UFOs in the daily Press:

A Saucer? A Disc? Who Knows?

They won't say it was a disc - or a saucer - or any other mystifying substance. All they're sur of is that some unexplained object, or rather objects, flew directly toward then last Monday night while they were flying nea Port Kingman.

Charles (Bill) Ely, co-owner of the Western Auto Store here, and Frank Marbel, an instructor at the Morgan Flying Service east of Kingman, were flying his and Ed Williams's Piper Super Cruiser near the airport at approximately ten p.m. last Monday night.

Ely said that they had finished their flying and were on their base leg in preparation for landing when two bright lights approached them from the east. The lights approached them from the same altitude, about 600 feet, from the direction of the north end of the Hualpal mountains. Ely said that he blinked his landing lights twice to notify the incoming objects that he was landing.

He received no answer.

He blinked the lights twice again to signal them of his landing intentions.

By this time Ely said that both he and Markel figured the lights were only five or six hundred feet away. The approaching lights, the flyer said, looked to about twenty feet apart.

After receiving no answer to his blinking lights, he banked his aircraft to get out of their way. Markel saw the two objects separate and in a few moments rejoin each other over Kingman and continue their westward flight. The luminous lights looked the same going away as they did when they were approaching.

The two men proceeded to land and then asked the operations men at Morgan's if they had heard another plane besides theirs. They had not. Both men agreed that they heard no noise from the objects while in the air.

A Miner correspondent asked the men if they could describe the objects in any way. Ely answered that he could not because it was too dark. Asked if he had any idea of what it was, Ely said, "it could ahve been an airplane, it could have been two airplanes, it could have been anything".

Ely would say the lights on the approaching objects were bright but seemed to cast no beam. The lights looked identical after they passed as they did when they were approaching.

This seems to disprove the theory that it could have been an airplane, an observer said.

Well, that's that - you pay your nickel and take your chance. Your guess as to what these objects are are as good as anybody elses's.

Of course whith the rest of the country seeing and talking about flying discs and flying saucers, a lot of folks will think that these men saw a flying saucer. Ely asked us to comment that a bromo wouldn't clean up this situation because he doesn't drink.