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With aircraft, including a jet plane, pEeudo-scientific explanations of the have something to do with exper!•
alerted along the West Coast In mystery.
ments In "transmutation of atomic
hopes of chasing and explaining
David Atamian, 5610 Shoemaker energy'.' caused a brief flurry by t~e
the mystery of the "flying saucers," lane. Bethesda, Md.. said he saw in&.titute quickly denied the repo1t
an Army Air Forces spokesman he1·e three or four "flying saucers·• trav-
Dr., Earnld Urey, atomic scientist
disclosed today tl\at the AAF be- eling north at great speed at 11 :45 at the University of Chicago, called
lieves "there's something to this" p.m. Friday, Mr. Atamian. who de-
it "gibberish" and saLd eleme1~s
out is completely mystified as to scribed himself as a writer of poetry, could be "transmuted" but energy
Just what. ,
said he was sure he wasn't mis-
could not.
Capt. Tom Brown o! AAF public taken. The discs, he said, were fly-
P-80 fighter at the Muroc, Calif..
relations said the ta.Jes of flat, Jng at between 1,000 and 2,000 feet Army .Airfield in California and six
round objects zipping through the and appeared to be of a bright, fast conventional fighters at Port­
sky are too widespread to be ground- bluish hue.
land, Oreg., stood ready to \ake off
less. He Pointed out that a number
Government sources denied that on an instant's notice should any
of competent airmen have reported any tests ii.re being conducted that " 1;ng saucers" be sighted in those
:;eeing the phenomena that have might be the answer to t he mystery. areas. some of the planes carried
been the talk of the Nation since A Navy official said the Navy had photographic equipment.
June 25•
checked all its facilities to deter- ,
Air-Ground Search Slated.
For 10 days, he declared. the AAF
has been checking on the stories mine whether an/ were se!!ciing
An air-ground search was sch~d­
"and we sUII haven't the slightest aloft objects that could account fo1:
uled to get under way today to 111·
idea, whithe things can be."
the strange sights. The answers vestigate a report that eight flying
Meanw le, from Washington and wet
uegative.
discs had landed on a mou;taln•
the rest f the country came mor
avid Lilienthal. chairman of th
sicie near St. Maries, Idaho,
full
reoorts
f "flying saucers'' as wel
ic Energy Commission, sai
view of 10 persons.
as· a
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FLYING SAUCERS, Pg. A-3.
Mrs. Walter Johnson. Di man,
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discs.
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Wash .. said the "saucers" cam down
in timber near st. Maries Thursday
evening, but were not reported un­
she returned to her home in
'.)ishman vesterday.
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She said they came into view at
xtreme
speed,
traveling
north .
uddenlv she said. they slowed and
"fl~ttered like leaves to the
"The mysterious part was that we
couldn't see them after they landed,"
Mrs. Johnson said. "We could see
them flutter down into the timber
we couldn't see that they did
anything to the trees."
She described them as "about the
of a. five-room house'' and
more like washtubs tha.n
Planes to Comb Area.
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Col. o. R. Do son of the Oregoni
Air Guard anno need a patrol would
leave PorUand Ore., today to in- I'
vestlgate the report and Sheriff'
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