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X.A.N@ 15 for August 1952
THE QUESTION OF TI YING SAUCERS".
In the last days of July, the Radar-instruments covering
Washington have picked up at least twice flights of unidentified
objects, commonly Imown as flying saucerse Jet=-plenes of the Maerican
airforce, sent out to intercept the objects, made Visual contacts with
them, but where unable to reach them, since the objects travelled
faster than the 600 miles per hour jetse At the seme time similar
objects, if not the seme ones, were observed along the Eastem Sea~
bourd of the United Statese These factial observations frou compe¬
tent and by no means hysterical authorities call once more the atten=
tion on one of the most mysterious happenings of our timese
The flying saucers were seen for the first time on June
27th 1947 over Mount Ruinier in the Sate of Washington, USA, The man
who sighted them was a private flyer and bussinesmun, Kenneth Arnold.
His report was quite factual, and thus created quite a stir in the
United ‘States. His report was soon thereafter substantiated by pro=
fessionul pilots, who saw the saucers in the West of the United States.
In fact the importance of these reports was such, that already in
1947 the Air-Force Chief-of-Staff General Vancenberg was compelied
to organize the so-called Grudge-project, with the aim at collecting
end sifting all reports on flying ssaucerse
i The Grudge project was in operation for two years, end came
out in August 1949 with a report, in which it stated that the Fily¬
ing Saucers do not exist. It hinted that most reports were either
based on hysteria or optical illusions. Nevertheless it had to admit
that of the 374 reports whieh had been studied, 34 could not be ex¬
plained. It was this admission, which ofviciais tried to make pass
without drawing attention, which was the source of much criticism
and demands that the project be _continuede People did not went to
accept the official conclusions, especially since reports oa flying
seucers continued to pour in from qualified observers all over the
wirld, including many top raniing pijotse This publie pressure was
increased when it was leasmed, that members of the United States
airforce had lost their lives while in pursuit of such unidentified
objects? : ;
: Another attempt of official circles to quiet dom the rising
public nervousness, was the scientific theory of Astrophysicien
Donald H, Menzel of Harvard University, who pretended that the flying
seucers where optical illusions created by the breaking of light
of lighting heavenly bodies*, like eege the sun, or even of strong
peacons on earths A j
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