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This is Part Six of a special, de- tailed scientific roport about Saucers, Flying

which so much contro- versy has broken out since they were first seen. Gerald Hoard is a science writer of world roputo.

any

WORLD WATCHING US?

but

tho

Many sizes

80

The

any perch for these fliers in the over Oregon showed him several member, the object was alghted Japancso tried to hold back . Could thar an have the fumu country over which they have small disca he judged these to first by State polloe as it came the closing grapple of the or amoke that the monster that most flown, we have sought be not more than two to three up

over American sea-and-air forces on rushed across Kentucky show- the sky parading round the whole globe Wo feet across and light brown in Kentucky.

Stato polico the home islands by sending up cd? It certainly could, not have found witnessco, of their tint

alerted the military police. the famous "suicide pilota" to have been, a paddle or our of flights all over our spherd, The famous sightings, famous It

travelling in

fort. the swoop down "out of the sun" nowhere have wo found any because under such perfect con- direction of the Godman flying and explode their victim In

thing is clear ther place from which we can with ditions, made at Walle Sands fold. But while still nearly 100 the crash that obillerated them- super ships do not need pay,

real possibility say that testing grounds in New Mexico miles away, in the town of serves.

fort of blade to push they We can and no "Whonco" for In April, May, and June of 1948, Madisonville, many people had So he had keen

sight: his along, They are as much bet them anywhere on the whole confirmed these two types do caught sight of it in the sky.

vision is perfect and his judg-yond the Jels as the Jets have earth's surface. No wonder, exist

ment trained.

beyond and left as ob- faced with that fact, we try to

Still the really important fact His companion, who is four solete, the old propeller type of avoid the evidence that flying

about those findings is that they years younger, Bob O'Hara, aircraft. objects (that have no place to

were made simultaneously by Lad had an equally intense Then there is right: closu home back to) do rido

60 many people. There is a typo which is about scattered. More than 150 miles "spolter" (for the Air

For he had widely training.

been down at the very end of May akles.

100 foot across and with it was

Forte) (80) Captain William Sperty's No wonder, when tho avi-

air-sco rescue work account of another craft which dence forces us to own

that ten albo a far smaller type. On apart people loolding up saw in

tho

or dazzi- may same thing, the same odd scanning the blurred

not it into any of the the famous June observing, the such skyridern are up aloft two small dics that

ing surface of the ocean for above categories. examined obiect in the sky. then

fall back feebly on

What does that mean? It the tiny darkish spot which is He told the National Airport the up-rushing rocket and then are what has been denied. We say, put on such an amazing accelera means a very simple form of the head of a man perhaps

Washington (D.C.) that have made them, on-leap when they

show that that moment sinking. triangulation will intel- We

outpaced

seven miles west of These two were watching Mount Vernon, in the State of ligence, high intelli- though we don't know that we the rocket and shot into the the object must have been vast-

didl

depth of the sky, these objects ly high; And, if it was so high, the Jons through feld-ins Virginia, and at 7,500 feet, he

that cut gence, the highest

that his craft At this point of the story we the theodolite readings gave as it must have been vastly big to modern asid-glasses

Cone pull ourselves

rive such amazing the and we have

to not being more than 20 inches have been visible at all to the glare 80 must then come across

big DC-6'), which he human eye. gether We must recall that in diameter.

visibility. for.

was flying with passengers for wo are dealing with evidence

In fact there

So seems little The one sighted in May seems

it was, far above the American Airlines-one of the its and

of big interpretation two to have been the same size as chance of escaping the con- jets, for above their trails

air companies this big different, though always closely the one sighted in April-viz, clusion that this was the biggest exhaust,

of was hav- combined, things,

just over 100 feet across.

usssaly ever seen, save perhaps watchers and all the rest of the ins-literally-crates run round There may be опе д

the upper it by ittle one more caso to be mentioned crowd saw, riding

air, a huge disc. sible that some out-of-the-way smaller than this. For the other in a moment. tribe had made these things theodolite observation-that by There is also a third sighting but it is so widly Improbable the surveying team at Emmet, of a "monster" given in one of that we can safely dismiss it Idaho, on February 20, 1948, the "releases" of Project Saucer,

T

HESE disca driven by

all

Could they be British? Great Britain certainly, the world allows, is in the very Arst rank of progressive design with jet planes. But would the British Government fly its newest types all over the Unit- ed States and on the traffic air- lanes of that country? Of course not.

Would Britalii,

Could any other country, any

of

the remaining "Powers".

as they used to be called-be thought to be competent to put

Answered

Probably Spain did.

Could

wo

muat

Of course,

By

come

It could be pos-

PART SIX OF AN ABSORBING SERIES ·

GERALD HEARD

and is making-

prepostilons possible.

of logle)

Their range

Jacks

at at

when

the two trained

Too fast

Ho called it a “submarino with lights." Well get back to that in a minute, Whit we

can note at once, for it

doubt he said this

twico.

