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The British ship Ellen Austin, in mid-Atlantic, encountered an abandoned derelict in perfectly seaworthy condition. A salvage crew was put aboard the strange wanderer, with instructions to make for St. John's Newfoundland, where the Ellen Austin herself was bound. The two ships then parted company in foggy weather. But a few days later they met again. A Note on Sources for THE CASE FOR THE UFO Those readers of The Case for the UFO, who have a flair for research, or who may desire to study the background phenomena in more detail than can be offered in such a short volume as this, may wish to consult source material directly. Such material is of vast extent, and to merely list it here would be impossible. In addition nobody knows the real extent of material related to space life and space _ activity. for it appears in a multitude of very diverse publications. In most of the records, the persons noting observations did not recognize the basic causes, and therefore had no categories into which they could place their data, so that much of it appears in the public press and in general magazines. For instance, when we look for data about activity on the Moon we find it scattered through practically all of the volumes of several series of scientific journals, including Observatory and The Selenographical Journal, Nature, Science, English Mechanic, Knowledge, Astronomical Register, Reports of the British Association for Advancement of Science, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomische Nachrichten, Sirius, L'Astronomie, Popular Astronomy, Intellectual Observer, Science Monthly, Philosophical Magazine, American Journal of Science Scientific American, Journal of Astronomical Society of the Pacific, etc., not to speak of innumerable serial publications of various Universities and Observatories, and many popular treatises such as Proctor's Astronomy, and Webb's Celestial Objects. Some of these series have been published continuously for more than one hundred years, and some, such as the English Mechanic, may average close to 1,000 pages per volume. Scanning them, even superficially, becomes a stupendous job. We have cited some specific references, and some general ones. The serious investigator could make a worthwhile contribution to the Science of the UFO by selecting any one of dozens of serial publications and intensely perusing all of its volumes from Vol. 1, No. 1, clear through to yesterday, and reporting his findings. There is absolutely no general rule as to what kind of publication to look in. The nuggets of information may appear any place at all, including old almanacs. But within any publication or series of periodicals, there is one best place to look: Letters to the Editor. These can be published without the Editor having to commit himself to belief or disbelief in the report. Readers who live in small communities are urged to scan old files of their local papers for news of things falling from the sky. It is altogether possible that, if enough persons make searches, we can find more than ample material to prove the case for the UFO once and for all. If you live in a small community, it may well be that your facilities for research are better than those of the large cities. One should note local Historical sketches as an important source. There are hundreds of such publications from every locality of the United States. They were very prevalent in the 19th century, especially circa the stunning decade of the 1880's. They were prone to report peculiar storms, abnormal 162 Like their unknown predecessors, the salvage crew had vanished...forever...without a trace!