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Calculations of scientists suggested an earth tremor in Siberia, but it was not until 1921

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the reports began to come from Russia of a tremendous explosion which destroyed 80 million

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trees of an area of nearly 2,000 square miles of Tungusia, a desolate part of Central Siberia,

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on the brink of the Arctic Circle.

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High witness accounts describe the wall of fire 12 miles high and 20 miles long.

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Astronomers believe that a huge meteor had crashed in this remote part of Siberia.

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Expeditions had difficulty in reaching the scene of the crash because of the marshes

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and the Siberian jungle of furs.

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When the locality was found, the vast scope of the devastation amazed the scientists.

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All life had been destroyed within a radius of 20 miles.

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They saw millions of fell trees but found no crater from a meteor.

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Another strange phenomenon became apparent during one of their expeditions.

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They found that the forest was destroyed in islands or patches.

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Also that the slant of the fell trees did not point to a single center of explosion,

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which would have fell them radially from the center.

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Spines could be found in the forest.

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All of this did not fit into the meteor theory.

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A responsible group of Soviet scientists is now propounding another hypothesis.

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Fantastic as it sounds.

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A cosmic ship, they say, may have crashed in this desolate part of the world.

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This hypothesis is supported by two weighty facts.

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On the day of the explosion in Siberia, a French astronomer sighted an unidentified

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object in space through his telescope.

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In 1957, a Russian expedition to the site of the explosion found particles of iron which

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were not part of a meteorite.

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According to Professor B. Leoponov of the Russian Moscow Academy of Sciences, the cosmic

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ship selected Mongolia as its landing site because of the flat character of the terrain

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facilitating the landing of a huge spaceship.

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He believes the ship orbited the Earth.

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The reason why the French astronomer did not see it the second time is because this trajectory

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of flight had been changed before landing.

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Professor Leoponov theorizes that the astronauts of 1908, whoever they were, must have missed

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Mongolia due to the mechanical difficulties in the spaceship.

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Flying at terrific velocity, the cosmic ship found itself over Tunguzia, 1,000 miles north

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in a very short time.

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Anticipating a crash, the navigators put their ship into a vertical position to stop its

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fall.

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Professor Leoponov thinks that the exhaust from the vessel produced the strange patches

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in the forest.

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In a final attempt to accelerate the ship upward, stressing the reactor to the maximum,

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the vessel blew up.

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Professor Leoponov gives us the opinion that the visitors from space use atomic propellants.

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Now remember, this is only theory.

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But this theory is not without corroboration.

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Eyewitnesses describe a huge mushroom-shaped cloud which followed a fireball in the sky.

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Eyewitnesses claim that the fireball was brighter than the sun.

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People living near the site of the explosion died of an unknown illness, with symptoms

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the same as those resulting from exposure to atomic radiation.

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As in an atomic explosion, the greatest force was felt at some distance from the center.

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Professor Leoponov says that the cosmic ship theory can fully explain the Tunguzia phenomenon.

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Professor Sternfield, a Soviet scientist behind the spot, states that the cosmic ship

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probably came from Venus.

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He made this conclusion because of the favorable position of Venus relative to the Earth on

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that day of 1908.

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Remember I'm not telling you this is true, I'm only reporting to you what the experts

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say.

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In this particular case, the experts happen to be a couple of top Russian scientists.

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Of course, when do we know and believe the Russian scientists?

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Well, we have some strange things going on in our own missile program.

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And this bit of information comes to me from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

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It happened some time ago, but it's just now getting into public notice.

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The incident took place on April 3rd this year, two months ago.

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At X plus 3 during a routine Mace fire, the missile suddenly went out of control.

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Simultaneously, the boys at Tula Peak were astounded to hear the telemetry band being

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jammed by a strange voice.

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This is one of the tracking stations.

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This strange phenomenon persisted for the remainder of the mission, a period of approximately

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15 minutes duration.

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Skip effects of ionosphere reflections are not uncommon in the VHF band and lower.

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But both frequencies, concerned here, are in excess of 200 megacitals and are chosen

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because of their immunity to skip effects.

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The question is, what transmitting source within line of sight range interfered with

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the Mace mission?

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Was a spare transmitter on the ground flipped on by accident?

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No.

