They See Them Over Japan
TOKIO, January 21 (Rec. 11am).—Mysterious flying objects described by a large number of observers as “rotating clusters of red, white, and green lights” have been seen over northern Japan by American airmen from the air and ground.
Intelligence reports say there are too many indications of the presence of something for them to be considered an “observation of nothing.” The reports also discount the possibility that the objects are reflected light. The sightings were close to Soviet territory in the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin, where the Russians have dozens of air bases.
Colonel Curtis Low, commander of the Northern Division of the Japan Air Defence Force, said the flying clusters were seen by fighter pilots and ground personnel, and were traced by radar. The commander of a United States fighter wing took detailed observations of one rotating cluster and tried in vain to intercept it in a jet. The radar reaction to objects is reported to be unlike that from normal aircraft, being “very weak and fuzzy, instead of sharp.”
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‘Thread’ And ‘Flying Saucer’ Link?
AUCKLAND.—The fine, thread-like substance found on telephone wires, fences, and fences at Ongonga, near Hastings, last week resembled matter seen to have fallen from flights of “flying saucers” over France last year, said Mr. H. M. Fulton, president of Civilian Saucer Investigation (New Zealand), today. So far no reports of “flying saucer” observations over Ongonga have reached the Auckland investigators.
Hastings reports say the substance, which is white, is not unlike candy floss and that it disintegrates when handled. Portions of the substance have been up to five feet long.
According to cabled messages on October 29 last year, 20 residents of Gaillac, in the south of France, sighted a formation of “flying saucers.” These let fall a string of bright white thread, which looked like glass wool, and melted as soon as touched. The same year a dozen people at Olden, near the Spanish border, reported that “Flying Saucers” moving in packs left “an abundant trail in their wake like flakes of cotton wool which floated slowly over the ground, some adhering in telephone wires.”
Pierre Closterman, the French flying ace, reported seeing a “flying saucer” at close range over Marseilles with “little white flakes escaping from the rear.”—PA.