29 July 1952
(St. Petersburg Times, Florida)
Quote from the article:
“While the politicians have been watching the
none-too-mysterious conventions, some othe people, including the Air Force,
have been watching a mysterious rash of flying saucers.
Furthermore, the Air Force, long skeptical about
flying saucers, has now made some official and important admissions.
ADMISSION NO. 1 is that they have now detected
something that looks like flying saucers on radar at the same time that people
have claimed they saw flying saucers. In other words flying saucers are not
just cloud freaks or hallucinations. If so they could not be detected on a radar
screen.
ADMISSION NO. 1 is that flying saucers could possibly
be space ships from another planet. The reason for this admission is that it
will soon be possible for us to build a space ship to visit the moon if we are
willing to spend money for research and construction.
Therefore if we are this close to interplanetary
travel, Air Force officers admit that a more advanced civilization could be
keeping this planet under surveillance through flying saucers.
ADMISSION NO. 3 — It has not been announced, but scientific observation
posts have been set up in New Mexico, where we are testing guided missiles, to
track flying saucers also. A number of flying saucers have been seen in the
Southwest, and since trained specialists are already on the job in that area
with the latest scientific gadgets, the Air Force has ordered them to watch for
flying saucers and track them scientifically.
In addition, the Air
Force has instructed its 24-hour air observers to watch not only for enemy
planes but flying saucers. Furthermore, it has set up special cameras on its
radar screens to keep a pictorial record of flying saucers or any other strange
object flitting across the screens.
Finally, Wright
Field, at Dayton, O., the center of all Air Force research, has been instructed
to chart all flying saucer patterns, find out whether their light behavior is
similar, and what characteristics they seem to have in common.
This was started
only two months ago and no similar patterns have yet been reported, except for
the peculiar fact that more flying saucers have been observed around U.S.
atomic centers and around Wright Field than anyplace else. This could be
because observers from another planet were interested in our atomic and air
development, though the Air Force thinks it’s more likely to be because the
population around these bases is more sensitive to something strange in the
skies.
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