this planet is
Capt. Hull wrote that the
lights from below."
"UFO)) (unidentified flying
Capt. W. J. Hull of Capital
at its brightest magnitude,"
Airlines described the inci-
he wrote.
object) then began a series
There's accent CAR local
of violent maneuvers, "sharp-
dent in a report published by
"The UFO Investigator,"
He said he thought the ob-
er than any known aircraft,
sports in The News eports
magazine of the unofficial Na-
ject might be a jet fighter,
sometimes changing direction
pages.
tional Investigations Commit-
tee on Aerial Phenomena,
1536 Connecticut-av nw.
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.
Capt. Hull said he was fly-
Wash. Post and
ing a Viscount at about 10,-
000 feet near Mobile, at 10:10
Times Herald
m., when he and his CO-
Wash. News P.6
pilot n. spotted what we
thought was a brilliant
Wash. Star
meteor."
N. Y. Herald
Tribune
N. Y. Journal-
American
N. Y. Mirror
N. Y. Daily News
N. Y. Times
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Date
10-9-57
60 OCT 14 1957
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spector
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Belmont
Mohr
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an
Rosen
Tamm
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Holloman
Gandy
Doolittle Scoffs at Report
BRANIGAN RANIGAN
Of Nazi Flying Saucer
By the Associated Press
of Hugh L. Dryden. director of
James H. Doolittle says it
the advisory committee.
"just ain't so" that Nazi Ger-
Mr. Dryden said "there is no
truth" in a statement that
many developed a flying saucer
German engineers designed a
and a bomber that could attack
flying saucer which attained a
the United States and return
height of 40,000 feet and speed
of 1,250 miles an hour.
without refueling.
"This is an advertisement for
The veteran airman, chairman
a book which includes material
of the National Advisory Com-
discovered by our groups who
mittee for Aeronautics, last
went into Germany after the
month gave a House Appropria-
war," he said.
tions Subcommittee his estimate
He said also the man supposed
of reports published in Germany
to have designed the bomber
of great aviation accomplish-
that could cross the Atlantic
ments under Hitler. These were
twice without refueling had writ-
JLING SAUCEAS
contained in a book by Rudolf
ten a book of his own with no
Lusar, former German War Min-
mention of any such invention.
istry special weapons chief.
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."
Wash. Post and
Times Herald
Wash. News
Wash. Star
A/
N. Y. Herald
is
Tribune
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American
N. Y. Mirror
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52 MAR 271957
Date 14 1957
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X
Tolson
Flying Saucers
Nichols
Belmont Mason Boardman and
Mohr
Parsons
There Are
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Nease
Saucers,
Winterrowd
Tele. Room
Holloman
Gandy
Expert Says
By VERN HAUGLAND
Brobrijan
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (AP).
-Reteired Rear Adm. Delmer S.
guided missiles program, said
ROAGE
ROACH
Fahrney once head of the Navy's
Wednesday reliable reports indi-
cate that "there are objects com-
high speeds."
ing into our atmosphere at very
Fahrney told a news confer-
ence that "no agency in this
country or Russia is able to dupli-
cate at this time the speeds and
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
butter
seeing strange flying objects.
Fahrney called a news 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.
the
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-
Wash. Post and
mittee wil collect and investigate
flying saucer reports, evaluate
Times Herald
ings. them and make public its find-
Wash. News
Wash. Star
N. Y. Herald
Tribune
N. Y. Mirror
2
N. Y. Daily News
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Date JAN 17 1957
Go JAN 23 1957
Mr. Tolson
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Boardman
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Mason
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tamm
Mr. Nease
Mr. Winterrowd
Tele. Room
OFLYING SANCERS
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy
'Saucer' Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw
SAGINAW, July 30. - (AP)
Beskuyan
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
(
) Glos Ludowy
from the nearby Burt Ground
Observer Corps. station, said the
(
) Michigan Editor-The Worker
object appeared about 12 feet in
1
) The Daily Worker
diameter, had red and blue
(
) Narodna Volya
lights and was moving swiftly.
Various reports put the object's
(
1 Romanul American
height at between 1,200 and
1
1 Pittsburgh Courier
25,000 feet.
1
1 Michigan Chronicle
The reports came from Sag-
1
) Detroit Free Press
inaw, Midland and Gratiot
counties. Police said the callers
) Detroit News
told them the object was seen
1 ) Detroit Times
over Freeland, Clare, Alma and
( ) Michigan Daily
Breckinridge, all west of Sag-
inaw.
1 ) Wayne Collegian
Midland police said they re-
1
)
ceived one call but could not
Spot the object.
Date 7.30-56 Edition S STAR
Similar reports were received
from the Cadillac area early
turday, but Air Force investi-
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gating planes found nothing.
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55
53 AUG Soucer File
file of
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you
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BAUMGARDNER
'Confidential Files' Gets
10-Cent 'Saucer' Inquiry
62- 83894
By the Associated Press
might have confidential files,
If you want information on
sent it to the Federal Bureau
flying saucers, don't address your
of Investigation.
request to "Confidential Files,
The FBI, never one to pass
Washington, D. C."
out military secrets, made dis-
Takes too long. And besides
creet inquiries.
you may be investigated by the
Then the FBI forwarded the
162-83894-A NOT
FBI.
letter to the Air Force, advising
A woman out in Los Angeles
that nothing derogatory or in-
126 MAR 28 1956
(name withheld by various Gov-
dicative of subversion could be
ernment agencies) dashed off a
found in the woman's activities.
note on January 15. It said:
So the Air Force reached into
"Confidential Files
its nonclassified files and plucked
"Wash., D. C.
out the latest summary on the
Dear Sirs -Please send me a
number of sightings of UFO (un-
bulletin of flying saucers, or the
identified flying objects), to-
address where I can get infor-
gether with an explanation of
mation about them. I am inclos-
why people think they see flying
ing 10 cents.
saucers- or what it is they see
"Thanks."
which the Air Force can or can't
Seemed like a simple, direct
explain.
approach-except for the ad-
The lady's 10 cents was taped
Wash. Billyn Post and
dress.
to the summary and both were
The post office, casting about
mailed to her address in Los
for some Federal agency that
Angeles.
Times Herald
Wash. News
Wash. Star A-1
N. Y. Herald
Tribune
N. Y. Mirror
N.Y. Daily News
Daily Worker
FARTHE
Worker
Leader
Date MAR 21 1956
71 MAR 28 1956
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
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 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.
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.
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 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 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.)
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-
born objects. Obviously, such returns are very difficult to identify,
especially when they occur during darkness.
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3. The radar creen has picked up birds and in 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-
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.
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.
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
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.
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: 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.
6. Brilliant flashing lights 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 an mvestigation of the radar and visual
sightings described, t 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.
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
component 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 which, in
most 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 object. It 1s 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.
If and when new developments turn up in this program, the Air
Force will keep the public informed.
at
bluods
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PLEASE SEND TO YOUR NEAREST AIR FORCE BASE
DATE:
TIME OF SIGHTING:
SIZE:
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 if necessary)
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Mr. Nichols
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tamm
Mr. Sizoo
Mr. Winterrowd
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
w/
Miss Gandy
GEORG KLEIN
Brang
NEW SLANT ON
INDEXED
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FLYING SAUCERS
By FORSAITH REES
said there are two types
HERE is the "real truth"
Flying Saucer built to-day
about Flying Squcers,
one with a diameter of 48ft.
INDEXED -
powered by five jets and a
24
as told by Georg Klein,
larger model with a diameter
former secret weapons ex-
of 126ft. and 12 jets.
pert in the German War
This, he says, accounts for
Production Ministry, and
the rumour that Saucers often
62-83894-A- NOT RECORDED
appear to change size sud-
now an engineer in
denly.
Switzerland.
Raised wing flaps lift both
126 FEB 7 1955
Flying Saucers," he says,
airoraft like a helicopter. The
are top secret weapons of the
big one can keep stationary by
force
USA and Russia.
turning jets down to counter-
They are a continuation of
balance gravity.
form
German wartime experi-
Flying Saucers developed in
Air
ments.
Canada by John Frost, former
Prototype Flying Saucers
colleague of Sir Frank Whittle,
were built in Germany during
have reached speeds up to
the war. I saw one reach a
1,500 mph and have been in-
encl.
height of 40,000 feet in three
spected by Field-Marshal
minutes, 1945." near Prague, in
Montgomery, says Klein.
Klein says the Russians
Mothburg
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captured a scale model and top
technicians at Breslau. The
DECEMBER 19, 1954
technicians have not returned
to Germany.
LONDON, ENGLAND.
And Walter Miethe, V
weapon inventor and key man
Fib
in Saucer development, iled
West and now works in he
United States.
Klein in a Zurich interview
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Sighted By Ship
A circular object. grayish at
first and then brighter, like the
moon, shooting up from near sea
level and disappearing in clouds
at 5,000 feet, was sighted at sea
last night 80 miles east of New
York. Officers of the Dutch
liner Groote Beer reported the
incident when the vessel arrived
in Hoboken.
"I don't know what it was,"
said Capt. Jan P. Boshoff, a
veteran shipmaster, who said
he watched the object through
his binoculars. "It might have
been what has been described
as a flying saucer, but I don't
know what it was."
Through his most powerful
binoculars, the captain trained
them on the object, 40 degrees
off the port side. Several other
officer similarly trained bino-
culars.
Capt. Boshoff described it as
"a flat object, resembling the
mon, at first kind of gray and
then turning brighter on the
lower part, and around the
edges having bright spots as if
they were lights." He said it
was moving "directly upward,
with great speed."
He said he never had seen
anything like it before, and
added:
"I am positive it was not a
meteor. Nor was it anything
supernatural in the sky."
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NEW YORK-THREE CREW MEMBERS OF A TRANS-WORLD AIRLINES PARIS-
NEW YORK FLIGHT REPORTED TODAY THEY SIGHTED AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING
OBJECT ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF BOSTON,
THE PILOT, CAPT. CHARLES 3. KRATOVIL, OF PORT WASHINGTON, L.L.C. SAID
HE SAW "A LARGE, WHITE-COLORED, DISC-LIKE OBJECT" AT 9130 A.M. EDT.
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 WHATYOU SAW."
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.
V. R. 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
EIGHT EMPLOYES THERE TOLD OF SEEING THE OBJECT. AND IT DID NOT APPEAR to
BE A BALLOON.
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MOBILE, ALA. BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE REPORTED THAT AN
"UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT, BRILLIANT AND SILVER COLORED" WAS TRACKED
BY RADAR OVER MOBILE AND THE ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST LAST NIGHT.
MAJ. JAMES ZICHERALI. PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER AT BROOKLEY, SAID
THE OBJECT "APPEARED TO BE A JET-TYPE AIRCRAFT OF NEW DESIGN WITH SHORT
STUBBY WINGS."
FIVE OTHER RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI ALSO REPORTED
SIGHTING THE OBJECT.
ZICHERALI SAID THE OBJECT APPEARED ON THE BASE CONTROL TOWER RADAR
SCREEN AT 6:50 P. M. CST. HE SAID RADAR OPERATORS REPORTED IT "MADE
NO SOUND AND LEFT NO TRAIL BUT GAVE EVIDENCE OF DEFINITELY BEING
MANEUVERED."
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By ROBERT CRATER
papermen, however this policy had books, "Flying Saucers Have Land-
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
been relaxed in recent months.
ed" and "Flying Saucers From Out-
Most of the mail received at the
er Space."
Air Force leaders have
slammed down a "brass" curtain
Dayton office is from persons over
Just how banning the press was
the nation who are curious about
expected to ease the situation was
at the Dayton (0.) Air Technical
flying saucers.
not explained-unless the Air Force
Intelligence Center (ATIC),
"The mail has become so heavy
figures this will reduce the number
where flying saucer reports are
that the two or three persons de-
of flying saucer stories.
investigated.
tailed to investigating unidentified
flying objects-called UFO's— are
"The Air Force will be unable to
not getting anything else done," the
honor visits (including the press)
Air Force official said.
to the ATIC because the volume of
"Actually, UFO's are supposed to
requests for information has seri-
be only a small part of the investi-
ously interferred with investiga-
gative work done at the ATIC."
tions," an Air Force spokesman here
The flood of mail from the public
said today.
was attributed to newspaper and
He said the original official policy
magazine articles about flying sau-
been to exclude visits by news-
cers. Singled out were two current
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Luying
'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 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.
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 going about
10 or 15 miles an hour. Then it fol-
lowed the tree line about 50 yards to
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
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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.
CONFLICT
Pfc. Bennett (top front) grabbed a butcher knife and said: "It's land-
First reports had it that troops
ing in the tank shed!" Maj. Pomerleau (middle photo) is skeptical,
were sent into the area to look for
but still curious. Pfc. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convince
the lights. Yesterday Maj. A. B.
him "that was no airplane."
-News Staff Photos by Gene Thomas
Ferguson, the base information of-
ficer, said that report was errone-
with troops," the official report
sible way to describe the light's
ous.
says.
size, shape and intensity was to
"We did at no time dispatch
Thirty minutes later, the sergeant
troops to fight off the invaders or
of the guard saw it again, and at
compare it to "the way a blinking
capture then or welcome them
8:23 p. m. three lights were seen.
red traffic light appears to a motor-
aboard or anything else," he said.
(This was New Year's Eve.) At
ist as he pulls up to an intersec-
However, this is what the official
9:01 it was seen again, and at 4:20
tion."
record says:
New Year's morning it moved
He heard no noise and saw no
"A 13-man detail arrived (at
northeast, then south, then north
shape. He said the light was "sharp-
11:15 p. m., Dec. 30) from Camp
and remained "over the tank shed
ly delineated."
Barrett and made a search of the
at an elevation of about 3500 feet."
"But I have friends and a pro-
area in which the light was first
That was the time Pfc. Viets
fessional reputation," he said, "and
seen. The search proved fruit-
said, "when they saw it come up
as far as I'm concerned just say
less."
there and lay under the moon until
it's an aircraft navigation light."
Fifty minutes later Pfc. Viets' re-
morning."
