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Swears He Saw Flying Saucer By United Press _ One House member who should know said flatly today there is No such thing as a flying saucer. But another member equally quali i fied said maybe not, but he has seen one himself. Rep. Mahon (D) of Texas, chair- man of the House military appro- Priations subcommittee, said it just isn’t so what they say about those discs. He had no concrete evidence—but the solidest kind of support. President Truman, Defense Sec- retary Johnson, the Air Force and the Navy all backed him up. ey said none of the armed ices is messing around with saucers, and that nobody else is far far as they knew. The people, they said, are seeing things. He Saw. One. 7, i RepEhgel (R) of Michkan, is i€ man Who says he saw one. A member of Mahon’s subcommit- tee, he also is a candidate for governor of Michigan yen he dsn’t helping dole out the money {t takes to keep the military in ee ee i fe said the fact that he saw ‘a flying disc may not be evidence, put it sure was convincing. | It happened about 1 p.m. one y last summer at Elsie, Mich. | ‘Beveral other citizens, all of them - gober and well thought of, saw it, too. Two of them chased it in a plane, but the thing unfortunately ‘was too high and too fast and got it this ®. INDEXED - Not Informed) " “T am quite sure the eet establishment would have told 4f they were working on such a thing as a saucer. But the fact is| they haven’t said a word about it.” | As far as Mahon is concerned, the saucer is “just a fantasy.” Engel said maybe so, maybe not. It is perfectly true, he said, that| hone of the subcommittee’s wit- Nesses ever owned up to any cc nection with saucers. But then, as far as he could recall, nobody | @ver asked them about it. ~ “T am confident of this,” Engel said. “If there are any such things @s saucers, they are ours, not somebody else’s. If another coun-| try were sending them over, I am gure the subcommittee would have hheard about it.” Denials Repeated as) t Force and Navy official: ave been denying the ence | of “flying ‘saucers’ all alo Tolson, Ladd, (Clegg uaa ween Glavin, Nichols___ Rosen. Tracy. Harbo Mohz. Tele. Room_ Nease Gandy. ® Defense department statement He yesterday reiterated the ces But indications were tha Ports of the mysterious flyi ifs would continue. obt ssucas ‘ of new aire! the Nays 102 Page i a ee L0 Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror ee a pate: 4-579