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Planes Chasing Disks Find Only Empty Sky Jokesters Add were flying over Lewiston, Idaho, wliat a crop dusting plane was do- Sunday sent`hundreds into their ing in the air at dawr on Sunday. Some Comedy yards for a look.Weatherman Louis It was the first time any noise had Krezak said the objects were mov- been attributed to flying saucers. ing eastward with the prevailing J.U.Watts,jr.Darlington S.C.) wind and probably were weed seeds. attorney, said he saw an army pur- to Air Mystery Three air transport pilots agreed. suit plane chasing a V-formation of flying saucers at 250 miles an hour Searchlights on Clouds 3,000 feet high.However,no pilot East St. Louis Objects A Birmingham radio station was reported such a chase. deluged with more than 400 cals in Prove to Be Washers Saw One With Legs one hour by persons who said they Meantime, authorities Mwere Chicago Woman Spots the city and clearly outlined aganst saw fluorescent balls circling over plagued with reports that bordered on the fantastic. An excited Chi- One With Legs near-by mountains.A carnival at cago woman reported that she had Alabaster, Ala., was playing search- lights on cloud wisps. wes standing on my porch and I By the United Press th ught for sure it was coming right An argument raged at Lodi,Calif., Army pilots were ready Monday oyer the cause of a spectacular glow dp vn and slap me in the faceshe for another air search for the mys- n the sky and a roar shortly before 1. terious "flying saucers"now report- electrical power went off.Mrs.W eorge Kuger of Denver said h sa a flying disk with an America Canada as practical jokesters added flag on it. to the confusion. Francis Howell, Tem pe, Ariz Equipped with telescopic cam- claimed he saw a saucer two feet Give'Em Room eras, 11 army planes searched the in diameter disappear behind a row Pacific northwest Sunday without of trees near his home. When he Newport News,Va.-Peninsula finding any trace of the flying disks rushed to inspect it, he said, the flat, airport here is taking no chances which had been reported over scores thin, aluminumlike disk took off at with flying saucers.Pilots report- of communities the preceding two ing Monday to take out planes a "high rate of speed" toward days.At Sioux Falls,S.D.a na- found this notice on the bulletin Phoenix, nine miles away. tional guard plane already in the air Mrs. Walter Johnson returned to board:Two thousand feet ver- was ordered to investigate a silvery tical and horizontal clearance re- Spokane, Wash, after a vacation disk with a short tail which Gregory near St. Maries, Idaho, and after quired between aircraft operat- Zimmer said he saw shoot across reading newspaper reports of the ing from this field and any fly- the heavens.The pilot found noth- ing saucers." flying saucers said she and several ing but empty sky. others had seen speeding shiny ob- The army "camera patrol' over jects "as big as a four or five room the Cascade mountains Sunday in- four motored bomber" just before house"disappear into the forest cluded eight P-51 pursuit ships and the lights went off at dawn. Erving covered mountains. three A-26 bombers. Newcomb of the Pacific Gas & Elec- The first of the saucers over New tric Co.offered the explanation that York State was reported by Mrs. Illusions Or Jokes a low flying crop dusting plane Kenneth Wohley of Rochester,N. There was growing belief that the probably had struck a power line Y who said she and her husband concentrated aerial search would and burned out a transformer saw an object "about the size of an show the saucers to be optical illu- ordinary saucer"flying above However, no planes were reporte ler sions or the work of practical joke- damaged and no one could explain back yard at 8:30 p.m.Sunday. sters magnified by aroused imagi- nations. ENCLOSURE A number of "disks"whirled over rooftops in East St. Louis Ill. Sun day.J.T.Hartley,a locomotive en- 62-83894-13 ineer, gathered some of them up and foun d they were made of /2/79+4 pessed white paper, 11 inches in digmeter and with a two inch hole 32JUL16 in the center.Railroad workers said they looked like locomotive packing washers. 600CT1-194Q3