The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-06

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At Columbus. Ohio. Louis E.
Starr, national commander-in-cb;af
OF the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
asserted at a VFW convention he
Was expecting information from
Washington about "the fleets of
lying saucers.' TOO little is be-
ing told to the people of this coun-
try Starr declared.
Two Chicago astronomers said
the discs are probably "man
made The undulating, flashing
OBJECTS couldn't be meteors.
SAID DR.. Girard Kieuper. director
OF the University of Chicago's
9erNes observatory at Williams
Bay, Wis.
I'VE realize" said DR.. Oliver
Lee, director of Northwestern Uni.
verslty's Dearborn observatory.
that the Army and NAVY ara
working on all sorts of things we
know nothing about" ~
Lee said the discs might repre-
sent the same sort of thino a.,
sendlng radar signals to the moons
one OF the greatest chronological
achievements. Of the war and ac-
compllshed in absolute secrecy"
Liz unnamed scientist quoted by
the Los Angeles Herald and ex.
press said, according to the paper
nat these saucers so-called are
capable of high speeds but can be
controlled from the ground. Thew
are ~ feet in width in the center
ana are partially rocket propelled
on The takeoff.
The scientists report of .trans-
mutation of atomic energy" how
ever, was scoffed at by DR.. Harold
Urey, atom scientist. "You can
tansmute metals, not energy" he
said.
Col. F. J. Clark, commanding Of
nicer of the Hanford engineering
works in the Pacific northwest
where the largest saucer influx has
been reported, said the saucer
Were not coming from the atomic
plant there.
i have been waiting for some.
n to tie the discs to the Ham
ford atomic plant" he said. He
declared that at far as he knew
no experiments were underway
there which would solve the Tvs
cry.
Credence in the saucers-idelv
laughed off at their first report
ca appearance June 25-grew as
hundreds of observers. many of
them trained fliers, reported see
ing them.
A crowd OF 200 observed a
disc at Hauser Lake, Idaho, on the
Fourth of July. A group of go pic
nickers saw them at Twin Falls.
Idaho. And in Portland, Ore, SO
many residents witnessed them
hat same day the police depart
ment sert cut an all-cars broad
cast.
A United Air Lines pilot Of IA
years experience walked up the
ramp to his plane at Buise, jok-
ing that "1n believe in these discs
when 1 see them" Ten minutes
later he radioed. shaken, from
his plane that he had spotted five
of them.
Witnesses in two points Of Cali
fornia and in Spokane-one Of
them an Army Air Force sergeant
reported seeing the discs Satur-
day.
Two persons in different, Sec
tons of Charleston, S. Cone of
them a newspaper reported-said
a flying saucer passed over Char
lesion heading East at $40 pm.
EST, Saturday at about the same
time two men in Albany, Ore.
saw a single disc flash southwark,
halt, and retrace. its course before
vanishing into a cloud.
Throughout the West and at
other scattered points hundreds
of persons insisted they saw the
mysterious sky dies skimming far
overhead.
Both ground and aerial observers
reported they saw the strange
saucers over Idaho, Oregon, Wash
ington, California, Michigan, Penn
sylvania, Louisiana, and Canada's
East coast Prince Edward island.
Nearly all observers said the
saucers they saw were round, flat
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