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FLYING SAUCERS ARE 53 YEARS OLDFour yeara ago a British* foreign correspondent In Sweden eent new* home of my*terlou* flying light* reported In the northorn aky—and «o played ■ part In Instituting a theme for speculation that ha* since swept the world.Within a few weeks over 2000 flying; lights, ghost bombs and flaming saucers were reported. And each report was separately Investigated by the Swedish Air Force. Finally the Swedish Defence Staff issued an official statement that,’ after discounting eighty per cent, of the reports os hallucination or laymen'e ignorance, something Inexplicable was Indeed flashing in flight over Sweden.Then in July, 1947. came the flret flying saucer stories—from Stockholm, San FranciBco, Sydney and Mexico.. Perhaps it was a coincidence that the earth at that time was passing through an uninterrupted stream of meteors. Astronomers clocked the meteors at a rate of never less than twenty an hour and sometime* a* high as eighty. But Manchester Uni-' verslty scientists hastily added that the meteors were too small to be seen with the naked eye. IIAMERICAN DENIALS 1Flying saucers, however, were sighted in thirty-nine of the forty-eight United SiateB. A keen-eyed San Franciscan asserted that they seemed to be turning at 290 revolutions a minute at 6000 feet and travelling at from 500 to 700 m.p.h. A Los Angelea business man quoted a description of a secret Bovlet plane given to him by an officer aboard a Russian tanker. Eighteen inches thick, kidneyshaped, with no propeller, the *ur-facea highly polished and both upper and lower surfaces convex like a giant ien3. The pilot lies In it, artificially cooled against the heat of air friction.On the other hand, a man In Houston, Texas, picked up a circular flat-tlBh disc marked U.B.A. classified sec ret device. Notify Colonel F. Hac-kett, Washington.” Colonel Hackett in turn denied any knowledge of the device. High-ranking officers of the f U.S. Army AJr Force held a special i proGB meeting to deny the fast- { spreading idea that the flying saucera , were an American secret weapon.(To add to the confusion, experts now tell the Americana: The objects . are not from another planet, or even from another country. You will learn about them In due course.)The Btrange central fact of all fiy- | ing saucer stories, undoubtedly, is that they grow more fantastic with paBsing time. Thia supports the view that they are a myth based on mai* hysteria, But what of the thousands of people who stood In the streets of ( i Montevideo, Uruguay, In MArch. 1B50. , and watched a flying saucer for fifteen i minutes, spinning In circles over the • city? What of the fifty reliable wit-! nesses of Farmington, New Mexico, ’ who watched up to 100 aaueer-ahaped | objects, al silver-coloured except one, j whioh was red? «“There’s too much going on in the large atom research cemreB to pooh-; pooh the numerous eye-witness stor- ~ leaies, says Senator Clinton Anderson, former U.S. Secretary of Agrl-1 culture. And from Italy comes a blast of authentic realism. “I worked on plana for flying aaocers,” declares • turbo-jet expert Professor Giuseppe Belluszo, former Fa/aclat Minister of Economy. “They wexe of light metal,, 30 feet round, Jet propelled—and they I spun In the air. The idea was for them to carry explosive*—and 1 believe they are beinj; lasted to deliver ; atomic bombs to-day I iFROM ANOTHER PLANET? * Is it merely to mask thi* truth that I InmalU Key hoe, former chief Information officer of the Aeronautics Planch •? * Department. |asserts that the saucers are f'ipacesshipB from another planet? To t.p this, there’s the fantastlo etory of a wrecked flying saucer found in Mexico complete with the body of a little man twenty-three Inches high, an oddity swiftly turned over to the United States authorities and Instantly hushed up.liut why hushed up? There's the statement by Coumiander Robert McLaughlin, of the destroyer Bristol, that Instruments have plotted a disc 105 feet In diameter Hying at five miles a second frti miles above the earth.In all this blsarre and inexplicable gaga one fact stands out . . • and . stands out half a century. Flying 1 saucers are nothing new, except In came. On April 9th. 1397. a large, cigar-shaped object, oarrying green, white and red lights, waa spotted over Chicago and later reported over Texas and Colorado.THE GIANT CONEAirships had scarcely been lnven ted and had never been successfully flown. And a sequel came ten day* later when a huge oone-shaped arrangement, 180 taet long; »»h fins on eJihW flawing brilliantW’i'Ae, greou end red light*. was eeun In the west sky near Sisterville, West Virginia.What was this aircraft that flew before all other aircraft?On December 24. 1909, a trained j Irish astronomer reported seeing a luminone object that appeared from j the north-east, moved slowly south for twenty minutes, then turned and retraced It* course. What was It? A daring neronaut on the first night flight? Or merely another flying eau-, i cer from Mors?
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Pittsworth Sentinel
Pittsworth, Queensland, AU
Fri, Jun 23, 1950
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