1947, des informations intéressentes, officielles et officieuses :
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PROJET 1947
RAPPORTS DE UFO - 1947
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Portland Oregonian - Juillet 6, 1947
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Starr pour indiquer des données sur des soucoupes
COLUMBUS, O., juillet 6 (AP) -- Louis E. Starr, commandant-dans-chef national des vétérans des guerres étrangères, a indiqué le campement samedi de VFW Ohio qu'il s'attendait à l'information de Washington au sujet "des flottes de soucoupes en vol."
Il a indiqué que l'information aiderait à expliquer les disques, rapportés pour avoir été aperçu dans diverses parties du pays.
Un télégramme contenant l'information, Starr supplémentaire, était directement ici à 3 P.m.. (est), mais n'est pas arrivé. Il a promis de lire le contenu à la convention.
Le commandant de VFW dont à la maison est Portland, ou, n'a pas indiqué la source d'information prévue.
Après fabrication de l'annonce, il a remarqué:
"trop peu est dit aux personnes de ce pays."
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Portland Oregonian - Juillet 6, 1947
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Les Instruments De Radar Joignent Le Puzzle De Disque
CIRCLEVILLE, O., Juillet 5 (AP) - -
Les gens dans le comté de Pickway, qui avaient suivi le mystère "de soucoupe en vol", sont devenus samedi passionnan'où Sherman Campbell a trouvé un objet étrange à sa ferme.
Il était sous forme de six étoiles dirigées, de 30 pouces de haut et de 48 pouces de large, couvert de tinfoil. Il a pesé environ deux livres. Été attachés au dessus ont les restes d'un ballon avec une roche 5 pouces dans la circonférence.
La station météorologique de terrain d'aviation de Columbus de fort à Columbus a indiqué la description correspondue avec un objet employé par les Armées de l'Air d'armée pour mesurer la vitesse de vent aux altitudes élevées par l'utilisation du radar.
Certains des disques de vol ont rapporté vu dans diverses parties du pays étaient beaucoup plus grands et vol à la vitesse terrible.
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Portland Oregonian - Juillet 7, 1947
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Huit "soucoupes en vol" rendues compte vers le bas de l'Idaho
Recherche D'Air Programmée Pour La Région
Des Vols Continuent À être observés Au-dessus Du Secteur Large
Tandis que l'avion national dimanche de garde chassait les états du nord-ouest Pacifiques d'excédent de cieux pour la vue des "soucoupes mystérieuses en vol," on a rapporté que huit des instruments de vol font un atterrissage sur une montagne près de la rue. Maries, Idaho, dans à pleine vue de dix personnes.
Mme. Walter Johnson de Dishman, Washington, une banlieue de Spokane, dite elle a vu les soucoupes descendre en bois de construction près de la rue Maries jeudi, mais l'incident n'avait pas été rapporté jusqu'à ce qu'elle soit revenue au son dimanche à la maison.
La colonne G. R. Dodson, dont le 123rd escadron de chasse de la garde nationale de l'Orégon a récuré des cieux dimanche de l'Orégon et de Washington recherchant les missiles évasifs, a indiqué que un vol de quatre P-51s serait envoyé lundi matin tôt pour vérifier le secteur. "jusqu'ici nous n'avons pas trouvé la soucoupe, disque ou quelque chose," colonel Dodson a commenté.
Il a décrit l'opération dimanche en tant que "routine," mais a dit les instructions portées par pilotes d'observer pour des disques de vol.
La Vitesse Extrême A rapporté
Mme Johnson a dit que les soucoupes ont été vues pour tomber près du compartiment du maître d'hôtel sur la rue. Fleuve de Joe six milles à l'ouest de rue Maries, où elle rendait visite à ses parents.
Elle a dit qu'ils ont hérité la vue à une vitesse extrême, voyageant du sud au nord. Soudainement ils ont ralenti, elle a dit, et alors "flotté comme laisse à la terre."
"la partie mystérieuse était que nous ne pourrions pas les voir après qu'ils aient débarqué," avons dit Mme Johnson. "nous pourrions les voir flotter vers le bas dans le bois de construction pourtant nous ne pourrions pas voir qu'ils ont fait n'importe quoi aux arbres."
Elle a dit que les objets soucoupe-ont été formés, mais plus profondément qu'elle avait prévu, ressemblant à des baquets de lavage davantage que des disques. Elle les a décrits comme "au sujet de la taille d'une maison de cinq-pièce."
Les Officiers Voient Des Disques
Mme Johnson a dit que les objets ont été vus par ses parents aussi bien que les voisins qui les ont regardés indépendamment. Elle a dit que l'incident n'avait pas été rapporté plus tôt parce qu'elle n'a pas su qui pour entrer en contact.
En attendant, l'homme qui a commencé la première fois ces affaires des "soucoupes en vol," Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, homme d'affaires de vol, l'a rapporté avait investi $150 dans un appareil-photo de film pour obtenir la preuve photographique des disques qu'il a dits renversé par le bleu là-bas "comme des poissons écrémant par l'eau."
Clouer des rumeurs du raccordement de l'Armée de l'Air d'armée avec les disques de vol, GEN. Carl Spaatz, commandant des Armées de l'Air d'armée, a nié à Seattle sachant n'importe quoi au sujet des soucoupes en vol ou de plans aux avions de l'Armée de l'Air d'armée d'utilisation les rechercher. Alors il a continué dessus à Medford sur un voyage de pêche.
Le Groupe De l'Utah A observé
Des disques ont continué à être aperçus à de divers endroits tout au long de la journée dimanche. On a dit qu'ils sont vus chez Chicago au-dessus de lac Michigan, dans Ontario du sud-ouest, dans le Wisconsin, Minnesota et dans le Maryland.