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Telemetry transmitters are not equipped to handle voice modulation.

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Deliberate sabotage?

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Not likely.

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Why would a saboteur waste his energy talking?

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And where did he get the strange language?

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The combined linguistic background of the listeners was able to eliminate all European

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languages as well as Russian and Japanese.

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On Monday, April 6, two Air Force officers arrived at Holloman Air Force Base from Wright

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Patterson Field.

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They called a conference, a military personnel, concerned with this incident.

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Stamped the telemetry tape's top secret.

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They had previously been unclassified and they tucked the tapes under their arms and

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went home to Wright Field.

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And I imagine that's the last we're going to hear about that.

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What had happened in one of our missile firings at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico?

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And from Denmark comes a story of a young lady who was on her way home from the store

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riding her auto cycle.

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She drove along a lonely road in the northern part of Funen, Denmark.

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She had just passed the farm when the motor stopped.

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She knew motor so she got off to try to start the motor again.

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She could not find any faults in the motor.

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But in spite of this she could not start it again.

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She gave up doing more about it so she put up the cycle and started cycling the ordinary

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way of pedaling.

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She had just started and had driven a short way when she saw over the forest about 500

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meters in front of her a round bright light, like the light from the headlight of a car

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coming towards her.

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She saw that it went toward the ground.

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And when it had come down about one meter's height from the ground it continued at this

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height during the rest of the experience.

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There was a corona around the light, at least it seemed, so that it lighted the field below.

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There were three fields along the road to the left of her and it was in the farthest

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field from her and about 200 meters from the road that the light was when it kept coming

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toward her parallel to the road.

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When she was between the farm and the school, which are along this road, the light turned

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without stopping its speed in an angle of 90 degrees and came straight out toward the

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road where she was.

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She was scared, scared and hurried to get away.

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The light was from two to three meters from the left side of the roadside when she thought

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it was going to rush at her.

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But suddenly when it was on a level with her it did another 90 degree turn to the right

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and continued without changing speed along the edge of the road and disappeared behind

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her.

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She kept on cycling forward with a heavy cycle, not daring to look behind her.

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When she came home she gave her cycle to a mechanic and asked him to repair it.

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The next morning when she went to the repair shop she asked the mechanic what was wrong

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with the motor.

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He answered that it had worked when he started it and there seemed to be nothing wrong with

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it.

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Later that day she learned that two men from her village had seen an illuminated object

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in the sky a short time before her own experience and the object had flown in the direction

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from where she had come.

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So they don't only stop automobiles in Texas, in the United States they stop motorbikes

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in Denmark.

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We'll have some more news for you in just a moment but first we're going to give you

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a message from Doug Hatton.

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Well we thought we were going to give you a message from Doug Hatton.

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Apparently we've got a little technical difficulty here and we'll pass that up.

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Now how about this red hot chain that falls from the sky?

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St. Louis, Missouri, this comes from the Buffalo Evening News May 15, 1959.

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A tractor driver in the suburb of Rock Hill told police Thursday that a piece of a large

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chain mysteriously fell from the sky and smashed into his tractor.

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Wallace Baker, 31, said this thing just fell out of the sky.

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Another workman, James Knox, 25, said it was the weirdest thing I ever saw.

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Adding to the mystery they said was the fact that the chain consisting of 13 large links

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was red hot.

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Police believe the chain fell from an airplane but no airplane was seen by the workman.

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I'd like to know what an airplane is doing carrying around a red hot chain if it did

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fall from an airplane.

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And up in Levittown, New York we've got some more cracked windshields.

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Remember three or four or five years ago when all the pitted windshields came popping up

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and nobody had any good explanations?

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Well apparently we've got another one in Levittown, New York.

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Maybe we're in for another session of them but here at least they have an explanation.

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Some experts blame atmospheric conditions for the cracking of the windshields.

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They explain it this way.

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Interiors of car windows which absorb heat during the day stay warm at night while the

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exteriors become cool.

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Glass then cracks because of unequal temperature on either side.

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A similar epidemic of shattered auto windshields occurred across the nation five years ago

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and has recurred periodically.

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Well I don't seem to remember too many of these incidents between the five years ago

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and today.

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I wonder why the weather is suddenly different five years ago.

