The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Rhinelander Daily News, Rhineland, Wisconsin, USA, page 1, July 8, 1947.
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MILWAUKEE, July 8 (AP) - Lt. Col. Harry W. Schaeffer of the Wisconsin civil air patrol announced last night his group planned to conduct a series of mass flights in hopes of learning something about the mysterious "flying discs".
The announcement followed reports by two experienced pilots that they had sighted "discs" in Wisconsin.
Schaeffer said he expected the mass flights to start next Monday and continue about a week. About 150 planes are expected to participate, he said.
The state C. A. P. will discuss the plans at a mobilization in Marshfield Saturday.
Kenneth Jones, flight instructor at the Elkhorn air service, Elkhorn, and Capt. R. J. Southey of Burlington, were the pilots who said they sighted the "discs."
Jones said he was flying about 400 feet when he saw a "white ball" traveling at a terrific speed about 10 to 15 miles north of Elkhorn.
Southey said he had landed at the Elkhorn airport and heard of Jones' experience. He and Glen Hackworthy, Milwaukee, took off and climbed to about 3,600 feet.
Southey said he saw a "silver thing" moving at a great speed. He turned the controls over to Hackworthy and prepared his camera in hope of getting a picture but the object disappeared, he said, adding it re-appeared six or seven seconds later approximately ten miles away.
By the Associated Press
America's "flying saucer" jag reeled on today. Stiff necks and goggle eyes were the order of the day. Sky watching was a new profession.
For the first time the discs were reported whirling through the atmosphere over Asheville in western North Carolina and over Greensboro and Raleigh in the north central portion.
Tabulators quickly figured. Forty-one states had joined the disc brigade since the objects first were reported June 25.
Explanations, take your choice: They were radio controlled flying missiles sent aloft by U. S. military scientists. Or they were merely light reflected on wing tanks of jet-propelled planes. Or-
No one knew for sure.
The World Inventor Congress posted $1,000 for delivery of a flying disc to the exposition which opens in Los Angeles on July 11.
RACINE, Wis., July 8-(AP)-Four separate calls to the sheriff's department and the Racine Journal-Times last night reported "flying saucers" were seen over the city-and three of the people said the discs they saw were red.
Glenn Jensen of Racine said he had seen a red object, almost like a flare, "with two smaller white things above it" flying in a northeasterly direction over the city.
Dewey Trout of Wind Point reported he had seen a disc, but that it was not red.
Two other callers did not identify themselves. All said the "discs" were not accompanied by noise.
