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his farm. UFO's do some incredible things by earth science standards. Although a few have been reported with propeller-like appendages or with jet-like exhausts, the typical UFO hovers above the earth with no visible means of support, then shoots away without any apparent build-up, like a bullet shot from a gun. They stop, then start again, slow down to speeds lower than that of conventional aircraft, then accelerate to such speeds that it would seem that any crew would be mashed to pulp. It is obvious that the Newtonian laws which, combined with Einsteinian concepts, are the basis for much of our scientific world view, either have little bearing on the UFO's or else the extra-terrestrials have learned to surmount certain physical laws - if there truly are any "laws." It should also be re-emphasized that there are many kinds of UFO's. The "generic" term "flying saucers" has been used in this book, but from the cases cited here, it must be obvious that some are saucer- shaped, some are formed like upside-down ice-cream cones, some are only slightly more elongated than eggs, and so on. Whether the difference in shapes indicates many different models from the same source or denotes the fact that several different cultures are sending expeditions to this planet can be debated at great length by those who have the time for that sort of thing. The point to bear in mind, perhaps, is that as there are many different kinds of saucers there are also, undoubtedly, many different methods of propulsion. The majority of saucer sightings, for instance, include some sort of electro-magnetic interference such as the stopping of automobile engines, head lights, electric clocks, radios, and so forth. This interference seems to indicate that the power field of the UFO is affecting the performance of electro-magnetically operated vehicles and implements of an earth design. One farmer, who had complained of a saucer that had hovered over his farm for several nights in succession, was left with an incredible jump in his light bill as a strange kind of proof that the UFO had been there and had been interfering with the utilities on Several cigar-shaped saucers have been observed with vertical bands running around their middles, and certain scientists have speculated whether or not these bands could be immense solenoid coils, which produce the large magnetic fields associated with the flying saucers. Large "mother ships" with prominent vertical bands have been sighted with smaller UFO's clustered about them, as if the saucers were in the act of "re-charging" or "re-fueling."