ED! TOR : E. B I DOLE .

Vol. 1 No . 2 October, 1954 .

Notices •• • • • • • • . . • • 2

This. and That • • •• . . • • 23

Windscreen Diseases & Flying Saucers by Jimmy Guieu .. • • . . 26

The Nature of' the Aerof'orms .. . . . . 30

Now I see them - Now I don ' t by Judith L . Gee .. . . • • . . 33

Books • • •• • • •• • • • • . . 36

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'rHIS AND THAT .. . . by the Editor

The reception given to our first issue was encourag­ing but we are still insufficiently kl1own. This is a state of affairs ~hich will no doubt soon be remedied and we look forward to the future with confidence and interest.

It is not easy to edit a Flying Saucer journal. There are so many types among the "Saucerers" and it is very true here that one man's meat is another man's poison. We can only endeavour to balance one point of view with another and to give publicity to all, within reason. The wise student of these problems will avoid dogmatism and be rea dy to modify his views at any time should circumstances indicate the necessity of so doing.

. . . . . . . . . . . There is a great deal of wishful thinking among cer­

tain sections of Saucerdom and conclusions are drawn which are totally unwarranted by the known facts (and how few facts are 'known'!). It is not surprising, con­sidering the times in which we live, that there should be tendency to look upon the Saucers as the saviours of man­kind - or as the harbingers of doom, according to taste and inclination. Specious argu ments, and "evidence" which on the most charitable view is distinctly shaky, are offered in support of these views, despite the de­plorable disinclination of the Saucers to come up to scratch and do their part . I have an uncomfortable feeling that should any further trouble break out on this lunatic planet of ours , those who are relying on help from the Saucers are booked for a sad disillusion­ment!

. . . . . . . . . . . In this issue we are publishing an account of the

Borderland Sciences Research Associates theory of the "etheric" origin of the Flying Discs . There is no doubt quite a lot to be said both for and against it and our article is offered purely for information. Unhappily, the theory loses by the unavoidable condensation in our

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pages but anyone sufficiently interested to expend the equivalent of a couple of dollars con obtain, through Markham House, a BSRA booklet with D full account of the theory.

If possible, we shall in future issues present sur&uaries of other theories for the information of our J•eaders .

. . . . . . . . . . . One of our readers , Hr . B. G. Essenhigh, Moat Cottage,

Otford , Sevenoaks , Kent, England , is anxious to secure a copy of Scully's BEHllTD THE FLYING SAUCERS . If you can help, please contact him direct, quo ting price.

. . . . . . . . . . . The cane ella ti0n of George .hdat;1Ski' s prop0S6d lecture

· at the Albert Hall in Septembe r ea Gle as a grea t disappoint­ment to many Saucer enthusiasts • • • and doubtless to many of his opponents, too ! Adamski ' s story of his meeting wi th long-haired Venusians has certainly provoked plenty of controversy and it would have been very interesting to see and hear him. However, he may be here next year; the present cancellation, we understand, is due to severe chest troubl e , which makes it impracticable for him to leave California for the present . Incidentally, I would like to modify what I sa id on the top part of p . 12 of our last issue . Since I wrote that, I have changed my vie ws somewhat and instead of what was published I vJould n0w say that of the various alleged contacts, Adamski's account is perhaps slightly better attested than any of the o thers , while still open to serious doubt .

. . . . . . . . . . . Mr . H. Chibbett asks me to mention that he would be

very pleased to hear f'rom any reader (especially in the London area) who would be willing to work with hi~ in experiments of the nature of those mentioned in "Strange Interlude" in our last issue . Write direct, pl ease, to Mr. Chibbett at 4 Palace Road, Bowes Park, London, N.II .

• • • • • • • • • • • I heard recently from Jin~y Guieu that his Saucer

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book (see ;rUranus" No . I) is being transla ted into Engli sh and that he will probably be visiting London i n this connec tion .

. . . . . . . . . . . The July 1954 issue of NEVJ WORLDS SCIENCE FICTION

conta i ns five pa ges of r evie ws of Saucer books, written by Leslie Flood . Well worth r ead i ng and , on t he whole, surpris ingly f avourable consideri ng t h e gene r al tendency of Sci enc e Fiction enthusia sts t o ridicule Flying Saucer ma tters . (Can it be that many of these people rea d Science Ficti on a s a f 8r m of escapism and becooe seri­ousl y perturbed a t the po ss ibility tha t i n t e rpl ane t ary visitants mi ght really appear on the scene?)

