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since your first contact. These have occurred in almost every nation in the world. Your experience, however, was the first reported in a way to reach great numbers of people. Although such contacts have been taking place for years and records of them made which were never released, few men dare relate their experiences because of the incredulity of their fellow men.? He added very simply, ?We do not enjoy the secrecy with which we have to make such meetings. We would far rather be welcome to come and go, and to visit with your people as we do with those of other worlds. But so long as our visits are not understood and are therefore made dangerous for us and for our ships, we will have to continue with the present caution. ? | asked for information as to what had really taken place when Captain Mantell weak btn ana met his death. Ramu explained, the sincerity of his feeling showing clearly. ?That was an accident which we regretted deeply. The ship he was pursuing was a large one. Members of the crew had noticed Captain Mantell coming toward them and knew that his interest was sincere, not belligerent. They slowed down their craft and attempted to contact him through his instruments. They were fully aware of the power radiating from their ship and thought it would halt his approach without injury to him. But as he came closer, the wing of his plane cut through this power, allowing a suction to take place which pulled the entire plane into it, causing an immediate disintegration of both the plane and his body. ?This disintegration,? Ramu further explained, ?takes place through a magnetic radiation that separates the molecules which hold material together, completely changing their position. If his plane had bee-n round, or cigar-shaped, the accident would not have happened. His plane was not uniform in shape. The wings protruded beyond the body of the ship, and it was a wing that was the cause of the accident. The fuselage would not have caused sufficient suction to pull the plane in, but once the wing was caught in the power, the remainder of the plane was sucked in so fast that it was reduced to small pieces of debris falling to the Earth, with some portions totally converted into dust particles. ?0n the other hand,? he continued, ?we can come alongside our own ships and nothing of this kind would take place because we design our ships in a way which permits them to equalize any impact. ?The space craft?s intent was merely to reduce speed and make an attempt to communicate with him. We had not realized that his plane could not touch our we eee ee Ad ee ee Oe I ee ee ee ee a et A power and stand up under it. You will lose many, many men flying this kind of ship, and especially your jet planes, for they are in danger not only from the radius of our power, but they can enter natural magnetic currents that would twist and destroy them. There are too many points sticking out from the bodies of your planes, for once the power hits any one of them, the ship is doomed.? This completed my list of questions concerning the outstanding contacts that had been brought to my attention during the summer. ?You have verffied my impressions in each case,? | told my companions. ?Then perhaps we can try to cover in advance some of the many questions that will be asked of you in the future,? Firkon suggested. ?As you have been told