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[PAGE 1] Declassification authority derived from FBI Automatic Declassification SANNA ALAXT¢00dNU See also Nos Department of Justice Cc v68es 7900 9889 sse[5 Bureau if igation a 17 LSLPZZLILUE eee a oO Ps fe ys a a Field Office Criminal Investigative and Administrative Files Armed and Dangerous DO NOT DESTROY ELSUR Escape Risk Financial Privacy Act FOIPA NCIC OciIs Suicidal Other Guide issued May 24 2007 JOQUINN OUIN|OA [PAGE 2] Mr Tolson Mr Mohr Mr Parsons Mr Belmont Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Tre Mr W.C.Sullivan Tele Room Myr Ingrem i Miss Gandy Flying Sauder Photo Ain't What it Used to Be---Jog “RAND BLANC May Jue Perry the talented pizza ae pose an Pentagon peovle have sabotaged ‘or something aoe on No the’ “Washington ex perts haven’t fussed a Joss saucy pies but thaye certainly done 501 a ‘the to his flying seule Joe claims qt AIN'T Ww it aed be since’ they hands on it,” said ‘takes potshots at with a homemade cree et ‘tle camera im heed Eh Sat MI Md mee i i fe the FBI fie UNIDENT iD FLYING yee aa fehae te the air force He JOSEP ERRY GRAND gen mde a trie pio Seleridee MICHIGAN COMPLAINANT Foree Bas all Defile 65-2477-105 “at's ee the same,” he PA “The flying saucer has faded shins ‘has happened fehe Washingtor patie vetqrned the ied eae afew Not RECORDED 46 JUN 1960 eens a SES [PAGE 3] Central Research Section 0-19 Rev 1-28-59 Tolson Belmont DeLoach Sea McGuii Mohr i Parsons)— Rosen Tamm Trotter W.C Sullivan Tele Room Holloman Gandy Washington Post aah Times Herald Washington Daily News Evening Star eee ene ASL York Herald Tribune York Journal-American York Mirror York Daily News York Post a New York Times Worker NOT RECORDED MAR 1959 [PAGE 4] GROUP Aap AN aN NEP ED FLYING Wises Lu eTFRED LE For YORE AN HOU NEAR HERE LAST NIGHT AND APART AND DESAPPRRG ES WITNESSES SATD TODAY HE AER AL RESEARCH PHENOMENA ANI ZATICN FILTER ie OTAL Oe INE PERSONS HAD REPORTED SEEING PH of LTA a ES AIRPORTS oh NO oET S’oR TS AND THE U.S WEATHER WERE WEATHER TOR Lads LORER a ie he “s/o~-¢ 0203p “AUG 12 1998 [PAGE 5] 0-19 Rev 10-29-57 67 AUCT t950 fi i i Flyi ing Discs Show Sign’ Of Guidance Jung Says ALAMOGORDO Mex July 29 #).—Dr Carl Jung Swiss psychologist says in a report that Unidentified Flying Objects are real and “show signs of intelligent guidance by quasi-human pilots.” can only say for certain these things are not a mere rumor something has been seen,” Dr Jung said in the re- port released yesterday purely psychological explana- tion is ruled out.” Dr Jung who started his re- search on UFO’s in 1944 re- leased his report through the UFO filter Center of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organ- ization here It was released by Lorenzen of Holloman Air Force Base have gathered a mass of observations of unidentified fly- ing objects since 1944,” Dr dung said “The discs do not behave what such a fact might mean for humanity cannot be pre dicted i “But it would put/us without doubt in the extremely precari- ous position of primitive com- munities in conflict with the superior culture of the whites “That the construction of these machines proves a scien- tific technique immensely su- perior to ours cannot be ar- gued.” The Air Force has said fh vestigation of flying saugers reported over the past 10 ygars has produced no evidence that such things exist it has contended that not a shred of evidence has turned up to show the existence of a flying’ saucer or interplanetary space ship or that the objects Sighted indicate developments beyond the range of current scientific knowledge or pose a threat to the Nation's secur- in accordance with physicall|ity laws but as though without weight “tf the extra-terrestial origin of his phenomena should be med this would prove the exigtence of an intelligent in- ter planetary —_relati onshipy 117 AUG The “Air Force said last No- ‘vern that investigations ot 5,700 reported sightings showed the mysterious objects were balloons aircraft astronomical phenomena birds fir hoaxes Paced other Tolson Boardman Belmont Mohr Nease Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter Clayton Tele Room Holloman Gandy Wash Post and Times Herald Wash News Wash Star im” 27 a Herald Tribune Journal- American Mirror Daily News Times Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Date p-29- SY [PAGE 6] AT cme Trace Fou Schmidt 48 an ex-Nebras- and now a California in dealer was question Air Force investigato:s A the Continental Air De- fénse Command Oil fo ae the alleged landing spot lof the space ship was identi- ia i acta Schmidt fied as ordinary but will bel Kearngy Amused tested by the University of Tales of flying saucers and other such “SpaCe—Crat got le unofficial raspberry Wednesday night from an Air Force official A top official of the Air Technical Intelligence Cen- ter at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio told the Dayton Journal-Herald his in- yestigators have found no ‘evidence in the past 10 years that flying saucers are real He said 5,700 reported feptinss wete investigated Nebraska While the Schmidt tale was giving Kearney a gael conversation piece most of the talk was of a skeptical variety Newsmen Busy “Everybody downtown seems to think it’s a big joke,” ‘one business man said A Kearney clothier put up a sign advertising “space ship specials.” A window sign in a car agency announced “Space Ships Tuned Up.” The Kearney car-rental between 1947 and 1957 Not operator reported business a single landing impression,|was so good all of his cars footprint saucer or little were in use They were being green man was found Investigation Goes On In oKearme Neb het ehmi tory of afte qsit with ‘crew of a space ship near hel jcity Tuesday was still under investigation officials said rented by visiting newsmen ‘Presence of the newsmen ‘Wps nearly the only ae at ything unusual had h¢p- ipdned or may have wp pened OMAHA ioe ta OMAHA [PAGE 7] World-Herald’s News Service Kearney Neb.—A grain Wuyer 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 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 man of the same name served a term for embezzlement from Scotts Bluff County in the 1930's Scotts Bluffs Coun- ty Sheriff Steve Warrick spid he talked to Schmidt phone and was convinced “saw nothing.” —He turned down a chance to take a lie- detector test —Schmidt was kept up most of the night for questioning He finally asked for an attorney Ward Minor of Kearney was named —Wednesday forenoon he went to the scene of the space ship’s landing with investigators from the Con- tinental Air Defense Com- mand at Colorado Springs Colo Kearney Police Chief Thurston Nelson and Buf- oes County Attorney enneth Gotobed They said Schmidt's story “ap- peared to be weakening.” —Oil drippings on the ground from the space machine were being ana- lyzed at Kearney State College Investigators said the “mysterious green oil” closely resem pled that in a partially- emptied can of commer- cial auto oil found in the ck of Schmidt's and arly-empty can Foun ae ie site of the “land- pace-Ship Story Raises Eyebrous i Schmidt's story canie to ‘Orld-Herald’ News Service Photo Schmidt left and Kearney Police Chief Nelson In “heart-to-heart” talk SIDE VIEW OUTSIDE LENGTH APPROX 100 FEET BY i FLOOR PLAN INSIDE INSTRUMENTS FAN IN poor OQ1ZMECRiHZ— i SEALED COMPARTMENT CONVEYOR TO BACK OF SHIP SOLES UATE CO i The Schmidinik As described by the grain buyer light when white-faced and shaken he appeared in Kearney Tuesday and asked to see a minister Taken to police he told this story Tuesday he inspected a field of milo about two miles south and a mile east of Kearney When ready to leave he down a side road seeking a place to turn around Near the Platte River he saw what appeared to be a wrecked balloon As he neared i Schmidt said his car en gine conked out Schmidt said he got ou and walked toward the ma- chine Proximity revealed OMAHA WORLD-HERALD OMAHA NEBRASKA 11-6-57 WALL STREET EDITION a CED NOV 22 1957 [PAGE 8] it to be a translucent gar-shaped device about one hundred feet long fget wide and about 14 feet gh Schmidt said tha vphen he was 25 or 30 fee way two men got out and waved what looked like a flashlight couldn’t move 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 iS as they were going to be there for some time “you ight as well come in and’ ings for a few miny le the machine were ‘Spoke German’ The ship occupants talked dmong themselves in High German whic midt says he under ‘stands to a limited extent Oge man spoke excellent English and interpreted for the others Schmidt said the inter- ‘preter told him repeatedly he had nothing to fear The visitors reftised to answer any questions but said he would “find out all about it in a couple of weeks her When repairs were com- “pleted Schmidt said he was i Paes to leave but was told would be er start his car until the machine chad ore stab Outside ae machi ine Schmidt said [PAGE 9] 0-19 Rev 9-7-56 LGeust to Coast Rash of ‘Flying Sauce Reports Floods ing over the Several persons repo Atomic Energy Com last night ge ee rtedyseeing a “red ball” hover sigts Savannah River plant near Augusta Gay There was an unoffi- cial report that Air Foret personnel at nearby Aif en 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 who saw the object from the downtown newspaper build- ing “It could have been a tiny red light a short dis tance away or a gigantic vibe at a great distance,” he One witness 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- ether Elsewhere strange “sauc- rv’ sightings were reported NEBRASKA At Kearney Neb authori ties held a “heart-to-heart” WHITE SANDS Miitary authorities dppar- ently gave credence tola re- ort by an electronics en- gineer who said he sav an talk with Reinhold Schmidt 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 ople spoke in English and @ennen 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 object which made car en- gines stall near the White ands proving grounds Col John McCurdy Air Force public relations officer at White Sands said the en- ineer James Stokes 42 will given a thoro medical ex- amination and a radiation count test Col McCurdy Said he was “personally sat- istied” with Mr Stokes’ re port A Civil Service worker at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Tex said he Saw an egg-shaped object land in a ravine about 200 yards from him as he drove ing six unidentified saucer- Near the city He said his haped flying objects over fone Beach Air Force base The Coast Guard’ reported picking up an unidentified lying object on radar over he Cult of Mexico south of ew Orleans A Coast Guard ‘ommander said the object aused over the cutter Se vago In the Gul and was on car engine and lights went off and the object téok off in a few minutes enabling him to drive away At about the same time the Ground Observer Corps at Midland Tex said if saw a large red object and picked up ‘unintelligible conversa- tion on sound detector A radar scope for about 27 ee tn eo ae Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter Nease Tele Room Holloman Wash Post and Times Herald Wash News Wash Starivlas cen ce Herald Tribune NicYiioumnabas American Ne Mirror Daily News Times Daily Worker The Worker New Leader a Date m/e NOV 141957 04 [PAGE 10] DariRev 9-7-58 eS Pbk Sra i Belmont Tracked 27 Minutes on Radar oi ail hist Parsons U.S Cutter in Gulf of Mexico Reports ie ee Trotter Si ne ve ‘Obi Nease 1onting sterlous ect In Sky Tele Room te ro Holloman msrociated ye ress raveling at an estimated 1000)of light with no definite shape A brilliant mystery object miles per hour International resembling the planet Venus.” was reported sighted yester-|News Service reported How-|Shockley said there were no day in southern skies by alpver at one point the object/vapor trails or any other in- Coast Guard cutter even ppeared to remain stationary dications as to the object’s Force special investigat-/and hover above the waters be--method of propulsion One checked a flurz at-\fore it resumed its erratic estiinate of its height placed ier similar reports flight it at 2000 feet The Coast Guard cutter Se- Phe eutter’s captain Cmdr Glenn Northeutt Willis hago cruising in the Gulf of qo Waring said the object|Okla rancher and member of Mexico about 200 miles south first Saaponred ie as ship's|the University of Oklahoma» of Louisiana radioed that an dAieeHeeH Hee “004 strong Board of Regents reported object resembling brilliant “that on Saturday he and five planet with high rate of fp ip” at.5:10 and whps lost others had watched bril- speed” was seen for about if’ northerly direction ‘at 5:37 liant mysterious light that seconds at 5:21 a m,}a mm ‘looked like the planet Venus CST A In -this time the skipper Magnified many many times,” The Sebago’s message said said the abject which came as The object he said visible’ racked 00 the siose as two miles to fie ves-\mMore than half an hour ssel’s Tadar screen for 27 foi was actually seen py four Sightings of strange objects utes and that during that members of the crew Onie,ihave been reported from wide- jpeviod the object fiitted on fns Wayne Shocklpy de- ly Scattered sections of the ‘and off the screen severalloribod it as a “bright point!United States most of them imes Crewmen caught sight near secret military installa- it only for a few seconds tions if the Southwest Phe Sebago radioed Ne The Kir Force said the rad rleans Coast Guard ed- network of the Air Defens miarters that the object was See SIYSTERY Col Wash Post and Times Herald Wash News Wash Star Herald Tribune Journal- American Mirror Daily News Times Daily Worker The Worker New Leader ee ae Date [PAGE 11] Command was keeping watch,ported objects may be some —so-farwith no Reshlts aud ‘nine Hor Steen ancl ug Hig inves Assuming they are real,” that Species gee ncd nS said ‘HHEE DU a be secret tigators had been assigned toveapons made on earth or look into the reports jare interplanetary.” Any na- For several years the Air/tion with the secret he added Force has checked all reports would by now have abandoned of unidentified flying objects.|conventional aircraft or mis- Investigators work under the|Siles Air Defense Command at Col-|Cosmic Energy orado Springs Colo and res “It looks as though aN Pee Caneeaae interplanetary,” Keyhoe said i He said one source of pow- Judging from past findings er for such reportéd objects the chances are 50-1 the Air|coutd be cosmic ray energy Force will offer a humdrum Some of the citizens peace prance for the current officers and servicemen who sightings reported sighting mystery During the first half of thisljects in the Southwest sie year the Air Force said only|the weekend said the objects 1.9 per cent of the 250 report-|stalled auto engines and ed sightings of flying saucers|caused radios to fade and other fantastic aerial ob- James Stokes an engineer Jects have wound up in the/at the Air Force missile de- “unknown” category velopmenyy center at Alama- gordo reported 10 autos Pan or ee SEenaee jwere stalled Monday on a des- And the Air Force said firm-|ert highway between Alama- ly—though not all flying ‘sau-\cordo and the White Sands jeer bufis may agree—that it Proving Grounds doesn’t believe even the 1.9 He reported seeing a sound per cent residue is made upjless “brilliant colored egg- ie the things you read about/shaped object” which flitted in science fiction magazines erratically across the country- Balloons aircraft and such'side and left a sort of heat astronomical sights as meteor-|wave “like radiation from a fites and bright stars account giant sun lamp,” in its wake at least to the Air Force's Device Sought official satisfaction—for al- fifths of the si Leonard Hardlund chief en- ee ean epee pemiecr for the National aan ings i or of a priv tors Council in Washington eategien “cat up es ae jsaid a device that could stall tigate flying saucers and sucyiautos or other mechanical said he couldn’t evaluate at equipment aes Om of the this point the current rash of}things the ened Sites would reported sightings Hike to see ove oped But ietived Marine Maj But Hardlund said he knew no research in this countr Donald Keyhoe director of the National Investigation aimed at producing such a de- Committee on Aerial Phe teen-age girls reported nimana_added that the 2&lseeing a mysterious RNER in the sky over Annapolis Md last week tean Hunt 13 and Sylvia Fowler 15 said they saw an egg-shaped object which glowed like a neon light They spotted it while trick-or-treat ing with Jean’s two younger sisters on Halloween night in Primrose Acres a housing de velopment on the outskirts of Annapolis Jean said the girls became fvightened and ran home but no one would believe their story Rey aS newspa- per accounts told of myster Jonzest sisted in Texas,” Associated Press 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 the glow as “radiation vapor.” [PAGE 12] 0-19 Rev 9-7-56 Mystery Objects Called” Mirage by Astronomer By the Associated Press Harvard astronomer Says various parts of the country fuysterious objects reported and the Gulf of Mexico are murages stemming from natura causes Dr Donald Observatory whole thing The Air Force has started sightings of the strange glow- ing objects in the sky The Air Force for years has had the responsibility of checking reports of unidentified flying objects but as one officer put it “We don’t investigate all of them.” rash of such reports has developed since Sunday with some of the sightings said to have been made near secret military installations in the Southwest Some of the per- sons making the reports saiq te Objects caused their auto engines to stall and their Tadios to fade fs Cutter Claims Sighting Yesterday the Coast Guard Cutter Sebago radioed ftom the Gulf of Mexico that an object resembling a brilliant planet With a high rate of Speed was seen for about three Seconds and that it was tracked by Tadar Dr Menzel said it is probable the cutter’s rewmen got a false image “quite likely from bubbles of hot air in the at- Menzel said yesterday director of the in Cambridge amounts’ to “another flying Saucer scare.” jAir Force will Harvard College Mass that the a investigation of the reported mosphere which would ‘give a radar reflection.” As for reports of the auto engines Stalling he said “It would not be Surprising that a nervous foot could stall an en- gine.” Dr Menzel author of a book about flying Saucers said he has been studying them for about 10 years and has yet to hear of one which could not be explained’ py natural phe- nomena “They are caused by a layer of heated air acting as a lensand forming an image of objects as Much as 40 or 50 miles‘away,” he said Common in West “They are nothing more than a mirage They are prevalent just after nightfall as the heated air begins to cool off at the ground and they are com- mon in the West where they have clear air.” 