The Visitants

THE VISITANTS

'Then we upon our globe's last voyage shall go,
And view the ocean leaning on the sky;
From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know,
And on the lunar world securely pry.'

(Old English.)

WEBSTER tells us that a visitant is one who, or that which, visits one as if from without one's own sphere. A visitant is a visitor, but specifically a migratory bird which appears at intervals for a limited .period. The occupants of the UFOs can certainly be called visitants, for they are definitely 'from without our sphere' and they 'appear at intervals for a limited period'. Therefore, we are going to discuss a few of those appearances and periods as they have been reported today.

Fifteen years ago, Mabel A. Heury of Whittier, California, was living in Pasadena when she and several hundred other witnesses observed dozens of `enormous stars moving in majestic circles which were obviously under intelligent control-no one had ever heard of "Flying Saucers" at that time'.

Several months ago, a glowing `Flying Pole' landed in Ireland in a peat bog behind a farmer's field. He noticed that it didn't touch the ground but hovered a few inches above it. He estimated the weird object was three feet wide and six feet long. The farmer approached it cautiously, and then grabbed it and carried it to a stile. It was amazingly light for its size. He discovered that he couldn't climb over the stile with the object in his arms, so he put it down on the ground. It immediately started to move away so he grabbed it again. It then went straight up with him holding on to it but he jumped off at a safe altitude and watched it go higher and higher until it disappeared. One wonders what would have happened if he had held on all the way? The Irish farmer's experience reminds us of the 'Flying Telephone Poles' mentioned in my book, Other Tongues--Other Flesh. On page 346-347, we read :

The Space Confederation decided to do something about our depleted Earth (the soil) and this is what they have said: 'You have been hearing about strange "Flying Telephone Poles" that are observed to come very close to your Earth. These strike the earth and will take care of a large area. They go into the ground and dissolve in the soil in about one hour. They do not look like shooting stars when they fall, but appear as a blue streak to the naked eye. Your beneficial bacteria are dying and these "flying poles" are sent out by the scientific space laboratories to take care of your Western Hemisphere. In this area of your planet you will find that certain farmers are puzzled as to how the soil became so rich and at times there is evidence of red dust. Many of these "poles" are tube-like, pointed at both ends and usually six feet long by twelve inches in diameter, although they can be much larger. The tubes contain rich, concentrated organic soil material from our own gardens and canals on Mars. They are full of vital, healthy, organic elements that will correct your increasing problem of humus destruction.'

The object in the Irish peat bog came very close to the ground, and it was six feet long, and it was hovering over a farmer's field. Therefore, it must have been one of the experimental tubes or 'poles' referred to above. If the farmer in Ireland had let the object go about its business undisturbed he might have discovered his future crop of those 'Irish potatoes' to be decidedly more flavorful and abundant thanks to his colleagues on Mars!

There are 'beacons' for UFOs besides the `Lines of Nazca' and other similar immense patterns to be viewed from the air. A friend of mine was inside an old abandoned mine in Southern California several years ago. She happened to take a photograph from inside the entrance in order to get a picture of the sun shining into the old shaft. When the photograph was developed something appeared in one corner that hadn't been visible in the mine when she exposed the film. I have this photograph and I would like to reproduce it in this book, but my friend has asked me to hold it for a while. However, a small disc-shaped object shows up on the film and it is surrounded by a glow. Out of its top a stream of luminous particles are being emitted. What is it?

Space intelligences have mentioned in the past that in ancient times they placed a driver-mechanism or 'beacon point' in various places close to the surface of Earth, but usually embedded in rock. These 'beacon points' were for automatic triangulation in navigation. Most of these mechanisms are still under the ground and are surrounded by a strange magnetic field which definitely affects certain modem electronic instruments, etc. My friend didn't really photograph the 'beacon' itself, because it was behind several feet of rock in the old mine. But her camera registered the field of energy around the disc and thereby she obtained a picture of its general outline on her film.

TV Channels 10 and 12 were having a great deal of difficulty with interference several years ago in their equipment on top of South Mountain near Phoenix, Arizona. Channel 12 was having the most difficulty. A new Channel (3) began to set up its equipment directly on top of the same mountain. At that moment the UFO intelligences went into action and removed the driver-mechanism or `beacon' buried a few feet underground that had been giving all the trouble. Even beings from outer space can't seem to stand in the way of our modern TV progress! Before the space mechanism was removed from this mountain there were many sightings of 'glowing lights' and `strange objects' hovering over South Mountain and the reports filled the Phoenix and other Arizona newspapers. The vortex created by that little disc-shaped mechanism caused all kinds of things to happen to the TV-radio equipment. When three TV stations tried to share the same mountain the UFO intelligences decided it was time to remove their centuries-old navigation aid or `beacon point'. One wonders what would have happened if those miners in that Southern California mine had dug a little deeper to one side of the shaft? And one also wonders what would have happened if one of the TV stations had decided it wanted a basement?

