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capital from all over Mexico. The
"saucer craze" began shortly
after a Mexico City newspaper
printed a series of articles which
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telescope.
"It was there," said Mr. Smith.
"It was no illusion."
J. De La Vega, & veteran em-
ployee of the airport commander's
office, said he saw all four of the
saucers. He said they appeared to 18
be the size of a silver peso. Other
observers guessed they were about
100 feet in diameter.
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pertinent regulations in the matter waited approximately
two days; at th end of that time they time they had heard nothing further further from
Lt. Preston and printed Lt. Preston and printed story. story After After the article the article had be printed,
Lt. Preston informed the local OSI Lt. Preston informed the local OSI office that he had been ffice that he had been contacted
concerning the story. Un to t concerning t ry. Up to that action had been taken.
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saucer" that may still be hidden in nearby wooded hills.
This was disclosed today by a man and his wife.
will.investigate.
The "saucer" was reported by L.J
L. Phillips, a representative of an
insurance company of Louisville,
Ky., who has
'ville.
Phillips reported that he and his
wife were riding on Highway 5 be-
tween Haleyville and Bear Creek .
late on a recent afternoon. He said
: something came from out of the .
West, going East. It crossed the -
.highway and railroad nearby "only 5
2 few hundred yards from us," .
he said.
He said the "saucer" was going . 5
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down at "an' angle of 45 degrees."
It "looked like a large electric
·light bulb," he said, white with :'
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ing fast time and we watched it TR:
until it was about to land i on a
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2. The 1922nd AACS Squadron has forwerded the following items which.
appeared in the Montgomery Alsbana7 Advertiser on the mornings March and
2 Apr respectively:
"Four obeerverg reported eeeing three eymetrieal spinning objecte
unouy high speed near Selma, Alabaas, late Thursday, 30 March l950. At first
flying - Thursday. given substantiation.Saturday. and Mrs.
Prattville, said they saw three circular objects streaking through the
sky near Autaugaville between 5 and 6 PM the sane day. 'They were circular', said
Mrs and each had a bright light about the rim. They seemed Ito be flying
in formation, like those sonetimes used by planes poarently got aD edgewise
view of them. They appeared and then
disappeared
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Official observers shied away from Harold Tanner of Cortez, Colo., said
- describing them as "saucers," but they had tried to keep the story
admitted that they were "flying quiet to avoid ribbing from skepti-
bodies." cal friends.
Meteorologists at the Mexico City They said they were returning
Airport calculated the altitude of from Bloomfield, N. M., one night
the bodies at between 35,000 and last week when the object began
40,000 feet by using their weather following their car. Both refused to
balloon tracking instruments. call it a "flying saucer."
An airline's weatherman said he Tanner swid he decided to stop
"thought' 'the he saw was an the car. When he slowed, the ob-
asteroid. Santiago Smith, the Mex- ject began circling the machine at
ican aviation company's chief wh a "tremendous speed." The object
server ,said the one he watched was described as dark, flat, and about
in the shape of a "half-moo." five feet in diameter, traveled on a
Smith watched the body throug. , 25 or 30-foot radius around the au- a
telescope. tomobilue he said:
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When and to whom Indicate any Indicate TELEPH ADDRESS 31.2 Pleose 31.1 IF you 31. Was eny 31. Was anyone else 30. Have
Dey Please give the lallowing RR2 1305W 1305 mrs 31.2 Pleose lis o r Force UFO form continued
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JY 31.1 IF you answered YES. did they see the object too? (Circle One) the
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14. Did the obje.t d sappear while you were watching it? lf so, how? 20. Do you think you tan estimgre the speed of the object?
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a house : (Circle One) . Yes No
sears IF you answered YES, then what speed would you estimate?.
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Do you thnk you can estimate how far away from you the object wos? 1
15. Did the abject move behind something at any time. parlicularly a cloud?
(Circle Ona Yey No (CircleOne) Yes No
Don't know. IF you answered YES, then tell what .
asclsud IF you answered YES, then haw far away would you s
it move. tulind:.
Where were you localed when yeu saw the object? 23. Were you (Cirele One)
Cwcle One): a In the business section of a city?
i  n hicularly b. In the residential section of a city?
a Ins de a building
CircleO Yes No Don't know. IF you answered YES, then tell what b Inacar c. In open countryside?"
in frontu_ C. Ouidcors d. Near an airfield?
d. In an girpiane (type) e. Flying aver a city?
