THE APE HAS D HIS DAY Praying the Lord's Pra)rer

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T H E A P E HAS D HIS DAY
Has the ape beco111c tl1e ''fc)rgottcr1 n1an '' <)f evo1l1ti.<ln!
T h e M)'Sterious 'tFl,ring Saucer''
Pla11sihle tl1cories to no11sensc
D a n c i n g a n d t h e Bible
The Biblical vie\\lpoi11t on 111odcrn dancing
the Lord's
P r a y i n g Pra)rer
can understand its rich significance
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CONTENTS
Tolerance---·Missing in Action! 3 Dancing and the Bible
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The Ape Ha5 Had Hhl Day 5 Hi5tory of Mudern Dancjne 20
Man's Ancestors MUnknown", "Extinct" 6 TIJ.e BlhliC'a\ Viewpoint 21
So Many Ways o:t Saying ''Ape" 7 Appealing Factor Le.eking 23
The MY$terlous "Flying Saucer" 9 Come to New York-Let'$ Eat! 24
Plau5lble Theories to Nonsense 10 ''Your Word Is Truth"
The Ant-eating 'Echidna 1' Praying the Lord's Prayer 25
Synthetic Yams 13 Jehovah's Witnesses Preach in
Dancing Through Antiquity 116 AU the Earth-Nl&"erta 27
Stngapol'f' 19 Watc-hing the World 29
"Now it is high time to awake." Rolilana /9:11
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Vo~ume XXXlV Brooklyn. N" Y., January 1959 Numb•~ 1
TOLERANCE· Missing in Action!
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In Puerto Rico assaults, guarantee freedom of worship.''
Would it shock you to know that the Just how great is such a proposal of liber
archbishop of San Jose ordered all parish ty! What if Christ had agreed to it? A
priests to preach sermons on June 1 missionary quota: He could have sent outt
against the Costa Rican newspaper La say. just of the 70 evangellstst kept
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N aci6n merely because it carried full-page the others home in order to maintain peace
paid·a dvertiscmen ts sponsored by the Bap with the scribes and Pharisees. . ...-Luke 10.
tist mission, setting forth that church's Stop publicizing persecution: Paul could
concepts of the Scriptures? The Roman have eliminated 2 Corinthians 11: 24-27
Catholic editor replied to the archbishop about his beatingst and mention of the
that he believed Costa Rica's constitutional stoning of Stephen could have been left
guarantee of freedom of worship and ex out of the Bible.
pression was justification for publishing
Limit preaching to the churches: Christ
the advertisement. Apparently the arch could not have converted the apostles
bishop, who together witJ:t his staff with Petert Andrew, James and John at the
drew their subscriptions, failed to agree. seashore. given the se11non on the mount,
That such conditions exist in much of the
preached by the sea to a great crowd.
world today will no doubt amaze many.
nor could the apostles have taught In the
market places· and publicly and from ho11Se
In_ Colombia ia
house.-Matthew 4: 18-22; chapters 5 to
it proposed solution to Co1ombiats bitter
7; Mark 4:1; Acts 17:17; 20:20.
religious strife, which strife has already
Avoid attacking dogmas and priests:
caused the murder of 25 non-Catholics,
By agree-ing to such a propOsal Jesus could
was published in T·ime. Its report
rec~ntly not have called religious leaders hypocrites,
of the · solution, proposed by Colombian
blind guides, whited · sepulchres, l:>eautiful
Catholic Jose Maria Chaves, who teaches
outwardly but filthy insidet and could not
at Queens College, New York, said:
~'Prot­ have pointed to the danger of
follo~g
estants should agree to a missionary quota,
such Ieaders.-Matthew 23.
stop publicizing persecution unless new
But Colombia is Catholic, Catholics pro
attacks occur, limit preaching to churches,
test. So was Palestine Jewish in JeausJ day,
.
avoid attacking Catholic dogmas and
but he did not shut his mouth) tell his
priests. The Roman Catholic Church and
disciples to be quiet, thank the Jews for
the pro.Catholic government should agree
the privilege of breathing Jewish air, nor
to denoWlce and punish anti-Protestant did his followers refrain from writing
JANUARY 1953 3
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about their persecutions. It ls only after pennisston to open a ne\v church or to
non-Catholics woUld agree to such reshic reopen an old one. For example, there is
tions that it is suSgested they he given a new church building in Badajoz, There
'religious freedom• and. that the ''Church'' is no legal reason why pE'nnission should
denoWlce the murder of non-Catholics not be given to hold services in it, The
(which it has not done). granting of SU('h pE'rrni~ioTI is a n1atter
If Catholics were subjected to such con of administrative discretion for the local
ditions Jn non-Catholic lands the cry of officer, and he won't grant it. There are
many similar cases.''
