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It's 'Wild New World'
Dished ·u in~Saucers
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._'.'Flying saucers,:' observatories clence to reports of satellite mis­
on the moon, high-flying rockets siles.
and earth satellite vehicles carry­
ing weapo1is and possibly men to
whirl endlessly far out in space,
today seem like pipe dreams of a
n1ad world of fantasy.
They ma_v be harbingers of a
wild ryew world to come.
'J'hr: air force, as eat·ly as
last s1n·ing, said officiall~• that
the 11,·iug sa,u-ers "at·e not a
jo](e."
_ No such shitl has as yet
,...been built, according to t he
best infonned soun:es. But
i<leas fo1·
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haven't been
forgotte11.
Gravity gradually falls off far
out in space beyond -the earth,
scienti.,ts explain. It never quite
ends, they say, but at 5000 miles
it is relatively weak.
"A spaceship could easily be
Ai1· force authorities even now !rnpt in positio~ere,"
1t
accord-
may be preparing an announce- mg to _Dr. ~Joy
otz, a Colum­
ment stating that the flying discs b1a Umvers1ty a ·tronomer.
, are real objects, not merely fig­
ments of imagination as far as the
air Corcc is concerned, The Mirror
learned yesterday.
That woirlcl seem to remove the
flying discs from the realm of old
wives' talcs and the bubble talk
of guys who have had one or two
s nifters too many.
Possjbilities that the satt•
cet-s a,·e
missilrs launched
from a
foreign planet are
given sel'ious co11sidemtiou.
The U.S. defense department's
annonncement of plans consider­
ing a super spaceship, to be kept
un·'
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e, •rol while tl'aveling an
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orbit ,aroun? , the earth, lepd ere•
"If left to its l"lf it would
g1•a<l11ally ret111·11 to earth," h e
sarn. "ll11t it would take VCl'Y
littll" thmst, fro,11 s mall 1·ock­
eta disd,:u-gecl a t i,'.lervals
to k ec11 it w he1·e 1t
was
wanted."
To get it up there, the space­
ship would have to leave the
earth at an initial velocity of 25,­
000 miles an hour, to escape the
pull of gravity.
At s uch speeds, present known
metals would melt Qeca~~r
friction.
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B 11t in other woi1W, fa,,
from om• own earth,· pet·haps
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THE MIRROR -
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bette1· ntct~Js have been de­
veloped.
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1t is the wildest kind of s ec­
ulation, but the flying discs rt ay
be' the first calling cards from an
interstellar neighbor.
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78 NOV 1 7 1949