President Discounts 'Saucer' From Space
New York Times
Dec. 16, 1954
Frontpage
By ANTHONY LEVIERO
Special thanks to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15-
President Eisenhower said to-
day an Air Force official had
assured him that flying saucers
were not invading the earth
from outer space.
That left the inference that if
flying saucers were real they're
terrestrial. But nobody at
his news conference asked the
President where they did come
from.
All the news on the subject
from the Air Force today was
reassuring, however. In fact if
the Air Force were not tactful
it might scoff at the whole busi-
ness publicly. Some of its spokes-
men just scoffed in private.
Air Force officials imply that
for a number of reasons they
cannot deprecate saucers too
freely (though they wish they
could). First somebody, some...
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