UFOs in the daily Press:

Bozeman Flier Forced To Dodge Sky Yo-Yos

Photographer Tries To Get Picture of Objects Seen in Air

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

The mystery of the flying discs was more than ever an enigma in Montana today as a flying photographer's story lent credence to reports, and a veteran Montana flier offered what he thought to be a solution.

Casey Baird, flying a fast P-38 Lightning pursuit plane equipped for photographing landscape for the U. S. Geodetic Survey, reported last night that he was forced to dodge flying discs yesterday on his way from Los Angeles to a Montana assignment.

Baird said he was flying at 32,000 feet when suddenly eight or nine disc-like objects loomed in front of his plane. He said he dived quickly and at the same time his photographer tried to photograph the airborne objects.

The two planned to develop the films today at Boozeman, hoping that they were quick enough to get the discs in focus.

Baird said he saw the things over the Gallatin Valley, and that they looked like yo-yo's with a periscope or domelike object on top. He said they appeared to be about 15 feet, in diameter.

At Missoula, veteran flier Bob Johnson, operator of the Johnson flying service, offered the theory that what people have been seeing actually is the seed of the milkweed—a disclike germ often seen thousands of feet in the air.

Johnson said the illusion is simple-hat a model of a flying airplane easily is mistaken for a real aircrew because it is difficult to estimate the size and altitude of flying objects.

The flier said he and other pilots saw flying discs yesterday, dipping and spinning as they flew, and reflecting bright sunlight. They captured one of the discs, Johnson related, and found it to be the seed of a milkweed—flat and circular, about the size of a dollar and with many fuzzy spikes radiating from a common hub.

Dr. Joseph Kramer, associate professor of botany at Montana State university, said Johnson's theory sounded plausible, and named a common seed with a silver color and disclike shape, called goat's beard, or drapogon pratensis.

Other Montanans also have reported seeing the mysterious objects in the air.