The article below was published in the daily newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, Strasbourg, France, pages 1 and 6, on August 7, 1952.
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WASHINGTON. — According to a report published by the newspaper "Washington Star" and circulated by the American news agency "Associated Press", physicist Noël W. Scott is said to have conducted a series of experiments during which miniature "flying saucers" were reproduced inside glass vacuum chambers in front of Army engineers at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
In the laboratories of that city, Mr. Scott demonstrated that by gradually allowing certain amounts of air into a vacuum chamber and subjecting this air to static electricity using a metal ring at the base of the chamber, one could produce strange phenomena corresponding to descriptions of "flying saucers."
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Witnesses of the experiment stated that after the air was introduced and static electricity applied, orange balloons surrounded by glowing Saturn-like rings rose inside the chamber. A photograph published on the front page of the "Washington Star" shows, against a black background, an image resembling the mushroom cloud of an atomic explosion surrounded by a large luminous ring.
Experts point out that the conditions prevailing in the vacuum chamber during the experiment can be compared to those in the relative vacuum at an altitude of approximately 300 kilometers. "Flying saucers" would therefore be nothing more than phenomena of static electricity and air intake at very high altitudes.
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