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FD-245.1 (Rev. 1-4-99) U.S. Department of Justice 8 Q 5 I (j) "" "T1 IV u, I I CD "' Cb ()- :c lI - I Cb u, m I (") u) Q) co (I) .,. 'II: l> m O , z ID . __, Bureau C: I ii )> I )> )> ;;o r (/) tf C)Q C ~ ;;o - ..I, c:r ;;o . m ..I, CJ) I (") ..I, 0 0 ~ - :' ;;o o igation '-' "-> ""-I >< .... 0 ..., ~ ~ -; ..I, en c,, (") ..I, m z .... (I) (/) -4 m "' ~ ;;o 'II: 0 I) m z Field Office Criminal Investigative and Administrative Files ::n <»" z p (/) (I).... i!!: (/) ____ Armed and Dangerous --- DO NOT DESTROY ___ ELSUR ____ Escape Risk ____ Financial Privacy Act See also Nos. ----- --­ ___ FOIPA ___ NCIC ___ QCIS ____ Suicidal ____ Other _ ___ _ _ f Mr. Tolson__ /lying Sall~er Photo Ain\ \Vhat _It Used to Be---JG!f y Charles Manosl dff Writer GRAND BLANC, .May 5­ i J e Perry, the talented pizza man, fet:ls the Pentagon peo9le have sabotaged him or som..?thing. No, perts ~oP-'s a thi g the Washington ex­ haven't fussed with saucy pies, but tJ y .certainly done so e- to his flying sau er, Joe claims. "IT AIN'T whal it used to be since they got their bands on it," said Joe, who takes potshots at the moon with a h~memade telescope­ camera. Joe, 44, took a~other look at. his color-slide p oto, pped last February o 1he se ond nigh': of the full I moon. "Jt's not the same," he said dejectedly. "The flying saucer bas faded . . . some­ thing has happened to it." The Washingto1 t x perts retlned the color slide a tw ijay ago. E l<' ED ER AL age ts pkKed it up last March w en thi heard Joe's pict u r sh . ¥ed a saucer-like obje t sill ouetted against the moo . lost of JoP.':; customers t his piz-za palac1., here were ~~winced the object was a •~flyin\S~•." di!~ire11n1e'even mol'e con· ce ned over his picture w~, an Unidcuti:ed Flying ObJc t gr up wanted to buy s rights to the slide. f He also got an offer t.lom a natirtal magazine to b .Y th~ pict re. Other inquiries came ro all sections o the cou try. so JOE was anxious to Et hlpicttp·e back. e called the FBI. e ta ·ed to the air force. e n de a trip_to Selfridge, • orce Bast, all in vain. be pict!lre was retur,ted sh ·Uy after be sent a lo er to resident Eisenhower. Fletter infuded in he parkage from the Pentagon said the strange object in the pi·ture wac; the result of !4 lty development lnd n bing more. mong other 1hings, · he Pentagon folks have ad ed in:rnlt 1o injury, ,Toe said. Mr. Mohr__ _ Mr, Parsons_ _ Mr, Belmont_ _ M l', Rosen Ml'. Tamm -­ M l', T1 Nt•:r ·-­ Mr. W.C.Sullivan Tole. Room.._ _ Mr. Ingram__ Miss Gandy.__ Q.:.Y:n':wr DT:·T~roN D,,t:c•oit, Mfoh. ( ) D"t::.r01t P:c0e Press Edi tor: ( ) D3t rntt EdEor: Et:.i. ~<,r: Lee Hills Tiewe ffarti.n s. Hayden Jc:L;i C, Manning r-- ~) : .S---2.r - to I;.~ : ~icn : £ ~- ~e_ ' • •, • '7 C 1 .,,., • ,. ., • ~ - 0 : ..::z::::., 1'j-!-.lo ot· Case : I • UliIDENTMED FLYING OBJ ECT· JOSEPJV'I>ERRY, GRAND BLANC ' MICHI GAN - COMPLAINANT ' (Defile 65-2477- 105) I Y3'79'/ A N~ qECORDii>"'. 46 JUN 3 1960 0-19 (Rev. 1-28-59) , Centr~l !l~s earoh Seotion ' 3 'Objects' Trailed P'mtre 45.Minlites, Pilot Says DETROIT, Feb. 25 (AP) Killian and co-pilot John ~he pilot of an American Air- Dee of Nyack, N. Y., said they li~es DC6 passenger p~ane lost the three strange opjects said today three mysterious . objgcts that looked like shin- lll the haze when they started ing _saucers appeared to ac- their descent for landing at company the plane for 45 Detroit's Metropolitan Air­ minutes last nighc on its non- port while the plane was over stop flight from Newark, N. J., Cleveland, Ohio. to Detroit. The three bright whitii Capt. Peter Killian of Syos- lights first were sighted whil , set, N. Y., who has flown pas- the plane was flying at 85 senger planes for 15 years, feet between Philipsburg an said "I have never seen any- Bradford, Pa., at 8:45 p. m. thing like it before." Killian said other members of the crew and the 35 pas­ se~rsalso saw the flying obj ~ • The plane left Newark at 7:1 m. 1 &-<-ff:;Rf'f- /) ---- ---- ,, ~c NOT RltCOtltQP.S, 'JI MAR 3 1959 ·-· Tolson ____ Belmont --;J-/ DeLoach ~ McGui!J (J Mohr ~f..J1--­ ,.;=­ Parsons ---­ Rosen _____ Tamm ----­ Trotter - - -­ W.C. Sullivan - Tele. Room - ­ Holloman --- Gandy _ ___ T h e Washington P ost a ndl_ _ :S _ T i mes H er ald The Washington Dally New s __ The Evening Star _ ___ _ _ N e w Y o rk Heral d T ribu ne_ N e w Y ork. Journ al- A merica n _ _ N e w Y ork Mirro r ___ _ _ _ N e w York Dally N e ws _ _ _ _ N ew Y ork Pos t ______ _ The New Y ork T imes _ ___ T h e Worker _ _ ___ _ _ _ T h e N e w Leader __-,-___ T h e Wall St r e e( Jor n, ( _ _ _ J / Dat e J tJu 7 • S/luCERS n _ __ _ 0-1 9 (Re v . 10- 2 9-57) 0 .--- ------------------~­ f , i , , tlying~sShow Sign OfGuidance,Jung Says ALAMOGORDO, N. Mex., What such a fact might mean July 29 (JP).-Dr. Carl Jung, for humanity cannot be pre .. Swiss psychologist, says in a dieted. report that Unidentified Flying "But it would put us without Objects are real and "show doubt in the extremely precari­ signs of lhtelligent guidance ous position of primitive com­ by quasi-human pilots." munities in conflict with the "I can only say for certain superior culture of the whites. these things are not a mere "That the construction of rnmor, something has been these machines proves a scien­ seen," Dr. Jung said in the re- tific technique immensely su­ port released yesterday. "A perior to ours cannot bek­ pw·ely psychological explana- gued." tion is ruled out." The Air Force has said ­ Dr. Jung, who started his re- vestigation of flying sau rs search on UFO's in 1944, re- reported over the past 10 y ars leased his report through the has Produced no evidence that UFO filter Center of the Aerial such things exist. Phenomena Research Organ- It has contended that not a lzation here. It was released shred of evidence has turned by L. J. Lorenzen of Holloman up to show the existence of a Afr Force Base. flying saucer or interplanetary "I have gathered a mass of space ship or that the objects observations of unidentified fly. sighted indicate developments ing objects since 1944," Dr. beyond the range of current Jung said. scientific knowledge or pose a "The discs do not behave threat to the Nation's secm·­ ln accordance with physical ity. laws. but as though without The Air Force said last No­ weight. . . . , vember that investigations ot "If the extra-terrestial origin 5,700 reported sightings showed of 'is phenomena should be the mysterious objects were con rmed this would prove the balloons, aircraft, astronomical exi nee of an intelligent In- phenomena, birds, fire!'!Q.!.'.k.!_ or ter planetary relationship. hOaxes, among other th~ (tJ 2- ~ 3 ~ 1/y--~ NOT RECORr,,:r, 117 AUG 1 1958 Tolson _ _ _ _ Boardman _ _ _ Belmont Mohr _____ Nease Parsons _ ___ Rosen ____ Tamm _____ Trotter _ _ _ _ Cla yton ___ _ T ele . Room __ Hollomon ___ Gandy _ ___ Wash. Post and _ _ Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star .# --/ N. Y. Herald _ ___ Tribune N. Y. Journal-____ American N. Y. Mirror ___ _ N. Y. Daily News N. Y. T imes Daily Worker ___ _ The Worker _ _ _ _ New L eader --- ­ Date 'J - >- o/ - S Y • Schm1al, 48, an ex-Nebras- Q Sauc ers'J .I ~fin a2:a1:i-~\~va: q~:~i:~;·n·~ b Air Force investigat ·s m the Continental_Air ­ Trace Foll d fr fense Command. 