Word: mathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meteorites can be ruled out, Mather continued, because the gravitational pull of the earth fashions them into a pencil shape. Also they have an entirely different trajectory from that attributed to the discs, and once inside the atmosphere they invariably collide with the earth...
Previously Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, had declared that the discs were "assuredly man-made." From what he termed "the meagre, confused, and conflicting data at hand." Professor Mather said that the probable cause was the exhaust of jet-propelled planes...
...points to this new invention," Professor Mather suggested. "People have been looking at the sky for more than 3000 years, and this is the first time that saucer-like objects flying at high speed have ever been recorded...
...Mather joined Brooks in eliminating ice particles or the light reflections from them as the source of the plates. He noted that ice masses or cold air fronts do not travel at the 2000 miles per hour rate which many observers attribute to the discs...
Local 431 was established in 1935 as a protest against the Teachers Oath Bill which proposed to institute a rigid check of all educator's allegience to the Constitution. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was the leading figure in the early organization of the Teachers Union here...