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Show r i I December DESERET NEWS, Thurjday, 2 18, 1969 - Moon SAN FRANCISCO -- (UPI) geophysicist government mvs the moon may be responsible for life on the earxh, and insists that his scientific speculess improbable lation is A thin other explanations." Dr. S. Fred Singer, deputy assistant secretary for scientific programs in the Interior Department, outlined his theory on the moon's origin and Its link to the beginning of life at a meeting of the American o Geophysical Union. said cataclysmic Singer changes inside the earth four billion years ago when the captured" the moon planet as its satellite could have started the processes which led to man. Rocks brought back by Apollo 11 astronauts and recent calculations on the gravita Life tional interaction of the earth, moon and sun, made his hypothecs the "least improbable" tehory of themoon's ri-gSinger said. He said the moon was a sister planet" of the earth which circled the sun in a similar orbit. At some time shortly after the formation of the two planets, the moon origi-anal- ly The distortions of the earth's interior and the huge energy releases as it slowed djwn produced enough heat to melt the rocks deep inside The sicken core released passed the earth, was captured by its gravitational attraction and pulled into orbit around it The result was cataclysmic, with the moon's tidal fon.es which still regulate the earth's ocean tides pulling the earth out of its spherical shape into the form of "a football, Singer said. The earth, which had been spinning once every five hours, slowed down to something nearer the present day. ember m - A stneer-witchln- association g today welcomed the Air Forces decision to stop its investlgatitd of flying saucers. It paves the way for a fresh, more ough scientific study, the group said. The National Investigations Committee for Aerial Phenomethor- na (NICAP) said Air Force abandonment of the Project bluebook program means unidentified can flying objects (UFOs) now be given the serious scientific attention they require, free from military considerations." Air Force Secretary Robert C. Seamans Jr. said in announcing termination of the bluebook program that it no longer can be justified either on the ground of national security or in the interest of science. The Air Force said investigated 12,618 it had - GLENDALE (UPI) Two gunmen wearing stocking caps pulled over their faces stole three antique necklaces valued at $250,000 In a daylight robbery Wednesday at I orest Lawn Memorial Farit The two men, armed with automatic pistols, herded six visitors and employes of the cemetery into an office adjoining a rotunda where a large collection of jewels was displayed. One of the men broke a glass display case and took die necklaces. developed, from which 15 billion years ago came the almost inevitable development of primitive life. Such life, in turn, produced the oxygen-ric- h atmosphere which gave rise to higher life form? As you can see, therefore, I li JA capture of the moon, which is a fairly rare and rather improbable event, with the equally rare type of te DOZEN any threat to national eerurity or of origin on another planet A NICAP spokesman insisted that any sighting that remained unidentified remained a serious problem and that a small percentage of all these reports appear to be explainable by only one hypothesis; namely, the extraterrestrial hypothesis." 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