--- PAGE 1 --- 62-HQ-83394 Vol 1 SERIAL 449- ONLY FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER HQ - HEADQUARTERS Class / Case # Sub Vol. Serial # 0062 83894 1 449 ONLY 8/11/1274157 [barcode] RRP003IXFZ Declassification authority derived from FBI Automatic Declassification Guide, issued May 24, 2007. --- PAGE 2 --- DIRECTOR, FBI 10/3/66 SAC, LOS ANGELES (100-24442-40/) FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL, OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMALGAMATED 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. 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-LI RETAN, Head of the planet KORENDOR, which was received on 5/4/66 by special directional short-wave radio by BOB RENAUD. The indices of the Los Angeles Division contain no information identifiable with RENAUD, and no investigation has ever been conducted on captioned organization. No further action is contemplated in this matter by the Los Angeles Office, UACB. The foregoing is furnished to the Bureau for information. [handwritten: 2 - Bureau (RM) (enc-1)] 1 - Los Angeles JST:gcw (3) [handwritten: 62-83894-449] --- PAGE 3 --- FLYING SAUCERS Official Journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL AFSCA THIRD NATIONAL FLYING SAUCER CONVENTION ISSUE ISSUE NO. 24 JULY, 1966 50c --- PAGE 4 --- SPECIAL AFSCA CONVENTION MESSAGE BRIGHT WORLD IN HANDS OF SAUCER MOVEMEN (Editor's Note: This special message was received from Master Kalen-Li Retan (head of th planet Korendor, about 400 light years distant) o May 4, 1966 via special directional short-wave ra by Bob Renaud, the young electronic-technician w remarkable story we printed in issues #18, 19, 20 and 22, and which will be continued in our next is 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 — an eventually met his contacts in-person; visited th undersea and underground bases on our planet; w 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 the point of our message to you. Frankly, we ar appalled at the state of Earth at present. Despit constant warnings and even our actual interventi some instances, the condition upon your planet gro 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 twis 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, distrus and hatred of those who seek peace and love. Un- tunately, because some unconventional individuals have been associated with the peace movement, th entire operation has been seriously hindered. Your government is a military puppet, a mer parrot of the monstrosity that is the Military-Indus- trial complex. Your senators, except for a few, ar 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 lat Mr. Kennedy who, in his great humanitarianism, was reluctant to sacrifice his ideals and his visions fo the sake of the Military Industrial octopus. He p the supreme penalty for his efforts in behalf of humanity. 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, 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 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 nation 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 JULY, 1966 FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL Official Journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. International Headquarters: 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles,, Calif. 90027, U.S.A. Dedicated to GABRIEL GREEN, Editor The Physical, Spiritual, HELEN GREEN, Asst. Ed. FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL (6 issues-$3.00. Membership-$1.00) is published quarterly. Copy © 1965 by Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. All rights reserved. The information presented in "Flying Saucers International" does necessarily represent the views of AFSCA. The num- ber after your name on the address label indicate 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 afte your name on future issues. A "Time to Renew" and Economic Emancipation of Man A Non-profit Organization notice will be enclosed in the last issue for which you have paid. New subscriptions will start with the last 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- es. 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 --- PAGE 5 --- 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, 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 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 6¢ or 2 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 PADRICK, contactee from Watsonville, Calif., who spent two hours aboard a space craft, 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 6 --- AFSCA's (Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America) 3rd National [handwritten: 62-83894. 4] FLYING SAUCER CONVENTION SAUCER * MOVIES * SLIDES * EXHIBITS * BOOKS * LITERATURE At The Beautiful, New CENTENNIAL COLISEUM (4590 S. Virginia St.) Reno, Nevada - July 8,9,10, 1966 REGISTER - 9 A. M. - $2.00 per day 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__________________ --- PAGE 7 --- 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 individual- ity! 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 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 pre- vent 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 side- line 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 strong 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 dis- covered. Don't waste precious hours and days in bigotry and ignorance, and in senseless fighting, 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 - 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 8 --- 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 | GOLD ROOM 9AM | REGISTRATION:($2.00 per day). | Exhibits, books, & literature on display. 10AM | INVOCATION: Dr. Frank E. Stranges. | to | Keynote Address: GABRIEL GREEN, "Some- | 10:50 | thing Big Is Happening". Introduction of | | speakers, & saucer movement personalities. | 11:00 | WAYNE AHO | to | "Secrecy Must Go--- | 11:50 | People Must Know!" | | Ch:Orfeo Angelucci | 11:50 | to 1:30PM LUNCH | Space Tapes(12:15-1:) 1:30 | Chief Standing Horse | to | "My 4 Day Trip to | 2:20 | Mars, Venus, Clarion, | | & Orion" Ch: Mel Noel | 2:30 | HOPE TROXELL | to | "Evolved Man of the | 3:20 | Stars" | | Ch: Michael Barton | 3:30 | MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) | 3:40 | HOWARD MENGER | HANNO MAYBERRY to | "Journey to the Moon" | "Contact With a 7 Foot | 4:30 | | Tall Spaceman" | | Chairman: Hal Wilcox | Ch:Ch.Standing Horse | 4:40 | DR.FRANK STRANGES | MARIANNE FRANCIS to | "A Space Beings Visit | "Starcraft Contact" | 5:30 | to the Pentagon" | | Chairman: Dan Fry | Ch: Hanno Mayberry | 5:30 | to 7:00PM DINNER | Space Tapes(6:15-7:15) 7:00 | WESLEY BATEMAN | LAURA MUNDO "A to | "Flying Saucer | Saucer Researchers 7:50 | Propulsion" (Slides) | Responsibility to Hu- | | Ch: Sid Padrick | manity" Ch:H.Menger | 8:00 | MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) | 8:10 | MEL NOEL "Investi- | MICHAEL BARTON to | gating Flying Saucers | "Flying Saucer Slide | 9:00 | Inside the U.S. Air | Photos" | | Force" Ch: G. Green | Ch: Hal Wilcox | 9:10 | DR. DANIEL W. FRY | ORFEO ANGELUCI to | "The Curve of Devel- | "Concret Evidence" | 10:00 | opment" | | Chairman:Sid Padrick | Ch: Wayne Aho | 10:10 | Question Period. Writ- | Written questions to | ten questions answered | answered by today's 11:00 | by Main Hall speakers. | Gold Room speakers. | Ch: Gabriel Green | Ch: Michael Barton | SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1966 MAIN HALL | GOLD ROOM | Your Reno host, Miguel Ribera, Dir., AFSCA Unit No. 5. HAL WILCOX | AFSCA Unit Directors | "From Earth to Alpha | Meeting. Those inter- | Centauri" Ch: Chief | ested in forming | Standing Horse | AFSCA Units invited. | HANNO MAYBERRY | DR. FRANK STRANGES | "Message From | "The Hollow Earth | Triangulum" | Mystery" | Ch: Laura Mundo | Ch: Orfeo Angelucci | LUNCH | Space Tapes(12:15-1:15) | CARL ANDERSON | MICHAEL BARTON | "I Was Teleported Into | "UFO's and World | A Flying Saucer" | Prophesy" | Ch: Mel Noel | Ch: G. Green | CALVIN GIRVIN | DR. GEORGE KING | "I Was an Agent for the | "The Nine Freedoms" | Extraterrestrials" | Ch: Wes Bateman | Ch: Wayne Aho | MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) | DR. DANIEL W. FRY | WESLEY BATEMAN | "The White Sands | "The Frequency | Incident" | Barrier" | Ch: George Van Tassel | Ch: Marianne Francis | GABRIEL GREEN | ORFEO ANGELUCCI | "Abundant New World: | "Secret of the | The Promise for Tom- | Saucers" | morrow"Ch:F.Stranges | Ch: Hanno Mayberry | DINNER | Space Tapes(6:15-7:15) | SIDNEY PADRICK | HOPE TROXELL | "2 Hours Aboard an | "Temples of the High | Extraterrestrial Space- | Places" | ship" Ch: H. Menger | Ch: Carl Anderson | MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) | GEORGE Van TASSEL | Chief Standing Horse | "Spaceship Contact at | "Christmas 1962 on | Giant Rock" | Jupiter" | Ch: George King | Ch: Calvin Girvin | COLOR MOVIE: | LAURA MUNDO | "We Have Seen The | "Flying Saucers and | Saucers" | the Father's Plan" | Ch: George Van Tassel | Ch: Marianne Francis | Question Period. Writ- | Written questions | ten questions answered | answered by today's | by Main Hall speakers. | Gold Room speakers. | Chairman: Gabe Green | Ch: Frank Stranges | SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1966 MAIN HALL | GOLD ROOM | AFSCA Unit No. 5. Flying Saucer Council | Meeting (for all speak- | ers only). Ch: Gabe | Green. Discussion of | ways to improve effect- | iveness of Flying Sauc- | er Movement. Come pre- | pared with suggestions. | LUNCH | Space Tapes(12:15-1:15) | CARL ANDERSON | "Kumar, Wonder Man | From Mars" | Ch: Frank Stranges | GEORGE Van TASSEL | SIDNEY PADRICK "Flying Saucer Land- | "Saucer Ride-1965" | ing at Edwards Air | Force Base" Ch:D. Fry | Ch: Wes Bateman | MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) | DR. GEORGE KING | CALVIN GIRVIN | "Physical Space Con- | "Moon Mysteries | tact in Hollywood" | Revealed" | Ch: Michael Barton | Ch: G. Green | WAYNE AHO | MARIANNE FRANCIS | "Flying Saucers and | "Messages From Our | the Latter Days" | Space Brothers" | Ch: Carl Anderson | Ch: Calvin Girvin | DINNER | Space Tapes(6:15-7:15) | HOWARD MENGER | HAL WILCOX | "Free Energy: Tomor- | "Zemkla, Interplane- | row's Revolutionary | tary Avatar" | Power" Ch: Geo. King | Ch: Laura Mundo | MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) | DAN FRY | MEL NOEL "I Photo- | "Saucer Movies" | graphed Flying Saucers | GABE GREEN | as an Air Force Fight- | "Saucer Slides" | er Pilot"Ch:H. Troxell | Question Period: Writ- | Written Questions | ten questions answered | answered by today's | by Main Hall speakers. | Gold Room speakers. | Chairman: Gabe Green | Chairman: Mel Noel | | Convention Close. | The appearance of the speakers on our program does not constitute an endorsement by AFSCA of their in- formation or viewpoints. In the American tradition of freedom of information and ideas, AFSCA provides you with an opportunity to hear and to evalu- ate Flying Saucer Movement speakers and their information. You be the judge. Taped space songs by Bob Marcus. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, contact: AFSCA HEADQUARTERS; 2004 N. Hoover St.; Los Angeles, California 90027. Phone: 662-4404. No smoking permitted in lecture and exhibit halls. The Dick Miller Space Tapes played at lunch and dinner hours are all different. Program subject to change without notice. --- PAGE 9 --- 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". 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 the Pamela Mason TV Show. Glamorous Maria 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 Res- rant, 8:00 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room. An interesting program may be heard on New Ag Topics, and free readings are given. For more information about Maria's appearances, classes, etc., phone 657-1631, or write: Dr. Maria Elliot 1543 Sunset Plaza Drive; Los Angeles, Calif. 