Flying Saucer Review November 1982 [antikvár]

"ufonauts" or "entities", and it seems that they are prepared to argue that there has never been a "UFO" that was not either a natural phenomenon or a secret man-made device of one government or another, and that any crew-members seen must of a necessity be members of the armed forces of one side or the other.In line with this thinking, a massive campaign is at present under way in the United States and Britain and indeed throughout the whole of the West to prove conclusively that no "critters" exist or have ever existed, and that there have never been any UFO cases that were not easily amenable to these simple explanations.It will not be difficult for our readers to form their own opinion as to why CSICOP think it so vitally important that their views shall be made to prevail, and we need waste no time on further analysis of the situation beyond pointing out firmly this very important difference between the CSICOP on the one hand and the Finnish astronomer on the other despite the fact that they are in entire agreement about the use of the Plesetsk rocket range.In the meantime, it is sad to have to report that learned members of the USSR Academy of Sciences came out last July with a totally new blanket explanation for all "flying saucers". Naturally this explanation has nothing to say about Plesetsk Cosmodrome. We shall be reporting on the new theory separately in a future issue.As for the events of the famous night of June 14, 1980, over Moscow and other places, it now remains to be seen what reply is forthcoming from the American writer Henry Gris, who, as will be recalled, is the author of the articles which we summarized, and who claims to have received the information in question from the Russian astronomer, Professor Yuri F. Zigel' of the Moscow Institute of Aviation. In personal letters which I have received from Mr. Gris he assures me that such is the fact of the matter, and he tells me that he has of course long been familiar with the arguments of the Gentlemen from CSICOP who as he says claim to have put paid to all UFO reports even to those dating from years before the first sputnik was ever sent aloft by Homo Sapiens.Even more interesting, if we could ever secure it, would be the opinion of Dr. Zigel' himself, who, although he is one of the Soviet scientists who are training the Russian astronauts, is if we are to believe the hoys from CSICOP himself kept so completely in the dark that he knows nothing about the Plesetsk launchings, and, in any case, does not know a rocket when he sees one.C'r could it be that a far deeper game is being played? According to this scenario, Zigel' himself would he an active participant in the massive Soviet cover-up about the Cosmodrome at Plesetsk.But, you may say, there still remain the reports (which Mr. Henry Gris tells me he received from Dr. Zigel') of aconsiderable number of UFO landings in the USSR , recent years, and of small entities seen or encountered there by Soviet citizens. And you may rmturally ask: are these small crewmen from Plesetsk too? Well, the answer seems (if the Gentlemen from CSICOP are right) to be yes, they may well be.This can only mean that the Soviets have made great advances in the production and preparation of small-statured astronauts for their ambitious Space Programmes. It has been suggested that the poor living conditions and poor fare normally enjoyed by the mass of dwellers in the Communist Paradise, plus a long series of bad harvests, will have sufficed to bring about this state of affairs, so that plenty of stunted recruits are ready to hand.But this would still leave the massive heads of the squat-rigged entities to be accounted for, and it seems far more likely that such macrocephaly points to special techniques of breeding maybe even to cloning all of which will of course have been going on for many years past at least since the early 1950s.The potential advantages for Space Travel of having such runtish cosmonauts are evident to us all. They will presumably be able to withstand the g-stresses far better; they will occupy less space in the cabin; and, last but not least, they will presumably require less food, and so be less dependent on the likes of President Reagan.These are fascinating vistas, and we shall wait with enormous interest to see what further details CSICOP will be able to give us.MEETING THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, Vol. 3, No. 1. Articles include: "Playing the Ouija Board," "Darwin, Freud & Marx," "Beware of False Prophets," "Creme de la Creme," "Planets for 1982," Book Reviews, etc. Obtainable from: Roma Browne, 2 Riverside, Forest Row, Sussex. 60p U.K. 80p Europe, SOp Overseas Surface Mail.