Wilbert
B. Smith
Ottawa
Ontario Canada
I have been actively engaged
in the investigation of the group of phenomena
known as flying saucers for over several years.
During this period I have read most of the
available literature on the subject, interviewed a
great many people who have seen unusual things in
the sky, examined many pictures and physical
objects, made observations with scientific
instruments, and carried on a series of
communications with intelligences with
intelligences claiming to be extraterrestrial.
I started the investigation
out of curiosity, and as an extreme sceptic, fully
expecting to find the phenomena to be due to
man-made or natural causes. I am 48 years old,
hold a Master’s degree in electrical
engineering, occupy a responsible position in the
Canadian Government, hold a half dozen patents, am
author or several technical papers, and in general
enjoy a background in technical work and science
indicating at least an average competence to study
and report
on phenomena of a scientific nature.
I have tried as far as
possible to use conventional and standard methods
and equipment, and to investigate all possible
angles before drawing any conclusions. In other
words, I have followed the same general procedures
which I would have followed if I undertaken to
study some more prosaic subject, such as radio
wave propagation.
The first phase of the work
consisted of reading all available literature,
collecting as much observational data as possible,
and in general getting a fair perspective of the
problem. The second phase involved theoretical and
laboratory work, finding openings in our
technology and in establishing relevant reference
points. And the third phase involved following up
the many and varied leads which developed from the
first two phases.
I do not intend to dwell on
the first phase of the work, as my experience was
exactly parallel with other investigators who have
provided extensive published reports on their
findings. Nor will I dwell on the many dead ends,
which were explored, which looked promising at
first, but faded out after careful investigation.
Nor will I be able to be specific, as I would like
to be with respect to material given to me in
confidence, or which came through classified
channels. Furthermore, it is not my intention to
try to convert anyone to my way of thinking, but
merely to state what I believe and why I believe
it.
Let us take a look at a few
facts. First, hundreds of normal, honest people
have seen lights in the sky, which behaved like no
light seen in the sky would normally behave.
Secondly, hundreds of normal, honest people have
seen what appeared to be solid, real objects in
the sky, which behaved it no object seen in the
sky ought to behave. Thirdly, hundreds of people
have seen objects in the earth’s atmosphere at
sufficiently close range to see enough detail to
enable them to say definitely what the object was not,
even though they could not identify what it was.
Fourthly, descriptions of these objects from
observers where circumstances virtually preclude
collusion check quite well among themselves, and
against the data received from other sources.
It is not reasonable to
suppose that hundreds of ordinary, normal people,
whose word we would readily accept under more
mundane circumstances- for instance, as witness to
an automobile accident- should suddenly becomes
liars, fools, neurotics, and otherwise quite
incompetent observers.
I have interviewed many of
these people myself, and I am convinced that they
are sane, sober, honest folk, who are reporting as
best they can something that they really did
witness. I will concede that some of these people
did not do as good as job of observing as someone
who is better trained might have done, within
their limits. I believe that they did honestly
report what they saw.
Let us take a look at a few
more facts. First, there have been several close
brushes with these objects, and in one case at
least the aircraft pilot lost his life as a
consequence. Captain Mantell was reported killed
as a result of chasing a flying saucer on
January7, 1947. The incident is described in
detail in Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
by Edward J. Ruppelt, pp.51-60 (American edition)
Secondly, people who have
been near these objects have described physical
sensations, which are unusual to say the least,
but which are quite consistent with what is known
of the technology under which they operate. As
nearly as we are able to recreate the accident,
Mantell was pursuing a UFO and was able to get
quite near-in fact, well into its operating field.
His aircraft just fell apart was scattered over
quite an area. Mantell’s body, when recovered,
was not displayed to even his next of kin. Several
people, who have found themselves close to these
objects have remarked on the insufferable heat,
which seemed to pervade the general region. Also
there seemed to be a gravitational necessity to
lean away from the object to maintain balance.
These objects seem rather incredible; nevertheless
there exists quite a good record in support of
such an occurrence. Furthermore, the technology of
which we have been able to get a glimpse-namely,
that of manipulation of the three basic fields,
electric, magnetic, and tempic-indicates quite a
straightforward answer and explanation of the
phenomena.
In Mantell’s case, the
altered field configurations in the vicinity of
the craft reduced binding forces within the
structure of the aircraft to a value below that of
the load, which the parts were supposed to carry.
So it just came apart. Also, there was probably a
substantial reduction in tempic field intensity,
which would give in effect a rising temperature to
the aircraft and contents. I understand that
Mantell’s body gave every indication of having
been subjected to considerable heat. This rise in
temperature have been reported as being quite
noticeable at distances of several hundred feet of
these crafts when they were making use of certain
combinations of field. Also, since gravity
involves a tempic-field function., it follows that
an alteration in the filed could well be reflected
in the direction and magnitude of the nearby
gravity field.
