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11-" -.: ~ All if '/7 /f~J r .. ·, 7 4 73 203e llagnolia Aw.e. , Loa A!!gelea 7, <Jalif. Auguat ~ 194~ D'i.rect.or of Mi11'tary Intallegeno•, llar ~partma.nt, Waahington. 25, D..C. IJ;ear Sir:.. On SUnday a!tarnoon, July the Sixth, I observed something very strange ; 1 t 1a related. -- at least ill my own min~ w1 th t he phenomena of t he •Fabulow, J':3.ying ~uceraf and I cannot report on thia second phuaomena, without speaking or the first. As I do ~ot wish to be considered the victim ot mass p ■ychology, a crGok,-pot or-visionary, it is rather har d !or me to m....ke this report. I am doing it beoause I oonsider it my duty. A neirapaper article spoke ot the Bureau of standards as •Having a finger in the pie• in many experiments so not knowing whore to write or who to write t o l wrote to the Bureau, , and Ur. Hugh L. Dryd eh has suggested t hat you were the one to r eport to . I had been amused at accounts ot the• !lying saucers•. ~eryone was talking, laughing and joking about themand I di d not -believe in them~ l)le Hollywood T,arzana BU■ was par ked a t the Terzana end of the line and the driver was busy making out his .reports preparatory to malting th• return trip./ I was the only one in t he bus and I sat i n the middle or the side next to v~ntura.~o the bus was parked nort h ~nd south~ As I looked to my rig ht , a •Saucer appeared out ot nowhere~appar ently out ot nowhere and it was followed by several others; they were of uniform size and spaoed a t :tegular intervals and it seemed as 1! they turned a c9rner from the ~e st and they rolled along at great speedto the Northward and parXa.llel toVentura Boulev~rd. Tl As soon as I becameconvinced that what f saw was not an i llusion but what every one was talki ng about I ~egan to study them and it was right t hen that my eyas seemed to be drawn to this other phenoma in t he air between me and the •~ ucers". ~hat I saw waa milky whit• rays in the sunlight t.hat seemed to aria crosa like the search lights do at bight ; it was nothing like the aun shining on some bright obj ect tor the rays were not spaced and they were not so c.lose together and t hey eris crossed. However, they did seem to converge t oward a center but they d.id not ~eet t here. I rr ~hi ■ center -- a radioua or about eigh~een i nches it seemed trom~r eat, t here were spinning objects l! some red substance J ,..,