0 11 fo d ~ near the alleged landing spot •d . , Iof the space ship was identi­ A. F. . Ch e c kS SChffil t, fiecr as ordinary but will be Kearney Amus ed ! tested by the University of • O INebraska. Tales of fJying saucers and Wt,ile the Schmidt tale was other such space cliiff got giving Kearney a sensational an u n off i c i al raspberry conversation piece, most of Wednesday night ·from an the talk was of a skeptical Air Force official. variety: A top official of the Air Newsmen Busy Technical lntelligence Cen- "Everybody downtown ter at Wright-Patterson Air seems to think it's a big joke," Force Base in Ohio told the one business man said. Dayton Journal-Herald his in- A Kearney clothier put up vestigators have found no a sign advertising "space ship evidence in the past 10 years l specials." A window sign in that flyin~ saucers are real. i a car agency announced: He s a 1 d 5,700 reported "Space Ships Tuned Up." sightings wete investigated I The Ke a r n e y car-rental between 1947 _and_1957. !'fot operator reported business a single landmg 1mpress10n, was so good all of his cars footprint, saucer or little . were in use. They were being green man was found. 1 rented by visiting newsmen, Investigation Goes On • Presence of the newsijn f 1n .JSS!nrney N~ . Ee~-111 w s n_early the only sign t at hc-!dw"S:chmidJs ;tory of n a ythmg unusual had h p­ aftei'n~iffl'!' -~ with be P ned - or may have h p­ crew of a space ship near he pened. city Tuesday was still under ·nvesti ation officials said. 5 2 NOV 261957. 0:¥.iAHl-l. WORLD-HERALD 0:VJAHJ.I. , NEBR.ASKA 11- 7-57 SUNRISE EDITION ! ~ ~- R 1,Q_J__y_- 11 NOT r u OR~lf'.D 117 Nv, ~;.! 1957 .lf' • pace-Ship TJ \Yorlrl•Hernld's Xe,1'1!1 ScrTke. Kearney, Neb.-A grain J uyer who said he saw a space ship Tuesday in a field near here and chatted amicably with its six occu­ pants had more pleasant dealings with the visitors from outer space than with skeptical authorities. The sensational report by R. 0 . Schmidt, about 50, of Bakersfield, Cal., which topped a host of reports across the nation Tuesday of seeing mysterious flying objects, had these conse­ quences: -State Penitentiarv rec­ ords showed a • man of' the ~ame name served a term for embezzlement from Scotts Bluff County in the l 930's. Scotts Bluffs Coun- Sheriff Steve W'lrrick id he talked to Schmidt phone and was convinced "saw nothing." 1 ~ - He turned down a chance to take a lie- detector t~st. --2.schmidt was kept up most of the night for questioning. He finally asked for an attorney. Ward Minor of Kearney was named. -Wednesday forenoon he went to the scene of the space ship's landing with investigators from tije Con­ tinental Air Defense Com­ mand at Colorado Springs, Colo., Kearney Police Chief Thurston Nelson and Buf­ falo County Attorney Kenneth Gotobed. They said Schmidt's story "ap­ peared to be weakening." -Oil drippings on the ground from the space machine were being ana­ lyzed at Kearney State College. In ves tiga_tors said the "mys t er1ous green oil" closely resem­ bled that in a partially­ emptied can of co1:1mer­ cial auto oil found in the b1,Ck of Schmidt's car and a arly-emp1y can f o u n d ~ ar 'the site of the "land­ i p;." Schmidt's story came to Story Raises Eyebro f ~ .,· .-~ 11 111 lil! -~\\it:·or1dtil·•Hci,,ra ■,ir.'.s~s.;;•1cc Photo. 1ctiiiN••.,. Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson . . • In "heart-to-heart" talk. S IDI: V I EW OUTSI DE \ l.fN6111: APPROX. /00 'fCIT ' FI..OOR PLAN INSlt>E FAt-1 ,. .. IN !J£A I N JlOOF '1' COMP ROOF \ The Schmidtnik . • . As described by the grain buyer. light when, white-faced and turn around. Near the shaken, he appeared in Platte River he saw what Kearney Tuesday and asked appeared to be a wrecked to see a minister. Taken to balloon. As he neared il police, he told this story: Schmidt said, his car en Tuesday he inspected a gine conked out. field of milo about two Schmidt said he got ou miles south and a mile east and walked toward the ma­ of Kearney. When ready to chine. Proximity revealed leave he clrove clown a side road seeking a place to - , (ONV£'l'OR. 10 R,,.O( o tt•t lh1' OMAHA WORLD-HERALD OMAHA, NEBRASKA 11-6-57 WALL STREET EDITION ;+ N tJ'. , .. I..} 1)1£\) iJ.I NOV 22 l95l IS • it to be a translucent, Cl· gar· shaped device abouj one hundred feet long, 3 et wide and about 14 fee gh. Schmidl said tha hen he was 25 or 30 fee ~ vay. two men got out and waved what looked like a flashlight. "I couldn't move. I don't know whether I was iust afraid or what, but it was like being paralyzed,'' he said. 'ln Business Suits' . Schmidt said the men, dressed in business suits, searched him for weapons then remarked that as long as they were going to be there for some time "you might as well come in and see thin~s for a few min­ utes." f Inside the machine were two other men and two women working on wires and instruments. The de­ ,•ice had a fan at each end. By a strang1> coincidence one of the crewmen''·Jooked exactly like" a hoto?I ac­ quaintance \Yith whom he has been watch;ng televi­ sf· n programs. 1/hen the o cc up an t i w nted to move f>rom plac t place they would ste 'Spoke Gennan' Tl1e ship o cc u pa n ts talked among themselves in1 Hf;g h Germ an. w h ic h S midt says he under st nds to a limited extent 0 e man spoke excellent English and interpreted for the others. Schmidt said the inter­ preter told him repeatedly he had nothing to fear. The visitors refused to answer any questions but said he would "find out all a6'out It in a couple of weeks." When repairs were com­ pleted. Schmidt said he w11.s p.sked to leave but was told he would be unable to start his car until the machine had disappeared. 'Disappeared' Outside the machine Schmidt said, he turned t~ watch as the fans started in motion without a sound. He said the machine lifted about one hundred or two hundred feet into the air and disappeared. "It ~ust blended into the si►.Y-h!,e it changed cor.r J r disappeared into th " he said. chmidt Pressed t e s ter of his car. The mo­ tor ~arted right off. in a ce1·tain location and b T"~~--......;;........:_,.;......,~.