Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wednesday 13 January 1954, page 5
Four saw flying saucers
speed over Hamilton
Two flying saucer stories came from Hamil-ton yesterday.
At 4.25 p.m. last Thurs-day, Messrs. X. Karamostos and A. Pantazls. of the Vic-toria Fish Cafe. Gray st., Hamilton saw "a silvery, cir-cular object with a para-chute-like adjunct remain stationary for 20 seconds,
then fly off at incredible speed."
. At 9.45 p.m. the follow-ing; day, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Brown, of Clifford st., saw a bright object to the north-west — "like two saucers, the top one inverted."
Its color was bright orange, and it left a vapor trail for 20 minutes, they said.
Mrs. Brown who like her husband, served in the Air Force during the war, said the object's brilliance sug-gested powerful electric generation.
Both were certain that it was not a plane.
Meanwhile, reports about flying saucers continue to pour in at Civil Aviation De-partment headquarters in Melbourne;
Nine arrived by yesterday's
mail, bringing the total to 50 in just over a week.
But if you thought you saw a saucer yesterday, be
careful.
There's a very good chance it was a cosmic ray research
balloon.
Dr. V. D. Hopper, leader of the cosmic ray research team at the Melbourne Uni-versity, invited journalists to see the birth of a ''flying
saucer."
He released an 8ft. dia-meter hydrogen-filled bal-loon, carrying an alumin-ium-coated undercarriage containing photographic plates.
And he would like the ap-paratus returned to the Atomic Physics Laboratory, Melbourne University, if you
find it.