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Priest Hears a ‘Bang; Discovers a Circular Blade With Teeth; Other Disks ‘Seen’ Picture on Picture Page he “what is it?” which Father eph Brasky said he found early| | inday on the lawn of St. Joseph’s Catholic church in Grafton may be| lust another gadget to add to Fa- jther Brasky's already sizable col- ection. Those who saw it Sunday said “what is it?” was a circular saw blade with a few wires attached. Father Brasky, who said he knew of no sawmills in the area, would not ‘claim it was a “flying saucer” when he called newspapermen to his home. “Tt may or may not be one of those flying disks that have been report- je@ all over the country,” he said, |“Bet's just call ita ‘what is it??” leanwhile, in Milwaukee and! er points in Wisconsin, sev, ons reported seeing the “flying| Saucers.” Father Brasky's disk, ‘however, was the only case here in which the “landing” of a “saucer” was reported. : Hears “Bang,” Finds Disk Father Brasky gave the follow- ing account of how he found the ob- ject, a steel plate 19 inches in di- ameter, about an eighth of an inch, thick and with saw teeth, “T usually get up about 5 a.m. on Sundays. I was at the front door of my house, about to take my dog out for a walk, when I heard a ‘bang!’ like a big firecracker. I ‘stepped outside and found this jon the church lawn. |_ “Although the grass was still wet |from the night rain, the disk was too jhot to pick up. 1 noticed the gli ball had been knocked off one of the lightning rods on the church, so J suppose it struck that in land. fing.” Saucer’ Stories Disk Found Se Les, Is , Tries to Call FBI Man” Father Brasky said he did not bother to show the disk to any of his parishioners Sunday. He tried to telephone an FBI agent whom he knows, but was unable to reach him Sunday, he added. Asked whether it could have been the work of a Practical joker, Father Brasky re- Plied: “Could be. I don’t know,” The disk, apparently of steel; had a one and three-eighth inch'hdle in the center. Through it ran'a few wires. To each end of the cluster of wires was attached what looked like a small condenser about three inches long. The condenserlike ob- jects were wrapped in black tape which still was sticky, The disk-was greasy and somewhat dirty. Stamped on it was: “Approved, Dunlap.” Father Brasky declined to part with the disk. He showed a number of items in his trinket collection. All of them had something to do with fishing, Father Brasky’s favor- ite sport. They included his “bass bottles,” beer bottles with the head of a fish—and a fish pole from Manila which folds up into a cane. When opened, it extends to 12 feet. “J use it in reaching folks wi can't be touched with a 10 foot pole,” Father Brasky quipped. Others Report “Saucers” Father Brasky also passed out copies of his recent. publication, “Fish Tales,” “I'm going to revise this thing,” he explained. “I've got some new and better tales to put in it.” ‘There were other reports around Milwaukee and Wisconsin of “fly- ing saucers.” Mrs, Anthony Hoff- man, 3410 W. Layton ‘av., said she and her husband saw one at 8: p.m, Sunday flying toward Billy Mitchell field from the northwest. Aisle When it neared the field, it veered| re hi 7 toward #iseouth and*aiSeppeared, she said. It was flying high and appeared illuminated, according to Mrs. Hoffman. “It looked like a small meat plat- ter,” Mrs. Hoffman asserted, Glenn Rowden of Detroit claimed saW a “saucer,” about 50 inches in diameter, over Billy Mitchell fiela at 10:05 p.m, when he alighted from an airplane. He said it was in sight for 90 seconds. William Humphrey, who tives with his wife in a quonset hut at 3148 S. 20th st., telephoned police at 9 p.m. Sunday that h . Humphrey had seen a slightly illu- minated disk which appeared to fall to earth near Pulaski high school. Mrs, Humphrey said Monday that her husband tried unsuccessfully, to Photograph the disk. Changed Colors, He Says Erwin Rottman, 1328 N, 19th claimed he saw three of them fyi through the air in a northweste: direction at 6 p.m. Sunday. Th turned from orange to gold to silv before disappearing, he said. Reports came also from Janes- ville, where Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sie- vert and Mr, and Mrs, Howard Roth reported seeing a flying disk about 11:35 p.m, Saturday, The Roths were leaving the Sievert home when Sievert saw it, according to Roth, |It appeared to be several thousand feet up and about 10 miles away, Roth said. "He described it as vague- ly resembling the moon and as hav- egular motion in a’ counter- clockwise, elongated orbit. It ap- peared to Roth to be moving faster than an airplane. He said it was yellow on its face, but when it turned it looked silver, Roth said that the four of them viewed the disk for 10 minutes, Stopped in Sky, Claim “It fluttered around, faded out and came back again, and once i just stopped and hung there fod. | about two minutes,” Roth said. “Thp }last time we saw it, it had a verp/ Turn to page 3, col. 5 i