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U.S. Department of Justice

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83894
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Flying Saucer Photo Ain't
What It Used to Be--Joe

By Charles Manos
Staff Writer

GRAND BLANC, May 25 —
Joe Perry, the talented pizza
man, feels the Pentagon
people have sabotaged him
or something.

No, the Washington ex-
perts haven't fussed with
Joe's saucy pies, but they
have certainly done some-
thing to his flying saucer,
Joe claims.

"IT AIN'T what it used to
be since they got their
hands on it," said Joe, who
takes potshots at the moon
with a homemade telescope-
camera.

Joe 44, took another look
at his color-slide photo,
snapped last February on the
second night of the full
moon.

"It's not the same," he said
dejectedly. "The flying
saucer has faded . . . some-
thing has happened to it."
The Washington experts
returned the color slide a few
days ago.

THE FEDERAL agents
picked it up last March when
they heard Joe's picture
showed a saucer-like object
silhouetted against the moon.
Most of Joe's customers at
his pizza palace here were
convinced the object was a
"flying saucer."

Joe became even more con-
vinced over his picture when an
Unidentified Flying Object
group wanted to buy his
rights to the slide.

He also got an offer from a
national magazine to buy the
picture. Other inquiries came
from all sections of the
country.

SO JOE was anxious to get
his picture back.
He called the FBI. He
talked to the air force. He
made a trip to Selfridge Air
Force Base, all in vain.

The picture was returned
shortly after he sent a letter
to President Eisenhower.
A letter included in the
package from the Pentagon
said the strange object in the
picture was the result of
faulty development and
nothing more.
Among other things, the
Pentagon folks have added
insult to injury, Joe said.

[handwritten: file)]

DETROIT DIVISION
Detroit, Mich.

( ) Detroit Free Press
Editor: Lee Hills

( ) Detroit News
Editor: Martin S. Hayden

[strikethrough: (X Detroit Times]
[strikethrough: Editor: John C. Manning)]

Editor: ____________

Date: 5-25-60
Edition: Final
Page: 7 Col: 2

Title of Case:
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT;
JOSEPH PERRY, GRAND BLANC,
MICHIGAN - COMPLAINANT
(Defile 65-2477-105)

[handwritten: EX 109]

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46 JUN 3 1960

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0-19 (Rev. 1-28-59)
Central Research Section

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W.C. Sullivan
Tele. Room
Holloman
Gandy

3 'Objects' Trailed Plane
45 Minutes, Pilot Says

DETROIT, Feb. 25 (AP) Killian and co-pilot John
The pilot of an American Air- Dee of Nyack, N. Y., said they
lines DC6 passenger plane lost the three strange objects
said today three mysterious in the haze when they started
objects that looked like shin- their descent for landing at
ing saucers appeared to ac- Detroit's Metropolitan Air-
company the plane for 45 port while the plane was over
minutes last night on its non- Cleveland, Ohio.
stop flight from Newark, N. J.,
to Detroit. The three bright whitish
Capt. Peter Killian of Syos- lights first were sighted while
set, N. Y., who has flown pas- the plane was flying at 8500
senger planes for 15 years, feet between Philipsburg and
said "I have never seen any- Bradford, Pa., at 8:45 p. m.
thing like it before."
Killian said other members
of the crew and the 35 pas-
sengers also saw the flying
objects. The plane left Newark
at 7:10 p. m.

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The New York Times
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FLYING SAUCERS

[torn paper clipping, taped]
UPI - 97 SP R H M. -- A GROUP OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS "CLUSTERED
LIKE [unclear: JOYLD] [unclear: ERED] FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR NEAR HERE LAST NIGHT AND
THEN [unclear: BROKE] APART AND DISAPPEARED," WITNESSES SAID TODAY.
A SUDDENLY FOR THE AERIAL RESEARCH PHENOMENA ORGANIZATION FILTER
CENTER FOUND A TOTAL OF NINE PERSONS HAD REPORTED SEEING THE
MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS.
A CHECK OF NEARBY MILITARY BASES, AIRPORTS, AND THE U.S. WEATHER
BUREAU DISCLOSED THERE WERE NO JETS OR WEATHER BALLOONS ALOFT AT OR
NEAR THE TIME OF THE SIGHTINGS, BETWEEN 10 P.M. AND 11:30 P.M., FILTER
CENTER DIRECTOR L.J. LORENZEN SAID.
8/9--CD253P
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[stamp:] 1 AUG 12 1958
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0-19 (Rev. 10-29-57)
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[handwritten: PWR]
[small circle drawn in blue ink]

Tolson _______
Boardman _______
Belmont _______
Mohr _______
Nease _______
Parsons _______
Rosen [unclear: R?]
Tamm _______
Trotter _______
Clayton _______
Tele. Room _______
Holloman _______
Gandy _______

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Flying Discs Show Sign
Of Guidance, Jung Says

ALAMOGORDO, N. Mex.,
July 29 (AP).—Dr. Carl Jung,
Swiss psychologist, says in a
report that Unidentified Flying
Objects are real and “show
signs of intelligent guidance
by quasi-human pilots.”
“I can only say for certain
these things are not a mere
rumor, something has been
seen,” Dr. Jung said in the re-
port released yesterday. “A
purely psychological explana-
tion is ruled out.”
Dr. Jung, who started his re-
search on UFO’s in 1944, re-
leased his report through the
UFO filter Center of the Aerial
Phenomena Research Organ-
ization here. It was released
by L. J. Lorenzen of Holloman
Air Force Base.
“I have gathered a mass of
observations of unidentified fly-
ing objects since 1944,” Dr.
Jung said.
“The discs do not behave
in accordance with physical
laws, but as though without
weight. . . .
“If the extra-terrestrial origin
of this phenomena should be
confirmed this would prove the
existence of an intelligent in-
ter-planetary relationship.

What such a fact might mean
for humanity cannot be pre-
dicted.
“But it would put us without
doubt in the extremely precari-
ous position of primitive com-
munities in conflict with the
superior culture of the whites.
“That the construction of
these machines proves a scien-
tific technique immensely su-
perior to ours cannot be ar-
gued.”
The Air Force has said in-
vestigation of flying saucers
reported over the past 10 years
has produced no evidence that
such things exist.
It has contended that not a
shred of evidence has turned
up to show the existence of a
flying saucer or interplanetary
space ship or that the objects
sighted indicate developments
beyond the range of current
scientific knowledge or pose a
threat to the Nation’s secur-
ity.
The Air Force said last No-
vember that investigations of
5,700 reported sightings showed
the mysterious objects were
balloons, aircraft, astronomical
phenomena, birds, fireworks or
hoaxes, among other things.

