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Command was keeping watch “so-farwith no results—and that specially qualified inves-| tigators had been assigned to look into the reports. | For several years the Air| Force has checked all reports of unidentified flying objects. Investigators work under the} Air Defense Command at Col-| orado Springs, Colo, and re- port to the Air Technical In- telligence Center. Judging from past findings, the chances are 50-1 the Air! Force will offer a humdrum] explanation for the current sightings. - During the’first half of this year, the Air Wore said, only| 1.9 per cent of the 250 report-| ed sightings of flying saucers] and other fantastic aerial ob-| jects have wound up in the “unknown” category. Air Force Skeptical And the Air Force said firm-| ly—though not all flying ‘sai ported objects may_be some- thing from another‘planet.~ “Assuming they are real,” he said, “they would be secret ‘weapons made on earth or are interplanetary,” Any na- tion with the secret, he added, would by now have abandoned conventional aircraft or mis- siles, Cosmic Energy “Tt looks as though they are interplanetary,” Keyhoe said. He said one source of pow-' er for such reportéd objects could be cosmic ray energy. Some of the citizens, peace officers and servicemen who reported sighting mystery ob- jects in the Southwest since the weekend said the objects stalled auto engines and caused radios to fade, James Stokes, an engineer at the Air Force missile de- velopment center at Alama- gordo. N. M., reported 10 autos were stalled Monday on a des- ert highway between Alama- sordo and the White Sands jeer bufis may agree—that it] (N, M.) Proving Grounds, ‘doesn’t believe even the 1.9) He reported seeing a sound- per cent residue is made upjless, “brilliant colored egg: of the things you read about!shaped object” which flitted in science fiction magazines. |erratically across, the country- Balloons, aircraft and such|side and left a sort of heat astronomical sights as meteor-|wave, “like radiation from a ites and bright stars account! giant sun lamp,” in its wake, at least to the Air Force's official satisfaction—for al- most four-fifths of the sigh | ings, The director of a private o1 ganization set up to inves} tigate flying saucers and suc}! Said he couldn’t evaluate ai this point the current rash of reported sightings. But retired Marine Maj,| Donald &, Keyhoe, director of the National Investigations’ Committee on Aerial Phe. nemana__added, that the re-| Device Sought Leonard Hardlund, chief en- gineer for the National Inven- tors Council in Washington, said a device that could stall autos or other mechanical equipment was one of the things the armed forces would like to see developed, But Hardlund said he knew of no research in this country aimed at producing such a de- vice. y; Two teen-age girls reported seeing a mysterious object in the sky over Annapolis, Md., last week. Tean Hunt, 13, and Sylvia Fowler, 15, said they saw an egg-shaped object which glowed like a neon light. They spotted it while trick-or-treat. ing with Jean’s two younger Sisters on Halloween night in Primrose Acres, a housing de. velopment on the outskirts of Annapolis. Jean said the girls became jfvightened and ran home but no one would believe their story until weekend neWwspa- per accounts told of @ myste: | [kee Sishted in ‘Texas, —” Associated Press J} G. Kirby of Dallas made this photo of a diamond shaped object flying | through the sky while he | and his family were driving near Amarillo, Tex. in August, 1956. The phoio | was turned over to the FBI | and has just been released | after intensive study, The Air Force described the glow a5" radiation vapor.”