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Room.._ _ Mr. Ingram_ _ Miss Gandy._ _ /lying Sall~er Photo Ain\ \Vhat I_t Used to Be---JG!f Q.:.Y:n':wr DT:·T~roN D,,t:c•oi t, Mfoh. i y Charles Manosl dff Writer GRAND BLANC, .May 5J e Perry, the talented pizza man, fet:ls the Pentagon peo9le have sabotaged him or som..?thing. No, the Washington ex­ perts haven't fussed with ~oP-'s saucy pies, but tJ y .certainly done so ea thi g to his flying sau er, Joe claims. "IT AIN'T whal it used to be since they got their bands on it," said Joe, who takes potshots at the moon with a h~memade telescope­ camera. Joe, 44, took a~other look at. his color-slide p oto, pped last February o 1he se ond nigh': of the full I moon. "Jt's not the same," he said dejectedly. "The flying saucer bas faded . . . some­ thing has happened to it." The Washingto1 t x perts retlned the color slide a tw ijay ago. E l<' ED ER AL age ts pkKed it up last March w en thi heard Joe's pi ct u r sh . ¥ed a saucer-like obje t sill ouetted against the moo . lost of JoP.':; customers t his piz-za palac1., here were ~~winced the object was a •~flyin\S~•." di!~ire11n1e'even mol'e con· ce ned over his picture w~, an Unidcuti:ed Flying ObJc t gr up wanted to buy s rights to the slide. ( ) D"t::.r01t P:c0e Press Edi tor: Lee Hills ( ) D3t rnt t Tiewe EdEor : ffarti.n f Et:.i. ~<,r: J c:L;i C, Manning He also got an offer t.lom a natirtal magazine to b .Y th~ pict re. Other inquiries came ro all sections o the cou try. to so JOE was anxious to Et hlpicttp·e back. e called the FBI. e• ta ·ed to the air force. e n de a trip_to Selfridge, • orce Bast, all in vain. I r-- ~) : .S--- 2. r I;.~ : ~icn : £ ~- ~e_ '• ,.• •,., •• ~'7 C0 1 : .,,., ..::z::::., 1'j-!-.lo ot· Case : UliIDENTMED FLYING OBJ ECT · JOSEPJV'I>ERRY, GRAND BLANC ' MICHI GAN - COMPLAINANT ' (Defile 65-2477- 105) be pict!lre was retur,ted sh ·Uy after be sent a lo er to resident Eisenhower. letter inf uded in he parkage from the Pentagon said the strange object in the pi·ture wac; the result of ! 4 lty development lnd n bing more. mong other 1hings, · he Pentagon folks have ad ed in:rnlt 1o injury, ,Toe said. s. Hayden F Y3'79'/ A I N~ qECORDii>"'. 46 JUN 3 1960 0-19 (Rev. 1-28-59) , Centr~l !l~s earoh Se otion ' Tolson _ _ __ Belmont --;J-/ DeLoach ~ McGui!J (J Mohr ~f..J ,.;=-1- - Parsons - -- - Rosen _ _ _ __ Tamm - -- - ­ T rotter - - - ­ W.C. Sullivan Tele. Room - ­ Holloman - - Gandy _ _ __ 3 'Objects' Trailed P'mtre 45.Minlites, Pilot Says DETROIT, Feb. 25 (AP) Killian and co-pilot John ~he pilot of an American Air- Dee of Nyack, N. Y., said they li~es today DC6 three passenger p~ane lost the three strange opjects said mysterious . objgcts that looked like shin- lll the haze when they started ing _saucers appeared to ac- their descent for landing at company the plane for 45 Detroit's Metropolitan Air­ minutes last nighc on its non- port while the plane was over stop flight from Newark, N. J., Cleveland, Ohio. to Detroit. The three bright whitii Capt. Peter Killian of Syos- lights first were sighted whil , set, N. Y., who has flown pas- the plane was flying at 85 senger planes for 15 years, feet between Philipsburg an said "I have never seen any- Bradford, Pa., at 8:45 p. m. thing like it before." Killian said other members of the crew and the 35 pas­ se~rsalso saw the flying obj ~ • The plane left Newark at 7:1 m. l :S T h e Washington P ost a nd _ _ _ T i mes H e r ald Th e Was hing ton Dally Ne w s _ _ The Evening Sta r _ _ __ _ _ N e w Y o rk Heral d T ri bu n e _ N e w Y ork. Journ al- A merica n _ N e w Y o rk Mirr o r _ __ &-<-ff:;Rf'f- /) 1 ------- ,, ~c NOT RltCOtltQP.S, 'JI MAR 3 1959 ·-· _ _ _ _ N e w York Dally N e ws _ _ _ _ N ew Y ork Pos t _ _ _ _ __ _ The New Y o rk T im es _ _ __ T h e Worker _ _ _ _ __ _ _ T h e N e w Leader _ _-,-_ __ T h e Wall St r e e ( Jor Dat e J/ J tJu n, ( _ _ _ 7 • S/luCERS n 0 -1 9 (Re v . 10 - 2 9 -57) Tolson _ _ _ _ Boardman _ _ _ Belmont _ _ __ Mohr _ _ _ __ Nease Pars ons _ _ __ Rosen _ _ __ Tamm _ _ _ __ Trotter _ _ _ _ Cla yton _ __ _ T ele . Room _ _ Hollomon _ __ Gandy _ _ __ 0 .--- ------------------~- tlyi ng~s Show Sign OfGuidance,Jung Says ALAMOGORDO, N. Mex., What such a fact might mean July 29 (JP).-Dr. Carl Jung, for humanity cannot be pre.. Swiss psychologist, says in a dieted. report that Unidentified Flying "But it would put us without Objects are real and "show doubt in the extremely precari­ signs of lhtelligent guidance ous position of primitive com­ by quasi-human pilots." munities in conflict with the "I can only say for certain superior culture of the whites. these things are not a mere "That the construction of rnmor, something has been these machines proves a scien­ seen," Dr. Jung said in the re- tific technique immensely su­ port released yesterday. "A perior to ours cannot bek­ pw·ely psychological explana- gued." tion is ruled out." The Air Force has said Dr. Jung, who started his re- vestigation of flying sau rs search on UFO's in 1944, re- reported over the past 10 y ars leased his report through the has Produced no evidence that f UFO filter Center of the Aerial such things exist. , Phenomena Research Organ- It has contended that not a lzation here. It was released shred of evidence has turned by L. J. Lorenzen of Holloman up to show the existence of a Afr Force Base. flying saucer or interplanetary "I have gathered a mass of space ship or that the objects observations of unidentified fly. sighted indicate developments ing objects since 1944," Dr. beyond the range of current scientific knowledge or pose a , Jung said. "The discs do not behave threat to the Nation's secm·­ ln accordance with physical ity. laws. but as though without The Air Force said last No­ weight. . . . , vember that investigations ot , "If the extra-terrestial origin 5,700 reported sightings showed of 'is phenomena should be the mysterious objects were con rmed this would prove the balloons, aircraft, astronomical exi nee of an intelligent In- phenomena, birds, fire!'!Q.!.'.k.!_ or ter planetary relationship. hOaxes, among other t h ~ i (tJ 2- ~ 3 ~ 1/ y--~ Was h. Post and _ _ Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N . Y . Herald _ _ __ Tribune N. Y. Journa l - ____ Ameri can N. Y. Mi rror _ __ _ N. Y . Da ily News N. Y. T i mes Daily Worker _ __ _ The Worker _ _ _ _ .# --/ New L eader - -- - NOT RECORr,,:r, 117 AUG 1 1958 Da te 'J - >- o/ - S Y • Schm1al, 48, an ex-Nebras- Q S a uc ers'J .I ~fin a2:a1:i-~\~va: q~:~i:~;·n·~ b Air Force investigat ·s fr m the Continental_Air fense Command. 0 11 fo d ~ near the alleged landing spot •d .I,of the space ship was identi­ A . F. . Che c kS SChffil t, fiecr as ordinary but will be Kearney Amus ed ! tested by the University of • O I Nebraska. Tales of fJying saucers and Wt,ile the Schmidt tale was other such space cliiff got giving Kearney a sensational an u n off i c i al raspberry conversation piece, most of Wednesday night ·from an the talk was of a skeptical Air Force official. variety: Newsmen Busy A top official of the Air Technical lntelligence Cen"Everybody downtown ter at Wright-Patterson Air seems to think it's a big joke," Force Base in Ohio told the one business man said. Dayton Journal-Herald his inA Kearney clothier put up vestigators have found no a sign advertising "space ship evidence in the past 10 years l specials." A window s ign in that flyin~ saucers are real. i a car agency announced: He s a 1 d 5,700 reported "Space Ships Tuned Up." The Ke a r n e y car-rental sightings wete investigated between 1947 _and_ 1957. !'fot operat or reported business a single landmg 1mpress10n, was so good all of his cars footprint, saucer or little . were in use. They were being green man was found. 1 rented by visiting newsmen, Investigation Goes On • Presence of the newsijn 1n .JSS!nrney N~ . Ee~-111 w s n_e arly the only sign t at hc-!dw"S:chmidJs ;tory of n a ythmg unusual had h p­ aftei'n~iffl'!' - ~ with be P ned - or may have h p­ crew of a space ship near he pened. city Tuesday was still under ·nvesti ation officials said. Trace Foll d 0:¥.iAHl-l. WORLD-HERALD 0:VJAHJ.I. , NEBR.ASKA 11- 7- 57 SUNRISE EDITION I f ! ~ ~- R 1,Q_J__y_- 11 NOT r u OR~lf'.D 5 2 NOV 261957. 117 Nv, ~ ;.! 1957 .lf' • pace-Ship Story Raises Eyebro 1 TJ \Yorlrl•Hernld's Xe,1'1!1 ScrTke. Kearney, Neb.-A grain J uyer who said he saw a space ship Tuesday in a field near here and chatted amicably with its six occu­ pants had more pleasant dealings with the visitors from outer space than with skeptical authorities. The sensational report by R. 0 . Schmidt, about 50, of Bakersfield, Cal., which topped a host of reports across the nation Tuesday of seeing mysterious flying objects, had these conse­ quences: -State Penitentiarv rec­ ords showed a •man of' the ~ame name served a term for embezzlement from Scotts Bluff County in the l 930's. Scotts Bluffs CounSheriff Steve W'lrrick id he talked to Schmidt phone and was convinced "saw nothing." - He turned down a chance to take a liedetector t~st. --2.schmidt was kept up most of the night for questioning. He finally asked for an attorney. Ward Minor of Kearney was named. -Wednesday forenoon he went to the scene of the space ship's landing with investigators from tije Con­ tinental Air Defense Com­ mand at Colorado Springs, Colo., Kearney Police Chief Thurston Nelson and Buf­ falo County Attorney Kenneth Gotobed. They said Schmidt's story "ap­ peared to be weakening." -Oi l drippings on the ground from the space machine were being ana­ lyzed at Kearney State College. In v es tiga_tors said the "mys t er 1ous green oil" closely resem­ bled that in a partially­ emptied can of co1:1mer­ cial auto oil found in the b1,Ck of Schmidt's car and a arly-emp1y can f o u n d ~ ar 'the site of the "landi p;." Schmidt's story came to ~ f ~ ., · .-~ 111 lil! -~\\it:·or1dtil·•Hci,,ra1ctiiiN• •.,. ■,ir.'.s~s.;;•1cc Photo. 11 Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson . . • In " heart-to-heart" talk. S IDI: V I EW OUTSI DE \ OMAHA WORLD-HERALD OMAHA, NEBRASKA 11-6-57 WALL STREET EDITION - l.fN6111: APPROX. /00 'fCIT ' FI..OOR PLAN INSlt>E ,. .. FAt-1 IN !J£A JlOOF '1' IN COMP ROOF , (ONV£'l'OR. 10 R,,.O( o tt•t lh1' ;+ \ The Schmidtnik . • . As descr ibed by the grain buyer. light when, white-faced and shaken, he appeared in Kearney Tuesday and asked to see a minister. Taken to police, he told this story: Tuesday he inspected a field of milo about two miles south and a mile east of Kearney. When ready to leave he clrove clown a side road seeking a place to turn around. Near the Platte River he saw what appeared to be a wrecked balloon. As he neared il Schmidt said, his car en gine conked out. Schmidt said he got ou and walked toward the ma­ chine. Proximity revealed N tJ' . , .. I..