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In the huge Pentagon building
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Washington. headquarters ., f
e Defence Department, there~·s
n Air Force major whose du y
is to repeat to all inquirers t e
I bstance of the last Air For e
statement
on
flying
sauce ,
issued on December 27. 1949.
" Mass hysteria"
On the basis of inquiries into
375 alleged occurrences over a
period of two years. it was an­
nounced :
"Reports
of
un­
identified flying objects are the
result of misinterpretation of
various conventional objects or a
mild form of mass hysteria or
hoaxes.''
It was said a continuance of
the inquiry was " unwarranted."
But in fact it has appeared
during the last
month
that
edible witnesses who say.they
ave seen flying saucers are still
ing examined by Intelligence
fficers.
It was noted, too. how quickly
F
and how thoroughly one of the
most
comprehensive
of
the
newest reports has been officiaily
" lost."
Ours ? 1
Employees of the Civil Aer
nautics Authority at work in
control tower at Dayton muni
cipal airport in Ohio. in conjunc­
tion with U.S Weather Bureau
observers and four pilots of the
Air National Guard who took off
in fighters to look at the " un­
identified object "- they all saw
and submitted their testimony
to the administrator of C.A.A.
The Idea-sometimes seriously
advanced
and
often
half­
believed- that the saucers could
be exploratory craft from another
planet has infinite possibilities.
But until it is proved it may
be more profitable to wonder
whether
there has been
de­
veloped somewhere a disc-like
plane with a circle of swiftly
t·evolving
vanes
that
might
able it to hover or to flv at
1gb speed.
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If this or something like lt
urns out to be the answer. th re
aY be good i;eason for hop
t
here that it is one of ours.