l
Hunclrei-1s in~ States Report th
J; aJ ,~:~~~:~tol~~;~~;~~ra ofa
• w • ff • /~ ,saucer passed over Charleston hea!
ee1ng· e1r y1ng ~aucers •b~u1a.l~ea tsa%~0
ri: ~~~~UJ~:~ t
&y the Associoted Press ing radar signals to the moon, "one aslbha nJs'o, uot hreg,,d sahwlta slndgle t di
th · ca,1 war . a , a n re race1The Nation was baffled toda_y by o! e greateSt t echno ogi ts course before vanishing Into a
"flying saucers" reported seen m Jl achievements of the war and a c- cloud
s tates by hundreds or persons, and complished _In absolute secrecy." An · Army Air Forces spokesman
conjectures came ·from scores of Da".fd Lllienthal, ch_alrman of the In Washington on J uly 3 sa id there
named and unnamed sources Atomic Ener~ Commission, told ~he was not enough !act to "warrant
t hroughout the country. Denver Post m a br;et telephone m- furt her investiga tion" b t th A·
to k tervlew that the flying saucers were . • u_ e . rr
Official Governmen t sources E> In no way connected wit h experl- Materiel Command a t Wright Fleld,
a "Let's see one" stan~ oi:i the phe- ments in.atomic energy, the t rans- Dayton, Ohl~. satd It was _rnakmg a
nomen~>n, and no _sc1ent1st offered mutat ion o,.f metals or similar re- study. Sat.uiday at Washmgton an
a detailed explanation. searcn ' Ar my researcher admitted "we·re
T wo Chlc;.go astronomers said the F J Cl k d ' ffl mystified" and the Navy said it hadC0 1•
· 0
·••<1'. a re probably "man-made." • • ar • comman ~ng . • no theories.
,611, undulating, flas hing objects cer of t he Hanfor? Engmeermg First Reported June 25.
/QJuldn't be meteors," said Dr. Works In the Paci.fie Northwest
Fs1rard Kieupel' director of t he Uni- where the largest saucer influx has . The first published report of " fly
:Crsity of Chicago's Yerkes Ob- been reported, said the saucers were m g saucers·· came from Kenneth
ser vatory at Williams Ba y. Wis. not coming from . the atomic plant Arnold, Boise, I daho, businessma n
''We realize," s~id Dr. Oliver Lee, there. pilot, who reported a t Pendleton,~ Oreg., on June 25 that h e had seen
· d_l£ ctor of Northwestern Unlver- Credence in the saucers- widely nine of them flying a t 1,200 miles an
sl~ 's Dearborn Observatory, "that laughed off a t their fli•st' repoid hour in formation, shifting position
lth Army and Navy are working on appearance June 2S- grew as h • "like the tail of a kite," over Wash-
an r ts of things we know nothing dreds of observers, many of t m ington State's Cascade Moun tains.
ab ut." trained flyers, reported seeing ~h m. Before SC'lffers had more than be-
Dr. Lee said t he discs might repre- A crowd of 200 observed a dis a t gun to offer explanations such as
sent..the same 50rt o! t h!~ M send- (See DIS S, age A-9.) "reflections." ''persistent vision" and
"snow blindness," an Oklahoma City
private flyer, BY_ron Savage, said he
had seen a slm1larly shaped object
some weeks earlier but fear of ridi
cule kept him quiet.
T hen the reports began to filter
in, mostly from Individual~. T he
I
•SCS discs were seen in Texa-s, ln New
Mexico, In Washington, Oregon,DI
(Continued From First Page ) Idaho, Missouri, Colorado, Callfor-
'-,.__ ________....;._·__ , ma, Arizona and Nebraska. The
H er Lake, Idaho, on the Fourt.h ' number varied from one to a dozen,
of July. A _group o! 60 picnickersIseen mostly by one or two people.
saw them a t Twin FaJJs, Idaho. And Sel'n by Group of 200.
in Portland, Oreg., so ma ny res!- T hen the July -l deluge hit. T wo
dents witnessed t hem on t he Fourth hundred person.~ In one group and
that t.he police department sent out' 60 in another saw them ln Idaho;
an 1111-cArs, broadcast. hundreds saw them In Oregon.
A United Air Lin.es pilot o! 14 1Washington and other States
,·ears experience walked up the ramp throughout the Wei;t. I n Augusta,
10 hi.~ plane a t Boise, Joking that Me., the Civil Aeronautic.• A<imin
'TII believe in these disc.~ when I istratlon received I\ report that a
see them.'' Ten minutes l at-er he •dozen !)f the discs had been seen
radioed, i<hRken, that he had spot- l there.
te<i ftve of them from hl11 plane. He And, for the flrst time. the East
WM Capt. A. J , Smith. His co-pilot, em States had their report.~. Ob
Ralph Stevens, and h lA stewardess, servers came In with report.~ from
Ml~ Marty Monro, told the sRme Michigan, Louisiana, Pennsylvania.
610 . INew Jersey, Indiana. Kentucl ,
ltne1111ei; in two points of Cali- Georgia, South Oarolina and ca •
la. and In Spokane-one of them 1ada's Atlantic seaboard.
Anny Air Forces sergeanl,-re-1 Near unanlrnlty was recorMd
led seeing the discs Saturday. some of the discs' characteristics _
on.s in ditrerl:1l1 e~tions., te • 1fic S.R ed, brl ht reflections.
tlru . 11ll son
Mr . E . A . Tamm-
Mr. 'C legg
Mr. G l avin
Mr . Ladd
Mr. Nichols- - -
Mr . Rosen
Mr . Tracy
Mr . Carson
Mr . Egan ·
Mr . Gurne a- --
Mr. Harbo
Mr . Hendon---
Mr . Jones
Mr. Pennington-
Mr . Quinn Tamm-
Mr . Nease
Miss Gand y___ .
round or oval in shape, flat and t1,-.
li with a peculiar undulating t CI•
t n. Size was moot a nd expre sed
b Capt. Smith of United Air L e~
a. "hard to judge" without kn w-
1 the distance from the o~e 'er
to the objects.
2 D. C. Area Residents Say
They Saw 'Flying Saucers'
Two Washington 11rea resident.~
t.oda:v were on record as having ob
served the m~•sterlous "flying
saucers" here11bou1s.
A BethesdR lMd.) man was rr
ported to have seen three or four
of these objerts at midnight Frld11,·
while In the vicinity of Fri•.mdship
Height.«, Md. They were <il'llcrlhc,1
RS being rapid. bluish 1md bright
traveling north wnrd.
Mr~. Martin Koll', 3202 V111Jey
drive. Alexandria housewife, ~~It
earlr Friday she s11w R l11.r1te roun
ob,iect floRtlng In thP 11outhwe11t
si•· Shr de<'IArerl II lli:ht i;hlnlnll
i her face RWakenPd hn aho~ 4
a. . She went to the window n
11R • something rounrl anrl lar,iP th
II '('<idlsh I ln·g... It 11rrmrd to hP
lit 11ding Hill. Aftrr looklnl! at it
a few minutes, Mri;. Kole .saict llht'
el urned lo bed.