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Command was keeping watch, ported objects may be some
:::str' fat ~vith no results-and thing from anotherplanM. '- •
• •· . "Assuming they ate real," he
that specially quallfie_d mves- said, "they would be secret
tigators had been assigned to weapons made on ear th or
look into the reports. are interplanetary." Any na-
For several years the Air tion with the secret, he added,
farce has checked all rel_)orts would b;,r now ~ave abandon~d
of unidentified flying objects. c~mvent1onal aircraft or mis
Investigators work under the siles.
Air Defense Command at Col- Cosmic Energy
orado Springs, Colo., and r e- " k ti
port to the Air Technical In- . It 10 0 5 as ,,iough they _are
t 1r Center mterplanetary, Keyhoe said.
e 1ge~ce • . He said one source of pow-\ Judgmg from past findmg~, er for such repor ted objects
the chances are 50-1 the A1r could be cosmic r ay ener gy.
~ orce w_ill offer a humdrum Some of the citizens, peace
explanation far the current officers and servicemen who
sightings. reported sighting mystery ob
• During th_e •first half_ of this jects in the Southwest since
year, the Air Force said, only the weekend said the objects
1.9 per cent of the 250 report- stalled auto engines and
ed sightings of flying saucers caused radios to fade.
and other fantastic ae1•ial ob• James Stokes, an engineer
jects have wound up in the at the Air Force missile d e-
"unknown" category. velopment center at Alama-
Air Force Skeptical gordo. N. M., reported 10 autos
were stalled Monday on a des
And the Air Force said firm- ert highway between Alama-
ly-though not all flying \sau- gordo and the White Sands
cer buffs may agree-that it (N. M.) Proving Grounds.
doesn't believe even the 1.9 He reported seeing a sound
per cent residue is made up less, "brilliant colored egg.
of the things you read about shaped object" which flitted
( in science fiction magazines. err atically across t he country.
Balloons, aircraft and such side and left a sort of heat
astronomical .sights as meteor- wav.e, "like radiation from a
1ites and bright stars account giant sun lamp," in its wake.
at. least to th~ Air Force's Device sought
offic1aJ satisfaction - for al- .
ost four-fifths of the sigh . Leonard Hardlu~d, chief en•
• gs. gi,neer for t~e National Inven-
rrhe director of a private o t ors Coun?11 in Washington,
anization set up to inve said a device that could s~ll
igate flying saucers and sue autwed like a neon light. They
potted it while trick-or-treat
·ng with Jean's two younger
isters on Halloween night in
rlmrose Acres1 a housing de
velopment on tne outskirts of
Annapolis.
Jean said the girls became
frightened and ran home but
no one would believe their
tory until weekend
per accounts tola o
o ted tn
\.-. J\osoclatod Pren
I
J}•G. Kirby of Dallas macle
this photo of a diamond
s h a p e d o b j e c t flying
through the sky while he
and his family were driving
near Amariito, Tex., in
August, 1956. The photo
was turned over to the FBI
and has just been releasr.d
after intensive study. The
Air Force descyibed the
glo lat