The two "apotters" thought Without it might be at least 40,000 feet thing actually circled bis plant up. They note that it could

His

paco was how- balloon,

miles an bour. the For

ons "clear" if one may so christen reason that balloons

It ahows, mechanically, wind.

tro-

hav

been no

ever

tremendous,

simpla

Can't

go against

the

about 800 So this glant

man who holds a private flying large dises have been found Clearest proof

Ok

ceiling crullonal pattern of the human other of af People not at Idyllwild saw in is wondering about us and

Bright object

higher up

than

for

nny more than Russia, send these precious things to waliz in the welkin South Pole? Again over the

And this ono was going against mendous speed" and masterly who can fail to say No?

the high wind shown by the manoeuvrablity. Britain and the United States

of You don't go looping and re- drift

of the vapour trails are now closer together than

looping in front of the prow the jet planes. since 1774, and tome time be

Besides, it was too fast for of a plane going itself 300 fore that. It is impossible to Of course, it may be possible showed a craft about the size of But, like the theodolite evidence any of the

miles an hour unless in the weather balloons, think that Britain would that

home-production a small plane (Piper Cub plane). clied by the same source, this which are, of course. of stand-

graphie Irish horse-racing trespass over the territory of a plant has made

Then there are varioules of the "monster"

clear ard sizes,

phrase, "You have the legs report friendly nation, and in doing these things, for We must shape. Some seem to be disen, detall.

Further, it showed that her." risk the lives of the nationals remember anything (save some saucers, plates, a flat circular We are told that an unnamed qu

queer complexion which the of that country as well as the

is object. Others seem to have a loss of the trespassing ship.

bite out of the side which ap- licence saw a vast object flying so often to display.

WDS It pears to be their stern.

towards him. He first thought shining sliver as though of And as much as fta 2010- The thing that flow

but the underside gave chanical over it was a normal earth plane, metal,

prowess shows' 'what Phoenix, Arizona, had such a bite but saw when it came closer off that warm, rosy tint which was the machine's capacity, 80 The universo has never given or seemed to have. But the bite that it was perfectly round and has been noted in a number of its actual performance tells us

and that it emitted no other cases. on such a show? Some people us a set of rules and said it will effect may be given by streaks flat

something of the psychology of Another fact that makes it its rider, have sold: "Spain

its

He cer- might never break them, or given us a of fume coming like wide-spread sound,

win tail plumes,

He gave its size as the bulk clear that the

Pliot. object must Spain gave sanctuary to some guarantee that it will never pro-

was curious, showing But the Emmet disc only had of six human planes, each of the have been at a tremendous tainly Nazis."

duce anything but what is in

more curiosity perhaps than in a kind of foam gathering at its size of the large plane called a height was the very long umu any other of these cases. the list

This was the clearest proof up seem clear that stem as it flew, and the obser- B.29, and that its speed was it was in sight-it was said to But it does

have been observed altogether to date that whoever is locking probability now forces us to seek yeri thought the stem indenta, three times that of a jet plane. tion was the tharply incurved

for some four hours. for any other possible place

aperture given in the conven- But where these"

trying, with a a careful combina It. In one place tripod tele- even the most Ingenious Nazi could come from.

tion of caution-as far as he can heart, and the most ingenious

up our rules — and of исте If there's no place for them to'

Of course it may have been pick not those one or two

The thing was flying with the All that such a report leaves scope was ranged on 1. "pos home on the whole earth then,

a mere curiosity, to find out what wo sibles," right at the

point or "bazo" of the heart us with is that someone who for top, who in the name of Noah's dove.

40,000 feet. Probably it was can do and how we behave.

As to what the hetual shape of may have got away-even the where can they find an ark where directed forward-like a rather may be a good observer saw

"obluse" or blunt arrowhead.

something that was very large, riding at those scores of miles the thing was surely wo can cleverest man can't work with- they can return to roost? They

pretty certainly a disc, and that levels where air thins out capoot spend all the time circling out tools.

was going faster than any good, those super levels at say it was probably not a disc. or could they? any designer make above

havo bem, far moro plane he had ever seen before. which the White Sands coser It must this number of craft, and this Well, till we can track them

The State it was sighted over

to likely, one of the long tube type, able definitely vers were variety, in a country not indus down or up-we must find any It is notoriously dimcult to was Oklahoma,

calculate that their visitors with their rows of lights and trialised? Spain

that weirdly lt fore-cabin. För further

clue from what we can

This was the very mother of were able to ride. Judge the size of objects with alway discover from their performance, even shape, when high in the all dises, and

that is the second clearty de- perhaps that country.

Aned type.. Before then, She imported most of the wean" queries, we must go moving rapidly, unless you can being an exact description

any

more sky, especially when they are poetic phrase may get quite near pons to fight her intensely carefully

ancillary range an Instrument on them perhaps it was the motiver ship deactive civil war.

