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65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SECTION_1
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More About Saucers
Priest Finds 'Whirring' Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI
Chicago, July 6 (U.P.)—A Catholic priest at Grafton, Wis., said tonight that a round, metal disc, which might be one of the mysterious "flying saucers," had crashed into his parish yard and that he is holding it for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Rev. Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph's Church at Grafton, 45 miles north of Milwaukee, said he heard swishing and whirring noise this morning. A second later, he said, he heard a thud and a mild explosion.
He investigated and found a sheet metal disc about 18 inches in diameter, resembling a circular saw blade.
"The object still was warm, weighed about four or five pounds and was about one eighth of an inch thick," he said.
There was a hole about one inch in diameter in the middle of the disc, he said, and in the opening were "gadgets and some wires."
The priest said he did not know if his discovery were important—whether it might be an elaborate practical joke. He said he had notified the FBI of his find. H. K. Johnson of the Milwaukee FBI office said he hadn't heard yet about the disc but that an official report might be at his office.
The flying saucers have been reported "seen" by persons in 30 States, but Brasky's disc was the first one that actually had been found—if that is what was found.
His report came a few hours after a military plane made an unsuccessful speed dash in an attempt to track down one of the discs and the Army and scientists sought to ascertain whether coast-to-coast reports about the discs zooming through the sky were fact or fancy.
Army planes scoured the north-west Pacific skies for them without success today and one "eyewitness" even reported having seen one of the discs take off in Arizona. A St. Louis railroad man exhibited some paper "dises" he said he had seen floating over St. Louis.
The flying saucers which have been reported skimming through America's skies at speeds up to 1200 miles have eluded the usually keen eye of radar.
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said the Army Airways Communications Service had reported late yesterday that so far its radar scopes throughout the country have been unable to pick up any strange objects in flight.
And in the Pacific Northwest—where most of the fly-happy platters have been reported—the Army has radar equipment which can pierce fog and darkness and pick up objects in the sky 200 miles away.
Even so, Brown acknowledged that the Air Forces had decided "there's something to this" and had been checking it for 10 days.
"And we still haven't the slightest idea what they could be," he added.
And a new wrinkle—the reported landing of a fleet of eight skimming platters—was reported from Idaho in 10 persons. A. Dishman, Idaho housewife, said she and others in her party had seen the saucers land on a mountainside near St. Maries, Idaho.
She said they came into view at an extreme speed, suddenly slowed, and then "fluttered like leaves to the ground."
"The mysterious part was that we couldn't see them after they landed," she said. "We could see them flutter down into the timber yet we couldn't see that they did anything to the trees."
She said she hoped to hike into the timber tomorrow and search for the objects which she said were saucer-shaped but resembled washtubs more than disks and were "about the size of a five-room house."
Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 4th st. ne. reported he had seen one passing over the Northeast section of the city at about 8:40 p. m
This would be the first one reported over the District, although others have been reported over nearby Maryland.
Kennedy, who has 125 hours flying time as a student pilot in the Army Air Forces to his credit, said he believed the saucer he had seen was traveling at "well over" 1000 miles an hour at an altitude of between 1200 and 1500 feet.
"The best way I can describe it," said Kennedy, "was that it looked like an orange lamp bulb without the socket. It was going faster than any jet plane I've ever seen."
In Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Madelyn Ganoe, 30, said she had seen five of the discs, racing in 2-1-2 formation at "terrific speed," from her backporch. "They sounded like a faraway train," she said.
In the wake of these new eyewitness accounts came a new series of comments, and explanations, but most of them were tinged with the slight tendency to laugh off the whole thing.
Dr. Winfred Overholser, nationally known psychiatrist and superintendent of St. Elizabeths Hospital here, said it "has some of the earmarks of being national hysteria."
"Everytime someone comes up with a sea-serpent story," said Dr. Overholser, "others with vivid imaginations are sure they have seen the same thing.
"The critical faculty in man, the last one he received, is still not very well developed. Scratch the surface and you find the same mass hysteria which predominated during the witchcraft scare. Some persons are quite ready to see things and follow beliefs."
Dr. Overholser said that when he made his rounds of the mental patients yesterday at St. Elizabeths not a one commented on the flying saucers story.
"I think they may be a little skeptical," he added.
However, Dr. Overholser said he wasn't trying to dismiss the matter as a joke "because there are so many strange things going on today that one can't be sure."
Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, noted aircraft designer, told The Post by telephone from New York that until he sees a flying saucer he "wouldn't like to pass judgment."
He agreed with Dr. Overholser that much if not all of the story may be because of hysteria.
"After all," he said, "we are more or less an hysterical Nation."
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