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 saucers and oth Strange ob- jects in the air classed as “unknown.” An a Force wasn't ready to leve that even this small per- centage has sinister implica- tions It seemed good bet the agree with Dr Menzel’s opinion that the eur tent sightings have explana- tions in nature or that the Teported objects are actually aire rr similar man-made ings Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter Nease Tele Room Holloman NOT RECORDED 140 NOV 1957 ES ID a Wash Post and Times Herald Wash News Wash Star 2-70 Herald Tribune Ys Journal at American Mirror St Daily News Times peweraea sree Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Date [PAGE 13] 0-19 Rev 9-7-56 Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter Nease Tele Room Holloman Gandy ga cORDED NOT RECORD yapnov 997 amen Wash Post and 11=5=57 Pea Times Herald Page Kirby of Dallas made Wash News this photo of/a diamond Washi Stat 23 shaped object flying Herald through the sky while he Tribune ‘pand his family were driving Journal- ‘near Amarillo Tex in Ament August 1956 The photo reSn was turned over to the FBE Ne Ye Mittor and has just heen released Daily News after intensive sindy The Times Air Foree described the Daily Work glow as “radiation vapor Orker ial pai dalde The Worker eee a a New Leader a Date boa eee oO [PAGE 14] re ThA 14987 i A i se NOT RECORDED 140 NOY 57 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE Mr Tolson Machichors Lae Mir Boardmat Mr Parsons #738 Mr Rosen Mr Tamm Mr Trotter Mr Nease Tele Room Mr Holloman Miss Gandy [PAGE 15] 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 fic Pa we ot FF ME pRovE ans hee estan a RUSEO CA INVESTIGATE Tt ub awh Disa sats ie Cee Ape KS OR OTHER INDICATIONS a pa PRU aoa ase a MOTORIST WAS THE FIRST TO REPORT SIGHTING e1po ToL THE ai yy BG oF THUMDER>=AS IF SOMETHING LED ats ENCIN OCKED OUT HIS NEADLICHTS UNTIL AS all onts ani Re wor a a a cei 4173 o-VOSASP WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE [PAGE 16] 0-19 Rev 9-7-56 JNOTHING REMOTELY RELATED’ ysterious Object Amazes Saucer Skeptic A veteran airline pilot who once denounced fly- ing saucers as “bunk” has reported encountering a mysterious unidentified flying object near Mobile Ala Capt Hull of Capital Airlines deseribed the inci- dent in a report published by “Phe UFO Investigator,” qnagazine of the unofficial Na- tional Investigations Commit tee on Aerial Phenomena 1536 Connecticut-av nw Capt Hull wrote an article for a pilots’ magazine in 1953 titled “The Obituary of the Flying Saucer.” His experi- ence described in the “Investi- gator” took place Nov 14 4956 He did not suggest what he saw was a flying saucer Capt Hull said he was ay ing a Viscount at about 10,- 000 feet near Mobile at 10:10 when he and his co- lot spotted what we thought was a brilliant at He said the “meteor” was descending rapidly but in- stead of burning out with the usual flash “it abruptly halt- ed directly in front of us.” “Tt was an intense blue white light approximately seven or eight times as bright as Venus when this planet is at its brightest magnitude,” he wrote He said he thought the ob- ject might be a jet fighter turning away from the air- liner and giving the pilots a view of its glowing tailpipe But he said instead of grow- ing smaller the light re- mained in front of the Vis- count Capt Hull wrote that the “UFO unidentified flying object then began a series of violent maneuvers “‘sharp- er than any|known aircraft sometiries cHanging direction Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter Nease Tele Room Holloman Gandy 90 degrees in an instant.” It finally zoomed up at an ex- tremely sharp angle and shot out of sight he added He said his own plane was above the clouds “preclud ing any reflections of search lights from below.” ey There’s accent oy tocal sports in The News eports pages A Wash Post and fol Yl Ye hi NOT RECORDED 141 OCT £41957 Times Herald bb Wash News Wash Star Herald Tribune Journal- American Mirror Sa Daily News Times Daily Worker The Worker New Leader ee ee ty [PAGE 17] 0-19 Rev 9-7-56 rs Tolson Nichof 0-3 Boardman See “Belm Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter Nease Tele Room Holloman Gandy Doolittle Scoffs at Report Of Nazi Flying Saucer By the Asedciated Press of Hugh Dryden director of James “Doolittle says it wage navieory coma a rn Dryden said “there is “just ain't so” that Nazi Ger ‘truth in a statement that many developed a flying saucel\German engineers designed a and a bomber that could attack)flying saucer welch pained States and -return height of 40,000 feet and spee an Salil a of 1,250 miles an hour puaehoueare es “This is an advertisement for The veteran airman chaitman'a book which includes material ‘of the National Adyisory Com-|qiscovered by our groups who mittee for Aeronautics last'went into Germany after the month gave a House Appropria-|war,” he said wet 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 raents under Hitler These were|twice without refueling had writ- mtained in a book by Rudolf\ten a book of his own with ltusar former German War Min-jmention of any such inventiol try special weapons chief Gen Doolittle asked abo Gen Doolittle’s testimony was|both the saucer and the bombe published today along with that|said “it just ain’t so.” Wash Post and Times Herald Wash News Wash Star Arf Herald Tribune Journal- American Mirror Wee se Daily News Times OL Daily Worker es oO NOT RECORDE The Worker 238 MAK 20 195% New Leader eee ese oe A a Ln [PAGE 18] 0-19 11-22-55 AT ARTS i fy Boardman ‘Belmont thtee& Mason Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Nease Winterrowd Tele Room Holloman Gandy Ly ads Fahrney told a jens ae “no agi cl Wash Post and Times Herald Wash News WashsStari ae Herald Tribune Mirror Daily News Daily Worker The Worker New Leader i SS Eee eg 4957 191 JAN 23 957 Date JAN permerenenns fewatenierintn SAAR [PAGE 19] qd Mr Tolson Mr Nichols Mr Boardman Mr Belmont Mr Mason Mr Mohr Mr Parsons Mr Rosen Mr Tamm Mr Nease Mr Winterrowd Tele Room Mr Holloman Miss Gandy les Ludowy iehigan lag Worker he Daily Workei arodna Volya fomanul American itsburg Courier Michigan Chronicle tt ie Press ate 2220.6 eettion.S SAA Page te Column NOT RECORDED LGIAUG 1956 [PAGE 20] 0-19 41-22-55 boat evs ‘Con nfidential Files’ Gals Ve a 10-Cent ‘Saucer’ Inquiry By the Associated Press If you want information on flying saucers don’t address your reguest to “Confidential Files Washington Takes too long And besides lyou may be investigated by the FBI A woman out in Los Angeles name withheld by various Gov- ‘ernment agencies dashed off a note on January 15 It said “Confidential Files “Wash Dear Sirs—Please send me a bulletin of flying saucers or the jaddress where I can get infor- jmation about them I am inclos- ing 10 cents “Thanks.” Seemed like a Sinies direct approach—except for the ad- jdress ‘The post office casting ‘about for Some Federal agency imight have confidential files sent it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation The FBI never one lo pass out military secrets made dis- creet inquiries Then the FBI forwarded the letter to the Air Force advising that nothing derogatory or 4fn- dicative of subyersion could he found in the woman’s activities So the Air Force reached into its nonelassified files and plucked out the latest summary on the number of sightings of UFO un- identified flying objects to- gether with an explanation of why people think they see flying saucers—or what it is they see which the Air Force can or can’t explain The lady’s 10 cents was taped to the summary and both were mailed to her address in Los thatiAngeles Tolson aS Ni Boardman Belmont Mason Mohr Parsons Rosen Tanne Nease sare Winterrowd Tele Room Holloman Gandy BAUM anh rf oer Vf om Wash Post and Times Herald Wash News Wash Star er A Herald Tribune Mirror Daily News Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Date MAR 2.2 i896 [PAGE 21] a OF THE AIR FORCE Office of Public Information Washington 25 a Air Force Summary of Events and Information Concerning the Unidentified Flying Object Program The Air Force’ feels avery 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 éstablished in’ 1947 when unidentified flying objects were being reported in various parts of the United States The reports of sightings reached a peak of 1,700 in 1952 and dropped to a total of 429 in 1953 During the first nine months of 1954 only 254 sightings weré reported Md From a survey of the volume of sightings received by the Air Force it:has been determined that over 80 percent are explainablé as being known objects Generally sighted objects fall into the ¢ate- gory of balloons aircraft astronomical 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 Temperature inversion reflections can give a return on a radar scope that is as sharp’ as that received from an aircraft Speeds of these returns reportedly range from zero to fantastic rates The objects also appearto move in all directions Such sightings have resulted in many fruitless intercept efforts To possibly bear out the theory of temperature inversion reflection is an.ineid@ent which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge Tennessee Two Air Force aircraft attempted to intercept an unidenti- fied object and actually established a radar lock on the object Their altitude at the time was 7,000 feet The unidentified object according to their radar appeared to be at an elevation of 10 to 25 degrees from this altitude Three passes were made in an attempt to close on the object In each’ instance the pilots reported that theip radar led them first upward and then down toward a specifié point on the ground One seientifie theory holds that light can be similarly reflected froma layer of warm air above the earth If this proves to be correct many visual night sightings could be accounted for TIonized.clouds have caused Some unidentified radar returns Thunderstorms are identifiable by radar ‘and radar returns have ase” been received from ice formations in the air balloons Ground reflec- tions frequency interference between other radar stations ana winds born objects Obviously such returns are very difficult to ddewet an especially when they occur during darkness MORE [PAGE 22] a The radar @rcen has picked up birds im-‘one case a flock of ducks Flight interceptions proved these phenomena An explanation of known types of visual sightings are as follows Rey 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 tobe visible The exhaust of jet.aireraft.emits.a trail and often this is seen rather than the aircraft itself Weather balloons account for a substantial number of:’sight- ings These balloons sent to altitudes of 40,000 feet:and higher are launched from virtually every airfield in.the country They are made of rubber or polyethylene swell as they gain altitude have very good reflective qualities carry small lights when launched after dark and can be seen at very high altitudes 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 fe Frequently unusually bright meteors and planets will cause a flurry of reports,.sometimes from relatively experienced observers At certain times of thé year Venus for instance is low on the horizon and will appear to change color and move erratically due to hazy atmospheric conditions Since the stars are charted and most of their characteristics known many cases are traced to them Meteors on the other hand are of rapid single-direction movement and are only visible for a few seconds Meteor activity 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 Vai 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 believed that they are reflections from obs jects rather’ than being objects themselves For example’ ‘suppose we would hold a mirror in hand under a light causing a reflection on the ceiling Only a slight quick movement of the hand would result in erratic movements and phenomenal speeds of the reflected beam Reflections may be projected to clouds and haze bath from the ground and air Many things which are common to -the sky have highly reflective qualities such as balloons aircraft and clouds Accu- rate speeds are also difficult to determine due to the inability of the reporter to judge distance angles and time 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 ana 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 a MORE [PAGE 23] In the analysis aT vestigation of the radar_and visual sightings described re are some yardsticks whi have been established from experT€nce and trends to measure ad attempt to determine the source of UFO's Some of these are general in nature Pana 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-conelusive 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 cia More attention is given to moving pictures of unidentified fly- ing objects since they are more difficult to retouch However only a very few movie-type films have been received by the Air Force and they reveal only pinpoints of light moving across the sky.’ The Air Force has been unable to identify the source of these lights because the images are too small to analyze properly Since ownership of these films remains with the persons taking them the Air Force is now in a position to give them out The difficulty of evaluating reports of all'types is based largely upon the lack of basic data surrounding the sightings The drop in sightings during 1953 is largely due to the increased accuracy and the completeness of reports being received To be of value a report should include such basic data as size shape composition speed altitude direction and the maneuver pattern of the objects Without such information it is almost impossible to establish the identity of the object sighted In addition a recent study has shown a direct correlation between the number of Sightings reported and the publicity given to saucers by the nation's press The Air Force took a further step in early 1953 by procuring Videon cameras for the purpose of photographing this phenomena These cameras were distributed to various military installations This type camera has two lenses one of which takes an ordinary photograph and the other has a diffraction grating which separates light into its component parts This aids in determining the composition of the ob- Ject photographed A small number of photographs have been received from this camera however only light spots of no detail have been indicated in the photos to date As more photographs are taken by these observers it is believed that a great deal of the mystery will be lifted from the program The Air Force would like to state that no evidence has been received which would tend to indicate that the United States is being observed by machines from outer space or a foreign government No object or particle of an unknown substance has been received and MORE [PAGE 24] no photographs of detail have been produced The photographs on hand are at best only large and small blobs of light which in mast cases are explainable ae It may be concluded from the above and from past experience that no new significant trends have developed out of these cases There was an increase in public interest which occurred simultaneously with the publication of various books and articles on the subject however this trend has been noted several times previously In_order to overcome the lack of basic data and to standardize all reports a detailed questionnaire is now submitted to each person reporting’an unidentified aerial abject It As felt-that the infor- mation thus obtained will lower still-more the number of unexplained sightings i ci ry 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 Bases If and when new developments turn up in this program the Air Force will keep the public informed [PAGE 25] PLEASE SEND TO YOUR 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 [PAGE 26] TESS RRR CES ALN EW ve Sau “FLYIN AUCERS ope By FORSAITH REES FAERE is the “real truth” about Flying Sasfcers as told by Georg/Klein former secret weapons ex- pert in the German’ War Production Ministry and now an engineer in Switzerland “Flying Saucers,” he says are top secret weapons of the SA and Russia “They are a continuation of erman wartime experi- nents “Prototype Flying Saucers were built in Germany during the war I saw one reach a height of 40,000 feet in three minutes near in 1945.” Klein says the Russians Prague i ‘aid there are two types GEORG KLEIN ON TET iS os Flying Saucer built to-day— one with a diameter of 48ft powered by five jets and a larger model with a diameter of 126ft and 12 jets This he says accounts for the rumour that Saucers often appear to change size sud- denly Raised wing flaps lift both airoraft like’a helicopter The big one can keep stationary by turning jets down to ot balance gravity Flying Saucers Canada by Joh’ colleague of Si velop rost former ‘ani Whittle Jabytn have “reached speeds upf to 1,500 mph an@ have been fin- spared By Fi ae hal captured a scale model and top reslau The it returned technicians at technicians have Saucer development See and how works in fhe ein iy Zurich interview [PAGE 27] Mr Tolson——_===s Mr Boardmat Mr Nichols Mr Belmont__— Mr Harbo_—_—— Mr Mohr._——— Mr Parsons__— Mr Resen Mr Tamm—— Mr Sizco_____— Mr Winterrowd Tele Room Mr Holloman—— Miss Gandy.—— esse asciatcnseemeenra ned sie [PAGE 28] ag 0.20 Mf Tolson Has fi “Mr Boasdman Mr Age ‘Mr Belmont Mr Harbo Mr Mobr Mr Parsons Mr Rosen Mr Tamm Mr Sizoo lr Winterrowd Tele Room Mr Holloman Miss Gandy wit FLIGHT REPOR AN UNIDENS FIED FLY Sr oe na a im OF PORT WASH vee SAID Flt coh nH Rew bot LOON it Ae FEET roe oren rt rey Fait ee re WAROLD mo el te hE HP PERE RE ARE APT A APLAR Poa NOT RECORDED 141 JUN 17 1954 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE [PAGE 29] Mr Tolson a Me Mr Boardman Mr Belmont of Mr Harbo Mr Mohr Mr Parsons Mr Rosen Mr Tamm Mr Sizoo Mr Winterrowd Tele Room Mr Holloman Miss Gandy “he Nie MOBILE ALA,=-BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE REPORTED THAT AN a BY RADAR OVER MOBILE AND THE ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST LAST NIGHT MAJ JAMES ZICHERALI PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER AT BROOKLEY SAID He OBVECT TAPPEARED TO BE A JET=TYPE AIRCRAFT OF NEW DESIGN WITH SHORT FIVE OTHER RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI ALSO REPORTED SIGHTING THE OBJECT ay ZICHERALI SAID THE OBJECT APPEARED ON THE BASE CONTROL TOWER RADAR SSREEN AT 6250 Me CST HE SAID RADAR OPERATORS REPORTED IT MADE NON CUNT ay LEFE NO TRAIL BUT GAVE EVIDENCE OF DEFINITELY BEING sunt pent Erp FLYING coertad BRILLIANT AND SILVER COLORED® WAS TRACKED me SKNLP ode al wor RECORDED 76 JUL 14 1954 emee WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE [PAGE 30] Tolson eedd=——— Nichols Belmont Clegg— Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Mohr Trotter Winterrowd Tele Room Holloman Miss Gandy eG Times-Herald Wash Post Wash News ae Wash Star N.Y Herald Tribune N.Y Mirror fe NOT RECORDED 160 JAN 15 1954 Due gash ey GES [PAGE 31] THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE’ Are They Hiding Those Lights Under a Bushell By EVERT CLARK Mysterious red lights which have flown over the Quantico Maxine Base 22 times in the past six nights were officially explained away today as a new type of aircraft navigation light But most of the Marines who saw them still don’t believe that’s what they were In addition The News ran into what seems to be a delib- erate attempt to cover up cer- tain facets of the longest con- tinuous “flying saucer” run in history The first man to see the light was Pfc Norman Viets 18 of Greenville Pa Since’then at least 30 other Marines including half a dozen officers have seen it too On one occasion sentries report- ed seeing three lights at once ‘They say they have seen the lights drop straight down fly straight up and stand still Even the most careful—and skeptical—observer the base prov- ost marshal Maj Pomerleau admitted the lights had character- istics he never expected to find on an airliner FIRST SIGHTING Pfc Viets was standing sentry duty at the Tank Park a few miles north of Camp Barrett on the south- western side of the Quantico reser- vation at 9:05 Dec 30 when he “reported a moving blinking red light near his post which he could not explain.” The sergeant of the guard Sergt Francis 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 “Jt was about a foot and a half in diameter,” he said “only going about 10 or 15 miles an hour Then it fol- jowed the tree line about 50 yards to the right and went down “Tt went straight down all of a sudden Fifteen Bee jeter it went straight up and move over oe here toward the tank shed Ge EGY saw it two times after that Tt fst WAR did the same thing it was the NOT RECORDE weirdest looking thing i ever saw 148 There was no engine ‘noise and no JAN 12 1994 ghape—just the ght conan [PAGE 32] NO SALE By the time The News talked to Pic Viets at Quantico yesterday the airplane navigation light theory already had been offered The News asked Pfc Viets about it and he Said “That was no airplane I fitst thought it might be a weather balloon but it wasn’t Either way you could have seen the shape.” Pfc Viets and.Sergt Salinder saw the light again at 10:15 the same night Five minutes later they called in the roving guard from a nearby guard tower but the light was gone CONFLICT First reports had it that troops were’ sent into the area to look for the lights Yesterday Maj A Ferguson the base information of- ficer said that report was errone- ous “We did at no time dispatch troops to fight off the invaders or capture then or welcome them aboard or anything else,” he said However this is what the official record says 18-man detail arrived at 11:15 Dec 30 from Camp Barrett and made a search of the area in which the light was first seen The search proved fruit- less.” Fifty minutes later Pfc Viets’ re- lief “reported seeing the same red light.” Sergt Salinder saw nothing HOVERS ‘The next night the light was seen again at 6:25 by a tank park sentry and the guard tower At 7:10 it appeared again This time the sergeant of the guard “came out and checked the area ey Pfc Bennett top front grabbed a butcher knife and said “It’s land- Maj Pomerleau middle photo is skeptical Pfe Viets bottom photo saw enough to convince ing in the tank shed!” but still curious him “that was no airplane,” with troops,” the official report says Thirty minutes later the sergeant of the guard saw it again and at 8:23 three lights were seen This was New Year's Eve At 9:01 it was seen again and at 4:20 New Year’s morning it moved northeast then south then north and remained “over the tank shed at an elevation of about 3500 feet.” That was the time Pfc Viets said “when they saw it come up there and lay under the moon until morning.” Pfe Viets’ relief of the night be- fore got so excited he “grabbed a butcher knife and headed for the tank shed to help out his troops,” his barracks mates said The light came back three times Friday night