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1. DATE - TIME GROUP 7 dul 53 ee 3. SOURCE CIVILIANS (#3) 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS ONE 2. LOCATION eae ATLANTA, GEORGIA 5S. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS el dln Three civilians reported that they were riding in a car when 10, CONCLUSION NOHER: HOAX Investigations proved that the sources were trying to get pub- licity by building up a hoax. Animal was examined and identifier as a shaved monkey. Sources admitted that story was a hoax. they saw a red saucer-shaped obj & three little men on the RVATION - we highway. Two of the little men got back into the saucer ground visual wh…

. \ aA iv 8 OPERATIONS REPORT - 6 thru 10 July 1953. i a stooges ‘ / - ae 5 : I. During the past week press activity concerning untaontation flying objects has increased noticeably with the most apparent case in which press publicity was given being centered around the Atlanta, Georgia, area. In | substance this sighting concerns three men traveling along in a car near : A Atlanta and reportedly sighting a flying disk with three creatures attempting | to enter it as the car approached. The three men atated that two of the un- knowns got back into the "saucer" but the third was hit by their car…

UNCLASSIFIED Atlanta, Georgia t duly 1953 Description On the night of 7 July 1953, three observers from Atlanta were driv ing on Highway 78 near Mapleton, Georgia, when they encountered a "fly- ing saucer" in the middle of the road, There were three small animals near this red colored “saucer”. As the observers bore down on this ob- ject, two of the animals entered the “saucer” and escaped. As the “saucer” rose and disappeared at a 45 degree angle, it turned a light blue in color. Observers’ car struck the third animal and knocked him unconscious. ,After getting out of the car and finding this…

: / rely, C Beberts Say ALi Livy ‘Mar ‘tian’ By BARNWELL, two other similar creatures sail] the head, the shape of the mouth | monkeys to Emory for polio. re. A weird hairless that) 2@y on a flying: saucer. - and the eyes are just like a) search, said he lives near Brook: is eanwhile, petshop owner,| Capuchin.” haven where the trio works. three Atlanta y outt s claimed) 3, . Street, after boking at a| The three monkeys which go'} py. Jones said. “the aninial wae a “little ‘man: from_ outer raph of the b My furnished away from the farm Saturday definitely is a male monkey. It space’ was identif…

: Pr Rabe sos ves of ck Vv, op = '*s wes tOO MAlty . lawn sprinklers at the  — The communities affected in- cluded Plainfield, North Plain- field, Fanwood, Westfield Scotch Plains, Mountainside, Garwood, ‘Martian’ Is A Monkey ATLANTA, July 9%. (—A young barber said today he shaved a dead monkey and passed it off as a visitor from outer space to win a $10 bet that he couldn't get his picture in the papers, Ea Watters, twenty-eight, won the bet. His picture was widely used locally and was transmitted to. newspapers —— the country yester- ay. But the monkey cost him $50, and a judge fined him $40…

aoe) LAT ‘* * Mon . By KATHERINE BARNWELL ‘Edward .Watters,. the 28-year- old Atlanta barber whose story. of a flying saucer and little space_ men, created a national stir, was fineqd $40 Thursday in Marietta after pleading guilty to violation ot — state health and sanitation law ‘forbidding the placing of @ } carcass on the highway. Watters, who said he was gure , tirised anyone believed his hoax hecause ‘I thought people were. _smarter than that,” was fined by Superior Court Judge James P.' ‘Manning after a —. which toolke.five minutes. Assuming fuil responsibility for ‘the fantastic story, …

THE MAIN INVASION WAVE 34. July 31, 1965. At approxi- ately 8:00 p.m. enroute to Okla- homa City several persons observed a bright light traveling. north, to- ward Oklahoma City. The UFO’ was observed for about two min- utes. During this time it flashed na red light several times. duly 31, 1965 At 1:05 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, July 3ist the UFO's came back to Oklahoma. Wvynne- wood, Oklahoma police officer, Lewis Sikes, 29, reported an uni- dentified flying object approximate- ly 30-35° NE of Wynnewood. Of- ficer Sikes did not realize that the UFO was also being watched simul- taneousl…

— Bey ns : — S pace. Si Story H oax; : Fine Real Thing | ToE arthlin gs . | 58 eg i. a, ATLANTA; JO OLA P)—The case of “the Ii tle: mn space” wound. up’ today in -a $40: fine—for obstructing. a highway. | This Solomoni¢ alty’ was im-, posed on EdwardWatters, 28-year- old Atlanta barber, who started’ ithe furor late. Tuesday. by produc-' ing a hairless, man-like little crea- ture which he claimed was one of, three or four he came upon beside’ a space ship parked on a highway. Watters and two companions, Thomas Wilson, 20,. another bar-. ber, and Arnold ‘Payne, 19, a butcher, said. the other cre…