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By Unftcd Press
Air Force investigators-skeptical but intrigued
are trying today to locate an eccentric inventor
10 more than 10 years ago built two contraptions
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.,hat look like "flying saucers."
The disc-type ships, battered and damaged, were
found yesterday in an abandoned barn near Glen
Burnie, Md., where they had lain untended for nine
years.
"It is apparent that both ships would give the appear­
ance of flying discs,'' an Air Force spokesman said.
NO REAL PROOF
An Air Force officer last night described the two craft
as "definite prototypes o.f flying saucers,'' but the service
hedged today.
A spokesman objected to the word "prototype," saying
he Air Force has only reports of what fJying saucers
ook like and has never established that such things ac­
ually were seen.
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The Maryland inventor, Jonathan ~
!dwell, disap­
eared in 1940. The only possibility of' arr;.. connection
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between his old abandoned devices and the rumored "fly­
ing saucers" of recent years would lJe in the possibility
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that he went to some other part of the country, deved•
oped better models and flew them successfolly.
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A good many officers find it difficult to believe he
could have done that without coming to [Yublic attentio
during the periodic excitement over "£lying saucers" >in
the past two years. But they would like to find out what
happened to Mr. Caldwell after he left Maryland and talk
with him, if he still is alive.
Mr. Caldwell, who would be about 70 today, left the
Maryland ·.earm hastily nine years ago, after getting into
financial trouble with the state.
He took with him
his wite and son. Maryland authorities at that time had
ordered him to stop selling any more stock in his enter•
prise, "Gray Goose Airways, Inc."
Previously, he had
been ordered to stop selling stock in New Jersey and
New York.
NOT NATURALLY DISHONEST
Robert E. Clapp, who as assistant Attorney General for
Maryland, conducted the investigation of Mr. Caldwell's
operations in 1940, said in Baltimore today:
"Whenever he needed more funds he went out and
so.Id stock, and he continued to run the business as tho.
it were his own. He wasn't t,he ordina~·y type of frau1
dulent stock salesman.
I believe ne smcerely though
he had something and I doubt if he thought he was ,
eing dishonest."
For two years Air Force investigators have been run­
n ing down clues from coast to coast on reports of flying
saucers. The Air Force in the main has tal<en a skeptical
attitude toward the reports. Its last official report said
it just didn't have conclusive evidence that they either
did or didn't exist.
ONE TESTED HERE
Some of the flying saucers have been repo1·ted s0en
from the air, but traveling at such high speed as to make
pursuit impossible.
One military pilot crashed to his
death, reportedly while chasing a fJying saucer.
One of the craft found in the Maryland barn repol'tedly
flew here bri~fly aro~md 1939. It was said to have gotlen
only 75 feet m the atr.
One ship resembled a helicopter. But instead of :roto
blades it had a disc-like device about 16 feet in diam
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The device resembled two saucers revolving top t etter.
SmaU rotor blades jutted from between the two sa~ op.
The other craft, named the "Roto-PJane" looked cr~s.
a plywood tub about 14 feet in diameter 'The pil t 1 e~
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