65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A
PDF FBI
65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A
The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
loading viewer…
Download
Metadata
Extracted Text
show full text
--- page 1 ---
Declassification authority derived
from FBI Automatic Declassification
] Guide, issued May 24, 2007.
FD-245.1 (Rev. 1-4-99)
' U.S. Department of Justice
’ 8o I
3 O m
i
} @ O X ' 3
— g 2 Bureau . H
| = > £
| = -, 3¢
5 =——3 s 3 b -
i »
| F=—== ¢ Igation
| ==& £ @
=X o
1 m
— =
; = - & =
i ——— = m
— = A S rap R
g |3
Field Office Criminal Investigative » g
and Administrative Files :
‘ ik
— Armed and Dangerous — FOIPA
——— DONOT DESTROY — = NCIC
— [ELSUR —— — 0OCIS
— Escape Risk — Suicidal
— Financial Privacy Act S 01 - et e BT
SeealsoNoS, —m8m— —_—
|
--- page 2 ---
’ ‘ Mr, Tolson______
Mr. Mohr.______
Mr. Parsons....__
Mr, Belmont..__
Mr, Callphan —
Mr, Malons .S (4 /
Mr/MeGu e £ 2L
li\’xr. Rosen ‘:&‘i N
]Mr. Tamm. LN
Mr. Trotter
! Mr, W.C.Sullivan
{ Tele. Room..___
¢ Mr. Ingrem
i Miss Gandy...—_.
Flying Saucer Photo Ainf | ——
’ 7 )
: |théy heard Joe's pictur -
l Y“Chf"les Mpnos [ [sh ed a saucer-like obje ( ) Dotrott Pees Press
aff Writer 'sill ouetted against the mooy. Editor: Tas Hi114
| JGRAND BLANC, May£5—| | Blost of Jor's customers at r: Lee Hills
Jue Perry, the talented pizza| |pis pizza palace here were Lt TR
man, feels the Pentagon vinced the object was a () Datro Taws
peovle have sabotaged him ying saucy.” Edi%tor: Martin S. Hayden
or something. | e even more coi- ; 5
-No, the Washington ex-| |cefned over his picture wh (. XD Pimog
perts haven't fussed with UnidentiZed Flying Objeft - e (YT
Jog's saucy pies, but tiey| grbup wanted to buy His “iior: Joln C. Manning
haye certainly done sorfe- rights to the slide. X i
ithipg to his flying sauger, l He also got an offer o,m'ai NP T S Sy o
{Joe claims. | |natiprial magazine to bily the| P T T
| “I1° AIN'T what it used to| pictjire. Other inquiriesjcame’ \ Dita: »‘:_2___]_ iz Lo
be since they got their| froji all sections of% the' Edition: _F£ Sl
hands on it,” said Joe, who| country. 2 0 7 Col: 2.
takes potshots at the moon S0 JOE was anxious fo get Title ot h.: bee
with a homemade telescope- hif picture back. iy P dowr ”
Sapers; e called the FBI. fle LDENTIFI L ING OBJECT;
- Joe, 44, took another look| ¢ fked to the air force. fle, JOSEF ERRY, GRAND BLANC,
at, his colorslide photo,| nlde a trip to Selfridge, MICHIGAN - COMPLAINANT
sthpped last February orfthe| gorce Base, all in vain.
[ / ! e e A (Defile 65-2477-105)
‘;’:ogfid RigHE TR iy [ - o picture was returped
“1t's not the same,” he saidl Its: "z i;zt:tl‘]éli:é;?:)th l‘_l.e er|
dejedtedly, The fuivg " Aiietter mcuded in Jhe|
saucer Ll s package from the Pentagon )
thing has happened fo if. _’t_ | ‘sajd‘the iStiage obikot i the a% 109
The Washingfor experts Ipi Bife wan. GHE deanifiol :
retyrned the color slide 8 few) | ¢ development and i
dayp ago.’ in glg more. i ; ; Y4
FEDERAL hag_ ts ‘]Pen::;:x? :;ll;‘er hthings,d hgj “Ec" A\ G
it up last March wHen| | s have a ¥ e T W T ™
plc o0 Thie as~~——-—-—— |insult to injury, Joe said. ':}OGY RECOR?Q:E
Eny JUN 3
TN e lagom—" GRSR—
By e
--- page 3 ---
Central Research Section
0-19 (Rev. 1-28-59) : Tolsonitmes .. o ¢
Belmont a4
DeLoach “,r./
McG uifi -L;
,\‘ 0 o~ Mohr L2377
Sy Parsonsi-_— =%
s { L“t Rosen - wot i
\ ) 5 98 Tamm
\ o> —_—
> AL ~) Trotter Zoie 8
b o) LK W.C. Sullivan
)/ 5’ \‘5} Tele. Room
\ Holloman —
\ 3 (Gang st S
ey e
3 ‘Objects’ Trailed Piane
45 Mi Pi |
Minutes, Pilot Says
DETROIT, Feb. 25 (AP)| Killian and co-pilot John
The Dllgt of an American AitDee of Nyack, N, Y. sid they
. :J:igs tod(azg tfi?:nif;s te}x)'}gllig lost the three strange objects|
CN I/ 3 i -(ib the haze when they started
V) NG op;_tlacts that looked like shin: 2 en they sta '
“ling|saucers appeared to ac-|their _descent for landing at)
compal e plane for 45 Detroit’s Metropolitan Air. \
minutes last nighc on its non-|port while the plane was overl /
stop flight from Newark, N. J,, Cleveland, Ohio, | " ad
to Detroit. The three hright whitish' e
Capt. Peter Killian of Syos-|lights first were sighted whil ]
set, N. Y., who has flown pas-|the plane Was flying at 850
senger planes for 15 years, |feet hetween Philipsburg an \
said “I have never seen any- Bradford, Pa,, at 8:45 p. m. ‘
thing like it before.” -
Killian said other members|
of the crew and the 35 pas-
sengers 21so saw the flying, 5 .—
objéuts. The plane left Newark| (o 4 g
at 7:1 m. { < YA
The Washington Post und'.\
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 —_— el
g The New York Times FE———
/PR ,f'}/ €0)" | TheiWorkeriit. VNI
’ e p . g v The New Leader
"’nr R(Cl\pn!";i - The Wall Streef Joyrngl S i
7 MAR 3 959 Pote £/
1\ ‘o\
--- page 4 ---
U\
”PJ~¢,~ 4 OBJECTS "CLUSTERED
= A G o Ay CENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS "CLy :
—a £Rip Fob PORE T ax h CENTL NEAR WERE LAST NIcir AN ¢
THEN oM AR Aoarl R DISAPPEARED, " WITNESSES €Ar) L T
THEN , “sTAR 6O THE AERTAL RESEARCH PHENOMIN A PR NIZATION JLETER (gl P
cmntp BRELY 5L ToraltME NINL PERSONS KAD REPORTED SEEING T [
CENTE' oud RS, HER :
WELEHECR RN ARBY voLrTaR BASES, AIRPORTS, AND THE U.S, VEAT p
Aol DYSCLOSED THbwsCLLTA NO JETS’ OR WEATHTH BALLOONS ALGFT AT SR 0
ng"gugln ME OF THE SIcHTINcsL,Afl:TWEEN 10 P.M. AND 11330 P.M., l
N ~ . " \ & o :
CEV R DIRECTOR LiuJ. LORENZEN 8/9-~Cp253p IR
W
'y N “PCORDED
/ 5 195 1" AUE 12 (95¢
G ALG12 1998
76 A6 12 MY '
--- page 5 ---
0-19 (Rev. 10-29-57) l l
’ {Polson e aR
Boardman
Belmont
Mohr
Negspo—=t- 1=
g Parsons —~
Rosents =S
2 Tamm: S S e
~ A\ Trotter - =& —==
§ ( ) Clayton:i -t = o
; ’_-_*“I Tele.Room
% e e——L=5 Holloman —
ISCS ONOW dIgn Sy
s -
Of Guid
uidance, Jung Says | ,,
| f ’
ALAMOGORDO, N. Mex,,|What such a fact might mean IR Lo
July 29 (#).—Dr. Carl Jung,|for humanity cannot be pres J 4
Swiss psychologist, says in a dicted. h /g
report that Unidentified Flying| “But it would put'us without 0 hO
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 g
“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 fn-
Dr. Jung, who started his re-|vestization of flying saugers
||search on UFO’s in 1944, re-|reported over the past 10 ygars
/ i|{leased his report through the|has produced no evidence that
{|UFO filter Center of the Aerial|Such things exist.
i/Phenomena Research Organ-| It has contended that not a
;izatlon here. It was released|shred of evidence has turned ’
t/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
| Jung said. scientific know%dge 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-
welght,'. 4 vember that investigations of
“If the extra-terrestial origin |5,700 reported sightings showed Wash. Post and
of fthis phenomena should be the mysterious objects were Times Herald
confirmed this would prove the balloons, aircraft, astronomical
exigence of an intelligent in-|phenomena, birds, flxw Wash. News
ter |- planetary relationship. |hoaxes, among other things. Wash. Star fl
N. Y. Herald __
Tribune
N. Y. Journal-___
American
N. Y. Mirror
0 N. Y. Daily News
YA o) \( N. Y. Times =
Q \ Daily Worker
Y B oL - T ot 9 ) The Worker — ———
=l . ,,,'_,,/: . B New Leader ———
117 AUG 1 1958 % ——
Date 2-29-87
67AUGT 1g58
--- page 6 ---
~ ) ¥4
o) /
V4 %L R \1 Schmidf, 48, an ex-Nebras-|
8 bJ 'ken and now a Californja|
0 Saucers | glain dealer; was question d[
T F d;b Air Force investigat 's1 . i
| frpm the Continental Air De- { ¢
race rrou | fénse Command. Oil fouhd| D)
| m e ingarh the allegehd landing spot | VOACk
. of the space ship was identi- ’
A-F-‘ChECks SChmldt;‘fied as lZ)rdinaryp but will bel‘ [ s g
j I tested by the University of U Y
Kearpey Amused Nobessic, y 1 [,\,K.J/
Tales of flying saucers and | While the Schmidt tale was | | 4 4
| other such‘stm got | giving Kearney a sensational | Lz ‘.“ WAry oA
|an unofficial raspberry |conversation piece, most of | A 9y XD
| 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 WORTLD-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. li 7 A Tesry.
| Dayton Journal-Herald his in-| A Kearney clothier put up Tl G (R
vestigators have found no | g sign advertising “space ship SUNRISE EDITION
evidence in the past 10 years | specials.” A window sign in y2
that flying saucers are real. | a car agency announced: 4 7 )
i He said 5700 reported{“Space Ships Tuned Up.” f ) /¢
|sightings were investigated | The Kearney car-rental A/
| between 1947 and 1957. Not | operator reported —business 12
|a single landing impression, \was so good all of his cars L/
footprint, saucer or little| were in use. They were being L}
green man was found. lrented by visiting newsmen.
. Investigation Goes On | fPresence of the newsmen
V' Jn arne Neb., ifi-. Whs nearly the only sign that
wc!gfig@&qfiv 0%5 n | ajything unusual had E{p
rafte isit_with {fhe | pdned — or may have hgp-|
| erew of a space ship near the pened. i
| city Tuesday was still under |
|investigation, officials said. |
(
/ ( ;
--- page 7 ---
P
| Ship Story Rai i
\Opace-Ship Story Raises Eyebrous ~
’ Thh World-Herald's News Service. ARG 1 R T O e \ / 14 L r
| | Kearney, Neb.—A grain £ ™ Wil il B 0 e {\(
Buyer who said he saw a o B e Y g \ ¥
field near here and chatted EEE .. SIS 8 ; \
| amicably with its six occu- L omatl nre G e %, R \
| pants had more pleasant D o R Q v B C )i/ ared
i dealings with the visitors T TG S s ¢y r DAL
from outer space than with = . ¥ o ST T F . oI
skeptical authorities. Rl T g N S UECE]
The sensational report . S el A %’g; T
by R. O. Schmidt, about 50, . } e Sl w{‘, )
of Bakersfield, Cal, which A Cifd /O i SR B SE 7 ¥
topped a host of reports - L% I ? E By a ;? 3 2 /
across the nation Tuesday R e E WE e £ %
of seeing mysterious flying N e Qe "fig_f "’
objects, had these conse- . & [ S LN Rt Feo / o
quences: i ;1_ f g g 0L | A2
—State Penitentiary rec- g . ’% LR P oy e en i JJ’/
ords showed a'man of'the _.. 7 g T b e
same name served a term .. "~ filé 2 NGRS e T Y
| for embezzlement from £ 3 \\‘nrklvflvraltl Ncwfimsen'lce Photo.
t lsgggf leéxgtft;C%l;n;ty ](E' th? Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson . . . In s o R
s. Scotts Bluffs Coun “heart-to-heart” talk. OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
ty Sheriff Steve Warrick 2 e
shid he talked to Schmidt SIDE VIEW OMAHA, NEBRASKA
phone and was convinced OUTSIDE 11-6=57
“saw nothing.” - e — \ WALL STREET EDITION
—He turned down a SN
chance to take a lie- !
I detector test.” .
—Schmidt was kept up M
most of the night for , / miN ‘ / QX, 5'
! questioning. He finally . 1 "\ / LG /\
asked for an attorney. | M A o ! ' b\j | { \
I‘ Ward Minor of Kearney LENGTH: APPROX. 100 FEET ‘ LEEE o)
| was named. r , T
| —Wednesday forenoon \/
| he went to the scene of t.he FLOOR PLAN ' J
space ship’s Iandmf with INSIDE
investigators from the Con-
tinental Air Defense Com-
mand at Colorado Springs, |RSTRUMENTS LOUNGE |
Colo., Kearney Police Chief F.A“N ) e :a:l |
Thurston Nelson and Buf- ~ |
falo County Attorney Raok. § ‘OM'ART”D” ar ¥
Kenneth Gotobed. They o \
said Schmidt's story “ap- E + CONVEYOR T0 BACK OP SHIP
peared to be weakening.” B I 4101200141810 AL (3 “ paan
—Oil drippings on the ol I 34 / /7
ground from lt)he space 7 { =
machine were being ana- B . L '
| Toaed at Kearney State The Schmidtnik . . . As described by the grain buyer. o
College. Inves tigators light when, white-faced and turn around. Near the ¥ Okt
said the “mysterious shaken, he appeared in . Platte River he saw what I NOV 22 1957
green oil” closely resem- Kearney Tuesday andasked appeared to be a wrecked it
[ ‘bled that in a' partially- to see a minister. Taken to balloon. As he neared i
emptied can of commer- police, he told this story: Schmidt said, his car en — g
cial auto oil found in the _Tuesday he inspected a gine conked out. |
bjck of Schmidt's car anda field of milo about two Schmidt said he got ou
nfarly-empty can ft?‘un d miles south and a mile east and walked toward the ma-
npar the site of the “land- of Kearney. When ready to. chine. Proximity revealed ‘
P leave he drove down a side
Schmidt's story came to road seeking a place to
--- page 8 ---
-
it to be a translucent, ci- ‘Spoke German’ 1
gar-shaped device aboutj | The ship occupants
one hundred feet long, 300 | ta1ked among themselves in
fdet wide and about 14 feetf | 3 gh German which
gh. Schmidt said thaf ' gdhmidt says he under
yhen he was 25 or 30 feet |gtdnds to a limited extent] |
way, two men got out ode 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 1 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, itin 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 gsked t? leave but was told
as they” were going to be 1€ Would be unable to start |
there for some time ‘“you his car until the machine |
might as well come in and had dls‘gg:;;:}ed' |
;etzss‘}ymgs for a few ming Out.side e Fis S el
Inside the machine were =~ Schmidt said, he turned to |
two other men and two @ Watch as the fans started |
| women working on wires in motion thhoutla sound. |
and instruments. The de- 1€ Said the machine lifted |
vice had a fan at each end. 2P0ut one hundred or two ’
By a strange coincidence bundred feet into the air {
one of the crewmen“iooked And disappeared, |
exactly like” a hotel ac- 1t just blended into the |
quaintance with whom he Sky—like it changed colgr |
has been watching televi- —F. disappeared into.th
|'sign programs. aif.” he said, |
! en the occupant chmidt pressed the
whnted to move from placq Starter of his car. The mo-
td place they would step tor started right off.
in a certain location and b e Lo )
pulled to the new location
without moving.
--- page 9 ---
0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) ‘ “ )
LCoust to Coast ey *{”\,;,
e 'Tolgonyee e
. - ' Nichols: — - =
ash o ying Saucet’ B
Belmont —
Mohptt= =~ = %
) Rogeni=s—= =8
- : j TammAsees W
Several persons reported seeing a “red ball” hovering over the e e
Atoml_c Energy Comiiiussiph’s Savanrlahglver plant near Augusta, Ga,/ Tols SHbom
last night. [ f Holloman
. e
There was an unoffi/| ng X
cial report that Air Forgé J //(U‘/i 4%
personnel at nearby Afl:-‘ i
en, 8. C,, spotted the ob- | Ao folccpen
Ject on radar and issued | Gl VA
an alert, /4
The object appeared to be / :
a “constant red li%hl," accord- /L /t/bl g
ing to Augusta Chronicle ex- peF AT
ecutive editor Louis Harris, <
who saw the object from the
downtown newspaper build-
ing. “It could have been a
tiny red light a short dis-
tance away or a gigantic
thing at a great distance,” he
said.
'One witness, J. T. James, / y
8aid he saw the object on two x 1
occasions from his home near SR e R
Aiken, It was cigar-shaped, NOT RECORDE
he said, and would alternate 14 N ) 57
from bright to amber and 140 NOV L2
Occasionally got out alto-
ether,
Elsewhere, strange “sauc- i TR W
Ir" sightings were reported, WHITE SANDS ‘
NEBRASKA Miitary authorities ppar-
. | |ently gave credence tofa re-
At Kearney, Neb., authori- | fport by an electronick en-
tles held a “heart-to-heart” | lgineer who said he saw an
talk ;vith Reinholdl O. | object w}llich made cax'”en.
Schmidt, a salesman, later | gines stall near the White
discovered to be an ex-con- gands proving grounds. Wusb. Post and
vict, who sacild he talked to | Tal Tonn. Mot ais &L Times Herald
;og?ax?;;gr!tmspat;:oshwigr?\?;:igg Force public relations officer | 9 " Wash. News %‘L
had landed, He said the space a‘fn‘e{g]it; Sandss.t Tald ;gf‘ o y/ 4 7y Wash:, St LASNERIE
» James oKes, » WL / S
(E;'ee(;lx)rlnz:pt)ke BtEnLsh g Ele given a thoro medical ex- | / LY N. Y. Herald —___
- | souination and a radiation X Tribune
- Police roped off the area| count test. Col. McCur: y > &
wl}’ereC the p“whgtm‘k" alleg- | said ha was “personally sat- G N. Y. Journal-—
edly landed and examined | Isfied” with My, Stokes' re. e L( American
various impressions and oil | port, a :11 N. Y. Mirror
stains on the ground. A Civil Service worker at (7'1,(" N. Y. Daily News _
At Long Beach, Calif., three | Lackland Air Force Base in | ) N. Y. Ti
Air Force weather observers, | San Antonio, Tex,, sald_he( p o gl limes /it 0
one of them the commanding i"a“’ an egg-shaped object | ( ¢ Daily Worker 2
officer of the spotting unif, | 1and in a ravine ahout 200 | v The Work
late yesterday reported sight- | ¥ards from him as he drove | € Worker
ing six unidentified, saucer-| near the eity. He said his | New Leader
haped flying objects over| CAr engine and lights went
{ong Beach fiir Force base, | Off, and the object took off | _—_—
in a few_minutes, enabling |
The Coast Guard reported | him to drive away. m
fcking up an unidentified bt ; i ate __//-6& -
lying object on radar over t about the same time,
. fhe (gulf of Mexico south of | the Ground Observer Corps
ew Orleans. A Coast Guard| 8t Mid]me(ci:i Tex, said it saw
ommander said the object | 2 large, r object and picked
aused over the cutter Ge.| UP unintelligible conversa- = 7
9ago in the Gulf and was on | | 1R on & sound detector. ap N Ov 1 4 1957
‘1? r?dar scope for ahout vy W 4 ) }L/ =
nutes, ¥ B
--- page 10 ---
S (Rev. 9-7-56) ‘ .
77{77/’»’”/
g Belmont
Tracked 27 Minutes on Radar i e ( Mohrf
T TR T T T SR R AR ) #’A‘ \ | \ Parsons
U.S.C in Gulf of Mexico R | —
-O. Lutler m Gull of Mexico heports S —
3 \ N ilirotier S_uee T
| ° ° ° 6 ° ° Nease
Sighting Mysterious ‘Object’ in Sky e
f | Holloman —
‘ Aswoclated Press raveling 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 A 1AW (RS DR
day in_southern skies by ajpver, at one point, the object/vapor trails or any other in- (G [
| Coast Guard cutfer, even asfppeared to remain stationary, dications as to the object’s ey 74 3
IAII' Force special investigat-|and hover above the watoers be~chthod of propulsion. One N S
ors checked a flurry of ear-fore it resumed. its erratic estimate of its height place’d’ T4
il]e{"l'x sir(r:nlart gpor‘tis. Fhaill flight. ‘n at 2000 feet. h‘ e %
e Coast Guard cutter Se- i i
T I tain, Cmdr.! [Glenn Northeutt, S
‘bago, cruising in the Gulf oflC.[gfe‘;ggsgs <aitl the objeet | OKla, rancher and member of
‘hie)[:‘lco' about 2Ogimgetsl 5;’""":1:51 appeared. on- the Ship’slthe University of Oklahomn: ’
o ouisiana, radioe hat an .. « 3 |Board of Regents, reported
|object resembling “a brilliant|“{42% Sesgen asiaiecod bEongly e AR Saturday he and five /
{planet with 4 high rate of|phy» at 5:10 4 m. and whs lost others had watched “a bril-
speed” was seen for about|jl's noptherly direction’at 5:37 liant, mysterious light that p }
three seconds at 5:21 a. m.at i, {looked 1like the planet Venus /8 X A
|(CST). LAY | [In this time, the skipper magnified many, many times.” / 2/ NN
The Sebago's message sald|gaig the abject, which came as The object, he said, was visible A, {} ¥
the object was tracked on the|ajnse as two miles to fie ves- more than half an hour.] Y | P
vessel's radar secreen for 27/ o1, was actually seen by four Sightings of strange objects H )44
minutes and that, during that byembers of the crew) . One, have been reported from wide | )
period, the object flitted on{ ns. Wayne D. Shocklpy, de-ly scattered sections of the |
and off the screen severall keribed it as a “bright point/United States, most of thef i
‘Bmes. Crewmen caught sight, ot near gecret military ‘mstalla‘i‘ J
dt it only for a few seconds l tions i the Southwest. |
[The Sebago radioed New/ The Rir Force said the rad
Prleans Coast Guard ‘e l metwork of the Air Defensp
| @uarters that the object wi | See MYSTERY, A6, Col 3 |
41
Wash. Post and _L
Times Herald
Wash. News
Wash, Stap =8t o=
Ni Y. HeraldZh . ... -
iy 23 Tribune
\ U ——apED N, Yodournalstsae S,
=g cORDE i :
' ot BRETL 5T 4 American
NOV 4 NeWi i Mirnonwe .
L N. Y. Daily N
. Y. Daily News
) —_—
et g fl \( NeYeiPimes v ... ... 0
3 g W Daily Worker
- The Worker
v N
Lfi ew Leader _dictimmes
S L
Date Ko
o S e 6 1957
1 e
6N, 13 1357
--- page 11 ---
Command was keeping watch‘pqrted objects may_be some-
—55-Tar=with no resu‘lts—emd‘th}p“xgssfurm;rl ;ggme‘frfiaflfi; he’ ‘
that specially quaiified inves-{ St Ry ar el el v f
tigators had been assigned to éféggo;fihe&agg “ifl, b:uificr:,t- | .
look into the reports. are interplanetary,” Any na- i &
| For several years the Air|tion with the secret, he added, f 3
Force has checked all reports/Would by now have abandoned [ !
of unidentified flying objects./conventional aircraft or mis- ‘ : :
Investigators work under the Siles. "‘; !
'AirdDefense Corgmland atd Col-{Cosmic Energy. ' 4
orado Springs, Colo., and re: <
port to the Air Technical In-(; tlt l]ookst;s Eh‘l’é’gh they are R 290 ¢
{telligence Center. nf?;ps:li‘;'on% s ufi_{leloefsaid. | [ tf
Judging from past findings,ler for such reported %bj’;?fz \ A 4
the chances are 50-1 the Air|could he cosmic ray energy. | A
Force will offer' a humdrum| Some of the citizens, peace ; < .&&
‘efl;}ggzfion for the current|officers and servicemen who | “é A
sightings. 4 d sighti y < i
|- During the first half of this ;:E&rtfn fhge %flfitm;f“s’u‘,’g & .
year, the Air Force said, only|the weekend said ‘the objects % 1
/L9 per cent of the 250 repori-/stalled auto engines - and ¢
led sightings of flying saucers|caused radios to fade, ¥ ‘ 1;
jand other fantastic aerial ob- Jampg, Stokes, an engineer i B
Jjects have w&nd up in theat the Air For_ce,e')%mlerd‘e- L i, i
“unknown” category. velopment center at Alama- f@ *%‘R :
Air Force Skeptical ; g%ll‘goé tl;lilzfi'{(eo%‘:lrated 10 autos| j Sl
. And the Air Force said firm eyt highway -between Aas. [ “&,
ly—though not all flying ‘sau-{gordo and the, White Sands i ) 4
cer buffs may agree—that it (N, M.) Proving Grounds, ; ' L !
doesn’t believe even the 19~ He reported seeing a sound- ]
per cent residue is made up less, “brilliant colored egg. ; 1
of the things you read about/shaped object” which mfid‘ |
lp science fiction magazines. |erratically across, the country- l
| Balloons, aircraft and such!side and left a sort of heat 1
(a}gi:noz_nioal sights as meteor- wave, “like radiation from a }
'}Lleg&;and.ybljight stars account giant sun lamp,” in its wake. b e Gt e
m ~1emt{& tc}g,ofhjfl‘grc:l's Device Sought. i AN Assoctateapross
1 satisfa Al b AL O %7 SO NG SRV
hbfilgfigf-flfflu of ,'fl,éo sight;| _Leonard Hardlund, chief en- B G @flm ~°fyP3“8§ ‘made |
g g et R gineer for the National Inven- ‘ this photo of a diamond |
| The director of a private ony tOrS C‘E“v% :,’fin}iflh’net@- {shaped object flying
ganization set up to inves sa%d a de :tfiéi%'c,oul@.shu Pmfiulg;;thfi gky,-_wgllé he
tigate ‘@{ifaucex,’&‘find SUCHALEE B AR, /it ;*W“-‘il | and his family were driving
said he couldn’t evaluate afjduipment was one of the near fi:fifi Tex, i
el 2 : things the armed forces wou! ‘near Amarillo,
this point the current rash o S s o 1d CAvigusth 10560 e Wi
Feptil aehtings ) r O S e sha ks ks AREUEGROAG VI "w
ihe National Iavig{vfiz;{u%% o e St Intaraive stidy, Tk
SEBUS o b e’ ve g i‘%‘yifi%’fq"m' e ] iaion vae
he kv over Anmapolis, M| |
o R A
Fofi»-, er, Jsfi;aflw%' ey,
an eggshaed_object yi nich
lwed like 3 neon ight They
ing with Jean's t
velopment on the outskirts of|
--- page 12 ---
0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) . .
{01 son PR —
N1chol's SR
Boardman —
Belmont
Mohr —
Parsongfatiee =0
i ° e, Rosen
ystery Objects Called T
Trotters = & =
° Neogse Mt it
Mirage b Astronomer T —
Holloman —
X By the Associated Press Gandy,
A Harvard astronomer Says mysterious objects Teported ;“‘;
from various parts of the country and the Guif of Mexico are |} 5
mirages stemming from natural causes. \ f © \H ,;'f -
Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvarq College t«\
Observatory, said yesterday in Cambridge; Mass., that the fi P, 2 2N
whole thing amounts to “another flying saucer Scare.” et i t/
The Air Force has started an investigation of the reported r {{ ¢
sightings of theflsltral}(ge EloW= iy et S EDOREd
ing objects in the s Y. The | mosphere which 5 f 4
Alr Force for years has had rad;: reflection.” would jgive & L(;f ’[;\({{1 9
the responsibility of checking 7 70 -
reports of unidentified flying| As for reports of the auto »,)
objects ‘,but as one officer put | engines stalling, he said, “r¢ 3
3; “We don't investigate all of Wwould not be surprising that 5
em.”
A 1ash of such reports has nem,),us foot could stall an en-
developed since Sunday, with |gine. e
some of the sightings said to| Dr. Menzel, author of a hook 7
have been made near secret|about flying saucers, saiq he [7
military installations in the |has been studying ‘them for J /[4/ 2 2
Southwest. Some of the per-|about 10 years and hasg vet to ) I8 h )/
slo{ns making the reports said [hear of one Which could not Hipt~
the objects caused theijr auto be explained by natyra) phe- 7 '7
engines to stall and their radios \nomena. \&
to fade. “They are caused by g layer
Cutter Claims Sighting ff bgatgdfau W acti"ulalg as a ; JAY
Yesterday the Coast Guarq|lens and forming an age of ] s s Yl M Aoy
Cutter Sebago radioed from the gzjlectl.swa: ,z,ml:ch as 40 or 50 NOT RECORDED
. Gulf of Mexico that an object |™iles'away,” he said. ‘ 57
resemblix;gha ;Jerlll}ant planet Common in West 140 NOV 3 199
; With a high rate of speed was “They are nothing more than
seen for about three seconds, ¥
and that it was tracked pLy|@ Mirage. They are prevalent RIEET e S S
radar, - just after nightta) as the
Dr. Menzel said it is brobable (heated air begins to cool off at d
‘the cutter's orewmen got 5 the ground, and they are com. Wus%x. Post an
false image “Quite likely from mon in the West where they Times Herald
bubbles of hot air in the at- lear air.”
=9 have ¢ Wash. News
B The Air Force aid that qup- e S Z—— D)
ing the first half of this yeqr Wash. Sta
only 1.9dpel“ c;xg_fi of the 250 re- NG Heraldis 'l |
porte sightings of flying i
saucers and other strange ob- Tribune
jects din the air have peen N. Y. Journal-______
classed as “unknown,” And the / i
Alr Force wasnl't veady to pe. é/ & Amem'cun
Lieve that even this small per. Zo e N Y Mirror Aoty 7 1)
:fi)x;tsage has sinister lmplxi’cn- %/ N. Y. Daily News
It seemed @ 890 bet the it Y imes ... {0V
|Air Force will agree with | Dr, Daily Worker
Menzel's opinion that the cur- yw
rent' sightings have explana- The Worker . JFTMNE
tions in nature, or thag the New Leader ..o L
reported objects are actually
alreraff or similar man-made -
bnings, —* oy * —
d Date LB -BZ
e
t 16 W !
\ \
--- page 13 ---
0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) ' ' b
(0] son e
INfcholsremnnrere
Boardman —
| Belmont
— Mohr —
a Parsons —
1 ! v Rosen —
| el e K0 PG e sy ok
“ ¥ ; ‘;) e, 1‘ Trotter = = %
| ChAs AT A Nease —
S ¢ Wl 3 eyed Tele. Room —
| £ ¥4 i, B el Holloman —
i ] Gomdy,tie -t L e
i S ;m , H NOT m-:cono;fl
] e oMoV 8
I g Wash. Post and 11=6=57
I "E»c"'.n.,‘il" AL vr-;w Times Herald P2&€ A-6
1"-.;",&"? it ”3,%5;,,;";‘ i) Wash. Newsp & - S0
i{ J‘:Ffil‘&j:{ fi%\ he sl Y '/\‘ }';;]li‘fi‘ft;‘% ) Tribune
[~and his family were driving | N.Y.J
%K Salsd od 'szi_! "%‘;%g;fwfi_ix‘; . Y. Journal-
! 5“’* Wfl"fi-}z‘§:;‘:~'v-";>§‘lil‘-l,£“‘.-"} American
) wu»!"‘é N. Y. Mirror
el ki fbll ot TR
’fl'u‘(,' el et noRa e -4 L= Dally News 8
!‘, R 8 e i o W Y. Times ool
s Sl " olly Worker ___ M
Sl il LOHTRNS L 7 New Leader
/' ] —_— e ———
- 7l A —_—
. y S {
) 4 1-3300%
» &= 0
--- page 14 ---
O-‘ZO ' ‘ Mr. Tolson %
' 1l it
;" Mr{, oardma/
flflzg* :AAL Se;m‘:"i;:/
: i zrsrons, 3
mr: ;osen i
Mr. Tamm —
Mr. Trotter —
e Mr. Nease — —
/ Tele. Room —
Mr. Holloman —
Miss andY‘———
' %em ’
UP42 i
[ (OEIL(‘?'.I'.) TEXs==FIVE PERSONS INCLUDING A SHERIFF REPORTED TODAY l
stEine A ‘AYEbERTbe o SusUATED OBJECT WHICH LOOKED LINE A BLINDYNGSAE
SINSET gtl&'}hfl.’ IN VEST TEXAS. TMREE MOTORISTS ;AII 1T KILLED
Tn{! AUTO JNES AMD PUT OUT fll{l BEADLICNTS WNEW THEY GOT NEAR IT.
W _EACH CASE, TME HW?ISTS SAID THEIR ENGINES AND HEADLIGNTS WERE
ALL 'létlf AFTER THE OBJEC sgnnu.v TO0K OFF AND DISAPPIARI;.
S R&{F'tlfi%fll AND A DPIITYM-#OSAU THE OBiICTAT 1830 AM EDT
U? by YENT o TO&OOK FOR IT AFTER Glffi‘c EARLIER um‘rg. THE
SHERIFFP 3‘{. IMTIEA ] IOISILPS ACROBS TNE ROAD SOME 200 YARDS IM
FRONT oF MM, 31D WOT AFFECT NIS CAR.
11/3-=y0530p
y
/7
140 Noy »’5:70 /( o\
g
B b Ty
W{{)N“V i1411967 WASHINGTON CITY I\iEWS SERVICE
--- page 15 ---
/
0-20
- ¥ . ‘ Mr. Tolson —
Mr. Nichols —
Mr. Boardman —
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Rosen —
Mr. Tamm —
Mr. Trotter —
Mr. Nease —
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy —
UPk4 ‘
[ AE noRoR i3t “SARES oMc 66 "WACO, TEX.. TOLD THE SHERIVF NE BROVE uP| |
: o THE $o8iritue. 16 THE RoAR Sbout 260 ;ernlm. 1
Lelcu“ D THE SIERIFF NE DROVE UP WITM !x 5: o THE OBJECT, ‘
VHICH ELOVED 1IN RME LY ux; A BLINDING ME flcn. HE SAID IT APPEAR-
DT AM 200 FEET LaNG AW fic_surn. Bt SK15 1% CAsBS NIS THCINE
TOuRtn Lonc STARTED To GET OUE 0f IS CAR TO TUVESTIGATE. ik 0BJECT
\mmn Lilfi"::;flé 3%":'1'5' STRATCHE v Awb DISAPPRARED IN A FLASH OF
cLin sa HORITIES COULD FIMD MO BURN MARKS OR OTNER IND |
AT TNE ”OP VHERE LOMG SAID i oBJECT HAD un‘n. O et
gigy SA1D l%t AL FORCE BASE orr{cnu AT LUBBOCK, ABOUT 30 MILES
%ML“.‘. CKED FOR A POSSIBLE PLANE CRASH 1w THE AREA, |
“P#%ufno, A LEVELLAND MOTORIST, WAS THE FIRST TO REPORT SICNTING |
*
L KE AN EAR-SPLITTING CLAMP OF THUMBER-=AS IF THIN ‘
HAD ung“f! flcuo t%k S n{nm. " i oo ‘
A"I.ERS#I cKILLED MIS GINE AMD KWOCKED OUT HIS WEADLIGNTS WMTIL |
A KERM rh#x. ¢ T, VHCSE WAME TNE SMERIFY DID WOT €
prrinfi qrbegie o SUBL GG R Gt Hesw N0l
L1
v $ ¢ GINE AMD AS T RS R
I‘"c‘éfi- ufi X6 CoULS MOT urg A CURSS AS 70 WHAT ThE oBJECT MICHT I
WAVE BEEN: 1 /3e-vosasp Vi 4
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
--- page 16 ---
0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) .
