FBI UFO file, part 2

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Planes Chasing I)isKs
Find. 0nly Empty Sky\ --
Jokest' erG .A:,ld .adio announcement !lit! Wah ..
" .-.:t:I . were flyIng over Lew1ston Idaho'
Sunday .ent' bundred. tnto thej~ i
S C d · yarda: for a look. Wea.therman Loula !
orne orne y Kre.ak aald Itt. objeeta were mov."
jna&: eutward with the prevallinll
t A" M . wind and probably were treed aeeda. I
o Ir ystery 'T~ree &lr tranaport pll_o~ ..,r.ed_ ;
~ 8earahlll'hts on Clouds' ,
Ea t 5t Lo ' Ob· A Birmingham radio .tation Wat)S , UlS lee deluged with more than <00 cal
t
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'~rove to Be Washers; on. bou~ by pel'llon:;::bo aald t ey'
h' W 5 lAW tluoreacent ballt Sreling er I
lcagO oman pots the city and clearly outlined ago til
W'th Le near-by mountains. A carnival at
ne 1 gs Alabuter, Ala., wu Playtn,.aarcb-j
U"hta on cloud wllps.
By the UnIted Preu n .reument raged at Lodl, CaUt .. '
Army pilou were ready Monda)' 0 r the cau.e of R spectacular ,low
for another air learch tor the my.- the Iky and a roar .horUy betore
terloua "!lying Mucers" now report- lectriea1 power went off. Mn. W.
ed .een in 39 .tate. and pam of C. Smith ..ld .he heard a nolae "IiJte
Canada .. practical joke.ten added
to the con!uaion.
Equipped with' teleacopic cam-
erae, 11 ..rlny plane••earched the
Pacific northwe.t Sunday without
finding any trace of the flying diaD
which had been reported over .corea '
of communlUeJ the precedlnl two
days. At Sioux Falls, S. D .... na-"'
tlonall'uard plane already in the air I
wu ordered to Inve.U"ate a .lIvery
df.k with a .hort talI which Gregory
Zimmer uid he aaw .hoot acrou
the heaven.. The pUot found noth-
In" but empty Iky.
Tbe army "camera patrol" over
the Caacade mountain. Sunday In-
clude~ eight P-~l pur.uit .hip. an
three A-26 bomben.
Give 'Em Room
Newport Ne",•• Va.-Penin.ula
airport here i. taking no chances
with flyinB" .aucera. Pilot. report-
Ing Monday to take out plane.
found this notice on the bulletin
board: "Two thousand feet ver-
Ucal and horizontal clearance re-
quired between aircraft operat-
tng from thil field and any fly·
In&" aaucera."
four motored bomber" juat before
the light. went off at dawn. Ervin,
Newcomb of the Paclflc Ga. 41: Elec·
Wualona Or tToket trlc Co, offered tbe explanation that
a low flying crop dUIUn, plan
There wae "rowing belief that the probably had .truck a power lin
eoncentrated aerial learch would and bur ned out • tranaforme
.how tbe aaucera to be optical Ulu-· 'However, no plane. were report
.ion. or the work of practical jpke- 'damaged and no one could expl&:l~
.ter. marnitied by arouled Ima,i·
lIationa.
A· number of "di.ka" whirled over
rooftop' in Eut 8t. 1..oula. 111.. Sun·:
day. J. T. Hartley, 1\ locomotive en·
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n('er. ,athered aome of thcm u, p
d f 0 U n d they were made of
p es.ed white paper, 11 Inehe. tn
dl meter and with a tM" tnch hole
In the center. Railroad worker.
.aid they looked. Uke' locomotive.
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whIt A ClOp dusting plane Wu do-
Ing In the air at dawn 61 S aday.
,It wu the fint time any noiae bad
been attributed to flylnl' .aucen.
J. U. Watts, jr .. Darlington (S. Co)
attorney, old he .aw an army pur-
.uit plane chasin, a V-formatlov, of
flylnl' aaucer. at 250 mUea an hour
1,000 feet high. However. DO pilot
reported auch a chue. .
Saw One With Lep
Jd e ant 1 m e, authoritiea were
plagued with report. that bordered
on the fantaatic. An excited Chi-
cago woman reported that ahe had
. aeen a fJying .aucer with le... ~
wu .tandlng on my porch and I
thoul"ht for lIure It wu comin&, right
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n and 'lap me In the tace,· ~'
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.orge Kuger of Denver aid h :,
• a fly1n. disk with an America
t on It. ,
Francl. Howell, T e m p e, Ariz.,
elalmed he .aw a saucer two teet
in diameter diaappear behind .. row
of tree. near hi. home. When he
ruahed to iMpect It, he uld, the ilat,
thin, alumlnumlike disk took off at
a "high rat e of apeed" toward
Phoenix, nine mlle. away.
..Mra. Walter Johnson returned to
Spokane. Wash .. after a vacation
Ilear St. Maries. Idaho, and after
readln&" new.paper reporta of the
flying aaucers said ahe &nd .evera}
othen bad aeen apeedln, .bln), ob-
jecta .... big as a four or five room
bOUle" disappear into the toreat
covered mountain•.
~he fir.t of the .aUCer. over New
Y rk State was reported by Mr•.
nneth Wohley of Rocheater, N.
, who aald ahe and her hUlb~d
law an object "about the .ize of n
, ordinary .aucer" flylng above r
. back _~a!d at 1:30 p.m. Sun~~~!-
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