This article was published in the daily newspaper The New York Times, USA, on March 12, 1959.
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WELLINGTON. New Zealand, March 11 (Reuters) -- Rear Admiral George Dufek said today that he did not think the existence of flying saucers could be discounted.
"I think it is very stupid for human beings to think no one else in the universe is as intelligent as we are" he said.
Admiral Dufek, retiring as commander of the United States research and exploration program in the Antarctic is returning home.
He said it was not beyond possibility that meteors that exploded in the Earth's atmosphere were saucers driven from Venus or other planets by intelligent creatures."
Note: rumours associating "hollow Earth" theories and exploration of the Antarctic by Admiral Byrd and Rear Admiral Dufek circulate. In my opinion the Earth is not hollow, but maybe, just maybe, one could try to check if at some occasion Dufek sighted a UFO or was informed of UFO sightings.