once Saturday night five times Sunday night and twice Jast night Maj Pomerleau said the best pos- —News Staff Photos by Gene Thomas sible way to describe the light’s size shape and intensity was to compare it to “the way a blinking red traffic light appears to a motor- ist as he pulls up to an intersec- tion.” He heard no noise and saw no shape He said the light was “sharp- ly delineated.” “But I have friends and a pro- fessional reputation,” he said “and as far as I’m concerned just say it’s an aircraft navigation light.” Several airlines that fly in and out of Washington say they began in- Stalling new lights atop the tails of planes six months ago They blink on and off are red and can be seen much farther away than older types “Nobody in the barracks knows,” Pfe Viets said “They’re just talking i flying saucers that’s all They’re talking about men from Mars and everything else you could name,” [PAGE 33] Se Trotter pe Winterrowd Tele Room Holloman Miss Gandy Myforyts Dissolved saab Marines Decide ‘Objects’ Are New Airliner Lights Authorities at the Quantico Marine Base last night took a long searching look at those strange flying objects with flash- ing lights seen near the base for the past five nights—and de- cided they were commercial air- liners Quick as a flash airlines op- erating out of Washington con- firmed the Marine Corps’ guess An American Airlines spokes- man said flashing red lights vis- ible for 10 to 15 miles have been installed recently atop the ver- tical stabilizer or tail of its planes Other airlines also have put in such lights he said group of Marine officers last night made a field trip to the “Guadacanal” area of the base west of They re- ported “This flashing red light when seen for the first time by the unaided eye creates an un- usual impression and an illu- sion of nearness.” oded the matter as far as the Marine Corps is con- eerned a spokesman said Until last night however the lights were reported to have done about everything Nine- teen Marines reported sighting a mysterious reddish “blinking or revolving” light over the base the nights of December 30 and January and Rumors that platoons of infantry had been sent to the “landing site” of the objects and a report that a helicopter flew to intercept the lights were discounted by the Marine Corps earlier yesterday The base proyo marshal Maj Pomerleau who saw the lights’ twice guessed that they came from an airliner but added that he couldn’t sure But last night the Marine Corps had this final word “Officials here are convinced that the unusual phenomenon was a new navigational light of greater intensity used on air- liners flying near the a tion.” pat fF NOT RECORDED “JAN 1954 Times-Herald Wash Post Wash News Wash Star N.Y Herald Tribune N.Y Mirror [PAGE 34] Marines Investigating Mystery ‘Flying Object’ Lands’ Near Quantico Say Sentries ee of those mysterious flying objects reportedly landed near Quantico on New Year's Eve but took off again before the Ma- rines could get the situation in hand A spokesman yesterday con- firmed that a flying object had ‘been reported near the base Two sentries on duty at Camp arrett a Marine installation bout 15 miles from Quantico eported seeing an object in the sky and described it as a flying saucer,” according to the They notified the Officer of the Day that it had landed and the helicopter took off from Quantico By the time it arrived the mystery ship had risen and was out of sight The news spread swifty among Quantico personnel One report had it that two platoons were deployed to capture the thing but this was denied by the official spokesman Statements were taken from the two sentries and the spokes- man said the investigation was now in the hands of BEE authorities.” The two sentries were re- ported off the base on pass last night and the Marine spokes- man was not able to supply their description of the objects or thely report of its actions ane spokesman reported the had been summoned to appeal before high officers of the Ma’ rine Base this morning for addi tional statements 0-19 Toles a Ladd Nich Belmi eter Cleese Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Gearty Noh Winterrowd Tele Room Holloman Sizoo Miss Gandy AZ NOT REeAr -DED 191 Jan 20 1954 ee Times-Herald Wash Post Wash News Wash Star N.Y Herald Tribune N.Y Mirror [PAGE 35] Tolson Lexa fee Nichols Belmont Clegg Glavin Harbo Rosen lacy Gearty Mohr Winterrowd Tele Room Holloman Sizoo Miss Gandy tea Pi ess A ‘STOCKHOLM Siveden pee 4—The Swedish evan Air ‘Force Me full investigation today an airliner crew’s report of ‘seeing fhe saucer- -shaped object over Sweden near secret Soviet bases igt Norderskjold air force commander-in-chief called in omplet ports from all Swedish radar’ tations after joining the ense staff in promising a ‘detailed inquiry ‘apt Ulf Christiernsson pilot of the passenger liner told the defense staff et and his crew saw the dise-shaped metallic object shortly after i esterday ot the southern Swedish town of Haessleholm about” HE BRAY was entirely an ‘unorthodox metaltion symmetrical and ‘circular Capt hristiernsson ‘said I Was not at all scared bui ‘curious curious.” ie is 35 Christiernsson ead the object ae the ground es i chnjeticnnss said the “object headed douthwand ove ak ud I layer which would ‘obscure it from ground obser hed it rae about six seconds before it disappeared sp tic marae near the form Times-Herald baited Hg Wash Post will Wash News vA Wash Star a N.Y Herald Tribune N.Y Mirror N.Y Compass Date Aee- 19753 [PAGE 36] SHOPERS HELD SPACE SHIPS BY EXMARINE Hits AF Stand On Flying Disks This is the last of three arti- cles on the controversial subject of “flying saucers” and their investigation by the Air Force BY RICHARD REILLY SA 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 of weapon perfected either by this country or some other nation The Air Force however dep- yecates 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- eret 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 adgition 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- eere when they report sighting unidentified objects ‘The Air Force was tossed a hot potato recently by Maj Donald BR Keyhoe U.S.M.C ret who claimed in his recent book “Fly ing Saucers from Outer Space,’ ‘that the saucers not only are real they are of inter-plane- axneory Bolstere¢—— Keyhoe’s inter-planetary theory was bolstered by a letter pub- lished on the jacket of his book from Albert 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- elusion that the flying saucers are from another planet The Air Force has never denied that this possibility exists Some of the personnel believe that there may be some strange natural phenomena completely unknown to us but that if the apparently controled maneuvers reported by many competent observers are correct then the only re- maining explanation is the inter- planetary answer.” Upon publication of the letter —Written on Defense department stationery—the Ait Force chal- Jenged Chop’s claim and said he was merely expressing his per- sonal opinion Chop subsequently admitted that he was not speaking for the Air Force but maintained that some of the investigative personnel had subscribed to the interplanetary theory He said this was based on “personal con- tacts with these various indi- viduals” and insisted that it was true statement.” Charges Cover-Up Amplifying his theory that the faucers come from another planet Kehoe claims they could originate from some other body in the earth’s solar system—j 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 hite said the names of paenetivolved in the.vhtings NOT RECORRED JAN 121 nN I aff witrrveld and réepores“sdiieh 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 offictals charging that since the Air Force had im- plied that he had misrepresented -|the analysis of the Utah film either he or the Air Force was lying The Times-Herald asked a top Air Force spokesman if Keyhoe jhad in fact misrepresentec 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 eyhoe also contends the angl- by weather conditions pecifically Keyhoe claims the Times Herald yd Wash Post Wash News Wash Star Times A Compass [PAGE 37] infeligerce experts reached the following conclusions i The average speed of the unknown objects was somewhere and 980 miles per between 653 hour All_the objects appeared round of the same size and gave off a bluish-white glow of very high intensity The objects seemed to be Maneuvering in a circular or el- liptical pattern within the group at very high speeds Because of these high speeds the objects obviously could not be balloons or birds They were not any type of known aircraft 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 deny that flying saucers exist Conversely we have no proof that they do exist “In our investigation we are not discounting the possibility that the saucers—if they exist— could be interplanetary We are interested in anyone who might be using the air over the United PHOT we have no authen- tic physical evidence—¢52t-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 wilt 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 or conventional objects as the cause of those objects I will call him a liar to his face 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 a [PAGE 38] Vacs Mr Mr ff Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Trotter on Mr Winterrowd Tele Room Mr Holloman Miss Gandy- ad cca ate NOT °&FCORDED 46 JAN 1954 [PAGE 39] BOWLING GREEN O.-<A PRIVATE PLANE PILOT SAID TODAY HE SAW “AN OBJECT BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN FOR ABOUT FIVE SECONDS,” WHILE CRUISING AT ABOUT 80 MILES PER HOUR TWO MILES WEST OF HERE THE PILOT WHO ASKED THAT HIS IDENTITY NOT BE REVEALED SAID HIS seer WAS AT ABOUT 2,000 FEET THIS MORNING WHEN HE SAW THE UNIDENTIFIED “TT LOOKED LIKE A BALL OF FIRE HE SAID “IT WAS BRILLIANT WHITE LIKE MOLTEN STEEL THEN IT TURNED BLUE AND TOOK OFF STRAIGHT WEST tt TOOK OFF WITHIN FIVE SECONDS THE PILOT SAID THE OBJECT WAS TRAVELLING FASTER THAN ANY JET PLANE AND WAS GOING SOUTH WHEN NE FIRST SAW IT HE SAID THE SKY WAS CLEAR AND THERE WERE NO OTHER PLANES IN SIGHT AT THE TIME HE SAID HE DIDN*T THINK IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY REFLECTION HE nine ATR 12 APPEARED ABOUT A FOOT IN DIAMETER AND WAS ABOUT THE SAME st ALTITUDE AT WHICH HE WAS FLYING 12/11--TS154P et se NO REroRDRD 191 DEG 16 953 [PAGE 40] FLYIN SAUCER OBSERVATORY Not Optical Illusions Top Experts Hold OTTAWA Noy 12 CTPS)— Establishment of ay canadian Bovernment spnservalory for Ki 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 Smith ‘|seientist appointed to supervise the new saucer sighting station told reporters He said the federal transport department in which he has charge of the telecommunications broadcast and measurement sec- tion receives constant reports of ‘|sighting of flying saucers The total number he said is classi- fied as restricted information “The optical illusion explana- tion is lovely,” he said “but in every sighting there is always some factor that precludes this explanation We have decided to try to learn just what they are.” Canada’s sighting station will be at Shirley bay on the Ottawa river 10 miles west of here Smith said any one locaion in Canada is sure to have at least one saucer sighting a year Associated with Smith in the project,“which is under the transport department and the defense research board will be a theoretical physicist and a specialist in gravitational studies A 24-hour watch will be kept for saucers Specially built equip- ment is wired to alarm bells The erent aaa Jon aaa SS spheric reactor el ‘onic de- vices for measurement of sounds Times Herald a Foie ee gravee other paraphernalia Jet planes may be sent up from Wash Post the air force field near Ottawa to investigate any saucet ported by the stat CMs Wash News arch scientists Ree never have pooh-poohed fly- saucers which have been pub- Wash Star ie pote eccarnlen cities Some of Times Compass [PAGE 41] 9-20 Si Tolson Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Winterrowd Tele Room Mr Holloman Mr Sizoo Miss Gand BRANIGAN STILL INSISTS THAT FLYING SAUCERS MARINE OFFIER'S ATTEMPT TO PROVE THE PLANET THERE WAS KEYHOE UCERS RCE HAS SECRET MOVLES PROVING THE LANETARY CRAFT “ORCE AND THE WEATHER BUREAU a EXHAUS’ FIERY FAST -MOVI NG OBJECTS SE TO “COAS WERE LIGHT EFFECTS CAUSED BY TE™ Ne” HOWEVER CLAIMED HE SUPPORTS HIS INTERPLANETARY SHIP CIAL AIR FORCE DOCUMENTS A PRESS RELEASE -PREPARED BY REVEALED WHAT IT SAID WAS A BITTER STRUGGLE IN HIGH CLES OVER WHETHER TO MAKE THE ALLEGED PICTURES PUBLIC SCHEDULED A COCKTAIL PARTY AT 4:00 P.M FOR THE PH 9/29-~GE1024A NOT RECORDED 199 0CT 1953 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE [PAGE 42] Sama Plastic ‘Moby Dicks’ ens Flying Since 1950 jp Ladd DEK ve Whale-Like Air Force Balloons Rise 20 Miles Solve Flying Saucer Riddle Wind Secrets By the Associated Press The magazine Aviation Week published a new report yester- day on What the Air Force has found out about the upper at- mosphere with its “Moby Dick” ballons—whale-like bags which have often been mistaken for flying saucers Since the big helium-filled ppaupons made their appear- ance three years ago the maga- zine said more than 90 percent ‘of the “saucer” sightings have ‘coincided with their logged as- cents and charted courses The shiny surface of the plas- tic balloons is an excellent re- flector of light Long after the ‘sun has set and darkness has coyered the earth they shine ‘brillantly with the light re- ‘flected from the sun at alti- tudes of from 90,000 to 100,- 000 feet almost 20 miles up in the sky Vapor dust or other foreign particles in the atmosphere make the light appear white red purple or green Because of the difficulty of judging speed at high altitudes the bal- loons sometimes seem to be racing at tremendous velocities whereas they actually are mov- ing at 60 miles an hour or less One evening after sunset many units of the Strategic Air Command in Texas were kept busy trying to catch and shoot down a flying object that was actually a Moby Dick drift- ing along at about 90,000 feet in a glow of dust-refracted sun- light B-36 bomber crews accus- tomed to flying high altitudes gave up the chase when they were left behind at 45,000 feet and jet fighters stalled trying to pursue the object above their altitude ceiling Another mysterious object later identified positively as a ‘research balloon floated over ‘San Francisco last spring during parade welcoming Gen James A Van Fleet home from Korea It shone as a brilliant white sphere as jet fighters vainly tried to reach it On another day Dayton Ohio was filled with “saucer” reports as anoth- jer balloon floated over the city The balioon es INDEXED a 77 NOT PPOORDED 191 firmed the fact that air currente travel in opposite directions at different altitude layers The prevailing wind West to East across the United States at about 50,000 feet About 10,000 feet higher how- ever the flow is sometimes re- versed Balloons have also carried various kinds of animal life ranging from fruit flies to mic and monkeys up to 80,000 feet The experimental animals hav survived such altitudes for hours and have been recovered to provide living data for scien- tifie research THPNGLaby DicR™palloons are release’ lost daily at Tilla- Vernalis Calif an and Sedalia Mo The big bags are made so that they destroy themselyes auto- moyes from summer winds—the Moody Airk Force base near Valdosta Ga matically when they descend to 33,000 feet Recording machines and instruments are uted flights have con-/to earth tas Tolson Belniont CL Clegg Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy 22252 Laughlin Winterrowd Tele Rm Holloman Times-Herald Wash Post Er IZ 1953 Wash News Wash Star N.Y Herald Tribune N.Y Mieror [PAGE 43] Pitot Sights Small Flying Disc Chasing F-84 Over Japan By the Associated Press UNITED STATES AIR BASE Northern Japan Jan 28.—The United States Air Force last night reported a small metallic disc- shaped object made a controlled sweeping pass at an American jet fighter-bomber and was ob- served at very close range by another pilot The report from Air Force intelligence files said the sight- ing was made over Northern Japan at 11:20 am March 29 1952 by Lt David Brigham of Rockford Ml It was a bright cloudless day Lt Brigham said he got a very Vg look at the object from about 30 to 50 feet for about 10 secdnds pilot described it as “about eight inches in diameter very thin round and as shiny as polished chromium had no ap- parent projections and left no exhaust trails or vapor trails.’’ He said it caught up with an F-84 Thunderjet hovered a few moments and then shot out of Sight The F-84 pilot whose name was not revealed did not See it It was the second disclosure in a week by Air Force intelli- gence of mysterious flying ob- jects over Northern Japan near the Russian-Siberia area On January 21 the Air Force disclosed that “rotating clusthrs of red white and green lights” had been sighted over North Japan by American airmen Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Wintercowd Tele Rm Holloman Gandy ea en CORDED Times-Herald Wash Post Wash News Wash Star N.Y Herald Tribune N.Y Mirror [PAGE 44] VS Tolson_2 oa Ni ZZ 88- lavin Pics Harbo ee Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Tele Rm Holloman SANTA FE N.M,--THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN SAID TODAY THAT NFANTASTIC™’STRIDES HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE FIELD OF GUIDED MISSILE RESEARCH AND THAT IT IS POSSIBLE THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MAY SOON CLEAR UP THE MYSTERY OF THE4ELYINGUSAUCERS 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 wIT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE DISCLOSURE SOON TO BE MADE BY THE DEPART- MENT OF DEFENSE MAY IN PART AT LEAST EXPLAIN SOME OF THE THINGS SIGHTED IN SOUTHWESTERN SKIES BY BEWILDERED OBSERVERS WHO HAVE Lay THEM FLYING SAUCERS FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME THE PAPER SAID a HOWEVER COL HENDRICKS COMMANDANT OF THE PROVING GROUNDS SAID TODAY THAT RESEARCH THERE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE THE SO-CALLED FLYING SAUCER WE ARE STRICTLY IN THE GUIDED MISSILE BUSINESS THERE CERTAINLY WON'T BE ANYTHING LIKE A FLYING SAUCER DEMONS TRATED 1/8--N1434P WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE [PAGE 45] cl eral Sana FE Ne Mane He SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN SAID wean THAT “MPANTAS TIC®’S TRI DES HAVE BEEN MADE LN THE FIELD OF GUIDED ro RESEARCH AND THAT 14 IS’ POSS IBLE™ Nhe oo DEPARTMENT MAY 500N CLEAR UP THE MYS TERT su THES THE NEWSPAPER SAD OME otraven FROM SOME ASPFCTS OF THE HUSH-HUSH PROGRAM AT A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION TENTATIVELY is rlnan AT THE WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER THIS “IT IS POSSIBLE NAT THE DISCLOSURE SOON TO SE MADE BY THE DEPARTS MENT OF DEFENSE MAY IN PART AT LEAST EXPLAIN SOME OF THE THENGS SIGHTED IN SOUTHUES ERN SKIES BY BEWILDERED OGSERVERS WHO HAVE TERMED THEN SFLYING BRUCERS FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME THE PAPER SAID however SOL He HENDRICKS COMMANDANT OF THE PROVING GROUNDS sats TODAY ROMAT RES ict THERE HAS NOTHING TO bo WITH ANYING unas THE SO-CALLED FLYING AINLY to WE ARE STRICTLY IN oT al gate met BUSINESS THERE CER AINLY NOT BE ia ie LIKE A NG SAUCER eNO TEATED i bs ed ED ORDED JAN 14 1953 [PAGE 46] BUT MERELY “Sup Dac TRAILS OF LIGHT eRaae FLY puis FROM OUTER SPACE THAT ENTER OUR ATHOSPHERE At TROMEND pee ee 10 INGANDEHCHNGE OF THE RESISTANCE OF ALR ie wc af ray MAN OF THE HAYDEN Fegan OF THE GAVE PATR NOTICE Cc STOR SHOWERS-IN NOVEMBER oot SAID ge ie ED OMuRTE METEORS arene EHOW OFF eer ALOUT oF The Peel AND ne reine eho WHICH STEAL THE SHOW ob Asoo THE Soni 11/37 °ES46 O28 GY- fo 138 NOVIyg 1952 [PAGE 47] OLICE OFFICERS INVESTI STREAKED ACROSS He He LA ENFORCEMENT ET WAS ALO Tob lorriciats et CAN OFFICIALS SAID af NO PLANE IN THE SKY ‘THAT COULD BAMad EEN MES TAKET [PAGE 48] WHATZIT Well tt Sure Was oe Some Ball of Fire Tt sae 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 Weather Bureau and observers at National Alrport Jean toward the ‘meteor theory Scores of Washingtonians who saw it leaned in all directions Police remained stolidly upright and the FBI had no comment is HOW IT LOOKED citizens here in Maryland ginia West Virginia Pennsyl- and Ohio couldn't be silenced They said “Suddenly this thing came iz down from the eastern It looked like it was right housetops It was a ball ight greenish fire with a long This was a housewife aps thought it was a flying ‘saucer I thought it was a flare at first—that is I thought it was a flare until the darned thing swooped —and then up again It seemed the contours of the road,” veteran “Tt looked was sun-colored with a tail.” Sub- urbanite Shaped like a star “about as big as_the inside of a tennis racket.” 