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Scad Sub~rri~tionn 10 SKYLOOK. Box 129. Stover. Mo. 65078 PUBLISHED MONTHLY Mn. Noma E. Short. Editor and Publisher

No. 59 O C T O B E R 1972

Know Your Magazine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Where t o Order MUFON P u b l i c a t i o n s . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A Message From Your D i r e c t o r . '. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 90-Minute Documentary Film on UFOs t o be Shown, S t . Louis 3 Could This Be Another Snippy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 A Newspaper ASKS f o r UFO Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Domeshaped Object May Have Been Blimp . . . . . . . . . . 4 Witnesses See Low F ly ing UFO Over New Hampshire . . . . . 5 K i r k s v i l l e , Mo. Woman Reports Br igh t S i l v e r UFO . . . . . 7 S t a t e Highway Employees Report UFOs . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Car Died a s "Thing" Neared, Wisconsin Dr iver Reports . . 8 More Reports from Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Phys i ca l Traces - M a t e r i a l Evidence of UFO's? . . . . . . 10 Orange UFO Sighted i n Chicago Suburbs . . . . . . . . . . 11 Pkssour i S i g h t i n g s i n August Reported t o Ted P h i l l i p s . . 1 2 Another Report from Moberly, Mo. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Beckemeyer Couple See F i r e b a l l Nebraska S i g h t i n g Recal led Couple Follows Glowing Object UFO Sighted i n B e l l e v i l l e , Ill. UFO Over Ashland, Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 I n O t h e r s l . W o r d s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 UFOs Behind t h e I r o n Cur t a in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Food f o r Thought Loch Ness Monster Photographed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Astronomy Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Organiza t ion Notes from Around t h e Network . . . . . . . .I8 Were Kansas S i g h t i n g s h e a t h e r Balloons? . . . . . . . . . 19 More S i g h t i n g s a t Arkansas C i t y , Kans. . . . . . . . . . 19 S t . Louis Women See Unusual L igh t . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Lady R e c a l l s Older S i g h t i n g UFO Reported i n Arkbnsas Clarence 0. Dargie t o Speak on UFOs

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SKYLDOK was f i r s t published i n September 1967. Your edi tor a l so became the publisher in 1969 and SKYLOClK has been prblished monthly since tha t time.

I n May 1969 the Midwest UFO Netvork was organ- ized and SKYLOOK was proud to be m d its o f f i c i a l publication i n July.

You do not have t o be a member of MUFUN t o sub- sc r ibe t o SKYLLOK; but if you a re a member, you ' l l find the best way t o keep up with the organization'e plans and progress i s by reading Director Walter H. Andrus' "bssage' in each issue along with the *Ur&anization Notes."'

SKYLClGK i s s ta f fed by and for adults. Our policy has always been t o t e l l it as it is, and we make every e f f o r t t o separate f a c t from fan- tasy. We inv i t e UFO reports from our readera, ae wel l a s from our regular s t a f f and MlFON members. We give c r ed i t f o r material used, but w i l l not use your name if you prefer anonymity.

SKYMOK is i n the mail around the 27th of the mcnth preceding the date of issue.--and the dead- l i n e f c r c o ~ y for next month's issue i s always the 20th of t h i s month. Please send i n your material a s ear ly as possible, a s we hold open only tuo pages for t he morning m a i l of the 20th.

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A Message From Your D i r e c t o r

During August p o l i c e o f f i c e r s i n western Kansas had reason t o be- l i e v e t h a t UFO " f l apsw do fo l low a f i ve -yea r cycle . As we a l l r e - member, t h e l a r g e s t recorded f l a p t o h i t t h e United S t a t e s i n modern h i s t o r y s t a r t e d on August 1, 1965, i n Oklahoma, spread ing t o most o f southwestern and western s t a t e s . During J u l y and August, Wisconsin had a l i v e l y r a s h of UFO s i g h t i n g s r e p o r t e d by P o l i c e o f f i c i a l s and c i t i z e n s .

The e f f e c t i v e n e s s of t h e Midwest UFO Network a s an i n v e s t i g a t i n g and r e p o r t i n g o rgan iza t ion may be measured d i r e c t l y i n r e l a t i o n t o one o f our o v e r - a l l ob j ec t ives . I n Wisconsin, S t a t e D i r e c t o r Ron Anderson, a long wi th S ta te -Sec t ion D i r e c t o r s and F i e l d I n v e s t i g a t o r s , in te rv iewed w i t n e s s e s , conducted i n v e s t i g a t i o n s , and forwarded t h e i r r e p o r t s and newspaper c l i p p i n g s t o MUFON and SKYLOOK.

On t h e o t h e r hand, we d i d no t have F i e l d I n v e s t i g a t o r s i n nor th- west Kansas when t h e first newspaper r e p o r t s on t h e wire s e r v i c e s s t a r t e d a r r i v i n g . Joe B r i l l p e r sona l ly wrote t o a l l of t h e newspapers around Hays, Kansas, seek ing t h e i r a s s i s t a n c e . Both r e p o r t e r s and e d i t o r s of t h e many newspapers i n t h e a r e a accepted t h e cha l lenge and supp l i ed t h e in format ion which you w i l l r e ad i n SKYLOOK. Your D i - r e c t o r has contac ted each of t h e people who d i sp l ayed a s i n c e r e i n - t e r e s t i n t h e UFO phenomenon wi th t h e g o a l of s e c u r i n g new F i e l d In- v e s t i g a t o r s and S ta t e -Sec t ion D i r e c t o r s i n t h o s e c o u n t i e s i n which we do n o t have r e p r e s e n t a t i o n .