90 DR. GEORGE KING, founder of the Aetheriu 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. Afte program Dr. King personally escorted us aroun attractive quarters. He also reported that a hig Space Being in physical form had visited there recently for an hour and fifteen minutes and, afte 14 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! --- PAGE 10 --- [Stamp: LANALIA 1966] BUY Easter SEALS The London Free Press Western Ontario's Foremost Newspaper 118th YEAR OF PUBLICATION LONDON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1966—36 PAGES Tracked by Radar UFOs Sighted Over Wide Section of District An unidentified flying ob- ject was tracked briefly on radar by a U.S. Air Force base in Michigan last night, and a multitude of new sight- ings 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 civ- ilization." Sightings of the objects were reported last night over an area stretching from Sar- nia to Kintore, northwest of Woodstock. The mysterious objects came in a variety of forms, according to their ob- servers. There was an orange one at Sarnia, and another giving off red, white and blue flashes. There was a red one in Lon- don that had a pulsating white halo. The one at Kintore was a bright white light that in- termittently 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 poking along and some were travelling slowly with intermittent bursts of speed. A spokesman at the U.S. Air Force base in Selfridge, Mich., said one was tracked briefly by radar, but could not say what it was. Some observers said their sightings lasted for about seven 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 E. Keyhoe, the Marine officer who advanced the outer-space-in-sky theory on behalf of the Na- tional Investigations Commit- tee on Aerial Phenomena, called on the U.S. Government yesterday to release all information it has on UFO sightings. "There is substantial evi- dence we are being observed by some sort of device which is far more advanced than anything we have and is con- trolled by a superior civiliza- tion," he told a press confer- ence. "These things are real and under intelligent control," he added. He urged the air force to "end the secrecy on sight- ings 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 Investigations Committee. "Te majority of the Western Ontario sightings came from London and Sarnia. Mrs. J. Fielding, of 1025 Ox- ford 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 Kin- tore, six miles northeast of Lewiston. a mother and her two children saw a white light, "quite high in the sky, that seemed to be blinking." Mrs. J. H. Haynes, of Kin- tore, said "there was no sound and we watched it for 10 minutes, anyway. It would brighten up, then it would dim down." "It was moving ever so slow- ly," she added. "Her daughter, Wendy, 15- year-old Ingersoll District Col- legiate Institute student, also saw a bright white light which kept dimming and getting brighter." "Larry, her 13-year-old broth- er, saw the same object but he insisted that when it be- came more red than white or blue." UFO SIGHTED BY LEWISTON PEOPLE An unidentified flying object was reported Saturday night in Lewiston by a family of eight persons. Lewiston police said Patricia Lowell of 56 Farr Ave. spotted the UFO at about 9:17 p.m. above her home. According to police, the Lowell woman and seven other persons spotted the object which was described as bright blue and gray in color, oval in shape. It was said the UFO hovered for a few seconds, and then "took off" at a high rate of speed in an easterly direction. [Image of a house with a car] Another woman reported the object hovered over Hutton Sideroad in London for more than half an hour. She said it was a red light, high in the sky, around which a white ring seemed to spread out, then pull back, intermittent- ly. A star - like object coasted across the sky over Sarnia last night and stopped in the northeast where it remained for more than two hours. "To the naked eye the ob- ject appeared as a very bright star except that red and blue flashes could be seen. Sarnia police received sev- eral calls, beginning about 7:30 p.m. The object was first seen in the northwest. It appeared to be about 70 degrees above the horizon. People clustered on street corners to point at and dis- cuss the object. Opinions on what people saw varied. Cpl. Robert Symeon, of the Sarnia police department, said "I saw it but I don't be- lieve anything until it's prov- en to me." The object seemed to bob and weave slightly like an or- nament on a Christmas tree. The sighting followed a sim- ilar experience Sunday night by about 100 residents of Kin- tie Point who watched an ob- ject glow red, blue, green and white for more than two hours." 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 con- vinced that the object sighted in the skies over Port Dickinson Tuesday night was the Star Arc- turus. "I know enough about astro- nomy 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 a strange object flashing multi- colored lights about 8:30 P.M." THE TELEGRAM, Toronto, Sat. March 26, 1966 Swamp gas still 'flying' "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 much ma- terial relating to space flight. "He admits that not all sight- ings 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. "DETROIT - (UPI) — The U.S. Air Force closed its books today on the case of two "visits" by unidenti- fied flying objects. It's ver- dict: swamp gas. "But some of the people who witnessed what they thought was a landing by a glowing, extra-terrestrial space craft, were not com- pletely convinced the ex- perts were right. "And even while the two most spectacular Michigan sightings now wore 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 ap- peared "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, Hills- dale civil defense director, said he was "dissatisfied" with the explanation be- cause Hynek's investigation of the sighting was "too brief" and because Hynek had sidedtepped 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 high- way; from sheriff's depu- ties in Toledo, Ohio; from a farmer in Upper Sandusky, Ohio; from a housewife at Livonia, Miss.; a news- man 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 Associated Press RAVENNA, Ohio, April 19 in "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 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 to- gether." POLICE CHIEF 'CONVINCED THEY SAW SOMETHING Six Teens Tell of 'Chase' by Buzzing, Lighted UFOs By ROBERT KOSTLER Den ver 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 un- explained, apparently "hovering" 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, 'cold sober and a little shaken by what they saw." The group appeared at MacIvor's office shortly before 11 p.m. The group was sitting around a fire they'd built inside a concrete pipe which they'd found. The pipe served as the shelter. The roof can easily be reached on foot from a slanting hillside. Scrivner and Don Otis, an East High junior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Otis, 1909 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 two red lights —about a foot each in diameter—about two feet off the ground and parallel to each other." 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 clear beneath the clouds where the lights were." As 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 own, 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. "I 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 what appeared to be a "large, oval vehicle of light — it covered the whole road — following the car." Mary Zolar, daughter of Mr. 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 Arap- ahoe County sheriff, reporting the sightings. Others in the group were Michael Simington, son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Simington, 773 Jackson St., a junior at East; Patty Retherford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neal Reth- erford, 742 Harrison St., a junior at Mapleton High School, and Kaye Hurley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hurley, 5736 Montview Blvd., a junior at Marchebeuf 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 Earnest Markley and reporter Don Prather of the Delta Independent watched an object which was "glowing, green in color and very bright. The men observed it for almost two hours be- fore it disappeared by rising straight up." In Denver, Terry Datz, 19, a University of Denver stu- dent, 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. *THE DENVER POST Friday, April 8, 1966 3 Spokane Daily Chronicle, Saturday, April 2, 1966. Since December Area UFO Buffs Report Skies Clear of Saucers Recent sightings in other sec- tions of the country have stimu- lated interest in unidentified fly- ing objects, but the Spokane area has not been reported as a UFO in this locality since December. That was reported today 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 flying saucer clubs in Spo- kane 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 blue streak seen She said the object was seen as a streak of blue, which flashed straight across the sky east-southeast of the city. Mrs. Campbell said it could not have been a falling meteor or similar phenomenon since it was a horizontal rather than vertical. The Amalgamated Flying Sau- cer Clubs of America is an un- profit organization conducting research in investigating iden- tified flying saucers in inter- terplanetary travel and commu- nication and related subjects. Montreal Gazette, 4-30-66 Super-Space World Sought By Soviets MOSCOW — (Reuters) — Soviet 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 contro- versy may be started in world astronomy circles. Western experts scoffed a year ago when a young Russian astronomer, Nikolai Kardashev, claimed he heard strange sig- nals from space and speculated they might have come from a man-made radio source. A popular science magazine then polled eight leading Soviet scientists to find out what they think. Friday, "Technika Molodezhi" (Young Techniques) reported that no one is prepared to rule out the possibility." "I agree completely that it is necessary to look for extra- terrestrial civilizations," said Ac- ademician Vladimir Kotelnikov, who is a veteran radio engineer. "The Russians say it's time earthmen started investigating whether there may be three civilizations in space. Sister months ago a group of Soviet astronomers suggested a world- wide research program. Last April, Kardashev, 34, tuned his sensitive radio-tele- scope to CTA-102, a quasi-stellar radio source originally dis- covered by the Mount Wilson- Palomar Observatory in Pasa- dena. The scientist said the signals picked up were 1,000,000 times stronger than previous earthbound radio emissions. "If we can't communicate di- rect the theory that there is another civilization," he said." Deputy Gets Too Close to 'Saucer' RAVENNA, Ohio (AP)—"We were close, closer than I ever want to be again," said a depu- ty. Portage County Deputy Sher- iff Dale Spur said he and his wife, L. W. Kerr, also chased an unidentified flying object that was de- scribed as "brilliant and shiny" object early Sun- day morning. Hundreds of persons in both states reported seeing the "brilliant and shiny" object early Sunday morning. Police chief Gerald Bucert 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. [Image of a house] "Spur said the lines of the ob- ject were very distinct. "Some- body had control over it," he said. "It wasn't just floating around. It can maneuver." Buchert said it looked like "two table saucers put to- gether." Portage County Deputy Sher- iff Dale Spur said he and his partner, W. L. Kerr, "were closest to the object in separate cars and chased it 80 miles for an hour and a half, from Ravenna to Conway, Pa., near Pittsburgh. Spur said he clocked it at speeds up to 103 miles per hour. From the ground Spur said looked like the head of a flash light, about 40 feet wide and 8 feet high. Spur said the lines of the ob- ject were very distinct. "Some- body had control over it," he said. "It wasn't just floating around. It can maneuver." --- PAGE 11 --- 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 PADRICK;** 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. SPACE AGE SONGS by Mollie Thompson THE COCKEYED BALLAD 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 Ruskies 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! SPACE-TALK 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 12 --- 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. --- PAGE 13 --- Here is the original image: Citizen-News Thursday, April 7, 1966 Would You Believe — 'Saucer' Visits Wichita? By FRAN KENTLING Beacon Staff Writer An 11-year-old Wichita boy has joined the ranks of those across the nation who have reported seeing "flying saucers" during the past week. Johnny Sparks said that early Friday morning he saw two "flying saucers" that made a humming noise and were bigger than cars. