A SETI scientist explains how UFOs are propelled

They’ve Seen the Saucers

More surprises than you expected about extra-terrestrial aliens

Laurie McAndish King
14 min readMay 24, 2021

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I’ve seen them. I’ve been there with them.
I can tell you all you want to know.

— Elton John and Bernie Taupin, “I’ve Seen the Saucers”

It was 2017 when I first published this story about people who have seen flying saucers; it seems even more relevant today, as the government prepares to let us know what they know …

More than one hundred retired military men sit together in a conference room, looking like ordinary American husbands, fathers and grandfathers. They are rigorously trained, disciplined, and proud to have served their country. They have no difficulty differentiating fact from fiction. And they share a startling secret.

It’s a secret they have not been able to talk about for the past fifty years. They have not been able to discuss it with their colleagues or their wives or the press, and certainly not with their superior officers. But they have not stopped thinking about it — not for half a century. They cannot stop thinking about it. It’s the kind of thing that lurks in the back of their minds, bursting out in dreams or nightmares, coloring everything they think about…

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Laurie McAndish King

Award-winning travel writer and photographer specializing in nature and culture.