(
[0l soninmm—
Nichol's} SISV
Boardman —
3 Belmont —
/ Mohr — —
i N 2 Parsonsye—=SEos
; Y %4 Hosen — & i
} I v T omim) ot s e
/’}:w rd; Trotter
12 - Negse el 7ot
/ Tele. Room —
Holloman —
Gandy =s—a 0
/ OTHING REMOTELY RELATED' i —_—
ysterious Object Amazes Soucer Skeptic
A veteran airline pilot He said the “meteor” was turning away from the air- 90 degrees in an instant” It
P! ¥ A
who once denounced fly- gtes:g“gt"fir ’ffigd‘{& \:31"2}, tilfl; liner and giving the pilots a finally zoomed up at an ex-
ing saucers as “bunk” has ysual flash, “it abruptly halt- Yiew of its glowing tailpipe, tremely sharp angle and shot
reported encountering a ed directly in front of us,” But he said instead lpfhxt;rOW- out of sight, he added.
mysterious unidentified «r was an intense blue ]mngines(xin ?ge?ror}? ot ltghe Vis. _ He said his own plane was
flying object near Mobile, white light, approximately count. 3 abavey thed cloudh) preclud
Ala seven or eight times ag bright Piany reflections of search
{ as Venus when this planet is Ca&)t. Hull wrote that the lights from below.
Capt. W. J. Hull of Capital at its brightest magnitude,” “UFO)) (unidentified fly?g ———
Airlines described the inci- he wrote. g‘t)l\ezico‘l)entthre‘r? n%%g\fier;«sa“sslgr;s- There’s accent oy local
H’f‘nfi 5 au%%""xfib’gix?é‘i?o}’x He saic he thought the ob-, er than any |known 'ajrcrq!t, sports in The News \gports y
| magaine of the unofticial Na Ject might be a jet fighter, sometinies changing direction pages.
tional Investigations Commit: f s
tee on Aerial Phenomena, ||
1536 Connecticut-av nw. ‘ ‘[/
Capt. Hull wrote an article |i ,(’/
for a pilots’ magazine in 1953 || i
titled “The Obituary of the Y M
Flying Saucer.” His experi- { £
ence described in the “Investi- \'O
gator” took place Nov. 14, || 7
1956. He did not suggest {
what he saw was a flying
saucer. Y
Capt. Hull said he was fly- L. Wash. P
mga: Viscount at about 18,; / i ; ost and ST
000 feet near Mobile, at 10:10 £y Times Herald
. m., \vhenthe‘ and] htls co- Washi News P b
5 t R wha we R —
t ‘°§u§3€ w;; a brilliant / H Wash Stari s s ¥ W 1
eteor.” | é NsrovHerald! == il oo
=== 1 /'/ Tribune
7 NS OUirn Gl = s e, (T
American
4 N& Yo MiTror s Syl o
N. Y. Daily News __
N: ¥ Time s o S
‘ Daily Worker
NOT RECORDED Ilhe \fiorker s Be o N
< - New
M1 0CT 141957 eader
—od o R
g s - Date —__70-9-97—
) = > =
--- page 17 ---
0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) ‘ . \
Tolson S
fNi:h_Gi?—‘.L‘.’i_
/Bodrdman _:._‘L
& ‘Belmgpldlad—
1 Mol
) Parsons
/ Rosen>— % =
Tammpt— i &
‘Trotter ——————
Nease —
Tele. Room —
Holloman —
Gondy. Tusc . L
T T L
° ~ C ~
Doolittle Scoffs at Report é W
. r o { o
YA
Of Nazi Flying Saucer, \ o
7 3
By the Clated Press of Hugh L. Dryden, director of
James H{ Doolittle says it‘th;[ ad]wgiso;y con;(xlnltgze. ) nol
o ey » e r. Dryden said ‘“there is
“just ain’t so” that Nazl Gev-ly ., =™, “statement thatl
many developed a flying saucel Geyman engineers designed a
- and a bomber that could attack flying saucer which attained al
the United States and -return height of 40,000 feet and speed
hout refueli lof 1,250 miles an hour.
without refueling. | “This is an advertisement for
The veteran airman, chairmanis pook which includes material
of the National Advisory COm'ldiscovered by our groups who
mittee for Aeronautics, last'went into Germany after the
month gave a House Appl‘opl‘la-[war,” he said. |
tions Subcommittee his estimate| He said also the man supposed
of reports published in Germany|to have designed the bomber
o | |of great aviation accomplish-|that could cross the Atlantic
i ents under Hitler. These were|twice without refueling had writ-| 5
ntained in a book by Rudolf ten a book of his own with pj
| usar, former German War Min-/mention of any such inventiol}.
try special weapons chief. Gen. Doolittle, asked abo
Gen, Doolittle’s testimony was|both the saucer and the bombet|
published today, along with that|said, “it just ain’t so.”
Wash. Post and
P Times Herald g
> Wash. News s
: { Wash. Star o~ ¥
& ) ;. N. Y. Herald
AN { > Tribune
} , I Not¥e Joutngle_ .
LV American
0 2 N. Y. Mirror
‘NDEXE =R ; g Y. Daily News
9 / 2994. A ¥ Timeg —a
NOT REC 52 The Worker
¥ 138 MAR 20 1904 { New Leader
R
. e m—
2 & ,‘7‘: . e ¢ V’
b 2 !1/‘]’" Ron v DatdlAR 1 4 yaee—
WIAN 27 10r9 35
° (1957
--- page 18 ---
0-19 (11_22_55) ~ . ‘ f,ft Ul
~Iplson L
‘\ £ 7?&'&1’5' -
*//I 7 _[g/ 3oardman
p e T g ’ /¢ Belmont A=t
/ Mason &=~
/ Mohpi= =T -
£ e Parsons L LSS
Rogenr==S= =" = *Tua
£ re Famm == S
Nease = ——Si=—=u
. Winterrowd —
/ V Tele. Room —
aucers Holloman
7 Gandy R T
Expert Says ot
By VERN HAUGLAND oy A
WASHINGTON, Jan, 15 (AP), Ay
—Reteired Rear Adm. Delmer S. [ A
Fahrney once head of the Navy’s {77
guided ~ missiles program, said
Wednesday reliable reports indi-
cate that “there are objects com-
ing into our atmosphere at very
high speeds,”
. Fahrney told a news confer-
ence that ‘*no agency in this
country or Russia is able to dupli-
cate at this time the speeds and .
accelerations which radar and .53 f/
observers indicate these flying ]
objects are able to achieve.” b ko ft
* - * |/ . LS .
FAHRNEY SAID he never has i Y
seen a {flying saucer, bt has ’,,5‘/"
talked with a number of scien. /.“x [
tists and engineers who reported | Q/‘ ‘187
seeing strange flying objects. { ¥
’ Fahrney called a news confer- | A
| ence following an organizational \ A N
meeting of a new private group, o [
the National Investigations Comm. { N
mittee on Aeria] Phenomena, of i 4
which he is board chairman, 2
Fahrney said the committee X
was set up largely to tie to-
gether a number of UFO—mean-
ing ‘unidentified flying objects”
—clubs IZexgghformed throughout Wash. Post and
the world. Fal rney said his cofn- 7
ittee wil collect ang investigdte Times Herald
ying saucer reports, evalugte Wash. News
| ;xsn and make public its firg. Wash. Star
| B s NoatdHerald .l
Tribune
ey
- N. Y. Mirror _"&
N. Y. Daily News ____
Daily Worker ___
The Worker
New Leader
=L l S 2
. & 03 105 7 Date JANT € 22
i b & 191 JAK 23 957
RO —
®n s
--- page 19 ---
[ Mr. Tolson —
Mr. Nichols..
Mr. Boardman .
Mr. Belmont___
Mr. Mason
Mr. Mohr..
Mr. Parsons_____
Mr. Rosen
Mr, Tamm.____
Mr. Nease____
Mr. Winterrowd_
Tele. Room____
Mr. Holloman ___
Miss Gandy__.
AN A ‘J/)
rQ #5
‘{Daucer’ Seen
\ 2
by 7 West \ 8
S o/
of Saginaw ‘ ) k o>
SAGINAW, July 30, — (P — f\ / " */
State Police at Bridgeport Post L ,‘,L AR
received seven reports of a “fly- A -
ing saucer” between midnight 1V L
and 7 a.m. today. f“
One officer said he saw a fly-
ing object himself.
The first report, which came. ( ) Glos Ludov’V.
from the nearby Burt Ground ( ) Michigan Editor-The Workey
Observer Corps. station, said the: ) The Daily Worker
object appeared about 12 feet in (
diameter, had red and blue ( ) Narodna Volya
lights \and was moving swiftly. ( ) Romanul American
Various reports put the object’s Pittshurgh Courler
height at between 1,200 and () Ll RO
25,000 feet. A () Michigen Cironicle
The reports came from Sag- ( ) Detroit Fres Press
inaw, Midland and Gratiot (#) Detroit Nows
counties. Police said the callers Ela s $
’told them the object was seen ( ) Detroit Times
over Freeland, Clare, Alma and ¢ ) Michigan Daily
Breckinridge, all west of Sag- ( ) Wayne Collegian
inaw. b >
Midland police said they re: () —— 0 —————————
ceived one call but ¢ould no ¢ <747
dpot the object. ¢ Date.< ~ " - Edition. V!
Similar reports were received
flom the Cadillac area early 3 Col
Spturday, but Air Force investi~ Page L Lolumn_____
gating planes found nothing.
Y 3
NOT RECORDED
126|AUG 8 1956
7 2 2 4 d /
AT | RALAL LN ‘ » ! .
o A vt e m——— \ % S
\
--- page 20 ---
0-19 (11-22-55) l ' .
Tolson /
Ni
. 5 r"q'}-Boardman
() p ‘Belmon ¢t S -
Ma'son — ity ST
‘{'\j J Mohr
/QParsons
Rosend Tile il . L&
(‘ g / Tamm
\\ e 4 Nease!Zbu-Lalvs © i
1 C:) w.‘i W (‘ M Winterrowd
l‘ /\j A - Tele. Room
X / S e Holloman —
a2 Gandy
e . : BAUN
i i e W emv GARbly
‘Confidential Files’ Gets i I
10-Cent ‘Saucer’ Inquiry p387y
quiry :
LA T O imight have confidential files,
If you want information onisent it to the Federal Bureau
flying saucers, don’t address yourlof Investigation.
request to “Confidential Files,| The FBI, never one to pass
Washington, D. C.” . ouf mihtayy secrets, made dis-
Takes too long. And besides|creet inquiries. /
you may be investigated by the| Then the FBI forwarded the
FBI. letter to the Air Force, advising
"“A woman out in Los Angeles|that nothing derogatory or in- ERA
|(name withheld by various Gov- dicative of subversion could be -
ernment agencies) dashed off alfound 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-
pulletin 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 ) L
{ | /
ing 10 cents, saucers—or what it is they see | AL SI N
“Thanks.”, which the Air Force can or can't { 1 /V
|| seemed like a simple, direct|/explain. . g
approach—except for the ad-| The lady’s 10 cents was taped - !
| |dress. - |to the summary and both were h. P
The post office, casting abou.tlmaUed to her address in Los Wash. Postand
| |for sume Federal agency thatiAngeles. ] Times Herald
Wash. News =,
: Wash. Star &/~ f
4 NeG s Herald - ow 0
\ Tribune
. Y. Mirror
. Y. Daily News
Daily Worker _
Wi The Worker
~C New Leader
N T e
~1\ e wrt OGN
{\ Date NMAR21 1991
n 0o nT \ e |
1A 8
”1 AN &0 vV
Jamid
--- page 21 ---
. . r e 2
4 DEiTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE . ¥ .
Office of Public' Information g .
Washington 25, D, C. ] f
U. S. Alr Force Summary of Events and Information v .
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 1
the United States and, because of that feeling of obligation and pur-
sult of that interest, the Air Force established an activity known as
the Unidentified Flying ObJject Program, " :
This program was éstablished 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 explainablé as
being known objects, Generally, sighted objects fall into the ¢ate-
gory of:. balloons, aircraft, astronomical bodles, atmospheric reflec-
tlons, and birds, Al reports of unidentified flying objects result
from either radar or visual sightings. {
Explanations pertaining to sightings reported from military and
clvilian radar facllities are as follows:
1, Temperature inversion reflections can give a return on a
radar scope that 1s'as sharp as that received from an alrcraft,
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 dntercept 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 -
fled "obJject" 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, 1In each instance the pilots reported that. theip
radar led them first upward and then down toward a specifieé polnt on
the ground. (One scientifie 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 formatlons in the air, balloons, ground reflec-
tions, frequency interference between other radar stations, ang wind=
born objects, Obviously, such returns are very difficyit %o identite
especially when they occur during darkness, §
! MORE
‘ ENCLOBURE
--- page 22 ---
. 1 >
SeniiThe r‘adar‘reen has picked up birds a‘ in one case a .
flock of ducks, Flight interceptions proved these phenomena.
An explanation 6f known types of visual sightings are as. . ! s
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 aireraft emits.a trail and /
often this 1s 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 feetand 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 quallties, carry small lights when:launched
after dark, and can be seen at very high altitudes,
3. 1In additilon to the ordinary weather balloon, huge 90-foo6t
balloons, which sometimes drift from coast to coast, are used for
upper alr research, These balloons also have a highly reflective
surface and are visible at extreme altitudes. o
4, Frequently, unusually bright meteors and planets will cause
a flurry of reports,. sometimes from relatively experilenced observers,
At certain times of thé year, Venus, for instance, is low on the
horizon and will appear to change color and move erratically due to
hazy atmospheric conditions. Since the stars are charted and most
of thelr characteristics known, many cases are traced to them,
Meteors on the other h&nd 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 recedived . |
are of a welrd 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, 1t is belleved that they are reflections from ob-
Jects rather than being objects themselves, For examples$ 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 baoth from the
ground and alr, Many things which are common to the sky have highly
reflective qualities, such as balloons, alrcraft, and clouds, Accu-
rate speeds are also difficult to determine due to the inability
of the reporter to Jjudge 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
alrcraft, Atop the tall section of these aircraft highly reflective
red and white flasher type lights have been installed and are many
times misinterpreted by the ground observer,
=& MORE
--- page 23 ---
In the analysis alk WMvestigation of the radar and visual
~sightings described, t@@lre are some yardsticks whi!have been
+ established from experI®nce and trends to measure 2:d attempt to
determine the source of UFO's., Some of these are general in nature ;
rand 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 1s generally
estimated, Lo : . .
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 publighed without revealing the true identity of the
objects. ; P
More attention 1s 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 Alr 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 shouwn
a direct correlation between the number of sightings reported and the
publicity given to "saucers" by the nation's press,
The Alr 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 alds in determining the composition of the ob-
ject photographed, A small number of photographs have been receilved
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, 1t is believed that a great deal of the mystery will
be lifted from the program,
The Alr Force would like to state that no evidence has been
received which would tend to indicate that the United States is belng
observed by machines from outer space or a forelgn government, No
object or particle of an unknown substance has been received and
-3 MORE
--- page 24 ---
no photographs of detail have been produced, . The photographs on ‘
hand are, at best, only large and small blobs of light which, in
mQst cases, are explalnable, 3 :
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 i1s now submitted to each person
reporting-an unidentified aerial abject. It 1s felt that the infor-
mation thus obtained will lower still -more the number of unexplained
sightings. Y ¢
For observers who wish to report unidentified aerial objects,
the Alr Force would welcome the information., Attached to this report
is a brief basic summary form, It would be appreciated 1f observers .
would send the completed form to the nearest Air Forcé Base,
If and when new developments turn up in this program, the Air
Force will keep the public informed,
--- page 25 ---
: PLEASE SEND TO YOUR NEAREST AIR FORCEEXSE 1
1
DATE: RN D N e o ARy sl e T
THME (O ASTEHIMNG QI o, oy 00 daile Bbel ol 9 o0 ST A B el
BEZE /] 5 By S TR S WA,
SHAPE: N o el AN
COMEOSTRION L [ it 0 b SOl Wt SOl o 5" i R0A
EEEED & [ L WIS 5 ik e e Ve D G gL TR e
ALTITUDE: i it ot IR U o T T 0 o e S
DIRECTION OF TRAVEL: e = PR e T S A U
REBONER: PATIEBHRRL 3 SRR i, L0 T it i
COLOR: | sl e L SSRGS Ll L e i
SOUND ¢ gl NN e T TR O
LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED: OB C ol GO T o el
Sf CONDITTONGY e e €. 1 R bl T 08
VISIBILITY: P W el s T e i T 1l RV il
GROVNDSDARECTION GF WINDY - [EanPliiig & F S foplis asiglfilel =~ 0wk
NAME, “AGE 3 MALENG 'ADDRESS OF "OBSERVER s "Rl SE i 0 s s
REMARKS: (General desceilption of what you saw--use back if necessary)
--- page 26 ---
. *a -
pa W, T AW e > e e
S A Mr. Bozrdman
| BMr. Nichols .
Mr. Belmont .
Mr. Sizor =1
) R e T ——eene
N & Eeha. bt —‘-—"—;_:;:"":TIS:QA
B
R R N SO (GEORG KLEIN A\ e
woeso 44 FLYIN AUCERS
1 EH!}L}{%“ e T T e o i T T
£ By FORSAITH REES said there are two types of /
; ; Flying_Saucer built to-day— § VD),
~{ [HERE is the “real truth” . onc with a diameter of 48t. EXED . 2
about Flying Sgsfcers, powered by five jets and a
as' told by Georg/Klein, L@rglezzirtn:i% :vzitj}';t: diameter § ’
former secret weapons ex- o Y \bd-2 (£ i
Production Ministry,, and = appear to change size sud- o P QR Bl
now an engineer in denly. [ ) 126 FEB ¢ |
Switzerland Raised wing flaps lift both
D “Flying S e dhn e says airoraft like a helicopter. The
3 are fop secret weapons of the = Pig one can keep stationary by — 1
\t SA anci Rliecial Lur!mng jets A(tiown to counter- ! w
{ b “They are a continuation of aFtin_ce BLAVILY; L
\ ¢ 3 + ying Saucers geveloped in
At ; 1:n\;sr}'\an. wartime experi: Cafilada b"flg*‘fiffi'v&fmfi'
\ P 5 " “Prototype Flying Saucers colleague of Sif Franl ittle,
\ g were built in Germany during h%‘(')e reached speeds upf to /! KA
the war. I saw one reach a | L Ot’é‘ph sand ’i.fi"le I;fien in- S v o e
height of 40,000 feet in three | SPected by Ficld-Marshal npld” (
o CEs minutes, near Prague, in | Montgomery, says Klein. ) \JI v
) BN 1945.” ] o SR ) \
Klein says the Russians
oo captured a scale model and top | { |
REYNOLDS NEWS technicians at Breslau, The ! % Fi
CATYRER 19, 1951 technicians have not returned | ¥\
DECEMBLI 179 o7 7% to Germany. | 7N
T.ONIOI iLAND And Walter # Miethe, g 'V | A
o s eapon inventor and key rhan |
. i} Saucer development, fed \ A
est and now works i fhe | | ) \ e
hited States. | (a0 N (Y
lein in a Zurich interview . { A by ot il i
LGl ] A\ \).‘ N b Vi
(37 el " W5
i } ,”: f /",x“ WA ,‘.[tf vv.‘;;.
e : .rx( :L,/-,\"\ 1 (s \‘, ‘ ,':“ v -:i
N2l ) t M 4 W o W
36 FEB 1 AFE b G g
J ‘,” : el ' '\LU \ e ( . O ,'} |}§
s DA AP
--- page 27 ---
Mr. TolSOn et
Mr. Boardmae—
Mr. NicholS——
Mr. Belmonte——
Mr. Harbo———
Mr. Mohr.————
Mr. Parsons ——
Mr. Rosen..——
Mr. Toamm ————
o~ Mr. S$iz00
— i Mr. Winterrowd.
% Tele. Room...—
Mr. Holloman.——
: Miss Gandy.——
‘Flying Saucer?’: e
e
| Waird Spy Disc pil?
S
Sighted By Ship|
A civeular object, grayish at|
first and then brighter, like the
moon, shooling up from near sea
level and disappearing in clouds
at 5,000 feet, was sighted af sea
{last night 80 miles east, of et
York. Officers of the Dutch
liner Groote Beer reported the
incident when the vessel arrived
|in Hoboken. !
“Idon’t know what it was,”
said Capt. Jan P, Boshoff, a
! veteran shipmaster, who said ANV
{ he watched the object through e
his binoculars. “It might have Q N o
| been what has been described ) },,4* =
as a flying saucer, but I don’t i Lk e -
! know what it was.” U
i Through his most powerful (7
binoculars, the captain trained P i
‘them on the object, 40 degrees &
'off the port side. Several other
officer similarly trained bino- 3
‘eulars. ’
Capt. Boshoff described it ag
| “a flat object, resembling the |
| mon, at first kind of gray anq |/ )
| then turning brighter on the |
| lower part, and around the
. edges having bright spots as if |
| they were lights.” He saiq it
! was moving “directly upward,
with great speed.”
He said he never had seen
anything like it before, anqy
added: Py
" “Iam positive i‘i'm‘nfl 3 (Pt
meteor. Nor was it anything || « S
%/ | sl tural in the sky.” d| l,q»v(
A \ “I
OYEPPYNG FROT »oe i
p 4'2\"':“,.,, SR T ( 5
A 4 | M
D3 AUG Y, /)88
--- page 28 ---
' ' ' Mr. Tolson __01
‘ , Mr. M 4
L */fa ~Mr. Belmont
Z Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
{ Mr. Parsons _____
/ ; ‘ Mr. Rosen ____
/ / Mr. Tamm e .
Mr. Si.zoo___
ey h ) U Mo5 N LA Mr. Holloman ___
s ”’f iy -t ! i /-x" Miss Gandy
(] A N 4 g
s T R TR T BB e \
PILOT, CAPT, CHARLES J, KRi oF VASHINGTON, LoJoq SAID
:'.gn::.téix' i ‘%1 ' A% ~. “l"?‘ »?cggtfigg;lg;'uu
it S et by b, el R
BREH SRR PR T BE R
™ fif z%’ ®ist ABOU' DESCRIPT 03 i "%8:-::3:?9 i
$AID SIT Souwn i “i ' ‘n?:gfioéi’nf”
RRATOVIL'S STATEMEN oi#' B SR s s a “IRE® co-p1LoT
ghgx‘ : 0K f BOYT THE (WD BY THE FL LR HaRoLE 0T
t&r & &‘ : HEEG R e PR i %‘x‘.‘&“!#é}l/m
* 6/1==MI315P .
141 JUN 17 11954 LhY
. | A
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE \
--- page 29 ---
@ ® e
/ Mr. Tolson &~ o
Fo)i Bovess
j,,k/'.«g, Mr. Boardman ="
. Mr. Niéhjo@,
Mr. Belmo e
Mr. Harbo ___ —
Mr. Mohr
- Mr, Parsons ______
4 Mr. Rosen
; / e Mr, Tamm
S k) . Mr. Sizoo
Z 392001923 0') Mr. Winterrowd __
PR S Tele. Room
: i o Mr. Holloman
; ) ’ Miss Gandy
// s i/
092~
Mo
4‘/
\\OBJECT) , ;
‘1 MOBILE, ALA,--BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE REPORTED THAT AN \
i'UNIDENTI l.:IED FLYING OBJECT, BRILLIANT AND SILVER COLORED® WAS TRACKED
| BY RADAR OVER MOBILE AND THé ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST LAST NIGHT,
‘ MAJ., JAMES ZICHERALI, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER AT BROOKLEY, SAID
\§¥5333J3§§G;A5PEARED TO BE A JET-TYPE AIRCRAFT OF NEW DESIGN WITH SHORT i
FIVE OTHER. RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI ALSO REPORTED
SIGHTING THE OBJECT, g
7ICHERALI SAID THE OBJECT APPEARED ON THE BASE CONTRCL TOWER RADAR
'S\Sfils':EN AT 6350 P, Ms CST, HE SAID RADAR OPERATORS REPORTED IT “MADE
NO\SOUND AND LEFT NO TRAIL BUT GAVE EVIDENCE OF DEFINITELY BEING
MANEUVERED ,*
7/1==QK0UP
5 )/ ‘ g
& i il
i NOT RECORDED o f\/)
76 JUL 14 1954 { ) {a&
)]
v \V
) WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
--- page 30 ---
| W . v
Tolson —
Eaddsse . .
) Nichols —
\% Belmont —
& 2 Cleg.g__
Glavin—
Harbo®™____
Rosen —
Tracys
Mohr
Trotter
Winterrowd __
/ ) / Tele. Room —
L T R Ty Holloman —
! Miss Gandy —
¢ P
ir Force Hushes Up Saucer Pro ‘
Y |
By' ROBERT CRATER apermen, however this policy had books, “Flying Saucers Ha'tle Lan
Bcripps-Howard Staff Writer gegn relaxed in recent months, ed"sand “F‘lymg Saucers From Out-
: il received at the [er Space’ g
Air Force leaders have Dx?&g St ot persons over | Just how banning the press was
slammed down a “brass” eurtain |i¢ nation who are curious about |€xpected to ease the sxtuzkt;:fx} waz
at the Dayton (0.) Air Technical | flying saucers. ?_ot expl(a}:pe?:ifiu;lee;:czhfhen n(:ggr
Intelligence Center (ATIC),| “The mail has become so heavy O‘fg‘;{eisn o
where flying saucer reports are |that the two or three persons de. Vine J
investigated tailed to investigating unidentifies
mrests Ay g flying objects—called UFO’s— are
“The Air Force will be unable to | not getting anything else done,” the
honor visits (including the press) | ajr Force official said.
1o the ATIC because the volume of |" “Actually, UFO’s are supposed to
requests for information has s~eri- be only a small part of the investi-
oufly interferred with investiga-|oative work done at the ATIC.”
tiogs,” an Air Force spokesman here |® The flood of mail from the public
said today. was attributed to newspaper and
said the original official policy | magazine articles about flying sau-
‘~a heen to exclude visits by news- |cers. Singled out were t\\iq_furrent
Times-Herald 1.8
Wash. Post B
Wash. News 1
Wash. Star L
3 N.Y. Herald Tribune -
.~ N.Y. Mirror e
o, e essemte n*‘ ) %
IGONST R?.;CORDED , ‘n(
- bue: __gAIhE
————— c—— \
--- page 31 ---
'THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE’ ; ——
o fo Dt
re iney miaing 1nose %
ights unaer @ DUSHEl:
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
rtl}?wgatmn light. But most of the Marines who saw them still don’t believe that’s what
ey were. i : ;
In addition, The News ran PR S S = S st o O RS SR o
into what seems to be a delib- EEEEPFP RS LT ENETE. M SN e SN |
erate attempt to cover up cer- ’ f Gy y ~%§ e
tain facets of the longest con- e w}fi o 8 X M\ e |
tinuous “flying saucer” run in S & | SN b — w.wi Py
history. SR B A iy
The first man to see the light 2 y VLR R ) 2§
was Pfc. Norman Viets, 18, of S 4 f g G | 5 %, Ao &
Greenville, Pa. Since'then, at least [ 3 ¥ hfi e R &
« 30 other Marines, including half a : 2 Ko
, dozen officers, have seen it, too. il e s R
On one occasion, sentries report- i, % ’ o Sng
J ed seeing three lights at once. They [RaEEE 3 e . AR ¥ i ’fi
[ say they have seen the lights drop o A AN S R F* L
straight down, fly straight up and [ ; g Sy R e e o ' f
stand still. R .‘ wy-. : :
Even the most careful—and g Yo : } il R | B
skeptical—observer, the base prov- B o 3 LR S P,fi o
ost marshal, Maj. D. D. Pomerleau, ¥ 3 : % R e . _«a‘&v
admitted the lights had character- Gubmoe PR
istics he never expected to find on 5 G j
an airliner. w e o 3 t
FIRST SIGHTING v G e
Pfc. Viets was standing sentry R B g i
duty at the Tank Park a few miles SFETEEER s 5 3 PR &
north of Camp Barrett on the south- T A
western side of the Quantico reser- 5 N
vation at 9:05 p. m. Dec, 30 when ¢ M L
he “reported a moving, blinking red & AN
light near his post which he could & S s gifon, e
not explain.” £ e e £
The sergeant of the guard, Sergt. gl BN ey el
Francis R. Salinder, “investigated ] Pt : 2
and saw the light but could not ex- S r' t ] iy e g‘;’A SA
e T e A
Pfe, Viets told The News the light Tl v oo ““33;&%’* Rt G
¢ first appeared to come straight i ; SR o
toward him over a line of trees about A 3 ’\ {:;5: o |
200 yards to the south of his post. s o 2 |
1 “It was about a foot and a half in ; o |
diameter,” he said, “‘only going about g 7 s 3? A 3
10 or 15 miles an hour. Then it fol- ko " & :
Jowed the tree line about 50 yards to ¢ 3 g ooy
the right and went down. |
“It went straight down, all of a >
sudden. Fifteen minutes later it
went straight up and moved over o »
here toward the tank shed. / st A ’ MH® LA Qo
@I saw it two times after that. Tt R = Lt ! LHE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS
did the same thing. It was the NOT RECORDED Greater Washinote: ey n
weirdest looking thing 1 ever saw. 148 7 - 1-EoE vashington Editio
There was no engine noise and no JAN 12 1594 '.J“')l[
ghape—just the light.” i
L3 5} ( b} 1
M
--- page 32 ---
By the time The News talked to & t.}“';)%“ s . i
Pfc. Viets at Quantico yesterday, £ @ S S o B
the airplane navigation light theory B i Sy : b 3
already had been offered. The News {1 5“, b e ;
asked Pfc. Viets about it, and he @ S . L LT N
thought it might be a weather § e N 3 it T B :
balloon, but it wasn’t. Either way, == i e s v R 3 [
you could have seen the shape.” M bl e T e o pas
Pfc. Viets and. Sergt. Salinder saw = s SRRV S S s i 1
the light again at 10:15 the same . e A am o e
night. Five minutes later they called & ¥ . b 54 1% R i 2
in the roving guard from a nearby g > S G S
guard tower, but the light was gone. e 2 Rein o 3 N Lo 5
CONFLICT Pfc. Bennett (top front) grabbed a bufcher 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. Pfe. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convince
the lights. Yesterday Maj. A. B. him “that was no airplane.” —News Staff Photos by Gene Thomas
Efig’_uifi& t&"atbise;oirntmv{'g‘: tég:}ogi with troops,” the official report, sible way to describe the light's
ous. Sa;‘l"i'irty minutes later, thé sergeant size, shape. and\ intendlygigadig
t XVe tdldf- ?ltt ’E‘; fltllmg vgdizl:';sit?x" of the guard saw it again, and at compare_lt Ato the ‘way a blinking
roops to fight o e In 8:23 p. m. three lights .were seen.|red traffic light appears to a motor-
capture then or welcome them | i N G ¢|ist as he pulls up to an intersec-
aboard or anything else,” he said. AW e iTeans | Bive ) At [ i)
However, this is what the official | 9:01 It Was seen again, and at 4:20 | tion. 5
record says: New Year’s morning it moved| He heard no noise and saw no
ARG man Tdotall ariived | (at northeast, then south, then north |shape. He said the light was “sharp-
A1 18 By D1 D D “sfl) from Camp | 2nd remained “over the tank shed|ly delineated.
Bu.rretg' am:l' m:fl'e alocaraliTor thg 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 | 8s far as I'm concerned just say
Jess.” there and lay under the moon until | i’s an aircraft navigation light.
Fifty minutes later Pic. Viets’ re.| morning.” ; ‘ Several airlines that fly in and out
lief “reported seeing the same red| Pfec. Viets’ relief of the night be-|0f Washington say they began in)
light.” Sergt. Salinder saw nothing. |fore got so excited he “grabbed a |Stalling new lights atop' the fails of
butcher knife and headed for the |Planes six months ago. They blink
HOVERS 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, | Pfe, 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. 1alkini.about men from Mars and
“came out and checke;l the area Maj. Pomerleau said the best pos- | everyt] ing else you could name.”
A Bhanres 0 Fk Ly NEWOS
\]l-L o L}“’]r Washin yton Bdition
--- page 33 ---
: é @ 0-19
0 ! Tolson/—
a7 Y. 77, G TN B \J/ . Ladd
{_#~& _Nicho
v Belmon_é.}_,{/
N P Clegg e
Glavin—
Harbo —
Rosen
\ racyi.... o
J Mohr:: - s55
7 Trotter
/ - % o AT
Myszery-Is Dissolved _ ‘ Winterrowd __
/7 Tele. Room —
° ® 6 b ® 9 Holloman —
Marines Decide ‘Objects B e
Are New Airliner Lights
Authorities at the Quantico|as thde Marir;{e Corps ids con-( -’i(,"'f/iiif.';. )
$ cerned, a spokesman said. SR 7
Marine Bas;. 1aSt1 mfh;ttot%l:s: Until last night, however, the! ) ~ ! S
long, searching look a lights were reported to have| o
strange flying objects with flash-|qone about everything. Nine-
ing lights seen near the base for (teen Marines reported sighting
the past five nights—and de-la mysterious reddish “blinking él
cided they were commercial air-|or revolving” light over the base /
e the nights of December 30 and | (] f
erating out of Washington con- sentito ithe T“landin ite”: of
firmed the Marine Corps’ guess. T e g site” o 4 ;
An American Airlines spokes-| the objects and a report that a 4|
’man said flashing red lights, vis-[helicopter flew to intercept the
{ible for 10 to 15 miles, have been|lizhts were discounted by the
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 k> 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 \ LTI
usual impression and an illu-|greater intensity used on air- 5y
sion of nearness.” liners flying near the reserya-\ 08
Shetoioved the matter as farltion” ; TREET o4~
; I
s\
Times-Herald
; Wash. Post
Wash. News
Wash. Star -
N.Y. Herald Tribune
/) N.Y. Mirror =
I NOT RECORDED
( “Aan e
JAN 8 1954 e
Date; sJRN_2—mm
--- page 34 ---
0-19
. ‘ Tolson 7_—
2 Ladd —
A “'\-‘ _~ Belmont ==
Clegg = = —
GlayipS=reas,
Harbo —
Rosen —
Traey o=
Gearty —
Mohr —
Winterrowd —
Tele. Room —
Holloman —
Sizoo —
; Miss Gandy —
- 2 ‘._.—__.A._” . L e—— 7 7
Marines Investigating ‘ J
e )
Mystery ‘Flying Object’ Lands
N ico, Say ]
ear Quantico, Say Sentries
/One of those mysterious flying:the sky and described it asha the two sen}t]ries, and the spokes-
j rtedl d flying saucer,” according to the | man said the investigation was
gbl‘:s:isc:iioN:\i };::::e}::vengzlg 'spokeshian. "They notified theinow in the hands of “higher
i X Officer of the Day that it had|authorities.” |
] took off again before the Ma-|janded, 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 Sh}ilp had [night and thelMarine spokes-
_|risen and was out of sight. man was not able to supply their
A ‘spokesman ?95‘9"?33’ i The news spread swifty|description of the objects, or
firmed that a flying object had|among Quantico personnel. One |their report of its actions.
been reported near the base.|report had it that two platoons| The spokesman reported the
[ Two sentries on du_ty at Camp|were deployed to capture the|had been summoned to appeay
arrett, a Marine installation|thing but this was denied by the [before high officers of the Mal
bout 15 miles from Quantico,|official spokesman. “|rine Base this morning for addi
|{reported seeing an object in| Statements were taken fromltional statements. ,
o e T
NOT REC~nDRp
191 Jan 20 1954
b ot PN
Y —
Times-Herald BLLTE iy
Wash. Post
Wash. News
Wash. Star i
N.Y. Herald Tribune
N.Y. Mirror —
AW "
fr o A £ ¢ —_—
= Q IANOT "1 | Jo= T
—(. Date: old ——— 7
--- page 35 ---
[ ® 0-19
Tolson —
[Fadd==—=——=
Nichols —
Belmont —
Clegg ———
Glavin—
Harbo —
Rosen —
Tracy ——
Gearty —
Mohe ——= —==
Winterrowd —
Tele. Room —
C) i Holloman ——
Flyi SauteEr o Sizoo —
- J ! 3 L Miss Gandy —
TR DR — = | .
° ] v
Swedish Pilot Reporis "Saucer : YL RTIT. e
: J
By United Press a4
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 18—The Swedish Royal Air Force \)» M‘)M
ordered a full investigation today of an airliner crew’s report of seeing X o
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.” o
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 J
station at Peenemunde, now operated by the Russians.
