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...Carter, Michael Caine in a gangster film. UFO Orson Welles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 2/17/1972 | See Source »

Zachariah, with Country Joe and the Fish, UFO Orson Welles Cinema...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 2/10/1972 | See Source »

ACCORDING to eyewitnesses, it "pops," "hops," "skips," "jumps," "bams," "burns," "booms," "tails," "sails," "smokes," "swoops," "sinks" or just plain "whooshes." If it sounds like a UFO, that is only because the hitters who have faced the fearsome fastball of Oakland A's Pitcher Vida Blue tend to endow it with out-of-this-world qualities. Roy White, the otherwise stable outfielder for the New York Yankees, claims that the Blue darter "speeds up on you and then seems to disappear." Kansas City Royals Third Baseman Paul Schaal swears that "it jumps right over your bat." After his world champion Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Bolt of Blue Lightning | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

Saucer skeptics have a number of theories. For one thing, an intensive Air Force-sponsored study of UFO "sightings," conducted under the supervision of University of Colorado Physicist Edward U. Condon, was issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Saucer Diehards | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...Allen Hynek, chairman of Northwestern University's astronomy department and the scientific community's most outspoken investigator of UFOs, also complains of a news blackout. To prevent the loss of what he considers "material of potential scientific value," Hynek has established an informal Blue Book project of his own at Northwestern. He is particularly anxious to get reports from trained scientific observers whose anonymity he promises to preserve (to spare them ridicule from their colleagues). Hynek insists that UFO sightings are often made by reputable observers, including scientists and technicians. Says he: "It is a gross but popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Saucer Diehards | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

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