The Hindu : dated November 27, 1953: Saucers in the sky

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dated November 27, 1953: Saucers in the sky

From the Editorials: The flying saucer is gaining in plausibility, when imperturbable Whitehall can unbend so far as to evince a remote curiosity in it, the rest of the world may well be on the qui vive. The fighting services of Britain are staidly conservative. They have always calmly ignored giddy talk of invasions of the Earth from Mars. That they should now have formally taken note of flying saucers may itself be regarded as a first victory for the mysterious craft. In the United States the reaction has been more characteristically specific and statistical. The American War Office, after having carefully analysed all the accumulated data, is satisfied that fifteen per cent of all saucer sightings cannot be properly accounted for by conventional knowledge.

Who indeed would lightly talk of a wholly undreamt of world playing Peeping Tom with us on Earth, and indeed taking an unhealthily active interest in our doings? One recalls the dread which came upon Robinson Crusoe when he saw that foot-print in the sand. Yet, as of now, a mild excitement is probably the only sentiment newspaper readers feel over reports of Flying Saucer sightings. There is no reason to think that the Saucers are humanly made. Defoe's Crusoe lived to bless the day he saw the foot-print, for it brought him Man Friday. It is too much to hope that Flying Saucers may prove, likewise, a blessing from space.

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