''intolerance'' would shake the world, )'et
this 1s the proposer! ''tolerance'' for or Yet the London Catliolic HP;11.1d, A11-
against which Time said ''Colombia's Cath gUSt 8, carried the headline, ''Persecution
olic hierarchy would probably cast the In Spain? 'Absurd.''' Perhaps it is the
decisive vote''. It is also the solution the Catliolic llerakl that is absurd, for just
apostles rejPt:·tecl whe11 they said simply: s!!Ven days later Spain's 1111f.'lfl!Jker1 arid
''We ought to obey God rather than mPn." contro\•ersial Cardinal Segura declared:
-Acts !l:29. ''It ca11.<ws one ri>al pain 111 set> tlie toler
ance shoivn toward non-G'a.tholic: sec:ts
In Spain-And the Pope's View among tis." He lielieves that ''Spanish
Catholics are not bound by Article 6 of
A sintllar situation exists in Spain. The
August 27 Christian Cr.nt·ury discussed in the S11anist1 liill of rigl1fs''. What does
that article grant'! '!'hat ''no one will be
tolerance there. ''In February of this year
molPstt'fl f(ir l1is religious beliefs nor in the
Rev. Carlos Molinos, past.or of tl1e Spanish
private exercise of his cult''. That is merely
Reformed (i.e., Episcopal) Church in Se·
a pnimi:-.e 1l1at you can think and assemble,
ville, suffered considerable bodily injury
while most people today believe ''Ilberty''
from an attack by goons belonging to
Catholic Action who had been stimulated in1:ludes U1e right to use the mouth too.
Yet Segura rejects even this limited
by local Catholic authorities. At the llber~
ty. He says the 1851 concordat ''categori
same time his ch1Jrch was looted and van
cally rejects tolerance of cults In Spain'',
dalized.''
and W1tll he gets word from the pope he
Another instance: ''An agent of the
\vill consider Catholics not even i1ndPr the
Brltlsh Bible Society in Madrid, tired of
obligation to grant the right of private
waiting for the sJow importation of single
\VOrship to others.
copies of the New Testament, had some
\.,.'hat is the Vatican's position? It m<J.in
printed and bound in the city. Government
tains a distinct and incriminating sile11ce.
authorities disco\.·ered what v.·as going on,
The Christian Century thinks Segura is
entered the bindery, and confiscated and
thro\l.'ing a legal technicality at U1e pope
destroyed about 2,000 copies. That was on
to get an official Vatican statement on
May 29, 1952. ..• Publication of anything
tolerance toward non-C..atJ1olics. It com
by Protestants is unlawful.'' mented: ''If he can make the pope commit
Another probtem: ''One ditnculty that himself, he's a better man than we think
is encountered is that of getting official he is.''
Why ill it y()IJ, do ftOt b6lieuti 1ne1 He tlmt i& /rcmi
GOO listrnis to tM 11aytt1gs of God. Th.al ill wh.11 .1101t
do not listen, ~llWIR you are n.ot frvnl GW.
---John 8:46, 47, N8111 World Trans.
AWAKE'!
Before the Pan-African Congress on
The Pre-History held at Nairobi in South
Africa in January, 1947, one of the later
''links'' was hailed by Profes.sors Le Gros
Clark and Graham Weddell, both of Ox
Has Had ford, with typical evolutionistic confidence,
as the answer to the question, 'Did man
His Day come from a monkey?' Said Professor
Clark: ''The answer is 'No, there was an
ancestor that was both man and monkey,
a middle creature with the characteristics
HAS the ape become the ''forgotten
of both'." Referring to some of the bones
man'' of evolution? Once the proud
composing the South African family of
simian was led from the zoo to a pedestal
claimed links, Professor Clark said: ''Here
and exalted by Darwinians as the ancestor
we have man in the making.'' RefeITing to
of man. Charles Darwin even \Vent so far
the long-sought ''middleman'' between man
once as to compare monkey and man,
and something else, Professor Weddell
with the man coming out second best.
