65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A
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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.
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Source text · mention onlyFD-245.1 (Rev. 1-4-99) U.S. Department of Justice 8 Q 5 I(j) "" "T1IV u, I I CD"' Cb ()- :c lI - I Cb u, m I (") u) Q) co (I) .,. 'II: l> mO , zID . __, BureauC: I ii )> I )> )> ;;o r (/) tf C)Q C ~ ;;o - ..I, c:r ;;o . m ..I, CJ) I (") ..I,0 0 ~ - :' ;;o o igation '-' "-> ""-I>< .... 0..., ~ ~ -; ..I, en c,, (") ..I, m z .... (I) (/) -4 m"' ~ ;;o 'II: 0 I) m z Field Office Criminal Investigative and Administrative Files ::n <»" z p (/) (I) .... i!!: (/) ____ Armed and Dangerous --- DO NOT DESTROY ___ ELSUR ____ Escape Risk ____ Financial Privacy Act See also Nos. ----- --- ___ FOIPA ___ NCIC ___ QCIS ____ Suicidal ____ Other _ ___ _
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Source text · mention only_ f Mr. Tolson__ /lying Sall~er Photo Ain\ \Vhat _It Used to Be---JG!f y Charles Manosl dff Writer GRAND BLANC, .May 5- iJ e Perry, the talented pizza man, fet:ls the Pentagon peo9le have sabotaged him or som..?thing. No, perts ~oP-'s a thi g the Washington ex haven't fussed with saucy pies, but tJ y .certainly done so e- to his flying sau er, Joe claims. "IT AIN'T whal it used to be since they got their bands on it," said Joe, who takes potshots at the moon with a h~memade telescope camera. Joe, 44, took a~other look at. his color-slide p oto, pped last February o 1he se ond nigh': of the full Imoon. "Jt's not the same," he said dejectedly . " The flying saucer bas faded . . . some thing has happened to it." The Washingto1 t x perts retlned the color slide a tw ijay ago. E l<' ED ER AL age ts pkKed it up last March w en thi heard Joe's pi ct u r sh . ¥ed a saucer-like obje t sill ouetted against the moo . lost of JoP.':; customers t his piz-za palac1., here were ~~winced the object was a •~flyin\S~•." di!~ire11n1e'even mol'e con· ce ned over his picture w~, an Unidcuti:ed Flying ObJc t gr up wanted to buy s rights to the slide. f He also got an offer t.lom a natirtal magazine to b .Y th~ pict re. Other inquiries came ro all sections o the cou try. so JOE was anxious to Et hlpicttp ·e back. e called the FBI. e ta ·ed to the air force. e n de a trip _to Selfridge, • orce Bast, all in vain. be pict!lre was retur,tedsh ·Uy after be sent a lo er to resident Eisenhower. Fletter inf uded in he parkage from the Penta gon said the strange object in the pi·ture wac; the result of !4 lty development lnd n bing more. mong other 1hings, · he Pentagon folks have ad ed in:rnlt 1o injury, ,Toe said. Mr. Mohr__ _ Mr, Parsons_ _ Mr, Belmont_ _ M l', Rosen Ml'. Tamm - M l', T1 Nt•: r ·- Mr. W.C.Sulliva n Tole. Room.._ _ Mr. Ingram __ Miss Gand y.__ Q.:.Y:n':wr DT:·T~roN D,,t:c•oi t, Mfoh. ( ) D"t::.r01t P:c0e Press Edi tor: ( ) D3t rnt t EdEor : Et:.i. ~<,r: Lee Hills Tiewe ffarti. n s. Hayden J c:L;i C, Mannin g r-- ~) : .S--- 2.r - to I;.~ : ~ic n : £ ~- ~e_ ' • •, • '7 C 1 .,,.,• ,. ., • ~ - 0 : ..::z::::., 1'j-!-.lo ot· Case : I • UliIDENTMED FLYING OBJ ECT· JOSEPJV'I>ERRY, GRAND BLANC ' MICHI GAN - COMPLAINANT ' (Defile 65-2477 - 105) I Y3'79'/ A N~ qECORDii>"'. 46 JUN 3 1960
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Source text · mention only0-19 (Rev. 1-28-59) , Centr ~l !l~s earoh Seotion ' 3 'Objects' Trailed P'mtre 45.Minlites, Pilot Says DETROIT, Feb. 25 (AP) Killian and co-pilot John ~he pilot of an American Air- Dee of Nyack, N. Y., said they li~es DC6 passenger p~ane lost the three strange opjectssaid today three mysterious . objgcts that looked like shin - lll the haze when they started ing _saucers appeared to ac- their descent for landing at company the plane for 45 Detroit's Metropolitan Air minutes last nighc on its non- port while the plane was over stop flight from Newark, N. J., Cleveland, Ohio. to Detroit. The three bright whitii Capt. Peter Killian of Syos- lights first were sighted whil , set, N. Y., who has flown pas- the plane was flying at 85 senger planes for 15 years, feet between Philipsburg an said "I have never seen any- Bradford, Pa., at 8:45 p. m.thing like it before." Killian said other members of the crew and the 35 pas se~rsalso saw the flying obj ~ • The plane left Newark at 7:1 m. 1 &-<-ff:;Rf'f- /) ---- ---- ,, ~cNOT RltCOtltQP.S, 'JI MAR 3 1959 ·-· Tolson ____ Belmont --;J- / DeLoach ~ McGui!J (J Mohr ~f..J1---,.;=- Parsons ---- Rosen ____ _ Tamm ---- Trotter - - - W.C. Sullivan - Tele. Room - Holloman --- Gandy _ ___ T h e Washingt on P ost a ndl_ _ :S_ T i mes H er ald Th e Washing ton Dally Ne w s __ The Evening Star _ ___ _ _ N e w Y o rk Heral d T ri bu ne_ N e w Y ork. Journ al- A merica n _ _ N e w Y o rk Mirro r ___ _ _ _ N e w Yor k Dally N e ws _ _ _ _ N ew Y ork Pos t _____ _ _ The New Y o rk T imes _ ___ T h e W orker _ _ ___ _ _ _ T h e N e w Lead er __-,-___ T h e Wall St r e e( Jor n, ( _ _ _ J /Dat e J tJu 7
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Source text · mention only_ __ _ 0 -1 9 (Re v . 1 0 - 2 9 -57) 0 .--- ------------------ ~- f , i , , tlyi ng~s Show Sign OfGuidance,Jung Says ALAMOGORDO, N. Mex., What such a fact might mean July 29 (JP).-Dr. Carl Jung, for humanity cannot be pre .. Swiss psychologist, says in a dieted. report that Unidentified Flying "But it would put us without Objects are real and "show doubt in the extremely precar i signs of lhtelligent guidance ous position of primitive com by quasi-human pilots." munities in conflict with the "I can only say for certain superior culture of the whites. these things are not a mere "That the construction of rnmor, something has been these machines proves a scien seen," Dr. Jung said in the re- tific technique immensely su port released yesterday. "A perior to ours cannot bek pw·ely psychological explana- gued." tion is ruled out." The Air Force has said - Dr. Jung, who started his re- vestigation of flying sau rs search on UFO's in 1944, re- reported over the past 10 y ars leased his report through the has Produced no evidence that UFO filter Center of the Aerial such things exist. Phenomena Research Organ- It has contended that not a lzation here. It was released shred of evidence has turned by L. J. Lorenzen of Holloman up to show the existence of a Afr Force Base. flying saucer or interplanetary "I have gathered a mass of space ship or that the objects observations of unidentified fly. sighted indicate developments ing objects since 1944," Dr. beyond the range of current Jung said. scientific knowledge or pose a "The discs do not behave threat to the Nation's secm· ln accordance with physical ity . laws. but as though without The Air Force said last No weight. . . . , vember that investigations ot "If the extra-terrestial origin 5,700 reported sightings showed of 'is phenomena should be the mysterious objects were con rmed this would prove the balloons, aircraft, astronomical exi nee of an intelligent In- phenomena, birds, fire!'!Q.!.'.k.!_ or ter planetary relationship. hOaxes, among other th~ (tJ 2- ~ 3 ~ 1/y--~ NOT RECORr,,:r, 117 AUG 1 1958 Tolson _ _ _ _ Boardman _ _ _ Belm ont Mohr _____ Nease Pars ons _ ___ Rosen ____ Tamm _____ Trotter _ _ _ _ Cla yton ___ _ T ele . Room __ Hollo mon ___ Gandy _ ___ Wash. Pos t and _ _ Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star .# --/ N. Y. Herald _ ___ Tribu ne N. Y. Journal - ____ Amer i can N. Y. Mirror ___ _ N. Y. Daily News N. Y. T i mes Daily Worker ___ _ The Worker _ _ _ _ New L eade r --- - Da te 'J - >- o/ - S Y
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Source text · mention only• Schm1al, 48, an ex-Nebras- Q Sau c ers'J .I ~fin a2:a1:i-~\~va: q~:~i:~;·n·~ b Air Force investigat ·s m the Continenta l_Air -Trace Foll d fr fense Command. 0 11 fo d~ near the alleged landing spot •d . , Iof the space ship was identi A. F. . Ch e c kS SChffil t, fiecr as ordinary but will be Kearne y Amus ed ! tested by the University of • O INebraska. Tales of fJying saucers and Wt,ile the Schmidt tale was other such space cliiff got giving Kearney a sensatio nal an u n off i c i al raspberry conversation piece, most of Wednesday night ·from an the talk was of a skeptica l Air Force official. variety : A top official of the Air Newsmen Busy Technical lntelligence Cen- "Everybody downtown ter at Wright-Patterson Air seems to think it's a big joke," Force Base in Ohio told the one business man said. Dayton Journal-Herald his in- A Kearney clothier put up vestigators have found no a sign advert ising "space ship evidence in the past 10 years l specials." A window sign in that flyin~ saucers are real. i a car agency announced: He s a 1 d 5,700 reported "Space Ships Tuned Up." sightings wete investigated IThe Ke a r n e y car-rental between 1947 _and_1957. !'fot opera tor reported business a single landmg 1mpress10n, was so good all of his cars footprint, saucer or little . were in use. They were being green man was found . 1 rented by visiting newsmen, Investigation Goes On • Presence of the newsijnf 1n .JSS!nrney N~ . Ee~-111 w s n_early the only sign t at hc-!dw"S:chmidJs ;tory of n a ythmg unusual had h p aftei'n~iffl'!' -~ with be P ned - or may have h p crew of a space ship near he pened. city Tuesday was still under ·nvesti ation officials said . 5 2 NOV 261957. 0:¥.iAHl-l. WORLD-HERALD 0:VJAHJ.I. , NEBR.ASKA 11- 7-57 SUNRISE EDITION ! ~ ~- R 1,Q_J__y_- 11 NOT r u OR~lf'.D 117 Nv, ~ ;.! 1957 .lf'
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Source text · mention only• pace-Ship TJ \Yorlrl•Hernld's Xe,1'1!1 ScrTke. Kearney, Neb.-A grain J uyer who said he saw a space ship Tuesday in a field near here and chatted amicably with its six occu pants had more pleasant dealings with the visitors from outer space than with skeptical authorities. The sensational report by R. 0 . Schmidt, about 50, of Bakersfield, Cal., which topped a host of reports across the nation Tuesday of seeing mysterious flying objects, had these conse quences: -State Penitentiarv rec ords showed a • man of' the ~ame name served a term for embezzlement from Scotts Bluff County in the l 930's. Scotts Bluffs Coun- Sheriff Steve W'lrrick id he talked to Schmidt phone and was convinced "saw nothing." 1 ~ - He turned down a chance to take a lie- detector t~st. --2.schmidt was kept up most of the night for quest ioning. He finally asked for an attorney. Ward Minor of Kearney was named . -Wednesday forenoon he went to the scene of the space ship's landing with investigators from tije Con tinental Air Defense Com mand at Colorado Springs , Colo., Kearney Police Chief Thurston Nelson and Buf falo County Attorne y Kenneth Gotobed. They said Schmidt's story "ap peared to be weakening." -Oi l drippings on the ground from the space machine were being ana lyzed at Kearney State College. In ves tiga_tors said the "mys t er 1ous green oil" closely resem bled that in a partially emptied can of co1:1mer cial auto oil found in the b1,Ck of Schmidt's car and a arly-emp1y can f o u n d ~ ar 'the site of the "land - i p;." Schmidt's story came to Story Raises Eyebro f ~ .,· .-~ 11 111lil!-~\\it:·or1dtil·•Hci,,ra ■,ir.'.s~s.;;•1cc Photo.1ctiiiN••.,. Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson . . • In "hear t-to-heart" talk. S IDI: V I EW OUTSI DE \ l.fN6111: APPROX. /00 'fCIT ' FI..OOR PLAN INSlt>E FAt-1 ,.... IN !J£A I N JlOOF '1' COMP ROOF \ The Schmidtnik . • . As described by the grain buyer. light when, white-face d and turn around. Near the shaken, he appeared in Platte River he saw what Kearney Tuesday and asked appeared to be a wrecked to see a minister. Taken to balloon. As he neared ilpolice, he told this story : Schmidt said, his car en Tuesday he inspected a gine conked out. field of milo about two Schmidt said he got oumiles south and a mile east and walked toward the maof Kearney . When ready to chine. Proximity revealed leave he clrove clown a side road seeking a place to - , (ONV£'l'OR. 10 R,,.O( o tt•t lh1' OMAHA WORLD-HERALD OMAHA, NEBRASKA 11-6-57 WALL STREET EDITION ;+ N tJ'. , .. I..} 1)1£\) iJ.I NOV 22 l95l IS •
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Source text · mention onlyit to be a translucent, Cl· gar· shaped device abouj one hundred feet long, 3 et wide and about 14 fee gh. Schmidl said tha hen he was 25 or 30 fee ~ vay. two men got out and waved what looked like a flashlight. "I couldn't move. I don't know whether I was iust afraid or what, but it was like being paralyzed,'' he said. 'ln B usiness Suits' . Schmidt said the men, dressed in business suits, searched him for weapons then remarked that as long as they were going to be there for some time "you might as well come in and see thin~s for a few min- utes." f Inside the machine were two other men and two women working on wires and instruments . The de- ,•ice had a fan at each end. By a strang1> coinc idence one of the crewmen ''·Jooked exactly like" a hoto?I ac- quaintance \Yith whom he has been watch;ng televi- sf· n programs. 1/hen the o cc up an t i w nted to move f>rom plac t place they would ste 'Spoke Gennan' Tl1e ship o cc u pa n ts talked among themselves in1 Hf;g h Germ an. w h ic h S midt says he under st nds to a limited extent 0 e man spoke excellent English and interpreted for the others. Schmidt said the inter preter told him repeatedly he had nothing to fear. The visitors refused to answer any questions but said he would "find out all a6'out It in a couple of weeks." When repairs were com pleted. Schmidt said he w11.s p.sked to leave but was told he would be unable to start his car until the machine had disappeared. 'Disappeared' Outside the machine Schmidt said, he turned t~ watch as the fans started in motion without a sound. He said the machine lifted about one hundred or two hundred feet into the air and disappeared. "It ~ust blended into the si►.Y-h!,e it changed cor.r J r disappeared into th " he said. chmidt Pressed t e s ter of his car. The mo- tor ~arted right off. in a ce1·tain location and b T"~~--......;;........:_,.;......,~ .__,i pulled to th~ new location without movm .
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Source text · mention onlyo-19 (Rev. 9-7- 56) ~ cist to Coast Rash of There was an unof,· cial report that Air For personnel at neaJ.'by A · c en, S. C., spotted the ob ject on radar and issued an alert. The object appe are d to be a "constant red light," accord ing to Augusta Chronicle ex ecutlve editor Louis Harris, who saw the object from the downtown newspaper build ing. "Lt could have been a tiny red light a short dis tance away or a gigantic thing at a great dis tance," he said. , 0 . ne witness, J. T. James, eaid he saw the object on two occasions from his home near Aiken. Lt was cigar-shaped, he said, and would alternate from bright to amber and occasionally got out alto-ether. Elsewhere, strange "sauc 1,r'' sightings were reported. WHITE SANDS NEBRASKA Mlitary authoriti es ~pp arntly gave c1·edence to a reAt Kearney , Neb., authori ort by an electroni enties held a "heart-to-heart" Hgineer wh,o said he s v antalk with Rein h o Id 0. object which made car enSchmidt, a salesman , later near thegines stall Whi.te discovered to be an ex-con Sands proving grou nds. vict, who said he talked to , tour men and two women in Col. John Mccur dy, Air a transport space ship which Force public relations off icer had landed . He said the space a~ White Sands, said the en people spoke in Engli sh and gineer, James Stokes, 42, will Germa n. be given a thoro medical ex amination and a rad iation , Police roped off the area count test. Col. McCurdy where the "whatnik" alleg - said he was "pe rsonally sat edly landed and examined isfled" With M r. Stokes' re various impres sions and oil port. stains 011 the grou nd• A Civil Service worker a l At Long Beach, Calif., three Lackland Air Force Base i n i\ir Force weathe r observers, San Antonio, Tex ., said he one of t hem the comm anding saw an egg-shaped o bject officer of the s potting unit, land in a ravine about 200 late yes terday repor ted sight- ya1·ds from him as he drove ing six unidentifi ed, saucer- near the e ity. He said his ~hap ed .flying objects over car engine and lights went Long Beaah Air F orce base. off, and t he object took off in a few min utes, enablingThe Coast Guar d reported h im to drive away.eking up an unidentified ylng object on radai- over At about the same time, 1e Gulf of Mexico south of ,the Grou nd Observer Corps ew Orleans . A Coast Guard at Midland, Tex., said it saw ) Tolson ____ Nichols Boardman ___ Belmont ___ Mohr _____ Parsons ___ Rosen ____ Tamm ____ Trotter ___ _ Nease ____ Tele. Room __ Holloman ___ Gancl¥.-'-- - - ~~' ~7~ )/Id~ ---- ~--- Wash. Post and ____ Ti mes Herald Wash. News £J - Z Wash. Star __f____ N. Y. Herald _____ Tribune N. Y. Journal - _____ American N. Y. Mirror _____ _ N. Y. Daily News ___ N. Y. Times _____ Daily Worker _____ The Worker _____ _ New Leader _____ Date --.i(./.'l....::.-..126~-_,,l"-->..,..?- - ommander said the object a large, red objert and picked aused over the cutter Se- up unlntelllgible cmwersa ~ l)ago In the Gull and was on frm on a sound dl'trctor. cu_>, '1e 1•adar scope for ahouf 27 ~ .::> NOV 141957~ 0 •nute3,
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Source text · mention only~{Rev. 9-7-56) •... ( I I 1/li .:;,1'racked 21 ltlinutes 011 Rad:u- ·• '°r~ons Z Rosen ____ Tamm ____ Trotter ____ Nease _ ___ Tele. Room _ _ U.S.Cutterh1Gulf of Mexico Reports Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sliy Holloman ___ Gandy ____Associated Pre., f:av€ling at an estimat ed 1000 of light with no definite -~hape, l A brilliant mystery object nile s per hour , Intern ational 1resembli ng t he plane t Venus." was reported sighte d yeste r- ews Service report ed. How-/Shockley said there were no day in southern skies by a ve1·, at one poi nt, t he object vapor trails or a ny other in Coast Guard cutte r. even as ppeared to remain stationary clications as to the object's Air Force special in vestiga t•j and hover above the waters be-}method of propulsion. One y. ~ ~rs c~ec_ked a flurry of ear- rore it res umed Its erratic ,est imate of its height place{! Iler,, s1mllar reports . 1flight. it at 2000 feet. The Co~t G1:1ard cut~er Se- [The c utter's capta in, Cmdr. [G I e n n Nort hcutt. Willis, bag?_, crmsrng m th~ Gulf of1c. H. Waring, said the objC'ct /Okla., r~nch~r and member o :\lex1co_~bout 200_miles south first ap. peare d o n thP. ship's the Un1vers1ty of Okla hom J of _Lou1s1ana, r_ad1oed th_at_ an ,.dar scree n as a "good trong Board of Regent s, rep orted obJect resembling "a br1lha.ni ' tha t on Sat urday he and fiv planet with a high rate of p" at..5:10 a. m. and w s lost others had watc hed '·a bril\ speed" \\ as s een for about • a nor therly directio n t 5:37 liant. mysterious light tha three seconds at 5:21 a. m. . m. ,looked like the planet Venu (CST). ,, . LJn this time, the s l<ipper !~agnif~ed many, _many ti~~s ." The Sebago s messag e !'aid said t he object which came as 1 he obJect, he said. was VISlble the object was tracked on the ~lose as two ~ iles to ie ves- more than half an hom·.]_ ,·csscl's rad;ir screen for 27 cl was actually seen y four Sightings of stran ge obJ~cts J minutes and that, during tha t 1e~11bers of the crew One, have been reporte ~ from W\de period, the object flitted 0 11 1 ns. Wayne D. Shock y, de- If scattere d sections of i~ and off the screen sevcr :il c ribed it as a " brigh poi11t lJnite d States, most of the mes. Crewmen caught &i~t near i ecret miUtary install a r it only for a few seconds. lions i the Southwest. [The Sebago radioed "N The ir Force said the rad rl!'ans Coast Guard >le . netwo of the Ail· Defens ( I1arters that the object w Se YSTERY, A6, Col. 3 Wash. Post and ~ Times Herald Wash. News _ ____ Wash. Star _____ _ N. Y. Herald _____ Tribune N. Y. Journal- ____ _ American N. Y. Mirror _____ _ N. Y. Daily News ___ N. Y. Times _____ Daily Worker _____ The Worker _____ _ New L eade r _____ Date - A"''+.DH,1,1-• _____•w vv 6 1957
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Source text · mention only• • Command was keeping watch , ported objects may be some :::str' fat ~vith no results-and thing from anotherplanM. '- • • •· . "Assuming they ate real," he that specially quallfie_d mves- said, "they would be secre t tigators had been assigned to weapons made on earth or look into the reports . are interp lanetary." Any na- For severa l years the Air tion with the secret, he added, farce has checked all rel_)orts would b;,r now ~ave abandon~d of unidentified flying objects. c~mvent1onal aircraft or mis Investigators work under the siles. Air Defense Command at Col- Cosmic Energy orado Springs , Colo., and re- " k ti port to the Air Techni cal In- . It 100 5 as ,,iough they _are t 1r Center mterplanetary, Keyhoe said. e 1ge~ce • . He said one source o f pow-\ Judgmg from past findmg~, er for such reported o bjects the chances are 50-1 the A1r could be cosmic ray energy. ~ orce w_ill offer a hu mdrum Some of the citizens, peace explanation far the current officers and servic emen who sightings . reported sighting mystery ob• During th_e • first half_ of this jects in the Southwest since year, the Air Force said, only the weekend said the o bjects 1.9 per cent of the 250 report- stalled auto engines and ed sightings of flying saucers caused radios to fade. and other fantastic ae1•ial ob• James Stokes, an engineer jects have wound up in the at the Air Force missile de- "unknown" category. velopment center at Alama- Air Force Skeptical gordo. N. M., reported 10 autos were stalled Monday on a desAnd the Air Force said firm- ert highway betwee n A lama- ly-though not all flying \sau- gordo and the White Sands cer buffs may agree-that it (N. M.) Proving Grounds. doesn't believe even the 1.9 He reported seeing a sound per cent residue is made up less, "brilliant colored egg. of the things you read about shaped object" which flitted ( in science fiction magazines. erratically across the country. Balloons, aircraft and such side and left a s ort of heat astronomical .sights as meteor- wav.e, "like radiat ion from a 1ites and bright stars account giant sun lamp," in its wake. at. least to th~ Air Force's Device sought offic1aJ satisfaction - for al- . ost four-fifths of the sigh . Leonar d Hardlu~d, chief en• • gs. gi,neer for t~e National I nven- rrhe director of a private o t ors Coun?11 in Washington, anization set up to inve said a device that could s~ll igate flying saucers and sue aut<?s or other mecharucal aid he couldn't evaluate a eq_u1pment was one of the b1·s •nt the current rash of thmgs the armed forces would POI • • like to see deve loped. cported s~ghtmgs. .. I But Hardlund said he knew But retired Mai ~ne Maj_ of no research in this country on aid ~- Keyhoe, ~ector of! aimed at produeing such a dethe National Invest1ga ti on s vice ommitlee on Aerial Phe-1 'l'~o teen-age g£i-Js reported dded that the re-I eeing a mysterious object in Ithe sky over Annapolis, Md., ~ last week. Tean Hunt, 13, and Sylvia Fowler, 15, said they saw n egg-shaped object which l'>wed like a neon light. They potted it while trick-or-treat ·ng with Jean's two younger isters on Halloween night in rlmrose Acres1 a housing de velopment on tne outskirts of Annapolis. Jean said the girls became frightened and ran home but no one would believe their tory until weekend per accounts tola o o ted tn \.-. J\osoclatod Pren I J} •G. Kirby of Dallas macle this photo of a diamond s h a p e d o b j e c t flying through the sky while he and his family were driving near Amariito, Tex., in August, 1956. The photo was turned over to the FBI and has just been releasr.d after intensive study. The Air Force descyibed the glo lat
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Source text · mention only• • ------ - --- 0-19 (Rev. 9- 7- 56) Mystery Objects Calfed .. Mirage by Astron9mer· By the A.ssocJated Press A Harvard astronomer says plYsterious objects reporte d from va.rious parts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico aremirages stemming from natural causes. Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, said yesterday in Cambridge ; Mass., that the whole thing amounts to "another flying saucer scru·e." The Air Force has started an investigation of the reportedsightings of the strange gJow-1- ----------- ing objects in the sky. The mosphere which would give a Air Force fo~ . yeru·s has ~ad radar reflection."the responslbJhty of checkmg reports of unidentified flying A~ for rep_orts of the auto objects • ,but as one officer put engmes stalling, he said, "It it, "We don't investigate all of would not be surprising that ath Aem." h f sueh e ts has nervous,, foot could stall an en-ras o r por . developed sinde Sunda.y, with gme. some of the sightings said to Dr. Menzel, author of a book have been made near secret about flying saucers, said he military installations in the has been studying them for Southwest . Some of the per- about 10 Years and has yet to so11s making the reports said hear of one Which could not tlie objects caused their auto be explained by natural pheengines to stall and their radios nomena . to fade. "They are caused by a layer Cutte11 Claims Sighting of h~ated air : . . acting as a Yesterday the Coast Guard le~s and formmg an lmag~ of' Cutter Sebago radioed from the ObJects as !!1Uch ~s 40 01 50._ Gulf of Mexico that an object miles away, he said. 0 resembling a brllllant planet Common in West with a high rate of speed was "They are nothin g more than rseen for a1:>out three seconds, a mirage. They are prevalentand that it was tracked by . radar. , just after nightfall as the Dr. Menzel said it is probable heated air begins to cool off at the cutter's prewmen got a the ground, and they are com false image "quite ~kely from mon in the West where theylbubbles of hot air m the at- have clear air."3 - • - == The Air Force aid that dur- ing the first half of this year only 1.9 per cent of the 250 re ported sightings of flying saucers and other strange ob jects in the air have been classed as "unknown." And the Ah- Force ·wasul't ready to. be lieve that even this small per• centage has sinister implicatlons. It seemed a good bet the Air Force will agree with Dr. Menzel's opinion that the cur rent ' sightings have explana Uons in nature, or that the reported objects are actually aircraft or similar man-made ~~ .. "" Tolson- -- Nichols Board man -- - Belmont _ _ _ Mohr _____ Parsons ---- Rosen ____ Tamm ____ _ Trotter ---- Nease ____ Tele. Room -- Holloman --- J? / - n l j - f\ l NOTRECORDED l40.HOV 1;:, 1957 Wash, Post and---- Times Herald Wash. News-~-:;;-;~ Wash. Star & / t:J N. y . Herald ----- Tribune V N, Y. Journal- ____ _ N. Ay~e~ii~;; N. Y. Daily News N. Y. Times Daily Worker ____ _ The Worker _ ____ New Lead er ____ _ Date
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Source text · mention only---- -- - - 0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) ... ,,... .....,, Tolson ___ _ Nichols Boardman ___ Belmont ___ Mohr ___ _ Parsons _ _ _ Rosen ____ Tamm _ ___ Trotter ---- Nease _ ___ Tele. Room __ Holloman _ _ _ Gandy _ _ _ _ ,._ •ortat~d Pru, J. G. Kirby of Dalla., made this photo of a diamond I 11 h a p e d o b Je c t flying through the sky while he 'and his family were driving near Amarillo, Tex., In August, 1956. The photo 'II as turned O'rer to the 1''81 and has just been released after Intensive study. The Air Force described the flow as "radiation vapor." . F__..____.'-- --,: '\a.:;: J- '""'- ( /\ ' t(I ft,~ - Wash. Post and 11=6=57 Times Hera ld page A-ID Wash. News _____ Wash. Star _____ _ N. Y. Hera ld _____ Tribune N. Y. Journal- _____ American N. Y. Mirror ____:,__ N. Y. Daily News ___ N. Y. Times _____ Daily Worker _____ The Worker _____ _ New Leader ____ _ Date _______ _ (p i-S3f '1'(
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Source text · mention only0-19（Rev.9-7-56) Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter Nease Tele.Room Holloman Gandy NOTHING REMOTELY RELATED' Mysterious Object Amazes Saucer Skeptic A veteran airline pilot He said the “meteor”was turning away from the air- 90 degrees in an instant." It who once denounced fly- descending rapidly，but in- liner and giving the pilots a finally zoomed up at an ex- stead ofburning outwith the ing saucers as“bunk”has view of its glowing tailpipe.tremely sharp angle and shot usual flash,“it abruptly halt reportedencounteringa ed directly in front of us” But he said instead of grow-out of sight,he added. ing smaller,thelight re- mysterious unidentified "It was an intense blue He said his own plane was mained in front of the Vis- flying object near Mobile, above the clouds,“preclud white light.approximately count. ing any reflections of search Ala. seven oreighttimes asbright Capt. Hull wrote that the lights from below." as Venus when this planet is at its brightest magnitude,” "UFO)) (unidentified flying Capt.W.J.Hull of Capital he wrote. object) thenbegan a series Airlines deseribed the inci- There's accent local ofviolent maneuvers,“sharp- dent in a report published by sports in The Neus eports He said he thought the ob-er than anyknown aircraft, "TheUFOInvestigator, Ject might be a jet fighter,someties changing direction pages. magazneotthe unotficial Na- tionalInvestigationsCommit- tee AerialPhenomena, 1536 Connecticut-av nw. Capt.Hull wrote an article for a pilots'magazine in 1953 titled The Obituary of the Flying Saucer.” His experi- 1956. He did not suggest what he saw was a fiying saucer. Capt. Hull said he was fly- Wash.Post and ing a Viscount at about 10. Times Herald 000 feetnearMobile,at 10:10 D.m., when he and his co Wash.News plot spotted what we Wash.Star hought was a brilliant N.Y.Herald eteor. Tribune N.Y.Journal- American N.Y.Mirror N.Y.Daily News N.Y.Times Daily Worker The Worker NOT RECORDED New Leader 1410CT 141957 Date 10-9-57 600CT141957 ebh
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Source text · mention only• • ------ --- ---- - - 0· 19 (Rev. 9-7- 56) Doolittle Scoffs at Repm1 Of Nazi Fl'yi~g Saucer~\ By the A elated Press Iof ·Hugh L. Dryden. director of James . Doolittle says it the advisory commit tee. • .,. st ain't so" that Nazi Ger- Mr. Dryden said "there is no JU · truth" in a statement t hat many deve. loped a flying saucer lGerman engineers desig~1ed a and a bomber that could at~ack flying saucer which attam ed a the United states and -return height of 40,000 feet and speed . of 1,250 miles an hour. without refu elmg. •'This is an advertisem ent for The veteran airman, chairman a book which includes material of the National Advisory Com- discovered by our group s who mittee for Aeronautics, last went into Germany after the month gave a House Approprla- war." he said. • tions Subcommittee his estimate He said also the man supposed of reports published in Germany to have designed the bomber of great aviation accomplish - that could cross the Atlantic ents under Hitler. These were twice without refu eling had writ j, nta.ined In a book by Rudolf ten a book of his own with ~ usa.r, former German War Min- mention of any such inventio . try special weapons chief. Gen. Doolittle, asked a.bo Gen . Doolittle's testimony was both the saucer and the bombe , published today , along with that said, "it just ain't so." ____ ..._- ~~~ fite~~ Mohr _____ Parsons ____ Rosen ____ Tamm _____ Trotter ____ Nease _ ____ Tele . Room __ Holloman ___ Gandy _____ Wash. Post and ____ Times Herald Wash. News ____ _ _ Wash. Star ,M I N. Y. Herald _____ Tribune N. Y. Journal American N. Y , Mirror ------N. Y • Daily News N. Y. Times -----Daily Worker The Worker ------New Leader _____ Dat41.4R 1 4: 195i5 2 MA'"71ss,........._ -- -
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Source text · mention only0-19 (11-22-55) • ~re Are-7 Saucers, IV Expert Says By VERN HAUGLAND WASIIlNGTON, Jan . 15 (AP ). -Reteired Rear Adm. Delmer S. Fahrney once head of the Navy's guided missiles program , said Wednesday reliable reports indi cate that " there are object s com ing into our atmosphere at veryhigh speeds ." Fahrney told a news confer ence that "no agency in this .country or Russ ia is able to dupli cate at this time the speeds and ac~elerations wblch radar and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve." " . . FAHRNEY SAID he never has seen a f lying sau cer, but has talked with a numb er of scien tists and engineers who reported seeing strange flying objects . Fahrney called a news con1er ence following an organizational meeting of a new private group, the National Inve stigat ions Com mittee on Aerial Phenomena , of which he is board c:hailman. Fahrney said the commit tee was set up largely to tie to- . gether a number of UFO-mean ing ~nidenti1ied flying objects" - clubs being formed thr oughout the world. Fahrney said his ij•ittee wll collect and investig te ying saucer report s, evalu e em and make public its • d- 1 gs.i itJ: fr~- O'EBN" 23 \957191 JAN / fl - s:~ Ont ~ Mason ......!:::.....;___ _ Mohr _ _ ____ Parsons - - - - Rosen - - ---- Tamm _____ _ Nease- ---- Winterrowd --- Tele. Room - - - Holloman ----- Gandy ------ Wash. Post and --- Times Herald Wash. News---- Wash. Star _ _ ___ N. Y . Herald ____ Tribune N. Y. Mi rror '"Z-- N. Y. Daily New s __ Daily Worker ____ The Worker ___ _ New Leade r ____ Date ~
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Source text · mention only--- - ------ --- --- , -~aucer' See~ lY 7 West \ of Saginaw . 1 SAGINAW, July 30. - IA'I - State Police at Bridgeport Post received seven reports of a "fly(" ing saucer" between midnight and 7 a.m. today. One officer said he saw a fly ing object himself. The first report, which came from the nearby Burt Ground Observer Corps. station, said the object appeared about 12 feet in diameter, had red and blue lights and was moving swiftly. Various repor ts put the object 's hei ght at between 1,200 and 25,000 feet. The reports came from Sag inaw, Mi d 1 a n d and Gratiot counties . Police said the ca!Jers told them the object was seen over Freeland , Clare, Alma ar-d Breckinridge , all west of Sag inaw. Midland police said they re1 ceived one call but i:ould no ot the object. • Similar repor ts were receive f om the Cadillac area early S~ lurda y, but Air Force invesli• gating planes found nothing. NOT RECORDED 126IAUG 8 1956 Mr. Tolson.._ Mr. Nichols_ Mr. Board man_ Mr. Belmont...._ Mr. Mason __ Mr. Mohr _ _ _ Mr. Pa:rsona__ Mr. Rosen _ _ Mr. •r am.m...,_ _ Mr . Nease_ _ Mr. Winterrowd.. Tele. Room__ Mr . Holloman.._ Miss Gandy_ / ( ) Q!os Ludowy . ( ) Mlehlgan Editor-The Worke~ ~ ) The Daily Worker ( ) Norodna Volya ( ) Romanul American ( ) rltt$burgl, Courier ( ) Mlchlg.in Chronicle ( ) D lltrolt Fre3 Press ( ) Oetrolt Nows ( ) l)etrolt Tin1. ~ t ) Michigan D1ily ( ) Wiyrw Collegian t ) <7 Paa,,,..__J\__ /7-- ;I Column......{_ ....
