Jan 14/5/53
Random Notes
Sailors Do See Flying Saucers—The Oldest Feud—England’s Blue Coat School
A DUNEDIN astronomer claims that flying saucers are very much open to doubt because there have never been reports of them from sailors, astronomers and scientists.
This is a somewhat general assertion in view of the fact that at 9.10 p.m. on August 25, 1951, Dr. W. I. Robinson, professor of geology at Texas Technological College, Lubbock, with two colleagues, Dr. A. G. Oberg, professor of chemical engineering, and Professor W. L. Ducker, head of the petroleum engineering department at the college, all saw a flying saucer. Suddenly all three saw what they described as about 30 luminous beads arranged in crescent shape race across the sky from horizon to horizon in a few seconds. Professor Ducker subsequently declared he had seen 12 flights of these curious luminous objects up to the end of November, 1951.
As for astronomers not seeing flying saucers, the discoverer of the planet Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, saw one in the summer of 1945 at Las Cruces, New Mexico. His wife and mother-in-law also saw the phenomenon and they agreed it was a solid ship of a kind they had never seen before and bore a resemblance to a long rocket-like ship, oval in shape, “trailing off at the rear into a shapeless, luminescence.”
As for sailors not seeing flying saucers, it would seem that they have been seeing them for years, anyway, from 1870 onward. On March 22 of that year the British barque Lady of the Lake was sailing in mid-Atlantic. Captain Frederick Banner and his crew observed in the half-light in the sky a grey, circular object, rigid in outline, coming up against the wind. It finally settled down right in the wind’s eye, before it became lost in the darkening sky. A sketch made by the captain and published later by the Royal Meteorological Society reveals that the strange object is almost identical with drawings made in the last few years of flying saucers. On February 28, 1904, naval Lieutenant Frank Schofield, of the U.S.S. Supply, reported three curious meteor-like objects, the leading one of which had an area of “about six sills,” and was egg-shaped. The three were travelling in echelon. They were sighted at 6.10 p.m. and all three made near approaches to the surface of the water and then soared away from the surface, “in a most remarkable manner.”
It would seem that flying saucers are not a new phenomenon. Sailors, scientists and even astronomers have reported seeing them for the last 80 years. This makes the whole matter rather curious and curious.
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