By Ian Graham
This booklet solutions such interesting questions as why sizeable ships waft and submarines sink… how yachts use the wind to sail… and what tools a ship's captain makes use of at the bridge.
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There For example, author Donald Schmitt has been accused of misrepresenting his educational credentials, throwing doubt on earlier infor- among investigators. But the number of witnesses who have come forward is now overwhelming. Even so, a full answer will come mation, and creating conflict only if government and military agencies the evidence that is still finally release being withheld. 49 a ylBDllCTIONS BARNEY AND BETTY HILL the 'ne of first well-documented UFO abduction cases occurred in 1961.
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In the woods the men saw first at a "curtain" Another of light in the pines, with a luminous mist rolling There seemed to be an object with a red light and a bank of blue much lights, the on top what Archer and like Cadbury had reported the night in underneath. Once more, before. UFO backed away. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, assistant base com- mander men at nearby Bentwaters, brought to the woods just after a truck convoy of The team midnight. carried portable spotlights, Geiger counters, star-lite scopes to view infrared and cameras.