From: alexander koryagin    
      
   In the article "The lasting allure of the flying saucer",   
   by Jon Kelly, BBC News Magazine, I've read this passage:   
      
   http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27796697   
   -----Beginning of the citation-----   
   Thus flying saucers became a somewhat kitsch symbol of the more   
   whimsical end of the space age.   
      
   But the notion of floating disc-shaped aircraft wasn't considered   
   fanciful by governments and militaries around the world. The new LDSD is   
   far from the first attempt by earthlings to construct a flying saucer-   
   like aircraft.   
      
   For instance, German engineer Georg Klein told the CIA he worked on a   
   Nazi flying saucer for the Luftwaffe under designers Rudolf Schriever   
   and Richard Miethe - a claim which prompted the Americans to study the   
   possibility of creating one of their own.   
   -----The end of the citation-----   
      
   1. in the second paragraph: "But the notion of floating disc-shaped    
   aircraft wasn't considered fanciful by governments and militaries around    
   the world."   
      
   Why the author has not put "a" before "floating disc-shaped aircraft"?   
      
   2. in the third paragraph: Why not _a_ German engineer Georg Klein?   
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