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AICERS—From Pag: Priest Finds *.. | |said the Army Airways Communi- leations Service had reported late yesterday that so far its radar|,o, : aoe 4 X\most of them were tinged with a \scopes throughout the country| tight tendency to laugh off the whole thing. | have been unable to pick up any), strange objects in flight. | And in the Pacific Northwest— where most of the fly-happy plat- ‘ters have been reportéd—the Army has radar equipment which can pierce fog and darkness and pick | ¢o, up objects in the sky 200 miles away. Even so, Brown acknowledged} that the Air Forces had decided) “there's something to this” and| had been checking it for 10 days. “And we still haven't the slight- idea what they could be,” hel added. ‘And a new wrinkle—the repo! ed landing of a fleet of eight skim- ming platters—was reported from Idaho in full view of 10 persons. A.| Dishman, Idaho housewife, said she and others in her party had seen the saucers land on a moun-| tainside near St. Maries, Idaho. | he said they came into view at) aigextreme speed, suddenly slowed, afd then “fluttered like leaves to} tie ground.” | “The mysterious part was thi we couldn't see them after the Janded,” she said, “We could |them flutter down’ into the timbed)| yet we couldn’t see that they did) \anything to the trees.” | She said she hoped to hike into the timber tomorrow and search for the objects which she said were | saucer-shaped but resembled wash- tubs mote than disks and were In Yard and Holjls | about guidec sai Howard W. Blakeslee, Avsoci- ated Press science editor, said the in the wake or unese ngwieye-| " fitness accounts came a new series? whole business may be an optical ‘comments, and explanations, but} |ilusion. ; || “At any distance which is close to the limit of how far a person can see,” he wrote, “all objects ‘ar round or nearly so. Th's of sight covers both small large oes) Dr. Winfred Overholser, nation-| @PP' ally known psychiatrist and super-| law intendent of St. Elizabeths Hos- aitee pital here, said ii “has some of the! Mies seen NES! hy . barmarks of being national hys-||at great distances. *) : “The one outstanding fact about once Sel jvictually, all thie maeets is that Dr\\they had no structure —they emed merely round and flat. “Everytime someone ¢ with a sea-ser i Overholser, “other imaginations are sure they havé) Basset al pe ; es ‘Phat description fits exactly with e critical faculty in man, the | : last one he received, is: still’ not} |e tricks that eyes play. This last one i developed.’ Scratch the, |trickiness. varies with differences Narface and you find the same mass||in weather and lighting.” However, Nova Hart, St. Louis hysteria which predominated dur- ing the witcheraft scare.’ Some |mechanic who was trained during persons are quite ready to sec service in the war to spot all types things and follow beliefs.” of aircraft, yesterday offered a Dr. Overholser said that when’ minute description of one of the he made his rounds of the mental) gying patterns which he claimed he patients yesterday at St. Eliza- saw flying at an altitude of about beths not'a one commented on the 399 feet, flying saucers story. | “1 think they may be a little skeptical,” he added. ~ lowever, Dr. Ov: w9sn’t trying to di ag a joke | | Reporter Sees One He described it as cireular with) verholser 201@ he! @ Tibbed framework and. silver’ holser said he) gray in color. He sald it appeared " to have a motor with a propeller: because there are 8) attached in the center and that it) nfany strange things going on to-) 04 turning like an airplane do- y that one can’ be sure.” : ing a slow roll. Mai. Alexander P. 4 ers: ; ie earner er Pees erg¥:l| “Although many explanation i : © \have been offered, none has bee! Poft by telephone from New York cdnvincing. A Los Angeles news} thgt until he sees a flying saucer |pqper quoted an unnamed nuclei he “wouldn't like to pass. judg-| Piysicist as saying the silvery disc “about the size of a five-room house.” Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 4th st. ne. reported he had seen one passing over the Northeast section of the city at about 8:40 He agreed with Dr’ Overholse that much if not all of the story may be because of hysteria. “After all,” he said, “we are more or less an hysterical Nation. Major de, Seversky sible that the persons who claim to have seen the aerial discs have instead glimpsed the exhaust of Kennedy, who has 125 hour: jet-propelled plane: flying time as a student pilot in} He conceded, too,‘ that they fhe ktmy Air Forces to his credit,| might be guided missiles let loose said he believed the saucet hel as part of an experiment, but had seen was traveling at “welll added: over” 1000 miles an hour at anj “I don’t think the Government altitude of between 1200 and 1500, would fire them so promiscuously. feet. / They would test them in one spot, "Phe best way T can describe it,”|in an isolated area, like they did said Kennedy, “was that it looked|the atomic bomb.” like an orange lamp bulb without| Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who the socket. It was going faster than|as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for any jet plane I've ever seen.” cae and Development would "m Hagerstown, Md., Mrs, Mag|Know if the saucers involved ex- Ganoe, 30, said she had secp|periments with guided missiles, fe of the discs, racing in 2-1p\commented: rmation at “terrific speed,” frofn| “Whatever these people have * backporch. “They sounded liife/seen it hasn't’ been anything re- a faraway train,” she said. |sulting from experiments by the ou Army Air Forces. As for as I’m concerned there’s nothing to it at all, The whole s tol : : p.m "This would be the first one re- ported over the District, although others have been reported over nearby Maryland. id it was pos-| Paget rgsulted from experiments in thd, “fransmutation of atomic energy.” ‘This report was rapidly herded jjinto. the hoax column by David |Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and several) prominent atomic scienti Starr Expects Word | Louis E. Starr, national com-) | mander of the Veterans of Foreign |\Wars, announced Saturday at Co- |umbus, Ohio, that he was expect» ‘ing “momentarily” information | {from Washington which would ex-) plain the dashing discs. But the! message never arrived. | The Air Forces said that Gen Carl Spaatz, Air Forces chief, was | in the Pacific Northwest where | most of the saucers have been re-| ported, but added that his trip] there was planned two months | ago, long before the saucers scare. General Spaatz is expected back in Washington late tomorrow. | Muroe Army Air Field in Call- Jornia had a P-80 jet fighter stan ing by, and the National Guard if | regon had prepared six regulfr | fighters to give chase should) saucers be reported nearby. + |