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FBI Probes 'Deadly Russ Clouds' Report LOS ANGELES - (INS) -The Los Angeles Examiner reported today that, at the suggestion of a top-flight nuclear- physieist, it had turned over to the FBI a letter concerning Russian atompowered flying saucers and deadly, controlled radio-active clouds. The Examiner said 'the communication was offered to federal agents after physicist had termed the contents of the letter as "not entirely nonsense," although it was written in halting and sometimes almost incoherent English. The writer gave the source of his information as the officer of a Soviet tanker which recentIly was in Los Angeles harbor. The alleged atom-powered plane, was described as only 18 inches thick, as being kidneyaheped and his having no propellers. 'The pilot, in flying the strange ship, is said to lie on his stomach and is artificially cooled | against the heat generated by the craft's super-sonic speeds. Outer Surface Polished The writer quoted the Russian giving this further description of the plane: "The outer surface of the plane is highly polished. Both upper and lower surfaces are convex, like a giant lens. "The lifting force is an entirely different (new) principle, found about 10 years ago among the unpublished papers of Russian chemist and developed recently at one of Russia's research laboratories. "Energy is required only for climbing, but no energy is needed for support when the airplane goes along the earth's gravitational contour lines." The business about the controlled radio-active cloud came up when, according to the writer, the Russian asked where he could sell 18 polar bear pelts he had been given for very dangerous work. The Russian was said to have related that he was assigned to go over the route which the lethal cloud had passed and pick up dead animals. The experiment is supposed to have started in the vicinity of Lake Baikal and to have killed every form of life under it, birds, animals, worms. The writer related. that the Russian gave this account of the development: "They loaded a few small ships with all kinds of animals and directed the cloud over them. "During this experiment a violent storm blew the cloud far north into the Tundra, but before it dissipated it destroyed all life on its way. "The cloud may be controlled from land, from a plane or from a robot-plane leader. As I understand it, the control is based on electro-magnetic waves and the cloud has two components, the carrier and the killer.' The writer said he asked the Russian whether the Soviet has an atomic bomb and he replied that he doubted it because the bomb cannot be used • without killing innocent people, but one did say that they have atomic energy which use in pro• pelling super-sonic airplanes. The physicist whom the ex aminer consulted said the letter was difficult to appraise because of the writer's technical ignorance. He added: "The remark implying that the Russians wouldn't use the atom bomb if they had it is nonsense, The Russians would like very I much to have the bomb
Article from 07 Jul 1947Deseret News(Salt Lake City, UT)
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