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AWK

[Newspaper Clipping]
No Saucers'
Trace Found

A.F. Checks Schmidt;
Kearney Amused

Tales of flying saucers and
other such space craft got
an unofficial raspberry
Wednesday night from an
Air Force official.
A top official of the Air
Technical Intelligence Cen-
ter at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base in Ohio told the
Dayton Journal-Herald his in-
vestigators have found no
evidence in the past 10 years
that flying saucers are real.
He said 5,700 reported
sightings were investigated
between 1947 and 1957. Not
a single landing impression,
footprint, saucer or little
green man was found.
Investigation Goes On
In Kearney, Neb., Rein-
holdt Schmidt's story of an
afternoon's visit with the
crew of a space ship near the
city Tuesday was still under
investigation, officials said.

Schmidt, 48, an ex-Nebras-
kan and now a California
grain dealer, was questioned
by Air Force investigators
from the Continental Air De-
fense Command. Oil found
near the alleged landing spot
of the space ship was identi-
fied as ordinary but will be
tested by the University of
Nebraska.
While the Schmidt tale was
giving Kearney a sensational
conversation piece, most of
the talk was of a skeptical
variety.

Newsmen Busy
"Everybody downtown
seems to think it's a big joke,"
one business man said.
A Kearney clothier put up
a sign advertising "space ship
specials." A window sign in
a car agency announced:
"Space Ships Tuned Up."
The Kearney car-rental
operator reported business
was so good all of his cars
were in use. They were being
rented by visiting newsmen.
Presence of the newsmen
was nearly the only sign that
anything unusual had hap-
pened - or may have hap-
pened.

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OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
11-7-57
SUNRISE EDITION

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[unclear: fileguns?]

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Space-Ship Story Raises Eyebrows
The World-Herald's News Service.
Kearney, Neb.—A grain
buyer who said he saw a
space ship Tuesday in a
field near here and chatted
amicably with its six occu-
pants had more pleasant
dealings with the visitors
from outer space than with
skeptical authorities.
The sensational report
by R. O. Schmidt, about 50,
of Bakersfield, Cal., which
topped a host of reports
across the nation Tuesday
of seeing mysterious flying
objects, had these conse-
quences:
—State Penitentiary rec-
ords showed a man of the
same name served a term
for embezzlement from
Scotts Bluff County in the
1930's. Scotts Bluffs Coun-
ty Sheriff Steve Warrick
said he talked to Schmidt
by phone and was convinced
he “saw nothing.”
—He turned down a
chance to take a lie-
detector test.
—Schmidt was kept up
most of the night for
questioning. He finally
asked for an attorney.
Ward Minor of Kearney
was named.
—Wednesday forenoon
he went to the scene of the
space ship's landing with
investigators from the Con-
tinental Air Defense Com-
mand at Colorado Springs,
Colo., Kearney Police Chief
Thurston Nelson and Buf-
falo County Attorney
Kenneth Gotobed. They
said Schmidt's story “ap-
peared to be weakening.”
—Oil drippings on the
ground from the space
machine were being ana-
lyzed at Kearney State
College. Investigators
said the “mysterious
green oil” closely resem-
bled that in a partially-
emptied can of commer-
cial auto oil found in the
back of Schmidt's car and a
nearly-empty can found
near the site of the “land-
ing.”
Schmidt's story came to

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OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
11-6-57
WALL STREET EDITION

—World-Herald News Service Photo.
Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson . . . In
“heart-to-heart” talk.

SIDE VIEW
OUTSIDE

LENGTH: APPROX. 100 FEET

FLOOR PLAN
INSIDE

INSTRUMENTS LOUNGE
FAN
IN
ROOF
SEALED
COMPARTMENT
CONVEYOR TO BACK OF SHIP
FAN
IN
ROOF
INSTRUMENTS

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The Schmidtntik . . . As described by the grain buyer.
light when, white-faced and
shaken, he appeared in
Kearney Tuesday and asked
to see a minister. Taken to
police, he told this story:
Tuesday he inspected a
field of milo about two
miles south and a mile east
of Kearney. When ready to
leave he drove down a side
road seeking a place to
turn around. Near the
Platte River he saw what
appeared to be a wrecked
balloon. As he neared it
Schmidt said, his car en-
gine conked out.
Schmidt said he got out
and walked toward the ma-
chine. Proximity revealed

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it to be a translucent, ci-
gar-shaped device about
one hundred feet long, 30
feet wide and about 14 feet
high. Schmidt said that
when he was 25 or 30 feet
away, two men got out
and waved what looked
like a flashlight.

"I couldn't move. I don't
know whether I was just
afraid or what, but it was
like being paralyzed," he
said.

‘In Business Suits’
Schmidt said the men,
dressed in business suits,
searched him for weapons
then remarked that as long
as they were going to be
there for some time "you
might as well come in and
see things for a few min-
utes."

Inside the machine were
two other men and two
women working on wires
and instruments. The de-
vice had a fan at each end.
By a strange coincidence
one of the crewmen “looked
exactly like” a hotel ac-
quaintance with whom he
has been watching televi-
sion programs.

When the occupants
wanted to move from place
to place they would step
in a certain location and be
pulled to the new location
without moving.

‘Spoke German’
The ship occupants
talked among themselves in
High German, which
Schmidt says he under-
stands to a limited extent.
One man spoke excellent
English and interpreted for
the others.

Schmidt said the inter-
preter told him repeatedly
he had nothing to fear. The
visitors refused to answer
any questions but said he
would “find out all about
it in a couple of weeks.”

When repairs were com-
pleted, Schmidt said he was
asked to leave but was told
he would be unable to start
his car until the machine
had disappeared.

‘Disappeared’
Outside the machine,
Schmidt, he turned to
watch as the fans started
in motion without a sound.
He said the machine lifted
about one hundred or two
hundred feet into the air
and disappeared.

“It just blended into the
sky—like it changed color
or disappeared into thin
air,” he said.

Schmidt pressed the
starter of his car. The mo-
tor started right off.

N

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Coast to Coast
Rash of 'Flying Saucer
Reports Floods U. S.
Several persons reported seeing a "red ball" hovering over the
Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River plant near Augusta, Ga.,
last night.

There was an unoffi-
cial report that Air Force
personnel at nearby Aik-
en, S. C., spotted the ob-
ject on radar and issued
an alert.

The object appeared to be
a "constant red light," accord-
ing to Augusta Chronicle ex-
ecutive editor Louis Harris,
who saw the object from the
downtown newspaper build-
ing. "It could have been a
tiny red light a short dis-
tance away or a gigantic
thing at a great distance," he
said.

