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DIVISIOU OF
PDSS IlfTELLIGDCE
OOVEUMENT
IllFO~
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BUlUW1 OJ' THE llUDGET
SI~ V Bl~g,
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L6a.Agelee , Cal
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F ederal agents ye erday in­
vestigated a letter to _the Exam­
iner describing Russian super•
sonic atom-~ered planes re­
sembling t~E!--"flyi~
aucers.".
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A top-fhgh1 ~I
c sc,eii'bst
to whom the-It""xp.miner referred
the Jetter said 1t was "not all
nonsense.'' a.,pd I suggested the
matter be lu1~4 over to the FBI.
The Jetter writer said he gotj
the informat"o_n from an officer
•aboard a Ru
an lan~er recently
in ELoA·s TAJ1g ces
az!P
or.s-J
scri ~ radioactive gd 1ds in !he
tr~llt~
whef~·rd.."'
iimal.s ~nd
At c ic,
s
e
even worm
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The plane .
d er· ed 1',Jl"the
Russian to thfl
.
' areaonly
18 inches thick, with a
{ J n(!y­
ed outline and n9 propellers..
1sh~e pilot }lcs on his .stomach,
he Russian .said, and i.s artifi•
t !ally cooled.Blfa!n~t tH'e heat de­
c Joped by a+t-R'ictio'i.
ve "'fhe outer surr~,'e o!, the
Jane is hiptlY .;6h~h~d,
the
P •ter i,ald the Russian told
"'._fl
"Both upper and lower
~;'faces are c~n".ex, like a
iant Jens. Th_e lifting fore~ is
g
tirely diffei ent principle
;:;: abou( . '10 yeal's. alo
O
011g 1mpulih~h41 pa.peis
a
am
t •nd developed
"
usslan chen s
R
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recently a.tone ?f
uss as re•
carclJ Ja.bo~·iitorie1. d oulY l
'')l:nergy is req1 ;effY Is~..,. .
c irnbil'I~, hut 11:1; ,;:,. thll :,i .
f>d tor 1111PP0t,
(l}P ·'ilurt s
111,w g-oes
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-...-. ""l'i:>orts ?f- lhy' tJ~·
ed off sh~ '):)ly m
·e~ area ,y1'jstcrday am
aid they ha~ rcceiv_'d
ca!,_ about, them m the city
county sinl:"e Saturday. I
Leonard Posella. 14J _}Jf ~7
•
. y drive, 11
·\ ed a ll';;
1g:;'!,_l'T1X-"-=
po of 20 near Grif
flarlc going
no we!'t
t 500 feel. ..d s s::iid I hi:lv
or I~ :: ==x:~•:;:c ::,-::: = r~
were round and ~ t,•ery "with
Th.e-_wril!?r of the stra_nge !~_!· their noses pointing up·Nard," a1
ter said he met the Russian ott1- he watched them foe
tii,ree
cer in Wilmington \ltld, because \nl'mvt=::.
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• he wanted to hear about Russia, __ ._
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. stroyed all life on its way.
1 ~ "The cloud may be controlled .
om land, from a
plane or
JR U 5 S J!!sCT111
' th~~~~i!!'; ~;~:ere!:~ :iment, a
violent storm blew the cloud
far north into the tundra, but
before It .dissipated it
de-
Russian officer to anothet· dinner, ,
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but when he came the second
The Rus •
he said, also d
time his tanker was leaving unex­
.b d expet·lments with co ·1pectedly and he could only say
,
very
o htt,·e
• bomh.''
On thr other
url, he decried
the efforts of some g!'oups who
take advantage of "all this flying
disc talk'' to stir up suspicion of
Rus~i1!'<; inl~otionli.
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invited him to dinner.
The Russian first asked where
he could sell 18 polar bear pelts
which he_received "for very dan­
gerous work."
He said he had been assigned
to go over the route of the run­
away radioactive cloud near Lake
Baikal and pick up dead animals.
ANIMALS KILLED­
"They loaded a few small
ships with all kinds of animals
and directed the cloud over
om a. robot-piloted 'leader.'
s I under,stand it, the control ;
is based ow- electro-magnetij
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waves and the cloud has tw
components:
The carrier an · · ,
the killer.
"I asked him If the Russia
have an atornic bomb. He said
he doubted it, because the
atomic bomb cannot be used
without kllllng innocent people,
such as children and women.
But they have atomic energy,
which they use for propelJlng
s 111>ersonic airplanes."
The writer said he asked the
good-by.
The nuclear physicist consulted
by the Examiner said it was dif­
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!lcult to appraise the value ol
tl~e ~et~erl ~ecause of,,thq writer's
ec mca 1gnoran~e.
''The.._[_e~ 11n1>l31 ng that
the Russians woulUn' us~ the
ittom bomb It thel·
111 1t ts'
~~•HIP T hP Ru11
111·ould
like
murh
thP
The Examinrr h:id lv.·o mon,
ppod<; ~f flyrn~ di:,ci; y -;t<'rday.
tt••d Dnrt11;P or i::lR ~ 'l'it•h l "·
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1, , ~v,·nu,, !-\111d tw was in \\ •st:
I,"" P,111< at 12 02 p. m. 'lwn
saw one flying westwai
at
00 to :JOOO feet. He said it vas
silent, round and shiny and was
not an airplanr.
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Mr. Tolson___
Mr. E . A. Tamm_
Mr. C l egg___
Mr. Glavin- - ­
Mr. Ladd_. ___
Mr . Ni chols
Mr . Rosen-­
Mr . T r acy_ ___
Mr . Carson___
Mr . Egan____
Mr. Gurnea___
Mr . Harbo___
Mr.
•Mr. Jones_ ___
Mr. Leonard
Mr. P enn ington_
Mr . Qu inn Tamm_
Mr . Nease_ _ _ _
Mi s t.,.Gandy___
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