Near Santa Cruz, California, south of San Francisco, there is an area called a 'mystery spot'. It is similar to other 'mystery spots' throughout the world such as the one in Oregon, called the 'Oregon Vortex'; and the one near St. Augustine, Florida; Guerneville, California, etc.

`Sensitives' who stand over the Santa Cruz `mystery spot' claim they get the impression that a great space ship crashed there and its driver-mechanism embedded itself in the rock at that exact point. Could all the strange conditions in this area and other `mystery spots' be caused by the still active magnetic field of the mechanism, or could it be caused by one of the navigational 'beacon points' we mentioned above? At any rate, there is an anti-gravity effect caused by something.

On February 24, 1955, I interviewed Ted Bennett of the Big Oak Store at East Prairie, Missouri. Ted owns boats and motors which he rents at his camping facilities on the Mississippi River. There is an island in the middle of this great river between the landing at Dorena, Missouri, on one side and the landing at Hickman, Kentucky, on the other side. This island is about one and a quarter miles long and one quarter mile wide, covered with thick saplings. In 1954 I had heard a story from a reliable source that claimed a 'Flying Saucer' landed on this island in the Mississippi and had been abandoned by its crew (where did they go?). The story started because of sightings made by local people and because compasses carried by hunters went 'wild' in the nearby swamps while they were hunting 'coons' (raccoon). Other people had told my reliable source mentioned above that there was something on the island causing magnetic disturbances and that it all had started in 1948 when 'two great white glowing lights' were seen over the Mississippi River and observed by people for twenty miles around. Weird `fireballs' were also seen about the same time.

I traveled to Dorena, Missouri, in 1955 to find out what I could about the above happenings. Mr. Bennett confirmed what my friend had told me, and said that it was all true. I carried some detection equipment with me and discovered that a maximum signal intensity indicated something unusual south of the landing area. This was in the direction of Reelfoot Lake which was formed in 1812 A.D. by a 'peculiar kind of earthquake'. I did not have the time to take a boat and investigate the island or the lake, but I did learn some interesting things from the local people who are very friendly in this part of the United States.

They all told the same story as related above, and that during 1953-54 large numbers of Air Force planes circled the island at night. As many as fifty or seventy-five planes had been counted at one time. And planes flew above barges going down the river carrying government 'supplies'. Why did the government feel it was necessary to send an escort of planes along with ordinary barges on the Mississippi River, or were they 'ordinary'? Is there some connection between what the barges were carrying and the fact a UFO is somewhere in the vicinity? I didn't find any landed space ships during my visit in Missouri, but something is causing strange emanations that 'make compasses go wild when the men are in the swamps "coon" hunting.' This entire area is on the same great fault line that eventually goes directly through the Holmes County, Ohio settlement of the Amish/Mennonite people.

In 1947, Stanley Elder of Greenville, Michigan, had an unusual experience with a UFO. He was on his farm carrying two buckets of water when he looked up to see three 'stars' headed in his direction. One of these large `stars' dropped out of formation and hovered a few feet above some trees about 1,000 feet from where Stanley had fallen with his buckets after the surprise of the sighting. The UFO was gigantic, and he estimated it to be about 100 yards long. There were strange 'portholes' around its curved elongated body. Out of these `portholes' an unearthly brilliant light shone. For many days afterwards Stanley's eyes were affected and gave him much pain. A cow in the barn even had eye trouble for some time after the event. Also, Stanley claimed he could no longer wear a wristwatch due to his body magnetism caused by the encounter with the UFO. A feeling of 'reverence' came over him while he looked at this gigantic craft above the nearby trees, a feeling that stayed with him for a long time. He had a strong compulsion to go to the ship, but he fought it off. The ground seemed to vibrate and a tank beside which Stanley fell was also vibrating. The pulsations seemed to beat rhythmically with his own heart and the bluish-white light of the strange `portholes' radiated and seemed to extend out to him to bathe him in a scintillation that was unexplainable When the object rose to leave, Stanley saw the bottom of it which was perfectly round, and around the periphery there were about twelve bright lights. This last part of the sighting sounds like the description Robert R. Troyer gave of the UFO he observed on October 8, 1955, in Ohio.

On October 16, 1955, a friend of mine who is employed by Acme Telectronix as an electronic specialist, wrote: `When I become doubtful (of UFOs), I recall that Mr. L. A. Thompson (K6BDC), our Chief Engineer here, saw a brilliant light streaking at him while he was riding in a jeep with an Air Force officer and two engineers at the Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. This light suddenly veered off and upward at about an 80° angle. The men stopped the jeep and watched it for nearly thirty minutes as it continued on the same course. Even at only 100 m.p.h., that would place the object farther out in space than we have ever gone, and this light was really moving.'

