Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

====July 4 press reports====
By July 4, reports had spread to 11 states and two Canadian provinces, with new sightings reported in Delaware.<ref name="auto17">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/566291780/|title=4 Jul 1947, 1 - The Times-News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Headlines declared the recent investigation had finished: "Army Air Forces Drops Inquiry Into Mysterious 'Flying Discs'; Maybe They're Just Imaginary".  An Army Air Force spokesman explained that the inquiry "has not produced enough fact to warrant further investigation".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/664344070/|title=4 Jul 1947, 1 - The Bangor Daily News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

Also on July 4, the United Press quoted [[Meade Layne]], a publisher of an occult magazine, who speculated that the discs were "etheric".<ref name="auto34">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/809588970/|title=4 Jul 1947, 1 - The Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Alternatively, the San Francisco Chronicle published a letter from local eccentric Ole J. Sneide who claimed that the discs were "oblate spheroid space ships" who "have been absent from our planet since before the fall of the Roman Empire, when the Great Master left earth for the outer galaxy by fohatic {{sic}} teleportation."<ref name="auto34"/>
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That same day, it was reported that Frank Ryman, a Coast Guard yeoman in Seattle, had photographed a disc.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/745115299/|title=4 Jul 1947, 9 - The Columbia Record at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="auto27">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/213019753/|title=5 Jul 1947, Page 4 - The Town Talk at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="auto59"/>  Also on July 4, it was reported that eight military men were hospitalized with burns after an acid accident at White Sands under Lt. Col. Harold B. Turner.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/2859461/|title=4 Jul 1947, Page 2 - Clovis News-Journal at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>