ts."

Induction heating is a common method of melting metals in a foundry.

Replace the "rod of solid metal" mentioned above with damp sand, an
electrical conductor, and assume that a something that was generating
a powerful alternating magnetic field was hovering over the ground,
and you can explain how the grass roots were charred. To get an
alternating magnetic field, some type of electrical equipment was
needed. Electricity--electrical sparks--the holes burned in the cap
"by electric sparks."

UFO propulsion comes into the picture when one remembers Dr.
Einstein's unified field theory, concerning the relationship between
electro-magnetism and gravitation.

If this alternating magnetic field can heat metal, why didn't
everything the scoutmaster had that was metal get hot enough to burn
him? He had a flashlight, machete, coins in his pocket, etc. The
answer--he wasn't under the UFO for more than a few seconds. He said
that when he stopped to really look at it he had backed away from
under it. He did feel some heat, possibly radiating from the ground.

To further pursue this line of speculation, the scoutmaster
repeatedly mentioned the unusual odor near the UFO. He described it
as being "sharp" or "pungent." Ozone gas is "sharp" or "pungent." To
quote from a chemistry book, "Ozone is prepared by passing air
between two plates which are charged at a high electrical potential."
Electrical equipment again. Breathing too high a concentration of
ozone gas will also cause you to lose consciousness.

I used to try out this induction heating theory on people to get
their reaction. I tried it out one day on a scientist from Rand. He
practically leaped at the idea. I laughed when I explained that I
thought this theory just _happened_ to tie together the unanswered
aspects of the incident in Florida and was not the answer; he was
slightly perturbed. "What do you want?" he said. "Does a UFO have to
come in and land on your desk at ATIC?"

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Digesting the Data

It was soon after we had written a finis to the Case of the
Scoutmaster that I went into Washington to give another briefing on
the latest UFO developments. Several reports had come in during early
August that had been read with a good deal of interest in the
military and other governmental agencies. By late August 1952 several
groups in Washington were following the UFO situation very closely.

The sighting that had stirred everyone up came