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Do Pulsars Broadcast Power To Motors of Flying Saucers?

July 17th, 1968
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EDITOR’S NOTE: More and more is being released from scientific circles about four mysterious objects in deep space which emit regular radio pulses. The gist of these articles, plus a little food for thought, has been gathered together in the following article by staffer Bill Nelson, a Flying Saucer buff.

Early in 1967 astronomers in Cambridge, England, detected rhythmic radio pulses from a source deep in space. Detected by radio telescope these signals, covering every radio band, were at first believed to be signals from a distant galaxy.

For years astronomers have been listening to star systems, from which erratic radio signals emanate, in the hopes of detecting a signal with a regular pattern to it which signify an intelligent sender on the other end.

The discovery of the first of what have become known as pulsars had scientists in a tizzy. Could this be an attempt to contact earth?

Then someone calculated the strength of the signal and fed all the available information to a computer. The signal was of such a magnitude as to require about 100 trillion watts, or about 100 times the combined electrical output of all the generators in operation on earth today.

The scientists did an about face.

“No one would waste that much power to send out a signal,” they said in unison. If the signal is the end product of the pulsar, they are probably right, but is it?

Before going on to the “why” of pulsars, let’s review a bit more background.

The first pulsar was at first named LGM (for little green men). It later obtained a designation which delineates its position in the sky relative to the earth, CP 1919 (Cambridge Pulsar, 19 hours, 19 minutes right ascension).

Within a relatively short time, astronomically speaking, pulsars, 2, 3 and 4 were discovered. They all had in common, a rhythmic pulse of fantastic power.

At which point we come to the first item for further thought. If these pulsars are emitting such a strong signal, why is it that the first was not discovered until 1967 and the others shortly after? Radio telescopes have been listening to every segment of the sky for years.

Could it be that they were not heard before 1967 because they were not in our portion of the universe before that date?

Discarding the attempt-to-contact theory, scientists have since been trying to explain them away as natural phenomena — stars that have collapsed into incredibly dense stars. Could be, but so far nobody has bothered to print the connection between “incredibly dense stars” and the broadcasting of a regular signal on all radio spectra.

There are in the heavens about 250 so-called white dwarf stars. They are incredibly dense stars in which the internal pressure has yielded to an overpowering gravity and allowed the gaseous star to collapse inward. These emit radio signals, but not in regular pulses and not in spectra.

By way of hypothesis, let us suppose that these pulsars were put into position by someone for a purpose. If not to attract our attention, then what?

It is scientifically possible to convert energy into a radio beam, then reconvert that radio beam back into power. Broadcast power is not a new concept. In the early 1900s Nicola Tesla, inventor of alternating current and the Tesla coil, among other things, broadcast power through the air from a gigantic oscillator and lit a lamp stuck in the ground 25 miles away. Of course he blew out a generating station in the process, but it worked. It was never developed further because no industrialist out to make money could see broadcasting free power for people to pick up like radio programs.

Now we come to the connection. These pulsars could be power broadcasters, a central power source for spacecraft operating within range of their broadcast. In this case, the power would not be wasted, but rather, well utilized. Many who believe in UFOs or flying saucers wonder where they get their get-up-and-go. Could their power source be a pulsar?

They may also serve as communication relays and as guideposts in the systems in which they are installed.

Fantastic?

Before you shrug off the idea completely, digest the latest bit of information scientists have gleaned from the pulsars.

Steven P. Maran and his team working at Kitt Peak in Arizona announced that using the coordinates of CP 1919 they had located it visually on an optical telescope.

Another team at Lick Observatory in California has corroborated the sighting.

Both teams report that the pulsars are emitting regular flashes of light (just like a buoy) and at a frequency of just half the radio pulses.

Which brings us up to our closing thought for the day. If these pulsars have been emitting powerful radio signals and optically visible flashes of light, four of them, for any length of time, how come they were not spotted before?

Could it be because they were not put into place until spacecraft from another galaxy started making regular stops in this area?

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