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The Flying Saucer MysteryBy MARK McDONAI.IUsupposed witnesses In the I'nit-' Sydney, 11 ex-tervlccmen and) Phip which did not land on • d States in recent year*. |7 other pdbple reported seeing h„ f,rm. l„ an interview with The final reports come from luminous cigar-shaped air-1 u reporter the eyewitness «»' I an American naval Lt„ Frank, craft. over the Northern sub- -ho following account: 1 go' Schofield who reported the af- • urh« anoii after 6 p.m.. May 6. oul Df bed and raised the win»VM. Recently reports of •irangc objects shaped likef«enOne fajeful day during the lusy American summer of 194.! nn Army airfield deep in the heart of Kentucky was sudden-1 lv alerted! Radar acreens had i picked up a signal corresponding to thnt of an aircraft moving at incredible speed toward 'the field1 The signal was haf ding, for the airfield *aa no-where neBi the normal commercial air routes and no Air■ Fwe Planes were in the vicinity’ AH pilots were ordered to stand bV while ra.lsr technicians watch-rd the tiny signal move arro* the screen toward the field-As the pilots waited m their planes for the intruder to ap pear, the tension grew wilt os cry second! Perhaps this war l , be I he spark that would set „|: the third world war; perhaps it waa some «u|»cr Russian jet carrying aomc horrmu-weapon for the destruction 01 the united States! Perhaps this‘suddenly from the west it appeared1 The pilots turned •heir eves -kyward a- it snot overhead! It *«' “ disc1 Blur urev m colour. It travelled ■ mindlessly, and left no vapour trail!Captain Thomas Mantel;, a fighter idiot with the U S Air t „ce. swung his plane on to I he airstrip and Allied fore ward Soon he -an airborne, and witn throttle wide open he roared ii. pursuit of the strange craft A few minutes later hN first luilto report was received; he hi..I sighted the stranger, anrt v as in fast pursuit, gaining rap* I’m closer now, he said at |„-l -1 can see it quite plain ( ly; It’s made of metal, and it’s a tremendous aisc!”MsnteU went on to rep«vt hie sliced, and that he was n«w climbing. At 16.000 feet hi# r peed waa appro*imately 3ft(» mile, an hour and he was, directly below the object. Man-tell'a voice broke through th. creaming atmospherics again. I am-going in for - better took! Suddenly the radio fell silent. Mantell did not. re-esteh-1l,h contact They found hi* plane scattered mite, nf th. Kentucky wunlCflde. Man-tell remains the first an.t last -nan to chaac a flying*“uCC,r,l,-. All this happened m 1H47. w hen saucer reports were at their peak, since then hundreds of reporta have turned to thousands, while ruparla that ..nee came from I S.A only, now cover the entue globe. Since I!* 17 a Flying Saucer Investigation Committee hs. been .. I up In the United States to deal with th. fiood of reports that deluge Army. Nivy Air force and Government authoritail of three meteora sighted on February 2b. IM04. He claim-. d the leading meteor, which hMi| the area of about six suns, was egg shaped. The smaller seemed round. They appeared to lie travelling in echelon, and mi continued as long us in sight The subsequent flight away from the surface appear most . emarkable. The other report umr from j'aiioila. acrosa pan of the United States to Ber-rrwnia. Right across this areapeople reported sighting flight of furnace-red bodte- whichemerged from the horixon in V formation, took a perfectly horisontel path, and simply disappeared in thedistancei. gars'* have been received from VSahroonga and Tarec, An en.dow shade. Suddenly It dawn lt;d on me that 1 couldn’t hear or tee a thing unusual outsidegineei familiar to Jet aircraft sighted the Wahroonga myetery ut fi.m p.m. on July 16. lie aid, the object waa travelling in a straight line from west to cast, and disappeared seaward. The yellow light It earned was three or four times as big us that of n jet exhaust at such an altitude, and the armed of the object waa about three or four times that of W Jet.1 the engineer concluded.A Terve report on the same day claimed residents saw * curnr-nhaped object travelling atThere was no ear-splitting ere so i nor any blinding flash of light _It was later reported, “many. * “terrific spaed Just liefore observer* compared them with] Both thesa reports baffled R.A.A.F. experts whoflee! of airship* with lighten either side und foreward and uft; other* likened them to gr.-at battleships attended by cruisers and destroyers.” In 1932 after many years research into strange reports Charles II. Fort concluded that super- j creatures from somewhere- In' ►pace have been vbitlng our, Earth for centuries. Whether j li'.e theory is right or not the old reports he investigated err | lalnly resemble the stories we n-nd in nur newspapers from day to dayToday the term flying lt;wu err has been accepted a. .