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California Flying Saucer Branded University ScientistsAs MeteorSalinas, Calif., March 13 —(UP) —A “flying saucer” that frightened residents as it frolicked through the California .sky probably was a meteor, University of California astronomers said today.Dr. Olin Eggen of the university observatory on nearby Mount Hamilton said the meteor must have been a “fair-sized one, largeenough to get down close to earthbefore burning out.”A score of persons called the sheriff’s office and the local newspaper Saturday night to report a bright object in the skies. Some said it dove on their automobiles, other,said it was looping the loop and another said it zipped across the horizon.Meanwhile, in Los Angelc s, amateur photographer Bette Malles wondered whether she had taken a picture of a flying saucer. She planned to give scientists pictures of a disk-like object she said she photographed in a sunset sky.Miss Malles said she was aoout to take a picture of a small plane flying over nearby Hawthorne airfield when she s aw something shining closer by. She snapped the shutter on it.When she developed the film, she found she had exposed a luminous oblong “doughnut” with a dark center, suggesting a hole. Ahead of the disk was a circular blob, somewhat resembling a miniature sum-Line.- of light seemed to project backward from the sun” toward the “doughnut,” and a cone-like faint light connected with the blob to the disk. Another cone of light projected backward from the dik to another blob of light.IItettrtVIa!llIVeBV,ilt;rp. intinfaflt;
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Stephens Star
Stephens, Arkansas, US
Mon, Mar 13, 1950
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