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Pitest Finds 'Whirring·' Disc s?'' Mr. He ndon
Mr. Penn ington_
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In. Yard and Holds It for FBI ~ Mr.
Chicago, July 6 (U.Pj.-A Catho• FBI oftice ~:iid he hadn't lw:3rd
. . ~ - d yet about the d1,{' lmt that an offi-
~pnes~ at Gnfton, Wis., sa1 cial ,•f!~rl might be a.!Jj~ce.
l tonight th a 1·ound, ffl'e~sc.l 1he flying discs ha, e been re
wiilch..,.m1g ,e nneo-Y'tlw-Tll'l'i:tcr• po1·tcd "~een'' by pers,ms ill 30
ious \'Jlyi:n!t u rs:-l'ra'd'_:-crnstred States. l>ltt Brasky's disc was the
Tnto 1\S P• ' •b~•r,.r anc ftiiit'_Jic tirbl one that actuall~• had been
18 oldln 7frer the ffw.ral found-if that is whal wa· found .
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J seplfi! t hm·ch at Grafton_. 45 unsuccessful speed oash in an a\•
I 1 Hes ,,c ·th of :\lilwaukce, said _he tempt to track uo\\ t one o( the!
eard swishing ~nd wlurnng discs and the Army and scit'i\fo;LSI ~
(11oise ~hi~ morning. A second later.l 50ught to ascerta111 \\hether coM'·
he 1,:ud, he hea1·d a thud and alto-coast l'cporls a icut the d1sc,-
1mild explosion. zooming lb.rough t:1e sky were fact
He in\'estigaled and found a or fancy.
~heel metal disc !\bout 18 inches in Army planes scoured the north-
diameter, resembling a circularlwest Pacific skies for them without (
saw blade. success today and one "eyewitness"
•·Tlte object ,-till was warm,1 even reported ha, illf. seen one of j"
weighed about four or five pounds the disc~ take off in Arizona. A
and was about one eighth of an St. Louis railroad man exhibited
inch thick," he said. some paper "discs·• he ~aiil he had
1 There was a hole about one seen floating over St. Louis.
, inch in diamete1· in tbe middle o( . •
the disc, he said, and in the open- The flymg saucers which ha,·e
Ing were •·gadget~ and some been reported ~}timming tlu·ough
wires.'' • Amedca's skin at speeds up lo
The priest ~aid l\e did not know l200 mile!I have elucled the usual
\ i { his disco~ery. were important \lJ keen eye of radar.
a • whethe1•. 1t ~ugllt be an _e1ab- Capt. Tom Bi·own of the Army
,rate p1·achcal Joke. He s~hc Air Forces public relations st f
:md nQiilled the 'FBI or"Jii~,,.d.,
J:f.""K. Johnson 0£ the ~mw,m~ee See SA\TCERS, Page 3, Col.
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sa~~\\.ard w Rlakeslee, A :soci-
ated Prl'ss i-cieuce editor. sal i the
~aid the Army Airway~ Comm um- 1n tbe v.ue 01 we e nr.,w,.e~ t- whole business may be an orUcal
. . ] ,tness accounts came a new ~enes -~. .
cations Service had reported ate i comment~ and «-xplanatiuns, but illusion. . .
yestHday that ,o far IL~ rada.r most or them were tinged with a •·At a~r .distance .,,1~1ch 1~ close
scopes throughout the country slight tendency to laugh off the to thr l11111l of ho,~ far a person
have been .unable to. pick up any lwhole thing. ca11 ~ee," hi' ,uote, "~11 obJ.~cl,s
stra11ge obJecls In ~ltgbt. Dr. Winfred Overholser. nation• app, ar round or near!) ~o. I h '
And in the Pacific Northwest- ally known psychiatrist and super• law of sight covers bolh smi:11
where most of the fl~-happy plat-lintendent of St. Elizabetbs Hos- h I \ 5 seen nearby and large
ters have been r.eportid-the Ai·mylpital here, said it "has some of the t g . ,
has radar equipment which ~an earmarks of being national hys- at gre •l di st an<" •
pierct> fog and darkness and pick teria." "Tht> ont> out~tand111g fact 11hout
up objects in the sky 200 miles "Everytime someone come, up ,•irtually all the ~au,·ers is that
a,, ay. with a sea-!<erpent ~ton·." said Dr. d ~truclure - they
.t.Hn so. B10\\n acknowledged Overholser, "other~ with vivid they ha no •
that the Air Jo'orces had decided imal(inations are .sure they ha,1' seemed merely round and flat.
"there's something to thi!!" andlscen the same thing. That de~<'l'iption fit~ exactly with
had been ehe~klng It f~r 10 days. "The critical faculty ln m~n, thel the trick~ that eyes play. 'l'hi~
"And we still haven t the i.llght- Ja~t one he recewed, 1s shll nott . . . .
est idea what they could be," he vei-v well developed. Scratc-h the tnckme~s varies. with d_lfference!
added. surface and you find the s~e mas• in weather an_d hghlmg. .
And a ne\\ wrinkle-the rcp~rt.· hysteria w~ich prrdominat,ed dur- 1 Howe~er, !'.ova Ha.rt. St. L~.ub
ed landing of a fleet of eight bktm- ing thP witchcraft scare. Some ,mechanic who was 11 amed du1 ing
ming platters-was reported from , persons are quite ready to scr service in the war to spot all types
Idaho in full view of 10 per~ons. A. thing~ and follow beliefs." of aircraft, yesterday offered a
Dishman. Idaho housewife, said Dr. Overholser •aid that ,1 hen minute descdption of one o( the
she and 0U1e1-s In her party had he made his roun<l~ or the mental flying patterns whkh he claimed he (
seen the saucer~ land on a moun- patient, yesterday at St. F.liza- ~aw flying at an altitude oC about!
tainside near Sl. Maries, Idaho. I beths not a one cC1mmented on the 300 feet.
he said they came into view at flying saucers sto•y. Reporter Rees One
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a extreme ~pee.d, suddenly slowed. "I think they may ~e a little
a then "fluttered like leaves to skepticaf." he adUl d.
t ground.''
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He described it a~ clrcular with
a ribbed framework and silver
to~1·eve~. Dr. O~•erl_1olser ~aid h~ gray in color. He said it appear('d
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The mysterious part wai; th w . 11 t trymg to dmni~s the mattei to have a motor with a propeller
we couldn't se~ them after th a a Joke ''becaus..i the.re arc ~0 attached in the center and that It
landed." she said. •·we coul_d ,t any strange thi~!{~ gomg ,?n to- kept. turning Jike an airplane do•
them flutter down lnto the limb. ~• t~at one can , be sure. 1. ing a slow roll.
:,et \\e couldn't see that they did ~f l, Alexander P. de Sever••y. \ \.It hough ma n y explanations
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anything to the trees." no d aircrart designer, told 'he ha~·e been offered. none has bel'~
She said she hoped to hike h~to Po l hy telephone from New ork ciwinciug. A Los Angeles news
the \lmbe1· tomorrow and search th unhl he ,l'e, a flying ~aucer p. per quoted an unnamed nuclea
fo1• the objects which sh~ said were he •·wouldn't like to •pa~~ judg- p ysicist as saying the silveq- di~c
saucer-shaped but resemoled wash- " r ulled from e:,pcnments m th.
tubs more than disks and were ment. .. ransmutation o( a,omic energy.''
"about the size o[ a five-room Ile agreed wi I h Dr'.' OverholRer '\ Thi~ report wa\ rapidly herded
house." that mu<'h H not all of the story into the hoax .::olumn by Davld
Locally. Hazen Kennedy of 2615 may be because uf hysteria. Lilieuthal. chairman of the Atomic
Uh st. ne. reported he had seen "After all,. he said •·we are ' Energy Commi~s,on.. an.d ~everal
one passing over the :-;ortheast ' . ' . . ,. prominent atomic &c1ent1sts, •
section of the city at about 8:40 mo~·e or less an hflile~1e~l Nation. Starr l'xpects Word
p. m l\~aJor de Sever~l<y n1d 1t was p~s- 1 Loui~ E. Staie, national com-
This would be the first one re- s1ble that the per~ons who claim ~ mandei· or the Vetrran~ of 1''ore1g11
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ported O\'er the DiSlrict, alt ugh to have seen the aerial dis<.'s have Wars, announced Saturday at Co•
others have been repo1·tcd oYer
nearby Maryland. instead glimpsed the exhaust of )umb~;• Ohio. that .~e ~vas expett-
Kennedy, who has 125 hours jet-propelled planCF mg mo~entari\y rnformat1on
· · t d t ·1 l ·n Ile conceded too , that they from Washington Y.hkh would ex
flymg timeAi~sFa. s u tenhi p1 o d\' might be guided missiles let loo~e ph,:n the dashing.discs. But the
the Army l 01ees o s ere 1 ·, . .• messa!(e never arnvcd.
~aid he belle\'ed the saucer be as part of an expeumenl, but
• " . 11, addtd· 1'he A'1r F 01ce~. sa1'd th a t Gc n•
had seen was traveling at we ' • Cnrl Spaatz Air Force« chief was
over" 1000 miles an hour at an "I don't think the Government in the Pa~ifie 1'.orth~est \~here
al\itude o! between 1200 and 1500 would fire th em so pr~nuscuousl>·· most of the saucers have been re
fert. !hey would lest them. 111 one spot. ported, but added that hi~ trip
"The best way T can describe It," I III an 1so_lated ar~a. like the) did tllere was planned two months
~aid Kennedy, "was that it looked 1the a\omic bomb,,' ago, long before the ,aucers scare.
like an orange lamp bulb without )laJ. Gen. Curt1~ E. Le)~ay. who General Spaatz is expected back in
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the socket. It was going faster than a~ Deputy Chief of Air Staff for 'J'ashington late tomorrow.
any jet, plane I've eve1· seen." Rescar~h and Deveio~ment would :'.\luroc Army Ail· Field in Call-
11 Ha,zerstown, ~id.. Mrs. J\taj kno_w 1f lbe ~aucers mvolv.cd. ex- i'urnia had a P-80 je~ fighter stanw
n Ganoe, 30, ~aid sl1e had ~e<' perunents \11th gmded 1nlss1les, Lig by, and the National Guard
t. e of the discs, racin& in 2-1 commented:
•mation at "lenific speed," fro
<'rcgon had prepart'd six regul r
"Whatever these people have fighters tn give chase shou :I
e1· backporch. ''They sounded Ii' seen it hasn't been anyth111~ re- sai•ccn be reported nearby, •
a faraway ll'ain,'' she said.
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BI SPECIAL MESSENGER
August 5, 1947
Director of Intelligence
War Department aeneral Stat!
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Attention: Colonel L. R. Forney, Chief, Security Group
John Edgar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau ot Investigation
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Someone's Pipe Drearn'
The "flying saucer" that fell
near 2319 Himebaugh Avenue
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dream." /
So says Dr. C. L. Kenny, head
of the chemistry department at
the Creighton College of Den
tistry. He had two students an
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dium, Potassium, iron, alumi
n..im, carbonate, suiphate and I.Ill•
bul'~_carbon, he said.
