--- PAGE 1 --- FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER HQ - HEADQUARTERS Class / Case # Sub Vol. Serial # 0062 83894 10 448 OPEN 8/11/1274176 [unclear: RRPF003XGI] 62- Serials 448- HQ-83894 Sec. 10 62-HQ-83894-10 Department of Justice FROM OR ADDED TO THIS F[illegible] [unclear: NOV 25 1980] P A BUREAU COPIED FOR F O I P A NOV 3 1976 BY [illegible] INVESTIGATION BY PICKETT STREET, [unclear: serial] 449 COPIED FOR F O I P A APR 26 1977 BY [unclear: 2210] C 6/14/77 COPIED FOR F O I P A MAY 14 1974 BY [illegible] SECTION 10 SERIALS 448- USE CARE IN HANDLING THIS FILE Declassification authority derived from FBI Automatic Declassification Guide, issued May 24, 2007. Transfer-Call 3421 --- PAGE 2 --- 62-83894 - UFO [unclear: G-98] September 6, 1966 [handwritten: Kleinknecht] [handwritten: [illegible]] REC. Mrs. Levi J. Dow Goffstown, New Hampshire 03045 [handwritten: FLORENCE C.] Dear Mrs. Dow: Your letter of August 31st, with enclosures, has been received and I appreciate the interest which prompted you to write. In response to your inquiry, this Bureau is strictly an investigative agency of the Federal Government and, as such, neither makes evaluations nor draws conclusions as to the character or integrity of any organization, publication or individual. I am sorry I cannot be of assistance to you; however, you may be sure your communication will be made a matter of record. Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover Director NOTE: Bufiles contain no record of correspondent or Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. [handwritten: LOS ANGELES, CALIF] ED:jeg (3) [handwritten: jeg] [stamp:] MAILED 3 SEP 6 - 1966 COMM-FBI Tolson DeLoach Mohr Wick Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy [stamp:] SEP 6 2 30 PM ’66 REC’D - READING ROOM FBI [handwritten: 284] [stamp:] 70 SEP 16 1966 [stamp:] 56 SEP 12 1966 MAIL ROOM TYPE UNIT □ --- PAGE 3 --- [unclear: Be 9...] Mrs. Leroy J. Lowe [illegible], New Hampshire 03053 Dear Mrs. Lowe: Your letter of August 31st, with enclosure, has been received and I appreciate the interest which prompted you to write. In response to your inquiry, let me inform you that the FBI is an investigative agency of the Federal Government and, as such, neither makes evaluations nor draws conclusions as to the character or integrity of any organization or individual. Accordingly, I am sure you can understand why I am unable to comment. However, you may be sure your communication will be made a matter of record. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover Director NOTE: Bufiles contain no record of correspondent or enclosures which [illegible] [stamp: RECD] [stamp: DOM INTELL DIV.] [stamp: RECEIVED-DIRECTOR F.B.I.] [stamp: SEP 7 11 56 AM ’66] [stamp: SEP 6 2 59 PM ’66] [stamp: SEP 6 11 26 AM ’66] [stamp: RECD DE LOACH] [unclear: C B I P] [stamp: 30 SEP 1966] [unclear: SUSP 1988] [handwritten: illegible] --- PAGE 4 --- TRUE COPY August 31, 1966 J. E. Hoover, F.B.I. Director Wash. D. C. Dear Sir: I am a member of "Nicap" and am very much interested in U.F.O (Flying Saucers) Several weeks ago a fellow employee received a letter (business) from Arizona with a stamp on the back (see enclosed) Being interested in U.F.O's I asked for the stamp & sent $3.00 for the 12 issues of AFSCA. Having received & read my first issue I feel it isn't just what it appears on the surface. I can't say just why, but with my limited idea of how communists operate it strikes me it is backed by them. My reason for writing this is that I consider myself a true American, I am told my ancestors go back to a Gr Gr Gr Grandmother who was an Indian Squaw & I'm proud of it. If, by writing for this AFSCA Report, my name could in anyway be aligned with the communist party, I would like to know if there is any way I can get things straightened out. I may be all wrong about my interpretation of this report but I'd like to be sure since I expect I will get the other issues as they come up. REC 98 62-83894-448 I will be 63 yrs old in a few days. My husband passed away 4-30-65 I have worked as Mgr of Reins Dept for the N. H. Ins Co in Manchester N. H 44 years this month Mrs. Levi J. Dow Goffstown New Hampshire 03045 Very truly yours, (Mrs) Florence C. Dow [illegible] 9/2/66 ack. [illegible] 9/6/66 4 SEP 8 1966 [illegible signature/initials] --- PAGE 5 --- August 31, 1966 J. E. Hoover, F.B.I director Wash. D.C. Dear Sir: I am a member of "Nicap" and am very much [strikethrough: illegible] interested in U.F.O (flying Saucers) Several weeks ago a fellow-employee received a letter (business) from Arizona with a stamp on the back (see enclosed). Being interested in U.F.O.'s I asked for the stamp & sent 3.00 for the 12 issues of [unclear: AFSCA?]. Having received & read my first issue I feel it isnt just what it appears on the surface. I can't say just why, but with my limited idea of how Communists operate it strikes me it is backed by them. My reason for writing this is that I consider myself a true American, I can [unclear] my ancestry go back to a Rev. War Gr Grandmother who was an Indian Squaw & am proud of it. If by writing for this [unclear: AFSCA?] Report, my name could in anyway be aligned with the Communist party, I would like to know if there is any way I can get things straightened out. I may be all wrong about my interpretation of this report but I'd like to be sure since I expect I will get the other issues as they come up. [stamp: ANSWERED] I will be 63 yrs old in a few days. My husband passed away 4-30-65 I have worked as Mgr of [unclear] Dept for the N.H. Shoe Co in Manchester. N.H 44 years this month Very truly yours, (Mrs) [unclear] C. Dow MRS Levi J. Dow Goffstown New Hampshire 03045 [stamp: CORRESPONDENCE] [upside-down stamp: RECD-CORR & COMM FBI] [upside-down stamp: SEP 1 3 53 PM ’66] --- PAGE 6 --- 1 - J C Kyle. 9/2/66 ack: [illegible] 9/6/66 "ENCLOSURE ATTACHED" --- PAGE 7 --- 62-83894-448 --- PAGE 8 --- AFSCA's [unclear: 62-83 894-4448?] ( Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America ) 3rd National FLYING SAUCER CONVENTION S A U C E R * MOVIES * SLIDES * EXHIBITS * BOOKS * LITERATURE REGISTER 9 A. M. - $2.00 per day At The Beautiful, New C E N T E N N I A L C O L I S E U M (4590 S. Virginia St.) Reno, Nevada - July 8,9,10, 1966, Program: 10 A.M. to 11 P.M. SPEAKERS ARE: Wayne S. Aho, Carl A. Anderson, Orfeo Angelucci, Michael "X" Barton, Wesley Bateman, Marianne Francis, Dr. Daniel W. Fry, Calvin C. Girvin, Gabriel Green, Dr. George King, Hanno Mayberry, Howard Menger, Laura Mundo, Mel Noel, Sidney Padrick, Chief Standing Horse, Dr. Frank E. Stranges, Mollie Thompson, Hope Troxell, George W. Van Tassel, Hal Wilcox. HEAR: Amazing experiences with spacecraft from other planets and their occupants by the greatest assembly of contactee-speakers since our Los Angeles convention in 1959 at the Statler-Hilton. SEE: Startling new photographic evidence — the biggest collection of Flying Saucer photos on display in the history of the saucer movement. Actual color movies and new still photos of Flying Saucers. MEET: IN PERSON, PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD ACTUAL CONTACTS WITH SPACESHIPS AND THEIR CREWS FROM OTHER WORLDS. LEARN: About this important subject which is so vital to the welfare and survival of humanity in our times. ATTEND: AFSCA's 3rd National Convention. You'll be glad you did! Fill out the Advance Registration form below. Do it Now! For Motel & Hotel room information, write to: The Greater Reno Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 2109; Reno, Nevada AFSCA 3rd NATIONAL CONVENTION ADVANCE REGISTRATION FORM To: AFSCA Headquarters; 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90027. Phone: 662-4404. Yes, count me in! I don't want to miss joining with you at this important convention and helping to support this vital movement. Here is my $______________ Please send me _____ Advance Reservation tickets ($5.00 for the 3 days, or $2.00 per day). IMPORTANT: I am also enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope for the return of my tickets. ADVANCE REGISTRATIONS must be received at AFSCA Headquarters no later than JUNE 30th!!! Name______________________________ Street______________________________________ City___________________________ State_____________________ Zip Code_____________ FLYING SAUCERS I N T E R N A T I O N A L Official Journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. SPECIAL AFSCA THIRD NATIONAL FLYING SAUCER CONVENTION ISSUE ISSUE NO. 24 JULY,1966 50c --- PAGE 9 --- SPECIAL AFSCA CONVENTION MESSAGE BRIGHT WORLD IN HANDS OF SAUCER MOVEMENT | humanity. (Editor's Note: This special message was received from Master Kalen-Li Retan (head of the planet Korendor, about 400 light years distant) on May 4, 1966 via special directional short-wave radio by Bob Renaud, the young electronic-technician whose remarkable story we printed in issues #18, 19, 20,21, and 22, and which will be continued in our next issue. Since Bob's initial radio contact in 1961, he has talked with the crew of a spacecraft as he watched them on his special TV screen in his home — and eventually met his contacts in-person; visited their undersea and underground bases on our planet; was taken aboard many of their spaceships; and was actually allowed to pilot two of their small scout craft — one on a short solo flight.) "Kalo (Hello), friends. We will get directly to the point of our message to you. Frankly, we are appalled at the state of Earth at present. Despite our constant warnings and even our actual intervention in some instances, the condition upon your planet grows steadily worse. One subject on everyone's lips these days is Vietnam. From a little civil war, it has grown steadily and inexorably into a full scale conflict between the world's three major powers: the United States, the Soviet Union, and Communist China. Many influential people have used the approach of patriotism and love of God and Country to twist decent human feelings into dangerous channels of thought and action. With their charges of treason and sympathy with the enemy, they have aroused a good portion of the populace to a state of fear, distrust, and hatred of those who seek peace and love. Unfor- tunately, because some unconventional individuals have been associated with the peace movement, that entire operation has been seriously hindered. Your government is a military puppet, a mere parrot of the monstrosity that is the Military-Indus- trial complex. Your senators, except for a few, are robots, speaking what they are told to say. Your President is, unfortunately, a pawn of their needs and demands. We have contacted him several times concerning the state of affairs, and he has said that he could do nothing to change them, for if he were to speak out against the Asian conflict, he would be removed. This is what happened to the late Mr. Kennedy who, in his great humanitarianism, was reluctant to sacrifice his ideals and his visions for the sake of the Military Industrial octopus. He paid the supreme penalty for his efforts in behalf of Make no mistake. Your government is not in the White House or the Congress. IT IS IN THE PENTA- GON, AND IN THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE VAST "DEFENSE"-ORIENTED INDUSTRIES. It is THEY, not the President or the Congressmen, who run the United States. The facade government is merely to allay undue alarm or suspicion of the people. Examine another aspect of the Asian war, the ECONOMIC side. Do you recall that, in the stock reports just recently, the Dow-Jones average dropped sharply BECAUSE OF A RUMOR THAT NORTH VIETNAM HAD MADE A PEACE BID? Does the staggering implication of this news evade you? Stock prices suffering a heavy loss because of a rumor that peace might come to pass! This thought is most distressing. Your economy relies so heavily upon war and destruction, that if it were to stop, THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY WOULD SUFFER A MASSIVE DEPRESSION! Your money system would collapse like a house of cards. Millions would be unemployed, sick, hungry and homeless. Tremendous industrial complexes would close their doors. The utterly appalling fact is this: WAR IS PROFITABLE. Highly so! Every major conflict has been accompanied by a strong peak in your monetary prosperity. Peace has usually been economically painful! After World War 1, the nation coasted for a while upon the fat put on during the boom of the war years. In 1929, the bottom fell out. After the Korean War, in the 1950's came another recession. What comes after Vietnam? No one knows, and no one wants to find out. The war in Vietnam is bringing an unheard- of degree of affluence in the United States. Why kill a good thing by ending the war? The philosophy, in essence, is this: It is economically expedient to send military forces to Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia in order to wage war, because in doing so, the United States' economy is bolstered and maintained at a high level of prosperity; human life is secondary to the preservation of economic well-being! It is thus evident that, unless a drastic change is made in the structure of your economy, war will never end because the Military-Industrial complex WON'T LET IT! Many of you fear Communism. Where did that fear come from, I ask you? From within yourself? NO! It was brainwashed into you by the Military- Industrial complex. Who controls all your news media? The government and the advertisers. Who, then, is in a position to dictate what shall be printed? ISSUE NO. 24 FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL JULY, 1966 Official Journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. International Headquarters: 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles,, Calif. 90027,U.S.A. GABRIEL GREEN, Editor HELEN GREEN, Asst. Ed. Dedicated to The Physical, Spiritual, and Economic Emancipation of Man A Non-profit Organization FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL (6 issues-$3.00. Membership-$1.00) is published quarterly. Copyright © 1965 by Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. All rights reserved. The information presented in "Flying Saucers International" does not necessarily represent the views of AFSCA. The num- ber after your name on the address label indicates the issue with which your subscription expires. Subscrip- tion renewals will start where the previous one ended, and will be acknowledged only by the new number after your name on future issues. A "Time to Renew" notice will be enclosed in the last issue for which you have paid. New subscriptions will start with the last issue published, unless a specific starting issue num- ber is requested. When writing to AFSCA for a reply, enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope. Not responsible for magazines lost in the mail due to sub- scribers' failure to inform us of their current address. Prices subject to change. Payment must accompa- ny order. Send cash, check or money order to: AFSCA; 2004 North Hoover St.; Los Angeles, California 90027. Phone: 662-4404. 