>From: Mary K. Long
>Subj: Illustrated UFO Encyclopedia 1.0
>Org.: LongLastings - 5100 Concrete Sauk Valley Rd.
>      Dept. UFO - Concrete, WA  98237

            Plans For A UFO

      The following article was brought to my attention in `95',
    and due to the research being done in this area by Sweden, Japan
    and Germany it thought it notable to include it for your
    information.

      If this article is read with an open mind, the possibilities
    and variations on what can be are endless.

      This article is a discussion of what Earthmen are working
    on and the progress they have made in the direction of feasible,
    long-distance space travel.

      Due to this progress, I submit a food-for-thought
    question: If Earthmen have progressed far enough to be on the
    verge of intergalactic space travel, why is it so hard for some
    to believe in the possibility of other beings already having
    achieved the same, or even more likely, greater results in their
    scientific endeavors in this area?

      We've selected the sphere-shaped hull for our UFO because
    it is strong, holds the greatest volume of any shape other than a
    perfect cube with the same dimensions and can move in any
    direction with equal ease.

     SPACE REQUIREMENTS:

      Our UFO must be large enough to house a human crew of 10
    or 12 comfortable for a long period of time (several months).
    It must contain life support systems, food and water processing
    equipment, navigation  equipment, medical facilities, recreation
    facilities, waste recycling facilities, science and photographic
    divisions, mess area, sleeping quarters, storage for exploratory
    equipment and vehicles, and the control, communications and
    engineering spaces.

    POWER SOURCE:

      We will install a power source that renders the vehicle
    massless while in flight (anti-mass field) and is also capable
    of driving the UFO at near light speeds.  It should be small
    enough to be located in a central area near the control and
    engineering spaces, and simple enough in design to be attended
    by no more than one or two technicians.

    ACCESS REQUIREMENTS:

      A central ladder or a lift powered by the engine should
    run the entire depth of the sphere.  This eliminates space and
    weight consuming stair wells and will provide easy and rapid
    access to all decks and spaces.  Each separate division should
    be accessible to any other two adjoining divisions by access
    doors.  Access doors, hatches and scuttles must be airtight to
    protect the rest of the vehicle in the event of a disaster.

      Life support systems, electrical systems and comfort
    systems such as air conditioning and ventilation will be
    centrally located near the lift and easily accessible in the
    event of failure.

    DESIGN REQUIREMENTS:

      Our space vehicle must be constructed of a durable,
    lightweight material that will protect its inhabitants from
    solar and cosmic radiation and impacts from small objects.  It
    must be airtight and watertight, capable of traveling through
    space or under the deepest oceans.

      It should have no weight or space consuming landing gear
    and be capable of hovering inches from the ground for indefinite
    periods of time as long as the power is on.

      The hull must be constructed of a material that will
    withstand very high temperatures while moving through dense
    atmospheres.  It must be capable of withstanding the subzero
    temperatures of deep space or distant planets.

      Exploratory equipment should be located near the bottom
    of the hull and an access hatch should be located near the
    bottom of the hull and an access hatch should be provided for
    loading and offloading personnel, samples and machines as
    necessary.

      If our science is far enough advanced, we might have no
    exterior access doors at all but would beam objects and beings
    aboard or off load vehicles by means of a matter transporter.

      The UFO might have view ports for direct line of sight
    observation.  Ideally, however, we would use VCASS viewing
    simulators in two or three dimensions, in color or projected as
    holograms to the control deck.

      Since our vehicle can appear and disappear at near light
    speeds, no weapons would be required, except, perhaps, some
    sidearms for personnel when disembarked for planetary
    exploration when known hostile inhabitants are wandering about
    the area.  They should be considered last-effort defense weapons
    only.  Stun-guns, perhaps, or psychological inhibitors of some
    sort.  No aggressive weapons would be required since we could
    simply vanish in the event we might be detected and set upon by
    alien air forces.


    COMMUNICATIONS:

      Since our vehicle would be moving at near light speeds
    most of the time, communications with the home planet would be
    difficult unless we could either develop a signal accelerator or
    learn to communicate by telepathy over vast distances.

      Honing our latent telepathic communication skills would
    virtually eliminate the need for radios and intercom systems
    within the ship.  Each person would know precisely what to do
    every moment simply by tuning in to the other crew members.

      Honing teleportation skills would eliminate the need
    for a machine to move us into and out of the vehicle.  If one
    wanted to enter the ship, they would think it and it would be
    done.  Of course, they would have to be able to pass through
    solid objects in order to accomplish this feat, so learning to
    transmigrate would be helpful.

      Performing transmutation would be a boon to our crew.
    If each member could alter their virtual shape or appearance -
    becoming a grey figure with a large head and huge oval eyes, for
    instance - we could prevent inhabitants of the planets we visit
    from discovering our true vulnerable forms, our true mortal
    selves.

      In time we might be able to do away with the ship
    completely and simply whisk ourselves to any planet in the known
    universe at thought speed.

      But for now - between 1992 and 2020 - let's concentrate
    on building and living aboard our remarkable UFO as we journey
    into deep space to explore and plunder the near planets of our
    own solar system.

      The space medicine required to keep us healthy in space
    has already been developed.  Food processing devices and waste
    recycling machines have graduated from test bench items to
    pieces of practical hardware.  Our communications devices are
    just adequate for the task of transmitting and receiving message
    between Earth and Mars or beyond.

      Scientists and engineers know the general shape and
    design of future space craft and they've developed most of the
    materials to use in their construction.  Teachers are alive and
    well and future astronauts are being born at the rate of several
    hundred every minute.  About the only thing preventing 20th
    Century humans from leaping away fro Earth en masse is the power
    source which will allow both masslessness and acceleration to
    near light speeds.  I suggest this will be one and the same
    power source.

      The anti-mass field generator or Cascade Generator will
    render anything within its field virtually massless, thus a few
    ounces of thrust would be enough to propel the craft in one
    direction or another.  Several thousand pounds of thrust could
    cause it to accelerate to near light speeds with no harmful
    effects upon the crew.  It would be a total inertial system,
    effecting everything encompassed equally.

      Several countries are eagerly exploring anti-mass field
    engines, most notable Japan and Germany.  Their subsonic
    commuter trains are driven by power sources only a discovery or
    two away from the Cascade Generator.  While they have not
    overcome mass or inertia, they have succeeded in overcoming the
    greatest terrestrial bugaboo of all, friction.  Their trains ride
    on an invisible cushion of electromagnetic force that separates
    the enormous weight of the train from the tracks by a fraction
    of a millimeter.  It literally rides suspended in the air above
    the tracks.

      Forward motion is achieved by changing the magnetic
    field of the coils in the track at incredible speeds,
    alternating positive and negative to pull the train along, one
    magnet (the track) pulling the other (the train).

      <Diagrams and details for a Cascade Generator>
      <can be found in . . .>

       <Volume #2 - `Illustrated UFO's - Long-held Secrets Revealed'>

      A similar device, refined to prevent mass, could propel
    our UFO someday.  Not an antigravity device (which has so far
    proven unsatisfactory), but an anti-mass device projected to the
    hull from a central point, the AMF would allow extreme maneuvers
    in any direction instantly.

      Those of us born in the `30s' and early `40s' may not be
    around to see it built, but our grandchildren most certainly
    will so take good care of them and teach them well.  They will
    be the future space explorers.  More than one of them will be
    responsible for saving Earth from our 18th Century slash and
    burn philosophy and new discoveries.

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