some summary: 
             
            -contact happened in Brazil in -58. Arthur
            Berlet was a man of little formal education,(only 2 years) this in
            contrast to the mexican professor that was picked out to have contact to the
            "spacewomen LYA" in the early 70ths, who was an expert on many
            scientific themes. | link | 
            AB was born in -31 in the middle of Sarandi,
            RioGrande do Sul /Brazil. His family was of German/French blood. He
            was tall, bronzed skin, dark brown hair and blue eyes. 
            AB here never sold a book on this/tried to
            make money or like on his story, and the investigators found no way
            to mistrust his descriptions. 
            But the UFO clubs at that time did not
            understand much of interplanetary or inter-dimension travel and
            like, so they then as now refused to touch such stories on
            contactcases, to other planets as factual or real. He was simply not
            believed and all meant he was crazy with such a story. But he went
            on to tell of what he had been through, and accepted that most could
            not believe him. 
            All he experienced on this planet - he
            wrote down in 14 notebooks.  He had not red any science fiction books
            before, because he was not any book-reading-man, and he lived in rural
            Brazil. But he was well respected by his neighbors and
            friends/family. 
            He always stood by his story, in spite of
            all his problems from it. The story had not been published in
            English, until WS got it translated and told in the 80ths. 
            There was much UFO-activity in this area in
            those days in the late 50ths, and many saw them, but it was from
            this also many rumors. 
            But some did investigations, and in this
            case; Jorge E.M.Geisel, and Carlos de Oliveira Gomes + Rui Schmidts,
            who arranged a meeting with Arthur B. in the house of Carlos, some
            time after rumors came out of his adventures. 
            The men/ Jorge wrote later from this: 
            "after 7,5 h of interrogation, we all
            were faced with the incredible reality; Berlet had traveled to
            another planet and was gone for nine earth days from 14may to
            23may-58. We met repeatedly, and never had any reason to doubt the
            verbal account of Berlet. There was an impressive seriousness about
            him and he never sought to capitalize on his story." 
            He was told by his
            "travel-masters" that he was brought to planet AKART. It
            had two artificial "moons" or satellites or rather
            "platforms" orbiting in space nearby. 
              
            
            The abduction 
            
            "I was walking on foot on the highway
            in the direction of the city of Sarandi, it was already dark, when I
            saw this strange and luminous object near the ditch of a farm. I
            left the street and went closer to verify what it was, and as I saw
            no life near, I went still closer. Within 10m, I saw people turning
            a light on me that got me blinded, and I lost consciousness for half
            to one hour. Later they found that "the visitors" were
            there for collecting grains and vegetables for experiments, and they
            judged him to be a farmer. 
            "The commander decided to take me with
            them, despite their laws said not to do so. 
            'Their ship was ca 30m in diameter, moved
            by "solar energy". 
            Q: what are those people - from Acart -
            like? 
            A: on could say much like us, only more
            pallid. All I saw had hair color of straw, but a few had dark hair.
            Median stature greater than ours. 
            They talked in a German tongue, but could
            speak many tongues of earth, and had learned it as many similar
            races have that observes us, and can be here undetected. 
            
              - they know MUCH about earth!!
 
              - They believe in a Supreme Being.
 
             
            -Their BIG problem was that of
            super-population. And I understand it so that IF the humankind was
            to destroy itself- they would repopulate our earth with their
            already crowed planet. They had been THROUGH THEIR OWN
            atom/nuclear-war-period! They had their  own equipment to clean up
            here, if any nuclear -war came, but would not interfere! 
            
              - they can stay here on remote places
                having stations here
 
              - their ships can remain up to 1 year in
                space without resupply of oxygen or alimentation.
 
              - Their armament power was of 2 weapons;
                the solar disintegrator, and the solar neutralizer. The last is
                employed in medicine and to combat the plagues of farmers.
 
              - Out of the book page20, it seems as some
                of them also ate meat, and just that is rare of the ET visitors,
                but those here was not so much in front of Earth's stage, it
                seems.
 
              - He said the climate he experienced was
                very cold. Their day was 46 h - almost twice of ours. And a year
                there had 353days.
 
              - All transport was by air. "…I
                only saw vehicles on wheels on a farm and a kind of train - and
                this was subterran, automatic- without conductor.
 
              - They had some small
                "air-ships" for transport of 2-12 passengers.
 
              - No moon there- but two gigantic
                spaceplatforms that orbit the planet, which have thousands of
                vehicles stationed on them. He first believed they were natural
                moons.
 
              - Their houses and cities were some
                similar to here- but the houses seemed to be made of some kind
                like, light, laminated steel in div. colors.
 
             
              
            
            More on the happening on Acart 
            
            -out of his notebooks, he made when he
            returned, as not to forget from this remarkable experience. 
            