But we see in those cases where in which the smaller craft

objects that 'swelli From our study of the craft the observations were of a few refugee Nazi brains is we may come to be able to sus- without Instruments, they were a

made like dinghies hauled on board Idyllwild, however, were car he a dise--and these discs are

take refuge tain of two things-one that i evidently

aim to considerable a craft they sowing the upper air round the peet the type of port and even afterwards

So confirmed very after their exploratory flights Was

of, still less ceen (they thickness at their centre, globe, and in fights over the the ship-yard base from which largely by those who were zo ar Noah's dove came back to beard added

a caveat that they were bulky disc might be taken fo States, with super- these super-argosies bavo sailed equipped.

rest in the Ark.

globe. original aircraft Spain, who The first thing to get clear in To this then

not to be thought to think that a Wa must add

It may

have been anything never produced one super-suc- our minds is the range of craft another important sighting not between 700 or perhaps 1,000 cessful car to compete in the with which we have been pre- mentioned in this summary 80 feet across, pre-war world automobile mor- sented.

fur, but which will be noted again when we return to the of evidential support, even when another grain of knowledge problem of "Whence?"

wo have allowed that discs and our all-too-scanty Information, At Flagstaff, Arizona, where 100 more fest across do ride the They were quite sure that the

thing the climate is so good and the skies,

was a big. thick pan- the Italy or France, these two

name saucer of atmosphere so clear that

And on March 22-this is the cake, least did produce much fine and dise may soon cease to be suit- fiarvard Observatory was placed second case-a perfect observa-

That, of course, is the dises standard figure. a general or generle there by Lowell, the famous tion of this or a sister monster 03 pioneering automobile work and name for this kind of air visitor. astronomer, some interesting planes they It does describe

not standard is that this after whom the was made, the all-over observatory

named. Dr

to have a hind had, and have some plant ---

Idyllwild is a charming resort seemed, of a appearance

out of it. The common type though the Italian was terribly as you may say that most things Seymour L, Hess, the resident on the slopes that rise to Mount sticking damaged, ond

astronomer there now, on May 22 Jacinto the 10,000-feet, moun- scription sounds like a sunfish Services the French has that swim in the sen are fakes, 1050 reported that while study tain that in California standa on its side. And they hinight, pot been able to keep at all bul you have to add there are ing weather conditions he had sentinel between near to the American spurt of things swimming In the ca production,

a bright object, a Oven considering uiterly unlike Asbes

tho visible to the naked eye, recent scale of the two octopus.

He then trained binoculars on countries,

in the upper levels of that afr-sca-the atmosphero-on the 1. Watching, which made him floor of which we crawl-we are quito clear that it was not a plane (at least of any known different pat- type) he was able to be sure of two other things.

been

has

backward 1

That she today, with the help

United

ket? Again we have only to write out the question to see

tha! it is answered.

couldn't.

Sho

evidence.

ØVEL

our

Varieties

Indeed the

able

Two things now gazing up at the hons of

Tuists of very

No: all the higher countries

of Europe aro out now that

terns.

A

scen

is

schooner-can

Beyond jets

The two trained watchers, at

had never

the thing might have come from outside the earth).

Such a thing needs quite a lot The other

Then there may be a huge elobe-but that again may only

from

Finally, to finish with their cut and contour, there are the best photos so far, those taken thing does add by Paul Trent in Oregon. They

to a

how t

Jy But what

the Inner this great in "whirled." disc desert and the outer coastal belt a couple of hours motor run south-south-east of Los Angeles.

Keen

sight

Visibility to generally good there. The little town stands high, the air has a desert clarity. Many people there. A number were out. Many were It was cutting through the watching the sky. For a couple

Vastly high

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a start, however, lot us Germany: la silll in two pieces, take that species we call the dise if not threes

or saucer. It certainty his Asin-outside Russian Asia? handsome number of varieties. Outside the Iron: Curtain: wo Let us start with the first to know that, Asia is still to be in besighted since the outbreak of clouds (it could not then be a of jet planes were practising dustrialised even to our present sightings in June 1947, the weather balloon, for that would high up.

Further, And in the crowd--there wote at it with "four-power perhaps a 100 people in that same is true of South America. Arnold of Boise, Idaho, while business they showed that

were, two who were Japan is now under complete in his

He judg

by gauging them the object was some three to six

interent, A professional and South Africh. against The

expert witneas Interest. They New Zealand along the fid mountain banks fort in diameter. The time was inttaly qualified to take m

∙tidges of which they 12:15 p.m.

Then we come to two mass were airforce sergeants. And And of thein what was sald of were flying that they were 30

on the they both had had an apposite Britain applied With the for- miles or more away and then (as observations-crowds ther demurrer none of them he could compare them with a object and watched it for some training in keen observation... in-industrialised to the pitch of large plane a. D.C., 4, that was while and these two CRCs are even for airforce men.

Elder who as Britain. Indood, all of those flying in the same circuit of his perhaps the most important of Bill ide

clder aged thron aro very lightly equipped vision) he estimated, that the all the sightings so far made. paned was the

The first, is that which ended had served in the Navy in the armament with

production discs must be somewhat analler

than that plane.

the traglo pursuit and last war. He'd time and again with plant.

of Captain Mantell served as lookoutman: when We have gone around the His second sighting-on July death world. Forced from finding 30 at 7 hon.bo was flying There, as the reader will re- towards the end the desperate

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