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2 sos 3ngclcs Ct'mcs Port I SUNDAY, MAR. 1 2,1 950 Flying Saucers? Flying Nude Redhead Outstrips Saucer Men Mexico Sees Flying Saucers You Can 't Be Sure Flying saucers bah! If the Sheriff's deputies of Los Angeles and Orange Counties can solve the mystery of the Something -or flying woman, they'll be happy. Spirgen, janitor at, the Lowell elementary school, 10711 Val-lev Home Norwalk. Spirgen found her swinging In a swing on the deserted playgrounds. He even asked.her what she was doing there.

She just stared at him and kept swinging. He went in to telephone the Sheriff's deputies. When he MEXICO CITY, March 11 (U.R) The director of a Mexican ob- It been going on for weeKS. Reports of a will-o-the-wisp redhead, apparently in her twenties and in various stages of dress and. undress, have been rolling in so regularly at the Norwalk servatory today produced a photograph of 'a flying saucer but it looked more like an amateur's snapshot of a klieg light.

whhZVeill (Mrs.) Beck came out, tne woman naa ui-. i Kites, Balloons, Reflections? Almost Anything Says Air Force BY MARVIN' MILES, Times Aviation Editor So you've seen a flying saucer? Or perhaps a strange object in the sky? You've told your family, your friends. Listeners compare your description witroothers they've heard or read about embellish them, pass them on. The story grows; spreads. The photograph was a black and East Whittier Sheriff sub TRAVELERS making stations that yesterday the deputies decided to do something about it.

their way to the Farmers Market frequently report to us that they stopped off at a They started a search along the county line around East Whittier. A generous portion. caravanserie in Buellton, Cali According to reports from the orange groves -in the neighborhood of the Murphy i Ranch, the mysterious lady frequently goes about in the nude, although she occasionally -gets conventional and clads herself in levis or maybe a man's shirt. And she's about 62 inches tall none of that 23 inches stuff. fornia, to partake of the thick, satisfying split pea soup of the population in the area joined in.

for which the town is famous. The best look at the vanismng ladv was obtained by Arnold square with a' diagonal band of light across it. The caption in the newspaper Excelsior said it was "possibly" the only picture of a flying saucer which existed outside the larger countriies." Luis Enrique Erro, director of the Tonantzintla Astronomical Observatory where the photograph was made, said: "The strange object crossed the sky March 2. Since that day we have wondered, what it could have been. We don't know." Meanwhile, dozens of reports of flying saucers poured into the capital from all over Mexico.

The "saucer craze" began shortly after a Mexico City newspaper printed a series of articles which appeared in True magazine. Little Men Here Again, This Time Oyer Salinas SALINAS, March 11 (U.R) The "And whaddaya suppose?" they say, "Right there, on the wall of the pea soup place, is a great big enlargement of a Farmers Market ad It's one of our ads of long ago in which we announced that Andersen's Thoroughly Split pea soup, made in Buellton, is available at the Farmers Market frozen solid. These stimuli mistaking a more or less familiar object for another object (simple failure in identification) chiefly through inability to estimate speed and distance. (In this category, too, are visual stimuli originating in the eye itself, small solid particles that float in" the fluids and cast shadows on the retina, sometimes even corpuscles that can be seen circulating within the fluids.) 2 Mistaking Imaginary for real events Observations by children or suggestible individuals of low intelligence; persons who see visions or the mentally ill. 1 3 Deliberate falsifications Persons who start false rumors for the same reason they turn bricks of soup are stocked by Willards, Frozen Foods Shop in the'Farmers Market WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE Above, is a Times artist's drawing of the object photographed byBette Malles on a miniature camera and which, if authenticated, may possibly be first picture 'ever taken of "flying disk." Amateur Photographer little men from Mars were cluttering up the Northern skies here tonight.

More than a score of. persons Comes now, again, tim6 to in false fire alarms. (Such stor report ttiat Willard's Stall has something extra special in the way of quick-frozen lobster Adults accept, scoff or become more puzzled. Youngsters are frightened. Still the story builds.