. . . . . . . . . . . I am so rry tha t t wo items which I hop ed t o pu blish

in this i s sue have hod t o be postpon ed - the extra ct from Ji r,rray Gui eu ' s b00k concerning the Siberian "meteor" and an a rticl e on pl o tting the course s of spa ceship s by a Rumanian airman in London . I trust , how ever , tha t th ey will bo t h appea r in No . 3 •

. . . . . . . . . . . There ore some very strange stories rea ching u s from

Califor n i a r eg~ rd ing conta cts with Sau cers a nd a l l eged sen so ti •Jncl de vel opr:1ents bu t I do no t think t he t i me is ripe t o sJ y l}lUCh obout them. Perhap s we shal l know mor e l a t e r on ; rneon~hil e t he grea t es t c aution seems a dvisabl e ,

. . . . . . . . . . . On the l o s t page of No . 1 there wa s an announcement

about a Lon don gr oup f or the study of Flying Saucers . Unfortuna t el y , Mi ss Terry, who tempo r arily ac t ed as Secreta r y , is no l on ger able t o c ontinue and it was de­cided at our l a st ga thering tha t her pl a ce should be t aken by Mrs . Judith L. Gee , of 27a , Gol dhurst Terra ce , Hampstea d , London, N . ~ . 6, ~ho will be plea sed to he a r from anyone intere s ted . These gather i ngs, by the wa y , a re entirely infor ma l and the t wo we have ha d so f a r, thanks t o the kindly hospitality of Mr . an d Mrs . Gee , have been very enj oyable .

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FROM "WINDSCREEN DISEASE11 TO FLYING S.4UCERS ~---------- by JUU:IY GUIEU ---------l

(The following is a slightly condensed translation of an article published in the Provencal ne'ilspaper "Le :Meridional11 and is :published here by kind permission of' M. Guieu.)

In spite or tens of' thousands or cases in the world, or photos of shattered windscreens, or samples sent to various laboratories, the scientific world persists in denying the evidence: 11 v-~ indscreen disease does no t exist! "Cancer of Glass" is only a Ii1ore or less collective psychosis . .Affected screens have simply been bl~oken or cracked by a :pebble, by engine vibra tion, by ultra sounds, by a slight distorti0n of the bodywork, etc . etc .

_ And yet, in a single day, at Everett (near Seattle, u.s.A.) 900 cars had their windscreens crack, bre8k into pieces or become covered with tiny holes or splits . 1~ t Bellingham (1'NW or the State of Washington) 1500 cases were recorded in a week and 4294 cases at Seattle in the same period . Can one explain by any or the above theories? This is utterly impossible, for prelimL1ary analysis has brou ght to light the presence 1 in the minute inte1,stices and h .. ; les in the glass, of certain granules of' a magnetic na ture , tha t is to say, attra cted or re­pulsed by a :mgnet . Since when has grit from city streets, or even in the country, been of a 11 magnetic nature"? Since \7hen ha ve vibration, ultra sounds, genera­ted granules b06n <.: ttra cteG. o:"' Pepulsed ·'Oy a ;.:.:;.cJ.gnet? Is a slight distorti on of the body~ork suf'ficient to produce microscopic grains of a magnetic nature?

This strange ncancer of Glass 11 is not satisf'ied with just windscl"eens . The 11 complaint" is now attacking ordinary glass . Instances have been l~ec Ol"ded of inexpli­cable breaking or empty bottles, glass ash-trays, pyrex basins and even watch glasses, not to mention drinking glasses ! It should be noted that these objects - like most of the windscreens - were neither t ouched nor bumped into.

Two recent cases stand out clearly by reason of their

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strangeness. The first was witnessed by one of my friends~ M. Chabot, technical translator in an important airplane construction factory. After having had cafe au lait with his lunch, M. Chabot put his pyrex bowl on a wooden table covered with a waxed cloth made of plastic material. The bowl v1as hardly warm. M. Chabol was attending to his affairs when suddenly, behind his back, a violent detona­tion made him jump up. He turned, glanced round the room and noticed, not without surprise, that his bowl had dis­appeared, literally pulverised into innumerable fragments, of which the l a rogest did no t reach the diameter of a lentil. The expl osion of the basin had been so violent that numerous gl ass splinters were embedoed in the thick material covering the dining room chairs !