One witness, J. T. James,
said he saw the object on two
occasions from his home near
Aiken. It was cigar-shaped,
he said, and would alternate
from bright to amber and
occasionally get out alto-
gether.

Elsewhere, strange "sauc-
er" sightings were reported.
NEBRASKA

At Kearney, Neb., authori-
ties held a "heart-to-heart"
talk with Reinhold O.
Schmidt, a salesman, later
discovered to be an ex-con-
vict, who said he talked to
four men and two women in
a transport space ship which
had landed. He said the space
people spoke in English and
German.

Police roped off the area
where the "whatnik" alleg-
edly landed and examined
various impressions and oil
stains on the ground.

At Long Beach, Calif., three
Air Force weather observers,
one of them the commanding
officer of the spotting unit,
late yesterday reported sight-
ing six unidentified, saucer-
shaped flying objects over
Long Beach Air Force Base.

The Coast Guard reported
picking up an unidentified
flying object on radar over
the Gulf of Mexico south of
New Orleans. A Coast Guard
commander said the object
paused about the cutter Se-
bago in the Gulf and was on
the radar scope for about 27
minutes.

WHITE SANDS
Military authorities appar-
ently gave credence to a re-
port by an electronics en-
gineer who said he saw an
object which made car en-
gines stall near the White
Sands proving grounds.

Col. John McCurdy, Air
Force public relations officer
at White Sands, said the en-
gineer, James Stokes, 42, will
be given a thoro medical ex-
amination and a radiation
count test. Col. McCurdy
said he was "personally sat-
isfied" with Mr. Stokes' re-
port.

A Civil Service worker at
Lackland Air Force Base in
San Antonio, Tex., said he
saw an egg-shaped object
land in a ravine about 200
yards from him as he drove
near the city. He said his
car engine and lights went
off, and the object took off
in a few minutes, enabling
him to drive away.

At about the same time,
the Ground Observer Corps
at Midland, Tex., said it saw
a large, red object and picked
up unintelligible conversa-
tion on a sound detector.

oF Flying saucers

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Ple.
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NOV 14 1957 [initials: Jlm]

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hm
Flying Saucers

Tracked 27 Minutes on Radar
U.S. Cutter in Gulf of Mexico Reports
Sighting Mysterious ‘Object’ in Sky

Associated Press
A brilliant mystery object
was reported sighted yester-
day in southern skies by a
Coast Guard cutter, even as
Air Force special investigat-
ors checked a flurry of ear-
lier, similar reports.

The Coast Guard cutter Se-
bago, cruising in the Gulf of
Mexico about 200 miles south
of Louisiana, radioed that an
object resembling “a brilliant
planet with a high rate of
speed” was seen for about
three seconds at 5:21 a. m.
(CST).

The Sebago’s message said
the object was tracked on the
vessel’s radar screen for 27
minutes and that, during that
period, the object flitted on
and off the screen several
times. Crewmen caught sight
of it only for a few seconds.
The Sebago radioed New
Orleans Coast Guard head-
quarters that the object was
traveling at an estimated 1000
miles per hour. Internationl
News Service reported. How-
ever, at one point, the object
appeared to remain stationary
and hover above the waters be-
fore it resumed its erratic
flight.

The cutter’s captain, Cmdr.
C. H. Waring, said the object
first appeared on the ship’s
radar screen as a “good, strong
pip” at 5:10 a. m. and was lost
in a northerly direction at 5:37
a. m.

In this time, the skipper
said the object, which came as
close as two miles to the ves-
sel, was actually seen by four
members of the crew. One,
Ens. Wayne D. Shockley, de-
scribed it as a “bright point
of light with no definite shape,
resembling the planet Venus.”
Shockley said there were no
vapor trails or any other in-
dications as to the object’s
method of propulsion. One
estimate of its height placed
it at 2000 feet.

Glenn Northcutt, Willis,
Okla., rancher and member of
the University of Oklahoma
Board of Regents, reported
that on Saturday he and five
others had watched “a bril-
liant, mysterious light that
looked like the planet Venus
magnified many, many times.”
The object, he said, was visible
more than half an hour.

Sightings of strange objects
have been reported from wide-
ly scattered sections of the
United States, most of them
near secret military installa-
tions in the Southwest.

The Air Force said the radar
network of the Air Defense
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Command was keeping watch ported objects may be some
—so far with no results—and thing from another planet.
that specially qualified inves- "Assuming they are real," he
tigators had been assigned to said, "they would be secret
look into the reports. weapons made on earth or
For several years the Air are interplanetary." Any na-
Force has checked all reports tion with the secret, he added,
of unidentified flying objects. would by now have abandoned
Investigators work under the conventional aircraft or mis-
Air Defense Command at Col- siles.
orado Springs, Colo., and re- **Cosmic Energy**
port to the Air Technical In- "It looks as though they are
telligence Center. interplanetary," Keyhoe said.
Judging from past findings, He said one source of pow-
the chances are 50-1 the Air er for such reported objects
Force will offer a humdrum could be cosmic ray energy.
explanation for the current officers and servicemen who
sightings. reported sighting mystery ob-
During the first half of this jects in the Southwest since
year, the Air Force said, only the weekend said the objects
1.9 per cent of the 250 report- stalled auto engines and
ed sightings of flying saucers caused radios to fade.
and other fantastic aerial ob- James Stokes, an engineer
jects have wound up in the at the Air Force missile de-
"unknown" category. velopment center at Alama-
**Air Force Skeptical** gordo, N. M., reported 10 autos
And the Air Force said firm- were stalled Monday on a des-
ly—though not all flying sau- ert highway between Alama-
cer buffs may agree—that it gordo and the White Sands
doesn't believe even the 1.9 (N. M.) Proving Grounds.
per cent residue is made up He reported seeing a sound-
of the things you read about shaped object" which flitted
in science fiction magazines. erratically across the country-
Balloons, aircraft and such side and left a sort of heat
astronomical sights as meteor- wave, "like radiation from a
ites and bright stars account giant sun lamp," in its wake.
—at least to the Air Force's **Device Sought**
official satisfaction—for al- Leonard Hardlund, chief en-
most four-fifths of the sight- gineer for the National Inven-
ings. tors Council in Washington,
The director of a private or- said a device that could stall
ganization set up to inves- autos or other mechanical
tigate flying saucers and such equipment was one of the
said he couldn't evaluate at things the armed forces would
this point the current rash of like to see developed.
reported sightings. But Hardlund said he knew
But retired Marine Maj. of no research in this country
Donald E. Keyhoe, director of aimed at producing such a de-
the National Investigations vice.
Committee on Aerial Phe- Two teen-age girls reported
nomena added that the re- seeing a mysterious object in
the sky over Annapolis, Md.,
last week.
Jean Hunt, 13, and Sylvia
Fowler, 15, said they saw
an egg-shaped object which
glowed like a neon light. They
spotted it while trick-or-treat-
ing with Jean's two younger
sisters on Halloween night in
Primrose Acres, a housing de-
velopment on the outskirts of
Annapolis.
Jean said the girls became
frightened and ran home but
no one would believe their
story until weekend newspa-
per accounts told of a mystery
object sighted in Texas.

