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Declassification authority derived from FBI Automatic Declassification Guide, issued May 24, 2007. FD-245.1 (Rev. 1-4-99) 0062 83894 RRP003IXFT 8/11/1274151 OPEN U.S. Department of Justice Bureau igation FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER HQ - HEADQUARTERS Class / Case # Sub Vol. Serial # HOn. 02-83894-A Field Office Criminal Investigative and Administrative Files Armed and Dangerous DO NOT DESTROY ELSUR Escape Risk Financial Privacy Act FOIPA NCIC _ OCIS Suicidal . Other. Serials I - OPEN Volume Number See also Nos.

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Mr. Tolson Mr. Mohr. Mr. Parsons. Mr. Belmont Mr. Rosen Mr. Tamm Mr. Trotter Mr. W.C.Sullivan Tele. Room Mr. Ingram Miss Gandy Flying Sauder Photo Ain' What It Used to Be--Joe By Charles Manos Staff Writer they heard toe he duct GRAND BLANC, May 25- sill ouetted against the moon. Jue Perry, the talented pizza lost of Joe's customers his pizza palace here were man, feels the Pentagon convinced the object was a people have sabotaged him "flying sauce:" or something. doe became even more con- No, the Washington ex- perts haven't fussed Jog's with saucy pies, but tisey have certainly done some. group wanted to buy rights to the slide. thing to his flying sauger, Joe claims. "IT AIN'T what it used to be since they got their hands on it," said Joe, who takes potshots at the moon with a homemade telescope- camera. Joe, 44, took another look his color-slide stepped astonside photo, He also got an offer from a natibral magazine to buy the picture. Other inquiries came from all sections of the country. SO JOE was anxious to get hip picture back. He called the FRI talked to the air force. made a trip to Selfridge, lir Force Base, all in vain. setond night of the full moon. "It's not the same," he said dejectedly. "The flying saucer has faded..: some- thing has happened to it." The Washingtor experts returned the color slide a few days ago. THE FEDERAL agents picked it up last March wHen the picture was returned shortly after he sent a letter to president Tisenhower, letter incuded in the package from the Pentagon said the strange object in the pisture was the result of falty development and nothing more. Among other things, Pentagon folks have adged insult to injury, Joe said. EX 109, REC. 41 DETROIT DIVISTON Detroit, Mich. ( ) Dotroit Free Press Editor: Lee Hills ( ) Detroit News Editor: Martin S. Hayden Times Editor: John C. Manning Editor: Die: 5-25-60 Edision: Fial 7. Col: Title or Case: UNIDENT TED FLYING OBJECT; JOSEPH PERRY, GRAND BLANC, MICHIGAN - COMPLAINANT (Defile 65-2477-105) 62-83894-A NOT RECORDED 46 JUN 3 1960 5.9 JUN 7 1960

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Central Research Section 0-19 (Rev. 1-28-59) 62 - 83894 5 Tolson Belmont DeLoach McGuire Mohr - Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter W.C. Sullivan Tele. Room Holloman Gandy - 3 'Objects' Trailed Plane 45 Minutes, Pilot Says DETROIT, Feb. 25 (AP) Killian and co-pilot The pilot of an American Air- Dee of Nyack, N. Y., said they passenger today three mysterious plane lost the three strange objects objects that looked like shin- ing in the haze when they started saucers appeared company the plane to ac- their descent for landing at for 45 Detroit's Metropolitan Air- minutes last nighe on its non- port while the plane was over stop flight from Newark, N. J., Cleveland, Ohio. to Detroit. The three bright whitish Capt. Peter Killian of Syos- lights first were sighted whil set, N. Y., who has flown pas- the plane was flying at 850 senger planes for 15 said "I have never years, feet between Philipsburg ani thing like it before. „seen any- Bradford, Pa., at 8:45 p.m. Killian said other members of the crew and the 35 pas- sengers also saw the flying objects. The plane left Newark at 7:10 g, m 162-83894- A NOT RECORDED 117 MAR 3 1959 The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star - New York Herald Tribune . New York Journal-American New York Mirror - New York Daily News New York Post _ The New York Times The Worker The New Leader Date 5 7 MAR 4

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FLYING SAUCERS UPI -9* •M. -- A GROUP OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS "CLUSTERED LIKE ERED FOR NORE THAN AN HOUR NEAR HERE LAST NIGHT AND THEN STAR" ROKE APART AND DISAPPEARED," WITNESSES SAID TODAY• A SUDDENL FOR THE AERIAL RESEARCH PHENOMENA ORGANIZATION FILTER CENTE DA TOTAN CA NINE PERSONS HAD REPORTED SEEING THE MYSTIMUS UBERTS. A CHECK OF NEARBY MOLITARY BASES, AIRPORTS BUREAU DISCLOSED THERE WERE NO JETS' AND THE U.S. WEATHER OR WEATHER BALLOONS ALOFT AT OR NEAF THE TIME OF THE ETCETING SAID! CEN R DIRECTOR LI.J. LORENZEN® BETWEEN 10 P.M. AND 11:30 P.M., FILTER 8/9--G --GD253P Branpos xile 62-83894 25 39 AUG 12 1958 162 - 83894-A Nom -ECORDED 1 AUG 12 1958

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0-19 (Rev. 10-29-57) Flying Discs Show Sign Of Guidance, Jung Says ALAMOGORDO, N. Mex., What such a fact might mean July 29 (P).—Dr. Carl Jung, for humanity cannot be pre- Swiss psychologist, says in a dicted. report that Unidentified Flying "But it would put us without Objects are real signs of and "show doubt in the extremely precari- by intelligent guidance ous position of primitive com- quasi-human pilots." munities in conflict with the "I can only say for certain superior culture of the whites. these things are not a mere "That the construction of rumor, something has been these machines proves a scien- seen," Dr. Jung said in the re- tific technique immensely su- port released yesterday. purely psychological explana- gued." tion is ruled out." Dr. Jung, who started his re- vestigation of flying search on UFO's in 1944, re- reported over the past 10 years leased his report through the has produced no evidence that UFO filter Center of the Aerial such things exist. Phenomena Research Organ- It has contended that not a ization here. It was released shred of evidence has turned l by L. J. Lorenzen of Holloman up to show the existence of a Air Force Base. flying saucer or interplanetary "I have gathered a mass of space ship or that the objects observations of unidentified fly- ing objects since 1944," Dr. sighted indicate developments beyond the range of current Jung said. scientific knowledge or pose a "The discs do not behave threat to the Nation's secur- in accordance with physical ity. laws, but as though without The Air Force said last No- weight. vember that investigations ot "If the extra-terrestial origin 5,700 reported sightings showed of this phenomena should be the mysterious objects were confirmed this would prove the balloons, aircraft, astronomical existence of an intelligent in- phenomena, birds, fireworks or ter planetary relationship. hoaxes, among other things. 62-83894- NOT RECORDED 117 AUG 1. 1958 A file 83894 67 AUG1 1958 Tolson Boardman Belmont Mohr - Nease Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter Clayton Tele. Room Holloman Gandy Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash, News Wash. Star - A -1 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 7 - 29-5

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ANK Schmidt, 48, an ex-Nebras- No Saucers'® Trace Fourid ken and now a California grain dealer, was questione Air Force investigato from the Continental Air De fense Command. near the alleged landing spot of the space ship was identi- A.F. Checks Schmidt; fied as ordinary but will be Kearney Amused tested by the University of Nebraska. Tales of flying saucers and While the Schmidt tale was other such space Crait got giving Kearney a sensational an unofficial raspberry conversation piece, most of Wednesday night from an the talk was of a skeptical Air Force official. variety. A top official of the Air Newsmen Busy Technical Intelligence Cen- "Everybody downtown 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- vestigators have found no A Kearney clothier put up a sign advertising "space ship evidence in the past 10 years specials." A window that flying saucers are real. car agency sign in announced: He said 5,700 reported sightings were "Space Ships Tuned Up." investigated between 1947 and 1957. Not The Kearney car-rental operator reported business a single landing impression, footprint, saucer or little was so good all of his cars were in use. They were being green man was found rented by visiting newsmen. Investigation Goes Presence of the newsmen Neb., hold Kameys Nery of Betpan was nearly the only sign th ar ything unusual had at afternoon's visit crew of a space ship near he pened — or may have ha pened. city Tuesday was still under investigation, officials said. ROACH Kahott OMAHA WORLD-HERALD OMAHA, NEBRASKA 11-7-57 SUNRISE EDITION bitters 52 NOV 2 6 1957, INDEXED - 24 62- 83894- A NOT RECORDED 117 NOL 22 1957 **

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Space-Ship Story Raises Eyebrows The World-Herald's News Serrice. Kearney, Neb.--A grain Huyer who said he saw a space ship Tuesday in a field near here and chatted amicably with its six occu- pants had more pleasant dealings with the visitors from outer space than with skeptical authorities. The sensational report by R. O. Schmidt, about 50. of Bakersfield, Cal., which topped a host of reports across the nation Tuesday of seeing mysterious flying objects, had these conse- quences: -State Penitentiary rec- ords showed a man of the same name served a term for embezzlement from Scotts Bluff County in the 1930's. Scotts Bluffs Coun- Sheriff Steve Warrick Shid he talked to Schmidt World-Herald News Service Photo. Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson ... In "heart-to-heart" talk. SIDE VIEW OUTSIDE phow nothwas convinced "saw nothing." -He turned down a chance to take a lie- detector test.* -Schmidt was kept up most of the night for questioning. He asked finally for an attorney. Ward Minor of Kearney LENGTH: APPROX. 100 FEET was named. -Wednesday forenoon he went to the scene of the space ship's landing with FLOOR PLAN INSIDE investigators from the Con- tinental Air Defense Com- mand at Colorado Springs, INSTRUMENTS LOUNGE Colo., Kearney Police Chief Thurston Nelson and Buf- FAN ROOF Y falo County Attorney Kenneth Gotobed. They said Schmidt's story "ap; peared to be weakening. 0220767-02- SEALED COMPARTMEN FAN * IN ROOF • CONVEYOR TO BACK OF SHIP -Oil drippings on the ground from the space machine were being ana- lyzed at Kearney State College. In v es tigators said the "mysterious green oil" closely resem- bled that in a partially- emptied can of commer- cial auto oil found in the bick of Schmidt's car and a nearly-empty can found near the site of the "land. Schmidt's story came to The Schmidtnik ... As described by the grain buyer. light when, white-faced 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 11 police, 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 out miles south and a mile east and walked toward the ma- of Kearney. When ready to chine. Proximity revealed leave he drove down a side road seeking a place to O FlYING SAuceRs file OMAHA WORLD-HERALD OMAHA, NEBRASKA 11-6-57 WALL STREET EDITION 62 - 83894- I CORDED LL7 NOV 22 1957 /42) 52 NOV 261957

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it to be a translucent, ci- gar - shaped device about one hundred feet long, 30 feet wide and about 14 feet Schmidt said tha Then he was 25 or 30 feei Iway, two mer out and waved what looked like a flashlight. "I couldn't move. I don't know whether I was just afraid or what, but it was like being paralyzed," he said. In Business Suits* Schmidt said the men, dressed in business suits, searched him for weapons then remarked that as long as they were going to be there for some time "you might as well come in and see things for a few min- utes." Inside the machine were two other men and two women working on wires and instruments. The de- vice had a fan at each end. By a strange coincidence one of the crewmen "looked exactly like" a hotel ac- quaintance with whom he has been watching televi- sion programs. When the occupants wanted to move from place to place they would ste in a certain location and be pulled to the new location without moving. 'Spoke German' The ship occupants talked among themselves inf High German, which Schmidt says he stands to a limited extenti Oue man spoke excellent English and interpreted for the others. Schmidt said the inter- preter told him repeatedly he had nothing to fear. The visitors refused to answer any questions but said he would "find out all about it in a couple of weeks." When repairs were com- pleted, Schmidt said he was asked to leave but was told he would be unable to start his car until the machine had disappeared. "Disappeared' Outside the machine, Schmidt said, he turned to 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 just blended into the ky—-like it changed colo Jor disappeared into thi ail." he said Schmidt starter of his car Pressed the The mo- tor started right off.

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0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) Coast to Coast Rash of 'Flying Saucer" Reports Floods U. S. Several persons reported seeing a "red ball" hovering over the Atomic Energy Comnustion's Savannah River plant near Augusta, Ga, last night. There was an unoffi cial report that Air Forge personnel at nearby Aik- en, S. C., spotted the ob- ject on radar and issued an alert. The object appeared to be a "constant red light,' accord- ing to Augusta Chronicle ex- ecutive editor Louis Harris, •Flying Szucers who saw the object from the downtown newspaper build- ing. "It could have been a tiny red light a short tance away or dis- a gigantic thing at a great distance,' " he said. One witness, J. T. James, said he saw the object on two occasions from his home near Aiken. It was cigar-shaped, he said, and would alternate from bright to amber and occasionally got out alto- gether. Elsewhere, strange "sauc- on sightings were reported. NEBRASKA Neb., authori- ties held At Kearney: heart-to-heart" talk with Reinh old Schmidt, a salesman, later discovered to be an ex-con- vict, who said he talked to four men and two women in a transport space ship which had landed. He said the space people spoke in English and German. Police roped off the area where the "whatnik" alleg- edly landed and examined various impressions and oil stains on the ground. At Long Beach, Calif., three Air Force weather observers, one of them the commanding officer of the spotting unit, late yesterday reported sight- ing six unidentified, saucer- shaped flying objects over Long Beach Air Force base. The Coast Guard reported picking up an unidentified obiect on radar over the Gulf of Mexico south of New Orleans. A Coast Guard commander said the obiect paused over the cutter Se- bago in the Gulf and was on le radar seope for about 27 Inutes. 162-83894 A NOT RECORDED 140 NOV 12 1957 WHITE SANDS Miitary authorities appar ently gave credence to a re- port by i electronic en- gineer who said he saw a object which made car en- gines Sands stall near the White proving grounds. John McCurdy, Air Force public relations officer at White Sands, said the en- gineer, James Stokes, 42, will be given a thoro medical ex amination and radiation count test. Col. McCurdy said he was "personally sat- Isfied" with Mr. Stokes' re- port, A Civil Service worker Lackland Air Force Base at San Antonio, Tex., said in saw an egg-shaped he object land in a ravine about 200 yards from him as he drove 62-83894 near the eity. He said his car engine and lights went off, and the object took off in a few minutes, enabling him to drive away. At about the same time, the Ground Observer Corps at Midland, Tex., said it saw a large, red object and picked up unintelligible conversa- tion on a sound detector. @P NOV 1 4 1957 O/ Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mohr - Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter Nease Tele. Room Holloman - Gandy - Befogan Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News p-7 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 Leader Date 11-6-5?

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9-75 (Rev. 9-7-56) •° Fine Saucers зр0 Tracked 27 Minutes on Radar U.S. Cutter in Gulf of Mexico Reports Sighting Mysterious "Object' in Sky Associated Press traveling at an estimated 1000 of light with no definite shape, brilliant mystery object miles per hour, International resembling the planet Venus." was reported sighted yester- News Service reported. How- Shockley said there were no day in southern skies by a ever, at one point, the object vapor trails or any other in- Coast Guard cutter, even as appeared to remain stationary dications as to the object's Air Force special investigat- and hover above the waters be method of propulsion. One ors checked a flurry of ear-fore it resumed its erratic estimate of its height placed lier,, similar reports. flight. it at 2000 feet. The Coast Guard cutter Se- [The cutter's captain, Cmdr. bago, cruising in the Gulf of C. H. Waring, said the object [Glenn Northeutt, Willis, Okla., rancher and member of Mexico about 200 miles south first appeared on the 1 ship's the University of Oklahoma of Louisiana, radioed that an radar screen as a "good, strong Board of Regents, reported object resembling "a brillianti Saturday he and five planet with a high rate of speed" was seen for about pip" at 5:10 a.m. and was lost others had watched "a bril. three seconds at 5:21 a. m. a. m. a northerly direction at 5:37 hant, mysterious light that looked like the planet Venus (CST). [In this time, the skipper magnified many. many times." The Sebago's message said said the object, which came as The object, he said, was visible the object was tracked on the mccale radar caroen for for Glose as two miles to el, was actually seen be yes. more than half an hour? Sightings of strange objects minutes and that, during that period, the object fitted on and off the ins. Wayne D. Shockley, de. ly scattered sections of the screen several imes. cribed it as a "bright •point United States, most of them Crewmen caught sight near ecret military installa of it only for a few seconds. tions in the Southwest [The Sebago radioed New The Air Force said the rada Orleans Coast Guard flead network of the Air Defen: Quarters that the obiect was IYSTERY. A6. Col. 3 olson Nichofs Boardma Belmont Mohr - Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter . Nease Tele. Room Holloman - Gandy V. fEss ders 162-83894 NOT RECORDED 140 NOV 12 357 6 2-838 - 94 Al 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 Leader Date -AOV 96N0. 18 1957 33 Ce 6 1957

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Command was keeping watch ported objects may be some- so far with no results-and thing from another' planet. that specially qualified inves said, "Assuming they are real," he "they would be secret tigators had been assigned to weapons made look into the reports. are interplanetary, earth or Any na- For several years the Air tion with the secret, he added. Force has checked all reports would by now have abandoned of unidentified flying objects. aircraft or mis- Investigators work under the Air Defense Command at Col- Cosmic Energy orado Springs, Colo., and re- port to the "It looks as though they are telligence Center. Air Technical In- interplanetary," Keyhoe said. He said one source of pow- Judging from past findings, er for such reported obiects the chances Force will offer a humdrum 50-1 the Air could be cosmic ray energy. explanation for the Some of the citizens, peace current officers and servicemen sightings. who reported sighting mystery ob- - During the first half of this jects year, the Air Force said, only the in the Southwest since weekend said the 1.9 per cent of the 250 report- stalled obiects auto engines ed sightings of flying saucers caused radios to fade. and and other fantastic aerial ob- James Stokes, an engineer jects have wound up "unknown" category. in the at the Air Force missile de- velopment center at Air Force Skeptical Alama- gordo. N. M., reported 10 autos were stalled Monday on a des- And the Air Force said firm- ert highway between Alama- ly-though not all flying sau gordo and the White cer buffs may agree-that it (N. M.) Proving Grounds. Sands doesn't believe even the 1.9 He reported seeing a sound per cent residue is made up less, "brilliant colored of the things you read about shaped egg- object" which flitted in science fiction magazines. erratically across the country- Balloons, aircraft and such side and left a sort of heat astronomical sights as meteor- wave, "like radiation from ites and bright stars account giant sun lamp,' " in its wake. -at least to the Air Force's Device Sought official satisfaction - for al- most four-fifths of the sight- Leonard Hardlund, chief en- ings. gineer for the National Inven- The director of a private or tors Council Washington, ganization set up to inves said a device that could stall tigate flying saucers and such autos or other mechanical said he couldn't evaluate at equipment was one of the this point the current rash of things the armed forces would reported sightings. like to see developed. But retired But Hardlund said he knew Donald E. Keyhoe, director of Marine Maj. of no research in this country the National Investigations aimed at producing such a de- Committee on Aerial vice. Phe- Two teen age girls reported nemons added, that the re- seeing a mysterious obiect en the sky over Annapolis, Md., last week. Tean Hunt, 13, and Sylvia Fowler, 15, said they saw an egg-shaped obiect which glowed like a neon light. They spotted it while trick-or-treat- ing with Jean's two younger sisters on Halloween night in Primrose Acres, a housing de. velopment on the outskirts of Annapolis Jean said the girls became frightened and ran home but one would believe their story until weekend newspa- per accounts told of a mystery obinet sighted in Texas. Associated Press J. G. Kirby of Dallas made this photo of a diamond shaped object flying through the sky while he and his family were driving near Amarillo, Tex., in August, 1956. The photo was turned over to the FBI and has just been released after intensive study. The Air Force described glow as "Fadiation vapor."

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0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) Yin Ruce Mystery Objects Called Mirage by Astronomer By the Associated Press A Harvard astronomer says mysterious objects reported from various parts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico are mirages stemming from natural causes. Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Observatory, said yesterday in of the Harvard College whole thing amounts to Cambridge; Mass., "another flying saucer scare." that the The Air Force has started an investigation of the reported sightings of the strange glow- ing objects in the sky. Air Force for years has had mosphere which would give a the responsibility of checking radar reflection." reports of unidentified flying As for reports of the auto objects ,but as one officer put it, "We don't investigate all of engines stalling, he said, them." would not be surprising that a A rash of such reports has nervous foot could stall an en- developed since Sunday, with gine." some of the sightings said to have been made near secret about flying Dr. Menzel, author of a book military installations in the saucers, has been Southwest. Some of the per- studying sons making the reports said about 10 years and has yet to the objects caused hear of one which could their auto not be explained by natural phe- engines to stall and their radios nomena. to fade. Cutter Claims Sighting "They are caused by a layer of heated air . . . acting as Yesterday the Coast Guard lens and forming an image a of Cutter Sebago radioed from the objects as much as 40 or Gulf of Mexico that an object miles away," he said. 50 resembling a brilliant planet with a high rate of speed Common in West was seen for about three seconds, "They are nothing more than and that it was tracked by mirage. They are prevalent radar. just after nightfall Dr. Menzel said it is probable as the the cutter's crewmen heated air begins to cool off at got a false image "quite likely from the ground, and they are com- mon bubbles of hot air in the at- have clear air." in the West where they 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 classed as "unknown " been And the Air Force wasn't ready to be- lieve that even this small per- centage has sinister implica- tions. It seemed a good bet the Air Force will agree with Dr. Menzel's opinion that the cur- rent sightings have explana- tions in nature, or that the reported objects are actually aireraft or similar man-made things. 62-83894. Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter - Nease Tele. Room Holloman Gandy Вируда Поклавіз Julie 162-83894-A NOT RECORDED 140 NOV 13 1957 Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star . A-10 N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Journal-- American Mr N. Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News N. Y. Times Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Date - 52 7114 7 2 NOV 14 1957

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0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mohr - Parsons Rosen - Tamm- Trotter Nease Tele. Room Holloman Gandy "Flyino Saucers 162-83894-A NOT RECORDED 140 NOV 8 1957 Associated Press J. G. Kirby of Dallas made this photo of a diamond shaped object flying through the sky while he and his family were driving near Amarillo, Tex., in August, 1956. The photo was turned over to the FBE and has just been released after intensive study. The Air Force described the glow as "radiation vapor." le Wash. Post and 11=6=57 Times Herald page A-6 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 Leader 52 NOV 8 1957 Date 62-83894

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0-20 Mr. Tolson. дрім мк хов Mr. Boardmak Mr. Belmont - Mr. Mohr - Mr. Parsons $ Mr. Rosen - Mr. Tamm - Mr. Trotter - Mr. Nease - Tele. Room - Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy - OFling SpucerS BESIGAN UP42 (OBJECT ) LEVELLAUD CING " MYSTERIOUS TEX. --FIVE PERSONS INCLUDING A SHERIFT SUN EGG-SHAPED OBJECT WHICH RE PORTED TODAY THEI OVER LEVELLAND IN VEST TEJAS. AUTO ENGINES AND PUT THREE MOTORISTS SAID IT KILLED 200 EACH CAS OUT THEIR MEADLICHTS WhEN THEY GOT NEAR IT. ALL RIGNT AF HE MOTORISTS SAID THEIR ENGINES AND HEADLIGNTS WERE OBJECT SHERIFF IN AND A SUDDENLY TOOK OFF AND DISAPFEARED. WHEN THEY WENT OUT DEPUTY ALSO SAN THE OBJECT AT 1830 AM EDT TO LOOK FOR IT AFTER GETTING EARLIER SNERIFT SAID IT STREAKED NOISELESS ACROSS THE ROAD SOME REPORTS. THE FRONT CE HIM, BUT DID NOT AFFECT NIS CAR. 200 YARDS IM 11/3--U0530P 42-8 3894-A NOT RECORDED 140 NOV 12 1957 Van dess 62.83894 file zoss 7116 777 CANOV 114 11957 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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0-20 Mr. Tolson Mr. Nichols Mr. Boardman Mr. Belmont Mr. Mohr - Mr. Parsons Mr. Rosen Mr. Tamm Mr. Trotter Mr. Nease Tele. Room Mr. Holloman. Miss Gandy . UP44 CIN LONG TOLD SNERITS NE WHICH GLOWED E INTERMITTENTLY ARQUE UP WITH MIS LIGHTS OU THE OBJECE APFEAR- BLINDING KRON LIGHT. TO BE ABOUT 200 TETT LONG AND EGG SHAPED. HE SAID IT CAGED NIS ENGINE DIT AND MIS NRADLICITS TO GO OUT. CAUSED SUDDEN L1018R THE ROSE SONE STARTED TO GET OUT OF LIS CAR TO IUVESTIGAL IN A FLASH OF 200 TEET STRAIGIT UP AND DISAPILANED LIGHT, HE TOLD THE SHERIFF. CLEN SAID AUTHORITIES COULD FIND MO BURN MARKS OR OTHER INDICATIONS AT THE SPOT WHERE LONG SAID THE OBJICT MAD LANDED. LAST OF LEVELLAND SLEY SAELEASE CHECKED FORS OF SEA PLATE CEASE 3 ABOUT SC MI LES THE AREA, BUT REPORTED MOLMING• PEDRO SACIDO, A LEVELLAME MOTORIST, WAS THE TIRST TO REPORT SIGHTING THE THING• "IT SOUNDED LIKE AN EAR SPLITTING CLAMP OF THUNDER--AS IF SOMETHINE HAD EXPLODED, • SACIDO TOLD THE SHERITE ME SAID IT KILLED HIS ENGINE AND KNOCKED OUT HIS HEADLIGNTS UNTIL 1 AFTER IT PASSED OVER. A KERMITA MOTORIST WISE MAME THE SHERITE DID WOT GET. ALSO REPORTED SPUTTING TOO THE OBJECT WHILE DRIVING ON STATE NIGHBAY 51 ABOUT LIGHT MILES WORTH OT LEVELLANDS WE TOLD THE SHERITE IT HAD THE SAME AFFECT ON MIS CAR ENGINE AND LIGHTS AS THE OTHERS REPORTED. CLIM SAID ME COULD NOT OFFER A GUESS AS TO WHAT THE OBJECT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. 11/3--H0543P WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) 4 Bation 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 turning away from air- 90 degrees in an instant." It who once denounced fly- liner and giving the pilots a finally zoomed up at an ex- ing saucers as "bunk" has stead of burning out with the tremely sharp angle and shot usual flash, view of its glowing tailpipe. reported "it abruptly halt- encountering ed directly in front of us." But he said instead of grow- out of sight, he added. mysterious unidentified ing smaller, an intense blue- mained in front of the Vis- He said his own plane was flying object near Mobile, approximately count. above the clouds, "preclud seven or eight times as bright ing any reflections of search as Venus when this planet is Capt. Hull wrote that the lights from below." Capt. W. J. Hull of Capital at its brightest magnitude, "UFO)) (unidentified flying object) then began a series of violent maneuvers, "sharp There's accent local dent in a report published by, He said he thought the ob-, er than any known aircraft, sports in The News sports magazine of the unofficial Na- ject might be a iet fighter, sometimes changing direction pages. tional Investigations Commit 1536 Connecticut-av nw. Capt. Hull wrote an article for a pilots' magazine in 1953 titled *"The Obituary of the Flying Saucer." His experi- ence described in the "Investi- gator" took place Nov. 14, 1956. He did not suggest what he saw was a flying saucer. Capt. Hull said he was fly- ing a Viscount at about 10, 000 feet near Mobile, at 10:10 when he and his co- pilot m. spotted what we hought was a brilliant eteor." NOT RECORDED 141 OCT 141957 Wash. Post and - Times Heraldp. 6 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 Leader Date. 10 - 9-57 6 0 0CT 14 1957 F492

