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undreds in 3 States Report Seeing Weird ‘Flying Saucers’ By the Associated Press The Nation was baffled today by “flying saucers” reported seen in 31 States by hundreds of persons, and conjectures came ‘from scores of named and unnamed sources throughout the country. Official Government sources took a “Let's see one” stand on the phe- Seacnon, and no scientist offered a detailed explanation. Two Chicago astronomers said the Ra are probably “man-made.” ®% undulating, flashing objects 4yuldn’t be meteors,” said Dr. Girard Kieuper, director of the Uni- versity of Chicago’s Yerkes Ob- servatory at Williams Bay, Wis. “We realize,” said Dr. Oliver Lee, ctor of Northwestern Univer- tv's Dearborn Observatory, “that : Army and Navy are working on =) rts of things we know nothing Dr. Lee said the discs might repre- sent the same sort of thing as send- ing radar signals to the moon, “one of the greatest technological achievements of the war and ac- complished in absolute secrecy.” David Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, told the Denver Post in a brief telephone in- terview that the flying saucers were in no way connected with experi- ments in atomic energy, the trans- mutation of metals, or similar re- searcn. Col. F. J. Clark, commanding offi- cer of the Hanford Engineering Works in the Pacific Northwest where the largest saucer influx has been reported, said the saucers were not coming from the atomic plant there, Credence in the saucers—widely | laughed off at their first’ reporjed appearance June 25—grew as hjn- dreds of observers, many of them trained flyers, reported seeing thm.’ A crowd of 200 observed a dis@at. (See DISCS, Page A-9.) (Continued From First Page.) Huser Lake, Idaho, on the Fourth|number varied from one to a dozen, of Charleston, S. C—one of them a, es memepaper reporter—said a flying saucer passed over Charleston head- ing east at 7:20 p.m. Saturday qt ybout the same time two men bany, Oreg., saw a single dif avash southward, halt, and retrace its course before vanishing into a | cloud. | An Army Air Forces spokesman in Washington on July 3 said there was not enough fact to “warrant further investigation,” but the ‘Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, sald it was making a study. Saturday at Washington an Army researcher admitted “we're, mystified” and the Navy said it had) no theories. First Reported June 25. The first published report of “fly- ing saucers” came from Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, businessman ‘pilot, who reported at Pendleton, )Oreg., on June 25 that he had seen nine of them flying at 1,200 miles an hour in formation, shifting position “like the tail of a kite,” over Wash- ington State's Cascade Mountains. Before seoffers had more than be- gun to offer explanations such as || “reflections,” “persistent vision” and “snow blindness,” an Oklahoma Gity private flyer, Byron Savage, said he had seen a similarly shaped object some weeks earlier but fear of ridi- cule kept him quiet. Then the reports began to filter | in, mostly from individuals. ene | discs were seen in Texas, in Mexico, Idaho, Missouri, Colorado, Califor- nia, Arizona and Nebraska. The e offJuly. A group of 60 picnickers| seen mostly by one or two ey saw them at Twin Falls, Idaho, And in Poi , Oreg., 50 many dents witr Seen by Group of 200. Then the July 4 deluge | hit. essed them on. the Fourth| hundred persons in one group that the police penne sent out 60 in another saw them in Taal oP) | th. he Soe en e Civil " Aeronautics frees “ane received a report that a of the discs had been : Y for the first time, the Baste! ates had their reports. ardess, Servers ge in with reports fr same| Michigan, Louisiana, Pennsyiva m ANE 5 At (Catiel Geoniay! Seth Catia aoe 5 ss Se beards ; a in ase eat REOORDE! cy 29K / bY a eristics-€- aoe ane anaract flectio £3- 63824 4 JUL = 6 194) * WASHINGTON STAR Page Awl & Ae? in Washington, Oreg mal Bison BE. A. Tamm_ Clegg Gitava aes Ladd . Nichols Rosen Tracy Carson Egan_ Gurnea Harbo - Hendon Jones Pennington _ Quinn Tamm_ Nease Miss Gandy