12-year-old boy SHOCKING Four Frederick farmers saw ball shooting across the horizon.” Near Washington three United this correspondents said it was like rocket with a fiery tail It shocked us it looked so close.” Frank Eleazer big magnesium flare It nate off sparks.” Robert Loftus It plunged out of the sky “very fast,” like a plane shot down in the war It was trailing a tail of flame.”—(John A Goldsmith George Lincoln of 756 Green- brier-st Arlington saw ‘something “about as big as a washtub I was sure it was going to eases some place,” he said A Maryland state troop out his lonely weil atop Sigurt in far Western said “it” passed over him aa Ladd Nichol Belmont& Clegg Glavin Harboe Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Winterrowd Tele Rm Holloman Times-Herald Wash Post Wash News Wash Star N.Y Herald Tribune N.Y Mirror N.Y Compass pa Date i ee [PAGE 49] High-Flying Bomber a Special to The Inquirer READING Pa Aug 28.—Air Na- tional Guard officers and control tower operators of the Aeronautics Administration today “cleared up” the latest“fiying saucer mystery as evolved in the skies over Berks county last Monday The saucers seen by a large num- of persons at that time a gbokesman said were vapor trails of a B-36 inter-continental bomber and a jet plane which CAA tower- Caused New Disc Tale quent to keep interceptor teams on the alert The aerial display on Monday was witnessed by hundreds of Guards men of the 112th Fighter Wing Pennsylvania-Maryland Air Na- tional Guard as well as officers who watched the maneuvers through binoculars Air National Guard Officers sail the report submitted by Harry Fein auer 43 of Birdsboro who said hi thought he saw a plane release fiying saucer in the air Mond men said were flying at an altitude of 40,000 to 45,000 feet The jet left a bigzag ‘trail as it dived in on the big bomber in a mock interception attack The spokesman said such air shows were frequent when atmospheric condi- tions were right for the hot exhausts from engines to freeze at high alti- tude morning probably had to do with the jet which he saw diving on the bomber Nor did the Guard's explanation dovetail very closely with ‘tne ace count given by Herbert’ Long 29 Kutztown insurance salesman Wao told of seeing a flying saucer 30 feet in front of his automobile Mond night off the Allentown pike nedr Maxatawny Long said he saw tle object’ so clearly that he was ab The big bombers the spokesman to make a detailed drawing of xplained often fly far out over the atenxarice ean and when they approach the joastline on their return journeys ey are observed on radar screens nd jets are sent up to intercept them Such tests he added are fre- NOT R@BORDED 101 SEP 12 i952 nowanecttne Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg Glavin__- Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Winterrowd Tele Room Holloman— Miss Gandy SECTION SECTION ure SAY Set THE Pt ADELPHIA INQUIRER PHWADELRHIAy PA pag COLUMN LTAR Fe SECTION SUPERVISOR jf BUREAU Yc fy [PAGE 50] THIS IS IT A sketch of the flying saucer which Her bert Long 29 a Kutztown Pa insur- ance salesman contends hesaw parked on a road 30 feet from his car He said he was too frightened to approach it He’s shown left below giving Leroy Gensler artist ei directions for the sketeh AP Wirephotos [PAGE 51] What Is It FLYING SAUCER MAYBE?—The unknown object ever the building in the picture photographed above Anacortes moyes swiftly through the sky seeming- ly a part of a cloud formation But is it Walter Elliott of Anacortes was preparing to take a picture of the building when he noticed the unusual saucer like object in his view finder so he snapped the pic- ture at 1/100th of a second Elliott was wnable te determine the nature of the nnusual object which quickly disappeared acsoctatea Press Wirephoto la Af oF eeRenoED oe BEP 12 1952 [PAGE 52] 0.20 Mr Tolson VE ge Mr Ladd NO by Mr Ni Mr Belmont fa Mr Clege Mr Glavin Mr Harbo Mr Rosen Mr Tracy Mr Laughlin Mr Mohr Mr Winterrowd Tele Room Mr Holloman Miss Gandy es SAS Ct ie bd om uy fi Ww ker SAUCERS ae FRANCISCO--A FORMER AIR FORCE B29 TEST MECHANIC AND SCIENTIFIC JECTURER SAID TODAY HE SAW TWO SILVER GREY OBJECTS FLYING ERRATICALLY OVER SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT “AT TERRIFIC SPEEDS ROBERT GARNER SAN FRANCISCO SAID HE AND HIS WIFE BOTH OBSERVED THE OBJECTS AT’5330 P.M YESTERDAY AND HE WAS CONVINCED THEY WERE NOT OF THE EARTH GARDNER WHO SAID HE WAS WITH THE AIR FORCE IN THE PACIFIC DURING WORLD WAR II SAID THE OBJECTS LOOKED LIKE CROSS SECTIONS oF A CONE CLIPPED OFF AT BOTH ENDS,® THEY WERE SILVER GREY IN COLOR AND APPEARED TO HAVE A DIAMETER oF BOUT 150.TO 200 FEET EACH HE SAID BOTH OF THEM FLEW AT AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 12,000 FEET GARNER AID AND I'D ESTIMATE THEY WERE GOING AT LEAST 1800 MILES AN OUR 8/25--TS1147A “Fly Wa Dises of Flywa it SEP 15 1952 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE pe tN [PAGE 53] Glavin ss Harbo Rosén Ls8322 Tracy ay Laughlin is Mohr jv Tele Rn we AY Holloman Gandy Vf THIN AIR IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE eal ‘ONE REASON SCOTT FEELS THAT WAY IS THAT HE HAS PRODUCED FLYING SAUCERS IN HIS LABORATORY AT FORT BELVOIR VA WHICH POSS er THE CHARACTERISTICS ATTRIBUTED TO THE RADAR-SPOTTED “OBJECTS” REPORTED HERE IN RECENT WEEKS SCOTT WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT THE BRIGHT METEOR WHICH FLASHED ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN SKIES HERE SUNDAY NIGHT BUT ABOUT WHATEVER IT IS THAT HAS BEEN PRODUCING ®BLIPS ON AIR FORCE RADAR SCREENS FIVE SUCH UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS® WERE SPOTTED BY RADAR AT NEARBY ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE IN MARYLAND SHORTLY BEFORE LAST MIDNIGHT AS A RESULT OF HIS CREATIONS IN THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT eet FORT BELVOIR SCOTT SALD I AM CONVINCED THAT THESE SAUCERS sta WE Lier wort u-<cors SAID TODAY THAT THOSE FLYING ®THINGS® ffi HAVE BEEN SEEING MAY BE ANODE GLOWS® CAUSED BY IONIZATION OF ‘FLYING THINGS ARE NATURAL PHENOMENA,*® ike Ae SCOTT HAS BEEN CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS WITH A LARGE VACUUM JAR UNDE NDITIONS SIMULATING THE RAREFIED AND IONIZED UPPER ATMOSPHERE BY IONIZING THE THIN AIR IN HIS BELL JAR WITH STATIC ELECTRICITY SCOTT AT WILL PRODUCED BALLOON-LIKE BLOBS OF LIGHT WHICH HE COULD MOVE AROUND AT ANY DESIRED SPEED ALL HE SAID COULD HAVE BEEN eae A DEMONS FAA TRON YESTERDAY FOT LT GEN LEWIS NS ON_YE AY FOT LT LEWIS A PICK CHIEF OF ARMY ENGINEERS AND OTHERS SCOTT SAID HE MADE THE TAND STIL REVERSE THEMSELVES OR WINK OUT sage ann jae BY ALTERING THE AIR PRESSURE HE CHANGED THE COLOR FROM A NEON-LIKE’ ORANGE TO WHITE OR BLUE OR WHITE WITH A GREEN HALO HE COULD MAKE THF BLOBS APPEAR TO LEAVE AN INCANDESCENT TRAIL LIKE A“JET DISCHARGE SCOTT EXPLAINED THAT AN ANODE GLOWw® FORMS ON AN IONIZED ECTRIFIED LAYER OR VOLUME OF GAS WHICH IS POSITIVE IN RESPECT To MILES UP HE SAID DEPENDING ON CONDE TIONS Or Ny HERE PROM 50 I ON OF ct ESSURE AND IOMIZATION,” oe eer 8/6--TS1259P Tae 98 AUG 11 1952 iN WASHINGTON CITY-NEWS SERVIER— [PAGE 54] 0.20 Tolson ve 4_add -Nic aa a Boles Clegg Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Nur AMEN SAUCERS THE COAST GUARD TODAY RELEASED A PHOTOGRAPH OF EOQUB BRILLIANT WHI sug LIGHTS SNAPPED OVER ITS SALEM MASS AIR STATLO ia THE PICTURE TAKEN BY A 21- ZYEAR ara COAST FuARD PHOTOGRAPHER WAS HE LATEST EPISODE IN THE NATIONWIDE OUTBURST OF Pisens EAUCER MYSTERIES LT CLEARLY SHOWS-_FOUR-RAGGED-ENGED ROUND ObuEcTs LN V=FORMATION EACH APPEARS “TO HAVE TWO IDENTICAL SHAFTS OF LIGHT EXTENDING ACROSS LIS_CENTER AND PR PROTRUDING FORE AND AFT LIKE A WING A_SPOKFSMAN SAID THE NEGATIVE HAS BEEN EXAMINED BY COAST GUARD PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERTS “HO ARE SETS oD WTHERE IS NO RETOUCHING FAKERY INVOLVED SWE DON'T_K mA COAST GUARD OFFICER SAID BUT_THAT Boy cRA A UNITED bRESe ‘REPORTER ri ALLOWED SEE THE NEGATIVE WHICH WAS FLOWN LATER TODAY:TO DAYTON WHERE IT WILL BE EXAMINED BY AIR FORCE INVESTIGATORS THE NEGATIVE SHOWS NO SIGN OF RETOUCHING EVEN UNDER AN ENLARGER WHICH PRESUMABLY WOULD SHOW NY FAKING ue A COAST go UARD ENLISTED PHOTOGRAPHER HE SAID HE JULY THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW OF THE AIR “STATI TLON'S PHOTO “LAB 3/1--GE1137A INDEXED BICA-L BA IY NOT RECO PEs 98 AUG 13 1859 ee WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE [PAGE 55] ust Nature Cutting Up Says Air Force lof ‘Saucers THE LATEST NEWS Washington July 29—Air Force ex- perts said today that they are convinced “natural causes’s a count for the “flying saucers” which have been dottin jdgal skies for more than a week and have been appearin idtermittently throughout years the country for more than fiv 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 tates.” Referring to the fact that radar screens are picking up what ppear to be natural phenomena Gen Samford said think radar is beginning to tell us a great many things it was not built to discover—for instance atmospheric conditions after a heat wave.” about Northern Lights an Despite the reassurance which was delivered in an atmosphere ‘confusion public concern over the mystery of the skies reached ai ll-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 bffered a photo of an oddly- shaped chunk of light to prove it The Air Force fiew the experts rom Wright-Paterson Field Day- to quell the gathering ‘glarm but meanwhile USAF planes were equipped with special stronomical cameras with which is hoped pursuins pilots may be ble to take pictures of the phe- jornena air Defense Command planes re thained on 24-hour alert to chase he “interlopers” and if possible ‘shoot them down.” ‘Today's rash of “saucers” ap eared on the CAA screen from +30 am to a.m Airline pilots io asked to scan the skies St s_of “the things vey~""e4 they saw nothing Air Force raday equipment at a field near the CA installation also spotted nothing For that reason the Air Defens planes yemained grounded giving rise to rumors that the Pentagon somehow was Surrendering to the “squeers.’ The Air Force took pains to deny this and promised pursuit the next time a flying mystery is sighted with the’ nake eye Meanwhile other responsib Pentagon officials ieetebea ee nials that the strange aerial light —-or whatever they are=-represent some new phase of U.S military experimentation They expressed fxm conviction too things are po threat Siyn’s security that the Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Tele Rm Holloman Gandy 22 ee au ene an CORDED AUG 18 1952 Dimes-Herald fa Wash Post Wash News Wash Star N.Y Mirror N.Y Compass pete lo ee enol Se Date 2gere [PAGE 56] wheels for example had some of app es iblical Ezekiel’s airborne le “earmarks of what modern American science fiction readers ewers and “cold worriers” are on the verge of regarding as inter- planetary scouts or missiles from Moscow Dr Donald Menzel profes- University made this point in hn interview last month with agazine He produced ry evidence that there mn angil i 4807 when man$r “niotiontess before darting into cloud and disappearing forever jove at what seems mpossible rate of speed direction instantane swooping and climbing itt man-made sor of astrophysics at Harvard eounts of the DES omen hardly at all fror [PAGE 57] Laughlin Mohr Tele Rm Holloman One of the Washington area’s flying saucers has been track down finally i Last week a Martinsburg woman found a mysterio five ‘oot square piece of aluminum ear ed material on her farm manied to know what it was Bie “nobody seemed to be able and there “was aoe usual ce ‘Base cleared ee lett A spokes- a le object ky I hen fecgsred the direction an ee TEL NOT REG st teethy 98 AUG 11 1959 Times-Herald Uece Wash Post icra Wh Wash News Wash Star A As N.Y Mirror N.Y Compass——— Date Labbe [PAGE 58] Jf 319 fd a ead Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Tele Rm Holloman A Gandy Re oa yer Mheyre in the Sky Again a Radar Spots More Mystery Objects Hee Pliers Report Sighting Glowing Lights Washington received another away The_pilot sai sn’t|lighted end of a cigaret or a visit Jast_nigh the uniden’ ‘able to close on hey cluster of orange and red lights tified aeria i yer ally ng.” He lost Radar operators plotted their those repor ere 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- lterious objects were reported to steady white light 10 miles east|termine their altitude Some glowing i ‘of Mount Vernon at 11:49 Met oy he di sky withir us Of of him faded in a minute st_week’s_1 lights after that Al- fhe radar sereen still al picked up the objects One Airport plane landed shortly before mid- At 11:25 two F-94 jet|night and the other about 12:15 fighters were sent up by the a the city y_W ll_picked|” ‘The interceptors did not sight nite entice @_myst ts so-called i cL ‘Air Defense command to inves- It was the second time these}~>° tigate the lights The pilots re-/objects have been picked up by ported seeing the lights but radar Last night’s visitors Tabs were not able to get any closer showed up first on the screen A CAA sp i to them than about miles fat 9:08 and remagied for|jects picked up last night gave “ye jet pilots described ‘the some time yi 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 Ls Air Force has been inves At 11:33 ps Mm 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 ymg “Salicers “ity of Andrews Air Force base jects Aula th hh een Phe lights were about 500 feet ‘They were variously described 19 above him and about miles'as looking like blue lights the Times-Herald Wash Post Wash News Wash Star js N.Y Mirror NOT RECORDED” N.Y Compass 98 JUL 31 1952 [PAGE 59] PHYS ICALLY OCcul ci oA NT VVP TANY [PAGE 60] 58% ane 26 HOM te LOR as YUVA AHL FONTS VWd 40 TAOT UILHOTA AAVN ATYAWHO MAAN SYnoH UTy SI EI UVM THOM NI Id SNVUL AAYN JOTLYNTOW dO Sl aH vo Tua WV ONTOD SIA AHL Ina WOT IA HOT TV do SIMOTT ait [PAGE 61] 0.20 olson add Nichols Belmoni io Clegg AMA Glavin Harbo Rosenjz=- Tracy Laughlin Mohr Tele Rm Holloman SAUCERS A CHICAGO--O"HARA AIR FORCE BASSE OFFICERS SAID TODAY FLYING SAUCE he REPORTS HAVE PICKED UP LATELY ESSE pew THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE SAID IT HAS RECEIVED is REPORTS OF MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS IN THE SKY IN THE CHICAGO VICINITY THIS WEEK a YS REPORTS THAT A SPECIAL ®FLYING SAUCER ALERT PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS SAID JET PATROLS NORMALLY ARE ON THE ALERT 24 HOURS A DAY lam OFFICERS SAID THE AIR FORCE ENCOURAGES CALLS ON OBJECTS SIGHTED Prieta REPORTS ARE PASSED ON TO HIGHER AUTHORITY® FOR AN OFFICER SAID SOME OF THIS WEEK*S REPORTS APPARENTLY STEMMED i ok Lait PICNIC AT WHICH 5,000 TOY BALLOONS WERE RELEASED Tors LORDED 14 1952 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE [PAGE 62] 0.20 A a Ison Nicholgff2e Belmont 374 Clegg Mh Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Laughlin Mohr Tele Rm Holloman Gandy Janse DE DENVER=-(UNITEDPRESS -WCNS --FO LORI oT THREE OF THEM wORDD WAR II VETERANS Rol tana” be SPR A Up UUeSatcene FOVERINE OVA TE ANE JOHN BALDWIN OF CORAL GABLES FLA AN AIR FORCE PILOT IN THE PACIFIC DURING WORLD WAR II WHO HAS 77000 Hb URS OF AIRLINE PILOT EXPERIENCE SAID THE OBJECT HE AND HI COMPANIONS REPORTED SEEING EARLY TODAY WAS A PERFECTLY ROUND DISC WHITE IN COLOR AND ALMOST he dag WITH SMALL VAPOR TRAILS OFF’IT LIKE THE TENTACLES OF AN JUST BELOW A DECK OF WGSBy Aroubs RoOgr FEET otek ce eee 10,000 TO 00 FEET DIRECTLY ABOVE US 000 TO 15,000 PALL OF US HAVE BEEN FLYING A NUMBER OF YEARS AND WE'VE KINDS OF CLOUDS AND FORMATIONS WE'VE SEEN ALL BUT NONE OF US HAD EVER SEEN ANY’ NG LIKE THIS BEFORE BALDWIN sath LE THE OBJECT SEEMED TO Se pense FROM US AND CHANGE oar IT WAS Pein Crane ARR STEhL AL LBS THEN AT SEEMED ACK AWAY FR LB Aue CHANGE SHAPE IT BECAME FLAT GAINED SPF ND THEN—D 7/5--N643P nRDED 1952 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE [PAGE 63] 0-19 Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mobr At dusk on a cool summer eye- Tele is the best time te=see=the’ balloon “saucer,” it adds Nease “The lateral rays of the sun at Gandy dusk illuminate the base of the balloon There’ is no chance of your ever seeing the full round- Navy Calls Saucers @nly Its Big Balloons 200s Room NEW YORK Feb 12 —Fly- nated cup of the bottom If your sng saucers are real—but they’re imagination soars the light re- flection on the side may impress only huge balloons used in Cosme ou 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 itffpress ddel chief of the nuclear physics You as the exhaust The sun’s branch of the Office of Naval Reon pe eae the plastic bag search He is in charge of the “Even se easGries aixmen thaye no cosmic ray-balloon project way of estimating the size and The balloons are huge Plastic speeds an ou oats de ao bags 100 feet in diameter that|Pes Size and speed the mini of the ob- may rise 19 miles high- about 208 Ss Ee i Di 100,000 ‘feet Winds may seen 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 fying saucers Syren aes sun light\up their bottoms giving “seeming to be the visions of them a saucer-like appearance the ‘ff or Mer inacceat ai ies says paced Gre ie resu rats ey carry instruments aloft to es if reqord i “This left a solid base of rays WiGaneees Ae ies moe ports from airplane pilots scie hi itti i tific observers and reliable layme a a ang EMiarnd which could not be brushed asideny gether and how to release their SHE aien acne energy joe “When this project first began it single reliable report of an ob- was kept secret,” the Magazine Seryatlon Which nok aia quotes Dr Liddel “Now there is ahs Nome DENbNadet as avin Rolonerr sine need oF Canad ony that Capt Thomas Mantell air eee lbagee eae force pilot found dead in his veep tte public in the dark about anes aut Ree PAS what flying saucers are.” Look says “the Liddel report is object was chasing balloon considered to\pe the most authori- tative scientific explanation of the flying-saucer phenomenon As far as Dr Liddel is concerned per- sonally he considers his answer incontrovertibly right.” of squadrons of flying disks and of the skyhook type.” Tlfere have been several reports “this is explained by Dr Liddel as clusters of 20 to 30 balloons 10 to 15 feet in diameter which are The balloons called skyhooks of the were first sent aloft in 1947 and it was then that flying saucer re- Dr Liddel checked other Goy ports began it adds There were «tment agencies and “is satisfied more balloons in the next two years and more “saucers” seen There were fewer balloons up in 1950 and fewer sancervrer ports A picture taken by telesco of a balloon at 77,(° feet mesota convinced Dr more the magazii Photo fits descriptic thing even roughly resempbiing ue fvitg saucer.” that no other research or experi- mental project has utilized any- 132 MAY 1951 INDEXED 37 Times-Herala Wash Post Wash News Wash Star N.Y Mirror [PAGE 64] SUNDAY DISPATCH LONDON ENGLAND DEC 1950 WHAT FLEW ACROSS ENGLAND YESTERDAY Football Growds See ‘Flying Saucer’ By Sunday Dispateh Reporter HOUSANDS 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 p.m These reports of the passage of ‘this object through the sky were received by the Sunday Dispatch last night More than 500 spectators at a Soccer cup match at Chard Somerset saw a strange white phenomenon dart across the clear sky high above the grandstand at about 3.45 Within a split second of passing it seemed to disperse on the horizon Spectators Cried ‘Oh’ Spectators in the stand cried “Oh!” as the white liquid form sped inland from the direction of the English Channel Spectators at a Rugby match two fields away saw it One Mr Arthur Jenkins postmaster of Chard said “Tt was like a diamond flash its shape was like a big peardrop with the thin end tapering behind Suddenly it meieu’’ into nothingness.” if [PAGE 65] seo sae age a ite oe ne in to land at di ess” ‘Chairman of Chard F.C Mr William Taunton sitting in the nd said “It came right over top of us like a brilliant streak and then seemed to dissolve before our eyes nnive Ps Snake-Shape Miss Myra Scott who was watch- dng a football match at Perry Sireet three miles south of Chard Said she saw a low-flying silvery star with a tail” shortly before four o'clock i At North Petherton near Bridg- water spectators at another mate Saw an object in the north-west sky shortly before four o'clock It was described as jong snake nee thing which streake through the sky at a terrific rate.” Mr Hollinghurst of North ‘Petherton said It appeared sud- a and went away suddenly leaving creamy smoke There Was no noise and there were no Planes about.” Explosion minutes later a flash as th trom an explosion was ‘Bristol Ghatmey Besaheg es ie north of Chard ‘he om places as much as thoug miles art at the Air Ministry Portishead ni Teported that a seen between 45 and 410 which appeared to ‘was Zoot Oe esto la med were received iff reported a of ‘ii -15,000ft to the north-east airfield At a football match at In-Gordano near Bristol tors saw a fiash Mr of Ham Green said like a rocket comi 2,000ft There was an intense flash which left a trail of vapour.’ Spectators at the match betwee Shaftesbury and Longfleet St Mary reported what appeai a giant rocket It seemed from the sky Bovingdon airpo shire 150 miles east also reported to the Air Minist that a brilliant white ligh Se long way to the west 45 Observers estimated thal it was at about 20,000ft thot it vanished in a trail ir Ministry said las thorough check and no aircraft is believed to have blo It is most unlikely scheduled private ffeh taken place at suc cannot explain the aircraft Portishead area.” [PAGE 66] ned What Did The Wij 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 witnesses’ descriptions of what they saw are sub- ally in agreement—there was no noise and a trail streamed from the back The observations were at in all instances Yoolacombe pensioner who stanti of fire about 11 mr Stewart 70-year-old worked in aircraft fac- tories jn two wars was one of le who told the five peoP yi be oereter Express and Echo what hind the other in close formation,” seen they aa Monday evening.che “After passing overhead the At 10,5 object come inshore LO With he troat one end collide tice rth mt one and collide From ¢rundy at a erritte speed.” TBTERCOH ERGY SUPE RRUEE end of Franklin of Beacon- Mt aes near Exeter wrote Bright Disc hip that while at Coun- The object was described by Miss “paper miles south-east of J..Spurway of Exeter-hill Cul ‘Monday night he saw Jomp ion 12 miles north-east of Exe ti as bright disc travel- Ting with a circular movemient at great speed.” Two and a half miles north of Keres were of a brilliant sil- very blue travelling south one be- SUNDAY ISPATCH LONDON ENGLAND 41-5-50 Ht Exmouth the object was seen at 11 p.m by Mr and Mrs Mus- sell of Hill-erest Lympstone who described it as having been in two parts “apparently ‘attached in some way with a lighted tail.” ‘ie The sixth witness quoted in the” Express and Echo is Mr A Powell of Sidmouth Junction while SS Hon tH Ba whe Hen Invo view to the north feont behind a bank of mist [PAGE 68] Reports Plentiful By Drew Pearsoft Though a large part ‘of the American public appears tobe convinced that flying saucers do exist so far the Air Force has not been able to track down a single bona fid nite States aviators have spent ho ‘ipon hou checking re orts not_only au- cers bi PEARSON nomena as_mi¥g- ets from Venus shooting stars a This column has now been able to examine Air Force files and jt is quite evident that the Air Force has taking jo ia i do exist These files show that consider- ple time was even spent check- the report received from ie Actor Bruce Cabot and the Echo a newspaper in Kansas City that corpses of blond beardless foot men from Venus had been seen arriving on a flying saucer py a man named Coulter “Dead on arrival these space- midgets had no cavities eth and wore shoes re- humen skin according told the Air Foree Coulter was Sup- osed to have as proof of this visit Venus—4 junar clock op- Coie on a 26-day cycle space eka and gear from the flying ee all of them supposedly ar- eae plond midgets ‘avi yand otte published traveling jn their te »sembling to the story Furthermore as it does with these rumors painstak- patiently investigated Mr Coulter Koehler to be Georae turned is advertising sales of Denver a HEE an for radio be a mu the wet of this planet he Roman numeral ‘Sa VI “His space radio was a chunk oPometar™ that utterl fatter to pick up a message or even a wheeze from space In the face of this evidence Koehler still claimed knowledge of the little men but refused to divulge his source and drastically revised his story According to the ‘confidential Air Force report “Koehler stated at he had no parts of flying gnucers in his possession at pres- it He denied having ever seen flying saucer or its occupants.” lying Washtub Another hot tip which Air Force investigators patiently tracked own was at a flying saucer ha Actually crashed near__Warren yeport was traced to Walter Sirek a service station op erator who directed the investiga- tors to look behind Nish’s Tavern What they saw was summed up in the secret Air Force files as follows “The machine was ob- viously mai ucers’ Nit Missing GI GIs One tragi blicized fact about the Korean war is that at this writing the Army has_¢ this writin has_only been able to release 138 prisoners of war from Korean prison camps This leaves approximately 4000 pimertcans still missing Originally he Army_helieved that most_of th i ip action However since tfoops Ww trav tite length of Korey uit efing the bodies it is believ So far,‘ Chinese troops have treated American prisoners almost as if they were allies returning many of them to American lines But if the 4000 GIs were trans- ported into Siberia by the Rus- ans the story may be different his possibility is giving the Army eat concern OTE—As of the last offici pues as an old_washing_machine cover part of a radio set chassis piccng and a spent insecticide bomb.” Tt developed that Ted Heyen Capital Capsules and Robert Schaeffer who run the is re store jad made Lady Diplomats—Madame Win local hardware he Air Force has even received fight but she lost She's going to pictures of saucers in flight The have to be ‘satisfied with being a most spectacular was a movie of plain “Minister” instead of a full two silvery discs treaking over fledged “Ambassador” to Luxem the baseball at Great Falls Deere Pourg Main reason Perle Mont sent in by Nick Mariana park manager came back to Washington was to However investigators found persuade the President to raise tyat the pictures were taken be- American Legation to a full teen 11:20 and 11:35 a fn bassy Even though she’s a close Aligust 15 By coincidence two friend of Mr Truman's he said silvery F-84 jet fighters from Ladd no Meanwhile the other lady Alc Force Base Alaska flew high diplomat Eugenie Anderson in over Great Falls at exactly thit Denmark will continue td reign The sun was shinitie-so Wat TRfections from the high-flying like saucers Once the Air Force’s own radar screen near Wright Field Ohio picked up what appeared fo be a flying saucer drifting eastward at 20 miles per hour But prompt ine vestigation showed it to be only a dense black cloud so charged with electronic particles that it ap- peared on radar anwhile flying saucer reports nie to pour into the Air eat the five or ol a By day but ay bi Lashom pe ever materi iqts appeared as two silvery blurs A ‘as the only lady Ambas- ia bate the United States diplo- mafic corps io Aid for bassador Austin has prival advised El Salvador to give up its campaign to get the United Na- tions to rescue Tibet The United Nations Austin said has enough more hi in Korea without taking on Tibet—United Stat¢s more headaches in the most moun- tainous and inaccessible country Hin the world Treaty for Japan President Truman has told Secretary Achee son that unless Russia answers ithin the next month he is in avor of going ahead and holding treaty confer th Tol epee lok eg Glavi Nichh ls Rosen Tracy Harbo’ Belmont Mobr Tele Nease Room gi DEC 19 1959 Page Times-Herald Wash Post 1303 Wash News Wash Star N.Y Mirror Compass—— [PAGE 69] Magoo Clegg Glavin Nich Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele Room Nease Gpndy Four Philadelphia policemen said they saw a saucer- ike bject land inva field Before FBI men_could gel opener en iene id the portion—he— vad af once leaving a silcky rless residue ae oY Times~Herald Wash Post Wash News Wash Star N.Y Mirror Compass [PAGE 70] Tolsonf fj Ladd NI Clegg Glavin Ni choy BO Rose ee Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele Room AROUT ABOUT [PAGE 71] Tolson Lada Vv eee Glavin Nichols Rosen PEAY “Harbo a Be hse Mohr Tele Room SAUSAGE™ SPRINGFIELD TLL*-PILOT JIM GRAHAM CLAIMED TODAY THAT A FLYING AL ocr WITH HIS PLANE AND EXPLODED LIKE A BOMB"=>BUT CAUS MAGE GRAHAM CHIEF PILOT FOR THE CAPITAL AVIATION COMPANY HERE WAS FLYING To PRINGFIELD FROM CHICAGO LAST NIGHT WHEN HE SIGHTED THE OBJECT AS HE FLEW OVER WILLIAMSVILLE JUST NORTH OF HERE HE SAID THE OBJECT WAS A BLUE STREAK ABOUT 10 FEET LONG AND SHAPED LIKE A SAUSAGE HE SAID IT WAS TRAILING YELLOW FIRE THE OBJECT WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE HIS PLANE DIVED SUDDENLY AND aa PLOUGHED- DIRECTLY INTO HIS PROPELLER IT EXPLODED LIKE A BOMB WHEN IT STRUCK,” HE SAID if GRAHAM MANAGED TO STAY ON COURSE AND LANDED AT CAPITAL AIRPORT HER HE EXPECTED TO FIND HIS PLANE EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED HE SAID BUT A THOROUGH INSPECTION SHOWED NOTHING SEVERAL OTHER SPRINGFIELD RESIDENTS ALSO REPORTED SEEING THE i FLYING SAUSAGE,” ONE WOMAN SAID SHE AND HER HUSBAND WERE SITTING ON ui THEIR PORCH AND SAW IT PASS OVER SPRINGFIELD OBSERVERS AT THE WEATHER BUREAU SAID THE ONLY EXPLANATION THEY ULB,» OFFER WAS THAT THE OBJECT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A METEOR THAT APPEARED TO i GRAHAM'S PLANE BUT EXPLODED RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT THEY SAID THEY DID NOT SEE THE OBJECT 7/30==LO441P Gk-839g4-A— NOT RECORDED 1B5AUG 111959 Sa Spe tee Sameera WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE [PAGE 72] Peale pe Clegg Glavin Ni chots#& Rosen Tracy ¢Harbo Belmont I Mohr Tele Room Nease Gandy SAUCERS FARGO De-=FOUR PERSONS REPORTED THEY WATCHED FIVE STRANGE MOON-LIKE OBJECTS FLYING IN FORMATION SOUTH OF FARGO FOR 34 MINUTES THE BRIGHTLY=SHINING OBJECTS WERE SPOTTED AT 3307 A Me CST BY FARGO WEATHER BUREAU EMPLOYE RAY WILSON HE SAID HE WATCHED THEM UNTIL 3844 WHEN CLOUDS OBSCURED VISION Lee 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 SHOWED MANEUVERABILITY ENDERSBY SAID THEY LOOKED LIKE A WHITE FLAME MANEUVERING IN THE AIR 7/14--T130P WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE [PAGE 73] -RPOORDHD JO°S Wash Wash Wash N.Y Times 4-26 Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavine Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele Room Nease Gandy wy Page tar Fo ty Post News Star Mirror -Herald sec ZZ [PAGE 74] “FLYING-SAUCER ‘RIDDLE SUNDAY DISPATCH JULY 1950 LONDON ENGLAND far flying saucers have been treated by the majority of British people with incredulity and polite ridicule But why I have studied all the reports available I have seen photo- graphs—those in the Sunday Dispatch last week were particu- larly clear—and I believe they are photographs of disc-type aircraft farlier 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 chaff SEGRET TRIALS all the reports the objects fall into three groups The most substantial of ‘them come from America First group are those saucers which are capable of being ex- plhined away as glimpses of ex- pqimental trials of various ddvices nder this headi of the objects seen in Southern US and other areas where Secret experiments are in pro- gress For thissgroup am pre- pared fo accept the explanation given by the United States Army Air Force as misinterpretations of conventional objects.” These conventional objects are giant experimental cosmic ra balloons which fill out to 100f6 Jong and 70ft in diameter as they rise radar target balloons capable of rising to 70,000ft and trailing glittering aluminium foil strip guided missiles and stratospheric experiments from Alamos stated to have above the fall many AE Oa urface Foup Two Consists of those tly «mysterious visitants ave led to wild surmises Hace ships missiles from nial ript re rernark- ape general ie ther white or ib withoul directivue i eontrol or travelling at prodigious speeds vanish- ing suddenly and associated with brilliant light fringes of fire or flames of peculiar colour aiid generally rotating or whirling From many parts of the wor 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 in our atmosphere which could cause whirling “dust devils” of Juminous gases caused by jet or other high speed experiments which might be responsible for the generation of small atomic whirlpools in the atmosphere Group Three reports suggest that the saucers are high speed aircraft of circular or dise shape travelling at speeds much higher than those attained by normal planes SAFETY SEARCH TJ HERE is no reason at all Why annular and cireula’ dise-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 cireular surfaces had yery good non-stalling char- acteristics up to large angles But when powered aircraft arrived it was found that the easiest way to minimise the losses due to the end slip of the air from the wing tips was to increase the span of wings while Keeping them narrow This Sompra brought other trouble arly planes reached their stalling angle at some 15 degrees and stalling must result Sn dive since the only correctiq Very NOT RE 83 AUG 111950 [PAGE 75] esa believe they are disc-type aircraft says— Museum TILGHMAN RICHARDS senior Research assistant and official lecturer at the South Kensington Science Enlargements from flying saucer pictures—front-paged last week “which set everyone talking They were taken by Farmer Trent McMinnville Oregon U.S must of necessity be subject to these dangers ‘The turned aside tojinvestigate possible wing forms which should be safe from stalling an{i spinning mong these rebels” few names have become air history Jose Weiss and Arthur Keith wit their completely stable swallow- Tike monoplane in 1909 Btrich and Wels in Austria jn 1911 evolving a stable wingform based on the Zannonia leaf from which Rumpler and the majority of Ger- man builders developed the Taube monoplane Dunne with his too stable tailless back-swe wing biplane 1912 and the Lee- Richards annular monoplane of 1910-14 with which I was assO- ciated NOT PERFECT WYITH the outbreak of the 1914 war research of this type was abandoned and study concentrated on perform- ance vather than safety By 1918 the modern plane was established and earlier research was forgotten Civil airlines naturaily used aptea war planes and then ame World War I Once more itations were imposed In spite of the orthodoxy of dpsign there was throughout the inier-war years and Vrms way who has the London studied all evidence there is still a considerable bo iy of technical opinion not satisfie that perfection has been reached here think lies the real answer This body of opinion has been continually searching for the “sate” design Designers of many nationalities have been striving since the early 1920's with reat SUCCESS toward a foolproof plane of disc type In 1934-35 Charles Zimmer- mann in the United States built a disc wing airplane combined with a helicopter capable of vertical ascent ‘and descent and a high forward speed NAVY STEPS IN 1937 he granted licenges for his patents to the Chance Vought Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corpora- tion in the US But at that point the U.S Navy stepped in and all further devel- opment has been of a secret nature though it has been stated that this combination is capable of speeds from to 500 miles per i Our ‘This performance in accord with reports that flying saucers travel at great speeds hover ascend and descend with little forward motion It is perhaps a little hard to believe that there can aS yel ex- jst enough of these types to meet the many reports but there is no reason at all why such airerait should not have been seen provid- ing that full scale work followe the experimental period And secrecy would suggest that th is And there could lie the sold proof that flying saucers [PAGE 76] Se or NOT RECORDED 135 AUG 11 1950 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE tj fee Tolson__-— Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy gyro Belmont Mohr Tele Room Nease Gandy [PAGE 77] ma WD FLYING SAUCERS-A UNDADO EN MADRID EW ott SPAIN 7805 LUNES DE ABRIL DE 1959 PRECIO DEL UNA FOTOGRAFIA SENSACIONAL SEES IT First picture of a flying Saucer comes from the panish newspaper Informaciones Dairy Grapuic correspondent in Madrid explains The caption stated that this picture was obtained at am ip the Balearic Islant oodles mannyMuller cal an It added that he and his assistants heard a loud noise and saw a luminous trail crossing the sky He pulled out his camera and obtained a picture—but expresses no opinion about flying saucers FOO TE from Texas Tr aay wartime mem- a U.S bomber crew aa il raphed two groups of “flying saucers” near @uslenak para dosumento en ij said “they were more lik inte aceroa do I med pu flying bananas than flyin Saucers.” he picture that Spanish newspaper readers saw DAILY GRAPHIC APRIL 20 1950 LONDON ENGLAND ocatD 62 De tg JUL 1950 CB OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE Ji LA ISSS AMER CAN EMBASSY LONDON ENGLAND NOT [PAGE 78] Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Mohr Tele Room Nobody is in ity helSai espa it carries 70 pounds of instruments ‘Saucer’ Denial Held\sic:et ce a long tail and flies up to 100,000 Ohh feet in the air When the weird al la to ussla contraption is launched off the at ground it is filled to only one percent Of its capacity with helium New York April 10 P).—Air At high altitudes expansion causes Force denials that “flying saucers” it to blow itself up into a gigantic exist are “worth a billion dollars monster 100 feet tall and 70 feet’ to the Russians in the ‘cold war,’” in diameter tall as an eight-story Radio Commentator Henry Tay-|building all in pulsating plastic.” lor said tonight Qaylor said some of these ve- Taylor said over the ABC net- hicles travel all over America 20 work that this country has several miles up in the sky At sunset unconventional air vehicles that the whole contraption glows and could be taken for “flying saucers.” can be seen as long as 30 minutes He described one as a fantastic @fter darkness contraption “in pulsating plastic,” The -struments are floated back as tall as an eight-story building 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 fo the Russians in the ‘com war’ President Truman and the Air Force both denied similar reports by Taylor last week that “flying saucers” are top-secret United States military inventions Taylor warned that if the Rus- siang suddenly announced they were sending “flying saucers’ around the world United States officials would have no way to stem’ American hysteria Taylor said the United States should announce et ptt “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.” fl ‘And this would be a true state- ment the commentator said Gaylor said that at an airfield near Minneapolis and also at other places the Navy is “launching into our high skies an enormous nd Tantastic type of veb™s WASHINGTON POST Page Date_“» [PAGE 79] DAILY TELEGRAPH AND MORNING POST APRIL 11 1950 LONDON ENGLAND FLYING SAUCER)?’ REPORT EERE ERED MAY BE BALLOON From Our Own Correspondent i PRESTON Monday An object whichfthey thought might have been flying saucer” was seen by three girls who were walking along the Preston-Lancaster main road near Preston yesterday afternoon “It looked like a very bright star in the east but was brighter than any star,” they said One of the girls Miss Lilian Spen- cer of Pole-street Preston said “It was oval-shaped and resembled the wing of a silver plane caught in the sunlight There was no sound of an engine and it had a peculiar swing- ine movetieny It was going against wind An Air ae ‘meteorological official pointed out that common error for people to speak of something travelling in a certe’ direction when they really meant that it was coming from that direc- tion If that was the case here it was possible that the object could have been a meteorological balloon blown over from Northern Ireland Mane Londoners reported on April hat th had fat a fly Saucer.” The Air Ministry explain tat if was a balloon used for te jumping which had its mooring at an R.A.F static Box in Oxfordshire [PAGE 80] 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 tied said maybe not but he has seen one himself Rep Mahon 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 ey said none of the armed gervices 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 gel of Michigan is tii€ man who says he saw one A member of Mahon’s subcommit- tee he also is a candidate for governor of Ano geo ee he 4sn’t helping dole out the money takes to keep the military de He said the fact that he saw flying disc may not be evidence put it sure was convincing It happened about p.m one ‘day last summer at Elsie Mich ‘Several other citizens all of them gober and well thought of saw it vo of them chased it in a but the thing unfortunately Af it high and too fast and got’ 4-26 Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Moh Tele Room Nease Gandy Not Informea—— am quite sure the mil establishment would have tc 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 th mone of the subcommittee’s Nesses ever owned up to any cc nection with saucers But then as far as he could recall nobody @ver asked them about it am confident of this,” Engel said “If there are any such things saucers they are ours not somebody else’s If another coun try were sending them over I am gure the subcommittee would have heard about it.” Cora Denials Repeated re tepea Air Force and Navy officia have been denying the exis nn Page ae Wash Post Wash News Wash Star N.Y Mirror [PAGE 81] Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Mohr Tele Room Nease Statement by Air Force “Sau cers ‘News’ Gandy Truman Other fficials Deny To Officials Knowled ge of ying saucers “raised the question at yesterday's sal eearnesnaa meeting of the Armed Forces Pol- By John Norris icy Council which includes the departmental secretaries and Joint ‘Chiefs of Staff Top officials and agencies of the|mild form of mass hysteria or See aucun ey Government—from President Tru- hoaxes.” ‘Forrest Sherman chief of naval man on down—joined yesterday in Parlier President ‘Truman an- operations ‘as well as other offi- an effort to convince the American nounced through his press secre-|cjals assured him the denials were public that “flying saucers” do not Ue at Key West Fla that hejsincere ‘and truthful exist knew absolutely nothing of such ‘The latest flareup of public in- formal statement issued by fying objects being developed by terest in the saucers resulted from the Air Force last night was most thé United States or any other’ na-|statements by Radio Commentator explicit It declared flatly that tion Henry Taylor and the weekly None of the armed forces is We are not denying this be-|news magazine United States News conducting secret experiments with cause of any development of secret and World Report that the saucers “dise-shaped flying objects which weapons,” sxid Secretary Charles|do exist and are revolutionary could be a basis for the reported Ross “but purely because we American aircraft probably devel- phenomena.” snow of nothing to support these oped by the Navy A Navy spokes- There is no evidence that the WMOrs man flatly denied this Monday latter stem from “the activities of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson Johnson said he is convinced the any foreign’ nation.” jsaid about the same thing at ajsaucers could not be experiments Evaluation of reports of re-/ews conference He told reporters}conducted by any other Govern- cen “sightings” bears out early|Be Was “satisfied there is nothing|ment agency outside his depart- conblusions that all can be ex- the reports.” ment because the Pentagon's He plained away as “misinterpretation Johnson said’ he had facetiously|search and Development Board co- of Various conventional objects aj See SAUCER Page Cst.2 josdinates all such activity mt 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 trai a emell streak of orang ne ‘After hovering for a shov straight up in disappeared he so SALA ath st Police Chief J.C Lee of Bliza- beth City Wl reported at “ay weird red and blue disc-like ob- ject” whizzed over the town early Sunday “traveling at a high rate lor shou Post Reporter NOY RECORDED pi 42 WASHINGTO Boat igi Page eaoeesne Date [PAGE 82] But the Navy Says ‘No’ Saucers’ New-T ype Aircraft robably Navy By Jobu agazine Say Norris Post Reporter “Plying saucers’ are radically new type aircraft forming to known areodynamic laws and probably developed by the United States Navy the maga- zine United States and World Re- port said yesterday This latest effort to explain the continuing reports of strange ‘fly- ing disks at various points over the country brought a prompt denial from the Navy Department that it is now “conducting research or flying” any such plane or missile i A spokesman pointed out that the Navy did‘develop the “pan- cake-shaped” Chance-V ough XF5U-1 but that it never flew and was scrapped more than a year and “much more adyanced models ago A small 3000-pound scale model of the plane was flown and pictures of it have been released put this model is now at Norfolk awaiting shipment to the National Air Museum here The weekly news magazine did inot quote any authority for its statement that the “flying saucers’ arejreal American planes but sai tha “engineers competant to ports of reliable observ »praige Te he conclusions rea these “They are at jonary type Com ae and fast jet plane They eesue to well-known principles of co eer -odynamics- ALUN gene “exactly 105 feet in di- eis circular in shape’”’ and “are ameter metal alloy swith a dul jor There are no rud- Dea or other protruding ders oe rom the side the caucers surface’ us pe about 10 feet thiek apper saucer appeats to haye a “pach -ariable-direction series Jes used the whitis its rims a arouy Direction of unknown a atly By which the jet nozz he number operating splied Me and the a ot could ma Sr descend vert ahea Ally sau 2er poppers is sharp urns for exam le wv straight t}Made 100 successful flights reraft of a revolu- ombination of heli- jet io ot SU6L nd its velocity in are controlled by Ven dd whieh nozzles to in fact ing off the rear jets turning on the side and front nozzles “Great speed can be obtained by focusing to the rear all nozzles in the after half of the aircraft With all nozzles pointed down- iward the saucer could rise ‘straight off the ground and with less power could descend the same way “Jet helicopter action makes takeoffs and landings almost ‘completely safe.” The magazine said that an early model of the saucer was built by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics experts in 1942 and The Navy then took over development now are being built.” NACA Engineer Charles Zim- merman designed the first model which had a’speed of from 400 to 500 miles an hour and was pow- ered by two piston propellers said the article “Surface indications,” the mag- azine went on “point to research centers of the United States Navy's vast guided-missile project as ae scene of present filying-saucer de- velopment.” The project it was said has the “scientists the en- gineers the dollars the motive and the background” for the “This likelihood will remain igpite any future denials by the il Navy front office until secrecy is lifted,” the magazine added The Navy declared itvayas true lthat its abandoned “flying pan- Jeake” was designed by Zimmer- man and was called the “Zimmer- lman Skimmer,” It added that-a lst smaller scale model—one- tfird of actual size—is still at ‘ACA’s Langley Va laborat for wind-tunnel tests but Wavy insisted it had no such proj- ect now active The Air Force after many months of investigation of “flying saucer” reports concluded that all the evidence pointed to “misin- iterpretation of various conven- tional objects a mild form of mass Steria or hoaxes.” ya or make i pight-angle tom cowd be made by yr pe Ay “he Original ‘Flying Saucer jegnch ‘Associated Press Pholp flown by the Navy und a Model of aircraft developed in 1948 an brag tte Maseciet Se yadio control—full-size craft never flew 102 3874.4 ROD RES GRAND 83 APR 11 1950 WASHINGTON POST Dated 444-59 [PAGE 83] flying ie comes this up-to-the-minute ry of report and rumour about al mystery ore the skies NOUGH AMERICAN EMBASSY AO THE DAILY MAIL APRIL 1950 LONDON ENGL AND [PAGE 84] York Sunday VER since Ken- neth Arnold 30-year-old ry business-man Boise Idaho ched off the “flying mystery by report- nm the afternoon of 1947 that he had “nine shiny discs like ub-caps flip-fiap- mg at about 1,200 only one fact seems ncludes the U.S Air investigating group of Intelli- gare with headquarters ne it was stated in a -down that all ventional.” aerial objects included jan cosmic-ray balloons radar targpt balloons with dangling strips pf aluminium foil meteor traifs wisps of or whole vapour trams Thege experimental from high-flying aircraft bright ‘planets i Mild form of mass hysteria Hoaxes A But steadily from 1947 up till a few aye ago reports of curious oplecte pee VE ae in oy air” eep ‘from all over the vonited States The ve now been reported cea Te See rit ming from the South and east and near the Mex They have also of course been Shing the Far Mast vows-of-fiehts in the qari oranee aoeniee coming from Ls Sometimes ney hai ported shaped like tu spheres But two facts seem constant hey are al either white or sil move across the sky ing way tilting firs tion then the oth falling before finally ing into nothing horizon Pilot's ch OXE us Air I ‘Capt Thomas st his life some mo hg to catch up wil ‘at looked like eam cone topped An experienced with several thous er near Fort Knox Kentu the control tower Godman Field to locate pee [PAGE 85] ae last report OR 25 minutes Mantejl and the two other pilo tried vainly to close in Mant ‘reported the object was climbing and moving at a speed equal to his oe which he gave as 360 broken cloud at 18,000ft the other two Pilots lost sight of him later broke off and landed -Mantell called once more to say aint the ames cae That was the last heard from him His body was later found near ‘Fo ore Knox and the wreckage of ‘Ris machine scattered over halff'a le around Obviously his plahe disintegrated in mid-air Official Air Force version it Mantell had probab blacked out” from lack of gen and had not regained con- lousness before he crashed out “of control ill a mystery UT one of his fellow-pilots think cee Ss cone ae We at was “Ul pee as too experiens aced a pilot it He oe ait fam nee of appre ig ‘anOxt ia mou have uarter years a multitude sople on the ground cla have seen these flying saucers}” hor have they ae been sei ith the naked tye many sa hem through “binoculars But the fact that first started the U.S Air Force to sit up take notice and then institute Pro- ject Saucer” was the large number of ener responsible pilots and aircrew members who sent in startling ff what they claimed ‘to One of the “pg” ep is evident from ee el eie Doe ete ia hen prilian pbi se suddenly put [PAGE 86] ee i Pan a UB NEWS CHRONICLE OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHES LONDON ENGLAND 4MERICAN EMBassy APRIL 1950 [PAGE 87] In the huge menlagon building Washington headquarters of Defence Department therefis in Air Force major whose dufy is to repeat to all inquirers the ubstance of the jast Air Forte statement on flying saucers issued on December 27 1949 Mass hysteria On the basis of inquiries into 375 alleged occurrences over a period of two years it was an- nounced “Reports identified flying objects are the result of mi nterpretation of various conventi mal objects or a mild form of mass hysteria or hoaxes.” ‘It was said a ‘continuance of the inquiry “unwarranted.” But in as appeared during the last month that lgredible witnesses who say jpave seen flying saucers ar bey ed [PAGE 88] OME Thursday.—A fiving sauce as reported ¢ver Milan toda en later it yas discovered th ht boys had ‘attached rockets fo etal disc and set th he roof of a high Dress News Service Re coieket saucer’ DAILY EXPRESS London England MARCH 31 1950 be toe wot REX ORDED 85 APR 191950 [PAGE 89] luing saucers— and “ROME Wednesday Flyin saucers again—over Italy now This is what people in five different areas reported ve Salo on Lake Garda.—A dise as large as a full tioon streaking towards the north-east Carrara.—Four three miles up flying southwards Calabria.— Disc “like a moon with a wake of fwe” speeding westwards Sardinia A flying sauce tyMained suspended 20 second tgen disappeared to the sout d’Aosta.—-A disc flying ovet ad—Reuter OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE AMER CAN EMBASSY LONDON BNGLAND EVENING STANDARD MARCH 29 1950 LONDON ENGLAND lod at “Ethics RECOR i icp BRAPR20 1950 APRILO t059 [PAGE 90] ‘Hlying fact or flight of ‘Jancy ICHARD GARRETT traces the history of an aerial phenomenon which gave America sky-war jitters Professor Cotton of Sydney University was discus- asked them to stand still train ‘their eyes on a point in the ‘sky about a mile away iN Within ton minutes 22 members of the class were see saucers.” i ‘The hallucination was merely the effect of red blood corpuscles passing in front of the eye retina sing with his students the mystery of the flying saucers He OPPICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE SUNDAY GRAPHIC AMERICAN Seuss MARCH 26 1950 LONDON ENGLAND LONDON ENGLAND OG APR11 1950 [PAGE 91] saucers” are he news New York comes a report that Captain Jack dams pilot of the Chicago “4nd Southern Airlines radioed that he and a co-pilot had crossed the path of a large fly- ing saucer with lighted windows and a peculiarly blinking light on the North Portugal coast flying in line formations and moving west tracer bullets.” So the 1950 saucer season is to have opened early st report of these strange can June 25 1947 saw five more rotating round a Speculations travelling at about “faster than duced an article in which he claimed to have received a “message via a medium that there were people aboard the saucers.” Re -They came from another planet and wished to try liy- ing on earth In Britain “saucers reported over Brighton be and another was seen by a clergyman’s wife at Sandwich Back in America President Truman compared the rumours to the scare of over a hundred years ago when word got around that there were and bats living moon The neatest fi ing saucer” ‘quipping came from Mr Gromyko at quarters i “Some,” he said “attribute them to the British for export- ing too much whisky to the U.S others that it is a Russian discus thrower training for the Olympic Games who does In December 1949 the official body which had be established in America to pro the “saucers” was disband It had been in operation fe two years and had investigat 375 incidents Theat It said that the phenomenon was caused by a misinte pretation of various conven- tional objects a mild form of mass hysteria hoaxes And there one might have imagin saucers” grounded Fellow travell The present ee saucerisms reach arch [PAGE 92] Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Expert ‘Explains’ Belmont Mohr Flying Saucers 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 “sccording to those designs,” ‘he*— aoe tented said in an interview “the disks -eould carry a cargo of explosives of any kind—and today an atomic pomb—to destroy entire cities.” Of the present rash of reports of “flying saucers,” which the -Air Foree has declared are without foundation in fact Sr Belluzzo said “Tt has passed my mind that some great power is experimenting with fiying disks—without explosives or atomic bombs DRAFTED PLANS “There is nothing supernatural about flying disks It’s just the most rational use of recently- evolved techniques.” Sr Belluzzo said he personally A had drafted plans for a “flying @isk” 32 feet in diameter but claimed they disappeared with Mus-’ “oe golini when he fled to northern yve Htaly in 1943 “Both Hitler and Mussolini were interested ied ne ces he ae “phe principle of the flying dise POC is very simple Its construction is Jor RECORDED easy and.can be done with very 135 APR 18 1950 ight metal oh ee jet pipes placed on either noe side of the rim of the disk provide the locomotion The orifices of these jet tubes are adjustable to a permit maximum and minimum a speeds PILOT NOT NEEDED «pyopulsion comes from a mix- ture of compressed air and naphtha -the same fuel used in modern jet Bs janes a «phe air is mixed under pressure age and ignited at first by cartridges and then by an electrical device Pate cpeenti ‘Terrific pressure set up and the expanding gas forced out thru the Jet pipes re’ “The reaction comirig from the opposing pines oo Le the start the entire Us re Saving making it airborne.” aon Noss The missiles could be aimed like the wartime German rockets said avd would descend when ee fuel was exhausted or cut off an automatic timing device No guman pilot would be required fen bes is ne Wash Post av i i CH WAY os bas heb fol N.Y Mirror [PAGE 93] THE DAILY MATL FEBRUARY 27 1950 LONDON ENGLAND FICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHD fed ‘AN EMBASSY [PAGE 94] Tolson ra Clegg Glavin Harbo Nichols Rosen Tracy Mohr Fletcher Le Tele Room Nease Gandy Sper Page ee Wash Post Wash News AGS IY Vor RECORDED Wash Star FEB 1950 N.Y Mirror [PAGE 95] saucers,” observat on high- flying rockets apons and possibly men to wh irl endlessly far out in space today seem like pipe dreams of a mad world.of fantasy “They may be harbingers of a wild new world to come The air force as early ag” Jast spring said officially that the flying saucers “are ‘not a joke.” I Air force puchories even now jmay be preparing an -announce- ment stating that the flying ‘ses are real objects not merely fig ments of imagination as far as the ir force is concerned The es th satellite vehicles carry- hat i discs ‘from ee eatin of old ives’ tales and the bubble ‘talk of guys who have ha snifters too many hid No such ‘ship has as yet heen built according to best infor med ideas for one en forgotten Gravity gradually falls off aa out in space beyond -the earth scientists explain It never quite ends they say but at 5000 miles it is relatively weak spaceship could easily be kept in position there,” accord- ing tZ [PAGE 96] fissing Infentor Hu i Mr Clegg es Mr Glavin Mr Ladd or Clue to ‘Saucers i By United Press Air Force investigators—skeptical but intrigued ave trying today to locate an eccentric inventor yho more than 10 years ago built two contraptions that look like “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 years ‘Tt is apparent that both ships would give the appear- ance of flying discs,” an Air Force spokesman said NO REAL PROOF An Air Force officer last night described the two crafi as “definite prototypes of flying saucers,” but the service hedged today A spokesman objected to the word “prototype,” saying he Air Force has only reports of what flying saucers look like and has never established that such things ac- ually were seen A The Maryland inventor Jonathan E-SGaldwell disap- eared in 1940 The only possibility of an connection between his old abandoned devices and the rumored “fly- ing saucers” of recent years would lie in the possibility Mr Gurnea Mr Harbo Mr Mohr Mr Pennington Mr Quinn Tamm Mr Nease Miss Gandy 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 attentioy during the periodic excitement over “flying saucers” Jin the past two years But they would like to find out what happened to Mr Caldwell after he left Marylandand 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 geiting 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 prise “Gray Goose Airways Inc.” Previously he had been ordered to stop selling stock in New Jersey and New York NOT NATURALLY DISHONEST Robert 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 A Vv ih taf Vd SOT RECORDED GA SEP 28 1945 Ihe had something and I doubt if he thought he was eing dishonest.” For two years Air Force investigators have been run- ning down clues from coast to coast on reports of flying saucers The Air Force in the main has taken a skeptical attitude toward the reports Its last official report said it just didn’t have conclusive evidence that they either did or didn’t exist ONE TESTED HERE Some of the flying saucers have been reported seen from the air but traveling at such high speed as to make pursuit impossible One military pilot crashed to his death reportedly while chasing a flying saucer One of the craft found in the Maryland barn reported flew here briefly around 1939 It was said to have Botten one 75 feet in the air an me ship resembled a helicopter But in I blades it had a disc-like Megice seat 16 feet Tera oe The device resembled two saucers revolving to cae Small rotor blades jutted from between the tw Bt top The other craft named the “Roto-Plane,” Wes ttes a plywood tub about 14 fect in diameter py,0° ed like in the middle The engine was in the tub Rae euot ve and bottom rims of the tub were four-blaq a as top which reyolved in opposite directions ed-Propellers WASHINGTON NEWS Page ye ne Mr Tolson Mr A Tamm Mr Nichols [PAGE 97] WASHINGTON NEWS PAGE ao [PAGE 98] lying Saucer’ fory Deflated By AirForce Experimental Craft Will Be Examined For Other Clues The Air Force’s long search for ‘flying saucers” has turned up two contraptions almost as weird as anything yet described by the most ‘Wwild-eyed “witnesses” of two sum- mers ago eld for the examination of ex- perts’ are two weather-beaten remnants of an inventor’s dream uncovered ye ‘in a tobacco shed neat Glén Burnie Md an “outer suburb of Baltimore An official Air Force stateme issued today said “the two ex- perimental aircraft found negr Baltimore yesterday have absq- Jutely no connection with the re- ported phenomenon of flying sau- ers.” This does not mean how- ver that they will not be sxamined for other clues by Air loree representatives it was said The relics are more than 10 years’ od and so far as can be determined only one,of them ever ‘ob off the ground under its own power This occurred in Wash- i almost years ago and ended in near-disaster after flight of about 60 seconds ——~Pilot Tells of Test Hop ‘The inventor Jonathan Sent well who is now over 70 if stil iving and his wife and son left Glen Burnie in 1940 after Mary- jand 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 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 Myr.’ 