“Okay … okay, here"s where it all ties in,” she said, smiling radiantly as she sat down and tried to use her hands to compress the ideas and words in just the precise way she wanted them to come out, “Gino was challenged by Walter Holdridge, over lunch last Friday, to come up with a way to prove there are UFO"s. We, that is Dr. Peltier and me, plus Walter, Dr. Sloan, and Alicia Addams, along with Gino, had a rather heated debate on what form of propulsion system would be required to travel from star to star. Gino and Dr. Peltier agreed that it would have to be some form of magnetic-field system. A system that somehow tapped into the galaxy"s natural flux of magnetic fields and which would attract or repel a ship at, or nearly at, the speed of light. You with me so far?”
“Yeah, I’m with yo
