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Control without inducing a fear-block' which they, too, get When "Mowing the Lawn." Several well-documented volumes have been devoted to listings of sightings, to reports by everyone from boy scouts and families on picnics to astronomers and a man who claims to have had a conversation with a Saucer passenger from Venus. But our answers to the questions, our evaluation of the potential answers to the fascinating and sometimes frightening questions, end where others begin. In other words, we shall not devote ourselves to the recent sightings and reports which have flooded newspaper offices, official bureaus of the government and, for some strange reason, airports. (Presumably, the public feels that anything which takes place in the air is the business of the airport!) | have long been interested in the study of the unexplained areas of human existence, and as an astronomer with special interest in the moon, the early reports of flying saucers caught my attention. References in dusty volumes in the Library of Congress flashed through my mind, references | had noted years ago and which now, in the light of these developments, seemed to offer_a new field of research, of analysis and co-relation which might throw light upon the matter. | began to ask myself questions ... and _| began to see a shape, a form, take place in the entire field of observable phenomena which had remained obscure and previously unrelated. Desmond Leslie, in the book, "Flying Saucers Have Landed," reviewed some of the interesting material gleaned from old manuscripts, many of which referred to sightings of unidentified objects flying through the air. The most cursory examinations of such material, wnen collected and organized into a readable whole, made it quite evident that conclusions could be drawn. Does it follow, | wondered, that still further conclusions could be drawn if one were to collect and sift and evaluate data from many different fields? Would there be any indication that life does, in fact, exist in space? If so, would that life have direction, control, intelligence? Or would it be amoebic in nature, lacking intelligence, be a form of vegetable or animal-mineral life? Would a thorough study of material in many fields reveal a pattern, a consistency of any sort which would provide clues to the future activities of these Unidentified Flying Objects? | wanted to know the answers. | wanted to know if the somethings existed, and if they did, what they were. | wanted to know where they lived and how they lived. | wanted to know what they were doing when we didn't see them. | wanted to know why some people saw them and some people didn't see them. | wanted to know why they appeared in one place and not another. | wanted to know whether they were friendly or hostile. Even if he knew he nor any number of men could ever do anything, Jemi. 1 Clearest Translation 1 This note is quite ambiguous. It may be interpreted as the above or as: L--M: PALS S-M? or since L-M closely follows the word hostie it might be: Hostile L- M? PALS: S-M? From the similarity of the marks following L-M and S-M the first interpretation is most likely the correct one. 23 This flying saucer was photographed over the Brazilian Jungle L-M?_ PALS; S-M?"