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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 competent 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 Filying 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 explained. 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 4