            It began when he was in the local region in
            Brazil, where he had made some photographic job, and saw a ship with
            dark red light near a farm. A spotlight came on him, and he lost
            conscious. When he woke up, he was in a white room, reminding a
            hospital, but soon understood he was inside a craft. After some time
            he was taken out and saw a city not so different as those of earth,
            but the high-houses was of metal in many colours. He was imprisoned
            in a room, where he got some food, - meat and bread - as he was very
            hungry. 
            He was then taken into a big meeting room-
            where many (seemingly GOVERNMENT-people) looked at him. He saw
            pictures of landscapes on the walls. They spoke for 20min together,
            and he felt they discussed just him. He though they may be Russians,
            and had taken him because he had seen a new  secret weapon. (then they
            must have looked very white-earthpeople-like. R.Ø.rem.) 
            He tried to talk to them in Spanish,
            Portuguese, Italian and then German/deutsch. This last they, or some
            of them, seemed
            to understand. (and later he found out that it was because some of
            them had been outplaced for some time here on Earth, to
            watch/"spy" and learn). 
            He was then taken to another place, and they brought him out on the streets, which
            were crowded by people
            walking -but he saw no kind of cars or like. He wore the cape+ a
            cap, he had got from them. Nothing then separated him out from the
            others. 
            Suddenly he saw up and saw a lot of crafts
            in the sky. One suddenly shot down from above, to a terrace of a house so quick that
            he was sure it would crash into it. But it had seemingly full
            control. 
            Later he was advised to a room reminding
            more of a hotel room, with bathroom, but from the "shower"
            came more like gas than water, because it was so light. He got
            clothes from them after the bathing, but felt like a clown in them,
            as they were strange, he remarks in his writings. 
            He was then taken into a new conference
            room where another group discussed what seemed to be just HIM! One of
            them spoke to him in German, which he did understand. This man
            was ca 2m tall! He remarked else a girl of ca 20 there,  and all were
            so white skinned, as he says it seemed they had been inside for
            years, he remarks in his writing! Arthur's own father was German, and his mother was
            Portuguese- living in Brasilia. He was offered a drink, but didn't
            dare to drink it. 
            Arthur asked if they were Germans, and got
            the answer they were all Acartians! He said his visit there
            was almost accidental, nobody having planned to take any earthlings
            there, and that he would be brought back within 10days. Neither was
            they ALLOWED to bring any from Earth to their planet, so the
            captain, who did take him from Earth, was punished for that, he later found
            out! (had to work in a mine for some time as punishment) 
            He was then with them in a new meal, and
            they all talked together after the meal, but only one of them was he
            able to talk to - in German as mentioned. His
            name was Acorc. 
            
            Their way of greeting/meeting, was not to
            shake hands, but place a hand on each others shoulders! For persons
            they knew very well, they used both hands! 
            They underlined they believed in God and
            remarked that he, the visitor, was a kind of doubting. 
            Later he was taken into a smaller craft/ufo-like
            thing, with a pilotcabin and wonderful view outside, and brought to
            another city - the main city- called CON, a city so big and
            marvelous that the earthman was speechless, and also by all the
            crafts flying around….so near, but never collided, as he supposed
            many times. They looked more like small, flying camping-trailers in
            view. He was later told that these ones could go up to 10.000km/h. 
            They landed on top of a big house (big roof
            as a sportsfield he says…) which was where his host lived with his
            family. Well, each flat seemed to have terrace as a personal
            landingplatform for those personal flying
            "camping-trailers". 
              
            Inside he got a demonstration of a kind of
            apparatus where his host could talk to a women seeming living
            "inside" - it was as a shock for Arthur to view. (Well not
            so strange today- now we also have picture-phones, but theirs
            seemingly was of 3d kind…remember this was in the late 50ths, when
            only primitive black-white TV's was seen rarely in this land.
            rø-rem.) 
            This women was his wife, who soon came in.
            She was also quite tall, blue eyes and shoulder -long hair of straw
            colour. The child with her was of ca 12 years -their son, and he was
            clothed just as he was from our earth, and he was very curious on
            the stranger from earth. Both the boy and his mother also asked
            questions to Arthur, that Acorc translated. The boy stayed with them
            much of the time he was by visit of this family, in spite of he
            didn't understand his talking/German, though his father translated
            some of it. 
            Arthur also saw that the furniture in their
            day-room, was fixed with the walls… 
            Then he was shown more of the big city they
            were in. 
            They called the governor ("spiritual
            ruler" of their planet,R.Ø.rem) "the son of the sun" 
            Later he told him of their long ongoing
            spacetraffic- most of it to earth, for collecting plants and other
            materials. 
            
            He gave him this comparison between the
            2planets: 
            
            One Acartian year is similar to 675 days of
            Earth - 
            One month of Acart is similar 61days, 8 h of
            Earth 
            One Ac. week is similar " 9days 14h of Earth 
            One Ac. hour is similar 7h,40min of Earth 
            Planet Acart rotates more slowly than
            Earth, around itself, so a day-night(døgn) was much longer than
            here on E.so the nights/sleeptime were ca 17h normally!! 
            Their main purpose for visiting earth was
            to try to develop plants for more effective production of food, and
            especially wheat, which they seemed to have problems with
            "there" according to what they told.  They thought that he
            was a farmer planting wheat, and that they could learn some useful
            from him! They told him they had given him a sort of narco for him to
            sleep during most of the trip, lasting some 36hours. 
            The commander of the ship that had taken
            the decision to bring Arthur to Acart, had done this against the
            orders of not touch or kill any earthling, neither bring them
            off-earth. So he was punished and had to serve a year in mine, where
            they took up steel, according to what they told him. 
              