Several airlines that fly in and out
lief "reported seeing the same red
Pfc. Viets' relief of the night be-
of Washington say they began in-
light." Sergt. Salinder saw nothing.
fore got so excited he "grabbed a
stalling new lights atop the tails of
HOVERS
butcher knife and headed for the
planes six months ago. They blink
tank shed to help out his troops,"
on and off, are red, and can be seen
The next night the light was seen
his barracks mates said.
much farther away than older types.
again, at 6:25 p. m., by a tank
The light came back three times
"Nobody in the barracks knows,"
park sentry and the guard tower.
Friday night, once Saturday night,
Pfc. Viets said.. "They're just talking
At 7:10, it appeared again. This
five times Sunday night and twice
flying saucers, that's all. They're
time the sergeant of the guard
last night.
talking about men from Mars and
"came out and checked the area
Maj. Pomerleau said the best pos-
everything else you could name."
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Are New Airliner Lights
Authorities at the Quantico
as the Marine Corps is con-
Marine Base last night took a
cerned, a spokesman said.
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long, searching look at those
Until last night, however, the
lights were reported to have
strange flying objects with flash-
done about everything. Nine-
EAM
ing lights seen near the base for
teen Marines reported sighting
the past five nights-and de-
a mysterious reddish "blinking
cided they were commercial air-
or revolving" light over the base
liners.
the nights of December 30 and
Quick as a flash, airlines op-
January 1, 2 and 3. Rumors that
erating out of Washington con-
platoons of infantry had been
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firmed the Marine Corps' guess.
sent to the "landing site" of
An American Airlines spokes-
the objects and a report that a
man said flashing red lights, vis-
helicopter flew to intercept the
ible for 10 to 15 miles, have been
lights were discounted by the
5.191- 4-1
installed recently atop the ver-
Marine Corps earlier yesterday.
tical stabilizer, or tail, of its
The base provo marshal,
planes. Other airlines also have
Maj. D. D. Pomerleau, who saw
put in such lights, he said.
the lights twice, guessed that
A group of Marine officers
they came from an airliner, but
last night made a field trip to
added that he couldn't be sure.
the "Guadacanal" area of the
But last night the Marine
base, west of U. S. 1. They re-
Corps had this final word:
ported: "This flashing red light,
"Officials here are convinced
when seen for the first time by
that the unusual phenomenon
the unaided eye, creates an un-
was a new navigational light of
usual impression and an illu-
greater intensity used on air-
sion of nearness."
liners flying near the reserva-
That closed the matter as far
tion."
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Marines Investigating
Mystery 'Flying Object' Lands
Near Quantico, Say Sentries
One of those mysterious flying the sky and described it as a
the two sentries, and the spokes-
objects reportedly landed near
flying saucer," according to the
man said the investigation was
Quantico on New Year's Eve but
spokesman. They notified the
now in the hands of "higher
Officer of the Day that it had
authorities."
took off again before the Ma-
landed, and the helicopter took
The two sentries were re-
rines could get the situation in
off from Quantico. By the time
ported off the base on pass last
hand.
it arrived, the mystery ship had
night and the Marine spokes-
A spokesman yesterday con-
risen and was out of sight.
man was not able to supply their
The news spread swifty
firmed that a flying object had
description of the objects, or
among Quantico personnel. One
their report of its actions.
been reported near the base.
report had it that two platoons
The spokesman reported they
Two sentries on duty at Camp
were deployed to capture the
had been summoned to appear
Barrett, a Marine installation
thing but this was denied by the
before high officers of the Ma
bout 15 miles from Quantico,
official spokesman.
rine Base this morning for addi-
reported seeing an object in
Statements were taken from
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Brancgon
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 18-The Swedish Royal Air Force
ordered a full investigation today of an airliner crew's report of seeing
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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."
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
Theory Bolstored
Keyhoe's inter-planetary theory
was bolstered by a letter pub-
are withheld, and reports hich
lished on the jacket of his book
divulge the capabilities of our
SPACE SHIPS
from Albert M. Chop, former Air
aircraft, radar and electronic
Force civilian expert on the
equipment are classified. All
saucer project, who now is with
other information with respect
the Douglas Aircraft company in
to sightings is a matter of pub-
California.
lic record, he said.
BY EX-MARINE
In the letter, Chop stated:
Keyhoe maintains, tho, that
"The Air Force, and its investi-
the Air Force has refused to re-
gative agency, 'Project Bluebook,'
lease many analyses of sighting
are aware of Maj. Keyhoe's con-
reports. He points out that the
names and locations connected
clusion that the flying saucers
with the incidents could be de-
Hits AF Stand On
are from another planet. The
Air Force has never denied that
leted, if necessary.
this possibility exists. Some of
Wants Film Released
Flying Disks
the personnel believe that there
Keyhoe also claims that the
may be some strange natural
Air Force should release the
phenomena completely unknown
final intelligence analysis on
to us, but that if the apparently
the Utah film.
(This is the last of three arti-
controled maneuvers reported
In connection with this, Key-
cles on the controversial subject
by many competent observers
hoe recently sent a telegram to
are correct, then the only re-
high Air Force officials charging
of "flying saucers" and their
maining explanation is the inter-
that since the Air Force had im-
investigation by the Air Force.)
planetary answer."
plied that he had misrepresented
BY RICHARD REILLY
Upon publication of the letter
the analysis of the Utah film
-written on Defense department
either he or the Air Force was
Are the flying saucers real—
stationery-the Air Force chal-
lying.
and if they are, what are they?
lenged Chop's claim and said he
The Times-Herald asked a top
That, in essence, is the ques-
was merely expressing his per-
Air Force spokesman if Keyhoe
tion that faces the Air Force-
sonal opinion.
had, in fact, misrepresented the
and the American public as well.
Utah film analysis. He declined
Altho it remains unanswered, it
Chop subsequently admitted
to comment.
has stirred no end of opinions and
that he was not speaking for
In his telegram - as in his
theories.
the Air Force, but maintained
book-Keyhoe stated:
that some of the investigative
One theory advanced from
"The final analysis proved
personnel had subscribed to the
time to time is that the saucers
that the saucer formation could
are some revolutionary type of
interplanetary theory. He said
not be explained as any known
weapon perfected either by this
this was based on "personal con-
aircraft or other conventional
tacts with these various indi-
country or some other nation.
objects."
viduals" and insisted that it was
The Air Force, however, dep-
Cites Conclusions
"a true statement."
recates this possibility. In a re-
The spokesman was asked if
cent statement, it said:
Charges Cover-Up
this statement were true or false.
"The Air Force has stated in
Amplifying his theory that the
He said that, to date, the Air
the past, and reaffirms at the
saucers come from another
Force has neither affirmed nor
present time, that unexplained
planet, Kehoe claims they could
denied it.
aerial phenomena are not a se-
originate from some other body
Keyhoe also contends the anal-
cret weapon, missile or aircraft
in the earth's solar system-
ysis concluded the objects were
developed by the United States.
such as Mars or Venus-or from
not birds and were not caused
None of the three military de-
some other system or universe.
by weather conditions.
partments nor any other agency
Kehoe charges that the Air
Specifically, Keyhoe claims the
in the government is conducting
Force is convinced that the
experiments, classified or other-
saucers are space ships from
wise, with flying objects which
another world, but that it is COV-
could be a basis for the reported
ering up because of a fear that
phenomena."
such a disclosure would result in
Weapon Theory Discounted
widespread panic.
In addition, a high-ranking Air
The Air Force, however, in.
Force officer indicated to the
sists that this is not so-that it
Times Herald
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is holding back no important
impossible the saucers could be
facts from the public.
a foreign weapon.
Lt. White said the names of
Wash. Post
Regarding the question as to
persons involved in the htings
whether flying saucers exist, Lt.
Robert White, public informa-
Wash. News
tion officer, said the Air Force
believes reliable observers such
as veteran airline pilots are sin-
Wash. Star
cere when they report sighting
unidentified objects.
The Air Force was tossed a hot
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potato recently by Maj. Donald
E. Keyhoe, U.S.M.C. (ret.), who
claimed in his recent book, "Fly-
NOT
ing Saucers from Outer Space,"
but that they are of inter-plane-
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that the saucers not only are real
tary origin.
Furthermore, Keyhoe contends
that the so-called "Utah film"
Date:
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possessed by the Air Force proves
this thocks,
JAN
13
1954
intelligence experts reached the
tic physical evidence that they
following conclusions:
are interplanetary."
1. The average speed of the
Continuing, Gen. Smith stated:
unknown objects was somewhere
"For the Air Force to admit
between 653 and 980 miles per
that flying saucers exist, it would
hour.
want indisputable physical evi-
2. All the objects appeared
dence. For such an admission, it
round, of the same size, and gave
would want stronger evidence
off a bluish-white glow of very
than it now has."
high intensity.
Summing up the problem, he
3. The objects seemed to be
said:
maneuvering in a circular or el-
"So far, the question of
liptical pattern within the group,
whether flying saucers exist, and
at very high speeds.
if so, what they are, has not been
conclusively answered either
4. Because of these high speeds,
the objects obviously could not be
way."
But one thing is certain, he
balloons or birds.
added. The Air Force will con-
5. They were not any type of
tinue to seek the answer.
known aircraft.
Will Push Campaign
6. The sighting could not be ex-
Meanwhile, Keyhoe plans to
plained by any conventional an-
continue his campaign to com-
swer.
pel the Air Force to disclose the
Asked if the Times-Herald
facts he says it is concealing.
could see the final analysis re-
He told the Times-Herald he will
port, an Air Force spokesman
continue to make his claims in
said that there were certain re-
print and on television, and will
ports the Air Force could not
challenge the Air Force to deny
make public for security reasons,
them.
risk of libel, and other reasons.
"If any official, after reading
However, the spokesman said
the final analysis on the Utah
the film could be viewed at
film, says that it did not rule
Wright field, Ohio.
out birds, known aircraft or
Not Discounting Theory
conventional objects as the
The Air Force officially neither
cause of those objects, I will call
accepts nor rejects the interplan-
him a liar to his face.
etary theory.
"I do not like to use such
Brig. Gen. Sory Smith, Air
terms, but after all, the Air
Force public relations chief, put it
Force has, in effect, been calling
this way:
me a liar and I'm getting tired
of it."
"We do not know enough about
Regardless of the charges and
it to deny that flying saucers
counter-charges, so long as the
exist. Conversely, we have no
Air Force has unsolved sightings
proof that they do exist.
in its files - and until it is
"In our investigation we are
definitely known what the fly
not discounting the possibility
ing saucers are - the average
that the saucers-if they exist-
person is bound to wonder
could be interplanetary. We are
Times Herald
Are the flying saucers real?
interested in anyone who might
If so, what are they?
be using the air over the United
The final chapter is yet to be
States.
Wash. Post
written in this strange drama.
"However, we have no authen-
The answer is not yet available
to us.
Wash. News
Wash. Star
N. Y. Times
N. Y. Compass
Date:
Mr. Tolson
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nich
Mr. Belmont
after
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
for
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Trotter
Mr. Winterrowd
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy
Brobugan
To Fan Hysteria
Red Labels
'Saucers'
U.S. Fiction
LONDON -(P)- 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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THE MIAMI HERALD
MIAMI, FLORIDA
DECEMBER 28, 1953
feles 5m
Flying Discs
B
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 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.
SAID IT APPEARED ABOUT A FOOT IN DIAMETER AND WAS ABOUT THE SAME
ALTITUDE AT WHICH HE WAS FLYING.
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CANADA PLANS
FLYING SAUCER
OBSERVATORY
Not Optical Illusions,
Top Experts Hold
OTTAWA, Nov. 12 (CTPS)-
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,
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
fle55H
sighting a year. Associated with
Smith in the project, which is
under the transport department
Flying
and the defense research board,
will be a theoretical physicist and
76
a specialist in gravitational
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A 24-hour watch will be kept
for saucers. Specially built equip-
ment is wired to alarm bells. The
equipment includes an iono-
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spheric reactor, electronic de-
vices for measurement of sounds,
Times Herald
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a gamma ray detector, a gravi-
meter, and other paraphernalia.
Jet planes may be sent up from
Wash. Post
the air force field near Ottawa
to investigate any saucers re-
ported by the station.
Wash. News
Defense research scientists
here never have pooh-poohed fly-
ing saucers, which have been pub-
Wash. Star
licly reported in nightmarish
shapes and forms over Canadian
cities. Some of them have been
described as multicolored cigar
N. Y. Times
figurations.
Frequency of the saucer sight-
ings has been noted here to rise
N. Y. Compass
Fav
with the increase in proximity
of the planet Mars to the earth.
Smith said he does MOV ruie out
5 JAN 7 1954
the possibility that the saucers
may come from outer space.
Date: 11/13/53
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Mr. Tolson
89
Mr. Ladd
Mr Nichols
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Gearty
Mr. Mohr
4-1
Mr. Winterrowd
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Mr. Sizoo
Miss Gandy
BRANIGAN
Mossburg
rx
FLYING SAUCERS
(SAUCERS)
THE AIR FORCE STILL INSISTS THAT "FLYING SAUCERS" ARE WEATHER FREAKS
DESPITE A RETIRED MARINE OFFIER'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.
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Dhe
Tolson
Ladd
Nichols
Belmont
Clegg
x
Glavin
Harbo
Rosen
Flying Saucers
Tracy
Laughlin
Mohr
Winterrowd
Tele. Rm.