said: ''This seems to be that creature.•••
The point at hand was the tendency of
The three divisions of these South Afri
an American Ateles monkey to forever
can ''links'' are Au.,tralopithecus, Ple8ian
shun brandy after once having bec>n made
thropus and Paranthropus. Their. parts
drunk on it, thus proving itself, Darwin
consist of teeth, fragments of skull and
quipped, ''wiser than many men."• But
jawbone and pieces of wrist, arm and thigh,
rather than worrying over whether this
etc. However, a substantial part of the
makes monkey the descendant of man in
bones are so obviously human that as
stead of vice versa, we are bound by fair
Dr. Robert Broom, another proponent for
ness to note that evolutionists now general
these links and a fanatic evolutionist, con
ly pass by the ape while tracing man's
fessed of one of his finds: ''This jaw has
lineage.
sO many characteristics that if it had been
Lecomte du Noi.iy says plainly: ''It can
found in any other country, every anato-
be stated that no actually living form is
the direct ancestor of another. Man does
• Quotations from British papers Evening Newt1
not descend from the monkeys. Amongst and Daily ,Mail, Jan. 22 and 23, 1947. In pamphlet,
""MON! About Those MLsalng Links," by D. Dewe.r.
the fossils, many so-called 'intermediary'
forms are perhaps nothing but unsuccess
sCJENTIF1C SOC!lf.TY
ful attempts at adaptation, freaks, either
conte.mpi:>rary, anterior, or posterior to the
true intermediary forms.''t A brief look
at the leading nominees for link between
man and the animal pfimates is enough
to tell us why Du Noily speaks thus so
disparagingly of them.
• The Lhlscent of Man and Select;o., in RelatioH. to
Se:c, C. Darwin, pp. 396, 397, In edition combined with
The Origin of Spec1ee, Cert & Klopfer, Modern Library,
New York.
t Ruman .oe.tiny, p, 94.
JANUARY 8, 1959 5
.mist would have declared it to\ be human.'' The dUllculty was ·pointed up years ago
course
But of Its locality changes all that, by the renowned Professor Virchow while
changes it from human to something else. addressing the Twentieth Congress of the
To what else neither Dr. Broom nor any Anthropological Association: ''In
c~ru1an
one else can be sme. so a long name is vain have [DarwiJUsm's] adherents sought
supplied and a new •"llnku is born! Would for connecting link£ which should connect
''every anatomist'' scrap all he lmew of man with the monkey. Not a single one
ariatomy, blind his eyes and his has been fowtd. This so·called proanthro·
qua.~h
Intellect to go along with Dr. Broom? pus which is supposed to represent this
Perhaps, if all were such 'levotees connecting link has not appeared. No true
piotL~
of evolution as he. But Dr. . P. Kenneth scientist claims to have seen him.n• The
Oakley of the Departn1ei1t of equally famed Professor Dranco of Berlin
Goologi~.al
the British Museum declares: •*'rhese so University's Palaeontologieal Institute de
called . .. .. are more c1ared: "Palaeonto]ogy tells us nothing on
AustralopithPrine~
recent than the oldest fossil remains of the subject-it lrn.ows no ancestors of
man.,.,.
true man .. This eriough to quench any
~' i~
I
flame in his afterthought that, ''it is never·
The rcsuJt of these criticnl reverses was
theleRs possible t.l1at they represent a late
to pltingf! t hP anr~e;try of mudeJn n1ar1 into
surviving remnant of the stock from which
a gloom ns deep as that brought upon
In sc>rr1e otl1er part of Africa man
by Ute f of the ape to
~"·,1lut.i(lnist..; ai1u1~
"evolved.* ' •. ,
supply a line of descendants to Homo
cl~ar
I
sapiens.t Al17eady iJ1 l1is day Haeckel
·Man's Ancestors "'Unknown'' ...
