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(9008)  Tue 1 Jun 93  2:21p
By: Titanium Knight
To: All
Re: * Flying Disc Tales Decline
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From: titan@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Titanium Knight)
Date: 1 Jun 93 11:53:05 GMT
Organization: System 6626 BBS, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
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Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors

File: jul0947.asc

            From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 9, 1947

                       FLYING DISC TALES DECLINE
                       AS ARMY, NAVY CRACK DOWN

                            By United Press


  Reports  of flying saucers whizzing through the sky fell off sharply
today  as the army and navy began a concentrated campaign to stop  the
rumors.

  One  by one,  persons who thought they had their hands on the $3,000
offered for a genuine flying saucer found their hands full of nothing.

  Headquarters of the 8th army at Fort Worth,  Texas.  announced  that
the  wreakage of a tin-foil covered object found on a New Mexico ranch
was  nothing  more  than  the  remanants of  a  weather  ballon.   AAF
headquarters in Washington reportedly delivered a "blistering"  rebuke
to  officers at the Roswell,  New Mexico,  base for suggesting that it
was a "flying disc."

  A  16   inch  aluminum disc equiped with two  radio  condensers,   a
flourescent light switch and copper tubing found by F.G.  Harston near
the Shreveport, Louisiana, business district was declared by police to
be "obviously the work of a prankster."  Police believed the prankster
hurled it over a sign board and watched it land at Harston's feet.  It
was turned over to officials at Barksdale army air field.

  U.S. navel intelligence officers at Pearl Harbor investigated clains
by  100  navy men that they saw a mysterious object "silvery  [Bcolored,
like aluminum,  with no wings or tail,"  sail over Honolulu at a rapid
clip late yesterday. The description fit a weather ballon but 5 of the
men, familiar with weather obsevation devices, swore that it was not a
ballon.

  "It  moved extremely fast for a short period,  seemed to slow  down,
then disappeared high in the air," said Yeoman 1/C Douglas Kacherle of
New Bedford,  Massachusetts.  His story was corroborated by Seaman  1X
Donald Ferguson,  Indianapolis; Yeoman 3/C Morris Kzamme, La.  Crosse,
Wisconsin,   Seaman 1/C Albert Delancey,  Salem,  West Virginia,   and
Yeoman 2/C Ted Pardue, McClain, Texas.

  Admiral William H. Blandy, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet,
said  like  everyone  else he was curious about  the  reported  flying
saucers "but I do not believe they exist."

  Lloyd Bennett, Oelwein, Iwoa, salesman, was stubborn about the shiny
6 1/2-inch steel disc he found yesterday.  Authorities said it was not
a "flying saucer"  but Bennett said he would claim the reward  offered
for the mysterious discs.

  There  were  other discards.  Not all the principles were  satisfied
with  the annoucement that the wreakage found on the New Mexico  ranch
was that of a weather ballon.

  The excitement ran through this cycle:

1.  Lt.  Warren Haught,  public relations officer at the Roswell base,
released  a  statement in the name of Col.  William  Blanchard,   bsae
commander.   It said that an object described as a "flying disc"   was
found on the nearby Foster ranch 3 weeks ago by W.W.  Brazel and  been
sent to "higher officials" for examination.

2.  Brigadier General Roger B. Ramey,  commander of the 8th air force,
said  at Fort Worth that he believed the object was the "remnant of  a
weather ballon and a radar reflector,"  and was "nothing to be excited
about"   He  allowed  photographers to take a picture of it.   It  was
announced that the object would be sent to Wright Field, Dayton,  Ohio
for examination by experts.

3.   Later,  Warrant Officer Irving Newton,  Stessonville,  Wisconsin,
weather officer at Fort Worth, examined the object and said definitely
that  it was nothing but a badly smashed target used to determine  the
direction and velocity of high altitude winds.

4.  Lt.  Haught reportedly told reporters that he has been "shut up by
two blistering phone calls from Washington."

5.  Efforts to contact Col. Blanchard brought the information that "he
is now on leave."

6. Maj. Jesse A. Marcel, intelligence officer of the 509th bombardment
group,  reportedly told Brazel, the finder of the object, that "it has
nothing to do with army or navy so far as I can tell."

7. Brazel told reporters that he has found weather ballon equip-  ment
before, but had seen nothing that had resembled his latest find.

8.   Those  men who saw the object said it had a flowered  paper  tape
around it bearing the initials "D.P."

---  .
Titan|um Knight
Mail: titan@sys6626.bison.mb.ca
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