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and face the conclusion that it is
possibly, very dangerous.
As
FBI
They
is
called
Even
that
to
help
it happens the ground bs. Focket-ground,, a great advantage over the air. checking a weather-balloon they mand
telephone to warn the senders missilo may fall from one the reports had been satisfac- That rules out any USA source
.
'mander got at
Whispers began
HE time had come is an expert. All his professional easy A pace for n boming and 'came out beside its com..
There was to be a central (1) The actual evidence: shows ~ whon the ground life he has been specialising in projectile.
panion on the other side,
authority, equipped with ex- that these craft have a power Inissile study, la..1940 По тупа Still, it began to mend its began to gain on put in charge of the division of pace, passed over their heads, together, they
Sull stranger, now they were perte astrophysicists, electronic that at prosent no technical en- started racing experts, meteorologists. Radar. gincer and aeronautic authority the air. Up to this much research at this rocket and with dismay the lookers- each other. And they made as well as the telescope, were to can conceive being generated or point we all thought, "Well, around as had to be covered by on thought it was going to such speed that they left the bn at the service of these used. P you must get abreast of the the navy.
come to earth far too close to rocket behind them, going up judges, and searchers,
1) How could any branch One of the crews of observers one of the few ranch houses and away the usual ezit. Thinge, on the lovel with for whom he
wonderfully am of the defence forces lot "ships" was jointly 10 that exist in that desolate area. Nor did the commander have clent instrument for discovery, of auch, a alzo and power come them."
sponsible was out on a day of. Then It changed its minds, to
rest with the evidenco of the Federal Bureau of Investi- rushing down the traila Zanes in. we see, proved harder usually good observation-condl put on a prodigious burst of only this one team.
gation-an invaluable service the at that time by passenger harder until we have to tlon-In the mouth of April. speed, and was lost behind
From nearly a n dozen of the for disclosing hoaxers--was planes, were working nearly some hills.
look-out posts, which are placed asked to aid the project,
In the Sperry case the ““object" Impossible Ga well as quile 60 mlics away from the actual
at distances round the huge The frst
that actually circled round SperrY'S watching with their missile, and
Still they thought it was held-mues in length to keep were issues summaries
wore clear the comed
and passenger plane. Someone was and other scientific
- to where a stray hopeful. The on the posted once
greater part of inspecting the passenger planes. From the ground we can make had sent up.
came the tale torily disposed of. But it was of such craft more accurate observations than The theodolite-man of the crew that he was sure their send-up after another
bad owned that a strayed and was going to phone reports the twins
residium, a' cors from a plano. The theodolite got his attention side-tracked, had
lows for that.
The rest saw it-crossing by the pay a very unwelcome visit to been viewed in their amazing of hard fact, seemed left,
It was allowed a conclusion And quite early in this three- balloon. It was a "standard" someone who, being outside and still then unprecedented
with which overy sensible pri- year hunt of the sky it befell diether, odel, le; about safe from that form of mole-
Last point, Captain Mantell could be no doubt the range, ought to have been fight.
vate
person
must agree that wan a highly placed plot Ho The evidence
as thero were unidentified air was sent up to try and intercept But there its moderation ended
However, the 'Information
objects wandering about which the "object" that rushed over For it was nearly 60 was hardly passed on before it Meanwhile, what was authori- could be at present attributed Fort Knox and the Godman Air- It was again at Boise, Idaho, sharply.
donled-denied
in no known source, why then field. He was killed, and there where the hunt had started in miles up! And its speed was even was
by the tative opinion doing about all ap reassurance given by the big this?
"constant vigilance" is needed, is real evidence that his plane June 1947, that on February 20, worse some 18,000 miles
Idaho
bump 1948 the
hourt
they all heard the We saw at the very begin- not only by those on the pro- was strangely disintegrated.
ning was employing a crew.
of the story that there ject, but by the public.
