A RIDE IN A FLYING SAUCER can be a valuable experience— educational,uplifting, empowering. But only if you’re prepared forit. Hence this guide—the most comprehensive and PRACTICAL ever offered to the public. In it you’ll find tales of contactees, facts about the Space People, and amazing photos. You’ll learn about Buck Nelson’s ride, Orthon, mother ships, the Encounter Kit, boarding etiquette, Little Men, propulsion systems, Cosmic Consciousness, UFO detectors, Giant Rock, interplanetary birds, a special handshake, women and UFOs, the Pyramid Hat, sightseeing on Mars, abductions (the real story), Madame Blavatsky, the Moon train, exercise pills, Ray Palmer (“the man who invented flying saucers”), the Saturn conference, Music of the Spheres, the Mystery Tower, your legal rights in Space, George Adamski, jumpsuits. And you’ll get Professor Solomon’s tips for MAKING THE MOST of your encounter. Read this book and be ready—for your ride in a UFO. 0-912509-07-4 by Professor Solomon Illustrated by Steve Solomon Top Hat Press BALTIMORE Copyright © 1998 by Top Hat Press All rights reserved ISBN 0-912509-07-4 Photography by Leonard Solomon http://www.professorsolomon.com Top Hat Press Baltimore Contents Why This Book 1. Do They Exist? Things in the Sky Explanations My Own View I Was Wrong There’s Something Out There 2. What Are They? Local? Wrong Again Amazing Tales 3. Messengers It Can Happen to Anyone Dealing with It The Contactees Thrive Adamski 4. “Let Me Outa Here!” Different Types The Abduction Phenomenon Theories My Theory Spiritual Benefits 5. Flying Saucers and You Me? Being Prepared Coming Aboard Making the Most Things to Beware At Risk Three Special Words 6. Q&A Q&A 7. This and That The Mars Restaurant Women and Flying Saucers Mundo The Pyramid Hat How Do They Fly? A Martian Temple Elvis A Summing Up : The Extraterrestrial Life Debate Why This Book You stagger to your feet. The floor begins to rumble. There are flashing lights—a high-pitched hum—an approaching figure in a jumpsuit. It’s happening. A flying saucer is about to take off. And who’s aboard? Who’s staring in disbelief at the alien decor? Who would prefer to be elsewhere? That’s right. You. Moments before, all was fine. You were driving along a lonely road, savoring the night air, marveling at a skyful of stars—when a disk appeared overhead, glowing and pulsat- ing. Mysteriously, your car stalled and coasted to a halt. The disk swooped down. From it came a ray of light, gripping you and drawing you inside. Now that disk is rising into the sky. It is carrying you off. And my question is this: Are you prepared for such an experience? Will you be able to deal with it? Meet its challenges? And even (as with any remarkable experience) profit from it? Let’s face it. Probably not. Indeed, you’ve probably given scant thought to the mat- ter. A flying saucer experience? Oh, that’s something that happens to other people. Or doesn’t even happen at all—a bunch of nonsense. In any event, you’ve seen no reason to worry about it. Yet to anyone who has examined the evidence—taken a close look at the photographs, eyewitness accounts, and sta- tistics—nothing could be further from the truth. Encoun- ters with flying saucers do take place. They happen daily. And they can happen to anyone. Including you. Which is the reason for this book. I want to demonstrate that (as the evidence attests) these are real experiences, hap- pening to people in every walk of life. And I want to pre- pare you for that experience. So that you’ll be ready. Ready to enhance—not merely endure—your flying saucer experience. Ready to empower, improve, and enrich yourself—both spiritually and financially—through that experience. In short, ready to of it. Interested? If so, read on.* * And please, as you read through this work, don’t skip the footnotes. They are intended as informative (if digressive) tid- bits—not as scholarly baggage. 1. Do They Exist? Things in the Sky Mysterious objects in the sky have been puzzled over since prehistoric times. Yet the UFO phenomenon may be said to have begun on June 24, 1947, when Kenneth Arnold, a businessman in a private plane, spotted a forma- tion of disks (or craft with swept-back wings) near Mount Rainier, Washington. His report was featured in a local newspaper, picked up by the wire services, and carried in newspapers around the country. During the next three weeks, UFOs were reported over 25 states. By the end of the year, there had been hundreds of sightings—a wave of them. Unidentified Flying Objects (as the Air Force clas- sified the phenomena) or flying saucers (as a journalist dubbed them) had arrived.