' ~nis is the same analysa ;vou
would get from ordinary pJpe to-
bacco,'' Dr. Kenny said. .
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Federal Bureau of Investiga~ion
U.~. Dept. o~ Justice Bldg .
WAshi~fto~, D. C.
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July 11, 1947.
- Dear Sir:
Have you seen one of the mysterious "Saucers"?
What did it look like?
Do you think these strange, celestial manifesta
tions are harbingers of a better day?
Do you believe it means that a new and revolutionary
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Will it make your life brighter, happier, more
useful?
We believe one of these startling discs is on its
way to you. Then the secret will be out.
The Combined and Amalgamated Committee
of Sky-Scanners, Disc Decipherers and
New-Product Introducers.
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Milwaukee Office concerning the United Press item appeari~ in the Ill' , l i e U . : - - -
Washington Post for Mond~, July 7, with reference to a flying disc
or flying sau
Reverend Josep
allegedly reported to the Milwaukee Office by
asky of st. Joseph's Church, Grafton, Wisconsin.
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SAC Johnson advised that the Associated Press and the Unittod
Press between the hours 1:00 and 6:00 a.m. tod~ had made inquiry 01£
him as to whether anything had been reported to the Milwaukee Offic e,
He declined to comment. He stated as a matter of fact the priest haa
not made aey contact with him, and he learned from the Associated Press
that the priest was intoxicated and as far as the Associated Press was
concerned they were not releasing the story because all that· was involved
was a circular saw. Mr. Johnson stated the Milwaukee Sentinel apparently
sent the report out and that they handled United Press service. He stated
a photograph of the priest was in this morning's paper holding a circular
saw which apparently covers the body of the priest from arm pit to arm pit.
Attached to the saw are several wires and two small tubes described as
about three inches long and one inch in diameter. The news i tern in the
Milwaukee Sentinel indicates it was believed some prankster had thrO\'fn it
into the yard, perhaps with a firecracker attached. Mr. Johnson stated the
Milwaukee Sentinel had stated the priest would make a report of this matter
today to the Milwaukee Office. I instructed SAC Johnson in the event the
priest made a report to furnish details of the report immediately, but in
view of the nature of the information in his possession, no inquiry should
be conducted at the present.
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,\ lot of Tcx:•n~ arp ,h,k gnl'l- lt "a,; the first time th1· arnal
! e<l 1\it h thr tly111g- saucrl',,, hut chjPct,:; were 1cporh•d i n t hat a
otl1P1;; are ju.,! plain diid,-tnrbed: iea, Residents of the Brn:-lr}~
!'lying balls of fire circled a Cn•ck <·ommunity. l.'> miles nortl:
sceo11(I t•mc in the p:1,t r wide area arot,nd 'Palestine, and ea,t of Pal 0 :::tine. c:1lled ~heriff
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I E0lll" uerrror.~. bclievin1t t he end Stan t'or<l about 8 :30 las!. niglit,
of t he world wa;:; near, bcgau ;;n_v111g- 12 h:ill~ were flying- in a
praying, A white man grabbed <;traight Iinr m·Pr the community.
1olnstic ,ll'l l11w1. a rifle and shot at the myste1·- Thrn, thev r('porte<l. thP hnlls
·t to a<'hie, e h1111~rt f 11a~
ioi•s o1:ijects. formc>d a ci11'\r ,..bieh bc,g-1111 mov
111 .\.nthnn, Mat·b~k, Yoa SIH'riff Paul ~;tanford of An- ing toward P11le,-tine.
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imp11,;nnment ot ]O rears, H<'~ord- Her hnsband nnd Lee C'h:n·er,
n11111g· contest,, is not hi11g in~· In 1\ssistant LTnite<l S i nlPS shot II box of .22 rifle b•tllr>ts
n Onrni,,, whn, in ,19 lli, 11011 D1,;t rirt Att01·1wr .Ioseph .W ('ash. without a.ny rfl'c>C'I on t he ohje(•ts.
1 tr1nl pig with ai1 (•s~ay II tla pre~P11t 111,rster~ ot tly- Mrs. Va lentine said n eighbor-
,} in the SrR1!'<-R0thuck •m1-1 in~ d1,h an, ,·01111P••ted "itlt 1a- ing ll€'!-!O families thouf,ht the
I
\[!nin, in 1-'ehruary HJU, he dar or a:mdPi m1,,1lr experi111l!nls,
,d n <-!Ill' rn 1hr I-Iallelt-,·illr thr lnw mtg-ht upply, hp sa id.
I wo1ld was comJng t-0 an end ,
!Ind began praying as the balls
('lnh Show, nnd out ol' 12 Th" lan ap1,li!'s whelh1·r thC' of fire gamboled overhead.
nwarrlP1( Ji,, took f1 I th infm mu.lion i, r1 J,,:ised 11r•1•1denl ~I rs. LorPJh '-hradN-, Bi~
ally, "through ~ross negligC'nrP, · · F'.1Hinc:s reportrd ,,he saw II fi,,y
,. Hrenek 1,; ~,1eet Jlomr,'s or •• 11 ith intent to injurp the C- red hall str('aking overhead la;t
nistrrss. rnfrd States or nirl \OIJlP rorP1g n nig ht.
natioll," aecordini:: to lhP ;H·t. J frs. Marian Heed, fam1 wife,
Thi' ,\tomir hnPrc,· .Act or J()46 ro1111d what sh" bclieYed was p.nt
Growing rrnv1drs eYen ,tri, !Pr pt"ltaltic;; ol II fl) ing <li.,k. ft landed in hc·r
for n•Yca!i·ng info rmation, J\lr. ba<'k yard while s he was hangill~
Cash b,llrl . P nblie• Law 58!5 ol' !lie onr thr clothe<; vester da v 11l'!er-
8c,·rnt~·-Ninth Congress pn idc::. noon. 8he adn;ittPd she wa<,
death or life impri~onm!'nt, niter frightrnPrl. She iies<',-ibed it ti ~ a
due pror-e"s of lil\\, for disl'lo~ing rom1d piece ot tinfoil Pight inch
mateurs' Display atom,c• 1nformatio11 with intr·nt to <'S wi,ie, ;;corc!IC'd or burni>d a•
in,iurc t he CnitPd ~tates. 1·01mf! tlw NlgPs. Both sides Wl're
For 11r<'idental disclo,mn•,- a shiny, hut one sirlP w·as m.nkcd
cellenl Forn1 , flU<' of 11p to lt\20.000 rtllll llll with hlnck. <.t1•w•ilPel line; 11 n•nll'
prir,onmcnt 11p to 20 ~-r,ns are !t-r•lll<'h ap111 I. She sa1tl th(!· t.il'
prm·iclerl, Mr. Cash pointP<l out. foil cll'oppc>d ctrnight dowll from
1k11m scflhnll teams r-ho1Y:.-<l ----►-- tltr i;k,v.
Gas TruekHI"ts
of good pla~ mg 111 th<' g.1 1w•, She lifted it with a stick, 1ntt
rl nt the Bnllrlng- 8t:ul111111 it in a tin rnn. and !lrove, fi,·e
mill's to nunte1·, 20 milt•;; , omh-
•:• 'cam,. org11ni,;e<l hi' ,·nr-
lll! chant,, 111d l'"U~Cl·IIS in
L ISt ti• oca a on
wrst of Shermnn. Score,, crowd<!d
abont lo ::;ep ii.
At \JpJissa, Collin County, .Mrs
, 111 I' ~ompo ~ t ot tJ11•111l>rr, j .. \la,w Killian an<l .Mrs. Kay Craft
1natPnr "tnnding- who ha,•n 1 --- ..~ -- rrporte<l seeing- a stran~e object
~mnc prniu11~ rx pcriener with A gu ,<>line t t·,ul!'t' truck 01 th~ at 8 :40 p. m. :vestcrday.
I ] pf or :whr.ol h.111 pl:t\ int~- Trxn~ r'on,;ohdai rd Transpot't Co. Ch:nl"s Calhoun, and his f:tth-
r\, 1·, uime ol' tlH' pla\c1·.s 1311 into a hcaYy rnpe 11vniJ1t 111 Pr, \V. .T. Calhoun, prominent
hown '<ttr h ''"Jl"rt h.tll h 0 1\1 of Rolrnn 'i; ~eiTi'<'P i:;tntHm Grn~ ,on County farmer,. said
lhng and q,ortsman,;h• p thut \I'Jn:I,,_,, rlorng "'"111f' damagP to t hl'v '-IIW a <li~k ye;;terday near
hard 1 ,. h l' ill•\·p l he,· :n " 1101 th,· stnl 11.n and mn,·e to tht Sh(•rninn. I
<- ,.••wna1.. nnl er l'1•lC" '1lw , j trnrk. - -- -<- -
chnl'Jt, "ho ,1 q.:.inJ?~d • th• l>l' Tfip 1r11rk w:i, r<'m•ni-:- from
::rfl <'frtamh dcing th<·ir ·town. alon:::- "·et c-:-iand. nnrl
f• to,nn<l Jnm·irl,nc- H'tn•ntinn turnerl mto tll!' i;lation. ,\,, ti)('
lilil's for t he ymmg- prop[p of dJ'i t·e'I' ('Ill t h!' <•n h hR<'k to s \\ ini~
Cuero Residents
rmnmnnity, ao,l aiP to hP t br I r11i lf'r into pn.-1tiou, th<• !'!lb
ph111eutcd •011 thPir fuw 1,mk. skidd,•d into tl•r i:;feel pip~ roof
er 'lnrr!'hants or e•onrNn., who ~npport on the r11~l~1 of thn I r1H'k.
See Flying Disc
t n oi·gamzc• a !(>am m•iy rc>ml111~ it r:?ustrlPrabl.,. The C'uc-ro has finally- produced n s
n ull t he plll'ti<•ulars r:, 0 111 trnC'k tl:;1•lf ~n ti <' l'rd a bent hum first flying d is,•.
ph ~Jr.\[a"trr nf the F irPslonc per and a ~nu1slw l feodrr A It wn~ reportl'rl b? Mrs. r'. W .
'>11 Lott Strpet. or ltom gn~ohuf• pump din•l'lly belunrl the Haak of 410 <:;to<'kdale str eet, ntid
I
H. l. )hClenr 'on at L:i"k 's UJ>ll!!ht was net damag-c<l by the hot h ,he and hPr hni!band saw it.
o~infr 8 tcre on \\"r,;;t Grnnd. cra:;h. However, ::\fr,,. Haak ·s flynlg
ho.vs 01· mPn " ishing- to piny ,.__ - - - - disr is no partir11la r myster y l o
om, of thr> fra'lls mav make hC'r. fthr thi•nk,; she k nOWi ,l11s r.
lication at ,hP J'irC'~to~e Stor 0 •
k's, Hohan 's ,;;:;c1 viee Station,
Hamilton's .Jr11 rlr1· StorP, cle
Lions To Make 1.-hat causcJ it.