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Source text · mention onlyI -0-19 (11-22-55) ✓• !?~ 'Confidential Files' Gefsk 10-Cent 'Saucer' Inquiry 1 BY th• Assoc'.ated Pres s :might have confidential files. If you want mformation on sent it to the Federal Bureau flying saucers, don't address your of Investigation. request to "Confidential Files, The FBI, never one to pass Washington, D. C." out military secrets, made dis Takes too long. And besides creet inquiries. you may be inv~stigated by the Then the FBI Jorwarded the I 1 FBI. letter to the Air Force, advising A woman out in Los Angeles that nothing derogatory or 1n (name withheld by various Gov- dicative of subversion could be ernment agencies) dashed off a found in the woman's activities. note on January 15. It said: So the Air Force reached into "Confidential Files its nonclassified files and _plucked "Wash., D. C. out the latest summary on the Dear Sirs-Please send me a number of sightin gs of UFO <un- bulletin of flying saucers, or the identified flying objects >, to address where I can get infor- gether with an explanauon of mation about them . I am inclos- why people think they see flying ing 10 cents. saucers-or what it is they see "Thanks." , which the Air Force can or can't Seemed like a simple, direct explain. approach-except for the ad- The lady's 10 cents was taped dress. • to the summary and both were The post office, casting abou.t mailed to her address ill Los for some Federal agency that Angeles. I ~ ta";dma~ 'rfJ ;:~~~n_c_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- f / ~ arsons _ ___ _ Rosen _ ____ _ Tamm _ ____ _ Nease ______ Winterrowd _ ___ Tele. Room ___ _ Holloman _____ Gandy _ ___ _ _ Wash. Post and ___ Times Herold Wash. News _ _ ..,,__ Wash. Star -' - / N. Y. Herald ____ Tribune • Y. Mirror -----. Y• Daily News Daily Worker --=== The Worker ____ New Leader ____ Date MAR 21 1\:3.Jl '71 MAR 28195~ • ...., .'
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Source text · mention only' ... DE-~~NT . OF THE AIR FORCE • • • • Office of Pub~ic • Informati on Washington · 25 , D, c. 1 • • I ' . • ' • • • ' ~ 1 I • ~ U •. S • .Air For:ce .Summary of Eve.nts .• and Information Concerni ng the Unidentifie <;l Flying ObJept P~ogram The Air Force · feels a , very definite obli gation to id,entify and analyze things thit happeri in ·the air that 'may h~ve in them menace to the United States and; because of that reeling of obligation and pur ~uit of that interest, t _h~- Air .Forc:e established an activity known as the Unidentified Flyi~~ : :object Program. · · • This program was establ ished i n ''1.94i when u,nidentified :f~yir:ig objects were being reported in varioµs · parts of the United States. The reports of . sightin gs reached a · peak of 1,700 in 1952 and dropped to a total of 429 111 1953. • During the · first pine months · of 1951+ o_nly ~54 sightings were rep6rte~ . From a survey of the volume of sightings received by the ~ir Force, ·1t , has been 0.etermfned that over ·80 percent are explainable as being known . objects. , Generaliy, sighted oojects fall into the cate gory of: . balloons, ·aircraft~ · astronomical bodies , atmospheric reflec tions~ and birds. All reports of unidentified flying objects result from either radar or visual sightings. . . Explanations pertaining to sightings reported from military and civilian r~dar facilities are as follows : 1. Temperature inversion reflections ca:n give a return on a radar scope. that is as shatp · as that received from an aircraft. I• • Speeds of these ret~rns reportedly ran~e -f~6m ~e~o to fantastic rates. The "obj ects" alsc:, appear to move in a:11 directions. Such sigh~:i:ngshave resulted in ·many fruitiess ,j_ntercept efforts. • To possibly bear out the theory of t emperature inversion refl.ect.ion is an. incident which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge, Tennessee. Two Air Force aircraft attempt ·ed to intercept an unidenti fied "object" and actually established a radar "lo ck" on the obje6t. Their altitude at the time · was 7,000 feet, The unidentified object, according to theiP radar, appeared to be at an elevation of 1o · to ~5 degrees from . this altitude . Three passes were made in an attempt to close on the qbject. In each instance the p1lots repo~ted that their radar led them first upward and then down toward a specif1c point on the ground. (One scientlfic theory holds that light can be .similarly reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth. If thiQ proves · to be correct; many visual , night sightin gs could be ~ccounted for.) ' 2. Ioniz ed ,clouds have causeq.some un1d enti fied radar returns Thunderstorms are identifiable by rada1° and radar ·returns have also• been received from ice formations in the air, balloons, ground reflec tions, frequency interference between ~ther radar stationi, ~nd wind born objects. Obviously, such returns are very difficult to . identify,especia lly when t hey occur during darkness. g')~,,- MORE
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Source text · mention only. • ... 3. The -r~darCreen ha-s picked · up· -birp.•$ 1~-.:o~e case a-:i flock of ducks. Flight int.erc.ept);ons ·· p_rove·d thes _e 1>henomena. 'l l. • ... • • • An explanation · 6f known types of visual sightings are as . .. f9llows: _ . . . .. . . ._., , ~~ . . ' . . • ' . 1. Present-day jet aircraft, flying at great speeds and high altitudes, a1'e often .mis ,~aken for . unknown objects by• t.he untrained observer. Sun;t.ight r?flecfions · f'.ronr the pol .ished surf~ces of air- . craf .t can be· seen pla.inly .ey!:!p,_:wpen the -airc.r_a.ft , itself is too dis tant ·to· -~e ·visiple, _The_exhaust : bf j~~ aircraft .emits ~, a t .rail. and often this is seen rather than the aircraft itself. · 2. Weather balloons ac.-count fo:r;. a substantial number of. ;s.ight..: ' ings. • These balloons, sen·t· .t"6' altitudes . of 40,000 feet •> and . high'er, are laun ghed from virtually every airfield in the coun,try. They q.re made of rubber or polyethylene, s:t--1e,ll a.~,·they gain . altitude, have very good ref'lec tive qualities, ·carry small :p~ghts . when -launched after dark, and can be seen at very hig~_ altitudes, . . . 3. In additio~ ·.eo the ordinari weather ~all6on, hug~ 90-foot balloon~, which . sometimes dr~ft from coast to coast, .a~e used for upper air research. ·These ba l loons also have a highly reflective surface .and. are visible at ext-:ireme altitudes. • • ' ' ' 4. Frequently, unusually bright meteors and planets will cause a flurry of reports, .. sometimes from relatively experienced observers. At certain times of the year, V~n~s, for instance, is low on the horizon and will appear to change color and move erratically due to hazy atmospheric conditions. Since the .sta~s are char·ted . ar,id most of their characterist~ci known, many cases are traced ·to. the-m. Meteors on the ot_her ·hand are ·of rapid single-direction movemen-t· and . are· only visible for a Tew seconds. Meteor activity is more' common · at certain times of the year than others, and reports of UFO's have shown a tendency to increase during ·these periods. • • . , 5. Some cases arise which, on the ha.sis of information recei'vec;. · : are of a weird and peculiar natur ~. The obj~cts display erratic , movements .and phenomenal speeds. Sinc e maneuvers and .speeds · of this • kind cannot ,be traced directly to. aircraft, ball0ons, or ,kncwn astro .~ nomical sources, it: is b~lieved ' that they are reflections from ob• jects rather · than being ·objects .thems elves. Fr;>r example: suppos e·· we would hold a mirror in hand under a light, causing a r e flection on the ·c~iling. Only a slight, quick movement of. the hand would result in erratic movements and phe!'lomena~ speeds of the -reflect ed beam. Refl ~ct1ons may be project ed to clouds and haze both from the ground and a ir ~ Many things whiq~ are common to the sky have highly refl ec tive qua liti e s, such ·as balloons, aircraft, and clouds. Accu- rate speeds are also difficult tq determine due to the ~nability of the r epo rtf;r ..to judge d1stanc~, ·angles, and time. 6, Brillia nt 'flashing lights that sometimes appear r~d a nd wh1te in. co l or 'hav e been repor t ed_ by observers. This type has been · traced to a .new lighti n g system of commercial a irlin es· and milit ary aircraft , Atop the tail section of these aircraft highly reflectiv e red and white flasher typ e lights have been installed and are manytimes misinterpret ed by the ground obs e rver. - 2- MORE
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Source text · mention only· . In the analysis a _ vestigation of the radar a nd- ~isu a l ,..sightings described, e are some yar dstick s whil have been : estab lished from exper cnce and trends to measur e' d attemp t to de termin e the source of UFO•s. Some of these are general in nature r and a r e subject to ·cr:i.ange· as l')ew scie ntific and factual inf·ormation i s r ece ived. I t should be remembered that any object viewed from a gre a t distance app ears to be round . Nearly all the sightin gs r eport ecl a r e de scribed as round and would tend to indicate that most of the objec ts ·are at a grea.t e r ·.d.1s-tahce from the observer .than is gen~r a llyestim a t ed, • • .- :. ,; • • · · . . . Another misconception centers about photographs of uniden t ifi ed flying obj e cts. At best ·tl!le. majority of photographs have proven non - conclusive as e vid ence· to this program ,main l y_due _to type camer a s used. • Also, 'it might be ·mehti'c1ned that because still phot ogr aphs· .can be so easi l y faked, either by using a mock-up or model again st a l egitimate background~ or · by retouching the negat,ive , they a re worth l e ss a s e yidence . I nnumerable obj ects , f ~om ashtrays to wash basins , have bee n photogr ·aphed wh+1e sailing thrpugh :the air. Many su·ch photoB have been publ i~he~ ·wi thout revealing the true identity ·of the objects. • More attention is given to moving pictur e s of unid entified fly ing objects since tHey a r e more difficult to retouch. Howe ve r, only a ve ry f ew movie - typ e fi l ms have bee n receiv ed by the Air Forc e and they r eveal only pinpoints of light moving a cross the sky. · The Air Force has been unabl e to identify the source -of the se lights becaus e the ima ge s are too smal l to analyze properly. Sinc e owne rship of the se films remains with the pe rsons taking them, the Air Force is now in a position to give them out . The difficulty of evaluating •rep.orts of all · types is ba sed l ar ge ly upon the lack of basic da t a surrounding the sightings. The drop in sightings during 1953 is l a rgely due to the incr eas ed a ccur a cy and the compl e ten ess of r eports being r e ce ived. To be of valu e , a r eport should include such basic da t a as siz e , shap e , composition, spe ed, altitude, direction , and the maneuve r patt ern of the obj ec ts . Without such inf ormation, it is almost impossibl e to e sta blish the . identi ty of the obj ect sight ed. In addition , a r e cent study has shown a dire ct corr e lation be twe en the number of sightings r eport ed and the publicity given to 1 ' saucers" by the na tion's press . The Air Force took a furth e r step in early 1953 by proc ur~n g Vide en came ras for the purpose of photo gr aphin g this phenomena ~ These came r a s w e re distribut ed to va rious military install a tions . Thi s typ e 0a me r a ha s two lens es , one of which t a kes an ordin a ry photo graph, and the o the r has a di ff ra ction gr a ting wh1ph sepa r a t es l i ght in t o its component pa rts. This a ids in de t er minin g the compositi on of t he ob j e ct phot ogr aphed. A sma ll numbe r of photo gr aphs ha ve been r e ce ived from t his camer a ; howeve r, only light spot s of no de t ail h a ve been i ndicate d in the photos t o d a t e. As mor e phot ogr aphs a r e taken by the se obse r ve rs , it is be lie ved tha t a grea t d ea l of t he myst ery wi ll be lift e d from the pro gr am. The Ai r Fo r ce would like to state t ha t no e vi dence ha s be en r e ce ived which woul d t end to i ndicat e t ha t the Uni t ed Sta t e s is be ingQbse rved by machi ne s from oute r spa ce o r a fo r e ign gov e rnment, Noobj ec t or pa rticl e of a n unknown substance ha s been r e ce ived and -3- MORE
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Source text · mention only1 r ... .. ,. ·• no photographs of detail have ' been . produc ed • . Th~ ..photogr ~phs on hand are, at best, only larg_e and sma11 '·blobs of l+ght which, in · mqst cases, _ are explainable • . . . . · It may be concluded from the abo ve and from past experience .that no new significant trends have developed out of these cases. .There . was an increase in public interest which occurred simultaneously with the publication 0f various books and articles on the ~ubject; however, this trend has been noted several times previo-us _ly. , • In,_Q1:'der .to ov~·rcome the lack. o_f ba~ic data, and to standardize all rep·orts, a detailed · quest..fonnaire 1-s no.w submi tte.d to eacl:) person reporting ·an unidentif .ied aerial abject. It ;ts felt tha~ , the infor mation thus obtained will lo~er s.tfll ·more _Jhe numpe.r of unexplain ed sightings. · f • .. :- \· ' • • *" • • i ,, ' For observers who wish to report ·un~dentified ·aerial objects, the Air Force would welcome the inform a tion . Attached to this report is a brief basic summary form. It would be apprecJated if observers would send the completed f,orm to the neare -st Air Forqe Base.' • , ' I'f and when new developments turn up i~- this progr am, the Air Force will keep the puolic · inform ed ~. ,,. ... -4-
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Source text · mention only9 PLEASE SEND TO YOUR NEAREST AIR FORCE BASE DATE: - - ----- --·- · TIME OF SIGHTING: - -~----------- --- -- SIZE: SHAPE: COMPOSITION: SPEED: ALTITUDE: ------ ----------------- ..--- -- DIRECTION OF TRAVEL : MANEUVER PATTERN: - ------~-------- ---,..-. ··------- -- COLOR : ----~-- - - - - ----~-----·-------·--- SOUND: LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED: SKY CONDITIONS: ------------- -· ·--···-·- --- VISIBILITY: GROUND DIRECTION OF WIND: NAME, AGE , MAILING ADDRESS OF OBSERVER: REMARKS: (General desceiption of what you saw--use back if necessary) - -------- ··--·----- --·--- ------.-----·- ·······- ·-··- ---· · --·- -- - ·---- ----- ..,···- ...-·---- -------- --,.--...·-•------ ·- ·-·- ·---·--- .- .- -----·------- · ·· --•·-- •--
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Source text · mention only1 REYI'KJ LDS I!E':IS ' DECEW3ER 19, .,19 5l°i LONI.DI!, ENGLAIIDJ \ ' I MtllCI OJ TH~ LrC.L , AM!HICAl1 ~MF./SSY..., t,Ol!JPOfi,. ~ Gt ..J) lf6 FEB 16 1955 ~t/~ . - - -~- ---- ~ -.-- - ..-J H ERE • th ,, I h"is e rea trut about Flying c.cers, as told by Geor Klein, former secret wea ons ex- pert in the Gern,an War Production Mintstry,• and now an e n g i n e e r in Switzerland. "Flying Saucers," he says, are top secret weapons of the SA and Russia. " They are a continuation of .:re rm an wartime experi - ~.1ents. . "Prototype Flying Saucers [ were built in Germany duringthe war. I saw one reach a height of 40,000 feet in three minutes, near Prague in 1945." ' Klein says the Russians captured a scale mode l and top technicians at Breslau. The technicians have not returned to Germany. And Walter Micthe, , V ij pon inventor and key an i Saucer development, ed \ e st and now works in he 1itcd States lein in a Zurich interview • spected by Field-Mar al Montgomery . says Klein. ..........-----·-·-------'-..J .. ~ ORG KLEI N Flying Saucer bu ilt to-day-one with a diameter of 48ft. powered by five jets and a larger model with a diameter of 126ft. and 12 jets. This, he says, accounts for the rumour that Saucers often appear to change size sud- denly. Raised wing flaps liCt both ' a\roraft like a helicopter. The big 9ne c_an keep stationary by turmng Jets _down to counter- balan~e gravity . Flyrng Saucers ,.teveloped in Canada by Joh%:'_!·ost, former colleague of Sh Fi:ank Whittle, have reached speeds upf to 1,500 mph and have been in- Mr. Tnk~,:1 Mr. Br~··,i:nan_ Mr. Nichn1s ... - Mr. Bdmon t;_,._ I\1r. Hnrbo ___ 1\-Ir. ,~ioh!· ___ Ivfr. r~.:::;ons- Mi'. r.~•cn_· _ :t,i r. T 1, · .....~1 .- Mr. s::,-" ..- i\i:r . -,, .: crrowd_ Tele. Room -- Mr. Hc:hman _ Miss Gan<lY-- .,.J 1-u ~{- •
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Source text · mention onlyI 'Flying Saucer?': ,WeirdSpy Disc •Sighted By Ship i l A c h 'culn,1' <>bkcl,, g 1•nyloh f\t fll'!;t and tlien brl«hter, llk@ tlie ' moon, sho0Ll11g up from n cai· .sea level and disappearin g in clouds at .5,000 feet, was sighted at sea last night 8 0 m iles east of New York. OWcers of t he Dutch liner Groote Beer 1·eported the incident when the vessel arrived in Hoboken. 1 "l don't know what it was," 11aid Capt. Jan P. Boshoff , a vetera n shlpma ster, who sa.id he watch ed t he obJeot through his binoculars. "It might have t been what has been d escribed I r as a flying saucer, but I don't j know what it was." 1 Through his most powerfu l binoculars, the captain trained ,' the m on the object. 40 degrees off the port side. Severa l o ther officer similarly trained bino culars . Capt. Boshoff described it as "a flat object, resembling t he I mon, at first kind of rray and t hen t urning brighter on t~ lower part. and around t he edges having bright spots as If they were ligh ts." He said it was moving- "directly upward, wltb great speed.'' He said h e never had s een anyt hing like it before, an added : "l am positive It was not a meteor. N or was it anytbinr tura l I n the sky." Mr. Tolson - Mr. Boardnum Mr, Nicbols Mr. Belmont Mr. Harbo Mr. Mohr. Mr. Parao ns Mr. Rosen. M-r. Tamm Mr. Siz•,O·-- M-r. Winterrowd Tele . Roo!n..- Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy__ 1954
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Source text · mention only--- - - #! ,),Tolson -~ Mr B man ,"/ Mr • ~ Mf. Belmont _...__ Mr. Harbo __ Mr. Mohr __ Mr. Parsons_ Mr. Rosen __ Mr. Tamm _ _ Mr. Sizoo __ r. Winterrowd _ Tele. Room _ _ Mr. Hollom an _ Miss Gandy __ <OIJICT> - . ' EV YOIK••TNIEE Clh ,m•s or A ftA-•IOILD AIILIIIS ,,111- \ • ,OIK FLJClfT IIPOlffl ODA# THI! IICfflD Al UIIIDENTIJ'ltD FLYIIIC CT ABOUT 10 llfJLU IOITII O IOSTOII . THE PIL9!.t CAPJ...!. CRAILIS :l.,_ ICUT09ft1 or POIT VASRl•no■• L.l~t SAID lfl . SAW •a ._..;a: nlU•COLrJlu IISC- I I OIJlt'r AT !Hi'0 A M Eu •KIATOVIL 1111 TIii GIJICT .n MUS ., A PAULLIL C I ARD or MIS Pl.AU IUT Ill COULi IOT en A CLIAI LOOK Al lT •n• AIOV JIICR CL&UDS . · AFTEI TD PLA• AlllfD AT llLIVILD AIIPOITl IIATOflL IECIIVED A IIIES,fAGI RO" ftAIS•IOIU AIILJIIIS ll IOSTel ST TIit: TIIAT A IEATHIRUL OOII IAI •n IILtASII no" QIIID .AII react BASE II 11h IIAMPSHllf ABOUT ,o lflLa ltlTlllfa ·, or.·IOSTCll1: AT ••30 A.M. IDT. THI MESSAC:E SA t TMI 1&LL0• 1 ,Ill 0tn IOSTOII AT ,. l 9 A II I''•ICUTOflL IA I TIii NISSACt fflClllli ft ULLOOI Al •110uT 100 J'EET IN DlAPIETIII • ~ AIOIIT FITS'M IDCllPTION or lllATTOU SAV •COMIElfflC • •ssACle KIATOYILe IRO US 1111 rLYIIC SIK! 1927• sa1t •1T ,.,.., L 1 , c"11~, ,o • l' n11s li' RATIIEI ULL0011T•1 ,111 11\' nME 1Tf:n saw •• n,,1: INC ac,1 , m 1111.• . • IATlf I.' S! IC I T TIE IIJICT WAS P I IY TIii CO.PlU Ii.It irhi .,~.,1. °!.,.. A.. IT TIit ,UCIIT Berm•. IIAl!ILD ,. KIAffllL ll·TIII Ltci1 llfflllff OIAL AIINIT fOIII II IOITOI SAID T ERPLO 1'11111 TOLi GJ IIIIIC ffl OIJICT • AND IT llD NOT APPIArO ULLOOle Cll•-IIJ31,P , IC - i-____,1 / I r NOT RE r.OAD ED Hl JUN 1 7 !1954 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
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Source text · mention only--- OJD • • .ii :: ii:~:;::;;:.-1-1-"t Mr. Ni ,,, Mr. Belmo Mr. Harbo ___ Mr. Mohr ___ Mr. Parsons __ Mr. Rosen __ .Mr. Tamm ___ ' ' M<i\ of !> S C,V Mr. Sizoo ___ Mr. Winterrowd_3r1~Mo1qa1 O''l • Tele. Room __! 8 ·1 . Mr. Holloman _.::,,f?. Jl. ;. "'i J~ ; Miss Gandy __ 'OBJECT) '-..MOBILE ALA.--BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE REPOR.TED THAT AN ,r ~ \ "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. BRILLIANT AND SILVER COLORED" WAS TRACKED BY RADAR OVER MOBILE AND THE ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST LAST NIGHT. MAJ . JAMES ZICHERALI, PUBL.IC INFORMATION OFFICER AT BROOKLEY, SAID \THE OBJECT "APPEARED TO BE A JET-TYPE AIRCRAFT OF NEW DESIGN WITH SHORT 1STUBBY WINGS•"FIVE OTHER RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI ALSO REPORTED SIGHTING THE OBJECT.ZI CHERALI SAID THE OBJE~T APPEARED ON THE BASE CONTROL TOWER RADAR · S EEN AT 6:50 P. M. CST, HE SAID RADAR OPERATORS REPORTED IT "MADE ~ N OUND AND LEFT NO TRAIL BUT GAVE EVIDENCE OF DEFINITELY BEING MANEUVERED." 1/1--~~nuP t ~/-1 ~-~ 4 N()' l~ Rl:r.<:IJll'f)IDI) 76 JUL 14 1954 6 0 JUL 14195 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVI CE yt/~J-
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Source text · mention only0-19 Tolson _ _ _ • · Ladd ___ Nichols - Belmont -- Clegg ___ Glavin-- Harbo--- Rosen _ _ _ Tracy _ _ _ Mohr _ ___ Trotter _ _ Winterrowd_ Tele. Room -t Holloman- Mis s Gandy_ 1~!RT ~~~ce H~p~~~~.,.~~olie~~~~~J~ng ~~,~~d Scripps-Howard s taff w riter been relaxed in recent months. ed" and "Flying Saucers From Out Air Force I ea-de rs have Most of the mail receive<:l at theDayton o'fflce is from persons over slammed down a "brass" curtain the nation who are curious about at the Dayton (0. ) Afr Technical flying sauee,s. Intelligence Cent e 1• (ATIC), "The mail has become so heavy where flying saucer reports are that the two or three persons de- investigated. tailed to investigating unidentifie ,flying objects - called UFO's- are "The Air Force will be unable to not getting anything else done," the honor visits (including the press) Air Force official sai.d. to the ATIC because the volume of "Actually, UFO's are supposed to refests for information has seri- be only a small part of the investi-ou y interferred with investiga- gative work done at the ATIC." tio s," an Air Force spokesman here The flood of mai) from the public sai today. was attributed to newspaper and' said the original official policy magazine articles about flying sau •.n.,i heen to exclude visits by news- cers. Singled out were two current er Space."Just how bann ing the press was expec ted to ease the situation was not explained - unless the ~ •~• figures this will reduce the n mber of flying saucer stories. Times-Herald l ash. Post Wash. News lash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune _ N.Y. Mirror - J,<t -__:.._ 71:.IJ Not RECORDED 160 JAN 15 1954 Date: hf-
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Source text · mention only-- • .... 'THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE' Are 11,ey Hiding Tl,ose Lights Under a Bushell By EVERT CLARK Mysterious red lights which have flown over the Quantico Marine Base 22 times in the past six nights were officially explained away today as a new type of aircraft navigation light. But most of the Marines who saw them still don't believe that's what they were. In addition, The News ran into what seems to be a delib erate attempt to cover up cer tain facet s of the longest con tinuous ''flying· saucer" run in history. The first man to s ee the light was Pfc. Norma n Vie ts, 18, of Gree nville, Pa. Since ' then, at least ,. 30 other Ma rines, including half a , dozen officers, have seen I t, too. On one occasion, sent ries repor t I ed seeing three lights at once. They ( say they have seen the lights drop straigh t down, fly strai ght up and stand still. Even the most • c a r e f u I-and skeptical-ob server, the base prov ost m a rsha l, Maj. D. D. Pomerle au, adm itted the lights had character istics he never expected to find on an airliner. FIRST SIGHTING Pfc. Viets was standing sentry duty at the Tank Parle a few miles north of Camp Barrett on the south western side of the Quan tico reser• vation at 9:05 p. m . Dec. 30 when he "reported a moving , blinking red light near his post which he could not explain ." The sergeant of the guard, Sergt. Francis R. Salinde r, "investigated and saw the light but could not ex• plain it." j Pfc. Viets told The News the light fi rst appeared to come s tra ight toward him over a line of t rees about 200 yards to the south o.f his post. 1, "It was about a foot a nd a h alf i n diameter ," he said, "on ly going abou t 10 or 15 miles a n hour. Then it fol• lowed the tree line about 50 yards to the righ t a nd went down. "It went straight ~own, all of _a sudden . F'itteen minut es later 1t went straight up and moved over here toward the tank shed. 162__ 81f;lf /l THE \r~ASHI NGTOH DAILY l\TE\1S"I saw it two times aiter tha t. It did the sarne thin~ - It was the NOT RECORDED Greater washin gton Edition weirdest looking thmg I. ever saw. 1-5-54 148 JAN l2 ,~04There was no e n~ine"n~e"' a~<!. no s hape-just the light. • J
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Source text · mention only• • NO SALE By the time The News talked to Pk. Viets at Quantico yesterday, the airplane navigation light theory already had been offered. The News asked Pfc. Viets about it, and he said: "That was no airplane. I first though t it might be a weather balloon, but it wasn't. Either way, you could have seen the s hape." Pfc.-Viets and Sergt . Salinder saw the light again at 10:15 the same night. Five minutes later they called in the roving guard from a nearby guard tower, but the light was gone. CONFLICT Pfc. Bennett (top front) ~rabbed a butcher knife a nd said: "It's land First repo rts had It that troops h1g in Ule tanlt shed!" 1\'la.i. Pomerleau (middle photo) i.s skeptical, were sent into the area to look for but still curious. Pfc. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convb1ce the lights. Yesterday Maj . A. B. hhn "that was no alrplane." -News stare Photos by Gene ThomBa\ Ferguson, the base informat ion of-ficer, said that report was errone- • with troops," the official report sible way to descri be the light's ous. says. size, shape and intensity was to "We did at no time dispatch Thirty minutes later, the sergeant compare it t o "the way a blinkingtroops to fight off the invaders or of' the guard saw it again, and at8:23 p. m. three lights .wet'e seen. red traffic light appears to a motor capture then or welcome them (This was New Year's Eve.) At ist as he pulls up to an intersec-aboard or anything else," he said. tlon " However, this is what the official 9:01 it was seen aga in, and at 4:20 • record says: New Year's morning it moved He heard no noise and saw no "A IS-man detail arrived (at northeast, then south, theri north shape. He said the light was "sharp-and remained "over the tank shed ly delineat ed." 11:15 p. m., Dec. 30) f rom CampBarrett and made a search of the at an elevation of about 3500 feet." "But I have friends and a pro· area in which the light was first 1'hat was the time Pfc. Vie'ts fessiona l reputation," he said, "and seen. 1'he search proved fruit- said, "when they saw lt oome u1> as far as I'm concemed just say less .'' there and lay under the moon until it's an aircraft navigation light.'' Fifty minutes later Pfc. Viets' re- morning." Sev.eral ail:lines that fly in and out lief "report ed seeing the same red Pfc. Viets' relief of the night be- of Washington say they began in light. " Se1>gt. Salinder saw nothing. fore got so excited he "grabbed a stalling new lights atop the tails of HOVERS butcher knife and headed for the planes six m011ths ago. They blink tank shed to help out his troops,'' on and off, a re 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 "Nobo dy in the barracks knows,'' park sentry and the guard tower . Friday night, once Saturday night, Pfc. Viets said.. ''They 're just talking At 7:10, it appeared again. This five times Sunday night and twice flying saucers, that's a:11. They're time the sergeant of the guard last night . talk ing about men from Mars and "came out and check~~ the c:,rea Maj. Pomerleau said the best pos- everything else you could name." = - THE WA~'HIIJGTON DAILY Nl!.'WS Greate r Washington ~-d· t·1-5-54 ~ i ion
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Source text · mention only-- -- - e • (l) fLtLli. ~1.,/J.JL:.,_C_,_;'.,.,..~-~;:..._--- /JJJ, [;~~·~ J..4-1:-- Nicho Belmo J!l ~ Clegg _ _ _ Glavin1--- Harbo _ _ _ Rosen ___ Tracy ___ Mohr ____ Trotter _ _ _ Myt1;tcry,Is Dissolved Winterrowd_ Tele. Room - Holloman - Marines Decide 'Objects' Miss Gandy_ -.... i\.re N~w Airliner Lights Authorities at the Qu~ntico as the Marine Corps is con Marine Base last night took a cerne~, a spo~esman said. long searching look at those . Until laSt night, however, the• . . . hghts were reported to have strange flymg obJects with flash- done about everything. Nine- ing lights seen near the base for teen Marines reported sighting the past five nights-and de- a mysterious reddish "blinking cided they were commercial air- or revolving" light over the base liners. the nights of December 30 and Quick as a flash, airlines op- January l, 2 ~nd 3. Rumors that erating out of Washington con- platoons of 1?,fant~y ha~ ~een firmed the Marine Corps' guess. sent t? the landmg site of An American Airlines spokes- the_ obJects and a ~eport that a man said flashing red lights, vis- ~ehcopter fie\~ to mtercept th ible for 10 to 15 miles have been llghts were discounted by the installed recently atop the ver- Marine Corps earlier yesterday . tical stabilizer, or tail, of its T_he base provo ' marshal , planes. Other airlines also have MaJ. D. D. Pomerleau, who sa"-1 put in such lights, he said. the lights twice, guessed tha A group of Ma1·ine officers they came from an airliner, bu last night made a field trip to added that he couldn't b sure . the "Guadacanal" area of the But last night the Marine base, west of U. S. 1. They re- Corps had this final word: ported: "This flashing red light, "Officials here are convinced when seen for the first time . by that the unusual phenomenon the unaided eye, creates an un- was a new navigational light of usual impression and an illu- greater intensity used on air sion of nearness." liners flying near the reserva- ~:: .. t ..l&&t:d the matter as far tion." • : !:::-.= lash. Post I--,...._ lash. News lash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune - N.Y. Mirror ,...,,._ _ NOT RECORDED •~" JAN 8 1954 - Date:
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Source text · mention only- -- - - --- 0-19 ) _ Tolso'rf//J._;'I Ladd ' lj i(, Nich9~ WJ!Z ~ BelmYnffe Clegg-- Glavin-- Harbo-- Rosen - - Tracy-- GeartY -- Mohr--- Winterrowd - Tele. Room - Holloman -- Sizoo .., Miss Gandy- ltlarines Investig ating , Mystery 'Flying. Ob i'!ct' Lands N,ear Quantico, Say Sentries lone of those mysterious flyin the sky and described it as a the two sentri es, and the spokes objec ts repo r tedly landed near flying saucer," according to the man said the investiga tion was • , pokesTltan. They notified the now in the hands of "higher Quantico on ~ew Years Eve but Officer of lbe Day that it had authorities. " took off again before the Ma- landed , and the helicopter took The two sentries were re rines could get the situation in off from Quantico. By the time ported off the base on pass last band it arrived, the mystery ship had night and the Marine spokes- • risen and was out of sight. man was not able to supply thefr A spoke sman ~ester~ay con- The news spread swifty description of the objects, or firmed that a flymg obJect had among Quantico personnel. One their report of its actions . been report ed near the base. report had it that two platoons The spokesman reported the~ Two sentries on duty at Camp were deployed to capture the had been summoned to appea iarrett , a Marine installation thing but this was denied by the before high officers of the Ma bout 15 miles from Quantico, official spokesman. • rine Base this morning for addi J ( _ f eported seeing an object ~ " Statements were taken from tional statemen ~s. r'f 1 NOT RF,r·n rm :mn 191 JAN 20 1954 Times-Hera'ld Wash. P ost Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune - N.Y. Mirror ·-
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Source text · mention only0 - 19 iC5? C #h . l Swedish Pilot ~eports 'Saucer' By Unit.ed Preas STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 18-The .Swedish Royal Air Force ordered a full investigation today of an airliner crew's report of seeing a saucer-shaped object over Sweden near secret Soviet bases. Gen. Bengt Norderskjold, air force commander -in-chief, called 1n complete reports from all Swedish radar stations aft_.er joining the defense staff in promising a detailed inquiry. Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, pilot of the passenger liner, told the defense staff he· and his crew saw the disc-shaped metallic object shortly after noon yesterday over the southern Swedish town of. Haessleholm, about ·300 miles from the strategic Baltic coast. "It was entirely an unorthodox, metallic, symmetrical and • ci1scular object," Capt. Christiernsson said. "I was not at all scared, but curious,1 very curious." • • • ' Capt. Christiernsson said the object !Jew faster than sourldl ab.out , 5000 .teet above the ground. Capt. Christiernsson said the object headed southward over a low- lying 'cloud layer which would obscure it from ground observers. He said he watched it for about six seconds before it disappeared ln the dire~tion of East Germany's Baltic shore. near the former Nazi research station at Peenemunde, now operated by the Russians.l , 11 j ·J Tolson-- Ladd-- Nichols- Belmont - Clegg-- Glavin-- HarbO- - Rosen --- Tracy ___ GeartY-- Mohr-- - Winterrowd - Tele. Room - Hollom an- Sizoo -- Miss Gandy - ... t1e~~-- Times-Hera~ Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune - {I N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass 19541 ~ JAN 8 .,.J
