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, r 1ged from the theory that they
.-,,oi-ted by Rehoboth Pilot 1 v, ere radio controlled flyu.1g miss!les
stnt aloft by U. S. m1llt. ry scien-
• tists to the suggestion that they
might be merely sun light reflected
on wing taw of Jet-propelled
rest weny on Believes Mystery Dis Cs,
0 planes.' t-Propelled, May Have Caused Big A. B. Cross of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
a 34-year-old watchmaker, an
nounced he invented the "flying
saucer'' and.submitted It to the War I
Plane Crash on Memorial Day
eteran Delaware pilot, Forrest Wenyon of 123 Rehoboth Avenue, Department in 1943 but his idea was /th Beach, disclosed last night that In the past 10 months he has rejected as not practical "at theeen objects now being loosely described as "flying saucers" but present time.·•
he calls "flying mayonnaise jars." Later, he said, he became cone particular di..t!erence between the mysterious object:! of Mr. vinced that the department elabo
•'s report and those which have now been observed in some rated on bis plan. His model was----=---------,40 states 1n that the former. accord- powdered with a rubber band, Cross
' Jng to the pllot, held a true course said, but he bel1eved atomic power
until they disappeared from sight. now ls being used.
This would indicate a gu1f(w'"...,. A Spokane, Wash., woman insisted
, , J~t an aimed missjJe while thP. the objects she saw were ot such
c rse of the "saucers" has been size that together they would take
d cribed by observers as trratlc. up, the space of a five-room house
r r. Wenyon said last night that if they landed, but a Clearwater,
he first saw what loosely resembled FI¾:. woman said the disks she ob
a "flying mayonnaise jar" one after- serl ed resembled "pie pans."
noon last September whi:P. flying at A1, Rutland, Vt., a woman re
about 1,000 feet. It was late in the ported she and her husband 1~ afternoon and the pilot was flying nessed a br!Jliant object in e
north. night sky which she assumed to e
Suddenly, at an estimated distance a "flying saucer" although it
of 2,000 feet in front of his plane stationary.
J ·and traveling from west to east, Mr. But at Cambridge, Mass., a house-
wenyon saw the "jar."l was going wife said she saw "a group of white,
at tremendous speed t the p11ot flying saucers whirling around and
nwas able to note sever tnings. /going at a tremendous speed."
The most important f these ob- The Mas.sachusett.6 and Vermont
hservatlons, insofar as ar xplanatlon reports brought to 40 the number
is possible, is that the "jar" appeared ot stat.es in which the objects have
been observed.to have some sort of rocket com
bustion. Mr. Wenyon said that With New England getting into
the game, the Harvard Universitys- ;urts of silver flame from the tail astronomical observatory took note :
ir Carrying out the description of
1d emed to provide the propulsion. of the reports but said it had had /
n e "flying mayonnaise jar," Mr. no luck so far in photographing one
of the discs.1- enyon said that the tall appeared
ll be a lld which had been per- Tl.e mysterious saucers first were
reported June 25 in the State oforat.ed and that from these per
/) foratlons the flames escaped. Wasnington, but Charlie T. Han,
let, superintendent of the Kingt.1!J In a matter of two, at the most
al three, seconds the object had dis- port! Tenn., Times News composln
appeared owr and past Fort Miles. room, said yesterday he had see
the discs two years ago,"s The pilot did not see It land and
w doesn't know whether 1t did or not. They were "of a. bright, aluminum
a Then on June 2 while flying at color" and "were going at terrific
speed," Hamlet said, explaining he•re l,* feet In a Stinson four• passen kept quiet about them because ofds ger ship Mr. Wenyon,~ pilot of 30 the ,.':>ak Ridge atomic bomb pli nt,'.I• ye s' experience, saw other "jar."
commission said they had no con- es didn't say much about it to then a war secret.
n(ction with the mystery_. ·s. Re oboth Airport attac es although Lester Barlow ot Stamford, Conn.,th~e West, which orlgmatec\ e ,e he did mention lt. r. Wenyon, international known explosives in
sa Jeer reports, continued to prxluce with a theory In mind, called the ventor, advanced the theory that
ob;ervers who claimed to have seen m ederal Bureau of InvP.stigation. the objects were radio controlled
the whlrl!ng dies and also bre:ught re res flying missiles.
forth one deflationary explanation er him so, he said. He then called Reports persisted that the Army
of them. ti 1e East.e1 n Airlines and the Civil Aero- : was looking into the phenomena but
Bob Johnson, operator of a y- nautic Authority both of which Gen. Cari Spaatz, Army Air Forces
ing service at Missoula, Mont., re- gave him a sympathetic hearing, commandant, said he knew of no
ported he had captw·ed one of the or thanked him and said they'd inves AAJ!' Plans to search for the saucers.
discs and found it to be milkweed : tlgate. 1The Navy and Atomic Energy
seeds. Id f Or 'n To date he has received no answerCharles Odom, 23-year-o - , from either.t 1
mer B-17 navigator, theorized a 1r Mr. Wenyon's theory is that one ofthHouston, Tex., that e obJects I these "jars" WM responsible for the
might be a version of radio-con- - 'lrash of the Eutem Airlines plane
trolled "crystal balls" ed by th e I Port Depo,sit, Md., on Memorial
Nazis in the war. 111•hieh kllled 53 persons. HPthe
the planes,
,
Tl1ese balls, which flew to the stories of that ac<:lder /
t1t1.,de of the bomber and appare md 1-olieves now that t}-, ,
ly v.ere magnetized to fly along w. ···,on in mid-air, , ·•
sent b· to rac ib,,. 'lf witnesses. ·
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