Acme Telectronix of Cleveland, Ohio, maintains a Santa Barbara, California laboratory of which Mr. Thompson is Chief Engineer.

Also in 1955, three West German electronics engineers reported they had heard strange sounds on voice frequency by using the same type of light beams that the Germans used to transmit secret messages during World War II. Consisting of a small microphone, transmitter, and ordinary infra-red tungsten lamps, the device not only picked up voice frequency sounds but also bell-like tones approximating code. When this was all slowed down to 1/50 of the reception speed, the similarity to International Morse Code was pronounced, but United States Army cryptographers stationed in West Germany were not able to break the code down into any recognizable language pattern. The West German Interplanetary Society said that they believed the sounds emanated from UFOs outside the Earth's atmosphere. No claim was officially made that communication had been established between the Germans and outer space visitors, but it was a well-known fact at the time that the United States Air Force and also scientists of other countries were lending aid to the experiments.

During August, 1954, a large Canadian family had an experience which is considered authentic. Two of the younger men in the family were a mile or so from the farm house. They were picking peas in a field when all at once their horse began to act in a strange manner. When they went to investigate the trouble they saw, a sphere about nine feet in diameter resting on the ground on one support. It was only about fifty feet away from them. Suddenly they saw a door slide open and a short stairway emerged. As they watched astonished at the sight, a tall man came through the door wearing a tight-fitting suit that looked like rubber. The boys were terrified, and quickly mounted the horse and headed for the farm house. Immediately the sphere rose into the air and followed them to land only a thousand feet behind the house and barn. It remained there for one hour and ten minutes. Several witnesses came to the farm during this time and they too viewed the craft. From a distance it looked as though three men were working around the ship. At one time, a strange spiral encircled the object, starting at the bottom and working around it until the top was reached. This rendered the object invisible for a while. Soon afterwards, the craft left the area.

Three days later, an unknown visitor came to the farm and said he had read about the landing in the local newspapers and wanted to talk to the family about it. However, no article had appeared in the newspapers, although there was some mention made of it several days after the visitor's appearance! The man gave a fictitious name and address in Montreal, for later, when a check was made, it was discovered that no such person or address existed there. The man said the object would return that night and that he and one of the young men should go out and meet it. The family was suspicious of this man and they feared the outcome so they placed various people behind fences, the barn, etc., with guns. The object actually appeared in the sky and the unknown visitor ran into the centre of a field waving his handkerchief. However, the craft passed overhead and disappeared. Evidently the space visitors knew about the guns, although I am sure they weren't afraid of them. But who was the 'unknown visitor'? How did he know the ship would return?

On December 24, 1955, Michael W. Kruvant, director of the Flying Saucer Research Association of South Orange, New Jersey, transmitted a message to outer space intelligences via his light beam equipment. Five seconds after the message had gone out, two oval shaped objects passed over his house going in a northern direction. The great confirmation in this sighting is the fact that Mr. Kruvant had specifically asked in his transmitted message that the UFOs go over heading north to let him know his message had been received. A very nice Christmas Eve gift for one Earthman!

A friend of mine in California was listening to his short-wave radio one night during October, 1955, when he heard at 10 p.m. the following message on a band used by the United States Navy: 'Sir, we have tracked the target within ten miles and have it locked into our radar. What are your orders?' A reply came back at once: 'Use extreme caution. Proceed no further until more units arrive to help you.' That was the end of the message, although my friend stayed tuned to the frequency for a long time. I wonder what the `target' was?

On January 19, 1956, a car was traveling east near Peach Springs, Arizona, on U.S. Highway No. 66 (about 150 miles east of Peach Springs this same highway encounters the area where the Martian Miniatures on pottery were discovered). At 2.30 p.m. the people in the car saw what appeared to be a 'flash of lightning'. Then an odd-shaped small object, with a bright metallic glare, dropped close to the ground as if it were about to land. Suddenly, a great cloud of smoke came out of it and it began to dart here and there, turning over and over again. It moved along only a few feet from the ground for a short time and then gained altitude until it reached the side of some hills to the north of the car on the highway. It made strange patterns in the sky, and circled the highway area. It would approach the ground again, only to suddenly move up making incredible angles and turns. There was no sound connected with the object. When smoke came out of the craft it appeared to be emitted from the bottom centre. The witnesses watched the maneuvers for about twenty minutes until the craft disappeared.

