EnJToH : E. BIDD LE.

Vol. 1 No . 3 December , 1954 .

Not i ces •• • • • • • • This and That • • . . Shapes o:f Things to Come

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(Mr . H. T. Jilkins & Mr . D. O. French ) 51 Reli gious Vielim on Flying Saucers

Concerning Certain Saucer Photo graphs by E. Biddle •• •• •• ••

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THIS AND THAT ••.• by the Editor j

THG FLYING SAUCER RESEARCH SOCIE~'Y - The little London circle mentioned in our two first issues has suddenly grmm beyond our wildest expe.ctations and there is nothing to suggest that the expansion has ceased . On Saturday, October 9th, we held a semi - public meeting at Room 15, Caxton Hall, at '.7hich about 30 interested people vmre present . '.Je shall get go ing :properly now in the sense of having a dcfini te programrae for each monthly mee ting , though we shall still leave time for informal discussions , social contacts, etc . Indeed, the absence of fo r :mali ty, cou1mi t tees, etc . ( as far as p r a cticable) will , I arn sure , be one of the good points of the Society . Hm~;ever, the "Research" mentioned in the title is not inserted merely to make it sound ir11pressive ~ We are :fortunate in having amongst us Dr . c. Constantine , -vvho ~¥ill organise and direct the technical side of our a ctiv ities . Dr . Constant ine is well q_uali:fied fol'' this task and full of enthus i asm: what :1110re could we ;;;rish for? ~-~-e -~iould particule_rly request that any technicians Blnong our readers should seriously consider linking up here .

·,-:e owe a very rea l debt of gr a titude to Mrs . Judith L . Gee (27a Goldhurst Terrace , Hampstead, London, N . ~V . 6) for hor enthusias~~1 and sheer hard ··.~;ork and it is very gr atify ing to sec her efforts bearing good fruit . So if you live in or near London, \Ye extend to you a heo.rty invita tion to j oin up with us , via Mrs . Gee . And. please re:i1e ;.:1bei': ALL points of view· r,my be freely expressed a_n.d discus sed .

Current end back nwllbers of URANUS a re on sale at t h e meeting s - a ser·vice which se3ms to be appPeciated by those uho -,-.-ould sooner buy each issue as it comes out than send an annual subscription.

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important mat ter, in which readers' co- operation will be of the utmost value .

Our guod friend ~~ . Harold Chibbett (4 Palace Road, Bowes Park, London, N.II) already has a vast collection

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of cuttings about Sauc ers and other odd phenomena, all systematically arranged and indexed . The value of such a collection to the Socie ty's investigations is obvious and the more comp lete the c ollec tion is, the Taore ',7e shall all benefit . But Mr . Chibbett cannot vvatch more than a feu papers regularly and so undoubtedly wany items get missed . ~we therefore appeal to our readers to send a...71Y cuttings t hey can (marked clearly with name of pauer and date) to Mr . Chibbett . In the case of a magazi e article, a note of its existence and, if you feel energetic enough, a bri ef resume of its contents ·.:ould help a lot . Please do ·.-;ha t you can; everything ~-.rill be greatly appreciated! Oh • • • and one other point: r;Ir . C~1ibbett reminds me that cuttings about anything really out of the ordinar y ( from sea- serpents to lli1CX­:plainabl e noises) \7il l be nel come . It is strange some­tiines h ow one thing i7i ll link up wi th something else 't!hich apparentl y has no earthl y c onne c tion 1.1i th it ••••••

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Read..ers 'iVill recollect that in our f i rst issue v1e

published a l etter from Hr . W. A. El vidge regarding a point in ~:Ir . H. T. ~7ilkins' book "Flying Saucers on the Moon . 11 ~we nor; have much pleasur e in printing Mr . Wilki ns ' reply.

. ............. . I quote f'ro::1 11 Sauceri an 11 , September 1954: 111.1ean~ii1ile

Ada1'7lski Has baclt froiJ1 a t r ip to Venus in a f l ying saucer, according to Monroe Johnston, \Vho intervie':Jed the planet­hopper for the "Toronto Daily Star" 7ihile he 7/aS lec tur­ing in Toronto, Canada . The saucer trip was quite un­eventful, and he had no illusion of speed, as he coasted through space at unbelievable velocity . Sinc e there r1as an artificial atmosphere insi de the saucer, s i milar to that of earth, he 'ivas able to carry on conversations with the Venusian c rew in com_para ti ve cortrfort . Although he rras able to c onverse only by mental telepathy \vith the f i rst Venus i an he r11et , on the desert in 1952, the saucerians spoke perfect English during the last en­counter , and could speak Po l ish a l so when Adru~ki spoke

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to them in that language . All this the saucerians have learned, says Adrunski , by monitoring our radio and TV progrmnmes . 11

Cmrrrnent seems superfluous except to express the hope that Mr . Adarnski brought back u i th him enough photos ru1.d Sa.i.l1:fles or Venusian flora and perhaps fauna to con­fuse the sceptics ! Or 1rvould this be asking to<?, much?

