RECORDING COSMIC RAYS
FANTASTIC AMERICAM CONTRAPTION (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 10. The United States was sending a fantastic contraption as tall as an eight-storey building 20 miles above the earth to record cosmic rays, said the radio commentator, Henry Taylor, in a nation-wide broadcast to-night. The Navy was launching this “enormous translucent thing in pulsating plastic” at an airfield near Minneapolis and other places. It carried 70lb of instruments but no pilot. It was filled to only 1 per cent of capacity with helium. This expanded at high altitudes and turned the contraption into a gigantic monster 100 ft high and 70ft wide. Mr Taylor said that the instruments were released by parachute and then the strange craft exploded. Some of the vehicles all over the United States, often 20 miles up in the sky. They carried lights which blinked rapidly after sunset.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 151, 12 April 1950, Page 5
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