The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space AgeMenzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard)
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The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age
Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard)
Unidentified flying objects
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_Chapter_ IX
E-M AND G-FIELDS IN UFO-LAND
The phenomenon of magnetism has always fascinated both scientists
and laymen. Paracelsus believed that he could use a magnet to draw
disease out from a person, transfer it to the ground, and thus cure
the patient. Later practitioners believed that a sick person could
regain his health by sleeping with head and feet oriented north to
south so as to be in line with the earth’s magnetic poles. Laputa,
the saucer-shaped floating island visited by Gulliver in his travels,
was propelled by the attracting or repelling forces of a large magnet
imbedded in the center of the island. In recent years magnetism has
similarly been called on to account for some of the peculiar maneuvers
allegedly performed by UFOs.
In the world of flying saucers an all-purpose electromagnetic (E-M)
force, unknown to earth scientists, is supposed to be able to produce
light and heat, disturb a compass, render an object radioactive, stop a
wrist watch without damaging the man who wears it, interfere with the
functioning of radio and TV sets, turn out the lights of automobiles,
stop the action of gasoline engines, and aid in the creating of
artificial gravitational fields (G-fields) around extraterrestrial
spaceships.
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