• port of everyday life, yat it -nil na. not been sclentiflrally proved or excepted1 Numerous theories have been presented, but none have been satisfactory, U.S. Naval authorities rimmed they were weather hal-, loons used to determine long]idthat all Jet aircraft were out ..f the sky by 4 p.m.!Residents of Hallow (N.8W » reported lighting. balloon like •pinning objects which wen luminous anfl appeared seven times between May 1H and Julv 0 of this year The object-were high in the sky. und glow «d red as they moved backward and forward* at high -peed1 These report bring the flying -aucer mystery very cio-e to home, indeed! »In 1052, two scientist- at « (j.u-i-rnmont research -latum .ii Malvern Hills. England. u-ni.rled seeing a stinnge rlrru I., object with a halo.’1 about t.30 a.m., May !• They said It was about 2.500 feet above th.- earth!In Washington on July 20. 1062, civil aviation rndnr op tutors reported mysterious ourange forecasts, other expert*, Jecle—up to twelve at oncev ere firmly convinced they were Russian or American jet planes. An American journalist even wrote a book, in which he made the startling itatcmrnt* that he knew what they were, and their origin! He then went on to tell hit story of how these fnntastic objects came from outer space, controlled by super bee's. ants andon radar screen* in the early hours of the morning They appeared to be travelling from 90 to 159 miles an hour. Th* r-»a- no official explanation. Now here is how two reliableAmerican airline idiots. Captain Clarence S. Chiles and Pilo! John B Whitted. described then encounter with a flying•aucer. They were flying over I her Insects with brains far Montgomery, Alabama It was lt;uperlor to human beings! Al- • 46 in the morning—a bright though generally considered un- moonlit .night with scattered founded hunk, his theories were eluuds. Suddenly,” reports mvcrtheles* quite interesting! Captain Chiles, “n brilliant At various times newspapers faat-nioviog object appeared have published actual photo- overhead It flushed down to-graphs of flying saue»r», the wnrd ua. We veered to the best coming from Braxil. wheretwo newspaper reporter* »bw end photographed u flying disinter the remote district of llhn •los Amores Another group of photographs came from a six teen year old youth in Nevada This aeries of photographs revealed the mysterious saucer in very different circumstances, this time there was an entire flight of -aucer* all flying in perfect formation. They appeared on the film as ao manyleft. Ii veered sharply too. It , n*sed about 700 feet above u*small lighta speeding across the eometrical formationral.Flying saucer reports are not exclusive to this craxy post wav world, for even as far back as IRP2 an English astronomer E-Walther Maundsr reported, a strange celestial vUltor On November IT. 15*2. Maunder was watching an aurora die. after a violent magnetic atorm. Suddenly A great circular disk of rrecni.h light appoared In the E S’ E Smoothly l« moved from horlion to horlsoa. WK--nr about two minutes in transit It1* round initial appearance was probably due to foreshortening, Maunder «»nljn-ued, when it crossed th# ms-ildian and passed just abov. the moon, lu form was a I moat of on elongated ellipse. \ ariou* observers spoke of it as. cigar »hapcd, like a ‘orejjflo. • spindle or ahuttUt Its heighe was estimated as 183 miles. »te - peed as 10 milea per second, much slower ttmn the ct bolides. (Bolides are giant meteoric chur*« of store or nickel-iron whose speeds have i.ren docked as high a* 60 mile, p»r second). Maunders ac-I count of his celestial visitor, certainly resembles reports ofsky In a ge The vouth laid he had taken the stills from hia backyard late •n« night. He also claimed theyTh*1 thing wo* about a bundled feet long, cigar-shaped and •» ingle**. It was a* hright a- a magnesium flnre. Its cxhau-i was red-orange, fluitflng An intense glow .am- from the sub nlgc and ran down the entire It ngth of the fuselage—like u fluorescent factory light. The thing xoomed into the clouds ult; incredible speed. Its Jet waah IfruW It* rear flames) rocked our Douglas DC-3 airliner.That was Captain Chiles' and Pilot Whltted’a signed statement. They were “utterly reliable men, said Captain Ed-uade quite regular appearance* j die Rlckenbacker. at night. Obaarvers wrr*«| 1962 waa a year of constant prompted to keep a night long saucer reports, one of which vigil with the lad. True to his came from a acoulmaster, Mr word the lights did appear, andis. J. Deivergers of West Palm none gf the watchers could **-' Beach. Florida, U.S.A. Dee-plain them adequately! I vergers Investigated flashingSaucer reporta are not re-| lights on the edge of tha Flori-stricted to the United States, | do everglades. He claimed he they have been sighted In Can-| found an object 10 feet high, ada. England, France, Germany.! 