: AL i i Vind St Mt H oy Y e e BT
'{:“J'; i 2 2 e ‘jl{ &“\“
B AN & 1955 |
45 JAN L . |
J Times-Herald
e
e Wash. Post
Wash. News |V
Wash. Star b8
N.Y. Herald Tribune ———
N.Y. Mirror e
N.Y. Compass b
ra ] Q b
IAN ¢ 3 Date: Q&c,l%’l‘?S}
--- page 36 ---
¥ [ e . e .
rneory Bolstored——ey | & &
RS HEI:D Keyhoe's inter-planetary theory < audh
was bolstered by a letter pub- afe wititeld, and repoTéSSish
| lished on the jacket of his book divulge the capabilities of our
‘ from Albert M. Chop, former Air axrqrart, radar and ‘electromc
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-
l California, | lic record, he said.
In the letter, Chop stated: ‘ Keyhoe maintains, tho, that
= “4The 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
clusion that the flying saucers [names and locations connected
H't AF St d 0 are from another planet. The! ]\\'ltflé tih‘e mcxden_t.s ‘could be de-
1S an n Air Force has never denied that) eted, if necessary.
: . this possibility exists. Some of | Wants Film Released
Fl n DlSkS the personnel believe that there Keyhoe also claims that the
yl g 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 2: marny tco{tr\lpetextx}f; obsiarvprs Llpehxfi?enrely sen;:fla(blelegram to
£ “tli A thei e correct, then the only re- igh Air Force officials charging
,;V estig.la’tlfi) nszl;cigi A?rm;‘o = c:’; maining explanation is the inter- thgt since the Air Force had im-
9 planetary answer.” plied that he had misrepresented
BY RICHARD REILLY Upon publication of the letter the qnnlysls of the Utah film,
AR N N [written on }l])efense department f;?:gl he or the Air Force was
{ oo 0 stationery—the Air Force chal-| Ly,
and if fl}ey are, Wha_t are they? lenged Chop's claim and said he ! MThe Times-Herald asked a top
i Thi‘f, B essence, ’S,thlf. ques- was merely expressing his per- i %P;Dmfe spokesman if Keyhoe
i i ubasyen, - oonabopioion. Diah Hiim_ snslvele: He.dectinga
Altho it remains unanswered, it Chop subsequently admitted to comment. 7 St
hia stirred no end of opinionsand, that he was not speaking for In his telegram — as in his
theories. : :h"'t Alr Forcre. 1buh1maintaincd book—Keyhoe stated:
J S hat some of the investigative “The fi S
tin?enio ttli’x?'l%”i's é‘)favta?ggdsaéé‘;: personnel had subscribed to the that t;e Q:l:‘cler %fi?x:‘amp;%‘(fig
are some revolutionary type of interplanetary theory. He said not be explained as any known
B BohNeitestedi bitherhbyitniy, [ty was basedjon “personal con- aircraft or other conventional
country or some other nation. L’l‘gféls‘,‘,'g; dti}:acssigte;a&mésni{:gb objects.” |
reggzgs Atlk:‘isF;(l;g:i‘bi};i%‘;].evIeI:’adig- “a true statement.” The :";2 Qopclpais ked i
cent statement, it said: Charges Cover-Up this stangglenstm w:;Irev;?Sea:r (faalse‘.
“The Air Force has stated in Amplifying his theory that the He said that, to date, the Air
the past, and reaffirms at the gaucers 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 eyhoe also contends the angl-
cret weapon, missile or aircraft in the earth’s solar system—| vq9s concluded the objects wepe
g developed by the United States. such as Mars or Venus—or from | ndt birds and were not caus§d
None of the three military de- some other system or universe. by weather conditions.
f:rtmeggex;gx;n 223 ;;trclg; ;f:ggg: B Keho:iz charges that the Air| pecifically, Keyhoe claims the
5 g | orce is convinced that the
experiments, classified or other- |
wise, with flying objects which Sauctty a}rc' SHage Asuipson
T Loiis fosribi , another world, but that it is cov-|
o be a basis for the reported ering up because of a fear that
P é;mmena;r 4 o 5 su%h a disclosure would result in
eapon eory Discounte widespread panic.
Fln adpiift,lion,:;hdiigh-éea;ktnz fi:r The Air Force, however, in- )
orce ‘officer indical o the sists that this is not so—thai it ’
TymesHerald that it is-believed s holding back no important Times Herald /.
imfposs;ible the saucers could be facts from the public.
& foreign weapon. t. White said the names of
Regarding the question as to porSOStvelved In the.grhiings Wash, Post —h
whether fl%ixgeg saucers exist, Lt LS AT W
Robert White, public informa-
tion officer, said the Air Force Wash. News —_—
helieves reliable observers such
as veteran airline pilots are sin-
cere when they report sighting Wash. Star —_—
\ unidentified objects. /
‘The Air Force was tgssed a hot -1 N X ime
K potato recently by Maj. Donald L —_—
El. Efle)gu;:, U.S.M.c.c (ret].(), “w}\o ’ .
claime: his recent book, “Fly- R RS e PR e e e ompa,
’ ing Saucers from Outer Space,” NOT RECORDED g 1, 0 88
that the saucers not only are real A4 JAN 12 1952 %
but that they are of inter-plane- C VAN 1 ol S
tary origin. A\ { o AT LR i MY T
Furthermore, Keyhoe contends L& / /"”, -
that the soctafled “Utah film’ 1 Date: ™ o <
possessed by the Air Force proves {
1AM f |
--- page 37 ---
gy e
e ® @ i
i R e R G e
S § g 'planetary.”
unlk.nThxe'A gg'_eraée speed of hthe Continuing, Gen. Smith stated:
W) Jects was somewhere [ «por the Air Force to admit
gggl‘vreen 653 and 980 miles per | that flying saucers exist, it would
$ ” y want indisputable physical evi-
1 2. All the objects appeared | dence. For such an admission, it
:) ?;m;l, l?lfu ::sh}:: ‘sgrlr'l: s;]zg. an? gave :;:)ulq X w:mth stronger evidence
B W of ver it now 5
high intensity. ” g:mmigg u?)s 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
4. Because of these high speeds, conc,l,uslvely answered eivher
the objects obviously could not be | WAY: Tracris i
ball 3 But one thing is certain, he
oons or birds. i i
BT e aea it ¢ ¢ added. The Air Force will con-
EhGar ai{'cnff any type ol tinue to seek the answer.
6. The sighting could not be ex- Wll'l «P“Sh ki
plained by any conventional an.| Meanwhile, Keyhoe plans. to
Swer: corllttigueA‘hn; camgalgp {.o c??
< 4 . 3 r Force to disclose e
Asked if the Times-Herald 43 st i 1
could see the final analysis re- gc!{: lgemsa§§_ iy 11; 'c(;ncea]u?g‘.
[port, an Air Force spokesman {continue to make. hqmd vl
said that there were certain re- | Corync 0 mage Bis Slatimpin
orts Mhe CAThiForcetlcot aBoh print and on te{evisnon. and will
make public for security reasons, ffl:}:‘enge she oo toideny
usll.zI uf hb.el,u:md other reasonlil. “If any official, after reading
owever, the spokesman said|the final analysis on the Utah
the film could be viewed ab|film, says that it did not rule
Wright fiel_d, 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. y ¥ “I do not %1ke to use sucih
Brig. Gen. Sory Smith, Air|ierms, but after all, the Air
Force public relations chief, put it Force has, in-effect, been calling
this way: omfe i%"liar and I'm getting tired
“We do not know enough about gar
it lto deny that flying saucers cofifigg;gfiifié’; L?: ]c:r?;g:.i at?xg
g’lf ;:f tg:?‘;g:yelfib :,xeisthave 10, ;Xirjf‘orf%e has unsoéved sightings
8 5 n its files — i
“In our investigation we are defin?tely knowfinwh:?fit]henfl;fi
not discounting the possibilify | ing saucers are — the average
that the saucers—if they exist— | person is bound to wonder g ime
could be interplanetary. We are " Are the flyi bxihen] T s Herald
interested in anyone who might Itleso. \:haty:;g t,s}?:;'? 2 ok
be using the air over the United | The final chapter is yet to be Wash., Post
Sty Fgl;s' A then. | Witten in this strance drama, Edey =08 —_—
» we have no au 7 g'ohe answer is not yet available
Ll === Wash. News
—
Wash, Star
—i
N. Y. Times
————
N. Y
« Y, Compass
e e
Dates e
--- page 38 ---
Mr. Tols‘nn‘[ |
. . Mr. Ladd.,
/ Ir. Belmdptz 4 2 A
' /£ /M Mr. Clege sl ALy
/ 'I Mr. Glavin..______
/ Mr. Harbo
Mr. Rosen..___
{ Mr. Tracy......
{ Mr. Mohr______
Mr. Trotter...__.
Mr. Winterrowd..
Tele. Room....___
- Mr. Holloman._
Miss Gandy
o Fan Hysteria [
Eed Labels ‘
6 S o)
aucers
o . v
U.S. Fiction |
LONDON —®— A Soviet ’
commentator Saturday accused
*‘aggressive forces” in the Unit-
ed States and oltf}; countries
of inventing flyinz“saucers to
fan war hystér"fi?’"""‘“
! Moscow radio broadcast - ex-
cerpts from an aritcle by
K. Khachaturov in the Soviet
army newspaper Red Star, say-
ing:
“Those who epread these fa-
bles are endeavoring to create
the impression that the myste-
‘rious object originate from Mos-
cow. 3
“The mythical ‘saucers’ take
off from the pages of the bour-
geois press every time the rul-
ing circles of this or that cap
talist country, on' orders fro
X Washington, are trying to foi
anan their, people the new hu’fl 3
den of military expenditure.”
of ~ /5
] et s s
NOT ©FCORDED
46 JAN 8 1954
¢5° TN
MIAMI, FLORID | (2=
(/
--- page 39 ---
\ X
- '\ \" |
\ An /]
: 24
BOWLING GREEN, 0,=<A PRIVATE PLANE PILOT SAID TODAY HE SAU “AN
OBJECT BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN FOR ABOUT FIVE SECONDS," WHILE CRUISING
AT ABOUT 80 MILES PER HOUR TWO MILES WEST OF MERE, }
THE PILOT, WHO ASKED THAT WIS IDENTITY NOT BE REVEALED, SAID MIS
ggGEETWAS AT'ABOUT 2,000 FEET THIS MORNING WHEN HE SAW THE UNIDENTIFIED
“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 ME FIRST SAW IT, HE SAID THE SKY WAS CLEAR
AND THERE WERE NO OTHER PLANES IN SIGHT AT THE TIME, ;
HE SAID HE DIDN'T THINK IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY REFLECTION, HE s
AID IT APPEARED ABOUT A FOOT IN DIAMETER AND WAS ABOUT THE SAME ;l‘b
ALTITUDE AT WMICH ME WAS FLYING,
12/11--TS151P :
NOT RrrOBRDED
191 DEG 16 353
// / P D SR
(
--- page 40 ---
i b 0-19
‘ 0BSERVATORY
\
Not Optical Hlusions, .
| Top Experts Hold ,
/| OTTAWA, Nov. 12 YCTPS)— ! (/A
Establishment of a“Ganadian (\ 1
government observatory for fly- i 4
|| ing saucers, the first in the world, I\ V‘. / 4
| has been announced here. [ 3 A 4
“There is a very high degree of |
probability that flying saucers ‘S(
are real objects, and a 60 per v
cent probability that they are /1 da N
alien vehicles,” Wilbert B. Smith, ,f}’\ v
scientist appointed to supervise 14
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 o
some factor that precludes this 2 W
! explanation. We have decided to &
3 try to learn just what they are.” ) ¥
] Canada’s sighting station will e
be at Shirley bay, on the Ottawa T
river 10 miles west of here. Smith
/|said any one locaion in Canada v
is sure to have at least one saucer
\ i sighting a year. Associated with 1
I | Smith in the project,*which is|! u
| under the transport department o n e X
| azlxg l;:he &ffmstel r§searc§1 ggar% \3‘ A ]
{ will be a theoretical physicist an 4 S OR !
| 8 dsipecialist in gravitational || . 'NBT REGORDEDR
N 1| studies. E < i
HE A 8 nous waieh will be Kepbl| &' = M® JAN 4 1994
N .| for saucers. Specially built equip- |1 @5 .
( || ment is wired to alarm bells. The N
[ qu?;'?lmt l{lcludels t:nni iogo- § — —— — )
|| spheric reactor, electronic de- 4 >
| vices for measurement of sounds, [ Times Herald *—\Z
a gamma ray detector, a gravi- )
meter, and other paraphernalia.
Jet planes may be sent up from | | Wash. Post LT e
the air force field near Ottawa
to investigate any saucers re-
ported by the station. Wash. News
Defense research scientists A
here never have pooh-poohed fly-
ing saucers, which have been pub- Wash, Star
|licly reported in nightmarish T —
sfi:’ipes Sti.n“ci torfmtah overhcu.naglan N. Y. T
cities. Some of them have been . Y, Time
described as multicolored cigar | g ———
iy 7 T - N
I Yy e saucer sigh
ings hq:%een noted here to rise | - Y. Compass ___
o with the increase in proximity |
19/ of the planet Mars to the earth,
4 Smith said he does wot e gub ————————————— ——
Ve bz o th by that the saucers / £ e
j ma om onter space. Dates // Y3 LS 3
--- page 41 ---
Mr. ToIsonZ:Z:l_
Mr. d_& o
é))l/ Mr&?‘aw/ 24
Mr. Bel
Mr. Cle
Mr. Glavin —
Mr. Harbo —
Mr. Rosen —
Mr. Tracy ———
4 Mr. Gearty———
Mr. Mohr —
/ Mr. Winterrowd ——
"/ = Tele. Room ——
Mr. Holloman ——
P —— Mr. Sizoo—— = ——
\“}L/"" Miss G ndK_.—
""b\)\Q . BRANIGAN
Mo‘js A
>
| { 1N )
(SAUCERS) 1
THE AIR FORCE STILL INSISTS THAT "FLYING SAUCERS"™ ARE WEATHER FREAKE
l‘_‘u_sjl TE A RETIRED MARINE OFFIER'S ATTEMPT TO PROVE THEY ARE SPACE ‘
SHIPS FROM ANOTHER PLANET.
A SPOKESMAN SAID THERE WAS NC CHANGE IN AIR FORCE'S OFFICIAL VIEW, \
ALTHOUGH DONALD E. KEYHOE, IN A BOOK "FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE,"
nCLAI"‘ED 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," o it 17
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. .
I KEYHOE SCHEDULED A COCKTAIL PARTY AT 4:00 P.,M, FOR THE PRESS TO PLUG
o 9/29-~GE1024A
N
p ’ - A
3 s 3 v, /]
| ed= 838949 -R- A | WV
NOT RECORDED
199 0CT 8 1953 -
\ §
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
--- page 42 ---
€ ®
'T} " Tolson VL-
Y , Ladd
Belnont (¥
Clegg i = e I
/ Glayjn=— =1
4 Harbo e atiae
Rosen_____
Tracys—tt s
Laughlin
Moht—— - =
e b e —— — CE T Wi e
L . —— — Tala, Ralt o0
Plastic ‘Moby Dicks’ Flying Since 1950 | Holloman_____
T T T R R R R R e e L A Gandy_____
e ° . A . ————ay
Whale-Like Air Force Balloons Rise 20 Miles, (T TR
P | — i
Solve Flying Saucer Riddle, Wind Secrets [ |\« /
{
By the Associated Press {loons, sometimes seem to be|firmed the fact that air current| s
| The magazine Aviation Week racing at tremendous velocities, |travel in opposite directions at 4
published a new report yester~|whereas they actually are lmov- dif[crelnt altitude layers. The
b 5 ing at 60 miles an hour or less. |prevailing wind moves from
‘day (De! AR U iy Force.has' One evening after sunset|{West to East across the United
found out a_bou} the upper at: many units of the Strategic|States at about 50,000 feet.
|mosphere with its “Moby Dick”| Ajr 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 forshoot down a flying object tbat‘vcrscd.
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 mic
\auce 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 havi
[of the “saucer” sightings have |lomed to flying high altitudes,|survived such altitudes for 2
g ‘coincided with their logged as-|gave up the chase when they hours and have been recovered
cents and charted- cotirses. 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\\loby DicR™halloons are
|flector of light. Long after the|altitude ceiling. Iteleased ™ almost daily af Tilla-
|sun has set and darkness has| Another mysterious object, mook, Ore.; Vernalis, Calif., an
lcovered 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 b
flected from the sun at alti-/San Francisco last spring during|used to take advantage of lati
tudes of from 90,000 to 100,-;:1 parade welcoming Gen. James|summer winds—the Moody Airl
000 feet, almost 20 miles up in;A. Van Fleet home from Korea.|Force base near Valdosta, Ga.,'
the sky. ‘IIt 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’tmed 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 judginger balloon floated over the city.|and instruments are parachuted
speed at high altitudes, the bal-' The balloon flights have con-/to earth. ; il
iy — Santy
Times-Herald P O
NOT “"ZT';i%T)ED_ Wash. News e
W ) e
191 st 11 1953 Wash. Star '
— —— e N.Y. Herald Tribune _____
. N.Y. Mirror R
N ‘
1.7 )
f 1A \\ . |
7 () NAN
A K et
U Date: _ALICC O 1229
A
--- page 43 ---
‘ . 0-19
‘ l Tolson ot
Tad i S
Nichols
Belmont
Clegg- = irs
Glavin
— [ 14 Harbo= ===
Rosen_______
. Tracy, - SFN
Laughlin
Mohr
Winterrowd —
Tele. Rm.
Holloman______
Gandy~— & — =
\
/) -
Pitot Sights Small Flying Disc.. /204" ¢~
Chasing F-84 Over Japan s
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, dlsc-lexhaust 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- | 1t was the second disclosure
ing was n;azde over MNOl'glezl‘;l in a week by Air Force intelli-
Japan at 11:20 a.m., Marc! § o L
1952, by Lt, David C. Brigham of | 8°1¢® of mysterious flying ob
Rockford, 11 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 Fo ce
' got look at the object from |disclosed that “rotating clustprs
abdut 30 to 50 feet for about 10 |of red, white and green lighfs”
secqnds, had been sighted over Nort}
e pilot described it asl|Japan by American airmen. ! = }
T ORDWD
Times-Herald
Wash. Post
Wash. News
Wash. Star v
N.Y. Herald Tribupe
{ N.Y. Mirror e
“ ) Date: _l_ifl._ii———
--- page 44 ---
0.20
. /! /" /Tolson
: / /r/Ladz i el
@\ont;
88—
lavin P |
Harbo eSS
Rosen -~
( TraCy, Sotsmus
Laughlin_____
Mohr SSHTEEEE
Tele. Rm.
Holloman_____
Gandy,“ ===
s
P/
(o~
SANTA FE, N,¥,--THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN SAID TODAY THAT s
‘ "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 Tmuilg_jwcg;,
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,
wIT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE DISCLOSURE SOON TO BE MADE BY THE DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE MAY IN PART AT LFEAST, EXPLAIN SOME OF THE 'THINGS®
SIGHTED IN SOUTH'.JES’iERN SKIES BY B.T.T.JIiDLRED OBSERVERS WHO HAVE
TERMED THEM 'FLYING SAUCERS' FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME," THE PAPER
SAID, g
(HOWEVER COL. M, G, HENDRICKS, COMMANDANT OF THE PROVING GROUNDS,
SAID TODAY THAT RESEARCH THERE "HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE
THE ';O-SALLED FI:YING SAUCER, WE ARE STRICTLY IN THE GUIDED MISSILE
BUSINEED. THERE CERTAINLY WON'T BE ANYTHING LIKE A FLYING SAUCER
DEMONS TRATED ™)
s 1/8=-=N1134P
O AN 16 1gy
’ } —
& i .
o J#
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
--- page 45 ---
— ! . ¢
i S——
¥\ N
CLEAR UP THD AVE TERY f‘;- T H:C"’* VING SAUCERS ) ; i
1Al
i
i r— — 0
YRDED
--- page 46 ---
B &
|
/ |
e
NOT RECARR=~
138|NOV71 371952
/72 S -
--- page 47 ---
HELENA [ONT, «~-THE FBI, HIGHWAY PATRCL ARD POLIC OFFICERS INVESTI
¥ U0 3 A 4 §
1. 4 ';V
--- page 48 ---
0-19
. . { Tolson _«
VLladd L 24
] Nicho%
BelmoptZfze. .
Clegg = 5 S
GlayinSiiE
Harbo St it
e N S Rosen _ =
—— Tracy
FIVE-STATE WHATZIT s Laughlin
S Mohr S SCU
Winterrowd
ell, It dJure Was e
/4 | Holloman \
| Gand
ome bail of Fire ~ (FrgT 7
| y
| Tt has been pretty well established today that the “mass of ANS
’flaming, incandescent material” which flashed across the sky = )&J}V
| over Washington and five eastern states last night was a meteor, \‘k/ R
a flying saucer “as big as a washtub,” or a mass of flaming, in- b
candescent material. e e e e ’
The Naval Observatory, the|was sun-colored with a tail.” (Sub-
Weather Bureau and observers at|Urbanite.)
National Alrport lean foward 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.” 4 \ 4
e Near Washington, three United - *
HOW IT LOOKED e ‘
Pres: y
But citizens here, in Maryland, this:s correspondents said it was like
g Virginia, West Virginia, P.ennsyl- ® “A rocket with a fiery tail . . .
vania and Ohio couldn’t be silenced. |1t 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. Tt looked like it was right| e 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.)
o “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
o “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
—_—
Wash. Star
N.Y. Herald Tribupe
) N.Y. Mirror
N.Y. Compass il
X N O DD ate: ___________———
. @ GEP 24 1952 St e
--- page 49 ---
Mr. Tolson___
~ . . Mr. Ladd ___ X
‘. Mr. Nichols ____
i } Mr. Belmont ___
{ Mr, Clegg .———
Mr. Glavin
Mr. Harbo .
MrstRogen: ¥ Sis
My i Tracy i
Mr. Laughlin___ &
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Winterrowd.
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy——
. T I U "‘
° ° f ¥
fllgh-Flylng Bomber [ Brads g
~ Caused New Disc Tal
| 2
| Special to The Inquirer _
READING, Pa., Aug. 28.—Air Na-[dueht, to keep interceptor teams on
tional Guard officers and control| The aerial display on Monday was
tower operators of the C 1|witnessed by hundreds of Guardse
Aeronautics Administration today r;zen D{ thle I&Zthl F:izhter Wing,
i ” 5 ‘ennsylvania-Marylan Air Na-
C]earf‘d gL Iateséfflyinli SAUCE ional Guard, as well as officers Whe
mystery, as evolved in the skies over watched the maneuvers through
rks county last Monday. binoculars.
‘ The saucers, seen by a large num-| Air National Guard officers sai
|tpr of persons at that time, a ;he reggrt i“g{“:t;fl by H:rry f‘ein
‘ y uer, 43, of Birdsboro, who said hi
|8 okesman_ said, were vapor trails thought he saw a plane release
of a B-36 inter-continental bomber | fiying saucer in the air Mondas:
\ and a jet plane. which CAA tower- | morning, probably had to do with
\ men said were flying at an altitude ' the jet which he saw diving on the
of 40,000 to 45,000 feet. bomber.
The jet left a bigzag ‘trail as it dulggfai?l% the ?“311;1'5 et:k"planatlon
: x X ery, closely with the ac-
dived in on the. big bomber in a count given by Herbert Lonig) 29,
mock interception attack. The Kutztown insurance salesman, Wao
spokesman said such air shows were told of seeing a flying saucer 30 feet
frequent when atmospheric condi- in front of his automobile Mond
tions were right for the hot exhausts night, off the Allentown pike nedr
from engines to freeze at high alti- Maxatawny. Long said he saw tife
tude. object so clearly that he was ab
The big- bombers, the spokesman to make a detailed drawing of 1
xplained, often fly far out over the &*mamce. |
cean, and when they approach the st
oastline on their return journeys| &4
ey are observed on radar screens| 1
nd jets are sent up to intercept| L
tem, Such tests, he added, are fre- | \ ’ '
NOT REGBGRDED \
101 SEP 12 1952 >
—t RN
¢ \
SECTION
ATE f/fl//fo{ T S——
THE PHy ADELPHIA \NQUNER SECTION 4./ S—
PhLADLUEHIA O SUPERVISOR
ne [ WuME /L /
ok 77 'F 959 T T I A—
|2 u ‘-t [ ‘i:!)z{‘
--- page 50 ---
i ® @
T e e ———
de e s R R Brime e e R e T s
gm‘wé» Los o i AR S B s et teldn f;.jé%;‘fflgflg;-xz&
Gl e e i L VRS 2 : f¢"j‘vg/:‘::§7:f'{ii“&ii\\_\"i?’}:lf)%f;fl‘;}?l-(‘\';‘u. Q‘% :}&fi‘
B e Claehod o SRS g e
el o R b e R A AT i SR e SRR *::«:i':*f‘?ivf%“-ch-f?}. e
ol ;«flggwf& P e e R R e Sat g S e G S s e B RE e
e e D D o e S e e
iR R L e R
e e i L *‘ *:»g‘%%}gx:
e e . s N “‘4&& St R
SR e geRt B s S TR aRe SRR AR RN
,&% b } S B u%“*‘iwd
ey e LT é\wm%%?"fiéii(‘
B 2 e sggl S g A
s 80 ‘-x“r s e ki g " ol gk Lt
! e 0 CRCRRR MO o IR S R i o o “ ....5."” S
® N x‘;mfi&fi' R te . St
b b= g 5 z S SO ARIIPOS
TH'S IS |T A sketch of the flying saucer which Her- ¥ \ S
N bert Long, 29, a Kutztown, Pa., insur-
Aance salesman, contends hesaw 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, -
dirvections for the sketch. (AP Wirephotos) — ~——=
--- page 51 ---
1 T add |
74 / | 3 cioe {
/ :
ol ‘ Whait 1s W2, nac St
.| FLYING SAUCER MAYBE?—The unknown object } of the building when he noticed the .lg.mfih-gfi? -
over the building in the picture, photographed above { like object in his view finder, so he snapped the p c-.
J | | Anacortes, moves swiftly through the sky, sceming- { ture at 1/100th of a second. Eflkfi‘( v nable to
| | Iy a part of a cloud formation. But is it? Walter d’efigfihi@?hfie,nfi"fln of the gfigmfl[{ R ;h".!
| ' Elliott of Anacortes was P@ffi"‘ to xf-kf a pijf\u-’é'. q’ufeflyidh}wfind. fi(% ‘——‘WL !fi‘;’" 3 ‘
, /
i ‘ e 4 sémeu«/ s i
Ta:ra’aie’a%gg £ Do |
b §EP 1% )i -~
--- page 52 ---
\. ’ 0.20
: p Mr. Tolson ¢
. UM, rada N 77
g’ Mr. B At el
, Mr. Cieggj L
3 Mr. Glavin
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy:
Mr. Laughlin
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Winterrowd___
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy.
=
) ')&‘ :
C/ SV C A\ SN
— / ) < \
yiets A/} "(/({(‘:
SAUCERS )
SAN FRANCISCO--A FORMER AIR FORCE B29 TEST MECHANIC AND SCIENTIFIC
JECTURER SAID TODAY HE SAW TWO SILVER GREY OBJECTS FLYING ERRATICALLY S
OVER SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT "AT TERRIFIC SPEEDS ¢*
__ROBERT G, GARNER 38, SAN FRANCISCO, SAID HE AND HIS WIFE BOTH
OBSERVED THE OBJECTé AT 5830 P,M, YEST{-:RDAY AND HE WAS CONVINCED THEY
WERE "NOT OF THE EARTH,"
2 GARDNER, WHO SAID HE WAS WITH THE AIR FORCE IN THE PACIFIC
DURING WORI'_D WAR II, SAID THE OBJECTS LOOKED LIKE "CR0SS SECTIONS OF
A CONE CLIPPED OFF AT BOTH ENDS,®
"THEY WERE SILVER GREY IN COLOR AND APPEARED TO HAVE A DIAMETER OF
BOUT 150.TO 200 FEET EACH," HE SAID,
"BOTH OF THEM FLEW AT AKI ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 12,000 FEET," GARNER
AID, "AND I'D ESTIMATE THEY WERE GOING AT LEAST 1800 MIflES AN
OUR, "™
8/25--TS1147A
‘//‘]“,' NG j/ o ON £ "'fi LY g S a S
7 / f
} A
e 146 sep 151952
K1 ok WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE BRIESIOE > S
--- page 53 ---
& @
_[Tolson__.g”
\//Ladd _¢ f o
u// Belm i;-—-——
/v Clegg_H/7#7
D Glavin_______
0 ) } Harbo SSSiaiebus
| ax Rosen: S
3 o [/ Tracy; St L Oieis
71 Laughlin _____
) Mohr 7 MSS 0
y) ) ; Tele R W
\/// s Holloman______
R Gandy =T
‘1’()/,/ 2 </
(SAUCERS ) J
PHYSICIST NOEL W¢SCOTT SAID TODAY THAT THOSE FLYING "THINGS®
OPLE HAVE BEEN SEEING MAY BE ®ANODE GLOWS® CAUSED BY IONI}ATION 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 :
BORATORIES 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 UNDE
NDITIONS 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,
1 S STAN
REVERSE THEMSELVES, OR WINK OUT, RIS AR RIS RIEL,
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
SGOTT EXPLAINED THAT AN “ANODE GLOW® FORMS ON AN IONIZED 1
ECTRIFIED) LAYER OR VOLUME OF GAS WHICH IS POSITIVE IN RESPECT To
THE SURROQUNDING ATMOSPHERE, SUCH GLOWS COULD OCCUR ANYWHERE FROM 50
200 MILES UP, HE SAID, DEPENDING ON CONDITIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC
ESSURE AND I0ONIZATION,
8/6--TS1255P
!
"OEXED g | |
o o
7" EX. . 73 98 AUG 11 1952 Al yfij
R ikt WASHINGTON CITY-NEWS SERVICE—
--- page 54 ---
& & o0
Y=
Tolson_&
add- ¥7 ~
7 _Nichy £y
Belmont £~
legg? -
5 £ GlayinEeITEi
/ A Harbo N v
\) Rosen ________
Tracy =
A Laughlin______
Mghr A
Telg¢. Rm._____
Ho}loman
/”»G, o i
\
/) O A
A S @ OLAM i \!’L/’u - 4
,_,;,__(._\(-———————— WL”‘“WLw?
(SAUCERS )
THE COAST GUARD TODAY RELEASED A PHOTOGRAPH OF FQUR SRILLIANT WHITE
LIGHTS SNAPPED OVER ITS SALEM, MASS _AIR STATION SEVERAL WEEKS AGO,
THE PICTURE, TAKEN BY A 21-YEAR aiD COAST GUARD PHOTOGRAPHER, WAS
V}\-l'L?TLAT?Z;T EPI%ODE IN THE NATIONWIDE OUTBURST OF "FLYING IAUCZR%
YSTERLES , \
IT CLEARLY SHOWS FOUR RAGGED-EDGED RQUND OBJECTS IN V=FORMATIOQON [
EACH APPEARS TO HAVE TWO IDENTICAL SHAFTS OF LIGHT EXTENDING ACROSS
A SPOKFSMAN SAID THE NEGATIVE HAS BEEN EXAMINED BY COAST GUARD.
PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERTS WHO ARE SATISFIED WTHERE IS NO RETOUCHING OR
— WYE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OBJECTS ARE," A COAST GUARD QFFICER SATD,
wBUT THAT EOY'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 3}W§Y FAI(II\I!LééA - teats
THE_PHOTQGRAPHER WAS SHELJXAIPERT, A COAST GUARD ENLISTE
PHOTOGRAPHER, HE SAID HE T4 ,E;ILHE?JHE%EL'_J;;—QTd-.afi AyMa, JULY 1S,
THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW OF THE AIR STATION'S _PHOTO TABORATORY. . ~
8/1--GE1137A
INDEXED &% S,
98 AUG 181853 | ],
NV
S 14 .
\ })/ i
Ao\ WASHINGTON CITY NEVS SERVICE }
--- page 55 ---
. & it
Tolson
Ladd
Nichols
Belmont
[oo—— Clegg RN
=AY AT R i Glavin
1 Harbo
N Rosen
Tracy.
Laughlin
i T i T Mohf ... wid Ma.ds
e Tele. Rm.
i o Holloman
u ' n g p s
¢ e = v /Y-
« {
THE I{ATEST NEWS: Washington, July 29—Air Force ex- 4
phrts said today that they are convinced “natural causes /
al count.for the “flying saucers” which have been dottin ¢
1ocal skies for more than a week and have been appearin
idtermittently throughout the country for more than fiv .
years. X ) :
Maj. Gen. John A. samford, director of Air Force intelligence,
offered the further assurance that a six-year study shows
“no pattern vaguely resembling any threat to the United | /
\ »” 2 | T
tates.” . A | — TCORDED
Referring to the fact that radar screens are picking up what Nt
ppear to be natural phenomena, Gen. Samford said: 9¢ AUG 181952
« I think radar is beginning to tell us a great many things it was
not built to discover—for instance, abouf Northern Lights an N =
atmospheric conditions after a heat wave.” — A
Despite the reassurance, which was delivered in an atmosphere 0 /
confusion, public concern over the mystery of the skies reached a ! ¢ {
all-time high. \ rLe,
Twelve more unidentifiable dots on a Civil Aeronautics Administra- LY 5
tion radar scope here early today threw the city into a dither. 1 .
(Jersey City reported track- BT —
ng fiying disks and one observer | hey saw nothing. Air Force rada v
| bifered a photo of an oddly- A . ? Times-Heral
\ ‘haped chunk of light to prove ?q““)m‘f‘t at a field near the CA daf. o
) installation also spotted nothing.
| | The Air Force fiew ‘the experts For that reason, the Air Defens! \Wash. Post ____
from Wright-Paterson Field, Day- | planes remained grounded, giving
ton, O, to quell the gathering | vise to yumors that the Pentagon
alarm, but meanwhile, USAF |somehow was surrendering to the Wash. News
| planes weve equipped with special | ‘saucers.” The Air Force took e
astronomical eameras, with which | pains to deny this, and promised
is hoped pursuing pilots may be | pursuit the next time a flying Wash. Star
{dble to take pictures of the phe-|mystery 15 sighted with the nake: T
omena. eye. .
1 Air Defense Command planes re- Meanwhile, 'other responsibl N.Y. Mirror _—
ained on 24-hour alert to chase | Pentagon officials reiterated de-!
the “interlopers” and, if possible, | nials that the strange aerial light; 4—/4
fshoot them down.” {—or whatever they ave--represent N.Y. Compass
] Today's rash of “gaucers” ap-|some new phase of U. S. military
eared on the CAA screen from | experimentation. They expressed g A
%30 am. to 6 am. Airlin pilots | firm conviction, too, that tha e
4 [ E i::a were asked to scan the skies |things are no threat to the na-
TN 17 Jons of the things rep—te- ~hu's security. ) O
B e / ¢ R Date: ——~
--- page 56 ---
N £ O &
( y BEHIND . THE NEWS - ¥
By RICHARD CARTER
The swift-moving celestial lumi- | sky-waichers ciaimed to hav
nosities which the American pub-| seen two flying cigar-shaped ob.
{1i& has come to call “flying saucers” [ jects.
. dre phenomena with a recorded Cigar-shaped objects have be
History dating back at least 200 |spotted skyward by innumerab!
