This article was published in the daily newspaper The New York Times, USA, page 31, on January 17, 1957.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (AP). -- A retired rear admiral, once head of the Navy's guided missiles program, said today reliable reports indicate that "there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds."
Admiral Delmer S. Farhney told a news conference that "no agency in this country is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve."
There are signs that "an intelligence" directs such objects "because of the way they fly", the admiral went on.
"They are not entirely actuated by automatic equipment," he said. "The way they change position in formations and override each other would indicate that their motion is directed."
An Air Force spokesman said that service was still investigating all reports but had found no concrete evidence that there were flying saucers. He said that a majority of the reports had been found upon checking to have some logical explanation, but that a percentage remains unexplained.
Admiral Fahrney called a news conference following an organizational meeting of a new private group, the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena [NICAP], of which he is a board chairman.
