Gray Barker by They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers

Author:They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers
Format: epub
Published: 2013-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

IX

Maury Island

As I pondered over the notes of the interview I was at once excited and disappointed.

Excited because it looked as if something really big Bad happened in Bridgeport, something that fndfofltfld the saucer mystery had almost reached a stage of precipitation, when all the clues would fall together into a meaningful whole, condensff into a concrete solution.

I was disappointed because the interview, though I Was can' vinced it was packed with meaning, only added to my conftlSlGn' In the back of my mind gnawed another disquieting though

Bender was pledged to secrecy, surely he would have given jf berts god Lucqhesi no information, if he could help it, that , j the secret. Maybe he was deliberately trying to

But I was sure that somewhere Bender had slipped. I could feel it. But I couldn’t put my finger on it

Then, what about the drawing? Bender, in a phone conversation with Roberts, had let slip that die three men “would not like it” though now it was already off the press and distributed to my subscribers.

The drawing had been completed before Bender was shut up. Small amateur publications, such as The Saucerian, cannot afford to purchase art work from professionals. Their publishers must depend upon volunteering amateurs to illustrate their magazines, unless they are artists themselves.

I can’t draw even a straight line, and when I bend myself to the task of drawing a picture, results are disastrous.

Bender had volunteered to draw a cover illustration for me, and came through with it shortly before his mysterious bout with the visitors.

And whether the three men liked it or not, it was on the November, 1953 issue, already in the hands of my readers.

Had Bender consciously or subconsciously put some of the theory he had evolved into the illustration, Lucchesi wondered, as he tried to analyze just what it pictured. Dom couldn’t decide whether the strange scene, picturing a large construction nsmg from a crater, with saucers using its apex for a landing

ase’ rePresented a scene on the moon, some other planet, or on the earth.

he we asked Bender if the drawing had any significance, gave a reply now familiar to you, “I can’t answer that.”

Whether or not the art work had been inadvisable, Bend wanted nothing further to do with The Saucerian. He had be^ listed on the editorial page as “Eastern Editor.” He asked to remove his name from the masthead, expressing regret that he could at that time offer no further services to my publication

But there remained another source of information. The last issue of Space Review to represent the IFSB officially would contain an announcement of some kind about the organization’s demise. The three men had told Bender what to say, and edited the copy.

Finally it arrived in the mail.

It contained a statement about the IFSB’s closing, and a form for members to return for refunds on subscriptions, along with two cryptic items.

“LATE BULLETIN. A source, which the IFSB considers very reliable, has informed us that the investigation of the flyin«-saucer mystery and the solution is approaching its final stages.

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