The Baytown Sun from Baytown, Texas • Page 6

Wednesday, September, 21, SCIENTIST BELIEVES UFOS MIGHT BE INSECTS DENVER, Colo. (AP) Are some of those Unidentified Flying Objects recently sighted over parts of the United States merely flying ants or other insects with a "glow" ou? Norton T. Novitt, an amateur Denver scientist whose hobby the study of the electric properties of insects, thinks it's highly possible. Not necessarily insects with a built-in glow, such as fireflies, but insects which have somehow attracted an electric charge so great that they give off lights. In 20 years of UFO sighting reports other scientists have said the shiny-bodies insects might be mistaken during day- light for flying saucers- Bat the glowing insect theory is original with Novitt, a scientific illustrator with the U.S.

Geological Survey in Denver- And he believes it may account for a small part of the per cent of UFOs which the Air Force admits it cannot explain. It all started with Novitt three summers ago when he was a member of a Denver moon- watch team, one of the groups of volunteers around the country who help the National Aeronautics and Space Administration keep track of some of the large artificial satellites. N'ovitt had set up a telescope in a vacant lot to see if he could Motorola Color TV AT B. F. GOODRICH 514 W.

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It soon was joined by a second object. Fascinated, he watched the two objects descend until they nearly reachec the ground. Taking his eye from telescope he was startled find that the apparent landini site was in front of a garage a short distance away. Hg hurriec to the spot and found tw winged ants. He surmised the bright ligh fie had observed was sunligh from their iridescen bodies.

Research produced the that at certain times of the yea male and female ants sprou wings to take part in an air some mating ritual. The winget ants gradually group togethe hto giant swarms, som esti mated to contain as many as 37 million, to set up new ant colonies. He's 'King Of Road' COLLEGE STATION. Tex Hall, for good rea son, is known around here as "Jong of the road. 1 He travels about 24,000 miles year to aid 22 telephone cooperatives in Texas.

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Jarrell of Texas Craig He wondered what these giant swarms would took like at night they could glow. Perhaps ants could pick up enough static electricity to make them give off light. To find out he glued 24 ants around the outside of a plastic ball. A static electric generator was connected to the ball with a thi wire. The ball was suspended from the ceiling of his xmie laboratory with threads.

Sure enough, wheniie cranked the generator the entire ball seemed to glow with a dim blue light. The bodies of the ants were discernible as brighter specks of light as the electricity drained off them into space. "It's simply an emission of electric corona light," he ex- jlained. The hovered, moved er- ractically as pulses of static electricity drained off with dif- "ering intensities from the ants, also gave off a crackling sound. Novitt said a swarm of million ants would emit a very loud, humming or buzz- ng noise.

"No new scientific principles are involved." he said. "It is rather an application of a natural combination of the principles of three sciences meteorology, atmospheric jhysics, electrostatics of assem- small airborne objects: and entomology, gathering of nsects." He said the samfr is of gossamer, the networks of cobwebs that float in the air during spider migration seasons. The Denver experimenter believes there arc at least four ways in which ants apparently can pick up a glow: Ants often swarm right alter a thunderstorm which has left the air saturated with a different kind of charge than there was just befor the storm. Individual ants become charged on the ground and then join a swarm, creating a mass of many different electrical charges. Ants fly through successively more highly charged layers of air.

Ants create their own static electricity by rubbing together in flight, much like a person does when he shuffles across a rug. "The theory," he said, "logically explains many of the characteristics of the UFO phenomena such as materialization and disappearance, hovering and departure, glowing and pulsating lights of various colors, apparent high velocity rotation of the objects, varieties of shapes and sizes, humming noises, pitting of ground surfaces, scorching of vegetation, residues of chemical substances, seasonal appearance in late summer and Indian summer, and lack of communication with the airborn objects." SPECIAL GUESTS at the September meeting of the Baytown Chapter, Texas Society of Professional Engineers, shown here with A. R- Zubik (left), chapter chairman of education committee, are: Levester L. Smith, faculty sponsor of Carver High School Junior Engineering and Technical Society; Wayne Smith, president of Carver JETS; Richard Ruckman, presi- dent of Robert E. Lee High School JETS; Jim Lee High facultv-sponsor; and Al Tipps, chairman, science ment at Sterling High SchooL John J.

McKetta, dean of engineering school. University of Texas, was the principal speaker at the meeting. His subject was New Trends in Enirineering Education. Animal Hypnosis Is Researched COLLEGE STATION, Tex. W.

R. Klemm, associate professor of physiology in Texas University's biology department, is researching animal hypnosis for the U.S. Public Health Service. Dr, Klemm's studies, supported by a $24,504 grant, involve physiological mechanisms of hypnosis. He's seeking to learn how animal hypnosis relates to human hypnosis, sleep and certain psychotic withdraw! states in humans.

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