2 FLYING SAUCER NEWS IN BRIEF NEW BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE FROM AFSCA: (Price includes 15¢ mailing charge. California residents also add 4% sales tax.) 1. COUNCIL OF SEVEN LIGHTS by George Van Tassel, now reprinted — $3.65. 2. THE ADVENT OF THE COSMIC VIEWPOINT by Bryant Reeve — $6.15. 3. FLYING SAUCERS THROUGH THE AGES by Paul Thomas — $4.15. 4. OTHER TONGUES, OTHER FLESH by George Hunt Williamson, now reprinted — $6.10. 5. SECRET OF THE ANDES by Brother Philip - $4. 6. FLYING SAUCERS AND THE THREE MEN by Albert K. Bender — $4.15. 7. FLYING SAUCERS — SERIOUS BUSINESS by Frank Edwards — $6.10. 8. INCIDENT AT EXETER by John G. Fuller -$6.10. 9. THE HOLLOW EARTH by Dr. Raymond Bernard, now available again in soft cover for $3.15. PAST CONVENTIONS & SAUCER ACTIVITIES: FEBRUARY 5,6, 1966: Dr. Frank E. Stranges' 4th Annual UFO Space and Science Convention was held at the Blarney Castle Inn Annex in Los Angeles. JUNE 4,5,6, 1966: Dr. Daniel W. Fry's Man in Space Symposium took place at Dunsmuir, near Mt. Shasta in Northern California. JUNE 25,26,27, 1966: Buck Nelson's 10th Annual Spacecraft Convention was held at Buck's Mountain View Ranch; Route 1, Box 236; Mountain View, Mo. BACK ISSUES OF UFO INTERNATIONAL are now selling 11 issues for $3.00, while they last (issue #11 is now out of print). There is much timeless and valuable information available in these magazines. OUT OF PRINT: 1. FLYING SAUCERS: TOP SECRET by Major Donald E. Keyhoe is now out of print, although it is listed in our new brochure. (Some saucer books have occassionally gone out of print without notice.) 2. BACK ISSUES #6 and 11 are now out of print. We still have only a few copies left of #9 which we have priced at $1.00 each in an effort to preserve them for serious researchers and collectors. Please do not order these items, or any other materials which we do not advertise. PRICE CHANGE: The price has gone up on two of the better known books in the saucer field, which we must now order from England: 1. THE SKY PEOPLE by Brinsley le Poer Trench, was $4.65. It is now $5.10, postpaid. 2. ROAD IN THE SKY by George Hunt Williamson, was $4.15. It is now $5.10, postpaid. California residents please add 4% tax. "UFOI" ISSUE #23 CORRECTIONS: Page 4, line 3: the date should be April 24, 1964, instead of 1965. On page 4, line 1 of the 7th paragraph, insert "later, via telepathy" after "They told him ----." SEATTLE, WASHINGTON area residents please note: AFSCA Unit #25 meets every 4th Friday at the Seattle Public Library, Room 325 at 7:30 P.M., under the capable direction of Mr. Leverett G. Tallman. The meeting is free, and all who are interested in the Flying Saucer subject are invited to come to listen and to participate in the discussion. ZIP CODES ARE IMPORTANT: If the address label on this magazine does not have your zip code number on it, please notify us as to what your num- ber is. If you don't know your number, call your local Post Office and then let us know. Thanks! AFSCA BROCHURES AND SAUCER-PHOTO POST CARDS, sent to friends and acquaintances, are a good way to help spread the word about Flying Saucers. Brochures are 1¢ each (this just about pays the postage to mail them to you). Saucer post cards are 50 for $1.00. WHEN WRITING AFSCA, if you wish a personal reply to a specific inquiry, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. No replies can otherwise be sent. General information may be obtained via our brochures and magazines. We are sorry that we cannot have a lengthy correspondence with all the hundreds of persons who would like us to do so, but unfortunately we have neither the time nor the staff for it — and our mail has been greatly increased in the last few months. SAUCER NEWS CLIPPINGS: Your response has been wonderful! We've received so many clippings from you helpful people that we simply hadn't enough space to print all your individual names and cities. So we say a big and sincere THANKS to all of you. And please do keep 'em coming! (One reminder: please DON'T write on or near the clippings.) WEDDING BELLS rang on Saturday, June 4, 1966 for contactee Elary J. Willsie and Sophia Martinez Olivares of Mexico City. The ceremony took place at Los Angeles, California. Among those present were Sophia's parents and her younger sister, all of Mexico City; Mrs. Maud Willsie, mother of the groom; and your editor, who was also official photog- rapher for the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Willsie will live in Los Angeles. Congratulations and best wishes, Elary and Sophia! MEL NOEL, former Air Force Lieutenant and fighter pilot, is fast becoming very well known for his lectures on his amazing experiences with Flying Saucers while on active duty in the service. He has been speaking to capacity crowds wherever he goes. On Thursday, June 23, 1966, the personable Mr. Noel spoke to a standing-room only crowd at the Aeronautical Sciences Building on Beverly Blvd. in West Los Angeles. We hear that he is booked to speak at 57 colleges across the nation! Recently he appeared on the Louis Lomax TV Show, and has been heard on many radio shows. He leaves shortly for Mexico City, where he has been invited by an official government group to speak. He has been promised some interesting experiences by a local contactee there, and we look forward to hearing his report on his return! Good work, Mel, and good luck! SID PATRICK, contactee from Watsonville, Calif., who spent two hours aboard a space craft, was recently in Los Angeles when he was guest speaker at the regular monthly meeting of the Ingle- wood Unit of Understanding on Saturday, June 25, 1966. Meetings are held on the 4th Saturday of every month at the Inglewood Business and Professional Woman's Club; 820 Java St., Inglewood, at 8:00 P.M. Donation is $1.00. Information: Mrs. Roberta T. Forrester, Program Chairman; P.O. Box 146; Inglewood, Calif. 90306. Phone: 677-5214. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Yates. Phone: 293-4743. NEW AFSCA UNITS: 45. AFSCA Unit #45; Everett, Washington; Ray and Jean Sebring, Co-Directors; 1032 S.W. 126th St.; Seattle, Wash. 98146. 46. AFSCA Unit #46; Ben Blazs, Director; 3057 Electric; Lincoln Park, Mich. 48146. Several other new AFSCA Units have been formed and will be listed in the next issue (#25). Persons interested in forming AFSCA Units in their cities should contact AFSCA Headquarters for information. 15 --- PAGE 10 --- FLYING SAUCER NEWS IN BRIEF COMING 1966 FLYING SAUCER CONVENTIONS JULY 8, 9, 10: AFSCA's 3rd National Convention, Centennial Coliseum, Reno, Nev. (See details on back) JULY 15, 16, 17: WAYNE AHO sponsors the Northwest's 5th Annual Interplanetary Age Conven- tion. Lectures, exhibits and New Age topics. Ad- vance registrations - $1.00 per day for adults, 50¢ for students. Write to: Mrs. Lorena Vogt; 815 N.E. 110th; Seattle, Wash. Phone: Emerson 3-0956. AUGUST 6 thru 14th: DR. NEVA DELL HUNTER'S 12th Annual Quimby Conference of Trans- lation. Lectures and discussions on New Age Topics, including the stars, science and metaphysics. In lovely scenic country at a beautiful, modern motor- hotel. $2.50 per day, attendance. Information from: Quimby Center; P.O. Box 453; Alamogordo, N.M. AUGUST 19, 20, 21: SPACE RESEARCH, Inc.'s Second Annual Convention, at the North Branch YMCA in Spokane, Washington. Scenic location near the Spokane River. Indoor and outdoor convention activities. For information, write to: Space Research Inc., No. 6815 Julia, Spokane, Wash. OCTOBER 22, 23: GEORGE VAN TASSEL'S 13th Annual Spacecraft Convention at Giant Rock, Calif. in the desert 17 miles north of Yucca Valley. Bring your own camping equipment and enjoy the outing. OCTOBER 29, 30: 10th ANNUAL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SPACECRAFT CONVENTION, Clare- mont Hotel, Berkeley, Calif. Info: Angela Kilsby; 1265 Montgomery Blvd.; San Francisco, Calif. 94127. OUR NEW NAME: Our magazine, formerly called "UFO International", has now become "Flying Saucers International", which we feel to be a more appropriate title, since Flying Saucers are no longer Unidentified Flying Objects as far as we are concern- ed. Flying Saucers have become a serious issue with thinking people all over the world. We believe that most of the objects which have been sighted have been of extraterrestrial origin, controlled by intelli- gent beings who, in form, are very much like us. Therefore, we hope you will understand our reasons for changing titles, and that you will continue to enjoy reading our publication under its new banner. DR. RAYMOND BERNARD, founder of the Biosophical Society of Santa Caterina, Brazil, passed away on Sept. 10, 1965. He was the author of "The Hollow Earth" and several other books concerned with the hollow earth theory. MARIA ELLIOTT, contactee, psychic and founder of Maria Creative Womanhood Foundation, was a recent guest on the Bob Grant Radio Show, and the Pamela Mason TV Show. Glamorous Maria now has her own program every Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on KTYM radio. She may be seen in person every Wed. evening at Holland House Restau- rant, 8:00 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room. An interesting program may be heard on New Age Topics, and free readings are given. For more information about Maria's appearances, classes, etc., phone 657-1631, or write: Dr. Maria Elliott; 1543 Sunset Plaza Drive; Los Angeles, Calif. 90069. DR. GEORGE KING, founder of the Aetherius Society, was host at the official opening of the Society's new headquarters at 6202 Afton Place; Los Angeles, Calif. 90028; on March 5, 1966. After the program Dr. King personally escorted us around the attractive quarters. He also reported that a high Space Being in physical form had visited there recently for an hour and fifteen minutes and, after walking around the premises, left his blessing on the Aetherius Society and its work. For further inform- ation call 465-9652, or write to the above address. DELLA LARSON, who for over a decade was the guiding light and main instigator of Flying Saucer meetings and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area, passed away on October 25, 1965. She was 70 years old. She will be remembered for her energetic and enthusiastic dedication to the goals of the Flying Saucer cause, as well as for the highly successful annual Northern California Space Craft Conventions which she organized for nine years. (Della, we salute you!) MAX MILLER, former publisher of the now- defunct "Saucers" magazine, and author of "Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction" (now out of print), has a new role. He is now editor-publisher of "Real" mag- azine which may be found on the newsstands for 50¢. The August '66 issue devotes about half of its space to the Flying Saucer subject and will be well worth your investigation. WILBUR MILLER, one of the early researchers in the Flying Saucer Movement, passed away on March 5, 1966. He was known for his fine channel contacts with several Space Beings, including Monka of Mars. He also was the co-author — with his wife, Evelyn — of the book "We of the New Dimension." Although he was a native of Missouri he had, in recent years, been a resident of Los Angeles and of Morongo Valley, Calif. (Good journey, Will!) HOPE TROXELL, founder of the School of Thought, now situated in Independence, Calif. (P.O. Box 458), reported recently that the neighboring towns of Bishop and Lone Pine had partial blackouts during an evening channel (telepathic) session she was having with the Space Brothers. The lights in Inde- pendence went out completely for several minutes by a gradual fade-out, and then came on again in the same manner. During this time, the Space Being speaking through Hope said to those present: "Be not afraid. We are guardians of the race. Protection will be given to those in the area." HAL WILCOX made a fine guest appearance on the Joe Pyne TV Show, April 30, 1966. Hal passed the lie-detector test with flying colors and conducted himself with dignity and fortitude, which isn't always easy on the Joe Pyne Show. During the test, Hal stated that he had taken a saucer ride to visit the second planet from the star, Alpha Centauri. M.I.N.D. stands for Mental Investigations of New Dimensions, an organization recently formed by Wesley and JoNell Bateman. Their activities include meetings, courses and public appearances. They have demonstrated on several occassions for groups of up to 20 people, their ability to telepathically direct the movements of visable spacecraft overhead. Write: M.I.N.D.; 4916 Franklin Ave.; Hollywood, California 90027. Phone: 661-1731. HELEN & GABRIEL GREEN contributed their bit to the education of nearly 300,000 young people to the saucer subject at the Teen-Age Fair, April 1 thru 10 at the Hollywood Palladium, where AFSCA had a booth to exhibit saucer photos, show slides, and to disseminate information. We handed out over 13,000 brochures and saucer photo post cards, and talked ourselves hoarse answering questions for 12 hours each day. Gabriel also made over a dozen radio and TV appearances and interviews during the Fair. We also had another booth at the National Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition at the Pan Pacific Auditorium, May 17 thru 22. Yes, we've been busy! 14 The Military-Industrial complex, by opinion-control through the use of psycho-politics (brainwashing by controlled news management). Consider this: In order to survive, a commer- cial medium, such as a newspaper or magazine, requires a vast amount of advertising revenue. The mere subscription fees will not cover the costs. Thus, they depend for their continued existence upon money paid by advertisers. Suppose, then, that the editor of a certain newspaper decides that he is opposed to the Vietnam policy, and says so in his paper. The advertisers simply say to the editor, "Either you toe the mark and print what we want, or we'll withdraw our advertising." Such pressures are a fact of life. The newsmen are torn