Years and perhaps several thou- | participants in America's postwar
sund. saucery.
y | The Biblical Ezekiel's airborne| Flying lights which differ in all
| wheels, for example, had some of [apparent respects from shoofing
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- | eounts of the phenomena diffe
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 astrophysies at Harvard | moving in formation; others :ee
University, made this point in kelly green fire balls; others see
n interview last month with orange fire balls; others See fly-
¢ | fime magazine. He produced ing disks; others see the cigar-
ocumentary evidence that there shaped mysteries. Some of the R
’ yas a saucer scare in Chicago objects seem to hover, virtually
| bn Apeil 10_]897, when manf r—==&Continued on Page—3i8—.
motionless, before darting into a moving at fantastjc speeds, or just
cloud and disappearing forever hovering, depending on conditions.
others move at what seems t | Headlights, aerial searchlight4,
e an impossible rate of speed efen street lights in a city can
eversing direction instantane rffracted by the atmosphere an
usly, swooping and climbing i bpcome “flying saucers’” out in th) |
manner which no man-made Duntry miles away, he says.
nachine 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- Qne of the reasons the Air Force
ine that cannot be proved, moft has felt impelled to take part in
$heories about the skitterifp. he public debate on the subjc t,|
Whatizzits have to be rejectefl. fter having satisfied itsdif
any theories which have gaindd hrough research that the sauceps
wlide currency are based on facts re something akin to what Menzp|
which are “probably true.” But no escribes, is that, radar Scopes 1 |
scientist bases conclusions on ashington have been described |
The closest anyone has ome were seeing them with the nakns
not only to explaining the phe- eve
nomena. but duplicating them, is Until further returns are
rof. Menzel. He .?E“E,VQS tr the only explanation availabip
faucers are fancy mirages—actugl| is one known to anyone who h
nages of lights, but dlsplk\_c A | ver had anything to do wit
hrough miles of space bv refrag- adar—you' see all kinds ‘f" un’
on. He explains that light movts ccountable things on it. It .
slower through a dense medium nsidered noteworthy that Aj
* like cold air than in warm air. orce radar in the same regio
When it passes from a l‘ayel Qf failed to pick up the impuls
G Sarot ol bGan MhrRooiE| TR S no IS ad
angle, it is bent, and may be seen \ "%‘,’Ee'
(
--- page 57 ---
0-19
. ‘ Tolson______
Ladd__,
Nichol Lz
Belmol@
5 Clegg__(~" 7
y/ Glayin= STt
) Harbo ______
Rosgen S8 /i
Tracy. L= N "
Laughlin_____
/ Mok if T
& Tele. Rm,
/ \ Holloman
™ \ Gandy_-
X ) "
’ 7 / A :
Saucer’ Mystery— 5 ) E’ :
. Ay VRSN
Is Solved; Device JL N
Studies Weather s
| One of the Washington area’s / )
flying saucers has been trackéd' /]
down finally. 7 | A
Last week a Martinsburg ( I R
Va.) woman found a mysterious a7 i
five-foot square piece of aluminum| . [ \ii
covered material on her farm.
She wanted to know what it was[ |
but nobody seemed to be able 4
to tell and there was the usual p )
speculation about fiying saucers. I
Andrews Air Force Base cleared
. uy the mystery today. A spokes-!
mgn said the object was used by
the Air Weather Service. It is
atjached 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
3sald. I
— o mnsemer.
NOT REC Mt
98 AUG 11 1959
Lc_/.,—\ Times-Herald
?,(»’ / Wash. Post
7Y s
(J M Vash. News ____
H Wash. Star -
!
N.Y. Micror ——
) 72
2 1 2 N.Y. Compass——
e 1 7 IV e .
Date: /Z
--- page 58 ---
/
. 0-19
f olson Z
Ladd /
/fiich >
fi@lfi" e DA
g —
Glavin
Y = | _{Harboy:Sis i
/ Rosen
Tracy.
Laughlin
Mohy I NS
Tele. Rm,
Holloman
:‘/\ Ggpdy -~
i 4 pl 1. RSN S i wmg&sz_v i
‘| iey’re in the Sky Again
-
| .
Radar Spots More Mystery Objects Here,
3 . . G .
4 -
Fliers Report Sighting Glowing Lights
F o) s ) o) !
Washington reccivc(lflgggfi\leia“.ay, The_pilot said he wasn't|lighted end of a cigaret, or a
visit last night from fhie uniden” able to close on herfiardithiey | olusteniof GREEY and red lights.
‘tij‘f_(_i_j\_erijll _ol;jccts_sip}if}i_l; o were “really moving.” He lost| Radar operators plotted their
|those l‘gll_migi[1_9_1'£’iva§t;‘l}}gjlda)'fsigl1t of them two minutes latelj."speed at from 38 to 90 miles per
% At Teast a dozen of the mys-| The same pilot observed ajhour. They were not able to de-
{terious objects were reported to st[es{dy whi‘[,e light 1‘011;1;155 cast|termine their altitude. Some
|have been seen glowing in the Of Mount ernon at 11:49 p. M. | pijots reported flying over them
|sky within a 30-mile radius of‘;rlhc 'l|ght, about five 1_mlcs ahead and some under them.
of him, faded in a minute. fore last week's i 't of
the city. They were all picked| The interceptors did not sight B_e_gl_e_r_?s__”,#fi hi»-’“enm it
U_E__.KO" the radar screen of the’any more lights after that. Al ($e_mysterious L A_,s._io-lc‘_a .Ea
CAA_Air_Route Traffic Control|though the radar scroen still 15,-?"9*1{'_&““%'
center_at_Washington ,Na!_ign?a_'l_l picked up the objects. One lleA\-teLLQ_hfiYfi_fiiflJ?qt%E- -
Airport. | plane landed shortly before mid- radar_screens —Lie SUEte 1
At 11:25 p. m,, two F.04 jet|night, and the other about 12:15 51_1%\19 on the National Lo
fighters were sent up by theja. m. . }%rgl,n. OWCY%‘» Saflzsefi,,jlfil_fi!‘
| Aiir Defense command to Yaves.! It was the second time these - DUPSZ Of _the ;cl.":[‘?gl« B“.’,J_g..
|tigate the lights. The %flpts re- objects have been picked up by means contact with solid objects,
| ported seeing the “Tights, but radar. Last night's visitors rather than ll;grhtswp_l{_\;r_:fieflgps:
\iere ot able to get any closer showed up first on the screen| A CAA spokesman °d the ob-
{6 {lhiem than about 7 Miles. —rat 9:08 p. m. and remyed Tor|jects picked up last night gave
“The et “pilots described the some time. ¥ off blips similar to those of reg-
lights as hard to see and track! Airline, private and’ military | ular aireraft. ]
down: pilots all reported seeing them. . The Air Force has been inves:,
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 e h
The lights were about 500 feet They were variously described | est. since 1947, when they Jfst
above him and about 10 miles as looking like blue lights, the'were seen. 1
: Times-Herald _
Wash. Post M
Vash. News
—_
n (4 Wash,:Scar | L.
JAUL S 1992 I N.Y. Mirror _——
NOT RGO DED N.Y. Compass ——
g8 JuL 31 1952 e '_"(2
7 199
e o 2
—_— Date: ="
--- page 59 ---
--- page 60 ---
r t
X .
A Ly e L VIR
AUD f%/‘;UC?'T{'l, MIAMI
. "WE FEEL, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE MISSILES ACTED AND 'BECAUSEQOF ALL
THE OTHER }.‘fj}:’@i':'f’i THAT. HAVE BEEN HEARD, THAT THEY MUST BE FROM SOME i
FXTRA-TERRES TRIAL > QURCE , ™ NASH »ALD, °
"IF EITHER OF US HAD SEEN THE THINGS "‘L’?.'i"’ WE WOULD HAVE HESTITATED
T0. TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT,® THE PILOT 3AID, -*BUT WE WATCHED -THE WHOLE
THING TOGETHER, " i
NASH SAID THE OTHER PASSENGERS ON THE DC-4 WERE WITTING WHERE THEY
COULD"NOT HAVE SEEN THE EIGHT MISSILES,
"GIVING CONSIDERATION TO THE JIFFERENCE IN OUR ALTITUDE AND
THEIRS , WE JUDGED THAT THEY WERE APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET IN DIAMETER )
AND J:fiffi:‘.—'_‘ff 10 AND 15 FEET 'I'ZIICK," NASH SAID,
"AS THEY NEARED U5 ,STHEY APPEARED TO BE SOLID ..'l"‘)I'T7_C’F LIGHT
GLOWING ORANGE-RED LIKE RED HOT IR 34" NASH SAID, . "BUT THEY HAD
DEFINITE OUTLINES , ®
NASH SAID WHEN THE STRANGE OBJECTS GOT ALMOST DIRECTLY BELOW THE
PAA "PLANE, THEY MADE A S H/\EU‘", 1 50~DEGREE: TURN TO THE ".'I‘.f'l‘, THEN
BANKED UPfiALD AT AN ALMOST 90 DEGREE TURN, AS THEY GAINED ALTITUPI‘H,
THEY WERE JOINED BY TW0 OTHER IDENTICAL wTHII GS,"
THE LIGHTS OF ALL EIGHT FLICKERED OFF:IN SUCCESSION AT *PERHAPS
Ji’:l,(),.’\)i) BUT THEY WERE GOING SO FAST IT WAS DIFFICULT TO F.“iTI(T/\Tf’"
HE 'SAID,
3ANTOS CEYANES . ACTING OPERATIONS MANAGER FOR PAN AMERICAN HERE
SAID THE FPLYING SAUCERS SEEN BY NASH AND FORTENBERRY w0 VIOUSLY 'T.TA{('Y"
NOT FIGMENTS OF THEIR IMAGINATI ONg™
NASH, A NAVY TRANSPORT PI1LOT IN WORLD WAR II, IS A VETERAN oF .
10,000 f-.“{ HOURS , FORTENBERRY, FORMERLY A NAVY FIGHTER PIL{‘T, HAS BEE}
AN EMPLOYE OF PAA SINCE THE ','Af-’(‘.
THE REPORT MADE BY NASH AND FORTENBERRY TODAY WAS THE LATEST OF * [
SEVERAL RECENT REPORTS OF MYSTERIOUS. OBJECTS IN THE AIR, }
ON_ JULY ’3; FOUR PILOTS FOR A NONeSCHEDULED AIRLINE REPORTED SEEING A
PSAUCER™ HOVERING NEAR THE ATOMIC ENERGY PLANT AT RICHLA DSy WASH,
T7/15--W0908P
Teg-s o T R
y NOT IO
‘ S JUL 23 19
_;J:,.\;'].)ii"
4 ]
--- page 61 ---
7 p
‘ ‘ 0.20
G1son i/l
Nichols )
Belmoni
Cfe:g_(_/,jj_
Glavini =S
Harbo “Sosuss
Rosenjesctsnas
Flira Cy it SR
X Laughlin___*_
Mohr=S5+ 2
Tele. Rm.____
\ Holloman_____
Gandy
[ (SAUCERS ) @, \
CHICAGO--0*HARA AIR FORCE BASSE OFFICERS SAID TODAY "FLYING SAUCEA%
REPORTS HAVE PICKED UP LATELY. RS T B
THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE SAID IT HAS RECEIVED *6 REPORTS OF
MYSTERIQUS OBJECTS IN THE SKY IN THE CHICAGO VICINITY THIS WEEK,
@ ggENOggfigggg‘DENlED REPORTS THAT A SPECIAL "FLYING SAUCER® ALERT
PUBLIC INFOR&ATION OFFICERS SAID JET PATROLS NORMALLY ARE ON THE
ALERT ™24 HOURS A DAY,"
OFFICERS SAID THE AIR FORCE ENCOURAGES CALLS ON OBJECTS SIGHTED,
E{IEZU:{'?OgHE REPORTS ARE ®PASSED ON TO HIGHER AUTHORITY®™ FOR
AN OFFICER SAID SOME OF THIS WEEK'S REPORTS APPARENTLY STEMMED ‘
FROM AN ORPHANAGE PICNIC AT WHICH 5,000 TOY BALLOONS WERE RELEASED,
/ 7/3--00753P
ORDIED \C\\
L 14 1952 ¥
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE — ——
--- page 62 ---
v ‘ 0.20
‘ Q/';‘ Ison ’
e
Nichol 3
.
Belmont Y3 T
Clegg__w’_.‘_
Glavin= o8 ¢
2 HarboSeis e s
/u' RoSen s
4. Tracy - Sisii
Laughlin______
Mohr=a = -~ =
Tele. Rm.____
Holloman______
Gandy -
(SABJEEG%}% UNITEDPRESS =W FOUR FLO] A_PILLOTS.,. TH, EE OF THEM WO\
-=( S<WCNS ) == 3 ; - THR H. RL
WAR II VETERANS wfifié‘,A&Mficm&wm,M OVER...
Ifi%ANLQRZLAIn&LuLANI.AI. RICHLANDS., WASH,
PT, JOHN BALDWIN OF CORAL GABLES, FLA,, AN AIR FORCE PILOT IN THE
PACIFIC DURING WORLD WAR II WHO HAS 7,000 H()URS OF AIRLINE PILOT
EXPERIENCE, SAID THE OBJECT HE AND HI& COMPANIONS REPORTED SEEING
EARLY TODAY WAS A "PERFECTLY ROUND DISC, WHITE IN COLOR AND ALMOST
TR%N%SQRENT WITH SMALL VAPOR TRAILS OFF IT LIKE THE TENTACLES OF AN
O0CTO Sy
HE SAID HE WAS FLYING AT ABOUT 9,000 FEET AND SAW THE OBJECT
"JUST BELOW A DECK OF WISPY CLOUDS ABOUT 10,000 TO 15,000 FEET
DIRECTLY ABOVE US, ‘
"ALL OF US HAVE BEEN FLYING A NUMBER OF YEARS AND WE'VE SEEN ALL )
KINDS OF CLOUDS AND FORMATIONS BUT NONE OF US HAD EVER SEEN ANYTHING
LIKE_THIS BEFORE,® BALDWIN SAIf,
"THE OBJECT ngMEgI}'gLBQ%KF?HA;{ FROM US AND CgAN%g S/}\{APE.W IT WAS
. EEBE-ECILEKRQU.MD.A,PEW Rb AL FIRST, THEN LT SEFMED TO BACK AWAY FRO
lE AND_CHANGE SHAPE, IT BECAME FLAT, GAINED _SEEE%.MN:JJISTKPPEERED
\ 7/5--N&43Pp \
4 X i e (/7 Y O ot /
s gl - 1IRDIBD 2
L 14 1952 ; 333‘/
) b
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE \
--- page 63 ---
: ' ’ 0-19
-
- i1:01'8'0 n SENEEIN
Ladd
Clegg
Glavin
Nichols i
Rosen
Tracy.
Harbo
Belmont____
2xh 2 =i Mohral S5 NaR .
3 At dusk on a cool summer eve-! Tele. Room_____
. is the- best time to—see—the
a Ca]].s Saucers ’mon “saucer,” it adds. | Neasb S=o il
“The lateral rays of the sun at| Gandy,
dusk illuminate the base of the
l It B‘ B ll balloon. There is no chance of _—
I l your ever seeing the full round-
y S 1 a OOI].S ness of it because you are so far ~ N\
Lhiun & below it. You see only the illumi- / )
NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (£)—Fly- nated cup of the bottom. If your == L"
g saucers are real—but they're imagination soars, the light re- / C
1 P .| flection on the side may impress >
C Tli? balloons used "_1 cosm.u: : you as the glow of an atomic en- (-’ / "; /
ray studies, Look.magazme Will| gine, The wisp of the balloon’s /‘/’%«/ /‘ A
say Tuesday, quoting Dr. Urner | instrument-filled tail may ifpress < y A%Y, fl g
|/B3ddel, chief of the nuclear physics | You as the exhaust. The sun’s Y\ & =21
[ branch of the Office of Naval Re; | 475 oy sutiuge thERRRREEE 7 1Y 7 -
gees ith a fiery glow. | : 7
lsearc'lm He is in charge of the | " «pyen seasoned airmen have no /
cosmic ray-halloon project. way of estimating the size and I 27
The balloons are huge plastic |speed of an object they see. To l' N7
bags, 100 feet in diameter, that|Peg Size and speed, the mind )
may rise 19 miles high- -ahout,j"::ff. know, the nature afithe obs
100,000 feet. Winds may sweep{ Look says Dr. Liddel and axaso-I
them along at 200 miles an hour, | ciates studied 2000 reports of
At dusk, the slanting rays of the | Iving saucers, eliminating those
sun light up their bottoms, giving | “Seeming 'to be the visions of
them a saucer-like appearance, the | ¢tackpots —or psycopaths” or/ N
article says. “clearly the result of inaccurat D
Fhey carry instruments aloft to | Vision.” ! y e
redord what happens when cosmic| ‘“This left a solid base of re J
rafs hit atoms in the earth’s at-|Ports from airplane pilots, scien J ’!) W
mpsphere, This splitting gives a| tific observers and reliable layme y ‘(4 |} 5
clue to how atoms are put to-|Which could not be brushed asid u,
gether, and how to release their After a thorough investigation, 4
energy. | Dr. Liddel said: ‘There is not a {
“When this project first began it | Single reliable report of an ob- 2
was kept secret” the magazine | servation which is not attributable I“,
quotes Dr. Liddel. “Now there is | {0 the cosmic balloons'.” ; } 4N
no longer any need for secrecy on | It quotes Dr. Liddel as saying .
a stientific basis, And cenalnly.' that Capt. Thomas F. Mantell, air | £:D
there is no longer any need ml force pilot found deafi.in his | [ &
keep the public in the dark about Crashed plane ‘atter radioing that 2/ 3
what flying saucers are.” he was pursuing a strange sky
Look says “the Liddel report is object, was chasmg" ““a balloon | ]
considered tobe the most authori-| °f the skyhook type. v Page
tative scientific explanation of the | Tifere have been several reports
flying-saucer phenomenon. As far| Of Squadrons of flying disks, and 3
as Dr. Liddel is concerned per-| this is explained by Dr. Liddel Times-Herald
sonally, he considers his answer| 25 clusters of 20 to ?0 ballqons 10 =
incontrovertibly right.” ; to 15 .feet in diamefer, which are
The balloons, called skyhooks,| sometimes» used in place of the Wash. Post !E
were first sent aloft in 1947, and | huge skyhook. A
it was then that flying saucer re-| DI Liddel checked ‘?ther Gov-
ports began, it adds. There were| €Tnment agencies and “is satisfied Wash. News
more balloons in the next two | that no other research or experi-|
years and more “saucers” seen.| ;;::ntal project h“l utilized any-
There were fewer balloons sent| 'NINg even roughly resembiirg! Wash. Star
up in 1950, and fewer saucer-f!‘-’%e’fi"a’mg saucer.” | T
ports. £ ot TR N
A picture, taken by telescopei N.Y. Mirror —
of a palloon at 77,0°" feet overi '/, { g
nesota, convinced Dr. Liddel! 2 T
even more, the magazine NOT Rg TT USRS
THe photo fits descriptiofi‘ 132 may °~°RDED ]
v o ) SRS St ‘AT & 1981 2201
- .\ NNCVE 3 Date:
521 INDEXED - 37
--- page 64 ---
o @ @
/ P ke
) —
ki
WHAT FLEW ACROSS
‘Flying Saucer’
By Sunday Dispateh Reporter o A
THOUSANDS of people in many parts of %\p ™
Britain, including spectators at foot-
ball matches, saw what many of them
believed to be a flying saucer yesterday.
In each case the phenomenon—a strange
white flash which darted across the sky at terrific
speed—was seen about 4 p.m.,
~ These reports of the passage of this object E
through the sky were received by the Sunday| 72 e9(
Dispatch last night: ot o s
More than 500 spectators at a Soccer cup match at 2k T, PR
Chard, Somerset, saw a strange white phenomenon dartf ¢ JAlL~* 1951
across the clear sky high above the grandstand at about
3.45. Within a split second of passing it seemed to disperse : o
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 :
“TIt was like a diamond flash ; its shape was like a big
peardrop, with the thin end tapering behind. Suddenly it
“hemew’ into nothingness.” (3 »
SUNDAY DISPATCH L T
LLONDON, ENGLAND
DEC. 3, 1950 Van
--- page 65 ---
-
2
=-Othey people described it as a | :
“blob-of brllllan, whiteress | Airmen Saw It
and a “sheet of white hesi===Dilots of four jet aircraft of the
metal ” Royal 1Auxi]mr,v|Aix(" Force cong g
Chai in to land at Llandaw, near Ckgr-
Willigglm%guggon?hsaifiing'%’; 12/}[12 diff, revorted a flash of light lat
stand, said : “It came right over 1?.‘.09,9’(;‘ to: the north-eastiof fthe
the top of us like a brilliant streak | #1%d-
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 ?’k Ham G}\recn, said : c‘l'It loPked
i ¢ x ika a rocket coming down from
‘ngnsas l\;lé’é:lefiott, who was watch- | 200pft. There was an intense white
Stroct thtes oni match at Perry| flash which left a trail of vapour.”
e he gm0t ot OHAT, Spectators at the match between
:ZLI;? S\?ieufflw% “ll’g\v-flymg, LveLy Shap(issgu?‘ys and Longfleet St.
four o'c]ockl,1 G shortly“before Mav_:y reported what appeared like
At North Potherton, near Bridg- | %, 820t Togket. "1t seemed fo fall
;\;a“tlerégpe%mmrs_ at another match Bovingdon ¥ airport in Hertford-
sky shorfiyj%cetfolrl: }'g\fr %?CTI%}E_QVOSt shire, 150 "21“‘35 fist gif [&’3‘“&‘;‘?
i “« : also reported to the Air Ministr:
oo peened) fas o lang [iSa a brilliant white light was
Shooush the ching which streaked| seen a long way to the west ab
?{jl-lg TL £ o aua tarrificirater: 45 nm Obseryers estimated that
Pethertor Hollinghurst, of North | it wos at about 20,000t and say
C T said : “If appeared sud-| thnt it vanished in a trail of smoke.
]eavivng a c,i“éea’;‘,‘, awayk SUdg%n]?' Air Ministry said last night:
0 Was no nois Y 1smoke, are “ A thorough check has been made
Planes abouts 0 there were 10| and no " aircraft is missing or
3 i § :;"eved to have blown up in the
; A‘f:hannel Explosmn l Ictl ils most unliléely thatlfinhun-
8w minutes I scheduled private flight coul ave
though from an aetfi;k‘,‘sig,‘}"h;m;‘g taken place at such a height. We
%ex?igto?t C%] great height over the cannot explain the phenome‘non,h
annel, 50 mile: th “No aircraft was flying in the
nol;«teh oi TR T Portshead area.”
borts from places as muc
130, miles apaft " WVere' received Geme Stopped
Pt:yretlsl-:l Ministry. i At Towyn, near Rhyl, North
reported efid (near Bristol) police Wales, Rugby players dropped the
Eeen gt hat a white flash was bell end, with spectators, stared
WEIER ctween 45 and 410 p.m. into the sky as a yellow object
sion ?{"’f“”d to be an explo- tr % saarcs flashed across it. \
Tategratey, rued pink, and dis- It vanished over Tower Hill,
Wil B0 0o0tt. s o mated Helght Abergele, within ten seconds.
Wesi o 3 At about 4 o’'clock spectators at
Yeston-super-Mare police re-| Amersham, Buckinghamshire, f00t-
Pprted to the Air Ministry that| ball ground saw a brilliant object
Y oaw a similar flagh in the “1like a huge star ” flash across the
1 ~,elsmad direction at the same sky, leaving a volume of smoke in
: Dt 17" {ts wake. .
‘ré\nt‘lothex‘ .slghtmg was reported Among people who saw the object
as far away as Durham, at Launceston, Cornwall, were two
ex-R.AF. officers who were wateh-
ing a Rugby match, -«
The object, which was circular,
go /e off a bright bluish-white light.
=zoinote : One theory advanced
1~ ¢ night by Professor F. A.
F- 13t (Professor of Chem:sl.ré; at
Lo:roam University and a leading
e .ooro on msteorites) 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 & hole in the ground or g
damaged tree that was not there
--- page 66 ---
-
. { C——
: |
|| Hfl R N
I \” 'N A =
e e : B
[ L A ) b
- | { At ]
4 ) p: | \ —
i ¥ |
' = 7 <
By Sunday Dispatch Reporter A ! =0
B
WEST OF ENGLAND newspapers gave much # { ‘a I
publicity last week to reports of * flying : B * i b
saucers '’ over Devon. 1 i |
= . s e W
The saucers were reported by a number -
) Y
of independent witnesses from places as far
gport as Woolacombe (near lifracombe),
¢, Cullompton, Sidmouth Junction, and h
Exeter, 7
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 1
f fire streamed from the back. The observations were at
gbout 11 p.m. in all instances. { .‘
Mr. J. Stewart, 70-year-old Woolacombe pensioner, who &
worked in aircraft fac o bl
nas ¥ two wars, was one of “They were of a brilliant sil-
tories I ople who told the | |yeky blue, travelling south, one be-
En%tgj’ Express and Echo what géngn{ige other in close formation,”
X! § A
they had seen. “After passing overhead, the|
At 1050 °“°‘§§‘§&d°&§,‘ée"f§5%o¥§ rear omectf appeared fo cafch up |
noticed 80 ition of the north e ey aiA e, and collide,
fr%m itflgn Gy at & “ terrific speed.”’| | Whe y disintegrated. X
end O -anklin, of Beacon- H . L {
M. H'i"t;,,f“;%m- Exeter, wrote Bright Disc I
1ane, WHIDIOT ot while at Coun- The object was described by Miss SBG Y
to the PaPEL thiies south-east of | | J . Spurway, of Exeter-hill, Cul- |
tess Wear (ronday night, he saw 1om?ton (12 miles north-east of
mxeter) O Fopjects. Exe er)k as “a bright disc travel- | )
two circular ling with a circular movenient at
great speed.” .
Two and a half miles north of 2
fixmouthfi flig objegt N}Vfls rs:ee{:I ab \
m sPATCF ( p.m. . an rs, L. us-
SUNDAY YISPA L‘L.{ ‘\ sell, of Hfil-crest. Lympstone, who y \
NDON, BNGL AND (v described it as having been in two { \
LONDON, & \ parts “apparently attached in I 1
11-5-50 \ some way with a lighted tail.” 1
£ ; The sixth witness quoted in the ¢ D\
Express and Echo is Mr. A. J. { JAN 1 i
Powell, of Sidmouth Junction, who, L A ) |
while between Patterson’s CIOss,
| Ottery St. Mary and Sidmouth »
Junction at 11 p.m. on Mondae;, Py
w0 ~Wes|
Zi'?&x: behind a bank of mist. !
--- page 67 ---
>
H R
~Z‘Long Red Trail Bluish Liqht
“ They passed swiftly,” he said, uis )
“in a southerliy direction and ap- Frederick Bray, fisherman, age
peared to be ‘in line astern’ with 39, was lying in the bunk of hi
2 long red trail to the rear . . - ||boat in Torquay outer harbour.
both lights seemed to fizzle out a.sl 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 pm. “I watched the
pened ... I heard no sound. flames for about ten seconds. They
“Two large ctrcular objects || seemed to surround a roundish ob-
travelling south in a horizontal | ject which was travelling towards
Fosmon looking something like (| Thatcher Rock ” (to the East).
arge 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
Southfleld-a_venue. Preston, Devon, thought at first it was a rocket fire-
saw at Paignton at 11 p.m. on work,” he told the Herald Ezpress.
Monday. r “Then I noticed it was maintain-
Members of the crew of a llbertf¥ ing a constant speed at a constant
boat plying between Flagstaff || height, , . It was absolutely silent.
Steps, Devonport Dockyard, and ||t seemed to disintegrate suddenly
H.M.S. Defiance are also’ reported || and disappear.”
S A “ball of bluish-white light”
W ¥as se%n gdt, ng)out 11 i 1n";!l11e
A ST Sky abovi aignton travelling
y SN | south towards Brixham. _ Mr.
WOOLACOMBE 4 Harry Cove-Clark, of Marine-drive,
=3 Y, Paignton, said : “The ball of light
= C was preceded by a thin blue blur
(7 ( \ A which was overtaken by the main
1\ \ ¢~ || body.
> » 1] .
) T Like Feeble Rocket
CULLOMPTON “ Then ancgher bluish-white light
: j queared and a broken stream of
\ - . hfi ts seemed to fall from it. Thefv‘
BN EXETER all seemed to be following eac )
” ==L comouH other straight across the sky, then
there was a spurt of flame from
/=y | | the end of the broken pieces—just
SN § <A | | like a feeble rocket.”
NE—=__ The last of the witnesses, Mr, H.
\ Loy | | Warren, of East-street, Torre, Tor-
) )rorquy AZEIAA] quay, saw from his bedroom win-
/ IS AT ow an object “going towards
e AT Brixham, due south of Torqufl%"
N ; Describ}ing i% in Ianiette{ t% t s
A 4 SO Japer, he said : ought it wa
EoSew, S . P;&:; three stars with a mné'lifl’ox—'
Moo= C [ light, trailing behind them G |
AT TSN
%w
in the Western Morning News as
hnv!ng seen ‘“circular objects
trayel in% at an incalculable speed
and emitting a trail of fire " late on
Monday n151t. X
The_Touay Herald. Frorass
quotes four other people who saw
similar objects. |
--- page 68 ---
~ 0-19 /
/ ‘ Tolson
A ‘ /’Lada___?
p f o R
¢ \ ‘Glavin
' T 4 Nietf o
> 4 . Rosen
R ts Plent S > Wil —
epoits Lleitl aucers’ INil
”» ' . - ey ;) ,
By Drew Pearsoft 2 V;n}{_ul‘sm;{’ace radio was a chunk | - H’”boz
Y of that utterly=fatted=to | Missing GIs Belmont
M:_i_]a_w_o_f_fllc pick up a message or even a“ % e e
American public_appears to_be| Wheeze from space. 3 Qlte—g;fi n ublicized fact Mobr il SN
convinced that flying saucers do In the face of this evidence, tlwmé!_u Tele. Room
: B_S : Koehler still claimed know | this_writing the A, h —
exist, so far s ] nowledge || \rmy _has_only N
[ exist, so far the Air Force has not| of the little men, hut refused to | been able to release 138 prisoners, e
{been able 10wy divulge his source and drastically of war from Korean prison camps. Gandyr o
| Tcack —down_a (R 51 | revised his story. | This leaves approximately 4000 fi 3
| single bona fide £5 SR | According fo the confidential ”}’E‘Efifi-‘_“iflfll_mifii_"&_.fl__m}f @ cemihs e )
| saucer. = - s&%" % | Air Force report, “Koehler stated :fiLArqm—hEIiEynd_!ha&_mosLnI—' —
| This_is de- £ W 5 #pat he had no parts of flying | \ese_missing GIs had been killed, o ST
| spite._the t © | spucers in his possession at pres- ip action. However, since U. N. it Ve
that United 2 i oo e t. He denied having ever seen | foops_have now traveled f - &
| States _aviators & % o y flying saucer or its occupants.” | tre length of Korex without recdy- I
| have spent hour. LR "1; G & }c ing the bodies o these missifig )
e nour gk & | TFlying Washtub | men, f is believed they must hale
ports_not_only B . investigafors _patiently _{racked | o Siheria. T~
cers, _but_—of PEARSON. | actually crashed . mear Warven, | carcd American prisoners almost
| Sich weird phenomena_as mifg- T The reporf was iraced to, - ii they were allies, returning
| ets from Venus, sh oting stars, ahd Walter Sirek, a gervice station o =1 gany: of them to American lines.
| even_an old washiubh. erator. who directed the investiga: Lo if the 4000 GIs were trans-
r This column has now been able tg‘%‘_tggmmmm_um_'flw.m p'(:,[ntsedtlzgtg(o?;beria l",'v (t‘he Rus- /%) /
L i N hat they saw was summed u ns, the story may be different. I ok ( 4
‘m .e;am!ne A{lj Force files, anfi e coneat Aoy calimles ;S" his possibility is giving the Army {
| it is quite evident that the Air follows: ‘The machine was Oh.l eat concern. 50
Force has instaking job viously made from various objects s © DEC 19 199
]Df e establish_ whether op Such_as n_old wadshins.magm_rmfc OTE—éLwin}somu 8l ¥
; . 5 cover, part of a radio _set chassis wnt»w y i 4
nwmmw. cover, part of a radio_Ser CUSSSle.missing. [ =
These files show that consider- M‘WML‘-M—IL — = 'yL
eveloped that Ted Heyen Capital C 1 C /
ble time was even spent check- and Robert Schaeffer, who run the apug X LI o8 : j(‘ 4
g the report received from local hardware store, had made . Lady Diplomats—Madame Min- P /
fovie Actor Bruce Cabot and the the “fying saucer” as a joke. - ister Perle Mesta pufup a gallant, () w./\ Z
wandotte Echo, a newspaper pich:i Alr Force has even received M&Mw }‘/’I}‘ v
J};]ished in Kansas City, that most fse"{ S“L]‘c“rs in flight. The have to be ‘satisfied with being a 1A
E:rpses of blond, beardless 3- fwo s}}r:m‘i-;czizgs“;atsre:kl'::;wgv:: lain “‘Minister' i : d of a full=
foot men from Venus had been the baseball park at Great Falls, fledged “Ambassador” fo Luxem: ‘ AI"’
x apriving on a flying saucer Mont., sent in by Nick Mariana, Bourg . . . Main reason Perie ;?
S named Coulter pai[k (RANABEr iy o came back to Washington was to (
py a man ; 3 ! owever, investigators found persuade the President to raise her - bo}
pead on arrival, these space- ‘: a;l lhsilpzigturcs were taken be- ‘American Legation to a full Em~ )
,veling midgets had no cavities | en 11:20 and 11:35 a. m. pn bassy. Even though she'’s a close \/
(-rdtheipbt(‘c“‘l, and wore shoes re- | Afigust 15. By coincidence, to friend of Mr. Truman's, he said
o humen skin according sijvery F-84 jet fighters from Ladd no, .. Meanwhile, the other lady
ssembling o 3 Ah Force Base, Alaska, flew. hifh | diplomat, Eugenie Anderson in
to the story told the Air Force.|over Great Falls at exactly thhit|Denmark, will continue to reign /
Furthermore, Coulter was., SUbr T sufreme as the only lady Ambase ¥ Page
ve as proof of this visit tihe The sun was shinifig 85 that | |sador in the United States diplge
| posed 0 b lack flections from the high-flying||mdic corps Times-H
| ¢rc venus—a lunar cloc op- rpflections from the -flying Orps. 3 es-Herald
oy i Aid for Tibet—United Statds &5
JueEe o { o t s
‘ erating on @ 28-day cycle, a Sp‘?c” ‘: Zappeared a8 w0 gliyery Blics Anlbassador Austin has private] e
radio, and, gear from. the flying saucers, / advised El Salvador to give up ils Wash Post / / /
¢, all of them supposedy ar- | Once the Air Force's own radar | | campaign to get the United Na- . ] 27 2
sa”.cf,' with the plond midgets screen near Wright Field, Ohio‘\ gons to rescue Tibe‘tj. }’f‘he United "
riving i Vations, Austin said, has enough W,
from Venus. o' : :'c.ke'i e w,h;t,;:?pe"edlm :]e 2 || trouble in Korea without taking on ash. News g 2
So the Air Foree, as it does with .vmg saucer drifting eastwar “1’m0re headaches in the most motne <
of those TUMOLS, painstak-| 20 miles per hour. But prompt in- |/ tainous and inaccessible countty. Wash, St
saogs 4 patiently investigated. | vestigation showed it to be only a||in the world. $ g tar ’
ingly and P& us Mr. Coulter ‘dense black eloud so charged wi'h“ Treaty for Japan — President
The mYSETIOW, L Kochler | electronic particles that it ap.\ Truman has fold Seerefary Aches| N.Y, Mip
od out to be George Koehler son that unless Russia answers 1. Mirror ——
turnee . an. advertising saleg- | peared on radar. within the next month, he is in
of Den\./ "(lin wtion KMYR, | eanwhile, flying saucer reports | favor of going ahead and holding N. Yy, ¢ s6——
nan for 0 fi‘vifi sanéor genf) | coptinue to pour info the Air|| the Japanese peace treaty confera .- Compa
caduced he % ‘L,za) b ik |Eojce. 26 the zata of five or six| ence without Soviet representa-
(it (urned 0UF e }Pe day but, so far, nobswreas |tives, The President told this to - aanai
a coduct of this planet, |ayer materialized. | Acheson and John Foster Dulles T AR O
pod :l’ with the Roman numeral ,%:mnz a :x_tecfih maeting at which | V
stampe {they Tépdrted that Russiahasmofy Daté: —
BRI Ce, o
--- page 69 ---
0
® o . om
Clegg,
Glavin,
Nich
Rosen
| Tracy.
/)., Harbo 2
IV // Belmont
3& Mohr
Y Tele. Room___
v Nease
\\ G'ndy
¢ 3 3 £ e
e \\.__ \ \ E - j ./ p
G
The Workd Today
¥o Philadelphia policemen._said
the;“srai' ‘;fl;zm'%E@iEe object land
in-a field. Before ¥FBI men could
’ join —them, however, “the _six-fo 3 / /
gRdget had evaporated. One of -
hticernen—who. —touched—the_thi ‘ ¢
shid the portion—he-handled dis.| | — TS
Ived _at.once,—leaving—a._ stick ik
idorless residue. 85 0CT 14 1950
\ 0
N I/
\\ { Faly
>,
N Page
Times-Herald
Wash, Post ___
Wash. News S&
Wash. Stap®’ to o
N.Y. Mirror
N. Y, Compass__
Date:
—_—
--- page 70 ---
U 3 Tolnoné
‘h 3 ,’:led
¢ 4 Clege.
