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...Many of them have proved to be extraneous objects like newspapers, balloons, or distant airplanes," Menzel writes. "Others have been searchlight or automobile-headlight reflections on a thin layer of could or haze. The most puzzling and frightening of all saucer phenomena are those that have come from reflections and refractions from drops of water, ice crystals, or even from the air itself. Thus, all reports of saucers, those from the air or ground, those seen at night or during the day, those detected visually or by radar, result from unusual or unfamiliar conditions in the atmosphere...
Stop the Ship. Water Police Sergeant Ernst Mangold, a former U-boat skipper, was first into action. His nippy little launch slid alongside the Raman. "Halt," ordered Mangold, but the Raman plowed on. The cops fired a volley of Very flares and turned their searchlight on the tanker's bridge. Still no response from the Raman. Mangold and his men swarmed up the Raman's sides, only to be deluged by an avalanche of cold water from the tanker's sea hoses. Sergeant Mangold finally made it aboard and stomped to the tanker's bridge...
Police officers William Murray and William Storey tabbed Ellison as a "ring-leader" in a crowd which had gathered on the Common near a searchlight truck on Garden St. The crowd was shouting obscenities "not fit to be heard in open court," Murray said. He later arrested Ellison as the student ran toward the entrance of the Commander Hotel, crying "Let's break up the (Dever) rally...
...what nonmaterial, saucerlike object can move quickly, silently, and in violent zigzags? One such thing is a spot of light. It is easy to swing the beam of a searchlight (across high clouds, for instance) and make its bright spot seem to travel at many thousand m.p.h. The spot of light moves silently and it can change direction as abruptly as any saucer...
Saucers reported by competent observers could not be explained by searchlight spots, but the beam-of-light analogy gave Menzel something to work with. He looked around for other tricks of nonmaterial light which might convince an observer that he had seen a material object zipping through the air at unearthly speed...