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~/11DIVISIOU OF
PDSS IlfTELLIGDCE
OOVEUMENT
IllFO~ ION SERVICE
BUlUW1 OJ' THE llUDGET
SI~ V Bl~g,
'7.xamC/.'tjer
L6a.Agelee , Cal~ .
184 ,,,-13
DATE JJt!7 119 7
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F ederal agents ye erday in-
vestigated a letter to _the Exam-
iner describing Russian super•
sonic atom-~ered planes re-
sembling t~E!--"fly i~ aucers.". •
A top-fhgh1 ~I c sc,eii'bst
to whom the-It""xp.miner referred
the Jetter said 1t was "not all
nonsense.'' a.,pd I suggested the
matter be lu1~4 over to the FBI.
The Jetter writer said he gotj
the informat"o_n from an officer
•aboard a Ru an lan~er recently
in ELoA·s TAJ1g ces az!Por.s-J
scri ~ radioact ive gd 1ds in ! he
tr~llt~ whef~·rd.."' iimal.s ~nd
At c ic, s e
even worm , . .A
The plane . d er· ed 1',Jl"the
Russian to thfl . ' areaonly
18 inches thick, with a { J n(!y-
ed outline and n9 propellers..
1 sh~e pilot }lcs on his .stomach,
he Russian .said, and i.s artifi•
t !ally cooled .Blfa!n~t tH'e heat de-
c Joped by a+t-R'ictio'i.
ve "'fhe outer surr~,' e o!, the
Jane is hiptlY .;6h~h~d, the
P •ter i,ald the Russian told
"'._fl "Both upper and lower
~;'faces are c~n".ex, like a
iant Jens. Th_e lifting fore~ is
g tirely diffei ent principle
;:;: abou( . '10 yeal's. alo
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011g 1mpulih~h41 pa.peis aam t • nd developed
"usslan chen s R 1 ,
"recently a.tone ?f uss as re•
carclJ Ja.bo~·iitorie1. d oulY l'')l:nergy is req1 ;effY Is~..,. .
c irnbil'I~, hut 11:1 ; ,;:,. thll :,i .
f>d tor 1111PP0 t, (l}P · 'ilurt s
111,w g-oes 1I II "
J> :1 tlonnl ,.,. 10.11r 111' •
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-...-. ""l'i:>orts ?f- lhy' tJ~·
ed off sh~ '):)ly m
·e~ area ,y1'jstcrday am
aid t hey ha~ r cceiv_'d
ca!, _ about, them m the city
county sinl:"e Saturday. I
Leonard Posella. 14J _}Jf ~7
• . y drive, 11 ·\ ed a ll';;1g:;'!,_l'T1X-"-=
po of 20 near Grif flarlc going
no we!'t t 500 feel. ..d s s::iid I hi:lv
or I~ :: ==x:~•:;:c ::,-::: = r~
were round and ~ t,•ery "with
Th. e-_wril!?r of the s tra_nge !~_!· their noses pointing up·Nard," a1
ter said he met the Russian ott1- he watched them foe tii,ree
cer in Wilmington \ltld, because \nl'mvt=::. -
• he wanted to hear about Russia, __. _ .
. stroyed all life on its way.
1 ~ "The cloud m a y be controlled .
om land, from a plane or
JR U5SJ!!sCT111
' t h~~~~i!!'; ~;~:ere!:~ :iment, a
violent storm blew the cloud
f ar north into the tundra, bu t
before It .dissipated it de-
Russian officer to anothet· dinner, ,
D but when he came the second
The Rus • he said, also d time his tanker was leaving unex-
.b d expet·lments with co ·1pectedly and he could only say
, very o htt,·e
• bomh.''
On thr other url, he decried
the efforts of some g!'oups who
take advantage of "all this flying
disc talk'' to stir up suspicion of
Rus~i1!'ersonic airplanes."
The writer said he asked the
good-by.
The nuclear physicist consulted
by the Examiner said it was dif-
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!lcult to appraise the value ol
tl~e ~et~erl ~ecause of,,thq writer's
ec mca 1gnoran~e.
''The.._[_e~ 11n1>l31 ng that
the Russians woulUn' us~ the
ittom bomb It thel· 111 1t ts'
~~•HIP T hP Ru11 111·ould
like murh t hP
The Examinrr h:id lv.·o mon,
ppod<; ~f flyrn~ di:,ci; y -;t<'rday.
tt••d Dnrt11;P or i::lR ~ 'l'it•h l "·. r . . --
1, , ~v,·nu,, !-\111d tw was in \\ •st:
I,"" P,111< at 12 02 p. m. 'lwn
saw one flying westwai at
00 to :JOOO feet. He said it vas
silent, round and shiny and was
not an airplanr.
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Mr. Tolson___
Mr. E . A. T amm_
Mr. C l egg___
Mr. Glavin- - -Mr. Ladd_. ___
Mr . Ni chols
Mr . Rosen--Mr . T r acy_ ___
Mr . Carson___
Mr . Egan____
Mr. Gurne a___
Mr . Harbo___
Mr.
•Mr. Jones _ ___
Mr. Leonard
Mr. P enn ington_
Mr . Qu inn Tamm_
Mr . Nease_ _ _ _
Mi s t.,.Gandy___
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