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—*) New York, April 10 (UP).—Air At high altitudes, expansion causes
Force denials that “flying saucers” it to blow itself up into a gigantic)
exist are “worth a billion dollars|monster 100 feet tall and 70 feet)
to the Russians in the ‘cold war,’” in diameter, tall as an eight-story
Radio Commentator Henry J. Tay- building, all in pulsating plastic.”|
lor said tonight. | @aylor said some of these ve-
Taylor said over the ABC net-\hicles travel all over America, 20
work that this country has several|miles up in the sky. At sunset,
unconventional air vehicles that the whole contraption glows and
could be taken for “flying saucers.” can be seen as long as 30 minutes
He described one as a fantastic aftersdarkness,
contraption “in pulsating plastic,” ‘The ° struments are floated back
as tall as an eight-story building earth by parachute, Taylor said,
and used to record cosmic rays. ‘Then the huge contraption “breaks
“What has happened to our into pieces in the sky or explodes,”
brains?” Taylor asked. “These Showering plastic pieces over, the
denials are worth a billion dolJars land.
fo the Russians in the
war...” MS
President ‘Truman and the Air
Force both denied similar reports
by Taylor last week that “flying
saucers” are top-secret United
States military inventions.
‘Taylor warned that if the Rus-
Siang. suddenly announced they!
were sending “flying saucers”
around the world, United States
officials would have no way to stem,
‘American hysteria,
‘Taylor said the United States
should announce: a
“we have no further comment
about anything in the skies ex-
cept that America is creating many
heipful and incredible things. All
are harmless and good news for’
freedom-loving people.” :
‘And this would be a true state.
ment, the commentator said. |
Taylor said that at an airfield
near Minneapolis and also at other y
places, the Navy is “Jaunching into ey B ,
‘our high skies an enormous and) Q ae 35 94 Dut
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