En Utah, le trésorier Oliver G. Ellis d'ex-état et son fils ont vu un groupe de disques hauts dans le ciel à l'ouest de Salt Lake City. Il a dit "les disques lumineux comportés comme les objets radio-commandés, planant dans un groupe pendant un moment, puis a soudainement formé un modèle circulaire horizontal vite de tourbillonnement." Il a dit que deux disques se sont cassés lâchement du groupe "comme si cassé de l'extrémité d'un fouet géant." Plus tard le vol a été continué dans une V-formation et a déplacé sud-à l'ouest jusqu'à ce qu'il ait disparu, Ellis dit.
À Portland, les rapports sur les objets de vol ne sont pas entrés avant midi. À 12:42 P.m.. la police s'est appelée par un homme qui a dit il a vu que ce qu'il a pensé étaient un sud dirigé par disque de vol et le déplacement très rapidement. Une femme a rapporté qu'elle a vu un objet rougeâtre "rond comme dollar" environ 5 P.m.. que bourdonné hors des voisins de vue tellement rapidement elle a appelé au regard à lui l'a échoué à l'aperçu. Un autre homme se tenant sur le coin de l'avenue de N. W. 6ème et de la rue de Glisan, dit l'Oregonian l'a vu quatre disques volants se diriger au sud à un "bon rapport de vitesse."
2000 M/H Ont rapporté
Les rapports ont continué à entrer pendant les heures de jour avec un reportage de conducteur de cabine de taxi plateau-comme des objets voyageant haut et presque 2000 milles à l'heure. Un autre rapport est entré de sept des disques voyageant dans une "formation de geeselike."
L'escadron de chasse 123d à la base aérienne d'armée de Portland aura des avions et des pilotes prêts à enlever lundi si n'importe qui voit des disques, volant autour, selon colonel Dodson. L'écurie de 23 avions rapides du combattant P-51, équipée de pistolet-aperçoivent des appareils-photo de film, a été alignée sur le tablier concret dimanche prêt à peigner les cieux pour tous les marauders aériens que les citoyens pourraient rapporter.
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Portland Oregonian - Juillet 7, 1947
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Poteaux 'Montre De Garde De Disque '
Avions Alertés Avec Des Appareils-photo De Pistolet
Les plans du combattant P-51 escadron de la garde nationale de l'Orégon du 123rd, équipés des appareils-photo de pistolet et des appareils-photo télescopiques, seront sur l'alerte à courir vers le bas et la photographie tous les "disques de vol" mystérieux rapportés ci-après en cieux du nord-ouest, selon une annonce samedi par Col. Al Dutton, officier commandant.
Un vol de six avions sera prêt à décoller sur la notification d'un instant chaque après-midi de jour de la semaine et soirée, il a dit. Sur des extrémités de semaine l'escadron maintiendra un état de la promptitude de l'aube au crépuscule.
Colonel Dutton a demandé à des personnes apercevant les objets pour informer les sièges sociaux d'Oregonian ou d'escadron de sorte que l'endroit et la direction du vol des "disques" puissent être tracés.
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Lewiston, Idaho Tribune Quotidien 7 Juillet, 1947
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Tâche Rêveuse Donnée ParPilote De l'Idaho ';'
'obtenez l'image des soucoupes ou apportez un vivant arrière '
Par DAVE JOHNSON
(Rédacteur D'Aviation De l'Idaho Statesman)
Boise. Juillet 6 -- AP -- a piloté des instruments cet après-midi pour un couple des heures avec la garde nationale de l'Idaho. Un colonel de lieutenant s'est assis vers le haut dans l'avant et observé pour des disques avec tandis que je luttais les mesures et le faisceau par radio.
Nous avons obtenu de nouveau dans le modèle du champ de Gowen, et la tour de commande a appelé pour rapporter certains dans Ontaria, Oregon, avait dit que le CAA ils a vu quelques soucoupes rouler par le ciel.
Maintenant, il y a une chose au sujet de ces soucoupes. Je n'ai jamais vu un, ainsi sur la maison de manière je me suis laissé tomber dans le bureau de Statesman avec une idée. Ce devait prendre le numéro 3, notre avion d'Tôt-Oiseau, et soit vers le haut ce soir et vagabondage autour des voies aériennes, regardant juste.
Obtient La Pâte De Dépenses
J'ai broché cela au rédacteur de ville et ai soufflé la mousse au loin d'elle, et vous-connaître-ce qui le regard a réparti son visage, juste comme quelqu'un avait jeté une brique en l'air dans un magma de boue.
Il a parlé pendant quelques minutes et j'ai écouté. Le résultat c'était que j'ai marché hors du bureau avec la pâte de dépenses dans ma poche et une date avec Kenneth Arnold, l'homme de Boise que la scie il y a deux semaines les disques viennent hurlant autour du millitorr plus pluvieux à Washington.
J'ai un de ces choses appelées une tâche générale. Je suis chasse allante de disque avec Arnold dans l'avion de Statesman.
Commencé En Idaho
Le rédacteur de ville avait dit:
"Dave, j'étais sur le point juste de vous donner un appel et de discuter ces fichues affaires de soucoupe avec vous. La chose a commencé ici dans Boise avec Arnold et elle est sortir de la main. Les services de fil déplacent plus de copie là-dessus que n'importe quelle histoire simple en années excepté la guerre, et personne ne sait plus à son sujet maintenant que quand elles doutaient ce camarade Arnold qui a rapporté la première fois voir que celui qu'il soit cela soit regardé, vrai ou imaginaire.
"pendant que je disais avant que ces affaires aient commencé dans Boise et il est jusqu'à nous si nous pouvons le faire pour aider à l'obtenir rapporté à la terre. J'espère que vous pouvez le lasso un des fichues choses et l'apporter dedans pour l'affichage, mais d'autre part, ce pourrait être une bonne idée d'être prêt au canard si vous voyez quelque chose sauter le long."
