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IS ANOTHER WORLD
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OR several years watchers across the world have been re- in porting strange things the skies.
They have been grouped generally under the descrip tion "Flying Saucers," name given. because one of the group appears to be disc-shaped.
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objects vary But the greatly. While some merely lights which behave most atrangely, others are the flying tubes lit with eeriest light humans have ever seen.
And while some seem to be so small that no living thing resembling a human being could possibly be in- side them, others are of a and size tremendous capable of a fantastically higher speed than any flying-machines men ever dreamed of.
have
What is the mystery
of these fascinating sky apparitions?
WATCHING
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covera
HIS report
just over three years, from mid- Bummer 1947
autumn 1950.
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It is clear now, beyond any possibility of reasonable doubt, that something hus been continually haunting the upper skies.
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Further,what has been neon is some sort of super-fly- ing machine. The old-fashion- ed name: la1 used because some of the craft are clearly not "planes" in any exact sense of the word.
in
all
By GERALD HEARD
Author of "The Ascent of Humanity," "This Surprising World" and many other authori- tative works on the mystery of the universe.
. Soon similar reports
from all over the west.
came Maury Island 18 A mail, they took
uninhabited place
the
The Arizona Republle, paper which publishes in big resort town of Phoenix, re- produced two photographs taken by a Mr Rhodes of that city.
more They showed a thing
black rubber heel with like a
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ultimate power"
-
let us marico what now. seemed pre- sented to the common-sense of so many and so widely scát- tered observers.
...
To the fact that disce had been seen so frequently flash- ing in the sun was now to be added their evident presence of night.
The
about
oddest thing card-
with them so far was of course not their shape, nor even their could be a disc speed, There plane-a glant quolt is n. shape
a fair-sized
out three board box of the stuff miles from Tacoma, port. The them. harbour patrol boat was close to the island's shore. Dahl said
On the
-way
their
plane
he had two crow-man and his crashed and both were killed. for which plane. designers be-
son with him. It was close on 2 pm., June 31-the day of the year.
longest
The problem then arises, and
Dahl, at the wheel, suddenly it le one second to none
a small hole in the middle of noticed (this suddenness of the ta immediate importance 'the peoples of this world: Who it than a saucer.
controls them; who has made them; whence do they como?
·
and con
Considering the craft their performance, what we learn about them, their pos- sible crews, their possible home bare?
Considering the way they have behaved toward us,- can we make any suppositions as to the kind of mind that is be- hind these quick-flashing, enig- malle masks?
First signs
It was certainly some sort of flying plane with the back of the heel acting as the prow.
Right ahead
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lieve there's something to be sald-it the future.
Their speed, so far, seemed
to be about 1,000 miles an hour
Odd features
The crashing had a number of
nt
before
Silent course
700
right over that Speed mind (up above the
many theorist experts sald appearances is one of the odd of add features about it. Why miles an hour level) which no we would never pass-til it hut consistent features of these did two other occupants, en- visits) half a dozen large discs listed men, get safely out in leaked out we had In the directly above the boat and parachutes 11 minutes
feet 2,000
(they the plane itself crashed; and Autumn of that Disc Year 1947. only some
the time the why, considering judged) up in the air.
flats are
had between the engine plane and the hang crashing, was the plane itself not on fire-not slowed down'
about But, the oddest-fact to lessen the crash?
the Saucer Surprise was not Captain Smith then got in mething it had, but the thing touch with a Major-Sanders of it didn't have the old-fashion- The major cd human plane's most tell- Air Intelligence. came along and heard Arnold's tale feature, its torrent story. "The metal's just alag," "give-away" sound. he said, "and the story is
The Discs were dumb. hoax."
The tearing thing tore
the atmosphere way through.