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0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmonito Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm. Trotter - Nease Tele. Room Holloman - Gandy - Doolittle Scoffs at Report Of Nazi Flying Saucer \ By the As ociated Press of Hugh L. Dryden, director of James H. Doolittle says it the advisory committee. Mr. Dryden said "there is no "just ain't so" that Nazi Gel'- truth' in statement that many developed a flying saucer German engineers designed a and a bomber that could attack flying saucer which attained a the United States and return height of 40,000 feet and speed 1,250 miles an hour. without refueling. "This is an advertisement for The veteran airman, chairman a book which includes material of the National Advisory Com- discovered by our groups who mittee for Aeronautics, last went into Germany after the month gave a House Appropria- war." he said. tions Subcommittee his estimate He said also the man supposed of reports published in Germany to have designed the bomber of great aviation accomplish- that could cross the Atlantic These were twice without refueling had writ- contained in a book by Rudolf ten a book of his own with no Lusar, former German War Min- mention of any such invention Istry special weapons chief. Gen. Doolittle, asked Gen. Doolittle's testimony was both the saucer and the bombei published today, along with that said, "it just ain't so." BRONGAY Sophis LYING SAUCEA 545s NE 11 INDEXED - 83 EX(107, 62.83894- NOT RECORDED 138, MAR 20 195Z SECEIAED - BOVSONE 5 2 MAR 271957 -83894 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 Leader Date AR 1 4 1957

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0-19 (11-22-55) Oflyinó Saucers Saucers, Expert Says By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (AP). -Reteired Rear Adm. Delmer S Fahrney once head of the Navy's missiles Wednesdav program, said reliable reports indi. cate that "there are objects com- ing into our high speeds ,atmosphere at very Fahrney told a news confer- ence that "no agency in this country or Russia is able to dupli. cate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radar and observers indicate these objects are able to achieve. flying FAHRNEY SAID he never has seen a flying saucer, but has talked with a number of scien- tists and engineers who reported seeing strange Fahrney flying objects. called a news confer. ence following an organizational meeting of a new private group, the National Investigations mittee Com- on Aerial Phenomena, of which he is board chairman. Fahrney said the committee was set up largely to tie to- gether a number of UFO-mean- ing unidentified flying objects" - clubs being formed throughout the world. Fahrney said his com- shittee wil collect and investigate lying saucer reports, hem and make public its find. ings. 12. - 83894-A NOT RECORDED 191 JAN 23 1957 BO JAN 23. 1957 Tolson Nichols Boardman Bel mont Mason Mohr . Parsons - Rosen Tamm Nease _ Winterrowd Tele. Room Holloman Gandy — Brobia ROÁCH Wash. Post and - Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald— Tribune N. Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News Daily Worker - The Worker . New Leader -495 Date JAN

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mile Sha Mr. Tolson Mr. Nichols. Mr. Boardman Mr. Belmont. Mason_ Mr. Mohr... Mr. Parsons. Mr. Rosen. Mr. Tamm Mr. Nease._ Mr. Winterrowd Tele. Room_ Mr. Holloman- Miss Gandy- Selicock 'Saucer' Seen by 7 West of Saginaw SAGINAW, July 30. - (P) - State Police at Bridgeport Post received seven reports of a "fly- ing saucer" between midnight and 7 a.m. today. One officer said he saw a fly- ing object himself. The first report, which came from the nearby Burt Ground Observer Corps. station, said the object appeared about 12 feet in diameter, had red and blue lights and was moving swiftly. Various reports put the object's height at between 1,200 and 25,000 feet. The reports came from Sag- inaw, Midland and Gratiot counties. Police said the callers told them the object was seen over Freeland, Clare, Alma and Breckinridge, all west of Sag- inaw. ceived one call but could Midl add police said the no pot the object. Similar reports were received early gating planes found nothing. ( ) Glos Ludowy ) Michigan Editor-The Worker) ) The Daily Worker ) Narodna Volya ) Romanul American ) Pittsburgh Courier Michigan Chronicle ) Detroit Free Press 4) Detroit News ) Detroit Times ) Michigan Daily ) Wayne Collegian ( ) Date 2-20 = EditionS STAR Column. 2 Page 15894 NOT RECORDED 126|AUG 8 1956 58 AUG 0 gay Saucer File Kur file es

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-0-19 (11-22-55) Flying Saucers 'Confidential Files' Gets 10-Cent 'Saucer' Inquiry By the Associated Press might have confidential files, If you want information on sent it to the Federal Bureau flying saucers, don't address your of Investigation. request to "Confidential Files, The FBI, never one to pass Washington, D. C." out military secrets, made dis- Takes too long. And besides creet inquiries. you may be investigated by the Then the FBI forwarded the FBI. letter to the Air Force, advising A woman out in Los Angeles that nothing derogatory or in- (name withheld by various Gov- dicative of subversion could be ernment agencies) dashed off a found in the woman's activities. note on January 15. It said: So the Air Force reached into "Confidential Files its nonclassified files and plucked "Wash., D. C. out the latest summary on the Dear Sirs-Please send me a number of sightings of UFO (un- bulletin of flying saucers, or the identified flying objects), to- address where I can get infor- gether with an explanation of mation about them. I am inclos- why people think they see flying ing 10 cents. saucers-or what it is they see "Thanks.", which the Air Force can or can't Seemed like a simple, direct explain. approach-except for the ad- The lady's 10 cents was taped dress. to the summary and both were The post office, casting about mailed to her address in Los for some Federal agency that Angeles. 7 1 MAR 2 8 1956 V. Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mason Mohr - Parsons Rosen Tamm Nease Winterrowd Tele. Room Holloman - Gandy BAUMGARD 83894 62- 62-83894-, NOT RECORDED 126 MAR 23 1956 Biffy Wash. Post and . Times Herald Wash. News - Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Mirror - N. Y. Daily News Daily Worker The Worker - New Leader - Date MAR 2 1956

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- DEE RTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE Office of Public Information Washington 25, D. c. ONTA U. S. Air Force Summary of Events and Information Concerning the Unidentified Flying Object Program The Air Force feels a very definite obligation to identify and analyze things that happen in the air that may have in them menace to the United States and, because of that feeling of obligation and pur- sult of that interest, the Air Force established an activity known as the Unidentified Flying, Object Program. This program was established in 1947 when unidentified flying objects were being reported in various parts of the United States. The reports of. sightings reached a peak of 1,700 in 1952 and dropped to a total of 429 in 1953. During the first nine months of 1954 only 254 sightings were reported. From a survey of the volume of sightings received by the Air Force, it has been determined that over 80 percent are explainable as being known objects. Generally, sighted objects fall into the cate- gory of: balloons, aircraft, astronomical bodies, atmospheric reflec- tions, and birds. All reports of unidentified flying objects result from either radar or visual sightings. Explanations pertaining to sightings reported from military and civilian radar facilities are as follows: 1. Temperature inversion reflections can give a return on a radar scope that is as sharp as that received from an aircraft.. Speeds of these returns reportedly range from zero to fantastic rates. The "objects" also appear to move in all directions. Such sightings have resulted in many fruitless intercept efforts. To possibly bear out the theory of temperature inversion reflection is an incident which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge, Tennessee.i Two Air Force aircraft attempted to intercept an unidenti- fied "object" and actually established a radar "lock" on the object. Their altitude at the time was 7,000 feet. The unidentifled object, according to their radar, appeared to be at an elevation of 10 to 25 degrees from this altitude. Three passes were made in an attempt to close on the object. In each instance the pilots reported that their radar led them first upward and then down toward a specific point on the ground. (One scientifie theory holds that light can be similarly reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth. If this proves to be correct, many visual night sightings could be accounted for.) Ionized clouds have caused some unidentified radar returns. Thunderstorms are identifiable by radar and radar returns have also been received from ice formations in the air, balloons, ground reflec- tions, frequency interference between other radar stations, and wind- born objects. Obviously, such returns are very difficult to identify, especially when they occur during darkness. 83894-4 MORE ENCNOSAIRE

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- 3. The radar creen has picked up birds a in one case a flock of ducks. Flight interceptions proved these phenomena. An explanation of known types of visual sightings are as... follows: 1. Present-day jet aircraft, flying at great speeds and high altitudes, are often mistaken for unknown objects by the untrained observer. Sunlight reflections from the polished surfaces of air- craft can be seen plainly even when the aircraft itself is too dis- tant to be visible. The exhaust of jet aircraft emits a trail and often this is seen rather than the aircraft itself. 2. Weather balloons account for a substantial number of sight- These balloons, sent to altitudes of 40,000 feet and higher, are launched from virtually every airfield in the country. They are made of rubber or polyethylene, swell as they gain altitude, have very good reflective qualities, carry small lights when launched after dark, and can be seen at very high altitudes. In addition to the ordinary weather balloon, huge 90-foot balloons, which sometimes drift from coast to coast, are used for upper air research. These balloons also have a highly reflective. surface and are visible at extreme altitudes. 4. Frequently, unusually bright meteors and planets will cause a flurry of reports, sometimes from relatively experienced observers. At certain times of the year, Venus, for instance, is low on the horizon and will appear to change color and move erratically due to hazy atmospheric conditions. Since the stars are charted and most of their characteristics known, many cases are traced to them. Meteors on the other hand are of rapid single-direction movement and are only visible for a few seconds. Meteor activity is more common at certain times of the year than others, and reports of UFO's have shown a tendency to increase during these periods. Some cases arise which, on the basis of information received are of a weird and peculiar nature. The objects display erratic movements and phenomenal speeds. Since maneuvers and speeds of this kind cannot be traced directly to aircraft, balloons, or known astro- nomical sources, it is believed' that they are reflections from ob- jects rather than being objects themselves. i For examples i suppose we would hold a mirror in hand under a light, causing a reflection on the celing: beam. ground and air. Many things which are common to the sky have highly reflective qualities, such as balloons, aircraft, and clouds. Accu- rate speeds are also difficult to determine due to the inability of the reporter to judge distance, angles, and time. 6. Brilliant flashing lights that sometimes appear red and white in color have been reported by observers. This type has been traced to a new lighting system of commercial airlines and military aircraft. Atop the tail section of these aircraft highly reflective red and white flasher type lights have been installed and are many times misinterpreted by the ground observer. -2-

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In the analysis at vestigation of the radar and visual • sightings describea, re are some yardsticks whi have been • established from experience and trends to measure and attempt to determine the source of UFO's. Some of these are general in nature and are subject to change as new scientific and factual Information is received. It should be remembered that any object viewed from a great distance appears to be round. Nearly all the sightings reported are described as round and would tend to indicate that most of the objects are at a greater distance from the observer than is generally estimated. Another misconception centers about photographs of unidentified flying objects. At best the majority of photographs have proven non-conclusive as evidence to this program mainly due to type cameras used. Also, it might be mentioned that because still photographs can be so easily faked, either by using a mock-up or model against a legitimate background, or by retouching the negative, they are worth- less as evidence.: Innumerable objects, from ashtrays to wash basins, have been photographed while sailing through the air. Many such photos have been published without revealing the true identity of the objects. More attention is given to moving pictures of unidentified fly- ing objects since they are more difficult to retouch. However, only a very few movie-type films have been received by the Air Force and they reveal only pinpoints of light moving across the sky. The Air Force has been unable to identify the source of these lights because the images are too small to analyze properly. Since ownership of these films remains with the persons taking them, the Air Force 1s now in a position to give them out. The difficulty of evaluating reports of all types is based largely upon the lack of basic data surrounding the sightings. The drop in sightings during 1953 is largely due to the increased accuracy and the completeness of reports being received. To be of value, a report should include such basic data as size, shape, composition, speed, altitude, direction, and the maneuver pattern of the objects. Without such information, it is almost impossible to establish identity of the object sighted. in addition, a recent study has shown a direct correlation between the number of sightings reported and the publicity given to "saucers" by the nation's press. The Air Force took a further step in early 1953 by procuring Videon cameras for the purpose of photographing this phenomena. These cameras were distributed to various military installations. This type camera has two lenses, one of which takes an ordinary photograph, and the other has a diffraction grating which separates light into its component parts. This aids in determining the composition of the ob- ject photographed. A small number of photographs have been received from this camera; however, only light spots of no detail have been indicated in the photos to date. As more photographs are taken by these observers, it is believed that a great deal of the mystery will be lifted from the program. The Air Force would like to state that no evidence has been received which would tend to indicate that the United States is being observed by machines from outer space or a foreign government, No object or particle of an unknown substance has been received and

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no photographs of detail have been produced. The photographs on hand are, at best, only large and small blobs of light which, in most cases, are explainable. It may be concluded from the above and from past experience that no new significant trends have developed out of these cases. There was an increase in public interest which occurred simultaneously with the publication of various books and articles on the subject; however, this trend has been noted several times previously. In order to overcome the lack of basic data, and to standardize all reports, a detailed questionnaire is now submitted to each person reporting an unidentified aerial object. It is felt that the infor- mation thus obtained will lower still more the number of unexplained sightings. For observers who wish to report unidentified aerial objects, the Air Force would welcome the information. Attached to this report is a brief basic summary form. It would be appreciated if observers would send the completed form to the nearest Air Force Base. If and when new developments turn up in this program, the Air Force will keep the public informed.

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PLEASE SEND TO YOUR NEAREST AIR FORCE BASE DATE: TIME OF SIGHTING : SIZE: SHAPE: COMPOSITION: SPEED: ALTITUDE: DIRECTION OF TRAVEL: MANEUVER PATTERN: COLOR: SOUND: LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED: SKY CONDITIONS: VISIBILITY: GROUND DIRECTION OF WIND: NAME, AGE, MAILING ADDRESS OF OBSERVER: REMARKS: (General desceiption of what you saw--use back if necessary) 6 2 83 894-1- ENCLOSURE

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Mr. Tolson Mr. Boardman Mr. Nichols Mr. Belmont. Mr. Harbo Mr. Mohr • Mr. Parsons. Mr. Rosen Mr. Tomm Mr. Sizoo Mr. Winterrowd. Tele. Room Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy. INDEXED fores 2 ENCE. REYNOLDS NEWS DECEMBER 19, 1951 LONDON, ENGLAND 1\ GEORG KLEIN A NEW SLANT ON FLYING SAUCERS By FORSAITH REES HERE is the "real truth" about Flying Saucers, as told by Georg Klein, former secret weapons ex- pert in the German War Production Ministry, anc now an engineer in Switzerland. " Flying Saucers," he says, Use tond cret weapons of the and Russia. " They are a continuation of Terman wartime experi- hents "Prototype Flying Saucers e were built in Germany during the war. I saw one reach a height of 40,000 feet in three minutes, near Prague, in said there are two types Flying Saucer built one with to-day- 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 sua- denly. Raised wing flaps lift both aircraft like a helicopter. The big one can keep stationary by turning jets down to counter- balance gravity. Flying Saucers developed in Canada by John Frost, former colleague of Sir Frank Whittle, have reached 1,500 mph and have been spected by Field-Marsnal Montgomery, says Klein. 1945." Klein says the Russians captured a scale model and top technicians at Breslau. The technicians have not returned to Germany And Walter Miethe, reapon inventor and key Saucer development, Kest and now works in lan led he nited States Klein in a Zurich interview INDEXED - 24 62-83894.A NOT RECORDED 126 FEB 7 1955 SURICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACH AMERICAN EMBASSY GONDON, ENGLAND 66 FEB 16 1955 249 1/2/55 Frost'= ideas I nour a freno he has neur allaced s in the air, mens,

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Mr. Tolson. Mr. Boardman Mr. Nichols- Mr. Belmont_ Mr. Harbo- Mr. Mohr..- Mr. Parsons. Mr. Rosen. Mr. Tamm. Mr. Sizeo... Mr. Winterrowd_ Tele. Room Mr. Holloman. Miss Gandy. yST M.Y. JOURNAL AMERICAN. DATHT JUL 2 9 1954 FORWARDID BY N. E. DIVISION D3 AUG 9, 7,854 Flying Saucer?': Weird Spy Disc Sighted By Ship A cireular object. Bravish at first and then brighter, like the moon, shooting up from near sea level and disappearing in clouds at 5,000 feet, was sighted at sea last night 80 miles east of New York. Officers of the Dutch liner Groote Beer reported the incident when the vessel arrived in Hoboken. "I don't know what it was," said Capt. Jan P. Boshoff, a veteran shipmaster, who said he watched the object through his binoculars. "It might have been what has been described as a flying saucer, but I don't know what it was." Through his most powerful binoculars, the captain trained them on the object, 40 degrees off the port side. Several other officer similarly trained bino- culars. Capt. Boshoff described it as "a flat object, resembling the mon, at first kind of gray and then turning brighter on the lower part, and around the edges having bright spots as if they were lights." He said it was moving "directly upward, with great speed." He said he never had seen anything like it before, and. added: "I am positive it was not a meteor. Nor was it anything supersatural in the sky." 2-8389+=A. KOT RECORDED 117 AUG S 1954 Asiane Saucers Нук-

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7/ying Zaat Нерід - Sauces 0-20 Mr. Tolson - Mr. Boardman Mr. Nichols 2 Mr. Belmont Mr. Harbo Mr. Mohr Mr. Parsons Mr. Rosen Mr. Tamm Mr. Sizoo - Mr. Winterrowd - Tele. Room Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy Тріть луки ( OBJECT) YORK-- THREE CREW MEMBERS NEW YORK FLICHT REPORTED TODAY AIRLINES THEY SCATED AN UNIDENTTTIED PLYING OJECT ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF DOSTOL PLANE BUT HE COULD NOT GET A CLEAR LOOK AS IT MOVED ABOVE HIGH CLOUDS • AFTER THE PLANE ARRIVED AT IDLEWILD AIRPORT KRATOVIL RECEIVED A MESSACE FROM TRANS-WORLD AIRLINES IN BOSTON STATING THAT A JEATHER BALLOON HAD BEEN RELEASED FROM GRENIER AIR FORCE BASE IN NEU HAMPSHARD ABOUT 90 MILES NORTHWEST OF. BOSTON AT 4830 A.M. EDT• A.M. THE MESSACE SAIB THE BALLOON WAS OVER BOS TON AT 9319 EDT KRATOVIL SAID THE MESSAGE DES CRIDED THE BALLOON AS "ABOUT 100 FEET IN DIAMETER AND JUST ABOUT FITS THE DESCRIPTION OF WHATYOU SAU COMMENTING ON THE KRATOVIDe HO HAS BEEN TLYING SINCE 1927. THE SOUTHE CONSEN TRAVELING AGARIST THE UIND.® WEATHER BALLOON, RA TOVES STAKE LES LET ODDE THE LIPPO EELEET. DAVES OF HICKSVILLE, KRATOVIL SAID EIGHT EMPLOYES THERE TOLD OF A BRI THE LOGAN INTERNATIONA BALLOON. 6/1•=MJ315P 142 - 13874-7 NOT RECORDED 141 JUN 17(1954 5 0 JUN 17 1954 316 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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0-20 * M90 $ 5 398001923 0931 18 Mr. Tolson { Mr. Boardman Mr. Nicholsu Mr. Belmont Mr. Harbo Mr. Mohr Mr. Parsons Mr. Rosen - Mr. Tamm Mr. Sizoo Mr. Winterrowd Tele. Room. Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy 07/11 (OBJECT? MOBILE. ALA, -- BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE REPORTED THAT AN "UNI DENTI FIEL FLYING OBJECT BRILLIANT AND SILVER COLORED" WAS TRACKED RADAR OVER MOBILE AND THE ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST LAST NIGHT. JAMES ZICHERALI. THE OBJECT "APPEARED TO STUBBY WINGS." FIVE OTHER RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI ALSO REPORTED SIGHTING THE OBJECT. ZICHERALI SAID THE OBJECT APPEARED ON THE BASE CONTROL TOWER RADAF SCREEN AT 6:50 HE SAID RADAR OPERATORS REPORTED IT "MADE NO SOUND AND NO TRAIL ES CA EALARDENCE TO DERENITELY BEING MANEUVERED." 7/1 -- S804P 62-83894- 6112522 NOT RECORDET 76 JUL 14 1954 - 6 0 JUL 14.1954 y 462 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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0-19 6i. 1. R. -7 Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg - Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy - Mohr - Trotter Winterrowd _ Tele. Room - Holloman - Miss Gandy - Brave uni Air Force Hushes Up Saucer Probe BY ROBERT CRATER papermen, however this policy had books, "Flying Saucers Have Land- been relaxed in recent months. ed" and "Flying Saucers From Out- Air Force leaders have Most of the mail received at the er Space." slammed down a "brass" curtain Dayton office is from persons over Just how banning the press was the nation who are curious about expected to ease the situation was at the Dayton (O.) Air Technical flying saucers. not explained-unless the Any Force igures this will reduce the number Intelligence Center (ATIC), "The mail has become so heavy where flying saucer reports are that the two or three persons de- of flying saucer stories. investigated. tailed to investigating unidentified flying objects-called UFO's- are "The Air Force will be unable to honor visits not getting anything else done," the (including the press) Air Force official said. to the ATIC because the volume of "Actually, UFO's are supposed to requests for information has seri- ously be only a small part of the investi- interferred with investiga- gative work done at the ATIC." tions," an Air Force spokesman here The flood of mail from the public said today. He said the original official policy was attributed to newspaper and magazine articles about flying sau- na been to exclude visits by news- leers. Singled out were two current BH Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror 50 JAN 18 1954 162-2714 NOT RECORDED 160 JAN 15 1954 files sim Date: 1/13/s4

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"THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE' Are They Hiding Those Lights Under a Bushel? By EVERT CLARK Mysterious red lights which have flown over the Quantico Marine Base 22 times in the past six nights were officially explained away today as a new type of aircraft navigation light. But most of the Marines who saw them still don t believe that's what they were. In addition, The News ran into what seems to be a delib- erate attempt to cover up cer- tain facets of the longest con- tinuous "flying saucer" run in ВукЕ The first man to see the light was Pfc. Norman Viets, Greenville, Pa. Since' then, at least 30 other Marines, including half a dozen officers, have seen it, too. On one occasion, sentries report. ed seeing three lights at once. They say they have seen the lights drop straight down, fly straight up and stand still. Even the most careful-and skeptical-observer, the base prov- ost marshal, Maj. D. D. Pomerleau, admitted the lights had character- istics he never expected to find on an airliner. FIRST SIGHTING Pfc. Viets was duty at the Tank Park a few miles north of Camp Barrett on the south- western side of the Quantico reser- vation at 9:05 p. m. Dec. he "reported a moving, blinking red light near his post which he could not explain." The sergeant of the guard, Sergt. Francis R. Salinder, "investigated and saw the light but could not ex- plain it." Pfc. Viets told The News the light first appeared to come straight toward him over a line of trees about 200 yards to the south of his post. "It was about a foot and a half in diameter, "he said, "only going about 10 or 15 miles an hour. Then it fol- lowed the tree line about 50 yards to the right and went down. "It went straight down, all of a sudden. Fifteen minutes later it went straight up and moved over here toward the tank shed. "I saw it two times after that. It did the same thing. It was the weirdest looking thing I ever saw. There was no engine oise and n shape-just the light." 162- 83894-1 NOT RECORDED 148 JAN 12 1554 THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS Greater Washington Edition 1-5-54 53 JAN 1 31954 g

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NO SALE By the time The News talked to Pfc. Viets at Quantico yesterday, the airplane navigation light theory already had been offered. The News asked Pfc. Viets about it, and he said: "That was no airplane. I first thought it might be a weather balloon, but it wasn't. Either way; you could have seen the shape. Pfe. Viets and Sergt. Salinder saw the light again at 10:15 the same night. Five minutes later they called in the roving guard from a nearby guard tower, but the light was gone. CONFLICT Pfc. Bennett (top front) grabbed a butcher knife and said: "It's land- First reports had it that troops ing in the tank shed!" Maj. Pomerleau (middle photo) is skeptical, were sent into the area to look for but still curious. Pfe. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convince the lights. Yesterday Maj. A. B. him "that was no airplane." -News Staff Photos by Gene Thomas Ferguson, the base information of- ficer, said that report was errone "with troops," the official report sible way to describe the light's size, shape and intensity was to "We did at no time dispatch Thirty minutes later, the sergeant troops to fight off the invaders or saw it again, and at compare it to "the way a blinking capture then or welcome them red traffic light appears to a motor- aboard or anything else," he said. (This was New Year's Eve.) ist as he pulls up to an intersec. However, this is what the official 9:01 it was seen again, and at 4:20 record says: Year's morning He heard no noise and saw no "A 13-man detail 11:15 p. m., Dec. arrived (at south, then north He said the light was "sharp- and remained 30) from Camp "over the tank shed ly delineated." Barrett and made a search of the at an elevation of about 3500 feet." "But I have friends and a pro- area in which the light was first That was the time Pfc. Viets fessional reputation," he said, "and seen. The search proved fruit- said, "when they saw it come up less." as far as I'm concerned just say there and lay under the moon until it's an aircraft navigation light." Fifty minutes later Pfc. Viets' re- lief Several airlines that fly in and out "reported seeing the same red Pfc. Viets' relief of the night be- of Washington say they began in- light." Sergt. Salinder saw nothing. stalling new lights atop the tails of HOVERS butcher knife and headed planes six months ago. They blink The next night the light was seen tạnk shed to help out his troops, on and off, are red, and can be seen his barracks mates said. much farther away than older types. again, at 6:25 p. m., by a park tank sentry and the The light came back three times tower. "Nobody in the barracks knows," guard At 7:10, it Friday night, once Saturday night, appeared again. This five times Sunday night and twice Pfe. Viets said.. "They're just talking time the sergeant flying saucers, that's all. the guard "came out of and checked the areal Maj. Pomertea said the best pos-levenine you too man n THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS Greater Washington Edition 1-5-54.

