D eclas s ification authority derived from FBI Automatic D eclassification a a hmm (R ev. 1-4-99) Guide, is s ued May 24, 2007. co 03 CO 00 be Cl o XI m See also Nos . U.S. D epartment of Jus tice o ft) w co O 0) co CD ^ m Bureau co o cd ® % zu -I rn zu w m o o zu □ w o m m igation CD Z O R eid Office Criminal Investigative and Adminis trative Fites Armed and D angerous D O NOT DESTROY ELSUR Es cape R is k Financial Privacy Act FOIPA NCIC OGIS Suicidal Other _ CD CD CD o c 3 ® 3 CT M r. Tolson Mr. M ohr--------- M r. Parsons------ M r. Belm ont- M r., Callahan rialO TII ... M r/M cGn '1 M r, R osen i M r. Tam m ..Lb. M r. Trotter --- M r. W .C.S ullivan Tele. R oom ------- M r. Ingram ------ 4 M iss Gandy------ flying Sauter P hoto Ain't t^hat It Osed to Be—Jo^ n0T? DrrqTQtj Ry Charles Manos 1 I Staff W riter | JgR A ND BLA NC, M ay £5— Joe Perry, the talented pizza m an, feels the Pentagon people have sabotaged him or som ething. No, the W ashington ex­ perts haven’t fussed w ith Jot's saucy pies, but tlfey hade certainly done soile- they heard Joe’s picture shelved a saucer-like objedt silhouetted against the m oo|. jlost of Joe’s custom ers at his pizza palace here w ere convinced the object w as a “(lying saupc.” i oe becam e even m ore con- ce nod over his picture w hai Detroit, M ich. Detroit Free Press Ed j* to Edi tor an UnidentEed Flying O bjctt gr/up w anted to buy rights to the slide. is P ■■' ■ 1 ■ Edi.or: Lee Hills Hew s liar tin S . Hayden Tines Jcbn c. M anning thing to his flying saujer, Joe claim s. “IT A IN’T w hat it used to be since they got their hands on it,” said Joe, w ho takes potshots at the m oon w ith a hom em ade telescope­ cam era. Joe, 44, took another look at, his color-slide photo, strapped last February or flic M e also got an. offer from a national m agazine to buy the picture. O ther inquirieslcam e ■ from all sections oA the country. S O JO E w is anxious to get hifl picture hack. lie called the FBI. Ie j talked to the air force. He m /de a trip, to S elfridge, A ir Force Base, all in vain. or E i I ion: Title erf Case: ^^!^ED flying O BJECT- JO S EP^fER R Y, GR A ND BLA NC ’ M ICHIGA N - CO M PLA INA NT setond night of the J full m oon. / “M ’s not the sam e,” he said dejectedly. ‘‘The flying saucer has faded ... som e­ thing has happened to it.” The W ashingtoi experts returned the color slide a few days ago. I THE FEDER A L ageiits picked it up last M arch w l'en The picture w as returned sh rtly after he sent a 1c ter to President Eisenhow er. A letter inducted in he; package from the Pentagon; said the strange object in the picture w as the result of I fajlty developm ent and nahing m ore. f m ong other things. he (Defile 65-2477-105) ^i°a juuw ig otner w ings, ne _ca Pentagon folks have adi ed ■ |insult to injury, Joe said? ^3^/ A NOT RECORDED 46 JUN 3 1960 ^9 JUH? * 0-19 (R ev. 1-28-59) The W ashington Post and„ Tim es Herald The W ashington Daily New s -------- The Evening S tar New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-A m erican New York M irror New York Daily New s New York Post The New York Tim es The W orker The New Leader The W all S tre Date obj& » Tolson Belm ont DeLoach Parsons R osen Tam m Trotter W .C. S ullivan---- Tele. R oom Hollom an Gandy — K illian and co-pilot John Dee of Nyack, N. Y., said they lost the three strange objects in the haze w hen they started Detroit’s A ir- Central R esearch S ection O bjects Trailed Prane 45 M inutes, Pilot S ays DETR O IT, Feb. 25 (A P) The pilot of an A m erican A ir­ lines DC6 passenger plane said today three m ysterious objects that looked like shin­ ing .saucers appeared to ac­ com pany the plane for 45 m inutes last night on its non­ stop flight from New ark, N. J., to Detroit Capt. Peter K illian of S yos­ set, N. Y., w ho has flow n pas­ senger planes for 15 years their descent for landing at M etropolitan said “I have never seen any­ thing like it before.” K illian said other m em bers M cGuire,-^ M ohr .iL- port w hile the plane w as over Cleveland, O hio. The three bright w hitis 1 lights first w ere sighted w hil the plane w as flying at 8501 feet betw een Philipsburg an I Bradford, Pa., at 8:45 p. m . of the crew and the 35 pas- ers also saw the flying at 7:10 p. m The plane left New ark ’OT RWORB FB " M A h 3 1959 •5 ” * a .Zf LLIK E THEN . S TA R " A JuDDENL CENTE’ 'C ^c • M . — A GR O UP O F' UNIDENTIFIED FLYING O BJECTS "CLUS TER ED EK ED FO P FO R E TH A b: A b. HCUP NEA P HER E LA S T LIGHT A ND PC>'m the Continental A ir A .F. Checks S chm idt K earny A m used of the space ship w as identi- 5 fied as ordinary but w ill be tested by the University of Nebraska. W hile the S chm idt tale w as giving K earney a sensational 1 conversation piece, m ost of the talk w as of a skeptical variety: New sm en Busy “Everybody dow ntow n seem s to think it’s a big joke,” one business m an said. A K earney clothier put up Tales of flying saucers and other such 'spact fl'alT got an unofficial raspberry W ednesday night from an A ir Force official. A top official of the A it- Technical Intelligence Cen­ ter at W right-Patterson A it- Force Base in O hio told the Dayton Journal-Herald his in­ vestigators have found no a sign advertising “space ship evidence in the past 10 years specials.” A w indow sign in that flying saucers are real. a car agency announced: He said 5,700 reported “S pace S hips Tuned Up.” sightings w ere investigated The K earney car-rental betw een 1947 and 1957. Not operator reported business a single landing im pression, w as so good all of his cars footprint, saucer or little w ere in use. They w ere being green m an w as found. rented by visiting new sm en. O M A HA W O R LD-HER A LD O M A HA , NEBR A S K A 11-7-57 S UNR IS E EDITIO N Investigation Goes O n In arney. Nek. Bf^> hcldu^chm id tory of nn afterTi w ith The crew of a space ship near the city Tuesday w as still under investigation, officials said. Presence of the new sm an w is nearly the only sign tl at at ything unusual had h ip- p^ned — or m ay have h p- pened. 5 2 NO V 261957, ^^^ 1^11^- A NO T F r r QysnirQ 117 NG. 22 1957 Space-Ship Story Raises Eyebrows Th' World-Herald's News Service. K earney, Neb.—A grain 1 uyer w ho said he saw a space ship Tuesday in a field near here and chatted am icably w ith its six occu­ pants had m ore pleasant dealings w ith the visitors from outer space than w ith skeptical authorities. The sensational report by R . O . S chm idt, about 50, of Bakersfield, Cal., w hich topped a host of reports across the nation Tuesday of seeing m ysterious flying objects, had these conse­ quences: —S tate Penitentiary rec­ ords show ed a m an of the sam e nam e served a term for em bezzlem ent from S cotts Bluff County in the 1930’s. S cotts Bluffs Coun- tv S heriff S teve W arrick 'lid he talked to S chm idts b / phone and w as convinced he “saw nothing.” —He turned dow n a chance to take a lie- detector test. —S chm idt w as kept up m ost of the night for questioning. He finally asked for an attorney. W ard M inor of K earney w as nam ed. —W ednesday forenoon he w ent to the scene of the space ship’s landing w ith investigators from the Con­ tinental A ir Defense Com ­ m and at Colorado S prings. Colo., K earney Police Chief Thurston Nelson and Buf­ falo County A ttorney K enneth Gotobed. They said S chm idt’s story “ap­ peared to be w eakening.” —O il drippings on the ground from the space m achine w ere being ana­ lyzed at K earney S tate College. Investigators said the “m ysterious green oil” closely resem ­ bled that in a partially- em ptied can of com m er­ cial auto oil found in the hick of S chm idt’s car and a nfarly-em pty can f o u n d Xr the site of the land- S chm idt’s story cam e to —W orld-Herald New s S en-ice Photo. S chm idt (left) and K earney Police Chief Nelson ... In “heart-to-heart” talk. S|D E V IEW OUTSID E ^^u^e/eS FLO O R PLA N ins ide O M A HA W O R LD-HER A LD O M A HA , NEBR A S K A 11-6-57 w all street edition The S chm idtnik ... A s described by the grain buyer. light w hen, w hite-faced and shaken, he appeared in K earney Tuesday and asked to see a m inister. Taken to police, he told this story: Tuesday he inspected a field of m ilo about tw o m iles south and a m ile east of K earney. W hen ready to leave he drove dow n a side road seeking a place to turn around. Platte R iver he appeared to be balloon. A s he Near the saw w hat a w recked neared it, S chm idt said, his gine conked out. S chm idt said he and w alked tow ard eat­en •a/ NOV 22 195? ’) out| m a­ got the chine. Proxim ity revealed ; 0 it to be a translucent, ci­ gar - shaped device about; one hundred feet long, 3(1 flet w ide and about 14 feet! high. S chm idt said thaj w hen he w as 25 or 30 feet aw ay, tw o m en got out and w aved w hat looked like a flashlight. "I couldn’t m ove. I don’t know w hether I w as just afraid or w hat, but it w as like being paralyzed,” he said. Tn Business S uits’ S chm idt said the m en, dressed in business suits, searched him for w eapons then rem arked that as long as they w ere going to be there for som e tim e “you m ight as w ell com e in and see things for a few m in­ utes.” ’ Inside the m achine w ere tw o other m en and tw o w om en w orking on w ires and instrum ents. The de­ vice had a fan at each end. By a strange coincidence one of the crew m en'“looked exactly like" a hotel ac­ quaintance w ith w hom he has been w atching televi­ sion program s. W hen the occupant* w im ted to m ove from plac« tc/ place they w ould stel in a certain location and bl pulled to the new location w ithout m oving. ‘S poke Germ an’ The ship occupants talked am ong them selves inf J-Hgh Germ an, w hich! S chm idt says he under-! stands to a lim ited extent! O »e m an spoke excellent English and interpreted for the others. S chm idt said the inter­ preter told him repeatedly he had nothing to fear. The visitors refused to answ er any questions but said he w ould “find out all ab'out it in a couple of w eeks.” W hen repairs w ere com ­ pleted. S chm idt said he w as asked to leave but w as told he w ould be unable to start his car until the m achine had disappeared. ‘Disappeared’ O utside the m achine, S chm idt said, he turned to w atch as the fans started in m otion w ithout a sound. He said the m achine lifted about one hundred or tw o hundred feet into the air and disappeared. ai ■'It just blended into the sky—like it changed color •or disappeared into thm ’ he said. / bchm idt pressed the starter of his car. The m o­ tor started right off. -Coast to Coast R as h of 'Flying Saucer* R eports Floods U. S. i S everal persons reported, seeing a “red ball” hovering over tie A tom ic Energy Com m P^ioti’s S avannah R iver plant near A ugusta, Ga„ last night. ”" " Tolson------ Nichols — Boardm an — Belm ont — M ohr-------- Parsons--- R osen ----- Tam m ------ Trotter---- Nease ----- Tele. R oom There w as an unoffW cial report that A ir For 6 personnel at nearby A ile­ en, S . C., spotted the ob­ ject on radar and issued an alert. The object appeared to be a "constant red light,” accord­ ing to A ugusta Chronicle ex­ ecutive editor Louis Harris, w ho saw the object from the dow ntow n new spaper build­ ing. “It could have been a tiny red light a short dis­ tance aw ay or a gigantic thing at a great distance,” he said. O ne w itness, J. T. Jam es, said lie saw the object on tw o occasions from his hom e near A iken. It w as cigar-shaped, he said, and w ould alternate from bright occasionally , fether. Elsew here, < r” sightings to am ber and got out alto- strange “sauc- w ere reported. NEBRASKA A t K earney, Neb., authori­ ties held a “heart-to-heart” talk w ith R e i n h o Id O . S chm idt, a salesm an, later discovered to be an ex-con­ vict, w ho said he talked to four m en and tw o w om en in a transport space ship w hich had landed. He said the space people spoke in English and Germ an. Police roped off the area w here the "w hatnik” alleg­ edly landed and exam ined various im pressions and oil stains on the ground. A t Long Beach, Calif., three A ir Force w eather observers, one of them the com m anding officer of the spotting unit, late yesterday reported sight­ ing six unidentified, saucer- shaped flying objects over Long Beach A ir Force base. The Coast Guard reported picking up an unidentified ! lying object on radar over he Gulf of M exico south of Jew O rleans. A Coast Guard om m ander said the object taused over the cutter S e- | Jago in the Gulf and w as on he radar scope for about 27 inutes. WHITE SANDS M iitary authorities ; ently gave credence to .ppar- a re- port by an electronic s en­ gineer w ho said he saw an object w hich m ade cat en­ gines stall near the W hite S anda proving grounds. Col. John M cCurdy, A ir Force public relations officer at W hite S ands, said the en­ gineer, Jam es S tokes, 42, w ill be given a thoro m edical ex­ am ination and a radiation count test. Col. M cCurdy said he w as "personally sat­ isfied” w ith M r, S tokes' re­ port. A Civil S ervice w orker at Lackland A ir Force Base in S an A ntonio, Tex., said he saw an egg-shaped object land in a ravine about 200 yards from him as Ite drove near the eity. He said his car engine and lights w ent off, and the object took off in a few m inutes, enabling him to drive aw ay. A t about the sam e tim e, the Ground O bserver Corps at M idland, Tex., said it saw large, red object and picked unintelligible com versa- on a sound detector. M ’1UP tion NOT RECORDED 140 Ko V 12 957 W ash. Post and _ Tim es Herald W ash. New s yL- W ash. S tar —'---- N. Y. Herald ------ Tribune N. Y. Journal------ A m erican N. Y. M irror N. Y. Daily New s N. Y. Tim es .____ Daily W orker The W orker New Leader Date Tracked 27 M inutes on Radar -------------- ------------- U. S . Cutter in Gulf of M exico R eports S ighting M ysterious ‘O bject’ in S ky w 9f__ —^— Parsons r ------- R osen -------------- Tam m -------------- Trotter_________ Nease -------------- Tele. R oom ____ Hollom an______ A ssociated Press A brilliant m ystery object w as reported sighted yester­ day in southern skies by a Coast Guard cutter, even as A ir Force special investigat­ ors cheeked a flurry of ear­ raveling at an estim ated 1000 of light w ith no definite shape, nilcs per hour, InternationaFresem bling the planet Venus.” Jew s S ervice reported. How - S hockley said there w ere no w er, at one point, the object vapor trails or any other in- ippeared to rem ain stationarydications as to tlie object’s lior. sim ilar reports. and hover above the w aters be :m ethod of propulsion. O ne fore it resum ed its erratic estim ate of its height placed flight. it at 2000 feet.'login. u at ^uuu leei. h^r.TinFm ^ IT11* cutter’s captain. Cm drJ [G 1 e n n Northcutt. W illis, bago, ciuising in the Gulf of p „ w aring said the object O ^la., rancher and m em ber of ^t/B0!^0^ ^j.”^6?, s? uJh|ff£st appear^^ on thel ship’s'thc University of O klahom a of Louisiana radioed Inat an r^(jar scl,een as a „ fj ;tronc Board of R egents, reported object resem bling “a brilliant T 011 S aturday he and five planet w ith d high rate of pL-at 5.iq g nl an(j w ls lost others had w atched “a bril­ speed w as seen for about jl a nor^]lcl-]y gjreetioiv it 5:37 liant. m ysterious light that Gandy three seconds at 5:21 a. m . |(CS T). The S ebago’s m essage said I the object w as tracked on the vessel's radar screen for 27 m inutes and that, during that period, the object flitted on and off the screen several tim es. Crew m en caught sigfit < f it only for a few seconds, a. m . looked like the planet Venus [In this tim e, the skipper m agnified m any, m any lim es.” said the object, w hich cam e as The object, he said, w as visible dose as tw o m iles to foe ves- m ore than half an hour.] S ightings of strange objectsicl, w as actually seen iy four „ „ O ne. have been reported from w ide­ ly. de- ly scattered sections of thenem bers of the crew . S irs. W ayne D. S hock!’,,, — . scribed it as a “bright point United S tates, m ost of them near secret m ilitary installa- [The S ebago radioed Niw O rleans Coast Guard 'lery quarters that the object w as tions it the S outhw est. The A ir Force said the radar netw ork of the A ir Defense See MYSTERY, A6, Col. 3 J 140 .»\l 1 W ash. Post and _ Tim es Herald W ash. New s ____ W ash. S tar______ N. Y. Herald ___ Tribune N. Y. Journal------ A m erican N. Y. M irror ____ N. Y. Daily New s N, Y. Tim es ____ Daily W orker The W orker_____ New Leader ____ t6hu 13 1957 5' D ole^n^ Com m and w as keeping w atch ported objects m ay _bc som e- -^srrfar-A vith no results—and thing from another'planet. “A ssum ing they are real,” he said, “they w ould be secret w eapons m ade on earth or are interplanetary.” A ny na­ tion w ith the secret, he added, w ould by now have abandoned conventional aircraft or m is­ siles. that specially qualified inves­ tigators had been assigned to look into the reports. For several years the A ir Force has checked all reports of unidentified flying objects. Investigators w ork under the A ir Defense Com m and at Col­ orado S prings, Colo., and re­ port to the A ir Technical In­ telligence Center. Judging from past findings, the chances are 50-1 the A ir , Force w ill offer a hum drum I explanation for the current I sightings. - During the first half of this year, the A ir Force said, only 1.9 per cent of the 250 report­ ed sightings of flying saucers and other fantastic aerial ob­ jects have w ound up in the “unknow n” category. Air Force Skeptical Cosmic Energy "It looks as though they are interplanetary,” K eyhoe said. He said one source of pow ­ er for such reported objects could be cosm ic ray energy. S om e of the citizens, peace officers and servicem en w ho reported sighting m ystery ob­ jects in the S outhw est since the w eekend said the objects stalled auto engines and caused radios to fade. Jam es S tokes, an engineer at the A ir Force m issile de- velopm ent center at A lam a- gordo. N. M ., reported 10 autos w ere stalled M onday on a des­A nd the A ir Force said firm -ert highw ay‘betw een A lam a­ lt not a flying sau' gordo and the W hite S ands cer buffs m ay agree- that it (N. M .) Proving Grounds ' doesn't believe even the 1.9 He reported seeing a sound- per cent residue is m ade up less, “brilliant colored egg- of the things you read about shaped object” w hich flitted in science fiction m agazines, erratically across the country­ Balloons, aircraft and such side and left a sort of heat astronom ical sights as m eteor-w ave, “like radiation from a ites and bright stars account giant sun lam p,” in its w ake “a‘. l.aaat to the A ir Force's Device S ought Leonard Hardlund, chief en­ gineer for the National Inven- director of a private o: ial satisfaction — for al- four-fifths of the sight- director of a private or- tors Council in W ashington, lion set up to inves-said a device that could stall flying saucers and such aut°s or otller m echanical he couldn’t evaluate at equipm ent w a® one of the point the current rash oH,.}'n®s 116 aIm , forces w ould ported sightings. >>ke to see developed. But retired M arine M ai But Haglund said he knew Donald E. K eyhoe, director of °? no,research in tins country the National Investiga t i o n s a!m ed at Producing such a de­ A sorted -------- e seeing a m ysterious object in the sky over A nnapolis, M d., last w eek. ’ean Hunt, 13. and S ylvia Fow ler, 15, said they 'saw an egg-shaped object w hich glow ed like a neon light. They spotted it w hile trick-or-treat­ ing w ith Jean’s tw o younger sisters on Hallow een night in Prim rose A cres, a housing de­ velopm ent on the outskirts of A nnapolis. Jean said the girls becam e frightened and ran hom e but no one w ould believe their story until w eekend new sp, per accounts told of .a m ystery1 oUefy^si^hied in Texas.—J A ssociatcd Press j! G. K irby of Dallas m ade this photo of a diam ond shaped object flying through the sky w hile he and his fam ily w ere driving near A m arillo, Tex., in A ugust, 1956. The photo w as turned over to the FBI and has just been released after intensive study. The A ir Force described the glow -H^apiatidir^ap^ 0-19 (R e’- 9-7-56) Tolson — Nichols • Boardm an Belm ont - M ohr----- Parsons Mystery Objects Ca^ed Mirage by Astronomer By the A ssociated Press R osen .------------— Tam m --------------- Trotter-------------- ------------------------ Tele. R oom -------- Hollom an--------— A Harvard astronom er says m ysterious objects reported from various parts of the country and the Gulf of M exico are m irages stem m ing from natural causes. Dr. Donald H. M enzel, director of the Harvard College O bservatory, said yesterday in Cam bridge, M ass., that the w hole thing am ounts to “another flying saucer scare.” The A ir Force has started an investigation of the reported sightings of the strange glow -1 ing objects in the sky. The A ir Force for years has had the responsibility of checking reports of unidentified flying objects ,but as one officer put it, “W e don’t investigate all of them .”A rash of such reports has developed since S unday, w ith som e of the sightings said to have been m ade near secret m ilitary installations in the S outhw est. S om e of the per­ sons m aking the reports said the objects caused their auto engines to stall and their radios to fade. Cutter Claim s S ighting Yesterday the Coast Guard Cutter S ebago radioed from the Gulf of M exico that an object resem bling a brilliant planet w ith a high rate of speed w as seen for about three seconds, and that it w as tracked by radar. ' Dr. M enzel said it is probable | the cutter’s ^rew m en got a I false im age “quite likely from bubbles of hot air in the at- m osphere w hich w ould give a radar reflection." A s for reports of the auto engines stalling, he said, “It w ould not be surprising that a nervous foot could stall an en­ gine.” Dr. M enzel, author of a book about flying saucers, said he has been studying them for about 10 years and has yet to hear of one w hich could not be explained by natural phe­ nom ena. “They are caused by a layer of heated air . . . acting as a lens and form ing an im age of objects as m uch as 40 or 50 m iles aw ay,” he said. Com m on in W est “They are nothing m ore than a m irage. They are prevalent just after nightfall as the heated air begins to cool off at the ground, and they are com ­ m on in the W est w here they have clear air.” The A ir Force aid that dur­ ing the first half of this year only 1-9 per cent of the 250 re- ported sightings of flying saucers and other strange ob­ jects in the air have been classed as “unknow n.” A nd the A ir Force w asnl’t ready to be­ lieve that even this sm all per- ^OT~RECORDED 140 NO V 13 1957 W ash. Post and Tim es Herald W ash. New s —r centage has sinister tions. It seem ed a good A ir Force w ill agree im plica- bet the w ith Dr. M enzel’s opinion that the cur­ rent1 sightings have explana­ tions in nature, or that the reported objects are actually aircraft or sim ilar m an-m ade ihihgs: “ ’ N. Y. Herald ------- Tribune N. Y. Journal------ A m erican N. Y. M irror------- N. Y. Daily New s N. Y. Tim es ----- Daily W orker The W orker New Leader ----- 0-19 (R ev. 9-7-56) 52 NO V 8 A ssociated Prtss J. G. Kirby of Dallas made this photo of a diamond shaped object flying through the sky while he and his family were driving near Amarillo, Tex., in August, 1956. The photo was turned over to the FBI and has just been released after intensive study. The Air Force described the glow as “radiation vapor, Tolson________ Nichols ---------- Boardm an--------- Belm ont----------- M ohr---------------- Parsons----------- R osen -------------- T a m m --------------- Trotter------------- Nease ------------- Tele. R oom ------ Hollom an---------- Gandy-----------— UO ^O V s JS 7 Date W ash. Post and 1 1 ~°~57 , Tim es Herald Page A -6 W ash. New s __ _________ W ash. S tar_________ N. Y. Herald___________- Tribune N. Y. Journal-.__________ A m erican N. Y. M irror ____________ N. Y. Daily New s ______ N. Y, Tim es ___________ Daily W orker____________ The W orker___________ New Leader ______-—— M iss Gandy ------ W42 (owner > I^W fe?H s^^TWEl! wcxuisiS# MrOUT K EAfiLTCNT$Rwm rirv ILKJ4HE®— i8iViirA^^;|^^ s hm i 11/3—UO53OF ‘ ^(IHW V 114! 1987 W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE 0-20 M r. Tolson-------- M r. Nichols ------- M r. Boardm an---- M r. Belm ont------- M r. M ohr------------ M r. Parsons------- M r. R osen--------- M r. Tam m ---------- M r. Trotter-------- M r. Nease--------- Tele. R oom ------- M r. Hollom an---- M iss Gandy ------- UP AA AM OB JECT. LEVELLAND. TH* ONE MOTORIST. JAMES LONG CT ON THE OB JECT SITTING IM TME B OCM THE 01 LONG SHERIFF ME B ROVE UP ] OH HIM. WHICH 6LOWER INTERMITTENTLY LIK E A B LINDING NEON UGH?! bFsAI^h’aP FEO EB TO B E AB OUT 200 FEET LONG ANB EGG SHAP ES. NE SAIB IT CAW MIS ENGINE TO DIE ANO B IS HEAD LIGHTS TO CO OUT. Ca^q WHEN LONG STARTER TO GET OUT OF MIS CAR TO INVESTIGATE. TME OB JECT । SUDDENLY ROSE SONE 200 FEET STRAIGHT UP ANB B ISAP P EARED IN A FLASH OF LIGHT. ME TOLB TME SHERIFF. CLEN SAID AUTHORITIES COULB FIND NO B URN NARKS OR OTHER INDICATIONS 'AT TME SP OT WHERE LONG SAID THE OB JECT MAR LANDED. GUN SAID REESE AIR FORCE B ASE OFFICIALS AT LUB B OCK. AB OUT 30 NIUS MM&Sh CHECKER FOR A P OSSIB U P UNE CRASH IN THE AREA, P EM0 SACIRO/A UVELLANR MOTORIST, WAS TME FIRST TO REP ORT SIGHTING THE THING. •IT SOUNDED LIK E AN EAR-SP LITTING CLAMP OF THUNDER—AS IF SOMETHING HAD EXP LORED,* SACIRO TOLD THE SHERIFF. NE SAID IT K ILUD HIS ENGINE AMR K NOCK ER OUT HIS HEADLIGHTS UNTIL AFTER IT P ASSED OVER. A K ERNIT.TEX., MOTORIST, WHOSE MANE THE SHERIFF B IB WOT GET. ALSO REP ORTED SP OTTING THE OB JECT WHILE DRIVING ON STATE HIGHWAY 31 AB OUT EIGHT NILES NORTH OF LEVELLANB . NE TOLD THE SHERIFF IT NAB TME SAME AFFECT on mis ca r engine a nb lights a s the others reported. CLEM SAIB ME COULB NOT OFFER A GUESS AS TO WHAT TME OB JECT NIGHT NAVE b een.