between their higher devotion to Truth, and also to the lower level of their physical needs. Rather than jeopardize their security and their futures they, of course, submit meekly to power. Their actions are fully understandable, and we do not hold them responsible. We throw the blame directly on the Military- Industrial complex which, by its underhanded dealing, threats of force, and economic pressure and retali- ation, has crushed the spirit of American journalism and turned it from a dynamic motivating force in American life into a weak-willed, subservient mouthpiece for the power-masters. We blame them for the death of journalistic freedom and individuality! One more comment on this topic: May I say that a better economic system is already known to the leaders of the Flying Saucer Movement. It is the system known as Universal Economics. As we have said over and over before, it is the non-money economic system which MUST be applied on your planet before you can start to resolve most of your major problems and thus begin to establish a highly- advanced, non-destructive state of existance on Earth, such as we of more advanced planets have enjoyed for so long. INVESTIGATE THIS SYSTEM to evaluate it for its merit — then ACT to apply it! YOUR VERY SURVIVAL AS A CIVILIZATION MAY DEPEND UPON IT! Perhaps this is an opportune time to clarify a few questions which have been asked about us. Do we of Korendor work with the local planets in our operations? Yes, we do cooperate with them a great deal. However, our work on Earth is relatively independent of the local planets. We have many times overstepped what is considered to be the limit of interference upheld by Venus, Mars, and other planets. This has caused a good deal of debate between them and us. Each time we have pointed out that we of Korendor are basically pragmatic in nature. Although we do respect the laws of self-destiny, we feel also that where stepping in is required to prevent disaster, it is our right and our duty to do so. We have interfered in such places as the United States, China, Russia, and on a large scale in Vietnam. This has caused no end of consternation in the local Tribunal of Planets. We are sympathetic to their viewpoint, but we do feel that their policy is limited in its capacity to achieve the desired goals. It is our opinion that one cannot stand on the sidelines and achieve any noticeable results. As I have said before, we have infiltrated your planet. We are directly involved in Earth's life. You might say that you have been invaded — a strange way of phrasing it, to be sure, but nonetheless factual, since we walk and work amongst you daily! We have been asked about our physical appear- ance. We are humanoid, indistinguishable from yourselves, except that in our natural form we aver- age three to four feet in height. Every other dimen- sion is proportionately scaled, so that photographs of us would not reveal our origin in any way. We are able to increase our height while on Earth through a technical process related to telepor- tation. It is concerned with recording the atomic and molecular structures of our bodies, and then repro- ducing them identically on a larger scale. Differ- ences in our internal structure are adjusted by the computer which controls the reproducer. Our most common skin color is a little darker than yours, although we have skin colors which vary as yours do all over the Earth. Usually, however, we would look "tan" to you. We are NOT green, blue, or heliotrope, as has been suggested! Concerning our language, we generally use one of two tongues and we are fairly familiar with a third. On Korendor itself we speak the native language, Korendian. It is similar in many ways to your own languages since it, like yours, was originally derived from Galingua, one of the two universal tongues. The other is Solex Mal, which is more familiar to you, since it is used by your local Solar System planets. It is seldom heard now in our sector of space, as Galingua has replaced it almost completely. Unlike your own, however, the Korendian- Galinguan speech is very rhythmic, and has few sibilant sounds, such as "s" or "z". Some of the sharper sounds like "c" and "k" are minimized. It is a beautiful language which is very musical and pleasant to hear. Perhaps you would be surprised to learn that ancient Latin was liberally taken from Galingua. There are many similarities in the two languages. Even modern English has roots on other worlds! In concluding my message to you, may I say — people of Earth: open up your minds and your hearts to the world around you. There is so much to be learned, so much to be discovered. Don't waste precious hours and days in bigotry and ignorance, and in senseless fighting and killing. To do so is truly a crime against nature and humanity. At this stage where you have the very stars almost in your grasp, how irrational and barbaric it is to spend futile hours warring with your brothers. As an old saying on your world puts it: "As you make your bed, so shall you lie in it." The decision does not seem difficult. Here are the alternatives: A world living in harmony, justice, security and abun- dance for all, or a world continuing to reap the bloody harvests that grow from the seeds of hatred and mistrust. If left to their own devices, the majority of mankind will forge onward to a destiny of destruction and annihilation, oblivious to the danger in their actions. They are short-sighted; they care little for the future. It is you New Age people, dedicated to the wel- fare of all mankind, and having the vision and under- standing of the ways to build the better world of tomorrow, who must lead the way. You have the future in YOUR hands, if you will but shoulder your responsibilities. The Flying Saucer Movement, as you call it, belongs to you. Support it in every way possible. Help it to grow until it is influential throughout your world. Go out into the world and guide the misguided, find the lost, and recover the strays. We are behind you all the way. As we have said many times before, we will take two steps for every one that you take to help yourselves. The time has come for nations to "bury the hatchet", to clasp hands, and plunge into the future together — in co-operation toward mutual goals. Look to the heavens and realize that your destiny is not in bleak atomic desolation, but in the magnifi- cent greatness that you can achieve if you will but work for it. Choose the right path and you will soon qualify to join with us in our journeys amongst the stars. "Va i Luce (Go in Light)." Kalen-Li Retan 3 --- PAGE 11 --- THIRD NATIONAL CONVENTION JULY 8, 9, 10, 1966 Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America CENTENNIAL COLISEUM RENO, NEVADA FRIDAY - JULY 8, 1966 TIME MAIN HALL 10 AM INVOCATION: Dr. Frank E. Stranges. Introduction of membership, AFSCA Opening & Happening: Introduction of Chief Space Movement Personalities. 11:00 WAYNE AHO “More on the Most Exciting People You Know!” Ch. Howard Menger 11:50AM to 1:30PM LUNCH 1:30 Chief Standing Horse “Many [?] from Upper Mars, Venus, Clarion” [illegible] 2:20 HOPE TROXELL “Up Your Awareness” [illegible] 3:20 Chief Michael Baton 3:30 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) “Calling the Moon,” “Journey to the Moon,” Chairman: Hal Wilcox 4:30 DICK MILLER “Space Beings Visit Mt. Shasta” Chairman: Dan Fry 5:30 GOLD ROOM Space Tapes (5:15-7:15) 7:00 LAURA MUNDO “Flying Saucers, Ancient And Prophesied” Ch. Howard Menger 8:00 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) 8:10 MEL NOEL Investigative report on the U.S. Air Force. Ch. Sid Padrick 9:00 DR. DANIEL W. FRY “The Why of …” [illegible] Ch. Sid Padrick comment 10:00 CLIFFORD STONE [illegible] Ch. Wayne Aho 10:10 Question Period. Written questions to be presented by Main Hall speakers to Clifford Stone at Gold Room speakers: Dr. Daniel Fry. 11:00 Ch. Wayne Aho SATURDAY - JULY 9, 1966 MAIN HALL 10:00 HAL WILCOX “The Earl of The Centaurs,” Ch. Chief Standing Horse 11:00 HIANNINO MAYBERRY “Messages from Triangulum” Ch. Laura Mundo 11:50AM to 1:30PM LUNCH 1:30 CARL ANDERSON “The Mysteries into Alpha Saucer” Ch. Mel Noel 2:20 CALVIN GIRVIN “Infra-Ray for the Extra-terrestrial Communication” [illegible] 3:20 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) 3:30 DONALD J. KEYHOE “The White Sands Incident” Ch. George Van Tassel 4:30 CLIFFORD STONE “Abundant New World: The people of tomorrow” Ch. E. Stranges 5:30 GOLD ROOM Space Tapes (5:15-7:15) 6:00 SIDNEY PADDRICK “The House Aboard the Extra-terrestrial Space Craft” Ch. Dan Fry 7:00 GEORGE VAN TASSEL “Space Craft Contact at Giant Rock” Ch. Robt King 8:00 COLOR MOVIE “A Trip Through the Saucers” Ch. George Van Tassel 9:10 Question Period. Written questions to be presented by Main Hall speakers to George Van Tassel at Gold Room speakers: Michael Barton GOLD ROOM 10:00 AFSCA Unit Directors Membership Directors interested in forming a local unit 11:00 DR. FRANK STRANGES “Flying Saucers and Mystery” Ch. Daniel Lucci 11:50 Space Tapes (12:15-1:15) 1:30 MICHAEL BARTON “The 1000 Year World Prophecy” Ch. [illegible] 2:20 DR. GEORGE KING “The Twelve Blessings” Ch. Wayne Aho 3:20 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) 3:30 DOROTHY ANGELUCCI “The Frequency Barrier” Ch. Marianne Francis 4:30 EDWARD MEYER “Into the Saucers and the 4th Dimension” Ch. Carl Anderson 5:30 Space Tapes 6:00 HOWARD MENGER [illegible] Ch. Cliff Stone 7:00 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) 7:10 DAN FRY “Inner Views” Ch. Gabe Green 8:00 [illegible] 9:10 Question Period. Written questions to be presented by Main Hall speakers to [illegible] SUNDAY - JULY 10, 1966 MAIN HALL 10:00 WALTER RIEDEL, Jr. “Flying Saucer Council: Myth and Fact” Ch. Gabe Green 11:00 ROBERT GROUNDS “Ways to Improve Contact by and for the Space Movement; Competent Speakers for Free Lecture Bureau” 11:50AM to 1:30PM LUNCH 1:30 ORRIN ANDERSON “The Frank Stranges Story” Ch. Frank Stranges 2:20 GEORGE VAN TASSEL “Flying Saucers Called Extra-terrestrial Force Base” Ch. Dan Fry 3:20 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) 3:30 PAUL ORTH “Physical Space Contacts--Their Importance” Ch. Michael Barton 4:30 DOROTHY ANGELUCCI “Flying Saucers and Fulfillment of the ancient prophecies” Ch. Hanno Mayberry 5:30 GOLD ROOM Space Tapes (5:15-7:15) 6:00 HOPE TROXELL “Building of the High Temple” Ch. George Van Tassel 7:00 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) 7:10 GEORGE VAN TASSEL “Hidden Land of the [illegible] Earth” Ch. Calvin Girvin 8:00 LAURA MUNDO “Firm Foundation and the Father’s Plans” Ch. William Francis 9:10 Question Period. Written questions to be presented by Main Hall speakers to [illegible] GOLD ROOM 10:00 Flying Saucer Council. Exhibitors, Speakers and [illegible] Ch. Gabe Green 11:00 [illegible] “Ways to Improve [illegible]” [illegible] 11:50 LUNCH Space Tapes (12:15-1:15) 1:30 SIDNEY PADDRICK “Message From Our Space brothers” Ch. Calvin Girvin 2:20 HAL WILCOX “Space Time Plane [illegible]” [illegible] 3:20 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) 3:30 MEL NOEL “The Flying Saucer and Photographs” [illegible] 4:30 Written Questions No smoking permitted in lecture and exhibit halls. Midway Lounge open for sandwiches, salads and drinks are available at lunch and dinner time. Phone: 662-4404. AFSCA HEADQUARTERS: 2004 N. Hoover St.; Los Angeles, California 90027. Phone: 662-4404. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, contact AFSCA HEADQUARTERS. BUY Easter SEALS The London Free Press Western Ontario’s Foremost Newspaper 118th YEAR OF PUBLICATION LONDON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1966—36 PAGES UFO SIGHTED BY LEWISTON PEOPLE An unidentified flying object was spotted Saturday night in Lewiston by a family of eight persons. Lewiston police said Patricia Landry of 35 Tart Ave. spotted the UFO at about 9:17 p.m. above her home. According to police, the Landry woman and seven other persons spotted the object which was described as bright blue and gray in color, oval in shape. It was slid the UFO hovered for a few seconds and then “took off” at a high rate of speed in an easterly direction. Tracked by Radar UFOs Sighted Over Wide Section of District An unidentified flying object was tracked briefly on radar by a U.S. Air Force base in Michigan last night, and a multitude of new sightings were reported by Western Ontario residents. A retired U.S. Marine Corps major said yesterday “there is substantial evidence” that they are observation devices “controlled by a superior civilization.” Sightings of the objects were reported last night over an area stretching from Sarnia to Kintore, northwest of Woodstock. The mysterious objects came in a variety of forms, according to their observers. There was an orange one at Sarnia. And another flying off red, white and blue flashes. There was a red one in London that had a pulsating white halo. The one at Kintore was a bright white light that intermittently faded to dull red. Some of them were high-tailing it through the sky like mad and some of them were sitting stock-still in mid-air. Some were travelling slowly and intermittent bursts of speed. A spokesman at the U.S. Air Force base in Selfridge, Mich., said one was tracked briefly on radar, but could not say what it was. Some observers said their sightings lasted a few minutes. Other reported keeping the object in sight for up to two hours. The Free Press sent five men out Martian-hunting, two of them in a chartered plane, but found only two high-flying jet planes carrying the usual red and green running lights and leaving white vapor trails. Maj. Donald N. Keyhoe, the Marine officer who advanced the outer-space-spy-in-the-sky theory on behalf of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, called on the U.S. Government yesterday to release all the information it has on UFO sightings. “There is substantial evidence we are being observed by some sort of device which is far more advanced than anything we have and is controlled by a superior civilization,” he told a press conference. “These things are real, and under intelligent control,” he added. He urged the air force to “end the secrecy on sightings and stop ridiculing the competent witnesses” who have seen them. Keyhoe, who has written several books on the subject of UFO’s, is director of the National Investigations committee. The majority of the Western Ontario sightings came from London and Sarnia. Mrs. J. Fielding, of 105 Oxford St. E., London, reported seeing a white light in the northeast sky, headed toward Stratford at 7:25 p.m. A Thorndale area man, Floyd Baxter, at 7:40 reported seeing an orange and yellow light moving very slowly to the northeast. He estimated it to be more than 1,000 feet high. Fifteen minutes later at Kintore, six miles northeast of [illegible] said the bright light was stationary, then vanished at 7:40 p.m. The [illegible] object was seen by several [illegible] Londoners [illegible] [illegible] THE SUN-BULLETIN—Binghamton, N.Y. March 17, ’66 Not star, says collector of flying saucer photos The director of Unit 40 of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America is not convinced that the object sighted in the skies over Port Dickinson Tuesday night was the star Arcturus. “I know enough about astronomy to know that a star does not behave in that manner,” Gerald M. Reynolds of 684 State St. said last night. Mr. Reynolds said he talked with persons who witnessed strange object flashing multi-colored lights about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. He hopes to talk with others who saw the object. Mr. Reynolds, a construction foreman, is 60 years old. He has a large file of photographs of flying saucers and other material relating to space flight. He admits that not all sightings are mysterious, and told of the time two persons called him to tell him about strange lights seen over Binghamton. “One turned out to be the planet Jupiter … and the other light came from a house or a car on Ely Park hill,” he laughed. THE TELEGRAM, Toronto, Sat., March 26, 1966 Swamp gas still ‘flying’ DETROIT—(UPI) The U.S. Air Force closed its books today on the case of two “visits” by unidentified flying objects. It’s verdict: swamp gas. But some of the people who witnessed what they thought was a landing by a glowing, extra-terrestrial space craft, were not completely convinced the experts were right. And even while the two most spectacular Michigan sightings now were the tag of an “official explanation,” UFO sightings continued to pop up across the country, in rural areas and cities alike. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the top Air Force adviser on UFO sightings, climaxed three days of on-the-scene investigation by telling a news conference it appeared a very likely swamp gas was responsible for mass reports of strange glowing objects this week at Hillsdale and Dexter in southern Michigan. William Van Horn, Hillsdale civil defense director, said he was “dissatisfied” with the explanation because Hynek’s investigation of the sighting was “too brief” and because Hynek sidestepped mention of the report from two college co-eds who said they saw the UFO close-up as it swept past their window. Other UFO sightings, meanwhile, were reported from a drive-in restaurant in Des Moines; from some police officers in St. Louis; from a truck driver on a Michigan interstate highway; from sheriffs’ deputies in Toledo, Ohio; from a farmer in Upper Sandusky, Ohio; from a housewife at McComb, Miss.; a newsman at Tomah, Wis.; and a man at Bangor, Maine, who took a potshot at his object. Mont.-Star, 4-19-66 Photographed Flying Saucer, Picture Censored ANACONDA RAVENNA, Ohio, April 19—“We were close, closer than I ever want to be again,” said a deputy sheriff who chased an unidentified flying object from Ohio into Pennsylvania. Hundreds of persons in both states reported seeing the “brilliant and shiny” object early Sunday morning. Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua, about eight miles north of Ravenna, said he took a picture of the object from his front yard but the air force told him not to release it. Buchert said it looked like “two table saucers put together.” [illegible] POLICE CHIEF ‘CONVINCED THEY SAW SOMETHING’ Six Teens Tell of ‘Chase’ by Buzzing, Lighted UFOs By ROBERT KISTNER Denver Post Staff Writer Six picnicking Denver teen-agers reported Thursday night they were chased for an hour by unidentified flying objects in Daniels Park south of Denver in Douglas County. The high school students—three boys, three girls—told Police Chief John C. MacIvor of Littleton they witnessed unexplained apparently “buzzing” red, blue and white lights accompanied by a series of pulsating buzzing sounds which began about 9:30 p.m. The teen-agers, all 17, who described what they saw hesitantly, were described by MacIvor as being “sincere,” could sober and a little shaken by what they saw. The group appeared at MacIvor’s office shortly before 11 p.m. “I was real skeptical at first,” MacIvor said. “But each of the kids called their parents—who knew they’d been picnicking—to tell them where they were. “I don’t know what they saw,” he said, “but I’m convinced they saw something.” Alan Scrivner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Scrivner of 100 Jackson St., a junior at East High School, gave the following account: Scrivner and five friends drove to Daniels Park, 10-12 miles southwest of Littleton, about 6:30 p.m. They parked the car and walked about a city block down a small incline and up again to a stone shelter built in the side of a hill. The group was sitting around a fire they’d built inside when they heard “what sounded like a man walking on top of the shelter.” The roof can easily be reached on foot from the slanting hillside. Scrivner and Don Otis, an East High junior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Otis, 1939 Fairfax St., stood on top of the shelter and shined a flashlight into the surrounding area. They saw nothing. The two—leaving the others behind in the shelter—made their way through the underbrush back to the road. “I thought someone was messing around my car,” Scrivner said. “Just as we got to the car,” he said, “both of us heard a real weird buzzing noise. It seemed to be all around us.” As they reached the car, the youths saw “four red lights”—both at 10 o’clock in diameter—about two feet off the ground and parallel to each other.” There was a white light in the center of the reds. The lights, about 30 feet apart, appeared to be in a field on the far side of the road “about 25 yards” from the car. The two, thinking “it might be two parked cars or something,” crouched in the ditch and waited. About three minutes later, they again approached the car. They saw and heard nothing. They returned to the shelter. The four in the shelter said that, while the two had been gone, they’d heard the same “footstep-like” sound on the roof again. Two of the girls said they’d also seen a “tall man, who might’ve been wearing a raincoat,” dart through the light showing through the window into the area. They also said they heard his footsteps. The group decided to leave. As they were walking back to the car, Otis turned and saw “a real bright flash behind the hill over the shelter and it lit up the whole area.” Buzzing ‘All Around’ The ominous buzzing began again. No direction, “just all around — never heard anything like it in my life,” Scrivner said. Shortly afterward, as the group neared the car, they all agreed they saw the same thing: Two blue lights hovering low in the sky, about three quarters of a mile away. The lights were stationary and went from bright to dim. A third — white — light appeared to rise up and down between the blues and “lit up the area.” No outline — other than the lights — was visible. They perched atop the car’s hood and watched the blue and white lights “off and on” for about a half hour. The lights appeared in back of the shelter — in the opposite direction from the first lights seen in the field. Twenty minutes after the blues appeared, another set—these, blues with a bright red in the center—appeared “off to the left of the others and about a block away.” These hovered near the ground. The buzzing continued. The night was overcast with no stars visible but “real clear beneath the clouds where the lights were.” At the third set of lights hovered, the youths agreed they could see a dark outline between the lights. “It looked like a black football—the blue lights on each end—with an orange on top, like a bubble. The red light was at the bottom. It didn’t move up and down, but did cast a beam of light at the ground,” Scrivner said. Car Didn’t Work Right The youngsters piled in the car — a 1954 Ford — and started out of the park. “You’d all think we’re nuts,” Scrivner said later, “but my car didn’t work right. I could get it up to about 30 miles an hour; then it would cut out like someone turned the ignition off. Then it would start up again.” Scrivner also complained that the radio was “playing nothing but static” while they left the immediate area of the shelter. As they drove off, two of the girls and Otis saw what appeared to be a “large, oval circle of light — it covered the whole road — following the car.” Mary Zolar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Zolar, 945 Fairfax St., a senior at East, was in the back seat with two others. “It was huge and glowing,” she said, “and came right up to the back of the car, then went out. It lasted about three seconds.” As the car left the park area, it quit “missing out” and the radio played normally, Scrivner said. Called Sheriff’s Office The youths stopped at a service station and called the Arapahoe County sheriff’s office, then went to MacIvor’s office. MacIvor said “one of the impressive things about their story” was all six didn’t claim to have seen the exact same thing at the same time. “And a couple of them are real shook up,” he added. The operations officer at Lowry Air Force Base said early Friday he’d received a call apparently from the Arapahoe County sheriff, reporting the sighting. Others in the group were Michael Simington, son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Simington, 773 Jackson St., a junior at East; Patty Rutherford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neal [illegible], 276 Harrison St., a junior at [illegible] High School, and Kaye Hurley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hurley, 5736 Montview Blvd., a junior at [illegible] High School. Two other UFO sightings were reported in the state, one in Delta and the other in Denver. Delta Police Chief D. C. Morgan, patrolman Ernest Markley and reporter Don Pratt of the Delta Independent watched an object which was “glowing, green in color and very bright.” The men observed it for almost two hours before it disappeared by “rising straight up.” In Denver, Terry Datz, 19, in University of Denver student, said he and Dennis Sullivan of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., sighted about seven UFOs which appeared “garbage can lid size.” The students said the objects disappeared into the clouds after about 10 minutes. Since December Area UFO Buffs Report Skies Clear of Saucers Recent sightings in other sections of the country have stimulated interest in unidentified flying objects in the Spokane area but it has been reported seen in this locality since December. The last reported [illegible] by Mrs. Jack A. Campbell, Route 3, director of the Spokane unit of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. Mrs. Campbell said there is going to be a regional convention of the flying saucer clubs in Spokane in early summer, and a lecture by a Seattle authority on unidentified flying objects is scheduled by the local unit April 9. Mrs. Campbell said she was among several Spokane persons who saw such a flying object about December 29. [illegible] Super-Space World Sought By Soviets MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian scientists, undeterred by Western skepticism, believe it is possible that a super-civilization exists in space and is trying to make contact with earth. Because of Moscow’s refusal to abandon hope, a new country-wide search is being undertaken for super-civilization signals. Deputy Gets Too Close to ‘Saucer’ RAVENNA, Ohio (AP) — “We were close, closer than I ever want to be again,” said a deputy sheriff who chased an unidentified flying object from Ohio into Pennsylvania. Hundreds of persons in both states reported seeing the “brilliant and shiny” object early Sunday morning. Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua, about eight miles north of Ravenna, said he took a picture of the object from his front yard but the air force told him not to release it. Buchert said it looked like “two table saucers put together.” --- PAGE 12 --- Would You Believe—‘Saucer’ Visits Wichita? By FRAN KETTLING Beacon Staff Writer [illegible] The Wichita Beacon Saturday, March 26, 1966 Mrs. Thomas and Johnny examined “flying saucer damage.” Concrete reinforcement sheeting was broken, sand swirled. UFO Sighting Reported Here Not a Star -- Not an Aircraft, Says Louis S. Smith Family of North Bend SAUCER SHAPE. This is a rough sketch by Phil Smith, 15, of the Unidentified Flying Object watched by Phil, his father and mother, and his sister for about 10 minutes the evening of April 7. The band in the center (resembling windows) gave out the bright lights which first attracted Phil’s attention. “Mysterious UFO’ Escorts Burns Plane Meteorite Flares Over Northeast BRILLIANTLY LIGHTED Police Follow Saucer 85 Miles SAUCER BLAST? SIX TOWNS SEE MYSTERY THE MONTREAL STAR, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1966 Boy Is Burned By ‘Flying Ship’ CHARLES COZENS ‘The Thing’ Sets Britons Speculating Anew Object In Sky Near Bloomdale Citizen-News Thursday, April 7, 1966 Planet Pluto Saucers Seen, Talked With? THOSE SPACE PEOPLE! Flying Saucers, Quakes Linked A Second UFO Seen In Michigan 5 At Pierre Sight UFO Visible Again Lights in Sky BALL OF FIRE IN HOLLYWOOD ‘LIKE SAUCER’ AFSCA CONVENTION SPEAKERS 1. WAYNE S. AHO; The New Age Foundation, Inc.; 8 Smith St.; Seattle, Wash. 98109. Publish: “The Aquarian Dawn” (Donation basis). 2. CARL A. ANDERSON; 2522 E. Pearson Ave.; Fullerton, Calif. 3. ORFEO ANGELUCCI; 4160 Verdugo Road; Los Angeles, Calif. 90065. 4. MICHAEL “X” BARTON; Futura Press; 5949 Gregory Ave.; Hollywood, Calif. 90038. Phone: 464-0441. 5. WESLEY BATEMAN; Mental Investigations of New Dimensions (M.I.N.D.); 4916 Franklin Ave.; Hollywood, Calif. 90027. Phone: 661-1731. Publish: “Prism” (12 issues-$3.00). 6. MARIANNE FRANCIS; Solar Light Center; Rt. 2, Box 572-C Central Point, Oregon 97501. Publish: “Starcraft” (4 issues-$2.00). 7. DR. DANIEL W. FRY; Understanding, Inc.; P. O. Box 105; Merlin, Oregon 97532. Publish: “Understanding” (12 issues-$2.50). 8. CALVIN C. GIRVIN; 6711 Yucca St.; Hollywood, Calif. 90028. 9. GABRIEL GREEN; Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc.; 2004 N. Hoover St.; Los Angeles, Calif. 