SOURCE OF SAUCERS

Putaruru Press, Volume XXI, Issue 1239, 17 July 1947, Page 3

SOURCE OF SAUCERS

HE WHO READS MAY LEARN A scientific exxjert in a Wellington paper writes entertainingly on “ Flying Saucers”.as follows: This is the most entertaining world most of us will ever be on. Just when nuclear fission and the early possibility of Doomsday were beginning to bore, the sky fills up with Saucers. Even the most worldly Is forced to raise an eyebrow when first he sees the sun eclipsed by a row of crockery. It gives him the feeling that'something's out of place, but lie's not sure what. But his plight is nothing to that of the scientist. Already a saucer-consc-ious public is calling for an explanation of this cluttering up of the air lines. It Is not enough for the American public that the Army has assured them that they had jet planes ready to shoot down the first saucer that flies by. They trust the Army, and 'believe that there Is every possibility that the new jets can catch all but the fastest saucer: nevertheless they want an explanation. And so, too, do the Canadians and Australians, who, on rushing outside, found their sky packed with china. The scientist who laughed so lightly at the atomic bomb is on the spot. His trade has become suddenly complex and he finds himself without an equation for a saucer on the wing. Corpuscles and Tilings A Sydney professor has already vaguely put them down to corpuscles on tlie retina, using long words to confound the masses, but a man who has seen with his own eyes a 64-piece dinner set fly by is not likely to accept, that. He’s not so gullible. Possibly a pronouncement . now would lie premature. As further nations become imbued with the spirit of the thing it is likely that soup plates and tureens will be seen dashing madly across the void. And the unfortunate scientist, trying to he heard above the ceaseless clatter of airborne crockery, would have to start all over again.