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Cooledge Thomas, 916 N. Topeka. Here is the story the way he told it: "I had been upstairs to my mother's room and then I heard this funny noise. "It went Mmmmmmm–like a flying top. I started to go back to bed when I heard it, then I looked out the window and I saw it. "I saw this flying object that people have been talking about. It had colored lights and was humming. "It was bigger than a car and the colors were purple and red and orange and green. "WHEN I SAW THEM at first, it was up in the sky. Then I saw them laying right by my window. "It didn't look like it had any windows and it landed like an airplane. When it started landing it had legs and put them on the ground. "The top part spun, but the rest didn't. It was like a big fat doughnut. The top had something like a cap that kept going round and round. "The second one looked just like the first one. One came down and the other came up. The other one just sat and spun, too. "I was too scared to wake anyone up. When it started leaving I covered up my head. "WHEN CONTACTED at the home, Mrs. Thomas said that about 5 a.m. Fri- day Johnny came running up to her room nearly hysterical. "He was crying that he had seen two flying saucers," she recalled. Ironically, Mrs. Thomas said after- wards, she had been dreaming of flying saucers and possibly heard the hum- ming noise herself. She said Johnny had told her that at first he thought a big diesel truck was pulling into the driveway, but then the humming noise stopped. Johnny said he didn't know about the saucer activity in Michigan last Sunday until after he told a neighbor about his frightening vision. The Michigan report was attributed to swamp gases by an Air Force investigator. JOHNNY SAID HIS saucers landed on a driveway on the north side of the house—nowhere near a swamp. Johnny evidently had spent a fitful night because of an earache that kept him out of school Friday. When asked if he could have been having a bad dream, Johnny replied: "I am pretty sure I was awake because I had just fed my pet rat. It just had babies. I got back into bed, but I didn't ever have time to cover up before I saw them." The boy estimated that each saucer stayed about five minutes, and his story did not vary with each repeated telling. MRS. THOMAS ADMITTED she was a little embarrassed about the sighting, but she did not doubt the boy's story. Johnny said he never thought there was anything like flying saucers "until I saw them." He said his mother said it might be the Air Force covering its track. None of the neighbors reported any- thing unusual when told of the saucers landing, and the police dispatcher said they had had no reports. HOWEVER, JOHNNY and his mother did point out something unusual. Along the driveway lay pieces of concrete that once served as a reinforcement sheet along the house's foundation. Mrs. Thomas said she never noticed it breaking up until Friday. Pieces were scattered into the driveway. The Wichita Beacon Saturday, March 26, 1966 Mrs. Thomas and Johnny examined "flying saucer damage." Concrete reinforcement sheeting was broken, sand swirled. Staff Photo by Harold Ellis Object In Sky Near Bloom'dale March 24, '26 Latest Flying Saucer Report BLOOMINGDALE—Two Bloomingdale youths reported last night seeing an unidenti- fied flying object. One, 19, of Van Buren County Sheriff's department, said he saw the object Thursday night. Don Dickerson, 17, and James Melvin, also 17, said they were going north on the B l o o m i n g d a l e - To w n Road at 9 p.m. in the vicinity of the Bill Petrick farm, three and one-half miles north of Bloom- ingdale. Dickerson told Melvin, who was driving, to stop the car. The boys said they observed an object off to their right over a wooded area, hovering in the air. They estimated the distance at from 100 to 200 yards from the road, and the height of the object from 50 to 100 yards. They said the object was about the length of a car with a flat bottom and a rounded top such as a football cut in half. There were three lights on the object, they said. They described the lights as being one red light on each end of the object, which kept blink- ing off and on, and one yellow light in the center. The object which remained steady. They said they observed the object for about five minutes when it suddenly went straight up at terrific speed. They said it did not seem to be in any direction but up, until they lost sight of it. Citizen-News Thursday, April 7, 1966 Planet Pluto Saucers Seen, Talked With? By AUSTIN CONOVER SUNSET STRIP—The invitation to the press read: "Several persons who have been contacted by messen- gers from outer space will be available Wednesday for interviews at 9000 Sunset Blvd." The "several" at the headquarters of World Harmony, Inc., turned out to be six, led by Estelle C. Prins, president, who said she has not only sighted flying saucers but also communi- cated with the "humans" in- side them. She made it clear at the out- set that UFO (unidentified fly- ing object) is not the right way to refer to the objects she has observed because "they are no longer unidentified." Bring Warning "We know these are from out- er space," she said with a nod from the other five 'sighters.' "We know that they come to warn us against the spread of the contagion of war to outer space. "Like the star that guided the wise men at the time of the birth of Jesus, flying saucers are trying to guide mankind to- ward universal peace and har- mony." ESTELLE C. PRINS ... talks to space men Miss Prins said that space people have communicated with her in the English language "though a bit haltingly" and that one such communication was with people from the planet Pluto. UFO Sighting Reported Here Not a Star -- Not an Aircraft, Says Louis S. Smith Family of North Bend The Louis S. Smiths, who live on the CCC road, spent in- teresting 10 minutes or so Wed- nesday evening, April 7, as they used binoculars and a telescope to watch something in the sky which they were unable to Iden- tify as an Unidentified Flying Object. It was first seen by Phil, 15, at the mountain at about 10 p.m. "I was out walking the dog, and the first thing that at- tracted me were the bright lights. I knew it wasn't a star. Then I realized it was mov- ing." Phil ran in the house and called his parents and his sister, Diana, 18, at Mount Si Senior. They all ran outside and all re- port the strange object. Phil used a telescope and so far as he can tell the object had a fairly good view of it. He said he could see a "flying saucer." Every minute he could watch it. The object was at 30,000 feet, moving 30,000 feet. The object had a bright color and moved fast. It had an unusual shape, much like a saucer. Phil said he would have watched it all night. It appeared to be traveling from north to south. Phil said, "Sometimes it moved quite rap- idly and was heading in the gen- eral direction of Rattlesnake Ridge." Phil described it as somewhat saucer-like in shape (see his sketch) and a blue-grayish color in the moonlight. He said the band around the center was brilliantly lighted. Mr. Smith agreed on the bril- liance of the lighting but said he was unsure whether the ob- ject had bright lights. He agreed the object moved on a consistent course and in a straight line. Mr. Smith said the object was not an air- craft. He said the object was much like a saucer. He told his family that it was a UFO, not a star or an aircraft. The Montreal Star, Monday, April 4, 1966 Boy Is Burned By 'Flying Ship' HAMILTON, Ont., April 3 (CPA)—A 13-year-old Hamilton boy has a burned hand on his claim he has come from touching the "antenna" of a soft-glowing "flying ship." Charles Cozens claims two strange "ships" landed in a field behind the Hamilton Mountain police station on Upper Wellington Street Tues- day night. Constable Arnold Pead, sum- moned to the home after the parents reported something, their son before reporting the incident, verified the three- inch yellow burn mark on the boy's hand. Charles said he ran behind a fence after seeing one "ship" close by followed by an other. He described the objects as "circular, four feet high and three feet high with red, blue and green lights set into them and flickering like a computer." The boy said the objects made a buzzing sound and lit up the grass around. Only one had an antenna, he said, and he touched it. He reported an electric shock and a warm sensation. The object was a "saucer" with a dome and a light. The boy said the objects were "really scary." He said he felt a "light burn" on his hand. Constable Pead said the burn was "small and round." He described the objects as "very strange" and like a "saucer." He said the boy was "very upset." CHARLES COZENS THOSE SPACE PEOPLE! Citizen News 6-14-66 Flying Saucers, Quakes Linked By AUSTIN CONOVER HOLLYWOOD — The definite correlation between flying saucers and earthquakes, say flying saucer spokesman for the National Investigations of Mental Dimensions, were declared today in 40-minute, exclusive interview. Wesley H. Bateman of 4916 Franklin Ave., which is the international headquarters of MIND, reported: "Our research reveals not only a pattern of flying saucer sightings after earthquakes and explosions of underground nuclear devices, but also the reason for the in- terests of flying saucer people at that time and place." "At the beginning of March, the first of our studies was made, the Russian earthquake was being studied. Since this detonation, there's been a rash of earthquakes. They've occurred in Turkey, China, Japan, Africa, Yugoslavia and Russia as well as in the United States." Quotes Scripture "During this same period, there have been many flying saucer sightings. The major have been on or near the 40th parallel in the Northern Hemi- sphere." Bateman, who believes the presence of flying saucers is beyond question, cited Bible references to earthquakes and the collapse of Rhodes in 200 B.C. as examples. More recently, the Alaskan earthquake of 1964 was followed by flying saucer sightings. More recently, the New Mexico earthquake and explosion were followed by flying saucer sightings. Thoughts need not be expressed in words. For instance, it isn't necessary to know the word for spoon in Hungary. The Hungarian word is kana; but for concept of spoon, one can still use a spoon. It's similar for color; no matter what language one speaks, red is red. Age of Achievement Bateman went on to explain: "The reason for many of the flying saucer sightings taking place in swamp lands is be- cause the vibrations of under- ground nuclear explosions have been creating new areas of swamp land, the same areas where many flying saucer sightings have occurred in the past. The swamp areas have always been a cause of wonder to people. "The people are interested in flying saucers. We've been doing this for five years now. This is a scientific study." It is an investigation into earthquakes. The people from outer space are inter- ested in our nuclear explosions. Bateman believes that the people from outer space are from other planets. He believes they are not hostile. WESLEY H. BATEMAN ...earthquakes, saucers JANUARY 13, 1966 Visible Again Lights In Sky The "flying saucer" which at- tracted the attention of residents of 13 communities in three coun- ties back again last night. The object was seen in Wa- manaque, according to two clifton, NJ, men. Dennis Hreno, 29 Dawson Ave. and Dennis Reymick, 115 Sears Ave. reported they parked their car on Westbrook Road in order to get a full view of the last Wanaque Reservoir. About 10:40 last night, they said, a bright point of light ap- peared in the sky. St. Petersburg Times April 26, 1966 'Mysterious UFO' Escorts Burns Plane *** Meteorite Flares Over Northeast NEW YORK (UPI)—A mete- orite, appearing apparently a mele- orite, swept across the North- east sky shortly after dark last night, touching off thousands of calls to police, fire stations and news agencies reporting every- thing from a plane about to crash to a "flying saucer." A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Agency at Kennedy In- ternational Airport said it ap- peared the object was a meteor- ite. He said it appeared to be moving eastward. THE BOSTON Globe, March 28, 1966 A SPOKESMAN said the tower at Washington Airport re- ported seeing the object flash across the heavens. He said a report also was re- ceived from Boston. A spokesman for the FAA in Washington said the object appeared to be a meteor. The FAA said it was a fireball. A pilot reported seeing the object at high altitude. A pilot radioed in that the object was a fireball. He said the object was large. The pilot said it was not an aircraft. The FAA said it was seen at high altitude. The FAA said the object was traveling very fast. The FAA said the object was also seen in New York. THE LIGHTS were off to the northeast of the plane and ap- peared to be traveling along at about the same speed. The pilot radioed in that the lights were off. The pilot radioed in that the lights were traveling at about the same speed. The pilot reported that the object was traveling at 1,000 feet. The pilot radioed in that the object was a fireball. DR. ASHER CHAPMAN, an examiner for the FAA said he rushed to the window of his home in Glen Cove, N.Y. to see the object traveling at 300 feet above ground, 300 to 400 miles an hour. He estimated its altitude to be between 300 and 400 feet. He said the object had no lights. He said the object was a fireball. The object was sighted for about five to 10 seconds, most reports indicated. BRILLIANTLY LIGHTED Police Follow Saucer 85 Miles TIMES STAFF WRITER ABOARD THE