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ok Can This Be the Secret? h nder discussion as a possible solution to the “sa ex”? bystery. is the Navy’s “Flying Flapjack,” shown aljoye. dipping along with its landing gear retracted, this plane ea en to be a supper plate spinning through the sky. JUL e sky. She is the first/ports of strange objects see} Bao observer to claim what she Saw was stationary. All the rest have spoken of tremendous speeds. Mrs. Kole said all she could think of was @ blazing disc. Alexandria police looked in the direction she indicated but the disc had gone. Jack Labous, an artist, 3500 block East Capitol St., reported seeing one of the “things” flying over Bethesda. He described it as “a flat disc with a cone shape under it and a stick like a radio antenna projecting from the bottom.” The scientist who claimed to know something about the “saucers” was described by a Los Angeles newspaper as @ member of the California Institute of |hi ‘Technology staff. May Be Real, He Says He was quoted as saying “trans- mutation of atomic energy” ex- periments might be responsible. He was said to have been a re- searcher on the Manhattan proj- ect that made the atom bomb, and was quoted as saying: “These so-called saucers are ca- pable of high speed but can be controlled from the ground. They are 20 feet wide in the center and are partially rocket propelled on the take off. People are not seeing things. Such flying discs actually are in experimental existence.” Experiments with these “discs” ‘were reported as being in progress at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif.; White Sands, N. M.; Portland, Oreg., and] other places, Dr. Harold Urey, atom scientist at the University of Chicago, com- mented: “Transmutation of atomic energy sounds like gibber- ish. You can transmute metals, not energy.” Col. F. J. Clarke, in command of the Hanford Engineering works’ of the atomic energy project, said the knew of no experiments inyoly- ing “flying saucers.” “{ have been waiting several days for someone to get the idea the so-called flying saucers were tied up in some way with what we are doing,” Clarke said. “But as & as I know, there is no connec- ion,” _The “piece” found in Ohio was discovered near Circleville, Tt was! a six-pointed star covered with tin- foil and attached to part of a hal- Joon. It was reported to be a device used by the Army air forces inj radar research to check on al wind speeds. There was no comp. ment from the air forces. A War Department Bat oh vevealed Army intelligence hf tow }sesererking for_a year on 6 1947 WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD \ \- in icon- Jeor- the sky and had reached thi clusion that some sort of m ites were responsible. Astronomers at the Navan “ob- servatory and Georgetown uni- versity, who admitted they have, been on the alert for flying saucers as they swept the skies with their powerful telescopes, theory that might account for the reports. i ) Kenneth Arnold, the privat pilot who was first to announe seeing the saucers, expressed greti fication: at the support he \ getting but insisted he still dic believe he had ¥ ing , although he had seen» Arnold started yesterday flying fishing trip over the P: cific northwest armed with a ne camera in the hope of gettin pictures if he encountered any more saucers, He took along | g Col. oe artillery officer, just in case he sees some more and npene) a witness. on his report of the saucers. ] of them predict they are runner of an atom bomb al One correspondent blamed y on survivors of the lost continent) of Atlantis who are prepar’ res an atomic war in 1960. Army, Navy and civil a tics officials agreed none of frain from commenting unt saw one, or at least a pici