Donald Keyhoe.

[John Winston]

Subject: Donald Keyhoe.
July 17, 2012.

One of the first books that I ever read about UFOs, many years ago, was
written by Maj. Donald Keyhoe. Here is something about the book.

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Subject: I Know the S-crets of the Flying Saucers, by Maj. Donald E.
Keyhoe, USMC (Ret.)
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Editor's Note: Major Keyhoe has been writing about Unidentified
Flying Objects (UFO's) in this magazine and elsewhere for over 15 years.
From the outset he has insisted that flying saucers are real and
interplanetary, and many authorities have come to agree with him. Now
he claims that control over gravity itself is the only explanation for the
astounding maneuvers which saucers are said to make.
Some physicists dismiss this theory as fundamentally erroneous. But,
as you will read, there are others who find Major Keyhoe's latest chapter in
"The Great Flying Saucer Story" important and plausible.

One night last February, over the North Pacific, a Flying Tiger Airlines
crew
had a startling aerial encounter. What they saw is a clue to a fantastic
technical mystery. In its solution lies a prize so great that six g-vernment
agencies are searching for it right now. The answer may not be far off.
What they are searching for is the se-ret of gravity control.

About midnight on February 15, the Flying Tiger plane, carrying a m-litary
group from the U.S. to Japan, was four hours out of Anchorage. Suddenly
the cockpit radar picked up three fast-moving objects. The plane captain
and his crew looked out at the side and saw three huge oval-shaped ships,
glowing red in the night.
An Air F-rce captain who was a passenger on the plane was called
forward to confirm the sighting. His signed report is in the files of the
National I-vestigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.
According to the captain's report, the unknown machines slowed down
to the airliner's speed and flew in close formation. Five miles away,
by radar range, they leveled off to pace the plane. The Air Fo-ce captain
computed their length as much more than 700 feet. It was plain that the
giant Unidentified Flying Objects had an unknown type of propulsion. No
jets, no exhausts were visible.
For 30 minutes, still in formation, they continued to pace the plane.
Then, swiftly accelerating to 1,200 knots, they climbed out of sight
in seconds.
This startlingly swift acceleration is a maneuver that could not be
duplicated by any ship now made on Earth. What makes it possible for
UFO's?
According to many scientists and engineers, there is only one possible
answer.
The answer is antigravity: artificial gravity fields and control of gravity
power.
Control of gravity is something that men have been dreaming about for
centuries. Now it appears that we are on the threshhold of achieving it.
Its value, to the country that first attains it, is incalculable. Our
go-ernment, hoping for a technical breakthrough, has set up 46 different
research projects on various aspects of gravity control. The Air For-e is
running 33 of these projects and the others are divided among five other
agencies.
Included in the 46 gove-nment projects are experiments and research
at two Air Forc- Laboratories (Flight Dynamics and General Physics
Research), Radio Corporation of America, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa; Stevens Institute of
Technology; the universities of California, Denver, Harvard, Indiana,
Manchester (England), Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Purdue,
Stockholm (Sweden), Syracuse, Texas, and two New York schools -
Queens College and Yeshiva Graduate School of Science.
And, of course, some govern-ent agencies have projects so sec-et that
they are not publicly registered and cannot be revealed without
permission.
Private industry is also looking at the question of gravity control
with new seriousness. A large number of giant corporations, including
Bell Aerospace, General Electric, Hughes Aircraft, Boeing, Douglas
and many others, have set up gravity projects. If you add up all the
known gravity programs being run by the governme-t and private
industry, you get somewhere between 65 and 70 projects.
This means there is a heavy concentration of scientific and engineering
brains working on the problem.

One leading scientist who is convinced that UFO's are spaceships using
gravity control is Dr. Hermann Oberth. Doctor Oberth, a recognized
authority,
was co-designer of the V-2 rocket and later a U.S. special consultant at
Huntsville, Alabama, one of the installations where important antigravity
research is now under way. "With ordinary propulsion," Doctor Oberth
told me in 1961, "such violent accelerations and maneuvers would endanger
the ship.
Also, the force would crush any creatures aboard against the rear or
sides of the machine. But with an artificial gravity field the force applies
simultaneously to the passengers and the spaceship. Even in swift
changes of speed and direction, the ship is not strained and the
passengers feel nothing.

Today, doctor Oberth is willing to go further. He is now of the opinion
"that energy, inertia and gravitational fields are only aspects of one
and the same thing" and that it will prove impossible to separate them
from each other. What he has in mind, he says, is "not yet known
fields of force" which can be used to accelerate material objects
in a way similar to the force of gravity.
Another noted authority who agrees that UFO's are using
artificial G fields is William P. Lear, Sr., [see "Hard-nosed
Gambler in the Plane Game" in this issue] multimillionaire
inventor, pilot, designer of air and space equipment and
builder of jet aircraft. Lear, who once sighted a UFO from
his executive plane, predicts that future U.S. vehicles will
also use artificial gravity.
"The people on board would probably not feel any more
effect," Lear says, "than they do from the tremendous
speed of the Earth as it rotates and orbits and orbits the
sun."
Several years ago, Glenn Martin's vice-president for advanced
design, G. S. Trimble, predicted that by 1985 practically all
airliners would be using artificial gravity, flying at almost
unbelievable speeds. At about the same time, future airliner
speeds of 10,000 mph. or more were pictured by Dr. Walter
Dornberger, then Bell Aircraft's chief guided-missile scientist
and now pr-sident of Bell Aerospace. Grover Loening,
pioneer aircraft builder and consultant to the Air For-e, said
it even more strongly, "I firmly believe that before long man
will acquire the ability to build an electromagnetic contragravity
mechanism that works," he stated.
A top official of Bethlehem Steel, Jesse V. Honeycutt, has
indicated some of the results we can expect if Loening is
right. ""serious research is being concentrated in an
attempt to solve the mystery of gravity and bring about a
control of its power. It would bring about a greater r-volution in
power, transportation and many other fields than the discovery
of at-mic power,""he stated. Antigravity? It seems inconceivable.
Yet, the search goes on and many responsible men believe the
answer will be found. And, to my mind, it is the only possible
explanation for the performance of the UFO's.
The stakes are so high that no clue can be overlooked. The Air
F-rce Technical Intelligence, hunting for overlooked leads, is
carefully checking hundreds of verified UFO reports. Hopefully,
some of them will help us find out how these strange vehicles
operate.
Four days before Christmas, 1964, a round, metallic craft about
125 feet in diameter was observed to make a brief landing in
a field near Staunton, Virginia. Two Du Pont scientists later
took Geiger counters to the site. "It was 'hot'-highly radioactive,"
Du Pont engineer Lawrence Cook reported. "We checked for
45 minutes - it was definitely 'hot'."

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John Winston. joh...@mlode.com