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FD-245.1 (Rev. 1-4-99)
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_ _ __ Armed and Dangerous _ _ _ FOIPA
- - - DO NOT DESTROY _ _ _ NCIC
_ __ ELSUR _ _ _ QCIS
_ _ __ Escape Risk _ _ _ _ Suicidal
_ _ _ _ Financial Privacy Act _ _ _ _ Other _ _ __ _
See also Nos. - - - -- ---
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f Mr. Tolson _ _
Mr. Mohr__
_ _
Mr, Parsons_ _
Mr, Belmont_ _
M l', Rosen
Ml'. Tamm -
M l', T1 Nt•:r ·-
Mr. W.C.Sullivan
Tole. Room.._ _
Mr. Ingram_ _
Miss Gandy._ _
/lying Sall~er Photo Ain\
\Vhat _It Used to Be---JG!f Q.:.Y:n':wr DT:·T~roN
D,,t:c•oi t, Mfoh.
i
y Charles Manosl thi heard Joe's pi ct u r
dff Writer
sh . ¥ed a saucer-like obje t ( ) D"t::.r01t P:c0e Press
sill ouetted against the moo .
GRAND BLANC, .May 5- lost of JoP.':; customers t Edi tor: Lee Hills
J e Perry, the talented pizza his piz-za palac1., here were
man, fet:ls the Pentagon ~~winced the object was a ( ) D3t rnt t Tiewe
peo9le have sabotaged him •~flyin\S~•." EdEor : ffarti.n s. Hayden
or som..?thing. di!~ire11n1e'even mol'e con·
No, the Washington ex ce ned over his picture w~,
perts haven't fussed with
~oP-'s saucy pies, but tJ y
a .certainly done so e-
f
an Unidcuti:ed Flying ObJc t
gr up wanted to buy
rights to the slide.
s Et:.i. ~<,r: J c:L;i C, Manning
thi g to his flying sau er, He also got an offer t.lom a
Joe claims.
natirtal magazine to b .Y th~
"IT AIN'T whal it used to
be since they got their
pict re. Other inquiries came
ro all sections o the
r-- ~) : .S--- 2. r - to
cou try. I;.~ : ~icn : £ ~- ~e_
bands on it," said Joe, who '• ,.• .,•, •• ~'7 C0 1 : ..::z::::.,
.,,.,
takes potshots at the moon -
with a h~memade telescope so JOE was anxious to Et 1'j-!-.lo ot· Case :
camera. hlpicttp·e back.
e called the FBI. e•
I UliIDENTMED FLYING OBJ ECT ·
Joe, 44, took a~other look ta ·ed to the air force. e JOSEPJV'I>ERRY, GRAND BLANC '
at. his color-slide p oto, n de a trip_to Selfridge, •
pped last February o 1he MICHI GAN - COMPLAINANT '
orce Bast, all in vain.
se ond nigh': of the full
(Defile 65-2477- 105)
moon. I be pict!lre was retur,ted
sh ·Uy after be sent a lo er
"Jt's not the same," he said
dejectedly. "The flying
saucer bas faded . . . some
thing has happened to it."
F
to resident Eisenhower.
letter inf uded in he
parkage from the Pentagon
The Washingto1 t x perts said the strange object in the
pi·ture wac; the result of
retlned the color slide a tw ! 4 lty development lnd
ijay ago.
E l<' ED ER AL age ts
pkKed it up last March w en
n bing more.
mong other 1hings, · he
Pentagon folks have ad ed
I Y3'79'/ A
in:rnlt 1o injury, ,Toe said. N~ qECORDii>"'.
46 JUN 3 1960
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0-19 (Rev. 1-28-59) , Centr~l !l~s earoh Se otion '
Tolson _ _ __
Belmont --;J-/
DeLoach ~
McGui!J (J
,.;=-1- - -
Mohr ~f..J
Parsons - -- -
Rosen _ _ _ __
Tamm - -- -
T rotter - - -
W.C. Sullivan -
Tele. Room -
Holloman - - -
Gandy _ _ __
3 'Objects' Trailed P'mtre
45.Minlites, Pilot Says
DETROIT, Feb. 25 (AP) Killian and co-pilot John
~he pilot of an American Air- Dee of Nyack, N. Y., said they
li~es today
said DC6 three
passenger p~ane lost
mysterious . the three strange opjects
objgcts that looked like shin- lll the haze when they started
ing _saucers appeared to ac- their descent for landing at
company the plane for 45 Detroit's Metropolitan Air
minutes last nighc on its non- port while the plane was over
stop flight from Newark, N. J., Cleveland, Ohio.
to Detroit. The three bright whitii
Capt. Peter Killian of Syos- lights first were sighted whil ,
set, N. Y., who has flown pas- the plane was flying at 85
senger planes for 15 years, feet between Philipsburg an
said "I have never seen any- Bradford, Pa., at 8:45 p. m.
thing like it before."
Killian said other members
of the crew and the 35 pas
se~rsalso saw the flying
obj ~ • The plane left Newark
at 7:1 m.
T h e Washington P ost a nd _ l :S_ _
T i mes H e r ald
Th e Was hing ton Dally Ne w s _ _
The Evening Sta r _ _ __ _ _
N e w Y o rk Heral d T ri bu n e _
N e w Y ork. Journ al- A merica n _ _
N e w Y o rk Mirr o r _ __ _ _ _
N e w York Dally N e ws _ _ _ _
N ew Y ork Pos t _ _ _ _ __ _
The New Y o rk T im es _ _ __
1
&-<-ff:;Rf'f- /) T h e Worker _ _ _ __ _ _ _
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NOT RltCOtltQP.S,
T h e N e w Leader _ _-,-_ __
T h e Wall St r e e ( Jor n, ( _ _ _
'JI MAR 3 1959 Dat e J/
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S/luCERS
n
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0 -1 9 (Re v . 10 - 2 9 -57)
Tolson _ _ _ _
Boardman _ _ _
Belmont _ _ __
Mohr _ _ _ __
Nease
Pars ons _ _ __
Rosen _ _ __
Tamm _ _ _ __
Trotter _ _ _ _
0 .--- ------------------~- Cla yton _ __ _
T ele . Room _ _
Hollomon _ __
tlyi ng~s Show Sign Gandy _ _ __
OfGuidance,Jung Says
ALAMOGORDO, N. Mex., What such a fact might mean
July 29 (JP).-Dr. Carl Jung, for humanity cannot be pre..
Swiss psychologist, says in a dieted.
report that Unidentified Flying "But it would put us without
Objects are real and "show doubt in the extremely precari
signs of lhtelligent guidance ous position of primitive com
by quasi-human pilots." munities in conflict with the
"I can only say for certain superior culture of the whites.
these things are not a mere "That the construction of
rnmor, something has been these machines proves a scien
seen," Dr. Jung said in the re- tific technique immensely su
port released yesterday. "A perior to ours cannot bek
pw·ely psychological explana- gued."
tion is ruled out." The Air Force has said -
Dr. Jung, who started his re- vestigation of flying sau rs
search on UFO's in 1944, re- reported over the past 10 y ars
leased his report through the has Produced no evidence that
f UFO filter Center of the Aerial such things exist.
, Phenomena Research Organ- It has contended that not a
lzation here. It was released shred of evidence has turned
by L. J. Lorenzen of Holloman up to show the existence of a
Afr Force Base. flying saucer or interplanetary
"I have gathered a mass of space ship or that the objects
observations of unidentified fly. sighted indicate developments
i ing objects since 1944," Dr. beyond the range of current
, Jung said. scientific knowledge or pose a
"The discs do not behave threat to the Nation's secm·
ln accordance with physical ity.
laws. but as though without The Air Force said last No
weight. . . . , vember that investigations ot
, "If the extra-terrestial origin 5,700 reported sightings showed Was h. Post and _ _
of 'is phenomena should be the mysterious objects were Times Herald
con rmed this would prove the balloons, aircraft, astronomical
exi nee of an intelligent In- phenomena, birds, fire!'!Q.!.'.k.!_ or Wash. News
ter planetary relationship. hOaxes, among other t h ~ Wash. Star .# --/
N . Y . Herald _ _ __
Tribune
N. Y. Journa l - ____
Ameri can
N. Y. Mi rror _ __ _
N. Y . Da ily News
N. Y. T i mes
Daily Worker _ __ _
(tJ 2- ~ 3 ~ 1/ y--~
The Worker _ _ _ _
New L eader - -- -
NOT RECORr,,:r,
117 AUG 1 1958
Da te 'J - >- o/ - S Y
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•
Schm1al, 48, an ex-Nebras-
Q S a uc ers'J .I ~fin a2:a1:i-~\~va: q~:~i:~;·n·~
b Air Force investigat ·s
~
Trace Foll d fr m the Continental_Air
fense Command. 0 11 fo d
-
near the alleged landing spot
•d .I,of the space ship was identi
A . F. . Che c kS SChffil t, fiecr as ordinary but will be
Kearney Amus ed ! tested by the University of
• O I Nebraska.
Tales of fJying saucers and Wt,ile the Schmidt tale was
other such space cliiff got giving Kearney a sensational
an u n off i c i al raspberry conversation piece, most of
Wednesday night ·from an the talk was of a skeptical
Air Force official. variety:
A top official of the Air Newsmen Busy
Technical lntelligence Cen- "Everybody downtown 0:¥.iAHl-l. WORLD-HERALD
ter at Wright-Patterson Air seems to think it's a big joke," 0:VJAHJ.I. , NEBR.ASKA
Force Base in Ohio told the one business man said. 11- 7- 57
Dayton Journal-Herald his in- A Kearney clothier put up
vestigators have found no a sign advertising "space ship SUNRISE EDITION
evidence in the past 10 years l specials." A window s ign in
sightings wete investigated I
that flyin~ saucers are real. i a car agency announced:
He s a 1 d 5,700 reported "Space Ships Tuned Up."
The Ke a r n e y car-rental
between 1947 _and_ 1957. !'fot operat or reported business
a single landmg 1mpress10n, was so good all of his cars
footprint, saucer or little . were in use. They were being
green man was found.
Investigation Goes On f
1 rented by visiting newsmen,
• Presence of the newsijn
1n .JSS!nrney N~ . Ee~-111 w s n_e arly the only sign t at
hc-!dw"S:chmidJs ;tory of n a ythmg unusual had h p
aftei'n~iffl'!' - ~ with be P ned - or may have h p
crew of a space ship near he pened.
city Tuesday was still under
·nvesti ation officials said.
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NOT r u OR~lf'.D
117 Nv, ~ ;.! 1957 .lf'
5 2 NOV 261957.
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pace-Ship Story Raises Eyebro
1
TJ \Yorlrl•Hernld's Xe,1'1!1 ScrTke.
Kearney, Neb.-A grain
J uyer who said he saw a
space ship Tuesday in a
field near here and chatted
amicably with its six occu
pants had more pleasant
dealings with the visitors
from outer space than with
skeptical authorities.
The sensational report
by R. 0 . Schmidt, about 50,
of Bakersfield, Cal., which
topped a host of reports
across the nation Tuesday
of seeing mysterious flying
objects, had these conse
quences: f
-State Penitentiarv rec
ords showed a •man of' the ~
~ame name served a term ., · .-~
•.,.
■,ir.'.s~s.;;•1cc Photo.
for embezzlement from 11 111
lil!
-~\\it:·or1dtil·•Hci,,ra1ctiiiN•
Scotts Bluff County in the Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson . . • In
l 930's. Scotts Bluffs Coun- " heart-to-heart" talk. OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
~
Sheriff Steve W'lrrick
id he talked to Schmidt S IDI: V I EW OMAHA, NEBRASKA
phone and was convinced OUTSI DE 11-6-57
"saw nothing." WALL STREET EDITION
- He turned down a
chance to take a lie-
detector t~st.
