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~4ew Data, Ideas
About Flying
Saucers
And Death of Pilot
Who Chased One
a, l:nllff Prtt1
DAYTON, Ohio, April 27.-Tbe
only airman who ever got near a
nnnr saucer c1·ashed and died be­
fore he could describe It, the D&7•
ton Journal-Herald said today.
Tbe newspaper printed a lengtby­
dlapatch on the mysterious flyinc
dlaca, based, it ,aid, on hitherto un-.
publlahed reports assembled at the
Wrlr\lt-Patterson Air Force base.
Tbe AJr Force Investigation hu
proved that the flying saucers "are
not a joke." Neither "are they a
cauu for alarm to the popula­
tion," the newspaper said.
The CIC>ftst any airman came to
the myatery discs was on Jan. 7,,
19'8, when one was sighted over/
Fort Knox, Ky., the dlspatch said.
Four fighter planes were sent aloft
to Intercept It, but only Capt.
Thomas F. Mantell wu able to get
close.
"I'm closing In to take a good/
look," the newepaper quoted him as
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reporting by radio. "It looks metal­
lic and of tremendous size. It's go-
Ing up now as fast as I am. Th~t•s
360 miles an hour. I'm golnz up
after It.
At 20,000 feet, It I'm no
closer, I'll abandon cha.se."
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Mantell's plane crashed a few/
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- minute later and he was kllled.
The paper said 11. report now on - -~-------------­
flle at Wright-Patterson Air Force on the other hand It wu not lm-1 are I
Base lists 240 domestic and 30 for- pos:-ible that they were. Later the consr
elgn accounts of flying discs as Air Force announced it was not form
having been investigated. Of these, mi:.klng any further comments on to a
30 per cent seem to have been the discs.
proa
weather balloon, and the like and
The Dayton paper says the report not
~ 30 per cent more are perhaps ex- on which ita story ls based said the
1• plal•ble conventlonally-Ieavln&' 40 "evaluation teams" stated:
far
per cent maa plalned.
"We can't prove or dlsprove the
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The Air JI' o r c e recenUy ■aid existence ot aoni,.• ot the remaining
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'l there wu no evidence that the unJdentlfled objects as real aircraft a
'\ dlsca w •re ,aided missiles fired of unconventional design.
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trom some other country, but that
"The possibility that the sau~
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