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Flying Saucers: An Opening Salvo of the Cold War? (tandfonline.com)
11 points by nickcotter 8 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Makes sense; iirc the Enigma code was broken in part due to many / all messages having the same "heil hitler" sign at the end. Encouraging the messages to use the same words - like "flying saucer" or "ufo" - would help with the decoding process.


I recall reading the 'ghost rockets' craze in Sweden at the time was part of an operation to probe Soviet radar capabilities.




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