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—————eeEEEeEeEE———E—EeEeee Statement by Air Force Truman, Other Knowledge of Flying Saucers jie ABy, John GalNorriataaruieainn) Ranta on Mann Post Reporter — : Top officials and agencies of the}mild form of mass hysteria, or Government—from President Tru-| hoaxes.” man on down—joined yesterday in Earlier, President Truman an- an effort to convince the American nounced through his press secre- é rates ” tary at Key West, Fla. that he oe that “flying saucers” do not knew absolutely nothing of such atdivrral etatement’ issued hy|{ine objects being developed by the Air Force last night was most thé United States or any other na- explicit. It declared flatly that: tion. ’ ~B 1. None of the armed forces is “We are not denying this be- conducting secret experiments with|°@Us© of any development of secret “disc-shaped flying objects which weapons,” sxid Secretary Charles could be a basis for the reported| @- Ross, “but purely because we phenomena.” snow of nothing to support these 9. There is no evidence that the \"WMOrs. ; latter stem from “the activities of | Defense Secretary Louis Johnson any foreign nation.” \said about the same thing at a Sf Evaluation of reports of re-|fews conference. He told reporters cent “sightings” bears out early |} was “satisfied there is nothing contlusions that all can be ex- in the reports.” f plained away as “misinterpretation Johnson said’ he had facetiously of Various conventional objects, a Noy RECORDED | { 42 ApR 21950 . WASHINGTO Page Date —1F ~(5 See SAUCER, Page 3, Cvt. = — We "Saucers ‘News’ fficials Ne Officials raised the question at yesterday’s meeting of the Armed Forces Pol- icy Council, which includes the departmental secretaries and Joint Chiefs of Staff. Navy Secretary Francis Matthews and Admiral Forrest P, Sherman, chief of naval operations, as well as other offi- cials, assured him the denials were sincere ‘and truthful. ’ The latest flareup of public in- terest in the saucers resulted from leietements by Radio Commentator Henry J. Taylor and the weekly news magazine United States News and World Report that the saucers do exist and are revolutionary American aircraft probably devel- oped by the Navy. A Navy spokes- 'man flatly denied this Monda Johnson said he is convinced the saucers could not be experiments conducted by any other Govern- ment agency outside his depart-| ment because the Pentagon’s Re- search and Development Board co- losdinates all such activity. Despite the denials, new reports) of “saucers” continued. At Tipp City, Ohio, nine persons said they saw saucers over the Air Force pase at Wright Field, early Sunday., Jerry Robinson, a 22-year-old Marine veteran, speaking for the) group, said they saw “two bright lights in the sky” which later were discerned as brilliant dises trailing a ernll streak of orange flame, |" ‘after hovering for a time, they shou straight up in the a and disappeared, he said, = Police Chief J. C. Lee of Eliza- beth City, Ul. reported that “a lweird red and blue disc-like ob- ject” whizzed over the town early Sunday, “traveling at a high rate lof speed SS POST_ . wi 3 OE ! Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Mohr Tele. Room __ Nease Gandy