90027. Phone: 662-4404. Publish: “Flying Saucers International” (6 issues-$3.00). 10. DR. GEORGE KING; The Aetherius Society; 6202 Afton Place; Hollywood, Calif. 90028. Publish: “The Aetherius Society Newsletter” (Donation basis). Phone: 465-9652. 11. JOHANNES “HANNO” MAYBERRY; Unified Research Center, Inc.; P. O. Box 764; Selma, Oregon 97538. 12. HOWARD MENGER; 202 Schumann Drive; Sebastian, Florida 32958. 13. LAURA MUNDO; The Interplanetary Center; 27359 Cranford Lane; Dearborn Heights, Mich. 48127. Publish: “The Interplanetary News” (Free). 14. MEL NOEL; 2760 Hollyridge Drive; Hollywood, Calif. 90028. 15. SIDNEY PATRICK; 196 Hidden Valley Road; Watsonville, Calif. 16. CHIEF FRANK B. STANDING HORSE; AFSCA Unit #9; Rt. 2, Box 194, (27401 Hwy. 74); Perris, Calif. 92370. Phone: 657-2873. 17. DR. FRANK E. STRANGES; International Evangelism Crusades, Inc.; P.O. Box 252; Venice, Calif. 90293. 18. MOLLIE THOMPSON; Linton, Astley Bank, Darwen, Lancs., England. 19. HOPE TROXELL; School of Thought; P.O. Box 458; Independence, Calif. 93526. 20. GEORGE W. VAN TASSEL; Ministry of Universal Wisdom, Inc.; P.O. Box 458; Yucca Valley, Calif. 92284. Publish: “Proceedings” (Donation basis). 21. HAL WILCOX; Institute of Parapsychology; 871 Gower St.; Hollywood, Calif. 90038. Phone: 469-5438. THE COCKEYED BALLAD SPACE AGE SONGS by Mollie Thompson SPACE-TALK There’s a cockeyed feeling in the world today That power politics is here to stay. But China, Russia and the U.S.A. Boy--don’t let them fool you! Take a look at this world of ours, Just one mud ball in the sea of stars. Other planets have no color-bars, ’Cause they’ve got perspective. Yanks and Russkies put men into space, But it’s all a mad politician’s race, One-up-manship in this Year of Grace. It makes you giggle. The population stands and stares, While men in capsules explore upstairs. Why we can’t even manage our own affairs! Some cheek--colonization! Besides, they’ve got people on Venus and Mars. They got lads and lasses and ma’s and pa’s. And they’ve got better transport than four-wheel cars. Have you ever seen ’em? Those Flying Saucers whisking through our skies Must take some power to make them rise. But government departments just hide their eyes, And call them meteors! With all the lies that they print and shout, The general public’s got its work cut out-- Figuring what it’s all about. But just you keep on trying. I suppose you know why I’m telling you this, So you won’t shriek or shake your fist When you discover Martians do exist! They’re real nice fellows. I know, ’cause I met one a week ago! His ship came down for an hour or so. He talked to me, but then he had to go. Real interested I was! Got brothers on Venus and Saturn, it seems-- Fly their ships on magnetic beams. They wear one piece suits--you can’t see any seams; But apart from that--they’re just like us! The powers that be will tell us we’re alone. They’ll tell us that in space we are unique; On this little desert island we call Earth The human race is just a kind of freak. When we send our envoys into space There’ll be a smile upon this planet’s face, ’Cause brother, right out there--I’m telling you, There’s another human race; it’s very true! They’re a very, very peaceful crowd, For they just never go to war. And they cannot interfere, This is by Universal Law. The spaceman’s message to us all Is based on how to banish fear, And if we only understand, We will find it heaven here. While we must rely on war, We never will be happy here. While this world’s economy Is based on hardship, strife and fear. How do they live without a war In their lands of milk and honey? They don’t need economy, Because they don’t use any money! They cannot give us any ships, So we must try and build our own. But they are waiting right out there, Oh, my friends, we’re not alone! How do they go at such great speed, And vanish then without prediction? Because they use free energy, And there isn’t any friction. Brother have you seen their ships? Sisters have you seen them glow, As they dance and hover in the sky, And make our fastest jets look slow? 5 --- PAGE 13 --- NEW SAUCER PHOTOS: These remarkable photos of Flying Saucers were taken by Dr. Daniel W. Fry, President of Understanding, Inc., of P.O. Box 76, Merlin, Oregon 97532. Your editor enlarged them from the original 16mm color movie film. Spots on the photos are due to the extreme enlargement of scratches and dust spots on the film. Of special interest is the fact that the same type of craft was photographed near Merlin, Oregon in a wooded section, and again near Joshua Tree, Calif. on the desert. 2 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Monday, December 13, 1965 New ‘Fireball’ Raises An Old Question: Do Flying Saucers Exist? Californian, Who ‘Talks’ to Men From the Stars, Says ‘Yes’; Scientists Assail Air Force By ELIOT CARLSON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL They’re back. The latest was sighted a few nights ago by residents and pilots in the north- ern tier of states and Canada. They described it as an orange fireball. The Air Force at first called it an unidentified flying object, but now thinks it was a meteor. Some other people called it a flying saucer. Several people say they saw the fireball land Thursday night. An 11-year-old boy in Lorain, Ohio, says he watched it drop into the woods near his home. A woman in Elyria, Ohio, 10 miles away, claims she saw it plunge into a vacant lot across the street from her home. Others say they saw it streak into Lake Michi- gan. Scientists and police combed a 75-acre area near Pittsburgh after a woman there saw the object crash to earth “smoldering.” Despite these witnesses and search efforts, however, the thing has yet to be found. In this regard, it is like all other unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, which are mysterious be- cause they are seen but never found. Whatever it turns out to be—meteor, satel- lite part, hoax, weather oddity or man from Mars—it appeared in a banner year for such objects, which almost disappeared from public consciousness following a rash of reports of flying saucers in the mid-1950s. “We’ve had more reports this year than in any year since 1957, when we had more than a thousand,” says a spokesman for Project Blue Book, the Air Force program set up in 1948 to evaluate re- ports of the phenomena. Visitors From Outer Space Nobody knows what the objects are or where they come from, but there is no lack of theories —or of controversy. The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc., is sure the “saucers” come from outer space. How do they know? The “space people” have told them. Not only that, says Gabriel Green, who heads the California group, “space people give contactees information about life on other planets and solutions to insurmountable prob- lems on our planet.” One suggestion allegedly made to Mr. Green in 1960 by a visit from Al- pha Centauri, a nearby star: Run for Presi- dent as a write-in candidate. (He campaigned briefly, then decided not to run.) The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), a private re- search organization in Washington, doesn’t hold with that theory. “We reject reports of noble beings landing on earth to solve all our problems,” says a spokesman. So men from Mars are a lot of bunk? Not necessarily, says the committee. It believes a Congressional in- vestigation would prove that UFOs “are real physical objects . . . under the control of living beings.” As an afterthought, the spokesman says: “There are a tremendous number of ego- maniacs who have been able to appoint them- selves experts in this field because it’s so con- fused.” One man who’s not confused at all is Charles A. Maney, professor emeritus of physics and mathematics at Defiance College in Ohio. Says the professor: “These objects are unquestion- ably from outer space.” He bases his reason- ing on the fact that the objects often interfere with local electrical circuits, indicating to him they have “a means of propulsion associated with magnetic fields.” “There’s Nothing To It” Such notions are scoffed at by astronomers. “Nonsense. All this is imagination outside the realm of science,” says Donald H. Menzel, di- rector of the observatory at Harvard. “I have examined Air Force cases and discovered that UFOs all have simple explanations in terms of well-known natural phenomena. There’s not one cause, but hundreds. Some are quite spec- tacular, such as reflections from ice crystals or bright stars, searchlights on clouds or high- flying spider webs. But to some people the exis- tence of flying saucers is a matter of religious fanaticism,” he says. But Mr. Menzel reads more into the Air Force data than does the Air Force itself. Of the 9,786 UFO reports made to the Air Force since 1947, 673 remain classified as “unidenti- fied,” a spokesman says. He defines this cate- gory as containing sightings whose pertinent data can’t be correlated with any known object or phenomena. The spokesman quickly adds: “We have nev- er received nor discovered any evidence that proves the existence of intraspace mobility or extraterrestrial life and we continue to extend an open invitation to anyone who feels he pos- sesses any evidence of such vehicles operating in our atmosphere.” And he states: “No UFO report evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of a threat to our national security.” The Air Force’s approach disturbs some people, however. “The Air Force should admit there are natural phenomena taking place un- der our noses of which we know nothing,” says L. M. Levitt, director of Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. He adds: “The Air Force is trying to explain something that isn’t susceptible to explanation.” Robert Risser, director of the Oklahoma Sci- ence and Art Foundation planetarium at Okla- homa City, believes “the Air Force must have had its star-finder upside down during Aug- ust,” when several reports of flying saucers were ascribed by the Air Force to sightings of stars. “The constellations of Taurus and Orion weren’t visible at the time the Air Force said the sightings were made. I think they made an error.” The whole problem, says J. Allen Hynek, chairman of the department of astronomy at Northwestern University and a consultant to the Air Force, is that the matter should be studied more thoroughly. “Pressures to conformity in academic cir- cles and fear of ridicule have slowed the study,” according to Robert Hall, a sociology professor at the University of Illinois in Chi- cago. “The possibility of life on Mars is an un- popular thing to consider these days,” says Frank B. Salisbury, a professor of plant phy- siology at Colorado State University. At the risk of being unpopular, Mr. Salisbury told the fifth annual Space Conference this year that “there may be some natural explanation of these things, but a tentative possibility to be considered is that UFOs are spaceships from Mars.” Fueling the flying-saucer controversy has been the large number of reports from what many people consider reliable witnesses—pilots with technical backgrounds. Since 1947, more than 100 private, military and commercial pilots have reported spotting strange objects in the sky; according to one study. Pinning down such reports is difficult, how- ever. “Some of the boys did report things they couldn’t identify a few years ago,” says a spokesman for American Airlines. “But our pilots haven’t made a report for years.” Nevertheless, “we have on file a great num- ber of reports from pilots who don’t want their names used but still want to tell somebody what they’ve seen,” claims J. B. Hartranft, Jr., president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots As- sociation. And he says: “I haven’t drawn any conclusions myself, but I think we’ve certainly got a good mystery on our hands.” London, Ontario Free Press 3-26-66 100 Watch UFO Disc-Like Object Hovers, Rises For Two Hours East of Kettle Point By JIM ETHERINGTON Free Press Sarnia Bureau SARNIA — A revolving ob- ject, sighted in the sky east of Kettle Point last night, was watched for more than two hours by about 100 persons. Lawrence Bressette, who op- erates a store on the Kettle Point Indian Reserve, said a motorist brought the object to his attention about 8 p.m. He said he looked at it through binoculars and could see red, blue, green and white lights flashing from the disc-shaped object. Mr. Bressette said it re- mained motionless for about an hour flashing lights, then slowly began to rise. Cloud cover rolled in about 10 p.m., allowing only periodic sight- ings. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said. “We all saw it. It was low — about 200 or 300 feet off the ground to the east. Then it slowly began to move up.” Mr. Bressette said it could not have been swamp gas which was suggested was the cause of unidentified flying object sightings in the Detroit area last week. “I’ve seen swamp gas lights. This was not the same,” he said. “Besides there hasn’t been any swamp gas lights around here since before the war.” Mr. Bressette said his broth- er, Jeffery, also reported see- ing an object over Sarnia. This one stayed stationary for a short time then shot across the sky at a very high speed. An officer in control opera- tions at Selfridge Air Force Base, Mount Clemens, Mich., said the Canadian sighting was the fourth reported to him last night. The other three were from the Detroit area. He said no radar reports had been obtained on any of the sightings. Mr. Bressette reported jet planes in the area at one point while the group watched along the Lake Huron shore. But there was no possibility the object he saw was a jet. In Michigan new reports of UFO sightings were received Saturday night as far north as the tip of the “Thumb” in Lake Huron. Odd lights were reported in the sky over Oakland County and the neighboring Detroit area. Others were reported westward in the Lansing area. Dr. J. Allen Hynek of North- western University, scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force said phenomena seen at Dexter and Hillsdale on the night of March 20 probably were the result of swamp gases. Sheriff Douglas Harvey of Washtenaw County and civil defence director William Van Horn of Hillsdale County criti- cized Dr. Hynek’s report. Van Horn said the swamp gas explanation was an attempt to “explain it away arbitrar- ily.” Flying Saucers Gain Prominence 5-26-66 N.Y. Daily News Dispatch NEW YORK — The nephew of the late Dag Hammarskjold has startled America’s top science writers by telling them he believes that flying saucers exist and that they come from outer space. Knut Hammarskjold, whose late uncle was secretary gener- al of the United Nations, spoke to a convention here of the avi- ation-space writers associa- tion. Hammarskjold also suggested that our space neighbors are becoming more and more inter- ested in what people are doing on earth. “The possible existence of neighbors in space will, if con- firmed, create problems of le- gal, political and technical characteristics,” he said. Hong Kong China Mail Flying saucers mystery 2-3-66 PEOPLE in North Queens- land are mystified by three separate reports of Flying Saucers. The first report came from a 27-year-old banana grower, Mr G. Pedley, who while driving a tractor through a neighbouring property on his way to his own farm, heard a loud hissing noise above the noise of the tractor. Suddenly about 25 yards ahead of him, a blue-grey saucer shaped craft about 25 ft across, and 9ft high, rose vertically to about 60ft and travelling at a terrific speed headed off in a south-westerly direction. On investigation, a nest of flattened reeds was found, the circle being about 30ft in diameter and since then four other nests have been found close by, some of them newly made. During the last eight months, no less than seven different sightings of Flying Saucers have been reported in the North Queensland press. Hundreds of sightseers have flocked to the Horseshoe Lagoon in the Tully District during the last few days to view the circles which are partly hidden by dense scrub. The RAAF has taken the reports seriously enough to ask for clippings from the nests which will be examined, and any further flying saucer sightings from the area will be investigated. Feb. 7, 1966 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner A-11 UN Watch For Saucers Urged UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 7 (AP)—Colman Von- keviczky, an employe in the U.N. Office of Public Infor- mation, proposed to Secre- tary-General U Thant today that members of the United Nations establish a network to observe flying saucers. Vonkeviczky, who says he believes someone in out- er space is sending flying saucers regularly on test flights to earth. He told Thant only the United Nations could be ex- pected to have sufficient authority to establish con- tact or represent mankind in a face-to-face meeting with extraterrestrial visi- tors. 4-18-66 “Report Them . . . Forget It— I Have Enough Credibility Problems As It Is” STRANGE OBJECT OVER MT. WILSON A-2 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Thursday, April 21, 1966 There was something over Mount Wilson early today but it didn’t catch the entire city napping. Police and newspaper switchboards were flooded with calls describing the object variously as a “puff,” a “greenish ball,” a “flat oval green object with a long tail and a light at the end.” It was first sighted about 4 a.m. and remained in view for about half an hour. A similar fireball was sighted about the same time from Sacramento and from Vandenberg Air Force Base, it was reported. Vandenberg reported no launches during the preceding 24 hours which might account for the phe- nomenon and said radar there picked up “no unusu- al activity” during the peri- od. An Air Force spokesman at Vandenberg said the Air Force’s “Project Blue Book” office in Washington was investigating. An observer at Mather Air Force Base near Sacra- mento theorized that the ob- ject may have been gas res- idue left from Nevada missile firings which re- flected light. Sgt. David Tollstson, of Hollywood division, said the object here appeared to be over Griffith Park. “It was a bright green splotch, elon- gated, and not blinking,” he said. The only solid fact emerg- ing: A lot of people are up at 4 a.m. --- PAGE 14 --- World Flying Saucer Believers Convene 2-6-66 MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE New York Times Service LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The “urgent problem” of improving communications with the thousands of visitors from outer space who sup- posedly are circling the earth was afforded solemn delib- eration here this weekend at a special convention of fly- ing saucer buffs. Among the nearly 300 dele- gates was a self-professed “interplanetary traveler” named Standing Horse, an Englishwoman who regularly issues mimeographed reports on her conversations with space travelers, a man who offered to book “group sightings” of flying saucers and a presidential candidate campaigning on the flying saucer ticket. THE SPACE buffs, who assembled in a cavernous es- tablishment called the Blar- ney Castle, weren’t much im- pressed with Thursday’s So- viet moon landing, but they were awed and confused by what they reported to be a sharp increase in flying saucers. One delegate, Marianne Francis, warned that the sightings could mark the be- ginning of some “ominous changes” for the earth’s pop- ulation. But the convention chairman, Dr. Frank Stranges, said the “interplan- etary visitors” would turn out to be “angelic creatures whose mission is to help mankind.” The delegates were gen- erally well groomed, articu- late men and women who could have blended into any PTA meeting. Many were heads of organizations whose members spotted and photo- graphed “unidentified flying objects” and claimed to main- tain telepathic communica- tion with space travelers. NEARLY ALL agreed that what they called the “flying saucer movement” was un- dergoing sharp expansion. Two delegates announced they were negotiating to pur- chase radio stations to help transmit their theories. Sev- eral flying saucer magazines and hundreds of books were on sale at the convention. “These people are contac- tee-oriented,” explained Gab- riel Green, a serious young man who served as president of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. “They accept craft as a fact of life. Their interest is in contacting spacemen di- rectly or through telepathy.” Green, who regularly runs for president as a “space age candidate,” says he cannot practice telepathy but insists he has met spacemen on at least six occasions. The last of his visitors, he said, was four feet tall and came from the Alpha Centauri solar system. A muscular, even-featured young man named Wesley Bateman said he never had met spacemen but that he was in “constant communica- tion with them through tele- pathy” and offered a pro- gram of instruction to other delegates who sought similar contacts. His blonde wife, Jonell, attired in black Leo- tards, was kept busy signing up “students.” “There is no mystery as to whether the space men are watching us — some have al- ready infiltrated our society,” said Bateman. “The mystery is why so many are coming. What’s going to happen?” 2 SOUTH AFRICAN POLICEMEN REPORT SIGHTING OF ‘SAUCER’ JOHANNESBURG, South Afri- ca—South African police and scientists investigated Thursday a report that a flying saucer- type object had landed on a main highway near Pretoria, the country’s administrative capital. Two patrolling police officers reported seeing the flaming “saucer,” about 30 feet in di- ameter, shortly after midnight. One of them, Koos de Klerk, said that the shiny copper-col- ored object resembled a giant spinning top. The two men claimed that, as they approached the object, it took off silently at great speed with flames shooting out of its underside. Scientists who examined the spot where the officers said that they saw the object are reported to have found that a six-foot wide section of the tarred road had been badly burned. Grass on either side of the highway also was reported slightly scorched. THE BOSTON HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1965 It’ll be Long Before “Saucer” Is Forgotten JANUARY 15, 1966 THE HERALD-NEWS By PETER A. DVARACKAS [illegible] “Listen . . . this sounds crazy, but I saw something in the sky. Do you know what it is?” This was the question posed to the police at the North Jersey police radio hook-up in Pompton Lakes. The calls came in from Wana- que, Ringwood, West Milford, Paterson, Totowa, Wayne and Butler. [illegible] At Wanaque, the state’s largest water storage basin, con- tinue to maintain a nightly vigil at the headworks, in Ringwood Avenue and Westbrook Road, to spot that weird disk of light which was seen as late as Thurs- day night making sharp dips and maneuvers over the reservoir. [illegible] BROTHER JUNIPER BY FR. JUSTIN McCARTHY & LEN RENO [illegible] “These flying saucer stories are getting more ridicu- lous every day.” Flying Saucers 2-3-66 (To the Editor, S.C.M. Post) Sir,—Citizens beware! This is not a drill! If you report what you see, your report will be treated as hallucination. Your honest desire to help solve an aeronautical mystery will be discounted by harassing con- frontation by paid investigators who are instructed to suppress the authenticity of their investi- gation. [illegible] PC REPORTS ‘I SAW 6 FLYING SAUCERS . . .’ DAILY SKETCH Tuesday, May 17, 1966 POLICE CONSTABLE Donald Cameron made out a report last night and hoped the Chief Constable would believe that he really DID see six flying saucers. PC Cameron was at home on sick leave when he looked out a window and saw six glowing objects hovering in the distance. “I thought I was seeing things and called my wife,” he said last night. “We watched them for about 30 seconds before they disappeared at speed towards Manchester. “They were about a mile away. I could see them clearly, even though it was a dull day. They were white and glowing. “One was bigger than the others with a cup- shaped dome — obviously the mother ship. The others were oval,” he added. As he made out his re- port at his home in Chil- tern-road, St. Helens, Lancs., Pc Cameron said: “I suppose I will get some ribbing from the lads, but that is not what worries me . . . it’s what the Chief Constable thinks.” Flying Object Sighted in Illinois NORMAL, Ill.—UPI—Sev- eral persons living on the same block here said they saw an unidentified flying object last night. The object had four blink- ing lights, red, white, blue and green, proceeded north- easterly, hovered over a grove of trees, then returned southwesterly. The object was seen first by the Merle Simpson family, then others. They said it was flat and small. UFO spotted 5-16-66 PASADENA (AP)—Scores of startled residents called news- papers and police after sighting what they described as blinking, moving lights in the skies over the San Gabriel Valley last night. Officers said some residents saw the lights “travel fast, then slow, then stop.” They said one Pasadena area resident report- ed the smell of perfume as the lights appeared and moved. [illegible] Paterson News Jan. 15, 1966 Spotters Jam Up-County Roads for UFO Glimpse RINGWOOD — If the little men from outer space had the up-county police on the run Tuesday, their earthly counter- parts caused more trouble Fri- day night. Throngs of the curious ringed normally deserted Wanaque Reservoir in this small hamlet and created what old timers say is the first traffic jam in the history of the borough. The cars parked along Westbrook Road and Route 511. Ringwood Police Lieutenant Jack O’Hara said “We told them to move on, but they kept coming back on the other side of the road, so we just had to give a couple of them sum- monses. They had everything, cameras, binoculars, tele- scopes. I was waiting to see one of them get out with a geiger counter.” The sky watchers were out in force after wide spread pub- lication of the sighting of uni- dentified flying objects over the reservoir. The elusive thing in the sky, however had failed to make a return appearance Fri- day. [illegible] GOLDEN GATE Handicap—Results Oakland Tribune METRO PM FINAL 93rd YEAR, NO. 84 FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1966 10¢ DAILY, $2.25 A MONTH Flying Saucers Are Poppin’ Up All Over Flying swamp gas? Swamp gas or UFO? The civil defense director of Michi- gan’s Hillsdale County has issued a report challenging an Air Force study which concludes that swamp gas caused the UFO sightings in the Hillsdale area in March 1966. William Van Horn said that, at the time of the sightings, it was too windy for swamp gas, and chemical analysis of soil and water disclosed an abnormally high amount of radiation and boron. Van Horn also released this photo of a UFO as it flew over Hillsdale County in July 1965. MONDAY MAY 16, 1966 Air Force UFO report refuted HILLSDALE, Mich. (UPI) — The Hillsdale County civil defense director today issued a 94-page report challenging an Air Force investigation’s conclusion that “swamp gas” caused UFO sightings here last March. He said it was too windy for swamp gas to form. [illegible] “Let’s see the Air Force hush this one up!” THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Monday, May 2, 1966 AIRLINER [unclear: POISED?] TO CHASE U.F.O. [illegible] One Shot By Man In Maine By United Press International [illegible] Ohio Police Trail UFO 86 Miles CANTON, Ohio — (UPI) — [illegible] UFO’s (?) FLASH ACROSS PRE-DAWN SKY Time exposure taken by Michigan deputy sheriff NEW PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1966 MYSTERY OBJECTS IN SKY Three mystery objects were photographed in the pre-dawn darkness over New Plymouth on Sunday morning. [illegible] AUSTIN, Texas, March 28, 1966 40 See ‘Flying Saucer’ [illegible] Asks Probe of Flying Saucers Ford Says U.S. Public Should Get Answers WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON, March 25— Raising a belief that the Air Force [illegible] to make public [illegible] evidence of reports of flying saucers, Rep. Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich) today asked [illegible] House Armed Services Committee investigation. “I do not agree that all of these reports can or should be [illegible] explained away,” Ford said in letters to [illegible] of the House Armed Services Committee and the [illegible] Appropriations sub- committee in charge of the Air Force. [illegible] Portland Oregon Journal March 21, 1966 Now those flying saucers come to Canadian skies Those puzzling flying sau- cers invaded Canada last night. Sightings were reported in Toronto, Hamilton, Sar- nia, and Kitchener-Water- loo. [illegible] Maine 5-11-66 Auburn Police Get Another Report on UFO Auburn police got another call of the “UFO” variety last night. [illegible] FIRST UFO SPOTTER [illegible] KENNETH ARNOLD, the Boise businessman who started the flurry of flying saucer sightings in 1947, displays a drawing he made after a sighting near Mt. Rainier in Washington. Ar- nold said flashing bright discs from the dark spot in the cen- ter. (AP Wirephoto) BREWER Welcomes UFOs LANDING SITES AVAILABLE SIGNED-- Barry Wersal MAYOR Michigan UFO Lands In Swamp ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI) — At least 40 persons saw an [illegible] object flying silently and in a strange manner [illegible] [illegible] FLYING SAUCER PHOTOS LIGHT LIGHT [unclear: DRAWN BY SHERIFF?] DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT LIGHT ANTENNA POLICEMAN and five other persons who saw unidentified flying object over Ann Arbor Mich., put together this composite drawing of what they sighted. Drawings made at Washtenaw County sheriff’s headquarters, shows gen- eral shape, placement of lights and antenna-like objects, and motions of a UFO. (UPI Telephoto) On show at 4:15 a.m. ‘Flying saucer’ pics on show PTI: MONMOUTH, Ill. — Pictures of a “flying sau- cer” taken by a 13-year-old boy have been released by the Army at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, and the Monmouth County Civil Defense Depart- ment. [illegible] These are the objects photographed by 16-year-old Brian Pollock in the pre-dawn sky over Plymouth on Sunday. At left are the mystery objects as he first saw them, the centre photograph shows the circular shape to which they changed, and the shot at right was taken after they had reverted back to their original form. They disappeared soon after this. BRIAN POLLOCK OPC Phase First UFO — No Arrest 4-18-66 By RICHARD [illegible] Provincial police appear to have registered their first flying saucer chase. At 2 a.m. this morning two constables at Three Rivers re- ported to headquarters that they were chasing a luminous spherical object. [illegible] --- PAGE 15 --- Head Saucerer Believes Martians Are Watching Us Who’s in All Those Saucers? By Harold Scarlett Was Jesus Christ a Martian? “It’s hard to say,” said Gabriel Green thoughtfully. Then he added that it certainly seems plausible. It’s no trick at all to walk on water or ascend to the heavens if you have a Martian levitation belt around your waist and an anti-gravity beam to ride, Green explained. Furthermore, he said, the Martians now visiting earth on flying saucers are trying to save the earth’s people from their own follies — just as the Savior was. Green can speak with some authority on these matters because, he says, he met and talked with a Martian once. Also a four-foot man from the Alpha Centauri star system. Also some other unearthly visitors. SOMETIMES, HE said, he met these flying saucer crewmen by telepathic appointment. The [illegible] arranged through associates of his with telepathic talents. “And once in a while,” he said, “they would just call on the phone.” Green, who lives in Los Angeles, is the head saucerer — the president — of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. [illegible] 4-12-66 “Parking between my ball and the green—I’d hardly call THAT intelligent life from another planet.” THE SWAMP GAS IS RESTLESS TONIGHT. From B. C., the Post, May 9, 1966 GABRIEL GREEN Head Saucerer Saucer Sighting DETROIT, MICHIGAN Report MARCH 30, 1966 [illegible] Civil Defense Director Watches ‘Flying Saucer’ GOLDEN GATE Handicap--Results Oakland Tribune ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21, 1874 • OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA METRO FINAL PM 93rd YEAR, NO. 81 TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1966 10c DAILY; $2.25 A MONTH Eerie 1896 Sighting By JIM HAZELWOOD The so-called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO’s) seen Sunday in Michigan by at least 10 people, recall a bizarre story which appeared in The Tribune 70 years ago. The date was Nov. 23, 1896, and it reported that many persons saw an “airship” flying over Oakland. But this date was 10 years before the Wright brothers made the first successful heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk. Aerial balloons, however, had been known for decades. The Oakland “airship” was the talk of the town for days and a number of other sightings were reported, from as far away as Red Bluff. Although the original story said the craft resembled a “huge bird,” later sightings described it as egg-shaped with lights at both ends. It should be borne in mind that shapes of aircraft and estimates of airspeed were still sciences of the future when the following story, reproduced in part, was written. “That a huge airship has been hovering over Oakland for the last few nights has in the minds of many been conclusively proven. A number of persons whose integrity is unquestionable have seen the strange navigator of the air and this number includes many whose skepticism has been pronounced. [illegible] 87 Coeds Observe ‘Object’ HILLSDALE, Mich. (UPI)--A county civil defense director and 87 co-eds said today they watched an eerie, hovering flying object settle in a swampy hollow near a college dormitory last night. William Van Horn, 41, Hillsdale county civil defense director for 10 years, said he watched the unidentified object through binoculars for three hours. [illegible] Binghamton, N. Y., October 24, 1965 THE SUNDAY PRESS ENCOUNTER WITH A SPACE SHIP ‘I Know What I Saw’; Egg-Shaped Craft By KEITH GEORGE Newark Valley—Gary T. Wilcox is a young man dogged by rumors. People say his dairy farm has gone bust because nothing will grow on the land. Others who meet him on the street express surprise, saying they’d heard he was in a New York City hospital suffering from radiation burns. One story has it his land is under guard for government study and that there is a darkened patch in his pasture where nothing will grow. The handsome, 28-year-old farmer says none of these tales is true. But the strangest of all, and the basis for the rumors, is his encounter with a space ship and its talk with its eerie crew 17 months ago. That happened, Mr. Wilcox says. “I know what I saw for two hours. I was talking with them and even joking with them.” GARY WILCOX [illegible] Don Winters County Calif. Star-Free Press 4-1-66 Two In County Claim They Saw ‘Glowing’ UFO At least two Ventura County people saw a glowing object Wednesday night, prompting dozens of calls to Point Mugu NAS. [illegible] SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1966, THE HOUSTON POST PAGE 4—SPOTLIGHT SAUCER OR STRAW HAT, THIS FLEW IN CALIFORNIA LAST AUGUST Highway Patrolman [illegible] Photographed It Through His Car Windshield THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1966 UFO Plays Tag With Deputies in 85-Mile Chase RAVENNA, O., April 17 (UPI). Portage county sheriff’s deputies [illegible] [illegible] A-8 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Mysterious Sky Objects Have Texans in Dither MEMPHIS, Tex., May 17, (AP) — Rural residents told of seeing a cigar-shaped object zoom from the sky yesterday, and two men said it caught fire and burned without apparent cause. [illegible] 3-25-66 “TV’s flying-saucer-sighting time and I’m determined to see one!” 2—Nevada State Journal Tuesday, May 10, 1966 ★ GALLUP POLL More Than 5 Million People Say They Saw Flying Saucers By GEORGE GALLUP More than five million Americans claim to have seen something they believed to be a “flying saucer.” And, about 19 times as many people — nearly half of the U.S. adult civilian population — believe that these frequently reported flying objects, while not necessarily “saucers,” are real and not just a figment of the imagination. [illegible] GALLUP POLL Sheriff Aides Chase; A UFO; Were ‘Close’ RAVENNA, Ohio (AP)—We were close, closer than I ever want to be again,” said a deputy sheriff who chased an unidentified flying object from Ohio into Pennsylvania. [illegible] --- PAGE 16 --- FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL! READ "AFSCA WORLD REPORT" 12 ISSUES - $3.00 AMALGAMATED FLYING SAUCER CLUBS of AMERICA Gabriel Green, Pres., 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles, Calif. --- PAGE 17 --- 62-83894-448 --- PAGE 18 --- OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27 5010-106 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 10/3/66 FROM : SAC, LOS ANGELES (100-24442-40/). SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL, OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMALGAMATED FLYING SAUCER CLUBS OF AMERICA, INC. IS - MISCELLANEOUS [handwritten: [illegible]] [handwritten: O FLYING SAUCERS] [handwritten: MAGAZINE] The Philadelphia Division by letter dated 9/22/66, furnished the Los Angeles Division with Issue No. 24 dated July, 1966, entitled "FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL", which is the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. The Philadelphia Division received the magazine from Mr. JARVIS H. COOPER, IRS, 401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 9/19/66. Mr. COOPER stated he subscribed to the magazine because his son had exhibited an interest in flying saucers and outer space. He said that on pages 2 and 3 of Issue No. 24 was an article which he believed expounded the Communist Party (CP) line. For the information of the Bureau, the International Headquarters of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. is located at 2004 North Hoover Street, Los Angeles, California. The article, on pages 2 and 3, were allegedly written by Master KALEN-IL RETAN, Head of the planet KORENDOR, which was received on 5/4/66 by special directional short-wave radio by BOB RENAUD. [handwritten: U.S.A.] The indices of the Los Angeles Division contain no information identifiable with RENAUD, and no investigation has ever been conducted on captioned organization. [stamp: ENCL. BEHIND FILE] No further action is contemplated in this matter by the Los Angeles Office, UACB. [handwritten: EX-114] REC-6 62-83894-449 The foregoing is furnished to the Bureau for information. [stamp: ENCLOSURE] 2 - Bureau (RM) [handwritten: (ENC-1)] 1 - Los Angeles JST:gcw (3) [stamp: 4 OCT. 5 1966] [signature/handwriting: [illegible]] [stamp: CRIME RESEARCH] [stamp: ENCL. BEHIND FILE] [stamp: 61 OCT 13 1966] [handwritten: [illegible]] --- PAGE 19 --- Los Angeles 10/5/66 Director, FBI SAC, Los Angeles ([unclear: 100-24112?]) FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL, OFFICIAL JOURNAL; INTERPLANETARY FLYING SAUCER CLUBS OF AMERICA, INC. IS - MISCELLANEOUS The Philadelphia Division by letter dated 9/22/66, furnished the Los Angeles Division with issue No. 21, dated July, 1966, captioned FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL, which is the official journal of the Interplanetary Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. The Philadelphia Division received the magazine from R. [unclear: LATANE?] H. COOPER, JR., 401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 9/19/66. MR. COOPER stated he subscribed to the magazine because his son had exhibited an interest in flying saucers and outer space. He said that on pages 2 and 3 of issue No. 21, was an article which he believed expounded the Communist Party (CP) line. For the information of the Bureau, the International Headquarters of the Interplanetary Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. is located at 2004 North Hoover Street, Los Angeles, California. The article, on pages 2 and 3, were allegedly written by Master [illegible], head of the Planet [illegible]. This was reported on 5/1/66 by special direct-oral short-wave radio by RONALD. The indices of the Los Angeles Division contain no information identifiable with RONALD, and no investigation has ever been conducted on captioned organization. [illegible] No further action is contemplated in this matter by the Los Angeles Office, UACB. The foregoing is furnished to the Bureau for information. [stamp: REC'D - SULLIVAN FBI - WAITE OCT 5 3:25 PM '66] [stamp: REC'D [unclear: M&M INTELL DIV.] OCT 5 2 56 PM 66] [stamp: FBI RECEIVED OCT 5 1 26 PM '66] [stamp: OCT 6 1966 MR. JONES] [unclear: D1 OCT 13 1966] --- PAGE 20 --- [stamp: REC. 65] 62-83894-450 EX-113 October 17, 1966 Mr. Paul L. Wright 1331 Lucile Avenue, Southwest Atlanta, Georgia 30310 Dear Mr. Wright: Your letter of October 9th has been received. With respect to your inquiry, matters pertaining to sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects or Flying Saucers are not within the jurisdiction of the FBI. Inasmuch as your communication is of interest to another governmental agency, I am referring a copy of it to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, De- partment of the Air Force, Washington, D. C. 20333. Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover [stamp: MAILED 11 / OCT 17 1966 / COMM-FBI] NOTE: We have had one outgoing to correspondent dated 3/10/66 in response to his letter regarding the TV program, "The FBI." A copy of his letter is being sent by form to the Department of the Air Force. DFC:rlf (3) [stamp: OCT 17 3 44 PM ’66 / REC’D-READING ROOM / FBI] Tolson ______ DeLoach ______ Mohr ______ Wick ______ Casper ______ Callahan ______ Conrad ______ Felt ______ Gale ______ Rosen ______ Sullivan ______ Tavel ______ Trotter ______ Tele. Room ______ Holmes ______ Gandy ______ MAIL ROOM □ TELETYPE UNIT □ [illegible] 7708 [illegible] [illegible] WILLIAMS 4724 --- PAGE 21 --- October 17, 1966 Mr. and Mrs. [illegible] 1411 [illegible] Avenue Garden Grove, 92640 California Dear Mr. and Mrs. [illegible]: Your letter of October 6th has been received. While [illegible] to your family's [illegible] pertaining to the [illegible] of [illegible] Edwin O. [illegible] or Floyd [illegible] [illegible] within the jurisdiction of the FBI. Inasmuch as your communication is of interest to another governmental agency, I am enclosing a copy of it to the Director of Special Investigations, The Inspector General, De- partment of the Air Force, Washington, D. C. 20333 Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover [stamp:] MAILED 11 OCT 17 1966 COMM-FBI NOTE: We have had one [illegible] to correspondent dated 3/10/66 in response to his letter regarding the TV program, "The FBI." A copy of his letter is being sent by airtel to the Department of the Air Force. [stamp:] FBI REC'D DE LOACH OCT 17 12 33 PM 66 [stamp:] RECEIVED-DIRECTOR F.B.I. OCT 17 4 08 PM 66 [stamp:] LAX13 [unclear: REC'D] --- PAGE 22 --- [handwritten: [illegible]] 1331 Lucile Ave. S.W. Atlanta, Ga. 30310 Oct. 9,1966 Office of the Director Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Dept. of Justice Washington,D.C.20535 Sir: For the past twenty years the United States has been having an increase in the problem of the U.F.O. or “[underlined: Flying Saucers]” and nothing is being done about it,as it should be. The Air Force has maintained that the sightings have been gas,light,weather,etc. but by talking to some of the people that have seen U.F.O.’s I’m wondering if the Air Force isn’t lying. I’m not the only one wondering this, for the people that I have talked to say that after the Michigan sightings and the others they would not report it to the Air Force if they did see a U.F.O.. Reports say that even F.B.I. Agents have seen U.F.O.’s and this has been denied by the Air Force. The report recently about the police officer in Ohio or Penn. having serious family trouble as well as being ridiculed by people because of his sighting,along with a fellow police officer,of a U.F.O.. I see by this that the faith in our Air Force is beginning [stamp: REC’D [illegible]] to decline and if this is so then we may be putting ourselves in the terrible position,as did Nazi Germany in the 1930’s. I wish to know if [stamp: EX-117] [unclear: agents?] have seen any U.F.O’s [stamp: CORRESPONDENCE] Sincerely, Paul L. Wright [handwritten: [illegible]] --- PAGE 23 --- [illegible] [stamp, inverted: RECD-CORR & FIGURS F.B.I. OCT 13 10 52 AM ’66] [stamp, red: OCT 13] [stamp, red: 3] [stamp, red, inverted: CORRESPONDENCE] --- PAGE 24 --- [illegible] [unclear: 994?] 