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February i9S6 I SAW AND PHOTOGRAPHED A - - FLYING SAUCER

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The Official Publication Of

Civilian Flying Saucer Intelligence

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Edi torial

A combi na t i on or ra i n, s now, freezing wea ther and eloudy skies ha s brought about a drop of Flyi ng Saucer s i ghtings from the ground . The s ightings from aircra ft cont inue . One might cla s s i fy this as the ca l m before the s torm .

Predict ions of Sa ucer act i vi ty far beyond anythi ng Which has been wi t nes sed i n the pa s t have been made by ci vi lian Saucer inves tiga tors acros s the country. Ma ny of these people have been active in Saucer inves tiga tion and res earch s i nce 1948 and have fo llowed the trend and pa t t e rn around the world . Ma ny are convi nced that the expected Saucer acti vi ty thi s year could blow the top off the censorship Whi ch ha s held back news of the Saucers tor the pa s t eight years . Predictions of everythi ng from " ma s s11 s ky shows to "ma s s " landi ngs have been recei ved by thi s wri ter. We urge a l l readers of the Revi ew to "Keep An gye On The Sky" a nd report all Unidenti fied Flyi ng Object s t o CFSI.

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We have recei ved word tha t another Air Force denia l i s in the making. Thi s new announcement , . i f i t comes off , will tel l the publ ic tha t the new Air Force del ta-wi ng , vert ica l ri s i ng , jet powered a ir­cra ft i s the same aircra ft which has been mi staken for the Flyi ng Saucers . Warn your friends of thi s new sham.

There are two pos s i bl e rea sons - for thi s new announcement . Major Dona ld Keyhoes new book, 11The Flying Saucer Conspiracy" i s creating a new Saucer fur or The pitch of thi s furor ha s li tera lly s mothered the Air Force denia l of October 1955. The eyes of thousands of skept­ics have been opened, wide open. Thousands of let ters are bei ng received a t th e Pentagon demanding more i nformat ion on the Saucers . We urge a l l readers of the Reviow to wri te a l et ter to the Air Force demanding tha t they re lea se more i nformat ion regardi ng Sa ucer act ivi ty, activ i t y on the moon plus more i nformation involving the fi ndi ngs of the Mars commi ttee.

The Air Force i s the only mi li tary agency whieh has avai lable a t their disposal records of Sa ucer s ight ings made from aircra ft . An i ncrea se in these s ight i ngs may be the for- runner of a new mass s urvey . If s uch en i ncrease is now underway , another denial must be expected .

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By Augus t c. Ro bert s

Wha t firs t aro used my interes t i n Flying Saucers was the la ck of i nforma t i o n o n the· s ubject. I had been fo l l owi ng the case right a l ong wi th mi ld i nteres ta mo s t o f the meager i nforma t i o n coming from the newspapers, magazi nes a nd books. Who was right regarding the Flying Saucers seen in the s ky? Was i t the respons i ble and intel l igent pers on who s uppo sedl y s po t ted them, or the Uni ted Sta tes Air Fo rce, who endeavored t o "expla i n away" what they saw .

Almo s t everyo ne by now knows or has read abo ut the fo l l owing cases:

1. Kenneth Arno lds s ight i ng of nine f lying di scs in the State of Wa shi ngt o n in 1947.

2. The Tacoma a ffair, in Which two men were ki l l ed i n th e cra sh o f a �25 Bomber ca rrying Wha t was s upposed to be part s of a flying di sc.

3. On Ja nuary 7, 1948, Capta in �ames Mantel l, wi th a flight of three F-Sl's pas s i ng near Goodman Air Fo rce Base i n Kentu cky, was reques ted by the field co ntrol tower to inves tigate a s tra nge o b j ect over the fi eld, and i n s o doi ng was kil led and hi s plan e demo l i shed .

Wha t rea lly happined? The Uni ted Sta t e s Air Force decided that Captai n Mantel l unknowingl y was chas ing the planet Venus, which i s a fairly good explanat ion, except that Venus wa s not in tha t vi cini ty a t that part i c ular t ime. There a re hundreds more cases of s ight i ng flying di s cs on record. I co uld go o n for pages but s i nc e t ime and s pace does not permit, I wi ll g ive only a few more i nteres t i ng ca se s .

Firs t, a New Jersey pi l o t wi th years o f experience fired hi s guns at a flying di sc, but no rea s ons were given or Wha t the o utcome was. Why? Then an Eas t ern airl i ne s Captain a nd hi s eo-pi l o t , on their earl� morning f light, were amazed When a huge wing l e s s tube- shaped craft travel i ng at tremendous speed zo omed pas t thorn and di sappeared into a

clo ud tra iling a red- orang e exha us t f lame thirty feet long. It's wash rooked their DC-3. Wa s that Venus t o o? Ano ther t i mo Lieutenant George Gorman cha s ed a mys tery l ight in the s ky i n a 20 minute fight a t s peeds varying from )00 t o 400 mi les per hour, o ut ��neuvering him at every twi s t or t urn. Was thi s his imaginat i o n? The· o ne I liked best a nd Which s t imula ted my interes t i n tha s ubject happened on July lOth, 1948 i n Phoenix, Arizona. Wi l l iam A. Rhodes t ook two photo graphs of a di so flying overhead, us i ng an ordinary box camera.

