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Waukesha Couple Sights Flying Saucer with Lights

One of the first "flying saucers" to be noticed in this part of the city was reported today by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Neilson of Waukesha, who discovered the peculiar device hovering in the sky as they were driving between Burlington and Lake Geneva about 7:15 p. m. yesterday.

"The flying saucer seemed to appear and disappear as rays of the setting sun glinted on it occasionally," Neilson declared. He described the machine as appearing just slightly larger than a common household saucer, with a propeller at the front which seemed to be driving it through the air.

"Actually, when we observed the flying saucer, the propeller seemed to be larger than the saucer itself," Neilson stated. The direction in which it was traveling was not noted by the couple, who were eager to get a good glimpse of the phenomena which have been reported so generally throughout the country during the last month.

A cub plane from a nearby airport apparently spotted the flying saucer, and tried to chase it to observe more closely what was in the air Neilson said. The flying saucer was traveling rapidly, so Neilson doubted if the airship, which is a comparatively slow craft, was able to trail it very far or note its structure.

"My wife noticed the saucer first and called it to my attention rather humorously in view of all the publicity these unknown devices have been reported to have had recently," Neilson said. He was rather histant to relate the story himself, contending that "no one might believe me."

Mrs. Neilson described the saucer as oval, but "rather rounded." One peculiarity which other reported saucers did not have, she said, was that a light flashed at least twice from it. "The light blinked very distinctly, and I'm certain it wasn't the sun's glare," she declared.

WAPAKONETA, O. (U.P.) The nation's most embarrassed saucer today was Richard L. Bitters, editor of the Wapakoneta Daily News.

Bitters revealed that he and his wife saw a number of the flying objects on the night of June 30-two days before they were first reported in the Pacific northwest. But Editor Bitters sat on his scoop for two weeks before he could get up the nerve to report it.

DETROIT - (U.P.) - Police Sgt. Arthur Smith phoned headquarters today and shouted: "My setter dog just pointed at four of those flying discs!"

"Yeah, what'd ya do about it?" asked Lt. Charles Martin.

"I pulled out my gun and fired," cried Smith, "and by golly there was only three of them left."

Flying Disk at Waukesha

One of the first "flying saucers" to be noticed in this part of the state was reported today by Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Neilson of Waukesha, who discovered the peculiar device hovering in the sky as they were driving between Burlington and Lake Geneva about 7:15 p.m. yesterday.

"The flying saucer seemed to appear and disappear as rays of the setting sun glinted on it occasionally," Neilson declared. He described the machine as appearing just slightly larger than a common household saucer, with a propeller at the front which seemed to be driving it through the air.

"Actually, when he observed the flying saucer, the propeller seemed to be larger than the saucer itself," Neilson stated. The direction in which it was traveling was not noted by the couple, who were eager to get a good glimpse of the phenomena which have been reported so generally throughout the country during the last month.

A Cub plane from a nearby airport apparently spotted the flying saucer, and tried to chase it to observe more closely what was in the air, Neilson said. The flying saucer was traveling rapidly, so Neilson doubted if the airship, which is a comparatively slow craft, was able to trail it very far or note its structure. (Waukesha Freeman)

Flying Saucers Cause Little Worry To Scientists At Yerkes

Lake Geneva were so busy [?] during the past weekend that few people had time to search the sky for flying discs and saucers.

However, motorists from Waukesha reported a saucer, complete with a propeller flying between Lake Geneva and Burlington Sunday night.

With a corps of learned scientists at the opposite end of the lake, Lake Geneva can rely on some authoritative interpretations of the latest fancy - if fancy it be - to strike the nation.

When questioned Tuesday, Dr. Jease Greenstein, astrophysicist at Yerkes Observatory, declared he had seen neither the saucers nor the many news reports of the saucers which others had seen from coast to coast. With his colleague, Dr. Page, he admitted that the Yerkes staff knows nothing scientific about them. The observatory has no scientific evidence that the strange objects have any astronomical significance.

Until the elusive saucers can be found and examined, they could only be regarded, said Dr. Greenstein, as objects of the imagination, hallucination, or optical illusion induced by heat ot alcohol.

There are two other possibilities:

a - It is probably not a man-made weapon from Russia or Mars;

b - It might be caused by luminous clouds in the high atmosphere.

If it were the latter, said Dr. Greenstein, the saucer-effect would not travel at any high rate of speed. He also explained that the saucers could not be meteorites which travel at speeds upwards of 50 miles per second. At that speed a meteorite traverses the visible sky in one second and of course would be invisible in daylight. The flying saucers have been reported both by day and by night.

It is also extremely doubtful at present that the saucers are any kind of atomic epiphenomenon.

Case 516 -- July 6 [1947], near Burlington, Wisconsin: Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Nielson, of Waukesha, were returning home on Sunday night from Lake Geneva, and as they drove between Lake Geneva and Burlington, they saw a saucer-shaped object "with a propeller on front, larger than the saucer itself." Following this object, as if in pursuit was a small cub plane. Describing the object as "slightly larger than a regular-sized saucer" (probably a relative comparison, as a "regular-sized saucer" would scarcely be visible at the height of a plane), Mrs. Nielson said "a light flashed at least twice from it." The plane pursuing the object was easily outdistanced by it, according to witnesses.

939: 1947/07/06 22:00 1 88:20:00 W 42:38:00 N 3331 NAM USA WSC 7:7
LAKE GENEVA><BURLINGTON,WI:2 OBS:SCR W/LRG PROPELLER OUTRUNS LITE PLANE:FLASH
Ref#187 BLOECHER,Ted: REPORT/UFO WAVE of 1947 Case No. 516: ROAD+RAILS

Table of Reports, Jun 25 - Jul 21

Report publish date	Location	Date of claimed sighting	Names	Notes	Bloecher #
Jul 8	SBurlington, Wisconsin	Jul 6	Gordon Nielson (365)		#516