Now who would send up one They were working at a small
were three factors wound to- Please report anything you of their finest veteran pilots, to gether place called Emmet and it was
the fibres of see as soon as you do to the au- try, and tackle" making
nn object which this
· The first thorities.
was in reality a product, of the sirange tale. local newspaper, The Emmet
The report ended with a very forces which sent the pilot Messenger
were the actual experiences of friendly note, "The saucers are to his death, and which they that Mr E. G. Half who made the
number of trained men, theodolite
trained in observation wi
known it
be would Nelther are they must rous to approach? tion account:
Project
Baucer probably
closed In Ser
September 1949. Certainly by December 27 of that year the air force declared that all the been disposed of, shown to have cases that had been submitted bad
natural Causch,
that
a surveyor team equipped with their trodelite, set up and 100 ft, atross, ranged, got their big chance.
to the
his
onu
Power
Company
pointed
He was standing ready when
of his colleagues out to him a sky object. Hall He get it, but ranged on it.
had the greatest difficulty In keeping it in the field of vision because of the object's speed.
of acceleration But its power
was the
headache.
real
For when It had made its pass
at the balloop,
seems com-
mon with the species it mada
a dart up to
its native levelt
at
Of the speed
which
1t
made this sud- dex kick up
Gleaming white there could not
facts he
was only feet, its plane.
wns a
be
a doubt, It- would ba exerting
tho
Still the following felt sure of-Its height Bome four thousand
experts had no size that of a smallish
doubt, a pres- Along its back-edge no trail sure on anyone of fume. But there
Inside equal to "fuziness" there, "like whipped the pressure of being cream." (Now that is important gravity for it would seem to show increased 20 some form of energy which,
times! escoping into our atmosphere. vaporises in a peculiar way.)
It was gleaming white, Sound? "It was as silent as A gull."
We shall be coming across
that difficulty
or
insight
as to what can
be inside these discs and
Lgain
crucial. No
As it got neur a hill the onlookers, for there were two other companions viewing It, expected it to go over a cloud again. For bank measured as being some man could two thousand feet high. But stund it for a the dise chose to go under. Sa moment. That jerk, that sud- den increase of
· pressure, would literally us to death,
Only
it must have been hard when rushing headlong so near the ground.
We
its observer on another diso.
like
press
insects
station,
THE AUTHOR:
GERALD HEARD
At 61, is recognised ise dae of the world's authoritative", writers and broadcasters on scientific 'subječm. Ho lá the author of "The Ascent of Humanity," "This Surprising World, and many other works on the mystery, of the universe.
accurate observa- not a joke. of aerial craft and sky- cause for alarm for the popu- highly
lation." phenomena.
This
17
Amystery
Here is a frank facing up to an exciting mystery.
Then the project__itself_be- ceme
mystery. Throughout, the air force had said that to quite big standing, True, decided A New York magazine of
But whispert began.
racat valuable sum of opinion and findings tas grown.
can rub You
off and brus dway the reports of good- hearted and honest lookers- on--who may mistake a mote- orological balloon or meteor as.an unknown, original air- craft,
But you can't get rid of the the best of its knowledge there to take the plurige, dence. of men
were no such things as discs, who aro
It got · a first-rate reporter---- to "observe, and Who and it gave,
Major Donald Keyhoo (retired); definite denial that the air long versed in air research. And here are on their own ground.
These men do not want force itself was engaged on any just after Christmas 1040 he
work that could be taken for publicity quite the reverse the kind of thing that appeared and judgment,
gavo his considered summary
in March 1050 a
They don't want to see things
in the that are odd. They are neither
newspaper descriptions.
There was no ground for alarm Nothing was being made for but much for keen interest. No credulous лor fanciful.
But, besides the Arst-rate secret missiles or space ships power on earth could have made and the Brst-class that could at all resemble discs. these things The United States. reporters observers, there were others—
Yet the reports
went Finally, a
was safe in its air supremacy. - well-known the men who want to be taller ist and commentator, Henry J. than some kind of outer-space wn colum. They were no more and no lens. about, even though they were ruining the sense of reliability, dience in Los Angeles, declared
Taylor-addressing a large ou- phenomena. umong average people who tall categorically that
That upset quite a number of In spite of officials who felt it was going for official denials, the saucers too far, if not evidentially, then
the truth.
Naturally
the disca have
the
seemed an opportunity to such are real and are U.S.A. secret as a matter of discretion,
weapons.
The publie was bound to be He said: "If you found a fly- upset, and as when people are the chances upset by anything from an slight because most of earthquake to a twinge of are made of material conscience they blame the Gov-
people. Their reports have been dug into, and most of them have been crumpled.
ing. saucer-and are them
Third thread which disintegrates in the air ernment, why of course, it would
and disappears after a time ba bad for polities, bad for busi- But the risk of such creatures you would and stencilled on it ness, and bad for peace, pro- does make the work of anding in black letter
per-
"Military secret of the
Non-explosive."-
gress, and prestige.
