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ITS AN

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"Hore bo some more gen'lomen to see you, mas'oṛ,"

London Express Service

FLYING SAUCERS ARE

53 YEARS

YEARS OLD

were

Is it

The RAF Wants Men, Planes And Money

By Wing Commander PAUL RICHEY, DFC

OR the first time since aircraft and make it by for the

the inst prewar display largest air force the world. at Hendon in 1937, the This air force includes 10,000 RAF showed its puces to "actical" piston-engined the public last month-this ght bombers, trained to blast a Bghters, Dghter bombers and

time at Farnborough, Hants. way for the Red Amy as the Luftwaffe did for the German Army in 1910.

1

ONE of the foreign air at inches who watched the 1037 show was General Ralph Wen- ninger, of the German Luft- waffe. He saw the famous No. I squadron formation acrobatic (cam of four Howiter Fury biplanes, He saw the first Blen- helen fast monoplane bombers- and he saw the Gloster Gaunt- let biplaan fighters fail to calch hiin.

SUMMED UP, what he sawy

The jots

TT also include: some 1,500

high-performance let lighters.

an unknown number of det bombers.

It also has a large "strategic" force of heavy Superfort-typo bombers capable of carrying atom bombs from Polish bases to any part of Europe, including

was: Flying Brst-class; TC- these shores. equipment of bomber squadrons

with modern aircraft-begun; Against this mighty force-- fighter aircraft-obsolete. His the biggest peacetime air force report played an Important part in history-thu RAF stands in Itter's pinns for the next ance more almost alone

two years.

Recently

Europe.

Belluzze, former Fascist Minia- ter of Economy. "They werd of Baht metal, 30 ft, round, Jel-

Farnborough What could it put up if it had propelled and they spun in the

to many foreign eyes were watch to fight tomorrow? Air Marshal alr. The idea was for them carry explosives and I being among them those of Major- Sir Basil Embry's Fighter Com- lo Gerieral Chietverikov, Soviet Air mand is well equipped with jet Attache. They were looking be- ghters and highly trained for bombs today!" deliver atomic OUR years ago as n ports showed that the lights and in 60 percent the oh-lieve they are being tested

the gay music of merely to mark 1:a yond

of the intercepting bombers, Bul foreign correspondent travelled in a curve but in jects were found to be mere-

massed bands, beyond the only there were more of them. that

Keylor, Donald direction. Most ly birds, balloons of meteors, truth UNC

Command- As for Bomber in Sweden I sent news no

100 former chief information oflicer scream of the jet fighters and shrugged their There remained over

of the

thunder of the bombers. the spear with which to strike for the Aeronautics Branch home of mysterious flying people

the shoulders at a nine days inexplicable instances. the in reported

the U.S. Commerce Department, They were probing, calculating. Its best weapon is the last-war lights

which could plane, in solemnly asserts that the sighted so wonder and the affair was Saucers

sau trying to answer one question. Lincoln

its load no further east northern sky.....and

aru space-ships from How strong is the RAF of 1950? curry Denmark, Canada, France, cers

than Warsaw. played my own humble part gradually forgotten.

Portugal, o

another planet? To top this,

When the war ended in 1945. Transport Then in

Command is being in instituting a theme for

there's the fantastic story of a Austra

wrecked flying saucer found in it was the opinion of the Joint cut to pieces. Coastal Command DUEO- has only handful of and Italy. Mexico complete with the body Chiefs of Staff that there would

no war before 1900 at the lescent squadrons. A

secondi Seven at of Hittle man 23 Inches high, be

carliest. The Government handful, rather more modern. oddity swiftly turned ovel once, making an

is in Germany. A third belongs a thunderous to the United States authorities therefore gave economic

Dnd, insta ntly bustic

military to Western Union, most hushed-up,

covery priority over noise, were There's the statement by Com-security. The forces were slash- whose strength is in its stalls.