A s S t a t e D i r e c t o r f o r Nebraska, Elmer Kra l i s going t o be prepared f o r t h e nex t f l a p t o v i s i t t h e Corn husker S t a t e , by having t r a i n e d personne l i n every county. Elmer is p leased t o announce t h e appoint- ment o f Paul J . Kel ley , 217 South Seventh S t r e e t , Albion, Nebraska 68620, t o t h e p o s i t i o n of S t a t e -Sec t ion D i r e c t o r f o r Boone and Nance count ies . Pau l i s a r e t i r e d schoo l a d m i n i s t r a t o r ho ld ing a Masters Degree w i t h an a d d i t i o n a l f o r t y hours c r e d i t . He has had s p e c i a l - i z e d t r a i n i n g i n chemis t ry , geology and astronomy, which w i l l be of d e f i n i t e a i d du r ing i n v e s t i g a t i o n s .

Robert Smuiling, S t e t e D i r e c t o r f o r I l l i n o i s , is r a p i d l y cover ing each of t h e coun t i e s i n t h e "Land of Lincoln." He is proud t o announce t h a t Laurence P. Rybak, 3020 - 71st S t . , ' hodr idge , Ill., 60515, has been appointed t o t h e p o s i t i o n of S t a t e -Sec t ion D i r e c t o r f o r DuPage and Kane count ies . Larry i s t h e Vice-pres ident o f t h e A r t Eye Company.

Missour i l e d t h e new F i e l d I n v e s t i g a t o r s parade t h i s month, fol low- ed by I l l i n o i s , Iowa and C a l i f o r n i a .

Ted P h i l l i p s , through l e c t u r e s and r a d i o b roadcas t s i n Kansas Ci ty Mo., ha s c r e a t e d some very f a v o r a b l e p u b l i c i t y f o r MUFON, a s evidenced by inc reased s u b s c r i p t i o n s t o SKYLOOK. We a r e ve ry anxious t o develop an organized i n v e s t i g a t i v e grou i n Kansas C i t y ; t h e r e f o r e , i n t e r e s t e d persons a r e i n v i t e d t o con tac t $hornas H. Nichol l , 9935 High Drive, Lea- wood, Kansas 61206, t e lephone AC 913 642-9320, o r h i s bus iness AC 816 753-7343.

Walt Andrus D i r e c t o r , MWON ......................................................................

Re: B e l l v i l l e UFO S i i n g on Page 12: We now have a d e t a i l e d r e p o r t -from W . J. Mills, MU f i e l d i n v e s t i g a t o r , who interviewed t h e ob- s e r v e r s and b e l i e v e s them t o be r e l i a b l e wi tnesses . A 1 1 agreed t h e s i z e o f t h e o b j e c t a t t h e i r c l o s e s t po in t of obse rva t ion was 50-60 f e e t i n diameter . There is an unconfirmed r e p o r t t h e S c o t t AFB had t h e o b j e c t on r a d a r . Sor ry space doesn ' t permit use of N r . Millsy f u l l r epo r t .

90-Minute Documentary Film on UFOeto be Shown i n S t . Louis, Oct. 15

A r a r e t r e a t i s i n s t o r e f o r ereryone i n t e r e s t e d i n UFOs, a s t h e UFO Study Group of Gree t e r S t . Louis , Inc . i s pleased t o announce t h e 90-minute Documentary Fi lm "Unident i f ied F ly ing Objects" w i l l b e shown f r e e of charge on Sunday, Oct. 1 5 a t t h e Lemay Bank meeting room a t 152 Lemay F e r r y Road, Lemay, Mo.

Three showings a r e scheduled--2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.--so everyone w i l l have a chance t o s e e t h i s documentary first r e l e a s e d i n 1956. It has never been shown on TV. It covers t h e e a r l y UFO e r a from 1948 t o 1952, i n c l u d e s f i l m c l i p s of UFO "unknownsn, UFO/radar ca ses , and o t h e r well-known c a s e s t h a t have made UFO h i s t o r y .

It w i l l be followed by a f i l m c r i t i q u e by John F. S c h u e s s l e r , D i - r e c t o r of t h e UFO Study Group.

You need no t be a member of t h i s group t o a t t e n d t h e f i l m . A warm welcome is extended t o anyone i n t e r e s t e d t o t a k e advantage of t h i s oppor tun i ty t o s e e t h i s unusua l f i l m .

D i r e c t i o n s : From n o r t h S t . Louie t a k e I n t e r s t a t e 55 s o u t h t o Germania e x i t , t u r n l e f t t o Lemay Fe r ry Road. From s o u t h of S t . Louie t a k e I n t e r s t a t e 55 n o r t h t o Carondelet Blvd. e x l t , t u r n r i g h t t o Lemay Pe r ry Road.

..................................................................... Could This Be Another "Snippy"?

Mrs. E r i c Bluhm, an a r t i s t and j o u r n a l i s t , of F t . Wayne, Ind. , is quick t o no te t h e unusual a s a r e s u l t of h e r t r a i n i n g , and we have t h i s r e p o r t which could be ano the r Snippy case.

