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Grand Blanc Man Makes Plea to Ike

Film of Flying Saucer Up in Air

By Allan R. Wilhelm

The scene is a very good address on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D. C. The time is late last week.

A balding gentleman of distinguished bearing picks up a letter, blinks a few times in obvious astonishment and then pushes the button on his inter-com.

"Get hold of White (Gen. Thomas D., Air Force chief of staff) and Hoover (J. Edgar, FBI chief) and tell them to give Joe Perry back his flying saucer," he orders.

If such a scene did not take place, it's not because a Grand Blanc Township pizza merchant didn't write the letter. He did.

It all started because Perry, operator of Perry's Pizza Grill, 3079 Edward St., likes to take pictures of the moon through his big homemade telescope. Because he usually doesn't open until well after the sun is set, he does most of his celestial sight-seeing between pizzas.

A color shot he took about 1 A. M. on a cold night last month caused him no end of consternation. Looming against the full moon on the slide was a "saucer-like" object.

Perry showed the slide to a number of his patrons. When they saw it projected on a screen he has built into the wall of his grill, he said, most of them agreed that it looked like a flying saucer—or what most folks think a flying saucer looks like.

Then he read a newspaper

DETROIT DIVISION

Detroit, Mich.

( ) Detroit Free Press

Editor: Lee Hills

( ) Detroit News

Editor: Martin S. Hayden

( ) Detroit Times

Editor: John C. Manning

( ) The Klint Journal
Editor: Ralph B. Curry

Date: 3/27/60

Edition: SUNDAY

Page: 13 Col: 2-5

Title of Case:

62-83894-412

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