There have been quite a
number of alleged communications with
intelligences claiming to be extra-terrestrial. I
have followed up each instance to the best of my
ability in an effort a) to establish or disprove the
validity of the alleged communication and b) to
obtain any information which might be available if
the contact should be authentic.
As might be expected, many of
these alleged contacts provided little or nothing
of value, but a few did pay off. Some of the
contacts have been the subject of published
material, but by far the majority are
confidential, and there are a surprising number of
these contacts. The procedure in checking contacts
was to ask a number of innocuous but significant
questions and compare the answers to the same
questions obtained through other contacts. The
questions were of the type – do people live on
the planet Mars? If so, what is the shape of their
houses? –Do people on Mars use money? –If so
what does it look like? Altogether, some hundred
or more questions were involved.
The results were spectacular,
to say the least. Among the contacts that might be
classed as authentic, there was almost complete
agreement. Among the other alleged contacts there
was extremely poor agreement, or not at all. Of
course, there was agreement in general, but where
one or two points didn’t fit, an effort was made
to find out the reason for the discrepancy. In
each case it was found that someone had injected a
terrestrial idea or comment instead of
transmitting faithfully that, which was received.
Now, having located what
seemed to be channels of communication between the
extraterrestrial intelligences and us, the next
and obvious step was to try and get as much
information as possible. As may be expected, this
effort was at first directed toward science and
technology. But soon it became apparent that there
was a very real and quite large gap between this
alien science and the science in which I had been
trained. Certain crucial experiments were
suggested and carried out, and in each case the
results confirmed the validity of the alien
science. Beyond this, the alien science was just
incomprehensible.
There followed a period of
soul-searching in which many doubts were raised.
While we were able to establish that these people
from outside all told the same story, was that
story true? It may be agreed that there existed
some pretty good evidence to support their
statements, but maybe there was some other
conventional explanation. If the whole thing was a
delusion, then quite a number of people were
suffering from precisely the same delusion. And
furthermore-delusions are not externalized –at
least, I never heard of such a case. If, on the
other hand, it was a hoax, it was by far the most
gigantic hoax the world had ever known, and to
what end and by who was it perpetrated?
The inevitable conclusion was
that it was all real enough, but that the alien
science was definitely alien- and possibly even
forever beyond our comprehension. So another
approach was tried- the philosophical- and here
the answer was found in all its grandeur.
I will not go into details on
the many revisions in ideas and basic thinking
beyond stating that the people from outside
displayed great patience and understanding in
overcoming the prejudices and misinformation that
I had spent many years in accumulating. I began
for the first time in my life to realize the basic
oneness of the Universe and all that is in it –
science, philosophy, religion, substance and
energy are all facets of the same jewel, and
before one facet can be appreciated, the form of
the jewel itself must be perceived.
One of the most important
things that I had to realize is that we are not
alone. The human race in the form of man extends
throughout the universe, and is incredibly
ancient. Also, its appearance in the physical form
is but one of the many manifestations along the
path of progress. Our civilization here on earth
now is only one of many that have come and gone.
The planet has been colonized many times by people
from elsewhere, and our present human races are
blood brothers of these people. Is it any wonder
that they are interested in us? To orthodox
thinkers this may seem strange, but not nearly so
strange as our orthodox ideas on evolution. The
question might be asked- “if these people are
our brothers, and they are interested in our
welfare, who do they remain so aloof?” The
answer is available. There is a basic law of the
universe, which grants each and every individual
independence, and freedom of choice, so that he
may experience and learn from his experiences. No
one has the right to interfere in the affairs of
others –in fact; our ten commandments are
directives against interference. If we disregard
this law, we must suffer the consequences, and
little thought will be shown that our present
world state is directly attributable to violation
of this principle. When we enter this life, we do
so to participate in certain events, the sequence
of which were established before our birth, and if
altered substantially would deprive us of
experiences necessary to our development. We have
built-in protection against altering substantially
the sequences in that we do not seriously know of
them. But these people from outside have a much
greater knowledge than we have, and have a means
of perceiving sequences, which must not be
changed. Therefore, while they have every desire
in the world to help, and stand by ready willing
and able to do so, they are not permitted by
cosmic law to interfere. The dividing line between
help and interference is very delicate indeed, and
sometimes hard to perceive, but it is a
demonstration of individual and collective
progress as to how well we can be graded by it. I
am told that one of the difficulties is that we do
not recognize a sufficient number of dimensions
and make use of them in our science. Furthermore,
we do not recognize the true nature of the
dimensions, or of their place in out Universe. I
am told that, as far as we are concerned there are
twelve dimensions of deity, and these provide the
entire structure of our Universe. Our conventional
concept of dimensions is most inadequate and
restrictive, and so long as we persist in them, we
can never transcend the world of mechanical
processes, which we have built.