450 12 OCT 20 1966 [illegible] F55 53 OCT 28 1966 --- PAGE 25 --- OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 5010-104 UNITED STATES GO[illegible]NMENT Memorandum TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 10/19/66 FROM : SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (62-2927) SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS IS - X [handwritten: O] [handwritten: DISCS] Re Bureau Bulletins No. 57 dated 10/1/47, and No. 38 dated 3/25/49, entitled "FLYING DISCS." Enclosed are copies of an article entitled "Armed Forces - Focus on UFO", which was published in the This World supplement of the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, Sunday, October 16, 1966. This article deals with the current controversy over the existence or nonexistence of flying saucers or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), and quotes Michigan's Congressional Representative GERALD FORD as suggesting that Congress look into UFOs; also it announces that the Air Force, which is charged with investigating UFOs, has commissioned the Univer- sity of Colorado and Physics Professor EDWARD U. CONDON to conduct an in-depth study of flying saucers for the next 18 months, at an estimated cost of $300,000. [handwritten: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO] The article also points out that since last summer pressure has been mounting for the establishment of an inde- pendent, civilian controlled investigative agency to look into the UFO problem. Also, for the Bureau's information, there was re- cently published (first printing June 1966) a book entitled "Flying Saucers - Serious Business", Lyle Stuart, Inc., publishers, authored by Frank Edwards. This book is now in its third edition and is available in paperback, published by Bantam Books, and it is probably a contributing factor to the current controversy. In this book author Edwards points out that flying saucers were observed in the spring of 1946, in Scandinavia and Russia (which he points out is about a year from the date of the testing of the Alamogordo atomic bomb), and the book 3 - Bureau (Encls. 3) 1 - Denver (Encl. 1) 1 - San Francisco DET:lms (5) [stamp: ENCLOSURE] [stamp: REC 53] [handwritten: 62-83894-451] [stamp: 3 OCT 21 1966] [stamp: 51 OCT 31 1966] [stamp: EX-114] [stamp: NAT. INT. SEC.] --- PAGE 26 --- R.E.C.O DOM INTELL DIV. OCT 21 12 17 PM 56 --- PAGE 27 --- SF 62-2927 DET:lms documents many reports throughout the world of UFOs since that date, and claims that 1965 was the year of the greatest number of UFO sightings and that these were observed by multiple wit- nesses. It is author Edwards' contention that UFOs are space vehicles sent to observe activities on earth and the Air Force, which is charged with the responsibility of investigating UFOs, has deliberately withheld information and given misleading explanations because it fears a mass panic by the public if the public were told the truth. The book describes UFOs as polished metal objects, radiating heat and light (sufficient to have burned witnesses who were too near), and emitting some force field that inter- feres with electromagnetic instruments and power sources. Colors range from brilliant white to dull reds and brilliant orange. Some objects have carried blinking lights. There are three basic shapes: 1) zeppelin-shaped ships up to 300 feet long; 2) disk-shaped objects ranging from a few feet in dia- meter to 100 feet, with many reported at about 30 feet diameter; and 3) egg-shaped objects, which according to the author are the ones most recently sighted. According to the book, the objects move silently and attain fantastic speeds, yet can hover motionless in mid-air; they have been reported to land and to take off with great speed, usually with a burst of light from the underside, which in some cases has left the ground beneath them scorched. Many of the persons named in the book who have re- ported them are reliable individuals, including law enforce- ment officers, military personnel on official duty, military pilots, commercial airline pilots, civilian defense officials, etc. A number of photographs of the objects have been repro- duced in the book, some reportedly taken by reputable persons. Many reported sightings are from atomic and missile research areas. Wreckage of crashed saucers has been reportedly re- covered on at least three occasions, in one case described as a magnesium alloy, in another as pure magnesium, and in a third case, attributed to an official of the Canadian government, the material was described as an exceptionally hard unknown metal, actually a matrix of magnesium orthosilicate which contained thousands of 15-micron metal spheres throughout, and showing evidence of micro-meteorites on its surface. - 2 - --- PAGE 28 --- SF 62-2927 DET:lms A few witnesses have reported seeing crewmen who had landed from the objects, who are described as three and a half to four feet tall, wearing what appear to be space suits and helmets. Author Edwards concludes this book with a prediction that in the near future UFOs will make an "overt landing" or deliberate contact with earth. A copy of this letter is being directed to Denver, in view of the contract awarded to Dr. EDWARD U. CONDON. The above is being called to the Bureau's attention in view of the press report of mounting pressure for a civilian controlled investigative agency to handle UFO matters. - 3 - --- PAGE 29 --- ARMED FORCES Focus on UFO Winking, blinking and nod- ding — red lights over Pasa- dena, blue lights over Greensboro, silver cigars over Detroit — people kept seeing strange flying objects, and officials kept saying nothing was out there. But in recent years, and particularly since last sum- mer, the pressure had been mounting for either a full- scale Congressional investi- gation or for the establish- ment of an independent, ci- vilian-controlled investigato- ry agency. It had been a big year for Unidentified Flying Objects. The sightings had come in bunches, the bulk of them last spring and summer. And the reports had come from all over. “Like Neon Lamps” Among the most intriguing items in this year’s crop: • At Milan, Michigan, 15 miles south of Ann Arbor, bluish-yellow bars of light were spotted, looking “like neon lamps dangling in the sky.” • In East Delhi, Mich., a 15-year-old boy called in to report seeing lights in the sky alternately standing still and moving, sometimes flashing on and off. • In Altadena and San Marino, Calif., police switch- boards logged dozens of calls after a pair of red lights in the sky were reported by residents. • In Toledo, Ohio, officials at the local airport received seven calls from persons who said they saw a glowing ob- ject that was red, green and white. • In suburban Detroit, a man saw a noiseless, wing- less, cigar-shaped flying ob- ject. • In Bryan, Texas, resi- dents said they heard a star-like object purr. • Over Valdese, N.C., a “glowing blue thing” explod- ed, then lit up the town like a giant flashbulb. Sometimes the alleged sightings spilled over into the bizarre. A space ship full of little men allegedly landed in a farm yard near Hopkins- ville, Kentucky. The little men glowed, and they were described as “three feet tall, with eyes like saucers and hands like claws.” A grain buyer in Nebraska said he was invited into a space ship where he chatted with four men and two wom- en. They spoke only broken English — but fluent High German which, as it hap- pened, was the grain buyer’s native tongue. Silvery Cigar Nor did America have any corner on the UFO market. In Northern Ireland, Tom Hutchinson saw a saucer drop into a peat bog near his home in Moneymore. It was eggshaped, three feet in di- UPI Telephoto DR. CONDON Saucer-watcher ameter, 18 inches high. It be- gan to spin and Hutchinson grabbed it. He was carrying it to the police, who de- scribed him as “level-headed and God-fearing,” when the thing twisted out of his hands and got away. And in Warminster, Eng- land, a city council worker said he saw a silvery cigar shape drifting over the vil- lage downs. After a time, he said, it seemed to stretch. Then it seemed to divide amidships with a flash of or- ange light, although there was no noise. Flaming Object Not all the sightings could be easily written off as the phantasmagoria of kooks, cranks and drunks. And, un- less one subscribed to a theo- ry of mass hallucination, it was difficult to explain away simultaneous sightings con- firmed by many rational wit- nesses — such as the flaming object that was seen last April by thousands of East Coast residents from Wash- ington to Boston and even temporarily disrupted a ball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Wash- ington Senators in Wash- ington, D. C. Or the incident in Hills- dale, Michigan last March, in which a Civil Defense Direc- tor, an assistant dean, and 87 coeds reported that they had seen a glowing object zip past their college dormitory and hover in a swamp for hours. Witnesses said they watched from the second floor of the Hillsdale College girls dormitory as the object wobbled, wavered, glowed eerily and once zipped right at a dormitory window be- fore stopping suddenly. A Meteor? The Air Force, charged with investigating every one This World, Sunday, October 16, 1966 S. F. Sunday Examiner & Chronicle 62-83894- 451 ENCLOSURE --- PAGE 30 --- [illegible] 57 of the 11,000 sightings since 1947, did have some ex- planations. The mysterious flaming object in the East was “probably a meteor.” As for Michigan’s much- publicized and plentiful unidentified flying objects, they turned out to be monkeyshines instead of moonships: “Unidentified college boys” playing pranks with flares to frighten the girls in the dormitories, came the august report from a distinguished astronomer called in by the Air Force to investigate the Hillsdale af- fair. Every report of a “flying saucer” had ostensibly been checked out by the Air Force’s special squad known as “Project Blue Book,” al- though the staff was woefully small. Of the 10,147 sightings since 1947, the Air Force insisted that only 646 remain unexplained — and most of these because of insufficient information. The others have been attributed to planes, balloons, astronomical causes, missiles, swamp gas, meteors, fireworks and, in some cases, to hallucinations and psychological reasons. Ball Lightning? Philip Klass, avionics edi- tor of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine, recently proposed some other explanations. Klass, an electronics engineer, said a form of “ball lightning,” gen- erated by high tension power lines, could explain the phe- nomena. Many of the sightings, said Klass, occurred along or very near high-tension lines where luminous balls of ionized air could be generated under certain conditions. ‘No Threat’ The main conclusions reached by the Air Force were: ● “No unidentified flying objects reported, investigat- ed and evaluated by the Air Force have ever given any in- dication of a threat to our national security.” ● “There has been no ev- idence submitted to or discov- ered by the Air Force that sightings represent techno- logical developments or prin- ciples beyond the range of present day scientific knowl- edge.” ● “There has been no evi- dence that sightings catego- rized as unidentified are ex- traterrestrial vehicles.” Major Donald Keyhoe, however, was unconvinced. Major Keyhoe, USMC (re- tired), director of the Nation- al Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NI- CAP), a private space watch- ing organization, accused the Air Force of conducting a long-term whitewash on the UFO question. It was Keyhoe’s theory that the Air Force was with- holding information for fear of causing public panic. UFOs, insisted the Major, who had never seen one, were of extraterrestrial origin and the Air Force feared that the public could not accept this knowledge. “They won’t give you details,” he complained. “If they did, many of their explanations would fall flat.” And Keyhoe could also claim a powerful ally in Michigan’s Gerald Ford, the House Republican leader, who suggested it would be “a very wholesome thing” for Congress to look into uniden- tified flying objects. Such an investigation, Ford suggest- ed, would make the Ameri- can people “feel better.” Study in Depth Whether or not that was so, the Air Force last week took definite steps to make itself feel better. Fed up with in- vestigating reports of glow- ing, flying, zooming, wink- ing, awesome, blinking, streaking, hovering things, the Air Force last week de- cided to bail itself out of all responsibility for future con- clusions concerning UFOs. The Air Force announced that it had commissioned the University of Colorado to conduct an “in-depth” study of flying saucers for the next 18 months. The director of the study (expected to cost $300,000) would be Dr. Ed- ward U. Condon, former di- rector of the National Bureau of Standards, and now a physics professor at Colora- do. To satisfy the skeptics, and insure the study’s objectivi- ty, Colorado would select several other universities to take part in the independent investigation, with about 100 scientists participating. And in case that wasn’t enough, the National Acade- my of Sciences also agreed to appoint a panel to review the Colorado report.