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An article from the Fairbanks Daily News Miner discusses the perception of flying saucers, suggesting they are friendly and curious rather than harmful. It recounts anecdotes of UFO sightings, including a Japanese pilot's encounter and humorous tales of extraterrestrials interacting with humans.
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AnecdotesMedia InfluencePublic PerceptionUFOs Cultural CommentaryExtraterrestrialflying saucersHumor
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. WASHINGTON—Flying saucers
are as pure a blessing as fresh air
and snowflakes, but—in our chur-
lish way—we insist on thinking
they’re out to get us. ;
The record proves these celestial
sprites never harm a soul, though
some humans do themselves in by
chasing them too far, too high or too
fast. Saucers are friendly, inquisi-
tive, fun-loving. Only pointy-head
bureaucrats call them UFOs.
- When a Japanese cargo pilot
spotted a giant walnut of a saucer,
“two times bigger-than an aircraft:
’ earrier;” flying formation with him
over the Arctic recently, hereacted
with characteristic humanoid skit-
tishness. He got FAA permission to
take evasive maneuvers: :
Silly. boy. Nobody evades a sauc- _
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By SUE CROSS
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’” T’ve followed’saucers since their-
_ debut in 1947: In the late ’50s, as an
Air Force reservist, I hada desk in
an intelligence shop next to the Pro-
ject Blue Book officer who resear-
ched'all saucer sightings:- _
. He found the saucers curious ah-
out everything on earth, especially - -
junk food. A gentleman in the Mid-
west once came uponseveral extra- .
territorials picnicking by a parked
saucer. He sent ina sample of what:?
they. had been eating. Chemical -
analysis showed ‘it to be pancake .
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knows flapjack eaters are laid back-
and mellow, If saucer:crews. were .
mean-spirited ideologues like Patz.
All-Bran and fried eggs like.other:
curmudgeons. ' .*
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national product, providing weekly
articles for.the tabloids supermar-
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