* 11/3—WO 5 43 P W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE 0-19 (R ev. 9-7-56) Tolson Nichols Boardm an _ Belm ont M ohr_____ Parsons R osen Tam m __— Trotter Nease Tele. R oom Hollom an Gandy /Nothing remotely related' \ mysterious Object AmazesSaucer A veteran airline pilot w ho once denounced fly­ ing saucers as "bunk” has reported encountering a m ysterious unidentified flying object near M obile, A la. Capt. W . J. Hull of Capital A irlines described the inci­ dent in a report published by “T h e UHO Investigator,” iriagFi ziiie of the tin of Hom i Nh- on,,.J Uw sO gattona com m it- Ice on A erial Phenom ena, 1536 Connecticut-av nw . Capt. Hull w rote an article for a pilots’ m agazine in 1953 titled “The O bituary of the Flying S aucer.” His experi­ ence described in the “Investi­ gator” took place Nov. 14, 1956. He did not suggest w hat he saw w as a flying saucer. Capt. Hull said he w as fly­ing a Viscount at about 10,- 000 feet near M obile, at 10:10 n m ., w hen he and his co- aTot spotted w hat w e thought w as a brilliant nleteor.” He said the “m eteor” w as descending rapidly, but in­ stead of burning out w ith the usual flash, “it abruptly halt­ ed directly in front of us." "It w as an intense blue­ w hite light, approxim ately seven or eight tim es as bright as Venus w hen this planet is at its brightest m agnitude,” he w rote. He said he thought the ob­ ject m ight be a jet fighter, turning aw ay from the air­ liner and giving the pilots a view of its glow ing tailpipe. But he said instead of grow - Ing sm aller, the light m ained count. Capt. in front of the re- vis- theCapt. Hull w rote that tne “UFO )) (unidentified flying object) then ' *object) then began a series of violent m t neuvers, “sharp­ er than any _____ .som etim es c^ngingdirection know n aircraft, 6 b Skeptic 90 degrees in an instant.” It finally zoom ed up at an ex­ trem ely sharp angle and shot out of sight, he added. He said his ow n plane w as above the clouds, "preclud ing any reflections of search lights from below .” There’s accent or local sports in The Nevis^ports pages. \ N. A m erican Y. M irror NOT RECORDED W1 OCT 141957 W ash. Post and _ Tim es Herald- W ash. New s _ • W ash. S tar N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Journal- N. Y. Daily New s N. Y. Tim es Daily W orker ___ The W orker New Leader Date Tol gon- ■Nic Boardm an ~ Belm g^j^r^S M ohr___________ Parsons ________ R osen _________ Tam m __________ Trotter_________ Nease _________ Tele. R oom Hollom an Gandy __________ D oolittle Scoffs at R eport Of Nazi Flying Saucer J^ L; of Hugh L. Dryden, director of the advisory com m ittee. M r. Dryden said “there is no truth” in a statem ent that Germ an engineers designed a flying saucer w hich attained a height of 40,000 feet and speed of 1,250 m iles an hour. "This is an advertisem ent for a book w hich includes m aterial discovered by our groups w ho w ent into Germ any after the w ar,” he said. He said also the m an supposed to have designed the bom ber that could cross the A tlantic tw ice w ithout refueling had w rit­ ten a book of his ow n w ith nh m ention of any such inventioi ■ Gen. Doolittle, asked aboi t both the saucer and the bom be:. said, "it just ain’t so.” By the A ssociated Press Jam es H. Doolittle says it "just ain’t so” that Nazi Ger­ m any developed a flying saucer and a bom ber that could attack the United S tates and return w ithout refueling. The veteran airm an, chairm an of the National A dvisory Com ­ m ittee for A eronautics, last m onth gave a House A ppropria­ tions S ubcom m ittee his estim ate of reports published in Germ any of great aviation accom plish­ m ents under Hitler. These w ere contained in a book by R udolf uusar, form er Germ an W ar M in- itry special w eapons chief. I Gen. Doolittle’s testim ony w as published today, along w ith that indexed - W m.MAK 20 W 53 W ash. Post and Tim es Herald W ash. New s W ash. S tar _______ N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Journal-_ A m erican N. Y. M irror______ N. Y. Daily New s N.Y. Tim es______ Daily W orker _____ The W orker _____ New Leader ^a^^S -J—J .|q^y 0-19 (11-22-55) I ^ O # ^( There A r Saucers, Expert Says By VERN H AT GLAND W A S HINGTO N, Jan. 15 (A P). —R eteired R ear A dm . Delm er S . Fahrney once head of the Navy’s guided m issiles program , said W ednesday reliable reports indi­ cate that "there are objects com ­ing into our atm osphere at very high speeds.’’Fahrney told a new s confer­ ence that ‘‘no agency in this country or R ussia is able to dupli­ cate at this tim e the speeds and accelerations w hich radar and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve.” $ * * FAHRNEY SAID he never has seen a flying saucer, btit has talked w ith a num ber of scien­ tists and engineers w ho reported seeing strange flying objects. Fahrney called a new s confer­ ence follow ing an organizational m eeting of a new private group, the National Investigations Com ­ m ittee on A erial Phenom ena, of w hich he is board chairm an. Fahrney said the com m ittee w as set up largely to tie to­ gether a num ber of UFO —m ean­ ing ^unidentified flying objects” —clubs being form ed throughout the w orld. Fahrney said his cc^n- ihittee w il collect and investigate flying saucer reports, evaluate fliem and m ake public its fn|d- Jigs. ]4 •■ -- 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 descelption of what you saw--use back if necessary FLYIN By FOR SAITH R EES ERE is the "real truth'1 about Flying Sqitcers, as told by ' former secret /K lein, ons ex- R E YIELDS NEW S DECEM BER 19,,195h LO NDO N, ENO LA I TO / - ^i-lCl O > THE LW M A M IR I CA N O F/ W ®GJU ^Qr pert in the German War P roduction Ministry, and now an engineer in Switzerland. “ Flying S aucers,” he says, f are top secret w eapons of the US A and R ussia. 1 “ They are a continuation of Germ an w artim e experi­ m ents.“ Prototype Flying S aucers w ere built in Germ any during the w ar. I saw one reach a height of 40,000 feet in three m inutes, near Prague, in 1945.”K lein says the R ussians captured a scale m odel and top technicians at Breslau. The technicians have not returned to Germ any. A nd W alter/M iethe, w eapon inventor and key V lanS aucer developm ent, lied w t and now w orks in the ited S tates. I Clcin in a Zurich interview J 4 06 FEB 16 1955 anTon AUCERS said there are tw o types of Flying S aucer built to-day— one w ith a diam eter of 48ft. pow ered by five jets and a larger m odel w ith a diam eter of 126ft. and 12 jets. This, he says, accounts for the rum our that S aucers often appear to change size sud­denly. R aised w ing flaps lift both aircraft like a helicopter. The big one can keep stationary by turning jets dow n to counter­ balance gravity. Flying S aucers developed in Canada by John/Frost, form er colleague of S ir Frank W hittle, have reached speeds upf to 1,500 m ph and have beenlin- spected by Field-M arshalM ontgom ery, says K lein, i M r. Tols-, a----- M r. Bea-om an— M r. Nichols------ M r. Belm ont----- M r. Harbo------- M r. M ohr------- M r. ParsonsJ---- M r. R osen ------ M r. T '"m ------- M r. S i" o ------- M t. .: -crow d- Tele. R oom ------ M r. Hollom an--- M iss Gandy------ '^d.24 pcot R EO S " ° 126 FEB 7 1355 M r. Boardm an— M r. Nichols—— M r. Belm ont---- M r. Harbo----— M r. M ohr. — M r. Parsons.—— I M r. R osen—----- 'Flying Saucer? ': M r. S isco------— | M r. W interrow d- Tele. R oom --------- M r. Hollom an--- । M iss Gandy—— ow opym t? Fam e t^ ’' £^’?^ ^^^ ^ «.Ty,^f $ 3 AUG M^ Weird Spy Disc Sighted B y Ship a circular object, grayish at first and then brighter, like the m oon, shooting up from near sea level and disappearing in clouds at 5,000 feet, w as sighted at sea last night 80 m iles east of New York. O fficers of the Dutch liner Groote Beer reported the incident w hen the vessel arrived in Hoboken. “I don’t know what it was,” said Capt. Jan P. Boshoff, a veteran shipmaster, who said he watched the object through his binoculars. “It might have been what has been described as a flying saucer, but I don’t know what it was.” I Through his m ost pow erful binoculars, the captain trained them on the object. 40 degrees off the port side. S everal other officer sim ilarly trained bino­ culars. Capt. Boshoff described it as “a flat object, resembling the mon, at first kind of gray and then turning brighter on the lower part, and around the edges having bright spots as if they were lights.” He said it was moving “directly upward, With great speed.” He said he never had seen anything like it before, an added: “I am positive it was not a meteor. Nor was it anything supe^tural in the sky. 117 A U G 9 1954 . Tolson M r. Belm ont Z M r. Harbo M r. M ohr_______ M r. Parsons M r. R osen M r. Tam m M r. S izoo (OB JECT) . BY THt n CM T WCXI,m* HA«OLD $ K RATOVIL LOGAN INTER NATION AL AIRP ORT TOWER IN B OSTON SAID SGHT EMP LOYES THERE TOLD OF SEEING THE OB JECT. AND IT DID NOT AP P EAR/tO \A B ALLOON. _ / S/l—MJ315P ' NOT RECORDED UI JUN 1711954 JUN JI ISM1 W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE 0-» 'J M r. Tolson '^oO S ^Horiai on' M r. Belm ont;:^— M r. Harbo M r. M ohr________ M r. Parsons M r. R osen M r. Tam m M r. S izoo M r. W interrow d__ Tele. R oom M r. Hollom an M iss Gandy irzjt. - (O BJECT) \x M O BILE, A LA . —BR O O K LEY A IR FO R CE BA S E R EPO R TED THA T A N \ "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING O BJECT, BR ILLIA NT A ND S ILVER CO LO R ED" W A S TR A CK ED^ BY R A DA R O VER M O BILE A ND THE A LA BA M A -M IS S IS S IPPI GULF CO A S T LA S T NIGHT. M A J. JA M ES ZICHER A LI. PUBLIC INFO R M A TIO N O FFICER A T BR O O K LEY, S A ID THE O BJECT "A PPEA R ED TO BE A JET-TYPE A IR CR A FT O F NEW DES IGN W ITH S HO R T S TUBBY W INGS ." FIVE O THER R ES IDENTS O F A LA BA M A A ND M IS S IS S IPPI A LS O R EPO R TED S IGHTING THE O BJECT. \ ZICHER A LI S A ID THE O BJECT A PPEA R ED O N THE BA S E CO NTR O L TO W ER R A DA R S CR EEN A T 6:50 P, M . CS T. HE S A ID R A DA R O PER A TO R S R EPO R TED IT "M A DE \ NO XS O UND A ND LEFT NO TR A IL BUT GA VE EVIDENCE O F DEFINITELY BEING \ M A NEUVER ED." x 7/1 —SRflfcP NOT R wooR D SD 76 JUL 14 1954 6 0 JUL 141954 W ASHINGT0N CITY NEW S SER V ICE 0*19 w Tolson______ Ladd________ Nichols-------- Belm ont------- Clegg----------- Glavin---------- Harbo---------- R osen______ Tracy ______ M ohr_______ Trotter_____ W interrow d_ Tele. R oom — Hollom an----- M iss Gandy — Air Force Hus hes Up Saucer Prob^ Bj* ROBERT CRATER paperm en, how ever this policy had books, "Flying S aucers Have LaniB. S cripps-How ard S taff W riter A ir Force leaders have slam m ed dow n a “brass” curtain at the Dayton (0.) A ir Technical Intelligence Center (A TIC), w here flying- saucer reports are investigated, “The A ir Force w ill be unable to honor visits (including the press) to the A TIC because the volum e of requests for inform ation has seri- ou®y interferred w ith investiga- tiois,” an A ir Force spokesm an here sail today. Jie said the original official policy -'’ been to exclude visits by new s- paperm en, been relaxed in recent m onths. M ost of the m ail received at the Dayton office is from persons over the nation w ho are curious about flying saucers. “The m ail has becom e so heavy that the tw o or three persons de­ tailed to investigating unidentified^ , flying objects—called UFO ’s— are' not getting anything else done,” the A ir Force official said. "A ctually, UFO ’s are supposed to be only a sm all part of the investi­ gative w ork done at the A TIC.” The flood of m ail from the public w as attributed to new spaper and m agazine articles about flying sau­ cers. S ingled out w ere tw o current ed” and "Flying S aucers From O ut- Land- er S pace.”Just how banning the press w as expected to ease the situation w as not explained—unless the A ir Force figures this w ill reduce the m unber of flying saucer stories. \ Tim es-Herald W ash. Post W ash. New s W ash. S tar N.Y. Herald Tribune NOT RECORDED 160 JAN 15 1954 N.Y. M irror Date: THAT WAS NO AMPLANE Are They Hiding Those UssfiiSs USbAs1 © fefef By EVERT CLARK M ysterious red lights w hich have flow n over the Quantico M arine Base 22 tim es in the past six nights w ere officially explained aw ay today as a new type of aircraft navigation light. But m ost of the M arines w ho saw them still don’t believe that’s w hat they w ere. In addition, The New s ran into w hat seem s to be a delib­ erate attem pt to cover up cer­ tain facets of the longest con­ tinuous “flying saucer” run in history. The first m an to see the light, w as Pfc. Norm an Viets, 18, of Greenville, Pa. S ince'then, at least 30 other M arines, including half a » dozen officers, have seen it, too. O n one occasion, sentries report- / ed seeing three lights at once. They say they have seen the lights drop straight dow n, fly straight up and stand still. Even the m ost c a r e f u 1—and skeptical—observer, the base prov­ ost m arshal, M aj. D. D. Pom erleau, adm itted the lights had character­ istics he never expected to find on an airliner. FIRST SIGHTING Pfc. Viets w as standing sentry duty at the Tank Park a few m iles north of Cam p Barrett on the south­ w estern side of the Quantico reser­ vation at 9:05 p. m . Dec. 30 w hen he “reported a m oving, blinking red light near his post w hich he could not explain.” The sergeant of the guard, S ergt. Francis R . S alinder, “investigated and saw the light but could not ex­ plain it.” Pfc. Viets told The New s the light ' first appeared to com e straight * tow ard him over a line of trees about 200 yards to the south of his post. “It w as about a foot and a half in diam eter," he said, “only going about 10 or 15 m iles an hour. Then it fol­ low ed the tree line about 50 yards to the right and w ent dow n.“It w ent straight dow n, all of a sudden Fifteen m inutes later it w ent straight up and m oved over here tow ard the tank shed. “I saw it tw o tim es after that. It did the sam e thing. It w as the w eirdest looking thing I. ever saw . There w as no engine nm seand,no shape—just the light. NOT RECORDED 148 JAN 12 lb54 THh W A S jiINGTciJ DA ILY NEW S Greater W ashington Edition NO SALE By the tim e The New s talked to Pfc. Viets at Quantico yesterday, the airplane navigation light theory already had been offered. The New s asked Pfc. Viets about it, and he said: “That was no airplane. I first thought it might be a weather balloon, but it wasn’t. Either way, you could have seen the shape.” Pfc. Viets and S ergt. S alinder saw the light again at 10:15 the sam e night. Five m inutes later they called in the roving guard from a nearby guard tow er, but the light w as gone. CONFLICT First reports had it that troops w ere sent into the area to look for the lights. Yesterday M aj. A . B. Ferguson, the base inform ation of­ ficer, said that report w as errone­ous. “W e did at no tim e dispatch troops to fight off the invaders or capture then or w elcom e them aboard or anything else," he said. How ever, this is w hat the official record says: “A 13-man detail arrived (at 11:15 p. m., 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 m inutes later Pfc. Viets’ re­ lief “reported seeing the sam e red light.” S ergt. S alinder saw nothing. HOVERS The next night the light w as seen again, at 6:25 p. m ., by a tank park sentry and the guard tow er. A t 7:10, it appeared again. This tim e the sergeant of the guard “cam e out and checked the area ® v >■■* ❖ w ith troops,” the official report says. Thirty m inutes later, the sergeant of the guard saw it again, and at 8:23 p. m . three lights .w ere seen. (This w as New Year’s Eve.) A t 9:01 it w as seen again, and at 4:20 New Year’s m orning it m oved northeast, then south, then north and rem ained “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." Pfc. 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 m ates said. The light cam e back three tim es Friday night, once S aturday night, five tim es S unday night and tw ice last night. M aj. Pom erleau said the best pos­ Pfc. Bennett (top front) grabbed a butcher knife and said: “It’s land­ ing in the tank shed!” M aj. Pomerleau (middle photo) is skeptical, but still curious. Pfc. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convince him “that was no airplane.” —New s S taff Photos by Geno Thom as sible w ay to describe the light's size, shape and intensity w as to com pare it to “the w ay a blinking red traffic light appears to a m otor­ ist as he pulls up to an intersec­ tion.” He heard no noise and saw no shape. He said the light w as “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.” S everal airlines that fly in and out of W ashington say they began in­ stalling new lights atop the tails of planes six m onths ago. They blink on and off, are red, and can be seen m uch farther aw ay than older types. “Nobody in the barracks know s,” Pfc. Viets said.. “They’re just talking flying saucers, that’s all. They’re talking about m en from M ars and everything else you could nam e." THE W A S HINGTO N DA ILY NEW S Greater W ashington hd™on 0-19 Tolson__ Ladd__ Nichols^ Belm ont _ Clegg----- Glavin----- Harbo----- M ystes^Is Dissolved R osen______ Tracy______ M ohr_______ Trotter_____ W interrow d_ M arines Decide ‘O bjects’ A re New A irliner Lights Tele. R oom — Hollom an----- M iss Gandy _ as the M arine Corps is con­ cerned, a spokesm an said. Until last night, how ever, the lights w ere reported to have done about everything. Nine­ teen M arines reported sighting a m ysterious reddish “blinking or revolving” light over the base the nights of Decem ber 30 and January 1, 2 and 3. R um ors 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 w ere discounted by the M arine Corps earlier yesterday. The base prove m arshal, M aj. D. D. Pom erleau, w ho saw the lights tw ice, guessed that they cam e from an airliner, but added that he couldn’t be sure. But last night the M arine Corps had this final w ord: “O fficials here are convinced that the unusual phenom enon w as a new navigational light of greater intensity used on air­ liners flying near the reserva-, tion.” ’ <= ==- 1 A uthorities at the Quantico M arine Base last night took a long, searching look at those strange flying objects w ith flash­ ing lights seen near the base for the past five nights—and de­ cided they w ere com m ercial air­ liners. Quick as a flash, airlines op­ erating out of W ashington con­ firm ed the M arine Corps’ guess. A n A m erican A irlines spokes­ m an said flashing red lights, vis­ ible for 10 to 15 m iles, have been installed recently atop the ver­ tical stabilizer, or tail, of its planes. O ther airlines also have put in such lights, he said. A group of M arine officers last night m ade a field trip to the “Guadacanal” area of the base, w est of U. S . 1. They re­ ported: "This flashing red light, w hen seen for the first tim e by the unaided eye, creates an un­ usual im pression and an illu­ sion of nearness.” That elated the m atter as far 5 JAW /7 ^ NO T R ECO R DED "JA N 8 1954 W ash. Post _____ W ash. New s _____ W ash. S tar , N.Y. Herald Tribune------- N.Y. M irror -------- Date: ——-------~ 0-19 M arines Investigating Tolson —7— Nichol®/ Belm ont----^, Clegg---------- Glavin--------- Harbo---------- R osen--------- Tracy---------- Gearty--------- M ohr----------- W interrow d — Tele. R oom — Hollom an----- S i zoo---------- M iss Gandy — Mystery ‘Flying Object’ Lands Near Quantico, Say Sentries O ne of those m ysterious fly in;; the sky and described it as a objects reportedly landed near Quantico on New ' Year’s Eve but took off again before the M a­ rines could get the situation in hand. A spokesm an yesterday con­ firm ed that a flying object had been reported near the base. ‘ Tw o sentries on duty at Cam p Jarrett, a M arine installation ibout 15 m iles from Quantico, reported seeing an object in flying saucer,” according to the spokesm an. They notified the O fficer of the Day that it had landed, and the helicopter took off from Quantico. By the tim e it arrived, the m ystery ship had risen and w as out of sight. The new s spread sw ifty am ong Quantico personnel. O ne report had it that tw o platoons w ere deployed to capture the thing but this w as denied by the official spokesm an. S tatem ents w ere taken from the tw o sentries, and the spokes­ m an said the investigation w as now in the hands of “higher authorities.” The tw o sentries w ere re­ ported off the base on pass last night and the M arine spokes­ m an w as not able to supply their description of the objects, or their report of its actions. The spokesm an reported they had been sum m oned to appeal before high officers of tlie M al rine Base this m orning for addil tional statem ents. not R Ef ^nED 191 JAN 20 1954 Tim es-Herald W ash. Post W ash. New s W ash. S tar N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. M irror 58 JA N 2II"1 0-19 ^yi^^ S j^c^^s Tolson_____ Ladd----------- Nichols------- Belm ont------- Clegg---------- Glavin--------- Harbo---------- R osen--------- Tracy---------- Gearty--------- M ohr----------- W interrow d — Tele. R oom — Hollom an----- S i zoo---------- M iss Gandy _ Swedish P ilot Reports 'Saucer1 By United Frees S TO CK HO LM , S w eden, Dec. 18—The S w edish R oyal A ir Force ordered a full investigation today of an airliner crew ’s report of seeing a saucer-shaped object over S w eden near secret S oviet bases. Gen. Bengt Norderskjold, air force com m ander in-chief, called In com plete reports from all S w edish radar stations after joining the defense staff in prom ising a detailed inquiry, Capt, Ulf Christiernsson, pilot of the passenger liner, told the defense staff he and his crew saw the disc-shaped m etallic object shortly after noon yesterday over the southern S w edish tow n of Haessleholm , about 300 m iles from the strategic Baltic coast, "It w as entirely an unorthodox, m etallic, sym m etrical and circular object,” Capt. Christiernsson said. "I w as not at all scared, but curious, very curious.” Capt. Christiernsson said the object flew faster than sound- about 5000 feet above the ground. Capt. Christiernsson said the object headed southw ard over a low - 1 lying cloud layer w hich w ould obscure it from ground observers. He said he w atched it for about six seconds before it disappeared in the direction of East Germ any’s Baltic shore, near the form er Nazi research station at Peenem unde, now operated by the R ussians. NOT 46 JAN b 1954 W ash. S tar W ash. Post W ash. New s Tim es-Hera N.Y. Herald Tribune -------- N.Y. M irror -------- N.Y. Com pass _____ IAN 8 1954' Date: .J^^^^X^^^ 4 0-19 SAO CERS H EW SPACE SH IPS BYEXJM E Hits A F S tand O n 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 R ICHA R D R EILLY A re the'llying. saucer^ real— and if they are, w hat are they? That, in essence, is the ques­ tion that faces the A ir Force— and the A m erican public as w ell. A ltho it rem ains unansw ered, it has stirred no end of opinions and theories. O ne theory advanced from tim e to tim e is that the saucers are som e revolutionary type of w eapon perfected either by this country or som e other nation. The A ir Force, how ever, dep­ recates this possibility. In a re­ cent statem ent, it said: “The A ir Force has stated in the past, and reaffirm s at the present tim e, that unexplained aerial phenom ena are not a se­ cret w eapon, m issile or aircraft developed by the United S tates. None of the three m ilitary de­ partm ents nor any other agency' in the governm ent is conducting; experim ents, classified or other­ w ise, w ith flying objects w hich could be a basis for the reported phenom ena.” W eapon Theory Discounted In addition, a high-ranking A ir Force officer indicated to the Tim es-Herald that it is believed Im possible the saucers could be a foreign w eapon. R egarding the question as to w hether flying saucers exist, Lt. R obert W hite, public inform a­ tion officer, said the A ir Force believes reliable observers such as veteran airline pilots are sin­ cere w hen they report sighting unidentified objects. The A ir Force w as tossed a hot potato recently by M aj. Donald F. K eyhoe, U.S .M .C. (ret.), w ho claim ed in his recent book, “Fly­ ing S aucers from O uter S pace,” that the saucers not only are real but that they are of inter-plane­ tary origin. Furtherm ore, K eyhoe contends that the so-called “Utah film ” possessed by the A ir Force proves N m eory Bolstered——, K eyhoe’s inter-planetary theory w as bolstered by a letter pub­ lished on the jacket of his book from A lbert M . Chop, form er A ir Force civilian expert on the saucer project, w ho now is w ith the Douglas A ircraft com pany in California. In the letter, Chop stated: ■ “The A ir Force, and its investi­ gative agency, ‘Project Bluebook,’ are aw are of M aj. K eyhoe’s con­ clusion that the flying saucers are from another planet. The A ir Force has never denied that this possibility exists. S om e of the personnel believe that there m ay be som e strange natural phenom ena com pletely unknow n to us, but that if the apparently controled m aneuvers reported by m any com petent obseiw ers are correct, then the only re­ m aining explanation is the inter­ planetary answ er.” Upon publication of the letter i —w ritten on Defense departm ent! stationery—the A ir Force chal­ lenged Chop’s claim and said he w as m erely expressing his per­ sonal opinion. Chop subsequently adm itted that he w as not speaking for the A ir Force, but m aintained that som e of the investigative personnel had subscribed to the interplanetary theory. He said this w as based on "personal con­ tacts w ith these various indi­ viduals” and insisted that it w as "a true statem ent.” Charges Cover-Up A m plifying his theory that the saucers com e from another planet, K ehoe claim s they could originate from som e other body in the earth’s solar system - such as M ars or Venus—or from som e other system or universe. K ehoe charges that the A ir Force is convinced that the saucers are space ships from 1 another w orld, but that it is cov-‘ ering up because of a fear that such a disclosure w ould result in w idespread panic. The A ir Force, how ever, in­ sists that this is not so- that it is holding back no im portant facts from the public. JLt. W hite said the nam es of persohsTflVolved in the^^htings W ash. New s W ash. S tar 1 / -h N. Y. Tim es NO T ^ECO R bFD e .