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Word: midgeter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 day, after thinking it over, Dimmick decided that he had been "misquoted." He had not seen the wrecked saucer or its pilot...

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

...altitude of a thousand feet. The most magnificent dispatch came from the northern state of Zacatecas: a farmer had found a large kite-shaped object in the mountains, with two passengers, each just under two feet tall. The Department of National Defense solemnly denied the existence of the midget visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pies in the Sky | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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