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Glad you did,” I said. ” “Yes, though it still doesn’t fit together. ” Steele looked down at the roll he was buttering. “I thought that case was fully explained. ” I told him what I had learned. ” “After what you’ve told me,” said Steele, “I can’t believe it’s ours. ” “That particular one, maybe. But there have been several hundred seen over here. ” The waiter came with the soup, and Steele was silent until he left. “I still can’t believe it’s our weapon,” he said slowly. “They wouldn’t have Air Force pilots alerted to chase the things.

I think Mantell did just what he said he would--close in on the thing. I think he either collided with it, or more likely they knocked him out of the air. ” Even if you accept the blackout answer, it still does not explain what Mantell was chasing. it is possible that, excited by the huge, mysterious object, he recklessly climbed beyond the danger level, though such an act was completely at odds with his character. But the identity of the thing remains--officially--a mystery. If it was some weird experimental craft or a guided missile, then whose was it?

He read me some marked paragraphs in his copy of the preliminary report: “‘There has been speculation that the aerial phenomena might actually be some form of penetration from another planet . . the existence of intelligent life on Mars is not impossible but is completely unproven . . the possibility of intelligent life on the Planet Venus is not considered completely unreasonable by astronomers . . Scientists concede that living organisms might develop in chemical environments which are strange to us .