visitors.

In fifty years we had learned to fly. In fifty years more, we would be
exploring space. Why should we believe such creative intelligence was
limited to the earth? It would be incredible if the earth, out of all
the millions of planets, proved the only inhabited spot in the whole
universe.

But, instinctively, I still fought against believing that the flying
saucers were space ships. Eventually, we would make contact with races
on other planets; they undoubtedly would someday visit the earth. But
if it could be put off . . . a problem for later generations to handle
. . .

If the disks proved American guided missiles, it would be an easier
answer.

Looking through the Project "Saucer" report DuBarry had loaned me, I
read the space-travel items, hoping to find some hint that this was a
smoke screen. On page 18, in a discussion on Mars, I found this
comment:

"Reports of strange objects seen in the skies have been handed down
through the generations. However, scientists believe that if Martians
were now visiting the earth

{p. 64}

without establishing contact, it could be assumed that they have just
recently succeeded in space travel, and that their civilization would