During May, 1956, Mrs. Evelyn L. Smith and her family in Indianapolis, Indiana, had strange experiences connected with their TV and radio sets. One day, the Music on a radio programme stopped, and a strange voice said: 'You are masters of the Earth!' After that, the musical programme continued as before. Mrs. Smith, and her twelve-year-old daughter Rita, went outside to see if a UFO was in the vicinity, and when they looked up they saw two strange objects passing over their house. The objects circled the area twice and disappeared to the south-east. Later, in t956, Mrs. Smith's father and mother, who live in the country, observed an enormous object above their house that was tilted on its side displaying a great dome. It suddenly seemed to 'dissolve' and reappeared in the opposite direction. Her father said :'It was as big as the house and the dome seemed to be as big as a court-house dome.' The object was very bright and finally disappeared. Mrs. Smith's sister also witnessed this sighting and was so frightened she ran into the house along with her mother.

The Smiths have a friend in Indianapolis who also heard strange voices and 'code' come over her radio and TV sets during 1956. When the woman went outside she saw UFOs over her house.

On May 15, 1956, while Mrs. Smith was hearing voices on her TV and radio sets in Indianapolis, Indiana, another housewife in Fontana, California, was seeing a UFO from her car as she drove home. At 10:08 a.m. residents of Fontana had felt the shock of a sharp earthquake. Many people became panicky as there was a very loud rumbling sound and a terrific jolt. At 1:00 p.m. the housewife was driving her car near her home. Her son Robert, eight years old, suddenly said: 'Mommy, look what a whirlwind has drawn up into the sky.' The object was directly behind the woman's car traveling from west to east. The street was lined with walnut trees and it was hard for her to view the craft. She continued to drive until she was in an area where she could view what the `whirlwind had drawn up into the sky'. Then her son said :'Mommy, it's a "Flyring Saucer" ... it's bell-shaped and it has an antenna on it...' The silvery object was only about 1,000 feet off the ground and was traveling slowly. The woman estimated its size at thirty feet in diameter. As she watched the UFO, a small aeroplane passed it in the air without even changing its course. The object was observed for over ten minutes and during that time it changed its shape from that of a bell to an oblong. It made the characteristic fluttering motion until it passed out of sight. Was there some connection between the earthquake and the UFO? UFOs patrol great fault lines to check on possible disaster areas in the event of serious earthquakes. Fontana, California, is on a fault line, and they had an earthquake, and later the same day they had a UFO! Who knows?

On June 22, 1956, a few weeks after the above sightings, an Ohio State University radio astronomer reported that radio signals of a type resembling radio telegraphy in many ways were being received from a source presumed to be the planet Venus. Dr. John D. Kraus, director of the university's Radio Observatory, made no comment on the possible origin of the signals other than to say that 'whatever phenomenon is responsible for the signals must be of a rather complex type'.

Dr. Kraus said the signals accompanied another type of emission from Venus, a crackling signal somewhat resembling static from terrestrial thunderstorms and possibly originating in similar storms on the planet often referred to as Earth's 'twin'. On June 1^st, Dr. Kraus had reported the reception of the strong crackling or 'Class I' signals on a wavelength of 11 meters. On June 22^nd, the announcement said that, in addition to the static-like signals, Dr. Kraus had been receiving `Class II' signals of a distinctly different type which presumably also originated on Venus.

Dr. Kraus reported that the second type of radio emission had 'many of the characteristics of signals from a terrestrial radio telegraph transmitting station'. In fact, the astronomer at first suspected interference from this kind of station. Later, however, he noted that the 'Class II' signals were received only when Venus was directly in the antenna beam of the radio telescope and that they commonly accompanied the previously reported `Class I' signals.

Dr. Kraus said: 'The signals are usually received for only brief periods so that it is difficult to study them. Sufficiently numerous and varied observations of them have been made to make it appear very likely that they do come from Venus. The `Class II' signals are usually of an intermittent nature but sometimes are observed to recur with a more or less definite periodicity.'

Dr. Kraus did not believe the 'Class II' emissions could have been signals of terrestrial origin reflected from Venus because of the `tremendous power' necessary for a transmitter on Earth to be heard via reflection from the other planet.

Scientists at the United States Naval Research Laboratory also reported that radio signals were being received from Venus. Three radio astronomers announced that they had been receiving the signals. They were Cornell H. Mayer, Russell M. Sloanaker, and Timothy P. McCullough.

In July, 1956, a `Flying Saucer' scare came to the simple people of the Fiji Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Three different times scores of people, including many Europeans, observed strange objects in the skies. After two weeks of this, on August 3^rd, hundreds of people witnessed a weird sight in the heavens. A brilliant yellow light moved above the islands and was observed from 7:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. Other reports said that a spindle-shaped yellow light moved from the east to the north, and pulsated as it moved.

