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1 1 62- IHQ~3894 ~IrLS 1-52 0 t- UJ Q ·- (J C I-u, <t: ::l a: ..., 0 u. :E 0 0 l­ 2: LU ::::, (/) -<C ;- a: 0 a: w - I-w ::::, I­ a: m <C <( LL CJ 0 - ::, FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER HQ - HEADQUARTERS Class / Case # Sut., Vol. Serial # 0062 83894 1 1 52 8/11/1274199 1 llli 111 11111ill 11 11111 11 mlilll 111 RRP0031XHS SE 1 SE DO NOT DESTROY FOIPA I 13'.ru,~ocj f-­ ( C e,­ I u ~ c..:, 0...-­ ~ .. I- , , ....... (. J ~· 0 ~ ~ z ......") QCI) :it: cw~ . 0I.&.. .I 0 I I N ~ CW) ca c.) I ._ ••m en C: ca-t- CD-·- LI­ .c ·-... en en C ■­- ~ c::: ca ::c C ■­ CD ca ~ c.., a., en ::, ----- 1. • Tolson~ ,,,,.- ::: E. A. Kmm ­ I ,{fr. Clegg ~£-R(:-g!!~%1 _. I 82 JUL 10 1947 ' ( 72055 ~• ~ A.bout Saucers Pi test Finds 'Whirring·' Disc In. Yard and Holds It for FBI Chicago, July 6 (U.Pj.-A Catho• FBI oftice ~:iid he hadn't lw:3rd l . . ~-d yet about the d1,{' lmt that an offi­ ~pnes~ at Gnfton, Wis., sa1 cial ,•f!~rl might be a.!Jj~ce. tonight th a 1·ound, ffl'e~sc.l 1he flying discs ha,e been re­ wiilch..,.m1g ,e nneo-Y'tlw-Tll'l'i:tcr• po1·tcd "~een'' by pers,ms ill 30 ious \'Jlyi:n!t u rs:-l'ra'd'_:-crnstred States. l>ltt Brasky's disc was the Tnto 1\S P• '•b~•r,.r anc ftiiit'_Jic tirbl one that actuall~• had been 18 oldln 7frer the ffw.ral found-if that is whal wa· found. Bu ~ <'· lm-est~1• }Lis report cam~ ll few hours he 1) . Jo~eph; ~raskY of St. after a military 0 pl:ine made 1111 J seplfi! t hm·ch at Grafton_. 45 unsuccessful speed oash in an a\• I1 Hes ,,c ·th of :\lilwaukce, said _he tempt to track uo\\ t one o( the! eard swishing ~nd wlurnng discs and the Army and scit'i\fo;LSI (11oise ~hi~ morning. A second later.l50ught to ascerta111 \\hether coM'· he 1,:ud, he hea1·d a thud and alto-coast l'cporls a icut the d1sc,­ 1mild explosion. zooming lb.rough t:1e sky were fact He in\'estigaled and found a or fancy. ~heel metal disc !\bout 18 inches in Army planes scoured the north- diameter, resembling a circularlwest Pacific skies for them without saw blade. success today and one "eyewitness" •·Tlte object ,-till was warm,1 even reported ha, illf. seen one of weighed about four or five pounds the disc~ take off in Arizona. A and was about one eighth of an St. Louis railroad man exhibited inch thick," he said. some paper "discs·• he ~aiil he had 1 There was a hole about one seen floating over St. Louis. , inch in diamete1· in tbe middle o( . • the disc, he said, and in the open- The flymg saucers which ha,·e Ing were •·gadget~ and some been reported ~}timming tlu·ough wires.'' • Amedca's skin at speeds up lo The priest ~aid l\e did not know l200 mile!I have elucled the usual­ \ i { his disco~ery. were important \lJ keen eye of radar. a • whethe1•. 1t ~ugllt be an _e1ab- Capt. Tom Bi·own of the Army ,rate p1·achcal Joke. He s~hc Air Forces public relations st f :md nQiilled the 'FBI or"Jii~,,.d., J:f.""K. Johnson 0£ the ~mw,m~ee See SA\TCERS, Page 3, Col. 11 l ..,. JlJL,., WASHHT!'J'GT0 N POW" Page____-=--::... Mr. ~ \' Mr . .!!!r. /.p Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr . Mr. Mr. s?'' Mr. ~ ~ /2y; ( j" Coffey __·_ . Glavin L• N .•r.0 l C' ___ Ros n ___ T racy Ca r son E gan Hendon Penn ington_ Quinn Tamm Mr. ~ ! t ' .. \\ ' er ,:,. Q'.RS-•'ro,11 Pagi ,ussil of 12( +-.-..:.. F• l ' "There's t I said Priest. ut£ s .. about g•1idec \\ ," he In Yar,l (tnd H o ~ lte J sa~~\\.ard w Rlakeslee, A :soci­ . . . ated Prl'ss i-cieuce editor. sal i the ~aid the Army Airway~ Comm um- 1n tbe v.ue 01 we e nr.,w,.e~ t- whole business may be an orUcal . . ] ,tness accounts came a new ~enes -~. . cations Service had reported ate i comment~ and «-xplanatiuns, but illusion. . . yestHday that ,o far IL~ rada.r most or them were tinged with a •·At a~r .distance .,,1~1ch 1~ close scopes throughout the country slight tendency to laugh off the to thr l11111l of ho,~ far a person have been .unable to. pick up any lwhole thing. ca11 ~ee," hi' ,uote, "~11 obJ.~cl,s stra11ge obJecls In ~ltgbt. Dr. Winfred Overholser. nation• app, ar round or near!) ~o. I h ' And in the Pacific Northwest- ally known psychiatrist and super• law of sight covers bolh smi:11 where most of the fl~-happy plat-lintendent of St. Elizabetbs Hos- h \ seen nearby and large ters have been r.eportid-the Ai·mylpital here, said it "has some of the t I g 5 . , has radar equipment which ~an earmarks of being national hys- at gre •l dist an<" • pierct> fog and darkness and pick teria." "Tht> ont> out~tand111g fact 11hout up objects in the sky 200 miles "Everytime someone come, up ,•irtually all the ~au,·ers is that a,, ay. with a sea-!<erpent ~ton·." said Dr. d ~truclure - they .t.Hn so. B10\\n acknowledged Overholser, "other~ with vivid they ha no • that the Air Jo'orces had decided imal(inations are .sure they ha,1' seemed merely round and flat. "there's something to thi!!" andlscen the same thing. That de~<'l'iption fit~ exactly with had been ehe~klng It f~r 10 days. "The critical faculty ln m~n, thel the trick~ that eyes play. 'l'hi~ "And we still haven t the i.llght- Ja~t one he recewed, 1s shll nott . . . . est idea what they could be," he vei-v well developed. Scratc-h the tnckme~s varies. with d_lfference! added. surface and you find the s~e mas• in weather an_d hghlmg. . And a ne\\ wrinkle-the rcp~rt.· hysteria w~ich prrdominat,ed dur- 1 Howe~er, !'.ova Ha.rt. St. L~.ub ed landing of a fleet of eight bktm- ing thP witchcraft scare. Some ,mechanic who was 11 amed du1 ing ming platters-was reported from , persons are quite ready to scr service in the war to spot all types Idaho in full view of 10 per~ons. A. thing~ and follow beliefs." of aircraft, yesterday offered a Dishman. Idaho housewife, said Dr. Overholser •aid that ,1 hen minute descdption of one o( the she and 0U1e1-s In her party had he made his roun<l~ or the mental flying patterns whkh he claimed he( seen the saucer~ land on a moun- patient, yesterday at St. F.liza- ~aw flying at an altitude oC about! tainside near Sl. Maries, Idaho. Ibeths not a one cC1mmented on the 300 feet. he said they came into view at flying saucers sto•y. Reporter Rees One a extreme ~pee.d, suddenly slowed. "I think they may ~e a little He described it a~ clrcular with a then "fluttered like leaves to skepticaf." he adUl d. . a ribbed framework and silver t ground.'' to~1·eve~. Dr. O~•erl_1olser ~aid h~ gray in color. He said it appear('d tThe mysterious part wai; th w . 11 t trymg to dmni~s the mattei to have a motor with a propeller 0 we couldn't se~ them after th a a Joke ''becaus..i the.re arc ~ attached in the center and that It landed." she said. •·we coul_d ,t any strange thi~!{~ gomg ,?n to- kept. turning Jike an airplane do• 1 them flutter down lnto the limb. ~• t~at one can , be sure. 1. ing a slow roll. :,et \\e couldn't see that they did ~f l, Alexander P. de Sever••y. \ \.It hough ma n y explanations anything to the trees." 