Plastic Moby Dicks' Flying Sin ce 1950
Holloman
Gandy
Whale-Like Air Force Balloons Rise 20 Miles,
Solve Flying Saucer Riddle, Wind Secrets
Branchy
By the Associated Press
loons sometimes seem to be
firmed the fact that air currents
The magazine Aviation Week
racing at tremendous velocities,
travel in opposite directions at
published a new report yester-
whereas they actually are mov-
different altitude layers. The
day on what the Air Force has
ing at 60 miles an hour or less.
prevailing wind moves from
found out about the upper at-
One evening after sunset
West to East across the United
many units of the Strategic
States at about 50,000 feet.
mosphere with its "Moby Dick"
Air Command in Texas were
About 10,000 feet higher, how-
ballons-whale-like bags which
kept busy trying to catch and
ever, the flow is sometimes re-
have often been mistaken for
shoot down a flying object that
versed.
flying saucers.
was actually a Moby Dick drift-
Balloons have also carried
Since the big helium-filled
ing along at about 90,000 feet
various kinds of animal life,
balloons made their appear-
in a glow of dust-refracted sun-
ranging from fruit flies to mice
ance three years ago, the maga-
light.
and monkeys, up to 80,000 feet.
zine said, more than 90 percent
B-36 bomber crews, accus-
The experimental animals have
of the "saucer" sightings have
tomed to flying high altitudes,
survived such altitudes for 24
coincided with their logged as-
gave up the chase when they
hours and have been recovered
cents and charted courses.
were left behind at 45,000 feet,
to provide living data for scien-
The shiny surface of the plas-
and jet fighters stalled trying
tific research.
tic balloons is an excellent re-
to pursue the object above their
The Moby Dick balloons are
flector of light. Long after the
altitude ceiling.
released almost daily at Tilla-
sun has set and darkness has
Another mysterious object,
mook, Ore.: Vernalis, Calif., and
covered the earth, they shine
later identified positively as a
Edwards Air Force Base in Cali-
brillantly with the light re-
research balloon, floated over
fornia. Two more sites will be
flected from the sun at alti-
San Francisco last spring during
used to take advantage of late
tudes of from 90,000 to 100,-
a parade welcoming Gen. James
summer winds-the Moody Air
000 feet, almost 20 miles up in
A. Van Fleet home from Korea.
Force base near Valdosta, Ga.,
the sky.
It shone as a brilliant white
and Sedalia, Mo.
Vapor dust or other foreign
sphere as jet fighters vainly
The big bags are made so that
particles in the atmosphere
tried to reach it. On another
they destroy themselves auto-
make the light appear white,
day, Dayton, Ohio, was filled
matically when they descend to
red, purple, or green. Because
with "saucer" reports as anoth-
33,000 feet. Recording machines
of the difficulty of judging
er balloon floated over the city.
and instruments are parachuted
speed at high altitudes, the bal-
The balloon flights have con-
to earth.
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N.Y. Mirror
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60 SEP 17 1953
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Date: AUG 231953
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Tolson
Ladd
Nichols
Belmont
&
Flying Saucers
Clegg
Glavin
Harbo
Rosen
Tracy
Laughlin
Mohr
Winterrowd
Tele. Rm.
Holloman
Gandy
Pitot Sights Small Flying Disc
Branger
Chasing F-84 Over Japan
By the Associated Press
"about eight inches in diameter,
UNITED STATES AIR BASE,
very thin, round, and as shiny as
Northern Japan, Jan. 28.-The
polished chromium; had no ap-
United States Air Force last night
parent projections and left no
reported a small, metallic, disc-
exhaust trails or vapor trails."
shaped object made a controlled,
He said it caught up with an
sweeping pass at an American
F-84 Thunderjet, hovered a few
jet fighter-bomber and was ob-
moments and then shot out of
served at very close range by
sight. The F-84 pilot, whose
another pilot.
name was not revealed, did not
The report, from Air Force
see it.
intelligence files, said the sight-
It was the second disclosure
ing was made over Northern
in a week by Air Force intelli-
Japan at 11:20 a.m., March 29,
1952, by Lt. David C. Brigham of
gence of mysterious flying ob-
Rockford, Ill.
jects over Northern Japan near
It was a bright, cloudless day.
the Russian-Siberia area.
Lt. Brigham said he got a very
On January 21, the Air Force
good look at the object from
disclosed that "rotating clusters
about 30 to 50 feet for about 10
of red, white and green lights"
seconds.
had been sighted over Northern
The pilot described it as
Japan by American airmen.
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Wash. Post
Wash. News
Wash. Star
N.Y. Herald Tribune
N.Y. Mirror
A. M. Edition
229
Date: 1-28-53
79 FEB 3 1953
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 NEWSPAPER SAID "SOME WRAPS MAY BE REMOVED FROM SOME ASPECTS
OF THE HUSH-HUSH PROGRAM" AT A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATI ON 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 Branigin SAID TODAY THAT
Em
"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 NEWSPAPER 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
SAID. TERMED THEM FLYING SAUCERS' FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME," THE PAPER
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,")
VM
files EN
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Washing Ton CITY News Service
an
ILVING DISC
(RELEASE AT 7:00 P.M. EST)
Flying Deses
ARTICLES FROM OUTER SPACE THAT ENTER OUR ATMOSPHERE AT TREMENDOUS
Brandan money
WABan
NEW YORK--THOSE LIGHTS IN THE SKY NEXT WEEK WILL NOT JE FLYING
AUCERS, BUT MERELY *SUDDEN TRAILS OF LIGHT CAUSED BY SOLID
PEEDS AND ARE HEATED TO INCANDESCENCE BY THE RESISTANCE OF AIR TO
HEIR FLIGHT."
THEY LL BE ESPECIALLY BAD ABOUT THE 10TH AND THE 16TH OF THE
ONTH. ROBERT R. COLES. CHAIRMAN OF THE HAYDEN PLANETARIUM OF THE AMERICAN
USEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. GAVE FAIR NOTICE OF THE LIGHTS TODAY.
THE TWO PRINCIPAL METEOR SHOWERS IN NOVEMBER, COLES SAID. ARE THE
O-CALLED TAURID METEORS, WHICH SHOW OFF BEST ABOUT THE 10TH OF THE
ONTH, AND THE LEONID METEORS, WHICH STEAL THE SHOW ABOUT THE 16TH.
11/8--E346P
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Flying Discs
(SAUCER)
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 OULDER, MONT.
CAA OFFICIALS SAID THERE WAS NO PLANE IN THE SKY THAT COULD HAVEA
EEN MISTAKEN FOR THE WHITE\OBJECT.
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seek
68 SEP 25 1952
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Tolson
Ladd
Nichol's
OFIYING Saucers
Belmont
x
Clegg
Glavin
Harbo
Rosen
Tracy
FIVE-STATE WHATZIT
Laughlin
Mohr
Well, It Sure Was
Winterrowd
Tele. Rm.
Holloman
Gandy
Some Ball of Fire
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,
Mosiling
a flying saucer "as big as a washtub," or a mass of flaming, in-
candescent material.
The Naval Observatory, the
was sun-colored with a tail." (Sub-
Weather Bureau and observers at
urbanite.)
National Airport lean toward the
Shaped like a star "about as big
meteor theory.
as the inside of a tennis racket.'
Scores of Washingtonians, who
(12-year-old boy.)
saw it, leaned in all directions.
SHOCKING
Police remained stolidly upright,
Four Frederick farmers saw "a
and the FBI had no comment.
ball shooting across the horizon."
HOW IT LOOKED
Near Washington, three United
Press correspondents said it was like
But citizens here, in Maryland,
this:
Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsyl-
"A rocket with a fiery tail
vania and Ohio couldn't be silenced.
It shocked us, it looked SO close."
They said:
(Frank Eleazer.)
"Suddenly this thing came
"A big magnesium flare
It
swooping down from the eastern
gave off sparks." (Robert Loftus.)
skies. It looked like it was right
It plunged out of the sky "very
above the housetops. It was a ball
fast," like a plane shot down in the
of bright greenish fire with a long
war. It was trailing a tail of
tail." (This was a housewife).
flame."-(John A. Goldsmith.)
"I thought it was a flying
George Lincoln, of 756 S. Green-
saucer. I thought it was a flare at
brier-st, Arlington, saw something
first-that is, I thought it was a
"about as big as a washtub. I was
flare until the darned thing swooped
sure it was going to crash, some
down-and then up again. It seemed
place," he said.
to follow the contours of the road."
A Maryland state trooper, sitting
(Army veteran).
out his lonely vigil atop Negro
"It looked at first look like a
Mountain in far Western Maryland,
plane on fire, it was that big. It said "it" passed over him, too.
Times-Herald
Wash. Post
Wash. News
r
WEST
Wash. Star
N.Y. Herald Tribune
N.Y. Mirror
N.Y. Compass
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98 SEP 19 1952
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
BroBigon
Caused New Disc Tale
Special to The Inquirer
READING, Pa., Aug. 28.-Air Na-
quent, to keep interceptor teams on
the alert.
tional Guard officers and control
The aerial display on Monday was
tower operators of the C 11
witnessed by hundreds of Guards-
Aeronautics Administration today
men of the 112th Fighter Wing.
"cleared up" the latest flying saucer
Pennsylvania-Maryland Air Na-
tional Guard, as well as officers who
mystery, as evolved in the skies over
watched the maneuvers through
Berks county last Monday.
binoculars.
The saucers, seen by a large num-
Air National Guard officers said
ber of persons at that time, a
the report submitted by Harry Fein
spokesman said, were vapor trails
auer, 43, of Birdsboro, who said he
thought he saw a plane release
of a B-36 inter-continental bomber
flying saucer in the air Monday
and a jet plane. which CAA tower-
morning, probably had to do with
men said were flying at an altitude
of 40,000 to 45,000 feet.
bomber. the jet which he saw diving on the
The jet left a bigzag trail as it
Nor did the Guard's explanation
dived in on the big bomber in a
dovetail very closely with the ac-
count given by Herbert Long, 29,
mock interception attack. The
Kutztown insurance salesman, Who
spokesman said such air shows were
told of seeing a flying saucer 30 feet
frequent when atmospheric condi-
in front of his automobile Monday
tions were right for the hot exhausts
night, off the Allentown pike near
from engines to freeze at high alti-
Maxatawny. Long said he saw the
tude.
object so clearly that he was able
The big bombers, the spokesmán to make a detailed drawing of its
explained, often fly far out over the
appearance.
ocean, and when they approach the
oastline on their return journeys
they are observed on radar screens
and jets are sent up to intercept
them. Such tests, he added, are fre-
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STAR
EDITION: 51 SEP 16 1952
BUREAU
THIS IS IT
A sketch of the flying saucer which Her-
bert Long, 29, a Kutztown, Pa., insur-
—
ance salesman, contends he saw parked on a road 30 feet
from his car. He said he was too frightened to approach it.
He's shown (left, below) giving Leroy Gensler, artist,
directions for the sketch. (AP Wirephotos)
Mr. Telson
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
will
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Flying Saucers
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Laughlin
Mr. Mohr
rrowd.
ly
Brandgen
1
X
Janr BEF,
cons
What Is It?
FLYING SAUCER MAYBE?-The unknown object
of the building when he noticed the unusual saucer-
over the building in the picture, photographed above
like object in his view finder, so he snapped the pic-
Anacortes, moves swiftly through the sky, seeming-
ture at 1/100th of a second. Elliott was unable to
ly a part of a cloud formation. But is it? Walter
determine the nature of the unusual object which
Elliott of Anacortes was preparing to take a picture
quickly disappeared.
⑉
(Associated Press Wirephoto.)
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Mr. Tolson
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichola
Mr. Belmont
As
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Laughlin
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Winterrowd
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy
(SAUCERS)
SAN FRANCISCO A FORMER AIR FORCE B29 TEST MECHANIC AND SCIENTIFIC
LECTURER SAID TODAY HE SAW TWO SILVER GREY OBJECTS FLYING ERRATICALLY
OVER SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT "AT TERRIFIC SPEEDS. "
ROBERT G. GARNER, 38, SAN FRANCISCO, SAID HE AND HIS WIFE BOTH
OBSERVED THE OBJECTS AT 5:30 P.M. YESTERDAY AND HE WAS CONVINCED THEY
WERE "NOT OF THE EARTH. "
GARDNER, WHO SAID HE WAS WITH THE AIR FORCE IN THE PACIFIC
DURING WORLD WAR II SAID THE OBJECTS LOOKED LIKE "CROSS SECTIONS OF
A CONE CLIPPED OFF AT BOTH ENDS. "
"THEY WERE SILVER GREY IN COLOR AND APPEARED TO HAVE A DIAMETER OF
ABOUT 150 TO 200 FEET EACH. " HE SAID.
"BOTH OF THEM FLEW AT AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 12,000 FEET. " GARNER
SAID.
"AND I'D ESTIMATE THEY WERE GOING AT LEAST 1800 MILES AN
HOUR.
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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.
IN A DEMONSTRATION YESTERDAY FOT LT. GEN. LEWIS A. PICK. CHIEF OF
ARMY ENGINEERS, AND OTHERS, SCOTT SAID HE MADE THE LIGHTS STAND STILL,
REVERSE THEMSELVES, OR WINK OUT.
BY ALTERING THE AIR PRESSURE HE CHANGED THE COLOR FROM A NEON-LIKE
ORANGE TO WHITE OR BLUE OR WHITE WITH A GREEN HALO. HE COULD MAKE THE
BLOBS APPEAR TO LEAVE AN INCANDESCENT TRAIL LIKE A JET DISCHARGE.
SCOTT EXPLAINED THAT AN "ANODE GLOW" FORMS ON AN IONIZED
(ELECTRIFIED) LAYER OR VOLUME OF GAS WHICH IS POSITIVE IN RESPECT TO
THE SURROUNDING ATMOSPHERE. SUCH GLOWS COULD OCCUR ANYWHERE FROM 50
TO 200 MILES UP HE SAID, DEPENDING ON CONDITIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC
PRESSURE AND IONIZATION.
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THE COAST GUARD TODAY RELEASED A PHOTOGRAPH OF FOUR BRILLIANT WHITE
LIGHTS SNAPPED OVER ITS SALEM, MASS., AIR STATION SEVERAL WEEKS AGO
THE PICTURE. TAKEN BY A 21-YEAR OLD COAST GUARD PHOTOGRAPHER, WAS
THE LATEST EPISODE IN THE NATIONWIDE OUTBURST OF "FLYING EAUCER
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.
"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
FLOWN LATER TODAY TO DAYTON, O., WHERE IT WILL BE EXAMINED BY AIR
FORCE INVESTIGATORS.
THE NEGATIVE SHOWS NO SIGN OF RETOUCHING, EVEN UNDER AN ENLARGER
WHICH PRESUMABLY WOULD SHOW UP ANY FAKING.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER WAS SHELIXALPERT, A COAST GUARD ENLISTED
PHOTOGRAPHER. HE SAID HE MADE THE PICTURE AT 9:35 A. Ma2 JULY 16,
THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW OF THE AIR STATION'S PHOTO LABORATORY
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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
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Referring to the fact that radar screens are picking up what
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ppear 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-
98 Wes Etton AUG 18 1952
tion radar scope here early today threw the city into a dither.
(Jersey City reported track-
ng flying disks and one observer
they saw nothing. Air Force radar
offered a photo of an oddly-
Times-Herald
equipment at a field near the CAA
shaped chunk of light to prove
it.)
installation also spotted nothing.
