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is in production. the motor driven plane was heard only after the light had vanished from view. Furthermore, such conventional craft do not have the ability to hover in one spot, or to carry an aura of light along for the ride, or to change shape at will. Chief Crawford is certain that what he saw was no conventional type aircraft. The lack of any sound to distinguish it as a jet or a prop-type aircraft, and its ability to hover and then to move at speeds too great to be duplicated by any known variety of airplane has led him to suspect that it was "... either a highly sophisicated military craft ... or a craft from outer space." He is inclined to believe that Elmore was visited by a vehicle from outer space, and he thinks, for good reason. Elmore is the location of a plant which produces beryllium. The metal is light, durable, and has a high melting point. It is useful in many alloys with copper and aluminum and is an integral element in atomic age construction. If an alien power wanted an index of a civilization's advancement in technical areas, a good standard would be the rate of production of beryllium. The metal itself is so light that dust and shavings, which occur during processing, carry easily on any air current. Concentration of beryllium in an air sample could be used to determine how much of the metal Chief Crawford points out that this is simply a theory, but he wonders why else such strange objects would be in the sky over the little town of Elmore. 25. UFO's in the Deep Freeze "Revealed! The Underground world of supermen discovered by Admiral Byrd under the North Pole... and kept secret by U.S. Government. Dr. Raymond Bernard ... New York University, noted scholar and author of The Hollow Earth, says that the true home of the flying saucers is a huge underground world whose entrance is at the North Polar opening. In the hollow interior of the Earth lives a super race which wants nothing to do with man on the surface. They launched their flying saucers only after man threatened the world with A-Bombs.