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THE LOUISVILLE TIMES = on Movies Snapped of Sky Disk By Alert Times Photographer Yes, we have some flying saucers today, and for the first time, here are moving pictures for proof. Many have reported seeing the officials. None had heard any | saucers but it remained for Al ‘ePorts of a “flying saucer. He Mictitaiah - ty" da simathin was advised to inform military | 8 & officials at Godman Field. about it—with his trusty 16 mm. Godman said it would notify | magazine-loading movie camera. flight headquarters at Wright- “Hix,” Times staff photog- Patterson Field which might rapher, took 50 feet of film in send an aide to examine the which the bright flying object films. shows clearly in all. Army of- | _ ficials have been informed and have indicated eagerness to ex~ ‘amine the pictures. The photographer was at Long- est and Everett Avenues, near his home at 2205 Longest, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday. He was on his way to take some movies of birds. x * *€ Suddenly he heard the roar of a big plane—a _ twin-motored DC-3—and glanced overhead. At first he thought it was a jet| plane. Then he looked to the | west of the plane, which was flying southwest toward Standi- ford Field—and saw the large disk. It had a slight corona around it and seemed to be lower than the plane. He aimed his camera and fired. While he ground out the film, he said, the object appeared motion- | less for about 10 seconds. “It stood practically still, like “a balloon,” he said. Then it began to get smaller, finally vanishing into the west. While the “saucer” appears on all of the film he took, the plane was out of the picture field quickly, appearing only on about 10 feet. The disk was within his vision “about a minute.” a “Hix” contacted the newsroom | at WHAS and from there Jerry | Gammons called Standiford and Bowman Fields and weather | | ‘ By Times Staff Photograpf ae Here’s Real Flying Saucer, If There Is One This is what a “flying saucer” looks like, if there really is such | a thing. Al Hixenbaugh, Times’ photographer, snapped movies of | the object yesterday. The object appears almost as big as th in- motored DC-3 to, the right. PP g e twin RR | | ’ —_————__—_. The Louisville Times Louisville, Kentucky June 28, 1950