M r . and Mrs. Bluhm were vaca t ion ing i n t h e west i n August, t h i s year , and on Sunday, t h e 1 3 t h were en an a l l day jeep t r i p wi th o the r8 i n Canyon de Chel ly . The i r guide was a Navajo Ind ian named Johnny. On t h e way up t o t h e end of Ganyon de Muerte, where t h e y were t o have a box lunch , t h e y saw a dead donkey l y i n g i n t h e sand. Mrs. Blumn a t once no t i ced t h e exac t s t r i p 8 o r 9 inches wide, c u t from t h e donkey's neck about where P hor se c o l i a r would r e s t . The s t r i p was a s even a s i f it had been c u t by a b u t c h e r a n d l j f t e d from t h e neck. No one e l s e seemed t o f i n d t h i s odd , b u t M r s . B l u h m immediately thought of "Snippy" and w i t h good reason. The donkey was b l o a t e d but Mrs. B l u h m could not ven tu re a guess a s t o how long i t had been dead.

During t h e lunch break she asked Johnny about t h e donkey. He shrugged and s a i d perhaps t h e a n i n a l had caught i t s e l f on some barbed wi re - - th i s i n s p i t e of t h e f a c t M r . Bluhm had seen no barbed wire i n t h e e n t i r e a rea . She asked Johnny i f he had eve r aeen any UFOs and he s a i d he had seen " s i l v e r round th ings" sometimes f l y i n g above him when he was down i n t h e canyons. Asked what he thought they were "he merely shrugged aga in i n t y p i c a l I n d i a n f a s h i o n n and s a i d no more. A woman i n t h e p a r t y t o l d Mrs.Bluhm l a t e r t h a t Johnny's mother had r epo r t ed s e e i n g UFOs over . t h e canyons a t l e a s t twice t h a t she knew of .

A l l t h e farms i n t h e canyon a r e a were I n d i a n farms and lulrs. Bluhm s a y s t h e i r ho r se s a r e w e l l groomed and t h e sheep w e l l tended. A l l seem . t o c a r e f o r t h e i r farm animals and t r e a t them k i n d l y , and she cannot imagine one of t h e Ind ians c u t t i n g t h e donkey. She saw a few wi re f ences , bu t none wi th barba.

We a r e s u r e our r e a d e r s a r e a11 f a m i l e r w i t h t h e "Snippyw c a s e , s o no need t o make a l l t h e obvious comparisons.

Thank you, Mrs. B., f o r a most i n t e r e s t i n g r e p o r t . We'l l keep i n touch.

Now Hear This1 A Newspaper ASKS f o r UFO Reports - Reporter Says People

Are I n t e r e s t e d i n UFOs - DALLAS TIMES HERALD Wants h e l i a b l e Reports

I n a l e t t e r t o Ye Ed from B i l l Case, Aviat ion Wri te r f o r t h e Da l l a s Times Herald, M r . Case p o i n t s ou t t h a t UFO i n v e s t i g a t o r s f r e q u e n t l y mention t h a t t h e me t ropo l i t an p r e s s does n o t pub l i sh UFO s i g h t i n g s .

"This i s n ' t q u i t e accura te , " Case cont inues . "The Times Herald has publ ished every UFO r e p o r t we have rece ived and cross-checked them wi th a u t h o r i t i e s . We c e r t a i n l y do no t 'shy away' from them o r a t tempt t o d i s c r e d i t them o r t h e repor te rs . "

Came says t h e y haven ' t rece ived any UFO r e p o r t s f o r more t h a n two y e a r s and a check wi th t h e Da l l a s P o l i c e Department, Da l l a s County S h e r i f f ' s o f f i c e and t h e Highway P a t r o l and Texas Rangers shows none have been r ece ived by them e i t h e r .

"The pub l i c is s i n c e r e l y i n t e r e s t e d i n UFOs and any news o f t h e i r s i g h t i n g s o r r e l a t e d i n c i d e n t s . And t h e p r e s s i s j u s t a s i n t e r e s t e d i n r e c e i v i n g r e l i a b l e r e p o r t s from q u a l i f i e d r e p o r t e r s and observer^,^ Case wr i t e s .

"We b e l i e v e t h e r e a r e UFO s i g h t i n g s i n t h e Da l l a s - North 'l'exas a r e a b u t t h e people making t h e s i g h t i n g s a r e r e l u c t a n t t o adv i se us because of a f e a r of r i d i c u l e . A s a ve t e r an r e p o r t e r c o v t r i n g av i a - t i o n , s c i e n c e and aerospace p l u s medicine f o r 30 yea r s , we have no d e s i r e t o r i d i c u l e anyone. We would, however, l i k e t o t a l k d i r e c t l y t o them i n o rde r t o r e p o r t t h e i r s i g h t i n g co r r ec t ly . "

P i . Case sugges t s t h a t SKYLOOK, i f we t h i n k it newsworthy, inform our r e a d e r s t h e D a l l a s Times Herald i s looking f o r UFO r e p o r t s , w i l l r e p o r t them a s a c c u r a t e l y a s p o s s i b l e and p r o t e c t t h e i d e n t i t y of t h e r e p o r t i n g source i f they s o wish. Well, we c e r t a i n l y DO cons ide r it "newsworthyw and we're g l a d t o spread t h e word.

M r . Case would l i k e t o hea r from a l l our r e p o r t e r s i n t h e Da l l a s a r e a and a sks t h a t t h e y c o n t a c t him personal ly--by mai l , phone o r pe r sona l v i s i t - - any t ime of t h e day o r n igh t . And h e r e ' s how:--by phone--Bill Case, Aviat ion k r i t e r , D a l l a s l imes Herald , D a l l a s , Texas, D i r e c t Centrex r i v a t e line--Area Code 214 744-6264. By mai l - -Bi l l Case, Avia t ion i r i t e r , Da l l a s Times Herald , P. 0. Box 5445, Da l l a s , Texas, 75202. A t home--Bill Case, 2920 Mil ton Ave., b a l l a s , Texas, 75205. Phone Area code 214 EM 3-0569.

