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Motes, oo Other elementsofth, ye arahlem were studied by such men |r. George . Valley, a nuclear physicis: . the Massa- " chusetts Institute of Technology; staff members of the research firm of Rand Corporation; an assortment of physicists and acrodynamivists who specialize in he study of the stratosphere and the space beyond it; and the clectranics ex- Bperts attached te the Cambridge Field Station. These men were all searching for physical rather than psychological explanations, and some fairly strange thearies accurred to the m—the possibil- ity that extraterrestrial animals were flying into our atmeasphere, for example, (No data turned up to support that ar- resting idea.) The theory that the siu- cers were hostile aireraft was carefully studied and rejected. “Fhe perform. “ances of thesc saucers not only surpass the development of present science but the development af present fiction-sci- ence writers,” one scientist noted, The specialists alse considered and rejected the concept of discs capable of riding the air on beams or rays of some kind, “Phey even speculated on whether the anti- gravity shicld that H. G. Wells thought up for his novel “The First Men in the Moon” would work; it woukda't, dey decided, “Vhe supposition that interplian- etary craft were Whiszzing in at us was also discredited, despite its popularity with laymen. Space ships, the scientists theught, would have to be se barge and unwieldy that they couldin’t possibly zig- zag as frivolously as the reported saucers did, Besides, a space ship, regardless of its size, could not, in the opinion of these men, carry sufficient fuel to remain for any Jength of time in the carth’s dense atmosphere, ‘The scientists noted, too, that the supposed spacemen showed a re- markable Jack of interest in the rest of the world, being, it would seem, almost unanimous in their desire ta see America first. “The small areca covered by the disc harrage points strongly ta the belief that the flying objects are of earthly origin, be they physical or psycholog- ical,” one of the scientists reported. From the report turned ino by the ystronomters, PF learned deat they, in ad- . shiten te scuuNe OUL Collicis, Metcots, , F halides, and avhondrites fram the * @ stream of ubjects people were seeing in -# the skies, had also thoughtfully con- sidered our planctary neighbors. ‘The old question of the possibility of life on Mars took on a new urgency, and a new corollary: Hf there are living creatures on Mars, would they be capable of building space ships? ‘The astronomers wa Te FOR STORE BEAR WRITE WATHAKERS BY AVON. £ 47 WEST 34TH ST. BEw TE GR SEND CHECK OR MONET BROKER GAECTLY F