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In the huge Pentagon building
. Washington. headquarters ., f
e Defence Department, there~·s
n Air Force major whose du y
is to repeat to all inquirers t e
I bstance of the last Air For e
statement on flying sauce ,
issued on December 27. 1949.
" Mass hysteria"
On the basis of inquiries into
375 alleged occurrences over a
period of two years. it was an
nounced : "Reports of un
identified flying objects are the
result of misinterpretation of
various conventional objects or a
mild form of mass hysteria or
hoaxes.''
It was said a continuance of
the inquiry was " unwarranted."
But in fact it has appeared
during the last month that
edible witnesses who say . they
ave seen flying saucers are still
ing examined by Intelligence
fficers.
It was noted, too. how quicklyFand how thoroughly one of the
most comprehensive of the
newest reports has been officiaily
" lost."
Ours ? 1Employees of the Civil Aer
nautics Authority at work in
control tower at Dayton muni
cipal airport in Ohio. in conjunc
tion with U.S Weather Bureau
obser vers and four pilots of the
Air National Guard who took off
in fighters t o look at the " un
identified object "- they all saw
and submitted their testimony
to t he administrat or of C.A.A.
The Idea-sometimes seriously
advanced and often half
believed- that the saucers could
be exploratory craft from another
planet h as infinite possibilit ies.
But unt il it is proved it may
be more profitable to wonder
whether there has been de
veloped somewhere a disc-like
plane with a cir cle of swiftly
t·evolving vanes that might
able it to hover or to flv at
1gb speed. ~If this or something like lt
urns out to be the answer. th re
aY be good i;eason for hopthere that it is one of ours.