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g Priest Finds ‘Whirring’ Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI said the Army Airways Communi- "The best way I can describe it,” cations Service had reported late Sald Kennedy, “was that it looked yesterday that so far its raday like an orange lamp bulb without lscopes throughout the country, ‘he socket, It was going faster than ‘have been unable to pick up any @Y jet plane I’ve ever seen. jstrange objects in flight. In Hagerstown, Md., Mrs, Mad- And in the Pacifie Northwest— elvn Ganoe, 30, said she had seen |where most of the fly-happy plat-five of the discs, racing in 2-1-2 liers have been reported—the Army formation at “terrific speed,” from| jhas radar equipment which can her backporch. lpierce fog and darkness and pick! faraway trait Jap objects in the sky 200 miles| In the wake of these new eye-| laway. | witness accounts came a new series) | ven so, Brown acknowledged of comments, and explanations, but that the Air Forces had decided most of them were tinged with a Ivthere’s something to this” and Slight tendency to laugh off the had been chapking it for 10 days, Whole thing. | “and we still haven't the slight- Dr. Winfred Overholser, nation- lest idea what they could’ be,” he ally known psychiatrist and super- | added. jintendent of St. Elizabeths Hos- | And a new wrinkle—the report-| pital here, said it “has some of the| | ed landing of a fleet of eight skim- earmarks of being national hys- iming platters—was Teported from) teria.” Idaho in full view of 10 persons, A,|_‘“Hverytime someone comes up| Dishman, Idaho housewife, said With a sea-serpent story,” said Dr, she and others in her party had) OVerholser, “others, with vivid| seen the saycers land on a moun-//™aginations are sure they. have| tainside near St. Maries, Idaho. | 8¢e@ the same thing. 4 She said they came into view at |, The critical faculty im man, the an extreme speed, suddenly slowed, | !@5¢ pas ne ey ae still not] and then “fluttered like leaves to Yety well gore) ope He icratch the| und.” |surface and you find the same mass te eoysterious part was that)|HYStetia which predominated dur- witcheraft a We couldn’t see them after they|| "2, the witchcraft) scare, Some M Sarre “Y\ipersons are quite ready to ste Janded,” she said. “We could see||things and follow beliefs,” them flutter down into the timber) Dy», Oyerholser said that when yet we couldn't see that they did)/ne made his rounds of the mental anything to the trees.” — patients yesterday at St, Bliza- She said she hoped to hike into’) }eths not a one commented on the the timber tomorrow and’ search | fying saucers story. for the objects which she said were] “t think they may be sauicer-shaped but resembled wash- skeptical,” he added, tubs more than disks and were However, Dr. Overholser said he “about the size of a five-room’ wasn’t trying to dismiss the matter house.” as a joke “because there are so Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 many strange things going on to- 4th st. ne. reported he had sgen_day that one can’ be sure.” one passing over the Northeast | Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, section of the city at about 8:40 __ SAUCERS From Page 1 pe pom nege lta a little Bm i This would be the first one re- ported over the District, although! others have been reported over nearby Maryland. Kennedy, who has 125 hours flying time as a student pilot in ie Army Air Forces to his credit); Sa}d he believed the saucer he| hell ‘seen was iraveling at “welll ovr” 1000 miles an hour at an, Aliitude of between 1200 and 1500) feet, ‘cement 4 Sey eee aireraft designer, told ‘The Post by telephone from New-York thhrgs-eeer’ nearby and large ones | lat great distances. “The one outstanding fact abo virtually all the saucers is thé they had no structure — they seemed merely round and flat. \Thgt description fits exactly with |the tricks that eyes play. ‘This trickiness varies with differences) in weather and lighting.” | However, Nova Hart, St. Louis mechanic who was trained during service in the war fo spot all types of aircraft, yesterday offered a} minute description of one the flying patterns which he claimed he saw flying at an altitude of about! 300 feet, Reporter Sees Oue ‘ He described it as circular withi ja ribbed framework and silver! gray in color, He said it appeared’ to have a motor with a propeller jattached in the center and that it| {kept turning like an airplane do-| ling a slow roll. jthat until he sees a flying saucer he “wouldn't like to pass. judg- ment.” He agreed with Dr. Overholser! that much if not all of the’ story |may be because of hysteri “After all,” he said, “we are | more or less an hysterical Nation.” | Major de Seversky said it was pos- sible that the persons who claim to have seen the aerial discs have instead. glimpsed the exhaust of jet-propelled planes. He conceded, too, that they might bé guided missiles let loose: Jas part of an experiment, but’ laddede j Although many explanations “I don't think the Government| ave been offered, none has been would fire them so promiscuously.| convincing. A Los Angeles news- ‘They would test them in one spot,|Paper quoted an unnamed nuclear) in an isolated area, like they did Physicist as saying the silvery dises the atomie bomb,” \resulted from experiments in the) Maj. Gen, Curtis E. LeMay, who “transmutation of aiomie energy,” as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for, This report was rapidly herd Research and Development would|imto the hoax column by Davi know if the saucers involved ex-(Lilienthal, chairman of the Ato1 periments with guided missiles,|Znevgy Commission, and’ several commented: | prominent atomie scientists, “Whatever these people have Starr Expects Word seen it hasn’t been anything re-| sulting from experiments by the Army Air Forces. As for as I'm concerned there's nothing to it! Louis E. Starr, national com- mander of the Veterans of Woreign Wars, announced Saturday at Co. lumbus, Ohio, that he was expect-} ling “momentarily” information |from Washington which would ex- ‘plain the dashing discs, But the) jMessage never arrived. The Air Forces said that Gen.) |Carl Spaatz, Air Forces chief, was lin the Pacific Northwest where |most of the saucers have been re-| ported, but added that his trip) there was planned two months ago, long before the saucers scare. General Spaatz is expected back in Washington late tomorrow, a Muroe Army Air Field in Cali- fornia had a P-80 jet fighter stan ‘ing by, and the National Guard Oregon had prepared six regula fighters to give chase shoul saucers be reported nearby, | at all. The whole thing is un- \fortunate.”” "General LeMay refused to: dis- cuss whether the Air Forces has guided missiles which can attain speeds of 1200 miles. “There’s been too much said jabout guided missiles now,’ he vsaid. | | Howard W. Blakeslee, Assoei- ated Press science editor, said the fwhole business may be an optical illusion. “At any distance which is close to the limit of how far a person can see,” he wrote, “all objects ‘appear round or nearly so, This [law of ‘sight covérs both small GTON POST