Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – The Space People: PROPULSION
Four cables appeared to run through, or immediately below, the floor lens, joining the central pole in the form of a cross. Firkon explained their purpose: Three of those cables carry power from the magnetic pole to the three balls under the ship which, as you have seen, are sometimes used as landing-gear.
These balls are hollow and, although they can be lowered for emergency landing and retracted when in flight, their most important purpose is as condensers for the static electricity sent to them from the magnetic pole. This power is present everywhere in the Universe. One of its natural but concentrated manifestations is seen displayed as lightning.
The fourth cable extends from the pole to the two periscope-like instruments, the one beside the pilot’s seat and the other directly behind his seat but close to the edge of the centre lens . . . They can be switched on and off, or adjusted at will, so that both members of the usual crew can have full use of the telescope without interfering with each other.
In his last book, Flying Saucers Farewell, Adamski expounded on the principles of what he called the ‘three-point electrostatic propulsion control system’. ‘As we use retro-rockets to steer a rocket vehicle,’ he explained, ‘the saucers use their variable three-point system to manoeuver by regulating the charge. In horizontal flight within a planet’s ionosphere, saucers travel along the planet’s geo-magnetic lines of force. They turn abruptly by shifting the ball-charge.’
In conversation with Captain Edward Ruppelt, the scientific and technical intelligence officer who had headed the Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigation into UFOs, Adamski claimed that the saucers only use 10 per cent of the power they harness from nature, the excess being dissipated from the skin of the ship. ‘Particles that would hit the ship are repelled by the negative radiation from the skin of the ship,’ he explained, ‘so they never touch anything, not even a meteorite.’ ‘But why the saucer shape?’ asked Ruppelt.
‘You see, they don’t have to make a turn as we do,’ Adamski replied. ‘To us it looks like they make a right-angled turn, but they don’t. They can cut one [ball- gear] off or the other. Whichever one they cut off, that’s the way the ship is going
to go.’
Ann Grevler, who claimed to have been taken aboard a scoutcraft by a similar group of extraterrestrials in the then Eastern Transvaal, South Africa, in 1957, provides further details of this particular type of propulsion system: The general idea of their propulsion is that cosmic power (electricity?) is drawn out of the surrounding air, through the top of the central column . . .
This power is then irradiated via a pump at the bottom of the central pillar, over powdered quartz of a kind, which is spread over the largest possible field within the ship. The result is ionized air [which] is pumped through the three hollow rings around the outside base of the cabin structure as well as circulating through the three balls underneath — these latter being used for motive power and direction and not used primarily as landing gear.
The machinery for motive power, Adamski claimed, was housed mostly beneath the floor of the cabin and under the lower exterior of the craft (see Fig. 8). ‘I did not actually see any of it,’ he explained, ‘but I was shown into a very small room which served both as an entrance to the compartment which contained the machinery, and as a workshop for emergency repairs.’
Earlier, Adamski had found it almost impossible to believe that the visitors could have accidents, or needed to repair their craft from time to time. ‘I had to remind myself that, after all, they too were human beings,’ he wrote, ‘and, no matter how far advanced beyond us, must still be subject to error and vicissitude.’