It l\l.ts simply a reflection froni
an 11irplane, shC' said.
din,e- on the pl11~·r;· 's choi<'r of
earn to plav with. Thl're i~
plrnt:, ot re>o111 for r,001
Farmer Award ----
Rit ting on the 11orch with her
hn"-band about 4 p:m. Run<la~',
)Ir,. Haak said she h(•a1·,I a
l r~. so anynnr intPie,ted is 'l'hr I.ions Clnh Im-; annonnr P<l ~trange noise from the sk~·. and.
"d lo contart one of t h,'llf' tki1 al its rrg·nlar noon n1r Pti11~ lookPd np. 80011 nu air planp ,,,1u1e
ns. Tuc~duy, .Tnly l .'\lh, it wi ll pre- into i-irw, high in 1he cl oud~. I t
)11J•; 0 11e ::ame 1~ ce · r· .
1 1111 1", 1 1~
'>f'l1t to LcC' Pan:-111,11111 of Hontc was , r1T small h 11t p lai nlr <li-.
.
~d I ., f t k l tl • 1·), tlw phqn" for f. ht• Outsta11elm2: rrrnablc as a plane, i:he -;11id. h
, n eu or nrx we"', an, ia 1 1 . •
"[ I
" OJH av ma:
~l •
II(' , o r,, 11'1
• ht
, w 11en
Tl ,.
·11 t "Ilg'I~ WI-11I I11C
I
w 1• 1r,•- B .
Fann• 1· for th" \[tcl<tle Gnattnh1pr was roming from thp east.
• . , .
aslll 801I Ccn,P 11·:•llon Du,t :·1ct.
. . 80011 it turnfd nor t h, a nd ,i,1~t
zalr>, Dr. l'E'('J'l'I,. Tue• da\' 'rhp plaq11r 1s gi1· '11 1'11<'11 : ('Ill' aftrr tha t a p:->1·fr~t disc 11•11,-, \·i,;
11t f,Qek · , \ 0<''R!t' ,,(nrc will to thr• llu·,,wr lr<nn Parh ('<>11 <'l' ihlP snmr di:<fan<'e from wh,,..,~
y, h11t then· npp'•nent h:i- not 1 ,·atiun <listrirt "ho_ has rontnhut tl•e pl11110 disappenred' into the
n n11 111r d ,·rt. ,\ L,o, on 'fht1,·s-1 eel 1110.,t to thr ,oil ronsP1Tali.01i clo11<ls.
11i·•hi th~ F in• f1111p tt-nm 11ill r roj,•rff, i11 t he pa rli rular d ii,t 1irt. Tlw disc Hppt·art>c1 bl'i<:1·t and
in 7,111y a !! 1)11( hut no ll'illll Th(• 1\1 .,nl is spn11 01 c,1 b,\' II 1111 111- n•1'.\ ,1h·prr. It apptal·od •o 1',,
hrrn state,l to oppo <' t hun brr of 01~am;:at,ons, amon~ th m small<'r in s1w tlun1 an orl.in"l:'
( l ,. l riday night of' this \\!•Pk, the I u,n,- Cluh, ot the> Yan1111:s ,tl'0 rtng wh•·el of a C'.ll. hlr~.
,·mw 1. di ); , plnvrcl, hul t !Jp tow 11 .,. :,:;, 11rr t II<' I.ion.., ,lo play 1111 H n:tk rP pcrtcd . It ~•·emefl to b~
n, ,,ho ,1il l p;•rtiripatc- Jwv,· arlivP pn rl in sponsorina- t his 11 '' flon I i ng' ' acr,,;;, t he he·1Y"lls.
hl'!'II Ji.,trd ,rt. ward, tl,c !oral dnh is g-i, c•n lhP <.;lJp <·alk<l hrr husban,I •~ :t:
ht•sr• i::-ames 11ill start ahm,l prh il, ~1• ot pn•:sf'lll in:.: the• plaqu~ teuti(•ll to it. Th<'r both "!I" i:.
to )Ir. Pargrnann. i\ I!Pr about fh <· H~OtHh th()
1',I< h 1.ight. I·,\ 1•1:,:011(' i~ I 11
HP]l l l'SC'll tatl\'('~ or thr Soil ('on dis,· wa, gon<". T h plane a nd th'.l
l to c·omc ancl f'hcrr for his
I, :,{ o Jdt.,is~i< 11 \\ ill hr 1•h11 r 0 •
-,errnt io11 Rerv i,·" " ill be> Jtr,'s!'III so1111d rli-.appru1'Pd
to mnk,, ,;horl C'!'ll!!JiltnlatotY 11ml -'In,. Haak i~ ,·onvincNl th:'!
rxplanatory ~pf1t'r•hPs on th;, gn llyin;.• !Hmc·er ,, ·1s reflecl~•d f ..oll\
i11!! ol the• an1111al award. the airplane. This theory al,o h:,s
,UIUTY MAN beeu n,h ancecl h,v othei·s.
HE HERE p•irpos,• of rr<'Pi,·i11~ 1·lai111s and Tlw flying· ,Ji,;c· my~tcry h11s the
,lisr·n~~in~ O(rl .\~<· :111,f S111:nH>1·,; j •1ati'.m in a. ditlH'r ''.·ith H'port;
11. l};n i~. I iii f reprr.s,•11t ;,- ln,m1111u·,· with nil who wish to r·n111rn~ trom all s<·d10ns 011 the
1 Han t\11 lon10 Hocial S1·•·11- confild h1111. s t ra n~(• ohjects. ;\I n;. Hank 's <'X-
1Tie·P, " iJJ hp i11 Yoak um nl Jh11 is will 110t ht• ah!<' f o 1'11r- pla'nal iou i~ a:; n•asonablr as any
tv Hal! at n::10 a .111 .. ,,·(•<! ni,-,h iulonuation e·m1('tT11i11g Olcl y<-1 ]Hit fortl1. :ind may he the
• July 23, l!H7, for the Age A:s~i:stauce pcn:siou,,. [ ::.olutiou to the '' viwuouwuou, ''
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Yoakum
YOAKUM
., IJOW CAN
1-{ERALD - TIMES
owned t,y
Br WAY
!\1ALEC PUBLISHING CO. - Ev W. M. - Norman Thomas
<lt)SEPH J. l.U.LEC, , r~ ~ . debate about Kussia,
1
Editor-Manager ~. ; ¥ " ' - . . t ) ~ ::i~ ~ mas quest10ns gav~
!.argc;,t g-ui.rameed circulation of,1 John L. Lewis calls the,
.ny :publication in tbis section. new labor law a •·slave law" I "T seriously ques
.:erald Est. - - - - - -1807 ' T J. t b I ested in world domina
·.:.'in,es Est. - - - - - -18\12 j 'he ~ig _ruS t s_ Iiad u nd0u t- ing to rehabilitate the
•• • d at ect O<:t . .,z5, 1 9,;,o
,,or,;-;on , , edly. the same idea about .the 1I, says Wallace, J·ust \'/Ill
E:~osc,fiption Ra,,e ___ -$2.50 1 anti trust laws when first I Wh
Pr,blisl,ed cvny Tuesday and Fri- introduced. And what are ths I'J at hadppehnctdt
"ay i ·rung 810 310 L 0 t' ~• ...ungary, an w a r
u ur.
:for:k~..~- •fexas.
- • "' l . . . ., trusts comnared
. ;.,:-
to the
.
harm ' t "l •
. I coun ry, .,,10uld be b a
t
C11~cr:.:ng Lavll.ca an., v1tt , the umons Clill do with tJ1eir what the Reds
., D e \.... • say' 1
Cou11tieo. strikes? "And, on:!e agai
" f . ,,
..;r.ter~;t as sec"nd-class ma.L:ter at~
!'lie Post Cft:ce, Yoakum, Texas, ' If the aew labor laws ference hetween the
of Hitler Gennany,
mder the Act of March 3, HW'l. t are "slave .:aw~", so are
in g.'.>vernment struc'
WIIEN' ADVERTISING crncu- J the anti-trust laws and aa.y
LA'I',OH OOUNTS - TRY THE 1 0U1e1· laws fior the p1·-0tec ·w hat Hitler stc
HERALD-Tl.MES. simi;le, and far mon
___ ........_ _ _ I ticn ot people agarllSt a
age. But when Russia
POLITICAL buses by any gl'Oup. So far the same.
, the people were utterly
_L\.NNOUNCEMENTS ! helpless against the lab0tr As to Russian tac
For Sana.tor, 18th Dist.
, power. they don't difier grea
JOHN J. BELL * l'J -~ When independence is
and maintained in -Gr,ee
MOTIRIS ROBERTS l Such labor dictators as ing to Wallace's reasor
- - - - - - - - - - - - - , Lewis, Petrillo, others, have
~~~ 1 a far gr.eater power to harm But since the Rec
,vE SPECIALIZE tlus country than the British mocracy, it's very sim1
to suit the purpose. E,
1l1 king ever had. This is juSt Moscow's fifth column,
\Vhisldes, Wines I as unfolerable today as it
was then. . Wallace talks of h,
, a1,d Gins I * r:~ ,,. s1stance and sincere pl1
R. :: • DARLING I La.st Sunday was, for the '- peor le " How ca n. W a 11
t- •
P ACKJ~GE STORE British, a nat10nal 'Day of Russia will take ,
1
~ra.!!ftm£!1Xlrfi:a:n:i~ni:ltii. ,P·~~~r '1') ~ kini wjth Prima without changing in ti
1
-- ·~-- • I Minister Attlee and other 1Anct now can 11e 'Lct.:i'll. -. 0
-• • govel'nment leade:'s went to when there cannot be
Chas. Micek St. Paul's Cathedral to pr~y less, ~~iceles~, and cut I
Your WATKINS with the natwn for help m any Inendsh1p reach t
City Dealer ' these ominous times. 1 Wallace is not sc
Phone 599-W "' ~ .,. d I polities evidently mea1
Not s.o tong ago Englau helping to divide Ame1
, went tlmough the most most.
r.nll
_uiU,• I de.sperate sb·uggle iu her·
• lnil.ill ' wlrnie history. The peace
~ - - - - ~ - j! is not yet establishe.1 ani
by building your
e\'cn a greatel' mcnac~
I
threatens the people ,of
Mont Man Wii
• • Eagland and elsein,here to
new home of firesafe j whom f.reedom m€a',1S so
j much. In a great da.nge1·
Truck Award
COICBETE brave pe~~•f,~a to G-0d. The ohLst • C';<'n;l~•t t1·
qwration in thP t'JJitcd
·A house of whatever archi~ I
Here, -too many do notl rnrcn,! in the rcrent co1
tectural style or floor plan fitg I fully realize today's danger.· a mm 1-ton rnodd. The ,
your family requirements will _We suffered comparatively 1rll(•k was lrnilt o'n Oct,
have lpng~r life, lower main- I little and the H.ed threa,t ~,91~. i1_1 ~'htnokt's C
tenance cost and greater fire• seems to be distant. But 'altrornw p!Hnt.
