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• • tr. S. Planes Hunting DisCS; .Russ T~lls of ~tom Saucers' I r $ }?BJ Probes Story of Soviet Ship Officer \ LOS ANGELES, July 6-(Spe clal)-Federal agents today In vestigated a Jetter to the Exami• ner describing Russian supersonic atom-powered planes resembling the "flying saucers." A top flight atomic scientist to whom the Examiner referred the letter said It was "not all non•I i.en, e," and suggested the matter be turned over to the FBI. The letter writer !laid he gotI the Information from an officer aboard a Russian tanker recently Los Angeles harbor. LLED EVEN WOR:\IS ,;he Ru~slan, he said, also de· scribed experiments with con trolled radioactive clouds In the Arctic, where birds, animals and t\·en worms were kllled. The plane11, as described by the Rus~lan to the writer, are only 18 Inches thick, With a kidney !haped outline and no propellors. The pilot lle11 on hl11 stomach ftnd Is 11.rtt!lclally cooled agal! t the beat developed by air ! c tlon. "The outer 11urface I'! hight ollshed,'' the Russian sal Both upper and lower surfaces re convex, like a giant lens, he lilting force ls an entirely different principle found about 10 years ago among unpubllshed papers of a Russian chemist. "Ener gy Is required only for t'llmblng, but no energy Is need ed for support when the air plane goes along the earth's gra,•ltational contour lines." The writer of the si ange let• er said he met the R sslan of• ICl'r in Wilmington an because .e wanted to hear abo Russia, wiled him to dinner. ~te ftawilan first !lsked where he could sen 18 polG'oear=t,elts which he received " for very dan gerou11 work." He said he had been assigned to go over the route of the radio active cloud nea r Lake Baka! (or Baykal) and pick up dead animals. ALL LIFE DESTROYED "They loaded a few 11mall ships with a ll kinds of animals and directed thf' cloud over them," the writer said. "During this experiment, a violent storm blew the cloud far north Into the tundra, but before It dissipated It destroyed all life on Its way. "The cloud may be controlled from la nd, from a plane or from a robot-piloted 'leader.' '! I understa nd It, the control based on electro-magnetic ave~ and the cloud has t wo m1Jonents : The carrier and t he killer.'' • l 'ENCLO E._ ,.~ h J ~. ~w l,tECORDd F J.~ 32 J 16 ~, .J 60 OCT l