} 1)1£\) iJ.I NOV 22 l95l IS • it to be a translucent, Cl· 'Spoke Gennan' gar· shaped device abouj Tl1e ship o cc u pa n ts one hundred feet long, 3 talked among themselves in1 et wide and about 14 fee Hf;g h Germ an. w h ic h gh. Schmidl said tha S midt says he under hen he was 25 or 30 fee nds to a limited extent ~ vay. two men got out st 0 e man spoke excellent and waved what looked English and interpreted for like a flashlight. the others. "I couldn't move. I don't Schmidt said the inter­ know whether I was iust preter told him repeatedly afraid or what, but it was he had nothing to fear. The like being paralyzed,'' he visitors refused to answer said. any questions but said he 'ln Business Suits' . would "find out all a6'out Schmidt said the men, It in a couple of weeks." dressed in business suits, When repairs were com­ searched him for weapons pleted. Schmidt said he w11.s then remarked that as long p.sked to leave but was told as they were going to be he would be unable to start there for some time "you his car until the machine might as well come in and had disappeared. see thin~s for a few min'Disappeared' f Outside the machine utes." Inside the machine were Schmidt said, he turned t~ two other men and two watch as the fans started women working on wires in motion without a sound. and instruments. The de- He said the machine lifted ,•ice had a fan at each end. about one hundred or two By a strang1> coincidence hundred feet into the air one of the crewmen''·Jooked and disappeared. "It ~ust blended into the exactly like" a hoto?I acquaintance \Yith whom he si►.Y-h!,e it changed cor.r has been watch;ng televi- J r disappeared into th " he said. sf· n programs. chmidt Pressed t e 1/hen the o cc up an t i w nted to move f>rom plac s ter of his car. The mot place they would ste tor ~arted right off. in a ce1·tain location and b T"~~--......;;........:_,.;......,~.__,i pulled to th~ new location without movm . o-19 (Rev. 9-7- 56) ~ cist to Coast Rash of Tolson _ _ __ Nichols Boardman _ __ Belmont _ __ Mohr _ _ _ __ Parsons _ __ Rosen _ _ __ Tamm _ _ __ Trotter _ __ _ Nease _ _ __ Tele. Room _ _ Holloman _ __ There was an unof,· cial report that Air For personnel at neaJ.'by A · c­ en, S. C., spotted the ob­ ject on radar and issued an alert. Gancl¥.-'-- - - ~~' ~7~ The object appeared to be a "constant red light," accord­ ing to Augusta Chronicle ex­ ecutlve editor Louis Harris, who saw the object from the downtown newspaper build­ ing. "Lt could have been a tiny red light a short dis­ tance away or a g igant ic thing at a great dis tance," he said. , 0 ) )/Id~ . ne witness, J. T. James, eaid he saw the object on two occasions from his home near Aiken. Lt was cigar-shaped, he said, and would alternate from bright to amber and occasionally got out altoether. strange "sauc­ '' sightings were r eported. 1,rElsewhere, ---- ~--- WHITE SANDS NEBRASKA Mlitary authorities ~ppar­ ntly gave c1·edence to a re­ At Kearney, Neb., authori­ ort by an electroni en­ ties held a "heart-to-heart" gineer wh,o said he s v an talk with Rein h o Id 0. object which made car en­ Schmidt, a salesman, later gines stall near the Whi.te discovered to be an ex-con­ Sands proving grounds. vict, who said he talked to , tour men and two women in Col. John Mccurdy, Air a transport space ship which Force public relations officer had landed. He said the space a~ White Sands, sa id the en­ people spoke in English and gineer, James S tokes, 42, will German. be given a thoro medical ex­ amination and a radiation , Police roped off the area count test. Col. McCurdy where the "whatnik" alleg- said he was "personally sat­ edly landed and exa mined isfled" With M r. Stokes' r e­ various impressions and oil port. 011 A Civil Service worker a l stains the grou nd • At Long Beach, Calif., th ree Lackland Air Force Base i n i\ir Force weather observers, San Antonio, Tex ., said he one of t hem the comma nding saw an egg-shaped object officer of the spotting unit, land in a ravine about 200 late yes terday reported s ight- ya1·ds from him as he drove ing six unidentified, saucer- near the eity. He said his ~haped .flying objects over car engine and lights went Long Beaah Air F orce base. off, and the object took off in a few minutes, enabling The Coast Guard reported h im to dr ive away. eking up an unidentified ylng object on radai- over At about the same time, 1e Gulf of Mexico south of ,the Grou nd Observer Corps ew Orleans. A Coast Guard at Midland, Tex., said it saw ommander said the object a large, red objert and picked ~ aused over the cutter Se- up unlntelllgible cmwersa­ l)ago In the Gull and was on frm on a sound dl'trctor. cu_>, '1e 1•adar scope for ahouf 27 ~ .::> H •nute3, 0 NOV 141957~ Wash. Post and ____ T i mes Herald Wash. News £J Wash. Star __ f____ N. Y. Herald _ _ _ __ Tribune N. Y. Journal- _ _ _ __ American N. Y. Mirror _ _ _ _ __ N. Y. Daily News _ __ N. Y . Times _ _ _ __ Daily Worker _ _ _ __ The Worker _ _ _ _ __ New Leader _ _ _ __ Z Date --.i(./.'l. . ::.-. 126~-_,,l"->..,..?- - • ~ { R e v . 9-7-56) ( ... I I 1'racked 21 ltlinutes 011 Rad:u- 1/li .:;, Z ·• '°r~ons Rosen _ _ __ Tamm _ _ __ Trotter _ _ __ Nease _ _ __ Tele. Room _ _ Holloman _ __ U.S.Cutterh1Gulf of Mexico Reports Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sliy Associated Pre., f:av€ling at an estimated 1000 of light with no definite -~hape, A brilliant mystery object niles per hour, International 1r esembling the planet Venus." was reported sighted yester- ews Service reported. How-/Shockley said there were no day in southern skies by a ve1·, at one poi nt, the object vapor trails or any other in­ Coast Guard cutter . even as ppeared to remain stationary clications as to the object's Air Force special investigat•j and hover above the waters be-}method of propulsion. One ~rs c~ec_ked a flurry of ear- ror e it resumed Its erratic ,estimate of its height place{! 1flight. Iler,, s1mllar reports. it at 2000 feet. The Co~t G1:1ard cut~er Se- [The cutter's captain, Cmdr. [G I e n n Nor t hcutt. Willis, bag?_, crmsrng m th~ Gulf of 1c. H. War ing, said the objC'ct /Okla., r~nch~r and member o :\lex1co_~bout 200_miles south first ap. peared on thP. ship's the Un1vers1ty of Oklahom of _Lou1s1ana, r_ad1oed th_at_ an , .dar screen as a "good trong Board of Regents, reported obJect resembling "a br1lha.ni ' that on Satur day he and fiv planet with a high rate of p" at..5:10 m. and w s lost others had watched '·a bril \ speed" \\ as seen for about • a northerly direction t 5:37 liant. mysterious light tha three seconds at 5:21 a. m. . m. ,looked like the planet Venu (CST). ,, . LJn this time, the sl<ipper !~agnif~ed many, _many ti~~s." The Sebago s message !'aid said the object which came as 1 he obJect, he said. was VISlble the object was tracked on the ~lose as two ~ iles to ves- more than half an hom·.]_ ,·csscl's rad;ir screen for 27 cl was actually seen y four Sightings of strange obJ~cts J minutes and that, during that 1e~11bers of the cr ew One, have been reporte~ from W\de period, the object flitted 0 11 1 ns. Wayne D. Shock y, de- If scattered sections of i~ and off the screen sevcr:il cr ibed it as a "brigh poi11t lJnited States, most of the mes. Crewmen caught &i~t near i ecret miUtary installa r it only for a few seconds. lions i the Southwest. [The Sebago radioed "N The ir Force said the rad rl!'ans Coas t Guard >le . netwo of the Ail· Defens ( 1arters that the object w Se YSTERY, A6, Col. 3 l Gandy _ _ __ y. ~ J a. ie I ~ Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash . News _ _ _ __ Wash. Star _ _ _ _ __ N. Y. Herald _ _ _ __ Tribune N. Y. Journal- _ _ _ __ American N . Y. Mirror ______ N. Y. Daily News _ __ N. Y. Times _ _ _ __ Daily Worker _ _ _ __ The Worker _ _ _ _ __ New L eader _ _ _ __ Date - A"''+.DH,1,•1 -_ _ _ __ •w vv 6 1957 • 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 naFor 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- " 1 k ti port to the Air Technical In- . It 0 0 5 as ,,iough they _are t 1r Center mterplanetary, Keyhoe said. He said one source of pow• . \ e 1ge~ce 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• J ames Stokes, an engineer jects have wound up in the at the Air Force missile de"unknown" category. velopment center at AlamaAir Force Skeptical gordo. N. M., reported 10 autos were stalled Monday on a des­ And the Air Force said firm- ert highway between Alamaly-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 ites and bright stars account 1giant 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 Invenrrhe 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 aut<?s or other mecharucal aid he couldn't evaluate a eq_u1pment was one of t he thmgs the armed forces would b1·s POI•nt •the •current rash of like to see developed. cported s~ghtmgs. .. I But Hardlund said he knew But retired Mai ~ne Maj_ of no research in this country on aid ~- Keyhoe, ~ector of!aimed at produeing such a de­ the National Invest1ga ti on s vice ommitlee on Aerial Phe-1 'l'~o teen-age g£i-Js reported dded that the re-I eeing a mysterious object in I the sky over Annapolis, Md., ~ last week. Tean Hunt, 13, and Sylvia Fowler, 15, said they saw n egg-shaped object which l'>wed 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 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 I 0-19 (Rev. 9 - 7- 56) • • Tolson-- - ­ Nichols Boardman - - Belmont _ _ _ Mohr _ _ _ __ Parsons - - -Rosen _ _ __ Tamm _ _ _ __ Mystery Objects Calfed . Mirage by Astron9mer· Trotter - - - Nease _ _ __ Tele. Room - Holloman - -- By the A.ssocJated Press ._ 0 A Harvard astronomer says plYsterious objects reported from va.rious parts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico are mirages stemming from natural causes. Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, said yesterday in Cambridge; Mass., that the whole thing amounts to "another flying saucer scru·e." The Air Force has started an investigation of the reported sightings of the strange gJow-1-- - - - - - - - - - ing objects in the sky. The mosphere which would give a fo~ . yeru·s has ~ad radar reflection." Air Force the responslbJhty of checkmg reports of unidentified flying A~ for rep_o rts of the auto objects •,but as one officer put engmes stalling, he said, "It it, "We don't investigate all of would not be surprising that a th Aem." rash of sueh r epor ts h as nervous . ,, foot could stall an endeveloped sinde Sunda.y, with gme. some of the sightings said to Dr. Menzel, author of a book have been made near secret about flying saucers, said he military installations in the has been studying them for Southwest. Some of the per- about 10 Years and has yet to so11s making the reports said hear of one Which could not tlie objects caused their auto be explained by natural phe­ engines to stall and their radios nomena. to fade. "They are caused by a layer Cutte11 Claims Sighting of h~ated air : . . acting as a Yesterday the Coast Guard le~s and formmg an lmag~ of' Cutter Sebago radioed from the ObJects as !!1Uch ~s 40 01 50 Gulf of Mexico that an object miles away, he said. resembling a brllllant planet Common in West with a high rate of speed was "They are nothing more than rseen for a1:>out three seconds, and that it was tracked by a mirage. They . are prevalent radar. , just after nightfall as the Dr. Menzel said it is probable heated air begins to cool off at the cutter's prewmen got a the ground, and they are com­ false image "quite ~kely from mon in the West where they bubbles of 3 hot air m the at- have clear air." - • == The Air Force aid that during the first half of this year only 1.9 per cent of the 250 re­ ported sightings of flying saucers and other strange ob­ jects in the air have been classed as "unknown." And the Ah- Force ·wasul't ready to . be­ lieve that even this small per• centage has sinister implica­ tlons. It seemed a good bet the Air Force will agree with Dr. Menzel's opinion that the cur­ rent' sightings have explana­ Uons in nature, or that the reported objects are actually aircraft or similar man-made ~~ "" l .. J? / l - n l j - f\ NOTRECORDED l40.HOV 1;:, 1957 ------Wash, Post a n d - - - Times Herald Wash. News-~-:;;-;~­ Wash. Star & / t:J N. y . Herald - - - - Tribune N, Y. Journal-_ _ _ __ V N. Ay~e~ii~;; N. Y. Daily News --N. Y. Times Daily Worker _ _ _ __ The Worker _ _ _ __ New Leade r _ _ _ __ Date 0-19 ( Rev. 9-7-56) ---- Tolson _ __ _ Nichols Boardman _ __ Belmont _ __ Mohr _ __ _ Parsons _ _ _ Rosen _ _ __ Tamm _ _ __ ... ,,... ,, ..... Trotter - - -Nease _ _ __ Tele. Room _ _ Holloman _ _ _ Gandy _ _ _ _ - -- - Wash. Post and 11=6=57 Times Herald page A-ID Wash. News _ _ _ __ Wash. Star _ _ _ _ __ N. Y. Herald _ _ _ __ Tribune N. Y. Journal-_ _ _ __ American N. Y. Mirror _ _ _ _:,__ N. Y. Daily News _ __ ,._ •ortat~d Pru, J. G. Kirby of Dalla., made this photo of a diamond I 11 h a p e d o b Je c t flying through the sky while he 'and his family were driving near Amarillo, Tex., In August, 1956. The photo 'II as turned O'rer to the 1''81 and has just been released after Intensive study. The Air Force described the flow as "radiation vapor." .F __ a.:;: ..____.'-J- - - , :'""'- '\ N. Y. Times _____ Daily Worker _____ The Worker ______ New Leader _ _ __ _ ( /\ ' t(I ft,~ Date _ _ _ _ _ _ __ (p i-S3f '1'( • 0-20 r /Mr. Tolson ~ ~r o~rdma9 . : ' (/ _· ~ Mr. Belmo ~ t ~ ,,,, - Mr. Mohr V' UP-a [ ~ Mr. Parsons ~ Mr. Rosen ~ Mr. Tamm-Mr. Trotter Mr. Nease - ­ Tele. Room Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy - , COIJICT> ILLAIII 111.--,1 PIISOIS IIICLUIIIC A SHl!Rlrr nPC>ITII TOIAY sa:IC A l!IY:B:•· scr-s■ Al'l:I OBJICT IHJCI LOOIIII LIU. 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Room _ _ Holloman _ __ Gandy _ _ _ __ Doolittle Scoffs at Repm1 Of Nazi Fl'yi~g Saucer~\ I By the A elated Press of ·H ugh L. Dryden. director of James . Doolittle says it the advisory committee. • .,. st ain't so" that Nazi Ger- Mr. Dryden said "there is no JU · truth" in a statement t hat many deve.loped a flying saucerlGerman engineers desig~1ed a and a bomber that could at~ack flying saucer which attamed a the United states and -return height of 40,000 feet and speed . of 1,250 miles an hour. •'This is an advertisement for without refuelmg. The veteran airman, chairman a book which includes material of the National Advisory Com- discovered by our groups who mittee for Aeronautics, last went into Germany after the month gave a House Approprla- war." he said. • tions Subcommittee his estimate He said also the man supposed of reports published in Germany to have designed the bomber of great aviation accomplish- that could cross the Atlantic ents under Hitler. These were twice without refueling had writ­ nta.ined In a book by Rudolf ten a book of his own with ~ usa.r, former German War Min- mention of any such inventio . try special weapons chief. Gen. Doolittle, asked a.bo Gen. Doolittle's testimony was both the saucer and the bombe , published today, along with that said, "it just ain't so." j, Wash. Post and _ _ __ Times Herald Wash. News ____ _ _ ,M I Wash. Star N. Y. Herald _ _ _ __ Tribune N. Y. Journal- - - - - American N. Y , Mirror ------ N. Y• Daily News N. Y. Times --- ----Daily Worker ----- - - ____ ..._ 5 2 MA'"71ss,......... _ -- - The Worker New Leader _ _ _ __ ------ Dat41.4R 1 4: 195i • 0- 19 (11-22-55) s: ~ Ont ~ Mason ......!:::.....;_ __ _ Mohr _ _ _ _ __ ~re Are-7 Saucers, IV Expert Says Parsons - - - - ­ Rosen - - - - -Tamm _ _ _ __ _ Nease-- - -- ­ Winterrowd - - -­ Tele. Room - - - ­ Holloman - -- - Gandy - - -- -- By VERN HAUGLAND WASIIlNGTON, Jan. 15 (AP). -Reteired Rear Adm. Delmer S. Fahrney once head of the Navy's guided missiles program, said Wednesday reliable reports indi­ cate that " there are objects com­ ing into our atmosphere at very high speeds." Fahrney told a news confer­ ence that "no a gency in this .country or Russia is able to dupli­ cate at this time the speeds and ac~elerations wblch radar and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve." " .. FAHRNEY SAID he never has seen a flying saucer, but has talked with a number of scien­ tists and engineers who reported seeing strange flying objects. Fahrney called a news con1er­ ence following an organizational meeting of a new private group, the National Investigations Com­ mittee on Aerial Phenomena, of which he is board c:hailman. Fahrney said the committee was set up largely to tie to- . gether a number of UFO-mean­ ing ~nidenti1ied flying objects" - clubs being formed throughout the world. Fahrney said his ittee wll collect and investig te ying saucer reports, evalu e em and make public its • dgs. ij• i 1 itJ: fr~-O'EB / fl N" 191 JAN 23 \957 Wash. Post and - - Times Herald Wash. News---Wash. Star _ _ _ __ N. Y . Herald _ _ __ Tribune N. Y. Mi rror '"Z-N. Y. Daily News __ Daily Worker _ _ __ The Worker _ __ _ New Leader _ _ __ Date ~ , Mr. Tolson . . _ Mr. Nichols_ Mr. Boardman_ Mr. Belmont...._ Mr. Mason_ _ Mr. Mohr_ _ _ Mr. Pa:rsona_ _ Mr. Rosen _ _ Mr. •r am..m ..,_ _ Mr . Nease_ _ Mr. Winterrowd.. Tele. Room_ _ Mr . Holloman.._ Miss Gand y _ / 1 -~aucer' See~ lY 7 West \ of Saginaw . SAGINAW, July 30. - IA'I State Police at Bridgeport Post received seven reports of a "fly(" ing saucer" between midnight and 7 a.m. today. One officer said he saw a fly­ ing object himself. The first report, which came from the nearby B urt Ground Observer Corps. station, said the object appeared about 12 feet in diameter, had red and blue lights and was moving swiftly. Various reports put the object's height at between 1,200 and 25,000 feet. The reports came from Sag­ inaw, Mi d 1 a n d and Gratiot counties. Police said the ca!Jers told them the object was seen over Freeland, Clare, Alma ar-d Breckinridge, all west of Sag­ inaw. Midland police said they re1 ceived one call but i:ould no ot the object. • Similar reports were receive f om the Cadillac area early S ~ lurday, but Air Force invesli• gating planes found nothing. ( ) Q!os Ludowy . ( ) Mlehlgan Editor-The Worke~ ~ ) The Daily Worker ( ) Norodna Volya ( ) Romanul American ( ) rltt$burgl, Courier ( ) Mlchlg.in Chronicle ( ) Dlltrolt Fre3 Press ( ) Oetrolt Nows ( ) l)etrolt Tin1. ~ t ) Michigan D1ily ( ) Wiyrw Collegian t ) - <7 ;I Paa,,,..__J\ _ _ Column......{_ - - - - - --NOT RECORDED 126IAUG 8 1956 - - -- - - /7-- .... • -0-19 (11-22-55) ✓ !?~ ~ 'rfJ f/ ~ I ta";dma~ ;:~~~n_c_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_arsons _ _ __ _ Rosen _ _ _ __ _ Tamm _ _ _ _ __ Nease _ _ __ __ Winterrowd _ _ __ Tele. Room _ __ _ Holloman _ __ __ Gandy _ _ __ _ _ 'Confidential Files' Gefsk 10-Cent 'Saucer' Inquiry 1 BY th• Assoc'.ated Press :might have confidential files. If you want mformation on sent it to the Federal Bureau flying saucers, don't address your 1of Investigation. request to "Confidential Files, The FBI, never one to pass Washington, D. C." out military secrets, made dis­ Takes too long. And besides creet inquiries. you may be inv~stigated by the Then the FBI Jorwarded the FBI. letter to the Air Force, advising A woman out in Los Angeles that nothing derogatory or 1n­ (name withheld by various Gov- dicative of subversion could be ernment agencies) dashed off a found in the woman's activities. note on January 15. It said: So the Air Force reached into "Confidential Files its nonclassified files and _plucked "Wash., D. C. out the latest summary on the Dear Sirs-Please send me a number of sightings of UFO <unbulletin of flying saucers, or the identified flying objects>, to­ address where I can get infor- gether with an explanauon of mation about them. I am inclos- why people think they see flying ing 10 cents. saucers-or what it is they see "Thanks.", which the Air Force can or can't Seemed like a simple, direct explain. approach-except for the ad- The lady's 10 cents was taped to the summary and both were dress. • The post office, casting abou.t mailed to her address ill Los for some Federal agency that Angeles. I I Wash. Post and _ __ Times Herold Wash. News _ _ ..,,__ Wash. Star -' - / N. Y. Herald _ _ __ Tribune • Y. Mirror . Y• Daily News ----- Daily Worker --=== The Worker _ _ __ New Leader _ _ __ Date . '71 MAR 28195~ ...., • ' MAR 21 1\:3.Jl ' ... DE-~~NT . OF THE AIR FORCE • • • • Office of Pub~ic• Information Washington· 25 , D, c . 1 • • I ' . • ' • • • ' ~ 1 I •~ U •. S • .Air For:ce .Summary of Eve.nts.• and Information Concerning the Unidentifie<;l Flying ObJept P~ogram The Air Force· feels a , very definite obligation to id,e ntify and analyze things thit happeri in ·the air that 'may h~ve in them menace to the United States and; because of that reeling of obligation and pur­ ~uit of that interest, t _h~- Air .Forc:e established an activity known as the Unidentified Flyi~~: :object Program.