Invisible residents

255 Pages·1970·2.729 MB·English

by  Sanderson, Ivan T.

TANDEM
Invisible Residents
‘We assume that we are the only form of what we
call “intelligent” life on this planet, and since we
live in the atmosphere we assume that no other
intelligence could evolve or could exist in water.
But “life” as we know it appears to have started
at the bottom of the hydrosphere at least twice as
long ago as that on land under the atmosphere;
aquatic life forms had at least a 300-million-year
head start on us. We have only just achieved
“space travel”; what might intelligent entities,
having had more than twice as long to evolve,
have achieved?
‘I contend that if we will only stick to being
logical there is no reason (a) why there could not
be an extremely advanced “civilisation” under
water; (b) why it might not be up to twice as old
as ours; (c) why it should not have developed what
we call space flight; and (d) why it should not
be so far in advance of us technically that we
would never even have noticed it until we started
to develop a few really sensitive gadgets’.

Invisible Residents
Ivan T. Sanderson
TANDEM
14 Gloucester Road, London SW7
Originally published in the United States by The World
Publishing Company, 1970
First published in Great Britain by UniversalTandem
Publishing Co. Ltd, 1974
Copyright © 1970 by Ivan T. Sanderson
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Made and Printed in Great Britain by
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This book is dedicated
to our publishers
for having the guts to
publish it
Contents
PART I
1. The Mystery 11
2. A Second Mystery – Oceanic UAOs 24
3. A Third Mystery – UAOs into and out of the Seas 39
4. A Fourth Mystery – Inshore UAOs 54
5. A Fifth Mystery – UAOs into and out of Fresh
Waters 68
6. A Sixth Mystery – Subaquaplanes 88
7. A Seventh Mystery – Submarine ‘Lightwheels’ 103
8. An Eighth Mystery – The ‘Bermuda Triangle’ 122
9. A Ninth Mystery – Supramarine Time Anomalies 149
PART II
10. Some Facts – The Disposition of Anomalies 163
11. Some More Facts – Whirligigs and Vortices 173
12. Still More Facts – Our Hydrosphere 185
PART III
13. A Suggestion Underwater Civilizations 191
14. A Concept Who and Where Are the OINTs? 206
appendix A. Missing Persons and
Other Things on Land 219
appendix B. The Ancient Indian Vimanas 223
appendix C. Herr Theodor Schwenk on Vortices 226
References 234
Index 245
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Material reprinted from other sources include the following:
‘What Lights the Mystery “Wheels”?’ by Wallace L.
Minto, reprinted by special permission from Fate Magazine,
© Clark Publishing Company, 1964.
‘Unexplained Phenomenon of the Sea’, by J. R. Bodler,
reprinted from Proceedings by permission; copyright © 1952
U. S. Naval Institute.
Material from ‘Submarine Craft in Australian Waters’ is
reprinted with the kind permission of Henk J. Hinfelaar, of
Henderson, N.Z., director of New Zealand Scientific Space
Research and editor of its quarterly journal, Spaceview.
I am also indebted to the Aerial Phenomena Research
Organization, Inc. (APRO), 3910 E. Kleindale Road,
Tucson, Arizona 85712, for material from The A.P.R.O.
Bulletin’, and to the National Investigations Committee on
Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), 1536 Connecticut Avenue
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, for material from The
UF..O. Investigator.
Special thanks are due the editors of Flying Saucer Review,
21 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2,
England, for use of material from their splendid journal.
I also wish to acknowledge the help and assistance that I have
received from:
Many members of the Society for the Investigation of the
Unexplained, of which I am administrative director.
My personal associates: Miss Marion L. Fawcett, Michael
R. Freedman, and my wife.
Certain individuals, and most particularly Vincent Gaddis,
Desmond Leslie, Arthur Young, Jack A. Ullrich, and June
Larson.
Ivan T. Sanderson