“Matt Weinstock Column”
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No flying saucers have been publicly reported for several weeks now and there is reason for surmise that the political oratory has driven them back into outer space.
However, we are happy to report that there is activity, if unofficially reported. Some have gotten through. Probably built up an immunity to all the talk.
One day recently, 15 minutes before sunset, Frederick G. Hehr was sitting in Palisades Park, Santa Monica, chatting with a friend and watching the clouds streaming in over Pt. Mugu. All at once he noticed a brilliant dash of light in a break in the clouds. It was a sharply outlined object, brighter than the sunlit clouds. Soon it was joined by others, in a horizontal line. They simply “appeared,” without any sign of approach or slowing down, and hung there motionless.
They began taking off and reappearing, as Hehr describes it, “jumping around like fleas, winking out in one spot and almost instantly winking on miles away.” After about 10 minutes they vanished, one by one.
It’s Hehr’s belief that the objects, whatever they are, have gravity and therefore momentum under control because they can hang motionless for any length of time and take off and stop at speeds which would vaporize a battleship.
When he mentioned what he had seen to friends, he discovered several of them had also seen the discs. One man reported seeing a single disc hovering for two hours, making sudden jumps, disappearing and coming back, over the Topanga Canyon area. Others told of seeing lighted objects move at tremendous speed across the sky—too fast for a plane and too slow for a meteor. Another man said he hadn’t seen the discs this particular night but recently he stopped for some gas at a station near Fresno and noticed the attendant kept looking up. “Looking for flying saucers?" he joshed. "Why yes,” was the matter-of-fact reply, “they’ve been around here every day lately.”
Apparently people who see these things aren’t talking, the same as they aren't talking about who they’re going to vote for.
