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- Subject: July-4-1947-a
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- Date: 4 Jul 93 18:10:51 GMT
- Organization: Sim's Electronic Musicians' Publishing Company
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- ; REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 4, 1947 (AP) ;
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- ;- A flight of about 30 flying saucers was observed at 10:35 ;
- ;a.m. (PST) today over the San Carlos area, Stanley Miramon ;
- ;and his mother, Mrs. Marie Maranta reported. ;
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- ; Miramon said the group circled over one spot northeast of ;
- ;San Carlos, at an altitude of 2,000 feet. They were round, ;
- ;silvery in color, and "about the size of an automobile." ;
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- ; He said a two engine transport plane was in the same ;
- ;general area and it appeared the pilot saw the "things" and ;
- ;headed toward them. ;
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- ; Miramon said he ran into the house to telephone a ;
- ;newspaper, and by the time he returned to the street the ;
- ;objects were gone. ;
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- ; [Provided by Oklahoma MUFON] ;
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- ; [From the Norman Transcript, Oklahoma] ;
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- ; WASHINGTON, July 4 - (UP) - ;
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- ;Army research experts can't explain the "flying saucers" ;
- ;reported in several states, but they're investigating, they ;
- ;said. ;
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- ;They are even considering the possibility, however remote, ;
- ;that some foreign power may have something to do with the ;
- ;flying discs. ;
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- ;The Army Air Forces checked all of their research ;
- ;authorities and contractors, but none of them knew or could ;
- ;suggest anything concrete about the saucers. ;
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- ;At first Army officers laughed off the reports. Now, they ;
- ;are beginning to take them at least a little seriously. At ;
- ;any rate, the Air research center at Wright Field is looking;
- ;into the reports, and all service intelligence agencies are ;
- ;at work on them. Army experts suggested - as a bare ;
- ;possibility - that some civilian investor has been making ;
- ;some experiments of some kind. ;
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- ;The possibility that the discs might be of foreign origin ;
- ;was indirectly put forward by an AAF spokesman who said: ;
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- ; "If some foreign power is sending flying discs over the ;
- ; United States, it is our responsibility ;
- ; to know about it and take proper action." ;
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- ; [Provided by Oklahoma MUFON] ;
- ; [From the Norman Transcript, Oklahoma] ;
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- ; July 4, 1947 ;
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- ; MORE FLYING DISCS REPORTED ;
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- ; by United press ;
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- ;A flight of "flying saucers" has been reported in eastern ;
- ;Canada but reaction there to the mystery missiles reported ;
- ;earlier in nine states of the United States was "they're ;
- ;probably leftovers from the mad hatter's tea party minus ;
- ;cups, of course." ;
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- ;Dr. and Mrs. C.K. Gunn and two friends said they saw strange;
- ;objects "traveling at great speed high in the sky" last ;
- ;Tuesday near their home at Summerside on Prince Edward ;
- ;island. ;
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- ;Roland Phillipson, one of the four, described the objects as;
- ;shapeless, but glistening in the sunlight. ;
- ; ;
- ;Father Burke-Gaffney, astronomer and dean of engineering at ;
- ;St. Mary's college at Halifax, said the saucers were ;
- ;"outside the realm of astronomy." Another Canadian source ;
- ;said "It's probably a matter for witch doctors." ;
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- ;Army research experts in Washington said they can't explain ;
- ;the saucers reported whizzing across the sky by persons in ;
