《Explanation》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】

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theexplanationby GEORGE WHITLEYWe werent sorry when a halt was called. It was rough work hacking yourway through that jungle.Have you seen any men with tails—or any flying saucers—recently GeorgeWhitley the pseudonym of a prominent. British SF writer who has mixedfeelings about UFOs reports on an expedition to the back parts of Papuaand the discovery there of a decidedly unusual lost tribe.WE WERE talking that night about flying saucers—quotwequot being theWesternport Science Fiction Club. Dont get the idea that all science fictionfans are believers in flying saucers—take it from me theyre not.Furthermore the big majority of them take a very dim view of thosegentlemen who claim to have met real live Martians Venusians or whateverwho have made the voyage to Earth in their lenticulate spacecraft. Suchpublished absurdities give science fiction an undeserved badname—undeserved because no real science fiction writer would everentertain the idea that either Mars or Venus could support beings evenremotely human in physical characteristics.We were talking about flying saucers that night mainly because of a newaddition to our club library—THE REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYINGOBJECTS by Ruppelt. Its a fascinating book and leaves one with theimpression that there just might be something behind the saucer sightings.Browning—one of our members whose tastes in reading have always runmore to fantasy than to science fiction proper—maintained that Ruppeltwith his admission that 23 of the sightings remain inexplicable makes itquite obvious that the saucers are of extra-Terran origin. He maintained toothat many of the sightings explained by various authorities have neverbeen explained but only explained away.It was Im afraid a very uneven argument— Browning versus nine of us.We just refused even to consider