Aft er they were pri nted i n the newspapers not ano ther word was said about the Flying Suuccrs f'or a l o ng time . As the story go es , tho F . B. I. sent i nves t igat ors t o Rhodes home and reques ted tho negat­ives. Three days later When he asked for their return, he was to ld that thoy had los t them. What I could say abo ut thi s part i cular i ncident i s no t fi t t o print. I am wo ndering how they are go ing t o expla i n away my own Flying Sauc er prints?

Fo ur years ago I signed up wi th Civ i l Defens e in Jersey Ci ty t o bo a gro und o bs erver (Plane Spo tter) . r thought my chances of seeing a

dis o would be much greater by do ing s o , a l though Flying Saucer reports were faw and far between unt i l ea rly in 1952, When they began coming i n from a�l abo ut us, relat ive to the di scs. I began to take my camnre

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with me whenever· on duty and was at the observation post every spare minute, especially When a �lying Saucer was reported nearby. By now almost everyone at the post was Flying Saucer conscious.

During June 1952, Jersey City Police Inspector, Joseph B. Foley, supervisor of the Jersey eity Ground Observation Post1 had us on a dry run, or a month getting us properly trained for 2� hour active duty, Which commenced July 14, 1952.

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On July 19, 1952, I read in the newspaper that a Mrs. Josephine Hetzel of Staten Island, spotted five flying discs. The newspaper clipping saidt "I almost fainted When I saw what looked like five large dinner plates flying through the sky. They were in V formation." Mrs, Hetzels neighbor, Frank Gonder, described the objeotsas "flying like geese, bright in color, as fast as jet planes." When I read the article I called our Observation Post to soe if anything had been reported in our area. It was then I learned we had seen them too. When I checked the time I found out it was only five minutes from the time Mrs. Het�el had seen them.

Z asked Lao Murphy, a spotter, What he had seen and he told me he had only seen four, but about a mile behind them was another, going the same direction. He said he had not been to sure What it was so he did not record it. It was listed like this in �ur log- book s 120t10-four Flying Saucers spotted by Observer Leo Murphy• flying in a

straight line one-half mile apart."

The following Sunday, a friend and I went to see Mrs. Hetzel and hear her story first hand. In this �y we planned to compare reports. She said, "I was sitting in �ront of my house, When suddenly five colored discs with dark red rims about as large as dinner plates came right over the troes over my head. I thought they were going to hit me so I screamed. They flashed by and my neighbor, Frank Gondar, Who also was sitting in front of his house, came over to aid me. I was so shaken up by What I saw, she said." She said she had never believed in Flying Saucers, and ncvor again wanted to see them. From now on she was convinced they really existed.

When tho reports of Saucers became localized, tho Jersey Journal, our local newspaper, sent reporters to visit our post and got a story about flying discs for publication. Someone told thom I was there with my camera, a ) 1/4 X 4 1/4 Speed Graphic and a Loioa. Since it is the job of "Operation Skywatoh" to protect some of the most valuable real estate in tho country--Manhattan, as well as neighboring Jersey communities, anything that would happen on the Eastern Seaboard would eventually break looso hero and anything sighted is reported, They then published a small item about my waiting to see nnd photograph this phenomenon or disprovo its existance, since it had been questioned considerably.

On July 241 1952, George Gonger, nn. observer, spotted a disc overhead heading for New York. Thus it was listed in our logbooksJ 'rlos05-Flying Saucer spotted by observer George Cengor-onc-unkno�m­

high-overhead-flying southeast-looked like a shiny QOW dimo." Detective Ray Blasoak, Who was on the tower at the time using the phone, was called to come and look. However it disappeared in about four or

�ive seconds and botora Detective Blasoak got thore to look1 so Conger was the only one who saw the object that morning.

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As soon as I learned that Conger had spotted a Saucer, I went to see him on the tower during his next shift. I asked him how he came to spot the nunknown object� and he said he just happened to be look­ing straight overhead, When he noticed the glint of the sun on a metall ic object in the sky. He said it was definitely round, and appeared about the si ze of a dime, and, as it flew along it was in a ntilted" position, with the lowest edge leading in its flight . There was absolutely no sound or vapor trail. I asked if it could possibly have been a jet plane and he said he could easily have identified any known type of aircraft. Furthermore, he said no jet plane or any other kind of aircraft could ever move with the tremendous speed that the disc had. (I would like to point out that George Conger is also a sectio n leader of the· Civil Defense Organi zatio n, and is a thoroughl) qualified aerial observer. )

I had spent several week-ends at the tower, including all-night shifts from 9s00 p.m. to 6sOO a . m. since the reports of Flying Saucers had begun to come in from nearby localities. Inasmuch as Conger was now more than interested, having seen a Saucer himself, I invited him to join Jim Leyden, another spotter, and myself on some night watches. He was more than happy to do so . Nothing was seen for three nights .