~ safety if it has concrete walls : that does not minimize it. . Tiu, tl'llek i·, owned aud
~d subftoors and a firesafe 'W need to ra~e the menac-9' bv "\fi-. l.(-- Ju, A. :Storey,
I _e . I .1fo11t;n1a; and tlic tntr:v ,,
roof. Le~ 'u~ tell you how to I with the same seriousness. mitted thn,n"h Pionu 1.
get such a -house bui\t now • the British ~eople with their; the Cbcnolc:; dealer in tl
using our quality te~t.ed leaders manifested last Sun- whic-h 1 locatcJ in om S.1
concrete bto.::k. day. For, we cannot c~cape 1I~ ity 7.c11e.
F.& :in:. Concrete it. I 'l')!f> 1',innEr's ]11'17.(' of
* l'"'! * ,Aclvancc-Dcsian ChPYrokt
Products It cannot be ~aid anymore i11·il! be i;res;nt('d to ,\fr.
Yoakum. Texas that the stories of the "fly- b:,- Ch<• 1·rolet :.\fotol' DiYisi,
, ino· disks" is mec·e fiction. :liore 1 ha 11 l3flU? Ch
!!'----t..::,.ffll"-"'l::;,u, c "' . tYncks WNC entcrcJ trow 1
, -. :.. I One disk was found by a tions ol' thP nation, ;.id
~lG i':l. t?i' •• J.le.11 - Phcne 831 I ~elly man, near. Houston. On j hroad pnhli,: iutt rc,;t . . I'.ntl
1t was a warnmg about its dudr-d mor(> tl1a 11 50 191D
DR. (.~ R. TUBBS I military secret and that the ~till iu orr\atio11, rnan~ d i
I Army Air Force at Spokane, 1\\'ere mau_n1artnred. on_ly ,
v·er~dnarian , ·washino-ton be notified at , mon•li~ a1 lc•r the wmmn,.:-
I
1 "" • , TliP lar•-. 1nrn1b<•1· of
tarre an~ Small Animals once.
*:J! 'P,\ I
' t111, lu; cn1 cred L1 th<' be arc'
0
t1_n.phn,;i:'.e., the qm.Jity an~
I
Offi.;e Phone 831 So the mystmious disks !ht1i!y of C'lwnoll't ln:d,~
Resid~v•-f. !'.none 749-W are not messen?ns from
l Ou~.:, - 'foxas J; 1\-J.ars ,or some other star.
Nor are they m i s s i I e s \1 - ■-■■I
,.
t1tu:u:a:u:e:u:n:nxu:n:u:e:u:a:s:n:u:11:u:8:I~ \ which Red Russia is al-
ready showering upon us.
1
'■
She'll Never Forget with are They our own secrets
which o u r armed
THIS GIFT forces are experimeD'ti,11.
What proµels them? How
far can they fly? What is
tlheir purpose? -That is a
mighty sec<ret.
I M
It is a French paper in
* lt'l * ■ Just
I Paris that claims that Ame-
rica has a far more destruc-1
--...:
l
tive bomb than any ever in-1
• vented before. In on~ blow it
Men
could destzoy all of Paric;;
or Moscow. This is also con
firmed by Robert l\1. Hut
chins of the University of
Chicago, familiar with what
C
•
See Us For goes on here. We can thank
only the good P~·oviden(•e
QUALITY MERCTE' AJ\TnTSE -- that this immense power is in I
EXPF RT WATCH our hands. ,, r ,,, I
REPAIRING Writes John Fisher in hisl
book "Why They Behavel !
YOf
HAlVIILTON
JEWELRY
Yoakum ~ a deplorable I
Like Russians": "Offici'ally
religion is still regarded as
superstition,
l!i and .church-goers can never
~ ~ l : t ~ hope to gain admittance to 1
the Communist Pa1:t,y.''
Hornee Wimbe:dy, Jc Yet what do you find in Lava
Lawyer this country'? -:Even cer
tain church leaders ihave The
Offices now in 'l'h
only praise fnr the very ... _ e
Yoakum National rule which exchtdes a
Bank Building
Phone 50
Christian, but they con~
demn their fellow Chris
tians, instead of the Reds.
•••••
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MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS
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This Paver Is Connected With NCWC Washington New• He:,.dquarters by Direct Leased Wire, Hao International News
Service Daily Wires, Its Owl! Special Service, Religious ,News Service, Inter-Catholic Press Agency, Lumen Service of Chin.a,
Fide• Service, Religious News Photos, International Illustrated News, NCWC Picture Service, Photo Features
(Name Registered in the U.S. Patent Office)
lQd.6 SF.f'.TTON TWTO
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Speaking at Castelgandolfo, his U1
as summer home, Pius XII asserted at,
an that the world today has men who ve1
on ignore not only the Church, but the Co
.ed "very rudiments of religion itself;" Ht
in. men who see no evil in evil deeds lat
,rd and lust and would spurn "the an,
.ve primary norms of morals anct jus fol
ras tice;" "there are cynics who would
16. deride holy things and weak men J
tioi
1at who would permit these offenses anc
m- to pass. . . ." voi
tin Despite this turmoil, His Holi- ma,
an ness said, "there are great rays disJ
;he of hope and fields white with har ent
in vest for those who labor to bring
;he Christ to the world." He stressed the
ipe the oath of the Jesuits, which en ish,
tor ables them to bring "a spirit pre sla1
[n- pa_red and prompt to obey in all res·
ce- thmgs the true Spouse of Christ dra
. . ,. our holy Mother Church." u.
In another audience, held for the ma
Most Rev. Emmanuel Suarez, O.P., Ita
,rnrl thP. Dominicans who elect,ed
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u . S, orPARTlllfllTor JU!HICE
COMM C 11n q
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SAN MARCOX TEX JULY 7 1947 714P
WASI-IDC
CHECK FILES IN INVENTORS COUNCIL FOR DRAWING OF MULTl~APRING
CATAPULT THIS INVENTION SENT BY ME TO WAR. DEPARTMENT IN 1945
POSSIB~E LEAKAG~
.
OF l~FO~A~IO~
. HAS R~SUL~ED MV DEV~~~
'
OR
.J •
VARIATION THERE FROM COULD CONCIEVABLY CATAPULT A DISC AND IN
SILENCE FOR SEVERAL MILES ~ E_SORDED 2. - !_j
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V' cy/i~;"M~morlmtum •
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TO !) • 1!• Ladd 1 \ DATB:7- 10-47
FR.OM J . P. Coyn f~
SUBJECT: ·:orDsm;
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'Saucer·' Stories ~ toward~ Hloliill and"'a,kppei,.,ed,
she said. It was flying high and
appeared Illuminated, according to
Mrs. Hoffman.
Disk Found Is .,-, , ,..:.. /
"It looked like a small meat plat
ter," Mrs. Hoffman asserted.
Glenn Rowden of Detroit claimed
_,.,.,, he saw a "saucer," about 50 inches
Tries to Call FBiMan in diameter, over Billy Mitchell field
Priest Hears a 'Ban~,,.,..._ at 10:05 p.m. when he alighted from
Father Bra.sky said he did not an airplane. He said it was in sight
Discovers a C j r CU} a r bother to show the disk to any of his for 90 seconds.
Blade With T e e t h,· parishioners Sunday. He tried to William Humphrey, who Ii v es
telephone an FBI agent whom he with his wife in a qUO!l.!let hut at
knows. but was unable to reach him 3148 s. 20th st., telephoned police
Other Dl.sks 'Seen' Sunday, he added. Asked whether at 9 p.m. Sunday that ...,..._ , -~,.
it could have been the work of a Humphrey had seen a slightly illu-
Picture 011 Picture Page practical
1• d "Cojoker,
Id b Father
1 d 'tBrasky
know" re- minated disk which appeared to fa!J
I: he "what is it?" which Father P 1e
The di.sk, apparently of steel, •had Mrs.
: u e. on to earth near Pulaski
Humphrey high school.
said Monday that
eph Bra.sky said he found early a one and three-eighth inch' hole in her husband tried unsuccessfully, to
nday on the lawn of St. Joseph's the center. Through it ran a few photograph the disk.
wires. To each end of the cluster
Catholic church in Grafton may be of wires was attached what looked Changed Colors, He Says
p ust another gadget to add to Fa-, like a small condenser about three Erwin Rottman, 1328 N. 19th i · /
ther Bra.sky's already sizable col- inches long. The condcnserlike ob- claimed he saw three of them flyi I
lection. jects were wrapped in black tape through the air In a northweste y
Those who saw it Sunday said which still was d sticky. Theh diskd.was
t direction at 6 p.m. Sunday. Th
greasy an so m e w a t tr y. turned from orange to gold to silv r
"what is It?" was a circular saw Stamped on it was: "Approved, bet~e disappearing, be said.
blade with a few wires attached. Dunlap." Reports came also from Janes
Father Bruky, who said he knew .of Father Brasky declined to part ville, where Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sie
no sawmills in the area, would not with the disk. He showed a num8e1• vert and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Roth
claim it,was a "flying saucer" when of items in his trinket collection. reporte.d seeing a flying disk about
he called newspapermen to his All of them had something to do 11:35 p.m. Saturday. The Roths
home. with fishing, Father Brasky's favor- were leaving the Sievert home when
·'It may or may not be one of those ite sport. They included his "bass Sievert saw it, according to Roth.
Iflying disks that have been report- bottles," beer bottles with the head It appeared to be several thousand
j ail over the country," he said. of a fish - and a fish pole from feet up and about 10 miles away,
I t's just call it a 'what is it?'" Manila which folds up into a cane. Roth said. ·He described It as vague-
{eanwhile, in Milwaukee and When opened, it extends to lZ feet. Jy resembling the moon and as hav
er points In Wisconsin, sev. "I use it in reaching folks w.'!',....•.,..egular motion in a counter
sons reported seeing the "fl'y~'.'l"in"."g~~c~a!!'n' t be touched with a 10 foot pole," clockwise, elongated orbit. It ap-
saucers." Father Brasky's disk, Father Bra.sky quipped. peared to Roth to be moving faster
however, was the only case here in Others Report "Saucers" than an airplane. He said it was
which the "landing" of a "saucer" yellow on Its face. but when it
was reported. Father Bra.sky also passed out turned it looked sliver.
11d copies of h is recent publication, Roth said that the four of them
Hears "Ba.ng," Fi s Disk "Fish Tales." viewed the disk for 10 minutes.
Father Bra.sky gave the follow- "I'm going to revise this thing,"
ing account of how he found the ob- he expIa1ned. ve got some new
• "I' Stopped in Sky, Claim
ject. a steel plate 19 inches in di-I and better tales to put in it." "It fluttered around, faded out
a.meter about an eighth of an inch There were other reports around and came back again. and once,·
thick ~nd with saw teeth. Milwaukee and Wisconsin of "fly- just stopped and bung there fo
"I usually get up about 5 a.m. on ing saucers." Mrs. Anthony Hoff- about two minutes," Roth said. "Tb ,
Sundays. I was at the front door man, 3410 W. Layton av., said she last time we saw it, it had a ve
of my house about to take my dog and her husband saw one at Turn to page 3, col. s j
out for a ;alk, when I heard a p.m. Su n d a y flying toward B~i~ll~y,,__
'bang!' like a big firecrac~er.. I Mitchell field from t~e northwest.
stepped outside and found this ..,-=,--n It neared the field, 1t veered 1
on the church lawn.
