FLYING SAUCER REPORTS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27213, 3 December 1953, Page 11

FLYING SAUCER REPORTS

U.S. Air Force Sets Up Cameras CRec. 7 pjn.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. The United States Air Force announced today that it has installed “flying saucer cameras” to help find the explanation of the mysterious radar-confirmed objects reported streaking through the skies. The cameras, set up at Air Force bases in 33 States, are designed to analyse the moving lights to determine whether they are merely insubstantial glows or come from identifiable material objects. The announcement reflected the Air Force’s official concern over the number of unexplained reports of flying saucers which it has not been able to write oft either as man-made objects or known phenomena. These sightings have been made both visually and by radar. About 75 cameras have been installed in areas where “saucers” have frequently been reported in the past. They are called “diffraction grating” devices which separate light into its component parts and register them od film. Astronomers use similar equipment to determine the composition of stars “Flying saucers” have been reported sporadically since 1947, but the Air Force has received the reports with scepticism. It reiterated today that the majority of all reported sightings have been found to be fighter aircraft, balloons, or other such objects. or to be meteors and planets. In a new "fact sheet” the Air Force emphasised that “unexplained aerial phenomena are not secret weapon missiles or aircraft developed by the United States.” It also said that “no authentic Physical evidence has been received establishing the existence of space chips from other planets.”