Associated Press
J. G. Kirby of Dallas made
this photo of a diamond
shaped object flying
through the sky while he
and his family were driving
near Amarillo, Tex., in
August, 1956. The photo
was turned over to the FBI
and has just been released
after intensive study. The
Air Force described the
glow as "radiation vapor."

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[handwritten, vertical, left margin] Flying Saucers

Mystery Objects Called
Mirage by Astronomer

By the Associated Press

A Harvard astronomer says mysterious objects reported
from various parts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico are
mirages stemming from natural causes.

Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College
Observatory, said yesterday in Cambridge, Mass., that the
whole thing amounts to “another flying saucer scare.”

The Air Force has started an investigation of the reported
sightings of the strange glow-
ing objects in the sky. The
Air Force for years has had
the responsibility of checking
reports of unidentified flying
objects, but as one officer put
it, “We don't investigate all of
them.”

A rash of such reports has
developed since Sunday, with
some of the sightings said to
have been made near secret
military installations in the
Southwest. Some of the per-
sons making the reports said
the objects caused their auto
engines to stall and their radios
to fade.

Cutter Claims Sighting
Yesterday the Coast Guard
Cutter Sebago radioed from the
Gulf of Mexico that an object
resembling a brilliant planet
with a high rate of speed was
seen for about three seconds,
and that it was tracked by
radar.

Dr. Menzel said it is probable
the cutter's crewmen got a
false image “quite likely from
bubbles of hot air in the at-
mosphere which would give a
radar reflection.”

As for reports of the auto
engines stalling, he said, “It
would not be surprising that a
nervous foot could stall an en-
gine.”

Dr. Menzel, author of a book
about flying saucers, said he
in the has been studying them for
about 10 years and has yet to
hear of one which could not
be explained by natural phe-
nomena.

“They are caused by a layer
of heated air . . . acting as a
lens and forming an image of
objects as much as 40 or 50
miles away,” he said.

Common in West
“They are nothing more than
a mirage. They are prevalent
just after nightfall as the
heated air begins to cool off at
the ground, and they are com-
mon in the West where they
have clear air.”
The Air Force aid that dur-
ing the first half of this year
only 1.9 per cent of the 250 re-
ported sightings of flying
saucers and other strange ob-
jects in the air have been
classed as “unknown.” And the
Air Force wasn't ready to be-
lieve that even this small per-
centage has sinister implica-
tions.
It seemed a good bet the
Air Force will agree with Dr.
Menzel's opinion that the cur-
rent sightings have explana-
tions in nature, or that the
reported objects are actually
aircraft or similar man-made
things.

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FLYING SAUCERS

Associated Press
J. G. Kirby of Dallas made
this photo of a diamond
shaped object flying
through the sky while he
and his family were driving
near Amarillo, Tex., in
August, 1956. The photo
was turned over to the FBI
and has just been released
after intensive study. The
Air Force described the
glow as “radiation vapor.”

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Flying Saucers

UP42
(OBJECT)
LEVELLAND, TEX.--FIVE PERSONS INCLUDING A SHERIFF REPORTED TODAY
SEEING A MYSTERIOUS EGG-SHAPED OBJECT WHICH LOOKED LIKE A BLINDING-RED
SUNSET OVER LEVELLAND IN WEST TEXAS. THREE MOTORISTS SAID IT KILLED
THEIR AUTO ENGINES AND PUT OUT THEIR HEADLIGHTS WHEN THEY GOT NEAR IT.
IN EACH CASE, THE MOTORISTS SAID THEIR ENGINES AND HEADLIGHTS WERE
ALL RIGHT AFTER THE OBJECT SUDDENLY TOOK OFF AND DISAPPEARED.
SHERIFF WEIR CLEM AND A DEPUTY ALSO SAW THE OBJECT AT 1830 AM EDT
WHEN THEY WENT OUT TO LOOK FOR IT AFTER GETTING EARLIER REPORTS. THE
SHERIFF SAID IT STREAKED NOISELESS ACROSS THE ROAD SOME 200 YARDS IN
FRONT OF HIM, BUT DID NOT AFFECT HIS CAR.
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Mr. Tolson
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Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tamm
Mr. Trotter
Mr. Nease
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy

UP44
ADD OBJECT, LEVELLAND, TEX.
ONE MOTORIST, JAMES LONG OF WACO, TEX., TOLD THE SHERIFF HE DROVE UP
ON THE OBJECT SITTING IN THE ROAD ABOUT 200 FEET FROM HIM.
LONG TOLD THE SHERIFF HE DROVE UP WITH HIS LIGHTS ON THE OBJECT,
WHICH GLOWED INTERMITTENTLY LIKE A BLINDING NEON LIGHT. HE SAID IT APPEAR-
ED TO BE ABOUT 200 FEET LONG AND EGG SHAPED. HE SAID IT [strikethrough: CAUSED] HIS ENGINE
                                                          CAUSED
TO DIE AND HIS HEADLIGHTS TO GO OUT.
WHEN LONG STARTED TO GET OUT OF HIS CAR TO INVESTIGATE, THE OBJECT
SUDDENLY ROSE SOME 200 FEET STRAIGHT UP AND DISAPPEARED IN A FLASH OF
LIGHT, HE TOLD THE SHERIFF.
CLEM SAID AUTHORITIES COULD FIND NO BURN MARKS OR OTHER INDICATIONS
AT THE SPOT WHERE LONG SAID THE OBJECT HAD LANDED.
CLEM SAID REESE AIR FORCE BASE OFFICIALS AT LUBBOCK, ABOUT 50 MILES
EAST OF LEVELLAND, CHECKED FOR A POSSIBLE PLANE CRASH IN THE AREA,
BUT REPORTED NOTHING.
PEDRO SACIDO, A LEVELLAND MOTORIST, WAS THE FIRST TO REPORT SIGHTING
THE THING.
"IT SOUNDED LIKE AN EAR-SPLITTING CLAMP OF THUNDER--AS IF SOMETHING
HAD EXPLODED," SACIDO TOLD THE SHERIFF.
HE SAID IT KILLED HIS ENGINE AND KNOCKED OUT HIS HEADLIGHTS UNTIL
AFTER IT PASSED OVER.
A KERMIT, TEX., MOTORIST, WHOSE NAME THE SHERIFF DID NOT GET, ALSO
REPORTED SPOTTING THE OBJECT WHILE DRIVING ON STATE HIGHWAY 51 ABOUT
EIGHT MILES NORTH OF LEVELLAND. HE TOLD THE SHERIFF IT HAD THE SAME
AFFECT ON HIS CAR ENGINE AND LIGHTS AS THE OTHERS REPORTED.
CLEM SAID HE COULD NOT OFFER A GUESS AS TO WHAT THE OBJECT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN.
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WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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Flying Saucers -
Bradigan

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NOTHING REMOTELY RELATED'
Mysterious Object Amazes Saucer Skeptic

A veteran airline pilot who once denounced fly- ing saucers as “bunk” has reported encountering a mysterious unidentified flying object near Mobile, Ala.