Still open
· The air force released the ftes. they had collected of cAMER: TO- ported. They maintained that.. these reports and their rebuttals of
them showed
that
there, was nothing to: gaz pir: Joquiring about.
Others who viewed the lists be cases felt that: mme of- the- answers, though they might.. satisfy on air official, left, the unofficial mind still" opan,
A number of other
people saw it. The time wùs ideal,
out what actually happens just after 1 p.m.
doubly difficult. And it does Mr Hall maintains
stand that he could
go some considerable
· United States of America way to suddenly compressed bump, which signals that the explain why responsible saw no cockpit or engine mounts, being
Air Forces and a num- It was as non-committal a of their bodies suddenly made Ita allotted ground.
this that is, the inertia rocket, has come down safely in sons (and especially those who
ber). Anyone damaging or white
revealing descriptions plate fung quoft-wise
carry through the sky, and on silent, to meet the battering-ram im Bo the
whereabouts of this mis- thing that the com.lity, the effelals of the detenco through the sky, and as the still pact of the walls they are mander and his colleagues had forces and of the Government)
aile is subject to prosecu- against or the floor they are viewed must have been-what? have "leant
Hon by the U.S. Govern grave.
over backwards" We had to wait for another standing on, suddenly, boosting The only answer seemed to be to keep the story from getting
ment, Call collect at once. them ahead. 14 months before
"a disc," got
[Then a telephone number and one up to its usual premature approval; and have another theodolite ranged with The team had a full minute dance,
and the addréna of a V.S. Timore was the "saun- exposed the evidence, again and to watch
it. That gives train ter," the stroll, say about 20 or again, to examination,
Air Base.] in the This is not to be wondered, ed men with their instruments 30 miles high.
natural hope that it might, in the at. The chances cannot be very quite a long while to see and to
end, all be fitted into good
or high. Probably
known or likely types of ex- What was the official reply to questioning, to more than 400 sightings all told Then the white. disc high Increased
that?
these students of the have been made of disce up in the deep blue did the
For that is the third thread though
The navy, the air force, and new "released" material was of our story-the official story, the some reliable people usual disappearance act. It was to any man on board such
army explicitly denied Major Donald, Keyhoe, and he who have tried to make that gone.
what the authorities said about Taylor's statements,
was certain the case was any sort of check-up think that it's Incidentally, these machines craft, anything larger than
the saucers,
denied They
also similar thing but closed, flat, disc-shaped, and that mouse, the fatal-burst of ne
And this story by itself is statements made
To support his by another
bellef tele Yet, with all that, one as complex as any psychole writer, David account for these sudden celeration.
Lawrence (of came to hand, through his disappearances. ...They
turn there was no evidence of the gical novel ever written.
the burst
leading
efforts, U.S. News and World Report). exer of speed trail to mark at that. As.
statement complete edge-on, and so they are gone burst
to a Tet we shouldn't be surprised Το answer Lawrence.
In and comments of Commander was said te, I Increase of kick.
at the quiries wore sent down to Key McLaughlin on what had been start, this isn't an easy sub- West, where the
cen in April, May, auit Juo at President of seen in the U.S. was then staying.
Mexico. White Sands,
New March 1950 marked ariother outburst of sightings. Discs had
nearer 600.
reflect.
not
Testing
place
But for things that show up for a matter of seconds, in far the greater number of cases
what else could be expected? Even to have time to get a camera is seldom allowed.
are may
in a flick.
Both
kickperience.
There was the fabulous and
#
of gas
as with the discs of
No, this sort, the object suddenly feet. it saw
The shot like a thing out of a gun,
Arst reaction of the
'Northwest corner of more where the discs. problem..first
"
After all, the rings of Saturn drove it to such a breakaway.
but gave not a clue as to what armed forces authorities. No experiments been sighted fairly frequent
(which are much an obvious So
One month astronomer to and for himself) again at the feature for every
were lost again and again by though
ings
team,
ly through the first two
And out afisen a pláné over a team was far too poor to permit any President's air force alde also the Pacific reported that for live
conclusion that
That was fair enough,
dent's
less these stories were inconclusive. mude statements on the Presi- minutes it had as a companioza
authority.
saucer but that it tired of their General Landry (the air. umbling gait and took off at a force aldo) and Ross sald (ex-speed which was utterly beyon actly the same thing there anything they could comtnandi was nothing in these reports.
