The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Meriden Record, Meriden, Connecticut, USA, page 9, on July 8, 1947.
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Milwaukee, July 7. (AP) - Lt. Col. Harry W. Schaefer of the Wisconsin Air Patrol announced tonight his group planned to conduct a series of mass flights in hopes of learning something about the mysterious "flying disc."
The announcement followed reports by two pilots that they had sighted "discs" in Wisconsin.
Col. Schaefer said he expected the mass flights to start next Monday and continue about a week. About 180 planes are expected to participate, he said.
Kenneth Jones, a flight instructor at the Elkhorn Air Service, Elkhorn, Wis., and Capt. R. J. Southey of Burlington were the pilots who said they sighted "discs."
Jones said he was flying at about 400 feet when he saw a "white ball" traveling at a terrific speed about 10 to 15 miles north of Elkhorn.
Capt. Southey said he had landed at the Elkhorn airport and heard of Jones' experience. He and Glen Hackworthy, Milwaukee, took off and climbed to about 3,000 feet.
Southey said he saw a "silver thing" moving at a great speed. He turned the controls over to Hackworthy and prepared his camera in the hope of getting a picture but the object disappeared, he said, adding it re-appeared six or seven seconds later approximately ten miles away.