They first seemed to motionless. Then Ave could be seon to be moving slowly round one in the centre. That
100. Air moving
The disc reported us having teen accm by the United
Lincs pilot flying from Boise is worth particular attention. For It was seen on the afternoon of July 4.
was
But it was set-
tling down, sinding toward the tea till it was judged to be no more than 500 feet above water.
the
a
of
Its
That day-Independence Day That is what this report has is, of course, a great one for Americans. So when at Port- altempted to do.
land, Oregon, and Seattle num-
across and each had a large reports for some time. And so bers of people saw, discs flash- hollow axis. They shone in the the Disc Drama opened.
about high up in the sky sun. ing
estimation gave competent the height as 40,000 feet On Tuesday; June 24, 1947, there was a fine mixture .Kenneth Arnold.
32, comment aged
"The Government successful business man, was choosing the right day to show fying his own plane. He
There it paused. The mon. siers made. not, 2 whisper, That became, the. Defence
feet Force's official answer to all as silently as though it were a seemed to be about 109
Jes
a lot, is a good pilot, and lives at Boise, Idaho,
of
Off to sea
turned
us we are all right" "Some The crew-not unnaturally- other Government, looking. In were frightened and to see if any of the home team their boat to the beach. would like to do a bit Of stratosphere racing?"
clear
Very soon it became that the various offehl sources of air information were not uninterested in the question whether they alone had the sky as their patrolling ground.
Saucer reports, come rapidly from 40 of the 48 States. Nere came in the
Idaho had a good one, Next silence a boom, and the disc disc that swooped so low Experts who didn't get a nearest the water suddenly let Twin Falls that look naturally said there
was fall first a light-coloured and bowed to it..
of then a dark metal. Some of the really nothing to see. One
on touching -the the fragments, them was the captain of A large air-transport..carry-
suspected. of United Air Lines "ship" leav- water, raised steam, ing troops was having crashed near... Mount ing Bolse.
He was returning there from Chehalis, Washington. But he made a detour. For pllots had Is another world been asked when tying in that
distrlet to keep a look-out. watching us?
Which world could it be?
As the watchers can- not possibly be like what human beings form could they take?
Have they an intelli- gence higher than ours and are the controllers. of power far beyond our knowledge?
Why are they watch- ing us? Are they be- nign or hostile to us?
Some months
Gerald Heard, who has a world repuls tion as a scienco investigator and to writer, was commissioned study the problem and report.
Blace
Rainier, that snow which standa up Rockles.
mountain from the
Arnold
roso to nearly ten Uhousand feet and skirted the huge platform from which the peak itself risen.
He didn't have to wait long. Close to sunset, right ahead of his plane appeared ave "au- cera."
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The disc, so lightened, rose again. And the whole six went off out to sea.
at
the treetops
Flashed in sun
Was
The Cascade Mountains in Oregon brought a companion piece. There a prospecter look- ing up saw, five or six alses This exit out over the Paci- flashing in the sun, He
Incidentally, able to runge, his inescape on Mc seems, The captain and his first om- favourite. closing line of their them while they played bloft cer rang for the plane's verformances when on the US, for fifty seconds.
hostess. The three watched West. Coast. It raises the ques- The weather Was su good, the five objects, and after some tion whether they have.ro, fear that he could sit in his plane minutes they saw, four more of the sea and regard it rather and-give-all. his attention to join the original. £ive.......... the view. Then a flash.cought hin eye.
Thin spioc-drcus performed In front of the three observers for about, ten minutes, then disappeared.
and
at a safe hide-out from huma attention.
сотарака saw
beam
of searchlight darting through a cloud.
Typical of this behaviour was a big flight viewed in the stillness of the late evening, in the "deep south" State of Loui- clano. In perfect silence and yet at headlong speed. the sky ran scores of such, ob- fects and they were luminous. So to their eerle silence, was now added an ecria hud, At
upon this point we come.
nir- mystery unknown! new ships-a completely different pattern from that of the dises Unknown airships rushing headlong through, the night emilting table, as strange as nu their strange shape.