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • On p a ge 13 of No . I 9 I referred to an unpublis hed

s tory ''K.J.l.0\7 your Enemy . 11 Mr . Harold Chibbett is nov; re­iYri ting this 8l1.d ex-.J!ru1ding it to book- length . Those ·,-;_rho knm-;r our friend's ability to tell a good story Yrill not be surp rised ·.-;h en I say that this gift 9 p lus a ne\Y and different approa ch to certain types of Saucers are coi.n­binecl to p i•o duce a story v7hich is at once a thriller, thought - provol;:in g an d , in s ome of its disquieting p os ­sibilities, a little too real at times for our peace o:f ··:1ind.... --

I certa i n ly hope t h at when the job of rewriting is finished, Mr . Ch i bbett Vlill soon find a p ublisher .

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • I ~nuch regr.:;t tha t once a gain circmnstances l;eyond

u1Y con trol h ave coi.-11pe lle d t h e postponement of several items I fully expecte d to include in this issue .

SK4PES OF THI NGS TO C01ffi '-----by E .S • .ii . CHI BBETT ---'

'}h a t are t he s e ;.;1ys t e rious ob jects s e en in our slcies and known a s F lying Saucers? Do t he y really exist , ru1d, if so , fl"Olil v;rhence do they come?

These problems have been discussed in the world ' s press for yeal"S , but still there is no rational explana­tion forthcoming. On the one hand there are those who say tha t the F . S . a re illusory, the product of a kind of mass hallucination.

This view is sponsored by such authorities as Colonel H. 'Vat son, U. 8 . Air Force 9 u ho was the Intelligence Chief in charge of the official investigation

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into what he calls the Flying Saucer myth. 3.e says: "I don't lmow what- it takes to convince the public, but there are no such things as P . S . They just don't exist . 11

He adds: 11:Ve 've kept a careful checlc . These periods of' mas s illusion reach a peak after any unusual stir in the 'saucer' field • •• At the end of nearly every saucer re-port stands a crackpot, a religious crank, a ~ublicity hound, OI' a ii1B.licious practical joker . "

Col. ~.'i/atson is supported to a certain extent by that great authority, Sir Harold Spencer Jones , the Astronomer Royal, who after saying that t he reports of F . S . appeared to have emanated :from a country - "where mass hysteria is rather prevalent", concluded that he was still "patiently vmi ting for reports to come in of a F . S. having landed. "

Against these and other opinions advanced by ' ex­perts' of various kinds , there a re t he views of other no less distinguished persons , who admit the possibility that the F . S. phenomena are real and genuine, and ad­vance sugges tions as to their nature .

Rear Admiral C . F . Thompson, wartii::1e Chief' Press Censor, says : 11 I have no d.oubt that they are discs, with no one aboard, forming part of scientific ex-J?eriments by u.s . authorities . 11 Coli1.l1allder Robert Iv1cLaughlin of the u.s . Navy believes tha t F . S. seen several times at Hhi te Sands, NeYi Mexico , are "space ships from another p l anet , operated by animate intelligent beings . 11

Prof . A. H. Low, well- lmmvn inventor and scientist, says: "Not to consider the possibility of interplanetary flight is a little more silly than considering it . "

Then Prof . Joad, the eminent philosopher: 11As to the reported facts, I neither believe nor dlsbelieve ••• As to the possibi lity, ~hy not? On the whole, the odds seem distinctly in favour of some manifestation of life reaching our planet soonm ... or later from some other part of the universe . "

It should be realised that expressions of opinion, however backed by authority and learning, cannot be re­garded as sta tements of fact . Observations of F . S. con­tinue to pour in from all over the world, and although a good proportion of these may be discounted as the

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products of malobservation or illusion, the remainder is difficul t to explain away.

Included among this residue are many photographs of the Saucers in fl i ght , and theodolite observations by trained technicians . It is futile to suggest that all of the Saucer witnesses are "crackpots" or religious maniacs , and the status of many observers precludes the likelihood of conscious deception or practical joking.

Although circur-llitantial evidence CruLnot be re ­gar c_ed as ' fact', it is consider•ed sufficient in courts of la'N to condemn many a murderer to the gallo ;";fS OP the electric chair . After all , how many of the judges ru1d juries Ymre a ctually present at the scenes of the cri>.1es they judge? How many of the witnesses called actue.lJy sa·.-" the crir.1es cornmitted?

