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, T (ice . Coifey usa Glavine uM Ladd _ ff Mr. Rogen Ly f Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson J Mr. Egan rar Mr. Hendon \Air Forces I ntelligence Joins EERE ‘While Science Sneers ¢ Mr. Pennington __ Mr. Quinn Tamm _ Army Air Forces intelligence esterday idisclovedlitatass joined the search for_a_fiving-saucer. Bizarre reports on the whirling, high-speed dises continued to pour in,_drawing_an_official_statement, from the AAF, much eynicism from science and the offer of $1900 forthe first one-downed. The Air Forces, which has juris- diction over the White Sands (N. Mex.) Rocket Proving Grounds, de- nied the saucers are any of its doing. “No such phenomena can be, explained by any experiments b ing conducted,” the statement sad, from the Naval Research Lab- ofatory’: i I Lee curt comment; ‘ concur in the Army annoupce- ment.” ither denied existence of the dises, but the AAF said statements of witnesses are being correlated “in an effort to identify the re- ported objects.” With few States in the Nation without at least one flying saucer] report, the AAF has a chore. A Navy flier with five years’ experience tabbed the discs as “space ships” after at first consid-| jemfng all reports as “crazy.” He: { nged his mind, he said in Ala- da, Calif., yesterday, after he JUL 8 Search for Flying Saucers and about 50 other persons saw al group of about “50 of the saucers) in triangular formation near Au) burn’ Saturday.” One report which won't trouble the AAF is that of a commercially! operated, converted P-38, whose pilot said he had knocked one of the “pearl-colored. _ clam-shaped airplanes” out of the Montana sky. He admitted the story was a hoax. In Washington, Dr. L. R. Haf- stad, executive secretary of Joint Research and Developme Board and former director of 1 Johns Hopkins Applied Physi Laboratory, said: “Poppycock!” Dr. Jesse Sprowls, psychology} professor at the University of | .|Maryland, said, “There is abso- lutely no limit to the delusion that the mind can harbor. A tremend-| ously interesting social psychologi- cal delusion,” he added. Dr. Ivan E. McDougle of Balti-| more’s Goucher College, said he| guessed “it’s one of those phycho-| logical epidemics where peopie see things that aren’t there.” But C. J. Zohn, 440 Mellon st. se., who works in the rocket-sonde, high altitude research section of the ‘Naval Research Laboratory, yesterday reported he and three other men saw one “saucer” New Mexico June 29. He describda See SAUCERS, Page 3, Column 1947 WASHHINGTON POST Page_ } YK ise J Mr. Ni we tT. Nease Miss Gandy eo