reported. Some of these saucers have been seen all over the world. No
matter which hemisphere they were launched from, they'd need an
eight-thousand-mile range, at least, to explain all of the sightings.
The only apparent answer would be some new kind of power, probably
atomic. We certainly didn't have atomic engines for aircraft in 1947,
when the first disks were seen here. And we don't have them now,
though we're working on it. Even if we had such an engine, it wouldn't
be tiny enough to power the small disks."

"Anyway," I said, "we'd hardly be flying them all over everywhere. The
cost would be enormous, and there'd always be a danger of somebody
getting the secret if a disk landed."

"Plus the risk of injuring people by radiation. just imagine an
atomic-powered disk dropping into a city. The whole idea's
ridiculous."

"That seems to rule out the guided-missile answer," I began. But
Redell shook his head.

"Disk-shaped missiles are quite feasible. I'm talking about range,
speed, and performance. Imagine for a moment that we have disk-type
missiles using the latest jet or rocket propulsion--either piloted or
remote-controlled. The question is, could such disks fit specific
sightings like the one at Godman Field and the case at Fargo?"

Redell paused as if some new thought had struck him.

"Wait a minute, here's an even better test. I happen to