Tâche Rêveuse
Je pourrais l'interject ici que le patron ne pilote pas.
"mettez en marche vers le haut de votre avion," il a dit, "et monte autour du secteur d'usine d'atome de Hanford à Washington et reste là jusqu'à ce que vous trouviez quelque chose ou la donniez vers le haut. Voyez si ce camarade Arnold veut aller le long (il a sauté à la chance) et prendre le meilleur équipement d'appareil-photo que vous pouvez trouver et rester aussi long que vous voulez à."
Une telle tâche -- restez aussi long que vous voulez -- ne doit pas être acceptée légèrement.
"volez autour de ce secteur," a dit le rédacteur de ville, "parce que mon hunch est que si ces choses peuvent venir de n'importe quel endroit elles viennent de certain projet comme Hanford. L'armée a nié cette possibilité mais l'armée avait fait à des démentis des affaires importantes pendant des années. Dans un cas un homme d'armée dit là n'est rien à obtenir passionnan'environ, "s'il y avait quelque chose aux soucoupes que l'armée nous aurait informés."
En outre. . . Bonne chance!
"si vous voyez que quelque chose qui répond à la description les centaines -- ou de descriptions -- saisissez une image et une haut-queue pour Boise."
l'"OH oui, " qu'il s'est ajouté. "bonne chance à vous."
Ils prennent l'assurance hors de mon contrôle.
J'ai téléphoné Arnold. Nous sommes décollage lumineux et tôt le matin. Arnold a un nouvel appareil-photo de film avec un objectif de téléobjectif et nous sommes enrichis pour des images.
De quelque part vers le haut à Washington oriental demain soir vous aurez des nouvelles de nous, fournissant, ou cours, nous ne courons pas dans quelque chose qui s'avère ces rapports être le McCoy et il fonctionne au-dessus de nous.
Le bureau de ville indique qu'il se tiendra derrière nous.
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Histoire Unie De Fil De Pression - Juillet 7, 1947
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L'CArmée PILOTE PRÊT À POURSUIVRE DES SOUCOUPES
(VERS LE HAUT) -- les pilotes d'armée étaient aujourd'hui prêt pour une autre recherche d'air des "soucoupes en vol" mystérieuses maintenant rapportées vu dans 31 états et des régions du Canada en tant que jokesters pratiques supplémentaires à la confusion.
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Portland Oregonian - July 6, 1947
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Starr to Reveal Data on Saucers
COLUMBUS, O., July 6 (AP) -- Louis E. Starr, national commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, told the VFW Ohio encampment Saturday that he was expecting information from Washington about "the fleets of flying saucers."
He indicated the information would help explain the discs, reported to have been sighted in various parts of the country.
A telegram containing the information, Starr added, was due here at 3 P.M. (EST), but did not arrive. He promised to read the contents to the convention.
The VFW commander whose home is Portland, Or., did not indicate the source of the anticipated information.
After making the announcement, he remarked:
"Too little is being told to the people of this country."
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Portland Oregonian - July 6, 1947
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Radar Gadgets Join Disc Puzzle
CIRCLEVILLE, O., July 5 (AP)--
Folks in Pickway county, who have been following the "flying saucer" mystery, became excited Saturday when Sherman Campbell found a strange object on his farm.
It was in the form of a six pointed star, 30 inches high and 48 inches wide, covered with tinfoil. It weighed about two pounds. Attached to the top were the remains of a balloon with a rock 5 inches in circumference.
The Fort Columbus airfield weather station at Columbus said the description tallied with an object used by the army air forces to measure wind velocity at high altitudes by the use of radar.
Some of the flying discs reported seen in various parts of the country were much larger and flying at terrific speed.
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Portland Oregonian - July 7, 1947
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Eight "Flying Saucers" Reported Down on Idaho
Air Search Scheduled For Region
Flights Continue To Be Observed Over Wide Area
While national guard aircraft Sunday hunted the skies over Pacific Northwest states for sight of the mysterious "flying saucers," eight of the flying gadgets were reported to have made a landing on a mountainside near St. Maries, Idaho, in full view of ten persons.
Mrs. Walter Johnson of Dishman, Wash., a suburb of Spokane, said she saw the saucers come down in timber near St. Maries Thursday, but the incident had not been reported until she returned to her home Sunday.
Col. G. R. Dodson, whose 123rd fighter squadron of the Oregon national guard scoured Oregon and Washington skies Sunday searching for the elusive missiles, said a flight of four P-51s would be sent early Monday morning to check the area. "So far we haven't found saucer, disc or anything," Colonel Dodson commented.
He described the operation Sunday as "routine," but said the pilots carried instructions to watch for flying discs.
Extreme Speed Reported
Mrs. Johnson said the saucers were seen to fall near Butler's bay on the St. Joe river six miles west of St. Maries, where she was visiting her parents.
She said they came into view at an extreme speed, traveling from the south to the north. Suddenly they slowed, she said, and then "fluttered like leaves to the ground."
"The mysterious part was that we couldn't see them after they landed," said Mrs. Johnson. "We could see them flutter down into the timber yet we couldn't see that they did anything to the trees."
She said the objects were saucer-shaped, but thicker than she had expected, resembling wash tubs more than discs. She described them as "about the size of a five-room house."
Officers See Discs
Mrs. Johnson said the objects were seen by her relatives as well as the neighbors who viewed them independently. She said the incident had not been reported earlier because she didn't know whom to contact.
Meanwhile, the man who first started this business of "flying saucers," Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, flying businessman, reported he had invested $150 in a movie camera to get photographic proof of the discs he said flipped through the blue yonder "like fish skimming through water."
Spiking rumors of Army Air Force connection with the flying discs, Gen. Carl Spaatz, commandant of the army air forces, denied in Seattle knowing anything about the flying saucers or of plans to use army air force planes to look for them. Then he continued on to Medford on a fishing trip.
