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{Neither A.irPlilne, Nbr ,
Cloud, ·Nor ·Balloon" .:,
B:r Unite<! P1·ess
overhead. It disappeared in thre~ or
Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, four seconds.
.
27, had a picture today snapped•
Two Portland, Ore., _police scout
;from the front porch of his home cars three miles apart notified head­
near
Seattle
which
authorities quarters at 1:15 p. m. yesterday
hoped wouJd clear up the mystery that they had sighted a group of
of the flying saucers.
strange objects weaving in a "play­
(It didn't.)
ful manner" 10,000 feet above the
He said what he saw was ground over the southern suburbs
neither an airplane, a cloud nor a of Portlan'd. Clark County (Wash.)
"silver balloon."
Deputy Sheriff Fred K,rlves, across
~Ile pilot and co-pilot of a Unit-
the Columbia from Portland, said
ed Airlines plane said they turned
he saw 20 flying discs "slewing off
their craft off its c o u r se near , to one side, almost in single iile"
Boise, Idaho, and c h as ed. a
.over the county court hou·se.
.
"strange object" for 15 miles. be-
T. L Huckaby of Pinc Bluff,
fore it outdistanced them or 'dis•
Ark., s11iil he saw a flying objec~
integrated in the dusk. Ca11t. R. J. • "about the size and color of a
Smith and Second Officer R. E.
Bluff area. . Decatur, 111., and
Stevens, both of Seattle, said "we
Salt Lake City also reported in
can definitely say that what we
today.
saw was not smoke, not a cloud,
At Philadelphia, Dr. M. K. Leisy
and not another airplane."
, of the Pennsylvania Hospital .fo1•
A similar object '-Vas seen by John MentaJ Diseases, said he saw a big
~orlett, United Press staff ~orre- dark saucer-like ?bject move slowly
ondent his wi.fe, and two friends across the sky Just beiore sunset
fom MJ... Corlett's back yard in yesterday. f'!.e said it was surround­
oise. He said it was a white disc ea by a luminous halo .a~d a~peared
lying about 10,000 feet directly to be propelled by whirlmg Jets.
JUL
51947
WASHINGTON NEWS
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