Subject: July-4-1947-a
Date: 4 Jul 93 18:10:51 GMT


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;            REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 4, 1947  (AP)        ;
;                                                            ;
;- 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.                ;
;                                                            ;
;  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."    ;
;                                                            ;
;  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.                                         ;
;                                                            ;
;  Miramon said he ran into the house to telephone a         ;
;newspaper, and by the time he returned to the street the    ;
;objects were gone.                                          ;
;                                                            ;
;=END=                                                       ;




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;               [Provided by Oklahoma MUFON]                 ;
;                                                            ;
;          [From the Norman Transcript, Oklahoma]            ;
;                                                            ;
;                WASHINGTON, July 4 - (UP) -                 ;
;                                                            ;
;Army research experts can't explain the "flying saucers"    ;
;reported in several states, but they're investigating, they ;
;said.                                                       ;
;                                                            ;
;They are even considering the possibility, however remote,  ;
;that some foreign power may have something to do with the   ;
;flying discs.                                               ;
;                                                            ;
;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.                ;
;                                                            ;
;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.                              ;
;                                                            ;
;The possibility that the discs might be of foreign origin   ;
;was indirectly put forward by an AAF spokesman who said:    ;
;                                                            ;
;  "If some foreign power is sending flying discs over the   ;
;   United States, it is our responsibility                  ;
;   to know about it and take proper action."                ;
;                                                            ;
;=END=                                                       ;



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;               [Provided by Oklahoma MUFON]                 ;
;          [From the Norman Transcript, Oklahoma]            ;
;                                                            ;
;                       July 4, 1947                         ;
;                                                            ;
;                MORE FLYING DISCS REPORTED                  ;
;                                                            ;
;                      by United press                       ;
;                                                            ;
;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."                                           ;
;                                                            ;
;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.                                                     ;
;                                                            ;
;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."            ;
;                                                            ;
;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.                                                    ;
;                                                            ;
;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.                                  ;
;                                                            ;
;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.                                      ;
;                                                            ;
;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.                                                 ;
;                                                            ;
;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.                                                      ;
;                                                            ;
;=END=                                                       ;