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LYING saucers” are »
back in the news.
| From. New: York comes a
@eport that Captain Jack
JAdams, pilot of the Chicago
“and Southern Airlines, radioed
| that he and a co-pilot had
crossed the path of a large fly-
ing saucer, with lighted
| windows and a_ peculiarly —
coloured blinking light on duced an article in which he
bei travelling at about claimed to have received a
a. over Arkansas. message, via a medium, that
__ This was followed by a news there were people aboard the
cable from Lisbon: Scores of “Saucers.” ?
‘fi saucers reported by - They came from another
coastguards of the North Planet, and wished to try liv-
Portugal coast flying in line img on earth, — ‘
-and other formations and In Britain “saucers” were
moving west “faster than Teported over Brighton beach,
tracer bullets.” and anoles Wag cece by) a
fte* So ‘the 1950 “ saucer season ” clergyman’s e at Sandwich.
| seems to have opened early, Back in America President
t report of these strange Truman compared the rumours —
ame on June 25, 1947, to the scare of over a hundred
a Mr. Dahl of Tacoma, Years ago, when word got
ton, noticed a circular around that there were men —
1achine, like a silver and bats living on the moon.
cutting capers over — The neatest “ flying saucer”
aid _ quipping came from Mr,
tly he saw five more Gromyko- at ‘ULN. head- ©
‘otating round a quarters.
, “Some,” he said, “attribute
Ey Ss ___ them to the British for export-
Speculations . = ing too much whisky to the |
centre craft then began U.S., others that it is a Russian -
In December, 1949,
official body which had bean
established in America to proje.
the “saucers” was disband
It had been in operation {
two years, and had investiga
375 incidents. ry l
It-said that the phenomenan
was caused by : (a) misinter-
pretation of various conven-,
tional objects; (b) a mild form
of mass hysteria; (c) hoaxes.
_And there, one might haye
imagined, the story would have
ended. But the “flying
saucers" refused to be
grounded: 34h.) oul eG e sna
Fellow travellers ?
The present phase of fly
saucerisms reached its ¢
BY he _ discus thrower training for 93in.
ed metallic rain. Mos the Olympic Games who does ~,_
Bed pees be one Plece not know his own strength.”
. Mr. Dahl's yen _ The first flying saucer fever 4)
w eouagae cer” died down under sheer weight
by t ste | ion, but reports
by a Seattle coast- Of , explanatt > Feports:
e oblong, set against Spain suspected = th
background, | Sh baat
ined that the “ dis
ex:
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|
a US. Air °
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