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0-19 FLyine SAUCeRS *Hyung Saucers Ofe Tolson Ladd Nichols/ Belmont Clegg Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Mohr Trotter Winterrowd Tele. Room - Holloman Miss Gandy - Mystery Is Dissolved Marines Decide 'Objects' Are New Airliner Lights Authorities at the Quantico as the Marine Corps is con- Marine Base last night took a cerned, a spokesman said. long, searching lo0k at those lights were Until last night, however, the reported to have strange flying 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 1, 2 and 3. Rumors that erating out of Washington con- platoons of infantry had been firmed the Marine Corps' guess. sent to the "landing site" of An American Airlines spokes- the objects and a report that a man said flashing red lights, vis. helicopter flew to intercept the ible for 10 to 15 miles, have been lights were discounted by the installed recently atop the ver- Marine Corps earlier yesterday tical stabilizer, or tail, of its The base provo marshal, planes. Other airlines also have Maj. D. D. Pomerleau, who saw put in such lights, he said. the lights twice, guessed that A group of Marine officers they came from an airliner, but last night made a field trip to added that he couldn't la 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- whut closed the matter as farltion." BRANIGAR WA G. I. R. -7 4-1 Lite sate H0AJ-0 - A Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror 200 5 0 JAN 12 1054 NOT RECORDED JAN 8 1954 Date:

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0-19 Tolson Ladd Nichols™ Belmont Clegg Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Gearty - Mohr _ Winterrowd - Tele. Room - Holloman Sizoo - Miss Gandy - Marines Investigating Mystery Flying Object' Lands Near Quantico, Say Sentries One of those mysterious flying the sky and described it as a the two sentries, and the spokes. objects reportedly landed near flying saucer," according to the man said the investigation was Quantico on New Year's Eve but spokesman. They notified the now in the hands of "higher Officer of the Day that it had authorities." took off again before the Ma- landed, and the helicopter took The two sentries were rines could get the situation in re- off from Quantico. By the time ported off the base on pass last hand. it arrived, the mystery ship had night and the Marine spokes- A spokesman yesterday con- risen and was out of sight. man was not able to supply their The firmed that a flying object had news spread swifty description of the objects, or among Quantico personnel. One their report of its actions. been reported near the base. report had it that two platoons The spokesman reported they Two sentries on duty at Camp were deployed to capture the had been summoned to appeai Barrett, a Marine installation about 15 miles from Quantico, thing but this was denied by the before high officers of the Ma- official spokesman. rine Base this morning for addi reported seeing an object in Statements were taken fromItional statements. NOT RECORDED 191 JAN 20 1954 Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror 58 JAN211001 10- Date: 389

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0-19 Tolson - Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg - Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Gearty Mohr - Winterrowd _ Tele. Room - Holloman — S1200 Miss Gandy - Branigan WATE Flying Saucers Swedish Pilot Reports 'Saucer' By United Press STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 18 The Swedish Royal Air Force ordered a full investigation today of an airliner crew's report of seeing a saucer-shaped object over Sweden near secret Soviet bases. Gen. Bengt Norderskjold, air force commander-in-chief, called in complete reports from 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 Hassleholm, about 300 miles from the strategic Baltic coast. "It was entirely an unorthodox, metallic, symmetrical and eircular object," Capt. Christiernsson said. "I was not at all scared, but curious, very curious." 5000 feet above the ground. can in the cake a ter than or a bo flying cloud layer which would obscure it from ground observers. He said he watched it for about six seconds before it disappeared in the direction of East Germany's Baltic shore, near the former Nazi research station at Peenemunde, now operated by the Russians. 102-030 29-A - 45 JAN 6 1954 RAISE Piles str Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass 5 2 JAN 8 1954! Date: Dec 18, 1953

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0-19 SAUCERS HELD SPACE SHIPS BY EX-MARINE Hits AF Stand On Flying Disks (This is the last of three arti- cles on the controversial subject of "flying saucers" and their investigation by the Air Force.) BY RICHARD REILLY Are the flying saucers real- and if they are, what are they? That, in essence, is the ques- tion that faces the Air Force- and the American public as well, Altho it remains unanswered, it has stirred no end of opinions and theories. One theory advanced from time to time is that the saucers are some revolutionary type weapon perfected either by this country or some other nation. The Air Force, however, dep- recates this possibility. In a re- cent statement, it said: "The Air Force has stated in the past, and reaffirms at the present time, that unexplained aerial phenomena are not a se- cret weapon, missile or aircraft developed by the United States. None of the three military de- partments nor any other agency in the government is conducting experiments, classified or other- wise, with flying objects which could be a basis for the reported phenomena." Weapon Theory Discounted In addition, a high-ranking Air Force officer indicated to the Times Herald that it is believed impossible the saucers could be & foreign weapon. Regarding the question as to whether flying saucers exist, Lt. Robert White, public informa- tion officer, said the Air Force believes reliable observers such as veteran airline pilots are sin. cere when they report sighting unidentified objects. The Air Force was tossed a hot potato recently by Mai. Donald E. Keyhoe, U.S.M.C. (ret.), «ply; claimed in his recent book, ing Saucers from Outer Space," that the saucers not only are real but that they are of inter-plane- tary origin. Furthermore, Keyhoe contends that the so-called "Utah film" possessed by the Air Force proves 50 JAN 13 1954 Theory Bolstoret Keyhoe's inter-planetary theory was bolstered by a letter pub- lished on the jacket of his book from Albert M. Chop, former Air Force civilian expert on the saucer project, who now is with the Douglas Aircraft company in California. In the letter, Chop stated: • "The Air Force, and its investi- gative agency, 'Project Bluebook,' are aware of Maj. Keyhoe's con- clusion that the flying saucers are from another planet. The Air Force has never denied that this possibility exists. the personnel betises st there may be some strange natural phenomena completely unknown to us, but that if the apparently controled maneuvers reported by many competent observers are correct, then the only re- maining explanation is the inter- planetary answer." Upon publication of the letter - written on Defense department stationery-the Air Force chal- lenged Chop's claim and said he was merely expressing his per- sonal opinion. Chop subsequently admitted that he was not speaking for the Air Force, but maintained that some of the investigative personnel had subscribed to the interplanetary theory He said this was based on "personal con- tacts with these various indi. viduals" and insisted that it was "a true statement." Charges Cover-Up Amplifying his theory that the saucers come from another planet, Kehoe claims they could originate from some other body in the earth's solar system— such as Mars or Venus-or from some other system or universe. Kehoe charges that the Air Force is convinced that the saucers are space ships from another world, but that it is cov- ering up because of a fear that such a disclosure would result in widespread panic. The Air Force, however, in- sists that this is not so- that it is holding back no important facts from the public. Lt. White said the names of persons involved in the htings afe withheld, and reports which divulge the capabilities of our aircraft, radar and electronic equipment are classified All other information with respect to sightings is a matter of pub- lic record, he said. Keyhoe maintains, tho, that the Air Force has refused to re- lease many analyses of sighting reports. He points out that the names and locations connected with the incidents could be de- leted, if necessary. Wants Film Released Keyhoe also claims that the Air Force should release the final intelligence analysis on the Utah film. In connection with this, Key- hoe recently sent a telegram to high Air Force officials charging that since the Air Force had im- plied that he had misrepresentec the analysis of the Utah film either he or the Air Force was lying. The Times-Herald asked a top Air Force spokesman if Keyhoe had, in fact, misrepresented the Utah film analysis. He declined to comment In his telegram — as in his book-Keyhoe stated: "The final analysis proved that the saucer formation could not be explained as any known aircraft or other conventional objects." Cites Conclusions The spokesman was asked if this statement were true or false He said that, to date. the Air Force has neither affirmed nor denied it Kevhoe also contends the antl vais concluded the objects net birds s weather condition: i condie not cause Specifically. Kevhoe claims th 62.83894-A Times Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Times N. I. Compass NOT RECORDED 44 JAN 12 1954 Date: 17-28-53

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intelligence experts reached the following conclusions: 1. The average speed of the unknown objects was somewhere between 653 and 980 miles per hour. 2. All the objects appeared round, of the same size, and gave off a bluish-white glow of very high intensity. 3. The objects seemed to be maneuvering in a circular or el- liptical pattern within the group, at very high speeds. 4. Because of these high speeds, the objects obviously could not be balloons or birds. 5. They were not any type of known aircraft. 6. The sighting could not be ex- plained by any conventional an• swer. Asked if the Times-Herald could see the final analysis re port, an Air Force spokesman said that there were certain re- ports the Air Force could not make public for security reasons, risk of libel, and other reasons. However, the spokesman said the film could be viewed at Wright field, Ohio. Not Discounting Theory The Air Force officially neither accepts nor rejects the interplan etary theory. Brig. Gen. Sory Smith, Air Force public relations chief, put it this way: "We do not know enough about it to exist. deny that flying saucers Conversely, we have no proof that they do exist. "In our investigation we not discounting the are possibility that the saucers-if they exist could be interplanetary. We are interested in anyone who might be using the air over the United States. HowevEr, we have no authen. 0-19 tic physical evidence that they are interplanetary. Continuing, Gen. Smith stated: "For the Air Force to admit that flying saucers exist, it would want indisputable physical evi- dence. For such an admission, it would want stronger evidence than it now has." Summing up the problem, he said: "So far, the question of whether flying saucers exist, and if so, what they are, has not been conclusively answered either way." But one thing is certain, he added. The Air Force will con- tinue to seek the answer. Will Push Campaign Meanwhile, Keyhoe plans. to continue his campaign to com• pel the Air Force to disclose the facts he says it is concealing He told the Times Herald he will continue to make his claims in print and on television, and will challenge the Air Force to deny them. "If any official, after reading the final analysis on the Utah film, says that it did not rule out birds, known aircraft conventional objects as or the cause of those objects, I will call him a liar to his face. "I do not like to use such terms, but after all, the Air Force has, in effect, been calling me a liar and I'm getting tired of it." Regardless of the charges and counter-charges, so long as the Air Force has unsolved sightings in its files — and until it is definitely known what the fly. ing saucers are - the average person is bound to wonder . Are the flying saucers real? If so, what are they? The final chapter is yet to be written in this strange drama. The answer is not yet available to us. Times Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Times N. I. Compass Date:

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Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd. Mr. Belmont Mr. Clegg Mr. Glavin Mr. Harbo Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Mohr Mr. Trotter... Mr. Winterrowd_ Tele. Room Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy. Brou zaw To Fan Hysteria Red Labels "Saucers' U.S. Fiction LONDON -#- A Soviet commentator Saturday accused "aggressive forces" in the Unit- ed States and oth countries of inventing flying saucers to fan war hysteria. Moscow radio broadcast ex- cerpts from an aritcle by K. Khachaturov in the Soviet army newspaper Red Star, say- ing: "Those who spread these fa- bles are endeavoring to create the impression that the myste- rious object originate from Mos- cow. "The mythical 'saucers' take off from the pages of the bour- geois press every time the rul- ing circles of this or that cap: Italist country, on orders from Washington, are trying to foist upon their people the new bur- den of military expenditure." 162-83894-A - NOT DECORDED 46 JAN 8 1954 5 0 JAN 11 1954 THE MIAMI HERALD MIAMI, FLORIDA DECEMBER 28, 1953

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Fly mug Disce BOWLING GREEN. 0.-- A PRIVATE PLANE PILOT SAID TODAY HE SAW "AN OBJECT BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN FOR ABOUT FIVE SECONDS. " WHILE CRUISING AT ABOUT 80 MILES PER HOUR TWO MILES WEST OF HERE. PLANE WAS AT TE AS OT ABOUT 3RDDO THAT "TELS FORNENG NOTEN HE EVANERE SAIDENTIFIED OBJECT LOOKED LIKE A BALL OF TIRE," HE SAD fOOK OFF STRAIGHT WEST. "IT WAS BRILLIANT WHITE LIKE MOLTEN STEEL THEN IT TURNED TOOK OFF WITHIN FIVE SECONDS." THE PILOT SAID THE OBJECT WAS TRAVELLING FASTER THAN ANY JET PLANE AND WAS GOING SOUTH WHEN HE FIRST SAW IT. HE SAID THE SKY WAS CLEAR AND THERE WERE NO OTHER PLANES IN SIGHT AT THE TIME. ALTITUDE AT WHICH HE WAS FLYING. 12/11--TS151P 162-83894 NOT RECORDED 191 DEG 16 1953 5 8 DEC 171953 Himaton CiTy News

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0-19 SCANADA PLANS FLYING SAUCER OBSERVATORY 1007105 5 0 JAN 7 1954 Not Optical Illusions, Top Experts Hold OTTAWA, Nov. 12 (CTPS) - Establishment a Canadian government observatory for fly- ing saucers, the first in the world, has been announced here. "There is a very high degree of probability that flying saucers are real objects, and a 60 per cent probability that they are alien vehicles." Wilbert B. Smith, scientist appointed to supervise the new saucer sighting station, told reporters. He said the federal transport department, in which he has charge of the telecommunications broadcast and measurement sec- tion, receives constant reports of sighting of flying saucers. total number, he The said, is classi- fied as restricted information. "The optical illusion explana- tion is lovely," he said, "but in every sighting there is always some factor that precludes this explanation. We have decided to try to learn just what they are." Canada's sighting station will be at Shirley bay, on the Ottawa river 10 miles west of here. Smith said any one locaion in Canada is sure to have at least one saucer sighting a year. Associated with Smith in the project, which is under the transport department and the defense zesearch board will be a theoretical physicist and specialist in gravitational studies. A 24-hour watch will be kept for saucers. Specially built equip- ment is wired to alarm bells. The equipment includes an iono- spheric reactor, electronic de- INDEXED vices for measurement of sounds, a gamma ray detector, a gravi- meter, and other paraphernalia. Jet planes may be sent up from the air force field near Ottawa to investigate any saucers ported by the station. re- Defense research scientists here never have pooh-poohed fly- ing saucers, which have been pub- licly reported in nightmarish shapes and forms over Canadian cities. Some of them have been described as multicolored cigar figurations. Frequency of the saucer sight- ings has been noted here to rise with the increase in proximity of the planet Mars to the earth, Smith said he does troi ruie dut the possibility that the saucers may come trom outer space file 5 sth 4 - A 60 - 8389 NOT REGORDED 145 JAN 4 1954 Paz Times Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Times N. Y. Compass Date: 11/13 /53

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0-20 д 4-1 Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd Mr Nichols Mr. Belmont Mr. Clegg Mr. Glavin Mr. Harbo Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Gearty. Mr. Mohr - Mr. Winterrowd Tele. Room Mr. Holloman - Mr. Sizoo - Miss Gandy BRAN GÁN Mossburg FLYING SaUCERS ( SAUCERS ) THE AIR FORCE STILL INSISTS THAT "FLYING SAUCERS" ARE WEATHER_ FREAK DESPITE A RETIRED MARINE OFFIER'S ATTEMPT TO PROVE THEY ARE SPACE SHIPS FROM ANOTHER PLANET. A SPOKESMAN SAID THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN AIR FORCE'S OFFICIAL VIEW. ALTHOUGH DONALD E. KEYHOE, IN A BOOK "FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE, CLAIMED THE AIR FORCE HAS SECRET MOVIES PROVING THE OFT-SEEN GLOWING OBJECTS ARE INTERPLANETARY CRAFT. BOTH THE AIR FORCE AND THE WEATHER BUREAU, AFTER EXHAUSTIVE STUDIES, AGREED MANY MONTHS AGO THAT THE FIERY, FAST-MOVING OBJECTS SEEN BY OBSERVERS FROM COAST TO COAST WERE LIGHT EFFECTS CAUSED BY TEMPERATURE "INVERSION." WITH UNPECIAL AYR FORCE DOCUMENTSP CLAIMED HE SUPPORTS HIS INTERPLANETARY SHIP THEORY PUBLISHER "REVEALED" WHAT IT SAID. A PRESS RELEASE PREPARED BY HIS WAS A BITTER STRUGGLE IN HIGH AIR FORCE CIRCLES OVER WHETHER TO MAKE THE ALLEGED PICTURES PUBLIC. KEYHOE SCHEDULED A COCKTAIL PARTY AT 4:00 P.M. FOR THE PRESS HIS BOOK • TO PLUG 9/29-- GE1024A Sauces 162-83894 - 17- NOT RECORDED 199 OCT 8 1953 2 3 5 л ост 141953 file 5 sAm WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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0 - 19 Flying Saucers Tolson - "Nichols Belmont C Clegg — Glavin - Harbo .. Rosen - Tracy - Laughlin Mohr - Winterrowd Tele. Rm. Holloman. Gandy_ Plastic Moby Dicks' Flying Sin ce 1950 Whale-Like Air Force Balloons Rise 20 Miles, Solve Flying Saucer Riddle, Wind Secrets By the Associated Press /loons sometimes seem to be firmed the fact that air currente The magazine Aviation Week racing at tremendous velocities, travel in opposite directions at published a new report yester- whereas they actually are mov- different altitude layers. The day on what the Air Force has ing at 60 miles an hour or less. prevailing wind found out about the upper at- One evening after moves from sunset West to East across the United many units of the Strategic States at about 50,000 feet. mosphere with its "Moby Dick" Air Command in Texas were About 10,000 feet higher, how- ballons-whale-like bags which kept busy trying to catch and ever, the flow is sometimes re- have often been mistaken for shoot down a flying object that versed. flying saucers. was actually a Moby Dick drift- Since Balloons have also carried the big helium-filled ing along at about 90,000 feet various kinds of balloons made their animal life, appear- in a glow of dust-refracted sun- ranging from fruit flies to mice ance three years ago, the maga. light. and monkeys, up to 80,000 feet. zine said, more than 90 percent B-36 bomber of the "saucer" crews, accus- The experimental animals have sightings have tomed to flying high altitudes, survived such altitudes for 24. coincided with their logged as- gave up the chase when they hours and have been recovered cents and charted courses. were left behind at 45,000 feet, to provide living data for scien- The shiny surface of the plas- and jet fighters stalled trying tific research. tie balloons is an excellent re- to pursue the object above their The Moby Dick balloons are flector of light. Long after the altitude ceiling. released almost daily at Tilla- sun has set and darkness has Another mysterious object, mook, Ore.; Vernalis, Calif., and covered the earth, they shine later identified positively as a Edwards Air Force Base in Calif brillantly with the light re- research balloon, floated over fornia. Two more sites will be flected from the sun at alti- San Francisco last spring during used to take advantage of late tudes of from 90,000 to 100.- a parade welcoming Gen. James summer winds-the Moody Airl 000 feet, almost 20 miles up in A. Van Fleet home from Korea. Force the sky. It shone base near Valdosta, Ga., as a brilliant white and Sedalia, Mo. Vapor dust or other foreign sphere as jet fighters vainly The big bags are made so that particles in the atmosphere tried to reach it. On another they destroy themselves auto- make the light appear white, day, Dayton, Ohio, was filled matically when they descend to red, purple, or green. Because with "saucer" reports as anoth- 33,000 feet. Recording machines of the difficulty of judging er balloon floated over the city. and instruments are parachuted speed at high altitudes, the bal The balloon flights have con- to earth. INDEXED - 81 /62-83894-A NOT RECORDED 191 SEr 11 1953 Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror P. M 1 PO SEP 17 1953 Date: _ AUG 2 3 195: file

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Oflying Saucers Pilot Sights Small Flying Disc Chasing F-84 Over Japan By the Associated Press "about eight inches in diameter, UNITED STATES AIR BASE very thin, round, and as shiny as Northern Japan, Jan. 28.-The polished chromium; had no ap- United States Air Force last night parent projections and left no reported a small, metallic, disc- exhaust trails or vapor trails." shaped object made a controlled, He said it caught up with an sweeping pass at an American F-84 Thunderjet, hovered a few jet fighter-bomber and was ob- moments and then shot out of served at very close range by sight. The F-84 pilot, whose another pilot. The report, from name was not revealed, did not Air Force see it. intelligence files, said the sight- It was the second disclosure ing was made over Northern in a week by Air Force intelli- Japan at 11:20 a.m., March 29 1952, by Lt. David C. Brigham of gence of mysterious flying ob- Rockford, Ill. jects over Northern Japan near It was a bright, cloudless day the Russian-Siberia area. Lt. Brigham said he got a very goad 100k On January 21, the Air Force at the object from disclosed that "rotating clusters about 30 to 50 feet for about 10 of red. white and green lights" seconds. The pilot described it as Japan by American airmen. 279 79 FEB 3 - 1953 0-19 Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg - Glavin. Harbo - Rosen - Tracy - Laughlin Mohr - Winterrowd Tele. Rm. Holloman_ Gandy- 162-83894 CORDED FEB 2 1953 Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror A. M. Cdition Date: 1 - 18-53

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0-20 Tolson Ladd Nichole/ Belmont Clegg - Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr_ Tele. Rm. Holloman Gandy - N.M. --THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN SAID TODAY THAT "FANAASTICE STRIBES HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE FIELD OF GUIDED MISSILE RESEARCH AND THAT IT IS "POSSIBLE" THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MAY SOON CLEAR UP THE MYSTERY OF THE FLYING SAUCERS THE NEWSPAPER SAID "SOME WRAPS MAY BE REMOVED FROM SOME ASPECTS OF THE HUSH-HUSH PROGRAM" AT A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED AT THE WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER THIS SPRING• EXPLAIN SOME OF THE 'THINGS ' SAI HOWEVER COL. M. COMMANDANT OF THE PROVING GROUNDS, SAID TODAY THAT RES ARCH THEREKS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE THE SO-CALLED FLYING SAUCER. WE ARE STRICTLY IN THE GUIDED MISSILE BUS INESS • THERE CERTAINLY WON'T BE ANYTHING LIKE A FLYING SAUCER DEMONS TRATED. ") 1/8--N1134P fies 7tm 102-83894-A NOT 98 JAN 16 1953 SINCE B9 JAN 1 9 1953 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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Brangentl SANTA FE .M.--THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN SAID TODAY THA "FANTASTIC"' STRIDES SOON WAY BE REMOVED FROM SOME ASPECTS OF THE HUSH-HUSH PROGRAM" AT A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED AT THE WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER, THIS SPRING. "IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE DISCLOSURE SOON TO BE MADE BY THE DEPART- MENT OF DEFENSE MAY IN PART AT LEAST EXPLAIN. SOME OF THE THINGS* SIGHTED IN SOUTHWES TEEN SKIES BY BEWILDERED OBSERVERS WHO HAVE TERMED THEM *FLYING SAUCERS' FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME, " THE PAPER C HOWEVER COL. G. HENDRICKS SAID TODAY THAT COMMANDANT OF THE PROVING GROUNDS, RES TARCH THERE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE THE SO-CALLED FLYING SAUCER WE ARE STRICTLY IN THE GUIDED MISSILE BUSINESS DEMONS TRATED, -) THERE CERTAINLY WON'T BE ANYTHING LIKE A FLYING SAUCER 1/8-*j1134P 162-83894-4 PICORDED 98 JAN 14 1953 62 JAN 1374 shund Ton Tu NeweS

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JLYINa DISC (RELEASE AT 7800 P.M. EST) Flynng Deno NEW YORK=-THOSE LIGHTS IN THE SKY NEXT WEEK WILL NOT DE FLYING WAB PARCEL&S FROM DETER SPACE TURT ENTER DUG ATROSPERE AFOTREMENDOUS BUT MERELY "SUDDEN TRAILS OF LIGHT CAUSED BY SOLID SPEEDS AND ARE HEATED TO INCANDESCENCE BY THE RESISTANCE OF AIR TO \гандат THEIR FLIGHT," THEY'LL BE ESPECIALLY DAD, ABOUT THE 10TH AND THE 16TH OF THE MONTOBERT RO MUSTOM OF RATCOAL IN STORY CHAIRMAN OF THE HAYDEN PLANETARIUM OF THE AMERICAN I ANEMEROR NONOGE MOE THE LIGHT TO DANE THE SO-CALLED TAURID METEORS THE TUO PRINCE PAL ОТ В СИ НОЙ О ОВЕ АВОСТ ТЕ ДОРА ОР THE MONTH, AND THE LEONID METEORS, WHICH STEAL THE SHOW ASOUT THE 16TH. 11/8--Е346P 62. 83894. A. NOT REGARA 138 |NOVT181952 385 53 NOV 181952 Washigton City here Seria.

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Flu Desca yong CAUCER, HELENA, MONTOR-THE 13L2 SATED TODAY A STRANGE WHITE OBJECT WHICH REPORTEDLY STREAKED ACROSE SKY OVER MONTANA FOR ABOUT 100 MILES. THE STRANGE OBJECT APPEARED LATE LAST NIGHT AND THE LAW ENFORCEMEN OFFICIALS TRACED IT. FROM BOZEMA MONT. MONT ., TO THIS CITY. IT WAS ALSO - SIGHTED OVER BUTTE AND SOULDER CAA OFFICIALS SAID THERE WAS NO PLANE IN THE SKY THAT COULD HAVEA WEN DISTAKEN FOR THE WITE OBJECT." 5/20--00952A0% washington eity reus service в wAg 162-83894-A- NOn I TOOR DER 98 SEP 28 1952 7324 68 SEP 25 1952

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0-19 f 7mg Saucers FIVE-STATE WHATZIT Well, It Sure Was Some Ball of Fire It has been pretty well established today that the "mass of flaming, incandescent material" which flashed across the sky over Washington and five eastern states last night was a meteor, a flying saucer "as big as a washtub," or a mass of flaming, in- candescent material. The Naval Observatory, the was sun-colored with a tail." (Sub- Weather Bureau and observers at urbanite.) National Airport lean toward the meteor theory. • Shaped like a star "about as big as the inside of a tennis racket. Scores of Washingtonians, who (12-year-old boy.) saw it, leaned in all directions SHOCKING Police remained stolidly upright, Four Frederick farmers saw "a and the FBI had no comment. ball shooting across the horizon." HOW IT LOOKED Near Washington, three United But citizens here, in Maryland, Press correspondents said it was like this: Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsyl- • "A rocket with a fiery tail vania and Ohio couldn't be silenced. It shocked it looked so close. They said: (Frank Eleazer.) • "Suddenly this thing came • "A big magnesium flare swooping from the • It down eastern gave off sparks." (Robert Loftus.) skies. It looked like it was right • It plunged out of the sky "very above the housetops. It was a ball fast," like a plane shot down in the of bright greenish fire with a long war. It was trailing a tail of tail. (This was a housewife). flame.". -(John A. Goldsmith.) • "I thought it was a flying George Lincoln, of 756 S. Green- saucer. I thought it was a flare at brier-st, Arlington, first--that is, I thought it was a saw something "about as big as a washtub. I was flare until the darned thing swooped sure down- it was going to crash, some -and then up again. It seemed place," he said. to follow the contours of the road." A Maryland state trooper, sitting (Army veteran). out his • "It looked at first look like a lonely vigil atop Negro Mountain in far Western Maryland, plane on fire, it was that big. It said "it" passed over him, too. Tolson _ Ladd_v Nichols Clegg - Glavin _ Harbo Rosen — Tracy — Laughlin - Mohr - Winterrowd Tele. Rm. _ Holloman. Gandy- Віруко Mossber Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass 158 58 SEP 24: 1952 162 93+ 90 NOT UNCOR DED 96 SEP 19 1952 13 1952 Date:

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Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Belmont Mr. Clegg Mr. Glavin Mr. Harbo Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Laughlin Mr. Mohr Mr. Winterrowd_ Tele. Room Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy. High-Flying Bomber Caused New Disc Tale Brabigan Special to The Inquirer READING, Pa., Aug. 28.-Air Na- quent, to keep interceptor teams on the alert. tional Guard officers and control The aerial display on Monday was tower operators of the C +1 witnessed by hundreds of Guards- Aeronautics Administration today men of the 112th Fighter Wing, "cleared up" the latest flying saucer Pennsylvania-Maryland Air Na- tional Guard, as well as officers who mystery, as evolved in the skies over watched the maneuvers through Ejerks county last Monday. binoculars. The saucers, seen by a large num- Air National Guard officers said persons that bokesman said, were vapor trails time, the report submitted by Harry Fein auer, 43, of Birdsboro, who said hi thought he saw a plane release of a B-36 inter-continental bomber and a jet plane. which CAA tower- flying saucer in the air Monda morning, probably had to do with men said were fiying at an altitude the jet which he saw diving on the of 40,000 to 45,000 feet. bomber. The jet left a bigzag trail as it Nor did the Guard's explanation dived in on the big bomber in a dovetail very. closely with the ac- mock interception attack. count given by Herbert Long, 29 The Kutztown insurance salesman, who spokesman said such air shows were told of seeing a flying saucer 30 feet frequent when atmospheric condi- in front of his automobile Monday tions were right for the hot exhausts night, of the Allentown bike near from engines to freeze at high alti- Maxatawny. Long said he saw the tude. object so clearly that he was able The big bombers, the spokesman to make a detailed drawing of gapion, oven they put over the schare. hey are observed on radar screen: nd iets are sent up to intercept them. Such tests, he added, are fre- 121374-1- just 102, SEP 12 1952 DATE: 8/29/52 THE PHI ADELPHIA INQUIRER PAHLADELESIA, PA PAGE: COLUMN: A SET 18 1952 F2L2 SECTION 1. SECTION 2. SECTION 3, SECTION 4. SUPERVISOR BUREAU

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THIS IS IT A sketch of the flying saucer which Her- bert Long, 29, a Kutztown, Pa., insur- ance salesman, contends he saw parked on a road 30 feet from his car. He said he was too frightened to approach it. He's shown (left, below) giving Leroy Gensler, artist, directions for the sketch. (AP Wirephotos)

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Flying Saucers Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Balmont Mr. Cloge M.. Clavin Mr. Harbo. Mr. Rosen Mr. Trowd. 11031 Burgen N What Is It? FLYING SAUCER MAYBE?-The unknown object } of the building when he noticed the unusual saucer. over the building in the picture, photographed above like object in his view finder, so he snapped the pie- Anacortes, moves swiftly through the sky, seeming- ture at 1/100th of a second. Elliott was unable to ly a part of a cloud formation. But is it? Walter determine the nature of the unusual object which Elliott of Anacortes was preparing to take a pieture quickly disappeared. - (Associated Press Wirephoto.) 62-83874 NOT AERONGED 20A SEP. 1% 1957 SEARGUE SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER PAGE 1O COL. 9B8 SEP 18 1952 ÄUG 2 8 1952 Lui - SEA

