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Command was keeping watch ported objects may be_some-} —so-faewith no results—andjthing from anor iblanet i li jnvec.| | ASSuming they are real,” he ee epeo puciiied SNES 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, Force has checked all reports) Would by now have abandoned of unidentified flying objects, conventional aircraft or mis- Investigators work under the|Siles. Air Defense Command at Col-|Cosmic Energy telligence Center. interplanetary,” Keyhoe said. ; .___| He said one source of pow- Judging from past findings,|o, for such reported objects the chances are 50-1 the Air|eould be cosmic ray energy. Force will offer a humdrum| Some of the citizens, peace exp iaraHon for the current officers and) servicemen who sightings. reported sighting mystery o - During the’first half of this foots in the Southwest. viaee 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 aerial 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 i c |were stalled Monday on a des- And the Air Force said firm-jert highway. between Alama- ly—though not all flying ‘sau-|sordo and the White. Sands leer buffs may agree—that it (N. M.) Proving Grounds. ‘doesn’t believe even the 1.9) We reported seeing a sound- per cent residue is made upjless, “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- wave, “like radiation from a ites and pen say sé pocgune giant sun lamp,” in its wake. | —at least to the ir Force's Associated Press ; : : Device Sought official satisfaction — for al Leonard Hardlund, chief en. 3) G. Kirby of Dallas made most four-fifths of the sight.| . th rat : f : d ings. yeinecr for the National Inven- this photo o a diamon The director of a private ors tors Council in Washington, shaped object flying | ganization set up to inves: h tigate flying saucers and sucy|autos or other mechanical and his family were driving id he couldn’t evaluate afeauipment was one of the i Pare nes) C: t @% things the armed forces would near Amarillo, Tex. in this tte Plane nace Oth ike to see developed, August, 1956. The photo Rastit ¢ sites Marine M ;,|_ But Hardlund said he knew was turned over to the FBI a ‘ aI. of no research in this country and has just been released Donald ©, Keyhoe, director of ?- : the National Investigation s\imed at producing such a de- after intensive study. The Committee on Aerial Phe.|¥ ae teen-age girls repor Air Force described the _ the sky over Annapolis, Md., last week. Tean Hunt, 13, and Syivia Fowler, 15, said they saw an egg-shaped object which glowed like a neon light, They| spotted it while trick-or-treat. ing with Jean’s two younger Sisters on Halloween night in Primrose Acres, a housing de- velopment on the outskirts of Annapolis. Jean said the girls became |frightened and ran home but |no one would believe their story until pe newspa- per accounts told of.a myste oh2set siohted in Texas \said a device that could stall through the sky while he