BURNS CON- VAIR—It has been a long politi- cal campaign but last night Gov. Haydon Burns, four staff members, two newsmen and six Burns staff members saw two spots of light that looked suspiciously like an un- identified flying object. The lights were seen at about 40 miles over Central Flor- ida. The object was first spotted by co-pilot Herb Bates. He said he saw the object at 12,000 feet. He said it was a "bright circular object" and the color was "orange." The object was at 12,000 feet. He said it was traveling at 500 miles an hour. He said it was "very strange." He said it was "not an aircraft." The object was first spotted by co-pilot Herb Bates. He said he saw the object at 12,000 feet. He said it was a "bright circular object" and the color was "orange." The object was at 12,000 feet. He said it was traveling at 500 miles an hour. He said it was "very strange." He said it was "not an aircraft." A deputy sheriff from Putnam County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Flagler County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from St. Johns County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Volusia County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Brevard County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Seminole County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Orange County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Lake County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Osceola County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Polk County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Sumter County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Marion County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Alachua County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Levy County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Citrus County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Hernando County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Pasco County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Pinellas County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Hillsborough County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Sarasota County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Manatee County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Charlotte County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Lee County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Collier County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Hendry County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Palm Beach County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Broward County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Dade County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Monroe County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Martin County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from St. Lucie County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Indian River County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Brevard County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Volusia County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Flagler County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from St. Johns County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Duval County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Nassau County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Baker County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Columbia County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Suwannee County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Lafayette County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Dixie County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Gilchrist County saw the object. A deputy sheriff from Alachua County saw the object. Police from 23 counties saw the object. The object was seen for about 10 minutes. The News of the World with a massive circulation of about 7M printed pictures on its front page of an object re- sembling a space craft that it was able to photograph with an airline by a woman passen- ger with a standard cine camera and developed by an ordinary commercial laboratory. The woman, Mrs Joan Old- field, 40, a retired flight attend- ant in bright sunny weather at 9.15am on March 27, 1966, saw an object 40,000 feet in the air. She saw it for about 15 minutes. She said she saw a very bright object. She said the object had a very bright tail. She said the object was very fast. She said the object was very large. She said the object was very round. She said the object was traveling at about 600 miles an hour. "The Thing' Sets Britons Speculating Anew Hong Kong, 4-11-66 Hong Kong, "The Thing" — today and caused new speculation which officials have failed so far to explain fully. The Sunday newspaper News of the World with a massive circulation of about 7M printed pictures on its front page of an object re- sembling a space craft that it was able to photograph with an airline by a woman passen- ger with a standard cine camera and developed by an ordinary commercial laboratory. London, Apr. 10. returned to Britain about a flying object about a mile from the plane. The thing then appeared to be flying away. The thing appeared to be a space craft. The thing appeared to be a saucer. The thing appeared to be a disc. We Couldn't Live In Their Atmosphere SAUCER BLAST? SIX TOWNS SEE MYSTERY NEWTON, N.C., March 28 (UPI)—A glowing blue ob- ject streaked low across parts of western North Caro- lina about 2 a.m. today and exploded without a sound over Maiden. The explosion lit up the town like a gigantic flash- bulb. Police officers in six towns in three counties said they saw the light. It was seen in three counties. Officer Melvin Barlowe of the Newton police depart- ment in Catawba County said it looked like a "big blue ball of fire with fire arcing off the edges." He said it made no sound when it passed. Barlowe estimated its altitude to be 1000 feet. He could not estimate its speed. "We don't have anything around here that could catch it," he said. "No swamp gas or nothing like that could move that fast." Barlowe said he was alone in his patrol car when he saw it, but he said Sgt. Donald Burgess patrolling in another car across town saw it also. Police officers in Maiden were doing the tank of their patrol car when they saw the object silently ex- plode. They saw no fragments fall. March 28, 1966 8* Los Angeles Herald-Examiner 2nd UFO Seen In Michigan 3-22-66 HILLSDALE, Mich. (UPI)— A county civil defense director and his aide said today they watched a eerie, hovering flying object settle in a swampy hollow near a college dormitory Monday night. William H. Van Horn, 11, Hill- sdale County civil defense director for 10 years, said he saw the unidentified object through binoculars for three hours. It was the second straight night a large number of witnesses reported seeing un- identified flying objects in southern Michigan. Sunday night more than 100 residents and at least 40 other persons said they watched a similar object, guarded by four sister ships, land in a swamp about 25 miles northeast of here near Ann Arbor, Mich. Realtor Spots Saucer-Like Flying Object 3-22-66 Carl F. Bea of 21 Marvin street, Bridgeton realtor, report- ed to Bridgeton police Monday morning seeing a saucer-like flying object in the sky over Clark's Fork area of Paxton. He told Dept. Officer Russell Harris he was pushing a sign in front of a property when the radio in his car suddenly ran out of [unclear: juice] and saw a dirty-gray object in the shape of two saucers—one atop the other. He heard a whistle and the ob- ject went out of sight traveling at high speed and the radio came on again. BALL OF FIRE IN HOLLYWOOD 'LIKE SAUCER' 3-24-66 HOLLYWOOD — The unidentified flying object, spotted in San Fernando Val- ley Monday night, also was seen here. Mrs. Belle Roth, 1042 S. Holt Ave., told the Citizen- News she saw the object about 9:30 p.m. Monday while sitting in her car at her home. She said it looked like a big ball of fire and appeared to be over the Sunset Strip. It traveled in a northwesterly direction and disappeared over San Fernando Valley. Mrs. Roth said she first thought an airplane was on fire and crashing, but de- scribed the ball of flame as "very bright" and it ap- peared to be white hot. 5 At Pierre Sight UFO 3-22-66 PIERRE (AP)— Five Pierre residents reported they viewed an unidentified flying object in the skies above the Capital City about midnight Thursday. They said they caught sight of a bright light in the sky which appeared at the time to be a star in the Big Dipper constella- tion. Then the light moved swift- ly in a southerly direction. The lighted object was moving too fast to be an orbiting satel- lite, the observers said. It took the object about five minutes to move through an arc of 20 to 25 degrees, they said, and then it was out of sight. They said the light appeared to be at a very high altitude, moved at tremendous speed and made a noise that could be heard from their vantage point. --- PAGE 14 --- 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 ELLIOT 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 turn 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, however. "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 nei- ther 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 J. 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 and a 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. Hartanft, 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 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 defense 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." 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. Flying Saucers Gain Proponent 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. 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. Feb. 7, 1966 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner A-11 STRANGE OBJECT OVER MT. WILSON A-2 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner 8* 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 [strikethrough: had] 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 Tellotson, 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. 4-18-66 'Report Them . . . Forget It— I Have Enough Credibility Problems As It Is' --- PAGE 15 --- GOLDEN GATE Handicap---Results Oakland Tribune ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21, 1874 • OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA METRO FINAL PM 10¢ DAILY, $2.25 A MONTH 93rd YEAR, NO. 84 • • B FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1966 Flying Saucers Are Poppin' Up All Over UFO (?) FLASH ACROSS PRE-DAWN SKY Time exposure taken by Michigan deputy sheriff NEW PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1966 Wednesday, March 30, 1966 © MacNelly One Shot By Man In Maine By United Press International A Bangor, Maine, man told authorities he fired his pistol at a glowing object—and hit it. John King, 22, told police he was out for a walk and saw the glowing object about 100 feet above the ground. King said he was visibly distraught when he related the incident to them. Reports began a week ago in the Midwest, and from there have come in from numerous reports of sightings—more than 200 persons say they saw something. Four quad cars dep- tioned for one for 45 minutes watched them from Bangor, Me., March, 1966. