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Thursday 10 July 1947
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SEEING THINGS
Early in February, some queer egg-shaped objects, pink and slightly luminous, were seen to pass across the sky near Port
Augusta; but this phenomenon was hardly so much as a nine days" wonder, for a South Aus tralian amateur astronomer was ready with a plausible theory about meteors, which most people promptly accepted. We now know that, in the slang of the moment. Port Augusta "started something." The egg-shaped ; apparitions about which South Australia was mildly excited five months since, were plainly die harbingers of those "flying saucers" that have been creating such a sensation in Ame rica. ? Our trans-Pacific cousins have seldom given their imaginations so much play. Multitudes of people have seen the new hosts of heaven flying across the sky in the likeness of saucers; and those who have seen nothing, have been ready to make amends by offer ing '-'explanations" of ever increasing fantasy. It was left to a Sydney physiol ogist to point out that "flying saucers" are likely to be-nothing worse than red corpuscles in the ?ye.jof she observer,, andf several American and British scientists having hastened to agree that this is a valid theory, the greatest known epidemic of "seeing things" may fairly be supposed< to be on the wane. |