The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Marshfield News-Herald, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA, page 1, le 8 juillet 1947.
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It had to happen.
Marshfield has been tossed squarely into the middle of the furor concerning the "flying discs."
Lt. Col. Harry W. Schaefer of the Wisconsin Civil Air Patrol announced in Milwaukee last night that his group plans to conduct a series of mass flights in hopes of learning something about the mysterious "discs."
The CAP will discuss plans for stalking the elusive platters at the two-day mobilization of the Civil Air Patrol which begins in Marshfield Saturday.
WE GOT 'EM TOO
Yes, Marshfield is right in the center of things. John Rennert, 314 W. Third street, says he saw a flying saucer too, but the one he saw was as big as the moon, and deep red. He says he saw it at 9:30 p. m. July Fourth while unloading coal at the Stock-Gro plant, and that it flashed across the western sky with a whirling movement. At tremendous speed.
He says he called to a companion but the other man didn't look up in time. Rennert says it isn't the first time he has observed celestial phenomena but he never said anything before because he didn't want people to think he was "nuts."
Pilots See Discs
Schaefer's announcement followed reports by two experienced pilots that they had sighted "discs" in Wisconsin.
He said that he expected mass flights to start next Monday and continue about a week. About 150 planes are expected to participate, he added.
Kenneth Jones, a flight instructor at the Elkhorn Air Service, Elkhorn, and Capt. R. J. Southey of Burlington were the pilots who said they sighted "discs."
Jones said he was flying at about 400 feet when he saw a "white ball" traveling at a terrific speed about 10 to 15 miles north of Elkhorn.
Camera Fails
Captain 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 the hope of getting a picture but the object disappeared, he said, adding it re-appeared six or seven seconds later approximately 10 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.
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 plans. Or-
No one knew for sure.
The World Inventors Congress posted $1,000 for delivery of a flying disc to the exposition which opens in Los Angeles on July 11.
