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Swears 1-te Saw
Flying Saucer
B7 United l'ress
One House member who should
know said flatly today there is
no such thing as a flying saucer.
But anotl1er member equally quali­
fied said maybe not, but he has
aeen one himself.
Rep. Mahon <DJ of Texas. chair­
man of the House military appro­
priations subcommittee, said it
just isn't so what they say about
those discs. He had no concrete
evidence-but the solidest kind or
aupport.
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President Truman. Defense Sec•
retary Johnson. the Air Force and
the Navy all backed him up.
They said none of the armed
,ervices is messing around with
HUcers, and that nobody else is
:far far as they knew. The pe[ple,
they said, are seeing things.
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an who says he saw one.
A member of Mahon's subcommit­
tee, he also is a candidate for
governor of Michigan when he
Isn't helping dole out the money
1t takes to keep the military In
business.
He said the fact that he saw
a flying disc may not be evidence,
but it sure was convincing.
It happened about 1 p.m. one
day last summer at Elsie, Mich.
Several other citizens. all of the:tr).
gober and well thought of, saw it,
too. Two of them chased it in a
plane, but the thing un!d'rtunately
::!;~o high and too fast and got
Mahon put it this way:
"I guess my subcommittee would
know if to.ere were anything to
this flying sauce1· ousiness. We
even knew about the atomic en­
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"I am quite sure the military
establishment would have told us
if they were working on such a
thing a.s a saucer. But the fact is
they haven't said a word about it."
As far as Mahon is concerned
the saucer is "just a fanta.sy."
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~gel said maybe so, maybe not.
It 1s perfectly true, he said, that
none of the subcommittee's wit­
nesses ever owned up to any con­
nection with saucers . .But then, as
far as he could recall, nobody
•ver asked them about it.
"I am confident of this." Engel
a&ld. "If there are any such things
as saucers, they are ours, not
aomebody else's. It another coun­
try were sending them over. I am
11ure the subcommittee would have
heard about It."
Denials Repeated
Ai;r Force and Navy officials I
ha.ve been denying the existence]
of "flying saucers'\ all along. And
& Defense department statement
late yesterday reiterated the de­
hials.
But indications were t hat re­
ports of the mysterious flying ob­
ject would continue. L. Nobel Rob•
inson, managing editor of the
U. s. News and World Report said
his magazine had expected ' offi.
eial denials of Its story that the
aaucers ~re a ''revolutionary type
of new aircraft," probably built by
the Na~r=
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