'Extinct·~ struggled with difficulty to answer the
Why do tnodelTl evolutionists so carc
for proof of man's ape
t~l1t1ller1ges descent~
'ully' prefac& their remarks "'Ith stRtP. He artf uJly built up the now-familiar argu-
ments tl1at shy away from the ape? They
I. that tl1e exact type of ape from which
111~11
are most sensitive on this point and are
man came is no longer in business. . But
almost sure to ho\\'l •prejudice' or ~igno­ with supreme confidence he said: ''It is
rance' if accused of advoeating that ma11 .certain that man has descended from some
sprang from the ape . .V .le nrc helped to
extinct mammal; and we should just as
1.Ulderstand possible reasons for this ti1r1idi
certainly class this in the order of apes
ty when the longt unsuccessful struggJe
if we had it before- t1s. Tt is eri11a11y cer·
with would·be is Scraps
~~links" rP.<~ll~d.
that this primitive ape descended in
tai11
of such former favorites as '•Java man''t
turn from an unknovm lemur, and this
mant,, n1ann and
~'Piltdown ~·Peking
man'' have been successfully
4~Neanderthal • Quoted in God or Oorilla_, by A. W. McCann, 1922.
pp. . 17. 18.
exposed as elther fraudulent combinations
t /bid., p. 54.
of hwnan and animal remains or so like t It l& weU h(!h! to mant~on that evolutionary
nu
school wh1 C 'h II nl..lUt B K..llre15try WI tll tl.1e lemuroJ d
modem man that, as Sir Arthur Keith I
tanlen. the modem representat!ve of wh~~h 1s A
ful"ry ratllk.e little animal wlth monstroW5 eyea and
said of ''Galley Hill man°, supposedly the
ears. 1n n g ank IA bones and a. hODDln~ · a.&I t. S&ys
E. A. I loot.Qn: -Farticularly because T o.rsl us stt s erect.
earliest known inhabitant of1 England: i'Hc ~
feeds itaeJl wlth its h•IU's. has a shon snout. rroncally
is so modern in build that \ve might meet dlrcctcd eyes and a brain ln aom~ r-e1~t.s well d@
v.etooea. lngenioua anatomists have made the hero
I~
him on the streets of u1ndor1 today and of a sort of .amen tUlc Just-So story o:f prlms.t e ~ol u-
uon. . A ~llghl dliltcult y may !ndeed obtrude
r •
pa.~s liim by unnoted."t i tseJ f when one eon sidPrs rPrt.a ~ n ~flPf!'I R.I ~ zattons of
·- thi~. ou1 r a tU ke an.Qe.5 trtx.. \\T ~ .ougltt wtt h such ~ a
. ped 1g r-Pe 1.n h R VP. thf! cat t and pede.l extremltl e• or a
... ni1'1Jtra.ted Londo~ N tJ-W6,. .J ... ne 7. u1"9 47 I kanproo. and eyes like teacu})er m.lllltonc1 or tow~rs. ~ ~
t A ftOiott.t T~,68 0 I M Gtl~ b)" SiJ ' Art h KP.I th . -Apea,. .H6fl. aad Morou. . 1937.. PVr 5~.
6 AWAKEl
·an
·from· extinct marsupial,,. A ''primitive is the immediate predecessor of modern
apet•, "unknown lemur'' and .an ''extinct man, yet no moden1 man can be considered
marsupial•'. At least we have Haeckel"s even as a modified direct desceadant of
word for it that this is all the Neanderthals. . ' The oak is the immedi·
''certain~•!
ate predecessor of the aco111., yet there is
Having a strong desire. to trace man1s
ancestry by way of ''Piltdown man,•, H. G. no aconi which can be considered even
as a modified direct descendant of the
Wells appealed to Sir Ray .ankester for
I
oak.•'•
authority to base such a conclusion on the
Piltdown fragments and publish it in his
So Many Wags of Saying "Ape''
Outline of History. But Lankester chilled
What do evolutionists really mean when
that idea with this succinct reply: '•I think
we are stumped and baffled! The most they say man did not descend frofn an ape?
prudent way is to kt'ep the jaw and the Of course he did not. But if they agree
cranium apart in all a r g u m en t about to this what do they mean by saying:
them.'tt "There was an ancestor that was both
man and monkey, a middle creature with
The •'Neanderthal ment• have been
the characteristics of both.'' And by simply
tossed mercilessly about. In 1911 Sir
making the simian ancestor a '•primitive
Arthur Keith testified it was certain that
ape", an unknown q11antity, do they make
0 the Neanderthal type represents the stock
it any Jess an ape? It is certain that
from which all modern races have aris
our acquaintance with the specific crea·
en•'. t But just four years later he complete-.
