_COLUMBUS, OHIO, Nov. 1 (AP)--Sen. Robert (Bobby) Thebold landed here today after leading his Private Pilots (PP) squadron of P-38's on a reconnaissance flight which resulted in the loss of one of the six World War II fighters in a crash landing on the mysteriously airborne town of Superior, Ohio. The pilot of the crashed plane parachuted safely to Earth._ _Sen. Thebold told reporters grimly:_ _"There is no doubt in my mind that mysterious forces are at work when a town of 3,000 population can rise in a body off the face of the Earth. My reconnaissance has shown conclusively that the town is intact and its inhabitants alive. On one of my passes I saw my secretary, Miss Geneva Jervis."_ _Sen. Thebold said he was confident Miss Jervis would contact him the moment she had anything to report, indicating she would make an on-the-spot investigation._ _The Senator said in reply to a question that he was "amazed" at official Washington's "complete inaction" in the matter, and declared he would demand a probe by the Senate Investigations Subcommittee, of which he is a member. He indicated witnesses might include officials of the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and "possibly others."_ * * * * * _LADENBURG, Ohio, Nov. 1 (UPI)--Little Ladenburg, former neighbor of "The City in the Sky," complained today of a rain of empty beer cans and other rubbish, apparently being tossed over the edge by residents of airborne Superior._ _"They're not so high and mighty," one sanitation official here said, "that they can make Ladenburg their garbage dump."_ * * * * * _WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (Reuters)--American officials today were at a loss to explain the strange behaviour of Superior, Ohio, "the town that took off."_ _Authoritative sources assured Reuters that no military or scientific experiments were in progress which could account for the phenomenon of a town being lifted intact thousands of feet into the air._ _Rumors circulating to the effect that a "Communist plot" was at work were greeted with extreme scepticism in official quarters._ * * * * * BULLETIN _COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 1 (UPI)--The airborne town of Superior began to drift east across Ohio late today._ VI The unconscious Geneva Jervis, lying crumpled up in the oversized fur coat, was the immediate problem. Don Cort straightened her out so she lay on her back, took off her shoes and propped her ankles on the lower rung of a chair. He found she was wearing a belt and loosened it. It was obvious that she was also wearing a girdle but there wasn't anything he wanted to do about that. He was rubbing one of her wrists when her eyes fluttered open. She smiled self-consciously. "I guess I was a sissy." "Not at all. I saw it, too. A pair of eyes." "And a face! A horrible, horrible face." "I wasn't sure about the face. Can you describe it?"