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thissss-seer nearby and large ones | at great distances, { “The one outstanding fact abo virtually all the saucers is th they had no _ structure —the$ — seemed merely round and flat. ISAUCERS.From Page I 2 Dinas aircraft designer, told The|/hgt description fits exactly with | ae CVD ae |Post by telephone from New-yorm|the tricks that eyes play. This: jthat until he sees a flying saucer|trickiness varies with differences} 4 P riest F inds ‘Whirring ‘ Dise lhe “wouldn't like to pass- judg- in weather and lighting.” i However, Nova Hart, St. Louis In Yard and Holds It for FBI "ie ses wi 0. oveiaes mata te nig teen said the Army Airways Communi- “fhe best way I can describe it,”|| “28 Much if not all of the story|of aircraft, yesterday offered a cations Service had reported late said Kennedy, ‘‘was that it looked jmay be because of hysteria. minute description of one of the| ; ; stp ott ‘ ” er flying patterns which he claimed he} yesterday that so far its radar like an orange lamp bulb without After all,” he said, “we are . ‘scopes throughout the country/the socket. It was going faster than|| more or less an hysterical Nation.” Fant ae pat meat) CA a ‘have been unable to pick up any 42Y jet plane I’ve ever seen.” “}1705 0. a; Files strange objects in flight, Pp any “In Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Mat etude the ne aan Was pos"/Reporter Sees One | And in the Pacifie Northwest— elyn Ganoe, 30, said she had seen! S!Dle that the persons who claim) He described it as circular with lwhere most of the fly-happy plat- five of the discs, racing in 2-1-2||to have seen the aerial discs have|a ribbed framework and silver ‘ters have been reported—the Army formation at “terrific speed,” from|instead glimpsed the exhaust of|Stay in color. He said it appeared lhas radar equipment which ean her backporch. “They sounded like} jet-propelled planes. to have a motor with a propeller ipierce fog and darkness and pick|@ faraway train,” she said. He conceded, too, that they attached in the center and that it lup objects in the sky 200 miles’ In the wake of these new eye- might bé guided missiles let loose|kept turning like an airplane do- laway. \ witness accounts came a new series jas ‘part of an experiment, but|ing a slow roll. | Even so, Brown acknowledged of Comments, and explanations, but| added: } Although many explanations ithat the Air Forces had decided Most of them were tinged with a} “I don't think the Government|}ave been offered, none has been l“there’s something to this” and Slight tendency to laugh off the| would fire them so promis¢euously.|convincing. A Los Angeles news- lhad been chepking it for 10 days. Whole thing. They would test them in one spot, Paber quoted an unnamed nuclear | “and we still haven't the slight- Dr. Winfred Overholser, nation-jjn an isolated area, like they did Physicist as saying the silvery dises lest idea what they could be,” he ally known psychiatrist and super-|the atomic bomb.” resulted from experiments in the) | added. jintendent of St. Elizabeths Hos-|’ Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who tansmutation of atomic energy.” | And a new wrinkle—the report-| pital here, said it “has some of thejas Deputy Chief of Air Staff for This report was rapidly herdefi) ‘ed landing of a fleet of eight skim- earmarks of being national hys- Research and Development would imto the hoax column by Davi ‘ming platters—was Teported from | teria. ’ ’ know if the saucers involved ex-|Lilienthal, chairman of the Atom#e) Idaho in full view of 10 persons, A,| ‘Everytime someone comes up periments with guided missiles \Energy Commission, and several) Dishman, Idaho housewife, said | with a sea-serpent story,” said Dr.| commented: '|prominent atomie scientists, ~ she and others in her party had’| Meee others | with vivid) «whatever these people have Starr Expects Word peen the saucers 1anaeR a _mounc/ papas ears ‘thine they, fave seen it hasn’t been anything re-! Louis E. Starr, national com-} tainside near St. aries, Idaho. | “The critical faculty in man, the| Suiting from experiments by the mander of the Veterans of Foreign} She said they came into view at 1 yo eny we Army Air Forces. As for I’m} War ed Saturd : eed, suddenly slowed, | !#8t one he received, is still not # Reclaben Aapaiy News i es ekg at Co-) an extr CMe sp , centy "| very well developed. Scratch the concerned there’s nothing to it/lumbus, Ohio, that he was expect-) and then “fluttered like leaves to The whole thing is un-|ing “momentarily” information i surface and you find the same at all. the ground.” Hivdecia vehitah piedobaiiatad “dur_{fortunate.” from Washington which would ex- \“The mysterious part was that'/ing the witchcraft scare, Some General LeMay refused to dis- Plain the dashing discs, But the we couldn’t see them after they | yey i cuss whether the Air Forces has Message never arrived. landed,” she said. “We could see) libings ie rae: NY g *leaidod missiles which can attain, The Air Forces said that Gen.) them flutter down into the timber|) Dy Gvyerholser said that when speeds of 1200 miles. - |Carl Spaatz, Air Forces chief, was yet we couldn’t see that they a he made his rounds of the mental’ ‘There’s been too much said/it the Pacifie Northwest where anything to the trees.” ‘\|patients yesterday at St. Eliza-jabout guided. missiles now,’ he |™0st of the saucers have been re- She said she hoped to hike into’|Heths not a one commented on the said. - ported, but added that his trip the timber tomorrow and search: | fying saucers story. | Howard W. Blakeslee, Associ there was planned two months for the objects which she said were'| ““{ think they may be a little ated-Press science editor, said the |280, long before the saucers scare. saucer-shaped but resembled wash-, skeptical,” he added. ay whole business may be an optical Mah ks oes expected back in tubs more than disks and were However, Dr. Overholser said he illusion. seine avi ate Reacting Py “about the size of a five-room wasn’t trying to dismiss the matter, “At any distance which is close fitnin waa seers jet aa 4 a % house.” as a joke “because there are so to the limit of how far a person ing by, and the Natlonat Gus ri Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 many strange things going on to- can see,’ he wrote, “all objects Oman had prepared oe nae i 4th st. ne. reported he had sgen_day that one can’t be sure.” ‘appear round or nearly so. This fighters to give chase ey) one passing over the Northeast | Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky,/law of sight co¥érs both smalllsaucers be reported nearby section of the city at about 8:40 __ ao : f : | B, m : This would be the first one re- ported over the District, although others have been reported over nearby Maryland. Kennedy, who has 125 hours flying time as a student pilot in tif Army Aiv Forces to his credit; Said he believed the saucer he hefl seen was traveling at “well Over’ 1000 miles an hour at an altitude of between 1200 and 15001 feat, (Semel d) eaiieinenenitindeene el \ LNGTON POST ~