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Is Another World Watching Us?.. Chapter Nine
FLYING SAUCERS FLOATING
R
MAY HAVE
BASES IN SPACE
ADAR tells you of Perhaps the most powerful So, too, with our planes. But may exist under the strangest almost dend-dark; and, any
planes that haven't detectors are too massive to be our powers? These still remained of conditions.
mounted safely on the hundred- baffing. arrived, or shoals
foot discs or borno in tho
Sir Spencer Jones, the of fish in the sea and long black hundred-foot length
What could bo our Ten Astronomer Royal, has cald where you may catch tubes,
forces? They would soon have, that bodles might be construct- detected our dependenco од ed not from carbon, as ours them, of raindrops falling
Perhape the super mother- glean and of
But mustn't mainly are, but with silica no in the height of the sky, of ship. Perhaps what may be they by now have suspected a base, and DO resist heala meteors na they fly in the arificial satellite that, something much moro dis- which would be dendly to us. visibly by day, and of their maybe, rides out on our orbit, quieting?
the plant
But Mercury, the innermost long tails and trains when alone carries
could range and probe the gold However disproportionate it planet, has on its sunny side a even at night they
melt have
riddio? Then,
of necesally, must seem to our puny con- temperature that would faded from view.
they
would bring down their trots, our feeble bodies, mustn't lead. If you could stand that, it be suspected by a looker-on, then why have a body at all? monster ship.
mustn't his radar probes con
our
of to
that
ទទ
But radar also tells us things that never turn up
It would come rushing ove, tinually propose, that places Oak Ridge in the eyes-naturally we would and, after great swoop, to such expect that. What we have back to its high station, where, States or Harwch in Britain three or four have an alarming reaction note, just been talking of above maybe, it rides makes that not only likely hundred miles or more, sweep a forbidding radiation? but certain.
ing round us 11ico #swift minute cryptic moon,
If with electric instruments you can tell, by the radiation it
There may be creatures in the sun, but they must be feide-of-force, electric vortices, subtle bodics, what you will but not beings that need to man space abips. Before we prove that problem
We leave, more deoply we must aslt an-
then, Mercury, other preliminary
almost one craft-crew after
blinding question. Granted that the glance,
and take refuge on smaller dices come down from Venus. With Venus serious in a giant disc riding now as our quiry begins. And, indeed, story ended second (and But, alas, the
midget) what is such a help to serious lec" inquiry, a proper sequence — with a miscalculation-one the moon right "under our
could not have been could a whole swarm of visitors everyone knows it. probably foreseen, - but one that may have such a base? have led to even more caution on their part, as it did lead to more alarm on ours.
gives off, where water is under Miscalculation
a
ground, where oil and coul and iron may be lying and may be
thousand
feet and more underground, then why not of from zadlations." that come outside the earth?
Thunderstorms, even when they
booming and crashing, now give themselves to 'rader and Indeed to many an ordinary radio set, question: Are such notions as
away
are not
a
to We ought
very
Floating jetty
osk another,
What was viewed once, and
fect
But there are some radiations, an artificial satellite quite ab- perhaps twice, was a monstrous radar Andings that awake murd? The answer is certainly a thing-perhaps a thou- sand feet across. Nevertheless, speculation as to whether there not.
is that large enough to act as couldn't be an intelligence,
This step toward ruler space the floating jetty for crews to probing Intelligence, behind
and, say. a journey to the man, say, a thousand and more these rods and lines of force, moon (off which, it must be craft many a hundred these ultra-visible objects that emembered, quite a good echo across? send back the "echo" that has already been caught), has,
To ask a human crew of a radar picks up.
as its first planned step, that
to lle-up and We should mount a
minute whole flotila
rest-out in one mothar-ship of model satellite of our own.
such a size would be the cruel- being lest congestion. Therefore it is were here that we murt reise again super an important pleco of Craft
The
Gizmos
The plans are already worked out. The Nazis working at it as their
ge-gun to fire down on
toes.
