The article below was published in the daily newspaper The News, Patterson, New Jersey, USA, on July 11, 1947.
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The mysterious "flying saucers" invaded the quiet community of Morristown yesterday morning when four of the shiny discs were photographed while reportedly soaring near the airport on the outskirts of the town, according to the Morristown Daily Record.
The photograph of the flying crockery was taken by John H. Janssen, airport columnist for the Record, about 10 a.m. yesterday as he was driving in Morristown airport, to take a flying lesson.
He described them as round, one a dull metallic color, the other three silvery.
10,000 Feet in Air
Janssen reported that when he first saw them he believed them to be airplanes but on close observation, saw they were "a formation of four of the mysterious flying discs, floating about 10,000 feet in the air."
He said he only had time to take one picture and as he was reloading his camera, "the first saucer veered towards New York, in a dazzling brst of speed; the others followed, and they all disappeared."
Janssen was the only person in and around Morristown to report seeing the saucers. It is expected that the Army will be notified.
[Photo:]
(Reprinted from yesterday's Late Edition)
Morristown Daily News Photo
ONLY TWO PICTURES exist of the celebrated "flying saucers". The first was taken out West. The second, shown above, was taken by an alert newspaper columnist of Morristown, where he saw the four discs flying, he reports, about 10,000 feet in the air. The picture bears on his observation that three of the saucers were silvery white while the fourth was a dull metallic color. He reported he saw the saucers disappeared towards New York.
