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diameter. They were supposed to be pilotless and harmless.
The second type was said to be a jet version of the Navy s The Navy is not engaged in research or in flying any jet-
circular airfoil Flying Flapjack. It was credited with fantastic powered, circular-shaped aircraft.
speed.
The true disks, however, were mainly Air Force devices, The Navy added that one model of a pancake-shaped aircraft,
according to the report. Some are guided, others are not, said called the Zimmerman Skimmer, was built but was never flown.
the radio commentator who released this story. They can stay However, a small, 3,000-pound scale model did fly and was under
stationary, dash off to right or left, and move like lightning. But radio control during flight. This last device is now being rumored
they are utterly harmless. In these harmless disks there was as the Navy s unpiloted missile, said to have been launched over
supposed to be an explosive charge that destroyed them in mid- the country like the so-called harmless disks.
air at a predetermined time. Even though all these accounts have been officially denied,
Within a few days after this story was broadcast, the United many Americans may still believe they are true. I have no desire
States News and World Report declared that the saucers are real, to criticize the authors of these stories; I believe that in following
and identified them as jet models of Navy Flying Flapjacks. up certain guided-missile leads they were misled into accepting
This magazine, which is not an official publication despite its the conclusions they gave.
name, mentioned the variable-direction jet principle that I had But these stories, particularly the accounts of huge unpiloted
previously described in the True article. disks, may have planted certain fears in the public mind-fears that
These two flying-saucer explanations brought denials from are completely unwarranted. For this reason, I have personally
the White House, the Navy, and the Air Force. The Air Force checked at Washington in regard to the dangers of unpiloted
flatly declared that: missiles. Here aye the facts I learned:
" None of the armed forces is conducting secret " Neither the Army, Navy, nor Air Force has at any
experiments with disk-shaped flying objects that time staged any guided-missile competition as
could be a basis for the reported phenomena. rumored.
" There is no evidence that the latter stem from the " No unpiloted missiles or remote-controlled
activities of any foreign nation. experimental craft have been tested over American
cities or heavily populated areas.
Before this, President Truman stated he knew nothing of any
such objects being developed by the United States or any other " No unpiloted missile carrying dangerous explosives,
nation. whether for destruction of the device or other
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purposes, has been deliberately launched or tested
this point, not a single long-range missile has been identified as
over heavily populated areas.
Russian.
Since this country is working closely with Great Britain on
In regard to the so-called jet-propelled Flying Flapjack, I
global defense problems, it is no violation of security to say that
have been assured by Admiral Calvin Bolster, of the Navy Bureau
we have probably exchanged certain guided-missile information.
of Aeronautics, that this type of plane has never been produced.
In regard to the British long-range missile picture outlined to me
I concede that he might make this statement to conceal a secret
by John Steele, I can state two major facts:
development, but there is one fact of which every American can
be certain: Neither this type, nor the radio-controlled smaller
" The British have categorically denied testing such
model, has been or will be flown or launched over areas where
long-range missiles over American territory, where
people would be endangered.
they might endanger American citizens. There is
The three armed services are working on guided missiles.
convincing evidence that they are telling the truth.
They are not risking American lives by launching such missiles at
random across the United States. Although most of our guided-
" There is no British missile now built, or planned, that
missile projects are secret, it is possible to give certain facts about
could explain the objects seen by Captain Mantell,
guided-missile developments in general.
Chiles and Whitted, and witnesses in most of the
The first successful long-range missiles were produced by
major sightings.
the Germans. These were the buzz-bomb and. the V-2 rocket.
But research in various other types was carried on during the
The preceding statement applies equally to American-built
war. Some of this was with oval and round types of airfoils. As
missiles. There is no experimental craft or guided missile even
already stated by Paul Redell, there is strong evidence that the
remotely considered in this country that would begin to approach
disk-shaped foil resulted from German observations of either
the dimensions and performance of the space ships seen in these
space ships or remote-control disk-shaped observer units. All
cases.
the Nazi space-exploration plans followed this discovery that we
There is concrete evidence that the United States is as well
were being observed by a race from another planet.
advanced as any other nation in guided-missile development.
After the end of World War II, the international guided-
Certain recent advances should place us in the lead, unless
missile race began, with the British, Russians, and ourselves as the
confidential reports on Soviet progress are completely wrong.
chief contenders. Numerous types have been developed-winged
If American scientists and engineers can learn the source of
bombs, small radar-guided projectiles launched from planes, and
the space ships power and adapt it to our use, it may well be
ground-to-plane plane-to-ground, and plane-to-plane missiles,
the means for ending the threat of war. The Soviet scientists
equipped with target homing devices.
are well aware of this; their research into cosmic rays and other
In certain recent types, the range can be stated as several
natural forces has been redoubled since the flying-saucer reports
hundred miles. So far as I have learned, after weeks of rechecking
of 1947.
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The secret of the space ships power is more important than
even the hydrogen bomb. It may someday be the key to the fate
of the world.
CHAPTER TWENTY
fter one year s investigation of the flying saucers and Air
AForce operations, I have come to the following conclusions:
" The Air Force was puzzled, and badly worried when
the disks first were sighted in 1947.
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