Arquivo OVNI do FBI: revista Flying Saucers Intl., 1966

[PAGE 1] [Image: orange envelope cover] [Handwritten:] 62-HQ-83894 Vol 1 SERIAL 449- ONLY. [Label: FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER, HQ - HEADQUARTERS, Class / Case # 0062 83894, Vol. 1, Serial # 449 ONLY, 8/11/1274157, RRP003IXFZ] [Stamp: 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 plant 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. 2 - Bureau (RM) (ENC-1) 1 - Los Angeles JST:gcw (3) [Handwritten: 62-83894-449] [PAGE 3] [Image: magazine cover] FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL. Official Journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. [Photograph of a disc-shaped object above a tree line.] 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 MOVEMENT (Editor's Note: This special message was received from Master Kalen-Li Retan (head of the planet Korendor, about 400 light years distant) on May 4, 1966 via special directional short-wave radio by Bob Renaud, the young electronic-technician whose remarkable story we printed in issues #18, 19, 20,21, and 22, and which will be continued in our next issue. Since Bob's initial radio contact in 1961, he has talked with the crew of a spacecraft as he watched them on his special TV screen in his home — and eventually met his contacts in-person; visited their undersea and underground bases on our planet; was taken aboard many of their spaceships; and was actually allowed to pilot two of their small scout craft — one on a short solo flight.) "Kalo (Hello), friends. We will get directly to the point of our message to you. Frankly, we are appalled at the state of Earth at present. Despite our constant warnings and even our actual intervention in some instances, the condition upon your planet grows steadily worse. One subject on everyone's lips these days is Vietnam. From a little civil war, it has grown steadily and inexorably into a full scale conflict between the world's three major powers: the United States, the Soviet Union, and Communist China. Many influential people have used the approach of patriotism and love of God and Country to twist decent human feelings into dangerous channels of thought and action. With their charges of treason and sympathy with the enemy, they have aroused a good portion of the populace to a state of fear, distrust, and hatred of those who seek peace and love. Unfor- tunately, because some unconventional individuals have been associated with the peace movement, that entire operation has been seriously hindered. Your government is a military puppet, a mere parrot of the monstrosity that is the Military-Indus- trial complex. Your senators, except for a few, are robots, speaking what they are told to say. Your President is, unfortunately, a pawn of their needs and demands. We have contacted him several times concerning the state of affairs, and he has said that he could do nothing to change them, for if he were to speak out against the Asian conflict, he would be removed. This is what happened to the late Mr. Kennedy who, in his great humanitarianism, was reluctant to sacrifice his ideals and his visions for the sake of the Military Industrial octopus. He paid the supreme penalty for his efforts in behalf of 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, in the 1950's came another recession. What comes after Vietnam? No one knows, and no one wants to find out. The war in Vietnam is bringing an unheard- of degree of affluence in the United States. Why kill a good thing by ending the war? The philosopy, in essence, is this: It is economically expedient to send military forces to Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia in order to wage war, because in doing so, the United States' economy is bolstered and maintained at a high level of prosperity; human life is secondary to the preservation of economic well-being! It is thus evident that, unless a drastic change is made in the structure of your economy, war will never end because the Military-Industrial complex WON'T LET IT! Many of you fear Communism. Where did that fear come from, I ask you? From within yourself? NO! It was brainwashed into you by the Military- Industrial complex. Who controls all your news media? The government and the advertisers. Who, then, is in a position to dictate what shall be printed? [Footer box:] ISSUE NO. 24 FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL Official Journal of the JULY, 1966 Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. International Headquarters: 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90027,U.S.A. Dedicated to HELEN GREEN, Asst. Ed. The Physical, Spiritual, and Economic Emancipation of Man A Non-profit Organization GABRIEL GREEN, Editor FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL (6 issues-$3.00. Membership-$1.00) is published quarterly. Copyright © 1965 by Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. All rights reserved. The information presented in ''Flying Saucers International" does not necessarily represent the views of AFSCA. The num- ber after your name on the address label indicates the issue with which your subscription expires. Subscrip- tion renewals will start where the previous one ended, and will be acknowledged only by the new number after your name on future issues. A ''Time to Renew" notice will be enclosed in the last issue for which you have paid. New subscriptions will start with the last issue published, unless a specific starting issue num- ber is requested. When writing to AFSCA for a reply, enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope. Not responsible for magazines lost in the mail due to sub- scribers' failure to inform us of their current address- 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 47 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 47 tax. "UFOI" ISSUE #23 CORRECTIONS: Page 4, line 3: the date should be April 24, 1964, instead of 1965. On page 4, line 1 of the 7th paragraph, insert "later, via telepathy" after ''They told him ---." SEATTLE, WASHINGTON area residents please note: AFSCA Unit #25 meets every 4th Friday at the Seattle Public Library, Room 325 at 7:30 P.M., under the capable direction of Mr. Leverett G. Tallman. The meeting is free, and all who are interested in the Flying Saucer subject are invited to come to listen and to participate in the discussion. ZIP CODES ARE IMPORTANT: If the address label on this magazine does not have your zip code number on it, please notify us as to what your num- ber is. If you don't know your number, call your local Post Office and then let us know. Thanks! AFSCA BROCHURES AND SAUCER-PHOTO POST CARDS, sent to friends and acquaintances, are a good way to help spread the word about Flying Saucers. Brochures are 1¢ each (this just about pays the postage to mail them to you). Saucer post cards are 50 for $1.00. WHEN WRITING AFSCA, if you wish a personal reply to a specific inquiry, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. No replies can otherwise be sent. General information may be obtained via our brochures and magazines. We are sorry that we cannot have a lengthy correspondence with all the hundreds of persons who would like us to do so, but unfortunately we have neither the time nor the staff for it — and our mail has been greatly increased in the last few months. SAUCER NEWS CLIPPINGS: Your response has been wonderful! We've received so many clippings from you helpful people that we simply hadn't enough space to print all your individual names and cities. So we say a big and sincere THANKS to all of you. And please do keep 'em coming! (One reminder: please DON'T write on or near the clippings.) WEDDING BELLS rang on Saturday, June 4, 1966 for contactee Elary J. Willsie and Sophia Martinez Olivares of Mexico City. The ceremony took place at Los Angeles, California. Among those present were Sophia's parents and her younger sister, all of Mexico City; Mrs. Maud Willsie, mother of the groom; and your editor, who was also official photog- rapher for the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Willsie will live in Los Angeles. Congratulations and best wishes, Elary and Sophia! MEL NOEL, former Air Force Lieutenant and fighter pilot, is fast becoming very well known for his lectures on his amazing experiences with Flying Saucers while on active duty in the service. He has been speaking to capacity crowds wherever he goes. On Thursday, June 23, 1966, the personable Mr. Noel spoke to a standing-room only crowd at the Aeronautical Sciences Building on Beverly Blvd. in West Los Angeles. We hear that he is booked to speak at 57 colleges across the nation! Recently he appeared on the Louis Lomax TV Show, and has been heard on many radio shows. He leaves shortly for Mexico City, where he has been invited by an official government group to speak. He has been promised some interesting experiences by a local contactee there, and we look forward to hearing his report on his return! Good work, Mel, and good luck! SID PADRICK, contactee from Watsonville, Calif., who spent two hours aboard a space craft, was recently in Los Angeles when he was guest speaker at the regular monthly meeting of the Ingle- wood Unit of Understanding on Saturday, June 25, 1966. Meetings are held on the 4th Saturday of every month at the Inglewood Business and Professional Woman's Club; 820 Java St., Inglewood, at 8:00 P.M. Donation is $1.00. Information: Mrs. Roberta T. Forrester, Program Chairman; P.O. Box 146; Inglewood, Calif. 90306. Phone: 677-5214. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Yates. Phone: 293-4743. NEW AFSCA UNITS: 45. AFSCA Unit #45; Everett, Washington; Ray and Jean Sebring, Co-Directors; 1032 S.W. 126th St.; Seattle, Wash. 98146. 46. AFSCA Unit #46; Ben Blazs, Director; 3057 Electric; Lincoln Park, Mich. 48146. Several other new AFSCA Units have been formed and will be listed in the next issue (#25). Persons interested in forming AFSCA Units in their cities should contact AFSCA Headquarters for information. 15 [PAGE 6] [Handwritten at top right: 62-83894-4[49, cut off]] AFSCA's (Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America) 3rd National FLYING SAUCER CONVENTION. SAUCER * MOVIES * SLIDES * EXHIBITS * BOOKS * LITERATURE. REGISTER - 9 A.M. - $2.00 per day. At The Beautiful, New CENTENNIAL COLISEUM (4590 S. Virginia St.) Reno, Nevada - July 8,9,10, 1966. Program: 10 A.M. to 11 P.M. SPEAKERS ARE: Wayne S. Aho, Carl A. Anderson, Orfeo Angelucci, Michael "X" Barton, Wesley Bateman, Marianne Francis, Dr. Daniel W. Fry, Calvin C. Girvin, Gabriel Green, Dr. George King, Hanno Mayberry, Howard Menger, Laura Mundo, Mel Noel, Sidney Padrick, Chief Standing Horse, Dr. Frank E. Stranges, Mollie Thompson, Hope Troxell, George W. Van Tassel, Hal Wilcox. [Two photographs of disc-shaped objects above trees.] 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 individuality! One more comment on this topic: May I say that a better economic system is already known to the leaders of the Flying Saucer Movement. It is the system known as Universal Economics. As we have said over and over before, it is the non-money economic system which MUST be applied on your planet before you can start to resolve most of your major problems and thus begin to establish a highly- advanced, non-destructive state of existance on Earth, such as we of more advanced planets have enjoyed for so long. INVESTIGATE THIS SYSTEM to evaluate it for its merit — then ACT to apply it! YOUR VERY SURVIVAL AS A CIVILIZATION MAY DEPEND UPON IT! Perhaps this is an opportune time to clarify a few questions which have been asked about us. Do we of Korendor work with the local planets in our operations? Yes, we do cooperate with them a great deal. However, our work on Earth is relatively independent of the local planets. We have many times overstepped what is considered to be the limit of interference upheld by Venus, Mars, and other planets. This has caused a good deal of debate between them and us. Each time we have pointed out that we of Korendor are basically pragmatic in nature. Although we do respect the laws of self-destiny, we feel also that where stepping in is required to prevent disaster, it is our right and our duty to do so. We have interfered in such places as the United States, China, Russia, and on a large scale in Vietnam. This has caused no end of consternation in the local Tribunal of Planets. We are sympathetic to their viewpoint, but we do feel that their policy is limited in its capacity to achieve the desired goals. It is our opinion that one cannot stand on the sidelines and achieve any noticeable results. As I have said before, we have infiltrated your planet. We are directly involved in Earth's life. You might say that you have been invaded — a 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 learned, so much to be discovered. Don't waste precious hours and days in bigotry and ignorance, and in senseless fighting and killing. To do so is truly a crime against nature and humanity. At this stage where you have the very stars almost in your grasp, how irrational and barbaric it is to spend futile hours warring with your brothers. As an old saying on your world puts it: "As you make your bed, so shall you lie in it.'' The decision does not seem difficult. Here are the alternatives: A world living in harmony, justice, security and abun- dance for all, or a world continuing to reap the bloody harvests that grow from the seeds of hatred and mistrust. If left to their own devices, the majority of mankind will forge onward to a destiny of destruction and annihilation, oblivious to the danger in their actions. They are short-sighted; they care little for the future. It is you New Age people, dedicated to the wel- fare of all mankind, and having the vision and under- standing of the ways to build the better world of tomorrow, who must lead the way. You have the future in YOUR hands, if you will but shoulder your responsibilities. The Flying Saucer Movement, as you call it, belongs to you. Support it in every way possible. Help it to grow until it is influential thoughout your world. Go out into the world and guide the misguided, find the lost, and recover the strays. We are behind you all the way. As we have said many times before, we will take two steps for every one that you take to help yourselves. The time has come for nations to "bury the hatchet", to clasp hands, and plunge into the future together — in co-operation toward mutual goals. Look to the heavens and realize that your destiny is not in bleak atomic desolation, but in the magnifi- cent greatness that you can achieve if you will but work for it. Choose the right path and you will soon qualify to join with us in our journeys amongst the stars. Va i Luce (Go in Light)." Kalen-Li Retan 3 [PAGE 8] THIRD NATIONAL CONVENTION JULY 8,9,10, 1966. Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. CENTENNIAL COLISEUM RENO, NEVADA. [Schedule table with columns FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1966 / SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1966 / SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1966, each split into MAIN HALL and GOLD ROOM.] 9AM REGISTRATION: ($2.00 per day). Exhibits, books, & literature on display. Your Reno host, Miguel Ribera, Dir., AFSCA Unit No. 5. FRIDAY: 10AM to 10:50 MAIN HALL: INVOCATION: Dr. Frank E. Stranges. Keynote Address: GABRIEL GREEN, "Something Big Is Happening". Introduction of speakers, & saucer movement personalities. 