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Although Major Hector Quintanella might have been only pseudo-serious when he uttered those words, the fact remains that once our scientists discover how the UFO's propel themselves, they will have placed the entire universe at man's disposal. As early as 1955, after he had completed an extensive study of UFO's for the West German government, Dr. Hermann Oberth, the world's foremost authority on space travel, expressed his conclusion that the UFO's probably originated in another galaxy and that they propelled themselves by distorting the gravitational field. During a press conference in 1959, Dr. Oberth told news media that the United States was trying to duplicate the UFO propulsion system and that soon "man will be able to travel to the moon in craft propelled by electro-magnetic means." Another exponent of the gravitational distortion or cancellation school of UFO propulsion is the Reverend Guy J. Cyr, S. M. of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Not long ago, Reverend Cyr wrote: "... the search for antigravity ceases to be preposterous, for gravity itself is real. It is often referred to as an attraction between pieces of matter. Symmetrically speaking, there should be a counterpart, named a detraction. "The writer has good reasons to believe that this detraction is antigravity; that this force, too, is real and objective, with a value of its own, and not just the absence of gravity. He dares go a step further and affirm that this reality is more fundamental than gravity: That it is the impetus given to primordial matter causing the universe to expand, at first as to its subatomic particles and today as to its gigantic units, the galaxies, which generally are hurtling away from us at fantastic speeds. Reverend Cyr believes that there is a strong possibility that advanced alien cultures have perfected vehicles which use cancellation of the force of gravity as a means of propulsion and that man will eventually learn to do the same. | think it is safe to assume that if the Air Force had captured a UFO and been able to make heads or tails out of it, they would not be bothering with the same old rocket propulsion methods at Cape Kennedy. By the same token, for those who fear the flying saucers might belong to the Soviet Union, it is logical to assume that since the Russians continue to produce rockets and conventional missiles, they do not have the secrets of UFO propulsion, either.