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\Air Forces_Intelligence Joins
Search fo,liFlying Saucers
Armi Air Forces intelligence and about 50 other persons saw a
yesterdai disclosed it has joined
the se11ri:b fQ[ a ll lling saucer.
Bizarre re12qrts on the whirling,
hiSh-s2eed discs continued to 12our
i.u, di:ai~iog au Qfficial ~.51t
from the AAF, much cynicism
from scien£~ i!D'1 tbe otiec Qf $lDOO
.fgc tbe first one downed.
The Air Forces, which has juris-
diction over the White Sands (N.
Mex.) Rocket Proving Grounds, de-
11ied the saucers are any of its
doing. "No such phenomena can
be explained by any experiments
bing conducted," the statement
s d,
E:rom the N11,val Research L~b-
o ator:,:'s Bear Admin1I Eanl F.
Lee !:!!me U!e £Urt !,Omment; "~e
concur in the Armi annowce-
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Ni:itb§r denied existence of $he
discs. but the AAF said statements
of witnesses are being correlated
"in an effort to identify the re-
ported objects."
With few States in tlie Nation
without at least one flying saucer
report, the AAF has a chore.
A Navy flier with five years'
experience tabbed the discs as
"space ships" afte1· at first consid-
e ng all reports as "crazy." He
t anged bts mind, he said in Ala-
da. Oa-li!., yesterday, after he
group of about "50 of the saucers
in triangular formation near Au
burn Saturday.''
One report which won't trouble
the AAF is that of a commercially
operated, converted P-38, whose
pilot said he had knocked one of
the "pearl-colored. clam-shape
airplanes" out of the Montana sky.
He admitted the story was a hoax.
In Washington, Dr. L. R. Haf
stad, executive secretary of ti
Joint Research and Developme
Board and former director of t
Johns Hopkins Applied Physi s
Laboratory, said:
"Poppycock!"
Dr. Jesse Sprowls. psychology
professor at the University of
Maryland, said, "There is abso
lutely no limit to the delusion that
the mind can harbor. A tremend
ously interesting social psychologi
cal delusion," he added.
Dr. Ivan E. McDougle of Balti
more's Goucher College, said he
guessed "it's one of those phycho
Iogical epidemics where people see
things that aren't there."
But C. J. Zohn, 440 Mellon st.
se., who works in the rocket-sonde.
high altitude research section of
he Naval Research Laboratory,t
yesterday reported he and three
other men saw one "saucer" ~
N~w Mexico June 29. l{e describ d
See SAUCERS, Page 3, ColUllln S
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JUL 8 1947
WASHHINGTON POST