Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – LIFT-OFF
The voice announced the imminent departure of the craft. ‘A moment later, the ground suddenly fell away from the ship with almost incredible rapidity,’ said Fry. ‘I did not feel the slightest sense of motion myself, and the ship seemed to be as steady as a rock . . . the lights of the army base at the proving ground, which had been hidden by a low hill, instantly came into sight . . . A few seconds later the lights of the town of Las Cruces came into view . . . and I knew that we must have risen at least 1,000 feet in those few seconds. The ship was rotating slightly to my left as it rose, and I was able to see the highway from Las Cruces to El Paso [Texas] . . . I could even distinguish the very thin dark line of the Rio Grande . . .
The surface of the Earth appeared to be glowing with a slightly greenish phosphorescence. The sky outside the ship had become much darker, and the stars seemed to have doubled in brilliance.’ He assumed that the craft had now entered the stratosphere, in which case an altitude of more than 10 miles must have been attained in no more than 20 seconds, and without the slightest sense of acceleration. ‘You are now about 13 miles above the surface,’ announced the voice, ‘and you are rising at about one half-mile per second. We have brought you up rather slowly so that you might have a better opportunity to view your cities from the air. We will take you up 35 miles for the horizontal flight . . .