PHILNEWS – The Phillips Petroleum Company Employee Magazine. 1954 Case

 May, 1954

ARE “flying saucers” from outer space?  Phillips Production employees and their families living at South Cole Creek camp, 25 miles east of Casper, Wyoming, can't answer this question, but they do know that they recently observed eight of these “objects” for a period of at least 15 minutes.

    Marge Michaelis, wife of sub-foreman A. L. Michaelis, describes the incident like this:

    ‘My two sons and I had just returned from Sunday school.  It was 11:30 am. As we got out of the car, our neighbor, Bill Eden, called to us, ‘What do you see up there?’ he asked, pointing to the sky.

“Looking to the north, I immediately spotted several extremely shiny round objects.  They looked about the size of a dime and were rapidly moving toward us.  Someone shouted, ‘Saucers!’

“Everyone watched as they came closer.  They seemed to go over, under and around each other in free easy maneuvers, giving the impression of a bubbling motion.  The objects moved.  south, then west, back east and finally drifted to the north.  They appeared to follow an arc, dropping down as they went into the north, then rising and dropping again as they neared us.

Five Citizens Back Marine On Sighting Flying Saucer - 1954 Case

 Sunday 4 April, 1954
Miami, Fla., Daily News

By LARRY BIRGER

Miami Dally News Staff WriterCaptain Holland

       Spotting a “flying saucer” is one thing.

       Making your friends believe it is quite another, a Marine flier  who “saw” the first one this young spring season has discovered.

       But even though most of his buddies are skeptical, Capt. Robert Holland, 32, has received “fan mail” from five citizens who are certain the pilot’s eyes haven’t gone bad.

       Holland several days ago spotted a “strange object” about 25,000 feet up over the ocean east of Fort Lauderdale, and quickly reported it to his superior officers.

Pilot Sees ‘Object’; Was It a F----- S-----?

 Saturday 27 March, 1954
Miami, Fla., Herald

Round and White

The Marines landed in Flying Saucer territory
Friday.

Spotting of a "round, unidentified object, white in color not glowing," was reported by Capt. Dan C. Holland, 33, of 5196 E. Fifth st., Hialeah.

Flying Saucer Story Number 29,119,109

 March, 1954
Fort Worth, Texas, Cross Country NEWS  Vol. 9 No. 8

       (Special to XC News)

MIAMI, Fla.–Flying saucers are real, says Bill Nash, first officer for Pan American World Airways, and offers an explanation why Air Force investigators do not reveal all they know.

      "I am convinced the Air Force has collected hardware from outer space," he told the Greater Miami Aviation Association.  "If it were to reveal possession of these objects or parts of them, it would have to establish proof.

      "I do not believe the Air Force cares to make all its findings public so long as the United States is threatened by unfriendly powers."

Men Report Big Ball In Sky - 1954 Case

 Friday, April 23, 1954
Lumberton, NC, Robesonian

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Six workmen, who had gathered late last night at a rural home near here to ride to work, told a reporter they watched a mysterious gleaming ball over the house for 20 minutes.  One of the men, Les Reatherford, said the ball once dived toward him, and that he had to duck to avoid being hit.

      "If I hadn't ducked it would have hit me sure," said Reatherford.

      The men, all employees of a Reynolds Metal Co., aluminum plant, described the white ball of light as about 10 feet in diameter.  They said it circled the house slowly, stopping for a moment at irregular intervals.

      One of the witnesses said the ball followed the men when they left in a station wagon.

      "We tried to put a spotlight on it," said one of the men, "but every time it would dodge the beam."

      Besides Reatherford, those who saw the object were Harley and Fred Skeets, Tom and Dayton Henderson, and John Vaughn.

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Airline Pilots Sighting 5-10 ‘Saucers’ Nightly - 1954 Case

 Saturday, Feb. 13, 1954
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Press

U. S. Steps Up Sky Chase

Commercial Fliers Being Asked to Flash

Immediate Reports, Speed Up Interceptors

 By JIM G. LUCAS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

      WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—Commercial airline pilots report between five and 10 flying saucer sightings each night, it was learned today.

      Representatives of major airlines will meet Wednesday in Los Angeles with Military Air Transport Service (MATS) intelligence officers to discuss speeding up saucer-reporting procedures.

      The idea will be to “get the reports in the quickest possible way” so that the Air Force can send fast jet fighters to investigate.

      Heretofore, commercial pilots have landed and then reported to MATS through their companies.  By that time, the trail usually is cold.  Now, pilots are instructed to flash reports direct from the air to MATS intelligence Washington or to the nearest Air Force base.

Will Film Solve “Saucer” Riddle ?

Monday, Jan. 25, 1954

Melbourne, Australia, The Argus

 A short moving picture taken by a Department of Civil Aviation official in New Guinea may solve the flying-saucer mystery.

      The Federal Government has sent the film to U.S.A. for special processing.

      The film was taken with a telephoto lens at Port Moresby by Mr. T. C. Drury on August 23 last year, when he noticed "a cloud building up as though being formed by vapor trails."

      He said: “Suddenly an object appeared from one side of it and climbed very fast in a roughly northwesterly direction.”

      “It appeared to be some type of very high-speed aircraft, not a civil aircraft.”

      “In any case, from the extreme altitude of the object, it certainly could not have been a civil aircraft.”

Reports On “Saucers” Jam Phones

 Thursday, Jan. 7, 1954

Adelaide, South Australia, Advertiser

MELBOURNE. Jan. 6.

      Flying saucer reports today so blocked the telephone channels of the Civil Aviation Department's traffic control branch in Melbourne that the department had to ask the public for a "let-up."

      They followed an appeal by the department to forget their fear of ridicule and report unusual sights in the sky.

      In the past two days the reports were so numerous that the department had to qualify its appeal.

      It asked that all reports should be made in writing to its public relations section.