Sir11ilarly, the circumstantial evidence as to tl:e reality of' the F . S . is sufficiently great to render their factual r eali t;y almost certain . Remember, they have been sean in the sl;:ies of' p ractically every country on earth . In mru1y instru1ces the desc~iptions tally . In fact , by means of' these descriptions it has • been possible to classify them into t wo main groups: (a) those roue,hl y rese:.:1bling a "saucer 11 in shape, and (b) objects rese::lbling the sausage or Zeppelin outline . There are isolated cases of triangular and even square vessels, but the s e cru1 be discounted for the time being b ecausa of t heir ~&rity .

Perhe.ps the greatest objection raised by experts is that, if :;_-.ee.l, the Sauceps rr:.ay be experimental craf t ci..es i go.ecl by one or many earth nations, or that observers have r.listal::en nor!11al ai:L"craft for the mythical Saucers . But against these hypotheses are 1·11any instances recorded in the past , not rne rely in this century)> but in the nineteenth or even earlier . Students of the books of the late Charles Fort 11ill find inany references to sky objects collected by hin as far back as the year 1800, although of course they are not described as flying saucers , but merely 'phenomena 1 , :fire- ballsl' or unident­ified objects. They are far too numerous to record in a short a rticle, but here are one or t~o instru1ces:

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On June 15th, 1853, a "flying machine" was reported by a Lt . Gazette . No further details v1ere g iven , but it is doubtful whether t here were any man- made aeroplanes aloft in that year . On 16th October of t he same year , at Ragussa, "a l arge lurninous body" was observed to move east to ·west at 2 a . El. It was visibl e for two rrlinutes.

From London, on the 29th March, 1845 there was seen a "curious stationary 1 i11eteor ', looking like four stars ui th an oran.ge - colourecl ii1ist in the centre •.• " It then It1oved away and disappea red "tYvo minutes after telesc opic investigation had corrn::wnce<i. 11

Not to be outdone , there co::1e;s a report from Florence 9 Italy, on 25th July, 1 845: "i111 enormous i g:n.eous body riding overhead., ;.nany ti1:1es larger than th,e moon . 11

The follm-iing year , on 26th October, a report emanated from Lonell, Mass . about a "llli1il1ous object in the sky, from 1;.rhich fell a most fetid jelly, about four f ~Cet in diameter and i'ieiLhing 442 pounds . 11

At Hollmmy, on 19th iv1arch, 1847, e.n observer re­ported "an ascending thing like a brilliant fire - balloon. " Three years later, on 5th F·ebruary, 1850, a report came :from Sandwich, Kent , c:,bout a 11 speck o:f dull li e;ht • Thou5h stationary, it increa sed in size until about a third of the diar.1eter of the full moon . This l m,linous disc rer.1ained stationary for three minutes. 11 On tho 6th June, 1850, it Yias reported fi•o;:l1 the Cote d ' Or that at 11 . 15 p . m. a " red glm-;r -.:ms seen in the sky, malcing a hail o:f fire . A dark object ~~as seem fall in£ ••• 11

On 9th July, 1853, t he Societe Metooro logi que de rrance announced. ngreat :nw:lbE.:rs of red points in the sky -- like little suns ••• 11 uhile at Til:::'..in.:: ton, near Pet·crorth , on 11th August , 1854, a t 11 . 30 p . Ii1 . 11 a bright light -.-!as seen in the sl<.y -- a red bo6.y f'roin ·"vhich pro ­ceeded stationary rays . It \Vas visible for one and a half' hours . 11

Finally, on 6th April , 1856, a Dr . Dussort, o:f Colman, France , saw, during the afternoon, " a blaclc object spherical at one end and pointed at the other . It was ab out 100 yards above him, and was accompanied by a whistling sound . "

The above accounts V{Gre taken at ran6om ovex> a :period

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of some t ... 7elve years f'rom 1843 to 1856.? and similar material can be traced for every year of the century. :Juring the period selected, artificial flight r1as unlcnovm, and even the possibility derided. So that either all the phenomena -vmre meteorological in nature , or else they were extra- terrestrial in origin. But ·.vhat soi't of meteor or fire - ball could remain stationary for as long as one and a half hours , or even for tvm ::1inutes?

There is one point of similarity bet-:::een t 1ese accounts or airborne phenor.1ena in the past 1 and t he cui'rent ones of Flyi11g Saucers during the last fe·.v yee.rs, '.'lhic_ seei:lS ·:mrthy of special li1ention . The majority or t hese flying objects appear to be seli'- luminous . Here are a fe·.: o. cccn.mts taken from press cuttings :

9/1/4·3: 11 Thousa;.-16.s of peop l e in Ohio , IC::mtucky, and Tennessee sa~ a fllliJing red cone in the sky, trailing a [srcen .~.T"ist ••• ·.ehe intense brightness of the sky phcnm:1-enon p ierced t hrou[h a heavy layer of' clouds ••• 11

