◆ SpookStack

E Saucers’ Fly Grafton Disc Joke Ww hat was reported as a » “flying diso”™ which “struck a church in oO ‘Here; Grafton early yesterday turned out to be @ circular saw with . two small tubes and several wires attached to it.. Father Joseph Brasky, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Grafton, holds the “disc” nd points to the lightning red on the church (arrow), which he sald was struck by the disc. _Bentinel Photo by Ernest Anheuser. ———aeey” Saad - Aedes The mystery of ‘the “flying uses,” strange luminous objects “en speeding across the sky in nany atates, turned to Wiscon-, = ja yesterday when several per- , on8 reported them at Milwaukee, nd Janesville, > Mystery was added to mystery, yhen Father Joseph Brasky, pas- | ‘ss or of &t.. Joseph's Church at -trafton, Wis., reported a missile. suttled through the air early yes-. erday, knocked the ball off the: hurch lightning rod, and landed; the front lawn. ae. Poel * WIRES AND TUBES Tt, was a large circular saw— stn §t 18 inches in dlameter—and ui} hot when Fathers Braaky! ekgd It from the lawn, = There were wires and two tubes |. :t ittached to ft, The tubes were an i fro neh io dlameter and three inches sD. 7 _— . oo ne theory waa that prankste or belated Fourth of July cel¢- brants had attached explosives the saw, and sent it skimming through the air. Father Brasky said he heard a swishing ndise and a sizzling at 5 a, m., followed a second later with a thud and an explosion. An excited resideuwt telephoned to Biliy Mitchell Field, and said he saw 15 flying saucers, in U formation, heading north over Granville, at 10:05 p. m. He hung up before his name could be pro- cured. A passenger aboard a New York-Detroit-Milwaukee plane, ich landed at Billy Mitchell Field at 10:05 p. m.,, told employes in the office of Northwest Alr- lines, Inc., he saw a flying saucer t ‘}bodbing up and down over the moe HCE By a * Other passengers with him also saw it, he said. He gave the name of J. W. Rowden of Detevit=Pt- sptte®ttt-Tobbing.- the saucer was going at great speed, and was out of eight in a few seconds, he sald. Rowden is stopping at the Plaza Hotel, ‘DISCS HAD TAILS ‘Erwin Rottman, 1328 N. 19th ‘Bt. said he saw three of them, with tails, ‘flying northwest to southeast, as he stood at N. 18th and W. Vitet Sts. They turned ; from gold to another color and; then to silver, he said. : Frank Phifer, stopping at the Maryland Hotel, sald he saw three balls of fire shoot ross | Lake Michigan at 8:20 last aight,’ iabdut a mile from abore, and “golgg at terrific speed. ad What he described as an illu- minated saucer was seen last night by William Humphrey, 3148 8. 20th Bt. he said. It was xig- ragging directly ever the Heil Co. plant, said Humphrey, and seemed to land in a wooded area nearby. REPORTED IN JANXSVILLE Four Janesville residents re- ported they had seen a flying disc Saturday night. They are Mr. and Mrs. Al Blevert and Mr, and: Mrs. Howard Roth. They saw the disc flying in a -|northwesterly direction from Janesvilie at a “terrific speed.” They viewed it for 20 minutes. It was yellow-golden, and seemed to turn at times to a silvery color, they stated. An oval flight pattern was followed. ‘Then, they said, taila appeared on the disc and shortly afterwards it disappeared. John Bosch, 4377 8, Adams Bt, Milwaukee, a machinist, insisted he saw two flashing saucer- shaped objects pass over Billy itchell Field shortly after mid- ght yesterday. They were close ehough so he could definitely spate they were not shooting stars, mor rplanes, he sald. Bosch's h me is near the airport. ——— re - ad “fe -OSURK ~