ture, whatever he was, could have but
ly reversed himself, declaring the Neander. .
little effect upon his
thal races had completely died out.e In a anatomy!~
It is certain that Hooton clearly and
pamphlet explaining exhibits in the Ameri
honestly makes no paleontological bones
can Museum·of Natural History, Professor
about the µiatter when he says: •'The
Osborn referred to the Neanderthal race
ancestors of man and of the gorillat chim·
as the immediate predecessor of modem
pan7.ee, and orang-utan probably started
of
man;• but in his book, Men the Old
'from scratch' as generalized apes.''t'
8t0'1U3 Age (pp. 233. 234), he asserts: '•We
ritaJics added] And again: urn the
cannot assert that there has never been SUC•
ceeding Oligocene periodt the ancestors of
an infusion of Neanderthaloid blood in the
the Old World monkeys and the common
groups belonging to species Homo sapiens
ape ancestors of the present anthropoid
(modern man) but what seems to be quite
apes and man were already :flourishing
certain is that any such infusion can have
in the Old World!1t
been only for there is no recent
a~idental,
Mr. Hooton points thus unmistakably
type which can be considered even as a
to the ape. .
modit1ed direct descendant of the Nean
In the December, 1951, issue of Beien..
derthals.'' ( ! ) Commenting on Osborn's
tif ie American, the article, ''The Scars Of
conflicting positions, A. W. McCann offers
Human Evolution,'' by Wilton M.. Krog
this justifiable sarcasm: "'Was there ever
man, catches the eye. Opening his article
such contradictiont-'the Neanderthal race
in the customary evolutionary way, with
• The Evoliatlio,., of Mon, by Ernst Haeckel. 1906 .. a slam at the Bible, Mr. Krogman busies
pp. 204, 205.
himself with ta criticism of the human body
t Quoted in God or Gorilla, p. 42_
t Ancie11t Typea of Maw.~ Keith. 1911.
• Tne Antiqu,tu Of Meu1, Keith, 1915. • God or Gorilltl_, McCann. :PP .. 62. 63.
• Amer. Mus. of Natl. Hlat .• Gulde Leaflet No. .52~ t Apea.. Me1' aft.tl Motona.. Hooton. 1937~ pp. 24t 25 ..
p. 8~ t Up from the Ape~ Hooton. Rev. ed.t 1947t p,. 5.'34
JANUARY 8, 1953 7
structure in the midst of which he says: ·or a bird or an ape. This is Hnot a real
1
have inherited otir 'baSic patents' animal'' anyutay-lt Is all In fun!
~'We
•.· • from a long Jine of vertebrate (back Said Sir Arthur Keith: ''Between the
boned) ancestors: from fish to amphibian known fo1111 of mankind and the
low~
to reptile to mammal and finally from highest kind of anthropoid lies a wide
monkey to ape txJ anthropoid to H()'110 intermediat.e zone wl1ich we bridge at the
sapiemc. ,,
present time by hypothetical missing
~·From monkey to ape to anthropoid to links.'' .. [Italics added] T11e hopelessness
Homo 1'1apient1 (modern manJ.''-Muy we of such positions is shown up by Austin
quote you on that, Mr. Krogman? an evolutionist: species is
Clark~ ~'Each
Describing the reactions of patients always separate from every other species.,,
under lns\llin shock therapy, the Januaryt He details t11e 111any vast gaps in supposed·
1952, Science Digest notes a stage of Jy .. evolutionary lines" and concludes:
~ ~--if
foot
f11YJ81J rejtex and refl,e.x of \vhich it we are willing to accept the facts at their
says: tern1s of evolution they are face value, \\'hich \\1ould seem to be the
'~ht
thought to represent deftnit.P only thing to dot \\?e must believe that
~111ro\vbacks~
to the simiant or ape. level of development. there never were such or Jn
interrr1PdJat~s,
In short, the patient now living in that other words that these mujor ,groups from
I~
very ancient age "before Homo sapiens the first bore the re1at1on to
sam~ PH£~h
first appeared."• other that they do at the present
dny.'~
44To the simion_. or ape, level of develop· And hln the 11ght of all t.hP
finally~ ~vi­
ment,' please no t.e ! dence availab]e at the present time there
t
It is qufte clcnr that evolutionists prefer is no Justlftratlon in as.~11ming t lnit ~t1cl1 ti
to plead lgnorRnt.-e and talk in riddles and thing as a 'missing linlt" ever existed_. or
have no prying questioru;. The ape \Vas Indeed cotlld ever h<ivP ..... t
PxJ~t~l
too confining, looked too ridiculous on In the uncharitable truth seems
short~
man's family tree for even a child to say that the ape made fine
to
evl~nee
stomach. So they sought to ditch him. But for evolution as as the public could
Jon~
the siminn ••silent partner'• does not dJtch not differentiate between sclenre and
fair~T
easily~ Either man springs from lower tales. But when this condition changed.
