Flying Saucers
Scientists have been widely discussing whether inhabited planets exist in space. Many of us believe there are such planets. People on another world may or may not look like us. They may breathe a different kind of air. They may be completely different from us but one thing- brain, or the power to know and do thing as we do. They may be far more intelligent than the most intelligent people here on the earth. They may have visited our world may times while we have traveled only as far as the moon. You are not being convinced, however, to believe the following story. Just read it for fun.
Salvador Villaneuva was a taxicab driver about forty years old. He lived in Mexico City, Mexico. Everybody who knew him thought of him as a good, honest man. He neither smoked nor drank alcohol, but worked hard to earn a living for his wife and seven children.
One day in 1953 two tourists hired him to drive them to Texas. After he had traveled about sixty miles, the car broke down. The travelers were so angry that they left without paying. Salvador tried to get help so that he would not have to stay alone in such a lonely place, but without success. By then, since it was beginning to rain, he decided to spend the night in the car and try to get help in the morning. At about six p.m. he suddenly felt that someone was watching him. Turning his head, he saw a couple of pleasant looking men no more than four and a half feet tall.
Now, since in Mexico may of the country people are not more than four and a half feet tall, their size did not surprise him. But their clothes did. They were dressed in a one-piece grey suit that covered them completely from their necks to their toes. Each wore a wide gleaming belt full of rows of holes. Round their necks they wore metal collars and on the back of their necks a small shining black box.
Under their arms they carried helmets similar to those worn by pilots of jet planes or American football players, so he thought they were probably aviators who had laned nearly. They smiled at him and one of them said, Are you having trouble? Yes, answered Salvador, my car has broken down.
The man who had addressed him smiled sympathetically. He seemed very friendly and Salvador many questions about himself. Salvador noticed that he spoke in a very strange way. But his companion did not speak at all. Occasionlly he smiled or in other ways showed that he understood. Salvador wondered what was wrong with him and finally said, Doesn’t your friend speak Mexican? No, but he is able to understand you, replied the other.
All of a sudden it began to rain very hard again. Salvador invited them to take shelter in his car. When they were invited, they continued the conversation. Are you aviators ? Salvador asked. Yes, we are. Is your plane near here ? Not very far. May I ask where you have come from ? We have come from very far. And they smiled.