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Real Facts' Disclose Flying Saucer/WASHINGTON, '(U.R) — Two new “real” stories of flying saucers today provoked vigorous denials im the Armed Forces that the} are, in reality, secret U. S. weapons.Both the Air fCorce and the Navy said flatlyUhat they are not experimenting with any plane or weapon hat could account for wide-s|read reports about the flying dfcks. •But Radio C'onnfentator Henry .). Taylor and I’ S. News and World Report, a ^ekly newsmagazine published\here, bothstated flatly that fling saucers do exist. Neither tyoted any authority for their .^atements*Two TypeTaylor said that thie are two types of “flying sauc4s” which the military has cljsified as secret.One, he said, .is a tarmless, pilotless disk which! usuallydisintegrates in the air.uts purpose, he said, is a toptilitarysecret. IHe said the other is thaNavv’sso-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 that the 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-4/grates. The saucers are harmless, pilotless discs, ranging from 20 inches to 250 feet in diameter, he said, and they’ve been haunting the skies for three years.On March 27, Taylor told about a “flying saucer” which was found on the ground in Texas.It was on June 25, 1017, hesaid, that the “saucer ' experi ments 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 and edged upward like a saucer, he said, while others are raised in the center, more like a pie.No Smoke, Sound “Some are guided,” he added “Others are not. They have no stream of light or smoke, or indication of a propelling mechanism, and no sound.“Momentarily thev can stand stationary in the air—so youcan see them . . . then thev dash»off to left or right, wobbling and picking up sneed in a lazy sort of way until thev movelike lightning. Rut they are utterly harmless.“I know what these so-called ‘flying saucers’ are used for . . . verv important and wonderful.Taylor said the chances were slight that anyone had found an original, genuine “flying sauc-et Phantom as Top U.S. Military Secrets5 to :Rriizensher,” because thev disappear inthe 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 stencilled in black letters on every real saucer:A *“Military secret of the United States of American Army Air Force — “and a number, andthen this:“Anvone damaging or revealing description or whereabouts of this missile is subject to prosecution by the United Statesgovernment, 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. blackletters:“Non-explosive.” He finally4.’discovered that thorp are two great mysteries in the skies instead of one.“For the second mvsterv in* %/our skies has not ordv been seen”... This object roars through the night with flames pouring from squares on the edge of the bodv-fuselage that look like win-dous. And it is wingless.”Pancake ShapedTavlor said that in addition to other models, which he could not mention the phantom is a 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.4/Its jet motors are inside the pancake shape and flying at nightit looks for all the world like a flat flaming disc in the air. and flies faster than I am permitted to say.Tavlor said it was such an ob-yyject which was seen by Eastern Airline Pi lots Capt. Clarence S.Chiles and Pilot John B. Whit-but felt high in the air.” he said, i ted over Montgomery, Ala.,I July 21. 1018, and w hich theydescribed in detail.He also listed the bona fidesaucers” sighted b\ variouspersons. They were:Nine flying discs sighted onthe West Coast b\ United Air-»lines Capt. K. J. Smith, his copilot and stewardess.Five flying discs sighted by Fred M. Johnson in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.The 100-foot disc flying highon a bright, clear Sunday morning on April 1940 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 indiameter—sighted Jan. 7. 1943. over Madisonville. Kv., by the state police and hy Thomas F. Mantell, Jr., who died while chasing it in an F-51.The saucer 20-inches in diameter and six inches thick whichfound in Galveston Bay.nevet ing tl the cOnwasTex., and then hushed up.pliednow to th Unitenot: 1ThiTh«ever,comn they ous (from said 1es w a caft terfrc he sa' tional ist PaAltlmake; dent (lv regcific C
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