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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: * | a US. Air °