Page 4 of Flying Saucers Magazine - June 1960

There are several points which it is necessary to clear up in the most prominent position possible, and the beginning of the editorial is about as prominent as we can get it. 1.) This is the issue of FLYING SAUCERS which follows the February 1960 issue, and since February was number 14, this is number 15. It is dated June, 1960, which means the April 1960 issue did not get printed! So, if you feel inclined to write and inform us you did not receive your April issue, please don't. We've got enough unanswered mail as it is! 2.) With the publication of our December 1959 issue, troubles began to pile up, but we want to make it perfectly clear, we were not visited by any men in black, nor were we silenced in any respect by any authority, governmental or otherwise. It is true that thousands of our magazines were mysteriously missing in transit, but the shortage was remedied 'by calling in unsold copies from newsstands. Thus it may be that you had trouble finding a copy at the newsstand at which you regularly buy your copy, but if so, we can fill your order from our stock. 3.) We don't intend to quit publication! If by any chance, FLYING SAUCERS ceases publication without a good reason given by your editor or his family, it will mean simply that everything we've said in the pages of FLYING SAUCERS is true, and that some powerful agency is attempting to keep these things secret. Is that plain enough? There are only two things that can make us voluntarily give up FLYING SAUCERS' publication, and they are extreme old age, or a million dollars (in which latter case we will put out a magazine that will really bug your eyes!) 4.) Several rather prominent flying saucer personalities have written us in the following vein: "You sure ruined yourself with that fake North Pole trip of Admiral Byrd. Too badyou might have gotten somewhere if you hadn't gone off the deep end!" To this we have only one reply: "Admiral Byrd did make a polar flight in 1947 exactly as described with one exception-he made it to the South Pole, not the North. And as for getting somewhere, we really have, now! And how!"

With the publication of this June issue of FLYING SAUCERS, we have on hand such a tremendous mass of material that we can guarantee one thing-the next ten or twenty issues are going to be the most exciting publishing adventure in our long career! Anybody who is at all interested in flying saucers (to cover just one phase of the whole gigantic phenomenon) should not miss a future issue no matter what he thinks as of now. This isn't a sales pitch, because we're convinced we'll be working for nothing the rest of our lives, and, we just don't care; what we've got to say has got to be said.

At the same time, with publication of this issue of FLYING SAUCERS, we know full well that the content is nowhere near what we wish it was, for a whole host of vexing reasons, but we do think it is a very fine issue, and that it is the forerunner of much finer to come. It is true that this issue contains very little that actually can be said to follow up our Polar Theory. If we had a large staff of writers to whom we could pass out the material being received, and assign them particular aspects of it to whip into presentable shape, we could fill the magazine permanently with it. But your editor is one man, with a whole host of things to do, and he works on the theory that accomplishment is a matter of putting one foot in front of another, one at a time, and that is precisely what we are doing. If you stick with us long enough, our destination will become visible and obvious, and totally interesting.

But, with the space left us in this issue, let's just touch upon a few interesting and intriguing points. The first has to do with the interesting theory advanced by several of our readers, (and backed up with scads of mathematical calculations too!), that the North and South Magnetic Poles may be focal points of magnetism on a giant circle which progress at a prescribed pace just as the equinoxes, the constellations through the zodiac, the march of the stars about their spatial pathways. This progression along this circular pathway is even placed at about 12 miles per year, although we personally don't state that as any correct figure at this timeIt could be slower or faster. The point is that the Magnetic Poles move steadily in a kind of earthsurface orbit around the Geographic Poles. At this time we will give only one bit of information, from among the dozens that have come to us, that points to merit in this theory. We would like to quote from the Naval Aviation News, page 18, January 1960 issue:

"The 'Lost Continent of Antarctic' came up with two more (more? -Ed.) debits on November 1 when a Navy Skytrain reported the disappearance of two tall mountains.

The discovery was made during a routine aerial reconnaissance by a plane of VX-6. It flew over the zig-zag route to be followed in the next three and one half months by a nine man traverse party in Marie Byrd Land. One of the mountains, Mt. Vinson, was charted during Operation High Jump in 1946-47 Mr. John Pirrit, glaciologist and leader of this year's traverse party, believe the 20,013-foot mountain non-existent as a result of observations made last year. Aboard the Skytrain he saw an aerial confirmation of his suspicions. Thirty miles further, the 15.000-foot Mt. Nimitz also failed to materialize as the Skytrain flew over its charted position. It is understandable how Mt. Vinson got on the chart, Mr. Pirrit said. By flying over the Executive Committee Range, an aberrated image of Mt. Sidley is seen. Mt. Sidley is about 180 miles from Byrd Station. Deduction therefore was that Mt. Vinson must have been a mirage."