--2.schmidt was kept up
most of the night for
\
questioning. He finally
asked for an attorney. -
Ward Minor of Kearney l.fN6111: APPROX. /00 'fCIT
was named. '
-Wednesday forenoon
he went to the scene of the FI..OOR PLAN
space ship's landing with INSlt>E
investigators from tije Con
tinental Air Defense Com
mand at Colorado Springs,
Colo., Kearney Police Chief FAt-1
IN !J£A
,.. ..
IN
Thurston Nelson and Buf JlOOF '1' COMP ROOF
falo County Attorney
Kenneth Gotobed. They
said Schmidt's story "ap , (ONV£'l'OR. 10 R,,.O( o
peared to be weakening."
-Oi l drippings on the
ground from the space
tt•t lh1' \
;+
machine were being ana The Schmidtnik . • . As descr ibed by the grain buyer.
lyzed at Kearney State N tJ'
.
College. In v es tiga_tors light when, white-faced and turn around. Near the , .. I..} 1)1£\)
said the "mys t er 1ous shaken, he appeared in Platte River he saw what iJ.I NOV 22 l95l
green oil" closely resem Kearney Tuesday and asked appeared to be a wrecked
bled that in a partially to see a minister. Taken to balloon. As he neared il
emptied can of co1:1mer police, he told this story: Schmidt said, his car en IS •
cial auto oil found in the Tuesday he inspected a gine conked out.
b1,Ck of Schmidt's car and a field of milo about two Schmidt said he got ou
arly-emp1y can f o u n d miles south and a mile east and walked toward the ma
~ ar 'the site of the "land- of Kearney. When ready to chine. Proximity revealed
i p;." leave he clrove clown a side
Schmidt's story came to road seeking a place to
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it to be a translucent, Cl· 'Spoke Gennan'
gar· shaped device abouj Tl1e ship o cc u pa n ts
one hundred feet long, 3
et wide and about 14 fee talked among themselves in1
gh. Schmidl said tha Hf;g h Germ an. w h ic h
S midt says he under
hen he was 25 or 30 fee
~ vay. two men got out st nds to a limited extent
0 e man spoke excellent
and waved what looked English and interpreted for
like a flashlight. the others.
"I couldn't move. I don't Schmidt said the inter
know whether I was iust preter told him repeatedly
afraid or what, but it was he had nothing to fear. The
like being paralyzed,'' he visitors refused to answer
said. any questions but said he
'ln Business Suits' . would "find out all a6'out
Schmidt said the men, It in a couple of weeks."
dressed in business suits, When repairs were com
searched him for weapons pleted. Schmidt said he w11.s
then remarked that as long p.sked to leave but was told
as they were going to be he would be unable to start
there for some time "you his car until the machine
might as well come in and had disappeared.
see thin~s for a few min- 'Disappeared'
utes." f Outside the machine
Inside the machine were Schmidt said, he turned t~
two other men and two watch as the fans started
women working on wires in motion without a sound.
and instruments. The de- He said the machine lifted
,•ice had a fan at each end. about one hundred or two
By a strang1> coincidence hundred feet into the air
one of the crewmen''·Jooked and disappeared.
exactly like" a hoto?I ac- "It ~ust blended into the
quaintance \Yith whom he si►.Y-h!,e it changed cor.r
has been watch;ng televi- J r disappeared into th
sf· n programs. " he said.
1/hen the o cc up an t i chmidt Pressed t e
w nted to move f>rom plac s ter of his car. The mo-
t place they would ste tor ~arted right off.
in a ce1·tain location and b T"~~--......;;........:_,.;......,~.__,i
pulled to th~ new location
without movm .
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o-19 (Rev. 9-7- 56)
~ cist to Coast
Rash of Tolson _ _ __
Nichols
Boardman _ __
Belmont _ __
Mohr _ _ _ __
Parsons _ __
Rosen _ _ __
Tamm _ _ __
Trotter _ __ _
Nease _ _ __
Tele. Room _ _
Holloman _ __
There was an unof,· Gancl¥.-'-- - -
cial report that Air For
personnel at neaJ.'by A · c
en, S. C., spotted the ob ~~'
~7~
ject on radar and issued
an alert.
The object appeared to be
a "constant red light," accord
ing to Augusta Chronicle ex
ecutlve editor Louis Harris,
who saw the object from the
downtown newspaper build
) )/Id~
ing. "Lt could have been a
tiny red light a short dis
tance away or a g igant ic
thing at a great dis tance," he
said.
, 0 .
ne witness, J. T. James,
eaid he saw the object on two
occasions from his home near
Aiken. Lt was cigar-shaped,
he said, and would alternate
from bright to amber and
occasionally got out alto-
ether.
1,rElsewhere, strange "sauc
'' sightings were r eported. WHITE SANDS
---- ~---
NEBRASKA Mlitary authorities ~ppar
ntly gave c1·edence to a re
At Kearney, Neb., authori
Hort by an electroni
ties held a "heart-to-heart" gineer wh,o said he s v an
talk with Rein h o Id 0. object which made car en
en
Schmidt, a salesman, later gines stall near the Whi.te
discovered to be an ex-con Sands proving grounds. Wash. Post and ____
vict, who said he talked to ,
tour men and two women in Col. John Mccurdy, Air T i mes Herald
a transport space ship which Force public relations officer
had landed. He said the space a~ White Sands, sa id the en
Wash. News £J - Z
people spoke in English and gineer, James S tokes, 42, will Wash. Star __ f____
German. be given a thoro medical ex N. Y. Herald _ _ _ __
amination and a radiation
, Police roped off the area count test. Col. McCurdy Tribune
where the "whatnik" alleg- said he was "personally sat N. Y. Journal- _ _ _ __
edly landed and exa mined isfled" With M r. Stokes' r e
various impressions and oil port. American
the grou nd •
011 N. Y. Mirror _ _ _ _ __
stains A Civil Service worker a l
At Long Beach, Calif., th ree Lackland Air Force Base i n N. Y. Daily News _ __
i\ir Force weather observers, San Antonio, Tex ., said he N. Y . Times _ _ _ __
one of t hem the comma nding saw an egg-shaped object
officer of the spotting unit, land in a ravine about 200 Daily Worker _ _ _ __
late yes terday reported s ight- ya1·ds from him as he drove The Worker _ _ _ _ __
ing six unidentified, saucer- near the eity. He said his
~haped .flying objects over car engine and lights went New Leader _ _ _ __
Long Beaah Air F orce base. off, and the object took off
in a few minutes, enabling
The Coast Guard reported h im to dr ive away.
eking up an unidentified
ylng object on radai- over At about the same time, Date --.i(./.'l. . ::.-. 126~-_,,l"--
>..,..?- -
1e Gulf of Mexico south of ,the Grou nd Observer Corps
ew Orleans. A Coast Guard at Midland, Tex., said it saw
ommander said the object a large, red objert and picked
~ aused over the cutter Se- up unlntelllgible cmwersa
l)ago In the Gull and was on frm on a sound dl'trctor. cu_>,
'1e 1•adar scope for ahouf 27 ~
•nute3, 0 NOV 141957~
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~ { R e v . 9-7-56)
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1'racked 21 ltlinutes 011 Rad:u- .:;,
1/li
·• '°r~ons Z
U.S.Cutterh1Gulf of Mexico Reports Rosen _ _ __
Tamm _ _ __
Trotter _ _ __
Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sliy Nease _ _ __
Tele. Room _ _
Holloman _ __
Associated Pre., f:av€ling at an estimated 1000 of light with no definite -~hape, Gandy _ _ __
A brilliant mystery object niles per hour, International 1r esembling the planet Venus."
l
was reported sighted yester- ews Service reported. How-/Shockley said there were no
day in southern skies by a ve1·, at one poi nt, the object vapor trails or any other in
Coast Guard cutter . even as ppeared to remain stationary clications as to the object's
Air Force special investigat•j and hover above the waters be-}method of propulsion. One
~rs c~ec_ked a flurry of ear- ror e it resumed Its erratic ,estimate of its height place{!
Iler,, s1mllar reports. 1flight. it at 2000 feet.
y. ~
The Co~t G1:1ard cut~er Se- [The cutter's captain, Cmdr. [G I e n n Nor t hcutt. Willis,
bag?_, crmsrng m th~ Gulf of 1c. H. War ing, said the objC'ct /Okla., r~nch~r and member o
:\lex1co_~bout 200_miles south first ap. peared on thP. ship's the Un1vers1ty of Oklahom
of _Lou1s1ana, r_ad1oed th_at_ an , .dar screen as a "good trong Board of Regents, reported
J
obJect resembling "a br1lha.ni ' that on Satur day he and fiv
a.
planet with a high rate of p" at..5:10 m. and w s lost others had watched '·a bril
\ speed" \\ as seen for about • a northerly direction t 5:37 liant. mysterious light tha
three seconds at 5:21 a. m. . m. ,looked like the planet Venu
(CST). ,, . LJn this time, the sl<ipper !~agnif~ed many, _many ti~~s."
ie
The Sebago s message !'aid said the object which came as 1 he obJect, he said. was VISlble
the object was tracked on the ~lose as two ~ iles to ves- more than half an hom·.]_
,·csscl's rad;ir screen for 27 cl was actually seen y four Sightings of strange obJ~cts J
minutes and that, during that 1e~11bers of the cr ew One, have been reporte~ from W\de
period, the object flitted 0 11 1 ns. Wayne D. Shock y, de- If scattered sections of i~
and off the screen sevcr:il cr ibed it as a "brigh poi11t lJnited States, most of the
I
mes. Crewmen caught &i~t near i ecret miUtary installa
r it only for a few seconds. lions i the Southwest.
[The Sebago radioed "N The ir Force said the rad
rl!'ans Coas t Guard >le . netwo of the Ail· Defens
( 1arters that the object w Se YSTERY, A6, Col. 3
Wash. Post and ~
Times Herald
Wash . News _ _ _ __
Wash. Star _ _ _ _ __
N. Y. Herald _ _ _ __
Tribune
N. Y. Journal- _ _ _ __
American
N . Y. Mirror ______
N. Y. Daily News _ __
N. Y. Times _ _ _ __
Daily Worker _ _ _ __
The Worker _ _ _ _ __
New L eader _ _ _ __
Date - A"''+.DH,1,1• -_ _ _ __
•w vv
6 1957
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• •
Command was keeping watch, ported objects may be some
:::str' fat ~vith no results-and thing from anotherplanM. '- •
• •· . "Assuming they ate real," he
that specially quallfie_d mves- said, "they would be secret
tigators had been assigned to weapons made on ear th or
look into the reports. are interplanetary." Any na-
For several years the Air tion with the secret, he added,
farce has checked all rel_)orts would b;,r now ~ave abandon~d
of unidentified flying objects. c~mvent1onal aircraft or mis
Investigators work under the siles.
Air Defense Command at Col- Cosmic Energy
orado Springs, Colo., and r e- " 1 k ti
port to the Air Technical In- . It 0 0 5 as ,,iough they _are
t 1r Center mterplanetary, Keyhoe said.
\ e 1ge~ce • . He said one source of pow-
Judgmg from past findmg~, er for such repor ted objects
the chances are 50-1 the A1r could be cosmic r ay ener gy.
~
orce w_ill offer a humdrum Some of the citizens, peace
explanation far the current officers and servicemen who
sightings. reported sighting mystery ob
• During th_e •first half_ of this jects in the Southwest since
year, the Air Force said, only the weekend said the objects
1.9 per cent of the 250 report- stalled auto engines and
ed sightings of flying saucers caused radios to fade.
and other fantastic ae1•ial ob• J ames Stokes, an engineer
jects have wound up in the at the Air Force missile de-
"unknown" category. velopment center at Alama-
Air Force Skeptical gordo. N. M., reported 10 autos
were stalled Monday on a des
And the Air Force said firm- ert highway between Alama-
ly-though not all flying \sau- gordo and the White Sands
cer buffs may agree-that it (N. M.) Proving Grounds.
doesn't believe even the 1.9 He reported seeing a sound
per cent residue is made up less, "brilliant colored egg.
of the things you read about shaped object" which flitted
( in science fiction magazines. err atically across t he country.