Dome-Shaped Object May Have Been Blimp

Mr. Case ( s e e a r t i c l e above) o i n t s out t h e dome-shaped o b j e c t seen by Miss "Smith" ( s e e Sept . ~ K Y L O O K , page 1 4 ) may have been t h e Goodyear blimp "America." Case w r i t e s : "I a l s o t r a v e l e d t h i s r o u t e a t t h e same t ime on t h e same day. J u s t n o r t h of t h e s t a t e l i n e I saw t h e Goodyear bl imp *Americat o f f t o t h e west ebout 1/2 mile."

The blimp has 2,200 i n d i v i d u a l l i g h t s on i t s s i d e and f o r s a f e t y reasons l i g h t s a number of t h e s e i n r e d , b lue and yellow i n a d d i t i o n t o i t s r e g u l a r r o t a t i n g beacon and running l i g h t s . The blimp fo l lows highways on which i t s gfound crew t r a v e l s i n accompanying t r u c k s e t c and could appear t o be fol lowing" someone.

Case adds t h a t t h e two r a d i a l a i r c r a f t engines on t h e blimp a r e s m a l l and even under nquiet ' l c i rcumstances do not make much no i se and ve ry l i t t l e sound would reach t h e ground, e s p e c i a l l y on a windy day. The "American has o f t en been mis takenly r epo r t ed a s a UFO whi l e t r a v e l i n g c r o s s country t o make s p e c i a l a p earances a t f a i r s , f e s t i v a l s and c e n t e n n i a l s i n a d d i t i o n t o i t s a e r i a l ?Y coverage of major s p o r t i n g events .

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Several Witnesses Sea Law Flying UFO Over Nm Hampshire - Ray Fowler, Investigator

On t he night of May 13, 1972 &.D;lohn Smithn' sa id goodnight t o Ma two sons, Don and Ron, and t h e i r frierxls, Bob and B i l l and went inalde the Smith horn on Holly H i l l a t Canterburg. N. H. It was 9:50 p.m. E.D.T. The boys were going to 'sleep outB In a partial ly-conatructed chicken coop.

In less than 10 minutes the four frightened lads rushed indoors t o t e l l ttm Smiths they had seen a atrange-shaped buaaing object with a f i e r y exhaust which apprcached tbe chicken coop shining a br ight Hght . The object had four s t ru t - Like legs with round pads, rectar,@lar protrusions and s i l v e r cable-like protrusions on top and was the shape of a decahedron. L Webster defines t h i s as -a so l id f igure with KJ plane surfaces." Ye Ed had t o look t h i s up and thought some of you ndght too.7

The Smitha l e f t t h e i r TV program ( there had been no interference) t o go outside j u s t i n time to see and hear something f ly ing over a nearby mamp. They thought it must be a helioopter a l tho it did not look l i ke one. The boys mere adamant that it was not a helicopter, so Mr. Smith asparated the two older boys and asked them t o draw a rough s k e b h of what they had seen. He was surprised t o see both drawings were consistent and of an unconventional c ra f t . He then reported the incident t o the USAF Tracking Stat ion a t New Boston, N.H., and one of the emplopem contacted a UFO investigator, an associate of b y Fouler, who conducted a t e b - phone interview with M r . Sllith and then contacted Mr. F w b r .

I n the course of h i s investigation, Mr. Fowler checked with the USAF Tracking S ta t ion and learned nothing had been seen on t h e i r radar screen a t t he time of the sighting, and also tha t t he i r radars track s a t e l l i t e s and would not pick up anything a t the lar a l t i t u d e of the reported object.

A check was made with the FAA A i r Traff ic Control Center a t Nashua; t he FAA A i r Traff ic Control Tower a t Manchester Airport; t he FAA Concord Flight Service; Uiggms Airways a t Norvood, Mass.; the EAF P.I.O. a t Hanscom Field, Bedfold and a t Pease AFB and the A i r National h a r d . Replies indicated nothing unusual was seen on radar and no f l i g h t s were logged i n the v i c in i ty of Holly H i l l a t tb time of the sighting. (Holly H i l l and the names of witnesses a r e a s m d namss --real names on f i b . )

Mr. Fcwler a l so phoned th s Cantorbu1-J Police Department t o see if anyone elso had reported a UFO on the 13th of May and was told no one had. The Police Chief gave Mr. Smlth a good character ra t ing a s a good c i t i zen and a personal friend.

Mr. Fowler mde an appointment t o interview the witnesses a t t he Smith horn the evening of %y 2bth. During the telephone conversation, he asked if the boys had access t o UFO l i t e r a t u r e o r had shown in t e re s t i n UFOs and was told they had not.

A t the interviews held a t the Smith home addi t ional d e t a i l s r e the s ight ing were laarned. J u s t before ilr. Srq~1.h had Wt the boys at tho chicken coop, lo- cated beside a barn and open t o a large f i e l d on t o the west, the boys asked him what the very bright star was which they cal led "the North Starn but he was not a b h t o iden t i fy it. Then ten minutes l a t e r , one of the boys, vho was st i l l looking at the so-called "North S ta rn (actual ly Venus) shouted t o t he others t h a t v e r e were now two north s t a r s out there and one was heading toward them.

