NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

# Do flying saucers come from a distant world?

(By PROFESSOR, HERMANN OBERTH)

IT IS MY THESIS that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.

I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our earth for centuries.

I think that they possibly have been sent out to conduct systematic, long-range investigations, first of men, animals and vegetation, and more recently of atomic centres, armaments and centres of armament production.

## The writer

Professor Oberth, a German, is an internationally known authority guided missiles and the conquest of space.

They obviously have not come as invaders, but I believe their present mission may be one of scientific investigation. After all the official inquiries into the mystery of flying saucers, the fact remains that many of the observed effects still are formally described by the United States Air Force as "Unidentified Flying Objects." Many theories, theretoore, are being suggested as an explanation of why the saucers cannot be real.

Some of those who have seen saucers are said to have been self-hypnotised. Others are said to have been the victims of optical illusion, light aberrations or mass hallucination.

I have seen no proof from any satisfactory source to substantiate these suggestions.

Russian papers even have claimed that the United States Air Force purposely started "the big saucer bluff" to obtain more funds for space research and armament.

No proof of this, either, has ever been offered.

The radar screen often has confirmed the fact that observed phenomena were not light aberrations. Any experienced pilot ought to be able to distinguish the difference between optical illusions and real flying objects.

Attempts to explain the phenomena as fireballs or meteors do not meet scientific standards.

## Noiseless flight

Speculations that the saucers are secret American or Russian missiles have been supported by no facts. Any man-made object flying faster than sound would cause a tremendous noise when breaking the supersonic speed barrier, while most eye-witnesses report that the saucers they have observed, unlike jets, fly silently.

Far too many observations of saucers have been made between 1946 and 1954 for their presence to be dismissed merely by the statement that servers have been the subjects of mass hallucination.

I have examined all of the arguments supporting the existence of flying saucers and denying it, and it is my conclusion that the "Unidentified Flying Objects" do exist, are very real and are visitors from outer space.

While believing that the saucers are a reality, I do-not conclude, as some investigators have, that they come to us from one of the other planets in our own solar system.

It is more than that those who

# SIGHTINGS GO BACK TO THE 18th CENTURY

Observers then reported that "strange globes of light" manoeuvred over Florence, Italy, and there were similar reports from Switzerland on November 2, 1761.

In London on March 29, 1845, and elsewhere in England in 1855, 1859, 1860 and 1864, the same kind of lights were seen aloft as the kind we now speak of as flying saucers.

They buzzed Bloomington, Indiana on September 7, 1877, ships in the Yellow Sea in 1893, and ships in the Atlantic in 1904.

Why then, if space creatures have been coming to us for a long time, have they not communicated with us?

I believe the reason lies in the conclusion that, just as we do not know anything about their sense organism, they do not know anything about ours.

It is possible that they would react to rays still unknown to us. Perhaps they are trying to reach us with a ray unknown to us.

We can only wait. Their means of communication may be anything from a ray to a para-psychological power revealed to us occasionally in human manifestations of telepathy.

Just as a start, we might try to communicate with them by radio signal. Mathematical symbols might be interpreted by them. A mutual mathematical understanding might be the forerunner of written words and sounds.

We may be sure that they are not slow-thinking. Their intellectual powers, no matter how strange the

creatures' appearance may be, are great. I believe they are demonstrating this by bridging the space between their planetary home stations in a distant solar system and our own.

To come to us from that vast distance they may have achieved the dream of human astronauts. That is, they have been able to travel almost at the speed of light.

This seems to us, now, almost as far beyond our means as our own present rockets would have been beyond the ability of men who made the first steam engines.

Yet we speculate about ways to reach the stars and the Uranides, long ago having passed the stage of speculation, apparently have reached one. That is, having left their own star, or sun, they have come to our own sun, and its planet, the earth.

While we are trying to hasten the day when we can send a ship to one of our sister planets in our own planetary system our own solar system the Uranides have got the jump on us. They have broken free of their planetary system far, far away and have come to us.

How can we turn their venture to our own profit? If we can make them understand some kind of message, we should welcome them. We should try by every scientific means that seems feasible to get into contact with them.

Perhaps they can disclose to us secrets that otherwise we might not lay bare in a hundred thousand years.