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...saucer, which resembled a garbage-can cover, is similar to one photographed over France in 1954. Negatives of his pictures, which are among the clearest UFO shots ever obtained, will be analyzed electronically for authenticity. Condon's second case involves several sightings in the vicinity of Levelland, Texas, on the night of Nov. 2, 1957, when glowing elliptical objects 200 ft. long hovered over highways, terrifying several motorists and causing their cars' ignition and lights to fail. A third apparently inexplicable case occurred off Trindade Isle, Brazil, during daylight on Jan. 16, 1958, when scientific personnel aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A FRESH LOOK AT FLYING SAUCERS | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...sightings from preachers, military personnel, engineers and just plain folks were not restricted simply to flying saucers. The pronouncements seemed to shape into a sort of celestial dinner pail: the objects resembled eggs, meat platters, pears-and, for dessert, ice cream cones and cigars. ¶In the Levelland area of Texas, at least seven people sighted what may have been the same "Whatnik," a bright, egg-shaped thing that sped near by, landed, and, according to some, caused their automobile engines and lights to fade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Dinner Time | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...were always running from rattlesnakes, taught him to. Last week he chased after the children, whistling all the while a shrill whine. This child's foot, that child's leg he nipped at. Then his jaws sagged open, his hind legs dragged a faint furrow in a Levelland street, in the final stiffening of rabies, given him by one of the town hounds or by some coyote bum. Four of the children he had bitten were rushed to Austin, for treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dogs | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

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