La Vanguardia- Domingo 31 de Octubre de 1954
POR parte de muchos de mis lectores recibo cartas interesándose para que me ocupe de los platillos volantes que, de algún tiempo a esta parte, llenan con grandes titulares las páginas de la,Prensa francesa y empiezan a invadir las de la española. Es éste, sin embargo, un tema al cual no me resulta grato referirme, sencillamente porque es uno de aquellos en que más se ha mezclado la fantasía. En 1952 me nombraron corresponsal en España de la «N. Y. Research Association for Meteors» de los Estados Unidos, entidad que tiene por objeto, además del estudio meteors, just the data on the appearance of flying saucers. Since then provided them with different information.
But I have failed by a very simple reason. Almost always it was they who asked me to me about flying saucers appearances took place in Spain, of which I had not heard or knew positively that there were no more than the imagination of some pranksters or people certainly in good faith but confused with other phenomena such appearances or other occurrences that had nothing to do with what is supposed to be flying saucers, spaceships from other worlds. These alleged apparitions in a tabloid published in a newspaper, had come to the United States.
I have not yet had the chance to see with my own eyes no flying saucer. Instead, I have seen several items that many took as such or as to their effects: balloons drifting in the atmosphere, static or moving slowly and then retreating, contrails formed by jets, which, due to its height, were invisible, being so, however, for long, wispy clouds composed of ice crystals at altitudes of 3 and 10,000 feet above sea level, spectacular fireball, with relative frequency go through our sky, being only observed by few people. But, of course, the fact that I have seen them means absolutely nothing. Many years ago a dear friend of mine, a medical doctor who spent the summer in a rural population of Catalonia, was asked, about two o'clock in the morning, to visit a sick woman. It was a matter of moving to a farmhouse deep in the countryside, far from it. The night was unusually quiet and the stars twinkled in the sky, as they usually shine in the field and at that hour before dawn.
My friend went on and admired, at the same time, the grand spectacle of the starry world, which is always awesome. Suddenly he saw advancing a thin disk luminosity at a considerable height. At that time, a dozen years ago, barely speaking of flying saucers. When I reported the fact, and assuming that it would be a fireball, I made the questions of rigor:
- crossed the space in a particular direction?
"Yes.
"The way the sky was it something quick?
-was moving slowly. Remained in the sky about two minutes.
- Did you follow a straight line?
-No. Advanced and then retreated.
was clear that this was not a meteor, because they, through space with apparently uniform speed, follow straight paths and their appearance in the sky is a matter of seconds, sometimes exploding at high altitude and resulting in a intense brightness red or green. But a meteor burst occurs sometimes a cloud of gases that, so in regions where low temperatures prevail, lead to something permanent cloud formation the wind round or disintegrates, or take one to the other side.
However, in the case of my friend doctor, worthy of confidence, it was clear that the phenomenon could not be confused with the passage of a meteor.
A little over a year, ie during the last days of June 1953, was seen in the sky, from Mallorca and from Ibiza, an object which newspapers rarely talked much at that time. Observed at first glance looked quite oval, but through binoculars as it was similar to an arrowhead.
seems that Ibiza fishermen discovered it at five in the afternoon of 17 June. Was visible on successive days
from two pm until shortly after sunset as a bright object located at a height that was estimated at about 45 kilometers. The observation was supported by another friend of mine, a young student of the Faculty of Science
University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhich was then in the beautiful Balearic island.
The Press has published many other cases and, until recently, photographs of flying saucers or cigars. This means that something exists. And it deserves to be studied from a strictly objective point of view, as is being done from the United States. Lay statements or denials following subjective premature skepticism or credulity in which no has great value.
more than a century ago Arago, in his "Popular Astronomy," said
hiciesen "If I just this question: is lived in the sun? Answer I do not know. Now if I were asked if the Sun "may" be inhabited by beings organized in a manner similar to that inhabit our globe, would not hesitate to answer affirmatively.
This manifestation of Arago, which today seems a complete nonsense, could be done at that time still dominated the ideas of Herschel, whereby the solar balloon consisted of a dark core relatively cold and surrounded by an atmosphere in which floated a layer of highly reflective clouds that spread by
light space of the outer layer, or photosphere. Today we know that the core, instead of being cold, has a very high temperature of millions of degrees.
Arago's mistake was to lay a claim for which she was not ready yet the science of the time,
and shows how carefully we should proceed when it comes to things that are not familiar with proper accuracy.
In the case of flying saucers is therefore necessary to observe and studied. And while we wait for
front of our window and pass one of those rare artifacts and technicians to pursue with the supersonic aircraft, we reflect on two facts: the first is that the alleged flying saucer seen just as several nations are engaged with great zeal to build powerful weapons and completely new features and the results of attempting to maintain the strictest secrecy. And second, in the case of the visit of supposed inhabitants of Mars, or whatever. from a world that seems logical to develop more advanced than our earth, it is very unlikely that they had not been happened to come here many centuries ago and they did now, just as between us has developed a taste for space travel, with greater intensity after the Second World War due to progress in the art of rocket fire.
In fact, there are two circumstances that continue to be significant. Federico
ARMENTO
ABC News
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