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“PLYING- SAUCER "RIDDLE SUNDAY DISPATCH JULY 9, 1950 LONDON, ENGLAND © far flying saucers have been treated by the majority of British people with incredulity and polite ridicule. But why ? I have studied all the reports available. I have seen photo- graphs—those in the ~ Sunday Dispatch last week were particu- lagly clear—and I believe they are pllotographs of disc-type aircraft. larlier pictures published in tHe Spanish Press last April, arid alkeged to have been taken in the Balearic Islands, might have been anytning and could have been a leg-pull. It is not always easy to sorb the wheat from the chaff. SECRET TRIALS ] Nall the reports the objects fall into three groups, The most substantial of them come from America. First group are those saucers Which are capable of being ex- plhined away as glimpses of ex- pqimental trials of various advices. Inder this Deading fall many of the objects seen in Southern S. and other areas Secret experiments are gress, For this group 1 am pre- pared to accept the explanation given by the United States Army Air Force as “ misinterpretations of conventional objects.” ‘These conventional objects are giant experimental cosmic rer balloons which fill out to 100ft. Jong and 70ft. in diameter as they rise, radar target balloons capable of rising to 70,000ft. and trailing glittering aluminium foil ore guided missiles, and stratospheric experiments from Los Alamos, ci stated to have above the EMBERS ‘ace, ‘Two consists of those tly “mysterious, visitants wave led to wild. surmises ce ships, missiles from is and inter-planetary a) eontrol or travelling at prodigious speeds, vanish- ing suddenly, and associated with brilliant light, fringes of fire or flames of peculiar colour ald generally rotating or whirling. From many parts of the wor' come these reports. The vey fact that their descriptions are consistent has led to their being dismissed as hallucinations, de- fective vision, or mild hysteria. It might be that the solution of this riddle could lie in a very unorthodox approach, and I have wondered if there could possibly be turbulences set up in our atmosphere which could cause whirling “dust devils” of Juminous gases caused by jet or other high speed experiments which might be responsible for the generation of small atomic whirlpools in the atmosphere. Group Three reports suggest that the saucers ate high speed aircraft of circular or dise shape travelling at speeds much higher than those attained by normal planes. SAFETY SEARCH ‘THERE is no reason at all why amular and circulal dise-like aircraft should not have been common objects at any time during the past 30 years. ‘The early history of these very wmorthodox-looking aircraft was, © ironically, based on a search for safety, Before 1910 it had been shown that square and ciroular surfaces had yery good non-stalling char- acteristics up to large angles. Bub when powered aircraft arrived ib was found that the easiest way to minimise the losses due to the end slip of the air from the wing tips was to increase the span of wings while keeping them narrow. This compromise brought other trouble. Barly planes reached their stalling angle at some 15 degrees, and stalling must resu)t in a dive since the only. correcti¢ ae aN ial 1 si speed, | Very early fn fhe 1905 - ie. there were le wl would nob accept hay siren f [2a - NOT RE 85 £3K74H ORDED AUG 111950