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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
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,tness accounts came a new ~enes -~.
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cations Service had reported ate i comment~ and «-xplanatiuns, but illusion.
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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.
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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-
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seen nearby and large
ters have been r.eportid-the Ai·mylpital here, said it "has some of the t
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has radar equipment which ~an earmarks of being national hys- at gre •l dist 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
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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
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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.
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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. Ibeths not a one cC1mmented on the 300 feet.
he said they came into view at flying saucers sto•y.
Reporter Rees One
a extreme ~pee.d, suddenly slowed.
"I think they may ~e a little
He described it a~ clrcular with
a
then "fluttered like leaves to skepticaf." he adUl d.
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a ribbed framework and silver
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ground.''
to~1·eve~. Dr. O~•erl_1olser ~aid h~ gray in color. He said it appear('d
tThe mysterious part wai; th
w . 11 t trymg to dmni~s the mattei to have a motor with a propeller
0
we couldn't se~ them after th
a a Joke ''becaus..i the.re arc ~
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•
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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
anything to the trees."
1 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-
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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 Ih 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
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,. prominent atomic &c1ent1sts,
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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-
Loui~ E. Staie, national com­
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This would be the first one re- s1ble that the per~ons who claim~ mandei· or the Vetrran~ of 1''ore1g11
ported O\'er the DiSlrict, alth0ugh 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
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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
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01ees o
s ere 1 ·,
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messa!(e never arnvcd.
~aid he belle\'ed the saucer be as part of an expeumenl, but
'h A' F .
'd th t G n
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01ce~ sa1
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had seen was traveling at we '
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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 them 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 Tcan describe It," IIII an 1so_lated ar~a. like the) did tllere was planned two months
~aid Kennedy, "was that it looked1the 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
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 I
t.
e of the discs, racin& in 2-1
commented:
<'rcgon had prepart'd six regul r
•mation at "lenific speed," fro
"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.
~ulling from experiments by the
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Anny Air Forces. As tor as I'm
concerned there's nothini; to it
at all.
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