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a North- western University astro-physi- cist who is chief investigator for the Air Force's Project Blue Book, is investigating the Michi- gan sighting reports. Hynek flew to Michigan to- day, but would give no further comment. The mysterious night-flyers were sighted in Michigan, In- diana, Colorado, not far from the buried 6x6 million North American defense system. Mando Post, Louis, is Palo, a physicist, who was [illegible] three of the objects through bi- noculars. MYSTERY OBJECTS IN SKY Three mystery objects were photographed in the pre-dawn darkness over New Plymouth on Sunday morning. The photographs, which Tarshua sub-station op- erator Raffles Brian Pollock is convinced are UFOs, were taken by 16-year-old Brian Pollock from the bed- room of his Carrington St. home. The prints were developed by a New Plymouth chemist. NO EXPLANATION “I thought I was seeing things when I saw the ob- jects through the window,” the story of the weird ob- jects last night. The director of the New Plymouth Observatory, Mr. D. W. Daniel had no explan- ation other than that the morning mists were unusual- ly luminous. Brian told police the objects were 100 yards up, in a north-west direction from his bedroom window. Weather experts at the Tararua station was also just as much in the dark. “I looked out about 10 min- utes before I started to take the photographs, and it seemed to me that they were bright and luminous at 20,000 feet. These were moving slowly and then disappeared. “I got my camera and tripped and set it up beside the bed, took some photo- graphs, and then started see- ing things again. These objects were round and luminous at 20,000 feet. They came quite fast. “I got a camera and trip- od and set it up beside the bed and took some more pictures of them. I'm sure they were UFOs. I'm con- vinced,” Brian said. “I was scared but fascinated at the same time. The first pictures were taken at 4:30 a.m. “They were quite bright and luminous, like the moon, but not quite as round. The first ones were quite circular. Then they appeared again, but dif- ferent shapes. They were more like hexagons. I got a little scared then.” The objects were about 100 yards away. They seemed to be about 100 yards in diameter. No explanation. The objects appeared to have come from the north-west. The weather conditions were clear that morning. The Christian Science Monitor Monday, May 2, 1966 AIRLINER DETOURS TO CHASE U.F.O. DENVER, April 2 (UPI)- A Frontier Air Lines pilot reported seeing a "bright and shiny" object over eastern Ohio last week. The report for the UFO cleared for base, which said the object was a round, white light. The report was filed by Captain D. W. Jones. Jones reported the object at 11:30 p.m. as he flew over eastern Ohio. It was about 60 miles east of Cincinnati. The object was a white light, and it moved in a circular path. Jones changed course to chase it, but it was too fast. Jones said it was 60 miles east of Cincinnati. He flew to within 20 miles of it. The object then changed course and disappeared. Walter M. Johnson of Ben- ver the pilot, said he spot- ted colored lights about 15 miles away. He said he closed to within about three miles of the colored lights, which seemed to be attached to a moving ob- ject, suddenly burst into a white light. Johnson, who has 20 years experience in flying, said the object was about 15 miles away. It was at about 8,000 feet, moving at a speed of 600 miles per hour. Johnson said he was flying his commercial airliner from Denver to Salt Lake City when he spotted the objects. He said they were "moving at an extremely high speed in a circular path. They then changed course and came to- ward his plane." "I was very surprised. I had never seen anything like it," Johnson said. Ohio Police Trail UFO 86 Miles CANTON, Ohio (UPI) – The report of a person re- ported seeing a "bright and shiny" object over eastern Ohio last week. The report was filed by Captain D. W. Jones, 20-year veteran pilot for Frontier Air- lines. He was flying from Den- ver to Salt Lake City, when he spotted the object about 60 miles east of Cincinnati. Reports also came from Air Force reserve pilots based at Youngstown who say they spotted the object flying at about 600 miles per hour. The object was a white light. An East Palestine officer, Portland, Officer David L. Neff, said he spotted a "large object" at about 10:30 p.m. It was red, and then changed to a bright white. He said he followed it at speeds up to 60 miles per hour. The Federal Aviation Agency at Pittsburgh, Pa., said that last year recorded no- thing unusual. Flying swamp gas? 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, who was 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 also released this photo of a UFO as it flew over Hillsdale County in July 1965. (UPI Photo) MONDAY, MAY 16 1966 Air Force UFO report refuted HILLSDALE, Mich. (UPI) – Kip- ling Vandenberg and Jerry Wilson, that concluded: The Hillsdale County civil defense director today issued a 24-page report challenging an Air Force investigator's conclusion that "swamp gas" caused UFO sightings here last March. He said it was too windy for swamp gas, he found. "The area contained an abnormally high amount of radiation from some unknown source. The area also strangely contained an abnormally high amount of boron, never before found in both water and soil." William Van Horn, who said he and 84 coeds at Hillsdale College watched an unidentified object hover near a wooded dormitory for four hours March 21, told the investigator, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, that the Air Force was "very incomplete and merely a token appearance and of no scientific value." These two facts are the only ones which could substantiate the presence of a UFO. Vandenberg and Wilson said they did not find any abnor- mally high amounts of miner- als, metals, water, or other ele- ments, except for the boron. Hynek is a Northwestern University professor who inves- tigates UFO sightings for the Air Force's "Project Blue Book." Hynek's report had sug- gested that the sightings were caused by "swamp gas." Bridgeton Evening News, 3-31-66 Another 'UFO' Is Sighted By Woman At Elmer MILLVILLE, N. J. – A woman living on a farm near Elmer reported seeing an unidentified flying object. Mrs. Rosemary Ulbrich said she was driving home from work when she saw the ob- ject in the sky in front of her. It was about 11:30 p.m. "At first I thought it wasn't anything," she said. "Then I turned my car, there it was still. It was sort of like a star, only it moved. It was a very bright star. It was very big. It moved up and down. I drove home and my husband and I watched it from our porch for an hour." THESE ARE THE OBJECTS photographed by 16-year-old Brian Pollock 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. Hong Kong Standard, May 14, 1966 'Flying saucer' pics on show FT. MONMOUTH, N.J. (UPI) — The "flying saucer" photo- graphs 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. The pictures were taken by Robert Walsh, 13, on March 21. Walsh reported he saw an unidentified flying object. Walsh said he saw the object from his bedroom window about 8 p.m. It was about 300 feet away, and it was about 100 feet in diameter. Walsh said the object was round and about 100 feet in diameter. It was moving up and down and from side to side. Walsh said he took some pictures of it with his camera. The Army made no com- ment on its identity. 40 See 'Flying Saucer' Asks Probe of Flying Saucers Ford Says U. S. Public Should Get Answers By JOSEPH HEARST WASHINGTON (UPI) — Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich.) today formally called for a congressional inves- tigation. "I do not agree that all of these things can be explained so easily explained away," Ford said in letters to the chairmen of the House armed services and space commit- tees. "I believe there is some substance to some of these re- ports." Rep. L. Mendel Rivers (D- S. C.), head of the armed serv- ices committee, said that he had no intention of reopening the congressional committee's probe of flying saucers. Rivers said that in 1958, the committee had received more than 1,000 telegrams about flying saucers. He said that he would consult with ranking GOP committeeman, Rep. F. Edward Hebert (D-La.), who had been chairman of the committee when it investigated flying saucers. Charge Facts Hidden The Air Force has been in the business of investigating UFOs since 1948. Rivers said he believed there is substance to some of these reports. He added, "I have never seen a UFO myself, but I do believe there is something to it. These things should be explained." Ford, whose home state has been the scene of a rash of re- cent UFO reports, said the peo- ple are getting tired of an easy explanation. He also said that the Air Force has not adequately explained the sightings in Michigan. Donald E. Keyhoe, a retired Marine Corps major and di- rector of the National Investi- gations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, urged a full inves- tigation, saying thousands of com- petent witnesses, including radar controllers, missile trackers, and qualified pilots, have sighted UFOs. Keyhoe told a press confer- ence yesterday that the Air Force "is not being honest about these things." Keyhoe said that the Air Force has been covering up for years, and that the public deserves to know the truth." BRIAN POLLOCK QPP Chase First UFO —No Arrest Ronald E. Keyhoe made a statement to the press today that the Air Force has been covering up UFO sightings. Keyhoe said that thousands of competent witnesses, includ- ing radar controllers, missile trackers, and qualified pilots, have sighted UFOs. Keyhoe added, "I believe there is some substance to these things and that the public deserves to know the truth." He urged a full investiga- tion by Congress. Keyhoe made the statement at a press conference today. LIGHT ANTENA LIGHT DOTTED SURFACE POLICEMAN and five other persons who saw unidentified flying objects near Ann Arbor, Mich., drew this composite drawing of what they sighted. Drawing, made at Washtenaw County sheriff's headquarters, show gen- eral outline, color, light and antena-like objects, and surface of UFO. (UPI Telephoto) Michigan UFO Lands In Swamp ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI) —At least 40 persons saw an eerie unidentified flying object land in a swamp here Mon- day, deputies said. Officers said four sister shoppers saw the mysterious ob- ject above the until it landed in a swamp near a rickety fence. Patrolman Robert Hunawill of Dexter, a nearby village, said he flew over the area but found nothing. Frank Mannor, 47, a farmer, and his son Ronald, 13, said they approached with- in 75 feet of the object as it lay in a swamp, they said, with pulsating halos of blue or red light. Mannor said it was pitted like coral rock, and he drew a picture of it, showing its shape about that of a foot- ball. “There seemed to be a kind of haze beneath it,” Mannor said. He said his son, Ronald, said, “It was light brown. It was about the size of a car.” “He said it looked like it was made of metal and was not reflecting light. The object was about 12 to 15 feet in diameter, about 5 feet thick. There was no noise. It made a low humming sound. It made a low humming sound. The object then rose straight up, hovered for a few seconds, then flew off at a high speed. Officer Thomas R. Weaver, of the Washtenaw County Sheriff's department, said that 40 persons had reported seeing the UFO. The sightings occurred in the Dexter area. The sheriff's department had many calls about the object, which was described as "a big orange pumpkin in the sky." ROBERT TAILOR, Dexter Sheriff, said that he watched the object from Mannor’s home—on a hill overlooking the swamp, about 12 miles northwest of here. He said a red light glowed in the swamp, a bright red like a pulsating light. He had never seen anything like it. Tailor said he watched the object for about 10 minutes. Deputy Stanley McFadden said he saw at least two strange lights in the air or on the ground. McFadden and Deputy David Graeff left their cars and walked into the swamp after watching the ob- ject rise in the air, then sink down and apparently land. A crowd of 40 to 50 people watched it on the ground, McFadden said. FIRST UFO SPOTTER KENNETH ARNOLD, the Boise businessman who started the flurry of flying saucer sightings in 1947, displays a drawing of one of the objects he saw. Arnold, a pioneer in UFO sightings, described them as "flying like saucers" when he saw nine objects over Mt. Rainier, Wash., on June 24, 1947. BREWER Welcomes UFO's LANDING SITES AVAILABLE Signed... Barry Ivers MAYOR Toronto, Canada Telegram, March 28, 1966 Now those flying saucers come to Canadian skies These puzzling flying sau- cers invaded Canada last night. Sightings were reported in Toronto, Hamilton, Sar- nia and Kitchener-Water- loo. Two University of Toron- to engineering students say they saw a bright, whirling object by the sky over their rooftop observation point. And Inglewood, Ont. man reported a multi-colored object he saw briefly while driving north on Highway 10 to Caledon. "It changed from a deep red or maroon to orange to green," he said. "Then it appeared hazy green, and changed back to deep red again." In Sarnia, 100 people watched a multi-colored ob- ject — officially an uniden- tified flying object — as it hovered for two hours over the Kettle Point area. Lawrence Brossette, a storekeeper, said a motorist pointed out the saucer- shaped object to him about 8 p.m. "I've never seen anything like this," Mr. Brossette said. He dismissed the idea it could have been swamp gas, the explanation "given by U.S. Air Force officials for similar sightings in the Ann Arbor area of Michigan last week." The rash of U.S. sightings continued at the week end in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Columbus. The object was green and white fluorescent light. Four policemen and a teacher in Green Bay. SIGNS OF THE TIMES are written at Brewer. Me. Brewer welcomes unidentified flying objects. A rash of them have been reported, from Brewer to Seattle. The sign is posted on South Main Street in Brewer, perhaps to