__,i pulled to th~ new location without movm . o-19 (Rev. 9-7- 56) ~ cist to Coast Rash of There was an unof,· cial report that Air For personnel at neaJ.'by A · c­ en, S. C., spotted the ob­ ject on radar and issued an alert. The object appeared to be a "constant red light," accord­ ing to Augusta Chronicle ex­ ecutlve editor Louis Harris, who saw the object from the downtown newspaper build­ ing. "Lt could have been a tiny red light a short dis­ tance away or a gigantic thing at a great distance," he said. , 0 . ne witness, J. T. James, eaid he saw the object on two occasions from his home near Aiken. Lt was cigar-shaped, he said, and would alternate from bright to amber and occasionally got out alto- ether. Elsewhere, strange "sauc­ 1,r'' sightings were reported. WHITE SANDS NEBRASKA Mlitary authorities ~ppar­ ntly gave c1·edence to a re­ At Kearney, Neb., authori­ ort by an electroni en­ ties held a "heart-to-heart" H gineer wh,o said he s v an talk with Rein h o Id 0. object which made car en­ Schmidt, a salesman, later near the gines stall Whi.te discovered to be an ex-con­ Sands proving grounds. vict, who said he talked to , tour men and two women in Col. John Mccurdy, Air a transport space ship which Force public relations officer had landed. He said the space a~ White Sands, said the en­ people spoke in English and gineer, James Stokes, 42, will German. be given a thoro medical ex­ amination and a radiation , Police roped off the area count test. Col. McCurdy where the "whatnik" alleg- said he was "personally sat­ edly landed and examined isfled" With M r. Stokes' re­ various impressions and oil port. stains 011 the ground• A Civil Service worker a l At Long Beach, Calif., three Lackland Air Force Base in i\ir Force weather observers, San Antonio, Tex ., said he one of them the commanding saw an egg-shaped object officer of the spotting unit, land in a ravine about 200 late yesterday reported sight- ya1·ds from him as he drove ing six unidentified, saucer- near the eity. He said his ~haped .flying objects over car engine and lights went Long Beaah Air Force base. off, and the object took off in a few minutes, enabling The Coast Guard reported him to drive away. eking up an unidentified ylng object on radai- over At about the same time, 1e Gulf of Mexico south of ,the Grou nd Observer Corps ew Orleans. A Coast Guard at Midland, Tex., said it saw ) Tolson ____ Nichols Boardman ___ Belmont ___ Mohr _____ Parsons ___ Rosen ____ Tamm ____ Trotter ___ _ Nease ____ Tele. Room __ Holloman ___ Gancl¥.-'-- - ­ ~~' ~7~ )/Id~ ---- ~--­ Wash. Post and ____ Ti mes Herald Wash. News £J - Z Wash. Star __f____ N. Y. Herald _____ Tribune N. Y. Journal-_____ American N. Y. Mirror ______ N. Y. Daily News ___ N. Y. Times _____ Daily Worker _____ The Worker ______ New Leader _____ Date --.i(./.'l....::.-..126~-_,,l"-->..,..?- ­ ommander said the object a large, red objert and picked aused over the cutter Se- up unlntelllgible cmwersa­ ~ l)ago In the Gull and was on frm on a sound dl'trctor. cu_>, '1e 1•adar scope for ahouf 27 ~ .::> NOV 141957~ 0 •nute3, ~{Rev. 9-7-56) • ... ( I I 1/li .:;, 1'racked 21 ltlinutes 011 Rad:u­ ·•'°r~ons Z Rosen ____ Tamm ____ Trotter ____ Nease _ ___ Tele. Room _ _ U.S.Cutterh1Gulf of Mexico Reports Sighting Mysterious 'Object' in Sliy Holloman ___ Gandy ____ Associated Pre., f:av€ling at an estimated 1000 of light with no definite -~hape, l A brilliant mystery object niles per hour, International 1resembling the planet Venus." was reported sighted yester- ews Service reported. How-/Shockley said there were no day in southern skies by a ve1·, at one point, the object vapor trails or any other in­ Coast Guard cutter. even as ppeared to remain stationary clications as to the object's Air Force special investigat•j and hover above the waters be-}method of propulsion. One y. ~ ~rs c~ec_ked a flurry of ear- rore it resumed Its erratic,estimate of its height place{! Iler,, s1mllar reports. 1flight. it at 2000 feet. The Co~t G1:1ard cut~er Se- [The cutter's captain, Cmdr. [G I e n n Northcutt. Willis, bag?_, crmsrng m th~ Gulf of1c. H. Waring, said the objC'ct /Okla., r~nch~r and member o :\lex1co_~bout 200_miles south first ap. peared on thP. ship's the Un1vers1ty of Oklahom J of _Lou1s1ana, r_ad1oed th_at_ an ,.dar screen as a "good trong Board of Regents, reported obJect resembling "a br1lha.ni ' that on Saturday he and fiv planet with a high rate of p" at..5:10 a. m. and w s lost others had watched '·a bril \ speed" \\ as seen for about • a northerly direction t 5:37 liant. mysterious light tha three seconds at 5:21 a. m. . m. ,looked like the planet Venu (CST). ,, . LJn this time, the sl<ipper !~agnif~ed many, _many ti~~s." The Sebago s message !'aid said the object which came as 1 he obJect, he said. was VISlble the object was tracked on the ~lose as two ~ iles to ie ves- more than half an hom·.]_ ,·csscl's rad;ir screen for 27 cl was actually seen y four Sightings of strange obJ~cts J minutes and that, during that 1e~11bers of the crew One, have been reporte~ from W\de period, the object flitted 0 11 1 ns. Wayne D. Shock y, de- If scattered sections of i~ and off the screen sevcr:il cribed it as a "brigh poi11t lJnited States, most of the mes. Crewmen caught &i~t near i ecret miUtary installa r it only for a few seconds. lions i the Southwest. [The Sebago radioed "N The ir Force said the rad rl!'ans Coast Guard >le . netwo of the Ail· Defens ( I1arters that the object w Se YSTERY, A6, Col. 3 Wash. Post and ~ Times Herald Wash. News _ ____ Wash. Star ______ N. Y. Herald _____ Tribune N. Y. Journal-_____ American N. Y. Mirror ______ N. Y. Daily News ___ N. Y. Times _____ Daily Worker _____ The Worker ______ New L eader _____ Date - A"''+.DH,1,1- • _____ •wvv 6 1957 • • Command was keeping watch, ported objects may be some­ :::str' fat ~vith no results-and thing from anotherplanM. '­ • • •· . "Assuming they ate real," he that specially quallfie_d mves- said, "they would be secret tigators had been assigned to weapons made on earth or look into the reports. are interplanetary." Any na- For several years the Air tion with the secret, he added, farce has checked all rel_)orts would b;,r now ~ave abandon~d of unidentified flying objects. c~mvent1onal aircraft or mis­ Investigators work under the siles. Air Defense Command at Col- Cosmic Energy orado Springs, Colo., and re- " k ti port to the Air Technical In- . It 100 5 as ,,iough they _are t 1r Center mterplanetary, Keyhoe said. e 1ge~ce • . He said one source of pow­ \ Judgmg from past findmg~, er for such reported objects the chances are 50-1 the A1r could be cosmic ray energy. ~ orce w_ill offer a humdrum Some of the citizens, peace explanation far the current officers and servicemen who sightings. reported sighting mystery ob­ • During th_e • first half_ of this jects in the Southwest since year, the Air Force said, only the weekend said the objects 1.9 per cent of the 250 report- stalled auto engines and ed sightings of flying saucers caused radios to fade. and other fantastic ae1•ial ob• James Stokes, an engineer jects have wound up in the at the Air Force missile de­ "unknown" category. velopment center at Alama- Air Force Skeptical gordo. N. M., reported 10 autos were stalled Monday on a des­ And the Air Force said firm- ert highway between Alama­ ly-though not all flying \sau- gordo and the White Sands cer buffs 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 up less, "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- wav.e, "like radiation from a 1 ites and bright stars account giant sun lamp," in its wake. at. least to th~ Air Force's Device sought offic1aJ satisfaction - for al- . ost four-fifths of the sigh . Leonard Hardlu~d, chief en• • gs. gi,neer for t~e National Inven­ rrhe director of a private o tors Coun?11 in Washington, anization set up to inve said a device that could s~ll igate flying saucers and sue aut<?s or other mecharucal aid he couldn't evaluate a eq_u1pment was one of the b1·s •nt the current rash of thmgs the armed forces would POI • • like to see developed. cported s~ghtmgs. .. I But Hardlund said he knew But retired Mai ~ne Maj_ of no research in this country on aid ~- Keyhoe, ~ector of! aimed at produeing such a de­ the National Invest1ga ti on s vice ommitlee on Aerial Phe-1 'l'~o teen-age g£i-Js reported dded that the re-I eeing a mysterious object in Ithe sky over Annapolis, Md., ~ last week. Tean Hunt, 13, and Sylvia Fowler, 15, said they saw n egg-shaped object which l'>wed like a neon light. They potted it while trick-or-treat­ ·ng with Jean's two younger isters on Halloween night in rlmrose Acres1 a housing de­ velopment on tne outskirts of Annapolis. Jean said the girls became frightened and ran home but no one would believe their tory until weekend per accounts tola o o ted tn \.