Word: liddell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth's atmosphere had been pretty well exposed as hoaxes or hallucinations. But most people were still sure that some kind of unidentified flying object did exist, and they wanted some sense-making explanation. Last week they got the best one yet. It came from Dr. Urner Liddel, chief nuclear physicist for the Office of Naval Research...
...flying saucers, said Physicist Liddel, were actually giant plastic balloons called Skyhooks, which the Navy has been sending aloft since 1947 with electronic instruments to record cosmic rays. As the 100-ft. balloons soar higher & higher (maximum height: 19 miles) they expand, and are often pushed along by high-altitude winds at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. When seen from below, particularly when reflecting light rays from its underside, a Skyhook looks exactly like a big saucer...