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,saucer passed over Charleston hea!
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y1ng ~aucers
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&y the Associoted Press
ing radar signals to the moon, "one
as
lbhanJs'o, uothreg,,d sahwlta slndgle t di
th
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war .
a , an
re race
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The Nation was baffled toda_y by o!
e
greateSt
t echno ogi
ts course before vanishing Into a
"flying saucers" reported seen m Jl achievements of the war and ac-
cloud
s tates by hundreds or persons, and complished _In absolute secrecy."
An · Army Air Forces spokesman
conjectures came ·from scores of
Da".fd Lllienthal, ch_alrman of the In Washington on July 3 said there
named
and
unnamed
sources Atomic Ener~ Commission, told ~he was not enough !act to "warrant
throughout the country.
Denver Post m a br;et telephone m-
further investigation" b t th
A·
to k tervlew that the flying saucers were
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Official Government sources
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In no way connected with experl-
Materiel Command at Wright Fleld,
a "Let's see one" stan~ oi:i the phe- ments in.atomic energy, the trans-
Dayton, Ohl~. satd It was _rnakmg a
nomen~>n, and no _sc1ent1st offered mutation o,.f metals or similar re-
study. Sat.uiday at Washmgton an
a detailed explanation.
searcn
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Army researcher admitted "we·re
Two Chlc;.go astronomers said the
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mystified" and the Navy said it had
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are
probably "man-made."
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ar • comman ~ng
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no theories.
,611,
undulating, flashing objects cer of the Hanfor? Engmeermg
First Reported June 25.
/QJuldn't be meteors," said Dr. Works In the Paci.fie Northwest
Fs1rard Kieupel' director of the Uni- where the largest saucer influx has . The first published report of "fly­
:Crsity of Chicago's Yerkes Ob- been reported, said the saucers were m g saucers·· came from Kenneth
servatory at Williams Bay. Wis.
not coming from. the atomic plant Arnold, Boise, Idaho, businessman
''We realize," s~id Dr. Oliver Lee, there.
pilot, who reported at Pendleton,
~
Oreg., on June 25 that h e had seen
·d_l£ ctor of Northwestern Unlver-
Credence in the saucers- widely nine of them flying at 1,200 miles an
sl~ 's Dearborn Observatory, "that laughed off at their fli•st' repoid hour in formation, shifting position
lth Army and Navy are working on appearance June 2S- grew as h
• "like the tail of a kite," over Wash-
an
rts of things we know nothing dreds of observers, many of t
m ington State's Cascade Mountains.
ab ut."
trained flyers, reported seeing ~h m.
Before SC'lffers had more than be-
Dr. Lee said the discs might repre-
A crowd of 200 observed a dis at gun to offer explanations such as
sent..the same 50rt o! th!~
M send-
(See DIS S,
age A-9.)
"reflections." ''persistent vision" and
"snow blindness," an Oklahoma City
private flyer, BY_ron Savage, said he
had seen a slm1larly shaped object
some weeks earlier but fear of ridi­
cule kept him quiet.
Then the reports began to filter
in, mostly from Individual~.
The
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•SCS
discs were seen in Texa-s, ln New
Mexico, In Washington, Oregon,
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Idaho, Missouri, Colorado, Callfor­
'-,.__ ________....;._·__ , ma, Arizona and Nebraska.
The
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er Lake, Idaho, on the Fourt.h ' number varied from one to a dozen,
of July. A _group o! 60 picnickers Iseen mostly by one or two people.
saw them at Twin FaJJs, Idaho. And
Sel'n by Group of 200.
in Portland, Oreg., so many res!-
Then the July -l deluge hit. Two
dents witnessed them on t he Fourth hundred person.~ In one group and
that t.he police department sent out' 60 in another saw them ln Idaho;
an 1111-cArs, broadcast.
hundreds saw them In Oregon.
A United Air Lin.es pilot o! 141Washington
and
other
States
,·ears experience walked up the ramp throughout the Wei;t. In Augusta,
10 hi.~ plane at Boise, Joking that Me., the Civil Aeronautic.• A<imin­
'TII believe in these disc.~ when I istratlon received I\ report that a
see them.'' Ten minutes lat-er he • dozen !)f the discs had been seen
radioed, i<hRken, that he had spot-lthere.
te<i ftve of them from hl11 plane. He
And, for the flrst time. the East­
WM Capt. A. J , Smith. His co-pilot, em States had their report.~. Ob­
Ralph Stevens, and hlA stewardess, servers came In with report.~ from
Ml~ Marty Monro, told the sRme Michigan, Louisiana, Pennsylvania.
610 .
INew Jersey, Indiana. Kentucl ,
ltne1111ei; in two points of Cali- Georgia, South Oarolina and ca •
la. and In Spokane-one of them 1ada's Atlantic seaboard.
Anny Air Forces sergeanl,-re-1 Near unanlrnlty was recorMd
led seeing the discs Saturday.
some of the discs' characteristics _
on.s in ditrerl:1l1 e~tions., te • 1fic
S.R ed, brl ht reflections.
tlru . 11ll son
Mr . E . A . Tamm­
Mr. 'C legg
Mr. G l avin
Mr . Ladd
Mr. Nichols- - -
Mr . Rosen
Mr . Tracy
Mr . Carson
Mr . Egan ·
Mr . Gurnea- -­
Mr. Harbo
Mr . Hendon--­
Mr . Jones
Mr. Pennington-
Mr . Quinn Tamm­
Mr . Nease
Miss Gandy___ .
round or oval in shape, flat and t1,-.
li with a peculiar undulating t CI•
t n. Size was moot and expre sed
b Capt. Smith of United Air L e~
a. "hard to judge" without kn w­
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the distance from the o~e 'er
to the objects.
2 D. C. Area Residents Say
They Saw 'Flying Saucers'
Two Washington 11rea resident.~
t.oda:v were on record as having ob­
served
the
m~•sterlous
"flying
saucers" here11bou1s.
A BethesdR lMd.) man was rr­
ported to have seen three or four
of these objerts at midnight Frld11,·
while In the vicinity of Fri•.mdship
Height.«, Md. They were <il'llcrlhc,1
RS being rapid. bluish 1md bright
traveling northwnrd.
Mr~. Martin Koll', 3202 V111Jey
drive. Alexandria housewife, ~~It
earlr Friday she s11w R l11.r1te roun
ob,iect floRtlng In thP 11outhwe11t
si•· Shr de<'IArerl II lli:ht i;hlnlnll
i
her face RWakenPd hn aho~ 4
a. . She went to the window n
11R • something rounrl anrl lar,iP
th
II '('<idlsh I ln·g...
It 11rrmrd to hP
lit 11ding Hill. Aftrr looklnl! at it
a few minutes, Mri;. Kole .saict llht'
el urned lo bed.