13/8/48: "A '11811 in Grosvenor Sq_uare , London, saw a large incan.C..escent object 'ilhich curved, then S\7ooped ••• It looked lil~e a Zeppelin, transparent and :full of fire •• "

9/1 O/L~8: A fighter l) ilot in a hlus tang over :i.iforth Dakota chased "a li f;htod disc-sl a;)ed object for half- an­hour ·ivhilc he sta;>reC:. on its t ail . Then it shook him off at '17,000 feet . 11

21/1/50: People or the Ilc d 1 0boron, near La Rochelle , France, sa·.; "a fl<:Lt.:ing saucer- like object in ·c11o sky G.urinc t~:..e 11isht . "

18/3/50: Pe.:.lsants at Oroocentino, ncar Turin1 sav1 "six glm7ing Fl~iing Scmcel .... s , trailinG a x·ose - coloured vapour . 11

29/4/50: ·.'1nile flying a p lane ~rol!l ·.iashingto:n to Kansas City, t he p ilot Capt . Robert ~ickes said that "a disc , glowing rcd1 flew parallel -~-vi th his ~:lachine for ::Live ::.~1ir"utos .

3/5/50: Several inhabitants of Mulhouse , E . France.? sm7 "an oblong body, shining lilw silver, dropping at a dizzy pace froi!l the slcy, and shooting out a jet of' flame . "

13/8/50: Hundreds of Portland, Ore gon, residents clai;.,:ed thc~t t hree rl&i1ing objects, variously described

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as flying saucers ano_ f lying cubes, ,,Yere seen in the area."

28/10/50: M!- . Tilsley, of Doncaster, sa7r "an oval body travelling a t g-reat height vri th terrific velocity ••• it was flying wes t and then turned south. Had it been a p l ane , reflections frmi: its fuselage vould have differed in intensity \Yhcn it made the turn . It did not . Then I rcc:.lisecl it Ytas lu_rninous . 11

12/11/50: ~.fr . F . '"iill;:inson, a t Heath..rov! _Llirp ort, sav:, about 7 . 0 p . 1.1 . " a lir,hte d bocl.y moving from east to ·aest at terrific speed •• 11 A:;.'1.other observe r of the same phenomenon reported "It y;as t.mch too close fo r a shooting star, and emitted a bri ght \!hile light , ~--~ctallic coloured, elongated; but a s it \;rent out of sight it seeDed to be ­come spherical . 11

19/11/50: ··.ling Con1i:n&nder D. H. C2rey , of · Beaenden, Kept, saw at 6 . 24 p . i11 . " a ball of lir,ht i n t he sky about 1 ~ miles ahead of my car . It ;;.;as ci ther circular or spherical •• • t he colour uas b lue ••• 11

Here again, t he above. are isolated cases , selected a t random. TheJr can be i:ml t i p lied :!Y'..any tir.1es, by refer­ence to collected data . Antagonists to t he Flying Saucer theory cannot ·Hi t hs t and t h e a ccmaula ted evidence of more t han a century, r-epresenting circu;.11stantial evi­dence of a kind uhich ·.'!ould be a ccep ted by any court of l au . Tho p henomena E~e unive rsa l . The ~itnesses 2re legion .

To conclude, it way be interesting to r efer to a curious vo1u..·,1e c a lled O.PJISPE. It is the bible of t h e Kom:1an Cl;.urch nnd is said to have be.::m spiritually gi vcn to t he American author, J . P . Newborough . ·:,nat ever its real origin may be , it conta ins many r eferences to flying vehicles which Ere strangely re~~iniscent of t he phenornena to be s een in our m;n skies at the p resent time .

Fantastic though it may seem, the enormous space s h ips of OiL'iSPE 2.re 6.e s cribed in terms 1:>Thich mi ght be applied to the Fl ying Saucers . For exar.1ple, t hey a re referred to continuously as "ships of fire", of gigantic size, which ·v-;e re often made invisible because t heir ap­pearance "so fri e,iltened the inhabitants of Earth. 11

On one page t here is a reference to a ship called an

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Arafan - 11 so magnificent that it overaued the people . They nei•e overcome by the sight of the ship of fire in the heavens . 11

Another paragraph describes "a star ship ••• like a crescent Yi1ade of stars VIi th a sun bet1.:1een the horns . " This description is od&ly like that reported above, on 29/ 3/ 1845 .

·rhe Oi.HSPE bible is full of references such as these . ~ere t hey t h e p roducts of a most ~ertile and p r ophetic i li1agination, or was the author a Elan indeed inspirc6. from sources beyond our present concept i on?

:··ri tten at the turn of t he century, OA..FISPE is a volunlinous vmrl\: of iliJ.CLCinativc fan.tasy beyond the powers of most \:'l'"'itcrs of th&t tL1e, and in the light of present events , it !.lay vmll repc_:.._y sePious study.

