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...flying saucers, said Physicist Liddel, were actually giant plastic balloons called Skyhooks, which the Navy has been sending aloft since 1947 with electronic instruments to record cosmic rays. As the 100-ft. balloons soar higher & higher (maximum height: 19 miles) they expand, and are often pushed along by high-altitude winds at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. When seen from below, particularly when reflecting light rays from its underside, a Skyhook looks exactly like a big saucer...
...Skyhook, said Liddell, that an Air Force pilot was pursuing when he was killed over Kentucky in 1948. "When this project first began it was kept secret," he explained. "Now, there is no longer any need to keep the public in the dark...