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It would appear if that condition was the normal thing that would happen every year

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when the temperature gets as it is now.

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Well in Washington D.C., up in Washington D.C., they have a column in a newspaper called

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the Criswell column.

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Through Criswell's eyes you see the future.

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Here's a man who's always predicting the future.

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Here's a couple of interesting predictions he's made in the last few weeks.

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One of them.

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New reports about mysterious planes in our skies as proven by images on our radar screens

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and another.

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I predict that terrifying messages picked up from our man-made moons will result in some

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very sober thinking by Congress.

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And another one.

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I predict that outer space will become nearby space within the next month when the Pentagon

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reveals some of its top secret files.

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Maybe they've fired something out much farther than we know about.

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Maybe some of these things in our atmosphere are our own.

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Maybe.

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And what are the papers saying about fallout?

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London, May 24th, United Press.

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Radioactive fallout caused by abnormalities has caused abnormalities in 16 species of

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plants growing on three atolls of the Marshall Island.

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The British Science Magazine Nature reported.

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It said that fallout, which followed the 1954 Bikini atoll hydrogen bomb test, caused abnormalities

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including loss of leaves and green coloring and mistletoe-like abnormal growth.

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Apparently this atomic radiation isn't good for plant life or human life.

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And the Air Force is working on plans for a gas station out in space.

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Now, gas stations, satellites that would orbit 200 miles above the Earth with fuel for military

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spaceships.

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So says the publication of Washington Science Trend.

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It said the ball-shaped satellites would be 75 feet in diameter and would hold about 1

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million pounds of fuel.

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The publication said most of the research had centered on the problem of curbing the

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evaporation of the fuel.

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Analysis indicated evaporation could be held to an acceptable 5% a year if the sun's rays

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were effectively reflected.

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And General Electric Company is working on something new.

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It reported that it has developed an electricity-producing fuel cell that might be suitable for use in

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space vehicles.

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The cell is a 3-inch disc, a 1.5-inch thick, that produces electricity from hydrogen and

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oxygen.

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The disc is divided into two chambers.

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Hydrogen molecules break up at an electrode in one and move on into the other chamber

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producing current.

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Well, that's getting very much like free energy.

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And one of it's the free energy that Otis T. Carr was supposed to be harnessing.

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Well, it looks more like Otis T. Carr is being harnessed himself.

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He is charged in Oklahoma City with violating the state regulations on stock sales.

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I think we told you some time ago that an investigation was going on.

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Well, they have Arane Hee and Art A. Ho and a fellow by the name of Kendrick and another

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by the name of Colton.

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Apparently they did not check with the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission before

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putting their stock on sale.

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So it looks like Otis T. Carr is going to be in hot water.

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Now let's see what else we have.

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Interesting.

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Tonight.

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We tell you the latest every so often about George Adamski.

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As you know, George Adamski is on a worldwide lecture tour.

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He gets booze in one place and he gets cheers in another.

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He didn't do so well with the press in the Netherlands on his visit to the Queen.

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What will happen when he comes to Miami?

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Of course we don't know.

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The story of George Adamski who was on a world lecture tour is extremely fantastic.

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To have met people from other planets or to have circled the moon in a spaceship is something

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that one finds in science fiction.

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No wonder George Adamski is a source of controversy.

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Now who or what makes people controversial?

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To make a broad generalization it is the so-called public opinion which decides if the issue is

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controversial or not.

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In the Baconian parlance it is the idols of the tribe, the caves, the marketplace and the theater,

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which influence our thought.

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One can be made a fool by believing in a charlton.

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But one can also become a criminal by accusing an innocent person.

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Within the next few years an American or a Russian space rocket will travel around the moon.

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It may even land there with special equipment.

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Lunar landscapes will appear on TV screens in Washington and Moscow.

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If pictures of animal life are transmitted from the moon, then George Adamski will be winning the case

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because he claims there is animal life there.

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If none is found he will be losing the case.

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In the meantime it would be futile in this controversy to argue about things that can be checked by space exploration.

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The same applies to those disputes one hears nowadays as to whether the planets in our solar system are inhabited

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and if so by whom.

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The Russian rocket, the dream, has already touched the orbit of Mars.

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An American rocket has become a planetoid of the solar system.