. At sea . I. Flying over opyn country? Bresca
1. Other. g. Other
17. Tell in a tew words the following things obout the chject: dall, Wnunsty, wOrt
a. Sound 24. IF you Were MOVING IN AN AUTQMOBILE of other time, then comple quesi
b. Color 24.1 What direction were you maving? Sircle One)
.North c. East e. South g. West
b. Northeas d. Southeast d. Southeast f. Southwest h. Northwest h. Northwest
18. We wish to knaw the angular size. Hold a match stick at arm's length in line with a knowm object and nore haw much of the 18. We wish to knaw the angular size. Hold a match stick at arm's length in line with a known object and nore haw much of the
object is coverud by the head of the match. If you heid performed this experiment of the time of the sighting, how much ol abject is coverud by the head of the match. If you had performed this experiment of the time of the sighting. how much ol 24.2 How fast were you moving? miles per hour.
the object would have been covered by the match head? e vscrew. 24.3 Did you stop at any time while you were loaking at the objbeci?
n (Circle One) Yes No
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25. Did you observe the object thraugh any of the following?
sowfor 3uir -batton onl o. Eyeglasses Yes . Binoculars Yes No
Draw a pic ury that will show the shape of the ob et ar object. Lobe gnd include in your b. Sun glosses Yes No f. Telescope Yes No
sketch any details of the object c. Windshield No. .Theodolite Yes No
that you saw such as wings, protrusions, et., and expecially exhoust trc or vaner trails. Piace an arrow beside the drawing
to show the direction the object was moving. d. Windowglass Yes No h. Other.
islture
2. In order thot you can give os clear a picture as possible of what you saw, describe in your awn wards a common abject ar ob-
jects which, when placed up in the sky, would give the some appearance os the object which you sow.
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WACHERS AND LOOKED LIKE PLAES THEN TURNED AND THE EDGE SIDE WAS
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PRESENTEDTOTHE VATCHERS.THE MIDDLE ONE PULLED UP STRAIGHT' AND THE
6 OTHER TWO FOLLOWED. AS TO COLOR' THEY LOOKED LIKE LITLE MOONS OR
SUNS' GLOWING - WERE ILLUMINATED ALL OVER. HE IS S NOT SURE OF THE SIZE
BECAUSE HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW HIGHOTHEY WERE' BUT T ESIMATES THEY MUST
HAVE BEEN AS BIG AS B-17S AND WERE AT 10000 FEET OR HIGHER' AND
MUSTHAVE BEEN GOING AT TREMENDOUS SPEED.THEY WERE GOING WEST' AND MR.
MINUTES. THERE WAS
RP SA LAST LINE
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NO SOUND' NO EXHAUST TRAIL. THE WEA WAS CLEAR.
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OF SELMA'A . Y 30 MAR50 BEWEEN THE T
TIME 1808 AND 1813CST. THE SELMA TIMES-JOURNAL' LOCAL NEWSPAPER' IS
PLANNING TO GIVE IT A BIG PLAY.THE FOLLOWING INFORMAION IS SUBMITED,
T. ME.* * S FIRST IMPRESSION WAS THAT THEY WERE CLOUDS WITH THE SUN
. SHINING THROUGH. BUTTHERE WERE NO CLOUDS IN SIGHT' AND MR.
SAYSTHEY DEFINIELY SAW THREE CIRCULAR OBJECTS OF SOME SORT.THEY

object be authenticated after ex.
perts have ruled out all possibili-
ties of nature's optical vagaries,
the prettya assistant in a Los An-
geles medical office will have
scooped the world! She is Miss
Bette Malles, a Los Angeles resi-
dent, who took the picture while
visiting an aunt in Hawthorne.
"I saw something queer and
photographed it with mv minia-
ture camera," she told The
Times, "but I don't pretend at
all to know what it was. In case
it was something important, I
don't wish to release either the
nlm or prints until some authori-
ties have passed on them. How.
ever, here are the pictures and
you can see for yourself.
WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE-Above Times artist's Snapped Strange Object
drowing of the object photographed by Bette Malles on "I was about to take a picture
o miniature camera and which, if authenticated, may of a small plane flying over a
possibly be first picture ever taken of "flying disk." Hawthorne air field.when I sud-
denly saw something shining SNAPS DISK-Miss Bette
closer by and to my left. I quick-
Amateur Photographer ly snapped the shutter and this Malles photographs weird
is what I got." object flying through sky.
