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Subject: July 3,1947 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Date: 3 Jul 93 09:33:31 GMT

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St Louis Post-Dispatch

July 3, 1947

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ARMY GETS AROUND TO CHECKING `FLYING DISC' AND IS MYSTIFIED

WASHINGTON, July 3 (UP)- Army research experts can't explain the

" flying saucers" reported seen in several western states, but they are

investigating, they said.

The Army air forces has checked all of their researc authorities

and contractors, but none of them knew or could sugest anything concrete

about the "saucers.

At first, Army officers laughed off the reports. Now they are

beginning to take them at least a little seriously. At any rate, the Air

Research Center at Wright Field, O., is looking into the reports, and all

service intelligence agencies are at work on them.

Army experts suggested-as a bare possibillity-that some civilian

inventer has been making experiments of some kind.

The possibillity that the discs might be of foreign origin was

indirectly put forward by an A.A.F. spokesman who said:

"If some foreign power is sending flying discs over the United

States, it is our responsibillity to know about it and take proper action."

Meanwhile eight more names were added to the list of persons who

say they have seen strange objects in the sky.

E. E. Unger, meteorologist in charge of the United States Weather

Bureau at Louisville, Ky., said today he saw one of the mysterious discs

objects last night when leaving a Louisville theater.

In Boise, Lt. Governor Donald S. Whitehead revealed that last June

24, the day Keneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho, said he saw speeding objects

wavering through the air along the slopes of Mount Rainer, he and Head

Justice of the Peace, J. M. Lampert observed a strange, comet-like object

hanging in the western sky.

Dick Rankin, a former Portland (Ore.) flyer with more than 7000

hours air time, declared he saw the mysterious discs over Bakersfield,

Calif., going 300 to 400 miles an hour June 23.

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Now a comment from ****DON****,

I find it interesting to note at this time the quoted witnesses are

not yet as Mr. Bill Moore phrased "two farmers along the Mississippi

river.." (I hope you don't mind me quoting you Mr. Moore), but are:

a) E. E. Unger United States Weather Bureau Meteorologists

b) Donald S. Whitehead Lt. Governor Boise, Idaho

c) J. M. Lampert Head Justice of the Peace

d) Dick Rankin A former flyer with 7000 hrs. flight time.

It would seem to me that the meteorologist would have been able to

identify a "WEATHER BALLOON" if he had seen one. And it also would seem

dificult for a weather balloon to travel 300 to 400 miles an hour if it had

been a "WEATHER BALLOON" as stated by the pilot who again would seem to me

to be a reliable source as to the velocity of the object he saw. And of

course you have a Lt. Governor and a Head Justice of the Peace, hardly

incompetent sources.

In later articles when "the Army and Navy began a concentrated

campaign to stop the rumors" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch 07-09-47 UP) the

citizens are told that hundreds of these weather balloons are sent aloft by

many organizations throught the U.S. each and evey day.

The articles are there, look for them your self, seek and you will

find. Please look for them and post them also.

****DON****

***********Internet:sempco!donn@wupost.wustl.edu(Don Nellesen)************

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