"Although the grass was still wet IENCLOSUR
f r l the night rain, the disk was
too ot to pick up. 1 noticed the
gl ball had been knocked off one
of e lightning rods on the church,
so suppose it struck that in land
ing."
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'Saocer' Tales Lacws 6{ Eyesight Cla~
Buzz in State Reports of Flying Saucers
B y H OWARD W . BLAKESLEE Many descriptions of m o v e •
A!soclated Press Science Editor
Disk Found by a Priest New York, N. Y.-The flying
ments of the flying saucers fit
with the common maneuvers of
saucers may be explained by cer
Is Circular Saw; Others tain laws of eyesight. airplanes, s I n g I y or in groups.
All objects appear r o u n d or Some of the maneuvering report•
Seen by Milwaukeeans nearly so at any distance close to ed, which took saucers out of sight
From pag~ I, column 3 the limit of how far a person can and back into sight again, resem
see. bles what can be seen w hi I e
noticeable tail. When it disap- It the objects are seen by re- watching distant airplanes.
flected light, as in most cases re• W hether planes arc guided, pl
peared entirely, it just popped out." ported, they are almost certain to lotless or jct, they all would look
Janesville police reported a tele• be round, and if the reflections the same at great distances.
phone call from a Dick Thompson, are sunlight then the sizes report
who said he saw flying disks about ed are those which would be ex
pected from distant light reflec• Mirages, Traveler Says
12:15 a.m. Sunday. tlons. Philadelphia, P a. -(JP)- Dr. Aurel
t Oshkosh, Mrs. L. A. Davis re- Descriptions of vit'tually all the
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Aczel, editor of a H ungarian lan
p ted that she and her husband had saucers as round and flat fit ex guage newspaper, expressed belief
s hted one of the mysterious disks actly with the tricks that eyes that the !lying sau,·ers were mi
.,. izzing over the city at 6:t5 p.m. play. This trickiness varies with rages-possibly circularly distort•
differences in weather and light• ed reflections of real airplanes
Sunday. Ing. many miles away. A world-wide
1 She said they were driving on a This writer ha.s seen flying sauc- traveler, Dr. Aczel said:
town road six miles west of Osh- ers over Long I sland sound, not "Years ago I have seen similar
kosh, beaded east toward the city, only this year but In previous things on the Egyptian desert and
when they first sighted the object years. They were round, bright on the Buszta (Hungarian plain).
"flying very fast and very high." and moving fast. But they were At sea I have also seen miragt of
At first, she said, It looked like an no m ystery because th e y were ships known to be a great dist ce
airplane and then loomed larger and light reflected from the bodies of away.
larger until it "appeared as big as airplan es that s o on identified "In July and August, and s e
the sun." themselves by changing course times even in June, atmosp ric
Stop, Ca,r, Disk Vanishes and coming near enough to be conditions are especially adapta
Her husband stopped the car BO.,..._ seen_distinctly.
_ _ _ __ ble to the creation of mirages."
that they could get a •tter look at
the disk, which appeared round and
silvery, but by the time they got out
of the car the object bad dis•
appeared, she said.
At Green Bay, Eugene Le Plant
reported that he and hill 12 year old
son, Duane, bad seen a rapidly mov
ing silver ball or disk about 6:30
p.m. Wednesday while working In
bis garden on the western edge of
the city. Le Plant said he saw the
object silhouetted against a dark
cloud to the north and that he a i
h"~ on watched it for three or to r
mi utcs while it moved away t o tt
no hwest Le Plant said he cou
no estimate the altitude or d
tance, but that it "definitely was n ot
an airplane."
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Who, what, where, why are flyinf disks? Th~ear·s bi,t~est mybtery produced
these Sunday photos while reports came fro everywhere and everyone that
the saucers were everywhere. Top left, a movie amera is fitted to a P-51 fi&hter
plane at Portland, Ore., as Oregon national guard planes arc made ready to chase
the disks. Lower, Mrs. Walter Johnson (rlght) of Spokane, Wash., and her chil-
~z n •osc and t,11 how lh,y ,aw th, " " " " land on a mountatn,;d, ;n td,ho Td
sappear. Right, is Father Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Catholic churct at
Grafton, Wis., with the disk he reported struck his church early Sunday. It
turned out that th'\! d~~k was a prankster made projectile, featuring a Dunlop cir
cular saw blade. Note that something apparently took a glass ball off one of the
lightning rods. A. whole lot of Mllwaukeet s reported that they saw the saucers
traveling past Sunday nigh t. -AP Wirephotos and J ournal Staff
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SEEN IN 86 STATE::s.s,--- First, published reports of the
Sten1n 36 State • Flrst sighted June 25 and Pbenon 1 ■ 111 occurred-June '25.
Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Ida.,
greeted generally with scornful
Jet Fighters laughs, the objects have been re businessman pilot, told of seeing
nine of the discs flying In forma
ported every day since by observ
Alerted ers In 36 states. Most of the ob tion at 1,200 miles an hour over
the Cascade Mountains In Wash
jects were reported seen July 4.
A few were reported yesterday. ington,
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6-UPI
- Milltary aircraft hunted the Such competent observers as SEEN Bl' 200
airline pilots said they had seen
es over Pacific Coast states the totally unexplained discs or Arnold's account was taken
ay for sight of the mysterious saucers, larger than aircraft and lightly. Various explanations
were offered- "reflections," "per
] ylng saucers" that for 12 days 1 islstent vision," "snow blindness.''
ve puzzled the entire country. :fii!'i:as i-, "loose formation" at
Soon afterward other individ
Early reports of results were high speed. uals-In New Me:x:ico, Missouri,
negative. David Lilienthal, chairman of California and other !.tales-re
Five P-51s of the Oregon Na• the Atomic Energy Commission, ported they also had seen the
Sllld they had nothing to do with flying objects.
tlonal Guard cruised over the Then on Independence Day 200
Cascade Mountains oC Washing• atom!<. experiments, and Army persons in one group •and 60 In
ton-the area where the strange and Navy officials also entered another saw them In Idaho. Hun
objects first were reported sight posltlv& disclaimers. dreds of others In Oregon, Wash
ed. A sixth circled over Portland, Newspaper stories quoting an ington and other western sites
In constant rad.Jo contact with the unidentlfied California Institute reported seeing them.
other five. All carried photo• of Technology scientist as saying July 4 also brought firs re
graphic equipment. ports of the flying discs om
the phenomena mlgh~ have some east of the Mississippi. nee
Col. G. R. Dodson, command• • then they have been reported seen
Ing, described their flight as & thing to do with experiments in
n widely separated sections of
l
"routine patrol," but said they "transmutation of atomJc energy"
had been Instructed to watch !or he country-in 33 states In all.
used a brief sensation late yes
g
the flying discs.
t Manhattan Beach, Calif., A.
McKelvey took a Mustanl
ter plane up above Van Nuys
two hours he cruised at 35•
feet, but "didn't i.ee a thing:
f
the
rday. The institute quickly de
ed the report.
Reports generally agreed that
flying objects were
oval. Estimates of their speed
round or
'Must Be Insane•
LONDON, July 6-UP)-Don't
mention those flying saucers on
• this side of the Atlantic unless
you're prepared for an argument
about your sanity.
Gen. <'arl Spaatz, commandan ranged from about 300 to 1,200 Maybe they have been seen by
of the Army Air Forces, was on a miles an hour. They were de sober citizens over a vast area
Pacific Northwest fishing trip. scribed as flying with an undu of the United States, but Europe
He denied knowing anything lating motion at heights of 10,000 won't believe in them until some
about the flying discs - or ot feet and less. Some described body lassoes one and has It photo
plans to use AAF planes to look them as glowing, or luminous. graphed by Frank Sinatra, the
for them. British ambassador and five
'PROPELLER IN CENTER'
JET 1''IGHTER SET Supreme Court justices.
Nova Hart, Sl Louis mechanic "America's reply to the ~och
"I've been out of touch with who was trained during service ss monster," chortled today's
things for four or five days," in the war to spot all types of nday dispatch, referring 10
he said. aircraft, said he saw one of the italn's hoariest tall story- t e
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Louis E. Starr, national com rang objects near Pattonville rpent that is "seen" romping n
mander-In-chief ol the Veterans esterday. It was flying at 300 ~ otland's Loch Ness every ti e
of Foreign Wars, yesterday In Co et, he said. the tourist trade needs a shot n
lumbus, 0., said he understood He described it as circular, with the arm. ~
Spaatz had a "group out right a Tibbed framework and silver
now" looking for discs. gray In color. Hart said it ap
At Muroc Army Air Field In peared to have a motor with a
California a P-80 jet fighter stood propeller attached In the center
ready to take off the moment any and It kept turning like an air
flying saucers are sighted Jn that plane doing a slow roll.
area.
A cautious attitude marked
both official and scientific co! - •
ments, but Capt. Tom Brown t
t~Alr Forces Public Relatlo s MILWAUKEE S£NTtNn
st ff In Washington ackno - MILWAUKEE, WIS·':ONSIN
ed ed the Air Forces had decided
"t re's something to t his" and
ha been checking up on It for
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Find Only Empty Sky --•-••"'"a,dio announcement ufti'.t 61S"
Jokesters Add were flying over Lewiston Idaho
Sunday sent' hundreds into thei;
wlf!C"\i Ciut> dusting plane was do
ing in the air at da,;,,a bH i-.;Iay.
yards for a look. Weatherman Louis , It was the first time any noise had
Some Comedy Krezak said the objects were mov ' been attributed to flying saucers.
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tOAIr
ing eastward with the prevailing
wind and probably were •~reed seedR.
Three air transport pilots agreed.
J. U. Watts, jr., Darlington (S. C.)
attorney, said he saw an army pur
sui~ plane chasing a V-formatio\l of
EaSt St• LOUIS• Qb•
Searchlights 011 Olouds
Birmingham radio station was
Jee • deluged with more th~n 400 call in
I flying saucers at 250 miles an hour
3,000 feet high. However, no pilot
reported such a chase.
