Word: ufo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply another bogeyman that people love to fear, like the Red Scare and UFO's of the fifties. Although shark fever certainly has become a cult as some pendent entrepreneurs will swear to by the burgeoning market for shark's tooth pendants and spin-off products like posters, T-shirts and beach towels...
...passers-by in Wilmington, Del., last week, the strange round, candy-striped craft might have looked like the UFO sighting of the century. As it hovered above the ground, the large sphere-as well as the four long wings sticking out of its sides-rotated slowly, like some ominous unearthly creature. In fact, the odd contraption was a practical terrestrial creation. Designed by the All American Engineering Co. of Wilmington, Del., the Aerocrane, as it is called, is an unlikely cross between helicopter and balloon. It should easily outperform both in at least one important respect: the ability to hoist...
...elderly Albuquerque couple, lounging in the backyard one cool New Mexico evening, heard a roar from above. Then a light appeared, focusing with terrifying intensity on the man and woman. A UFO? Hallucination? Not at all. The source was the Albuquerque police department's "spy in the sky" plane on a routine patrol. "It scared the world out of us," the man said later. "It reminded us of George Orwell's 1984." The low-flying craft operates by daylight too. A woman complained that she could no longer sunbathe on her roof because the plane kept circling overhead...
...Infinitum, Edward Ben Elson, is selling tickets at $10 each for his intergalactic spaceship ("No warranties expressed or implied"). He says it will take off Dec. 24 before the comet's gases can ignite the earth's oil supply and bring death to most of mankind. UFO Cataloguer and Astronomer J. Allen Hynek, who was born under Halley's comet in 1910, is taking a more realistic view; he is bracing himself for a flood of calls at his Northwestern University UFO center from people worried about the fiery space spectacle...
...best stories about Adams come from the mystics and the UFO enthusiasts who worship the mountain. At Madison Spring Huts, an Appalachain Mountain Club hut located on the adjacent Mt. Madison, one of these groups has posted a series of pictures which shows typical flying saucer-like objects hovering over the peak of Adams...