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OCR page 11 · lines 473–474 · EXPLOREROpen

EXPLORER: It's all... like I can see through like a plastic; I'm supposed to be observing everything I'm going to be

OCR page 12 · lines 478–503 · Speaker unresolvedSelected evidence

EXPLORER 2 5 doing while I'm gone rapidly... It's going to be rapid but also filled with a feeling of smoothness, calmness, and no fast movements.... Ok... let's see... there is a little incline, and I can see myself lying in there... Ok... it's going to be ignited. I'm just about ready to get off there. Ok... it's like it's gone... all the way now... I feel rapid movement... it's shooting out just like through space now, for a while. I can see things flying by. Ok... it looks almost as if I'm going to turn around now and I'm going to come back toward the Earth... I'm just going to shoot right back into the Earth, where it's not going to phase me in the least... Ok... coming back... I can see the ball... see the Earth... I'm coming at it with real rapid speed... Even when I hit it I don't even feel it... I'm sort of breaking through layers. I'm going through different layers of the Earth.. It's getting a little warm around me, but I'm not warm, though. I'm getting into the center part of the Earth... it's like molten lava. But I'm completely protected, there is no pro- blem. I'm just being shown that, no matter where I go I'm going to be completely protected. There is a lot of gas.... all sorts of gases.... it just is

OCR page 12 · lines 504–514 · Speaker unresolvedOpen

really hot, I can tell. It's hot but I don't feel the heat. I can tell that it's hot and can see it. I'm sort of going to float inside here for a while. Seems that right in the middle there is like a vacuum... let me get right in the middle... sort of a vacuum where there isn't any molten or fire or anything hot... it's like it's almost cool at a certain level... Ok... now I'm right in the center of the Earth, and I'm going to spin around, head over heels... just right into one spot now, building up energy... spinning,