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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Big Brother's Big Eye | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECIAL REPORT: Kohoutek: Comet of the Century | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Worshipping A Mountain | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...mysterious UFO, named Rama by its puzzled observers, is a metallic cylinder more than 30 miles long and twelve across and weighing about ten trillion tons. With time running out and Rama's intentions unknown, decisions have to be made. The nearest humans to Rama are Commander Bill Norton and his crew aboard the spaceship Endeavour. They undertake a reconnaissance of Rama's innards, crawling about the spotless metal sky like flies on some behemoth's twitching flank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celestial Pit Stop | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

Vonnegut, Sneak preview of a new film written by Kurt Vonnegut. UFO Orson Welles, 11:45, Feb. 25. Burn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

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