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a Q ry -four and five hundred miles an hour. « & a" he saul, : ff: find to avtified as adiary bal- holding one in my ov. The rancher forwa: Wright Field, where it w a remnant of one of thei loons the hopeful Japanese dispatched across the Pacific during the war in an effort to start forest fires. \ Even pictures taken of supposed sau gers failed to impress the experts. “Vhere of a oman omen case in’ Phoenix et the ate GE Arizona, who spotted a flat gray ob- ject spiralling up and down in the sky at a specd that he estimated at between He snapped two pictures of it with his Brownie. Prints were rushed to Project Saucer, and Dr, Irving Langmuir, the physicist and a Nobel Prize winner, was asked to study them. scientist learned that z The distinguished th wed de srchea ray, had occurred just before the picture- taking, and concluded that he was look- ing at a couple ef rather poor shots ofa pice of paper bony budFered by the wind. S time went on and the skies, appar- ently, continucd to tcem with fly- ing saucers, the generals in the Penta- gon, warming to their task, decided to enlarge the scope af the investigation, Commanders of all Air Forge ustalla- tions in the country were ardered to assign Jatclligence officers to look into sightings reported in their areas, “Phe officers were instructed to solicit the as- sistance of municipal police officials, who anight be familiar with the personalitics 1 of the saucer observers. “Vhe FB. was an also calicd upon for assistance, and as- signed agents to help interview people who reported that they had scen discs, The agents weed a standard question- naire, drawn up by Air Force Intlli- gence, which called for such informa- tien as the saucer’s size, speed, color, anid maneuvers. The information was usually transmitted ta Wright Ficid, but some storics were sa obviously false and some “evidence” so obviaie ly trifling that the FULT. men didn’t even bother te All aut the question- naire, In Seattle, for instance, an alened workin called the police us ine form dhean Chieta durtiee alive badd bertd- a an her reel, Vle abject turned out » he a hollow, dram-shaped alvaar made of plywoud, with “USSR” crude. Jy daubed on it in paint, An F.B.1. man found that a turpentine-soaked cloth had caused the fame. A practical joke, he decided. A farmer near Danforth, Iilinois, reported that a saucer had crash-landed in anc of his ficlds and burned yp anatch of werts Phe FRE, +. a PUERTO RICAN ni OA BE WHITE Label - sant ti HARD : Renaar’ EX% Le This cozy cotton “pillow” for your body coozes awoet sleep from hord matiresnses and in- ferior beds. Special boon te. invalids ond aged. Easy to corry oul end syn. $17.95 in blue-&- white ACA, $19.95 in rose, bluc er green damask, full or twin titer, shipping charges prepoid. , lmmediote thipment — Absot lute fis irs Stand, eit ottion At Whitehoure & Hardy in New York: Chy af Poris in Son Froncivca; Phalps-Terke! in Los Angeles: At olher leading stores or write’ EXETER Hoslery Mills © Executive Offic Sales Otlices: 330 Fi: oe eet ee sa ere rcp eegen T ge e gee ner peaeny acre rare 75, Sit alert and Rebtel ita eee et) 74