Stranger still is the following incident: On Saturday, July 17th, on the road to Istres, a

textile merchant ana his wife were cruising along in their little van at some 100 km an hour . All at once , the driver noticed, at a slight distance from the wind­screen, a strange bluish light.

Then everything happened in a flash! Did the bluish light reach the ~indscreen, or did it

emanate from it, in immediately preceding the incident proper? Impossible to say. The fact is, that after the appearance of this mysterious light the vv ind screen flew into s-plinters . The driver braked ha rd and stopped . J.t the same tirae as the windscreen splintered , a strange rrhi tish mist , an impalpable but sharply defined cloud, f ormed in the van. The driver 's wife felt an inexpli­cable heat envelope her bust. A kind of uniform pressure pressed her nylon blouse to her skin; we must en~hasize that neither the wind nor the surrounding warm air ha d any part in this phenomenon.

Imagine this business lady's astonishment on dis­covering, itnn1edia tely after experiencing this strange sensation~ that her white nylon blouse had become straw yellow! -

And now it's up to you, gentlemen of science. (I omit here cases qu oted by the author where scientists in the past have been compelled to eat their words and confess their errors.)

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Let us take anGther order of ideas. FLYING SAUCERS, for example, are an absolute reality. Tens of thousands of persons (certain of whom are scientists, technicians, pilots, radar operators , etc.) say they have seen them. Result: the majority of "men of science" treat all these trustworthy observers as visionaries or humbugs! The world is so made that those whose minds are not suffic­iently open to the unlmown treat as mentally deficient the people who ha ve the auda city to uphold certa i n facts (improbable but authentic) of VJhich they ~;-Jere the witnesses .

IS THERE A CON1iliCTION BE·I')EEN "CLl'TCER OF GI.u\SS 11 M'•'TI THE FLYll~G Si\UCERS? J, pri0ri, this question may seem far fetched. 1.11 the same, let us examine it.

No one is ignorant of the f a ct tha t there are, in interplanetary and interstellar spa ce, cosmic clouds com­po sed of calcium, hydrogen atoms of iron etc . In the same way there are spores (theory of panspermia , accord­ing t o which the vi t al germs are sea ttered throughout interplanetary and interstella r space; vital gernill pos­sibly at the origin of life on the earth).

These 11 clouds of spores 11 can be likened to a ccumula­tions of asexual cells, or kinds of bacteria, ultra-virus or other micro- organisms unlmovm to man, carried al ong by C0St<lic dust or meteorites (of a rna gne tic na ture!) In the ca se ~hich interests us, the kernel of these spores ~ould no t be composed of carbon (as our cells are) but of silicon. These spores ha ve been travelling in c 0smi c space f or centuries perhaps thousands of years, in a state of anab i osis (suspend~d animation, a kind of en­forced hibernatiGn) and this in the c old of eGlpty space, -i.e. -273 C! Floa ting in space, these spores one day get "captured" by the a ttraction of some heavenly b0dy (sun or pl ane t).

On contact with an atmosphere not incompatible with their mode of life, these spores come out of their state of anabiosis and again become active . Originating in silicon, these spores, to nourish themselves ••• would attack glass and, acting in a nay something like the enz~nes or bacteria which change the nature of certa in materials and compounds, they would c or1~p t the glass

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( silicate) from which they would extract their "nourish­ment11. By 11 nourishment 11 we might understand absorpt i on of energy, causing a breakdm·m of the a t omic or mole­cular equilibrium of the glass , whence: splintering, cracking, etc.

Having ad vanced this hypothesis (for we are dealing with nothing more than an hypothesis), let us now examine the p ossible relationship between these spores and the Flying Saucers.

Ships and cargoes can spread frightful epidemics in bringing germ-carrying rats from infected a reas. The same eventuality can be en visaged with the flying discs coming fr om an•) ther world . Flying Saucers may have traversed t hese clouds of spores drifting in space at the mercy of gravitati on . The spores ma y have become depos ited in an aggl omera tion on the surface of one or several el ise- shaped spaceships which , entering our atmos­phere l ater , would involuntarily let l oose on our con­tinents a mass of spores carried from interplanetary or interstellar space.

