Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

====Balloons====
The Navy announced it had conducted a test, releasing a helium balloon carrying a tin-foil screen over Stone Mountain, Georgia.  As anticipated, local newspapers received disc reports.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/5066310/|title=10 Jul 1947, Page 16 - The Sandusky Register at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Leroy Leach of Dover, Ohio reported discovering a balloon with foil on his farm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/324939471/|title=10 Jul 1947, 1 - The Union County Journal at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
On July 10, a local army recruiter was photographed with a shattered kite and balloon that had been recovered from Bakersfield.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/3624437/|title=10 Jul 1947, Page 1 - The Bakersfield Californian at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

In Lima, Ohio, a cardboard disc attached to a balloon was recovered by Julian Faccenda, workers at a local factory took credit for the device. Original disc witness Kenneth Arnold flatly denied that the objects he saw could have been balloons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/174586/|title=10 Jul 1947, Page 8 - The Tipton Daily Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

The Wisconsin Civil Air Patrol announced it had ceased its aerial search for discs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/334400206/|title=10 Jul 1947, 3 - The Journal Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

In Barstow, California, one columnist observed that reporting on discs might jeopardize national security: "If these 'flying discs' are enemy experimental dummy bombs or rockets, we have given the enemy valuable information.  We have published the exact location, time, etc.  This would make excellent data for enemy agents."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/747987583/|title=10 Jul 1947, 7 - Desert Dispatch at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  Walter Winchell speculated that, despite official denials, the disc reports likely stemmed from secret Navy flying wing aircraft.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/325781270/|title=10 Jul 1947, 1 - The Tampa Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>