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For the benefit of the public the Navy pointed out tersely that the Avenger bomber was noted for its buoyancy. In similar emergencies such planes had always remained afloat long enough for the crews to launch the life rafts, often "without getting their feet wet." One of the first rescue craft to roar off the water in search of the missing fliers was a Navy PBM, a huge Martin Mariner bomber with a crew of thirteen that had been trained for just such work. Interest in the disappearances now reached the stage where it dominated discussion in the streets. How could five bombers, each with its own crew and radio facilities, disappear from the face of the earth without even flashing a single message of explanation? It was hardly logical to assume that the planes had collided in mid-air, killing all the crewmembers simultaneously. L-M INVESTIGATIONS OF TECHNICAL LEAPS & BOUNDS OF THE GAYORI IN PAST TEN YEARS BEING DISTORTED TO SHOW CAUSE FOR HOSTILE INTENT & THIS NOT SO. CURIOSITY IS SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE & L-Ms HAVE THIS IN OVER-ABUNDANCE. Sorry to Say L-Ms REGARD HUMANS JUST AS HUMANS HAVE CHOSEN TO BE REGARDED; AS JUST SO MUCH VALUELESS ANIMAL FORMS OF LIFE, SWORN TO DESTRUCTIVENESS N& TO FOLLOW THOSE PASSIONS THAT NEGATE IDEA OF HIGHER LIFE- FORM-POSSIBLITY TO THEM. In July 1952, a strange silvery object was seen high in the sky over San Anselmo, California, and five minutes later there was an unexplained crash of a quite airworthy plane, five miles away, and the Navy has been unable to account for it. In March 1952, a case-hardened British fighter pilot, Wing Commander J. Baldwin, was flying a jet plane for meteorological and reconnaissance purposes over Korea. He flew into a cloud — and didn't come out again. The mystery was never solved. (About this time, a U.S. Carrier in Korean waters had sighted a strange object in the skies.) On June 9, 1952, British Air Vice-Marshal Aitcherly set out in an amply fueled meteor jet from Suez to Cyprus, three hundred miles away. A radio signal was received from him three minutes arter take-off. Nothing more has been seen or heard of him. "Without a trace." February 2, 1953: A York transport aircraft, with thirty-three passengers and crew of six, vanished over the Atlantic, on a trooping flight to Jamaica. No explanation. "Cause unascertainable." (And this, again, in the eerie region of the Gulf and the Caribbean.) The lists of disasters to jet planes is long. The list of explanations is short. Pilots surviving crashes of whole squadrons have been silenced. When four British jets, all without collision, crash- landed at the same time in foggy flying weather, it was "explained" that all four ran out of fuel at one time. 117 This plane, too, disappeared without trace! And, even were such a weird explanation acceptable, how about the PBM? ED: The following has no obvious reference or necessary position. NOT SO, THEY WERE "PUSHED" DOWN.