animals or
evolution is a lie. And talk or the ape had to be stowed away and l1is
'~middle creatures'',. not one of 'h"'hich has alleged relationship "'ith man soft-pcdn1cd
ever been established, dOes not S\Veeten by m).rsterious unknown ..
~'middlPmenu
this bitter pill, William Howells talks of Now true science can snatch the ape bnck
imagining 'la kind of changeling; not a from oblivion to draft him in the
\\'"Hr
real ani1nal but a creature who became ag-ainst evolution.
successively all the animals man has ever· The ape has had his day. evolution
Th~
been J•; and after naming the general stages
ists brought the nighttime over legitimate
from marine life upward, concludes: '"Man~ scientific research that followed. Now
.
therefore, is a modified fish.''t
comes the inescapable morning-after and
He may as well be a fish or a reptile
the time for setting things straightt for
putting the ape back in the trcest man
.,. rft
the R rtt (!l e. •' lt"lsh to M&n-l n an Hour ~ · · by
back on his feet and evolution in its grave.
John A, Dla·ke. Ttl.ough the \Vriter bi a FeUow tn tbe
A..rne.rl aa.n .AMocia t!on ror the Ad vu nt.."elll~n t ol Sclen~ ~
tar
th1s article Ja tram dflurvt ng !iel@n t l ftc At
~t.atu~-
ot
IMat 1t doe& notatng t.or the •. ... tid vancemen t of aci ence· • Nl!u; m.tcouenea .Relalsttg to the Antk}u1t!J M®.
t.
Kellh. 1930 p. 22.
t M<m~nd Bo l"rflr 1944, pp. 17, 18. by \\'m. Howe1 18 ~ 1
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THE MYSTERIOUS
CAPTAIN LAWRENCE W. VINTHER of Mid· servers wolild have simultaneously the
Continent Airlines on January 20, identi<;al illuSion or hallucination? It would
1951, was ordered by the control tower at hardly seem possible.
the Sioux City airport to investigate a Dr. Craig Hunter of Berkeley Springs,
''very.. bright light'' above the field. Ac· West Virginia, director for a
t~hnical
cording to Life magazine for April 7, 1952, Washington medical instrument
~upply
Captain Vinther ''took off in his DC·3 \vith firm, stated: ''I realized my eyes were
his copilot, James F. Bachmeier, and fol· not playing tricks on me as I, watched
lowed the light. All at once> the light dived [the saucer]." He went on to describe
at the DC·3 almost head on; it passed the object as being ''about 50 to 150 feet
silently and at great about 200 feet in diameter and was about 25 to 30 feet
spe~d
above its Both pilots wrenched their thick at the center. It was trailing a
nos~.
heads back tQ see \Vhere it had gone, only streamer about 200 feet long and 10 inches
to discover that the thing had somehow in width. ... I do a little private flying,
reversed direction in a split second and and I have never seen anything like the
was now flying parallel to the airliner, thing I saw last night. It was
definit~ly
about 200 feet away, heading in the same not an airplane''. What did he see? balloon?
direction. It was a clear moonlight night meteor? a bird? Again, hardly possible.
and both men got a good look at the object. On- a bright sunny day one of United
It was as big or bigger than a B-29, had States' top astronomers was driving from
a cigar.shaped fuselage and a glider·type Clovis to Clines Corners, New Mexico.
wing, set well fonvard, \\'ithout sweepback ''His \Vife and his teen-aged daughters
and without engine nacelles or jet pods. were also in the car. ... The whole western
There was no exhaust glow. The white half of the sky was a 'confused cloud sea'.
light appeared to be recessed in the bottom All at once, as the car headed toward these
of the plane. After a few seconds the clouds, 'all four of u.s almost simultaneously
object lost altitude, passed under the DC·3 became aware of a curious bright object
and disappeared. A civilian employee of almost motionless' among the clouds.'' The
Air Intelligence was a passenger on the astronomer with his family watched it for
flight, saw the object and confirms the ''about two and a half minutes'', then it
description by the pilots''. disappeared behind a cloud bank. ''This·
Now what was it that these three men remarkably sudden ascent thoroughly con·
saw? All three men are responsible persons vinced me,'' said the astronomer, ''that
and trained observers. Could this have we were dealing with an absolutely novel
been an optical illusion? Hallucination? airborne device.''
