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astic senators, Madeleine, who had worked in a Gov
ernment offic e for many yea rs, just stood up and
to ld them that she wouldn 't like to be in THEI R
shoes when people found out what was being kept
from them.
Did they think the pub lic was blind?
Many had seen the planes chasing the saucers.
Even children.
And Madeleine had come out of the committee
room seething with anger. A few weeks afterwards
she had filmed a scout-ship over her own "front
yard ".
Fred loos ened up a little as we sped along the
road Brussels-Antwerp. Patrick, who studied at
Brussels University, and who himself lectured on
flying saucers, was a good driver, but fast!
" Madeleine was at the airport as we left Washing
ton. Oh , and Lind a, her friend , was with her. You
know, that young woman who had some sightings.
She ' s written to you , I think . A nice girl. There were
two Brothers standing back a bit in the crowd. Th ey
weren 't with Madeleine. Maybe she knew they were
there. "
He went on talking about some of the Brothers he
had met. Ingrid joined in occasionally, her eyes
bright and shi ning.
" Oh , Ronald!" she said, in her Ge rman -accented
American , drawling the words. " If you only could
meet them! There is this wonderful feeling of good
ness that seems to reach out to you. "
Fred's rather serious face relaxed a little as he
spoke. One could see he was no fanatic. Fred Steck
ling and Ingrid were not mon ey-g rabbing "contact
ees " making a fast buck. Th ey spoke quietl y, but
forcefully at times. Perhaps Fred could not quite
shake off this fee ling of having to convince someone
all the time.
" Ronald ," he said, after a rather long , somewhat
tired silence. Th ey'd been trave ll ing for many, many
hours . " Ron ald, do you know, it's just as if they have
our frequencies. I had a birthday a while back -"
Ingrid was about to burst in with wife-like enthusiasm
but Fred 's vo ice stopped her. " I had a birthday a
while back," Fred went on. " Ingrid and I were wat
ching T .V. I don 't re member the show. Suddenly -"
and again Ingrid was bursting with agreement,
"- sudden ly it went doot-di-di-doot-doot, on the T .V.
just li ke that, maybe ten or a dozen times . Doot-di
di-doot-doot. Ingrid and I just looked at each other -
and then we both DASHED out onto the porch ."
Patrick swerved among the traffic on a bumpy
patch of road .
" Th ere over the house was the saucer. It just
swayed there, back and forward . Th en it seemed to
swing down low as the light showed from the porch
and then shot off over in the direction of Washing
ton Airport. "
Ingrid cou ldn 't hold herself any longer. " And do
you know, Ron ald !" she burst in, "Made leine had the
same thing happen on her birthday! Lin da and some
more friends were just being seen off from the house
and they called out to Madeleine to look. And there
was this red , g lowing light swaying over the house! "
Fred smiled knowingly .
" You can bet, they 've got our wave-lengths! " he
sa id .
As we looked out at May's long lily-pond in the
spacious lawn , the big , leafy trees almo st overhang
ing the house and splashing the ground wit h shadow,
Fred gave a little laugh to himself and glanced up
at me. He was so often serious, especially whe n he
talked to the people who gathered at May's house,
guests, reporters etc, - it was nice to see him with
a, somewhat twisted , grin . There were no gimmicks
with Fred.
" I saw a saucer c lose overhead so me wh il e ago. -
The re are a LOT of them around that area - I had
my camera with me, this camera - and I ran off some
film and I felt so gosh -darned pleased with myself!
D'you know something? I left t he dust-cap on! "
He told me of his talks with the Brothers.
" D'you know, Ronald , when you ' re with them , you
don 't ASK questions. You don 't think of it. You just
listen. It's as if you are not meant t o ask of things
maybe they don 't want you to know ."
Fred bit his lip thoughfully.
" One of them I can see severa l times a week. I
know where he 's working. I can tell you what sort
of work he does, but not where. " Fred told me.
" It 's onl y once in a while we have a chance to
talk. Maybe over a cup of coffee some place."
He paused , then went on.
" This one 's from Venus."
Fred 's trip over had bee n delayed. H ans and I had
had to change our bookings . Fred had told me on
the trip up from the airport how so meone, - he didn 't
know who - had contacted the bank where Fred had
arranged credit for the trip.
" I have to do it on the instalments ," he said. "A
cook doesn't earn all that much mon ey." Fred works
at an hotel in Virgini a, near where he lives .
Th e strange thing was that Fred had previously
had credit arrangeme nts with the same bank, and
had had no bother. Maybe someone had tried to stop
his trip to Europe. It had taken seve ral days to c lear
up the matter.
He was speaking first in Antwerp , stayi ng with
May for some days, then Th e Hague, then Frankfurt
and Mannheim, then in Austri a - Vienna and Linz -
then on to West Berlin for the last six days to stay
with his family.
Whether Fred was helped with money at the Ger
man or Austrian lectures, I don 't know. I know he
received noth ing in Antwerp and Den H aag, except
hospitality from good friends . That certainly did not
pay the Steckli ngs fare across the Atl antic.
Fred ' s fi rst lecture was on the eve nin g of our arr
ival in Antwerp , at May Morlet's home. Of the 50-60
in the aud ien ce, which included reporters , I noticed
a young woman. I sh al I not describe her.