· · • This program was established i n ''1.94i when u,nidentified :f~yir:ig objects were being reported in varioµs · parts of the United States. The reports of . sightings reached a · peak of 1,700 in 1952 and dropped to a total of 429 111 1953. • During the· first pine months· of 1951+ o_nly ~54 sightings were rep6rte~ . From a survey of the volume of sightings received by the ~ir Force, ·1t , has been 0.etermfned that over ·80 percent are explainable as being known . objects. , Generaliy, sighted oojects fall into the cate­ gory of: . balloons, ·aircraft~ · astronomical bodies , atmospheric reflec­ tions~ and birds. All reports of unidentified flying objects result from either radar or visual sightings. . . Explanations pertaining to sightings reported from military and civilian r~dar facilities are as follows : 1. Temperature inversion reflections ca:n give a return on a radar scope. that is as shatp· as that received from an aircraft. Speeds of these ret~rns reportedly ran~e -f~6m ~e~o to fantastic rates. The "objects" alsc:, appear to move in a:11 directions. Such sigh~:i:ngs have resulted in ·many fruitiess ,j_ntercept efforts. • I• • To possibly bear out the theory of t emperature inversion refl.ect.ion is an. incident which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge, Tennessee. Two Air Force aircraft attempt·ed to intercept an unidenti­ fied "object" and actually established a radar "lock" on the obje6t. Their altitude at the time· was 7,000 feet, The unidentified object, according to theiP radar, appeared to be at an elevation of 1o · to ~5 degrees from . this altitude . Three passes were made in an attempt to close on the qbject. In each instance the p1lots repo~ted that their radar led them first upward and then down toward a specif1c point on the ground. (One scientlfic theory holds that light can be . similarly reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth. If thiQ proves · to be correct; many visual , night sighting s could be ~ccounted for.) ' 2. Ionized ,clouds have causeq.some un1dentified radar returns Thunderstorms are identifiable by rada1° and radar ·returns have also• been received from ice formations in the air, balloons, ground reflec­ tions, frequency interference between ~ther radar stationi, ~nd wind­ born objects. Obviously, such returns are very difficult to . identify, especially whe n t hey occur during darkness. g')~,,MORE :i 3. ... The -r~darCreen ha-s picked· up· -birp.•$1~-.:o~e case a flock of ducks. Flight int.e rc.ept);ons·· p_rove·d thes_e 1>henomena. 'l l. • ... • • • An explanation· 6f known types of visual sightings are as . .. f9llows: _ . . .. .. . . ._., •' . , . . ' . . 1. Present-day jet aircraft, flying at great speeds and high altitudes, a1'e often .m is,~ aken for. unknown objects by• t.he untrained observer. Sun;t.ight r?flecfions· f'.ronr the pol.i shed surf~ces of air- . craf.t can be· seen pla.inly .ey!:!p,_:wpen the -airc.r_a.f t , itself is too dis­ tant ·to· -~e ·visiple, _The_exhaust : bf j~~ aircraft .emits~, a t.rail. and often this is seen rather than the aircraft itself. · ~~ 2. Weather balloons ac.- count fo:r; . a substantial number of. ; s.ight..:' ings. • These balloons, sen·t · .t"6' altitudes. of 40,000 feet•> and . high'er, are launghed from virtually every airfield in the coun,try. They q.re made of rubber or polyethylene, s:t--1e,ll a.~,·they gain . altitude, have very good ref'lec tive qualities, ·c arry small :p~ghts. when -launched after dark, and can be seen at very hig~_ altitudes, . . . 3. In additio~·.eo the ordinari weather ~all6on, hug~ 90-foot balloon~, which. sometimes dr~ft from coast to coast, .a~e used for upper air research. · These bal loons also have a highly reflective surface .and. are visible at ext-:ireme altitudes. • • ' ' Frequently, unusually bright ' meteors and planets will cause a flurry of reports,.. sometimes from relatively experienced observers. At certain times of the year, V~n~s, for instance, is low on the horizon and will appear to change color and move erratically due to hazy atmospheric conditions. Since the .sta~s are char·ted. ar,id most of their characterist~ci known, many cases are traced · to. the-m. Meteors on the ot_her ·hand are ·of rapid single-direction movemen-t· and. are· only visible for a Tew seconds. Meteor activity is more' common · at certain times of the year than others, and reports of UFO's have shown a tendency to increase during ·these periods. •• • . , 4. 5. Some cases arise which, on the ha.sis of information recei'vec;. · : are of a weird and peculiar natur~. The obj~cts display erratic , movements .and phenomenal speeds. Since maneuvers and .speeds · of this • kind cannot ,be traced directly to. aircraft, ball0ons, or ,kncwn astro.~ nomical sources, it: is b~lieved ' that they are reflections from ob• jects rather · than being ·objects .themse lves. Fr;>r example: suppose·· we would hold a mirror in hand under a light, causing a r e fl e ction on the ·c~iling. Only a slight, quick movement of. the hand would result in erratic movements and phe!'lomena~ speeds of the -reflected beam. Refl~ct1ons may be projected to clouds and haze both from the ground and a ir ~ Many things whiq~ are common to the sky have highly reflec tive qua litie s, such ·as balloons, aircraft, and clouds. Accurate speeds are also difficult tq determine due to the ~nability of the r eportf;r. .to judge d1stanc~, ·a ngles, and time. 6, Brilliant 'flashing lights that sometimes appear r~d a nd wh1 te in. col or 'have been report ed_ by observers. This type has been· traced to a .new lightin g system of commercial a irlines· and military aircraft , Atop the tail s e ction of these aircraft highly reflective red and white flasher type lights have been installed and are many times misinterpreted by the ground obse rver. - 2MORE . In the analysis a _ vestigation of the radar a nd- ~isua l ,.. sightings described, e are some yar dsticks whil have been : e stablished from exper cnce and trends to measure' d atte mp t to de termine the source of UFO•s . Some of these are ge ne ral in nature r and a r e subject to ·cr:i.a nge· as l')ew scien tific and factual inf·o rmation i s r ece ived. I t should be remembered that any object vie wed from a grea t distance appears to be round . Nearly all the sightings r eportecl a r e de scribed as round and would tend to indicate that most of the objec ts ·a re at a grea.te r ·.d.1s-tahce from the observer .than is gen~r a lly estima t ed, • • .- :. ,; • • ·· · . . . Another misconception centers about photographs of unident ified flying obje cts. At be st ·tl!le. majority of photographs have proven non - conclusive as e vide nce· to this program ,mainl y_due t_o type camera s used. • Also, 'i t might be ·mehti'c1ned that because still photogr a phs· .can be so easil y faked, either by using a mock-up or model against a l egitimate background~ or · by retouching the negat,ive , the y a re worth­ l e ss a s e yidence . I nnumerable objects , f ~om ashtrays to wash basins , have been photogr·a phed wh+1e sailing thrpugh :the air. Ma ny su·ch photoB have bee n publ i~he~ ·wi thout revealing the true ide ntity ·of the objects. • More attention is given to moving picture s of unide ntified fly­ ing objects since tHey a r e more difficult to retouch. Howe ve r, only a ve ry f ew movie - type fi l ms have bee n received by the Air Force and the y r e veal only pinpoints of light moving a cross the sky. · The Air Force has been unable to identify the source -of the s e lights because the ima ge s are too small to analyze properly. Since owne rship of the s e films remains with the pe rsons taking the m, the Air Force is now in a position to give the m out . The difficulty of evaluating •rep.o rts of all · types is ba s ed l a r ge ly upon the lack of basic da t a surrounding the sigh tings. The drop in sightings during 1953 is l a rgely due to the increased a ccura cy a nd the compl e tene ss of r e ports being r e ce ived. To be of value , a r eport should include such basic da t a as size , shape , composition, spe ed, altitude, direction, a nd the mane uve r pattern of the obj ec ts . Without such inf ormation, it is almost impossible to e sta blish the . identi ty of the object sighted. In addition , a r e ce nt study has shown a dire ct corre lation1 be twee n the numbe r of sightings r eported a nd the publicity g iven to ' saucers" by the na tion's pre ss . The Air Force took a furthe r ste p in early 1953 by procur~ng Vide en came ras for the purpose of photogr aphing this phe nome na ~ The s e came r a s we re distributed to va rious military installa tions . This type 0a me r a ha s two lense s , one of which t a ke s a n ordina ry photograph, a nd the o the r has a d i ff raction gr a ting wh1ph sepa r a t e s l i gh t int o its compone nt pa rts. This a ids in de t e r mining the composition of t he ob­ j e c t pho t ogr a phed. A sma ll numbe r of photogr aphs ha ve bee n r e ce ived from t his ca me r a ; howe ve r, only light spots of no de t ail ha ve been i ndicated in the photos t o da t e. As mor e photogr aphs a r e take n by the se obser ve rs , it is be lie ved tha t a grea t deal of t he mys t ery wi ll be lifte d from the progr am. The Ai r For ce would like to state t ha t no e vide nce ha s been r e ce ived which woul d t end to i ndicate t ha t the Un i t ed Sta t e s is be ing Qbs e rved by mach i ne s from oute r spa ce or a fo r e ign gove rnment, No objec t or pa rticle of a n unknown substa nce ha s bee n r e ce ived a nd -3MORE .. ,. r ... ·• no photographs of detail have ' been. produce d • . Th~ ..photogr~phs on hand are, at best, only larg_e and sma11 '·blobs of l+ght which, in · mqst cases,_ are explainable • . .. .· It may be concluded from the above and from past experience .that no new significant trends have developed out of these cases. .There. was an increase in public interest which occurred simultaneously with the publication 0f various books and articles on the ~ubject; however, this trend has been noted several times previo-us_ly. , • In,_Q1:'der .to ov~·rcome the lack. o_f ba~ic data, and to standardize all rep·o rts, a detailed· quest..f onnaire 1-s no.w submi tte.d to eacl:) person reporting ·an unidentif.ied aerial abject. It ;ts felt tha~ , the infor­ mation thus obtained will lo~er s.tfll ·more _Jhe numpe.r of unexplained sightings. ·f • .. :- \· ' • • *" • • i ,, ' For observers who wish to report ·un~dentified ·aerial objects, the Air Force would welcome the informa tion . Attached to this report is a brief basic summary form. It would be apprecJated if observers would send the completed f,orm to the neare-st Air Forqe Base. ' • , ' I'f and when new developments turn up i~- this program, the Air Force will keep the puolic· informed ~. ,,. ... -4- 1 9 PLEASE SEND TO YOUR NEAREST AIR FORCE BASE DATE: - - - - - - ---·- · TIME OF SIGHTING: - -~-------------- -- SIZE: SHAPE: COMPOSITION: SPEED: ALTITUDE: ------- -- -- - -----------..--- -- DIRECTION OF TRAVEL : MANEUVER PATTERN: COLOR : SOUND: - - - - - - - ~ - - - - - - - ----,..