New York
Fawcett Publications, 1950
{scanned at sacred-texts.com, March 2002}
This book is in the public domain because it was not renewed in a timelyfashion at the US Copyright Office, as required by law at the time.
To Helen,
with love
Donald E. Keyhoe, who relates here his investigation of the flying saucers,writes with twenty-five years of experience in observing aeronauticaldevelopments.
He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He flew in activeservice with the Marine Corps, managed the tour of the historic plane in whichBennett and Byrd made their North Pole flight, was aide to Charles Lindberghafter the famous Paris flight, and was chief of information for the AeronauticsBranch, Department of Commerce.
ON APRIL 27, 1949, the U.S. Air Force stated:
“The mere existence of some yet unidentified flying objectsnecessitates a constant vigilance on the part of Project ‘Saucer’personnel, and on the part of the civilian population.
“Answers have been—and will be—drawn from such factors asguided missile research activity, balloons, astronomical phenomena. . . . Butthere are still question marks.
“Possibilities that the saucers are foreign aircraft have also beenconsidered. . . . But observations based on nuclear power plant research inthis country label as ‘highly improbable’ the existence on Earth ofengines small enough to have Powered the saucers.
“Intelligent life on Mars . . . is not impossible but is completelyunproven. The possibility of intelligent life on the Planet Venus is notconsidered completely unreasonable by astronomers.
“The saucers are not jokes. Neither are they cause foralarm.”[1]
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