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By CHARLES COOKE ‘~The _ Unbelievers - implacably »Gon’t believe—and the Believers ‘ ‘impla¢ably do believe—in the 4 existence, or “reality,” of certain « *famous movable bodies—namely " ‘the alluringly mysterious Unidenti- © fied Flying Objects, or UFOs, ‘popularly called Flying Saucers. These things (if you are a Believ- ‘er) or non-things (if you are an ‘Unbeliever) have in recent years -been reported in such waves, ‘indeed blizzards, world-wide, that the Air Force’s Project Blue . Book, charged with the responsibil- : ,ity of recording, evaluating, and‘ ‘reporting on them to the public,.- …

rP A Persistent Date : It is amazing how June 2%, 1947, « ‘has. remained stuck like a burr int the public mind as the hallowed: UFO Natal Day. a + Time magazine, in its March 3, - 1952, issue, wrote: “The first ones: ireported [were] sighted near Mt. ‘Rainier in 1947,” F . Life magazine, in ‘its April 7,» 1952, issue, wrote: ‘The shapes ‘and the inscrutable portents of the , flying disks first broke upon the. skies of the world in 1947.” ‘ Although what is now the United’ States military establishment dates .back to several years before there | ‘was a United States, our military srecord-keeper…

“nology—and equated by “some to. the familiar Somer objects | esctibed in thoys | If you have read thus far, please, ..don't stop because of these ref-. , erences to “references” . which,;, : altfiough unquestionably interest-' ing, are dubious at best. . What follows is not legendary. | ‘, January 12, 1838 5 The éarliest apparently firm Pre- 1947 report turned up by my: :’ researches was made on January’ 12, 1838, and was referred to? : briefly in the 1877 ‘Report of the ; “British Association for the Ad- + vancement of Science”: “ ..:. a | report that at Cherbourg, France,! r’ on 12 January …

Hamilton’ APREQMEM Ear Release 20:0:140 4d 0 2rpcel Aap P8 1 ROOSRORPRATANOTOO AR Zther ‘\there were “hideous people” , aboard the airship and that when it ’ departed it took with it one of his _ heifers, which had been bound with _ “a cable . . . made of some red ‘material fastened in a_ slipknot , around her neck.” I won’t attempt to evaluate that part of the state- / ment—it is possible that under the + etimulus of the sight of a literally unearthly marvel, both truth and ‘hysteria-induced fiction might have ' been reported. mee I take full note—and I call to readers’ attention—the facts. .…

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reader writes to me about my part iri suppressing the truth about flying ° ‘. saucers. He is quite forbearing; he real- ,’ dzes, he says, that I am gagged by the i becoming known. For the fact of the. matter {s, he informs me, that an extra-: r authorities, who are fearful of the truth terrestrial civilization is making regular , contact with this planet. 3 But now, thanks to a remarkable 7 collaboration between an American and ‘a Russian astronomer, I am ungagged. . I can freely report some remarkable * aeeuments contained in their book “In- . . telligent Life in the Universe,” which is short…

ema necere ie  a light years away respectively. The next questions that these 7 intrepid cosmic thinkers tackle are: : How many of these hypothetical planets. are likely to contain life? And how ‘ many might contain “advanced tech- . nical civilizations”? { fr ye f ; In recent. years, a number of re- searchers have been releasing electric °  sparks—miniature bolts of lightning— . _ through mixtures of gases and vapors (water, ammonia, hydrogen, methane) which are thought to represent primi- ‘tive planetary atmospheres. They have ‘been gratified to discover in the re-. ‘sulting mixtures a huge …