11:00 to 11:50 MAIN HALL: WAYNE AHO "Secrecy Must Go--- People Must Know!" Ch: Orfeo Angelucci. 11:50AM to 1:30PM LUNCH; GOLD ROOM: Space Tapes (12:15-1:). 1:30 to 2:20 MAIN HALL: Chief Standing Horse "My 4 Day Trip to Mars, Venus, Clarion, & Orion" Ch: Mel Noel. 2:30 to 3:20 MAIN HALL: HOPE TROXELL "Evolved Man of the Stars" Ch: Michael Barton. 3:30 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs). 3:40 to 4:30 MAIN HALL: HOWARD MENGER "Journey to the Moon" Chairman: Hal Wilcox; GOLD ROOM: HANNO MAYBERRY "Contact With a 7 Foot Tall Spaceman" Ch: Ch. Standing Horse. 4:40 to 5:30 MAIN HALL: DR. FRANK STRANGES "A Space Beings Visit to the Pentagon" Chairman: Dan Fry; GOLD ROOM: MARIANNE FRANCIS "Starcraft Contact" Ch: Hanno Mayberry. 5:30 to 7:00PM DINNER; GOLD ROOM: Space Tapes (6:15-7:15). 7:00 to 7:50 MAIN HALL: WESLEY BATEMAN "Flying Saucer Propulsion" (Slides) Ch: Sid Padrick; GOLD ROOM: LAURA MUNDO "A Saucer Researchers Responsibility to Humanity" Ch: H. Menger. 8:00 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs). 8:10 to 9:00 MAIN HALL: MEL NOEL "Investigating Flying Saucers Inside the U.S. Air Force" Ch: G. Green; GOLD ROOM: MICHAEL BARTON "Flying Saucer Slide Photos" Chairman: Hal Wilcox. 9:10 to 10:00 MAIN HALL: DR. DANIEL W. FRY "The Curve of Development" Chairman: Sid Padrick; GOLD ROOM: ORFEO ANGELUCCI "Concret Evidence" Ch: Wayne Aho. 10:10 to 11:00 MAIN HALL: Question Period. Written questions answered by Main Hall speakers. Ch: Gabriel Green; GOLD ROOM: Written questions answered by today's Gold Room speakers. Ch: Michael Barton. SATURDAY: 10AM to 10:50 MAIN HALL: HAL WILCOX "From Earth to Alpha Centauri" Ch: Chief Standing Horse; GOLD ROOM: AFSCA Unit Directors Meeting. Those interested in forming AFSCA Units invited. 11:00 to 11:50 MAIN HALL: HANNO MAYBERRY "Message From Triangulum" Ch: Laura Mundo; GOLD ROOM: DR. Frank STRANGES "The Hollow Earth Mystery" Ch: Orfeo Angelucci. LUNCH; GOLD ROOM: Space Tapes (12:15-1:15). 1:30 to 2:20 MAIN HALL: CARL ANDERSON "I Was Teleported Into A Flying Saucer" Ch: Mel Noel; GOLD ROOM: MICHAEL BARTON "UFO's and World Prophesy" Ch: G. Green. 2:30 to 3:20 MAIN HALL: CALVIN GIRVIN "I Was an Agent for the Extraterrestrials" Ch: Wes Bateman; GOLD ROOM: DR. GEORGE KING "The Nine Freedoms" Ch: Wayne Aho. 3:30 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs). 3:40 to 4:30 MAIN HALL: DR. DANIEL W. FRY "The White Sands Incident" Ch: George Van Tassel; GOLD ROOM: WESLEY BATEMAN "The Frequency Barrier" Ch: Marianne Francis. 4:40 to 5:30 MAIN HALL: GABRIEL GREEN "Abundant New World: The Promise for Tomorrow" Ch: F. Stranges; GOLD ROOM: ORFEO ANGELUCCI "Secret of the Saucers" Ch: Hanno Mayberry. DINNER; GOLD ROOM: Space Tapes (6:15-7:15). 7:00 to 7:50 MAIN HALL: SIDNEY PADRICK "2 Hours Aboard an Extraterrestrial Spaceship" Ch: H. Menger; GOLD ROOM: HOPE TROXELL "Temples of the High Places" Ch: Carl Anderson. 8:00 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs). 8:10 to 9:00 MAIN HALL: GEORGE Van TASSEL "Spaceship Contact at Giant Rock" Ch: George King; GOLD ROOM: Chief Standing Horse "Christmas 1962 on Jupiter" Ch: Calvin Girvin. 9:10 to 10:00 MAIN HALL: COLOR MOVIE: "We Have Seen The Saucers" Ch: George Van Tassel; GOLD ROOM: LAURA MUNDO "Flying Saucers and the Father's Plan" Ch: Marianne Francis. 10:10 to 11:00 MAIN HALL: Question Period: Written questions answered by Main Hall speakers. Chairman: Gabe Green; GOLD ROOM: Written questions answered by today's Gold Room speakers. Ch: Frank Stranges. SUNDAY: 10AM to 10:50 GOLD ROOM: Flying Saucer Council Meeting (for all speakers only). Ch: Gabe Green. Discussion of ways to improve effectiveness of Flying Saucer Movement. Come prepared with suggestions. LUNCH; GOLD ROOM: Space Tapes (12:15-1:15). 1:30 to 2:20 MAIN HALL: CARL ANDERSON "Kumar, Wonder Man From Mars" Ch: Frank Stranges. 2:30 to 3:20 MAIN HALL: GEORGE Van TASSEL "Flying Saucer Landing at Edwards Air Force Base" Ch: D. Fry; GOLD ROOM: SIDNEY PADRICK "Saucer Ride-1965" Ch: Wes Bateman. 3:30 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs). 3:40 to 4:30 MAIN HALL: DR. GEORGE KING "Physical Space Contact in Hollywood" Ch: Michael Barton; GOLD ROOM: CALVIN GIRVIN "Moon Mysteries Revealed" Ch: G. Green. 4:40 to 5:30 MAIN HALL: WAYNE AHO "Flying Saucers and the Latter Days" Ch: Carl Anderson; GOLD ROOM: MARIANNE FRANCIS "Messages From Our Space Brothers" Ch: Calvin Girvin. DINNER; GOLD ROOM: Space Tapes (6:15-7:15). 7:00 to 7:50 MAIN HALL: HOWARD MENGER "Free Energy: Tomorrow's Revolutionary Power" Ch: Geo. King; GOLD ROOM: HAL WILCOX "Zemkla, Interplanetary Avatar" Ch: Laura Mundo. 8:00 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs). 8:10 to 9:00 MAIN HALL: DAN FRY "Saucer Movies", GABE GREEN "Saucer Slides"; GOLD ROOM: MEL NOEL "I Photographed Flying Saucers as an Air Force Fighter Pilot" Ch: H. Troxell. 9:10 to 10:00 MAIN HALL: Question Period: Written questions answered by Main Hall speakers. Chairman: Gabe Green; GOLD ROOM: Written Questions answered by today's Gold Room speakers. Chairman: Mel Noel. 10:10 to 11:00 MAIN HALL: Convention Close. Footer: The appearance of the speakers on our program does not constitute an endorsement by AFSCA of their information or viewpoints. In the American tradition of freedom of information and ideas, AFSCA provides you with an opportunity to hear and to evaluate Flying Saucer Movement speakers and their information. You be the judge. Taped space songs by Bob Marcus. 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. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, contact: AFSCA HEADQUARTERS; 2004 N. Hoover St.; Los Angeles, California 90027. Phone: 662-4404. [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", which we feel to be a more appropriate title, since Flying Saucers are no longer Unidentified Flying Objects as far as we are concern- ed. Flying Saucers have become a serious issue with thinking people all over the world. We believe that most of the objects which have been sighted have been of extraterrestrial origin, controlled by intelli- gent beings who, in form, are very much like us. Therefore, we hope you will understand our reasons for changing titles, and that you will continue to enjoy reading our publication under its new banner. DR. RAYMOND BERNARD, founder of the Biosophical Society of Santa Caterina, Brazil, passed away on Sept. 10, 1965. He was the author of ''The Hollow Earth'' and several other books concerned with the hollow earth theory. MARIA ELLIOTT, contactee, psychic and founder of Maria Creative Womanhood Foundation, was a recent guest on the Bob Grant Radio Show, and the Pamela Mason TV Show. Glamorous Maria now has her own program every Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on KTYM radio. She may be seen in person every Wed. evening at Holland House Restau- rant, 8:00 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room. An interesting program may be heard on New Age Topics, and free readings are given. For more information about Maria's appearances, classes, etc., phone 657-1631, or write: Dr. Maria Elliott; 1543 Sunset Plaza Drive; Los Angeles, Calif. 90069. DR. GEORGE KING, founder of the Aetherius Society, was host at the official opening of the Society's new headquarters at 6202 Afton Place; Los Angeles, Calif. 90028; on March 5, 1966. After the program Dr. King personally escorted us around the attractive quarters. He also reported that a high Space Being in physical form had visited there recently for an hour and fifteen minutes and, after walking around the premises, left his blessing on the Aetherius Society and its work. For further inform- ation call 465-9652, or write to the above address. DELLA LARSON, who for over a decade was the guiding light and main instigator of Flying Saucer meetings and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area, passed away on October 25, 1965. She was 70 years old. She will be remembered for her energetic and enthusiastic dedication to the goals of the Flying Saucer cause, as well as for the highly successful annual Northern California Space Craft Conventions which she organized for nine years. (Della, we salute you!) MAX MILLER, former publisher of the now- defunct "Saucers" magazine, and author of ''Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction" (now out of print), has a new role. He is now editor-publisher of 'Real'' mag- azine which may be found on the newstands 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 (teltpathic) session she was having with the Space Brothers. The lights in Inde- pendence went out completely for several minutes by a gradual fade-out, and then came on again in the same manner. During this time, the Space Being speaking through Hope said to those present: ''Be not afraid. We are guardians of the race. Protection will be given to those in the area." HAL WILCOX made a fine guest appearance on the Joe Pyne TV Show, April 30, 1966. Hal passed the lie-detector test with flying colors and conducted himself with dignity and fortitude, which isn't always easy on the Joe Pyne Show. During the test, Hal stated that he had taken a saucer ride to visit the second planet from the star, Alpha Centauri. M.I.N.D,. stands for Mental Investigations of New Dimensions, an organization recently formed by Wesley and JoNell Bateman. Their activities include meetings, courses and public appearances. They have demonstrated on several occassions for groups of up to 20 people, their ability to telepathically direct the movements of visable spacecraft overhead. Write: M.I.N.D.; 4916 Franklin Ave.; Hollywood, California 90027. Phone: 661-1731. HELEN & GABRIEL GREEN contributed their bit to the education of nearly 300,000 young people to the saucer subject at the Teen-Age Fair, April 1 thru 10 at the Hollywood Palladium, where AFSCA had a booth to exhibit saucer photos, show slides, and to disseminate information. We handed out over 13,000 brochures and saucer photo post cards, and talked ourselves hoarse answering questions for 12 hours each day. Gabriel also made over a dozen radio and TV appearances and interviews during the Fair. We also had another booth at the National Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition at the Pan Pacific Auditorium, May 17 thru 22. Yes, we've been busy! 14 [PAGE 10] [Newspaper collage page with several clippings.] THE LONDON FREE PRESS, Western Ontario's Foremost Newspaper. 118th YEAR OF PUBLICATION. LONDON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1966 — 36 PAGES. [Ad: BUY Easter SEALS] Tracked by Radar. UFOs Sighted Over Wide Section of District. An unidentified flying object was tracked briefly on radar by a U.S. Air Force base in Michigan last night, and a multitude of new sightings were reported by Western Ontario residents. A retired U.S. Marine Corps major said yesterday "there is substantial evidence" that they are observation devices "controlled by a superior civilization." Sightings of the objects were reported last night over an area stretching from Sarnia to Kintore, northwest of Woodstock. The mysterious objects came in a variety of forms, according to their observers. There was an orange one at Sarnia. And another giving off red, white and blue flashes. There was a red one in London that had a pulsating white halo. The one at Kintore was a bright white light that intermittently faded to dull red. Some of them were high-tailing it through the sky like mad and some of them were sitting stock-still in mid-air. Some were 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 on radar, but could not say what it was. Some observers said their sightings lasted for about seven minutes. Others 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-spy-in-the-sky theory on behalf of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, called on the U.S. Government yesterday to release all the information it has on UFO sightings. "There is substantial evidence we are being observed by some sort of device which is far more advanced than anything we have and is controlled by a superior civilization," he told a press conference. "These things are real and under intelligent control," he added. He urged the air force to "end the secrecy on sightings and stop ridiculing the competent witnesses" who have seen them. Keyhoe, who has written several books on the subject of UFO's, is director of the Investigations committee. Te majority of the Western Ontario sightings came from London and Sarnia. Mrs. J. Fielding, of 1025 Oxford St. E., London, reported seeing a white light in the northeast sky, headed toward Stratford at 7:25 p.m. A Thorndale area man, Floyd Baxter, at 7:40 reported seeing an orange and yellow light moving very slowly to the northeast. He estimated it to be more than 1,000 feet high. Fifteen minutes later at Kintore, six miles northeast of Thorndale, 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 Kintore, 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 slowly," she added. Her daughter, Wendy, 15-year-old Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute student, also said she saw a "clear white light which kept dimming and getting brighter." Larry, her 13-year-old brother, saw the same object but he insisted that when it became dim "I could see a red color coming from it." In London, James T. Dayus, of 572 Hutton Rd., came home from a cub meeting with three young boys at 8:20. He sighted an object moving southward in the sky. "I saw it first at 8:20 travelling at an enormous rate of speed almost directly south. Then it swooped back up northward and never moved for an hour." Mr. Dayus said "it was a mass of red and blue lights flashing off and on. It was no plane. There wasn't any sound." A neighbor, Harold J. Kennedy, of 550 Kingsway Drive, said he saw it around 9 p.m. and "it was sitting low in the northern sky." By 10 p.m. the object was higher and further to the south, in a stationary position. 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, intermittently. 