Flying Saucers from Outer Space

The book consists of 14 chapters:

1. Behind the Scenes
2. "Intercept-But Don't Shoot!"
3. The Great Saucer Snafu
4. The July Crisis
5. The Powder Keg
6. The Air Force Hands Me a Riddle
7. Jigsaw Puzzle
8. The Canadian Project
9. The Utah Pictures
10. Flight Through Outer Space
11. Clues to the Riddle
12. Friends or Foes?
13. Exodux from Space
14. The Hidden Report

In the first Chapter, "Behind the scenes" in sufficient detail the author describes several cases of UFO sightings by military (2 may 1953 – something hit the plane departed from the airport dum-Dum; 4 December 1952, an air force pilot landed in Laredo and told about seeing the blue UFOs; 9 January 1953, the B – 29 bomber captain George Madden and co-pilot, Lieutenant Frank Briggs flew over California, both pilots observed a blue V-shaped object), and the investigation "Project Bluebook" ("Blue book"). At the end of the chapter, the author claims that officials have chosen a strategy of silence regarding the origin of UFOs.

In the second chapter, "Intercept, but do not shoot!" the author also describes a few cases of aludeniya unidentified objects (Lieutenant Earl Fogle watched the strange bright object moving with great speed and emitting a blue glow; a little before midnight on 23 June 1950, there was a strange accident: the sky lit up, a bright flash Board DC-4 has stopped responding, and then collapsed into the lake; the captain of a major airline told about his observation of red, like red-hot disc). He also cites "official statements" regarding UFOs, for example:

• "We don't have experimental ships of this nature, we are completely baffled." (From the statement of the military representative of the Air Force in 1947.)
• "Saucers are misinterpreted images of various ordinary objects, meteorological phenomena, aberrations or hoaxes." (From the official statement of the Air Force on December 27, 1949)
• "These messages come from sincere people, they are not crazy, they see something and we have to find out what." (From the statement of Colonel ATIC in Dayton, published in "Look", June 24, 1952)

Later in the chapter, the author discusses the contradictory attitude of the authorities to the UFO problem.

The third chapter is called "The Great Saucer of Snafu" (Snafu is an acronym from American military slang: "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up". It was usually used to indicate that the situation is bad, but this is the normal state of things). The author goes a little deeper into the history of UFO sightings to explain what led to the current problem. He begins with the first official reports that appeared in the 44th (hundreds of American pilots encountered mysterious round flaming objects over Europe and the Far East, which were called "foo-fighters" or "Kraut fireballs"), and observations of saucers by Kenneth Arnold in the Cascade Mountains. Next, the author tells about the observation on July 24, 1948 by two pilots of Eastern Airlines (Eastern Air Lines) of a bright cigar-shaped object. He talks about a lot of similar observations around the world, as well as about the process and the result of investigations of some of them. Then he tells about several cases of the crash of unknown objects (such as a rain of iron capsules in Arizona, or a photo of two people in raincoats and a little girl holding a strangely shaped iron hand). In the first half of 1951, there were significantly fewer messages from around the world, but then everything returned to normal. At the same time, the only published conclusion of officials is that "flying saucers" are not a direct threat to the United States.

Chapter four "The July Crisis" contains a list of a huge number of UFO sightings that took place in July 1951. Under the pressure of such a number of eyewitnesses, officials had to admit that not all "plates" are fiction. They assumed it was an enemy weapon. A wave of fear began to grow. The country's leadership has decided on the need to debunk the myth.

Chapter five "The Powder keg". The author claims that at the time of publication there were "about 500 unexplained observations of plates." Next, he cites Dr. Menzel's hypothesis about mirages (he assumes that the observed plates are the lights of cars, houses and similar luminous objects reflected from the inhomogeneities of the atmosphere), which the military seized on in the hope of explaining all UFOs with it. However, after the statements made about it in the press, the number of observations increased even more. Next, the author gives a transcript of the official press conference of the military.

Chapter six "The Air Force gives me a riddle." The author tells about his communication with the pilots: after the press conference, many decide to stop reporting new observations. Further, the author recounts the content of his meetings with officials, after which he was given documents on several investigations: on August 5, 1952 - a saucer with a bright white glow near the airbase ​​Oneida in Japan; August 20 – an ultrafast "saucer" flying near Congaree Air Base (Columbia, South Carolina); July 23 – An F-94 over Braintree (Massachusetts) chased a circling saucer at about the same time when a blue-green light was seen from the ground; July 29 – a saucer changing color from white to yellow flew over Los Alamos; July 28, 1952 - the air defense near Osceola (Wisconsin) spotted a UFO, moving at a speed of more than 600 mph (965.606 km/h). Based on these materials, the author wrote an article in the magazine, and the BBC announced the resumption of investigations and refuted Dr. Menzel's inversion theory.

Chapter seven "The Puzzle". The chapter begins with a story about a certain radio host from Pueblo, Joseph Rohrer, whose story was printed in many newspapers and broadcast by several Western radio stations. He claimed that seven disks had fallen into the hands of the government. Three of them, he said, were shot down in Montana. At the same time, there was a humanoid about three feet (0.9 meters) tall in one of them, and he definitely survived when his disk crashed. Rohrer also insisted that he had visited one of the disks: "The saucers consisted of giant rotating disks with stationary cabins. The disk was 100 feet in diameter, consisted of five sections, as well as sleeping quarters for the crew." This story has been linked to previous testimonies. Next, the author describes several more observations of strange objects by pilots. At the end of the chapter, he says that US officials stopped providing him with information, and he got in touch with a new source in Canada – Wilbur B. Smith.

