The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, page 20, on August 20, 1949.
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MOJAVE. Cal. Aug. 19 (INS) -- Buck Fitzgerald, a veteran prospector, reported Friday that he saw a flying disk in the Mojave desert about 15 miles south of Death Valley.
Fitzgerald said that he and a friend, Mase Garney, saw the flying saucer "spin into the desert after coming out of nowhere."
The 73-year-old prospector related:
"This flying disk, which was about 24 ft. in diameter, whizzed past us going about 300 mph.
"It crash-landed and two little men jumped out and started running when they saw us.
"The men looked human but they were very small - like dwarfs.
"We chased them over a sand dune but lost them. I don't know where they went."