            
            No countries on Acart 
            
            All the planet had for long time been ONE
            country or region. He told that ca 100y back - also A had many
            countries -hundreds. From that many wars- but a last enough of them,
            and they began co-operating and went together into ONE. 
            They said they had been observing earth
            with equipment and cameras so good that they could take pictures of
            a nailhead from 200km up. They captured radio-and TV-programs, and
            took all into their computers for help and study. In some 10y they
            had learned much of earth- incl. German language. Others had also
            learned Russian, Spanish and English he told. 
            Arthur asked how they could collect all
            this, without being seen, and got the answer that they could make
            themselves invisible - i.m neutralize the vision. 
            
            Some from page55 in the original book: 
            
            "after reaching a height of 200m above
            the buildings, we flew in a straight line toward the north for some
            two minutes. Suddenly, we stopped abruptly and began to descend. We
            descended to a narrow street full of pedestrians (streetwalkers).
            The machine hovered near the side of an alley, where there were also
            an infinity of people. There we jumped down and mixed with the
            multitude. What I felt was unusual about those people, was that it
            seemed that nobody was in a hurry, not the haste that is so peculiar
            to the great cities on Earth. 
              
            idea  of those glorious cities on Acart -
            but there the buildings themselves radiated diff.colors 
            "Another aspect that drew my
            intention, was the manner of dress of those people. I never saw
            anybody ill-dressed or shabby. Almost all of the men wore clothes
            more or less like what I wore, in material as well as design. (page
            55 I old book, 64 in ebook) The small variations were scarcely
            noticeable. The dress of the women was in similar style. Another
            thing that intrigued me was the fact that none of them paid any
            attention to me…" 
            Arthur remarked also that it was quite cold
            when the sun set, but his guide there didn't seem to freeze, but so
            did Arthur. He said they had no seasons, same all the time. And he
            remarked the sun didn't shine from any blue sky there- more like
            cloudy all time. (well, that was the first day, later a morning he
            saw the sun rise in clear). Some day later he experienced this cold
            after sunset again, but he was SO impressed by the view of the city
            at night, that he almost forget the cold. This when he saw the
            splendor of the houses -seemed to shine colors of all kind, but at
            night those effects were much stronger, and the sight was very
            impressive for the earthling. 
            
            No money used there - free of that slave
            medium 
            
            -after another, later, visit to a kind of
            cafe - where they had got some warm to drink - Arthur went up to
            "cafehost" intending to pay, because he saw his fellowman
            didn't pay. It was then he found out that money or
            "paying" in our way, do not exist on that planet! 
            (more on that later) 
            In the evening, he again got some time for
            himself thinking if this could be possible, but rather he
            "could not wake up" from any dream either, so it had to be
            real..…so then he got a form of panic, when he began thinking all
            this through. He also had 2small children of 1-2years back on earth. 
            Then Acorc came in with a wine -drink he
            had made of fruit, which also contained alcohol, and he said that
            drinking such was not allowed in public places, only in homes. He
            said the government there had converted all the factories that
            earlier made harmful things like alcohol- into producing beneficial
            matter. 
            * 
            
            Frequent meals 
            
            The meals were frequent, and fish was
            always on the menu, plus a dark bread - looking like our rye bread,
            and he said that their fish and oceans were just similar to ours
            here on earth. "Despite all that I had eaten there, it seemed
            to me then that I could not weigh even50kilos there" (he was
            90kg on earth). He remarked that they never began a meal, without
            first praying and thanking for it. When he went to bed (a very
            comfortable) one evening, he came to study his footwear he had got,
            and it was a kind of sandal - which description in the book reminds
            me of these health-sandal with uneven surface, sole, and those also
            had springs inside. But it was very comfortable, as he says he could
            hardly feel his feet when walking… 
            The room he slept in when he was as a guest
            by them, had no windows, lying in the centre of the house, and next
            morning he woke up, without knowing which hour/time it was. He put
            on the local clothes he had got from his host, not to stand out. He
            then went out to the terrace, and looked at the radiant, beautiful
            city he was in, waiting for his host to awaken. 
            Else was Acorc, his host, not sure of how
            much he could explain to the visitor, regarding all the details of
            life and government.on Acart, until he had been guided by the
            authorities/the "son of he sun". The opinions diverged
            among the council on this he experienced the following day. 
            That day he took on his earthly clothes -
            before meeting "son of he sun". They went to the balcony
            where the flying machine stood, pressed a button, so that the fence
            went down, and flew away to the seat of the government.some 60km
            away. He then understood that his host didn't live in the centre of
            the city, for just that was where they now flew, and landed on the
            roof of the government.building, where many similar crafts stood
            parked. They went down an elevator to a meetingroom. Arthur saw that
            the gathering had big respect for Acorc- his host there. He told him
            that the council was of more than 500people, and both of them were
            nervous. The house was round, and so was the room they came into.
            But one straight wall where a big table + chairs stood in front of
            the curved seats in many levels. This council of 9men, incl.
            "the son of the sun", was gathered when necessary, and now
            the earthman was the first thing to discuss. ."the son of the
            sun" was picked out of many thousands, out of his
            human-/understanding/wisdom- qualifications. They should discuss
            whether Arthur should be returned to earth. 
            A debate followed where he was
            interrogated.  
            this from the book; 
              
            "…we have transformed our planet
            from a hell of theft and robbery, lies, usury, speculations and
            shame, to a paradise of love, fraternity, understanding and
            progress". 
            
