Estados Unidos, abril de 1950: Truman, a Força Aérea e a Marinha negam a tese de Henry J. Taylor e da revista U.S. News de que os discos são aeronaves navais secretas

• yt,1Ci C, I S v.S, ______,;.f,,J__..:-..-- __ ut the Navy Says 'No' e Orig·inal 'Flying Saucer'? Sazicers' Neiv0 Type Air.craft, :_ / .:,:~:"~~:.~:~{~~~~gazine S-~~, , radically new type aircraft , cOl'. ltµrnw~ ?ff the rear Jets, turnmg forming to known areodynamic , on_,the side and front nozzles.I Great speed can be obtained laws and probably developed byIby focusing to the rear all 1 tile • United State s Navy, the maga- ' in the after half of the afr~~~ft zine United State s and World Re- ' With all nozzles pointed down­ port said yesterday . jward, the saucer co u Id rise This late st effo1·t to explain the straight off the ground, and with continuing reports of strange 'fly- less power, could descend the ing disks at various points over same way • , • ] the counh'y brought a prompt "Jet helicopter action • • • denial from the Navy Department makes takeoffs and landings almost that it is now "conducting research completely safe." or flying" any such plane or I The magazine said that an early missile. !, model of the saucer was built by A spokesman pointed out that , National Advisory Committee for the Navy did , develop the "pan- Aeronautics experts in 1942 and cake-shaped" Chance-Vought made 100 successful flights, The XF5U-l. but that it never flew and Navy then took over development was scrapped more than a year and "much more advanced models ago. A small , 3000-pound scale now are being built." • model oL the plane was flown and ., NACA Engineer Charles :a". Zim­ pictu res of it have been releas ed. ' me~man designed the first model, but this model is now at Norfolk which had a speed of from 400 to awaiting shipment to the National 500 miles an hour and was pow- I Air Museum here . ~ i ered l'>y two piston propellers, said , , 'fhe weekly news magazine did the a1ticle. • not quote any authority for its :•surfa ce indic ations," the mag. statement that the "flying saucers" azme went on, "point to research arelreal American planes, but sai ' centers _of the ~n_ited St'.'tes Navy's tha •·engineers competant to a . vast gwded-mi ss1le proJect as the . scene of present flying-saucer de• pra· e reports of rel_iable obs:rv velopment ." The proj ect, it was l y A>SOC!ated PreS3 Phoreac these conclus10ns: s~id, has the ''scienti sts, the en- ''Tl1 e are aircraft of a revolu- glneers, the dollars, the motive Model ol o.ircraFt derJaloped in 1948 and Rou>n by the Navy uncl l radio cantrol-full-aire cralt neuer Rew, the Navy ho.• announced. 1 yt e a combination of heli- and the background '' for the • • uonar y YP • . "This likelihood will remain de• copter and fa5t Jct pl~ne: They , spite any futu r e d enials by' the , f o ·m to well-known pr1nciples of1 Navy front office, until secrecy is co I . " I'ft d ,, th • dd·odynan11cs- 1 e , e magazine a ed. I ., (._)_fJ t1'l.L_ ae!,_ Y ai·e "exact.I~• L05 feet in di- The Navy declared it w~s true ~ o ·l" R ~'., ,.-u,J<\Q.,_1tr circul ar in shape·• and "are that its abandoned "flying pan­ an1 e e ·f a m etal alloy. with a dull cake" was designed by Zlmmer­ & APR 111950ma~l~ ~ color. There are no r~d- man, and was called t he " Zimmer­ wl11t15 ueron s or other proh'udmg man Skimmer." It added that a der s, a From the side, the caucers f'l smaller scale model---one­ surface sto be about 10 feet thick." t ~rd of actual size-is still at appear aucer appe ars to have a , _ "Each 5 cJ ' t· • t. of vari~ble•. irec ion Je ACA's Langley, Va., laborato serles a round its riu,s . • • : iuel for wind-tunnel tests, but he nozzle_ 5 unknown. •,- · Direc~wn ?f NavY insisted it had no such pr.oj­ used 1~ . ft and i ls velocity, m ect now active. the a1rc~a t lY a re c ontrolled b y • , • t,urn , evlden ,,·hich the jet n ozzles The Air. For~e, . after many angle at mber operati ng. month~, of mvest1gation of "flying t1,e tilted, the . 11J ~aucer reports, concluded t hat all f ;~: power appJ1e ,~·hich nozzles toIthe evid_encc pointe? to "misin- "lW choo~1ng and the angle ol t.~rpretah_on o f ~ar1ous convan- 01· off lei nrnk I t10111tl obJects, a mild form of m ass 0 0 ;~; the , pilO~ cl~~~cnd v~i-t ca y, terlo, or hoaxes.'' , s • 'Al l 1!~a er l'lb~c;t~~idh\ ahead or make 110 er. flY • ~ 1,1ght-anllle turn . ,, WASHINGTON posT sllar P turns , ~011Jd he m11de b) 6A,,...1') 11"1n5n Dat ed 4-4 - 50for example , 1 J y *

