ARE flying saucers real? “Certainly,” says Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Harvard professor of astrophysics. “They are as real as rainbows. No one should be ashamed of seeing them and reporting them. I have ...

NASA has just sent a spacecraft into orbit that looks less like a traditional satellite and more like something from a 1950s movie set, a sleek disk that immediately invites the phrase “flying saucer.