Saw One With Legs
Prove to Be w ashers, one hour by persons who said t ey Me an t .i m e, authorities were
• W S saw fluorescent balls circling o er plagued with reports that bordered
ICago Oman pots the city and clearly outlined aga st on the fantastic. An excited Chi
5hne W.It h Legs near-by mountains. A carnival at
Alabaster, Ala., was playing search-
cago woman reported that she had
seen a flying saucer with legs. "I
lights on cloud wisps. wrs standing on my porch and I
By the United Press n argument raged at Lodi, Calif., th ught for sure it was coming right
Army pilots were ready Monday o r the cause of a spectacular glow vn and slap me in the face," s~
for another air search for the mys • the sky and a roar shortly before 8 i.
terious "flying saucers" now report lectrical power went off. Mrs. W. leorge Kuger of Denver said h
ed seen in 39 states and parts of C. Smith said she heard a noise "like 8 , a flying disk with an America
Canada as practical jokesters added fl
~ g on it.
to the confusion. Francis Howell, Te m p e, Ariz.,
Equipped with telescopic cam claimed he saw a saucer two feet
eras, 11 army planes searched the
Give 'Em Room in diameter disappear behind a row
Pacific northwest Sunday without Newport News, Va.- Peninsula of trees near his home. When he
finding any trace of the flying disks airport here is taking no chance$ ru~hed to inspect it, he said, the flat,
which had been reported over scores with flying saucers. Pilots report• thm, alumlnumlike disk took off at
of communities the preceding two ing Monday to take out planes a "high r a t e of speed" toward
days. At Sioux Falls, S. D., a na- ' found this notice on the bulletin Phoenix, nine miles away.
tional guard plane already in the air board: ''Two thousand feet ver Mrs. Walter Johnson returned to
was ordered to investigate a silvery I tical and horizontal clearance re Spokane, Wash., after a vacation
disk with a short tail which Gregory quired between aircraft operat near St. Maries, Idaho, and after
Zimmer said he saw shoot across ing from this field and any fly• reading newspaper reports of the
the heavens. The pilot found noth ing saucers." flying saucers said she and several
ing but empty sky. others had seen speeding shiny ob
The army "camera patrol" over jects "as big as a four or five room
the Cascade mountains Sunday in four motored bomber" just before house" disappear into the forest
cluded eight P-51 pursuit ships an the lights went off at dawn. Erving covered mountains.
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three A-26 bombers. Newcomb of the Pacific Gas & Elec• he first. of the saucers over New
tric Co. offered the explanation that Y rk State was reported by Mrs.
Illusions Or Jokes a low flying crop dusting plane K nneth Wohley of Rochester,f,.
There was growing belief that the probably had struck a power lin Y who said she and her husb d
concentrated aerial search would and b u r n e d out a transforme saw an object "about the size of n
show the saucers to be optical illu However, no planes were reporte ordinary saucer" flying above r
sions or the work of practical j~ke damaged and no one could explain ba_ck yard at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
stcrs magnified by aroused imagi
nations.
A number of "disks" whirled over ENCLOSU
rooftops in East St. Louis, Ill., Sun
day. J. T. Hartley, a locomotive en-
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eer, gathered some of them up
d f o u n d they were made of
p essed white paper, 11 inches in
meter and with a two inch hole
ln the center. Railroad workers L 16
said they looked like locomotive
packing washers.
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New Jersey residents said they I
"thought" they saw flying disks
over Palisades PaM and ~ear:by
Bergenfield Sunday night. 1
Skeptical scientists recalled the
mysterious "rockets" seen over Swe.
den last year. Eighty per cent of
the "ghost rockets'' proved to be
meteors, and Swedish officials said
the others could be discounted as
pure imagination.
Scientists asserted that the ob
jects in order to be seen clearly at
10,000 feet-the level at which most
of the saucers have been reported
would have to be 20 feet in diameter,
I would require a large mass of metal,
would be more conspicuous at night
and would be seen by a far greater
ber of persons.
! r. J. S. Nassau, director of the
Mn" & Swu,y •"'"j''
th Case Institute ot Techn gy at
Cleveland, said he was incl ed to
"think the reports urc fanci s."
Capt. Tom Brown, army air force
I
al
spokesman at Washington, said the
art was trying to run the reports
to arth.
' e1re not dismissing the possl
bil y that there's something to it,"
. he aid, "and we're not dismissing I
Ithe possibility that it's all a hoax."
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.Russ T~lls of ~tom Saucers' r $ I
}?BJ Pr obes Story
~te ftawilan first !lsked where
of Soviet Ship he could sen 18 polG'oear=t,elts
which he received " for very dan
Office r gerou11 work."
He s aid he had been assigned
\LOS ANGELES, July 6-(Spe t o go over the route of the radio
active cloud nea r Lake Baka!
clal)-Federal agents today In (or B aykal ) a nd pick up dead
vestigated a Jetter to the Exami• animals.
ner describing Russian supersonic ALL LIFE D ESTROYED
atom-powered planes resembling "They loaded a few 11ma ll
the "flying saucers." s hips wit h a ll kinds of anima ls
A top flight atomic scientist to a nd directed t hf' cloud over
whom the Examiner referred the the m," the writer said.
letter said It was " not all non• I "During t his experime nt, a
viole nt s torm blew the cloud
i.en, e," and suggested the matter
f ar nor t h Into the tundra, but
be turned over to the FBI. before It dissipa ted It destroyed
The letter writer !laid he got I all life on Its way.
the Information from an officer
aboard a Russian tanker recently "The cloud may be cont rolled
Los Angeles harbor. f rom la nd, from a pla ne or
f r om a robot-piloted 'leader.'
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LLED EVEN WOR:\IS '! I unders ta nd It, the control
,; based on electr o-magnetic
he Ru~slan, he said, also de·
ave~ and the cloud has t wo
scribed experiments with con m1Jonents : T he carrier and
trolled radioactive clouds In the t he killer.'' •
Arctic, where birds, animals and
t\·en worms were kllled.
The plane11, as described by the
Rus~lan to the w riter, are only
18 Inches thick, With a kidney
~. ~wJ
!haped outline and no propellors.
The pilot lle11 on hl11 stomach 'ENCLO E._ ,.~ h
ftnd Is 11.rtt!lclally cooled agal! t
the beat developed by air ! c
tlon. l,tECORDd F
"The outer 11urface I'! hight
J.~ 32 J 16 ~,
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ollshed,'' the Russian sal
Both upper and lower surfa ces
re convex, like a gia n t lens,
he lilting force ls an entirely
diffe rent principle found about
.J
10 years ago among unpublls hed
papers of a Russian chemist.
" Ener gy Is required only for
t'llmblng, but no energy Is need
ed f or support when the air
plane goes along the earth's
gra,•ltational contour lines."
The writer of t he si ange let•
er said he met the R ssla n of•
ICl'r in Wilmington a n because
.e wan ted to hear abo Russia,
wiled him to dinner. 60 OCT
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Ouu-ks of E'fesight May
Explain Disc Mystery
By HOWARD BLAKESLEE
AP Science Editor
Nl!.."'W YORK, J uly 6-{JP)-Certain laws of human eye
sight will explain much of what has been described about
the flying saucers reported from nearly all par ts of the
United States.
At any distance which Is dose photograph of the oval object
to tpe limit of how far a person taken by Yeoman Frank Ryman
can see, all objects appear round north of Seattle, Wash. The Long
or nearly so. This law of sight Island oval came closer and
covers both small things seen turned Into an airplane.
nearby and large ones at great Planes at great distances tend
distances. to look round when light Is re-
Regardless of shape, the ob• fleeted from their sides. Many
ject near the limit of sight looks descriptions of movements of the
round. If the thing is silhouetted flying saucers flt with the com
against a bright sky, as some of mon maneuvers of airplanes,
the flying saucers have been re- singly or In groups.
ported, then It Is more likely to They flt also with what birds
! al Its true shape.
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VE NO STRUCTURE
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look like, flying at a consldei ble
distance. However the bird llu-
slon is not very common. me
the thing Is seen by reflected of the maneuvering repo ted,
light, as In most cases reported, which took saucers out or ght
It is almost certain to be round, and back Into sight again re
and if the reflections are sunlight, sembles what can be seen while
then the sizes reported are those watching distance airplanes.
which would be expected from SPEED MYSTERY
distant light reflections.
The one outstanding fact about There Is no explanation for re
virtually aJI the saucers Is that ported speeds of 1,000 or more
they ha<.1 no structure - they mlles a n hour. Meteors, although
seemed merely round and flat. they go much faster than t hat,
That description Cits exactly with do not explain It because the
the tricks that eyes play. This saucers mostly appear in daytime
trickiness varies with differences and there are not enough day-
In weather and lighting. light meteors.
This writer has seen flying Ice crystals forming little round
saucers over Long I sland Sound clouds have been suggested. But
near his home, not only t his year t hese fall to flt In most cases be
but in previous years. They were cause the Ice crystals form at
round, bright and moving tasL altitudes whlch are higher than
most of the saucers reported.
NOT A MYSTERY Nothing published in science or
But they were no mystery be- atomic studies gives the slightest
cause they were light reflected clue to flying sfucers unless the
from the bodies of airplanes that objectg are aircraft.
soon identified themselves by One scientist today said that at
cha, lng course and coming near least a lot of saucers are ex
eno h to be seen distinctly. plained by the rorce of suggestion
L t week this writer also saw which causes a pers,gn to say to
one val flying form which for himself: ..
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a moment looked exactly llke the "Oh, gel', I !tr it too."
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Other pA!lsengrrs with him also
saw It, he said. He gave the name
of J. W. R'r!den of D•dlt. 1'1!-
11plte~ So Ing. the 11&ucer was
going at great speed, and waa out
Grafton Oise Joke of sight In a few seconds, he
said. Rowden I.a stoppln& at tbe
Pl:tr.a Hotel.
Dli-lC'S HAO TULS
Erwin Rottmrn, 132S ~- 19th
St., said he saw three of them
with tall- flying nol'thwe•t t~
~outhea~t. as he ~tood at N. 18th
a nd W. Vliet Sts. They turned
from golrl to another color and
thtn to ,liver, he said.
Frank Phifer, stopping at the
Maryland Hotel, said he ,aw
three ballii of rlre t:hoot 1 rol!~
Lakt' Michigan 11.t 8:20 last lght,
arlt a mile I rom 1bor1, 1.nd
"gol g at terrlfl<' s peed.''
W at he described u an Illu
minated ~aucer was 11een last
night by William Humphrey, 3148
S. 20th St., he ~aid. It was zig
zagging directly over the Heil
Co. pl11nt, said Humphrey, and
seemed to land In a wooded area
nearby.
REPORTED IN JANt':~VILLE
Four Janesville re!lldents re
ported thtY had seen a flying dl~c
Saturday night. They arc Mr.
What wa'I rt1,orte-J u a " flying dl,c'' "hlch ..truck a c-hun•b In and Mrs. Al Sievert and Mr and
Grafton url) ye..tnday turnt'<I out to hf' a rlrcular aw "Ith Mn. Howard Roth.
hrn i,mall t uhl''I and Nt•veral wlr<'~ attachl'd to It. l•'alht'r Johl'llh They saw the disc flying In a
Bra,.k), pa,tor of ~t. J osl'ph'" Church, Grafton, hold~ the ''di~<'" northwe11terly direction r r<> m
nd point, to t ht lli;htnln~ rod on thf' church (arrow), \\hlch Janesvllle at a "tf'rrlflc i.11o-.•d.''
