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THE LATEST NEWS: Washington, J uly 29- Air Force ex~
p~ts said today that they are convinced "natural causes!"
a count for the "flying saucers" which have been dottin
.l al skies for more than a week and have been appearin
i termittently throtighout the country for more than flv
years.
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Maj. Gen. John A. Samford, director of Ai.r Force intelligence,
offered the further assurance that a six-year study shows
'·no pattern vaguely resembling any threat to the United \ 0~ ~.. :if.o2c-
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tates."
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Referring to the fact that radar screens are picking up what
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ppear to·be natural phenomena, Gen. Samford said:
" I think radar is beginning to tell us a great. many thiugs it was
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not built to discover- for iustance. about Northern Lights alll
atmospheric conditions aft.er a beat wave."
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Despite the reassurance, which was delivered in an atmosphere o
confusion, public concern over the mystery of the skies rP.ached a
all-time higll.
Twelve more unidentifiable dots on a Civil Aet·onautics Administra­
tion radar scope here early today threw the city into a dither.
(.lel'seY City reporte_d track-I
ng flying disks and one observer
they saw nothini,;. Air Force radaJ
)ffered a photo ~f an oddly-
equipment at a field near the CA
ha11cd clmnk of hght to f)l"O\'e
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installa tion ~lso spotted nothing.
Wash. Pose
The Air Force flew the experts I For that r~ason. the Air Defens
from Wright-Paterson Field. Day- planes remained ground~d. giving
\ ton o. to quell tlle gathering nse to rnmors that lhe Pentagon
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ala;·m. ' but
meanwhile,
USAF somehow was surre_ndering to the
planes were equipped with spee;ial "s~ucers." The !:u-
Force took
astronomical cameras,_ with which parns.to deny U11~. !lnd promised
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is hoped pursuing pilots may be pursuit the .
tnne a flying
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ble to take pictures of the phe- m~·stery is sighted with the nake~
omena.
eye.
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Air Defense Command planes re-
Meanwhile.
other responsibl
1 ained on 24-hour alert to chase Pentagon officials reiterated de­
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the ''interlopers" and, il possible. nials that the strange aerial light
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"shoot them down."
- or whatever they are- repres<'nt
Today's rash of "saucers" ap-\some _new ph_ase or U. S. military
red on t.lle CAA screen f.rom expenmcntation. They expressed
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1130 a.m. to 6 a.m. Airllne pilots firm conviction. too. tll,1t the
\\·e1·e nskcd to s~nn the skies l_hin~s 11re no threat to the na­
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