FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 16

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SPECIAL FEATURE - PITTSBURG, KA IS LANDING. [12] BACKGROUND: The August-September 1952 period was probably the most interesting time for saucer reports to date, due to the unprecedented number of saucers that appeared landing or landed. The widely separated areas these reports came from backs the possibility they were genuine, and these reports are of such interest as well as possible importance, that each issue will have one or more such reports discussed in this feature section. This issue reprints the PITTSBURG, KANNAIS report clipping and original drawing.

AUTHENTICITY: The sighting was made by only 1 person, and therefore does not have the weight of several reputable observers. According to local newspapers, Squyres was generally known as modest, not given to flights of fancy.

In his recent book, Keyhoe stated Air Force was impressed by his report, and considered it quite reliable. Another writer who interviewed Squyres, informs me he also cannot read nor write, and was not too well educated, and it thus seems unlikely he could have read another report or had a reading background to have formed so detailed a hoax.

## SIMILARITIES TO OTHER REPORTS:

[1] This object does not resemble the great mass of featureless saucers reported in the past. The only other report it slightly resembles is the Chiles-Whitted report of July 1948 from Alabama. However, this had large transparent windows on top and bottom, and was rocketship-like in shape.

(2) We again have the rotating extensions along the object, similar to 2 Object mentioned in review #7, page 14 and 15. These extensions, however are again dissimilar in shape from the Maxatawney and Garden City reports.

(3) The bright blue glowing windows are quite similar to the 1948 Chiles report; this is rarely mentioned in any saucer report. Of some interest is that such bright lighting would be used by a spaceship from a blue-white star, (like Vega), or from a planet close to the sun (like Venus), rather than from a dimly lighted planet like Mars, whose light is primarily of the red spectrum. This also conflicts with sharp saucer increases during Mars approaches, and may mean Mars is a space station for them, rather than as their real origin.

(4) The observation of a human being is a new feature, rarely reported since 1947. Since Squyres said light in window was glaring and he was not much closer than 100 feet, it is more probable he saw a human-like form. All present data and logic points to only non-humans in saucers.

(5) The throbbing sound of idling motors is very unusual, rarely is reported. It is possible they power only moving propellors, while usual noiseless engine operates saucer at supersonic speeds. The vertical rise of the object completely rules out any known US aircraft.

CONCLUSION: This report appears to be most authentic of all landing reports for important Aug-Sept. 1952 period. The humanoid descriptions also appears the most authentic made in recent reports, to our belief.

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