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ported observers suarantee their observations. Unfortunately there were ny reports of curious phenomena by pilots dvurirg the war - the incident of the fire-ball fishters c mind Further, mariners have been re- porting sea-serpents for hundreds of years vet mo one hes yet produced a le +6 wovl interesting to tabulste the responses to see how reliable were the revorts on the Ja ese balloons during the war. There we had a n to be real. ; it is interestine that the reports swiftly reech a maximum frequency durin end of June 19/;7 and ther slowly tanor off. We can assume that this is actuaily an indication of how mam objects were actually about, or yu: differently, we can take th: frequency curve as indicating something about mass psycholory. This point can bse tested. Suppose the vonulat is momentarily ex- cited; how doc s the frequency of revorts var th time? A study cf crank lethers received after the recent publicity riven to the satelite prorram should cive the order for t! A larre Wer 4 a. = artian ohably nec the un- t ourve and the ec cer curv shoul b similar in flvine disks to be classed as lilucinations. scale exreriment was made at the time of Orson Walles's deast. records of thi ust persist in newspeper Declassification Authority: NND 57565