-. ··--------- - ---~--- - - - - - - -~-- - - ·---- --·--- LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED: SKY CONDITIONS: VISIBILITY: ------------- -· ·--···-·- --- GROUND DIRECTION OF WIND: NAME, AGE , MAILING ADDRESS OF OBSERVER: REMARKS: (General desceiption of what you saw--use back if necessary) - -------- ··--·----- --·--- ------.-----·-·······- ·-··- - - - ·· --·- -- ·---- - - - - -. ,···- ...-·--------------,.--...·-•------·- -----·------- · ··- -•·-- •- - ·- ·- ·- - -·--- .- . - .- .. Mr. Tnk~,:1 Mr. Br~··,i:nan _ Mr. Nichn1s ...Mr. Bdmont;_,._ I\1r. Hnrbo ___ 1\-Ir. ,~ioh!· ___ Ivfr. r~.:::;ons-­ Mi'. r.~•cn_ ·_ :t,i r. T ~1 . - ­ Mr. s::,-" ..- ­ i\i:r . -,, .: crrowd_ Tele. Room - - 1 Mr. Hc:hman_ Miss Gan<lY- - • 1, · ..... .,. J 1-u - -~ - ---- ~ -.-- ERE • th ,, - I ~ ..-J ORG KLEI N h" Flying Saucer built to-dayone with a diameter of 48ft. powered by five jets and a as told by Geor Klein, larger model with a diameter former secret wea ons exof 126ft. and 12 jets. This, he says, accounts for pert in the Gern,an War Production Mintstry,• and the rumour that Saucers often appear to change size suddenly. now an e n g i n e e r in Raised wing flaps liCt both ' Switzerland. "Flying Saucers," he says, a\roraft like a helicopter. The are top secret weapons of the big 9ne c_an keep stationary by SA and Russia. turmng Jets _down to counter" They are a continuation of balan~e gravity. .:re rm an wartime experiFlyrng Saucers,.teveloped in .1ents. . Canada by Joh%:'_!·ost, former ~ "Prototype Flying Saucers [ colleague of Sh Fi:ank Whittle, were built in Germany during have reached speeds upf to the war. I saw one reach a 1,500 mph and have been inheight of 40,000 feet in three • spected by Field-Mar al minutes, near Prague in Montgomery. says Klein. is e rea trut H about Flying c.cers, 1945." ' Klein says the Russians captured a scale model and top technicians at Breslau. The REYI'KJ LDS I!E':IS have not returned DECEW3ER 19, .,19 5l°i ' technicians to Germany. LONI.DI! , ENGLAIID J \ ' And Walter Micthe,, V pon inventor and key an i Saucer development, ed \ est and now works in he 1itcd States lein in a Zurich interview I ij MtllCI OJ TH~ LrC.L , ..., AM!HICAl1 ~MF./SSY t,Ol!JPOfi,. ~ Gt ..J) lf6 FEB 16 1955 ~t/~ - ----·-·-------'-..J ......... ~{- I Mr. Tolson Mr. Boardnum­ Mr, Nicbols­ Mr. Belmont­ Mr. Harbo­ Mr. Mohr.­ Mr. Paraons ­ Mr. Rosen.­ M-r. Tamm­ Mr . Siz•,O·--­ M-r. Winterrowd­ Tele. Roo!n..-­ Mr. Holloman­ Miss Gandy _ _ 'Flying Saucer?' : ,Weird Spy Disc l •Sighted By Shipi A c h 'culn,1' <>bkcl,, g 1•nyloh f\t fll'!;t and tlien brl«hter, llk@ tlie ' moon, s ho0Ll11g up from n cai· .sea level and disappearing in clouds at .5,000 feet, was sighted at sea last night 80 miles east of New York. OWcers of t he Dutch liner Groote Beer 1·eported the incident when the vessel arrived in Hoboken. "l don't know what it was," 11aid Ca pt. Ja n P. Boshoff, a veteran shlpmaster, who sa.id he watched t he obJeot t hrough his binoculars. "It might have t been what has been described r as a flying saucer, but I don't j know what it was." 1 Through his most powerful binoculars, the captain trained ,' them on the object. 40 degrees off the port side. Several other officer similarly trained bino­ culars. Capt. Boshoff described it as "a flat object, resembling t he mon, at first kind of rray and t hen t urning brighter on t~ lower part. and around t he edges having bright spots as If they were ligh ts." He said it was moving- "directly upward, wltb great speed.'' He said he never had seen anything like it before, an added : "l am positive It was not a meteor. Nor was it anytbinr tural In the sky." 1 I 1954 I #! , ) ,Tolson - ~ ~ Mr B man , " / Mr • Mf. Belmont _...__ Mr. Harbo _ _ Mr. Mohr _ _ Mr. Parsons_ Mr. Rosen _ _ Mr. Tamm _ _ Mr. Sizoo _ _ r. Winterrowd _ Tele. Room _ _ Mr. Holloman _ Miss Gandy _ _ <OIJICT> ' - . EV YOIK••TNIEE Clh ,m•s or A ftA-•IOILD AIILIIIS ,,111\ ,OIK FLJClfT IIPOlffl ODA# THI! IICfflD Al UIIIDENTIJ'ltD FLYIIIC CT ABOUT 10 llfJLU IOITII O IOSTOII . THE PIL9!.t CAPJ...!. CRAILIS :l.,_ ICUT09ft1 or POIT VASRl•no■• L.l~t SAID lfl. SAW •a ._..;a: nlU•COLrJlu IISC- I I OIJlt'r AT !Hi' 0 A M Eu • KIATOVIL 1111 TIii GIJICT MUS . , A PAULLIL C I ARD or MIS Pl.AU IUT Ill COULi IOT A CLIAI LOOK Al lT •n• AIOV JIICR CL&UDS . · AFTEI TD PLA• AlllfD AT llLIVILD AIIPOITl IIATOflL IECIIVED A IIIES,fAGI RO" ftAIS•IOIU AIILJIIIS ll IOSTel ST TIit: TIIAT A IEATHIR UL OOII IAI •n IILtASII QIIID .AII react BASE II 11h IIAMPSHllf ABOUT ,o lflLa ltlTlllfa·, or.·IOSTCll1: AT ••30 A.M. IDT. THI MESSAC:E SA TMIICUTOflL 1&LL0• ,IIAllI 0tn AT ,. l 9 A II TIii IOSTOII NISSACt fflClllli ft ULLOOI Al •110uT 100 J'EET • en .n no" t I''• IN DlAPIETIII • ~ AIOIIT FITS'M IDCllPTION or lllATTOU SAV • COMIElfflC • •ssACle KIATOYILe IRO US 1111 rLYIIC SIK! 1927• sa1t •1T ,.,. ., L 1 , c"11~, ,o • l' n11s li' RATIIEI ULL001• 1T•1 ,111 11\' nME 1Tf:n saw • • n,,1: INC ac,1 , m 1111.• . IATlf I.' S! IC I T TIE IIJICT WAS P I IY TIii CO.PlU Ii.It irhi .,~.,1.°!.,.. A. . IT TIit ,UCIIT Berm•. IIAl!ILD ,. 1 ll·TIII Ltci1 llfflllffOIAL AIINIT fOIII II IOITOI SAID 1'11111 TOLi GJ IIIIIC ffl OIJICT • AND IT llD NOT APPIArO ULLOOle Cll•-IIJ31,P , KIAffllL T ERPLO IC - i-____,1 / I NOT REr.OADED Hl JUN 1 7 !1954 --- - - WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE r • • .ii::ii::~;::;;:.OJD 1-1-"t Mr. Ni V ' ' M<i\ of !> S C, 3r1~Mo1qa1 O''l • ! 8 ·1 .::,,f?. Jl. ;. "'i J~ ; ,,, Mr. Belmo Mr. Harbo _ __ Mr. Mohr _ __ Mr. Parsons _ _ Mr. Rosen _ _ .Mr. Tamm _ __ Mr. Sizoo _ __ Mr. Winterrowd_ Tele. Room _ _ . Mr. Holloman _ Miss Gandy _ _ 'OBJECT) '-.. MOBILE ALA.--BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE REPOR.TED THAT AN ,r ~ \ "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. BRILLIANT AND SILVER COLORED" WAS TRACKED BY RADAR OVER MOBILE AND THE ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST LAST NIGHT. MA J . JAMES ZICHERALI, PUBL.IC INFORMATION OFFICER AT BROOKLEY, SAID \ THE OBJECT "APPEARED TO BE A JET-TYPE AIRCRAFT OF NEW DESIGN WITH SHORT 1STUBBY WINGS•" FIVE OTHER RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI ALSO REPORTED SIGHTING THE OBJECT. ZI CHERALI SAID THE OBJE~T APPEARED ON THE BASE CONTROL TOWER RADAR · S EEN AT 6:50 P. M. CST, HE SAID RADAR OPERATORS REPORTED IT "MADE ~ N OUND AND LEFT NO TRAIL BUT GAVE EVIDENCE OF DEFINITELY BEING MANEUVERED." 1/1--~~nuP t ~/-1 ~ - ~ 4 N()'l~ Rl:r.<:IJll'f)IDI) 76 JUL 14 1954 --6 0 JUL 14195 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVI CE yt/~J- • 0-19 Tolson _ _ _ · Ladd _ __ Nichols - ­ Belmont - Clegg _ __ Glavin--­ Harbo - - Rosen _ _ _ Tracy _ _ _ Mohr _ ___ Trotter _ _ Winterrowd_ t Tele. Room Holloman - ­ Mis s Gandy _ ~~~ce H~p~~~~.,.~~olie~~~~~J~ng ~~,~~d 1~!RT Scripps -Howard s taff w riter been relaxed in recent months. ed" and "Flying Saucers From Out­ Force I ea-de rs have Dayton Most of the mail receive<:l at the er Space." o'fflce is from persons over Just how banning the press was slammed down a "brass" curtain the nation who are curious about expected to ease the situation was at the Dayton (0.) Afr Technical flying sauee,s. not explained- unless the ~ • ~ • Intelligence Cent e 1• (ATIC), "The mail has become so heavy figures this will reduce the n mber where flying saucer reports are that the two or three persons de- of flying saucer stories. investigated. tailed to investigating unidentifie , Air flying objects- called UFO's- are "The Air Force will be unable to not getting anything else done," the honor visits (including the press) Air Force official sai.d. to the ATIC because the volume of "Actually, UFO's are supposed to refests for information has seri- be only a small part of the investiou y interferred with investiga- gative work done at the ATIC." tio s," an Air Force spokesman here The flood of mai) from the public sai today. was attributed to newspaper and ' said the original official policy magazine articles about flying sau­ •.n.,i heen to exclude visits by newscers. Singled out were two current Times-Herald l ash. Post Wash. News lash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune _ J,<t -__:.._ 71:.IJ N.Y. Mirror - Not RECORDED 160 JAN 15 1954 Date: hf- • -- .... 'THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE' Are 11,ey Hiding Tl,ose Lights Under a Bushell By EVERT CLARK Mysterious red lights which have flown over the Quantico Marine Base 22 times in the past six nights were officially explained away today as a new type of aircraft navigation light. But most of the Marines who saw them still don't believe that's what they were. In addition, The News ran into what seems to be a delib­ erate attempt to cover up cer­ tain facets of the longest con­ tinuous ''flying· saucer" run in history. The first man to see the light was Pfc. Norman Vie ts, 18, of Greenville, Pa. Since' then, at least ,. 30 other Ma rines, including half a , dozen officers, have seen It, too. On one occasion, sent ries report­ I ed seeing three ligh t s at once. They ( say they have seen the lights drop straight down, fly straight up and stand still. Even the most • c a r e f u I-and skep tical-observer, the base pr ov­ ost ma rshal, Maj. D. D. Pomerleau, admitted the lights had character­ istics he never expected to find on an airliner. FIRST SIGHTING j 1, Pfc. Viets was standing sentry duty at the Tank Parle a few miles north of Camp Barrett on the south­ western side of the Quantico reser• vation at 9:05 p. m . Dec. 30 when he "reported a moving, blinking red light near his post which he could not explain." The sergeant of the guard, Sergt. Francis R. Salinder , "investigated and saw the light but could not ex• plain it." Pfc. Viets told The News the light fi rst appeared to come s traight toward him over a line of t rees about 200 yards to the south o.f his post. "It was about a foot a nd a ha lf in diameter," he said, "only going about 10 or 15 miles a n hour. Then it fol• lowed the tree line about 50 yards to the righ t and went down. "It went straigh t ~own, all of _a sudden. F'itteen minutes later 1t went straight up and moved over h ere toward the tank shed. "I saw it two times aiter that. It did the sarne thin~- It was the weirdest looking thmg I. ever saw. There was no e n~ine"n~e"'a~<!. no s hape-just the light. • J 162__ 81f;lf /l NOT RECORDED 148 JAN l2 ,~04 THE \r~ASHI NGTOH DAILY l\TE\1S Greater washington Edition 1-5-54 • • NO SALE By the time The News talked to P k. Viets at Quantico yesterday, the airplane navigation light theory already had been offered. The News asked Pfc. Viets about it, and he said: "That was no airplane. I first thought it might be a weather balloon, but it wasn't. Either way, you could have seen the s hape." Pfc.