[BLANK] reported disc saucer observation — January 12, 1938

Robinson observed that in the case of this flight, an irregularly shaped yellow light appeared in the rear. The professors claim 12 "official sightings." They do not completely accept the photographs taken by Carl Hart, and state that, had they felt it possible, they would have made every effort to take photographs themselves, but that the objects moved too fast. They attempted to tie up the two, but could find no association between the fireballs and the flying objects that they had seen. Such persistent horizontality stands in the sharpest contrast to the downwardly concave paths traversed by genuine meteorites, when these penetrate deeply into the atmosphere of the earth.") ((In the case of genuine meteorite falls, with luminous paths terminating even at heights considerably greater than those at which the real paths of the green fireballs are situated, the observed luminous phenomena are always accompanied by extraordinarily violent noises. No noises whatever have been observed in connection with any one of the horizontally-moving green fireballs.)) ((The anomalous greenish luminous phenomena show a curious association with well-known meteor showers, although none of these annual meteor showers normally produce extremely bright green fireballs. FOR Flying pie-pan UAO hoaxes have been almost non-existent in recent years, but Air Force files still contain records of some of the early hoaxes. As he stood looking over the prospects he heard a loud whirring and looking up saw a bright, silvery disc, which appeared to him to be spitting fire and smoke. He had launched the thing from the roof of the building and, true to plan, it had actually landed near his employer's car. Astronomical, meteorological, and light phenomena, or simply failure of observers to recognize familiar objects in the air for what they really are, may explain many reported UAO sightings. Never having observed anything so awesome in the skies before, he is convinced that he must have seen an interplanetary space ship. What he has seen and heard tallies very closely with the frequently observed and startling phenomena of light and sound that often accompany the fall of meteorites. Those which partly survive the friction of the earth's atmosphere and fall to the ground, frequently with the startling light and sound effects reported by our observer, are called meteorites.