The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Washington Times-Herald, Washington D.C., USA, on March 10, 1950.
Note: The story was taken by Ray L. Dimmick from similar statements by Silas M. Newton, the author of this hoax.
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Los Angeles, March 9 (AP). -- An expert on chemicals and explosives told reporters yesterday he had seen the wreckage of an ultra streamlined flying saucer on a Mexico City mountainside, and that top U.S. officials have viewed it.
But there was no confirmation of the account, related by Ray L. Dimmick sales manager of of the Apache Powder Co., and the Air Force in Washington said it had heard nothing about it.
Dimmick later told newsmen he had seen only a strip of metal which he was told came from the space ship.
The remainder of his information Dimmick said, came from two businessmen in Mexico City, one an American, the other a Chilean. Dimmick declined to name them, said he would divulge that information "if requested by the proper authorities."
Part of the information he said, was that a man 23 inched tall, the pilot of the plane, died in the crash and that his body had been embalmed for scientific study.
It was an exquisite piece of machinery, Dimmick told the first interviewers. He then described it in detail, saying it was 48 feet in diameter, built of a metal resembling aluminum, but much harder, and was powered by two motors.
He was then taken to the scene of the crash by associates and that the wreckage was roped off. The crash occurred three months ago, he said.
Dimmick said later that the piece of metal he saw was actually eight feet long, 8 inches wide, and three-quarters of an inch thick.
Reminded that the Air Force announced last December it was dropping its investigation of Flying Saucers because of preponderance of evidence that they do not exist, Dimmick said:
"I'm big enough to take the consequences of what I said and stand my ground."
He said he has reports of that similar objects landed in various parts of North America in the last year, "but governments have clamped veils of secrecy about their investigations."
"Why, he said, I received a phone call from Mexico this morning that a saucer was seen over Maxailan."
In Van Nuys, Calif., last night composer Eddie Coffman said he [...]
[...] Reed Hadley and Mrs Hadley saw a ship though a foggy sky, which appeard to be about 400 feet in the air and traveling at extreme speed.
Through a telescope, he said, it appeard to be about 30 feet in diameter.
In Dayton, Ohio, the control tower operator at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base said two jet planes and an Air National Guard plane pursued an object in the sky near here yesterday, which he called "a hazy pin point at night, with the brilliance of a star at twilight." Astronomer J. A. Hynek said it had been an "astronomical object."
Col. Joseph Anderson, assistant U.S. military attché at the Mexicao City embassy, said of Dimmick's story: "This is beyond me." He added:
"I have not heard of any such thing, nor seen it, and were it true I feel positive I would have been informed by the Mexican defence ministry, since we are in closest touch with them.
The Washington Air Force headquarters insisted it had heard nothing about the Mexico City flying saucer.