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 ait 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 do ‘Iafely and he crash landed qa Ine vace track He was uni red but the machine was dart- aged sch Lived Here Several Years iggers said the saucey rotors was design a wing after the shp ad attained cruising altitu The rotor would then be stopp and the ship flown with the con- ventional propeller He explained however that this was theory because the ship was never flown egain 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 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 the bat- tered fuselage were found in the shed along with a plywood box jike a huge circular cheesebox those top and bottom sections vere designed to revolve in oppo- ite directions with short rotors vojecting 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 yoto-plane ideas The vemains 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 ea ee eS ee woT BA SEP 23 1949 WASHINGTON STAR Page___A 18 Builder Was getpenter i The huncont ps8 of i ight wingless ge with vopeller’ in front and a tripog ver the cockpit which mounte saucer-like rotor and it 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 neal studied the science of aeronautics in several books had a far less conventional idea in his ‘flying cheesebox.” i 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 Caldwell’s friends said They admitted the 1,500-pound ccntraption nev fiew bul said Mr Caldwell ha claimed that a light model prove successful The inventor earlier had triet third model This looked something like a complicated hay rick on wheels and had rotors designed to fan the airgsomewhat 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 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- iell’s’ companies Gray Gogse Abways Inc and Rotor Planfs ine He later restrained the firths 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 stogk In his report Mr Clappssaid “The literature used tion with these stock Sqies 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 Caldivell 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 Satisfac tory commercial basis The history of the develop ment'of these companies indicated that they were organized merely for the purpose of raising’ money to develop the ideas of Mr Gaiq- well and that as soon as this Money was raised it was treateq as belonging solely to him and oa the subject of any use which he aes proper i “No meeting of stockholders has eyer been held by either cope oan no Uru report to sicek olders has ever come out Grianleaion® at one Me pTolso legg Glavin Ni stole Yas Rosen Tracy Harbo Mohr Tele Room Nease Band [PAGE 99] IR FORCE FINDS ‘FLYING SAUCERS’—This is JonathamE Caldwell’s “Gray Goose” helicopter pictured before it made a near-disastrous test flight of about a minute in Washington nearly years ago Washington Star Page A 18 [PAGE 100] Washington Star Page A 18 [PAGE 101] but I Then ne ta Newspaper clips on the “ying as saucers” found in a Gle -———Warn last week have been oO Washington proaeed ClaeHiee reas nH Ost As part of a ‘Leport which contains other data th crammed into a fold “Confidential.” that ‘Mean a thing those an taite that ‘ose clippings out and tp anvbo body Air WASHINGTON DAILY FINAL EDITION DATE Uasfy Burnie Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Monreisis he Tele Room Nease Gandy [PAGE 102] he sr Discs AGO July ae ox JUL 17 1949 WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD Page__3_Sec- Tolson ClORE Glavin Ladd Nat Nichols Rosen Tracy Egan Gurnea Harbo Mohr Mr Pennington Mr Quinn Tamm Mr Nease iss Gandy Me Dhetobe nny [PAGE 103] 58 APR 20 1949 ses ewe This clipping is from the evening edition of The Washington Times Herald Date [PAGE 104] Tolson A Tamm Clegg Glavin Ladd Nichols Rosen Tracy Carson Egan Gurnea Harbo Hendon Jones Pennington Quinn Tamm Mr Nease Miss Gandy INDEXED 64 2.2 SS EX-109 19 tog ee mmeename meen WASHINGTON TIMES HERALD AFTERNOON EDITION i DATE “6-@-4 EC 946 [PAGE 105] RECORDED Gee 2kG SS i EX-93 IPPING FR¢ HE peu uhm Qudnhan 44 iat [PAGE 106] Gander for Saucers he Chief Awaiting Messagés rom Capital on Flying Discs yee The national leader of the Vet- jerans of Foreign Wars said yester-|% jday in Columbus Ohio that he was momentarily expecting word|% from Washington which would ex- plain the “flying saucers” mystery Louis Starr national com- mander of the VFW told the Ohio State encampment of the VFW that he might haye “within a oH ‘pours” an explanation from Wash- ington He had expected the mes sage at but it did not a ‘rive he said ‘00 little is being told the peo- pl¢ of this country,” Starr told the depgates undreds of persons in about 30 States have reported seeing fhe silvery saucer-shaped discs speeding through the skies at tre- mendous speeds An exhaustive check with the War Department and other agen- cies disclosed Jast night that no new’formation was available in Washington No one knew any- thing But a new tendency to jtake the reports a bit more se- viously 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 tray- eling northward at a rapid rate of speed at about that time He said tifey were at an altitude of between 4490 and 2000 feet and appeared ta be of a bright bluish hue he flying saucers produced a lsekies of speculations and at- See SAUCERS Page Column Associated Press WI ‘OTO IS 1T?—Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman 27 made this picture with a Speed Graphie camera from the front porch of his Seattle Wash residence It shows says Ryan a “white sau- cer” arrow that is neither an airplane a cloud nor a silver balloon So is it a “flapjack” or a saucer Or maybe a bottle cap Photo is enlarged about 20 times RECO i SS ‘wéers —Some Em and_Some Dot Tolson Mr Mr Carson Egan Gurnea Harbo Hendon Jones OS Pennington Quinn Tamm a Post Staif Photo DAVID ATAMIAN 5160 Shoemaker la Frien ip Heights Md said he sa’ ree or four flying dises Fr day about midnight THIS IS NOT ONE OF ’EM SAYS THE NAVY—The “fiyi pancake,” a wingless plane developed by the Navy is the ante plane it has which might resemble the reported “fying sac cers,” but officials in Washington said yesterday fie rab strange-looking aircraft has never left Bridgeport Cor thy thorities are still skeptical that the mystery missile wes nm seen in the skies over the West Coast ie rs Kast as the Carolinas are any sort of haw aeMtne Jl WASHINGTON POST Page [PAGE 107] FW Chief Aw aiting Message rom Capital on Flying Discs tempted explanations throughout the country yesterday A Los Angeles newspaper quoted an unidentified scientist in nuclear physics at the California Institute of Technology as saying the flying discs have resulted from experiments in “transmutation of atomic energy” being conducted at ‘Muroe Lake Calif White Sands Mex Portland Oreg and elsewhere The scientist whom the news- paper said had worked as a re- searcher on the atomic bomb “Manhattan Project,” was quoted as saying “People are not seeing things Such fiying discs actuaily are in experimental existence “These saucers so-called are eapable of high speeds but they can be controlled from the ground “They are 20 feet in width at center and are partially rocket- ‘opelled on the takeoff.” However other scientists were SKeptical about the claims of the utaamed California physicist Dr Harold Urey famed atomic scien- tist at the University of Chicago said the term “transmutation of atomie energy” is ‘‘gibberish.” “You can transmute metals but not energy,” and Dr Urey David Lilienthal chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission declared the unexplained discs are in no way connected with atomic ‘experiments Lilienthal said he’ couldn’t shed any light on the mystery and added “Until someone has the facts about this phenomenon can’ see how anyone can say anything definite about it.” And Dr GC Lauritsen head of the nuclear physics department at California Institute of Tech- nology said he was certain nobody in his department which includes’ Guard announced that the guard’s squadron would attempt to photo- graph any future apparitions of the dises He said six P-51 fighter planes equipped with gun and tele- scopic cameras would be kept ready to take off on a moment’s notice Col Clark commanding officer of the Hanford Engineering Works in the Pacific Northwest where the largest saucer influx has been reported said the saucers were not coming from the atomic plant there I have been waiting for some- one to tie the discs to the Han- ford atomic plant,” he said He declared that as far as he knew no experiments were under way there which would explain the mystery Two Chicago astronomers said the discs are probably ‘“man- made.” “They couldn’t be meteors,” said Dr Girard Kiuper ditector of Duvally/assistant’ super ory “We that the saucer “does fot’ eem to be an astronomical mena.” Credence in the saucers—wi iy laughed ‘off at their first reopen ‘appearance June 25—grew as hun- ‘dreds of observers some of them ‘trained fliers reported seeing them Wifi end A crowd of 200 observed a disc’ at Hauser Lake Idaho Friday and ja group of 60 picnickers saw them at Twin Falls Idaho And in Portland Oreg so many residents witnessed them that same day the’ police department sent out an ai cars broadcast The crew of a United Airlings plane said seyeral of the roun flat objects were visible for ab 12 minutes oat i i the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay Wis Dr Oliver Kee Northwestern University’s Dear- born Observatory said ‘We realize that the Army and Navy are working on ali sorts of things we know nothing about.” He said the mystery disks may represent an accomplishment simi- lar to that of sending radar sig- nals to the moon,” one of the great- est technological achievements of the war and accomplished in abso- lute secrecy,” Here in Washington Dr New bern Smith of the National Bureai of Standards expressed the opinio that all tie excitement is akin “those Loch Ness Monster stories,” The only comment offered by 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 physics.” if ‘Strangely enough the Murco Calif Army Air Base identified as one of the sites where the “secret experiments’ are being carried out announced that it had a PipO Inter plane standing by to give of the flying sauceks JUL 1947 WASHINGTON POST Page director of [PAGE 108] Mr Lad om Mr Nie Mr Rosen Mr Tracy VA Mr Carson Mr Egan Mr Gurnea ir Harbow aes OQ” Mr Hendon aby Jones Mr Pennington Mr Quinn’ Tamm MNease YUL 13 J947 WASHINGTON POST Page a [PAGE 109] Mr Tolson Mr A Tamm Zi wr Clege Mr Glavin val Mr ‘Ladd mvfeiichols Rosen Mr Tracy Mr Carson Mr Egan Mr Gurnea Mr Harbo Mr Hendon Mr Jones bk Pennington Quinn Tamm UL 1.2 1947 WASHINGTON STAR [PAGE 110] Tolson A Tamm Clegg Glavin Ladd LO Nichol soi Rosen Tracy Carson Egan Gurnea Harbo Hendon Pennington Mr Quinn Tamm Mr Nease Miss Gandy JUL 12 1947 WASHINGTON NEWS Page [PAGE 111] By the Associ ed a “Hood Federal Sireal of ane NORTH HOLLYWOOD Calif gation chief here said an FBI man had taken aloo aut the Cex July 10 satcer-shaped mechan- ical contraption resembling a military mutroniues The EBL ofice ‘chicken brooder top’ with a few said Mr Hood had not_other com gadgets added was found in a ger- anium’ bed at the home of Russell ‘Long construction engineer last inight and the first official reaction was from Fire att lion Chief Wal- lace pee yeon wha looked at it skeptically and “Tt doesn’t look to me could fly.” Department and excitedly inted to hed been bel hing smoke from th Long called the Van Nuys the metal saucer 30 infehes in diameter ‘which he said haust.p and emitting blue- ment hief Newcombe exhibited the object A radio tube on ‘top was set down into the upper half of the saucer which was about inches thick at the middle and tapered to Ja thin Perimeter There were ‘wires embedded in the There device object had nudge a few bricks pu jof the perder of his flower be al att 49 1947 WASHINGTON STAR Page Coffey Hci gid Nien YR Rosen Tracy Carson Egan Hendon Pennington Quinn Tamm Nease [PAGE 112] Mr Mr Tracy Mr Carson a ie Mr Egan While Science Sneers Metenalaes if Air Forces Intelligence Joins Gat Me trap Search for lying Saucers CME Nene if Miss Gandy Army Air Forces intelligence yesterday disclosed it has joined the search for_a_flying_saucer Bizarre reports on the whirling high-speed discs continued to pour i i i cement from the AAF much cynicism from science and the offer of $1900 for the first one downed The Air Forces which has juris- diction over the White Sands Mex Rocket Proving Grounds de- mied the saucers are any of its doing “No such phenomena can be explained by any experiments bding conducted,” the statement Sad ‘From the Naval Research Lab- Opatory’ i Ee Lee came the curt comment “We concur in the Army announce- Ment.” ither denied existence of the dises but the AATF said statements of witnesses are being correlated “in an effort to identify the re- ported objects.” With few States in the Nation without at least one flying saucer report the AAF has a chore A Navy flier with five years’ experience tabbed the discs as “space ships” after at first consid- ening all reports as “crazy.” He nged his mind he said in Ala- and about 50 other persons saw a group of about “50 of the saucers in triangular formation near Au- burn Saturday.” One report which won’t trouble the AAF is that of a commercially operated converted P-38 whose pilot said he had knocked one of the “pearl-colored clam-shaped airplanes” out of the Montana sky He admitted the story was a hoax In Washington Dr Haf- stad executive ‘secretary of thi Joint Research and Developme Board and former director of Johns Hopkins Applied Physi Laboratory said “Poppycock!” is Dr Jesse Sprowls psychology professor at the University of Maryland said “There is abso- lutely no limit to the delusion that the mind can harbor A tremend- ously interesting social psychologi- cal delusion,” he added Dr Ivan McDougle of Balti- more’s Goucher College said he guessed “it’s one of those phycho- logical epidemics where people see things that aren’t there.” But Zohn 440 Mellon st se who works in the rocket-sonde high altitude research section of the Naval Research Laboratory yesterday reported he and three other men saw one “saucer” New Mexico June 29 He describ¢d da Calif yesterday after he See SAUCERS Page Colamn JUL8 1947 WASHHINGTON Post Page [PAGE 113] rene WO xX [PAGE 114] Report New Red Planes Ikesemble salesmsenecnreemarmerens eset Special to the Journal-American LOS ANGELES July Federal agenis today investi- gated a letter to The Examiner describing Russian supersonic pearance anceeraremer ‘atom-powered planesresembline the “flying saucers.’ aan A top-flight atomic scientist to whom The Examiner referred the letter said it was “not all nonsense,” and suggested the -Matter_be fumed over “to” the 92 me I The letter writer said he got the information from an officer aboard a Russian tanker re- cently in Los Angeles harbor The Russian he said also vibed experiments with con the anu trolled radioactive clezt2 Arctic where birds animal even worms were killed INCHES THICK The planes as descried by the ssian to the writer are only 18 inches thick with a kidney- shaped outline and no propellors The pilot lies on his stomach and is artificially cooled against the heat developed by air friction “The outer surface ih highly polished,” the Russian said “Both upper and lower surfaces are convex like a giant lens The lifting force is an entirely different principle found about 10 years ago among unpub- lished papers of a Russian chemist “Energy is required only for limbing but no energy is eeded for support when the irplane goes along the earth’s gravitational contour lines.” the strange letter Bureau Interest said he met the Russian officer in Wilmington and because he wanted to hear about Russia in- vited him to be his gucst at dinner ESTROYS ALL LIFE ‘The Russian first asked eee he could sell 18 Polar bear pelts which he received “for very dangerous work i He said he had been assigned jto go over the route of the radio- active cloud near Lake Bakal Baykal and pick up dead animal “Rhee leaded a few small shin with all Kinds of animals ani directed the cloud over them’ the writer said “During this experiment a vio- lent storm blew the cloud far north into the tundra but be- fore it dissipated it destroyed all life on its way “The cloud may be controlled from land from a plane or from a robot-piloted ‘leader.’ As I understand it the control is based on electro-magnetic waves and the cloud has two compo- nents The carrier and the killer HAVE ATOMIC ENERGY asked him if the Russians have an atomic bomb He said he doubted it because the atomie bomb cannot be used without killing innocent people such children and women But the have atomic energy which th use for propelling supersoni airplanes.” The writer said he asked the Russian officer to another dinner but when he came the second time jhis father was leaving unexpect- ledly and he could only say good- bye The nuclear physicist consulted by The Examiner said it was diffi cult to appraise the value of the jletter because of the writer's “echnical ignorance.” “The remark implying that the Russians wouldn't use the aiom bomb if they had it Is nonsense Who Russians would like very tauca-we have the bomb,” the physicist said [PAGE 115] oivistow oF PRESS INTELLIGENCE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET mo VB Te me aleu amy rr eta a dl ia Aly lah TH Federal ee ee in- vestigated a letter to the Exam- iner describing Russian super- sonic atom- yvered planes re- sembling th lying saucers.” top-flight ‘Scientist to whom miner referred the letter’ said it was-“not all nonsense,” suggested the matter be tur over to the FBI he letter writer said he got ithe information from an officer an kaniser ad he’ said also “\}pectedly and he could only say The Russi scribed experiments yo co he nd even worms The plane ie to ee thick with a Haney shaped outline and no propellers Fa as pilot lies on his stomach the Russiad said and is artifi- gially cooled ed by sal a one is hi See aid the Russian told yr OG upper and Jower him gr pee like a surf i tenes ‘Phe lifting force is gian tively different principle feat poor 10 years aes among unpul papers of a chenys pene at one of Russia’s re- a earch labor atories oponerey is req climbing but no ed for SUPP es plane go grav Atational red only fer AL GECKING aid they had Eno no aboutsthem in the city or county sin¢e Saturday The writer of the straige ret- ter said he met the Russian offi- cer in Wilmington and becaus the wanted to hear about Russia invited him to dinner The Russian first-asked where’ he could sell 18 polar bear nelis 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 over theni,” the writer said “During this experiment a violent storm blew the cloud far north into the tundra but before it dissipated it de- Stroyed all life on its way “The cloud may be controlled ffom land from a plane or fiom a robot piloted ‘leader.’ ig based on electro-magneti waves and the cloud has tw components The carrier an the killer “YT asked him if the Russiang have an atomic bomb He said he doubted it because the 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- good-by The nuclear physicist consulted by the Examiner said it was dif- ficult to appraise the value of ihe letter because of the writers technical ignorance.” “fhe remark implying that he Russians Would’ tont bomb if they nancense ‘TI nee pomb.” On the other the efforts of Some groups Who take advantage of “all this flying dise talk” to stir up Suspicion of Ruissia'swintentions The Examiner had twWo° more yeports of flying dises ya@sterday A ‘ed Dodee_of Anth jiqn avenue Sai igke Park at 2:08 Ty saw one flying westwar 2500 to 8000 feet He said it was silent round and shiny and was not an airplane is I understand it the control i Se at 500 feet vere round and he watched rene Tolson A Tamm Clegg Glavin Ladd Nichols Rosen Tracy Carson Egan Gurnea Harbo Mr Hendon Mr Jones Leonard Pennington Quinn Tamm Mr Nease Misa Gandy Men [PAGE 116] ‘an Army Air toes a ng sa ane ‘disclosed today that the AAF be- a Sapt Tom Brown of AAF public ms said the tales of fiat objects zipping through the re ‘widespread to be ground- Bi xinted out that a number airmen have reported nomena that have of the Nation since in “For 10 days he declared the AAF has been checking on the stories “and we still haven't the slightest idea what fhe things can be.” ‘Meanwi reports pf “flying saucers” as well umber of scientific and Clipped from WASHINGTON EVENING SPA the three or four “pying sauc eling north at great “sper p.m Friday Mr A scribed himself as said he was sure he taken The discs he si ain cal ti an nek bluish hue eh Government sources denied that any tests are being conducted that might be the answer to the mystery Hi A Navy official said the Navy had pho’ checked all ifs facilities to deter- mine whether any were sending aloft objects that could account for strange sights The answers negative vi Ellentha sham an of th fc mene ission “FLYING SAUCERS Pg for [PAGE 117] Nichols-....