By
GERALD
HEARD
The
sequence
back we
find
a changa how, all around must be steam "climate," a warmer feeling to- And fog that may reduce ward the red planet, a hint and. visibilty to a few yards. more than a hint that the gap
If you nover can see more between the Lowelllant, ho- than a foot or two, your eyes cattal-speculators, and their
the are apt to have modest Levera critics If not ba
muy, range, granted that you have closing at least no longer has. eyes at all. Bo we must-
Bul
yawning and abrupt edges, Leave Venus, a Wo left We left Mars with the vast us too much light; the other especially the greater part of Mercury. The one would give majority of astronomers and
the Mars experts place is quite impossible,"
saying "The The "negatives took their stand first on general principles. What is Mare if we are to trust. our senses?
too little.
Mars again
And so, finally, we find our selves confronted with Mars, Or course there is something a lit-
Well, whom we had used the the vulgar, we now feel, about best helps to our eyes which, 20 the notion. We all would like to years ago, telescopes could give, avoid it
we saw an object about the size For a couple of generations of a small gooseberry and of the we have been having Messages tint that the reddish variety of from Mars from popular plays that fruit often shows, tawny that were so heavy with Moral with alight stains of a greenish that Mars, it was clear, was only live.
1
mixture of a catapult and
pulpit,
H.
And after the popular plays, G. Wells brought in Mors with a dash. But, of course, being a very bellicose
little man he had to make it a war of the worlds, and the Martians themselves squids of the most squiggling horror,
Whitecaps
But any photograph did show something that no gooseberry, The poles hud white caps.
when mildewed, wears,
Even
Of course, at once the hope- We had nothing to hope from as our planet would show, if we fuls said: "That's snow just them: they nothing to do with from Mars were looking at us but to drain us dry and in- Earth."
The
astronomers
were
herit the earth.
Naturally the astronomers did attacked, "No, it's frozen carbon- conservatives counter- not like that sort of thing.
Certainly tho
and so if you dioxide, were inclined to say "Certainly on Mars you would be in no condition, and would never have not" to any common person who reached any condillon, in which said, "Couldn't there be life on vo Mors?"
you could think of being curious your station on Planet. And when Lowell, the Har- Four about the nature and pos
the life and possible Planet Three,
from
vard astronomer, having gone to sizes, on
their evidence as throwing Ught on Earth, Mars. Most people bodically dooded by
crow build.
llevo It's
Flogstay, Arizona, for the very clear air said he had seen canals which is our earth." and was sure they were 'perio- Vet, TULE
"Then what about the greenish Intelligent patches? Surely these are vege chronological creatures to irrigate their crops, talion,
then all but one or two of the profession said, "We have never seen any of these lines that you say are thera,"
OUT-
In this case one of the most popular articles on the problem was published by the Saturday Evening Post on March 6, 1948 while the Saucers werd Now the Defence Centre at We recall that at the White sequence: Venus young, very much on men's tongues the great building in Washing- Sands observations Commander selves middle-aged, Mars old. and on their minds-under the ton, DC., called the Pentagon, MacLaughlin remarked, as a title, startling enough self, "The Sky is Haunted."
These "objects" which radar has been picking up,
North California, Over
article of the
author "Gizmos."
and
in it has definitely announced
observer would the trained U.S., Earth Satellite
were Vehicle could, that there
two Programme, The man-con- acute problems raised by the "satellite" is to get out flight of the saucers as the ob- mainly to its station by means of its serving teams checked it.
the rockets which will boost it calls njoft
ол
Earth's pull
unce
one
Asteroids
and
vegetation might mean animal life?"