In this report we are asked to believe: 1.) that in 1946-47 Operation High Jump charted two mountains which they named after Admirals Vinson and Nimitz, established the height of Mt. Vinson to be precisely 20,013 feet, and the height of Mt. Nimitz to be 15,000 feet (neither to be considered small mountains by any stretch of the imagination), and 12 years later these mountains are nowhere to be found, and in fact are explained away as "aberrated mirages." Not just mirages, but crazy ones! If your editor were a member of the original charters of these mountains in 1947, we would demand satisfaction for this insult. We cannot believe that the scientists of Operation High Jump, whose accomplishments can be reviewed in detail in the National Geographic (to give the easiest place for reference), were so crassly incompetent. We prefer to believe that Mts. Vinson and Nimitz were exactly where the 1947 cartographers placed them, and that they are still there. We predict that they will be rediscovered, and will be said to be several hundred miles away from their originally charted location. (But everybody knows mountains don't move!) It may be that they will not be recognized then, but certainly their original discoverers took pictures of them. If anyone can provide us with pictures of these two mountains, and a picture of Mt. Sidley, we will be glad to publish them all, to prove that they are three different mountains, and that two of them are not "aberrated images" of the third!

There was only one way to chart these mountains, and that was by use of the magnetic compass and with an assist from the sun and stars. Since the sun and stars are totally unreliable in these far southern areas as a means of precise location, it would be the major role of the compass to give direction, to make the role of the sun in giving latitude and longitude at all positive. Thus, if the South Magnetic Pole travels about on its circular orbit at the rate of anywhere from 12 to 18 miles per year, it is certainly to be expected that an expedition twelve years later, charting its way southward, will wind up more than a hundred miles away from the mountains in question, while believing themselves to be unquestionably in the same spot!

It is this mysterious factor that has lead to so many arguments among polar explorers. Lands discovered and charted have later been impossible to find within thousands of miles of their original supposed locations. Over the hundreds of years of North Polar exploration, succeeding explorers have often marveled at the evident fact that their predecessors could have been so wrong in their mapping efforts.

As an interesting aside, the Naval Aviation News, same page, tells of two types of insects which are regularly collected on three-hour bugruns by sleeve-nets thrust from the doors of a single engine UC-1 Otter. One of the bugs is a small wingless fly and the other is called a springtail. The theory is advanced that these insects are blown into the deep freeze of Antarctica by prevailing winds, for certainly they cannot live in this area of temperatures down to 100 degrees below zero and lower. It is interesting to note that it is a wingless insert that is picked up in some warmer clime and deposited here in Antarctica. This is a "ground-scooping" wind, we are forced to hazard, and we wonder why it is that hundreds of other species of tiny wingless (and why not winged also?) insects are not likewise scooped up by this prevailing wind and brought hither? Also, if this is the answer, why waste time in regular three-hour "bug-runs" to collect the little beasties? A great deal like a camel straining at a gnat! To what purpose? Once you've got one bucketful, do you try for a hundred? Perhaps springtail soup is delicious!

On March 4, 1960, Charles Morris, Dubuque, Iowa, airplane instructor saw flying saucers. It was at sundown, and he saw three silver saucer-shaped objects whirring along at about 200 miles per hour, about 20.000 feet up. Morris can prove he saw them because he got 19 feet of film with his movie camera.

That is, he could have proved it, if he had kept the film. But he gave it to the "federal government" (Air Force?) for processing and study (and safe keeping, we presume!). Too bad, Morris-you might as well get used to it-you didn't see a blame thing! What pictures, Morris? Let us know when you get 'em back, will you? And if you do, prove they are the same pictures, and that they are intact. Whoops, there goes another rubbertree plant!

Remember Edward Ruppelt, whose book, "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" sold 50,000 copies, and which contained so much inaccurate information about yours truly? Well, the book has been revised and reissued, and now, whereas the first edition said "they is," now he says "they ain't." "Flying Saucers were (note the past tense) the illusions of people who didn't understand what they really saw: weather balloons, passing aircraft, stars, etc." The book is to be translated into French, German, Portuguese also, and published abroad. As a publisher, your editor wonders why? Not to make money, certainly, because it can't possibly! Mr. Ruppelt is a resident, by the way of Long Beach, where he draws the long bow-which we've gone into before regarding the things he said about your editor, and by golly, there is one place we can stand on firmly! We were there, Ruppelt, and you weren't! So much for your new book to brainwash the peasants (that's us).

