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a dis- es has JCERS-From Pag nissile attain Priest Finds " of12 "There's E h said about guide M he In Yard and Holds said. Howard w.BlakesleeAsoci- ated Press science editor, said the In the wake or tnese new eye- said the Army Airways Communi cations Service had reported late illusion. f comments.and explanations,but At any distance which is close to the limit of how far a person can see, he wrote,all objects Dr. Winfred Overholser, nation appar round or nearly so.Ths strange objects in flight. law of sight covers both small things seen nearby and large ores has radar equipment which can [earmarks of being national hys-at great distances. The one outstanding fact about up objects in the sky 200 miles Everytime someone comes up virtually all the saucers is that away. with a sea-serpent storysaid Dr. they had no structure-they others with vivid seemed merely round and flat. That description fits exactly with had been checking It for 10 days. The critical faculty in man, the the tricks that eyes play. This trickiness varies with differences surface and you find the same mass in weather and lighting added. However, Nova Hart,St.Louis Some mechanic who was trained during service in the war to spot all types Idaho in full view of 10 persons.A. things and follow beliefs. ofaircraft, yesterday offered a Dishman, Idaho housewife, said Dr. Overholser said that when minute description of one of the she and others in her party had he made his rounds of the mental flying patterns which he claimed he saw flying at an altitude of about tainside near St. Maries, Idaho. beths not a one commented on the 300 feet. Reporter Sees One ayextreme speed,suddenly slowed, I think they may be a little He described it as circular with a ribbed framework and silver the ground." However,Dr. Overholser said he gray in color. He said it appeared that wasn't trying to dismiss the matter to have a motor with a propeller we couldn't see them after they as a joke because there are SO attached in the center and that it landed,she said. we could se nany strange things going on to- kept turning like an airplane do- them flutter down into the timbe day that one can be sure. ing a slow roll. Maj.Alexander P.de Severs y yet we couldn't see that they did Although m any explanations anything to the trees. noted aircraft designer, told The have been offered, none has been She said she hoped to hike into Post by telephone from New ork cdnvincing.A Los Angeles news the timber tomorrow and search thai until he sees a flying saucer paper quoted an unnamed nuclea for the objects which she said were "wouldn't like to pass judg- pysicist as saying the silvery dise he saucer-shaped but resembled wash- resulted from experiments in th tubs more than disks and were ment." transmutation of atomie energy." about the size of a five-room He agreed with Dr. Overholser This report was rapidly herded house." Locally,Hazen Kennedy of 2615 may be because ot hysteria. Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic 4th st. ne. reported he had seen After allhe saidwe are Energy Commission, and several one passing over the Northeast prominent atomic scientists. section of the city at about 8:40 more or less an hysterical Nation. Starr Expects Word p.m Major de Seversky said it was pos- Louis E.Starr,national com- This would be the first one re- sible that the persons who claim mander of the Veterans of Foreign ported over the District, although to have seen the aerial discs have Wars, announced Saturday at Co- others have been reported over instead glimpsed the exhaust of lunbus, Ohio that he was expect- nearby Maryland. ing. "momentarily" information from Washington which would ex- plain the dashing discs. But the message never arrived. The Air Forces said that Gen. I don't think the Government Carl Spaatz Air Forces chief, was over1000 miles an hour at an in the Pacific Northwest where most of the saucers have been re- They would test them in one spot, feet. ported, but added that his trip The best way I can describe itin an isolated area like they did there was planned two months said Kennedy,"was that it looked the atomie bomb. ago,long before the saucers scare Maj.Gen.Curtis E.LeMay,who like an orange lamp bulb without General Spaatz is expected back in the socket. It was going faster than as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Washington late tomorrow any jet plane I've ever seen." Research and Development would Muroc Army Air Field in Cali- fornia had a P-80 jet fighter standy qyn Ganoe, 30,said she had seen periments with guided missiles, ing by, and the National Guard ve of the discs racing in 2-1 commented: regon had prepared six regul "Whatever thesepeople have fighters to give chase shouid prmation at terrific speed,from her backporch."They sounded lie seen it hasn't been anything re- saucers be reported nearby. a faraway train,she said. sulting from experiments by the Army Air Forces. As for as I'm concerned there's nothing to it at all. The whole thing is un foftanuve