ABSTRACT
The signal for the UFO stories was given by the mysterious projectiles seen over Sweden during the last two years of the war attributed of course to the Russians and by the reports about Foo fighters. The motif of an extra-terrestrial invasion was seized upon by the rumour and the UFOs were interpreted as machines controlled by intelligent beings from outer space. The rumour actually gained so much official recognition that Service Chiefs in America set up a special bureau for collecting, analyzing, and evaluating all relevant observations. The rumour states that the UFOs are as a rule lens-shaped, but can also be oblong or shaped like cigars. The first was a report on the latest UFO sighting by a pilot who was flying an aircraft to Puerto Rico with forty-four passengers. Initial attempts to explain the UFOs as Russian or American inventions soon came to grief on their apparently weightless behaviour, which is unknown to earth-dwellers.