Capt. W. J. Hull of Capital Airlines described the inci- dent in a report published by “The UFO Investigator,” magazine of the unofficial Na- tional Investigations Commit- tee on Aerial Phenomena, 1536 Connecticut ave nw.

Capt. Hull wrote an article for a pilots’ magazine in 1953 titled “The Obituary of the Flying Saucer.” His experi- ence described in the “Investi- gator” took place Nov. 14, 1956. He did not suggest what he saw was a flying saucer.

Capt. Hull said he was fly- ing a Viscount at about 10,- 000 feet near Mobile, at 10:10 p. m., when he and his co- pilot spotted what we thought was a brilliant meteor.”

He said the “meteor” was descending rapidly, but in- stead of burning out with the usual flash, “it abruptly halt- ed directly in front of us.”

“It was an intense blue- white light, approximately seven or eight times as bright as Venus when this planet is at its brightest magnitude,” he wrote.

He said he thought the ob- ject might be a jet fighter, turning away from the air- liner and giving the pilots a view of its glowing tailpipe. But he said instead of grow- ing smaller, the light re- mained in front of the Vis- count.

Capt. Hull wrote that the “UFO)) (unidentified flying object) then began a series of violent maneuvers, “sharp- er than any known aircraft, sometimes changing direction

90 degrees in an instant.” It finally zoomed up at an ex- tremely sharp angle and shot out of sight, he added.

He said his own plane was above the clouds, “preclud- ing any reflections of search lights from below.”

There’s accent on local sports in The News sports pages.

Sanders
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Tolson [handwritten squiggle]
Nichols [handwritten squiggle]
Boardman [handwritten line]
Belmonte [handwritten squiggle]
Mohr [handwritten line]
Parsons [handwritten line]
Rosen [handwritten line]
Tamm [handwritten line]
Trotter [handwritten line]
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Holloman [handwritten line]
Gandy [handwritten line]

[sideways handwritten: SAUCERS]

Doolittle Scoffs at Report
Of Nazi Flying Saucer [handwritten: A I]

By the Associated Press
James H. Doolittle says it
"just ain't so" that Nazi Ger-
many developed a flying saucer
and a bomber that could attack
the United States and return
without refueling.

The veteran airman, chairman
of the National Advisory Com-
mittee for Aeronautics, last
month gave a House Appropria-
tions Subcommittee his estimate
of reports published in Germany
of great aviation accomplish-
ments under Hitler. These were
contained in a book by Rudolf
Lusar, former German War Min-
istry special weapons chief.
Gen. Doolittle's testimony was
published today, along with that
of Hugh L. Dryden, director of
the advisory committee.
Mr. Dryden said "there is no
truth" in a statement that
German engineers designed a
flying saucer which attained a
height of 40,000 feet and speed
of 1,250 miles an hour.
"This is an advertisement for
a book which includes material
discovered by our groups who
went into Germany after the
war," he said.
He said also the man supposed
to have designed the bomber
that could cross the Atlantic
twice without refueling had writ-
ten a book of his own with no
mention of any such invention.
Gen. Doolittle, asked about
both the saucer and the bomber,
said, "it just ain't so."

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Flying Saucers

There Are
Saucers, [handwritten checkmark]
Expert Says

By VERN HAUGLAND
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (AP).
—Retired Rear Adm. Delmer S.
Fahrney once head of the Navy's
guided missiles program, said
Wednesday reliable reports indi-
cate that “there are objects com-
ing into our atmosphere at very
high speeds.”

Fahrney told a news confer-
ence that “no agency in this
country or Russia is able to dupli-
cate at this time the speeds and
accelerations which radar and
observers indicate these flying
objects are able to achieve.”

* * *

FAHRNEY SAID he never has
seen a flying saucer, but has
talked with a number of scien-
tists and engineers who reported
seeing strange flying objects.

Fahrney called a news confer-
ence following an organizational
meeting of a new private group,
the National Investigations Com-
mittee on Aerial Phenomena, of
which he is board chairman.

Fahrney said the committee
was set up largely to tie to-
gether a number of UFO—mean-
ing “unidentified flying objects”
—clubs being formed throughout
the world. Fahrney said his com-
mittee will collect and investigate
flying saucer reports, evaluate
them and make public its find-
ings.

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[handwritten, faint]: flying saucers

`Saucer` Seen
by 7 West
of Saginaw

SAGINAW, July 30. — (P) —
State Police at Bridgeport Post
received seven reports of a “fly-
ing saucer” between midnight
and 7 a.m. today.

One officer said he saw a fly-
ing object himself.

The first report, which came
from the nearby Burt Ground
Observer Corps. station, said the
object appeared about 12 feet in
diameter, had red and blue
lights and was moving swiftly.
Various reports put the object’s
height at between 1,200 and
25,000 feet.

The reports came from Sag-
inaw, Midland and Gratiot
counties. Police said the callers
told them the object was seen
over Freeland, Clare, Alma and
Breckinridge, all west of Sag-
inaw.

Midland police said they re-
ceived one call but could not
spot the object.
Similar reports were received
from the Cadillac area early
Saturday, but Air Force investi-
gating planes found nothing.

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Date 7-30-56 Edition S STAR
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BAUMGARDNER

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'Confidential Files' Gets
10-Cent 'Saucer' Inquiry

By the Associated Press

If you want information on flying saucers, don't address your request to "Confidential Files, Washington, D. C."
Takes too long. And besides you may be investigated by the FBI.
A woman out in Los Angeles (name withheld by various Government agencies) dashed off a note on January 15. It said: "Confidential Files
"Wash., D. C.
"Dear Sirs-Please send me a bulletin of flying saucers, or the address where I can get information about them. I am inclosing 10 cents.
"Thanks."
Seemed like a simple, direct approach-except for the address.
The post office, casting about for some Federal agency that
might have confidential files, sent it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The FBI, never one to pass out military secrets, made discreet inquiries.
Then the FBI forwarded the letter to the Air Force, advising that nothing derogatory or in-dicative of subversion could be found in the woman's activities.
So the Air Force reached into its nonclassified files and plucked out the latest summary on the number of sightings of UFO (un-identified flying objects), to-gether with an explanation of why people think they see flying saucers-or what it is they see which the Air Force can or can't explain.
The lady's 10 cents was taped to the summary and both were mailed to her address in Los Angeles.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
Office of Public Information
Washington 25, D. C.

