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The forware find to
Wright Field, where it was identified as
nany saucers
rancher
a remnant of one of the incendiary bal-
loons the hopeful Japanese dispatched
across the Pacific during the war in an
effort to start forest fires.
Even pictures taken of supposed sau-
cers failed to impress the experts. There
was the case of a Phoenix,
Arizona, who spotted a flat gray ob-
ject spiralling up and down in the sky
man in
at a speed that he estimated at between
four and five hundred miles an hour.
He snapped two pictures of it with his
Brownie. Prints were rushed to Project
Saucer, and Dr. Irving Langmuir, the
physicist and a Nobel Pri
asked to study them. The distinguished
winner, was
a thunderstorm
scientist learned that
had occurred just before the picture-
taking, and concluded that he was look-
ing at a couple of rather poor shots
of a piece of paper being buffeted by
the wind.
& time went on and the skies, appar-
ently, continued to teem with fly-
ing saucers, the generals in the Penta-
rming to their task, decided to
enlarge the scope of the investigation.
Commanders of all Air Force installa-
tions in the country
assign Intelligence officers to look into
gon, w
were ordered to
sightings reported in their areas. The
officers were instructed to solicit the as-
sistance of municipal police officials, who
might be familiar with the personalities
of the saucer observers. The F.B.I. was
sIso called upon for assistance, and as-
signed agents to help interview people
who reported that they had seen discs.
The agents used a standard question-
naire, drawn up by Air Force Intelli-
gence, which called for such informa-
tion as the saucer’s size, speed, color,
and maneuvers. The information was
usually transmitted to Wright Field,
but stories obviously
some were so
false and some “evidence” so obvious-
ly trif_ing that the F.B.I. men didn’t
even bother to fill out the question-
naire. In Seattle, for
‘larmed woman called the police to in-
form them that a flamir
ed on her roof. The object turned out
instance, an
disc had land-
to be
made of plywood, with “USSR” crude-
ly daubed on it in paint. An F.B.I. man
that a -soaked cloth
had caused the flame. A practical joke,
hollow, drum-shaped affair
found turpenti
\ farmer near Danforth,
had
ind
BI
he decided.
Illinois, reported that a saucer
in one of his fields
‘The
crash-landed
burned up a patch of weeds
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