1 no d aircrart designer, told 'he ha~·e been offered. none has bel'~ She said she hoped to hike h~to Po l hy telephone from New ork ciwinciug. A Los Angeles news the \lmbe1· tomorrow and search th unhl he ,l'e, a flying ~aucer p. per quoted an unnamed nuclea fo1• the objects which sh~ said were he •·wouldn't like to •pa~~ judg- p ysicist as saying the silveq- di~c saucer-shaped but resemoled wash- " r ulled from e:,pcnments m th. tubs more than disks and were ment. .. ransmutation o( a,omic energy.'' "about the size o[ a five-room Ile agreed wi Ih Dr'.' OverholRer '\ Thi~ report wa\ rapidly herded house." that mu<'h H not all of the story into the hoax .::olumn by Davld Locally. Hazen Kennedy of 2615 may be because uf hysteria. Lilieuthal. chairman of the Atomic Uh st. ne. reported he had seen "After all,. he said •·we are ' Energy Commi~s,on.. an.d ~everal one passing over the :-;ortheast ' . ' . . ,. prominent atomic &c1ent1sts, • section of the city at about 8:40 mo~·e or less an hflile~1e~l Nation. Starr l'xpects Word p. m l\~aJor de Sever~l<y n1d 1t was p~s- Loui~ E. Staie, national com­ 1 This would be the first one re- s1ble that the per~ons who claim~ mandei· or the Vetrran~ of 1''ore1g11 ported O\'er the DiSlrict, alth0ugh to have seen the aerial dis<.'s have Wars, announced Saturday at Co• others have been repo1·tcd oYer nearby Maryland. instead glimpsed the exhaust of )umb~;• Ohio. that .~e ~vas expett- Kennedy, who has 125 hours jet-propelled planCF mg mo~entari\y rnformat1on · · t d t ·1 l ·n Ile conceded too , that they from Washington Y.hkh would ex­ flymg timeAi~sFa. s u tenhi p1 o d\' might be guided missiles let loo~e ph,:n the dashing.discs. But the the Army l 01ees o s ere 1 ·, . .• messa!(e never arnvcd. ~aid he belle\'ed the saucer be as part of an expeumenl, but 'h A' F . 'd th t G n • " . 11, addtd· 1 e 1r 01ce~ sa1 a c • had seen was traveling at we ' • Cnrl Spaatz Air Force« chief was over" 1000 miles an hour at an "I don't think the Government in the Pa~ifie 1'.orth~est \~here al\itude o! between 1200 and 1500 would fire them so pr~nuscuousl>·· most of the saucers have been re­ fert. !hey would lest them. 111 one spot. ported, but added that hi~ trip "The best way Tcan describe It," IIII an 1so_lated ar~a. like the) did tllere was planned two months ~aid Kennedy, "was that it looked1the a\omic bomb,,' ago, long before the ,aucers scare. like an orange lamp bulb without )laJ. Gen. Curt1~ E. Le)~ay. who General Spaatz is expected back in the socket. It was going faster than a~ Deputy Chief of Air Staff for 'J'ashington late tomorrow. any jet, plane I've eve1· seen." Rescar~h and Deveio~ment would :'.\luroc Army Ail· Field in Call­ 11 Ha,zerstown, ~id.. Mrs. J\taj kno_w 1f lbe ~aucers mvolv.cd. ex- i'urnia had a P-80 je~ fighter stanw n Ganoe, 30, ~aid sl1e had ~e<' perunents \11th gmded 1nlss1les, Lig by, and the National Guard I t. e of the discs, racin& in 2-1 commented: <'rcgon had prepart'd six regul r •mation at "lenific speed," fro "Whatever these people have fighters tn give chase shou :I e1· backporch. ''They sounded Ii' seen it hasn't been anyth111~ re- sai•ccn be reported nearby, • a faraway ll'ain,'' she said. ~ulling from experiments by the • • " Anny Air Forces. As tor as I'm concerned there's nothini; to it at all. The whole ~i•=-...: {vl't'!lli -- - - YlJ _T~-V4~_('~ l, - rw:r~~ . ~(\IQ ~ ~.~ t ~ ... RE FLYING DISCS, Na REPORTEJ FOUND BY F. • ARISTON REVEhLE1 TO BE PRANK . ·1 • 0 - ,, WEEKS I I/ - I- :SND 9 1-24 Pt1 OK FBI WA BW V ~ 7- 8- 47 . J)t!), MISCELLANEOUS . ~ C\ ~ ' t....": iS:: . ..::, ~ "> • f'.... c., .-:. I ,,. fr) -..J" ~ t. I --f ~ ~ -..} ~ -:::, .. '"'\., er. !-IJ Q.) ~ ..~ ~ --- t.\.. ul. • (. c;) V'> er., ct:, !-1.J -4..... <.. • ...J . I- ..J 1.._ c,; 4 U- ::::::-~: 11, ~ ~ :rr "%- ....~ 1- ,-~ l'I"; ~ ~ 0 a::. C c::,"') n, w ,..., c::i::, 0 ,.,.,< · ~ ~ :-, "'0 - 0 - ;;: t:I "T; r­ ,._ (\) ,.,., c:: Vt -f -; c.,, ;g ,..., ~ n,,, .. c::; . ~ ...,~ ~ .,.. • - ) BI SPECIAL MESSENGER August 5, 1947 Director of Intelligence War Department aeneral Stat! Tbe Pentagon ashington 251 D. c. Attention: Colonel L. R. Forney, Chief, Security Group John Edgar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau ot Investigation FRED R. Rr.'!801,D • t .. . . t • r •' • • , . ., • • ·.ti1ying Saucer' Just Someone's Pipe Drearn' The "flying saucer" that fell I near 2319 Himebaugh Avenue ' Monday evening was nothing but "ashes from somebody's pipe dream." / So says Dr. C. L. Kenny, head of the chemistry department at the Creighton College of Den­ tistry. He had two students an­ alyze the ashes. They found so­ dium, Potassium, iron, alumi­ n..im, carbonate, suiphate and I.Ill• bul'~_carbon, he said. ' ~nis is the same analysa ;vou would get from ordinary pJpe to­ bacco,'' Dr. Kenny said. . J ! (­ ~ CENTRAL t TIO~ Mr. J . Edp1r Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investiga~ion U.~. Dept. o~ Justice Bldg. WAshi~fto~, D. C. .,,. • • July 11, 1947. - Dear Sir: Have you seen one of the mysterious "Saucers"? What did it look like? Do you think these strange, celestial manifesta­ tions are harbingers of a better day? G. I. R. Do you believe it means that a new and revolutionary I advance is coming? Will it make your life brighter, happier, more useful? We believe one of these startling discs is on its way to you. Then the secret will be out. The Combined and Amalgamated Committee of Sky-Scanners, Disc Decipherers and New-Product Introducers. • • • • , &_. ~- {/~~~~ 4 ~ ' , • • • STANDARD FORM NO. 64 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERN:ENT' . TO , MR. D. II. LAD, DATE: July?, 1942. Tolson .,---­ Ill', E, .I., Tam. FROM H. B. FLETC~ I ~ :::8½:~vn llr, Lad llr, N1c llr, Ro SUBJECT: llr. Tra =--- ­ ii:: ~_:on.___ llr. ourn:=••===== /4 V ::::ll:rnt::---­ At 10:45 a.m., July?, 1947, I talked to SAC Johnson of the :::~~,=-- Tele. Roo•·-=== Milwaukee Office concerning the United Press item appeari~ in the Ill', lieU.:--­ Washington Post for Mond~, July 7, with reference to a flying disc or flying sau allegedly reported to the Milwaukee Office by = ~f'+ Reverend Josep asky of st. Joseph's Church, Grafton, Wisconsin. SAC Johnson advised that the Associated Press and the Unittod Press between the hours 1:00 and 6:00 a.m. tod~ had made inquiry 01£ him as to whether anything had been reported to the Milwaukee Office, He declined to comment. He stated as a matter of fact the priest haa not made aey contact with him, and he learned from the Associated Press that the priest was intoxicated and as far as the Associated Press was concerned they were not releasing the story because all that·was involved was a circular saw. Mr. Johnson stated the Milwaukee Sentinel apparently sent the report out and that they handled United Press service. He stated a photograph of the priest was in this morning's paper holding a circular saw which apparently covers the body of the priest from arm pit to arm pit. Attached to the saw are several wires and two small tubes described as about three inches long and one inch in diameter. The news i tern in the Milwaukee Sentinel indicates it was believed some prankster had thrO\'fn it into the yard, perhaps with a firecracker attached. Mr. Johnson stated the Milwaukee Sentinel had stated the priest would make a report of this matter today to the Milwaukee Office. 