-. J\osoclatod Pren I J} •G. Kirby of Dallas macle this photo of a diamond s h a p e d o b j e c t flying through the sky while he and his family were driving near Amariito, Tex., in August, 1956. The photo was turned over to the FBI and has just been releasr.d after intensive study. The Air Force descyibed the glo lat • • ------- --- 0-19 (Rev. 9- 7- 56) Mystery Objects Calfed .. Mirage by Astron9mer· By the A.ssocJated Press A Harvard astronomer says plYsterious objects reported from va.rious parts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico are mirages stemming from natural causes. Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory, said yesterday in Cambridge; Mass., that the whole thing amounts to "another flying saucer scru·e." The Air Force has started an investigation of the reported sightings of the strange gJow-1-----------­ ing objects in the sky. The mosphere which would give a Air Force fo~ . yeru·s has ~ad radar reflection." the responslbJhty of checkmg reports of unidentified flying A~ for rep_orts of the auto objects • ,but as one officer put engmes stalling, he said, "It it, "We don't investigate all of would not be surprising that a th Aem." h f sueh e ts has nervous ,, foot could stall an en­ ras o r por . developed sinde Sunda.y, with gme. some of the sightings said to Dr. Menzel, author of a book have been made near secret about flying saucers, said he military installations in the has been studying them for Southwest. Some of the per- about 10 Years and has yet to so11s making the reports said hear of one Which could not tlie objects caused their auto be explained by natural phe­ engines to stall and their radios nomena. to fade. "They are caused by a layer Cutte11 Claims Sighting of h~ated air : . . acting as a Yesterday the Coast Guard le~s and formmg an lmag~ of' Cutter Sebago radioed from the ObJects as !!1Uch ~s 40 01 50 ._ Gulf of Mexico that an object miles away, he said. 0 resembling a brllllant planet Common in West with a high rate of speed was "They are nothing more than rseen for a1:>out three seconds, a mirage. They are prevalent and that it was tracked by . radar. , just after nightfall as the Dr. Menzel said it is probable heated air begins to cool off at the cutter's prewmen got a the ground, and they are com­ false image "quite ~kely from mon in the West where they l bubbles of hot air m the at- have clear air." 3 - • - == The Air Force aid that dur­ ing the first half of this year only 1.9 per cent of the 250 re­ ported sightings of flying saucers and other strange ob­ jects in the air have been classed as "unknown." And the Ah- Force ·wasul't ready to. be­ lieve that even this small per• centage has sinister implica­ tlons. It seemed a good bet the Air Force will agree with Dr. Menzel's opinion that the cur­ rent' sightings have explana­ Uons in nature, or that the reported objects are actually aircraft or similar man-made ~~ .. "" Tolson---­ Nichols Boardman -- ­ Belmont _ _ _ Mohr _____ Parsons ---­ Rosen ____ Tamm _____ Trotter ---- Nease ____ Tele. Room -- Holloman --­ J? / - n l j - f\ l NOTRECORDED l40.HOV 1;:, 1957 Wash, Post and---­ Times Herald Wash. News-~-:;;-;~­ Wash. Star & / t:J N. y . Herald ----­ Tribune V N, Y. Journal-_____ N. Ay~e~ii~;; N. Y. Daily News N. Y. Times Daily Worker _____ The Worker _ ____ New Leader _____ Date ---- --- - 0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) ... ,,... .....,, Tolson ___ _ Nichols Boardman ___ Belmont ___ Mohr ___ _ Parsons _ _ _ Rosen ____ Tamm _ ___ Trotter ---- Nease _ ___ Tele. Room __ Holloman _ _ _ Gandy _ _ _ _ ,._ •ortat~d Pru, J. G. Kirby of Dalla., made this photo of a diamond I 11 h a p e d o b Je c t flying through the sky while he 'and his family were driving near Amarillo, Tex., In August, 1956. The photo 'II as turned O'rer to the 1''81 and has just been released after Intensive study. The Air Force described the flow as "radiation vapor." . F__..____.'-- --,: '\ a.:;: J- '""'- ( /\ ' t(I ft,~ - Wash. Post and 11=6=57 Times Herald page A-ID Wash. News _____ Wash. Star ______ N. Y. Herald _____ Tribune N. Y. Journal-_____ American N. Y. Mirror ____:,__ N. Y. Daily News ___ N. Y. Times _____ Daily Worker _____ The Worker ______ New Leader ____ _ Date ________ (p i-S3f '1'( 0-20 • ~ r/Mr. Tolson ~ ~r o~rdma9.:' (/ _·~ Mr. Belmo~ t ~ ,,,, - Mr. Mohr Mr. Parsons ~ V' Mr. Rosen ~ Mr. Tamm-­ Mr. Trotter ­ Mr. Nease - ­ Tele. Room ­ Mr. Holloman ­ Miss Gandy ­ UP-a , COIJICT> ILLAIII 111.--,1 PIISOIS IIICLUIIIC A SHl!Rlrr nPC>ITII TOIAY [ lsa:IC Al!IY:B:•· scr-s■ Al'l:I OBJICT IHJCI LOOIIII LIU. 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Doolittle says it the advisory committee. • .,. st ain't so" that Nazi Ger- Mr. Dryden said "there is no JU · truth" in a statement that many deve. loped a flying saucerlGerman engineers desig~1ed a and a bomber that could at~ack flying saucer which attamed a the United states and -return height of 40,000 feet and speed . of 1,250 miles an hour. without refuelmg. •'This is an advertisement for The veteran airman, chairman a book which includes material of the National Advisory Com- discovered by our groups who mittee for Aeronautics, last went into Germany after the month gave a House Approprla- war." he said. • tions Subcommittee his estimate He said also the man supposed of reports published in Germany to have designed the bomber of great aviation accomplish- that could cross the Atlantic ents under Hitler. These were twice without refueling had writ­ j, nta.ined In a book by Rudolf ten a book of his own with ~ usa.r, former German War Min- mention of any such inventio . try special weapons chief. Gen. Doolittle, asked a.bo Gen. Doolittle's testimony was both the saucer and the bombe , published today, along with that said, "it just ain't so." ____ ..._­ ~~~ fite~~ Mohr _____ Parsons ____ Rosen ____ Tamm _____ Trotter ____ Nease _ ____ Tele. Room __ Holloman ___ Gandy _____ Wash. Post and ____ Times Herald Wash. News ____ _ _ Wash. Star ,M I N. Y. Herald _____ Tribune N. Y. Journal American N. Y , Mirror -----­ N. Y • Daily News N. Y. Times ----­ Daily Worker The Worker -----­ New Leader _____ Dat41.4R 1 4: 195i 5 2 MA'"71ss,......... _ -- ­ 0-19 (11-22-55) • ~re Are-7 Saucers, IV Expert Says By VERN HAUGLAND WASIIlNGTON, Jan. 15 (AP). -Reteired Rear Adm. Delmer S. Fahrney once head of the Navy's guided missiles program, said Wednesday reliable reports indi­ cate that "there are objects com­ ing into our atmosphere at very high speeds." Fahrney told a