Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

====Reports diminish====
{{see also|Rhodes UFO photographs|l1=Rhodes flying disc photographs}}
On July 9, the Oakland Tribune announced that reports had dropped off and "it appeared the show is over".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/205471452/|title=9 Jul 1947, Page 3 - Oakland Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Press reported that the Army and Navy had begun a campaign to halt the flying disc tales.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/303514720/|title=9 Jul 1947, 1 - The Daily Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

Also on July 9, media reported that a triangular object found near Oxford Ohio by John Strucks was also a radar target used on weather balloons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/249279881/|title=9 Jul 1947, Page 1 - Palladium-Item at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Dozens of "flying discs" in Richmond, Virginia were revealed to be paper plates released by jokesters from a tall building.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/560787757/|title=9 Jul 1947, 1 - St. Joseph Gazette at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  On July 9, airplane inventor [[Orville Wright]] argued the disc reports are "more propaganda for war, to stir up the people and excite them to believe a foreign power has designs on this nation".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/56081240/|title=9 Jul 1947, Page 1 - The Courier-Gazette at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

On July 9, Missouri press reported that a contraption made from pie pans, wires, and radio tubes was found burning on the Clayton County courthouse lawn.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/573455827/|title=9 Jul 1947, 1 - St. Louis Globe-Democrat at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
[[File:Rhodes UFO photos.png|thumb|right|The [[Rhodes UFO photographs|Rhodes flying disc photos]] of Phoenix were published by the ''Arizona Republic'' on July 9.]]
Al Hixenbaugh of the Louisville Times photographed two objects streaking across the sky.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/476855227/|title=9 Jul 1947, 1 - The Oshkosh Northwestern at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref> William A. Rhodes [[Rhodes UFO photographs|photographed an object]] over the skies of Phoenix.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/117325958/|title=9 Jul 1947, Page 1 - Arizona Republic at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Disc reports from Iran were published in US media.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/140787133/|title=9 Jul 1947, Page 1 - The Plain Speaker at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

On July 9, with the announcement of new disc reports from Kansas, reports had come from all 48 states.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/445659156/|title=9 Jul 1947, 445 - Daily News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  That same day, press ran headlines reporting: "Army, Navy try to stop rumors of 'Flying Discs'".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/13590060/|title=9 Jul 1947, Page 17 - The Kokomo Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>