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[Provided by Oklahoma MUFON]
[From the Norman Transcript, Oklahoma]

July 4, 1947

MORE FLYING DISCS REPORTED

by United press

A flight of "flying saucers" has been reported in eastern
Canada but reaction there to the mystery missiles reported
earlier in nine states of the United States was "they're
probably leftovers from the mad hatter's tea party minus
cups, of course."

Dr. and Mrs. C.K. Gunn and two friends said they saw strange
objects "traveling at great speed high in the sky" last
Tuesday near their home at Summerside on Prince Edward
island.

Roland Phillipson, one of the four, described the objects as
shapeless, but glistening in the sunlight.

Father Burke-Gaffney, astronomer and dean of engineering at
St. Mary's college at Halifax, said the saucers were
"outside the realm of astronomy." Another Canadian source
said "It's probably a matter for witch doctors."

Army research experts in Washington said they can't explain
the saucers reported whizzing across the sky by persons in
eight states, but they said they are investigating.

An Albuquerque, New Mexico Chamber of Commerce official, Max
Hood, reported he saw "a disk-like bluish object following a
zig-zag path in the northwestern sky" over New Mexico on
July 01.

Other "saucers" previously were reported seen over a Navajo
Indian reservation in northwestern New Mexico, and over
Gallup, near Silver city, Sante Fe, Elephant Butte and
other points in the state.

A U.S. meteorologist, E.E. Unger of Louisville, said he saw
a circular object flying through the air Tuesday night as he
left a neighborhood theater. He said it was moving about
100 miles an hour, and giving off an orange light.
Mrs. Louis Goldstein, wife of a deputy sheriff at Monterrey,
California, reported she saw one of the "flying saucers" or
discs at 7:45 a.m. (PST) today while looking out a window of
her home by Monterrey airport. "I know people will say I'm
crazy, but I saw a quite-rounded flying object, not
circular, with a red glow on one edge." Mrs. Goldstein said.
"I saw it for 10 or 15 seconds - then, suddenly it
vanished."

Airlines reported no planes in flight in the area at the
time. The only plane at the airport was grounded.
The projectiles, variously described as "too fast for an
airplane and not fast enough for a falling star," "not
moving at all," and "traveling at great speed," were
reported seen again Thursday night streaking over Denver.

It was the third report of the "saucers" this week, while
persons in Idaho, Oregon, California, New Mexico and other
states reported seeing various versions of the unexplained
projectiles last week.

Mrs. L.M. Wagoner and her eight-year-old son of Sherman,
Texas reported they saw a flying disc about 7 p.m. Sunday
while traveling between Dallas and Corsicana. Mrs. Wagoner
said the disc, about the size of a man's hat, was traveling
northward and disappeared in a few seconds.

A Dallas man, Tom Dean, said he and his wife and daughter
saw a disc-shaped object "going like blue blazes from
northeast to southwest at cloud level" Tuesday while
traveling between Dallas and Fort Worth. Dean said it
resembled a flattened-out balloon and was in sight for 12
or 15 seconds.

A shiny disc, traveling about 150 miles per hour, was seen
over El Paso, Texas, at 3:30 p.m. MST, Sunday, June 22,
(NOTE: before the Kenneth Arnold sighting) by Dr. G. Oliver
Dickson, an optometrist. He said it was shaped a little
like a blimp, coming to a point at each end. The sun's rays
were not reflected on it, he added.

Lt. Gov. Donald S. Whitehead of Idaho said today that he saw
a strange comet-like object hanging high in the western sky
on June 24. That was the day Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho,
first reported seeing the projectiles over southeastern
Washington.

Their stories varied. Arnold had estimated the projectiles
speed at 1,200 miles an hour. Whitehead said the objects he
and three other witnesses saw "didn't move, but just seemed
to go below the horizon with the rotation of the earth."
At Denver Henry Martin and Walter Harrod said they caught a
brief glimpse of a group of "bright objects" flying at about
5,000 feet Thursday night. Martin said they looked like
coffee can cups. They were traveling in a southwesterly
direction, he said.

State Highway Patrol Sgt. David Menary, of San Francisco's
Golden Gate Bridge detail, reported seeing a dozen bright
metal objects "about the size of a football" whiz over San
Francisco Bay June 24 and fall into the sea.

Dick Rankin, former Portland, Oregon flyer, said he saw the
discs high over Bakersfield, California, going from 200 to
400 miles an hour June 23. There were ten of them in a
formation flying north, he said.

At Bath, South Carolina, Jack Reams reported that last week
he saw a disc 12 inches in diameter, giving off a small
weird light as it whizzed through the sky at a tremendous
speed.

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