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· At dusk on a cool summer eve-I
·avy a s aucers p jw.{ is the· best time ee eea ille -~
.balloon "sauce1·," it adds.C II S "The lateral rays of the sun at
dusk illuminate tqe base of the
• B II balloon. There is no chance of
nIYIts BI i a oons your ever seeing th"e full round-
• • ness of it because you are so .far
~---------- - - --'' below it. You see only the illumi-
- NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (.IP).-Fly- ~ate~ cup of the bottom. If your
,ng saucers are rej!l- but they.'re 1magmat1on soars, the light re
only huge balloons used in cosmicIflection _on the side may impress
ray studies, Look magazine will Y?U as the g~ow of an atomic en-
. gme. The wisp o( the -balloon's
sa_y Tues~ay, quotmg Dr. Urne,r Iinstn.1,ment-filled tail may lfflpress
.de!, clue( of the nuclear physics I you as t he exhaust. The sun's I
-- Ibranch of the Office of Naval Re- Ira_ys may suffuse the plastic bag
search. He is in charge of the wi~h a fiery glow. .
. . . I Even seasoned airmen have no
cosmic my-balloon proJect. Iway of estimating the size and
The balloons are liuge plastic I speed ol an object they see. To
bags, 100 feet in diameter, that I peg size and speed, the mind ,
may rise 19 miles high--about ~us~. know the nature bf the ob-
100 000 •f • Ject.• eet. Winds fay sweep Look says Dr. Liddel and asso-
~em along at 200 miles an hour. ciates studied 2000 reports of
At dusk, the slanting rays of the flying saucers, eliminating those
sun light up their bottoms, giving "seeming to be the visions of
the_m a saucer-like appearance, the ~rackpots or psycopaths" or
a~cle says. clearly the result of inaccurat~
hey carry instruments aloft to vision."
re ord what happens when, cosmic "This left a solid base of re
ra s hit atoms in the earth's at- ports from airplane pilots, scien
m ~phere. This splitting gives a till~ observers and reliable layme
clue to how atoms are put to- which could not be brushed asid
gether, and how to release their After a thorough investigation,
energy. Dr. Liddel said: 'There is not a
"When this project first began it single reliable report of an ob
was kept secret," the magazine servation which is not attributable
quotes Dr. Liddel. "Now there is to the cosmic balloons'."
no longer any need for secrecy 00 It quotes Dr. Liddel as saying
a scientUic basis. And certainly, that Ca~t. Thomas F. Mant~ll, a!r
there is no longer any need to force pilot found dead m his
keep the public in the dark about crashed plane after radioing that
what flying saucers are." he was pursuing a stt-ange sky
Look says "the Liddel report is object, was chasing "a balloon
considered to ,lie the most authori- of the skyhook type.''
tative scientific explanation of the Tlfere have been several reports
flying-saucer phenomenon. As far of squadrons of flying disks, and
as Dr. Liddel is concerned per- "this is explained by Dr. Liddel
~onally, he considers bis answer as clusters _of 2~ to ~o bal1~ons 10
incontrovertibly right." to 15 feet m d1ame(er. which are
The balloons 0 called skyhooks sometimes• used in place of the
wet·e first sent aloft in 1947 and huge skyhook,"
it was then that flying sauc;r re- Dr. Liddel checked othet• Gov
ports began, it adds. There were ernment. agencies and "is Satisfied
more balloons in the next two that no other research or experi-
years and more "saucers'' seen. mental project has utilized any
There were fewer balloons sent thing even roughly resem~
up in 1950, and fewer saucer ,'ib.g saucer." ,,..----,,,,
port~.
A picture, taken by telescope
of a linlloon at 77.f ·" feet over
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Times-Herald
Wash . Post
Wash . News
Wash . Star
---N.Y . Mirror
ne~ota, convinced Dr. Liddel
n mo1·e, the magazine §'1¥9>
photo fits deRcript io:fs' of ff~ . ---saucer . Date : ~ 5 l-
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