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that the ted spot is actually a great spaceship, a monumental Ark from outer space, which transported the survivors of some dying world into our solar system. Some modern flying saucer contactees even claim that the spacemen have taken them to Jupiter and shown them this Ark. Other contactees have been told stories about the ark by the spacemen. It is waiting for the day when the Earth will be evacuated by the kindly space people. Then we will all fly to the stars aboard it. Well, not all of us. Just those lucky humans who have been chosen by the space people. Several dry runs have already been held in recent years with the chosen contactees closing down their homes and businesses to sit on a hill or raountaintop and wait for the evacuation to begin. A number of these dry runs are documented in the author's book, UFOs - Operation Trojati Horse. Jupiter's Ark is an integral part of modern flying saucer lore. Stanley Kubrick's epic motion picture, 200/, added to this lore by having astronauts head for Jupiter after a mysterious monolith was discovered on the moon. The monolith, a faceless grey slab, is used throughout the film as the symbol of some extraterrestrial force guiding man's destiny. In the dosing scenes of 2001, scenes which have thoroughly baffled many moviegoers, an astronaut arrives on , Jupiter only to enter into a new phase of evolution: a kind af rebirth. Shorn of its cinematic mysticism, the film is a restatement of what many cultists have been oe | i: ee saying all along. The flying saucer buffs have been misled by astronomical terminology. Although the red spot is usually termed an ‘object’, it could be almost anything. Bernard M. Peek, an amateur astronomer, called it a raft and suggested it could be some form of water floating like an iceberg in the Jovian atmosphere. Professor Raymond Hide, of the British Meteorological Office, proposed in Scientific American in February, 1968 that it could be the visible part of a phenomenon known as a Taylor column - a stagnant cylinder of liquid centred above some depression or topographical feature on the planet below. The late Frank Edwards, a radio news commentator and author of UFO books, poetically equated it with a giant eye always turned towards (he earth. Some followers of Velikovsky have asserted that the red spot is really the hole left behind when Venus was catapulted out into space. In order for a body the size of Venus, which is only slightly smaller than the earth, to be successfully hurtled out of Jupiter, it would have to attain an incredible escape velocity to overcome the great mass and gravity of the planet. Achieving this velocity would require a tremendous amount of energy, or as Professor Motz put it3'... to eject a planet like Venus, Jupiter would have had to release in a manner of seconds or minutes as much energy as the Sun emits in more than a year. Jupiter would therefore have appeared as bright as a nova [an exploding star], which is about a million times as luminous as the sun...’ Dr Velikovsky attempted to explain this by theorizing that a large mass on a near collision course with Saturn and Jupiter may have set the cosmic machinery in motion. Whatever may have happened, Velikovsky's main premise is that Venus is a young planet. He predicted in 1950 that Venus would prove to be hot and that it would display orbital Morris K Jessup and other ufologists have advanced the notion