4 I Glavin,
Rose Q
Tracy. ]
/ Harbo /A1) L~
Belm‘oit}q;} / L
u Mohr
( ~'-/ / Tele. Room__
> & \ Nease
) 5 Py ady s
/ POPLAR B ( --r_owm CHASED AFTER A STRANGE SPHERICAL
mmm:l )REDS OF PERSONS SAW ING ACROSS THE SKY, BUT TNE
ICE, AIRPORT AND RADIO s% _ #l. SAID "JUST ABOUT
'VERYONE IN POPLAR BLUFF® SAW NYSTERIOUS OBJECT FOR FIVE OR SIX
CAA WORKER: 28 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NERE, PLOTTED ITS
s ASTERLY COURS : ”&; {, UNTIL mfi
2_ IPTIONS i 0 GUESSES TO ITS IDENTITY WERE
u“fi% 1 , AUTHORITIES AT NENPHIS, TENN,, SENT TWO F-51
A WATIOMAL GUARD STRGEANT CONFIRNED THAT THE F-31'S CLIMBED TO I
/ "'I‘, UL NOT Ml rl: oBJEéT, HE DID WOT SAY |
A CAA OFFICIAL AT ” AINTAINED TWO-WAY RADIO CONTACT
- TR SR JespS, Al T OF THE FIRST PLANE UP REPORTED FROM
L OTHER F-51 PILOT MADE A SINILAR am THE CAA OFFICIAL SAID.
/nu NO_CLOSER THAR’ N THE GROUND,»
9/19-=TS 10224
270 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
--- page 71 ---
5 Tolson
. . /j _ Ladd ¢/
é)’ Clegg,
" Glavin,
Nichols,
Rosen
\; >\\ Tracy. -
~" Harbo Z
pas N L‘B,e'imont
N, Mohr
L. vy Tele. Room___
\ / I / /\-/,(/’“ Nease f
/A | et ) Gand f
[t ("SAUSAGE™) |
SPRINGFIELD, ILL=-~PILOT JIM GRAHAM CLAIMED TODAY THAT A "FLYING
?Q?)U%:GE.ECOLLIDED WITH HIS. PLANE AND “"EXPLODED LIKE A BOMB"~-=BUT CAUSZD]
MAGE, 1
GRAHAM, CHIEF PILOT FOR THE CAPITAL AVIATION COMPANY HERE, WAS
FLYING TO SPRINGFIELD FROM CHICAGO LAST NIGHT WHEN HE SIGHTED THE
OBJECT AS HE FLEW OVER WILLIAMSVILLE, JUST NORTH OF HERE,
HE SAID THE OBJECT WAS A "BLUE STREAK ABOUT 10 FEET LONG AND SHAPED
LIKE A SAUSAGE,"™ HE SAID IT WAS TRAILING YELLOW FIRE.
THE OBJECT, WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE HIS PLANE, DIVED SUDDENLY AND
PLOUGHED DIRECTLY INTO HIS PROPELLER,
"IT EXPLODED LIKE A BOMB WHEN IT STRUCK," HE SAID,
GRAHAM MANAGED TO STAY ON COURSE AND LANDED AT CAPITAL AIRPORT HERE,
HE EXPECTED TO FIND HIS PLANE EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED, HE SAID, BUT A
THOROUGH INSPECTION SHOWED NOTHING,.
SEVERAL OTHER SPRINGFIELD RESIDENTS ALSO REPORTED SEEING THE
"FLYING SAUSAGE." ONE WOMAN SAID SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE SITTING ON
THEIR PORCH AND SAW IT PASS OVER SPRINGFIELD.
OBSERVERS AT THE WEATHER BUREAU SAID THE ONLY EXPLANATION THEY COUL
OFFER WAS THAT THE OBJECT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A METEOR THAT APPEARED TO HI
GRAHAM'S PLANE BUT EXPLODED RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT. THEY SAID THEY DID
NOT SEE THE OBJECT,
7/30=-=LO44iP
NOT RECORDED
135/UG 11 1950 { ‘ )
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
--- page 72 ---
. ‘ Tolson /
O&_Ladd _[;
< Clegg
Glavin, :/
Ni chots!
Rosen
{ Tracy
.»Harbo 7
C>>/ Belmont
g N Mohr
Tele. Room
Nease,
Gandy
| (SAUCERS)
l FARGO, N, De¢=~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 3307 A. Me CST BY FARGO
WEATHER BUREAU EMPLOYE RAY WILSON, HE SAID HE WATCHED THEM UNTIL 3:41 o
WHEN CLOUDS OBSCURED VISION,
s MARIAN EDDY, AN AIRLINES EMPLOYE, AND MIKE ENDERSBY AND MARGARET
LAWSON OF THE CAA SAID THEY SAW THE OBJECTS FROM THE FARGO AIRPORT,
WILSON SAID ONLY ONE OF THE OBJECTS WAS VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE,
WITH TELESCOPES AND FIELD GLASSES THE FARGOANS SAID THEY COULD SEE TWO
SMALL OBJECTS ON EACH SIDE OF THE "THING,"
Y WILSON SAID THE OBJECTS DIDN'T SHOW MUCH SPEED, BUT SHOWED
MANEUVERABILITY, ENDERSBY SAID THEY LOOKED LIKE A WHITE FLAME
MANEUVERING IN THE AIR,
[ 7/14~--T130P l
1 ;ea
19 AUG 11 1950 N % ki
y | ; k\ ‘.’JT‘.
i . \f
/) / : N 3 \
v ¥
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
--- page 73 ---
4-26
Tolson
Ladd
Clegg,
Glavin,
Nichols
Rosen
3 Tracy.
Harbo,
\, Belmont
AN Mohr,
ya s Tele. Room__
\ 8 Nease
o ‘ —
‘Fl!mng Sau 7 Gandy_______
Tracked on Na Nl
vy &
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.
TElectronics 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, byt
lare from the center of it prp-
ented getting a better look.” /
irst Thought Jet
“At first we thought it was a
jet plane distorted by glare off
the aluminum body,” said Lt.
(.g) J. W. Martin, the second
pilot. A J
“When I first spotted the saucer
it was ab:u-t.btwo mllesd ogt and | ool / / 9
appeared to be a roun all, It o Y X o~
wl:g in sight for about three mln.{ *’ AL O 7 s wmnad £
utes and at one time we were = » OO RD T
within one mile of it.” s S 2ahdagsl o tony
Moore said, “It was on our left = puG 19 1950
and traveled across in front of ug 3 Page
and disappeared in the distance e
to our right. I think it would be SN vl
about 25 to 45 feet across and Times-Herald Z fec.
about seven feet high. JU~S dar "'a/ =t
“The thing looked like & World &) Z‘/ »
War I helmet seen from the side, Wash. Post
Or & shiny shallow bowl turned| i
upaldet d%wn. We :m!l\r!leig tohlol-*
low it, but our training ships
couldn’t keep up with the saucer,| Wash. News
o YOI T itk s
e pilots, base e g
ton naval air station near nerg,‘ Wash. Star casll
estimated the object was flying at
an altitude of 8,000 feet at a speed N.Y. Mirror
3 “12‘120 mflgs per Dé"é el S e
- e navy declined comment.
[/ // & mmgfi flying saucer ltofles‘
: N peve_hren discountéd, by the N
& [“‘-“w‘;';,(fi 4 armed forces. A &
—— " Date: ‘.7”'_?;,{(7
--- page 74 ---
]f!
1
&
% "
O far flying saucers control or
have been treated by travellng at
the majority of Britisn Prodigious
people with incredulity and speeds, vanish-
polite ridicule. But why ? “I‘lg suddenly,
I have studied all the reports af,sqcxate(_:l 5
available, I have seen photo- Vath brilliant light, fringes of fife
graphs—those in the ~Sunday o flames of peculiar colour afd
Dispatch last week were particu- generally rotating or whirling.
laxly clear—and I believe they are coir‘rzgmr,hne‘:enyrgmolfis of .}1}:‘; w‘% &
pHotographs of disc-type aircraft. fact that their é’escriptions are
arlier pictures published in fi?snnsm‘i?seer(‘it gsashlegil tpntaréfé;sbeiéléz
i alluei . de-
;,egsega{’;sgasgcszefi;l&??fi igg fective vision, or mild hysteria.
" 3 It might be that the solution
BalFarxc Islands, might have been of this riddle could lie in a very
anytning and could have been & 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 2 > 2P
atmosphere which could cause 7 'y /.
whirling “dust devils” of i e e
SEGRET TRMLS luminous gases caused by jet or NGT RE. ORDED
°tlhie§1 hi‘gl?.‘ sé)eed expc_x{:ilme?ts 8,,
N all the reports the objects Which might be responsible for 3
' fall into tls‘gc groups, "The the generation of small atomic o AlG 11 1950
;nost i\lbstamial of “them come wl'grlpools Tx'x‘x the atmotsphere. !
rom America. roup ree reports sugges
First group are those saucers Lhat the saucers are high speed
which are capable of being ex- aircraft of circular or disc shape
phined away as glimpses of €x- travelling at speeds miich higher " o
pdvimental Lrla%s of various than those attained by normal p { 2/
dquices planes. B N U,
nder this heading fall man f ¥
of” the objects seen %n Southerx SAFETY SEARGH (A s ¥’
SUNDAY DISPATCH fiorot “Biperiments ‘are m’ pro. ¥ mmE s no reason, of af i el
LONDON, ENGLAND L] e T S pan been common objects at any time N/
INUON , ENG. Eiven by, e States AIMY quring the past 30 years. JV
o;rcono\}ecgtlonal okathr'?re § unTht"hEg”}f'lggfig"Y ot theise ‘v’gqy d
i 0rthodox- g aircraft Was
balloons which £l out to 1006 58 elore 1010 §t had been shown
Jong and 70ft. in diameter as they ), e and cireul Mfaces
ri dar target balloons capable B SqI S oar B
Ll aEat AT ChoTt. and rejling, Dad very goqd non siailidg chaf
glittering _aluminium foil strip, %v%g;mggz\svexgd airc%af?nagr?;}ed it y
guide‘d missiles, and stratosl)henc was found that the easiest way to e
QFPICE OF THE | cxperiments from Los Alamos ' minimise the losses due to the end
’ 15 Lm‘;‘wm od to have slip of the air from the wing tips ] \ |
AMERIC hartet v above the was fo increase the span of wings / \
ERICAN E}»m“ 3 ! while keeping them narrow. /
LONWH Two ’conslbls of those This comé)romise brought other
i I'le ‘mysterious visitants trouble. arly planes reached i
ave led to wild surmises their stalling an%le at some 15 '8
ahout Siwoe ships, missiles f{or}l degrees, and stalling must result I\
other planets and inter-planetary in a dive since the only correcti 118 7
Sipoping: Seam.. 4 ai a stall Is a flight at some spe! \i4
he deseriptions are remark- greater than the stalling speed. ‘
ally consistent and rom:rauy the Very early ?n the 19056 -
/" olect is either white or silver "11-103' there were people Wl
dagping about without directivuws would not accept that airer )
--- page 75 ---
‘ > -
- .
o =T e .
.tfi'»—;a — =
| believe they are disc-type
() r
aircraft,’ says—
1 L : G. TILGHMAN RICHARDS,
" s | senior Research assistant
' and official lecturer at the
; South Kensington Science
: Museum, London, who has
- studied all the
; evidence.
5 (]
Ly A there is still, a considerable bolly
. of technical opinion not satisfied
S A t}:;t perfection has been reached.
e d here, I think. lies the real
e answer.
i o 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.
Zwhich set everyone talking. In 1934-35 Charles H. Zimmer-
;hay Nore taken by Farmer mann, in the United States, built
rent, McMinnville, Oreson, U.S. a.t(li\sc wing airplane corlrjllbinedi
i apable
must, of necessnfi, pe subject to Verticat, as%%%%og}fé d%sgent, and
these dangers. They turned aside g high forward speed.
10! _ngeskcllgalsie glossiblet wmglttfi—‘ms ’
wiich should be safe from sta ing
anfl spinning. A NAVY STEPS IN
Among these * rebels” & few 2
nases have become air ,h\slow; | N, 1987 he granted licendes
Jose Weiss and Arthur Keith wit for his patents to tne
their completely stable swallow- Chance Vought Aireraft Division
jike monoplane in 1909. Etrich of the United Aircraft Corpora-
and Wels in Austria in 1911, ‘tion in the U.S.
evolv\ngza 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 & secret
man builders developed the Taube nature, though it has been stated
monoplane, Dunne, with his to0 that this combination is capable
stable, tailless, buck—swegt wing of speeds from 0, to 500 miles per
biplane ‘in 1912, and the Lee- hour.
Richards annular monoplane ot 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
NOT PERFECT forpard motion.
It is Rel'haps, a little hard to
believe that there can, as yet, ex-
WITH the outbreak of the ist enough of these types fo, meet
s 1014 war research of the many m{mrts, but there;is no
this type was abandoned, and reason at all why such aireraft
study concentrated on perform- should not have been seen provid-
ance rather than safety. ing that full scale work followe
By 1918 the modern plane was the experimental period. And t
established, and earlier Tesearch Secrecy would suggest that th
was forgotten. is so.
Civil airlines naturally used And there could lie the mogt
daptea war planes, and then solid proof that flying saucers
Cme world War IL. ~Once more exist. P
itations were imposed.
In spite of the orthodoxy of
sign there was throughout the
inter-war years, and =
--- page 76 ---
Tol:on_:;
f Clegg
\ Glavin,
Nichols
/ Rosen
Tracy U
B ” I?;rbo /
Cj(f/fli-f)mont
- Mohr
Tele. Room_
Nease,
Gandy
1) 14 (7 AN
i
| A
I'N_o’f_nzconn?o__ /] I ’
135 AUG 11 1950 /'s
: 4
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
--- page 77 ---
& ®
! - —
, ]
|
J
| )
“ JFLYING SAUCERS—A '
et e e —
T T e MR SPAIN
m . 7.805 LUNES 3 DE ABRIL DE 1950 PRECIO DEL SE s IT
UNA FOTOGRAFIA SENSACIONAL E
First picture of a flying
MISTERIO EN | W-NoW B HoX || shucer”comes”srom 'the
fpanish newspaper
LAs NUBES VO LANTES A Informaciones.
’ DarLy GRAPHIC correspondent
\ R i T L G e S B S in Madrid explains:
! ; I e ; i | The caption stated that this /
} 'bg%,'aizsfifs":'_ PR f gicture was obtained at
‘ i AT B H | : 1a.m, ij Eth_e Ba}lgar:c S/
i o i A i slan v Enrique Haus- TS
; SRR A % _mannMuller, & newsreal iR By O
it e o i camgraman. / 574
' i o ¢ L B8 \ It added that he and his S 9,
y & B e & 3 assistants / heard a loud '
b o M e o fi,fi: i noise and saw a luminous A/
i . s o R #] trail crossing the sky. He o
i 3 ¥ 5 G , | pulled out his camera and ,')
‘ 1505 bl 1 B, i @ obtained a picture—but
| i 2 e expresses no opinion about
( | B ; i flying saucers. A/
f 4 G : i A FOO! TE from Texas: /
t e Ir: axey, wartime mem- [
| Y b X X f a U.S. bomber crew, A |
N AR LA Y L R 7o ) phqgtgraphed tWo groups !
“FGIMM:!DHI'.» slompre @i, sorvicio do éxito de nuestro periodico al afrsser in. g—.f t yvivnthSfluqcI%S "DCKI'
0f 1950105, 1oy oirsce hoy una fofogralin | tarssanto. documento a sus lectares, no Ji9as. ort Worth. ut,” |
lenal para dosumento on Ia apasio- | sitan subrayarss, INFORMACIONES P ha said, “ they were more lik
119 Bolémioa acerca de les piatilies ypian. | escatimado medios para poder puftarse flying bananas than fiyin|
\ saucers.”
\ The picture that Spanish newspaper readers saw.
/
/
DAILY GRAPHIC /
APRIL 20, 1950 ;“
LONDON, ENGLAND
79
< AL - 62 I%fl_l’" DR DI
0 ; ey
S JuL 5 190
QFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACRE
; it AMER . "AN EMBASSY T e e
LONDON, BNGLAND
1
--- page 78 ---
{
’) \ N™ '\\, Tolson
-X_ &NX Q — Ladd
. VA’ U Clegg
V2 e Nichols
7y Rosen
Tracy
Harbo il e
Mohr
Tele. Room__
Nease
/i g {
BUSEE 4 —_— ‘\:/_,,.’j\iabody I he.;“buf &V, R Ak
9 ® \ it carries 70 pounds of instruments. i o
aucer’ Denial Held &&:smtnn i, —
% . Jenormous translucent thing with
\ a long tail and flies up to 100,000
¢ ° feet in the air. When the weird
aluable to hwuassia [ s o
4 ground, it is filled to only one
o percent of its capacity with helium,‘
—* New York, April 10 UP.—Air At high altitudes, expansion causes
Force denials that “flying saucers” it to blow itsélf up into a gigantic
exist are “worth a billion dollars monster 100 feet tall and 70 feet
fo 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,
N 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 t© earth by parachute, Taylor said,
N and used to record cosmic rays. then the huge contraption “breaks
“What has happened to ourinto pieces in the sky or explodes,”
brains?” Taylor asked. “These showering plastic pieces over the
s denials are worth a billion doll%]rs land. A / y
to the Russians in the ‘col —— ——— /4 o
War . " | / { )\ (/«
President Truman and the Air
Force both denied similar reports
by Taylor last week that “flying. g
saucers’ are top-secret United 9 ) A My
. States military inventions. Al O™ R
Taylor warned that if the Rus- Q}}?[ v
L sians suddenly announced they
A | were sending “flying saucers”
' around the world, United States
{ officials would have no way to stem
V) American hysteria. g
Taylor said the United States 3 rn—
should announce: v 7 oV
“We have no further comment oy
about anything in the skies ex- f
cept that America is creating many ,‘
helpful and incredible things. All \ [
are harmless and good news for N
freedom-loving people.” i (
And this would he a true state. {
ment, the commentator said. | |
Taylor said that at an airfield ]
near Minneapolis and also at other y
places, the Navy is “launching into
our high skies an enormous and A 7y S )
/ faptastic type of velreie— \"{“__’ g o §
v NO'® ORDED
o R 91 1950 85 APR 191950
QI AT & WASHINGTON POST
e — it
Page_____
Date = y
--- page 79 ---
) R .
T
#,48
¥
AN
| ST PR, 2 Nease
| FLYING SAUCER (R 3
- REPORT
————— 3
MAY BE BALLOON \VIS
From Our Own Correspondent \L17 " ’
PRESTON, Monday. \
‘ An object whichs they thought
might have been a “ flying saucer” b
was seen by three girls who were|
walking along the Preston-Lancaster A
jmain road near Preston yesterday / 7 £
jafternoon. “It looked like a very \
bright star in the east, but was gl
brighter than any star,” they said. ’) . 7 \
One of the girls, Miss Lilian Spen-
cer, of Pole-street, Preston, said: “It NSO VL
was oval-shaped and resembled the (:M Y it
wing of a silver plane caught in the L4
sunlight. There was no sound of an| LSO
engine and it had a peculiar swing~| Vv
ing movgment." It was going against! &r;
the wind.
An Air Ministry meteprologica]‘
official pointed out that it was a|
common error for people to speak of |
something travelling in a certain|
direction when they really meant 3.x
that i5 was coming from that direc-|
tion. If that was the case here it| / i
was possible that the object could| , /
have been a meteorological balloon | V4
blown over from Northern Ireland. '
| Many Londoners reported on April )
|@ that they had seen a “flyhg| ‘ \
|Xaucer.” The Air Ministry explainkd § A
| Tyat it was a balloon used for paffi-| b
chute jumping which had brokdn
‘ {rqm its mooring at an R.AF. statigh |
in Oxfordshire; ___ st
{
1
DAILY TELEGRAPH AND
MOENING POST
) APRIL 11, 1950
LONDON, ENGLAND
OF THE LEGAL, ATTACHg 2
AMEE "AN BMBASSY s
LONDON ' z -4
WL S~ J950
{ . {
--- page 80 ---
4-26
Tolson
2 Ladd
i - Clegg x
J | , Glayin JESEEE
TIMES-HERAL Jainh A f v ; Nichols_
Washington, D. C. \ { n { |4 Rosen,
/,/ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1950 ’ I : Q | j Py T
y R A Harbo
L4 A
/" House Member )l —
/ i A ‘ - Tele. Room___
/ | S Nease,
Swears He Saw , Sradsn GTRS
FIYI“g Sa“cer Not Informed— i } 4
et alte sute the miltary M en
stablishment would have told us
i ke if they were working on such a
One House member who should | thing as a saucer. But the fact is :
know said flatly today there is| thiy }}nven’t izi(}] a w;n'd about ita“
1o such thing as a flying saucer. s far as Mahon is concerned,
: 3 i the saucer is “just a fantasy.”
But mgthex member equally qulf.h Engel said maybe so, maybe not.
_ fied said maybe not, but he has 3 It is perfectly true, he said, that
seen one himself. ; :one of the sub;omxr;ittee's wit-
Rep. Mahon (D) of Texas, chair- esses ever owned up to any con-
pIR ST % nection with saucers. But then, as
GUEIOTagE Qs nphtm,v a%p“.jt‘ far as he could recall, nobody
priations subcommittee, said it | ever asked them about it.
just isn’t so what they say abouv | “I am confident of this,” Engel
those discs. He had no concrete #aid. “If there lz}ma any such things
I i ind of 8s saucers, they are ours, not
:X;%e;?—-but gasisoliicabikind :amebody e]zq's. Ié] another coun-
President Truman, Defense Sec- ry were sending them over, I am
i setary Johnson, the Air Force and ;‘;e,éh:b?&c%qwime would have
the Navy all backed him up. 5
They said none of the armed |
gervices is messing around with Denials Repeated
saucers, and that nobody else is Air Force and Navy officials)
far far as they knew. The people, have been denying the existence[
they said, are seeing things. of “flying 'saucers” all along. And
2 Defense department statement
He _Slw (/)ne’ * g llil;e] yesterday reiterated the de-
nials. 4
\ Rep, gel (R) of Michigan, 5 s " 1 L
u'me’fifl © Who says he saw one. But_indications were that re- ¢
A member of Mahon's subcommit- ports of the mysterious flying ob- 4 x,( {
tee, he also is a candidate for ij;gt W°‘g‘;°°nfimue~(fii‘g°l’:{1 Rt'.‘l)b. ZN L/
er Michigan when he on, naging e he { 2 S
lgs(:n‘fglgglrpigé dolalont the money l U. S. News and World Report, said NP i
it takes to keep the military in his magazine had expected offi. A~
business, i :18{11‘: g_esniaals of its s;totxl'y thattthe 1}
i fact that he saw are a “revolutionary type {1/ !
Vo) s flil;ln?iglséh:texaya;ot be evidence, | R :éen%";""crf‘,“f ' probably built, by 4
ut it sure was convincing. i g P e il 4
7 It happened about 1 p.m. one - 4
) day last summer at Elsie, Mich.;
S Several other citizens, all of them |
> sober and well thought of, saw it, |
too. Two of them chased it in a| ml?\(F“ 3 'm']
plane, but the thing unfortunately | INDYE) Page
\ was too high and too fast and got | y j 7 U
gway.h t it this way: | 48 2, \/ :
ul y: % /
\ ..Nf"gu%?s’;ny subcommittee would | L K Times-Herald
Fa know if there werebanythmg v't,g‘ J
is flying saucer Dbusiness. ) ) vV
g’/ue; kl)"levg about the atomic en-| 4 1l Wash. Post
( _srgy experiments s:}eral years be- | Vi ‘L(‘
e was tols—— 4 {
fore the story | & e Wash. News i
‘ R
@ 1 Va Wash. Star ——
N.Y. Mirror ——
el
9 ¢/ -
; Date: _i__sé._.'-"!
--- page 81 ---
i Tolson
T dd USSR
; Clegg
7 Glavin
,;‘/ Nichols
Rosen
(L. cy
Harbo
i Mo hr S
B o R S N Tele. Room__
—— & e = N
Starement by Air Force \.-TJ?Q ‘WSQ Ge““—
R s S £ ey A 5 .
T : o Saucers "INe andy____
ruman, Othier Qfficials Deny r s T
’ s Deny To Official
Knowledge of Flying S i /
A4e J o raised the question at yesterday’s \
() ¢ .._.flggm - \al];:c_@_lhs meeting of the Armed Forces Pol- Tt ! o
S ABY. John G INOTEIR i T ] B 0 i icy Council, which includes the - o e
Post Reporter i departmefntnl secretaries and Joint y (2%
3 : 5 Chiefs of Staff. Navy Secretary A
GTop offiu:\ISfa.nd agfanc_;es of the }mld form of mass hysteria, or|Francis Matthews and Admiral )
overnment—irom President Tru-{ hoaxes, A | Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval
man on down—ijoined yesterday in| Barlier, President Truman an-|operations, as well as other offi-
an effort to convince the American pojigeed througb his_press secre-|cials, assured him the denials were
public that “flying saucers” do not ‘lary at Key West, Fla, that he|sincere rand truthful.
exist. knew ab§olutely .nothmg of such{ The latest flareup of public in-
A formal statement issued by fl,yf“g objects being developed by terest in the saucers resulted from
the Air Force last night was most thé United States or any other flfl*lstatements by Radio Commentator
explicit. It declared flatly that: |0 ] . |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|2Us¢ of any development of secret|and World Report that the saucers
‘disc-shaped flying objects which weapons,” said Secretary C“arles‘do exist and are revolutionary
could be a basis for the reported G. Ross, “but purely because we|American aircraft probably devel-
| phenomena.” {now of nothing to support these ‘oped by the Navy. A Navy spokes-
9. There is no evidence that the rumors. X I man flatly denied this Monday,
Jatter stem from “the activities of| Defense secretary Louis Johnson| Johnson said he is convinced the
any foreign nation.” |said about the same thing at alsaucers could not be experiments
3f Bvaluation of reports of re./news conference. He told reporters|conducted by any other Govern-
cenf “sightings” bears out early\!‘e was “satisfied there is nothingment agency outside his depart-| 3
conblusions that all can be ex-(" the reports.” mient because the Pentagon’s Re-|
plathed away as “misinterpretation Johnson said he had facetiously|search and Development Board co-
of Various conventional objects, a| See SAUCER, Page 3, Cel.2 ~lopdinates all such acivity. |
| Despite the denials, new reports|
1of “saucers” continued. At Tipp 4
City, Ohio, nine persons said they
saw saucers over the Air Force
base at Wright Field, early Sunday.
Jerry Robinson, a 22-year-old
Marine veteran, speaking for the
group, said they saw “two bright
lights in the sky” which later were
discerned as brilliant dises tr\amngw‘
a emnll 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-
Ibeth City, 1L, reported that “a
lweird red and blue disc-like ob-
lject” whizzed over the town early
|Sunday, “traveling at a high rate
lof speed — =
pf A
y e NOT RECORDE '
il \ 42 ppR 21950
WASHINGTON POST 4|
‘ Page o
= i |
Date U~ GO
--- page 82 ---
4 ~
A gt
o/ L % % X
} v ""w /‘/(
ut the Navy Says ‘No’ | ! 4 ‘ X =99
NG - The Original ‘Flying Sa |
Saucers’ New-Type Aircraft, T, LRSS G S SR l
robably Navy, Magazine Says|F e 2 = S S8 S
| By Joha G. Noris I', e 8 o R ‘
Bt i,a:,,t}mh g off the rear jets el v . s g o
forming to known areod}namm‘ “Great speed can be obtained & %\M‘:& P E’ i3 RS i
laws and probably developed by by focusing to the rear all nozzles [ g e Ao P e
the'United States Navy, the maga- in the after half of the aircraft. [E S S8 S TN 8 el e l
zine United States and World Re- ‘Witg a& nozzles pointed down- (RS EL G T =}
ot said yesterday. ward, e saucer could rise e e e L et |
P o'rhis latest effort to explain lheisu‘a‘ght off the ground, and with ! ¢ ONE R s |
continuing reports of strange fly- less power, could descend the & SRl 3 : |
ing disks at various points over e AN A Y wis eSS R S5 x |
the country brought a prompt Jet helicopter action . . . -EEEEEE 5 Sl |
denial from the Navy Department | Makes takeoffs and landings almost, e g L
that it is now “‘conducting 1~esearc11100mpletely safe.” S LosE L ;
or flying” any such plane or| The magazine said that an early SR s R ] i |
igete: | model of the saucer was built by o
A spokesman pointed out that National Advisory Committee for SEE R G x:‘r* s e
the Navy did develop the “pan_‘Aeronautics experts in 1942 and S :{ e T |
cake-shaped” Chance-V ou ght/Mmade 100 successful flights. The SR h R % Sl
XF5U-1, but that it never flew andiNaVy then took over development | & e |
was scrapped more than a year‘a“d “much_more advanced models | SRS kb
ago. A small, 3000-pound scale TOW are being built. 5 l ; o i
model of the plane was flown and NACA Engineer Charles H. Zim- L R
pictures of it have been released, Merman designed the first model, | : n ‘fi L !
but this model is now at Norfolk ‘s\’é’gch il;mcl a sxlaleed of grnm 400 to s .
ot hipment to the National miles an hour and was pow- | SRS SO AR U 3
;‘;:l;‘;flie\slmpher& 5 ered by two piston propellers, said, W‘ e W‘ f
The weekly news magazine did fl‘?] article. f A | 3 b Ca i i {
Inot_quote any authority for its ““Surface indl‘c.atiuns‘ the mag-| : f ko ]
Statement that the “fiying saucers’ azine went on, “point to researc'h & 4 - i §
reSreal American planes, but saj centers of the United States Navy's e 7
arefres’ ineers competant o af.|vast guided-missile project as the ; 5 &
tha i scene of present flying-saucer de- 2 e %
|praife Teports of reliable observgly|velopment.” The project, it was ey : ;
readh these conclusions: said, has the d“sfiientlsts. the ensl 2 g STt Assoclated Press Phop.
| "~ ireraft of a revolu-i| gineers, the dollars, the motive ) L by the N de
“They are aireraft crie heli-' and. the background for the i Mgd'cl of aircraft dc_mlopti in 1948;»..1 Il;:wv;“vy h“,::z’::'d |
tionary type: & combiagio Il “This likelihood will remain, de- ‘l vadio control—full-size craft never flaw, the Y AN |
opter and fast jet plane. They | cpite any future denials by the
g LD well-known principles of | Navy front office, until secrecy is
SgraI o ive ~|lifted,” the magazine added. ! 1 gagael B
aerodyRE exactly 105 feet in di-|\ The Navy declared it-was frue Lo b, (wmmemeriemn
They &t8 | jar in shape” and “are|that its abandoned “flying pan- wOD IRt RIWD
ameter, otal alloy, with a dull|cake” was designed by Zimmer- g
of am -
made color There are no rgd~ man, and was called the “Zimmer- P 8\; AR 11 |950
“"’“'Sh‘lercns or other protrudinglman Skimmer,” It added that a |4 \
ders, 4l From the side, the caucersistil smaller scale model—one- X (\' )
surfaces: £ ahout 10 feet thick.%[tfivd of actual. size—is still at \4\! g e e S e
appem‘ wflflucer appears to have a| " VRO oy y %
"Eacho} variable-direction jet [NACA's Langley, Va. laboratoss| /S "\ AN~
series O und its ©ims . . o i“e} for wind-tunnel tests, but Ahe l-) bt 14
nozzles 2% own. . . . Direction 0f inayy insisted it had no such Proj- N &
used 1% li.:n and its vel.OCfl)é» Inlect mow active. ) N Ol
the alrC Lyjy are controlled WV mhe “Afr Force, affer many| qv Y
{urn, e‘i; at which the. jet x:ogll\es months of investigation of “fying| ; N &
e wlfed the "&‘m"“ SpERgEnS; sxmcer"i ;‘eports. c‘onncluded that all
are B0 applied: X the evidence pointed to “misins S <=
the. po“ce,:aosins “'m"n‘e"‘frf“fiz ifl' terpretation of various conven- Y, I
By L or off fi':):ld el e tional objeets, a mild form of mass \ /
::‘]‘t the puo.t d:sccfl 4 vertically, teria, or hoaxes. = . . | /
sayger riscst:;igm. ahead."lr ‘{“’“ ’ i
e, Ay \ght-angle turn.
er. 1 >
ik, furns: ;‘o“',dg peumades®¥ £ ¢ 22111950 WASHINGTON POST
ffor esample: 2O A0 LA i Dated 4-4-50
--- page 83 ---
ol @ &
7
DA [ e
‘-" 112 '»"4’
i From America, the ‘home’ 4f flying P '
‘{saucers, comes this up-to-the-minute i R 3 Py
summary of report and rumowr about S R -
l& the modern mystery of the skies. (
y RICHARD GREEllTOUGH
OFFICE OF THE LEGAL At
Al
AMERICAN BMBASSY
THE DAILY MAIL LOMDON, BNGLAND
APRIL 3, 1950 .
LONDON, ENGLAND
9 © /;A/ { > ! ~ AT
--- page 84 ---
rows—oi-rights in the Swir—amd
g;glnge flames coming from the
11,
Sometimes they have been re-
ps){lted shaped like tubes, pillars,
NEW spheres.
York, Sunday. But two facts seem to remain
EVER since Ken- c(_)tnhstam.m’trhey arenall said go l;e
either white or silver, an 0
neth Arnold, move across the sky in an undulat-
30 -year -old, i‘pg WE:.IY‘. tilttltr‘lg flé'lst, in gr:e direc&
i ion, en e other, rising an
o‘rdinary business-man falling, before finally disappear-
pilot from Boise, Idaho, ing into nothing or over the
touched off the “flying HionEol
saucers " mystery by report- jentional” aerial objects, Thege Pilot’s chase
ing, on the aftern included giant experimental
> ernoon of cosmic-ray balloons, radar targgt NE U.S. Air Force pilot,
June 24, 1947, that he had balloons with dangling strips pf Q) Capt. Thomas Mantel
v Seen “nine shiny discs ke Hira ol oy ‘ol vanour traks Jpst bis life sote months ago 13
metal hub-caps flip-flap- from high-flying aircraft, brigh?, e to catch up with somethin
ping along at about 1,200 Pancts ' at looked lice, sl
i . 'eam cone 3
m.p.h.” only one fact seems 2. Mildiformiof mass hysteria. An experienced war-time pilot,
uite certain. 3. Hoaxes. with several thousand hours
Nob! But steadily, from 1947 up til | flying time, Mantell was in_his
obody has yet proved de- a few daus_rls ago, reports of curious | Hgnter plane leading two others
itely that such things do or objects at “go wggzz in the air» | near Fort Knox, Kentucky, when
0 not exist. keep on coming in from all over the control tower at his airbase,
Air F findi the United States. | ?oldman F‘ieltd, radxoooélj elg‘."éififhfl
ir They have n | to locate a strange 1 el
orce finding g‘om XS out of &vg &eesrtlmreespo;tfig %flg"fi‘}?&igflwng Bt IOVICERS
A e majorit; i 2 3 4
THIS includes the US, Air - sout nejority, coming from the | Mantell later called, back thaf
orce, still investigating can border. he had spotted the * thing” ab
reports about “ celestial crockery,” They have also, of “12 o'clock high” (directly ahead
though officially last December, reports from ot(l]{o course, been and above him), and that it
after checking 375 cases, it closed world, from_Se: 95. parts of the looked like a silver ice-cream cone
down “Project Saucer.” a special China, the o e Africa, | topped with red.
investigation group of Intelli- The objects alleged His a\r-to-%round conversation
gence officers with headquarters ,ye ranged 0% egs}eldly seen here was logged at the air base and I
if Ohio. : e tional %fl_t e now almos ave checked it. He later re
At that time it was stated in a «sgycer” ying disc oy orted :
phnket turn-down that all Te- «fuzzy " edges e “T'm closing in now to take
p! ISM‘;‘;“::G: (e Loupido o abuseain %n':‘é’fi? od lfiol:fiovlitnsg ‘i‘{efi“g'ogé‘ i
. nterpret: L3 o2, V¥ i » = e an speeq.
pretation of * con: space ships” showing regular he thing looks metallic ax‘\)d
e, —_— tremendous.”
