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...authority. Its conclusions all but demolished the idea that earth has been visited by creatures from oth er planets. Despite a few remaining puzzles, there is no evidence, said the report, that UFOs are spaceships from extraterrestrial civilizations and no scientific justification at this time for any further extensive saucer investigations...
...gold medal. Two weeks ago, Jay Silvester, a Utah insurance salesman, broke his own world mark in the discus with a toss of 224 ft. 5 in., which is more than 10 ft. farther than anybody else has ever flung the 4-lb. 61-oz. wood and' metal saucer...
...most flying-saucer buffs, the frequent appearance of Unidentified Flying Objects near power lines is only natural; the UFOs, so the stories go, are either attempting to sabotage the power system or are merely recharging their batteries. To Author Klass, a former electrical engineer who is now an editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology, there is a more logical answer: the power lines themselves may actually create UFOs in the form of coronas-clouds of glowing, ionized air that can form in intense electrical fields...
...atmospheric phenomena that include not only coronas but ball lightning, St. Elmo's fire and "Foo Fighters," the same luminous globs that tailed World War II military aircraft. Klass seems resigned to the fact that it will take more than his well-documented evidence to shake dedicated saucer believers out of their state of UFOria...
...matter of fact, I saw a flying saucer just the other day. I spoke to the captain of the ship, and he seemed like a nice enough guy. He said that of all the planets he has visited ours is the only one in which "civilized" inhabitants wage war against one another. Therefore, to retain the integrity of the universe, he and his followers are going to attack Earth around 1974. Not out of malice, but as a favor. He feels that by providing us with a common enemy, we will attain solidarity. Then he said something about a word...