On the evening oC July 27th, 1952 it was raining. So as not to get my cameras wet, ·I left them home. I arrived at the tower about 10&00 p.m. and Leo Murphy, who was just going home, gave me his camera, a n F).5 Lens, 120 folding with a bad shutter which st uck on slow speeds. James Leyden came on duty a little before midnight and George Conger at midnight. The shift Which was supposed to be on duty did not arrive until 12s20 a.m. The three of us were alone on the tower--Leyden sitting inside reading and waiting for Conger or mysel:f to spot a plane and call it out to him. He in turn would call it in to the Filter Center. George and I wer e sitting side by side on the highest part o:f the platform, he looking at anything in the sky that moved :from the north ea st, oast, and southeest, and I was watching the southwest, west and northwest. He watch ed one half of the sky, and I the other half. We had nothing in particular to look for since the reports we had read in the newspapers differed, and every disc seen was reported to be travelling to fast to see anything spectacula r.

We hal:f expected to see only a streak of light, not anything like the object we saw at 12:11 a.m., Monday, July 28, 1952.

We were sitti ng there chatting when George suddenly said, "Hoy, Roberts, lend me those glasses a minut e. I've been �mtching a light there in th o east by the Empire Stat e Building end its acting funny. It doesn't resemble a plane." After studying it through the glasses, he called out, "Hoy, Jimmy, come out and tnke a loo!{ at that light out there," and started l�lking toward him. He handed the glasses to Jimmy and, looking at the object said, "'What the devil is it ? " We thought it might be a light from a building, since it just hung there looking very bright. Then Jimmy gave me the glasses and ! took a look. We didn't know how to explain what we had seen, except to· define it as a Flying Sa ucer , but George suggested we call it in anyway, and perhaps the Filter Station could confirm it. While he was talking I had taken Leo's camera out and was balancing it on the railing. Just as I openod the shutter of the camera Jimmy jumped the three steps into the tower and jarred the whole platform and railing. George raised the glasses again and remarked that it was the oddest looking thing •

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, When Leyden got the Fi l ter Stat i o n on the phone , ins tead of cal l i ng in the me s sage in a ro ut�ne manner , he to ld them he did no t know how t o explai n What we had j ust wi tnes sed , except to say that there was a bal l o f light hoveri ng in the east , o range in co lor, wi th a dark browni sh rim, very bright . and flickeri ng. The person on duty at the Fi l ter Stati o n must have checked.his li s t and fo und that no pl�nes were lis ted in that area , because he immediately had an Air Fo rce o fficer talk to Leyden and ques t i o n him abo ut it. Leyden asked if any o ther repo rts had come i n, to Which he sai d, "Three s o far-­o ne from Plai nfield, Tarryt own and yo urs . 11 Leyden hung up a¢ liaS

cal l ed r ight back. I bel ieve thi s ca l l came from an ai r base , at l eas t the way the man talk ed i t se emed· s o .

Geo rge k ept watching the object and I was trying t o l o ok at the back o f the camera t o turn the fi lm. It was to dark to see , so I just spun the knob a f ew t imes , placed the camera o n the rai l , cal led to the boys t o s tand st i l l a f ew s econds , and to ok th e seco nd pho t o o f the di s c as i t moved upwards a di s tance o f i t s own length , e. s i f un­decided which way t o go. Conger no ticed that a searchl ight beam was trying to catch i t , and ran i ns ide the tower, g rabbed the phone from Leyd e n , and t o ld them about i t . I t o ok the 9X35 power bi noculars and watched i t unt i l it was out of sight. I ment i o ned that it had a r eddish brown dot in the cent er and the rim was the same co l o r . It s tart·ed to move a l i t t l e fas t er t o the s outheas t and the rim turned to a bright er r ed l ike glowing metal . It moved up and away from us at the same t ime . As i t t urned I got a good look at the depth o f i ts edge which I wi l l ment i on lat er . Geo rge, standi ng next t o me, t ried to f ind it , but it went i nto a cloudbank and was gone . l�en I asked him i� he had s een it leave ho r epl i ed negat ively. Leyden , sti l l on the pho ne , t old tho·m w e co uld no l ong e r see i t.

Short l y aft erwards I s ugges t ed to the gang that we cal l the New Yo rk Daily News , and see if they had s een i t' because it was so c l o se to thei r bui lding and f i nd out �mather they had any oth er report s . Leyde n cal l ed , and was told they had received two repo rt s but wer e no t i nt erest ed in any more. He did not ment i o n that we had seen it o r had taken photographs . I sugges t ed t o Leyden that he record this i n o ur :

log-b o ok a s s o o n as he c o uld. I have a pho tograph o .f the i tom as i t appears i n the book. Jus t about thnt time the next group came ups tai rs and we t o ld them What we had s een . They said they had been chat ting . t ogether do wnstairs for awhi le befo re coming up and were so rry no t to.: have come up o n time at midnight , as they would have l iked to have s e�n i t too. lfe s tayed on awhi l e· hoping to see i t agai n, but i t never rot ... urned, At )sOO a . m. , two of tho throe recent arr ivals wont home and o n e stayed o n , thinking maybe i t would show i tself agai n. At )s)O a.m . w e saw and called i n a plane ldli ch we.s zig- zagging back and forth i n abo ut the same spo t where we had seen the di sc over New York . Nothing else happened , s o I went home abo ut 6sOO a.m. to develope the f i l m and' s e e i f i t r ecorded anything.

