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• ap.K'Duvan, assistant suir•
nte of the Naval Obse va-
ory, . : that the saucer "does 10t
eem to be an astronomical 1e-
tomena."
Credence in the saucers-wi ly
laughed off at thei,: first reported
• • 71:,i- 11ppeai:ance June 25-grew as hun•
ie .t-1.Waiting 1uessage1dre_ds of O?Servers, some of th~m
I' tramed fliers, reported seelllgtFW Ch• f A
• • • them. 1
r_orn C'!'pital on ~lying Discs_ ' !att:i~~~dL~t;,Ofd~t~~ ;:i~a~ !~~tempted explanations throughout Gua1 d, announced that the guards a gt"Oup of 60 picnickers saw them
the country yesterday. squadron would attem:i_>t_ to photo- at Twin Falls, Idaho. And in
A Los A1~gele~ • new~pap_er g~aph any futll!e al?pant~ons of tbe Portland, Oreg., so many residents
~uoted an un_1dentified sc_1enti~ discs. He. said s_1x P-al fighter witnessed them that same day the
m nuclear physics at the Cal!forma planes, equipped with gun and t~le- police department sent out an ~
Institute of Technology as saying scopic cameras, would be kept cars broadcast.
Ute fl~ing dis~s ~?ve 1·esulte~ from rea~y to take off on a moment's The crew of a United Airlin s
expe1:iments 1~ ~ansm!;ltaho11 of notice. . plane said several of the roun ,
atomic energy b~mg co~ducted at Col. F. J. Clark, com':1and~ng flat objects were visible for ab
Muroc Lake, Calif., White Sands, office1· of the Hanford Engmeermg l 2 minutes
N. Mex.; Portland, Oreg., and Works in the Pacific Northwest -
1-~lsewhere. where the largest saucer influx has
.
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The scientist, whom the news- been reported, said the saucers
paper said had worked as a re- were not coming from the atomic
searcher on the atomic bomb p1ant there.
"Manhattan Project," was quoted ."I have been waiting for some•
as saying: one to tie the discs to the Han•
"People are not seeing things. fprd atomic plant," he said. He
Such flying discs actually are in declared that as far as he knew
experimental existence. no experiments were under way
"These saucers so-called are there which would explain the
capable of hlgh speeds but they mystery.
can be controlled from the gl'owid. Two Chicago astrouolli.ers said
"They are 20 feet Ju width at the discs are probably "man
he center and are pat1:ially rocket- made."
ropelled on the takeoff." "They couldn't be meteors," said
However, other scientists were Dr. Girard Kiuper, director of
s eptical about the claims of the the University of Chlcagp's Yerkes
m . amed Cahfornia physicist. Dr, Observatory at Williams Bay, W-is.
Hatold Urey, famed atomic scien· Dr. Oliver Kee, director of
tist at the University o'f Chicago, Northwestern University's Dear
said the term "transmutation of born .Observatory, said:
atomic energy" is "gibberish." _"We realize that the Army and
"You can transmute metals, but Navy are working on all sorts of
not energy," and Dr. Urey. things we know nothing about."
David Lilienthal, chairman of He said the mystery disks may
the Atomic Energy Commission, represent an accomplishment simi
declai-ed the unexplained discs are lar to tbat of sending radar sig
in no way connected with atomic nals to the moon." one of the great
expel'iments. Lilienthal said he
couldn't shed any light on the
mystery and added:
"Until someone has the facts
about this phenomenon, "I can't.
see how anyone can say anything
definite about it."
./1.nd Dr. C. C. Lauritsen, head
of the nuclear physics department
at California Institute of Tech
nology, said he was certain nobody
in his department, which includes
four former Manhattan Project
researchers including himsel!, had
made "such a statement."
He expressed the opinion that
the discs "have nothing to do with
:nuclear physics."
S lTangely e11ough, the Murco,
Calif., Arm.v Air Base. identified as
one of the sites whrre the •·secre
experiments" are being carrie~
o1~, announced that it had a P~O
tl hter plane standing by to gi 'e
cl ase if one of I he flying sauc s
m de an appearance.
Col. Al Outlon, commandi11g
~<' r ot t.he ·t on Nntio l
est technological achievements of
the war and accomplished in abso-
lute sec~ecy." _
Here m Washmgton, Dr. New:~
bern Smiih of the National Burea
of Stand~rds exl?ressed the opin!o
~~at all LIie excitement is akin to
th05e Loch Ness Monster stories.'
The. !till.Ya coiument off red b
JUL 6 1947
WASHINGTON POST
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