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propulsion. June 11, 1954. Scientists hypothesized that the objects had been traveling through space, had been caught by the gravitational pull of the earth, and had become temporary satellites until the atmosphere had eventually disintegrated them. The meteor-satellites had passed over some of Canada's largest centers of population, continued across the United States, over the Bermudas, and on into Brazil before they had vanished from sight. In 1913, it would have been most startling to suggest that the objects might not have been meteors at all but intelligently manned space craft which, far from disintegrating over the northeast tip of Brazil, had made the decision to return to outer space after a partial orbit of the earth. Although it is impossible to make a very strong case either pro-saucer or pro-meteor-satellite at this late date, a most extraordinary incident that took place on the afternoon of the following day adds another dimension to the mystery. Three groups of "solid, dark objects" passed above the city of Toronto. It was then broad daylight and surely, in 1913, it would have been impossible to mistake a sputtering formation of primitive airplanes for anything other than the fragile craft that they were. According to the Toronto Star: "They passed from west to east in three groups, and then returned in more scattered formation, seven or eight in all." Professor Chant, in the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, had second thoughts about the aerial show in an arithmetical progression and that the tails of the "meteors" had seemed strangely like rocket It would be foolish to assert that every "falling star" is in reality a flying saucer, but a disturbing number of today's scientists blandly write off the sightings of responsible citizens and trained observers as being just another case of the mistaken identity of a meteor or a planet. One such acid-tongue skeptic was Dr. H. Percy Wilkins, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and one of the world's most eminent authorities on the moon. Dr. Wilkins had once told an interviewer: "I am not only a skeptic but a firm unbeliever in any such objects." That was before Dr. Wilkins saw three saucers of his own on an airplane flight to Atlanta, Georgia on In bright sunlight, at an altitude of about 8,000 feet, Dr. Wilkins saw two shiny, oval-shaped objects hovering above two cumulus cloud formations. "They were sharp-edged, glittering like burnished gold in