The Air Force flew the experts
For that reason, the Air Defense
Wash. Post
from Wright-Paterson Field, Day-
planes remained grounded. giving
ton, O., to quell the gathering
rise to rumors that the Pentagon
alarm, but meanwhile, USAF
somehow was surrendering to the
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planes were equipped with special
"saucers." The Air Force took
astronomical cameras, with which
pains to deny this, and promised
it is hoped pursuing pilots may be
pursuit the next time a flying
Wash. Star
able to take pictures of the phe-
mystery is sighted with the naked
omena.
eye.
Air Defense Command planes re-
Meanwhile, other responsible
N.Y. Mirror
mained on 24-hour alert to chase
Pentagon officials reiterated de-
the "interlopers" and, if possible,
nials that the strange aerial lights
'shoot them down."
or whatever they re-represent
N.Y. Compass pp.3+16
Today's rash of "saucers" ap-
some new phase of U. S. military
eared on the CAA screen from
experimentation. They expressed
30 a.m. to 6 a.m. Airline pilots
firm conviction, too, that the
ho were asked to scan the skies
things are no threat to the na-
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Date: 7-30-52
BEHIND THE NEWS
By RICHARD CARTER
The swift-moving celestial lumi-
sky-watchers ciaimed to have
nosities which the American pub-
seen two flying cigar-shaped ob-
lic has come to call "flying saucers"
jects.
are phenomena with a recorded
Cigar-shaped objects have been
history dating back at least 200
spotted skyward by innumerable
years and perhaps several thou-
participants in America's postwar
sand.
saucery.
The Biblical Ezekiel's airborne
Flying lights which differ in all
wheels, for example, had some of
apparent respects from shooting
the earmarks of what modern
stars, meteors, and the like, have
American science fiction readers,
been seen by multitudes of sailors
televiewers and "cold worriers" are
over the centuries, and their ac-
on the verge of regarding as inter-
counts of the phenomena differ
planetary scouts or missiles from
hardly at all from those contrib
Moscow.
uted by recent viewers,
Dr. Donald H. Menzel, profes-
Some people see white lights
sor of astrophysics at Harvard
moving in formation; others see
University, made this point in
kelly green fire balls; others see
in interview last month with
orange fire balls; others see fly-
Time magazine. He produced
ing disks; others see the cigar-
documentary evidence that there
shaped mysteries. Some of the
was a saucer scare in Chicago
objects seem to hover, virtually
on April 10 1897, when man
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motionless, before darting into a
moving at fantastic speeds, or just
cloud and disappearing forever
hovering, depending on conditions.
others move at what seems to
Headlights, aerial searchlights,
be an impossible rate of speed
even street lights in a city can be
reversing direction instantane-
refracted by the atmosphere and
busly, swooping and climbing ink
become "flying saucers" out in the
a manner which no man-made
country miles away, he says.
machine or human pilot could
To prove it, he has produced
survive.
startlingly similar phenomena in
Since one of the foundations of
his own laboratory.
modern science is to believe noth-
One of the reasons the Air Force
ing that cannot be proved, most
has felt impelled to take part in
theories about the skittering
the public debate on the subject.
whatizzits have to be rejected.
after having satisfied itself
Many theories which have gained
through research that the saucers
wide currency are based on facts
are something akin to what Menzel
which are "probably true." But no
escribes, is that radar scopes in
scientist bases conclusions on
Washington have been described
things which only are probable.
as spotting the saucers at the same
time pilots and ground observers
The closest anyone has come
were seeing them with the naked
not only to explaining the phe-
eye.
nomena. but duplicating them. is
Until further returns are in,
Prof. Menzel. He believes the
the only explanation available
saucers are fancy mirages-actual
is one known to anyone who has
images of lights, but displaced
ever had anything to do with
through miles of space by refrac-
adar-you see all kinds of un-
Lion. He explains that light moves
accountable things on it. It was
slower through a dense medium
considered noteworthy that Air
like cold air than in warm air.
Porce radar in the same region
When it passes from a layer of
failed to pick up the impulses
dense cold air into a layer of less
which the CAA now has added
dense warm air at an appropriate
to flying saucer lore.
angle. it is bent. and may be seen
miles away, as if disembodied.
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Is Solved; Device
Studies Weather
One of the Washington area's
flying saucers has been tracked
down finally.
Last week a Martinsburg (W.
Va.) woman found a mysterious
five-foot square piece of aluminum
covered material on her farm.
She wanted to know what it was
They
but nobody seemed to be able
to tell and there was the usual
speculation about flying saucers.
Andrews Air Force Base cleared
up the mystery today. A spokes-
man said the object was used by
the Air Weather Service. It is
attached to a balloon and sent
into the sky.
It is then tracked by radar
and the direction and speed of
the wind calculated. The device
is in constant use, the air base
said.
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They're in the Sky Again
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.
sight of them two minutes later.
speed at from 38 to 90 miles per
At least a dozen of the mys-
The same pilot observed a
hour. They were not able to de-
terious objects were reported to
steady white light 10 miles east
termine their altitude. Some
have been seen glowing in the
of Mount Vernon at 11:49 p. m.
pilots reported flying over them
The light, about five miles ahead
sky within a 30-mile radius of
and some under them.
of him, faded in a minute.
Before last week's report of
the city. They were all picked
The interceptors did not sight
up on the radar screen of the
any more lights after that. Al-
the mysterious lights, so-called
though the radar screen still
"flying saucers" are believed
CAA Air Route Traffic Control
never to have been picked up on
center at Washington National
picked up the objects. One
plane landed shortly before mid-
radar screens. The objects
Airport.
shown on the National Airport
At 11:25 p. m., two F-94 jet
night, and the other about 12:15
radar, however, caused definite
fighters were sent up by the
a. m.
Air Defense command to inves-
It was the second time these
"blips" on the screen, which
tigate the lights. The pilots re-
objects have been picked up by
means contact with solid objects,
radar. Last night's visitors
rather than lights or reflections.
ported seeing the lights, but
were not able to get any closer
showed up first on the screen
A CAA spokesman d the ob-
to them than about 7 miles.
at 9:08 p. m. and remained for
jects picked up last night gave
The jet pilots described the
some time.
off blips similar to those of reg-
Airline, private and military
ular aircraft.
lights as hard to see and track
pilots all reported seeing them.
The Air Force has been inves-
down.
At 11:33 p. m., one jet pilot
Some pilots said they came with-
tigating last week's objects. It
observed four lights in the vicin-
in two or three miles of the ob-
said reports of flying saucers
ity of Andrews Air Force base.
jects.
this month have been the high
The lights were about 500 feet
They were variously described
est since 1947, when they first
above him and about 10 miles as looking like blue lights, the
were seen.
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MIAMI FLA.--(UNITED PRESS-WCNS )--TWO VETERAN PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
PILOTS REPORTED TODAY THEY SAW EIGHT HUGE FLYING SAUCERS" FLYING AT
A 000-MILE-AN-HOUR CLIP NEAR NORFOLK, VA., LAST NIGHT.
W. BANASH SAID HE AND W.H. FORTENBERRY SAW SIX OF THE STRANGE
CHAFT ESTIMATED TO BE 100 FLET IN DIAMETER AND "GLOWING ORANGE-RED
LIKE 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.
"BOTH FORTENBERRY AND I HAVE READ OTHER REPORTS ON SO-CALLED
FLYING SAUCERS* AND HAVE RESPECT FOR THE JUDGMENT OF SOME OF THE
ASTRONOMERS AND OBSERVERS WHO HAVE REPORTED THEM. 4b NASH SAID. "OU
EXPERIENCE LAST NIGHT IS IN LINE WITH THOSE REPORTS."
NASH, A FIRST OFFICER FOR PAA AND A FLYING EMPLOYE FOR 10 YEARS
SAID HE AND FORTENBERRY *WOULD JUDGE THAT THE EIGHT OBJECTS WERE
DEFINITELY INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED--WHETHER FROM WITHIN OR WITHOUT,
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WE COULDN'T SAY.
"ALSO," SAID NASH, "WE CAN BE REASONABLY POSITIVE THAT NONE OF US
--AS WE KNOW PILOTS-COULD PHYSICALLY ENDURE THE CENTRIFUGAL FORCE
THAT WOULD BE IMPOSED ON THE OCCUPANTS WHEN MAKING TURNS OF SUCH
VIOLENCE AS THESE OBJECTS MADE." "
NASH SAID THEIR DC-4, CARRYING 10 COMPANY PERSONNEL, WAS FLYING
SOUTHWARD BETWEEN NEWPORT NEWS-, VA., AND NORFOLK WHEN THE FIRST SIX
SAUCERS APPEARED TO THE SOUTHWEST. NASH SAID THEY WERE FLYING IN AN
ECHELON FORMATION-A DIAGONAL STRAIGHT LINE--AB ABOUT 2,000 FEET
ALTITUDE.
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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-TERRESTRIAL SOURCE. " NASH SAID.
"IF EITHER OF US HAD SEEN THE THINGS ALONE. WE WOULD HAVE HESTITATED
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."
NASH, A NAVY TRANSPORT PILOT IN WORLD WAR II, IS A VETERAN OF
10,000 AIR HOURS. FORTENBERRY, FORMERLY A NAVY FIGHTER PILOT, HAS BEEN
AN EMPLOYE OF PAA SINCE THE WAR.
THE REPORT MADE BY NASH AND FORTENBERRY TODAY WAS THE LATEST OF
SEVERAL RECENT REPORTS OF MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS IN THE AIR.
ON JULY 6, FOUR PILOTS FOR A NON-SCHEDULED AIRLINE REPORTED SEEING A
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CHICAGO--0' HARA AIR FORCE BASSE OFFICERS SAID TODAY "FLYING SAUCERS
REPORTS HAVE PICKED UP LATELY.
THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE SAID IT HAS RECEIVED 16 REPORTS OF
MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS IN THE SKY IN THE CHICAGO VICINITY THIS WEEK.
BUT OFFICERS DENIED REPORTS THAT A SPECIAL "FLYING SAUCER" ALERT
AS BEEN ORDERED.
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS SAID JET PATROLS NORMALLY ARE ON THE
ALERT "24 HOURS A DAY."
OFFICERS SAID THE AIR FORCE ENCOURAGES CALLS ON OBJECTS SIGHTED.
THEY AID THE REPORTS ARE "PASSED ON TO HIGHER AUTHORITY" FOR
EVALUATION.
AN OFFICER SAID SOME OF THIS WEEK'S REPORTS APPARENTLY STEMMED
FROM 7/3--W0753P AN ORPHANAGE PICNIC AT WHICH 5,000 TOY BALLOONS WERE RELEASED.
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DENVER- (UNITEDPRESS-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
DIRECTLY ABOVE US.
"JUST BELOW A DECK OF WISPY CLOUDS ABOUT 10,000 TO 15,000 FEET
"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
QUICKLY." US AND CHANGE SHAPE. IT BECAME FLAT, GAINED SPEED AND THEN DISAPPEARED
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Navy Calls Saucers
ning is the best time to 500 the
balloon "saucer," it adds.
Nease
"The lateral rays of the sun at
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dusk illuminate the base of the
Only Its Big Balloons
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-
NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (P).-Fly-
nated cup of the bottom. If your
imagination soars, the light re-
age
ing saucers are real-but they're
only huge balloons used in cosmic
flection on the side may impress
you as the glow of an atomic en-
ray studies, Look magazine will
gine. The wisp of the balloon's
say Tuesday, quoting Dr. Urner
instrument-filled tail may impress
Liddel, chief of the nuclear physics
you as the exhaust. The sun's
branch of the Office of Naval Re-
rays may suffuse the plastic bag
search. He is in charge of the
with a fiery glow.
"Even seasoned airmen have no
cosmie ray-balloon project.
way of estimating the size and
The balloons are huge plastic
speed of an object they see. To
bags, 100 feet in diameter, that
peg size and speed, the mind
must know the nature of the ob-
may rise 19 miles high-about
ject."
100,000 feet. Winds may sweep
Look says Dr. Liddel and asso-
them along at 200 miles an hour.
ciates studied 2000 reports of
At dusk, the slanting rays of the
flying saucers, eliminating those
sun light up their bottoms, giving
"seeming to be the visions of
them a saucer-like appearance, the
crackpots or psycopaths" or
article says.
"clearly the result of inaccurate
They carry instruments aloft to
vision."
record what happens when cosmic
"This left a solid base of re.
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rays hit atoms in the earth's at-
ports from airplane pilots, scien-
mosphere. This splitting gives a
tific observers and reliable laymen
clue to how atoms are put to-
which could not be brushed aside
gether, and how to release their
After a thorough investigation,
energy.
Dr. Liddel said: "There is not a
"When this project first began it
single reliable report of an ob-
was kept secret," the magazine
servation which is not attributable
quotes Dr. Liddel. "Now there is
to the cosmic balloons'."
no longer any need for secrecy on
It quotes Dr. Liddel as saying
a scientific basis. And certainly,
that Capt. Thomas F. Mantell, air
there is no longer any need to
force pilot found dead in his
keep the public in the dark about
crashed plane after radioing that
what flying saucers are."
he was pursuing a strange sky
Look says "the Liddel report is
object, was chasing "a balloon
considered to be the most authori-
of the skyhook type."
tative scientific explanation of the
There have been several reports
flying-saucer phenomenon. As far
of squadrons of flying disks, and
as Dr. Liddel is concerned per-
"this is explained by Dr. Liddel
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sonally, he considers his answer
as clusters of 20 to 30 balloons 10
incontrovertibly right."
to 15 feet in diameter, which are
The balloons, called skyhooks,
sometimes used in place of the
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were first sent aloft in 1947, and
it was then that flying saucer re-
Dr. Liddel checked other Gov-
ports began, it adds. There were
ernment agencies and "is satisfied
Wash. News
more balloons in the next two
that no other research or experi-
years and more "saucers" seen.
mental project has utilized any-
There were fewer balloons sent
thing even roughly resembling
Wash. Star
up in 1950, and fewer saucer
mying saucer."
ports.
A picture, taken by telescope
N.Y. Mirror
of a balloon at 77,0 feet over
Minnesota, convinced Dr. Liddel
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Date:
2-13-51.
WHAT FLEW ACROSS
you!
