Aug 17 1967
From The Space Library
Photo of the earth in the near full phase transmitted by Lunar Orbiter V [see Aug. 5-27] was a "fraud, a fake, a piece of trickery or deceit," Samuel Shenton, Secretary of the International Flat Earth Research Society, told newsmen in London. "Look at the photograph the satellite supposedly took. Notice those lines across the bottom of the picture. They show it's a composite, a mock-up." Asked why U.S. should seek to perpetrate such a deception, Shenton replied: "`It's all part of the great global earth conspiracy, and it's a shame." Members of the International Flat Earth Research Society believed that the earth is not only flat, but static in space. They also maintained that the theory of gravity was advanced only to support the belief that the earth spins. (AP, B Sun, 8/18/67)
St. Louis Univ. scientists Drs. F. C. Bates and Albert Pallman were studying structure and circulation of the lower Martian atmosphere to aid NASA in deciding whether to use a hard-or soft-landing spacecraft on first Mars mission. (UPI, NYT, 8/17/67,24)
North American Air Defense Command (NORAD ) announced officially that no flying saucers, no extraterrestrial spacecraft, and no "unfriendly objects" had ever been identified by air forces over U.S. or Canada: "There have been thousands of reports about official air force stands on UFOS from the widest variety of sources over the years-but so far as the command is aware, it never has been shown anything but natural atmospheric or astronomical phenomena or airborne objects, birds, insects, hardware seen under unusual circumstances, or misinterpreted.', (Thomas, C Trib, 8/18/67,1)
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