It is not my intention to keep on posting these long e-mails, on the contrary, but I just could not resist "Flying Saucers Invade Europe", a 1954 UFO article found during one of my many wanderings on HotBot (superb search engine run by the magazine "Wired"). There are many highlights, but the main reasons were the quotations from and comments on a later totally forgotten 1948 report from the US State Department, which establishes that UFOs are real and controlled by intelligent beings. "Flying Saucers Invade Europe" is based on an extensive compilation of rare and fascinating newspaper stories, and can be found on http://www.esper.com/RareBird/eur-ufo.htm (15548 bytes, 17Jan97). It first appeared "during the European flap of 1950-54 and was printed at the peak of the sightings in a small English language magazine published by Charles Harnett at Kaiserslautern, Germany." There are many gems that will be unknown to a lot of, yes, I dare say all of UFO UpDates readers, though many are well-known experts, so do enjoy! I'll bring you the entire compilation in a short while, but here are a few excerpts, so you can see what I mean. The first is quite sensational, as mentioned, and confirms by quoting an at least nowadays unknown report which originated in the highest layers of US Government that UFOs are real, "controlled in an intelligent manner and ... either piloted or radio-controlled". This secret and probably totally forgotten document was delivered from the U. S. State Department to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on April 28, 1948, but do tell if any of you have heard of it! The article says: "Are flying saucers interplanetary spaceships or missiles from Russia or the United States, if they exist at all? Though some "experts" claim they are piloted by 40-inch tall creatures, others say there is evidence to show that they are supersecret craft of ultra-modern design produced by the Soviet government and used principally for observation. The German illustrated magazine Frankfurter Illustrierte carried a series of articles to advance this theory. It contained the kind of detail that caused many official eyebrows to raise. It told of a secret report delivered on April 28, 1948 from the U. S. State Department to the Joint Chiefs of Staff which stated in part: "From time to time, some saucer-like projectiles have displayed movements that indicate they are controlled in an intelligent manner and are either piloted or radio-controlled. The acceleration of these objects is higher than present normal limits. They are noiseless. With the aid of special [396 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=1128034&hilit=UFO> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&1128186 Score: 92 Subject: Transcript Of Halt's 'Rendlesham' Tape (fwd)