four Wish Is Reason /lying Saucers Seen EVANSTON, 111. — People see flying saucers” simply because they want to ice them, a North western University professor said recently. Basing his observations on a continuing study of public opinion ■onducted at the university over !he past several years. Dr. Curtis MacDougall. professor of journal ism, said that people become con vinced there arc sueh things as flying saucers or flying disks, look for them in the sky and conse quently think they see them. But he sees a ray of hope in our current attitude toward the phe nomenon. "We're improving," he said. "Today we at least accept a scientific explanation of the saucers, even though that explan ation may be space ships from Mars. It wasn't too many years ago when we would have labelled the thing as supernatural, rather than ‘super-scientific'.” Even five years ago. MacDougall notes, the scientists couldn't get a word in edgewise because of the apparent hysteria. Today we at least listen to their premise that unusual light refractions may be caused by varying temperatures of air layers We've had scales like this for years. MacDougall said, ranging from Edgar Allen Poe's trans-At lantic balloon hoax to Orson Welles’ famed Martian invasion broadcast "Maybe visitors from other plan ets would be a good thing," Mac Dougall conjectures. "It might serve to unify us for ‘peace on earth’.”

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