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NARA-PBB1-587
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NARA Blue Book Roll 1
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T1206-1
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O ir e: a. le i- ?'''''''' &? P ts i*d t June." eth vArnold!: said r Friday.;.: li like;-:te :get> on ''''''''one-of -his "Flying Saucers" JBttkteveseape Irom ''''''''the -.furore'''''''' caused I3$%iu&''''''''story of .mysterious aircraft flashing over southern Washington, haven''''''''t had a moment of peace I-first told the story," the.32- )ld Boise,- Idetao, businessmati"- sighed. ''''''''-''''''''. - ^^He said a preacher called him "vfrcun Texas and informed him that -the strange objects Arnold claimed *4o ;have vSeen batting through the Plpue actually were harbingers of r/lfcomsday. -; ,- Arnold said he didn''''''''t get. the i preacher''''''''s name during. iheir i.Vpltone conversation, but the min- /isicr said he was getting his clocks Vready for the end of this world." :'''''''': Thnt was unnerving, according to Arnold, but it wasn''''''''t half as dis- concerting as the episode in a Pen- dieton cafe. Arnold said a woman rushed in, took one look - at him and then dashed out shrieking "there''''''''s the Jnan who saw the men from M-ars.'''''''''''''''' She'''''''' rushed out of the eating place | ''''''''sobbing that she''''''''-^ould have to do something lor the children," Arnold added with''''''''ra shudder. -/Arnold, a representative of a fire control equipment firm, startled the country Thursday by reporting he had seen nine shiny round objects skimming through the air in forma- tion between Mt. Rainier, Wash., and Mt. Adams. Arnold said he was able to clock them with the stop watch on his own plane''''''''s'''''''' insb u- inent panel. He said they were spin- ning off a neat 1,200 m. p. h. *''''''''Thts whole thing has gotten t>ut of hand/'''''''' Arnold went on. "I want to talk to the FBI or some- one. "Half the people I see look at me as a combination Einstein, Flash Gordon and Screwball. 1 wonder what my wife back in Idaho thinks." But all the hoopla and hysterics Jhaven''''''''t caused Arnold to change *Ms tnind oi.-bacK''''''''dotWfc* if thi off. r He <*aid most of bis avia friends tell him that what he were probably,, either one of things: .New planes or guided siles still in the th S. ArmyXiif"; forces'''''''' secret category. Some thV:;: orized thty were experimental equipment '''''''' of another nation;?'''''''' probably Russia. %3Q "Most people," he.said, "tell mJe I''''''''m right:"-" "'''''''' '''''''' ''''''''"''''''''$?? But meanwhile, aeronautical ^k- perts in Washington and elsewhere were teeing off -on ArnoldB stc^y with facts and figures straight oufc:of the books. $>. Their principal point seemed that if Arnold''''''''s saucers moved fast a"s he claimed, they eouldxt''''''''t have'''''''' been tracked with anything short of radar. ". . Bv1 The fastest man has yet flownt^: 647 miles per houra record set Re- cently by Col. Albert Boyd in a Us o th- Us; -bit i Mr juc ess; 1 me tio au: we fici CA A ser^ erv: idei lev? r_ep: a b pita A rav I bori A Mm U to . C r was itho
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