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 object appeared as a very bright star except that red and blue flashes could be seen. Sarnia police received several 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 discuss the object. Opinions on what people saw varied. Cpl. Robert Symington, of the Sarnia police department, said "I saw it but I don't believe anything until it's proven to me." The object seemed to bob and weave slightly like an ornament on a Christmas tree. The sighting followed a similar experience Sunday night by about 100 residents of Kettle Point who watched an object glow red, blue, green and white for more than two hours. UFO SIGHTED BY LEWISTON PEOPLE. An unidentified flying object was spotted Saturday night in Lewiston by a family of eight persons. Lewiston police said Patricia Landry of 35 Tarr Ave. spotted the UFO at about 9:17 p.m. above her home. According to police, the Landry woman and seven other persons spotted the object which was described as bright blue and gray in color, oval in shape. It was said the UFO hovered for a few seconds and then "took off" at a high rate of speed in an easterly direction. [Photograph of a disc-shaped object above trees.] THE SUN-BULLETIN—Binghamton, N.Y., March 17, '66. Not star, says collector of flying saucer photos. The director of Unit 40 of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America is not convinced that the object sighted in the skies over Port Dickinson Tuesday night was the star Arcturus. "I know enough about astronomy to know that a star does not behave in that manner," Gerald M. Reynolds of 684 State St. said last night. Mr. Reynolds said he had talked with persons who witnessed a strange object flashing multi-colored lights about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. He hopes to talk with others who saw the object. Mr. Reynolds, a construction foreman, is 60 years old. He has a large file of photographs of flying saucers and other material relating to space flight. He admits that not all sightings are mysterious, and told of the time two persons called him to tell him about strange lights seen over Binghamton. "One turned out to be the planet Jupiter ... and the other light came from a house or a car on Ely Park hill," he laughed. THE TELEGRAM, Toronto, Sat. March 26, 1966. Swamp gas still 'flying'. DETROIT — (UPI) — The U.S. Air Force closed its books today on the case of two "visits" by unidentified flying objects. It's verdict: swamp gas. But some of the people who witnessed what they thought was a landing by a glowing, extraterrestrial space craft, were not completely convinced the experts 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 appeared "very likely" swamp gas was responsible for mass reports of strange glowing objects this week at Hillsdale and Dexter in southern Michigan. William Van Horn, Hillsdale civil defense director, said he was "dissatisfied" with the explanation because Hynek's investigation of the sighting was "too brief" and because Hynek sidestepped mention of the report from two college co-eds who said they saw the UFO close-up as it swept past their window. Other UFO sightings, meanwhile, were reported from a drive-in restaurant in Des Moines; from some police officers in St. Louis; from a truck driver on a Michigan interstate highway; from sheriff's deputies in Toledo, Ohio; from a farmer in Upper Sandusky, Ohio; from a housewife at McComb, Miss.; a newsman at Tomah, Wis.; and a man at Bangor, Maine, who took a potshot at his object. Mont.-Star, 4-19-66. Photographed Flying Saucer, Picture Censored. Associated Press. RAVENNA, Ohio, April 19 — "We were close, closer than I ever want to be again," said a deputy sheriff who chased an unidentified flying object from Ohio into Pennsylvania. Hundreds of persons in both states reported seeing the "brilliant and shiny" object early Sunday morning. Police Chief Gerald 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. Buchert said it looked like "two table saucers put together." POLICE CHIEF 'CONVINCED THEY SAW SOMETHING'. THE DENVER POST, Friday, April 8, 1966, page 3. Six Teens Tell of 'Chase' by Buzzing, Lighted UFOs. By ROBERT KISTLER, Denver Post Staff Writer. Six picnicking Denver teen-agers reported Thursday night they were chased for an hour by unidentified flying objects in Daniels Park south of Denver in Douglas County. The high school students—three boys, three girls—told Police Chief John C. MacIvor of Littleton they witnessed unexplained, apparently "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. "I was real skeptical at first," MacIvor said. "But each of the kids called their parents—who knew they'd been picnicking—to tell them where they were. "I don't know what they saw," he said, "but I'm convinced they saw something." Alan Scrivner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Scrivner of 1040 Jackson St., a junior at East High School, gave the following account: Scrivner and five friends drove to Daniels Park, 10-12 miles southeast of Littleton, about 6:30 p.m. They parked the car and walked about a city block down a small incline and up again to a stone shelter built in the side of a hill. The group was sitting around a fire they'd built inside when they heard "what sounded like a man walking on top of the shelter." The roof can easily be reached on foot from the slanting hillside. Scrivner and Don Otis, an East High junior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Otis, 1939 Fairfax St., stood on top of the shelter and shined a flashlight into the surrounding area. They saw nothing. The two—leaving the others behind in the shelter—made their way through the underbrush back to the road. "I thought someone was messing around my car," Scrivner said. "Just as we got to the car," he said, "both of us heard a real weird buzzing noise. It seemed to be all around us." As they reached the car, the youths saw "two red lights—about a foot each in diameter—about two feet off the ground and parallel to each other." There was a white light in the center of the reds. The lights, about 20 feet apart, appeared to be in a field on the far side of the road "about 25 yards" from the car. The two, thinking "it might be two parked cars or something," crouched in the ditch and waited. About three minutes later, they again approached the car. They saw and heard nothing. They returned to the shelter. The four in the shelter said that, while the two had been gone, they'd heard the same "footstep-like" sound on the roof again. Two of the girls said they'd also seen a "tall man, who might've been wearing a raincoat," dart through the light showing through the window into the area. They also said they heard his footsteps. The group decided to leave. As they were walking back to the car, Otis turned and saw "a real bright flash behind the hill over the shelter and it lit up the whole area." Buzzing 'All Around': The ominous buzzing began again. No direction, "just all around — never heard anything like it in my life," Scrivner said. Shortly afterward as the group neared the car, they all agreed they saw the same thing: Two blue lights hovering low in the sky, about three-quarters of a mile away. The lights were stationary and went from bright to dim. A third — white — light appeared to rise up and down between the blues and "lit up the area." No outline—other than the lights—was visible. They perched atop the car's hood and watched the blue and white lights "off and on" for about a half hour. The lights appeared in back of the shelter — in the opposite direction from the first lights seen in the field. Twenty minutes after the blues appeared, another set—these, blues with a bright red in the center—appeared "off to the left of the others and about a block away." These hovered near the ground. The buzzing continued. The night was overcast with no stars visible but "real clear beneath the clouds where the lights were." 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 down, but did cast a beam of light at the ground," Scrivner said. 'Car Didn't Work Right': The youngsters piled in the car — a 1954 Ford — and started out of the park. "You'll all think we're nuts," Scrivner said later, "but my car didn't work right. I could get it up to about 30 (miles an hour) then it would cut out like someone turned the ignition off. Then it would start up again." Scrivner also complained that the radio was "playing nothing but static" while they left the immediate area of the shelter. As they drove off, two of the girls and Otis saw what appeared to be a "large, oval circle of light — it covered the whole road — following the car." Mary Zolar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Zolar, 945 Fairfax St., a senior at East, was in the back seat with two others. "It was huge and glowing," she said, "and came right up to the back of the car, then went out. It lasted about three seconds." As the car left the park area, it quit "missing out" and the radio played normally, Scrivner said. Called Sheriff's Office: The youths stopped at a service station and called the Arapahoe County sheriff's office, then went to MacIvor's office. MacIvor said "one of the impressive things about their story" was all six didn't claim to have seen the exact same thing at the same time. "And a couple of them are real shook up," he added. The operations officer at Lowry Air Force Base said early Friday he'd received a call apparently from the Arapahoe County sheriff, reporting the 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 Retherford, 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 Machebeuf 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 before it disappeared by "rising straight up." In Denver, Terry Datz, 19, a University of Denver student, said he and Dennis Sullivan of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., sighted about seven UFOs which appeared "garbage can lid size." The students said the objects disappeared into the clouds after about 10 minutes. Spokane Daily Chronicle, Saturday, April 2, 1966. Since December: Area UFO Buffs Report Skies Clear of Saucers. Recent sightings in other sections of the country have stimulated interest in unidentified flying objects in the Spokane area but none has been reported seen 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 the flying saucer clubs in Spokane in early summer, and a lecture by a Seattle authority on unidentified flying objects is scheduled by the local unit April 9. Mrs. Campbell said she was among several Spokane persons who saw such a flying object south of Spokane at Christmas time, but no subsequent sightings have been reported by the UFO buffs since that time in this area. Blue Streak Seen: She said the object was seen as a streak of blue, which flashed straight across the sky in the vicinity of Browne's Mountain, southeast of the city. Mrs. Campbell said it could not have been a falling meteor or similar object, as its movement was horizontal rather than vertical. The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America is a non-profit organization conducting research and investigation into the subject of flying saucers, interplanetary travel and communication 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 controversy may be started in world astronomy circles. Western experts scoffed a year ago when a young Russian astronomer, Nikolai Kardashev, claimed he heard strange signals 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 extraterrestrial civilizations," said Academician Vladimir Kotelnikov, 58, a veteran radio engineer. The Russians say it's time earthmen started investigating whether there may be sister civilizations in space. Three months ago a group of Soviet astronomers suggested a worldwide research program. Last April, Kardashev, 34, tuned his sensitive radio-telescope to CTA-102, a quasi-stellar radio source originally discovered by the Mount Wilson-Palomar Observatory in Pasadena, Calif. The scientist said the signals he picked up were 1,000,000 times stronger than previous earthbound radio emissions. "There are a number of elements which do not contradict 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 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 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. Buchert said it looked like "two table saucers put together." Portage County Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur said he and his partner, W. L. Neff, "were close" to the object in separate cars and chased it 86 miles for an hour and a half, from near Ravenna to Conway, Pa., near Pittsburgh. Spaur said he clocked it at speeds up to 103 miles per hour. From the ground Spaur said it looked like the head of a flashlight, about 40 feet wide and 18 feet high. Spaur said the lines of the object were very distinct, "Somebody had control over it," he said. "It wasn't just floating around. It can maneuver." [Small photograph of a disc-shaped object.] [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] [Six photographs of disc-shaped objects against sky, trees, and desert hills.] 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] [Newspaper collage page with many clippings.] 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 Coolidge 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 mmmmmmmm—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 spinning. "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. Friday Johnny came running up to her room nearly hysterical. "He was crying that he had seen two flying saucers," she recalled. Ironically, Mrs. Thomas afterwards, had been dreaming of flying saucers and possibly heard the humming 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 started. Johnny said he didn't know about the saucer activity in Michigan last Sunday until after he told a neighbor about his nighttime 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 had 11 babies. I got back into bed, but I didn't even 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 "playing a trick." None of the neighbors reported anything 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 off until Friday. Pieces were scattered into the driveway. Also, sand had swirled into the driveway area. Johnny said he was not anxious to repeat his sighting experience. But, he hoped if they ever came back ... and if somebody was in one ... that they would be friendly. [Photograph: The Wichita Beacon, Saturday, March 26, 1966. Caption:] Mrs. Thomas and Johnny examined "flying saucer damage." Concrete reinforcement sheeting was broken, sand swirled. [Staff Photo by Harold Lyle] Object In Sky Near Bloom'dale [handwritten: March 24, '66] Latest 'Flying Saucer' Report. BLOOMINGDALE—Two Bloomingdale youths reported last night to Van Buren county sheriff's deputies the sighting of an unidentified flying object north of this village. Doug Dickerson, 17, and James Melvin, also 17, said they were going north on the Bloomingdale-Allegan road about 9 p.m. in the vicinity of the Bill Petrick farm, three and one-half miles north of Bloomingdale, Dickerson told Melvin, who was driving, to stop the car. The boys said they observed an object off to their right over a swamp, 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 blinking off and on, and one yellow light in the center of the object which remained steady. They said they observed the object for about one minute, when it suddenly went straight up at terrific speed. They said it did not seem to go 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 messengers 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 communicated with the "humans" inside them. She made it clear at the outset that UFO (unidentified flying object) is not the right way to refer to the objects she has sighted "because they are no longer unidentified." Bring Warning: "We know these are from outer 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 toward universal peace and harmony." 