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The wisp of the balloon’s instrument-filled tail may impress you as the exhaust. The sun's rays may suffuse the plastic bag with a fiery glow. Experienced Observers Fooled Even seasoned airmen have no way of estimating the size and the speed of an object they see. To peg size and speed, the mind must know the nature of the object. Ex- perienced seamen have difficulty estimating the distance, speed and size of another ship unless they know its type. The balloon is un- known and hence eludes efforts to measure it by familiar craft aloft. Dr. Liddel and his associates ar- rived at their findings on these baffling stories by studying about 2,000 reports of flying-saucer ob- servations of every kind and de- scription. They discarded some as seeming to be the visions of crack- pots or psychopaths. Other reports were clearly the result of inaccu- rate vision. One report of “little men” found in the wreckage of a flying saucer near Mexico City turned out to be the unsubstantiated story of a traveler. No one else knew any- thing about it. This left a solid base of reports from airplane pilots, scientific ob- servers and reliable laymen which could not be brushed aside. After a thorough investigation, Dr. Lid- del said: “There is not a single re- liable report of an observation which is not attributable to the cosmic balloons.” The Death of Captain Mantell The most tragic report the nu- clear physicists had to consider was that of an Air Force pilot in Kentucky. A circular object, me- tallic in appearance, was seen over a U. S. Air Force base on Jan. 7, 1948. Three fighter planes, one pi- loted by Capt. Thomas F. Mantell, took off in hot pursuit. From their relatively low altitudes, the bal- loon seemed to be traveling at the rate of 360 miles an hour. Two of the planes turned back at 18,000 feet. Captain Mantell kept going. He radioed that he would go to 25,000 feet and abandon the search if he got no closer. None of the planes was equipped with reserve oxygen supplies, and thus could not fly long at high altitudes. Mantell was not heard from again. His plane crashed, and the instruments found in the wreckage indicated it might have risen to 30,000 feet. “Our studies show,” said Dr. Liddel, “that Captain Mantell and the other pilots were pursuing a balloon of the Skyhook type. Cap- tain Mantell could never have reached the height at which the balloon was traveling.” Several reports have been’ re- ceived of “squadrons” of fiying saucers. People have seen little disks apparently flying together in the sky. This is explained by Dr. Liddell as clusters of 20 to 30 bal- loons, 10 to 15 feet in diameter, which are sometimes used in place of the huge Skyhook. Under certain conditions, ‘they might be more visible than the sin- gle plastic bag, and would cer- tainly be unexplainable by anyone who didn’t know their purpose. Liddel Got the Facts After Dr. Liddel had sifted all the reports which appeared to have some foundation, he used his en- tree as a government nuclear physicist to check other govern- ment agencies. He is satisfied that no other research or experimental project has utilized anything even roughly resembling a flying saucer. “And secondly,” he said, “inter- planetary travel is not possible at the present time.” This disposed of all the possi- bilities, according to Dr. Liddel. His analysis of the fiying-saucer phenomenon as presented here is the first government, disclosure of what is considered to be the real cause. The Skyhook’s distinct visual similarity to a flying-saucer de. scription was noted strongest the Minneapolis project of ONi under the direction of General — Mills, Inc. Telescopic photographs brought out the similarity so clear- ly that Dr. Liddel was elated. He could at last offer visual proof of his findings. Tracing the “Saucers” General Mills is the only suc- cessful manufacturer of the huge and delicate plastic bags. Most of the total of 270 flights so far made have been launched at Camp Rip- ley near Little Falls, Minn., and at University Airport, Minneapolis, Minn. Enough flights have been made from other points, however, to lit- ter the country. Balloons have as- cended from Chicago, from Hollo- man Air Force Base and White Sands, N. M., and from aircraft carriers in both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific. Workers at the General Mills aeronautical laboratories advised Dr. Liddel that they were able to trace lost balloons by published reports of flying saucers. The big bags are engineered to stay up eight hours. Otherwise, they would be a hazard to air navigation. But some have actually stayed up more than 30 hours. 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