were idling and sort of throbbing. He drew a picture of it for the DAILY DEMOCRAT.

'Flying Saucer' With Men Inside

Went Up Straight as A Light Cord' Out of Sight, Says Squyres 'Sort of Wiggled,' Had 'Whole Bunch of Propellers' at Middle BY BOB MCKNIGHT

DAILY DEMOCRAT that he saw a "flying saucer" early this week

Bill Squyres, on the staff of radio station KOAM, Pittsburg, said he definitely saw a human being behind a window in the front part of the object. Squyres, who plays a guitar and sings on a 6:15 a.m. program six days a week, was on his way to work when he saw the object hovering near the ground in a heavily wooded area several

He lives near Frontenac, Kan., about nine miles from Pittsburg. Squyres said it had a dull aluminum appearance and was about eight to 10 feet thick, round, "sort of wiggling." "My hair rose straight up on the back of my head," he said. "It was about 75 feet long and about two-thirds as wide as it was long." He said he got out of his car where the object was hovering, when it suddenly rose straight up and out of sight. "It sounded like a covey of a hundred quail taking off." Squyres said. "It went up straight as a light cord." He said when he first started toward the object he got a good look at it. He said the motors were idling and sort of throbbing. He drew a picture of it for the DAILY DEMOCRAT. It looks like two turtle shells or two platters joined together

are joined together." Toward the front was a window

being through the window." A few feet back were several more windows in the middle. "There also was a blue light, but it fluctuated from dark to light blue. Squyres said he had not noticed considerable activity in that section "like a window shade pulled down. I could see figures moving back of it." Apparently this is the first case which has been brought be- fore the public of a "flying sau- cer" in which humans have ac- tually been seen. Squyres said he had been with a George Massey, station an- nouncer; Leo Stafford, chief en- gineer; Marcel Stewart, sales- man, and Squyres all went back to Pittsburg to see the spot. They all said they saw where the weeds were torn and was blown down and where something had been. Squyres said it looked "like the backwash of where the thing had been."

weeds and the surrounding earth are being tested at the Pittsburg Teachers college for exhaust

other unknown elements. Squyres, however, said there

Bob Green, who is reported to

is working on the tests.

laboratories at Dayton. Pittsburg police officers went out but couldn't find the weeds were beaten possibly because of an morning rain. Squyres said the officers didn't

from the road. Pittsburg paper didn't give story much play, although

the truth. Squyres is married, 42 years old and the father of two children. He has been a radio entertainer all of his life, starting in Kan- sas City in 1936. He spent five years with station KITE, and has been back in Pittsburg nearly one year. "They're not about to make me retract this information," he said. "I'm not going to let them tell me I'm not going to let them tell me I didn't see it." Asked if it might have been a mirage or similar phenomenon he said: "You don't hear a mirage." Squyres is quiet, modest and was described as "not looking like a publicity hound." He said no one from the air force or the FBI has called on him yet, "But I expect that they will."

SEPT. 24, 1948 THE ABOVE 1948 RPT IS ONLY INCLUDED BECAUSE OF SLIGHT SIMILARITY AND IS NOT A LANDING REPORT.