Word: skyhook
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...ascension, it was alleged, would employ a Navy "skyhook" balloon filled with 40 dollars worth of helium, with 'Poon Ibis Charles C. Osborne '52 scheduled to be borne aloft...
...Skyhook balloons normally reach a height of more than 50 miles, but 'Poonsters last night were apparently unruffled at the prospect of Osborne's elevation. It was reported by one source within the 'Poon that Osborne would be dropped at the last moment and a dummy substituted. Osborne is a noted short-distance swimmer...
...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...