Three days later, on August 6, 1956, hundreds of people watched a 'peculiar red object like a comet' moving in the sky east of Sydney. The object was sighted by witnesses from Bondi to Lane Cove. It was first noticed at 9:00 p.m. and was visible for one hour and a quarter. Groups of people in Bondi stood on street corners watching the object. Mr. H. Warham, Clyde Street, Bondi, said he and his family watched the fiery object for over an hour. He said: 'It was the most astonishing thing I've ever seen. It looked like a rocket with a tail heading for the Earth at terrific speed. It glowed in a fiery red brilliance, then faded almost to a pin point, but seemed to return again. I've seen everything that flies in the sky, but that defies description. Although I don't believe in "Flying Saucers", I find it hard to believe this was anything like a plane. I've never seen anything like it before.'

Mr. W. F. Boyling of Lane Cove said: 'At first, it looked like the light on the top of a television mast. But when it kept rising in the sky I became really interested. At times it was obscured by clouds. But it was quite bright. I've never seen anything like it before.'

An astronomer, Mr. H. Wood, discounted the suggestion that the object was Venus. He said: 'It could have been Mars, but that planet has been in the same position for some time and hasn't drawn much attention from anyone. Cloudy conditions prevented me from observing the object through the Government Observatory telescope.'

On August 11, 1956, a startling message was radioed from Auckland, New Zealand, to Sydney, Australia : Flying Saucer Panic! New Zealand Fears Invasions! 'People are clamoring for government explanations of widespread findings of mystery metals and jelly-like substances. Reliable citizens claim they saw "Flying Saucers", and several experts in responsible positions are talking of early invasions from outer space. Among these are Dr. Bernard Finch and Mr. Harold H. Fulton, chief of the Civilian Saucer Investigation (N.Z.). Mr. Fulton, attached to the Royal New Zealand Air Force engineering section at Whenuapai Base, Auckland, said today recent mass sightings in New Zealand emphasized the imminence of invasion from another planet. Scientists and police, Fulton said, have not explained the mystery. Mass sightings have been reported in the last month and strange jelly-like substances and unknown metals have been found. The experts who predict early invasion of the Earth believe the first landing ground for space ships will be Australia. A big fall of mystery jelly-like substances followed a "Saucer" sighting over Hawkes Bay, N.Z. Government scientists have put the substances through every known test without identifying them. These substances, sometimes like a spider-web, last only twenty-four hours, then disintegrate. The other day there was a sighting over Hamilton, North Island, N.Z., followed by an explosion in the air. Police confiscated a strange cylinder. So far the metal in the cylinder has completely baffled police and scientists. The explosion has not been officially explained, although it is known it was in mid-air. An unknown metal, with burn marks around its edges, has been found in the Auckland, N.Z., suburb of Orange.'

Dr. W. P. Clifford reported at the same time that similar unknown substances had fallen at Glen Innes, north of Sydney, Australia, a few months before. He said: 'When a woman approached these substances they immediately dissolved. We believe they came from "Flying Saucers." '

Well, there was no 'early invasion' from space, in fact, there was no 'invasion' at all, but during several months of 1956, all in all, several thousand people witnessed objects that belonged to the visitants. We might mention, however, that the great fault line of the Pacific Ocean passes right by the Fiji Islands, then swings south past New Zealand on its way to the South Pole.

In 1956, a mother in Burbank, California, received a letter from her son who is a pilot with the United States Air Force stationed in Alaska. He wrote that he and five other men had flown four hundred miles out into the ice fields to set down and get into operation a station for instrument studies of cosmic rays. The young officer said he had located a flat surface and landed on it within a few hundred feet of a small hill. All the men got out of the plane and started to walk over towards the hill to see if they couldn't set up their station on top of it. He said they all suddenly heard a strange 'whistle' behind them. This was all they needed to throw themselves face down on the ice. When they looked up, they saw a gigantic black 'Flying Saucer' flying low over the ice field. It had missed them by inches. The men were all very frightened and hurried to their plane and flew back to their base at once. The young officer told his mother the UFO was at least thirty-five feet in diameter, and disappeared over the ice fields never to return. What was the 'black object' doing over those fields? There's a fault line there. Fossils of giant men have been found there and Indians say such creatures are still alive in the area. What else could be there?

On May 15, 1957, Dr. J. C. Cooke, at that time professor of applied mathematics at the University of Malaya, announced he believed that 'Flying Saucers' were controlled by intelligent beings from outer space. He said: `We must not fall into the common tendency of denying the existence of the "Saucers". There is no doubt that the governments of the world are suppressing the truth about such objects because they fear panic and mass hysteria.' Dr. Cooke is now in England with the British Supply Ministry's royal aircraft establishment. He also said : 'The creatures controlling the "Flying Saucers" do not appear to be hostile and might be here to save us from ourselves. Certainly, if we show hostility to them they could easily annihilate us. I personally hope they will intervene if an atomic war starts.' Dr. Cooke is a graduate of Queen's College, Oxford, and the University of London.

