Then suddenly it hit me.

Even if it were a smoke screen, what of those old reports?

They still remained to be answered. There was only one possible
explanation, unless you discarded the sightings as lies. That meant
discrediting many reliable witnesses--naval officers, merchant
shipmasters, explorers, astronomers, ministers, and responsible public
officials. {p. 65} Besides all these, there had been thousands of
other witnesses, where large groups had seen the objects.

The answer seemed inevitable, but I held it off. I didn't want to
believe it, with all the changes it might bring, the unpredictable
effect upon our civilization.

If I kept on checking I might find evidence that would bring a
different explanation for the present saucers.

DuBarry had put another group of reports in the envelope; this series
covered the World War II phase and on up to the outbreak of the saucer
scare in the United States. Some of it, about the foo fighters, I
already knew. This was tied in with the mystery rockets reported over
Sweden. The first Swedish sightings had occurred during the early part
of the war. Most of the so-called "ghost rockets" were seen at night,
moving at tremendous speed. Since they came from the direction of
Germany, most Swedes believed that guided rockets were the answer.

During the summer of 1946, after the Russians had taken over
Peenemunde, the Nazi missile test base, ghost rockets again were
reported flying over Sweden. Some were said to double back and fly