- Viets and Sergt. Salinder saw the light again at 10:15 the same night. Five minutes later they called in the roving guard from a nearby guard tower, but the light was gone. CONFLICT P fc. Bennett (top front) ~rabbed a butcher knife and said: "It's land­ First reports had It that troops h1g in Ule tanlt shed!" 1\'la.i. Pomerleau (middle photo) i.s skeptical, were sent into the area to look for but still curious. Pfc. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convb1ce the lights. Yesterday Maj. A. B. hhn "that was no alrplane." -News stare Photos by Gene ThomBa \ Ferguson, the base information officer, said that report was errone- • with troops," the official report sible way to describe the light's ous. says. size, shape and intensity was to "We did at no time dispatch Thirty minutes later, the sergeant compare it t o "the way a blinking troops to fight off the invaders or of' the guard saw it again, and at 8:23 p. m. three lights .wet'e seen. red traffic light appears to a motor­ capture then or welcome them (This was New Year's Eve.) At ist as he pulls up to an intersecaboard or anything else," he said. tlon " However, this is what the official 9:01 it was seen again, and at 4:20 • New Year's morning it moved He heard no noise and saw no record says: "A IS-man detail arrived (at northeast, then south, theri north shape. He said the light was "sharp11:15 p. m., Dec. 30) f rom Camp and remained "over the tank shed ly delineated." Barrett and made a search of the at an elevation of about 3500 feet." "But I have friends and a pro· area in which the light was first 1'hat was the time Pfc. Vie'ts fessional reputation," he said, "and seen. 1'he search proved fruitsaid, "when they saw lt oome u1> as far as I'm concemed just say less.'' there and lay under the moon until it's an aircraft navigation light.'' Fifty minutes later Pfc. Viets' re- morning." Sev.eral ail:lines that fly in and out lief "reported seeing the same red Pfc. Viets' relief of the night be- of Washington say they began in­ light." Se1>gt. Salinder saw nothing. fore got so excited he "grabbed a stalling new lights atop the tails of HOVERS butcher knife and h eaded for the planes six m011ths ago. They blink tank shed to help out his troops,'' on and off, a re red, and can be seen The next night the light was seen his barracks mates said. much farther away than older types. again, at 6 :25 p. m ., by a tank The light came back three times "Nobody in the barracks knows,'' park sentry and the guard tower. Friday night, once Saturday night, Pfc. Viets said.. ''They're just talking At 7:10, it appeared again. This five times Sunday night and twice flying saucers, that's a:11. They're time the sergeant of the guard last night. talking about men from Mars and "came out and check~~ the c:,rea Maj. Pomerleau said the best pos- everything else you could name." = - THE WA~'HIIJGTON DAILY Nl!.'WS Greater Washington ~-d· t· 1-5-54 ~ i ion • e (l) fLtLli. ~1.,/J.JL:.,_C_,_;'.,.,..~-~;:..._--- Myt1;tcry,Is Dissolved Marines Decide 'Objects' i\.re N~w Airliner Lights /JJJ, [;~~·~ J..4-1:--Nicho Belmo J!l ~ Clegg _ _ _ Glavin1-- Harbo _ _ _ Rosen ___ Tracy _ __ Mohr ____ Trotter _ _ _ Winterrowd_ Tele. Room Holloman - ­ Miss Gandy_ -.... Authorities at the Qu~ntico as the Marine Corps is con­ Marine Base last night took a cerne~, a spo~esman said. long searching look at those . Until laSt night, however, the hghts were reported to have • . . . strange flymg obJects with flash- done about everything. Nineing lights seen near the base for teen Marines reported sighting the past five nights-and de- a mysterious reddish "blinking cided they were commercial air- or revolving" light over the base liners. the nights of December 30 and Quick as a flash, airlines op- January l, 2 ~nd 3. Rumors that erating out of Washington con- platoons of 1?,fant~y ha~ ~een firmed the Marine Corps' guess. sent t? the landmg site of An American Airlines spokes- the_ obJects and a ~eport that a man said flashing red lights, vis- ~ehcopter fie\~ to mtercept th ible for 10 to 15 miles have been llghts were discounted by the installed recently atop the ver- Marine Corps earlier yesterday. tical stabilizer, or tail, of its T_he base provo ' marshal, planes. Other airlines also have MaJ. D. D. Pomerleau, who sa"-1 put in such lights, he said. the lights twice, guessed tha A group of Ma1·ine officers they came from an airliner, bu last night made a field trip to added that he couldn't b sure. the "Guadacanal" area of the But last night the Marine base, west of U. S. 1. They re- Corps had this final word: ported: "This flashing red light, "Officials here are convinced when seen for the first time. by that the unusual phenomenon the unaided eye, creates an un- was a new navigational light of usual impression and an illu- greater intensity used on air­ sion of nearness." liners flying near the reserva~::..t ..l&&t:d the matter as far tion." • : !:::-.= lash. Post I - -,...._ lash. News lash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune - N. Y. Mirror ,...,,._ _ NOT RECORDED •~" JAN 8 1954 -- - Date: -- 0-19 _ Tolso'rf/ /J._;'I Ladd l j i(, ~ ) ' Nich9~ WJ!Z BelmYn f f e Clegg--­ Glavin--­ Harbo--­ Rosen - - ­ Tracy--­ GeartY - - ­ Mohr---­ Winterrowd Tele. R oom Holloman - Sizoo .., Miss Gandy- ltlarines Investiga ting , Mystery 'Flying. Obi'!ct' Lands N,ear Quantico, Say Sentries lone of those mysterious flyin the sky and described it as a the two sentries, and the spokes­ objects repor tedly landed near flying saucer," according to the man said the investigation was • , pokesTltan. They notified the now in the hands of "higher Quantico on ~ew Years Eve but Officer of lbe Day that it had authorities." took off again before the Ma- landed, and the helicopter took The two sentries were re­ rines could get the situation in off from Quantico. By the time ported off the base on pass last band it arrived, the mystery ship had night and the Marine spokes• risen and was out of sight. man was not able to supply thefr st A spokesman ~e er~ay con- The news spread swifty description of the objects, or firmed that a flymg obJect had among Quantico personnel. One their report of its actions. been reported near the base. report had it that two platoons The spokesman reported the~ Two sentries on duty at Camp were deployed to capture the had been summoned to appea iarrett, a Marine installation thing but this was denied by the before high officers of the Ma bout 15 miles from Quantico, official spokesman. • rine Base this morning for addi ( eported seeing an object ~ " Statements were taken from tional statemen~s. f J_ r' f 1 - -- NOT RF,r ·n rm :mn 191 JAN 20 1954 - - Times-Hera'ld Wash. P ost --- Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror ·- 0 - 19 iC5? . l C Tolson--­ Ladd--­ Nichols-­ Belmont - ­ Clegg--­ Glavin--­ HarbO-- ­ Rosen - - Tracy _ __ GeartY--­ Mohr-- - ­ Winterrowd Tele. Room Holloman -­ Sizoo - -­ Miss Gandy - #h Swedish Pilot ~eports 'Saucer' By Unit.ed Preas STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 18-The .Swedish Royal Air Force ordered a full investigation today of an airliner crew's report of seeing a saucer-shaped object over Sweden near secret Soviet bases. Gen. Bengt Norderskjold, air force commander-in-chief, called 1n complete reports from all Swedish radar stations aft_.er joining the defense staff in promising a detailed inquiry. Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, pilot of the passenger liner, told the defense staff he· and his crew saw the disc-shaped metallic object shortly after noon yesterday over the southern Swedish town of. Haessleholm, about ·300 miles from the strategic Baltic coast. "It was entirely an unorthodox, metallic, symmetrical and •ci1scular object," Capt. Christiernsson said. "I was not at all scared, but curious, 1 very curious." • • • ' Capt. Christiernsson said the object !Jew faster than sourldl ab.out , 5000 .teet above the ground. Capt. Christiernsson said the object headed southward over a low- , lying 'cloud layer which would obscure it from ground observers. He 11 said he watched it for about six seconds before it disappeared ln the dire~tion of East Germany's Baltic shore. near the former Nazi research j station at Peenemunde, now operated by the Russians. ·J l ... t1e~~-Times-Hera~ Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune - ­ {I ~ 1 .,.J JAN 8 1954 N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass .. 0-19 ,. H H PERS u-ttf't.>HUii n [ Lu SPACE SHIPS ByEx MARINE • Hits AF Stand On Flying Disks (This is the last of three arti ­ cles on the controversial subject of "flying sauce'rs" and their investigation by the Air Force.) BY RICHARD REILLY Are th~ ~ f ! erJ r eal­ and if they are, what are they? That, in essence, is the ques­ t ion that faces the Air Force­ and the American public as.well. Altho it remains unanswered. it has stirred no end of opinions and theories. • One theory advanced from time to time is t hat the saucers are some revolutionary type of weapon perfected either by this country or some other nation. The Air Force, however, dep• r ecates t his possibility. In a re­ cent statement, it said: "The Air Force has stated in the past, and reaffirms at the p resent t ime, that unexplained aerial phenomena are not a se-. cret weapon, missile or aircraft developed by the United States. None of the three military dep artments nor any other agencyJ1 in t he government is conducting experiments, classified or other­ wise, with flying objects which could be a basis for the reported phenomena." Weapon Theory Discounted In a¥ition, a high-ranking Air Force officer indicated to the Times-Herald t hat it is •believed impossible t he saucers could be a foreign weapon. Regarding the question as to whether flying saucers exist, Lt. Robert White, public informa­ t ion officer, said the Air Force helleves reliable observers such as veteran airline pilots are sin­ cere when they report sighting unidentified objects. T he Air Force was tossed a hot potato recently by Maj. Donald E. Kcyhoe, U.S.M.C. <ret.> , who claimed in his recent book, "Fly• ing Saucers from Outer Space;• that the saucers not only are real but that they are of inter-planet ary origin. Furthermote, Keyhoe contends that the so-called "utah film• possessed by the Air Force proves l t1,ts'M stlu. = ·i.