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- how the peaceful imtentions of the ‘aliens’ The cave area was still inhabited by two THE RAINMAKER had been misunderstood and how many of _ semi-troglodyte tribes known as the Hams A ‘ctinoni ——s them were hunted down and killed by and the Dropas, themselves extremely odd an _ yay pon ‘he Son Dees members of the Ham tribe, who lived in the in appearance. The frail and stunted tribes- City Council on 13 December 1915— neighbouring caves. men averaged only about five feet in height except his occupation. Although he mod- According to Dr Tsum Um Nui, one of and were neither typically Chinese nor estly preferred to call himself a "moisture the lines of the hieroglyphs read, "The Tibetan. "Their racial background,” said accelerator", Charles Mallory Hatfield Dropas came down from the clouds in their one expert, "is a mystery." always would be known as "The aircraft. Our men, women and children hid But even with the publication of Rainmaker”. ae See a te as Professor Tsum Um Nui's amazing transla- The Minnesota-born pluviculturist had guage of the apes they realised thet the lion, the story of the ‘space discs’ was not been "persuading moisture to come down pedis Ce peace + Gaerne over. Russian scientists asked to see the in thirsty southern California since 1902 discs and several were sent to Moscow for When he perfected his technique -on his Ham tribe tht the aliens spaceship had amination. were impressive, In 1908 he ase ih crash-landed in such remote and inaccessi- They were scraped free of rock particles j.0) of ae Lake Hemet Lond and Water ble mountains and that there had been no which had stuck to them and then put Company's reservoir by 22 feet and he col- way of building a new one to enable through chemical analysis. To the surprise jocteg $1,000 from the Los Angeles Dropas to return to their own planet. of the scientists, they were found to contain Chamber of Commerce for producing 18 In the years since the discovery of the large amounts of cobalt and other metallic inches of rain during the first four months first disc, archaeologists and anthropolo- substances. That was not all. When placed of 1905. He travelled to the Klondike the gists had learned more about the isolated on a special turntable—according to Dr _ following year to fill the streams around Bayan Kara Ula area. And much of the Vyatcheslav Saizev, who described the Dawson City so the miners could pan for information seemed to corroborate the experiments in the Soviet magazine gold, And the farmers in California's San bizarre story recorded on the discs, Sputnik—they vibrated or ‘hummed' in an Joaquin Valley were so impressed with his Legend still preserved in the area spoke unusual rhythm as though an electric work that he was invited to return for eight of small, gaunt, yellow-faced men who charge was passing through them. Or as Successive years. ‘came from the clouds, long, long ago’. one scientist suggested, “as if they formed However, only the urging of the Wide The men had huge, bulging heads and puny some part of an electrical circuit". Atsome Awake Improvement Club had induced the bodies and were so ugly and repellent that time they had clearly been exposed to sceptical San Diego councilmen to request they were hounded down by local tribes- extraordinarily high voltages. Hatfield's professional services. The city's men on horseback. Strangely, the descrip- Did the di " 4 —_ population had doubled in four years, and tion of the ‘invaders’ tallied with the skele- aS Oe Gers ES EME AR AOS adequate water supply was necessary for tons originally discovered in the caves by SPace mission by alien astronauts 12,000 continued growth. While the year's total Professor Chi Pu Tei. years ago? Nearly all the leading ‘space rainfall had been average, it had been too On the walls of the caves themselves SPeCulators'—theorists like Erich von _ jntermittent to replenish the depleted reser- archaeologists had uncovered crude pic- Daniken and Peter Kolosimo—believe so. yoirs. The new 13 billion-gallon Morena tures of the rising Sun, the Moon, unidenti- For once one accepts the proposition that Reservoir had never been more than half fiable stars and the Earth, all joined togeth- aliens may already have visited Earth, then full, and on 10 December it held a scant 5 er by lines of pea-sized dots. Along with it follows that some of their space probes billion gallons of water. For $10,000 the discs, the cave drawings had been dated must have failed and the astronauts must Hatfield promised he would fill this reser- around 12,000 years old. have been destroyed. voir to overflowing before the end of 1916, and agreed that if he failed the city would ~+ ~~ a™ SS owe him nothing. — Hatfield immediately sct out for the aa gc — m\ Morena Reservoir, located 60 miles cast of a Cc >) San Diego in the lower elevations of the s Laguna Mountains where, with the assis- tance of his brother Paul, he built a “rain ey » AY if. ‘ = 4 a Kas attraction and precipitation plant"—a 24-ft "Ax b Lo MA = : C-__—_ wooden tower topped with a fenced 12-ft- 4 a ~<—— y \_ square platform to hold the vats from y eT iri ¥ (1x8 sy) = which his secret chemicals were dissipated q Vet g | into the atmosphere. Three dry days ZS “A\ a passed, but 1.02 inches of rain fell on 30 | December. Using a formula that was 1% "300% stronger...than ever before”, the Hatfields worked around the clock. There were only a few showers during the next two weeks, but then a six-day storm that began on 14 January delivered 4.23 inches of rain to San Diego. "Downpour lays mantle of wealth on San Diego" and O*NEXUS qQ 60¢NEXUS THE RAINMAKER FEBRUARY - MARCH 1994