The article below was published in the daily newspaper Ottawa Journal, Ottawa, Canada, page 1, November 8, 1967.
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The all-points bulletin short-waved early this morning from the Eastern Ontario headquarters of the Ontario Provincial Police at Long Sault read:
"Be on the lookout for a 1962 model space ship from Mars."
This was the partly tongue-in-Cheel way the OPP had of reporting an Unidentified Flying Object had been sighted by six of its regional detachments.
It was seen by OPP officers patrolling out of Ottawa, Lancaster, Brockville, Long Sault, Renfre and Hawkesbury.
BRIGHT OBJECT
It was, they agreed, with only some slight variations, "a very bright object, larger and more brilliant than the stars that hovered, gleaming and fading with a regulat beat, low in the night sky."
And it was - some of the best of Ottawa's scientific minds agreed on the basis of very unscientific verbal reports - an Unidentified Flying Object.
But that doesn't - repeat does not - make it a flying saucer with those little green men aboard.
All knowledgeable hands, the Domiinion Observatory, the RCAF and the National Research Coumcil, long have known there are UFOs.
For the identifying of some of these flying object is part of their business.
The catch is that their consensus makes none of these UFOs "abnormal" - which means that if they can be identified, they likely can be scientifically accounted for.
GOOD PHOTO
The RCAF even has a good unretouched photo of a UFO, which is nothing more than an object in the sky that yet has to be identified.
Dr. Ian Halliday's division of meteor astronomy at the Dominion Observatory has collected reports of UFOs and investigated them, coming to the same conclusion that those they can't properly classify remain aerial objects lacking identification.
Dr. Richard S. Rettle, chief of the space research section of the National Research Council also tracks down reports of UFOs and is satisfied there is nothing, as he puts it, "abnormal" about these things. Breaking no scientific laws, all can be explain scientifically.
Which may or may not be a way of saying people who report UFOs have been seeing things.
UFOs yes - Flying Saucers, no.
Saucers, for the men who know about such things, are simply too unscientific.
