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Planes ChaSing DisKS
Find Only Empty Sky
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were flying over Lewiston Idaho
Sunday sent' hundreds into thei;
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yards for a look. Weatherman Louis ,
Krezak said the objects were mov­
ing eastward with the prevailing
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wind and probably were •~reed seedR.
tOAIr• Mys ery Three air transport pilots agreed.
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saw fluorescent balls circling o er
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By the United Press
Army pilots were ready Monday
for another air search for the mys­
terious "flying saucers" now report­
ed seen in 39 states and parts of
Canada as practical jokesters added
to the confusion.
Equipped with telescopic cam­
eras, 11 army planes searched the
Pacific northwest Sunday without
finding any trace of the flying disks
which had been reported over scores
of communities the preceding two
days. At Sioux Falls, S. D., a na- '
tional guard plane already in the air
was ordered to investigate a silvery I
disk with a shorttail which Gregory
Zimmer said he saw shoot across
the heavens. The pilot found noth­
ing but empty sky.
The army "camera patrol" over
the Cascade mountains Sunday in­
cluded eight P-51 pursuit ships an
three A-26 bombers.
Illusions Or Jokes
There was growing belief that the
concentrated aerial search would
show the saucers to be optical illu­
sions or the work of practical j~ke­
stcrs magnified by aroused imagi­
nations.
A number of "disks" whirled over
rooftops in East St. Louis, Ill., Sun­
day. J. T. Hartley, a locomotive en­
eer, gathered some of them up
d f o u n d they were made of
p essed white paper, 11 inches in
meter and with a two inch hole
ln the center.
Railroad workers
near-by mountains. A carnival at
Alabaster, Ala., was playing search­
lights on cloud wisps.
n argument raged at Lodi, Calif.,
o r the cause of a spectacular glow
• the sky and a roar shortly before
lectrical power went off. Mrs. W.
C. Smith said she heard a noise "like
Give 'Em Room
Newport News, Va.- Peninsula
airport here is taking no chance$
with flying saucers. Pilots report•
ing Monday to take out planes
found this notice on the bulletin
board: ''Two thousand feet ver­
tical and horizontal clearance re­
quired between aircraft operat­
ing from this field and any fly•
ing saucers."
four motored bomber" just before
the lights went off at dawn. Erving
Newcomb of the Pacific Gas & Elec•
tric Co. offered the explanation that
a low flying crop dusting plane
probably had struck a power lin
and b u r n e d out a transforme
However, no planes were reporte
damaged and no one could explain
wlf!C"\i Ciut> dusting plane was do­
ing in the air at da,;,,a bH i-.;Iay.
It was the first time any noise had
' been attributed to flying saucers.
J. U. Watts, jr., Darlington (S. C.)
attorney, said he saw an army pur­
sui~ plane chasing a V-formatio\l of
flying saucers at 250 miles an hour
3,000 feet high. However, no pilot
reported such a chase.
Saw One With Legs
Me an t .i m e, authorities were
plagued with reports that bordered
on the fantastic. An excited Chi­
cago woman reported that she had
seen a flying saucer with legs. "I
wrs standing on my porch and I
th ught for sure it was coming right
vn and slap me in the face," s~
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leorge Kuger of Denver said h
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, a flying disk with an America
fl~ g on it.
Francis Howell, Te m p e, Ariz.,
claimed he saw a saucer two feet
in diameter disappear behind a row
of trees near his home. When he
ru~hed to inspect it, he said, the flat,
thm, alumlnumlike disk took off at
a "high r a t e of speed" toward
Phoenix, nine miles away.
Mrs. Walter Johnson returned to
Spokane, Wash., after a vacation
near St. Maries, Idaho, and after
reading newspaper reports of the
flying saucers said she and several
others had seen speeding shiny ob­
jects "as big as a four or five room
house" disappear into the forest
covered mountains.
he first. of the saucers over New
Y rk State was reported by Mrs.
K nneth Wohley of Rochester,f,.
Y who said she and her husb d
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saw an object "about the size of n
ordinary saucer" flying above
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ba_ck yard at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
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said they looked like locomotive
packing washers.
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