news confer­ ence that "no agency in this .country or Russia is able to dupli­ cate at this time the speeds and ac~elerations wblch radar and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve." " . . FAHRNEY SAID he never has seen a flying saucer, but has talked with a number of scien­ tists and engineers who reported seeing strange flying objects. Fahrney called a news con1er­ ence following an organizational meeting of a new private group, the National Investigations Com­ mittee on Aerial Phenomena, of which he is board c:hailman. Fahrney said the committee was set up largely to tie to- . gether a number of UFO-mean­ ing ~nidenti1ied flying objects" - clubs being formed throughout the world. Fahrney said his ij• ittee wll collect and investig te ying saucer reports, evalu e em and make public its • d­ 1 gs.i itJ: fr~­ O'EB N" 23 \957 191 JAN / fl - s:~ Ont ~ Mason ......!:::.....;___ _ Mohr _ _ ____ Parsons - - - - ­ Rosen - - ---- Tamm _____ _ Nease-----­ Winterrowd ---­ Tele. Room - - -­ Holloman ----- Gandy -----­ Wash. Post and --­ Times Herald Wash. News---­ Wash. Star _ _ ___ N. Y . Herald ____ Tribune N. Y. Mi rror '"Z-­ N. Y. Daily News __ Daily Worker ____ The Worker ___ _ New Leader ____ Date ~ --- - ------ --- --- , -~aucer' See~ lY 7 West \ of Saginaw . 1 SAGINAW, July 30. - IA'I ­ State Police at Bridgeport Post received seven reports of a "fly(" ing saucer" between midnight and 7 a.m. today. One officer said he saw a fly­ ing object himself. The first report, which came from the nearby Burt Ground Observer Corps. station, said the object appeared about 12 feet in diameter, had red and blue lights and was moving swiftly. Various reports put the object's height at between 1,200 and 25,000 feet. The reports came from Sag­ inaw, Mi d 1 a n d and Gratiot counties. Police said the ca!Jers told them the object was seen over Freeland, Clare, Alma ar-d Breckinridge, all west of Sag­ inaw. Midland police said they re1 ceived one call but i:ould no ot the object. • Similar reports were receive f om the Cadillac area early S~ lurday, but Air Force invesli• gating planes found nothing. NOT RECORDED 126IAUG 8 1956 Mr. Tolson.._ Mr. Nichols_ Mr. Boardman_ Mr. Belmont...._ Mr. Mason__ Mr. Mohr_ _ _ Mr. Pa:rsona__ Mr. Rosen _ _ Mr. •r am.m ...,_ _ Mr. Nease_ _ Mr. Winterrowd.. Tele. Room__ Mr. Holloman.._ Miss Gandy_ / ( ) Q!os Ludowy . ( ) Mlehlgan Editor-The Worke~ ~ ) The Daily Worker ( ) Norodna Volya ( ) Romanul American ( ) rltt$burgl, Courier ( ) Mlchlg.in Chronicle ( ) Dlltrolt Fre3 Press ( ) Oetrolt Nows ( ) l)etrolt Tin1.~ t ) Michigan D1ily ( ) Wiyrw Collegian t ) <7 Paa,,,..__J\__ /7-­ ;I Column......{_ .... I -0-19 (11-22-55) ✓ • !?~ 'Confidential Files' Gefsk 10-Cent 'Saucer' Inquiry 1 BY th• Assoc'.ated Press :might have confidential files. If you want mformation on sent it to the Federal Bureau flying saucers, don't address your of Investigation. request to "Confidential Files, The FBI, never one to pass Washington, D. C." out military secrets, made dis­ Takes too long. And besides creet inquiries. you may be inv~stigated by the Then the FBI Jorwarded the I 1 FBI. letter to the Air Force, advising A woman out in Los Angeles that nothing derogatory or 1n­ (name withheld by various Gov- dicative of subversion could be ernment agencies) dashed off a found in the woman's activities. note on January 15. It said: So the Air Force reached into "Confidential Files its nonclassified files and _plucked "Wash., D. C. out the latest summary on the Dear Sirs-Please send me a number of sightings of UFO <un­ bulletin of flying saucers, or the identified flying objects>, to­ address where I can get infor- gether with an explanauon of mation about them. I am inclos- why people think they see flying ing 10 cents. saucers-or what it is they see "Thanks.", which the Air Force can or can't Seemed like a simple, direct explain. approach-except for the ad- The lady's 10 cents was taped dress. • to the summary and both were The post office, casting abou.t mailed to her address ill Los for some Federal agency that Angeles. I ~ ta";dma~ 'rfJ ;:~~~n_c_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_­ f / ~ arsons _ ___ _ Rosen _ ____ _ Tamm _ _____ Nease ______ Winterrowd _ ___ Tele. Room ___ _ Holloman _____ Gandy _ ___ _ _ Wash. Post and ___ Times Herold Wash. News _ _ ..,,__ Wash. Star -' - / N. Y. Herald ____ Tribune • Y. Mirror ----­ . Y• Daily News Daily Worker --=== The Worker ____ New Leader ____ Date MAR 21 1\:3.Jl '71 MAR 28195~ • ...., . ' ' ... DE-~~NT . OF THE AIR FORCE • • • • Office of Pub~ic• Information Washington· 25, D, c. 1 • • I ' . • ' • • • ' ~ 1 I • ~ U •. S • .Air For:ce .Summary of Eve.nts.• and Information Concerning the Unidentifie<;l Flying ObJept P~ogram The Air Force· feels a, very definite obligation to id,entify and analyze things thit happeri in ·the air that 'may h~ve in them menace to the United States and; because of that reeling of obligation and pur­ ~uit of that interest, t _h~- Air .Forc:e established an activity known as the Unidentified Flyi~~::object Program.· · • This program was established i n ''1.94i when u,nidentified :f~yir:ig objects were being reported in varioµs· parts of the United States. The reports of. sightings reached a ·peak of 1,700 in 1952 and dropped to a total of 429 111 1953. • During the· first pine months· of 1951+ o_nly ~54 sightings were rep6rte~ . From a survey of the volume of sightings received by the ~ir Force, ·1t , has been 0.etermfned that over ·80 percent are explainable as being known .objects. , Generaliy, sighted oojects fall into the cate­ gory of: . balloons, ·aircraft~ · astronomical bodies , atmospheric reflec­ tions~ and birds. All reports of unidentified flying objects result from either radar or visual sightings. . . Explanations pertaining to sightings reported from military and civilian r~dar facilities are as follows : 1. Temperature inversion reflections ca:n give a return on a radar scope. that is as shatp· as that received from an aircraft. I• • Speeds of these ret~rns reportedly ran~e -f~6m ~e~o to fantastic rates. The "objects" alsc:, appear to move in a:11 directions. Such sigh~:i:ngs have resulted in ·many fruitiess ,j_ntercept efforts. • To possibly bear out the theory of t emperature inversion refl.ect.ion is an. incident which occurred in January 1951 near Oakridge, Tennessee. Two Air Force aircraft attempt·ed to intercept an unidenti­ fied "object" and actually established a radar "lock" on the obje6t. Their altitude at the time· was 7,000 feet, The unidentified object, according to theiP radar, appeared to be at an elevation of 1o · to ~5 degrees from . this altitude . Three passes were made in an attempt to close on the qbject. In each instance the p1lots repo~ted that their radar led them first upward and then down toward a specif1c point on the ground. (One scientlfic theory holds that light can be .similarly reflected from a layer of warm air above the earth. If thiQ proves · to be correct; many visual, night sightings could be ~ccounted for.) ' 2. Ionized ,clouds have causeq.some un1dentified radar returns Thunderstorms are identifiable by rada1° and radar ·returns have also• been received from ice formations in the air, balloons, ground reflec­ tions, frequency interference between ~ther radar stationi, ~nd wind­ born objects. Obviously, such returns are very difficult to . identify, especially when t hey occur during darkness. g')~,,­ MORE . • ... 