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| suggest, further, that these disappearances are but more kidnappings, by the space contrivances. Are there any other explanations which satisfy all the questions? We close the strange accounts of disappearing planes with an account, published in Coronet, March, 1951, which is as startling as any yet encountered. On a calm, but overcast Sunday in August, 1942, two experienced Naval Officers, Lieutenant Cody, and Ensign Adams, in fine spirits took off on an antisubmarine patrol in the U.S. Navy blimp, L8, from a small base on Treasure Island, California. Adams, after fifteen years' service, had just been made Ensign, and this was his first flight as a commissioned officer; so the flight was a bit more than merely routine, as they flew low to look for submarines. Not far from San Francisco they saw an oil slick, which might denote a submarine. The blimp circled and came over it. There were several patrol craft and many fishermen about, and everyone was interested in whether a depth charge would be dropped. To the surprise of everyone the airship neither circled nor bombed. Instead, she shot upwards and disappeared into the clouds. The ship was not seen again by the watchers in the patrol and fishing boats — and her happy crew was not heard of again, by anybody. The L-8 rose to 2,500 feet and drifted for two and one-half hours, and then came down on a California beach, almost striking two fishermen, who grabbed her towing lines and tried to hold her. They looked inside the gondola and found it empty. The craft tore out of their hands and drifted against a cliff, until one of her depth charges loosened and dropped, after which she soared over the cliff and later made a perfect landing in a street of Daly City, a suburb of San Francisco. Inspecting officers found everything in the gondola in perfect order, except — Cody and Adams were missing. The last word from Lieutenant Cody, commanding, was at 7:50 AM when he radioed, "Am investigating oil slick.". There should have been a follow-up report and, at 8:00 AM, a routine position report. There was nothing. Nothing has ever been found out about the disappearance of these men. They must have left the blimp at the instant when it shop into the clouds, for there is no other suspected cause for it to rise, and the loss of their weight would certainly cause it to do so. Many patrols and fishermen were watching the maneuvers of the aircraft over the suspected area; everyone was standing by, to avoid a possible depth charge; dozens of eyes were on the blimp. Nobody say Cody and Adams jump, fall, or otherwise leave the gondola — no sign of trouble or struggle. The craft merely shop upward into the overcast. Cody and Adams just disappeared — for keeps, with at least a dozen or two interested observers watching every move of their airship. Why? And where to? Will remain in a" is Neutral" Livin with L-Ms & being fed by them until they are of No use & No farther info can be gotten from the. L-Ms USE a Mental Probe, NOW, SOMETHING LIKE ENCALPHOGRAPH. SAVES MUCH TIME & SWEAT WITH SUBJECTS WHOSE PSI FACTORING & OR EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION IS TOO LOW FOR TELEPATHY." 119