Balloons, aircraft and such side and left a sort of heat
astronomical .sights as meteor- wav.e, "like radiation from a
ites and bright stars account 1giant sun lamp," in its wake.
at. least to th~ Air Force's Device sought \.-. J\osoclatod Pren
offic1aJ satisfaction - for al- .
ost four-fifths of the sigh . Leonard Hardlu~d, chief en• J}•G. Kirby of Dallas macle
• gs. gi,neer for t~e National Inven- this photo of a diamond
rrhe director of a private o t ors Coun?11 in Washington, s h a p e d o b j e c t flying
anization set up to inve said a device that could s~ll through the sky while he
igate flying saucers and sue aut<?s or other mecharucal
aid he couldn't evaluate a eq_u1pment was one of t he and his family were driving
b1·s POI•nt •the •current rash of likethmgs the armed forces would near Amariito, Tex., in
to see developed. August, 1956. The photo
cported s~ghtmgs. .. I But Hardlund said he knew
I
But retired Mai ~ne Maj_ of no research in this country was turned over to the FBI
on aid ~- Keyhoe, ~ector of!aimed at produeing such a de and has just been releasr.d
the National Invest1ga ti on s vice after intensive study. The
ommitlee on Aerial Phe-1 'l'~o teen-age g£i-Js reported Air Force descyibed the
dded that the re-I eeing a mysterious object in glo lat
I the sky over Annapolis, Md.,
~ last week.
Tean Hunt, 13, and Sylvia
Fowler, 15, said they saw
n egg-shaped object which
l'>wed like a neon light. They
potted it while trick-or-treat
·ng with Jean's two younger
isters on Halloween night in
rlmrose Acres1 a housing de
velopment on tne outskirts of
Annapolis.
Jean said the girls became
frightened and ran home but
no one would believe their
tory until weekend
per accounts tola o
o ted tn
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Tolson-- -
Nichols
Boardman - - -
Belmont _ _ _
Mohr _ _ _ __
Parsons - - --
Mystery Objects Calfed . Rosen _ _ __
Tamm _ _ _ __
Trotter - - - -
Mirage by Astron9mer· By the A.ssocJated Press
Nease _ _ __
Tele. Room - -
Holloman - --
A Harvard astronomer says plYsterious objects reported
from va.rious parts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico are
mirages stemming from natural causes.
Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College
Observatory, said yesterday in Cambridge; Mass., that the
whole thing amounts to "another flying saucer scru·e."
The Air Force has started an investigation of the reported
sightings of the strange gJow-1-- - - - - - - - - - -
ing objects in the sky. The mosphere which would give a
Air Force
the fo~ . yeru·s
responslbJhty has ~ad radar reflection."
of checkmg
reports of unidentified flying A~ for rep_o rts of the auto
objects •,but as one officer put engmes stalling, he said, "It
it, "We don't investigate all of would not be surprising that a
th
rash of sueh r epor ts h as nervous
Aem." . ,, foot could stall an en-
developed sinde Sunda.y, with gme.
some of the sightings said to Dr. Menzel, author of a book
have been made near secret about flying saucers, said he
military installations in the has been studying them for
J?
Southwest. Some of the per- about 10 Years and has yet to
so11s making the reports said hear of one Which could not
tlie objects caused their auto be explained by natural phe
engines to stall and their radios nomena.
to fade. "They are caused by a layer
Cutte11 Claims Sighting of h~ated air : . . acting as a
._
Yesterday the Coast Guard le~s and formmg an lmag~ of'
Cutter Sebago radioed from the ObJects as !!1Uch ~s 40 01 50 / - n l j - f\
Gulf of Mexico that an object miles away, he said. l
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resembling a brllllant planet Common in West
with a high rate of speed was "They are nothing more than l40.HOV 1;:, 1957
rseen for a1:>out three seconds,
by a mirage. They . are prevalent
l
and that it was tracked
radar. , just after nightfall as the
Dr. Menzel said it is probable heated air begins to cool off at -------
the cutter's prewmen got a the ground, and they are com
false image "quite ~kely from mon in the West where they Wash, Post a n d - - - -
bubbles of 3 hot air m the at- have clear air." Times Herald
- • - == The Air Force aid that dur- Wash. News-~-:;;-;~
ing the first half of this year
only 1.9 per cent of the 250 re Wash. Star & / t:J
ported sightings of flying N. y . Herald - - - - -
saucers and other strange ob Tribune
jects in the air have been
classed as "unknown." And the N, Y. Journal-_ _ _ __
Ah- Force ·wasul't ready to . be
V
lieve that even this small per• N. Ay~e~ii~;;
centage has sinister implica
tlons. N. Y. Daily News
It seemed a good bet the ---
Air Force will agree with Dr. N. Y. Times
Menzel's opinion that the cur Daily Worker _ _ _ __
rent' sightings have explana
Uons in nature, or that the The Worker _ _ _ __
reported objects are actually New Leade r _ _ _ __
aircraft or similar man-made
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Tolson _ __ _
Nichols
----
Boardman _ __
Belmont _ __
... Mohr _ __ _
Parsons _ _ _
Rosen _ _ __
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Trotter - - --
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Tele. Room _ _
Holloman _ _ _
Gandy _ _ _ _
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Times Herald page A-ID
,._ •ortat~d Pru,
Wash. News _ _ _ __
J. G. Kirby of Dalla., made
this photo of a diamond I Wash. Star _ _ _ _ __
11 h a p e d o b Je c t flying N. Y. Herald _ _ _ __
through the sky while he Tribune
'and his family were driving N. Y. Journal-_ _ _ __
near Amarillo, Tex., In
American
August, 1956. The photo
'II as turned O'rer to the 1''81 N. Y. Mirror _ _ _ _:,__
and has just been released N. Y. Daily News _ __
after Intensive study. The N. Y. Times _____
Air Force described the Daily Worker _____
flow as "radiation vapor."
The Worker ______
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• • ~~~
fite~ ~
Mohr _ _ _ __
Parsons _ _ __
Rosen _ _ __
Tamm _ _ _ __
Trotter _ _ __
Nease _ _ _ __
Tele. Room _ _
Holloman _ __
Gandy _ _ _ __
Doolittle Scoffs at Repm1
Of Nazi Fl'yi~g Saucer~\
James
By the A elated PressI of ·H ugh L. Dryden. director of
. Doolittle says it the advisory committee. •
.,. st ain't so" that Nazi Ger- Mr. Dryden said "there is no
JU · truth" in a statement t hat
many deve.loped a flying saucerlGerman engineers desig~1ed a
and a bomber that could at~ack flying saucer which attamed a
the United states and -return height of 40,000 feet and speed
. of 1,250 miles an hour.
without refuelmg. •'This is an advertisement for
The veteran airman, chairman a book which includes material
of the National Advisory Com- discovered by our groups who
mittee for Aeronautics, last went into Germany after the
month gave a House Approprla- war." he said. •
tions Subcommittee his estimate He said also the man supposed
of reports published in Germany to have designed the bomber
of great aviation accomplish- that could cross the Atlantic
ents under Hitler. These were twice without refueling had writ
nta.ined In a book by Rudolf ten a book of his own with ~
j, usa.r, former German War Min- mention of any such inventio .
try special weapons chief. Gen. Doolittle, asked a.bo
Gen. Doolittle's testimony was both the saucer and the bombe ,
published today, along with that said, "it just ain't so."
Wash. Post and _ _ __
Times Herald
Wash. News ____ _ _
Wash. Star ,M I
N. Y. Herald _ _ _ __
Tribune
N. Y. Journal- - - - - -
American
N. Y , Mirror
------
N. Y• Daily News
N. Y. Times
---
Daily Worker
-----
----- -
The Worker
------
____ ..._ - New Leader _ _ _ __
5 2 MA'"71ss,.........
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• s: ~
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Mason ......!:::.....;_ __ _
Mohr _ _ _ _ __
~re Are-7 Parsons - - - -
Rosen - - - - --
Tamm _ _ _ __ _
Nease-- - --
Saucers, IV Winterrowd - - -
Tele. Room - - -
Holloman - -- - -
Gandy - - -- --
Expert Says
By VERN HAUGLAND
WASIIlNGTON, Jan. 15 (AP).
-Reteired Rear Adm. Delmer S.
Fahrney once head of the Navy's
guided missiles program, said
Wednesday reliable reports indi
cate that " there are objects com
ing into our atmosphere at very
high speeds."
Fahrney told a news confer
ence that "no a gency in this
.country or Russia is able to dupli
cate at this time the speeds and
ac~elerations wblch radar and
" ..
observers indicate these flying
objects are able to achieve."
FAHRNEY SAID he never has
seen a flying saucer, but has
talked with a number of scien
tists and engineers who reported
seeing strange flying objects.
Fahrney called a news con1er
ence following an organizational
meeting of a new private group,
the National Investigations Com
mittee on Aerial Phenomena, of
which he is board c:hailman.
Fahrney said the committee
was set up largely to tie to- .
gether a number of UFO-mean
ij•
ing ~nidenti1ied flying objects"
- clubs being formed throughout
the world. Fahrney said his Wash. Post and - - -
i
ittee wll collect and investig te Times Herald
ying saucer reports, evalu e
em and make public its • d- Wash. News----
gs. 1
Wash. Star _ _ _ __
N. Y . Herald _ _ __
Tribune
N. Y. Mi rror '"Z--
N. Y. Daily News __
Daily Worker _ _ __
The Worker _ __ _
itJ: fr~-O'EB / fl
New Leader _ _ __
N"
191 JAN 23 \957 Date ~
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, Mr. Tolson . . _
Mr. Nichols_
Mr. Boardman_
Mr. Belmont...._
Mr. Mason_ _
Mr. Mohr_ _ _
Mr. Pa:rsona_ _
Mr. Rosen _ _
Mr. •r am.m
...,_ _
Mr . Nease_ _
Mr. Winterrowd..
Tele. Room_ _
Mr . Holloman.._
Miss Gand y _
/
-~aucer' See~
lY 7 West \
1
of Saginaw .
SAGINAW, July 30. - IA'I -
State Police at Bridgeport Post
received seven reports of a "fly("
ing saucer" between midnight
and 7 a.m. today.
One officer said he saw a fly
ing object himself.
The first report, which came ( ) Q!os Ludowy .
from the nearby B urt Ground ( ) Mlehlgan Editor-The Worke~
Observer Corps. station, said the
object appeared about 12 feet in ~ ) The Daily Worker
diameter, had red and blue ( ) Norodna Volya
lights and was moving swiftly. ( ) Romanul American
Various reports put the object's
height at between 1,200 and ( ) rltt$burgl, Courier
25,000 feet. ( ) Mlchlg.in Chronicle
The reports came from Sag ( ) Dlltrolt Fre3 Press
inaw, Mi d 1 a n d and Gratiot
counties. Police said the ca!Jers ( ) Oetrolt Nows
told them the object was seen ( ) l)etrolt Tin1. ~
over Freeland, Clare, Alma ar-d
Breckinridge, all west of Sag
t ) Michigan D1ily
inaw. ( ) Wiyrw Collegian
Midland police said they re1 t ) - - - -- - -
ceived one call but i:ould no
ot the object. •
Similar reports were receive
f om the Cadillac area early <7 ;I
S
~ lurday, but Air Force invesli• Paa,,,..__J\
_ _ Column......{_ ....
gating planes found nothing.
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126IAUG 8 1956
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•
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f/ ~ arsons _ _ __ _
Rosen _ _ _ __ _
Tamm _ _ _ _ __
I Nease _ _ __ __
Winterrowd _ _ __
Tele. Room _ __ _
Holloman _ __ __
Gandy _ _ __ _ _
'Confidential Files' Gefsk
10-Cent 'Saucer' Inquiry 1
BY th• Assoc'.ated Press :might have confidential files.
