Word: sauceritis
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...flunked it miserably. Says Coates: "In stead of turning people against her, we got many letters saying it was a terrible thing to do to that poor woman. We also used the detector on a so-called jet-propulsion expert who claimed that he had flown in a flying saucer from White Sands, N.Mex. to New York in half an hour. He failed the test on the air and got furious in front of the camera...
...soft coral of the rim, by alternate solution and recrystallization, was "casehardened" into solid rock that eventually stood in a high wall around most of the island. Then after the once-flat coral reef had eroded into a saucer, MacNeil believes, the sea rose again and flooded the low center. When the sea rose high enough, more coral grew on the high rim, building it up and forming the familiar shape of an atoll...
...centers could very well have been formed by the process he describes. Second, and even more convincing, the theory has survived a realistic laboratory test. A block of limestone, he reports, sprayed with dilute hydrochloric acid to approximate the effect of long-continued rain, erodes into a shallow saucer with a raised...
...great radio telescope now under construction at Jodrell Bank near Manchester, England will have a "steerable" saucer of copper mesh 250 ft. in diameter. Acting like the concave mirror of an optical telescope, it will concentrate radio frequency waves sent to the earth by dark "radio stars" and faraway galaxies. Mostly it will be busy with the complex problems of astrophysics, but last week Professor A. C. Lovell, head of Jodrell Bank research station, admitted that the great dish might be used occasionally on projects with more immediate popular appeal...
Fantastic as Frost's saucer sounds, it may not be the first. The USAF's willingness to spend money on saucer-plane experiments results from a growing belief that the Soviet Air Force may be ahead of the U.S. in this field...