Everyone was as l eep so I t r ied not to make any noi s e as I went i nt o my darkroom and developed tho fi lm, which �ms Kodak Super XX 120. Tho devel oper used l..ra.s Kodak M.Q. eight ouncE:ls i n a t ray sl ightly warm and I al l o wed the fi lm to devel ope for seven minutes. I planned to overdev�l ope to get as much out of the film as I could. I used a green l ight to so£ the. fi lm but between ov erdeveloping nnd get t ing too c lose to the safe light, the f i l m fogg ed up a l i t t l e . I am not used to handl i ng rol l f i l m and it twistE:ld up on me unt i l it got wet and soft. Anyone who has tri ed to deve l ope· rol l f i l m wi l l knol-r what I mean.

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"Ice Cream Cohe On Fire!"

By itay Stlntbtl!

bn th• e�$rting or Januat� 5, 1956, a friend called me and told me th�t at 5 t40 that afternoon a brilliant red, fiery object was sighted by a local resident (from Corpus Chrisit, Texas) who had called him in time for him to get a glance at it just before it went out of sight. I called the C.A.A. Combined Facilities Control Tower to see if anyone at the airport had seen the object and, if so, had it been explained? The party in the control tower said that about four people at the air­port had sighted it, but that he had known nothing of it until later. He said, 11It might have been a high Clying aircraft1 but I didnrt see .it and could not say for sure. Don•t get me wrong--I'm not saying it was, so don't quote me.n

Immediately the news came over KVDO-TV that a "brilliant fireball" which moved across the sky "at approximately .St40 this afternoon has been ex�lained as a sun phenomenon from the Tapor trail of a high fly­ing aircraft." I called the TV station and asked the person 'Who answered the phone about the report of the U.F.O. She immediately said, "Oh� There never-----it wasn't a fireball at alll It was just a sun reflection between an aircraft and a cloud." I then asked the source of information. A click was heard--then a voice--News Director. I again asked the source of information. His answers "The sou rce of inCormation is the CliCf Mauss Air Control Tower . " I knew then that someone had slipped.

Deciding to attempt to get in touch with others Who had seen the object, I called a looal radio station Cor names oC persons reporting it. The party to whom I was talking said, rtYes, l-Te did get several reports. Let me ch9ck the Cilea." He was off the line Cor about five minutes and then returned to say s "No reports �matever were received." He continueda "We attempt to take a very conservative attitude h ere for obvious reasons. If we had received any reports those would never

have been used on the news and would have been discarded. Pcoplo might start watching for such things and thoro would be all sorts of hyst­erical fright. Such reports are never used as thero is no reason to excite the public." He suggested I call the police station for infor­mation.

Before calling the police station I phoned the weathet bureau. They stated the fire department had called them saying that they had received calls and wanted an explanation. When I called tho fire department, they denied that any calls were roceiv�d and said that they had not consulted tho weather bureau.

The police were rather cooperative and gave me the address of one of the persons who had reported sighting the o bject. The lady Who's address and phone number I had received was a middle-aged school teach­or Who had never b eli eved in flying saucers. She told me that she teaches the english class in the ninth grade. Sho was very cooperative and stated that her three sons had also obs erved the strange object. The sons ages weret 9, 15, and 19 years. They all agreed on tho description of the objeot. "Like nothing I have ever seen," she said. She reported the o b j ec t �s the size of a dime held at arms length and that it was like an ice oream cone (with the ice cream on one end) with the ro unded end po inted in the direction of motion. The object 1ms in their view for ten minutes and was sighted �ilc nearly directly over-

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head and was observed unt i l i t went over the hori zon. It travel l ed north, once changi ng i ts course sl ight ly to the east. She said that a t nd t i me did the obj �ct cha nge shape. Except for si ze diminishment as it moved into the distance, i t kept constant bri l l iance. She sa id that the obj ect de£ina tely stood st i ll at one time duri ng i ts north­ward course. There was a perfect ly clear sky and a slight breeze at the time of' sighti ng , There was no vapor tra i l.

The wi t ness sta ted she had never believed in Flying Saucers, but she was sure this must have been o ne, "Wha tever they are," she sa id.