Utah Group Observed
Discs continued to be sighted at various locations throughout the day Sunday. They were said to have been seen at Chicago over Lake Michigan, in Southwestern Ontario, in Wisconsin, Minnesota and in Maryland.
In Utah, ex-state treasurer Oliver G. Ellis and his son saw a group of discs high in the sky west of Salt Lake City. He said the "luminous discs behaved like radio-controlled objects, hovering in a group for a moment, then suddenly formed a swiftly whirling horizontal circular pattern." He said two discs broke loose from the group "as if snapped from the end of a giant whip." Later the flight was continued in a V-formation and moved south-westward until it disappeared, Ellis said.
In Portland, reports on the flying objects did not come in before noon. At 12:42 P.M. police were called by a man who said he saw what he thought was a flying disc headed south and traveling very fast. A woman reported that she saw a reddish object "round as a dollar" about 5 P.M. that zoomed out of sight so fast neighbors she summoned to look at it failed to glimpse it. Another man standing on the corner of N. W. 6th avenue and Glisan street, told The Oregonian he saw four flying discs heading south at a "good rate of speed."
2000 MPH Reported
Reports continued to come in during the daylight hours with one taxi cab driver reporting the platter-like objects traveling high and nearly 2000 miles an hour. Another report came in of seven of the discs traveling in a "geeselike formation."
The 123d fighter squadron at Portland Army Air base will have airplanes and pilots ready to take off Monday if anyone sees any discs, flying around, according to Colonel Dodson. The stable of 23 fast P-51 fighter planes, equipped with gun-sight movie cameras, was lined up on the concrete apron Sunday ready to comb the skies for any aerial marauders citizens might report.
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Portland Oregonian - July 7, 1947
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Guard Posts 'Disc Watch'
Airplanes Alerted With Gun Cameras
P-51 fighter planes of the Oregon national guard's 123rd squadron, equipped with gun cameras and telescopic cameras, will be on the alert to run down and photograph any mysterious "flying discs" reported hereafter in Northwest skies, according to an announcement Saturday by Col. Al Dutton, commanding officer.
A flight of six planes will be ready to take off on an instant's notice every week-day afternoon and evening, he said. On week ends the squadron will maintain a condition of readiness from dawn to dusk.
Colonel Dutton asked persons sighting the objects to notify The Oregonian or squadron headquarters so that location and direction of flight of the "discs" can be plotted.
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Lewiston, Idaho Daily Tribune - 7 July, 1947
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Idaho Newsman-Pilot Given 'Dream Assignment;'
'Get Picture of Saucers Or Bring One Back Alive'
By DAVE JOHNSON
(Idaho Statesman Aviation Editor)
Boise. July 6--AP--Flew instruments this afternoon for a couple of hours with the Idaho national guard. A lieutenant colonel sat up in front and watched for discs while I struggled with the gauges and the radio beam.
We got back into Gowen field's pattern, and the control tower called to report some people in Ontaria, Ore., had told the CAA they saw some saucers wheeling through the sky.
Now, there's one thing about these saucers. I've never seen one, so on the way home I dropped into the Statesman office with an idea. That was to take the Early-Bird No. 3, our airplane, and be up tonight and prowl around the airways, just looking.
Gets Expense Dough
I broached that to the city editor and blew the foam off of it, and a you-know-what look spread over his face, just like somebody had tossed a brick into a mud puddle.
He talked for a few minutes and I listened. The upshot of it was that I walked out of the office with expense dough in my pocket and a date with Kenneth Arnold, the Boise man who two weeks ago saw the discs come roaring around Mt. Rainier in Washington.
I have one of those things called a general assignment. I'm going disc hunting with Arnold in the Statesman plane.
Started In Idaho
The city editor had said:
"Dave, I was just about to give you a call and discuss this damn saucer business with you. The thing started here in Boise with Arnold and it is getting out of hand. The wire services are moving more copy on it than any single story in years except the war, and no one knows any more about it now than when they were doubting this fellow Arnold who first reported seeing whatever it is that is being looked at, real or imaginary.
"As I said before. this business started in Boise and it is up to us if we can do it to help get it brought down to earth. I hope you can lasso one of the damn things and bring it in for display, but on the other hand, it might be a good idea to be ready to duck if you see something skipping along."
Dream Assignment
I might interject here that the boss doesn't fly.
"Crank up your airplane," he said, "and go up around the Hanford atom plant area in Washington and stay there until you either find something or give it up. See if this fellow Arnold wants to go along (he jumped at the chance) and take the best camera equipment you can find and stay as long as you want to."
Such an assignment -- stay as long as you want to -- is not to be accepted lightly.
"Fly around that area," said the city editor, "because my hunch is that if these things can come from any place they are coming from some project like Hanford. The army has denied this possibility but the army has been making denials a major business for years. In one case an Army man said there's nothing to get excited about, "if there were anything to the saucers the army would have notified us."
Also . . . Good Luck!
"If you see anything that answers the description -- or the hundreds of descriptions -- grab a picture and high-tail for Boise."
"Oh yes," he added. "Good luck to you."
They take the insurance out of my check.
I phoned Arnold. We are taking off bright and early in the morning. Arnold has a new movie camera with a telephoto lens and we're fortified for pictures.
From somewhere up in eastern Washington tomorrow night you'll hear from us, providing, or course, we don't run into something that proves these reports to be the McCoy and it runs over us.
The city desk says he'll stand behind us.
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United Press Wire Story - July 7, 1947
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ARMY PILOTS READY TO PURSUE SAUCERS
(UP) -- Army pilots were ready today for another air search for the mysterious "flying saucers" now reported seen in 31 states and parts of Canada as practical jokesters added to the confusion.
