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Donald H. Menzel has been appointed the sixth Director of the College Observatory, President Pusey announced today...
...Menzel succeeds Harlow Shapley, who retired in the summer of 1952. He has served as acting director of the Observatory since September...
...author himself has seen flying saucers, but his training in scientific observation has enabled him to explain what he saw. But other authorities have only added to the mystery. Menzel sharply criticizes the Air Force for the shrouds of secrecy with which it has enveloped its Project Saucer. By using such methods as instructing people who have seen "saucers" to remain silent about their experience, it has only added to the state of alarm...
...saucers are as old as history. Menzel shows that records of identical effects have been discovered that date back to Biblical times. In the Middle Ages, they were called "flying dragons" and around 1897, they were thought to be dirigible balloons, for airships were just in the process of being invented. New they are called space ships...
...Menzel disposes of instance after instance of observed "space ships" by pointing out fantastic inconsistencies in the reports submitted by the observers. His scientific explanations are couched in simple, everyday language, are easily followed, and are convincing...