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.