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. She parted with the information that the flying saucer people travel in gigantic saucers as much as 10 miles long and that these house as many as 4,000 smaller saucers for reconnoitering purposes near Earth. In Hollywood Hills: Miss Prins reported sighting flying saucers in the Hollywood hills as well as elsewhere. Gabriel Green, who said he has made between 85 and 100 such sightings since 1956, scored the Air Force and other investigators who have looked into the matter. "They are nothing more than official debunkers," he said. "They are trying to hide from our citizens the fact there are extraterrestrial people. "Fortunately, the younger generation is not so inclined to debunk flying saucers. The response I've received at the Teen Fair shows me youth is far ahead of most adults on this matter." Quest for Truth: Maria Graciette Elliott, actress and author, described in detail the flying saucer "fireball with a sulfur smell" that she sighted in Georgia. Lillian Willers, executive director of Harmony House, cited her interest in flying saucers as part of "my long range quest for truth." [Photograph: ESTELLE C. PRINS ... talks to space men] The Louis S. Smith family: 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 an interesting 10 minutes or so Thursday evening, April 7, as they used binoculars and a telescope to watch something in the sky which they were unable to identify except as an Unidentified Flying Object. It was first seen by Phil, 15, a freshman at Mount Si, about 10 p.m. "I was out walking the dog, and the first thing that attracted me were the bright lights. I knew it couldn't be a star. Then I realized it was moving." Phil ran in the house and called his parents and his sister, Diana, 18, a Mount Si senior. They all ran outside and all report sighting the strange object. Phil used a telescope (30 power) on a tripod and said he had a fairly good view of it. His father said he was unable to see through the telescope: "Every time I tried it the object would move where a tree blocked my vision." But he, Diana, and Mrs. Smith took turns with the binoculars. "It appeared to be traveling from north to south," Phil said. "Sometimes it moved quite rapidly and was heading in the general direction of Rattlesnake Ridge." Phil described it as somewhat saucer-like in shape (see his sketch) and of a blue-grayish color in the moonlight. He said the band around the center was brilliantly lighted. Mr. Smith agreed on the brilliance of the lighting but said he was unsure whether the center band was illuminated by bright lights or whether they were flames — "whatever they were they were very bright and seemed to radiate from that area on the object," he said. He was reluctant to guess how far away it was. "I had some pilot training during the war, and I know how hard it is to estimate distances but I felt it was quite a way from us," he said. He agreed that his son's sketch of the shape of the object was reasonably accurate. "There were times when it appeared to be moving in a straight line and then you couldn't see much shape, just the band of lights. But now and then it would move rapidly to the left, then just as swiftly to the right and seem to tilt a little which allowed us to see its general shape," he explained. All the Smiths are sure it was not a heavenly body, nor an airplane. "It was much bigger than normal aircraft," Mr. Smith said. They had an easy comparison. While they were watching the object, an airplane flew overhead. All agreed that the object they were watching was much larger. They watched until the object moved out of range. They were not alarmed, only interested. They said they had heard no reports to indicate that any of their neighbors shared the experience. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith said they had been somewhat skeptical of the many reports of the sighting of such objects. No more — they don't know what it was, but they know they saw something very strange in the friendly skies that Thursday night. [Sketch caption:] SAUCER SHAPE. This is a rough sketch by Phil Smith, 15, of the Unidentified Flying Object watched by Phil, his father and mother, and his sister for about 10 minutes the evening of April 7. The band in the center (resembling windows) gave out the bright lights which first attracted Phil's attention. [Sketch: disc-shaped object with a banded center.] THE MONTREAL STAR, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1966. Boy Is Burned By 'Flying Ship'. Canadian Press. HAMILTON, Ont., April 4—A 13-year-old Hamilton boy has a curved burn on his hand he claims came 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 Tuesday night. Constable Arnold Pead, summoned to the home after the parents repeatedly questioned their son before reporting the incident, verified the three-inch, yellowish burn mark on the boy's hand. Charles said he ran behind a fence after seeing one "ship" land, closely followed by another. He described the objects as "eight feet long, four feet wide and three feet high with red, blue and green lights set into the rim 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. "It was thicker at the base and narrowed to the size of a nickle at the top." When he touched the antenna, a flash "of electricity" occurred, and he received a shock. His father, James Cozens, a draughtsman, said he explained the seriousness of calling the police "but Charles was emphatic and could not be shaken." Last Wednesday Laverne Emery, 18, and his brother Owen, 14, reported seeing two objects flying low over the city. Mr. Emery, an engineer, said his sons were "extremely shaken up by what they had seen." They said the objects made a whirring noise, not at all like an aircraft." [Photograph: CHARLES COZENS] THOSE SPACE PEOPLE! Citizen News 6-14-66. Flying Saucers, Quakes Linked. By AUSTIN CONOVER. HOLLYWOOD — There is a definite correlation between earthquakes and sightings of flying saucers, a spokesman for Mental Investigations of New Dimensions declared today in an 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 interest of flying saucer people in the shock waves. "First, let me point out that at the beginning of March, 1966, the Russians detonated the largest underground nuclear explosion ever. Since this detonation, there's been a rash of earthquakes. They've occurred in Turkey, China, Formosa, Japan, Spain, 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 majority have been on or near the 40th parallel in the Northern Hemisphere." Bateman, who believes the presence of flying saucers is beyond question, cited Bible references to sightings following earthquakes and said that after the earthquake toppled the Colossus of Rhodes in 250 B.C. "shining objects were seen in the sky." More recently, the Alaskan earthquake of 1964 was followed by a wave of sightings of flying objects in New Mexico; and earthquakes in Spain that year were followed by reports of flying saucers in Portugal. The researcher offered this explanation: "Flying saucer people are not so much concerned about our nuclear testing or the destructive power of our earthquakes as about the change in the frequency barrier which is produced by our magnetic field and which is affected by earthquakes and nuclear explosions. "This frequency barrier has hampered man's mental development and his communication with space people. There are so many space people I would dumbfound you if I were to tell you how many. "Much of our knowledge has come to us from these people; and we have little realized the thought transference. As our minds develop, we'll be able to communicate better with them. Language is not the problem. Thoughts need not be expressed in words. For instance, it isn't necessary to know the word for pencil to communicate the thought of one, also its size, color and shape, to a receptive mind." Age of Achievement: Bateman went on to explain that the reason for many of the flying saucer sightings taking place in swamp lands is because "the inhabitants of these space crafts have been interested in studying the frequency barriers of swamp microbes." As for the future, he predicted that within less than five years man will free himself of the frequency barrier and enter an age of tremendous intellectual achievement. [Photograph: WESLEY H. BATEMAN ... earthquakes, saucers] JANUARY 13, 1966. Visible Again Lights in Sky. The "flying saucer" which attracted the attention of residents of 13 communities in three counties was back again last night in Wanaque, according to two Clifton men. Peter Hreno, 29 Dawson Ave., and Dennis Reynicks, 115 Scoles Ave., reported they parked their car on Westbrook Road in order to get a full view of the vast Wanaque Reservoir. About 10:40 last night, they said, a bright point of light appeared to be hovering above the ice. As Reynicks prepared to photograph it, the light disappeared. But it returned, with a "reddish tinge, bobbing and weaving," according to Hreno. Bentley Spencer, Wanaque civil defense director, said he saw the light about 6 p.m. Dozens of cars ringed the reservoir last night, their occupants hoping to see the "object," first spotted over the reservoir and in nearby communities Tuesday night and again yesterday morning. Official explanations, meanwhile, were lacking. The Air Force dismissed the incidents as possible sightings of the planets Venus and Jupiter. St. Petersburg Times, April 26, 1966. 'Mysterious UFO' Escorts Burns Plane. Times Staff Writer. ABOARD THE BURNS CONVAIR — It's been a long political campaign but last night Gov. Haydon Burns, four cynical newspapermen, Mrs. Burns and six Burns staff members saw two spots of light that looked suspiciously like an unidentified flying object escorting the Burns campaign plane for about 40 miles over Central Florida. The object was first spotted by co-pilot Herb Bates. He said he saw the object "when we took off from Orlando." Bates added "it stayed with us for at least 40 miles, then it disappeared, like he turned off the juice. It's the first one I've seen in 20 years of flying. Bates reported the sighting to Capt. Nathan Sharon of the Florida Highway Patrol. Sharon went to the cockpit and observed the object and went back to tell Gov. Burns. Burns looked out the window and then came back and told newsmen "there's a UFO out there." Newsmen and staff members looked out the window of the plane and spotted what appeared to be two round spots of light. At the time the plane was on a northwest course from Orlando to Tallahassee. THE LIGHTS were off to the northeast of the plane and appeared to be traveling along at about the same speed. The pilot says the plane was flying at about 6,000 feet and at about 230 miles an hour. Everyone aboard the plane watched the lights for several minutes and Burns ordered the pilot to turn toward the object. At that point the lights appeared to rise and then disappeared as though the electricity had been switched off. Everyone aboard one lost sight of the object at the same moment. During the time the object was visible Pilot Fred Scharrer was in contact with Miami air traffic control. He said that air traffic control was asked if it had anything on the radar besides the Burns plane. They reported they did not. [Sidebar:] Meteorite Flares Over Northeast. NEW YORK (UPI) — A flaming object — apparently a meteorite — swept across the East Coast sky shortly after dark last night, touching off thousands of calls to police, fire stations and news agencies reporting everything from a plane about to crash to "flying saucers." A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Agency at Kennedy International Airport said it appeared the object was a meteor moving from south to north. It was believed to have landed in Long Island Sound. THE SPOKESMAN said the tower at Washington airport reported seeing the object dash across the heavens. He said a report also was received from Boston airport, where aircraft had radioed seeing the object sweeping high through the air. One pilot said it was a fireball with a long vapor trail. The FAA said a vapor trail was unusual, but apparently was the result of the object getting into the earth's lower atmosphere. A spokesman for the Air Force at Stewart Air Force Base, Newburgh, N.Y., confirmed that it was a meteorite breaking up and burning itself out. 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 "about 1,000 feet above ground, 300 to 400 miles an hour, from south to north." He said he at first thought the flaming object was an airplane, as did many others. But, he added, the object did not dive, but continued in a horizontal plane. The object was sighted for about five to 10 seconds, most reports indicated. BRILLIANTLY LIGHTED. Police Follow Saucer 85 Miles. 4-18-66 San Diego Union. FREEDOM, Pa. (UPI) — Two brilliantly lighted unidentified flying objects were sighted here and 350 miles away, at Benton Harbor, Mich., early yesterday. Police alerted by radio to be on the lookout for an object heading their way followed the "bright circular" object from Atwater, Ohio, to Freedom, a distance of 85 miles. Portage County, Ohio, Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur, an Air Force gunner during the Korean War, said the object "about 30 to 45 feet in diameter traveled at speeds from 80 to 100 miles an hour." BRIGHT LIGHT: "I had never seen anything this bright before in my life," he said. In Benton Harbor, three city rubbish collectors watched a flying object with one light so bright "you couldn't look straight at it." Joseph Franklin said it was about 15 stories in the air, had a steel-like shell and was shaped "something like a hot dog." The crew reported watching the object hovering over a motel to police, who observed as it rose higher in the air. In Freedom, Spaur reported the object, which had an antenna-like protrusion on its underside, hovered above the cruiser in which he and Deputy W. L. Neff were riding. OBJECT WAITS: The Ohio deputy sheriffs were joined by East Palestine Patrolman Wayne Houston, who said "when the object got too far ahead of us it appeared to stop and wait." Deputy Robert Wilson, monitoring the calls from the cruiser, said Spaur and Neff were questioned by an "Air Force colonel" in Freedom. However, Air Force headquarters at Greater Pittsburgh Airport said it had no report on the UFO. Monday, Mar. 28, 1966, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. SAUCER BLAST? SIX TOWNS SEE MYSTERY. NEWTON, N.C., March 28 (UPI)—A glowing blue object streaked low across parts of western North Carolina about 2 a.m. today and exploded without a sound over Valdese. 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 moving from east to west. Officer Melvin Barlowe of the Newton police department in Catawba County said it looked like a "big blue bolt 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 at Valdese were filling the tank of their patrol car when they saw the object silently explode. They saw no fragments fall. 