Chapter eight "The Canadian Project". The author begins the chapter by describing his relationship with a new informant and cites several UFO sightings by pilots of the Royal Canadian Air Force: on the night of January 1, 1952, an orange-red disk appeared in the Northern Gulf, whose maneuvers were performed at supersonic speeds; disks flying at great speed were seen several times over the Canadian capital. The new informant is convinced of the alien origin of the objects. A characteristic feature of the Canadian "plates" is their rotation around the axis. Smith suggests fantastically strong magnetic fields that drive these objects. Then there are discussions about the possible principles of the "plates". The chapter ends with an interview with Captain Manning, a US Air Force pilot who has observed many UFOs, in particular, red–orange ones. He casually mentions that "the saucer is the tail pipe of a jet plane." At the end of the chapter, the author comes to the conclusion that Smith is right about the alien origin of UFOs.

Chapter nine "Photos from Utah". The author begins the narrative with photographs from the American city of Tremonton (Utah). Photographs taken by an Air Force midshipman captured "the formation of round bright objects similar to a bat from hell." Representatives of the Air Force promised to make these shots public if their authenticity is proven. Meanwhile, on July 23, 1952, in Culver City (California), several workers at an aircraft factory saw a bright silver ship flying over the city in a northwesterly direction. He made swaying movements, and soon two glowing objects separated from him, which made several maneuvers and returned to the big ship. On October 10, the same objects were spotted over Germany, Norway and Sweden. Similar observations were also testified toGeorge Adamski (who had previously taken UFO pictures), who observed not only a cigar-shaped object over the desert in Arizona, but also the landing of an alien:

A circular device with a diameter of about 20 feet (6 m). A man jumped out of the saucer. He looked about 23 years old, with a tanned, ruddy face, grayish-green eyes and long sandy hair that hung behind his back. He was wearing a brown Eisenhower jacket (military field jacket), ski pants and reddish-brown shoes. The "Man from Outer Space" seemed to speak a little English, along with gibberish that sounded like Chinese. Answering Adamski's questions mainly with gestures, he said that his saucer was interplanetary. He indicated that he had come from the mothership they had seen. And that this ship is at an altitude of about 500 miles (804,672 km).

There were traces of UFOs on the ground, which an eyewitness and friends sketched.

Further, the author cites several more cases of observation of a silver plate: on July 27, a strange silver ship turned south over Manhattan Beach, and then split into seven round objects. Immediately after that, three disks lined up in the shape of the letter V, the rest in pairs. At the end of the chapter, he mentions that the public screening of the footage and the publication of the official secret report were canceled by the authorities.

Chapter ten "Flight through outer space". At the beginning of the chapter, the author mentions that already in 1947 scientists recognized the possibility of the cosmic origin of UFOs, and in 1951, when the astronomer of naval intelligence William Markowitz discovered a strange object in the solar system, this assumption received the first proof, and at the same time terrestrial technology came close to independent flights into space. Then there are discussions about the conquest of space and what spaceships should be.

Chapter eleven "The keys to the riddle". The chapter begins with a story about UFO sightings in 1952 at an Air Force radar station in northern Japan, where they received a call from the crew of the B-26 aircraft: "We have just seen a UFO that looks like a group of lights – red, white and green." The colors changed, and the plate itself rotated counterclockwise. Then there is another case from the observation of a similar UFO in the sky over Japan. Then the author tells about the pursuit on March 29, 1952 by two F-84s of a glowing UFO north of Misawa. Then there are arguments about which planet these aliens may be from. After that, the author tells about his long-term work on the classification of objects that were mentioned in the documents he studied, and gives this classification. The chapter ends with a description of encounters with a new kind of UFO, similar to silent meteors, and information about the opening of a government project called "Project Twinkle" to investigate these cases.

Chapter Twelve "Friends or enemies?". The author discusses which terrestrial objects (military bases, nuclear power plants, etc.) could attract UFOs, which were mentioned at the end of the previous chapter. There is a version that the appearance of objects may be a warning about the need to stop the production of bombs. Next, the author describes in detail his conversation with Riordan about the new UFO - green balloons, as well as about the possible panic that will happen if the government reveals the information it owns. Then the author gives excerpts from the letters of his readers, who rarely experience fear when encountering UFOs.

Chapter THIRTEEN "Mass exodus from outer space". The author begins the narrative by listing UFO sightings that happened around the world before 1947. He concludes that the aliens periodically visit Earth for the purpose of control, but clearly understand that its inhabitants do not pose a threat to them. Then there is a repetition of the author's arguments, previously given in a conversation with Riordan, about the motives of space aliens and the possible reaction of the public to the publication of materials about UFOs. Further, the author talks about the surge of observations in February and the idea of a mass migration of aliens from space to Earth, who may be looking for a new habitat.

Chapter fourteen "Secret report". Throughout the chapter, the author describes conversations with participants in his investigations. He says that the results of official investigations indicate natural causes that explain the appearance and behavior of UFOs. The public demonstration of materials with evidence has been canceled to avoid mass hysteria and panic. Air Force officials in their report on the results of investigations did not indicate that UFOs are aliens from outer space, despite the fact that some US Air Force officials did not deny this possibility.