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, r 1ged from the theory that they
.-,,oi-ted by Rehoboth Pilot
1 v, ere radio controlled flyu.1g miss!les
stnt aloft by U. S. m1llt. ry scien­
• tists to the suggestion that they
might be merely sun light reflected
on wing taw of Jet-propelled
rest wenyon Believes Mystery DisCs,
0
planes.
' t-Propelled, May Have Caused Big
A. B. Cross of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
a
34-year-old
watchmaker,
an­
nounced he invented the "flying
saucer'' and.submitted It to the War I
Plane Crash on Memorial Day
eteran Delaware pilot, Forrest Wenyon of 123 Rehoboth Avenue,
Department in 1943 but his idea was /
th Beach, disclosed last night that In the past 10 months he has
rejected as not practical "at the
een objects now being loosely described as "flying saucers" but
present time.·•
he calls "flying mayonnaise jars."
Later, he said, he became con­
e particular di..t!erence between the mysterious object:! of Mr.
vinced that the department elabo­
•'s report and those which have now been observed in some
rated on bis plan. His model was
----=---------,40 states 1n that the former. accord-
powdered with a rubber band, Cross
' Jng to the pllot, held a true course
said, but he bel1eved atomic power
until they disappeared from sight.
now ls being used.
This would indicate a gu1f(w'"...,.
A Spokane, Wash., woman insisted
, , J~t an aimed missjJe while thP.
the objects she saw were ot such
c rse of the "saucers" has been
size that together they would take
d cribed by observers as trratlc.
up, the space of a five-room house
r
r. Wenyon said last night that
if they landed, but a Clearwater,
he first saw what loosely resembled
FI¾:. woman said the disks she ob­
a "flying mayonnaise jar" one after-
serl ed resembled "pie pans."
noon last September whi:P. flying at
A1, Rutland, Vt., a woman re­
about 1,000 feet. It was late in the
ported she and her husband 1
~ afternoon and the pilot was flying
nessed a br!Jliant object in
e
north.
night sky which she assumed to e
Suddenly, at an estimated distance
a "flying saucer" although it
of 2,000 feet in front of his plane
stationary.
J
·and traveling from west to east, Mr.
But at Cambridge, Mass., a house­
wenyon saw the "jar."l was going
wife said she saw "a group of white,
at tremendous speed
t the p11ot
flying saucers whirling around and
nwas able to note sever
tnings.
/going at a tremendous speed."
The most important f these ob-
The Mas.sachusett.6 and Vermont
hservatlons, insofar as ar xplanatlon
reports brought to 40 the number
is possible, is that the "jar" appeared
ot stat.es in which the objects have
been observed.
to have some sort of rocket com­
bustion.
Mr. Wenyon said that
With New England getting into
the game, the Harvard University
s- ;urts of silver flame from the tail
astronomical observatory took note :
ir
Carrying out the description of
1d
emed to provide the propulsion.
of the reports but said it had had /
n
e "flying mayonnaise jar," Mr.
no luck so far in photographing one
of the discs.
1-
enyon said that the tall appeared
ll
be a lld which had been per-
Tl.e mysterious saucers first were
reported June 25 in the State o
forat.ed and that from these per­
/) foratlons the flames escaped.
Wasnington, but Charlie T. Han,
let, superintendent of the Kingt.
1!J
In a matter of two, at the most
al three, seconds the object had dis­
port! Tenn., Times News composln
appeared owr and past Fort Miles.
room, said yesterday he had see
the discs two years ago,
"s The pilot did not see It land and
w doesn't know whether 1t did or not.
They were "of a. bright, aluminum
a
Then on June 2 while flying at
color" and "were going at terrific
speed," Hamlet said, explaining he
•re l,* feet In a Stinson four• passen­
kept quiet about them because of
ds ger ship Mr. Wenyon,~ pilot of 30
the ,.':>ak Ridge atomic bomb pli nt,
'.I• ye s' experience, saw
other "jar."
commission said they had no con- es
didn't say much about it to
then a war secret.
n(ction with the mystery_.
·s. Re oboth Airport attac es although
Lester Barlow ot Stamford, Conn.,
th
~e West, which orlgmatec\
e ,e he did mention lt.
r. Wenyon,
international known explosives in­
sa Jeer reports, continued to prxluce
with a theory In mind, called the
ventor, advanced the theory that
ob;ervers who claimed to have seen m
ederal Bureau of InvP.stigation.
the objects were radio controlled
the whlrl!ng dies and also bre:ught re
res
flying missiles.
forth one deflationary explanation er him so, he said. He then called
Reports persisted that the Army
of them.
ti
1e East.e1 n Airlines and the Civil Aero­
: was looking into the phenomena but
Bob Johnson, operator of a
y-
nautic Authority both of which
Gen. Cari Spaatz, Army Air Forces
ing service at Missoula, Mont., re-
gave him a sympathetic hearing,
commandant, said he knew of no
ported he had captw·ed one of the or thanked him and said they'd inves­
AAJ!' Plans to search for the saucers.
discs and found it to be milkweed :
tlgate.
1
The Navy and Atomic Energy
seeds.
Id f Or 'n
To date he has received no answer
Charles Odom, 23-year-o
-
,
from either.
t
1
mer B-17 navigator, theorized a 1r
Mr. Wenyon's theory is that one of
th
Houston, Tex., that
e obJects I these "jars" WM responsible for the
might be a version of radio-con-
- 'lrash of the Eutem Airlines plane
trolled "crystal balls"
ed by th e
I Port Depo,sit, Md., on Memorial
Nazis in the war.
111•hieh kllled 53 persons. HP
the
the planes,
,
Tl1ese balls, which flew to
the stories of that ac<:lder /
t1t1.,de of the bomber and appare
md 1-olieves now that t}-, ,
ly v.ere magnetized to fly along w.
···,on in mid-air, , ·•
sent b·
to rac
ib,,. 'lf witnesses. ·
'qta on
omb
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