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0-19 (Rev. 9- 7- 56)
Mystery Objects Calfed ..
Mirage by Astron9mer·
By the A.ssocJated Press
A Harvard astronomer says plYsterious objects reported
from va.rious parts of the country and the Gulf of Mexico are
mirages stemming from natural causes.
Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College
Observatory, said yesterday in Cambridge; Mass., that the
whole thing amounts to "another flying saucer scru·e."
The Air Force has started an investigation of the reported
sightings of the strange gJow-1-----------­
ing objects in the sky. The mosphere which would give a
Air Force fo~ . yeru·s has ~ad radar reflection."
the responslbJhty of checkmg
reports of unidentified flying
A~ for rep_orts of the auto
objects • ,but as one officer put engmes stalling, he said, "It
it, "We don't investigate all of would not be surprising that a
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ts has nervous
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foot could stall an en­
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developed sinde Sunda.y, with gme.
some of the sightings said to
Dr. Menzel, author of a book
have been made near secret about flying saucers, said he
military installations in the has been studying them for
Southwest. Some of the per- about 10 Years and has yet to
so11s making the reports said hear of one Which could not
tlie objects caused their auto be explained by natural phe­
engines to stall and their radios nomena.
to fade.
"They are caused by a layer
Cutte11 Claims Sighting
of h~ated air : . . acting as a
Yesterday the Coast Guard le~s and formmg an lmag~ of'
Cutter Sebago radioed from the ObJects as !!1Uch ~s 40 01 50
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Gulf of Mexico that an object miles away, he said.
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resembling a brllllant planet
Common in West
with a high rate of speed was
"They are nothing more than
rseen for a1:>out three seconds, a mirage. They are prevalent
and that it was tracked by
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radar. ,
just after nightfall as the
Dr. Menzel said it is probable heated air begins to cool off at
the cutter's prewmen got a the ground, and they are com­
false image "quite ~kely from mon in the West where they
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bubbles of hot air m the at- have clear air."
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The Air Force aid that dur­
ing the first half of this year
only 1.9 per cent of the 250 re­
ported sightings of flying
saucers and other strange ob­
jects in the air have been
classed as "unknown." And the
Ah- Force ·wasul't ready to. be­
lieve that even this small per•
centage has sinister implica­
tlons.
It seemed a good bet the
Air Force will agree with Dr.
Menzel's opinion that the cur­
rent' sightings have explana­
Uons in nature, or that the
reported objects are actually
aircraft or similar man-made
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