30 feet wide, shaped like a Italy, Brasil, South Africa andj rubber ball. Ashe approached, even Australia! Most of the j ihe object shot a hall of fire ---1—j w— Ummm aI him. singing his hair! Scoutslooking toward the North I i f-uld see no aign of a circular shaped space ship about 60 feet in diameter It would have been about 14 feet high. I figure, if 1 had seen it!Pulling the shade down quickly. I climbed hack Into bed. I could see right off thnt no one would believe me. anyhow, ao I'm not going to tell a i.vtng aoul anything about u 'Whil# these and similar re. porta continue to pour in from ■ill over the world, there Is till no really tangible proof of their• listener. Nothing has been •cientifically proved, althougl . flying •aucen have been •cientificallyy considered fult ight years ut !ea»t-The moat important contn bution toward final proof (heir existence are the phot ; Uiaphetaken by two newspaper i. porter* in the llha dos Amorr I'Utrict of Braxil. The two men. Ed K.ffel and Joao Martin-i wrre doing an illuatrote.l tea lure for their paper O t’ru ! ,elq in May 1952. It was about « o'clock In the after noon when a strange aircraft ►hot into view from behind e hill (Inc of the nw-n auto matically lifted his camera am took a picture. Both men re nlUed that was no ordinary air-• raft, in the first place it »«. iliac! Completely forgettinu-Ihv original assignment, the iwo men ru«hed bock to then dllce m Uio dc Janeiro and de-,-loped their film. Braxlllan „nd American expert* were railed in to examine the print* They could offer no explana :u.n, but they “ere convinced Umt the pictures were authm-ii! The U.S. Military Attache n Washington. Colonel Hughe, was among the fii*t to examine the precious pictures, and at hl« request, conies were sent tlt; Washington! Keffel and Mai-t-n» said the strange craft u'n.Ut .'t.fiOO feet up, and twice thi- -in of a Douglas DC-f I run port plane,Flying toward them. Ihe object lo.ik.ul like an ordinary plain heait-on, hut flying side way- At one point in its brief appearance, the craft ap pea red to slow- down and drop » little As it hanked the watchers had a brief glimpse of j dome on top, smooth contour* end terrific speed'The pictures taken hy Klt;’ffrl und Martins were proven au thentic. the negative, had not been tampered with, and were vouched for by all the experts i.ho saw them A la© the saucer n the pictures was idenlitcal l-i eye-witness accounts of then from different parts of the world.(The concluding portion of this article in which Mr. McDonald sums up the question ol whether flying saucers exist will be published in next naue).reporta received have been rim ilar in their deecrtption. even to small details witheld by authorities appeared In many newreport*! Last year the veryl candle conaerratlv* R A F. released ,ky' »n account of two Jet pilota whowith Dcsvergers said they *uw him fall down after n reddirh white ball of Are. like a Romancame down from th«sighted a flying saucer over the North Sea. Both piloU gavechaee to the saucer but It shot away from them at such a speed that it left the two pilot* In their Vampire jet* hanging in spare a- if stationary!In Au-tralia, airline pilots nn Ihe routine flight to Brisbane -rported serinir a strange air-raft, shaped like a cigar. InKC-andEHnc«aImore recent years. The nextnivtv # . (report on rerord come, from American newspaper* in 1»'» '• Late in March of that yeni U.S. newspapers from coast t. ,-oast gave front-page space to n huge, cigar-shaped air ship supposed to be cruising around Chicago. Then from California came the description of a ‘cigar-shaped object, with no motive power, rartamly not steam; i« was Arnt reported from Sacremento then Denver Colorado. On March 29, ac cording to the New York Her aid. the same obiect wqs seen by a majority of the residents Omaha. Nebraska.'1 It w*» the shape of a bright light too big for a balloon.' The New York Sun stated that K*D“ f. ity trolley cars stopped, and »oon the whole population waa watching it from the street an-1 roof-top*. The light, the newspaper went on was great as that produced by twenty stars.Stories poured into the L.ni-itigo Tribune. Repuuble ci-tixens (of F.ldora. Iowa) a«y they obaerved the gigantic airship. One man said it resembled an immense bird of polished ■liver. In Milwaukee “thou-*ida of people saw R. The ma chine floated over the city until it reached directly o*er the city hall, where it etopped for quite a considerable ttate. Some vritneasea claimed, ' the light was suspended from a Urge. dark, oval shaped body.Another report came from the British barque Lady of the Lake in 1*70. Juet before nightfall on Mareh 22, 1870. the teasel was moving in mid Atlantic, a few degrees over the equator, when Captain Frederick Banner and the crew observed a curioax eloud. light grey in colour, circular m form end transparent, but distinctlyDcsvcrger. said later, tha' he and high ranking Washing ton official- were substantially In agreement on whol th. object was. but he refused ti say more!Ihe must amusing report ofthem ull enrm- from Rufinr Wisconsin, V S A Tin In. a. Juumal-Titn.-* af thol tpwn iv ported that a Racine man ml the story nf a mammoth space-Charles Hope('old Flnme Electric and Kero Model Refrigerator 5 cub. ft. £125 10/.L. FoleyBowrol(i. HCAVANMOTOR FUNHRAI DIRECTOR5FA7ION ST.. BOWRALrhnn, Kowral 50 «'d *DAY OR NIGHT—and transparent. Put msunciiy deflnvd. It came up obliquely bgainst the wind, torned at J right angle late tha teeth of,,s' -a«a -Mthedown right In tha wlnd'a ey* before It waa loat In darkaeaa An extract from the ship's log ..._ _X.1l.h_J i. Ik. “tlater publlahod ta the Quarterly Journal of lha Royal Meteorological Society. .reproduced the Captain's sketch Strangely enough the akoteh boar* startling resemblance to lha saucer drawinga made by
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