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Pilots Lose Flying SaucerMITCHEL FIELD. N. Y. —— Two Air Fort* Jet pilots reported today they chased a mysterious, round' flying: object-travelling at a speed they estimated at 900-miles-an-hour-for 30 miles and*couldn’t catch It.Wilbert S. Rogers, of Columbia. Pa., told Mitchel field authorities that he and Capt. Edward Ballard, of Dover, Del., sighted the object yesterday over Sandy Hook, N. J., while they were on a rout ne flight in a T-33 jet training plane.“I don’t know If it was a flying saucer, but it sure was something I’ve never seen before, Lt. Rogers, pilot of the plane, said.We couldn't have caught it Inan F-86.”The F-86 Saber Jet is the United States’ fastest jet fighter.Rogers described the object as white or silver-colored and said it was about the sixe of a fighter plane.Lt. Rogers and Capt. Ballard, on a flight from Dover Air Base in* New Jersey, said when they sighted the object they were travelling at 450-miles an hour at20.000 feet.“I pointed it out to Capt. Ballard, Rogers said, “who suggested we try to follow it. But we soon found It was no use. It was going too fast.The object moved in an arcfrom Sandy llook to Redbank, N.and then headed out to sea at Asbur.v Park, N. J„ Rogers said. He estimated it travelled the 30 mile course in two minutes, or at a speed of 900-miles-an-hour.The U. S. Air Force and Navy have officially said that flying saucers reported previously had been nothing more than weather balloons.“This couldn't have been a balloon, Rogers said, because 1t was descending and no balloon goes that fast.”He said they got as close as8,000 feet from the object which kept a constant speed and didn’t appear to be running away.”
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Dunn, North Carolina, US
Tue, Sep 11, 1951
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