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Source text · mention only0-19 . . ,. HHPERS u-ttf't- ·i.·.ueory Bolshr.ed .,. .>HUii n [ Lu Keyhoe's inter-planetary theory was bolstered by a lett er p ub- lished on the jacket of his book I P S from Albert M. Chop, former Air Force civilian expert on the· saucer project, who now is with SPACE SH •By Ex MARINE Hits AF Stand On Flying Disks (Thi s is the last of three arti cles on the controversial subject of "flyin g sauce'rs" and their investi gation by the Air Force.) BY RICHARD REILLY Are th~~f!e rJ r eal and if they are, what are they? That, in essence, is the ques t ion that faces the Air Force and the American public as.well. Altho it remains unan swered. it has stirred no end of opinions and theories. • One theory advanced from time t o time is t hat the saucers are some revolutionary type of weapon perfe cted either by this country or some other nation. The Air Force, however, dep• r ecates t his possibility. In a re cent s tate ment, it said: "The Air Force has stated in the past, a nd reaffirms at the present t ime, that unexplained aerial phenomena are not a se-. cret weapon, missile or aircraft developed b y t he United S tates. None of t he three milit ary de- partments nor any other agency J 1 in t he g overnment is conduct ing experiments, classified or other wise, with flying objects w hich could be a basis for the reported phenom ena." Weapon Theory Discounted In a¥ition, a high-rankin g Air Force o fficer indicated to the Time s-Herald t hat it is •believed impossible t he saucers could be a foreign w eapon. Regar ding the question as to whethe r flying saucers exist, Lt. Robert White, public informa t ion o fficer, said the Air Force helleves reliable observers such as veteran airline pilots are sin cere when they report sighting l unidentifie d objects. T he Air Force was tossed a hot potat o recently by Maj . Donald E. Kcyhoe, U.S.M.C. <ret.>, who claime d in his recent book, "Fly• ing Saucers from Outer Space;• that the saucers not only are real but that they are of inter-plane- t ary origin. Furthermote , Keyhoe contends that the so-called "utah film• possessed by the Air Force proves t1,ts'M stlu. = the Douglas Aircraft company in California. In the letter, Chop stated : •"The Air Force, and its investi gative agency, 'Project Bluebook.' are aware of Mai . Keyhoe's con• clusion that the flying saucers are from another planet . The Air Force has never denied that this possibility exists. Some of the personne l believe tbat there may be some stran ge natura l phenomena completely unknown to us, but that if the apparently controled mane uvers reported by many competent observers are correct, then the onlY ·re ma.ining explanation is the inter planetary answer." Upon publication of the letter - written on Defense department stationery-the Ail' Force chal lenged Chop's c laim and said he was merely expressing his per sonal opinion. Chop subsequently admitted that he was not s peaking for the Air Force, but main tained that some of the investigative personnel had subscribed to th e interplan etary theory. He said thi s was based on "personal con tacts with these various indi· vid1tals" and insisted that it w as "a true statement. " Charges Cover-Up Amplifying his theory that the saucers come from another planet, Kehoe claims they could originate from some other body in the earth's solar system such as Mars or Venus-or from some other system or universe. Kehoe charges tha t the Air Force is convinced that the saucers are space ships from another world, but that it ls cov ering up because of a fear that such a disclosure would result in widespread p anic. The Air Force, however, in• sists that this is not so- tr.at it is holding back no importa nt fac ts from the public. J4_ White said the names of P: rsufWift\rolved in th~t~ngs aft! \\i tllheld, a nd re~lwil )l divulge the capabilit ies of our aircraft , rad ar and electroni c equipment are classified. All other information with respect to sightin gs is a matter of pub• lie record, he said. • Keyhoe maintain s. tho, that the Air Force has refused to re• lease many analy ses of sighting reports. He points out that the names and locations 1cotinected with the incidents could be de• leted, if necessary. • Wants Film Released Keyhoe also claims that Air Force should release the the final intelli gence the utah film. ana lysis on In connection with this, Key hoe recently sent a1telegram to high Air Force officials chargin g that since the Air Force had Implied that he had misrepresented the analysis of the Utah film , either he or the Air Force wa lying. The Times-Herald asked a top Air Force spokesman if Keyhoe had, in fact, misrepre senteC: the Utah film ana lysis. He declined to comment . In his telegram - as in his bOOHi,,-Keyhoe stated: "The final analy sis proved that t he saucer formation could not be explain ed a s any known aircraft or other conventional objects : · Cites Conclusions The spokesman was asked if / his statement were true or false. He said that. to date. the Air Force has neither affirm ed nor d~i!111~~ also ~ontends the an~ l-y, s concluded the objects w ·e n t birds and were not caus d b weather conditions . pccifically, Keyhoe claims the Times Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star , { 1 / - l1 N. Y. Times l . CompassNOT RE'.COROE'O °l~~ •Y 44 JAN 12 1954 6 -- Date : I~ ~ J. 8-~-:::f r-
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Source text · mention only• • -- 0-19 .... intelhi!Bllte experts reached the tic physical evidenc~ey following conclusions: • are interplanetary ." 1. The average speed of the Continuing, Gen. Smith stated: unknown objects was somewhere "For the Air Force to admit bf.tween 653 and 980 miles per that flying saucers exist. it would hour. wa.nt indisputable physical evi- 2. All the objects appeared dence. For such an admission, It round, of the same size, and gave would want stronger evidence off a bluish-white glow of very than it now has." high intensity . Sunvning up the problem, he 3. The objects seemed to be said: maneuvering in a circular or el- "So far, . the Q u es ti.on of Jiptical pattern within the group, ~vhether flymg sa~cers exist, and at very high speeds. •1f so, wl_1at they a1e, has n~t bee~ . conclusively answered e 1th e 14. B~cause of these high speeds, way." the obJects. ob_v_lously could not be But one thing is certain, he balloons 01 buds. added. The Air Force will con· 5. They were not any type of tinue to seek the answer. known a ircraft . • WIii Push Campaign 6. The sighting could not be ex Meanwhile, Keyhoe plans • toplained by any conventional an continue his campaign to comswer. pel the Air Force to disclose theAsked if the _Times-Herald facts he says 1t is concealing.could see • the final analysis re He told the Times-Herald he wil:port, an Air Force spokesman continue to make his claims insaid that there were certain re print and on television. and willports the Air Force could not challenge the Air Force to denymake public for security reasons, them.risk of libel, and other reasons. "If any officia1. after readingHowever, the spokesman said the final ana,lysis on the Utahthe film could be viewed at film, says that it did not ruleWright field, Ohio. out birds, known aircraft or Not Disco un t ing Theo1·y conventional obj e c ts as the The Air Force officially neither cause of those objects, I will call accepts nor rejects the interplan- him a liar to his face. etary theory. I • "I do not like to use such terms, but after all , the AirBrig, Gen . Sory Smith. Air Force has, in, effect, been callingForce public relations chief, put it this way: me a liar and I'm getting tired of it.""We do not know enough about Regardless of the charges andit to deny that flying saucers long thecounter-charges, so asexist. Conversely, we have no Air Force has unsolved sightings.Proof that they do exist. ln its files - and until it is"In our investigation we are definitely known what the fly. not discounting the possibility ing saucers are - the averagethat. the saucers--if they exist,.... person is bound to wonder . . . could be Interplanetary . We are Are the flying saucers real? Times Herald Interested in anyone who might If so. what are they? ibe using the air over the United The final chapter is yet to b Wash. Post5t written in this strange drama .!4{1g;,vcvei we have no authen - The answer.J,s not yet available to us. Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Times N. Y. Compass Date ;
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Source text · mention only_ I • r . Mr. Clegg _ ______ Mr. Glavin ____ Mr. Harbo _______ Mr. Rosen____ _ Mr . Tra cy____ Mr. Mohr _____ Mr. Trotter ____ Mr. Winter rowd_ Tele. Room_____ Mr. Holloman .__ Miss Gandy__ o Fan Hysteria Ied Labels 'Saucers' U.S. Fiction LONDON - fA'h- A S o v i e t commentator Satu rday accused "aggressive force<;" in the Unit ed States and ~ t count ries of inventing fl in saucers to fan war hysteria. Moscow radio broadcast ex cerp ts from an aritcle by K. Khachaturov In the So\'let army newspape1· Red Star, say ing: "Those who spread these fa bl~s are endeavoring to create the impressio n t hat the myste .r ious object originate from Mos cow. "The mythical 'saucers ' take off from the pages of the bour geois press every time the t'ul ing circles of this or that ca~ talist country, on orders fro 1/ashingto n, are trying to fois pon their , people the new hur- f., n of miliUu·y ~p,nditm•e.' ' 1 (,,- ,' 1 r- (L /J. rro=;:-o~~0~01!0 46 JAN S 1954 THE MIAMI HmALD MIAMI, FLOOIDA DECEMBER 28, 1953
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Source text · mention only--- JJ l Iii,,..~ ....., --- • mtf •-- ~......,.._I_.· f ) I BOWLING GREEN O.•• A PRIVATE PLANE PILOT SAID TODAY HE SAW "ANOBJECT BRIGHTER fHAN THE SUN FOR ABOUT FIVE S[CONDs . n WHILE CRUISING AT ABOUT 80 MI LES PER HOUR TWO MIU:S WEST Of H£RE • • THE PILOT. WHO ASKED THAT HIS IDENTITY NOT BE REVEALED. SAID HIS PLANE WAS AT ABOUT 2 . 000 FEET THIS MORNING WHEN Ht SAW THE UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT."lT LOOKED LIKE A BALL OF FIRE•" HE SAID. "IT WAS BRILLIANT WHITE• LIKE f-10LTEN ST£Elf THEN IT TURNED BLUE AND TOOK OFF STRAIGHT WEST• IT TOOK Off WITHIN r VE SECONDS . •THE PILOT SAID THE OBJ£CT WAS TRAVELLING FASTER THAN ANY JET PLANE AND WAS COING SOUTH WHEN HE FIR!;T SAW IT. J-IE SAI D T.H£ Sl<Y WAS CLEAR AI\JD THERE WERE NO OTHER Pl.ANES IN SIGHT AT THE TI 1£. t HE SAID HE DION ' T THINK IT COULD KAVE BEEN ANY REFLECTION. Ht ,.,.. • ID IT APPEARED ABOUT A FOOT IN DIA 1ETER AND WA$ ABOUT THE SAME t~ ~~ ALTlTUD[ AT WHICH HE WAS FLYING . ' P 12/11 ••TS1,1P 1( - . ff NO'!' P""r• )?-.DED 191 DEG 16 1953
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Source text · mention only-- / 1954n I GANADA PIJNS FLYING SAUCER 0 8 SERVATORY Not Optical Illusions, Top Experts Hold OTTAWA, Nov. 12 lCTPSl Establlshment of a~nadian government observatory for fly. Ing sauc ers, the first In the world, has been announced here . "There is a very high deg-ree of probability that flying saucers are real objects, and a 60 per cent probability that they are alien vehicles," Wilbert B. Smith. scientist appointed to supervise the new saucer sighting station, told reporters. He said the federal transport departmen t, in which he has charge of the telecommunic ations 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 t here is always some factor that precludes this explanation. We have decided ·to try to learn just what they are." Canada's sighting station will be at Shirley bay, OD the Ottawa river 10 miles west of here. Smith said any one Iocaion in Canada is sure to have at least one saucer sightin g a year. Associated with Smith In the project, "which is under the transport department and the defense research board, will be a theoretical physicist and a specialist in gravitational studies. A 24-hour watch will be kept for saucers . Specially built equip ment Is wired to alarro bells. The equipment includes an iono spheric reactor , electronic de vices for measurement of sounds, a gamma ray detector, a gravi meter, and other p araphernalia, Jet planes may be sent up from the air f orce field near O ttawa to Investiga te any saucers re ported by the station. Defense resea.rcb scientista here never have pooh-poohed flv ing saucers, which have been pub licly reported in nightm arish shapes and f orms over .Canadian cities. some of them have been described as mult icolored cigar , figurations. Frequency of t he saucer sight ings h&.6 been noted here to rise With the increase in prox1mity of the planet Mars to the ear th. Smith said he does l'ioC ,aie'UUt the possV>l*ty that the saucers ~r.Y'e\,u e om o !I • 0-19 Times Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Times N. Y. Compass Dat e : 11JJ/.. .r -
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Source text · mention onlyMr. Rosen --- Mr. Tracy , Mr. Gearty--- / Mr. Mohr-- ---,---. , / Mr. Winterrowd -1 t - Tele. Room- Mr. -Holloman-· - M~ ~:~itlri ( SAUCERS )THE AIR FORCE STILL I NSISTS THAT ttfLYI NG SAUCERS" ARE WEATHER FREAKt DESPITE ,C.. RE:TIPED W-ARHJE OFFTIER ' S ATTEMPT T0 PROVE THEY ARE SPACE SHIPS FROM ANnTHEP. PLANET .l\ ll A SPOKESMAN SA!~ THERE jAS N° CHANGE IN AI R FORCE ' S OFFI CIAL VIFW. \ I ALT!-1'.)UGF D0NA L D E. KEYH0E, I N A B'.)OK "FLYI NG SAUCEPS FR0~11 nLJTER SPACE ," ' CLAI\1ED THE AIR FORCE. HAS SECRET i'IJ')VI ES PROV I NG THE OFT - SEEN GL'"'WING OBJECTS ARE I NTER?LA NETARY CRAFT. BOTH THE AIR FORCE AND THE WEATYER BUREAU, AFTER EXHAUSTIVE STUDIESs AGREED MANY ~ONTHS AGO THAT THE FIERY~ FAST - ~OVI NG OBJECTS SEEN BY OBSERVERS FROM C0AST TC COAST ~E~E LI GHT EFFECTS CAUSED BY !E~P~qATURE " Irv ER s I I) N. " ~EYHOE, HO~EVER. CLAI~ED HE SUPPORTS HIS I NTERPLANETARY SHIP T~E'"'RY WITH OFFICIAL ~IR FORCE D0CU~ENTS. A PRESS RELEASE PREPARED 8Y PIS PUBLISHER "REVEALED" WHAT IT SAI D WAS A BITTER STRUGGLE I N HI Gu Aiq FORCE CIRCLES OVER WHETHER T0 ~AKE THE ALL EGED 0 I CTURES PUBLI C. KEYH0£ SCHEDULFD A COCKTAIL PARTY ~T 4:0n P.M . FOR THE 0 RESS T0 PLl G HIS BOOK . 9/29-- ·CE1024J\ () '~ l ~ jjjCJ'-/-lt- ~ IJJrvj ' NOT RE CORDED 7v 0 199 OCT 8 1953 • WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
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Source text · mention only0-19 • G\D ~;~s~on ~ ich Bel nt ,_- Clegg ____ Glavin ___ Harbo ____ Rosen ___ Tracy ____ Laughlin _ _ Mohr _ ___ \t'interrowd __ "= I Tele. Rm. __ Plastic 'lUoJty Dicks' Flying Since 1950 Holloman _ _ Gandy ____ Whale-Lilce Air Force Balloons Rise 20 1'1iles, So~v~·~~.:~~g s~:~::,~.~~~!~: ~~:d~ho~,~~~-,~~~u,rnnli 1Y,-~ The magazine Aviation Week racing at tremendous velocities, travel in opposite directions at published a new report yester- whereas they actually are mov• different altitude layer s. •rhe day on \\That the Air Force has ing at 60 miles an hour or less. prevailing wind moves f~·om . One evenmg after sunset West to East across the U111ted found out about the upper at- many units of the Strategic States at about 50 000 feet. n:osphere with its "l\loby Dick" Air Command_ in Texas were About 10.000 feet higher. how• ballons-whale-like bags which kept busy try111g to catch and ever, the flow is sometimes re have often been mistaken for shoot down a flying object that vers ed. flying saucers. was actually a Moby Dick drift- Balloons have also carried Since the big helium-filled ing along at about 90,000 feet various kinds or animal Ji[e 'balloons made their appear- in a glow of dust-refracted sun- ranging from fruit flies to mic ance three years ago, the maga- tight. and monkeys, up to 80,000 feet zine said more than 90 percent B-36 bomber crews, accus- The experimental animals hav (of the '·saucer" sightings have tomed to flying high altitudes, survived such altitudes for 2 coincided with their Jogged as- gave up the _chase when they hours and have been recovered cents and charted , courses . were left belund at 45,000 feet, to provide living d:;ila for scien- The shiny surface of the plas- and jet fighters_ stalled tryin_g tific research . tic balloons is an excellent re- to pur~ue th~ 0bJect above their Th~ oby Dic~ lloons are fleclor of light. Long after the altitude ce1l111g. . . te leased almost daily at Tilla sun has set and darkness has Another mystenous obJect, mook, Ore.; Vernalis Calif.. an covered the earth, they shine llater identified positively as a Edwards Air Force Base in Cali brillantly with the light re- research balloon, fl'oated over fornia. Two more Bites will b fleeted from the sun at alti- San Francisco last sp1•it1g during used to take advantage of lat tudes of from 90,000 to 100,- a parade welcoming Gen. James summer winds-the Moody Air 000 feet, almost 20 miles up in A. Van Fleet home from Korea. Force base near Valdosta , Ga., the skY., It shone as a brilliant white and Sedalia, Mo. Vapor· dust or other foreign sphere as jet fighters vai11ly The big bags are made so that particles in the atmosphere tried to reach it. On another they destroy themselves auto make the light appear white, day, Dayton , Ohio. was filled matically when they descend to redr purple , 01· green . Because !with "saucer" reports as anoth• 33,00,0 fee(. Recording nrachines of the difficulty of judging er balloon floated over the city. and uu;truments a1·e parachuted speed at high altitude s, the bal- The balloon flights have coll-; to earth . .....~--· ~· ------- --- ~-~ --- ~ Wash. PostINDEXED - 81 J?~_j\ ~ ~ q u fl Wash. NewsNOT I'7'""0R DEO' 191 Str 11 1953 :, Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune _ _-.....::::::, N.Y. Mirror Date: Al IC 2 31353
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Source text · mention only0-19 ,f' Pilot" Sights Small Flying Oise Chasing F-84 Over Japan By the Associated Preu UNITED STATES AIR BASE, Northern Japan. Jan . 28.-The United States Air Force last night reported a small , metallic, disc shaped object made a con trolled, sweeping pass at an American jet fighter -bomber and was ob served at very close range by another pilot. The report, from Air Force intelli gence files, said the sight ing w as mad e over Northern Japan at 11 :20 a.m., March 29. 1952, by Lt. David C. Brigh am of Rockford, DJ. It was a bright, cloudless day . Lt. Br igham said he got a very goi look at the object from ab t 30 to 50 feet for about 10 sec nds. T e pilot described it as ;i-~ 79 FEB 3-195l "about eight inches in diamet er, very thin , round , and as shiny as polished chromium ; had no ap pannt projections and left no exhaust trails or vapor trails ." He said it caught up with an F-84 Thunder jet, hovered a few moment s and then shot out of sigh t. The F-84 pilot , whose name was not reveale d, did not see it. 1t was the second disclosure in a w eek by Air Forc e intelli gence of mysterious flying ob jects over North ern J apan near the Russian -Siberia area. On January 21, the Air F~ ce disclosed that "rota ting clus rs of red, white and green lig s" had been sighted over North rn Japan by American airmen: Tolson _ _ _ Ladd _ ___ Nichols _ _ _ Belmont ___ Clegg ___ _ Glav in _ _ _ Harbo ___ _ Rosen _ _ _ Tracy ____ Laughl in __ Mohr ____ Winterrow d _ _ Tele. Rm, __ Holloman __ Gandy _ ___ \ l?c -L •~ --- • 'C'Ol"<DTt;D -:r11 2 1953 Time s-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. S tar N.Y. Herald Tribune _ N.Y. Mirror Date : f-1
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Source text · mention only•• ----- ----- 0.20 I[:~~ , Nic :z g_,__ in___ Harbo _ _ _ Ros en _ _ Tracy _ _ Laughlin__ _ Mohr_ _ _ Tele. Rm._ Holloman _ _ Gandy __ SANTA FE N . M. -- THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICA N S AI D TODAY THAT "FANTASTIC"'ST RIDES HAVE BEEN MADE I N THE FIELD OF GUIDED MISS ILE RES EARCH AND THAT IT I S •P~ IBLE • THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MAY SOON CLEAR UP THE MYS TERY OF TH I Y i l.'JG 5811C~Rs_ THE NEWSPAPER SAjD "SOMO. RAPS MAY BE REMOVED FROM SOME ASPECTS OF THE HUSH- HUSH PROGRAM" AT A SPECIAL DEMONSTRA TI ON TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED AT THE WH lTE S ANDS PROVI NG GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER THI S SPRI NG. nI T IS POSSI BLE THAT THE DIS CLOS URE SOON TO BE MADE BY THE DEPART- MENT OF DEFENSE MAYT IN PART AT LEAST, EXPLAI N SOME OF THE ' THI NGS ' SIGHTED IN SOUTHWES ERN SKIES BY BEWILDERED OBSERVERS WHO HAVE TERMED THEM ' FLYI NG SAUCERS ' FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME, " THE PAPER SAID.( HOWEVER COL. M. G. HENDRICKS~. COMMANDANT OF THE PROVI NG G ROUNDS, SAI D TODAY THAT RESEARCH THERE " HAS NOTHI NG TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE THE SO-CALLED FLYI NG SAUCER. WE ARE STRI CTLY I N THE GUIDED MISS ILE BUS I NESS • THERE CER TA I NLY WON ' T BE ANYT HI NG LI KE A FLYI NG SAUCER DEMONS TRATED." ) 1/8'- - Nl 1 34P --- I WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
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Source text · mention only• 0-19 J~ /. Tolson j./ f" Ladd ~ Nicho ~ ,,, .. ·-FIVE-STATE WHATZIT Well, It Sure Was Some Ball of Fire It has been pretty well established today that the "mass of flaming, incandescent matel'ial" which flashed across the sky over Washington and five eastern -states last night was a meteor, a flying saucel' "as big as a washt ub," or a mass of flaming, in candescent materia l. ~!---- --------- - The Naval Observatory, the Weather Bureau and observers at National Airport lean toward the meteor theory. Scores of Wash ingtonians, who saw it, leaned in all directions . Police remained stolidJy upright, and the FBI had no comment. HOW IT LOOKED But citizens here, in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsyl vania and Ohio couldn 't be silenced . They said: • "Suddenly this thing came swooping down from the eastern skies. It looked like it was right .above the housetops. It was a ball o! bright greenish fire with a long tail." (This was a housewife). • "I thought it was a flying saucer. I thought it \vas a fla re a t first-that is, I thought it was a flare until the darned thing swooped down- and then up again . It seeme d to follow the contours of the road.'' (Army veteran). • "It looked at first look like a P,lane on fire, it was that big. It was sun-colored with a tail." (Sub urbanite.) • Shaped like a sta1· "about as big as the inside of a tennis raclcet." {12-year-oJd boy.) SHOCICING Four Frederick farmers saw "a ball shooting across the horizon." Near Washington, three United Press corr espondents said it was like this: • "A rocket with a fiery tall ... It shocked us, it lool<ed so close." (Frank Eleazer.) • "A big magnesium f lare . . . It gave off sparks." (Robe1·t Loftus.) • It plunged out ot the sky "very fast," like a plane shot down in the war. It was trailing a tail of flame." - (John A. Goldsm ith.) George Lincoln, of 756 S. Green brier -st, Arlington , saw someth ing "about as big as a washtub. I was sure it was going to crash, some place," he said. A Maryland state trooper, sitting out his lonely vigil atop Negro Mountain in far Western Maryland, said "it" passed over him, too. I-=N<YI ' ' f SEP 19 1952 Belmo~ ~ Clegg ~~ t Glavin _ _ _ Harbo ____ Rosen ___ _ Tracy ___ _ Lau ghli n __ Mohr ____ Winterrowd __ Tele . Rm. _ _ Holloman __~ ' Gandy """- {)I 1.V . ~ Times-Herald -Wash. Post Wash. News -Wash. Star N.Y.. 1:Ierald Tri bune _ _ N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass I Date :
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Source text · mention only• • i "~-::;:sr- ~igh-Flying Bomber Caused New Disc Tale Special to The Inquirer quent. to keep interceptor teams onREADING. Pa. , Aug. 28.- Air Na- the alert. tional Guard officers and control The aerial display on Monday waa tower operat ors of t he C ~1 witnessed by hundreds of Guards. Aeronautics Admlnist;\l,tion today men of . th.e 112~h Fighte~ Wing, "cleared up" the lates~ ying saucer J:'.0 nnsylvama -Maryland Air Na-. . t1onal Guard, as well as officers who mystery, as evolved m the skies over watched the maneu vers throUgh rks county last Monday. binoculars. 'Ihe saucers, seen by a l arge num- Ai: N~tional .Guard officers ~ ~i r of persons at that time, a the 1epo1t sub1:rntted by Han-y Fem . auer, 43, of Birdsboro, who said h±okesman said, were vapor trails thought he saw a plane release of a B -36 inter-continental bomber flying s aucer In the air Monda and a jet plane . which CAA tower- mornin g, probably had to do with men said were flying at an a ltitw;le the jet which he saw div;; ~n the of 40.000 to 45.000 feet. bomber. The j~t l eft a bigzag •trail as it N or .did the Guard's e,·planat!on . . . . . d ovetail very. clooely with th~ acd1 ved m on the. big bombei m a count given by Herbert Long, 29, mock mterception attack. The Kutztown insurance salesman, Wi>') spokesman said such air shows were bold of seeing a flying saucer 30 feet frequent when atmospheric condi- in front of his automobile Mopd tions were right for the hot exhausts night. off tbe All11ntowt1 pike ne 1· from engines to freeze at high alti- Maxatawny. Long said he saw t e tude. object so clearly that he Was ab p The big• bombers, t he spokesman to make a. deta iled drawing ot • ; ·plained, often fly far out over the ~ . e)I are observed on radar s creens nd jets are sent; up to intercept ean, and when they approach th[astline on their return journeys ~- su, h t.s~. he '""'' •"' ,,.. 1:; &if-j/" / ___ __ _ NOT RaA6RO£D 101 ;SEP lZ 1~52 Mr. Tillson __ Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols _ _ Mr. BE>lmon t __ Mr. Clegg _ _ Mr. Glavin___ Mr. Ha.t·bo_ _ _ !\fr. Rost>n____ Mr. Tracy ___ _ Mr. Laughl in_ Mr. Mohr___ Mr. Winterrowd. Tele. Roo1IL- Mr. Hollomall. Miss Gandy __ _ I .. J ·- .... SECT11N J...........................ft .. ft...... ..... _,_; 'SECTION 2......................................................H SECTION 3................ ·········••••••••••• ..........,...... .:SECTION 4...................... SUPERVISOR... .............................................". BUREAU,...............................................,........-
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Source text · mention only• • ----- THIS fSIT A sketch of t he flying saucer which Her. bert Long, 29, a K utztown, Pa., insur. ance salesman, contends he saw parked on a road 30 feet from his car. He said he was too frightened to approach it, He's sh<1Wn (left, below) giving L~roy Gensler, artist, direction s for the ·ketch. (AP Wirephotos ) l
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Source text · mention only• ,r • T ·I ·•!1 '"'·· . T , 1,1 :'Ti· . .. r:, h•i'~ . · j\) 1·. J: I•.1 r l . • . ('1 ~ '" ~· ;.T •. ( • . II i·· JI'.l ;11 :.i . I •I I F LY[N G SAUCJ~R M A )~E?-The unknown object c,ver the bwldin -g in the picture, photo graphed above An11c9rtes, m o,·cs swiftl y through the d,y , seeming ly • p ort of e cloud formation. Rut is i t ? Walter Elli ott of Anacortes was preparing to t ake a picture of• the buildin g w hen .he noticed the unusual a ■ ucer• like objt ct in his ,.iew find er, so h e , napped the pic ture at l / J00th of • 1econd . E lliott w u unab le to determin e the n ature of the unusual object ..,hich quickly disappeared, ~CA..ot lat, d p,.., Wlr,pholo, )
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Source text · mention only_ 0.20 • Mr: I~~o~~/ 4- , NiaWii} ~ / ' . B~ ~ / Mr. Cle git':_ 1,- Mr. Glavin _ _ Mr. Harbo___ Mr. Rosen,____ Mr. TracJ_. ,-- Mr. Laugb.J.in__ Mr. Mohr___ Mr. Winte r rowd_ Tele . Room____ Mr. Holloman__ Miss Gandy:__ t AUCERS ) [SAN FRANCISCO--A FORMER AIR FORCE B29 TEST MECHANIC AND SCI ENTI FIC CTURER SA I D TODAY HE SAW TWO SILVER GREY OBJECTS FLYING ERRATI CALLY OVER SAN FRANCISCO AI RPORT "AT TERRIFI C SPEEDS. " ROBERT G. GARNER 38 SAN FRANCISCO SAID HE AND HIS WIFE BOTH OBSERVED THE OBJECT~ A T' 5: 30 P.M. YESTERDAY AND HE WAS CONVINCED THEYWERE "NOT OF THE EARTH." GARDNER WHO SAID HE WAS WI TH THE AIR FORCE IN THE PACIFIC DURING WOR l D WAR II 1 SA I D THE OBJECTS LOOKED LI KE "CROSS SECTI ONS OFA CONE CLI PPED OFF AT BOTH ENDS." "THEY WERE SILVER GREY IN COLOR AND APPEARED TO HAVE A DIAMETER OF BOUT 150 TO 200 FEET EACH" HE SAID. "80TH OF THEM FLEW AT A~ ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 12t000 FEET," GARNER AID• "AND I 'D ES TI MATE THEY WERE GOING AT LEA-5 180 0 MI LES AN iOUR." [8/25--TS 11 47A \ 1 - ., ( ~ 1i ~OT FllECORDED 146 SEP 15 1fl52 -IJ r Ir~ 51 SEP171952' WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE ----
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Source text · mention only• • fiffl~··~ - , ~ Im ~ Clegg _ o/(lll Glavin __ Harbo _ _ Rosen _ _ Tracy ___ Laughl in__ _ Mohr___ Tele. Rm._ Holloman _ Gandy ___ ' (SAUCERS) ~ - IPHYSICIST NOEL W SCOTT SAID TODAY THAT THOSE FLYING •THINGS•OPLE HAVE BEEN s EING MAY BE •ANODE GLOWS• CAUSED BY IONIZATION or T IN AIR IN THE UPPER ATMQ;PHERE. 0 ~ ONE REASON SCOTT FEELS THAT WAY IS THAT HE HAS PRODUCED ._•FLYING SAUCERS• IN HIS LABORATORY AT FORT BELVOIR VA. WHICH POSSESS ALL THE CHAlrACTERISTICS ATTRIBUTED TO THE RADA~-SPOfTED •OBJECTS• REPORTED HERE IN RECENT WEEKS. SCOTT WAS . NOT TALKING ABOUT THE BRIGHT METEOR WHICH FLASHED ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN SKIES HERE SUNDAY NIGHT1 BUT ABOUT WHATEVER IT IS THAT HAS BEEN PRODUCING •BLIPS• ON AIR FuRCE RADAR SCREENS. FIVE SUCH •UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS• WERE SPOTTED BY RADAR AT NEARBY ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE IN MARYLAND SHORTLY BEFORE LAST MIDNIGHT. AS A RESULT OF HIS CREATIONS IN THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT l BORATORIES AT FORT BELVOIR~ SCOTT .SAID, •I AM CONVINCED THAT THESE ,LYING THINGS' ARE NATURAL YHENOMENA.• ~ scon 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 ELECT8ICITY SCOTT AT WILL PRODUCED BALLOON-LIKE BLOBS OF LIGHT WHICH HE COULD MOVE AROUND AT ANY DESIRED SPEED. ALL, HE SAID, COULD HAVE BEEN •DETECTED~ BY RAD4R. IN A DEMONSTRATION YESTERDAY FOT LT. GEN. LEWIS A. PICK CHIEF OF ARMY ENGINEERSL AND OTHERS~ SCOTT SAID HE MADE THE LIGHTS ~TAND STILLREVERSE THEMS E VES, OR WINK OUT• ' BY ALTERING THE AIR PRESSURE HE CHANGED THE COLOR FROM A NEON-LIKE ORANGE TO WHITE OR BLUE OR WHITE WITH A GREEN HALO. HE COULD MAKE THEBLOBS APPEAR TO LEAVE AN INCANDESCENT TRAIL LIKE A JET DISCHARGE SCOTT EXPLAINED THAT AN •ANODE GLOW• FORMS ON AN IONIZED • f ECTRIFIE.D) LAYER OR VOLUME OF GAS WHICH IS POSITIVE IN RESPECT TO ISURROUNDING ATMOSPHERE. SUCH GLOWS COULD OCCUR ANYWHERE FROM SO 200 MILES UPi HE SAID, DEPENDING ON CONDITIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC ESSURE AND IONIZATION. 8/6--TS 1259P INDfXED-J.ll \&'o< ~ 3 2.f:... / EX ~ ' r ili":Oc)IJ ~ 73 98 AUG 11 19o2 6 5 AUG 141952 WASHINGTON CITY: NEWS-sat-¥Ien--,-
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Source text · mention only)J I • • £\ Ll:~s~ K.--iZ ~ ~,'M~- I cfegg_ _ _ Glavin _ ~ Harbo ___ Rosen __ Tracy __ Lau ghli n.___ Mr_ _ _ Tl. Rm._ C-~~~L...:...!.-.n.~CJ..,.::1.~~_µ1~l.l.J T~ S~O~M~E~T~.~I~N~-:-'.,~=.......~.l.l..Cl..o..u.._,.U.J;:................_.-.....::......., ' UNITED PRESS REPORTER WAS ALL OWED TO SEE THE NEGA TIVE WHICH WAS FLOWN LATER TODAY TO DAYTON, O. , WHERE I T WILL BE EXAMINED BY AIR FORCE I NVES TI GA TORS .THE NEGATIVE SHOWS NO SIGN OF RETOUCHING, EVEN UNDER AN ENLARGER S/ 1-- GE 1137A / WHI CH PRESUMABLY WOULD SHOW UP NY FAl<I NG . - A COAST GUARD um.ouG H AN OPEN WI NDO PHOTOGRAPHER . HE SAID A l WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
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Source text · mention only.. Tolson ___ Ladd.___• Nichol_s___ Belmont ___ Clegg _ _ _ ~ _ --==- ...-~- Glavin ____::;;;,::;,:,;;~- ust Nature Ei-lin ~ - ~ ~:t.Rm - Cutt, ng Up, ~Fhpn~; ·:: Says Air Force J loL'SauCeis'\ THE LATEST NEWS: Wash ington, J uly 29- Air Force ex~ p~ts said today that they are convinc ed " natu ral causes!" a c ount for the " flying saucers" which have been dottin .l al skies for more than a week a nd h ave been appearin i term ittently throtighout the countr y for mor e tha n flv years . , • • Maj. Gen. John A. Sa mford , director of Ai.r Force intelli gence, offe r ed the further assuranc e tha t a s ix-year study shows '·no pattern vague ly resembli ng a ny t hreat to the Uni ted \ 0~ ~.. :if.o2c- (-J - tate s." • •Refer ring to the fact tha t r adar screens a re pickin g up what ~· 9t. AUG 18 1952 ppear to·be natural phenom ena, Gen. S amford said : " I think radar is beginning to tell us a g rea t. many thiugs it was \ not built to discover- for iustance. about Northern Lights alll atmospheric conditi ons aft.er a b eat wave." -- Despite the reassuranc e, wh ich was delivered i n an at mosphere o confu sion, public concern o ver the m ystery of the s kies rP.ached a all-t ime higll.Twelve more un ident ifiable dots on a Civil Aet·ona utics Administra- tion radar scope here early today th rew the c ity into a d ither. (.lel'seY City reporte _d track- Ing flying disks a nd one observer they saw noth ini,;. Air Force radaJ )ffered a photo ~f an oddl y- equipm ent at a field near the CA ha11cd clmnk of hght to f)l"O\'e\it.) insta lla tion ~lso spotted nothing. Wash. Pose The Air F orce flew the experts I For t hat r~ason. the Air Defens from Wright-P aterson F ield. Day- planes remained grou nd~d . giving \ ton o. to quell tlle gather ing nse to rnmors that lhe Pentagon Wash. News ala;·m. ' but meanwhile, USAF somehow was surre_ndering to the planes were equipped with spee;ial "s~ucers." The !:u- Force too k astron omica l cameras,_ with which parns. to d eny U11~. !lnd promised Wash. Star is hop ed pursuing pilots may be p ursuit the . tnn e a flying11ext ble to take pict ures of the phe- m ~·stery is sighted with the nake ~ omena. eye. N.Y. Mirror \ Air Defense Command planes r e- Meanw h ile. other respons ibl 1 ained on 24-hour alert to chase Pentagon officials reiterated de r\.b. 3...,,-/6! - the ''interlopers" and, il possible. nial s t hat the stra nge aeria l light N.Y. Compass -u-,r- "shoot them down." - or whatever they are- repres<'nt Today's rash of "saucers " ap-\some _new ph_ase or U. S . military red on t.lle CAA screen f.rom expenmcntation . They expressed -1130 a.m. to 6 a .m. Airllne pilots firm conviction. too. tll,1t the \\·e1·e nskcd to s~nn the skies l_hin~ s 11re no threat to the na-01 suzns of the thmgs re, - •tpn j,j n's ,-ecu1 tl, . Date:t~ 1 ~=-~------- ·~~-=-·"""=
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Source text · mention only• ~ B E H I N D _ T ·H E · N E W S .- ., By RICHARD Ci\RTER Th e swift-movin g celestia l lumi- sky-watc h ers ciaimed to havl nosiUes which the Americ an pub- seen two flying c igar-shaped ob has come to call "flyin g saucers" jccts. ·e phenomen a with a record ed Cigar -sha ped objects havt: be l · story datin g back at least 200 spotte d skywar d b y i nnumerab ars a nd perhaps several thou - particip ants in America's postwa 1; nd. sa ucery. I i The 'Biblica l Ezekiel 's airborn e Fly ing ligh ts which d iffer in all wheels, for exampl e, h ad some of appa ren t respects from shoo t.ing the ·earmarks of w lrn.t moder n sta rs. meteo rs. and the like, have America n science fiction readers, 'been see n b y mul titudes o f sa ilors televie wers and "cold worri ers" are o ver th e cent uries. and their a e on the V'erge of regardin g as in ter- .counts of the phen omena diffe l planetary s couts or missiles from h ard ly at all .fro m those contr ib Moscow. • uted by recent viewers . Dr. Don ald H . Men zel, profes- S ome J>eople see wh ite ligh ts sor of a stroph ysics at Harvard moving in formati on: others .,ee Univers ity, made t his point in kelly g ree n £ire balls ; o thers see i n i11tel'View last mon th w ith oran ge fire balls ; others '!;ee fl y- ime magazin e. He produced fog disks ; others ,;ee the cigar - ocumentary evidence that there sha ped mysterie_s_. Some of tlie •as a saucer scare in Chicago obj ects s eem to hove r, "irtua lly n A.1~ i! JO_ 1'!97, wl1en m an.f"r~ nlinu ed on Pa§<. l.i l nHJ ionfess. before dartin g in to a cloud a nd disappearin g forever[ others move at w hat seems t · an ra te of speed 1 e i mpa.;sible eversing direction in~ta~t an~ usly. swooping a nd clnubmg 1 manner which no man-made HLchin e or human pilot. couhl survive. Since one or the found ations of modern science is t o b elieve noti i ing that canno t be proved. mo t eor ies abo ut t he skitteri R hatizz its have to be rej ecLe . a ny t heories which have gain d 1de currency are based on fac s 1ich are "probabl y t rue." But no scientist bases conclusion s rm things which only are prob able. The closest anyone has ~ome no t only to expla ining the phe nomena. but duplicati ng th em. is ! ·of. Menzel. He believes tf auc e1.·s are fancy mirages - actu, 1 1a.1es of lights . but displac ,rou!'.\h m iles of -space by refra - on . He explains that light mov slower t hrou g-h a dense mediu m • like cold air than in war m air. Wh en it passes from a layer of dense cold air into a layer of less dense warm air at an appropr iflte ande. it is bent. and mav be :::e~n 11flies ain\Y , as if di1;'lluwoC1ied. m oving a~fantast,ic speeds. or .iu:;t overing , d ependin g on condi tio:11 Hea dlights. aerial searchligh t . en street lights in a city can 1 fracted by the atmosphere an b come " flying_saucer s" ou t in th untry mil es away, he says . To prove it. he has produced startling ly simil ar phenom ena in h is own laboratory. qne of the reaso ns t he Air For ce h as felt impelled to take part t ·n i he puoli c debate on the sub.it) t, fter having s a t i s f i e d Its lf rough r esea rch that the sauc ·s e something akin to what Men I [ escribes. is that rad ar scopes m ashingt on have b een d escr iber! as spott ing the saucers at the ;ame time p ilots and ground observers : :~·.e see ing them with the nal'"d l Until further returns are ; the only ex1>lanation availah ' is one known to ·anyone w ho h. e1· had a nythin g to dq wit 1 du-yo u see all kin ds of im cou ntab le t hin g'., on i t. It wa nsider·ed noteworthy that "I ~01·ce radar in the sa me t'egio faile d to pick up the lmpul s , which the CAA now has add e to flving sa,ucl\r lor e.