Dislodged from their hiding places on the surface of the discs by the ~irst tra ces of atmosphere, the spores would have escaped damage or dest ructi on through friction; they would , then, have fallen gently, t o reach the ground - or the sea - in perfect cond ition, or virtually so.

A mere hypothesis, certain~y, but one which we should do well t o consider.

In spite of its a version t o wha t it would call ir­rational, the Centre Nat i ona l de l a Recherche scienti­fique (Marseilles Branch) has seen fit, a t my re quest , to a ccept f •Jr analysis gl ass attacked by this mysterious "ep idenic 11 • I hope the CNRS a t Paris, bet ter equipped than the provi ncial branches, will also agree to analyse minu tely samples sent t o it . J~n ultraviolet examination will be insufficient. It seems indispensable t o study 11 VJindscreen disease11 ~-Jith the electronic microscope, among other processes of scientific investigation of our atomic era. £ large number of thorough analyses will be necessary on an equally numerous selection of samples if ~e are to succeed in isol a ting the cause of this hitherto unexplained 11 siclmess 11 •

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"Cancer of Glass" exists; the discoid spaceships inappropriately called "flying saucers" exist. The man of science owes it to himself to study them.

A witty reflection of the great Henri Poincare fits exactly the problem of the flying saucers as well as that of " v7 indscreen disease": "To doubt everything, 0r to believe everything , are two solutions equally conven­ient; they both enable us to dispense with thinking."

I can only add, by way of conclusion, the words of Lieut . Plantier, author of a revolutiona r~7 and perfectly scientific theory of the na tu~e and pr opulsive system of the flying saucers: "The scoffers, the seep tics and the indifferent have never been builders or defenders of human achievements . "

THE NJ. TURE OF THE .(,EROFORtlS

The "Etheric" Theory of the Bol""derland Sciences Research f'Jlk.

N. B. - This a rticle c onsists of extra cts from an article published in the BSRi1 organ "Round · Robin" some time back. It will give as good an idea as anything e> f the the0ry in the limited space available .

No speculation about the origin of the Discs would be complete without ca reful considera tion of the Etherian hYr othesis of the B. S . R. ~ss o cia tes . I do no t include this among the "mystic and occl1l t theories" be­cause I see n othing mystic or fantastic about it. In QY professional opinion as an engineer, it is quite plausible and entirely possible.

Probability does not, of course, follo~ possibility, but must be established by evidence . In applying the hypothesis to actual 11 disc" reports, I hove not yet un­covered any evidence which would tend to discredit it. On the other hand, I have found many things which would tend to confirm at least parts of it. By its applica­tion, many events which would otherwise be is<Jlated and meaningless, are connected into a logical ~hole .

Since Biblical times various religious and occult

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groups have spoken of "unseen" beings who inhabit myster­ious 11 planes'1 above us - "above" referring to vibrational frequency and not direction. Various groups have speci­fied various "astral 11 and "etheric11 planes. liiodern thinking is that there are n o actual divisions, but merely a constantly increasing frequency from zero to infinity. Just as people have arbitrarily marked certain points a l ong t he sound scale, and have called these tones, so too have these groups selected certain points along the upper vibrational scale and identified them as certa in 11 planesu.

B.S . R . ~ . lifts the subject out of t he realm of mysticism and lays the f ounda tion f or scientific explana­tion . They asser t tha t these beings are not phantasmal, but are actually as 11 solid11 and "material" as the people of thi s rJOrld . The misconceptions on the subject a rise from the :fact tha t our senses respond only to rela tively l ow frequency vibra tions . vV e a re unm:.rare of these people for the same reason tha t a standard broadcast radio receiver i s "unaware" of F-IVI broadcasts .

Sub-a t omic research, plus the studies of advanced thinkers such as Einstein, have resulted in some very impor tant c onclusions . Briefly, they are that all f or ms of energy and all f orms of raatter are me rely different forr.1s of the same thing . They all have a c ommon source and base, but are a t different frequencies (or levels of vibration) which cau ses t hem t o assume diff'eren t pat terns. It would be absurd to believe tha t we know all the count­less vibra ti ona l levels which are poss ible . There could easily be obje cts, or even people, whos e rat e of vibration VJa s so :far beyond ou r range of awareness that we would not realise t he ir existence . Yet they would be "real" in every sense of the word. There are s ounds s o high in frequency t ha t they do not register on our ears, but we know- that the s ounds exist, and are just as "real 11 as those we can hear.

