Betryggande, om det vore sant...

När jag gick igenom gamla inlägg på min f.d.huvudblogg hittade jag denna länk. 

 https://the-wanderling.com/bethurum.html

Den är en text om bland annat contacteen Truman Bethurum som innehåller nedanstående rader, som ska vara hämtad från hans bok "Aboard a flying saucer", från 1954. 

Den handlar om hans påstådda möte med Aura Rhanes, kaptenen på rymdskeppet, även om hon i just detta citat inte nämns vid namn. 

Jag har flera gånger försökt få tag i den boken, bland annat via Amazon, men aldrig lyckats. 

Det är lite irriterande. 

Därför är det lite kul att hitta vad som sägs vara ett citat från den. 

Det kommer här.

--------------------- 

"I couldn't understand anybody being from another planet. I asked about their power. I said, "You must have tremendous generators to power such a craft as this!" And they said, "We have no reciprocation equipment aboard." I understood they used the gravity of the earth to power their craft. I talked with the lady captain about 30 minutes. I never talked to the men any more when I found out they were not from Russia. They told me the name of their planet was CLARION, and that it was not distinguishable from Earth, and our planet was not visible from there.

They told me they have no wars, that they have no strife, and no juvenile delinquency. They said the planet Earth is the only planet that has had strife. They said the planet Earth is the only planet that does not have interplanetary means of travel - the only one, because of strife. I believe the good Lord Himself is preventing us from having interplanetary means of travel, as long as there is strife on the planet Earth. (Why take war into space?)

The captain told me there was absolutely no reason to fear anybody from these UFOs. I was on board their craft, and they certainly never harmed me. They convinced me beyond any doubt whatsoever after the second time I saw them that there would be no harm to anybody on Earth. They have speed beyond belief. They can be within 300 or 400 feet, and anyone who has tried to catch one says they can go with the speed of light. When I came back I had no intention of writing about my seeing a Flying Saucer. I didn't know they would think my notes were of any value to anyone, as they were to myself; but finally I decided, after many people wanted them that, if they were worth so much to someone else, they were worth something to me and I had a writer to write them into a manuscript.

These small space people told me they live in bountiful plenty on their planet, that there is no strife, and that they live to an extreme old age. Their youthful look was something to behold. The lady captain said she had children at home and that she was a grandmother. She said there was no class distinction on their planet - there were no extreme riches or no poverty, that everyone had everything. She said they have a machine similar to television, and they do not need a sending station, but can sit in the luxury of their homes and view anything from the beginning of time. They can read people's minds from a great, long distance, and they know when it is safe to come, and they have to know whether we will accept them as friends before they come and help us.

I certainly do not believe there will be an atomic or a hydrogen war at any time; but if there is an atomic or hydrogen war, it will bring simultaneous action from Clarion and from other planets, and all the bombs will deteriorate in an instant, if warfare is declared. Those people told me they are tired of hearing the noise and continual rumbling down here on Earth. There is life on every planet; there is strife only on Earth. I believe the strife is an element the same as pouring gasoline on a fire, if it were not for strife we would have inter-planetary travel. They say they live in luxury and there is no class distinction. They have a maid in their home, she said, and the maid is thought as much of as she herself. That was the captain of the ship speaking, and she had a hand in their Government. There is a power greater than we are, and they have certainly proved it in many ways.

The Redondo Beach Daily Breeze sent a reporter to my home, and took some facts which they printed September 25, 1953. There was such a great demand for the information the article contained that it was re-printed on October 3rd as the best story of the year in 1953."

--------------------- 

Nej, jag tror inte på berättelsen. Även om jag skulle vilja. 

Den är förstås, med all sannolikhet, ett påhitt. 

Men ett vackert påhitt.  

Mitt favoritcitat är nog detta: "I certainly do not believe there will be an atomic or a hydrogen war at any time; but if there is an atomic or hydrogen war, it will bring simultaneous action from Clarion and from other planets, and all the bombs will deteriorate in an instant, if warfare is declared "

.Det vore ju betryggande, om det vore sant...