Everyone loves a mystery, especially if he can be part of it. "Have you heard about the flying disk Mrs. Jones saw when she was hanging out her wash yesterday? It was flat, like a pie plate, about 50 feet across. She said it was about 10 miles north, going about 500 miles an hour. Aren't these things just thrill-ingly awful?" Few pause to consider if Mrs.

Jones is a competent observer. The story's exciting. Why spoil it? Questions Aris But an aero-medical man will ask: On what basis did she estimate its.size, speed and distance? How could she tell its size without being sure of its dis tance? Conversely, how could she know its distance without being sure of, its size? And how did she figure its speed without knowing either its size or its distance? That might stump Mrs. Jones. "Well, it was real bright and shiny and it wasn't an airplane or a balloon besides Mrs.

Brown down the street saw one last night in the same place, a glowing, bluish light going like blazes Wonder if Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Brown know about optical illusions They certainly know the moon looks bigger on the horizon than it does high in the sky, but there's actually no differ ies, too, could be started by per sons who desire publicity or reported seeing a flying saucer in the Salinas area. various reports had the saucer diving on an automobile, looping the loop, profit, those who have a yearn tails.I hope enlargements-of this ad will be posted in the pilot hpuse of. every lobster ing to "get into the act," to im andor speeding across the horizon at a low altitude.

boat Maine. Suddenly the' lobster tails have become a best seller, in thp frfiTPTi frvSrt linp heinc cm Snaps Weird Disk in Sky Girl With Miniature Camera Takes Picture of Something Resembling Flying Saucer A local amateur photographer-has both seen and photographed Jn the sunset sky a weird object which yesterday deepened the flying disk mystery. Whether or not a real "flying saucer" actually has been photographed for the first time will depend upon results of a scientific investigation. The Sheriff's office reported a "lot of calls" by people claiming to have seen the phenomena. The Sheriff's office said the first call came- from Mrs.

Sam Raguindin of nearby Chualar, who said the saucer "swooped down" over her automobile as she and her mother and two children were driving south of press, to stand out among their fellows.) To the Aero-Medical report might be added those who "see" saucers in fascination of the esoteric, through overindulgence in alcohol, and those with too much imagination. Vertigo Discussed The study also takes up pilot reports and discusses vertigo: "The term covers a large group of miscellaneous phenomena, including air sickness, disbelief in one's instruments and partial loss of orientation. The conditions under which some of the observations of flying objects were made were such that they could have produced loss of orientation on the part of the observer. "This is especially true for the top of the list except for such everyday popular items as peas, lima beans, Andersen's pea soup, and so on. These wonderful lobster tails vary in weight from about 4 ounces up to 2V- pounds and it's all meat, no waste.

They're deep-frozen RAW, and fresh, and thus must be cooked. You boil 'em Salinas. "I'm still scared," Mrs. Raguindin said. "I hope I never see anything like that again." Chilean Navy Reports 7-Inch Flying Saucer I REGULAR $49.50 VALUil A JTi SANTIAGO, March 11 (U.R) 'Si Mattrti or Bex or broil 'em from 10 to 20 minutes, depending on the LZ3 The Chilean Navy's meteorological observatory at Punta Arenas reported today its latest observations on a celestial body seen over that city yesterday and be those experiences occurring at night and those in which at lieved by the populace to be a flying saucer.

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I tempts were made to 'chase' the object. Movement is always relative. If the only outside ref Said the report: "A spheroid celestial body, visible to the naked eye, of about seven inches diameter, crossed the sky in an erence is a point of light, and both the observer and the object observed are moving, it would be practically impossible, under east-to-west direction. at advertised. Full Twin Sire Pleat nd mi- NAME.

"The body remained 'in the sky from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at an estimated height of 18,000 feet, I I I size. A great big one that sells -for $1.90 would serve as many as ten people when fixed a la Newburg. Whole Eastern lobsters are also offered, -deep-frozen their big claws packed with sweet meat, Out of the same sub-zero cases we offer you soft-shelled crabs from Chesapeake Bay. Thaw them, dip them in batter or eggs, roll them in crumbs and deep-fry them.

