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THE SUNDAY NEWS, DECEMBER 25, 195S-17 mwc Santa Is Just A 6 UFO 5 To Flying Saucer Men Unidentified Flying Objects Is The Tag The Air Force Gives; Columbian Pinpoints Appearances In U.S. it Was it a bird? Was it a plane? Was it Santa Claus? Anybody who couldnt see something unusual in the sky last night if only a star wasnt even trying. At this special season for the skyward glance, heres a story that few know in detail the story of UFO, BY SAM TAYLOR Some people call them "flying saueeis To the air force flieyre officially known as UFO (unidentified fljing objects). Others term them things, celestial lights, and other names. JBut to a Columbia man, no matter what theyie termed, they are an established fact, and should be taken quite seriously.

He is George G. McGmnes, swimming coach at Franklin and Marshall College, and operator of an airport in Columbia. McGinnes, who describes himself as an aviation enthusiast, is vitally interested in the possibility and de-, velcpment of space travel, and feels that the UFO, which he prefers to call them, may hold the key to the whole development of travel to other planets. So keen is his interest in the objects that he has done research and investigated every possible channel of UFO information. As a result of his study, he has made a hobby of addressing civic clubs and oigamzed in the past year has appeared before 25 organizations.

He has charted UFO appearances on a map thats possibly the biggest in Lancaster county. BOTH SCAN SKIES In spite of his study of the subject, he says, I've never seen a UFO, but it isnt because I haven't looked. My wile and I spend a great many hours on clear nights scanning the heavens for a sighting, and I hope some day well find one. Always willing to discuss the subject of the UFO, McGinnes has an interesting theory on their origin. He says that some schools of thought place the objects as having their origin on Mars or Venus because of studies which show shifting trends on the face of the two planets, but he agrees with the theory advanced by the German scientist who said on July 24, 1954, The unidentified flying objects seen are space ships from a planetary system other than ours, UFO ON THE MAP George McGinnes really works at his hobby of pinpointing -reports of "unidentified flying objects, as the Air Force calls them.

He points to local area on carefully spliced air maps on his office wall. (Sunday News Photo) McGinnes says, This isnt surprising, because when you look at the galaxies at night and the vast expanse of sky which can be scanned in normal visition, it certainly isnt outside the realm of possibility that another solar system besides ours is in existentence. This vast expanse, combined with the vast strides which people on this earth have made toward space travel aie, he says, his proof that the objects don't exist as a mere mirage, but are actual space ships as stated by the scientist, Dr. Herman Ober. MAPPING SOLAR SYSTEM As to the purpose of the visits of the UFO to the earths surface, McGinnes says he believes that- whatever creature may be propelling them is engaged in a vast mapping expedition of the entire solar system, and that the curiosity concerning things earth-bound is probably as great as ours is as to their source and origin.

Again, McGinnes supports his theory that the UFO are piloted by some sort of creature, by citing instances where organic material has fallen from the heavens which defies analysis by the best scientists of our day. One area has experienced falls of blood from the sky and another meat of no variety known to this planet, McGmnes says. He believes that the inhabitants of the UFO use the lanes of space much as we use our rivers and streams for waste disposal. Another evidence to McGinnes that such space ships manned by some sort of creatures do exlsit is the case of the British Overseas airliner which disappeared on Aug. 7, 1947, near Santiago, Chile, with a full crew and passenger manifest.

LOST WITHOUT TRACE The plane, a Lancastrian Star-Dust, was four minutes out of Chilean airport, and the pilot had rhdioed for landing Instructions when it disappeared from the skies forever, and all efforts at tracing it have failed to this day. McGinnes says that the radio operator heard just one word spoken, bv some sort of voice before the radio went dead, and that word was ten dec, which has no counterpart in any known language the world today. He also points out the case of a patrol of Avenger bombers which flew off the coast of Florida with ample fuel and never returned, and the Navy PBY which went after them, only to disappear into thin air also. McGinnes continues remembering the Air Force Pilot who spotted a flight of three UFO on Jan. 7, 1948, at Goodman Field Kentucky, and took off in a jet plane to trace their flight.

The Air Force Officer described the flight of the "saucers as he climbed after them, at 20,000 feet reported am closing in, and then his plane disintegrated. He says he feels that the creatures manning the space ships are proceeding with caution, and have much the same fear of the earths inhabitants as early explorers had when they set foot on the shores of this continent CITES PILOTS REPORTS Queried as to the Air Force report that the UFO do not exist, was most emphatic in stating the Air Force has done a disservice stating that the objects are hallucinations. If they are hallucinations I can understand why they would allow their pilots to fly. The most creditable officers in the Air Force, and pilots for civilian airlines have reported sightings of the UFO If a man is subject, to hallucinations, why then is he allowed to remain in the Air Force, or keep a job with an airline? He goes on to say that the report of the Air Force is an fringement on our intelligence, almost criminal, because it may effect every one on the earth some day. Right now, McGinnes attention is drawn to the proposed satellite which will be launched from the earth to rotate in the stratosphere, and believes that the launching of the "manmade moon will come much faster than has been announced.

The space enthusiast also quotes an American scientist to support his theory that the UFO ships are studying our population, military strength and potential. On July 21, 1954, according to McGinnes, Frank Halstead, astronomer at the Um1 versity of Minnesota, stated at a conference of scientists in the southwest, a craft of some sort has visited the earth from outer space; the best scientific minds in this world agree that some planet out there is sending these things to look us over. AF TRYING AIR-FOILS He also says that despite the fact that the Air Force has pooh-poohed the idea of saucers, the development of the circular disc type of aircraft has urged forward since the first sightings of the UFO in 1947, and the Air Force has now reported on the progress of experimentation with circular air-foils. In view of the recent Air Force report on flying saucers," McGmnes says that many people who sight the objects are afraid to say anything about them for fear of ridicule. If a man spots one of the craft now, he is going to say anything about it, and be laughed at he asks.