3. The -r~darCreen ha-s picked· up· -birp.•$ 1~-.:o~e case a -:i flock of ducks. Flight int.erc.ept);ons··p_rove·d thes_e 1>henomena. 'l l. • ... • • • An explanation· 6f known types of visual sightings are as . .. f9llows: _ . . . .. . . ._., , ~~ . . ' . . • ' . 1. Present-day jet aircraft, flying at great speeds and high altitudes, a1'e often .mis,~aken for. unknown objects by• t.he untrained observer. Sun;t.ight r?flecfions· f'.ronr the pol.ished surf~ces of air-. craf.t can be· seen pla.inly .ey!:!p,_:wpen the -airc.r_a.ft , itself is too dis­ tant ·to· -~e ·visiple, _The_exhaust: bf j~~ aircraft .emits~,a t.rail. and often this is seen rather than the aircraft itself. · 2. Weather balloons ac.-count fo:r;. a substantial number of. ;s.ight..:' ings. • These balloons, sen·t· .t"6' altitudes. of 40,000 feet•> and . high'er, are launghed from virtually every airfield in the coun,try. They q.re made of rubber or polyethylene, s:t--1e,ll a.~,·they gain. altitude, have very good ref'lective qualities, ·carry small :p~ghts. when -launched after dark, and can be seen at very hig~_ altitudes, . . . 3. In additio~·.eo the ordinari weather ~all6on, hug~ 90-foot balloon~, which. sometimes dr~ft from coast to coast, .a~e used for upper air research. ·These bal loons also have a highly reflective surface .and. are visible at ext-:ireme altitudes. • • ' ' ' 4. Frequently, unusually bright meteors and planets will cause a flurry of reports,.. sometimes from relatively experienced observers. At certain times of the year, V~n~s, for instance, is low on the horizon and will appear to change color and move erratically due to hazy atmospheric conditions. Since the .sta~s are char·ted. ar,id most of their characterist~ci known, many cases are traced ·to. the-m. Meteors on the ot_her ·hand are ·of rapid single-direction movemen-t· and. are· only visible for a Tew seconds. Meteor activity is more' common · at certain times of the year than others, and reports of UFO's have shown a tendency to increase during ·these periods. • • . , 5. Some cases arise which, on the ha.sis of information recei'vec;. · : are of a weird and peculiar natur~. The obj~cts display erratic , movements .and phenomenal speeds. Since maneuvers and .speeds · of this • kind cannot ,be traced directly to. aircraft, ball0ons, or ,kncwn astro.~ nomical sources, it: is b~lieved' that they are reflections from ob• jects rather · than being ·objects .themselves. Fr;>r example: suppose·· we would hold a mirror in hand under a light, causing a r eflection on the ·c~iling. Only a slight, quick movement of. the hand would result in erratic movements and phe!'lomena~ speeds of the -reflected beam. Refl~ct1ons may be projected to clouds and haze both from the ground and air~ Many things whiq~ are common to the sky have highly reflective qualities, such ·as balloons, aircraft, and clouds. Accu­ rate speeds are also difficult tq determine due to the ~nability of the r eportf;r..to judge d1stanc~, ·angles, and time. 6, Brilliant 'flashing lights that sometimes appear r~d and wh1te in. col or 'have been report ed_by observers. This type has been· traced to a .new lighting system of commercial airlines· and military aircraft , Atop the tail section of these aircraft highly reflective red and white flasher type lights have been installed and are many times misinterpreted by the ground observer. - 2- MORE · . In the analysis a _ vestigation of the radar and-~isual ,..sightings described, e are some yardsticks whil have been : established from exper cnce and trends to measure' d attempt to de termine the source of UFO•s . Some of these are general in nature r and ar e subject to ·cr:i.ange· as l')ew scientific and factual inf·ormation i s r eceived. I t should be remembered that any object viewed from a grea t distance appears to be round . Nearly all the sightings r eportecl ar e de scribed as round and would tend to indicate that most of the objects ·are at a grea.ter ·.d.1s-tahce from the observer .than is gen~r ally estima t ed, • • .- :. ,; • • · · . . . Another misconception centers about photographs of unident ified flying objects. At best ·tl!le. majority of photographs have proven non-conclusive as evidence· to this program ,mainl y_due _to type camera s used. • Also, 'it might be ·mehti'c1ned that because still photogr aphs·.can be so easil y faked, either by using a mock-up or model against a l egitimate background~ or ·by retouching the negat,ive , they are worth­ l e ss a s eyidence . I nnumerable objects, f ~om ashtrays to wash basins, have been photogr·aphed wh+1e sailing thrpugh :the air. Many su·ch photoB have been publ i~he~ ·wi thout revealing the true identity ·of the objects. • More attention is given to moving picture s of unidentified fly­ ing objects since tHey ar e more difficult to retouch. However, only a very f ew movie - type fil ms have been received by the Air Force and they r eveal only pinpoints of light moving across the sky. · The Air Force has been unable to identify the source -of the se lights because the image s are too small to analyze properly. Since ownership of the se films remains with the persons taking them, the Air Force is now in a position to give them out. The difficulty of evaluating •rep.orts of all · types is ba sed l ar gely upon the lack of basic da t a surrounding the sightings. The drop in sightings during 1953 is l argely due to the increased accuracy and the compl e teness of r eports being r ece ived. To be of value , a r eport should include such basic da t a as size , shape , composition, speed, altitude, direction, and the maneuver pattern of the obj ects . Without such inf ormation, it is almost impossible to establish the . identi ty of the object sighted. In addition, a r ecent study has shown a direct correlation between the number of sightings r eported and the publicity given to 1'saucers" by the na tion's press. The Air Force took a further step in early 1953 by procur~ng Videen cameras for the purpose of photogr aphing this phenomena ~ These camer a s we re distributed to various military installa tions . This type 0amer a has two lenses , one of which t akes an ordinary photograph, and the other has a di ffraction gr a ting wh1ph sepa r a t es l i ght int o its component pa rts. This aids in de t er mining the composition of t he ob­ j ect phot ogr aphed. A small number of photogr aphs have been r eceived from t his camer a ; however, only light spots of no de t ail have been i ndicated in the photos t o da t e. As mor e photogr aphs ar e taken by the se obser vers , it is be lieved tha t a great deal of t he myst ery wi ll be lifted from the progr am. The Ai r For ce would like to state t ha t no evidence ha s been r ece ived which woul d t end to i ndicate t ha t the Uni t ed Stat e s is being Qbserved by machi ne s from outer spa ce or a for eign government, No objec t or particle of an unknown