* In the years that followed, the sightings continued… until they were no longer news. Everyone was seeing UFOs —farmers, pilots, politicians.† In a Gallup poll taken in 1966, 5 million adult Americans—or 2.5% of the popula- tion—claimed to have seen a UFO. By 1973, the figure had risen to 7%; by 1990, to 14%. What were these objects and lights in the sky? Almost from the start, the prevailing explanation was ships from Outer Space. An incredible notion? Americans didn’t seem to think so. That 1966 Gallup poll found that 25% of them believed UFOs to be craft from other planets. By 1974, the figure had risen to 54%. By 1984, it was 80%. * The earliest known use of the word saucer to describe a mys- terious object in the sky was in January 1878, when John Martin of Dennison, Texas, claimed that something swift and circular— resembling “a large saucer,” reported the Dennison Daily News— had flown over his farm. The newspaper described Martin as “a gentleman of undoubted veracity.” † Jimmy Carter saw one, hovering outside a hall where he had just delivered a speech. “It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen,” he said (according to the National Enquirer, June 8, 1976). “It was big; it was very bright; it changed colors; and it was about the size of the moon.” So the majority of Americans had come to believe that extraterrestrial ships were plying the skies. And many claimed to have actually seen those ships. Clearly, they had seen something. The question is what. Let’s take a look at the possibilities.* * The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis, as it is called, was first pro- moted by a science-fiction editor named Ray Palmer. Palmer (whose Amazing Stories had abounded with ships from other planets) started Fate magazine, which reported on UFOs and other mysteries, and the second issue of which featured Kenneth Arnold’s “Are Space Visitors Here?” He also coauthored a book with Arnold; founded a press that specialized in UFO publica- tions; and (in the opinion of some) mischievously transformed the alien spaceships of science fiction into the flying saucer phe- nomenon. A hunchbacked dwarf (due to a childhood accident) with a wicked sense of humor, Palmer has been accused (by Daniel Cohen in Myths of the Space Age) of having “pro- grammed the imagination” of “an entire generation of flying saucer enthusiasts” —a programming that spilled over to the general public. It is fascinating to look through issues of Amazing Stories edited by Palmer, and come upon a disk- shaped spaceship, bug- eyed alien, or abducted Earthling—from the decade , , © before the UFO era began. Was the man prophet…or progenitor? Explanations An Unidentified Flying Object is simply that—uniden- tified. It could be a flying saucer (that is, a ship from Outer Space)…or something more mundane. Even believers ad- mit that only a small percentage of reports are of extrater- restrial craft. Debunkers, on the other hand, insist that no UFO reports are prompted by such craft. The most dogged of the debunkers is Philip Klass, edi- tor of UFO Skeptics Newsletter. Says Klass: “After rigorous investigation, that’s invariably what UFO reports turn out to be: misidentification of natural or man-made phenom- ena, or outright tall tales.” Another debunker, psychologist Ernest Taves, lists some of those phenomena: UFOs are all around us, by day and by night—apparitions in the sky, just waiting to be seen. The observant person sees them and sometimes he identifies them for what they really are: planets, stars’ reflections, mirages, meteorologi- cal optical effects, the aurora borealis, shooting stars, planes, balloons, wind-borne bits of shiny paper, flying tumbleweeds, ball lightning, St. Elmo’s fire, clouds, the moon partially obscured by mist, burning oil wells, satel- lite re-entries, parachute spiders, rocket tests, searchlight reflections, birds, clouds of insects, kites, contrails [vapor trails left by aircraft], blimps, bubbles, airborne flares, fire- flies, luminous birds, fireworks, eye defects, dandelion seeds, dust devils, and so on and so on. With so many possible stimuli, one isn’t surprised at the large numbers of sight- ings; 100 a night on a world-wide basis is incredibly small.* Not only is there no evidence for flying saucers, the debunkers tell us, but for every sighting an explanation is available—including the possibility of a hoax. One out of every sixty sightings, according to an Air Force study, is a hoax—a false report. Still other reports may be sincere, but * Klass and Taves expressed these views in a panel discussion on UFOs in the January 1978 issue of Playboy. prompted by a prank. For example, teenagers have been known to fashion hot-air balloons from plastic bags and can- dles.