During the last three months of 1957, I was in the United States and Canada, completing a 32,000 mile lecture tour on the subject of The Lost World and the UFOs. I arrived in Miami, Florida, in October from Peru to begin this tour. Everywhere I went people were talking about the 'Flying Saucers'. Sightings were being made in all parts of North America although very little ever appeared in the newspapers except in small local publications. However, on November 2, 1957, something took place in Texas which made headlines throughout the nation. Three motorists were traveling separately in the vicinity of Levelland, Texas, in the extreme western part of the state. These motorists reported separately to Hockley County Sheriff Weir Clem within a two hour period Saturday night, November 2^nd, and early November 3^rd, that they had seen a terrifying flying object.

Their reports prompted the sheriff and one of his deputies to take to the highways in an official cruiser. The officers caught a glimpse of bright moving lights that they attributed to the same object. The three motorists reported seeing similar lights on a huge object which they first spotted hovering over the road ahead of them. Two of the three said they caught glimpses of an egg-shaped bulk possibly 200 feet long to which the lights were seemingly attached. All said the object took to the air after a few seconds.

The three motorists reported similar experiences with their automobiles upon reaching the vicinity of the object. They said their lights went out and their motors died. After the object had soared into the air, they said, the lights on their cars came back on and they were able to start the motors.

The sheriff said he and his deputy, Pat McCulloch, saw a 'strip of brightly colored light' cross the highway about 200 feet in front of them but they were unable to distinguish a form. The sheriff said the light was 'like a neon sign' and was `the color of a setting sun--a brilliant red'. He said he experienced no difficulty with the lights or motor of the car he was driving.

Officers from the Air Force Base at Lubbock, Texas, thirty-two miles east of Levelland, arrived November 3rd to question the sheriff and others concerning the phenomenon. The Air Force announced that it had had no planes in the vicinity during the time of the sightings and had no knowledge of aircraft of any kind in the area.

The first report had come at 11:05 p.m., from Pedro Siado, who was traveling east on Texas Highway No. 116, and was about four miles west of Levelland. Siado said he saw bright colored lights a short distance ahead of him on the highway and heard a roar like a clap of thunder. Then his car lights went out and his motor stopped. He said the lights on the object were blinking on and off every three seconds. Then the object went into the air and he was able to start his car. He was very excited when he arrived in Levelland.

The next report came from Frank B. Williams of Kermit, Texas, who was eight miles north of Levelland on Texas Highway No. 51 when at 12:05 a.m. he reported he saw a huge egg-shaped object squatting on the highway ahead of him. He reported that the lights and motor of his car immediately ceased working and that after about one minute the object, brilliantly illuminated, took to the air.

The third report came from James D. Long, a truck driver, of Waco, Texas, whose experience with the object took place at 1:15 a.m. on a county highway known as the Oklahoma Flat road three miles north of Levelland. Long said he brought his car to a stop when he saw the object ahead of him in the road and that he was climbing out to investigate when his motor died and his car lights went out. Then the big egg-shaped object shot 200 feet into the air, where its lights vanished.

The sheriff and his deputy decided they had better investigate, and started to drive along the Oklahoma Flat road. When they were five or six miles north-west of Levelland they saw a strip of bright light go across the road from east to west about 200 feet ahead of them. The sheriff said: `I don't know what it was, but it wasn't a truck or a flash of lightning. I think we saw the same thing the motorists saw.' Two Texas State Highway Patrolmen, following the sheriff in another car, also saw the lights and were mystified.

A. J. Fowler, in charge of the Levelland Police Station during the night of the sightings, said he received at least fifteen telephone calls from local residents and other motorists in the area who also reported they had seen a strange lighted object. Many other residents reported they saw `flashes of light'.

Representative J. T. Rutherford of Texas, at his Odessa home, called for a statement from the Pentagon on this and other UFO sightings. He said he was dispatching a telegram asking an explanation from Air Force officials in Washington, D.C. Later it was learned that another motorist, Nowell E. Wright, saw an object pass over his car with a `roar like thunder'. His motor died and his headlights went out, also.

The Ground Observer Corps at Midland, Texas, reported that a woman and her two children saw `a large object of bluish color flying west and very low' early the night of November 2^nd.

Odis Echols, owner of Radio Station KCLV in Clovis, New Mexico, reported he 'saw a streak of light like a great fire ball' moving in a south-easterly direction about 8:00 p.m. on November 2^nd. That means it was seen in the neighboring state of New Mexico a few hours before its first appearance to the south-east near Levelland, Texas. Here is confirmation that can't be ignored, and yet it was ignored by official sources. I wonder what Rep. J. T. Rutherford learned-if anything?