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A time when mankind will come into direct contact with plant, animal and possibly human life on other planets is fast approaching.

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If the Russian reported a crashed cosmic ship in Siberia is correct.

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Then at last we have tangible proof in the form of metallic splinters of non-mediar origin

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that space ships do fly between planets and perhaps between solar systems.

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Now it's time for a message from our sponsor, the Dignville Bookshop,

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They always have at least 25 different books by all the leading authors in the field.

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And they carry a marvelous supply of science fiction magazines, all the popular science fiction magazines, including back issues.

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So on your next trip downtown be sure to stop and shop at the Dignville Bookshop at 221 Northeast 1st Avenue in downtown Miami.

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Because they're used you can get them at half the original price or many times even less.

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So patronize the Dignville Bookshop at 221 Northeast 1st Avenue in downtown Miami.

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Tell Norb Gary from the space station to send you in.

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Have a very good article here, written by someone who seems to know his business,

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and will now give you or give you what we have time for.

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And it's entitled Not Alone in the Universe.

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I've given you that sort of a report before, but from a more or less a religious point of view.

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Now let's take another one from the scientific point of view.

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Who is to say what the ultimate destiny of man will be?

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Are we in our infancy to be cut down like unripe grains of wheat before the Holocaust of nuclear destruction?

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Or are we destined to ripen and mature?

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So finally we have great ships that will take us to the far corners of the universe.

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In some stage in our future development we must certainly, most certainly will have interstellar travel.

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I didn't say interplanetary travel. We're about to have that now.

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I said interstellar travel between the stars.

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Man is not destined to spend the rest of his days within the confines of this insignificant solar system.

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And insignificant we most certainly are.

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We are located on one of the sparsely populated outer ends of an arm in the Milky Way galaxy.

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The center of the Milky Way is located in the region of Sagittarius.

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And from our position if we traveled at the speed of light, 186,000 miles a second,

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it would take 25,000 years to reach the center of this galaxy.

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That will partially demonstrate the vastness of our galactic system.

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Yet our galaxy is but an insignificant speck of dust in the cosmos.

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A galaxy in appearance resembles a spinning wheel with a solid looking core and numerous arms all pointing in the same direction.

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Another name frequently given to galaxies is Island Universes.

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In approximately 200 million Island Universes have been recorded by the 200 inch hail reflected telescope that Mount Palomar in California.

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One fact now should be painfully obvious. Space is large and man is small.

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Astronomers are reasonably confident that many, if not the majority of stars, have planets revolving around them.

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The double star system of 61 signais, which is one of our closest neighbors, is thought to have a planetary system.

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If planetary systems are at all rare, it is very coincidental that such a close neighbor to us is also gifted with planets.

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If only one in every hundred stars in this galaxy had planetary systems and planets capable of supporting life,

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the total number of habitable planets at a conservative estimate in our galaxy alone would be in the vicinity of 1,000 million or 1 billion.

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As previously mentioned, there are about 200 million galaxies visible through our telescopes.

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As telescopes become more powerful, new galaxies will be discovered by the millions.

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Even if only one star in every thousand had planets harboring intelligent life, there still would be myriad of planets with intelligent life.

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It is doubtful whether any man with reasonable intelligence would deny the possibility or extreme probability of intelligences superior to us existing elsewhere in the universe.

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An interesting question now raises itself. Would it be possible with our scientific knowledge to detect their presence in any way without actually traveling through intergalactic space?

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If any intelligent race had evolved on other solar systems, it would be quite an order to assume that they use radio for communication purposes.

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Unless, of course, their technology is so far in advance of ours that radio is to them what smoke signals is to us.

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If, however, radio transmission is being used by intelligent beings in another solar system for communication from planet to planet,

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or from star to star, it would be very possible for us to receive such transmission, provided the signal is of sufficient strength through our radio telescopes.

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And, ladies and gentlemen, we have received some mighty weird signals through our radio telescopes.

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Our time is almost up, so we're not going to be able to give you any of this information through the radio telescopes,

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but this is one of the fields in which the United States government and our scientists are very much interested, and they are continually building bigger and better radio telescopes.

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Maybe we can pick this up and continue another Saturday night, but for now our time is up, so once again, it's good night.