While ta lki ng with the pol ice of'fi cer a t the sta tio n he had i nfor­med me that the a i r control tower had report ed to hi m that the obj ect was observed by no one a t the airport , and that they had def."i nat ely ident i fi ed it as a B-57 Bombert (Co uld this be possib l e if they had not sight ed i t.) The po l ice offi c er went on to say that lat er on they (the control t ower) told him that , howev er, they could not defi nat e ly say wha t the obJect was. ( One moment i t is posi tiv ely identi fied--th e next a complete contradi c t i on.)

Th e lady Who , with her three sons, had si ghted the obj ect, had sai d she was "horri fied" wh en she heard the preP.ost erous explanati on on TV. Who had slipped? Was i t the po lice o ffi c er or tho air controller? I don't know. One thing is for sure, someo ne didl

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Sky Quakes

Pol ice were una bl e to tra c e the so urce of an explosi on whi ch shook a sect ion of east Yo ungstown , Ohi o on November 27, 1955. Resid­ents report ed heari ng a blast a nd feeli ng their houses shake . A si x block area was aff e c ted by the blast. No j et planes were seen or heard i n the area.

On December 17, 1955, a mysteri o us explosi on sho ok the town of Auburn , Nebraska. One wi tness to the incident was enroute to another town when the explosion took place. He reported seei ng a terri fi ca l ly bri l l iant glow in the heavens, Whi ch l i ght ed the co untry- side l ike a bal l of' fire. He report ed tha t the noise tha t a c compani ed the light was suffici ent ly great enough to dead en the sound of his car motor, Whi ch for a moment had him beli eving tha t the engi ne o f the car had stopped.

Residents of' Guthrie , Oklahoma were jared by two mystery oxpl osionE Which took place on Nov ember 26, 1955. Invest igati ons i n Guthrie and the surroundi ng v icini ty fa iled to disc lose the sourc e of the myst ery explosions, the f."irst occurri ng short ly aft er 10:00 p.m. and the s econd a short t i me la ter. No j et planes were seen or heard in the area .

Th e origin of' a sharp blast that shook the Quad-Ci ti es o f Davenport Iowa--Bettendorf , Iowa- -Rock Island, Il l i nois and Mo l ine, Il l . a nd was f."el t as far away as Muscat ine , Io wa--about 10 mi l es west of the Quad- Ci t i es- -remained a mystery. The blast took place o n November 29, 195.5.

Some witnesses said there was j ust one big blast , others reported two. Wi ndows wore broken i n a t least one home and dishes rat tled from the f."orce of' the b last Which was f e l t a l l over the Quad-City area.

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The Rock Island. sheri.ff'' s office sent a squad car to Andlausa Where a woman reportec seeing "a bright flashn in the sky followed by a tremendous explosion Scott county and Muscatine sheriff's deputies searched their respective counties in an effort to locate the saurce of the explosions. The blast l'las reported to be particule.rly strong in south Rock Island. Ono woman told the Scott cou�ty Sheriff's office that the noise "sounded lil(e it was right out in the back yard and I thought someone had fired a shotgun."

One theory was that the blast might have been caused'by a jet plane flying in a dive below ten thousand feet. Authorities said if the plane broke the sound barrier below this altitude the sound could have resulted. It was dubious however, if such a sound would be heard over such a wide area. One official said he doubted that a jet would fly below 10,000 feet. He said at that altitude, or over, the sound would be heard if the plane broke the sound barrier, but shock waves would not reach the earth. Those Who heard the blast described it as extremely loud and strong enough to cause houses to shake.

On December 15, 1955, a series of rumbling explosions between 3•30 and 3:35 p.m. rattled windows and was heard over a wide area of shore line near Asbury Park, New Jersey. The cause of the explosions remai.ned a mystery as far as police and military sources were concerned. The office of information services at Maguire Air Base reported its jets in the air at the time of the explosions were in controlled flight with a top speed of 320 miles per hour, and therefore could not have caused the noise by cracking the sound barrier. More­over, Captain Patrick Brown at base operations reported the sound of a

jet breaking the sound barrier is much like a crack of lightning with­out the rumble of thunder afterwards. Most reports of the explosions heard at the sea shore described them as a series of rumbling noises not one distinctive sharp crack. "Our jet pilots have been instructed not to crack the sound barrier unless they are well out to sea, " Commander Alfred E. Brown, operations officer said.

An unidentified blast or explosion, Which rudely jarred residents in a good part of tho Roseburg, Oregon area at 9t50 p.m. on DecGmber :) , 19.55 was left unidentified. Law enforcement officers combed the area, but reported n o specific cause for the unknown factor Which shook homes for about five seconds. Some folks thought it might have been caused by a speeding jet plane as it broke the sound barrier. However, state police said the Portland Filter center had no report of of a plane being over the central portion of the county at that time. A Lookingglass, Oregon resident said she felt a "dull, muf:fled thud" which sounded like something hitting low down. An unidentified woman said that her baby had been l<:nocked :from its bed, another man said the jar had broken panes of glass.

The mystery explosions heard. tho world over are most certeinly caused, in the ab5ence of supersonic aircraft, by the sudden acceler­ation of UFO's from hovering positions. The reason for the explosions is simple. Tho Saueer leaves a void into which air rushes at tremen­dous speed to erea te an explosion in the same· way as it rushes into the neck of a bottle when a cork is withdrawn.

