Salt Lake Telegram | 1947-07-05 | Page 2 | 'National Jitters'

NATIONAL JITTERS' JITTERS r Flying Saucer Amuse U. U S. S Scientist By PAUL F. F ELLIS United Press Science Writer Reports o of ot flying saucers whizzing through the air at rocket speeds speeds' poured In again Saturday from many parts of the nation causing scientists to speculate that m many maxy y AmerIcans Americana were suffering a abad abad bad case cae of ot jitters One expert jn In the diagnosis ls of ot human behavior flatly said that that the so called phenomena was pure pure imagination hallucination or delusion on the part of many of those who reported seeing strange strange objects about feet feet feet-a a long J from which to pho photograph any of a flying object Hl His showed two tiny dots in InU inbe the ct es One of the dots he hea admitted 12 a defect In the negative other SUpposedly other supposedly the was little larger than a II aThe p pin The air line pilot phenomena was Capt Cape i Smith of the United Air tin Line said he and his copilot ris vens flying from Boise Id Ida Friday saw an object an and nd it for 45 minutes The photographer was wa Guardsman Frank Ryman Ryma Wash who said he ho snapped d ture of the lying flying object near nar Vas Washington m. m M I Or Oregon gon police said they h bU bit ports port that tha 20 of f the objects 1 observed They were suppo it be Hying in single f file lie J t New v 1 Reports Report A N New v e Jersey woman s 's ng saw one early Friday that'll a n golden disc flashing acro horizon with stunning sp pee d No reports of re red white and saucers were received on Jd however te teIn In Philadelphia an Intern Z Pennsylvania hospital for tor m Jilt diseases said he also saw I sud elt object His he said had a a anous aV it halo In Augusta Ga a C. C R. R Battey reported he saw sa saw saucers while fishing several a ago o. o He said they were about feet teet or s I four miles almost miles almost out of s. s tn anY craft range Scientist J I These and other such r brought a n smile from Dr J Joi Lynn Valhalla N. N Y YM an exp expert human behavior He said the ibn ports reminded him of the thel ti actor Orson Welles Velles frightened Jersey citizens half halt to death a broadcast about men from HI invading Jersey i Dr Lynn blamed the cui curt curr wave of saucer hysteria o or ern cent predictions that an it its Ito war var would break out laying v WI the United States j All this talk he said many people for an emotional c In many cases case he I they see what they want to to Still others see what doesn't because they expect to see i thing thing such such as flying 1 The navy and the army have denied sending up any saucer-like saucer plan planet say there ha has bee unusual amount of meteorites meteorite ing these days especially days especially shaped meteors haSi Dr Lynn said the thep peo get over o it They always do he be uI