'The Thing' Sets Britons Speculating Anew. Hong Kong, 4-11-66. London, Apr. 10. "The Thing" — or "Things" — returned to Britain today and caused new speculation about a flying object 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 resembling a space craft that it said was photographed from an airliner by a woman passenger with a standard cine camera and developed in an ordinary commercial laboratory. The woman, Mrs Joan Oldfield, 38, said she was flying in a British United Airways airliner in bright, sunny weather at 270 mph at 9,000 feet over Cannock in Staffordshire County 13 days ago when she spotted what she thought was another plane, a jetliner. She said she whipped out her camera and aimed. "It seemed to hover for three seconds round our airliner," her husband, Tom, told the paper. "Then it pulled in two fins at the top and then two at the bottom to go into a flying saucer type shape. Then it banked away and disappeared completely." The new reported sighting—and photographs vouched for by one of the newspaper's photographers—coincided with recent fresh reports of unidentified flying objects in the United States and new claims that "The Thing" that has been sighted by 421 witnesses in the village of Warminster over the past 16 months has been seen again. Authorities no longer look fully askance at the Warminster sighting reports, and the Ministry of Defence has examined negatives of pictures of Warminster's "Thing."—UPI. [Cartoon: two creatures atop a flying saucer above a smoggy industrial landscape labeled POLLUTION; caption:] 'We Couldn't Live in Their Atmosphere'. 5 At Pierre Sight UFO. PIERRE (AP) — Five Pierre residents reported they viewed an unidentified flying object high in the skies over the Capital city about midnight Thursday. They said they caught sight of a bright light in the sky which appeared for a time to be a star in the Big Dipper constellation. Then the light moved swiftly in a southerly direction. The lighted object was moving too fast to be an orbiting satellite, the observers said. It took the object about five minutes to move through an arc of 20 to 25 degrees, they said, and then the light blinked out. They said the light appeared to be at a very high altitude, moved at tremendous speed and made no noise that could be heard from their vantage point. Realtor Spots Saucer-Like Flying Object 3-22-66. Carl F. Bea of 21 Marlyn street, Bridgeton realtor, reported to Bridgeton police Monday that he saw a saucer-like flying object in the sky over Clark's Pond area of Fairton. He told Desk Officer Russell Harris he was putting a sign in front of a property when the radio of his car suddenly cut out and he looked up and saw a dirty-gray object in the shape of two saucers—one atop the other—blending with the sky. He heard a whine and the object went out of sight traveling at high speed and the radio came on again. A Second UFO Seen In Michigan. 3-22-66. HILLSDALE, Mich. (UPI) — A county civil defense director and 87 co-eds said today they watched an eerie, hovering flying object settle in a swampy hollow near a college dormitory Monday night. William van Horn, 41, Hillsdale County civil defense director for 10 years, said he watched the unidentified object through binoculars for three hours. It was the second straight night a large number of witnesses reported seeing weird unidentified flying objects in southern Michigan. Sunday night a dozen policemen and at least 40 other persons said they watched a similar object, guarded by four sister ships, land in a swamp about 45 miles northeast of here near Ann Arbor, Mich. 3-24-66. BALL OF FIRE IN HOLLYWOOD 'LIKE SAUCER'. HOLLYWOOD — The unidentified flying object, spotted in San Fernando Valley Monday night, also was seen here. Mrs. Belle Roth, 1042 S. Holt Ave., told the Citizen-News she saw the object about 7:20 p.m. Monday while sitting in her car near 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. She described the ball of flame as "very bright" and said it appeared to be white hot. [PAGE 14] THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Monday, December 13, 1965 New ‘Fireball’ Raises An Old Question: Do Flying Saucers Exist? 2 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 Michigan. 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 because they are seen but never found. Whatever it turns out to be—meteor, satellite 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 reports 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 problems on our planet.”” One suggestion allegedly made to Mr. Green in 1960 by a visitor from Alpha 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 investigation 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 spectacular, 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 “unidentified,” 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 neither 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 I. 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- laios 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 yisible 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 circles and fear of ridicule have slowed the study,” according to Robert Hall, a sociology professor at the University of Illinois in Chi- cago. “The possibility of life on Mars is an un- popular thing to consider these days,"’ says Frank B. Salisbury, a professor of plant phy-| siology at Colorado State University. At the risk of being unpopular, Mr. Salisbury told the fifth annual Space Conference this year that “there may be some natural explanation of these things, but a tentative possibility to be considered is that UFOs are spaceships from Mars.” Fueling the flying-saucer controversy has been the large number of reports from what many people consider reliable witnesses—pilots with technical backgrounds. Since 1947, more than 100 private, military and commercial pilots have reported spotting strange objects in the sky, according to one study. Pinning down such reports is difficult, how- ever. “Some of the boys did report things they couldn't identify a few years ago," says a spokesman for American Airlines. “But our pilots haven't made a report for years." Nevertheless, "we have on file a great num- ber of reports from pilots who don’t want their names used but still want to tell somebody what they've seen, claims J. B. Hartanft, Jr., president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. And he says: ‘I haven't drawn any conclusions myself, but I think we've certainly got a good mystery on our hands."’ London, Ontario Free Press 3-26-66. 100 Watch UFO. Disc-Like Object Hovers, Rises For Two Hours East of Kettle Point. By JIM ETHERINGTON, Free Press Sarnia Bureau. SARNIA — A revolving object, sighted in the sky east of Kettle Point last night, was watched for more than two hours by about 100 persons. Lawrence Bressette, who operates 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 remained motionless for about an hour flashing lights, then slowly began to rise. Cloud cover rolled in about 10 p.m., allowing only periodic sightings. "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 brother, Jeffery, also reported seeing 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 operations 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 Northwestern University, scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force said phenomena seen at Dexter and Hillsdale on the night of March 20 probably were the result of swamp gases. Sheriff Douglas Harvey of Washtenaw County and civil defence director William Van Horn of Hillsdale County criticized Dr. Hynek's report. Van Horn said the swamp gas explanation was an attempt to "explain it away arbitrarily." Flying Saucers Gain Proponent. 5-26-66. N.Y. Daily News Dispatch. NEW YORK — The nephew of the late Dag Hammarskjold has startled America's top science writers by telling them he believes that flying saucers exist and that they come from outer space. Knut Hammarskjold, whose late uncle was secretary general of the United Nations, spoke to a convention here of the aviation-space writers association. Hammarskjold also suggested that our space neighbors are becoming more and more interested in what people are doing on earth. "The possible existence of neighbors in space will, if confirmed, create problems of legal, political and technical characteristics," he said. Hong Kong China Mail. Flying saucers mystery. 2-3-66. PEOPLE in North Queensland 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. [Photograph of a disc-shaped object above trees.] Feb. 7, 1966, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner A-11. UN Watch For Saucers Urged. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 7 (AP)—Colman Vonkeviczky, an employe in the U.N. Office of Public Information, proposed to Secretary-General U Thant today that members of the United Nations establish a network to observe flying saucers. Vonkeviczky, who says he believes someone in outer space is sending flying saucers regularly on test flights to earth. He told Thant only the United Nations could be expected to have sufficient authority to establish contact or represent mankind in a face-to-face meeting with extraterrestrial visitors. STRANGE OBJECT OVER MT. WILSON. A-2 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Thursday, April 21, 1966. There was something over Mount Wilson early today but it didn't catch the entire city napping. Police and newspaper switchboards were flooded with calls describing the object variously as a "puff," a "greenish ball," a "flat oval green object with a long tail and a light at the end." It was first sighted about 4 a.m. and remained in view for about half an hour. A similar fireball was sighted about the same time from Sacramento and from Vandenberg Air Force Base, it was reported. Vandenberg reported no launches during the preceding 24 hours which might account for the phenomenon and said radar there picked up "no unusual activity" during the period. 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 Sacramento theorized that the object may have been gas residue left from Nevada missile firings which reflected light. Sgt. David Tellotson, of Hollywood division, said the object here appeared to be over Griffith Park. "It was a bright green splotch, elongated, and not blinking," he said. The only solid fact emerging: A lot of people are up at 4 a.m. [Photograph of a disc-shaped object among trees.] [Cartoon: two men in an office pulling back a curtain to reveal flying saucers outside; caption:] 4-18-66. 'Report Them . . . Forget It— I Have Enough Credibility Problems As It Is' [© New York Herald Tribune Inc.] [PAGE 15] [Newspaper front page collage.] Oakland Tribune, ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21, 1874 * OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. GOLDEN GATE Handicap---Results. METRO FINAL PM. 93rd YEAR, NO. 84. FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1966. 10¢ DAILY, $2.25 A MONTH. Flying Saucers Are Poppin' Up All Over. [Photograph caption:] UFO'S (?) FLASH ACROSS PRE-DAWN SKY. Time exposure taken by Michigan deputy sheriff. [Cartoon: newsboy with sign "EXCLUSIVE! LATEST UFO PHOTOGRAPHS" beside a flying saucer, dated Wednesday, March 30, 1966.] [Photograph: windmill silhouetted against sky.] Flying swamp gas? Swamp gas or UFO? The civil defense director of Michigan's Hillsdale County has issued a report challenging an Air Force study which concludes that swamp gas caused the UFO sightings in the Hillsdale area in March 1966. William Van Horn said that, at the time of the sightings, it was too windy for swamp gas, and chemical analysis of soil and water disclosed an abnormally high amount of radiation and boron. Van Horn also released this photo of a UFO as it flew over Hillsdale County in July 1965. (UPI Photo) MONDAY MAY 16, 1966. Air Force UFO report refuted. HILLSDALE, Mich. (UPI) — 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 to form. William Van Horn, who said he and 64 coeds at Hillsdale College watched an unidentified flying object hover outside a dormitory for four hours March 21, said the investigation by Dr. J. Allen Hynek and the Air Force was "very incomplete and merely a token appearance sort of act." Hynek is a Northwestern University professor who investigates UFO sightings for the Air Force's "Project Blue Book" — its running study of UFO reports. Van Horn said his report, in which he charged that Hynek spent only three hours investigating the Hillsdale sightings, resulted from a seven-week investigation by "my men and myself." In the report, Van Horn attempted to refute Hynek's theory that swamp gas formed the mysterious object sighted by listing what tables indicating there was too much wind that night for swamp gas to form. He also said average monthly temperatures proved that swamp gas could not form under the existing conditions. The report included a detailed chemical report, made by two men described only as Kipling Vandenberg and Jerry Wilson, that concluded: "The area contained an abnormally high amount of radiation from some unknown source. The area also strangely contained boron, which was found in both water and soil. These two facts are the only ones which would substantiate the presence of a UFO." Vandenberg and Wilson said they tested soil, plants, animals, minerals, water and the environment of the campus swampland where the sightings occurred. [Cartoon: a flying saucer hovering over a city; caption:] 'Let's see the Air Force hush this one up!' THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Monday, May 2, 1966. AIRLINER DETOURS TO CHASE U.F.O. 4-2-66. DENVER, April 2 (UPI)— A Frontier Air Line pilot interrupted his flight to Salt Lake City Friday night to check out a report of an unidentified flying object south of Denver. The request for the UFO check was made by Lowery Air Force Base, which said it had received a number of telephone calls about objects over the area. Warren Heckman of Denver, the pilot, said he spotted colored lights about 20 miles away. He said he closed to within about three miles when the lights, which seemed to be attached to a moving object, suddenly went down as if the object had landed. Heckman circled over the red, green and white lights and radioed Stapleton International Airport that the lights apparently were on a tower in the Rocky Mountains just west of Palmer Lake, a small community between Denver and Colorado Springs. At Chillicothe, Ohio, several newsmen and dozens of other citizens reported sighting three UFOs over the city Friday night. Ted Boott, a newsman at radio station WBEX, said he saw two of the objects in the western sky and one in the east. All were described as red, green and blue pulsating lights. Ohio Police Trail UFO 86 Miles. CANTON, Ohio — (UPI) — Hundreds of persons reported sighting a "bright and shiny" object over eastern Ohio Saturday night, including police who said they played "tag" with it for 86 miles. Reports also came from Air Force reserve pilots based at Youngstown who said they attempted to follow the object but that its speed—estimated at 100 miles an hour—was too slow for their jet trainers. An East Palestine officer and Portage County Sheriff's Deputy W. L. Neff said they "played tag" with the mysterious object for 86 miles through eastern Ohio before losing it near Conway, Pa. The Federal Aviation Agency at Pittsburgh, Pa., said its radar recorded nothing unusual. Portland Oregon Journal, March 21, 1966. 