The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-08
Behind The
World News
BY WALTER BREEDE. JR..
i Associated Press Writer

BY WALTER BREEDE. JR.,
Associated Press Writer
We have not yet heard the last
word in the growing argument
about flying saucers.
! Are they real?
Or are they just a nightmarish
dream-the result of hyper-ae-
tive imaginaIlonsY
The Navy. the Air Force, the
National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics and other official
| groups continue to tell us:
There is no such thing. The
government is not experimenting
with flying saucers."
On the other hand, there has
been a furry of reports of late
that flying saucers do exist--and
that they are some kind of super
jet plane being built in great
secrecy for our Air Force and our
Navy
So whom are we to believe
those of rs who have never seen
a flying saucer?
Here are some of the many
theories and guesses being batted
, around at the present time:
In the camp of the skepticS
we find DIR. Robert Millikan, 81
yesr-old Nobel Prize winning
physicist and expert on cosmic
rays. He says most of the people
who claim to have seen the
silvery discs were suffering from
Authorizations.
The others, according to DR..
Millikan, either were looking at
some planet, like the moon, or
they mistook observation bal
looms for flying saucers.
That is at wide variance with
the views expressed by some
editors and radio commentators.
They predict amazing things
for the flying saucers. One
theory which has gained wide
accedence is that the discs which
are reported to have been seen
! in recent months are really ex-
perimental fighter planes, Jet
propelled. and possessing un-
believable maneuyerability and
speed
And here, word for word, is
description of the flying saucer,
as it appeared in nationally
circulated magazine:
Flying saucers, says the
magazine, ARE accepted as real.
Evidence is that they are aircraft
of revolutionary type, a COM
bination Of helicopter and fast
jet plane They conform to we'll
known principles of aeronautics.
And the magazine article goes
on to say: "An early model of
these saucers was built by U. S.
engineers in 1912, achieved more
than 100 successful test flights.
That project was taken over by
the Navy in wartime. Much more
advanced models are now being
built"
1t all makes very fascinating
| story.
But here, too, it might be well
to recall that truth can often be
more exciting than fiction. A
really breath-taking scheme is
outlined bv one of the nations
top experts on guided missiles.
The scientist, DIR. Charles Green,
emissions the day when guided
rockets will be shot into space
above the pull of gravity. And
there they'll hang, 100 miles from
the earth's surface DR.. Green
says you could bounce radar
signals off these made
satellites, and so locate any OBJ
ject you wanted to anywhere on
earth
Impossible?
Not at all, says DR.. Green. All
| that's needed is time, and money.
Now to leave the dream world
of science for a moment, and get
back to cold, hard facts
While the flying saucer stories
may or may not be true, there's
no escaping the unpleasant truth
that another German Air Force
is in the making.
Young Germans in the Russian
occupation zone are being trained
in the art of glidertflying.
This glider training business
proved very helpful to the Ger
mans before the war, when they
were not allowed. to have air
planes. ThousandSso f young Ger
mans formed glider clubs, and
became proficient glider pilots.
Later they formed the nucleus of
IIf4InY.,c n Force