Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: July 8, 1947 Army Tells What Discs Are Not
Date: 8 Jul 93 06:27:45 GMT
Organization: Sim's Electronic Musicians' Publishing Company
The folowing is from the:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 8, 1947
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ARMY TELLS WHAT DISCS ARE NOT
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WASHINGTON, July 8 (UP)-Official Washington was sure today that it
knew what the flying saucers were not-but it hadn't the faintest idea what
they were.
The Army Air Forces said they had the matter under investigation.
Preliminary study has disclosed that the flying discs are not:
1.Secret bacteriological weapons designed by some foreign power.
2.New-type Army rockets.
3.Space ships.
Privately, some air Forces officers say the saucers are not-and let
it go at that. But officially, the A.A.F. said it is "keeping an open mind"
because the discs have been reported by so many normally responsible
persons.
"No such phenomena can be explained by any experiments being
cunducted by the A.A.F.," the official report said. "The statements of
witnesses are being correlated in an effort to identify the reported
objects."
Rear. Adm. Paul F. Lee, director of the naval research laboratory,
said tersely: "We concur in the Army announcement."
A guided missiles expert attached to the naval research laboratory
said he had seen one of the "saucers." Dr. C. J. Zohn said he and two
fellow scientists spotted it June 29, at White Sands, N.M. When he reported
the finding to the Army, he said, he got nothing but knowing smiles.
"We noticed a glare in the sky," he said. "We looked up and saw a
silvery disc whirling along. We watched the thing for nearly 60 seconds and
then it simply disappeared. It didn't go behind a mountain range. At one
time it was clearly visible, and then it just wasn't there.
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For your smiling pleasure, the next article directly follows the
previous in the Post-Dispatch:
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REAL SAUCERS IN THE AIR
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PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 8 (AP)-Many persons have seen the mysterious
"flying saucers," but Connie Dunbar knows the source of the ones he saw.
Dunbar, who said he was struck by saucers thrown by his wife, Mrs
Bessie Dunbar, was granted a divorce yesterday by Judge Harry H. Roward.
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