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Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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The U.S. Navy unveils a discus-shaped radar device called a "flying saucer" in South Weymouth, Mass., mounted on a WV-2E aircraft to enhance air defense by detecting threats from sea level to 100,000 feet.
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SOUTH WEYMOUTH, Mass., (AP) —The Navy publicly unveils today a "flying saucer" its newest air defense patrol device.
Termed the "strangest shape in the sky," the discus-shaped saucer rides piggy-back on a huge radar research plane and is a sky sentinel that can detect and warn of enemy attack over vast distances.
The radar flying saucer - the name the Navy gave it-is expected to bolster greatly the perimeter of America's air defense.
The saucer is a 37-foot-wide radome which rotates during flight and is carried by a huge aircraft known as WV-2E, resembling a Super Constellation airliner. The plane was built by Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
The disc is in effect a super vision electronic eye that can report on objects in the sky from sea level to 100,000 feet altitudes.
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South Weymouth, Mass.
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Today
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expected to bolster greatly the perimeter of america's air defense
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The Navy publicly unveils a discus-shaped saucer, termed the "strangest shape in the sky," that rides piggy-back on a huge radar research plane known as WV-2E, resembling a Super Constellation airliner built by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. The 37-foot-wide radome rotates during flight and can detect and warn of enemy attack over vast distances, reporting on objects in the sky from sea level to 100,000 feet altitudes.