Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 46 — page 146: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION ful Quickfit ground glass joints make the setting up of compli- cated assemblies an easy task. And it now seems as though that oldest chemical operation, the manipulation of a pipette, will join the ranks of nostalgic methodological memories. For Shandon, the progressive scientific instrument makers, have now put on the market a device—called a Pumpett— that not only sucks up liquids into pipettes but holds them there and lets them out at a steady rate. The rather crude control by a dampened index finger is now replaced by pre- cise and regulated apparatus. The United States Depart- ment of Defence has issued a “Fact Sheet”? containing the official news and views of Air Force investigators on flying saucer phenomena. The following are extracts from it: “The majority of sightings 145 could be accounted for as mis- interpretations of conven- tional objects, such as balloons and aircraft. Others could be explained as meteorological phenomena or light reflections from crystallised particles in the upper atmosphere. Some were determined to be hoaxes. However, there still remained a few unexplained sightings. “There are a small number of unexplained reports which involve a combination of see- ing the object and detecting it on radar simultaneously. In each case the object appeared at night and had the appear- ance of simple lights. **. . . special photographic equipment has been developed for distribution to selected air base control towers and Air Defence Command radar sites ... As yet, no photo- graphs from these cameras have been received.” comiclooks.cormn