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§Eeeds And �a neuve rs

Th e i ncredible and sometimes a lmost un-bel i evable maneuvers and speeds of th e Saucers whil e under compl et e inte l l i gent contro l se ems to b e suffi c ent pro o f that they come from outer spaoe .

At 8s25, o n the mo rni ng o f D e c ember 21, 1954, a lo ca l Co rpus Christi , Texas busi ness man was driving a l ong the sho re line. As he gla n c ed out over the bay he noti c ed �our da rk obj e cts streaking a cross th e sky i n a stra ight l ine . His curiosity a rousedf he pul l ed over to the curb and g o t out o f the ca r. The four o bj e cts were travel l i ng pa ra l l e l with the ho ri zon i n a perfectly stra ight line.

0 0 0 0 Trav e lli ng i n a north e rl y di r e c t i o n , th e obj e cts held thei r

Co rmati o n for a sho rt time . Th en, the one i n ba ck rose upward and fo rwa rd assumi ng a position above and sl ightly in front of the fi rs t obj e ct. Th e thi rd obj ect i n l ine (�rom the front ) rose to a po i nt sl ight ly be l ow and behind th e obj ect which had prev i ously maneuv e red . The next o n e then moved upward sl ightly and to the left. This enti re ma neuv e r was ex e cuted wh i le the enti re group of four was i n fo rward :fl ight

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A soon as the objects assumed this wheel formation, they began to roll forward (as a ��eel.) As soon as they had rolled forward for

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a short distance, they reversed the maneuver Which put them in the wheel formation and assumed the original straight line formation. They con­tinued forlmrd for a short distance, then stopped in flight, and hovored. As the witness watched the objects, they disappeared, one by one.

CFSI research files show many cases Where the objects suddenly disappear. One does not have to be a scientist to know that the human eye is only capable of registering an object up to a certain speed. Anything surpassing that speed would become invisible.

If a Saucer should suddenly leave its hovering position at a speed of S,OOO mph, Which is not at all impossible, the person or persons watching the Saucer would not catch the movement of the Saucer because of its sudden spurt of speed. The same phenomena would take place if a Saucer travelling at a speed of S,OOO mph suddenly came to a dead stop. If you happened to be watching that particular area at that time you would swear that the Saucer just "appeared" out of no­Where. Technically, it did, although it was passing across your line of' vision but was not visible because· of its tremendous speed. There are cases where cameras have recorded Saucers in flight when they were not visible to the person taking the picture, appearing in the photo of another subject.

Another common maneuver of these spacecraft is their uncnnny ability to perform 90 degree turns at tremendous speeds. The following account will give you an inkling of the intellectual and scientific minds Which are responsible for the construction and operation of these craft from outer space.

The locations Corpus Christi, Texas. It was a very clear night during the winter of 19S4, around 10100 p.m. A white object was seen streaking downward from high in the western sky. Before it had time to travel �ownward very far, it suddenly altered its course and executed what was practically a right angle turn. It must have been traveling several thousand miles per hour and at first was thought to be a meteor.

The turn was actually about a 95 or 100 degree turn, but the force that would have been required to execute this turn would have been terrific.

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11Flyi ng Sa ucer Movie Shown"

By August Ro berts

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On December 271 1955 a friend o f mi ne t o ld me tha t , 6n the evening of December 26, 1955 he saw an authentic movie of Flying Saucers on sta t i o n WABD- TV, channel 5, Jersey City, N.J . The next mo rni ng I telepho ned the TV sta t i o n and asked i f they wo uld run the·movie a t a lat e r date. They to ld me that they didn't thi nk the movie would be sho wn aga i n but i t was possible tha t it wo uld be shown on.a no ther sta­t i o n at a later da te . I ask ed i f it wo uld b e possible to receiv e a l i t t l e i nfo rmat i o n i n rega rds to the co ntents o f the f i lm. They agreed t o send me the i nf o rmat i o n and i n a c o uple days I r eceived the fo l l ow­ing acco unt .

Th e fo l low i ng is a quo t e o f the act ua l b roadcast;

Now ba ck t o the n ews , with a l o ok at a f i lm made in June 1954, but o n ly now rel eased to the genera l publ i c. The subj ect, Flyi ng Saucers .

These pictures show a pa rty o f Scandinavian cameramen and astro n omers taki ng o ff t o pho t og raph a t o ta l eclipse of the sun . But o ne o f the members capt ured someth i ng mo re- - a st rang e ph enom­ena that he r eco rded on a few sec o nds of f i lm,

In the upper l eft hand co rne r o f the picture, two shi ny white discs appear, mov i ng away t o the left. They were ca l culated to be about twenty mi les away . The distan ce wo uld make them eno rmous i� si ze. Fifty pe rsons saw them.

Flying Saucers o r no t , this f i lm wi l l start specula t i o n aga in

M . A. News & Special Ev ents .

