Case No 7 · UFO Afrinews No 6, July 1992
The Engineer and the Alien: propulsion follow-up on Henry's contact
not restated in this issue, not restated in this issue
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Joseph Dormer of the Fylde UFO Investigation Group, Blackpool, writes about Case No 7, 'The Engineer and the Alien', from earlier issues. He concluded the propulsion system described would not work, but Arthur Tomlinson of DIGAP pointed him to the ancient Hindu Samarangana Sutradhara, which describes a mercury engine with iron heating apparatus that lets a man in a Vimana travel far across the sky. Both favour an electromagnetic rather than mechanical drive and suggest new theories unifying gravity with electromagnetism might explain the report's references to an effect 'similar to electricity' and to magnets unobtainable on Earth. Hind footnotes that Henry said the alien had found magnetic material humans lack and used it in their system. Her editorial adds that Henry refused half the fee from a US magazine article about him.
What Hind made of it
Hind uses Henry as an example of a sane, non-publicity-seeking witness who refused money; she underlines the mercury references in the Hindu text and supplies Henry's remark about magnetic material.
In their words
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they had found some magnetic material which we did not have and which they used in their System.
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I'm not interested
Cross references
- UFO Afrinews numbers 2 and 3 (Henry)
- Samarangana Sutradhara
- DIGAP
- Editorial, spread 04