A magazine, and an occasional judge of the strange. Popular Mechanics appears across this archive weighing in on cases decades apart. March 1910. It treated Wallace Tillinghast's claimed airship over New England as a hoax, after the promised public demonstration never came. In 1965, Robert Gannon of the magazine brought University of Arkansas professors to the Hornet Spook Light, where Prof. Jean Prideaux saw paired lights. Of the Trans-en-Provence case of 1981, it wrote that it was perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time.
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