Equipped with telescopic cameras, 11 Army planes searched the Pacific northwest Sunday without finding any trace of the flying discs which had been reported over scores of communities the preceding two days. At Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a Coast Guard plane already in the air was ordered to investigate a silvery disc with a short tail which Gregory Zimmer said he saw shoot across the heavens. The pilot found nothing but empty sky.
The Army "camera patrol" over the Cascade Mountains Sunday included eight P-51 pursuit ships and three A-26 bombers. There was growing belief that the concentrated aerial search would show the saucers to be optical illusions or the work of practical jokesters magnified by aroused imagination.
The Rev. Joseph Brasky, a Catholic priest of Grafton, Wisconsin reported that a metal disc 18 inches in diameter with "gadgets and wires" around the hole in the center crashed into his yard with a mild explosion. He announced that he was holding it for the FBI, but after close examination found the lettering "...steel, high carbon 100 per cent steel," and decided that it was a circular saw blade.
A number of "discs" whirled over rooftops in East St. Louis, Illinois, Sunday. J.T. Hartley, locomotive engineer, gathered some of them up and found they were made of pressed white paper, 11 inches in diameter and with a two-inch hole in the center. Railroad workers said they looked like locomotive packing washers.
A radio announcement that discs were flying over Lewiston, Idaho sent hundreds into their yards for a look. Weatherman Louis Krezak said the objects were moving eastward with the prevailing wind and probably were weed seeds. Three air transport pilots agreed.
A Birmingham radio station was deluged with more than 400 calls in one hour by persons who said they saw fluorescent balls circling over the city and clearly outlined against nearby mountains. A carnival at Alabaster, Alabama was playing searchlights on cloud wisps.
An argument raged at Lodi, California, over the cause of a spectacular glow in the sky and a roar shortly before the electrical power went off. Mrs. W.C. Smith said she heard a noise "like a four motored bomber" just before the lights went off at dawn. Erving Newcomb of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co., offered the explanation that a low-flying crop-dusting plane probably struck a powerline and burned out a transformer. However, no planes were reported damaged and no one could explain what a crop-dusting plane was doing in the air at dawn on Sunday. It was the first time any noise had been attributed to flying saucers.
J.U. Watts, Darlington, South Carolina, attorney, said he saw an Army pursuit plane chasing a V-formation of flying saucers at 250 miles an hour 3,000 feet high. However, no pilot reported such a chase.
Meantime authorities were plagued with reports that bordered on the fantastic.
An excited Chicago woman reported that she had seen a flying saucer with legs. "I was standing on my porch and I thought for sure it was coming right down and slap me in the face," she said.
George Kugel of Denver said he saw a flying disc with an American flag on it.
Francis Howell, Tempe, Arizona, claimed he saw a saucer two feet in diameter disappear behind a row of trees near his home. When he rushed with his wife and another couple to inspect it, he said, the flat, thin, aluminum-like disc, took off at a "high rate of speed" toward Phoenix, nine miles away.
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Hollywood Citizen-News - July 8, 1947
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AUSSIES SEE THEM
Sydney, Australia, July 8 (AP)-- Strange tales of "flying saucers" were told in Sydney today, and the Daily Telegraph headlined the story "It Had To Happen Here."
Several Sydney persons told of seeing disc-shaped objects across the sky last night and early today (7/7 and 7/
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"The night was so clear and bright we were able to get a good look at them," he (sic) said. "They traveled very fast in a north and westerly direction."
These manifestations came several hours after 22 Sydney University students reported glimpsing objects after an experiment organized by Professor Frank S. Cotton who said what they actually saw was the "effect of red corpuscles of the blood passing before the retina of the eye,"
(22 out of 450 students saw the alleged "spots.")
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Lewiston, Idaho Daily Tribune - 8 July, 1947
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First Day Of Find Saucers Assignment
Proves 'Dud' For Newspaperman-Pilot
By DAVE JOHNSON
(Idaho Statesman Aviation Editor)
Boise, Ida., July 7 -- AP -- If anyone wishes to report that he hasn't seen a flying disc, I will confirm it for him.
I have just come back from flying seven and one-half hours over a 1,100 miles route in search of some trace of the discs, but I was not among the blessed.
I didn't see any, and neither did Kenneth Arnold of Boise who rode with me in the Statesman's plane. We both packed camera with telephoto lenses and were ready to open fire with the film if we saw one of the objects which have been keeping the nation in an uproar for more than two weeks.
Companion Unhappy
Arnold, unhappy man, gritted his teeth and moaned most of the way home. He's the one who can be said to have started the disc stuff, with his report of nine of the objects wheeling around Mt. Rainier and disappearing in the vicinity of Mt. Adams in Washington.
The Statesman's "Early Bird" droned in within good sight of the Canadian Rockies, around the atom plant at Hanford and over the rough country between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams.
We followed Capt. E.J. Smith's airline route from Boise to Pendleton hoping to see some of the objects he, his co-pilot and a United Airlines stewardess reported the other night.
On the way up to Pendleton, Arnold broke into a laugh and said, "Just think of all the folks who must be walking along the streets looking up for discs."
I asked him what the hell he thought we were doing.
Heard It Was Hoax
At Yakima. where we ate lunch at the central airport hangar, we nearly had convulsions when we heard that a fellow in a P-38 up in Montana reported meeting a disc at 32,000 and sending it spinning. We heard it was supposed to have had a plexiglass blister on top.
Later we heard it was all a hoax.
We told people at Pendleton, Yakima and Kennewick what we were after. I am proud to be an American when I say that nowhere did we get the whirling finger at the temple stuff.
Will Keep Up Search
Now about this assignment. The city editor was very explicit when he said he wanted me to hunt until I found a disc, or had to give up. I am a Swede from a long line of Swedes, and I am convinced a Swede discovered America and that a Swede was the first president of the United States.
