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Word: griffiss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Flying over Greenfield, Ind., an airline pilot reported a brilliant green, tear-shaped light "going like a bat out of hell." ¶ In Chenango County, N.Y., citizens gathered in crowds to watch a "whole flotilla of bright, shiny balls moving rapidly in a northerly direction." Jet fighters scrambled from Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome. N.Y., but found nothing. ¶ Over the AEC's atomic laboratory at Los Alamos. N.M., observers watched a shiny and "apparently metallic" object jerk through the sky for 30 minutes at high speed. ¶ Off Korea, the crew of a Canadian destroyer spotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Something in the Air | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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