substance ha s been r eceived and -3- MORE 1 r ... ..,. ·• no photographs of detail have' been. produced • . Th~ ..photogr~phs on hand are, at best, only larg_e and sma11'·blobs of l+ght which, in · mqst cases,_ are explainable • . . . . · It may be concluded from the above and from past experience .that no new significant trends have developed out of these cases. .There. was an increase in public interest which occurred simultaneously with the publication 0f various books and articles on the ~ubject; however, this trend has been noted several times previo-us_ly. , • In,_Q1:'der .to ov~·rcome the lack. o_f ba~ic data, and to standardize all rep·orts, a detailed· quest..fonnaire 1-s no.w submitte.d to eacl:) person reporting ·an unidentif.ied aerial abject. It ;ts felt tha~, the infor­ mation thus obtained will lo~er s.tfll ·more_Jhe numpe.r of unexplained sightings. · f • .. :- \· ' • • *" • • i ,, ' For observers who wish to report ·un~dentified ·aerial objects, the Air Force would welcome the informa tion. Attached to this report is a brief basic summary form. It would be apprecJated if observers would send the completed f,orm to the neare-st Air Forqe Base. ' • , ' I'f and when new developments turn up i~- this program, the Air Force will keep the puolic· informed~. ,,. ... -4­ 9 PLEASE SEND TO YOUR NEAREST AIR FORCE BASE DATE: - - -------·- · TIME OF SIGHTING: - -~-------------- -­ SIZE: SHAPE: COMPOSITION: SPEED: ALTITUDE: -----------------------..--- -­ DIRECTION OF TRAVEL : MANEUVER PATTERN: - ------~-----------,..-. ··--------­ COLOR : ----~--- - - - ----~--- -·---- --·--­ SOUND: LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED: SKY CONDITIONS: ------------­ -· ·--···­·­ --­ VISIBILITY: GROUND DIRECTION OF WIND: NAME, AGE , MAILING ADDRESS OF OBSERVER: REMARKS: (General desceiption of what you saw--use back if necessary) - --------··--·-------·--- ------.-----·-·······-·-··----·· --·- -­ - ·---------..,···- ...-·--------------,.--...·-•------·- ·-·- ·---·--- .- .­ -----·------­ · ··--•·-- •-­ 1 REYI'KJ LDS I!E':IS ' DECEW3ER 19, .,195l°i LONI.DI!, ENGLAIID J \ ' I MtllCI OJ TH~ LrC.L , AM!HICAl1 ~MF./SSY ..., t,Ol!JPOfi,. ~ Gt ..J) lf6 FEB 16 1955 ~t/~ . ­ - -~ - ---- ~ -.-- - ..-J H ERE • th ,, I h" is e rea trut about Flying c.cers, as told by Geor Klein, former secret wea ons ex­ pert in the Gern,an War Production Mintstry,• and now an e n g i n e e r in Switzerland. "Flying Saucers," he says, are top secret weapons of the SA and Russia. " They are a continuation of .:re rm an wartime experi­ ~.1ents. . "Prototype Flying Saucers [ were built in Germany during the war. I saw one reach a height of 40,000 feet in three minutes, near Prague in 1945." ' Klein says the Russians captured a scale model and top technicians at Breslau. The technicians have not returned to Germany. And Walter Micthe,, V ij pon inventor and key an i Saucer development, ed \ est and now works in he 1itcd States lein in a Zurich interview • spected by Field-Mar al Montgomery. says Klein. .........-----·-·-------'-..J .. ~ ORG KLEI N Flying Saucer built to-day­ one with a diameter of 48ft. powered by five jets and a larger model with a diameter of 126ft. and 12 jets. This, he says, accounts for the rumour that Saucers often appear to change size sud­ denly. Raised wing flaps liCt both ' a\roraft like a helicopter. The big 9ne c_an keep stationary by turmng Jets _down to counter­ balan~e gravity. Flyrng Saucers,.teveloped in Canada by Joh%:'_!·ost, former colleague of Sh Fi:ank Whittle, have reached speeds upf to 1,500 mph and have been in- Mr. Tnk~,:1 Mr. Br~··,i:nan_ Mr. Nichn1s ... ­ Mr. Bdmont;_,._ I\1r. Hnrbo ___ 1\-Ir. ,~ioh!· ___ Ivfr. r~.:::;ons-­ Mi'. r.~•cn_· _ :t,i r. T 1, · .....~1 .-­ Mr. s::,-" ..-­ i\i:r . -,, .: crrowd_ Tele. Room -­ Mr. Hc:hman_ Miss Gan<lY-­ .,.J 1-u ~{­ • I 'Flying Saucer?': ,WeirdSpy Disc •Sighted By Ship i l A c h 'culn,1' <>bkcl,, g1•nyloh f\t fll'!;t and tlien brl«hter, llk@ tlie ' moon, sho0Ll11g up from n cai· .sea level and disappearing in clouds at .5,000 feet, was sighted at sea last night 80 miles east of New York. OWcers of t he Dutch liner Groote Beer 1·eported the incident when the vessel arrived in Hoboken. 1 "l don't know what it was," 11aid Capt. Jan P. Boshoff, a veteran shlpmaster, who sa.id he watched t he obJeot through his binoculars. "It might have t been what has been described I r as a flying saucer, but I don't j know what it was." 1 Through his most powerful binoculars, the captain trained ,' them on the object. 40 degrees off the port side. Several other officer similarly trained bino­ culars. Capt. Boshoff described it as "a flat object, resembling t he I mon, at first kind of rray and t hen t urning brighter on t~ lower part. and around t he edges having bright spots as If they were lights." He said it was moving- "directly upward, wltb great speed.'' He said he never had seen anything like it before, an added: "l am positive It was not a meteor. Nor was it anytbinr tural In the sky." Mr. Tolson ­ Mr. Boardnum­ Mr, Nicbols­ Mr. Belmont­ Mr. Harbo­ Mr. Mohr.­ Mr. Paraons­ Mr. Rosen.­ M-r. Tamm­ Mr. Siz•,O·--­ M-r. Winterrowd­ Tele. Roo!n..-­ Mr. Holloman­ Miss Gandy__ 1954 --- - - #! ,),Tolson-~ Mr B man,"/ Mr • ~ Mf. Belmont _...__ Mr. Harbo __ Mr. Mohr __ Mr. Parsons_ Mr. Rosen __ Mr. Tamm _ _ Mr. Sizoo __ r. Winterrowd _ Tele. Room _ _ Mr. Holloman _ Miss Gandy __ <OIJICT> - . ' EV YOIK••TNIEE Clh ,m•s or A ftA-•IOILD AIILIIIS ,,111- \ • ,OIK FLJClfT IIPOlffl ODA# THI! IICfflD Al UIIIDENTIJ'ltD FLYIIIC CT ABOUT 10 llfJLU IOITII O IOSTOII . THE PIL9!.t CAPJ...!. CRAILIS :l.,_ ICUT09ft1 or POIT VASRl•no■• L.l~t SAID lfl. SAW •a ._..;a: nlU•COLrJlu IISC- I I OIJlt'r AT !Hi'0 A M Eu • KIATOVIL 1111 TIii GIJICT .n MUS ., A PAULLIL C I ARD or MIS Pl.AU IUT Ill COULi IOT en A CLIAI LOOK Al lT •n• AIOV JIICR CL&UDS . · AFTEI TD PLA• AlllfD AT llLIVILD AIIPOITl IIATOflL IECIIVED A IIIES,fAGI RO" ftAIS•IOIU AIILJIIIS ll IOSTel ST TIit: TIIAT A IEATHIR UL OOII IAI •n IILtASII no" QIIID .AII react BASE II 11h IIAMPSHllf ABOUT ,o lflLa ltlTlllfa·, or.·IOSTCll1: AT ••30 A.M. IDT. THI MESSAC:E SA t TMI 1&LL0• 1 ,Ill 0tn IOSTOII AT ,. l 9 A II I''• ICUTOflL IA I TIii NISSACt fflClllli ft ULLOOI Al •110uT 100 J'EET IN DlAPIETIII • ~ AIOIIT FITS'M IDCllPTION or lllATTOU SAV • COMIElfflC • •ssACle KIATOYILe IRO US 1111 rLYIIC SIK! 1927• sa1t •1T ,.,.., L 1 , c"11~, ,o • l' n11s li' RATIIEI ULL001 1T•1 ,111 11\' nME 1Tf:n saw •• n,,1: INC ac,1 , m 1111.•. • IATlf I.' S! IC I T TIE IIJICT WAS P I IY TIii CO.PlU Ii.It irhi .,~.,1.°!.,.. A.. IT TIit ,UCIIT Berm•. IIAl!ILD ,. KIAffllL ll·TIII Ltci1 llfflllffOIAL AIINIT fOIII II IOITOI SAID T ERPLO 1'11111 TOLi GJ IIIIIC ffl OIJICT • AND IT llD NOT APPIArO ULLOOle Cll•-IIJ31,P , IC - i-____,1 / I r NOT REr.OADED Hl JUN 1 7 !1954 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE --- OJD • • .ii:: ii:~:;::;;:.­ 1-1-"t Mr. Ni ,,, Mr. Belmo Mr. Harbo ___ Mr. Mohr ___ Mr. Parsons __ Mr. Rosen __ .Mr. Tamm ___ '' M<i\ of !> S C,V Mr. Sizoo ___ Mr. Winterrowd_ 3r1~Mo1qa1 O''l • Tele. Room __ ! 8 ·1 . Mr. Holloman _ .::,,f?. Jl. ;. "'i J~ ; Miss Gandy __ 'OBJECT) '-.. MOBILE ALA.