FBI file 62-HQ-83894, section 1

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In Yar,l (tnd H o ~ lte J sa~~\\.ard w Rlakeslee, A :soci-
. . . ated Prl'ss i-cieuce editor. sal i the
~aid the Army Airway~ Comm um- 1n tbe v.ue 01 we e nr.,w,.e~ t- whole business may be an orUcal
. . ] ,tness accounts came a new ~enes -~. .
cations Service had reported ate i comment~ and «-xplanatiuns, but illusion. . .
yestHday that ,o far IL~ rada.r most or them were tinged with a •·At a~r .distance .,,1~1ch 1~ close
scopes throughout the country slight tendency to laugh off the to thr l11111l of ho,~ far a person
have been .unable to. pick up any lwhole thing. ca11 ~ee," hi' ,uote, "~11 obJ.~cl,s
stra11ge obJecls In ~ltgbt. Dr. Winfred Overholser. nation• app, ar round or near!) ~o. I h '
And in the Pacific Northwest- ally known psychiatrist and super• law of sight covers bolh smi:11
where most of the fl~-happy plat-lintendent of St. Elizabetbs Hos- h \ seen nearby and large
ters have been r.eportid-the Ai·mylpital here, said it "has some of the t I g5 . ,
has radar equipment which ~an earmarks of being national hys- at gre •l dist an fog and darkness and pick teria." "Tht> ont> out~tand111g fact 11hout
up objects in the sky 200 miles "Everytime someone come, up ,•irtually all the ~au,·ers is that
a,, ay. with a sea-!·· most of the saucers have been re
fert. !hey would lest them. 111 one spot. ported, but added that hi~ trip
"The best way T can describe It," I III an 1so_lated ar~a. like the) did tllere was planned two months
~aid Kennedy, "was that it looked1the a\omic bomb,,' ago, long before the ,aucers scare.
like an orange lamp bulb without )laJ. Gen. Curt1~ E. Le)~ay. who General Spaatz is expected back in
the socket. It was going faster than a~ Deputy Chief of Air Staff for 'J'ashington late tomorrow.
any jet, plane I've eve1· seen." Rescar~h and Deveio~ment would :'.\luroc Army Ail· Field in Call-
11 Ha,zerstown, ~id.. Mrs. J\taj kno_w 1f lbe ~aucers mvolv.cd. ex- i'urnia had a P-80 je~ fighter stanw
n Ganoe, 30, ~aid sl1e had ~e<' perunents \11th gmded 1nlss1les, Lig by, and the National Guard I
t.e of the discs, racin& in 2-1 commented: <'rcgon had prepart'd six regul r
•mation at "lenific speed," fro "Whatever these people have fighters tn give chase shou :I
e1· backporch. ''They sounded Ii' seen it hasn't been anyth111~ re- sai•ccn be reported nearby, •
a faraway ll'ain,'' she said. ~ulling from experiments by the
• • " Anny Air Forces. As tor as I'm
concerned there's nothini; to it
at all. The whole ~i•=-...:
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