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: Date: 9/4/47 + Terectory” 1 * e ; \WROV : ae. a ee ILEANEOUS _— ported by Rehoboth Pilot est Wenyon Believes Mystery Discs, 'et-Propelled, May Have Caused Big Plane Crash on Memorial Day “<[ivay Ridey ‘'LA§ JG lmineton, ‘| © Continued From First Page ‘/ruged from the theory that they }}were radio controlled flying missiles Sent aloft by U. Ss. militury scien- } tists to the suggestion that might be merely sun light reflected of jet-propelled A. B. Cross of Chattanooga, Tenn., a 34-year-old watchmaker, nounced he invented Saucer” and submitted it to the War | Department in 1943 but his idea was rejected as not practical “at the Present time.” I Later, he said, he became con-| vinced that the department elabo- rated on his plan. His model Was powdered with a rubber band, Cross | said, but he believed atomic power now is being used. eteran Delaware pilot, Forrest Wenyon of 123 Rehoboth Avenue, th Beach, -disclosed last night that in the past 10 months he has een objects now being loosely described as “flying saucers” but | he calls “flying mayonnaise jars.” ® particular difference between the mysterious objecte of Mr. ’s Teport and those which have now been observed in some — nf 40 ‘states in that the former. accord- « jing to the pilot, held a true course until they disappeared from sight. This would indicate a guideascmat idast an aimed missile while the cqurse of the “saucers” has been described by observers as erratic. r. Wenyon said last night that t woman said the disks she ob- a “flying mayonnaise jar” one after- noon last September while fiying at about 1,000 feet. It was late in the afternoon and the pilot was flying north. Suddenly, at an estimatea distance of 2,000 feet in front of his plane if | he first saw what loosely resembled ct ed resembled “pie pans,” Ay Rutland, Vt. a Woman re- ported she and her husband - nessed a brilliant object in e night sky which she assumed to be a “flying saucer” although it stationary. But at Cambridge, Mass., a house- Olan traveling from west to east, Mr. | wife said she saw “a group of white, Commission said they had no con-| 'Inection with the mystery. , || Whe West, which originated the | saicer reports, continued to produce observers who claimed to have seen | \the whirling dics and also brought} ” ||forth one deflationary explanation ) of them. Bob Johnson, operator of a fly- ing service at Missoula, Mont., re- | seeds. | Chaiiee Odom, 23-year-old for- mer B-17 navigator, theorized at ||Houston, Tex., that the objects might be a version of radio-con- trolled “crystal balls” “sed by the || Nazis in the war. These balls, which flew to the titude of the bomber and appare. ly were magnetized to fiy along W. } the planes, sent br to rat | isers ~s “ata on omb: h Ss- id wr n \- ul y) iil al » Wi a) re} ds|ger}ship Mr. Wenyon, 1- es Wenyon saw the “jar.” It. was going fl at tremendous speed was able to note sever: t the pilot tnings. The most important bf these ob- servations, insofar as arjexplanation! is possible, is that the “jar” appeared to have some sort of rocket com- bustion. Mr. Wenyon said that purts of silver flame from the tail emed to provide the propulsion. Carrying out the description of e “flying mayonnaise jar,” Mr. enyon said that the tail appeared © be a lid which had been per- forated and that from these per- forations the flames escaped. In a matter of two, at the most three, seconds the object had dis- appeared over and past Fort Miles. The pilot did not see it land and | doesn’t know whether it did or not. Then on June 2 while flying at 1,490 feet in a Stinson four- passen- pilot of 30 yeas’ experience, saw ahother “jar.” He didn’t say muchfabout it to ’s.| ReYoboth Airport attaches although d one of the/jor|gave him a sympathetic hearing, er nie eerie te. be milkweed 'ps| thanked him and said they'd inves- n in i ! he ‘did mention it. r, Wenyon, with a theory in mind, called the ederal Bureau of Investigation. ni an caled him so, he said. He then called Eastein Airlines and the Civil Aero- nautic Authority both of which tigate. To date he has received no answer from either. ; Mr. Wenyon’s theory is that one of these “jars” was responsible for the wash of the Eastern Airlines plane * Port Deposit, Md., on Memorial which killed 53 persons. He he stories of that accider ] vnd believes now that th/ “ion in mid-air, ; -- 1b-r of witnesses, ‘wand ates ying saucers whirling around and going at a tremendous speed.” The Massachusetts and Vermont (reports brought to 40 the number of states in which the objects have been observed. With New England getting into the game, the Harvard University | astronomical observatory took note | of the reports but said it had had | no luck so far in photographing one of the discs. | Tile mysterious saucers first were | reported June 25 in the State o° | Washington, but Charlie T. Ham let, superintendent of the Kings ports Tenn., Times News composin room, said yesterday he had see the discs two years ago. They were “ about them because of Pak Ridge atomic bomb plent, then a war secret. Lester Barlow of Stamford, Conn., international known explosives in- ventor, advanced the theory that the objects were radio controlled |flying missiles, lw commandant, said he knew of no Plans to search for the saucers,; The Navy and Atomic Energy’