This article was published in the daily newspaper The New York Times, USA, on July 10, 1947.
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The "Dither of the Disks" yesterday was spinning erratically somewhere between Mars and what a learned psychologist termed "the projection of a delusion."
In an astronomical area bordered by the upper reaches of the heavens and absurdity, these were some of the places heard from: United Nations at Lake Success, a town called Zabool in Iran, and another called Shosef, Dayton, Ohio, Boise, Idaho, Amsterdam, N.Y., and, though a little shamefacedly, [...]
[...] 1940 published a detailed report examining the panic that followed Orson Welles' "Invasion from Mars" broadcast and is expert in such matters as personalistic dimensions, ego-involvment and motivational causes.
Said Professor Crespi: "The real question is whether it (a 'vie' of a flying saucer) is an illusion with some objective reference or whether people who have 'seen' disks are delusionary in their source and are voicing a delusio or the pure projection of a delusion [...]