A couple more handfuls Бесп flying mander Robert McLaughlin of Bristol that destroyer Flor. the

Instruments have plotted a disc 'ï ¿ *********************** once. Perhaps 15 feet in diameter lying at the beat & miles a second 50 miles above came from the earth.. correspondent

the mystery

speculation that has since July, 1947, ********* By

swept the world.

came the first

No bull in a china shop flying saucer ever crashed the headlines stories-from with more smashing effect. Stockholm, over San Fran- Within a few weeks

a

Mark

Priestley

near

2,000 flying lights, ghost cisco, Sydney bombs and flaming saucers and Mexico. were reported; and each re- Perhaps

coin- port was separately Inves- was tigated by the Swedish Air cidence that the earth at description

time

Reuter passing a WAS Force. Finally the Swedish that Defence Staff issued an through Bagalicia, AT 2.30, 5.20, oficial statement that, after stream of meteors. Astro. compared

of nomers clocked the meteors craft to a comet with un discounting 80 percent the reports as hallucination at a rate of never less than ever-lengthening, tail. The or laymen's ignorance, 20 an hour and sometimes accompanying roar, he in something inexplicable was as high as 80. But Manches. sisted, drowned the noise of indeed flashing in flight over ter University Sweden.

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Russian Theory

hastily

over

ed.

The choice.

make

up the

Middle

and

Forces,

of

whole

the of For Easi Air

Perhaps the greatest danger

HE Mr Council under Mar-

shal of the RAF Lord Ted- of all is the serious shortage of der, faced with drastic financial trained pilot reserves. The pilots cuts, had to make up their of the las, war are in their 30's minds between two courses:-- or even 40's.

The Volunteer Reserve 1. TO RE-EQUIP the Air Force

the with immediately

under- and most under - equipped

trained, Private flying has been strangled. And no young men outside the Services can learn. to fly today even up to Volun- leer Reserve standard 100- hours without spending £300,

things

before

or more.

The blamo

fault in all this?

ND stranger...Cameramen in moders aircraft available, or

Mexico City have filmed 'n. TO PUT the money into re- development and turned the films over to the make the Air Force the best saucer on it swept the sky and search a scientists the train.

U.5. government.....Portuguese

equipped in the world Trave constguards

reported added that the meteors were too small to

Central Fact stores of saticers flying in line. 1900.

moving faster than tracer bul- In the end they compromised. be seen with the naked eye.

lets....

They re-equipped Fighter Com- with modern jets; but Spots before the eyes? Flying mand Flying saucers, however, WERE they merely jet planes,

with the exhaust condensing threads of a close-up thistle- they left Bomber, Coastal and WHOSE

W First, the Government's hoax as well As the Overseas Commands pretty were sighted in 39 of the 18

in the rarefeld atmosphere? If so, down? Mass VET no responsible Power States. A bright-eyed San what were the spheroids signed mass hallucination? In all this well as they were. YET

asserted that

North bizarre and inexplicable suga Switzerland, for Franciscan

Meanwhile, was ever identilled,

Airien Ge North and

stunde out....aud fact And what due protest would otherwise they seemed to be turning America

of stands out half-a-century. Fly-happering. Russia got

and it was evident that the air new burst

nothing new, of ing saucers are

tu have

been made through at 200 revolutions a minute in

On April 0. marshals would have From at 6,000 feet and travelling saucer activity last year when a except in name. diplomatic channels.

still Leing 1097 large cigar-shaped ob-ready much sooner.

What does the present air time to time explosions were at from 500 to 700 mph. A dozen a day were

Los Angeles business man reported in the U.S.? Air Force ject, carrying green, white and

spolted advanced red lights, wan

over situation look like to Marshal of intelligence reported, yet no wreckage quotes a description of a was ever discovered except secret Soviet plane given to the theory that the discs are a Chicago and later reported over the RAF Sir John Slessor, who

ultra-fast Texas and Colorado.

became Chief of the Air Staff prin-

Airships had scarcely

this year? Spain, invented and had never been

First, the

Force. Red Air successfully flown. And a sequel

aLatest estimates give it 10,000 came 10 days later when "huge cone shaped arrangement, succes

of 100 feet long, with large fins on - brilliant either side, aching

lights"

the

new

15487 energetic

officers

of уре

a few fragments of charred him by an officer aboard machine, based on the and

of Russian tanker. "Eighteen clples of the gyroscope,

took refuge,

согле

from

been

metal on a beach north Stockholm. This in itself inches thick, kidney-shaped, that they disposed of the theory that with no. propeller, the aur. where not a few Nazi scientists

