"Why do you doubt?" we were asked.
We said the speed of the ship itself would probably create such activity.
So the ship's pilot was instructed to hover in space, without moving either way. This he did. We have stood still in space for practically half an hour while the particles keep moving on, passing the screen, and the magnetic field on the magnetic screen does show an increase and a decrease in its influence. It turns the particles as the increase in its influence is strong enough to do so, and when it is not as strong, the particles change to some other reflection. There have been reflections of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, minute in particle form as the dust particles are minute themselves. But a mass of them would reflect a large quantity. And so they have reflected all other minerals known to science, all contained in each particle of dust.
This is very much like standing within a room and looking through a window, watching snow fall outside. While all is apparently still the snowflakes fall straight down but let a current of air enter and their course changes. Should a whirling breeze start blowing, the flakes roll in a circling mass but when a strong wind blows, even some of those which have touched the ground are lifted again and blown around with those that are still falling.
This is what we are seeing take place among the invisible dust particles of space with the strength of the magnetic force acting much as the breeze or wind.
We have seen such a manifestation, as most people have, at one time or another in our own homes, when after we have given our rooms a thorough cleaning, dust would be impossible to detect yet a ray of sunshine coming in through some opening would illumine dust particles flying by the billions through space within the room. That is how the screen operates here. And if you watch these dust particles floating in the light of the sun in your own room, you would see that there is a law operating there as well, for one minute they seem to turn to one side and another minute to another side, and if you watch them closely, you can see the differences in reflections. One would be brighter, another duller and another would be shadowed, and so on, depending on which way your particles would be turning in unison and the way the light would strike them.
This is exactly what the screen is showing us here now except it is giving us the mineral contents in a color reflection.
And the scientist says here, "unless we had a filter system to filter out this effect between us and another body we could not get a correct reading of the other body's minerals, since space is just filled with these particles of dust, some in cloud formations others just travelling around through space.
"This is the major obstacle to be overcome by scientists of astronomy on Earth, for there is much now being said in reference to many bodies and the various other formations in space that is less than half true because of this type of interference that is being attracted by the various instruments that Earth men have. And since the magnifying system is largely used, it also magnifies the interference."
We asked them how this could be eliminated?