However, he also argued that "only the saucer proponents could have converted so trivial a series of events – a few stalled automobiles, balls of flame in the sky at the end of the thunderstorm – into a national mystery."
しかしながら、彼はまた「円盤の支持者だけが、あまりにささいな一連の出来事 - 立ち往生した自動車数台、雷雨の終わりの空の火炎の球 - を、国民的な謎に転換したはずである」 ("only the saucer proponents could have converted so trivial a series of events – a few stalled automobiles, balls of flame in the sky at the end of the thunderstorm – into a national mystery") と主張した。