'A very special relationship': SHOT and the smithsonian' museum of history And technology

摘要

Friday, 23 May 1958, a fair spring day in Cleveland. The Plain Dealer head- lined the accidental explosion of eight Nike missiles at Middletown, New Jersey, with a death toll of seven or more. Editorially it lamented "Soviet Russia's present leadership in the field of rocketry," and a news item quoted A man identified as "America's chief tracer of unidentified flying objects" on The danger of withholding UFO information from the public: "Russia Might claim flying saucers as a propaganda 'secret weapon' at any time."