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, New Yorr, Sunday. VER since Ken- neth Arnold, 30 - year-old, if ae Bika ry business-man “pilot. from Boise, Idaho, touched off the “flying " saticers ’ ” mystery by report- ing, on the afternoon of une 24, 1947, that he had “nine shiny discs like metal hub-caps flip-flap- ng along at about 1,200 ‘m.p.h.” only one fact seems ui te certain. 3 inc ludes the U.S, Air a ie “stil investigating orts pou t “celestial eRe u it a of officially. ast December, after checking 375 cases, it clc ed Project Sp alas a spec ial on group telli- ers with Hendquateans time it was stated in a turn-down that all re- ‘p retation of “con- ventional.” aerial ob ects, These included giant experiment ‘a cosmic-ray | Algauaarenae targpt balloons wit dangling strips pf aluminium foil, meteor trails, wisps of or whole vapour tras ‘from high-flying aircraft, bright “planets. . 2. Mild form of mass hysteria, 3. Hoaxes, But steadily, from 1947 up till a few days ago, re eo of eae objects that * 80 ¥. \izz in the keep he coun oie n from all over United id the They tere Ow Y reporte 3 pute Of tt @ dd States te ai tron Wane from « the rand eas south east. as nent the Mexi- can border. They have also, of course, been reports fr¢ a epthier pa our of the — world, from Scan via, A: \frica, China, the Far East. _ The objects alle ely seen here, have ranged from Be Soy ees ty ic seeucere y Bying au Fe fuzzy orpedo shay or feu tment] oe ing te a rf babs: “a ships ” ghts in the ears orange flames” coming from | Sometimes th ey ported shaped i e | spheres. But two facts seem to rem constant. They are all said to ) be either white or silver, a move acroee ioe sky in an! ing Wa. ing frst one tion, e other, ris' falling, tee finally ap ing into nothing or soya horizo: Pi lot's chasé U.S. Air For OR inomes Mat st his life some months ago Ur b with someth ae lik ( wa) Silver ream cone An experienced war- with several flying time, Man fighter oleic lea near Fort have been a tubes, P 4 illars,