UFOs in the daily Press:

"Flying Saucers" shed a "Metallic Rain"

Chicago. -- Mr. Harold Dahl has just sent the University of Chicago a package containing a piece of "metal" allegedly thrown off by a "flying saucer" observed on June 25 in the Puget Sound area (State of Washington).

The sender states that he was aboard a boat with two other persons when "six enormous circular-shaped objects appeared through the clouds." According to him, "five of these objects, about 60 meters in diameter, revolved around the sixth. They appeared pierced by a central opening surrounded by a row of circles resembling portholes."

Mr. Harold Dahl further stated: "These objects stabilized at an altitude of 500 meters, then suddenly climbed. When they reached an altitude of approximately 1,500 meters, a substance seemed to issue from the central object and a kind of "metallic rain" began to fall."

Meanwhile, the pilot of a commercial aircraft reported that he had allegedly encountered a "flying saucer" which, caught in the turbulence of his aircraft, disintegrated and disappeared. "About seven meters wide," said the aviator, "the object resembled an oyster shell in the center of which a pilot could have taken his place."

A few hours later, he added that he had "made up the whole story to amuse his companions" and that he had been extremely surprised to find himself taken seriously.

Finally, Australian Radio announced that "flying saucers" had been observed in Sydney, thus making their appearance in the Australian skies as well.

An Australian professor who observed the phenomenon with a group of students concluded that it was merely an optical illusion.