1111 ~aid was 11truck by th<' dlsc. Sonunol Pllolo l)y Ernul Anheuur. , They viewed It ror 20 minute!!. It
t Ttie myl'tery of the "Clylngl• Oi;7theory wa~ that prank!<te
or belated Fourth oC July eel
disc!<,'' 11trange luminous objects brant!I had attached explosives t
seen l!peedlng \llCrol'!I Ute -ky in the 1!\llW, and sent It skimming
was yellow-golden, and seemed to
turn al times to a silvery color.
they stated. An oval flight pattern
was followed. Then, they said,
t.Alls appeared on the disc and
many slates, turned to Wlscon- through U-re air. shortly aCterwards It dlsappenred.
Bin yesterday "hen ,everal per- Father Brasky said he htard a John Bo~ch, 4.377 S. Adams St..
sw~hlng ndlse and a sizzling at Milwaukee, a machinist, Insisted
,son!' reported them at Milwaukee 5 a. m., followed a second later he saw two flashing saucer-
and Jane1<vllle. with a. thud and an explosion. 11haped objects pass over Billy
My~tery wa!I \lldded to mystery An nclted re:<lde,,t telephoned tchell Field shortly artl'r mid-
when Father Joseph Brasky, pas- to Billy Mitchell Field, and said ght yesterday. They were ~se
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tor ot St. Joseph's Church at he saw 15 flying saucers, In U
Grafton, Wl!<., reported a mii,l'lle formation, heading north over
hurtled through the air early yes- Granville, at 10:05 p. m. He hung
terday, knocked the ball orr th,:, up beCore his name could be pro
J- ough so he could cieflnltely ~ ate
ey were not shoot,lng stars, o-:
a rplanes, he said, Bosch's h me
ls near the airport.
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church lfS:htnlng rod, and landed cured.
on the front lnwn.
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A passenger abOard a New
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Itlwn11 a large clrculnr saw- Field at 10:05 p. m., told employes RECORDED
nbo t 16 incttes In diameter-and In the office of Northwest Alr-1 1 ,.
snll hut when Father Brasky lines. Inc., he saw a flying 11aucer 1 rl /! /
pick cl It from the lawn. bobbing up and down over the 1 "/ ~ 6
T re were wires and two tube!I \ airfield just arter he had alighted ~
auache,1 to It. The tubu were an from the RlaD
Inch In diameter and three Inches
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A STANDARD\,oRM NO. 114
Olfice Memoranaum • UNITED STATES GOVERN MENT
TO : DIRECTOR, FBI
•DATE:
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July 8, 1947
FROM ,/& , J.[[IrlAUREE
SUBJECT: ~NG DISCS OR SAUCERS ATTENTION: l
l.IISCEIJ.JIJ1EOU'3
TELEPHONE CALL FROM l.ffi. FLETCHER
AT THE BUREAU AT 8 :30 AM, 7/7/47
For the Bureau's information, United Press and Associated
Press telephoned me at my residence about three or four times between
1:00 A. JJ. and 2:30 :\.. M., Jul~,1947. The United Press representative
informed ne that Father JOSE RASKY had stated on interview by a
Mi.1-rra.ukee Sentinel reporter, o BILL 1EEKS, (Phonetic) that he,
Father BRASKY, was going to call the FBI concerning the contraption,
,mich apparently was identical with one of the flying discs recently
publicized throughout the country. The United Press representative
desired to lmrn'if if we had any statement to make on the natter. I
infonned him that I had no official comment, other than 11 No Comment. 11
Since I have contacted the United Press representative on
various occasions, I asked him w.hat the actual details were, and he
stated he did not know except that the intervievr of the priest reflected
that a circular saw had been found with some devices attached to it.
The Associated Press called me shortly after the United
Press representative did, and on being advised that I had no comment
to make concerning the story, I asked the Associated Press representa
tive what the actual facts were, and he informed IOO that as far as the
Associated Press was concerned, the facts were that a circular saw had
been found and a story had been obtained from a priest who had been
drinking quite heavily. The Associated Press representative infonned
me that apparently the United Press desired to get a statement from me
denying or affirming that the FBI was investigating the matter. I
informed the Associated Press representative that apparently someone
was suffering under a misinterpretation of any con-anent I had made, and
possibly so?ll3 repoz:;er -rras ~ an e11~ass~ "B,OPP.}Jon if a story had
gone out over~!iffl services fP :..L.. - _ c.:L.7 - I' 1
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I then teiepnoned the ll"nited }a.-essrepresentative, who
apparently in the meantime had oe1en CalJ.sd'by' the Associated Press
in an effort to straighten out the United Press . No reference was
nade to the FBI in the Milwaukee Sentinel article appearing July 7,
1947, but the Milwaukee Journal article, which is attached, referred
to an alleged statement by Father BRASKY that he attempted to get in rA. cJ...
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touch with an FBI Agent whom he knows . Father BRASKY has neve~con ,' I W---
tacted the .lfi.lwaukee FBI Qffice or any Agent concerning his find /
ft' <vi
r:rry opinion, this is just another hoax story, si ce a p t~grap 1
1
f ~tmr f.RA.~KY with the saw indicates no basis ~"t-J ~ e s ; . t on by
• ~ny-~u onty. 11 •uJ!· :JV j))I:. , 'l
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STANDARO P0AM NO. ~ • •
Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO DATE: July 11, 194?
~ FROM K.C.Howe
11r. Tolson
llr . E. A. 'lam
!Ir. Clegg_ _
Mr . Olav1n
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At 10s45 PM on the evening of July n, 1947, Clerk Pierc-y of the :: ~::a
Washington Field Office called and stated that at t,he im,ttruction Mr. :Mr.: ~Quinn
~ ffiilton_
Tanm
Hennrich he wanted t o pass.-9Jl to the Bureau information he had just re-- ~~•Ne:~~m--==
ceived from one Alvin B.,A"arker, 200 6th Street, Laurel, Maryland, to t he ~ l:: ~"';•
effect that a "flyinf disc" had just landed in Parker's yard "and the _ __::-_-_-_
machinery is still buzzing." Piercy s~ted Parker was apparently so excited he had
a difficult time even getting his name out, and no further detai l could be obtained
from him.
At l0t50 PM I passed the above information on to Captain West, duty of ficer
at 0-2 wio indicat~d he htd also received the same data from another source, md
110uld pass our i nformation along to appropriate army qu.-ters.
Sid Robe!"ts of the AP called at about 10: 55 PM and asked whether t he
Bure~ had received any report on a nnying disc" i n Laurel Maryland. After
checking with Mr. Nichols I told him we had, !"eceived s uch a report and had passed
it on to army authorities.
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DATE : July 11,
FROM D. M. LADD
SUBJECT:
SAC John.son of the Milwaukee Office called to advise he had
just received a telephone call from Colonel Harry Schafer, Reserve
Officer with the Civilian Air Patrol, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
Colonel Schafer reported that at 3:30 p. m., July 10, one Sig Hanson,
City Engineer at Black River Falls, Wisconsin, had found a large
17 11 disc which appeared to have been possibly made out of cardboard
painted with silver airplane dope. In the center was a tube and a
small motor with a propellor attached to the side. Colonel Schafer
expressed the opinion that this disc would not be able to fly by
itself. He advised it would be taken to the Air Corps Headquarters.
Colonel ::,chafer advised, however, that Hanson did not want to release
the disc without FBI approval.
I instructed Mr. Johnson to advise the Air Carps officer
to get in touch with Colonel ~cha.fer and tell him he saw no reason for
the Bureau to attempt to secure the release of the material since it
was not in our custody and we had no control. He stated the press was
also calling concerning this matter. I instructed him to make no
comment to the press.
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Office Mem
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• UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO MR. LADD DATE: July 12, 19Jf.7Tolaon
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Mr. N1cho
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SUBJECT: '-1-tYlNG DISC :>
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Reference is made to Mr. Howe's memorandum to you
dated July 11, in the above-captioned matter.
At 11:55 P.M., July ll, I took a phone call from
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Sergeant Lonis of the Laurel, Maryland, Police Department. S e r g e ~
Lonis said that he had examined the 11 flying disc. 11 He said that it
had been made from a Gulf Oil sign and the top of a garbage can and
had been painted with aluminum paint. It had been recently painted
because the paint was still wet. Attached to it were a dry cell
battery, a flashlight bulb, sor.ie v.ii.res and a buzzer. He asked if
the Bureau was sending anyone out to look at it. I told him that
we vrere not, that we had referred the matter to the Army, and
suggested that he call them.
I subsequently telephoned Captain Calvert, the Duty
Officer at G-2, and passed on to him the infonn.ation f'urnished by
Sergeant Lonis.
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FLY~r.:G DISC , INFORMATION CO,,CERIJING . MAJOR CURTAN, HEADQUART[RS
EIGHTH AIR EURCi:' Ts1=:.!:1i.Q.!HCALLY_AD.Y.ISED THIS QF.El CLTl1t'\Ll;LQBJ~CT
PlJRPORTH~C IO BE A FLYING DISC WAS RE COVERED NE,AR ROSHEL L., NEIJ
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FEiT l{J DIAMETER . '.1AJOR CUP.TA:: FURTHER ADV I SED THt\ T THE OBJECT
FOJND RISD:BLES A HI GH i\LTI TUDE T:J£:\THER BALLOON UI TH A RADAR
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BALLOOI~ BEH:G TRANSPORTED TO 1.JRI GHT F I ELD BY SPECI A_L PL ANE FOR EX!\MI NATI
DISC AND
I.tJ.FORMATIO.~ !:B.Q.YI DED n:Is OFFICE :[CAUSE o:;- NATI ON.t\ L INTEREST 11 C.\~r.:
_ AND FACT THAT NATI ONAL BROADCAST! tlG COi~PAt--!Y, ASSOC I ATED PRESS, Ai JD
OTHERS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK STORY OF LOCATION Of. DI SC TODAY . t1AJOR
CUHTAN ADV I SED UOULD REQUEST 1:JRIGHT FIEL D TO ADV I SE Ci i~CI NNATI
OFF I CE RESULTS OF E":AMI NATI OfJ . NO FURTHIR INVESTIGATION BEING
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Doesn't it seeffi wisest for you to forbid papers - (No not forbid - but ask
the co- ooeration of all papers) to keep all news ofthose discs out o~ t~e mms
untfilyou- are sure just vrhat they are & uhere fran .
Seens to us with all the enerri.es we have, even with:..n our borders,
it could be something far more i?:ioortant than may seem at first . I had 2 sons
in this war f.: anotl-ier who over- did for his .~crica - & we do want it really
protected from danger fro::: now on . Enough are dead ~ maimed - '.rith- out l osing out
now as it easily could be . ~-lhy have the papers carried that story if reporters
were nade to see how much more sensible not to report - it excert to the F. B.I .