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'>f'l1t to LcC' Pan:-111,11111 of Hontc )11J•; 011e ::ame 1~ ce 1 11111",1 1~ . ~d I ., f t k l tl •1 1·), tlw phqn" for f ht• Outsta11elm2: , n eu or nrx we"', an, ia . . • "[ I • ht Tl 1,. 1Fann• 1· for th" \[tcl<tle Gnattnh1pr " OJH av ma: , w 11en w •1r,•-IB . • . , . . . ~l • ·11 t I aslll 801I Ccn,P11·:•llon Du,t:·1ct. II(' , or,, 11'1 "Ilg' ~ WI -11I I11C zalr>, Dr. l'E'('J'l'I,. Tue• da\' 'rhp plaq11r 1s gi1· '11 1'11<'11 : ('Ill' 11t f,Qek · , \ 0<''R!t' ,,(nrc will to thr• llu·,,wr lr<nn Parh ('<>11 <'l'­ y, h11t then· npp'•nent h:i- not 1 ,·atiun <listrirt "ho_ has rontnhut­ n n11111r d ,·rt. ,\ L,o, on 'fht1,·s-1 eel 1110.,t to thr ,oil ronsP1Tali.01i 11i·•hi th~ F in• f1111p tt-nm 11ill r roj,•rff, i11 the parlirular dii,t 1irt. in 7,111y a !! 1)11( hut no ll'illll Th(• 1\1 .,nl is spn11 01 c,1 b,\' II 1111 111­ hrrn state,l to oppo <' t hun brr of 01~am;:at,ons, amon~ th m ( l ,. l riday night of' this \\!•Pk, ,·mw 1. di ); , plnvrcl, hul t!Jp n, ,,ho ,1ill p;•rtiripatc- Jwv,· hl'!'II Ji.,trd ,rt. ht•sr• i::-ames 11ill start ahm,l 1',I< h 1.ight. I·,\ 1•1:,:011(' i~ I 11 l to c·omc ancl f'hcrr for his I, :,{ o Jdt.,is~i< 11 \\ ill hr 1•h11r 0 • ,UIUTY MAN HE HERE 11. l};n i~. Iiii f reprr.s,•11t;,­ 1 Han t\11 lon10 Hocial S1·•·11­ 1Tie·P, " iJJ hp i11 Yoakum nl tv Hal! at n::10 a .111 .. ,,·(•<!­ • July 23, l!H7, for the 5 CENTS PER COPY. No. 91 'PAGE 1 I FIRST ITS FLYING DISKS - -NOW I ns "FIRE BALLS" PEOPLE SEF. ----~----­ ,\ lot of Tcx:•n~ arp ,h,k gnl'l­ e<l 1\ith thr tly111g- saucrl',,, hut ! otl1P1;; are ju.,! plain diid,-tnrbed: !'lying balls of fire circled a wa;:; near, praying, A white man grabbed a rifle and shot at the myste1·­ ioi•s o1:ijects. SIH'riff Paul ~;tanford of An­ <lp1•so11 County ,ksC'ribed thPm as ora111;P hasketbnlls ot fi1·(' ~ Fl • ReveaI1ng y1ng '1s ala ay DkD M ~ thr lnw mtg-ht upply, hp said. Th" lan ap1,li!'s whelh1·r thC' infm mu.lion i, r1 J,,:ised 11r•1•1denl ally, "through ~ross negligC'nrP,· · or ••11 ith intent to injurp the C­ rnfrd States or nirl \OIJlP rorP1gn natioll," aecordini:: to lhP ;H·t. Thi' ,\tomir hnPrc,· .Act or J()46 rrnv1drs eYen ,tri,!Pr pt"ltaltic;; for n•Yca!i·ng information, J\lr. Cash b,llrl. P nblie• Law 58!5 ol' !lie 8c,·rnt~·-Ninth Congress pn idc::. death or life impri~onm!'nt, niter due pror-e"s of lil\\, for disl'lo~ing atom,c• 1nformatio11 with intr·nt to in,iurc t he CnitPd ~tates. For 11r<'idental disclo,mn•,­ a flU<' of 11p to lt\20.000 rtllll llll prir,onmcnt 11p to 20 ~-r,ns are prm·iclerl, Mr. Cash pointP<l out. ----►-­ as rue I s G T kH"t L ISt ti• oca a on the I u,n,- Cluh, ot the> Yan1111:s tow 11.,. :,:;, 11rr t II<' I.ion., ,lo play 1111 arlivP pn rl in sponsorina- t his 1 ward, tl,c !oral dnh is g-i, c•n lhP prh il, ~1• ot pn•:sf'lll in:.: the• plaqu~ to )Ir. Pargrnann. HP]lll'SC'lltatl\'('~ or thr Soil ('on -,errntio11 Rervi,·" " ill be> Jtr,'s!'III to mnk,, ,;horl C'!'ll!!JiltnlatotY 11ml rxplanatory ~pf1t'r•hPs on th;, gn­ i11!! ol the• an1111al award. p•irpos,• of rr<'Pi,·i11~ 1·lai111s and lt "a,; the first time th1· arnal chjPct,:; were 1cporh•d in t hat a­ iea, Residents of the Brn:-lr}~ Cn•ck <·ommunity. l.'> miles nortl:­ ea,t of Pal0 :::tine. c:1lled ~heriff Stant'or<l about 8 :30 las!. niglit, ;;n_v111g- 12 h:ill~ were flying- in a <;traight Iinr m·Pr the community. Thrn, thev r('porte<l. thP hnlls formc>d a ci11'\r ,..bieh bc,g-1111 mov­ ing toward P11le,-tine. 8~, !l p. m. hundreds of Pales- tin!' spectators rrported seeing as 11nn11J· as i.ln c>e- halls in ll1P '-kr nt once, moYing in a cird '· Sh.-r­ ift Slanford disC'ounled irny sng­ g<'8tion th:.it tlw ball!l 01·i~inntcd from a ~potlight. Rud E,·erett, drnggi;.t, ,•lrn~~a thP111 fnr a hPttcr d-ew. He s-itd lhn? finally disnppeared uhont .Jl p.) 1::·s. Horace Yalen~in" 1mi-t ~!,-. saw t,10 p ife•th· rounr 11,, that "nearly scar~d me to bath'' when the,· ap11enred or- t1nr f\<Hl)_f' ~hn., s•d 1 n • • • SC:"ll "n b" p1a, mg- ll,lh rnch other, tba w:n they jumped around. Her hnsband nnd Lee C'h:n·er, shot II box of .22 rifle b•tllr>ts without a.ny rfl'c>C'I on t he ohje(•ts. Mrs. Valentine said neighbor­ !Ind began praying as the balls of fire gamboled overhead. ~Irs. LorPJh '-hradN-, Bi~ F'.1Hinc:s reportrd ,,he saw II fi,,y red hall str('aking overhead la;t night. Jfrs. Marian Heed, fam1 wife, ro1111d what sh" bclieYed was p.nt ol II fl) ing <li.,k. ft landed in hc·r ba<'k yard while she was hangill~ onr thr clothe<; vester da v 11l'!er­ noon. 8he adn;ittPd she wa<, frightrnPrl. She iies<',-ibed it ti ~ a rom1d piece ot tinfoil Pight inch­ <'S wi,ie, ;;corc!IC'd or burni>d a• 1·01mf! tlw NlgPs. Both sides Wl're shiny, hut one sirlP w·as m.nkcd with hlnck. <.t1•w•ilPel line; 11 n•nll'­ !t-r•lll<'h ap111 I. She sa1tl th(!· t.il'­ foil cll'oppc>d ctrnight dowll from tltr i;k,v. She lifted it with a stick, 1ntt it in a tin rnn. and !lrove, fi,·e mill's to nunte1·, 20 milt•;; ,omh­ wrst of Shermnn. Score,, crowd<!d abont lo ::;ep ii. At \JpJissa, Collin County, .Mrs ..\la,w Killian an<l .Mrs. Kay Craft rrporte<l seeing- a stran~e object at 8 :40 p. m. :vestcrday. Ch:nl"s Calhoun, and his f:tth- Pr, \V. .T. Calhoun, prominent Grn~ ,on County farmer,. said ,lisr·n~~in~ O(rl .\~<· :111,f S111:nH>1·,; j •1ati'.m in a. ditlH'r ''.·ith H'port; ln,m1111u·,· with nil who wish to r·n111rn~ trom all s<·d10ns 011 the confild h1111. stran~(• ohjects. ;\In;. Hank 's <'X­ Jh11 is will 110t ht• ah!<' f o 1'11r­ pla'nal iou i~ a:; n•asonablr as any ni,-,h iulonuation e·m1('tT11i11g Olcl y<-1 ]Hit fortl1. :ind may he the Age A:s~i:stauce pcn:siou,,. [::.olutiou to the ''viwuouwuou,'' --- -<- - Cuero Residents See Flying Disc C'uc-ro has finally- produced n s first flying dis,•. It wn~ reportl'rl b? Mrs. r'. W. Haak of 410 <:;to<'kdale street, ntid hoth ,he and hPr hni!band saw it. However, ::\fr,,. Haak ·s flynlg disr is no partir11lar mystery lo hC'r. fthr thi•nk,; she knOWi ,l11sr. 1.-hat causcJ it. It l\l.ts simply a reflection froni an 11irplane, shC' said. Rit ting on the 11orch with her hn"-band about 4 p:m. Run<la~', )Ir,. Haak said she h(•a1·,I a ~trange noise from the sk~·. and. lookPd np. 80011 nu airplanp ,,,1u1e into i-irw, high in 1he cloud~. It was , r1T small h11t plainlr <li-.­ rrrnablc as a plane, i:he -;11id. h was roming from thp east. 80011 it turnfd nor th, and ,i,1~t aftrr that a p:->1·fr~t disc 11•11,-, \·i,;­ ihlP snmr di:<fan<'e from wh,,..,~ tl•e pl11110 disappenred' into the clo11<ls. Tlw disc Hppt·art>c1 bl'i<:1·t and n•1'.