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Flying saucers

Saucer reports began in mid-1947, with a second wave in the summer of 1952. Newspaper pages from 1947 to 1957 on a map and timeline.

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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.

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2007 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (677 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. Evening Star — 1947-06-30, page 2

    … Southern sky. the Weather Bureau here revealed today, as a contro versy about the "flying saucer discs" ragvd west of the Rockies. Samuel S. Trotter, assistant meteorologist at …

    … . Trotter added the reports here started before anything was printed about the "flying saucers.” He said he was convinced "that what they ^ee is a spotlight somewhere playing …

  2. Evening Star — 1947-07-05, page 2

    … Reported Here As Rumors Pour In Over Nation The nearest eyewitness report on the “flying saucer" mystery was made today by an Alexandria housewife, who said she saw a large, round …

    … Press. The UAL pilot, copilot and stew ardess, who had scoffed consistently at "flying saucer" tales, said they saw such objects last night while flying a passenger plane from …

  3. Evening Star — 1947-07-06, page 1

    … com munique said. Sixty were arrested. Hundreds in 31 States Report Seeing Weird 'Flying Saucers' By the Associated Press The Nation was baffled today by “flying saucers” reported seen in 31 States by hundreds of persons, and conjectures came from scores …

    … Energy Commission, told the Denver Post in a brief telephone in terview that the flying saucers were in no way connected with experi ments in atomic energy, the trans mutation …

  4. Evening Star — 1947-07-06, page 2

    … ; f Strwt.-.. City-,.7., 1 I, I AAF Pilots Reported 'Foo Fighters' in War Like 'Flying Saucers' Maybe the people who have been reporting “flying saucers” from all over the country just don't know a “foo fighter” when they see one. That …

  5. Evening Star — 1947-07-06, page 9

    … Plate By the Assoc»oted Press GREENVILLE. P. C.. July 5. —With so much talk about “flying saucers" stirring the imagination, Jerome Wilson, night manager of Western Union here, …

    … bor was discarding. of Charleston, S. C.—one of them a newspaper reporter—said a flying saucer passed over Charleston head ing east at 7:20 p.m. Saturday atj about the same time …

    … distance from the observer to the objects. 2 D. C. Area Residents Say They Saw 'Flying Saucers' Two Washington area residents today were on record as having ob served the mysterious …

  6. Evening Star — 1947-07-06, page 33

    … is little or no agree ment on what they look like. Some say they resemble huge “flying saucers” travel ing at tremendous speed. Others say they seem to be immovable. Still others …

  7. Evening Star — 1947-07-07, page 1

    … the Black Legion oath to Mr. Jones. (Earlier Story on Page A-2.) Planes toChase'Flying Saucers ; 'Something to This/ AAF Feels j With aircraft, including a jet plane,! alerted …

    … along the West Coast in hopes of chasing and explaining :he mystery of the “flying saucers,” in Army Air Forces spokesman here iisclosed today that the AAF be lieves “there …

    … .” Meanwhile, from Washington and the rest of the country came more reports of “flying saucers” as well is a number of scientific and J pseudo-scientiflc explanations of the …

  8. Evening Star — 1947-07-07, page 3

    … th to 11th sts. Reward. Please HE. 6630, Ext. 21. ~ * \ 0 Scientists Here Doubt 'Flying Saucers' Are U. S. Secret Weapons By Thomos R. Henry Sci«ne« Editor of THo Star The mysterious …

    … "flying saucers" reported whizzing all over the United States, have no connection with any American …

    … tested lately. No flying discs, moreover, have been reported from that vicinity. Flying Saucers (Continued From First Page.) the "saucers” had nothing to do with atomic experiments …

  9. Evening Star — 1947-07-08, page 2

    … View to'Discs’ The Army Air Forces, realizing it is "the No. J suspect" in the "flying saucer" mystery, today assigned in vestigators to sift a mass of con flicting information …

    … Wman in Hagerstown. Md., resemble the sound of a “faraway train.” Meanwhile, the "flying saucer" iag reeled on elsewhere, the Asso ciated Press reported. Stiff necks and goggle …

  10. Evening Star — 1947-07-08, page 14

    … To me, that sounds like a death knell. Search for Opponent for Louis Resembles Flying Saucer Hunt . . ■ « i n t nnic fierVif wirmpr o py tn• a»iouui*u ■ ■ NEW YORK, July 8— …

    … Joe Louis and his heavyweight boxing crown were skimming around Jacobs Beach like flying saucers today—and provoking Just as much bewildering comment and speculation as the dipsy …

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