Perhaps same of you are a bit tired of hearing about fault lines, but-that's right, you've guessed it! A major fault line goes directly through the Levelland, Texas, area. It may be possible that the UFOs draw energy from such locations. At any rate, a study of UFO sightings will reveal that a great percentage of them take place in the vicinity of, or directly over, major world fault lines.

Texas wasn't the only place where UFOs were being seen during the last part of 1957. Michigan and Ohio reported strange `red clouds' low over cities and 'glowing lights' and 'disc-shaped objects' were having a heyday.

On November is, 1957, I was lecturing in Cleveland, Ohio, when a report reached me that a UFO had landed on November 6th a few miles north-east of Cleveland. On that date, Olden Moore was driving home from Painesville, Ohio, to Montville, when he saw a blue-green flaming object fly over the highway at midnight. In describing the experience, Mr. Moore said:

In seconds the object loomed up in front of me. It was as large as a house. Then it seemed to split apart. One section disappeared into the sky and the other section settled down in a field near the road. When I first observed the object approaching me, I pulled off the road and turned off the ignition. I watched the craft in the field for about fifteen minutes, then I got out of my car and walked towards it. I heard a ticking sound like that of an electric meter. I stopped before I reached the object and returned to my car and drove home to get my wife so she might be a witness to the landing. When we returned together the object was gone. It was about fifty feet in diameter and shaped like a 'saucer' with an inverted 'saucer' on top of it, There was a cone-shaped dome that came to a point on top. The dome glowed brilliantly.

In the same area on the same day that Olden Moore was having his encounter with the strange craft, a great cigar-shaped object was sighted by many people and also a car windshield was covered with pock marks and found to be radio-active.

On November 8^th Olden Moore was interrogated by Lake County Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke, Geauga County Sheriff Louis A. Robusky, United States Army officials and many newsmen.

However, on November 7^th, Mr. Locke covered the field (where Moore had seen the UFO land) with a Geiger counter and discovered that 'the counter registered 150 milliroentgens in the centre of an area So feet in diameter in the field. The reading dropped to 20-30 milliroentgens near the perimeter of that area'.

Robert Seitz, a graduate student at the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, said that the normal background count was about 20 milliroentgens. Does this mean that the UFO was radioactive ?

Several small, but very deep, round holes were found in the field where the craft had landed. These were arranged in a strange circular pattern. The prints looked as though they had been made by something with `spikes' on it. The first report said that these were `footprints'; however, they were actually holes made by a protruding pole or something similar. The holes were very deep, and much force had been used to reach such a depth in the ground. Scientists from the Case Institute took soil samples a few days later but the counter registered a normal count and the ground apparently didn't suffer from the effects of the radiation.

The Geiger counter reading in this case is important, but not because it measured radioactivity. If the element causing the counter to react as it did was radio-active, then its half-life was shorter than that of elements made artificially in atomic accelerators. In other words, we can assume that the reading was due to some other stimulus than radio-activity. Free electrons will actuate a Geiger counter and it is quite possible that the object observed by Olden Moore possessed such a strong magnetic field that it ionized the air and the Geiger count was due to the free electrons.

During my stay in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the last few weeks of 1957, a 'red cloud' appeared over the city during one of my lectures, and when we went to Radio Station WOOD after the talk for an interview, we discovered the TV and radio newscasts were full of 'Saucer' reports. Sightings were pouring in from all over the state.

'Flying Saucer' reports increased during the end of 1957 in Australia also. On November 8, 1957, a 'mystery object' was sighted from Mount Stromlo Astronomical Observatory and a report was sent to Canberra, New South Wales, Australia. Dr. A. Przybylski and two of his colleagues observed the object at 3:02 a.m. after they had watched the passage of Sputnik II. The scientists described the UFO as a `pinkish object, brighter than Venus, moving westward on the southern horizon'. It was visible to the naked eye, and was watched for eight minutes.

Dr. Przybylski said the object was completely unlike anything he had ever seen before. It moved far too slowly to be a meteor, and it was not Sputnik I nor Sputnik II, both of which had already passed. The astronomer had unconfirmed reports that the object had been sighted elsewhere in Australia. He said Dr. H. Gollnow, another astronomer, and an assistant, Mr. G. Oom, had watched the course of the object with him. Mr. Westerlund, a scientist from Sweden's Uppsala University, had seen the mystery object in its last moments and thought it might be an aircraft. A check was made with aviation authorities and this showed there were no aircraft in the sky after 2:00 a.m.

The assistant director of the observatory, Dr. A. S. Hogg, said that it was the first time the observatory had sighted what might be called an unidentified flying object. He said: 'What the object was remains an open question. It is impossible to speculate on the nature of the object on the basis of one sighting. However, rough computations placed the object at not more than 1,600 miles above the Earth.'

