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objects I saw flew like saucers, if you skipped them across the water." Although what Arnold saw was highly technical, he pictured it in a simple, idiomatic term which thereafter caught the imagination of kings and commoners across the globe. Thus was born the age of flying saucers in the 20th century. And no one, scientist or seer, could turn back the clock ticking toward the arrival of the new aerial age. Hundreds of thousands of similar sightings in the current years would leave the world divided about the controversy. Simply understood, the question raised would be: are the flying saucers real pieces of hardware or are they figments of imagination? Unknown to Arnold in the immediate post-war years, the unidentified flying objects he observed had been constructed in and had taken off from the geographical area beneath which he flew. In his reflections, he would not surmise that he had just witnessed the evidence of an aeronautical secret which had been kept under official wraps for over 20 years. What the veteran pilot of fixed-wing aircraft had watched were his own countrymen piloting a revolutionary break- through in aerodynamics, named "round- wing aircraft". Today, the latest versions of those early round-wing planes which Kenneth Arnol glimpsed over the Cascade Mountains have escaped the bonds of Earth's gravity and, thus weightless, patrol the outer skies o this planet and venture fearlessly into the realms of vast space. At this juncture, before the wider explanation of the intriguing aeria. phenomenon is revealed, the average reader will recognise this unanswered riddle. Never has it been told to laymen the identities of the thousands of aeria sightings seen by professional airmen and ordinary spectators in the last half of this century. To state the conundrum briefly, the so- called flying saucers seen by Arnold and countless others across the globe were called "unidentified flying objects" by the United States Air Force. The terminology became commonplace but deceptive. Hence the shorter euphemism, UFOs, was used to describe such aerial sightings the world over. This being so, the reader will first become acquainted with four identifiable aerial happenings which have been declassified. They are all researched and documented cases from the years 1947, 1948 and 1955, and are actual crash landings and subsequent encounters with beings from other worlds. Following these reports, the story will be revealed of the round-wing plane as it was developed on planet Earth. And when the revelation is unfolded, quite imperceptibly, the following conclusion will dawn on most readers. The genesis of a new age has already begun for Earthlings. And it is self- evident: we are late in joining the interplanetary creatures who have ventured into the vastness of the universe in search of other intelligent beings... of unidentified flying objects sighted around the globe. At the three major airports around Washington, several monitor systems handle traffic and also act as an early warning vigilance for unidentified aircraft. There is the AACS, i.e., Aircraft and Airways Communication System, the sophisticated radar at Andrews Air Force Base, the GPR (Ground Position Radar), etc. Therefore, besides untrained street personnel who spotted the mysterious lights, there were also the competent operators of the AACS, Andrews Air Force Base radar and GPR, who were continuously watching the activities of the unidentified flying objects. At 10.16, one of the lights detached itself from the formation and, peeling off to the right, dropped toward the city. Its colour changed from blue to white. In a park in Georgetown, the northwest section of the capitol, the light landed and as it went out there appeared in its place a solid object. Standing where the light had been was a 30-foot, saucer-like object with dome, supported by tripod legs. Underneath the craft, a door opened from which stairs extended to the ground and an ordinary-looking being with occidental features descended. The six-foot-tall man moved briskly away from the perimeter of the craft and evaporated before his viewers. As he did so, curious onlookers, who had seen the craft's landing in their neighbourhood, ran toward the machine. But 10 feet away from the craft, an Case Number Four: United States Receives Visit from Beyond Earth Washington, DC, February 18, 1975; time, 10 pm. A hovering squadron of high- altitude lights had just placed America's capitol under a blanket of surveillance. Before departing, they would send shivers through the security surrounding US President Gerald Ford, and their mission would also change the USA's scientific thrust in outer space within 60 days. On this winter's night in question, the sky over Washington was clear and visibility was excellent. High above at 50,000 feet, 12 unidentified and stationary lights had appeared. The lights were not celestial bodies, mirages or balloons, nor were they conventional aircraft. They were, in fact, UFOs—a name first applied in 1966 by the US Air Force to describe growing numbers »@ we ee a | §, ite 4G bel ) Se foal ere r r ro Semervi {le JUNE — JULY 2007 NEXUS = 63 "If it turns out there is a parallel universe, does that mean there are two Gods?" www.nexusmagazine.com