Evening star., 1952-08-02

ing next Thursday.
Suucers
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the program and voiced the theory
that the objects known as flying
Saucers were visitors from outer
space.
Firm i'm His Belief.
I'm firmly convinced that we
have visitors from outer space,
other planets or their satellites, /"
Mr.. Reidel declared. He is a
special project engineer working
on large guided missiles for North
American Aviation Corp.
Some Of the reports, he ad-
mitted, were the product of hal
lucination.
Part of the program was tele-
cast from a DC-3 bearing photog-
raphers and reporters and flying
over the Capital. AS it flew at an
average altitude of 5000 feet, il
was watched on the radar screen
of the Central Traffic Control
Center at National Airport.
Nothing unusual was sighted in
the late evening haze. .,.-ss
The CAA also reported no un-
usual "blips" on it's radar screen
lat National Airport.
Meantime. the nerve center of
the Nations air defense admitted
today it is involved in. the flying
saucer situation. Headquarters of
the Air Force Air Defense Com
mand. near Colorado Springs,
Colo, reported there had been a
furry of reports of saucers for the
last two weeks.
Planes Kept on Alert.
And so seriously are the reports
regarded that fast interceptor
planes are kept on the ready to
go aloft to find out what goes on
If possible.
This is not merely for saucers,
however. The system is the same
as that worked out to meet any
enemy attack.
The ADO isn't saying what
might have been found. Findings
are turned over to technical ex-
|perts at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base at Dayton. Ohio.
And the experts there had an
experience to ponder in their own
back yard. .-
Jet interceptor pilots reported
to base officials that they saw an
object in the sky which they didn't t
think was a light reflection. The
interceptors were sent aloft at
las am. after the Air Force had
received five or six reports of
flying saucers.
The pilots were Maj. James B.
Smith and 1t. Donald-.J TIemer.
The Air Technical Intelligence
Center Immediately barred the
two from talking publicly and
barred pictures of them. =.
Salem Pictures Released.
Coast Guard headquarters here
released picture Of four mys-
terious blazes of light in the sky,
taken from its Salem fMass.) air
station at 10:35 am. July 16. The
picture showed four large light
spots in a sort of "V" formation
lin the sky.
The man who took the picture
said the objects did not strike
him at the time as flying saucers''
and they didn't look solid"
Shell r. Alpert. 81, Salem Air
Station photographer. said he
sighted several brilliant white
lights" through the window of his
photography laboratory. Because
the observed them for only few
seconds, he was unable to. identify
their size or speed.
Larger in Photograph.
"One thing I did notice." Mr..
IAlpert said. was that the lights
looked considerably larger In the
photograph than they did when
II saw them"
At Albany. N. Y, flotillas of
mysterious bright. shiny objects
were reported flying high in the
sky over South Central New York.
Hundreds of persons said they
|saw them. But jet pilots from
|Griffiss Air Force Base at Rome,
IN. Y. said they could find moth
ling.
Danville, Vas first flying sau-
Ger report came in last night. A.
wv. Smith. q mill employe there,
said he saw a flaming object--"it
Iresembled a railroad fiare"-fiy-
ing up from the south at a low
altitude.