L:C '.rT!JRS ·:ro TI-::E :CDITOR

Mr . Jil~ins replies

Dear Sir , I do no t q_ul ·ce knov-r rrhether r,fr . Elvidge in pages

8- 9 of your issue of August is trying to cast doubts on my sanity, or r;_zy po'.:ers of observE':cion, or 1,1y innate -ccnG.C;ncy to trut~U'ulness l :.'hichever it ~:1a.y be, I can tell hir.1 that 1.:i th me all the time -..-;·as my b rother - -v-..-hose powers of obsepvc.:.tio:i.1 a re very unusual a..J.d _ :inute - p l us about 3.5 others, ·,;ho , 1.:11less t hey .-:e re all aslae}:J , c ould hardly have failecl. to see ',;Jllat had been reported in this book of' ~11ine .

I have taken the trouble to gl ance a t r.zy- notes . I see t:i.12.t the motol'"' coac h -~vas ct Tyndru.:n, close to the i'or:c·,1cr L . H. S . line , on June 17, and next day I passed tl:J. ... our;h t~~e gap of Brander to Oban. . On June 1 8, I uas a t Fort Augustus e.t the bottom of Loch Ness . I neit:1er savi nor hec:.rd of the 11 exceedingly violent stor~n in the Western Highlands", of v7hich 1\Ir . :Cl vidge ;_nakes mention; nor did I, in so much as I sm-i of the ·.~·estern Highla11.ds betYieen Loch Ness and F'ort William, see signs of any unusual damage to ro a ds , farms or woodlands . But that does not !TieaL1 that no such damage occurred in that

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region, earlier in 1953; it ~eans that I did not happen to traverse the particular western regions uhere it may or ~nay not have happened. I did not see the Loch Ness monster, although I went along the vJho l e v;estern bank . Yet 1ny belie~ in that interesting monster is not a proauct of the distilleries . It has , in fact~een seen by reliable people, among r1ho::.1 were a lady living near the Lovat Arms, and also nonks in a convent at the south end of the Loch. Because I had the bad luck not to see t he monster, is no reason 7/hy I should question the veracity or s211.i ty of the>se ~•ho have seen it .

Fron Inverness I .,,·ent north, via Ding-wall, Cromarty and Dornoch Firth; then ce, via the coast road, to Holmsdale . But h£'!rc a t,,ain, I noteCl. nothing unusual in the v1ay of devast&tion~ l passed inland v i a Berridale to Thurso, again no tin~ no thine' unusual . But after leaving Joh..'1. o ' Groats and passing to ·.lick, I nverness , Nairn, Elgin and a gain inland ~rom Aberdeen to the Glens , the devastation ':·:"as as Ci.escribed in i:ry boolc: appallinr:;! Hoi7 else does Mr . Elviclge suppose it ·~;as that the Scottish Forestry Board and the Lilports Board in auld ar~cl. canny Scot elan' put an embargo on the i::-qport of foreign timber? The ansr er is: Go and see ~~rl;.at I - and others - smt . By the nay, '.-lhy should - as-has surprised 11:1r . :Clvidge -Caledonians, inn and shop- keGpers, gara£ists, cry stinking fish about t:1is dcvasta·cion? ·./auld it Lprove the English tourist tra~fic, all'"'eady none too p lea sed about the Cale C.o:niw."'l insistence on no cravy ':ii t h 1::eat and veg. at lunch anG. C.Lim1er?

Yours etc. H. ·I' . ·::ILKII1YS.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dear Sir,

Your ref·ei•ence on page 38 of the last issue to scientific lmouledge is to say the least of it rather strange . Our scientists learn all they lmm7 by trial and error . Of the :forces they play about with they knovr nothing . . ••• As to their knmvledge of 'v7hat goes on on other planets they can lmov; nothing . ·:~nat the spectro­scope shov/s is what is in intervening space, not ·:Jhat is on the surface of a planet . The earth's at: ~a sphere also

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acts as a magnifier . Furtherl:1ore, scientists still be­l i eve that the l11oon is a sphere , that it revolves on its own axis fuLd that it causes the tides . They also be ­lieve that the sun gives out light and heat . ( It only acts as a po l ariser of energy emanating :from t h e earth).

