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\Air Forces_ I nte lligence Joins
Search fo,liFlying Saucers
Armi Air Forces intelligence and about 50 other persons saw a
yesterdai disclosed it has joined
the se11ri:b fQ[ a lllling saucer.
Bizarre re12qrts on the whirling,
hiSh-s2eed discs continued to 12our
i.u, di:ai~iog au Qfficial ~.51t
from the AAF, much cynicism
from scien£~ i!D'1 tbe otiec Qf $lDOO
.fgc tbe first one downed.
The Air Forces, which has juris­
diction over the White Sands (N.
Mex.) Rocket Proving Grounds, de­
11ied the saucers are any of its
doing. "No such phenomena can
be explained by any experiments
bing conducted," the statement
s d,
E:rom the N11,val Research L~b­
o ator:,:'s Bear Admin1I Eanl F.
Lee !:!!me U!e £Urt !,Omment; "~e
concur in the Armi annowce­
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Ni:itb§r denied existence of $he
discs. but the AAF said statements
of witnesses are being correlated
"in an effort to identify the re­
ported objects."
With few States in tlie Nation
without at least one flying saucer
report, the AAF has a chore.
A Navy flier with five years'
experience tabbed the discs as
"space ships" afte1· at first consid­
e ng all reports as "crazy." He
t
anged bts mind, he said in Ala­
da. Oa-li!., yesterday,
after he
group of about "50 of the saucers
in triangular formation near Au­
burn Saturday.''
One report which won't trouble
the AAF is that of a commercially
operated, converted P-38, whose
pilot said he had knocked one of
the "pearl-colored. clam-shape
airplanes" out of the Montana sky .
He admitted the story was a hoax.
In Washington, Dr. L. R. Haf­
stad, executive secretary of ti
Joint Research and Developme
Board and former director of t
Johns Hopkins Applied Physi s
Laboratory, said:
"Poppycock!"
Dr. Jesse Sprowls. psychology
professor at the University of
Maryland, said, "There is abso­
lutely no limit to the delusion that
the mind can harbor. A tremend­
ously interesting social psychologi­
cal delusion," he added.
Dr. Ivan E. McDougle of Balti­
more's Goucher College, said he
guessed "it's one of those phycho­
Iogical epidemics where people see
things that aren't there."
But C. J. Zohn, 440 Mellon st.
se., who works in the rocket-sonde.
high altitude research section of
he Naval Research Laboratory,
t yesterday reported he and three
other men saw one "saucer" ~
N~w Mexico June 29. l{e describ d
See SAUCERS, Page 3, ColUllln S
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JUL 8 1947
WASHHINGTON POST