Prescott Courier 7 July 1947

[ChrisPerridas]

multiple reports below.
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Prescott (Arizona) Evening Courier, 7 July 1947, p1

Mystery Solved? Flier Claims 'Saucers' Are Only Milkweed

Spokane, Wash., July 7. (AP)

A possible solution to the mystery of the "flying saucers" today lay on an Idaho mountainside where a Spokane housewife reported that 10 persons saw eight or nine of the objects fall onto a patch of timber.

Mrs. Walter Johnson of suburban Dishman said the saucers fell near Butler's bay on the St. Joe river six miles west of St. Maries. The Oregon air guard was to dispatch a patrol from Portland this morning to search the area and Sheriff Oren L. Thomas also planned to send a ground detail to the scene.

Mrs. Johnson saw the saucers fall while visiting he parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Beeman. She said neighbors also viewed the sight independently.

The saucers passed overhead at "terrific speed," Mrs. Johnson said, and then suddenly slowed and "fluttered to the ground like leaves."

A Denver Belgium war bride, Mrs. Terry Cagley, finds flying saucers no novelty.

She said last night that she saw discs many times before leaving Belgium in April to come to the United States to marry Cagley. She said thousands of others in Belgium saw them.

Mrs. Cagley said that when she left her homeland the discs were still in evidence and had not been explained.

Bob Johnson, operator of the Johnson flying service of Missoula, Mont., today had an explanation for flying saucers – they are milkweed seeds.

He told the Daily Missoulian that he and others spotted several silver-colored discs racing over Hale field yesterday and apparently high in the air.

Johnson and his companions captured a "disc" and, he said, the flat, circular milkweed seeds could fool observers wheen {sic} seen from {continued to page 6} a distance. He described them as {com}posed of silvered, fuzzy spikes about the size of a dollar and radiating from a hub.

Casey Baird, pilot of a P-38 pursuit plane working for the United States geodetic survey out of Bozeman, Mont., reported today he was forced to evade a group of flying discs, and that his photographer tried to get a picture.

Baird said the film would be developed today.

The pilot said he ran into the flying objects at 32,000 feet and had to dodge out of their path while trying to photograph them. He said there were eight or nine in the group.

Baird described the flying objects as looking like yo-yo's, with a periscope or domelike object on top. He said they were 14 or 15 feet in diameter and traveling rapidly.

[Martin]

Interesting report.

[starman2003]

Originally Posted by ChrisPerridas

The saucers passed overhead at "terrific speed," Mrs. Johnson said, and then suddenly slowed and "fluttered to the ground like leaves."

This sort of behavior isn't unique.

The pilot said he ran into the flying objects at 32,000 feet

I don't suppose you'd find many milkweed seeds that high.

[Martin]

Originally Posted by starman2003

This sort of behavior isn't unique.



I don't suppose you'd find many milkweed seeds that high.

True!

[starman2003]

Originally Posted by Martin

True!

There are a number of instances when would-be debunkers insulted our intelligence.