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____ • r. T son _ _ -'"" ,._,,A• 'k'ifun - r. l egg ____ ,. Mr. Coff ey ___ - ~ ~=½-~ i \l'hile Science Sneers \Air Forces_Intelligence Joins Search fo,liFlying Saucers Armi Air Forces intelligence and about 50 other persons saw a yesterdai disclosed it has joined the se11ri:b fQ[ a ll lling saucer. Bizarre re12qrts on the whirling, hiSh-s2eed discs continued to 12our i.u, di:ai~iog au Qfficial ~.51t from the AAF, much cynicism from scien£~ i!D'1 tbe otiec Qf $lDOO .fgc tbe first one downed. The Air Forces, which has juris- diction over the White Sands (N. Mex.) Rocket Proving Grounds, de- 11ied the saucers are any of its doing. "No such phenomena can be explained by any experiments bing conducted," the statement s d, E:rom the N11,val Research L~b- o ator:,:'s Bear Admin1I Eanl F. Lee !:!!me U!e £Urt !,Omment; "~e concur in the Armi annowce- ,!!!fil1L:. Ni:itb§r denied existence of $he discs. but the AAF said statements of witnesses are being correlated "in an effort to identify the re- ported objects." With few States in tlie Nation without at least one flying saucer report, the AAF has a chore. A Navy flier with five years' experience tabbed the discs as "space ships" afte1· at first consid- e ng all reports as "crazy." He t anged bts mind, he said in Ala- da. Oa-li!., yesterday, after he group of about "50 of the saucers in triangular formation near Au burn Saturday.'' One report which won't trouble the AAF is that of a commercially operated, converted P-38, whose pilot said he had knocked one of the "pearl-colored. clam-shape airplanes" out of the Montana sky. He admitted the story was a hoax. In Washington, Dr. L. R. Haf stad, executive secretary of ti Joint Research and Developme Board and former director of t Johns Hopkins Applied Physi s Laboratory, said: "Poppycock!" Dr. Jesse Sprowls. psychology professor at the University of Maryland, said, "There is abso lutely no limit to the delusion that the mind can harbor. A tremend ously interesting social psychologi cal delusion," he added. Dr. Ivan E. McDougle of Balti more's Goucher College, said he guessed "it's one of those phycho Iogical epidemics where people see things that aren't there." But C. J. Zohn, 440 Mellon st. se., who works in the rocket-sonde. high altitude research section of he Naval Research Laboratory,t yesterday reported he and three other men saw one "saucer" ~ N~w Mexico June 29. l{e describ d See SAUCERS, Page 3, ColUllln S Gl avin__.c.,,,_ Ladd ✓~: :Mr. N1 ~ Mr. Ro en _ _ _ Mr. Tracy _ _ _ _ Mr. Cars on ___ Mr. Egan _ _ _ _ Mr. Hendon ___ Mr. Penn i ngton_ Mr . Qui nn T amm Mr. Nease Miss Gandy ___ JUL 8 1947 WASHHINGTON POST