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Neither tooted anyauthority for their Elements.'Two Type»said that thAe are two types of “flying sauc4s” which the military has clJsified as secret.One, he said, .is a termless, pilotless disk which \ usually disintegrates in the air.'its purpose, he said, is a top Militarysecret. \Ho enirl fhp nth or ic thAV*»so-called flying phantom or jet-propelled XF-5-U-1. The Navy,he said, is experimenting with the radical plane at its Patuxent, Mr., test center.U. S. News said simply thatthe saucers are revolutionary new planes, probably developed by the Navy as part of its guided missile experiments.“Good News”Taylor said the real facts behind both types of saucer are good news for the nation.On type is the true flying saucer, he said, a disc that whizzes through space, halts suspended in the air, soars to 30,000 feet and more, drops to 1,000 feet, and then usually disinte-ftThe saucers are harm-said, that the♦ *saucer experiments began, and they have been expanded constantly ever since. As Taylor described the “truesaucers,” there are severaltypes, but no one is inside any of them. Some are flat and99er,' because they disappear in the air after a given time. But. because there is a possibility that thev will fall to the earth intact, something is printed on the saucers.These words, Taylor said, are edged upward like a saucer, he stencilled in black letters on said, while others are raised in every real saucer: the center, more like a pie. “Military secret of the UnitedNo Smoke, Sound States of American Army Air“Some are guided,” he added “Others are not. Thev have noForcethen thi• * «and a number, andgrates.less, pilotless discs, ranging from 20 inches to 250 feet in diameter.stream of light or smoke, or indication of a propelling mechanism, and no sound. “Momentarily thev can standstationary in the air—so you can see them . . . then they dash off to lefthe said, and they’ve been haunting the skies for three years.On March 27, Taylor toldor right, wobbling and picking up sneed in a lazy sort of wav until thev movev •'like lightning. But they are utterly harmless.“I know what these so-called ‘flving saucers' are used for . . .about a “flying saucerwhich verv important and wonderful, was found on the ground in Tex-1 Taylor said the chances were as.“Anyone damaging or revealing description or whereabouts of this missile is subject to prosecution by the United States government, call collect at once.” Then there is a long distance telephone number, and the address of a U. S. air base, and finally the words, in big. black letters:“Non-exniosive.” He finallydiscovered that there are two great mvsteries in the skies instead of one.For the second mvstervlt;1inslight that anyone had found an ! our skies has not only been seenrvriorir^Ql rynnnino ‘^Krinnt ouno. hi it folt liirrlT in oir ” H a“... This object roars through .July 21, lb-18, andthe night with flames pouring described in detail.from squares on the edge of the body-fu elage that look like windows.which thevu to .* iBridg zenship never 1ing theIh* •And it is wingless.”Pancake ShapedTavlor said that in addition toalso listed the bona fidesaucers” sighted bv variousThev were:the ecuOn Spersons.Nine flying discs sighted on j plied t the West Coast bv United Air-other models, which he could lines Capt. K. .1. Smith, his co-not mention, the phantom is a pilot and stewardess.great jet airplane which really looks like and is shaped like apancake.“It has roughly circular outline,” he said. “Around the edge of its disc-like body is a series of jet-engine louvres (ventilators). These are squares framing the blazing light of* the exhausts. Thev are not windows. Its jet motors are inside the pancake shape and flying at night it looks for all the world like a flat flaming disc in the air. and flies faster than I am permitted to say.Taylor said it was such an object which was seen by Eastern Airline Pi lots Capt. Clarence S. Chiles and Pilot John B. Whit-t Of I nvpr Mnnt^omprv AinFive flying discs sighted by Fred M. Johnson in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.The 100-foot disc flying high on a blight, clear Sunday morn-ing on April 1949 over New Mexico.The disc spotted by eight fliers in four planes and four men in the control tower, over Columbus, O.The disc—at least 250 feet in diameter—sighted Jan 7. 1948. over Madisonville, Kv., bv the state police and by Thomas F. Mantell, Jr.. who died while chasing it in an F-51.The saucer 20-inches in diameter and six inches thick which was found in Galveston Bay.Tov nrsrl thpn hnchpH nnnow or to the United not: I 1ThisTheever, p com mu they ha ous Cofrom 1! said hees' was a cafe c terfromhe sawtional ciist Part*Alt homakes cdent ofIv regaicific Co.
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