U. S. Air Force Summary of Events and Information
Concerning the Unidentified Flying Object Program

The Air Force feels a very definite obligation to identify and
analyze things that happen in the air that may have in them menace to
the United States and, because of that feeling of obligation and pur-
suit of that interest, the Air Force established an activity known as
the Unidentified Flying Object Program.

This program was established in 1947 when unidentified flying
objects were being reported in various parts of the United States.
The reports of sightings reached a peak of 1,700 in 1952 and dropped
to a total of 429 in 1953. During the first nine months of 1954 only
254 sightings were reported.

From a survey of the volume of sightings received by the Air
Force, it has been determined that over 80 percent are explainable as
being known objects. Generally, sighted objects fall into the cate-
gory of: balloons, aircraft, astronomical bodies, atmospheric reflec-
tions, and birds. All reports of unidentified flying objects result
from either radar or visual sightings.

Explanations pertaining to sightings reported from military and
civilian radar facilities are as follows:

1. Temperature inversion reflections can give a return on a
radar scope that is as sharp as that received from an aircraft.
Speeds of these returns reportedly range from zero to fantastic rates.
The "objects" also appear to move in all directions. Such sightings
have resulted in many fruitless intercept efforts.

To possibly bear out the theory of temperature inversion
reflection is an incident which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge,
Tennessee. Two Air Force aircraft attempted to intercept an unidenti-
fied "object" and actually established a radar "lock" on the object.
Their altitude at the time was 7,000 feet. The unidentified object,
according to their radar, appeared to be at an elevation of 10 to 25
degrees from this altitude. Three passes were made in an attempt to
close on the object. In each instance the pilots reported that their
radar led them first upward and then down toward a specific point on
the ground. (One scientific theory holds that light can be similarly
reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth. If this proves
to be correct, many visual night sightings could be accounted for.)

2. Ionized clouds have caused some unidentified radar returns.
Thunderstorms are identifiable by radar and radar returns have also
been received from ice formations in the air, balloons, ground reflec-
tions, frequency interference between other radar stations, and wind-
born objects. Obviously, such returns are very difficult to identify,
especially when they occur during darkness.

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3. The radar screen has picked up birds and in one case a
flock of ducks. Flight interceptions proved these phenomena.
An explanation of known types of visual sightings are as
follows:

1. Present-day jet aircraft, flying at great speeds and high
altitudes, are often mistaken for unknown objects by the untrained
observer. Sunlight reflections from the polished surfaces of air-
craft can be seen plainly even when the aircraft itself is too dis-
tant to be visible. The exhaust of jet aircraft emits a trail and
often this is seen rather than the aircraft itself.

2. Weather balloons account for a substantial number of sight-
ings. These balloons, sent to altitudes of 40,000 feet and higher,
are launched from virtually every airfield in the country. They are
made of rubber or polyethylene, swell as they gain altitude, have
very good reflective qualities, carry small lights when launched
after dark, and can be seen at very high altitudes.

3. In addition to the ordinary weather balloon, huge 90-foot
balloons, which sometimes drift from coast to coast, are used for
upper air research. These balloons also have a highly reflective
surface and are visible at extreme altitudes.

4. Frequently, unusually bright meteors and planets will cause
a flurry of reports, sometimes from relatively experienced observers.
At certain times of the year, Venus, for instance, is low on the
horizon and will appear to change color and move erratically due to
hazy atmospheric conditions. Since the stars are charted and most
of their characteristics known, many cases are traced to them.
Meteors on the other hand are of rapid single-direction movement and
are only visible for a few seconds. Meteor activity is more common
at certain times of the year than others, and reports of UFO's have
shown a tendency to increase during these periods.

5. Some cases arise which, on the basis of information received
are of a weird and peculiar nature. The objects display erratic
movements and phenomenal speeds. Since maneuvers and speeds of this
kind cannot be traced directly to aircraft, balloons, or known astro-
nomical sources, it is believed that they are reflections from ob-
jects rather than being objects themselves. For example: suppose
we would hold a mirror in hand under a light, causing a reflection
on the ceiling. Only a slight, quick movement of the hand would
result in erratic movements and phenomenal speeds of the reflected
beam. Reflections may be projected to clouds and haze both from the
ground and air. Many things which are common to the sky have highly
reflective qualities, such as balloons, aircraft, and clouds. Accu-
rate speeds are also difficult to determine due to the inability
of the reporter to judge distance, angles, and time.

6. Brilliant flashing lights that sometimes appear red and
white in color have been reported by observers. This type has been
traced to a new lighting system of commercial airlines and military
aircraft. Atop the tail section of these aircraft highly reflective
red and white flasher type lights have been installed and are many
times misinterpreted by the ground observer.

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In the analysis and investigation of the radar and visual
sightings described, there are some yardsticks which have been
established from experience and trends to measure and attempt to
determine the source of UFO's. Some of these are general in nature
and are subject to change as new scientific and factual information
is received. It should be remembered that any object viewed from a
great distance appears to be round. Nearly all the sightings reported
are described as round and would tend to indicate that most of the
objects are at a greater distance from the observer than is generally
estimated.

Another misconception centers about photographs of unidentified
flying objects. At best the majority of photographs have proven
non-conclusive as evidence to this program mainly due to type cameras
used. Also, it might be mentioned that because still photographs can
be so easily faked, either by using a mock-up or model against a
legitimate background, or by retouching the negative, they are worth-
less as evidence. Innumerable objects, from ashtrays to wash basins,
have been photographed while sailing through the air. Many such
photos have been published without revealing the true identity of the
objects.

More attention is given to moving pictures of unidentified fly-
ing objects since they are more difficult to retouch. However, only
a very few movie-type films have been received by the Air Force and
they reveal only pinpoints of light moving across the sky. The Air
Force has been unable to identify the source of these lights because
the images are too small to analyze properly. Since ownership of
these films remains with the persons taking them, the Air Force is
now in a position to give them out.