ENGLAND YESTERDAY?
Football
Crowds See
'Flying Saucer'
By Sunday Dispatch Reporter
parts of
G.I.R.-10
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
47 JAN 27 1951
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 :
"It was like a diamond flash ; its shape was like a big
peardrop, with the thin end tapering behind. Suddenly it
'mened' into nothingness."
SUNDAY DISPATCH
LONDON, ENGLAND
DEC. 3, 1950
methoring
)FFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE
AMERICAN EMBASSY
LONDON, ENGLAND
61FEB1 1951
Other people described it as a
Airmen Saw It
blob of brilliant whiteness "
and a "sheet of white hot
Bilots of four jet aircraft of the
metal"
Royal Auxiliary Air Force coming
Chairman of Chard F.C., Mr.
in to land at Llandaw, near Car-
William Taunton, sitting in the
diff. reported a flash of light at
stand, said "It came right over
15,000ft. to the north-east of the
the top of us like a brilliant streak
airfield.
and then seemed to dissolve before
At a football match at Easton-
our eyes."
In-Gordano, near Bristol, specta-
tors saw a flash. Mr. M. V. Perrett,
Snake-Shape
of Ham Green, said: "It looked
like a rocket coming down from
Miss Myra Scott, who was watch-
2,000ft. There was an intense white
ing a football match at Perry
flash which left a trail of vapour."
Street, three miles south of Chard,
said she saw a low-flying, silvery
Spectators at the match between
star with a tail shortly before
Shaftesbury and Longfleet St.
four o'clock.
Mary reported what appeared like
At North Petherton, near Bridg-
a giant rocket. It seemed to fall
from the sky.
water, spectators at another match
saw an object in the north-west
Bovingdon airport in Hertford-
sky shortly before four o'clock.
shire. 150 miles east of Llandaw,
It was described as "a long
also reported to the Air Ministry
that a brilliant white light was
snake-shape thing which streaked
through the sky at a terrific rate."
seen a long way to the west at
4.5 p.m. Observers estimated that
Mr. T. Hollinghurst, of North
it was at about 20,000ft. and say
Petherton, said : It appeared sud-
that it vanished in a trail of smoke.
denly and went away suddenly,
leaving a creamy smoke. There
Air Ministry said last night
was no noise and there were no
" A thorough check has been made
planes about."
and no aircraft is missing or
believed to have blown up in the
air
Channel Explosion
" It is most unlikely that an un-
A few minutes later a flash, as
scheduled private flight could have
though from an explosion, was
taken place at such a height. We
seen at a great height over the
cannot explain the phenomenon.
Bristol Channel, 50 miles to the
" No aircraft was flying in the
north of Chard.
Portishead area."
Reports from places as much as
130 miles apart were received
Game Stopped
at the Air Ministry.
At Towyn, near Rhyl, North
Portishead (near Bristol) police
Wales, Rugby players dropped the
reported that a white flash was
ball and, with spectators, stared
seen between 4.5 and 4.10 p.m.
into the sky as a yellow object
which appeared to be an explo-
tr 2 sparts flashed across it.
sion. It turned pink and dis-
It vanished over Tower Hill,
integrated. The estimated height
Abergele, within ten seconds.
was 20,000ft.
At about 4 o'clock spectators at
Weston-super-Mare police re-
Amersham, Buckinghamshire, foot-
ported to the Air Ministry that
ball ground saw a brilliant object
they saw a similar flash in the
" like a huge star flash across the
Portishead direction at the same
sky, leaving a volume of smoke in
time.
its wake.
Another sighting was reported
Among people who saw the object
from as far away as Durham,
at Launceston, Cornwall, were two
ex-R.A.F. officers who were watch-
ing a Rugby match.
The object, which was circular,
gave off a bright bluish-white light.
Footnote : One theory advanced
last night by Professor F. A.
(Professor of Chemistry at
Durham University and a leading
e Dort on meteorites) was that the
object was a meteor. If pieces of
meteorite are found," he said, it
will be only the tenth to have
fallen in this country
"I would like to appeal to any-
one in the areas from which it was
reported to report at once if they
notice a hole in the ground or a
damaged tree that was not there
vesterday."
Local
Giveng
Glassin
What Did The
WAS
M. Travy
No. Haire
Mr. Betwood
Mr. Mohs
People Of
Tele. Boom
32s. Means
ITA
Miller Condy
Devon See
Last Week ?
FLYING
By Sunday Dispatch Reporter
W
EST OF ENGLAND newspapers gave much
publicity last week to reports of "flying
saucers over Devon.
SAUCER
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. of
tories in two wars, was one the
They were of a brilliant sil-
five people who told
very blue, travelling south, one be-
Exeter the Express and Echo what
hind the other in close formation,"
he said.
they had seen.
"After passing overhead, the
At 10.50 on Monday evening, inshore he
rear object appeared to catch up
noticed an object come the north
with the front one and collide,
end from of Lundy at a terrific
the direction of speed."
whereon they disintegrated."
Mr. Whipton, near Wheter, Whipton, near wat wat wat Coun-
of Beacon- wrote
Bright Disc
lane, the paper south-east of
The object was described by Miss
to Wear (two miles he saw
J. Spurway, of Exeter-hill, Cul-
mobiling
tess Monday night,
lompton (12 miles north-east of
two circular objects.
Exeter), as "a bright disc travel-
ling with a circular movement at
great speed."
Two and a half miles north of
Exmouth, the object was seen at
SUNDAY DISPATCH
11 p.m. by Mr. and Mrs. L. Mus-
sell, of Hill-crest, Lympstone, who
LONDON, ENGLAND
described it as having been in two
parts apparently attached in
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some way with a lighted tail."
The sixth witness quoted in the
ORDED
IJAN 13
Express and Echo is Mr. A. J.
Powell, of Sidmouth Junction, who,
JAN 13 1951
while between Patterson's Cross,
OFFICE OF THE LEGAL
Ottery St. Mary and Sidmouth
Junction at 11 p.m. on Monday,
AMERICAN
saw two brilliant white lights
come into view to the north-west,
LONDON,
ENGLAND
from behind a bank of mist.
Long Red Trail
Bluish Light
"They passed swiftly," he said,
"in a southerly direction and ap-
Frederick Bray. fisherman, aged
peared to be 'in line astern' with
39, was lying in the bunk of his
a long red trail to the rear
boat in Torquay outer harbour
both lights seemed to fizzle out as
when he saw a 'bluish-white
I watched them-they were in a
light" appear over Princess Pier
clear patch of sky when this hap-
at about 11 p.m. "I watched the
pened
I heard no sound."
flames for about ten seconds. They
"Two large circular objects
seemed to surround a roundish ob-
travelling south in a horizontal
ject which was travelling towards
position looking something like
Thatcher Rock" (to the East).
large white flames" is the descrip-
While walking along the sea
tion given in the Western Morning
front to Torquay Station, Mr. D.
News of what Mr. Arthur N.
Jeffery, of Winner-street, Paignton,
Bearne, 55-year-old estate agent, of
saw something in the sky. "I
Southfield-avenue, Preston, Devon,
thought at first it was a rocket fire-
saw at Paignton at 11 p.m. on
work," he told the Herald Express.
Monday.
"Then I noticed it was maintain-
Members of the crew of a liberty
ing a constant speed at a constant
boat plying between Flagstaff
Steps, Devonport Dockyard, and
It height seemed to disintegrate suddenly
It was absolutely silent.
H.M.S. Defiance are also reported
and disappear."
A "ball of bluish-white light"
was seen at about 11 p.m. in the
ILFRACOMBE
sky above Paignton travelling
south towards Brixham. Mr.
WOOLACOMBE
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.
' Like Feeble Rocket'
CULLOMPTON
"Then another bluish-white light
appeared and a broken stream of
lights seemed to fall from it. They
all seemed to be following each
EXETER
other straight across the sky. then
SIDMOUTH
there was a spurt of flame from
the end of the broken pieces-just
like a feeble rocket."
EXMOUTH
The last of the witnesses, Mr. H.
Warren, of East-street, Torre, Tor-
TORQUAY
quay, saw from his bedroom win-
dow an object "going towards
PAIGNTON
Brixham, due south of Torquay."
Describing it in a letter to the
paper, he said : "I thought it was
lile. three stars with a long tail of
light trailing behind them.
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 Torquay Herald Erpress
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Belmont
By Drew Pearson
of metal that utterly failed to
Missing GIs
Though a large part of the
pick up a message or even a
Mohr
One tragic and unpublicized fact
American public appears to be
wheeze from space.
about the Korean war is that at
Tele. Room
In the face of this evidence,
convinced that flying saucers do
Koehler still claimed knowledge
this writing the Army has only
Nease
been able to release 138 prisoners
exist, so far the Air Force has not
of the little men, but refused to
of war from Korean prison camps.
Gandy
been able to
divulge his source and drastically
This leaves approximately 4000
track down a
revised his story.
Americans still missing. Originally
Hemarich
single bona fide
According to the confidential
the Army believed that most of
Air Force report, "Koehler stated
saucer.
these missing GIs had been killed
This is de-
that he had no parts of flying
in action. However, since U. N.
saucers in his possession at pres-
makeng
spite the fact
troops have now traveled the An-
that United
ent. He denied having ever seen
tire length of Koren without recov-
States aviators
any flying saucer or its occupants."
ering the bodies of these missing
have spent hour
Flying Washtub
men, it is believed they must have
upon hour
been taken prisoners and removed
checking re-
Another hot tip which Air Force
to Siberia.
ports not only
investigators patiently tracked
down was that a flying saucer had
So far, Chinese troops have
of flying sau-
cers, but of
PEARSON
actually crashed near Warren,
treated American prisoners almost
such weird phenomena as midg-
Minn. The report was traced to
as if they were allies, returning
many of them to American lines.
ets from Venus. shooting stars, and
Walter Sirek, a service station op-
But if the 4000 GIs were trans-
even an old washtub.
erator, who directed the investiga-
ported into Siberia by. the Rus-
tors to look behind Nish's Tavern.
This column has now been able
sjans, the story may be different.
What they saw was' summed up
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to examine Air Force files, and
in the secret Air Force files as
This possibility is giving the Army
great concern.
it is quite evident that the Air
follows: "The machine was ob-
Force has done a painstaking job
viously made from various objects
NOTE-As of the last official
83 DEC 19 1950
of trying to establish whether or
such as an old washing machine
count. 4144 GIs were listed R
cover, part of a radio set chassis
not flying saucers do exist.
missing.
and a spent insecticide bomb."
These files show that consider-
It developed that Ted Heyen
Capital Capsules
ble time was even spent check-
and Robert Schaeffer, who run the
Lady Diplomats-Madame Min-
ing the report received from
local hardware store, had made
Movie Actor Bruce Cabot and the
the "flying saucer" as a joke.
ister Perle Mesta put up a gallant
The Air Force has even received
fight but she lost. She's going to
Wyandotte Echo, a newspaper
pictures of saucers in flight. The
have to be satisfied with being a
published in Kansas City, that
most spectacular was a movie of
plain "Minister" instead of a full=
corpses of blond, beardless 3-
two silvery discs streaking over
fledged "Ambassador" to Luxem-
foot men from Venus had been
the baseball park at Great Falls,
Mont., sent in by Nick Mariana,
bourg
Main reason Perle
seen arriving on a flying saucer
park manager.
came back to Washington was to
by a man named Coulter.
However, investigators found
persuade the President to raise her
Dead on arrival, these space-
that the pictures were taken be-
American Legation to a full Em-
traveling midgets had no cavities
tween 11:20 and 11:35 a. m. on
bassy. Even though she's a close
August 15. By coincidence, two
friend of Mr. Truman's, he said
in their teeth, and wore shoes re-
silvery F-84 jet fighters from Ladd
no. Meanwhile, the other lady
sembling human skin according
Air Force Base, Alaska, flew high
diplomat, Eugenie Anderson in
to the story told the Air Force.
over Great Falls at exactly that
Denmark, will continue to reign
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Furthermore, Coulter was sup-
supreme as the only lady Ambas-
time, The sun was shining SO that
sador in the United States diplo-
posed to have as proof of this visit
from Venus-a lunar clock op-
eflections from the high-flying
matic corps.
Times-Herald
No Aid for Tibet-United States
erating on a 28-day cycle, a space
jets appeared as two silvery blurs,
Ambassador Austin has privately
radio, and, gear from the flying
like saucers.
advised El Salvador to give up its
saucer, all of them supposedly ar-
Once the Air Force's own radar
campaign to get the United Na-
Wash. Post 1313
riving with the blond midgets
screen near Wright Field, Ohio,
tions to rescue Tibet. The United
picked up what appeared to be a
Nations, Austin said, has enough
Wash. News
trouble in Korea without taking on
from Venus.
So the Air Force, as it does with
flying saucer drifting eastward at
more headaches in the most moun-
20 miles per hour. But prompt in-
tainous and inaccessible country
most of these rumors, painstak-
Wash. Star
vestigation showed it to be only a
in the world.
ingly and patiently investigated.
dense black cloud so charged with
Treaty for Japan - President
The mysterious Mr. Coulter
Truman has told Secretary Ache-
electronic particles that it ap-
turned out to be George Koehler sales-
son that unless Russia answers
N.Y. Mirror
of Denver, an advertising KMYR. He
peared on radar.
within the next month, he is in
Meanwhile, flying saucer reports
favor of going ahead and holding
the Japanese peace treaty confer-
N. Y. Compass
inan produced for turned radio the station out ro flying-sancer be R mun- gen
continue to pour into the Air
Force at the rate of five or six
ence without Soviet representa-
per day but, so far, not has
tives. The President told this to
but it product of this numeral planet,
ever materialized.
Acheson and John Foster Dulles
during a secret meeting at which
NOV 25 1950
stamped ane with the Roman
they reported that Russia has not
Date:
yet even indicated it will attend
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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
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said the portion he handled dis-
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edorless residue.
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Flying Dises
Dialy
(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 31,000 FEETS
"IT'S STILL WAY ABOVE ME, APPARENTLY MOTIONLESS. I'M NOT GETTING
ANY NEARER. FUEL SUPPLY ALMOST EXHAUSTED."
THE OTHER F-51 PILOT MADE A SIMILAR REPORT, THE CAA OFFICIAL SAID.
