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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express last month. It reported that the wreckage of a saucer had been found on a Mexican mountainside. The finder was a California explosives salesman named Ray Dimmick. The saucer was "powered by two motors," Dimmick told the Her-Ex. "It was about 46 feet in diameter . . . built of some strange material resembling aluminum." The pilot, he said, was dead. He was a "midget 23 inches tall with a big head and a small body." The Her-Ex story had been picked up by an editorial writer over a convivial round with Dimmick. Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Saucer-Eyed Dragons | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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