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SUBJECT: ARMY NAVY CRACK DOWN FILE: UFO2728
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From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 9, 1947
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FLYING DISC TALES DECLINE
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AS ARMY, NAVY CRACK DOWN
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By United Press
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Reports of flying saucers whizzing through the sky fell off sharply
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today as the army and navy began a concentrated campaign to stop the
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rumors.
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One by one, persons who thought they had their hands on the $3,000
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offered for a genuine flying saucer found their hands full of nothing.
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Headquarters of the 8th army at Fort Worth, Texas. announced that
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the wreakage of a tin-foil covered object found on a New Mexico ranch
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was nothing more than the remanants of a weather ballon. AAF
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headquarters in Washington reportedly delivered a "blistering" rebuke
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to officers at the Roswell, New Mexico, base for suggesting that it
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was a "flying disc."
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A 16 inch aluminum disc equiped with two radio condensers, a
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flourescent light switch and copper tubing found by F.G. Harston near
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the Shreveport, Louisiana, business district was declared by police to
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be "obviously the work of a prankster." Police believed the prankster
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hurled it over a sign board and watched it land at Harston's feet. It
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was turned over to officials at Barksdale army air field.
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U.S. navel intelligence officers at Pearl Harbor investigated clains
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by 100 navy men that they saw a mysterious object "silvery colored,
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like aluminum, with no wings or tail," sail over Honolulu at a rapid
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clip late yesterday. The description fit a weather ballon but 5 of the
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men, familiar with weather obsevation devices, swore that it was not a
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ballon.
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"It moved extremely fast for a short period, seemed to slow down,
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then disappeared high in the air," said Yeoman 1/C Douglas Kacherle of
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New Bedford, Massachusetts. His story was corroborated by Seaman 1X
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Donald Ferguson, Indianapolis; Yeoman 3/C Morris Kzamme, La. Crosse,
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Wisconsin, Seaman 1/C Albert Delancey, Salem, West Virginia, and
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Yeoman 2/C Ted Pardue, McClain, Texas.
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Admiral William H. Blandy, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet,
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said like everyone else he was curious about the reported flying
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saucers "but I do not believe they exist."
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Lloyd Bennett, Oelwein, Iwoa, salesman, was stubborn about the shiny
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6 1/2-inch steel disc he found yesterday. Authorities said it was not
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a "flying saucer" but Bennett said he would claim the reward offered
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for the mysterious discs.
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There were other discards. Not all the principles were satisfied
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with the annoucement that the wreakage found on the New Mexico ranch
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was that of a weather ballon.
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The excitement ran through this cycle:
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1. Lt. Warren Haught, public relations officer at the Roswell base,
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released a statement in the name of Col. William Blanchard, bsae
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commander. It said that an object described as a "flying disc" was
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found on the nearby Foster ranch 3 weeks ago by W.W. Brazel and been
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sent to "higher officials" for examination.
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2. Brigadier General Roger B. Ramey, commander of the 8th air force,
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said at Fort Worth that he believed the object was the "remnant of a
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weather ballon and a radar reflector," and was "nothing to be excited
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about" He allowed photographers to take a picture of it. It was
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announced that the object would be sent to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio
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for examination by experts.
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3. Later, Warrant Officer Irving Newton, Stessonville, Wisconsin,
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weather officer at Fort Worth, examined the object and said definitely
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that it was nothing but a badly smashed target used to determine the
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direction and velocity of high altitude winds.
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4. Lt. Haught reportedly told reporters that he has been "shut up by
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two blistering phone calls from Washington."
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5. Efforts to contact Col. Blanchard brought the information that "he
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is now on leave."
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6. Maj. Jesse A. Marcel, intelligence officer of the 509th bombardment
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group, reportedly told Brazel, the finder of the object, that "it has
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nothing to do with army or navy so far as I can tell."
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7. Brazel told reporters that he has found weather ballon equip- ment
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before, but had seen nothing that had resembled his latest find.
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8. Those men who saw the object said it had a flowered paper tape
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around it bearing the initials "D.P."
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