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...More Wonder. Scully got his start as a flying-saucer expert by association with talented Oilman Silas M. Newton of Denver, who, he says, locates oil deposits by their microwaves (microwaves do not penetrate rock). Through Newton, Scully met a mysterious "Dr. Gee," who does similar feats by detecting "magnetic waves" (which do not exist) with a magnetron (a radio transmitter tube, not a detection device). Flying saucers, says Dr. Gee (quoted by Scully), travel among the planets by magnetism. Their 3½-ft. crewmen have perfect teeth with no cavities. For food they carry little wafers. One wafer...
Measured for scientific credibility, Scully's science ranks below the comic books. Rival "operators," including Variety's Joe Laurie Jr., who reviewed Behind the Flying Saucers, suspect that Scully may be kidding. In any case, his book's quick success is an interesting comment on the public's dazed state of mind toward recent scientific wonders. After accepting atomic energy, radar, etc., presumably the public could swallow almost anything. Why not believe Dr. Gee's saucer-borne midgets flying in from the depths of space...
...concealed behind the denials? Modern air engines (turbojets, ramjets, rockets) are powerful enough to make almost anything fly. Disc-shaped helicopters with ramjets on their rotor edges are not impossible. They are not midget-manned space ships but their test flights might have provided a base for flying saucer reports...
Theoretically, of course, invading space ships are not impossible. The point is that neither Scully nor any other purveyor of flying-saucer tales has yet produced firm evidence that they exist. There are no convincing photographs of them. Scully says he has handled metals they are made of (harder than diamond, with melting points above 10,000°), but no such miraculous stuff has yet been reported by any reputable laboratory...
Last week the Air Force, in a rather tired voice, denied once again that it has ever found any evidence of any space ships or that it is concealing any of its own. Once again, flying-saucer enthusiasts were unconvinced...