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to record cosm11! rays .. . It is an
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1 enormous translucent thing with
a long tail and flies up to 100,000
feet in the air. When the weird
contraption is launched off the
ground, it is filled to only one
Valuable to Russia
pe1·cent Of its capacity with helium.
---9 New York, Apri~ l_O (U.PJ.-Air ~t bigh alt!tu9es, ex_Pansion causes
Force denials tbat ' fl~1~g saucers" it to blow itself up into a gigantic
exist are "worth a billion dollars monster 100 feet tall and 70 feet
to the Russi'ans in the 'cold war,'" in diameter. tall as au eight-story
Radio Commentator Hem-y J. Tay-I building, all in pulsating plastic."
lor said tonight.
1'aylor said some of these ve-
Taylor said over the ABC net-lhicles travel all over America, 20
~vork that U1is country has several Imiles up in the ,s~y. At sunset.
'unconventional air vehicles t)jat the whole contraption glows and
could be taken for "flying saucers." can be seen as long as 30 minute~
He described one as a fantastic af!e1·•darkness.
contraption "in pulsating plastic,"
rhe .struments are floated bac
as tall as an eight-story building to earth by parachute, Taylor said.
and used to record cosmic rays.
Then the huge contraption "break
"What bas happened to our into pieces in the sky or explodes,'
brains?" Taylor asked.
"These showering plastic pieces over:::
denials are worth a billion dol ars land-
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hy Taylor last week that "flying
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are top-secret United
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tates military inventions.
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Taylor warned that ii' the Rus­
sians suddenly announced they
were sending "flying saucers"
around the world, United States:
officials would have no way to stem
merican hysteria.
Taylor said the United States
hould an,:iounce:
"We have no further coromen
about anything in the skies ex
cept that America is creating man
elpful and incredible things. All
1are harmless and good news for
freedom-loving people."
And this would he a true state.
ment, the commentator said.
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Taylor said that at an airfield
near l\linneapolis and also al othe1
places, the NaYY is "lai1nching int
our high skies an enormous and
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85 APR 19 1950
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