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0.20 Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd N Mr. Nic/ 6180 Mr. Belmont Cleg& Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy: Laughlin Mr. Mohr Mr. Winterrowo Tele. Room Mr. Hollomar Miss Gandy Hymy Dire (SAUCERS ) SAN FRANCISCO--A FORMER • AIR FORCE B29 TEST MECHANIC AND SCIENTIFIC LECTURER SAID TODAY HE SAW TWO SILVER GREY OBJECTS FLYING ERRATICALLY OVER SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT "AT TERRIFIC SPEEDS." ROBERT G. GARNER OBSERVED THE OBJECTS 3Y' SAN FRANCISCO SAID HE AND HIS WIFE BOTH 5:30 P.M. YESTERDAY AND HE WAS CONVINCED THEY WERE "NOT OF THE EARTH." GARDNER, WHO SAID HE WAS WITH THE AIR FORCE IN THE PACIFIC DURING WORLD WAR IT SAID THE A CONE CLIPPED OFF AT BOTH ENDS." OBJECTS LOOKED LIKE "CROSS SECTIONS OF "THEY WERE SILVER GREY IN COLOR AND APPEARED TO HAVE A DIAMETER OF ABOUT 150 TO 200 FEET EACH " HE SAID. "BOTH OF THEM FLEW AT AN ALTITUDE HAND TED ELIMAGE THEY WERE GOING AT LEAST 1800 MILES AR " GARNER HOUR. 8/25-- TS 1147A OFfag DiseS OR FlyiNg Saucers 162-8389 4. NOT RECORDED 146 SEP 15 1952 -A- 51 SEP 171952* WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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0.20 flyers Tolson Ladd Nichple Belmont Clegg - Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr_ Tele. Rm. Holloman Gandy - (SAUCERS ) PHYSICIST NOEL W • SCOTT SAID TODAY THAT THOSE FLYING "THINGS " PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SEEING MAY BE #ANODE GLOWS" CAUSED BY IONIZATION OF AIR IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE ONE REASON SCOTT FEELS THAT WAY IS THAT HE HAS PRODUCED "FLYING SAUCERS" IN HIS LABORATORY AT FORT BELVOIR WHICH POSSESS ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS ATTRIBUTED TO THE RADAR-SPOTTED CO SECTS REPORTED HERE IN RECENT WEEKS • SCOTT WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT THE BRIGHT METEOR WHICH FLASHED ACROSS BUT ABOUT WHATEVER IT IS ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE IN MARYLAND SHORTLY BEFORE LAST MIDNIGHT• AS A RESULT OF HIS CREATIONS IN THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABORATORIES "FLYING THINGS • ST ARE NATURAL PHENOMENA T SCOTT SAID, "I AM CONVINCED THAT THESE SCOTT HAS BEEN CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS WITH A LARGE VACUUM JAR UNDER CONDITIONS SIMULATING THE RAREFIED AND IONIZED UPPER ATMOSPHERE BY LONI ZING THE THIN AIR IN HIS BELL JAR WITH STATIC ELECTRICITY SCOTT AT WILL PRODUCED BALLOON-LIKE BLOBS OF LIGHT WHICH HE COULD MOVE AROUND AT ANY DESIRED SPEED. ALL, HE SAID, COULD HAVE BEEN "DETECTED" ARMY ENGINEERS INTER ON TAMON YESTERDAY POSAD HE MADE THE LACHICKS TAN THE AND OTHERS SCOTT SAID REVER ALTERINE VHS AIR PRESSURE STILL, HE CHANGED THE COLOR FROM A NEON-LIKE BLOBS APPEAR TO LEAVE AN INCANDESCENT TRAIL LIKE A ORANGE TO WHITE OR BLUE OR WHITE WITH A GREEN HALO JET DISCHARGE. HE COULD MAKE SCOTT EXPLAINED THAT AN "ANODE GLOW® FORMS ON AN IONIZED (ELECTRIFIED) LAYER OR VOLUME OF GAS WHICH IS POSITIVE IN RESPECT THE SURROUNDING ATMOSPHERL SUCH GLOWS COULD OCCUR ANYWHERE FROM ID 200 MILES UP HE SAID, DEPENDING ON CONDITIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE AND IONIZATION. 8/6-- TS 1259P INDEXED-118 EX. - 73 62-83824-A- NO' REL CIDED 98 AUG 11 1952 51 65 AUG 141952 WASHINGTON CITY-NEWS SERVICE

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0.20 Flying Saucers Tolsor Madd Be mont Ciegg - Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Tele. Rm. Holloman Gandy. Нуту Laneers (SAUCERS ) THE COAST GUARD TODAY RELEASED A PHOTOGRAPH OF FOUR BRILLIANT WHITE HE HE NO BODEN THE NAH BAT DO GEORGE GAND ENONG RATE. AIR STATION SEVERAL WEEKS AGO. WAS MYSTERIES. IT CLEARLY SHOWS FOUR RAGGED-EDGED ROUND OBJECTS IN V-FORMATION EACH APPEARS TO HAVE TWO IDENTICAL SHAFTS OF LIGHT EXTENDING ACROSS ITS CENTER AND PROTRUDING FORE AND AFT LIKE A WING. A SPOKESMAN SAID THE NEGATIVE HAS BEEN EXAMINED BY COAST GUARD / PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERTS WHO ARE SATISFIED "THERE IS NO RETOUCHING OR FAKERY INVOLVED. "WE DONIT KNOW WHAT THE OBJECTS ARE ," A COAST GUARD OFFICER SAID, "BUT THAT BOYIS CAMERA CAUGHT SOMETHING. " A UNITED PRESS REPORTER WAS ALLOWED TO SEE THE NEGATIVE WHICH WAS FLOWN LATER TODAY TO DAYTON, O., WHERE IT WILL BE EXAMINED BY AIR FORCE INVESTIGATORS • THE NEGATIVE SHOWS NO SIGN OF RETOUCHING, EVEN UNDER AN ENLARGER WHICH PRESUMABLY WOULD SHOW UP CHE PHOTOGRAPHER LAS SHELL ALBERT A COAST GUARD ENLISTED PHOTOGRAPHER. HOTOGRAAHE OPEN SADDE THE AIR STATIONS TOOTS A NOR TORY 8/1--GE1137A INDEXED 6862 - 83894-A - NOT RECOTI 98 AUG 13 1952 68 AUG 18 7952 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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1 41 B6 AU- Tolson- Ladd Nichols Belmont_ Clegg — Glavin Just Nature Harbo Rosen _ Tracy Laughlin Mohr - Tele. Rm. Cutting Up, run, 05 Says Air Force pics of 'Saucers' THE LATEST NEWS: Washington, July 29—Air Force ex- perts said today that they are convinced "natural causes' account for the "flying saucers" which have been dotting local skies for more than a week and have been appearing intermittently throughout the country for more than five Maj. Gen. John A. Samford, director of Air Force intelligence, offered the further assurance that a six-year study shows "no pattern vaguely resembling any threat to the United Referring to the fact that radar screens are picking up what appear to be natural phenomena, Gen. Samford said: "I think radar is beginning to tell us a great many things it was not built to discover-for instance, about Northern Lights and atmospheric conditions after a heat wave." Despite the reassurance, which was delivered in an atmosphere contine hipublic concern over the maystery of the skies rached an all-time high. Twelve more unidentifiable dots on a Civil Aeronautics Administra- tion radar scope here early today threw the city into a dither. (Jersey City reported track- ing flying disks and one observer they saw nothing. Air Force radar offered a photo an oddly- equipment at a field near the CAA shaped chunk of light to prove installation also spotted nothing. it.) The Air Force flew the For that reason, the Air Defense experts from Wright-Paterson Field, Day- planes remained grounded, giving ton, O., to quell the gathering rise to rumors that the Pentagon alarm, but meanwhile, USAF somehow was surrendering to the planes were equipped with special "saucers." The Air Force took astronomical cameras, with which pains to deny this, and promised is hoped pursuing pilots may be pursuit the next time a flying ble to take pictures of the phe- mystery is sighted with the naked eye. omena. Air Defense Command planes re- other responsible hained on 24-hour alert to chase Pentagon officials reiterated de- the "interlopers" and, it possible, nials that the strange aerial lights "shoot them down." or whatever they are -represent Today's rash of "saucers" ap-1 some new phase of U.S. military neared on the CAA streen fiom experimentation. They expressed 30 a.m. to 6 a.m. Airline pilots frm conviction, too. that the tho were asked to scan the skied! things are no threat to the na- signs of the things reported Son's security. 162-83894-A- TOR DIED 98 AUG 18 1932 Les Extr Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass pp. 3+16 Date: 2-30-52

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BEHIND NEWS By RICHARD CARTER The swift-moving celestial lumi- ! Sky-waichers ciaimed to have nosities which the American pub- seen two flying cigar-shaped ob- c has come to call "flying saucers jects. re phenomena with a recorded history dating back at least 200 Cigar-shaped objects have beer spotted skyward by innumerabl Years and perhaps several thou- participants in America's postwar saucery. The Biblical Ezekiel's airborne wheels, for example, had some of the earmarks of what modern American science fiction readers, televiewers and "cold worriers" are on the verge of regarding as inter- planetary scouts or missiles from Moscow. Dr. Donald H. Menzel, profes- sor of astrophysics at Harvard University, made this point in an interview last month Time magazine. He with produced documentary evidence that there vas a saucer scare in Chicago bn Angi 10, 1897, when mang Flying lights which differ in all apparent respects from shooting stars, meteors, and the like, have been seen by multitudes of sailors over the centuries, and their ac- counts of the phenomena diffe: hardly at all from those contrib! uted by recent viewers. Some people see white lights moving in formation; others see kelly green fire balls; others see orange fire balls; others See fly- ing disks: others see the cigar- shaped mysteries. Some of the objects seem to hover, virtually Continued on Page 16) motionless, before darting into a cloud and disappearing forever: others move pe an impossible vate seemed direction pasty, swooping ond chitantane. manner which no man-made machine or human pilot_ could survive. Since one of the foundations of modern science is to believe noth ing that cannot be proved, most raeories about the skittering whatizzits have to be Many theories which have gained wide currency are based Which are "probably true." But no scientist bases conclusions on things which only are probable. The closest anyone has come not only to explaining the phe- nomena. but duplicating them, Prot. Menzel. believes aucers are fancy mirages images lights, stower through a dense medium • like cold air than in warm air When it passes from a layer of dense cold air into a layer of less dense warm air at an appropriate angle. it is bent, and may be seen mies away, as if disemoodied moving at_fantastic speeds, or just hovering. depending on conditions Headlights, aerial en street lights in a city can become "flying saucers" out in thi country miles away, he says. To prove it, he has produced startlingly similar phenomena in his own laboratory. Qne of the reasons the Air Force felt impelled to take part having satisfied through research that the saucers re something akin to what Menzel is that, radar scopes have been in described as spotting the saucers at the same time pilots and ground observers were seeing them with the naked eye. Until further returns the only explanation is one known to anyone who lick ever had anything adar-you see all kinds of un- accountable things on it. It wa onsidered noteworthy that Ai force radar in the same region failed to pick up the impulse vhich the CAA now has adde to flving saucer tore.

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Flying Saucers 'Saucer' Mystery Is Solved; Device Studies Weather One of the Washington area's flying saucers has been trackêd down finally. Last week a Martinsburg W Va.) woman found a mysterious five-foot square piece of aluminum covered material on her farm. She wanted to know what it was but nobody seemed to be able to tell and there was the usual speculation about flying saucers. Andrews Air Force Base cleared up the mystery today. A spokes- man said the object was used by the Air Weather Service. It is atached to a balloon and sent into the sky. It is then tracked by radar and the direction and speed of the wind calculated. The device is in constant use, the air base said. 313 68 AUG 12 1952' 0-19 Tolson. Ladd_ Nichols. Belmont_ Glavin_ Harbo - Rosen - Tracy- Laughlin Mohr_ Tele. Rm. Holloman. Gandy - 1 - 83094 - A- 98 AUG 11 1952 Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star А - б N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass - Date: 2-25-52

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0-19 Tolson. Ladd_ Nichols Belmoht. Clegs. Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy- Laughlin Mohr _ Tele. Rm. Holloman Gandy - They're in the Sky Again Radar Spots More Mystery Objects Here, Fliers Report Sighting Glowing Lights Washington received another| away. The pilot said he wasn't lighted end of a cigaret, a visit last night from the uniden able to close on them, and they cluster of orange and red lights. tified aerial objects similar to were "really moving." He lost Radar operators plotted their those reported here last Monday. sight of them two minutes later. speed at from 38 to 90 miles per At least a dozen of the mys- The same pilot observed a hour. They were not able to de- terious objects were reported to steady white light 10 miles east termine their altitude. Some have been seen glowing in the of Mount Vernon at 11:49 p. m. The light, about five miles ahead pilots reported flying over them sky within a 30-mile radius of and some under them. of him, faded in a minute. Before last week's report of the city. They were all picked The interceptors did not sight up on the radar screen of the any more lights after that. AI- the mysterious lights, so-called CAA Air Route Traffic Control though the radar screen still Saying saucers" are believed center at Washington National picked up the objects. One never to have been picked up on Airport. plane landed shortly before mid- radar screens. The objects At 11:25 p. m., two F.94 jet night, and the other about 12:15 shown on the National Airport fighters were sent up by the a. m. radar, however, caused definite Air Defense command to inves- It was the second time these "blips" on the screen, which tigate the lights. The pilots re- objects have been picked up by means contact with solid objects, ported seeing the lights, but radar. Last night's visitors rather than lights or refections. were not able to get any closer showed up first on the screen A CAA spokesman *d the ob- to them than about 7 miles. at 9:08 p.m. and remained for jects picked up last night gave The jet pilots described the some time. off blips similar to those of reg- lights as hard to see and track Airline, private and military ular aircraft. down. pilots all reported seeing them. The Air Force has been inves- At 11:33 p. m.. one jet pilot Some pilots said they came with- tigating last week's objects. It observed four lights in the vicin- in two or three miles of the ob- said reports of flying saucers ity of Andrews Air Force base. jects. this month have been the highe The lights were about 500 feet They were variously described est since 1947, when they Sist above him and about 10 miles as looking like blue lights, the were seen. 19 Y VAUG4 1952 Times-Herald _ Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror 62-83894-A -N.Y. Compass NOT RECORDED 98 JUL 31 1952 1952 27 Date:

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(SAUCERS ) FLA. --(UNITED PRESS -UCNS )=~ TUO TERAN PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS PILOTS REPORT FODAY THEY SAU FOCHO HUGS GTIYING SACHS" FLYING AT #* 1, 000- LE-AL-HOUR CLIP NEAR, MOREOLK. chart ASH SAID HE AND W.. CORTONBERRY *SAW SIX OF THE STRANGE STIMATED TO BE 100 C IN DIAMETER AND "GLOWING ORANGE-RED LIKE NOT COALS • PLY IN FORMATION SOME 6.000 FEET BENEATH THEIR DC-4. THE SIX "THINGS " TURNED WESTUARD SHARPLY WHEN THE PAA PLANE PISSED OVERHEAD AND WERE JOINED BY TUO OTHER SIMILAR FLYING DISCS NASH SAID. FEET THE EIGHT SAUCERS" ZOOMED UPWARD TO AN ESTIMATED 10,000 ALTITUDE BEFORE THE GLOWING LIGHT EMANATING FROM THE "PULSATED OFF" AND NASH SAID. NASH WHOLE ESTIMATED THAT HE AND PORTENDERS, SO, HATCHED THE MANEUVER FOR SETTEEN 10 AND FOR TECONDS "BOTH FORTENBERRY AND I HAVE READ OTHER REPORTS ON SO-CALLED •FLYING SAUCERS • AND HAVE RESPECT FOR THE JUDGMENT OF SOME ASTERIENCES LAST NESTIVES NO NEVER TE PIOSE REPORTS NASH, A FIRST OFFICER FOR PAA AND A FLYING EMPLOYE FOR 10 YEARS, SAID HE AND FORTENBERRY WOULD JUDCE THAT THE EIGHT OBJECTS WERE DEFINITELY INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED--WHETHER FROM WITHIN OR WITHOUT, WE COULDNT SAY RASILE "WE CAN BE REASONABLY POSITIVE THAT NONE OF US • CENTRIFUGAL FORCE THAT WOULD BE IMPOSED ON THE OCCUPANTS WHEN MAKING TURNS OF SUCH VIOLENCE AS THESE OBJECTS MADE CARRYING AO CONBANER POLS ONEL, WAS FLYING VA • RASN'S NOD THE FIRST STY THEY WERE FLYING ECHELON FORMATION--A DIAGONAL 7/15--170952P THIN nely

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ADD SAUCERS, MI AMI "WE FEEL BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE MISSILES ACTED AND BECAUSEOF ALL THE OTHER RÉPORTS THAT HAVE BEEN HEARD, THAT THEY MUST BE FROM SOME EXTRA-TERRES TRIAL SOURCE " NASH SALD. "IF EITHER OF US HAD SEEN THE THINGS ALONE WE WOULD HAVE HESITATED TO TELL, ANYONE ABOUT IT," THE PILOT SAID. "BUT WE WATCHED THE WHOLE THING. TOGETHER." NASH SAID THE OTHER PASSENGERS ON THE DC-4 WERE WITTING WHERE THEY COULD NOT HAVE SEEN THE EIGHT MISSILES. "GIVING CONSIDERATION TO THE DIFFERENCE IN OUR ALTITUDE AND THEIRS WE JUDGED THAT THEY WERE APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET IN DIAMETER AND BETWEEN 10 AND 15 FEET THICK " NASH SAID. "AS THEY NEARED US STHEY APPEARED TO BE SÔLID BODIES OF LIGHT GLOWING ORANGE-RED LIKE RED HOT TRONS, " NASH SAID. "BUT THEY HAD DEFINITE OUTLINES .* NASH SAID WHEN THE STRANGE OBJECTS GOT ALMOST DIRECTLY BELOW THE PAA PLANE THEY MADE A SHARP BANKED UPWARD AT AN ALMOST 98 DEGREE TURN THEY WERE JOINED BY TWO OTHER IDENTICAL "THINGS DEO DES FUEN TURN FREY CAINED ALTE YUDE, THE LIGHTS OF ALL EIGHT FLICKERED OFF, IN SUCGESSION AT "PERHAPS 10,900 BUT THEY WERE GOING SO FAST IT WAS DIFFICULT TO ESTIMATE, " SAID. SANTOS CEYANES ACTING OPERATIONS MANAGER FOR PAN AMERICAN HERE SAID THE FLYING SAUCERS SEEN BY NASH AND FORTENBERRY "OBVIOUSLY WERE NOT FIGMENTS OF THEIR IMAGINATION." TOE TRACTOR TO FORMERLY A RAW TEA FERON, HAS BEEN FORTENBERRY THE REPORT MADE BY NASH AND FORTENBERRY TODAY WAS THE LATEST OF SEVERAL RECENT REPORTS OF MYSTERIOUS, OBJECTS IN THE AIR ON JULY G FOUR PILOTS FOR A NON-SCHEDULED AIRLINE RÉPORTED SEEING A "SAUCER" HOVERING NEAR THE ATOMIC ENERGY PLANT AT RICHLANDS, WASH. 7/15--W0908P 5. 98 JUL 23 1952 1 65 JUL 28 1952 216 WashingTon City News Service

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0.20 Tolson _ Ladd _ Nichols Belmont Clegg- Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin. Mohr. Tele. Rm._ Holloman. Gandy — (SAUCERS ) CHICAGO--O'HARA AIR FORCE BASSE OFFICERS SAID TODAY "FLYING SAUCEAB MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS IN THE SKY IN THE CHICAGO VICINITY AS BEEN ORDERED. PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS SAID JET PATROLS NORMALLY ARE ON THE ALERT "24 HOURS OF TEERS SAID THA AIR FORCE ENCOURAGES CALLS ON OBJECTS SIGHTED. THEY AID THE REPORTS ARE "PASSED ON TO I HIGHER AUTHORITY" FOR EVALLA DEONGER SAID SOME OF THIS WEEK•S REPORTS APPARENTLY STEMMED FROM AN ORPHANAGE PICNIC AT WHICH 5,000 TOY BALLOONS WERE RELEASED. 7/3--W0753P 229 JUL 10 48) віблод MosS 62-83894-A- NOT RICORDED 98 JUL 14 1952 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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0.20 Volson. Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg- Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Tele. Rm. Holloman. Gandy - /(SAUCERS) - THREE OF THEM WORL WAR II VETERANS HANFORD ATOMIC PLANT AT RICHLANDS, CAPT. JOHN BALDWIN OF CORAL GABLES, AN AIR FORCE PILOT IN THE PACIFIC DURING WORLD WAR II WHO HAS 7 EXPERIENCE WHITE IN COLOR AND ALMOST TRANSPARENT WAS SMAER VAPOR TRANS OSE LIKE THE TENTACLES MOSAN "JUST BELOW A DIRECTLY ABOVE US "ALL OF US HAVE BEEN FLYING A NUMBER OF YEARS AND WE'VE SEEN ALL KINDS OF CLOUDS AND FORMATIONS BUT NONE OF US HAD EVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE " BALDWIN SAID. "THE OBJECT SEEMS TO BACK ANAY. PROM STANGED TO BACK AWAY TROM PRANC CHANGE SHANDS TY BECAME SEAT, EAL NED SPLED TO BACK ANASAPPEARED I QUICKLY." 7/5-- N643P 229 8^ JUL 161952! 62-83894-A- "CORDED JUL 14 1952 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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Navy Calls Saucers At dusk on a cool summer eve- ning is the best time to seo the balloon "saucer," it adds. "The lateral rays of the sun at Only Its Big Balloons dusk illuminate the base of the balloon, There is no chance of your ever seeing the full round- ness of it because you are so far below it. You see only the illumi- NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (P).—Fly- nated cup of the bottom. If your ing saucers are real-but they're imagination soars, the light re- only huge balloons used in cosmic flection on the side may impress you as the glow of an atomic en- ray studies, Look magazine will gine. The wisp of the balloon's say Tuesday, quoting Dr. Urner instrument-filled tail may impress Liddel, chief of the nuclear physics you as the exhaust. The sun's branch of the Office of Naval Re- rays may suffuse the plastic bag search. He is in charge of the with a fiery glow. "Even seasoned airmen have no cosmic ray-balloon project. way of estimating the size and The balloons are huge plastic speed of an object they see. To bags, 100 feet in diameter, that peg size and speed, the mind must know the nature of the ob- may rise 19 miles high--about ject." 100,000 feet. Winds may sweep Look says Dr. Liddel and asso- them along at 200 miles an hour. ciates studied 2000 reports of At dusk, the slanting rays of the flying saucers, eliminating those sun light up their bottoms, giving "seeming to be the visions of them a saucer-like appearance, the crackpots or psycopaths" or article says. "clearly the result of inaccurate They carry instruments aloft to vision." record what happens when cosmic "This left a solid base of re- C rars hit atoms in the earth's at- ports from airplane pilots, scien mosphere. This splitting gives a tific observers and reliable laymen clue to how atoms are put to- which could not be brushed asiden gether, and how to release their After thorough investigation, energy. "When this project first began it single reliable report of an Liddel said: 'There is not a ob- was kept secret," the magazine servation which is not attributable quotes Dr. Liddel. "Now there is to the cosmic balloons'." no longer any need for secrecy on It quotes Dr. Liddel as saying a scientifie basis. And certainly, that Capt. Thomas F. Mantell, air there is no longer any need to force pilot found dead in his keep the publie in the dark about crashed plane after radioing that what flying saucers are." he was pursuing a strange sky Look says "the Liddel report is object, was chasing "a balloon considered to be the most authori- of the skyhook type. tative scientific explanation of the There have been several reports flying-saucer phenomenon. As far of squadrons of flying disks, and as Dr. Liddel is concerned sonally, he considers per- "this is explained by Dr. Liddel his answer as clusters of 20 to 30 balloons 10 incontrovertibly right." to 15 feet in diameter, which aro The balloons, called skyhooks. sometimes• used in place of the huge skvhook." were frst sent aloft in 1947, and it was then that flying saucer re- Dr. Liddel checked other Gov- ports began, it adds. There were ernment agencies and "is satisfied more balloons in the next two that no other research or experi- years and more "saucers" seen mental project has utilized any- There were fewer balloons sent thing even roughly resembling up in 1950, and fewer saucerere: a fing saucer." ports. A picture, taken by telescope of a balloon at 77,6'n feet over Minnesota, convinced Dr. Liddel even more, 1221 The the magazine says, photo fits descriptions of fy. Ling saucers. 7 6 0CT 17 1951 +Z Y 122 - -A NOT RECORDED 132 MAY 5 1951 INDEXED - 37 0-19 Tolson Ladd_ Clegg. Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy. Harbo Belmont Mohr _ Tele. Room Nease Gandy mo pion Page Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror Date: 2-13 - 51.

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WHAT FLEW ACROSS ENGLAND YESTERDAY? Football •Crowds see 'Flying Saucer' By Sunday Dispatch Reporter THOUSANDS of people in many parts of Britain, including spectators at foot- ball matches, saw what many of them believed to be a flying saucer yesterday. In each case the phenomenon—a strange white flash which darted across the sky at terrific speed—was seen about 4 p.m. These reports of the passage of this object through the sky were received by the Sunday Dispatch last night: More than 500 spectators at a Soccer cup match at Chard, Somerset, saw a strange white phenomenon dart across the clear sky high above the grandstand at about Within a split second of passing it seemed to disperse Spectators Cried 'Oh' Spectators in the stand cried "Oh!" as the white, liquid form sped inland from the direction of the English Channel. Spectators at a Rugby match two fields away saw it. One, Mr. Arthur H. Jenkins, postmaster of Chard, said : "It was like a diamond flash; its shape was like a big peardrop, with the thin end tapering behind. Suddenly it mered into nothingness." G. I. R. -10 62 - 8389411 RECORDED 47 JAN 27 SUNDAY DISPATCH LONDON, ENGLAND DEC. 3, 1950 PFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE AlL RICAN EMBASSY LONDON, ENGLAND 61 FEB 1 1951' fle 51k5

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ather people described it as " blob o and brilliant whiteness " metal? " sheet of white Chairman of Chard F.C., Taunton, sitting "It came right over the top of us like a brilliant streak our then seemed to dissolve before Snake-Shape Miss Myra Scott, who was watch- ing a football match Street, three miles south of Chard said she saw a "low-flying, silvery star with Shortly before four o'clock. At North Petherton, near Bridg- water, spectators at another match saw an object in the north-west sky shortly before four o'clock. It was described snake-shape thing as "a which streaked through the sky at a terrific rate." Mr. T. Hollinghurst, of North Petherton, said: " It appeared sud- denly and went away suddenly, leaving a creamy was no noise and smoke. There there were no planes about." Channel Explosion A few though minutes later a flash, as from an explosion, seen at.a great height over was Bristol Channel, 50 miles north of Chard. to the the 130 Reports from places as much as apart at the Air Ministry. received Portishead (near Bristol) police that a white flash 4.5 and 4,10 p.m. appeared to explo- The estimated height was 20,000ft. Weston-super-Mare police the Air Ministry that similar Fortishead direction at the Another sighting was reported from as far away as Durham, Airmen Saw - Dilots of four jet aircraft of the Air Force comi to land at Llandaw, near Car- flash of light lat 15,000ft. to the north-east of football match at Easton- •In- Gordano, near Bristol, specta- tors saw a flash. Mr. M. V. Perrett of Ham Green, said: " It looked like a rocket coming down from 2,000ft. There was an intense white flash which left a trail of vapour. Spectators at the match between Shaftesbury and Longfleet St. Mary reported what appeared like a giant rocket. It seemed to fall from the sky. Bovingdon shire, airport in Hertford- 150 miles east of Llandaw, also reported to the Air Ministry that a brilliant white light was seen a long way to the west at 4.5 p.m Observers estimated that it wes at about 20,000ft. and say that it vanished in a trail of smoke. Air Ministry said last night: " A thorough check has been made and no believed aircraft is missing to have blown up in the air " It is most unlikely that an un- scheduled private flight could have taken place at such a height. We cannot explain the phenomenon. " No aircraft Port shead area as flying in the Game Stopped At Towyn, near Rhyl, North Wales, Rugby players dropped the bell and, with spectators, stared into the sky as a yellow object 2 sparis flashed across it. It vanished over Tower Hill, Abergele, within ten seconds. At about 4 o'clock spectators at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, foot- ball ground saw a brilliant object ' like a huge star" flash across the sky, leaving a volume of smoke in its wake. Among people who saw the object at Launceston, Cornwall, were two ex-R.A.F officers who were watch- ing a Rugby match. The object, which was circular, gave oft a bright bluish-white light. Footnote: One theory advanced -HAO night Professor pressor of Chemistry at "29m University and a leading port on meteorites) was that the object was a meteor. " Tf pieces of meteorite are found." he said "it will be only the tenth to have fallen in this country " I would like to appeal to any- one in the areas from which it was reported to report at once if they notice a hole in the ground or a damaged tree that was not there vestawaay."