"No, again!" said the deniers. "You mu
mustn't make misump- The green could be mere- ly chemical changes after all, gives green
corrosion often pating to
to red-looking metals and dust. Think of copper and the Before we dara open again verdiente the this
somewhat inflamed ques-
is no ** ...
water above un- tion, we bad better for peace's ground no flash of lagoon.or sake look at all the "rest-spots" Inke. The dirty green patches or "base" in our system.
are the. graves of oceans and the Out beyond Mars is a belt of grave of the ocaen is the tomb
to of life for life came out of asteroids. They are no use us
as they are Cer
Ceres, the the sea, and when the sea goes largest measured so far, is a le vanishes, too!" mere raft of 3 thing.
More than thousand have
•
But Venus is too young. It is amazing what is now known about our neighbours, especial- ly these two, one on our inner and the other on our outer side. The first thing The first was the tremendous notices about Venus lo speed-18,000 miles per hour, clouds. They are dense, and on top of that, and even relievedly dense.
the tremendous the radar On
more serious, one occasion
They have
or twice acceleration. In short, nothing been seen picked up, and gave full In-
to eddy but never larger than an insect, say, a to break! Their bright blank dication, that a plane must be
back all crossing
It must go over 20,000 miles bec, could stand that sheer blaniket turns the flying field
our which it, the radar, was being per hour to get free enough of push and not literally be push peering. operated It gave the marks the earth's pull: But it will not cd out of life, pushed out of its
But we can turn our spectro been spotted. Some competent Dust devils that are the signs that a plane be sent or let go very far, so far body.
scopes on that bright is being echo-sounded and that as space is concerned,
And yet and this, 'ts the And that does tell us it is a plane and not a shower
At 500 mile out, its automatic second point-the commander thing, something that seems of rain or a storm.
guiding gear will switch It felt that, considering, the way pretty final.
dises were handled and round at right angles. The roc- the inkels then cense to drive it and, turned, it seemed unavoidable spinning on its course, as does that they were under direct the
control of inmates, they were the moon on its drcular path quarter of a million miles fur- "manned." ther out, our first contribution to the solar system, this earth- So, it may be that we are child, will rush round and round masters of these machines are being probed-which is pre- us. It will get round our girlh minute.
couple of hours. Then, what we should expect in a
If there was no Itving telligence d'reeting this visible point or beam then
would move with focus
don't.
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So we must assume that the
of super-fliers-probed by their when that is established, we are. Fields of force
cisely
detection rays.
so the plan goes, to plant an- other further out stepping stone
· What
that may on "the printless skies".
and large" Wo This second base might act as moment to see,
screen.
some
calculators think there may be fifty times that number.
What
they were once, what astronomers have mainly agreed they come from, we shall be That blanket is not the cloud, coming to in a moment. It has the white cloud that we had a possible bearing, quite a strong of our own sky. is made one, on our of carbon-dioxide. That is not
But meantime in our search to be unexpected.
we come to Jupiter and Saturn
the two glants. We know what their atmos-
certainty methane
"But there are clouds!" "Most-the large, dark ones are just dreadful dust devils- rust particles whirling about in devastating tornadoes."
"But there are white ones."
superfine mow."
"They are made simply of a
Now, you may ask, how can all this be known when you are
If Venus is much "younger" than us, or perhaps we should phere is. It is probably frozen: watching a thing that at best is say because bearer the sup It is with high
a3-
later to cool, slower to clear, then of course she should have gas, an utterly suffocating tumo
to any animal life that we that kind of clotted atmosphere.
sociate with intelligence. mean "by made of that kind of gas..
Under that more than arctic can walt D
sen of frozen methans it is hard while we t
More a "dock" for other cruft, which this answer, as far as we have
animals
a poor sort of cherry? Have photo, we got finely enlarged graphs?
We have not, and won't for year or two more.