The difficulty of evaluating reports of all types is based
largely upon the lack of basic data surrounding the sightings. The
drop in sightings during 1953 is largely due to the increased accuracy
and the completeness of reports being received. To be of value, a
report should include such basic data as size, shape, composition,
speed, altitude, direction, and the maneuver pattern of the objects.
Without such information, it is almost impossible to establish the
identity of the object sighted. In addition, a recent study has shown
a direct correlation between the number of sightings reported and the
publicity given to "saucers" by the nation's press.

The Air Force took a further step in early 1953 by procuring
videon cameras for the purpose of photographing this phenomena. These
cameras were distributed to various military installations. This type
camera has two lenses, one of which takes an ordinary photograph, and
the other has a diffraction grating which separates light into its
component parts. This aids in determining the composition of the ob-
ject photographed. A small number of photographs have been received
from this camera; however, only light spots of no detail have been
indicated in the photos to date. As more photographs are taken by
these observers, it is believed that a great deal of the mystery will
be lifted from the program.

The Air Force would like to state that no evidence has been
received which would tend to indicate that the United States is being
observed by machines from outer space or a foreign government. No
object or particle of an unknown substance has been received and
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MORE

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no photographs of detail have been produced. The photographs on
hand are, at best, only large and small blobs of light which, in
most cases, are explainable.

It may be concluded from the above and from past experience that
no new significant trends have developed out of these cases. There
was an increase in public interest which occurred simultaneously with
the publication of various books and articles on the subject; however,
this trend has been noted several times previously.

In order to overcome the lack of basic data, and to standardize
all reports, a detailed questionnaire is now submitted to each person
reporting an unidentified aerial object. It is felt that the infor-
mation thus obtained will lower still more the number of unexplained
sightings.

For observers who wish to report unidentified aerial objects,
the Air Force would welcome the information. Attached to this report
is a brief basic summary form. It would be appreciated if observers
would send the completed form to the nearest Air Force Base.

If and when new developments turn up in this program, the Air
Force will keep the public informed.

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PLEASE SEND TO YOUR NEAREST AIR FORCE BASE

DATE:
TIME OF SIGHTING:
SIZE:
SHAPE:
COMPOSITION:
SPEED:
ALTITUDE:

DIRECTION OF TRAVEL:
MANEUVER PATTERN:
COLOR:
SOUND:
LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED:
SKY CONDITIONS:
VISIBILITY:
GROUND DIRECTION OF WIND:

NAME, AGE, MAILING ADDRESS OF OBSERVER:

REMARKS: (General desceiption of what you saw--use back if necessary)

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[handwritten: seal]

[printed list in top right box]
Mr. Talson.
Mr. Boardman.
Mr. Nichels.
Mr. Belmont.
Mr. Harbo.
Mr. Mohr.
Mr. Parsons.
Mr. Rosen.
Mr. Tamm.
Mr. Sizon.
Mr. Winterrowd.
Tele. Room.
Mr. Holloman.
Miss Gandy.

[handwritten in left margin]
INDEXED - 24
(Air Force Info)
2 ENCL.

[printed newspaper clipping]
GEORG KLEIN
A NEW SLANT ON
FLYING SAUCERS
By FORSAITH REES
HERE is the "real truth"
about Flying Saucers,
as told by Georg Klein,
former secret weapons ex-
pert in the German War
Production Ministry, and
now an engineer in
Switzerland.
"Flying Saucers," he says,
"are top secret weapons of the
USA and Russia.
"They are a continuation of
German wartime experi-
ments.
"Prototype Flying Saucers
were built in Germany during
the war. I saw one reach a
height of 40,000 feet in three
minutes, near Prague, in
1945."
Klein says the Russians
captured a scale model and top
technicians at Breslau. The
technicians have not returned
to Germany.
And Walter Miethe, V
weapon inventor and key man
in Saucer development, fled
West and now works in the
United States.
Klein in a Zurich interview

said there are two types of
Flying Saucer built to-day-
one with a diameter of 48ft.
powered by five jets and a
larger model with a diameter
of 126ft. and 12 jets.
This, he says, accounts for
the rumour that Saucers often
appear to change size sud-
denly.
Raised wing flaps lift both
aircraft like a helicopter. The
big one can keep stationary by
turning jets down to counter-
balance gravity.
Flying Saucers developed in
Canada by John Frost, former
colleague of Sir Frank Whittle,
have reached speeds up to
1,500 mph and have been in-
spected by Field-Marshal
Montgomery, says Klein.

[handwritten in right margin]
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162-83894-A-
NOT RECORDED
126 FEB 7 1955
Bryna
File
McElburg

[printed in bottom left]
REYNOLDS NEWS
DECEMBER 19, 1954
LONDON, ENGLAND

[stamp in bottom left]
[stamp: OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE
AMERICAN EMBASSY
LONDON. ENGLAND
66 FEB 16 1955
249]

[handwritten in bottom right]
1/21/55.
AF advised Sullivan (Clason)
it knows of Frost's ideas
but has never heard
as far as they know he
anything in the
[strikethrough: AF weapon] AF info on flying saucers.
John Edward

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Mr. Tolson_
Mr. Boardman_
Mr. Nichols_
Mr. Belmont_
Mr. Harbo_
Mr. Mohr_
Mr. Parsons_
Mr. Rosen_
Mr. Tamm_
Mr. Sizeo_
Mr. Winterrowd_
Tele. Room_
Mr. Holloman_
Miss Gandy_
[unclear: BODNIK] SEA

[marginalia: AUK]

'Flying Saucer?':
Weird Spy Disc
Sighted By Ship

A circular object, grayish at
first and then brighter, like the
moon, shooting up from near sea
level and disappearing in clouds
at 5,000 feet, was sighted at sea
last night 80 miles east of New
York. Officers of the Dutch
liner Groote Beer reported the
incident when the vessel arrived
in Hoboken.

"I don't know what it was,"
said Capt. Jan P. Boshoff, a
veteran shipmaster, who said
he watched the object through
his binoculars. "It might have
been what has been described
as a flying saucer, but I don't
know what it was."

Through his most powerful
binoculars, the captain trained
them on the object, 40 degrees
off the port side. Several other
officer similarly trained bino-
culars.

Capt. Boshoff described it as
"a flat object, resembling the
mon, at first kind of gray and
then turning brighter on the
lower part, and around the
edges having bright spots as if
they were lights." He said it
was moving "directly upward,
with great speed."

He said he never had seen
anything like it before, and
added:
"I am positive it was not a
meteor. Nor was it anything
supernatural in the sky."

