New YorkerestEssential reads from every New Yorker issue

September 6, 1952

The New Yorker cover for September 6, 1952

Featured Pick

a reporter at large

SOMETHING IN THE SKY

Daniel Lang

REPORTER AT LARGE about Project Saucer, the Air Forces' investigation of reports of flying saucers. In Feb. 1951, Dr. Urner Liddel, a nuclear physicist…