The strange central fact

un both upper and lower sur all flying saucer stories, the Russians were firing off faces highly polished and

green and red grow white, convex like a giant doubtedly, is that they V2's and other German war faces

fantastic with passing was seen in the north-west sky weapons from the shores of lens. The pilot lies in it. more

supports the view near Sisterville, West Virginia. artificially cooled against time. This

that they Are n myth based on the Baltic.

the heat of air friction."

ass hysteria. But what of the thousands of people who stood in the

streets of Montevideo, 1950 and March, Uruguay, in

flying saucer

The Russian theory held for a day or two when a ball great of fire travelling at speed was sighted over the

Flattish Disc

in

.

Nightmarish

WHAT for 15

was this aircraft that W new before all other aircraft? minutes spinning in circles over A balloon in nightmarish paper

What of the 50 re-disguise?

watched a

the city?

And what were

the the

be

fixed on social With its eyes

economic security,

recovery, staried and its own political survival, tough, has thrown the country's

recurity to the winds.

Second, ours the people's. Misled and

state Julled Into a of false security we pursue our rivate work, happiness, and pleasure with too little thought, Behind us stands America. But how

talec long would it

to America to hit hard enough slop an aggressor?

-(London Express Service)

A talk with

'Mr Civil Defence'

By NEWELL ROGERS

NEW YORK. Mugazine sent him to the Bri- tish Home OMce defence school. John Hod-

Ations officials in New He talked with Delence of Eri-

objects, When they were thought to be except now

get. fain." from balloons, investiga-York held their first lights tions accounted for all known down-to-business meeting dirigibles and proved otherwise. The following year the lights recently to plan for the de-

Boston fence of the city of sky-second message. After were scen again over und they apparently crossed

Fantastic Story

R

British zone of Germany. It ON the other hand, a man liable witnesses of Farmington, bright lights that cruised

in Houston, Texas, picked New Mexico, who watched up skies of New England in 2008? TOMIC air-raid precau- was discredited altogether when bright greenish balls up a circular flattish disc to 100 saucer-shaped

classified a silver-coloured "USA marked, of light were seen travelling geret device. Notify Colonel which was red?

And he returned with southwards over Portugal F. Hackett, Washington."

chilling in turn with accompanying eyewit- Colonel Hackett

New Yorkers' blood with his scrapers.

grisly description of the bomb- ness stories of 'balls of fire' denied any knowledge of the

New Yorkers think it is high fag, he says: "Something coming from Tangier and device. High-ranking officers HERE's too much going on the Allantic.

in the large atom research On December 24, 1909, a trained

reading a be done about it if we follow of the U.S. Army Air Force

10 pooh-pooh the Irish astronomer reported see-time, for they are Fez, Morocco,

carefully documented account, Britain's example." held a special press meeting centres

stories," ing a luminous object that up- numerous eye-"vllness

based on Hiroshima, of a sur- north-east, from the

of atom-bombing

the He says Britain believes So much for the certe to deny the fast-spreading says Senator Clinton Anderson, peared

Secretary

slowly of moved

south for 20 prise

of possible to take 75 percent TC- city. phenomena of 1946. The idea that the flying saucers former

And from Italy minutes, then turned and American sccrat Agriculture,

It is full of horrifying ple- the death and horror out of the Swedes at that time lacked were an

authentic traced its course. What was it? comes a blast radar equipment to track weapon.

realism. "I worked on plans for A daring aeronaut of the first fures. In 180,000 people die, bomb by adequate, preparation writer John lu and cover and early warn-

Colliers ings of enemy approach. 10 this story, the ghouts in mid-air. Subsequently 270 reports nying saucers, declares turbo- night flight? Or merely another Before assigning

Guiseppe flying saucer from Mars? Charts of eyewitness re were specially investigated je: expert Professor

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