If you want mformation on sent it to the Federal Bureau
flying saucers, don't address your 1of Investigation.
request to "Confidential Files, The FBI, never one to pass
Washington, D. C." out military secrets, made dis I
I
Takes too long. And besides creet inquiries.
you may be inv~stigated by the Then the FBI Jorwarded the
FBI. letter to the Air Force, advising
A woman out in Los Angeles that nothing derogatory or 1n
(name withheld by various Gov- dicative of subversion could be
ernment agencies) dashed off a found in the woman's activities.
note on January 15. It said: So the Air Force reached into
"Confidential Files its nonclassified files and _plucked
"Wash., D. C. out the latest summary on the
Dear Sirs-Please send me a number of sightings of UFO <un-
bulletin of flying saucers, or the identified flying objects>, to
address where I can get infor- gether with an explanauon of
mation about them. I am inclos- why people think they see flying
ing 10 cents. saucers-or what it is they see
"Thanks.", which the Air Force can or can't
Seemed like a simple, direct explain.
approach-except for the ad- The lady's 10 cents was taped
dress. • to the summary and both were Wash. Post and _ __
The post office, casting abou.t mailed to her address ill Los
for some Federal agency that Angeles. Times Herold
Wash. News _ _ ..,,__
Wash. Star -' - /
N. Y. Herald _ _ __
Tribune
• Y. Mirror -----
. Y• Daily News
Daily Worker --===
The Worker _ _ __
New Leader _ _ __
Date MAR 21 1\:3.Jl
'71 MAR 28195~
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DE-~~NT . OF THE AIR FORCE • •
• • Office of Pub~ic• Information
Washington· 25 , D, c .
~ 1 •~
1
• • I ' . • ' • • • ' I
U •. S • .Air For:ce .Summary of Eve.nts.• and
Information
Concerning the Unidentifie<;l Flying ObJept P~ogram
The Air Force· feels a , very definite obligation to id,e ntify and
analyze things thit happeri in ·the air that 'may h~ve in them menace to
the United States and; because of that reeling of obligation and pur
~uit of that interest, t _h~- Air .Forc:e established an activity known as
the Unidentified Flyi~~: :object Program.· · •
This program was established i n ''1.94i when u,nidentified :f~yir:ig
objects were being reported in varioµs · parts of the United States.
The reports of . sightings reached a · peak of 1,700 in 1952 and dropped
to a total of 429 111 1953. • During the· first pine months· of 1951+ o_nly
~54 sightings were rep6rte~ .
From a survey of the volume of sightings received by the ~ir
Force, ·1t , has been 0.etermfned that over ·80 percent are explainable as
being known . objects. , Generaliy, sighted oojects fall into the cate
gory of: . balloons, ·aircraft~ · astronomical bodies , atmospheric reflec
tions~ and birds. All reports of unidentified flying objects result
from either radar or visual sightings.
. .
Explanations pertaining to sightings reported from military and
civilian r~dar facilities are as follows :
1. Temperature inversion reflections ca:n give a return on a
radar scope. that is as shatp· as that received from an aircraft.
Speeds of these ret~rns reportedly ran~e -f~6m ~e~o to fantastic rates. I• •
The "objects" alsc:, appear to move in a:11 directions. Such sigh~:i:ngs
have resulted in ·many fruitiess ,j_ntercept efforts. •
To possibly bear out the theory of t emperature inversion
refl.ect.ion is an. incident which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge,
Tennessee. Two Air Force aircraft attempt·ed to intercept an unidenti
fied "object" and actually established a radar "lock" on the obje6t.
Their altitude at the time· was 7,000 feet, The unidentified object,
according to theiP radar, appeared to be at an elevation of 1o · to ~5
degrees from . this altitude . Three passes were made in an attempt to
close on the qbject. In each instance the p1lots repo~ted that their
radar led them first upward and then down toward a specif1c point on
the ground. (One scientlfic theory holds that light can be . similarly
reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth. If thiQ proves ·
to be correct; many visual , night sighting s could be ~ccounted for.) '
2. Ionized ,clouds have causeq.some un1dentified radar returns
Thunderstorms are identifiable by rada1° and radar ·returns have also•
been received from ice formations in the air, balloons, ground reflec
tions, frequency interference between ~ther radar stationi, ~nd wind
born objects. Obviously, such returns are very difficult to . identify,
especially whe n t hey occur during darkness.
g')~,,-
MORE
--- PAGE 22 ---
3. The -r~darCreen ha-s picked· up· -birp.•$- :i
1~-.:o~e case a
flock of ducks. Flight int.e rc.ept);ons·· p_rove·d thes_e 1>henomena.
...
'l l. • ... • • •
An explanation· 6f known types of visual sightings are as . ..
f9llows: _ . . .. .. . . ._.,
, .
~~ . ' . . •' .
1. Present-day jet aircraft, flying at great speeds and high
altitudes, a1'e often .m is,~ aken for. unknown objects by• t.he untrained
observer. Sun;t.ight r?flecfions· f'.ronr the pol.i shed surf~ces of air- .
craf.t can be· seen pla.inly .ey!:!p,_:wpen the -airc.r_a.f t , itself is too dis
tant ·to· -~e ·visiple, _The_exhaust : bf j~~ aircraft .emits~, a t.rail. and
often this is seen rather than the aircraft itself. ·
2. Weather balloons ac.- count fo:r; . a substantial number of. ; s.ight..:'
ings. • These balloons, sen·t · .t"6' altitudes. of 40,000 feet•> and . high'er,
are launghed from virtually every airfield in the coun,try. They q.re
made of rubber or polyethylene, s:t--1e,ll a.~,·they gain . altitude, have
very good ref'lec tive qualities, ·c arry small :p~ghts. when -launched
after dark, and can be seen at very hig~_ altitudes,
. . .
3. In additio~·.eo the ordinari weather ~all6on, hug~ 90-foot
balloon~, which. sometimes dr~ft from coast to coast, .a~e used for
upper air research. · These bal loons also have a highly reflective
surface .and. are visible at ext-:ireme altitudes. • •
' '
4. Frequently, unusually bright ' meteors and planets will cause
a flurry of reports,.. sometimes from relatively experienced observers.
At certain times of the year, V~n~s, for instance, is low on the
horizon and will appear to change color and move erratically due to
hazy atmospheric conditions. Since the .sta~s are char·ted. ar,id most
of their characterist~ci known, many cases are traced · to. the-m.
Meteors on the ot_her ·hand are ·of rapid single-direction movemen-t· and.
are· only visible for a Tew seconds. Meteor activity is more' common ·
at certain times of the year than others, and reports of UFO's have
shown a tendency to increase during ·these
. ,
periods. •• •
5. Some cases arise which, on the ha.sis of information recei'vec;. · :
are of a weird and peculiar natur~. The obj~cts display erratic ,
movements .and phenomenal speeds. Since maneuvers and .speeds · of this •
kind cannot ,be traced directly to. aircraft, ball0ons, or ,kncwn astro.~
nomical sources, it: is b~lieved ' that they are reflections from ob•
jects rather · than being ·objects .themse lves. Fr;>r example: suppose··
we would hold a mirror in hand under a light, causing a r e fl e ction
on the ·c~iling. Only a slight, quick movement of. the hand would
result in erratic movements and phe!'lomena~ speeds of the -reflected
beam. Refl~ct1ons may be projected to clouds and haze both from the
ground and a ir ~ Many things whiq~ are common to the sky have highly
reflec tive qua litie s, such ·as balloons, aircraft, and clouds. Accu-
rate speeds are also difficult tq determine due to the ~nability
of the r eportf;r. .to judge d1stanc~, ·a ngles, and time.
6, Brilliant 'flashing lights that sometimes appear r~d a nd
wh1 te in. col or 'have been report ed_ by observers. This type has been·
traced to a .new lightin g system of commercial a irlines· and military
aircraft , Atop the tail s e ction of these aircraft highly reflective
red and white flasher type lights have been installed and are many
times misinterpreted by the ground obse rver.
- 2- MORE
--- PAGE 23 ---
. In the analysis a _ vestigation of the radar a nd- ~isua l
,.. sightings described, e are some yar dsticks whil have been
: e stablished from exper cnce and trends to measure' d atte mp t to
de termine the source of UFO•s . Some of these are ge ne ral in nature
r and a r e subject to ·cr:i.a nge· as l')ew scien tific and factual inf·o rmation
i s r ece ived. I t should be remembered that any object vie wed from a
grea t distance appears to be round . Nearly all the sightings r eportecl
a r e de scribed as round and would tend to indicate that most of the
objec ts ·a re at a grea.te r ·.d.1s-tahce from the observer .than is gen~r a lly
estima t ed, • • .- :. ,; • • ·· ·
. . .
Another misconception centers about photographs of unident ified
flying obje cts. At be st ·tl!le. majority of photographs have proven
non - conclusive as e vide nce· to this program ,mainl y_due _to type camera s
used. • Also, 'i t might be ·mehti'c1ned that because still photogr a phs· .can
be so easil y faked, either by using a mock-up or model against a
l egitimate background~ or · by retouching the negat,ive , the y a re worth
l e ss a s e yidence . I nnumerable objects , f ~om ashtrays to wash basins ,
have been photogr·a phed wh+1e sailing thrpugh :the air. Ma ny su·ch
photoB have bee n publ i~he~ ·wi thout revealing the true ide ntity ·of the
objects. •
More attention is given to moving picture s of unide ntified fly
ing objects since tHey a r e more difficult to retouch. Howe ve r, only
a ve ry f ew movie - type fi l ms have bee n received by the Air Force and
the y r e veal only pinpoints of light moving a cross the sky. · The Air
Force has been unable to identify the source -of the s e lights because
the ima ge s are too small to analyze properly. Since owne rship of
the s e films remains with the pe rsons taking the m, the Air Force is
now in a position to give the m out .
The difficulty of evaluating •rep.o rts of all · types is ba s ed
l a r ge ly upon the lack of basic da t a surrounding the sigh tings. The
drop in sightings during 1953 is l a rgely due to the increased a ccura cy
a nd the compl e tene ss of r e ports being r e ce ived. To be of value , a
r eport should include such basic da t a as size , shape , composition,
spe ed, altitude, direction, a nd the mane uve r pattern of the obj ec ts .
Without such inf ormation, it is almost impossible to e sta blish the .
identi ty of the object sighted. In addition , a r e ce nt study has shown
a dire ct corre lation1 be twee n the numbe r of sightings r eported a nd the
publicity g iven to ' saucers" by the na tion's pre ss .
The Air Force took a furthe r ste p in early 1953 by procur~ng
Vide en came ras for the purpose of photogr aphing this phe nome na ~ The s e
came r a s we re distributed to va rious military installa tions . This type
0a me r a ha s two lense s , one of which t a ke s a n ordina ry photograph, a nd
the o the r has a d i ff raction gr a ting wh1ph sepa r a t e s l i gh t int o its
compone nt pa rts. This a ids in de t e r mining the composition of t he ob
j e c t pho t ogr a phed. A sma ll numbe r of photogr aphs ha ve bee n r e ce ived
from t his ca me r a ; howe ve r, only light spots of no de t ail ha ve been
i ndicated in the photos t o da t e. As mor e photogr aphs a r e take n by
the se obser ve rs , it is be lie ved tha t a grea t deal of t he mys t ery wi ll
be lifte d from the progr am.
The Ai r For ce would like to state t ha t no e vide nce ha s been
r e ce ived which woul d t end to i ndicate t ha t the Un i t ed Sta t e s is be ing
Qbs e rved by mach i ne s from oute r spa ce or a fo r e ign gove rnment, No
objec t or pa rticle of a n unknown substa nce ha s bee n r e ce ived a nd
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no photographs of detail have ' been. produce d • . Th~ ..photogr~phs on
hand are, at best, only larg_e and sma11 '·blobs of l+ght which, in ·
1
mqst cases,_ are explainable • .
