Bill Boss Claims Flying Saucers No Longer Joke

 Thursday, January 29, 1953

Ottawa, Canada, - Ontario Journal

VANCOUVER, Jan. 29 —(CP)—Flying saucers no longer are a joke to Bill Boss, Canadian Press war correspondent.

Back from Korea, he said in an interview Wednesday that he is impressed with the reports of fighter-bomber pilots telling of flying saucers—disc clusters “or whatever they are called”.

Boss told of reports from “seven independent” pilots on the same day, January 9.

“There is more to this than we all thought", he said.  “I think the story of the discs was the most significant to come out of Japan.”

Tha evidence of the pilots, two of whom “locked” with the objects, “is too strong to be dismissed”.

One disc kept its distance from the 700-mile-an-hour jet in a straight line and then drew away.

“It must have had a multiple of the speed of sound to do that”, said Boss.

The sky clusters, he said, were always reported out from the Russian-held island of Sakhalin or the Russian-held mainland.

“Possibly it is significant that saucer stories always appear over Western places of strategic interest, like northern Japan or Texas, but never where satellite forces are committed.”

“It looks like a Russian experiment?” a reporter asked.

“It looks like a Russian accomplishment,” Boss replied.

The United States Air Force announced Tuesday from a base in northern Japan that a small, metallic, disc-shaped object made a controlled, sweeping pass at an American Thunderjet last March 28.  It was observed at close range by another pilot.

Earlier, the air force disclosed that “rotating clusters of red, white and green lights” had been sighted over northern Japan.

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