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UFO — Part 2

79 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Jul 11, 1947 · Broad topic: UFO & UAP · Topic: UFO · 79 pages OCR'd
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———— t Seartn 36 State ese Jet Fighte? Alerted + SEEN IN 86 STATES, Bivens 2 at _ * | First, published reporte of the: atch won. os . | phenamane, occurred” Juhe 25. sighted June 25 and: Kenneth ““Arnald, - ‘Boise, Ida., eetad generally with scornful ~ laughs, the objects have been ree * _ burineseman plot told OF posing, wa ‘[ported every day since by observ- era in 36 states. Most of the ob | the Cascade Mountains tn Wash ‘tjects were reported seen July 4. : ington, we - A few were reported yesterday. | te ae BAN FRANCISCO, Julyaw-[ euch competent observers as‘ BEEN BY 200 — Military aircraft. hunted the Jairline pilots sald they had seen Arnold's account was taken skjes over Pacific Coast states jthe totally unexplained discs or i |." Wgntly, Various explanations tqday for aight of the mysterious | |#&ucers, larger than aircraft and | were offered—“reflections,” “per- Basement Rt a Be Satcortnrel inns wit ance ew ini Sh re SR antl Mikey sectioa iia i ee ee ial Aric pot, cae ah “fable 8 tebe pying saucers” that for 12 days,! o-- gare ett val. '* sistent vision,” “anow bilndness.” Have puzzled the entire country.: rr Grineia “loose formation" 3t) + “goon arterward other individ- high speed. °° Seer tals—in New Mexico, Missouri, Early reports of results were negative. ; Five P-Sis of the Oregon Na- tlonal Guard cruised over the Vascade Mountains ef Washing- ‘on—the area where the strange objects first were reported sight- ed. A aixth circled over Portland, 7 constant radio contact with the other five. <All carried photo- sraphic equipment, Col. G. R. Dodson, command. ing, described their flight as a “routine patrol,” but said they had been instructed to, watch for the flying discs. t Manhattan Beach, Calif. A. McKelvey took a Mustan ter plane up above Van Nuys two hours he cruised at 35; feet, but “didn’t see a thing. Gen, Carl Spastz ‘f the Army Air Forces, was ona Pacific Northwest fishing trip. de denied knowing anything ibout the flying discs — or of iets to use AA planes to look | ‘or them, TET FIGHTER SET “I've been out of teuch with things for four or five days,” he sald. Louis E. Starr. national com- uander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wara, yesterday in Co- ‘umbus, O., said he understood Spaatz had a “group out right ‘ow looRing for discs. At Muroc Army Alr Field in “alifornia a P-80 jet fighter atood , ‘*ady to take off the moment any ‘lying saucers are sighted in that rea. ‘Oth official and selantizic cof-:' nents, but Capt. Tom Brown pr hg Air Forces Public Relatiobs (aff in Washington ackno iged the Air Forces had decided t A cautious attitude marked - the Atomic Energy Commission, Fania they had nothing to do with ! atomic experiments, and Army and Navy officials also entered positive disclaimers. ‘ Newspaper stories quoting an | unidentified California Institute of Technology scientist as saying . the phenomena migh‘ have some- thing to do with experiments in “transmutation of atemic energy” used a brief sensation late yes- rday. The institute quickly de- fed the report. 1 “Reports generally agreed that + the flying objects were round or oval, Estimates of their speed andent-. ranged from about 300 to 1,200 tz, COmmandant ~. : miles an hour. They were de- scribed aa flying with an undu- lating motion at heights of 10,000 feet and less. Bome described them as glowing, or luminous. | ‘PROPELLER IN CENTER’ ' ‘Nova Hart, 8t, Loula mechanic | who was trained during service in the war to apot all types of | fran” said he saw one of the [ dtrang objects near Pattonville sterday. It was fiying at 300 Fee he sald. He described It as circular, with &. ribbed framework and silver gray ip color. Hart sald it ap- “peared to,have a motor with a f propeller attached in the center ‘and it kept. turning lke an air: jane foing ‘a slow. roll. David Lilienthal, chairman, ot a California and othet states— ported they also’ had seen ‘the flying objects. ‘Then on Independence Day 200 persohis in one group-and 60 in » @nother saw them in Idaho. Hun- » dreds of others in Oregon, Wash- * ington and other western atates t reported seeing them. * July 4 aiso brought first] re- * ports of the flying dilsca ps7 s 9 ‘east of the Misslasippi. ince # then they have been reported seen n widely separated sections of @ country—in 33 states in all. ‘Must Be Insane’ LONDON, July 6—UPi—Don't mention those flying saucers on “this side of the Atlantic untess * you're prepared for an argument + about your sanity, Maybe they have been seen by ( sober citizens over a vast area! b, ot the United States, but Europe. * won't believe in them until some-; *. body lassoes one and has it phote- graphed by Frank Sinatra, the - British ambassador and five ' Bupreme Court justices. “America's reply to the Loch Nps monster,” chortled todiy's nday dispatch, referring ritain’s hoariest tall story— ° erpent that is “seen” romping Jn re <¥rer ‘ ; Bcotland’s Loch Ness every ti the tourist trade needs a shot tebe : the arm. *ENCLOSLit RECORDED” J: tips MILWAUKEE SENTINEL MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 4 4 coe cca up mn eG O OCT 1- Mr, a
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