..
.· It may be concluded from the above and from past experience .that
no new significant trends have developed out of these cases. .There.
was an increase in public interest which occurred simultaneously with
the publication 0f various books and articles on the ~ubject; however,
this trend has been noted several times previo-us_ly. ,
• In,_Q1:'der .to ov~·rcome the lack. o_f ba~ic data, and to standardize
all rep·o rts, a detailed· quest..f onnaire 1-s no.w submi tte.d to eacl:) person
reporting ·an unidentif.ied aerial abject. It ;ts felt tha~ , the infor
mation thus obtained will lo~er s.tfll ·more _Jhe numpe.r of unexplained
sightings. ·f
• .. :- \· ' • • *" • • i ,, '
For observers who wish to report ·un~dentified ·aerial objects,
the Air Force would welcome the informa tion . Attached to this report
is a brief basic summary form. It would be apprecJated if observers
would send the completed f,orm to the neare-st Air Forqe Base.
' •
, '
I'f and when new developments turn up i~- this program, the Air
Force will keep the puolic· informed ~.
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.. Mr. Tnk~,:1
Mr. Br~··,i:nan _
Mr. Nichn1s ...-
Mr. Bdmont;_,._
I\1r. Hnrbo ___
1\-Ir. ,~ioh!· ___
Ivfr. r~.:::;ons-
Mi'. r.~•cn_ ·_
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Mr. Hc:hman_
Miss Gan<lY- - •
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ERE • th ,, I h"
Flying Saucer built to-day-
H about
is e rea trut
Flying c.cers,
one with a diameter of 48ft.
powered by five jets and a
as told by Geor Klein, larger model with a diameter
former secret wea ons ex- of 126ft. and 12 jets.
pert in the Gern,an War This, he says, accounts for
Production Mintstry,• and the rumour that Saucers often
appear to change size sud-
now an e n g i n e e r in denly.
Switzerland. Raised wing flaps liCt both '
"Flying Saucers," he says, a\roraft like a helicopter. The
are top secret weapons of the big 9ne c_an keep stationary by
SA and Russia. turmng Jets _down to counter-
" They are a continuation of balan~e gravity.
.:re rm an wartime experi- Flyrng Saucers,.teveloped in
~.1ents. . Canada by Joh%:'_!·ost, former
"Prototype Flying Saucers [ colleague of Sh Fi:ank Whittle,
were built in Germany during have reached speeds upf to
the war. I saw one reach a 1,500 mph and have been in-
height of 40,000 feet in three • spected by Field-Mar al
minutes, near Prague in Montgomery. says Klein.
1945." ' - ----·-·-------'-..J
.........
Klein says the Russians
captured a scale model and top
REYI'KJ LDS I!E':IS technicians at Breslau. The
DECEW3ER 19, .,19 5l°i ' technicians
to Germany.
have not returned
LONI.DI! , ENGLAIID J \ ' And Walter Micthe,, V
pon inventor and key an
I
ij
i Saucer development, ed
\ est and now works in he
1itcd States
lein in a Zurich interview
MtllCI OJ TH~ LrC.L ,
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lf6 FEB 16 1955
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I
Mr. Tolson -
Mr. Boardnum
Mr, Nicbols
Mr. Belmont
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr.
Mr. Paraons
Mr. Rosen.
M-r. Tamm
Mr . Siz•,O·--
M-r. Winterrowd
Tele. Roo!n..-
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy _ _
'Flying Saucer?' :
,Weird Spy Disc
•Sighted By Shipi
l A c h 'culn,1' <>bkcl,, g 1•nyloh
fll'!;t and tlien brl«hter, llk@ tlie
' moon, s ho0Ll11g up from n cai· .sea
f\t
level and disappearing in clouds
at .5,000 feet, was sighted at sea
last night 80 miles east of New
York. OWcers of t he Dutch
liner Groote Beer 1·eported the
incident when the vessel arrived
in Hoboken.
"l don't know what it was,"
1 11aid Ca pt. Ja n P. Boshoff, a
veteran shlpmaster, who sa.id
he watched t he obJeot t hrough
his binoculars. "It might have
t been what has been described I
r as a flying saucer, but I don't
j know what it was."
1 Through his most powerful
binoculars, the captain trained ,'
them on the object. 40 degrees
off the port side. Several other
officer similarly trained bino
culars.
Capt. Boshoff described it as
"a flat object, resembling t he
mon, at first kind of rray and
I
t hen t urning brighter on t~
lower part. and around t he
edges having bright spots as If
they were ligh ts." He said it
was moving- "directly upward,
wltb great speed.''
He said he never had seen
anything like it before, an
added :
"l am positive It was not a
meteor. Nor was it anytbinr
tural In the sky."
1954
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Mr •
man , " /
Mf. Belmont _...__
Mr. Harbo _ _
Mr. Mohr _ _
Mr. Parsons_
Mr. Rosen _ _
Mr. Tamm _ _
Mr. Sizoo _ _
r. Winterrowd _
Tele. Room _ _
Mr. Holloman _
Miss Gandy _ _
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<OIJICT> - .
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• ,OIK FLJClfT IIPOlffl ODA# THI! IICfflD Al UIIIDENTIJ'ltD FLYIIIC
CT ABOUT 10 llfJLU IOITII O IOSTOII .
THE PIL9!.t CAPJ...!. CRAILIS :l.,_ ICUT09ft1 or POIT VASRl•no■• L.l~t SAID
lfl. SAW •a ._..;a: nlU•COLrJlu IISC- I I OIJlt'r AT !Hi' 0 A M Eu •
KIATOVIL 1111 TIii GIJICT
Pl.AU IUT Ill COULi IOT en
.n MUS . , A PAULLIL C I ARD or MIS
A CLIAI LOOK Al lT •n• AIOV JIICR CL&UDS .
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IIIES,fAGI RO" ftAIS•IOIU AIILJIIIS ll IOSTel ST TIit: TIIAT A IEATHIR
UL OOII IAI •n IILtASII no" QIIID .AII react BASE II 11h IIAMPSHllf
t
ABOUT ,o lflLa ltlTlllfa·, or.·IOSTCll1: AT ••30 A.M. IDT. THI MESSAC:E SA
TMIICUTOflL
1&LL0• ,IIAllI 0tn
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NISSACt fflClllli ft ULLOOI Al •110uT 100 J'EET
IN DlAPIETIII • ~ AIOIIT FITS'M IDCllPTION or lllATTOU SAV •
COMIElfflC •
l' n11s li' RATIIEI ULL001•
•ssACle KIATOYILe IRO US 1111 rLYIIC SIK! 1927•
sa1t •1T ,.,. ., L 1 , c"11~, ,o •
1T•1 ,111 11\' nME 1Tf:n saw • • n,,1: INC ac,1 , m 1111.• .
Ii.It irhi .,~.,1.°!.,.. A. . IT TIit ,UCIIT Berm•. IIAl!ILD ,.
IATlf I.' S! IC I T TIE IIJICT WAS P I IY TIii CO.PlU
KIAffllL ll·TIII Ltci1 llfflllffOIAL AIINIT fOIII II IOITOI SAID
T ERPLO 1'11111 TOLi GJ IIIIIC ffl OIJICT • AND IT llD NOT APPIArO
ULLOOle
Cll•-IIJ31,P ,
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NOT REr.OADED
Hl JUN 1 7 !1954
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1-1-"t Mr. Ni ,,,
Mr. Belmo
OJD
Mr. Harbo _ __
Mr. Mohr _ __
Mr. Parsons _ _
V
Mr. Rosen _ _
.Mr. Tamm _ __
' ' M<i\ of !> S C, Mr. Sizoo _ __
Mr. Winterrowd_
3r1~Mo1qa1 O''l •
Tele. Room _ _
! 8 ·1 . Mr. Holloman _
.::,,f?. Jl. ;. "'i J~ ;
Miss Gandy _ _
'OBJECT) '-..
MOBILE ALA.--BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE REPOR.TED THAT AN ,r ~
\ "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. BRILLIANT AND SILVER COLORED" WAS TRACKED
BY RADAR OVER MOBILE AND THE ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST LAST NIGHT.
MA J . JAMES ZICHERALI, PUBL.IC INFORMATION OFFICER AT BROOKLEY, SAID
\ THE OBJECT "APPEARED TO BE A JET-TYPE AIRCRAFT OF NEW DESIGN WITH SHORT
1STUBBY WINGS•"
FIVE OTHER RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI ALSO REPORTED
SIGHTING THE OBJECT.
ZI CHERALI SAID THE OBJE~T APPEARED ON THE BASE CONTROL TOWER RADAR
· S EEN AT 6:50 P. M. CST, HE SAID RADAR OPERATORS REPORTED IT "MADE ~
N OUND AND LEFT NO TRAIL BUT GAVE EVIDENCE OF DEFINITELY BEING
MANEUVERED."
1/1--~~nuP
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76 JUL 14 1954
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· Ladd _ __
Nichols -
Belmont - -
Clegg _ __
Glavin--
Harbo - - -
Rosen _ _ _
Tracy _ _ _
Mohr _ ___
Trotter _ _
Winterrowd_
t Tele. Room -
Holloman -
Mis s Gandy _
1~!RT ~~~ce H~p~~~~.,.~~olie~~~~~J~ng ~~,~~d
Scripps -Howard s taff w riter been relaxed in recent months. ed" and "Flying Saucers From Out
Air Force I ea-de rs have Dayton
Most of the mail receive<:l at the er Space."
o'fflce is from persons over Just how banning the press was
slammed down a "brass" curtain the nation who are curious about expected to ease the situation was
at the Dayton (0.) Afr Technical flying sauee,s. not explained- unless the ~ • ~ •
Intelligence Cent e 1• (ATIC), "The mail has become so heavy figures this will reduce the n mber
where flying saucer reports are that the two or three persons de- of flying saucer stories.
investigated. tailed to investigating unidentifie ,
flying objects- called UFO's- are
"The Air Force will be unable to not getting anything else done," the
honor visits (including the press) Air Force official sai.d.
to the ATIC because the volume of "Actually, UFO's are supposed to
refests for information has seri- be only a small part of the investi-
ou y interferred with investiga- gative work done at the ATIC."
tio s," an Air Force spokesman here The flood of mai) from the public
sai today. was attributed to newspaper and
' said the original official policy magazine articles about flying sau
•.n.,i heen to exclude visits by news- cers. Singled out were two current
Times-Herald
l ash. Post
Wash. News
lash. Star
N.Y. Herald Tribune _
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N.Y. Mirror
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Date:
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'THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE'
Are 11,ey Hiding Tl,ose
Lights Under a Bushell
By EVERT CLARK
Mysterious red lights which have flown over the Quantico Marine Base 22 times in
the past six nights were officially explained away today as a new type of aircraft
navigation light. But most of the Marines who saw them still don't believe that's what
they were.
In addition, The News ran
into what seems to be a delib
erate attempt to cover up cer
tain facets of the longest con
tinuous ''flying· saucer" run in
history.
The first man to see the light
was Pfc. Norman Vie ts, 18, of
Greenville, Pa. Since' then, at least
,. 30 other Ma rines, including half a
, dozen officers, have seen It, too.
On one occasion, sent ries report
I ed seeing three ligh t s at once. They
( say they have seen the lights drop
straight down, fly straight up and
stand still.
Even the most • c a r e f u I-and
skep tical-observer, the base pr ov
ost ma rshal, Maj. D. D. Pomerleau,
admitted the lights had character
istics he never expected to find on
an airliner.
FIRST SIGHTING
Pfc. Viets was standing sentry
duty at the Tank Parle a few miles
north of Camp Barrett on the south
western side of the Quantico reser•
vation at 9:05 p. m . Dec. 30 when
he "reported a moving, blinking red
light near his post which he could
not explain."