officially welcome the visitors—if any. So far, no takers, but still hopes that its residents will have a chance to see them. --- PAGE 16 --- 4-12-66 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 au- thority 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 appointments. These were arranged through associates of his with tele- pathic 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. Not being too telepathic, we just called Green on the phone to interview him about the recent rash of flying saucer sightings around the country. "It is a continuation of their efforts to enlighten us," Green replied in calm and cultured tones. "The current series of sightings and landings, I understand, will increase. They are not going to go away, as some members of our government would like." WHY DO THEY keep buzzing down here and scaring people? "What with nuclear proliferation growing, it seems rather obvious that unless we start resolving the present problems facing mankind, we will destroy ourselves and perhaps some of the universe along with us," Green ex- plained. "This is one of the primary reasons why the extra-terrestrials started mak- ing visitations in 1947, shortly after we developed this ability -- to watch over us and if possible to impart their ad- vanced scientific, technological and sociological knowledge to help us re- "Parking between my ball and the green -- I'd hardly call THAT intelligent life from another planet." Cartoon by Fischetti THE SWAMP GAS IS RESTLESS TONIGHT. From B. C., the Post, May 9, 1966 solve these problems before we destroy ourselves." Green said he is trying to do his humble best to help them spread that message. "The solutions they have given," he said, "deal primarily with resolving the motives for wars, expansionism and poverty. They hope to eliminate the have-not nations . . . through superior economic system they call Universal Economics. The economics part of it is what I personally am trying to trans- mit." HE SAID RUEFULLY, however, that the saucer clubs themselves are in an economic pinch that has prevented needed research. Green said he runs the saucer clubs out of his own home, at 2004 North Hoover in Los Angeles, "to cut down on the overhead." He said there are clubs in 50 major U.S. cities and abroad, with a total of about 3,500 members. Houston has no club, he said, but he does have some interested Hous- tonians on his mailing list. "We are a contact-oriented research group," he said, "meaning that many of our members have made actual physical contact with crews of these craft." Green said he has sighted 85 to 100 spacecraft around Los Angeles over the years and has met "half a dozen or so members of the crews." BUT GREEN BELITTLED his own experiences. "They're so insignificant it's hardly worth talking about them," he said. "Some of our members have actually been taken for rides in spacecraft." "I certainly wouldn't turn down a ride if it were offered me. But they've never asked me." Green said he met the Martian by appointment at a friend's home, and he looked "just like anybody you'd meet on the street." He was casually dressed, Green said, and wore a short- sleeve, shimmery, metallic-looking shirt which he said would stop bullets. All in all, a handsome chap, Green said. "I felt his hair and it was quite coarse and worn in a V-shape down to ward the center of the forehead," Green said. "But I rather doubt all Martians wear their hair alike, any more than we do. "HE SAID THE MARTIAN canals were really canals for distributing the short water supply from their polar regions, and that the two Martian moons are really artificial satellites just like the Russian astronomers have supposed." Green said he had met the Alpha Centauri man several times -- once in the Green home. "He was dressed ordinarily and was about four feet tall, although this was unusual. Most of the reports of them are that they are normal height or larger," Green said. "There was that space ship that landed near Albuquerque, for instance, with a crew of four men and five wom- en. They were very beautiful, very well proportioned. Seven to nine feet tall." Green said he had met other inter- stellar travelers but would "rather not go into the whole list." WHERE DID THEY park their space ships while they were visiting him? "OH, SOMETIMES they actually park them -- hang them up in the sky with a force field around them. Then they have an anti-gravity beam and levitation belts they wear around the waist to get on down to earth. "Through these, they can accom- plish such miracles as walking on water and ascending into the heavens." Green said he is 41 and was a photographer with the Los Angeles Board of Education until he resigned in 1959 to try to help the spacemen save civilization. Green said naturally he asked to take the spacemen's picture, but they refused and he abided by their wishes. "An associate of mine once tried to sneak a couple of flash pictures," he said, "but two times the flash gun wouldn't fire, even though the camera was in perfect working condition. "THAT DEMONSTRATES the pow- ers of the mind of these people. Just GABRIEL GREEN Head Saucerer like Uncle Martin on 'My Favorite Martian'." Green said he had never seen one of the unearthlings beside his space ship. Then how could he be sure they weren't a hoax -- practical -- joking earthlings just putting him on? "Oh, I wouldn't believe just anyone who walked up to me and said he was from Mars," Green replied. "But if you get a call from the White House and were told President Eisen- hower would meet you at a certain time on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, and you went there, and a man there who looked like the President called you by name, wouldn't you be- lieve he was Eisenhower?" Green said he once asked a spaceling to prove himself by disappearing. "BUT HE REFUSED and told me to walk away," Green said. "He was on a balcony five floors high, and I walked down a hallway for three or four sec- ond and turned and looked back and he was gone. There was no logical place for him to go from that balcony. Green believes the spacemen are un- doubtedly friendly, just as they profess to be, or otherwise they could have destroyed the earth long ago. "They say they want nothing from us but our friendship," he said. "They would never destroy us. This would be a violation of their code of life. They revere all living things." Apparently they do have lapses, though. "There was one decision that if any nation on earth fires a nuclear war- head, it will fall back on the people who fired it," Green said. "I don't know what their latest decision has been." HE EXPLAINED that he hasn't been in contact with a spaceman for two or three years now. Green said people from many planets are visiting earth, and that accounts for the wide variety of flying saucers being sighted. One of his favorites is the Venusian scout ship. That's the one about 50 feet in diameter with the three protruding semi-spheres on the bottom and the portholes around the cabin. Green said it is operational only within 5,000 to 10,000 miles of a planet's surface. He said it comes down from a cigar-shaped mother ship that parks up there. The mother ship can make interplanetary trips. At this point we decided to end the interview. The long-distance line to Los Angeles had begun making an eerie wheeee and then an ominous blup- blup-blup. Maybe the Martians were listen- ing in. Saucer Sighting Report MARCH 30, 196 DETROIT, MICHIGA Five sightings were re- ported on Monday of unidenti- fied flying objects, observed in the sky in the northwest Detroit area. Northwest precinct police station had three reports, Schaefer one, and Palmer Park, one. On Monday, 7:20 p.m., sev- enteen year old Mike Woods, 4415 Fenkell states that he saw a very high object with white lights heading north from the southwest, in the Faust- Van Buren Avenue area. Eddie Crunk, 15, 19749 Greenlawn with his companion, Robert Spallane, 15, 19743 Greenlawn, observed an object over Crunk's home at about 8:20 p.m. Crunk said that the UFO came from the west, stopped for a moment and then went east, giving off, with lights changing from red color red to green and then amber. At 9:30 p.m., sixteen-year- old Michael Senia, 12810 Virgil saw something with a white light traveling very fast near Virgil and Glendale. He claims also to have seen it at the same time on Sunday night. A 39-year-old man reported to the Schaefer precinct that he had observed something with red, yellow and green rotating lights at 11:17 p.m. Stewart Hall, 8549 Abbington, saw the object near his home, stating that it was visible for about a minute. Karen Ellington, 17, 15587 LaSalle, was walking to the front door of her home about midnight, when she noticed an object in the sky. It appeared to be about 500 yards away, according to the police re- port and stood motionless over the John Lodge Expressway, near Linwood. It was ap- proximately 500 feet in the air, 9 feet long with a red light on the left and a green light on the right. Miss Ellington told police that the object stopped twice and lights started flashing. His path of travel was from the east to the west. She said she had seen others around the first of May. 2-Nevada State Journal More Say T By GEORGE GALLUP More than five million Amer- icans claim to have seen some- thing they believed to be a "fly- ing saucer." And, about 22 times as many people -- nearly half of the U.S. adult civilian population -- believe that these frequently report- ed flying objects, while not nec- essarily "saucers," are real and not just a figment of the imagi- nation. These are the principal find- ings in a nationwide Gallup sur- vey of the American people on the subject. When survey per- centages are translated into numbers of people. Since late in the 1940's, sci- entists and military officials have been investigating hun- dreds of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects. A recent rash of sightings prompted a Congressional hearing last month and also this special sur- vey. How do typical Americans feel about flying saucers? How many people have seen them? Do they believe them to be real or imaginary? Do people believe there is life, as many now do, on other planets? More than 150 Gallup Pol- lster-viewers have been out ques- tioning typical Americans--men and women, people of all ages, all educational levels and every region of the nation. The tabu- lation of their statements and views reveals the following: First, almost everyone (96 per cent) has at least heard or read something about flying saucers. For something so highly publicized as these objects, this finding may, at first, seem unusual. However, in terms of the history of the UFO's awareness of other inci- dents or events, this figure is extraordinarily high. In fact, SAUCER OR STRAW HAT. THIS FLEW IN CALIFORNIA LAST AUGUST Highway Patrolman Boj Heflin Photographed It Through His Car Windshield PAGE 4-SPOTLIGHT 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 head-light so bright he couldn't look reported the object, which had -Two Portage county sheriff's quarters here. directly at it. something like an antenna pro- deputies followed a "bright air- "I had never seen anything Franklin and his police report-truding from the bottom, howev- craft-unidentified object, Sun-this bright before in my life," ed, sightseeing to police who also er, and with portholes all around day from Atwater, O. to Free-he told Deputy Robert Wilson viewed the object. the object. dom, Pa., a distance of 85 miles. via the radio. The two deputies were joined Spur and Neff said. Deputies Dale Spur and W. In Benton Harbor, Mich., a in the chase at East Palestine. Neff were questioned by an "Air L. Neff were investigating a flying object described as so- Just across the State line Force colonel or commander" routine traffic accident at 1 A.M. bright "you couldn't look from Pennsylvania, by East (Air Force Headquarters at when they were alerted by directly at it" was sighted late Palestine Patrolman Wayne Wright Patterson Air Force Base, radio to be on the lookout for Sunday near the downtown sec- Huston. Ohio) was called but there was no an object heading their way. tion of the city. Huston said the object appear- report on the UFO. Spur, an Air Force gunner Three rubbish collectors said ed larger than an airliner and He said the object was during the Korean War, said the they saw the object hover over traveled in a straight line. He "caught by radar" in Pittsburgh. circular object, "about 35 to 45 a marsh, along the St. Joseph said it would change altitude He said that at least seven jets feet in diameter traveled at River. The head of the crew, suddenly. had been scrambled, heading speeds from 80 to 100 miles an Joseph Franklin, said it was "It was a funny thing," Hus- for the object after it was re- hour." about 15 stories in