In science we have
established procedure always to tie a new
discovery or observation to that which we already
know, even though to do so requires a patchwork
and perturbation factors to be applied to our
existing knowledge to make the new knowledge fit.
We invariably assume that the new knowledge must
somehow be closely related to the old, and we are
most zealous in tying the two together. As a
consequence we bend and warp our units of
knowledge so that we can fasten them together,
until we have fabricated quite a structure, which
is almost completely closed on itself.
Consequently, when we do find knowledge that
should, but just won’t, fit our structure, we
have no alternative but to reject it.
I am informed that the
science is really much more simple than we
imagine, and that all the component parts fit
together perfectly without any corrections.
Possibly we should start over again and reassemble
our knowledge in a different pattern, and this
time fit the jigsaw puzzle together properly
without trimming the pieces. I am sure that if we
were to do this and accept the philosophy on which
this new approach must of necessity be based; we
can enjoy the technology and the way of life,
which is demonstrated by the presence of the
spacecraft and of our brothers from elsewhere.
I would like to say a few
words on the philosophy of the saucers. Possibly
one of the most interesting aspects of the study
of flying saucers, beyond the realization that
they are real and extraterrestrial is their
philosophy. What manner of creatures would build
and fly them? What do they look like? How do they
think? Are their ideas and ideals similar to ours?
Could we understand them?
All these and other questions
plague the serious investigator. If we are to rely
on sighting data alone, we are bound to get a
rather one-sided idea of these creatures. For
example, we see the saucers travel at terrific
speeds, and then stop or change direction. Under
our concepts of physics, no creature of flesh and
blood and bone could withstand the terrific forces
that would be associated with such actions.
Therefore we are likely to assume that the
saucerians must either be some manner of robot, or
a creature the like of which we have never
encountered.
Again, it is hard to
understand why any race of creatures having the
tremendous power at their disposal, which we
demonstrated by the saucers, would be content to
fly rather aimlessly over our globe without doing
something more definite. If the tables were
reversed, we certainly would! After a brief
reconnaissance we would land and announce to the
natives that we were taking over. The fact that
the saucerians have made no such move appears that
they must regard us in the same general category
as the other flora and fauna native to this
planet, and to them our civilization is so
primitive as to be indistinguishable from that of
the lower animals and insect. We could go on
speculating in this manner for quite a while
without coming anywhere near the truth.
Fortunately, the people who have come from
elsewhere in flying saucers have seen fit to make
contact with people of the earth, and to impart as
much information and understanding as the contacts
were capable of assimilating or passing alone to
others.
There have been many
published instances of contacts between these
people from outside and people of the earth, and a
very great many more that have not been published.
As is always the case in any new and romantic
field, there are those who prevaricate and
exaggerate, but it is not too difficult to
establish that the vast majority and honest and
authentic. For instance, when a dozen or so
independent contacts, having no common connection
and each alone believing that he or she has been
favored above all others to receive this message,
and tell the same message even to names and
descriptions which tally perfectly, one has little
choice but to believe that they are telling the
truth. Furthermore, when the material given to us
through the many channels is all assembled and
analyzed, it adds up to a complete and elegant
philosophy which makes our efforts sound like the
beating of jungle drums.
These people tell us of a
magnificent cosmic plan, of which we are a part,
which transcends the lifetime of a single person
or nation or civilization, or even a planet or
solar system We are not merely told that there is
something beyond our immediate experience-we are
told what it is and our relationship therewith.
Many of our most vexing problems are solved with a
few words- at least, we are told of the solutions
if we have the understanding and fortitude to
apply them. We are told of the inadequacies of our
science, and we have been given the basic
grounding for a new science, which is at once
simpler and yet more embracing than the
mathematical monstrosity, which we have conjured
up. We have been told of a way of life, which is
Utopian beyond our dreams, and the means of
attaining it.
Can it be that a
self-consistent and magnificent philosophy is the
figment of imagination of a number of misguided
morons? I do not think so. If the only evidence we
had was philosophical, we might justifiably
suspect it. But when coupled with the reality of
observations- thousands of them- we cannot dismiss
it so easily. This is especially true when we
consider that the science which has been passed to
us by these people from elsewhere explains in a
manner in which we have been quite unable to do,
why the saucers behave as they do, and how it is
that they can do things which to us are virtually
impossible. The science and the performance check
perfectly. Again, we have been told where our
scientific ideas are wrong or inadequate, and
experiments have been suggested and carried out,
and in every case the alien science has been
vindicated.
We may ask, if all this is known, why has it not been publicized? Why are these matters not being studied instead of atomic bombs? The answer-it has been publicized. Books have been written and hundreds and thousands of copies sold. There are available many periodicals containing this material, which may have had for quite a nominal sum. Reports have been prepared by serious investigators and presented through the proper channels, but it is truly said that one can lead a horse to water, but cannot make him drink.