Word: sauceritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interrupt this record," says a breathless voice after only a few bars of music, "to bring you a special bulletin. The reports of a flying saucer hovering over the city have been confirmed." So begins a record called The Flying Saucer, released five weeks ago on the "Luniverse" label and now one of the big off-beat hits in the jukebox trade...
...unlikely that living creatures exist on other planets or that the earth is being explored by "flying saucers," he stated. He attributed the sighting of "saucer-like objects" to atmospheric distortions of stars or of ice crystals...
...which aircraft of unusual configuration and flight characteristics will begin to appear." As an example of aircraft-to-come, he told about "another project under contract with A. V. Roe Canada, Ltd., which could result in disk-shaped aircraft somewhat similar to the popular concept of a flying saucer. An available picture, while only an artist's conception, could illustrate such an object...
Monstrous Analysis. Quarles is well aware that flying-saucer cultists are not easily discouraged. They might still claim that saucer-shaped aircraft built on earth are proof that extraterrestrial flying saucers, manned by little men from Venus (or Mars), have been infesting the atmosphere. So Quarles released simultaneously a massive "analysis of reports of unidentified aerial objects." Called Project Blue Book and bristling with charts, diagrams, data sheets and tables of figures, it is a meticulous study of 4,965 flying-saucer "sightings...
...which might conceivably be novel aircraft from a foreign country or spaceships from Mars), the Air Force scientists tried to derive from them some "flying-saucer model." They failed. All the unknowns that had been described in fair detail proved to be different...