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0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) “/NOTHING REMOTELY RELATED' ysterious Object Amazes Saucer Skeptic A veteran airline pilot who once denounced fly- ing saucers as “bunk” has reported encountering a mysterious unidentified flying object near Mobile, Ala. Capt. W. J. Hull of Capital Airlines described the inci- dent in a report published by , “The UFO Investigator,” qiagazine of the unofficial Ny tional Investigations Commit tee on Aerial Phenomena, 1536 Connecticut-av nw. Capt. Hull wrote an article for a pilots’ magazine in 1953 || titled “The Obituary of the Flying Saucer.” His experi- ence described in the “investi- gator” took place Nov. 14, 1956. He did not suggest what he saw was a flying saucer. % Capt. Hull said he was fly. ing a Viscount at about 10, 000 feet near Mobile, at 10:10 . m., When he and his co- lot spotted what, we {pought was a brilliant He said the “meteor” was descending rapidly, but in- stead of burning out with the usual flash, “it abruptly halt- ed directly in front of us.” “Tt was an intense blue white light, approximately seven or eight times as bright as Venus when this planet is at its brightest magnitude,” he wrote. He said he thought the ob-) ject might be a jet fighter, turning away from the alr- liner and giving the pilots a view of its glowing tailpipe. But he said instead of grow- ing smaller, the light re- mained in front of the Vis- count. Capt. Hull wrote that the “UFO)) (unidentified flying object) then} began a_ series of violent mdneuvers, “sharp- er than any|known aircraft, sometimes clanging direction | NOT RECORDED 1 OCT £41957 Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Trotter Nease Tele. Room Holloman Gandy 90 degrees in an instant.” It finally zoomed up at an ex- tremely sharp angle and shot out of sight, he added. He said his own plane was above the clouds, “preclud: ing any reflections of search lights from below.” There's accent local sports in The News \eports pages. “ Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News fa Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Journal-. American N. Y. Mirror Wield N. Y. Daily News N. Y. Times Daily Worker The Worker New Leader b Vit - sete ly pe Ge Date