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violence. The footprints of the two men were clearly visible in the sand. They had taken a few steps away from the plane - and then the footprints ended abruptly, like young Oliver Larch, they had taken a stroll into thin air. An Italian ufologist, Alberto Fenoglio, reported rumours of a similar disappearance in the Soviet Union in 1961. A small mail plane was reported missing but was quickly located in perfect shape near the remote town of Tobolsk, Siberia. 'Everything on board - engine, radio, mailbags, etc. - was in perfect order,* Fenoglio stated. "The tank contained fuel for two hours of flight The four passengers had vanished without a trace. A distance of about three hundred feet from the aircraft there was a huge, clearly defined circle on which the grass was all scorched and the earth depressed.’ Over fifty pilots and men of the United States Air Force have lost their lives or disappeared suddenly while pursuing unidentified flying objects. Their deaths have been officially documented. Their names and the peculiar circumstances surrounding these tragedies have been released toa bewildered and sometimes disbelieving press and public. Some of these incidents ah eee Re RS 5 Ce en De SS On June 11th, 1938, the Chicago Daily News described the crash of a U.S. Army bomber outside of Delaware, Illinois. Nine men were killed after what one ground witness described as a 'sudden crash in midair'. Crash with what? No one knows. Three more pilots died on June 8th, 1951, when four jets crashed simultaneously near Richmond, Indiana. Another four jets came to a strange end near LawrenceyiUe, Georgia, cm December 3.1955. The tower operators at the Dobbins Air Base heard one of the pilots exclaim, "We can'c miss itt* Moments later all four planes came diving out of the clouds in flames. After a thorough study of the debris of a Jetliner which crashed outside Calcutta on May 2nd, 1953, the British Ministry of Gvil Aviation announced that it had 'collided with a fairly heavy body*.' Witnesses said that there was no other plane near the doomed airliner when it 'seemed to stop short in midair* and crashed. A B-47 smacked into something solid in October 1955, and only one man survived. He was quoted in the newspaper accounts as saying that the plane was 'struck in midair’, and the jolt was so terrific he thought they had struck the ground. The crash took place near Lovington, New Mexico, and authorities said there were no other planes in the vicinity. One ground witness did claim, however, that a ball of fire appeared near the plane just before the crash. A couple of weeks later, another B-47 met with an identical fate in Texas. Witnesses said they saw “a ball of fire with sparks shooting out of it* just before the plane went down. Ufologist Jerome dark uncovered an extraordinary item from an old 1939 newspaper. "On a day in late summer, 1939j a military transport left the Marine Naval Air Station in San Diego, involved aerial-collisions with invisible objects. Are there invisible things haunting our airways, endangering planes, pilots, and passengers?