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breathe our air. They walked normally on our planet. In a variety of sightings they were accompanied by human beings. Occasionally, the occupants were completely human and spoke human languages. The same applies to elves and angels, to sylphs and to jinn. However, visitors from outer space would not be human in shape. They would certainly not breathe our air (for fear of viruses, even if they were adapted to the atmosphere's chemical composition). They might have serious problems with the earth's gravity. They would not fit within our culture. We would not recognize the emotions on their faces. x7 1 1 waa tots 1 1 1 You can push these objections aside and argue that the visitors are advanced enough in genetic manipulation to have "grown" or cloned humanoid pilots for their spacecraft. Perhaps they have even kidnapped humans to breed space children destined to become saucer-crew members. But even these outlandish assumptions fail to explain the facts. Within twenty-five years our own biological science will be able to reliably alter the characteristics of human beings. We will create enhanced humans adapted to special conditions, such as life in outer space. Wouldn't we expect the UFO occupants to do the same, rather than adopting the human shape which is far from representing a biological optimum? Consider the following case. Temple, Oklahoma, March 23, 1966. An instructor in aircraft electronics at Sheppard Air Force Base was driving to work at 5:00 A.M. on Route 65 and approached the intersection with Highway 70. I interviewed him over the telephone. "One mile before the intersection I saw a very bright light a mile or so to my right, and I supposed it was a truck having trouble on the highway. I went on to turn west on Highway 70. I went a quarter of a mile or so, and changed my mind and thought that it was a house that was being moved down the highway in the early morning hours." "Did you seem to be getting closer to it all the time?" "Yes, sir. It was parked on the highway and I got within a hundred yards of it and stopped, got out of the car, and started trotting towards the object, leaving the car lights on and my engine running. I got about fifteen steps or so, and I happened to think I had a Kodak on the front seat, and I would like to get a picture. I hesitated just a second, and while I did, why, this man that was dressed in military fatigues, which I thought was a master sergeant... this insignia was on his right arm, and he had a kind of cap with a bill turned up, weighed approximately 180 pounds and about 5'9"...." "He looked perfectly ordinary?" "Oh, yes, he was just a plain old G.I. mechanic... or a crew chief or whatever he might happen to be on that crew. He had a flashlight in his hand, and he was almost kneeling on his right knee, with his left hand touching the bottom of the fuselage." The object looked like an aluminum airliner with no wings or tail and with no seams along the fuselage. It lifted up vertically for about fifty feet and headed southeast almost straight backward, off by about ten degrees, at a speed estimated to be about 720 mph, judging by the barns it illuminated along its path across the valley. It was the size of a cargo plane, but had no visible means of propulsion. The witness was grilled by a roomful of officers at the Air Force base. A truck driver down the road had observed the same object. wn 1 a hood tou tos 1 , 1 mo: 1 c Whoever he was, the man in the baseball cap was no interplanetary explorer. This is only one of many sightings in which the pilots are described as ordinary humans. Whatever they are, the occupants of such craft are not genuine extraterrestrials. Many UFO investigators have become very excited in recent years because a witness of obvious sincerity, Mrs. Betty Hill, had described what was believed to be a star map used by our mysterious visitors. These investigators are convinced that the map she saw inside the "flying saucer" had A Star Map to Nowhere