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Source text · mention only• • -- 0-19 Tolson___ Ladd ___-:-- In 0 s tJ 1,1 _) 'Saucer' Mystei 1 .. Is Solved.;·Device Studies Weather One of t he Washington area's l •flying saucers has been track4: down finally . · , Last week a Martinsburg ( . Va.) woman found a mysterious five-foot sqmu·e piece of aluminum covered material on her farm. She wanted to know what it was but nobody seemed to be able to tell and there was the usual speculation about flying saucers. Andrews Air Force Base cleared ui the mystery today. A spokesm n said the object was used by th Air Weather Service. It is at ached to a balloon and sent in o the sky. l It is then tracked by radar and the direction and speed of the wind calculated. The device is in constant use, the air base said. Nichot~ , Belmont Clegg t' Glavin ___ Harbo ___ Rosen ___ Tracy____ Laugbli.u.n__ Mohr____ Tele. Rm.__ Holloman__ Gandy_· ---, I if ,,_2_-_t_ _:_y - ft NOT H V'.< ' • 1 • : r I I<\ t • 98 AUG 11 1952 Times-Herald __ Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror - N.Y. Compass - -
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Source text · mention only0-19 d"~-=--✓ G1:!fn____ Harbo ___ Rosen ___ _ Tracy____ Laughli n__ Mohr _ ___ Tele. Rm.___ Holloman ~~ 1.ey're in tbe Sky Again R,adar Spots More Mystery Objects Here, Fliers Report ~igl1ti1~g Glo,ving Lights _\Y,<1shingt_on ...:::c:te ct anol!!._e..:J_away. The iloL said he wasn·t I lighted end of a cigaret.· or a v1s1t l~ t..E.!11~ from t1ie uui~ ble to close qn__th9.!ll. and the cluster of oran ge and red lights. ti~er ial o bjects ~n:i lar lo 1~ 'reall~ 1n.,ovin?." He lost Radar operators plotte d t heir t~ ~..9rtcd here_last Mond~Y· isight of them two mrnu tes later. speed al from 38 to 90 miles per At least a dozen o f t he mys- The s ame pilot observed a hour. They were not a ble to de- terious objects were reported to steady while light 10 mile s east termine their altitude. Some 49 P- 111have b22n seen glowing i n lh~ of M ?unt Vernon _at ll: • pilot s report ed fl ying over t hem sky withi n a 30-mile radius of The _light, abo~t five miles ahead and some under them . . of lum, faded m a mmute. . st ., • • • the city. 'tlWJ~ ~ !l.Jl1cked The inter ceptor s did not s ight Befote l~ we~k s i epor.L Q.[ t!JLQ.!L 1J1e radar sc~e~n o f t he any more light s afte r that. Al- ,1e . myst~nou s ,,hghts, so-~alleg CAA Air ""Rot~ _Traffic.J:;_ontrol Ithou gh the radar screen still rs ar~ believed_. ceqte..i.:.. at WashJngtQ!l. Naticinal picked up the object s. One l\e~ to.l1lJ.Ye_ ~ n_p1cked t!_p on ~ i,!11...QLt.... --- 1plane land ed shortly before mid- radar ...S c re_e.JL§: • T_he O ?Ject s - At. 11:25 p. m., two F-94 jet \' night , and the ot11er about 12:15 show. !! on the NationaT /\Jr p~rr fighters were sent up by the a. m. !;aa_ar,,,lfo wever, caused defimte Air D efense command to inves- It was the second time these bhn..s on the screen, w lucii tigatc the lights. Tlli ~ilots re- , objects have been picked up by eans contacf with solid ooj~cts, ported see ing th<L...:.!JU~ radar. Last night's visitors rath er than hghts 01· r: '\ect1ons. wei·e 11ot able to get any""2!oser• showed up first on the s creen A CAA spokesman ' d the ob toUiefo - tfiari aoout7mi1e S:- -ta t 9:08 p. m. and rema»ied for jects picked up last night gave --,,;e Set pTio'ts descrioecrt he s ome time. fr off blips s imilar to those of reg- lights as hatd to see and track 1 Airlin e, pri vate and militar y ular aircraft .down. 1pilot s a ll report ed seeing them . '.Cbe ,t.ir Force has been i nvcs- Ai 11:33 p. m., one jet pilot , Some _pilots said they came with- tig_ating'last wecl<'s obje cts. It observed four lights in the vicin-1i_n t wo or three miles or the ob- ~aid rgports of flying '\itY of Andrew s Air Force base. Jecls. this, saucers -~t - mont11 have been (he 11· 'l'lle lights were a bout 500 feet 'rhey were variously described es.t..sl11.ce 1947, when they above him and about 10 miles as looki ng like blue lights, the were seen. - ~ . Times-Herald ~ Wash. Post ..J.M._ Wash. News - Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror - N .Y . Compass - - -
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Source text · mention only(SAUCERS) MLAML FLA.-CUNITED PRESSLVCNS --TVO VETERAN PAN AMERICAN AIRVAYS 1,OOO-VILE-AN-HOUR CLIP NEAR NORFOLK. ASNGH NASH SAID HE AND W.HON BERRY SAW SIX OF THE STRANGE ESTIVATED TO BE 1OO LET IN DIAMETER AND GLOVING ORANGE-RED LIEE HOT COALS FLY IN FORMATION SOME 6OOO FLET BENEATH THEIR DC-4 THE SIX #THINGS TURNED UESTVARD SHARPLY WHEN THE PAA PLANE PRSSED OVERHEAD AND WERE JOINED BY TVO OTHER SIMILAR FLYING DISCS NASH SAID THE EICHT SAUCERS ZOOMED UPUARD TO AN ESTIMATED 1O,OOO FLET ALTITUDE BITORE THE GLOWING LIGHT EMANATING FRON THE "PULSATED OFT AND THEY DISAPPEARED INTO THE SKY,NASH SAID NASH3SESTIMATED THAT HE AND FORTENBFRRY 3O,#UATCHED.THE UHOLE MANEUVER TOR BETUEEN 1O AND 12 SECONDS BOTH FORTENBERRY AND I HAVE READ OTHER REPORTS ON SO-CALLED FLYING SAUCERS AND HAVE RESPECT FOR THE JUDGMENT OF SOME OFTHE ASTRONOMERS AND OBSERVERS WHO HAVE REPORTED THEM. NASH SAID. EPERIENCE LAST NIGHT IS IN LINE UITH THOSE REPORTS. NASH A FIRST OFFICER FOR PAA AND A FLYING EMPLOYE FOR 1O YEARS SAID HE AND FORTENBERRY UOULD JUDCE THAT THE EIGHT OBJECTS VERE DETINITELY INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED--UHETHER FROM VITHIN OR VITHOUT WE COULDNT SAY ALSOSAID NASH.UECAN BE REASONABLY POSITIVE THAT NONE OF US -AS UE KNOU PILOTS--COULD PHYSICALLY ENDURE THE CENTRITUGAL FORCE THAT WOULD BE INPOSED ON THE OCCUPANTS UHEN MAKING TURNS OF SUCH VIOLENCE AS THESE OBJECTS MADE NASH SAID THEIR DC-A CARRYING IO COMPANY PERSONNELUAS FLYING SOUTHWARD BETWEEN NEUPORT NEUS- SAUCERS APPEARED TO THE SOUTHME ECHELON FORMATI ON--A DIAGONAL STRAIGIT LINE--AB ABOUT 2,OOO FEET ALTITUDE. hlesi 7/15--V0952P
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Source text · mention only- -- 1 .. - ADD SAUCERS, MI AMI "WE FEEL .t BECAUSE OF THE t-TAY THE MISS I LES ACTED AND BECAUSEOF ALL THE OTHER Th.PORTS THAT HAVE BEEN HEARD, THAT THEY MUST BE FROM SOME FXTRA ... TERRESTRIAL SOURCE * NASH SAID. "IF EITJfER OF US HAD 1F.EN THE THINGS ALONE,. WE WOULD HAVE HESTITATED TO TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT," THE PILOT SAID. "BuT WE WATCHED THE WHOLE THI NG TOGETHER•" • NASH SAID THE OTHER PASSENGERS ON THE DC- 4 UERE WITTING WHERE THEY COULD NOT HAV£ S£EN THE EIGHT MISSILES• ~GIVING CONSIDERATION TO THE DIFFERENCE IN OUR ALTITUDE AND THEIRS.1.._WE JUDGED THAT THEY WERE APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET IN DIAMETH 1 \ AND ..:f 1 "¥~f~ ~~A~~g M{~ijlvr¾i~~A~E~A1~ ~: 1 ~ot10 aon1rs or LIGHT GLOWING ORANGE- RED LI~E RED HOT IRONS," NASH SAID. "BUT THEY HAb'DEFINITE OUTLINts.- NASH SAID WHEN THE ':TRANGE OBJECTS GOT ALMOST DIRECTLY BELOW THE PAA PLANE THEY MADE A SHARP 150-DEGREE· TURN TO THE WEST THEN BANKED ureARD AT AN ALMOST sb DEGREE TIJRN.t. AS THEY GAINED'ALTITUDE, THEY WERE JOINED BY TWO OTHER IDENTICAL "rHINGS . " THE LIGHTS OF ALL EIGHT FLICKERtD OFFclN SUCCESSION AT "PERHAPS 101 000 BUT THEY UERE GOING ~O FAST IT UAS DIFFICULT TO ESTIMATE," HE SAID. · ~ANT03 CEYANES ACTING OPERATION~ MANAGER FOR PAN AMERICAN HERE C,AlD THE FLYING sAuCF.:RS -::;E£N BY NASH AND FORTENpERRY "0 VIOUSLY ~E~F.' NOT FIGr1ENTS OF THFIR lrtAGINATI ON." - NASH A NAVY TRANSPORT PILOT IN WORLD WAR I I IS A VETERAN OF . J0,000 lIR HOURS . FORTENBERRY% FORMERLY A NAVY'FIGHTER PILOT, HAS BEEN AN EMPLOYE OF PAA INCE THE WAK,. TllE EPORT MADE BY NASH AND FORTENBERRY TODAY WAS THE LATEST OF r,EVERAL RECENT REPORTS OF MY5TERIOUS 08JECT5 lN THE AIR. ON JULY 6,_ roun PILOT~ FOR A NON- CCHEDIJLtD AIRLINE R£PORT D SEEI 'G fl ff:'!AUC nn IOVri.-R:I G EAR THE ATOMIC ENERGY PLANT AT RI CHLA DS, WA., H. 7l15- -W09-0 P ..... __,. _ _,_, .... v , v ~ EX~,~· 17'::n 9o JUL 23 19..,, 6 0 UL281952 /,I tlo
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Source text · mention only0. 20 t 1 ~~ns Belmon Clegg_ Glavin _ _ Harbo _ _ Rosen _ _ Tracy __ Lau ghli lL__.._1._ Mohr_ _ _ Tele. Rm._ Holloman _ _ Gandy __ ✓ I (SAUCERS> 0 \ CHICAGO--O'HARA AIR FORCE BASSE OFFICERS SAID TODAY "FLYING SAUCE~ S REPORTS HAVE PICKED UP LATELY• ------ . THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE SAID IT HAS RECEIVED 16 REPORTS OF MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS IN THE SKY IN THE CHICAGO VICINITY THIS WEEK. BUT OFFICERS .DENIED REPORTS THAT A SPECIAL •FLYING SAUCER• ALERT ~ BEEN ORDERED• PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS SAID JET PATROLS NORMALLY ARE ON THEALERT •24 HOURS A DAY.• OFFICERS SAID THE AIR FORCE ENCOURAGES CALLS ON OBJECTS SIGHTED.TiiEY AID THE REPORTS ARE •PASSED ON TO HIGHER AUTHORITY• FOR!VALUATION. . AN OFFICER SAID SOME or THIS WEEK'S REPORTS APPARENTLY STEMMED \ I FROM AN ORPHANAGE PICNIC AT WHICH 5,000 TOY BALLOONS WERE RELEASED.7/3--W0753P it :t-6\, ~ 4 . l ,.O H1Ht0 0 UL 14 1952 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS""SERVIcr- --
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Source text · mention only~::•Belmont ~ • Clegg _ !M.__E! Glavin.__ Harbo __ Rose n __ Tracy __ Laughli n..___ Mohr___ Tele. Rm._ Holloman__ Gandy ___ (SAUCERS> "-. DENVER- - CUNITEDPRESS-WCNS >-:HY~L018.,PA-all.Ofu THREE OF THEM WO~L1' / WAR I I VETERANS M .TQI D IODAY or G. A fU'UJG C~IC HOVERING OVER ..IHE ~ANE,ORQ ATQ IC 2LA~l' AT !UC-lil.A~WAS.H-. C PT. JOHN BALDWIN OF CORAL GA BLES, FLA.l AN AIR FORCE PI LOT IN THE PACIFIC DUR! NG WORLD l'1AR I I WHO HAS 7 000 HuURS OF AIRLINE PI LOT EXPERIENCE~ SAID THE OBJECT HE AND HI~ COMPANIONS REPORTED SEEING FARLY TODAY WAS A "PERFECTLY ROUND DISC WHITE IN COLOR AND ALMOST TRANSPARENT WITH SMALL VAPOR TRAILS OFF'IT LIKE THE TENTACLES OF ANOCTOPUS." • HE SAID HE WAS FLYING AT ABOUT 9 000 FEET AND SAW THE OBJECT "JUS T BELOW A DECK OF WISPY CLOUDS ABOUT 10,000 TO 1s, 000 FEE T DIRECTLY ABOVE US . "ALL OF US HAVE BEEN FLYING A NUMBER OF YEARS AND WE'VE SEEN ALL KINDS OF CLOUDS AND FORMATIONS 1 BUT NONE OF US HAD EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE" BALDWIN SAiu. "THE OBJECT S fEMED TO BACK AWAY FROM US AND CHANGE SHAPE . I T WAS • ,EERFECTL* RQUijU,ND SULL AUI.RST . THEN IT Sf.EME.D. TO BACK AWAY FROt:1 $ AND C ANGE SHA°JJt. IT BECAM~ FLAT GAINED ~PEED~HEN '.DI-SAt>PtARED ~ TCK!,;i;:W7/5--NG: 3P \ _,L 14 1952 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
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Source text · mention only' 0-19 . .. Tolson ____ · At dusk on a cool summer eve-I ·avy a s aucers pjw.{ is the · best time ee eea ill e -~ .balloon "sauce1·," it adds. C II S "The lateral rays of the sun at dusk illuminate tqe base of the • B II balloon. There is no chance of nIYIts BI i a oons your ever seeing th"e full round-• • ness of it because you are so .far ~--------- - - - --'' below it. You see only the illumi- - NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (.IP).-Fly- ~ate~ cup of the bottom. If your ,ng saucers are rej!l- but they.'re 1magmat1on soars, the light re only huge balloons used in cosmic Iflection _on the side may impre ss ray studies, Look magazine will Y?U as the g~ow of an atomic en-. gme. The wisp o( the -balloon's sa_y Tues~ay, quotmg Dr. Urne,r Iinstn.1,ment-filled tail may lfflpress .de!, clue( of the nuclear physics I you as the exhaust . The sun's I -- Ibranch of the Office of Naval Re- Ira_ys may suffuse the plastic bag search. He is in charge of the wi~h a fiery glow. . . . . I Even seasoned airmen have no cosmic my-balloon proJect. Iway of estimating the size and The balloons are liuge plastic I speed ol an object they see. To bags, 100 feet in diameter, that I peg size and speed, the mind , may rise 19 miles high--about ~us~. know the nature bf the ob- 100 000 • f • Ject.• eet. Winds fay sweep Look says Dr. Liddel and asso- ~em along at 200 miles an hour. ciates studied 2000 reports of At dusk, the slanting rays of the flying saucers, eliminating those sun light up their bottoms, giving "seeming to be the visions of the_m a saucer-like appearance, the ~rackpots or psycopaths" or a~cle says. clearly the result of inaccurat ~ hey carry instruments aloft to vision." re ord what happens when, cosmic "This left a solid base of re ra s hit atoms in the earth's at- ports from airplane pilots, scien m ~phere. This splitting gives a till~ observers and reliable layme clue to how atoms are put to- which could not be brushed asid gether, and how to release their After a thorough investi gation, energy. Dr. Liddel said: 'There is not a "When thi s proj ect first began it single reliable report of an ob was kept secret," the magazine servation which is not attri butable quotes Dr. Liddel. "Now there is to the cosmic balloons'." no longer any need for secr ecy 00 It quotes Dr. Liddel as saying a scientUic basis. And certainly, that Ca~t. Thomas F. Mant~ll, a!r there is no longer any need to force pilot found dead m his keep the public in the dark about crashed plane after radioing that what flying saucers are ." he was pursuing a stt-ange sky Look says "the Liddel repo rt is object, was chasing "a balloon considered to ,lie the most authori- of the skyhook type.'' tative scientific explanation of the Tlfere have been severa l reports flying-saucer phenomenon. As far of squad rons of flying disks, and as Dr. Liddel is concerne d per- "this is explained by Dr. Liddel ~onally, he considers bis answer as clusters _of 2~ to ~o bal1~ons 10 incontrovertibly right." to 15 feet m d1ame(er. which are The balloons 0 called skyhooks sometimes• used in place of the wet·e first sent aloft in 1947 and huge skyhook," it was then that flying sauc;r re- Dr. Lidde l checked othet• Gov ports began, it adds. There were ernment. agencies and "is Satisfied more balloons in the next two that no other research or experi- years and more "saucers'' seen . mental project has utilized any There were fewer balloons sent thing even roughly resem~ up in 1950, and fewer saucer ,'ib.g saucer." ,,..--- -,,,, port~. A picture , taken by telescope of a linlloon at 77.f ·" feet over Ladd.____ _ Cle gg____ _ Glavin ____ _ Nichols ____ Rosen ____ _ Tracy _____ _ Barbo ____ _ Belmont ____ Mohr _____ _ Tele. Room _ _ Neas e ____ _ Gandy _ ____ Times-Herald Wash . Post Wash . News Wash . Star --- N.Y . Mirror ne~ota, convinced Dr. Liddel n mo1·e, the magazine §'1¥9> photo fits deRcript io:fs' of ff~ . ---saucer . Date : ~ 5 l-T
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Source text · mention only.. s • • WHA'I' E':t.E W JICBOSS ENG:£AND VESTEBDA "lf l Football 0 CroWds See 'Flying &aucer' T By Sunday ~ ispatch Reporter HOUSANDS of people in many parts of Britain, including spectato rs at foot ball matches, saw what many of them believed to be a flying saucer yesterday . In each case the phenomenon-a stran ge white flash which darted across the sky at terrific speed-was seen about 4 p.m. These reports of the passage of this object .through t he sky were received by the Sunday Dispat ch last night : More th an 500 spect ators at a Soccer cup match at Chard, Somerset, saw a stra nge white phenomenon dart across the clear sky high above the grandstand at about 3.45. Within a split second of passing it seemed to disperse on the horizon. Spectators Cried 'Oh ' Spectators ip the stand cried " Oh ! " as the white, liquid form sped inlan d from the direc tion of the English Channe l. Specta tors at a Rugby match two fields away saw it. One, Mr. Arthur H. Jenkins , postmaster of Chard, said : " It was like a diamond flash ; its sh ape was like a big peardrop, with the t hin end tapering behind. Suddenly it "rnercel'.i'' into n othin gness." -=- ,,. h:1:-Llgq'±.:i.? NOT r.E "'OROEO I 47 JAN 2 7 . 1951 - SUNDAY DISPATCh LONDON, ENGLAND DEC. 3, 1950
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Source text · mention only• • : i ... ... .. - • ,... 91&@ people described it as a. · Airmen Saw It"blob of brilliant whiteness " and a " sheet of white h~=r==~-· 1ots of four jet aircraft of . e m etal " Royal Auxiliary Air Force corru g in to land at Llandaw, near C r-Chairman of Chard F.C., Mr. d •fI renorted a flash of llght t William Taun ton, sitting in the l5,o·oort: to the north- east of the stand, said : "It came right over airne: d. the top of us like a brilliant streak At a football match at Easton- ~~1 ~~:~ ..seemed to dissolve before ln-Gordano, near Bristol, specta tors saw a flash. Mr. M.y. Perrett, S n k Sh of H::1m Green, said: It looked a e - ape lik e a rocket coming_ down frqm Miss Myra Scott, who was watch- 2,000ft. There was an 1ntense whit~ ing a footba ll match at Perry flash which left a trail of vapour. Street, three miles south of Chard, Spec tators at the match between said she saw a "low-flying, silvery Shaftes bury and Longfleet _st. star with a tail " shor tly before Mai·y report ed what appeared hke four o'clock. a gi:.1.nt rocket . It seemed to fall At North P etherton, near Bridg- from the sky. water , spectators at another match Bovlngdon airport In Hertford-saw an object in the north-west shire 150 miles east of Llandaw. sky shortly before four o'clock. also 'reported to the _Air Ministry It was described as "a Jong that a brilli ant white light was snake-shape thing which streaked senn a long way to the west at through the sky at a terrific rate ." 4.5 n.m Observers estimated that Mr. T. Hollinghurst, of North it ,i:>.s at about 20,000ft. anrt say Petherton, said : "It appeared sud- th, t it vanished in a trail of smoke. denly and went away suddenly, A'.r Ministry said last, night: leaving a _creamy smok e. There " A thor ough check _has b_eei:i made was no no ise and there were no and no aircraft is missii:ig or planes abou t." b:1'.eved to have blown up m the a•~ • Channel Explosi o n ·:, I t is most unlikely that an un scheduled private flight could haveA few minutes later a- flash, as ta'.~en place at such a height. We seen at a great height over the tho ugh from an explosion, was .can:1ot explain the phenome_non. Bristol Channel. 50 miles to the "No aircraft was flying m the nor th of Chard. Port'.she3.d area.." Repo~ts from plates as much as Gam e Stopped at the Air Ministry. 130 miles apart were received At Towyn, near Rhyl, NorthPortfshead (near Bristol) police W0 ,ies, Rugb.v players dropp ed the rel)orted that' a white flash was b ?.ll a!ld, with spectators, sta_red seen between 4.5 and 4 10 p.m. in!o the sky as a yellow ob,Jectwhich appea red to be an explo t1 ,: s~c1.:·,· , flas:ied ar.i·oss rt.s10n. It turned pink and dis It vanished over Tower Hill.integrat ed. The estimated heigh t Ab?rge!e, within ten seconds. was 20.000ft. At about 4 o'clock spectators atWeston•super-Mare police re- Amersham: ~uc~ing hams hire, f9otted to the Air Ministr,Y tha t ball groun d saw a brilli ant obJect y saw a similaa· flash m the " like a huge star " flash across ti:ie•tishead direction at the same sky, leaving a volume of smoke mt ~ - ~ its wake. .~ Another sighting was re;;;te d r Among people who saw the obJeetf rom as far away as Durham. at Launc eston, Cornwall, were r~o ex-R.A.F. officers who were wa c • ing a Rugby match. . . The object. which was _c11cula1, ga ,e off a brigh t bluish-wh ite light. •s •o•n<Jte : One theory advanced 1- . - n'l(ht by Profea.,sor F. A. F '. ~·'i•(P"ofessor of Chem:stry at :c; •:7!';im Unlvers:ty a:1d a lea~l'.ng e o:n o:i m"teorites> :,yas that the obiect w~s a met eor. If pi~es..of mi:eor:Le are found," he said. 1t w'll be only the tenth to have fi:len in this country " I would like to appea_J to any one in the areas from which it was r eported to report at once if the:y notice a hole in the ground or a damaged tree that was ,nf?t.l!lfile ~ }·.'' ~
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Source text · mention onlyI SA I " ' l, ,,. . , 1%,. , ' I What Did The .People Of I Devon See ·· ..·• . Last Week? ' By Sunday Dispatch Reporter W EST OF ENGLAND newspapers gave much publicity last week to reports of " flying sa ucers " over Devon . The saucers were reported by a number of independ ent witnesses from places as far a part• as Woolacombe (near llfraco mbe), Exeter , Cullompton, Sidmouth Junction, and Po ignton (60 miles south of Wool acombe). Eye witnesses' descriptions of what they saw are sub t nti allY in agreement-t here was no rnuise and a trail s/fire streamed from the back. The observat ions were at 0 bout 11 p.m. in all instances. a Mr J. Stewart. 70-year-old oolacombe pensioner, who work ed in aircraft fac.- has . two wars, was one of t or!e~,Ye1 people who t old the the ter Express and Echo what Ex; n a d seen. t h Y On Monday evening, he A.t 10.so object come insnore noticed a ndirection of the north from f tf endYat a " terrific speed." I end O Hu A Franklin, of Beacon- .Mr. •. ton near Exeter, wrote Jane V'{h1P . that while at Coun to the pa.P({wo miles ~outh-east of tess wea1 1',1ondaY night, he saw :Exete~\irar objeC~· two en sUNDAY DISPATCH LONDON' ENGLAND 11- ,5-50 • 'Tht-y were of a brillia.nt sil v y blue. travelling south, one behind t he o ther In close formation: • he said. " After passing overhead the rear object appeared to catch upwith the front one and c ollide whereon they disinte gra ted." ' Bright Disc T he object was described by Miss J .. spurway, of Exeter-hill° CulIompton (12 miles north-east of Exeter) 1 as " a bright disc travelling with a c ircular m ovement a t great speed." Two and a half miles north of Exmouth, t he object was seen a t 11 p.m. br. Mr. and Mrs. L. Mus, sell, of H1ll-crest, Lympstone. w ho , describe d it as having been in ~wo parts " apparently attac hed in some way with a lighted tail." The sixth w itness quoted in t hll Express and ,Echo is Mr. A. J. Powell, of Sidmouth J unc:tion, who, while between Patterson's Cross, Otlerv St. Mary and Sldmouth Jnnc(ion at 11 p.m. on Mondav, , saw " two brilliant wh.l~J.!.!:.!l[s t.ome 11no view to the ncinh-west,from behind a bank of mist. • .\ J!3_~_ Y3_;; . l JM; J:J 1951 ~~ "' - Mt.~ Jlr. Ut:-!u -~ Yc:i. !..x.r.i _~ ~ !;~ -- ----- 2:.ll= c:.-~7 ----- - ii LJ 1Ji
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Source text · mention only• • ~g Red Trail ' "They passed swiftly," he saJd," in a southerly direction and aPpeared to. be ' In line aste rn ' with a long red trail to the rear . . . both lights seemed to fizzle out as I watched them-they were In a clear patch of sky when this hap pened .•. I heard no sound." ·" Two large circular objects travelling south in a horizontal position looking something like large white flames " is the descriPtion given in the Western Morning News of what Mr. Arthur N. Beame . 55-year-old estate agent, of Southfield-avenue . Preston, Devon, saw at Paignton at 11 p.m. onMonday. Members of the crew of a liberty boat plying between FlagstaffSteps, Devonport Dockyard, and H.M.S. Defiance are also' reported in the Western Morning News as having seen "circular objects travelling at an incalculable speed and emitting a t rail oJ fire " late on Monday night. T1-,,,~ uay Heral4. §-""!!'"~ quot.es four other p eople who saw .similar objects. Bluish Light t Frederick Bray_ fisherman, age 39, was lying in the bunk of hi boat in Torquay outer harbour when he saw a " bluish-white light" appear over Princess Pier at about 11 p.m. " I watched the flames for about ten seconds. They seemed to surroun d a roundish ob ject which was travelling towards Thatcher Rock" (to the East). While walking along the sea front to Torquay Station, Mr. D . Jeffery , of Winner-street, Paignton , saw something in the sky. "I thought at first it was a rocket firework," he told the Herald Express. "Then I noticed it was maintaining a constant speed at a constant height ... It was absolutely silent. It seemed to disintegrate sudden ly and disappear." A "ball of bluish-white light ., was seen at about 11 p.m. in the sky abovef Paignton travelling south towards Brixham. Mr. Harry Cove-Clark, of Marine-drive, Paignton, said : "The ball of light was preceded by a thin blue blur which was overtaken by the mainbody. 1 Like Feeble Rocket ' "Then anot her bluish-white light appeared and a broken stream of lights seemed to fall from it. They all seemed to be following each other straight across the sky, then there was a spurt of flame from th~ end of the broken pieces-justlike a feebJe rocket." The last of the witnesses, Mr. H. Warren, of Eas t-street, Torre, Tor quay, saw from his bedroom win dow an object "going towards Brixham, due soutli of Torquay ." Describing it in a letter to the Paper he said : "I though ~ -~ ~~ ht, - cthree stars with a Ion a Light tra iling behind them ... 1
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Source text · mention onlyTele. Room_ (SAUCER} • , / POPI.AR IJ.UFr;__:110.-.,olJR PLANES CHASED AFTER A STRANGE SPHERICAi. ./ OIJECT WRICH RUNJiREIS or PDSOtiS s,, ROARING ACROSS THE sn, IUT TIE PILOTS SAID fODAY THEY COOLDR'T C:ff IIEAR IT. · . POLIClf AIIPO T AID .RADIO STATION PERSONNEL SAIi •JUST ABOUT fflRTQH I POPLAR 11.urr• saw THI lllSTERIOUS OBJECT roa rIVE 01 SIX IDJIS IISTERMT artERNOON. • . CAA ••x~ AT flALDl!1.. 21 ntw SOUTHEAST or IEIE, PLOTTED ITS SOOTIIDSTDLY COURSE JIOII • Pelle UNTIL J>ARXe - • IISCIIPTIOIIS OJ' TR! OBJECT Alll> ,UESsES U TO l'IS IDENTITY lfEIEftllD. • - MTIIIMJ.; CUAII AUTRORITIES AT IIDIPHIS, ?ENH., SENT TIO 1•51 ncntas u, roa a c111cK. • /A IATIOIIAL CUARD snaEAIT CONFIIND THAT THE ,.,1 ~s . CLI!BD TO / !0..1.00 riff IUT COULi ROT MU CONTACT WITI ?IE OBJECT. D Ill IOT SAY . n,;TUI TU PILOT.I ACtUALLt SAW TIE OIJECT. A cu o,,1c1,1. lT tlALIEN IHO IIAIIITAJNEI Tl'0"4A'f IADIO COITACT , l'ITII TIii r-,1 •s l SAID IE pfLOT or TRI FIRST PLANE UP l!PORTD JIOII All ALffffll Ir 81 000 rt£T1 • •1r•s STILL ,,t Alon: "~~ IPPAIDtTLT IIOTI !IL~S. , 1•11 NOT CffllNG Ml'I IIEAWe FUEL SUPPLY' ALPIOST IXIIAUSTEI, • • . • r11 oTm ,-,1 :llor NAJE, SINILAR IEPORT~ rHE ·cAA.orr1c1AL sa11. MS~-:.~:i:n::~ION ~==~:af::oa,:J~~lt; t:0& ~~:Zfo Sl?E UP TU OIJIC!~ . AT •o,ooo nn1 THE f•IO PILOT IEPOITD HE APPWD TO II •No CLV5 II iTHAII <If THE G OUND • • / t/1,-.•TS 1022A I ?~ WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
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Source text · mention only• • --- Tolson, __ nP/ Ladd c./ ~ .-Clegg, ___ _,.,,, Glavin __ Nichols __ Rosen. ___ Tracy--r C -?~bo-+--Bf lmont __ Mohr___ Tele. Room_ Nease_~- tf Gand , I IV-'- . "- ,..J. t' .: ·~-- ~~ i ("SAUSAGE")SPRINGFIELD, ILL--PILOT JIM GRAHAM CLAIMED TODAY THAT A "FLYING ""1· SAUSAGE" COLLIDED WI TH Hrs: PLANE AND "EXPLODED LIKE A BOMB"--BUT CAUSED_ NO DAMAGE. GRAHAM, CHIEF PILOT FOR THE CAPITAL AVIATION COMPANY HERE, WAS FLYING TO SPRINGFIELD FROM CHICAGO LAST NIGHT WHEN HE SIGHTED THE OBJECT AS HE FLEW OVER WILLIAMSVILLE, JUST NORTH OF HERE. HE SAID THE OBJECT WAS A "BLUE STREAK ABOUT 10 FEET LONG AND SHAPED LIKE A SAUSAGE." HE SAID IT WAS TRAILING YELLOW FIRE. THE OBJECT, WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE HIS PLANE, DIVED SUDDENLY AND PLOUGHED DIRECTLY INTO HIS PROPELLER. "IT EXPLODED LIKE A _BOMB WHEN IT STRUCK," HE SAID. GRAHAM MANAGED TO STAY ON COURSE AND LANDED AT CAPITAL AIRPORT HERE. HE EXPECTED TO FIND HIS PLANE EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED, HE SAID, BUT A THOROUGH INSPECTION SHOWED NOTHING. SEVERAL OTHER SPRINGFIELD RESIDENTS ALSO REPORTED SEEING THE "FLYING SAUSAGE." ONE WOMAN SAID SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE SITTING ON THEIR PORCH AND SAW rr PASS OVER SPRINGFIELD. OBSERVERS AT THE WEATHER BUREAU SAID THE ONLY EXPLANATION THEY COULjOFFER 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--L0441P 'r-..,. 1<--; -_!l_K9LI-A-· / 1/f" I (NOT RECORDED 135 /l.UG 11 1950 i WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
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Source text · mention only• • --- Tolson V:. ')Jv'J,add V ?" c1 egg,___ Glav dn-.,..../ Nic \:O"'h~ Rosen___ ~ !::~:- /'-::_lJ_Be Imo~ ....:.......- ~ Mohr Te le. Room_ N ea se___ Gandy___ (SAUCERS)FARGO, N. D.--FOUR PERSONS REPORTED THEY WATCHED FIVE STRANGE, l MOON-LIKE OBJECTS FLYING IN FORMATION SOUTH OF FARGO FOR 34 MINUTES. THE BRIGHTLY-SHINING OBJECTS WERE SPOTTED AT 3:07 A. M. CS T BY FARGO WEATHER BUREAU EMPLOYE RAY WILSON. HE SAID HE WATCHED THEM UNTIL 3:41 WHEN CLOUDS OBSCURED VIS ION. MARIAN EDDY, AN AIRLINES EMPLOYE, AND MIKE ENDERSBY AND MARGARET LAWSON OF THE CAA SAID THEY SAW THE OBJECTS FROM THE FARGO AIRPORT. WILSON SAID ONLY ONE OF THE OBJECTS WAS VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE. vilTH TELESCOPES AND FIELD GLASSES THE FARGOANS SAID THEY COULD SEE TWO SMALL OBJECTS ON EACH SIDE OF THE nTHING.• • WILSON SAID THE OBJECTS DIDN'T SHOW MUCH SPEED, BUT SHOWED MANEUVERABILITY. ENDERSBY SAID THEY LOOKED LIKE A WHITE FLAME I MANEUVERING IN THE AIR. I 7/14--T130P ~b2-a=Jd-A -_,,.~ I1135~l!J~ ll 1 1950 ' . ...- .. " •I • t 'I WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
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Source text · mention onlyJ,/7 ,, AUG 1. C 'Btlffg_Sau iiiicked on Navy Radar Screen MEMPHIS, Tenn. , July 13 CUP). The Navy studied a report ·today •:from t wo pilots and an electronics instru ctor who claimed to have tracked a flying saucer or some strange craft on a rada r screen for eight miles. Both fliers repor ted seeing a shiny round object whizzing pa.st their traini ng planes, about 10 miles northeast of Osceola, Ark., last night . Electronics technician G. D. Wehner, who wa-s flying with en•i li9ted pilot R. E. Moore, said h e "caught it on the radar scope. It was helmet-shaped. The outline of the edges were all right, bit lare from the center of it p • ented getting a better look." f lrst Thought Jet "At first we thought it• was ajet plane distor ted by glare off the aluminum b~dY," said Lt. (j ,g . ) J. w. Martm, the second pilot."When I first spotted the saucer it was about two miles off and appea.red to be a round ball. It was in sight for about three min- utes and at _one time we were within one mlle of it." • Moore said, "It was on our left and traveled across in front of us and disappeared ln the distance to our 1·ight. I think it would be about 25 to 45 feet across and about seven feet high . "The thing looked like a World War I helmet seen from t he side. or 11, shin y &'hallow bowl turned upside down. We wanted to fol low it, but our t raining ships couldn 't keep up with the saucer, or whatever it was." The pilots,. based . at t he Milling. t on n aval all' station n ear h e1·e, estimated the object was Hying at 11n alt(tucle of 8.000 feet nt a s peed of 200 miles per houl'. The navy dcl'llned comment. Similar !lying saucer stories hi!"- hru;,u discounte4r4,Y~ u , rmed forc_es_·~-- 4-26 Tola on.____ Ladd.____ Cle g.,,.g____ Glavin. ____ Nichols ___ Rose n.____ Tra cy.____ _ Barbo. ____ Be lmon t ___ Moh r _ _ ___ Tele. Room_ Nea se.____ _ Gandy____ ( } ~ ~'") ~ 00 ~ J A ,_ ]... , Si .JO / ~ -~ -i ti __ ~ ;-:;~I'RFl0 OltD li1D 1'1' 0 '7~ A\JG 19 195 Page - Wash . News Wash . Star N.Y. Mirror
