Word: saucermen
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...recent Gallup poll, are certain that they have seen flying saucers or other UFOs (unidentified flying objects). Furthermore, Gallup reports, 46% of American adults believe that UFOs are something real. Scores of flying-saucer clubs are operating across the nation. They include small groups of semireligious eccentrics who worship saucermen and claim to have met them. They also include retired Marine Major Donald Keyhoe's serious and influential National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), the source of some of the best-documented UFO sightings...
These conclusions are partly based on Simon's work with Barney and Betty Hill, a Portsmouth, N.H., couple whose "abduction" by saucermen during an auto trip was described in the fast-selling book, The Interrupted Journey...
Once aboard, the saucermen (blond hair, green eyes, yellowish shoes) took the professor for a rise. When the saucer once vibrated sharply, one of his hosts reassured him telepathically: "Have no fear. We are leaving the atmosphere of your planet." An hour later the saucer landed back on the beach. Guimaraes was politely deposited in a daze, and his new acquaintances whirled away...
...reporters besieged the high-flying professor, and the Brazilian air force nervously put a fighter cover over the rendezvous beach. With a sigh, Guimaraes last week took to television to get the matter straight once and for all. But he refused to elaborate on his telepathic talk with the saucermen. "It is wiser not to divulge it. The authorities know all the details." Guimaraes' TV lecture left many viewers convinced that he had been in his cups rather than in a saucer. But as the hoots grew louder, friends and colleagues joined ranks around the wiry, balding professor, father...
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