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Can This Be the Secret? nder discussion as a possible solution to the “sauper” ystery is the Navy’s “Plying Flapjack,” shown allove. e Aipping along with its landing gear retracted, this plane syould seem to be a supper plate spinning through the sky. JUL sqawin_the sky. She is the first] known 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 a 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 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 he 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 Muroe 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 he knew of no experiments involv- ing “flying saucers.” “I 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 far as I know, there is no connec- tion.” The “piece” found in Ohio was! discovered near Circleville, Ij 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 in) radar research to check on high | wind speeds. There was no com, ment from the air forces. | A War Department spokesmdy revealed Army intelligence hhs| > o.crorking for a year on 6 1947 WASHINGTON TIMES-HERALD Page 1& 8 Sec. I ports of strange objects seeh in the sky and had reached thejcon- clusion that some sort of mejeor- ites were responsible. Astronomers at the Naval 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, in: sisted they not only had not seen any but knew of no astronomicai theory that might account for the pilot who was first to announe seeing the saucers, expressed grati fication: at the support he y,3s getting but insisted he still didn't believe he had seen nine discs whizzing by at 1,200 miles an hour, although he had seen them. Arnold started yesterday on A flying fishing trip over the Pa- cific northwest armed with a nev camera in the hope of gettin{ pictures if he encountered any more saucers. He took along Col. Paul W. Weiland, World War It artillery officer, just in case he sees some more and needs a witness. Arnold announced he has been getting tons of letters commenting on his report of the saucers. Man: of them predict they are the fore runner of an atom bomb attaci One correspondent blamed ther on survivors of the lost continent) of Atlantis who are preparing f an atomic war in 1960. Army, Navy and civil aeron tics officials agreed none of the had any reliable informatic about the discs and would frain from commenting until th§ saw one, or at least a picture.