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ee Planes s Chasing Disks Find-Only Empty Sky Sky ———=weradio announcement itt oo... Jokesterstdd™ ‘were flying over Lewiston, Idaho, Sunday sent‘ hundrede Into their! yards for a look, Weatherman Louis! ing eastward with the prevailing: wind and probably were weed seeds. : Three alr transport pilots agreed. Searchiights on Clouds A Birmingham radio station was éeluged with more than 400 ca) in rr Fast St. Louis Objec the city and clearly cutlined agamst ne With Legs lights on cloud wisps. for another air search for the mys- [if the sky and a roar shortly before Canada as practica) jokesters added eras, 11 army planes searched the airport here is taking no chances which had been reported over scores ' found thia notice on the bulletin tional guard plane already in the air| quired between aircraft operat- Zimmer said he saw shoot across ee The army “camera patrol” over | pO three A-26 bombers. Newcomb of the Pacific Gas & Elec- probably had struck a power lin concentrated aerial search would ‘However, no planes were reporieg aters magnified by aroused imag!- rooftopa In Hast St. Louis, Ili, Sun-: MILYESLRKEE, d found they were made of in the center. Raliroad workers to Air Mystery Ws Bhd AVE rove to Be Washers; one hour by peraons who sald t ey’ saw fluorescent balls Gircling oper | hicago Woman Spots near-by mountains. A carnival at! Alabaster, Ala., was playing search| By the United Press n argument raged at Lodi, Calif, Army pilots were ready Monday over the cause of a spectacular glow terlous “flying saucers” now report- [Zlectrical power went off. Mrs. W. ed acen in 39 states and parts of fC, Smith said abe heard a noise “like to the confusion, Equipped with" telescopic cam- Give "Em Room Pacific northwest Sunday without Newport News, Va.—Peninsula finding any trace of the flying disks with flying saucers. Pilots report- of communities the preceding two) ing Monday to take out planes days. At Sioux Falls, & D., « na-' board: “Two thousand feet ver- was ordered to investigate a silvery); tical and horizontai clearance re- disk with a short tai] which Gregory ing from this field and any fly- the heavens. The pilot found noth-|j ing saucers.” ing but empty sky. the Cascade mountains Sunday in- four motored bomber” just before cluded eight P-51 pursuit ships andy) the lights went off at dawn, Erving tric Co, offered the explanation that Hlusions Or Jokes a low flying crop dusting plan There was growing belief that the and burned out a transforme show the saucers to be optical illu-' rte sions or the work of practical joke- - nations. ' A number of “diska” whirled over, day. J. T. Hartley, a locomotive en- incer, gathered aome of them up Plessed white paper, 11 inches in dikmeter and with a €W6 inch hole said they looked like Jocomotive. packing washers. wy ! et ‘ee ——- ind Ne eee a Te ar sa nal eemeiiat ta cee f . A re Krezak aaid the objects were mov-— damaged and no one could explain wifffrrrep dusting plane was do- ing in the air at dawr~wremaday. it was the first time any noise had “been attributed to flying saucers. J. U. Watts, jr, Darlington (S.C) ‘attorney, said he saw an army pur- suit plane chasing a V-tormation of flying saucers et 250 miles an hour 2,000 feet high, However, Bo pilot reported such a chase. Saw One With Lers Meantime, authorities were plagued with reports that bordered on the fantastic. An excited Chi- cago woman reported that she had - geen a flying saucer with legs, “I was standing on my porch and I thought for sure it was coming right - wn and slap me in the face,” said, ‘ orge Kuger of Denver said hi & flying disk with an America: t on It. Francia Howell, Tempe, Ariz, claimed he saw a saucer two feet in diameter disappear behind a row of trees near his home. When he rushed to inspect it, he said, the flat, thin, aluminumlike disk took off at a “high rate of speed” toward Phoenix, nine miles away. -Mrs. Walter Johnson returned to Spokane, Wash, after a vacation mear St. Maries, Idaho, and after reading newspaper reports of the flying saucers said she and several others had seen apeeding shiny ob- jects “as big as a four or five room house” disappear into the forest covéred mountains. he first of the saucers over New York State was reported by Mrs. nmneth Wohley of Rochester,,N. , who sald she and her husband aaw an object “about the size of ordinary saucer" flying above Her | _back yard at 8:30 p.m. Sunday. | EXSL.OSUT. Mi WAUKEE we wiecownl a G\fer : ahi ae ee ey . - aor, +, - ae pp cw : we I ry awe ~ « ™. - 2 ~ . a Pe ee 7 » ad *