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Si lver Ba l l Is Sighted In �From GOC Po st

An unident i fied o bj ect described as appearing l ike a si lver ba l l was sighted b y two Cresto n , Iowa Gro und Observer Co rps members �mi le on duty at thei r post on December 7, 1955. The obj ect appeared in the a i r j ust bel ow Wh er e a j et plane had been sighted . Observ ers who sight ed the obj e ct had j ust repo rted sight i ng a j et plane and wer e maki ng a repo rt o f a second j et plane when one of the wi tnesses spo t t ed th e "si lver bal l" i n the sky j ust bel ow where the jet had been sight ed. Th e obj ect appear ed t o change f rom the shape or a foo tbal l to a square shaped si lver obj ect . It was i n sight fo r abo ut three mi nutes, dis­appeared behind c l ouds and then reappeared . Apparent ly there was no th­i ng at tached to the si lv e r ba l l , Which was l ost from sight behind mo re cl.o uds .

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Past Sight i ngs Repo rted

A fo rmer r esident o f No rway t o ld how, When o n a ski ing party in March 1901, at 9130 p.m. wi th a ful l mo o n , a round si lver obj ect came o ut o f the no rth east and moved high i n the sky overhead and disappeared

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in the wes t . ·It moved wi th half th e spe ed o f a met eo r l eaving no s t reak o r sparks behind and fast er than the present day j et planes . He al s o to ld how his g randfather in 1852 had seen thr e e round siiver obj ects flying from west to east at around four o'cl ock in the aft e r­no o n.

Anoth e r sighting was by the occupant of a salmo n fishing tro l l er, who was watching u.s. and Canadian planes cruising overhead inspecting the fishe rmen o n both sides o f the bo unda ry line in the vicinity of Point Roberts , Pug et Sound, Washingt o n . The Saucer was round and silver , high above the plan es and mo re o r l es s statio nary fo r s ome time Wh en it to ok off s o uth east and disappear ed over Mt. Baker , Wash . Th i s was in the summer of 1950 .

On Augus t 29, 19.5.5, a t :ls1.5 p.m. a shiny diso was observed hover­ing over the Ohio River near Cinci nna ti. It sho t away at the approach of an airliner. In the nights fo l lowing , the perimeter areas o f Cl eves, Bridget own and �o oven wi tnessed weird, ova l lights hov ering, making squa re turns , swinging like pendulums , o r 11bouncing11 like basket-ba l l s i n the s ky.

On S eptember 20, 19.55, a wit nes s in Ci ncinni ti, Ohio repo rted a

bright g reen a nd r ed object sail ing low a nd witho ut sound over hi s house . An ho ur l a ter , ano ther witness repo rted two large , red obj ects over the Mt . Heal thy a rea. One of the red lights " bo unced like a bal l,' When a n ai rplane appro ached, the o bject changed from red to white and shot swift ly a nd s oundlessly t o the southea s t .

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• The fo llo wi ng article has been reproduced from the January lS, 19.56 issue o f "Cl ips , Quo tes and Comment s , a bi- weekly publicat ion of Bo rde rland Sciences Research Associates, 3524 Adams Ave . , Sa n Diego, Califo rnia. Twelve i s sues (6 months) for $5.00; six issues (3 mo nths) fo r $2.50; two iss ues fo r $1.00.

In the mat ter o f censo rship, rea l and would-be, h e re i s a typica l a nd j us t repo rted incident. It comes from a f riend i n Sun Val ley , Ca lifo rnia, via an Ass ociate in Arcadia, Cal ifo rnia, and is dated January 8 , 19.56.

"Immedia tely fo l l owing the Bil l crunni ngham program o n KHJ , Which i s over a t 12:)0, Frank Edwards came o n the a i r and gav e a magnificent ta lk on UF01s . He spoke o f the many recent sighti ngs ahd the heavy government cens o rship. He st res sed ho w the t ruth was being kept from the public and mentioned that a book has been wri t ten that gives com­pleate info rma t i o n o n this . Jus t as he was about to anno unce the name oC the bo o k he w.as cut oCf the air and the announcer came in with the· sta tion identi:fication.n (Pres umably Maj o r Keyhoe1s book . )

Our info rmant then states that she ca l led the stat ion right away but :fo und the circui t s flo oded. After trying fo r almo s t an hour she asked the Burbank operato r Why she couldn't get thr.o ugh , and was t o ld that the lines were loaded with cal l s and asked What i t was al l abo ut . �en she was told that it was abo ut the Frank Edwards Saucer program, the operator said she thought i t was a go od thing, that the Saucers wer e here to attack us end it was best to keep it quiet . Our i nfo rmant talked with the operat o r and mentioned what she herself had seen, and the o perato r agreed that she should get the bo ok and read it hersel f .

