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NASA launches a strange flying saucer-like spacecraft

NASA has just sent a spacecraft into orbit that looks less like a traditional satellite and more like something from a 1950s ...
IFLScience

Flying Saucers Are Real (But They Were Made By MIT, Not Aliens)

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
Time

An Astronomer’s Explanation: THOSE FLYING SAUCERS

ARE flying saucers real? “Certainly,” says Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Harvard professor of astrophysics. “They are as real as rainbows. No one should be ashamed of seeing them and reporting them. I have ...
Grand Forks Herald

Why was 1947 known as the 'Summer of the Flying Saucer?'

What exactly was in the air that summer? Reports of “flying saucers” -- a new term -- flooded into police stations and newspapers all over the U.S., including in the Upper Midwest. In the summer of ...
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North Dakotans were along for the ride in 1947’s 'Summer of the Flying Saucer'

FARGO — I can only imagine what it would have been like to live through the summer of 1947, when people kept an eye on the sky wondering what they might see next. A bird? A plane? Superman? Nope. In ...