'Saucer' Tales Buzz in State

Disk Found by a Priest Is Circular Saw; Others Seen by Milwaukeeans

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noticeable tail. When it disap- peared entirely, it just popped out." Janesville police reported a tele- phone call from a Dick Thompson, who said he saw flying disks about 12:15 a.m. Sunday. At Oshkosh, Mrs. L. A. Davis re- ported that she and her husband had sighted one of the mysterious disks whizzing over the city at 6:45 p.m. Sunday. She said they were driving on a town road six miles west of Osh- kosh, headed east toward the city, when they first sighted the object "flying very fast and very high." At first, she said, it looked like an airplane and then loomed larger and larger until it "appeared as big as the sun."

Stops Car, Disk Vanishes

Her husband stopped the car so that they could get a better look at the disk, which appeared round and silvery, but by the time they got out of the car the object had dis- appeared, she said. At Green Bay, Eugene Le Plant reported that he and his 12 year old son, Duane, had seen a rapidly mov- ing silver ball or disk about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday while working in his garden on the western edge of the city. Le Plant said he saw the object silhouetted against a dark cloud to the north and that he and his son watched it for three or four minutes while it moved away to the northwest. Le Plant said he could not estimate the altitude or dis- tance, but that it "definitely was not an airplane."

Laws of Eyesight Clarify Reports of Flying Saucers

By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor

New York, N. Y. - The flying saucers may be explained by cer- tain laws of eyesight. All objects appear round or nearly so at any distance close to the limit of how far a person can see. If the objects are seen by re- flected light, as in most cases re- ported, they are almost certain to be round, and if the reflections are sunlight then the sizes report- ed are those which would be ex- pected from distant light reflec- tions. Descriptions of virtually all the saucers as round and flat fit ex- actly with the tricks that eyes play. This trickiness varies with differences in weather and light- ing. This writer has seen flying sauc- ers over Long Island sound, not only this year but in previous years. They were round, bright and moving fast. But they were no mystery because they were light reflected from the bodies of airplanes that soon identified themselves by changing course and coming near enough to be seen distinctly.

Many descriptions of move- ments of the flying saucers fit with the common maneuvers of airplanes, singly or in groups. Some of the maneuvering report- ed, which took saucers out of sight and back into sight again, resem- bles what can be seen while watching distant airplanes. Whether planes are guided, pi- lotless or jet, they all would look the same at great distances.

Mirages, Traveler Says

Philadelphia, Pa. -(AP)- Dr. Aurel Aczel, editor of a Hungarian lan- guage newspaper, expressed belief that the flying saucers were mi- rages-possibly circularly distort- ed reflections of real airplanes many miles away. A world-wide traveler, Dr. Aczel said: "Years ago I have seen similar things on the Egyptian desert and on the Buszta (Hungarian plain). At sea I have also seen mirages of ships known to be a great distance away. "In July and August, and some- times even in June, atmospheric conditions are especially adapta- ble to the creation of mirages."