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Is Another World Watching Us?..
does not seem borne out by the nature of the planet,
If it has never had volcanoes before, why should it start hap- ing them now?
But, if at last intelligent life is making a great effort to com- mand suficient power to take a decisive part in planetary poli- ties, then we might expect that a cloud of dust 60 miles high and billowing out for nearly 1,000 milco, might mark another milestone in the Martian pro- gress in releasing energy),
THEORY NEEDED
The theory that these two very odd satellites of Mars are asteroids, enptured meteors, is then not very strong. But some theory is needed to ac- count for them.
It may not have crashed at any spot ni present known. . It is nikely that it fell book on United States territory. Just poalbly it plunged into some part of the vast Pacifle when no one was by.
But there is a rumour that the theodolite team, tracking it, and it in view until suddenly it vanishod. That might three possible things:-
mean
(1) That it penetrated pame blue layer of high sky, 60m0 auter atmospheric stratum which (nt that hour nt (cant) WAA Impenetrable to our sight.
Because we can see the stars at night, that does not meant we can see them by daylight and we all know how wealth- like even the moon looks when the sun is up. This rocloot may then have vanished but Roc on-up or down.
And no other theory Wur
(2) Could It have gone on possible for respectable astro- and up, shaken off the grip of
Chapter 13
also "Bying bird" they seeming to move slowly, there ranged from red to white and on s would of course shoot at it, passed a globular body that to grom that it was thought the to get it out of their path. must have been of great size, ship was algaslling. Of course, For they might well think, The September before, on the no one, succeeded in making a "This is die first trial at on
26th of the month, something contact, artificial satolllie, on the part,
was even high up at night, an
So the ship moved to the. of the earth creatures. And cliptical hody that, for half a if this object can establish
minute, was watched crossing Atlantic States, and the Virginia Hself on the orbit
the moon's favo It seemed to town of Sistervilla was rousedi we have now chosen and taloon, it will have some kind of fan at ite to soo that it was being scanned be # constarst collisions- stern, or a rudder. This reminds by searchlights that wandered danger to us on our routine us of the object seen high up over the countryside-pocking traffic lane."
by the watchers at Idyllwild what?. March 22, 1050.
IN 'FAVOUR
Nature reported in 1880 the bright luminous globes moving high up in the sky-that go on till now. (The latest report August 2, 1950, is from San Rafael all the way, south along the Pacific Coast down to the San Francisco peninsula).
So the masters of a space ship "riding under our lee" must argue and act. And if it is claimed (as is) that the Nazi "artificial satellite project" was to launch such ail orbital ultra-atmosphere ship, and that ship was do destroy
our cities with heat The Bermuda Royal Gazette ray's (generated from the in 1885 saw an unidentifiable unscreened sun) then the "thing" high in the skles over present launchers and mastern the islands.
STRANGE "AIR-SHIPS"
T
SEEN
BEFORE MAN HAD ANY
11
HE capture of th
stray asteroid by planet is not an im- possibility. When, in 1982, what is now. called Anteros (and then named the Reinmuth ject),
was
By
Gerald Heard
our world arad become an asteroid on its own, a midget planet, a free meteorite? There
reason, however, to presuc
Ob nomers before the almost in in Ita plunging sanc Inventive power of en through space came within gncers began to show the
gan to calculate how you might 20,000 miles an hour which is into the sky, and, further, be not only plerce into the space the spoed calculated as neces beyond the atmosphere, "but sary for a rocket if it is to free actually fix things up there, Shelf from the down-pull of make dxtures yourself in the the earth's gravitational field
and escape into space. empty vault of the sky,
120 minutes of the earth, we sky-men what could be run that it was not going at the
might well have found our selves with a midget noon, if indeed it had not made a direct hit, when we would possibly have been worse off than if we had set off the hydrogen bomb.
(By
We have seen that we do
the way, those who think arst step out into space,
now definitely plan as our
that'
500 sudden destruction?
If then it, did not escape, or grade on some unobserved part and of our gipbof Indeed we aro hopelessly as a diving board to launch us varrishod because, 09 they panicky should take com- to the moon on to Mara, watched, it actually dissolved, that have caused fort by
that we do now prepare to make what could reflecting
satélite-one synthetic though this small star was miles out and then another, within 20 minutes of ram still-further-out joy to lie or ming us with inconceivable ride on a still further orbit. results--no one showed any-
say it is possible and thing but the faintest will be the way to launch space curiosity in the encounter.) ships.
sham
rare.
went off, and
AS LEAVES FALL
We
ANOMALY
Very well, would not
*
POSSIBILITIES
not
*ion.
of the satellite space ship would have such a ray which could vaporize the rooket
crrant
Its sudden disappearance would then tell not against space travel and there being space-shipping in our offing, but in favoin of nich, a theory.
