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-World-Herald News Service Photo. Schmidt (left) and Kearney Police Chief Nelson... In "heart-to-heart" talk.

SIDE VIEW OUTSIDE LENGTH: APPROX. 100 FEET FLOOR PLAN INSIDE INSTRUMENTS LOUNGE SEALED COMPARTMENT FAN IN ROOF FAN IN ROOF CONVEYOR TO BACK OF SHIP The Schmidtnik... As described by the grain buyer.

Associated Press J. G. Kirby of Dallas made this photo of a diamond shaped object flying through the sky while he and his family were driving near Amarillo, Tex., in August, 1956. The photo was turned over to the FBI and has just been released after intensive study. The Air Force described the glow as "radiation vapor."

Associated Press J. G. Kirby of Dallas made this photo of a diamond shaped object flying through the sky while he and his family were driving near Amarillo, Tex., in August, 1956. The photo was turned over to the FBI and has just been released after intensive study. The Air Force described the glow as "radiation vapor."

GEORG KLEIN

Photo of three men, one smiling prominently in the center.

Photo of a man pointing.

Pfc. Bennett (top front) grabbed a butcher knife and said: "It's landing in the tank shed!" Maj. Pomerleau (middle photo) is skeptical, but still curious. Pfc. Viets (bottom photo) saw enough to convince him "that was no airplane." -News Staff Photos by Gene Thomas

A sketch of the flying saucer which Herbert Long, 29, a Kutztown, Pa., insurance salesman, contends he saw parked on a road 30 feet from his car. He said he was too frightened to approach it. He's shown (left, below) giving Leroy Gensler, artist, directions for the sketch. (AP Wirephotos)

FLYING SAUCER MAYBE?-The unknown object over the building in the picture, photographed above Anacortes, moves swiftly through the sky, seemingly a part of a cloud formation. But is it? Walter Elliott of Anacortes was preparing to take a picture of the building when he noticed the unusual saucer-like object in his view finder, so he snapped the picture at 1/100th of a second. Elliott was unable to determine the nature of the unusual object which quickly disappeared. (Associated Press Wirephoto.)

Hand-drawn sketch of flying saucer or balloon-like object

Newspaper clipping from Sunday Dispatch about flying saucer sightings over England

Newspaper clipping describing multiple UFO sightings across England and Wales, including reports from airmen, football spectators, and Air Ministry officials

Newspaper clipping with map of Devon coast showing sighting locations and multiple witness accounts of UFO sightings

Portrait photograph of Drew Pearson

Newspaper clipping about flying saucer tracked on Navy radar screen

Newspaper clipping with two flying saucer photographs and article by G. Tilghman Richards discussing disc-type aircraft development and Navy involvement

Spanish newspaper clipping showing alleged flying saucer photograph from Balearic Islands with headline 'MISTERIO EN LAS NUBES PLATILLOS VOLANTES' and English translation article

Newspaper clipping from Star Staff Reporter about flying saucer denials by Truman and other officials

Model of aircraft developed in 1946 and flown by the Navy for radio control—full-size craft never flew, the Navy has announced

Newspaper clippings about UFO sightings including Mantell incident and pilot testimonies

Newspaper clipping showing headline and article about flying saucers inquiry

Newspaper clipping discussing Pentagon statement on flying saucers and mass hysteria, dated December 27, 1949

Illustration of flying saucer with cartoon figure riding it

Three photographs of Jonathan E. Caldwell's experimental aircraft found in a barn near Glen Burnie, Md.

AIR FORCE FINDS 'FLYING SAUCERS' - This is Jonathan E. Caldwell's "Gray Goose" helicopter pictured before it made a near-disastrous test flight of about a minute in Washington nearly 10 years ago.

Photos of Maryland State police with remnants of Mr. Caldwell's helicopter and 'flying cheesebox' near Glen Burnie, Md.

IS IT? Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman, 27, made this picture with a Speed Graphic camera from the front porch of his Seattle, Wash., residence. It shows, says Ryan, a "white saucer" (arrow) that is neither an airplane, a cloud, nor a silver balloon. So, is it a "flapjack" or a saucer? Or maybe a bottle cap? Photo is enlarged about 20 times

Post Staff Photo DAVID ATAMIAN, of 5160 Shoemaker la., Friendship Heights, Md., said he sav three or four flying discs Friday about midnight

THIS IS NOT ONE OF 'EM, SAYS THE NAVY-The "flying pancake," a wingless plane developed by the Navy, is the only plane it has which might resemble the reported "flying say cers," but officials in Washington said yesterday that thi strange-looking aircraft has never left Bridgeport, Conn. Authorities are still skeptical that the mystery missiles said to has been seen in the skies over the West Coast and as far East as the Carolinas are any sort of new airplane

Acme Telephoto Can This Be the Secret? Under discussion as a possible solution to the "saucer" mystery is the Navy's "Flying Flapjack," shown above. Zipping along with its landing gear retracted, this plane would seem to be a supper plate spinning through the sky.

I.N.P. Photo by U.S. Coast Guard Is It Saucer, Sorcery, or Just Plain Sausage? Reports of "flying saucers" were laughed off by authorities until many witnesses, including reliable pilots and servicemen, said they had seen the plate-like objects whizzing overhead. Above is the picture Yeoman Frank Ryman, 27, took in the Seattle twilight when he observed what seemed to him to be a flying saucer 10,000 feet high traveling at 500 miles per hour.