Sunday, 24 November 2019

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Focus On UFO News Articles From the Year 1957


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Website: Newspapers.com (owned by Ancestry.com LLC, Lehi, Utah):

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UFO news article:
“ ‘Saucers’ Reported On Coast”

12 July 1957
(Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico)

Source: Newspapers.com

The whole article:
“A private investigative committee said Thursday that Civil Aeronautics Administration control tower operators have tracked four ‘flying saucers’ over California, operating at speeds up to 3600 miles an hour.

Eight members of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, including Rear Adm. Herbert B. Knowles, USN (ret.), certified they had seen the signed radar report.

Admiral Knowles criticized the veil of secrecy that surrounds unidentified flying objects (UFO). He declared: ‘There is a real need to break through the official Washington brush-off and get the truth to the people.’

New Members Named

The NICAP, a private organization, also announced the names of five new board members: Vice Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter, USN (ret.), former director, Central Intelligence Agency; Lt. Gen. P. A. Del Valle, USMC (ret.); Maj. Dewey Fournet, former air force UFO investigator; J. B. Hartranft Jr., president of the 65,000-member Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assn., and Dr. Marnus Bach, noted author and professor of religion, Iowa State University.

These and other new UFO developments were disclosed Thursday in the first issue of the ‘UFO investigator,’ the NICAP’s magazine report to members. Copies also were sent to all members of Congress.

Appeared in March

The radar report certified by the NICAP was made at an airport in the Los Angeles area. The first of the four UFO’s appeared on the tower radarscope shortly before midnight, the night of March 23 [1957].

The NICAP also proposed to Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas and eight-point plan of cooperation to end controversy and public confusion over flying saucers.”

























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