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Yet every science breaks down when it is forced to contemplate the origin of man's intellectual development. (Printing in Red is A & J) IE. WHAT INSPIRATION CAUSED MAN TO BECOME MAN BY STARTING TO USE TOOLS. WHENCE CAME THE IDEA. IENCE SAYS "OF NECESSITY" BUT THE SAME NECESSITY EXISTS FOR APES.... EVEN NOW. The few erratics in the following pages show that there have been very ancient cultures, or civilizations, which may have and could have developed methods of flight much simpler and more effective than ours, and more directly associated with forces which we do not yet comprehend. Again we are dealing with indirect evidence, rot always of the greatest clarity. Yet in support of an antiquity of such an order | have seen and touched stonework carved out of the solid mountains of rock in South America, which certainly antedate the Andean glaciers, and almost as certainly predate the formation of the mountains themselves This work is superior in technique to that accomplished by our currently machanized civilization. Much of that construction, sculpture and tunneling could only have been accomplished by "forces" different from those in use by us today. The quandary is largely resolvable by admitting to a levitating force developed and used by the same common denominator-- space flight--which simplifies so many other puzzles for us. ED: The following has no obvious reference or necessary position. SUCH PRE-GLACIAL AGE WORKS OF CIVILIZATION ARE GENERALLY KNOWN BUT MUST BE DENIED A PLACE IN HISTORY FOR THEY ALL ARE--MYSTERIES. On the basis of the evidence of an antiquity involving epochs of 50,000 to 200,000 or 300,000 years or more, we postulate the ancient development of some kind of science which either produced space flight or was brought to this third planet via space flight. | do not believe it is of great significance to our thesis at the moment whether one, or the other, of these assumptions is most likely to be true. Either is abhorrent to science and to some religions, yet either presents a background of conditionality favorable to an extremely ancient development of wingless flight. Nothing else answers all of the conundrums presented by observed and recorded facts. As you will see, history is replete with stories of another great category of phenomena: the mysterious and ghostly disappearances of people, singly and in groups, publicly or in unobserved obscurity. These skin-ting-ling episodes seemed at first to have little in common with the falls of objects and the antics of storms. Many are incidents which, if their reality has been admitted at all, are in the view of scientists, spiritualists, and students of the occult, considered to belong to or border on the so- called supernatural. Within these segregations we must place the disappearance of the crews of ships, such as the Sea Bird and the Marie Celeste; the disappearance of individuals while in the company of their peers. There is not much hypothecating to be done with these. The stories can be told, and the cases lumped together as one big unexplained group of events. No explanation other than that of abduction by intelligently navigated aerial or celestial craft can be advanced: It is almost a case of proof by default. With planes, there is perhaps some added element other than metal fatigue which involves striking some apparently solid object while in the air, or being rent by unimaginable forces just before falling. (Because of this additional evidence | have put the accidents to planes into a separate section of Part Three, below.) Planes seem to hit something which crushes them or tears them apart, which is nevertheless invisible, and which strikes with such suddenness that the pilots do not have time to make an outcry via 33 PRIDE IGNORANCE