'Flying Saucer' Man Was Dark, With Long Hair
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright.)
OSLO, Aug. 25 (Rec. 9am).—Police in north and central Norway made a search for a “flying saucer” from which two young women reported seeing a dark, long-haired, foreign-looking man emerge while they were picking berries on nearby hills.
They described the man as appearing to be friendly and anxious to talk, but he was unable to understand English, French, or German. After the man had vainly tried to explain himself with words, gestures, and drawings, he climbed into the “saucer,” which rose straight into the air, and disappeared.
The north Norway newspaper “Helgeland” reported the women, who are two sisters aged 24 and 32, as saying that the “saucer,” about 18 feet in diameter and looking like two saucers put together, started with a slight humming sound like a bumblebee, and rose at great speed. The man wore a kind of khaki overall without buttons, but possibly with a belt.
The women, who live at Mosjoen, at first suppressed the story for fear of being disbelieved, then one told her husband. When the police questioned the sisters separately, both told a similar story, with only minor divergences. They said the man showed them the saucer on the ground in a hollow.
The police decided that the flying saucer occupant must have been just a beautiful dream. Three policemen plodded solemnly into the hills accompanied by the sisters and surveyed the scene of the brief encounter. While the police could not think for a moment that the sisters were lying (their story, told by each separately, hung together too well for that), they could find no sign that the spot had been in recent use as a saucer-park.
A male cousin of the sisters told the police that the sisters before the “incident” had been reading and discussing a book by D. Leslie and G. Adamski called “Flying Saucers Have Landed.”
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EXPECTATION OF LANDINGS BY FLYING SAUCERS
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, To-day.
Mr. A. H. Fulton, president of Civilian Saucer Investigation (N.Z.), of Auckland, expects flying saucers from Mars to begin landing any day now.
Early in the year, Mr. Fulton said he expected a rush of flying saucers from late May to early August.
Now the flying saucer investigators claim a victory. They say their February prediction of a “major flurry” of flying saucer sightings has come true.
Yesterday was to be the peak day for sightings, because to-day the earth and Mars would be opposite the sun and only 40,300,000 miles apart.
The theory was said to be based on the past experience of these “oppositions” and the belief that the saucers come from Mars.
Basically, says Mr. Fulton, his prediction has proved correct, although as a result of information received from overseas he now expects the peak sightings a few weeks hence rather than yesterday.
This will be in accord with past overseas experience, he says.
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AN AMERICAN MARTIAN
LONDON, Aug. 26 (Rec. 9am).
—According to the Oslo correspondent of the “Daily Mail” the “space man” in the “flying saucer” whom two Norwegian sisters reported that they had found behind a blackberry bush in the hills above Mosjoen, north Norway, on Tuesday, was an American airman in a helicopter.
Even after Air Force assurances, the sisters, Miss Edit Jacobsen, aged 24, and Mrs. Aesta Solvang, aged 32, refused to believe that it was not a flying saucer they had seen. Edit insisted: “We met a Martian and it was a wonderful experience.”
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"FLYING SAUCERS" 25 AGAIN?
Flying Saucer News: A report by the Air Force Department at the Pentagon, Florida, indicated that they had seen the object.
The object was described as long and cigar-shaped. It was like a zepelins, he said. It was moving up and was travelling in a north-westerly direction. Its speed was considerable. The object only being visible for a few minutes.
A check with the Talent Aerodrome revealed that no aircraft was scheduled for flight at the time the object was sighted and no planes had been seen in the area.