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Source text · mention only• • --- 0 ... SUNDAY DISPATCH JULY 9, 1950 LONOON, ENGLAND l.'l . fLYINe:~sAUCEfl_ 1 _ RIDDLE S o far fly ing saucer s have been treated by t he m ajority of British people with incredu lity and polite r id icule . But wny ? I have studied all the report.s ava ilable. I have seen photo graphs- those in the • Sunday Dispatch last week were parti cu la}y clear-and I b elieve they are p otographs of disc-type aircraf t. arlier p icture s p ublished in t e Spanish Press last April . a1ld al ged Lo h ave been taken in the Balearic I slands, might have been anyt ning and could h ave been a leg-pull. It i s not a lways easy to sort the wheat from the chaff. SECRET TRIALS c on tr o I or t r a veiling at prod ig ious speeds, vanish ! n g suddenly, and associat ed with b rilli ant light, fringes of flt or flames of peculiar colour a d generally rotati ng or whirling. From many parts Of t,he wor come these reports. The ve fact that their descripti ons are consistent has led to their beingdismissed a s hallucinations, defective vision. or mild hyste ria. lt might be that the s olution of t his riddl e could lie i n a ve\·y unort hodox a pproach. and I have wondered if there could possibly be turbulences set up I n our atmosphere which could cause w h i r I i n g " dust d evils " o f lumino us gases c aused b y jet or other high speed experime nts which might be respo nsible f<?r the generati on of small aton11c whirlpools in the atmosphe re. Group Three reports suggest that the sauce rs are high speed airc raft of circu lar o r disc shape travc llin.,; at speeds much hi~hcr than those atta ined b y normal planes. 1 SAFETY SEARCH H ERE Is no reason at a I T why annular and c1rcula disc-like all'craft should not have been common objects at any ttme duri ng the past 30 years . The early history of these veryunorthodox-looking aircraft was, ironically. based on a searc h for safety.Before 1910 It had been shown that square and circular sm:faces had very good non-stalling char acteristics llP to large angles . But when powered aircraft arrived it was found that the easiest way to minimise the losses due to the end slip of the iur from the wing Ups was to increase the span o! wiugswhile keeping them narrow. This compromise brought other trouble . Earlv plnncs rencllegtheir sta lling angle u t some \;,dr.grers, and stalling must r C'sU,L In a d.ivc since t11e onlv corrcct1;of R stall Is ,1 flight nt. some spr. greater than the stalling sprcd. V,:,rv cnrly in the 1005 - ~ nod there wrrc people_ Vo'l ~' wOuJd not accept thut n1rrrn " ,i ~ -fl_~~ ..-11 r,;1 ,T RI•~ OH OED 85 AUG 111950
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Source text · mention only• • ~ - -~·~ they disc-type~ I believe are aircraft,' says RICHARDS, G. TILGHMAN a ssistantsenior Research lecturer at theand official Kensington Scien ce South Museum, London, who has • studied all the evidence. \ - there is still, a considerable bcJ , of technical opinion not satisfied that perfection has been reached • .4lid here. I think. lies the real answer.This body of opinion has been conUnually searcll ing for the " safe" design. Designers of manynationalities have been striving since the early 1920's with great success toward a foolproof p"laneEnlar gements from flyin g s aucer pictur es- fron t-pa ged last week of disc type.In 1934-35 Charles H. Zimmer- which set everyone talking. They were taken bY Farmer mann. in the United States, built a disc wing airplane combinedTrent, McMl'nnvllle, Oregon, U.S. with a helicopter capable of verUcal ascent and descent andmust, of necessity, be subject to a high forward speed. these dangers. TheY. turned aside tolvestigate possible wing forms w 'ch should be safe from stalling an spinning. nong these " rebels " a f,::w .!~!!h~T!~~,~~"}1 " n . es have become air history. for his patents to ~ eJose Weiss and Arthur Keith with Chance Vought Aircraft Divisiontheir comple tely stable swallow of the Uni ted Aircraft Corporalike monoplane In 1909. Etnch tion in the U.S.and Weis in Austria In 1911, But at that point tne O.S. Navyevolving a stable wingform oased stepped In, and all further develon the Zannonia leaf from which opment has been of a secretRumpl er and the majority of Ger nature. though it has been stated man builders developed the Taube that t his combination is capablemonopl ane. Dunne, with his too of speeds from o to 500 miles perstable, tailless, back-swept wing hour.biplane •in 1912. and the Lee _This performance IS !n accordR ichards annul ar monoplane of with reports that. flying sauc ers 1910-14, with which I was asso trav el at great speedsl hover, ciated. ascend and descend wh h little forwa;rd motion. It 1s perhaps a liUle hard to NOT PERFECT \)elieve that the1·e can, as yet, ex- 1st enough of these types to meetWITH the outbreak of the the many re11orts, bu't there, is no1914 war res earch of reason at a I whv such aircraftthis type was abandoned. and ;;hould not have been seen providstudy concentrated on perform mg that full scale work followe ance rathe r than safety. the e xperimental period. And tlBv 1 918 the modern plan e was ~ecrecy would suggest that thestabli shed, a nd earlier r esearc h 1S SO. was forgotten. And t liere could lie the m t c ivil airlines naturally used sol.id proof that flying saucers aptea war planes. and the n ex1St. me w orld W ar II. once more itations were I mposed. n spite of thr orthod oxy t,f si!(Tl there was t h ro~ ~u;_,t.he t ,er-war vears, and = Jily ~
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Source text · mention only• • ------- Nichols __ Tele. Room_ Nease. ___ Gandy___ A~D OBJECT ( 6 14P) / T:-IE AIR FORCE SAID IT HAD RECEIVED NO WORD AT ALL m~ ACOT1-!ER 0BJ2CT .- \~ESCRIBFD AS APPEARING TO BE A GUIDED MISSILE, WHICH THE ALAS K/1 t-\ I R COMMAND SA I D PASSED OVER FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, SATURDAY NIGHT.l ' 113L - wo90 1P 1 tJ -x~~t-/t/-a- NOT RECORDED 135 AUG 11 1950 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
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Source text · mention only----- 1 l-lr. To:~o:i ___ M r. Ladd _____ _ DAILY GRAPHIC APRIL 20, 1950 LONDON, EOOLAND 16:z-ux.1.i:..:.A .,JcAtU • ~ io•i-h I • l I ' l) I•' 11 r;---._ 78 JUL 5 1950 L:.. t"1 IU 111~ rcm OP 'ID LIXJAL ATTACIII U VJ\! L ~ AMER :-AN IMBASSY () • tJ IS CS Q 1-------.U-NDAO-OIN-MAD--RID--INl tb ___ LYlN _..... .,.._..;F;;;,"lillr-G SAS~~w-A, LUNES 3 DE ABRIL DE 1.tst PRECIO DEL SEES IT First pict ure of a flying s ucer comes fr om th e p a n i s h n ewspaper I ntormacion es. DAILY GRAPHIC correspondentin Madrid explains : The caption stated that this picture was obtained at 3 a.m. i the Balearic lslanct,s ' Enr ique Hausman I ullef,· a· n~ree" J ca 'a · an. I t added that he a nd 1iS assistants I heard a loud noise and saw a luminous trail crossing the s ky. He pulled out his camera andobtained a picture-but expresses no opinion about flying saucers. FO~ ' TE from Texas : Ir axey, wartime mem- f a U.S. bomber crew. photographed two groupsof " flying saucers " nearNFOA MACf OHES,- elemp;o • 1, ·,~rviolo di . t lfll o do nvettro J)Criodr~o a l • 01r6otr Fort Worth. '' But.'' h t'.:liaalt rwi, p ara do.,u,nt ni. t n la apMJO- 1ltan tub ray-&rM. IHFOR M ACIO Htt 1 said, " they were more lik ntt ,-1tmtoa a.c.roa d t ••• platllfos v Ian, ete-atlm~o mad !o, par• poder flying bananas than flyiQ saucers." • ...,,,, . , , .. ol raoo hoy una tolo«ra fia Urt.,.n te. do,oumonlo a ' "'' lctlorN , no he picture that Spanish newspaper readers saw. :. ? :'3 ---- - ,_ ~I}' LOlmON. DtOJrAND
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Source text · mention only___ _ ___ _ ----- --- • .___ Cle gg,____ Glavin ___ Rosen ____ Tracy ____ Room_ ~ Tolson Ladd Nichols Harbo Mohr Tele. N~ase , 1 body is in it," he said., "!],ut ~ H Id it carries 70 po~tnds of instrume¼ts ~ to record cosm11! rays .. . It is an ~aitcer' Denial e 1 enormous tran slucent thing with a long tail and flies up to 100,000 feet in the air. When the weird contraption is launched off the ground , it is filled to only oneValuable to Russia pe1·cent Of its capacity with helium . ---9 New York , Apri~ l_O (U.PJ.-Air ~t bigh alt!tu9es , ex_Pansion causes Force denials tbat ' fl~1~g sauc ers" it to blow itself up into a gigantic exist are "worth a billion dollar s monster 100 feet tall and 70 feet to the Russi'ans in the 'cold war,'" in diameter. tall as au eight-story Radio Commentator Hem-y J. Tay-I building , all in pulsating plastic." lor said tonight . 1'aylor said some of the se ve- Taylor said over the ABC net- lhicles travel all over America , 20 ~vork that U1is country has several Imiles up in the ,s~y. At sunset. 'unconventional air vehicle s t)jat the whole contraption glows and could be taken for "flying saucers ." can be s een a s long as 30 minute~ He described one as a fanta stic af!e1·•darkne ss. contraption "in pulsating plastic," rhe .struments are floated bac as tall as an eight- story building to earth by parachute , Taylor said. and used to record cosmic rays. Then the huge contraption "break "What bas happened to our into pieces in the sky or explode s,' brain s?" Taylor asked. "These showering plastic pieces over::: denial s are worth a billion dol ars land- _____ "'21'=<:a;;;;§~:..LJLJ ;:,f;~;;~~;;.~~r,;,:~~:~~: , ~. • 11 l l ~,1 hy Taylor last week that "flying /&., aucers " are top-secret United ~ ~AA..,-! tate s military inventions. :;IY"-"' Taylor warned that ii' the Rus sians s uddenly announced they were sending "flying saucers" around the world, United Sta tes: officials would have no way to stem merican hysteria. Taylor said the U nited States hould an,:iounce: "We h ave no fur ther coromen abou t anyth ing i n the skies ex cept that Ameri ca is creating man elpful and incredib le t hings. All 1are harm less and good news for freedom-loving people." And this would he a true state. ment, the commentator said. { Taylor said that at an airfie ld near l\linneapolis and also al othe1 places, the NaYY is "lai1nching int our high skies an enormous and lbr'633q_j_fi -1/IJltasU!!... t;'Pe f veb, de. * • N()'.I.' •• t >RD ED 85 APR 19 1950 65APR2119 WASHINGTON POST Page Date~ //-~'t)
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Source text · mention only• • -- - --- --- DAILY TELffiRAPH AND MORN D.'JG POST APRIL 11, 1950 LONOON, OOLAND FLYING SAU CER !" , REPOR'r '1MAY BE BALLOON F"rnm Our Own Correspond ent PB.ESTON, Monday. An object whictv they thoughtmight have been a " flving saucer" was seen by th!·ee gi1:1s who were walking along the Preston-Lancaster main road near Preston yesterdayafternoon. "It looked like a very bright star in the east. but was brighter than any sl.llr." thev said . One of the girls. Miss Lilian Spencer, of Pole-street. Preston . said : "It was oval-shaped and resem bled the wing of a silver plane caught in the I sunlight . There was no sound of an engine and it had a peculiar swinging movement ." It was going against the wind.An Air Ministry meteorological official pointed out that it wa.s a common error for people to speak of something travelling in a certatn direction when they really meant that i~ was coming from that direction. 1f that wa$ the case here it was possible that the object cou!d have been a metoorologica1 balloon blown over from Northern Ire!Md. Many Londoners reported on AQril that they had seen a " fly. , ucer." Tne Air Ministry explain t at it was a balloon used for pa - c ute Jumping which had brok fr Its mooring at an R.A.F. statJ In xfordshirei .:..- ---==--- •~.:, Mt, r 1''.: . Mr. '.'.' a _ nr. 1: _:I Mr. Bo!m '!ll __ _ :Mr. Mohr --- - "ele. Room ---- ~r lleaw ___ I • ~ G<Indy - -
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Source text · mention only--- V) .I i-l..,. ' ) 0 -~.... \/) ~ >... -~ ...._, '..L.. 0 Swears 1-te Saw Flying Saucer B7 Unite d l'ress One House member who should know said flatly today there is no such thing as a flying saucer . But anotl1er member equally quali fied said maybe not, but he has aeen one himself. Rep. Mahon <DJ of Texas. chair man of the House military appro priations subcommit tee, said it just isn't so what they say about those discs. He had no concrete evidence-but the solidest kind or aupport. I President Truman. Defense Sec• retary Johnson. the Air Force and the Navy all backed him up. They said none of the armed ,ervices is messing around with HUcers, and that nobody else is :far far as they knew. The pe[ple,they said, are seeing things. Jl.e Sa.w One --T I J #ReP. '~ gelr (R) of Mich an, is"ll i an who says he saw one. A member of Mahon 's subcommit tee, he also is a candidate for governor of Michigan when he Isn't helping dole out the money 1t takes to keep the military In business. He said the fact that he saw a flying disc may not be evidence, but it sure was convincing. It happened about 1 p.m. one day last summer at Elsie, Mich. Several other citizens. all of the:tr).gober and well thou ght of, saw it, too. Two of them chased it in a plane , but the thin g un!d'rtunately ::!;~o high and too fast and got Mahon put it this way: "I guess my subcommittee would know if to.ere were anything to this flying sauce1· ousiness. We even knew about the atomic en- =='"'=-=="=~rgy experiments seve!al yeai-s, be• , tore the story was tols, ~ )J Wash. Star - Not Inforr-1.\l!f)l== ==--~ "I am quite sure the military establishment would have told us if they were working on such a thing a.s a saucer. But the fact is they haven't said a word about it." As far as Mahon is concerned the saucer is "just a fanta.sy." ' ~gel said maybe so, maybe not. It 1s perfectly true, he said, that none of the subcommittee 's witnesses ever owned up to any con necti on with saucers . .But then, as far as he could recall, nobody •ver asked them about it. "I am confident of this." Engel a&ld. "If there are any such things as saucers, they are ours, not aomebody else's. It another coun try were sending them over. I am 11ure the subcommittee would have heard about It." Denials Repeated Ai;r Force and Navy officials I ha.ve been denying the existence ] of "flying saucers' \ all along. And & Defense department statement late yesterday reiterated the dehials. But indications were t hat re ports of the mysterious flying ob ject would continue. L. Nobel Rob• inson, managing editor of the U. s. News and World Report said his magazine had expected ' offi. eial denials of Its story that the aaucers ~re a ''revolutionary type of new aircraft," probably built bythe Na~r= fVfI'\ 102INf) " .l' • / td _ / ..J/ i7 f _Lj - I p /7 V J.\ O '.l I, , , . D h . 70 0 JUN 30 l 950 Wash. News ,, Tele . Room_ Nease ____ Gandy_ ___ Page imes-Herald -LL Wash . Post • T o l son. _ ___ L add____ _ Clegg,___ _ Glavin ____ ,1.Q T!MES·HE~AL Nicho l s _ _ _ Rosen ___ _ Tracy_ ___ Ha r bo____1 =-... ...."=.;;,'.~~;;:~:~~:~ Moht____ _ N.Y. Mirror Date :
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Source text · mention only---- Tolson ___ • Ladd ____ f Sfui eure111t by Air Fo1•e~ - Taucers'1'~ lfi-uman, Otlie1:,Qfficials Deny !To Officials l(nowledge ()f F1'vi]Jo· Saucers raised the question at yesterday's .J,.. ~* meetil1g of the Armed Forces Pol- By John~Gr'""_"'IN:'l'-:-or::::r~JS=----------- - icy Council, which includes the Post Repor ter departmental secretaries and Joint · J . • Chiefs of Staff. NavY Secretary Top offic1a s and agen~ies of the mild form of mass hysteria, or Francis Matthews and Admiral Government-from President Tru- hoaxes:" . ' Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval man on down-joined yesterday in Earli er, Pres1den~ Truman an-· operations, as well as other offi an effort to convince the American nounced through lus press secre- cials, assured him the denials were public that "flying saucers" do not tary at Key West. F~a., that he sincere ·and truthful. exist . kn~w ab~olutely nothing of such The latest flare up of public in- A formal statement issued by flyrng ob3ects being developed by terest in the saucers resulted from the Air Force last night was most t!1eUnit ed S tates or any other' na- statements by Radio Commentator expli cit. It declar ed flatly that: tion. • Henry J. Taylor and the weekly 1. None of the armed forc es Is " We are not denying t his be- news magazine United States News condu cting secret experime nts with cause of any development of secret and World Report that the saucer s "disc-shaped flying obj ects which weapons." s~id Secreta ry Charles do exist and are revolut ionar~ could be a basis for the 1·eportcd G. Ross. "but pur ely because we American aircr aft probabl y devel phenomena." '.now of nothin g to support these oped by the NavY, A Navy spokes- 2. There i s no evidence tha t the rumor s." man flatly denied this Monday!. latter stem from "the activities orl ~ efe nse Secretary Louis Johnson1 Johnson said he is convinc_ed the any foreign nation." lsatd about the same thmg at a · saucers could not be experiment s Evaluation of reports of re- 11ews conferen ce. He told report ers conducted by any other Govern cen "si ghtin gs" bears out early ~1e was ''satisfied there is nothing ment agency outside his depart co lusions that all can be ex- 10 the repor ts." ment becau se the Penta gon's Re pla ed away as "misinterpretation John son said ' he had facetiously sea~·ch and Developme~t. Board co• ijof arious conventional objects, a See SAUCER, Page 3, _, ,, 9l dmates all such activity.Despite the denials, new reports of "saucers " contin ued. At Tipp City, Ohio, nine persons said they saw saucer s over the Ail" Force base at Wright Field , earl y Sunda y. Jerry Robinson , a 22-year-old Marine vete ran, speaking for the group, said they saw "two brigh lights in the s ky" which later wer discern ed as brilliant discs trailin a ~-~n streak of 01·ange flame. Nter hover ing for a time , thel shot. straight up in the air 1md disappeared, he said. Police Chief J . C. Lee of Eliza beth City, 111., reported that "a weird red and blue disc-like ob- ject" whizzed o~er the town early SundaY, "traveling at a h igh rate lofspe eu. -=:I ~ Cler.11 ___ Glavin ___ Nichols ___ Rosen Tracy ____ Harbo ____ Mohr ---- Tele. Room_ Nease ____ Gandy ____
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Source text · mention only• yt,1Ci C, I S v.S, ______,;.f,,J__..:-..-- __ ut the Navy Says 'No' e Orig·inal 'Flying Saucer'? Sazicers' Neiv0 Type Air.craft, :_ / .:,:~:"~~:.~:~{~~~~gazine S-~~, , radically new type aircraft , cOl'. ltµrnw~ ?ff the rear Jets, turnmg forming to known areodynamic , on_,the side and front nozzles.I Great speed can be obtained laws and probably developed byIby focusing to the rear all 1 tile • United State s Navy, the maga- ' in the after half of the afr~~~ft zine United State s and World Re- ' With all nozzles pointed down port said yesterday . jward, the saucer co u Id rise This late st effo1·t to explain the straight off the ground, and with continuing reports of strange 'fly- less power, could descend the ing disks at various points over same way • , • ] the counh'y brought a prompt "Jet helicopter action • • • denial from the Navy Department makes takeoffs and landings almost that it is now "conducting research completely safe." or flying" any such plane or I The magazine said that an early missile. !, model of the saucer was built by A spokesman pointed out that , National Advisory Committee for the Navy did , develop the "pan- Aeronautics experts in 1942 and cake-shaped" Chance-Vought made 100 successful flights, The XF5U-l. but that it never flew and Navy then took over development was scrapped more than a year and "much more advanced models ago. A small , 3000-pound scale now are being built." • model oL the plane was flown and ., NACA Engineer Charles :a". Zim pictu res of it have been releas ed. ' me~man designed the first model, but this model is now at Norfolk which had a speed of from 400 to awaiting shipment to the National 500 miles an hour and was pow- I Air Museum here . ~ i ered l'>y two piston propellers, said , , 'fhe weekly news magazine did the a1ticle. • not quote any authority for its :•surfa ce indic ations," the mag. statement that the "flying saucers" azme went on, "point to research arelreal American planes, but sai ' centers _of the ~n_ited St'.'tes Navy's tha •·engineers competant to a . vast gwded-mi ss1le proJect as the . scene of present flying-saucer de• pra· e reports of rel_iable obs:rv velopment ." The proj ect, it was l y A>SOC!ated PreS3 Phoreac these conclus10ns: s~id, has the ''scienti sts, the en- ''Tl1 e are aircraft of a revolu- glneers, the dollars, the motive Model ol o.ircraFt derJaloped in 1948 and Rou>n by the Navy uncl l radio cantrol-full-aire cralt neuer Rew, the Navy ho.• announced. 1 yt e a combination of heli- and the background '' for the • • uonar y YP • . "This likelihood will remain de• copter and fa5t Jct pl~ne: They , spite any futu r e d enials by' the , f o ·m to well-known pr1nciples of1 Navy front office, until secrecy is co I . " I'ft d ,, th • dd·odynan11cs- 1 e , e magazine a ed. I ., (._)_fJ t1'l.L_ ae!,_ Y ai·e "exact.I~• L05 feet in di- The Navy declared it w~s true ~ o ·l" R ~'., ,.-u,J<\Q.,_1tr circul ar in shape·• and "are that its abandoned "flying pan an1 e e ·f a m etal alloy. with a dull cake" was designed by Zlmmer & APR 111950ma~l~ ~ color. There are no r~d- man, and was called t he " Zimmer wl11t15 ueron s or other proh'udmg man Skimmer." It added that a der s, a From the side, the caucers f'l smaller scale model---one surface sto be about 10 feet thick." t ~rd of actual size-is still at appear aucer appe ars to have a , _ "Each 5 cJ ' t· • t. of vari~ble•. irec ion Je ACA's Langley, Va., laborato serles a round its riu,s . • • : iuel for wind-tunnel tests, but he nozzle_ 5 unknown. •,- · Direc~wn ?f NavY insisted it had no such pr.oj used 1~ . ft and i ls velocity, m ect now active. the a1rc~a t lY a re c ontrolled b y • , • t,urn , evlden ,,·hich the jet n ozzles The Air. For~e, . after many angle at mber operati ng. month~, of mvest1gation of "flying t1,e tilted, the . 11J ~aucer reports, concluded t hat all f ;~: power appJ1e ,~·hich nozzles toIthe evid_encc pointe? to "misin- "lW choo~1ng and the angle ol t.~rpretah_on o f ~ar1ous convan- 01· off lei nrnk I t10111tl obJects, a mild form of m ass 0 0 ;~; the , pilO~ cl~~~cnd v~i-t ca y, terlo, or hoaxes.'' , s • 'Al l 1!~a er l'lb~c;t~~idh\ ahead or make 110 er. flY • ~ 1,1ght-anllle turn . ,, WASHINGTON posT sllar P turns , ~011Jd he m11de b) 6A,,...1') 11"1n5n Dat ed 4-4 - 50for example , 1 J y *
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Source text · mention only• • ----- Fr01n America , the 'home ' flying saucers, comes this up-to-the-minute \ su1111nary of report and rumour about { the modern mystery of th1 skies. liy RICHARD GREEI'\TOUGH Cll'PICII or TD LlnAL AffAOIII .&M!RlCAIJ IMBAssy THE DAILY MAIL .J.GIDOI.., ■Fl•HD . APRIL 3, 1950 LONDON, EOOLAND l I "' 'I boAru 21 iJ50 \ (o_l __ g3 (4- N O'l ' H i~ - . r
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Source text · mention only• • E NEW YoRx, Sunday. VER since Ken-lneth Ar no I d, 30 - y e a r - old, o rd in a r y business-man pilot from Boise, Idaho, ' off "flyingtouched the saucers " mystery by report ing, on the afternoon of June 24, 1947, that he had seen " nine shiny discs like metal hub-caps flip-flap ping along at about 1,200 m.p.h." only one fact seems uite certain. Nobody has yet proved de nitely that such things do or o not exist. Air Force finding THIS includes the U.S. Air' Force. still investigating reparts about "ce\estial crockery," though officially last December, after checking 375 cases, it closed down "Projec t Saucer." a special investigation group of Intelli gence officers with headquarters i~Ohio.At that time it was stated in a b nket turn-down that all re p ·ts were : . Misinterpretation of " con- ventiona.l " aerial objects. ThieIncluded g i an t experimen I cosmic-ray balloons. radar targ t balloons with dangling strips r aluminium foil, meteor trai s. wisps of or whole vapour tra s from high-flying aircraft, bright planets. 2. Mild form of mass hysteri a.. 3. Hoaxes. B'ut steadily, from 1947 up till a. few days ago, reports of curious objects that "go whizz in the air " keep on coming in from all over the United States. They have now been reportedfrom 43 out of the 48 States, with the majority coming from the south and east and near the Mexican border. They have a.1so. of course, been reports from other parts of the world, from Scandinavia, Africa,China, the Far East. The objects allegedly seen here have ranged from the now almolconventional flying disc o "s a u c er " sometimes wi " fuzzy " edges. or lit up at nightto torpedo· shape d wingles" space ships" showing regular 1 bws vi rrghts in the 4 Mk• a:i!d orange flames coming from the tail. Sometimes they have been re wrted shaped like tubes. pillars, spheres.But two facts seem to rema in constant. They a.re all said to be either white or silver, and to move across the sky in an und~lating way, tut!ng first in ime direction then the oth er, rising and falli'ng, before flnallv disappearing into nothing or over the horizon. • 'Pilot's chase ONE u.s. Air Force pil~otcap t. Thomas Mantel st his life some months aizo ~ 11: to catch up w).th somethl!) a-t looked like a s!lvei;, 1c earn cone tooped with. red. . An experienced war-time pilot, with several thousand _hours' flying time Mantell was m his fighter plane leading two others near Fort Knox, Kentucky,. when 'the control tower .at his. airbase,Godman Field, radioed him to t,ry to locate a strange object s!ght~d from the ground and movmg m his direction. Mantell later called back that he had spotted the " thing " at " l2 o'clock high " (directly ahead and above him), and that It looked like a silver ice-cream cone topped with red. His air-to-ground conversation was logged at the air base and I ave checked it. He later rl orted : •• I'm clOSin!f In now to take ood look. It s directly ahead e and moving at a go!)d spee . he thing l,?oks metallic and , tremendous . t
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Source text · mention only• • • f hen a orilliant, fast-mov ·1bject suddenly appeared ahea His last report $ f them . "We saw It at the same time,h1les told inves tigator s lateF OR 25 minutes Mante' I • Whatever it was flashed down - t and the two other pllotried vainly to close in. Manf I reported the object was climbingand moving i;it a speed equal to his own. which he gave as 360 m.p.h. In broken cloud at 18,000ft the other two pilots lost sight of him,later broke off and landed. Mantell called once more to saythat if he were no closer at 20,000ft. he'd abandon the chase as he hadn't the oxygen. That was the last beard from him. His body was later founct near Fort Knox and the wreckage fis machine scattered over hal a ile around . Obviously his pla e ad disintegrated in mid-air . Official Air Force version w at Mantell had probab~\ blacked out " from lack of oxygen a.nd had not regained consciousn ess before he crashed. out of control. Still a mystery BUT one of his fellow-pilots later commen ted: "I think that was a cover-up. Mantell was too experienc ed a J?ilot for that He was quite familiar with signs of appro aching anoxia_ flack of oxygenl. and would have tak en s teps to prevent It. · " Some of us think he may have collided with wha tever h e saw and that It knocked him out In the air ." Engine e1·s later added that t~ t pe of machine Man tell was fl g starting a dive at 20.000f uld not have disintegra ted s oroup;hly . During the pas t t wo and thre wards us and -we veered to th'e left It veered sharply too and passed about 700 feet to our right and above us." quarter years a multitude Ieople on the ground claim ave seen these "flying saucers :• or have they always been se ith the naked tye ; many sa hem through binoculars.lBut the fa.ct that first started the U.S. Air Force to sit up, take notice, and then institute "Pro ject Saucer " was the largenumber of apparently responsible pilots and aircrew members who sem in startling reports of what they claimed 'to have seen. • One of the theories along which " P.S " investigators worked was evident from the fact that every plane whose pilot reported close encounters with "flyir.g saucers" was checked with Ge I e g e r counters for possible radio activity . . Head-on meeting T AKE the case, for in• stance. of c~ptain Clar ence Ohiles, fonner Air Tran.sport Command pilot. and John B. Wl1itted. who flew B.29 Super· forts during the war. Both are appily marri ed men with fa;!es good Jobs and no need. I pparent desire for publicitv. They wei-e flying a schedule irline service near Montgomer Jabama, one night last summe ,l "The thing was about 100 feet Jong cigar--shaped and wingless, about twice the diameter of a B.29 wtthout protrud ing fins," said Whitted. " There was a tremendous burst of orange flame from the rear. It zoomed int.o clouds, Its Jet or prop wash rocking our DC3." Seeing's believing~ MORE recently , two wee ago. two other alrli pilots, Captain J~ck. Ada~. wit • some 8,000 hou_rs flying time, and co-pilot G. W. Anderson reported a "flying saucer " ;with windows cm the bott.om and a. blinkinglight near the top as they passed over Arkansas. " It was flying almost due north and we crossed its path a t about a 45 degree angle,' said Adams. "It was about 1,000ft. above us and trav elling at a tremendous rate. It had a p eculiar ly coloured and very intense ligh t. near the top which blinked v ery rapldtv. "We kept t he object In sight for about 45 seconds . ~~ "I've been a sceptic all my e about such things, but wl~at c. n you do when you see a thmg h e that ? " he concluded. "We we both flabbergast ed."
