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Force had listed. year." question. Robert Risser, director of the Oklahoma Science and Art Foundation Planetarium in Oklahoma City, spoke out and said that observers in Oklahoma had definitely not seen the planet or stars that the Air "That is as far from the truth as you can get," Risser stated bluntly. "Somebody has made a mistake. These stars and planets are on the opposite side of the earth from Oklahoma City at this time of the The Fort Worth, Texas Star Telegram proclaimed: "They can stop kidding us now about there being no such things as ‘flying saucers.’ "Too many people of obviously sound mind saw and reported them independently from too many separate localities. Their descriptions of what they saw were too similar to one another and too unlike any familiar object. "And it's going to take more than a statistical report on how many reported 'saucers' have turned out to be jets and weather balloons to convince us otherwise." The Denver Post took immediate issue with the Air Force analysis of the hectic saucer weekend. "Stars of a summer night don't cause blips on ordinary radar, and those things observed on the radar screens of the Wichita weather bureau understandably have caused more than the usual seasonal excitement over unidentified flying objects. "The blips indicated the same kind of objects that were reported over at least six western states, including Colorado and Wyoming. Maybe it's time for more people to get serious about the UFO "But we'll take our tongue out of our cheek long enough to urge that the Air Force look into this latest flurry of sightings and then tell us something besides the fact that they are under investigation."