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Just pe on Cutting Up, .. & Nature Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg ah. = Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy. Laughlin Mohr Tele. Rm, Holloman Gandy _ Says Air Force lo ‘Saucers’ THE LATEST NEWS: Washington, J uly 29—Air Force €x- perts said today that they are convinced a¢count for the “flying saucers” week and have been appearin logal skies for more than a intermittently throughout the years. “natural causes} which have been dotiin country for more than fiv Maj. Gen. John A. Samford, director of Air Force intelligence, offered the further assurance that a six-year study shows “no pattern vaguely resembling any threat to the United | tates.” ‘| Referring to the fact that radar screens are picking up what “dppear to be natural phenomena, Gen. Samford said: « { think radar is beginning to tell us a great many things it was not built to discover—for instance, about Northern Lights an I atmospheric conditions after a heat wave.” Despite the reassurance, which w ‘confusion, public concern over the mystery all-time high. as delivered in an atmosphere of the skies reached a Twelve more unidentifiable dots on a Civil Aeronautics Administra- tion radar scope here early today threw the city into a dither. (Jersey City reported track- \ ng flying disks and one observer \ \bffered a photo of an oddly- shaped chunk of light to prove t.) | The Air Force flew the experts om Wright-Paterson Field, Day- n, ©., to quell the gathering larm, but meanwhile, USAF Janes were equipped with special stronomical cameras, with which is hoped pursuing pilots may he lable to take pictures of the phe- omena. Air Defense Command planes re- ained on 24-hour alert to chase he “interlopers” and, if possible, ‘shoot them down.” ‘foday’s rash of “saucers” ap- he CAA screen from -30 a.m. to 6 a.m, Airline pilots io were asked to scan the skies signs of the things rey" ————__— they saw nothing. Air Force rada equipment at a field near the CA installation also spotted nothing. }, For that reason, the Air Defens ‘planes remained grounded, giving rise to rumors that the Pentagon somehow was Surrendering to the “saucers.” The Air Foree took pains to deny this, and promised pursuit the next time a flying mystery is sighted with the nake eye. Meanwhile, other responsible Pentagon officials tdereten ee nials that the strange aerial ligh _ox whatever they are~-represent some new phase of U. S. militar experimentation. They expresse fm conviction, too, thet the things are no threat to the na- Son's security. { pete, oe a) 4 Ax / ,. CORDKED gg AUG 18 1952 as ws imes-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror Jo N.Y. Compass fp en Date: Ae =