Yours faithfully , D. O. FRENCH . (Sorry, Mr . French, but I still back the scientist~ here . )

R1.:1LIGIOUS VI:G'.iS ON FLYING SAUCERS

The follon ing inforrtmtion is offered. for the benefit of any reac_ars ·;,·h o r·1ay be interested 2.11d •,7i thout edi torial COilE1ent •

The KI:NGDOl.I VOICE is a 4 - p et[ e !.101 thly publication publ ished. a:ppo.rentl~r by a group of :people who believe that the retl..U."n of Christ is L iJLiline!lt and that Bible prophecies i:i.1dicate this . Tho Septeii1ber and October 1954 issues are 2."t1ainly devotect to Flyinc; Saucers . Rightly or vvrongly, the ·. iri tei•s c onsici.er that the F . 8 . are closely collil.ectecl vvi tlJ. the Second Ad.vent . They d.o not appea r to regard the Saucers as supernatur2.l in the::lSelves , but as space - ships frora other worlds raanned by beings >7i th a definite i.ilisslon 1.mc1er the leaclePsllip of Christ . The general tone of "Einc dom Voice 11 is refres hingly free f'roi.n the f anaticis!·1 17h ich one ofte!l encow.:~:cer-s in people ·r.' i th this t;ype of idea . If you are interes ted, Mr . Reginald A. Bradbur-;;,r, iJ.1iJ.e l~ingd.o1;1 Cottetge , Grouselru1CLS , Colgate , Nr . Horshe..:: ~, Suss ex, :t;;ng . r,rill 1n ; ~L:•. d to hec~r fx•om you e.nd to suppl;y further clet&ils .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . To turn to a d.iff\:; rent directi on, sm,1e of you 111ay

be interes ted to luJ.0\7 th&t the Catholic Church has no ­thing a gainst b e lief that other :,;J le .. nets are inhabited by intelligent races or that the F . s . i:1ay be space ships Gmana ting frmn s o:;1e other planet . In an article in 11Civilta Ce.tholica" (orgc:m of· the JGsuit Order) in 19539

Father D. Grasso says: "Cathol ics are free to believe or not bel i eve in the existeil.Ce of i1ii.1abi tants on other planets ••• The q_uestio:r-_ of knor:ing 1rhether hur.10.n beings

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can live on other planets has been raised recently by the strange phenomenon of the Flying Saucers . Certain ex­perts believe inhabitants of space are aboard the Saucers . It is p ossible t hat t hese are beings differing from us in anatomical and physiological constitution, c apab l e of re ­sisting different conditions of life but a l vmys composed of body and soul and capable of beine defined as hUlilan . "

There is nothing in the leas t aufuiguous about the fore go ing!

The anonynous author ( obviously a Catholic p riest) of a French brochure that reached me from I know not who1~1 earlie i' in the year· touches upon the F . s ., but , being con­vinced th£.t the r·e Ere no intelligent p lanetary races be­yond ourselve s , regards t he F . S . a s su-pernatural manifes ­tations apparently c1esigiled to strike fear into t he hearts of men e.nd prevent a t:i.1ird world- war .

So you c an he.ve it vc;hich -.-ray you like ••••••

COl'TCERlaNG CERTAIN SAUCER P HOTOGRAPHS L-------- by E . Biddle----·------~

If Flying Saucers exist (as t hey do) and if t hey ar•e material ( as many of them, a t leastl' appee..r to be) 9 it seems r>easonable to assurae tJ.1at they can be photographed.

There a re p lenty of' photographs in exis tence but the majority merely show b lobs in the sky ai'J.d very little detailed shape (which fact, of course, is in no sense a reflection on their genuineness) .

But there e..re some photos a llege d to have been taken at much closer range and these shov1 definite details as to shape, "portholesH , "le..ncl.ing gear", etc .

'rhe most famous photos of this class e.re those of Ada.I:lski, which provoked. so 1~mch controversy. Let us leave these for a i110ment and pass on to those taken in February this year at Coniston (Lake Dis t rict, Eng. ) by 13 year old Stephen Darbishire . The full story has been told elseHhere and I myself savr and heard. Stephen and his 8 year old cousin Adrian (who first spotted the saucer) and I have no doubt v1hatever that these t1;;;-o boys not only saw the saucer but photogTaphed it . But note: there was

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no question v1hatever of' contact with the saucer crm1. A sighting, a photo, sketches and that was all.

Now this incident was immediately seized upon wid exploited as offering confirmation of' Adamski's account . Does it? Yes and No. It is true that there is a marked similarity betv1een Stephen's :photo and Adlliilski' s. The details see111 pretty well identical . Granting this to be the c ase , the one sighting certainly seems to support the other.

But ue inus t not allmv ourselves to be r11anoeuvred into supposing that the similarity of' these photos proves that all Adruasl-ci claims is correct . It does nothing of tliesort. The most it does is to suggest that certain of Aclmilski 's photos may quite likely be genuine: it does not in t he slightest degree of'f'er any pr·oof' V!hatcver that the story of' the meeting vli th a Venusian is based on objective fact . That being, it -rfi ll be recalled~ declined to be photographed.

It is interesting to note that quite a few other photos - both before and since Adarnski' s - talcen of saucers in the sky, while not showing much detail~ do nevertheless sho'Tl much the same shape - a :fact which suggests an identical origin~ without ~ however , leaving us any nearer t~e solution as to what that origin inay be.

