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Quirks of Eyesight May Explain Disc Mystery By HOWARD BLAKESLEE AP Science Editor NEw YORK,July 6 (AP)-Certain laws of human eye- sight will explain much of what has been described about the flying saucers reported from nearly all parts of the United States. At any distance which is closephotograph of the oval object to the limit of how far a person taken by Yeoman Frank Ryman can see, all objects appear round north of Seattle, Wash.The Long or nearly so. This law of sight Island oval came closer and covers both small things seen turned into an airplane. distances.. to look round when light is re Regardless of shape the ob-flected from their sides.Many ject near the limit of sight looks descriptions of movements of the round.If the thing is silhouetted flying saucers fit with the com against a bright sky,as some of mon maneuvers of airplanes, the flying saucers have been re-singly or in groups. ported, then it is more likely to They fit also with what birds reval its true shape. look like flying at a considerable HAVE NO STRUCTURE distance.However the bird llu- sion is not very common. Spme f the thing is seen by reflected of the maneuvering reported, it is almost certain to be round, and back into sight again re- and if the reflections are sunlight,sembles what can be seen while then the sizes reported are those watching distance airplanes. distant light reflections. The one outstanding fact about There is no explanation for re- virtually all the saucers is that ported speeds of 1,ooo or more they had no structure-they mjles an hour.Meteors,although seemed merely round and flat. they go much faster than that, the tricks that eyes play.This saucers mostly appear in daytime trickiness varies with differences and there are not enough day in weather and lighting. light meteors. This writer has seen flying saucers over Long Island Sound clouds have been suggested. But near his home, not only this year these fail to fit in most cases be- but in previous years. They were cause the ice crystals form at round, bright and moving fast. altitudes which are higher than most of the saucers reported. NOT A MYSTERY Nothing published in science or But they were no mystery be-atomic studies gives the slightest from the bodies of airplanes that objects are aircraft. soon. identifiedthemselves by One scientist today said that at chaging course and coming near least a lot of saucers are ex- enough to be seen distinctly. plained by the force of suggestion Last week this writer also saw which causes a person to say to one oval flying form which for himself: ENCLOSURE a moment looked exactly like the Oh gee I see it too 2-83894-13 RECORDED. 32JUL161947 600CT19472