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FLYING

And have the ever been seen the famous trees on Wenlock in trouble, are they flawlessly Edge. eMelent?

HE power of accelera- tion is so far out aldo of the terms in which we think of

There was the Maury Island possible travel, that here mystery at the start of this out again our minds can hard-break of teneral interest. That ly order the findings of our story cpened with a dise scem- ing to need some sort of doc- senses. No, we must be

toring. very patient.

For no wonder people who are brought up on text-booien (which are always closing sub- jocis by such sentences "Science has now shown finally, that this, that, or the other thing is wrong

and can't be done," no wonder we feel ton! breaks the object that rules of deportment laid down for objects (by

who those thought they knew what all ob Jecta must do), no wonder wo feel that such an object just

can't be.

Certainly the power problem is the next big step our minds have to take. More than the craft this question

of their speed seems to rule out any human designer.

ap-

Eul for that report we have to trust a witness who parently was far from willing to talk to the Inquirer who passed the story On. And, wo remember, efforts to confirm or get the story repeated were in vain.

Now, that very same day, at a place called Salmon Dam, also in Idaho, two miners were made to look up to the sky. What they beard had set them looking about. The sound was a strange

SAUCERS?

SECT

So now back to the dance. The one that was seen to take place with a couple over Salmon Dam, Idaho, came the at Twin Falls, in the same State, very day that

a single disc had been comparatively low down.

Now was that dise in trouble one as well as loud. It was a as it made the trees twist and roar but an unfamiliar roar. It writhe as it passed ever? Was its colour, which had gunk to a was coming from the sky, too.

blue from the usual flashing Then they caught something, white, was that colour a sign of glimpsed a Bashing object in depletion, a magnetic anaemia of the sky..

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the very basis of everything milkman will soon deliv that gives us the sense of touchi, cardboard box instead everything we con

and the

usual bottle in handle,

morning... Can it be that these discs (and ather super-sky craft) with their super-performance,

Inside the box will b not only their appalling speed third of a quart of a lo able to demonstrate that dream some instructions. of 10,000 miles per hour, but looking, Ulke of all acroplane designers, craft that will hover silently as For long as it wishes in the air at

whipped cream, housewife will use the they have the power that such a she will add a third of a c

height

can it be that as it comes. For lighter cr performance seems to demand, the power to resist gravity with of water. And for ordinary

she will add two-thirds lla counter-force, a negativo And when the two were seen reaction to the pull of the earth, quart of water, together, flashing like mirrors, as on the negative, pole of the The result: is guarantee surely that was brighter than magnet objects are not drawn taste and look exactly like they

described? in but driven out.

best milk from the conventi usually So we cannot

were clear about They both say for sure

It. Two discs, very bright, so but this blaze as of a mirror in "They are sald to flash white,

bottle, Even when it is m that for some time anyone saw,

At any big show of electrical "with Philadelphia water- In anything which could be call bright that they reminded the

that is above the usual experimental gadgets, for years worst in the country. cd trouble, a 'dise or a tube or a

uplooking miners mirrors the sun,

"albedo," as astronomers call has been a standard pretty

All this is done by giant globe or even one of the spinning round in the sky, were

of the "concelt" to show an object of the brightness-quality "small golden globes" that were waltzing away in what seemed stars they study.

weight yet raised and held in process, which, takes the w now and then reported as bob- an excess of speed and energy.

what seems empty air-because out of milk without turniri bing about near planes when

a suitably arranged magnet is into powder. The dairy wi the planes were in flight.

holding it up. This toy perhaps|| developed it confidently exj the

have disc masters

now that within a year or two

milk mastered.

will be sold in cond trated form.

Two discs

:

of

the

Let us not comment yet until we have repeated again description of the Chilean Com- mander Orrego stationed down

are

Same game

Double-decked Antartica and gazing aloft used their temperature, made

the

the

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Shall Wo for the moment

South Pole, for down there, at Chlef advantage is that that the two had just And may be they go to the into the 1t "white night" of

their strange circulation brisk that end of the world-magnet, | will be cheaper, like this. F How are they driven? Well, Then came "a lorie observer" South Polar summer-We saw and equal to sealing the sky, by they can recharge themselves it costs less to bring it from first, to start with the simpler from the woods of the North dying saucers, one above having a

round cach best? problem, it would that West saying he thought that one other, turning at tremendous other?

scem

of them had dropped into a lake or at least dropped something into a be remote-

labe. This, again, is vagueness itself,

aome are not driven selves. They may controlled.

That idea with our human craft is already getting settled in our minds. But we must re- member how odd it the idea that objects-which seem to be directed by someone Inside them, which show a human way obstacle and of avoiding that sccking out that object and target, are really being directed by someone far away whom you and by intangible in other "Abres" of control, words by rays, by radio.

can't see

speeds,"

For fun? Out of wild joy of living? Or have they a renson for so behaving? Have they a need so to behave?