I will keep it up. I still have some of that expense dough in my sweat-soaked pocketbook and unless the city editor takes it away from me the search will go on. There is one drawback I can't oversome. Without supercharging, the Early Bird No. 3 is good up to about 14,000 feet. If these things are from another planet, I'm sunk.
The Early Bird ran vey well today, the engine sounding like molasses being poured on flapjacks, until Kenneth Arnold began talking about forced landings. He chose for that discussion the time we were covering the ridge between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams, a most difficult piece of terrain.
City Editor Grumbling
At that moment the engine began to sound as if it were coming apart. That's a peculiarity of airplane engines, or maybe of airplane pilots. The city editor, who doesn't fly, was not along.
I am off into the wild blue yonder tomorrow. This time I'm going alone for Arnold, who sells fire fighting apparatus, says this is his best season and he's taking his own plane to Pendleton. He'll also take his camera.
Arnold and I are not alone in this disc hunt. Some very solid citizens, including pilots on the major airlines, are carrying field glasses and cameras with them in the same endeavour.
I hope to be able to report better luck tomorrow. I'm going first up around St. Maries where discs were reported to have hit a mountain.
Then around the mountain, ad infinitum.
V.LOEND
PROJECT 1947
UFO REPORTS - 1947
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Portland Oregonian - July 6, 1947
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Starr to Reveal Data on Saucers
COLUMBUS, O., July 6 (AP) -- Louis E. Starr, national commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, told the VFW Ohio encampment Saturday that he was expecting information from Washington about "the fleets of flying saucers."
He indicated the information would help explain the discs, reported to have been sighted in various parts of the country.
A telegram containing the information, Starr added, was due here at 3 P.M. (EST), but did not arrive. He promised to read the contents to the convention.
The VFW commander whose home is Portland, Or., did not indicate the source of the anticipated information.
After making the announcement, he remarked:
"Too little is being told to the people of this country."
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Portland Oregonian - July 6, 1947
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Radar Gadgets Join Disc Puzzle
CIRCLEVILLE, O., July 5 (AP)--
Folks in Pickway county, who have been following the "flying saucer" mystery, became excited Saturday when Sherman Campbell found a strange object on his farm.
It was in the form of a six pointed star, 30 inches high and 48 inches wide, covered with tinfoil. It weighed about two pounds. Attached to the top were the remains of a balloon with a rock 5 inches in circumference.
The Fort Columbus airfield weather station at Columbus said the description tallied with an object used by the army air forces to measure wind velocity at high altitudes by the use of radar.
Some of the flying discs reported seen in various parts of the country were much larger and flying at terrific speed.
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Portland Oregonian - July 7, 1947
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Eight "Flying Saucers" Reported Down on Idaho
Air Search Scheduled For Region
Flights Continue To Be Observed Over Wide Area
While national guard aircraft Sunday hunted the skies over Pacific Northwest states for sight of the mysterious "flying saucers," eight of the flying gadgets were reported to have made a landing on a mountainside near St. Maries, Idaho, in full view of ten persons.
Mrs. Walter Johnson of Dishman, Wash., a suburb of Spokane, said she saw the saucers come down in timber near St. Maries Thursday, but the incident had not been reported until she returned to her home Sunday.
Col. G. R. Dodson, whose 123rd fighter squadron of the Oregon national guard scoured Oregon and Washington skies Sunday searching for the elusive missiles, said a flight of four P-51s would be sent early Monday morning to check the area. "So far we haven't found saucer, disc or anything," Colonel Dodson commented.
He described the operation Sunday as "routine," but said the pilots carried instructions to watch for flying discs.
Extreme Speed Reported
Mrs. Johnson said the saucers were seen to fall near Butler's bay on the St. Joe river six miles west of St. Maries, where she was visiting her parents.
She said they came into view at an extreme speed, traveling from the south to the north. Suddenly they slowed, she said, and then "fluttered like leaves to the ground."
"The mysterious part was that we couldn't see them after they landed," said Mrs. Johnson. "We could see them flutter down into the timber yet we couldn't see that they did anything to the trees."
She said the objects were saucer-shaped, but thicker than she had expected, resembling wash tubs more than discs. She described them as "about the size of a five-room house."
Officers See Discs
Mrs. Johnson said the objects were seen by her relatives as well as the neighbors who viewed them independently. She said the incident had not been reported earlier because she didn't know whom to contact.
Meanwhile, the man who first started this business of "flying saucers," Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, flying businessman, reported he had invested $150 in a movie camera to get photographic proof of the discs he said flipped through the blue yonder "like fish skimming through water."
Spiking rumors of Army Air Force connection with the flying discs, Gen. Carl Spaatz, commandant of the army air forces, denied in Seattle knowing anything about the flying saucers or of plans to use army air force planes to look for them. Then he continued on to Medford on a fishing trip.
Utah Group Observed
Discs continued to be sighted at various locations throughout the day Sunday. They were said to have been seen at Chicago over Lake Michigan, in Southwestern Ontario, in Wisconsin, Minnesota and in Maryland.
In Utah, ex-state treasurer Oliver G. Ellis and his son saw a group of discs high in the sky west of Salt Lake City. He said the "luminous discs behaved like radio-controlled objects, hovering in a group for a moment, then suddenly formed a swiftly whirling horizontal circular pattern." He said two discs broke loose from the group "as if snapped from the end of a giant whip." Later the flight was continued in a V-formation and moved south-westward until it disappeared, Ellis said.
In Portland, reports on the flying objects did not come in before noon. At 12:42 P.M. police were called by a man who said he saw what he thought was a flying disc headed south and traveling very fast. A woman reported that she saw a reddish object "round as a dollar" about 5 P.M. that zoomed out of sight so fast neighbors she summoned to look at it failed to glimpse it. Another man standing on the corner of N. W. 6th avenue and Glisan street, told The Oregonian he saw four flying discs heading south at a "good rate of speed."
