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While Science Sneers
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|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”
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