If Dr. Przybylski, and Dr. Hogg, and their colleagues really get to work now on some serious UFO investigation they will qualify themselves to be called 'long-haired scientists', or those researchers on the frontiers of new investigation. If they forget the sighting as though they never saw it, then we shall be forced to call them ,short-haired scientists', or those who never reach the new frontiers, but conduct research on everyone else's discoveries. At any rate, a letter I received recently from Australia, tells me that 'an eminent Australian professor of physics who had been lecturing to the effect that "Flying Saucers" were figments of the imagination, has completely changed his opinion since the sighting at Mount Stromlo.'

On February 2, 1958, Senor Jose Valencia D. was driving on the Pan-American Highway from Arequipa to Lima, Peru. In the car with him was his wife, Sra. Maria Teresa Cardenas de Valencia, and his nephew, Manuel Porto Navarro. It was a very dark night, and when a strange 'mushroom-shaped' object appeared in the sky overhead, all of the car lights started to go on and off. Senor Valencia thought he was having difficulty with his car motor, so he stopped the car to make a check. All three witnesses said that the UFO was about fifteen feet in diameter. A luminous red glow surrounded the bottom of the craft and the top contained another red light of a darker shade.

Later in February, 1958, on the same Pan-American Highway, south of Ica, Peru, a man sighted a strange 'glowing globe' in the sky while he was driving. Suddenly, the car radio refused to operate and the motor stopped and the lights went out. The driver described the object as 'bluish-green in color and very large'. This report was given to me by a very prominent Lima physician.

The important point for us to remember here is that Ica is only a few kilometers from the Nazca-Palpa area where we find the beacons for the gods. Since the driver was south of Ica, he must have been very close to the 'Lines of Nazca'. On February 2nd, Senor Valencia was very near the same area while driving from Arequipa to Lima. Therefore, during the same month, in the same section of the Pan-American Highway, two motorists had similar experiences. One witnessed a 'red mushroom' and the other one saw a 'bluish-green globe'. In the area of the above sightings the Pan-American Highway cuts directly through the immense patterns and delineated lines as we have already seen in Fig. No. 29.

On February 24, 1958, Dr. Carlos Jose da Costa Pereira, prominent lawyer and writer of Brazil, was resting beside the road between the villages of Santo Antonio de Jesus and Coracao de Maria, Brazil. He and two friends had been riding in a jeep that suddenly failed to function. While a check was made of the jeep, and the men were on the side of the road, they saw an object about 9o feet in diameter on the road ahead. The men walked to within 32 yards of it and watched it perform several maneuvers for over half an hour. Before it disappeared into the sky, the witnesses could see the rotating disc-shape.

On April 10, 1958, Millen Cooke Belknap took an unusual photograph of a UFO a little after 12:40 a.m. at Vista, California. (See Fig. No. 40). She took the photograph with her Polaroid Highlander camera and used the new fast film. Dim lights can be seen in the middle of the picture which were from a market about a mile away and below the Belknap house. The two white `polar' areas on the object were not visible to the naked eye but appeared on the developed film. The larger sphere ejected a single, blinking disc, which appears on the photograph as four separate images due to the speed of the fast film used.

A few hours later, during the morning of April 10^th, an Air Force plane appeared over the area where Millen Belknap had observed and photographed the UFO a little after midnight the night before. She observed with her binoculars that the plane was carrying cameras. The next day, helicopters patrolled the same area. Nothing appeared in the newspapers, although the Air Force had reconnoitered the entire location.

On May 4, 1958, radio newscasts carried a startling story that described how a UFO had caused a power failure at an Electric Illuminating Company plant near Cleveland, Ohio. Some investigators thought that a bullet fired from some gun caused the failure, but there were many witnesses to the fact that strange objects were in the sky over the area and that the power failure came about immediately after a blinding flash of light.

As a final gesture in our discussion here of the visitants, I want to mention an intriguing enigma that showed up recently in an exhibition hall in London, England. A magnificent Fourteenth-Century tapestry from Yugoslavia was being admired by exhibition-goers, when suddenly someone noticed one of the ancient designs clearly portrayed a gigantic space ship that contained a man! On the side of the ship there was a curious symbol that exactly duplicates the eight-pointed star with the dot in the centre on the Pre-Inca representation of the road in the sky shown in the Frontispiece of this book. What is the connection between a Fourteenth-Century Yugoslavian tapestry and an ancient drawing from Peru, South America?

What we have given here is by no means a complete record of UFO sightings for the last few years. Only some of the sightings are given in order to present some of the varied activities of the visitants-those things that 'appear at intervals for a limited period' and are 'from without our sphere'. These friendly visitors to our world are traveling the road in the sky once again; they are here today!

Let us all hope that we may be counted among the blessed meek so some day we can travel that highway to the stars when

'We upon our globe's last voyage shall go,
And view the ocean leaning on the sky;
From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know,
And on the lunar world securely pry.'