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, That blast has beqn surrounded
with Ihe deepest secrecy by Army,
Navy and atomic authorities''.
. . . described as a "lava o\idc
metal" . . . the specimens were ana-
lyzed by Pnjiversjiy of Chicago scien-
tists! Thejif identified ihe stuff as
"molten metal which had lallen from
great be^hl. lai ding in .-.nid."
Friday night Capt. (K. J.) Sirjith
attended a conference in Tacoma.
Washington. He talked with two
R-2.rfl''iers, assigned by"the AAF lo
Work exclusively on all npruts of
""flying vailcers" or oilier phenomena
of tin- sky.
;     Pre.seni  at  the meeting, too, were ''
Arnold. th<* Uoise pilot, some persons
who   were   aboard   the   h.irbor   boat
damaged off.Maury island, anil other
witnesses.
The-conference broke up at 12:30
A.M. and the two Army pilot-investi-
gators took with them a box of speci-
mens, pictures and afiidavils from
persons who had witnessed the inland
ejxpIoMun.                "         .,
J Trie next thing known jjif the two
B-25 ''llici.s is when tlKeir plane
crashed.  . . .
I   "Whether the box of Maury i-land
, ''''specimen  molten  lava''   aboard  the
plane  had anything lo do wijili  the
crash has caused considerablelspecu-
lation.                 ,
Aulhoiilies atl (Hamilton) field
admit I cd the plane had made a lliglu
to McChord field, outride Tacoma,
where the conference was held.
They >aid,  loo, thai  the airplane
was caitying an "unclassified cargo''1
and wemt  on lo describe it as   "hoi ''
Stuff. ''
.Asked whether the cargo was con-
nected with the Maury island matter,
a  spokesman  at  the  field  said   the
FATE
query was "very close" to the sit-
uation.   ,
The next newspaper account which
.appeared   in   this  connection   comes
from a V. l\ account datelined San
Rafael. Calif , August 9.
ltV,Official:
There Is No Flying Disk
The Fourth Air Force''s long-her-
alded "report on the "living saucers''
camp out ''today.
It decided there were no such
things.
Said a report from Lt. Col. Donald
L. Springer, intelligence, officer ami
assistant chief of staff of the com-
mand:
, "There is not sufficient evidence
nor testimony available to conclude
whether the. report of the so-called"
living disk,s in the Tacdina (Wash.)
area or any other area hjive any b.i-K
in fad. In view of thi:-. Fourth Air
Force will pur-iie this paniuilar in-
w.-ligation no further."
Springer brought back from his in-
vciligaiiun,, of llje ''l''acoma area YJ''mi
fragments  resembling niollen  metal,
found on .Maury island beach.
,'' "Siiiiilar material appears in great
quantity  in  thai  area and  in  other
Tacoma .irea>," he said, refers ing to-
reports   that   the   fused  rocks   were
remnants of ""fljing disks."
lie said theru was no trace ui a boj>
of similar material reportedly aboard
a plane thai crashed near Kelso.
Wash., killing iwo ol''ficeisfiil>o invest-
igating "disk"'' reports.   ,              ,
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