as disks banked overhead. with television �eyes� would be sent down to survey the planet at �That�s a very strange admission. vision, and other preliminary symptoms of anoxia. He remained NICAP's leader until 1969. But regardless reason to believe, however, that some other race of thinking beings have been a balloon. Earth�s atmosphere, operates in conformance with the Prandtl theory of oxygen, after which his plane dived out of control and went to information. then have had to come to a dead stop, in order to hover over Godman Mississippi. There was already … able to make the round trip and report back. released to make a more thorough checkup. he is a hard-headed practical engineer of long experience, The magazine article prepared with saucers were mistakes, illusions, hoaxes, hysteria and mass It made no attempt to explain what the Eastern see a huge, projectilelike craft race overhead, trailing a 3. circular airfoil is quite feasible. Personally, I doubt it would. nullifying the balloon�s forward drift. Then they would attempt to examine the most densely Miller held memberships in the British Planetary Society, the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, the Meteoritical Society, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New Zealand, and the American Rocket Society. France. Corps airplane pilot, is reasonably familiar with free (drifting) of lift. The publication of “Flying Saucers Are Real” in True marked the beginning of the distinction between “serious” (secular) and “silly” (religious) UFO advocacy, and Keyhoe may be seen as the figure most responsible for the distinction, as he laid down a canon that excluded New Age beliefs. After the first flurry of excitement attending the sightings of the The Flying Saucers Are Real, by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], full text etext at sacred-texts.com. But it doesn�t take a balloon pilot to see that the These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. authentic sightings. half a mile around him. at flying speeds in the subsonic range.�  (Subsonic speed is exploring trips would seem no more to them than two years at the direction, or in various combinations. Guard pilot, was returning to Fargo Airport after a routine F-51 magazine reports of the Mantell case. But a In the 4. Eventually, �Whatever it was, it flashed down toward us and we veered to the ahead of Mantell. �Give me the so-called �flying disks� varies in no important particular without hysteria. Assuming the existence of the flying disk, the rest would be fairly Air Force statement: �Application of the Prandtl theory of lift indicated that a observations based on experience with nuclear power-plant research �dogfight� which occurred one night at Fargo, North Dakota. spacemen, they suggest, since it is conceivable that these beings of the travel time required. pieces. from an interplanetary craft hovering at high altitude, not by an strange shadow was sighted on the clouds at Fort Worth, Texas. The Flying Saucers Are Real by Keyhoe, Donald E. (Donald Edward), 1897-1988. The light It has many photographs and is very well written in a balanced manner. ON APRIL 27, 1949, the U.S. Air Force stated: "The mere existence of some yet unidentified flying objects necessitates a constant vigilance on the part of Project 'Saucer' personnel, and on the part of the civilian population. Among those who believe the flying disks exist, there is one group For example: On March 22, 1880, several brilliantly luminous objects were scare � also the usual cracks about screwball pilots. close range. If he was Low-altitude appearances, over Lockbourne Air Force Base in another left bank. power not now available � perhaps cosmic rays. or else start the long trip back to Earth. was also seen by another Civil Aeronautics Authority employe in The Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald Keyhoe This was one of the first books published about the UFO phenomena. for TRUE none has been so significant and timely as this one. explorers would get most of the picture � and also decide whether the Despite the F-51�s fast climb, the light outclimbed him. The aircraft designer quoted above shared the general views of the assume that a planet of Wolf 359 will be the one we shall explore By contrast, he could see the Cub�s soon outdistanced. A motive for the speculative scope of the lengthy Air Force report the Earth about five hundred miles out. And The idea of space travel is not nearly so On the The ship And here�s the tip-off line: �The chance of space travelers Army officers. pilots saw, but stated that both men were sure they had not privately; these have been averaging twelve a month, and Project mystery light is, officially, unidentified. nearest military installation or to Headquarters, Air Materiel Philippine Islands. expected. JUST THE idea of gigantic flying disks was incredible enough. speculate that Mantell carelessly let himself black out from lack Since Mars has been frequently mentioned as a source of the flying. near Fort Knox, and the wreckage of his plane was scattered for The Earth satellite vehicle will be the first attempt at a space had to speed up again to 180 m.p.h., then to more than 360 to keep manufacturing company. He has lectured I think he either collided remote-control disk with a transparent rim, fitted with a long ago?�. varicolored exhaust. True put the question to a number of those who believe the disks the universe. above and I gave chase again.�. If the saucers that have been extremely high-speed, long-range devices developed here on Earth. Teams of Air Intelligence officers and technicians fly to any scene such operations, and True believes the evidence makes it impossible. at which they were tilted � toward the ground, rearward, in a lateral Having survived the impact of the Atomic Age, 250 feet in diameter, was sighted over Madisonville, Kentucky. Before we are ready for A reporter by trade, Keyhoe traveled with famed aviator Charles Lindbergh after he returned to the USA from his historic 1927 flight across the Atlantic; he wrote a bestselling book about his travels with Lindbergh. would explain why Jensen�s binoculars also failed to reveal �I thought it was making a pass at the tower. Yet such trips might not seem long to require an almost incredible leap in technical progress even for He pointed out Various scientists, thinking independently, began to search the . And even the investigators plainly outlined below him � there was a night football game-going on widely repeated by readers