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SUNDAY DISPATCH
JULY 9, 1950
LONOON, ENGLAND
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RIDDLE
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o far flying saucer s
have been treated by
t he m ajority of British
people with incredulity and
polite r id icule. But wny ?
I have studied all the report.s
available.
I have seen photo­
graphs-those in the • Sunday
Dispatch last week were particu­
la}y clear-and I believe they are
p otographs of disc-type aircraft.
arlier pictures published in
t e Spanish Press last April. a1ld
al ged Lo have been taken in the
Balearic Islands, might have been
anytning and could have been a
leg-pull. It is not always easy to
sort the wheat from the chaff.
SECRET TRIALS
c on tr o I or
t r a veiling at
prod ig ious
speeds, vanish­
! n g suddenly,
and associated
with brilliant light, fringes of flt
or flames of peculiar colour a d
generally rotating or whirling.
From many parts Of t,he wor
come these reports.
The ve
fact that their descriptions are
consistent has led to their being
dismissed as hallucinations, de­
fective vision. or mild hysteria.
lt might be that the solution
of this riddle could lie in a ve\·y
unorthodox approach. and I have
wondered if there could possibly
be turbulences set up In our
atmosphere which could cause
w h i r I i n g
" dust
devils " of
luminous gases caused by jet or
other high speed experiments
which might be responsible f<?r
the generation of small aton11c
whirlpools in the atmosphere.
Group Three reports suggest
that the saucers are high speed
aircraft of circular or disc shape
travcllin.,; at speeds much hi~hcr
than those attained by normal
planes.
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SAFETY SEARCH
H ERE Is no reason at a I
T why annular and c1rcula
disc-like all'craft should not have
been common objects at any ttme
during the past 30 years.
The early history of these very
unorthodox-looking aircraft was,
ironically. based on a search for
safety.
Before 1910 It had been shown
that square and circular sm:faces
had very good non-stalling char­
acteristics llP to large angles. But
when powered aircraft arrived it
was found that the easiest way to
minimise the losses due to the end
slip of the iur from the wing Ups
was to increase the span o! wiugs
while keeping them narrow.
This compromise brought other
trouble.
Earlv plnncs renclleg
their stalling angle u t some \;,
dr.grers, and stalling must r C'sU,L
In a d.ivc since t11e onlv corrcct1;
of R stall Is ,1 flight nt. some spr.
greater than the stalling sprcd.
V,:,rv cnrly in the 1005 ­
~ nod there wrrc people_
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wOuJd not accept thut n1rrrn "
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85 AUG 111950