In the left background of the Times phote
Snaps Weird Disk untouched negative and enlarged from the blob toward the bright
prints prints is a vivid is a vivid obiect object which doughnut. Also, what appears to
defies description. The central be a cone of faint light connects
Girl With Miniature Camera Takes s Picture part of the object is composed of the blob to the disk.
luminous oblong doughnut, the
of Something Resembling Flying Saucer "hole" being suggested by the Enclosed in Halo
slightly darker center. A second cone of light, pro-
Like an outrider preceding jecting backward from the disk.
A local amateur photographer has both seen and pho- this dise, is a circular blob which narrows to meet another round
tographed in the sunset sky a weird object which yesterday might be mistaken for a minia- blob of light which seems to
deepened the flying disk mystery. Whether or not a real ture sun. The upward flight of serve as the disk's rear guard.
the disk r suggested by lines But this isn't all there is to the
"flying saucer" actually has been photographed for the first of lightprojecting backward odd geometrically shaped assem-
time will depend upon bly.
The disk and its rear guard
are enclosed within a large and
perfectly circular halo, a similar
LOS ANGELES Times halo, bisecting the former, fol.
lowing in the wake of the con-
traption. Suggesting a jet ex-
haust is a luminous vapor-like
12 MAZCH 1980 line which streams behind the
rear guard "sun."
In the left foreground are the
black silhouettes of telephone
poles. The plane which Miss
Malles was about to photograph
when she saw the disk-like ob-
ject, is barely visible in the right
background.
The photographer declined to
speculate on the actual size of
the object or the speed at whl
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Ray L I Dimmick, sales one was an American and
to name the associates, saying only that would furnish
the other a Chilean-Mexican. Mr. Dimmick added LOS ANGELES, March 9.—(AP) pilot of the plane, died in the crash
the names requested Iby the proper authorities. -An expert on chemicals and ex- and his body was embaimed for
Wreckage, plosives told reporters today he scientific study.
He sald he was told that the wreckase on a mountainside had seen the wreckage of an ultra- "It was an exquisite piece of
U.S multary officials had viewed it. streamlined machinery." Dimmick told the first
in Mexico City and that top said it has heard nothing flying saucer on a interviewer. He then described it
However, the Air Force in Washington Mexico City mountainside, and in detail, saying it was 46 feet in
about it and there was no confirmation from Mexico. that top U. S. military officials diameter, built of a metal resem-
Mr. Dimmick said his friends told him that a man 23 inches have viewed it. bling aluminum but much harder,
tall was killed in crash and the body embalmed for scientific But there was no confirmation and was powered by two motors.
of the account, related by Ray L. He said was taken to the.
Dimmick, sales manager of the scene of the crash by associates
Powered by Tw Motors.' Apache Powder company, , and the and that the wreckage was roped
He asserted that his associates described the atreraft as 46 feet Air Force Washington said it off. The crash occurred three
metal resembling aluminum but much had heard nothing about it. months ago, he said.
in diameter, built described the plece of Dimmick later told newsmen he Dimmick said later that the
harder, and powered by two motors. He actually saw only a strip of metal piece of metal he actually saw was
metal as about six feet long. eight inches wide and three-quarters which he was told came from the about six feet long. eight inches
of an inch thick. space ship. wide and three-quarters of an inch
Reporis Phone Call About Saucer. The remainder of his informa- thick.
announced last December it was tion, Dimmick said, came from In Van Nuys, Calif., last night,
Reminded that the Air Force two business men in Mexico City, Composer Eddie Coffman said he,
dropping itsi investigation of flying saucers, Mr. Dimmick said: one an American, the other a Actor Reed Hadley and Mrs. Had-
I'm big enough to take the consequences of what I've said Chilfan- Mexican. Dimmick, de- ley saw a ship through a foggy
and stand my ground." clining to name them, said he sky. It appeared to be about 400
Why." he said. I received a telephone call from Mexico this wou'd supply that information"if feet in the air and traveling at
morning that another saucer was seen over Mazatlan." requested by the proper author- extreme speed.
