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Goodyear Television Playhouse presented the satire: young (29) Novelist Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet. The small planet is the earth. The visit is made on an impulse by a cultivated space traveler named Kreton. He taxies his flying saucer from a distant galaxy somewhere in outer space right onto the rose-bed of an American family...
...grimly wonders if this visit is a prelude to invasion, the amiable Kreton notes "the wonderful, primitive assumption that all strangers are hostile." By this time it is clear that Kreton's people would not have the earth if it were handed to them on a platinum flying saucer. Some earthmen noted early in the visit that Kreton was a mere eccentric. Otherwise, what was he doing returning "to the Dark Ages of this insignificant planet?" But his visit proved an illuminating spoof, and British Actor Cyril Ritchard proved a fine spoofer...
...added that among his "flying saucer" observations were: milkweed seeds and spider webs; sun reflections on weather balloons and sunblown tinsel paper...
Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics, recently told a Canadian research group that whenever he spots a "flying saucer" he knows just what it is and it has never resembled an invasion from outer space...
This was not the situation in First Dynasty Egypt. Before about 3200 B.C., the valley of the Nile had a neolithic culture. It was fairly high-grade, but by no means civilized. Then came a change as sudden as if supernatural culture-bringers had landed in a flying saucer. Without transitional stages, so far as diggers can determine, the Egyptians were building great palaces of brick and stone. They had effective copper tools, including wood saws and the finest needles. They worked with fine artistry in wood, ivory, leather, textiles, metals, precious stones. They had a fully formed written language...