Granted the dise was there, granted it dropped something that might be a matter of Glance back through the And- furnace cleaning. And how tidy Ings as to the signs of energy. to let the ashes not fall on the which they give, the give-away earth where they might have trails and smears and vapou caused a forest fire, but to find wakes and sky smudges. We do a cat sequestered lake and there desposit. the refuse,

What seems

more important is a news agency repurt from Seattle, Washington, on April 29, 1950.

Thirty employees of one of the city light sub-stallons

(that is a good bunch

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With freedom witnesses) all declared that

The "light" that Gorman chased at Fargo above the flying feld-was there any plane bear- ing that light? Perhaps transparent "lantern" did bear that intelligent will-of-the-wisp,

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But it certainly behaved with carlain freedom; dash, and rush that would suggest that to small and maybe tenuous a thing, was not "manned" itself.

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It was being bobbed, whisked in front of the flier's an angler high up on the bank and standing in another element (air) whisks and bobs his bait in front of a submerged Ash- though in this case we must remember the "remote control, the

did putative "angler," show a consideration for the "Alah" that we seldom do.

be seeing

they Suw а double-decked balloon moving majest'cally, unhurriedly through the sky.

Then while they watched, as it was Balling over South Seattle, It exploded.

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By

Gerald Heard

noted British science writer of world repute, who was specially com- missioned to investigate and report on "Flying Saucer" known to have been seen.

every

The witnesses informed the police. The eye-witnesses indi- cated the area where they were sure they had seen fragments of "ship" coming down, the settling toward the earth. An know that the huge thing over area of some 10 city-blocks was Tucson, Arizona, did puff and Indicated.

pant, in the true old-fashioned combustion-engine way,

Weakest part

The police with firemen to ald them Fearched the whole of this area. Not a vestige of anything odd, or that could have been exploded and let drop, was to be found.

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What is one to make of such a

whirl

Whit two objects, each of which 15 a "coll"

wound," and what happens? It properly is as familiar as, at base, it is mysterious electricity is gener ated. Are these discs so recharg- ing each other?

Far Ahead

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cow to the doorstep, and a the concentrated milk fresh longer. That means the housewife

can buy supply from the grocer.

The high, wages now palë". Theory, of course, but theory milkmen are the chief rea in an attempt to make the why milk has gone up from actual observed

facts ot all 12. a quart to is Bd. possible; as doctors say patients that cannot keep food SAUSAGE comment in their stomach, to make it New York World Telegrar Right down at the South Pole possible to keep down what "Mutual exposure to those w were they caught at the same observation is ramming down time sausages in Britain wa

Anme--where

they

our unwilling throats.

shared ordeal that probably' us much as all speeches promote sympathetic comra

between Americans ship Englishmen."

perhaps thought no one would be on the Jook out (the case at Salmon

Of course such manters of the Dam may have been an emer- magnetle disc would be ahead gency "transfusion" or artificial of us. If they have that sort of respiratory exercise). And com- plano and that sort of power, pare this with Fred Johnson's then we cannot escape the con- BANK MANAGER Rich account where, while ho clusion: They are so far ahead Crowe confessed what m watched the half dozen discs up of us that we may begin to ser him steal nearly 1,000 above him, in the cascades, his why It was impossible to find dollars from his bank. conrpass needle whirled,

their homing site in any of the wrote in a magazine article: - countries of the world.

was leading a phony life, try to keep up with the Joneses," Beside, there might be an- And now that we have con- other reason for going off to sidered the Craft and their CLOSED DOWN-the the South Pole. Long ago Dr Power, what are we to do? year-old Society for Philo Gilbert, the able physician to Have we any other possible phical Inquiry. And the rear 4hat odd old invalid, Queen

us so we may according to secretary G Elizabeth, and also, on the side, guide to help one of the fathers of Electrical lem or must we throw in our to think any more."

return to the "Whence?" prob- Draper, is "People do not w Selence, made the amazingly hand and say,

"Spontaneous, The society's final pape penetrating remark, considering cataclysmic generation, if you "The intelligence of a bee." knowledge at this time. "The like that, or same forgotten Earth Itself is a Glant Magnet." spell of Merlin, that

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or labour Government has found and is muttering to

reported that in the first n months of this year more th 1,000,000 workers have b with given increased pay striking and sometimes without asking..