40 See 'Flying Saucer'. One Shot By Man In Maine. By United Press International. Air Force scientists who spend their time investigating reports of unidentified flying objects had their work cut out for them today. Scores of persons, police and civilians, reported seeing the mysterious objects Thursday night in widely scattered sections of the country. A Bangor, Maine, man told authorities he fired his pistol at a glowing object — and hit it. "I could hear the elderberry bushes scraping as the thing came toward me," said John King, 22. He said he fired four times and the object, he said it was about 60 feet long, zoomed skyward. Police said King was visibly distraught when he related the incident to them. The reports began a week ago in the Midwest, and from there have come the most numerous reports of sightings — more than 200 persons say they saw mysterious objects since Sunday. Four squad cars of deputies watched one for 45 minutes Thursday night in the Ann Arbor, Mich. area. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a Northwestern astro-physicist who is chief investigator for the Air Force's Project Blue Book, is investigating the Michigan sighting reports. He said he expected to complete his investigation today, but would give no information how soon his report would be ready. The mysterious night-flyers were spotted Thursday near Trinidad, Colo., not far from the buried $88 million North American Air Defense Command Post. Louis Di Palo, a local postman, said he watched three of the objects through binoculars. NEW PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1966. Price Fourpence. [Four photographs of pale polygonal/circular shapes against dark sky.] THESE ARE THE OBJECTS photographed by 16-year-old Brian Pollock in the pre-dawn sky over New Plymouth on Sunday. At left are the mystery objects as he first saw them, the centre photograph shows the circular shape to which they changed, and the shot at right was taken after they had reverted back to their original form. They disappeared soon after this. MYSTERY OBJECTS IN SKY. Three mystery objects were photographed in the pre-dawn darkness over New Plymouth on Sunday morning. The photographs, which have baffled local experts, were taken by 16-year-old Brian Pollock from the bedroom of his Carrington St home. The prints were developed by a New Plymouth chemist. NO EXPLANATION: The director of the New Plymouth Observatory, Mr D. W. Daniel had no explanation. "I don't dare mention anything about flying saucers," he commented. "It is quite a scoop if we knew what it was . . . it's so definite. So sharp." Weather experts at the Bell Block Meteorological Station were also just as much in the dark. They ruled out a met balloon because it was released at 4.30 a.m. on Sunday and even if it was still burning an hour later it would be as high as 20,000 feet. "There is no met explanation for it at all," said the duty forecaster. "And I don't believe in flying saucers." "I thought I was seeing things," said Brian, telling the story of the weird objects last night. "I woke up about 10 minutes to 6 and looked out of the window to see what the day was like. Then I saw them. They were just over the power lines," he said, pointing in a north-west direction towards the intersection of Carrington St, Tarahua Rd and Brooklands Rd. "I got my camera and tripod and set it up beside my bed. I thought I was seeing things—when I looked away I could still see them, just the same as when you look at the sun for a time. But his biggest shock came while he was taking the photographs. When he first saw them, Brian recalled, they were a hexagonal shape. "Then they just changed before my eyes to an enlarged circular shape." Later the objects reverted back to their original form and disappeared. "They just went . . . there wasn't a flash or anything." VERY LOW: During the five minutes the objects were observed, they did not move at all in the cloudless sky, and appeared very low. Brian used exposures of two, five and 15 seconds on the sequence. He has a £120 Pentax Spotmatic camera with a built-in meter which reads light at a distance. Brian, the son of Mr and Mrs F. S. Pollock, 365 Carrington St, the New Zealand Electricity Department's [continues]. [Photograph: BRIAN POLLOCK] Hong Kong Standard, May 14, 1966. 'Flying saucer' pics on show. FT. MONMOUTH, Fri. — Pictures of a "flying saucer" taken by a 13-year-old boy have been released by the Army at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey, and the Monmouth County Civil Defence Department. The pictures were taken by Robert J. Salvo of Wall Township last March when a rash of unidentified flying objects was reported in New Jersey. The pictures show an elliptically shaped object with a nob sticking out of the middle of its top. The youngster said he was walking his dog when "suddenly I heard a loud whistling, humming noise and thought it might be a plane." "Then I looked up in the cloudy that day," Robert said, "and I saw something diving out of a cloud, then over me, and it was pointing down as if watching me. It then shot back in the clouds like a bullet." He said he quickly took some pictures of it as it disappeared into the clouds. The Army made no comment on its identity. — UPI QPP Chase First UFO — No Arrest. 4-18-66. By RICHARD LEVESQUE. Provincial police appear to have registered their first flying saucer chase. At 2 a.m. this morning two constables at Three Rivers reported to headquarters that they were chasing a luminous spherical object. Constables Jacques Marcotte and Ronald Gagnier, said the object was moving 250 feet above the ground 100 yards off the highway to the St. Lawrence River, near Pointe du Lac. They chased the object for several minutes and then saw it "crash" in tidal flats. The officers ran to the scene but could not find anything. In alerting other police posts, the officers termed it an unidentified flying object. The officer in charge at Montreal headquarters said that police radio communications during the night had been bad due to an unusual amount of static. He also said a newspaper truck driver had called him to report a "luminous fireball" had been following him in northend Montreal at about the same time as the police sighting. The driver said he passed through certain stops on his delivery schedule because the "luminous fireball" followed his truck along the city streets. He tried to lose it by swerving around intersections but the object kept close by. Finally, he said he couldn't see it anymore and returned to his normal route. Sighting of unidentified flying objects have been occurring frequently throughout the province in the past few weeks. Asks Probe of Flying Saucers. 3-30-66. Ford Says U. S. Public Should Get Answers. BY JOSEPH HEARST (Chicago Tribune Press Service). Washington, March 29—Expressing a belief that the American public deserves a better explanation of reports of flying saucers and other unidentified flying objects, Republican House Leader Gerald R. Ford [Mich.] today formally requested a congressional investigation. "I do not agree that all of these reports can or should be so easily explained away," Ford said in letters to the chairmen of the House armed services and space committees. "I think there may be substance to some of these reports." Rep. L. Mendel Rivers [D., S. C.], head of the armed services committee, said that before he makes any decision he will consult with ranking committee members on Ford's request. Rep. George P. Miller [D., Cal.] said his space committee will defer to Rivers' committee because it has jurisdiction over the air force. Charge Facts Hidden: The air force has been in the business of investigating UFOs since 1948, and those who believe there is substance to the flying saucer reports charge it has cloaked its findings in secrecy and engaged in ridiculing those who report sightings. Ford, whose home state has been the scene of a rash of recent UFO reports, said the people are entitled to a more thorough explanation than has been given by the air force up to now. An air force consultant who investigated some of the Michigan reports last week said the people were seeing swamp gas. After Ford said last Friday he thought Congress should look into the reports he received numerous telegrams supporting his suggestion. Head of Committee: Donald E. Keyhoe, a retired marine corps major, who is director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, a private organization, says thousands of competent persons, including radar controllers, missile trackers, and qualified pilots, have sighted UFOs. Keyhoe told a press conference yesterday that the committee has concluded that "these things are real and must be extraterrestrial because they are so superior to anything we have." [Diagram: lattice-patterned saucer/football-shaped object with labels LIGHT, LIGHT, LIGHT, QUILTED SURFACE, ANTENA.] POLICEMAN and five other persons who saw unidentified flying objects near Ann Arbor Mich., put together this composite drawing of what they sighted. Drawing, made at Washtenaw County sheriff's headquarters, shows general shape, placement of lights and antenna-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 near here Sunday night, police said Monday. Twelve witnesses were policemen. Officers said four sister ships hovered in a quarter-circle above the object until it took off with a warbling sound like the echo of a ricocheting bullet. Patrolman Robert Hunawill of Dexter, a nearby village, said he and other residents of the area saw similar objects zipping through the skies early last Monday and Wednesday. FRANK MANNOR, 47, a farmer, and his son, Ronald, 19, said they approached within 500 yards of the object. It lay in a swamp, they said, with pulsating haloed lights on each end. Mannor said it was pitted "like coral rock" and about the length of a car. He drew a picture of it, showing its shape about that of a football. "There seemed to be a kind of fog underneath it," Mannor said. He said his son said, "Look at that horrible thing!" and the craft vanished. Two deputies, Mannor's son-in-law and other witnesses said it zipped over the tree tops. They described the same noise. Mannor and others said it was like the warbling sirens used on some police cars or a ricocheting bullet. SIX POLICE cars chased the formation but the objects vanished. Policemen said they and other witnesses except the Mannors could see only lights because of the darkness. Two Washtenaw County sheriff's deputies said they saw blinking lights—apparently from the object—rise above the trees, then dip again. Hunawill said he saw "four of those lights hovering over the area" in a quarter circle above the object on the ground. "The light went out over the center object (the one on the ground) and then it flew over the top of us," Hunawill said. ROBERT TAILOR, Dexter police chief, said he watched the object from Mannor's home on a knoll overlooking the 200-acre swamp about 12 miles northwest of here. "I saw a red glow down in the swamp," Taylor said. "It was a pulsating bright red and then it grew dimmer. I put the binoculars on it and saw that there was a light on each end of the thing." Deputy Stanley McFadden said at least 60 persons saw the strange lights in the air or on the ground. McFadden and Deputy David Fitzpatrick left their car and slogged through the swamp after watching the object rise to tree top level, then sink down and apparently land. A crowd of 40 to 50 people watched it on the ground, McFadden said. Bridgeton Evening News, 3-31-66. Another 'UFO' Is Sighted By Woman At Elmer. MILLVILLE — Another South Jersey resident reported seeing a strange, hovering white object in the sky in front of her car as she pulled into her yard on a suburban road not far from Elmer early Wednesday morning. Mrs. Rosemary Ulbrich said she noticed the big white "thing in front of her car some distance in the air. "At first I thought it wasn't anything," she said. "But after I turned my car, there it was again. What made me so sure that there must be something around was the way the dogs were barking. They never bark when I come home." FIRST UFO SPOTTER. [Photograph: man displaying a drawing of a saucer.] KENNETH ARNOLD, the Boise businessman who started the flurry of flying saucer sightings in 1947, displays a drawing he made after a sighting near Mt. Rainier in Washington. Arnold said pulsating light came from the dark spot in the center. (AP Wirephoto) Toronto, Canada Telegram, March 28, 1966. Now those flying saucers come to Canadian skies. These puzzling flying saucers invaded Canada last night. Sightings were reported in Toronto, Hamilton, Sarnia, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Two University of Toronto engineering students say they saw a bright, whirling object fly across the sky from their rooftop observation point. And Inglewood, Ont. man described 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 dull yellow," he said. "Then it appeared hazy and changed back to deep red again." In Sarnia, 100 people watched a multi-colored object — officially an unidentified flying object — as it hovered for two hours over the Kettle Point area. Lawrence Bressette, 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. Bressette said. He dismissed the idea it could have been swamp gas, the explanation given by U.S. Air Force consultant, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, for similar sightings in the Ann Arbor area of Michigan since March 20. The rash of U.S. sightings continued at the week end with reports from Green Bay, Wis., and Columbus, Ga. A fluorescent green and white object was seen by four policemen and a teacher at Green Bay. Maine 5-11-66. Auburn Police Get Another Report on UFO. Auburn police got another one of those UFO reports last night. At 9 o'clock the department received a call from Charles Ray of 90 Court St. who said he saw some kind of an object going through the sky over Minot Avenue. He said it was colored red, green and white. No other details were available in the police report. BREWER Welcomes UFOs. LANDING SITES AVAILABLE. SIGNED... Barry Ivers, MAYOR. [Photograph of a sign.] 4-6-66 AP Photo. SIGNS OF THE TIMES are written at Brewer, Me. Brewer welcomes unidentified flying objects. A rash of them has been reported, from Brewer to Seattle. This sign is posted on South Main Street in Brewer, perhaps the first to officially welcome the visitors—if any. So far Brewer has had no takers, but still hopes that its enterprise will pay off. [PAGE 16] [Newspaper collage page.] 4-12-66. [Cartoon: flying saucer over a golf course; caption:] "Parking between my ball and the green—I'd hardly call THAT intelligent life from another planet." Cartoon by Fischetti. [Cartoon from B.C.: two figures watching saucers; speech bubble "THE SWAMP GAS IS RESTLESS TONIGHT."; caption:] From B.C., the Post, May 9, 1966. [Photograph: GABRIEL GREEN, Head Saucerer] Head Saucerer Believes Martians Are Watching Us. Who's in All Those Saucers? By Harold Scarlett. Was Jesus Christ a Martian? "It's hard to say," said Gabriel Green thoughtfully. Then he added that it certainly seems plausible. It's no trick at all to walk on water or ascend to the heavens if you have a Martian levitation belt around your waist and an anti-gravity beam to ride, Green explained. Furthermore, he said, the Martians now visiting earth on flying saucers are trying to save the earth's people from their own follies — just as the Savior was. Green can speak with some authority on these matters because, he says, he met and talked with a Martian once. Also a four-foot man from the Alpha Centauri star system. Also some other unearthly visitors. SOMETIMES, HE said, he met these flying saucer crewmen by telepathic appointments. These were arranged through associates of his with telepathic talents. "And once in a while," he said, "they would just call on the phone." Green, who lives in Los Angeles, is the head saucerer — the president — of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. 