Откуда летят "летающие тарелки"

"Looks very similar to man, including manner of dress. Absolutely not aggressive, and, most important, has at itself the weapon. Only in some cases uses a special light beam is completely safe for us... the Aliens of this type should be attributed to the group # 1..."

Describes a "guest from space" Secretary-General "of the Brazilian society for the study of UFOs" I. M. Pereira.

Sparingly outlined by Pereira image of the alien is just one of 13(!) types of aliens that ostensibly have visited our planet over the past decade. The rest - another fantastic one: "short of stature, with one eye in the forehead, radiating mysterious frosted light."

Fiction? Fantasy? God forbid - only true facts. More than three hundred statements made by the witnesses. Isn't that enough to make the bold (but note, very vague) strokes to outline a Baker's dozen of the aliens and offer them to the broader public?..

It is clear that neither Pereira nor his associates has long been there exciting humanity of the issue - are we alone in the Universe? What here alone, what doubts, if they have created a system that classifies aliens on the types, groups and categories! However, isn't alone in his unwavering confidence and he Pereira. Otherwise how could appear recently in the West, well illustrated book by a certain Charles Berlitz, all dedicated to the same subject - the mysterious "visitors from space"? Here again- "no manipulation of facts," all in all seriousness. Don't believe oral testimonies - look at the pictures. At least this: two American officers escorted in an unknown direction of alien. One of the "big six hairless aliens with round gray faces", published, according to the book Berlitz of flying saucers, the victim of disaster in 1947 in the state of new Mexico.

Why the world did not know until now about this event? Quite simply, continues Berlitz. The commander of the nearest air force base allegedly in the same hour informed about the incident the then U.S. President Harry Truman. In response, the secret order: unknown isolate in the interests of national security, and further to transfer control of the CIA.

I must say that such stories Charles Berlitz gives in his book a lot, and each of them is calculated to seriously confuse the reader.

But it had to happen to make this work got to the Desk Klaus Webner, a young West German scientist involved in the collection and analysis of such facts. He was not difficult to remember that exact same picture is already in his Rolodex and he came back from the newspaper "Wiesbadener Tagesblatt", dated.... April 1, 1950.

Not sparing time, Werner tracked down the then editor of this newspaper by Wilhelm Sprenkel and asked him to think: where did this "scoop" photo. "That was a good April fool's joke - smiled Sprankel - our photographer captures her five year old son in the company of two undercover officers, and the rest completed Retoucher... Title, given, of course, sensational! "Flying saucer over Wiesbaden!" Beautiful, isn't it?"

A little later Webner found out that April fools picture from "Wiesbadener Tagesblatt" in some mysterious way came across the ocean, in the dossier of US intelligence. Where, after 30 years, the photo and looked closer co-author Berlitz William Moore. To get it proved to be alluring and not so difficult.

"That was the end of most liecensing stories related to "proselytise" or "flying saucers," says Werner in an interview with the West German magazine "stern". - In the archives of many countries in the world I managed to collect over 350 photos, which allegedly captured a UFO. But still even with the great efforts, I couldn't find a single one quite compelling. Take the recent "sensation", so loud filed in "Bilge" and then picked up by other publications..."

And it was so. Photographing their car on the background of the Church, one of Hamburg police then noticed the top of the picture big, bright green ring over the Church roof. And gave the photo to the newspaper.

The noise rose unimaginable: "Doubt can not be - "flying saucer"! Saucer the saucer and Werner undertook the analysis of the image. Pretty soon he was able to present irrefutable evidence that the "mysterious spaceship" is merely a reflection of the blue police flashers mounted on the roof of the car.

With similar light effect to Webner had to face before, particularly when talking about so-called "maneuvers of the UFOs over the Capitol." Taken at night the picture captured on the building of the American Congress 11 light points. No way - a squadron of aliens lined up in battle formation. But it was enough to connect the "mysterious" spots are diagonal lines depicting street lights that has not left the slightest doubt: the play of light...

However, doubts still remained. It was much easier to "let" newspaper duck than to disprove it in the minds of people.

"A strong desire to believe in aliens despite the reality quite easy to explain,- shares his observations K. Webner. - Studying books and newspaper articles that literally snapped fans of legends about UFOs, I saw one recurring motif: the aliens must save humanity from the nuclear threat. They say, only hope."

They-you?

M. PASKHIN (according to the magazine "stern")

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