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·'Saucers" No
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Myth, Sayf
Researcher
Flying saucers are not a
myth.
At least, this is the studied
conviction of Leonard H.
Stringfield, director of civil­
ian research, Interplanetary
Flying Objects, 7017 Britton
Avenue, a former Air Force
intelligence officer.
In a newsletter to be llsue4
Friday by the research bureau,
Stringfield reported reauUa of a
26-mlnuk' Interview on flylnr
saucers
with Lt.
Col.
.John
O'Mara. deputy commander, Air
Force tntt,,lllrence, Wrlrb& Field.
He wrote that Col. O'Mara
"intimat~d" that the Air Force
wants to ''dispense with the mis­
conception that 'flying saucers'
do not exist.''
STRINGFIELD
REPORTED:
"Flying saucers do exist," the
colonel fold me, and he added
. . . (that) past contradictions
were unfortunate.
"f asked the colonel it there
were two breakdowns of saucers
... the interplanetary device and
the secret American missile. I
was first corrected on the term
'missile,' then the colonel said he
ved there were 'three breal
ns'-•the third, 'natural ph
ena.'
y
such
an
admission
ngfl.eld wrote, "we thereto
have the~e three breakdowns:
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"1. The controlled 's a u c e r-
fr
u
space.
•
•
s cret American saucer-
like device.
"3. Unexplained natural phe•
nomena."
Stringfield cont in u e·d that
when he asked the officer for a
definite statement on saucers
from outer space he was re­
buffed, but was told that Air
For~e research was "gradually
gettmg more data."
WHEN ASKEl) if all saucers
seen by Americans-700 a week
-,were U. S. aircraft, Lt. Col.
0 Mara replied, "Definitely not'
Something does exist."
•
,,. T~e Air Force . officer further
~ntimated," according to String.
f1~ld, that an official statement
will soon be issued by the De­
fense Department "which will
explain some of the past contra­
dict~ons and release the details
b~h1~d
many
(flying saucer)
s1ghtmgs.''
.
ean pretty well declare from
ev ence in my files," Strinrfleld •
l
tol
the TIMES-STAR, "that
so
flying saucers deftnitelJ
co e from outer space.'' 7UC'1 J
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CINCINNATI TIMES STAR, CINCINt ATI ,O.
Final
Date 9-28-54
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