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What Did The People Of Devon See Last Week? By Sunday Dispatch Reporter WEST OF ENGLAND newspapers gave much publicity last week to reports of " flying saucers " over Devon. The saucers were reported by a number of independent witnesses from places as far apart as Woolacombe (near Ilfracombe), Exeter, Cullompton, Sidmouth Junction, and Paignton (60 miles south of Woolacombe). Eye witnesses' descriptions of what they saw are sub- stantially in agreement-there was no noise and a trail of fire streamed from the back. The observations were at about 11 p.m. in all instances. Mr. J. Stewart, 70-year-old has worked in aircraft fac- tories in two wars, was one of the five people who told the Exeter Express and Echo what they had seen. At 10.50 on Monday evening he noticed an object come inshore of the from the north end of Lundy at a direction, errific speed." H. A. Franklin, of Beacon- lane, Mr. Whipton, near Exeter, wrote the paper that while at Coun- tess Wear (two miles south-east of Exeter) on Monday night, he saw two circular objects. Voolacombe pensioner, who " They were of a brilliant ery blue, travelling south, one b hind the other in close formation." he said. " After passing overhead, rear object appeared to catch the up front one and collide, whereon they disintegrated." Bright Disc The object was described by Miss J.. Spurwas Exeter-hill, Cul- ompton (12 miles north-east Exeter), of as "a bright dise travel- ling with a great speed. circular movement at Two and a half miles north Exmouth. SUNDAY DISPATCH 11 p.m. by Mr. was seen of the object at and Mrs. L. Mus- sell, of Hill-crest, Lympstone, who LONDON, ENGLAND described it as having been in two parts " apparently attached in 11-5-50 some way with a lighted tail." The sixth witness quoted in the 5 1 JAN 1 3 1991 Express and Echo Mr. Powell, of Sidmouth Junction, who, while between Patterson's Cross. OFFICE OF THE LEGAL A Ottery St. Mary and Sidmouth Junction at 11 AMERICAN DUBASS saw p.m. on Monday, " two brilliant white come into lights view to the north-west, LONDON, ENGLAND from behind a bank of mist. WAS No. Bohe Mr. Moh: Tele. 300ro 88s. Moona P091016 - LINE SAUGER ? 63.122 25 SH JAN 18 1951

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' Long Red Trail ' " They passed swiftly," he said " in a southerly direction and ap peared to be 'in line astern' with a long red trail to the rear both lights seemed to fizzle out as watched them—they clear patch were of sky when this hap. pened ... I heard no sound." "Two large objects travelling south horizontal position looking something large white flames" is the descrip- ten given in the Western Morning News Bearne, 55-year-old estate agent, of Southfield-avenue. Preston, Devon, saw at Paignton at 11 on Monday. Members of the crew of a liberty boat plying between Flagstaft Steps H.M.S. Devonport Dockyard, and Defiance are also reported ILFRACOMBE WOOLACOMBE: CULLOMPTON EXETER = SIDMOUTH. - EXMOUTHI TORQUAY PAIGNTONE Bluish Light Frederick Bray. fisherman, aged 39, was lying in the bunk of hi. boat in Torquay outer harbour when he saw a " bluish-white light " at about 11 p.m Princess Pier it pover watched Pine flames for about ten seconds. They seemed to surround a roundish ob- ject which was travelling towards Thatcher Rock" (to the East). While walking along the sea front to Torquay Station, Mr. D. Jeffery, of Winner-street, Paignton, saw something sky. thought at first it was a rocket fire- work, he told the Herald Express. " Then I noticed it was maintain- ing a constant speed at a constant height. It was absolutely silent. It seemed to disintegrate suddenly and disappear." "ball of bluish-white light" was seen at about 11 p.m. in the sky above Paignton travelling south towards Brixham. of Marine-drive, Harry Cove-Clark The ball of light Paignton, said : preceded by a thin blue blur which was overtaken by the main body. ' Like Feeble Rocket' " Then another bluish-white light appeared and a broken stream ail semened to fall flow it. They seemed be following each other straight across the sky. there then was spurt of flame from the end of the broken pieces-just like a feeble rocket." The last of the witnesses, Mr. H Warren, of East-street, Torre, Tor- quay, saw from his bedroom win- obiect going Brixham, due south of towards Describing it in a letter to Torquathe paper he said: "I thought it was i three stars with a long tail of light trailing behind them. • • in the Western Morning News as having seen " circular objects travelling at an incalculable speed and emitting a trail of fire " late on Monday night. Tha To quay Herald. quotes four other people who saw similar objects.

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0-19 o flyin ance Reports Plentiful,, Saucers Vit By Drew Pearson VI. His space radio was a chunk of metar that utterly fatted-to Though a large part of the pick up a message or even a Missing GIs American public appears to he wheeze from space. One tragic and unpublicized fact In the face of this evidence, about the Korean war is that at convinced that flying saucers do Koehler still claimed knowledge this writing the Army has only exist, so far the Air Force has not of the little men, but refused to been able to release 138 prisoners. been able divulge his source and drastically of war from Korean prison camps. track down a revised his story. This leaves approximately 4000 single bona fide According to the confidential Americans still missing. Originally saucer. Air Force report, "Koehler stated the Army believed that most of This is de= nat he had no parts of flying these missing GIs had been killed spite. the fact saucers in his possession at pres However, since U. that United ent. He denied having ever seen oops have now traveled the sh States aviators any flying saucer or its occupants." tie length of Koren without recov- have spent hour ering the bodies o these missing up on hour. Flying Washtub men, it is believed they must have checking re- Another hot tip which Air Force been taken prisoners and removed ports not only investigators patiently tracked to Siberia. of fying sau- down was that a flying saucer had So far, Chinese troops have cers... but of PEARSON actually crashed near Warren, treated American prisoners almost such weird phenomena as midg- Minn. The report was traced to as if they were allies, returning ets from Venus, shooting stars, and Walter Sirek, a service sfation op= many of them to American lines. even an old washtub. erator, who directed the investiga: But if the 4000 GIs were trans- This column has now been able tors to look behind Nish's Tavern. ported into Siberia by the Rus- to examine Air Force files, and What they saw was summed up sians, the story may be different in the secret Air Force files as This possibility is giving the Arms it is quite evident that the Air follows: "The machine was ob- great concern. Force has done a painstaking iob viously made from various objects NOTE-As of the last officia of trying to establish whether. or such as an old washing machine not flying saucers do exist. cover, part of a radio set chassiS missing. count, 4144 GIs were listed a and a spent insecticide homb." These files show that consider- It developed that Ted Heven Capital Capsules ble time was even spent check- and Robert Schaefter, who run the Lady Diplomats-Madame Min- ng the report received from local hardware store, had made lovie Actor Bruce Cabot and the the "Aying saucer" as a joke. • ister Perle Mesta put up a gallant The Air Force has even received fight but she lost. She's going to Wyandotte Echo, a newspaper pictures of saucers in flight. The published in Kansas City, that have to be satisfied with being a most spectacular was a movie of corpses of blond, beardless 3- plain "Minister" instead of a full- two silvery discs Streaking over foot men from Venus had been the baseball park at Great Falls, fledged "Ambassador" to Luxem- seen arriving on a flying saucer Mont., sent in by Nick Mariana Bourg •. Main reason Perle park manager. came back to Washington was to by a man named Coulter. However, investigators found persuade the President to raise her Dead on arrival, these space- that the pictures were taken be- American Legation to a full Em• traveling midgets had no cavities tween 11:20 and 11:35 a. m. in their teeth, and wore shoes re- Aigust 15. By coincidence, two bassy. Even though she's a close friend of Mr. Truman's, he said sembling human skin according to the story told the Air Force. i a ra at here rom all no... Meanwhile, the other lady diplomat, Eugenie Anderson in over Great Falls at exactly Denmark, will continue to reign Furthermore, Coulter was sup- sujreme as the only lady Ambas posed to have as proof of this visit time. The sun was shining so that sador in the United States diplo- from Venus--a lunar clock op- reflections from the high-flying erating on a 28-day cycle, a space jets appeared as two silvery blurs, radio, and, gear from the flying lice saucers. saucer, all of them supposedly ar- Once the Air Force's own radar riving with the blond midgets screen near Wright Field, Ohio, picked up what appeared to be a from Venus. So the Air Force, as it does with flying saucer drifting eastward at most of these rumors, painstak- 20 miles per hour. But prompt in- ingly and patiently investigated. vestigation showed it to be only a The mysterious Mr. Coulter dense black cloud so charged with turned out to be George Koehler electronic particles that it ap- of Denver, an advertising sales peared on radar. an for radio slation KMYR. H Meanwhile, flying saucer reports roduced the flying sancer gen continue to pour into the Air ut it turned out to be a mun Force at the rate of five or six product of this planet, pej day but, so far, not vone las ever materialized stamped with the Roman numeral To Aid for TibetUnited States Ambassador Austin has private advised El Salvador to give up il campaign to get the United Na- tions to rescue Tibet. The United Nations, Austin said, has enough trouble in Korea without taking on more headaches in the most moun- tainous and inaccessible country in the world. Treaty for Japan - President Truman has told Secretary Ache• son that unless Russia answers within the next month, he is in favor of going ahead and holding the Japanese peace treaty confer- ence without Soviet representa- tives The President told this to Acheson and John Foster Dulles during a secret meeting at which they reported that Russia has not yet even indicated it will attend Tolson Dada_ chegg_ Glavin Ni chol Rosen. Tracy_ Harbo Belmont Mohr - Tele. Room Nease. Gandy_ tric тан з 62. 83894-A SID 8: DEC 19 1950 Заля Page Times-Herald Wash. Post 130 Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror N. Y. Compass Dat.!OV 2 5 1950

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0-x9 Tolson Ladd Clegg_ Glavin Ni chant Rosen Tracy_ Harbo_ Belmont Mohr Tele. Room Nease- Gandy_ flying Dises M The World Today Four Philadelphia policemen said they saw a saucer-like object land in a field. Before FBI men could join them, however, the six-foot gadget had evaporated One of the policemen who touched the thing said the portion he handled dis: colved at once, leaving a sticky edorless residue. 162 83 OCT • 14. 1950 93894-A file 5-Ean Page 198 Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror N. Y. Compass- 50 0CT 141960 SEP 2 8 1950 Date:

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gril X4.1 Tolson Ladd Clegg_ Glavin Nichol Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele. Room Nease Gandy+ "Flying (SAUCER) POPLAR BLUFF; NO,--FOUR PLANES CHASED AFTER A STRANGE SPHERICAL OBJECT WHICH NUNDREDS OF PERSONS SAW ROARING ACROSS THE SKY, BUT THE PILOTS SAID TODAY THEY COULDN'T GET NEAR IT. EVERDONE IN POPORT AND RADEAU AIRPORT AND RADIO STATION PERSONNEL SAID JUST ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECT FOR FIVE OR SIX HOURS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. CAA WORKERS AT MAIDENS SOUTHEASTERLY COURSE FROM 4 P.M. UNTIL DARK® 28 HELES SOUTHEAST OF HERE, PLOTTED ITS DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OBJECT AND GUESSES AS TO ITS IDENTITY WERE VARTED, NATIONAL CUARD AUTHORITIES AT HENPHIS, TENN., SENT TWO F-51 FIGHTERS UP FOR A CHECK® A NATIONAL GUARD SERGEANT CONFIRMED THAT THE F-51 °S. CLIMBED 30,00 FEET BUT COULD NOT MAKE CONTACT VITH THE OBJECT. HE DID NOT SAY WHETHER THE PILOTS ACTUALLY SAW THE OBJECT• WITH THE F-51°S PAST PRAY ARTO COUT FROM AN ALF-T BELLE EAT ABOVE TE ANY NEARER. FUEL SUPPLY ALMOST EXHAUSTED. APPARENTLY MOTIONLESS.: I°M NOT GETTING THE OTHER T-51 PILOT MADE A SIMILAR REPORT, THE CAA OFFICIAL SAID. THE CAA WORKER ALSO LOGGED A REPORT FROM AN F-80 JET PLANE BASE AND DESTINATION DO TEET WHICH PRESUNABLY HAD BEEN TOLD TO SIZE UP THI: OBJECT. TO BE "NO CLOSER THAN ON THE GHOUND.* THE F-80 PILOT REPORTED HE APPEARED 9/19--TS 1022A tile - 62-83894-A 5 1050 I5600T 6. 1950 200 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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Flyng Dise Tolson_ Ladd Clegg- Glavin_ Nichols. Rosen_ Tracy_ Harbo- Belmont Mohr Tele. Room_ Nease_ Gandy Manking ("SAUSAGE") SAUSAGEN DELP BED WITH LOT PEA ANA™ EXPENDED CRAY T BOMB THYT CAUSED FLYING TO SPRINGFIELD FROM CHICAGO LAST NIGHT WHEN RA SIGHTED TAS CHIEF PILOT FOR THE CAPITAL AVIATION COMPANY HERE, WAS JUST NORTH OF HERE. OBJEE SAID THE BE ECT WAS A ANUE STREAKS ABOUT HO OF HEREONG AND SHAPED LIKE A SAUSAGE," HE SAID IT WAS TRAILING YELLOW FIRE. THE OBJECT, WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE HIS PLANE, DIVED SUDDENLY AND PLOUGHED DIRECTLY INTO HIS PROPELLER. "IT EXPLODED LIKE A BOMB WHEN IT STRUCK," HE SAID. GRAHAM MANAGED TO STAY ON COURSE AND LANDED AT CAPITAL AIRPORT HERE. HE EXPECTED TO FIND HIS PLANE EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED, HE SAID, BUT A THOROUGH INSPECTION SHOWED NOTHING. SEVERAL OTHER SPRINGFIELD RESIDENTS ALSO REPORTED SEEING THE "FLYING SAUSAGE." ONE WOMAN SAID SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE SITTING ON THEIR PORCH AND SAW IT PASS OVER SPRINGFIELD. OBSERVERS AT THE WEATHER BUREAU SAID THE ONLY EXPLANATION THEY COULI OFFER WAS THAT THE OBJECT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A METEOR THAT APPEARED TO HIT GRAHAM'S PLANE BUT EXPLODED RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT. THEY SAID THEY DID NOT SEE THE OBJECT. 7/30--L0441P 162-83894-A- NOT RECORDED 135 AUG 11 1950 1 juster 50 AUG 1 419501 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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• Tolson Ladd Clegg. Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy_ Harbo_ Belmont Mohr — Tele. Room Nease_ Gandy_ MOON-LIKE OBJECTS TERRE IN SORMATION SOUTH MA CARDO FUR ST ANNUTES. THE BRIGHTLY-SHINING OBJECTS WERE SPOTTED AT 3:07 A. M. CST BY FARGC WEATHER BUREAU EMPLOYE RAY WILSON. HE SAID HE WATCHED THEM UNTIL 3:41 WHEN CLOUDS OBSCURED VISION. MARIAN EDDY, AN AIRLINES EMPLOYE, AND MIKE ENDERSBY AND MARGARET LAWSON OF THE CAA SAID THEY SAW THE OBJECTS FROM THE FARGO AIRPORT. WILSON SAID ONLY ONE OF THE OBJECTS WAS VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE. WITH TELESCOPES AND FIELD GLASSES THE FARGOANS SAID THEY COULD SEE TWO SMALL OBJECTS ON EACH SIDE OF THE "THING." WILSON SAID THE OBJECTS DIDN'T SHOW MUCH SPEED, BUT SHOWEI MANEUVERABILITY. ENDERSBY SAID THEY LOOKED LIKE A WHITE FLAME MANEUVERING IN THE AIR. 7/14--T130P Dise fle, FiNG SAUCER 162-83894-A - Nelem RECORDES 135 AUG 11 1950 20 M1P1 4.1950 BEGETA H0г 14 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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4-26 Tolson Ladd Clegg_ Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy_ Harbo Belmont. Mohr Tele. Room Nease Gandy_ 47 55 AUG 191960 'Flying Saucer' Tracked on Navy Radar Screen MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 13 (UP). The Navy studied a report today from two pilots and an electronics instructor who claimed to have tracked a flying saucer or some strange craft on a radar screen for eight miles. Both fliers reported seeing a shiny round object whizzing past their training planes, about 10 miles northeast of Osceola, Ark., last night. Electronics technician G. D. Wehner, who was flying with en- listed pilot R. E. Moore, said he "caught it on the radar scope. It was helmet-shaped. The outline of the edges were all right. glare too she centel oht, but ented getting a better look " first Thought Jet "At first we thought it was a jet plane distorted by glare off the aluminum body, said Lt. (j.g.) J. W. Martin, the second pilot. "When I first spotted the saucer it was about two miles off and appeared to be a round ball. It was in sight for about three min. 62 - 83894-7 utes and at one time we were within one mile of it. NOT RHOORDID Moore said, "It was on our left 76 AUG 19 1950 and traveled across in front of us and disappeared in the distance to our right. I think it would be about 25 to 45 feet across and about seven feet high "The thing looked like a World War I helmet seen from the side. Or a shiny shallow bowl turned upside down. We wanted to fol. low it, but our training ships couldn't keep up with the saucer, or whatever it was." The pilots, based at the Milling. ton naval air station near here, estimated the object was flying at an altitude of 8,000 feet at a speed of 200 miles per hour. The navy declined comment. Similar flying saucer stories heve heen discounted, by the armed forces. 5 5 tho Page Times-Herald Lsec. m 10-5 tar Editim Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror Date: 1-13-50

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FLYING SAUCER- RIDDLE ) far flying saucer • have been treated b the majority of British people with incredulity and polite ridicule. But why? I have studied all the reports available. I have seen photo- graphs-those in the • Sunday Dispatch last week were particu- larly clear—and I believe they are photographs of disc-type aircraft. Earlier pictures published in the Spanish Press last April, arid alleged to have been taken in the Balearic Islands, might have been anytning and could have been a leg-pull. It is not always easy to sort the wheat from the chaft. SECRET TRIALS IN all the reports the objects fall into three groups. The most substantial of them come from America. First group are those saucers which are capable of being uned away perimental as glimpses of ex- trials of various devices Gone one heading, so meny the objects seen in Southern SUNDAY DISPATCH JULY 9, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND other areas where secret experiments are in pro- gress. For this group I am pre- pared to accept the explanation given by the United States Army Air Force as " misinterpretations of conventional objects. These conventional objects are giant experimental cosmic balloons long and 70ft, in diameter as they rise, radar target balloons capable of rising to 70,000ft. and trailing glittering aluminium foil strip. guided missiles, and stratospheric experiments from Los Alamos, CULES OK TREG LE wInce REelS are stated to have above the AMERICAN EMParth's surlace. consists of those mysterious visitants LONDON, FINGERS have Ted ter oil gustines out space missiles from 5 310111 olner planets and inter-pianetars Stooping: und rhe descriptions are remark- ally consistent and generally the ect is either white darting about without directr or silver control or tr a velling at prodigious speeds, vanish- ing suddenly, and associated with brilliant light, fringes of fire or flames of peculiar colour and generally rotating or whirling. From many parts of the worn come these reports. The vely fact that their descriptions are consistent has led to their being dismissed as hallucinations, de- fective vision, or mild hysteria. It might be that the solution of this riddle could lie in a very unorthodox approach, and I have wondered if there could possibly be turbulences set up atmosphere whieh whirling could our " dust devils cause luminous gases caused by jet or other high speed which might the be experiments generation small atomic whirlpools in the atmosphere. Group Three reports suggest that the saucers are high speed aircraft of circular or disc shape travelling at speeds much higher than those attained by normal planes. SAFETY SEARCH THERE is no reason at SAFETY SEARE ALA disc-like aircraft should not have been common objects at any time during the past 30 years. The early history of these very unorthodox-looking aircraft was, ironically, based on a search for safety. Before 1910 it had been shown that square and circular surfaces had very good non-stalling char- acteristics up to large angles. But when powered aircraft arrived it was found that the easiest way to minimise the losses due to the end slip of the air from the wing tips was to increase the span while keeping them of wings narrow. This compromise brought other trouble. their Early planes reached stalling degrees. and angle at some 15 stalling must result in a dive since the only of a stall is a flight at some spe greater than the stalling speed. Very early in the 1905 ariod there ould not were people accept that aircra 162-83894-A- NOT RE ORDED 85 AUG 11 1950 топ 1h peg Diner

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Enlargements from flying saucer pictures-front-paged last week -which set everyone talking. They were taken Farmer Trent, McMinnville, Oregon, U.S. must, of necessity, be subject to these dangers. They turned aside to investigate possible wing forms which should be safe from stalling ani spinning. mong these " rebels" a few names have become air history. Jose Weiss and Arthur Keith with their completely stable swallow- like monoplane in Austria 1909.1n Etrich 1911, and Wels evolving 1n a stable wingform based on the Zannonia leaf from which Rumpler and the majority of Ger- man builders developed the Taube monoplane. Dunne, with his too stable, tailless. wing biplane in 1912, back-awthe Lee- and Richards annular monoplane 1910-14, with which I was asso- ciated. NOT PERFECT WITH the outbreak of the 1914 war research this type was abandoned, and study concentrated on perform- ance rather than safety. By 1918 the modern plane was established, and earlier research was forgotten. Civil airlines naturally daptea war and used then ame World War II. planes, Once more Imitations were imposed. In spite of the orthodoxy of there was throughout uns inter-war years, and 'I believe they are disc-type aircraft, says— G. TILGHMAN RICHARDS, senior Research assistant and official lecturer at the South Kensington Science Museum, London, who has studied all the evidence. there is still, a considerable body of technical opinion not satisfied that perfection has been reached And here. I think. lies the real answer. This body of opinion has been continually searching for the safe " design. Designers of many nationalities have been striving since the early 1920's with great success toward a foolproof plane of disc type. In 1934-35 Charles H. Zimmer- mann, in the United States, built disc wing airplane combined of with helicopter capable vertical ascent and descent and a high forward speed. NAVY STEPS IN IN 1937 he granted licentes for patents Chance Vought Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corpora- tion in the U.S But at that point the J.S. Navy stepped in, and all further devel- ooment nature, has been secret though it has been stated that this combination is capable of speeds from 0 to 500 miles per hour. This performance is in accord with reports that flying saucers travel at ascend and desc speeas, hover, descend with little forward motion. It is perhaps, a little hard to believe that there can, as yet, ex- ist enough of these types to meet the many reports, but there is no reason all why such aireraft should not have been seen provid- ing that full scale work followed the experimental period. And the secrecy would suggest that thi is so. And there could lie sauce mod solid proof that flying saucers exist.

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Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo (Belmont: Mohr_ Tele. Room Nease Gandy. Flyng Dire ADD OBJECT (614P) DESCRIBED AS APPEARING TO BE A GUIDED MISSILE THE AIR FORCE SAID IT HAD RECEIVED NO WORD AT ATE ON ANOTHER OBJECT, WHICH THE ALASKA AIR COMMAND SAID PASSED OVER FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, SATURDAY NIGHT. 7/34-W0901P 162 - 83894- A - NOT RECORDED 135 AUG 11 1950 5 1 AUG 141950 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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cor Flyng plue Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd Mr. Clegg M.. Clovin FLYING Dises FUNDADO EN MADRID EN 190 NU/M. 2.805 LUNES 3 DE ABRIL DE 1950 PRECIO DEL UNA FOTOGRAFIA SENSACIONAL MISTERIO EN PLATILLOS LAS NUBES VOLANTES NFORMACIONES, slempro al, eervidio do éxito de nuestro periodico al- afreoer legtores, les ofraco hoy una fotografia torosanto. dooumento a eus lectores, sasional para documento en la apasio- nte polêmion aceroa do los pletillos volan. medios para poder The picture that Spanish newspaper readers saw. FLYING SAUCERS-AS SPAIN SEES IT First picture of a flying saucer comes from the Spanish newspaper Informaciones. DAILY GRAPHIC correspondent in Madrid explains: The caption stated that this oi am. was obtained a.m. in the at Balearic Islands by Enrique Haus- mann Muller, a cameraman. newsreel It added that he and his assistants/ heard noise and saw a loud a luminous trail crossing the sky. Не pulled out his camera and obtained a picture-but expresses no opinion about flying saucers. FOOTNOTE from Texas: waxey. wartime mem- aer of a U.S. bomber crew, photographed two groups " flying saucers Fort Worth. cers", near said, Tud, Mnà nerc au , un saucers." дукв DAILY GRAPHIC APRIL 20, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND ...SEAED - 62 plas- Etu 16z-83894-A NOT RI DOR DIED 78 JUL 5 1950 56WUL 1119 9FPICER OFE TTAN LEGRAS STTACREN AMERICAN EMBASSY LONDON, EENGLAND

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Alem 7 lying Dises Tolson Ladd_ Clegg. Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Mohr _ Tele. Room_ Nease Flyung Disco Tobody is in it," he said, "but (Saucer' Denial Held it carries 70 pounds of instruments to record cosmic rays .. . It is an enormous translucent thing with a long tail and flies up to 100,000 Valuable to Russia feet in the air. When the weird contraption is launched off the ground, it is filled to only one percent of its capacity with helium. New York, April 10 (UP), -Air At high altitudes, expansion causes Force denials that "flying saucers" it to blow itsélf up into a gigantic exist are "worth a billion dollars monster 100 feet tall and 70 feet to the Russians in the 'cold war,'" in diameter, tall as an eight-story Radio Commentator Henry J. Tay- building, all in pulsating plastic." lor said tonight. Taylor said some of these ve- Taylor said over the ABC net. hicles travel all over America, 20 work that this country has several miles up in the sky. At sunset. unconventional air vehicles that the whole contraption glows and could be taken for "Aying saucers." can be seen as long as 30 minutes He described one as a fantastic after darkness. contraption "in pulsating plastic," The -struments are floated back as tall as an eight-story building to earth by parachute, Taylor said. and used to record cosmic rays. Then the huge contraption "breaks "What has happened to our into pieces in the sky or explodes," brains?" Taylor asked. "These showering plastic pieces over, the denials are worth a billion dollars land. to the Russians in the 'com war' President Truman and the Air Force both denied similar reports by Taylor last week that saucers" are top-secret "flying United States military inventions. Taylor warned that if the Rus- sians suddenly announced they were sending "Aying saucers" around the world, United States officials would have no way to stem American hysteria. Taylor said the United States should announce: "We have no further comment about anything in the skies ex- cept that America is creating many helpful and incredible things. All are harmless and good news for freedom-loving people." And this would be a true state. ment, the commentator said. Taylor said that at an airfield near Minneapolis and also at other places, the Navy is "launching into our high skies an enormous and fantastie type of vehree file 5 Eit 162-83894-A- ORDED 85 APR 19 1950 65 APR 21 1950 WASHINGTON POST Page Date 411-50

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FLYING SAUCER? REPORT MAY BE BALLOON From Our Own Correspondent PRESTON, Monday. An might have been a was seen by three girls who were walking along the Preston-Lancaster afternoon. Preston yesterday bright star in brighter than any star,' but the east, but a was One of the girls, Miss Lilian Spen- cer, of Pole-street, Preston, said: "It was oval-shaped and resembled the wing of a silver plane caught in the There was no sound of an engine and it had a peculiar swing- ing movement." It was going against the wind. An Air Ministry meteorological official pointed out that it was a common error for people to speak of something travelling in a certain direction when they really meant that it was coming from that direc- tion. If that was the case here was possible that the object could have been a meteorological balloon lown over from Northern Ireland Many Londoners reported on April that they had seen aucer." The Air Ministry explaine at it was a balloon used for par chute jumping which had broker In Oxtrashiring at an R.A.F. statich DAILY TELEGRAPH AND MORNING POST APRIL 11, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHI AMBE CAN LIMBASSY LONDON, M NG LAND 53 MAY 15050 N 311 Mr. Tolson - Mr. Ladd - Mr. Ologg - Mr. Glovin - Mr. NIchols M:. Roson Mr. Tracy Mr. Harbo Mr. Belmont Mr. Mohr Tele. Room Mr. Nease Miss Gandy 14-1 „ EK 162-83894- NOm 76 RECORDED APR 29 1950 - A