[marginalia: 0 Flying Saucers]

[marginalia: 2 Sept 20]
[stamp: CLIPPING FROM THE]
N.Y. JOURNAL AMERICAN
[stamp: DATED] JUL 29 1954
[stamp: FORWARDED BY N.Y. DIVISION]
[stamp: 53 AUG 9 1954]

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AUG 9 1954

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Mr. Tolson
Mr. Boardman ✓
Mr. Nichols ✓✓
Mr. Belmont ✓
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tamm
Mr. Sizoo
Mr. Winterrowd
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy

[handwritten:] flying Saucers-
[handwritten:] Flying Saucers
[handwritten:] Mosshogg
[handwritten:] Br Brugan

(OBJECT)
NEW YORK--THREE CREW MEMBERS OF A TRANS-WORLD AIRLINES PARIS-
NEW YORK FLIGHT REPORTED TODAY THEY SIGHTED AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING
OBJECT ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF BOSTON.
THE PILOT, CAPT. CHARLES J. KRATOVIL, OF PORT WASHINGTON, L.I. SAID
HE SAW "A LARGE, WHITE-COLORED, DISC-LIKE OBJECT" AT 9:30 A.M. EDT.
KRATOVIL SAID THE OBJECT WAS PURSUING A PARALLEL COURSE AHEAD OF HIS
PLANE BUT HE COULD NOT GET A CLEAR LOOK AS IT MOVED ABOVE HIGH CLOUDS.
AFTER THE PLANE ARRIVED AT IDLEWILD AIRPORT, KRATOVIL RECEIVED A
MESSAGE FROM TRANS-WORLD AIRLINES IN BOSTON STATING THAT A WEATHER
BALLOON HAD BEEN RELEASED FROM GRENIER AIR FORCE BASE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE,
ABOUT 90 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOSTON, AT 4:30 A.M. EDT. THE MESSAGE SAID
THE BALLOON WAS OVER BOSTON AT 9:19 A.M. EDT.
KRATOVIL SAID THE MESSAGE DESCRIBED THE BALLOON AS "ABOUT 100 FEET
IN DIAMETER AND JUST ABOUT FITS THE DESCRIPTION OF WHATYOU SAW."
COMMENTING ON THE MESSAGE, KRATOVIL, WHO HAS BEEN FLYING SINCE 1927,
SAID "IT SOUNDS LIKE A COVER-UP TO ME. IF THIS IS A WEATHER BALLOON,
IT'S THE FIRST TIME I EVER SAW ONE TRAVELING AGAINST THE WIND."
KRATOVIL'S STATEMENT ABOUT THE OBJECT WAS SUPPORTED BY THE CO-PILOT,
W.R. DAVIS OF HICKSVILLE, L.I., AND BY THE FLIGHT ENGINEER, HAROLD
RANEY OF BAYSIDE, QUEENS.
KRATOVIL SAID THE LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TOWER IN BOSTON SAID
EIGHT EMPLOYES THERE TOLD OF SEEING THE OBJECT, AND IT DID NOT APPEAR TO
BE A BALLOON.
6/1--MJ315P

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[handwritten:] 5 0 JUN 17 1954 /316

WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE

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[handwritten] [illegible symbol, looks like 'k']
[handwritten checkmark]
Mr. Tolson [checkmark]
Mr. Boardman [checkmark]
Mr. Nichols [checkmark]
Mr. Belmont [checkmark]
Mr. Harbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tamm
Mr. Sizoo
Mr. Winterrowd
Tele. Room
Mr. Holloman
Miss Gandy

[inverted, faint stamp] [unclear: P9 OE A S?]
[inverted, faint stamp] [unclear: 39AN01923 OT?]
[inverted, faint stamp] 187
[inverted, faint stamp] [unclear: 351T2UG 10 7733 E?]

[handwritten] flying saucers

[handwritten] BRAUGAN
[handwritten] Ephbury
[handwritten] Mossburg

(OBJECT)
MOBILE, ALA.---BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE REPORTED THAT AN
"UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT, BRILLIANT AND SILVER COLORED" WAS TRACKED
BY RADAR OVER MOBILE AND THE ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST LAST NIGHT.
MAJ. JAMES ZICHERALI, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER AT BROOKLEY, SAID
THE OBJECT "APPEARED TO BE A JET-TYPE AIRCRAFT OF NEW DESIGN WITH SHORT
STUBBY WINGS."
FIVE OTHER RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI ALSO REPORTED
SIGHTING THE OBJECT.
ZICHERALI SAID THE OBJECT APPEARED ON THE BASE CONTROL TOWER RADAR
SCREEN AT 6:50 P. M. CST. HE SAID RADAR OPERATORS REPORTED IT "MADE
NO SOUND AND LEFT NO TRAIL BUT GAVE EVIDENCE OF DEFINITELY BEING
MANEUVERED."
7/1--S804D

[handwritten] 62-83894-

[stamp] 60 JUL 14 1954
[handwritten below stamp] y 462

[stamp] 62-183894-A
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76 JUL 14 1954
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WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE
[handwritten] file [unclear: Edgert?]

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Tolson _______
Ladd _______
Nichols _______
Belmont _______
Clegg _______
Glavin _______
Harbo _______
Rosen _______
Tracy _______
Mohr _______
Trotter _______
Winterrowd _______
Tele. Room _______
Holloman _______
Miss Gandy _______

G.I.R. -1
[circled symbol] Flying Saucers
[unclear: Braweye] WAB [unclear: Ehm]

Air Force Hushes Up Saucer Probe
By ROBERT CRATER
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

Air Force leaders have
slammed down a “brass” curtain
at the Dayton (O.) Air Technical
Intelligence Center (ATIC),
where flying saucer reports are
investigated.

“The Air Force will be unable to
honor visits (including the press)
to the ATIC because the volume of
requests for information has seri-
ously interfered with investiga-
tions,” an Air Force spokesman here
said today.

He said the original official policy
had been to exclude visits by news-
papermen, however this policy had
been relaxed in recent months.

Most of the mail received at the
Dayton office is from persons over
the nation who are curious about
flying saucers.

“The mail has become so heavy
that the two or three persons de-
tailed to investigating unidentified
flying objects—called UFO’s—are
not getting anything else done,” the
Air Force official said.

“Actually, UFO’s are supposed to
be only a small part of the investi-
gative work done at the ATIC.”

The flood of mail from the public
was attributed to newspaper and
magazine articles about flying sau-
cers. Singled out were two current
books, “Flying Saucers Have Land-
ed” and “Flying Saucers From Out-
er Space.”

Just how banning the press was
expected to ease the situation was
not explained—unless the Air Force
figures this will reduce the number
of flying saucer stories.

[stamp] 80 JAN 18 1954
F350
[stamp] NOT RECORDED
160 JAN 15 1954
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Wash. Post _______
Wash. News [checked]
Wash. Star _______
N.Y. Herald Tribune _______
N.Y. Mirror _______

Date: 1/23/54