            The next was that the "son of the
            sun" wanted a meeting with this man from Earth: 
            
            He himself lived in a flat as most of the
            others - no need for a palace with 100rooms. His flat where he lived
            with his family, was almost identical to that of Acorc. He also got
            to meet the family of the "son on the sun" there. All had
            this pallid (blek) colour on skin, almost white. He had a son of ca
            12, and a daughter of ca16, but he felt no attraction to her, rather
            opposite. But his wife he found more attractive. He also got to eat
            with them, and remarked that nobody talked while eating. 
            Then the "son on the sun" told
            him to write a narrative of his visit when he came back to earth,
            but also said that nobody would belive him those first years, but
            after some 20years, that would change he said (now it is half a
            century - 50y- since this occured). They told him that they would
            show him much of their planet in the few days he was to stay there,
            before being taken back to earth. 
            After the visit to the "son" he
            was showed the marvelous city from the top of the roof, where they
            had landed with this flying wagon for this visit. 
            One of the big differences to Earth he
            remarked, was that it was no noice there, only some hum from the
            small ships. 
            All the walking for the people happened on
            narrow (because of little space) pedestals, but other transport
            happened on subsurface/subways. He said that on this planet they had
            20billion on the same area as on E had 4billions - 5times more than
            the density on E. in -1958!!  
             So a very overpopulated planet. 
            Later on that day they flew him very quick
            to see around the planet. They flew to a farm, where he was shown
            farming in terraces /steps, like those they also some similar use in
            rice farming on Earth in the east, but the vegetable they had "down there"
            on Acart -that they flew over-  were
            some similar to potatoes he was told.  
             The small hill that was made up of these
            steps for this cultivating, had steps of 20to100m wide. The "agri-tractors"
            were not making any noise, only low hum. He said it was driven by
            "solar power" (supposedly electric.R.Ø.rem.) 
            The living houses were then placed on
            hilly/rocky places, because where it could/was possible to 
            produce food, it had to be
            utilized. 
              
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            Later they flew over flocks of grassing
            buffalo-kinds of animals, but these were twice as big, and only one
            horn, of half a meter. 
            As Arthur had not flown on E. it was an
            impressive thing to see all this, also from above. They passed big
            mountains, and when he later saw pictures of highflying from earth,
            he recognized it. But they also flew over a city, which looked to be
            ON a mountain! Yes -it was built on just a mountain, out of the need
            for space as said before, and up there, they could not place a farm!
            In this mountain were also the biggest mines for solar-steel, so
            there was also a lot of production going on in or around this
            mountain city. "..when we flew
            over its centre, its ends were lost from sight, and it was built
            completely on top of rocky mountains. There were hills like the
            "sugar loaf" in Rio…" 
            
            Then they landed in this mountain-city and
            ate a meal there, while his host seemed to be well known for those
            people. He also then remarked that their custom was to only pray
            before eating when in private, home, and where many were gathered,
            they prayed inside only instead, out of practical reasons. Ned s.121 
            Then he was taken to an enormous factory
            where the SOLAR STEEL was treated. He telles it was 0,5x10km in
            area!-and so looked like an airfield. "there were thousands of
            similar ships there that were flying, hovering and parking. I
            asked:"why is it that they only arrive, and almost none are
            leaving?" -because it is almost the hour to begin work. 
            "But, who are those who arrive in
            those ships? Are they all workers?" 
            "-yes, except for some who live near
            by, all come by these ships.." 
            "Are you saying that all who work here
            are rich, since one of those ships must be very expensive?" 
            "-no, they do not cost. And here being
            an Acartian citizen and a worker, is enough to have a right to one. 
            "I don t understand". - but you
            will understand before you return to your Earth. 
              
            
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            * 
            Then he says that he was not able to
            understand the processes he saw in that super-factory; "all
            what I saw in that factory, could only be done if I were an
            engineer, scientist, designer or other expert." (but he tries
            to give some descriptions, and those technical interested -would
            have a good time to read all this many details, about this automatic
            factory and its production, in the ebook. In that factory they also
            produced flying saucers, and he was given an explanation on how they
            operate in the atmosphere, and in space. There they also made
            laserlike weapons, which made our weapons to nothing, but they
            warned against the atombomb - this was the time when the military
            arming was very strong. 
            He also told him some of how the system of
            "power" of the ships worked - so this is inserted of a
            scanning from page 131 in the ebook. 
              
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            acartshipengine.jpg 
            
            Visit to an astronomic observatory with
            also defense use/function. 
            
            Then he was taken to atop a mountain, where
            he saw a tube/funnel reaching 200m up, and they landed there -but it
            was terrible cold, and Arthur said he was very tired at this time.
            By way of this equipment, he was shown a view of Earth! But those
            observatories had also the opportunity to shot neutralizer-beams
            into space onto any hostile incoming ship from eventually
            aggressors. So these observatories were place around the planet in a
            net - as defense-system. 
              