THE CAA WORKER ALSO LOGGED A REPORT FROM AN F-80 JET PLANE,
BASE AND DESTINATION UNKNOWN, WHICH PRESUMABLY HAD BEEN TOLD TO SIZE
UP THE OBJECT. AT 40,000 FEET, THE F-80 PILOT REPORTED HE APPEARED
TO DE "NO CLOSER THAN ON THE GROUND."
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mossing
("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 S HOWED NOTHING.
SEVERAL OTHER SPRINGFIELD RESIDENTS ALSO REPORTED SEEING THE
"FLYING SAUSAGE." ONE WOMAN SAID SHE AND HER HUS BAND 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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FARGO, N. D.--FOUR PERSONS REPORTED THEY WATCHED FIVE STRANGE,
MOON-LIKE OBJECTS FLYING IN FORMATION SOUTH OF FARGO FOR 34 MINUTES.
THE BRIGHTLY-SHINING OBJECTS WERE SPOTTED AT 3:07 A. M. CST BY FARGO
WEATHER BUREAU EMPLOYE RAY WILSON. HE SAID HE WATCHED THEM UNTIL 3:41
WHEN CLOUDS OBSCURED VISION.
MARIAN EDDY, AN AIRLINES EMPLOYE, AND MIKE ENDERSBY AND MARGARET
LAWS ON OF THE CAA SAID THEY SAW THE OBJECTS FROM THE FARGO AIRPORT.
WILSON SAID ONLY ONE OF THE OBJECTS WAS VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE.
WITH TELES COPES AND FIELD GLASSES THE FARGOANS SAID THEY COULD SEE TWO
SMALL OBJECTS ON EACH SIDE OF THE "THING."
WILSON SAID THE OBJECTS DIDN'T SHOW MUCH SPEED, BUT SHOWED
MANEUVERABILITY. ENDERSBY SAID THEY LOOKED LIKE A WHITE FLAME
MANEUVERING IN THE AIR.
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Tracked on Navy
Radar Screen
Drady
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-
vented getting a better look."
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
Hynng
appeared to be a round ball. It
was in sight for about three min.
utes and at one time we were
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within one mile of it."
Moore said, "It was on our left
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and traveled across in front of us
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and disappeared in the distance
to our right. I think it would be
about 25 to 45 feet across and
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about seven feet high.
"The thing looked like a World
10-star Edition
War I helmet seen from the side.
Wash. Post
Or a shiny shallow bowl turned
upside down. We wanted to fol.
low it, but our training ships
Wash. News
couldn't keep up with the saucer,
or whatever it was."
The pilots, based at the Milling-
Wash. Star
ton naval air station near here,
estimated the object was flying at
an altitude of 8,000 feet at a speed
N.Y. Mirror
of 200 miles per hour.
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The navy declined comment.
Similar flying saucer stories
55 AUG 191950
have been discounted by the
armed forces.
Date: 7-13-50
Mr.
Mr. Trucy
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FLYING SAUCER
RIDDLE
S°
far flying saucers
controlor
have been treated by
travelling at
the majority of British
prodigious
people with incredulity and
speeds, vanish-
polite ridicule. But why ?
ing suddenly,
and associated
I have studied all the reports
available. I have seen photo-
with brilliant light, fringes of fire
graphs-those in the Sunday
or flames of peculiar colour and
generally rotating or whirling.
Dispatch last week were particu-
From many parts of the world
larly clear-and I believe they are
come these reports. The very
photographs of disc-type aircraft.
fact that their descriptions are SO
Earlier pictures published in
consistent has led to their being
the Spanish Press last April, and
dismissed as hallucinations, de-
fective vision, or mild hysteria.
alleged to have been taken in the
It might be that the solution
Balearic Islands, might have been
of this riddle could lie in a very
anytning and could have been a
unorthodox approach. and I have
leg-pull. It is not always easy to
wondered if there could possibly
sort the wheat from the chaff.
be turbulences set up in our
atmosphere which could cause
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fall into three groups. The
the generation of small atomic
most substantial of them come
whirlpools in the atmosphere.
from America.
Group Three reports suggest
that the saucers are high speed
First group are those saucers
aircraft of circular or disc shape
which are capable of being ex-
plained away as glimpses of ex-
travelling at speeds much higher
than those attained by normal
perimental trials of various
devices.
planes.
Under this heading fall many
of the objects seen in Southern
SAFETY SEARCH
1
EAR
SUNDAY DISPATCH
U.S. and other areas where
secret experiments are in pro-
T
HERE is no reason at all
why annular and circular
JULY 9, 1950
gress. For this group I am pre-
disc-like aircraft should not have
pared to accept the explanation
been common objects at any time
LONDON, ENGLAND
given by the United States Army
during the past 30 years.
Air Force as misinterpretations
The early history of these very
of conventional objects.
unorthodox-looking aircraft was,
These conventional objects are
ironically, based on a search for
giant experimental cosmic ray
safety.
balloons which fill out to 100ft.
Before 1910 it had been shown
long and 70ft. in diameter as they
that square and circular surfaces
rise, radar target balloons capable
had very good non-stalling char-
of rising to 70,000ft. and trailing
acteristics up to large angles. But
glittering aluminium foil strip,
when powered aircraft arrived it
guided missiles, and stratospheric
was found that the easiest way to
experiments from Los Alamos,
OFFICE
minimise the losses due to the end
OF
THE
whence rockets are stated to have
slip of the air from the wing tips
reached E 250 Finiles above the
was to increase the span of wings
AMERICAN
earth's
surface.
while keeping them narrow.
Group Two consists of those
This compromise brought other
LONDON,
mysterious visitants
trouble. Early planes reached
which have led to wild surmises
their stalling angle at some 15
about space ships, missiles from
degrees, and stalling must result
other planets and inter-planetary
in a dive since the only correction
37
shooping
of a stall is a flight at some speed
The descriptions are remark-
greater than the stalling speed.
aby consistent and generally the
Very early in the 1905 14
object is either white or silver
period there were people who
darting about without directional
would not accept that aircraft
"I believe they are disc-type
aircraft,' says—
G. TILGHMAN RICHARDS,
senior Research assistant
and official lecturer at the
South Kensington Science
Museum, London, who has
studied all the
evidence.
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
Enlargements from flying saucer
success toward a foolproof plane
pictures-front-paged last week
of disc type.
-which set everyone talking.
In 1934-35 Charles H. Zimmer-
They were taken by Farmer
mann, in the United States, built
Trent, McMinnville, Oregon, U.S.
a disc wing airplane combined
with a helicopter capable of
must, of necessity, be subject to
vertical ascent and descent and
these dangers. They turned aside
a high forward speed.
to investigate possible wing forms
which should be safe from stalling
and spinning.
NAVY STEPS IN
Among these "rebels" a few
names have become air history.
Jose Weiss and Arthur Keith with
I
N 1937 he granted licences
for his patents to the
their completely stable swallow-
Chance Vought Aircraft Division
like monoplane in 1909. Etrich
of the United Aircraft Corpora-
and Wels in Austria in 1911,
tion in the U.S.
evolving a stable wingform based
But at that point the U.S. Navy
on the Zannonia leaf from which
stepped in, and all further devel-
Rumpler and the majority of Ger-
opment has been of a secret
man builders developed the Taube
nature, though it has been stated
monoplane. Dunne, with his too
that this combination is capable
stable, tailless, back-swept wing
of speeds from 0 to 500 miles per
biplane in 1912, and the Lee-
hour.
Richards annular monoplane of
This performance is in accord
1910-14, with which I was asso-
with reports that flying saucers
ciated.
travel at great speeds, hover,
ascend and descend with little
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forward motion.
It is perhaps, a little hard to
believe that there can, as yet, ex-
W
ITH the outbreak of the
ist enough of these types to meet
1914 war research of
the many reports, but there is no
this type was abandoned, and
reason at all why such aircraft
study concentrated on perform-
should not have been seen provid-
ance rather than safety.
ing that full scale work followed
By 1918 the modern plane was
the experimental period. And the
established, and earlier research
secrecy would suggest that this
was forgotten.
is so.
Civil airlines naturally used
And there could lie the most
daptea war planes, and then
same World War II. Once more
solid exist. proof that flying saucers do
Imitations were imposed.
In spite of the orthodoxy of
design there was throughout the
inter-war years, and From wday
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First picture of a flying
MISTERIO EN PLATILLOS
saucer comes from the
Spanish newspaper
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Informaciones.
DAILY GRAPHIC correspondent
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
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said, " they were more like
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flying bananas than flying
saucers."
The picture that Spanish newspaper readers saw.
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Nobody is in it," he said, "but
"Saucer" Denial Held
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
Valuable to Russia
contraption is launched off the
ground, it is filled to only one
percent of its capacity with helium.
New York, April 10 (U.P.).-Air
At high altitudes, expansion causes
Force denials that "flying saucers"
it to blow itself up into a gigantic
exist are "worth a billion dollars
monster 100 feet tall and 70 feet
to the Russians in the 'cold war,'
in diameter. tall as an eight-story
Radio Commentator Henry J. Tay-
building, all in pulsating plastic."
lor said tonight.
Taylor said some of these ve-
Taylor said over the ABC net-
hicles travel all over America, 20
work that this country has several
miles up in the sky. At sunset,
unconventional air vehicles that
the whole contraption glows and
could be taken for "flying saucers."
can be seen as long as 30 minutes
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.
7 7lying Discs
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 'COIO
war'
President Truman and the Air
EHm
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-
mossbuy
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 vehicle.
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Mr. Tracy
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Mohr
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Mr. Nease
FLYING SAUCER
Miss Gandy
REPORT
MAY BE BALLOON
From Our Own Correspondent
PRESTON, Monday.
84-1
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 " flying
saucer." The Air Ministry explained
that it was a balloon used for para-
chute jumping which had broken
from its mooring at an R.A.F. station
pressin
in Oxfordshire.
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MORNING POST
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Not Informed
Calleb
"I am quite sure the military
Hennrich
By United Press
establishment would have told us
One House member who should
if they were working on such a
thing as a saucer. But the fact is
know said flatly today there is
they haven't said a word about it."
no such thing as a flying saucer.
As far as Mahon is concerned,
But another member equally quali-
the saucer is "just a fantasy."
fied said maybe not, but he has
Engel said maybe so, maybe not.
seen one himself.
It is perfectly true, he said, that
none of the subcommittee's wit-
Rep. Mahon (D) of Texas, chair-
nesses ever owned up to any con-
man of the House military appro-
nection with saucers. But then, as
priations subcommittee, said it
far as he could recall, nobody
over asked them about it.
just isn't so what they say about
"I am confident of this," Engel
those discs. He had no concrete
said. "If there are any such things
evidence-but the solidest kind of
as saucers, they are ours, not
support.
somebody else's. If another coun-
President Truman, Defense Sec.
try were sending them over, I am
retary Johnson, the Air Force and
sure the subcommittee would have
the Navy all backed him up.
heard about it."
They said none of the armed
services is messing around with
Denials Repeated
saucers, and that nobody else is
far far as they knew. The people,
Air Force and Navy officials
have been denying the existence
they said, are seeing things.
of "flying saucers" all along. And
ALBERT He Saw One
J.
a Defense department statement
late yesterday reiterated the de-
Rep Engel (R) of Michigan,
nials.
is the man who says he saw one.
But indications were that re-
FLYING SAUCERS
A member of Mahon's subcommit-
ports of the mysterious flying ob-
tee, he also is a candidate for
ject would continue. L. Nobel Rob-
governor of Michigan when he
inson, managing editor of the
isn't helping dole out the money
U.S. News and World Report, said
1t takes to keep the military in
his magazine had expected offi-
business.
cial denials of its story that the
He said the fact that he saw
saucers are a "revolutionary type
mostery
& flying disc may not be evidence,
of new aircraft," probably built by
but it sure was convincing.
the Navy.
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
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was too high and too fast and got
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away.
Mahon put it this way:
"I guess my subcommittee would
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know if there were anything to
this flying saucer business. We
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even knew about the atomic en-
ergy experiments several years be-
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Truman, Other Officials Deny
To Officials
Knowledge of Flying Saucers
raised the question at yesterday's
meeting of the Armed Forces Pol-
By John G. Norris
icy Council, which includes the
departmental secretaries and Joint
Post Reporter
Chiefs of Staff. Navy Secretary
Top officials and agencies of the mild form of mass hysteria, or
Francis Matthews and Admiral
monting
Government-from President Tru-
hoaxes."
Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval
man on down-joined yesterday in
Earlier, President Truman an-
operations, as well as other offi-
nounced through his press secre-
an effort to convince the American
cials, assured him the denials were
tary at Key West, Fla., that he
sincere and truthful.
public that "flying saucers" do not
knew absolutely nothing of such
The latest flareup of public in-
exist.
A formal statement issued by
flying objects being developed by
terest in the saucers resulted from
thé United States or any other na-
the Air Force last night was most
statements by Radio Commentator
explicit. It declared flatly that:
tion.
Henry J. Taylor and the weekly
1. None of the armed forces is
"We are not denying this be-
news magazine United States News
conducting secret experiments with
cause of any development of secret
and World Report that the saucers
"disc-shaped flying objects which
weapons," said Secretary Charles
do exist and are revolutionary
could be a basis for the reported
G. Ross, "but purely because we
American aircraft probably devel-
phenomena."
know of nothing to support these
oped by the Navy. A Navy spokes-
2. There is no evidence that the
rumors."
man flatly denied this Monday.
latter stem from "the activities of
Defense Secretary Louis Johnson
Johnson said he is convinced the
any foreign nation."
said about the same thing at a
saucers could not be experiments
3f Evaluation of reports of re-
news conference. He told reporters
conducted by any other Govern-
cent "sightings" bears out early
he was "satisfied there is nothing
ment agency outside his depart-
in the reports."
ment because the Pentagon's Re-
conclusions that all can be ex-
Johnson said he had facetiously
search and Development Board co-
plained away as "misinterpretation
of various conventional objects, a
See SAUCER, Page 3, Col. 2
ordinates 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 discs 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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Hinnih
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Oflying Discs
But the Navy Says 'No'
Saucers' New-Type Aircraft,
The Original 'Flying Saucer?
