The Flying Saucers are Real

CLAIM-600001 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“On February 22, 1950, two saucers reported above Key West Naval Air Station were tracked by radar; they were described as maneuvering at high speed fifty miles above the earth.”

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“On March 9, 1950, a large metallic disk was pursued by F-51 and jet fighters and observed by scores of Air Force officers at Wright Field, Ohio.”

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“The Air Force statements, contradictory as they appear, are part of an intricate program to prepare America—and the world—for the secret of the disks.”

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“NEW YORK, N. Y., MAY 9, 1949”

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“Project ‘Saucer’ gave out a hint, but they've never released the transcript.”

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“FLYING SAUCER OVER TUCSON?”

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“Two similar glowing objects were seen above Boca Chica Naval Air Station at Key West.”

CLAIM-600008 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“During the bright antarctic night, we saw flying saucers, one above the other, turning at tremendous speeds.”

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“A gleaming metallic disk was sighted over Dayton, Ohio.”

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“Huge elliptical saucer flying at a low altitude in Pennsylvania.”

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“Large formation of disks passing high above the city.”

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“Fast-flying disk with strange blue-white light.”

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“Three disk sightings tracked by scientists with precision instruments at five miles per second.”

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“The object was described as 'round or oval, larger than a C-47, and traveling in level flight faster than 500 miles per hour.'”

CLAIM-600020 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Observers said it glowed from white to amber, leaving an amber exhaust trail five times its own length.”

CLAIM-600021 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It made motions like an elevator and at one time appeared to touch the ground.”

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“No sound was heard.”

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“Finally, the object faded and lowered toward the horizon.”

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“The Air Force report says whatever Mantell chased—it calls it a 'mysterious object'—is still unidentified.”

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“The Air Force contract astronomer told Shallett that even when Venus is at full magnitude you can barely see it in the daytime even when you’re looking for it. It was only half magnitude that day, so it was practically invisible.”

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“Sidney Shallett says if it wasn’t Venus, it must have been a balloon.”

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“They flew close to the mountaintops, in a diagonal chainlike line.”

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“They were flat, like a pie pan, and so shiny they reflected the sun like a mirror.”

CLAIM-600029 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The things appeared to be at least forty thousand feet in the air—perhaps much higher.”

CLAIM-600030 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The disks were seen by pilots and ground officers.”

CLAIM-600031 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“It could have been a guided missile, but I never heard of anything like it.”

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“The disks are caused by the transmutation of atomic energy.”

CLAIM-600033 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The government is probably conducting some revolutionary experiments.”

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“It was too dark to make out the shape behind the light, but all witnesses had agreed on its performance. The thing had climbed at tremendous speed, its upward motion shown by a bright green light.”

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“I think they were trying to pin it on a jet fighter, but there weren't any jets near there. Anyway, the thing climbed too fast. It must have been making close to nine hundred miles an hour.”

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“From the way this was hushed up, they seem to be worried about this group of sightings.”

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“The Earth Satellite Vehicle Program, which is being carried out independently by each military service, has been assigned to the Committee on Guided Missiles for co-ordination.”

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“The artificial satellite is to be a large rocket-propelled projectile. In its upward flight, it will have to reach a speed of 23,000 miles an hour, to escape the earth’s pull of gravity.”

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“German scientists had gone far ahead. Their buzz bomb, a low-altitude semi-guided missile, was just the beginning.”

CLAIM-600052 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Everything would happen faster than your nerve impulses could register it. Your comprehension would always be lagging a split second behind the space ship’s operation.”

CLAIM-600071 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“For the past 175 years, the earth has been under systematic close-range examination by living, intelligent observers from another planet.”

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“The intensity of this observation, and the frequency of the visits to the earth’s atmosphere, have increased markedly during the past two years.”

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“The vehicles used for this observation and for interplanetary transport by the explorers have been classed as follows: Type I, a small, nonpilot-carrying disk-shaped craft equipped with some form of television or impulse transmitter;”

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“The thought of those eight light-years would have a comforting effect on any nervous readers.”

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“The Air Force has convincingly denied having any evidence that flying saucers exist.”

CLAIM-600076 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Project 'Saucer' had found that they were caused by: 1. Misinterpretation of various conventional objects.”

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“Project 'Saucer' had been discontinued, now that all the reports had been explained.”

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“Dr. Dean B. McLaughlin, of the University of Michigan, said, 'No one knows what the saucers are as yet.'”

CLAIM-600079 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“Dr. Carl F. von Weizacker—that billions of stars may have planets, and many could be inhabited.”

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“If gravitation were a manifestation of electromagnetic force, was it possible that an advanced race had found a way—as unique as splitting the atom—to offset gravity and utilize that force?”

CLAIM-600081 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The earth has been under periodic observation from another planet, or other planets, for at least two centuries.”

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“This observation suddenly increased in 1947, following, the series of A-bomb explosions begun in 1945.”

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“The observation, now intermittent, is part of a long-range survey and will continue indefinitely.”

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“No immediate attempt to contact the earth seems evident.”

CLAIM-600085 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“There may be some unknown block to making contact, but it is more probable that the spacemen’s plans are not complete.”

CLAIM-600086 · pg5883 images 3 Observation

“The American people have proved their ability to take incredible things. We have survived the stunning impact of the Atomic Age. We should be able to take the Interplanetary Age, when it comes, without hysteria.”