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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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