In 1911 Explorer Robert F. Scott tried to reach the South Pole on foot. At one point, apparently, he stopped to build a hut, because on February 1, 1960, it was reported by Professor Robert L. Nichols, head of the Tufts College-National Science Foundation Expedition, that his five-man party had found the hut, and inside it found books, shoes, spice boxes and a tobacco tin used by the English explorer, who lost his life in 1912. Thus far, we haven't been able to reach Professor Nichols to ask him what the hut was constructed of. If of wood, where did Scott get the wood? And if of snow blocks, how did Nichols find it?

Even Byrd's camp, which everyone knew how to locate, was buried deep beneath the surface, in perpetual ice, and they had to tunnel down to it. What chance did Nichols have to find this hut? But he did, apparently, and it is called a "hut." Our curiosity is aroused! If he used native wood to build it, we are not being told all the details. Was the hut in a warm area where trees grew, and snow didn't pile a hundred feet of ice atop the hut in the 49 years since Scott built it?

Ever hear of "The Pole of Inaccessibility" (outside FLYING SAUCERS, that is?). Well, it's on the maps (some maps) of the North Polar Area. It is supposed to be a land mass between Alaska and the North Pole. In 1925 Jacob Gayer was the lensman on the National Geographic-U.S. Navy expedition to find it. All the expedition found was mirages--no land. Jacob Gayer took the first color pictures north of the Arctic Circle, and we wonder if he took pictures of the mirages. Mirages, by the way, are realthey are reflections of land beyond the horizon. We wonder what land it could be; the nearest land in that direction is over a thousand miles away. Quite a jump for a mirage!

It is often that this editor makes obvious statements, but maybe this is not one of the times! The implications might not be so obvious. . .In this issue you have read something of NICAP's challenge about governmental secrecy regarding UFO. In past issues you have read a varied diet of semi-commendation and of criticism for NICAP (which, if you don't know the meaning of the letters is Major Donald Keyhoe's organization National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena). In fact, Mr. Keyhoe has been angry with us several times.

Your editor is a member of his organization, paying dues, and getting the bulletin published by the organization. In the main, it does a lot of good work, and the information contained in the bulletin is valuable and helpful. Our major criticism to date of Major Keyhoe has been his continual beating of the drums for interplanetary origin of the flying saucers. Among other criticisms was one in which Kenneth Arnold was involved, and on which we have the most inside of inside information, the ill-advised Armstrong Circle Theatre TV "bust" on UFO, wherein Major Keyhoe was supposedly cut off the air 'when he began to demand a congressional investigation. We hinted that we felt the whole thing was a "fix". Kenneth Arnold, sensing that the show was to be rigged, refused to go on it, even after being brought to New York for that express purpose.

The program, in its presentation, did inestimable damage to the cause of flying saucers, we believe. But in one respect it helped, because to those "in the know", the rigging was too obvious, and only served to make them more fervent in their efforts to find out more about UFO.

This time we want to criticise nobody, least of all Major Keyhoe. We want only to make a point, and we hope to hurt nobody's feelings. The point is very simple: Vice-Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter was Director of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency, now headed by Allen Dulles, brother of John Foster Dulles) on January 17, 1953, when a classified CIA-UFO report was drawn up, the complete text of which Congress has been unable to obtain! As you can see, this is a loaded, double entendre point, because it also asks if there was such a report? Your editor just doesn't know.

Because of Hillenkoetter's CIA background, this editor would like to advance as possibility that NICAP is actually a UFO mouthpiece for the CIA (or whatever agency of government, if such exists, that is responsible for saucer secrecy).

There are several factors in your editor's mind which arouse his thoughtful suspicion, which existed from the first day we received the original prospectus of NICAP. The dues, for one thing, were $100.00. Or perhaps it was membership, we disremember-but a lot of money was involved. This was hastily cut down, several times, when the very amount produced no results, and in fact, brought suspicion. Next, in spite of the fact that this editor is not only the first flying saucer investigator, but the possessor of the largest private file of information in the world, and the publisher of the only newsstand magazine on flying saucers, and has repeatedly offered to help NICAP, this help has been refused. We even offered to publish their magazine as a section of FLYING SAUCERS with absolutely no editing, the entire section to be exactly as prepared by Major Keyhoe, and to pay the entire cost of production with our part being our regular subscription price. At that time this would have left NICAP the larger share of the membership fee, and would have provided the capital he said he needed. But did he need capital then? At first, it seemed, he had money to spend. It was probably his, but it was soon gone. We privately wondered if it was his?

