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# Be Nice To A Martian

THIRTY Belgian professional and business men in Brussels formed a committee to welcome Martians. Its public relations officer, M. Marcel Rubens, says the committee wants to prevent a war with Mars and to establish interplanetary trade.

Its official Statutes and Rules for Welcoming Martians include these suggestions:

Approach a Martian displaying signs of peace.

Inform the nearest police station only if he shows signs of hostility.

The committee agreed that the first martian should be given the following meal: Oysters, lobsters, a two-pound steak, mixed grill with chips, mustard and pickles.

If you are not wearing a hat, give him an encouraging smile and a deep bow.

Then he is to be taken to a Brussels nightclub and to museums.

The committee plans Chairs in Martian Philosophy in Belgian universities.

The committee is examining the question of inter-marriage among Martians and Belgians.

M. Rubens said: "We don't believe all these reports about flying saucers.

"But in view of the reports this committee decided that tactful measures must be taken with a view to receiving Martians.

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"WE don't seem to be able

to prevent wars on our own planet—but to the devil with war with outer space. We can prevent this if we plan to show the Martians we are friendly."

Meanwhile a Vatican spokesman has denied reports that a committee of theologians has been summoned to discuss flying saucers and Martians.

"The least we can say about this report is that it is premature," the spokesman said.

However Roman Catholic theologians have considered the problem of life on other planets, the "Daily Express" correspondent in Rome says.

They have concluded that if living beings exist outside the earth they are not under the jurisdiction of the

Catholic Church-because of the probability that they never contracted "original sin."

## Flying Discs

Sir,—Periodically, Mr. Thomsen, director of the Carter Observatory, repeats his claim that flying discs are a hoax. Some of us are not impressed, as his ideas do not march with scientific opinion and knowledge overseas.

These are the facts: Intensive data gathered across the world by responsible authorities show that the discs are officially accepted as interplanetary. Airforce, military, naval and scientific experts have thousands of reports on file from trained pilots, navy men, and airfield technical staffs. Radar has consistently shown the substantial nature of the flying objects, and the extra-terrestrial speeds.

U.S. military authorities have films of the dises in action, and the Washington Pentagon admits a huge file of painstakingly tested, double-checked evidence. It has been said by intelligent researchers that there is no logical reason why advanced human life could not exist beyond our solar system.

Wellington. NOT A WESTRUCK.

# REAL MATERIAL OBJECTS Believer In Existence Of 'Flying Saucers'

WHEN the true story about "flying saucers" is told "and knowledgeable investigators are expecting it any day now"—some people are going to experience the "biggest jolt and most embarrassing period of their lives," according to the president of Civilian Saucer Investigations (New Zealand), Mr. H. H. Fulton, of Auckland.

Replying to comments on the possibility of the existence of "flying saucers" by the president of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand (Mr. I. L. Thomsen), Mr., Fulton said today his interpretation of "flying saucer" reports was that they were real material objects.

He believed these objects were controlled by intelligent beings from extra-terrestrial sources.

## 'Mars most suspect'

"Because, of certain evidences well known to all investigators the planet Mars is most suspect as one of these sources;" he said. "The craft may originate or operate from this, our neighbouring world. We

are equally certain that top world authorities investigating the saucers more than suspect possible Martian origin."

In the recent "opposition" of the Earth and Mars, actual photographs had confirmed the existence of canal-like criss-cross patterns of lines on the surface of the planet.

Since the first world-arresting reports of unidentified flying objects in 1947 more and more civilian and government-sponsored groups had been formed or commissioned to inquire into the true source of "flying saucers." Prominent among the observers were many men of science and members of all the world's armed and technical services. The majority of these reports had been substantiated by radar and photographic confirmations.

## 'Flotsam and jetsam'

It could not be suggested that these men were the perpetrators of hoaxes and it was extremely unlikely that they had been confused by "meteors, fireballs, and the other flotsam and jetsam astronomers believe are up there scouting about the skyways to fool the unwary."

Mr. Fulton said he did not believe overseas Governments would have established investigating agencies if there was nothing in the reports.

Sir.—The president of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, Mr. I. L. Thomsen, in his address at the society's annual meeting on "A Scientific Consideration of Flying Saucer Reports," stated that for intelligent life, similar to that on earth, to exist elsewhere in our own or other planetary systems, earth conditions would have to be paralleled exactly. It does not take much thought to realise in the light of modern knowledge that the likelihood of this having occurred within a distance from the earth capable of being traversed by mechanical aid within the lifetime of an individual is so remote as to be practically non-existent. Furthermore, a coincidence in time between relative stages of development of life and elsewhere must be assumed at a ratio of billions of billions of chances against such an occurrence.

Viewed in this light, reports of visitors from other planets are revealed as figments of wishful thinking by beings who have only recently become air conscious.

Eastbourne. WHAT SOURCE.

"Open Mind" (Palmerston North) says it is evident that Mr. Thomsen has not read the semi-official book, "Flying Saucers from Outer Space," by Donald Keyhoe, and adds, "Should he do so, I feel certain that he will hesitate before repeating his assertion that most of these reports are nothing but hoaxes."