·.ueory Bolshr.ed .,. Keyhoe's inter-planetary theory was bolstered by a letter published on the j acket of his book from Albert M. Chop, former Air Force civilian expert on the· saucer project, who now is with the Douglas Aircraft company in California. In the letter, Chop stated : •"The Air Force, and its investi­ gative agency, 'Project Bluebook.' are aware of Mai . Keyhoe's con• clusion that the flying saucers are from another planet. The Air Force has never denied that this possibility exists. Some of the personnel believe tbat there may be some strange natural phenomena completely unknown to us, but that if the apparently controled maneuvers reported by many competent observers are correct, then the onlY ·re­ ma.ining explanation is the inter­ planetary answer." Upon publication of the letter - written on Defense department stationery-the Ail' Force chal­ lenged Chop's claim and said he was merely expressing his per­ sonal opinion. Chop subsequently admitted that he was not speaking for the Air Force, but maintained that some of the investigative personnel had subscribed to the interplanetary theory. He said this was based on "personal con­ tacts with these various indi· vid1tals" and insisted that it was "a true statement." and re~lwil)l aft! \\itllheld, divulge the capabilit ies of our aircraft, radar and electronic equipment are classified. All other information with respect to sightings is a matter of pub• lie record, he said. • Keyhoe maintains. tho, that the Air Force has refused to re• lease many analyses of sighting reports. He points out that the names and locations 1cotinected with the incidents could be de• leted, if necessary. • Wants Film Released Keyhoe also claims that the Air Force should release the , final intelligence analysis on the utah film. In connection with this, Key­ hoe recently sent a 1 telegram to high Air Force officials charging that since the Air Force had Im­ plied that he had misrepresented the analysis of the Utah film, either he or the Air Force wa lying. The Times-Herald asked a top Air Force spokesman if Keyhoe had, in fact, misrepresenteC: the Utah film analysis. He declined to comment. In his telegram - as in his bOOHi,,-Keyhoe stated: "The final analysis proved that t he saucer formation could not be explained as any known aircraft or other conventional objects: · Cites Conclusions The spokesman was asked if / his statement were true or false. He said that. to date. the Air Force has neither affirmed nor Charges Cover-Up Amplifying his theory that the saucers come from another planet, Kehoe claims they could originate from some other body in the earth's solar system­ such as Mars or Venus-or from some other system or universe. Kehoe charges tha t the Air Force is convinced that the saucers are space ships from another world, but that it ls cov­ ering up because of a fear that such a disclosure would result in widespread panic. The Air Force, however, in• sists that this is not so- tr.at it is holding back no important facts from the public. J4_ White said the names of P: rsufWift\rolved in th~ t ~ngs d~i!111~~ also ~ontends the an~ ly, s concluded the objects w ·e n t birds and were not caus d b weather conditions. pccifically, Keyhoe claims the Times Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star { 1 / - l1 lNOT RE'.COROE'O 44 JAN 12 1954 N. Y. Times °l~~ • Y. Compass 6 r- -- Date: I~ ~ J. 8-~-:::f • • intelhi!Bllte experts reached the tic physical evidenc~ey following conclusions: • are interplanetary." 1. The average speed of the Continuing, Gen. Smith stated: unknown objects was somewhere "For the Air Force to admit bf.tween 653 and 980 miles per that flying saucers exist. it would hour. wa.nt indisputable physical evi2. All the objects appeared dence. For such an admission, It round, of the same size, and gave would want stronger evidence off a bluish-white glow of very than it now has." high intensity. Sunvning up the problem, he 3. The objects seemed to be said: "So far, . the Q u es ti.on of maneuvering in a circular or elJiptical pattern within the group, ~vhether flymg sa~cers exist, and at very high speeds. •1f so, wl_1at they a1e, has n~t bee~ . conclusively answered e 1th e 1 4. B~cause of these high speeds, way." the obJects. ob_v_lously could not be But one thing is certain, he balloons 01 buds. added. The Air Force will con· 5. They were not any type of tinue to seek the answer. known a ircraft. • W Iii Push Campaign 6. The sighting could not be ex­ Meanwhile, Keyhoe plans • to plained by any conventional an­ continue his campaign to com­ swer. pel the Air Force to disclose the Asked if the _Times-Herald facts he says 1t is concealing. could see •the final analysis re­ He told the Times-Herald he wil: port, an Air Force spokesman continue to make his claims in said that there were certain re­ print and on television. and will ports the Air Force could not challenge the Air Force to deny make public for security reasons, them. risk of libel, and other reasons. "If any officia1. after reading However, the spokesman said the final ana,lysis on the Utah the film could be viewed at film, says that it did not rule Wright field, Ohio. out birds, known aircraft or Not Discoun t ing Theo1·y conventional obj e c ts as the The Air Force officially neither cause of those objects, I will call accepts nor rejects the interplan- him a liar to his face. "I do not like to use such etary theory. I • Brig, Gen. Sory Smith. Air terms, but after all , the Air Force public relations chief, put it Force has, in, effect, been calling me a liar and I'm getting tired this way: of it." "We do not know enough about Regardless of the charges and it to deny that flying saucers counter-charges, so long as the exist. Conversely, we have no Air Force has unsolved sightings .Proof that they do exist. ln its files - and until it is "In our investigation we are definitely known what the fly. not discounting the possibility ing saucers are - the average that. the saucers--if they exist,....­ person is bound to wonder . . . could be Interplanetary. We are Are the flying saucers real? Interested in anyone who might If so. what are they? be using the air over the United The final chapter is yet to b 5t written in this strange drama. !4{1g;,vcvei we have no authen- The answer.J,s not yet available to us. i 0-19 .... Times Herald Wash. Post Wash . News Wash. Star N. Y. Times N. Y. Compass Date; -- I • o Fan Hysteria ed Labels 'Saucers' U.S. Fiction I LONDON - fA'h- A S o v i e t commentator Saturday accused "aggressive force<;" in the Unit­ countries ed States and ~ t of inventing fl in saucers to fan war hysteria. Moscow radio broadcast ex­ cerpts from an aritcle by K. Khachaturov In the So\'let army newspape1· Red Star, say­ ing: "Those who spread these fa­ bl~s are endeavoring to create the impression t hat the myste­ .r ious object originate from Mos­ cow. "The mythical 'saucers' take off from the pages of the bour­ geois press every time the t'ul­ ing circles of this or that ca~ talist country, on orders fro 1/ashington, are trying to fois pon their, people the new hurf., n of miliUu·y ~p,nditm•e.'' 1 (,,- ,' 1 r- (L /J. rro=;:-o~~0~01!0 46 JAN S 1954 THE MIAMI HmALD MIAMI, FLOOIDA DECEMBER 28, 1953 r. Mr. Clegg __ ______ Mr. Glavin____ Mr. Harbo_______ Mr. Rosen_____ Mr . Tracy____ Mr. Mohr_____ Mr. Trotter____ Mr. Winterrowd_ Tele. Room_____ Mr. Holloman.__ Miss Gandy_ _ JJ l f I i i , , . . ~ ....., - - - • mtf •-- ~......,.._I_.· I ) BOWLING GREEN O.•• A PRIVATE PLANE PILOT SAID TODAY HE SAW "AN OBJECT BRIGHTER fHAN THE SUN FOR ABOUT FIVE S[CONDs . n WHILE CRUISING AT ABOUT 80 MI LES PER HOUR TWO MI U:S WEST Of H£RE • • THE PILOT. WHO ASKED THAT HIS IDENTITY NOT BE REVEALED. SAID HIS PLANE WAS AT ABOUT 2 . 000 FEET THIS MORNING WHEN Ht SAW THE UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT. "lT LOOKED LIKE A BALL OF FIRE•" HE SAID. "IT WAS BRILLIANT WHITE• LIKE f-10LTEN ST£Elf THEN IT TURNED BLUE AND TOOK OFF STRAIGHT WEST• IT TOOK Off WITHIN r VE SECONDS . • THE PILOT SAID THE OBJ£CT WAS TRAVELLING FASTER THAN ANY JET PLANE t t~ ~~ AND WAS COING SOUTH WHEN HE FIR!;T SAW IT. J-IE SA I D T.H£ Sl<Y WAS CLEAR AI\JD THERE WERE NO OTHER Pl.ANES IN SIGHT AT THE TI 1£. HE SAID HE DION ' T THINK IT COULD KAVE BEEN ANY REFLECTION. Ht ID IT APPEARED ABOUT A FOOT IN DIA 1ETER AND WA$ ABOUT THE SAME ALTlTUD[ AT WHICH HE WAS FLYING . 12/11••TS1,1P ,.,.. ' P 1( - . --- NO'!' P""r• )?-.DED 191 DEG 16 195 3 ff • / I GANADA PIJNS­ FLYING SAUCER 0-19 • 08SERVATORY Not Optical Illusions, Top Experts Hold n 1954 OTTAWA, Nov. 12 lCTPSl­ Establlshment of a~nadian government observatory for fly. Ing sauc ers, the first In the world, has been announced here. "There is a very high deg-r ee of probability that flying saucers are real objects, and a 60 per cent probability that they are alien vehicles," Wilbert B. Smith. scientist appointed to supervise the new saucer sighting station, told reporters. He said the federal transport department, in which he has charge of the telecommunications broadcast and measurement sec­ tion, receives constant reports of sighting of flying saucers. The total number; he said, is classi­ fied as restricted information. "The optical illusion explana­ tion is lovely," he said, "but in every sighting t here is always some factor that precludes this explanation. We have decided ·to try to learn just what they are." Canada's sighting station will be at Shirley bay, OD the Ottawa river 10 miles west of here. Smith said any one Iocaion in Canada is sure to have at least one saucer sighting a year. Associated with Smith In the project, "which is under the transport department and the defense research board, will be a theoretical physicist and a specialist in gravitational studies. A 24-hour watch will be kept for saucers. Specially built equip­ ment Is wired to alarro bells. The equipment includes an iono­ spheric r eactor, electronic de­ vices for measurement of sounds, a gamma ray detector, a gravi­ meter, and oth er paraphernalia, Jet planes may be sent up from the air force field near Ottawa to Investigate any saucers re­ ported by the station. Defense r esea.rcb scientista here never have pooh-poohed flv­ ing saucers, which have been pub­ licly reported in nightmarish shapes and forms over .Canadian cities. some of them have been described as mult icolored cigar , figurations. Frequency of t he saucer sight­ ings h&.6 been noted here to rise With the increase in prox1mity of the planet Mars to the ear th. Smith said he does l'ioC ,aie'UUt the possV>l*ty that the saucers ~r.Y'e\,u e om o !I Times Herald Wash. Post Wash . News Wash. Star N. Y. Times N. Y. Compass Dat e : -- 11JJ/...r - , / , 1 t - / M~ Mr. Rosen - - Mr. Tracy Mr. Gearty--Mr. Mohr-----,---. Mr. Winterrowd Tele. Room-­ Mr. -Holloman· - ~:~itlri ( SAUCERS ) THE AIR FORCE STILL I NSISTS THAT ttfLYI NG SAUCERS" ARE WEATHER FREAKt DESPITE ,C.. RE:TIPED W-ARHJE OFFTIER ' S ATTEMPT T0 PROVE THEY ARE SPACE SHIPS FROM ANnTHEP. PLANET . A SPOKESMAN SA!