--- page 85 ---
o ) -
His | : hen & orilliant, _ fast:movin |
bject suddenly appeare ahea
is last report j | e, i
JFOR 25 minutes Mant 1 hvl‘gge Told ni:\hrcts)éleg:?g;: cgmte,
4 and the two other pilo A Katever it was fashed down tor |
tried vainly to close in. Mantejl wards us and -we veered ;nm!f
;;%mlrtnegvi?; ggjgcgp‘gag glimliir;g left It veered sharply too and
e ual _to
his ovm. which he gave Tas 360 “ g;fis;(},g,}’;‘;;??“ feet to our right
In broken cloud at 18,000ft. the The. thing. wasabouciz0stec
other two pilots lost sight of him, l({,r:)g,t ciflg:%lgggddfglgegmglfss,
later broke off and landed. agzsx without prol:rudi.m;r gns?’
mMar;%elg]called once more to say quarter years & multitude said Whitted. §
at i e,dwere no closer at eople on the ground claim «There was a tremendous burst
fig.or?gfl}:iagre)'t S]beagggge r!‘;he chase avehseen tt.ktl\esea:]' fly'mzbsaucers ” of orange flame from the rear.
p or have they always been se d into clouds, its jet or
That was the last heard from fyith the naked cye: many Saly Lycs was ; s
{ hh;‘li s o Rl hem through binoculars. prop wash Tocking our DC3.”
S § ater found near But the fact that first starte H 14 H 1
Fort Knox and the wreckage of the U.S. Air Force to it up, et Seeing's believing
is machine scattered over half'a notice, and then institute * Pro- d
ile da;pund. Obviously his plahe ject Saucer” was the large MORE recently, two wee
iad 1§|ntegrated in mid-air. number of apparently responslb%e ago, two other airli
Official Air Force version W pilots and :?rcrew members who pilofs, Cagt.ain Jack Adams, witk
at Mantell had Probab sent in startlin%_l reports of what some 8,000 hours’ flying time, and
ofg}:%‘x‘:egn dollxlg a ngfil&ai x?ecc}f of they claimed ‘to have seen. co-pi&o% G. W. An'fiersax: reip%rted
3 con- ies al i a “flying saucer” with windows
selolisness before he crashed, out « e of the theories Hon2 FhIoh Qn_the bottom and & blinking
of control. e‘llidem from the fact tkéa& every light Xe‘?rnglz‘: top as they passed
H plane whose pilot reported close OVer Ar a 8
Still a mystery encounters with “flyig saucers” “1It was flying almost due north
was checked with Geieger and we crosse its,path at about
PBUE one of his fellow-pilots counters for possible radio- & 45 degree angle, sald Adams.
later commented: “I activity. “1t was about 1,000ft. above us |
ell was too experienced a pilof ate. ad a pecu: e
fmihthat H(e was qu;xte fam?liar Head-on meeting and vgryh h';.ltenx}{sed light- nea;:flthe
with signs of approaching anoxia top which blinked very rapidly. s
}:lECK o% oxygen], and would have TAKE the ; Cgi%mg’rol;‘l‘,‘ “We kept the object in sight
aken steps to prevent it. stanice. Or AlY Transpor;, for about 45 seconds,
“ Some of us think he may have &n(:: Chllées, -‘fi;’é‘e and John B “«T've been a sceptic all me; ife
collided with whatever he saw and woh'g,‘e? g:) Yoy B.20 Super- about such things, but whaf cqn
‘ati‘x?’t' it knocked him out in the fortls du'n:z Dt ot ygu ‘?,°. vkvxhen yolu as:g B.lelsx]ng like
. § W= that 2 ” he concluded. “We we:
thpe of machine as ] 3 s
i starting & dive, at 20,0001t pparent desire for publicity.
uld not have disintegrated s They were flying a schedule !
thoroughly. \ irline service near Montgomer)
During the past two and thre: labama, one night last summer,
--- page 86 ---
\ 08
L ® ®
1
U.S. ‘LOSES’ REPORT
BY AIRMEN & e
From ROBERT WAITHMAN, News Chronicle Correspondent TR VY N ’/’ gttt -
: _ WASHINGTON, Sunday. / Vs
'l N the United States in the last month it has & 4
become a good deal harder to dismiss as
hallucinations reports that flying saucers—or o
alternatively ‘“ flying objects of non-conventional /
design *’—have lately heen seen in the skies. A i T
It has become harder, first because the reports have g/ 7.¥ e ) LA
een coming in from such sources and with such in- 4 o 5’,"
ependent detail that it would be remarkable indeed if f bat 7 y [}
hey were all the product of too vivid imaginations; and II, v* o {/
econd because there has been some rather peculiar-omiciall v
pehaviour in the matfer. | e /, S A
NEWS CHRONICLE OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE
LONDON, ENGLAND AMERICAN EMBASSY
APHIL 3, 1950 LOMDON, BMGLAND
58/ @l
--- page 87 ---
-
.
" ®
In the huge Pentagon building
im Washington, headquarters of
e Defence Department, ther! is
n Air Force major whose dupy
is to repeat to all inquirers the
abstance of the last Air Forfe
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
redible witnesses who say.they
ave seen flying saucers are still
ing examined by Intelligence
ficers.
1t was noted, too, how quickly
and how thoroughly one of the
most comprehensive of the
newest reports has been officially
ilost.?
Ours?
Employees of the Civil Aer
nautics Authority at work in
control tower at Dayton mun!
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.AA.
The idea—sometimes seriously
advanced and often half-
believed—that the saucers could
be exploratory eraft 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 dise-like
[ plane with a circle of swiftly
| revolving vanes that might
inable it to hover or to fly ab
Ihigh speed.
1f this or something like} it
rns out to be the answer, thire
ay be good reason for hop|
here that it is one of ours.
--- page 88 ---
] 0\ N~
. ; ll“)
’ 3 o /
Rockef saucer B4 % R
ROME, Thursdgr.—A flying sauce l (e ) § B
was reported gver Milan todaf. Y /
Then later it ¢as discovered thft {
three boys had “attached rockets fo et ]
/a large metal disc and set zh; NS
off from the roof of a _high - ;V
building.—Express News Service, v ‘\,“' =
OFFICB OF THB LEGAL ATTACHS /},
AMERICAN EMBASSY {
LONDON, ENGLAND i
{ v
DAILY EXPRESS
i London, England 2 on g
NOT RE{ ORDED
35 APR 19 1950
--- page 89 ---
e ®
\ 1 B
\ - i )
Y ) oA
L/ ,//Z / A Tele.
—
. ‘ | Flijing saucers—
E., S. and W.
ROME, Wednesday. — Flyin
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 rioon streaking N Y, §\
towards the north-east, I \
Carrara.—Four, three miles up, 7y 3 , &
flying southwards, Calabria.— C A
Disc “like 21 moon with a wake of]| 4 Y
fre" speeding westwards. o /1
A Sardinia. — A flying saucdy| | 8%
fmained suspended 20 second{. A ]
tgen disappeared to the soutl. aVa LY
al d'Aosta.—A disc flying over ( f \
tbad —Reuter. \ |
OFFICE OPF THE LEGAL ATTACHR
~
AMER :CAN EMEASSY
LONDON, ENGLAND
EVENING STANDARD )
MARCH 29, 1950 A
LONDON, ENGLAND {
Vs
Ta
|
/
¢ »
t i e Y Y S
; ' RECOR 31y
D0 ¢ 106 [ TN 19!1,‘“
B2 APR 201850 0
--- page 90 ---
e . — -
) Mr. Tolson 3 |
Mr. Clegg IR i
T r. Nickhols ________§
p (/} o Mr. Tracy |
(lr/ - 7} ! §ME Baibo .t 1.0
§ !}b‘ \ Mr. Belmom : J
2 fr. Mohs ___ :
| ’s,"l"-’ Tele. Room . )
AY ] Mz, Nease
O . M L 1 ey
lying fact or flight of TFancy?
m ] ICHARD GARRETT traces the
; history of an aerial phenomenon
- which gave America sky-war jitters
y ! 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. J 2 Z
The| halluc'!natfonf was Te’hely the effect of red blood J /
corpuscles passing in ront of the eye retina. g e,
:,’ et S DuD
omviom or o e i g
SUNDAY GRAPHIC AMERICAN BEMBASSY e
MARCH 26, 1950 LONDON :
LONDON, ENGLAND » BNGLAND | :)/Y//
A d )
[4
&6 APR111950 ’ .. !
--- page 91 ---
> e -
: @ ®
“IRLYING saucers” are
back in the news.
J From New :York comes a
report that Captain Jack
dams, pilot of the Chicago
nd Southern Airlines, radioed
! that he and a co-pilot had
| crossed the path of a large fly-
ing saucer, with lighted
windows and a peculiarly
coloured blinking light on duced an article in which he In December,
top and travelling at about claimed to have received a official body which figéfl_bcthe
600 m.p.h, over Arkansas. message, via a medium, that established in America to prolje
This was followed by a news there were people aboard the the * saucers” was disbande|
cable from Lishon: Scores of Saucers.” It had been in operalit;n 1dr
flying saucers reported by - They came from another two years, and had investigatd
coastguards of the North gl‘;“ggr 3"3 wished to try liv- 375 incidents.
« 1 co i i ine earth, i
:gzimg(;her Rsibonflliz;?&mlsn zla‘nd In Britain “saucers” were 10 31d sot s phencuhhon
moving west *faster than Ieported over Brighton beach, “lf\st caused, byi ey misintoh
Hra cerNbullate and another was seen by a xl)xeauon ot'muous conven-,
So the 1950 “ saucer season ” clergyman’s wife at Sandwich. [onal objects; (bj a mild form
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 ¢nded. But the *flying
Washington, noticed a circular around that there were men S3ucers” refused to be
flying machine, like a silver and bats living on the moon. 8rounded.
oughnut, cutting capers over The neatest “ flying saucer ”
is back-yard. 2 qulllJplng kcame from Mr. Fellow travellers ?
Presently he saw five more romyko at UN. head- oi
planes” rotating round a Qquarters. saz?g-isx;essi{‘etacll)lkz?isiLgfc]ni]‘)llgs
geventh. “Some” he said, “attribute on March 9, when a U.S
% them to the British for export- business man, lm\'ell;ng h
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 streamiined “disc” in which a
to shed metallic rain. Most of fi‘smgl,‘““"“g training for 23in. tall pilot had perished.
| it fell seawards, but one piece 1EROLYIDIC Saa1mes AWho does A Mexican denial immedi-
landed in Mr. Dahl's yard. not know his own strength. ately followed publication bt
On July 4, the first photo- . The flust flving saucer fever g (¥ o o 0 (0T
graph of a “flying saucer” died d“;"" ‘;‘,’de‘" sheer weight 'ponver Golorado ha:lm e'-:
was taken by a- Seattle coast- :{m i?;'?,,‘g’?x.lon' but, reports ported that a similar sauce} »
guard, The snap revealed a ox had come to grief near hy and
;mg;ll_]:\'léirteeyoggz&%rgafi]ggamst. Spam suspected thl:ee little men had been dis-
The .U.S. Navy said that. . In May, 1048, a US> Ap ©O¥cred inside it.
the descriptions fitted its new Force intelligence officer thThe Defc'\nce Department of
wingless plane—the “Flying oOpined that the * discs” were fe“ IfiTS lepEatnllg“ its d'ex‘x.ml
Pancake "—but there was only the work of ex-Nazi saientists © ViNg saucers, said: “If
one of these, and it had never in Spain. these saucers stm_lj landmg:
ventured outside Connecticut. During Franco's 1938 siege 2nd little men 4“’“14 radar
A meteorologist suggested 0f Madrid his Gcl'man allies stlcku'ug out of their ears climb
that solar reflections on low had tried out a circular missile, ‘3}‘:?' e eNaRAS OIOD o
cloud would produce similar Wwith 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 bu¢ in 1944 the Germans had have been chased-by jet planes,
newspaper hinted at an inter- repeated it, us_ing jet engines. and observed by scientists and
planetary solution, It was believed that the have baffled all attempts to
e San Francisco corre- scientists responsible hagd explain them away.
sppndent was soon to find his escaped from the Russian Are they sheer fantasy, or |s
igpa carried a stage further, zone, through France, ' and there a grain of truth in fHe
ir. Mead Layne, publisher were now working for the accounts? Your guess is ds
of an occult magazine, pro- Spanish Government. good as mine.
--- page 92 ---
4-26
/ Tolson
® ® s, Sl
Clegg. L SLaiil
. . Glavin,
‘ || ’ Nichols
Rosen
5 Tracy.
Harbo,
4 Belmont
i) i Mohr
; Tele. Room
Nease
| Gandy
By Uniled Press
ROME, March 25—Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo, 73-year-old Italian turbine engineer, said today that
designs for “flying saucers” were prepared for Hitler and Mussolini in 1942, —_—
“According to those ES g e e —— e —
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. E
-Air Force has declared are without {
foundation in fact, Sr. Belluzzo said: L 1 )\
“It has passed my mind that some 1o A \ B S Dt
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 4
had drafted plans for a “flying 41 3
disk” 32 feet in diameter, but! N ——"
claimed they disappeared with Mus- | /7 28 AAAA”
solini when he fled to northern 47 /7/7/’ b v
Jtaly in 1943, v
«Both Hitler and Mussolini were %
mte'll;nested '1n.fllying dtilscsf'l’ he said. L =0 Vs /
«“the principle of the flying disc e
is very simple. Its constn.lchtion is JOT RECORDED
easy and. can be done with very =
Taet ametals 3¢ . m_xgb APR 18 1950
“Two jet pipes placed on either \“DEY\
side of the rim of the disk, provide
the locomotion. The orifices of s\‘c;___ o —
these jet tubes are adjustable to »@:fi "
permit maximum and minimum ‘k \ /%
speeds. A3 LA )
PILOT NOT NEEDED >
«pyopulsion comes from a mix- o R
ture of compressed air and naphtha b . 3 ik
__the same fuel used in modern jet | Y V)
lanes. I
p «The air is mixed under pressure 3 1 " Page
and ignited at first by cartridges W )
sna then by an electrical device, Times-Herald
Terrific pressure is set up and the | -
expanding £as forced out thru the
et pipes. : Wash,
! “The reaction, coming from the Rogt s
opposing pipes on either sxdetof ‘the
ice. start the entire apparatus re- i
The missiles could be aimed like
the war-time German V-2 rockets, | W
snid, and would descend when ash. Star —
o fuel was exhausted or cut 121“
an automatic timing device. No R .
Yman pilot would be red(hm.—* ‘ AY! 0] 4} N.Y., Mirror .
i R e o} (£.4800 o
PENSRSTEEE L %5
y & 195
MAR 1950
Date; gise—r—
--- page 93 ---
! M holgisotas ;
ont——__ "~ {
1
' ,"..R“/
VENICE REPORTS /
FLYING SAUCER- -
; Venice, Monday Morning. ~
~—A " silver-coloured “ fiying v | Y
saucer” was reported above XN W )
the fishing port of Caiog; / e\ N
near here, early today travel \E g/?
ling “at great, speed ” aboud 0 /
8,000t up.—Reuter. /fl ) i
85 AR 12 1950
THE DAILY MATL
FEBRUAKRY 27, 1950
LONDON, BNGLAND
gl
‘ |
/U
LONDON, ENGLAND
s D
--- page 94 ---
~ ,Tolson 7
‘ ‘ oA thad_\/
Cleogg tiiliainy
¢ o e 9 - ] Glavin
Saucers’ Spies e
Nichols
From Planets, e
) y Tracy
° ° > Mohr I o
Writer Claims et
Tele. Room__
NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (AP)—A Nease
monthly magazine says the so- Gand
called flying saucers are real—ve- andys - . .
cles for systematic observation ik ol | 1t
of the earth by visitors from other o —
B E L 4
" The_conclusions_are contained
,in_farrl;_umgummmmhoe 5 il
in the January issue of True, pub- =) - -/ aande
ed by Fawcett Publications, LDUALL
TiC. rmer-informa-
[tion__chief for - the—aeronautics 4
branch, U. S. Commerce-depart:
ment; | ’
~The magazine said the conclu- ¢
sions _were—based-‘on an eight-
month investigation.
“Keyhoe says True “learned that ) 4
a rocket,_authority stationed at N
Wright field has told ‘Project i)
Saucer’ personnel flatly that the / ) /
saucers are interplanetary and ] M
t?bait no other conclusion is pos- v / il
sible.” LWV
Last April the Dayton (Ohio) preg 2
Journal Herald that the Air Force, 7 v
although conceding the saucers %
were no “joke,” had discounted
the theory that the discs repre-
sented visitations from suck
planets as Mars, where human o
life is believed by some to exist. .
'oday, an Air Force spokesm: b
! d that “Air Force studies ¢f
‘flying saucers” lend no support
thg view that they come fro | o
ther planet.” - §
R e et
Page
: U
, Times-Herald _ "
Wash. Pesf" o .
/ Wash, News .
0T RECORDED
’,\\,T RlyUO%{_),‘,L Wash. Star .
> FEB 8 1950
N.Y. Mirror
Date:
--- page 95 ---
pe———— -
A g —rf 7= | § Yoo Tadd .
: 7 L SRR Sl yr. Nichols
// r / ‘\' | N D/‘v - Mr. Tracy !
— e " Mr. Mohr
3 M
MENU OF THE FUTURE: — "
=LA . [T CYET— \
[ 1
jL—
° [
7”5
\ 7
“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- No such ship has as yet It is the wildest kind of spjec-
Ing weapons and I’OSS’MY men to| “peen built, according to the ulation, but the flying discs njay
Whirl endlessly far out in space,| pest informed sources. But be the first calling cards from/an
jtoday seem like pipe dreams of a| jdeas for ome haven't beem interstellar neighbor.
|mad world of fantasy. forgotten. i i
! .'l‘hvy may be harbingers of a Gravity gradually falls off far
;“'”‘l new world to come. out in space beyond -the earth,
I’ The air force, as early ag [scientists explain. It never quite
[ Jast spring, said officially that [ends, they say, but at 5000 miles . Y ,§
the flying saucers “are not a |it is relatively weak. U
joke.” “A spaceship could easily be % ',,‘
Air force authorities even now/|KePt In position,tpere,” accord- o, o
may be preparing an announce-(iD8 to D1 Liloy, 7 [[0‘2: a‘(-'f’ll““' i MNNE ) e
{ment stating that the flying discs|Pia University G Ag Al Y
lare real objects, not merely fig- “If left to itself it would
‘lmcms of imagination as far as the| gradually return to earth,” he
|dir force is concerned, The Mirror| said. “But it would take very
|learned yesterday. little thrust, from small rock-
l That would seem to remove the ets discharged at m.n-,rva'ls X
|flying discs from the realm of old "? k""‘,’, it where it was p
|wives’ tales and the bubble talk| 'anted.
’of guys who have had one or two| To get it up there, the space-
snifters too many. ship would have to leave tl_]e
Possibilities that the sau- |€arth 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 5
2 metals would melt hecaus, “l \?,
The U.S. defense department’s | fpjetion. m& xite) i
announcement of plans consider- But in other wONW”far | / 9 -5 /;/ A
ing a super Sll)aCf%hlp, to ll)le kept| grom our own earth, perhaps [ /A S ‘\A A,.],):. /
undex—==xipol while traveling an| —————————— S ——m ( 4 O RDE
orbit around, the earth, lend cre-' THE MIRROR — LOS ANGELE ikind e
) ’/ P ( I ’
--- page 96 ---
Mr. Tolson o
| B n 3 i Mr. E. A. Tamm_
Mr. Clegg.
Mr. Glavin_______
- & Mr. La'add
I " Mr. Nichols
‘ Mro R0 8 eni i
i IMTASOE g an SO
— Mr. Gurnea
Mz S HET oMk sl
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington_
Mr. Quinn Tamm_
Mrii Neas et
Miss Gandy
1?3» w:m'd;"fs & 4 S X A "= that he went to some other part of the country, devel.
Afr VOI_Ce Investigators—skeptical buf': intrigued oped better models and flew them successfully.
are trying today to locate an_eccentric inventor A good many officers find it difficult to believe he
vho more than 10 years ago built two contraptions could have done that without coming to public attentio
that look like “flying saucers.” during the periodic exciul‘mcm over “flying saucerrs"h.in
isc-tv shi 4 < ot the past two years. But they would like to find out what
The d_‘sc L‘?pe sl'nps, battered and damaged, were happened to Mr. Caldwell after he left Maryland-and talk
found yesterday in an abandoned barn near Glen with him, if he still is alive.
Burnie, Md., where they had lain untended for nine Mr. Caldwell, who would be about 70 today, left the
years. Maryland ‘farm hastily nine years ago, after getting into
“It is apparent that both ships would give the appear- financial trouble with the state. He took with him
ance of flying discs,” an Air Force spokesman said, his wife and son. Maryland authorities atktha[ time had
- o > ordered him to stop selling any more stock in his enter-
NO R'LAL PROQI ; ! prise, “Gray Goose Airways, Inc.” Previously, he had
An Air Force officer last night described the two craft been ordered to stop selling stock in New Jersey and
as -'delfmllde Prototypes of flying saucers,” but the service New York.
hedged today. % A8
A spokesman objected to the word “prototype,” saying NOT NATURALLY DISHONEST
he Air Force has only reports of what flying _saucers Robert E. Clapp, who as assistant Attorney General for
ook like and has never established that such things ac- Maryland, conducted the investigation of Mr. Caldwell's
ually were seen. ; operations in 1940, said in Baltimore today:
The Maryland inventor, Jonathan E.j€aldwell, disap- “Whenever he needed more funds he went out and
eared in .1440. The only possibility of anyx connection sold stock, and he continued to run the business as tho.
between lns.’old abandoned devices and the l‘umoreq “fly- it were his own. He wasn't the ordinary type of frau-
ing saucers of recent years would lie in the possibility dulent stock salesman. I believe he sincerely thought
he had something and I doubt if he thought he was
eing dishonest.” X ‘
o o For two years Air Force investigators have been run-
' g i 5= 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,
One of the craft found in the Maryland barn reported]
flew here briefly around 1939. It was said to have gotlen{
onloy 5 feet in the air. 3
ne ship resembled a helicopter, But inste rotor
A blades it had a disclike device about 16 feet ifidd?af Risl
The device resembled two_ saucers revolving fo tmetel.
Small rotor blades jutted from between the t\\.cp 0: tap.
737 \ g The other craft, named the “Roto-Plane 1 ;faéme-m‘
&L . > y a plywood tub about 14 feet in diameter ") 00 .‘; like;
ol ! - in the middle. The engine was in the tub Jgevpl i
B e B ol and bottom rims of the tub were four.blaged round_ toy
.07 RECORDE which_veyolved in opposite directions, ed propeller
WASHIN%TON NEWS f
e Page / ( { ke
20 Cip o = WM e g
WP i ; 1o f
--- page 97 ---
i
/
. /
|
[
to—=
o R e/ “w S ~g"{""5}(\ :
i . h(bfi%&%;fim@‘ - i ! ‘ . o |
sl o R o B A & |
N e B P : R
5 SRE0s "mfi"’\“: o i ‘% TRl My o Ho e ” o X
SRR T A S0 PR 1t N
S 0 B ERe VY B e S
ool R e S Sy Ghd 0 : :
o R LR ?xég e R e N A ;
G N R TS £ R SR T
e e S g»é&;;**%’?"% e &}K =
o . T e TR W e e
WASHINGTON NEWS ¥
PAGE 6 v LN
--- page 98 ---
=4
w | Lived Here Several Years.
? z riggers said the saucey Builder Was g roenter. !
( vlna aucer rx-“he rotors was design "I‘he hell;:ODte sisted.t(‘:f
/ 2 % ght wingless ige with 4| "
& o oz Ing _agtel they £ vopeller” in front and a tripog ~ Tolson
ad attained cruising altitude. s ckpit which mounte | }/ e
\ "The rotor would then be stoppéd| '[¥er Uhe SOTNRE Fotor L1 1‘:.’;94\) =
r | §he saucer-like rotor and it S —
and the ship flown with the con- projecting blades. (’"blegg
ventional propeller. He explained,‘ Except for the pancake struc- Gl\ e
n : however, that this was theol?.‘ ture around the inner sections of | avin__, a3
becausg the ship was never flown| the rotor, the model was much | Nichol j‘() IR
rce again. g the same as other experimental | R Y
| Mr. Caldwell lived in Washing- jobs of that time. | ogenlic. .
. | ‘ton for several years before his Mr. Caldwell, a former carpen- Tracy.
Experlmentol Craft | disappearance, and seems to have ter, whose friends said he had! Harh
Will Be Examined | Yeturned here briefly from Glen studied the science of aeronautics arbo_______
For Oth Burnie before dropping from in several books, had a far less| Mohr
or Other Cl sight. The model tested here was conventional idea in his “flying T
3 Clues 2 small helicopter whose rotors cheesebox. ‘ Tele. Room__
& The Air Force's long search for| projected from a saucerlike disc| The upper and lower lids, con- Nease '
‘fiying saucers” has turned up two| mounted on a tripod above the | tsfmina sh?rt 1'0101'l blades juttingl and:
contraptions_almost as weird as = cockpit. || from ithelrjoutex imsRyerSheDg f' 7
anything yet descrTl y_the mos Tattered remnants of this disc,| Posed t‘?v?(’tagz ‘?:i "F}"’Sltedd"e"" /= /
|'wild-eyed “witnesses” of two sum- covered with cloth, and the bat- ?t‘:';si]vitgl ;;‘gfliéglc N]Ire g:ld\f?‘fil’z‘ Y B
mers ago. tered fuselage were found in the }x-ien d:ysai a Ti‘.éy admitisd ethe Y w3 ,}% 2
T e s e By mpp £ o.r i G ) (e s.hed' gioxp wnfl’f B p.lywood box,; 1,500-pound contraption neve| ) 1’3)
Tfs’ are” two weather-beaten like a huge circular cheeseboX,| g0t Teaiq Mr. Caldwell ha f!
remnants of an inventor's dream fvhose top and botfom ,5"‘3“0“5{ claimed that a light model provel A
uncovered yesteraay in a tobacco = fwere designed to }‘evolve in OPPO-| 1 hnosstul, A {
m ite_directions with short rotors] The inventor earlier had triedl] _ ~» 029 /1 { Q
_outer su5u_rb of Baltimore. rojecting from the rims. The a third model. “V l\ \- // I f
Y An official Alr_ Fo‘ll'ce statemerft ‘pilot was to have ridden in the\‘ This looked something like a } oA
issued today _sald the two e middle, near the motor mount. | complicated hay rick on wheels,
perimental aircraft found negr| capt. Claudius Belk, head of the| and had rotors designed to fan the
Baltimore yesterday have abs Baltimore office of Special Investi-| airgsomewhat after the fashion of |
lut?ly no connection with the re-| gation of the Air Force, revealgd‘ the paddle wheels on old steam- |
ported phenomenon of flying sau-| that his office has “heen mves@-\ boats. There were no claims that|
ers.” This does not mean, how- gating the machines for months”| this machine ever left the :;round.‘
ver, that they will mot bel 55 possible prototypes of the flying“ and Mr. Caldwell abandoned it in|
x?.g;i!;edrégl :ther c[ues by, A,“'i saucers reported so frequently. He| favor of later ideas. }
O’I‘h epresen z}tives, it was sald.| ,iq efforts are being made to| Attorney Robert E. Clapp, who
fings—(;‘iwfl_éfl‘ Jocate Mr. Caldwell in the hope of | Was Assistant Attorney General\
ye? :monea‘ anl fo sscan e e! getting engineering data on his| of Maryland at the time of M.
W@[ roto-plane ideas. | caldwell's disappearance, and
fl—fir—#ww! The remains of the two ma- helped administer thg blue-sky
E%%Qw chines were placed in storage by |1aws, conducted a hearing in 1940/
e w3 ol yeals 880, jgryland State police, who helped inlo the affairs of two of Mr. Cald-
‘a flight of about 60 seconds locate them at the reflqesc of the!| Well's companies— Gray Gogse
Pilot Tells of Test Hop, Air Force. The material will be\
/The inventor, Jonathan 2 held, it was said, until it can be| —f
i " over 70, if sti 1 determined if experts from the | Afways, Inc;, and Rotor Plangs,
well, who is now over 70, if still 2 5 i1 ained the fir
jiving, and his wife and son lett' Wright-Patterson Air Force Base |Inc. He later restraine e firms|
Gl 'Bumie in 1940 after Mar | at Dayton, Ohio, wish to exam- from selling stock in Marylar}d,
en ’ h i BT oo | “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 stogk.” j
aeronautical ideas. None of the% ” P { In his report, Mr. Clap’ Aid: 1
ngig:bcrs have hear,d from &hemi s Wt i e, MCTARRE
£ICE. 0 ’4 y ke SO (B, =8 tion with these stock salesiclearly |
Willard E. Driggers of 1530 Olive | = indicates that the publicas led to |
street N.E, now with the valli believe that tie invention was on|
Acronautics Ad'mmlstratlon ‘at Na- | the verge-of perfection and would|
tional Airport,‘made the first and be completed and ready for gencral‘
only test hop in Mr. Caldwell's production within a very short.
nelicopter, the Gray Goose, at the| = time, whereas, 'the fact as testi-
old Benning Race track in 1940. l )] fied by Mr. Caldwell indicate that
Mr, Driggers said he helped de- | [I n no machine on which he had ever £ i
sign the helicopter. f worked had beeh successfully flown |
The machine rose about 40 feet’ L] or was in any condition Ior\manu‘ ] 5 1
and after some 60 seconds in thel . > facture and sale upon 2 satisfac .
= o fal / _/_ tory commercial basis. * * © |
air, Mr, Driggers became aware| oo l ¢ L I} A
3 7 | &= / 4 S L The history of the develop. /
the controls ‘were not operatingl < | e e -of tI vanies indi
yoperly, he told The Star. | NOT RECORDED ir}x]ent o hese companies indicate
P e decided if he took it any 4 SEp 23 1949 foas Werivergr eanized, erely I
ioher he might not get do 84 SEP &0 1947 e of raising money V1V
égely and he crash landed ¢ \Seliev: rfcf lél;letlcleas of Mr. Cald- | £
he race track. He was unij- money was r:ise:i\s its°°n 2:5 this | |
| ’ — o . 1t was t {
red, but the machine was dant- as belonging solely to him aggtig’ !
aged. ; the subject of any use which he
o o deelx\!zmed proper.
s N S “No meeting of stockholders ¥
8 ever been held by either compa.‘::
J Sz WASHINGT}?NI BSTAR :n?d no gnancial report to stock- §
<« Page___.&. olders has ever come out since
€ organization.” i oE f
--- page 99 ---
i — —_—
i) ; o o “/,341‘
B i s g i b MR s
e N Q Aol
T N T i NN Pl e R g
D e T e e ,
IR 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
0 years ago. - .
e et e SR
| Washington Star
Page A 18 )
--- page 100 ---
P o e % T
! = [ i,“‘wq'\“""" P s st
/ @ !
/ AL . 5 .
; 4 Ty ,e’mxu
AT, %z &gl e %»'««
. e i ;4 P TER e e |
e s e ol e ‘:kfw»‘
g ® u v L £ (“M\ e
s L oy e B e i R o g e o B N i
. V%v( ;,';,\: 5 /':::7 ; 1}3.“%_»; g}w/{i et & o B \J
G 7 e AL G A - &S
l YT '5""'"";‘“‘;’,‘3::;3:_"-::_ NS SR pECRR f““a S c s e i i e
Vi e i %‘ N i Sk A ‘
| B i i s ey m,»w?\s,:‘.\;;",.*--/\\ S M i
| B A ot L e M, w“fi”%’w o g
] Troopers J. J. Harbau e T e ?<y<1{ S
{ yesterday fbokin gh and Peter Rosi Lo el g
|| ture around th e remnants of Mr. C fiws‘(y of the Maryland State polic
) e inner part r, Caldwell’s heli ate poli
‘ of the roto elicopter, whic ce are shown
. ' S e E: ; h had a pancakelike strucs
,f;, ’ i 'f'f-;: : ; o o A p .
oo S B SR e R G o ? ¥ |
ol % K 8- B . o
. S Sl oo b ._
. : & S e L 3
,"}? L‘”’f;’:{f@.’f’?’?‘; A R Vé’b)“m D o B 4 :
o g M? il v o i ’Q Coda, g . |
TN .v,_%%;wm Lol b 18 j‘ = g g A
s W, e ey R N w 2y
5, “4*’%“%@ oo TS e : S, T TR
«*’«%&’Z%"’?é‘é T R e R 5
pelicopter s with the “fyi S o
1 P in a tobacco shi ng cheesebox” in P B fatwa i
] United States Air shed on a farm n vented b: A S fes
P ea; y M
| sdlatisia i r Glen Burnie Mé Caldwell and P !
o) e 5~Searcfi°und with his old] g
ashington St el
3 By
Page A 18
/
--- page 101 ---
Tolson
Tadt SEEEiEsa
. Cclege. o fai il
Glavin_____
Niichola SSyey
s R oS en il i
(T r o cy M S
Harbo ———
MoRT SN I
Tele. Room__
ENeaset INIIEW
\ Gand y, S SN
= z R
qfi(fl‘;’g» y
4 [ 2 . v
| 3 v YY)
en Burnie 'Sauce b,
° ] » ne
lips Confiden:ial,
1
but They Aren't,
Newspaper clips on the “flying . —
saucers” found in a Glen~Binia G3
— barn last week have been sent to = L
Washington marked “Classified-
Coniidential.” 3
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 p
tp anybody,” an Air Force spokes- 4 7
an said. “But if a folder is marke / |
‘Gonfidential, a follow wants 4,
Idok out because he knows som
ofthe other stuff in there is g 1 I
\nore important.” / |
T I
/ ) <
f? REC(,RDET}'-‘:&
5 sep L 19
WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS S——
FINAL EDITION
a2 DATE f%,d/y/
--- page 102 ---
Mr. Tolson! sSi
% Mr. Clegg,
Mr. Glavin &
Mr. Ladd P li ~E
Mr. Nichols—
Mr. Rosen
7 Mr T racy St
A Mr. Egan
744 /"/’/C/\“/ Mr. Gurnea_—
] Mr. Harbo
] Mr. Mohr
Mr. Pennington___
Mr. Quinn Tamm_
Mr. Nease
5 Srr oot {Miss_ Ganc}y_
Researchers’ Balloons | M ¢ Pledobnt
Mistaken for Discs - ? g
\ CHICAGO, July 16 (INS), ‘t'%(\fiy'j»
Jje 18, ad_so) - \
cagoans worried were identified
today_as gas_balloons vised by _jite
University_of Chicago for cosmié
ray_reseayen. Large numbers of
Shicagoans reported seeing my.
Fious objects in the sky yeste%'
y morning. Descriptions varies
om jet planes to silvery globule:
0 to 50 fget long.
A
/ SR
‘ Y - = o RDED
N acp 9 1949
JUL 171949
WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD
Page_.3 Sec. 1
--- page 103 ---
“//
ey e
-
% \/
2 :
Ve e ;
¢ 2 Sa 9 'cn%e from Russia. The Air For
said:
y'ng ucers «To date there has been no tan-
gible evidence which would suj ]
{2 port & theory thas any of the in-
“ ecret lst cidents are attributable to activity
of & foreign nation. On the other
hand, there is no evidence to deny
terday that secrecy restrictions|payve definitely been determined
have been clamped on certainito be meteoroligical balloons or
incidents connected with the mys- natural celestial phenomena. How-
e A T ever, there s somC ompetel
the skies last year. t observers Which are still une}
At the same time, the Air Force plained.”
| admitted it is impossible to “deny Ve IR S
| categorically” that the weird ob- T T
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-
explicabte” incidents have been
placed in the “classified” category,
denied to all persons except au-
thorized military personnel.
e statement was issued s
tb Air Force continued to re-
celve inquiries arising out of a
comentator’s broadeast. The
c entator said the “saucers” Y/ !\;
% /f N /
) M (g4 /
V4 W ™!
y
\ W
o o
45 4 v
S AR 19 ot
1949 ¢ .
- e 7~ \V
This clipping is from
Tt;‘e evening edition of
<l 4 e Washington Times Herald
. OB APR201949 ¢—F-ug
Date
--- page 104 ---
' ‘ Mr. Tolson
3 / Mr. E. A. Tamm_
] ’ Mr. iGlegg.-- 1.
/| & 2K Mr. Glavia
\ ““q&“ TR Mr. Ladd. ..
