Alternate Perceptions Magazine, March 2025
The Saucer Files
by: Rick Hilberg
Air Force admits "flying disks" sighted over Korea. February 19, 1953 - The Air Force disclosed that objects resembling "flying disks" had been sighted over Korea by crew members of two U. S. bombers. Top Air Force officials ordered a full investigation of the reports received, which came through regular military intelligence channels. A spokesman said that the objects were described by four eyewitnesses as globe-shaped, bright orange in color, and emitting an occasional flash of bluish light. He indicated that several were seen, but did not give the number.
The Air Force, which had thrown cold water on hundreds of previous sightings, apparently was impressed by the circumstances under which the new sightings were reported by its own personnel. The first report reached Intelligence headquarters from bomber crews who said they saw the strange objects flying parallel to their plane at about midnight on the night of January 29. The plane was over Wonsan, Korea at the time.
And on this same night, a B-29 from a different squadron returned to its base after a flight over Sunchon, a considerable distance from Wonsan. Two crew members told intelligence officers that they had seen "flying disks" moving parallel to their craft at a high altitude. They fixed the time as about midnight. "The objects remained with the B-29 over Sunchon for one minute," the Air Force said.
"Golden Flying Saucer" Over Toronto, Canada. November 25, 1953 - A "huge, golden flying saucer" was reported hovering over the city of Toronto that afternoon. Norman Giddings of Scarboro, reported sighting the giant disk-shaped object at 2:10 p.m. while driving along the Hingston Road from Ajax to Toronto. Giddings, a salesman, described the object as "much bigger than a plane, " and said "I had time to make definitely sure it wasn't the sun shining on some kind of object. It was glowing with its own light."
Late November California "angel hair" case. - A fluffy blanket, dead white, almost ephemeral in its delicacy, and apparently electrically charged, was reported in Southern California's San Fernando Valley.
It was reported that it streamed like a lacy ribbon from a mysterious flying craft that sped over the Valley. The weird fall, backed up with evidence, was told by residents over a wide area in the vicinity of White Oak Avenue and Haynes Street in San Fernando west of the Birmingham Junior High School. The accounts given to news reporters became even more intriguing when the local residents pointed to trees, telephone wires, fence posts and television antennas that afterward still had clinging bits of the webby material on them after several days of exposure to the elements.
For instance, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dangelo, who lived near the corner of White Oak and Haynes, four men who reside in White Oak, a couple of next-door neighbors of the Dangelo’s and a bakery truck driver arriving in the area on his rounds, saw the vaporous blanket settle over the district.
"We were watching three jet planes,” Mrs. Dangelo recalled. "Then, behind them, we saw a huge silvery ball. We thought maybe it was a tow target, or something connected to one of the jets. But then the jets just peeled off and landed. The silvery ball kept flying. It moved up and down, and even sideways. Finally, a long streamer of white stuff - almost like a vapor trail - spewed out of its back end. It detached itself from the ball and began settling earthward. It spread out, stringy, sort of, like white wool being shredded, and it dropped down all over the neighborhood like cobwebs. Wires running out to our homes turned white. They still sparkle at night."
The bakery truck driver, Bob Tilt, rolled into the neighborhood at about that time. "I began noticing white stuff, like spider webs. It was everywhere, all over my windshield, " he said. Although none of the witnesses reported the incident to newspapers at that time, word got around. One family's phone rang so constantly their two small children couldn't sleep. They had the phone disconnected.
One witness called Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank.
Said the woman witness, " An engineer was sent out to see us. He was young and cocky, and approached us with a very sneering attitude. When he left, with a handful of the white stuff, he was silent and bug-eyed. The next day an engineer came from North American Aviation, and on the third day one from Douglass. They've never told us what they learned, but we've heard the stuff couldn't be analyzed." The material from the fall looked like finely shredded wool or spun glass. Held between the fingers for a few moments, it dissolved into nothing. Mrs. Dangelo, describing its static qualities, said it often seemed to "jump" from a bush or tree and clinging to one's hair.
The area residents were totally baffled by the whole affair, and many firmly believed that it was indeed a genuine "flying saucer" that caused the fall and all the excitement that was to follow.