Dayton Ohio, Col. C. H. Welch, public information officer of itied." Through a telescope, he said.It
At Part of his information, he said, appeared to be about 50 feet In
the Alr Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Att Force base, was that a man inches tall, the diameter.
wouldllks DOOLEnE.
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ANR-GOING ANR-GOING DISK-Roy Wolford, left, and Don Shodle, Wolford, left, and Don Shodle, gunnery practice. Wolford, former jet test pilot, thinks Wolford, former r jet test pilot, thinks
engineering student, pictured with "flying disk" designed "flying g disk"designed some of flying disk reports from householders reports from householders may
by Wolford byWolford use use as high-speed tow target for aerial high-speed tow target for aerial have been due to their observing the targets. have been due to their observing the targets.
Flying Saucer Whirls
Above Baldwin Hills
It's an Odd I Kite, With String Control, Designed
by Former Jet Test Pilot as·Aerial Target
A nying saucer whirled over His cardboard saucers are red,
the Baldwin Hills yesterday- about 18 inches in diameter, with
But it had strings on it! curved yellow wings that rotate
On the ground, holding the with the disk.
strings, was Roy Wolford, for- In the air, the rotation makes
mer jet test pilot, who designed a sound like the popping of a
small l engine, and the kite can
the odd little kite originally as a be made to dive, climb, whirl
. - high-speed tow target for aerial in circles, etc. through control
gunneryI practice. of two strings fixed to the wing
-, a Wolford thinks his cardboard tipa.
saucers may be the cause of
many a.nying disk report from
householders who glimpsed one L.A. TIMES
of the kites spinning in the air.
In fact one of his first models
- 6-foot all-metal disk-was 17 MAR 50
checked by the FBI about
year ago when someone found
It in an abandoned hangar near
ALOFTHere's the Wolford flying disk kite as ap- Edwards Air Force Base, Muroc.
pears in air, with strings attoched. The"saucer' is red Wolford had been testing it
that rotate with disk. behind a plane, cracked it up
with curved yellow wings and Ileft it in the hangar to
Times photes await repairs.

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ANR-GOING ANR-GOING DISK-Roy Wolford, left, and Don Shadle, Wolford, left, and Don Shadle, gunnery practice. Wolford, former gunnery, practice. Wolford, former r jet test pilot, thinks jet test pilot, thinks
engineering student, pictured with "flying pictured'with "flying disk" designed some of flying disk some of flying disk reports from reports from householders may
by Wolforrd by Wolford use as high-speed tow target for aerial high-speed d tow target for r aerial have been due to their r observing the targets. observing the targets.
Flying Saucer Whirls
Above Baldwin Hills
It's an Odd Kite, With String Control, Designed
1 by Former Jet Test Pilot as·Aerial Target
nying saucer whirled over His cardboard saucers are red,
the Baldwin Hills yesterday- about 18 inches in diameter, with
But it had strings on it! curved yellow wings that rotate
On the ground,.holding the with the disk.
strings, was Roy Wolford, for- In the air, the rotation makes
mer jet test pilot, who designed a sound like the popping of a
small engine, and the kite can
the odd little kite originally as a be made to dive, climb, whirl
high-speed tow target for aerial in circles, etc. through control
gunnery practice. of two strings fixed to the wing
- Wolford 1 thinks his cardboard tipa.
saucers may be the cause of
many a.flying disk report from
householders who glimpsed one L.A. TiMES
of the kites spinning xin the air.
In fact one of his first models
-2 6-foot all-metal disk-was 17 MAR 50
checked by the FBI about 2
year ago when someone found
It in an abandoned hangar near
ALOFT-Here's the Wolford flying disk kite as ap- Edwards Air Force Base, Muroc.
pears in air, with strings attoched.The."saucer' is red Wolford had been testing it
that rotate with disk. behind a plane, cracked it up
with curved yellow wings Times photes and left it in the hangar to
await repairs.

chased by a strange flying object 1
while returning last week from a
trip to New Mexico.
Lloy! Locke of Durango and
Harod Tanner of Cortez, Colo.,
said tney had tried to keep the
story quiet to avoid ribbing from
friends.
Followed Their Car.
They said they were returning
from Bloomfield, N. Mex., one
night tast week when the, object
began Tollowing their car. Both
refused to call it a flying saucer.
"But it was too fast for a bird,
and too small for an airplane,"