            
            FOOD FROM FISH 
            
            As they was so many, they had to use the
            food-resources in fish, which made up ca10% of the food supply.
            Artificial rivers were made for irrigation, where they also grew
            fish. They flew by this channels as his host described it all. 
            Later they arrived Acorc's home, where they
            said goodnigh, but Arthur woke up early next day (remember the
            nights was abnormal long, compared to what he was used to). He went
            out to the terrace and watched the bauti of the city in the
            night-light, but it was very cold outside, but he HAD to see this
            sight. 
            The next day, they flew to a holyday-centre
            at the cost, where the landed on the roof of a very long block
            building along the cost, which reminded of the Chinese Wall when
            they saw it from high - but much bigger and 20km long, but it was a
            continuous holiday-block along this coast. (ca 100m vidth, and 500m
            from the shore/sea). A lot of crafts/ships arrived together with
            them. On the other side of this long "wall" was a city
            along it. 
            When the left their ship open, Arthur had
            not yet habituated to the (moneyfree) situation there, as he
            expressed concern for leaving the craft "unlocked". There
            they also ate in a "bar" where he says he meant roomed
            perhaps 1000 tables!! There he again remarked that nobody seemed to
            pay for the food: 
            
            SOME FROM THE BOOK DIRECTLY 
            " ...After
            that, we went to the trees and sat down comfortably on some stools
            similar to chairs that rotated. I put my hands behind my head and,
            thus remained for some minutes. But in that calm, I commenced to
            reflect and I saw in my mind an infinity of things that I was still
            unable to explain satisfactorily. Brusquely, I raised my body and
            remained seated, resolving to ask Acorc to explain some of these
            things that I did not understand.
             
            One of these was that, since I had come to Akart, I still had not
            seen anybody pullout money to pay for anything. We had just eaten a
            meal with nearly 1,000 people and nobody had paid anything. 
            With relation to us, I had some kind of explanation, since we
            had that paper, which could perhaps be a form of requisition by the
            government; but... the rest? 
            To clear up this doubt I asked: 
            "What kind of money do you have here?" 
            He raised up and sat in the same position as I, right in front
            of me and said: 
            "Money? We have no money here
            on Akart." 
            
             
            I almost fell on my back, stool and all. 
            "But how?! But how do they buy things, and pay their
            employees?" 
            He gave a sigh and responded: 
            "Well, this is a very lengthy affair, but I will try to explain
            to you. Akart was all divided up into countries and each one had
            their own type of government and money. That being the case when
            they began to feel the problems of overpopulation, those better off
            commenced to acquire every palm of our land and thus, those who had
            money obtained and owned more space than they needed to live, while
            those less favored by fortune were banished to the streets. This
            resulted in dishonesty, robberies, several wars, and all the rest. 
            
            Why? 
            
            Always because of the evils of money. The
            whole planet was an inferno; a few survived and others in greater
            number died of hunger, misery and pains. Then when it seemed like
            all was lost, there emerged the greatest scientist of all times here
            on Akart." 
            
            "And what did he do?" 
            "He discovered the means to
            take advantage of the very energy of the Sun." 
            "What did that have to do with the money situation?" 
            "Many things. Once discovered, he and two more of his
            followers, invented the arms which we still have." 
            "Was he rich or poor?" 
            "Very rich, but he spent all his fortunes on investigations
            and experiments which resulted in benefits for all." 
            "In what manner?" 
            
             
            "In the following way: When he succeeded in inventing the
            neutralizer (beam weapon), he told nobody of his invention, but gave
            adequate proof of what he could do with such a weapon. He threatened
            all of the countries, that if they could not find a common
            denominator for their differences, he would use the weapon. He
            presented a global plan for the salvation of the planet. Then all or
            almost all accepted and obeyed him. His first step was to abolish
            all the frontiers, making all of Akart only one country; the second
            was to level all of the cities to equal rights and obligations. To
            obtain this, he had to get rid of the money, and this automatically
            ended profits, speculations, robbery, usury and many other things,
            proceeding from money." 
            "Then he must have been some
            kind of dictator?" 
            
             
            "No, he did not become directly the Government, but
            nevertheless gave ideas to others who then put them into
            practice." 
            "Certainly he depended on the support of some strong
            country?" 
            "No. It is as I said. Ninety percent of the population of
            Akart lived in oppression and misery, and thus they understood his
            ideas and supported him. The remaining ten percent could do nothing,
            and finally, they accepted also. And as the people helped to install
            this regime, the sane people had the right to select their
            governors. They proposed that the scientist be selected, but he
            would not accept, however he indicated one son of his. That one was
            selected and became the first Governor of all of Akart. Since the
            scientist was called the man of the Sun, thanks to his discoveries,
            his son was called the Son of the Sun. From this proceeded the
            tradition of calling our president the 'Son of the Sun'." 
            "Ah! For that reason?" 
            "That is it." 
            "I thought it was a sacred name." 
            "No. It is not, as you can see." 
            "When and for how long is the governor of Akart then
            selected?" 
            "Every three years (Akartian)." (= 5 Earth years and 6
            Earth months.) 
             