The other boy8 s a t up and looked up t o see a very bright l i g h t source descend- ing slowly toward the f i e l d f r o m the WNW. They heard a sound coming i r o m it and jump ed out of t h e i r sleeping bags and onto the edge of the f i e l d outside t o see what they thought was a helicopter coming down. h e had his fa ther ' s sealed- beam f lash l igh t w i t h him and aimed it a t the object a s it continued t o corn closer. The the object did samething which seemed very strange t o tnem. It suddenly and ye t very smoothly, " l ike n Palline, f loat ing balloonn, descended in a strange naideuays zig-zagn manner. The object abruptly slowed t o a near s t a n l s t i l l when Don actual ly got the beam of the flashlight on the object a s it

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mcved almost d i r e c t l y over them. It was j u s t i n those h s t feu seconds t h a t they saw the ob jec t was ne i the r he l i cop te r o r normal a i r c r a f t and the s i g h t of " i t 0

s e n t them a l l scurry ing up t h e d l r t road t o t h e house. The boys described the ob jec t a s decahedron i n shape and f l y i n g nth its fo r -

ward moving s i d e t i l t e d a t a b5 degree angle. It had b "pole-liken legs wl th "round padst1 a f f i r e d t o the end of each leg. A b r i z h t white l i g h t m t h e for- ward moving, o r f ron t , s i d e seemed t o t w n on them and lit up the coop and the su r round~ng a rea . A s it passed nea r ly d i r e c t l y over and by them, a f l a s h i n g red l i g h t * l i k e t h e color of a heat-lamp used t o keep a chicken coop warm" was on t h e o b j e c t ' s t r a i l i n g s ide . A f i e r y 10-foot long exhaust poured down from t h e ob- j e c t ' s underside which a l t e r n a t e l y "changed c o l o r s a s if they were switched from one t o another." Colors rememered were purple, blue, orange, red and white. The ob jec t made a loud "grinding sound.11 When asked t o compare this sound wl th something comon, they a l l agreed t h a t tne c l o s e s t sound would have Peen a It loud buzzing sound."

A l l t he boys noticed t h a t the re were a number of b r igh t s i l v e r inver ted U- shaped mcable-likel ' t h ings s t i c k i n g i n t o tne t o p and around t h e t o p of t h e o b j e c t i n a mass " l i k e hair" except t h e round cable- l lke wires were e s t i m t e d t o bs IrN In diameter. Only Bob caught a glimpse of " su i t casesn ( rec tangular box-like pro t rus ions) a f f ixed t o t h e s i d e s of t h e objec t . No a i r movement, hea t o r smell were noticed. The ob jec t was c l e a r l y seen and i l luminated by the l i g h t s and colored exhaust. The su r face of t h e o b j e c t appeared t o be a "s i lver ish- redn and t h e pads on each l e g seemed t o be colored an "orangish-red.n

The ob jec t appeared t o be 150 f e e t overhead as it passed almost over them. Its s i z e was e s t i m t e d t o be between one-two c a r lengths wide and one-two c a r lengths ( c a r s s tanding on end) t a l l . A Dachsund s l e p t undisturbed Ln the coop bu t t h e i r c a t "took off l i k e a bullet1' during t h e s ight lng .

Phe Smiths c m f i n d they had reached outs ide j u s t i n time t o see a slw- moving white and red f l a sh ing l i e h t noving away and low over a swamp ac ross the road from t h e i r house. A sound, somewhat l i k e a j e t bu t no t l i k e a p rope l l e r of an a i r p l a n e o r he l i cop te r , came from t h e d i r e c t i o n of t h e receding objec t . It8 o u t l i n e was not seen by e i t h e r of t h e adult.. The boys, who d id not want t o go back ou t s ide t o s leep, i n s i s t e d t h e ab jec t was not a h e l i c o p t e r ( a s Mr. Smith suggested t o the=) and it was then he asked Don and Bob, t h e o l d e s t boys, t o draw a ske tch of what they had seen. This, coupled w i t h t h e un famihar noise and the l i g h t s he had seen, prompted b. Smith t o phone t h e Tracking b tn t ion .

Mr. Fowler checked wi th o the r s l i v ing i n the a rea t 3 s e e i f anyone e l s e had seen o r heard a w t h i n g unusual. One couple couldn ' t r e c a l l i f they had been a t horn t h a t night; another was out of the s t a t e a t t he time. One man s a i d he was outs ide a t t he t i m but hadn't seen o r heard anything unusual, but probably would have paid no a t t e n t i o n t o a plane o r he l i cop te r going over. He d i d remember t h a t h i s wife had come ou t t o complain about some except ional ly bad W i n t e r - fe rence j u s t before 10 P.M.

A mra. 'Xn s a i d t h a t sometime between 9 and 10 P.H. she heard a very loud je t engine and opened the bathroom window t o see what i t was, but saw nothing. It seemed unusual because i t suddenly d ied from a loud r o a r t o nothing and d i d n o t g radua l ly f ade away a s j e t a i r c r a f t u sua l ly do.

A Mr. "Jones" s a i d t h a t he heard a loud r o a r l i k e a low-flying t h r o t t l e d - back j e t o r prop bomber makes s h o r t l y be fo re 10 P.X. and stepped ou t s ide t o see what it was. He saw low-flying slow-moving l i g h t s but d i d not s e e what ms carry ing them. Hir i n t e r p r e t a t i o n was t h a t it was one of t h e b-engine bombers t h a t had been f l y i n g over l a t e l y with a landing Light on i ts nose and yellowish l i g h t s shining downward from i t s o p n bomb-bay. He had probably seen the b- engine turbo-prop Air Search and Rescue a i r c r a f t f l y i n g a search mission f o r a missing p r iva te a i r c r a f t . Fowler learned t h e search hsd been c a l l e d off 13ag 13th.

