I.N.P. Photo by U.S. Coast Guard Is It Saucer, Sorcery, or Just Plain Sausage? Reports of "flying saucers" were laughed off by authorities until many witnesses, including reliable pilots and servicemen, said they had seen the plate-like objects whizzing overhead. Above is the picture Yeoman Frank Ryman, 27, took in the Seattle twilight when he observed what seemed to him to be a flying saucer 10,000 feet high traveling at 500 miles per hour.
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