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I 9Flying Saucers'Denied Again ButReports Continuej (Continued scorn ?«3» 1)off and streaked south.WASHINGTON — (UP)— The j Air Force said Saturday that, de-| spite reports to the contrary, it \ still believes there is no such 5 thing as a “flying saucer.”J Air Force intelligence and tech* j nical officers have not been impressed by any of the latest accounts of flying discs.They also deny that the Air i Force is denying the existence of j “flying saucers** to cover up some I of its own experiments in space j ships and similar air machines.| The Air Force position still is j that reports of unidentified fly- j I ing objects result from “misin- j I terpretation of various conven-1 ; tional objects, a mild form of' ■ mass hysteria or hoaxes/* jj FARMINGTON. N. M.—lt;UP— j* Most of the 5,000 residents of this j ; northwestern New Mexico oil! j town said Saturday that they are j j “absolutely convinced’* that flying j ! saucers exist. !More than 50 witnesses report-1 Jed a mass flight of disk-shaped ] j objects Friday. jj The witnesses—including busi-! i nessmen and private pilots —said j the aerial flood of “flying saucers’’ \1| was staged by group waves which ! numbered up “into the hundreds.” HAVANA, Cuba—(UP)—A Cu-, ban airplane pilot said Saturday ! I he tracked a flying saucer over I eastern Cuba for 15 minutes with a theodolite Thursday morning.BURSA, Turkey — (UP) — Priests chanting the morning prayer coll atop minarets of this ancient city reported Saturday j they had seen flying saucers.MEXICO CITY—(UP)—American cameramen who filmed a; “shiny, fast-moving object” which many observers swore was a “flying saucer” said Saturday the : results would be delayed because j ; their color film must be develop- j ed in the United States. !Meanwhile, this capital city of; 2,500,000 was undergoing a siege j of “sauceritis” which had hun-! dreds of persons jamming down- j j town streets gazing excitedlyI skyward hunting flying discs. !
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Mexia Daily News
Mexia, Texas, US
Sat, Mar 18, 1950
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