B.S.R.l •• believes that these beings inhabit worlds which are just as "material" and "solid" ( on their pa rticul a r vibra tional, or frequency, level) as ours - if not more so . Some of these worlds exist in 1~ rts of space which we regard as "e mp ty". Others co-exist wi th

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this and othe r pl anets intradimensionally - that is: they occupy the 11 same" space. .ill though meny who have not previously studied the subjec·t may find this difficult to believe, it is not scientifically impossible. The most dense material we know is about 909~ empty space . The various parts of the at0m are separated from one another by as great an amount of space , relative to their size, as the planets of our solar system. There is ample room within each atom f or several o ther atoms of different frequency levels. ~

B.S. R. J. . believes that the mo Pe advanced of these "unseen11 peoples have t he knovJledge aJ.'ld skill t o change their frequency level a t \'iill and thus "tune" t hemselves and any desired object to any higher or lov1er level. Or, to use the words \7hich mi gh t be r.1ore familia r to some readers, to "materialise t o", or "demater ialise from" , any "plane 11 , including this one . This mi gh t be accom­p lished either by mechanism, j_Jrobably of an electroni c nature , .or p erhaps by mental povJel". They believe tha t many ( .but not all) of the mysterious objects seen in our skies ai"e from 11 etheric11 levels, and are "materialised" here t o ,this planet and plane. The etheric doubles of the planets Venus and Mars al"e frequ ently ti1enti oned as possible sources of the discs .

The " ma terial isa tion" the ory would expla in many incidents which are o therwise unexplainable. Re liable witnesses have seen "discs" first appear a s vague and formless "blobs", and t hen assume definite shapes, wh ich indicate a "materialisation". Others hsve seen them suddenly disappear into thin air - whi ch could indica te tha t they had 11 dematerialised 11 the mselves.

Radar frequently p icks up mysterious 11 gizmos" VJhen no object c an be seen by the human eye. This c ould indi­cate some object tuned just above the human awareness range, but still within the range of the more sensitive radar. J~l ong this same line is the case of the discs seen over Wa shing t 0n, D.C., by ground observers, plane pilots and two radar screens. As a plane approa c hed the object , it disappeared from viev·v, and the plane flew through the spot where it had been. 1 ... short time later it reappeared at the same spot. During all this time

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the image remained on the radar screens. It could be that the disc pilots raised their ~requency just enough to a void physical c ontact with the plane ~or a moment.

11 Moterialisation 11 or 11 dematerialisation" would cause displ acement o~ a certain mass o~ air, and i~ done rapidly, it VJ'Juld result in a n expl osion at the po i nt o~ "materi­alisa t ion" and , conversely, an implosion at the point o~ 11 dema t erial i sa tion". There have been mysterious a tr.los­:phe ric ex:plosi0ns which caused severe shock wa ves on the ground~ ana orthodox s cienc e has not yet been able to satisfactorily expla in them.

• • • • • • • • • • • So there you are . The abo ve v7as written by a B.S.R. 1,ss0ciate . The vievm expressed may \'Jell seem strange a t first but without expressing any opinion one way or the other, 'JiG d0 say tho t in our vie,w they a eserve serious c ons iderati on.

SEE THEI/1 - NO':l I DON'T" by Judith L. Gee---~

Now~ tha t Flying Saucers are n0 longer matter ~or mirth, or signi~ican t tapping 0n w0oden f oreheads, the grea t question marks of Vvha t? Why? 'ihence? a nd whi t her, can begin t o be asked , and such onsgers as we can ga ther, be arranged i n t he neat c ulunms so beloved of our scientific-conditioned generation .

We are bewitched, bo t hered and bewildered . They come , t hey go . Chase them, and pilots fall into a flat spin, or blackout , or crash . Deny the~, as our astron0mers do, and they appea r over Washington, and a re tra c ked on the radar over Southern England, and Danish pilots sgear to them. Hail them over London, and they ' prove ' t o be a cosmological balloon. The thunder we hear, is Charles Fort in heaven, heaving with laughter at our bafflement .

