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At this point, Firkon said, 7Now we must return to the lounge,? and as | stepped back to let Ilmuth precede me, | asked why it was that practically no movement was felt inside this large craft when she had risen from the forty thousand-foot level to fifty thousand miles. ?Quite simply because the ship is built to take care of all that,? Firkon answered, and added, ?as is done with your own submarines.? Again | was amazed to find how much these people knew about us and our developments on Earth. 2Your submarines,? he went on, ?move under the surface of the water at great depths, yet the crew feel relatively little of the movement registered by their instruments. And the men are quite comfortable, too, for your ships have been carefully planned. Actually, there is not so much difference between a ship that goes under water and one that travels through outer space, except that our ships are propelled by natural power, while yours are dependent on artificial forms of power.? http://web.archive.org/web/20010905033016/http://www.universe- people.com/ It seemed to me that the difference he mentioned was quite a tremendous one, but | did not say so, and Firkon continued. ?When you learn how to use the natural source of power that is everywhere in the Universe, you too will be able to build submarines which, like some of our craft, can rise to the ocean?s surface and continue on up through the atmosphere out into space.? This reminded me of two incidents reported early in 1951. In the first, two ?missiles? dropped out of a perfectly clear sky into the waters of Inchon Bay, off the western coast of Korea. The missiles fell close to an anchored seaplane dene the Dee 2 MA. 2 ee ee Se ee ne ee eS Cee | tender, the Gardiner?s Bay, and caused columns of water to rise to an estimated height of one hundred feet. Later, the report said, the ?missiles? were seen to rise again from the water and soar on up until lost to sight. The second incident happened off the coast of Scotland and was almost identical with the first. Firkon, obviously getting my thought, said, ?You were quite correct in naming the photograph you were able to take of this kind of ship ?the submarine type.? At this point we entered the large salon in which we had left Ramu sitting with the older man. They were still there and speaking in their own tongue. As we approached, they rose, walked toward a small table around which were a number of chairs and motioned us to join them. These chairs were rather like dining room or office chairs, but proved far more comfortable. As we seated ourselves, Kalna and Orthon joined our group. On the table were crystal goblets filled with a clear liquid which | found very refreshing. The flavor was delicately sweet with an elusiveness that was tantalizing. The consistency was slightly heavy, of a type to be sipped. | was told the name of the fruit from which this juice was extracted, but could think of no comparable earthly flavor. The entire time that had elapsed since leaving the Earth to this moment probably was not much more than an hour. But in that little space of time my whole life and understanding had opened to a far greater concept of the Universe than | had gained during the sixty-one years of my total life on Earth.