the air, had ton said, "but when the object ported. "It was about 1000 feet in an umbrella-like shell and looked stopped it appeared to stop and (The control tower at Greater the air and was extremely "something like a big orange wait." Pittsburgh Airport said it spot- bright." Spur radioed to the baseball." He said it had a brilliant Wilson said at one time Spur- ted no UFOs on its radar Wilson said it had no wings. screen.) AS Los Angeles Herald-Examiner H★ Tuesday, May 17, 1966 Mysterious Sky Objects Have Texans In Dither MEMPHIS, Tex. May 17 four-foot strip of what ap-about 2½ miles distant at J. W. Hatley, a farmer in (AP) - Rural residents told peared to be tin and alumi-4:10 p.m. the Brice community 21 of seeing a cigar-shaped ob-num. miles west of here, and three ject drop from the sky yes- Duncan Christian, 28, with Ra- Duncan and several other men told of watching terday and one man said it dio station KOSH in Mem- friends tried to pursue the about 20 feet long, 7 caught fire and burned with- phis, related these details: object-a cigar-shaped and feet wide and shaped like a out apparent cause. "Mr. Ernest Lee, whose silver looking." A car cigar" plunger to earth. Still another farmer in the home is 3 miles southeast of and it appeared to halt It bore no markings, they same vicinity reported he Memphis, reported something near the Salisbury Commu- said, and "appeared to have heard an explosion, watched flying which "looked like two para- nity, 5 miles south of Mem- radios and about 10 small another unidentified flying chutes" hovering in the air phis. They drew near, batteries on the outside." object fall and picked up a high speed. however, it swept away at "It was big enough to carry a man, and I got the feeling that it did," Hatfield recounted. Hatley and one of his com- panions went to notify au- thorities, leaving two other men on guard. The strange object started smoking, burst into flame and burned, Hat- ley reported. SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1966, THE HOUSTON POST 3-25-66 "It's flying-saucer-sighting time and I'm determined to see one!" --- PAGE 17 --- World Flying Saucer Believers Convene 2-6-66 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- MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE “They accept spacecraft 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?” 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. The UFO Project research has been operative continuously for more than 20 years. The scope and extent of this project is a carefully guarded subject. Dur-ing that time it has maintained a continuous status of “Classified Information.” The only informa-tion released by the U.S. Air Force for publication is periodic reports of a few selected cases of mistaken identity—such as the report to this newspaper on February 1, by Dr Allan Hynek: “In Search Of Flying Saucers.” Honest, sincere observers no longer report UFO sightings to accepted authority. (Why con-tinue to slap your own face?) For several years actual sight-ings of spaceships are compiled at Flying Saucer Clubs all over the world. Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America 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. (Associated Press) THE BOSTON HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1965 BROTHER JUNIPER BY FR. JUSTIN MCCARTHY & LEN RENO [cartoon of two men reading newspapers with a flying saucer in the background] Publishers Newspaper Syndicate, 1966 “These flying saucer stories are getting more ridicu-lous every day.” It'll be Long Before "Saucer" Is Forgotten JANUARY 15, 1966 THE HERALD-NEWS By PETER A. DVARACKAS Herald-News Sports Writer Many months will pass before the impact of the strange flying objects which dominated the North Jersey skies this week fades into memory. The bright white disk that streaked across three counties and hovered periodically over the Wanaque Reservoir will pro-vide an ample amount of con-versation for weeks to come. In-deed, thousands of eyewitnesses know well the story of that mysterious terrestrial stranger. Not that the tale of the flying saucer is over yet. Investigators from the Nation-al Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) may arrive today in Upper Passaic County from Washington D.C. to probe the UFO sightings. Dr. George White, an elec-tronics expert, and Dr. John Pegano of Fort Lee will investi-gate the scene of the unidentified object and then report back to NICAP. Announcement of the impending study was made by Richard Hall, assistant director of NICAP. Nightly Vigil Police 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. It was Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. when residents, motorists, muni-cipal officials, and police glanced up at the sky and began the first chapter of an aerial mystery which has yet to be solved. “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 an [unclear: indeal] amount of Con-Butler.] Astounded residents were searching for an explanation. Even the police were dumb-founded. They too saw the white oval hovering in the heavens from their [unclear: crowd cars]. The UFO was described then as a white and garishly bright disk, two feet in diameter. According to observers, the odd movements of the myster-ious visitor was enthralling. Some felt as if it were “toying” with police, citizens and bor-ough officials by performing dives almost into the reservoir; at times appearing “as if it were looking down” upon the spectators from a silent station-ary position high in the heavens and by making neat right angles as if it were using the sky as a chalk board. Made Several Stops The UFO then made quick stops at various locations in the community: Lakeland Regional High School, the Houdaille sand pit, the overhead bridge in Ring-wood Avenue . . . and then it disappeared. Hours later at 2:15 Wednesday morning, it re-appeared over Wyckoff and five minutes later it was spied over the reservoir in Wanaque where police say it almost came to rest at the top of the 1,500 foot long Raymond Dam. It was gone at 4:15 a.m. Police, reporters and resi-dents saw the disk as it whisked over Wanaque and Ringwood both Wednesday and Thursday night. The story of the mystic sky visitor is not without intrigue. The United States Air Force re-leased a number of reports which August Roberts, a mem-ber of the International Intelli-gence on unidentified Flying Ob-jects claims are “a whitewash.” Initially, when the object was first sighted, the Air Force said it was an official helicopter with a strong beacon. A few hours later Air Force jets were spotted by police flying over the Wana-que. Experiment? Roberts theorized the object “might possibly have been a government experiment in the creation of an anti-gravity ma-chine.” As yet nobody really seems to know what the UFO was or where it came from. Some say it is a balloon, others, men from Mars. But this is not the first time a UFO has been sighted over the Wanaque. Some 18 years ago Charles Capen, former chief en-gineer of the North Jersey Dis-trict Water Supply Commission said he saw something that looked very similar to the object described in the newspaper. Reservoir police claimed to have seen something “round and bright” two weeks ago, over Lilly Hill in Stone Town and Board Mountain near Sloatsburg Road, according to Charles Theodora. Dean Noll, assistant engineer, for NJDWSC does not believe that the UFO might have been a mysterious attempt to pollute the water supply. There are “easier ways”, he said. Throngs of interested persons are still lining the perimeter of the reservoir to catch a glimpse of the brilliant phantom that has, for the moment, vanished into the ether. PC REPORTS 'I SAW 6 FLYING SAUCERS. Tuesday, May 17, 1966 DAILY SKETCH 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. Helen's Lancs, Pc Cameron said: “I suppose I will get some rubbing from the lads, but that is not what worries me . . . it’s what the Chief Constable thinks. Police Kept Busy 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 Paterson News Jan. 15, 1966 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 (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) the sky, however had failed to make a return appearance Fri-day. Since the sightings, Tuesday, both Wanaque and this borough have been overpopulated with television cameras, newsmen and the curious. “They were away. Clearly clearly e[illegible] a dull day. and glowing. “One [illegible] the others shaped d[illegible] the mo[illegible] others were As he port at tern-road Lancs, Pc “I sup[illegible] some rib[illegible] but that [illegible] worries the Chief the sky, how[illegible] make a return day. Since the both Wanaque have been [illegible] television c[illegible] and the curio[illegible] [illegible - box below with some text] Experiment? Roberts theorized the object “might possibly have been a government experiment in the creation of an anti-gravity ma-chine.” As yet nobody really seems to know what the UFO was or where it came from. Some say it is a balloon, others, men from Mars. But this is not the first time a UFO has been sighted over the Wanaque. Some 18 years ago Charles Capen, former chief en-gineer of the North Jersey Dis-trict Water Supply Commission said he saw something that looked very similar to the object described in the newspaper. Reservoir police claimed to have seen something “round and bright” two weeks ago, over Lilly Hill in Stone Town and Board Mountain near Sloatsburg Road, according to Charles Theodora. Dean Noll, assistant engineer, for NJDWSC does not believe that the UFO might have been a mysterious attempt to pollute the water supply. There are “easier ways”, he said. Throngs of interested persons are still lining the perimeter of the reservoir to catch a glimpse of the brilliant phantom that has, for the moment, vanished into the ether. of spaceships are compiled at Flying Saucer Clubs all over the world. Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA) maintain a compre-hensive information department that registers Club activities, and reports from all over the world. Anyone can write to AFSCA, 2004 N. Hoover Street, Los An-geles, California 90027, U.S.A., and receive a concise, conscien-tious report about any informa-tion he is seeking. We don’t need to search for Flying Saucers—we only need to acknowledge their presence. Actually we are on one of the strangest UFO’s in the universe. Our “Friends” who are now in-vestigating us cannot understand our belligerant attitude toward their conscientious effort to con-tact us. [unclear: Neither can I.] 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. --- PAGE 18 --- Civil Defense Director Watches 'Flying Saucer' GOLDEN GATE Handicap---Results Oakland Tribune ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21, 1874 • OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 93rd YEAR, NO. 81 B TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1966 METRO FINAL PM 10¢ 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 60 people, recall a bizarre story which appeared in The Tribune 70 years ago. The date was Nov. 23, 1896, and it reported that many per- sons saw an "airship" flying over Oakland. But this date was 10 years be- fore 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. Part of the original story said the craft resembled a "huge bird," later sightings described it as egg-shaped with lights at both ends. It would be borne in mind that shapes of aircraft and esti- mates 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 conclusive- ly proven. A number of persons whose integrity is unquestiona- ble have seen the strange navi- gator of the air and this num- ber includes many whose scepti- cism has been pronounced. "Last evening at about 7:30 o'clock, the passengers on an Alameda car were startled by the sight of a brilliant stream of light high in the heavens off in the direction of Hayward. "The passengers distinctly saw the outline of an airship and watched its maneuvers high in the skies. The ship resembles a huge bird in its outlines and seemed to rise and fall in its course. A light streamed from the head of the ship, glowing a white stream of light for sever- al hundred yards. "As the outlines of the airship were plainly discerned, the pas- sengers in the street car be- came greatly excited. "The phenomenon had first been noted by a man who had been idly watching the heavens. As soon as he perceived the light, he attracted the attention of the other passengers and all, intensely interested, watched the peculiar machine as it made its way through the skies. "It was high in the heavens. It appeared to be of huge size. When first seen, it seemed to be floating over San Leandro. It moved rapidly, going at least 15 miles an hour. It shot across the skies to the northwest, then it turned quickly and disap- peared in the direction of Hay- ward. "Not only was the airship seen by the passengers, but many other residents of this city distinctly saw the brilliant light and the huge bird-like body floating in mid-air. "None of the spectators were acquainted with each other and yet their stories are startlingly similar, agreeing as to time, di- rection of the airship, and de- scription. "These facts leave little doubt in the minds of many people that a successful airship has been invented and is navigating the heavens." 