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0-19 Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy. Harbo Belmont Mobr Tele. Nease Gandy. Navy Calls Saucers @nly Its Big Balloons cae ae NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (#).—Fly- nated cup of the bottom. If your sng Saucers are real—but they’re imagination soars, the light re- only hivelball ; . | flection on the side may impress y, Be alloons'used ae cosmie | vou as the glow of an atomie en- ray studies, Look magazine will |gine. The wisp of the balloon’s say Tuesday, quoting Dr. Urner | instrument-filled tail may itffpress idel, chief of the nuclear physics | You as the exhaust. The sun’s branch of the Office of Naval Re- | Pays may suffuse the plastic bag l'search. He is in ch f th | with a fiery glow. | oe Se IS in charge Of the | «mven seasoned airmen have no cosmic ray-balloon project. |way of estimating the size and The balloons are luge plastic |speed of an object they see. To bags, 100 feet in diameter, that|Pes Size and speed, ee may rise 19 miles high-—about | “USt know the nature ersthe, ob- At dusk on a cool summer eve-! Room is the: best time te=see=the’ balloon “saucer,” it adds. | | “The lateral rays of the sun at) dusk illuminate the base of the balloon. There is no chance of your ever seeing the full round- 100,000 ‘feet. Winds may sweep ic them along at 200 miles an hour. | At dusk, the slanting rays of the | sun light \up their bottoms, giving them a saucer-like appearance, the article says. _ "fhey carry instruments aloft to tegord what happens when cosmic rays hit atoms in the earth’s at- mpsphere. This splitting gives a clue to how atoms are put to- gether, and how to release their energy. “When this project first began it was kept secret,’ the magazine quotes Dr. Liddel. “Now there is no longer any need for secrecy on a scientific basis. And certainly, there is no longer any need to keep the public in the dark about what flying saucers are.” Look says “the Liddel report is considered tobe the most authori- tative scientific explanation of the flying-saucer phenomenon. As far as Dr. Liddel is concerned per- sonally, he considers his answer t Look says Dr. Liddel and asso- ciates studied 2000 reports of flying saucers, eliminating those “seeming to be the visions of crackpots or psycopaths” or!‘ “clearly the result of inaccurat, vision.” ft “This left a solid base of re ports from airplane pilots, scien tific observers and reliable layme which could not be brushed asid: After a thorough investigation, Dr. Liddel said: ‘There is not a single reliable report of an ob- servation which is not attributable to the cosmic balloons’.” It quotes Dr. Liddel as saying that Capt. Thomas F. Mantell, air force pilot found dead in his crashed plane after radioing that he was pursuing a strange sky object, was chasing “a balloon of the skyhook t¥pe.” ; Tltere have been several reports of squadrons of flying disks, and “this is explained by Dr. Liddel as clusters of 20 to 30 balloons 10 to 15 feet in diameter, which are Times-Herald incontrovertibly right.” The balloons, called skyhooks,, Sometimes» used in place of the Wash. Post : huge skyhook,” were H ~ , ere first sent aloft in 1947, and! Dr, Liddel checked other Gov- ’ it was then that flying saucer re-| * A } ports began, it adds. There were| ¢rmment agencies and “is satisfied more balloons in the next two) that no other research or experi- | more “saucers” seen,, mental project has utilized any- | Wash. News $ years and oe There were fewer balloons sent) thing even roughly re up in 1950, and fewer sancereve= ihg saucer.” ports. | See See A picture, taken by telescope of a balloon at 77,¢>" feet ee nesota, Cen iicen Dr. Liddell nh more, the magazine ® photo fits descriptio&S of fy | Wash. Star —————— —_ —_—_ , N.Y. Mirror A (o2 FY a 132 May 5 198) | ee 5 oS a- 5). Date: