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Clipped from US, California, Oxnard, Oxnard Press Courier, April 4, 1950

iviwimn / IUAI1UKIboulevard; Nrs. Eleanor Arre-chea, 110 Birth street: Mrs. Eth-» HI I V I c11 IVThousand Oaks ! Nixon.ocll ci II iVlctl llll. I ocll cidl} IAJUIS JOIlUSOIl StllU U) me SniJ), III I »OCK Z.Mrs. Bethel B. today he may ask Congress for) Capt. Quinn asked that cammore money to buy airplanes. i eras he left behind.on a cnarge 01 oi uuk in auto. reari riarooi auacK armTurner hit a light standard in building the world’s biggest Ventura about 0 p.m., police said.1 force to support it.l oeportai air Charlesdeport a tCourt rReal Facts' Disclose Flying Saucer, Jet Phantom as Top U.S. Military/Secrets.) to .1 dWASHINGTON, *(U.R) — Twonew “real” series of flying saucers today orovoked vigorous denials fibni the Armed Forces that the} are, in reality,secret U. S. weapons.Both the Air Force and the Navy said flatlyhhat they are not experiment ilg with any plane or weapon hat could account for wide-s|read reportsabout the flying dlks. •But Radio Comitentator Henry .). Taylor and U*S. News and World Report, a Weekly newsmagazine published\here, both stated flatly that fling saucersdo exist. Neither Rioted anyauthority for their ^tements.”Two Typesaid that thde are two types of “flying sauc4s” which the military has clJsified as secret.One, he said, Js a termless, pilotless disk which\ usually disintegrates in the air.’its purpose, he said, is a top inilitarv secret.He said the other is thSNavvs• fso-called “flying phantom orjet-propelled XF-.VtM. 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 disintegrates. 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.said, that thtsaucer experiments began, and they have been expanded constantly ever since.As Taylor described the “true saucers,” there are several types, but no one is inside any of them. Some are flat ander,” because ’thev disappear inthe air after a given time. But. because there is a possibility that thev will fall to the earthintact, something is printed on the saucers.edged upward like a saucer, he said, while others are raised inthe center, more like a pie.No Smoke, Sound“Some are guided,” he added.“Others are not. Thev have nostream 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 thev dash off to left or right, wobbling and picking up sneed in a lazy sort of way until thev movelike lightning. But they are utterly harmless.“I know what these so-called ‘flving saucers’ are used for . . .y yIt was on June 25, 1017, heverv important and wonderful.Taylor said the chances were slight that anyone had found anThese words, Taylor said, are stencilled in black letters oneverv real saucer:V“Military secret of the United States of American Army Air B'orce — “and a number, and then this:“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. blackletters:“Non-explosive.” He finallydiscovered that there are two great mvsteries in the skies instead of one.“For the second mvsterv in• rbur skies has not onlv been seenJulv 21, 10-13. and which thev'Mm- '■*” • -W-- ■ T ’■ • •rerir -. •• .....- -wtf •litbona fidevara us“ . . . This object roars throughthe night with flames pouring described in detailfrom squares on the edge of the bodv-fu-elage that look like win-dows. And it is wingless.”Pancake ShapedTavlor said that in addition to% *models, which he could lines (’apt. K. J. Smith, his coil ridgzenship never bing thethe ecualso listed theameers” sighted b\ persons. They were:Nine flying discs sighted on j plied bthe West (’oast bv United Air-On Siotheinot mention the phantom is a great jet airplane which really looks like and is shaped like apancake.“it has roughly circular out-pilot and stewardess.Five flying discs sighted by Fred M. Johnson in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.The 100-foot disc flying highnow or to the 1 Unitednot: I 1This The tline,” he said. “Around the edge on a bright, clear Sunday mornever, pof its disc-like body is a series ing on April 1940 over New Mex-of jet-engine louvres (ventila- ico.tors). 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 nightThe disc spotted by eight fliers in four planes and four men in the control tower, over Columbus, O.The disc—at least 250 feet incom mui they ha ous Cotfrom If said heit looks for all the world like diameter—sighted Jan 7. 1043, a flat flaming disc in the air. over Madisonville, Kv., bv thpand flies faster than I am pery ymitted to say.Taylor said it was such an object which was seen by Eastern Airline Pilots Capt. Clarence S.Chiles and Pilot John B. Whit-original, genuine “flying sauchut felt high in the air.” he said, i ted over Montgomery, Ala.,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 whichfound in Galveston Bay.es’ was a cafe c terfronthe saw jtional lt;x ist Part: Althoimakes cdent ofwas touno in Tex., and then hushed uplv regarcific COi