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MONDAY, JULY 7, 1942

RADIO-GUIDED, SAYS LAD

"I'd like to give my opinion about what the flying saucers really are," Michael Eisman, 10, told The News this morning.

The grammar school youth, "in the fifth grade and going on to the sixth" at Crestline Heights School, eagerly gave his theory.

"They are new radio-guided rocket discs from another country that is planning war on the United States," he said.

"They are equipped with cameras. They will be radio guided back to their home country. They go fast to keep anyone from seeing them. Then they hover and stand still to get their pictures.

"They have a reason for being over Birmingham," opined young Eisman. "It has one of the biggest steel mills, and the biggest cotton gin." Eisman said the "saucer cameras" were clicking the fruit industry on the West Coast.

As to what country is sending the saucers, Eisman didn't guess. Nor has he seen any saucers, he said, over his home at 4 Clarendon Road.