^, Y * Com Pass _______ ______________________ Dates . aftTM uld, and repTtrfs ohw h divulge the capabilities of our aircraft, radar and electronic equipm ent are classified. A ll other inform ation w ith respect to sightings is a m atter of pub­ lic record, he said. K eyhoe m aintains, tho, that the A ir Force has refused to re­ lease m any analyses of sighting reports. He points out that the nam es and locations connected w ith the incidents could be de­ leted, if necessary. • W ants Film R eleased K eyhoe also claim s that the A ir Force should release the final intelligence analysis on the Utah film . In connection w ith this, K ey­ hoe recently sent a,telegram to high A ir Force officials charging that since the A ir Force had im ­ plied that he had m isrepresented the analysis of the Utah film , either he or the A ir Force w as lying. The Tim es-Herald asked a top A ir Force spokesm an if K eyhoe had, in fact, m isrepresented the Utah film analysis. He declined to com m ent. In his telegram — as in his book—K eyhoe stated: “The final analysis proved that the saucer form ation could not be explained as any know n aircraft, or other conventional objects.” Cites Conclusions The spokesm an w as asked if this statem ent w ere true or false. He said that, to date, the A ir Force has neither affirm ed nor denied it. . K eyhoe also contends the an|l- y.' s concluded the objects w ae nt t birds and w ere not causld b; w eather conditions. | specifically, K eyhoe claim s the Tim es Herald W ash. Post 0-19 infeW m x experts reached the follow ing conclusions: 1. The average speed of the unknow n objects w as som ew here betw een 653 and 980 m iles per hour. 2. A ll the objects appeared round, of the sam e size, and gave off a bluish-w hite glow of very high intensity. 3. The objects seem ed to be m aneuvering in a circular or el­ liptical pattern w ithin the group, at very high speeds. 4. Because of these high speeds, the objects obviously could not be balloons or birds. 5. They w ere not any type of know n aircraft. 6. The sighting could not be ex­ plained by any conventional an­ sw er. A sked if the Tim es-Herald could see the final analysis re­ port, an A ir Force spokesm an said that there w ere certain re­ ports the A ir Force could not m ake public for security reasons, risk of libel, and other reasons. How ever, the spokesm an said the film could be view ed at W right field, O hio. Not Discounting Theory The A ir Force officially neither accepts nor rejects the interplan­ etary theory. ■ Brig. Gen. S ory S m ith, A ir Force public relations chief, put it this w ay: “W e do not know enough about it to deny that flying saucers exist. Conversely, w e have no .proof that they do exist. “In our investigation w e are not discounting the possibility that the saucers—if they exist— could be interplanetary. W c are interested in anyone w ho m ight be using the air over the United S tates.'’How ever', w e have no authen­ tic physical evidcnce^fchaiJ-hcy are interplanetary.” Continuing, Gen. S m ith stated: “For the A ir Force to adm it that flying saucers exist, it w ould w ant indisputable physical evi­ dence. For such an adm ission, it w ould w ant stronger evidence than it now has.” S um m ing up the problem , he said: “S o far, the question of w hether flying saucers exist, and if so, w hat they are. has not been conclusively answ ered either w ay.” But one thing is certain, he added. The A ir Force w ill con­ tinue to seek the answ er. Will Push Campaign M eanw hile, K eyhoe plans-to continue his cam paign to com ­ pel the A ir Force to disclose the facts he says it is concealing. He told the Tim es-Herald he w ill continue to m ake his claim s in print and on television, and w ill challenge the A ir Force to deny them . "If any official, after reading the final analysis on the Utah film , says that it did not rule out birds, know n aircraft or conventional objects as the cause of those objects, I w ill call him a liar to his face. “I do not like to use such term s, but after all, the A ir Force has, in effect, been calling m e a liar and I'm getting tired of it.” R egardless of the charges and counter-charges, so long as the A ir Force has unsolved sightings in its files — and until it is definitely know n w hat the fly ing saucers are — the average person is bound to w onder . . . A re the flying saucers real?If so. w hat are they? The final chapter is yet to be w ritten in this strange dram a. The gnaw er is not yet available to us. 's===' Tim es Herald W ash. Post W ash. New s W ash. S tar N. Y. Tim es No I. Com pass _______ Date; ----------------------- - ^o Fan Hysteria iRed Labels ^Saucers’ U.S. Fiction LO NDO N —W )— A S oviet com m entator S aturday accused "aggressive forces” in the Unit­ ed S tates and otM $; countries of inventing flyin;, saucers to fan w ar hysteftaT^*1" • M oscow radio broadcast ex­ cerpts from an article by K . K hachaturov in the S oviet arm y new spaper R ed S tar, say­ ing: “Those w ho spread these fa­ bles are endeavoring to create the im pression that the m yste­ rious object originate from M os­ cow . “The m ythical 'saucers’ take off from the pages of the bour­ geois press every tim e the rul­ ing circles of this or that cap­ italist country, on orders from ! W ashington, are trying to foist! upon their people the new bur-1 den of m ilitary expenditure.” J Ladd_ Nidi M r. M r. M r. Belm M r. Clegg__ M r. Glavin_ M r. Harbo— M r. R osen_____ M r. Tracy_____ M r. M ohr______ M r. Trotter____ M r. W interrow d. Tele. R oom _____ M r. Hollom an__ M iss Gandy____ NO T opCOR D ED 46 JAN 8 1954 THE MIAMI HERALD MIAMI, FLORIDA DECEMBER 28, 1953 S W UNG GR EEN. 0. —A PR IVA TE PLA NE PILO T S A ID TO DA Y HE S A W ”A N O BJECT BR IGHTER THA N THE S UN FO R A BO UT FIVE S ECO NDS .” W HILE CR UIS ING A T A BO UT 80 M ILES PER HO UR TW O M ILES W ES T O F M ER E. THE PILO T. W HO A S K ED THA T HIS IDENTITY NO T BE R EVEA LED. S A ID HIS PLA NE W A S A T A BO UT 2.000 FEET THIS M O R NING W HEN HE S A W THE UNIDENTIFIED O BJECT. ”IT LO O K ED LIK E A BA LL O F FIR E.” HE S A ID. "IT W A S BR ILLIA NT W HITE. LIK E M O LTEN S TEEL, THEN IT TUR NED BLUE A ND TO O K O FF S TR A IGHT W ES T. IT TO O K O FF W ITHIN FIVE S ECO NDS .” THE PILO T S A ID THE O BJECT W A S TR A VELLING FA S TER THA N A NY JET PLA NE A ND W A S GO ING S O UTH W HEN HE FIR S T S A W IT. HE S A ID THE S K Y W A S CLEA R A ND THER E W ER E NO O THER PLA NES IN S IGHT A T THE TIM E, HE S A ID HE DIDN’T THINK IT CO ULD HA VE BEEN A NY R EFLECTIO N. HE > < A A ID IT A PPEA R ED A BO UT A FO O T IN DIA M ETER A ND W A S A BO UT THE S A M E . h£ A LTITUDE A T W HICH HE W A S FLYING.1 12/11—TS 151P \ I NO T T^' )R DED 191 DEG 16 1353 ♦CANADA P L® FLYING SAUCER OB SERVATORY Not Optical Illusions, Top Experts Hold 1954 O TTA W A , Nov. 12 fCTPS )— Establishm ent of a''~€anadian governm ent observatory for fly­ ing saucers, the first in the w orld, 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.” W ilbert B. S m ith, scientist appointed to supervise the new saucer sighting station, told reporters. He said the federal transport departm ent, in w hich he has charge of the telecom m unications broadcast and m easurem ent sec­ tion, receives constant reports of sighting of flying saucers. The total num ber, he said, is classi­ fied as restricted inform ation. “The optical illusion explana­ tion is lovely,” he said, “but in every sighting there is alw ays som e factor that precludes this explanation. W e have decided to try to learn just w hat they are.” Canada’s sighting station w ill be at S hirley bay, on the O ttaw a river 10 m iles w est of here. S m ith said any one locaion in Canada is sure to have at least one saucer sighting a year. A ssociated w ith S m ith in the project, "w hich is under the transport departm ent and the defense research board, w ill be a theoretical physicist and a specialist in gravitational ■ studies. A 24-hour w atch w ill be kept for saucers. S pecially built equip­ m ent is w ired to alarm bells. The i equipm ent includes an iono- । spheric reactor, electronic de­ vices for m easurem ent of sounds, a gam m a ray detector, a gravi­ m eter, and other paraphernalia. Jet planes m ay be sent up from the air force field near O ttaw a to investigate any saucers re­ported by the station. Defense research scientists here never have pooh-poohed fly­ ing saucers, w hich have been pub­ licly reported in nightm arish shapes and form s over Canadian cities. S om e of them have been described as m ulticolored cigar figurations. Frequency of the saucer sight­ ings has been noted here to rise w ith the increase in proxim ity of the planet M ars to the earth. S m ith said he does ftui-tritrifut the Possibility that the saucers m ayCunit from outer space. N^t”r£GORDSD 145 JAH 4 i^4 Tim es Herald W ash. Post W ash. New s W ash. S tar N. Y. Tim es N. Y. Com pass Date: 0.20 M r. Tolson M r. Ladd_.__<7 M r^gj^^F M r. Belm ont M r. CFe .— M r. Glavin----------- M r. Harbo------------ M r. R osen------------ M r. Tracy------------ M r. Gearty------------ M r. M ohr-----------— M r. W interrow d----- Tele. R oom ---------- M r. Hollom an------- M r. S izoo------------- FlJ I K )6 _^^^_ R ^ (S A UCER S ) THE A IR FO R CE S TILL INS IS TS THA T "FLYING S A UCER S " A R E W EA THER FR EA K S DES PITE A R ETIR ED M A R INE O FFEER ’S A TTEM PT TO PR O VE THEY A R E S PA CE I S HIPS FR O M A NO THER PLA NET. A S PO K ES M A N S A ID THER E W A S NO CHA NGE IN A IR FO R CE'S O FFICIA L VIEW , I A LTHO UGH DO NA LD E. K EYHO E, IN A BO O K "FLYING S A UCER S FR O M O UTER S PA CE," CLA IM ED THE A IR FO R CE HA S S ECR ET M O VIES PR O VING THE O FT-S EEN GLO W ING O BJECTS A R E INTER PLA NETA R Y CR A FT. BO TH THE A IR FO R CE A ND THE W EA THER BUR EA U, A FTER EXHA US TIVE S TUDIES , A GR EED M A NY M O NTHS A GO THA T THE FIER Y, FA S T-M O VING O BJECTS S EEN BY O BS ER VER S FR O M CO A S T TO CO A S T W ER E LIGHT EFFECTS CA US ED BY TEM PER A TUR E ’’INVER S IO N." K EYHO E, HO W EVER , CLA IM ED HE S UPPO R TS HIS INTER PLA NETA R Y S HIP THEO R Y W ITH O FFICIA L A IR FO R CE DO CUM ENTS . A PR ES S R ELEA S E PR EPA R ED BY HIS PUBLIS HER "R EVEA LED" W HA T IT S A ID W A S A BITTER S TR UGGLE IN HIGH A IR FO R CE CIR CLES O VER W HETHER TO M A K E THE A LLEGED PICTUR ES PUBLIC. K EYHO E S CHEDULED A CO CK TA IL PA R TY A T 4:00 P.M . FO R THE PR ES S TO PLUG HIS BO O K . [9/29--GE1024A l^-^^/A NO T R ECO R DED 199 OCT 8 1953 W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE 0-19 ^<3 <4 (' Plastic ‘M oby Dicks’ Flying' Since 1950 W hale-Like A ir Force Balloons R ise 20 M iles, S olve Flying S aucer R iddle, W ind S ecrets By the A ssociated Press The m agazine A viation W eek published a new report yester­ day on w hat the A ir Force has found out about the upper at­ m osphere w ith its “M oby Dick” ballons—w hale-like bags w hich have often been m istaken for flying saucers. S ince the big helium -filled •balloons m ade their appear­ ance three years ago, the m aga­ zine said, m ore than 90 percent of the “saucer” sightings have coincided w ith 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 loons som etim es seem to be racing at trem endous velocities, w hereas they actually are m ov­ ing at 60 m iles an hour or less. O ne evening after sunset m any units of the S trategic A ir Com m and in Texas w ere kept busy trying to catch and shoot dow n a flying object that w as actually a M oby Dick drift­ ing along at about 90,000 feet in a glow of dust-refracted sun­ light. B-36 bom ber crew s, accus­ tom ed to flying high altitudes, gave up the chase w hen they w ere left behind at 45,000 feet, and jet fighters stalled trying to pursue the object above their altitude ceiling. A nother m ysterious object,sun has set and darkness has - -------- covered the earth, they shine later identified positively as a ’ . research balloon, floated overbrillantly w ith the light re- fleeted from the sun at alti­ tudes of from 90.000 to 100,- 000 feet, alm ost 20 m iles up in the sky. Vapor dust or other foreign particles in the atm osphere m ake the light appear w hite, red,, purple, or green. Because of the difficulty of judging speed at high altitudes, the bal- S an Francisco last spring during a parade w elcom ing Gen. Jam es A . Van Fleet hom e from K orea. It shone as a brilliant w hite sphere as jet fighters vainly tried to reach it. O n another day, Dayton, O hio, w as filled w ith ‘'saucer” reports as anoth­ er balloon floated over the city. The balloon flights have con- firm ed the fact that air current, travel in opposite directions at different altitude layers. The prevailing w ind m oves from W est to East across the United S tates at about 50,000 feet. A bout 10.000 feet higher, how ­ ever, the flow is som etim es re­ versed. Balloons have also carried various kinds of anim al life, ranging from fruit flies to m ied and m onkeys, up to 80.000 feet The experim ental anim als haveji survived such altitudes for 24 hours and have been recovered to provide living data for scien­ tific research. Th^JHM oby DicU-4*alloons arc R eleased alm ost daily at Tilla­ m ook, O re.: Vernalis, Calif., and Edw ards A ir Force Base in Calil fornia. Tw o m ore sites w ill bd used to take advantage of latq sum m er w inds—the M oody A iri Force base near Valdosta, Ga., and S edalia, M o. The big bags are m ade so that they destroy them selves auto­ m atically w hen they descend to 33,000 feet. R ecording m achines and instrum ents are parachuted to earth. W XED -*0 J ^ NO T ^ordED 191 S L 1| ^53 Clegg _ Glavin Harbo. R osen. Laughlin M oh r_________ Uinterrow d----- Tele. R m .____ H olio m an Gandy________ Tim es-Herald W ash. W ash. W ash. Post New s S tar N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. M irror p. M 1 Date 0-19 Tolson ______ Ladd________ Nichols Belm ont Cle? ? ---------— Glavin_______ Harbo________ R osen_______ Tracy________ Laughlin M ohr_________ W interrow d----- Tele. R ni-------- Hollom an_____ Gandy________ P ilot Sights Small Flying Disc Chasing F-84 Over Japan \ B y the Associated P ress UNITED S TA TES A IR BA S E, Northern Japan. Jan. 28.—The United S tates A ir Force last night reported a sm all, m etallic, disc­ shaped object m ade a controlled, sw eeping pass at an A m erican jet fighter-bom ber and w as ob­ served at very close range by another pilot. The report, from A ir Force intelligence files, said the sight­ ing w as m ade over Northern Japan at 11:20 a.m ., M arch 29. 1952, by Lt. David C. Brigham of R ockford, Ill. It w as a bright, cloudless day. Lt. Brigham said he got a very go8d look at the object from abA it 30 to 50 feet for about 10 seconds. Tne pilot described it as “about eight inches in diam eter, very thin, round, and as shiny as polished chrom ium ; had no ap­ parent projections and left no exhaust trails or vapor trails.” He said it caught up w ith an F-84 Thunderjet, hovered a few m om ents and then shot out of sight. The F-84 pilot, w hose nam e w as not revealed, did not see it. It w as the second disclosure in a w eek by A ir- Force intelli­ gence of m ysterious flying ob­ jects over Northern Japan near the R ussian-S iberia area. O n January 21, the A ir Force disclosed that "rotating clusters of red, w hite and green lights” had been sighted over Northern Japan by A m erican airm en, I — 2 1953 Tim es-Herald W ash. Post W ash. New s W ash. S tar N.Y. Herald Tribune N-Y. M irror 79 FEB 3-1953 0.20 Tracy _______ Laughlin—__ M ohr________. Tele. R m . Hollom an Gandy_______ S A NTA FE, N.M .—THE S A NTA FE NEW M EXICA N S A ID TO DA Y THA T "FA NTA S TIC" S TR IDES HA VE BEEN M A DE IN THE FIELD O F GUIDED M IS S ILE R ES EA R CH A ND THA T IT IS "PO S S IBLE" THE DEFENS E DEPA R TM ENT M A Y S O O N CLEA R UP THE M YS TER Y O F TH^4TYTNG„JLO O ER S THE NEW S PA PER S A ID "S O M E W R A PS M A TTJETEM O VED FR O M S O M E A S PECTS O F THE HUS H-HUS H PR O GR A M " A T A S PECIA L DEM O NS TR A TIO N TENTA TIVELY S CHEDULED A T THE W HITE S A NDS PR O VING GR O UNDS S O UTH O F HER E LA TER THIS S PR ING. "IT IS PO S S IBLE THA T THE DIS CLO S UR E S O O N TO BE M A DE BY THE DEPA R T­ M ENT O F DEFENS E M A Y, IN PA R T A T LEA S T, EXPLA IN S O M E O F THE 'THINGS ’ S IGHTED IN S O UTHW ES TER N S K IES BY BEW ILDER ED O BS ER VER S W HO HA VE TER M ED THEM ’FLYING S A UCER S ’ FO R LA CK O F A BETTER NA M E." THE PA PER S A ID.(HO W EVER CO L M(HO W EVER CO L. M . G. HENDR ICK S , CO M M A NDA NT O F THE PR O VING GR O UNDS S A ID TO DA Y THA T R ES EA R CH THER E "HA S NO THING TO DO W ITH A NYING LIK E THE S O -CA LLED FLYING S A UCER . W E A R E S TR ICTLY IN THE GUIDED M IS S ILE BUS INES S . THER E CER TA INLY W O N’T BE A NYTHING LIK E A DEM O NS TR A TED.") 1/8—N1134P FLYING S A UCER W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE X 1 S A NTA FE. N.M "FA NTA S TIC" S TR IDES jHA VE BEEN M A DE IN THE FIELD O F GUIDED M IS S ILE R ES EA R CH A ND THA T IT IS "PO S S IBLE" THE DEFENS E DEPA R TM ENT M A Y S O O N from ^ A spnm O F THE HUS H-HUS H PR O GR A M " A T A 1PECIA L DEM O NS TR A TIO N TENTA TIVELY S CHEDULED A T THE W HITE GA NDS PR O VING GR O UNDS S O UTH O F HER E LA TER THISS PR ING. . •IT IS PO S S I LE 1HA T THE DIS CLO S UR E S O O N TO -E S A DE BY THE DEPA R T- K ENT O F DEFENS E M A YJ IN PA R T A T LEA S T, EXPLA IN S O M E O F THE ’THINGS ’ S IGHTED IN S O UTHW ES faN S K IES DY BEW ILDER ED O BS ER VER S W HO HA VE TER M ED THEM ’FLYING S A UCER S ’ FO R LA CK O F A BETTER S A M E," THE PA PER S A ID (HO W EVER CO L. M . HENDR ICK S , CO M M A NDA NT O F THE PR O VING GR O UND* S A ID TO DA Y THA T R EGUnCH THER E "HA S NO THING TO DO W ITH A NYING LIK E THE S O -CA LLED FLYING --------- ---------------------------- ------ruix.^l ^A UCER . W E A R E S TR ICTLY IN THE GUIDED M IS S ILE THER E CER TA INLY W O N’T BE A NYTHING LIK E A FLYING S A UCERbu siness R EM O NS TR A TED.") l/8--^n34P ORDTOD JAN 14 1953 0 /s c (R EL EASE AT ? fOO EST) -------' NEV YO R K —THO S E LIGHT'} IN THE S K Y NEXT W EEK W U NO T 3 FLYING JUICER S . BUT M ER ELY S UDDEN TR A ILS O F LIGHT CA US ED BY S O LID PA R TICLES FR O M O UTER S PA CE THA T ENTER O UR A TM O S PHER E A T TR EM ENDO US S PEEDS A UD A R E HEA TED TO INCA NDES CENCE 3Y THE R ES IS TA NCE O F A IR TO THEIR FLIGHT.* i rrow d. .'"■-' What Is It? FLYING SAUCER M AYBE?—The unknown object ever the building in the picture, photographed above Anacortes, moves swiftly through the sky, seeming* ‘ ly a port of a cloud formation. But is it? Walter Elliott of Anacortes was preparing to take a picture of1 the building when he noticed the unusual saucer* like object in his view’ finder, so he snapped the pic­ ture at 1/lOOth of a second. Elliott was unable to determine the nature of the unusual object which quickly disappeared. —(Associated Press Wlrephote.) B dp IS 196$ blW -UGENCtd ___ f T-* ^ ’ “ ’ ‘ / asss=S S 5 ^ SEP 18 W 0.20 M r. Tolson M r. Ladd \ Ni M r. Belm ont / ■' M r. Clegg __ M r. Glavin______ M r. Harbo M r. R oaen ._____ M r. Tracy_______ M r. Laughlin____ M r. M ohr________ M r. W interrow d Tele. R oom M r. Hollom an M iss Gandy_______ E A UCER S ) S A N FR A NCIS CO —A FO R M ER A IR FO R CE B29 TES T M ECHA NIC A ND S CIENTIFIC CTUR ER S A ID TO DA Y HE S A W TW O S ILVER GR EY O BJECTS FLYING ER R A TICA LLY O VER S A N FR A NCIS CO A IR PO R T "A T TER R IFIC S PEEDS ." R O BER T G. GA R NER , 38, S A N FR A NCIS CO , S A ID HE A ND HIS W IFE BO TH O BS ER VED THE O BJECTS A T 5S 30 P.M . YES TER DA Y A ND HE W A S CO NVINCED THEY W ER E "NO T O F THE EA R TH." GA R DNER , W HO S A ID HE W A S W ITH THE A IR FO R CE IN THE PA CIFIC DUR ING W O R LD W A R II, S A ID THE O BJECTS LO O K ED LIK E "CR O S S S ECTIO NS O F A CO NE CLIPPED O FF A T BO TH ENDS ." "THEY W ER E S ILVER GR EY IN CO LO R A ND A PPEA R ED TO HA VE A DIA M ETER A BO UT 150 TO 200 FEET EA CH " HE S A ID. 1 "BO TH O F THEM FLEW A T A N A LTITUDE O F A BO UT 12,000 FEET " GA R NER 4aID. "A ND I’D ES TIM A TE THEY W ER E GO ING A T LEA S T 1800 M ILES A N HO UR . *• 8/25—TS 1147A O F W O T RECOROE® 146 S EP 15 1952 51 SEP 171952' W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE 0-20 Ison add -J Belm optC^ Clegg__3 Glavin Harbo R osen Tracy Laughlin_ M ohr____ Tele. R m .. Hollom an. Gandy (S A UCER S ) PHYS ICIS T NO EL W ES CO TT S A ID TO DA Y PEO PLE HA VE BEEN S EEING M A Y BE "A NO DE THIN A IR IN THE UPPER A TM O S PHER E. J O NE R EA S O N S CO TT FEELS THA T W A Y IS THA T THO S E FLYING "THINGS " GLO W S " CA US ED BY IO NIZA TIO N O F THA T HE HA S PR O DUCED "FLYING S A UCER S " IN HIS LA BO R A TO R Y A T FO R T BELVO IR . VA .. W HICH PO S S ES S A LL THE CHA R A CTER IS TICS A TTR IBUTED TO THE R A DA R -S PO TTED "O BJECTS " R EPO R TED HER E IN R ECENT W EEK S . S CO TT W A S NO T TA LK ING A BO UT THE BR IGHT M ETEO R W HICH FLA S HED A CR O S S THE NO R THW ES TER N S K IES HER E S UNDA Y NIGHT. BUT A BO UT W HA TEVER IT IS THA T HA S BEEN PR O DUCING "BLIPS " O N A IR FO R CE R A DA R S CR EENS . FIVE S UCH "UNIDENTIFIED O BJECTS " W ER E S PO TTED BY R A DA R A T NEA R BY A NDR EW S A IR FO R CE BA S E IN M A R YLA ND S HO R TLY BEFO R E LA S T M IDNIGHT. A S A R ES ULT O F HIS CR EA TIO NS IN THE R ES EA R CH A ND DEVELO PM ENT LA BO R A TO R IES A T FO R T BELVO IR . S CO TT.S A ID, "I A M CO NVINCED THA T THES E TLYING THINGS ’ A R E NA TUR A L PHENO M ENA ." / I S CO TT HA S BEEN CO NDUCTING EXPER IM ENTS W ITH A LA R GE VA CUUM JA R UNDER CO NDITIO NS S IM ULA TING THE R A R EFIED A ND IO NIZED UPPER A TM O S PHER E.BY IO NIZING THE THIN A IR IN HIS BELL JA R W ITH S TA TIC ELECTR ICITY I S CO TT A T W ILL PR O DUCED BA LLO O N-LIK E BLO BS O F LIGHT W HICH HE CO ULD M O VE A R O UND A T A NY DES IR ED S PEED. A LL, HE S A ID, CO ULD HA VE BEEN "DETECTED" BY R A DA R . IN A DEM O NS TR A TIO N YES TER DA Y FO T LT. GEN. LEW IS A . PICK . CHIEF O F A R M Y ENGINEER S , A ND O THER S , S CO TT S A ID HE M A DE THE LIGHTS S TA ND S TILL R EVER S E THEM S ELVES , O R W INK O UT. ’ BY A LTER ING THE A IR PR ES S UR E HE CHA NGED THE CO LO R FR O M A NEO N-LIK F O R A NGE TO W HITE O R BLUE O R W HITE W ITH A GR EEN HA LO . HE CO ULD M A K E TM F BLO BS A PPEA R TO LEA VE A N INCA NDES CENT TR A IL LIK E A JET DIS CHA R GE HL S CO TT EXPLA INED THA T A N "A NO DE GLO W " FO R M S O N A N IO NIZED tECTR IFIED) LA YER O R VO LUM E O F GA S W HICH IS PO S ITIVE IN R ES PECT S UR R O UNDING A TM O S PHER E. S UCH GLO W S CO ULD O CCUR A NYW HER E FR O M200 M ILES UP, HE S A ID, DEPENDING O N CO NDITIO NS O F A TM O S PHER IC 50 S S UR E A ND IO NIZA TIO N. g/€—TS 1259P a.73 JS C' 1 98 AUG J 1 1952 6 5 AUG 1418^ W ashington city•new s serv ice_ - ( HKD 0-20 (S A UCER S ) .THE .CO A S T.. GUA R D-TO P A Y R ELEA S ED A PHO TO GR A PH QE FO UR ^R ILLIA K T W HITE LIGHTS S NA PPED O VER ITS S A LEM , M A S S .. A IR S TA TIO N S EVER A L W EEK S A GCU- 7 THE PICTUR E. TA K EN BY A 21-year old coast gu ard photographer, w as /HE LA TES T EPIS O DE IN THE NA TIO NW IDE O UTBUR S T O F "FLYING EA UCER */M YS TER IES . X IXXLEA & LV-S HO W S EflUR R A CO LD-FDGED R O UND O BJECTS TN V-FO R M A .TT nN. EA CH A PPEA R S TO HA VE TW O IDENTICA L S HA FTS O F LIGHT EXTENDING A CR O S S ITS CENTER A ND PR O TR UDING FO R E A ND A FT LIK E A W ING. A S PO K ES M A N S A ID THE NEGA TIVE HA S BEEN EXA M INED BY CO A S T GUA R D­ PHO TO GR A PHY EXPER TS W HO A R E S A TIS FIED "1 HER E TH NO R ETO UCHING O IL TA K ErY INVO LVES ? ----------------------------------------------------- D0N’r~K NO W W HA T THE O BJECTS A R E " A CO A S T GUA R D QFETGER S A ID. W L-THA T. BO Y’S CA M ER A CA UGHT S O M ETHING." A UNITED PR ES S R EPO R TER W A S A LLO W ED TO S EE THE NEGA TIVE W HICH W A S FLO W N LA TER TO DA Y TO DA YTO N. 0., W HER E IT W ILL BE EXA M INED BY A IR FO R CE INVES TIGA TO R S . THE NEGA TIVE S HO W S NO S IGN O FXR ETO UCHI NG, EVEN UNDER A N ENLA R GER W HICH PR ES UM A BLY W O ULD S HO W UHLA N Y FA K ING. LLEJHLxBGR A EHniLILLLLU^ A CO A S T GUA R D ENLIS TED PHO TO GR A PHER . HE S A ID HE A .H.. JULY THR O UGH A N O PEN W IND-O W O F THE A IR S TA TIO N’S PHO TO LA BO R A TO R Y. S /1--GEH37A NOT R ICCO 98 AUG 13 |§5£ W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE Tolson Ladd Nichols______ Belm ont Clegg_______ Glavin_______ Harbo________ R osen_______ Tracy________ Laughlin______ M ohr_________ Tele. R m ,____ Hollom an ____ Gandy ________ ^°y^ Air Forc& lot'Saucers^ THE LATEST NEW S : W ashington, July 29—A ir Force ex­ perts said today that they are convinced "natural causes’! account for the “flying saucers” w hich have been dotting local skies for m ore than a w eek and have been appearing interm ittently throughout the country for m ore than flvq years. , M aj. Gen. John A . S am ford, director of A ir Force intelligence. Jusi # ® fry re I n n O n n offered the further assurance that a six-year study show s “no pattern vaguely resem bling any threat to the United S tates.” R eferring to the fact that radar screens are picking up w hat ppear to be natural phenom ena, Gen. S am ford said: “ I think radar is beginning to tell us a great many things it was not built to discover—for instance, about' Northern Lights an is one known to anyone who ha j 5ver had anything to do with adar—you see all kinds of un- ccountable thing's on it. It was onsidered noteworthy that Ait 'orce radar in the same Fegiol failed to pick up the impulstl which the CAA now has adden to flying sauefcr lore/* 0-19 Tolson_ Ladd Nichols. Belm ont _|2 Clegg-----_ Glavin Harbo R osen Tracy_____ Laughlin M ohr_____ Tele. R m ._ Hollom an _ Gandy ___ Is Solved; Device Studies Weather O ne of the W ashington area’s flying saucers has been tracked dow n finally. 