-.-- Rosen Pennington jMore About Saucers jeg Priest inds ‘Whirring’ Dise In Yard and Holds It for FBI Chicago July W.P).—A Catho-FBI office’ said he hadn't heard lie priest at Grafton Wis said Yet about the disc but that an offi- ial report might be at his office tonight that a round mefal dise which might be one of the myster- RRA EL AU ENG SUL i “fyi ‘ported “seen” by persons in 30 eee Be Cae pee frahed’ States but Brasky’s dise was the holding it/tok the edevall eg he ee oe es een Bureau of Investigation jfound—if that is what was found The Rey Joseph Brasky of St‘ His report came a few hours Joseph's Church at Grafton ag after a military pene made an miles north of Milwaukee said deruenccee i apa Gash in an at heard a swishing and tempt to track down ong of the whirring qiscs and the Army and scientists noise this morning A second later ought to ascertain whether coast- he said he heard a thud and aocoast reports 2dcut the discs mild explosion He investigated and found BAe ara ne By were tact sheet metal dise about 18 inches in 4pm i planes scoured the north- diameter resembling a circular west pacific skies for them without saw blade eReRa Tad al itrece’tl Lana duanieatt will a was wart su today and one “eyewitness” even reported having seen one of eee Se ne ete dises take off in Arizona A PUA St Louis railroad man exhibited inch thick,” he said some paper “discs” he said he had There was a hole about one seen floating over St Louis inch in diameter in the middle of the dise he said and in the open- The flying saucers which have ing were “gadgets and ‘some|peen reported skimming through wires.” Faas ep The priest said he did not know DEES See ae ann Pak ate i 200 miles have eluded eae ois his discovery were important ths whether it might be an elab- ly keen eye of radar i a Pe es ie Capt Tom Brown of the An rm i lH Johnson of the Milwaukee See SAUCERS Page Col 24 44 wwe is 194 A Terarsa gomarse mot ff THE WASHINGTON POST PAGE DATE__2- 7-4 [PAGE 118] SAUCERS From Page I Priest Finds ‘Whirring’ Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI said the Army Airways Communi- fée best way I can describe it,” cations Service had reported late gaid Kennedy “‘was that it looked lyesterday that so far its raday ike an orange lamp bulb without lscopes throughout the country the socket It was going faster than have been unable to pick up any 28Y jet plane I’ve ever seen jstrange objects in flight Tn Hagerstown Md Mrs Mad- And in the Pacific Northwest— elyn Ganoe 30 said she had seen lwhere most of the fly-happy plat- five of the discs racing in 2-1-2 ters have been reported—the Army formation at “terrific speed,” from jhas radar equipment which ean her backporch “They sounded like ‘pierce fog and darkness and pick|a faraway train,” she said jup objects in the sky 200 miles In the wake of these new eye- laway witness accounts came a new series Even so Brown acknowledged of Comments and explanations but jthat the Air Forces had decided most of them were tinged with a “there’s something to this” and Slight tendency to laugh off the ‘had been Chepking it for 10 days Whole thing “And we still haven't the slight- Dr Winfred Overholser nation- lest idea what they could be,” he ally known psychiatrist and super- es a new wrinkle—the report- pital here said it “has some of the ed landing of a fleet of eight skim-|eatmarks of being national hys- iming platters—was reported from teria Lis Haye Idaho in full view of 10 persons A “2verytime someone comes up Dishman Idaho housewife said with a sea-serpent story,” said Dr she and others in her party had Overholser “others with vivid seen the saycers land on a mou imaginations ere they- have tainside near St Maries Idaho Seen the same thing She said they came into view at The critical faculty in man the an extreme speed suddenly slowed last one he received is still not i Post by telephone from may be because of hysteria thisss-seer nearby and large ones at great distances “The one outstanding fact abo virtually all the saucers is th they had no structure —thes seemed merely round and flat ‘Thgt description fits exactly with the tricks that eyes play ‘This itrickiness varies with differences in weather and lighting.” i However Nova Hart St Louis mechanic who was trained during service in the war fo spot all types of aircraft yesterday offered a minute description of one the flying patterns which he claimed he saw flying at an altitude of about aircraft designer told The that until he sees a flying saucer he “wouldn’t like to pass- judg- ment.” He agreed with Dr Ovérholser that much if not ali of the’ story “After all,” he said “we are more or less an hysterical Nation.” Major de Seversky said it was pos- sible that the persons who claim to have seen the aerial discs have 800 feet Reporter Sees One He described it as circular with a ribbed framework and silver would fire them so promiscuously,/convineing A Los Angeles news- jintendent of St Elizabeths Hos- instead glimpsed the exhaust of|Stay in color He said it appeared jet-propelled planes to have a motor with a propeller He conceded too that they,attached in the center and that it might guided missiles let loose|Kept turning like an airplane do- as part of an experiment but!ing a slow roll added Although many explanations don't think the Government have been offered none has been They would test them in one spot,|PaPer quoted an unnamed nuclear in an isolated area like they did Physicist as saying the silvery discs the atomic bomb.” resulted from experiments in the Maj Gen Curtis LeMay who tansmutation of atomic energy,” as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for This report was rapidly herde Research and Development would imto the hoax column by Davi know if the saucers involved ex- Lilienthal chairman of the Ato periments with guided missiles nergy Commission and several commented prominent atomic scientists “Whatever these people have Starr Expects Word seen it hasn’t been anything re- Louis Starr national com- sulting from experiments by the mander of the Veterans of Foreign Army Air Forces As for as I’m)Wars announced Saturday at Co- concerned there's nothing to it/lumbus Ohio that he was expect- Ri A “very well developed Scratch the and then ae ed like leaves to surface and you find the same mass the Peak jetenious partwas Hed hysteria which predominated dur- ling the witchcraft scare Some’ we couldn’t see them after they))sergons are quite ready to ste landed,” she said “We could see things and follow beliefs.” I them flutter down into the timber mderi Dr Overholser said that when yet we seul hea they’ didjihe made his rounds of the mental thing to the jany “|\patients yesterday at St Eliza- She said she hoped to hike into’ Heths not a one commented on the the timber tomorrow and search fying saucers story for the objects which she said were think they may be a little saucer-shaped but resembled wash- skeptical,” he added tubs more than disks and were However Dr Overholser said he “apout the size of a five-room’ wasn’t trying to dismiss the matier house.” as a joke “because there are so Locally Hazen Kennedy of 2615 many strange things going on to- 4th st ne reported he had sgen_day that one can’ be sure.” one passing over the Northeast Maj Alexander de Seversky section of the city at about 8:40 BR This would be the first one te- ported over the District although others have heen reported over nearby Maryland Kennedy who has 125 hours flying time as a student pilot in tif Army Airy Forces to his credit Sald he believed the saucer hel hal ‘seen was traveling at “well ovpr’ 1000 miles an hour at an altitude of between 1200 and 1500 feat Socom ie lated” Press science editor said the at all The whole thing is un-|ing “momentarily” information fortunate.” from Washington which would ex- General LeMay refused to dis- Plain the dashing discs But the cuss whether the Air Forces has)Message never arrived guided missiles which can attain The Air Forces said that Gen speeds of 1200 miles Carl Spaatz Air Forces chief was “There's been too much said ae pagan ae a where tide’ i he Most of the saucers have been re- areue Bulag missiles now,” he porte Sait ade a that tis baal j.\there was planned two months REGIE CAC cs ago long before the saucers scare General Spaatz is expected back in Washington late tomorrow cud Muroe Army Air Field in Cali- whole business may be an optical illusion “At any distance which is close Yo the ani ORM OW Fak“ fornia had a P-80 jet fighter stant lin a person ling by and the National Guard can see,” he wrote “all objects Oregon had prepared six regul appear round or nearly so This!fighters to give chase shoul law of sight covérs both small lsaucers be réported nearby THE WAS PAGE DATE NGTON POST [PAGE 119] 54 sky She is the firstfports of strange objects sech in known observer to claim what she|the sky and had reached thejcon- saw was stationary All the rest clusion that some sort of meteor have spoken of tremendous speeds jites were responsible Mrs Kole said all she could think Astronomers at the Naval ob- of was a blazing disc Alexandria|servatory and Georgetown wUni- police looked in the direction she|versity who admitted they have indicated but the disc had gone jbeen on the alert for flying Jack Labous an artist 3500|S@ucers as they swept the skies block East Capitol St reported With their powerful telescopes in ‘Acme Telephoto Can This Be the Secret nder discussion as a possible solution to the “sauper” ystery is the Navy’s “lying Flapjack,” shown aljove Yipping along with its landing gear retracted this plane svould seem to be a supper plate spinning through the sky JUL seeing one of the “things” flying over Bethesda He described it as flat disc with a cone shape under it and a stick like a radio antenna projecting from the bottom.” The scientist who claimed to know something about the “saucers” was described by a Los Angeles newspaper as a member of the California Institute of Technology staff May Be Real He Says He was quoted as saying “trans- mutation of atomic energy” ex- periments might be responsible He was said to have been a re- searcher on the Manhattan proj- ect that made the atom bomb and was quoted as saying “These so-called saucers are ca- pable of high speed but can he controlled from the ground They are 20 feet wide in the center and are partially rocket propelled on the take off People are not seeing things Such flying discs actually are in experimental existence.” Experiments with these “discs” ‘were reported as being in progress at Muroe Dry Lake Calif White Sands Portland Oreg and other places Dr Harold Urey atom scientist at the University of Chicago com- mented “Transmutation of atomic energy sounds like gibber- ish You can transmute metals not energy.” Col Clarke in command of the Hanford Engineering works of the atomic energy project said he knew of no experiments involv- ing “flying saucers.” 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 I was six-pointed star covered with tin- foil and attached to part of a hal- Joon It was reported to be a device used by the Army air forces in radar research to check on high wind speeds There was no corp ment from the air forces A War Department spokesm revealed Army intelligence hhs r>aororking for year on 1947 WASHINGTON TIMES=HERALD Page Sec sisted they not only had not seen any but knew of no astronomical theory that might account for the pilot who was first to announs seeing the saucers expressed gretik fication at the support he getting but insisted he still didiz believe he had seen nine discs whizzing by at 1,200 miles an hour although he had seen them Arnold started yesterday on flying fishing trip over the Pa- cific northwest armed with a ne camera in the hope of gettin pictures if he encountered any more saucers He took along Col Paul Weiland World War II artillery officer just in case he sees some more and needs witness Arnold announced he has been getting tons of letters commenting on his report of the saucers Man of them predict they are the for runner of an atom bomb attaciS One correspondent blamed thera on survivors of the lost continent of Atlantis who are preparing fy an atomic war in 1960 Army Navy and civil aeron tics officials agreed none of the had any ‘reliable informati about the discs and would frain from commenting until th§ saw one or at least a picture [PAGE 120] Polson A Tamm Clegg Glavin Ladd UNEchol seis eit 7wMROSen aes Ip Tracy Carson Egan Gurnea Harbo Hendon Jones Pennington Quinn Tamm Nease Miss Gandy TIMES HERALD Page Sec I [PAGE 121] undreds in States Report eeing Weird ‘Flying Saucers’ By the Associated Press ee Nation was baffled today by “flying saucers” reported seen in 31 States by hundreds of persons and conjectures came ‘from scores of mamed and unnamed sources throughout the country Official Goyernment sources took a “Let’s see one” stand on the phe- ‘tonal and no scientist offered a detailed explanation Two Chicago astronomers said the “ES are probably “man-made.” undulating flashing objects 4yuldn’t be meteors,” said Dr Girard Kieuper director of the Uni- versity of Chicago’s Yerkes Ob- servatory at Williams Bay Wis “We realize,” said Dr Oliver Lee -dijector of Northwestern Univer- ia Dearborn Observatory “that Army and Navy are working on a sorts of things we know nothing tal Di Lee said the dises might repre- sent the same sort of thing as send- ing radar signals to the moon “one of the greatest technological achievements of the war and ac- complished in absolute secrecy.” David Lilienthal chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission told the Denver Post in a brief telephone in- terview that the flying saucers were in no way connected with experi- ments in atomic energy the trans- mutation of metals or similar re- search Col Clark commanding offi- cer of the Hanford Engineering Works in the Pacific Northwest where the largest saucer influx has been reported said the saucers were not coming from the atomic plant there Credence in the saucers—widely laughed off at their first’ reporjed appearance June 25—grew as hgn- dreds of observers many of them trained flyers reported seeing thm A crowd of 200 observed a dis@at See DISCS Page Discs Continued From First Page ike Idaho on the Fourth A group of 60 picnickers sa’ Pte at Twin Falls Idaho And nd ore many resi- police Be cae sent out acim td in Portl dents of “Charleston C—one of ten a eo bamepaper reporter—said a flyis saucer passed over Charleston head- ine east at 7:20 p.m Saturday qb ut the same time two men ibany Oreg saw a single di aash southward halt and retrace its course before vanishing into a cloud An Army Air Forces spokesman in Washington on July said there was not enough fact to “warrant further investigation,” but the ‘Air Materiel Command at Wright Field Dayton Ohio said it was making a 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 Pendieton 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 Sayagé said he had seen a similarly shaped object some weeks earlier but fear of ridi- cule kept him quiet Then the reports began to in mostly from individuals discs were seen in Texas in Mexi¢o in Washington Idaho Missouri Colorado a nia Arizona and Nebraska Seen by Group ‘Then the July deluge hit hundred persons up ani ‘60 in another saw oe in sda WaitncroN STAR Oregon Bison A Tamm Clegg a Medina Ladd Nichols Rosen Tracy Carson Egan Gurnea Harbo Hendon Jones Pennington Quinn Tamm Nease Miss Gandy [PAGE 122] LA ‘Flyin Saucers’ Reported Seen Scores of ‘Eyewitnesses’ By the Associated Press The ‘“fiying saucer” mystery reached fever pitch today after saw them myself” statements from a veteran United Air Lines crew scores of Portland Oreg residents and 60 picknickers at Twin Falls Park in Idaho ‘The UAL pilot copilot and stew- ardess who had scoffed consistently at “flying saucer” tales said they saw such objects last night while fiying a passenger plane from Boise Idaho to Portland Their statements followed a day during which the “saucers” were reported seen in many parts of the Nation Many Portlanders—including po- lice experienced flyers and three lewspapermen—declared they saw ilvery discs over Portland In New Orleans Miss Lillian Law- said she saw an object shining ike silver or chromium flying at a great height and at a terrific speed in a northeasterly direction over Lake Pontchartrain “Pancake Standing on End.” Describing what they saw as flat translucent plates 12 to 15 inches in diameter several Port Huron Mich residents reported seeing the “saucers.” Capt Smith Seattle a vet- eran of 14 years with United Air Lines said he observed the round flat objects—‘like a pancake stand- ing on end”—for about 12 minutes while flying trom Emmett Idaho to a point southeast of Ontario Ore He radioed the Ontario airport but airport officials saw nothing Sixty persons picknicking at Twin Falls Park near Twin Falls Idaho said they saw the discs yesterday afternoon A party of seven firsi Saw some and 10 minutees later a crowd of 20 or 30 people saw an other batch of nine or ten Wort passed around and soon the waitin crowd saw another batch circling and climbing At Seattle Frank Ryman Coast Guard yeoman said he took a picture of what some residents north of Seattle thought was a flyirig disc The photograph showed a pinhead- size light spot against the dark evening sky The Oregonian dispatched a plane to hunt Portland’s saucers It fou nothing but empty sky Strange Craft Over Philadelphia In Philadelphia Dr junior interne at the Pennsyly Hospital for Mental Diseases and other persons in the western sec- tion of the city reported seeing strange craft in the skies last night It was something round with a luminous halo about’ it Dr Leisk declared It was not shiny but dark in color and seemed to be propelled by whirling wings Dr Leisy said the rece he saw was moving at approximately the speed of the wind below the clouds Tt eventually vanished in the clouds he added A dispatch from Summerside Cana said farmers in the Prince Edward Island region claim to have seen more of the mysterious disc- like missiles reported flying through northern skies earlier this we James Harris farmer at Shi brooke mile north of here his hired man Herman Linklettef said they saw one of the objec last night traveling from the north west toward the southeast wus fr Tolson EA Tamm” Mr Glayip us Ohicbels Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr Quinn Tamm Rosen Tracy Carson Egan Gurnea Harbo Hendon Jones Pennington i947 WASHINGTON STAR Page [PAGE 123] yng “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 Meanwhile assorted scientists came up with widely varying theo- ries as to what—if anything—the heavenly wanderers may be Dr John Lynn human be- havior expert of Valhalla said people have the atomic jitters Navy Observatory astronomers here said that so far as they can judge from description the objects are not astronomical phenomena Another astronomer—civilian— MINNESOTA-AV NE July Scientists from many Washington’s top-drawer institutions are expected to flock to this street today after ‘the first authenticated reports of flying saucers within the city lim- its of Washington was made by two startled matrons The ladies spotted the things night before last but were under- standably reluctant to report it at once know what you'll think,” the younger one said in an exclusive interview with The News “but jmother saw them too and she fdoesn’t drink “We were shopping on Minne- sotaave ne at about Thursday night,” she said “when I heard a laoise like’ a jet-propelled plane opined that people “are seeing spots before their eyes.” But unnamed scientists quoted by Science Service expressed doubt 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 “re- liable observers accustomed to look ing at the sky.” there Were Three— Shaped Like Dishes’ looked up and saw these things go- ing thru the air There were three of them shaped like dishes and go ing fast as a jet plane They were have been from th sun’ being re- flected from some bright metai ob- jects the things but they seemed to be fairly far away I looked away for an instant to tell mother to look at the things.” The witness’ mother looke Dp and also saw the “dishes.” ‘hen they swished over the horiz andj disappeared The two women asked pat their names be withheld from plication ieee skeptical neighbors pce fun ai em 1947 WASHINGTON NEWS Pag Gossii Why uu Tolsom A Tamm Clegg Glavin Ladd Nichols Rosen i Tracy Carson Egan Gurnea Harbo Hendon Pennington Quinn Tamm Nease Miss Gandy bright golden in color but that may RECORD ED we couldn't estimate the size of vn A aie 205 [PAGE 124] ae pack ara In i 10,000 feet directly 1947 NGTON NEWS