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From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 3, 1947
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MORE "FLYING SAUCERS" REPORTED
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ARMY EXPERTS PUZZLED
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Persons in six states, including the lieutenant governor of
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Idaho, today reported that they had seen the mysterious "flying
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saucers".
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The projectiles, variously described as "too fast for an air-
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plane and not fast enough for a falling star, not moving at all"
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and "traveling at great speed," were reported seen again last
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night streaking over Denver.
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It was the first report of the "saucers" in almost a week.
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Persons in Oregon, California, New Mexico, and Idaho reported
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seeing verious versions of the unexplained projectiles last week.
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<< Lieutenant Governor Donald S. Whitehead of Idaho said today
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that he saw a strange comet-like object hanging in the western
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sky on June 24. That was the day Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho
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first reported seeing the projectiles over south-eastern
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Washington. >>
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Their stories varied. Arnold had estimated the projectiles
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speed at 1,200 miles an hour. Whitehead said the objects he and
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three other witnesses saw "didn't move, but just seemed to go
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below the horizon with the rotation of the earth".
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<< WASHINGTON, JULY 3 (UP) Army research experts can't find
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an explain the "flying saucers" reported in several states. But
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they are investigating, they said.
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They are even considering the possibility, however remote,
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that some foreign power may have something to do with the flying
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discs.
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The army air forces checked all of their research authorities
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and contractors. But none of them knew or could suggest anything
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concrete about the saucers. >>
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At Denver, Henry Martin and Walter Harrod said they caught a
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brief glimpse of a group of "bright objects" flying at about
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5,000 feet last night. Martin said they looked like coffee can
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tops. They were traveling in a south-westerly direction, he said.
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State Highway Patrol Sergeant David Menary, of San Francisco's
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Golden Gate bridge detail, reported seeing about a dozen bright
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metal objects "about the size of a football" whizz over San
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Francisco Bay yesterday and fall into the sea.
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Dick Rankin, former Portland, Oregon flyer said he saw the
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discs high over Bakersfield, California going from 300 to 400
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miles an hour June 23. There were 10 of them in formation, flying
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north, he said.
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Three metalic gleaming were reported seen for the first time
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in Southern California by Mrs. Ernest Michel of Beverly Hills and
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her daughter, Marian. "They were going around and around in a
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circle," Mrs. Michel said. "We watched them for 10 minutes before
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they disappeared."
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Tiny, meteor-like tails were "clearly discernible," she said. |