1 Last w eek a M artinsburg CW . Va.) w om an found a m ysterious five-foot square piece of alum inum covered m aterial on her farm . S he w anted to know w hat it w as but nobody seem ed to be able to tell and there w as the usual speculation about flying saucers. । A ndrew s A ir Force Base cleared urt the m ystery today. A spokes- m i n said the object w as used by th * A ir W eather S ervice. It is atached to a balloon and sent info the sky. It is then tracked by radar and the direction and speed of the w ind calculated. The device is in constant use, the air base said- 68 AUG 121952' NOT K K < i t OiHU 98 AUG 11 1952 Tim es-Herald W ash. Post W ash. New s W ash. S tar $ ~ N.Y. M irror N.Y. Com pass Date: 0-19 Clegg. Glavin in the Sky Again R adar S pots M ore M ystery O bjects Here, Fliers R eport S ighting Glow ing Lights Harbo R osen Tracy___ Laughlin. M ohr Tele. R m Hollom an Gandy____ 'V^ W ashington received another|aw ay. The pilot said he w asn't; visit last night from the uniden- able to close on them , and they! tilled aerial objects sim ilar to w ere.“really m oving^” He lost those reported here last M onday.'sight of them tw o m inutes later. A t least a dozen of the m ys- The sam e pilot observed a terious objects w ere reported to steady w hite light 10 m iles east have been seen glow ing in the ^ M ount Verno" k'a^i , .... The light, about five m iles aheadsky w ithin a 30-m ile tadius of;of ^jm , faded in a m inute, the city. They. w ere. all picked! The interceptors did not sight up on the radar screen of the 'any m ore lights after that. A l- CA A A ir R oute Traffic Control though the radar screen still center at W ashington National picked up the objects. O ne A irport. plane landed shortly before m id- A t 11:25 p. m ., tw o F-94 jet night, and the other about 12:15 lighted end of a cigaret, or a cluster of orange and red lights. R adar operators plotted their speed at from 38 to 90 m iles per hour. They w ere not able to de­ term ine their altitude. S om e pilots reported flying over them and som e under them . Before last w eeks report of Ute m ysterious lights, so-called '"’flvipg saucers" are believed never to have been picked up on The objects ~radar screen s. show n on the National A irport fighters w ere sent up by the a. m . A ir Defense com m and to inves- It w as the second tim e these tigatc the lights. The pilots re- ported seeing the radar, how ever, caused definite “blips” on the screen, w hich objects have been picked up by m eans contact w ith solid objects, . . . • : - : * _____rafhm’ than licrhf^ nr r'.^ort innsrather than lights or r lections. w ere not able to get any "closer show ed up first on the screen . A CA A spokesm an d the ob- tn them fhan about 7 m iles. at 9:08 p. m . and rem ained for Jects picked up last night gaveto them than about 7 m iles. -at 9:08 p. m . and rem ained for 'Hie jet pilots described the som e tim e. lights as hard to see and track A irline, private and m ilitary dow n. pilots all reported seeing them . A t 11:33 p. m .. one jet pilot S om e pilots said they cam e w ith- observed four lights in the vicin- in tw o or three m iles of the ob- 'uty of A ndrew s A ir Force base, jects.The lights w ere about 500 feet’ They w ere variously described above him and about 10 m iles as looking like blue lights, the off blips sim ilar to those of reg­ ular aircraft. The A ir Force has been inves­ tigating last w eek's objects. It said reports of flying saucers this m onth have been the hiej^ est since 1947, w hen Ihcy^t w ere seen. Tim es-Herald W ash. Post W ash. New s W ash. S tar 7 0aUG4 W 52 1^ ■ T 98 JUL Qi igjj2 N.Y. M irror --------------S ,195$ Date:-------- N.Y. Com pass {S A UCER S ). ’ , FLA , — (UNITED PR ES sUc^ )—TO O VETER A N PA N A M ER ICA N A IR W A YS PILO TS R EPO R TED TO DA Y THEY S A W EIGHT HUGEj^BYTO TO ^ FLYING A T . W ^ -XNA S H S A IT HE A ND V . QR TENBER R Y S A W dX O F THE S TR A NGE C’A FT,'ES TIM A TED TO BE 100 TO DIA M ETER A M D "GLO VING O R A NGE-R ED LIK E HO T CO A LS ." FLY IN FO R M A TIO N S O M E €*000 FEET BENEA TH THEIR DC-4 THE S IX "THINGS " TUR NED '’EC TO A BD 'HA K PLY VUE J THE PA A PLA M E PA S S ED O VER HEA D A ND W ER E TW O O THER S IM ILA R FLYING DIS CS ,M S H S A ID. THE EIGHT S A UCER S " ZO O M ED UPW A R D TO A N ES TIM A TED 10,0& FEET A LTITUDE BEFO R E THE GLO W ING LIGHT EM A NA TING FR O M THE "PULS A TED O FF" A ND THEY DIS A PPEA R ED INTO THE S K Y, NA S H S A ID. NA S H, 35, ES TIM A TED THA T HE A ND FO R TENBER R Y, 30, "W A TCHED THE W HO LE M A NEUVER * FO R BETW EEN 10 A ND 12 S ECO NDS , "BO TH FO R TENBER R Y A ND I HA VE R EA D O THER R EPO R TS O N S O -CA LLED •FLYING S A UCER S ’ A ND HA VE R ES PECT FO R THE JUDGM ENT O F S O M E O F, THE A S TR O NO M ER S A ND O BS ER VER S W HO HA VE R EPO R TED THEM ," NA S H S A ID, *0UJ EXPER IENCE LA S T NIGHT IS IN LINE W ITH THO S E R EPO R TS ," NA S H, A FIR S T O FFICER FO R PA A A ND A FLYING EM PLO YE FO R 10 YEA R S S A ID HE A ND FO R TENBER R Y "W O ULD JUDGE THA T THE EIGHT O BJECTS W ER E DEFINITELY INTELLIGENTLY CO NTR O LLED—W HETHER FR O M W ITHIN O K W ITHO UT UE CO ULDN’T S A Y. •A LS O ," S A ID NA S H, *W E'CA N BE R EA S O NA BLY PO S ITIVE THA T NO NE O F US —a; w e*know PILO TO —cou ld physically endu re the CENTR IFUGA L FO R CE THA T W O ULD BE IM PO S ED O N THE O CCUPA NTS W HIN M A K ING TUR NS O F S UCH VIO LENCE A S THES E O BJECTS M A DE," 0 CO M PA NY PER S O NNEL, W A S FLYING A UD NO R FO LK W HEN THE FIR S T S IX NA S H S A ID THEY ’JER E FLYING IN A N _HT LINE—A B A BO UT 2,000 FEET NA S H S A ID TO iR DC-4, CA R R YING 1 S O UTHW A R D BETW EEN NEW PO R T NEW S -, VA S A UCER S A PPEA R ED TO THE S O UTHW ES T, ECHELO N FO R M A TIO N—A DIA GO NA L S TR A IGHT LI A LTITUDE. 7/15—U0952P A DD S A UCER S , M IA M I ■ "W E FEEL, BECA US E O F THE W A Y THE M IS S ILES A CTED A ND BECA US EO F A LL THE O THER R EPO R TS THA T HA VE BEEN HEA R D, THA T THEY M US T BE FR O M S O M E EXTR A -TER R ES TR IA L S O UR CE * NA S H S A ID. "IF EITHER O F US HA D S EEN THE THINGS A LO NE, W E W O ULD HA VE HES TITA TED TO TELL A NYO NE A BO UT IT " THE PILO T S A ID. "BUT W E W A TCHED THE W HO LE THING TO GETHER ." NA S H S A ID THE O THER PA S S ENGER S O N THE DC-4 W ER E W ITTING W HER E THEY CO ULD NO T HA VE S EEM THE EIGHT M IS S ILES . "GIVING CO NS IDER A TIO N TO THE DIFFER ENCE IN O UR A LTITUDE A ND THEIR S , W E JUDGED THA T THEY W ER E A PPR O XIM A TELY 100 FEET IN DIA M ETER \ A ND BETW EEN 10 A ND 15 FEET THICK ," NA S H S A ID. \ "A S THEY NEA R ED US .S THEY A PPEA R ED TO BE S O LID BO DIES O F LIGHT, ' GLO W ING O R A NGE-R ED LIK E R ED HO T IR O NS ," NA S H S A ID. "BUT THEY HA D 'DEFINITE O UTLINES ."NA S H S A ID W HEN THE S TR A NGE O BJECTS GO T A LM O S T DIR ECTLY BELO W THE PA A PLA NE, THEY M A DE A S HA R P, 150-DEGR EE TUR N TO THE W ES T, THEN BA NK ED UPW A R D A T A N A LM O S T 90 DEGR EE TUR N, A S THEY GA INED A LTITUDE, THEY W ER E JO INED BY TW O O THER IDENTICA L "THINGS ." THE LIGHTS O F A LL EIGHT FLICK ER ED O FFtIN S UCCES S IO N A T "PER HA PS 10,000 BUT THEY W ER E GO ING S O FA S T IT W A S DIFFICULT TO ES TIM A TE " HE S A ID.S A NTO S CEYA NES , A CTING O PER A TIO NS M A NA GER FO R PA N A M ER ICA N HER E, S A ID THE FLYING S A UCER S S EEN BY NA S H A ND FO R TENBER R Y "0 VIO US LY W ER E NO T FIGM ENTS O F THEIR IM A GINA TIO N." NA S H, A NA VY TR A NS PO R T PILO T IN W O R LD W A R II, IS A VETER A N O F 10,000 A IR HO UR S . FO R TENBER R Y, FO R M ER LY A NA VY FIGHTER PILO T, HA S BEEN A N EM PLO YE O F PA A S INCE THE W A R . THE R EPO R T M A DE BY NA S H A ND FO R TENBER R Y TO DA Y W A S THE LA TES T O F ' S EVER A L R ECENT R EPO R TS O F M YS TER IO US O BJECTS IN THE A IR . O N JULY 6, FO UR PILO TS FO R A NO H-S CHEDULED A IR LINE R EPO R TED S EEING A ■S A UCER * HO VER ING BEA R THE A TO M IC ENER GY PLA NT A T R ICHLA NDS , W A S H. 7/15—W 0908P . 98 JUL 23 1952 8 5 JUL 28 W 2 1 0.20 Belm ontA L;- Clegg, (A <^_ Glavin_______ Harbo_______ R osen ---------- Tracy----------- Laughlin____._ M ohr_________ Tele. R m .------- Hollom an------- Gandy_______- (S A UCER S ) c \ CHICA GO —O ’HA R A A IR FO R CE BA S S E O FFICER S S A ID TO DA Y "FLYING S A UCER S R EPO R TS HA VE PICK ED UP LA TELY ..ow urd JL 14 1952 THE PUBLIC INFO R M A TIO N O FFICE S A ID IT HA S R ECEIVED 16 R EPO R TS O F M YS TER IO US O BJECTS IN THE S K Y IN THE CHICA GO VICINITY THIS W EEK .BUT O FFICER S DENIED R EPO R TS THA T A S PECIA L "FLYING S A UCER " A LER T A S BEEN O R DER ED PUBLIC INFO R M A TIO N O FFICER S S A ID JET PA TR O LS NO R M A LLY A R E O N THE A LER T "24 HO UR S A DA Y."O FFICER S S A ID THE A IR FO R CE ENCO UR A GES CA LLS O N O BJECTS S IGHTED THEY A ID THE R EPO R TS A R E "PA S S ED O N TO HIGHER A UTHO R ITY" FO R EVA LUA TIO N. A N O FFICER S A ID S O M E O F THIS W EEK ’S R EPO R TS A PPA R ENTLY S TEM M ED FR O M A N O R PHA NA GE PICNIC A T W HICH 5,000 TO Y BA LLO O NS W ER E R ELEA S ED 7/3—W 0753P W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE— 0.20 ■Tolson _ ------ L& dd Nichol Belm ont n ' Clegg—(A * ‘- Glavin---------- Harbo------— R osen ---------- Tracy---------_ Laughlin------- M ohr.------------ Tele. R m ._----- Hollom an----- Gandy mw 7(S A UCER S ) . \ / DENVER — (UNITEDPR ES S -W CNS )--FO UR FLO R IDA ..PI LO TS , THR EE O F THEM W O R E /W A R II VETER A NS , J^ULEIO DA Y O F ^XEING A ^ HO VER ING O VER7 THE HA NFO R D A TO M IC PLA NT A T R ICHLA NDS , W A S H. ’ CA PT. JO HN BA LDW IN O F CO R A L GA BLES , FLA ., A N A IR FO R CE PILO T IN THE PA CIFIC DUR ING W O R LD W A R II W HO HA S 7,000 HO UR S O F A IR LINE PILO T EXPER IENCE, S A ID THE O BJECT HE A ND HIS CO M PA NIO NS R EPO R TED S EEING EA R LY TO DA Y W A S A "PER FECTLY R O UND DIS C, W HITE IN CO LO R A ND A LM O S T TR A NS PA R ENT W ITH S M A LL VA PO R TR A ILS O FF IT LIK E THE TENTA CLES O F A N O CTO PUS ." HE S A ID HE W A S FLYING A T A BO UT 9,000 FEET A ND S A W THE O BJECT "JUS T BELO W A DECK O F W IS PY CLO UDS A BO UT 10,000 TO 15,000 FEET DIR ECTLY A BO VE US . ’ ’ "A LL O F US HA VE BEEN FLYING A NUM BER O F YEA R S A ND W E'VE S EEN A LL K INDS O F CLO UDS A ND FO R M A TIO NS BUT NO NE O F US HA D EVER S EEN A NYTHING LIK E THIS BEFO R E," BA LDW IN S A ID. "THE O BJECT S EEM ED TO BA CK A W A Y FR O M US A ND CHA NGE S HA PE. IT W A S • PER FECTLY. R O UND A ND S TILL A T FIR S T. W XJX^EEM ED TO BA CK A W A Y FR O M US A ND CHA NGE S HA PE. IT BECA M E FLA T, GA INED S PEED A ND THEN DIS A PPEA R ED ^' JUL 161952/ 7/5--N643P jL 14 1952 W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE "Navy Calls Saucers - 0n Iv Its Big Balloons J NEW YO R K , Feb. 12 W 1).—Fi A t dusk on a cool sum m er eve -Fly- 'ng saucers are real—but they’re only huge balloons used in cosm ic ray studies. Look m agazine w ill say Tuesday, quoting Dr. Urner balloon “saucer,” it adds. "The lateral rays of the sun at dusk illum inate the base of the balloon. There is no chance of your ever seeing the full round­ ness of it because you are so far below it. You see only the illum i­ nated cup of the bottom . If your im agination soars, the light re­ flection on the side m ay im press you as the glow of an atom ic en­ gine. The w isp of the balloon’s instrum ent-filled tail m ay im press 0-19 T o 1 s o n_________ Ladd____________ Cleg g___________ G1 a v i n__________ Nichols_________ R osen___________ T r a c y____________ Harbo___________ Belm ont________ M ohr____________ Tele. R oom ____ N e a s e__________ G a ndy__________ > Dimci: lfg il attach* A ? . fvXwAN SAL SAoSy L ON^N, ENGHJAND 0^1 1951' •=-J2t£e^, people described It as a blob of brilliant w hiteness ” I and a “sheet of w hite hut- =m etal ” Chairm an of Chard F.C., M r. w illiam Taunton, sitting in the an,^' sa*d : “ It cam e right over the top of us like a brilliant streak and then seem ed to dissolve before our eyes.” Snake-Shape M iss M yra S cott, w ho w as w atch- ? lootball m atch at Perry S treet, three m iles south of Chard, said she saw a " low -flying, silvery star w ith a tail ” shortly before four o clock. A t North Petherton, near Bridg­w ater, spectators at another m atch ?n °W ect m the north-w est sky shortly before four o’clock. It w as described as " a long thing w hich streaked through the sky at a terrific rate.” n^hoshurst, of North sa d : It appeared sud- ioeJ^,,v>^and w ent aw ay suddenly, leaving a cream y sm oke. There P “nes°abo°ute” M d there w ere no Channel Explosion tho„PhW Z'hnutes later a flash, as seen^at 1 ? an explosion, w as BrkM ^h grca,t height over the northed® 50 m iles t0 ^e 130* m ffiM rom Pieces as m uch as a apart w ere received at the A ir M inistry. rcportedh^/^^^ Bristo>) Police hPtm oft a w hite flash w as n J'5 and 410 P-ni. appeared to be an explo- turned pink and dis- w as°2O a00O ft. 6 estim ated height .W eston-super-M are police re- PPited to the A ir M inistry that tfey saw a sim ilar flash in the “jrtishead direction at the sam etl fr™°Jh7 s‘Shting w as reported irom as far aw ay as Durham , Airmen Saw It a ^-Pilots of four jet aircraft of the R oyal A uxiliary A ir Force com ing in to land at Llandaw , near Car­diff. reported a flash of light lat 15,000ft. to the north-east of the airfield. A t a football m atch at Easton- In-Gordano, near Bristol, specta­tors saw a flash. M r. M . V. Perrett, of Ham Green, said: “ It looked like a rocket com ing dow n from 2,000ft. There w as an intense w hite flash w hich left a trail of vapour.” S pectators at the m atch betw een S haftesbury and Longfleet S t. M ary reported w hat appeared like a giant rocket. It seem ed to fall from the sky. Bovingdon airport in Hertford­shire. 150 m iles east of Llandaw , also reported to the A ir M inistry that a brilliant w hite light w as seen a long w ay to the w est at 4.5 n.m O bservers estim ated that it w as at about 20,000ft. and say that it vanished in a trail of sm oke. A ir M inistry said last night: “ A thorough check has been m ade and no aircraft is m issing or bc’ieved to have blow n up in the air " It is m ost unlikely that an un­scheduled private flight could have taken place at such a height. W e cannot explain the phenom enon. “ No aircraft w as flying in the Portishead area.” Game Stopped A t Tcw yn, near R hyl. North W ales, R ugby players dropped the bell and. w ith spectators, stared into the skv as a yellow object ti a sy-.-.-rs flashed across it. It vanished over Tow er Hill, A bergele, w ithin ten seconds. A t about 4 o’clock spectators at A m srsham , Buckingham shire, foot­ball ground saw a brilliant object “ like a huge star ” flash across the sky, leaving a volum e of sm oke in its w ake. A m ong people w ho saw the object at Launceston, Cornw all, w ere tw o ex-R .A .F. officers w ho w ere w atch­ing a R ugby m atch. The object, w hich w as circular, ga. e off a bright bluish-w hite light. f-coinote : O ne theory advanced 1 v night bv Professor F. A . I ;.i (Professor of Chem istry at E i nam University and a leading e str; on m eteorites) w as that the object w es a m eteor. “ If pieces of m eteorite are found.” he said, “it w ill be only the tenth to have fallen in this country “ I w ould like to appeal to any­one in the areas from w hich it w as reported to report at once if they notice a hole in the ground or a dam aged tree that w as not there What Did The i§ P eople Of rr / Devon See Last Week ? FLYING B y Sunday Dispatch Reporter W EST 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), I *r ' Exeter, Cullompton, SidmouthP oignton (60 miles south of Woolard °nd Eye w itnesses’ descriptions of w ha£ ^^ stantially in agreem ent—there w as 1 ■ S aw are sub- of fire stream ed from the back The noise and a trail about 11 P.m . in all instances. observations w ere at M r. J. S tew art, 70-year-old ’ has w orked in aircraft fac- r tories in tw o w ars, w as one of the five people w ho told the Exeter Express and Echo w hat they had seen. A t 10.50 on M onday evening, he noticed an object com e inshore from the direction of the north end of Lundy at a terrific speed.” M r. H. A. Franklin, of Beacon­lane. W hipton, near Exeter, w rote to the paper that w hile at Coun- W ear (tw o m iles southeast ofExeter) on M onday night, he saw ^ circular objects. 'oolacom be pensioner, w ho SUND AY D ISPATCH L OND ON, ENGL AND 11-^0 ^^JAN ld _ Wien of TIB L AMER ICAN r U’^' H, £‘ J They w ere of a brilliant sil- y blue, travelling south, one be­hind the other in close form ation,” he said. " A fter passing overhead, the rear object appeared to catch up w ith the front one and collide, w hereon they disintegrated.” B right Disc '==' The object w as described by M iss J.. spurw ay. of Exeter-hill, Cul- lom pton (12 m ;les north-east of Exeter) as “a bright disc travel­ling w ith a circular m ovem ent at great speed.” Tw o and a half m iles north of Exm outh, the object w as seen at ]1 p.m . by M r. and M rs. L. M us- sell. of Hill-crest, Lym pstone, w ho described it as having been in tw o parts “apparently attached in som e w ay w ith a lighted tail.” The sixth w itness quoted in the Express and Echo is M r. A . J. Pow ell, of S idm outh Junction, w ho, w hile betw een Patterson’s Cross, O tterv S t. M ary and S idm outh Junction at 11 p.m . on M onday, saw " tw o brilliant w M j& Jiglits com e into view to the north-w est, from behind a bank of m ist. Long Red Trail' “ They passed sw iftly,” he said, “ in a southerly direction and ap­peared to be ‘ in line astern ’ w ith a long red trail to the rear . . . both lights seem ed to fizzle out as I w atched them —they w ere in a clear patch of sky w hen this hap­pened ... I heard no sound.” “Tw o large circular objects travelling south in a horizontal position looking som ething like large w hite flam es ” is the descrip­tion given in the Westeni Morning News of w hat M r. A rthur N Bearne. 55-year-old estate agent, of S outhfield-avenue. Preston. Devon, saw at Paignton at 11 p.m . on M onday. M em bers of the crew of a liberty boat plying betw een Flagstaff S teps, Devonport Dockyard, and H.M .S . Defiance are also reported B luish Light Frederick Bray, fisherm an, aged 39, w as lying in the bunk of hid boat in Torquay outer harbourj w hen he saw a " bluish-w hite light” appear over Princess Pier at about 11 p.m . " I w atched the flam es for about ten seconds. They seem ed to surround a roundish ob­ject w hich w as travelling tow ards Thatcher R ock ” (to the East). W hile w alking along the sea front to Torquay S tation, M r. D. Jeffery, of W inner-street, Paignton, saw som ething in the sky. “ I thought at first it w as a rocket fire­w ork,” he told the H erald Express. “ Then I noticed it w as m aintain­ing a constant speed at a constant height... It w as absolutely silent. It seem ed to disintegrate suddenly and disappear.” A “ ball of bluish-w hite light ’’ w as seen at about 11 p.m . in the sky above' Paignton travelling south tow ards Brixham . M r. Harry Cove-Clark, of M arine-drive, Paignton, said : “ The ball of light w as preceded by a thin blue blur w hich w as overtaken bv the m ain body. ' Like Feeble Rocket' “ Then another bluish-w hite light appeared and a broken stream of lights seem ed to fall from it. They all seem ed to be follow ing each other straight across the sky, then there w as a spurt of flam e from the end of the broken pieces—just like a feeble rocket.” The last of the w itnesses, M r. H. W arren, of East-street, Torre, Tor­quay, saw from his bedroom w in­dow an object “ going tow ards Brixham , due south of Torquay.” Describing it in a letter to the paper, he said : “I thoughtitw aS -three stars w ith a longTail of light trailing behind them . . . .” in the Western Morning News as having seen “ circular objects travelling at an incalculable speed and em itting a trail of fire ” late on M onday night. Ths—¥s~quay H eral(L-*^£r$is quotes four other people w ho saw sim ilar objects. 0-19 Tolson Glavin O neJxagj£_and nnpublicizcd factw heeze from space. R osen__ Tracy__ Harbo__ Belm ont M ohr_ ' w neeze irom space about the K ol-ean ^?-irtl^^tIn the face of this evidence, —r-— - K oehler still claim ed know ledge ByDrein Pear so It J 4 Though a large part 'of the A m erican public appears In he convinced that flying saucers do. exist, so far the A ir Force has not VI. His space radio w as a chunk of JiiL'W ’that utterl^Talh d ’to M itshig GTs pick up a m essage or even a I onetr^an of the little m en, but refused to been able to release 138 prisoners been able to I rack dow n—a single bona fide. saucer. • spite the fact that. United S tates aviators have spent hour upon h o u r. checking r e - ports- not_only PEARSON, » *: xce and dras ticaiiy ^ssssa™A ccording to' the confidential te^S S ^^ iatFhreCehadP°no' S T flyin' '^^S Z^ +at he had no parts of flying j, action t oops have now traveled the i n-s lucers in his possession at pres­ c it. He denied having ever seen a ly flying saucer or its occupants. Flying W ashtub b *e length of K orea w ithout reef v- cers, ...