Their recorded speed is phenomenal, I have seen figures of 7,000 m. p . h . They turn and twist in a manner impossible to our rigid ~rame d planes . They appear - and vanish. They change colour and shape. They give birth

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in the sky t o their little ones . They unit e and hie them hence. They do everything tha t is ~orbidden, by r otej rule, l aw or l ore accor ding t o our ea rth stbilda rds of the accepted c onduct o ~ ma tte r and en er gy in space and time. Here is czyst ery, an d now is th e time ~or it.

It is only within rec ent ye ars, or e ven months, tha t delving into ~o rgo tten a rchiv es, students h ave estab­lished tha t Flying Sa uc ers hs ve been s een, a t least as l ong as r ec or r ed hj_ s t or y . .hncl t here a r e ma ny my t h s , or ol d ~olk memo ry which t ell of t hem. There i s an Egyp tian hi er ogl;yph o ~ t he time o ~ Thu t hmos i s III ( 1504-1450 circa B.C) which t ells o ~ a 'circle o~ ~ire' i n the sky , t ha t sca r ecl the c ourt o ~ Pharaoh .

The r e is an es o t eric trad ition t ha t earth is under t he r ul e r sh i p o~ Ve nu s . There i s an uncom~ortable the ory, t ha t ea rth i s under the overlor ds hi p o~ super - b eings. People di sappea r in the r.10s t una ccoun t able manner . .And likew i se app ea r na1ced j cl a i mi :ng t o c ome ~rom s ome sta r . Do t hes e ~a cts add up t o any t h i ng we can understand?

Occult wisd om had al ways t augh t, t ha t our s ens e perc ep tions a r e dec ep tive and limited • . /.nd t hCJ t \l e ex­i s t i n a mu t able w0 rl d , o~ c 0nstan t :flov7 and change . That our eye s do not se e j or our ea rs hea r . Science ni t h much peering, pr•ob i ng , dogEla and disca r d i ng o f t heory, by t h e a i d of delica t e i n str umen t s , a ccepts t ha t ~.v e exi s t a s huma ns, within a narrorJ octa ve o ~ sense da ta, in a spa ce-time continuum. Tha t VJ e a re c ond i t i on ed by t he limits o ~ our physical eyes t o a cc ep t a certa in nuance o:f sensa tion- r ec ep ti on a s the actua l worlo . i .na t ha t thi s corresponds only in pa rt t o t he a ctual wid er r 8:nge 0 ~ light re~lecting CJ nd receiving r a ys . It is i m­portant t ha t we understand this clea rl y . Wha t we see, is more a menta l c onstructi on, ow i ng t o physica l eyes being a ttuned t o limited r a nge o ~ recepti on . Th is puts paid t 0 a ma t eria list r a tional universe , such a s ¥/estern civilisa tion ha s pr o1.11Ul go ted ~or the l a st century . ~ wh eel r evolving r api dly, its s pokes become i nvis ible . Lt wha t revoluti ona ry sp eed , w0uld the wheel it s el~, be n0n- es t t o OUI' s i ght? Flying Saucers appea r a nd vanish .•• ghosts c 0me, a nd go . The Cheshire cat ~ad es and only the grin remains!

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Sound is another one of the riddles of the Sphinx. How we hear, is one of the numberless puzzles. Our range is short . .t'lnimals react to high pitched noise we never hear. Birds sh0w alarm minutes before jet planes or storms appear overhead . The sound barrier is broken with bangs that shake windows from fra mes, and men from their c0n ten tmen t. The re are Flying Saucers that are n0iseless, and noise ~'l i th0u t Flying Saucers. Bangs, and things that go buElp in the night. Raps at our d0ors and t ables. 1aybe a shifting o f barriers from the physical t 0 the invisible ••••• ?

For the last hundred years, the 0ed, the crank and the curi ~us have been collecting verified data abou t the peculiar behaviour of mat ter, which exu des from certain people in certa in circumstancess takes on visible form and shape and can be ane 0ften is identi­fiee gith pe0ple n0 longer extant in the physical world . Fraud and fable does n0t explain t his, it merely relega tes the speaker into the solic-at 0r11 V'Jorld of pre ­nuclear physics . There a re recor ds of yogi, proficient in eastern wiscom, who thou@1 visible t o the eye, and t angible t o the t ouch, cannot be photographed \vi thout their c ~nsent. The camera never lies!