Then,
tho
The red and green Ughts: ship which seemed 200 feet long showed along the Ades of the and had small flukes also at its
sides.
CIGAR MODEL
This cigar model in the sum--- mer of 1907 ziled over Vermont, and after it was goste an explo-- sien took place in the sky. But when a year after Mansachusetts was visited by the same or a similar craft, it played only withe lis searchlights,; as it had when visiting the Middle West and Virginia.
In 1010, as it was h January moming, the cigar appeared allver. It cruised about over the State of Alabama
Two years after, Popular Astronomy carried a careful report of a black object crossing the face of the moon. There were not many reports after that.
West Virginia got ong visit my camo your, 1910 but thinking, of course, Adrianople, in European Turitey, that it was a dirigibly from some was visited or looked down upon home base, they felt no dis-- by a "dise." The observers quietude, And when it was later gauged its siźp from that of the reported that no home or carth Though the object was foreign dirigible was then aloft salling high it looked several there, by that time people times larger than the dise of the naturally have begun to think of
something else. New
moon,
moon.
Zealand had
1 fast
There is evidence, however," moving oval to report from its that when World War II started Ey
in '88.
the early plastics the there were uninvited visitors Dutch East Indies witne
looking on. in- spected-in this case, by what seems to have boca
FIERY VEHICLES concs a pattern that may now have been discarded, though one or Certainly after the war most two present-day references seem of us saw notices copied from to show that a triangular shape the Swedish newspaper of: of craft has been sighted over strange flery vehicles that swept Now for the next question America during the
But present across the Swedish sky. -Why now?
visits
Imowing Sweden's positión „pád.“ proximity most people were certain this could have only one explanation.
K
WHY NOW?
they have
made the
THE LIMELIGHT
Then was the turn of the United States to begin to get more than its share of the higo-
&
Africa.
And then America came into- her own. 1947 was great year, perhaps the great year.
visitors have been seen before. So we see one thing these We may ki another that they
On they co, like the slow drip springens for their space-bridge? of a tap. Every couple of years Ir they have "floating jetties or so they are sighted. riding at gravitation-anchor off
SUE thess references didn't their own bow; (we do not know
all come from Sweden-they something. Here piln
(3) It may have rim Inte how our they have had them: there we saw them first in 1877: but
A dice with a rudder of fan Dread, until most months, or are three possibilities, three if Martians are as much ahead was reported by a British battle oven weeks, you could pick up reference to some sighting- possible obstacles it may have of us, as their
'95 through Europe and even North is mone struck.
advanced in its development for lur high-sky objects were seem But Anteros
dry land life, then
by many in England and Scot- they may has not made a lunge at us
(a) The first will occur to have been out sailing in their land, and, of course, dismissed as Irice.- So the capture of Wo also plan that о
millions of usion by officials and experts asteroids and their becoming synthetic satellite
everyone. It was hit by a synthetic satellites shall circle
meteor, a meteor which at years ago). If wo whose earth who hadn't seen them. satellites seems to be our planet in 10 hours!
than three-fifths that almost airless level was is still more Phobos must look to his spoed
water-covered and who have either pulverised or laurelsk
chocked by atmospherie frie- only climbed on to the air lo
power craft during this last 60 sky limelight. The year of the first paid more attention to years; it we now have rockets
Europe and then Brickwosici But experts on meteors that have gone 250 miles above Victoria Diamond Jubiice gave attention to the United States.
a number of the United States thinks the sky is not thickly
a sky show. sown with them. And if they
. Well, if we have to face from, the are razmerite
Beginning in the second week Asterof Belt and/or solid such a conclusion then at least spray of a comet's tall, they we can make one objection still in April, the "ship" made a tour
We may close with an obvious- cannot be so common in a to the whole thing granted of the Middle West. And it was deduction: that they were first come long watched through: telescope by interested in Europe because, it space as vast as the polar they could have
astronomie students. before, why in the name of
was, a generation ago, still lead....... From their Space and Solids didn't they shaped with short wings at the more interestext
accounts-elgar ing industrially; they are now erme beforO”
the U.S.. side-It may have been the brehuse it has taken workl tube moet in one of leadership in Industial pro earlier forms, the tube model that has given such remarkable
We may perhaps add a rider.. demonstrations of its perform they may be coming at certain an ance to air pilots,
timen (as well as hovering: Ofer
placca
countries) they fear what our in-
are
As far as we know, as far as people ahead of us do precisely Gur eyes tell
this earth's surface... 13, asteroids, the same thing? If what now meteorites from the
rides abové us ( asteroidai actually belt,
space feet with a mother-ship always, drifting in toward the sun, in from their of great size) came from Mars, orbit, as leaves fall in autumn,
then we should expect to sight, just off the surface of. We only see those that graze Mary and speeding round it, through our torpodo-net of the the
two similar launching system. So to explanation. atmosphere, and
thero jettles Caught and burn themselves up intend into harmless dust through the selves. friction.
are
wc
of the type which
to place round our-
In the super-disc souring Mars has a much smaller round. us, koy 800 miles high, gravitation fleld, to attract such we have this end of the arch visitors than we have. Hence of thrown traffic which has its It would have jess chance of buse "springers" in the two so-called *moons" of Mars, being molested.