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By Ray Stanfo rd

It i s very near the t i me fo r so mething really big to happent

Thi s o pinion is shared by miliions of peopl e throughout the wo rld. Wi l l th er.e be a wo rld war wi thi n the no t too distant future? Some say this year wi l l t e l l the tale. Wi l l our ent i re civ i l izat i on bo annahi l­iated by the deadly c o balt-hydrogen bomb? Some warn i t c ould . Are c o ndi t i o ns get t ing so bad that people from o ther planets wi l l have to tak e mov es to remedy such c o ndi t i o ns? Might the pilo ts o f the Flyi ng Sauc ers find i t n e c essary to make mass landings this year?

Last year the Mars Commi t tee discov ered that Mars is alive- -the canals are art ifi c ial� The silence group, however , have kept these findings from bec o mi ng publi c. Mars wi l l come even cl oser this year . It i s anyones guess as t o the amazing findings that wi ll be made . We can only hope that the "powers that be11 wi l l open their fi les and let the pub l i c know that We Are No t A l o ne .

Th e re i s o ne thing fo r certain. "They" wi l l no t b e able t o blind­fo ld the public , and when the spacec raft are seen in great numbers in the skies, and possi bly on the ground, the fi les may no t even need to be opened . I have heard numerous rumo rs as to what wi l l take place this year. As fo r myself, let me say thist In my communicat ions wi th the space people I have received no info rmat ion along this l ine. I do know , however , that various other peopl e have .

The quest ion that i s probably being asl{cd most is t If the space • peopl e were to land, do you think that I might be contact ed or at least

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get t o see a landing take place? To th is one could only reply that , "abso loutcly anything is possibl e. " The answer to this quest ion l ies, actually, in your relat i on t o the space people . (And of c ourse , Wheth­er o r not thoy find mass landi ngs nec essary at this time.)

Landings or no landings , there is one thing that I am pre t ty sure o f, and this is that mo re pro of that we have spac e visi t o rs shall c o me about than � befo re . One rumo r is that by the end of this year the A i r Fo rce si lence group can't possi bly hold out any longer and will gradually reveal that the Saucers are ext ra- terrestrial. This would give the ent i re wo rld a completely new out l ook and friendly hands of wel c o me would be extended spaceward .

This release, I have heard, would come about after a flood of sigh t i ngs , greater than that of 1952. It is said also , that such a r e lease might be t riggered by some o ther count ry releasing news that they have in thei r possessi on a crashed spacec raft and that some of the count r i es c i t izens have no t only seen and pho t ographed them but that c ontacts have also taken plac e . s�y so mes Th e ships shall appear in the sky by the mi l li ons- -l ight ing the night sky as bright as day. No offi c ial announcement nec essaryt

I was to ld that a p lanet that has never befo re been visible from Ear th wi l l become visible from behind the mo on . (The person who to ld me this said he had h eard it in a speech at Los Angeles i n 1954) Though some of these things may seem far-fetch ed, I learned o n November 6 , 1954 never t o ridi cule anything--no mat ter how redi cul ous i t might seem . (Pndre Island , Texas contac t t o ok place on November 6, 1954)

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Wha t wi l l happen depends o n th e a c t i o ns o � ea ch and eV- ery i ndiv­idua l . We , the p e o p l e hav e th e fina l cho i c e a s t o Whether o r no t thi s i s to b e a s a f e wo rld t o l iv e i n . We , a nd we a l one sha l l decide o n Whi ch we wa nt t A d ead wo rld o r a l iv i ng wo rld . Th e d e c i s i o n do es no t r e s t upo n yo ur s ta t e gov ernment , yo ur nat io na l gov ernment , or any gro up o f governments no ma t t er how larg e . The dec i s i o n r es t s wi th yo u f th e i ndividua l .

Some may C e e l tha t they wo uld l ike the spa c ec raft t o land thi s y ea r . I ca n o nly say that I hope tha t th ey do no t hav e t o . Th e peopl e o f thi s p l a n e t a r e no t r eady fo r s uch a landing . This , in it­s el f , wo uld be a g reat cata s t rophy , but i t wo uld s t i l l be v ery meag er and ov er- shadowed by the much great er di sas t er tha t s uch a landing -would take pla c e t o prev ent . It wo uld no t be a j oyous affa i r , but a sad o n e i nd e ed .

I t s e ems t o me that o nly When ea ch person on Earth i s ready , wo uld our v i s i t o rs f ro m o ther wo rlds land f o r any rea s o n exc ept to prev ent a t e rrabl e d i s as t er . (A d i sa s t e r no t only t o o urs e lv es , po s s­ibl y , but t o o th e r wo rlds a l s o , ) Unt i l the n , fo r our sak e and th ei rs , th e spa c e p eopl e can o nly affo rd to mak e indiv idua l o r personal c o nta c t s . ( Or , a t mo s t , to sma l l groups . ) Aga i n , the answer i s wi th yo u . Ho w can you we l come the v i s i t o rs f rom o ther wo rlds ? I sha l l no t answer th i s - - YOU kno w YOUR ans wer much b e t t e r tha n I . In thi s way ea ch of us can be p r epa r ed fo r wha t 1956 bri ngs .

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