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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
12 April 52 North Bay Canada 0 Was Balloon
Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
Local... 2130 Ground-Visual Ground-Rador Wos Aircraft
0 Probably Aircraft
GMT C Air-Vi sual Air-Intercept Rodar 0 Possibly Aircralt
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE 0 Wus Astronomical
Yes RCAF personnel 0 Probably Astronomical
0 Possibly Astronomical
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7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION OURSE 0 Other_
0 Insufficient Data ior
2 minutes 1 R Unknown
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TO. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
. Amber color. Round - Came in from south.
Sudden reversal maneuvers.
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4 Numbor of objecte - l only
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6 Description of noise, ang.
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9 Desoription of the sky with sun or moon visible.
Clear sterlit ni ght.
10 Dircetion of moon in relation S to the oboerver.
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17 Vere the stars vialble.
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the policy emphasising that U.S. polie-
los and aotions are all part or a "grand de3ign aimed
at protec security.
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October 1950 vestigation accepted
the conelusion roject weert adopted
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ed its intelligence perts to study the s of several dises
reported over North Bay in th bast four months.
Four airmen stationed at th e North Bay base told their
superiors they saw fying dises fl at silently over the local
air station and an RCAF statement said there was no rea-
son to doubt the statements.
All of the men were described as veterans with several
years experience identifying conventional aircraft.
WO E. H. Rossell, a veteran airman with 13 years in
the service, and Flt. Sgt. Reg McRae, a visitor from Weston,
The Air Force cagily declined official comiment about
the flying saucers whose existence at one time was investi-
gated thoroughly by the United States Air Force and de-
clared questionable.

saucer over North felt the subject was closed and
was obaerved by two other air- then new reports from the .
men for a period of more than United States or elsewhere have p
eight minutes obviously could been published and it has been gi
not be a meteor either. reopened. cc
Today, Atomic Energy Con- "We are keeping our minds
tro! Eoard Chairman Macken- open and studying the informa- N
zie, who had been among the tion that becomes available." ti
scientists who could not credit Others here noted a signi- ai
the first reports of flying sauc- icant parallel between the two cc
ers, said: North Bay reports and the ma- in
It seemed fantastie there jority of those in the United
could be any such thing. At States. N
first the temptation was to say Preponderance of substantial
it was all nonsense, a series of reports of sky dise activity in the
optieat illusions. Bu aere
not be ignored. Similarly North Bay is a mere
"It seems hardly possible that 110 miles from Chalk River, site
all these reports could be due of Canada's big atomic cnergy
to optical illusions." projects.
What the flying saucers might The theory has been advanced
be or where they came from, already that, assuming the sky C
Dr. Mackenzie could not sug- dises come from outside the t
gest. world, they may have been sent
On one point he was posi- by denizens of another planet to C
tive. check on nuclear fission develop-
Many reports of fying saucers ments on earth. I
have come from New Mexico The theorists infer the space
near the area where atomie ex- men may be anxious over the
periments have been condueted. possibility atomic activity
United States ebservers have here may disturb th cosmos.s
wondered whether the sancers A German scientist now in the t
were the outcome o some United States who was chief de- 4
atomic experiments, but signer at a wartime rocket es-
United States atomie control tablishment has kept records of a
authorities said this was not so. saucers seen all over the world.
Dr. Mackenzie said he could His conelusion is that they came
give the same assurance for Can- from outside the world .
ada. Nothing was being done (See also Page Three.)

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of three years te
"flving saucers" mysterlous
"dises" and "freballs" speed-
ing through North American
skies were regarded as some
thing close to a joke.
The RCAF and Canadian sci-
entific leaders spoke amid a
fiurrying of reports:
1. The sighting by airmen at E4
the new RCAF North Bay jet
base of "flying dises", which
Air Intelligence flatly declaced
could not be simply shrugged
off.
2. Documentation by the
United States Army Air Forces
of seme 30 different "flying
saucer", "dise" and "firebail"
Millman told The Journal:
"It is no good just laughing at
these reports. We can't discover
any conventional explanation
which would cover the reported
behavior of these objects."
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Mackenzie
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The RCAF' and Canadian sci-
entifie leaders spoke ainid a 4
flurrying of reports:
1. The sighting by airmen at
the new RCAF North Bay jet
hase of "ilying discs". which
Air Inteiligence flatly declared
cala not he simniv shrueoed

Station to the city.
Suddenly they spoited "a bright
amber disk" flying cer the field.
M They reported that "ihr disk seem-
ed to shon ih mid-air, hovered for
a briet tide, and then zoomed away
at terrfid speed from the direction
in whilh it had come, and at an
angle oif 3o degrees.
WO. W. J. Yeo a master 'telecom-
munications technician with 16
years' RCAF service, said that on Education patr friarch
the night of January 1, he and Sgt.
D. V. Crandell, an instrument tech- He is attending his Soth Ont
RCAF Intelligence. don, Ont. a short, straight. schol
The veterinarian couldn't bring ty gentleman aporoaching his looth, 1
eared in the Brantford Exposi- Awarded Prizes bithday. the ainn snd valite of
ime at all. education is thn expansion ot
human horizons. Evaluation of the t
benelits of edueation in torms of :
Count Appeal Kingston, April 15 (CP),-Awards practical returns imposed autonnatie)
af the Senator Davies Poetry Prize limitations. 1
and the Wnig-Standard Essay Prize Attending his Soth session of the 1
by Ontario 1
Before Court the i internationally inovn edica-:
Principal W. A. Mackintosh of
Queen's University. tonist, historian and botonist, yes
Ontario Appeal Court judges up- The poetry price of toes to torday drewr This unadogy to the
holaite the conviction of Harlay James Morris Soutter of ingston. climh a moogotain, ths whole salne
eat a seeond Near whoso
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DENT: One bright anber dise was reported to have cone into
. ss the RCAF air-
. 1 field. It thon stopped, reversed.its direetion, and osrqyee
disappoared.
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