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Little Men. Incident at Exeter, by John G. Fuller, a columnist for the Saturday Review, is another saucer of flying fish. It simply records his interviews with witnesses at Exeter, N.H., after a glowing red object appeared over Route 150 at 2:24 a.m. on Sept. 3, 1965. Subsequently, Fuller himself saw such a UFO outside the town, and his report is that of a believer, or rather a convert. He writes in documentary style, following the grammar and non sequiturs of his tape recorder, and his work has the police-blotter awkwardness of one who wishes to convince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heavenly Bogeys | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...believes the contactees (those who claim to have actual contact with beings from outer space) are actually creating a new theology. "These extraterrestial visitors are benevolent, omnipotent, omniscient, and wear white robes. It seems I've seen them somewhere else.... Flying saucer myths are a clever compromise" between traditional theology and science...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Harvard Astronomers Claim UFO's Are Based on Illusion and Religion | 5/11/1966 | See Source »

...presented the other side of the case too: one man who claims he was in a flying saucer said the inside is lined with mother-of-pearl plastic, "like we put on toilet seats...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Harvard Astronomers Claim UFO's Are Based on Illusion and Religion | 5/11/1966 | See Source »

Gasped Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey: "If there is such a thing as a flying saucer, this must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michigan: Fatuus Season | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

...next night, Manner's farm looked like a fairground. Saucer-seekers bearing telephoto lenses trooped to the swamp through driving rain. From the University of Michigan came a scientist who welcomed extraterrestrial visitors by flashing the universal equation of pi with his car headlights - three blinks, one blink, then four blinks. He got no response, to the loud chagrin of Renee Scott, 3, who came with her parents, ex pecting to see a spaceman with "green, yellow and orange-juice hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michigan: Fatuus Season | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

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