1. Reports grew
AN
But, as the reports grow two things did grow clearer, if not
But as it happened when the the chance came in April 1949,
amateur in J When discs looked
Not only had the` President's of the year from Pennsylvania to In became of nation-wide concern Pross Secretary Charles Ross, Texas testing ground, was to say that the evidence to make a sintement, but the it was splendid.
Perfect
observation
again it was ditions, perfect crew and lastly arst finders. For the that saw it, and not the navy thing but the
are actually
thin perfect performance by the
commander, he felt even 1.80 striking discs them (though
when oboerved by the
than at the first sighting that full-face" scen
that solves.
they
he could diamiss the evidence have only lately with modern brought him. When after the war the cap- telescopes been able to be tured German super-rockets picked up when their edge is had been a job of the army's. The first upper-air misallo were found and brought to pointed of us. the United
The forces were making ex- Hundreds saw. States for testing, The navy chief on the spot,. This one, sent up on that June
periments of no such sort. there was clearly only one place McLaughlin himself, had
not day,
was a davy job, the more comprehensible. First, Note, that the armed forces Then February - 1 brought to choose for this texting the been there. He trusted his under's own division ok they couldn't be dismissed; they and the Department of De- wonderful show-the biggest so great South West Desert of
the forces.
must be quizzed and sifted and fence are no longer saying that far for the people of
Tucsod, America that stretches through But he himself hadn't seen. And it was not lot disappear criticised.
it's “all New Mexico and the other arid And we all know the difference "before two sky inspectors
hallucination What Walting till dunk but then states of Arizona and Nevada.
they are sticking to doggedly that makes.
rived. No one saw them arrive, uittle more openness. If they no hand in these craft,
The second also called for a is that they themselves have making the sun with Are streami that wilderness there are In
But a month after that was The observera so fow
ing from it at what was judged people, 80 scanty an
simply found anremedied. The commander that a brace
would stand up to examination that it is safe to found himself occupation,
of discs or at at all, then they would perhaps monthly, followed this with:
30,000 Flying, a first-tate, technieni
object swooped. Acet the vlewing." A least platters-Chatt
sight over the city. But reaching throw things into the sky and rocket had just been sent up alongside, and
appeared
0 what is more prove themselves not to be the full article on let them fall back without risk.. **
the subject of,e trail of smoke that came
that station it paused. wing the life or limb of district and he and another officer strange still, were now running most pressing of perlia
standing gazing
and in Septems from it cleared. That for p Perhaps, up to up alongside dwellers.
If the proofs. held ying climbing where it had disappeared from
up, they could carry the whole written by Captain Sperry on black smoke, then the moke wa
long latter ber Du
moment there came a burst of question-odd
that might his May 29 encounter. ordinary sight as it rushed plaste
sce-right outaido Present Imits of the atmo- Still stranger and in the speed of this object with went 30 was just leaving the
a light stream pgkin, Sperry: wrote: "In comparing So the crews to send off and Then the officer pointed
ternational tentong to watch there super-rockets to the
jet aircraft which I have, ob- commande. What c
Perhaps they were the small- On the last but one of served many times
The radis operator de at close ground, were sent to a
wers the Year One of the Discs, De range I say without doubt the _placa that has took to "be" the rocket commg" est
force base control tower been much written, up now- "home. They both"saw it, and thought to be laas than two combur 30, 1947. the decision objects speed was far beyond asked him to pursue Val White Bands, New Mexico. another officer too. But it was feet across, "Then one dashed was ready to be launched, Pro- the
All Hirit of
ho could say was that the and: going at far too through the wake of the, rocketfoot Saucer was to be eat up, spoeds that we know. In com- would be there soon-and Commander R.3. McLaughlin white,
alresult thing we making for California,
then Iparison the speed was fantas- Then no doubt it would take
Ue."
they all seem to tako, to the Hundreds Hawtho thing. One citizen said it awayes about h Tetter he thought"
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Commentating "on"
A B.29
spend
the editors of Flying said that on are. But no plane wong they in their oplatop the "la missing A the opinion of top-notch: Washer The Tucson Daily Ington, military correspondents the ball dead
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