UFOs in the daily Press:

IN EASTERN GERMANY

A flying saucer observed on the ground?

By a British engineer

London, 6. -- Mr. George Edwards, chief engineer of the British aircraft factories at Vickers, made statements to the "Sunday Graphics" concerning the news reported from Berlin by the newspaper according to which the mayor of a locality in the Soviet zone who had taken refuge in Berlin had seen a flying saucer on the ground in East Germany.

Mr. Edwards judges that "there is nothing impossible" in this news but he could not conclude from it that flying saucers exist.

The engineer then recalled the research carried out in England before and during the First World War on an aircraft with a circular wing which had been christened the "flying doughnut". If according to Mr. Ewards few things prevent the construction of a flying saucer, it is a matter of knowing the advantage that this would present over a normal aircraft.

According to the statements of the German mayor, the British engineer estimates, the object described would be an observation craft. Its phosphorescence would explain by the fact that it would have a jet engine allowing it to take off vertically.

The German magistrate had also spoken of metallic costumes worn by aviators: this also seems likely to Mr. Edwards.

The "Sunday Graphic" devotes its first page and its second page to this affair. It published drawings by Oscar Linke, the mayor of East Germany, showing the saucer with a diameter of about 15 meters in a clearing surrounded by fir trees and emerging from the saucer a cylinder three meters high next to which two aviators are talking. On the periphery are coupled exhaust pipes, semi-conical in shape. Another drawing showing the saucer overturned rotating at full speed on itself, the cylinder remaining immovable and serving as its pivot. Flames emerge from the exhaust pipes. Finally, the third sketch represents the saucer taking off, the cylinder then reappearing on the upper surface.