___such w eird phenom ena as m jg- ets from Venus, shooting stars, alld b This colum n has now been allle to exam ine A ir Force files, and jt js quite evident that the A ir Force has done a paiPS takingJofc A nother hot tin w hich A ir Force investigators patiently tracked dow n w as that a flying saucer had actually crashed near W arren, M inn. The report w as traced to W alter S irek. a service station op­ erator, w ho directed the investiga­ tors to look behind Nish's Tavern. W hat they saw w as" sum m ed up in the secret A ir Force files as follow s: “The m achine w as ob- e ing the bodies oc these m issi ig nten, it is believed they m ust ha re 1 been taken prisoners and rem ove? to S iberia^ S o far, Chinese troops have treated A m erican prisoners alm ost as if they w ere allies, returning m any of them to A m erican lines. But if the 4000 GIs w ere trans­ ported into S iberia by the R us­ hans, the story m ay be different. This possibility is giving the A rm y treat concern. no£jyin£^aucecfiJlo-£Xist. These files show that consider­ able tim e w as even spent check- the report received from viously m ade from various objects ^jqTe—A s of the last officia such as an old w ashing m achine rnun, 4144 qis w erellisted_Ji cover, part of a radio set, ehassis m j:;r; and a spent insecticide bom b." 1 ’ it developed that Ted Heyrn Capital Capsules and R obert S chaeffer, w ho run the Lady nip|on,ats—M adam e M in- DTE—A s of the last officia fovie A ctor Bruce Cabot and the yyandotte Echo, a new spaper Published in K ansas City, that corpses of blond, beardless 3- foot m en from Venus had been seen arriving on a flying saucer m an nam ed Coulter. local hardw are store, Jiad m ade tfig-^flying saucer” as a joke. ~ The A ir Force has even received pictures of saucers in flight. The ister Perle M esta put UP a S a.U^nt- fight but she lost. S he’s gpm g to_ have to be satisfied w ith being a m ost spectacular w as a m ovie of plain “M inisterHinstead of a fulk- tw o silvery discs S treaking over „ . . ulm bassador" to Luxem -the baseball park at Great Falls, Jl££££S L_A m ba«a^^ by a M ont., sent in by Nick M ariana, park m anager. How ever, investigators found , that the pictures w ere taken bc-Dead on arrival, these space­ traveling m idgets had no caviUes . their- teeth, and w ore shoes re­ hum tn skin according r w e try m H the A ir Force. Furtherm ore, Coulter w as sup- Led to have as proof of this v.s.t from Venus—a lunar clock op- 1 7 „ on a 28-day cycle, a space radio1 and. gear from the flying r all of them supposedly ar- S /’w ith the blond m idgets riving from Venus. ’ R does w i(h S o the „ rum ors, painstak- 20 m iles per hour. . ,of these rum o’^ « vestigation show ed it to be only a in the w orld, and patien ,. dense black cloud so charged w ith All. VUUJLV1 '”• be George K oehler electronic particles that it ap- m ost ingbr The turned out to of Denver, an „ for radm Induced the Jut U “"Trt Ino P^"rt stam ped W M advertising sales- station K M YR . Hr flying-saucer gen ouf^o be a m ur of this (hP nom an num eral . A si een 11:20 and 11:35 a. m . bn igust 15. By coincidence, b'0 very F-84 jet fighters from Lai d r Force Base, A laska, flew hii h bourg . . . M ain reason Perle cam e back to W ashington w as to persuade the President to raise her A m erican Legation to a full Em ­ bassy. Even though she’s a close friend of M r. Trum an’s, he said no... M eanw hile, the other lady diplom at, Eugenie A nderson inA r Force Base, A laska, flow hii h diplom at, Eugenie A nu “ over Great Fills at exactly uA t Denm ark, w ill continue to reign ^e. The sun w as shiniffg“S trtfiat I flections from the high-flying: rufrem e as the only lady A m bas- sailor in the United S tates diplo- m aic corps. IS o A id for Tibet—United S taffs A m bassador A ustin has privatelyts appeared as tw o silvery blurs, I A nfbassador A ustin nas pnvai be saucers. I j advised El S alvador to give up , O nce the A ir Force's ow n radar J cam paign to get the ^'™ a" screen near W right Field, O hio, j IIS tions to rescue Tibet. The United Nations, A ustin said, has enoughpicked up w hat appeared to be a ' {roublejn K orea w ithout taking on flying saucer drifting eastw ard at m ore headaches in the m ost m oun- But prom pt in- tainous and inaccessible country peared on radar. • M eanw hile, flying saucer reports into the A ircoftipue to pour __ ’ 1 Force at the rate of five or six I" I pel day but, so far, not a'-^jrit 4?as planet, ev£r m aterialized. day but, so far, nok-T. -n-nv jr«as Treaty for Japan — President Trum an has told S ecretary A che* son that unless R ussia answ ers w ithin the next m onth, he is in favor of going ahead and holding the Japanese peace treaty confer* ence w ithout S oviet representa­ tives. The President told this to A cheson and John Foster Dulles during a secret m eeting at w hich they reported that R ussia has got even indicated it wffl Weffd Tele. R oom Nease Gandy 19 1950 Page Times-Herald Wash. Wash. W ash. News S tar N.Y. Mirror Post N. Y. Compass Date • Clegg. M ohr Glavin Ni ch R osen Tracy Harbo Belm ont Tele. R oom ITS®© WorW Today hour Philadelphia policem en they saw a ■saucer-Tike object . iri aTTield.' K efore FBI m en e join them , how ever, the six gK dgef had evaporated^ O ne of 1 the portion he handled dis-, .ed at once, leaving a sticks orless residue.. DICD 8. O CT 14 1950 Times-Herald Page Wash. Post Wash. News W ash. S tar N.Y. M irror N. Y. Compass___ . Date: Tol.on/^^ Ladd Z Clegg._______ Glavin, Nichols^ R ose, Tracy______ Harbo> Belm ont M ohr________ Tele. R oom _ Nease_______ (SAUCER) , P OP LAR B LUFF, NO.—FOUR P LANES CHASED AFTER A STRANGE SP HERICAL OB JECT WHICH HUNDREDS OF P ERSONS SAW ROARING ACROSS THE SK Y, B UT THE P ILOTS SAID TODAY THEY COULDN’T GET NEAR IT. 1 P OLICE, AIRP ORT AND RADIO STATION P ERSONNEL SAID ’JUST AB OUT EVERYONE IN P OP LAR B LUFF* SAW THE MYSTERIOUS OB JECT FOR FIVE OR SIX NOURS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. CAA WORKERS AT MALDEN, RI MILES SOUTHEAST OF HERE, P LOTTED ITS SOUTHEASTERLY COURSE FROM 4 P .M. UNTIL DARK . DESCRIP TIONS OF THE OB JECT AND GUESSES AS TO ITS IDENTITY WERE VARIED. NATIONAL GUARD AUTHORITIES AT MEMP HIS, TENN., SENT TWO F-51 FIGHTERS UP FOR A CHECK . A NATIONAL GUARD SERGEANT CONFIRMED THAT THE F-51 ’S CLIMB ED TO 30,00 FEET B UT COULD NOT MAK E CONTACT WITH THE OB JECT. NE B ID NOT SAY WHETHER THE P ILOTS ACTUALLY SAW THE OB JECT. A CAA OFFICIAL AT MALDEN, WHO MAINTAINED TWO-WAY RADIO CONTACT WITH THE F-51'S, SAIB THE P ILOT OF THE FIRST P LANE UP REP ORTED FROM AN ALTITUDE OF 31,000 FEETl •IT’S STILL WAY AB OVE ME. AP P ARENTLY MOTIONLESS. I’M NOT GETTING ANY NEARER. FUEL SUP P LY ALMOST EXHAUSTED.* THE OTHER F-51 P ILOT MADE A SIMILAR REP ORT. THE CAA WORK ER ALSO LOGGED A REP ORT FROM AN B ASE AND DESTINATION UNK NOWN, WHICH P RESUMAB LY UP THE OB JECT. AT 40,000 FEET, THE F-GO P ILOT TO B E *N0 CLOSER THAN ON THE GROUND.* 5/15—TS102 RA THE CAA OFFICIAL SAIB . F-GO JET P LANE. NAD B EEN TOLD TO SIZE REP ORTED HE AP P EASED ^ W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE ("S A US A GE”) S PR INGFIELD, ILL—PILO T JIM GR A HA M CLA IM ED TO DA Y THA T A "FLYING S A US A GE" CO LLIDED W ITH HIS .’ PLA NE A ND "EXPLO DED LIK E A BO M B" —BUT CA US ED NO DA M A GE. GR A HA M , CHIEF PILO T FO R THE CA PITA L A VIA TIO N CO M PA NY HER E, W A S FLYING TO S PR INGFIELD FR O M CHICA GO LA S T NIGHT W HEN HE S IGHTED THE O BJECT A S HE FLEW O VER W ILLIA M S VILLE, JUS T NO R TH O F HER E. HE S A ID THE O BJECT W A S A "BLUE S TR EA K A BO UT 10 FEET LO NG A ND S HA PED LIK E A S A US A GE." HE S A ID IT W A S TR A ILING YELLO W FIR E. THE O BJECT, W HICH W A S S LIGHTLY A BO VE HIS PLA NE, DIVED S UDDENLY A ND PLO UGHED DIR ECTLY INTO HIS PR O PELLER . "IT EXPLO DED LIK E A BO M B W HEN IT S TR UCK ," HE S A ID. GR A HA M M A NA GED TO S TA Y O N CO UR S E A ND LA NDED A T CA PITA L A IR PO R T HER E. HE EXPECTED TO FIND HIS PLA NE EXTENS IVELY DA M A GED, HE S A ID, BUT A THO R O UGH INS PECTIO N S HO W ED NO THING. S EVER A L O THER S PR INGFIELD R ES IDENTS A LS O R EPO R TED S EEING THE "FLYING S A US A GE." O NE W O M A N S A ID S HE A ND HER HUS BA ND W ER E S ITTING O N THEIR PO R CH A ND S A W IT PA S S O VER S PR INGFIELD. O BS ER VER S A T THE W EA THER BUR EA U S A ID THE O NLY EXPLA NA TIO N THEY CO ULD O FFER W A S THA T THE O BJECT M IGHT HA VE BEEN A M ETEO R THA T A PPEA R ED TO HIT GR A HA M ’S PLA NE BUT EXPLO DED R IGHT IN FR O NT O F IT. THEY S A ID THEY DID \ NO T S EE THE O BJECT. J 7/30—L0441P \G 2_-13^^^-A- not recordedT" 135 AUG 11 195O J W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE Ni choTs R osen__ Tracy__ Harbo__ Belm ont M ohr Tolson 'Ladd__ Clegg_ G1 avi n_ Tele. R oom N e a s e_______ Gand y______ (S A UCER S ) FA R GO , N, D.--FO UR PER S O NS R EPO R TED THEY W A TCHED FIVE S TR A NGE, M O O N-LIK E O BJECTS FLYING IN FO R M A TIO N S O UTH O F FA R GO FO R 34 M INUTES . THE BR IGHTLY-S HINING O BJECTS W ER E S PO TTED A T 3:07 A . M . CS T BY FA R GO W EA THER BUR EA U EM PLO YE R A Y W ILS O N. HE S A ID HE W A TCHED THEM UNTIL 3:41 W HEN CLO UDS O BS CUR ED VIS IO N. M A R IA N EDDY, A N A IR LINES EM PLO YE, A ND M IK E ENDER S BY A ND M A R GA R ET LA W S O N O F THE CA A S A ID THEY S A W THE O BJECTS FR O M THE FA R GO A IR PO R T. W ILS O N S A ID O NLY O NE O F THE O BJECTS W A S VIS IBLE TO THE NA K ED EYE. W ITH TELES CO PES A ND FIELD GLA S S ES THE FA R GO A NS S A ID THEY CO ULD S EE TW O S M A LL O BJECTS O N EA CH S IDE O F THE "THING." W ILS O N S A ID THE O BJECTS DIDN’T S HO W M UCH S PEED, BUT S HO W ED M A NEUVER A BILITY. ENDER S BY S A ID THEY LO O K ED LIK E A W HITE FLA M E M A NEUVER ING IN THE A IR . 7/14--T130P W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE ‘Hying Saucer1 \ Tracked on Navy Radar Screen 4-26 Tolson_______ Ladd__________ Clegg_________ Glavin_______ Nichols R ose n_________ Tracy_________ Ha rbo_________ Belm ont M ohr__________ Tele. R oom __ N e a s e_________ Gandy,________ M EM PHIS , Tenn., July 13 (UP). The Navy studied a report today from tw o pilots and an electronics instructor w ho claim ed to have tracked a flying saucer or som e strange craft on a radar screen for eight m iles. Both fliers reported seeing a shiny round object w hizzing past their training planes, about 10 m iles northeast of O sceola, A rk., last night. Electronics technician G. D. W ehner, w ho w as flying w ith en­ listed pilot R . E. M oore, said he "caught it on the radar scope. It w as helm et-shaped. The outline of the edges w ere all right, but I lare from the center of it pit i ented getting a better look.” : rirst Thought Jet "A t first w e thought it w as a jet plane distorted by glare off the alum inum body,” said Lt. Page Times-Herald Wash. W ash. W ash. N.Y. Post News S tar Mirror arm ed forces. Date SUNDAY DISPATCH JULY 9, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND PLYIN& S A UCER ' R IDDLE S O far flying saucers have been treated by the m ajority of British people w ith incredulity and polite ridicule. But w hy ? I have studied all the reports available. I have seen photo­ graphs—those in the ' Sunday Dispatch, last w eek w ere particu­ larly clear—and I believe they are pl olographs of disc-type aircraft. Earlier pictures published in tl e S panish Press last A pril, atld alleged to have been taken in the Balearic Islands, m ight have been anything and could have been a leg-pull. It is not alw ays easy to sort the w heat from the chaff. SECRET TRIALS I N all the reports the objects1 fall into three groups. The m ost substantial of them com e from A m erica. First group are those saucers w hich are capable of being ex­pl lined aw ay as glim pses' of ex­pt rim ental ’trials of various dt vices Under this heading fall m any or the objects seen in S outhern U.S . and other areas w hereol secret experim ents are in pro­gress. For this group I am pre­pared to accept the explanation given by the United S tates A rm y A ir Force as “ m isinterpretations of conventional objects.” These conventional objects are giant experim ental cosm ic ray balloons w hich fill out to 100ft. long and 70ft. in diam eter as they rise, radar target balloons capable of rising to 70.000ft. and trailing glittering alum inium foil strip, guided m issiles, and stratospheric experim ents from Los A lam os, w henca rock els-ate stated to haveabove the A M ER ICA N T ., , „» * Group Tw o consists of thosew W JNDvNn BW M PlllW M Ptiy m ysterious visitants9 ■Vnteii"havc led to w ild surm isesabout space ships, m issiles from her planets and inter-planetary hoping v [rhe descriptions are rem ark- ly consistent and generally the left is either w hite or silver, darting about w ithout directibuui control or t r a veiling at p r o d i g i ous speeds, vanish­ ing suddenly, and associated w jth brilliant light, fringes of fire or flam es of peculiar colour and generally rotating or w hirling. From m any parts of the w or d com e these reports. The vc y fact that their descriptions are so consistent has led to their beingdism issed as hallucinations, de­fective vision, or m ild hysteria. It m ight be that the solution of this riddle could lie in a very unorthodox approach, and I have w ondered if there could possibly be turbulences set up in our atm osphere w hich could cause w hirling “ dust devils ” of lum inous gases caused by jet or other high speed experim ents w hich m ight be responsible for the generation of sm all atom ic w hirlpools in the atm osphere. Group Three reports suggest that the saucers are high speed aircraft of circular or disc shape travelling at speeds m uch higher than those attained by norm al planes. * SAFETY SEARCH THER E is no reason at all w hy annular and circular disc-like aircraft should not have been com m on objects at any tim e during the past 30 years. The early history of these very unorthodox-looking aircraft w as, ironically, based on a search for safety.Before 1910 it had been show n that, square and circular surfaces had very good non-stalling char­acteristics up to large angles. But w hen pow ered aircraft arrived it w as found that the easiest w ay to m inim ise the losses due to the end slip of the air from the w ing tips w as to increase the span of w ings w hile keeping them narrow .This com prom ise brought other trouble. Early planes reached their stalling angle at som e 15 degrees, and stalling m ust result in a dive since the only correction of a stall Is a flight at som e speud greater than the stalling speed. JVery early in the 1905 - p ""riod there w ere people w iL w ould not accept that aircraft >’i T RK ORDB ID 85 A UG 111950 'I believe they are disc-type aircraft/ s ays— G. TIL GHMAN R ICHAR D S, s enior R es earch as s is tant and official lecturer at the South Kens ington Science Mus eum, L ondon, who has s tudied all the Enlargements from flying saucer pictures—front-paged last week —which set everyone talking. They were taken by Farmer Trent, M cM innville, Oregon, U.S. m ust, of necessity, be subject to these dangers. They turned aside to^investigate possible w ing form s w ljich should be safe from stalling anil spinning. A m ong these " rebels" a few nam es have becom e air history. Jose W eiss and A rthur K eith w ith their com pletely stable sw allow - likc m onoplane in 1909. Etrich and W els in A ustria in 1911, evolving a stable w ingform based on the Zannonia leaf from w hich R um pier and the m ajority of Ger­m an builders developed the Taube m onoplane. Dunne, w ith his too stable, tailless, back-sw ept w ing biplane in 1912, and the Lee- R ichards annular m onoplane of 1910-14, w ith w hich I w as asso­ciated. NOT P ERFECT W ITH the outbreak of the 1914 w ar research of this type w as abandoned, and study concentrated on perform ­ance rather than safety. Bv 1918 the m odern plane w as established, and earlier research w as forgotten. Civil airlines naturally used idaptea w ar planes, and then tam e W orld W ar II. O nce m ore lim itations w ere im posed. jin spite of the orthodoxy of sign there w as throughout the evidence. there is still, a considerable body' of technical opinion not satisfied that perfection has been reached, fid here. I think, lies the realansw er. This body of opinion has been continually searching for the “ safe ” design. Designers of m any nationalities have been strivingsince the earlv 1920’s w ith great success tow ard a foolproof plane of disc type. In 1934-35 Charles H. Zim m er­m ann. in the United S tates, built a disc w ing airplane com bined w ith a helicopter capable of vertical ascent and descent and a high forw ard speed. NAVY STEP S IN I I N 1937 he granted licences for his patents to the Chance Vought A ircraft Division of the United A ircraft Corpora­tion in the U.S .But at that point the U.S . Navy stepped in, and all further devel­opm ent has been of a secret nature, though it has been stated that this com bination is capable of speeds from 0 to 500 m iles per hour. This perform ance is in accord w ith reports that flying saucers travel at great speeds, hover, ascend and descend w ith little forw ard m otion.is perhaps, a little hard to believe that there can, as yet, ex­ist enough of these types to m eet the m any reports, but there, is no r£aS (?j a^ a“ w hy such aircraft should not have been seen provid­ing that full scale w ork follow ed the experim ental period. A nd ihf secrecy w ould suggest that th* is so. r A nd there could lie the m odi solid proof that flying saucers exist. Tolson . J Ladd^-------- —'CleKS________ Giavin,________ Ni chol s R ose n_________ Tracy Harbo ^e.lm ont M ohr Tele. R oom __ N e a s e________ Gandy________ AM) OBJECT ($14P) / THE AIR FOR CE SAID IT HAD R ECEIV ED NO W OR D AT AL L D ESCR IBED AS APPEAR ING TO BE A GUID ED MISSIL E, W HICH COMMAND SAID PASSED OV ER FAIR BANKS, AL ASKA, SATUR D AY 7/3^-W O90IP ON ANOTHER OBJECT. THE AL ASKA AIR NIGHT. W A S HINGTO N CITY NEW S S ER VICE FLYING SAUCERS A FUNDAOQ EH MADRID EH IDB SP AIN I. UK LUNES 3 DE AB RIL DE 1KI P RECIO DEL UNA F 0 T O G R A F I A SENSACIONAL SEES IT M ISTERIO EN LAS NUBES PLATILLOS VOI A NTF« First Fort W orth. "But,” ha said, “ they w ere m ore liki flying bananas than flyinf saucers.” he picture that Spanish newspaper readers saw. dNFORMACIONES, Wstorci, Ih otraca hoy una tatogralia M*>«^oiona& para documenta on la apsaio- ninto Mldmlcn acerc* de Io picture of a flying cer com es from the a n i s h new spaper um ., x Graphic correspondent in M adrid explains:The caption stated that this picture w as obtained at 3 a.m . in the Balearic Islands >ly Enrique Haus- m ann/M uller, a new sreel cam eram an.It added that he and his assistants heard a loud noise and saw a lum inous trail crossing the sky. He pulled out his cam era and obtained a picture—but expresses no opinion about flying saucers. FOOTNOTE from Texas: h'd^M axey. w artim e m em ­ber of a U.S . bom ber crew , photographed tw o groups of “ flying saucers ” near DAILY GRAPHIC APRIL 20, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND bbiJULW O FFICE of t he leg al at t ache A M ER ? A N EM BA S S Y 78 JUL 5 1550 LO NDO N, ENGLA ND w. Tolson______ Ladd________ Clegg_______ G1 a v i n______ Ni chols_____ R oson_______ Tracy_______ Harbo________ M ohr________ Tele. R oom _ N e a s e___ ‘Saucer’ D enial Held X^^^Tfobody is in it,” rf/lA-t-i" V aluable to R ussia —^ New York, A pril 10 (U.R .—A ir Force denials that “flying saucers” exist are “w orth a billion dollars to the R ussians in the 'cold w ar,’ ” R adio Com m entator Henry J. Tay­ lor said tonight. it carries 70 pounds of instrum ents to record cosm it rays ... It is an enorm ous translucent thing w ith a long tail and flies up to 100,000 feet in the air. W hen the w eird contraption is launched off the ground, it is filled to only one percent of its capacity w ith helium . A t high altitudes, expansion causes it to blow itself up into a gigantic m onster 100 feet tall and 70 feet in diam eter, tall as an eight-story building, all in pulsating plastic.” Taylor said som e of these ve­ hicles travel all over A m erica, 20 m iles up in the sky. A t sunset, the w hole contraption glow s and can he seen as long as 30 m inutes Taylor said over the A BC net­ w ork that this country has several unconventional air vehicles that could be taken for “flying saucers. .... . He described one as a iant^ ^ .^^^ arc f]oated back contraption ln Pn1^*^ S iing to earth b? Parachute, Taylor said. as Jta 1 R ecord cosm ic rays 8 Then the huge contraption “breaks "^W hat has happened to our into P^ces in the sky or explodes.” brains? ” Taylor asked. “These show ering plastic pieces over th denials are w orth a billion dollars land, to the R ussians in the ‘ci w ar .President Trum an and the A ir Force both denied sim ilar reports by Taylor last w eek that ‘ flying saucers” are top-secret United S tates m ilitary inventions. Taylor w arned that if the R us­ sians suddenly announced they w ere sending ‘‘flying saucers” around the w orld, United S tates officials w ould have no w ay to stem A m erican hysteria. Taylor said the United S tates should announce: “W e have no further com m ent about anything in the skies ex­ cept that A m erica is creating m any helpful and incredible things. A ll are harm less and good new s for freedom -loving people.” A nd this w ould be a true state­ m ent the com m entator said. Taylor said that at an airfield near M inneapolis and also at other places, the Navy is “launching into our high skies an enorm ous and of vehs^^' 65A PR 21195« t>R»ED 85 AP R 191950 W A S HINGTO N PO S T Page_____ Date __ 1 FLYING S A UCER ? R EPO R T M AY BE BALLOON , M r. Tol»cn___ M r. ladd ------ M r. Clogg____ Hr. Cl in ___ M r. K ! '•■li _. M r. ' ■ . M r. Trc-y.—. M r. Ecrbo .... M r. Bohsost - -. M r. M ohr____ Tele. Boom ___ M r. Nease----- Hiss Gandy — DAILY TELEGRAPH AND MORNING post APRIL 11, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND 5‘3M ^ From Our Own Correspondent PRESTON. M onday. A n object w hiclv they thought, m ight have been a " flying saucer ” w as seen by three girls w ho w ere w alking along the Preston-Lancaster m ain road near Preston yesterday afternoon. “It looked like a very bright star in the east, but w as brighter than any star.’’ thev said.O ne of the girls. M iss Lilian S pen­cer. of Pole-street. Preston, said: " It w as oval-shaped and resem bled the w ing of a silver plane caught in the sunfight. There w as no sound of an engine and it had a peculiar sw ing­ing m ovem ent.” It w as going against the w ind.A n A ir M inistry m eteorological official pointed out that it w as a com m on error for people to speak of som ething travelling in a certain direction w hen they really m eant that it w as com ing from that direc­tion. If that w as the case here it w as possible that the object could have been a m eteorological balloon blow n over from Northern Ireland.M any Londoners reported on A pril ( that they had seen a " fly .pg fencer.” The A ir M inistry explained t\at it w as a balloon used for patp- ckute jum ping w hich had brokA i trim its m ooring at an R .A .F. stati could descend the ing disks at various points over sam e w ay ...the country brought a prom pt ‘Jet helicopter action . . . denial from the Navy Departm ent m akes takeoffs and landings alm ost that it is now "conducting research com pletely safe.” or flying” any such plane or The m agazine said that an early m issile m odel of the saucer w as built by A spokesm an pointed out that National A dvisory Com m ittee for the Navy did develop the “pan- A eronautics experts in 1942 and cake-shaped” Chance-V ought *ada 100 successful flights. The XF5U-1. but that it never flew and Navy then took over developm ent w as scrapped m ore than a year1 and “m uch m ore advanced m odels A sm all, 3000-pound scale n0^,a'e being built. • m odel of the plane w as flow n and NA CA Engineer Charles H. dim - of it have been released, m erm an designed the first m odel, .t_i •_ 2 nr_..r_ ti, w hich had a speed of from 400 to 'Jet helicopter action . pictures << “This likelihood w ill rem ain, de- spite any future denials by the w ell-know n principles of I Navy front office, until secrecy is coform to ., | lifted,” the m agazine added,aerodynam ics. b< W 5 £eet in di. .... They circular in shape” and “are am eter, c c tal anoy, w ith a dull m ade of a m eta_. ------------ ....a. The Navy declared it w as truej that its abandoned ‘‘flying pan- cake’ w as designed by Zim m er-’ ,ade of a There are no rud- m an, and w as called the ' Zim m er- hitish c° s’ or other protruding m an S kim m er.” It added that a^‘“aHerons - .. surfaces-Fr°1Ta^ thick. aPPear„ Jucer appears to have a “Each .abie-direction jet series „(| its rim s . . . fuel nozzles al°” oW n. . • ■ Direction ol used is u and its velocity, in (he a .i~^ turn, ev- w the angle ^^ num ber 0Pelau"8 ,saucer” reports, concluded are H'1^ J ^nplicd- the evidence pointed toUm pow e1' ^ w hich no^^ of ......... “By ch 0 and the angle ol tJ nal objects, a m ild form of m iss on 01 ’ c0Uicl m ake -jp-d^vin nr hnnvac ’* the P‘‘° descend vertically^ sm fer '‘isc hl abead or m ake- hojer- 'b' right-angle turn, sharp ,ur”L could be m ade by for exam ple prom the side, the caucers sfK l sm aller scale m odel-one- he about 10 feet thick.” it/jrd of actual size—is still at NA CA ’s Langley, Va., laboratory for w ind-tunnel tests, butyUte Navy insisted it had no such proj- ect now active. C'dcntly are controlled by The A ir Force, after m any! il at w hich ,11C jet m onths of investigation of “flyinginum ber operating. various that all “m isin- conven- tun tilt. 56 Ar W 1950 A ssociated Press Photo of aircraft developed in 1948 and down by the Navy tind< > radio con^ eraft never H eu), the Navy ha, announced 82 A PR 111950 1VA S HINGTO N PO sT Dated 4-4-50 TheCase Iforthe FLYING I S A UCER ( F rom A m erica , the ‘hom e’ qf flyin g sa u cers, com es this u p -to-the-m in ute su m m a ry of rep ort a n d ru m ou r a bou t ithe m od ern m ystery of ths skies. y R ICHA R D GR EENO UGH THE Daily m ail APRIL 3, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND O W ICB O F THE LEGA L A TTA CH AMERICAN WB A88Y b bAi u ^ ^'^ New Y ork, S unday. E v er since K en­ neth A rnold, 30 - year - old, ordinary business-m an pilot from Boise, Idaho, touched off the “flying saucers ” m ystery by report­ ing, on the afternoon of June 24, 1947, that he had seen “ nine shiny discs like m etal hub-caps flip-flap­ ping along at about 1,200 m .p.h.” only one fact seem s Euite certain. Nobody has yet proved de- nitely that such things do or o not exist. Air Force finding THIS includes the U.S . A ir x Force, still investigating reports about “ celestial crockery,” though officially last Decem ber, after checking 375 cases, it closed dow n "Project S aucer.” a special investigation group of Intelli­gence officers w ith headquarters j* O hio. lA t that tim e it w as stated in a banket turn-dow n that all re­ports w ere : [. M isinterpretation of “ con­ ventional ” aerial objects. These included giant experim ental cosm ic-ray balloons, radar targh balloons w ith dangling strips bf alum inium foil, m eteor trains, w isps of or w hole vapour trails from high-flying aircraft, bright planets. 2. M ild form of m ass hysteria. 