And we corne also on another fact, a fact as firm as the first fact is unsettling.
Close watch
Up till now we have had to What made his low doubly depend lately on the evidence- suddenly by surprise, or men was wearing. important the fact that he of people on the ground caught the in-planes at equally large dis- Glanding at it
fancos- away. needle In Krẻ
great: agitatlow.
What was most nodded, was by trained we ll be coming flers, level with the
abreast of their quarry object
be a form..of they
Was now a be
(World Copurohit faserned–London Express Service).
An all-tanker, the Ticonde Nine objects, were dying like
Fogn, for instance, on Novem- throughout a thing but observation made a line of geese swerving in
ber. 12, 1947; reported when 28 across hints that the powering observed and really close. perfect formation in and out of
miles out at sea off the Oregon of the discs may
to it ag today we cuast that two disca were energy of which
All this have only the faintest sp granted. the mountain peaks.
The three reported what they sighted rushing along going
Live notion in other Arnold thought they must be had seen. The US. Air Force out to sea, headed..southwest
they southwest, that leads to the they may be run by some type some twenty miles from him. and the Navy both said
had nothing of that sort on greatest space of entity of magnetic power with which For two minutes he watched the earth, still fest in the sky. water on the whole surface of them; timing himself by his cockpit clock. He estimated. their speed by the rate at which they passed the land- marks-the snow peaks ho
knew..
Fragments
what
the globe.
Dahl, gave his superior off- cer, Criaman, fragments of the we metal which he claimed had the Maury Island fallen from the sky. mystery. The pilot Arnold was!.
Meanwhile came
The speed was about 1,000 may call He.... has
Investigated and tested every report made miles an hour. on these mysterious
sky visitants. He has welshed care- fully the evidence. And now ho Is in a position to report.
Story echoed
asked by a luncheon club at Crisman showed Arnold the file home town of Bofse to ad-metal.. Arnold was disappoint- dress them on the queer tople. ed. He felt it was only
rock.
Ho mentioned a rumour that. The course the covey took had come to him that the har-, The report, which will be over the peaks was not une bour patrol... staff at the published exclusively. in
the human bying. But it was, the Washington port of Tacoma had Chius Mall, in daily instal shape that stumped the obser- not only "seen things". They had nients,, single by setting down ver. They were unlike any fragments of something drop- the known frėla.
plane ho knew. They were ped from the sky. discs saucers.
1
what
lava
They crashed
Continuing his investigations Arnold brought to Tacoma Captain E. J. Smith, the skip It was suggested to Arnold per of the airliner from Bolse Then, by weighing...them
that he thought he ought to who had, with his co-pilot and nine Kelentifically, it makes deduo-Arnold talked about tions on their cource and their he had seen as soon as he was follow up this clue and he the liner's hostess, seen control, оп those who man down. Then, the story began agreed. He storied out curly discs dancing ahead of his
an July 30.
plane. them, and on what they must to find echoes.
And Military Intelligence A couple of hours later he. be like.
was rewarded, by sighting a sent up in a bomber from flight of saucers. He snap- Hamilton Field, a big air centre shotted at them but got no con- near San Francisco, Lieutenant vincing flm record only a few Brown and a Captain Davidson, dots. J
The 'aldg, fragments were Arriving at Tacoma ho ráng: shown to them. Brown and up Dahl, one of the harbour Davidson did not seem Im
along pressed. When they took off patrol staff, who came and gave his tale.
to fly back to Hamilton Field
got the earth
A reporter in Bolso believed ....who... people have never
faced
a more he saw discs in the sky. So did editor of the tremendous problem. And Johnson, news Gerald, Hoard's report upon it Laily Statesman of the town. will rank among the most re- markable, scientific documents United Air Lines plane go- ever published. It will excite, Ing out, of Boise,, also,, before arionish, and fascinate every July was over, reported that
the saucers had been seen. reader.
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