; 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= ; ; ; ; [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= ; ; [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= ; Roswell Daily Record on July 8, 1947. ROSWELL HARDWARE MAN AND WIFE REPORT DISK SEEN. Mr. and Mrs. Sam White apparently were the only persons living in Roswell who have seen what they thought was a flying disk. They were sitting on their porch at 105 North Foster last Wednesday night at about ten minutes before ten o'clock when a large glowing object zoomed out of the sky from the southeast, going in a northwesterly direction at a high rate of speed. White called Mrs. White's attention to it and both ran down into the yard to watch. It was in sight less than a minute, perhaps forty or fifty seconds, White estimated. White said that it appeared to him to be about 1,500 feet high and going fast. He estimated between 400 and 500 miles per hour. In appearance, it looked oval in shape like two inverted saucers faced mouth to mouth, or two old-type washbowls placed together in the same fashion. The entire body glowed as though light were showing through from the inside, though not like it would be if a light were merely underneath. From where he stood White said that the object looked to be about 15 feet in size and making allowance for the distance it was from town he figured that it must have been 15 or 20 feet in diameter, though this was just a guess. The object came into view from the southeast and disappeared over the treetops in the general vicinity of Six-Mile Hill. White, who is one of the most respected and reliable citizens in town, kept the story to himself hoping someone else would come out and tell about having seen one, but finally today decided he would go ahead and tell about seeing it. ARMY AIR FORCE CAPTURES FLYING DISK IN ROSWELL REGION No Details of Flying Disk are Revealed The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Force Base announced at noon today that the field had come into possession of a flying saucer. According to information released by the department, over authority of Maj. D. O. Gray, intelligence officer, the disk was recovered on a ranch in the Roswell vicinity, after and unidentified rancher had notified Sheriff Geo. Wilcox, here, that he had found the instrument on his premises. Major Gray and a detail from his department went to the ranch and recovered the disk, it was stated. After the intelligence office here had inspected the instrument it was loaned to "higher headquarters." The intelligence office stated that no details of the saucer's construction or it's appearance had been revealed.