The Press: Monkey Business

In a letter to the Washington Post, a reader last week offered the latest explanation of flying saucers: "The sky over the United States is saturated with TV waves from all over the country which get scrambled together . . . Occasionally waves of the same frequency from Gorgeous George's torso get jammed between those from Faye Emerson's neckline and those from the profile of Miss America. When that happens . . . it makes the masculons and the femitrons in the stratosphere fly off on tangents in all directions at high speeds—hence flying saucers. They are just electronic illusions caused...

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