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undreds in 3 States Report eeing Weird “Flying Saucers’ By the Associated Press The Nation was baffled today by “flying saucers” reported seen in 31 ‘States by hundreds of persons, and conjectures came from scores of named and unnamed sources throughout the country. Official Goyernment sources took a “Let's see one” stand on the phe- nomenon, and no scientist offered a detailed explanation. ‘Two Chicago astronomers said the “seg are probably ‘man-made.’ ‘undulating, flashing objects 4puldn't be meteors,” said _ Dr. éarard Kieuper, director of the Uni versity of Chicago's Yerkes Ob- servatory at Williams Bay, Wis. “We realize,” said Dr. Oliver Lee, ‘aijector of Northwestern Univer- sitb’s Dearborn Observatory, “that thd Army and Navy are working on rts of things we know nothing abuut.” Dr. Lee said the discs might repre- sent the same sort of thing as send- ing radar signals to the moon, “one of the greatest technological achievements of the war and ac- complished in absolute secrecy.” | David Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, told the Denver Post in a brief telephone in- terview that the flying saucers were in no way connected with experi- ments in atomic energy, the trans- mutation of metals, or similar re- searcn. Col. F. J. Clark, commanding offi- cer of the Hanford Engineering Works in the Pacific Northwest where the largest saucer influx has been reported, said the saucers were not coming from the atomic plant there, ; Credence in the saucers—widely laughed off at their first’ reporjed appearance June 25—grew as hi dreds of observers, many of thkm trained flyers, reported seeing thtm. A crowd of 200 observed a disqat (See DISCOS, Page A-9.) er Lake, Idaho, on the Fourth uly. A group of 60 picnickers saw them at Twin Falls, Idaho, And in Portland, Oreg., so many resi- dents witnessed them on the Fourth: that the police department sent out. an all-cars, broadcast. A United Air Lines pilot of 14 years experience walked up the ramp’ to his plane at Boise, joking that “TIL believe in these discs when I see them.” Ten minutes later he radioed, shaken, that he had spot- ted five of them from his plane. He. was Capt. A. J. Smith. His co-pilot, Ralph Stevens, and his stewardess, | Miss Marty Monro, told the same ‘itnesses in two points of Cali- foyila and in Spokane—one of them Army Air Forces sergeant—re- seeing the discs Saturday. 0 persons in different sections of Charleston, 8. Gone of them al ~/easepaper reporter—said a flying) Saucer’ passed over Charleston head-| ing east at 7:20 p.m. Saturday 4t yout the same time two men bany, Oreg., saw a single dijc| a southward, halt, and retrace| its course before vanishing into a cloud. An Army Air Forces spokesman in Washington on July 3 said there was not enough fact to “warrant further investigation,” but the ‘Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, satd it was making a study. Saturday at Washington an) Army researcher admitted “we're mystified” and the Navy said it had| no theories. First Reported June 25. _ The first published report of “fly-| ing saucers” came from Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, businessman pilot, who reported at Pendleton, | /Oreg., on June 25 that he had seen nine of them flying at 1,200 miles an hour in formation, shifting position ike the tail of a kite,” over Wash-| ington State’s Cascade Mountains. Before seoffers had more than be- gun. to offer explanations such as “reflections,” “persistent vision” and “snow blindness,” an Oklahoma City private flyer, Byron Savage, said he had seen a similarly shaped object some weeks earlier but fear of ridi- cule kept him quiet. Then the reports began to filter in, mostly from individuals, The) discs were seen in Texes, in New Mexico, in Washington, Oregon, nia, Arizona and Nebraska. The number varied from one to a dozen, seen mostly by one or two people. | Seen by Group of 200. ‘Then the July 4 deluge hit. Two, hundred persons in one group and | 60 in another saw them in Idaho; | hundreds saw them in Oregon,| ‘Washington and other States! throughout the West. In Augusta,) Me., the Civil Aeronautics Admin- istration received a report that a dozen of the discs had been seen| there. And, for the first time, the Bast- ern States had their reports. Ob-| servers came in with reports from New Jersey, ‘Indiana, Kent Georgia, South Carolina and Cal ada's Atlantic seaboard, u Near unanimity was recorded « some of the discs’ characteristics MUL 6 194 2 MASHINGTON STAR Page Awl & An9 Idaho, Missouri, Colorado, Califor- |1 Michigan, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, ;_ és ie Json. E. A. Tamm_ Clegg. Glavin. Ladd t . Nichols. Rosen. Tracy. Carson, Egan. Gurnea. Harbo Hendon Jones Pennington __ + Quinn Tamm_ Mr. Miss Gandy. oP Nease round or oyal in shape, flat and @ with a peculiar undulating tin. Size was moot and by Capt. Smith of United “hard to judge” without the distance from the obs tothe objects. i 2 D.C. Area Residents Say They Saw ‘Flying Saucers’ | ‘Two Washington area residents today were on record as havit served the mysterious “f ported to have seen three or jof these objects at midnight: [while in the violnity of Pri Rone ra oe Mes as raj L (traveling verter ; rs, Martin Kole, 3202 lexandria housew! saw terrific speed, btight reflections, =