Another man ques t imed s t a t e d t h a t sometime a f t e r dark on the U t h of May he had noticed one red l i ~ h t flowlng over t h e power l i n e s i n about due north d i r ec t ion .

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He thought i t was a hellcopter and thought no more about it u n t i l Ur. Smith to ld him about the sighting of the 13th.

Two young women said they were watching a movie a t a drive-in theatre and both saw a strange horizontal s e t of l i t t l e square l igh ts (white) moving north t o south between 9:&5 and 10 P.U. No ident i f icat ion l lghts or actual object/ a i r c r a f t was seen but they both f e l t it looked out-of-the-ordinary.

In checking with the boys' teachers .a t school and with others well ac- quainted w i t h the boys and the i r parents, including a minister who had v is i ted the Smiths t o ask about the sighting, the concensus was t h a t the boys and M r . and Mrs. Smith described what they actual ly saw and would not l i e o r have any par t in perpetrating a hoax. KT. Fowler's personal conclusione, a f t e r the rmny interviews, concurs.

An in te res t ing paragraph in h is s u m t i o n of the case is: "There is a rough s imi la r i ty of the reported UFO t o the Apollo Lunar Module and had I not examined t h i s incident personally, I could easi ly have dismissed the incident a s a case of over-imaginative boys exaggerating as a helicopter flew over and giving it lunar Module descrlpticn. The descri2tion cer ta inly does not f i t the typical oval o r cyl indrical U W usually reported although i t is possible t h a t the object was in actual i ty i n the shape of a top which cer ta in ly has been reported in tne past. They a l l alluded t o an "edge" or "rid' that went around the object. Both a decahedron and top would exhibit such. The multi-colored exhaust and the " f a l l i ng - l edn descent a l so are typical character is t ics of Uns. One can only speculate what such an object was doing. It would appear tha t it was going t o land, perhaps somewhere i n the swamp it, was heading over."

And he concludes, "& evaluation of the Holly H i l l sighting on the Smith property i s tha t it represents a UFO i n the 'Significant Unknown* categorg."

Edi tor ' s Note: This was writ ten from Mr. Fowler's 36-page report of h i s investigation of t h i s most interest ing case. His report i s a model of eme l l en t investigating--had space permitted we w~u ld have used every word. We hope we have mcceeded i n gett ing a l l the sa l i en t f ac t s i n thin condensed version. We cer ta in1 look forward t o more UFJ report8 from k. Fowler, who reside. i n Wenham, k, ssachusettr . K i r k s v i l l e . Mo. Woman R e p o r t s B r i ~ h t S i l v e r UFO

Mrs. Howard E. G r o s s , o f K i r k s v i l l e , Mo., had been t o t h e f a m i l y f a r m a b o u t 14 miles n o r t h w e s t o f K i r s v i l l e and was r e t u r n i n g t o t h e c i t y on Route 149 when s h e s i g h t e d a UFO a t 7:30 P.M. She t o l d p o l i c e s h e was r o u n d i n g a curve on t h e r o a d a b o u t 8 miles f rom K i r k s v i l l e when s h e saw a b r i g h t s i l v e r y l i g h t t h r o u g h t h e trees. C o n t i n u i n g t o d r i v e v e r y s l o w l y , k 5 . Gross watched t h e o b j e c t s h e d e s c r i b e d as a " b r i g h t s i l v e r ba l l . "

"It hovered i n one s p o t and s u d d e n l y bounced t o a n o t h e r , " s h e s a i d . "I saw it i n a b o u t f i v e different l o c a t i o n s b e f o r e it v a n i s h e d from s i g h t . "

I n t e r v i e w e d by Walter H . Andrus, Mrs. C r o s s s a i d t h e o b j e c t a p p e a r - e d i n t h e s o u t h e a s t and was u n d e r o b s e r v a t i o n a b o u t a minu te and a h a l f . She compared t h e s i z e t o t h a t of a c h i l d ' s k i t e . The s k y was o v e r c a s t a t 5 ,000 f e e t , w i t h v i s i b i l i t y a t 11 miles.

S t a t e Highway employees f i e p o r t UFOs On Aug. 26 a n employee of t h e M i s s o u r i h t a t e Highway Department

obse rved a round y e l l o w l i g h t b r a v e l i n g e t a h i g h r a t e of speed f rom w e s t t o e a s t , w e s t o f J e f f e r s o n C i t y . On S e p t . 13 a n o t h e r employee a t S e d a l i a , &lo., r e p o r t e d s e e i n g a round o range l i g h t , much b r i g h t e r and l a r g e r t h a n t h e b r i g h t e s t s t a r , t r a v e l i n g f r o m west t o e a s t . C r e d i t : Ted P h i l l i p s

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Car Died a s "Thingn Neared. Wisconsin Dr ive r Repor ts

Waukesha, Wis.--Greg F a l t e r s a c k , 18, t o l d t h e p o l i c e he was d r i v i n g a long a l o n e l y country road surrounded by m i s t and woods when he saw V h e thing."

He was r e t u r n i n g home on a f a m i l i a r r o u t e t o nearby Sussex a f t e r v i s i t i n g h i s g i r l f r i e n d . It was about 2:30 a.m. on August 21, 1972.