Phobos, and Deimos.
If we have escaped, it has a better chance of escaping.
NOT A TRACE
the We have accounted for anomaly they present, and we have found the very proof that we were rightly asked to pro- vide. If they have come here,
surely there should
(b) The rocket blew up, burned to a moment to dust, because it ran into such beat that it was pulverised.
ODD FACT
Now, of course, we have to face up to the odd fact that it is not true to say (as we had for long assumed) "the higher the colder. The highest atmosphere (and may be outer space) may be add to be hot quite as much as it cald to be cold. may be be
How?
Heat is caused by mole oules ropid motion. They mave very rapidly at the top of the atmosphere. Hence it must be bat,
[Note: The surface of Mars then seems innocent of scars when proof and sign of their pre- we think of our own surface and paration which would have the pockmarked moon, our actualised and faidlled thu counter-plans-the plans for Voyage which we
satellite.
"bullet
We should be able to sigh: their home-base ships from
Had Mara been often hit an cur space many of the vast craters on the have already made. moon are now thought, to bo CONTACTED
marks mado by meteorites that have struck full force
on the 11001 surface (unscreened by an atmosphere)
then on the Martian landscape which they launch their Mars We should have seen thess to Earth flights. We havel great rampart rings. Some onAs a postecript we may arid the moon aro 30 miles across one other possible objection to and throw most striking space fight (and no to space shadoros.
visitors). It has been raised and the
to t answer
as a matter of fact, may muller con- firm than weaken the hypo- thesis
But not a trace of such has been detected on Mars.
But, on the other hand, though these molecules movi very fast there are very Łow
Would we have walted? You bet we wouldn't.
Then why do they come no? Are we aure they don't inspect us over so often are we suure that they haven't been paying periodio visits just to give us look over?
TUBE, TOO
thooo
duction
A RIDER
anh lon secthai từ 104 10
The tube, too, as we know intensive wars that drive us We have no such negatively from
today,
canitbod finally to the air to rockets, to reassuring certainty, nothing of strange lights. In this case they atom power, to the capacity not the sort. Indeed we have con- flickered much and ranged in only to destroy ourselves but to siderable evidence, which we colour as have, some of the male into a kind of cosmic
bomb need no longer have to diles lights
"the great globe itself,
witness we now
(but
(World Copyright--London Baprosz1„Karissco).
na nonsenté, now that we know in these late cased they seem yen, all it doth inherit,” that high-sky riding is possible not to be attached to any craft and, more that more people we can ), may be at the game than our selves.
REFERENCES
For years a patient but of them. Which would make strange and provolding student science worked through you feel warmer-a mild hot of water pipe system round your painstakingly, the special papers room or a dozen oxy-acetylene of the various learned societies, torches dashing about but hundreds of yards dietant?
This student, Charles Fort by neme, finally had collectod So, neither (a) meteoric enough material to fill four large lock-out,
Part of his grost no: (b) high volumes, atmosphera heat-incineration study deals with strange "air- could account. for a massive shipa" viewed before man had
When, therefore, Dr. Walter tooted, that
rockot's disappearance. There any. that we are already con- Hans, director of the Association
our visitors have
bur
of Lunar and Planetary Obser by now arrived safely and are. vers and mathematics instructor now waiting out beyond the University of New outside our extremest
furtheat atmosphoric doorstop, Mexico, reported that a Japanese torial waters" limit, or fellow of the 4830ciation had
torial airs" frontier.
at
sent in a report of an explosion, on Mars on January 15,
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IT WAS HIT
There are referencdaffing back to the eighteen century, they During the nineteenth
bocomo mono
(c) It was hit, hit inten- continue and tionally, And if an artificial numeroun By the last quarter catchlite has been planted" of the last century they have at our skie: If the row of come to be not infrequent, this space-ship arw rumbing Twice in 1870-the year, in- drandial, derelict, tarpodo;
It is known from the routine
up toward their orbit this cidentally of of, upper atmosphere observed through the eight exploration by the ́rbeket inch reflector at the Oraka. city launchings at the White Sarxis. planetarium, Dr Hass's expland (New Mexico) base that, pods- tion, that the explosion toss ibly, one of these great record- probably of volcanic nature, carrying rockets did not return.
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they know (from their White Prussian war-sky ships were Sanda intimate study of such a inoket on its way upward) On August 1
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Night capping. It
and
In this 1897 case the coloured beams wove such patterns- and
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