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THE LOUISVILLE
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By Alert Times Photographer ,
Yes, we have some flying saucers today, and for the first time,
here are moving pictures for proof.
Many have reported seeing the officials. None had heard any
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Al reports of a "flying saucer." He
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was advised to iniorm military
Hixenbaugh
to do something officials at Godman Field.
about it-with his trusty 16 mm.
Godman said it would notify
magazine-loading movie camera. flight headquarters at Wright-
"Hix," Times staff photog-
Patterson Field which might
rapher, took 50 feet of film in send an aide to examine the
which the bright flying object films.
shows clearly in all. Army of- 1--------e--=
ficials have been informed and
have indicated eagerness to ex-
·amine the pictures.
The photographer was at Long-
est and Everett Avenues, near his
home at 2205 Longest, at 4:15 p.m.
yesterday. He was on his w] to
take some movies of birds.
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Suddenly he heard the ro
of
a big plane -
a twin-mot red
DC-3-and glanced overhead. At
first he thought it was a jet
plane.
Then he looked to the
west of the plane, which was
flying south.vest toward Standi-
ford Field-and saw the large
disk.
It ,bad a slight corona
around it and seemed to be lower
than the plane.
He aimed his camera and fired.
While he ground out the film, he
said, the object appeared motion-
less for about 10 seconds.
"It stood practically still, like
--a balloon," he said.
Then it began to get smaller,
finally vanishing into the west.
While the "saucer" appears on
all of the film he took, the plane
was out of the picture field
quickly, appearing only on about
10 feet. The disk was within his
vision \'about a minute."
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"Hix" contacted the newsroom
at WHAS and from there Jerry
Gammons c a 11 e d
Standiford
and Bowman Fields and weather
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By Times Stall Photo£rapl r
Here's Real Flying Saucer, If There ls One
This is what a "flying saucer" looks like, if there reall;r is such I
a thing. Al Hixenbaugh, Times' photographer, snapped movies of
the object yesterday. The object appears almost as big as the twin•
motored DC-3 t~.\qe ;ight.
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The Louisville Times
Louisville, Kentucky
June 28, 1950