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o Saucers’ Trace F ound (Aske Checks Schmidt; Kearngy Amused Tales of flying saucers and other such SpaCe—CestT got ie unofficial raspberry Wednesday night from an | Air Force official. | A top official of the Air | Technical ter at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio told the) Dayton Journal-Herald his in- yestigators have found no | evidence in the past 10 years |that flying saucers are real. sightings wete investigated \between 1947 and 1957. Not a single landing impression, | footprint, saucer or little green man was found. eee on On pire anes tory ol afte isit with ‘crew of a space ship near the city Tuesday was still under investigation, officials said. Intelligence Cen- | He said 5,700 reported | Schmidt, 48, an ex-Nebras~) \kgn and now a California ‘gain dealer, was question¢d Air Force inyestigatos frpm the Continental Air De- lfénse Command. Oil fouhd| \near the alleged landing spot lof the space ship was identi- fied as ordinary but will be! | tested by the University of Nebraska. While the Schmidt tale was giving Kearney a sensational | conversation piece, most of | the talk was of a skeptical] | variety: \ Newsmen Busy “Everybody downtown _seems to think it’s a big joke,” one business man said. | A Kearney clothier put up a sign advertising “space ship specials.” A window sign in a cat agency announced: | “Space Ships Tuned Up.” The Kearney car-rental \Operator reported business was so good all of his cars | were in use. They were being vented by visiting newsmen. Presence of the newsmen. wRs nearly the only sign at) vaything unusual had hép-| “p nee — or may have hgp: y