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have imagined. The best comparison | can think of is that it looked rather like an organ. But instead of keys and stops there were rows of buttons. Small lights shone directly on these, so placed that each illuminated five buttons at a time. As far as | can remember, there were six rows of these buttons, each row about six feet long. In front of this board was a pilot?s seat, very similar to the benches on which the rest of us were sitting. Close beside this bench, conveniently placed for easy use by the pilot, was a peculiar instrument connected directly to the central magnetic pole. Firkon corroborated my unspoken guess as to its use by saying, ?Yes, that is a periscope, something like those used on your submarines.? As | watched the various lights flashing across the faces of the charts and wall graphs, now increasing, now diminishing in intensity, it became quite clear why these translucent ships are so often reported as changing color as they move through our skies. But there are other contributing factors. Many of the color changes and the glowing coronas which often surround the Saucers are the result of differing intensities of energy radiating out into the atmosphere and making it luminous directly surrounding the ships, due to a process somewhat similar to ionization. Within the craft there was not a single dark corner. | could not make out where the light was coming from. It seemed to permeate every cavity and corner with a soft pleasing glow. There is no way of describing that light exactly. It was not white, nor was it blue, nor was it exactly any other color that | could name. Instead, it seemed to consist of a mellow blend of all colors, though at times | fancied one or another seemed to predominate. | was so engrossed in trying to solve this mystery, and at the same time to see and absorb every detail of this amazing little craft that | was quite unaware we had taken off, although | did suddenly register a slight feeling of movement. But there was no sensation of enormous acceleration, nor of changes in pressure and altitude as would be the case in one of our planes going at half the speed. Nor had we experienced any jerk as we broke contact with the ground. | had an impression of tremendous solidity and smoothness, with little more realization of movement than of the unnoticeable journey of the Earth itself as it revolves around the Sun at eighteen and one-half miles per second. Others who have been privileged to ride in these Saucers also have been struck by the same sensation of movement?or rather, the almost total lack of it. But the fact is, with so many wonders crowding my consciousness, it was only later, after | was back on Earth reviewing the night?s experiences in my own mind, that | could begin to sort them out. My attention was now called to the big lens at my feet. An amazing sight met my eyes! We appeared to be skimming the rooftops of a small town; | could identify objects as though we were no more than a hundred feet above the ground. It was explained to me that actually we were a good two miles up and still rising, but this optical device had such magnifying power that single persons could be picked out and studied, if so desired, even when the craft was many miles high and out af ata of sight.