“Dash of Horse Sense Brakes
Optimism Over Space Travel”, 5 September 1952
(The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington)
The Spokesman-Review reports on the International Congress of Astronautics that was held in Stuttgart, Germany in September 1952:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8C5WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8eUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4767,1195655
Quote from the article:
“They do not appear interested in such popular questions as the origin of flying saucers. The delegates gave the impression that no one thought the saucers originated in another planet or in the Soviet Union.
Arthur C. Clarke, chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, pointed out that objects like saucers have been commonplace to Japanese fishermen for years. Saucers themselves thus are not new, he said, but are merely appearing in areas where they have not been observed in the past.”
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, UK Science Fiction Author,
Inventor & Futurist (wikimedia.org photo)