Tasty and wonderful, you eat the' shells and all. There are frozen scallops from Nova Scotia and Blue Point oysters and shad roes. Good things to pack away in 'Should the vivid picture of object be authenticated after experts have ruled out all possibilities of nature's optical vagaries, tha pretty assistant in a L03 Angeles medical office will have scooped the world! She is Miss Bette Malles, a Los Angeles resident, who took the picture while visiting an aunt in Hawthorne. "I saw something queer and photographed it with my miniature camera," told The Times'but I don't pretend at all to know what it wab. In case it was something important, I don't wish to release either the film, or prints until some authorities have passed on them.

However, here are the pictures and you can see for yourself. Snapped Strange Object "I was about to take a picture of a small plane flying over a Hawthorne air field when I suddenly saw something "shining closer by and to my left. I quickly snapped the shutter and this is what I got" In the left background of the untouched negative and enlai ged prints is a vivid object which defies description. The central part of the object is composed of a luminous oblong doughnut, the Vhole" being suggested by the slightly darker center. Like an outrider, preceding this disc, is a circular blob which might be mistaken for a miniature sun The upward flight of the disk is suggested' by lines of light projecting backward ADDRESS.

and then disappeared." certain conditions, to tell which was moving and which was not or to separate the two motions. Distance Judgment "It is hard enough to fly a 5TATE I CITY- Reports said the body was seen clearly by thousands of persons. Mail order add 3.00 fe cover safes fox, packing and shipping good pursuit curve on another Sunday, 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. Opan Daily to 9 aircraft in good daylight, for, example, much less to close a solitary light at night.

The difficulty is due chiefly to the inability to judge distance or F-80 Pilot Killed LAS VEGAS, March 11 () A pilot from Las Vegas Air Force Base was killed today when his F-80 plane crashed and exploded at the Indian Springs bombing and gunnery range 45 miles west of here. Identification was withheld pending notification of relatives. 1X3 '--Hi- SNAPS DISK Miss Bette Malles photographs weird object flying through sky. Times phoio from the blob toward the bright doughnut. Also, what appears to be a cone of faint light connects the blob to the disk.

Enclosed in Halo 4 second cone of light, projecting backward from the disk, your deep freeze or to have. MOST MODERN FURNITURE STORE for dinner tomorrow night. A delicacy from our own speed of a point source of light." It should be remembered, too, that all but a very few reports have been quickly, discounted by airmen, scientists, doctors, psychiatrists. Of 375 selected reports of unidentified flying objects, some 341 have been explained to the Air Force's satisfaction, it is said. This ratio probably has been reduced even further by -West Coast is abalone very scarce -lately, but available ence.

They know, too, that a stick looks bent when one end's in water, but it really isn't bent. Night Deception Do they know that light plays fancy tricks on the eye and the, camera That reflected sunlight tan make a mysterious, glinting blob out of a speeding plane? That Venus, brightest of all planets, at times looks almost near enough to touch? That clouds can make a menace out of the moon? Do they know that exhaust flame and running lights of an aircraft can be highly deceptive at night? That kites and birds, weather balloons, comets, meteors (shooting stars), odd types of lightning and wind-blown objects such as papers and cartons can, under certain conditions, play strange tricks on human Are they familiar with the sometimes odd effects of searchlights on clouds? And do they know the various types of military aircraft flying today and what they look like from all an-gles-Asweptwing, flying wing, delta (or triangle) wing, helicopters, etc. Can they competently compare the speed of 1 a rocket plane at a distance with that of a trainer close by? Laboratory Report In other words, are they aware that human perception is definitely fallible? The Air Force's Aero-Medical Laboratory, in its "Psychological Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects," acknowledges it will never be possible to say with certainty that any given observer could not have seen a space ship, enemy missile' or some other object. But it does estimate the probability that he could have seen such things. Its conclusion: "There are sufficient psychological explanations for the reports of unidentified flying objects to provide plausible explanations for reports not otherwise explainable.

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The plane which Miss Malles was about to photograph when she saw the disk-like object, is barely visible in the right background. The photographer declined to speculate on the actual size of the object or the speed at which it was traveling. that crashed near Mexico City, killing a 23-inch occupants was flatly denied to Speed Flyer Paul Mantz by Brig. Gen. Rodriguez iday.

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