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oo 4,-THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, OOFOSER. 2, ca Pr roject Skylight : aa “New. Group Setting Sights on Saucer By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer : The brass plate at 1536 Connecticut-av nw reads, Rational Jn- _ "vestigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena,” Inside o_they re- = ‘fer to it as-Project Skylight. , —_— . _ Tu Townse pa Brown, of Leesburg, Va., who runs it, identified himself as executive vice chairman pro tem- . pore. He formerly was a consult- ing physicist for the Clevite-Brush Electronics Co. of Cleveland, O. “t wince whenever anybody re fers to “flying saucers”, he says. “But, actually, that’s what we're after. We want to know whether they exist. If they do, we want to know what they are. And we think it’s high time.” WILL ELECT BOARD . National Investigations Commit- tee—that’s how they answed the phone—is just now forming. On ov. 1 it meets to elect a nine-man f board of governors. | Mr. Brown says he is represent: ing a group of approximately 75 “scientists, educators and church leaders” interested in saucers. He expects to be around until Nov. 15, when he goes back to London as research director for Whitehall- Rand. He's also a consulting physi- af . cist in Paris for a French aircraft]. - [NDEXED - 5] company. But the saucers? a a ‘T frankly don’t know,” he says. ae .“They may or may not exist. Ar that seems to be the genera} feeling of all jour people, But we want to / ; know.” FACT-FINDING BODY cnet” a ~ RPS Z TN ECORDED Wash, Star —_-__ The National Investigations Com- NOT BE : wo mittee, Mr. Brown says, will be a 191 OCT ~9 956 N. Y. Herald ——_—___- ae “privately supported fact-finding - tk body serving the national public in- terest,” It has applied to the Treas- PES ury for tax-exempt status, Mr. ‘Brown has written several aie Looe _ hundred public figures seeking their opinion on what he terms “a sub- ject of inevitable concern in every . major phase of human welfare.” “One of Brown's letters went| to Larry“Cates, Washington repre-: ’ gentative of the Airline Piloty As- sociation. Cates says airline pilots yy «_fum_un reports of saucer sightings! - _almost mighty. a SE WAS pees, pe eee ye a ef Oe, ae pcan hae Wash. Post and . Times Herald / wash. News Tribune Nap dina Aes Finene = ‘ t,,. Tolson . ? “Nichols a Boardman = 3“ Belmont i. L a Mason — - Ee Mohr She Parsons 2 “ha Rosen . oh: Tamm = oe oe Nease _ : a Winterrowd — a Tele. Room’. ; :% Holloman - EE Gandy — _ a « hve tage Ly. PR w ath RNY ebisce Hehe “|