2000 MPH Reported
Reports continued to come in during the daylight hours with one taxi cab driver reporting the platter-like objects traveling high and nearly 2000 miles an hour. Another report came in of seven of the discs traveling in a "geeselike formation."
The 123d fighter squadron at Portland Army Air base will have airplanes and pilots ready to take off Monday if anyone sees any discs, flying around, according to Colonel Dodson. The stable of 23 fast P-51 fighter planes, equipped with gun-sight movie cameras, was lined up on the concrete apron Sunday ready to comb the skies for any aerial marauders citizens might report.
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Portland Oregonian - July 7, 1947
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Guard Posts 'Disc Watch'
Airplanes Alerted With Gun Cameras
P-51 fighter planes of the Oregon national guard's 123rd squadron, equipped with gun cameras and telescopic cameras, will be on the alert to run down and photograph any mysterious "flying discs" reported hereafter in Northwest skies, according to an announcement Saturday by Col. Al Dutton, commanding officer.
A flight of six planes will be ready to take off on an instant's notice every week-day afternoon and evening, he said. On week ends the squadron will maintain a condition of readiness from dawn to dusk.
Colonel Dutton asked persons sighting the objects to notify The Oregonian or squadron headquarters so that location and direction of flight of the "discs" can be plotted.
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Lewiston, Idaho Daily Tribune - 7 July, 1947
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Idaho Newsman-Pilot Given 'Dream Assignment;'
'Get Picture of Saucers Or Bring One Back Alive'
By DAVE JOHNSON
(Idaho Statesman Aviation Editor)
Boise. July 6--AP--Flew instruments this afternoon for a couple of hours with the Idaho national guard. A lieutenant colonel sat up in front and watched for discs while I struggled with the gauges and the radio beam.
We got back into Gowen field's pattern, and the control tower called to report some people in Ontaria, Ore., had told the CAA they saw some saucers wheeling through the sky.
Now, there's one thing about these saucers. I've never seen one, so on the way home I dropped into the Statesman office with an idea. That was to take the Early-Bird No. 3, our airplane, and be up tonight and prowl around the airways, just looking.
Gets Expense Dough
I broached that to the city editor and blew the foam off of it, and a you-know-what look spread over his face, just like somebody had tossed a brick into a mud puddle.
He talked for a few minutes and I listened. The upshot of it was that I walked out of the office with expense dough in my pocket and a date with Kenneth Arnold, the Boise man who two weeks ago saw the discs come roaring around Mt. Rainier in Washington.
I have one of those things called a general assignment. I'm going disc hunting with Arnold in the Statesman plane.
Started In Idaho
The city editor had said:
"Dave, I was just about to give you a call and discuss this damn saucer business with you. The thing started here in Boise with Arnold and it is getting out of hand. The wire services are moving more copy on it than any single story in years except the war, and no one knows any more about it now than when they were doubting this fellow Arnold who first reported seeing whatever it is that is being looked at, real or imaginary.
"As I said before. this business started in Boise and it is up to us if we can do it to help get it brought down to earth. I hope you can lasso one of the damn things and bring it in for display, but on the other hand, it might be a good idea to be ready to duck if you see something skipping along."
Dream Assignment
I might interject here that the boss doesn't fly.
"Crank up your airplane," he said, "and go up around the Hanford atom plant area in Washington and stay there until you either find something or give it up. See if this fellow Arnold wants to go along (he jumped at the chance) and take the best camera equipment you can find and stay as long as you want to."
Such an assignment -- stay as long as you want to -- is not to be accepted lightly.
"Fly around that area," said the city editor, "because my hunch is that if these things can come from any place they are coming from some project like Hanford. The army has denied this possibility but the army has been making denials a major business for years. In one case an Army man said there's nothing to get excited about, "if there were anything to the saucers the army would have notified us."
Also . . . Good Luck!
"If you see anything that answers the description -- or the hundreds of descriptions -- grab a picture and high-tail for Boise."
"Oh yes," he added. "Good luck to you."
They take the insurance out of my check.
I phoned Arnold. We are taking off bright and early in the morning. Arnold has a new movie camera with a telephoto lens and we're fortified for pictures.
From somewhere up in eastern Washington tomorrow night you'll hear from us, providing, or course, we don't run into something that proves these reports to be the McCoy and it runs over us.
The city desk says he'll stand behind us.
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United Press Wire Story - July 7, 1947
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ARMY PILOTS READY TO PURSUE SAUCERS
(UP) -- Army pilots were ready today for another air search for the mysterious "flying saucers" now reported seen in 31 states and parts of Canada as practical jokesters added to the confusion.
Equipped with telescopic cameras, 11 Army planes searched the Pacific northwest Sunday without finding any trace of the flying discs which had been reported over scores of communities the preceding two days. At Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a Coast Guard plane already in the air was ordered to investigate a silvery disc with a short tail which Gregory Zimmer said he saw shoot across the heavens. The pilot found nothing but empty sky.
The Army "camera patrol" over the Cascade Mountains Sunday included eight P-51 pursuit ships and three A-26 bombers. There was growing belief that the concentrated aerial search would show the saucers to be optical illusions or the work of practical jokesters magnified by aroused imagination.
The Rev. Joseph Brasky, a Catholic priest of Grafton, Wisconsin reported that a metal disc 18 inches in diameter with "gadgets and wires" around the hole in the center crashed into his yard with a mild explosion. He announced that he was holding it for the FBI, but after close examination found the lettering "...steel, high carbon 100 per cent steel," and decided that it was a circular saw blade.
A number of "discs" whirled over rooftops in East St. Louis, Illinois, Sunday. J.T. Hartley, locomotive engineer, gathered some of them up and found they were made of pressed white paper, 11 inches in diameter and with a two-inch hole in the center. Railroad workers said they looked like locomotive packing washers.