~ THERE jAS N° CHANGE IN AI R FORCE ' S OFFI CIAL VIFW. \I ALT!-1'.)UGF D0NAL D E. KEYH0E, I N A B'.)OK "FLYI NG SAUCEPS FR0~11 nLJTER SPACE ," ' CLAI\1ED THE AIR FORCE. HAS SECRET i'IJ')VI ES PROV I NG THE OFT - SEEN GL'"'WING OBJ ECTS ARE I NTER?LA NETARY CRAFT. BOTH THE AIR FORCE AND THE WEATYER BUREA U, AFTER EXHAUSTIVE STUDIES s AGREED MANY ~ONTHS AGO THAT THE FIERY~ FAST - ~O VI NG OBJ ECTS SEEN BY OBSERVERS FROM C0AST TC COAST ~E~E LI GHT EFFECTS CAUSED BY !E~P~qATURE " Irv ER s I I) N. " ~EYHOE , HO~EVER. CLAI~ED HE SUPPORTS HIS I NTERPLANETARY SHIP T~E'"'RY WITH OFFICIAL ~IR FORCE D0CU~ENTS. A PRESS RE LEASE PREPARED 8Y PIS PUBLISHER "REVEALED " WHAT IT SAI D WAS A BITTER STRUGG LE I N HI Gu Aiq FORCE CIRCLES OVER WHETHER T0 ~AKE THE ALL EGED 0 I CTURES PUBLI C. KEYH0£ SCHEDULFD A COCKTAIL PARTY ~T 4 :0n P.M . FOR THE 0 RESS T0 PLl G l\ l HIS BOOK . 9/29--·CE1024J\ () ' ~ l ~ jjjCJ'-/-lt - ~ I JJrvj ' NOT RE CORDE D 199 OCT 8 1953 • 7v 0 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE • 0-19 G\D ~;~s~on ~ ich Bel nt ,_Clegg _ _ __ Glavin _ __ Harbo __ __ Rosen _ __ Tracy _ _ __ Laughlin _ _ Mohr _ _ __ \t' interrowd __ "= I Tele. Rm. _ _ Holloman _ _ Plastic 'lUoJty Dicks' Flying Since 1950 Gandy_ _ __ Whale-Lilce Air Force Balloons Rise 20 1'1iles, So~v~ ·~~.:~~g s~:~::,~.~~~!~: ~~:d~ho~,~~~-,~~~u,rnnli The magazine Aviation Week racing at tremendous velocities, travel in opposite directions at published a new report yester- whereas they actually are mov• different altitude layers. •rhe day on \\That the Air Force has ing at 60 miles an hour or less. prevailing wind moves f~·om . One evenmg after sunset West to East across the U111ted found out about the upper at- many units of the Strategic States at about 50 000 feet. n:osphere with its "l\loby Dick" Air Command_ in Texas were About 10.000 feet higher. how• ballons-whale-like bags which kept busy try111g to catch and ever, the flow is sometimes re­ have often been mistaken for shoot down a flying object that versed. flying saucers. was actually a Moby Dick drift- Balloons have also carried Since the big helium-filled ing along at about 90,000 feet various kinds or animal Ji[e 'balloons made their appear- in a glow of dust-refracted sun- ranging from fruit flies to mic ance three years ago, the maga- tight. and monkeys, up to 80,000 feet zine said more than 90 percent B-36 bomber crews, accus- The experimental animals hav (of the '·saucer" sightings have tomed to flying high altitudes, survived such altitudes for 2 coincided with their Jogged as- gave up the _chase when they hours and have been recovered cents and charted, courses. were left belund at 45,000 feet, to provide living d:;ila for scienThe shiny surface of the plas- and jet fighters_ stalled tryin_g tific research. tic balloons is an excellent re- to pur~ue th~ 0bJect above their Th~ oby Dic~ lloons are . teleased almost daily at Tilla­ fleclor of light. Long after the altitude ce1l111g. . sun has set and darkness has Another mystenous obJect, mook, Ore.; Vernalis Calif.. an covered the earth, they shine llater identified positively as a Edwards Air Force Base in Cali brillantly with the light re- research balloon, fl'oated over fornia. Two more Bites will b fleeted from the sun at alti- San Francisco last sp1•it1g during used to take advantage of lat tudes of from 90,000 to 100,- a parade welcoming Gen. James summer winds-the Moody Air 000 feet, almost 20 miles up in A. Van Fleet home from Korea. Force base near Valdosta, Ga., the skY., It shone as a brilliant white and Sedalia, Mo. Vapor· dust or other foreign sphere as jet fighters vai11ly The big bags are made so that particles in the atmosphere tried to reach it. On another they destroy themselves auto­ make the light appear white, day, Dayton, Ohio. was filled matically when they descend to redr purple, 01· green. Because !with "saucer" reports as anoth• 33,00,0 fee(. Recording nrachines of the difficulty of judging er balloon floated over the city. and uu;truments a1·e parachuted speed at high altitudes, the bal- The balloon flights have coll-; to earth. ~-· ~· ~-~ ~ ..... ------- --- 1Y,-~ --- ?~ _j\ ~ ~ q u fl Wash . Post NOT I'7'""0RDEO' Wash. News INDEXED - 81 J 191 Str 11 1953 :, -.....::::::, Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune _ _ N.Y. Mirror Date: Al IC 2 3 1353 0-19 Tolson _ _ _ Ladd _ _ __ Nichols _ _ _ Belmont _ __ Clegg _ __ _ Glavin _ _ _ Harbo _ __ _ Rosen _ _ _ T racy _ _ __ Laughlin _ _ Mohr _ _ __ Winterrowd _ _ ,f' Tele. Rm, _ _ Holloman_ _ Gandy _ _ __ \ Pilot" Sights Small Flying Oise Chasing F-84 Over Japan By the Associated Preu "about eight inches in diameter , UNITED STATES AIR BASE, very thin, round, and as shiny as Northern Japan. Jan. 28.-The polished chromium; had no ap­ United States Air Force last night pannt projections and left no reported a small, metallic, disc­ exhaust trails or vapor trails." shaped object made a controlled, He said it caught up with an sweeping pass at an American F-84 Thunderj et, hovered a few jet fighter-bomber and was ob­ moments and then shot out of served at very close range by sigh t. The F -84 pilot, whose another pilot. name was not revealed, did not The report, from Air Force see it. intelligence files, said the sight­ 1t was the second disclosure ing was made over Northern in a week by Air Force intelli­ Japan at 11 :20 a .m., March 29. 1952, by Lt. David C. Brigham of gence of mysterious flying ob­ jects over Northern J apan near Rockford, DJ. It was a bright, cloudless day. the Russian-Siberia area. Lt. Brigham said he got a very On January 21, the Air F~ ce goi look at the object from disclosed that "rotating clus rs ab t 30 to 50 feet for about 10 of red, white and green lig s" sec nds. had been sighted over North rn T e pilot described it as Japan by American airmen: l?c -L •~ - -- • 'C'Ol"<DTt;D -:r11 2 1953 Times -Herald Wash. Pos t Wash. News Was h. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune _ N.Y. Mirror ;i-~ 79 FEB 3-195l Date: f-1 0.20 •• I[:~~ , Nic : z g_,_ _ in_ __ Harbo _ _ _ Rosen _ _ Tracy _ _ Laughlin___ Mohr_ _ _ Tele. Rm._ Holloman_ _ Gandy _ _ ----- SANTA F E N. M. -- THE SANTA FE NEW MEX ICA N SAI D TODAY THAT "FANTASTIC"'STRIDES HAVE BEEN MADE I N THE FIELD OF GUIDED MISS ILE RES EARCH AND THAT IT I S •P~ IBLE• THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT MAY SOON CLEAR UP THE MYS TERY OF TH I Y i l.'JG 5811 C~Rs_ THE NEWSPAPER SAjD "SOMO.RAPS MAY BE REMOVED FROM SOME ASPECTS OF THE HUSH- HUSH PROGRAM" AT A SPECIAL DEMONS TRA TI ON TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED AT THE WH lTE SANDS PROVI NG GROUNDS SOUTH OF HERE LATER THI S SPR I NG. nI T IS POSSI BLE THAT THE DIS CL OS URE SOON TO BE MADE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MAYT IN PART AT LEAST, EXPLAI N SOME OF THE ' THI NGS ' SIGHTED IN SOUTHWES ERN SKIES BY BEWILDERED OBSERVERS WHO HAVE TERMED THEM ' FLYI NG SAUC ERS ' FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME, " THE PAPER SAID. ( HOWEVER COL . M. G. HENDR ICKS~. COMMANDANT OF THE PROVI NG GROUNDS, SAI D TODAY THAT RESEARCH THERE " HAS NOTHI NG TO DO WITH ANYING LIKE THE SO-CALLED FLYI NG SAUCER . WE ARE STR I CTLY I N THE GUIDED MISS ILE BUS I NESS • THERE CER TA I NL Y WON ' T BE ANYT HI NG LI KE A FLYI NG SAUCER DEMONS TRATED ." ) 1/8' - - N l 13 4P ----- WASHINGT ON CITY NE WS SERVICE --- I • • l , t ~ . ✓- ~~'ft,,-, <;ANTA FE1 N.r1••JHF SANTA Fl" !JEii ME..! C A N ~ ~ - "FI\NTASTIC" '>TRIDF'1!tlfl\VE BFEN MADE I!~ T~E FIELD OF GUIDED !U'i"iILE RF.SEARCH AND THAT I IS np~IBLB" TH£ D.CT£N"'E DEPARTMENT MAY ~OON •ifff CLEAr. u? THr MV5 Ttn or. T1f • INAU.C~ THE' NFw;PAPY::R SAJ D "50Mt~ 7,~~ s~1tr-rovrn FROM <;OME A~Pf.'CTc"; OF THE HISH-HlJ~H PRttGRA'.t1"' AT A ',PfCIAL DEC10N'":TRATION TP~TATIVEl.Y 1 t:;CHEDULF:D L\T Tiff um!1r , AND'i PnOVINC Gr?OUND-.; ';QiJTH OF HERE LA TF:R THI,:; SPRING. _ l .. .,lT IS PO,~I LE l1HAT THE DISCUY, U iF. JOON TO . F' 1-11\DE Y TttE DEPART­ MENT OF ORFENSE MAY' IN PART AT L£A';T 'F.PtAill <";OMF OF THF 'THINr.S• M\VF TERMFD THEM •rLVH'G :,I\UCER~. FOR LACK OF /\ ,.,fTTrR "AME, ft T n. PAPEn ~AID, - • . • (HOWFVPR COL. ?1. • HF-NDP.ICKc;,_ COMMANDAtlT OF THt PHO\JING GR;)utJO<;t C:IGHTED IN SOU!HWF'i ftrn. t <; Kl F'; DY BE\<TI tDER£D 01 ,, FRV. H, UH C:AID TODI\Y THAT RF.'~1 RCH THFRF "HAJ' IJOTHING TO l)O WITH ANYING LIKE. Tii£ ';0-CALLRD FLYINO ~AUCER • WE: ARF' STRICTLY IN 'tHF GUI DF.D nr~,:; ILF: 1 J-;INES<;. THERE CE!t AINLY WON'T BE ANYTHING tlKE A tLYING lAUCER ~ -:: H I\J.tj TRA TED. " ) 1/B-~Jtt34P I~ ;:,,.· 1 ~ f.l!J.! ~ fl o 1~ 1Jli~t) JAN 14 1953 1 , ~>t ,, 0 Jt-.Y ;w t; 0tSC, ~ oJ • (RELEAi£ . AT •7 00 P,M. E::iT) -7~ ~ · _ • -:w YORK- - TH(}1E LlGHTt; IN Tiff iKV Nf);l 'Jl< Il.i. l' fLYlUG ~ 1 ,. JI\UCEH.S au;r flERELY ~'"'UDDEN TRAILq O}" LIGH7 \iAJlE.t) y uUD ~ I PARTICLk FR0,·1 OUTf.P. ';PACE 1JtAt E JTEP. OUJ! ATM.OSPUERF AT TREtt NDOU; ) ! r;PEED'i ACJD ARE HEATED TO INCA';D....,..CFI~Cr.:: Y THE RES!'::TAtC'E OF AIR TO ' THEIR FLIGHT.r. THF:Y •Lt DE P1PECIALLY . AD ABOUT THE 10TH AUD TRE 16TH OF TH;- ,irn i~aEHT R, COLES A CKAIRt1/\t OF THE HAVDEN PLAN£TAR1 lJ 1 OF THE A ULRlCAN tiJ,..F.U f OF NATURAL I<;TOilY . GAVf; FAIR NOTICr. OF THE LIGHT"' TODAY• THE ruo PRINCIPAL METE0rf !H(<,YE ::, 1 J r ov ~ ER, COJ..E:q ~AID,. ARf. Tl¾F. LLED T/\URID 1£7EOOS lJJtt"CH ~ Hu~ OFF OF iT A Out THt t 0 Ttt OF TH· AND THE LF.Or'ID MEn:onc.,, OHICJ( 1TFAL 'fHE SHOW A our tHE 16TH. tl, ~ ... - EJ4(5P ~¥i, ,. s~ , 4~ -t38:±,_ /.l. NOT Fllt~,....,. ... ,. ... 138 tnovrrs11ss2 --- r: ...J ,< t ~ l 1 , :! l • -::r?? <.( '68 SEP 25 1952 0-19 • J~ . Tolson / j./ f" Ladd ~ Nicho~ Belmo~ ~ Clegg ~~ Glavin _ _ _ Harbo _ _ __ ,,, .. ·FIVE-STATE WHATZIT t Rosen _ __ _ Tracy _ __ _ Laughlin _ _ Mohr _ _ __ Winterrowd _ _ Well, It Sure Was Some Ball of Fire Tele. Rm. _ _ Holloman_ _~ Gandy ' """ {)I It has been pretty well established today that the "mass of flaming, incandescent matel'ial" which flashed across the sky over Washington and five eastern-states last night was a meteor, a flying saucel' "as big as a washtub," or a mass of flaming, in­ candescent material. ~!----- - - - - - - - -- 1.V . ~ The Naval Observatory, the was sun-colored with a tail." (Sub­ Weather Bureau and observers at urbanite.) National Airport lean toward the • Shaped like a sta1· "about as big meteor theory. as the inside of a tennis raclcet." Scores of Washingtonians, who {12-year-oJd boy.) SHOCICING saw it, lean