“United States Air Force Says Officially
That The ‘Flying Saucers’ Are Not A Joke”,
26 April 1949 (The Florence Times, Alabama)
The Florence Times reports on a 1949 official U.S. Air Force UFO paper:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mSEsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2cYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5867,1472264
Quote from the article:
“The saucers are not a joke. Neither are they cause for alarm to the population.
Many of the incidents already have answers – meteors, balloons, stars, birds in flight, testing devices, etc. Some of them still end in question marks.
The paper said the possibilities that the saucers are foreign aircraft have been considered. ‘But’, it adds , ‘the reported performance of the discs is so superior to anything we have yet approached in this country that it is considered only an accidental discovery of ‘a degree of novelty never before achieved’ could suffice to explain such devices.’ ”
The U.S. Air Force’s flying saucer camera, 1953
(blog.modernmechanix.com photo)