6 April 1950
(The Evening Star, Washington , D.C.
Source: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Quote from the article:
“While the Defense Department officially says there
are no ‘flying saucers,’ private aeronautical engineers say ‘yes,’ and so does
Comdr. Robert McLaughlin, on active duty in the Navy, who saw one in New Mexico (at White Sands Proving
Ground, renamed White Sands Missile Range in 1958) some months ago, where it
was tracked by observers with instruments. He wrote a technical description of
it in the March issue of the magazine ‘True.’
The strange thing about the official denial from the
Defense Department is that it says the reports of unidentified flying objects
are the result either of ‘hoaxes’ or ‘hysteria’ or ‘a misinterpretation of
various conventional objects.’
But nobody on the outside has been allowed to check up
on those reports and analyze them from a technical point of view. It would seem
that, if they are of no consequence any more, the Air Force ought to permit
their publication in order that competent technicians can form their own
conclusions.
Clearly something is lacking to explain what the
competent Air Force flyers wrote in reporting their observations of the flying
saucers—which reports are reposing in official files and have nev
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