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标题: 《Beholders》作者： - A. Bertram Chandler【EPUB】
THE BEHOLDERS by A. BERTRAM CHANDLER "There is something behind the flying saucer stories," said Manderley. "Not all of them, I grant you that. I am willing to admit the usual quota of motor car headlights reflected from low clouds met balloons and, even, Venus at her brightest. I could tell you a true story about that—the officers of a large transport that had got out of Singapore one jump ahead of the Japanese saw Venus during the day, at about eleven o'clock in the morning, through a break in the clouds, and assumed that it was a Japanese observation balloon or blimp. Then the panic started. "Anyhow," Manderley started ticking off his points on the fingers of his right hand, "we know this much about the saucers. Firstly—they can be seen. Secondly—they can be photographed. Thirdly—they can be picked up by radar. Fourthly—they've been knocking around for one helluva long time." "And that," said Scrivens, "is the weak point in your arguments. They have been knocking around a long time. You've read Charles Fort, as we all have, and you know that his books are full of accounts of strange lights in the sky way back in the nineteenth century, and before

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