Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – BACK AT THE PLANTATION
At the Mirim River plantation, Pallmann was show how the Itibi Rayan botanists went about their research and cultivation work. The plantation itself was laid out under huge green protective sheets.
Air filters and humidifiers had been installed at strategic points so that, no matter what the weather, the plant biologists could always have controlled weather conditions inside the ‘flavour station’. The main path through the plantation complex separated the station into two sections, each of which was made self-contained by means of coloured dividing sheets that were rigged tree-high.
In front of the actual biology research laboratory was a wing consisting of several large tents [where] many vegetable ‘guinea-pigs’, which had been brought from Itibi Ra II, had been transplanted, and had then been used as required for grafting on to samples of Earth vegetation [in order] to obtain as fine a strain of individual plant life as it was possible to get by uniting the best of Earth types with the best of the Itibi Ra types.
The biology research laboratory . . . was a series of interconnecting marquees, stretching for some 350 feet, and was some 60 feet wide. It was divided off into experimental bays, rather like the operating rooms of hospitals. In these bays . . . the finest instruments were used to dissect the cells of plants: the veins and stems were put under close scrutiny. X-ray pictures were taken, not the normal plate-type X-rays but a continuous record, rather like a roll of film. The plant ‘surgeons’ . . . could watch on separate left- and right-hand panels let into the wall. On these panels, the eye-computer projected a continuous report of the dissection as it proceeded.
These television-type panels were studied throughout the entire process by special observation ‘officers’, who indicated their opinions to a chief scientific officer who controlled the actual work itself . . . The biologists sat at their work in the Oriental manner.