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'Flying Saucer?':
,WeirdSpy Disc
•Sighted By Ship i
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' moon, sho0Ll11g up from n cai· .sea
level and disappearing in clouds
at .5,000 feet, was sighted at sea
last night 80 miles east of New
York.
OWcers of t he Dutch
liner Groote Beer 1·eported the
incident when the vessel arrived
in Hoboken.
1
"l don't know what it was,"
11aid Capt. Jan P. Boshoff, a
veteran shlpmaster, who sa.id
he watched t he obJeot through
his binoculars. "It might have
t been what has been described
I
r as a flying saucer, but I don't
j know what it was."
1 Through his most powerful
binoculars, the captain trained ,'
them on the object. 40 degrees
off the port side. Several other
officer similarly trained bino­
culars.
Capt. Boshoff described it as
"a flat object, resembling t he I
mon, at first kind of rray and
t hen t urning brighter on t~
lower part. and around t he
edges having bright spots as If
they were lights." He said it
was moving- "directly upward,
wltb great speed.''
He said he never had seen
anything like it before, an
added:
"l am positive It was not a
meteor. Nor was it anytbinr
tural In the sky."
Mr. Tolson
­
Mr. Boardnum­
Mr, Nicbols­
Mr. Belmont­
Mr. Harbo­
Mr. Mohr.­
Mr. Paraons­
Mr. Rosen.­
M-r. Tamm­
Mr. Siz•,O·--­
M-r. Winterrowd­
Tele. Roo!n..-­
Mr. Holloman­
Miss Gandy__
1954