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• th~,r:s : ~ !t"n; arby and large on:;l
at great pis tances. ~t"The one outstanding fact abo f
virtually all the saucers is th
they had no structure - the.
seemed merely round and flat.
SATTCEPS Frou, Page 1 --i~w:111,, aircraft designer, told The Thjt description fits exactly with
j Post by telephone from ffilew £oft the tricks that eyes play. This
that until he see, a flying saucer trickiness varies with differences
Priest Finds 'Whirring' Disc he "wouldn't like to pass- ;fudg- in weather and lighting."
However, Nova Ha1·t, St. Louisment." . mechanic who was trained during
In Yard and Holds It for FBI He agreed with Dr. Overholser service in the war to spot all types
said the Army Air ways Communi- 'The best way I can describe it," that much if not all of the' story of aircr;aft, yesterday offered a
•cations Service had reported late $aid Kennedy, "was that it looked may be because of hysteria. minute description of one o,f the
yesterday that so fa t• its radar like an orange Jamp bulb without "After all," he said, "we are flying P_atterns whic~ he claimed he
scopes throughout the country the socket. It was going faster than more o1· less an hysterical Nation." ! aw flymg at an altitude of about1any jet nlane I've ever seen " .,oo feethave been _u nabl_e to. pi•
ck up any , • .Major de Seversky said it was pos- •
s trange ob3ects m flight. In Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Mad- . • . Reporter Sees One
And in the Pacific Northwest- elyn Ganoe, 30, said she had seen sible that the persons who claim He described it as circular with
where most of the fly-happy plat- five of the discs, r acing in 2-1-2 to have seen the aerial discs have a ribbed frfmework and silver
ters have been report!!d- the Army1formation at "terrific speed," from instead .glimpsed the exhaust of gray in color. He said it appeared
has radar equipment which can/her backpoxch. "They sounded like 1jet-propelled planes. to have a motor with a propeller
pierce fog and dar kness and pick a faraway train," she said. il He conceded, too, -that they attached i_n thl: center and that it
up objects in the sky 200 miles _In the wake of these new e~e- h night b~ guided missil~s let loose ~ept turnmg hke an airplane do•
away. witness accounts oame a new senes , as part of an experiment, but mg a slow roll.
Even so, Brown acknowledgeci1of comments, and·explanations, but added, , Although m a n y explanations
that the Air Forces had decided most of them were tinged with a "I don't think the Government have been offered, none has been
"thcn:'s something to this" and slight te1_1dency to laugh off the would fire them so promiscuously. convincing. A Los Angeles news-[
had b€en ch~king it for 10 days. whole th_mg. . They would test them in one spot, Ipape~ _quoted a~ unna~ed nuclear !
"And we still haven't the slight- Dr. Wmfred O~er~olser, n ation- fn an isolated area, like they did phys!Clst as saying the silvery discs
Iest idea what they could be," he ally known psych1atr1st and super- the atomic bomb." lresulted from experiments in the
added. . 11'.tendent of. S! • •~lizabeths Hos- Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who "transmutation of atomic energy"
And a new wnnkle-the report- p1tal here, said 1~ has s?me of the as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for ' This report was rapidly her1
ed landing of a fleet of eight skim- ear_m~,rks of being national hys- Reseat·ch and Development would i~t? the hoax. .:!olunm by Da •
ming platters-:-was r eported from te~V1• . . know if the saucers involved ex- ILihenthal, cba1~~11n of the Atom
Idaho in Iull view of 10 persons. A. . Everytime someone com~s up periments with guided missiles !Energy Commission, and sever 1
Dishman, Idaho housewife, said I with a sea-ser,~ent story,'.' said _D_r. commented: ' prominent atomic scientists.' r0th withshe and others ill her party had! ~ver~olsti~r, ers vivid "Whatever these people have Starr Expects Word
th 1 d I1magma ons are sure they have . I
~e~n. e sai,tcers tP .on a moun- . seen the same thing seer>, it hasn't been anything re• Louis E. Starr, national com-
tarn: ide ~de~~ st• ane\ ld~ho. t I "The critical faculty In man the suiting from experiments by the mander of the Veterans of Foreign ·111 0
S e _sai ey came view a last one he received is still' not Army Air Forces. As for as I'm Wars. announced Saturday at Co-
an extiem~.~P~fd'. ~u~d:nli Slowed, : very well developed. ' Scratch the concerned there's nothing to itl lumbus, Ohio, that he was expect
and tJien d ,,u ere I e eaves to surface and you find the same mass at all. The whole thing is u11- 1ing "momentarily" infomtation
the groun • . hysteria which predominated dur- fortunate." from Washington which would ex-
"The m~5tenous part was that ,1 ing the witchcraft scare, So e General Le.May refused to dis-, plain the dashing. discs. But the
we couldn t see them after theyjlpersons are quite r eady to J: cuss whether the Air Forces has message never a1T1ved.
anded," she said. "We could see things and follow beliefs.. ,guided missiles which can attain I The Air Forces said U1at Gen.
them flutter down into the timber Di·. Overholser ~aid th~t when ' speeds of 1200 miles. j~arl Spaatz,. Air Forces chief, was
yet we couldn't see that they did~ he made bis rounds of the menlal "There's been too much said ,m the Pacific Northwest whe1•e
any thing. to the trees." . patients yesterday at St. Eliza-1about guided missiles now," he most of the saucers have b~en r~
She said s he hoped to hike into beths not a one commented on the ,said. ported, but added that his trip
!:the timber tomorro~ and search flyi ng saucers stoi~. Howard W. Blakeslee, Assoei• there was planned two months
!or the objects which she said were "I think they may be a little 1
_ated· Press science editor, said the ago, long before Ute saucers scare.
saucer-shaped but resembled wash- skeptical," he added. whole business may be an optical General Spaatz is expected back in
tubs more than dislts and were However , Dr. Overholser said he 1muslon. Washington late t?mo~ow•.
"about the size of • five-room wasn't trying to dismiss the matt er "At any distance wl1ich is close M1;1roc Anny A~r Field in Call-
. ' ''b th . . forma had a P-80 Jet fighter stan
house.'' as a Joke eca~St! ere are so to the li,~mt of how f~r a pe!son ing by, and the National Guard
Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 ~: a!1y strange th1~gs going .?n to- can see, he wrote, all ob3ects Oregon had prepared silt r egula
4th st. ne. reported he had swn -~l that one can ,, be sure. 1appear ro_und or nearly so. This fighters to givf! chase shout
one passing over the Northeasti Maj. Alexander P , de Seversky, j~aw , of sight codrs both small ~aucers be reported nearb~·.
section of the city at about 8:40 - •
,m
This would be the first one re-
po1-ted over the District, although
others have been reported over
nearby Maryland.
Kennedy, who has 125 hours
flying time as a student pllot hl
Ii Army Ah· Forces to his credit.
·a d he believed the saucer he
•r seen was traveling at "well
o r" 1000 1nile~ an bow· at a
1t1tude of betweert 1200 and 1500
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