Late r that night, in fact at 3.30 in the morning , -
we had sat t alking , all of May's house-guests, until
the sma ll hours, as we were to do every night of our
visit - I walked with Ha.ns Peterse n around some
There is no doubt that a great number of the
meteoric falls actually are remains of " natural "
objects in space - but not by any means all of them .
No doubt also , some of the falls of ice are from
aircraft de-icing or breaking off by some oth er
me ans; the theory about ice from the toilets is very
doubtful , but even if we g iv e this theory a certain
chance , t hen it still explains on ly a very small part
of the total number of reported falls.
Until the Rocket- age 's attempts to explain co ndit
ions in the Space around us began, a remarkab le
attitude prevailed within certain scientific circ les in
regard to that Space.
Earth was t he navel of the C osmos , around whi ch
and abo ut which everything turn ed . The moon and
the planets and the stars were hung in the sky for
Earth's sake, and between all the bodies outside of
Earth ' s atmo sp here was this great empty Space, in
which was to be found - absolutely nothing.
But the rockets told another story - they had been
out there. We can say then , that now it is proven
th at Space is not empty. Am ong ot her thing s, dust
has been ·registered. And it has become dusty in the
space-capsule whe n t he capsu le door has stood
open.
It is prove n also, th at certain chemical reaction s
can, in the course of a few seconds, form solid
matter. (Ein stein) .
As all the planets are born in the same Cosmos,
this means to say th at the same elements or units
which make up the "creation " are to be fou nd in
invisible form in t hi s so-cal led empty Space. It
" only" needs the right c hemi cal reaction to take
place for the who le to take solid form and to build
up as planets, co mets, meteorites or ice - or for th at
matter, as many other things .
It is therefore quite plain to see that science can,
and must, soon add a new c hapter to that book about
the " factua l" conditions in Space, which it is writing
at this time . In this " book" it will be stated th at,
under certain condit ion s, so li d matter is formed in
empty Space - as we ll as much else - matte r th at
can later fa ll onto this pla net or others as " shooting
stars " or as ice from an airp lane 's toilet.
An d it will be en orm ous ly difficult, - yes, almost
impossible, - to differentiate between what are rem
ains of solid bod ie s, such as pl anets , comets or
asteroids, and what is produced by some other
means. One might point to evidence of bacteria, but
this ju st will not do, bec ause bacteria can be gath
ered up fr om anywhere in the Cosmos. For example,
our planet , j ust the same as other planets , has,
during its journ ey through space, trailed behind itself
a long t ail of dust and bacteria. This du st and th ese
bacteri a are caught up at some time or another by
other heavenly bodies, in the same manner that we
collect dust and bacteria from other worlds.
In fact, we need not go to al l the great amount of
trouble that we do, to steri liz e the space -ships and
probes which are to be sent up ; - our bacteria has
long been present on our sister planets and many
other planets , just as " their bacteria" has been a
lon g , long wh il e living with us .
Thu s there exists great unexplored areas of res
earch with which science can come to grips and
learn from ; and when , fina ll y, these are explained ,
th e next natural step wil l be to lea rn how one can
come to live without being " infected " by bacteria.
We are on the way; but for a while yet we shall
be " infected " by bacteria, and be lieve that we can
" infect" our siste r planets ' inhabitants with our bac
teri a. For a while yet we shall only find meteorites
that originate from planets, comets or asteroids, and
ice which falls from the toi let-systems of airp lanes .
October 1966.
Here, in a report just rece ived from the United
States, is an import ant break-throug h into the area
of research mentioned in the afore-going artic le . With
precision timing , we now perceive that "- through
condensation this dust eventually forms meteorites
wh ich are dense eno ugh to be attracted to a pla
net -" .
From: Los Angeles " Herald-Examiner", Sunday,
January 22nd 1967.
»L.A. Man finds Life in Space«
THERE IS LIFE IN SPACE!
Ch lorophy ll , key compound of life on earth , exists
abundantly in outer space.
Th ese findings have bee n reported to a gathering
of experts on A stro nomy and B iodynamics meeting
at the University of California at Berke ley by Dr.
Fred Johnson of El ectro -Optical Systems in Pasa
dena.
Based on his findings , Dr. Johnson told the Berke
ley colloquium the possibility th at man is not alone
in the universe is excellent.
Th e physicist, astronomer and biochemist told the
Berke ley sessions, wh ich opened Friday, that after
13 years of research he had been able to identify
interstellar dust and had fou nd it is composed larg
ely of the solid molecul ar substance chlorophyl l and
not ice or graphite as had been prev iously believed.
" There is no reason to believe that we on thi s
planet are unique", Dr. Johnson told the Herald
Examiner. " Th ere is very good evidence, on the
other hand, that there may be simi lar form s of life
throughout the universe ".
Dr. Johnson reported that although interstellar dust
is very small wit h each grain havin g an average
density of 10 to 26 grams per cubic centimeter, he
specu lates that th roug h condensation this dust even
tually forms meteorites which are dense enough to
be attracted to a p lanet.
SIMPLE PLANTS.
These meteorites, he said, then deposit the life
substance ch lorop hyll and , as on ea rth , undergo the