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SUBJECT: SAUCERS SPOTTED IN 36 STATES FILE: UFO1391
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From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 7, 1947
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FLYING SAUCERS HAVE U.S. "NUTS" SEEN EVERYWHERE
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 7 (AP) - From one end of the country to
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the other, new reports of disc-like "flying saucers" skimming
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through the skies today added to the mystery which has baffeled
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the nation since June 25.
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There were no satisfactory explaination of the phenomenon. The
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saucers were first reported seen in the state of Washington on
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June 25. Then persons in other western states said they had seen
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them. The peak came over the July 4 holiday, when they were first
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reported seen east of the Mississippi.
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The latest tabulation showed the mystery objects had been
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reported seen in 36 states, the District of Columbia and in
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Canada.
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Yesterday they were reported seen in more than a dozen states
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and in south-western Ontario.
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An aerial patrol by the Oregon National Guard failed to sight
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one of the objects. The guard planned to send a plane today to a
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spot near St. Maries, Idaho, where a woman said 10 persons saw
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eight of the discs disappear in timber on July 3.
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Kenneth Arnold, businessman-pilot of Boise, Idaho, first
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reported seeing the discs. He said he saw 9 flying in formation
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at 1,200 miles an hour over the Cascade mountains. Other observers
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have given the objects varing speeds. In at least one case they
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seemed to be suspended in the air.
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KNOCKS ONE DOWN
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BOZEMAN Mont., July 7 (UP) - A P-38 pilot reported today that he
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knocked down a "flying saucer" - he called it a "flying yoyo" -
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yesterday over the Tobacco Root mountains in Western Montana.
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Vernon Baird, Los Angeles, pilot for the Fairchild Photo-
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grammetric Engineer's company, said he tangled with the "yoyo"
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while flying a P-38 for the firm. The company is mapping the area
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between Helena and Yellowstone Park for the reclamation bureau.
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Baird said he and his photographer, George Suttin, Los Angeles
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were flying 360 miles an hour at 32,400 feet when he turned to
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check an oil distribution mechanism.
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"There about 100 yards behind me was the yoyo," Baird said.
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"It was a pearl-gray clam-shaped airplane, with a plexiglass
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dome on top. It was about 15 feet in diameter and about 4 feet
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thick".
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The curious yoyo overhauled the P-38 and Baird took evasive
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action.
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"The yoyo got caught in my propwash and the thing came apart
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like a clamshell. The two pieces spiraled down somewhere in the
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Madison Range.
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Baird said that after the yoyo fell apart he looked around and
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saw several of them darting around "like a batch of molecules
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doing the rumba."
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Baird said he was too busy handeling his plane to notice if
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there was a man inside the gadget.
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His photographer didn't think about his camera until it was
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too late to get a picture, Baird said.
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PORT COSTA, Calif., July 7 (AP) - The phenomenon of the flying
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saucers may be linked in some mysterious manner with the economic
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trend, Ralph Dinsmore reported today.
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Soberly, he noted that he had observed a formation of flying
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saucers in the vicinity of Mt. Diablo: "The middle saucer seemed
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to have an object on it that looked like a cup of coffee.
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Traveling behind the one with the coffee was another with a sign
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that said 5 cents. As I watched, the 5 cent sign seemed to give
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way to a 10 cent figure and at the same time the amount of
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coffee in the saucer cup grew considerably less. The sugar shrank
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noticably and the cream disappeared entirely."
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Three San Leandro policemen said they saw a flying saucer last
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night. It approached from the west, they related, hovered over
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San Leandro at a height of 10,000 feet for half an hour, then
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disappeared. Oakland and San Leandro police received several
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telephone calls during this period from residents who declared,
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they too, had seen the flying aerial platter.
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Private First Class Robert O'Hara of Hamilton Field, Marin
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County said he saw a 40 foot disc over the field. He estimated
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it's altitude at 6,000 feet.
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Frank Tylman, a construction engineer and WWI flyer, said he
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and his son, Danny, 9, saw a saucer at 8:20 a.m., Sunday, 2 miles
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west of Pittsburg, Contra Costa County.
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"It was shooting towards Mt. Diablo," Tyman stated. "It
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revolved in a counter-clockwise direction, as he viewed it.It was
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probably 3,000 feet up and appeared to move faster than a jet
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plane. It might have had the span of a P-80, was silver in color,
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circular in shape, and had difinite thickness, being curved
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outward on both upper and lower surfaces. It left no smoke or
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vapor behind it."
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BY UNITED PRESS
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Army pilots went aloft today for another search for the
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mysterious "flying saucers" now reported seen in 31 states and
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parts of Canada.
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Equiped with telescopic cameras, 11 army planes searched the
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Pacific Northwest yesterday without finding any trace of the
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flying discs which had been reported over scores of communities
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the preceding two days.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 4 (AP) - A flight of about 30
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flying saucers was observed at 10:35 a.m. (PST) today over the
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San Carlos area, Stanley Miramon and his mother, Mrs. Marie
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Maranta reported.
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Miramon said the group circled over one spot northeast of San
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Carlos, at an altitude of 2,000 feet. They were round, silvery in
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color, and "about the size of an automobile."
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He said a two engine transport plane was in the same general
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area and it appeared the pilot saw the "things" and headed toward
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them.
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Miramon said he ran into the house to telephone a newspaper,
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and by the time he returned to the street the objects were gone.
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NEW TWIST
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PALMDALE, Calif. July 7 (UP) - Mrs. Amy Herdliska reported a
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new twist on the nation's mysterious "flying saucers" today.
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She told the sheriff's office she saw a "parent disc" leading
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five smaller discs over the mountains. The smaller ones, she said
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seemed to fly away from the larger disc then return and seemed to
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be absorbed by it. Like baby chicks hiding under a mother hen's
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wings.
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SONOMA, Calif., July 7 (UP) - General H. H. (Hap) Arnold, head
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of the army air forces during WWII, said today the discs could be
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a development of United States scientisits not yet perfected.
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He also speculated that they could be the development of some
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foreign scientists and were operating out of control.
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The general's third guess was just plain jet fighting planes.
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**********************************************
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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