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Source text · mention only• • r . -r j l r. ll Mr. u. l To!4.'. Ee:. • SECRET INQUIR'f \ I_NTO VFLYINQ SAUCER~r: halluci nations alternative ly een . ependent detail 1u.s. 'LOSES' REPORT BY AIRMEN From ROBERT WAITHMAN, News Chronicle Corre spondent WASHINGTON, Sunday . I N the United States in the last month it has become a good deal harder to dismiss as reports that flying saucers- or " flying objects of non-conventiona l design "-have lately been seen in the ski,es. It has become harder, firs't because the reports have coming in from such sourc es and with such in 'that it would be remarkable indeed if hey were all the product of too vivid imaginations; and econd because there has been some rather peculi'a:r bfiI!!ial beh aviour in the matter. J NE\'i;S CHHONICLE CIIP?CB OP TD LBQAL A'l'TAOIIII LONDON, E!IGLAND AMIRICAlf IJmASSY APRIL 3, 1950 LOIDol, .]t,AHI) { --- 5 8 t r-. 21 o
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Source text · mention only• • .. In the huge Pentagon building . Washington . headquart ers ., f e Defence Department, there~·s n Air Force majo r whose du y is to repeat to all inquirers t e I bstance of the last Air For e stateme nt on flying sauce , issued on December 27. 1949. " Mass hysteria" On the basis of inquiries into 375 allege d occurrences over a period of two year s. it was an nounced : "Reports of un identified flying obj ects are the result of misinterpretation of various conventional objects or a mild form of mass h ysteria or hoaxes.'' It was said a c ontinuance of the inquiry was " unwarranted." But in fact it has appeared during the last month that edible witn esses who say . they ave seen flying sauc ers are still ing examined by Intelligence fficers. It was noted, too. how quick ly Fand how thoroughly one of the most comprehensive of the newes t reports has been officiaily " lost." Ours ? 1 Employees of the Civil Aer nautics Authority at work in control tower at Dayton muni cipal airport in Ohio. in conjunc tion with U.S Weather Bureau obser vers and four pilots of t he Air National Guard who took off in fighte rs t o l ook at the " un identified object "- they all saw and submit ted their testimony to t he admi nistrat or of C.A.A. The Idea-sometim es seriously advance d and often half bel ieved- that the saucers could be explorator y craft from another planet has infinite possibilit ies. But unt il it is proved i t may be more profitable t o wonder whethe r there has been d e veloped somewhere a disc-like plane with a cir cle of swiftly t·evolving vanes that might able it to hover or to flv at 1gb speed . ~ If this or something like lt urns out to be the answer . th re aY be good i;eason for hop there that it is one of ours .
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Source text · mention only--- • -~ Ur, TollOl!. Ur. Ladd Mr. Cl"~ t,•r. Glc'PI.D 'Rocket saucer ' ROME , Thursd .-A flying sauce was repor ted ver Milan todl..Then l ate r it as discovered th t three boys had at.tached rocke ts o a l a rge m eta l d isc and set th / off from the roof or a hi h building.- E:,press News Service. QilCI OP TBS LICJAL AffACIIII AIIIRICAII BIIBASSY LONDON• BIIJLAMD DAILY EXPRESS London, England MARCH 3l, 1950 \bl:.~ 't!L-/J - NvT RE{ ORDED 85 APR 191950
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Source text · mention only• • -- • Mr Tolscn - Ur. Lada. - 1 - }4r. G;a:ln -----· Mt, Nichol3 ----- Mr. Ro: n --· -···- l\ti. 'J:tC'.C"f --•-·- M,t. Hmbo --- - Mr. Beltn~-,\ - - Mr. Mohr ---·· - Tele. Roo"1 --- Ut. Nca::a - \:_~_:~-== f Juing saucers- \ ~.E., S. and W. ROME, W ednes day. - Flyin ;;aucers agai n-ove r Ua ly now . Th is is wha t people in five differ ent ar eas reported: Salo, on Lake G arda .-A disc a s large a s a full 1. ,00 11 slreaking towards the north-east. Carra ra .- Four. thre e mile s up, fly ing southward s. Calabr ia. Disc "lik e ll moon with a wake of . e" spee din g westwar ds. ~ Sar dini a . - A flyin g sauc • r main ed suspended 20 second , t e n disa ppea red to the sout . I t l'Ao sta. - A disc flying ave ib .ad.- Reu ler. OJPICB OJP TD t.l!DAL AT'l'ACIII AUE& .: cq llmASSY LOIIDClf,IMHtAID EVlllit,G STANDARD MARCH 29, ~950 / fl;,r'LONDON, El\GLAND If 'J t ~r1f.11.:Ji" ~, 'i:' R EOQfi ;, h..U R) APR~l91~so
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Source text · mention only• • -- lo!r. Tolson ____ _ "11. Ladd _ _ _ _ Mr. Clegg ____ __ Mr . Glavi n ____ _ 'fr. Nichol" ____ Mr. Rosen ____ •'!Ir. Tracy ____ Mr. Harbo - -Mt. Bclmam - Mr. .Moltt ___ Tele. Boom -Mr.Neaae_ l 14luCkmdy,_ I 1 It;1.lft • ~ 9 F lly· 1TI g1\,l.ying faci or flighi ol ja,w-y'? 1 1 ~ Jl)1l 41CHARD GARRETT traces the liistoJ·y of an aerial phenomenon which gave America sky-war jitter~ Professor F. S. Cotton, of Sydney University , was discus sing with his stu dents the mystery of the flying saucers. He asked them to stand still, train their eyes on a point in the 1 sky about a mile away. Within ten minutes 22 members of the class were see ing } "s~ucers." The hallucin ation was merely the effect of red blood corpuscl es passing in front of the eye retil)a. -.E<m a,, 'l'D L1IJAt, AT'l'JC SUNDAY GRAPHIC AMIRICQ IIIBASSY MARCH 26, 1950 LOIIDOH,1111.AIID LONDON, ENGLAND fi6 APRll 195Q - -. 6' . .. .L
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Source text · mention only• • "FLYING saucers" are back in the news. , From New · York comes a eport that Captain Jack dams, pilot of the Chicago ~nd Southern Airlines, radioe d that he and a co-pilot had crossed the path of a lar ge fly ing s a u c e r, with lighted windows and a peculiarly coloured blinkin g light on top and travelling at about 600 m.p.h, over Arkansas. This was followed by a news cable from Lisbon: Scores of flying saucers reported by coastguards of bfie North Por tuga l coast flying in line and other formations and moving west " faster than tracer bullets ." So the 1950 "saucer season" seems to pave opened early. First report of these strange craft came on June 25, 1947, when a Mr. Dahl of Tacoma, Washington , noticed a circular flying machine , like a silver oughnut, cutting cap ers over is back-vard . Presently he saw five more planes " rotating round a venth .t Speculations The centre craft then began to shed metallic rain. Most of it fell seawards, but one piece landed in Mr. Dahl's yard. On July 4, the first photo graph of a •• flying saucer" was taken by a Seattle coast guard. The sna p revealed a small white oblong, set aga inst a dark gre:Y background. The U.S. Navy said that the descriptions fitted its new wingless plane-the " Flyi11g Pancake "-but the re was only one of t hese, and it had never ventu red outside Connect icut. A meteorologist suggested that solar reflections on low cloud would produce simila r effects. and a Los Angeles scientist talked about "trans mutation of atomic energy ." A letter to a San Francisco newspaper hinled at an inte r- p~netary solution. e San Francisco corre- s ndent was soon to find his icJ a carried a stage further. •. Mead Layne, publisher an occult magazine, pro- l duced an a,1·Ucle in which he claimed to have received a message, via a medium that t,here were people aboa1'.d the "saucers." • They came from another planet, and wished to try liv mg on earth . In Britain "saucers" were reported over Brighton beach, and another was seen by a clergyman·s wife at Sandwich. Back in America Presi dent Truman com pared the rumours to the scare of over a hundred years ago, when word got around that there were men and bats living on the moon. The neatest "fly ing saucer" quipping came from Mr. Grom Y k o at U.N.- head quarters. " Some," he said, "attribute them to the British for export ing too much whisky to the U.S., others that it is a Russian discus thrower training for the Olympic Games who does not know hL~ 9wn strength." The first flying saucer fever died down under sheer weight of explanation, but reports still came in. Spain suspected In May, 1948, a U.S. Air F o r c e intelligence officer opined that the " discs " were the work of ex-Nazi s:ientists in Spain. During Franco 's 1938 siege of Madrid his German allies had tried out a circular missile, with an explosive cen tre and four engines around the cir cumference. The expe riment had failed, bu~ in 1944 the Germans had repeated it, using jet engines . It was believed that the scientists responsible h a tl escaped from the Russian zone, throu gh France , and \\'ere now working for Wle Spanish Government. It: D ec em be 1·, 1949, the offi.c1al body which had bi established in America to pro e the " saucers" was disba.nd . It had been in operation f r two years, and had investigat 375 incidents. I t· said that the phenomenon was caused by : (a) misinter preta tion of various conven tional objects; (b) a mild form ' of mass hysteria; (cl hoax es. . An~ the1·e, one might have 11nag111ed, the sto ry would have end e·d. But the •· flying sauce rs " r e f u s e d to be grounded. Fellow travellers? The present phase of flying saucerisms reached _its climax on March 9, when a U.S. business man, tra ,·eJJi.ng in Mexico, claimed to have seen a streamlined " disc •· in \\'hich a 23in. tall pilot had perished. A Mexican denia l inuu eiiately followed publi cation f the story, but not J,ef e Den ver, C9lorado, had c port cd that a s imil ar "sauce " bad co~e to grief near by a:;1d three httl e men bad been dis covered inside it. The Defence Department of the U.S., repeating its denial of " flying saucers.'' said : " If these saucers start landi ng, and little men with radar sticking out of their ears clilnb out, we sha ll have to do some thing about it." " Flying saucers" have now been seen in pretty well every country of the world. They have been chased by jet planes, and observed by scientists and have baffled all attempts to explain them away. ~ Are they sheer fantasy . or s there a grt1in of t.rulh. in t accounts? Your guess is • good as mine . 0
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Source text · mention only• • 4 -26 Tolson ____ Ladd:._ ___ _ Cleg g___ _ Glavin ____ ~xpert 'ExplainS'Im--~~ Flying •. Saucers ~IRoom_ :Sy UnHcd Pres., ROME, March 25-Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo, 7g_year-old Italian turb ine engineer, said today that designs for "flying saucers" we1;e J)11ep?u.'ed for Hitler and Mussolini in 1942. "According to those designs ," ·he l"- said in an interview, "the disks •could carry a cargo ot explosives of any kind- and today an atom ic bomb-to destroy entire cities ." Of the present rash of reports of '"flying saucers," which the U. S. ·Air Force has declared are without .toundation in fact, Sr. Belluzzo said: "It has passed my mind that some great power is experimenting with t]ying · disk s-wit hout explosives or atomic bombs. DRAFTED PLANS "There Is nothing supernat ural about flying disks. It's just the most rational use of recently evolved techniques." Sr. Belluzzo said he pers onally bad drafte d plans for a "flying disk" 32 feet in diameter, but ·c1aimed they disapp eare d with Mus solini when he fled to nort hern · Jtaly in 1943. "Both Hitler and Mussolini were interested in flyin g discs,'' he said. "The principle of the flying disc is very simple. Its construction is easy and . can be done with very light metal. "Two jet pipes placed on either side of the rim of the disk , provide the locomotion. The orifices of these jet tu~e s are adjust?~le to -permit maximum and mm1mum speeds. PILOT NOT NEEDED ''Propulsion comes from a mix ture of compressed air and naphtha - the same fuel used in modern jet planes . _ . "The air 1s mixed under pressure and ignited at first by cartridges and then by an . electr ical device. Terrific pressure 1s set up and the expanding gas forced out thru the jet pipes. _ . "The reaction, c~mmg _from the osing pipes on ~1ther side of the ifc, start th~ en_tJre. appara,~us re- volving, ma_kmg 1t airborr:ie. _ The miss iles could be aimed like l e war-time German I V-2 rockets, said, and would descend when e fuel was exhausted or cut off an autom atic timing Nod.cy,,ire uman pilot would be requJred, = - --- --------- - - ~ Page Times -Hera ld Wash . Pos t Wash. News Wash . N.Y. J) Sc.:.S Dat e: Star Mirror -- 0
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Source text · mention only-- • 1· C~~:~ REPORTS . V ~ AUCER / I '-A~e. Monda sa silver-oolo Y Momt--ucer " w ured ,. ,...... ! t,he :fi&bin as rqporte flying near here g port ot C~' aboYe Ung " • early owog ........, ., .•, .~•aa:.~~ UP.-Reutered a fMr. Tolson -- M•. Iedd - 1 Mr. Clegg_ : •• Clavin - j Mt '"c~o !s - J Ji" .... r ~n --- ~ ·, 1"' · T!acy _ t,!., 'crcbo -- Ii .. ~.- -----mont ; Mr, · ~- - - ~ Tc-' --- - M r. l.t Miss con,..y THE DAILY F]!;BRUARY 2~AIL LONDON, l :i/u L ' A.ND1950 OffICE OF TftE LEGALAMEF "AN EM ATTACBIJLOND BASSY !l!P,.,, .. i'J~
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Source text · mention only•J 'Saucers' Sp~ 1 From Planets, --X' Writer Claims NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (AP) - A monthlY magazine says the so• called flying saucers are real-Ve• hie es for s stema i observation of the earth by visitors from other planets. e c tained in an article by Donald E Ke;vhoe in the January issue oL~ pubf1snea by Fawcett :eublication§ . .(pc. Keynoe Fi a tormeF-inforlna-• • ef_.!oi:.-the-aer&~cs branch , U. s. Commei:ce--depa.t ml!nt . -nie magazine said the conclu• siC!._I!§_ wer.e=tllrs~cr:=on an eight;. month investigation . '"Keyhoe says ,Tr!.le "learned that a. rock~ uthotlty _ s.tl!J,loned at Wriglit field has told 'Pro1ect Saucer' personne l flatly that the saucers are interplanetary and that no other conclusion is P0S• sible.'' Last April the Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald that the Air Force, although conceding the saucers were no "joke,'' bad discounted the theory that the discs repr"'• sented visitations from sucl2 planets as Mars, where human ! life is believed by some to exist. day, an Air F orce spokesml - ss that "Air Force studies f 'f g saucers' lend no support o th view that they come fro a her planet ." ::, • a<~~~ C l e gg ____ Glavin___ Ha rbo ____ Nich ols Rosen _ ___ T racy ___ _ Moh r --:-+r-/ F l e tcher ___kf,C T ele . Roo m_ N ea se ____ Gandy _ ___ l ( Page Times-Herald_ L-t Wash. Pos t l~u/_li NOT REOORDED 75 FEB 8 1950 Wash. News Wash , Star --- N.Y. Mi rror Date : ____t-.1_ ,_ l_v
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Source text · mention onlyJl{ (/ff [) /SC:S -"-~"=-t-.~"""'!LRoeia -~ -·1 It's 'Wild New World' Dished ·u in~Saucers0 ._'.'Flying saucers ,:' obse rvator ies clence to repor ts of satell ite mis on the moon, high-fly ing r ockets siles. and eart h satellite vehicles car ry- ing weapo1is and possibly m en to whirl endlessly far out in space, today seem like pipe dreams of a n1ad wor ld of fa n tasy . They ma_v be harbi ngers of a wild ryew world to come. 'J'hr: a ir force, as eat·ly as last s1n·ing, said officiall~• that the 11,·iug sa,u-ers "at·e not a jo](e." _ No such s hitl h as as yet ,...been bui lt, a ccordi ng to t he best info nn ed soun:es. But i<leas fo1· 0 110 have n't been forgotte11. Gravity gradually falls off far out in space beyond -the ear th, scienti.,ts expla in. It never quit e ends, they say, but at 5000 miles it is r elative ly weak . "A spacesh ip could easily be Ai1· force autho rities even n ow !rnpt in positio~ ere," 1t accord - may be prepa ring an announce- mg to _Dr. ~Joy otz, a Colum- men t stating tha t the flying discs b1a Umvers1ty a ·tronomer . , are rea l objects , not merely fig- ments of imag inat ion as far as the air Corcc is concerned , The Mirror learned yesterday . That woirlcl seem to r emove the flying discs from the realm of old wives' talcs and the bubble talk of guys who have had one or t wo s nifters too many. Poss jbiliti es that the satt• cet-s a,·e missilrs launc hed fro m a foreig n p lanet are given sel'ious co11sidemtiou. The U.S. defense depart ment' s annonncement of plans cons ider ing a super spaces hip, to be kept un ·' 0 e, •r ol while t l'avelin g a n • orbit ,aroun? , the earth, lepd ere• "If left to its l"lf it would g1•a<l11ally ret111·11 to e art h," h e sarn. "ll1 1t it would take VCl'Y littll" thm st, fro,11 s mall 1·ock- eta disd,:u-gecl a t i,'.lervals to k ec11 it w h e1·e 1t w as wanted." To get it up there, the space ship would have to leave the ear th at an initia l velocity of 25,- 000 miles an h our, to escap e the pull of gravity . At s uch speeds, presen t k nown metals would melt Qeca~~r friction. ,._,"~V B11t in oth er woi1W, fa,, from om• ow n earth ,· pet·haps ; :;_ THE MIRROR - LOS ANGELE • I I' ..~ - ..hdll--- --· .....~ ---· · Nit- Q;J)iv.ini --• l)tr. i)I.I~ - ---,- Mr- &'Q!lc"' • -.•,- • Mr. Ttl\<'Y ·w-~-~ Mr- liur b<> -~ ~N M.-. l\lobr , ----~- "1J ;.llcnse-..,..........---- , Jn;olll~--·· · - .,J bett e1· ntct~Js have been de veloped. I 1t is the wildes t kind of s ec ulati on, but the flying d iscs rt ay be' the first c alling cards from an interstellar neighbor. l~,-.~:i!Ui~A 78 NOV 1 7 1949
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Source text · mention only--- ------ Mr. Tolson = Mr. E. A. Tamm_ Mr. Clegg Mr. Gl avin Mr. Ladd Mr. Mr. for Clue to 'Saucers Mr. Mr. By Unftcd Press Air Force investigators-skeptica l but intrigued are trying today to locate an eccentric inventor 10 more than 10 years ago built two contraptionsfu.,hat look like "fly ing saucers." The disc-type ships, battere d and damaged, were found yesterday in an abandone d barn near Glen Burnie, Md., where they had lain untended for nine years. "It is apparent that both ships would give the appear ance of flying discs,'' an Air Force spokesman said . NO REAL PROOF An Air Force officer last night described the two craft as "definite prototypes o.f flying saucers,'' but the service hedged today . A spokesman objected to the word "prototype," saying he Air Force has only repor ts of what fJying saucers ook like and has never established that such things ac-ually were seen. . . The Maryland inventor, Jonathan ~ !dwell, d isap eare d in 1940. The only possibility of' arr;.. connection !between his old abandoned devices and the rumored "fly ing saucers" of recent years would lJe in the possibili ty t<--=- ~ t, _(t , O'l! H J<:CORDED r 1 SEP 23 1949 Mr. Mr . Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. in the middle. The engine was in the tub and bottom rims of the tub were four-bJad· \.'cllicb re.yolved in opposite directions . ---.--.,, - ..,. ...u--- WASHINGTON NEWS Paige 6 Nic,liols_ Rosen Tracy Egan Gurne a Harbo Mohr Pennin gto n_ Quinn Tamm _ Neas e Miss Gandy that he went to some other part of the country , deved• oped better models and flew them successfolly . ,. A good many officers find it difficu lt to believe he could have done that without coming to [Yublic attentio during the periodic excitement over "£lying saucers" >in the past two years . But they would like to find out what happened to Mr. Caldwell after he left Maryland and talk with him, if he still is alive. Mr. Caldwell, who would be about 70 today, left the Maryland ·.earm hastily nine years ago, after getti ng into financial trouble with the state. He took with him his wite and son. Maryland authorities at that time had ordered him to stop selling any more stock in his enter • prise, "Gray Goose Airways, Inc." Previous ly, he had been ordered to stop selling stock in New Jersey and New York. NOT NATURALLY DISHONEST Robert E. Clapp , who as assistant Attorney General for Maryland, conducted the inves tigation of Mr. Caldwell's operations in 1940, said in Baltimore today: "Whenever he needed more funds he went out and so.Id stock, and he continued to run the business as tho. it were his own. He wasn't t,he ordina~·y type of frau1 dulent stock salesman. I believe ne smcerely though he had something and I doubt if he thought he was , eing dishonest." For two years Air Force investigators have been run n ing down clues from coast to coast on reports of flying saucers. The Air Force in the main has tal<en a skeptical attitude toward the reports . Its last official report said it just didn't have conclusi ve evidence that they eith er did or didn't exist. ONE TESTED HERE Some of the flying saucers have been repo1·ted s0en from th e air, but traveling at such high speed as to make pursuit impossible . One mil itary pilot crashed to his death, reportedly while chasing a fJying saucer . One of the craft found in the Maryland barn repol'tedly flew here bri~fly aro~md 1939. It was said to have gotlenonly 75 feet m the atr. One ship resembled a h elicopt er. But ins tead of :roto blades it had a disc-like device about 16 feet in diam ~ The device resembled two saucers revolving top t etter. SmaU rotor blades jutted from between the two sa~ op. The other craft, named the "Roto-PJane" looked cr~s. a plywood tub about 14 feet in diameter ' The pil t 1 e~ Aro od ~a un °_r ed propel lei• -
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Source text · mention only- - ·fliint5aucer'I Story Deflated By Air force Experimental Craft Will Be Examined For Other Clues fl ·The Air Force·s long search for "flying saucers" has turned up two contraptions almost as weird as anything, yet descnbed by the most wild-eyed "wit nesses" of two sum mers ago. .11elct for the examination of ex perts are two weather -beaten remnants of an inventor's dream uncovere e e • m a tobacco she ne 1 urme , ., an outer suburb of Baltimore. An official Air Force statemett jssued today said "the two e - perimental aircraft found ne r Baltimore yesterday have abs lutely no connec tion with the re ported phenomenon of flying sau - ers." This does not mean, how ver, that they will not be xam!ned for other clues by Air orce representatives, it was said. The r • s are more tha n 10 ~ years' old, and so far as can e determme . only one of them ever jgt off the _ground under Its own ' power. This occurred in Wash .,i.!)K almost ·ears aao and ended in near -disaster after ~ flight of abou t 60 seconds. - Pilot Tells of Test ~ll,- ~ The inventor. J ~ ~a well, who is now over 70, if still J(vfug, and his wife and son left Glen Burnie in 1940 after Mary land authorities ordered Mr. street N.E., no": _with . tile Civil Aeronau t ics Admm1strat1on at Na , tional Airport , 'made the first and only test hoP in Mr. Caldwell's h elicopter , the Gray Goose, at the old Bennin g R!lce. track in 1940. Mr. Dri ggers said he helped de sign the helicopter . TJ1e macl1ine rose about 40 feet and after some 60 seconds in the air, Mr. Driggers became aw~re the controls were not opera ting properly, he told The Star_. He decided if he took 1t an:v gher he might not get do!~ afelY and he crash landed . 1 he race track . He was unu - red. but the machine was da • -E ..ue.g, i ,Lived Here Severa l Years . Builder Wa. ,.. rpenter. M..riggers said the sauci· The helicopte sisted of J ro e rotors was des1gne l ght wingless 1ge witl~ o ac s a wing after the sh ropeller' in front and a tnpo ad attained cruising altitu • ver the cockpit, which mount~ The rotor would then be stopp he saucer- like rotor and 1 and the ship flown with the con- projectin g blades. ventional propeller. He explained, Except for the pancal<e struc however, that this was theory, ture around the inner sections of becaus~ the ship was never flown the rotor. the model was much a gain. the sama as oth er experimental Mr. Caldwell lived in Washin g- jobs of that time . ton for several years before his Mr. Caldwell. a former carpen disappea.rance, and seems to have ter. whose friends said he had returned here briefly from Glen studied t he science of aeronautics Burnie before dropping from in several books, had a far less sight. The model tested here was conventional idea in his "flying a small helicopt er whose rotors cheesebox." • projected from a saucerlike disc The upper and lower lids, con mounted on a trlpod above the tainin g short rotror blades '-jutting from their outer rims, were sup-cockpit. ·t dTattered remnants of this disc, posed to rotate in oppos1 e irec-t tions, giving rapid life and some covered with cloth, and the ba - stabili ty in flight. Mr. Caldwell's tered fuselage were fou nd in the f riends ~aid. They admitted the shed, along with a p lywood box, 1,500-pound ce,ntraption neve! like a l1Uge circular cheesebox, flew, buL said Mr. Caldwell ha hose top and bottom sections claimed that a light model prove ·ere designed to revolve in oppo- successful. ite directions with sh~rt rotors The inventor earlier had trie. rojecting from th.e nms. The a third model.fpilot was to have ridden in the This looked some.thing like a middle, near the motor mount . complicat ed hay rick on wheels , c apt. Claudius Belk, head of the a nd had rotors designed to fan the Baltimore office of Special Investi - a ir.,somewhat after the fashion of gation of the Air Force, reveale_d the paddle wheels on old steam that his office has "been lnvest1- boats. There were no claim s t hat gating the machines for months" this machine ever left the ground , as possible prototypes of the flying and Mr. Caldwell abandoned it in I saucers repor ted so frequently. He favor of later icieas. said efforts are being made to Attorney Robert E. Clapp , who locate Mr. Caldwen in the hope of was Assista nt Attorney General getting engineering data on his of Maryland at t.he time of Mr. rota-plane ideas. Caldwell's disappearance, and The remains of the two ma- helped administer the blue-sky chine;; were placed in stora ge by laws, conduc ted a hearin g in 1940 Maryland state police, who helped lnLo the affail:s of two of Mr. Cald locate them at the re4uest of the ell's companies-Gray Gole Air Force. The material will be , held it was said, until it can be -...~ ---dete~·mined if experts from the A ·ways, Inc .. and _Rotor Plan s, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Inc. He Jate1· restrained the fir s at Dayton, Ohio, wish to exam - from selling stock in Maryland . ;;,;;,,,,;;.;:=e...3 · "All he had was models," Mr. file 1t. Clapp said. "and whenever one failed and he needed more funds ,Caldwell to "cease and desist" he went out and sold st◊~k."from selling stock to finance his R:.J In his report, Mr. Clap(t-4laid : aeronautical ideas. None of the neighbors have heard from them ,,.( ✓ v l4- , , I I"The literature used ~4on nec- -i _ - 'I-' tion with these stoek s~eS':c1ear1ysince . I 4 indica tes that the public•~as led toWillard E. Driggers of 1530 Olive believe that tl1e inventio n was on the verge -of perfection and would be complete d and ready for general production within a very short time. wherens, the fact as testi fied by Mr. Caldwell indicate that no machine on which he had ever ~ . worked had been successfully flown (:3 or was in any condition for manu]facture and sale upon a satisfac • fl~ (/c; JI , / _tory commercial ba.sis. • • • gg \/ J ..,. ~ ~rr- "The history of 1,~e _develop ~1-U~CORU~l> ment·of these comPam_es indicate. t-: that they were organized merely 84 SEP 2 3 1949 for the purpose of raising money to develop the ideas of Mr. Cald well. and that as soon as this money w~s raised, it was trt!atea. as belonging solely to him and as the subject of any use which he deemed proper. "No meeting ot stockholders ha e~er been held by either company and no financial report to stock holders has e@o.CS2!!le ou~ sinci organization ." 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Source text · mention only• 1 IR FORCE FINDS 'FLYING SAUCERS'-This is Jonathan E. Caldwell's "Gra.y Goose" helicopter ictured before it made a near-disastrous test flight of about a minute in Washington nearly o~~~- • Washington Star Page A 18
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Source text · mention only• • To l son Ladd Cle gg Gl avi n .. .. •. Nichols __ Ros en Tr a cy Ha rbo Mohr T e l e . Room _ ' NeaseI\ Gandy t1en Burnie 'Sauci• ' CJips 'Confiden:lc1I,-I but They Aren't 1 Newspap er clips on the "flyina _ saucers" found in a Glen lrorn!e ..-t5afif"ias t week have been s:mt to Washington marked "C!assi1iecl "' ICo11;itlen tiaJ. ,. -- As part of an OSI report which contains other data, the clips are crammed into a folder mark ed "Confidential." But that doesn't mean a thing. .J "You can take that file and pull those clippings out and show them i anybody," an Air Force spokes an said. "But if a folder is mark~' onfidential,' a fellow wants t l k out because he knows som o ·the other stuff in there is a 1 '@Ore important ." _ ',I WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS FINAL EDITION 58 SEP 1 '119 ~ DATE ~../ft/
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Source text · mention only---- • Mr. Tol s on Mr . Cle gg Mr . Glavi ~ Mr. Ladd i Mr. N icho ls Mr . Ro sen Mr. T ra cy Mr . E gan Mr. Mr . Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr . Gurne a H arb o Mohr Pennin gton_ Quinn T amm_ Nea se --- Researchers' BJloo;~ Mistaken for Discs • ~C~Ic Aqo , J uly 16 (INS) . ~ dJs~" and "fast-moving jeUJanes" i;iatJjad some Cpl ca::r:ns warn ed were identified to __ y a~ gas baltooos n<ed ijy Jitre Up~1tv of Cllicago for cosmi6 r'U'. researcn. Large numbers of l 1cagoan~ reported seeing my~ r!ous obJects In the sky yester Y morning. Descripti ons varie om Jet plane s to silvery globule t o 5~long.1 1 ✓__ iSB Ga ndy., 14''~ ) J,,:tck < ~ JUL 171949 WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD Page 3 Sec. 1
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Source text · mention only• • - •• · came from Russia. The Air For said:"To date there has been no ta •'~ying Saucers' gible eviclence which would su port a. theory that,anY of the in· cidents are attributable to activity of a foreign nation. On the otherdn Secret list hand, there is no evidence to deny The Air Force disclosed yes- categorically such a possi~ili_ty. . -~ . "Many of the reported mc1dents teldaY that secrecy restnct1ons have deflnite!Y been determined , have been clamped on _certain to be meteoroligical balloons or • incidents connected with the mys- natural celestial phenomena . How• • terious "flyin g saucers" seen in ever, there are some incidents ~ -. ported by reliable and compete the skies last year. observers which are still une • At_the s_ame time, the Air Force plained. " admitted 1t is impossible to "deny - ------ categorically" that the weird ob· ject.s originated in the Soviet Union or some other foreign na• tion. A statement declared that some incidents linked with the "flying saucers still are unexplained." A spokesman said some of the "in explicable" incidents have been placed in the "classified" category ; denied to all persons except au thorized military personnel. e statement was issued as t Air Force continued to re c e inquiries arising out of a c mentator 's broadcast. The c mentator said the "saucers" This clipping is from the evening edition of The Washington Times Herald ~- ~-);Y' Date