··;e ~re Vii thin this generation beginning t o realise tha t 0u r three di mens i ona l world , is a minute V8rio ti0~ ~ithin the possibility of an infinity of dimensions . The horiz0ns o f our mind is being pushed back t o i nfini ty.

Hatter res0lves into energy, Flying Saucers into space. H0\7 can we in our puny bodies come to terms of agreetilent? ·t:e are in the position of naked primitive mon , bef0re the a t 0m- bomb scientist. \Je gape like children before a power-house . Their knowledge trans­cends ours. They are literally deus ex machina des­cending t o watch ou r antic maClness . The hubris ·of mankind or of \7estern scientific civilisation, has brought its reHa r d , and the Sorceror's l.pprentices who cannot c0ntrol t he elements they have c0njured into destructi0n, now ·eet their las ters, who come to juclge them. . .. . . .

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THE Sl~UCERS SPE.hK. Ge0. H. 'lilliams0n onc1 i.lfi'eC. C. Bailey. New hge Publishing Co., Los lngeles, Califopnia. Price %2.00.

When s0me0ne says he has recei vec1 irap r essions through t elepa thy, I am prepared t 0 afmit the poss i bility. If he g0es on t o say that he has rec0rded such i mpress i'Jns by the activity of his subc r;nsci 'Jus mind WG rking thr0u gh aut0ma tic 1.1 riting 0r a ylanchette, I still see n0 ::;>rima facie reas0n f or d0ubtin3 the p0ss ibility. If he g0es a step ~urther, as fo the auth0rs 'Jf t his b00k, onc1 says his telepa t hi c i mpres sions origina te from beings 0n an­o ther p l ane t, I \"Jsulcl treed very wa rily, but I certa inly see no the oretical reason why it sh0uld be impGss i ble, even if perhaps improbable . ·. :hen the auth0rs spe8k 0 f receiving extra-terrestrial uessages by raci0 in inter­national llo rse code , I say n 'J thing , f or Radi'J is a seale d mystery t0 me.

But there is an 0l d saying that the p roof of the pudCl ing is in the eating. Let us exaoine the ingreCients.

If I t 0ld you that all t he planets of our S 'Jlar System rlus an extra 'Jl1G ·.:e hEl ven It ciscovered yet and a second dark) m0on be l onging t0 our earth ~ ere inhabited by men yes, I SEl i d 11 i,len" , t rio-l egged creatures in human forrii}and tha t I ha c: llacl m.essages fr 0t,l representatives fr0m m0s t 0f the ra, I have o pre tty B') 'Xl i :; e8 wha t you would say • ••

But before y0u sEly it, just skim thr0ugh the f 0ll ovJ ­ing choice morsels 0f informati 'Jn cullec"1 fr 0m much 1110 re in a similar strain recorde d in this book.

;l gentleman named Zo , hailing from Neptune, says he is g0ing on to Pluto, which is n0t the cold dreary world our astron0mers think it is. Nor is Mercury a hot, dry world. hll planets have about the sa me tenpera ture. ;, little further 0n, Zo says he is 5ft 7ins. t a ll, has

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auburn hair and ~eighs 148 pounds (he doesn't say whether on Neptune or on Earth) . Regga, of Mars, assures us that though Mars hDs slight changes _in seasons, the other worlc s have perfect weather at all times ! (Book your seats f'or the Plutonian Riviera) . Then up bobs Zo again, this time to say the o ther planets hDve the same atr;:nsphere as ours . Regga tells us that the Sun is not a hot fla ming b ody, but cool . (So did Sir David Brews t er, exactly a centupy ngo, in his 11 More \Vo rlds than One". But certain f'cn•ces come f'p om the Sun and f'p·)m f'ricti on r;hen they re a ch our trragnetic field they produce heat . Ori on needs watching: the men there are a bad l o t and out t o conquer the Universe . J,nc there is plenty m'Jre in a simil ar stra in .

One can only g5 sp ana marve l that anyone should take such stuff' seri')USly ! Pic ture the idyllic lif'e of' the Jovians, below thousand s of' miles o f' an atmosphere c·Jnsisting ma inly of methane , ammonia and hyc1rogen, at a t ernpera ture of' s ome thing like -200 C., enjoying the perfect ~ ea ther! h good antic ote t o all this would be J.rthur Clarke 1 s f'a scina ting volume "The Expl oration of' Spa ce", in which you can fine real inf'or raa ti on about the physical cone itions on the o ther planets of' our system.