Mirage? Reflection? Is it reasonable to A photographer driving through Albu·
conclude that three different trained ob-- querque, New Mexico, just before sunup
JANUARY 8, ,1953 9
on February 18, 1952, saw two bright ftrebaUs off as meteors. Said he: j'I have
lights in the sky. "They Wet"e boverlng never seen a natural meteor with the
11bove Tijeras Canyon. .•. It was probably eharact.eristics of the yellow-green fire
the most astonishing thing I've ever seen. balls. Meteors blow up with a loud ex
Those things were sotmdless. · 'lbey were plosion. These disintegrate with complete
not jets or vapor trails. rve seen hundreds absence of ROund. Sightings here and in
of jets and vapor trails.''-Li/e, April 7, Scandinavia lead me to believe that fire.
1952. balls and the so-called saucers may be gUid
ed missiles-some possibly ours, some pos
Plau•ible Theorln to NonseRJ1e sibly Russian. In any case, they are Earth·
What are the people seeing in the skies? bom. It is possible that the yellow-green
Flying diskllke objects have been sighted fireball is not the missile itself but tl1e
in almost every section of the earth: remaining part of a missile in the final
Australia, Malaya, South Africa, Hong pl1ase of self-destructio11. It does not ex
Koni, Korea, Japan, Europe and England. pl<X;!e-it simply evaporates in a flash of
eomniander Robert B. McLaughlin, U.S.N., llgl1t. "-People Today, September 10, 1952.
wrote: ''Close questioning of the observers, Now the question th11t presents itself
prior to the oftlctal repo1t that. went to is: What are the people seeing? Are thPy
'Project Saucer' at Wright·Patterson Field visitors from another planet? A secret
in Dayton, Ohio, produc:ed. an almost weapon owned by RU'>.<;la or the tTnited
unanimous judgment thnt the object was States? Did sensitive radar instruments
discus-shaped and that it wa.'i a flat white pick up droplets of watPr or reOP1:1t'(J
color. IIlgh-powercd blnoculars shOYied no lights? Is it possible thnt the one to two
exhaust trail, no stream or light or other thot1sand sightings by more than five
evidence of a propulsion system. And no hundred people, among whom arc top
sound. What was It? I am convinced that notch scientists, a.'lf.n1nomPrs, 11I1ysic:i.-;ts,
it was a Flying Saucer and, further, that pilots, military personnel and men prom
these disks are space ships from another inent In p11blic life, misinte1·pret 01·dinary
planet, operated by animate, intelligent objects, such as airplanes, balloons, birds,
beings.''-Trw,, March 1950. stars or meteors for flying disks? TI1e
Dr. Walther Riedel, once chief designer feelings of Air Technical Intelligence Com
and research director at the German rock· mand were stated bluntly by an intelligence
et center in Peenemiinde, now engaged on colonel: ''These reports came from sincere
secret work for the United States, told people. They are not crazy; they are not
Life reporter; ''I am completely convinced crackpots. They are seeing something; we
that they have an out-of-world bas,is." have tn find out what.''
Dr. Maurice A. Biot, one of the leading Gordon Dean, chairman of the Atomic
aerodynamicists in the U. S. and a prom Energy Commission, definitely erased
inent mathematical physicist, so.id: ''The them as being products of United States
least improbable explanation is that these research. Said Dean: ''There's nothing in
things are artificial and controlled. . . . our shop that could account for these
My opinion for some time has been that things, and there's nothing going on that
they have an extraterrestrial origin.'' I know of that could explain them.''
Di-. Lincoln LaPaz, head of the Institute In an effort to clear the air of flying
of Meteorics at the University of New saucers and t.ake the 'heat off the Air
Mexico, spiked the attempts to pass the Force Intelligence Section, Major General
10 AWAKE/