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'Saucer'Tales Laus of Eyesight Clarify Buzz in State Reports of Flying Saucers By HOWARD W.BLAKESLEE Many descriptions of move- Disk Found by a Priest Associated Press Science Editor ments of the flying saucers fit New York,N.Y.-The flying Is Circular Saw; Others saucers may be explained by cer- with the common maneuvers of tain laws of eyesight. airplanes, singly or in groups. Seen by Milwaukeeans All objects appear round or Some of the maneuvering report- nearly so at any distance close to ed,which took saucers out of sight From page 1, column 3 the limit of how far a person can and back into sight again, resem- see. noticeable tail. When it disap- If the objects are seen by re- watching distant airplanes. peared entirely, it just popped out. flected light, as in most cases re- Whether planes are guided, pi- Janesville police reported a tele- ported, they are almost certain to be round, and if the reflections lotless or jet, they all would look phone call from a Dick Thompson the same at great distances. are sunlight then the sizes report- who said he saw flying disks about ed are those which would be ex- Mirages, Traveler Says 12:15 a.m.Sunday. pected from distant light reflec- tions. Philadelphia,Pa.-(P-Dr.Aurel At Oshkosh, Mrs.L.A.Davis re- Descriptions of virtually all the Aczel, editor of a Hungarian lan- ported that she and her husband had saucers as round and flat fit ex- guage newspaper,expressed belief sighted one of the mysterious disks actly with the tricks that eyes that the flying saucers were mi- whizzing over the city at 6:45 p.m. play.This trickiness varies with rages-possibly circularly distort- Sunday. differences in weather and light- ed reflections of real airplanes ing. She said they were driving on a many miles away. A world-wide This writer has seen flying sauc- traveler,Dr.Aczel said town road six miles west of Osh- ers over Long Island sound, not "Years ago I have seen similar kosh, headed east toward the city, only this year but in previous. things on the Egyptian desert and when they first sighted the object years.They were round, bright flying very fast and very high. on the Buszta (Hungarian plain) and moving fast. But they were At first she said, it looked like an At sea I have also seen mirages of no mystery because they were ships known to be a great distance airplane and then loomed larger and light reflected from the bodies ofaway larger until it "appeared as big as airplanes that soon identified In July and August, and some- the sun." themselves by changing course times even in June, atmospheric Stops Car Disk Vanishes and coming near enough to be conditions are especially adapta- Her husband stopped the car so seen distinctly. ble to the creation of mirages. that they could get a better look at the disk, which appeared round and silvery, but by the time they got out of the car the object had dis- appeared, she said. At Green Bay,Eugene Le Plant reported that he and his 12 year old sonDuane,had seen a rapidly moy- ing silver ball or disk about 6:30 p.m.Wednesday while working in his garden on the western edge of the city. Le Plant said he saw the object silhouetted against a dark cloud to the north and that he and hi son watched it for three or four minutes while it moved away to the nomthwest Le Plant said he coula not estimate the altitude or dis tance, but that it definitely was not an airplane."