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Source text · mention onlyMr.Tolson Mr.E.A.Tamm Mr.Clegg Mr.Glavin Mr.Ladd INDEXED-64 601-V5 Mr.Nichols Mr.Rosen Mr.Tracy Mr.Carson Mr.Egan Mr. Gurnea Mr.Harbo Mr.Hendon Mr.Jones Mr.Pennington Mr.Quinn Tamm_ Mr.Nease Miss Gandy German Spy Calls Self Flying Disc'Inventor RIO DEANEIRO,NOV.5 (INS)-NilsChristensen,a con- victed German spy in Brazil, claimed today to be the inventor of“flying discs”which have been sighted in many parts of Ahe orld,including the United States. INDEXED-64 4162-83894-5 8.NO191948 OP 卫 EX-109 WASHINGTON TIMES HERALD AFTERNOON EDITION DATE1I-l-48 63DEC3 1948
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Source text · mention only• Sowiet Still" ,- ~ Wants ...4nswer To ~saueers' By DAVID SENTNER f N. T. Joarnal• .\mer-lc:an Wa.sblai-ton Burua WASHINGTON, Aug_ 14.-So vlet agents ln the United States have been Ol'dfij?d to solve the myste!'y of the~ Jylng Saucers," It was learned todaY~::-.---- Whlle ihe guessing game in this 1 country has bui-ned itself out, the Soviet Union continues to be acutely interested in the Phen omena, according to American in vestigat ive agencies. Iostructfons to SovJet espionage t ----- .-j ll~Ots ln the United States indl- /j~ the Kremlin belleves the sa~ J c rs_may be connected with Arm l e perfmeots lo devices to de~- 1 ·ss1on enemy: radar durln,1 bombing raids. RECORDED ' ~ -~ ; ~ o/__tf EX-9348 ~ T l~947 I ·--- --- ' (TvJ • , t.' ~.1."'J.~onoge Agent.s..>01l.Cv r:.,~,J in U .s . Interested in "Sauccr..,11
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Source text · mention only___ _ r . Tolson r. E . A. TamZ' Clegg _ ___ r ~ers' -Some Ae 'Em and ,S ;!!'::! 1:)o~ ~ .[ Mr. ~7 FW Chief A~'fjting· Messag~ rom Capital on Flying· Discs l • - . * * * The national le&<ler of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars said yester 1 day in Columbu3, Ohio, that he was momentarily expecting word from Washington which would ex plain the "flying saucers" mystery. Louis E. Starr, national com mander of the VFW, told the Ohio Sta te encampmen t of the VFW • that he might havt: "within a few bours" an explanalion from Wash ington. He had expe~ted_ the mes-1 sage at 3 p. m. but 1t did not ar- rivt be said. •• oo little is being t old the peo- pl of this countr y/ ' S tarr told the de •gates. undreds 0£ persons in about 30 States have reported seeing the silvery . saucer -shaped discs speeding through the skies a} tre mendous speeds. An exhaustive check with the War Department and other agen cies disclosed last night that no new-' formation was available in Washington. No one knew any thing, But a new tendency to take the reports a bit more se r iously was appar ent. As the mystification waxed, the scoffing waned. Some of the mystery missiles may have passed over W_ash_ington Friday night at about m1dmght. David Atamian, 5160 Shoemaker 1 ne Friendship Heights , Md., re aort~d that he had seen three ~r' fou1• of the flying sau~ers trav eling northward at a.rapid rate ?£ ed at about that tune. He said :p~e wer e at an altitude of between ~ and 2000 feet and appeared1 0 of a bright, bluish hue. t b: flying saucers produced a . e o f s peculation s and atse es 1See SAUCERS, Page 3, Column:!. 8WJ1if_:Jt~ :)~.~·~ ASSOClat ed Pre.. Wlltlll' HOTO JS IT?-Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, 27, made this picture with a Speed Graphic camera from the fron t porch of his Seattle , Wash., 1·esidence . It shows, says R yan, a "white sau cer" (arrow) that is neither an airplane, a cloud, nor a silver balloon. So, is it a "flapjack" or a saucer? Or maybe a bottle cap? Photo is enla r ged about 20 times ~,,.= ll~OO Jl1J$1J £i-3t 1 :~~~ Mr . Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr . Tracy Mr . Carson Mr. Egan Mr. Gurne a Mr . Harbo Mr. He ndon _ _ _ Mr . Jones Mr. Pennin g ton_ Mr. Quinn Tamm_ Post Sta!I ?hoto t DAVID ATAMIAN, i '. 5160 Shoemak er l~., Frien ip Heights, Md., said he sa, ree or four flying discs Fr day about 11!idnigbt TBIS IS NOT ONE OF 'El.\l , SAYS THE NA'1Y- The "filing pancak e," a wingless plane developed by the Navy, is the only plane it ha.$ which might resemble the repol'ted "flying '.58 1 cers," but officials in Washington said yesterday that th~i strang e-looking aircr aft has never left Bridgep ort, C onn. A thor ities are stil~ skeptic~) that the mystery missiles said t ~n seen m t he. skies over the West Coast and as faL East as the CM.Qlmas are aJlY smt o ew aitn.lane 162:~ 3'6<j!f -,t F R I 43 JUl 2s m 1 WASHINGTON POST Page 1-M & 3-M
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Source text · mention only• ap.K'Duvan, assistant suir• nte of the Naval Obse va- ory, . : that the saucer "does 10t eem to be an astronomical 1e- tomena." Credence in the saucers-wi ly laughed off at thei,: first reported • • 71:,i- 11ppeai:ance June 25-grew as hun• ie .t-1.Waiting 1uessage 1dre_ds of O?Servers, some of th~m I' tramed fliers, reported seelllgtFW Ch• f A • • • them. 1 r_orn C'!'pital on ~lying Discs_ ' !att:i~~~dL~t;,O fd~t~~ ;:i~a~ !~~ tempted explanations throughout Gua1 d, announced that the guards a gt"Oup of 60 picnickers saw them the country yesterday . squadron would attem:i_>t_ to photo- at Twin Falls, Idaho. And in A Los A1~gele~ • new~pap_er g~aph any futll!e al?pant~ons of tbe Portland, Oreg., so many residents ~uoted an un_1dentified sc_1enti~ discs. He. said s_1x P-al fighter witnessed them that same day the m nuclear physics at the Cal!forma planes, equipped with gun and t~le- police department sent out an ~ Inst itute of Technology as saying scopic cameras, would be kept cars broadcast. Ute fl~ing dis~s ~?ve 1·esulte~ from rea~y to take off on a moment's The crew of a United Airlin s expe1:iments 1~ ~ansm!;ltaho11 of notice. . plane said several of the roun , atomic energy b~mg co~ducted at Col. F. J. Clark, com':1and~ng flat objects were visible for ab Muroc Lake, Calif., White Sands, office1· of the Hanford Engmeermg l 2 minutes N. Mex.; Portland, Oreg., and Works in the Pacific Northwest - 1-~lsewhere. where the largest saucer influx has . r The scientist, whom the news- been reported, said the saucers paper said had worked as a re- were not coming from the atomic searcher on the atomic bomb p1ant there. "Manhattan Project," was quoted ."I have been waiting for some• as saying: one to tie the discs to the Han• "People are not seeing things. fprd atomic plant," he said. He Such flying discs actually are in declared that as far as he knew experimental existence. no experiments were under way "These saucers so-called are there which would explain the capable of hlgh speeds but they mystery. can be controlled from the gl'owid. Two Chicago astrouolli.ers said "They are 20 feet Ju width at the discs are probably "man he center and are pat1:ially rocket- made." ropelled on the takeoff." "They couldn't be meteors ," said However, other scientists were Dr. Girard Kiuper, director of s eptical about the claims of the the University of Chlcagp's Yerkes m . amed Cahfornia physicist. Dr, Observatory at Williams Bay, W-is. Hatold Urey, famed atomic scien· Dr. Oliver Kee, director of tist at the University o'f Chicago, Northwestern University's Dear said the term "transmutat ion of born .Observatory, said: atomic energy" is "gibberish." _"We realize that the Army and "You can transmute metals, but Navy are working on all sorts of not energy," and Dr. Urey. things we know nothing about." David Lilienthal, chairman of He said the mystery disks may the Atomic Energy Commission, represent an accomplishment simi declai-ed the unexp lained discs are lar to tbat of sending radar sig in no way connected with atomic nals to the moon." one of the great expel'iments. Lilienthal said he couldn't shed any light on the mystery and added: "Until someone has the fact s about this phenomenon , "I can't. see how anyone can say anything definite about it." ./1.nd Dr. C . C. Lauritsen , head of the nuclear physics department at Californ ia Institute of Tech nology, s aid he was certain nobody in his department, which includes four former Manhattan Project researchers including himsel!, had made "such a statemen t." He expre ssed the opinion that the discs " have nothing to do with :nuclear physics." SlTangely e11ough, the Murco, Calif., Arm.v Air Base. identified as one of the sites whrre the •·secr e experiments" are being carrie~ o1~, anno unced that it had a P~Otl hter plane standing by to gi 'e cl ase if one o f I he flying sauc s m de an appea rance. Col. Al Outlon, command i11g ~<' r ot t.he ·t on Nntio l est technological achievements of the war and accomplished in abso- lute sec~ecy." _ Here m Washmgton , Dr. New:~ bern Smiih of the National Burea of Stand~rds exl?ressed the opin!o ~~at all LIie excitement is akin to th05 e Loch Ness Monster stories .' The. !till.Ya coiument off red b JUL 6 1947 WASHINGTON POST Page 1 -M & 3-M
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Source text · mention only• • Mr. Tracy _ _ _ _ Mr. Carson - - - Mr . Egan ___ _ Gurne a Harbo --- Hendon Jones - --- Pennington_ Quinn · Tamm_ r 0 Flying Sliuce f; F o"iin-a .. Add latest reports on flying scm cers-ci garage sign with a ga1·bage ccin lid and an ingenious "b11z;er" found on the lawn of the home of Thad<J,eus Elder, 111 6th st., Lau rel: ~4- T~e "saucer" was discovered Fri day night shortly befo1·e 10 o'clock. Two smaU aerials projected from the ·i.ontrciption . It contained a dryl cen battery, a flashlight butb, a camera !ens and a ticker that caused the bm:zing. I The '1saycer" 11,ns tuxrted ou~r o Lautci police who f>eut a st.ratnhtJ a~•wlJ.ife .iufonufa1g 1ba fi'BI 0/1 he "discovep,," TIJe FBT wa.s.n·t: i!Uerest&<!, d ::;:: ,1.:..:....,,_. ~ f I r .-f/ F B I 44 Jur 1s 1s47 tt JUL 1 3 l947 WASHINGTON POSTe"·,Ut 0? l947 Page 17 M
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Source text · mention onlyMr. Mr . ' ltoys;, FlyingSaufeflioax Stirs Police, FBI and Army. ly the Associated Prus 1 Fo~;.'1-~~a~rist~~z t~~1J ·§!;S may or m~ not ~~i!~C C 3- sleeves today aft!¥· their version of a, flylng__gucer had 'practically the entire populace, the FBI Army Intelligence officers and police nu the-run. The boys created and manted in a yard Ye.:i~erdav_.an-o e.cl...3:..t!at looked to them as well as to the Arm4' gnd cl vllian office1·s1 just like " :fl~n disc sbanld Jnok. Tlleir hoax was exposed after As sls"tant Police Chief L. D. McCracken was tipped off that one cf the boys knew something about the disc. The cre.atioo, wllicb tool;" two da,vs to complete, was made from Rarts of an old phonograpp. burneg-out radio tu and other discarded elec tr cal arts. It ha a ex lass dom: radio tubes, burned wires and .@ste0foii gaia and sUYei:::.fil:llts. Since the boys are juveniles. their names were withheld . They will not b~.lllil§ecuted, Chief McGr~J;l,en s~ ~ - Mr. Clegg ___ _ Mr . Glavin / - 7Mr . L ~ . / ~ ,4~vifJ ichols / "'\J \ M'r . R osen _ ___ Mr. Tracy ___ _ Mr. Carson _ 1•__ Mr . E gan____ Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr . Jones ___ _ Mr. Pe uni ngt on_ Mr. Qu i nn Tamm _ Mr. Nea~ e \ M ' s Gan , I • I l (/ . 0 f - (} fJ I J" (' TfECORDED l - - -lb... B J[ 42 JUI. lb 1947 JUL 1 2 1947 WASHINGTON STAR Page__l _ ___
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Source text · mention only--- Mr. Tol son Mr. E . A . Tamm- Mr. CleggJ ' Mr. Glavin Mr . Mr . Mr. Mr . Mr . Mr. Mr . Mr . Mr. Mr. Mr . Mr. Ladd Nicho l s Rosen Tracy Carson Egan Gurne a Harbo Hendon Pennington_ Quinn Tamm -Nease IJMke, iox Borthecl~ This Flying Discc_ Army Expert Finds By United Press • SALT LAKE CITY, July 12-The "Flying Disc" that fell with a thud in the yard of a Twin Falls, Idaho, housewife was found today to have been manufactured by four teen age boys from the parts of a run down juke box. Discovery of the disc was an• nounced yesterday by an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who turned it over to Army offi. cers ·at Twin Falls. They in turn put it aboard a plane and rushed it to Ft. Douglas near here for ex amination by experts. The examination showed the fancy gadget-complete with plexi• glass dome, three radio tubes, chromium-plated edges. and nu- erous wires - was a ,hoax and, ac ording to the Army, had "no ot~ r function than to be ornament n a. limited manner and to cause onsiderable expense to . Federal~ agencies investigating it." RECORDED Miss Gand y /.I __.,,,. __.\ F B · \ 44 JUL 18 1947 JUL 1 2 1947 WASHINGTON NEWS Page 3
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Source text · mention onlyl £)• r . ~r . "Mr . Mr. ey vin <:: ✓ • e_, \ I / Mr . Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr .!Sauc~r-SMped Gadget Foiinlf ~ Mr . By Californian i~ Flower Bed By th• Assodotod P,.,. 1B od F de ·a • 1 NORT H H OLL'(WQOD. Calif., gation chief here. sa id a n FBI ma n lj July 10.~A saucer -shaped mechan - 1 ad • • ' t "' . 1that. it would be turned over l2ical contraption, resembl ing a militarv a t ho· · • . c chicken brooder top wibh a few 1sa1 Mr. Hood .ha~ not other caw gadgets added, was found in a ger- ment. ' anium bed at the home of Russe!J . 1ef Newcombe exhibited the ' Long. construction engineer, last objecL. A radio t.ube on Lop was I ,night. and !,he first, official reaction set down into the upper half of the I i w,i.l' from Fire Battalion Chief Wal - saucer. which was abou t 5 inches lace E. Newcombe. who looked at it !Lhick at Lhe middle ,ind tapered to l skeptically and said: la thin perimder . There were wires "It doesn't look to me like it leading t.o a plug embedded in the ' could fly.'' ·center of the lower half. There Mr. Long called the Van Nuys was a rudder-t ype wing on top. J,ie D:?partment and excitedly Mr. Long told reporters he was p inted to tbe metal saucer, 30 awakened by a pop. not as loud as-.... l i1 hes in diameter, which he said an explosion. and ru~hed out,sidf to h d b een belching smoke from two find the device. He declared ,he e haust pipes and emitting a blue- ob.lect had nudged R. few br!cl:s ut , white glare. h e o R' d ofthe border of his flower hed. I ·- - ,-...._...--- - ---- -- -, . ) G. I. lt-b 1fr..Lf3&Jf /) F 74 .JUL 28 Ni ch~ Ro s en Tracy Car son Eg an Hendon Penningto n _ Quinn Tamm li 'l 101947 WASHINGTON STARP n AIJGt 11947
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Source text · mention only___ _ • r. T son _ _ -'"" ,._,,A• 'k'ifun - r. l egg ____ ,. Mr. Coff ey ___ - ~ ~=½-~ i \l'hile Science Sneers \Air Forces_ I nte lligence Joins Search fo,liFlying Saucers Armi Air Forces intelligence and about 50 other pers ons saw a yesterdai disclosed it has joined the se11ri:b fQ[ a lllling saucer . Bizarre re12qrts on the whir ling, hiSh-s2eed discs continued to 12our i.u, di:ai~iog au Qfficial ~.51t from the AAF, much cynicism from scien£~ i!D'1 tbe otiec Qf $lDOO .fgc tbe first one downed. The Air Forces, which has juris- diction over the White Sands (N. Mex.) Rocket Proving Grounds, de- 11ied the saucers are any of its doing. "No such phenomena can be explained by any experiments bing conducted," the statement s d, E:rom the N11,val Research L~b- o ator:,:'s Bear Admin1I Eanl F. Lee !:!!me U!e £Urt !,Omment; "~e concur in the Armi annowce- ,!!!fil1L:. Ni:itb§r denied existence of $he discs. but the AAF said statement s of witnesses are being correlated "in an effort to identify the re- ported objects. " With few States in tlie Nation without at least one flyi ng saucer report, the AAF has a chore. A Navy flier with five years' experience tabbed the discs as "space ships" afte1· at first consid- e ng all reports as "crazy." He t anged bts mind, he said in Ala- da. Oa-li!., yester day, after he group of about "50 of the saucers in triangular formation near Au burn Saturday.'' One report which won't troub le the AAF is that of a commercially operated, converted P-38, whose pilot said he had knocked one of the "pearl-colored. clam-shape airplanes" out of the Montana sky . He admitted the story was a hoax. In Washington, Dr. L. R. Haf stad, executive secretary of ti Joint Research and Developme Board and former director of t Johns Hopkins Applied Physi s Laboratory , said: "Poppycock!" Dr. Jesse Sprowls. psychology professor at the University of Maryland, said, "There is abso lutely no limit to the delusion that the mind can harbor. A trem end ously interesting social psychologi cal delusion ," he added. Dr. Ivan E. McDougle of Balti more's Goucher College, said he guessed "it's one of those phycho Iogical epidemics where people see things that aren't there ." But C. J. Zohn, 440 Mellon st. se., who works in the rocket-sonde. high altitude research section of he Naval Research Laborator y,t yesterday reported he and three other men saw one "saucer" ~ N~w Mexico June 29. l{e describ d See SAUCERS, Page 3, ColUllln S Gl avin __.c.,,,_ Ladd ✓~: :Mr. N1 ~ Mr. Ro en _ _ _ Mr. Tra cy _ _ _ _ Mr. Car s on ___ Mr. Egan _ _ _ _ Mr. Hendon ___ Mr. Penn i ngton_ Mr . Qui nn T amm Mr. Nea se Miss Gand y ___ JUL 8 1947 WASHHINGTON POST
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Source text · mention only.,. •,. it as a bright, s ilvery disc, travel ing at 10,000 feet . "It was clearly visible-and then it wasn't there .'' I The FBI here was noncommittal . In Milwaukee, Wis., the FBI said it was "not interested" in what , ,appeared to be a circular saw, Jrigged with a few wires, which the Rev. J oseph Brasku said crash ed 1 into his yard at Grafton , Wis. He admitted it probably was a joke, but was holdi ng the disc for FBI's lattention . , Atomic experts in session at 1Lake Success, N. Y., did not dis- c,uss officially the flying saucer Fl-ying Sauaers T rac ed To Wife's Pitching A rm. Pittsburgh, J uly 7 (IP).-Ma! persons have seen the mysterio ying saucers," but Conni unbar, 35, knows the source o e ones he saw. 1 Dunbar, who said he was mck by saucers J hrown by his wife, Mrs. Bessie Dunbar , was granted a divorce today by Judge Harry H. Roward. t repor ts, but made no secret of their int erest. They were reported as "baffled." Not so w as·a 34-year-old watch- 1maker in Chattanooga , Tenn., who 1said he invented the flying saucer in 1943 but "got tired of the run around" when he tried to peddle it to the Government or an air craft concern. His model was powered with a rubber band. A $1000 r eward was posted in Northbrook, Ill., "for the captur e of a flying disc-o r t he true ex planat ion of the phenomena." The offer, made by E . ,J. Culligan, is made "solely through an interest in science." A theory t hat the saucers might be artificial satellites came from the British physicist Prof. A. M. Low. The artifi cial satellite, he e~ plained, might. be created by un known scientists and could serve many purposes, such as deflecting television or radar beams. Lester P. Barlow, a Stamfor i onn., inventor, said he believ e discs are jet-propelled missil . eing manufactured for the Nav y the Martin Airci-aft Co., !altimore.
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Source text · mention only' ... •1 - -- Repo rt New Bed Planes ReseD1ble 0 Flying Saue_ers' : Special lo lhe N. Y. Jouro ol-.\ mtrl c,,n LOS ANGELES, J uly 7.-Fede al a ents today investi- gated a 1 • •r1 bm u.ss1an supersomc _a om- gwered planes · resernbliug JJ:ie " f)zm.g .~auQ.er2; _ _ I A top-fli ght atomic scienti st . t o whom The Examin er r eferred said he ~et the Russian officer J the letter said it was "not all in W1lmmgton and, because he nonsense," f.nd suggested t he ,vanted t o hear about .Russia, In- I matter bg uxn,e[ _o~er to tM' vited him to be his gul;;st at cl1nner. , ~ ESTROYS ALL LIFE. The letter writer said he got The Russian firs t asked where the inform ation from an officer he could sell 18 Polar bear pelts aboard a Russian t anker re- which he received "for very cently in Los Angeles harbor. d,angerous work " 'I11e Russian, he said, also He said he had been assignee! (:scri bed experimen ts with con• ,to go over the rout e of the radio ti•olled radioac tive cl<r:.:=:: ::::. ~" active cloud near L ake Baka! <I Arctic, where birds'. animal.s ltr,ti BaykaD and pick up dead anima . even worms were k 11ledt - ..~~ -aed a few small shill t INCHES THICK. The plane s. as descried by the ssian to the writer, are only inches thick, with a kidney - shaped outline and no prop ellors. The pilot lies on his stomach and is artifici ally cooled against the heat developed bY air friction . "The outer surface ih highly polished," the Russian said. ''Both upper and lower surface s a.re convex, like a gia.nt lens. The lifting force is a n entirely l'ri'th all klnds of animals an - directe d the _cloud over them,:' 1the writer said. I " During this experiment, a. vio- , lent storm blew the cloud far north_ int? the tun~ ra., but be fore i t dISsipated it destroye d all life on its way. "The cloud may be controlled from land, from ~ plan~ ,or from a robot-p ilot_ed leadet. As .1 understand 1t, the co!ltrol 1s based on electr o-magnetic waves different principl e found about and the cloud has two compo- 10 years ago among unpub- n.ents: The carrier and the killer. lished paper1, of a R ussian HAVE ATOMIC ENERGY. chemist. "I asked him if the Russians I e ."Enero is required only for h a'Ve an atomio bomb. He said limbin g, but no energy is he doubted it, because the atomic eeded for s upport when tlle bomb cannot be used without trplane r oes along t he ea.rth's killlnr innocent people, such i ! Igravita tional contour lines.'' children and women. But the The writer or the strange Jetter have atomic energy w hich tht I use f or propelllni s upersonf ' airplanes." The writer said he asked the Russian officer t o another dinner, but when he came the second time his father was leaving unexpect edly and he could only say good· Bureau Inter elllt I bye. The nuclear physicist consulted11 ' by The Examiner said It was diffi~ cult to appraise tile value of thel I lett.er because of the wllte1·'sI"l.echnlcul ignorance ." ''1'he remar k tmplyinr that the Ru~sians wouJlln't use the atom br.mh If thf';v had It Is nonscnst'. 't'h-, Rus~ian.<1 would like very f.i'ifo7, •if> bilVfl the bomb," the t,h,·sici«t said. ..- r1
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Source text · mention only- - - ~/11DIVISIOU OF PDSS IlfTELLIGDCE OOVEUMENT IllFO~ ION SERVICE BUlUW1 OJ' THE llUDGET SI~ V Bl~g, '7.xamC/.'tjer L6a.Agel ee , Cal~ . 184 ,,,-13 DATE JJt!7 119 7 / ~ ~ fG K C lI G IN . r , ~ F ederal agents ye erday in- vestigate d a letter to _the Exam - iner describ ing Russian super • sonic atom-~ered planes re - sembling t~E!--"flyi~ aucers .". • A top -fhgh1 ~I c sc,eii'bst to whom the-It""xp.miner referred the Jetter said 1t was "not all nonsense.'' a.,pd I suggested the matter be lu1~4 over to the FBI. The Jetter writer said he gotj the informat"o_n from an officer •aboard a Ru an lan~er recently in ELoA·s TAJ1g ces az!Por.s-J scr i ~ radioac t ive gd 1ds in !he tr~llt~ whef~·rd.."' iimal.s ~nd At c ic, s e even worm , . .AThe plane . d er· ed 1',Jl"the Russian to thfl . ' areaonly 18 inches thick, with a { J n(!y- ed outline and n9 prop ellers.. 1sh~e pilot }lcs on his .stomach, he Russian .said, and i.s artifi• t !ally cooled .Blfa!n~t tH'e heat de- c Joped by a+t-R'i ctio'i. ve "'fhe outer surr~,' e o!, the Jane is hiptlY .;6h~h~d, the P •ter i,ald the Russian told "'._fl "Both upper and lower ~;'fac es are c~n".ex, like a iant Jens. Th_e lifting fore~ is g tirely diffei ent principle ;:;: abou( . '10 yeal's. alo O 011g 1mpulih~h41 pa.peis aam t • nd developed"usslan chen s R 1 , " recently a.tone ?f uss as re• carclJ Ja.bo~·iitor ie1. d oulY l '')l:nergy is req1 ;effY Is~..,. . c irnbil'I~, hut 11:1 ; ,;:,. thll :,i . f>d tor 1111PP0 t, (l}P ·'ilurt s 111,w g-oes 1I II " J> :1 tlonnl ,.,. 10.11r 111' • Kfll\'I Ii o AU!'\~ . 9 . li -...-. ""l'i:>orts ?f- lhy' tJ~· ed off sh~ '):)ly m ·e~ area ,y1'jstcrday am aid t hey ha ~ r cceiv_'d ca!, _ about , them m the city county sinl:"e Sat urday . I Leonard Posella. 14J _}Jf ~7 • . y drive, 11 ·\ ed a ll';;1g:;'!,_l'T1X-"-= po of 20 near Grif flarlc going no we!'t t 500 feel. ..d s s::iid I hi:lv or I~ :: ==x:~•:;:c ::,-::: = r~ were round and ~ t,•ery "with Th. e-_wril!?r of t he stra_nge !~_!· their noses pointing up·Nard," a1 ter said he met the Russian ott1- he watched them foe t ii,ree cer in Wilmingto n \ltld, because \nl'mvt=::. - • he wanted to hea r about Russia, __ . _ . . stroy ed all life on its way. 1 ~ "The cloud m a y be controlled . om land, from a plane orJR U 5 S J!!sCT111 ' t h~~~~i!!'; ~;~:ere!:~ :iment, aviolent storm blew the cloud f ar north into t he tundra, but before It .dissipated i t de- Russian officer to anothet· dinner, , D but when he came the second The Rus • he said, also d time his tanker was leaving unex- .b d expet·lments with co ·1pectedly and he could only say , very o h tt,·e • bomh.'' On thr other url, he decried the efforts of some g!'oups who take advantage of "all this flying disc talk' ' to stir up suspicion of Rus~i1!'<; inl~otionli. ~ invited him to dinne r. The Russian first asked where he could sell 18 polar bear pelts which he_received "for very dan gerous work." He said he had been assigned to go over the route of the run away radioactive cloud near Lake Baika l and pick up dead animals . ANIMALS KILLED- "They loa ded a few s mall ships with all kinds of animals and directed the c loud over om a. robot -piloted 'leader.' s I under,stand it, t he control ; is based ow- electro -ma gnetij" ' waves and the cloud has tw compon ents: The carrier a n · · , the killer. "I aske d him If the R ussia have an ato rnic bomb. He said he doubted i t, because t he atomic bomb cannot be used withou t kllllng innocent people, such as childr en and women. But they have atomic energy, which t hey use for propelJlng s 111>ersonic a irplanes ." The writer said he asked the good-by. The nuclear physicist consulted by the Examiner said it was dif --!lcult to appraise the value ol tl~e ~et~erl ~ecause of,,thq writer's ec mca 1gnoran~e. ''The.._[_e~ 11n1>l31 ng t hat the Russians woul Un' us~ the ittom b omb It thel· 111 1t ts' ~~•HIP T hP Ru11 111·ould like murh thP The Examinrr h:id lv.·o mon, ppod<; ~f flyrn~ di:,ci; y -;t<'rday. tt••d Dnrt11;P or i::lR ~ 'l'i t•h l "· . r . . --1, , ~v,·nu,, !-\111d tw was in \\ •st: I,"" P,111< at 12 02 p. m. 'lwn saw one flying westwai at 00 to :JOOO feet. He said it vas silent, round and shiny and was not an airpl anr. f1/ r./, / I I I· Mr. Tolso n___ Mr. E . A. Tamm_ Mr. C l egg ___ Mr. Glavin - - -Mr. Ladd_. ___ Mr . Ni chols Mr . Rosen-- Mr . T r acy_ ___ Mr . Carson ___ Mr . Egan ____ Mr. Gurne a___ Mr . Harbo ___ Mr. •Mr. Jones _ ___ Mr. Leonard Mr. P enn ington _ Mr . Qu inn Tamm_ Mr . Nease _ _ _ _ Mi s t.,.Gandy___ \ ,;:_ '~(Lu 1
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Source text · mention only1 ;r.- ··-- ' /f-,. . {v . . • • l d th' to rt9 ►r1anes toChase'fl~ •·ng Sauucers' -~ f~~~h ..::;~~~s·~x;:.Jm~ / 1 - I I A Los Angeles n.,.,,,_ _.,,.,.. story 'S ¢ fl • t Th• Af F ! quoting an unidentified Ca iforma H0 me nIn Q O IS, , e e aS !~!~~~eg t~e ::;i~1~0~◊:Jcer~}e::i~~l1 With aircraft, including a jet plane, pEeudo-scientific explanations of the have something to do with exper!• alerted along the West Coast In mystery . ments In "transmutation of atomic hopes of chasing and explaining David Atamian, 5610 Shoemaker energy '.' caused a brief flurry by t~e the mystery of the "flying saucers," lane. Bethe sda, Md.. said he saw in&.titute quickly denied the repo1t an Army Air Forces spokesman he1·e three or four "flying saucers·• trav - Dr., Earnld Urey, atomic scientist disclosed today tl\at the AAF be- eling north at great speed at 11 :45 at the Univers ity of Chicago, called lieves "there 's something to this" p.m. Frida y, Mr. Atamian. who de- it "gibberish" and saLd eleme1~s out is completely mystified as to scribed him self as a writer of poetry, could be "transmuted" but energy Just what. , said he was sure he wasn 't mis- could not. Capt. Tom Brown o! AAF public taken. The discs, he said, were fly- P-80 fighter at the Muroc , Calif .. relations said the ta.Jes of flat , Jng at between 1,000 and 2,000 feet Army .Airfield in California and six round objects zipping through the and appeared to be of a brigh t, fast conventional fighters at Port sky are too widespread to be ground- bluish hue. land, Oreg., stood ready to \ake off less. He Pointed out that a number Government sources denied that on an instant 's notice should any of competent airmen have reported any tests ii.re being conducted that " 1;ng saucers" be sighted in those :;eeing the phenomena that have might be the answer to t he mystery. areas . some of the planes carried been the talk of the Nation since A Navy official said the Navy had photographic equipment. June 25• checked all its facilities to deter- , Air-Ground Search Slated. For 10 days, he declared. the AAF has been checking on the stories mine whether an/ were se!!ciing An air-ground search was sch~d "and we sUII haven 't the slightest aloft objec ts that could account fo1: uled to get under way today to 111· idea, whit he things can be." the strange sights. The answers vestigate a report that eight flying Meanw le, from Washington and wet uegative . discs had landed on a mou;taln • the rest f the country came mor avid Lilien thal. chairman of th sicie near St. Maries, Idaho , full reoorts f "flying saucers'' as wel ic Energy Commission , sai view of 10 persons. as· a iumber o! scientific an FLYING SAUCERS, P g. A-3. Mrs. Walter Johnson. Di man , tU hen round." yet size shaped discs. lf/:1'J.~~ Wash .. said the "saucers" cam down in timber near st. Maries Thursda y evening, but were not reported un she returned to her home in '.)ishman vesterday. I She said they came into view at xtreme speed , traveling north . uddenlv she said. they slowed and "fl~tt ered like leaves to the "The mysterious part was that we couldn 't see them after they landed ," Mrs. Johnson s aid. "We could see them flutter down into the timber we couldn 't see that they did anything to the trees." She described them as "about the of a. five-room house' ' and more like washtubs tha.n Planes to Comb Area. 1 Col. o. R. Do son of the Oregon i Air Guard anno need a patrol would leave PorUand Ore., today to in- I' vestlgate the report and Sheriff' • (;) , ! ~ ~ ,j Clipoed f ro m W~f HINGTON EVENING SrA f or ff- / /