\ ,1h·prr. It apptal·od •o 1',, small<'r in s1w tlun1 an orl.in"l:' ,tl'0 rtng wh•·el of a C'.ll. hlr~. Hn:tk rPpcrtcd. It ~•·emefl to b~ ''flon I ing' ' acr,,;;, the he·1Y"lls. <.;lJp <·alk<l hrr husban,I •~ :t:­ teuti(•ll to it. Th<'r both "!I" i:. i\ I!Pr about fh <· H~OtHh th() dis,· wa, gon<". Th plane and th'.l so1111d rli-.appru1'Pd -'In,. Haak i~ ,·onvincNl th:'! llyin;.• !Hmc·er ,, ·1s reflecl~•d f ..oll\ the airplane. This theory al,o h:,s beeu n,h ancecl h,v othei·s. Tlw flying· ,Ji,;c· my~tcry h11s the ------------- • • -- ••••• 1 YOAKUM 1-{ERALD - TIMES owned t,y !\1ALEC PUBLISHING CO. <lt)SEPH J. l.U.LEC, Editor-Manager !.argc;,t g-ui.rameed circulation of, John L. Lewis calls the, LA'I',OH OOUNTS - TRY THE HERALD-Tl.MES. ___ ........___ POLITICAL _L\.NNOUNCEMENTS For Sana.tor, 18th Dist. JOHN J. BELL MOTIRIS ROBERTS ~~~ ,vE SPECIALIZE 1l1 \Vhisldes, Wines , a1,d Gins R. :: • DARLING P ACKJ~GE STORE ~ra.!!ftm£!1Xlrfi:a:n:i~ni:ltii. -- ·~-- • -• • Chas. Micek Your WATKINS City Dealer Phone 599-W _uiU,• r.nll • lnil.ill ~----~­ by building your new home of firesafe COICBETE ·A house of whatever archi~ tectural style or floor plan fitg your family requirements will have lpng~r life, lower main­ tenance cost and greater fire• ~ safety ifit has concrete walls ~d subftoors and a firesafe roof. Le~ 'u~ tell you how to get such a -house bui\t now using our quality te~t.ed concrete bto.::k. F.& :in:. Concrete Products Yoakum. Texas , !!'----t..::,.ffll"-"'l::;,u, c , -. :.. I ~lG i':l. t?i' •• J.le.11 - Phcne 831 DR. (.~ R. TUBBS v·er~dnarian I tarre an~ Small Animals Offi.;e Phone 831 Resid~v•-f. !'.none 749-W B.,r WAY - Ev W. M. ­ , r~ ~ . 1 ~. ; ¥"'-..t)~ ::i~ ~ 1 .ny :publication in tbis section. new labor law a •·slave law" I "T seriously ques .:erald Est. - - - - - -1807 ' T J . t b I ested in world domina I nd0 ·.:.'in,es Est. - - - - - -18\12 j 'he ~ig _ruSts_ iad u u t- ing to rehabilitate the •• • d t O t .,5 9, , edly the same idea about the 1 ,says Wallace J·ust \'/Ill ,,or,;-;on a ect <: . z , 1 ,;,o . . I , E:~osc,fiption Ra,,e ___ -$2.50 anti trust laws when first I Wh Pr,blisl,ed cvny Tuesday and Fri- 1 introduced. And what are ths I'J at hadppehnctdt "ay i ·rung 810 310 L0t' ~• ...ungary, an w a r u ur. - • "' l ...., trusts comnared to the harm ' t "l • t :for:k~ .. ~- •fexas. . ;.,:- . . I coun ry, .,,10uld be b a ., D \ .... t , the umons Clill do with tJ1eir C11~cr:.:ng Lavll.ca an., e v1t Cou11tieo. strikes? " f . ,, ..;r.ter~;t as sec"nd-class ma.L:ter at~ If the aew labor laws !'lie Post Cft:ce, Yoakum, Texas, ' mder the Act of March 3, HW'l. t are "slave .:aw~", so are WIIEN' ADVERTISING crncu- J the anti-trust laws and aa.y 1 0U1e1· laws fior the p1·-0tec­ I ticn ot people agarllSt a­ buses by any gl'Oup. So far , the people were utterly ! helpless against the lab0tr , power. * l'J -~ l Such labor dictators as , Lewis, Petrillo, others, have 1 a far gr.eater power to harm Yoakum IJOW CAN Norman Thomas debate about Kussia, mas quest10ns gav~ what the Reds say • ' "And, on:!e agai ference hetween the of Hitler Gennany, in g.'.>vernment struc' ·what Hitler stc simi;le, and far mon age. But when Russia the same. As to Russian tac they don't difier grea When independence is and maintained in -Gr,ee ing to Wallace's reasor But since the Rec tlus country than the British mocracy, it's very sim1 to suit the purpose. E, king ever had. This is juSt Moscow's fifth column, I as unfolerable today as it was then. . Wallace talks of h, I * r:~ ,,. s1stance and sincere pl1 I -peorle " How c n. W 11 La.st Sunday was, for the ' t- • a a British, a nat10nal 'Day of Russia will take , 1,P·~~~r '1') 1 ~ kini wjth Prima without changing in ti 0 I Minister Attlee and other1 Anct now can 11e 'Lct.:i'll. -. govel'nment leade:'s went to when there cannot be St. Paul's Cathedral to pr~yIless, ~~iceles~, and cut with the natwn for help m any Inendsh1p reach t ' these ominous times. 1 Wallace is not sc "' ~ .,. d Ipolities evidently mea1 Not s.o tong ago Englau , went tlmough the most I de.sperate sb·uggle iu her· ' wlrnie history. The peace j! is not yet establishe.1 ani e\'cn a greatel' mcnac~ I threatens the people ,of Eagland and elsein,here to j whom f.reedom m€a',1S so j much. In a great da.nge1· brave pe~~•f,~a to G-0d. I Here, -too many do notl rnrcn,! in the rcrent co1 I fully realize today's danger.· a mm 1-ton rnodd. The , _We suffered comparatively 1rll(•k was lrnilt o'n Oct, I little and the H.ed threa,t ~,91~. i1_1 ~'htnokt's C seems to be distant. But 'altrornw p!Hnt. : that does not minimize it. . Tiu, tl'llek i·, owned aud 'W need to ra~e the menac-9' bv "\fi-. l.(--Ju, A. :Storey, I _e . I .1fo11t;n1a; and tlic tntr:v ,, I with the same seriousness. mitted thn,n"h Pionu 1. • the British ~eople with their; the Cbcnolc:; dealer in tl leaders manifested last Sun- whic-h 1 locatcJ in om S.1 1 day. For, we cannot c~cape I~ity 7.c11e. it. I 'l')!f> 1',innEr's ]11'17.(' of * l'"'! * ,Aclvancc-Dcsian ChPYrokt It cannot be ~aid anymore i11·il! be i;res;nt('d to ,\fr. that the stories of the "fly- b:,- Ch<•1·rolet :.\fotol' DiYisi, ino· disks" is mec·e fiction. :liore 1 ha 11 l3flU? Ch "' . tYncks WNC entcrcJ trow 1 One disk was found by a tions ol' thP nation, ;.id I~elly man, near. Houston. On jhroad pnhli,: iutt rc,;t . . I'.ntl 1t was a warnmg about its dudr-d mor(> tl1a11 50 191D I military secret and that the i~till iu orr\atio11, rnan~ d I Army Air Force at Spokane, 1\\'ere mau_n1artnred. on_ly , , ·washino-ton be notified at ,mon•li~ a1 lc•r the wmmn,.:­ helping to divide Ame1 most. Mont Man Wii Truck Award The ohLst • C';<'n;l~•t t1· qwration in thP t'JJitcd --...: l Ou~.:, - 'foxas J; 1\-J.ars ,or some other star. Nor are they m i s s i I e s which Red Russia is al­ t1tu:u:a:u:e:u:n:nxu:n:u:e:u:a:s:n:u:11:u:8:I~ \ ,. She'll Never Forget THIS GIFT See Us For QUALITY MERCTE' AJ\TnTSE EXPF RT WATCH REPAIRING ! HAlVIILTON I Like Russians": "Offici'ally JEWELRY religion is still regarded as ~ a deplorable superstition, Yoakum l!i and .church-goers can never hope to gain admittance to ~~l:t~ Hornee Wimbe:dy, Jc Lawyer Offices now in Yoakum National Bank Building Phone 50 1 "" • once. :J! 'P,\ * So the mystmious disks are not messen?ns from 1ready showering upon us. They are our own secrets with which o u r armed forces are experimeD'ti,11. What proµels them? How far can they fly? What is tlheir purpose? -That is a mighty sec<ret. * lt'l * l It is a French paper in I Paris that claims that Ame­ rica has a far more destruc-1 tive bomb than any ever in-1 • vented before. In on~ blow it the Communist Pa1:t,y.'' Yet what do you find in this country'? -:Even cer­ tain church leaders ihave only praise fnr the very rule which exchtdes a Christian, but they con~ demn their fellow Chris­ tians, instead of the Reds. , TliP lar•-. 