3. Hoaxes. But steadily, from 1947 up till a few days ago, reports of curious objects that "go w hizz in the air ” keep on com ing in from all over the United S tates. They have now been reported from 43 put of the 48 S tates, w ith the m ajority com ing from the south and east and near the M exi­can border. They have also, of course, been reports from other parts of the w orld, from S candinavia, A frica, China, the Far East. The objects allegedly seen here have ranged from the now alm ost! conventional flying disc oil"saucer” som etim es w ith!fuzzy ’ edges, or lit up at night? to torpedo ■ shaped w ingless space ships show ing regular iVw s of lights in the ^ark- irS d orange flam es com ing from the tail. S om etim es they have been re- pprted shaped like tubes, pillars, spheres. But tw o facts seem to rem ain constant. They are all said to be either w hite or silver, and to m ove across the sky in an undulat­ing w ay. tilting first in one direc­tion, then the other, rising and falling, before finally disappear­ing into nothing or over the horizon. P ilot's chase O NE U.S . A ir Force pilot Capt. Thom as M antel, 11st his life som e m onths ago try i ig to catch up w ith som ething taat looked like “a silver ic < ream cone topped w ith red.” 8 A n experienced w ar-tim e pilot, w ith several thousand hours’ flying tim e, M antell w as in his fighter plane leading tw o others near Fort K nox, K entucky, w hen the control tow er at his airbase, Godm an Field, radioed him to try to locate a strange object sighted from the ground and m oving in his direction.M antell later called back that he had spotted the " thing ” at “ 12 o’clock high ” (directly ahead and above him ), and that it looked like a silver ice-cream cone topped w ith red. His air-to-ground conversation w as logged at the air base and I have checked it. He later re­ported : f “ I’m closing in now to take I ood look. It’s directly ahead ae and m oving at a good speed. The thing looks m etallic and is trem endous.” His last report 4 FO R 25 m inutes M antell and the tw o other pilots tried vainly to close in. M antell reported the object w as clim bing and m oving at a speed equal to his ow n, w hich he gave as 360 m .p.h. In broken cloud at 18,000ft. the other tw o pilots lost sight of him , later broke off and landed. M antell called once m ore to say that if he w ere no closer at 20,000ft. he’d abandon the chase as he hadn’t the oxygen. That w as the last heard from him . His body w as later found near Fort K nox and the w reckage of pis m achine scattered over hair a toile around. O bviously his plahe pad disintegrated in m id-air. 1 I O fficial A ir Force version w ks that M antell had probably blacked out" from lack of oxygen and had not regained con­sciousness before he crashed, out of control. Still a mystery B UT one of his fellow -pilots later com m ented : “ Ithink that w as a cover-up. M an­tell w as too experienced a pilot for that He w as quite fam iliar w ith signs of approaching anoxia [lack of oxygenl. and w ould have taken steps to prevent it “ S om e of us think he m ay have collided w ith w hatever he saw and that it knocked him out in the air.” a Engineers later added that the type of m achine M antell w as fist jig, starting a dive at 20.000ftl vjould not have disintegrated si thoroughly. ’During the past tw o and three! I quarter years a m ultitude of people on the ground claim t) pave seen these “ flying saucers ” por have they alw ays been see i kith the naked tye ; m any sa y them through binoculars. But the fact that first started the U.S . A ir Force to sit up, take notice, and then institute “ Pro­ject S aucer ” w as the large num ber of apparently responsible pilots and aircrew m em bers w ho sent in startling reports of w hat they claim ed to nave seen. O ne of the theories along w hich ” P.S ” investigators w orked w as evident from the fact that every plane w hose pilot reported close encounters w ith “ flying saucers ” w as checked w ith G e i e g e r counters for possible radio­activity. Head-on meeting O TA K E the case, for in- 1 stance, of Captain Clar­ence Chiles, form er A ir Transport Com m and pilot, and John B. W hitted. w ho flew B.29 S uper­forts during the w ar. Both are 1 appilv m arried m en w ith farru i ies. good jobs and no need. o| i pparent desire for publicity.They w ere flying a scheduled i irline service near M ontgom ery i Jabam a, one night last sum m er, izhen a brilliant, fast-m oving bject suddenly appeared aheal f them ." W e saw it at the sam e tim e,} hiles told investigators latel W hatever it w as flashed dow n to­w ards us and w e veered to the left It veered sharply too and passed about 700 feet to our right and above us.” “ The thing w as about 100 feet long, cigar-shaped and w ingless, about tw ice the diam eter of a B.29 w ithout protruding fins,” said W hitted. “ There w as a trem endous burst of orange flam e from the rear. It zoom ed into clouds, its jet or prop w ash rocking our DC3.” Seeing's believing * TVT O R E recently, tw o w eek 3 ago. tw o other airlin; pilots. Captain Jack A dam s, w it' som e 8,000 hours’ flying tim e, and co-pilot G. W . A nderson reported a “ flying saucer ” w ith w indow s on the bottom and a blinking light near the top as they passed over A rkansas. “ It w as flying alm ost due north and w e crossed its path at about a 45 degree angle," said A dam s. “ It w as about 1,000ft. above us and travelling at a trem endous rate It had a peculiarly coloured and very intense light near the top w hich blinked very rapidly.“W e kept the object in sight for about 45 seconds. fl " I’ve been a sceptic all m y life about such things, but w hat can you do w hen you see a thing like that? ” he concluded. “W e w eke both flabbergasted.” L M r. Lead------- , M r. Ckgg----- ’ M r. Nichols — t Mt . Boseo------ M r. Traer------ M r. Harbo r M r, Belm ont I M r. M alte —-— J Tele. R oom ----- j M r. Now * — I Nia Gaac^ - S ECR ET INQUIR Y 1 INTO FLYING! I S A UCER S V.S. -LOSES' REPORT B¥ AIRMEN From ROBERT WAITHMAN, News Chronicle Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sunday. I N the United States in the last month it has become a good deal harder to dis mis s as hallucinations reports that flying s aucers—or alternatively “flying objects of non-conventional design ”—have lately been s een in the s kies . It has becom e harder, first because the reports have Been com ing in from such sources and w ith such in­ dependent detail that it w ould be rem arkable indeed if they w ere all the product of too vivid im aginations; and (second because there has been som e rather peculiar O THal behaviour in the m atter. । NEWS CHRONICLE LONDON, ENGLAND APRIL 3, 1950 *’I0^.21T,® ““«• ATTACSI "®ICAN EM BASSY u »>x», m u hd 6 sr. ^ '9 In the huge Pentagon building ua W ashington, headquarters of S he Defence Departm ent, there is an A ir Force m ajor w hose du y ft is to repeat to all inquirers t e Jubstance of the last A ir For e statem ent on flying saucers, issued on Decem ber 27, 1949. “ Mass hysteria ” O n the basis of inquiries into 375 alleged occurrences over a period of tw o years, it w as an­ nounced : “ R eports of un­ identified flying objects are the result of m isinterpretation of various conventional objects or a m ild form of m ass hysteria or hoaxes.” It w as said a continuance of the inquiry w as “ unw arranted.” But in fact it has appeared during the last m onth that sredible w itnesses w ho say they lave seen flying saucers are still Being exam ined by Intelligence ifficers. | It w as noted, too. how quickly and how thoroughly one of the m ost com prehensive of the new est reports has been officially “ lost." Ours ? Em ployees of the Civil A ero­ nautics A uthority at w ork in A control tow er at Dayton m uni*- cipal airport in O hio, in conjunc­tion w ith U.S W eather Bureau observers and four pilots of the A ir National Guard w ho took off in fighters to look at the “ un­ identified object ”—they all saw and subm itted their testim ony to the adm inistrator of C.A .A . The idea—som etim es seriously advanced and often half­believed—that the saucers could be exploratory craft from another planet has infinite possibilities. But until it is proved it m ay be m ore profitable to w onder w hether there has been de­ veloped som ew here a disc-like plane w ith a circle of sw iftly revolving vanes that m ight fenable it to hover or to flv at high speed. i If this or som ething like urns out to be the answ er, th it reiiav be good reason for hop ng here that it is one of ours. : M r. Tolson ——- 8 M r. Ladd -------— ; M r. Clew —-----— ? M r. Glavin -------- -'tr. Nichols —— . , M b. Hew n------------I I M b. Tracy ----------- ’ 1 M r-. $!b£^O ———— ‘R ocket saucer’ R O M E, Thursday.—A living sauce/ Iw as reported fver M ilan todaf. I Then later it fas discovered thlt I three boys had attached rockets fo / a large m etal disc and set than ’ off from the roof of a high building.—Express New s S ervice. (W FIC® O F THE LEGA L ATTACH® A M ER ICA N EM BA S S Y LO NDO N, ENGLA ND Daily express London, England m arch 31, 1950 yoT R K . <>R PED 85 A PR 191950 ®r 2 [ M r. Tolscn--------— . M r. Ladd----------- I M r. Glavla-------------I M r. Nichols-----------I M r. R osen----------------" M r. Tracy----------------' Hr. Harbo------------- j M r. Beta ent----------- M r. M ohr--------------- Tele. R oom ------------- M r. R ease------------- M irs Goody ---------- Fining saucers—I Jvx, s. and WA •ROM E, Wednesday. — Flying saucers again—over Italy now. This is what people in five different areas reported:Salo, on Lake Garda.—A disc as large as a full noon streaking towards the north-east.Carrara.—Four, three miles up, (lying southwards. Calabria.— Disc “like ti moon with a wake of fire " speeding westwards. |Sardinia. — A flying sauct*’ remained suspended 20 second], f en disappeared to the soutM . I al d'Aosta.—A disc flying over] head.—Reuter. • O FFICE O F THE LEGA L A TTA C* A M ER ICA N EM BA S S Y ^O aO ^ENGLA HD EVENliG STANDARD MAP; CH 29, 1950 LONDON, UGLAND $2APB201950 " W tl»1SS0 W i. Tolson M t. Ladd ______ M r, Clegg________ M r, Glavin _ M r, Nichols M r. R osen_______ •M r, Tracy . ____ M r. Harbo _____ M r. Belm am ___ M r. M ohr _____ i^Ie. Boom . M r. Nease . ^ Gandy TOO CH. SEE THEM plying fact or flight of fancy? RICHARD GARRETT traces the history of an aerial phenomenon which gave America sky-war jitters Professor F. S. Cotton, of Sydney University, was discus­ sing with his students the mystery of the flying saucers. He asked them to stand still, train their eyes on a point in the sky about a mile away. Within ten minutes 22 members of the class were seeing saucers.” The hallucination was merely the effect of red blood । corpuscles passing in front of the eye retina. SUNDAY GRAPHIC MARCH 26, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND OFFICE OF TH® UBGAL ATTAC® AM ERICA® KMBas s Y Wl®0N, BlQ UUiD 6 6 APR 11195a “INLYING saucers” are back in the new s.From New York com es a eport that Captain Jack idam s, pilot of the Chicago nd S outhern A irlines, radioed that he and a co-pilot had crossed the path of a large fly­ing saucer, w ith lighted w indow s and a peculiarly coloured blinking light on top and travelling at about 600 m .p.h, over A rkansas. This w as follow ed by a new s cable from Lisbon: S cores of flying saucers reported by' coastguards of the North Portugal coast flying in line and other form ations and m oving w est " faster than tracer bullets.”S o the 1950 " saucer season ” seem s to have opened early. First report of these strange craft cam e on June 25, 1947, w hen a M r. Dahl of Tacom a, W ashington, noticed a circular flying m achine, like a silver S oughnut, cutting capers over is back-yard.Presently he saw five m ore planes ” rotating round a :venth. Speculations The centre craft then began to shed m etallic rain. M ost of it fell seaw ards, but one piece landed in M r. Dahl’s yard. O n July 4, the first photo­ graph of a ’‘flying saucer” w as taken by a S eattle coast­ guard. The snap revealed a sm all w hite oblong, set against a dark grey background. The U.S. Navy said that the descriptions fitted its new wingless plane—the “ Flying Pancake ’’—but there was only one of these, and it had never ventured outside Connecticut. A m eteorologist suggested that solar reflections on low cloud w ould produce sim ilar effects, and a Los A ngeles scientist talked about “ trans­m utation of atom ic energy.’’ A letter to a S an Francisco new spaper hinted at an inter­ planetary solution. iThe S an Francisco corre- sr indent w as soon to find his id :a carried a stage further. dr. M ead Layne, publisher of an occult m agazine, pro­ duced an article in w hich he claim ed to have received a m essage, via a m edium , that there w ere people aboard the ■’ saucers.” - They cam e from another planet, and w ished to try liv­ing on earth. In Britain “ saucers ” w ere reported over Brighton beach, and another w as seen by a clergym an s w ife at S andw ich. Back in America President Truman compared the rumours to the scare of over a hundred years ago, when word got around that there were men and bats living on the moon. The neatest “ flying saucer ” quipping cam e from M r. Grom yko at U.N. head­quarters. “S om e,” he said, “attribute them to the British for export­ ing too m uch w hisky to the U.S ., others that it is a R ussian discus throw er training for the O lym pic Gam es w ho does not know his ow n strength.” The first flying saucer fever died dow n under sheer w eight of explanation, but reports still cam e in. Spain suspected In M ay, 1948, a U.S . A ir Force intelligence officer opined that the “ discs ” w ere the w ork of ex-Nazi scientists in S pain.During Franco's 1938 siege of M adrid his Germ an allies had tried out a circular m issile, w ith an explosive centre and four engines around the cir­ cum ference. The experiment had failed, but in 1944 the Germans had repeated it, using jet engines. It w as believed that the scientists responsible had escaped from the R ussian zone, through Fiance, and w ere now w orking for the S panish Governm ent. In Decem ber, 1949, the official body w hich had beA n established in A m erica to prole the “saucers” w as disbanded. It had been in operation M r tw o years, and had investigated 375 incidents. It said that the phenom enon w as caused by : (a) m isinter­ pretation of various conven-. tional objects; (b) a m ild form of m ass hysteria; (c) hoaxes. A nd there, one m ight have im agined, the story w ould have ended. But the ” flying saucers" refused to be grounded. Fellow travellers? The present phase of flying saucerism s reached .its clim ax on M arch 9, w hen a U.S . business m an, travelling in M exico, claim ed to have seen a stream lined ’’ disc ’’ in w hich a 23in. tall pilot had perished. A M exican denial immedi­ ately followed publication pf the story, but not before Denver, Colorado, had Jc- ported that a similar “ sauce} ” had come to grief near by and three little men had been dis­ covered inside it. The Defence Departm ent of the U.S ., repeating its denial of "flying saucers.” said: “If these saucers start landing, and little m en w ith radar sticking out of their ears clim b out, w e shall have to do som e­ thing about it.” “ Flying saucers ” have now been seen in pretty w ell every- country' of the w orld. They have been chased by jet planes, and observed by scientists and have baffled all attem pts to explain them aw ay. A re they sheer fantasy, or s there a grain of truth in tl e accounts? Your guess is ; s good as m ine. 4-26 Expert‘Explains Flying Saucers Tol son Ladd_______ Cleg? ______ Glavin Ni choIs R osen______ Tracy______ Harbo______ Belm ont M ohr________ Tele. R oom , N e a s e______ Gand y______ By United Press R O M E, M arell 25—Prof. Giuseppe Belluzzo, 73-year-old Italian turbine engineer, said today that designs for “flying saucers” w ere prepared for Hitler and M ussolini in 1942. •«== "A ccording to those designs,” he*"— said in an interview , "the disks could carry a cargo of explosives of any kind—and today an atom ic bom b—to destroy entire cities.” O f the present rash of reports of “flying saucers,” w hich the U. S . A ir Force has declared are w ithout foundation in fact, S r. Belluzzo said: "It has passed m y m ind that som e great pow er is experim enting w ith flying disks—w ithout explosives or atom ic bom bs. draf t ed plans “There is nothing supernatural about flying disks. It’s just the m ost rational use of recently- evolved techniques.” S r. Belluzzo said he personally had drafted plans for a “flying, disk” 32 feet in diam eter, but claim ed they disappeared w ith M us­ solini w hen he fled to northern Italy in 1943. “Both Hitler and M ussolini w ere interested in flying discs,” he said. "The principle of the flying disc is very sim ple. Its construction is easy and can be done w ith very light m etal.“Tw o jet pipes placed on either side of the rim of the disk, provide the locom otion. The orifices of these j^t tubes are adjustable to perm it m axim um and m inim um speeds. PILOT NOT NEEDED “Propulsion com es from a m ix­ ture of com pressed air and naphtha —the sam e fuel used in m odern jet planes. "The air is m ixed under pressure and ignited at first by cartridges and then by an electrical device. Terrific pressure is set up and the expanding gas forced out thru the jet pipes*"The reaction, com ing from the oooosing pipes on either side of the disc start the entire apparatus re­ volving, m aking it airborne.” The m issiles could be aim ed like the w ar-tim e Germ an V-2 rockets, said, and w ould descend w hen the fuel w as exhausted or cut off Jv an autom atic tim ing dcykeNo |bm an pilot w ould be required^- Wash. News U Wash. Star N-Y. Mirror MAR 2 5 1950 Date---------- - M r. Tolson —— M r. Icdd —------------ ; M r. Clegg----------— V'. Gloria ————- M r ’-hols------------ M r. Focen--------------- M r. Tracy--------— J ’ Icubo ——.—i—- - To’-. . *---------- M r. id --------- M iss Candy -——— VENICE REP ORTS FLYING SAUCER Venice, Monday Morning.. —A silver-coloured “ flying saucer” was reported above the fishing port of Caioggia near here, early today travel Ung " at great speed ” abou; 6,000ft up.—Reuter. OFFICE of A M Ei q^ legal. ATTACHE ^ EM BA S S Y LONDON,W \LU-^ APR 12 I950 the daily m ail FEBRUARY 27, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND Tolson ‘Saucers’ Spier From P lanets, Writer Claims NEW YO R K , Dec. 26 (A P)—A cailed flyingsaucers are real—ve­ hicles for system atic observation of the earth by visitors from other planets. The conclusions are contained in an article by Donald E. K eyhoe in the January, issue of True. pub­ lished by Faw cett Publications, Inc. K ey-hoe is a form er inform a­ tion "chief for the aeronautics branch, U. S . Com m erce depart­m ent; The m agazine said the conclu­ sions . w ererzbased 'bn an eight­m onth investigation. K eyhoe says True “learned that a rocket authority stationed at W right field has told 'Project S aucer’ personnel flatly that the saucers are interplanetary and that no other conclusion is pos­ sible.” Last A pril the Dayton (O hio) Journal Herald that the A ir Force, although conceding the saucers w ere no “joke,” had discounted the theory that the discs repre­ sented visitations from such planets as M ars, w here hum an life is believed by som e to exist. Today, an A ir Force spokesm an said that “A ir Force studies if Clegg Glavin Harbo Ni chols R osen Tracy M ohr____ Fletcher Tele. R oom N e a s e Gandy o'flying saucers’ lend no support - thf view that they com e fro n another planet.” NOT RECORDED 75 FEB 8 1950 Page Times-Herald__J_ Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror _ __ Date: ■ - jj^Tdiwm - —- use. awWL-------- M r. o*#e—— 5^ ©Dsvltt—— JU. NicW.fl- . ~— Sir. Kose* ..-^- M r. Tra”? MENU OF THE FUTURE?— It’s “Wild New World’ M r. Kar bo M r. M ohr O h 0 § d di 5 u lew s “Flying saucers,” observatories orTTfieTnoom high-flying rockets and earth satellite vehicles carry­ ing w eapons and possibly m en to w hirl endlessly far out in space, dence to reports of satellite m is- today seem like pipe dream s of ntlad w orld of fantasy. They m ay be harbingers of w ild new w orld to com e. a a The air force, as early as last spring, said officially that the living saucers “are not a joke.” A ir force authorities even now m ay be preparing an announce­ m ent stating that the flying discs are real objects, not m erely fig­ m ents of im agination as far as the air force is concerned, The M irror learned yesterday. That w ould seem to rem ove the flying discs from the realm of old w ives’ tales and the bubble talk of guys w ho have had one or tw o snifters too m any. Possibilities that the sail- errs are missiles launched from a foreign planet are given serious consideration. The U.S . defense departm ent’;’s announcem ent of plans consider­ ing a super spaceship, to be kept orbit around, the earth, lend cre- siles. No been best ideas such ship has as yet built, according to the informed sources, for one haven’t forgotten. Gravity gradually falls But been off fat­ out in space beyond the earth, scientists explain. It never quite ends, they say, but at 5000 m iles it is relatively w eak. “A spaceship could easily be kept in position - there,” accord- ing dotz, a Colum - better m etals have been de­ veloped. s’ It is the w ildest kind of spec­ ulation, but the flying discs m ay be the first calling cards from jan interstellar neighbor. bia University astronom er. “If left to itself it would gradually return to earth,” he said. “But it would take very little thrust, frolu small rock­ ets discharged at intervals to keep it where it was wanted.” To get it up there, the space­ ship w ould have to leave the earth at an initial velocity of 25,- 000 m iles an hour, to escape the pull of gravity. A t such speeds, present know n m etals w ould m elt becausm ,«Qi friction. »^O ^ But in other woWW, far from our own earth, perhaps THE MIRROR-^ angele 78 NOV 17 1949 Tolson _—^ ssm s hiTenbT H unteB rC lue to‘Saucers M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. E. A . Tam m _ Clegg______ Glavin. Ladd_________ Nichols R osen________ Tracy.________ Egan_________ Gu rne a_______ M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. Harb o________ M ohr_________ Pennington__ Quinn Tam m _ Nease________ M iss Gandy By United Press ■ ^== I A ir Force investigators—skeptical but intrigued I—are trying today to locate an eccentric inventor w ho m ore than 10 years ago built tw o contraptions that look like “flying saucers." The disc-type ships, battered and dam aged, w ere found yesterday in an abandoned barn near Glen Burnie, M d., w here they had lain untended for nine years. “It is apparent that both ships w ould give the appear­ ance of flying discs,” an A ir Force spokesm an said. NO REAL PROOF A n A ir Force officer last night described the tw o craft as "definite prototypes of flying saucers,” but the service hedged today. A spokesm an objected to the w ord "prototype,” saying 'he A ir Force has only reports of w hat flying saucers ook like and has never established that such things ac- uaJly w ere seen. The M aryland inventor, Jonathan E. 