--BROOKLEY AIR FORCE BASE REPOR.TED THAT AN ,r~ \ "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. BRILLIANT AND SILVER COLORED" WAS TRACKED BY RADAR OVER MOBILE AND THE ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST LAST NIGHT. MAJ . JAMES ZICHERALI, PUBL.IC INFORMATION OFFICER AT BROOKLEY, SAID \THE OBJECT "APPEARED TO BE A JET-TYPE AIRCRAFT OF NEW DESIGN WITH SHORT 1STUBBY WINGS•" FIVE OTHER RESIDENTS OF ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI ALSO REPORTED SIGHTING THE OBJECT. ZI CHERALI SAID THE OBJE~T APPEARED ON THE BASE CONTROL TOWER RADAR · S EEN AT 6:50 P. M. CST, HE SAID RADAR OPERATORS REPORTED IT "MADE ~ N OUND AND LEFT NO TRAIL BUT GAVE EVIDENCE OF DEFINITELY BEING MANEUVERED." 1/1--~~nuP t ~/-1~-~ 4 N()'l~ Rl:r.<:IJll'f)IDI) 76 JUL 14 1954 6 0 JUL 14195 WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVI CE yt/~J­ 0-19 Tolson _ _ _ • · Ladd ___ Nichols-­ Belmont-- Clegg ___ Glavin--­ Harbo--­ Rosen _ _ _ Tracy _ _ _ Mohr _ ___ Trotter _ _ Winterrowd_ Tele. Room ­ t Holloman-­ Miss Gandy _ 1~!RT~~~ce H~p~~~~.,.~~olie~~~~~J~ng ~~,~~d Scripps-Howard staff w riter been relaxed in recent months. ed" and "Flying Saucers From Out­ Air Force Iea-de rs have Most of the mail receive<:l at the Dayton o'fflce is from persons over slammed down a "brass" curtain the nation who are curious about at the Dayton (0.) Afr Technical flying sauee,s. Intelligence Cent e 1• (ATIC), "The mail has become so heavy where flying saucer reports are that the two or three persons de­ investigated. tailed to investigating unidentifie , flying objects- called UFO's- are "The Air Force will be unable to not getting anything else done," the honor visits (including the press) Air Force official sai.d. to the ATIC because the volume of "Actually, UFO's are supposed to refests for information has seri- be only a small part of the investi­ ou y interferred with investiga- gative work done at the ATIC." tio s," an Air Force spokesman here The flood of mai) from the public sai today. was attributed to newspaper and ' said the original official policy magazine articles about flying sau­ •.n.,i heen to exclude visits by news- cers. Singled out were two current er Space." Just how banning the press was expected to ease the situation was not explained- unless the ~•~• figures this will reduce the n mber of flying saucer stories. Times-Herald l ash. Post Wash. News lash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune _ N.Y. Mirror - J,<t -__:.._ 71:.IJ Not RECORDED 160 JAN 15 1954 Date: hf­ -- • .... 'THAT WAS NO AIRPLANE' Are 11,ey Hiding Tl,ose Lights Under a Bushell By EVERT CLARK Mysterious red lights which have flown over the Quantico Marine Base 22 times in the past six nights were officially explained away today as a new type of aircraft navigation light. But most of the Marines who saw them still don't believe that's what they were. In addition, The News ran into what seems to be a delib­ erate attempt to cover up cer­ tain facets of the longest con­ tinuous ''flying· saucer" run in history. The first man to see the light was Pfc. Norman Viets, 18, of Greenville, Pa. Since' then, at least ,. 30 other Marines, including half a , dozen officers, have seen It, too. On one occasion, sentries report­ I ed seeing three lights at once. They ( say they have seen the lights drop straight down, fly straight up and stand still. Even the most • c a r e f u I-and skeptical-observer, the base prov­ ost marshal, Maj. D. D. Pomerleau, admitted the lights had character­ istics he never expected to find on an airliner. FIRST SIGHTING Pfc. Viets was standing sentry duty at the Tank Parle a few miles north of Camp Barrett on the south­ western side of the Quantico reser• vation at 9:05 p. m. Dec. 30 when he "reported a moving, blinking red light near his post which he could not explain." The sergeant of the guard, Sergt. Francis R. Salinder, "investigated and saw the light but could not ex• plain it." j Pfc. Viets told The News the light first appeared to come straight toward him over a line of trees about 200 yards to the south o.f his post. 1, "It was about a foot and a half in diameter," he said, "only going about 10 or 15 miles an hour. Then it fol• lowed the tree line about 50 yards to the righ t and went down. "It went straight ~own, all of _a sudden. F'itteen minutes later 1t went straight up and moved over here toward the tank shed. 162__ 81f;lf /l THE \r~ASHI NGTOH DAILY l\TE\1S "I saw it two times aiter that. It did the sarne thin~- It was the NOT RECORDED Greater washington Edition weirdest looking thmg I. ever saw. 1-5-54 148 JAN l2 ,~04 There was no en~ine"n~e"' a~<!. no shape-just the light. • J • • NO SALE By the time The News talked to Pk. Viets at Quantico yesterday, the airplane navigation light theory already had been offered. The News asked Pfc. Viets about it, and he said: "That was no airplane. I first thought it might be a weather balloon, but it wasn't. Either way, you could have seen the shape." Pfc.-Viets and Sergt. Salinder saw the light again at 10:15 the same night. Five minutes later they called in the roving guard from a nearby guard tower, but the light was gone. CONFLICT Pfc. Bennett (top front) ~rabbed a butcher knife and said: "It's land­ First reports had It that troops h1g in Ule tanlt shed!" 1\'la.i. Pomerleau (middle photo) i.s skeptical, were sent into the area to look for but still curious. Pfc. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convb1ce the lights. Yesterday Maj. A. B. hhn "that was no alrplane." -News stare Photos by Gene ThomBa \ Ferguson, the base information of­ ficer, said that report was errone- • with troops," the official report sible way to describe the light's ous. says. size, shape and intensity was to "We did at no time dispatch Thirty minutes later, the sergeant compare it to "the way a blinking troops to fight off the invaders or of'the guard saw it again, and at 8:23 p. m. three lights .wet'e seen. red traffic light appears to a motor­ capture then or welcome them (This was New Year's Eve.) At ist as he pulls up to an intersec­ aboard or anything else," he said. tlon " However, this is what the official 9:01 it was seen again, and at 4:20 • record says: New Year's morning it moved He heard no noise and saw no "A IS-man detail arrived (at northeast, then south, theri north shape. He said the light was "sharp­ and remained "over the tank shed ly delineated." 11:15 p. m., Dec. 30) f rom Camp Barrett and made a search of the at an elevation of about 3500 feet." "But I have friends and a pro· area in which the light was first 1'hat was the time Pfc. Vie'ts fessional reputation," he said, "and seen. 1'he search proved fruit- said, "when they saw lt oome u1> as far as I'm concemed just say less.'' there and lay under the moon until it's an aircraft navigation light.'' Fifty minutes later Pfc. Viets' re- morning." Sev.eral ail:lines that fly in and out lief "reported seeing the same red Pfc. Viets' relief of the night be- of Washington say they began in­ light." Se1>gt. Salinder saw nothing. fore got so excited he "grabbed a stalling new lights atop the tails of HOVERS butcher knife and headed for the planes six m011ths ago. They blink tank