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SUBJECT: CALIFORNIA SHERIFF SPOTS FLYING SAUCER FILE: UFO1392
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From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 8, 1947
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SAUCER TALES
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WAGS HAVE FIELD DAY WITH DISKS
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By United Press
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Flying saucers whirled back and forth, up and down and out to
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sea over Southern California today, sporting like fish and giving
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off low whistles.
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Waggish skywriters added to the excitement by painting two
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circles and the word saucers in mile-long letters.
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<< AVENAL, Calif., July 8 (UP) - Deputy Sheriff Weldon Sams was
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driving through a quiet residential area here Sunday when a
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flying disk whizzed past his windshield.
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He stopped. A second flying saucer came even closer. It was
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about the size of a pie pan.
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He looked around. It was a pie pan.
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The deputy sheriff said he found he was in the middle of a
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family argument. A young housewife was having a dispute about
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who would do the dishes.
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The argument led to crockery throwing, the husband fled the
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house - and Sams ended up in the middle. >>
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One spinning platter was reported to have crashed in a grove
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of almond trees near Lancaster.
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"Fifteen or 20 trees were set afire" a witness" said.
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Ranch owner Fritz Godde said it wasn't so.
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The saucers looked like "silvery eggs in a straight line" to
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Redlands truck driver H.J. Stell who saw eight of them swishing
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towards March Field at 6:12 a.m. yesterday.
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Riverside Rancher R.V. Allen said "a whole school" of the
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objects passed overhead near Ontario.
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"They played about in the air like perch do in water," he said.
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Platters sailed over A.B. Runner's Ontario home "so low I could
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hear the motor."
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Evelyn Keel said 15 persons saw 2 saucers yesterday morning
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from the back lot of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers Culver City studio.
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"They kept circling higher and higher until they disappeared,"
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she said. "You may think I'm nuts."
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Jerry McAdams said he saw a disc "big as a house" flying north
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over Coldwater Canyon Park, Beverly Hills, yesterday afternoon.
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"It seemed to give off a low whistle as it disappeared, he said.
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One man said he saw 6 disks "the size of small plates" hover
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over a power line when he went outside to find the cause of
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static in his radio.
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Hall Hibbard, Lockheed vice-president in charge of engineering
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said he knew of no secret aviation projects which would have the
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slightest bearing on the disks.
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"They're either reflections from planes or the result of mass
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hysteria and the desire of various persons to get their names in
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the paper," he said.
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**********************************************
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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