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From: Graham William Birdsall <106151.1150@compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 15:13:48 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 00:25:47 -0400
Subject: 1947 Newspaper Clippings

Dear colleagues,

I recently received copies of the 'Irish Times' and
'Irish Independent'newspapers dated 9 July 1947, which
contained some fascinating references and quotes derived
from what happened at  Roswell.

I should add as a matter of courtesy that these clippings
were located by Mr. John Scarry in Dublin.

The clippings reference the basic story and cite 'flying saucer'
incidents over Johannesburg, Sydney, Mexico City, and various
parts of the United States and Canada, plus a report from
England dated 30 June '47.

The following quotes may be of interest to Roswell 'historians'
in that this is what was being reported on this side of the
'pond'...

'Brigadier Gen. Roger Ramey, Commander of the 8th Air Force,
said that the battered object, which was being shipped by air
to the U.S. Army Air Force's research centre at Right [sic]
Field, Ohio, was of "flimsy construction almost like a box
kite".

'It was made of some sort of tin-foil. Later the Army Air Force
said that the object might have had a diameter of about 10 - 25
feet if reconstructed, but nothing indicated any capacity for
speed, and there was no evidence of a power plant.

'Mr. Charles G. Ross, President Truman's Press Secretary, said
earlier that no official investigation was under way, so far
as the White House was concerned.

'It was reported yesterday that a Wisconsin civil air group
planned to conduct a series of mass flights, as two pilots had
sighted discs in Wisconsin. About 150 'planes, it was stated,
would participate.'

The above text is taken from the 'Irish Independent', Wednesday,
July 9, 1947.

The 'Irish Times' runs its coverage along similar lines, but has
three interesting statements:

'The U.S. War Department stated last night that they were without
news of the New Mexico "flying saucer," and were checking with
Roswell.

'Professor Einstein told a U.P. correspondent he had "absolutely
no comment" to make.

'The Daily Telegraph (English newspaper) declared that the
"saucers" were "the in-direct result of large recent exports
of Scotch whisky".'

Thus endeth the relevant quotations from a couple of
50-year-old newspapers.

I included the Daily Telegraph comment to illustrate that
ridicule existed long before any civilian UFO researchers
got in on the act. I don't profess to know if any of the
afore-mentioned quotations are of significance (not least
because this is being posted late on an evening after a
tiring day) but I'd be interested of course in your comments.

Best regards,


Graham W. Birdsall [Editor]

UFO Magazine (UK)