1nrn1b<•1· of ' t111, lu; cn1 cred L1 th<' bearc' 0 I t1_n.phn,;i:'.e., the qm.Jity an~ I !ht1i!y of C'lwnoll't ln:d,~ \1 - ■-■■I '■ could destzoy all of Paric;; or Moscow. This is also con­ firmed by Robert l\1. Hut­ chins of the University of Chicago, familiar with what goes on here. We can thank only the good P~·oviden(•e that this immense power is in I I our hands. ,, r ,,, Writes John Fisher in hisl book "Why They Behavel M I ■ Just Men C • YOf 1 Lava The 'l'he ... _ - ------ -- - -- i MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS This Paver Is Connected With NCWC Washington New• He:,.dquarters by Direct Leased Wire, Hao International News Service Daily Wires, Its Owl! Special Service, Religious , News Service, Inter-Catholic Press Agency, Lumen Service of Chin.a, Fide• Service, Religious News Photos, International Illustrated News, NCWC Picture Service, Photo Features (Name Registered in the U.S. Patent Office) lQd.6 SF.f'.TTON TWTO Speaking at Castelgandolfo, his as summer home, Pius XII asserted an that the world today has men who on ignore not only the Church, but the .ed "very rudiments of religion itself;" in. men who see no evil in evil deeds ,rd and lust and would spurn "the .ve primary norms of morals anct jus­ ras tice;" "there are cynics who would 16. deride holy things and weak men 1at who would permit these offenses m- to pass...." tin Despite this turmoil, His Holi­ ness said, "there are great rays an of hope and fields white with har­ ;he in vest for those who labor to bring ;he Christ to the world." He stressed ipe the oath of the Jesuits, which en­ tor ables them to bring "a spirit pre­ [n- pa_red and prompt to obey in all ce- thmgs the true Spouse of Christ .. ,. our holy Mother Church." In another audience, held for the Most Rev. Emmanuel Suarez, O.P., ,rnrl thP. Dominicans who elect,ed U1 at, ve1 Co Ht lat an, fol J tioi anc voi ma, disJ ent the ish, sla1 res· dra u. ma Ita I UIU Su~HU of , ...~t:si1 ,11T o u. S, orPARTlllfllTor JU!HICE COMM C 11n q ' TU WU17 47/46 2 EXTRA COLLECT SAN MARCOX TEX JULY 7 1947 714P WASI-IDC CHECK FILES IN INVENTORS COUNCIL FOR DRAWING OF MULTl~APRING CATAPULT THIS INVENTION SENT BY ME TO WAR. DEPARTMENT IN 1945 POSSIB~E LEAKAG~ OF l~FO~A~IO~ HAS R~SUL~ED MV DEV~~~ OR . . ' .J • VARIATION THERE FROM COULD CONCIEVABLY CATAPULT A DISC AND IN SILENCE FOR SEVERAL MILES ~ E_SORDED6 2.- !_j 1/ /0 =­ WOODSON C COPE CLIFFSIDE HALL F ~1 /. J ..,/ 941P 37 JUL1l ffo~JJ -~~Nl v­ 194.5. f. ~­ ~ ~~~ ~~-c.- ~~~--- Yf I . I . "' I • . ' V' cy/i~;"M~morlmtum • WVC :mn TO FR.OM if SUBJECT: \ ' DATB:7- 10-47 !) • 1!• Ladd 1 \ J . P. Coyn f ~ ·:orDsm; Infonnan /. · ~ µ ~ , J ~ There is being attached hCreto a ..Testern Union telegram received from the abo, e individual in which information is 1 furnished concerning a 11disc . 11 This telegram has been aclmowledge ACTION: It is recommended that this telegram be turned over to the Liaison Section in order that they may make the information contai~ed therein available to the War Department. • : , ,< is a fulhate Telegrarr. or Cable, gram un1eu its de,., SYMBOLS ferred characte..;, i-1­ d,cated by a suitable symbol above or pre­ ceding the address. LC-O,-ferred C&blc A , N . WtL L IAMS The filiDg ome shown ,n the"'""° ho~ on t &r and <by letters is STANDARD T I ME at point of origin. Tune of receipt i• STANDARD T I ME at point~ r <llf,i~3l1cn - ABOUT 12 SO-CALL FLYING DISCS PASSED OVER DARLINGTON SC APPROXIMATELY 5:30 PM TODAY •ADVISE IF WISH DETAILS= ;J U ~, ATTS JR• . ., 6 '"' , /~: J:1· 1 JJ:_-----:--:--- --r o~"~ ~~ ~ l}t ,'i!J,. ' 1 ,, ... r:tJ) 'IL" J '/ ., I() ,fr FE D. BlJ. Qjj ·'.:_' __ ~ _ ' .._. • .­ ~, q~.(Jc, (l ~P Dl.; if- ,•• J''. t. . 37 J..(JL :n ~47 ~ -r, \}J JUL 7 1~4, ! EX- o:.·~7 12 5:30 p • l''VIStf'\N r - p::,,~ i_:___J • if ' ~ 1 l JW.., "-'.J, "" ...... " \ • ti' - ~ - - _ .. GUARD ADV HAVE M~G DLVD t ' . ­ lf't. .\ , • I .. • • TO Attachment ,9- ~ Q-56 ~~-~ ~ ~c~..Memorandum . uNITEn sTATEs GovERNMENT - . DA.TB: 7-10-47 ' D. M. ~ Ladd~ llr. Tolson Mr. ~. A, TBll'lll FROM J. P, Coyn b Mr. Clegg__ Mr. Gl avin Mr. Ladd.,,..-""-_-_-_ : : ~~;~~ls__ SUBJECT: J, U.-AA.TT , JR. : : ~;~n Informant : : ~rie=a-­ There is being attached hereto a ,'festern Union telegram ~ , ~ received from the above individual i n ~mich infonnation is furnished concerning a "disc. 11 This telegram has been acknowled d :: ::-~-===- Mr. Penn~ llr. Quinn T8""'- ~~•~~~m - J.~ls o~- 8 03ndy-====:t ACTION : It is recommended that this telegram be turned over to i he Liaison Section in order that they may make the information cont~ine therein available to the liar Department. ,1v? 4_,.y ~ ~1 I ; \. -.-,.1;c~ ... • • • .,~: ~£\\Jt.O-LµU\, t: p, 1 \ - ­ ,r e-· :'I .. lil::t INTERNAL SECURfr" f. B. \. "'=..,,._Of II'.. . • ' .. • ~ toward~ Hloliill and"'a,kppei,.,ed, she said. It was flying high and appeared Illuminated, according to Mrs. Hoffman. "It looked like a small meat plat­ 'Saucer·' Stories s, Disk Found Is ter," Mrs. Hoffman asserted. .,-, , ,..:.. / Glenn Rowden of Detroit claimed _,.,.,, he saw a "saucer," about 50 inches Tries to Call FBiMan in diameter, over Billy Mitchell field Priest Hears a 'Ban~,,.,..._ at 10:05 p.m. when he alighted from Father Bra.sky said he did not an airplane. He said it was in sight I: Discovers a C j r CU} a r bother to show the disk to any of his for 90 seconds. parishioners Sunday. He tried to William Humphrey, who Ii v es Blade With T e e t h,· telephone an FBI agent whom he with his wife in a qUO!l.!let hut at knows. but was unable to reach him 3148 s. 20th st., telephoned police Other Dl.sks 'Seen' Sunday, he added. Asked whether at 9 p.m. Sunday that ...,..._ , -~,. it could have been the work of a Humphrey had seen a slightly illu­ practical 1 • d joker, Father 1 d Brasky re- minated disk which appeared to fa!J Picture 011 Picture Page "Co Id b 't know" P1e : u e. on • to earth near Pulaski high school. he "what is it?" which Father The di.sk, apparently of steel, had Mrs. Humphrey said Monday that eph Bra.sky said he found early a one and three-eighth inch' hole in her husband tried unsuccessfully, to th nday on the lawn of St. Joseph's e center. Through it ran a few photograph the disk. wires. To each end of the cluster Catholic church in Grafton may be of wires was attached what looked Changed Colors, He Says p ust another gadget to add to Fa-, like a small condenser about three Erwin Rottman, 1328 N. 19th i · / ther Bra.sky's already sizable col- inches long. The condcnserlike ob- claimed he saw three of them flyi I lection. jects were wrapped in black tape through the air In a northweste y which still was sticky. The disk was direction at 6 p.m. Sunday. Th Those who saw it Sunday said d h d. t greasy an so m e w a t tr y. turned from orange to gold to silv r "what is It?" was a circular saw Stamped on it was: "Approved, bet~e disappearing, be said. blade with a few wires attached. Dunlap." Reports came also from Janes­ Father Bruky, who said he knew .of Father Brasky declined to part ville, where Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sie­ no sawmills in the area, would not with the disk. He showed a num8e1• vert and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Roth claim it,was a "flying saucer" when of items in his trinket collection. reporte.d seeing a flying disk about he called newspapermen to his All of them had something to do 11:35 p.m. Saturday. The Roths home. with fishing, Father Brasky's favor- were leaving the Sievert home when ·'It may or may not be one of those ite sport. They included his "bass Sievert saw it, according to Roth. Ij flying disks that have been report- bottles," beer bottles with the head It appeared to be several thousand ail over the country," he said. of a fish - and a fish pole from feet up and about 10 miles away, I t's just call it a 'what is it?'" Manila which folds up into a cane. Roth said.