            "But how can you get along without money to buy or sell the
            things? How do you do it?" 
            "Here, nobody needs to buy or sell anything. There is
            enough work (for those who are apt) that they can have all that they
            need or desire, without the immoralities. Here, it is a crime for
            anyone to refuse to work. We came to the conclusion, that
            money is the work of the evil doings. Without it many evils are
            avoided." 
            "Are they obligated to work until after they are old?" 
            "No. The people work so many hours per day or night and for
            the hours that are left, they can go where they like, eat or drink
            in any public place, without extravagances, and do as they please.
            In every year there is a period of rest; then they can travel
            throughout all of Akart -- and see and do what they please,
            traveling by whatever means they prefer. For this there is enough
            available, which is furnished by the Government. And they have more:
            What one citizen has, they all have, because here all that is
            produced obeys a global plan; such as homes, the ships, dress,
            alimentation, etc." 
             
            "Up to what age do they have to work? 
            "It is like this: Until 11 years (Akartian) they have to
            study; from there forward they are going to work in a profession
            which was approved by the schools; They work until 36 years (Akartian)
            and after that retire. Then, they can stay in one place the rest of
            their life, or travel wherever they want, live in one fixed place or
            live in a hotel, or various hotels, as they choose. They have all
            the assistance and attention they require for the rest of their
            life." 
            "Is this law also for women?" 
            "Well, the women also study up till 11 years; and after
            that then they may marry and care for a home, or if they do not want
            to do that, they are obligated to work according to their
            profession." ... 
            (Note: When they go on interplanetary voyages, their laws stipulate
            that it is a crime to bring back terrestrials on the planet they
            visit, back to Akart. The commander of the ship that brought the
            earthman, Artur, to Akart, he was demoted in rank to an operator.) 
            "I don’t understand how the
            commander of an interplanetary ship, of such high position, could
            pass to become an operator, because of an unfortunate such as I?
            " 
             
            "Yes, because our laws
            concerning the terrestrials is as follows: We must not touch nor
            kill, still less bring one from another planet back to Akart, as it
            your case. Here the laws are made by man, and those that disobey
            must pay for their disobedience. " 
            "I thought that a functionary of such high position would
            have some rights." 
            "No! Here we have neither highs nor lows. All are as
            equals, even the Son of the Sun (their governor). When he finishes
            his days as governor, for which he was selected by all the people,
            he will return to the plow the fields, if that is from where he had
            come. " 
             
            "What are these mines of solar steel? " 
             
            "Solar steel is a special steel whose utility, I believe, still
            has not been discovered on Earth. It is of that which we make our
            solar ships, like that in which you traveled with me, and other
            things as well. It has many other uses." ... 
            
            He was again told of their problem of
            overpopulation, and how it could be nessessary to move out part of
            their population to earth - after an evt.atom/nuclear-war had wiped
            out much of the earthmen, and they had the means to clean up the
            environment rather quickly with their advanced technology. They seem
            to have observing bases here, esp.on the moon, as also the Korundors
            talked about. And yes- they then meant that an atomic war was
            unavoidable in -58. (but seem to be out of insight into the watching
            of our earth from MUCH more advanced races, which make up a kind of
            "guardian angels" for our planet Earth. R.Ø.rem). 
            
            *** 
            LATER: 
            The Akart ETs spoke very briefly in the
            1950s about the then three 
            factions. Today, there are four factions. 
            Until the 1950s prior, there were two rival factions. Emerging 
            later was a third faction, but the third was still sketchy. 
            The Akart ETs have been silent for many years now. They are still 
            monitoring the planet Earth. They believe that we waste too much 
            time fighting, and should have been at peace long ago. 
              
            THEY WILL COME AFTER OUR ATOMIC WAR TO
            BRING ORDER 
            "We are not exactly unaware that there on your Earth, there
            exist two or more factions which are in conflict, and all possess atomic bombs,
            with high destructive power, and they continue to make more all the time,
            and of greater scale. If instead of using the nuclear energy for
            destructive 
            ends and they used it constructively, our hopes would be
            nullified." 
            "What hopes?" 
             
            "To inhabit the Earth." 
            "Are you saying that you intend to invade the Earth?" 
            "Yes, but as I have already said, not on those terms. Let me
            explain in what manner. You must be aware that an atomic war on
            Earth is inevitable, and, even if we wanted to instigate it, we
            could, since it  would only be necessary to intercept an
            airplane or ship of either faction, that the one would judge that it
            was the other. But, we are not  going to intervene in any such
            manner, because we have come to the conclusion that they would not
            resist for much time the curiosity to see 
            the foul-up that caused the situation, and, when this happens, none
            of  them will escape the devastation, because with only a few
            of those bombs, the whole terrestrial globe will be contaminated.
            Once this happens, we can peacefully take over the whole planet,
            because those few 
            who remain will be in no position to offer resistance; on the
            contrary, they will welcome us." 
             
            "But what future is there when the terrestrial globe
            contaminated by destruction and radioactive poison?" 
            "Whether it is contaminated constitutes no problem for
            us." 
             
            "Why not? 
            "Because, here we have an apparatus which neutralizes the
            malefic effects of radioactive poison, transforming it into
            fertilizer for the soil and other things." 
             
            "If such a war happened, how much time would you wait before
            going into action?" 
             
            "We would go into action as soon as the war ended, because
            it would cost us to wait, as the vegetation would all die in the
            zones of conflagration." 
             
            "And if there was a victor who had not suffered either human
            or material destruction?"  
             