ду
Now, granted that they must
Why not? Because of those want to and out our sources
to think of anything that wo subtle twister-devils of our own of power-to understand our
know as
as to keeping on or atmosphere the convection natures and capacity-they
breaking out will launch out from this Boat it, to the question which raised
currents." the wavering of would direct Licir detectors
For carbon-dioxide is a very, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, what warm or hot air as it rises, a wherever they found a great ing jetty and plunge into the It Could a disc only a thou-
Cat real depths, wherels the bright sand feet across act as the favourable gus or air, for of
of these? Further cold, further wavering which distorts dump of any element.
not for animals, darkness, further uncertainty of Image seen through it. Fort Knox they could hope to and immense earth will shrink rest home and holiday ground plants, but
of light in the for crews to a
that "man"
for a watery gleam
whole least of all
"brainy"
anything that would guide us to And the most refined and the
animal that needs oxygen. fabulous darkness or a mote of' feets of disca? accelerated most
dump
the blinding
As the blackness against the
carbon-dioxide gold that is or has ever been.
welter of the unscreened FLIT To an insect, of course, came less in our atmosphere it that drenches all our orbit with residence
thousand fest would seem the great masses an unceasing blaze which even- across would not merely be and messes of vegetable growth coat- ing or night never relievea, city, it would be a whole county, that laid down as the
Two things
of
This then must be our real. source of power!
Д
bo-
for
good.
a whole province, a State in measures, withered away itself.
And In their stead there
Such are our notions. But, if we consider that our
Now we Very well, then. own ground (and still mainly But none of the instrumente grounded) forces are thinking must go back to "Whenco?" came more and more animals
and taking armed with a little morc
even the knowledge.····
which the smaller discs carried of scaling the sky would and out the radio-active, their stand outside the
gold.
power-aspect and poten- atmosphere, we cannot be s Hality of the great dump or prised, wo should not be #0 No doubt, night after shocked, if we should and that night, they tried, and brought we have been forestalled. back to high-up headquarters again and again a blank.
Two things were possible- perhaps it was
Some
notion
MDYC and more active, more and more interested in staying on the land and finally more and more interested in looking
The force of the argument
us out, if we cannot at what was now appearing drives And purchase for the discs on clearly, the sky and the stars.
that fact, or the negative corth. We havo searched the
For
existed.
tell whole of the land and suspect- side of it, would alone
"Venusian"
being a ed even the sea. None of the against a earth, or ocean sites will hold space explorer. For you can't what you have HOVET So now we may say that we water. Bo we are forced up arreaned la have some notion, if only the into the air. And the facing the bout, never thought|| same way, perhaps at night it alotchicat, of the sky-cruistes up to the artificial satellite 15 Even if a fish-like creature was protected or immune from crews viewing-stations, viewing of course, only stepping- the probest
powers and views.
stone (as the thing taclf must swimming in a
even
it on intelligent Venus be) to get our minds; as the "At least one ought to make
Of course they must have soon crews ataft got their bodies, in trop (a plant which one more assault on the prob- learned, that our motor-cars some extra-terrene godā.
entoh innostu) thought of leaving: Hem and at day time, At least didn't really move themselves,
their where would
Above is nothing but a cloud
спо ought to bring all and's weren't really automatie, Thúy | Let us do some viewing and "guns of detection" and probes weren't outspaced insecta. But scanning. And, if wo mast, of diagnosis to bear on this the we, the true motivators and leave home, let us start on the hardest mut, the most mysterie living units, were these cars' sunny side of spaco. ous problem that carth had as still smaller, slower and fuller. But the first and sumbent dazzling - topped
inmatos. yot given them to crack,
epot.certainly won't do,
POP
THE TROUBLE. 115 THAT I KEEP STEPPING ON
WELA YOU
·MUST BE A CLUMSY
MY OWN CORNS
1 COLT HELP IT THEYRE ON THE BOTTOM OF MY
FRET
hot swamp,
··
сеп
so thick that its under sido (like the hearts of our great cummuli arb Iafe found to be by ilers) may be
Poor sole
a home of life.
So back, however unwillingly, to Mars.
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