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P rtest I uvds re bbe . ‘ soot a —- f it Yard and H O: »'l Howard W. de Assocl-" said the Army Airwaya Commun!- ; ; ated Prese science suitor, said the! ‘the wake ar wese 1 e-!! whole business may be an optical (cations Service had reported late Hae a eae Mlenations but| | yesterday that so far its radariiiugs of them were tinged with a illusion. and lanations, but " . j ) comments, and explanal ons 'to thx id distance which is cloze scopes throughout the country} ion: tendency to laugh off the e limit of how far a person have been unable va pick up any ole thing. °y " is “ean see,". he wrate, “all arf jects in nv : appfar round or : {strange ob) = Daclfies Trai weat— _DF. Winfred Overholser, nation lawl of sieht or pearly 0. or iH KNOWD PSYCHLAITIsl aNd sUper- ee Sree EL me? intendent of St. Elizabeths Hor-| pital here, said it “hag some of the. : “ANloarmarks of being national hys-||jat great distances, ipierce fog and darkness ane ae teria.” sO “The one outstanding fact about “up objects in the “ ae witty pa Aelita > eatd D virtually all the saucers is that} i " ene 2 eR: , . ' Even so, Brown acknowledged lOverholser, “others with vivid{jthey bad mo structure —they| . ~ jthat the Air Forces had decided |imaginations are sure they hav@\jseemed merely round and fat. i*there’s something to this” and seen the same thing. That description fits exactly with’ ‘pad been checking it for 10 days. “The critical faculty In man, the the tricks that . es play rhis “and we still haven't the slight-/iec one he received, ia still not}|'* tic 8 Y . . '” And fn the Pacific where most of -the fly-happ: at- ters huve been reportéd—the Army ‘has radar equipment which can thi}es seen nearby and large o Bi — ~ a V ‘i wy # BY . ‘est idea what they could be,” he very well developed. Scratch the trickiness varies with differences. _- added. | surface and you find the sgme mass! lin weather and lighting.” t yuu Lt Tt And a new wrinkle~-the report-| hysteria which predominated dur-||° However, Nova Hart, S¢. Louis’ ed landing of a fieet of eight skim-|ing the witchcraft ecare.’ Some |mechanic who-was trained during: ming platters—was reported from! persons are quite ready to see) ‘service in the war to spot all types: Idaho in ful] view of 10 persons. A.| things and follow beliefs.” | of aircraft, yesterday offered a: Dishman, Idaho housewife, #afd/ Dr, Overholser rald that when! minute description of one of the} she and others In her party had) he made his rounds of the mental) aving patterns which he claimed he ‘ seen the saucers Jand of @ moun-/ patients yesterday at St. Eliza-) ssw fiying at an altitude of about tainside near St. Maries, Idaho. t -beths not a one commented on the; 300 feet, - ; : ' he said they came into view at! Aying saucers story. . aijextreme speed, suddenly slowed,| “{ think they may be a lttle Beet er Othed it as clreular ie 4 afd then “uttered Uke leaves t@) skepticaf.” he added. a ribbed framework and silver ily fi se mysterious part was che! wot aestne. i ha ear lane gray in color. a said t appeared, lwe couldn't see them after they! ag a joke “because there are 80 oltached an the center ad that tt ; Janded,” she said, “We could se} ‘nfany strange things going on to-//) ving like an airplane do- {them flutter down’ into the timbed| @hy that one can't be sure.” tin : a slow oll, iyet we couldn't.see that they did’ Maj. Alexander P. de Severaty,[ | Mf ithough ae ny explanations anything to the trees.” tnofed aircraft designer, told Whe have been offered, none has bee i 4 | She said she hoped to hike into) |Poekt py telephone from.New York |-Aivincing. A Los Angeles news f vt lee inter orn etch ealdl were “tht until he sees a flying saucer |pqper quoted an unnamed nuclea a “ 't like: , -! icist as eaying the silvery disc = saucer-shaped but resembled wash-; h® wouldn't like to pass judg p epee oe esmeriments in thd 4 tubs more than disks and were, ent. |fransmutation of atomie energy.”| rt '“about the size of a fve-room| He agreed with Dr’ Overholser| rnis report was rapidly herded. pS {house.” . .. _\ that much if not all of the storyllinto the hoax column by David! 7] ;_ Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2619) nay be because of hysteri Lilienthal. chairman of the Atomic, 25 i may cause yateria, ; id jath st. ne. reported he had men! ‘After all” be said, “we are|Ehergy Commission, and several aT one passing over the Northeast. , ' ‘ ’ *|| prominent atomic ecientista, > 5 I ection of the city at about &:40) more or lesa an hysterical Nation.” |) Siarr Expects Word: Louis E. Starr, natlonal eom- sible that the persons who claim! jander of the Veterans of Foreign. p.m | Major de.Seversky said it was pos- This would be the first one re i istri h ™ , a pore’ Over tne on eperted. ‘over, have seen the aerial discs have|,Wars, announced Saturday at Ca. zy) jhearby Maryland, instead glimpsed the exhaust of!{lumbus, Ohio, that he was expect-: ae 2 Kennedy, who has 125 hours| Jet-propelled plancs. : ting “momentarily” information ae tim tudent pilot inj’ He conceded, too,+that they {from Washington which would ex- ot ze fying time as & student B i lain the dashing discs, But the ry ee ‘the Army Air Forces to his credit,| might be guided missiles let loose Plain the ashing ince. iu ee said he Delleved sthe suucer he a part of an experiment, put eee ee ieee nee ead that Gen. a ok hh d ae nm ‘was trave’ ng at + e : ' . . . 1 2ME FALL 2VALTD BPMs LAER EG eas Ag Cover” t000 miles an hour at an)’ “I don't think the Government ‘Carl Spaatz, Air Forces chief, wag’ ee ae . it the Pacific Northwest where at Bi ‘altitude of between 1200 and 1500, would fire them so promiscuously.. io. or the saucers have been re- E e ‘feet OC ‘ They would test them in one *pot,’ ported, but added that his trip a: +} “The best way T can describe tt,"|in an isolated area, like they did: tiers ‘was pianned ‘two months ‘said Kennedy, “was that it looked/the atomic bomb.” ago, long before the saucers scare. aes aoe 4 “s iike an orange lamp bulb without!) Maj, Gen, Curtis BE. LeMay. who, General Spaatz is expected back in GE) “the socket. Jt wag going faster than|as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for ‘washington late GmOrON. i= ‘any jet plane I've ever seen.” search and Development would.|" yuroc Army Air Field in Cally | Agin Hagerstown, ‘U. Mra. Mad-(know if the saucers involved ex- |fornia had a P-80 jet fighter standy! a rere said she had seep/Periments with guided missiles, jing by, and the National ear 7 e, of the discs, racing in 2-J2/commented: ..- . . Oregon had prepared six reg Hon at “terrific speed.” fro), “Whatever these people have. jfichters to give chase shou . Bee backporch. “They sounded lifeiteen it hasn't been ‘anything e-' lgaucora be reported nearby. 4 jf f Me" @ feraway tralp,” che said. on ulting from experiments by the ——————-———~—seeummaaaesl : e a) rer rr rrr rie " ‘Army Air Forces, As for as I'm‘ concerned ‘there's nothing to it’ at all, The: whole dg? pn Hae pte enamel Bh nd ninth oles, TR pe crea pa me eee RR cen ete ee a ee a a