Probably Navy, Magazine Says
By John G. Norris
Post Reporter
"Flying saucers" are in fact
radically new type aircraft, COM
turning off the rear jets, turning
on 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.
ward, the saucer could rise
This latest effort to explain the
straight off the ground, and with
continuing reports of strange fly-
less power, could descend the
ing disks at various points over
same way
the country brought a prompt
"Jet helicopter action
denial from the Navy Department
makes takeoffs and landings almost
that it is now "conducting research
completely safe."
or flying" any such plane or
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 u g
made 100 successful flights. The
XF5U-1, but that it never flew and
Navy then took over development
was scrapped more than a year
and "much more advanced models
ago. A small, 3000-pound scale
now are being built."
model of the plane was flown and
NACA Engineer Charles H. Zim-
pictures of it have been released,
merman designed the first model,
but this model is now at Norfolk
which had a speed of from 400 to
awaiting shipment to the National
500 miles an hour and was pow-
Air Museum here.
ered by two piston propellers, said
The weekly news magazine did
the article.
not quote any authority for its
"Surface indications," the mag-
statement that the "flying saucers"
azine went on, "point to research
aregreal American planes, but said
centers of the United States Navy's
tha "engineers competant to an.
vast guided-missile project as the
scene of present flying-saucer de-
praise reports of reliable observers
velopment." The project, it was
reach these conclusions:
said, has the "scientists, the en-
Associated Press Photo
"They are aircraft of a revolu-
gineers, the dollars, the motive
and the background" for the isb.
Model of aircraft developed in 1948 and flown by the Navy under
tionary type, a combination of heli-
"This likelihood will remain, de-
radio control-full-size craft never flew, the Navy has announced
copter and fast jet plane. They
spite any future denials by the
a a principles of
Navy front office, until secrecy is
lifted," the magazine added.
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The Navy declared it was true
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that its abandoned "flying pan-
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man, and was called the "Zimmer-
83 APR 11 1950
ders, ailerons or other the protruding caucers
man Skimmer." It added that a
surfaces. From the side, 10 feet thick."
still smaller scale model-one-
appear be about
third of actual size-is still at
jet a
NACA's Langley, Va., laboratory
series nozzles around its
rims fuel
for wind-tunnel tests, but the
is unknown. its Direction velocity, of in
Navy insisted it had no such proj-
used aircraft and controlled by
ect now active.
the jet nozzles
turn, angle at which ther operating.
The Air Force, after many
months of investigation of "flying
the the
saucer" reports, concluded that all
the evidence pointed to "misin-
or the make the
nozzles angle to of
terpretation of various conven-
tional objects, a mild form of mass
turn the on pilot could vertically,
hysteria, or hoaxes."
tilts rise or descend ahead or make
saucer fly straight right-angle turn.
hover. A made by
2
for example. could be
56APR111950
WASHINGTON POST
Dated 4-4-50
Mr. Tolocal
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Clagg
Mr. Glovin
Mr. Nichola
Mr. Roseb
mene
Mr. Trucy
Mr. Barba
Mr. l'eimont
Wr. Muhr
Tele. Room
Mr. Noaso
Miss Gandy
The Case
for the
FL LYING
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SAUCER
hight
From America, the 'home' of flying
saucers, comes this up-to-the-minute
summary of report and rumour about
morning
the modern mystery of the skies.
by RICHARD GREENOUGH
OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACH
AMERICAN EMBASSY
THE DAILY MAIL
LONDON, BINGLAND
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rows or nights in the
orange flames coming from the
tail.
Sometimes they have been re-
ported shaped like tubes. pillars,
spheres.
NEW YORK, Sunday.
But two facts seem to remain
constant. They are all said to be
E
VER since Ken-
either white or silver, and to
neth Arnold,
move across the sky in an undulat-
ing way. tilting first in one direc-
30-year-old,
tion, then the other, rising and
ordinary business-man
falling, before finally disappear-
ing into nothing or over the
pilot from Boise, Idaho,
horizon.
touched off the "flying
ventional." aerial objects. These
Pilot's chase
saucers" mystery by report-
included giant experimental
ing, on the afternoon of
cosmic-ray balloons, radar target
June 24, 1947, that he had
O
NE U.S. Air Force pilot,
balloons with dangling strips of
Capt. Thomas Mantell
aluminium foil, meteor trains,
seen "nine shiny discs like
lost his life some months ago try-
wisps of or whole vapour traks
ing to catch up with something
metal hub-caps flip-flap-
from high-flying aircraft, bright
that looked like "a silver ice
ping along at about 1,200
planets.
gream cone topped with red."
2. Mild form of mass hysteria.
m.p.h." only one fact seems
An experienced war-time pilot,
3. Hoaxes.
with several thousand hours'
quite certain.
But steadily, from 1947 up till
flying time, Mantell was in his
Nobody has yet proved de-
a few days ago, reports of curious
fighter plane leading two others
near Fort Knox, Kentucky, when
finitely that such things do or
objects that "go whizz in the air"
the control tower at his airbase,
do not exist.
keep on coming in from all over
Godman Field, radioed him to try
the United States.
to locate a strange object sighted
Air Force finding
They have now been reported
from the ground and moving in
from 43 out of the 48 States, with
his direction.
the majority coming from the
T
HIS includes the U.S. Air
Mantell later called back that
south and east and near the Mexi-
Force, still investigating
he had spotted the thing" at
can border.
12 o'clock high (directly ahead
reports about celestial crockery,"
They have also, of course, been
and above him), and that it
though officially last December,
reports from other parts of the
looked like a silver ice-cream cone
after checking 375 cases, it closed
world, from Scandinavia, Africa,
down "Project Saucer." a special
topped with red.
China, the Far East.
His air-to-ground conversation
investigation group of Intelli-
gence officers with headquarters
The objects allegedly seen here
was logged at the air base and :
have ranged from the now almost
have checked it. He later re
in Ohio.
conventional flying disc or
Borted:
At that time it was stated in a
"saucer" sometimes with
"I'm closing in now to take :
blanket turn-down that all re-
" fuzzy edges, or lit up at night,
rood look. It's directly ahead 9
ports were :
to torpedo shaped wingless
ne and moving at a good speed
Misinterpretation of "con-
"space ships" showing regular
The thing looks metallic and il
tremendous."
when a brilliant, fast-moving
His last report
object suddenly appeared ahead
of them.
For and 25 minutes Mantell
"We saw it at the same time,
the two other pilous
Chiles told investigators later.
tried vainly to close in. Mantell
Whatever it was flashed down to-
reported the object was climbing
wards us and we veered to the
and moving at a speed equal to
left It veered sharply too and
his own, which he gave as 360
passed about 700 feet to our right
m.p.h.
and above us."
In broken cloud at 18,000ft. the
"The thing was about 100 feet
other two pilots lost sight of him,
long, cigar-shaped and wingless,
later broke off and landed.
about twice the diameter of a
Mantell called once more to say
B.29 without protruding fins,"
that if he were no closer at
quarter years a multitude of
said Whitted.
20,000ft. he'd abandon the chase
people on the ground claim to
"There was a tremendous burst
as he hadn't the oxygen.
have seen these flying saucers
nor have they always been seen
of orange flame from the rear.
That was the last heard from
with the naked eye many saw
It zoomed into clouds, its jet or
him.
them through binoculars.
prop wash rocking our DC3."
His body was later found near
Fort Knox and the wreckage of
But the fact that first started
his machine scattered over halfa
the U.S. Air Force to sit up, take
Seeing's believing
nile around. Obviously his plane
notice, and then institute Pro-
ad disintegrated in mid-air.
ject Saucer" was the large
number of apparently responsible
M
ORE recently, two weeks
ago, two other airline
Official Air Force version was
pilots and aircrew members who
hat Mantell had probably
pilots, Captain Jack Adams, with
blacked out" from lack of
sent in startling reports of what
some 8,000 hours' flying time, and
oxygen and had not regained con-
they claimed to have seen.
co-pilot G. W. Anderson reported
sciousness before he crashed. out
One of the theories along which
a "flying saucer" with windows
of control.
"P.S" investigators worked was
on the bottom and a blinking
evident from the fact that every
light near the top as they passed
Still a mystery
plane whose pilot reported close
over Arkansas.
encounters with flying saucers
"It was flying almost due north
was checked with Geieger
and we crossed its path at about
B
UT one of his fellow-pilots
counters for possible radio-
a 45 degree angle," said Adams.
later commented: "I
activity.
"It was about 1,000ft. above us
think that was a cover-up. Man-
and travelling at a tremendous
tell was too experienced a pilot
Head-on meeting
rate. It had a peculiarly coloured
for that He was quite familiar
and very intense light near the
with signs of approaching anoxia
top which blinked very rapidly.
[lack of oxygen]. and would have
taken steps to prevent it.
TAKE the, of case, for in-
Captain Clar-
"We kept the object in sight
"Some of us think he may have
ence Chiles, former Air Transport
for about 45 seconds.
collided with whatever he saw and
Command pilot. and John B.
"I've been a sceptic all my life
that it knocked him out in the
Whitted. who flew B.29 Super-
about such things, but what can
air."
forts during the war. Both are
you do when you see a thing like
Engineers later added that the
Mappily married men with fam
that he concluded. "We were
type of machine Mantell was fly-
Lies, good jobs and no need. of
both flabbergasted."
ing. starting a dive at 20,000ft
apparent desire for publicity.
would not have disintegrated SP
They were flying a scheduled
thoroughly.
airline service near Montgomery,
During the past two and three
Alabama, one night last summer,
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From ROBERT WAITHMAN, News Chronicle Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sunday.
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IN the United States in the last month it has
become a good deal harder to dismiss as
hallucinations reports that flying saucers-or
alternatively "flying objects of non-conventional
design"-have lately been seen in the skies.
It has become harder, first because the reports have
Been coming in from such sources and with such in-
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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.
"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
credible 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."
Ours ?
Employees of the Civil Aero-
nautics Authority at work in a
control tower at Dayton munic
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 flv at
high speed.
If this or something like it
urns out to be the answer, there
may be good reason for hoping
here that it is one of ours.
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'Rocket saucer'
ROME, Thursday. flying saucer
was reported over Milan today.
Then three boys later had it was attached discovered rockets that to
a large metal disc and set them
off from the roof of a high
building.-Express News Service.
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Flying 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
fre" speeding westwards.
Sardinia. - A flying saucer
remained suspended 20 seconds,
then disappeared to the south.
Val d'Aosta.-A disc flying over
bead.-Reuter.
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Glying Discs
Flying
Flying fact or flight of fancy?
RICHARD GARRETT traces the
history of an aerial phenomenon
which gave America sky-war jitters
Saucery
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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
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LYING saucers" are
back in the news.
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
duced an article in which he
In December, 1949, the
top and travelling at about
claimed to have received a
official body which had been
600 m.p.h. over Arkansas.
message, via a medium, that
established in America to probe
This was followed by a news
there were people aboard the
the saucers" was disbanded.
cable from Lisbon: Scores of
"saucers."
It had been in operation for
flying saucers reported by
They came from another
two years, and had investigated
coastguards of the North
planet, and wished to try liv-
375 incidents.
Portugal coast flying in line
ing on earth.
and other formations and
In Britain "saucers" were
It said that the phenomenon
moving west faster than
reported over Brighton beach,
was caused by : (a) misinter-
tracer bullets."
and another was seen by a
pretation of various conven-
tional objects; (b) a mild form
So the 1950 saucer season"
clergyman's wife at Sandwich.
seems to have opened early.
Back in America President
of mass hysteria; (c) hoaxes.
First report of these strange
Truman compared the rumours
And there, one might have
craft came on June 25, 1947,
to the scare of over a hundred
imagined, the story would have
when a Mr. Dahl of Tacoma,
years ago, when word got
ended. But the "flying
Washington, noticed a circular
around that there were men
saucers" refused to be
flying machine, like a silver
and bats living on the moon.
grounded.
doughnut, cutting capers over
The neatest flying saucer"
his back-yard.
quipping came from Mr.
Fellow travellers?
Presently he saw five more
Gromyko at U.N. head-
The present phase of flying
planes' rotating round a
quarters.
saucerisms reached its climax
seventh.
"Some," he said, attribute
on March 9, when a U.S.
them to the British for export-
business man, travelling in
Speculations
ing too much whisky to the
Mexico, claimed to have seen a
The centre craft then began
U.S., others that it is a Russian
streamlined disc" in which a
to shed metallic rain. Most of
discus thrower training for
23in. tall pilot had perished.
it fell seawards, but one piece
the Olympic Games who does
A Mexican denial immedi-
landed in Mr. Dahl's yard.
not know his own strength."
On July 4, the first photo-
The first flying saucer fever
ately followed publication of
died down under sheer weight
the story, but not before
graph of a flying saucer"
was taken by a Seattle coast-
of explanation, but reports
Denver, Colorado, had e-
guard. The snap revealed a
still came in.
ported that a similar "sauce"
had come to grief near by and
small white oblong, set against
Spain suspected
three little men had been dis-
a dark grey background.
covered inside it.
The U.S. Navy said that
In May, 1948, a U.S. Air
the descriptions fitted its new
Force intelligence officer
The Defence Department of
wingless plane-the "Flying
opined that the discs" were
the U.S., repeating its denial
Pancake "-but there was only
the work of ex-Nazi scientists
of "flying saucers." said: "If
one of these, and it had never
in Spain.
these saucers start landing,
ventured outside Connecticut.
During Franco's 1938 siege
and little men with radar
A meteorologist suggested
of Madrid his German allies
sticking out of their ears climb
that solar reflections on low
had tried out a circular missile,
out, we shall have to do some-
cloud would produce similar
with an explosive centre and
thing about it."
effects, and a Los Angeles
four engines around the cir-
"Flying saucers" have now
scientist talked about "trans-
cumference.
been seen in pretty well every
mutation of atomic energy."
The experiment had failed,
country of the world. They
A letter to a San Francisco
bus in 1944 the Germans had
have been chased by jet planes,
newspaper hinted at an inter-
repeated it, using jet engines.
and observed by scientists and
planetary solution.
It was believed that the
have baffled all attempts to
The San Francisco corre-
scientists responsible had
explain them away.
spondent was soon to find his
escaped from the Russian
Are they sheer fantasy, or S
idea carried a stage further.
zone, through France, and
there a grain of truth in the
Mr. Mead Layne, publisher
were now working for the
accounts? Your guess is as
of an occult magazine, pro-
Spanish Government.
good as mine.