'C^ldw ell, disap- : >eared in 1940. The only possibility of any connection betw een his old abandoned devices and the rum ored “fly­ ing saucers” of recent years w ould lie in the possibility that oped A he w ent to som e other part of the country, devel- better m odels and flew them successfully. good m any officers find it difficult to believe he could have done that w ithout com ing to public attention during the periodic excitem ent over “flying saucers” in the past tw o years. But they w ould like to find out w hat happened to M r. Caldw ell after he left M aryland and talk w ith him , if he still is alive. M r. Caldw ell, w ho w ould be about 70 today, left the M aryland farm hastily nine years ago, after getting into financial trouble w ith the state. He took w ith him his w ife and son. M aryland authorities at that tim e had ordered him to stop selling any m ore stock in his enter­ prise, “Gray Goose A irw ays, Inc.” Previously, he had been ordered to stop selling stock in New Jersey and New York. NOT NATURALLY7 DISHONEST R obert E. Clapp, w ho as assistant A ttorney General tor M aryland, conducted the investigation of M r. Caldw ell's operations in 1940, said in Baltim ore today: “W henever he needed m ore funds he w ent out and sold stock, and he continued to run the business as tho. it w ere his ow n. He w asn't the ordinary type of frau­ dulent stock salesm an. I believe he sincerely thought x.O 'L’ m ccO R DBlb ; ’ S EP 23 1949 he had som ething and I doubt if he thought he w as being dishonest.” For tw o years A ir Force investigators have been run­ ning dow n clues from coast Io coast on reports of flying saucers. The A ir Force in the m ain has taken a skeptical attitude tow ard 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 S om e of the flying saucers have been reported seen from the air, but traveling at such high speed as to m ake pursuit im possible. O ne m ilitary pilot crashed to his death, reportedly w hile chasing a flying saucer. O ne of the craft found in the M aryland barn reportedlv flew here briefly around 1939. It w as said to have crofton only 75 feet in the air. ® ' O ne ship resem bled a helicopter. But instead of m tn., blades it had a disc-like device about 16 feet in diam «t The device resem bled tw o saucers revolving to m m ,/ S m all rotor blades jutted from betw een the hvmPsauced The other craft, nam ed the “R oto-Plane ” lookerI w a plyw ood tub about 14 feet in diam eter Tiw m \ in the m iddle. The engine w as in the tub A im and bottom rim s of the tub w ere four ,O und„toll v^^volved in opposite directions a w l PW ^j 6G btP 271943 WASHINGTON NEWS Page._ 6_______ W ASHINGTON NEW S PAGE 6 ^ ^ TolsonjFIpaSaucer' Story Deflated B y Air Force Experimental Craft W ill Be Examined For Other Clues * The A ir Force's long search for "flying saucers” has turned up tw o contraptions alm ost as w eird as anything, yet deserm eq by the m ost, w ild-eyed “w itnesses" of tw o sum - 'm ers ago. "Held for the exam ination of ex­ perts are tw o w eather-beaten rem nants of an inventor’s dream y tihcovefea yesterday" m”a tobacco shed near Glen Burnie. M d., ah' outer suburb of Baltim ore, A n official A ir Force statem ei t issued today said “the tw o e? perim ental aircraft found ne:r Baltim ore yesterday have abso­ lutely no connection w ith the re­ ported phenom enon of flying sau- jers. ■ver. This does not m ean, how - that they w ill not be ■xam ined for other clues by A ir aorce representatives, it w as said. The reljcs are m ore than 10 years’ old, and so far as can Ee "determ ined, only one of them ever 'got off the, ground under iE~ow n pow er. This occurred in W ash­ ington alm ost IQ years, ago, and ended in near-disaster after a flight of about 60 seconds. Pilot Tells of Test Hop, The inventor, Jonathan H^etfid- w elh w ho is now over 70, if still Jiving, and his w ife and son left Glen Burnie in 1940 after M ary­ land authorities ordered M r. Caldw ell to “cease and desist” from selling stock to finance his. aeronautical ideas. None of the] neighbors have heard from them since. / ,W illard E. Driggers of 1530 O live street N.E., now w ith the Civil A eronautics A dm inistration at Na­ tional A irport,'m ade the first and only test hop in M r. Caldw ell’s helicopter, the Gray Goose, at the old Benning R ace track in 1940. M r. Driggers said he helped de­ sign the helicopter. The m achine rose about 40 feet and after som e 60 seconds in the air M r. Driggers becam e aw are, the controls w ere not operating properly, he told The S tai. He decided if he took it any tigher he m ight not get dow n afely and he crash landed he race track. He w as uniil- ; ured. but the m achine w as danf- eced. - Lived Here Several Years. / M i^Bjriggers said the sauces Iror^Hthe rotors w as designed A o a w ing after the ship ‘had attained cruising altitude. The rotor w ould then be stopped and the ship flow n w ith the con­ ventional propeller. He explained, how ever, that this w as theory because the ship w as never flow n again.M r. Caldw ell lived in W ashing­ ton for several years before his disappearance, and seem s to have returned here briefly from Glen Burnie before dropping from sight. The m odel tested here w as a sm all helicopter w hose rotors projected from a saucer like disc m ounted on a tripod above the cockpit.Tattered rem nants of this disc, covered w ith cloth, and the bat­ tered fuselage w ere found in the shed, along w ith a plyw ood box, like a huge circular cheesebox, tvhose top and bottom sections Lere designed to revolve in oppo- kite directions w ith short rotors projecting from the rim s. The pilot w as to have ridden in the m iddle, near the m otor m ount. Capt. Claudius Belk, head of the Baltim ore office of S pecial Investi­ gation of the A ir Force, revealed that his office has "been investi­ gating the m achines for m onths as possible prototypes of the flying saucers reported so frequently. He said efforts are being m ade to, locate M r. Caldw ell in the hope of: getting engineering data on his. roto-plane ideas. The rem ains of the tw o m a­ chines w ere placed in storage by M aryland S tate police, w ho helped locate them at the request of the A ir Force. The m aterial w ill be held, it w as said, until it can be determ ined if experts from the W right-Patterson A ir Force Base at Dayton, O hio, w ish to exam - j^oFK K CO K IJ kll> 84 SEP 23 1949 Builder Was^rpenter. The hehcoptei^^rsisted of : fight w ingless f^ptge w ith e propeller' in front and a tripod Ever the cockpit w hich m ounted i.he saucer-like rotor and it: projecting blades. Except for the pancake struc­ ture around the inner sections of the rotor, the m odel w as m uch the sam e as other experim ental jobs of that tim e. M r. Caldw ell, a form er carpen­ ter, w hose friends said he had studied the science of aeronautics in several books, had a far less conventional idea in his "flying cheesebox,” The upper and low er lids, con­ taining short rotor blades jutting from their outer rim s, w ere sup­ posed to rotate in opposite direc­ tions, giving rapid life and som e stability in flight. M r. Caldw ell’s friends S aid. They adm itted the 1,500-pound contraption nevet flew , but said M r. Caldw ell hat claim ed that a light m odel provet successful. I The inventor earlier had tried a third m odel. This looked som ething like a com plicated hay rick on w heels, and had rotors designed to fan the air^som ew hat after the fashion of the paddle w heels on old steam ­ boats. There w ere no claim s that this m achine ever left the ground, and M r. Caldw ell abandoned it in favor of later ideas. A ttorney R obert E. Clapp, w ho w as A ssistant A ttorney General of M aryland at the tim e of M r. I Caldw ell's disappearance, and helped adm inister the blue-sky law s, conducted a hearing in 1940 into the affairs of tw o of M r. Cald- Ladd ■ Clegg_______ G1 avi n , Ni cho hA 6 ‘~ R ose n_i______ Tracy________ Harbo________ M ohr_________ Tele. R oom __ Nease ^\^y^/L [cil’s com panies — Gray G& ;e A lw ays. Inc., and R otor Planjs, Inc. He later restrained the firm s from selling stock in M aryland. "A ll he had w as m odels,” M r. Clapp said, “and w henever one failed and he needed m ore funds, he w ent out and sold stopk." In his report. M r. Clapp,$ald: “The literature used hr connec­ tion w ith these stock sales clearly indicates that the publiC’W iis led to believe that the invention w as on the verge of perfection and w ould be com pleted and ready for general production w ithin a very short tim e, w hereas, the fact as testi­ fied by M r. Caldw ell indicate that no m achine on w hich he had ever w orked had been successfully flow n or w as in any condition for m anu­ facture and sale upon a satisfac­ tory com m ercial basis. * • ' "The history of the develop! m onk of these com panies indicate- that they w ere organized m erely for the purpose of raising m oney to develop the ideas of M r. Cald­ w ell. and that as soon as this' m oney w as raised, it w as treated! as belonging solely to him and as the subject of any use w hich he deem ed proper. "No m eeting of stockholders has ever been held by either com pany and no financial report to stock­ holders has ef^npom e out since organization.” W A S HINGTO N S TA R Page___AAL_ K IR FO R CE FINDS ‘FLYING S A UCER S ’—This is Jonathan E. Caldw ell’s “Gray Goose” helicopter jictured before It m ade a near-disastrous test flight of about a m inute in W ashington nearly 0 years ago. . Washington Star Page A 18 S tate troopers w ith the “flying cheesebox” invented by M r. Caldw ell and found w ith hk 'ot helicopter in a tobacco shed on a farm near Glen Burnie, M d., after a search reaJs m hv "m United S tates A ir Force. lequesrea > Troopers J. J. Harbaugh and Peter K osiroW sky of the M aryland S tate P0^6 yesterday looking over rem nants of M r. Caldw ells helicopter, w hich had a pancakehk( ture around the inner part of the rotors. W ashington S tar Page A 18 show n 'Glen B urnie 'Sauce Clips 'Con^den'ld. but They Aren't / New spaper clips on the “Ilyin saucers'1 found in a Glen fkifnle — ITarnTast w eek have been sent to W ashington m arked “Classified- Coniidential.” A s part of an O S I report w hich contains other data, the clips are cram m ed into a folder m arked “Confidential.” But that doesn't m ean a thing. "You can take that file and pull those clippings out and show them tf anybody,” an A ir Force spokes­ m an said. “But if a folder is m arke ‘Confidential,’ a fellow w ants t look out because he know s som olithe other stuff in there is a io ^nore im portant.” j W A S HINGTO N DA ILY NEW S FINA L EDITIO N Tolson Ladd-----------• Clegg-------- Glav in----— Nichols.----- R osen---------- Tracy.--------- Harbo--------- M ohr---------- Tele. R oom , Nease. Gandy 194 $ M r. Tolson M r. Clegg, M r. G1 avi n . M r. Ladd - '" A ~ ' M r. Nichole M r. R osen M r. T r acy M r. Eg an M r. Guinea-______ M r. Harbo M r. M ohr M r. Pennington__ M r. Quinn Tam m _ M r. Nease Researchers’ Balloons M istaken for Discs V CHICA GO , July 16 (INS ). *Etefefc4isps” and “fast-m oving jet ~nlanps7* that flag som e Chi­ cagoans w orried w ere identified today gs gas-ballm hs used byjjp University of Chicago for cosm id ray resegj-cn. Large num bers of Chicagoans reported seeing m ys» iferious objects in the sky yester clay m orning. Descriptions varied from jet planes to silvery globules {o to 50 feet long. 1 M 1 7 1949 WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD Page 3 Sec. 1 "P lying Saucers’ On Secret List The A ir Force disclosed yes­ terday that secrecy restrictions have been clam ped on certain incidents connected w ith the m ys­ terious “flying saucers” seen in the skies last year. A t the sam e tim e, the A ir Force adm itted it is im possible to “deny categorically” that the w eird ob­ jects originated in the S oviet Union or som e other foreign na­ tion. cam e from R ussia. The A ir Forde said: I“To date there has been no tan­ gible evidence w hich w ould sup­ port a theory that any of the in­ cidents are attributable to activity of a foreign nation. O n the other- hand, there is no evidence to deny categorically such a possibility. “M any of the reported incidents have definitely been determ ined to be m eteoroligical balloons or natural celestial phenom ena. How ­ ever, there are som e incidents im ­ ported by reliable and com pete! £ observers w hich are still une: • plained.” A statem ent declared that som e incidents linked w ith the “flying saucers still are unexplained.” A spokesm an said som e of the "in­ explicable” incidents have been placed in the “classified” category, denied to all persons except au­ thorized m ilitary personnel. rhe statem ent w as issued as th s A ir Force continued to re- ce ve inquiries arising out of a co nm cntator’s broadcast. The com m entator said the “saucers” "°T *^8SB jjj— *n it) <94^ 5 $ APR 2 O194i; This clipping is from the evening edition of The Washington Times Herald Date M r. Tolson______ M r. E. A . Tam m _ M r. Clegg_______ M r. Glavin______ M r. Ladd________ M r. Nichols_____ M r. R osen_______ M r. Tracy_______ M r. Carson______ M r. Egan________ M r. Gurnea______ M r . Harbo______ M r. Hendon______ M r. Jones________ M r. Pennington_ M r. Quinn Tam m _ M r. Nease_______ M iss Gandy______ German Spy Calls S^f 'Flying Disc’ Inventor R IO DeV aNEIR O , Nov . 5 (INS ) Nils’/, Christensen, a con­ victed Germ an spy in Brazil, chim ed today to be the invm tor o£ “flying discs” w hich have Been 1 sighted in m any parts of, the W orld, including the United S tatta. IND EXED - 64 EX-109 ^ W A S HINGTO N TIM ES HER A LD A FTER NO O N EDITIO N DA TE // (p ^ ^ 6 3 DEC 3 i9W r«am< DA 'I ED.........” M lR W A K UR i' Bk b. x r Interes ted in "Saucers " cu tting fbc 1 t goviel B^age Agents /k^A^/h^ Soviet StilF"’ Wants Answer To dancers’ By DA VID S ENTNEB N. Y, Journal-Amcrlcan Washington B ureau W A S HINGTO N, A ug. 14.—S o­ viet agents in the United S tates have been ordered to solve the m ystery of the-‘Flying S aucers,” it w as learned today' W hile the guessing gam e in this country has burned itself out, the S oviet Union continues to be acutely interested in the phen­ om ena. according to A m erican in­ vestigative agencies. Instructions to S oviet espionage agents in the United S tates indi- c te the krem lin believes the saul c rs m ay be connected w ith A rm y e perim ents in devices to decom - nhssion enem y radar during bom bing raids.________________ » pivtM W I r. Tolson icers’—Some 9e ’Em an r. E. A . Tam flfL Gander for Saucers ? 7FW Chief Awaiting Messa rom Capital on Flying DiscFrom Capital on Flying Discs The national leader of the Vet­ erans of Foreign W ars said yester­ day in Colum bus, O hio, that he w as m om entarily expecting w ord from W ashington w hich w ould ex­ plain the “flying saucers” m ystery. Louis E. S tarr, national com ­ m ander of the VFW , told the O hio S tate encam pm ent of the VFW that he m ight have “w ithin a few hours” an explanation from W ash­ ington. He had expected the m es­ sage at 3 p. m . but it did not ar- riva. he said. 1 Too little is being told the peo- pk of this country,” S tarr told the de 'gates. lundreds of persons in about 30 S tates have reported seeing the silvery saucer-shaped discs speeding through the skies at tre­ m endous speeds. A n exhaustive check w ith the W ar Departm ent and other agen­ cies disclosed last night that no new form ation w as available in W ashington. No one knew any­ thing. But a new tendency to take the reports a bit m ore se­ riously w as apparent. A s the m ystification w axed, the scoffing w aned. S om e of the m ystery m issiles m ay have passed over W ashington Friday night at about m idnight. David A tam ian, 5160 S hoem aker ome M r. Clegg M r ? M r/ M r.Ni cho Is M r. R osen M r. T r a c y______ M r. Carson_____ M r. E g a n_______ M r. Gurnea______ M r. Harbo______ M r. Hendon______ M r . J ones_______ M r. Pennington_ M r. Quinn Tam m _ M r . M is ase andy ! DA VID A TA M IA N, ( f 5160 S hoem aker la., Friend hip Heights, M d., said he sav iree or four flying discs Fr' day about m idnight ^J^ w lane, Friendship Heights, M d., re­ ported that he had seen three or four of the flying saucers trav­ eling northw ard at a rapid rate of speed at about that tim e. He said they w ere at an altitude of betw een -Lq and 2000 feet and appeared 1 be of a bright, bluish hue. rhe flyhig saucers produced a sefies o* speculations and at- ti gee SAUCERS, P age 3, Column 2. A ssociated Press W 1K EEHO TO IS IT?—Coast Guardsm an Frank R ym an, 27, m ade this picture w ith a S peed Graphic cam era from the front porch of his S eattle, W ash., residence. It show s, says R yan, a “w hite sau­ cer” (arrow ) that is neither an airplane, a cloud, nor a silver balloon. S o, is it a “flapjack” or a saucer? O r m aybe a bottle cap? Photo is enlarged about 20 tim es .—_ THIS IS NO T O NE O F ’EM , S A YS THE NA VY—The “fhinv pancake,” a w ingless plane developed by the Naw is the Liv plane it has w hich m ight resem ble the reported “flying „ cers,” but officials in W ashington said yesterday that thi strange-looking aircraft has never left Bridgeport Conn \ I thorities are still skeptical that the m ystery m issiles said *-** seen In the skies over the East as the Carolinas are any sort of new airplane ^COJib M 28 W W A S HINGTO N PO S T Page t-M & 3=M YFW Chief Au from Capital oi tem pted explanations throughout the country yesterday. A Los A ngeles ■ new spaper quoted an unidentified scientist in nuclear physics at the California Institute of Technology as saying the flying discs have resulted from experim ents in “transm utation of atom ic energy” being conducted at M uroc Lake, Calif., W hite S ands, N. M ex.; Portland, O reg., and elsew here. The scientist, w hom the new s­ paper said had w orked as a re­ searcher on the atom ic bom b "M anhattan Project,” w as quoted as saying: "People are not seeing things. S uch flying discs actually are in experim ental existence. "These saucers so-called are capable of high speeds but they can be controlled from the ground. “They are 20 feet in w idth at the center and are partially rocket- ■ropelled on the takeoff.” \ How ever, other scientists w ere skeptical about the claim s of the unnam ed California physicist. Dr. Harold Urey, fam ed atom ic scien­ tist at the University of Chicago1, said the term “transm utation of atom ic energy” is “gibberish.” “You can transm ute m etals, but not energy,” and Dr. Urey. David Lilienthal, chairm an of the A tom ic Energy Com m ission, declared the unexplained discs are in no w ay connected w ith atom ic experim ents. Lilienthal said he couldn’t shed any light on the m ystery and added: “Until som eone has the facts about this phenom enon, “I can’t see how anyone can say anything definite about it.” A nd Dr. C. C. Lauritsen, head of I he nuclear physics departm ent at California Institute of Tech­ nology, said he w as certain nobody in his departm ent, w hich includes four form er M anhattan Project researchers including him self, had m ade "such a statem ent.” He expressed the opinion that (he discs “have nothing to do w ith nuclear physics.” S trangely enough, the M urco. Calif., A rm y A ir Base, identified as one of the sites w here the “secret experim ents" are being carried out, announced that it had a PfO fighter plane standing by to give cljase if one of the flying saucers m pde an appearance. 1 JCol. A l Dutton, com m andiiig officer of the O regon National ap^^E. Duvall, assistant super-' of the Naval O bseS va- •ry,^^ that the saucer "does hot cm to be an astronom ical die- jm ena.” J Credence in the saucers—w idely i laughed off at their first reported appearance June 25—grew as hun­ dreds of observers, som e of them trained fliers, reported seeing, them . A crow d of 200 observed a disc; at Hauser Lake. Idaho, Friday and1 a group of 60 picnickers saw them at Tw in Falls, Idaho. A nd in' Portland, O reg., so m any residents! w itnessed them that sam e day the police departm ent sent out an aH- cars broadcast. The crew of a United A irlines plane said several of the rounS , flat objects w ere visible for aboat 12 m inutes aiting Message fi Flying Discs Guard, announced that the guard’s squadron w ould attem pt to photo­ graph any future apparitions of the discs. He said six P-51 fighter planes, equipped w ith gun and tele­ scopic cam eras, w ould be kept ready to take off on a m om ent’s notice. Col. F. J. Clark, com m anding officer of the Hanford Engineering W orks in the Pacific Northw est w here the largest saucer influx has been reported, said the saucers w ere not com ing from the atom ic plant there. “I have been w aiting for som e­ one to tie the discs to the Han­ ford atom ic plant.” he said. He declared that as far as he knew no experim ents w ere under w ay there w hich w ould explain the m ystery. Tw o Chicago astronom ers said the discs are probably “m an­ m ade.” "They couldn’t be m eteors.” said Dr. Girard K iuper, director of the University of Chicago’s Yerkes O bservatory at W illiam s Bay. W is. Dr. O liver K ee, director of Northw estern University's Dear­ born O bservatory, said: "W e realize that the A rm y and Navy are w orking on all sorts of things w e know nothing about.” He said the m ystery disks m ay represent an accom plishm ent sim i­ lar to that of sending radar sig­ nals to the m oon.” one of the great­ est technological achievem ents of the w ar and accom plished in abso­ lute secrecy.’’ Here in W ashington, Dr. New s hern S m ith of the National Buread of S tandards expressed the opinion that all iiie excitem ent is akin to] "those Loch Ness M onster stories.’• The only com m ent offered by JUL 61947 WASHINGTON POST Page 1-M & 3—M M r. M r. M r. M r. To lson*(>-, E. A . Tim m . Clegg G1avin ad M r. M r. M r. M r. o __ Fl^in^Stiucei^ Found - Add latest reports on flying sau­ cers—a garage sign with a garbage can lid and an ingenious “buzzer found on the lawn of the home of Thaddeus Elder, 111 6th st., Lau­ rel, Md. . The “saucer" was discovered Fri­ day night shortly before 10 o’clock. Two small aerials projected from the contraption. It contained a dry I cell battery, a flashlight bulb, a I cam era lens and a ticker that I caused the buzzing. i I The “saucer" was turned ..cmer o Laurel police w hy ltent a straight nee m hilc informing tha—EBL. of he “discovery," The FBI ma-sn't interested. R osen Tracy Carson Egan Gurnea Harbo ease Gandy . Hendon . Jones_______ . Pennington_ M r. Quinn Tam m _ M r. 44 JUL 18 1947 * 131547 W A S HINGTO N PO S T Page 17 y M r. rM r. M r. M r. Tolson’ E. A . Tam m j Clegg_______ Glavin > M r . Ladd ’R A M ?^M r M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. Nichols / R osen_______ Tracy_______ Carson Egan Gurnea Ha r bo_______ Hendon______ J ones_______ Pennington_ Quinn Tam m . Stirs Police, FBI and Army B y lh, Asiocialtd P ress TW IN FA LLS , Idaho, July 12.— Four. rual st and developed 'R ecently at one of R ussia’s re- Veareb laboratories. T “Energy is required only f«r clim bing, but no energy is neeJ. efl for support W hen the ail. plane goes aiong the larthL gravitational co 'our lines. s ■ports of (hy- flying .fesl . ped off sharply in-ThFXoTj es area yesterday ant po- aid they had receiv'd no calW about, them in the city or county since S aturday. The w riter of the strange let­ ter said he m et the R ussian offi­ cer in W ilm ington and, because he w anted to hear about R ussia, invited him to dinner. The R ussian first asked w here he could sell 18 polar bear pelts w hich he received "for very dan­ gerous w ork.” He said he had been assigned to go over the route of the run­ aw ay radioactive cloud near Lake Baikal and pick up dead anim als. ANIMALS KILLED------ "They loaded a few sm all ships w ith all kinds of anim als and directed the cloud over them ,” the w riter said. “During this experim ent, a violent storm blew the cloud far north into the tundra, but before it dissipated it de­ stroyed all life on its w ay. i“The cloud m ay be controlled flom land, from a plane or flom a robot-piloted ‘leader.’ ■is I understand it, the control is based on electro-m agnetic, w aves and the cloud has tW q com ponents: the killer. The carrier and “I asked him if the R ussian^ have an atom ic bom b. He said he doubted it, because the atom ic bom b cannot be used w ithout killing innocent people, such as children and w om en. But they have atom ic energy, w hich they' use for propelling supersonic airplanes.” The w riter said he asked the R ussian officer to another dinner, but w hen he cam e the second tim e his tanker w as leaving unex­ pectedly and he could only say good-by. The nuclear physicist consulted by the Exam iner said it w as dif­ ficult to appraise the value of the letter because of the w riter’s ■^technical ignorance.” 1 “The rem ark im plying that the R ussians w ouldn't,, use the atom bom b If they If id it is •iw inw »n«e The Bus •■■ ■ voukl like very m uch to have the bom b.” I O n the other i. nd, he decried the efforts of som e groups w ho take advantage of "all this flying disc talk” to stir up suspicion of R ussia's intentions. . The Exam iner had tw o m ore i-eparts of flying discs yesterday. ipod Dodre of 725 S z^n h ijr. avenue said he w as in W l-sf ' |Jke Park at 12:02 p. m . Jhen saw ‘one flying w estw ard at /i00 to 3000 feet. He said it *w as silent, round and shiny and w as not an airplane. Leonard Posella. ^m eilv drive, of 20 near Grif® w est at 500 feet? 11, of 3267 eicd a fligW I Park going W said thru w ere round and ^silvery "w ith their noses pointing upw ard," ard He w atched them foe three M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M is Tolson E. A . Tam m Clegg______ Glavin Ladd_______ Nichols R osen_______ Tracy______ Carson Egan_______ Gurnea Harbo______ Hendon J one s_______ Leonard Pennington_ Quinn Tam m . Nease______ i Gandy B.vco^rv^p gjg ,is w / v f Planes toChas e'Hying Saucers 7;' 'Something to Thi^AAF Feels W ith aircraft, including a Jet plane, pseudo-scientific explanations of the alerted along the W est Coast in hopes of chasing and explaining the m ystery of the "flying saucers,” an A rm y A ir Forces spokesm an here disclosed today that the A A F be­ lieves “there's som ething to this” out is com pletely m ystified as to just w hat.Capt. Tom Brow n of A A F public relations said the tales of flat, round objects zipping through the sky are too w idespread to be ground­ less. He pointed out that a num ber of com petent airm en have reported seeing the phenom ena that have been the talk of the Nation since June 25.For 10 days, he declared, the A A F has been checking on the stories "and w e still haven't the slightest idea w hat 4the things can be.” M eanw hile, from W ashington and the rest /f the country cam e m orel reports /f "flying saucers" as w elu as a num ber of scientific and pseudo-scientific explanations of the m ystery. David A tam ian, 5610 S hoem aker lane. Bethesda, M d., said he saw - three or four "flying saucers" trav­ eling north at great speed at 11:45 p.m . Friday. M r. A tam ian. w ho de­ scribed him self as a w riter of poetry, said he w as sure he w asn't m is­ taken. The discs, he said, w ere fly­ ing at betw een 1,000 and 2.000 feet and appeared to be of a bright, bluish hue. Governm ent sources denied that any tests are being conducted that m ight be the answ er to the m ystery. A Navy official said the Navy had checked all its facilities to deter­ m ine w hether any w ere sending aloft objects that could account for the strange sights. The answ ers w eife negative. • | navid Lilienthal, chairm an of thei A tom ic Energy Com m ission, said" et about round, m etal disc, The fl j discs bave been re. w hich m ight be one of the m yster- (] ..seen„ b ns in 3Q 3 ^ S tates, but Brasky’s disc w as the lnto h1^. Pansh TO ® and that he first one that actuaily ln,d been is holding it for the Federal found—jf that js w hat w a^ found.Bureau of Investigation. The R ev. Joseph Brasky of S t; Joseph’s Church at Grafton, 45 m iles north of M ilw aukee, said he heard a sw ishing and w hirring noise this m orning. A second later, he said, he heard a thud and a m ild explosion. He investigated and found a sheet m etal disc about 18 inches in diam eter, resem bling a circular saw blade. 