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FILE NUMBER 1
JJR_ 8.21
INITIALS DATE
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and four other the miles out of
Orangeburg.
"Another flying sal reported Thursday by Van Nuys,
Calif, who told police saw a bright disk flying about 400 feet in the air.
All witnesses said they were sure it was not an aireraft
"Composer and and his wife said they
tedt theas annosred to be 50 feet
and saying numerous disks Mexico
'carry visitors from Mars.'
"The unidentified Mexican scientist wrote that the manner of flight and
proportions of the disks 'make it obvious that they carry beings from another
world.' He said his claim would be confirmed in the near future one of the
disks is chased to earth
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Easterling. who saw
the vapor trail route tc
By CHARLES SANDERS streak, a section like a fine thread, the city from the Richland
Flying saucers made a vigorous and another wide streak. section, sald he thought at first
new bld today for the news spot- Sam Oliver r and Bob Gates, two it was a jet plane exploding. How-
light in America. One even came residents of the Forest Hills area. ever, he explained, it took 12 min-
equlpped witha midget pilot. also reported seeing the "saucers." utes to get out of sight. A jet would
In South Carolina, more and more The pair said the disc appeared to
citizens from various sections re- be over the Fair Grounds about said. While he discarded the "man
ported spotting the bright, silvery 6:15 p. m. They described it thus- from Mars" theories. Easterling sald
object floating across the sky about ly: "The tail he definitely thought the disc was
6:30 p. m. yesterday. end was wide and an aircraft, but was not one known
In Columbla, Mrs. John C. Brown narrowed down to a point." to the public at this time.
of 305 North Trenholm road. said "I don't know how many miles Seen In Orangeburg
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she, her husband d and daughter saw thought it was a plane sky-writing. Qrangeburg. 43 miles from
the object while they were en route but it didn't move." here, scores of residents added their
to Columbia from Dentsville. Mrs. ,R. T. Easterling of 517 Deerwood observations to the growing num-
Brown said the object appeared ber of flying g disc reports.
like a silver sunset. with A wide (Continued Page Ten) Six members of The Times and
Democrat staff there said they saw
the disc after Mrs. Donald Law,
This and it wife of the managing editor, told
them about it said was
appeared as follo The objec very about the size and color of a new
high flying aircraft, was traveling westerly moon, "only brighter." Publisher
writer J. L. Sims said the object appeared
direction. sky to turn slowly in the air, from ver.
but did not make pro- tical to parallel with the horizor.
and then vertical again, before dis·
bably going on straight cO1 vapor appearing in the western sky.
trail which it left appeared to be slightly arched. Tremendous Object'
At 1 Florence, farmer J. W. Wai-
The center trail was quite thin and lace saw a tremendous object"
dissipated leaving what appeared to be something like an airplane and fol-
lowed by a long tail. "It was the
two separate trails. The wind was blowing from foolest-looking' thing I ever saw,
West to East, which made it appear like the two Wallace said. "I called some of the
helpers to watch so no one would
This was first observed at approximately 1805 and the ship 46 feet in diameter, 90 inches
dissipating trails were still able to be observed at thick at the center, built of a metal
harder than aluminum, powered by
1825 hours, To this observer, this phenomenon two motors-and manned by a cre-
appeared to be nothing but the regular vabor trail tin-type little man only 23 inches
tall.
from a ver flying aircraft. The air force, who heard Dim-
mick's story, declared it "absolute-
9Mard1950. ly unsubstantiated" and said there
has been no word from the Mexi-
can government about such a
strange interloper.
However, the Mexican govern-
ment, El Nacional, quoted fam-
ous and reputable astronomer" as
saying the numerous discs reported
over Mexico recently carry visitors
trom Mars."
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