Brian Said:
> True, there are logic holes big enough for one of those Shadair
> transports to fly through, ...
I am tempted to think that SHADO did get a picture of the alien
homeworld. In my UFO stories at
http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/ufo/ufo.htmI describe / explain the "Close Up" events thus:-
We had launched one FTL craft before the Arden landings changed
everything. Ever since the UFO crash at Roswell in New Mexico in
1947, Area 51 in Nevada has collected what UFO wreckage it could, and
tried to study it. Of one wreck, the drive block survived in a
damaged and doubtful condition, and attempts to look inside it safely
proved vain. Finally they declared it unsafe and had to get rid of
it. By then SHADO had started, and the Astrophysical Space Commission
told us about it, so we had a small unmanned probe built around it,
rather than merely take it into space and blow it up. The probe was
launched, and tailgated a UFO's FTL travelling field to an alien
world, recorded what it could, returned, and signalled to us.
Thankfully its drive had held out that long. It showed a stark world
of rocky barren mountain ranges and dry air and thin clouds, little
or no open water, and what may have been patches of vegetation and
habitation in damp hollows and flat areas; it seemed to have a large
moon. The probe's ranging equipment had failed, so it could have been
looking at a moon, or an asteroid or stone close up, and there is the
risk that the aliens had detected it and fed it false information;
but later the pictures proved to be genuine.
(FTL = Faster Than Light)
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