This article was published in the daily newspaper The New York Times, USA, on July 10, 1947.
The "Dither of the Disks" yesterday was spinning erratically somewhere between Mars and what a learned psychologist termed "the projection of a delusion."
In an astronomical area bordered by the upper reaches of the heavens and absurdity, these were some of the places heard from: United Nations at Lake Success, a town called Zabool in Iran, and another called Shosef, Dayton, Ohio, Boise, Idaho, Amsterdam, N.Y., and, though a little shamefacedly, [...]
[...] 1940 published a detailed report examining the panic that followed Orson Welles' "Invasion from Mars" broadcast and is expert in such matters as personalistic dimensions, ego-involvment and motivational causes.
Said Professor Crespi: "The real question is whether it (a 'vie' of a flying saucer) is an illusion with some objective reference or whether people who have 'seen' disks are delusionary in their source and are voicing a delusio or the pure projection of a delusion [...]