Th.ere is too much of danger ahead anyway -
Hastily
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ST""1>ARD FORM NO. 64 • '
Office M emorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERN MENT
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July u , 1947
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stated that a Mrs. Fr sterbrook, 215 7th Avenue East, Twin Falls, ~ aa oaniy , , ,
Idaho, at 2: 45 a . m. Mountain Time today heard a noise in the back of . - -- (
her home. She thought a collision had occur red and invest:i@ted and
found in the back yard of the home next door an object described as follows : kl~
A disc JOi11 in diameter, circular in shape, it is dished like a /"..-..- ~
saucer and actually there is a saucer within a saucer in the manner of "L
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cymbals . On one surface there is attached a plastic dome described as about
1411 in diamter and affixed by 8 bolts in a rather rough manner. The bolts
can best be described as similar to stove bolts. On the other surface is
another dome of metal which is gold in color on one ·side and on the inside is
silver in col or, which looks like tin. Through the plastic dome can be ob-
served three tubes similar to radio tubes and there is some wiring. The disc
generally is 1011 thick and at the point where the domes are located about
1411 in thickness. There is an object on it similar to electric coil which
has some type of an arm on it and bears the words "Inspected TS" . Some of
the vnring has been burned off and it looks as though something might be
missing.
Mr. Bannister stated that if this were the work of some prankster
he went to quite a bit of trouble. He stated the press is aware of this
incident. He stated that the -disc had been picked up and vras now at the
Pol ice Department, Twin Falls, Idaho. He was instructed to notify the local
Army authorities of the existence of this disc.
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~ t.\ne tu1 ;rou did ~ s 1ndftod apprcc:1.G.ted.
In tful .future aho!1ld you 1nr_o:,nntiml wh( ch ~ti fc-01 mflht be ot
intcreot to tni a Bu u yq • t!!.J:ht f1r.d i t convoniont. tQ cont.net t he Spcci nl A,rcnt
1n Cbarc• ot 0 1·r Chl c: gp Ol'fic , mi.ch 1o l.oaat.od t l,900 lknkcm' uil.d:1.n,,
Ch1 aato .3• lllinot:,.
Sine Nll;,yours,
John~~ Hoover .
'" ~ Directer
cc - Chicago ~:1.t~om:t~. • There io no 1denti.t:1ablc in!o:m.nticn in the Bureau's
tiles concerning tho writer of t111e letter. Doop!to tho fa.ct that
this letter refers t o "flyir.g diacs", it is not believed t h:l.t the
Wormation furniohed is QUi"ficiently importa."lt to refer to M.nry
authorities.)
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Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT •
TO MR.LADD~ DATE: July 10, 12~zl11on ~
llr, E. A, tam
11r, Clegg --
FROM Roy E. Wood
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~J • INFORMA TI ON CONCERUNG Irr. Ournca._ __
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llr. Pennington
llr, Quinn Tami--
Tele . Roo•--===
-~, At 5:45 AM this date, SAC Hood telephonically contacted the : ;/·~ •H~
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Bureau and advised at approximately 11:30 PM, July 9, 194?, the office._.';:.~
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in Los Angeles had received infonnation from the Resident Agent at Bur,- -
California, that a "flying disc" had landed in or near Burbank and ha been
seen to burst into .thme when it landed. Further, that it had been the cause
of a fire in some woods, t his fire eithe!' in Burbank or possibly in the cit.-.
limits of Los Angeles, which Mr. Hood could not be certain. The fire chief
at Burbank had called the resident agent at Burbank and told him he w:>uld
hold the disc for him.
Coincident with the information received from Burbank, the Los Angeles
Office received c~lls from the newspapers requesting information. The newspape:-e
stating they had called the Army Air Force Intelligence who had stated "we are
not interested". According to Mr. Hood, this comment had aroused the newspapers
and they stated they intendt,d to publish this quotation and belabor same in their
firs'tissues. Mr. Hood stated that he had refrained f r om making any statement
to the press other than to admi.t possession of '4n object and that it was being
turned over to military authorities in the morning (this AM), it being Mr. Hood's
opinion that he did not want any quotes in the press and certainly not one to the
effect that we were not interested.
As described to him, Mr. Hood stated that the object was an aluminum
disc about 2 1 in diameter weighing about ten pounds, painted with al uminum paint
and having some sort of a radio tube in the center of the disc. This object was
in possession of the resident agent at Burbank and would be turned over to
military authoritig~ (G- 2) in Los Angeles this morning. '1 ~
RECORDED &?
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Mr. Hood's purpose in ca~li ng was to pl ace tne Bureau on notice regarding
the above described object and any further information would be transmitted to the
Bureau at once.
Act ion: None indicated.
HE'!f:da
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Memorfndum • UNITED STA' S GOVE~NMENT
Director, FBI DATE : July 17, 1947
~M SAC, Los Angeles
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SUBJ ECT: RECOVERY OF 11-FLilNG -
DISC"
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.OORTH HOLLYV.00D, CALIFORNIA,
JULY 9, 1947
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On the evening of July 9, 1947, a report was received at the Los
Angeles Office that a so-called "flying disc" had landed in the vicinity .of
Radford and Magnolia Streets in North Hollywood, California, the contraption
being briefly described as approximately 30 inches in diameter, all metal,
disc shaped, and having a radio antenna . It was reported to have burst into
flames upon landing. At the time of the report the disc was being held at
the Valley Fire Department in Van Nuys, California.
SA RICHARD D. AUERBACH went to the fire department immediately at
which time it was found that a number of people had gathered including news
paper reporters and photographers who were taking pictures of the disc .
Battalion Fire Chief WALLACE E. NEWCOMB advised Agent that at approximately
10:30 P. M., an unknown woman called on the telephone and excitedly reported
that the disc had dropped into her garden where it began to flame, her
residence being located at 11858 Magnolia Boulevard, North Hollywood. A
fire department truck was sent there and put out the flaming object with the
fire hose, after which the object was taken to the fire station. SA AUERBACH
thereafter arranged to transport the disc to the office.
The device is briefly described as consisting of two convex steel
discs approximately 2 feet in diameter, fused together at the outer edge
and fastened together in the center by a hollow cylindrical connection. A
vertical galvanized iron fin was screwed to the top of the disc, and a short
length of pipe closed at one end ran from the outer circumference into the
interior of the contraption. What appeared to be a radio tube was installed
in the center of the top side. The contraption had a total weight of
appr0ximately 20 pounds.
At the Bureau Office a series of photographs were taken of the
device from various positions, and a set of these photographs are being
forwarded herewith for the Bureau' s inspection and information.
11
The "flying di~c" ~hereafter turned over to Major COURTNEY VI. 7
HEMPSTEAD, A.C . , G-2, F;<Srt Mac hur, San Pedro, California, who subsequent-
ly reported that the J:>1>-ject w definitely a hoax. and under no circumstances
could have flown under its own power.
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Director, FBI July 17, 1947
Re: RECOVERY OF "FLYING DISC" ,
NORTH HOLLY'/K)OD, CALIFORNIA,
JULY 9, 1947
On the following day, July 10, 1947, one FRANK v.'"1moWN, 6552
Teesdale Avenue, North Hollywood, reported that on this morning he was at
the North Hollywood Service Station eating at which time there was
considerable talk about the flying disc having been found in the vicinity.
A number of what appeared to be young high school students were present
and were having quite a laugh about the excitement caused by the finding
of the disc. BROWN stated that he received a definite impression that
these young students either had themselves or knew of someone who had been
working for the past two weeks making this "flying disc". BROWN was
unable to furnish the names of any of these young men but identified one
of them who was making the statements as being employed in a Chevron
Service Station at the corner of Victory Boulevard and Whitsett Street.
He described the youngster as about sixteen years of age .
The ~bove information was also furnished to the G-2 Office at
San Pedro, California.
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STANDARD FORM NO. 6'
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Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT •
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SUBJECT: FLilNG DISCS
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Mr. DA'VE-'":1'0HNSON• 0£ tba Idaho Daily Sta:tesman. Boise., Idaho, tel~
phonically contacted the Butte Office and asked if the FBI was checking on
the £lying discs reported to have been seen by many oitizens. He advised
that so many had reported having seen them that it undoubtedly was not a
figment of the imagination. He said that these discs had been seen on July
1. 1947, in the vicinity of Trail Creek near Sun Vall~ Idaho., by reputable
oitizens. • /'I'-"' ,.,._
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oi'fioials. He said tha.t he was inquiring of these agencies. •
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STANDA1<0 FORM NO. 64 !
Office Memor ndum • UNITED ST. ,ES GOVERNMENT
DIRECTOR., FBI
SAC, NEW HAVEN
SUBJECT: 'J "FLYillG SAUCERS"
EDWIN M....-BAILEY, JR.
STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, INFORMANT
~ ATOMIC ENERGY ACT
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For the information of the Bureau this is to advise that on July 7., 1947•
EDWIN M. BAILEY., Jr•• 6 Home Court, Stam.f'ord., Connecticut, appeared at the
Sta.mrord Resident Agent's office and furnished the following informationa-
llr. BAILEY prefaced his remarks by stating that he is a scientist by
occupation and is currently employed at the American Cyanamia Research
Laboratories on West Ma.in Street in Stam.ford, Connecticut., in the ~ice
Division. Mr. BAILEY further indicated that during the war he was employed
at MIT, Cambridge., Massachusetts, in the Radiation Laboratory which Labora
tory is connected with the Manhattan Project. BAILEY advised that he is
thirty years of age and is a graduate of the University of Arizona.
Mr. BAILEY stated that the topic of "flying saucers" had caused considerable
comment and concern to the present day scientists and indicated that he him-
self' had a personal theory concerning the "flying saucers•. Prior to ~
advancing his own theory., BAILEY remarked that immediately a.rter the conclu-
sion of World War II., a .f'riend of his., RENAT~CHETTI• allegedly obaened
the "flying saucers" from an pbservatory in Milan and Bologna., Italy. He
stated that apparently at that time the "flying saucers" had caused a little
comment in Italy but that after some little publicity they immediately died
out as public interest. Mr. BAILEY stated that it is quite possible that
actually the •tlying saucersw could be radio controlled germ bombs or atom
bombs which are circling 1:he orbit of the earth and 1m.ich could be controlled
by radio and directed to land on any designated target at the specific desire
o.f the agency or country operating the bombs• He stated that one of the
items of interest l'il.ich he personally has observed is the .fact that the
saucers have been observed in Mexico City• New Orleans, Philadelphia., New
York• Boston, Halif'ax, Newfoundland, Paris, Milan., Bologna. and Yugoslavia.
as well as Albania. By placing a string aroynd tne globe ot th, earth ~
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Letter to the DIRECTOR, FBI July 1s. 1947
Res ~LYING SAUCERS"
EDWIN M. BAILEY, JR.,
STAMFORD, CONNECT! CUT, INFORMANT
ATOMIC ENERGY ACT ·
would be noticed that allot the above-mentioned cities form a
direot orbit or oirole around the earth and would be D¥)re or less
in line o.f' any path in Vlhich the saucers could be circling.
Mr. BAILEY t'mtther stated that he had recently talked with RICHARD
PERKIN. one of the owners of Perkin-Elmer Company in Glenbrook•
Connecticut, and had been informed by Mr. PERKIN that his compa.DY is
making a large power.f'ul telescope to be WJed in searching the strato
sphere ta: atom bombs•
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