-.TFiA'l' 'l'Iill SAUCER jiOP..LD IS S.AYil'TG

F'LYING SAUCER NE~-m - No . 6 . SLL:lll er I ;._u t ru:.m 1 9 54. (Or gru_ of' the Flying Saucer Club~ BFSB) . This issue is full of interesting nc·.-;;s i tens~ several o:f them illustrated. But the star item~ in -:i1Y opinion, is Ric::1ard Eughes' ver·y topical ed.i torial "Chaos and Cor..:fusion", in -;;hie!: he expresses sentiments I could echo to the last ·;mrd . MP . Hughes , like myself, is becoming increasingly \7ary of cePtain of the latest developments, particularly v1here alleged contacts and messages :fro111 the Spirit World are concerned.

SAUCERS - Sept. 1954. (Flying Saucers International, P . O. Box 350.34, Los Angeles 35, Calif'.~ U. S.A.: Max B. Miller, editor). There have been more interesting

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issues of this review than this . .An article "My EX'.J!erience with the Lie Detector" by Daniel W. Fry is well worth reading , as throwing light on the methods of operating this , the factors involved, and how any l)re­judice on the part of the operator can renQer results valueless . A page by Frank Scully ( of 11Behind the Flying Saucers 11

) refers to a nevr Saucer book he has in l~lind, with the title "Out of this World. 11 Let us hope there are no nysterious 1'Dr . Gee's " in the new book !

PEIIDULUM - A monthly reviei'7 of Radiesthesia . 2/ 3 post free . Published by Mar ltham House Press , Ltd .

This issue contains a shol"'t article on nFlying Saucers and Radiesthesia . " Says the VJriter: "Any alien visitor to Ea r t h would oe bound to have rates of vi-bration and periods of :·,1etabolis1,1 etc . entirely different to that of the averarre human being , no matter ho·v-v' rauch he might resei·11b le us externally. Granted that this is the case , surely those members of' the racliesthesic fraternity who specialise in i.1a:p- reading , l on g distance treatr,1ent , etc . , should be ab le to detect and pin- point on the map the presence of an alien being on the planet . If there arc:; no aliens to be detected by radiesthesia, let it be said so in clear language . If t here are some , let us hear about them . 11

Not beine a radiesthesic erpert, I c an 't say much about this , but the idea - if it worl\:s - sounds intri guing !

THE SAUCERIA.J.'J - Sept . 1954 . ~d.i ted a.Ild publis.l1ed by Gray Barker , Box 2228, Clarksburg, 1}/ . Va ., U. S . J,..

Our old friend Gray Barker may have kept us vraiting a long while for this :m:unbcr of SAUCERIA.N but it 1;ms certa inly worth waiting for! A really attractive printed cover , forty inside pages perfectly photolit,hoccl a s legible as print or all but , illustrations, pleasi:::1g headings to many of the features , news , photos , humour , monsters - something to suit everyone rri th any real interest in Saucers . Heartiest congratulations , Gray ~ You havo produced the most attractive Saucer inagazine I have seen so far .

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It is to be hoped that v1e can make arrangements for the supply of SAUCERIAN over here. If you are interested, let us know and we will see what can be done . An ex­pression of interest does not comnit you to anything, though naturally ~e don't want purely idle enquiries.

ROUND ROBIN - Journal of the Borderland Sciences Re­search Associates, 3524, Adffins Avenue, San Diego 16, California, U.S.A. Annual Subscription: 5 Dollars.

Although B.S.R.A. is not ptTely a Saucer concern, it is not often that an issue of "Round Robin 11 lacks something interesting about Saucers. The latest issue contains the full story oi' the Canadian nickel mine episode , in \ihich a 13-foot monster ·;~ith one eye and six l~nbs, which hy~notised a young Italian miner named La Sarza, loor.1S l a r ge . It is an i n teresting story, uhich, hOYleveP, becomes distinctly less credible in the light of further details given in "Saucerian ."

It is easy to ridicule t hese stories of contacts (and maybe most of t hem deserve no better fate) . It is even eo.sier to select for approva l t hose "'vlhich seem to fit our own particula r pet ideas a~d reject the rest. But we Inus t try to avoid these tendencies ru1.d to judge cases on their i ndividual merits, taking into account ·che eviG.ence available i that par ticular case a:ld t 2e appaPent probability or ot: er>'.'?isc of tb.e all ezed oric_:.::. (if any is i ndicated) of the Saucer ere-;; .