            "There is no victor in such a war. They would attack each
            other mutually; we are certain of this, because we know all the
            secrets of the terrestrials, against which they know practically
            nothing concerning us." 
             
            "But if I tell them what is here, and what I have seen and
            heard on Akart?" 
             
            "Not tomorrow, I give you all the reason when I say that
            nobody is going to want to believe you." 
             
            "What suddenly interests me is that which awakened the Son of
            the Sun and the Council, when from one moment to the next, after
            finding danger in my return to Earth, he asked me to make a written
            account of all that I saw, heard and felt here, and to try to
            divulge it? Perhaps it was to test my loyalty?" 
             
            "I can tell you that it was not for that; we are interested in
            a large part of the terrestrials having knowledge of some possible
            narrative of yours in this respect, and, as is to be hoped, nobody
            is going to believe it at this time." 
             
            "Why not at this time?" 
            "Because they are only going to believe when some of these
            facts have been confirmed." 
             
            "How will this benefit them and
            when?" 
             
            "When they come out of the war
            and we appear on the Earth. The few who survive, due to your
            knowledgeable aid, will know something of our system of government,
            our manner of life and being, and thus will not 
            offer us resistance, which would be useless to try." 
             
            (NOTE: The Akartians maintain a base here on Earth for some
            centuries now. And ever so often they rotate their staff there. They
            have built a huge space platform several miles in diameter some
            distance away from 
            their home planet. This station they use as a stop over point, to
            station thousands of space ships, etc. Their spaceships travel over
            311 miles per second or over 18,660 miles per minute. This group has
            anti-matter beam weapons.  
            Earth terrestrials will not have
            anti-matter beam weapons 
            until about the year 2990 A.D. and it is this weapon they will use
            to vaporize the planet Mars from the Sol System in a brutal
            interplanetary war. 
             
            It will be the last war the earthman fight, before he realizes peace
            is the only way.) 
             
            "I would like to broaden the question on one point: Are you
            saying that you are going to come as owners of the house, and not as
            rangers,  
            "Well, I have already said that we are
            not going to do anything bad to anybody. Now, once you have done the
            mischief by your hands, nothing is more logical than that we benefit
            you. We Akartians, by force of circumstances, have learned to be
            realists. This question is comparable with a fable that my father
            always told when I was a boy, which is as 
            follows: 
             
            "A man who had innumerable cages thought it well to place birds
            in almost all of them. He had two hanging one beside the other. In
            these two cages the birds were multiplying; one came to the point
            where there was no more room for more, but they lived well adjusted
            and were each 
            contented with a place to sit. Thus all those that the man allowed
            to hatch, also were given the means to live. 
            Contrary to the first, the second, had
            plenty of space, however they commenced to quarrel; each one 
            wanted the better place; the stronger lived comfortably and the weak
            had to get used to the corners and be satisfied with the crumbs. The
            roost there was left to the strong. Each one wanted to be better and
            to control. Finally a struggle broke out, so fierce that they
            mutually destroyed each other, and with them also most of the weak
            ones, who had 
            nothing to do with this.  
            The man, on seeing this, gave access to
            those 
            of the other cage of which he moved half to the first. These went
            there and reconstructed the broken nests, resuscitating some of
            those who had 
            escaped with their lives, and thus they were able to live in peace
            for many years, without worrying about the problem of space, as much
            in one cage as the other." 
             
            "I understand the moral, unhappily for us terrestrials,
            perhaps this same thing is going to come to pass. It is somewhat
            similar to Earth and Akart." I said with my head down. 
             
            After some minutes of silence between us, I asked: 
            "Do you, sir, not feel that you
            have erred in showing and explaining to me, all this with respect to
            your arms and means of locomotion? Since once I return to Earth, if
            I am given the time to do this in the manner 
            in which you have explained all, I think the government would give
            me the necessary means, and I have the impression that I could come
            to a 
            conclusion." 
             
            He swallowed dryly and leaned back
            to respond; and then between reprimanding and fear, he said: 
            "Well, in the first place, I believe you are not even thinking
            of doing this; and second, the terrestrials at the moment do not
            have materials to this end at their disposal. But, please, do not
            speak to me of similar things anymore, because if anyone here
            suspected what we are doing, perhaps you would have to live here on
            Akart the rest of your days of life. 
             I cannot say anything more, because I
            cannot judge their 
            capabilities, neither in one thing or another." 
             
            Only then was it that I saw where I had put myself with my foolish
            suppositions, and I responded: 
            "But it is not that I judge myself capable of this. It is
            scarcely a supposition." 
            "This I know, but you are not going to want to nuke these
            suppositions known to the Son of the Sun and the Council!" 
             
            Saying this, he stopped talking, and remained with the fingers of
            his hands interlaced, pensive. 
            End of this quotation. 
              
            
            The criminals there 
            
            At one time he came to see a seemingly
            "poor" man there – who seemed to have fallen outside.
            His clothes was unusual compared to the others, and seemed to be
            dirty also. And they described to him that he was a criminal. But as
            they had no prisons, those went around free, but had to beg for the
            living, as they had no longer any access to the advantages the
            society gave the rest. All got their sentence from what they had
            done. Those could not enter any public establishment to obtain what
            they needed. The "prisoners" was marked with a medallion
            to wear around the neck, and could not be taken off until the
            penalty had been through. They could neither travel by any of the
            public transports when they went on this "prison" – only
            to walk around, begging for food. Some sat out food for them, like
            to wild animals, and it was indeed humiliation. Those married of
            these, could get some help from their wives or children – evt.
            parents. 
              