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4-26 Tolson_ Ladd Clegg- Glavin_ Nichols Rosen Tracy_ Harbo_ Moh?_ Tele. Room Nease_ Gandy_ Сен) Not Informed "I am quite sure the military establishment would have told us if they were working on such a thing as a saucer. But the fact is they haven't said a word about it." As far as Mahon is concerned, the saucer is "just a fantasy." Engel said maybe so, maybe not. It is perfectly true, he said, that none of the subcommittee's wit- nesses ever owned up to any con- nection with saucers. But then, as far as he could recall, nobody ever asked them about it. "I am confident of this." Engel said. "If there are any such things es saucers, they are ours, not somebody else's. If another coun try were sending them over. I am sure the subcommittee would have heard about it." Denials Repeated Air Force and Navy officials have been denying the existence of "flying saucers" all along. And a Defense department statement late yesterday reiterated the de- nials. But indications were that 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. cial denials of its story that the saucers are a "revolutionary type of new aircraft," probably built by the Navs: O FLYING SAUCERS 10 TIMES-HERALD Washington, D.C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1950 House Member Swears He Saw Flying Saucer By United Press One House member who should know said flatly today there is no such thing as a flying saucer. But another member equally quali. fied said maybe not, but he has seen one himself. Rep. Mahon (D) of Texas, chair- man of the House military appro- priations subcommittee, said it just isn't so what they say about those discs. He had no concrete evidence-but the solidest kind of support. President Truman, Defense Sec. retary Johnson, the Air Force and the Navy all backed him up. They said none of the armed services is messing around with saucers, and that nobody else is far far as they knew. The people, they said, are seeing things. He Saw One J. Rep. Ingel (R) of Michigan, is the man who says he saw one. A member of Mahon's subcommit- tee, he also is a candidate for governor of Michigan when he isn't helping dole out the money it 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 them sober and well thought of, saw it, too. Two of them chased it in a plane, but the thing unfortunately was too high and too fast and got away. Mahon put it this way: "I guess my subcommittee would know if there were anything this flying saucer business. We even knew about the atomic en- argy experiments several years be- fore the story was tole том INDEXED - 102 162-83894-А NOI KIC DID 78 JUN 30 1950 He sen Page Times-Herala 10 Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror 85 JUL 141950 Date: 4-5-50

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Tolson Ladd_ Clegg_ Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy. Harbo Mohr _ Tele. Room_ Nease - Gandy_ Statement by Air Force Saucers 'News Truman, Other Officials Deny To Officials Knowledge of flying Saucers raised the question at yesterday's meeting of the Armed Forces Pol- icy Council, which includes By John G. Norris the departmental secretaries and Joint Post Reporter Chiefs of Staff. Navy Secretary Top officials and agencies of the|mild form of mass hysteria, or Francis Matthews and Admiral Government—-from President Tru- hoaxes. Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval man on down-joined yesterday in Earlier, President Truman an- operations, as well as other offi- nounced through his press secre- cials, assured him the denials were an effort to convince the American public that "flying saucers" do not tary at Key Fla., that he sincere and truthful. knew absolutely nothing exist. of such The latest flareup of public in- Aying objects being developed by terest in the saucers resulted from A formal statement issued by the United States or any other na- statements by Radio Commentator the Air Force last night was most explicit. It declared flatly that: tion. Henry J. Taylor and the weekly "We are not denying this be- news magazine United States News i. None of the armed forces is conducting secret experiments with cause of any development of secret and World Report that the saucers weapons." said Secretary Charles exist and are revolutionary "disc-shaped flying objects which G. Ross, "but purely because we do American aircraft probably devel- could be a basis for the reported now of nothing to support these oped by the Navy. A Navy spokes- phenomena. 2. There is no evidence that the rumors. man flatly denied this Monday! latter stem from "the activities of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson Johnson said he is convinced the any foreign nation." said about the same thing at a saucers could not be experiments conf Evaluation of reports of re- "sightings" bears out conclusions that all can plained away as "misinterpretation of Various on or ear t at in the rop ot he had factional! news conference. He told reporters conducted by any other Govern- he was "satisfied there is nothing ment agency outside his depart- ment because the Pentagon's Re- said he had facetiously search and Development Board co- lordinates all such activity. conventional objects, a See SAUCER, Page 3, Cut. 2 Despite the denials, new reports of "saucers" continued. At Tipp City, Ohio, nine persons said they saw saucers over the Air Force base at Wright Field, early Sunday. Jerry Robinson, a 22-year-old Marine veteran, speaking for the group, said they saw "two bright lights in the sky" which later were discerned as brilliant discs trailing a smoll streak of orange flame. After hovering for a time, they shot straight up in the air and disappeared, he said. Police Chief J. C. Lee of Eliza- beth City, Ill., reported that "a weird red and blue disc-like ob- ject" whizzed over the town early Sunday, "traveling at a high rate of speeu. 82 APR 281950 163=83 NOT RECORDED 42 APR 21 1950 WASHINGTON POST Page_ Date 4-5-50 le

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• Hugench °4lying Disus But the Navy Says 'No' The Original 'Flying Saucer'? Procer NeaT assires By John G. Norris Post Reporter "Flying saucers" are in fact radically new type aircraft, con turning off the rear jets, turning on the side and front nozzles. forming to known areodynamic "Great speed can be obtained laws and probably developed by by focusing to the rear all nozzles the United States Navy, the maga- in the after half of the aircraft. zine United States and World Re- With all nozzles pointed down- ward, the saucer could rise port said yesterday. This latest effort to explain the straight off the ground, and with continuing reports of strange fly- less power, could descend the ing disks at various points over same way . . • the country brought a prompt "Jet helicopter action denial from the Navy Department makes takeofts and landings almost that it is now "conducting research completely safe." or flying" any such plane Or The magazine said that an early model of the saucer was built by missile. 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-1, but that it never flew and Nayy then took over development was scrapped more than a year and "much more advanced models ago. small, 3000-pound scale now are being built." model of the plane was flown and NACA Engineer Charles H. Zim- pictures of it have been released. merman designed the first model, which had a speed of from 400 to but this model is now at Norfolk awaiting shipment to the National 500 miles an hour and was pow- Air Museum here. ered by two piston propellers, said The weekly news magazine did the article. not quote any authority for its "Surface indications," the mag- statement that the "Aying saucers" azine went on, "point to research aregreal American planes, but sail centers of the United States Navy's vast guided-missile project as the tha "engineels competant, to ap scene of present flying-saucer de- praise reports of reliable observer velopment." The project, it was reach these conclusions: said, has the "scientists, the en- "They are aircraft of a revolu- gineers, the dollars, the motive tionary type, a combination of heli- and the background" for the jon. "This likelihood will remain, de- Assoclated Press Pho Model of aircraft developed in 1948 and flown by the Navy radio control-full-size craft never flow, the Navy has announced copter and fast jet plane. They spite any future denials by coform to well-known principles of Navy front office, until secrecy is aerodynamics." lifted," the magazine added. They are "exactly 105 feet in di- The Navy declared it was true ameter, eircular in shape" and "are that made of a metal alloy, with a dull cake, its abandoned "flying pan- was designed by Zimmer- whitish color. There are no rud- man, and was called the "Zimmer- 162. 83894 A NOT AREN ORDIND 83 APR 11 1950 ders, ailerons or other protruding man Skimmer." It added that a surfaces. From the side, the caucers stil appear to be about 10 feet thick." tird of actual size_is still at model--one- "Each saucer appears to have a variable-direction series of nozzles around its rims. det NACA's Langley, Va, laboratory used is unknown... Direction of (for wind-tunnel tests, but the Navy insisted it had no such proj- the aircraft and its velocity, in ect now active. turn, evidently are controlled by the angle at which the jet nozzles The Air Force, after many the number operating. months of investigation of "Bying are tilted, saucer" reports, concluded that all the power applied. which nozzles to the evidence pointed to "misin- "By choosing turt on or off and the angle of terpretation of various conven- the pilot could saucer rise or descend vertically, mysteria, or hoaxes." tional objects, a mild form of mass the hoter. fy straight ahead or make A right-angle turn sharp turns. for example. could be made by 56 APR 111950 WASHINGTON POST Dated 4-4-50

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Mr. Talech „Mr. Lada Mr. Gingg 2t. Giovit Mr. Nichol Mr. Pompl Mr truct Mr. Hurho Mr. Helmont Mr. Mub: Tele. 110oin 1s. Necroo Alia Gands The Case for the FLYING SAUCER From America, the 'home' of flying saucers, comes this up-to-the-minute summary of report and rumour about the modern mystery of the skies. by RICHARD GREENOUGH OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE AMERICAN ZIMBASSY LONDON, ENGLAND THE DAILY MAIL APRIL 3, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND 162-83894-A- NOT R '63 APR 20 1960 58 AFR 21 1350

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NEw YorK, Sunday. VER since Ken-, neth Arnold, 30 - year - old, ordinary business-man pilot from Boise, Idaho, touched ofi the "flying saucers " mystery by report- ing, on the afternoon of June 24, 1947, that he had seen "nine shiny discs like metal hub-caps flip-flap- ping along at about 1,200 m.p.h." only one fact seems quite certain. Nobody has yet proved de- initely that such things do or do not exist. Air Force finding THIS includes the U.S. Air still investigating reports about Force, celestial erockern, though officially last December, after checking 375 cases, it closed down Project Saucer. a special investigation group of Intelli- gence officers with headquarters Ohio. i"at that time it was stated in a blanket turn-down that all re- ports were : I. Misinterpretation of " con- ventional" aerial objects. included giant experimeneti cosmic-ray balloons, radar target balloons with dangling aluminium wisps foil, strips meteor trairs, from of or whole vapour high-flving aircraft, bright planets. 2. Mild form of mass hysteria. 3. Hoaxes. But steadily, from 1947 up till a few days ago, reports of curious objects that "go whizz in the air keep on coming in from all over the United States. They nOw been reported from 43 out of the 48 States, with majority coming south and east and near the Mexi- can border. They have also, of course, been reports from other parts of the world, from Scandinavia, China, the Far East. The objects allegedly seen here have ranged from the now almost conventional flying "fuzzy" edges, or lit up at night * space ships shaped showing regular rows of lights in the dail and orange flames coming from the Sometimes they have been re- ported shaped like tubes, pillars, spheres. But two facts seem to remain constant. They are all said to be either white or silver, and move across the sky in an undulat- ing way. tilting first in one direc- tion, then the falling, before other, rising and finally disappear- ing into nothing or over the horizon. Pilot's chase ONE U.S. Air Force pilot Capt. Thomas lost his life some months ago try ing to catch up with that looked like silver ream cone topped with red." An experienced war-time pilot, with several thousand hours' flying time, Mantell was in his fighter plane leading two others near Fort Knox, Kentucky, when the control tower at his airbase. Godman Field, radioed him to try to locate a strange object sighted from the ground and moving in his direction. Mantell later called back that he had spotted the " thing 12 o'clock high" (directly ahead above him), 1ookea like a silver ice-cream cone topped with red. His air-to-ground conversation was logged at the air base and i have checked it. He later Te, Sorted : in now to take "To cos les directly ahead good look. me and moving at a good The thing looks metallic and tremendous."

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His last report a FOR 25 minutes Mantell and the two other pilots tried vainly to close in. Mantel reported the object was climbing and moving at a speed equal to his own, which he gave as 360 m.p.h. In broken cloud at 18,000ft, the other two pilots lost sight of him, later broke off and landed. Mantell called once more to say that if he were closer at 20,000ft. he'd abandon the chase as he hadn't the oxygen. That was the last heard from him. His body was later found near Fort Knox and the wreckage his machine scattered over halfa nile around. Obviously his plane jad disintegrated in mid-air. Official Air Force That version was Mantell had blacked out " from probably lack of oxygen and had not regained con- sciousness before he crashed. out of control. Still a mystery BUT one of his fellow-pilots later commented : think that was a cover-up. tell was too experienced Man- pilot for that. He was quite familiar with signs of approaching anoxia Mack of oxygen], and would have taken steps to prevent " Some of us think he may have collided with whatever he saw and that it knocked him out in the air. Engineers later added that the type of machine Mantell was fly ing. starting dive at 20.000ft would not have disintegrated S thoroughly. During the past two and three quarter year's multitude beople on the ground claim have seen these "flying saucers" nor have they always been seen with the naked tye them through binoculars many say the ut the fact that first started notice, aucer ject aud then anstitute was large number of apparently responsible pilots and aircrew members who sent in startling reports of what they claimed to have seen One of the theories along which " P.S " investigators worked was evident from the fact that every plane whose pilot encounters with "flying reported close was checked with saucers Geieger counters for possible radio- activity. Head-on meeting TAKE ene sa eno Captain Clar- ence Chiles, former Air Transport Command Whitted. who hi tiew and John B.29 Super- forts during the war. Both are appily married men with fam lies, good jobs and no need. o apparent desire for publicity. They were flying schedule airline service near Montgomer Alabama, one night last summe. prilliant, fast-moving bbiect suddenly appeared ahea of them. "We saw it at the same time, investigators & Whatever it was lashed down to wards us and we left It veered veered to the sharply too and passed about 700 feet to our right and above us." " The thing was about 100 feet long, cigar-shaped and wingless, about twice the diameter B.29 without protruding said Whitted. fins," " There was a tremendous burst of orange flame from the rear. It zoomed into clouds, its jet or prop wash rocking our DC3." Seeing's believing MORE recently, two weeks ago. two other airlin; pilots, Captain Jack Adams, wit! some 8,000 hours' flying time, and co-pilot G. W. Anderson reported "flying saucer bottom with windows blinking light near the top as they passed over Arkansas. "It was flying almost due north and we crossed its path at about * It was degree angle, said Adams. about 1,000ft. above uS and travelling at a tremendous rate It had a peculiarly coloured and very intense light near the which blinked very rapidly " We kept the object in sight for about 45 seconds "I've been about such things, but what you do when you see a thing that? " he concluded "We both flabbergasted."

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mer Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd Mr. Clagg--*- Mr. Glarin - Mr. Nichols - Nt. Rosen -- Mr. Tracy - Nr. Hcsbo - Mr. Bolmont- Mr. Mobr - Tele. Hoov -- Mr. Nodeo - Miss Gandy SECRET INQUIRY INTO FLYING SAUCERS U.S. 'LOSES' REPORT BY AIRMEN From ROBERT WAITHMAN, News Chronicle Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sunday. IN the United States in the last month it has become a good deal harder to dismiss as hallucinations reports that flying saucers-or alternatively "flying objects of non-conventional design"-have lately been seen in the skies. It has become harder, first because the reports have Been coming in from such sources and with such in- dependent detail that it would be remarkable indeed if con be all there duct or to va, in pinations: anal behaviour in the matter. NEWS CHRONICLE LONDON, ENGLAND APRIL 3, 1950 OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHIN AMERICAN EMBASSY LONDON, ENGLAND flying Teres 162- 83894-A - NOT R 65 APR 20 1960 5812 21 1050

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In the huge Pentagon building Washington, headquarters he Defence Department, therefis in Air Force major. whose du kubsta repeat the last Airers the last Air For statement on flying issued on December 27. 1949. " Mass hysteria" On the basis of inquiries into 375 alleged occurrences over period of two years, it was an- nounced : " Reports of un- identified flying objects are the result of misinterpretation of various conventional objects or a mild form hoaxes. " of mass hysteria continuance of It was said a „contawanted." the inquiry was But in fact it has appeared during the last month that gredible witnesses who say they ave seen flying saucers are still being examined by Intelligence officers. It was noted, too, how quickly and how thoroughly one most comprehensive the newest reports has been officially " lost." Ours? Employees of the Civil Aero nautics Authority at work in control tower at Dayton muni cipal airport in Ohio, in conjunc- tion with U.S Weather Bureau observers and four pilots of the Air National Guard whole on- in fighters to look at the identified object "-they all saw and submitted their testimony to the administrator of C.A.A. The idea-sometimes seriously advanced and often half- believed-that the saucers could be exploratory craft from another planet has infinite possibilities. But until it is proved it may be more profitable to wonder whether there has somewhere been de- veloped a disc-like plane with a circle of swiftly vanes revolving to hover that might nable or to fly at nigh speed. If this or something like it that out to la ree on sor hoppie good reason here that it is one of ours.

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Mr. Tolson -.- Mr. Ladd - Mr. Clogg - Mr. Gavin - Mr Nichols - Nh 80000 ---- Tracy -- 416730 г лі 'Rocket saucer' ROME, Thursda •-A flying saucer was reported ver Milan Then later it Jas discovered three boys had attached rockets to a large metal disc off from the and roof of set thigh building.—Express News Service. Tom tung TICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHI AMERICAN EMBASSY LONDON, ENGLAND files 2m DAILY EXPRESS London, England MARCH 31, 1950 162-83894-A- NOT RE ORDED 85 APR 19 1950 198 82 APR 2. 1050

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Dises oflyng filen piece flyny Mr. Tolson - Mr. Ladd - Ma, Clogg - Mr. Glavin - Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen -- Mr. Tracy - Mr. Harbo Mr. Belmont Mr. Moht - Tele. Room Mr. Necise Miss Gandy Fluing saucers- N.E., S. and W. saucers again over Wednesday Ita in - Flying This 1S what people now. five different areas reported: Salo, on Lake Garda.—A disc as large as a full towards the toon streaking north-east. Carrara.-Four. three flying southwards. miles up, Taran. Calabria.— "like a moon with a wake of Speeding westwards. A mained flying sauce suspended 20 second en disappeared to the south al d'Aosta.—A dise flying over bad.--Reuter. тож OPFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE AMER: CAN EMBASSY LONDON, ENGLAND EVENING STANDARD MARCH 29, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND 198 52 APR 201950 ple 5 sch 162 - 83894-A- 2 RECOR: GD 85 APR 19 1950

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Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd Mr. Clegg Mr. Glavin Mr. Nichols Nir. Rosen Mr. Tracy • Mr. Harbo Mr. Belmont Mr. Mohr Tele, Room Mr. NeaRe Miss Gandy 4/ung Disco Flying tri history of an aerial phenomenon which gave America sky-war jitters Saucery YOU TOU CAN SEE THEM Professor F. S. Cotton, of Sydney University, was discus- sing with his students the mystery of the flying saucers. He asked them to stand still, train their eyes on a point in the sky about a mile away. Within ten minutes 22 members of the class were seeing " saucers." The hallucination was merely the effect of red blood corpuscles passing in front of the eye retina. 62-13894 A ORDab 83 APR 111950 SUNDAY GRAPHIC MARCH 26, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND PFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACE AMERICAN EMBASSY LONDON, BINGLAND 56 APR 11 1950 -

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report Adams, that comes a Captain Jack that he and co-pilot had ing saucer, windows and coloured top and with lighted cable from flying coastguards Portugal and other moving west tracer bullets." craft came on flying nis back-yard planes " geventh. landed in Mr. On July 4, graph of a guard. The U.S. wingless Pancake "- ventured A that solar cloud would effects, and light on at about Scores of the by North flying in line and " faster than like a silver round Most of saucer " coast- set against said that its new " Flying Connecticut. suggested on low LOs about similar Angeles "trans- San Francisco The San an occult claimed to " saucers." • They came ing on earth. In Britain and another Back in years around ago, The neatest quipping Grom yko quarters. ing discus the Olympic of still came in. Force in Spain. During of Madrid with an four engines cumference. was scientists escaped from zone, through were now received a medium, that aboard the from another seen by a President word got from Mr. the training for the " saucers " 375 incidents. pretation conven-, ended. saucers " grounded. the "flying be on March 9, when a business travelling U.S. in story, Denver, a U.S. Air e dises " micer were allies Germans had that the the had Russian France, for and the these saucers and little "Flying country of had denial " said: " If start landing, with radar world. They attempts to guess is accounts? good as mine.

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4-26 Tolson Ladd Clegg_ Expert 'Explains' Glavin. Nichols Rosen Tracy_ Harbo Belmont. Flying Saucers Mohr _ Tele. Room_ Nease Gandy By United Press ROME, March 25—Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo, 73-year-old Italian turbine engineer, said today that designs for "flying saucers" were prepared for Hitler and Mussolini in 1942. "According to those designs," hea said in an interview, "the disks could carry a cargo of explosives of any kind-and today an atomic bomb- -to destroy entire cities. Of the present rash of reports of "flying saucers." which the U. S. Air Force has declared are without foundation in fact, Sr. Belluzzo said: "It has passed my mind that some great power is experimenting with flying disks. 7ying Discs -without explosives or atomic bombs. DRAFTED PLANS "There is nothing about flying disks. most rational use supernatural It's just the of recently- evolved techniques." Sr. Belluzzo said had dist, drafted plans he personally feet for a "flying in diameter, but claimed they disappeared with Mus- solini when fled to northern Italy in 1943. "Both Hitler and Mussolini were interested in flying discs," he said. "The principle of the flying disc is very simple. Its construction is easy and. can be done with very Jight metal. "Two jet pipes placed on either 62-83894-A- VOT RECORDED INDEXED - 1335 APR 18 1950 side of the rim of the disk, provide locomotion. these adjustable permit maximum speeds. PILOT NOT NEEDED "Propulsion comes from a mix- ture of compressed air and naphtha -the same fuel used in modern jet Page planes. "The air is mixed under pressure and ignited at first cartridges and then by an electrical device. Times-Herald Terrific pressure is set up and the expanding gas forced out thru the iet pipes. Wash. Post "The reaction, coming from the opposing pipes on either side of the dise, start the entire apparatus re- volving, making it airborne." Wash. News The missiles could be aimed like the war-time German V-2 rockets, He said, and would descend when Wash. Star fuel was exhausted or cut off the an automatic timing devire. No aman pilot would be required N.Y. Mirror DO MAYS WA MAR 2 5 1950 Date:

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VENICE REPORTS/ FLYING SAUCER Venice, Monday Morning. --A silver-coloured "flying saucer" was reported above the fishing port of Caioggia4 near here, early today travel- ling "at great speed" abow 6,000ft. up.-Reuter. OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE AMET CAN EMBASSY LONDON, ENGLAND 50 APR 1219 Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd Mr. Clegg -. Mr. Glavin Mi. Nichols Mr. Bowen Mr. Tracy. Mr. Harbo Mr. Belmont - Mr. Mahr Tele. Ronse Mr. Neate Miss Canaz поро 162-83894-4 DED NOX 83 APR 12 1950 THE DAILY MAIL FEBRUARY 27, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND ples eter

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"Saucers' Spies From Planets, Writer Claims NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (AP)-A monthly magazine says the so- called flying saucers are real-ve- hicles for systematic observation of the earth by visitors from other planets. The conclusions are contained in an article by Donald F. Keyhoe in the January issue of True, pub- lished by Fawcett Publications, Inc. Kevhoe is a former informa- tion chief for the aeronautics branch, U. S. Commerce depart- ment. The magazine said the conclu- sions were based on an eight- month investigation. Keyhoe says True "learned that rocket authority stationed at Wright field has told Project Saucer personnel flatly that the saucers are interplanetary and that no other conclusion is pos- sible." Last April the Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald that the Air Force, although conceding were no "joke," the saucers had discounted the theory that the discs repre. sented visitations from such planets as Mars, where human life is believed by some to exist. Today, an Air Force spokesman sald that "Air Force studies 'flying saucers' lend no support so view that another planet." they come from Tolson Lada_ Clegg. Glavin Harbo Nichols Rosen_ Tracy_ Mohr - Fletcher_ Tele. Room_ Nease Gandy. Deadly (up) 62 - 83894 Page 162-53891- NOT RECORDED 75 FEB 8 1950 Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror 0 FeB 9-1950 C 2 71040 Date:

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cor Lexes FLYING DISCS Nio. Thin No. Tada, 30n. Choss: Den. Giavin De. Nichol Me. Повет. Mr. Exacy- Mr. Hurbo Mr. Mobr- le. Room Ma. Neese. Mias Gandy MENU OF THE FUTURE: It's Wild New World' Dished Up in Saucers "Flying saucers," observatories dence to reports of satellite mis- better metals have been de- on the moon, high-flying rockets siles. veloped. and earth satellite vehicles carry- No such ship has ing weapons and possibly men to as yet It is the wildest kind of spec- been built, according to the whirl endlessly far out in space, ulation, but the fying discs may best informed sources. But today seem like pipe dreams of a mad world of fantasy. ideas for one haven't been be the first calling cards from án interstellar neighbor. forgotten. They may be harbingers of a wild new world to come. Gravity gradually falls off far out in space beyond the earth, The air force, as early as scientists explain. It never quite last spring, said officially that ends, they say, but at 5000 miles the flying saucers "are not a it is relatively weak. joke." "A spaceship could easily be Air force authorities even now ept in position there, accor may be preparing an announce- ing o Dr. Lloyd Motz, a Colun ment stating that the flying discs bia University astronomer. are real objects, not merely fig- "If left to itself it would ments of imagination as far as the gradually return to earth," he air force is concerned, The Mirror said. "But it would take very learned yesterday. little thrust, frotu small rock- That would seem to remove the ets discharged at intervals flying discs from the realm of old to keep it where it was wives' tales and the bubble talk wanted." of guys who have had one or two To get it up there, the space- snifters too many. ship would have to leave the Possibilities that the sau- earth at an initial velocity of 25,- cers are missiles launched 000 miles an hour, to escape the from a foreign planet are pull of gravity. given serious consideration. At such speeds, present known metals would melt becaus The U.S. defense department's WON DEXED 125 friction. announcement of plans consider- But in other ing a super spaceship, to be kept under control while traveling an from our own earth, perhaps orbit around, the earth, lend cre-'THE MIRROR - LOS ANGELE 162-83594-1 OU RECORDED 78 NOV 17 1949 file 5-5 t IRROR 19419 62 NOV 301949

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Missing Intentor Hunted for Clue to Saucers Mr. Tolson Mr. E. A. Tamm_ Mr. Clegg. Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen_ Mr. Tracy_ Mr. Egan Mr. Gurnea Mr. Harbo_ Mr. Mohr_ Mr. Pennington Mr. Quinn Tamm_ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy. Air Force investigators-skeptical but intrigued -are trying today to locate an eccentric inventor that look like Io years ago built two contraptions "flying saucers." The disc-type ships, battered and damaged, were found yesterday in an abandoned barn near Glen Burnie, Md., where they had lain untended for nine 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 "definite prototypes of flying saucers," but the service hedged today. Force has only reports of what flying ook like and has never established that such things ac- Jually were seen. The Maryland inventor, Jonathan E. seared in 1940. Caldwell, disap- The only possibility of any connection between his old abandoned devices and the rumored "fly- ing saucers" of recent years would lie in the possibility ANG 55. INDEXED - 80 62_83994 A OT RECORDED 84 SEP 23 1949 - that he went to some other part of the country, devel oped better models and flew them successfully. A good many officers find it difficult to believe he could have done that without coming to public attention. during the periodic excitement over "flying the past two years. saucers" vin But they would like to find out what happened to Mr. Caldwell after he left Maryland and talk with him, if he still is alive. Mr. Caldwell, who would be about 70 today, left the Maryland farm hastily nine years ago, after getting into financial trouble with the state. He took with him his wife and son. Maryland authorities at that time had ordered him to stop selling any more stock in his enter- "Gray Goose Airways, Inc." Previously, he had press 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 investigation of Mr. Caldwell's operations in 1940, said in Baltimore today: "Whenever he needed more funds he went out and sold stock, and he continued to run the business as tho it were his own. He wasn't the ordinary type of frau- dulent stock salesman. I believe he sincerely thought he had something and I doubt if he thought he was being dishonest." For two years Air Force investigators have been run- ning down clues from coast to coast on reports of flving saucers. The Air Force in the main has taken a skeptical attitude toward the reports. Its last official report said it just didn't have conclusive evidence that they either did or didn't exist. ONE TESTED HERE Some of the flying saucers have been reported seen from the air, but traveling at such high speed as to make pursuit impossible. One military pilot crashed to his death, reportedly while chasing a flying saucer. One of the craft found in the Maryland barn reportedly flew here briefly around 1939. It was said to have gotten only 75 feet in the air. One ship resembled a helicopter. But instead of rotor blades it had a disc-like device about 16 feet in diameter. The device resembled two saucers revolving top to top. Small rotor blades jutted from between the two saucers. The other eraft, named the "Roto-Plane," looked like a plywood tub about 14 feet in diameter. in the middle. The engine was in the tub. The pilot sat and bottom eins of the tub were four bladed poupe toe which revolved in opposite directions. AUG & U 1848 WASHINGTON NEWS Page_ 6Q SEP2 71949 5Е ни-