·He described It as vague­ {eanwhile, in Milwaukee and When opened, it extends to lZ feet. Jy resembling the moon and as hav­ er points In Wisconsin, sev. "I use it in reaching folks w.'!',....•.,..egular motion in a counter­ sons reported seeing the "fl'y~'.'l"in"."g~~c~a!!'n''t be touched with a 10 foot pole," clockwise, elongated orbit. It ap­ saucers." Father Brasky's disk, Father Bra.sky quipped. peared to Roth to be moving faster however, was the only case here in Others Report"Saucers" than an airplane. He said it was which the "landing" of a "saucer" yellow on Its face. but when it was reported. Father Bra.sky also passed out turned it looked sliver. 11d copies of h is recent publication, Roth said that the four of them Hears "Ba.ng," Fi s Disk "Fish Tales." viewed the disk for 10 minutes. Father Bra.sky gave the follow- "I'm going to revise this thing," ing account of how he found the ob- he exp a1ned. ve got some new I • "I' Stopped in Sky, Claim ject. a steel plate 19 inches in di-I and better tales to put in it." "It fluttered around, faded out a.meter about an eighth of an inch There were other reports around and came back again. and once,· thick ~nd with saw teeth. Milwaukee and Wisconsin of "fly- just stopped and bung there fo "I usually get up about 5 a.m. on ing saucers." Mrs. Anthony Hoff- about two minutes," Roth said. "Tb , Sundays. I was at the front door man, 3410 W. Layton av., said she last time we saw it, it had a ve of my house about to take my dog and her husband saw one at Turn to page 3, col. s j out for a ;alk, when I heard a p.m. Su n d a y flying toward B~i~ll~y,,__ 'bang!' like a big firecrac~er.. I Mitchell field from t~e northwest. stepped outside and found this ..,-=,--n It neared the field,1t veered 1 on the church lawn. "Although the grass was still wet IENCLOSUR ing. frl the night rain, the disk was " too ot to pick up. 1 noticed the gl ball had been knocked off one of e lightning rods on the church, so suppose it struck that in land­ ' Uv ~ 1947 7ZL • 'Saocer' Tales Buzz in State Disk Found by a Priest Is Circular Saw; Others Seen by Milwaukeeans From pag~ I, column 3 noticeable tail. When it disap­ peared entirely, it just popped out." Janesville police reported a tele• phone call from a Dick Thompson, who said he saw flying disks about i 12:15 a.m. Sunday. t Oshkosh, Mrs. L. A. Davis re­ p ted that she and her husband had s hted one of the mysterious disks .,. izzing over the city at 6:t5 p.m. Sunday. 1 She said they were driving on a town road six miles west of Osh­ kosh, beaded east toward the city, when they first sighted the object "flying very fast and very high." At first, she said, It looked like an airplane and then loomed larger and larger until it "appeared as big as the sun." Stop, Ca,r, Disk Vanishes Lacws 6{ Eyesight Cla~ Reports of Flying Saucers Her husband stopped the car BO.,..._______ that they could get a •tter look at the disk, which appeared round and silvery, but by the time they got out of the car the object bad dis• appeared, she said. At Green Bay, Eugene Le Plant reported that he and hill 12 year old son, Duane, bad seen a rapidly mov­ ing silver ball or disk about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday while working In bis garden on the western edge of the city. Le Plant said he saw the object silhouetted against a dark cloud to the north and that he ai h"~ on watched it for three or to r mi utcs while it moved away to tt no hwest Le Plant said he cou no estimate the altitude or d tance, but that it "definitely was n ot an airplane." I By H OWARD W. BLAKESLEE A!soclated Press Science Editor New York, N. Y.-The flying saucers may be explained by cer­ tain laws of eyesight. All objects appear r o u n d or nearly so at any distance close to the limit of how far a person can see. It the objects are seen by re­ flected light, as in most cases re• ported, they are almost certain to be round, and if the reflections are sunlight then the sizes report­ ed are those which would be ex­ pected from distant light reflec• tlons. Descriptions of vit'tually all the saucers as round and flat fit ex­ actly with the tricks that eyes play. This trickiness varies with differences in weather and light• Ing. This writer ha.sseen flying sauc­ ers over Long Island sound, not only this year but In previous years. They were round, bright and moving fast. But they were no mystery because th e y were light reflected from the bodies of airplanes that s o on identified themselves by changing course and coming near enough to be seen distinctly. Many descriptions of m o v e • ments of the flying saucers fit with the common maneuvers of airplanes, s I n g I y or in groups. Some of the maneuvering report• ed, which tooksaucers out of sight and back into sight again, resem­ bles what can be seen w hiIe watching distant airplanes. Whether planes arc guided, pl­ lotless or jct, they all would look the same at great distances. Mirages, Traveler Says Philadelphia, Pa. -(JP)- Dr. Aurel Aczel, editor of a Hungarian lan­ guage newspaper, expressed belief that the !lying sau,·ers were mi­ rages-possibly circularly distort• ed reflections of real airplanes many miles away. A world-wide traveler, Dr. Aczel said: "Years ago I have seen similar things on the Egyptian desert and on the Buszta (Hungarian plain). At sea I have also seen miragt of ships known to be a great dist ce away. "In July and August, and s e­ times even in June, atmosp ric conditions are especially adapta­ ble to the creation of mirages." • • I • • Sliaip-Eyed Sight Disks, bur anly a Saw Blade f~ Found 1 • • • .. Who, what, where, why are flyinf disks? Th~ear·s bi,t~est mybtery produced these Sunday photos while reports came fro everywhere and everyone that the saucers were everywhere. Top left, a movie amera is fitted to a P-51 fi&hter plane at Portland, Ore., as Oregon national guard planes arc made ready to chase the disks. Lower, Mrs. Walter Johnson (rlght) of Spokane, Wash., and