            
            SUBWAYS 
            
            Below their cities there, ran parallel
            automatic subways, which ran at different speeds. When they reached
            the end station they went back - all operated automatic, and the
            passengers could make it stop at the station they wished. It all
            operated on electric power. 
            On his last day on that planet he was also
            taken to a sport-like arrangement, where two teams fought a pushing
            competition, never seen like on earth. But they also had a
            footballike competition. It is to remark that this sportfield had
            artificial grass, something that the was not yet made here on our
            Earth at that time in -58. 
            After the sports-visit, and a farewell
            -greeting to the "son",he was taken back to the family of
            Acorc, and said goodbye in a short manner to them. 
            He was also told the problems they still
            had regarding space-travel, and was told it was best to stay
            unconscious under part of this trip when he, and his body, was not
            yet used to it. We must remember that this race was in the first
            steps regarding interplanetary trips. Their depart from the planet Acart was also made in the same place that he had arrived some
            days before -in the city of "Con". It was a special kind
            of "airport". 
            He slept on the part of the trip to their
            "space-station"- some 50.000 km out in space, so it was
            not much time used to reach it either. This was an enormous platform
            in space. Almost a city there, but only houses like "iglos",
            and all out had to wear special suits. 
              
             
             ill.not from book 
            link
            to similar transportideas in future 
            On the returntrip he was also showed around
            the ship, which had 3 levels. The first and 3d - had less rooms than
            the 2nd. The lower had small ships, and some kind of
            solar weapons also. The middle - by which they reached by an
            elevator- had laboratories, rooms and corridors. "in the
            various compartments we entered, we always found humans seated in
            front of super-complicated apparatus, covered with instruments of
            all types. 
            The "motorroom" where they
            created the propulsive force was ca 5x5m, and in the middle of it
            were 6motors, about the size of a barrel of gasoline, arranged in 2
            rows or3- one above the other. He was told that these captured and
            transmitted the solar energy moving the ship. Only 2 worked at the
            time, the rest for reserve, in case of malfunction of the others:
            "all made of matter is possible to malfunction…" he was
            told. The ship had other motors used in the atmosphere. He was told
            the ship had a normal crew of 32persons. 
            After many days in space, the ship came to
            earth, but first they landed in a icy place he was told was on the
            pole, and he drew the conclusion to be the south. From then on, only
            short time till they let him out some kilometers from his house, to
            where he used long time walking, because he felt so heavy being back
            on earth. After some "confused" days inside his house, he
            began writing down all this he had experienced, and what is then
            reported here. 
            But they went on with some further contacts
            with Arthur after this also. But as he got terrible trouble locally
            when he told of this first experience, he just reported those later
            to the investigators of the case.. 
            End of report 
            
            The book was published in Portuguese in
            nov.67-by Walter K.Buhler, and translated by Wendelle Stevens, and
            published in-87, but have been sold out for long time, but used
            copies may be found, but he now sell it as cheap e-book. 
             
            from another case picture 
              
            
            Extra in the book: 
            
            THE MARIO RESTIER CASE 
            
            This is one of the earliest cases of being
            taken to another planet, and happened 4dec-49- also in Rio in
            Brasilia,  but the case was not published until-68.  In this case he
            was away for 4months! When the interview happened, Mario Restier,
            40, lived in Volta Redona with wife + 3 children, and had worked at
            a steel plant for 15years. The trip had happend when he was 17. 
            On 4dec-49, he was on the way to his father
            when he noticed a strange discshaped craft. It came low above some
            trees without any sound at all, and landed 15m from the road. He was
            then talked to from the ship, on Portuguese, not to be afraid. He
            went onboard, in spite of being afraid. Inside he saw two persons of
            his own size, in peculiar clothes. He asked them if they belived in
            god, and got the ansver that god "is one only". This made
            him more safe. He was shown around the ship, and told to stay in a
            special room, where a liquid was that they said was necessary to be
            through the accelerations. He later found the ship to be 15 m in
            diameter. Then he fell asleep. When he awoke, he saw gigantic
            transparent domes, kilometres in extent, covering the whole city in
            such a way, that where one ended, another began, and they were
            connected. He got some "fruits" in a room where he was
            taken, reminding of tropical fruits, which they said was an highly
            purified food, with no need for wc-visits later. 
            Those people said they lived ca 300 years
            pr incarnation. Their eyes were blue or green, and the mouth small.
            He noticed no hair on their skin. He saw also women and children
            there. But the craftmen on the return ship made him think more of
            robots than of people. 
            He was shown diff.factories, when he asked
            to be brought home. So he was, but when he came back he was
            very amazed that he had been away for 4months!! His father
            was very angry when he came back, because he had just disappeared
            without saying where. He had looked after him in Rio, seeking all he
            could for him. For Mario, it all seemed to have taken max 3 days!
            And he was allowed to take back some peculiar material - a sheet of
            special metal. 
              
            
              
            
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