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pilot, Forrest Wenyon of 123 Rehoboth Avenue, sed last night that in the past 10 months he has being loosely described as "flying saucers" but mayonnaise jars." ference between the mysterious objects of Mr. hose which have now been observed in some 40 states in that the former, accord- ing to the pilot, held a true course until they disappeared from sight. This would indicate a guided or at least an aimed missile while the course of the "saucers" has been described by observers as erratic. Mr. Wenyon said last night that he first saw what loosely resembled a "flying mayonnaise jar" one after- noon last September while flying at about 1,000 feet. It was late in the afternoon and the pilot was flying north. Suddenly, at an estimated distance of 2,000 feet in front of his plane and traveling from west to east, Mr. Wenyon saw the "jar." It was going at tremendous speed but the pilot was able to note several things. The most important of these ob- servations, insofar as an explanation is possible, is that the "jar" appeared to have some sort of rocket com- bustion. Mr. Wenyon said that spurts of silver flame from the tail seemed to provide the propulsion. Carrying out the description of

Wenyon said that the tail appeared to be a lid which had been per- forated and that from these per- forations the flames escaped. In a matter of two, at the most three, seconds the object had dis- appeared over and past Fort Miles. The pilot did not see it land and

Then on June 2 while flying at 1,400 feet in a Stinson four-passen- ger ship Mr. Wenyon, a pilot of 30

Mystery Discs- Continued From First Page ranged from the theory that they were radio controlled flying missiles sent aloft by U. S. military scien- tists to the suggestion that they might be merely sun light reflected on wing tanks of jet-propelled planes. A. B. Cross of Chattanooga, Tenn., a 34-year-old watchmaker, an- nounced he invented the "flying saucer" and submitted it to the War Department in 1943 but his idea was rejected as not practical "at the present time." Later, he said, he became con- vinced that the department elabo- rated on his plan. His model was powdered with a rubber band. Cross said, but he believed atomic power now is being used. A Spokane, Wash., woman insisted the objects she saw were of such size that together they would take up the space of a five-room house if they landed, but a Clearwater, Fla., woman said the disks she ob- served resembled "pie pans." At Rutland, Vt., a woman re- ported she and her husband wit- nessed a brilliant object in the night sky which she assumed to be a "flying saucer" although it was stationary. But at Cambridge, Mass., a house- wife said she saw "a group of white, flying saucers whirling around and going at a tremendous speed." The Massachusetts and Vermont reports brought to 40 the number of states in which the objects have been observed. With New England getting into the game, the Harvard University astronomical observatory took note of the reports but said it had had no luck so far in photographing one of the discs. The mysterious saucers first were reported June 25 in the State of Washington, but Charlie T. Ham

port, Tenn., Times News composing room, said yesterday he had seen the discs two years ago. They were "of a bright, aluminum color" and "were going at terrific speed," Hamlet said, explaining he kept quiet about them because of