Next, appearing on two national television hookups (Mike Wallace' odious "pin the tail on the donkey" show was the other), Major Keyhoe succeeded only in making the case for UFO look very weak.

To be entirely fair, nobody else has made the UFO subject appear very strong, and that includes us.

Not in an official governmental way, that is. We've convinced a lot of private citizens, but have gotten nowhere in overcoming the secracy and ridicule blanket that is so obiviously being thrown over the whole subject. In that, Mr. Keyhoe can hardly be condemned only regarded in mutual sympathy.

But one accusation we m a d e, which was the only one t h a t aroused Major Keyhoe to a public denunciation of us, was the fact that NICAP's board of governors and advisors was loaded with military personnel. Now, in the interest of adding to the record, we make our point regarding Vice-Admiral Hillenkoetter. He is not only military (retired) but also secret intelligence (retired).

We may be all wrong, and the whole of NICAP's membership is sincere and truthful. But it is a FACT, and one that cannot be ignored without great danger of doing serious harm to the effort to get the truth of UFO, that it is IMPOSSIBLE to take things said by Hillenkoetter as gospel, because of the background of the man. He was head of the CIA, and he's like a wife who cannot testify against her husband-his testimony is legally prejudiced and unacceptable. When he talks of secrecy, it must be remembered that he was secrecy in the past, and top man.

Let's not be lulled into ceasing our own efforts to get congressional investigation into flying saucers by the supposition that NICAP and Hillenkoetter are on the job and that therefore everything possible is being done, and all is well.

Of course what we have said has little point, other than the fact that is already obvious, NICAP is still loaded with ex-military personnel, and to people with suspicious minds (your editor has the worst possible case!) whatever they say should be examined carefully.

Let it not be misunderstood-we believe NICAP is a good thing, and we think everybody interested in finding out the truth about UFO should be a member, and get that publication. It contains vital information. It is valuable. And we may be wholy wrong, and the implication of the military (and intelligence) personnel preponderance in NICAP is because each and every one, now retired, is making an effort to overcome an evil he could not combat while actually in the service! Accordingly, we print herewith the address of NICAP, for the benefit of all who wish to join it. Write to: NICAP, 1536 Connecticut Ave., N. W., Washington 6, D. C. The March, 1960, bulletin carries no membership fee, nor subscription price, so we can't give that to you, but you can write for the cost if interested-and you should be.

It would seem that there are more persons in this strangely shaped world who are in doubt about. the poles. Now Swedish polar experts are challenging two American North Pole claims, They doubt whether Admiral Richard Byrd ever reached the pole on his famous flight of May 9, 1926. And they say it's unlikely that Admiral Robert Peary was the first man to reach the pole.

Peary is credited with reaching the pole on April 6, 1909. Professor Gosta Liljequist of Uppsala University says that weather conditions on the day of Byrd's flight made it unlikely that he could have reached the pole and returned to base in the 15 hours and 30 minutes claimed. And Dr. Walter Schytt of Stockholm University says of Peary: "It is unbelievable that such an old man who could not ski and who traveled on foot could cover between 100 and 120 kilometers a day over rough polar ice." No less an authority than Berndt Balchen agrees that Peary could not have reached the pole.

In our next issue, we will try to have a very exciting article concerning the mysterious "Pole of Inaccessibility", and Admiral Byrd's mysterious "land in the sky" statement. So seriously was this taken that an actual expedition was sent to photograph it.

We will also further our "case for a hollow planet" with a very intriguing article which will sum up some of the evidence that is readily available which points to the possibility. We have in preparation another article which culls from the Bible a surprising amount of testimony that the writers of the Bible believed the Earth to be possessed of mystery lands and openings at the poles. To the believer in the Bible, this article will be quite a staggering one. Your editor believes in the Bible, and in fact, has studied it since boyhood, intrigued by what it says that nobody else seems to realize it says. The science hidden in the Bible is striking in the light of this century's discoveries. The Bible says the Earth is hollow, and tells why it is (or was) not possible to get into it.

A very important article to come will contain an interview with (name withheld for reasons that will become obvious when the article is published!) which will give the facts about Byrd's 1926 polar flight!

If you missed the December issue of FLYING SAUCERS, in which all this inner earth material began to appear, and the February issue in which it was continued, we still have copies available, at 35c. You may regret not having a copy as time goes by and future issues of FLYING SAUCERS get you intrigued!-Rap.