---- Tolson ___ • Ladd ____ f Sfui eure111t by Air Fo1•e~ - Taucers'1'~ lfi-uman, Otlie1:,Qfficials Deny !To Officials l(nowledge ()f F1'vi]Jo· Saucers raised the question at yesterday's .J,.. ~* meetil1g of the Armed Forces Pol- By John~Gr'""_"'IN:'l'-:-or::::r~JS=----------- - icy Council, which includes the Post Repor ter departmental secretaries and Joint · J . • Chiefs of Staff. NavY Secretary Top offic1a s and agen~ies of the mild form of mass hysteria, or Francis Matthews and Admiral Government-from President Tru- hoaxes:" . ' Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval man on down-joined yesterday in Earli er, Pres1den~ Truman an-· operations, as well as other offi­ an effort to convince the American nounced through lus press secre- cials, assured him the denials were public that "flying saucers" do not tary at Key West. F~a., that he sincere ·and truthful. exist . kn~w ab~olutely nothing of such The latest flare up of public in- A formal statement issued by flyrng ob3ects being developed by terest in the saucers resulted from the Air Force last night was most t!1eUnit ed S tates or any other' na- statements by Radio Commentator expli cit. It declar ed flatly that: tion. • Henry J. Taylor and the weekly 1. None of the armed forc es Is " We are not denying t his be- news magazine United States News condu cting secret experime nts with cause of any development of secret and World Report that the saucer s "disc-shaped flying obj ects which weapons." s~id Secreta ry Charles do exist and are revolut ionar~ could be a basis for the 1·eportcd G. Ross. "but pur ely because we American aircr aft probabl y devel­ phenomena." '.now of nothin g to support these oped by the NavY, A Navy spokes- 2. There i s no evidence tha t the rumor s." man flatly denied this Monday!. latter stem from "the activities orl ~ efe nse Secretary Louis Johnson1 Johnson said he is convinc_ed the any foreign nation." lsatd about the same thmg at a · saucers could not be experiment s Evaluation of reports of re- 11ews conferen ce. He told report ers conducted by any other Govern­ cen "si ghtin gs" bears out early ~1e was ''satisfied there is nothing ment agency outside his depart­ co lusions that all can be ex- 10 the repor ts." ment becau se the Penta gon's Re­ pla ed away as "misinterpretation John son said ' he had facetiously sea~·ch and Developme~t. Board co• ijof arious conventional objects, a See SAUCER, Page 3, _, ,, 9l dmates all such activity.Despite the denials, new reports of "saucers " contin ued. At Tipp City, Ohio, nine persons said they saw saucer s over the Ail" Force base at Wright Field , earl y Sunda y. Jerry Robinson , a 22-year-old Marine vete ran, speaking for the group, said they saw "two brigh lights in the s ky" which later wer discern ed as brilliant discs trailin a ~-~n streak of 01·ange flame. Nter hover ing for a time , thel shot. straight up in the air 1md disappeared, he said. Police Chief J . C. Lee of Eliza­ beth City, 111., reported that "a weird red and blue disc-like ob- ject" whizzed o~er the town early SundaY, "traveling at a h igh rate lofspe eu. -=:I ~ Cler.11 ___ Glavin ___ Nichols ___ Rosen Tracy ____ Harbo ____ Mohr ---- Tele. Room_ Nease ____ Gandy ____

___ _ ___ _ ----- --- • .___ Cle gg,____ Glavin ___ Rosen ____ Tracy ____ Room_ ~ Tolson Ladd Nichols Harbo Mohr Tele. N~ase , 1 body is in it," he said., "!],ut ~ H Id it carries 70 po~tnds of instrume¼ts ~ to record cosm11! rays .. . It is an ~aitcer' Denial e 1 enormous tran slucent thing with a long tail and flies up to 100,000 feet in the air. When the weird contraption is launched off the ground , it is filled to only oneValuable to Russia pe1·cent Of its capacity with helium . ---9 New York , Apri~ l_O (U.PJ.-Air ~t bigh alt!tu9es , ex_Pansion causes Force denials tbat ' fl~1~g sauc ers" it to blow itself up into a gigantic exist are "worth a billion dollar s monster 100 feet tall and 70 feet to the Russi'ans in the 'cold war,'" in diameter. tall as au eight-story Radio Commentator Hem-y J. Tay-I building , all in pulsating plastic." lor said tonight . 1'aylor said some of the se ve- Taylor said over the ABC net- lhicles travel all over America , 20 ~vork that U1is country has several Imiles up in the ,s~y. At sunset. 'unconventional air vehicle s t)jat the whole contraption glows and could be taken for "flying saucers ." can be s een a s long as 30 minute~ He described one as a fanta stic af!e1·•darkne ss. contraption "in pulsating plastic," rhe .struments are floated bac as tall as an eight- story building to earth by parachute , Taylor said. and used to record cosmic rays. Then the huge contraption "break "What bas happened to our into pieces in the sky or explode s,' brain s?" Taylor asked. "These showering plastic pieces over::: denial s are worth a billion dol ars land- _____ "'21'=<:a;;;;§~:..LJLJ ;:,f;~;;~~;;.~~r,;,:~~:~~: , ~. • 11 l l ~,1 hy Taylor last week that "flying /&., aucers " are top-secret United ~ ~AA..,-! tate s military inventions. :;IY"-"' Taylor warned that ii' the Rus­ sians s uddenly announced they were sending "flying saucers" around the world, United Sta tes: officials would have no way to stem merican hysteria. Taylor said the U nited States hould an,:iounce: "We h ave no fur ther coromen abou t anyth ing i n the skies ex cept that Ameri ca is creating man elpful and incredib le t hings. All 1are harm less and good news for freedom-loving people." And this would he a true state. ment, the commentator said. { Taylor said that at an airfie ld near l\linneapolis and also al othe1 places, the NaYY is "lai1nching int our high skies an enormous and lbr'633q_j_fi -1/IJltasU!!... t;'Pe f veb, de. * • N()'.I.' •• t >RD ED 85 APR 19 1950 65APR2119 WASHINGTON POST Page Date~ //-~'t)