87 Coeds Observe 'Object' HILLSDALE, Mich. (UPI)—A county civil defense director and 87 co-eds said today they watched an egg-shaped flying object in a swampy hollow near a college dormitory last night. William Vn Horn, 41, Hillsdale county civil defense director for 10 years, said he watched the unidentified object through binoc- ulars for three hours. It was the second straight night a large number of wit- nesses reported seeing wierdly unidentified flying objects in southern Michigan. Sunday night a dozen policemen and at least 40 other persons watched a similar object, guarded by four state troopers, land in a swamp about 45 miles northeast of here near Ann Arbor, Mich. SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANT The Air Force announced it was calling in Dr. H. Allen Hy- nek, chairman of the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and scientific consultant to the Air Force's UFO study program, to investigate the crash of sight- ings. Hynek will work from Sel- fridge Air Force Base at Mount Clemens, Mich., the Air Force said. Van Horn said he joined the 87 Hillsdale college co-eds and their housemother to watch the object. He said it emitted red, orang, green, red and white lights and appeared to hover just above the swamp some 1,- 000 to 1,500 yards from the dor- mitory. It was still there when he left about 1:30 a.m. today, he said. "It was definitely some kind of vehicle," Van Horn said. He said it changed from orange to red, perhaps with a rotating light of some kind, and had a white light at one end. "From all appearances it did not appear to be sitting on the ground, but appeared to hover just above the ground," he said. HAMOPERATORS Thunderstorms lashed the area as Van Horn and the col- lege girls watched from a sec- ond floor dormitory window. Po- lice sent three squad cars but officers reported the object was not visible from the road. Van Horn said he saw three similar objects in the air Fri- day night. He said William Vin- cent, coordinator of a ham radio club, of some 40 youths, has reported several UFO sightings in this area during the past 10 days. Van Horn said he could not establish the object's shape. "Through the ellipses it was either round or oblong," he said. "I think that what makes the light on these things change colors is that they are rotating in a circular motion." Van Horn was called by girls at the dormitory. The co-eds reported the object alternately glowed red, white, blue and other colors. They said it rose up and down, appearing to stop its ascent and sink again just when it was about to move into the glow from a nearby airport beacon light. Its vertical and horizontal movements were too fast for any airplane, the girls said. The announcement that Hynek is being called in came from the Air Force as Michigan officials were trying to estab- lish the nature of the object which dodged newsmen's in- quiries Monday about the object seen in a swamp near Ann Arbor. It was confirmed by the Air Force that a [unclear: "domed"] object was seen over a swamp near Ann Arbor. 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 be- cause nothing will grow on the land. Others who meet him on the street express surprise, say- ing they'd heard he was in a New York City hospital suf- fering from radiation burns. One story has it his land is under guard for govern- ment study and that there is a darkened patch in his pas- ture 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 his tall 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." Mr. Wilcox touched the metallic-like, egg-shaped craft and heard its strangely- garbed occupants explain in smooth English, they were from Mars, he said. When he turned to get them a bag of fertilizer, as they requested, the ship lifted off the ground, and was out of sight in sec- onds, he recalled. In the weeks after he re- ported the incident to the Tioga County Sheriff, De- partment, curious people visited his farm by the dozen. They included men who said they were from govern- ment agencies and others who identified themselves as offi- cials of the IBM Space Gui- dance Center in nearby Ow- ego, the farmer said. Most were just residents who wanted to use the landing spot for themselves. One man who also claimed GARY WILCOX to be a saucer-seer told Mr. Wilcox he had hitchhiked from Massachusetts to talk to him. Other spaceship fans tele- phoned him and urged him to join their organizations. But Mr. Wilcox, who pro- fesses he only wants to mind his own business and make a living, steered clear of such affiliations. He had the tele- phone removed from his dairy farm because it was ringing so often he couldn't keep up with the chores, he said. He added that if any re- sponsible agency ever de- termined exactly what had happened in that remote cor- ner of his farm last spring, he would gladly agree to talk to a reporter. "I've got nothing to hide. I would report it. If I de- cide that some other fellow saw the same thing, I would tell him that the truth is what happened. I've heard other stories, and I can tell you that they are [unclear: 'fake']" He gives the impression that he would like to believe the whole episode was a make of some type, yet knows it wasn't. He said he thinks that eventually the explanation will be supplied, to him and the rest of the world. "A man down in Berkshire says he saw something like this recently, too. I'm not the only one." The two human-like crea- tures whose features were hid- den under uniforms and hoods, may not have been space travelers, he held. But he has no better ex- planation. On his way home, the re- porter stopped at a diner and invited flying saucer conver- sation with the waitress. "That's where they say it landed," she said pointing out the window. "Right over the hill. I don't think it's stretching the truth. He's a reliable man and if he says he saw it, I believe him. They say there's a spot up there. There's no grass, but it's be- cause of the fuel it was us- ing." the farmer was in a hayloft, pitching down feed for the noontime snack of his 60 cows. "I only have so much time to get this work done, so I can't stop," he said. "This is the kind of work you should be doing." He was talking of care of 60 cows and work- ing at another job, too." Mr. Wilcox has an afternoon and evening job as janitor at Berkshire School. "I don't know where all these stories come from now. I thought it was all over last year, but now everybody is talking again. "The best one is about me being in a New York City hos- pital with radiation burns. People have said they heard it on the radio. I've never been in a hospital in my life. "Then some man put in the newspaper that there was no grass growing where that thing landed. There was never much growing there. But there's corn now." "Nobody ever talked to me about these things. They just keep telling stories." In answer to a question, Mr. Wilcox said his sighting of the mysterious craft and its crew received widespread spec- ulation over the report has not hurt his personal life. "I don't know what I saw and other people have seen things. I even thought somebody was playing a joke on me, but I was in the service for six years and not even jet planes take off that fast." If he had it to do over again, would he keep the in- cident a secret? He thought about it a mo- ment and said, "Yes, I would. Because it has been a lot of trouble for me." He said he still believes in space travel and that there are other planets. "I just hope that they don't come back and land on my farm." Tuesday, May 10, 1966 ★GALLUP POLL Than 5 Million People they Saw Flying Saucers This awareness score is one of the highest in the 30-year his- tory of the Gallup Poll. y Are flying saucers a hoax? 1) Experimental projects, such as the Air Force's Project Blue Book. 2) Actual vehicles from out- er space 3) Burning gas, "swamp gas." 4) Meteors, shooting stars 5) Weather balloons. 6) Supernatural revelations. Those who believe they are from outer space account for 6 per cent of the total. Life on Other Planets? Do people who are living in the space age believe there is life, as we know it, on other planets? Many scientific authorities say that intelligent life must exist elsewhere in the universe. In fact, the statistical odds alone are enough to believe that there are millions of planets in the universe capable of supporting life. One person in every three (34 per cent) who participated in the survey said they believe there is life on other planets. Again, persons with the most education are most inclined to believe in the existence of intel- ligent life on other planets. Further analysis of these data show that flying saucer sight- ings are not necessarily a phe- nomenon of certain population groups, but are spread widely across the population. About 4 million adults, or 3 per cent of the adult population, claim to have seen a flying saucer. If this percentage is ex- trapolated to the total adult population (18 and over) in the U. S., the number would be nearly 5 million adults. Among those who have heard or read about flying saucers, 13 per cent claim to have seen one. This represents a conservative estimate, since it doesn't in- clude those who may not have heard about flying saucers. Hynek's role is scientific con- sultant to the Air Force's "Proj- ect Blue Book," the official label of the Air Force program to track down reports of un- identified flying objects. Authorities and crowds of curious residents braved thun- dershows Monday night to comb the swampy area near Ann Arbor where the object was seen Sunday night. Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey said deputies spent most of the night search- ing and checking out reports from persons who thought they had spotted the object again. The investigation began when at least 12 policemen and 40 other persons said they watched a weird flying object, guarded by four sister ships, land in the swamp late Sunday night. The sighting was only the most recent of several in So- uthern Michigan and other parts of the nation during the past few weeks. The eyewitness accounts in- cluded a man who said he and his son were within 500 yards of a mysterious object which had hovered above the ground then shot away at their approach. THE SHEBOYGAN PRESS, Monday, April 18, 1966 Sheriff Aides Chase A UFO; Were 'Close' RAVENNA, Ohio (AP)—"We were close, closer than I ever want to be again," said a depu- ty sheriff who chased an un- identified flying object from Ohio into Pennsylvania. Hundreds of persons in both states reported seeing the "bril- liant 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 force said it would not release it. Buchert said it looked like "two table saucers put togeth- er." Portage County Deputy Sher- iff Dale Spaur said he and his partner, [unclear: Neff?], were "close" to the object in sepa- rate chases and it had come within a half mile. Spaur said the object moved at up to 103 miles per hour. He said the "brilliant and shiny" object had a head of light, about 40 feet wide, and 18 feet high. Spaur said the lines of the object were very distinct. "Some- one told me that it flew right over a swamp near Ann Arbor. It was very [unclear: weird] and made some weird sounds. It just flew right over the swamp and was out of sight in a short time. It came within half a mile. I've never been that close to an object before. It made some strange sounds. It went right over the swamp in a short time. We were out there for a good hour. The object was seen in a swamp near Ann Arbor. THE VENTURA 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 moving over a swamp, showing downward over the Point Mugu area. Mrs. Marvin Miller of 196 Pa- cific St., Ventura, said today that she spotted the object at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday as she and her husband were returning from Los Angeles. She said that she noticed it as they were driving through Thousand Oaks. "It looked like an airplane in a dive, at first," Mrs. Miller said, "but then I saw a glowing tail and sparks began to shoot off. This dispel- led any idea about an airplane. At the same time, about 20 miles to the north, a Fillmore man saw what appeared to be a plane. "It was in a dive," said Alvin Caples of 831 Olive St., Fillmore. [unclear: "One] [unclear: was] a [unclear: blue] [unclear: light], [unclear: and] a [unclear: red] [unclear: one]."