- ;eight states, but they said they are investigating. ;
- ; ;
- ;An Albuquerque, New Mexico Chamber of Commerce official, Max;
- ;Hood, reported he saw "a disk-like bluish object following a;
- ;zig-zag path in the northwestern sky" over New Mexico on ;
- ;July 01. ;
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- ;Other "saucers" previously were reported seen over a Navajo ;
- ;Indian reservation in northwestern New Mexico, and over ;
- ;Gallup, near Silver city, Sante Fe, Elephant Butte and ;
- ;other points in the state. ;
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- ;A U.S. meteorologist, E.E. Unger of Louisville, said he saw ;
- ;a circular object flying through the air Tuesday night as he;
- ;left a neighborhood theater. He said it was moving about ;
- ;100 miles an hour, and giving off an orange light. ;
- ;Mrs. Louis Goldstein, wife of a deputy sheriff at Monterrey,;
- ;California, reported she saw one of the "flying saucers" or ;
- ;discs at 7:45 a.m. (PST) today while looking out a window of;
- ;her home by Monterrey airport. "I know people will say I'm ;
- ;crazy, but I saw a quite-rounded flying object, not ;
- ;circular, with a red glow on one edge." Mrs. Goldstein said.;
- ;"I saw it for 10 or 15 seconds - then, suddenly it ;
- ;vanished." ;
- ; ;
- ;Airlines reported no planes in flight in the area at the ;
- ;time. The only plane at the airport was grounded. ;
- ;The projectiles, variously described as "too fast for an ;
- ;airplane and not fast enough for a falling star," "not ;
- ;moving at all," and "traveling at great speed," were ;
- ;reported seen again Thursday night streaking over Denver. ;
- ; ;
- ;It was the third report of the "saucers" this week, while ;
- ;persons in Idaho, Oregon, California, New Mexico and other ;
- ;states reported seeing various versions of the unexplained ;
- ;projectiles last week. ;
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- ;Mrs. L.M. Wagoner and her eight-year-old son of Sherman, ;
- ;Texas reported they saw a flying disc about 7 p.m. Sunday ;
- ;while traveling between Dallas and Corsicana. Mrs. Wagoner ;
- ;said the disc, about the size of a man's hat, was traveling ;
- ;northward and disappeared in a few seconds. ;
- ; ;
- ;A Dallas man, Tom Dean, said he and his wife and daughter ;
- ;saw a disc-shaped object "going like blue blazes from ;
- ;northeast to southwest at cloud level" Tuesday while ;
- ;traveling between Dallas and Fort Worth. Dean said it ;
- ;resembled a flattened-out balloon and was in sight for 12 ;
- ;or 15 seconds. ;
- ; ;
- ;A shiny disc, traveling about 150 miles per hour, was seen ;
- ;over El Paso, Texas, at 3:30 p.m. MST, Sunday, June 22, ;
- ;(NOTE: before the Kenneth Arnold sighting) by Dr. G. Oliver ;
- ;Dickson, an optometrist. He said it was shaped a little ;
- ;like a blimp, coming to a point at each end. The sun's rays;
- ;were not reflected on it, he added. ;
- ; ;
- ;Lt. Gov. Donald S. Whitehead of Idaho said today that he saw;
- ;a strange comet-like object hanging high in the western sky ;
- ;on June 24. That was the day Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, ;
- ;first reported seeing the projectiles over southeastern ;
- ;Washington. ;
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- ;Their stories varied. Arnold had estimated the projectiles ;
- ;speed at 1,200 miles an hour. Whitehead said the objects he;
- ;and three other witnesses saw "didn't move, but just seemed ;
- ;to go below the horizon with the rotation of the earth." ;
- ;At Denver Henry Martin and Walter Harrod said they caught a ;
- ;brief glimpse of a group of "bright objects" flying at about;
- ;5,000 feet Thursday night. Martin said they looked like ;
- ;coffee can cups. They were traveling in a southwesterly ;
- ;direction, he said. ;
- ; ;
- ;State Highway Patrol Sgt. David Menary, of San Francisco's ;
- ;Golden Gate Bridge detail, reported seeing a dozen bright ;
- ;metal objects "about the size of a football" whiz over San ;
- ;Francisco Bay June 24 and fall into the sea. ;
- ; ;
- ;Dick Rankin, former Portland, Oregon flyer, said he saw the ;
- ;discs high over Bakersfield, California, going from 200 to ;
- ;400 miles an hour June 23. There were ten of them in a ;
- ;formation flying north, he said. ;
- ; ;
- ;At Bath, South Carolina, Jack Reams reported that last week ;
- ;he saw a disc 12 inches in diameter, giving off a small ;
- ;weird light as it whizzed through the sky at a tremendous ;
- ;speed. ;
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