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Hello folks, from Wheeling West Virginia. I've pieced together a rudimentary system and an even more rudimentary thought, but I felt I should share this small information since it's all I have acquired to date. [the time and transformation hassle has been pretty intense]. What I have to offer is about as bad as the movie featured above, so caveat emptor.
What I have to tell comes from reading the first two copies of the Flying Saucer Review, published in 1955. [as some of you know, I'm going to try to get through about 30 years of it, logging as I go]. What I found was a magazine just getting started--big surprise, eh? That meant that it wasn't as exciting as what it became--but I'll give you the highlights. The best case [probably] was in Vol.1 #2. A Swiss Lady of Peseux saw, at about 8am, an oval, colored like gray steel, only 400-to-500 yards away. There was an extremely bright "neon" beam of light at one end.
She had her senses and called several witnesses, even telephoning her husband, a Swiss army officer. All these people saw what she saw, with her husband watching through binoculars from a different location. He telephoned the Neuchatel Observatory which said that they thought it might have been a balloon. None of the observers bought that. From both ends of the oval came jets of smoke, and, becoming brighter as it went, it shot away into space. The husband estimated the size of the object at between 350 and 500 feet in length. Something about the "force" which emanated from the object affected the lady for three days. [details of that aspect of this were not mentioned].In this early FSR was a short article by Dr. Hermann Oberth, pictured in the front middle, above, with his most famous student, Werner von Braun, over his left shoulder. [the other gentlemen were the leaders of the early US rocket experiments in the 1950s.]
Oberth's article isn't attributed but FSR printed it anyway. In the text, he remarks about alleged ancient sightings, the claims of thousands of sightings in modern times [made by British air Marshall Dowding], the claims of Adamski [not believed] and the claims of Keyhoe [believed]. Oberth was obviously VERY interested and well read. He said that although some claims are false, each one should be reviewed with an open mind. He specifically applied that mantra to photographs. He runs down through the gamut of IFO explanations, and finds that even as a group they are insufficient to explain the cases.
He felt that perhaps 9% of the case pile was Unknown. Because in his view the saucers seem to be able to counteract gravity AND because they are too error-free to be a recent invention, they must be the product of an extraterrestrial technology. He nick-named the ETH the "Uraniden hypothesis" after the gods of the skies ["Uranos"]. Asked why the drivers didn't stop to say hello, he replied that we were probably not worth their time. ---------The picture above shows Oberth immediately thereafter with von Braun for an advisory stint with the US rocket research group at Huntsville. We don't really know what Werner thought of all this, but we do know that many at Huntsville were interested in the UFOs.
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