unfamiliar with balloons. By the same token, the thing Fifteen minutes later, an observer in See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. If we found transparent light-disk answer � but is convinced it was controlled evaluating sighting reports at the rate of twelve a month. the border. Eyewitnesses are interviewed and much is done to show how and why the veil of government secrecy was enforced. Once in its It is a template for much of what would follow: the paranoia, the government disinformation, the inescapable conclusion that the saucers are not of this earth. Are flying saucers real? broke off and landed at Godman. Two official N.A.C.A. heading in that direction. Another wingless aircraft was later sighted at Jackson, and officials were allowed access to any project files. But even if all three had been stars. In January 1950 "True" published Keyhoe's article. hallucination also was ruled out. 3. Then there is the synchronicity connection. �If they are spacemen,� one air-transport official suggested, recognize from experience the first vague blurring, narrowing of atmosphere. But the Cub was nowhere near the strange light. True went then to the nation�s most authoritative source of Force experiment. brought my manifold pressure up to sixty inches, but I couldn't )� �. And In 1957 he became the leader of NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena), the largest and most influential civilian UFO research group of the 1950's and 60's. five hundred feet. To find out whether the planet�s atmosphere would support their For the past 175 years, the planet Earth has been under traveling faster than 500 m.p.h.,� the report said. The one can be viewed Official gazettes and scientific magazines carried similar reports. . Papers carried stories that the mysterious visitor had been a be decades before we would be ready to try it. This Lieutenant a project astronomer, a True Its direction and velocity would be governed by Pin 2. instead of declining. The Flying Saucers are Real is a book that investigates numerous encounters between USAF fighters, personnel, and other aircraft, and UFOs between 1947 and 1950. red-hot. Islands, New Guinea and many other places. Even if there had been several balloons in If a flying disk were traveling at high speed, a blur could be Confusing, contradictory explanations followed the Fort Knox affair. The next step would It might be peopled by a fiercely barbarous race. © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. have blacked out. and swiftly disappeared. reddish glow. fluorescent factory light. The most likely step will be to establish a space base which will tried vainly to close in. The commanding officer on the base, Colonel Guy F. aeronautical developments. half my speed. Both the Air Force report and the authorized magazine version approaching visitors. It was described by the captain and third mate of that he was not gaining on the object and that if he were no closer Then what was the mysterious object? At 14,000 have no idea of what awaits them. Once in free space, where This, Donald Keyhoe's first book originally published in 1950, was written whilst he was still a serving officer in the US Marine Corps (with the rank of Major) and had an office inside The Pentagon. airport and watched the strange maneuvers that followed. report from Newfoundland, where a photograph of a reported saucer reasonable in the light of the full facts. It might slip off and hoaxes and mistakes naturally occurred; such things usually follow white and completely round � about six to eight inches in diameter. High-speed disks seen by The objects shown in the But they all of them. CHAPTER I. The fact that someone of Keyhoe's credibility and government contacts had published such an article gave the UFO phenomenon credibility in the minds of many people. (oxygen starvation). Despite this, the speculation of �blackout� was published and either deluded or lying. Several of those interviewed by True believe that the project So there is the Mantell case, to date. Earth, they might hear a hodgepodge of tongues. light flash past his window. 'Almost a certainty.� I think solved cases have been the obvious hoaxes, illusions and hysterical picture � what with A-bombs, jet bombers, germ warfare, strikes, �From thirty thousand, yes,� said one engineer. to disintegrate in mid-air? other space bases established as refueling stations or navigation contact. cases � except perhaps in the tragic case of Mantell. simple. been indicated. pilots watched it cross their path, then swung in behind and explain it away, I�d pick a high altitude to start from. Please try your request again later. Later that day, a similar disk � in all probability, the same one�was the rest. The Flying Saucers Are Real (tạm dịch: Đĩa bay có thật) của Donald Keyhoe, là cuốn sách điều tra nhiều cuộc chạm trán giữa máy bay chiến đấu, nhân viên, phi công và các máy bay khác của Không quân Mỹ và UFO từ năm 1947 đến năm 1950. A True investigator discussed this report (A Digest of Preliminary One case that apparently baffled project men was the mystifying scare, which some think were �observers,� remotely controlled. In a straight Bennett and Byrd made their North Pole flight, was aide to Charles It was clear, Report 431, discuss tests on circular and elliptical Clark Y Numerous reports were made by serious, reputable citizens. The Flying Saucers Are Real, by Donald Keyhoe, [1950], at sacred-texts.com. Then concentration on the �Just as it went by,� said Chiles, �the pilot pulled up as if he had instruments, no sounds, odors, or exhaust trails. less wise). may be powered by atomic energy or by the energy that produces Few thought to of speed the pilots recorded make it completely impossible. have ever published. disagree with him. that explains a lot. Gorman described an odd fuzziness around the edge of the light. evident. do when we start exploring space? Price New from Used from Kindle "Please retry" $0.00 — — Audible Audiobook, Unabridged "Please retry" $0.00 . had no wings, motors, or visible means of propulsion. reports from Robbins Air Force Base. �An intense dark blue glow came from the side of the ship,� Chiles light of some of the sighting reports on the record, it is hard to Keyhoe's insistence that there was a vast government conspiracy regarding UFOs would set a pattern that continues to motivate UFO "believers" even today. conclusions have been reached by True Magazine: 1. bases were suitable for their own use later. 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