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it, ? Hying Saucer By United Press - One House member who should know said flatly today there is ho such thing as a flying saucer. But another member equally quali- 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 ces is messing around with saucers, and that nobody else is far far as they knew. The people, they said, are seeing things. " “Rep.wEhgel (R) of Michizan, is ti€ man Who says he saw one. A member of Mahon’s subcommit- tee, he also is a candidate for governor of Ey deme ie he 4sn’t: helping dole out the Money 4{t takes to keep the military in e said the fact that he saw ‘a flying dise may not be evidence, put it sure was convincing. It happened about 1 p.m. one ‘day last summer at Elsie, Mich. ‘Several 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 as too high and too fast and got ' ‘Saucers are a “revolutio ’ Not Informe2——___ “I am quite sure the military establishment would have told {f they were working on such a hing 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 Tolson Ladd Cleggics tiem Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Mohs Tele. Room__ Nease Gandy mone of the subcommittee’s wit-| esses ever owned up to any con- nection with saucers. But then, as far as he could recall, nobody} @ver asked them about it. ae “I 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 sure the subcommittee would have heard about it.” ‘ ci Denials Repeated — Whig, ' Force and Navy officials have been denying the existence | of “flying ‘saucers’ all along. An & Defense department statement ake yesterday reiterated the de- als. RAY) Gaye tie ' But indications were that re- Ports of the a aehcas flying ob- ject would continue. L. Nob Rob: inson, managing editor of the U. 8. News and World Report, said his magazine had expected offi- cial denials of its story that the of new airer: ‘the Navs.— INDEXED - 102 Page ( ae He A 23 Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror ne Date: Yn SS