her chil­ ~z• n osc and t,11 how lh,y,aw th, """" land on a mountatn,;d, ;n td,ho Td sappear. Right, is Father Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Catholic churct at Grafton, Wis., with the disk he reported struck his church early Sunday. It turned out that th'\! d~~k was a prankster made projectile, featuring a Dunlop cir­ cular saw blade. Note that something apparently took a glass ball off one of the lightning rods. A. whole lot of Mllwaukeet s reported that they saw the saucers traveling past Sunday night. -AP Wirephotos and Journal Staff Sten1n 36 State • • SEEN IN 86 STATE::s.s,--- Flrst sighted June 25 and • First, published reports of the Pbenon 1 ■ 111 occurred-June '25. Jet Fighters Alerted SAN FRANCISCO, July 6-UPI - Milltary aircraft hunted the es over Pacific Coast states ay for sight of the mysterious ] ylng saucers" that for 12 days ve puzzled the entire country. Early reports of results were negative. Five P-51s of the Oregon Na• tlonal Guard cruised over the Cascade Mountains oC Washing• ton-the area where the strange objects first were reported sight­ ed. A sixth circled over Portland, In constant rad.Jo contact with the other five. All carried photo• graphic equipment. Col. G. R. Dodson, command• Ing, described their flight as & "routine patrol," but said they had been Instructed to watch !or the flying discs. g t Manhattan Beach, Calif., A. McKelvey took a Mustanl ter plane up above Van Nuys two hours he cruised at 35• feet, but "didn't i.ee a thing: Gen. <'arl Spaatz, commandan of the Army Air Forces, was on a Pacific Northwest fishing trip. He denied knowing anything about the flying discs - or ot plans to use AAF planes to look for them. JET 1''IGHTER SET "I've been out of touch with things for four or five days," he said. Louis E. Starr, national com­ mander-In-chief ol the Veterans of Foreign Wars, yesterday In Co­ lumbus, 0., said he understood Spaatz had a "group out right now" looking for discs. At Muroc Army Air Field In California a P-80 jet fighter stood ready to take off the moment any flying saucers are sighted Jn that area. A cautious attitude marked both official and scientific co! - • ments, but Capt. Tom Brown t t~Alr Forces Public Relatlo s st ff In Washington ackno ­ ed ed the Air Forces had decided "t re's something to t his" and ha been checking up on It for 10 days. greeted generally with scornful laughs, the objects have been re­ ported every day since by observ­ ers In 36 states. Most of the ob­ jects were reported seen July 4. A few were reported yesterday. Such competent observers as airline pilots said they had seen the totally unexplained discs or saucers, larger than aircraft and 1 :fii!'i:as i-, "loose formation" at high speed. David Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Sllld they had nothing to do with atom!<. experiments, and Army and Navy officials also entered posltlv& disclaimers. Newspaper stories quoting an unidentlfied California Institute of Technology scientist as saying the phenomena mlgh~ have some­ thing to do with experiments in "transmutation of atomJc energy" f used a brief sensation late yes­ rday. The institute quickly de­ ed the report. Reports generally agreed that the flying objects were round or oval. Estimates of their speed ranged from about 300 to 1,200 miles an hour. They were de­ scribed as flying with an undu­ lating motion at heights of 10,000 feet and less. Some described them as glowing, or luminous. 'PROPELLER IN CENTER' Nova Hart, Sl Louis mechanic who was trained during service in the war to spot all types of aircraft, said he saw one of the rang objects near Pattonville esterday. It was flying at 300 et, he said. He described it as circular, with ~ a Tibbed framework and silver gray In color. Hart said it ap­ peared to have a motor with a propeller attached In the center and It kept turning like an air­ plane doing a slow roll. Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Ida., businessman pilot, told of seeing nine of the discs flying In forma­ tion at 1,200 miles an hour over the Cascade Mountains In Wash­ ington, SEEN Bl' 200 Arnold's account was taken lightly. Various explanations were offered- "reflections," "per­ islstent vision," "snow blindness.'' Soon afterward other individ­ uals-In New Me:x:ico, Missouri, California and other !.tales-re­ ported they also had seen the flying objects. Then on Independence Day 200 persons in one group •and 60 In another saw them In Idaho. Hun­ dreds of others In Oregon, Wash­ ington and other western sites reported seeing them. July 4 also brought firs re­ ports of the flying discs om east of the Mississippi. nee l • then they have been reported seen n widely separated sections of he country-in 33 states In all. 'Must Be Insane• LONDON, July 6-UP)-Don't mention those flying saucers on • this side of the Atlantic unless you're prepared for an argument about your sanity. Maybe they have been seen by sober citizens over a vast area of the United States, but Europe won't believe in them until some­ body lassoes one and has It photo­ graphed by Frank Sinatra, the British ambassador and five Supreme Court justices. "America's reply to the ~och ss monster," chortled today's nday dispatch, referring 10 italn's hoariest tall story- t e rpent that is "seen" romping n ~ otland's Loch Ness every ti e the tourist trade needs a shot n the arm. MILWAUKEE S£NTtNn MILWAUKEE, WIS·':ONSIN o OCl ~ .,. e , •a.WI• , . • I Planes ChaSing DisKS Find Only Empty Sky Jokesters Add --•-••"'"a,dio announcement ufti'.t 61S"­ were flying over Lewiston Idaho Sunday sent' hundreds into thei; Some Comedy yards for a look. Weatherman Louis , Krezak said the objects were mov­ ing eastward with the prevailing t wind and probably were •~reed seedR. tOAIr• Mys ery Three air transport pilots agreed. Searchlights 011 Olouds Ea t St L • Qb• Birmingham radio station wasI S • OUIS Jee • deluged with more th~n 400 call in Prove to Be w ashers, one hour by persons who said t ey • W S saw fluorescent balls circling o er ICago Oman pots the city and clearly outlined aga st 5h W. h L ne It egs By the United Press Army pilots were ready Monday for another air search for the mys­ terious "flying saucers" now report­ ed seen in 39 states and parts of Canada as practical jokesters added to the confusion. Equipped with telescopic cam­ eras, 11 army planes searched the Pacific northwest Sunday without finding any trace of the flying disks which had been reported over scores of communities the preceding two days. At Sioux Falls, S. D., a na- ' tional guard plane already in the air was ordered to investigate a silvery I disk with a shorttail which Gregory Zimmer said he saw shoot across the heavens. The pilot found noth­ ing but empty sky. The army "camera patrol" over the Cascade mountains Sunday in­ cluded eight P-51 pursuit ships an three A-26 bombers. Illusions Or Jokes There was growing belief that the concentrated aerial search would show the saucers to be optical illu­ sions or the work of practical j~ke­ stcrs magnified by aroused imagi­ nations. A number of "disks" whirled over rooftops in East St. Louis, Ill., Sun­ day. J. T. Hartley, a locomotive en­ eer, gathered some of them up d f o u n d they were made of p essed white paper, 11 inches in meter and with a two inch hole ln the center. Railroad workers near-by mountains. A carnival at Alabaster, Ala., was playing search­ lights on cloud wisps. n argument raged at Lodi, Calif., o r the cause of a spectacular glow • the sky and a roar shortly before lectrical power went off. Mrs. W. C. Smith said she heard a noise "like Give 'Em Room Newport News, Va.