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Not A ShredGroctritsOf EvidenceDALTON, Ohio -UP- An Air Force spokesman at nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has blown to smithereens thousands of flying saucer reports which have piled up during thelast 10 years.Lubbock, Texas,A top official of the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), with offices at Wright-Patterson,said:K!.‘£.V,'.*1. Not one bit of physical evidence of the existence of flying saucers has been found by the Air Force during its investigation of 5,700 reported sightings between 1947 and 1957.Y*'V • •; :*: • • :‘‘L.. *:'.• • .:? lt;: V* A -*■*s v . •• w - V •, •. \ V ,•vr;... •:;..• .v.v 1 -.s'* v ■--* • -I‘/'V'' ..a •• ' As - Vi-v- ••-$•■ , . ■ • - ..... - - jt * i . -IIW555H^Mi- • • • ‘‘lrv,*. r.j*4- 4 . - * ■ -. k.; - v-, .'n. : . ’■ t 't ,[Xv\ K- \v.I* : 1 , * ■ , ■ \I i , * ? f ■ : j , ,'.r”iNo Little Men”2. Not one single landing impression or footprint of any so-called flying saucer or crew member had ever been found by theAir Force.3. The Air Force has never and is not now holding any “little men” from outer space, as someflying saucer writers have hinted.4. The death of Capt. Thomas Mantell near Louisville, Ky., during the late 1940’s while he was chasing an unidentified flying object. resulted from anoxia, or lack of oxygen. The object he w’as chasing was concluded to ba a Navy meteorological balloon.Flew Too HighMantell’s death resulted, as determined by a medical board and an aircraft accident investigating board, after he flew his P-51 too high without oxygen.5. Conclusions regarding thevalidity of sauccr-sightings w-ere reached by independent scientists under contract by the Air Force and not by Air Force personnel, the ATIC official said.6. It is true that about three per cent of the sightings are filed under unknown,” but all of these» i t ; \ . i ■ , W,v •» Y'i'v -y\’, - ■ .-'I:•'* •: •• iy *;v -*. V .-r% .. 1-xY'^.Vv: a: Ai j» - |S‘ I * '... ... j i ^ ••• . .I[*x ;•I /. \.p 'J !K- i ... .. ■ (- ■ , T , , I 4T V , ,»• V -■• »■’r .I*-.'*v'.LA'-* n‘-fj.V:r. T i ,MACARONI■WlWALTER REBMAN AN I. Judge Blocks P• •Judgi To Pig Into CosPetition Of EldAdopt FormerSPAGHETTIPUREEGGNOODLESIt\00^01*+SEBRING, Fla. CIV-Orcuit Juc missed a 76-year-old man’s petitioi ordered the couple to show cause w ed Oct. 21 should not be set aside Kinsey said it appeared that t vorce decree was obtained by collus court which may result in a judic The petition for adoption of Vi her former husband, Walter H. ReBorden Co. in New York.Mrs. Rebman charged mental c Rebman and his former wife i the arrangement would benefit botl liance and dependence on each otl the past 10 years,” and have mutu Mrs. Rebman is a real estate children by previous marriages.Wwould also be indentifiable if complete reports and data could beICCUIvue• Stimulate* Reports7. Sputniks 1 and 2 have donemuch to stimulate sightings w here nothing might otherwise have been seen.I. Recent sightings of unknown objects In North Texas and Springfieeld, Ohio, will almost certainly be explainable when investigators have concluded inquiries now being conducted.Preliminary studies out of Springfield already show that the lights may have been a cloud ceiling light,” the official added.11jI(itIt1
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Lubbock Evening Journal

Lubbock, Texas, US

Thu, Nov 07, 1957

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