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Flying Saucer Siory Deflated By Air Force Experimental Craft Will Be Examined For Other Clues The Air Force's long search for "Alving saucers" has turned up two contraptions almost as weird as anything yet described by the most wild-eyed "witnesses" of two sum- mers ago. Held for the examination of ex- perts are two weather-beaten remnants of an inventor's dream uncovered yesterday in a tobacco shed near Glen Burnie, Md., an outer suburb of Baltimore. An official Air Force statement issued today said "the perimental aircraft found Baltimore yesterday have abso. lutely no connection with the re- ported phenomenon of flying sau- cers." This does not mean, how- vel. that they will not be examined for other clues by Air Force representatives, it was said The relics are more than years' old, and so far as can be determined, only one of them ever got off the ground under its own power. This occurred in Wash- ington almost 10 year's ago. and ended in near-disaster after a flight of about 60 seconds. Pilot Tells of Test Hop. The inventor, Jonathan E ead- well, who is now over 70, if still living, and his wife and son left Glen Burnie in 1940 after Mary- land authorities ordered Mr. Caldwell to "cease and desist" from selling stock to finance his aeronautical ideas. None of the neighbors have heard from them since. Willard E. Driggers of 1530 Olive street N.E., now with the Civil Aeronautics Administration at Na- tional Airport, 'made the first and only test hop in Mr. Caldwell's helicopter, the Gray Goose, at the old Benning Race track in 1940. Mr. Driggers said he helped de- sign the helicopter. The machine rose about 40 feet and after some 60 seconds in the air. Mr. Driggers became aware the controls were not operating properly, he told The Star. He decided if he took it any higher he might not get dowb afely and he crash landed di dured, but the machine was can- aged. 3 Lived Here Several Years. riggers said the ne rotors was designe ac as a wing after the shis had attained cruising The rotor would then be stopped and the ship flown with the con- ventional propeller. He explained, however, that this was theory, because the ship was never flown again. Mr. Caldwell lived in Washing- ton for several years before his disappearance, and seems to have returned here briefly from Glen Burnie before dropping from sight. The model tested here was a small helicopter whose rotors projected from a saucerlike disc mounted on a tripod above the cockpit. Tattered remnants of this disc, covered with cloth, and tered fuselage were found in the shed, along with a plywood box, like a huge circular 315 the bat- cheesebox, whose top and bottom sections were designed to revolve in oppo- site directions with short rotors projecting from the rims. The pilot was to have ridden in the middle, near the motor mount. Capt. Claudius Belk, head of the Baltimore office of Special Investi- gation of the Air Force, revealed that his office has "been investi- gating the machines for months" as possible prototypes of the flying saucers reported so frequently. He said efforts are being made to locate Mr. Caldweil in the hope of getting engineering data on his roto-plane ideas. The remains of the two ma- chines were placed in storage by Maryland State police, who helped locate them at the request of the Air Force. The material will be held, it was said, until it can be determined if experts from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, Ohio, wish to exam- the it. King Dues Builder Was Aarpenter. The helicopter psisted light wingless lige with broceller in ver the cockpit which mountes saucer-like rotor projecting blades. Except for the pancake struc- ture around the inner sections of the rotor, the model was much the same as other experimental jobs of that time. Mr. Caldwell, a former carpen- ter, whose friends said he had studied the science of aeronautics in several books, had a far less conventional idea in his "flying cheesebox." The upper and lower lids, con- taining short rotor blades jutting from their outer rims, were sup- posed to rotate in opposite direc- tions, giving rapid life and some stability in flight, Mr. Cald well's friends said. They admitted the 1,500-pound contraption flew. but said Mr. Caldwell ha claimed that a light model prove successful. The inventor earlier had tried a third model. This looked something like complicated hay rick on wheels, and had rotors designed to fan the air somewhat after the fashion of the paddle wheels on old steam- boats. There were no claims that this machine ever left the ground and Mr. Caldwell abandoned it in favor of later ideas. Attorney Robert E. Clapp, who was Assistant Attorney General of Maryland at the time of Mr. Caldwell's disappearance, and helped administer the blue-sky laws, conducted a hearing in 1940 into the affairs of two of Mr. Cald- Well's companies - Gray Gogse Tolson_ Daddy Glavin_ Ni chols Rosen_ Tracy_ Harbo_ Mohr - Tele. Room_ Nease Gandy/ to вил 62 SEP 2 Arways, Inc:, and Rotor Planes Inc. He later restrained the firms from selling stock in Maryland. "All he had was models," Mr. Clapp said, "and whenever one failed and he needed more funds, he went out and sold stock." In his report, Mr. Clapp, said: "The literature used in connec tion with these stock sales clearly indicates that the public was led to believe that the invention was on the verge of perfection and would be completed and ready for general production within a very short. time, whereas, the fact as testi- fied by Mr. Caldwell indicate that no machine on which he had ever worked had been successfully flown or was in any condition for manu. facture and sale upon a satisfac. 8 62-83894-А tory commercial basis. "The history of the develop- NOT RECORDED ment'of these companies indicates that they were organized merely 84 SEP 23 1949 for the purpose of raising money to develop the ideas of Mr. Cald- well, and that as soon as this money was raised, it was treated as belonging solely to him and as the subject of any use which he deemed proper. "No meeting of stockholders has ever been held by either company WASHINGTON STAR A 18 Page and no financial report to stock- holders has ever come out since organization." 1 Disce зи , 6 AUG 2 0 1549 1 -

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AIR FORCE FINDS 'FLYING SAUCERS'-This is Jonathan E. Caldwell's "Gray Goose" helicopter pictured before it made a near-disastrous test flight of about a minute in Washington nearly 10 years ago. Washington Star Page A 18

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10Xz Troopers J. J. Harbaugh and Peter Kosirowsky of the Maryland State police are shown yesterday looking over remnants of Mr. Caldwell's helicopter, which had a pancakelike struc- ture around the inner part of the rotors. State troopers with the "flying cheesebox" invented by Mr. Caldwell and found with his inel helicopter in a tobacco shed on a farm near Glen Burnie, Md., alter a search requested United States Air Force. Washington Star Page A 18 AUG 1 2 0

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Tolson Ladd Clegg_ Glavin Nichols Rogen Tracy Harbo Mohr Tele. Room Nease Gandy rẻ | Whitalys Clen Burnie 'Saucer' Clips 'Confidenial," but They Aren'to Newspaper clips on the saucers found in a "flying Glen Burnie barn last week have been sent to Washington Condidential." marked "Classified- As part of an OSI report which contains other data, the clips are crammed into a "Confidential." folder marked But that doesn't mean a thing. "You can take that file and pull those clippings out and show them man said. an Air Force spokes- "Confidential,' "But if a folder is marker a fellow wants look out because he knows ofethe other stuff in there is a lo more important." 620-83894-A- RECORDER 46 SEP 14 1949 58 SEP 1519490 WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS FINAL EDITION DATE 8/93/41

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Flying Diss Researchers' Balloons Mistaken for Discs CHICAGO, (INS). ouTe does and last moving jet planes" that had some Chi- cagoans worried were identified today as gas balloons used by fhe University of Chicago for cosmié ray researen. Large numbers of Mr. Tolson_ Mr. Clegg_ Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols_ Mr. Rosen_ Mr. Tracy_ Mr. Egan. Mr. Gurnea Mr. Harbo Mr. Mohr Mr. Pennington_ Mr. Quinn Tamm_ Mr. Nease._ Miss Gandy- 113 Fletchet N'S mostlung rom iet planes to silvery globules 162-83894-A- NO CORDED 59 SEP 9 1949 5, 0 SEP 9 1809 JUL 1 7 1949 WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD Page_ 3 Sec: 1

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phem Discs "Flying Saucers' On Secret List The Air Force disclosed yes- terday that secrecy restrictions have been clamped on certain incidents connected with the mys. terious "flying saucers" seen in the skies last year. At the same time, the Air Force admitted it is impossible to "deny categorically" that the weird ob- jects originated in the Soviet Union or some other foreign na- tion. A statement declared that some incidents linked with the "flying saucers still are unexplained." spokesman said some of the "in- explicable" incidents have been placed in the "classified" category, denied to all persons except au- thorized military personnel. The statement was issued as be Air Force continued to re- ceve inquiries arising out of commentator? broadcast. The immentator said thi "saucers" •came from Russia. The Air Forde said: "To date there has been no tai gible evidence which would sup port a theory that any of the in- cidents are attributable to activity of a foreign nation. On the other hand, there is no evidence to deny categorically such a possibility. "Many of the reported incidents have definitely been determined to be meteoroligical balloons or natural celestial phenomena. How- ever, ever there aliase an in competen observers which are still une› plained." 162-8 3894.A NOT RECORDED 45 APR 19 1949 58 APR 2 0 1949) Five This clipping is from the evening edition of The Washington Times Herald 4-8-559 Date

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INDEXED - 64 1-109 Mr. Tolson Mr. E. A. Tamm_ Mr. Clegg_ Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Egan Mr. Gurnea Mr. Harbo Mr. Hendon Mr. Jones Mr. Pennington_ Mr. Quinn Tamm_ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy_ German Spy Calls Self Flying Disc' Inventor RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 5 (INS) -Nils Christensen, a con- victed German spy in Brazil, laimed today to be the invent f "flying discs" which have bee ighted in many parts of, the world, including the United States. Зиз. INDEXED - 64 1 62 - 83894-4 EX-109 &. NO: 19 1948 6 3 DEC 3 WASHINGTON TIMES HERALD AFTERNOON EDITION DATE 194 11 - 10 - 78

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зле Soviet Still Wants Answer To Saucers' By DAVID SENTNER N. Y. Journal-American Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-So- viet agents in the United States have been ordered to solve the mystery of the "Flying Saucers," it was learned today. While the guessing game in this country has burned itself out, the Soviet Union continues to be acutely interested in the phen- omena, according to American in- vestigative agencies. Instructions to Soviet espionage agents in the United States indi- cate the Kremlin believes the sau- cors may be connected with Army antoinents in devices to decom- enemy radar during bombing raids. RECORDED EX-93 48 62-83894 OCT 10 1947 -A Whitt on Soviet Espionage Agents in U.S. Interested in "Saucers" 23/ • 1401231941 CLIPPING FROM THE N. 1. youralamora DATED AUG 1 4 1947 FORWARDED BY N. V. DIVISION

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Ters'-Some Ce 'Em and Some Don Gander for Saucers VFW Chief Awaiting Messag® From Capital on Flying Discs The national leader of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars said yester- day in Columbus, Ohio, that he was momentarily expecting word from Washington which would ex- plain the "flying saucers" mystery. Louis E. Starr, national com- mander of the VEW, told the Ohio State encampment of the VEW that he might have "within a few hours" an explanation from Wash- ington. He had expected the mes- sage at 3 p. m. but it did not ar- he said. rive oo little is being told the peo- ple of this country," Starr told the del agates. undreds of persons in about 30 States have reported seeing the silvery saucer-shaped discs speeding through the skies at tre- mendous speeds. An exhaustive check with the War Department and other agen- cies disclosed last night that no new formation was available in Washington. No one knew any- thing. But a new tendency to take the reports a bit more se- riously was apparent. As the mystification waxed, the scoffing waned. Some of the mystery missiles may have passed over Washington Friday night at about midnight. David Atamian, 5160 Shoemaker lane, Friendship Heights, Md., rE- ported that he had seen three or four of the flying saucers trav- eling northward at a rapid rate of speed at about that time. He said ley were at an altitude of betwee 1000 and 2000 feet and appeare to be of a bright, bluish hue. The flying saucers produced a series of speculations and at- Associated Press WIREPHOTO IS IT?-Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, 27, made this picture with a Speed Graphic camera from the front porch of his Seattle, Wash., residence. shows, says Ryan, a "white sau- cer" (arrow) that is neither an airplane, a cloud, nor a silver balloon. So, is it a "flapjack" or saucer? Or maybe a bottle cap? Photo is enlarged about 20 times See SAUCERS, Page 3, Column 2-| Post Staff Photo DAVID ATAMIAN, Shoemaker la., Mr. Tolson Mr. E. A. Tamm_ Mr. Clegg Mr. Glayin. Mr Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Egan_ Mr. Gurnea Mr. Harbo Mr. Hendon Mr. Jones Mr. Pennington Mr. Quinn Tamm Mr. Nease Miss Gandy Blither day about midnight RECORDED EX-31 THIS IS NOT ONE OF 'EM, SAYS THE NAVY-The "Aying pancake," a wingless plane developed by the Navy, is the only cers," but officials in Washington said yesterday that plane it has which might resemble the reported "fying thi strange-looking aireraft has never left Bridgeport, Conn. thorities are still skeptical that the mystery missiles said to have been seen in the skies over the West Coast and as fai East as the Carolinas are any sort of new airplane 162-83894-4 B 1 JUL 28 1947 WASHINGTON POST Page 1-M & 3-M 5 AUG 1947

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ap E. Duvall, assistant super- ntel of the Naval Obselva- Coly, that the saucer "does not eem to be an astronomical phe- Romena. Credence in the saucers-widely laughed off at their first reported appearance June 25—grew as hun- EW Chiet Awaiting Message dreds of observers, some of them fliers, reported from Capital on Flying Discs them. A crowd of 200 observed a disc at Hauser Lake, Idaho, Friday and tempted explanations throughout Guard, announced that the guard's a group of 60 picnickers saw them the country yesterday. squadron would attempt to photo- Los at Twin Falls, Idaho. And Angeles - newspaper graph any future apparitions of the Portland, Oreg., so many residents quoted an unidentified scientist discs. He said six P-51 fighter witnessed them that same day the in nuclear physics at the California planes, equipped with gun and tele- police department sent out an a- Institute of Technology as saying scopic cameras, would be kept cars broadcast. the flying discs have resulted from ready to take off on a moment's The crew of a United Airlines experiments in "transmutation of notice. plane said several of the round, atomic energy" being conducted at Col. F. J. Clark, commanding flat obiects were visible for abost Muroc Lake, Calif., White Sands, officer of the Hanford Engineering 12 minutes N. Mex.; Portland, Oreg., and Works in the Pacific Northwest elsewhere, where the largest saucer influx has 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 plant 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. ford 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 high speeds but they mystery. can be controlled from the ground. Two Chicago astronomers said "They are 20 feet in width at the disce are probably "man" the center and are partially rocket- made." ropelled on the takeofi." "They couldn't be meteors," said However, other scientists were Dr. Girard Kiuper, director of sheptical about the claims of the the University of Chicago's Yerkes unnamed California physicist. Dr. Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. Harold Urey, famed atomic scien- Dr. Oliver Kee, director of tist at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University's Dear- said the term "transmutation of born Observatory, said: atomie energy" is "gibberish. "We realize that the Army and "You can transmute metals, but Navy are working on all sorts of not energy," and Dr. Urey. David Lilienthal, chairman of things we know nothing about." He said the mystery disks may the Atomic Energy Commission, represent an accomplishment simi- declared the unexplained discs are lar to that of sending radar sig- in no way connected with atomic nais to the moon," one of the great- experiments. Lilienthal said hel est technological achievements of couldn't shed any light on the the war and accomplished in abso- mystery and added: lute secrecy." "Until someone has the facts Here in Washington, Dr. News about this phenomenon, "I can't bern Smith of the National Bureau see how anyone can say anything of Standards expressed the opinion definite about it." that all the excitement is akin to And Dr. C. C. Lauritsen, head "those Loch Ness Monster stories. of the nuclear physics department The only comment offered by! at California Institute of Tech- nology, said he was certain nobody in his department, which includes four former Manhattan Project researchers ineluding himself, had made "such a statement." He expressed the opinion that the discs "have nothing to do with nuclear physies." Strangely enough, the Murco, Calif., Army Air Base, identified as one of the sites where the "secret experiments" are being carried ut, announced that it had a P'ß ahter plane standing by to gi chase if one of the fving saucers made an appearance. Col AT Dutton, officer of the Oregon commanding National JUL 6 1947 WASHINGTON POST Page 1-M & 3-M

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Mr. Tolson Cohur. B. A. TImm Mr. Clegg Mr. Glayin/ Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichol 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 Flying Saucer Found Add latest reports on flying sau- cers-a garage sign with a garbage can lid and an ingenious "buazer" found on the lawn of the home of Thaddeus Elder, 111 6th st., Law- rel, Md. The "saucer" was discovered Fri- day night shortly before 10 o'clock. Two small aerials projected from the contraption. It contained a dry' cell battery, a flashlight bulb, c camera lens and a ticker that caused the buzzing. The • "saucer" ' was turned ouer 1o Laurel police who kent a straight face while informing the FBI of The "discovery," The FBI Wasn't interested Whe RHOORDED 1-4A. 44 JUL 18 1947 X-53 63.1UL 22 1947 15 JUL 1 3 1947 WASHINGTON POST Page 17 M

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Mr. Tolson_ Mr. E. A. Tamm Mr. Clegg_ Mr. Glavin_ Mr. Ladd hMr. 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- Boys Flying Saucer Hoax Stirs Police, FBI and Army By the Associated Press TWIN FALLS, Idaho, July 12.- Four lave with imaginations that run to fiving discs may or may. not be laughing up their sleeves today after their version of a fiving saucer had practically the entire populace, the FBI. Army intelligence officers and police on the run. The boys created and planted in a vard vesterday an object that looked to them, as well as to the Army and civilian officers, just like a lying disc should look. Their hoax was exposed after As- sistant Police Chief L. D. McCracken was tipped off that one of the boys knew something about the disc. The creation, which took two days to complete, was made from parts of an old phonograph, burned-out radio tubes and other discarded elec- trical parts. It had a plexiglass come, radio tubes, burned wires and glistening gold and silver sides. Since the boys are juveniles, their names were withheld. They will not be prosecutea, Chier McCracken G. I. Ro RECORDED 12 - 8387÷ 42 JUL 181947 716 Bunta 137 6 1 JUL 8 11917 JUL 1 2 1947 WASHINGTON STAR Page

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Mr. Tolson Mr. E. A. Tamm Mr. Clegg_ Mr. Glavin_ Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen_ Mr. Tracy_ Mr. Carson_ Mr. Egan_ Mr. Gurnea Mr. Harbo_ Mr. Hendon Mr. Pennington_ Mr. Quinn Tamm_ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy_ Juke Box Birthed This Flying Disc, Army Expert Finds 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 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. fancy gadget complete with plexi- chromium-plated merous wires. -was a hoax and, ac- cording to the Army, had "no oth er function than to be ornamental n a. limited manner and to cause agencies investigating it." RECORDED 19641 44 JUL 18 1947 EX-74 1163ulh 58 JUL 251940 6 6 JUL 1 2 1947 WASHINGTON NEWS Page. 3

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Mr. Mr. Tolso E. A. Clegg Mr. Coney Mr, Glavin toda Mr. Nicho Мг. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Egan Mr. Hendon Mr. Pennington - Mr. Quinn Tamm _ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy uceRes Saucer-Shaped Gadget Found By Californian in Flower Bed By the Associated Press B. Hood. Federal Bureau of Investi- NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., gation chief here, said an FBI man had taken a look at the device and July 10.-A saucer-shaped mechan- that it would be turned over to ical contraption, resembling a military authorifies.. The FBI office. chicken brooder can a at me one i do motor Forcint or otted one anium bed at the home of Russell Long, construction exhibited the engineer, last object. A radio tube on top night, and the first official reaction was set down into the upper half of the was from Fire Battalion Chief Wal- saucer, which was about 5 inches lace E. Newcombe. who looked at it thick at the middle and tapered to skeptically and said: a thin perimeter. There were wires "It doesn't look to me like it leading to a plug embedded in the could fly." center of the lower half. Mr. Long called the Van There Nuys was a rudder-type wing on top. Department and excitedly pointed to the metal saucer, Mr. Long told reporters he was 30 awakened by a pop, not as loud ches in diameter, which he had been belching smoke from two find the device "said an explaion, and mushed outstad o Jhaust pipes and emitting a blue- obiect had nudged a few bricks out white glare. The office of Richard of the border of his flower bed. Hafeter G. I. R. 6 RECORDHD 122.23894-4- 74 JUL 28 P 0 AUG 1 1 1947 JUL 1 0 1947 WASHINGTON STAR Page

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Tolson 61 ess Mmm Mr. Coffey Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichots Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Egan Mr. Hendon Mr. Pennington _ Mr. Quinn Tamm Mr. Nease Miss Gandy While Seience Sneers Air Forces Intelligence Joins Search for Flying Saucers Army Air Forces intelligence and about 50 other persons saw yesterday disclosed it has joined group of about "50 of the saucers the search for a flying saucer. in triangular formation near Au- burn Saturday." Bizarre reports on the whirling, One report which won't trouble high-speed dises continued to pour the AAF is that of a commercially in, drawing an official statement operated, converted P-38, whose from the AAF, much eynicism pilot said he had knocked one of from science and the offer of $1,000 the "pearl-colored. clam-shaped airplanes" out of the Montana sky. for the first one downed. He admitted the story was a hoax. The Air Forces, which has juris- In Washington, Dr. L. R. Haf- diction over the White Sands (N.! stad, executive secretary of the nied the Mied. The Ket Prosing rounds, des Joint Research and Developmen saucers Board and former director of the doing. "No such phenomena can Johns Hopkins be explained by any experiments Laboratory, said: Applied Physigs boing conducted," the statement "Poppycock!" Dr. Jesse Sprowls, psychology From the Naval Research Lab- professor at the University Ofatory's Rear Admiral of Paul. F. Maryland, said, "There is abso- Lee came the curt comment: "We lutely no limit to the delusion that concur in the Army announce- the mind can harbor. A tremend- ment."" ously interesting social psychologi- Neither denied existence of the cal delusion," he added discs. but the AAF said statements Dr. Ivan E. McDougle of Balti- of witnesses are being correlated more's Goucher College, said he "in an effort to identify the re- guessed "it's one of those phycho- ported objects." logical epidemies where people see With few States in the Nation things that aren't there. without at least one flying saucer But C. J. Zohn, 440 Mellon st. report, the AAF has a chore. se., who works in the rocket-sonde, A Navy flier with five years' high altitude research section of experience tabbed the dises as the Naval Research Laboratory, "space ships" after at first consid- yesterday reported he and ering all reports as "crazy." three other men saw one "saucer" anged his mind, he said in Ala- He New Mexico Sune 29. He desert da eda, Calif., yesterday, after he| See SAUCERS, Page 3, Column/e REOORDED 01.53 122-83894 - A F 49 JUL 15 1947 JUL 8 1947 WASHHINGTON POST Page_.

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SAUCERS From Paye 1 Flying Discs Interest AAF it as a bright, silvery disc, travel- ing at 10,000 feet. "It was clearly visible--and then it wasn't there." The FBI here was noncommittal. In Milwaukee, Wis., the FBI said it was "not interested" in what appeared to be a circular saw, rigged with a few wires, which the Rev. Joseph Brasku said crashed into his yard at Grafton, Wis. He admitted it probably was a joke, but was holding the disc for FBI's attention. Atomie experts in session at Lake Success, did not dis- cuss officially the N. dying saucer Flying Saucers Traced To Wife's Pitching Arm Pittsburgh, July 7 (P).-Many persons have seen the mysterious saucers," Connie Dunbar, 35, knows the source o The ones he saw. Dunbar, who said he was Struck by saucers thrown by his wife, Mrs. Bessie Dunbar, was granted a divorce today by Judge Harry H. Roward. reports, but made no secret of their interest. They were reported as "baffled." Not so was a 34-year-old watch- maker in Chattanooga, Tenn., who said he invented the flying saucer in 1943 but "got tired of the run- around" when he tried to peddle it to the Government or an air- craft concern. His model was powered with a rubber band. A $1000 reward was posted in Northbrook, Ill., "for the capture of a flying discor the true ex- planation of the phenomena." The offer, made by E. J. Culligan, is made "solely through an interest in science." A theory that the saucers might be artificial satellites came from the British physicist Prof. A.M. Low. The artificial satellite, he ex- plained, might be created by un- known scientists and could serve many purposes, such as deflecting television or radar beams. Lester P. Barlow, a Stamtorg inventor, he believe the dises are jet-propell the say leing manuractured Martin Aircraft Co.,

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en e Report New Bed Planes Resemble Flying Saucers® Special to the N. 7. Journal-American LOS ANGELES, July 7.—Pederal agents today investi- gated a letter to The Examiner describing Russian supersonic atom-powered planes resembling the "Flying saucers." A top-flight atomic scientist to whom The Examiner referred said he met the Russian officer the letter said it was "not all in Wilmington and, because he nonsense," and suggested the matter be Furned over to the wanted to hear about Russia, in- vited him to be his guest at dinner. BRIL DESTROYS ALL LIFE. The letter writer said he got The Russian first asked where the information from an officer he could sell 18 Polar bear pelts aboard a Russian tanker re- which he received cently in Los Angeles "for very harbor. dangerous work" The Russian, he said, also He said he had been assigned described experiments with con- to go over the route of the radio- trolled radioactive cleads i, the active cloud near Lake Bakal (o Arctic, where birds, animals aniu Baykal) and pick up dead animals even worms were killed I INCHES THICK. "Thep loaded a few small ships min all kinds of animals and directed the cloud over them" The planes, as descried by the the writer said. Russian to the writer, are only l8 inches thick, with a kidney- "During this experiment, a vio- shaped outline and no propellors. lent storm blew the cloud far north into the tundra, but be- The pilot lies on his stomach and is artificially cooled against fore it dissipated it destroyed the heat developed by air friction. all life on its way. "The cloud may be controlled "The outer surface ih highly polished," the Russian said. from land, from a plane or from a robot-piloted "leader.' As I "Both upper and lower surfaces are convex, like a giant lens. understand it, the control is The lifting force is an entirely based on electro-magnetic waves different principle found about and the cloud has two compo- 10 years among unpub- nents: The carrier and the killer. ago lished papers chemist. of a Russian HAVE ATOMIC ENERGY. "I asked him if the Russians "Energy is required only for have an atomic bomb. He said climbing, but no energy is he doubted it, because the atomie needed for support when the bomb cannot be used without airplane goes along the earth's cilling innocent people, such a gravitational contour lines." children and women. But thei The writer of the strange letter have atomic energy which the use for propelling supersoni. airplanes." The writer said he asked the Russian officer to another dinner, but when he came the second time his father was leaving unexpect- edly and he could only say good- bye. Bureau Interest The nuclear physicist consulted by The Examiner said it was diffi- cult to appraise the value of the letter because of the writer's "technical ignorance." "The remark implying that the Russians wouldn't use the atom bomb if they had it is nonsense. The Russians would like very much whave the bomb," the physicist said. Haugh. 12-83872 BBO9ROUD 42 JUI. four nal apnezecan JUL Y

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DIVISION OF PRESS INTALLIGENCE GOVERIMENT INTORMATION SERVICE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET Tanne V BldBe SYM. Examiner Los Angeles, 184 Calit. DATE 3 1947 FBI CHECKINGI /RUSS DISG TIP Federal agents yesterday in- vestigated a letter to the Exam- iner describing Russian super- sonic atom-powered planes re- sembling the "flying saucers." A top-flight atomic scientist to whom the examiner referred the letter said it was "not all nonsense," and suggested the matter be turn тес over to the FBI. The letter writer said he got the information from an officer aboard a Russian tanker recently in Los Angeles Harbor DEATH CLOUDS- The Ru: he said, also de scribed experiments with con trolled radioactive clonds ind The planes Russian to that describeate are only 18 inches thick, with a kidney- shaped outline and no propellers. The pilot lies on his stomach, the Russian said, and is artifi- cially cooled against the heat de- veloped by air friction "The outer surface of the plane is highly polished," the writer said the Russian told "Both upper and lower him. surfaces are convex, like a giant lens. The lifting force is an entirely different principle found about 10 years ago among unpublished papers of a Mussian chen st and developed ecently at one of Russia's re- search laboratories. "Energy is required only f climbing, but no energy is need. ed for suppo hen the ai plane goes the earthi gravitational our lines??" 60 AUG 6 - 1947 ESports of the flying tro bed off sharply in Leonard Posella. 14, of the Los 2267 es area yesterday and po- Waverly drive, ed a tlignt of 20 near Grif Park going aid they had received no cal. about them in the city or west at 500 feet said they county since Saturday. were round and ilvery The writer of the strange let- "with ter said he met the Russian offi- their noses pointing upward," and watched them for three cer in Wilmington and, because - he wanted to hear about Russia, invited him to dinner. The Russian first asked where he could sell 18 polar bear pelts which he received "for very dan- gerous work." He said he had been assigned to go over the route of the run- away radioactive cloud near Lake Baikal and pick up dead animals. ANIMALS KILLED- "They loaded a few small ships with all kinds of animals and directed the cloud them," the writer said. Mr. Tolson Mr. E. A. Tamm_ Mr. Clegg Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Egan Mr. Gurnea Mr. Harbo Mr. Hendon Mr. Jones Mr. Leonard Mr. Pennington_ Mr. Quinn Tamm_ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy. far north into the tundra, but before it dissipated it de- stroyed all life on its way. "The cloud may be controlled rom land, from a plane or from a robot-piloted leader.' 1 and stand t, the control based on electro-magnetic waves and the cloud has two components: The carrier and the killer. "I asked him if the Russians have an atomic bomb. He said doubted it, because atomic bomb cannot be used without killing innocent people, such as children and women. But they have atomic energy, which they use for propelling supersonic airplanes." The writer said he asked the Russian officer to another dinner, but when he came the second time his tanker was leaving unex. pectedly and he could only say good-by. The nuclear physicist consulted by the Examiner said it was dif. ficult to appraise the value of the letter because of the writer's §technical ignorance." "The remark implyng that the Russians wouldn't use the Jatom bomb if they h and it is nansense. The Russia Hawould 162-8387H-A RECORDED 48 AUG 4 , 1941 bomb." On the other hand, he decried the efforts of some groups who take advantage of "all this flying dise talk" to stir up suspicion of Russia's intentions. The Examiner had two more avenue said he was in West te Park at 12:02 p. m saw one flying westwar 2200 to 3000 feet. He said it was silent, round and shiny and was not an airplane.

