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Can This Be the Secret?
nder discussion as a possible solution to the "sajer"
ystery is the Navy's "Fly_ing Flapjack," show:r1: a ve.
r. ipping along ,vith its landmg ge~r ~etract!!d, this ane
would seem to be a supper plate spmrung thl:ough the sky.
'
~iw .in thr sky. She is the first•ports of strange objects see~ 1n
known observer to claim what she the sky a,nd had reached the con
saw was stationary. All the rest clusion that some sort of m~ eor
have spoken of tremendous speeds. ites were responsible.
Mrs. Kole said all she could think Astronomers at the Naval ob
of was a blazing disc. Alexandria servatory and Georgetown uni
police looked in the direction she versity, who admitted they have
indicated but the disc had gone. be.en on the alert for flyir:g
Jack Labous, an artist 3500 saucers as they swept the skie;;
block East Capitol St., r~ported "".ith their powerful telescopes, in
seeing one of the "things" flying sISted they not only had not s_een
over Bethesda. He described it as any but knew of no astronomical
"a flat disc with a cone shape theory that might account for the
undcr it and a stick like a radio reports.
antenna projecting from the .Kenneth Arnold, the privat1
bottom " Pilot who was first to announ"
• . . . seeing the saucers, expressed grrtr
The sc1ent1St y;ho claimed to fication at the support he r .JS
know s om et h 1 n g about the getting but insisted he still dictkt
"saucers" was described by a Los believe he had seen nine discs
Angeles newspaper as a member whizzing by at 1,200 miles an
of the California Institute of hour, although he had seen them.
Technology staff. Arnold started yesterday on a
flying fishing trip over the Pa-
May Be Real, He Says c!fic northwest armed with a ne v
He was quoted as saying "trans- camera in the hope of gettin.
mutation of atomic energy" ex- pictures if he encountered an,
periments m;aht be responsible. more saucers. He took along Col.
.... Paul W. Weil.and, World War II
He was said to have been a re• artillery officer, just in case he
searcher on the Manhattan proj-
ect that made the '7tom bomb, and :it~e:s~me more and needs a
was quoted as saymg: Arnold d 11 11 b "
"These so-called saucers are ca- . announce e as ~-n
pable of high spee(j but can be gett1~g tons of letters commentmt
controlled from the ground. They on his rep~rt _of the saucers. Man
are 20 feet wide in the center and of them Pted1ct they are the fore
are partially rocket propelled on runner of an atom bomb attach.
the take off. People are not seeing One c_o~-re~pondent blamed ~hern
things. such flying discs actually on smv1v~:ns of the lost co~tmetl
are in experimental existence." of Atlan~1s who_ are prepanng f
Experiments with these "discs" an atonuc war m 196_0•.
were reported as being in progress Arm:\'., _Navy and c1v1l aeron
nt Muroc Dry Lake, Calif.; White tics offlc1als ag:reed none of the
Sands, N. M.; Portland, Oreg., and had any reliable informatit
other places. about the discs and would
Dr. Harold Urey, atom scientist frain from commenting _until th
at the University of Chicago, com- saw one, or at least a picture.
mented: "Transmutation of
atomic energy sounds like gibber
ish. You can transmute metals, not
energy."
Col. F. J . Clarke, in command
of the Hanford Engineering works•
of the atomic energy project, said
he knew of no experiments involv•
ing "flying saucers."
"I have been waiting several
days for someone to get the idea
the so-called flying saucers were
tied up in some way with what we
are doing," Clarke said. "But as
:far as I know, there is no connec.
tion." IThe "piece" found in Ohio was
discovered near Circlevill.e. It was
a six-pointed star covered with tin
foil and attached to part of a bal
loon. It was reported to be a device
used by the Army ail· forces inlradar Tesearch to check on h.igh
wind speeds. There was no cot
ment from the atr for..:es. IA War Department spokesm
revealed Army tntelligenco h s
:. ' - ,rktng for a. yel\r on
JUL 6 1947
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