The sergeant of the guard, Sergt.
Francis R. Salinder , "investigated
and saw the light but could not ex•
plain it."
Pfc. Viets told The News the light
fi rst appeared to come s traight
j
1,
toward him over a line of t rees about
200 yards to the south o.f his post.
"It was about a foot a nd a ha lf in
diameter," he said, "only going about
10 or 15 miles a n hour. Then it fol•
lowed the tree line about 50 yards to
the righ t and went down.
"It went straigh t ~own, all of _a
sudden. F'itteen minutes later 1t
went straight up and moved over
h ere toward the tank shed.
"I saw it two times aiter that. It
162__ 81f;lf /l THE \r~ASHI NGTOH DAILY l\TE\1S
did the sarne thin~- It was the NOT RECORDED Greater washington Edition
weirdest looking thmg I. ever saw.
There was no e n~ine"n~e"'a~<!. no 148 JAN l2 ,~04 1-5-54
s hape-just the light. •
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NO SALE
By the time The News talked to
P k. Viets at Quantico yesterday,
the airplane navigation light theory
already had been offered. The News
asked Pfc. Viets about it, and he
said:
"That was no airplane. I first
thought it might be a weather
balloon, but it wasn't. Either way,
you could have seen the s hape."
Pfc.- Viets and Sergt. Salinder saw
the light again at 10:15 the same
night. Five minutes later they called
in the roving guard from a nearby
guard tower, but the light was gone.
CONFLICT P fc. Bennett (top front) ~rabbed a butcher knife and said: "It's land
First reports had It that troops h1g in Ule tanlt shed!" 1\'la.i. Pomerleau (middle photo) i.s skeptical,
were sent into the area to look for but still curious. Pfc. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convb1ce
the lights. Yesterday Maj. A. B. hhn "that was no alrplane."
\ Ferguson, -News stare Photos by Gene ThomBa
the base information of-
ficer, said that report was errone- • with troops," the official report sible way to describe the light's
ous. says. size, shape and intensity was to
"We did at no time dispatch Thirty minutes later, the sergeant compare it t o "the way a blinking
troops to fight off the invaders or of' the guard saw it again, and at
8:23 p. m. three lights .wet'e seen. red traffic light appears to a motor
capture then or welcome them (This was New Year's Eve.) At ist as he pulls up to an intersec-
aboard or anything else," he said. tlon "
However, this is what the official 9:01 it was seen again, and at 4:20 •
record says: New Year's morning it moved He heard no noise and saw no
"A IS-man detail arrived (at northeast, then south, theri north shape. He said the light was "sharp-
11:15 p. m., Dec. 30) f rom Camp and remained "over the tank shed ly delineated."
Barrett and made a search of the at an elevation of about 3500 feet." "But I have friends and a pro·
area in which the light was first 1'hat was the time Pfc. Vie'ts fessional reputation," he said, "and
seen. 1'he search proved fruit- said, "when they saw lt oome u1> as far as I'm concemed just say
less.'' there and lay under the moon until it's an aircraft navigation light.''
Fifty minutes later Pfc. Viets' re- morning." Sev.eral ail:lines that fly in and out
lief "reported seeing the same red Pfc. Viets' relief of the night be- of Washington say they began in
light." Se1>gt. Salinder saw nothing. fore got so excited he "grabbed a stalling new lights atop the tails of
HOVERS butcher knife and h eaded for the planes six m011ths ago. They blink
tank shed to help out his troops,'' on and off, a re red, and can be seen
The next night the light was seen his barracks mates said. much farther away than older types.
again, at 6 :25 p. m ., by a tank The light came back three times "Nobody in the barracks knows,''
park sentry and the guard tower. Friday night, once Saturday night, Pfc. Viets said.. ''They're just talking
At 7:10, it appeared again. This five times Sunday night and twice flying saucers, that's a:11. They're
time the sergeant of the guard last night. talking about men from Mars and
"came out and check~~ the c:,rea Maj. Pomerleau said the best pos- everything else you could name."
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Greater Washington ~-d· t·
1-5-54 ~ i ion
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Clegg _ _ _
Glavin1-- -
Harbo _ _ _
Rosen ___
Tracy _ __
Mohr ____
Trotter _ _ _
Myt1;tcry,Is Dissolved Winterrowd_
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Marines Decide 'Objects' Holloman -
Miss Gandy_
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i\.re N~w Airliner Lights
Authorities at the Qu~ntico as the Marine Corps is con
Marine Base last night took a cerne~, a spo~esman said.
long searching look at those . Until laSt night, however, the
• . . . hghts were reported to have
strange flymg obJects with flash- done about everything. Nine-
ing lights seen near the base for teen Marines reported sighting
the past five nights-and de- a mysterious reddish "blinking
cided they were commercial air- or revolving" light over the base
liners. the nights of December 30 and
Quick as a flash, airlines op- January l, 2 ~nd 3. Rumors that
erating out of Washington con- platoons of 1?,fant~y ha~ ~een
firmed the Marine Corps' guess. sent t? the landmg site of
An American Airlines spokes- the_ obJects and a ~eport that a
man said flashing red lights, vis- ~ehcopter fie\~ to mtercept th
ible for 10 to 15 miles have been llghts were discounted by the
installed recently atop the ver- Marine Corps earlier yesterday.
tical stabilizer, or tail, of its T_he base provo ' marshal,
planes. Other airlines also have MaJ. D. D. Pomerleau, who sa"-1
put in such lights, he said. the lights twice, guessed tha
A group of Ma1·ine officers they came from an airliner, bu
last night made a field trip to added that he couldn't b sure.
the "Guadacanal" area of the But last night the Marine
base, west of U. S. 1. They re- Corps had this final word:
ported: "This flashing red light, "Officials here are convinced
when seen for the first time. by that the unusual phenomenon
the unaided eye, creates an un- was a new navigational light of
usual impression and an illu- greater intensity used on air
sion of nearness." liners flying near the reserva-
~::..t ..l&&t:d the matter as far tion." • : !:::-.=
lash. Post I
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N. Y. Mirror
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/J._;'I Ladd '
l j i(, Nich9~ WJ!Z
~ BelmYn f f e
) Clegg--
Glavin--
Harbo--
Rosen - -
Tracy--
GeartY - -
Mohr---
Winterrowd -
Tele. R oom -
Holloman - -
Sizoo ..,
Miss Gandy-
ltlarines Investiga ting
,
Mystery 'Flying. Obi'!ct' Lands
N,ear Quantico, Say Sentries
lone of those mysterious flyin the sky and described it as a the two sentries, and the spokes
objects repor tedly landed near flying saucer," according to the man said the investigation was
• , pokesTltan. They notified the now in the hands of "higher
Quantico on ~ew Years Eve but Officer of lbe Day that it had authorities."
took off again before the Ma- landed, and the helicopter took The two sentries were re
rines could get the situation in off from Quantico. By the time ported off the base on pass last
band it arrived, the mystery ship had night and the Marine spokes-
• st risen and was out of sight. man was not able to supply thefr
A spokesman ~e er~ay con- The news spread swifty description of the objects, or
firmed that a flymg obJect had among Quantico personnel. One their report of its actions.
been reported near the base. report had it that two platoons The spokesman reported the~
Two sentries on duty at Camp were deployed to capture the had been summoned to appea
iarrett, a Marine installation thing but this was denied by the before high officers of the Ma
fbout 15 miles from Quantico, official spokesman.
J_
• rine Base this morning for addi (
eported seeing an object ~ " Statements were taken from tional statemen~s. r'
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Swedish Pilot ~eports 'Saucer'
By Unit.ed Preas
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 18-The .Swedish Royal Air Force
ordered a full investigation today of an airliner crew's report of seeing
a saucer-shaped object over Sweden near secret Soviet bases.
Gen. Bengt Norderskjold, air force commander-in-chief, called 1n
complete reports from all Swedish radar stations aft_.er joining the
defense staff in promising a detailed inquiry.
Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, pilot of the passenger liner, told the defense
staff he· and his crew saw the disc-shaped metallic object shortly after
noon yesterday over the southern Swedish town of. Haessleholm, about
·300 miles from the strategic Baltic coast.
"It was entirely an unorthodox, metallic, symmetrical and •ci1scular
object," Capt. Christiernsson said. "I was not at all scared, but curious,
1
very curious." • • • '
Capt. Christiernsson said the object !Jew faster than sourldl ab.out ,
5000 .teet above the ground.
Capt. Christiernsson said the object headed southward over a low- ,
lying 'cloud layer which would obscure it from ground observers. He 11
lsaid he watched it for about six seconds before it disappeared ln the
dire~tion of East Germany's Baltic shore. near the former Nazi research j
station at Peenemunde, now operated by the Russians. ·J
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H H PERS u-ttf't- ·i.·.ueory Bolshr.ed .,.
.>HUii n [ Lu Keyhoe's inter-planetary theory
was bolstered by a letter pub- aft! \\itllheld, and re~lwil)l
divulge the capabilit ies of our
lished on the j acket of his book aircraft, radar and electronic
from Albert M. Chop, former Air
SPACE SHIPS Force civilian expert on the·
saucer project, who now is with
the Douglas Aircraft company in
equipment are classified. All
other information with respect
to sightings is a matter of pub•
lie record, he said. •
California.
ByEx MARINE
Keyhoe maintains. tho, that
In the letter, Chop stated : the Air Force has refused to re•
• •"The Air Force, and its investi lease many analyses of sighting
gative agency, 'Project Bluebook.' reports. He points out that the
are aware of Mai . Keyhoe's con• names and locations 1cotinected
clusion that the flying saucers with the incidents could be de•
are from another planet. The
Hits AF Stand On Air Force has never denied that
this possibility exists. Some of
leted, if necessary. •
Wants Film Released
Keyhoe also claims that the
Flying Disks the personnel believe tbat there
may be some strange natural
phenomena completely unknown
Air Force should release the ,
final intelligence analysis on
to us, but that if the apparently the utah film.
(This is the last of three arti controled maneuvers reported In connection with this, Key
by many competent observers hoe recently sent a 1 telegram to
cles on the controversial subject are correct, then the onlY ·re high Air Force officials charging
of "flying sauce'rs" and their ma.ining explanation is the inter that since the Air Force had Im
investigation by the Air Force.) planetary answer." plied that he had misrepresented
Upon publication of the letter the analysis of the Utah film,
BY RICHARD REILLY either he or the Air Force wa
- written on Defense department lying.
Are th~ ~ f ! erJ r eal stationery-the Ail' Force chal
and if they are, what are they? The Times-Herald asked a top
lenged Chop's claim and said he Air Force spokesman if Keyhoe
That, in essence, is the ques was merely expressing his per had, in fact, misrepresenteC: the
t ion that faces the Air Force sonal opinion. Utah film analysis. He declined
and the American public as.well. Chop subsequently admitted to comment.
Altho it remains unanswered. it that he was not speaking for In his telegram - as in his
has stirred no end of opinions and the Air Force, but maintained bOOHi,,-Keyhoe stated:
theories. • that some of the investigative "The final analysis proved
One theory advanced from personnel had subscribed to the that t he saucer formation could
time to time is t hat the saucers interplanetary theory. He said not be explained as any known
are some revolutionary type of this was based on "personal con aircraft or other conventional
weapon perfected either by this tacts with these various indi· objects: ·
country or some other nation. vid1tals" and insisted that it was Cites Conclusions
The Air Force, however, dep• "a true statement."
r ecates t his possibility. In a re The spokesman was asked if
cent statement, it said: Charges Cover-Up / his statement were true or false.
