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—. —_—_- = -- While Science Sneers . SS |Air Forces Intelligence Joins Search tor Flying Saucers Army Air Forces intelligence yesterday disclosed it has joined the sea i aucer. Bizarre reports on the whirling, high-speed discs continued to ] pour in, drawing—an_official_statement from the AAF, much cynicism from science and the offer of $1000 for the first one downed. The Air Forces, which has juris- diction over the White Sands (N. Mex.) Rocket Proving Grounds, de- nied the saucers are any of its doing. ‘No such phenomena can be, explained by any experiments b@ing conducted,” the statement d Seed, ‘From the Naval Research Lab- Ofatory’s Rear Admiral Paul F. Lee came the curt comment: “We concur in the Army annoupce- meni.” ither denied existence of the dises, but the AAF said statements and about 50 other persons saw al group of about “50 of the saucers) in triangular formation near Au- burn’ Saturday.” One report which won’t trouble! the AAF is that of a commercially | operated, converted P-38, whose pilot said he had knocked one of the “pearl-colored. clam-shaped airplanes” out of the Montana sky. He admitted the story was a hoax. In Washington, Dr. L. R. Haf- stad, executive secretary of thi Joint Research and Developme Board and former director of t Johns Hopkins Applied Physi Laboratory, said: “Poppycock!” Dr. Jesse Sprowls, psychology professor at the University of Maryland, said, “There is abso- lutely no limit to the delusion that the mind can harbor. A tremend- ously interesting social psychologi- cal delusion,” he added. Dr. Ivan E. McDougle of Balti- of witnesses are being correlated|more’s Goucher College, said he “in an effort to identify the re-|guessed “it’s one of those phycho- |ported objects.” é ; With few States in the Nation |without at least one flying saucer report, the AAF has a chore. logical epidemics where people see things that aren’t there.” But C. J. Zohn, 440 Mellon st. se., who works in the rocket-sonde, A Navy flier with five years’|high altitude research section of the ‘Naval Research Laboratory, ience the discs as hcte tae acted at first sotiai ae yesterday reported he and three é ” other men saw one “saucer” B be a busi thed pu Saar ak uae New Mexico June 29. He describda da, Calif., yesterday, after he| See SAUCERS, Page 3, Column _ A <3 JUL 8 1947 WASHHINGTON POST Page. _/ yb § son B pA. Fenn _ . Clegg wt Cottey smaame: . Glavin . Ladd wv ni aT Rosen Tracy Carson Egan Hendon Pennington _ Mr. Quinn Tamm _ Mr. Nease Miss Gandy