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 explained. "This is one of the primary reasons why the extra-terrestrials started making visitations in 1947, shortly after we developed this ability — to watch over us and if possible to impart their advanced scientific, technological and sociological knowledge to help us resolve 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 financing. They have an advanced economic system they call Universal Economics. The economics part of it is what I personally am trying to transmit." 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 Houstonians 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 toward 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 women. They were very beautiful, very well proportioned. Seven to nine feet tall." Green said he had met other interstellar 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 an anti-gravity beam and levitation belts they wear around the waist to get on down to earth. "Through these, they can accomplish 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 powers of the mind of these people. Just 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 Eisenhower 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 believe 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 second 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 undoubtedly 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 warhead, 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. Maybe the Martians were listening in. [Photograph caption:] SAUCER OR STRAW HAT, THIS FLEW IN CALIFORNIA LAST AUGUST. Highway Patrolman Rej Heflin Photographed It Through His Car Windshield. PAGE 4—SPOTLIGHT. SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1966, THE HOUSTON POST Saucer Sighting Report. DETROIT, MICHIGAN. MARCH 30, 1966. Five sightings were reported on Monday of unidentified 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., seventeen year old Mike Woods, 8418 Fuast, 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, 17, 19749 Greenview and his companion, Robert Spallneo, 15, 19743 Greenview, 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 was last seen going east, with lights changing from the 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 150 yards away, according to the police report and stood motionless over the John Lodge Expressway, near Linwood. It was approximately 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. Its 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 [Americans] Say [They've Seen UFOs]. By GEORGE GALLUP. More than five million Americans claim to have seen something they believed to be a "flying saucer." And, about [x] times as many people — nearly half of the U.S. adult civilian population — believe that these frequently reported flying objects, while not necessarily "saucers," are real and not just a figment of the imagination. These are the principal findings in a nationwide Gallup survey of the American people on this subject, when survey percentages are translated into numbers of people. Since late in the 1940's, scientists and military officials have been investigating hundreds of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects. The recent rash of sightings prompted a Congressional hearing last month and also this special survey. How do typical Americans feel about flying saucers? How many people have seen them? Are they real or imaginary? Do people believe there is life, as we know it, on other planets? More than 150 Gallup Poll interviewers have been out questioning typical Americans—men and women, people of all ages, in all educational levels and in every region of the nation. Tabulation 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 public's awareness of other incidents or events, this figure is extraordinarily high. [The right part of the column is cut off at the page edge.] [Photograph: small disc-shaped object above trees.] THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1966. UFO Plays Tag With Deputies in 85-Mile Chase. RAVENNA, O., April 17 (UPI).—Two Portage county sheriff's deputies followed a "bright circular" unidentified object Sunday from Atwater, O., to Freedom, Pa., a distance of 85 miles. Deputies Dale Spaur and W. L. Neff were investigating a routine traffic accident at 5 A.M. when they were alerted by radio to be on the lookout for an object heading their way. Spaur, an Air Force gunner during the Korean War, said the circular object "about 30 to 45 feet in diameter traveled at speeds from 80 to 100 miles an hour." "It was about 1000 feet in the air and was extremely bright," Spaur radioed to the Portage county sheriff's headquarters here. "I had never seen anything this bright before in my life," he told Deputy Robert Wilson via the radio. In Benton Harbor, Mich., a flying object described as so bright "you couldn't look straight at it" was sighted early Sunday near the downtown section of the city. Three rubbish collectors said they saw the object hover over a motel along the St. Joseph River. The head of the crew, Joseph Franklin, said it was about 15 stories in the air, had a steel-like shell and looked "something like a hot-dog" in shape. He said it had a brilliant light so bright he couldn't look directly at it. Franklin and his crew reported the sighting to police who also viewed the object. The two deputies were joined in the chase at East Palestine, O., just across the State line from Pennsylvania, by East Palestine Patrolman Wayne Huston. Huston said the object appeared larger than an airliner and traveled in a straight line. He said it would change altitude suddenly. "It was a funny thing," Huston said, "but when the object got too far ahead of us it appeared to stop and wait." Wilson said at one time Spaur reported the object, which had something like an antenna protruding from the bottom, hovered above the cruiser in which Spaur and Neff were riding. Wilson said that Spaur and Neff were questioned by an "Air Force colonel" in Freedom. (Air Force headquarters at Greater Pittsburgh Airport said it had no report on the UFO.) "The chase lasted about 50 minutes and, in that time, the object was reported seen by at least six or seven other departments, both in Ohio and Pennsylvania," Wilson said. Neff, a one-time Seabee, agreed with Spaur in the description of the object and added that it "had no wings." Wilson said the object "was caught by radar" in Pittsburgh. He said that at least seven jets from the Cleveland-area headed for the object after it was reported. (The control tower at Greater Pittsburgh Airport said it spotted no UFOs on its radar screen.) [Photograph: disc-shaped object above trees.] A-8, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Tuesday, May 17, 1966. Mysterious Sky Objects Have Texans in Dither. MEMPHIS, Tex., May 17 (AP) — Rural residents told of seeing a cigar-shaped object drop from the sky yesterday, and two men said it caught fire and burned without apparent cause. Still another farmer in the same vicinity reported he heard an explosion, watched another unidentified flying object fall and picked up a four-foot strip of what appeared to be tin and aluminum. David Duncan, 28, with Radio Station KGBH in Memphis, related these details: Mrs. Ernest Lee, whose home is 3 miles southeast of here, spotted something which looked "like two parachutes" hovering in the air about 2 1/2 miles distant at 4:10 p.m. Duncan and several friends tried to pursue the object, "cone-shaped and silver looking," in a car and it appeared to halt near the Salisbury community 5 miles south of Memphis. As they drew near, however, it swept away at high speed. J. W. Hatley, a farmer in the Brice community 21 miles west of here, and three other men told of watching minutes later as something "about 20 feet long, 4 to 8 feet wide and shaped like a cigar" plunger to earth. It bore no markings, they said, and "appeared to have radios and about 20 small batteries on the outside." "It was big enough to carry a man, and I got the feeling that it did," Hatfield recounted. Hatley and one of his companions went to notify authorities, leaving two other men on guard. The strange object started smoking, burst into flame and burned, Hatley reported. [Cartoon: woman on a rooftop with binoculars and a man leaning out of an attic window; caption:] 3-25-66. "It's flying-saucer-sighting time and I'm determined to see one!" [signed Gutenberg/Los Angeles Times] [PAGE 17] [Newspaper collage page.] World Flying Saucer Believers Convene. 2-6-66. MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE. New York Times Service. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The "urgent problem" of improving communications with the thousands of visitors from outer space who supposedly are circling the earth was afforded solemn deliberation here this weekend at a special convention of flying saucer buffs. Among the nearly 300 delegates 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 establishment called the Blarney Castle, weren't much impressed with Thursday's Soviet 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 beginning of some "ominous changes" for the earth's population. But the convention chairman, Dr. Frank Stranges, said the "interplanetary visitors" would turn out to be "angelic creatures whose mission is to help mankind." The delegates were generally well groomed, articulate men and women who could have blended into any PTA meeting. Many were heads of organizations whose members spotted and photographed "unidentified flying objects" and claimed to maintain telepathic communication with space travelers. NEARLY ALL agreed that what they called the "flying saucer movement" was undergoing sharp expansion. Two delegates announced they were negotiating to purchase radio stations to help transmit their theories. Several flying saucer magazines and hundreds of books were on sale at the convention. "These people are contactee-oriented," explained Gabriel Green, a serious young man who served as president of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. "They accept spacecraft as a fact of life. Their interest is in contacting spacemen directly 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 communication with them through telepathy" and offered a program of instruction to other delegates who sought similar contacts. His blonde wife, Jonell, attired in black Leotards, was kept busy signing up "students." "There is no mystery as to whether the space men are watching us — some have already infiltrated our society," said Bateman. "The mystery is why so many are coming. What's going to happen?" Flying Saucers (To the Editor, S.C.M. Post) 2-3-66. 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 confrontation by paid investigators who are instructed to suppress the authenticity of their investigation. 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. During that time it has maintained a continuous status of "Classified Information." The only information 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 continue to slap your own face?) For several years actual sightings of spaceships are compiled at Flying Saucer Clubs all over the world. Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA) maintain a comprehensive information department that registers Club activities, and reports from all over the world. Anyone can write to AFSCA, 2004 N Hoover Street, Los Angeles, California 90027, U.S.A., and receive a concise, conscientious report about any information 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 investigating us cannot understand our belligerant attitude toward their conscientious effort to contact us. Neither can I. Flying Object Sighted in Illinois. NORMAL, Ill.—(UPI)—Several persons living on the same block here said they saw an unidentified flying object last night. The object had four blinking lights, red, white, blue and green, proceeded northeasterly, 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 newspapers 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 reported the smell of perfume as the lights appeared and moved. 2 SOUTH AFRICAN POLICEMEN REPORT SIGHTING OF 'SAUCER'. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—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 diameter, shortly after midnight. One of them, Koos de Klerk, said that the shiny copper-colored 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: a child and a man in lawn chairs reading newspapers, with a small alien peeking; caption:] "These flying saucer stories are getting more ridiculous every day." Pc REPORTS 'I SAW 6 FLYING SAUCERS...'