UFOs in the daily Press:

Kitchen Equipment Airborne With Flying Saucers, Jars

Delaware Pilot Adds to Mystery With Claim of Seeing Two 'Mayonnaise Jars' in Past 10 Months, Blames Port Deposit Airliner Crash on 'Things'

So now they're "flying mayonnaise jars."

Not just the tops, but the whole jar.

Somebody had better clear up this mystery of the alleged "flying saucers," before all the kitchen equipment becomes airborne.

The latest report, which in detail describes the mysterious objects as "flying mayonnaise jars," comes from a veteran Delaware pilot, Forrest Rehoboth Beach.

Saw Things Twice

Not only has Wenyon, in his description last night added a new chapter to the greatest national guessing game of all time—he further claims to have seen the things twice in the past 10 months.

And further, Wenyon offers a theory that the "things" could have caused the Memorial Day crash of C-54 airliner near Port Deposit, Md., through a collision.

Pilots of big and little planes are having a hard enough time these days, dodging collision with everything from belligerent buzzards to the current sky-full of fleeing fliers.

Must Avoid Kitchenware

Now it seems as if they will have to start avoiding winged saucers, jet-propelled milk bottles and conventional powered flapjack flappers. The particular difference between Wenyon's report, which he calls flying mayonnaise jars, and those which have been not observed in some 40 states under the common title of "flying saucers," is that the former—according to pilot Wenyon—held a true course until they disappeared from sight.

This would indicate a guided or at least an aimed missile while the course of the "saucers" has been described by observers as erratic.

One Jar Flying North

Mr. Wenyon said last night that he first saw what loosely resembled a "flying mayonnaise jar" one afternoon last September while flying at about 1,000 feet. It was late in the afternoon and the pilot was flying north.

Suddenly, at an estimated distance of 2,000 feet in front of his plane and traveling from west to east, Mr. Wenyon saw the "jar." It was going at tremendous speed but the pilot was able to note several things.

The most important of these observations, insofar as an explanation is possible, is that the "jar" appeared to have some sort of rocket combustion. Mr. Wenyon said that spurs of silver flame from the tail seemed to provide the propulsion.

Ejecta Flame

Carrying out the description of the "flying mayonnaise jar," Mr. Wenyon said that the tail appeared to be a lid which had been perforated and that from these perforations the flames escaped.

In a matter of two, at the most three, seconds the object had disappeared over and past Port Miles. The pilot did not see it land and doesn't know whether it did or not.

Then on June 2 while flying at 1,400 feet in a Stinson four-passenger ship Mr. Wenyon, a pilot of 30 years' experience, saw another "jar."

Reports Questioned

He didn't say much about it to Rehoboth Airport attendants although he did mention it. Mr. Wenyon, with a theory in mind, called the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They were not interested and told him so, he said. He then called Eastern Airlines and the Civil Aeronautic Authority both of which gave him a sympathetic hearing, thanked him and said they'd investigate.

To date he has received no answer from either.

The pilot's particular reason for making public his observations now is that he feels an experiment is being carried out, perhaps in the use of guided missiles and that the experiment may cause other plane crashes. He pointed out that the air traffic in this area is particularly heavy with scores of flights a day between east coast points.