- Peninsula airport here is taking no chance$ with flying saucers. Pilots report• ing Monday to take out planes found this notice on the bulletin board: ''Two thousand feet ver­ tical and horizontal clearance re­ quired between aircraft operat­ ing from this field and any fly• ing saucers." four motored bomber" just before the lights went off at dawn. Erving Newcomb of the Pacific Gas & Elec• tric Co. offered the explanation that a low flying crop dusting plane probably had struck a power lin and b u r n e d out a transforme However, no planes were reporte damaged and no one could explain wlf!C"\i Ciut> dusting plane was do­ ing in the air at da,;,,a bH i-.;Iay. It was the first time any noise had ' been attributed to flying saucers. J. U. Watts, jr., Darlington (S. C.) attorney, said he saw an army pur­ sui~ plane chasing a V-formatio\l of flying saucers at 250 miles an hour 3,000 feet high. However, no pilot reported such a chase. Saw One With Legs Me an t .i m e, authorities were plagued with reports that bordered on the fantastic. An excited Chi­ cago woman reported that she had seen a flying saucer with legs. "I wrs standing on my porch and I th ught for sure it was coming right vn and slap me in the face," s~ 8 i. leorge Kuger of Denver said h 8 , a flying disk with an America fl~ g on it. Francis Howell, Te m p e, Ariz., claimed he saw a saucer two feet in diameter disappear behind a row of trees near his home. When he ru~hed to inspect it, he said, the flat, thm, alumlnumlike disk took off at a "high r a t e of speed" toward Phoenix, nine miles away. Mrs. Walter Johnson returned to Spokane, Wash., after a vacation near St. Maries, Idaho, and after reading newspaper reports of the flying saucers said she and several others had seen speeding shiny ob­ jects "as big as a four or five room house" disappear into the forest covered mountains. he first. of the saucers over New Y rk State was reported by Mrs. K nneth Wohley of Rochester,f,. Y who said she and her husb d I saw an object "about the size of n ordinary saucer" flying above r ba_ck yard at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. ENCLOSU L 16 said they looked like locomotive packing washers. i I • New Jersey residents said they I "thought" they saw flying disks over Palisades PaM and ~ear:by Bergenfield Sunday night. 1 Skeptical scientists recalled the mysterious "rockets" seen over Swe. den last year. Eighty per cent of the "ghost rockets'' proved to be meteors, and Swedish officials said the others could be discounted as pure imagination. Scientists asserted that the ob­ jects in order to be seen clearly at 10,000 feet-the level at which most of the saucers have been reported­ would have to be 20 feet in diameter, I would require a large mass of metal, would be more conspicuous at night and would be seen by a far greater ! ber of persons. r. J. S. Nassau, director of the Mn" & Swu,y •"'"j'' al th Case Institute ot Techn gy at Cleveland, said he was incl ed toI "think the reports urc fanci s." Capt. Tom Brown, army air force spokesman at Washington, said the art was trying to run the reports to arth. ' e1re not dismissing the possl­ bil y that there's something to it," . he aid, "and we're not dismissingI Ithe possibility that it's all a hoax." • • tr. S. Planes Hunting DisCS;­ .Russ T~lls of ~tom Saucers' I r $ }?BJ Probes Story of Soviet Ship Officer \ LOS ANGELES, July 6-(Spe­ clal)-Federal agents today In­ vestigated a Jetter to the Exami• ner describing Russian supersonic atom-powered planes resembling the "flying saucers." A top flight atomic scientist to whom the Examiner referred the letter said It was "not all non•I i.en, e," and suggested the matter be turned over to the FBI. The letter writer !laid he gotI the Information from an officer aboard a Russian tanker recently Los Angeles harbor. LLED EVEN WOR:\IS ,;he Ru~slan, he said, also de· scribed experiments with con­ trolled radioactive clouds In the Arctic, where birds, animals and t\·en worms were kllled. The plane11, as described by the Rus~lan to the writer, are only 18 Inches thick, With a kidney­ !haped outline and no propellors. The pilot lle11 on hl11 stomach ftnd Is 11.rtt!lclally cooled agal! t the beat developed by air ! c­ tlon. "The outer 11urface I'! hight ollshed,'' the Russian sal Both upper and lower surfaces re convex, like a giant lens, he lilting force ls an entirely different principle found about 10 years ago among unpubllshed papers of a Russian chemist. "Ener gy Is required only for t'llmblng, but no energy Is need­ ed for support when the air­ plane goes along the earth's gra,•ltational contour lines." The writer of the si ange let• er said he met the R sslan of• ICl'r in Wilmington an because .e wanted to hear abo Russia, wiled him to dinner. ~te ftawilan first !lsked where he could sen 18 polG'oear=t,elts which he received " for very dan­ gerou11 work." He said he had been assigned to go over the route of the radio­ active cloud nea r Lake Baka! (or Baykal) and pick up dead animals. ALL LIFE DESTROYED "They loaded a few 11mall ships with a ll kinds of animals and directed thf' cloud over them," the writer said. "During this experiment, a violent storm blew the cloud far north Into the tundra, but before It dissipated It destroyed all life on Its way. "The cloud may be controlled from la nd, from a plane or from a robot-piloted 'leader.' '! I understa nd It, the control based on electro-magnetic ave~ and the cloud has t wo m1Jonents : The carrier and t he killer.'' • l 'ENCLO E._ ,.~ h J ~. ~w l,tECORDd F J.~ 32 J 16 ~, .J 60 OCT l • Ouu-ks of E'fesight May Explain Disc Mystery By HOWARD BLAKESLEE AP Science Editor Nl!.."'W YORK, July 6-{JP)-Certain laws of human eye­ sight will explain much of what has been described about the flying saucers reported from nearly all parts of the United States. At any distance which Is dose photograph of the oval object to tpe limit of how far a person taken by Yeoman Frank Ryman can see, all objects appear round north of Seattle, Wash. The Long or nearly so. This law of sight Island oval came closer and covers both small things seen turned Into an airplane. nearby and large ones at great Planes at great distance