"The Air Force has stated in Amplifying his theory that the He said that. to date. the Air
the past, and reaffirms at the saucers come from another Force has neither affirmed nor
p resent t ime, that unexplained planet, Kehoe claims they could
aerial phenomena are not a se-. originate from some other body d~i!111~~ also ~ontends the an~ l-
cret weapon, missile or aircraft in the earth's solar system y, s concluded the objects w ·e
developed by the United States. such as Mars or Venus-or from n t birds and were not caus d
None of the three military de- some other system or universe. b weather conditions.
p artments nor any other agencyJ1 Kehoe charges tha t the Air pccifically, Keyhoe claims the
in t he government is conducting Force is convinced that the
experiments, classified or other saucers are space ships from
wise, with flying objects which another world, but that it ls cov
could be a basis for the reported ering up because of a fear that
phenomena." such a disclosure would result in
Weapon Theory Discounted widespread panic.
In a¥ition, a high-ranking Air The Air Force, however, in•
Force officer indicated to the sists that this is not so- tr.at it Times Herald
Times-Herald t hat it is •believed is holding back no important
impossible t he saucers could be facts from the public.
a foreign weapon. J4_ White said the names of Wash. Post
Regarding the question as to P: rsufWift\rolved in th~ t ~ngs
whether flying saucers exist, Lt.
Robert White, public informa Wash. News
t ion officer, said the Air Force
helleves reliable observers such
as veteran airline pilots are sin Wash. Star
cere when they report sighting
unidentified objects.
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T he Air Force was tossed a hot
potato recently by Maj. Donald
E. Kcyhoe, U.S.M.C. <ret.> , who
claimed in his recent book, "Fly• lNOT RE'.COROE'O °l~~ • Y. Compass
ing Saucers from Outer Space;•
that the saucers not only are real
but that they are of inter-plane-
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Furthermote, Keyhoe contends Date: I~ ~ J. 8-~-:::f
that the so-called "utah film•
possessed by the Air Force proves
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intelhi!Bllte experts reached the tic physical evidenc~ey
following conclusions: • are interplanetary."
1. The average speed of the Continuing, Gen. Smith stated:
unknown objects was somewhere "For the Air Force to admit
bf.tween 653 and 980 miles per that flying saucers exist. it would
hour. wa.nt indisputable physical evi-
2. All the objects appeared dence. For such an admission, It
round, of the same size, and gave would want stronger evidence
off a bluish-white glow of very than it now has."
high intensity. Sunvning up the problem, he
3. The objects seemed to be said:
maneuvering in a circular or el- "So far, . the Q u es ti.on of
Jiptical pattern within the group, ~vhether flymg sa~cers exist, and
at very high speeds. •1f so, wl_1at they a1e, has n~t bee~
.
4. B~cause of these high speeds, way."
conclusively answered e 1th e 1
the obJects. ob_v_lously could not be But one thing is certain, he
balloons 01 buds. added. The Air Force will con·
5. They were not any type of tinue to seek the answer.
known a ircraft. • W Iii Push Campaign
6. The sighting could not be ex
plained by any conventional an Meanwhile, Keyhoe plans • to
swer. continue his campaign to com
pel the Air Force to disclose the
Asked if the _Times-Herald facts he says 1t is concealing.
could see •the final analysis re He told the Times-Herald he wil:
port, an Air Force spokesman continue to make his claims in
said that there were certain re print and on television. and will
ports the Air Force could not challenge the Air Force to deny
make public for security reasons, them.
risk of libel, and other reasons. "If any officia1. after reading
However, the spokesman said the final ana,lysis on the Utah
the film could be viewed at film, says that it did not rule
Wright field, Ohio. out birds, known aircraft or
Not Discoun t ing Theo1·y conventional obj e c ts as the
The Air Force officially neither cause of those objects, I will call
accepts nor rejects the interplan- him a liar to his face.
etary theory. I • "I do not like to use such
Brig, Gen. Sory Smith. Air terms, but after all , the Air
Force public relations chief, put it Force has, in, effect, been calling
this way: me a liar and I'm getting tired
of it."
"We do not know enough about Regardless of the charges and
it to deny that flying saucers counter-charges, so long as the
exist. Conversely, we have no Air Force has unsolved sightings
.Proof that they do exist. ln its files - and until it is
"In our investigation we are definitely known what the fly.
not discounting the possibility ing saucers are - the average
that. the saucers--if they exist,.... person is bound to wonder . . .
could be Interplanetary. We are
Interested in anyone who might
be using the air over the United
5t
Are the flying saucers real?
If so. what are they?
The final chapter is yet to b
written in this strange drama.
i Times Herald
Wash. Post
!4{1g;,vcvei we have no authen- The answer.J,s not yet available
to us. Wash . News
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o Fan Hysteria
ed Labels
'Saucers'
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U.S. Fiction
LONDON - fA'h- A S o v i e t
commentator Saturday accused
"aggressive force<;" in the Unit
ed States and ~ t countries
of inventing fl in saucers to
fan war hysteria.
Moscow radio broadcast ex
cerpts from an aritcle by
K. Khachaturov In the So\'let
army newspape1· Red Star, say
ing:
"Those who spread these fa
bl~s are endeavoring to create
the impression t hat the myste
.r ious object originate from Mos
cow.
"The mythical 'saucers' take
off from the pages of the bour
geois press every time the t'ul
ing circles of this or that ca~
talist country, on orders fro
1/ashington, are trying to fois
pon their, people the new hur-
f., n of miliUu·y ~p,nditm•e.''
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THE MIAMI HmALD
MIAMI, FLOOIDA
DECEMBER 28, 1953
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BOWLING GREEN O.•• A PRIVATE PLANE PILOT SAID TODAY HE SAW "AN
OBJECT BRIGHTER fHAN THE SUN FOR ABOUT FIVE S[CONDs . n WHILE CRUISING
AT ABOUT 80 MI LES PER HOUR TWO MI U:S WEST Of H£RE • •
THE PILOT. WHO ASKED THAT HIS IDENTITY NOT BE REVEALED. SAID HIS
PLANE WAS AT ABOUT 2 . 000 FEET THIS MORNING WHEN Ht SAW THE UNIDENTIFIED
OBJECT.
"lT LOOKED LIKE A BALL OF FIRE•" HE SAID. "IT WAS BRILLIANT WHITE•
LIKE f-10LTEN ST£Elf THEN IT TURNED BLUE AND TOOK OFF STRAIGHT WEST• IT
TOOK Off WITHIN r VE SECONDS . •
THE PILOT SAID THE OBJ£CT WAS TRAVELLING FASTER THAN ANY JET PLANE
AND WAS COING SOUTH WHEN HE FIR!;T SAW IT. J-IE SA I D T.H£ Sl<Y WAS CLEAR
AI\JD THERE WERE NO OTHER Pl.ANES IN SIGHT AT THE TI 1£.
HE SAID HE DION ' T THINK IT COULD KAVE BEEN ANY REFLECTION. Ht
ID IT APPEARED ABOUT A FOOT IN DIA 1ETER AND WA$ ABOUT THE SAME t~ ~~ t ,.,.. •
ALTlTUD[ AT WHICH HE WAS FLYING . '
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FLYING SAUCER
08SERVATORY
Not Optical Illusions,
Top Experts Hold
OTTAWA, Nov. 12 lCTPSl
Establlshment of a~nadian
government observatory for fly.
Ing sauc ers, the first In the world,
has been announced here.
"There is a very high deg-r ee of
probability that flying saucers
are real objects, and a 60 per
cent probability that they are
alien vehicles," Wilbert B. Smith.
scientist appointed to supervise
the new saucer sighting station,
told reporters.
He said the federal transport
department, in which he has
charge of the telecommunications
broadcast and measurement sec
tion, receives constant reports of
sighting of flying saucers. The
total number; he said, is classi
fied as restricted information.
"The optical illusion explana
tion is lovely," he said, "but in
every sighting t here is always
some factor that precludes this
explanation. We have decided ·to
try to learn just what they are."
Canada's sighting station will
be at Shirley bay, OD the Ottawa
river 10 miles west of here. Smith
said any one Iocaion in Canada
is sure to have at least one saucer
sighting a year. Associated with
Smith In the project, "which is
under the transport department
and the defense research board,
will be a theoretical physicist and
a specialist in gravitational
studies.
A 24-hour watch will be kept
for saucers. Specially built equip
ment Is wired to alarro bells. The
equipment includes an iono
spheric r eactor, electronic de
vices for measurement of sounds, Times Herald
a gamma ray detector, a gravi
meter, and oth er paraphernalia,
Jet planes may be sent up from Wash. Post
the air force field near Ottawa
to Investigate any saucers re
ported by the station. Wash . News
Defense r esea.rcb scientista
here never have pooh-poohed flv
ing saucers, which have been pub Wash. Star
licly reported in nightmarish
shapes and forms over .Canadian
cities. some of them have been N. Y. Times
described as mult icolored cigar
, figurations.
Frequency of t he saucer sight
ings h&.6 been noted here to rise
N. Y. Compass
With the increase in prox1mity
of the planet Mars to the ear th.
Smith said he does l'ioC ,aie'UUt
the possV>l*ty that the saucers --
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( SAUCERS )
THE AIR FORCE STILL I NSISTS THAT ttfLYI NG SAUCERS" ARE WEATHER FREAKt
l\
DESPITE ,C.. RE:TIPED W-ARHJE OFFTIER ' S ATTEMPT T0 PROVE THEY ARE SPACE
SHIPS FROM ANnTHEP. PLANET .
A SPOKESMAN SA!~ THERE jAS N° CHANGE IN AI R FORCE ' S OFFI CIAL VIFW. \I
ALT!-1'.)UGF D0NAL D E. KEYH0E, I N A B'.)OK "FLYI NG SAUCEPS FR0~11 nLJTER SPACE ," '
CLAI\1ED THE AIR FORCE. HAS SECRET i'IJ')VI ES PROV I NG THE OFT - SEEN GL'"'WING
lOBJ ECTS ARE I NTER?LA NETARY CRAFT.
BOTH THE AIR FORCE AND THE WEATYER BUREA U, AFTER EXHAUSTIVE STUDIES s
AGREED MANY ~ONTHS AGO THAT THE FIERY~ FAST - ~O VI NG OBJ ECTS SEEN BY
OBSERVERS FROM C0AST TC COAST ~E~E LI GHT EFFECTS CAUSED BY !E~P~qATURE
" Irv ER s I I) N. "
~EYHOE , HO~EVER. CLAI~ED HE SUPPORTS HIS I NTERPLANETARY SHIP T~E'"'RY
WITH OFFICIAL ~IR FORCE D0CU~ENTS. A PRESS RE LEASE PREPARED 8Y PIS
PUBLISHER "REVEALED " WHAT IT SAI D WAS A BITTER STRUGG LE I N HI Gu Aiq
FORCE CIRCLES OVER WHETHER T0 ~AKE THE ALL EGED 0 I CTURES PUBLI C.
KEYH0£ SCHEDULFD A COCKTAIL PARTY ~T 4 :0n P.M . FOR THE 0 RESS T0 PLl G
HIS BOOK .
