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prophecy on a grand scale. Asked when the world is going to end, they are apt to give a precise date in the near future, Some people have actually started building arks on their say-so. One group in Denmark erected a hasty atom bomb shelter in 1967 and settled down to await Armageddon that December. Who is going to be elected President in the next election? The elemental announce with grave authority that Frank Sinatra or Mae West is in line for the job. The study of glossolalia has had a small group of scholarly followers for years. This is the attempted translation of the mysterious languagc(s) spoken by the ultraterrestrials, mediums, and church groups who indulge in speaking in tongues. It seems to be a conglomerate of many languages, both ancient and modern, and Flour-noy wasn't the first to try to unravel it. There are books filled with symbols and translations similar to, but never exactly like, Helene Smith's Martian language. Dozens of these phoney alphabets have been published in dead seriousness* A retired teacher named John W. Dean collected the testimony of flying saucer contactees and the elaborate information passed along by the space people for his book, Flying Saucers Close Up. The project must have taken years. He devotes many pages to listing unknown planets far out in the cosmos {as described by the ultra terrestrials), and giving encyclopedic data about each one. Here's a sample from one of his tables: Dean lists hundreds of unknown planets in this fashion. The group in this particular table happen to be from the star system of Alpha Tauri, 53.6 light years away. But anyone with) a basic knowledge of orbital mechanics and a slide rule can check the mass of figures and discover that many of these alleged planetary systems are quite impossible. The cosmos of the ultraterrestrials must be filled with colliding planets weaving and spinning in defiance of all the known laws of motion. In Flying Saucers Close Up Mr Dean also presents a complete vocabulary and the written language of the folks from the planet called Korendor. Some of the symbols bear a striking resemblance to runic ciphers. His book is only a minor example of the privately Planet Colonized, Name Indigenous, Population Day Length Diameter Year Uninhabited in Billions in Hours in Miles Length Wamovaldam Un. — "36.6 9,810 0.95 Tarmandre Col. 1.2 23.7 10,480 1.88 Ophianche lad. 3.62 28.0 7,188 3,21 Salumandran Lid. ' 4.23 24.1 9,170 5.66