Suddenly t h e e l e c t r i c a l system i n t h e 1963 Plymouth went dead. F a l t e r s a c k braked, skidded n e r r l y 25 f e e t a c r o s s t h e road and h a l t e d on a shoulder .

The n i g h t was hazy, but he had no d i f f i c u l t y s e e i n g what he de- s c r i b e d a s a l a r g e , orange, c i r c u l a r o b j e c t 20 t o 30 f e e t i n d iamete r hover ing a t t r e e - t o p l e v e l .

A f t e r about 10 seconds , he t o l d a u t h o r i t i e s , t h e o b j e c t made a s t r a n g e nbeeping" n o i s e , and took o f f i n t o t h e sky and ou t of view.

F a l t e r s a c k t hen could s t a r t t h e c a r , b u t t h e l i g h t s , horn and r a d i o wouldn't work. He drove home and c a l l e d t h e Waukesha County S h e r i f f ' s o f f i c e .

Two d e p u t i e s ques t ioned F a l t e r s a c k , a r e s t a u r a n t manager who i s p lann ing t o j o i n t h e A i r Force. H i s s i s t e r , Mrs. Lenore Hi ldebrandt , s a i d t h e lawmen were " s e r i o ~ s . ~

The d e p u t i e s found t h a t a l l t h e a u t o f u s e s had been blown and t h a t t h e c a r had become overheated. They found t h e s k i d marks a t t h e scene and noted t h e t r e e s were about 40 f e e t high.

T h e i r r e p o r t de sc r ibed F a l t e r s a c k a s " s tone co ld sober , " and "ex- t remely u p s e t and nervous , unable even t o l i g h t a c i g a r e t t e . "

Sgt . Herman Sprung s a i d , "Fa l t e r sack hadn ' t been d r i n k i n g and we're n o t d i s c o u n t i n g t h i s a s a hoax."

He added t h a t Brown County S h e r i f f ' s d e p u t i e s e a r l i e r t h i s summer r e p o r t e d s i g h t i n g a s i m i l a r o b j e c t .

Sg t . Char les Hughlet t o f t h e S h e r i f f ' s o f f i c e specu la t ed t h a t t h e foggy c o n d i t i o n may have c r e a t e d s t r a n g e r e f l e c t i o n s .

"But I t a l k e d t o F a l t e r s a c k on t h e phone and he was p r e t t y shook up. He c e r t a i n l y saw something," Hughle t t s a i d . Source: wArksnsas Gaze t te , " "Racine J o u r n a l Time" and o t h e r p r e s s r e - . po r t s . C red i t : Lou F a r i s h , John T. Clossey, Galen Hardra th , F r a n c i s J. Reich.

More Repor ts from Wisconsin

The J u l y 29, 1972 i s s u e of t h e "Sheboygan P re s sw r e p o r t e d t h a t u n i d e n t i f i e d f l y i n g o b j e c t s were s i g h t e d i n Shawano, Waupaca, Out- agamie and Brown Count ies of e a s t e r n Wisconsin e a r l y t h a t morning.

A Shawano County o f f i c e r de sc r ibed t h e o b j e c t s i g h t e d t h e r e a s appear ing b r i g h t orange and about t h e s i z e o f a v o l l e y b a l l from a d i s t a n c e of two o r t h r e e mi l e s and a h e i g h t o f 800 f e e t . He s a i d it fol lowed a zig-zag p a t t e r n a c r o s s t h e sky. It was r e p o r t e d s een a t Gresham, Caro l ine and P e l l a i n Shawano County and C l i n t o n v i l l e , Waupaca and Embarrass i n Waupaca County.

A spokesman f o r t h e Nat iona l Weather S e r v i c e o f f i c e i n Milwaukee s a i d t h e d e s c r i p t i o n of t h e o b j e c t "was a g r e a t d e s c r i p t i o n o f a weather b a l l o o n D W b u t he s a i d he d id no t kncw i f one was a l o f t i n t h e a r e a where t h e s i g h t i n g s occurred.

Dale Gaddis, F e d e r a l Aviat ion Adminis t ra t ion c o n t r o l l e r a t Austin- S t r a u b e l F i e l d i n Green Bay s a i d he knew of no weather ba l l oon a l o f t i n t h e a r ea where t h e s i g h t i n g s were made. Cred i t : Leonard W. Sturm and Mark Hal l .

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Richard E. Krause, 33, P o l i c e Chief of Gresham, was in te rv iewed by o u r MUFON r e p r e s e n t a t i v e , Ronald M. Anderson. Chief Krause r ece ived a c a l l from t h e Shawano S h e r i f f s ' Department t h a t a UFO was s i g h t e d sou th of Gresham and he s i g h t e d t h e o b j e c t a t 2:15 a.m. i n a c l e a r sky wi th a few l i g h t c louds . The orange-colored o b j e c t was moving t o t h e southwest and looked " l i k e t h e glow of a c i g a r e t a t night ." He put t h e s p o t l i g h t of h i s c a r on t h e o b j e c t , and it disappeared. It was i n view f o r n e a r l y 45 minutes and he t r i e d t o g e t some p i c t u r e 8 of t h e o b j e c t bu t none tu rned out .

He rece ived a second c a l l a t 3 a.m. and s p o t t e d an o b j e c t coming ou t of t h e n o r t h e a s t . It w s s much b r igh te r - - " l i ke a b r i g h t l i g h t w and he aga in t r i e d t o g e t some p i c t u r e s , bu t f a i l e d . He watched t h e o b j e c t u n t i l 4 a.m. when c louds came i n and i t was l o s t t o view.