A radio announcement that discs were flying over Lewiston, Idaho sent hundreds into their yards for a look. Weatherman Louis Krezak said the objects were moving eastward with the prevailing wind and probably were weed seeds. Three air transport pilots agreed.
A Birmingham radio station was deluged with more than 400 calls in one hour by persons who said they saw fluorescent balls circling over the city and clearly outlined against nearby mountains. A carnival at Alabaster, Alabama was playing searchlights on cloud wisps.
An argument raged at Lodi, California, over the cause of a spectacular glow in the sky and a roar shortly before the electrical power went off. Mrs. W.C. Smith said she heard a noise "like a four motored bomber" just before the lights went off at dawn. Erving Newcomb of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co., offered the explanation that a low-flying crop-dusting plane probably struck a powerline and burned out a transformer. However, no planes were reported damaged and no one could explain what a crop-dusting plane was doing in the air at dawn on Sunday. It was the first time any noise had been attributed to flying saucers.
J.U. Watts, Darlington, South Carolina, attorney, said he saw an Army pursuit plane chasing a V-formation of flying saucers at 250 miles an hour 3,000 feet high. However, no pilot reported such a chase.
Meantime authorities were plagued with reports that bordered on the fantastic.
An excited Chicago woman reported that she had seen a flying saucer with legs. "I was standing on my porch and I thought for sure it was coming right down and slap me in the face," she said.
George Kugel of Denver said he saw a flying disc with an American flag on it.
Francis Howell, Tempe, Arizona, claimed he saw a saucer two feet in diameter disappear behind a row of trees near his home. When he rushed with his wife and another couple to inspect it, he said, the flat, thin, aluminum-like disc, took off at a "high rate of speed" toward Phoenix, nine miles away.
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Hollywood Citizen-News - July 8, 1947
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AUSSIES SEE THEM
Sydney, Australia, July 8 (AP)-- Strange tales of "flying saucers" were told in Sydney today, and the Daily Telegraph headlined the story "It Had To Happen Here."
Several Sydney persons told of seeing disc-shaped objects across the sky last night and early today (7/7 and 7/
. "The night was so clear and bright we were able to get a good look at them," he (sic) said. "They traveled very fast in a north and westerly direction."
These manifestations came several hours after 22 Sydney University students reported glimpsing objects after an experiment organized by Professor Frank S. Cotton who said what they actually saw was the "effect of red corpuscles of the blood passing before the retina of the eye,"
(22 out of 450 students saw the alleged "spots.")
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Lewiston, Idaho Daily Tribune - 8 July, 1947
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First Day Of Find Saucers Assignment
Proves 'Dud' For Newspaperman-Pilot
By DAVE JOHNSON
(Idaho Statesman Aviation Editor)
Boise, Ida., July 7 -- AP -- If anyone wishes to report that he hasn't seen a flying disc, I will confirm it for him.
I have just come back from flying seven and one-half hours over a 1,100 miles route in search of some trace of the discs, but I was not among the blessed.
I didn't see any, and neither did Kenneth Arnold of Boise who rode with me in the Statesman's plane. We both packed camera with telephoto lenses and were ready to open fire with the film if we saw one of the objects which have been keeping the nation in an uproar for more than two weeks.
Companion Unhappy
Arnold, unhappy man, gritted his teeth and moaned most of the way home. He's the one who can be said to have started the disc stuff, with his report of nine of the objects wheeling around Mt. Rainier and disappearing in the vicinity of Mt. Adams in Washington.
The Statesman's "Early Bird" droned in within good sight of the Canadian Rockies, around the atom plant at Hanford and over the rough country between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams.
We followed Capt. E.J. Smith's airline route from Boise to Pendleton hoping to see some of the objects he, his co-pilot and a United Airlines stewardess reported the other night.
On the way up to Pendleton, Arnold broke into a laugh and said, "Just think of all the folks who must be walking along the streets looking up for discs."
I asked him what the hell he thought we were doing.
Heard It Was Hoax
At Yakima. where we ate lunch at the central airport hangar, we nearly had convulsions when we heard that a fellow in a P-38 up in Montana reported meeting a disc at 32,000 and sending it spinning. We heard it was supposed to have had a plexiglass blister on top.
Later we heard it was all a hoax.
We told people at Pendleton, Yakima and Kennewick what we were after. I am proud to be an American when I say that nowhere did we get the whirling finger at the temple stuff.
Will Keep Up Search
Now about this assignment. The city editor was very explicit when he said he wanted me to hunt until I found a disc, or had to give up. I am a Swede from a long line of Swedes, and I am convinced a Swede discovered America and that a Swede was the first president of the United States.
I will keep it up. I still have some of that expense dough in my sweat-soaked pocketbook and unless the city editor takes it away from me the search will go on. There is one drawback I can't oversome. Without supercharging, the Early Bird No. 3 is good up to about 14,000 feet. If these things are from another planet, I'm sunk.
The Early Bird ran vey well today, the engine sounding like molasses being poured on flapjacks, until Kenneth Arnold began talking about forced landings. He chose for that discussion the time we were covering the ridge between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams, a most difficult piece of terrain.
City Editor Grumbling
At that moment the engine began to sound as if it were coming apart. That's a peculiarity of airplane engines, or maybe of airplane pilots. The city editor, who doesn't fly, was not along.
I am off into the wild blue yonder tomorrow. This time I'm going alone for Arnold, who sells fire fighting apparatus, says this is his best season and he's taking his own plane to Pendleton. He'll also take his camera.
Arnold and I are not alone in this disc hunt. Some very solid citizens, including pilots on the major airlines, are carrying field glasses and cameras with them in the same endeavour.
I hope to be able to report better luck tomorrow. I'm going first up around St. Maries where discs were reported to have hit a mountain.
Then around the mountain, ad infinitum.
V.LOEND