. DAILY SKETCH, Tuesday, May 17, 1966. POLICE CONSTABLE Donald Cameron made out a report last night and hoped the Chief Constable would believe that he really DID see six flying saucers. Pc Cameron was at home on sick leave when he looked out a window and saw six glowing objects hovering in the distance. "I thought I was seeing things and called my wife," he said last night. "We watched them for about 30 seconds before they disappeared at speed towards Manchester. "They were about a mile away. I could see them clearly even though it was a dull day. They were white and glowing. "One was bigger than the others with a cup-shaped dome—obviously the mother ship. The others were oval," he added. As he made out his report at his home in Chiltern-road, St. Helens Lancs, Pc. Cameron said: "I suppose I will get some ribbing from the lads, but that is not what worries me . . . it's what the Chief Constable thinks. [Photograph: small disc-shaped object against sky.] Police Kept Busy. Paterson News, Jan. 15, 1966. Spotters Jam Up-County Roads for UFO Glimpse. RINGWOOD — If the little men from outer space had the up-county police on the run Tuesday, their earthly counterparts caused more trouble Friday night. Throngs of the curious ringed normally deserted Wanaque Reservoir in this small hamlet and created what old timers say is the first traffic jam in the history of the borough. The cars parked along Westbrook Road and Route 511. Ringwood Police Lieutenant Jack O'Hara said "We told them to move on, but they kept coming back on the other side of the road, so we just had to give a couple of them summons. They had everything, cameras, binoculars, telescopes. I was waiting to see one of them get out with a geiger counter." The sky watchers were out in force after wide spread publication of the sighting of unidentified flying objects over the reservoir. The elusive thing in the sky, however had failed to make a return appearance Friday night. Since the sightings, Tuesday, both Wanaque and this borough have been overpopulated with television cameras, newsmen and the curious. (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) 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 provide an ample amount of conversation for weeks to come. Indeed, 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 National 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 electronics expert, and Dr. John Pegano of Fort Lee will investigate 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, continue 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 Thursday night making sharp dips and maneuvers over the reservoir. It was Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. when residents, motorists, municipal 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?" was the question posed to the police at the North Jersey police radio hook-up in Pompton Lakes. The calls came in from Wanaque, Ringwood, West Milford, Paterson, Totowa, Wayne and Butler. Astounded residents were searching for an explanation. Even the police were dumbfounded. They too saw the white oval hovering in the heavens from their prowl 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 mysterious visitor was enthralling. Some felt as if it were "toying" with police, citizens and borough officials by performing dives almost into the reservoir; at times appearing "as if it were looking down" upon the spectators from a silent stationary 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 Ringwood 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 residents 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 released a number of reports which August Roberts, a member of the International Intelligence on unidentified Flying Objects 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 Wanaque. Experiment?: Roberts theorized the object "might possibly have been a government experiment in the creation of an anti-gravity machine." 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 engineer of the North Jersey District 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 Stonetown 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. [PAGE 18] [Newspaper front page collage.] Civil Defense Director Watches 'Flying Saucer'. Oakland Tribune, ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21, 1874 * OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. GOLDEN GATE Handicap---Results. METRO FINAL PM. 93rd YEAR, NO. 81. TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1966. 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 persons saw an "airship" flying over Oakland. But this date was 10 years before the Wright brothers made the first successful heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk. Aerial balloons, however, had been known for decades. The Oakland "airship" was the talk of the town for days and a number of other sightings were reported, from as far away as Red Bluff. Although the original story said the craft resembled a "huge bird," later sightings described it as egg-shaped with lights at both ends. It should be borne in mind that shapes of aircraft and estimates of airspeed were still sciences of the future when the following story, reproduced in part, was written. "That a huge airship has been hovering over Oakland for the last few nights has in the minds of many been conclusively proven. A number of persons whose integrity is unquestionable have seen the strange navigator of the air and this number includes many whose skepticism has been pronounced. "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, throwing a white stream of light for several hundred yards. "As the outlines of the airship were plainly discerned, the passengers in the street car became 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 20 miles an hour. It shot across the skies to the northwest, then it turned quickly and disappeared in the direction of Hayward. "Not only was the airship seen by the passengers, but 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, direction of the airship, and description." "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 eerie, hovering flying object settle in a swampy hollow near a college dormitory last night. William Van Horn, 41, Hillsdale county civil defense director for 10 years, said he watched the unidentified object through binoculars for three hours. It was the second straight night a large number of witnesses reported seeing weird unidentified flying objects in Southern Michigan. Sunday night a dozen policemen and at least 40 other persons watched a similar object, guarded by four sister ships, 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 Hynek, chairman of the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and scientific consultant to the Air Force's UFO study program, to investigate the rash of sightings. Hynek will work from Selfridge 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 wavering orange, red and white lights and appeared to hover just above the swamp some 1,000 to 1,500 yards from the dormitory. 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. It changed from orange to red, perhaps with a rotating light of some kind, and had a whit light at one end. "From all appearances it did not appear to be sitting on the ground as it moved back and forth across the ground," he said. HAMOPERATORS: Thunderstorms lashed the area as Van Horn and the college girls watched from a second floor dormitory window. Police 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 Friday night. He said William Vincent, 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 could not establish the object's shape. "I think that what makes the light on these things change colors is that they are rotating in a circular motion." Van Horn was alerted 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. "Through the glasses it was either round or oblong," he said. Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey said deputies reported the object alternately glowed colors. 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 Southern Michigan and other parts of the nation during the past few weeks. The eyewitness accounts of Sunday night's incident included a man who said he and his son ran to within 500 yards of a mysterious object which hovered above the ground then shot away at their approach. Hynek's role is scientific consultant to the Air Force's "Project Blue Book," the official label of the Air Force program to track down reports of unidentified flying objects. Authorities and crowds of curious residents braved thundershowers 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 searching and checking out reports from persons who thought they had spotted the object again. [Remaining lines of this column are blurred and not reliably legible.] Hynek will work with Air Force officials from Selfridge Air Force Base, a base near Detroit which dodged newsmen's inquiries Monday about the object seen in 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 because nothing will grow on the land. Others who meet him on the street express surprise, saying they'd heard he was in a New York City hospital suffering from radiation burns. One story has it his land is under guard for government study and that there is a darkened patch in his pasture where nothing will grow. The handsome, 28-year-old farmer says none of these tales is true. But the strangest of all, and the basis for the rumors, is his encounter with a space ship and his talk with its eerie crew 17 months ago. That happened, Mr. Wilcox says. "I know what I saw for two hours. I was talking with them and even joking with them." 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 seconds, he recalled. In the weeks after he reported the incident to the Tioga County Sheriff's Department, curious people visited his farm by the dozen. They flocked men who said they were from government agencies and others who identified themselves as officials of the IBM Space Guidance Center in nearby Owego, the farmer said. Most just residents who wanted to see the landing spot for themselves. One man who also claimed to be a saucer-seer told Mr. Wilcox he had hitchhiked from Massachusetts to talk to him. Other spaceship fans telephoned him and urged him to join their organizations. But Mr. Wilcox, who professes he only wants to mind his own business and make a living, steered clear of such affiliations. He had the telephone removed from his dairy barn because it was ringing so often he couldn't keep up with the chores, he said. If any responsible agency ever determined exactly what happened in that remote corner of his farm last spring, he has yet to hear about it. Mr. Wilcox did not seem particularly happy to see a reporter show up at his farm, one morning last week. He wasn't rude, either. When the reporter arrived, 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 joked. "Taking care of 60 cows and working 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 are coming from. I thought it was all over now. I thought it was all over with, but now everybody is talking again. "The best one is about me being in a New York City hospital with radiation burns. People have said they heard it on the radio. I've never been in a hospital in my life. "Then some woman 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 and the widespread speculation over the report has not hurt his personal life. "I just don't worry about it. I 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 incident a secret? "No. I've got nothing to hide. I would report it. If I saw another one today I'd do the same thing. Then people would say I'm crazy." Mr. Wilcox, who is unmarried and lives in the village, feeds and cares for the stock in the mornings. A man whose family lives in the homestead of the 300-acre farm does the milking. Mr. Wilcox also owns a farm near Owego where he grows feed crops, he said. He gives the impression that he would like to believe the whole episode was a joke 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 creatures whose features were hidden under uniforms and hoods, may not have been space travelers, he said. But he has no better explanation. On his way home, the reporter stopped at a diner and invited flying saucer conversation of the waitress. "That's where they say it landed," she said, pointing out the window. "Right over the hill. I don't think he was 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 where no grass will grow because of the fuel it was using." [Photograph: GARY WILCOX] 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 Wednesday night, shooting downward over the Point Mugu area. Mrs. Marvin Miller of 196 Pacific St., Ventura, said that she spotted the object at 8:55 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 dispelled my idea about an airplane." At the same time, about 20 miles to the north, a Fillmore man what appeared to be a plane. "It was in a dive," said Alvin Caples of 531 Olive St., Fillmore. Tuesday, May 10, 1966. GALLUP POLL. [More] Than 5 Million People [Say] They Saw Flying Saucers. [The left edge of this column is cut off in the scan.] [...] this awareness score is one of the highest in the 30-year history of the Gallup Poll. Are flying saucers a hoax? Philip Easter of Baltimore, Md., told one of our interviewers this story: "It was dark and I had just come out of a building. I looked up and saw this object hovering in the dark sky above me. It was very bright and stayed in about the same position for several minutes. At first I thought it was a planet, but I knew it couldn't be because of the way it moved." Harold Stoops tells of the time just June when he was driving through Topeka, Kansas: "It was very late — about 2:30 in the morning. I saw this round-shaped object in the sky ahead of me. It was extremely bright and I could notice a greenish hue. By the time I stopped the car and got out, it had disappeared." A New Jersey housewife was startled during the night recently: "It was about three in the morning," she relates, "I was suddenly awakened by a very bright light outside. I got up and looked out the window. The whole area seemed to be lit up like a phosphorous fire. I could hear strange sounds, like the ringing of bells. I know it sounds strange, but the next day several people about 20 miles away reported a similar experience and at almost exactly the same time." Further analysis of these data show that flying saucer sightings are not necessarily a phenomenon of certain population groups. Similar proportions of college educated persons, and those who have not gone beyond grade school claim to have seen them. Real or Imaginary? Are flying saucers real or imaginary? We asked this question, with surprising results. Although there is about the credibility of flying saucers it is important to note that while most of the reported sightings have been explained, according to Air Force reports, there are still many sightings without explanation. Persons with college training are more likely to believe in the reality of flying saucers than are persons with a high school background, or less. Among those persons who believe flying saucers have an explanation (that is, those who think they exist on other planets). Others, they describe them: 1) Experimental projects, Air Force tests 2) Actual vehicles from outer space 3) Burning gas, "swamp gas" 4) Meteors, shooting stars 5) Weather balloons 6) Supernatural revelations. 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 believe that intelligent life must exist elsewhere in the universe, because the statistical odds are large that there are millions of planets in the universe enough like our own to support life, as we know it. One person in every three (34 per cent) who participated in this survey said they believe life does exist on other planets. Again, persons with the most education are most inclined to believe in the existence of intelligent life on other planets. [Photograph: small disc-shaped object above trees.] 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 deputy sheriff who chased an unidentified flying object from Ohio into Pennsylvania. Hundreds of persons in both states reported seeing the "brilliant and shiny" object early Sunday morning. Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua, about eight miles north of Ravenna, said he took a picture of the object from his front yard but the Air Force told him not to release it. Buchert said it looked like "two table saucers put together." Portage County Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur said he and his partner, W.L. Neff, "were close" to the object in separate cars and chased it 86 miles for an hour and a half, from near Ravenna to Conway, Pa., near Pittsburgh. Spaur said he clocked it at speeds up to 103 miles per hour. From the ground Spaur said it looked like the head of a flashlight, about 40 feet wide and 18 feet high. Spaur said the lines of the object were very distinct. "Somebody had control over it," he said. "It wasn't just floating around. It can maneuver."