In honor of the 58th anniversery

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Roswell: “A Physicist’s Tale,” by Dave Thomas*,
with apologies to G. Chaucer.

A physicist there was, called by his king,
To listen for fearful weapons’ eerie ring,
Yet his efforts vanish’d, into the sky,
Leaving him sadly to wonder why.
But his package was found, by caprice,
And a farmhand took it in, to the police.
The King’s best flyers were called in, and then,
The Major said “This came Not from Men.”
Now believers of aliens much ado make,
And museums honor a physicist’s mistake.

* First Read on Jan. 12, 2005, at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Physics Teachers