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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
Flying Discs
great power is experimenting with
flying disks-without explosives or
atomic bombs.
DRAFTED PLANS
"There is nothing supernatural
about flying disks. It's just the
most rational use of recently-
evolved techniques."
Sr. Belluzzo said he personally
had drafted plans for a "flying
EHM
disk" 32 feet in diameter, but
claimed they disappeared with Mus-
solini when he fled to northern
Italy in 1943.
moseluy
"Both Hitler and Mussolini were
interested in flying discs," he said.
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easy and can be done with very
light metal.
"Two jet pipes placed on either
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side of the rim of the disk, provide
the locomotion. The orifices of
these jet tubes are adjustable to
permit maximum and minimum
speeds.
PILOT NOT NEEDED
"Propulsion comes from a mix-
ture of compressed air and naphtha
-the same fuel used in modern jet
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"The air is mixed under pressure
and ignited at first by cartridges
and then by an electrical device.
Times-Herald
Terrific pressure is set up and the
expanding gas forced out thru the
jet pipes.
Wash. Post
"The reaction, coming from the
opposing pipes on either side of the
disc, start the entire apparatus re-
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volving, making it airborne."
The missiles could be aimed like
the war-time German V-2 rockets,
Wash. Star
he said, and would descend when
the fuel was exhausted or cut off
by an automatic timing device No
human pilot would be required.
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are
MAR 25 1950
Date:
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VENICE REPORTS
FLYING SAUCER
Venice, Monday Morning
-A silver-coloured flying
saucer" was reported above
the fishing port of Caioggia
near here, early today travel
ling at great speed' about
6,000ft. up.-Reuter.
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hicles for systematic observation
of the earth by visitors from other
planets.
The conclusions are contained
in an article by Donald E. Keyhoe
mrs Ethen bus s/
in the January issue of True, pub-
lished by Fawcett Publications,
Inc. Keyhoe is a former informa-
Dessly myo)
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)
OFlying Discs
Journal Herald that the Air Force,
although conceding the saucers
were no "joke," had discounted
the theory that the discs repre.
sented visitations from such
planets as Mars, where human
life is believed by some to exist.
Today, an Air Force spokesman
said that "Air Force studies of
'flying saucers' lend no support to
the view that they come from
another planet."
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It's 'Wild New World'
Dished Up in Saucers
"Flying saucers." observatories
dence to reports of satellite mis-
better metals have been de-
on the moon, high-flying rockets
siles.
veloped.
and earth satellite vehicles carry-
ing weapons and possibly men to
No such ship has as yet
It is the wildest kind of spec-
whirl endlessly far out in space,
been built, according to the
ulation, but the flying discs may
today seem like pipe dreams of a
best informed sources. But
be the first calling cards from an
mad world of fantasy.
ideas for one haven't been
interstellar neighbor.
forgotten.
They may be harbingers of a
wild new world to come.
Gravity gradually falls off far
out in space beyond the earth,
The air force, as early as
scientists explain. It never quite
last spring, said officially that
ends, they say, but at 5000 miles
the flying saucers "are not a
it is relatively weak.
joke."
"A spaceship could easily be
Air force authorities even now
kept in position there," accord-
may be preparing an announce-
ing to Dr. Lloyd Motz, a Colum-
ment stating that the flying discs
bia University astronomer.
are real objects, not merely fig-
"If left to itself it would
ments of imagination as far as the
gradually return to earth," he
air force is concerned, The Mirror
said. "But it would take very
learned yesterday.
little thrust, from small rock-
That would seem to remove the
ets discharged at intervals
flying discs from the realm of old
to keep it where it was
wives' tales and the bubble talk
wanted."
of guys who have had one or two
To get it up there, the space-
snifters too many.
ship would have to leave the
Possibilities that the sau-
earth at an initial velocity of 25,-
cers are missiles launched
000 miles an hour, to escape the
from a foreign planet are
pull of gravity.
given serious consideration.
At such speeds, present known
metals would melt because
The U.S. defense department's
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Missing Inventor Hunted
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Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
for Clue to 'Saucers
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Air Force investigators-skeptical but intrigued
that he went to some other part of the country, devel-
are trying today to locate an eccentric inventor
oped better models and flew them successfully.
who more than 10 years ago built two contraptions
A good many officers find it difficult to believe he
that look like "flying saucers."
could have done that without coming to public attentions
during the periodic excitement over "flying saucers" in
The disc-type ships, battered and damaged, were
the past two years. But they would like to find out what
found yesterday in an abandoned barn near Glen
happened to Mr. Caldwell after he left Maryland and talk
Burnie, Md., where they had lain untended for nine
with him, if he still is alive.
years.
Mr. Caldwell, who would be about 70 today, left the
"It is apparent that both ships would give the appear-
Maryland farm hastily nine years ago, after getting into
ance of flying discs," an Air Force spokesman said.
financial trouble with the state. He took with him
his wife and son. Maryland authorities at that time had
NO REAL PROOF
ordered him to stop selling any more stock in his enter-
An Air Force officer last night described the two craft
prise, "Gray Goose Airways, Inc." Previously, he had
as "definite prototypes of flying saucers," but the service
been ordered to stop selling stock in New Jersey and
hedged today.
New York.
A spokesman objected to the word "prototype," saying
NOT NATURALLY DISHONEST
the Air Force has only reports of what flying saucers
ook like and has never established that such things ac-
Robert E. Clapp, who as assistant Attorney General for
ually were seen.
Maryland, conducted the investigation of Mr. Caldwell's
The Maryland inventor, Jonathan E. Caldwell, disap-
operations in 1940, said in Baltimore today:
beared in 1940. The only possibility of any connection
"Whenever he needed more funds he went out and
between his old abandoned devices and the rumored "fly-
sold stock, and he continued to run the business as tho
ing saucers" of recent years would lie in the possibility
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.
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.
only 75 feet in the air.
flew briefly around 1939. It was said to have gotten
One here of the craft found in the Maryland barn reportedly
One ship resembled a helicopter. But instead of
blades The device it had a disc-like device about 16 feet in diameter. rotor
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The other jutted from between the two top.
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plywood tub craft, about named the "Roto-Plane," looked saucers. like
and bottom rims of engine was in the tub. Around sat
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Lived Here Several Years.
Flying Saucer'
Mr
riggers said the saucer
Builder Was arpenter.
the rotors was designed
The
helicopter
nsisted of
rou
to as a wing after the ship
light
wingless
ge
with
had attained cruising altitude.
propeller in front and a tripod
Tolson
Story Deflated
over the cockpit which mounte
The rotor would then be stopped
Ladd
he saucer-like rotor and its
and the ship flown with the con-
projecting blades.
Clegg
ventional propeller. He explained,
Except for the pancake struc-
however, that this was theory,
Glavin
ture around the inner sections of
By Air Force
because the ship was never flown
the rotor, the model was much
Nichols
again.
the same as other experimental
Mr. Caldwell lived in Washing-
Rosen
jobs of that time.
ton for several years before his
Mr. Caldwell, a former carpen-
Tracy
Experimental Craft
disappearance, and seems to have
ter, whose friends said he had
Harbo
Will Be Examined
returned here briefly from Glen
studied the science of aeronautics
Burnie before dropping from
in several books, had a far less
Mohr
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sight. The model tested here was
conventional idea in his "flying
Tele. Room
a small helicopter whose rotors
cheesebox."
Nease
The Air Force's long search for
projected from a saucerlike disc
The upper and lower lids, con-
flying saucers" has turned up two
mounted on a tripod above the
taining short rotor blades jutting
Gandy
from their outer rims, were sup-
contraptions almost as weird as
cockpit.
anything yet described by the most
Tattered remnants of this disc,
posed to rotate in opposite direc-
covered with cloth, and the bat-
tions, giving rapid life and some
wild-eyed "witnesses" of two sum-
tered fuselage were found in the
stability in flight, Mr. Caldwell's
mers ago.
friends said. They admitted the
Held for the examination of ex-
shed, along with a plywood box,
Whitston
1,500-pound contraption neve
perts are two weather-beaten
like a huge circular cheesebox,
flew, but said Mr. Caldwell had
remnants of an inventor's dream
whose top and bottom sections
claimed that a light model proved
uncovered yesterday in a tobacco
were designed to revolve in oppo-
successful.
shed near Glen Burnie, Md., an
site directions with short rotors
The inventor earlier had tried
outer suburb of Baltimore.
projecting from the rims. The
a third model.
An official Air Force statement
pilot was to have ridden in the
This looked something like a
mosephing
issued today said "the two ex-
middle, near the motor mount.
complicated hay rick on wheels,
perimental aircraft found near
Capt. Claudius Belk, head of the
and had rotors designed to fan the
Baltimore yesterday have absc-
Baltimore office of Special Investi-
air somewhat after the fashion of
lutely no connection with the re-
gation of the Air Force, revealed
the paddle wheels on old steam-
ported phenomenon of flying sau-
that his office has "been investi-
boats. There were no claims that
cers." This does not mean, how-
gating the machines for months"
this machine ever left the ground,
ever, that they will not be
as possible prototypes of the flying
and Mr. Caldwell abandoned it in
xamined for other clues by Air
saucers reported so frequently. He
favor of later ideas.
Force representatives, it was said.
said efforts are being made to
Attorney Robert E. Clapp, who
The relics are more than 10
locate Mr. Caldwell in the hope of
was Assistant Attorney General
years' old, and so far as can be
getting engineering data on his
of Maryland at the time of Mr.
determined, only one of them ever
roto-plane ideas.
Caldwell's disappearance, and
got off the ground under its own
The remains of the two ma-
helped administer the blue-sky
power. This occurred in Wash-
chines were placed in storage by
laws, conducted a hearing in 1940
ington almost 10 years ago,
Maryland State police, who helped
into the affairs of two of Mr. Cald-
and ended in near-disaster after
locate them at the request of the
Well's companies- Gray Goose
a flight of about 60 seconds.
Pilot Tells of Test Hop.
Air Force. The material will be
The inventor, Jonathan E Cald-
held, it was said, until it can be
well, who is now over 70, if still
determined if experts from the
Arways, Inc., and Rotor Planes,
living, and his wife and son left
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Inc. He later restrained the firms
Glen Burnie in 1940 after Mary-
at Dayton, Ohio, wish to exam-
from selling stock in Maryland.
"All he had was models," Mr.
land authorities ordered Mr.
ine it.
Clapp said, "and whenever one
Caldwell to "cease and desist"
failed and he needed more funds,
from selling stock to finance his
he went out and sold stock.'
aeronautical ideas. None of the
7lying Discs
In his report, Mr. Clapp said:
neighbors have heard from them
"The literature used in connec-
since.
tion with these stock sales clearly
Willard E. Driggers of 1530 Olive
indicates that the public was led to
street N.E., now with the Civil
believe that the invention was on
Aeronautics Administration at Na-
the verge of perfection and would
tional Airport, 'made the first and
be completed and ready for general
only test hop in Mr. Caldwell's
production within a very short
helicopter, the Gray Goose, at the
time, whereas, the fact as testi-
fied by Mr. Caldwell indicate that
Flymy
old Benning Race track in 1940.
Mr. Driggers said he helped de-
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no machine on which he had ever
worked had been successfully flown
sign the helicopter.
or was in any condition for manu-
The machine rose about 40 feet
facture and sale upon a satisfac-
and after some 60 seconds in the
Desce
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tory commercial basis.
air, Mr. Driggers became aware
"The history of the develop-
the controls were not operating
properly, he told The Star.
NOT RECORDED
ment of these companies indicates
that they were organized merely
He decided if he took it any
higher he might not get down
84 SEP 23
for the purpose of raising money
to develop the ideas of Mr. Cald-
afely and he crash landed on
well, and that as soon as this
he race track. He was unin-
money was raised, it was treated
tured, but the machine was dant-
as belonging solely to him and as
aged.
the subject of any use which he
35
deemed proper.
35
"No meeting of stockholders has
ever been held by either company
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WASHINGTON STAR
and no financial report to stock-
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holders has ever come out since
AUG
organization.
AIR FORCE FINDS FLYING SAUCERS'-This is Jonathan E. Caldwell's "Gray Goose" helicopter
bictured before it made a near-disastrous test flight of about a minute in Washington nearly
10 years ago.
N
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.
4
helicopter State troopers in a tobacco with shed the "flying on a farm cheesebox" near Glen invented Burnie by Md. Mr. Caldwell and found with his old
Ladd
Clegg
Glavin
Nichols
Rosen
Tracy
Harbo
Mohr
Tele. Room
Nease
Gandy
"Flyrng
red
-nt
Glen Burnie 'Saucer'
mosting
Clips 'Confiden}ial,
but They Aren't
Newspaper clips on the "flying
saucers" found in a Glen Burnie
barn last week have been sent to
Washington Confidential." marked "Classified-
G.I.R
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
ol the other stuff in there is a lot
more important."
just
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WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS
FINAL EDITION
8 SEP 151949
DATE 8/33/49
Mr. Tolson
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Mr. Glavin Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
7 7 lying Discs
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
mm
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Mr. Nease
Miss Gandy
Researchers' Balloons
Mistaken for Discs
CHICAGO, July 16 (INS).
Flying discs" and "fast-moving
jet planes" that had some Chi-
mossburg
cagoans worried were identified
today as gas balloons used by the
University of Chicago for cosmié
ray research. Large numbers of
Chicagoans reported seeing mys
terious objects in the sky yester
cay morning. Descriptions varied
from jet planes to silvery globules
40 to 50 feet long.
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50 SEP 9 1049
JUL 17 1949
WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD
Page 3 Sec. 1
file in Discs
Flying
came from Russia. The Air Force
'Flying Saucers'
said:
"To date there has been no tan-
gible evidence which would sup-
On Secret List
port a theory that any of the in-
cidents are attributable to activity
of a foreign nation. On the other
hand, there is no evidence to deny
The Air Force disclosed yes-
categorically such a possibility.
"Many of the reported incidents
terday that secrecy restrictions
have definitely been determined
have been clamped on certain
to be meteoroligical balloons or
incidents connected with the mys-
natural celestial phenomena. How-
terious "flying saucers" seen in
ever, there are some incidents re-
ported by reliable and competent
the skies last year.
observers which are still unex
At the same time, the Air Force
plained.'
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 exc

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