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0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) Mystery Objects Called” Mirage by Astronomer: A Harvard astronomer says qaysterious objects reported m various parts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico are mirages stemming from natural causes, : _H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College , that the Sightings of the strange glow-| ; ing objects in the sky. The mosphere which would. Air Force for years has had radar reflection.” the responsibility of checking x reports of unidentified flying) As for reports of ‘the auto objects ,but as one officer put} engines Stalling, he said, “It it, “We don’t investigate all of would not be surprising that a them.” Py Auiragh tok such reports hag|2ervous foot could stall an en- developed since Sunday, with|gine.” some of the sightings said to! Dr. Menzel, author of a book have been Made hear secret|about flying Saucers, said he military installations in the/has been studying Southwest. Some of the per- c cans making the reports Said could not the objects caused their auto|be explained’ by Natural phe- engines to stall and their Tadios |nomena. ty to fade. _ | _,“Zhey are caused by a layer Cutter Claims Sighting e a ape iets ante as a Yesterday the Coast Guarq|lens and forming an age o Gutter Sebago radioed from the|°biects as much as 40 or 50 Gulf of Mexico that an object |Miles!away,” he said. resembling a brilliant planet _ Common in West With a high rate of speeq Was} “They are nothing more than t an chev hie wat een a mirage. They are prevalent radar, - just after nightfall as the irae Meu Said it is probable| heated air begins to cool off at € cutter’s ¢erewmen got a ound, an om false image “quite likely from ane the West: ‘where “they bubbles of hot air in the at- have clear air.” i! ~~ ~| ‘The Air Force aig that dur- If of this year only 1.9 per cent of the 250 re- ported sightings of fly Saucers and other strange ob- j ir have been unknown.” And the Air Force wasnl’t ready to be- lieve that even this smal per= inister implica- Zt seemed a good bet ‘the jAir Force will agree with Dr, Menzel’s opinion that: the eur- rent' sightings have explana- tions in nature, or that the Eeports tcl am are said aircraft or similar’. man-ma le | Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter Nease Tele. Room Holloman NOT RECORDED 140.NOV i: 1957 ——y | a Ce Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star wey oO. . N. Y. Herald Tribune INES Journale 2 at! American b- JY N.Y. Mittot N. Y. Daily News eee: a N. Y. Times an ee EA alle Daily Worker The Worker New Leader ____ Date