Page Content (OCR)
It would be sad indeed if the truth should become lost under a smoke screen of self-important nonsense. For if Saucers are real, then our planet stands on the verge of the greatest scientific, sociological and philosophical discoveries since the dawn of time. An associate from South America, Ed Martins, came up to Mt. Palomar while | was staying with Adamski in July, bringing several landing reports from South America which seemed to follow the same pattern?large circular ship, good- looking normal human beings within, powerful electromagnetic forcefield surrounding the ship. From Canada we received personal reports from a watchmaker named Mr. Galbraith who lives near Swastika, Ontario. In 1948 he claims to have seen two large ships land. On both occasions a man got out and collected some samples of soil from the ground. The man appeared friendly. But the forcefield emanating from the ship was so powerful that?to use Galbraith?s words? ?it flattened the grass and set me back on my heels.? On the second occasion a police patrol was searching the woods for an escaped criminal. They saw the light in the forest but were unable to approach, encountering, they said, an invisible wall. Galbraith, too, says that this ?wall? of energy prevented his approaching, although he could plainly see the ship (he was on the other side of the wood) whilst its occupant smiled at him reassuringly. This invisible ?wall? figures in some of the recent reports of landings from France and Italy. The trouble with these European reports is that they were nearly all made by terrified farmers. When a man is frightened he cannot clearly record what he has seen. An associate, Jef Athierens, a reporter in Belgium, told me he had personally interviewed some of these farmers. He was convinced that they had seen ?something very unusual land,? but what it was is hard to determine owing to the fear element which negates accurate observation. There have been many other landing reports in the past two years: some have turned out to be obvious hoaxes ?of which category there will undoubtedly be many more to come. | do not believe they are all crackpots and hoaxers. The only trouble is that against their testimony we have the whole weight of modern astronomy which claims to have pretty well proven that life in our form on other planets in this system is impossible. Either one or the other must be wrong. It is all too easy to dismiss a mere handful of men when we have ?science? to back us up, but that is the lazy way out. The claims that the world was round, that wax could record sound, that the ether could carry radio waves, that rays could penetrate and ?see inside? matter, that a heavierthan-air machine could fly, have all been dismissed in their day as impossible and contrary to scientific knowledge. The latest book to appear concerning the planet Mars has been written by Dr. Hubertus Strughold (This Green and Red Planet). It proves that if our instruments and their information are correct, intelligent organic life as we know it could not last ten seconds on Mars. But Strughold ends by admitting that perhaps we have overlooked ?some crucial factor? and really the only way to be quite sure is for us to travel to the other planets for ourselves and find out firsthand.