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A long stream of fine smoke be between Electricity and (as when the combustion is Magnetism has reached

Let us before we cry “Any- SHOW BUSINESS: The o high and the furnaces are crisis. Einstein, as we all know, thing may happen anywhere, s

night, President Truman clean), and then a puff of deaser thinks he is on the verge of why try to order or argue my wife, his mother-in-law and smoke when brought to a pause, getting, indeed may

have, the thing," let us try to see, if now cook huddled round a TV as the master of this giant craft formula that will settle that. we have two suggestions

They were watching the considered Tucson from tho

make about the discs and their vision debut on a New sky,

companions, from these When

We variety WC remember what suggestions--t

--that

they

may singer, Margaret Truman, in so And the even huger

from few years,

have thing came

mother-shilp or ships Brst Einstein's

break big Kentucky, that raced

Miss Truman made her high aloft and that they may that, too, was said to have through in the world of ideas be able to resist gravity when up ("I knigwmy own of glowed fearsomely

down

and even word no fewellery Do these creatures

energy are really two aspects of stationary (and do not acting tuse she has none, and pant of the stern. upper air, when they feel their

the same thing we must have satellites of the earth, thus the plunging neckline, so pop end is near, break up and then Perhaps the huge "paddle" a certain awe when we think getting a free-ride on the out to with most women ring dissolve so

that by

the lime seen by tho Idyllwild observers what will come of the marriage rim of our rotation). their fragments have reached with the two air sergeants tu which we are trying to arrange From theso two possibilities Inside, that of course they can' terra Arma they have volatilised help, perhaps, as suggested, that in our minds between magnet- about Craft and Power we mo

But, as we shall later, when we try to go on still report? further into the mystery and to discuss The Crews and their Views, it is really inpermissible for us to say: "The cruft was so small, the speed so great the twists and lunges and kicks violent so deadly

to anyone

ACTOSE

from its

the notion

that matter and

into invisible gas and like paddle was some kind hind- ism and electricity. Intelligent the unsubstantial pageant faded, plume of smoke. be 'manncď - no creature could go through such leave not a wrack behind?"

let alone a milling and live: the problem of what intelligent could, In cranlure

the first some of the place, get inside small craft-say a couple of tect across!"

Painful process

Heart-shaped knowledge seems to do so, since Service)

(MORE TOMORROW)

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on TV.

Truman's term ends.

-London Express Service

She sang two songs and th go on and make some deduc- telephoned her father for flons as to the Crews and theft critelsm. She said she ĺ

constant bookings up to But if it is the next step and Views.

and. of 1952, which happens if it leads to power (us all (World Copyright—London Expren be the time when Presid All wo can say at this point, considering

that vast low mind of Francis and when we are.

drove that But the first theodolite obser- Bacon

utilitarian these objects' power, is that any evidence that would say that vational an Idaho

obsession into our heads), well prize,

аго Бо for even they on occasion falter and the one seen at Emmetthat then people who fail is almost the weakest part showed only a little foam round ahead and on the same line as of the whole witnessed story. the stera, like the foam on a we, as far as travel is concerned chin about to be shaved. And such a people with such crafi face they have. most discs have shown nothing, as we have to

would a people The tubes do show a good, fine such kicking and splashing flame. them, wouldn't they, with some

form of super-energy.

But we have a possible clue, No, our minds may have to be just possible, that they do get stretched still further; and, together now and then, and for that this getting together may meanwhile, in preparation

pep each other up, to

exercise. The first case comes from Idaho again.

that painful process, let's try to be to

do some kind of recharging

keep them as open as we can.

Low down

So turn again to this pretty problem of power, of powering a plane to remain poised and to go at 18,000 miles per hour, of Dowerlag a plane to fly at over 50 miles high, of powering a Remember that time at Twin plane perhaps over a thousand Falls, when a disc was sighted fect across, of powering a plane by a couple of observers, and that evidently nover comes to they thought it was sky-blue the and it was fairly low down? earth and rushes round globe as though it were a tiny

In such cases we may say that we are--as far as theory in con- comedif not on the level (or well within our depth), at least not hopelessly out of it..

power

Basic thing

One of the things, indeed the basic thing that makes flight so This is jet propulsion ahead hard and kept us down on earth of ours, but evidently along the so long, was and samo path: may be even

but the mysterious frothing heart-shape disc seen drag, gravity, by one of the first theodolites to settle ita eye on a

dise, oven

that may have been a fine form

of some super-efficient fuel.

is just this ever present

Now if magnetlem ig, no it were the other pole of gravity? Every force seems to have ita complement In' this middla

satellite of ours, and that takes Further, though - It did not

But the silent Ditting of cosmos of balanco and of action refuge when tired if not in it seem as low down as all that, nearly all of them gets far more and reaction. The magnet in selt but perhaps of us-not the tree tops were, when it mysterious when to it we add there before our' eyes every day. down on the earth but up in raced over them, in what the the lack of any vialble exhaust, and we know that negative and the sky.

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