\ “A=]()g M. Nichols
Mr. Rosen__
Mrs T rae v aiaus
Mr. Carson
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo____
Mr. Hendon
MroSJione sERts N,
Mr. Pennington__
Mr. Quinn Tamm_
Mr. Nease_
Miss Gandy____
\ ;
_ %rman Spy Calls Sfi\f
o o 4
lying Disc’ Inventor |
& / RIO DE ANEIRO, Nov. 5
" [ (INS)—NilgChristensen, a con-
victed de Dy in Brazil, 12
claimed today to be the invantor / l'{_(/)
\ | off “flying discs” which have Been 5 . ;
\ |sighted in many parts of el / 7
11d, including the United Statés, VA
\ 1
INDEXED - 64 ) 62 - $ = S <
SSEgg T TR '
EX-109 - "' 19 154
\=1UY 4 )
e DL Y 1\
(\N
¢
5
) WASHINGTON TIMES HERALD
| "AFTERNOON EDITION
| DATE gt -G - ¥ §
--- page 105 ---
@
g o
S V4
)'/‘)
S
J
o ; ) _ j
/So% Still— 4
WantsAnswer /
To ‘Saucers® ~ ;
By DAVID SENTNER
N. Y. Juurnnl-.\mtrlcnn Wllblnrkn Bureau
WASHINGTON_ Aug, 14 —so- _
viet agents in the United States
have been ord@d to solve the
mystery of the lying Saucers,”
it was learneq today. 4
While the Buessing game jn this
country has burneq itself out, the
| Soviet Union continues to pe
acutely interesteq i, the phen-
. ]omena. according o American in- »
| vestigative agencies, Y,
| Instructions o Soviet espionage L s
| agents in_the Uniteq States indi- A
| cjte the Kremlin believes the sau s
| eqrs.may be connected with Army €S
ie periments in devices to decom- 2
! nfission enemy . radar during
[ bombing raids, v
D R
rmoorsEd| &L —020 / P o
h/ (e (7Vv
P V% &7V,
A § |
go= o 23 gents in U.5. Interested in Saucer IPPING ]
oviel Lspjonage Agents i La 00 N Al (AL A
i 8 il LA LA
p s ‘“\ "DIVIION 481
--- page 106 ---
e /) Mr. Tolson
S e 5 . // r. E. A. Tamt” |
e @e 'Em and Some Do | Fur. clegs____
o Rl Mrf Ladd
Gander for Saucers ) & @ o
& s M
» s N ; acy______
rom Capital on Flying Discs % e
| mhe national leader of the T R e — 0 i é?fg‘fi'{'?}%‘.” oy 3‘ 3 Mr. H Al
exans of Foreign Wars said yester-| Sie rag ,ugx(‘ R LN “’ ;\‘:f&‘gj {wr o e
:P’; el Ohio, that he (St b o ' y il ?cndon
as momentarily expecting word |jeits S G S g o S s
frol:n Washing.'on which would ex- ‘; Aji‘i{&‘ ‘gé\ ‘ii:%g Wiivo: ISR
plain the “flying saucers” mystery.| SESHERE B H0 i £ LN Mr §QuinniTamm
Louis E. Starr, national com-| @R ge@eEERsc e N 74 {,%‘ Mr i
mander of the VEW, told the Ohio| e uteidi e | f"faf . N AR iof Fand
State encampment of the VEW| SESVEELEE S Bl g 3 ISl forreT——
i'-hat he might have “within a few ,"_:I.’;E"".: % VV‘:,%@; :"?lzdiw ”%\;)M : h Ua; =
'hours” an explanation from Wash- ,, Ko >~\“”J‘@;¥:f§*€",‘ vé}tfi?fi{g?fl - T ‘ 4 / ‘
lington. He had expe s e { TAMIAN, (/A1
|sage at 3 p. ?n. el))‘lfiL?ttegi;h:o? :f': R i »‘ ’w}’,f@’}flfi’ 4 LA D ( / '}/
|vivg, he said. SR ,'%’g}@; \Jf olcoRsShdenalee Ta SEESE . £ Lefn
| oo ltle is being toid e peo- LT S Sl i Y KA
|plgof this country,” Starr told the F e R Sl Mg ree or four flying discs
delgate: e e ARG g 5
lefgates. Pl AR L daia 0ol AT TENE
Hundreds of persons in about| G e i e b
30 States have reported seeing fi’"“%{fi}”{*“‘flym’;’ ffl’: e
the silvery .saucer-shaped dises ’"%’fif"g’%&'&? o : T
speeding through the skies at tre- %3?"‘5«»‘64»"*'?2;«45‘%;&&?& R s
mendous_speeds. g Ay e f'%ac D e 5
|new~ formation was availah?: l;: fléifi%fi?gfi(ié@p&’/\a &’E} ;, Nfifi%‘,‘g W i e
Washington. No one knew any- 3’7; "@Wfi‘“‘»w%i’:@ ;?’:“‘I! $‘X‘~fi“’~ g
thing. But a new fendency to b e %fl LT aen N ; e
|take the reports a bit more se- i:-fl(?fzf: {{ - Vg‘%é"fi”;‘“ o R i
Iviously was apparent. ~As the L L e b ’»‘z@fi}%“*}w . '
|mystification waxed, the scoffing| « Lo ”M%‘fi g s S e T, R
‘wasn:;.e of the mystery missiles 3;‘”&%“:‘7@%%%&}%?{% 4&2‘%‘ 8 v:@fiflé\‘:‘@”ffi,fl
'may have passed over Washington IS ITD‘:“S;:;: (l}’"“ byt f /"k‘«‘ *vm%;%‘%fi‘r;fi )A. . ‘4’<:‘
Friday night at about midnight. | pyman 27 uardsman Frank | o,
DaVid‘Atgml:ian,Hsl‘eo s wyth : ; ol th.ls DioHe ’%4'5\';}3;32) )?’.@43\’9«/ }:2:’,.':_ R_;-'«":l"_»‘;n
Jane, Friendship Heights, Md., re-| With a Speed Graphic camera oo 8 !
ported that he had seen three from the front porch of his S gl grd Fo
or four of the flying saucers tray-| Seattle, Wash,, resids Sl s A F iy
eling northward at a rapid rate of| shows, 'says Rya idence. | It ZHE 8 G g e T
speed at about that time. He said 85 ys Ryan, a “white sau- | [ e N 8 A :
{Ipy were at an altitude of between cer” (arrow) that is neither an e Sl e l
Y% "and 2000 feet and appearea| difplane, a cloud, por a silver B S ”
e ot a bright, bluish hue, | balloon. So, is ita “flapjack” or | i :
rhe fiying saucers produced a| a saucer? Or maybe a bottle | :
<cbios of speculations and at-| cap? Photo is enlarged about ; 3 ¥
Sos SAUCERS, Page 5, Column 2. i 1 i Sl i ket S T L » ‘
’ a wingless plan 3 ST
| plane it, has which x:l’igh: g:éveerg)fil;ed' by, the Navy, i the "nnlg"‘
| cers,” but officials in Wgsmm,: ::l?i reported “fying say
strange-looking aircraft has never left B: ivesterday that thif
thorities ave still skepti aodgeport, Con .
eptical that the myst » Comn. A
Bssc—iebn seen in the skies over the W o sile g,
Kast as the Carolinas are any est Coast afid as o
i % ¥ sort of new airplane
Cog; [ D_GReGlL A
v_l " ]
o JUL 2% 1947 s Al
\| WASHINGTON POST
Page 1=M & 3=M
--- page 107 ---
» y
g -
p ‘ ap ; Duyall; assistant super=|
e nte: of the Naval Obsejva-
‘ ory, “P that the saucer “does hot'
-~ feem to be an astronomical phe-
| mena.” Y
| Credence in the saucers—widely
ilaughed-ofl at theic first reported
° v _® 0 appearance June 25—grew as hun-|
! FW Chief Awaiting Message s o sservers some ot tvem
’ |trained fliers, reported seeingj
Capital on Flying Discs "
rom Lapulai on £'Lying IISCS | a crovd of 200 observed a dise.
tempted explanations tlu'oughout[Guard, announced that the guard’s :tg}:::;e;fl&k;}::i:gg}:‘ :;?yth?ndl!
the country yesterday. {squadron would attempt to photo-| at Twin Falls, Idaho. And in|
A Los Angeles ¢ newspaper|graph any future apparitions of the Portland Oreg’ so many residents'
quoted an unidentified scientist discs. He said six P-51 fighter witnesse& then; that same day the?
in nuclear physics at the California|planes, equipped with gun and tele-, 1;.a” department, sent out an al-
Institute of Technology as saying|scopic cameras, would he kept‘cars broadcast A
the flying discs have resulted from ready to take off on a moment's| "y crew oi‘ a United Airlinds
experiments in “transmutation of notice. plane said seyeral of the roun
atomic energy” being conducted at{ Col. F. J. Clark, commanding flat objects were visible for ab t’
Muroe Lake, Calif., White Sands,|officer of the Hanford Engineeringim T Tas
N. Mex.: Portland, Oreg., and Works in the Pacific Northwest
elsewhere, ]whete the largest saucer influx has
The scientist, whom the news-lbeen reported, said the saucers 3
paper said had worked as a re-/were not coming from the atomic{
searcher on the atomic bomb|plant there. 1
“Manhattan Project,” was quoted| ,“I have been waiting for some-|
as saying: one to tie the discs to the Han—‘
“People are not seeing things. ford atomic plant,” he said. He!
Such flying discs actually are in|declared that as far as he knew|
I experimental existence, no experiments were under way|
“These saucers so-called are|there which would explain the‘ '
capable of high speeds but they|mystery. .
can be controlled from the ground.| Two Chicago astronomers said
“They are 20 feet in width at|the discs are probably “man-|
e center and are partially rocket-[m'ide-" i
opelled on the takeoff.” [ “They couldn’t be meteors,” said
However, other scientists were Dr. Girard Kiuper, director of!
SAeptical about the claims of theithe University of Chicagp’s Yerkes! K f
uthqamed California physicist. Dr.|Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis.|
Harold Urey, famed atomic scien-| Dr. Oliver Kee, director of]
tist at the University of Chicago,| Northwestern University's Dear-|
said the term “transmutation of born Observatory, said: |
atomie energy” is ‘“‘gibberish.” ! ‘‘We realize that the Army and
“You can transmute metals, but|Navy are working on all sorts of
not energy,” and Dr, Urey. ithmgs we know nothing about.”
David Lilienthal, chairman of| He said the mystery disks may
the Atomic Energy Commission,ll'epl‘ESent an accomplishment simi-
declared the unexplained discs are|lar to that of sending radar sig-
in no way connected with ,mmic!nals to the moon,” one of the great-
‘experiments. Lilienthal said he}e“ technological acl}ievements of|
couldn’t shed any light on the!the war and accomplished in abso-/
mystery and added: lute secrecy.” |
“Until someone has the facts| 1lere in Washington, Dr. News
about this phenomenon, “I can't{Pern Smith of the National Burea
see how anyone can say anything|Of Standards expressed the opinio;
| deBnite abott it." ghat all iie excitement is akin tof
And Dr. C. C. Lauritsen, head ‘those Loch Ness Monster stories.’d
of the nuclear physics department The only comment offered byl
at California Institute of Tech-|
nology, said he was certain nohody‘
§ in his department, which includes
four former Manhattan Prajectl
researchers ineluding himself, had
made “such a statement.” ]
He expressed the opinion that
the discs “have nothing to do with
nuclear physics.”
Strangely enough, the Murco,
Calif., Army Air Base, identified as
one of the sites where the “secret
experiments” are being carried
oy, announced that it had a PO
fighter plane standing by to gife
cHase if one of the fiying saucefs E
de an appearance,
Col. Atl guttun. commanding
cer o e Oregon 2
offi gon National JUL 61947
WASHINGTON POST
Page 1-M & 3-M
--- page 108 ---
. / Mr. Tolson l/_,
((;(AV({/ML E. A. T¥om_
4 Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glayin
Mr. Lad A
/ AR il
M7 NichdfoL |
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
/ Mrit Carson g
. Mr. Egan
b Mr. Gurnea
g2y Mr. Harbo -
i~ b
@f e Mr. Hendon
/‘{ Wi T one's Mo
o ; v Mr. Pennington__
Flfirfifbflucefil"ounz ! Mr. Quinn Tamm_
Add latest report$ on flying sau- Mr. Nease
cers—a garage sign with @ garbage Misk/ Gandy
can lid and an ingenious “buzzer” / —r——
found on the lawn of the home of L / <
Thaddeus Elder, 111 6th st, Lau- 7 /,.\ .
rel, Md. / /
The “saucer” was discovered Fri- /
day night shortly before 10 o’clock. ]
Two small aerials projected from /
the contraption. It contained a dry’ A
cell battery, a flashlight bulb, a AL IS S
Yy camera -lens and a ticker that ‘\7’
caused the buzzing. \
The_“saucer” avus_turned.ouer
o Laurel police who kept 4 straight
“Mhflm:iuuuiaxg_ihc-m]—of
he “discover.” The EBI wadsn't
« ot bt
g™ 44 o
& JUL 18 1947
A
]
I A
'k
WASHINGTON POST
Page_ 17 M
--- page 109 ---
4 < 7 Mr. Tolson A -
1 -( [/Mr E. A. Tamm_
/{fl/ Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin -
Mr). Ladd ),
_V,"Mr. Nichols_ ./
- \ V' Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson_‘ i
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Hendon
;| Mr. Jones
Mr. Pennington .
Mr. Quinn Tamm_|
Mr. Nease 4\
Miss Gandph
P —
oy Fiying Sauter Hoax | X
¥ A —. 7 | } Viia
Stirs Police, FBI and Army AW L
‘ By the Associated Press \A 1 K¢
TWIN FALLS, Idaho, July 12— S'/"\ I
Four_lags ) wil maginations..that X AV
run_to_Hving discs may_or may not, >
he Jaughing up_their sleeves today ¥
after their version of a flvin&_s_gucer'
had “practicall entire populace, o i
the FBI, Army intelligence officers «P)
and_police_on_the-run. A 3
The boys created and planted in -
a_vard yfijgxflay_nafijfi?aflnat -
ooked to_them, as_well-as_to_the ?
Army and civilian_officers, just like!
aflying disc _should. 1ook. |
Their hoax was exposed after As-| 3‘5’(
sistant Police Chief L. D. McCracken
was tipped off that one of the boys
knew something about the disc. b
The creation,which toak two davs
to_complete, was _made from parts
of an old phonograph, burned-out
radio tubes and other discarded elec-
trical parts h a_plexiglass
dome, radio tubes, burned wires and
flmfiiflafi. W
Since the boys are juveniles, their
|names were withheld:" They will
‘gwecuted. Chief McCragken i 3
ECORDED R = T
492 UL 151947
/
JuL 1 2 1947
: WASHINGTON STAR
f e
Fage. e sultiea
t
--- page 110 ---
Mr. Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tamm_
Mr. Clegg
Mr2¥iGlayin iy
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols_
Mr. Rosen_.
' Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson____
Mr. Egan
Mr. Gurnea___
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Hendon
Mr. Pennington__
Mr. Quinn Tamm_
Mr. Nease
Miss Gandy.
—— _ . . =
}Jfifi e
uke Box Birthed
| }
o o o Y
‘This Flying Disc:
°
|Army Expert Finds
By United Press L
'~ SALT LAKE CITY, July 12—The
“Flying Disc" that fell with a thud
in the yard of a Twin Falls, Idaho,
‘housewife was found today to have
3 been manufactured by four teen-
age boys: from the parts of a run-
down juke box.
Discovery of the disc was an-
| nounced yesterday by an agent of
| the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
‘who turned it over to Army offi-
| cers ‘at Twin Falls. They in turn
| put it aboard a plane and rushed it
to Ft. Douglas near here for ex-
amination by experts.
The examination showed the
fancy gadget—complete with plexi-
|glass dome, three radio tubes,
chromium-plated edges and nu-
| erous wires—was a hoax and, ac-
{fording to the Army, had “no otht H
|$r function than to be ornament
|{n a, limited manner and to cause
onsiderable expense to. Federal
agencies investigating it.”"
RECORDED | "’”\‘°
F.‘ B
A4 WL 18 1947
/] )
I | “ A
/ I A
1 V
|
JUL 121947
‘ = H WASHINGTON NEWS
[y ] i 5
JU Sl age
% g
--- page 111 ---
~> Mr. TolsdN
a4 /4
J‘J(Mr. E. A. T4
; ’ 7 JNU¥Mr. Clegg __
2 4 Mr. Cofjey §
. Mr, Glgvin_
LIV
r. Nichdya. ¥
Mr. Rosen'_
f Mr. Tracy D
Mr. Carson
MTE g an SN
?)/\ Mr. Hendon __
Mr. Pennington
’ — : Mr. Quinn Tamm _
'Saucer-Shaped Gadget Found | Mr Nease
S e . . y Mis;'};:md:~
By Californian in Flower Bed ~ Pl Vs
By the Associated Press 1B, Hood. Federal Bureau of Investi- A u|/}\{ ) }b‘y\f—
NORTH HOLLYWQOD, Calif. gation chief here. said an FBI man | 74 /i f
‘:Jul,\‘ 10.—A saucer-shaped m‘cchan e et o o o] f /
ical contraption, ' resembling a mnilitarv authorities L &‘T 4 AL
|chicken brooder top with a few s d_Mr. Hood ha =l = lf[ ) £
gadgets added, was found in a ger- ment, | I} 1l 4 3
|anium’ bed at the home of Russell"Chief Newcombe exhibited the 7 < ,A{ !{fl’v.f
Long, construction engineer, lastjobject. A radio tube on ‘top was Il
night, and the first official reaction |set down into the upper half of the 3 hiTH
{was from Fire Battalion Chief Wal- saucer, which was about 5 inches
lace E. Newcombe, wha looked at it thick at the middle and tapered to!
skeptically and said: a thin perimeter. There were wires!|
| “It doesn't look to me like’ it|leading to a plug embedded in the
could fly.” center of the lower half. There
Mr. Long called the Van Nuys|was a rudder-type wing on top. |
|\Fyre Department and excitedly| Mr. Long told reporters he was
ppinted to the metal saucer, 30 awakened by a pop, not as loud as|
ifches in diameter, which he said an explosion, and rushed outsids to |
hfd been belching smoke from two|find the device. He declared he;
edhaust pipes and emitting a blue- | object had nudged a few bricks put |
white glare. The office of Richard, of the border of his flower bed. |
i
GLRD
D
HCO y /
RDED “/ y 7
G w2
: 74 L 2¢
A7 N o
L ¢ AUG 1 3 1947 WASHINGTON STAR
Page_ ST
--- page 112 ---
! : r. Tofson %
“ AN Gl e g e
~ Mr. Coifey 54!
¥ / ~ Mr. Glavin
[/( L‘,’}\dr. Ladd ; 70
'—)’ / Mr. NiYthB‘ A
3 / Mr. Rosen Sl
/ / Ry
' Mr. Tracy
{ Mr. Carson L
[ = Mr. Egan AL
:Wlule Science Sneers P — ML H s
: ° ] L3 Mr. Pennington _
Air Forces Intelligence Joins y)/\_ A
S h f ZIFl . S < ~" Mr. Nease
edarc (1] ymg aucers \\"Y’ 3G ent; DI
Army Air Forces intelligence|and about 50 other persons saw. a!
vesterday disclosed it has_joined|group of about “50 of the saucers| e
= in triangular formation near Au-
the search for a_flving.saucer. burn' Saturday.” | ;
Bizarre reports on 'the whirling, One report which won't trouble! A
high-speed discs continued to pour|the AAF is that of a commercially! /
in,_drawing an_official statement|operated, converted P-38, whose
from the AAF. much ecynicism |Pilot said he had knocked one of
"_m"fi“—‘—“"—-—Lf SRR 00 the “pearl-colored. clam-shaped
from science and the offer of $10 airplanes” out of the Montana sky.
for_the firstane downed. He admitted the story was a hoax.
The Air Forces, which has juris-| In Washington, Dr. L. R. Haf-
diction over the White Sands (N.|stad, executive secretary of thi
Mex.) Rocket Proving Grounds, de-|Joint Research and Developme
nied the saucers are any of its|Board and former director of t
doing. “No such phenomena can|Johns Hopkins Applied Physi
be, explained by any experiments|Laboratory, said:
baing conducted,” the statement| ‘“Poppycock!”
sahd, Dr. Jesse Sprowls, psychology
[From_the Naval Research Lab-|professor at the University of
ofatory’s Rear Admiral_Paul.F.|Maryland, said, “There is abso-
Lee came the curt comment; “We|lutely no limit to the delusion that
concur in the Army announce-|the mind can harbor. A tremend-
ment.” ously interesting social psychologi-
Neither denied cxistence of the|cal delusion,” he added.
discs, but the AAT said statements| Dr. Ivan E. McDougle of Balti-
2 of witnesses are being correlated|/more’s Goucher College, said he “\
“in an effort to identify the re-|guessed “it’s one of those phycho-
ported objects.” logical epidemics where people see >
| With few States in the Nation|things that aren’t there. /
without at least one flying saucer| But C. J. Zohn, 440 Mellon st. a
report, the AAF has a chore. se., who works in the rocket-sonde,
A Navy flier with five years’ high altitude research section of
experienceé ftabbed the discs as the ‘Naval Research Laboratory,
“space ships” after at first consid- yesterday reported he“ and t_l.u-ee
ering all reports as “crazy.” He other men saw one saucerib
‘|cHanged his mind, he said in Ala-{N&W Mexico June 29. He describfd
da, Calif,, yesterday, after he| See SAUCERS, Page 3, Column
A1)
5% gk
"
v
‘(; | Q 104 \
J ,J__ o TERRR ,?f
WASHHINGTON POST
E@OL 0 0501 L
--- page 113 ---
-
*o ————n)
iSAUCEllS-—l‘rom Page .'l‘
—_—_—
| ° °
Flying Discs |
Interest AAF |
it as a bright, silvery disc, travel-
ing at 10,000 feet.
“It was clearly visible—and
then it wasn’t there.”
The FBI here was noncommittal.
In Milwaukee, Wis., the FBI said‘
it was “not interested” in what|
appeared to be a circular saw, |
rigged with a few wires, which the|
Rev. Joseph Brasku said crashed,
into his yard at Grafton, Wis. He\
|admitted it probably was a joke,|
Ibut was holding the disc for FBI's|
attention, |
Atomic experts in session at|
‘Lake Success, N. Y., did not dis-!
cuss officially the flying sauceri
Flying Saucers Traced \
To Wife’s Pitching Arm
Pittsburgh, July 7 (P.—Many |
persons have seen the mysteriou:
“fyving saucers,” but Connil
unbar, 35, knows the source ol
he ones he saw.
Dunbar, who said he was |
truck by saucers thrown by his |
wife, Mrs. Bessie Dunbar, was
granted a divorce today by Judge
Harry H. Roward.
reports, but made no secret of
their interest. They were reported
as ‘“baffled.”
Not so was a 34-year-old watch-
maker in Chattanooga, Tenn., who :
,said he invented the flying saucer
in 1943 but “got tired of the run-
around” when he tried to peddle
it to the Government or an air-
craft concern. His model was
'powered with a rubber band.
. A $1000 reward was posted in |
INorthbrook, 111, “for the capture'
lof a flying disc—or the true ex-;
‘planatiun of the phenomena.” The|
offer, made by E. J. Culligan, is
imade “solely through an interest
in science.”
4 | A theory that the saucers might
be artificial satellites came from
the British physicist Prof. A.. M,
Low. The artificial satellite, he ex- )
plained, might be created by un-
!known scientists and could serve!
} |many purposes, such as deflecting |
24 'television or radar beams.
p Lester P. Barlow, a Stamfor
'@onn., inventor, said he believes|
e dises are jet-propelled missil \
eing manufactured for the Na ‘
v the Martin Aireraft Co., |
altimore. A ‘
--- page 114 ---
“Flying S ’
ing Saucers’
Special 1o the N, Y. ot th et |
| LOS ANGELES, July T.—Federal agents today investi-|
gated a leffer to The Examiner deseribing Russian SUPErSOnic] .
atom-powered planes-resembling the “flying saucers.” " | 2
A ‘top-fight atomic sclentist® —— —— & — —— A
to whom The Examiner referred|said he met the Russian officer | }
the letter said it was “not all|in Wilmington and, because he L
nonsense,” and _suggested the|Wanted to hear about Russia, in- Ul f e, .
_matter_be_furmed._over to the| Vited him fo be his gucst at dinner. I -
puo:) A TDESTROYS ALL LIFE.
The letter writer said he zof | The Russian first asked where <
the information from an officer |he could sell 18 Polar bear pelts A g A
aboard a Russian tanker re- ’which he received “for very /| / b:Af'.
cently in Los Angeles harbor. |dangerous work ” | / s X
’I‘hg Russian, he said, also| “He said he had been assigned| { d/ \
caseribed experiments with con- fo go over the route of the mdio-? / J
trolled radioactive cleds = 2 lactive cloud near Lake Bakal (or|
Arctic, where birds, animals 4t Baykal) and pick up dead animal, | i
éyen worms were Kkilleds T “Ther laaded a few small shipg |
1p INCHES THICK. with all kinds of animals and | /
The planes, as descried by the |t:l;‘rectvc:lt the 'cloud over thems !
ssian to the writer, are only| ‘e writer said.
18 inches thick, with a kidney- ‘During this experiment, a vio- , ,;
shaped outline and no propellors. 'Entthst_or{n ‘l;llcw thde clz‘!)m} ‘f)ar ; -
The pilot lies on his stomach| Dorth into the tundra, bul be- \ B
and is artificially cooled against| fore it dissipated it destroved | Ve
the heat developed by air friction. | 81l life on its way. | e .
“The outer surface ih highly “The cloud may be controlled
polished,” the Russian said. from lnml._fmmrtplanc,or from | .
“Both upper and lower surfaces [ a rubot-lulot_cd leader.” As .l
are convex, like a giant lens. | understand it, the cosm'ol is ! 5
The lifting force is an entirely | based on electro-magnetic waves t
different principle found about | and the clond has two compo- |
10 years ago among unpub- | nents: The carrier and the killer. ?
lished papers of a Russian [HAVE ATOMIC ENERGY. !
chemist. “Y asked him if the Russians i /
“Energy i§ required only for | have an atomic bomb. He said |
limbing, but no energy is | he doubted it, because the atomic | ¢
eeded for support when the | bomb cannot be used without |
irplane goes along the earth’s | killing innocent people, such |
' gravitational contour lines.” children and women. But the
The writer of the strange letter have atomic energy which the;
g — use for propelling supersoni
airplanes.” '
The writer sald he asked the
IRussian officer to another dinner, B gl / oo |
{but when he came the second time| 2 UL e H(E 3
|his father was leaving unexpect-| R Al i
|edly and he could only say good-l Uy /
| bye. ) ’
Bureau Interest | The nuclear physicist consulted“ /
Iby The Examiner gaid it was diffi-| 3
cult to appraise the value of the
‘lpm:r because of the writer's " 4
| “technical ignorance.” | ’ “ O i
“The remark implying that the | 7 . W
| Russians wouldn’t use the atom .IU\- \
| bomb if they had it Is nonsense. ) /
| The_ Russians would lke very
fiuvsi e have the bomb,” the |
{ physicist said. — \
--- page 115 ---
—Eghorts of” thed fly%““ Leonard Posella. 14, of 3267 B ol
= © |drclbed off shapply in JM dri @ tiEn Mr. E. A. Tamm_
- 2 y drive, 1 g
v DIVISION OF N e yésterday ant PO o5e il Park going Mr. Clegg
li aid they had receiwd nO‘ west at 500 feet. oo said thev 3
% PRESS INTELLIGENCE |cal® aboutsthem in the city or|:> 3 - .hl Mr. Glavin__
county sinte Saturday. || were round and very “witl Mr. Ladd .
GOVERNMENT The: writer of the strange let-|l thejy noses pointing upxard,“i;nd Nichol
INFORMATION SERVICE |ter said he met the Russian offi- he watched them _fope"three Mr. Nichols_
’ BUREAU OF THE BUDGET [cer in Wilmington and, bocausel,‘mmw_}_‘.‘_,‘ j S ‘ Mr. Rosen
‘!, <he wanted to hear about Russia,| ————mmmr Mr. T
v *ZMML__ invited him to dinner. ‘ ——n T DA CY S
/ | The Russian first asked where Mr. Carson_
¢ ! he could sell 18 polar bear pelts
; ; {which he received “for very dan- Mr S g an S
SYM, 1 |gerous work." Mr. Gurnea_
71 | He said he had been assigned Mr. Harbo
J 4 to go over the route of the run- ST e
Exam Per away radioactive cloud near Lake Mr. Hendon
Los _Angeles, Calff. |Baikal and pick up dead animals. Mr. Jones
1) oo
Dig‘; s f3 ¥') |ANIMALS KiLLED—— Mr. Leonard
il | JL'? 1947 “They loaded a few small Mr. Pennington_
= / ships with all kinds of animals Mr. Quinn Tamm_
and directed the cloud over N
| them,” the writer said. Mr. Nease_
. J “During this experiment, a Miss Gandy.
violent storm blew the cloud e Qi
far north into the tundra, but fih‘—l—
before it .dissipated it de- \ \
* stroyed all life on its way.
“The cloud may be controlled
flom land, from a plane or \
> | ffom a robot-piloted ‘Teader.
i ‘t:‘ ! .| As I understand it, the control |
Federal agents yesterday in- | is based on- electro-magneti -
vestigated a letter to the Exam- | waves and the cloud has twi |
iner describing Russian super- | components: The carrier an ?/) Joph S
sonic atom-fc_wered planes re- | the killer. gl ,;/{'),'_/ A/
sembling th »{‘flving_;qgg:_s;”_ “I asked him if the Russiand 7)) G
A top-flight afewilc “scientist | have an atomic bomb. He said T
to whom the“Examiner referred | he doubted it, because the A
the letter said it was “ndot all afomict Ilr‘?lllnb cannot be used
sense,” and! suggested the | withou ing innocent people,
y:?:uor be turnied over to the FBI. | such as (‘Il:llclron and women. i
{ e letter writer said he got|| But they have atomic energy A 4 )
:lh:hinrormatipn from an officer|| which they use for pmpolllng‘ |
aboard a Russian tanker recently|| supersonic airplanes.” .
in LoOS Angeles/Harpor. The writer said he asked the
{ 4 Russian officer to another dinner, .
DEATH C{;O DS—— |||but when he came the second
" i g ime his tanker was leaving unex- .
The RuSsiefi, he said, also de}||time
o = Al ) tedly and he could only say
.eribed experiments with cor pec Y 3
s?r]l]l;d radioactive c)8iids imwthel| good-by. ! F
m.),t' wheref Birdsy afiimals gnd|| The nuclear physicist consulted 4
Arc lc\Qorms Werorkiléa, by the Examine;‘ said it was dif-
evf}l;w plancyrap dgscribed Wpthe | fieult to appraise the value of
Russian to (the weiteT, are only |the letter I?vcausv of the writer’s
‘o inches thick, with a kidney- | gtechnical ignorance.” i L 2 /
11811]]:*0(1 outline and no propellers. | | “The remark implying that "/ Vet s //;/ /
shape€ i is s by -~ /
ilot lies on his stomach, | [the Russians Woulan' use the ¢ O LY s
! Th{;ul;:jan said, and is al'ti[i-I tom bomb if they Hnd it is i —— “‘f K ,
e eooled gainst fheheat de- | nanenss. The ould \CORDEY x 4 . 1947
cary o by ahe-iictioh. like very much to have the RECVETTAR AUG & 19
"“k‘"r,i;h‘, outer /sutlage of the | oy k 2
jane is highly golished,” the "5, "ina"other hdnd, he decriea :
g.r“fl- said the Russian told ., =~ ¢orts of some groups who })\ )
him. “Both upper and lower ... jdvantage of “all this flying| AT
faces are CONVeEX, like a dise talk” to stir up suspicion of a;‘s’
sur ¢ lens. The lifting force is Rissia’s «intentions, s
gian lti}'ely different principle The Examiner had o' more|
an ad about J0J vears ago oo Ctnuing dicos Wktorday. ‘
o ng unpulilishédl papers of a ved Dodwe o ith Yoy
m:::ehm chenyist And dc:'e""l“"‘l il 1 avenue said he was in Whst.
e of Russia’s re- 1 3
pcently at one 9 {ifke Park at §2:02 p. m. yhen
earch lahl)!'flllf":("l;-?;“d only far |IP saw one flyire westwarfl at
“xnergy 18 PO oy is naed. | 300 to 3000 feet. He said it ‘was
climbing, DL & sthen ghe aif. silent, round and shiny and was
mllmf:.;rg;l(:gl":‘mm thd N‘."'"' s not an airplane, by g
{;ufuvllntlmml coptour lines. A (
--- page 116 ---
7 fianes -l-o Ch ”‘I,.“lN Ry uiion <7 f Al the “saucers® had nothing to_ d 4
Ose LS |ng Clucers ‘s.wim.atqm_,lg: experiments. ,3" of
7 - . . Lo e e l{ ‘A Los Angeles T story | / s
omething to This, AAF Feels [imi. remane i 7
I . e S l Institute of Technology i ientist |
- With aircraft, including a jet plane,| pseudo-scientific explanations of as saying the “fiying saucers” must \
P l:nvsferv OIS é’;]ge “at;‘%n explalnmg David Atamian, 5610 Shocmaker1 enerpy” caused & brief flurry by the
an Army Air Forces sp%keinigl;c;rsf lane, Bethesda, Md., said he saw||institute quickly denied the report
5 disclosed today that the AAF gxe three or four “fiying saucers” trav-|| " pr ‘Harold Urey, atomic scientisi
devest iherdiabomathing o mvc'—‘ eling north at greai speed at 11:45|} ¢ the University of Chicago, called
e eI g i | ATy REidey M. Atamian, who de-||jt “gibberish” and said elemengs
just what. ©| scribed himself as a writer of poetry, | could be “transmuted” but energy
o st ot A A oubl1S| i e SUEE WIS mis'”““‘d not.
relations said the tales ofp flatc taken, The discs, he said, were fly-|| "'p-g0 fighter at the Muroc, Calif.,
round objects zipping through the mgd at between 1,000 and 2-000_‘e“5‘Army Airfield in California and six
1sky are too widespread to be ground- gfl,islf‘pg’;j"‘fd to be of a b”gm-l ifasz conventional flgh(;ers at Port-
ess. He pointed out that a number ! land, Oreg., stood ready to take off K
of competent airmen have reported Government sources denied that||on an instant's notice should any
!seeing the phenomena that have ALY, tests are being conducted thnt( Sfying saucers” be sighted in those
been the talk of the Nation since might be the answer to the mystery.| |areas. Some of the planes carried
|June 25. A Navy official said the Navy had| |photographic equipment.
For 10 days, he declared, the AAR| Checked all ifs facllities to defer-|| Ajr-Ground Search Slated.
has been checking on the stories mine whether any were sending| A slr-grotmd e hed
“and we still haven't the slightest aloft objects that could account for, | n air-ground search Wes gcuccr
idea_what fthe things can be.” the strange sights, The answers! |Ud 1O get under way today to in-
Meanwhle, from Wss‘hingu')n apve negative. e 4E vestigate a report that eight flying
the t th L2t PR : discs had landed on a mougtain-
e rest e country came mor: vid Lilienthal, chairman of th ia ar St. Maries, Idah 1Tull
. reports ff “fiying saucers” as wellfAtgmic _Energy C issi M [s.0eme < d L A
| A Atgmic Energy Commission, said] |view of 10 persons.
as a Humber of scientific and!(Sge FLYING SAUCERS, Pg. A-3. Mrs. Walter Johnson, Dispman,
|Wash., said the “saucers” camg down
in timber near St. Maries Thursday
evening, but were not reported un-
til she returned to her home in| 2
Dishman yesterday. .
i She said they came into view at
iextreme speed, traveling north.
uddenly, she said. they slowed and
hen “fiuttered like leaves to the
round.”
“The mysterious part was that we
icouldn't see them after they landed,”
Mrs. Johnson said. “We could see
them fiutter down into the timber
yet we couldn't see that they dldx
anything to the trees.” |
She described them as “about the ¥
‘slze of a five-room house” and
\ shaped more like washtubs than
! discs.
i Planes to Comb Area. \
Col. G. R. Dogson of the Oregon.
\ Air Guard annoynced a patrol would !
