[Ads-l] The first "flying saucers"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Namely, clay pigeons:

1890 Dayton [O.] Herald (Feb. 19) 4:  Let us hope that those uninterested
will pick up a gun and try hitting a flying saucer.

1896 Omaha Daily Bee (Apr. 22) 7: She shatters the flying saucers
with...neatness and dispatch.

1898  The Sun (Baltimore) (Oct. 12) 8: A strong wind from the southwest
made marksmanship at the flying saucers anything but an easy task.

1915 Salt Lake Herald-Republican (Apr. 4) (Sports Sec.) [unp.]: The sudden,
freaky turns that these flying saucers take are most disconcerting.

1944 The Landmark (White River Junction, Vt.) (Mar. 2) 7: Flying saucers
are knocking Axis airplanes out of the sky.

1946 Pittsburgh Press (Sept. 1) 11 : There is no apparent effort as he
powders the flying saucers.


JL
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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