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Gandy_ _ __
Whale-Lilce Air Force Balloons Rise 20 1'1iles,
So~v~ ·~~.:~~g s~:~::,~.~~~!~: ~~:d~ho~,~~~-,~~~u,rnnli
The magazine Aviation Week racing at tremendous velocities, travel in opposite directions at
1Y,-~
published a new report yester- whereas they actually are mov• different altitude layers. •rhe
day on \\That the Air Force has ing at 60 miles an hour or less. prevailing wind moves f~·om
. One evenmg after sunset West to East across the U111ted
found out about the upper at- many units of the Strategic States at about 50 000 feet.
n:osphere with its "l\loby Dick" Air Command_ in Texas were About 10.000 feet higher. how•
ballons-whale-like bags which kept busy try111g to catch and ever, the flow is sometimes re
have often been mistaken for shoot down a flying object that versed.
flying saucers. was actually a Moby Dick drift- Balloons have also carried
Since the big helium-filled ing along at about 90,000 feet various kinds or animal Ji[e
'balloons made their appear- in a glow of dust-refracted sun- ranging from fruit flies to mic
ance three years ago, the maga- tight. and monkeys, up to 80,000 feet
zine said more than 90 percent B-36 bomber crews, accus- The experimental animals hav
(of the '·saucer" sightings have tomed to flying high altitudes, survived such altitudes for 2
coincided with their Jogged as- gave up the _chase when they hours and have been recovered
cents and charted, courses. were left belund at 45,000 feet, to provide living d:;ila for scien-
The shiny surface of the plas- and jet fighters_ stalled tryin_g tific research.
tic balloons is an excellent re- to pur~ue th~ 0bJect above their Th~ oby Dic~ lloons are
fleclor of light. Long after the altitude ce1l111g. . . teleased almost daily at Tilla
sun has set and darkness has Another mystenous obJect, mook, Ore.; Vernalis Calif.. an
covered the earth, they shine llater identified positively as a Edwards Air Force Base in Cali
brillantly with the light re- research balloon, fl'oated over fornia. Two more Bites will b
fleeted from the sun at alti- San Francisco last sp1•it1g during used to take advantage of lat
tudes of from 90,000 to 100,- a parade welcoming Gen. James summer winds-the Moody Air
000 feet, almost 20 miles up in A. Van Fleet home from Korea. Force base near Valdosta, Ga.,
the skY., It shone as a brilliant white and Sedalia, Mo.
Vapor· dust or other foreign sphere as jet fighters vai11ly The big bags are made so that
particles in the atmosphere tried to reach it. On another they destroy themselves auto
make the light appear white, day, Dayton, Ohio. was filled matically when they descend to
redr purple, 01· green. Because !with "saucer" reports as anoth• 33,00,0 fee(. Recording nrachines
of the difficulty of judging er balloon floated over the city. and uu;truments a1·e parachuted
speed at high altitudes, the bal- The balloon flights have coll-; to earth.
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Pilot" Sights Small Flying Oise
Chasing F-84 Over Japan
By the Associated Preu
"about eight inches in diameter ,
UNITED STATES AIR BASE, very thin, round, and as shiny as
Northern Japan. Jan. 28.-The polished chromium; had no ap
United States Air Force last night pannt projections and left no
reported a small, metallic, disc exhaust trails or vapor trails."
shaped object made a controlled, He said it caught up with an
sweeping pass at an American F-84 Thunderj et, hovered a few
jet fighter-bomber and was ob moments and then shot out of
served at very close range by sigh t. The F -84 pilot, whose
another pilot. name was not revealed, did not
The report, from Air Force see it.
intelligence files, said the sight 1t was the second disclosure
ing was made over Northern in a week by Air Force intelli
Japan at 11 :20 a .m., March 29.
1952, by Lt. David C. Brigham of gence of mysterious flying ob
Rockford, DJ. jects over Northern J apan near
It was a bright, cloudless day. the Russian-Siberia area.
Lt. Brigham said he got a very On January 21, the Air F~ ce
goi look at the object from disclosed that "rotating clus rs
ab t 30 to 50 feet for about 10 of red, white and green lig s"
sec nds. had been sighted over North rn
l?c -L •~ f-1
T e pilot described it as Japan by American airmen:
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Times -Herald
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;i-~ Date:
79 FEB 3-195l
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SANTA F E N. M. -- THE SANTA FE NEW MEX ICA N SAI D TODAY THAT
"FANTASTIC"'STRIDES HAVE BEEN MADE I N THE FIELD OF GUIDED MISS ILE
RES EARCH AND THAT IT I S •P~ IBLE• THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MAY SOON
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CLEAR UP THE MYS TERY OF TH I Y i l.'JG 5811 C~Rs_
THE NEWSPAPER SAjD "SOMO.RAPS MAY BE REMOVED FROM SOME ASPECTS
OF THE HUSH- HUSH PROGRAM" AT A SPECIAL DEMONS TRA TI ON TENTATIVELY
SCHEDULED AT THE WH lTE SANDS PROVI NG GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER THI S
SPR I NG.
nI T IS POSSI BLE THAT THE DIS CL OS URE SOON TO BE MADE BY THE DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE MAYT IN PART AT LEAST, EXPLAI N SOME OF THE ' THI NGS '
SIGHTED IN SOUTHWES ERN SKIES BY BEWILDERED OBSERVERS WHO HAVE
TERMED THEM ' FLYI NG SAUC ERS ' FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME, " THE PAPER
SAID.
( HOWEVER COL . M. G. HENDR ICKS~. COMMANDANT OF THE PROVI NG GROUNDS,
SAI D TODAY THAT RESEARCH THERE " HAS NOTHI NG TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE
THE SO-CALLED FLYI NG SAUCER . WE ARE STR I CTLY I N THE GUIDED MISS ILE
BUS I NESS • THERE CER TA I NL Y WON ' T BE ANYT HI NG LI KE A FLYI NG SAUCER
DEMONS TRATED ." )
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- "FI\NTASTIC" '>TRIDF'1!tlfl\VE BFEN MADE I!~ T~E FIELD OF GUIDED !U'i"iILE
~~'ft,,-,
RF.SEARCH AND THAT I IS np~IBLB" TH£ D.CT£N"'E DEPARTMENT MAY ~OON
CLEAr. u? THr MV5 Ttn or. T1f •
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THE' NFw;PAPY::R SAJ D "50Mt~ 7,~~ s~1tr-rovrn FROM <;OME A~Pf.'CTc";
OF THE HISH-HlJ~H PRttGRA'.t1"' AT A ',PfCIAL DEC10N'":TRATION TP~TATIVEl.Y
t:;CHEDULF:D L\T Tiff um!1r , AND'i PnOVINC Gr?OUND-.; ';QiJTH OF HERE LA TF:R THI,:;
SPRING. _ l ..
.,lT IS PO,~I LE l1HAT THE DISCUY, U iF. JOON TO . F' 1-11\DE Y TttE DEPART
MENT OF ORFENSE MAY' IN PART AT L£A';T 'F.PtAill <";OMF OF THF 'THINr.S•
C:IGHTED IN SOU!HWF'i ftrn. t <; Kl F'; DY BE\<TI tDER£D 01 ,, FRV. H, UH
M\VF
TERMFD THEM •rLVH'G :,I\UCER~. FOR LACK OF /\ ,.,fTTrR "AME, ft T n. PAPEn
~AID, - - •
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C:AID TODI\Y THAT RF.'~1 RCH THFRF "HAJ' IJOTHING TO l)O WITH ANYING LIKE.
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FIVE-STATE WHATZIT
Rosen _ __ _
Tracy _ __ _
Laughlin _ _
Mohr _ _ __
Well, It Sure Was '
Winterrowd _ _
Tele. Rm. _ _
Holloman_ _~
Gandy
Some Ball of Fire {)I 1.V .
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It has been pretty well established today that the "mass of
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flaming, incandescent matel'ial" which flashed across the sky
over Washington and five eastern-states last night was a meteor,
a flying saucel' "as big as a washtub," or a mass of flaming, in
candescent material. ~!----- - - - - - - - --
The Naval Observatory, the was sun-colored with a tail." (Sub
Weather Bureau and observers at urbanite.)
National Airport lean toward the • Shaped like a sta1· "about as big
meteor theory. as the inside of a tennis raclcet."
Scores of Washingtonians, who {12-year-oJd boy.)
saw it, leaned in all directions. SHOCICING
Police remained stolidJy upright, Four Frederick farmers saw "a
and the FBI had no comment. ball shooting across the horizon."
HOW IT LOOKED Near Washington, three United
But citizens here, in Maryland, Press
this:
correspondents said it was like
Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsyl • "A rocket with a fiery tall ...
vania and Ohio couldn't be silenced. It shocked us, it lool<ed so close."
They said: (Frank Eleazer.)
• "Suddenly this thing came • "A big magnesium f lare . . . It
swooping down from the eastern gave off sparks." (Robe1·t Loftus.)
skies. It looked like it was right • It plunged out ot the sky "very
. above the housetops. It was a ball fast," like a plane shot down in the
o! bright greenish fire with a long war. It was trailing a tail of
tail." (T his was a housewife). flame."- (John A. Goldsmith.)
• "I thought it was a flying George Lincoln, of 756 S. Green
saucer. I thought it \vas a flare a t brier-st, Arlington, saw something
first-that is, I thought it was a "about as big as a wash tub. I was
flare until the darned thing swooped sure it was going to crash, some
down- and then up again. It seemed place," he said.
to follow the contours of the road.'' A Maryland state trooper, sitting
(Army veteran). out his lonely vigil atop Negro
• "It looked at first look like a Mountain in far Western Maryland,
P,lane on fire, it was that big. It said "it" passed over him, too.
Times-Herald
Wash. Post
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Wash. News
Wash. Star
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N.Y. Mirror
N.Y. Compass
I-= I Date :
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Mr. Tillson_ _
Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols _ _
Mr. BE>lmont __
Mr. Clegg _ _
Mr. Glavin_ __
Mr. Ha.t·bo _ _ _
!\fr. Rost>n ____
Mr. Tracy___ _
Mr. Laughlin _
Mr. Mohr_ __
Mr. Winterrowd.
Tele. Roo1IL-
Mr. Hollomall.
Miss Gandy_ _
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~ igh-Flying Bomber
Caused New Disc Tale
Special to The Inquirer
READING. Pa., Aug. 28.- Air Na- quent. to keep interceptor teams on
the alert.
tional Guard officers and control The aerial display on Monday waa
tower operators of t he C ~1 witnessed by hundreds of Guards.
Aeronautics Admlnist;\l,tion today men of . t h.e 112~h Fighte~ Wing,
"cleared up" the lates~ ying saucer J:'.0 nnsylvama-Maryland Air Na-
. . t1ona l Guard, as well as officers who
mystery, as evolved m the skies over watched the maneuvers throUgh
rks county last Monday. binoculars.
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'Ihe saucers, seen by a large num- Ai: N~tional .Guard officers ~~ii
r of persons a t that time, a the 1epo1 t sub1:rntted by Han-y F em
. auer, 43, of Birdsboro, who said h
okesman said, were vapor trails thought he saw a plane release
of a B-36 inter-continental bomber flying saucer In the air Monda
and a jet plane. which CAA tower- morning, probably had to do with
men said were flying at an altitw;le the jet which he saw div;; ~n the
of 40.000 to 45.000 feet. bomber.
T he j~t left a bigzag •trail as it Nor .did the Guard's e,·planat!on
. . . . . dovetail very. clooely with th~ a c
d1 ved m on the. big bombei m a count given by Herbert Long, 29,
mock mterception attack. The Kutztown insurance salesman, Wi>')
spokesman said such air shows were bold of seeing a flying saucer 30 feet
frequent when atmospheric condi- in front of his automobile Mopd
tions were right for the hot exhausts night. off tbe All11ntowt1 pike ne 1·
from engines to freeze at high alti- Maxatawny. Long said he saw t e
tude. object so clearly t hat he Was ab p
The big• bombers, the spokesman to make a. detailed drawing ot •
·plained, often fly far out over the ~ .
ean, and when they approach th[
astline on their return journeys
; e)I are observed on radar screens
nd jets are sent; up to intercept
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THIS fS IT A sket ch of t he flying saucer which Her.
bert Long, 29, a Kutztown, Pa., insur.
ance salesman, contends he saw par ked on a road 30 f eet
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from his car. He said he was too f rightened to approach it,
He's sh<1Wn (left, below) giving L~roy Gensler, artist,
directions for the ·ketch. (AP Wirephotos)
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An11c9rtes, m o,·cs swiftly through the d,y, seeming ture at l / J 00th of • 1econd. E lliott w u unable to
ly • p ort of e cloud formation. Rut is it ? Wa lter d etermine the n ature of the unusu al object ..,h ich
Elliott of Ana cortes was prep aring to t ake a pictu re quickly disappeared, ~ CA..ot lat, d p,.. , Wlr,pholo, )
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