Word: saucer
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Three Bounces. Surveyor's pictures also showed that the spacecraft was resting on a gentle slope inside a saucer-shaped crater about 150 ft. across and 20 ft. deep. Although the camera could not peek above the crater's rim, it revealed that the crater floor was relatively smooth, pockmarked with some smaller craters and littered with pebbles and a few rocks no larger than a foot across. All in all, it appeared that the area, one of the eight selected as possible targets for the Apollo mission, was level and uncluttered enough to allow the Apollo lunar...
Crown of Thorns. No city in the world is quite like Brasilia, the seven-year-old vision of tomorrow carved out of the wilderness. Its unfinished cathedral is designed in the shape of a gigantic crown of concrete thorns. Its Congress building looks like a huge cup and saucer. Its population areas are laid out in Orwellian modules, with all the foreign-ministry officials living here, the bank employees there, the military officers over there. Artificially created to open up the frontier and shift the country's balance westward, Brasilia was long considered the "mad city" that Ku-bitschek...
Sagan was referring to those "unscientific" flying saucer enthusiasts; but another position that is just as extreme, Sagan feels, is that of the average man in the street, who is determined to believe that there is no life on other planets. "This point of view was well expressed once by President Johnson, who was "relieved" to learn that the Mariner IV close-up photos of Mars showed no conclusive evidence of life there...
...young architect (Roy Thinnes) spots a flying saucer landing and-guess what?-nobody believes him. Premiere...
Simon accepted the Hills's abduction as fantasy. John Fuller, however, believes in UFOs. He heard about the Hills in 1965 when he was working on his first flying-saucer book, Incident at Exeter (TIME, Sept. 2). From Simon's tapes and from interviews with the Hills, he has stitched together an account that he himself wants to accept as earthshaking. Assuming that all this is true, he writes, "such an event would demand a re-examination of religion, politics, science and even literature." To say nothing of heads...