2\ leave Portlandj Ore., today to in-:
Vestigate the Jreport and Sheriff|
v Pai
# //
| U
'8
’ ll‘ T — “k."‘ /
Rl \ (S {
\ \
\ \
— \ /U | W
[ a5 /f{f, / \ [J»J\ {/
R ' SR |
o JUL 11 1947 )
4 | ;b 4N
/ } /1A
' 7 4 . [ ‘f &/
(5 p A A
Clipped from WASHINGTON EVENING ‘3’1‘(\1 for #-L_/__
--- page 117 ---
A 3
£ . Sou 3
% Mr. Tracy...........
3 z Mr. Egan.c.cecocenens
; ghir. Gurue . .......
f Mr. Harbo ........... |
: %,\1,-. Mohr -..._....... |
{ hir. Pennington ...
w— 7 = i
More About Saucers i | i
o R g e e Mr. Nease._......._
il’nest- inds ‘Whirring’ Disc | d‘( 4
\In Yard and Holds It for FBI /
f Chicago, July 6 UR.—A Catho-‘ FBI l?mctethsaiddi he hagn;t hea;id /o P
s : rafton, Wis., id vet abou e dise but that an o -l 2 i 7.
g .pr|est AUCIR on. ; s.md[cial report might be at his office. /' f /‘ 74 1
ton_lght 'fh'“ a round, metal dlsc,{ The flying discs have been re-1 o .‘/t o
whlc&\l mgght be one of the myster-| ported “seen” by persons in 30 / A/ |
ious “flying saucers,” had crashed" States, but Brasky's disc was the U
i‘mo h‘m?“ yfflm and that he;first one that actually Irad been P
is\ holding, it /far '._the Federal pound—if that is what wa=s found.
Bureau of Investl%a ion. ,l His report came a few hours
The \Rey. J?Sfip Brasky of St,ffer a military plane made an
Joseph's Church at Grafton, 45/ ¢\ ccessful speed dash in an at-
miles north D.f I\jhlwaukee, said helgonng 1o track down ong of the|
he‘:-u'd 2 sw1sl'fmg and Whln‘“g[discé and the Army and scientis(s}
noise this morning. A second later,|sought to ascertain whether coast-|
h‘?l;"itpl};;:;e“d a thud and a’to-cnast reports a5cut the disecs!
mi . i h the sk ¥ |
He investigated and found a f,‘;"'f’;',;'fy.‘ TOURR, e B ake fack
3 sheet metal disc about 18 inches in[ Army planes scoured the north-|
diameter, resembling a circular yest pacific skies for them without|
SaW, blade. f {success today and one “eyewitness”
“The object still was Warm, even reported having seen one of
weighed about four or five pounds|the discs take off in Arizona. A
¢ and was about one eighth of ang(. Louis railroad man exhibited
inch thick,” he said. some paper “dises” he said he had
There was a. hole about one|geen floating over St. Louis.
inch in diameter in the middle of ¥
the dise, he said, and in the open-| The flying saucers which have
ing were “gadgets and ‘some|peen reported skimming through
wires. b erica’s skies at speeds up to
The priest said he did not know ;;";;nc?ls :ues a] ds:de BAvEY 4
f his discovery were import;mt‘l_ Kk FaLee a‘;er:dl:xr %]}@v
v whether it might be an elab- fC::":‘ ’?gnoBmwn o Ak | stk |
hrate practical joke. He said he i e R e tond: it = B3 |
hiad notified the FBI of his find. A q
[H. K. Johnson of the Milwaukee| See SAUCERS, Page 3, Col. 2/ 44 JUL 18 1947
1 A
/
THE WASHINGTON POST
PACE / « 3~
DATE_ 2= Z= 87
740 e
f e b
--- page 118 ---
¢
o
' ‘
- thissgs=sees nearb;
e TN L arby al s
|sAvcERS—F . at great distances nd large ones,
SAUCERSe—From Page 1 i 2 |
fP : rom Page 1 Vmfi:fi onatoutstanding Factiab |
3 y all th 0f {
| . Z - 2 e si <
Priest Finds ‘W g s e, Sl s e
I $ W’lir 7 9 Il Post aircraft designe: "Seemed merel szuctutessthen
n Yar d and H rlng DiSc {that :i;f lephone fro;f'%o?':;l:%‘t desm‘ipti:n ;‘:u“d = fla;'l
id & il he sees 3 %|the tri s exactly wi
A s TN Olds It f , [he *“wouldn't e AT s ‘[mmflcks S y with|
cations Service hl:;ays Communt g ror F BI g SEhphpas J'udgr‘i“ cngesAvatles di;‘. Ead
vesterday th ad reported I he best way He A VT er and lighting.” erences !
s y that = ate §ald K ay I ca o agreed wi oweve| ing.
een unable e country|the so ge lamp bul ooked |may be b all of the' Fo1atss RS s rained duri
|strange objects in {0, pickup any any jectket' It was going o w‘thflut' “Aft ecause of hysteri: story|of aircraft vt thtupat AR
| And in the P 1 flight. 1 plane I've aster than er all’ he sai 8 Rinttatdas yesterday off ypes
where acific N n Hag ever seen.” |more o 1 said, ‘“‘w i escription of offered a;
| most of th orthwest— el erstown, M 3 i r less an hy: we are|1ving pat n of on a
‘Lers oL s e fly-happy pl— flyfl Ganoe, 30, S’a‘dd‘, Mrs, Mad- | Major de S hysterical Nation.” saw flypi terns which he cle‘ of the|
"gia 5lzpaay equipl;?:tid—me Ar;t): f;inof the discs lracs-h e ad SEEnI‘iSible that ::’eraky said it was pn. 300 feet. at an altitude of : eg il
erce fi nt whi ation at *“ , racing i e 08~ . abo
;“p cbjeza ai':ld t‘lllarkness 2‘:}; lfiz;;:": backpc:tch ti‘,‘fi‘g" Spee(;?' ?;‘l):{i to have seen thp:!;sm.ls who claim Re}l;orur SeeslOme utI
jaway. e sky 200 mil | Ial'flway train.” hy sounded like instead glimi crial dises have e described it
| | Even so Br es| In the wake shosald. llle‘i-mopeuedpsed the exhau oL SISbeT s circular wi
, | g t ofgray i amew r with
that the Air rown acknowled “VltneSS aCCOunto these new 1" He con planes. st of €ray in color. ork ' and si
“there’ Forces h iged of comm s came a eye- imight ceded, to |to hav . He said it silver:
jiithere's somethi ad decid| ents, and ex new series | bé guid 0, that e a moto it appea)
had b ing to this” ed most of th explanati eslas pa ided missil they attached i r with a "’d|
een chegkin| is” and sligh hem were ti ions, but rt of an es let loose K in the ce propeller|
| “And we stil g it for 10 d ght tendenc; e tinged with | added: experiment se|kept turning lik nter and th: r‘
lest idea wh 1 haven’t th ays. Whole thi y to laugh al “I don" ” , but/ing a slo ike an airpl: at it
peoe at th e slight- D ing, off the|y, on't think | w Toll. rplane do-
| added ey could be,” r. Winfr would fi the Govi Although
w : " he 2ll ed Ove re them vernment hav gh man
‘edAI:Sd? new wrinkle—the ‘lntinlgle'::n If’sycmag}:és :;’dnafion' glhea}; “,’oulld test igerx:‘oi’:lsc“"usll;'t:Clg:ISi::i?:; _"gfled,yno:’e‘l)ll‘anafionst
less ing of a fleet he report- pit. of St. Eli super-| ¢ isolated in one s p . A Los as been
ming platte et of eight ski al here, said it “ {7sbeths MHoE s atomi area, like th pot, Paper quoted Angeles n
Idaho in fi L Wardi e {m-| earmarks it “has sol 051" Maj c bomb.” ey did Physici sntnTanied AR
1] vi rted from | teria.” of bein, ome of th aj. Gen ; ist as sayi nucl
Dislin, ul] view of 10 om | teria.” g natio ela . Curtis E. resulted ying the sil ear
, Idaho persons. A.| nal hys- s Deputy Chi . LeMay, i ed from e silvery dis
R e Fanidofs T Everytime s~ Resear hief of Air y, who | ‘‘transmutati experiments i '35[
hers in h e, said |With someon A arch and D ir Staff for. smutation of atomi in the
seen the sa er part. 1o a sea-serpe e comes know if evelopme! for This report atomic energy.”’|
kaihsias neaucers land on v had| Overholser, nt story,” sai up| porj the saucers nt would into th was rapid]. gy |
r St. Mari a moun- | imaginati , “others | wi aid Dr|Periments wi s _involved ito the hoax ¢ y herdefi
She said th aries, Id i inations aj with Gvivid| comn ith guid, ex. |Lilienthal, chai column b i
BE ey came i , Idaho. - | Seen th re sure vid nented: ed missi » al, chairm y Davi
an ext e i o7 e s : the; “ ssiles, | Ene rman o
imd theb s Suddenty slowed. B Cotical facu A e v S'inor:lgiiexfiozm's.“""- Rt oA i
tM'Igmu"d"' ered like leavesetdo' | very o\:/leellhg reCe1VeI'iy 11: mtan, the| Sulting fr?;:: ofheen 3ny€llfinuhave:51m E!Dectso n‘;c :fienfists"ver Ii‘
' “The mysteri Mot eveloped. still not|Army Air experiments by re-| Loui or i
we couldn’t esle“’us part was that Ihystii-c and you find }hes"afch the conceme]:i Forces. As f:,sl. by the mandel: f Starr, natio; |
landed,” she saied them after th:y ling o “"J}éch pl-edulni;?:;n R at all Thzhere‘s nothing ast I"i“ |Wars a:“:“lle Veterans o?ax‘!o (s '
Foes | i el 2 vl £y 0 % n i
‘;’};:u:\.flu“e" down mzzetf"“‘.d Seefiaf.l'sons arec}:;c:fi“ coavel Sgur-fforéunage.-. pholelthine g uuf:il::lblf.s' ohio,cf:ats ;turday ‘:eg)n.‘
la e couldn’t see th e timber|| b and foll e, ready, {o Yge eneral Leb fro; momentari| NS expect-|
"g:,‘"“s to the trees at they did ||y B, Oyettiotion. beTtefem N ;“?g R eties ffif used to- dis it waSlungtOnl{vhi ‘"‘°flmuot,.‘
e said sk ; ||he made hi r caid that wl ‘guided mi ir For - Plain the dashi ich wo!
the timber ne hoben, S0shiEe 1n¢°,}nfllientse e oo e iR e e e T et But fhel
for the objects W s e ] L vestenday At St mental| “There" 0 miles. ain, The Air F\ arrived. o
saucer-sh Which shajsaldivies ’flyi“g a one commented Eliza- about s been too |Carl Spaat orces said th: |
tubs mo;"c""t‘:]b"t s el S Agursrekior ented on the said guided missiles m::vl:.,’“dfi“ Lneatz ol Rorees cma:f Gen. |
“ghbout the an disks and ws = | skeptical,” they may be | Howard W. | e OBt ciie sc orthwest “,,Was
Housg™ size of a five were | Howeve he added a little ated P . Blakesle BT et have b here
se. SYoom| wasn’ ever, Dr. Overk P ress science edi e, Associ-(there i added een re-|
gt Hazen Kennedy of 2 A tjé{”"g o Baclitithe helfif&?&.}’“"”"“ “‘e';dl)rteora'nsaid the 08D, ‘°"“?iefpol: e o
. ne. report of 2615 ke ““hec: & mattar] ERE optical |G ene! e the onths
o . ed m aus er ¢ a ral Si sau
S Siitn ot thié et oo, North 2y i ot e iy e w?vsrh‘“3‘°g‘a§;zteht:m°é§ri:§fi§ ;
p.m Tty ahotit 6140 g on to- can see,” R uroe Army Air Field ] |
' 8:40 j. Alexande: ure. " he wri I a perso: ‘ornia had ir Field i b
This would — T P. de Sevel appear 1o ote, [ TATL O ey a P-80 jet in Cal}-
3 rsky, |1 und or objectsice. by, and t fightes
ported over be the first one y,[law of sight ety Lo oya ORIy T Nat
others the Distric: Te- Wil SAne botEis both This | had pre al Guard
nearb have heen re l'-a‘mw“ghl oth Smalli«.—,!htm to givpeared six regula
¢ ! l\gal‘ylan a ported over| saucers be reporte ;hase shoul
edy, ¥ | nearby,
S S e kY iy ek
e 5 | . SO TR
U Army Aia_s a student p“h(:urs -
safd he lle]; Forces to hig cg In|
ot | wa:'vfd the BHUcerEd,',"‘
ovkr” 1000 mi raveling at “ \ THE
alfitude of b les an_hour L HE WASMNNG
St etween 1520‘21‘:;5;31 PAGE IGTON POST
| N ~
DATE e
--- page 119 ---
’» l >
g o &
1 2
» A
samin the sky. She is the firsttports of strange objects seep in
known observer to claim what she |the sky and had reached thejcon-
saw was stationary. All the rest|clusion that some sort of mejeor-
have spoken of tremendous speeds. |ites were responsible.
Mrs. Kole said all she could think| Astronomers at the Naval ob-
of was a blazing disc. Alexandria |servatory and Georgetown uni-
police looked in the direction she |versity, who admitted they h[we
indicated but the disc had gone. |been on t{l}f alert tfigx flymsmg
} artist, 3500 [saucers as they swep e 5
e —————— T SRR o bl;,’f;f"ml;‘éb‘c’é‘;pnfii‘ st ‘ripo’l?ed with their powerful telescopes, in:
R B geeing one of the “things” flying |Sisted they not only had not s
4 . @ W over Bethesda. He described it as|20V but knew °l£ no “m"mfi‘]
oo 8 . Ui : Kenneth Arnold, the privaty
Mmoo a e e g% seeing the saucers, expressed grati
L The scientist who claimed to|fication: at the support he s
. &~ @8, = know something about the|getting but insisted he still dl&:,
OO A ,,v«“ “saucers” was described by a Los{believe he had seen nine disesf
}éf %‘;’,’\ W - - -« Angeles newspaper as a member|whizzing by at 1,200 miles an
“}-&,{g‘r‘, S g‘“o"'}g«f@" . = of the California Institute of [hour, although he had seen them.
Weie: Sy ST e | % Technology staff. Arnold started yesterday on &
& ”_ i T R T g flying fishing trip over the Pa-
T : 0 G SEGRE - May Be Real, He Says cific northwest armed with a new
. b & B Vi ing “b camera in the hope of gettin
P e o RS - He was quoted as saying “trans-| pictures if he encountered any
e L f}! . e mutation of atomic energy” exX-|more saucers. He took along Col,
B e :gj,&;« N . periments might be responsible.|payl W, Weiland, World War II
- g’ - ¥ ,""’AA,{"’E‘)&‘?@« e He was said to have been a re-|aptillery officer, just in case he
% s s G M{‘.pg&r:%a,{a e - searcher on the Manhattan proj-|sees some more and needs a
e .. & 0 e fgg, . ect that made the atom bomb, and | witness,
% L W i ... was quoted as saying: Arnold announced he has been |
GRS okt “These so-called saucers are ca- i
L e T S Y getting tons of letters commenting
: Acme Telephoto pable of high speed but can be A .
. 3 trolled fi th d. They |°R his report of the saucers. Man
Can This Be the Secret? controlled from the ground. They|,¢ them predict they are the fore
> are 20 feet wide in the center and N
I X 54 £y ‘e partially rocket propelled on |TuBner of an atom bomb attack®
der discussion as a possible solution to the “sauper Aroyp; prope ON| One correspondent blamed therm.
nae 5 35 W DO the take off. People are not seeing r £ the loatisantierds
ystery is the Navy’s “Flying Flapjack,” shown above. nings.” Such flying discs actually |9 SUVivors of the lost contineni
[ gyt i ] % » f Atlantis who are preparing f
Aipping along with its landing gear retracted, this plane are in experimental existence. :n Atomis e yero! i
"ould seem to be a supper plate spinning through the sky. Experiments with these “discs” | %% 07 o500 e acrond
) were reported as being in progress my, Nayy/aH pehon
ab Muroc Dry Lake, Calif.; White tics officials .a.greed none of the,
Sands, N. M.; Portland, Oreg., and |Dad any rcliable informati
other places. about the discs and would
Dr. Harold Urey, atom scientist | {in from commenting until thY
at the University of Chicago, com. | S8W one, Or : gthut a picture.
mented: “Transmutation of
atomic energy sounds like gibber-
3 ish. You can transmute metals, not §
energy.”
3 Col. F. J. Clarke, in command
of the Hanford Engineering works'
of the atomic energy project, said N
he knew of no experiments involv-
ing “flying saucers.”
“I have been waiting several
days for someone to get the idea
the so-called flying saucers were
tied up in some way with what we
are doing,” Clarke said. “But as
far as I know, there is no connec-
tion.” [} ‘
The “piece” found in Ohio was
discovered near Circleville, Tt was
2 six-pointed star covered with tin-
foil and attached to part of a bal-
loon. It was reported to be a device
used by the Army air forces in
radar vesearch to check on hish‘
wind speeds. There was no comj.
ment from the air forces. I
A War Department spokesm:
revealed Army intelligence b
Faimrurking for a year on
JU} 6 1947
WASHINGTON TIMES=HERALD
Page 1 & 8 Sec, I
--- page 120 ---
A 4 Mr. ’folson
Gone - Mr. E. A. Tamm_
/ o § PRy AR A v Mr. Clegg
tom Experiments or Bunk? Mr. Glavin
L 7 O O bk Mr. Ladd I
elusions or Factual, Those Flying Saucers . | - iewors_ —
/ y g TR TR T TR Mr. Rosen ‘_
' Have Nation Eyeing Skies; 5 SeeninD.C. A M. Traer____
| ve n Eyeing ; .C.Area !
| r. Carson
] “And there shall be signs in the heavens. And were seeing them, including five in the Washing- Mr. Egan
\_~ wise men will mock them and the learnea revile, to‘é:"e:‘_- e D Mr. Gurnea
» : " led entists, for e most part dismissed the
Ay h“f crosen t’fe jionsshall b rcvea"c “saucers” as optical illusions, figments of the Wl oo
and they will have wisdom and knowledge’— yyaination or “someone having a little fun,” Mr. Hendon_
Ancient prophecy. but the reports continued to pour in. 7 Mr. Jones
By JAMES COLLIGAN thBy nmz' th:y hflée beden tseetr)x‘ ix:}e;/feryf x])ért_oi Mr. Pennington \
: f 8 e country, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico g =
g i woxd:s Df,me prt).phecy Foleibeng il and from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Mr. Quinn Tamm_
illed last night in Washington and throughout The reports grew in “authenticity” with theil Mr. Nease y.
he nation as thousands of official and scientific increase in volume. A farmer in Ohio came u| Miss Gandy
bservers and just ordinary people searched the with a piece of one, a “scientist in nuclear physics' | Y
skies for flvinz saucers—and plenty of watchers + (Turn to Page 8, Col. 1) B
FiveSeenHere |PR° 0 L e e
(Continued from First Page) : L s o A ¢ .
threw out hints of mysterious B e g %
atomic energy experiments, an-| = R i
other observer claimed to have a| # e s e e i : W ;
picture to back up what he saw.| &0 0 i Gaaer L
Louis E. Starr, national com-| @ ae @ = 2 o - ) :
mander of the Veterans of Foreign| Sy it i i : e >
Wars, announced he expected an| i e i : ¢ Ly S 3
sexplanation from Washington”| S s & ; ]
within a matter of hours. He| S s
hinted to newsmen at Columbus,| £8 8 = 3 e
Ohio, that the Government is N e . ol
holding out on ther’pug!‘ic about S S
the “saucers,” and commented: i G e i
#To0 little is being told the people e
of this country.” e !
Stationary at Alexandria o ,_}f';:.;\j &
mother and daughter in| SEdl T
N:l'thea.st Washington reported | SEE e SRR
yesterday they' saw three huge i g KA R
things hurtling through the sky M R R i s DR
Jast Thursday but were afraid to . Lach v M
say anything for fear of what £ . : : T
might be said about them. Even e : i : o
yesterday thl?},x xlagked that their R it G : =2
Dejw Lo ds
e hinee” aceording }1;0 thesg T TN.P. Photo by U5, Coast Guard
ers, looked like es an i o T
ghservers, locked, I seinionclid Is It Saucer, Sorcery, or Just Plain Sausage? ihR
Dlanes. They were travelldg s0| Reports of “flying saucers” were laughed off by authorities until many witnesses, includ-
b tg‘_flt‘ggydv’fe‘;gpg}?;:gv;f instent| o reliable pilots and servicemen, said they had seen the plateblike-olrg,eeta whimi;l o
| . Martin Kole, 3200 block| head. Above is the picture Yeoman Frank Ryman, 27, took in the Seattle twilight Wielii
Vhlley Dr., Alexandria, called her| observed wlyt seemed to him to be a flying saucer 10,000 feet high t,f,vgli_hg at 500
local police station to ask about| ijeg per hour. J iy
the round. flat bright light she ; i L
) 7(/ A N\ 6 194 1 [ 2
= B ’, " A A7 WASHINGTON TJ.MESA&ERALD;‘ xl.'
w, ;s (1) 3 |
! GV . 4 g Page_1 &'8 Sec. I {
(/Y ;
--- page 121 ---
Mo . lson
; . ¢ Wison____
o 7 ( Mr. E. A. Tamm_
=
Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
’ Mr. Ladd il
/ Mr. Nichols
,!.\/ Mr. Rosen.
Mr. Tracy.
d d * 3 States Re ort of Charleston, S. C.—one of them ai Mr. Carson___
~rowepaper reporter—said a flyiy Mr. E
- un re s In p saucer passed over Charleston head- ‘ > R —
3 4 £ q 1 ing east at 7:20 p.m. Saturday 4t Mr. Gurnea
eeln j elr In ‘Gucers jpout the same time two men
bany, Oreg.,, saw a single difc| Mr. Harbo_____
By the Associated Press ing o ElEpaiaite the Moon; ;;’;3 wash southward, halt, and retrace| Mr. Hendon
..fl'l;lh: l::&i:;syfipzzggds::gai}; %y, Zchleveglengs of the war and ac- é'izut:urse S tore Aot ok gllo al Mr-iJlon'es TN
Statesgby hundreds of persons, and |complished in absolute secrecy.” An Army Air Forces spokesman Mr. Pennington
conjectures came from scores of | David Lilienthal, chairman of the i, washington on July 3 said there i —
named and unnamed sources|Atomic Energy Commission, told the a5 ot enough fact to “warrant Mr. Quinn Tamm_
throughout the country. Denver Post in a brief telephone In- g1 ther inyestigation,” but the Air e
fcial Government sources toek |(erVieW that, the flylng; saucers wex;e Materiel Command at Wright Field, o et by
9155’ ko retan Ao b phes | L0 O By, (conbedsed wi(ég Ehper.” Dayton, Ohio, sa1d it was making & Miss Gandy, e
8 2 and no. scientist offered [Ments in atomic energy, : efl Tans- qtudy. Saturday at Washington an 7
no:ln i:finé explanation mutation of metals, or similar re- ‘Arp yecearcher admitted ‘“we're == e TN/
T > ; 1d the | 25 mystified” and the Navy said it had|
ALNOICLICEE g"{;“’,m':’;‘:nf;nde €] Col. F. J. Clark, commanding offi- no theories. |
::i u'::ulal::;ga hnshing ob,lecf.,s GEL kgf lthem}largz&cm&g;:te};r}erg First Reported June 25. |
4yuldn't be meteors,” sald Dr. ?v,l?;re thl: lar;est saucer influx has . The first published report of “fly-|
Girard Kieuper, director of the Uni-| poo), onorted, said the saucers were 1DE saucers” came {rom Kenneth
versity of Chicago's Yerkes Ob-| comp&g from the atomic plant Arnold, Boise, Idaho, businessman
servatory at Williams Bay, Wis. Aare . pilot, who reported at Pendleton,
“We realize,” said Dr. Oliver Lee, ! |Oreg., on June 25 that he had seen
“diffector of Northwestern Univer-| Credence in the saucers—widely |nine of them fiying at 1,200 miles an]
)s‘l: 's Dearborn Observatory, “that/laughed off at their first' reporfed| hour in formation, shifting posmon‘
thd Army and Navy are working on | appearance June 25—grew as hjn-| “Jike the tail of a kite,” over Wash-
|all}sorts of things we know nothing|dreds of observers, many of them "mgton State's Cascade Mountains.
|abdut.” trained flyers, reported seeing thpm. | Before senffers had more than be-
l Dr. Lee said the discs might repre- | A crowd of 200 observed a disqat |gun to offer explanations such as
gent the same sort of thing as send- (See DISCS, Page A-9.) ‘]“reflections." “persistent vision” and
| “snow blindness,” an Oklahoma Gity
2 |private fiyer, Byron Savage, said he
i had seen a similarly shaped object
some weeks earlier but fear of ridi- 732 i
cule kept him quiet. round or oval in shape, flat and fiy- |
Then the reports began to filter ing with a peculiar undulating go-
in, mostly from individuals. The tPn. Size was moot and exprefsed
T discs were seen in Texas, in New b} Capt. Smith of :Unlted Alr Lih
DlSCS Mexico, in Washington, Oregon, a{ “hard to judge" without kngw:
Idaho, Missouri, Colorado, Califor- /irg the distance from the obse! er
__|(Continued From First Page.) | nja Arizona and Nebraska. The |to'the objects.
H; r Lake, Idaho, on the Fourth|number varied from one to a dozen, R
offJuly. A group of 60 picnickers|seen mostly by one or two people. | 2D.C. A’ela R_e.s'd.é"ts Say’
saw them at Twin Falls, Idaho, And Seen by Group of 200. ] They Saw Hymg Saucers i
in Portland, Oreg., so many resi-| Then the July 4 deluge hit. Two
; iy hundred in roup and | TWwo Washington area residents
dents witnessed them on the Fourth persons in one group o e e e
the police department sent out 60 in another saw them in Idaho; |todal € ing;
S npotca Cebs | |served th mysterious
an all-cars, broadcast. | hundreds saw them in Oregon, Bd, . IO S
4 ‘Washington and other States |Saucers” hereabouts.
Py fiatiecr alnininest pliot\of “It,hroughout the West. In Augusta, | A Bethesda (Md) man was re-
fi“@”fi&fi"fi;fid P e TemP Me., the Civil Aeronautics Admin-| |Ported Ao, weny (:-hireett;r;lfo\“
3 b4 |of these objects at midnight Friday.
7 bl s S 3 ln, e opor, 1L o, G
see them.” Ten minutes later he e 'Helghts, Md, They were describcd
e, e e oo ine"ota| And, for the first time, the East-| |15 Deing rapid, biuish and bri
e e o e B oo nilot |ern States had their reports, Ohe| |rAVEling northward. o i
;::pg.g{"e'm' and his stewardess, Servers came in with reports from Mré, Martin Kole, 3202 Valley:
Miss Marty Monro, told the same Michigan, Louisiana, Pennsylvania,, drive, Alexandria housewife,
story. ’New mJersey, ' Indiana, Kentucky, (‘enb?y tl"x"L‘diy u;_he lsl:w!g 1.,;%3 0%
ints of Cali- Georgia, South Carolina and Caif- |object floating e southw
i &n ::d“ mhép?l::nwe—one of them | ada’s Atlantic seaboard. sky. She declared a light shining
ao Army Air Forces sergeant—re-| Near unanimity was recorded dh» iT{ her face awakened her abou 4
seeing the discs Saturday. |some of the discs’ characteristics- . She went to the ,'flv";
0 persons in different sections|terrific speed, bright reflections, % a;‘g:;;‘-":flf ‘;'0\1!;': "!" Bkt dls,
studing still. After looking atbil
> , a few minutes, Mrs. Kole said she
/ 2 RFGDH A TobrRd 4 i
[~V % 1 ]‘}31 Y : /
WASHINGTON STAR J
Page A=l & A-9
/&Y
--- page 122 ---
/) . Mr. Tolson
e Tgfl/ [“//Mr‘ E2A. Tamm'_/ A
\ v X
“ A A e Clegg g
/ ) Mr. Glayi}J z
Mr4,7y5da,". 7
Mr.‘-’Nicilols
/ / Mr. Rosen
2\ /S 7 __-——" B 3 Mr. Tracy,
~ Flying Saucers Reported Seen Mr. Carson_
'3 7 ~ A 7 Mr. Egan
y Scores of ‘Eyewitnesses Me.. Gusnon LOUNE
By the Associated Press said they saw the discs yesterday Mr i Harbo.u =
The “flying saucer” mystery|affernoon. A party of seven firsi Mr. Hendon
reached fever pitch today, after “I[saw some and 10 minutees later, s ———
saw them myself” statements from |2 crowd of 20 or 30 people saw an MrifiJone's SN
a veteran United Air Lines crew,|other batch of nine or ten. Wort Mr. Pennington
scores of Portland (Oreg.) residents,|Passed around, and soon the waitin| ; 77
and 60 picknickers at Twin Falls(crowd saw another batch circling Mr. Quinn Tamm_
Park in Idaho. and climbing. MY N e s
The UAL pilot, copilot and stew-| At Seattle, Frank Ryman, Coast 1ty e
ardess, who had scoffed consistently|Guard yeoman, said he took a §s Gandy
at “fiying saucer” tales, said they|Picture of what some 1esidents north 4 /' IR o
saw such objects last night while|0f Seattle thought was a flying disc. A L -
flying a passenger plane from Boise, | The photograph showed a pinhead- — MV
Idaho, to Portland. Slnilixhtk spot against the dark 19,
Their statements followed a day evening;skyyy L 174 ]
;Ie:gé;ed seen in many parts of the nothing but empty sky. | ,*/l v
3 Strange Craft Over Philadelphia, N
Many Portlanders—including po-| 1 Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leis}, B
lice, experienced flyers and three|a junior interne af the Pennsylvan ’
ewspapermen—declared they saw|Hospital for Mental Diseases, and
ilvery discs over Portland. other persons in the western sec-
In New Orleans, Miss Lillian Law- |tion of the city, reported seeing
said she saw an object, shining [strange craft in the skies last night, 5
ke silver or chromium, flying at a It was something round with a
great height and at a terrific speed luminous halo about' it, Dr, Leisk
in a northeasterly direction over|declared. It was not shiny, but
|Lake Pontchartrain. - dark dnd cglor zpclii seemed to be
“Pancake Standing on End.”> |Prorelled by whirling wings. Dr.
| Describing what till‘gy saw as flat,|Lelsy said the object he saw was
translucent plates 12 to 15 inches|MOVing at approximately the speed
in diameter, several Port Huron|of the ]'i'md' below the clouds. Tt
(Mich.) - residents reported seeing ;‘;e’;z‘:iz <71 vanished sinfighedclouds;
the “saucers.” i
A dispatch from Summerside,
Capt. E. J. Smith, Seattle, a vet-|can, salgd farmers in the Prince
eran of 14 years with United ‘Air|gqward Island region claim to have
Lines, said he observed the round seen more of the mysterious disc-
flat objects—¢like a pancake stand-|}ike missiles reported fying through
Ing on end"—for about 12 minutes|northern skies earlier this week.
swhile flying trom Emmet;t Idaho, to| James Harris, farmer at She
a point southeast of Ontario, Ore. |brooke, 1 mile -north of here, a
| He radioed the Ontario airport but | his hired man, Herman Linklettef,
[auport officials saw nothing. said they saw one of the objec
y Sixty persons picknicking at Twin |last night traveling from the north-
{Falls Park, near Twin Falls, Idaho,|west toward the southeast. |
[ ; k & 1947
O ;
7
WASHINGTON STAR
Page A=T7
--- page 123 ---
‘ ) Mr . Tolsan
ST ‘: ! Mr. E. A. Tamm_
~ 4 ¢ Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glavin
[ Mr L a'd d SR
{ / Mr. Nichols
/1 / bl g A - Mr. Rosen
/1 /)L /‘ e IV~ Mr. Tracy
s / // / /" deas Mr. Carson
! S M U Mr. Egan
¥ - Mr. Gurnea
aucers Here, o
Mr. Hendon
S r E here Mr. Pennington__
2 .
auce s Mr. Quinn Tamm_
° ° Mr. Nease . - |
Including Washington e
As rumors persisted (and were denied) that the “flying sau- AN R RS ST (AL
cers” are radio controlled rocket or jet planes being tested se-
| cretly, Washington got in the act today with a report from two
District women of strange goings-on overhead. ,
Meanwhile, alssorlcd sciengists? o T O e RN U Y O
{came up with widely varying theo- | ohineq that people “are seei ots
ries as to what—if anything—the | potove meirpey&_n Assingispols
heavenly wanderers may be. | But unnamed scientists quoted by
Dr. John G. Lynn, human be-|Science Service expressed doubt
havior expert of Valhalla, N. Y, |that a purely optical illusion would
said people have the atomic jitters. | make people think they were see-
Navy Observatory astronomers’ing flying disks. Science Service
here said that so far as they can|also pointed out that some of the:
judge from description, the objects | saucers have been reported by ‘re-
are not astronomical phenomena. | liable observers accustomed to look-
|Another astronomer—civilian— | ing at the sky.” ¢
Il ;
,There Were Three-
| haped Like Dishes'
| . 3
OShaped Like Dishes |
‘ MINNESOTA-AV NE, July 5.—|looked up and saw these things go-
| Scientists from many Washington's ; ing thru the air. There were three
{top.drawer institutions are expected | of them, shaped like dishes and g0-
| to flock to this street today aftm"ing fast as a jet plane. They were f
!the first authenticated reports of | bright golden in color, but that may RECURDED
| flying saucers within the city lim~[have been from th sun being re-'
|its of Washington was made by | flected from some bright metal ob-
'lwo startled matrons. Jects, 7\4\‘ / L et [4
The ladies spotted the. things| “I couldn’t estimate the size of /¢ ")/ T4 o7
Inighr before last, but were under- the things, but they seemed to be £ i ot g ; CEm—
standably reluctant to report it at|fairly far away. I looked away for = -
once, an ms_tant”to tell mother to look at r o .
“I know what yow'll think,” the | the things. 11 1 o6 1087
| younger one said in an exclusive| The witness’ mother lookedhup ® . 22 ¥
| interview . with The News, “butjand also saw the “dishes.” < en
| mother saw them, too, and she|they swished over the horiyl andy!
\fdoesn't drink. disappeared.
’ “We were shopping on. Minne-| | The two women asked g%f their|
sota-ave ne at about 7 Thursday |names be withheld Irom p lication,
Mmzht,”‘ she said, “when I heard a lest skeptical neighbors pc¢te fun at .
|4noise like a Jet-propelled plane. I!them. /
[
/
JUL 51947
v WASHINGTON NEWS
‘ /LY Bags .. Gl 0
{ T R . Ce
--- page 124 ---
v A:,'
; Sty 8
N
o St i
| o
"Neither Airplane, Nor-
Cloud, Nor Balloon
'“ioud, Nor Balloon
By United Press overhead. It disappeared in thred or
| _Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, | four seconds.
|27, had a picture today snapped Two Portland, Ore,, police scout
| from the front porch of his home | cars three miles apart notified head-
near — Seattle which authorities quarters at 1:15 D. m. yesterday
hoped would clear up the mystery | that they had sighted a group of
of the flying saucers, strange objects weaving in a “play-
(It didn’t.) ful manner” 10,000 feet above the
He said what he Saw was | ground over the southern suburbs
neither an airplane, a cloud nor a |of Portland. Clark County (Wash.)
“silver balloon.” Deputy Sherjff Fred Krives, across
The pilot anad co-pilot of a Unit- |the Columbla' iron_'n Porllangl, said
ed Airlines plane said they turned |he saw 20 flying dises “slewing off
their craft off its course near .|to one Side, almost in single file’
Boise, Idaho, and chased a [over the county court house, |
“strange object” for 15 miles be- T. L. Huckaby of Pine Bluff,
fore it outdistanced them or ‘dis- Ark.,, said he saw a flying: objec
integrated in the dusk. Capt. R. J. “about the size and color of al
| Smith and Second Officer R. E, Bluff area. . Decatur, Iil, and
Stevens, both of Seattle, said “we Salt Lake City also reported in
can definitely say that what we today.
saw was not smoke, not a cloud, At Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leisy
and not another airplane.” of the Pennsylvania Hospital for
A similar object was seen by John | Mental Diseases, said he saw a big
Corlett, United Press staff corre- |dark saucerike object move slowly
|epondent, his wife, and two friends |across the sky Just before sunset
{from Mr. Corlett’s back yard, in yesterday. He said it was surround-
[ oise. He said it was a white disc | ed by a luminous halo and appeared
I ying about 10,000 feet directly I'to be propelled by whirling jets.
WASHINGTON NEWS
PAGE 5
| P 
