NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files

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# TALE OF FLYING SAUCER PILOT

Review By Kickshaws.

MYSTERIOUS DISC photographed over New York by August Roberts on July 28, 1952. The object hung motionless for a minute, it was reported.

The time cannot be far distant when flying saucers will cease to be a legend and will become accepted or otherwise with other phenomena such as meteors, blue moons, radio, and aeroplanes. Indeed 100 years ago anybody who claimed knowledge of either of the last two would have been considered just slightly eccentric.

At present we are in this era so far as flying saucers are concerned. It is made all the more difficult by the hush-hush secrets which every Great Power nurses jealously to her bosom, surrounded by laws and regulations and various weird enactments to prevent discovery. For that reason everyone is entitled to form their own opinion about flying saucers.

At this somewhat inconclusive juncture Desmond Loslie and George Adamski have compiled a book (Flying Saucers Have Landed—Werner Laurie, 12/0). Unfortunately neither author brings forward any proof that could be accepted even remotely to indicate that flying saucers have landed.

The book does, however, provide a wealth of detailed reports of the sighting of flying saucers. They have indeed been observed for periods which go back so far into geological time they cannot even be classified as legend. For example the first flying saucer is said to have been around something like 418 million years ago. As this goes back 17 million years before the accepted period in which human beings have been in the world, strict scientific proof cannot be anything but difficult.

Nevertheless, Desmond Leslie provides such a wealth of obviously genuine reports of flying saucers even the sceptic cannot but become shaken.

## Authenticated Sightings

For example, on February 7, 1802, Dr. Menzel Fritsch, an astronomer at Magdeburg, reported a large disc crossing the sun. In 1817 "a howling dark thing" was reported over Palermo. On April 1, 1820, a dark grey torpedo swished to earth at Snarbrucken. But how they knew it was torpedo-shaped is not explained.

Moreover, on July 1, 1896, a dark circular object was observed at the Smith Observatory to traverse the moon's disc. On March 14, 1907, a great black torpedo hovered over Burlington, Vermont, with jets of orange flame issuing from holes in its side. All these and many other reports are capable of being verified and there is no reason to doubt their accuracy.

When the authors of the book claim that flying saucers were used by folk in the mythical land of Atlantis, said to have sunk beneath the Atlantic some 8000 years ago—well, who knows. Certainly scientists would demand far more rigid proof than various esoleric legends. Nevertheless, even those legends are significant.

## Models Described

For no very obvious reasons Desmond Leslie declares that not only have flying saucers landed on this world but he even gives a description of the various types. These types as described by Meade Layne roughly fall into three models.

The first is a crescent-shaped craft about 45 feet wide and 18 feet high. It is propelled by jet drive and is now considered somewhat outmoded having been in use for the last 10,000 years or more. No doubt the power system has been improved but in this 10,000 B.C model a somewhat crude stream of fuel played on a "disc ray" in a closed chamber causing automatic disintegration. Air is the normal fuel but in airless locations metal fuel is used.

The second type of flying saucer is a doughnut-shaped craft about 125 feet outside diameter and 38 feet thick. In the centre is a hole about 25 feet wide. These are observation craft and employ "electro-magnetic drive."

The third type is a cigar-shaped craft about 100 feet long and 25 feet wide used on escort duties and as a fighting craft. It uses jet drive and other forms of drive making use of "etheric power." A craft of this type was indeed reported over Guillac, France, in November, 1952. This craft carries small flying saucers liberated when close to the earth. There is also thought to be a transport craft about 100 feet in diameter for passenger carrying and cargo.

These various craft employ crews varying from one or two to 50 or more. There are, moreover, miniature saucers used for investigatory roles, one of which is a single seater, about 14 feet across; another is a spherical craft five feet in diameter, and there is also a tiny version only a foot in diameter which carries some sort of reportback apparatus. When finished with this last type is disintegrated by remote control.

## Visitors From Venus

All these craft, for no very obvious reasons, are stated to come from Venus. For true space travel they employ universal energy, absorbing power from etheric energy in space. A gravity diverter can also be used when near solid bodies such as the

Flying saucers from time to time jettison various types of objects, including lumps of evil smelling jelly one such lump falling near Rome in May, 1652. A flying saucer seen over Gallilac, France, on October 29, 1952, jettisoned various matter which disintegrated before it could be analysed. But "bright whitish filaments resembling glass

wool" are the commonest effluent. When it comes to observed landings of flying saucers the authors of this book seem to have gone to considerable pains to avoid obtaining any really factual evidence which would assist experts and others in coming to an opinion. We have the word of the authors of this book that not only have flying saucers landed, but that a man from Venus has actually been interviewed by one of the authors using "thought transference." As the Venusian dislike being photographed this opportunity was missed.

This part of the book offers nothing helpful to an unbiased person anxious to get the facts for or against flying saucers coming from other worlds. Even the photographs are unconvincing and taken in such a manner that faking could not be ruled out.

## Unsupported Story

We have the word of George Adamski that he did interview a man from Venus, but it is not backed by anything which a scientist would consider as supporting evidence.

There is no reason to suggest that either author is trying to carry out a hoax, but on the other hand there is nothing to support the truth. This does not mean that flying sancers have not landed and that at least one occupant has not held thought transference with a man of the world.

But the book is not convincingly written, it is badly constructed and in places badly worded. The references are very vague, the evidence too filmay and open to misinterpretation.

Anyway, interested folk can read the book and form their own opinions; just as they can about ghosts after surveying the mass of tenuous information available.