A flight of about 30 flying saucers was observed at 10:35;a.m. (PST) today over the San Carlos area, Stanley Miramon and his mother, Mrs. Marie Maranta reported.
Miramon said the group circled over one spot northeast of San Carlos, at an altitude of 2,000 feet. They were round,silvery in color, and "about the size of an automobile."
He said a two engine transport plane was in the same general area and it appeared the pilot saw the "things" and headed toward them.
Miramon said he ran into the house to telephone a newspaper, and by the time he returned to the street the objects were gone.
Army research experts can't explain the "flying saucers" reported in several states, but they're investigating, they said.
They are even considering the possibility, however remote, that some foreign power may have something to do with the flying discs.
The Army Air Forces checked all of their research authorities and contractors, but none of them knew or could suggest anything concrete about the saucers.
At first Army officers laughed off the reports. Now, they are beginning to take them at least a little seriously. At any rate, the Air research center at Wright Field is looking into the reports, and all service intelligence agencies are at work on them. Army experts suggested - as a bare possibility - that some civilian investor has been making some experiments of some kind.
The possibility that the discs might be of foreign origin was indirectly put forward by an AAF spokesman who said:
"If some foreign power is sending flying discs over the to know about it and take proper action."
A flight of "flying saucers" has been reported in eastern Canada but reaction there to the mystery missiles reported earlier in nine states of the United States was "they're probably leftovers from the mad hatter's tea party minus cups, of course."
Dr. and Mrs. C.K. Gunn and two friends said they saw strange objects "traveling at great speed high in the sky" last Tuesday near their home at Summerside on Prince Edward island.
Roland Phillipson, one of the four, described the objects as shapeless, but glistening in the sunlight.
Father Burke-Gaffney, astronomer and dean of engineering at St. Mary's college at Halifax, said the saucers were "outside the realm of astronomy." Another Canadian source said "It's probably a matter for witch doctors."
Army research experts in Washington said they can't explain the saucers reported whizzing across the sky by persons in eight states, but they said they are investigating.
An Albuquerque, New Mexico Chamber of Commerce official, Max Hood, reported he saw "a disk-like bluish object following a zig-zag path in the northwestern sky" over New Mexico on July 01.
Other "saucers" previously were reported seen over a Navajo Indian reservation in northwestern New Mexico, and over Gallup, near Silver city, Sante Fe, Elephant Butte and other points in the state.
A U.S. meteorologist, E.E. Unger of Louisville, said he saw a circular object flying through the air Tuesday night as he left a neighborhood theater. He said it was moving about 100 miles an hour, and giving off an orange light. Mrs. Louis Goldstein, wife of a deputy sheriff at Monterrey,CA, reported she saw one of the "flying saucers" or discs at 7:45 a.m. (PST) today while looking out a window of her home by Monterrey airport. "I know people will say I'm crazy, but I saw a quite-rounded flying object, not circular, with a red glow on one edge." Mrs. Goldstein said. "I saw it for 10 or 15 seconds - then, suddenly it vanished."
Airlines reported no planes in flight in the area at the time. The only plane at the airport was grounded. The projectiles, variously described as "too fast for an airplane and not fast enough for a falling star," "not moving at all," and "traveling at great speed," were reported seen again Thursday night streaking over Denver.
It was the third report of the "saucers" this week, while persons in Idaho, Oregon, California, New Mexico and other states reported seeing various versions of the unexplained projectiles last week.
Mrs. L.M. Wagoner and her eight-year-old son of Sherman, Texas reported they saw a flying disc about 7 p.m. Sunday while traveling between Dallas and Corsicana. Mrs. Wagonersaid the disc, about the size of a man's hat, was traveling northward and disappeared in a few seconds.
A Dallas man, Tom Dean, said he and his wife and daughter saw a disc-shaped object "going like blue blazes from northeast to southwest at cloud level" Tuesday while traveling between Dallas and Fort Worth. Dean said it resembled a flattened-out balloon and was in sight for 12or 15 seconds.
A shiny disc, traveling about 150 miles per hour, was seen over El Paso, Texas, at 3:30 p.m. MST, Sunday, June 22, (NOTE: before the Kenneth Arnold sighting) by Dr. G. Oliver Dickson, an optometrist. He said it was shaped a little like a blimp, coming to a point at each end. The sun's rays were not reflected on it, he added.
Lt. Gov. Donald S. Whitehead of Idaho said today that he saw a strange comet-like object hanging high in the western sky on June 24. That was the day Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho, first reported seeing the projectiles over southeastern Washington.
Their stories varied. Arnold had estimated the projectiles speed at 1,200 miles an hour. Whitehead said the objects he and three other witnesses saw "didn't move, but just seemed to go below the horizon with the rotation of the earth." At Denver Henry Martin and Walter Harrod said they caught a brief glimpse of a group of "bright objects" flying at about 5,000 feet Thursday night. Martin said they looked like coffee can cups. They were traveling in a southwesterly direction, he said.
State Highway Patrol Sgt. David Menary, of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge detail, reported seeing a dozen bright metal objects "about the size of a football" whiz over San Francisco Bay June 24 and fall into the sea.
Dick Rankin, former Portland, Oregon flyer, said he saw the discs high over Bakersfield, California, going from 200 to 400 miles an hour June 23. There were ten of them in a formation flying north, he said.
At Bath, South Carolina, Jack Reams reported that last week he saw a disc 12 inches in diameter, giving off a small weird light as it whizzed through the sky at a tremendous speed.