Word: saucer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saucer skeptics have a number of theories. For one thing, an intensive Air Force-sponsored study of UFO "sightings," conducted under the supervision of University of Colorado Physicist Edward U. Condon, was issued...
...provided plausible explanations for almost all the reports; they were apparently based on optical illusions, stars, weather inversions and even satellites. Furthermore, man's landing on the moon and his probes of nearby planets have taken much mystery out of space. As a result, former saucer enthusiasts have begun looking elsewhere for mystical experiences-in astrology, Scientology and Eastern religions...
Gods or Conquerors. Nonetheless, a formidable body of believers still exists. Among them are such uncompromising types as Gabriel Green, president of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. Last week he told the Wall Street Journal that inhabitants of other worlds are holding off on their visitations to the troubled earth because they feel that they would either be worshiped as gods or feared as conquerors. The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena thinks that such speculations are sheer nonsense but still refuses to reject UFOs out of hand. Says the committee's executive director, G. Stuart...
Menzel, who served as a "trouble-shooter" for the Air Force during the flying saucer craze, is well-know as a debunker of reports that unidentified flying objects are actually spacecraft from another planet. He is the author of Astronomy, a popular survey of the field, published last month by Random House...
...misused. Never has the doctrine of free esthetic expression been so abused or engineering advances so superficially vulgarized for effect. There are exceptions, of course, but they are aggressively outnumbered by churches poised like moon rockets, synagogues of country-club luxe in jazzy concrete shells, and far-out flying saucer chapels...