Unless there is indication o~ ~: o~7i ~s ~ az or li10tive for deception (such as notoriet:r r cas~) , -----~ inst<:.,_bili ty or b l a tant self-dec epL. i o , : "'":'o-.L.c s::.s.:es­tr ... at cvm1 if we reject a ca se as Ull.prove:: , ..-e s:!:".:. -..:.:.. :., if none of t he above conditions appear to app _~T , c..-.- :.a. hurling accus ations of liar or fool at the luckless individual r1ho tells t he story. After all, you or I mi ght be t l:e next to meet a Saucer being at a tiille -;;hen t here vvas a deart h of ui tnesses and I doubt somehot ~hether ~e uoul d appreciate being regarded as candidates for t he asylu:n!

FJd'E MAGAZI? 1/3 each.

:-os . 1 & 2, Nov. & Dec. 9 1954. Post free. ::: ti:ese are left till last, it is not

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because they are the l east interesting but because "Fate Magazine" is not primarily a F . S . publication .

No . 1, however , con tains a double Saucer article of considerable interest . The first p art (by John Carnell , editor o:f 11New 'i\lorlds Science Fiction) deals mainly v;i th the v e ry inrportant B. O. A. C. sighting on July 1 last in the region of Goose Bay and is a very full ac~ount , thanks considerably to t h e help g iven b y the Flying Saucer Society ru1d the British F . S . Bureau, with which I p ut Mr . Carnell in touch , t hough t h is trifling :fa ct is not mention ed in the a rticle . The second part of t he a rticle, by Curtis Fuller, d e a ls l a r ge ly viii t h t he a ttituG.e of the U. S . A. F . and Vlith what t h e Sauc e rs a re n ot . I understand t hat further Sauc e r mat eria l and nention of 'Uranus' and t he 'F.S. Research Socie t y' -~7ill f ollo:.v.

Personally, I find FATE l'IIA.GAZIJ:-TE of vePy gr eat i n t e rest and rwulct stron[;ly recomine11d t hat if y ou m"e i n t e r e ste CJ.. in s ~rious a rticles on p sych ic and occul t t heriles , you s hould i nves t a shilling an.d judge :for y ours elf . You will find li'ATE v e ry differen t from certa in current p eriodica ls 1.1hich superficia lly i"i1ight seem simila r.

E . Biddle . ..

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I take t h e opportunity here of p ointing out t hat in ac ­cordanc e Yli-ch t h e policy of URAJ."'fUS (to gi v e f ree ex­p ression to ru-~ r easonable ideas on Saucers) b ook re ­views a Pe done by v arious p eop le, who are perfectly a t liberty to s a y what t h ey thinl~ about the book they are reviev7ing . Consequently it r,mst n o t be a ssumed that op inions erpressed in a si[ned or i n itialled review are those of the Editor. - E . B.

BIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF "FLYING SAUCER 11 PHOTOGRt\PHS 1954. Post free 5/9d or $1.00.

An atteinpt to apply the principles of radiesthesia

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to the anal;t{Sis of' a series of' Flying Saucer photographs, including the Coniston pictures . The possibility of this treatment <7as forecast by your reviewer in another publication some n onth s ago and it is interesting to see ho·,7 far it c a n bo applied . In general the ef'f'ort seems to have li.le t ui th success, £'.1 though the techni q_ue will require further elaboration in t h o f'uture .

E. S.

··a-EIHD SCDNCJ F ..hlfrASY - Special Issue - CHALLENGE TO U. S • . AIR l·'ORCLi ~-Jit~J. this II.LUSTRAT:::I:D, FACTUAL FLYING SAUCER RE?ORT . DOC1.lj:t1e:nt0d. Evidm1cc! Na:11cs . Places . Dates . Quotes - 10 I

At first sit_,ht you might t alco this f'or fu"1 American "co~·.u c 11 • Incloccl, it is c o~;;_r ileo_ on 1:1ore or less strip­c o..rtom1. li:aes , but here the similarity ceases . I n c a refully d.rm·m c olourod }_) icturo s and succinct and often very tt...lling g_uotcs and su"'o-hec:.C:ing"S_, this booklet runs t hrough the outstru1c"'..i ng Saucer sightinc s and ep isodes f'rom 1947 to ci.2,te , takinc; on ly those \thich appear to be 100% c er t ain . The l as t page of the book is devoted to 17 a·:ilc-.T.rct <:mel se a rch ing questions adcJ>cssed to t he U. S . Air Force o.nd endi:ng \7i th t:i.J.e ~vords: ~~~-v1'len arc you zo ing to tell us tho ~RUTH about t he Flying Saucers? II

I received my COIJY t_J.rout;::l tl:e ki2.1CL"1ess o:f my f'riend :Jr . Gray Barker, edito:.. ... of SidCEP..TA].~ . I trust it -;-;ill -00 p r G.cticabl e to get a S:L']:;: - :- 75-=' :_ere as I fe0l sure t hey ~ould have a read.y s~e ~ -~ n~ re2Qors ~c friends .

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