PROVO AIRPORT, UTAH

Provo Airport was located on the eastern shore of Utah Lake. It had a manned tower, and those manning the tower had the best view of the panel from anywhere in the valley. The controllers tower listened to this transmission and realized that all the inbound and outbound air traffic south of Salt Lake International Airport flew directly over where the panel was located. After a hasty consultation with the controllers at SLC, all aircraft were diverted away from the launch area. As it also turned out, they didn’t need to; all launched spacecraft could easily dodge the airplanes without disturbing any flightpath.

After 15 minutes of of Philo Farnsworth’s looping announcement, a second message was sent:

“This is Philo Farnsworth again. Starting tomorrow I will hold a press conference at the launch site each day, Monday through Friday. Each press conference begins at 6 pm, and I alone will speak. When I’ve finished telling you about the topic for the day I’ll entertain questions from the press. Monday the topic is my company, Anti-gravity, Inc. Tuesday the topic is energy. Wednesday it’s transportation. Thursday, communication. And Friday we’ll clean up with some odds and ends.” This message was repeated once every 15 minutes.