McGinnes Is very emphatic about his amateur standing in the UFO field and says I do not profess in any way to be an expert. Im just interested, and do It on my own. I think someone should back up the theories of many eminent scientists The more we can learn about them now, the better off we 11 be at some future date if a landing is ever attempted on the earth. STORY IS SWORN TO Another tale of the sighting of a UFO holds McGinnes imagination, and gives greater strength to his convictions. It is the authenticated story, sworn to by both passengers and crew, of the airliner flying at night near Montgomery, Ala, on July 24, 1948.

The plane was cruising through the sky when a craft, estimated by the pilot and co-pilot to be 200 feet long, flew along beside it. Both passengers and crew described the object as gleaming with lighted port-holes. After flying alongside for a short time, the unidentified object whisked off into space with a blast that rocked the plane, a DC-3. He says that the passengers described the wingless object as the most wierd thing they had ever seen. Some sources, he said, tried to explain away this sighting as aerobatic manuevers, but McGinnes says that such maneuvers are prohibited tn established air lanes and routes, and that the airliner was travelling on an accepted route, directly on course.

McGinnes says that people today are bewildered by pro and con claims of the sightings and non-existance of the UFO, and that it is his feeling that it is to the intelligent self-interest of every individual to become as familiar with the subject as they possibly can. He advises coming to your own conclusions by saying, Sift every bit of evidence, every report you hear, to arrive at your own logical conclusion. BE PREPARED MOTTO My main object in discussing the UFO, he says, is to try and bring out the facts so that we can be better prepared to bring this to a head quickly, and not let apathy take us over. McGinnes faith in scientific proof and data is implicit. In spite of the fact he has never seen a flying saucer, he is willing to study the reports of men of science who are making careers of space travel and the connection which it may have with the UFO.

Who knows, maybe some-day soon he will look out the picture window at his airport office and see a UFO flying low on the horizon. Until that time, hell stick to his study, and the maintenance of the large map on his wall where he has recorded reports of sightings of the UFO. tii 'Rpvfeuh or not, Communism makes sense; that cold war is no less a form of peace than of war; that if we can keep It up long enough it may turn into an agreeable peace. Some readers will be discouraged, or alienated, by some of the material here. Nevertheless Arnolds fresh, lively and thoughtful book makes good reading whether hes marshaling facts in tables, or reasons of the texts, or having at us with his occasional slashing satire.

still is. Furtheimore, it exerts unforeseen appeals by unlikely methods. For instance, agricultural peoples have succumbed to its wiles, though Marx spoke to industrial workers. For another instance, there exist vast backward areas where the Red Russian idea of revolution imposed from the top is welcomed even by the best people The answer to this expanding force, Arnold claims, is not so likely to be the United Nations as the Atlantic Community. The trouble with NATO, however, is in no small part the blindness and provincialism, as he sees it, of United States policy, hen it isnt also Liberal or Labor Party policy.

He finds America too bossy; too apt to'support the reactionary, though speciously democratic, elements in borderline countries for whose allegiance we vie with the Reds. He says we must all realize that, for some people, believe it thought she wanted, with what she got, or thought she got. I Want to Meet a French Girl concerns an American boys experiences the French capital though this is a less credible item. A couple of stones not having to do with love are sandwiched in here, but only a couple. Only one story is pure Chicago, the place that made Farrell famous, or that he made famous.

In general it is said that to remove a writer from his original sources is apt to dry him up; and I remember thinking Farrell didnt do so well in a novel or two set in New York. But in these pieces with the foreign locale, he has done his most persuasive writing in eight or ten years. REAL FLYING SAUCERS have been designed by Avro Aviation Companys Canadian engineers. It is reported able to fly 1,500 miles per hour and to take pff vertically. Artists sketch shows plastic bubble and other features of radical design.

FRENCH GIRLS ARE VIC-IOIS. By James T. Farrell, Vanguard. An American woman, 33, with a government job, a car and a little money, starts off the title story in this collection by complaining: I dont' like French gills. Our heroine or narrator, for shes no heroine to Farrell has a hankering for home and marriage and some sort of emotional, moral and economic security.

She a 4 brought up Cleveland. Ohio, to admire such things, though she scorns the old hometown. Pierre, a Parisian, ohliges her with the expression of his love and the assurance it will last forever, and she takes him as lover. But shes serious about everything except the lover-mistress business, and that is all he is really serious about. He even relaxes with a French girl whose only desire is to love Pierre, and who works at that and nothing else.

A Dream of.Love also tells of an American woman who goes to Pans and has a lover; it contrasts what she wanted, or i. i HJhat Babe newborn is this i I that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed His happy mother lies. if -v mmmsr vavw 5 MX III --Ft in or LET US DEVELOP and PRINT YOUR Holiday Snapshols Color and Black and While Film ter, -2? 3 fjf rv- i Oh, see the air is shaken with THE PATTERN OF WORLD CONFLICT. By G. L.

Arnold. Dial. This is not, says Arnold a British editor who contributes occasionally to American reviews the world it used to be: Britannia, like Japan and Germany, is a minor beside the United States and Russia. But this sint even the world, Arnold continues, that it was expected to be Contrary to past revolutions, which had their day and petered out, the Russian revolution has gone on and on. It was on the rampage, the international rampage, in 1945, and S' 4V iQrft isr -4.

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