The book c ontains a sworn s ffic avit with eight signatures: f oup of' them, inclu s ing the authors of this book, also figure in the aff'icavits reproduced in ;.aamski 's part of' "Flying Saucers ha ve lane~ eo . 11

E. B.

VENUS SPEAKS by Cyril Richardson. Re gency Press (Lond on and New York) Ltd . 1954 . Post free 5/6c or %1. 00

It is claimed that the contents of' this little book were obtainec by r"'! irect telepathy from the Chief' Scientist of the planet Venus ~ It is a book whi ch will appeal t o s ome , ~hile others will be strongly repel led by it .

The Venusia~ss - e are told, were originally natives of' Earth a ~~ :1 ed here in the da ys of' Atlantis

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and the old Inca ci vi lisa ti0n of s. ;.me rica. Until one Gay strange rs filled with greed c ame to the land of the Incas (~e are not t0ld who the strangers were but it was evicJently l ong before the da ys o f the Spanish con­quistadores) . Where upon the Incas t ook to flight in spaceships one afte r finding the Moon unsuitable, wen t on t0 Venus, where they settl ed and lived in poace and harm0ny, des:pi te what mus t have seer.1ed a very trying climate. From tirae to time they kept an eye on the Earth and of lote hove been very a ctive in the Flying Saucers . Their m~ tives are ~holly friendly and they promise us instant on~ decisive help sh0uld an at0rnic war star t. If, however, their he l p is on a par with their scientific knor:ledgc as expouncled in this book, we shoulc1 c1o well not t o rely t oo much r:m it !

The l at ter par t of the book c~ntains i nteresting remarks on Diet, Sound Vibrati ons , the P0wer o f Thought etc . ·

Quite fantastic and entirely contrary t o el ementary scientific facts, h0wever , are many 0f the statements regarding t he origin and end of worlds, conditions on o ther planets (including Venus !), the p2st hist~ry of the Earth, etc . Indeed , I fino it impossibl e t o take this par t of t he book seriousl y , thou gh 0 thers may think cli f­ferently, of course.

If you have an inclina tion t owarfs the hazier f or ms of Theosophy, Occultism, Spiritualism, etc ., y ~u may be gl aC: t0 have this book. If, on the o ther hancl , these things are anathe ma t o you , you vt ill do better not t o list en t o the voice o f Venus ••••

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KINGS OF SP:~cE, by Capt. Vi .E. Johns. Hodder & Stoughton , Post free 8/- 0r %1.20.

In this book, the well- knovm author of the 11 Biggles 11

books invites the y0unger generation who form the bulk

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of his readers to share the hazards of a voyage into interplanetary space - to the Moon, Mars and Venus . The fate which befell the intelligent race of Martians and the real nature of the 11 GUSt cloud s 11 observed on our neighbouring WQrld are distinctly original conceptions . What particularly concerns us here~ however, is the author's repeate d references to Flying Saucers, which are encountereo more than once by his heroes . The foll owing short extracts will give an idea of the author's sene r al attituoe: The Space- travellers have lanced on Venus ancl one of them, the Profess'Jrs says "Vlha t fabul ous wealth arw i ts the pioneers who establish the first c ol ony here! Mind you , they won ' t necessarily come from Earth . ;, t least one other planet has a cosmobile besi ( es ourselves . Don't forget the Flying Saucers . They couldn ' t have c •Jme from here, that ' s certain . 11 Later in the book, when in spa c e , the heroes see a Sauc er which by its movements tries to warn them to follow it and miss a belt of meteori c dust . This time, the Professor rema rks 11 ••• I would have been surprised had the Saucer turned out to be hostile •.• creatures with sufficient intelligence to make a spaceship as efficient as the one we just saw, must, surely, by the same token, have Lclore sense than to indulge in useless slaughter. 11

If, as we h ope, Capt. JJhn's excellent r omance achieves the wide sales which it merits, it will do good servi ce in familiarising the younger generation ~ith the idea that if spaceships of hur:.1an c onstruction are among the virtual certainties of the relatively near future, it is not in the least unlikely that intelligent beings from elsewhere in the 1.mi verse have 11 got there first" and may nell be far ahead of us - in more ways than this.

Definitely a book to recon~end .

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E. B •

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