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Planes to Chase Flying Saucers 'Something to This, 7 AAF Feels With aircraft, including a jet plane, pseudo-scientific explanations of the alerted along the West Coast in mystery. hopes of chasing and explaining David Atamian, 5610 Shoemaker the mystery of the "fying saucers," lane, Bethesda, Md., said he saw an Army Air Forces spokesman here three or four "flying saucers" trav- disclosed today "there's that the AAF be- lieves something to eling north at great speed at 11:45 this" p.m. Friday. Mr. Atamian, who de- but is completely mystified as to scribed himself as a writer of poetry, just what. said he was sure he wasn't mis- Capt. Tom Brown of AAF public taken. The discs, he said, were fly- relations said the tales of flat, round objects zipping through ing at between 1,000 and 2,000 feet the and appeared to be of a bright, sky are too widespread to be ground- bluish hue. less. He pointed out that a number Government sources denied that of competent airmen have reported seeing the phenomena that have any tests are being conducted that might be the answer to the mystery. been the talk of the Nation since A Navy official said the Navy had June 25. For 10 days, he declared, the AAF checked all its facilities to deter- has been checking on the stories mine whether any were sending aloft objects that could account for "and we still haven't the slightest the strange sights. The answers Meanwhile, from Washington and Weinvid Lilienthal, chairman of the the rest reports ( "flying saucers" as well as a number of scientific and (Sge FLYING SAUCERS, Pg. A-3.) "saucers" had nothing, to do with atomic experiments. A Los Angeles newarener story quoting an unidentified California Institute of Technology scientist as saying the "flying saucers" must have something to do with experi- ments in "transmutation of atomic energy" caused a brief flurry by the institute quickly denied the report Dr. Harold Urey, atomic scientist at the University of Chicago, called it "gibberish" and said elements could be "transmuted" but energy could not. P-80 fighter at the Muroc, Calif., Army Airfield in California and six fast conventional fighters at Port- land, Oreg., stood ready to take off on an instant's notice should any "flying saucers" be sighted in those areas. Some of the planes carried photographic equipment. Air-Ground Search Slated. An air-ground search was sched- uled to get under way today to in- vestigate a report that eight flying discs had landed on a mountain- side near St. Maries, Idaho, in ful view of 10 persons. Mis. Walter Johnson, Dishman, Wash., said the "saucers" camg down in timber near St. Maries Thursday evening, but were not reported un- til she returned to her home in Dishman vesterday. She said they came into view at extreme speed, traveling north. Suddenly, she said, they slowed and "fluttered like leaves to the ground." "The mysterious part was that we couldn't see them after they landed," Mrs. Johnson said. "We could see them fiutter down into the timber yet we couldn't see that they did anything to the trees." She described them as "about the size of a five-room house" and shaped more like washtubs than discs. Planes to Comb Area. Col. G. R. Dodson of the Oregon Air Guard announced a patrol would leave Portland Ore., today to in- vestigate the report and Sherifi 517J011 162-83894-1 NOT ORDID 100 JUL 11 1947 Clipoed FrOm WASHINGTN EVENING STAR FOr J/ 1/4 716 Buth 1/1/47

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More About Saucers Priest Finds 'Whirring' Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI Chicago, July 6 (U.P).—A Catho- FBI office said he hadn't heard lie priest at Grafton, Wis., said yet about the disc but that an offi- cial report might be at his office. tonight that a round, metal disc, The flying dises have been re- which might be one of the myster- ious "fving saucers." had crashed ported "seen" by persons in 30 into his parish yard and that he States, but Brasky's dise was the first one that actually lad been is holding it for the Federal found if that is what was found. Bureau of Investigation. 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 speed dash in an at- miles north of Milwaukee, said he tempt to track down ong of the heard swishing and whirring discs and the Army and scientists noise this morning. A second later, sought to ascertain whether coast- he said, he heard a thud and a to-coast reports about the discs mild explosion. zooming through the sky were fact Не investigated and found aor fancy. sheet metal dise about 18 inches in Army planes scoured the north- diameter, resembling a circular west Pacific skies for them without saw blade. success today and one "eyewitness" "The object still was warm, even reported having seen one of weighed about four or five pounds the dises take of in Arizona. and was about one eighth of an St. Louis railroad man exhibited inch thick," he said. There was a hole about one some paper "dises" he said he had seen floating over St. Louis. inch in diameter in the middle of the disc, he said, and in the open- The flying saucers which have ing were "gadgets and some been reported skimming through wires." America's skies at speeds up to The priest said he did not know his discovery or whether it might be an elab- ly keen eye of radar. Capt. Tom Brown of the Arm rate practical joke. He said he Air Forces public relations sta had notified the FBI of his find. H. K. Johnson of the Milwaukee See SAUCERS, Page 3, Col. 2 Nichols Air. Rosen Mr. Tracy Nr. Egan.- Mr. Gurnet Mr. Barbo Mr. Mohr Mr. Pennington Mr. Quinn Tamm… Mr. Nease. Miss Gandy.. Строн Fluther 44 JUL 18 1947 THE WASHINGTON POST PACE / 1 3 DATE 2-7-47 166

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things seet nearby and large ones at great distances. "The one outstanding fact about virtually all the saucers is tha they had no structure - thes seemed merely round and flat. SAUCERS, From Page 1 noted, aircraft designer, told The That description fits exactly with Post by telephone from New Tork the tricks that eyes play. This Priest Finds 'Whirring' Disc that until he sees a flying saucer trickiness varies with differences he "wouldn't like to pass judg- in weather and lighting." In Yard and Holds It for FBI ment." However, Nova Hart, St. Louis mechanic who was trained during He agreed with Dr. Overholser service in the war to spot all types said the Army Airways Communi- "The best way I can describe it," that much if not all of the story of aircraft, yesterday offered a cations Service had reported late said Kennedy, "was that it looked may be because of hysteria. minute description of one of the yesterday that so far its radar like an orange lamp bulb without "After all," he said, "we are flying patterns which he claimed he throughout the country the socket. It was going faster than more or less an hysterical Nation." saw flying at an altitude of about have been unable to pick up any any jet plane I've ever seen." 300 feet. strange objects in flight. In Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Mad- Major de Seversky said it was pos- Reporter Sees One And in the Pacific Northwest— elyn Ganoe, 30, said she had seen sible that the persons who claim He described it as circular with where most of the fly-happy plat- five of the discs, racing in 2-1-2 to have seen the aerial discs have a ribbed framework and silver ters have been reported-the Army formation at "terrific speed," from instead glimpsed the exhaust of gray in color. He said it appeared has radar equipment which can her backporch. "They sounded like jet-propelled planes. to have a motor with a propeller pierce fog and darkness and pick a faraway train," she said. He conceded, too. that they attached in the center and that it up objects in the sky 200 miles In the wake of these new eye- might bé guided missiles let loose kept turning like an airplane do. away. witness accounts came a new series as part of an experiment, but ing a slow roll. Even so, Brown acknowledged of comments, and explanations, but added: Although many explanations that the Air Forces had decided "there's something to this" most of them were tinged with a "I don't think the Government have been offered, none has been and slight tendency to laugh off the would fire them so promiscuously, convincing. A Los Angeles news- had been chegking it for 10 days. whole thing. They would test them in one spot, paper quoted an unnamed nuclear "And we still haven't the slight- Dr. Winfred Overholser, nation- in an isolated area, like they did physicist as saying the silvery dises est idea what they could be," he ally known psychiatrist and super- the atomic bomb." resulted from experiments in the added. intendent of St. Elizabeths Hos- Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who "transmutation of atomic energy." And a new wrinkle-the report- pital here, said it "has some of the as Deputy Chief of Air Staft for This report was rapidly herdea ed landing of a fleet of eight skim- earmarks of being national hys- Research and Development would into the hoax column by Davi. ming platters-was reported from teria." Idaho in full view of 10 persons. A "Everytime someone know if the saucers involved ex- Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic comes up Dishman, Idaho housewife, said with a sea-serpent story." said Dr. periments with guided missiles, Energy Commission, and several she and others in her party had Overholser, "others commented: prominent atomic scientists. with vivid seen the saucers land on a moun- imaginations are sure they have "Whatever these people have Starr Expects Word tainside near St. Maries, Idaho. seen the same thing. seen it hasn't been anything re- Louis E. Starr, national com- She said they came into view at "The critical faculty in man, the sulting from experiments by the mander of the Veterans of Foreign an extreme speed, suddenly slowed, last one he received, is still' not Army Air Forces. As for as I'm Wars, announced Saturday at Co- and then "fluttered like leaves to very well developed. Scratch the concerned there's nothing to it lumbus, Ohio, that he was expect- the ground." surface and you find the same mass at all. The whole thing is un-ing "momentarily" information hysteria which predominated dur- fortunate." from Washington which would ex- "The mysterious part was that ing the witcheraft scare. we couldn't see them after they persons are quite ready Some General LeMay refused to dis- Plain the dashing dises. But the to see euss whether the Air Forces has message never arrived landed," she said. "We could see things and follow beliefs." The Air Forces said that Gen. them flutter down into the timber Dr. Overholser said that when speeds of 1200 miles. guided missiles which can attain Carl Spaatz, Air Forces chief, was yet we couldn't see that they did he made his rounds of the mental "There's been too much said in the Pacific Northwest where anything to the trees." patients yesterday at St. Eliza- about guided missiles now," She said she hoped to hike into he most of the saucers have been re- beths not a one commented on the said, ported, but added that his search trip the timber tomorrow and fying saucers story. Howard W. Blakeslee, Associ- there was planned two months for the objects which she said were "I think they may be a little ated Press science editor, said the ago, long before the saucers scare saucer-shaped but resembled wash- skeptical," he adaed. whole business may be an optical General Spaatz is expected back in tubs more than disks and were However, Dr. Overholser said he illusion. Washington late tomorrow. "about the size of a five-room wasn't trying to dismiss the matter "because there "At any distance which is close Muroc Army Air Field in Call house." as a joke fornia had a P-80 jet fighter stand are so to the limit of how far a person ing by, and the National Guard 1 Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 many strange things going on to- can see," he wrote, 4th st. ne. reported he had seen day that one can't be sure." appear round or nearly so. This fighters "all objects Oregon had prepared six regula one passing over the Northeast give chase should Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, law sight covers both section of the city at about 8:40 small saucers be reported nearby. p. m This would be the first one re- ported over the District, although others have been reported over nearby Maryland. Kennedy, who has 125 hours flying time as a student pilot in We Army Air Forces to his credit sald he believed the saucer he THE PAGE DATE WASHNNGTON POST had seen was traveling at "well over" 1000 miles an hour at an altitade of between 1200 and 1500 leet.

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Acme Telephoto Can This Be the Secret? Under discussion as a possible solution to the "saucer" ting at its landing aparated, this mone "Flying Flapjack," shown above. would seem to be a supper plate spinning through the sky. saw in the sky. She is the first ports of strange objects see in known observer to claim what she the sky and had reached the con saw was stationary. All the rest clusion that some sort of meteor- 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. been on the alert for flying Jack Labous, an artist, 3500 saucers as they swept the skies block East Capitol St., reported with their powerful telescopes, in seeing one of the "things" flying sisted they not only had not seen over Bethesda. He described it as any but knew of no astronomical flat disc with a cone shape theory that might account for the under it and a stick like a radio reports. antenna projecting from Kenneth Arnold, the privat bottom." the pilot who was first to announe seeing the saucers, expressed grati The scientist who claimed to fication at the support he know something about the Betting but insisted he still dicine "saucers" was described by a Los believe he had seen nine discs Angeles newspaper as a member whizzing by at 1,200 miles an the California Institute of hour, although he had seen them. Technology staff. Arnold started yesterday on & flying fishing trip over the Pa May Be Real, He Says cific northwest armed with a nev camera in the hope of getting He was quoted as saying "trans- mutation of atomic energy" pictures if he encountered ans ex- more saucers. He took along Col periments might be responsible. Paul W. Weiland, World War II He was said to have been a re- artillery officer, just in case he searcher on the Manhattan proj- sees some more and needs a ect that made the atom bomb, and witness. was quoted as saying: Arnold announced he has been "These so-called saucers are ca- getting tons of letters commenting pable of high speed but can be controlled from the ground. They on his report of the saucers. Many are 20 feet wide in the center and of them predict they are the fore runner of an atom bomb attack are partially rocket propelled on One correspondent blamed ther the take off. People are not seeing things. Such flying discs actually on survivors of the lost continent are in experimental existence." of Atlantis who are preparing fo Experiments with these "discs" an atomic war in 1960. were reported as being in progress Army, Navy and civil aeron: at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif.; White tics officials agreed none of the Sands, N. M.; Portland, Oreg., and had any reliable informatic 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." The "piece" found in Ohio was discovered near Circleville. It was a six-pointed star covered with tin- foil and attached to part of a bal- loon. It was reported to be a device used by the Army air forces in radar research to check on high wind speeds. There was no ment from the air forces. A War Department spokesmen revealed Army e working for a year on JUL 6 1947 WASHINGION TIMES-HERALD Page 1 & 8 Sec. I

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Antom Experiments or Bunk? Delusions or Factual, Those Flying Saucers • Havé Nation Eyeing Skies; 5 Seen in D. C. Area "And there shall be signs in the heavens. And were seeing them, including five in the Washing- wise men will mock them and the learnea revile, ton area. but unto the chosen the signs shall be revealed Scientists, for the most part dismissed the "saucers" as optical illusions, figments of the and they will have wisdom and knowledge."— Ancient prophecy. imagination or "someone having a little fun," but the reports continued to pour in. By JAMES COLLIGAN By now they have been seen in every part of the country, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico The words of the prophecy were being ful- and from the Pacific to the Atlantic. filled last night in Washington and throughout The reports grew in "authenticity" with theit The nation as thousands of official and scientific increase in volume. A farmer in Ohio came u observers and just ordinary people searched the with a piece of one, a "scientist in nuclear physics skies for flvine saucers-and plenty of watchers (Turn to Page 8, Col. 1) Mr. Tolson Mr. E. A. Tamm_ Mr. Clegg Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols_ Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Egan Mr. Gurnea Mr. Harbo Mr. Hendon Mr. Jones Mr. Pennington_ Mr. Quinn Tamm_ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy ying Saucers Intrigue Nation; Five Seen Here (Continued from First Page) threw out hints of mysterious atomic energy experiments, an- other observer claimed to have a picture to back up what he saw. Louis E. Starr, national com- mander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, announced he expected an "explanation from Washington" within a matter of hours. He hinted to newsmen at Columbus, Ohio, that the Government is holding out on the public about "saucers," commented: too little is being told the people of this country." Stationary at Alexandria A mother and daughter in Northeast Washington reported yesterday they saw three huge things hurtling through the sky last Thursday but were afraid to say anything for fear of what might be said about them. Even yesterday they asked that their names be withheld. The "things," according to these observers, looked like dishes and made a noise like jet propelled They were traveling Patesey disappeared an instant after they were observed. Mrs. Martin Kole. 3200 block Valley Dr., Alexandria, called her local police station to ask about the round. flat bright licht shel 134 I.N.P. Photo by U.S. Coast Guard Is It Saucer, Sorcery, or Just Plain Sausage? Reports of "flying saucers" were laughed off by authorities until many witnesses, includ ing reliable pilots and servicemen, said they had seen the plate-like objects whizzing over head. Above is the picture Yeoman Frank Ryman, 27, took in the Seattle twilight when h bserved what seemed to him to be a flying saucer 10,000 feet high traveling at 50 miles per hour. AHOORDIN 62-83894-4 6 1947 WASHINGTON TIMES HERALD 1 8 8 Sec. I

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Hundreds in 31 States Report Seeing Weird Flying Saucers' By the Associated Press ing radar signals to the moon, "one The Nation was baffled today by of the greatest technological "flying saucers" reported seen in 31 achievements of the war and ac- States by hundreds of persons, and complished in absolute secrecy." conjectures came from scores of David Lilienthal, chairman of the named and unnamed sources Atomic Energy Commission, told the Denver Post in a brief telephone in- throughout the country. terview that the flying saucers were Official Government sources in no way connected with experi- a "Let's see one" stand on the phe- nomenon, and no scientist offered ments in atomic energy, the trans- mutation of metals, or similar re- a detailed explanation. searcn. Two Chicago astronomers said the cos are probably "man-made." Col. F. J. Clark, commanding off- Engineering undulating, flashing bouldn't be meteors," Northwest said Girard Kieuper, director of the Uni- where the largest saucer influx has been reported, said the saucers were versity of Chicago's Yerkes servatory at Williams Bay, Wis. not coming from the atomic plant "We realize." said Dr. Oliver Lee, there. director of Northwestern Univer- Credence in the saucers-widely sity's Dearborn Observatory, "that laughed the Army and Navy are working on appearance June 25—grew as hi no June to grew resorte- all sorts of things we know nothing dreds of observers, many of them about." trained flyers, reported seeing them. Dr. Lee said the discs might repre- A crowd of 200 observed a disq at sent the same sort of thing as send- (See DISCS, Page A-9.) 51 JUL 31.1947 164 ison Mr. E. A. Tamm_ Mr. Clegg Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy of Charleston, S. C.-one of them a rouspaper reporter-said Mr. Carson Mr. Egan_ ing east at 7:20 p.m. Mr. Gurnea bout the same time two men Ibany, Oreg., a single Mr. Harbo wash southward, halt, and retrace Mr. Hendon its course before vanishing into a cloud. Mr. Jones An Army Air Forces spokesman in Washington on July 3 said there Mr. Pennington_ was not enough fact to "warrant Mr. Quinn Tamm_ further investigation," but the Air Mr. Nease Materiel Command at Wright Field Dayton, Ohio, said it was making a Miss Gandy study. Saturday at Washington an Army researcher admitted "we're mystified" and the Navy said it had no theories. First Reported June 25. The first published report of "fly- ing saucers" came from Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, businessman pilot, who reported at Pendleton, Oreg., on June 25 that he had seen nine of them flying at 1,200 miles an hour in formation, shifting position "like the tail of a kite," over Wash- ington State's Cascade Mountains. Before scoffers had more than be- gun to offer explanations such as "reflections." "persistent vision" and "snow blindness," an Oklahoma City private flyer, Byron Savage, said he had seen a similarly shaped object some weeks earlier but fear of ridi- cule kept him quiet. round or oval in shape, flat and fly- Then the reports began to filter ing with a peculiar undulating in, mostly from individuals. The tion. Size was moot and expressed Discs discs were seen in Mexico, in Texas, in New b. Capt. Smith of United Air Li Washington, Oregon, "hard to judge" without know. Idaho, Missouri, Colorado, Califor- (Continued From First Page.) nia, Arizona and Nebraska The to the distance from the observer the objects. Hauser Lake, Idaho, on the Fourth number varied from one to a dozen, of July. A group of 60 picnickers seen mostly by one or two people. 2 D. C. Area Residents Say saw them at Twin Falls, Idaho, And Seen by Group of 200. in Portland, Oreg., so many resi- Then the July 4 deluge hit. Two They Saw 'Flying Saucers' dents witnessed them on the Fourth hundred persons in one group and Two Washington area residents that the police department sent out 60 in another saw them in Idaho; today were on record as having ob- an all-cars, broadcast. hundreds saw them in Oregon, served the mysterious A United Air Lines pilot of 14 Washington and other States saucers" hereabouts. "Aying years experience walked up the ramp throughout the West. In Augusta, A Bethesda (Md.) man was re- to his plane at Boise, Joking that Me., the Civil Aeronautics Admin- ported to have seen three or four "I'll believe in these dises when I istration received a report that a of these objects at midnight Friday see them." Ten minutes later he dozen of the dises had been seen while in the vicinity of Friendship radioed, shaken, that he had spot- there. Heights, Md. They were described ted five of them from his plane. He And, for the first time. the East- as being rapid, bluish and bright was Capt. A. J. Smith. His co-pilot, ern States had their reports. Ob- traveling northward. Ralph Stevens, and his stewardess, servers came in with reports from Mrs. Martin Kole, 3202 Valley Miss Marty Monro, told the same Michigan, Louisiana, Pennsylvanta. drive. Alexandria housewife, said New Jersey, Indiana, sto fitnesses in two points of Cali- Sentuck early Friday she saw a large round Georgia, South Carolina and Cat objeet floating in the southwest fornia and in Spokane-one of them ada's Atlantic seaboard. She declared a light shining Army Air Forces sergeant-re- Near unanimity was recorded cr ted seeing the discs Saturday. some of the discs' characteristics-l inher face awakened her abolind She went to the window Two persons in different sections terrific speed, bright reflections, say something round and large w ecidish linge It seemed to l tanding stll After looking a •it a few minutes, Mrs. Kole said she returned to bed 62-83894-A RECORDED EX- 31" 41 JUL. 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O Flying Saucers' Reported Seen -By Scores of 'Eyewitnesses' By the Associated Press said they saw the discs yesterday The "fying saucer" reached fever pitch mystery afternoon. A party of seven firsi today, after "I saw some and 10 minutees later, ; saw them myself" statements from a crowd of 20 or 30 people saw an a veteran United Air Lines crew, other batch of nine or ten. Wort scores of Portland (Oreg.) residents, passed around, and soon the waitin! and 60 picknickers at Twin Falls crowd saw another batch circling Park in Idaho. and climbing. The UAL pilot, copilot and stew- At Seattle, Frank Ryman, Coast ardess, who had scoffed consistently Guard 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 flying disc. flying a passenger plane from Boise, The photograph showed a pinhead- Idaho, to Portland. size light spot against the dark Their statements followed a day evening sky. during which the "saucers" were The Oregonian dispatched a plane reported seen in many parts of the to hunt Portland's saucers. It found Nation. nothing but empty sky. Many Portlanders-including po- Strange Craft Over Philadelphia. lice, experienced flyers and three In Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leist newspapermen-declared they saw a junior interne at the Pennsylvani silvery discs over Portland. Hospital for Mental Diseases, and other persons in the western In New Orleans, Miss Lillian Law- tion of the city, reported sec- ess said she saw an object, shinine seeing ike silver or chromium, flying at : strange craft in the skies last night. It was something round with a great height and at a terrific speed luminous halo about it, Dr. Leisk in a northeasterly direction over declared. Lake Pontchartrain. dark It was not shiny, but in color and seemed to be "Pancake Standing on End." propelled by whirling Describing what they saw as flat, wings. Dr. Leisy said the object he saw was translucent plates 12 in to 15 inches moving at approximately the speed diameter, several Port Huron of the wind, below the (Mich.) residents reported seeing clouds. eventually vanished in the clouds, the "saucers." he added. Capt. E. J. Smith, Seattle, a vet- A dispatch Cana, from Summerside, eran of 14 years with United said Air farmers in the Prince Lines, said he observed the round Edward Island region claim to have seen more of the mysterious disc- flat objects-"like a pancake stand- like missiles reported flying through ing on end"-for about 12 minutes northern skies earlier this weei while flying trom Emmett Idaho, to James Harris, farmer a point southeast of Ontario, Ore. brooke, at 1 mile north He radioed the Ontario airport but of here, an his hired man, Herman Linklette airport officials saw nothing. said they saw one of the Sixty persons picknicking at Twin last night traveling from the north- Falls Park, near Twin Falls, Idaho, west toward the southeast. Mr; Tolson Mr. Clegg_ Mr. Glavip Mr. Nichola. 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 друн Heller 62-83894-A RECORDED EX-34 . 41 F B 1. JUL 988 1947 11' AUG 4 1947 JuL 5 1947 WASHINGION STAR Page A-7

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OF)ying Dises Saucers Here, Saucers There- Including Washington As rumors persisted (and were denied) that the "flying sau- cers" are radio controlled rocket or jet planes being tested se- cretly, Washington got in the act today with a report from two District women of strange goings-on overhead came up with widely varying theo- ries as to what-if anything-the heavenly wanderers may be. Dr. John G. Lynn, human be- said people have the atomic jitters. here said that so far as they can judge from description, the objects astronomical phenomena. opined that people "are seeing spots before their eyes." But unnamed scientists quoted by that a purely optical illusion would make people think they were see- ing flying disks. Science Service also pointed out that some of the saucers have been reported by liable observers accustomed to look- ling at the sky."* There Were Three- Shaped Like Dishes' Shaped Like Dishes MINNESOTA-AV NE, July 5.- looked up and saw these things go. Scientists from many Washington's ing thru the air. top-drawer institutions are expected to flock to this of them, shaped like dishes and go- ing fast as a jet plane." bright golden in color, but that may flying saucers the city lim- its of Washington have been from th sun being re- flected from some bright metal ob- "I couldn't estimate the size of night before last. standably reluctant to report it at "I know what you'll think," the younger one said in an exclusive them, too, and she fdoesn't drink. shopping on Minne- Thursday night," she said, "when I heard noise like a jet-propelled plane. tae things, bat the ked aday o an instant to tell mother to look at and also saw the "dishes." The witness' mother looked, en over the horizn and The two women asked fat their names be withheld from p blication, Test skeptical neighbors ore fun at them. Mr. Tolsga Mr. E. A. Tamm_ Mr. Clegg. Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd_ Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy. Mr. Carson Mr. Egan_ Mr. Gurnea Mr. Harbo Mr. Hendon Mr. Pennington_ Mr. Quinn Tamm_ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy RECORDED 62 - 83894-A 41 JUL 82 1947 164 JUL 5 1947 WASHINGTON NEWS Page

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Neither Airplane, Nor Cloud, Nor Balloon' overhead. It disappeared in three or Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, picture today from the front porch of his home hoped would clear up the mystery Portland, Ore., police scout cars three miles apart notified head- m. yesterday they had sighted a group strange objects weaving in a ful manner" 10,000 feet above the ground over the southern suburbs neither an airplane, a cloud nor a "silver balloon." The pilot and co-pilot of a Unit- ed Airlines plane said they turned their craft off its course near "strange object" for 15 miles be- outdistanced them or dis- integrated in the dusk. Capf. R. J. Smith and Second Officer R. both of Seattle, said "we can definitely say that of Portland. Clark County (Wash.) Deputy Sheriff Fred Krives, across the Columbia from Portland, he saw 20 flying discs "slewing off to one side, almost in single over the county court house. T. L. Huckaby of Pine Bluff, Ark., said he saw a flying object "about the size and color of a Bluff area. Decatur, Ill., Salt Lake City also reported in today. At Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leisy of the Pennsylvania Hospital A similar object was seen by John Mental Diseases, said he saw a big *Corlett, United Press staff corre- dark saucer-like object move slowly Spondent, his wife, and two friends across the sky just before sunset from Mr. Corlett's back yard in yesterday. He said it was surround- Boise. He said it was a white disc ed by a luminous halo and appeared ying about 10.000 feet directly to be propelled by whirling jets. JUL 5 1947 WASHINGTON NEWS PAGE 5