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...with the ghosts of potted palms and a thousand big-name bands, Diana Ross makes her electric entrance, shimmering like a Broadway sign. She sports a frizzy Afro wig about the size of a boxwood hedge and a sequined sarong that looks as if it were cut from the Orion constellation. That's not the only star trip this lady is on. She seizes the microphone and leans into a song: Don't Rain on My Parade. What is this? Diana Ross, ex-Supreme, making like Barbra Streisand...
...frequencies in the multibillion-hertz range into more easily detectable radio frequencies of about 100 million hertz. After adapting this device to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's 36-ft. dish antenna at Arizona's Kitt Peak, the Bell scientists aimed the radio telescope at the distant Orion Nebula, a region of glowing gases more than 1,600 light-years away, a favorite target of molecule hunters...
...satellite's cameras have photographed star clusters, especially the Orion and Pleides star associations. Ultra-violet pictures were taken of the moon, but they showed nothing surprising, Davis said...
ALDOUS HUXLEY by John Atkins. 218 pages. Orion Press...
...reflected off clouds or shiny surfaces, atmospheric phenomena, meteors, stars, planets and the aurora borealis. Only 6% of saucer reports are listed by Blue Book as "unidentified" or unexplained. But Blue Book staffers have often announced arbitrary-and incorrect-solutions to saucer mysteries. Sightings have been attributed to the Orion constellation when it was actually below the horizon and invisible, to advertising blimps or refueling military aircraft when none were in the vicinity. This reinforces the belief of saucer buffs that the Air Force has been guilty of not only negligence but even deliberate suppression of UFO information...