'The object still w as w arm . His report cam e a few hours after a m ilitary plane m ade an unsuccessful speed dash in an at­ tem pt to track dow n onp of the discs and the A rm y and scientists sought to ascertain w hether coast- to-coast reports about the discs zoom ing through the sky w ere fact or fancy. A rm y planes scoured the north­ w est Pacific skies for them w ithout success today and one "eyew itness"The object sun w as w arm . even reported having seen one of w eighed about four ot five pounds the discs take off in A rizona. A and w as about one eighth of an st. Louis railroad m an exhibited inch thick, he said. som e paper “discs" he said he hadThere w as a hole about one inch in diam eter in the m iddle of the disc, he said, and in the open­ ing w ere “gadgets and som e w ires.” The priest said he did not know f his discovery w ere im portant >r w hether it m ight be an elab­ irate practical joke. He said he lad notified the FBI of his find. H. K . Johnson of the M ilw aukee seen floating over S t. Louis. The flying saucers w hich have been reported skim m ing through A m erica’s skies at speeds up to 1200 m iles have eluded tlieji^iiaL. ly keen eye of radar. Capt. Tom Brow n of the A rm ' A ir Forces public relations sial ’ See SAUCERS, Page 3, Col. 2. 44 JUL 18 1947 THE W A S HINGTO N PO S T DATE SAUCfB SwFront Page 1 aircraft designer, told The things aeeri1nearby and large ones at great distances. “The one outstanding fact aboil virtually all the saucers is that they had no structure — the * seem ed m erely round and flat. Th^t description fits exactly w ith: .. . . -----------. This' Priest Finds 6 Whirring9 Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI said the A rm y A irw ays Com m uni- “The best w ay I can describe it.” cations S ervice had reported late said K ennedy, “w as that it looked Post by telephone from ^’m m tlthe tricks that eyes play. that until he sees a flying saucertrickiness varies w ith differences ■ yesterday that so far its radarlike an w ange lam p bulb w ithout scopes throughout the country ^® socket. It w as going faster than have been unable to pick up any nny iet pl^h® Ive ever seen. strange objects in flight. In Hagerstow n, M d., M rs. M ad- A nd in the Pacific Northw est— ^ Ganoe, 30, said she had seen w here m ost of the fly-happy plat- flve of the discs, racing in 2-1-2 ters have been reported—the A rm y form ation at “terrific speed," from has radar equipm ent w hich can her backporch. “They sounded like ( pierce fog and darkness and pick a faraw ay train,” she said, up objects in the sky 200 m iles In the w ake of these new eye- aw ay. w itness accounts cam e a new series I Even so, Brow n acknow ledged of com m ents, and explanations, but that the A ir Forces had decided m ost of them w ere tinged w ith a “there’s som ething to this” and slight tendency to laugh off the had been clicking it for 10 days, w hole thing. “A nd w e still haven’t the slight- Dr. W infred O verholser, nation- I est idea w hat they could be,” he ally know n psychiatrist and super- ! added. intendent of S t. Elizabeths Hos- A nd a new w rinkle—the report- pital here, said it “has som e of the ed landing of a fleet of eight skim - earm arks of being national hys- m ing platters—w as reported from te«“-" Idaho in full view of 10 persons. A . . Everytim e som eone com es up Dishm an, Idaho housew ife, said w ith a sea-serpent story, said Dr.• ■ - O verholser, “others w ith vivid he “w ouldn’t like to pass judg­ m ent.” He agreed w ith Dr. O verholser that m uch if not all of the story m ay be because of hysteria. “A fter all,” he said, “w e are m ore or less an hysterical Nation.” M ajor de S eversky said it w as pos­ sible that the persons w ho claim to have seen the aerial discs have instead glim psed the exhaust of jet-propelled planes. in w eather and lighting.” How ever, Nova Hart, S t. Louis m echanic w ho w as trained during service in the w ar to spot all types of aircraft, yesterday offered a m inute description of one of the' flying patterns w hich he claim ed he saw flying at an altitude of about 300 feet. R eporter S ees O ne He described it as circular w ith a ribbed fram ew ork and silver’ gray in color. He said it appeared' to have a m otor w ith a propeller attached in the center and that it'He conceded, too, that they attached in the center and that it m ight be guided m issiles let loose kept turning like an airplane do- as part of an experim ent, but ing a slow roll. added: A lthough m any explanations she and others in her party had seen the saucers land on a m oun­ tainside near S t. M aries. Idaho. S he said they cam e into view at an extrem e speed, suddenly slow ed, and then “fluttered like leaves to the ground.” “The m ysterious part w as that w e couldn’t see them after they im aginations are sure they have I seen the sam e thing. "The critical faculty In m an, the last one he received, is still not very w ell developed. S cratch the surface and you find the sam e m ass “I don't think the Governm ent have been offered, none has been w ould fire them so prom iscuously.'convincing. A Los A ngeles new s- They w ould test them in one spot, paPR r Quoted an unnam ed nuclear in an isolated area, like they did , Physicist as saying the silvery discs the atom ic bom b.” resulted from experim ents in the M aj. Gen. Curtis E. LeM ay w h0 “traiism utatiQn of atom ic energy.'I as Deputy Chief of A m S taff for . This report w as rapidly herde 1 R esearch and Developm ent w ould ”’’? ^e hoax colum n by Davi] know if the saucers involved ex-'Lilienthal, chairm an of the A tom ^ perim ents w ith guided m issiles,.Energy Com m ission, and severiu com m ented: prom inent: atom ic scientists. “W hatever these people have,S tarr Expects Word seen it hasn't been anything re-' Louis E. S tarr, national com -’ suiting from experim ents by the m ander of the Veterans of Foreign I A rm y A ir Forces. A s for as I’m W ars, announced S aturday at Co-' concerned there’s nothing to itllum bus, O hio, that he w as expect-1 at all. The w hole thing is un-ling “m om entarily” inform ation] landed,” she said. “W e could see them flutter dow n into the tim ber yet w e couldn’t see that they did anything to the trees.” S he said she hoped to hike into the tim ber tom orrow and search for the objects w hich she said w ere saucer-shaped but resem bled w ash­ tubs m ore than disks and w ere “about the size of a five-room house.” Locally, Hazen K ennedy of 2615 ■ avtiXcitE cuxu j.411 vs mx, lassie iiidon _ n , hysteria w hich predom inated dur-'fortunate.” trom W ashington w hich w ould ex-. ,, -.■.->----^ ------ ---- General LeM ay refused to dis- Plain the dashing discs. But the cuss w hether the A ir Forces has;m essage never arrived. guided m issiles w hich can attain The A ir Forces said that Gen. speeds of 1200 m iles. pari S paatz, A ir Forces chief, w as “There's been too m uch said m the Pacific Northw est w here about guided m issiles now ,” he m ost of the saucers have been re- said. How ard W . Blakeslee, A ssoci­ ated Press science editor, said the w hole business m ay be an optical i ing the w itchcraft scare. S om e ' persons are quite ready to seo things and follow beliefs.” Dr. O verholser said that w hen he m ade his rounds of the m ental patients yesterday at S t, Eliza­ beths not a one com m ented on the flying saucers story. "I think they m ay be a little skeptical,” he added. How ever, Dr. O verholser said he illusion. w asn’t trying to dism iss the m atter “A t any distance w hich is close as a joke ‘“because there are so to the lim it of how far a person ported, but added that his trip there w as planned tw o m onths ago, long before the saucers scare. General S paatz is expected back in W ashington late tom orrow . M uroc A rm y A ir Field in Cali­ fornia had a P-80 jet fighter stanct- ling by, and the National Guard tm any strange things going on to- can see,” he w rote, “all objects O regon had prepared six regula 4th st. ne. reported he had se^n-dm r^that one can'; be sure.” appear round or nearly so. This fighters to give chase shoulj M aj. A lexander P. de S eversky, I law of sight covers both sm all lsaucers be reported nearby.one passing over the Northeast section of the city at about 8:40 P. m ThisThis w ould be the first one re­ ported over the District, although! others have been reported overl nearby M aryland. K ennedy, w ho has 125 hours flying tim e as a student pilot in! tile A rm y A ir Forces to his credit, said he believed the saucer he lull seen w as traveling at “w ell ov|r” 1000 m iles an hour at an altitude of betw een 1200 and 1500' feet. ^—— --« THE WASfr PAGE DATE JGTO N PO S T s^w Jn thp sky. S he is the first know n observer to claim w hat she saw w as stationary. A ll the rest have spoken of trem endous speeds. M rs. K ole said all she could think Can This B e the Secret? I nder discussion as a possible solution to the “sau Jer” r ysterv is the Navy’s “Flying Flapjack,” show n above. J inning along w ith its landing gear retracted, this plane w ould seem to be a supper plate spinning through the sky. of w as a blazing disc. A lexandria police looked in the direction she indicated but the disc had gone. Jack Labous, an artist, 3500 block East Capitol S t., reported seeing one of the “things” flying over Bethesda. He described it as “a flat disc w ith a cone shape under it and a stick like a radio antenna projecting from the bottom .” The scientist w ho claim ed to know som ething about the “saucers” w as described by a Los A ngeles new spaper as a m em ber of the California Institute of Technology staff. M ay Be R eal, He S ays He w as quoted as saying “trans­ m utation of atom ic energy” ex­ perim ents m ight be responsible. He w as said to have been a re­ searcher on the M anhattan proj­ ect that m ade the atom bom b, and w as quoted as saying: “These so-called saucers are ca­ pable of high speed but can be controlled from the ground. They are 20 feet w ide in the center and are partially rocket propelled on the take off. People are not seeing things. S uch flying discs actually are in experim ental existence.” Experim ents w ith these “discs” w ere reported as being in progress at M uroc Dry Lake, Calif.; W hite S ands, N. M .; Portland, O reg., and other places. Dr. Harold Urey, atom scientist at the University of Chicago, com ­ m ented: “Transm utation of atom ic energy sounds like gibber­ ish. You can transm ute m etals, not energy.” Col. F. J. Clarke, in com m and of the Hanford Engineering w orks of the atom ic energy project, said he knew of no experim ents involv­ing “flying saucers.” “I have been w aiting several days for som eone to get the idea the so-called flying saucers w ere tied up in som e w ay w ith w hat w e are doing,” Clarke said. “But as far as I know , there is no connec­tion.” The "piece” found in O hio w as discovered near Circleville. It w as a six-pointed star covered w ith tin­ foil and attached to part of a bal­ loon. It w as reported to be a. device used by the A nny air forces in radar research to check on high I w ind speeds. There w as no com . m ent from the air forces. t I A W ar Departm ent spokesm t n' revealed A rm y intelligence h iS i — ^ - rklng for a year on fe.l ’ports of strange objects seep in the sky and had reached thelcon- elusion that som e sort of m eteor­ ites w ere responsible. J A stronom ers at the Naval ob- servatory and Georgetow n uni­ versity, w ho adm itted they have been on the alert for flying saucers as they sw ept the skies w ith their pow erful telescopes, in­ sisted they not only had not seen any but knew of no astronom ical theory that m ight account for the reports. K enneth A rnold, the private pilot w ho w as first to annound seeing the saucers, expressed gre w fication at the support he v js getting but insisted he still didn't believe he had seen nine discs w hizzing by at 1,200 m iles an hour, although he had seen them . A rnold started yesterday on a flying fishing trip over the Pa­ cific northw est arm ed w ith a ne v cam era in the hope of getting pictures if he encountered any m ore saucers. He took along Col. Paul W . W eiland, W orld W ar II artillery officer, just in case he sees som e m ore and needs a w itness. A rnold announced he has been getting tons of letters com m entini' on his report of the saucers. M any of them predict they are the fore, runner of an atom bom b attach O ne correspondent blam ed them on survivors of the lost continer t of A tlantis w ho are preparing fc“ an atom ic w ar in 1960. , A rm y, Navy and civil aerona tics officials agreed none of the had any reliable inform atit about the discs and w ould i frain from com m enting until th saw one, or at least a picture. JUL 61947 W ASHINGTON TIMES-HER AL D Page 1 & 8 Sec. I ^AfJmJ^xpenm^ or Delusions nk? or Factual, Those Flying Saucers • Have Nation Eyeing Skies; 5 Seen in D. C. Area "'And there shall be signs in the heavens. And wise men will mock them and the learnea revile, but unto the chosen the signs shall be revealed and they will have wisdom and knowledge.”— Ancient prophecy. By JA M ES CO LLIGA N The w ords of the prophecy w ere being ful­ filled last night in W ashington and throughout the nation as thousands of official and scientific O bservers and just ordinary people searched the skies for flyiner saucers—and plenty of w atchers w ere seeing them , including five in the W ashing­ ton area. S cientists, for the m ost part dism issed the “saucers" as optical illusions, figm ents of the im agination or “som eone having a little fun," but the reports continued to pour in. By now they have been seen in every part of the country, from Canada to the Gulf of M exico and from the Pacific to the A tlantic. The reports grew in “authenticity" w ith their increase in volum e. A farm er in O hio cam e uJ w ith a piece of one, a "scientist in nuclear physics'! (Turn to Page 8, Col. 1) M r. bolson 1 M r. E. A . Tam m _ M r. Clegg M r. Glavin ■ M r. Ladd M r. Nichols_ M r. R osen M r. Tracy , M r. Carson I M r. Egan M r. Gurnea M r. Harbo M r. Hendon M r. Jones M r. Pennington_ V M r. Quinn Tam m _ M r. Nease ’ M iss Gandy 1 Flying Saucers Intrigue Nation; five Seen Here (Continued from First Page) threw out hints of m ysterious atom ic energy experim ents, an­ other observer claim ed to have a picture to back up w hat he saw . Louis E. S tarr, national com ­ m ander of the Veterans of Foreign W ars, announced he expected an “explanation from W ashington” w ithin a m atter of hours. He hinted to new sm en at Colum bus, O hio, that the Governm ent is holding out on the public about the “saucers,” and com m ented: “Too little is being told the people of this country.” Stationary at Alexandria A m other and daughter in Northeast W ashington reported vesterdav they • saw three huge things hurtling through the sky last Thursday but w ere afraid to say anything for fear of w hat m ight be said about them . Even yesterday they asked that their nam es be w ithheld.The “things.” according to these observers, looked like dishes and m ade a noise like jet-propelled Planes. They w ere traveling so f: st they disappeared an instant ter they w ere observed. M rs. M artin K ole, 3200 block P Villcy Dr., A lexandria, called her local police station to ask about the round, flat bright light she I.N.P. Photo by U.S . Coast Guard Is It Saucer, Sorcery, or Just P lain Sausage? R eports of “flying saucers” w ere laughed off by authorities until m any w itnesses, includ­ ing reliable pilots and servicem en, said they had seen the plate-like objects w hizzing over, head. A bove is the picture Yeom an Frank R ym an, 27, took in the S eattle tw ilight w hen hJ observed w l^t seem ed to him to be a flying saucer 10,000 feet high traveling at 5(/ m iles per hour. v jirjriflg' * W A S HINGTO N TIM ES -HER A LD. Page_A ..& ' O .ec. I / Hundreds in from the atom ic plant 's Dearborn O bservatory, "that 'all m ts of things w e know nothing (S ee DIS CS , Page A -9.) saw them at Tw in Falls, Idaho, A nd an all-cars, broadcast. S EO O R DR u I -6-MH" in the saucers—w idely at their first' reported June 25—grew as h|n- dreds of observers, m any of ttim trained flyers, reported seeing thlm . A crow d of 200 observed a discfat. abS ut.” Dr. Lee said the discs m ight repre­ sent the sam e sort of thing as send- not com ing there. Credence laughed off appearance Si. 1 hl A rm y and Navy are w orking on , D is cs (Continued From First Page.) 31 States R eport eeing W eird 'Flying Saucers * B y Ihe Associated P ress The Nation w as baffled today by ‘‘flying saucers” reported seen in 31 S tates by hundreds of persons, and conjectures cam e from scores of nam ed and unnam ed sources throughout the country. O fficial Governm ent sources took a "Let's see one” stand on the phe­ nom enon. and no scientist offered a detailed explanation. Tw o Chicago astronom ers said the -os are probably "m an-m ade.” to undulating, flashing objects W ouldn’t be m eteors," said Dr. Girard K ieupei, director of the Uni­ versity of Chicago's Yerkes O b­ servatory at W illiam s Bay. W is. “W e realize," said Dr. O liver Lee, ■diS ector of Northw estern Unlver- "flying filter The New w as rc- or four served the m ysterious saucers” hereabouts. A Bethesda (M d.) m an ported to have seen three t -w ,- • 1 son______ E. A . Tam m _ Clegg_ Glavin Ladd_ Ni cho Is R osen_ Tracy_ Carson Egan_ Gurnea Harbo_ Hendon J ones of Charleston, S . C.—one of them a ^^-jyssapaper reporter—said a flyi® saucer passed over Charleston hea< ing east at 7:20 p.m . S aturday : ing radar signals to the m oon, "one of the greatest technological achievem ents of the w ar and ac­ com plished in absolute secrecy.” David Lilienthal, chairm an of the A tom ic Energy Com m ission, told the Denver Post in a brief telephone in­ terview ' that the flying saucers w ere in no w ay connected w ith experi­ m ents in .atom ic energy, the trans­ m utation of m etals, or sim ilar re- searcn. Col. F. J. Clark, com m anding offi­ cer of the Hanford Engineering W orks in the Pacific Northw est w here the largest saucer influx has been reported, said the saucers w ere ;bout the sam e tim e tw o m en 11 Gbany, O reg., saw a single di|c Gash southw ard, halt, and retrace its course before vanishing into a cloud. A n A rm y A ir Forces spokesm an in W ashington on July 3 said there w as not enough fact to "w arrant further investigation.” but the A ir M ateriel Com m and at W right Field. Day ton, O hio, said it w as m aking a study. S aturday at W ashington an A rm y researcher adm itted "w e're m ystified" and the Navy said it had no theories. First Reported June 25. The first published report of “fly­ing saucers” cam e from K enneth A rnold. Boise, Idaho, businessm an pilot, w ho reported at Pendleton, O reg., on June 25 that he had seen । nine of them flying al 1.200 m iles an hour in form ation, shifting position "like the tail of a kite,” over W ash­ ington S tate’s Cascade M ountains. I Before scoffers had m ore than be­ gun to offer explanations such as ‘reflections.” “persistent vision” and "snow blindness." an O klahom a City 'private flyer, Byron S avage, said he had seen a sim ilarly shaped object som e w eeks earlier but fear of ridi­cule kept him quiet. Then the reports began to in. m ostly from Individuals, discs w ere seen in Texas, in M exico, in W ashington. O regon, Idaho, M issouri, Colorado, Califor­ nia. A rizona and Nebraska. The ;er Lake, Idaho, on the Fourth num ber varied from one to a dozen, July. A group of 60 picnickers seen m ostly by one or tw o people. S een by Group of 200. in Portland, O reg., so m any resi- Then the July 4 deluge hit. Tw o dents w itnessed them on the Fourth: hundred persons in one group and that the police departm ent sent out 6° in another saw them In Idaho;hundreds saw them in O regon. A United A ir Lines pilot of u W ashington and other S tates rears experience w alked up the ram p throughout the W est., in A ugusta, io his plane at Boise, joking that. M e,, the Civil A eronautics A dm in- "Tll believe In these discs w hen I is'ration received a report that a see them .” Ten m inutes later he dozen of the discs had been seen radioed, shaken, that he had spot-ithere-led five of them from his plane. He1 A nd. for the first tim e, the East- w as Capt. A . J. S m ith. His co-pilot, ern S tates had their reports. O b- R alph S tevens, and his stew ardess, servers cam e in w ith reports from M iss M arty M onro, told the sam e M ichigan, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, sto • Ncw Jersey, Indiana. K entucky, ■w itnesses in tw o points of Cali- Georgia, S outh Carolina and Cat- foJila and In S pokane—one of them ado’s A tlantic seaboard. A rm y A ir Forces sergeant—re-1 Near unanim ity w as recorded c r ted seeing the discs S aturday, som e of the discs’ characteristlcsl- o persons in different sections terrific speed, bright reflections. nn J1 6 19^' W A S HINGTO N S TA R Pag®.J^]UkJHL itv. M r. M r. M r . M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. M r. Pennington_ M r. Quinn Tam m _ M r. Nease_ M iss Gandy. round or oval in shape, flat and fir­ ing w ith a peculiar undulating po- tt,n. S ize w as m oot and expressed by Capt. S m ith of United A ir Lairs al "hard to judge" w ithout kn|w - inp the distance from the observer loathe objects. 2 D. C. Area Residents Say They Saw 'Flying Saucers' Tw o W ashington area residents today w ere on record as having ob- of these objects at m idnight Friday, w hile in the vicinity of Friendship Heights, M d. They w ere described as being rapid, bluish and bright traveling northw ard. M rs. M artin Hole, 3202 Valiev drive. A lexandria housew ife, said early Friday she saw a large round object floating in the southw est sky. S he declared a light shining irfher face aw akened her shot* ; a it. S he w ent to the w indow In ' saw som ething round and large w ith a reddish tinge, ft seem ed to Ibc steading still. A fter looking aflu a few m inutes, M rs. K ole said she returned to bed. M r. Tolson "M r. S .A . Tam m '_ M r. Clegg M r. Gl^yi. M r. I/adA M r ^Ni cho 1 s 'Flying Saucers' ReportecTSeen By Scores of 'Eyewitnesses' B y the Associated P ress The “flying saucer" m ystery reached fever pitch today, after ‘T saw them m yself” statem ents from a veteran United A ir Lines crew , scores of Portland (O reg.) residents, and 60 picknickers at Tw in Falls Park in Idaho. The UA L pilot, copilot and stew ­ ardess, w ho had scoffed consistently at “flying saucer" tales, said they saw such objects last night w hile flying a passenger plane from Boise, Idaho, to Portland. Their statem ents follow ed a day during w hich the "saucers” w ere reported seen in m any parts of the Nation. M any Portlanders—including po­ lice, experienced flyers and three new spaperm en—declared they saw lilvery discs over Portland. I In New O rleans, M iss Lillian Law ­ less said she saw an object, shining nke silver or chrom ium , flying at a great height and at a terrific speed in a northeasterly direction over Lake Pontchartrain. "Pancake Standing on End.” Describing w hat they saw as flat, translucent plates 12 to 15 inches in diam eter, several Port Huron (M ich.) residents reported seeing the “saucers.” Capt. E. J. S m ith, S eattle, a vet­ eran of 14 years w ith United A ir Lines, said he observed the round flat objects—“like a pancake stand­ ing on end”—for about 12 m inutes ,w hile flying from Em m ett Idaho, to a point southeast of O ntario, O re. He radioed the O ntario airport but airport officials saw nothing. , S ixty persons picknicking at Tw in Falls Park, near Tw in Falls, Idaho, said they saw the discs yesterday afternoon. A party of seven first saw som e and 10 m inutees later, i a crow d of 20 or 30 people saw an other batch of nine or ten. W ort passed around, and soon the w aiting crow d saw another batch circling and clim bing. A t S eattle, Frank R ym an, Coast Guard yeom an, said he took a picture of w hat som e residents north of S eattle thought w as a flying disc. The photograph show ed a pinhead­size light spot against the dark evening sky. The O regonian dispatched a plane to hunt Portland's saucers. It found nothing but em pty sky. Strange Craft Over Philadelphia. In Philadelphia. Dr. M . K . Leis , a junior interne at the Pennsylvania Hospital for M ental Diseases, and other persons in the w estern sec­ tion of the city, reported seeing strange craft in the skies last night. It w as som ething round w ith a lum inous halo about it, Dr. Leisk declared. It w as not shiny, but dark in color and seem ed to be propelled by w hirling w ings. Dr. Leisy said the object he saw w as m oving at approxim ately the speed of the w ind, below the clouds, it eventually vanished in the clouds, he added. A dispatch from S um m erside. Cana, said farm ers in the Prince Edw ard Island region claim to have seen m ore of the m ysterious disc­ like m issiles reported flying through northern skies earlier this w eek. Jam es Harris, farm er at S ha - brooke, 1 m ile north of here, an I his hired m an, Herm an Linklette , said they saw one of the objec k last night traveling from the north­ w est tow ard the southeast. M r. R osen M r . Tr a cy M r. Carson M r, Egan M r. Gurnea M r. Harbo M r. Hendon M r. Jones M r. Pennington_ M r. Quinn Tam m _ 11 "1 »8 190 M 41347 / WASHINGTON STAR Page..—JkiT M r. Tolsoe B; ■