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English UFO hoaxers exhibit mold they used to make 4i/2-foot fiberglass "saucers," containing batteries and radio, that they strewed about country. Disks beeped when police gingerly picked them up. wrong as might be expected of fefrible human eyes at night. One was "just a few yards away" at treetop level; the actual altitude was about 100 miles. A woman declared her dog lay down and whimpered in fright; quite likely, it sensed her own agitation at the sight. All in all, here was a classic example of how a weird UFO tale can be born. Before it was through, the Colorado study took a look at a strange fancy—a planet "Clarion," a twin of earth, circling in the same orbit and forever hidden from us by the sun. Since Mars and Venus look inhospitable, UFO enthusiasts devised Clarion for UFO's to come from. For the study, the motions of a hypothetical planet Clarion were calculated by computer at the U.S. Naval Observatory, It couldn't Stay hidden; within 30 years, because of perturbations from other planets, it would peep out beyond the sun's edge. (Long before, astronomers would know it was there, by its effect on the motions of Venus.) The ingenious notion of Clarion evaporated. One vaunted "saucer" photo from Brazil branded itself a forgery; the sun impossibly cast shadows in opposite directions on the disk and the landscape below, How easily others could be faked—as by tossing a disk in the air-Dr. Hartmann Is report a "trick" or treat? showed by doing it himself. Those are high spots of the Condon re- Another fourth of the photos were of port. Understandably, UFO fanatics odd clouds and other identifiable things— including a flying ring, snapped by a priwould like to see flaws in it. Even before its appearance, screams of "foul" arose vate at Fort Belvoir, Va., that proved a —with the coming to light of a memo smoke ring from a device to simulate a written away back when the University nuclear-bomb blast. of Colorado was still wondering if it could And that was the photo evidence—for take on an UFO study without impairthe remaining pictures were too distant ing its scientific reputation, or fuzzy to make anything of them. The "trick" might be to investigate Most stories of fantastic-looking aerial UFO witnesses rather than UFO's, sugcraft come from reputable, intelligent gested the memo from a university official, witnesses, says the report. Is it credible Seizing upon the unhappily chosen word, that so many can be mistaken? A re- the saucer set saw a plot to "trick" the vealing answer was given by the reentry public. But the fact is that the memo's of the Soviet satellite Zond 4 in 1968. It suggestion was flatly rejected, anyway, broke up into fragments that arced across Actually the study was aimed squarely the evening sky in a fiery procession seen at seeking physical UFO evidence, as was from Kentucky to Pennsylvania. Then came the UFO reports. made obvious by choosing a physicist to head it (not a psychologist or sociologist) Many observers reported seeing a huge and by its tools and techniques, airship with lighted windows—an illusion Naturally the Condon report won't end that the Condon report calls the "airship the UFO controversy. Those who want effect." Since the lights were moving to- to believe in flying saucers will go right gether, witnesses imagined that there on doing it; no study can possibly prove must be some connecting structure— there's no such thing. But the chances which they then thought they saw—and of ever finding a real saucer look a whole that the lights were windows in it. lot more remote, after you read the Con- Estimates of distance were as wildly don report, than before. HU 76 POPULAR SCIENCE
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