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Source text · mention only• ..,.~ .. ,- . ·1 c;t..l~;.c ·•• , r~v. t ,,=., .. r;... re About Saucers 'Priest.Finds 'Whirring' Disc j I~,,!~~~~:i~!!~l!~ffi!t !.~~ !!~"'.I • • ~ . ft w· ·d yet about the disc but that an offi-hc pnest at Gia on, is., s_a1 cial report might be at llis office. tonight that a round, mefal disc , The flying discs have been re whi~ might be one of the myster• ported "seen" by persons in 30 ious flying saucers," had crashed States but Brasky's disc was the into his"'"'parish %'t d and that he first ~ne that actually lnld been ·s holding it for the Federa ~ found-if that is what wa-. found . Bureau of Investi gation . His report came a few hours The Rev. Joseph Brasky of St. after a military plane made an :Joseph's Church. at Grafton_, 45 unsuccessful speeti dash in an at niles north o_f ~I1lwaukee, sa_1d _he tempt to track down onr of the heard a sw1sl11ng and whirring discs and the Army and scientists noise this morning. A second later, sought to ascertai n ,1 hether coast he said, he_ heard a thud and a j to-coast reports ~ 'Jc,ut the discs mild explosion. zooming through t.1c sky were fact He investigated and found a or fancy, f.heet metal disc ab?ut 18 inches in Army planes scoured the 11orth· diameter, resemhlmg a circular west Pacific skies for them without saw blade. Sltccess today and one ·•eyewitness " "The object still was warm, even reported havin !i,' seen one of weighed about £ou1· or five pouo~s the discs take off in Arizona . A and was about one eighth of an St. Louis railroad man exhibited inch thick, " he said. some paper "discs '' he said he had I There was a hole about one seen floating over St. Lou is. ~nch in diameter in the middle of •. . the disc. he said. and in the open- The flymg saucers which have ing were "gadgets and some been reported skimming through vires." America's skies at speeds up to Th_e pr~esf· said he did _not know 1200 miles have eluded tb.e...usuak' mn [ : ; .. ~·1: ·in · · .--~. . ,.' . .J ••, • > ·--- ••••••,, f ,.i.r. r-.;,chols --~ ... .. . I/:ir . Rooen ..... .. .. •· Mr. Trucy ... . .. .... . . II.tr. Eg.,u ......... . . . . M'..r . Cutr.;cu ... . ..... . Mr. Hnrbo ... ... .. .. . Mr. lllchr .... . ....... -; fr:',·. P1;nnington . .... ~ t,~r. Quinn Tamm . ... 1Mr. Neasa .... .... .... iMi s ➔. t ,." ' · - _. j 'II f his d1sco~rery. were importantly keen e~,e of radar. K..1£UU~p, ;........ _ ..t..:./::. ,r whether . 1t ~1ght be an _elab- Capt. Tom Brown of the Armt F n I I ,rate practical Joke. He ~aid he Air Fore.es public relations sta • L.> iad notified the FBI of hlli find. 44 JUL. 18 1941 IH. K. Johnson of the Milwaukee See SAUCERS, Page 3, Col. 2, D(Y;UJ_Jt\ 1 THE WASHlNGTON POST .. PAGE / '- 3.-, DATE--2. - z- y I
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Source text · mention only• th~,r:s : ~ !t"n; arby and large on:;l at great p istances. ~t "The one outstan ding fact abo f virtuall y a ll the saucers is th they had n o struct ure - the. seemed merely round and flat. SATTCEPS Frou, Page 1 --i~w:111,, aircraft designer, told The Thjt descriptio n fits exactly with j Post b y telepho ne from ffilew £oft the tricks that eyes play. This that until he s ee, a flying saucer tri ckiness v aries with differences Priest Finds 'Whirring' Disc he "wouldn't l ike to p ass- ;fudg- in weather and lightin g." However, Nova Ha1·t, St. Louisment." . mechanic who was trai ned duringIn Yard and Holds It for FBI He agreed with Dr. Overholser s ervice in the war to spot all types said the Army Air ways Communi- 'The best way I can d escribe it," that much if not all of the' story of aircr;aft, yesterd ay offered a •cations Service had reporte d late $aid Kennedy, "was that it looked may be because of hysteria . m inute description of one o,f the yesterday that so fat• its rad ar like an o range Jamp bulb without "After all," he said, "we are flying P_atterns whic~ he claimed he scopes throughout the country the socket. It was going faster than m ore o1· less an hysterical Nation." !aw flymg a t an altitud e of about 1 any jet nlan e I've ever s een " .,oo feet have been _u nabl_e to. pi • ck up any , • .Major de Seversky said it was pos- • stran ge ob3ects m flight. In Hagerst own, Md., Mrs. Mad- . • . Reporter Sees One And in the Pacifi c Northwest - elyn Ganoe, 30, said she had seen sible that the p ersons w ho claim He descri bed it as circular with where most of the fly-happy plat- five of the discs, r acing in 2-1-2 to have seen the aerial discs have a ribb ed frfmework and silver ters have been repo rt!!d- the Army1forma tion at "terrific speed," from inste ad .glimpsed the exhaust o f gray in color. He said it appeared has radar equipm ent which can/her backpoxch. "They sound ed like1jet-propelled planes. to h ave a m otor with a propell er pierce fog and dar kness and pick a faraway t rain," she said. il He c onceded, too, -that they atta ched i_n thl: center and that it up objects in the sky 200 miles _In the wake o f these n ew e~e- h night b~ guided missil~s let loose ~ept t urnmg hke an airplane do• away. witness accounts oame a new senes , as part of an experiment, but mg a s low roll. Even so, Brown acknowledgeci1of comments, and·explanati ons, but added, , Although m a ny explanat ions that the A ir Forces had d ecided most of them were tinged with a "I don' t think the Government have been offered, none has been "thcn:'s something to this" and slight te1_1dency to laugh o ff the would fire them so p romiscuously. convincing. A Los Angeles news-[ had b€en ch~king it for 10 days. whole th_mg. . T hey would test them in one spot, Ipape~ _quoted a~ unna ~ed n uclear ! "And we still haven't the slight- Dr. Wmfred O~er~olser, n ation- fn an i solated area, like they did phys!Clst as saying the silvery discs Iest idea what they could be," he ally known psych1atr1st and super- the atomic bomb." lresulted from experime nts in the added. . 11'.tendent of. S! • • ~lizabeths Hos- Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who "tra nsmutation of a tomic energy" And a new wnnkle-the report - p1tal here, said 1~ has s?me of the as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for ' This report was rapidly her1 ed landin g of a fleet of eight skim- ear_m~,rks of being national hys- Reseat·ch and Development would i~t? the hoax. .:!olunm by Da • ming platters-:-was r eporte d from te~V1• . . know if the saucers involved ex- ILihen thal, cba1~~11n of the Atom Idaho in Iull view of 10 persons. A. . Everyti me someone com~s up periment s with guided missiles !Energy Commission, and sever 1 Dishman, Idaho housewife, said I with a sea-ser,~ent story,'.' said _D_r. commented: ' promin ent atomic scientists.' r 0th withshe and other s ill her party had! ~ver~olsti~r, ers vivid "Whatever these people have Starr Expects Wordth 1 d I1magma ons are sure they have . I ~e~n. e sai,tcers tP .on a moun-. seen the same thing seer>, it hasn't been anything re• Louis E. Starr, nationa l com- tarn: ide ~de~~ st• ane\ ld~ho. t I "The critical faculty In man the suiting from experiments by the mander of the Veteran s of Foreign · 111 0S e _sai ey came view a last one he received is still' n ot Army Air Forces . As for as I'm Wars. announced Saturday at Co- an exti em~.~P~fd'. ~u~d:nli Slowed, : very well develop ed. ' Scratch t he concerned there 's nothing to itl lumbus , Ohio, that he was expect and tJien d ,,u ere I e eaves to surface and you find the same mass at all. The whole thing is u11-1ing "momentari ly" infomtation the groun • . hysteria which predominated dur- fortunate." from Washington which would ex- "The m~5tenou s part was that ,1 ing the witchcraft scare , So e General Le.May refused to dis-, plain the dashing. discs. But the we couldn t see them after theyjlpersons are quite r eady to J: cuss whether the Air Forces has message never a1T1ved. anded," she said. "We could see things and follow beliefs.. ,guided missiles which can attain I The Air Forces said U1at Gen. them flutter down into the timber Di·. Overholser ~aid th~t when ' speeds of 1200 m iles. j~arl Spaatz,. Air Forces chief, was yet we couldn 't see that they did~ he made bis rounds of the menlal " There's been too much said , m the Pacific Northwest whe1•e any thing . to the tree s." . patients yesterda y at St. Eliza- 1 about g uided missiles now," he most of the saucers have b~en r~ She said she hoped to hike into beths not a one commente d on the ,said. port ed, but added that his trip !:the tim ber tomorro~ and search flying s aucers stoi~. Howard W. Blakeslee, Assoei• there was planned two months !or the objects which she said were "I think they may be a littl e 1_ated· Press science editor , s aid the ago, long before Ute saucers scare . saucer-shaped but resembled wash- skeptical," he added. whole business may be an optical G ener al Spaatz is expected back in tubs more than dislts and were However , Dr. Overholser said h e1muslon. Washington l ate t?mo~ ow •. "about the size of • five-room wasn't trying to dismiss the matt er "At any distance wl1ich is close M1;1roc Anny A~r Field in Call-. ' ''b th . . forma had a P-80 Jet fighter stanhouse.'' as a Joke eca~St! ere are so to the li,~mt of how f~r a pe!son ing by, and t he Nationa l Guard Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 ~:a!1y s trange th1~gs g oing .?n to- can see, he wrote, all ob3ects O regon had prepared silt r egula 4th st. ne. reported he had swn -~l that one can ,, be sure. 1 appear ro_und or near ly so. This fighters to givf! chase shout one passing o ver the Northeas ti Maj. Alexander P , de Sever sky, j~aw , of sight codrs both small ~aucers be reported nearb~·. section of the city at about 8:40 - • ,m This would be the first one re- po1-ted over the District, although others have b een r eported over nearby Maryland. Kenne dy, who has 125 h ours flying time as a student pllot hl Ii Army Ah· Forces to his credit . ·a d he believed the saucer he •r seen was trave ling at "well o r" 1000 1nile~ an bow· at a 1t1tude of betweert 1200 and 1500 (l('(. • -
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Source text · mention only. Ac,:no Telephoto Can This Be the Secret? nder discussion as a possible solution to the "sajer" ystery is the Navy's "Fly_ing Flapjack," show:r1: a ve. r. ipping along ,vith its landmg ge~r ~etract!!d, this ane would seem to be a supper plate spmrung thl:ough the sky. ' ~iw .in thr sky. She is the first •ports of strange objects see~ 1n known observer to claim what she the sky a,nd had reached the con saw was stationary. All the rest clusion that some sort of m~ eor have spoken of tremendous speeds. ites were responsible. Mrs. Kole said all she could think Astronomers at the Naval ob of was a blazing disc. Alexandria servatory and Georgetown uni police looked in the direction she versity, who admitted they have indicated but the disc had gone. be.en on the alert for flyir:g Jack Labous, an artist 3500 saucers as they swept the skie;; block East Capitol St., r~ported "".ith their powerful telescopes, in seeing one of the "things" flying sISted they not only had not s_een over Bethesda. He described it as any but knew of no astronomical "a flat disc with a cone shape theory that might account for the undcr it and a stick like a radio reports. antenna projecting from the .Kenneth Arnold, the privat1 bottom " Pilot who was first to announ" • . . . seeing the saucers, expressed grrtr The sc1ent1St y;ho claimed to fication at the support he r .JS know s om et h 1 n g about the getting but insisted he still dictkt "saucers" was described by a Los believe he had seen nine discs Angeles newspaper as a member whizzing by at 1,200 miles an of the California Institute of hour, although he had seen them . Technology staff. Arnold started yesterday on a flying fishing trip over the Pa- May Be Real, He Says c!fic northwest armed with a ne v He was quoted as saying "trans- camera in the hope of gettin . mutation of atomic energy" ex- pictures if he encountered an, periments m;aht be responsible. more saucers . He took along Col. .... Paul W. Weil.and, World War II He was said to have been a re• artillery officer , just in case hesearcher on the Manhattan proj -ect that made the '7tom bomb, and :it~e:s~me more and needs a was quoted as saymg: Arnold d 11 11 b " "These so-called saucers are ca- . announce e as ~-n pable of high spee(j but can be gett1~g tons of letters commentmt controlled from the ground. They on his rep~rt _of the saucers . Man are 20 feet wide in the center and of them Pted1ct they are the fore are partially rocket propelled on runner of an atom bomb attach . the take off. People are not seeing One c_o~-re~pondent blamed ~hern things. such flying discs actually on smv1v~:ns of the lost co~tmetl are in experimental existence." of Atlan~1s who_ are prepanng f Experiments with these "discs" an atonuc war m 196_0•. were reported as being in progress Arm:\'., _Navy and c1v1l aeron nt Muroc Dry Lake, Calif .; White tics offlc1als ag:reed none of the Sands, N. M.; Portland, Oreg., and had any reliable informatit other places. about the discs and would Dr. Harold Urey, atom scientist frain from commenting _until th at the University of Chicago, com- saw one, or at least a picture. mented: "Transmutation of atomic energy sounds like gibber ish. You can transmute metals, not energy." Col. F. J . Clarke, in command of the Hanford Engineering works• of the atomic energy project, said he knew of no experiments involv• ing "flying saucers." "I have been waiting several days for someone to get the idea the so-called flying saucers were tied up in some way with what we are doing," Clarke said. "But as :far as I know, there is no connec. tion." I The "piece" found in Ohio was discovered near Circlevill.e. It was a six-pointed star covered with tin foil and attached to part of a bal loon. It was reported to be a device used by the Army ail· forces inl radar Tesearch to check on h.igh wind speeds. There was no cot ment from the atr for..:es. IA War Department spokesm revealed Army tntelligenco h s :. ' - ,rktng for a. yel\r on JUL 6 1947 VIASID:NGTON TIMES-HERALD Page 1 & 8 sec. I
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Source text · mention only- -- - - - I Mr . Cleg g tJm Experiments or Bunk?' Mr. Glavin Mr . Lad dh 1' Mr . Nichols -,--elusions or Factual, ThoseFl'ying, Saucers_• Mr. Rosen Mr. T r acy Mr. Ca r son [ )H_~n~~~~ lf!~~' ::~,~?,,~ ~~;:~:s~n~:::,!:ng~: !:,~~:. Mr. Egan \..../ wise men will mock them and the learnea revile. ton area. Mr . Gurne a Scientists, for the most part dismissed the but unto the chosen t he signs s.hall be revealed Mr . Ha r bo"saucers" as optical illusions. figments of the and they will have wisdom and knowledge." Mr . Hen don Ancient proph ecy. but the reports continu ed to pour in. Mr. Jones By now they have been seen in every p&rt of imagination or "someone having a little fun," By JAMES COLLIGAN Mr. Penn i ngtonthe country, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico -The words of the prophecy were being ful• Mr . Qu i nn Tamm - ! and from the Pacific to the Atlanti c. \lied last night in Washington and throughout The reports grew in "authentici ty·• with thei Mr. Nease he nation as thousands of official a.nd scientific Increase in volume. A·farmer in Ohio came UJ Mi ss Gandy bservers and jus~ ordinary people searched the with a piece of one, a "scientist. in nuclear physics .Skie! for flyJnl!'_. saucer_s-and l)lenty of watcti.ers • <Tum to Page 8, Col. 1) flying Saucers ~ntrigue Nation; Five Seen Here (Continue d from First Page) threw out hints of mysterious atomic energy experiments, an• othe r observer claimed to have a picture to back up what he saw. Louis E. Starr, national com mand<,;;· of the Veteran'$ of Foreign ,vars, announced he expected an "explanatio n from.. Washington" within a matter of hours. He hinted to newsmen at Columbus, Ohio that the Government is (holdi'ng out on the , public about the "saucers," and commented: "Too little is being told the people of this cowitry." StationarY at Alexandria A mother and daughter in [Northeast Washingt on reported esterda~ they , saw three huge rthings hurtling through the sky llast Thursday but were afraid to say anything for fear of what might be said about them. Eve_n yesterday they asked that then· names be withheld. Th8 "things," accordin~ to these I.N.P. Photo by u.s. coast uu"rd nd!Observers, looked like_ dishes a Is It Saucer, Sorcery, or Just Plain Sausage?made a noise like Jet-pr'?pelled J1!,es. They were trave~mgst so Reports of "flying saucers" were laughed off by authorities 1mtil many witnesses, inclut) ~ st they disappeared an m ant ing reliable pilots and serYicemen, said they had seen the plate-like obJ:e,,ts ......hizzing OYel'a ter tbey were observed. . . ., " ,.Mrs. Mai·tin Kole, 3200 block head. Above 1s the p1cture Y_eoman Frank Ryman, 27, took in the Seattle twilight when )1 lley Dr., Alexandria, called her observed wJ., t seemed to h1m to be a £lying saucer 10 000 feet hin-h traveling at 5 ooal police station_ to a~k about miles per hour. ___~- 1 "' tbo =-;:rri«ht i=~ 7~' A f'l~~o/ ;9J~$ J/'f 1,f- •~ -0,7,~-Alf t \1 ~ - - / A//I f JV \r,ri.W ' ~--'°:) WASH ·' alou TJ~E~trJtERALO )) \ <er(r y ( ·/ Page J~ • I ( J II , Mr . E . A. Tamm-- _ I
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Source text · mention onlyl Hunclrei-1s in~ States Report th J; aJ ,~:~~~:~tol~~;~~;~~ra ofa • w • ff • / ~ ,saucer p assed over Charleston hea! ee1ng· e1r y1ng ~aucers •b~u1a.l~eatsa%~ 0 ri: ~~~~UJ~:~ t &y the Associoted Press ing radar signals to the moon, "one aslbhanJs'o, uothreg,,d sahwlta slndgle t di th · ca,1 war . a , a n r e race1The Nation was baffled toda_y by o! e greateSt t echno ogi ts course before vanishin g Into a "flying saucers " repor ted seen m Jl achievements of the war and ac- cloud s tates by hundreds or persons , and complished _In absolute secrecy." An · Army Air Forces spokesman conje ctures came ·from scores of Da".fd Lllien thal, ch_alrman of the In Washin gton on July 3 said there named and unnamed sources Atomic Ener~ Commission, told ~he was not e nough !act to "warrant throu ghou t t he countr y. Denver Post m a br;et telephone m- further investigation" b t t h A · to k tervlew that the flying saucers were . • u_ e . rrOfficial Governm ent sources E> In no way connected with experl- Materiel C ommand a t Wright Fleld, a "Let's see one" stan~ oi:i the phe- ments in.atomic energy, the trans- Dayton, Ohl~. satd It was _rnakmg a nomen~>n, and no _sc1ent1st offered muta tion o,.f metals or similar re- study. Sat.uiday at Washmgton an a detailed explanation. searcn ' Army researc her admitted "we·re Two Chlc;.go astronomer s said the F J Cl k d ' ffl mystified" and the Navy said it hadC 0 1• · 0·••<1'. are probabl y " man -made." • • ar • comman ~ng . • no theor ies. ,611, undulatin g, flashing objects cer of the Hanfor? Engmeermg First Reported June 25. /QJuldn't be meteor s," said Dr. Works In the Paci.fie Northw est Fs1rard Kieupel' director of the Uni- wher e the larges t saucer influx has . The first published r eport of "fly :Crsity of Chicago's Yerke s Ob- been repor ted, said the sau cers were m g saucers·· came from K enneth servatory at Williams Bay. Wis. not coming from . the atom ic plan t Arnold, Boise, Idaho, businessman ''We realize," s~id Dr. Oliver Lee, there. pilot, who reported at Pendleton, ~ Oreg., on June 25 that h e had seen · d_l£ ctor of Northw estern Unlver - Credence in the saucers - widely nine of them flying at 1,200 miles an sl~ 's Dearborn Observatory , " that laughed off at their fli•st' repoid hour in formatio n, shifting position lth A rmy a nd Navy are working on appearance June 2S- grew as h • "like the tail of a kite," over Wash- an rts of thin gs we know nothing dreds of observers, many of t m ington State's Cascade Mountains. ab ut." trained flyers, reported seeing ~h m . Before SC'lffers had more than be- Dr. Lee said the discs might repre- A crowd of 200 observed a dis at gun to offer explanati ons s uch as sent..the same 50rt o! th!~ M send- (See DIS S, age A -9.) "reflections." ''persistent vision" and "snow blindness," an Oklah oma City private flyer, BY_ron Savage, said he had seen a slm1lar ly shaped object some weeks earlier but fear of ridi cule kept him quiet. Then the reports began to filter in, mostly from Individual~. The I •SCS discs were seen in Texa-s, ln New Mexico, In Washington, Oregon, DI (Continued From First Page ) Idaho, Missouri, Colorado, Callfor -'-,.__ ________ ....;._·__ , ma, Arizona and Nebraska. The H er Lake, Idaho, on the Fourt.h ' number varied from one to a dozen, of July. A _group o! 60 picnickers Iseen mostly by one or two people. saw them at Twin FaJJs, Idaho. A nd Sel'n by Group of 200. in Portland, Oreg., so m any res!- T hen the July -l deluge h it. Two dents witnessed t hem on t he Fourth hundred person.~ In one group and that t.he police depar tment sent out' 60 in another saw them ln Ida ho; an 1111-cArs, broadcast. hund reds saw the m In O regon. A United Air Lin.es pilot o! 141Washington and other States ,·ears experience walked up the ramp throughout the Wei;t. In A ugusta, 10 hi.~ plane at B oise, Joking that Me., the Civil Aeronautic.• A<imin 'TII believe in thes e d isc.~ when I istratlon received I\ report that a see them.'' Ten minutes lat-er h e • dozen !)f the discs had been seen radioed, i<hRken, t hat he had spot- lthere. te<i ftve of them from hl11 plane. He And, for the flrst time. the East WM Capt. A. J , Smith. His co-pilot, em States had their report.~. Ob Ralph Stevens, and hlA stewardess, servers came In with report.~ from Ml~ Marty Monro, told the sRme Michigan, Louisiana, Pennsylvania. 610 . INew Jersey, Indiana. Kentuc l , ltne1111ei; in two points of Cali- Georgia, South Oarolina and ca • la. and In Spokane-one of them 1ada's Atlantic seaboard . Anny Air Forces sergeanl,-re-1 Near unanlrnlty was recorMd led seeing the discs Saturday . some of the discs' characteristics _ on.s in ditrerl:1l1 e~tio ns., te • 1fic S.R ed, brl ht reflections. tlru . 11ll son Mr . E . A . Tamm - Mr. 'C legg Mr. G l avin Mr . Ladd Mr. Nichols - - - Mr . Rosen Mr . Tracy Mr . Carson Mr . Egan · Mr . Gurne a- -- Mr. Harbo Mr . Hendon --- Mr . Jones Mr. Pennington - Mr . Quinn Tamm - Mr . Nease Miss Gand y___ . round or oval in shape, flat and t1,-. li with a peculiar undulating t CI• t n. Size was moot and expre sed b Capt. Smith of United Air L e~ a. "hard to judge" without kn w- 1 the distance from the o~e 'er to the objects . 2 D. C. Area Residents Say They Saw 'Flying Saucers' Two Washington 11rea resident.~ t.oda:v were on record as having ob served the m~•sterlous "flying saucers" here11bou1s. A BethesdR lMd.) man was rr ported to have seen three or four of these objerts at midnight Frld11,· while In the vicinity of Fri•.mdship Height.«, Md. They were <il'llcrlhc,1 RS being rapid. bluish 1md bright traveling nort hwnrd. Mr~. Martin Koll', 3202 V111Jey drive . Alexandria housewife, ~~It earlr Friday she s11w R l11.r1te roun ob,iect floRtlng In thP 11outhwe11t si•· Shr de<'IArerl II lli:ht i;hlnlnll i her face RWakenPd hn aho~ 4 a. . She went to the window n 11R • something rounrl anrl lar,iP th II '('<idlsh I ln·g... It 11rrmrd to hP lit 11ding Hill . Aftrr looklnl! at it a few minutes, Mri;. Kole .saict llht' el urned lo bed.
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Source text · mention only-·- Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson 'Flying Saucers' Reported Seen" Mr. Egan Mr .sy Scores of'Eyewitnesses' Gu r ne a--- By th• Auoc loted Pms said they saw the discs yesterday Mr. Harbo The '•flying saucer " mystery afternoon. A party of seven firs, Mr . Hendon ---reached fever pitch today, after ''I saw some and 10 mlnutees later, , saw them myselt" stateme nts from a crowd of 20 or 30 people saw an Mr . Jones a veteran United Air Lines crew, other batch of nine or ten. Wore Pennington_scores of Portland (Oreg.) residents, passed aroun d, and soon the waltin ( and 60 picknickers at Twin Falls crowd saw another batch circling Quinn T amm_ Park in Idaho. and climbing. The UAL pilot copilot and stew- At Seattle , Frank Ryman , coast ardess, who had ;coffed consistently ~uard yeoman, said he took a at "flying saucer" tales, said they picture of what some residents north saw such objects last night while of Seattle thought was a flyirig disc. flying a passen ger plane from Boise, 1'.he photograp h showed a pinh ead Idaho, to Portland. size light spot agamst the dark Their statement s followed a day evening sky. . during which the "saucers" were The Oregoruan dispatched a plane reported seen In many parts of the to hunt Portland's saucers. It foul )Nation nothing but empty sky. • . Strange Craft Over Philad elphia . . Many P~rtlanders-mcludlng po- I n Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leis , l lice, experienced flyers and three a junior lnteme at the Peru1sylvan ewspap~rmen-declared they saw Hospital for Mental Diseases, and Ivery discs o ver Portla nd. other persons In the western sec In New Orleans, Miss Lillian Law- tion of the city, reported seeing ss said she saw an object, shini ng strange craft in the skies last night. ke silver or chromium, flying at a It was somethin g 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 shin y, but Lake Pontchartrain. dark In color and seemed to be "Pan cake S tanding on End." p ropelled by whirling wings. Dr. Describing what they saw as fiat , Leisy &aid the object he saw was tran~lucent plates 12 to 15 Inches moving at approxim ately the speed in diameter , several Port Huron of the wind, b_elow the clouds. tt (Mich.) residents reported seeing eventu ally vs.n~hed m the clouds, the "saucers." he added. A dl&patch from Summerslde, Capt. E. J . Smith, Seattle, a ve~- C ana , said farmers in the Prin ce eran of ~• years \\lth United Air Edward Island region claim to have Lines, said he observed the round seen more of the mysterious disc flat objects-'·Jike a p ancake stand - like missiles reported flying through lng on end"-for about 12 minutes northern skies earlier this wcet while flying trom Emmet,t Idaho, to J ames Harr is, farmer at She • a point southeast of Ontario, Ore. brooke, 1 mile norlll of here, a1 l He radioed the Ontario airport but his hired man, Herm an Linklett c airport officials saw nothing . said they saw one of the objec ~ 1 Sixty persons plcknlcking at 'I\v!n last; night traveling from the north f'nlls Park, near Twin Falls, Idaho, west toward the southeast. 6J · REOO{DEv - -3 i'I } JUL WASHINGTON STAR Page A-7
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Source text · mention onlyMr.- Tols~ Of)y111j J>~5 - - ---- - - ---- --- -----i ·saucers Here, Saucers There- 1nc1uding Washington As rumors persisted (and were d enied) that the "flyin g sau cers" are rndio controlled rocket or jet planes being tested se cretly, Washington got in the act today with a report from two District women of strange goings-on overhead . Meanw hile, assor ted scientists ~·--- ---- ------ came up with widely vary ing theo• ries as to .what-if anything-the heavenJy wanderers may be. Dr. John G. Lynn , human be havior expert of Valhalla, N. Y., said people . have the atomic jitters. Navy Observatory astronomers here said that so far as they can judge f rom description, the obj 2cts a re not astronomical phenomena. A n o t h er as tronom er-civilian - opined that people "are seeing spots before their eyes." But unnam ed scientists quoted b y Science Service expres sed doubt that a purely opt ical illusion would make people think they were s ee ing flying disks. Science Service also point ed out tha t som e o.f t he ·, saucers have been r eport ed b y "re liable observers accustomed to look ing at the sky."' 'There Were Three jShaped Like Dishes• MINNESOTA-AV NE, July 5. Scienti sts from ma ny Washington's top-drawer institut ions are expected to f lock to th is stree t t oday after the first a uthenticated reportt of flying saucers within t he c ity lim its of Washin gton was made by two startled m atrons. The ladies spotte d the , thin gs night beiore last, but were under standab ly reluctan t to report it at once. "I know what you'll t hink," the you ngee o ne said in an exclusive interv iew with The News, ''but mot her saw them, too, and she ~ocsn't drink. "We were shopping on Minni!• sota -ave ne at about 7 Thul·srlay night," she said, "when I heard a 1noise like a j et-propelled plane. I1 looked up and saw these things go ing thru the air. There were three of them, shap ed like dishes and go ing fast as a j et plane. They ¥:ere bright golden in color, but t hat may have b een from th sun· being re- ' f leeted f rom some bright meta l o b- Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr . Mr. Mr . Mr . Mr. Mr. Mr . Mr. Mr . Mr. Mr. Miss E . A. Tamm_ Cl egg Gl av i n Ladd Nic hols Rose n T r acy Ca r son- - - Egan Gurn e a _ _ _ Har bo Hen don P ennin g ton _ Quin n T amm-Neas e ___ _ Ga ndy _ _ _ RECORDED je;,~s. c~)Uldn't estimate the size of <--l ~ <) ; ~ 3 '6o/'+ _.-,4 the thmgs , but they seeme d to be , • \ r/- __... ~ 1fairly far away . I looked away Ior F 8 \ an instant to tell mother to look at the thin gs." '1' The witness' mother looked ,1p 41 JUl 89 19 and als o s aw the "dishes." .ihen they swished o ver the hori;;lll andl ' disappeare d. The two women asked rat their names be with held from p,hlica tion, lest skeptical neighbors p~e fun atthem. JUL 51947_ WASHINGTON NEWS Page 5
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Source text · mention only{Neither A.irPlilne, Nbr , Cloud, ·Nor ·Balloon" .:, B:r Unite<! P1·ess overhead. It disappeared in thre ~ or Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, four seconds. . 27, had a picture today snapped • Two Portland, Ore., _police scout ;from the front porch of his home cars three miles apart notified head near Seattle which authorities quarters at 1:15 p. m. yesterday hoped wouJd clear up the mystery that they had sighted a group of of the flying saucers. strange objects weaving in a "play- (It didn't.) ful manner" 10,000 feet above the He said what he saw was ground over the southern suburbs neither an airplane , a cloud nor a of Portlan'd. Clark County (Wash.) "silver balloon ." Deputy Sheriff Fred K,rlves, across ~Ile pilot and co-pilot of a U nit- the Columbia from Portland, said ed Airlines plane said they turned he saw 20 flying discs "slewing off their craft off its c o u r se near , to one side, almost in single iile" Boise, Idaho, and c h as ed. a .over the county court hou·se. . "strange object" for 15 miles . be- T. L Huckaby of Pinc Bluff, fore it outdistanced them or 'dis• Ark., s11iil h e saw a flying objec~integrated in the dusk. Ca11t. R. J. • "about the size and color of a Smith and Second Officer R. E. Bluff area. . Decatur, 111., and Stevens, both of Seattle, said "we Salt Lake City also reported in can definitely say that what we today. saw was not smoke, not a cloud, At Philadelph ia, Dr. M. K. Leisy and not another airplane." , of the Pennsylvania Hospital .fo1• A similar object '-Vas seen by John MentaJ Diseases, said he saw a big ~orlett, United Press staff ~orre- dark saucer-like ?bject move slowly ondent his wi.fe, and two friends across the sky Just beiore sunset fom MJ... Corlet t's back yard in yesterday. f'!.e said it was surround oise. He said it was a white disc ea by a luminous halo .a~d a~peared lying about 10,000 feet directly to be propelled by whirlmg Jets. JUL 51947 WASHINGTON NEWS PAGE 5
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