Chief Krause a l s o r epo r t ed s e e i n g an u n i d e n t i f i e d b r i g h t l i g h t i n t h e sky moving from t h e s o u t h e a s t t o t h e nor thwest about 2:30 a.m. on June 23 of t h i s year . A f a i n t beam seemed t o come from t h e r e a r of t h e o b j e c t . Krause had h i s German shepherd wi th him and s a i d t h e dog u s u a l l y s i ts i n t h e back of t h e c a r and looks o u t t h e window--but t h i s t ime t h e dog l e y on t h e f l o o r of t h e c a r and whimpered. A s he was d r i v i n g a long t h e road , keeping t h e o b j e c t i n view, he no t i ced f i v e o t h e r dogs, a l l cowering and a c t i n g s t r ange ly .

A woman c a l l e d i n t o r e p o r t s e e i n g t h i s l i g h t a t t r e e t o l e v e l . 8 She s a i d it had a h igh p i t ched tone and was heading toward resham. The mai l p lane ou t o f Green Bay came w i t h i n 50 ya rds of t h e o b j e c t , which t h e n disappeared.

Another s i g h t i n g was mede by c h i e f Krause a t 11 p.m. J u l y 25th. He saw a round b a l l , t h e s i z e of a b a s k e t b a l l ngoing through a wh i t e channeln i n t h e sky n o r t h d Gresham. It was very b r i g h t , and he thought it might be t h e no r the rn l i g h t s ; bu t t h e r e was a nwhi te globn just t o i t s r i g h t and wnen he reached f o r h i s camera, t h e b a l l went i n t o t h e "globn and disappeared. A s t h e b a l l moved through a wh i t e curv ing nchannel" i t was fol lowed by waves of p ink and yellow bands of l i g h t .

Ronald Anderson a l s o obta ined a r e p o r t from Sgt . Dennis Kussman, a t r a f f i c o f f i c e r on du ty t h e morning of J u l y 29th. Sgt . Kussman and two o t h e r o f f i c e r s were working on a r a d a r d e t a i l on Highway 45 between Marion and C l i n t o n v i l l e when t h e y rece ived c a l l s from t h e Shawano County S h e r i f f s ' Uepartment and t h e Waupaca T r a f f i c P o l i c e , s t a t i n g an o b j e c t was be ing observed and ask ing i f t h e y could s e e it.

The t h r e e o f f i c e r s g o t i n t o one c a r and headed nor thwest on 45 toward Tiger ton . About 4 mi les sou th a t t h e i n t e r s e c t i o n of county road "MW and 45, one of t h e o f f i c e r s s p o t t e d an o b j e c t j u s t sbove t h e t r e e s t o t h e e a s t . It was a ve ry b r i g h t l i g h t , ye l lowish i n c o l o r , and he s t a t e d he had never seen anyth ing l i k e i t before . He s a i d t h e c l o s e s t he cduld come t o d e s c r i b i n g i t was t o compare it t o a parachute f l a r e .

The o b j e c t was observed through f i e l d g l a s s e s and no o u t l i n e could be s een a l though s e v e r a l r e d and green l i g h t s were observed behind t h e main l i g h t . l h e y tu rned a s p o t l i g h t on t h e o b j e c t which "went o u t w and s t ayed ou t f i v e minutes o r more, t h e n reappeared. It looked l i k e a very d i s t a n t s t a r , bu t t h e n became very b r i g h t and back t o its o r i g i n a l s i z e and appearance. The s p o t l i g h t was tu rned on t h e o b j e c t a g a i n , and a g a i n it "went o u t n and t h e n reappeared.

It was a t t h i s t ime they r ece ived a c a l l from t h e C l i n t o n v i l l e P o l i c e Department, s t a t i n g t h a t an orange-colored o b j e c t was be ing observed e a s t of t h e c i t y . The o f f i c e r s t a l k e d back and f o r t h and it appeared two d i f f e r e n t o b j e c t s were be ing observed. - M r . Anderson n o t e s t h e r e is a swamp 20 mi les long and 5 mi les wide i n t h e a r e a where t h e o b j e c t s were spo t ted .

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P h y s i c a l Traces - M a t e r i a l Evidence of UFO's? . . . By Ted P h i l l i p s

E d i t o r ' s Note: The Spanish r e p o r t s were s e n t t o M r . P h i l l i p a by Vicente-Juan B a l l e s t e r Olmos, p r e s i d e n t of t h e Committee f o r t h e Study of Un iden t i f i ed F ly ing Objects ," Valencia , Spa in , and they were t r a n s l a t e d by D r . and Mrs. Wil la rd Armstrong, of S t . Louis. Mrs. Armstrong ( C a r o l ) is a member of t h e SKYLOOK s t a f f .

P r o v i s i o n a l Report on t h e I n c i d e n t a t Moron DeLa F ron te ra 11 May 1970, 3 a.m. Manual Osuna r epo r t i ng .

On May 18 we were i n Moron, i n t e rv i ewing t h e , l o c a l group of s t u - d e n t s of t h e UFO phenomenon. Don Luis Camecho l'loreno, d i r e c t o r of "Youth Radio," d e l i v e r e d t o u s a r e p o r t form du ly f i l l e d out.

According t o t h e c o l l e c t e d evidence t h e e v e n t s occurred a s fol lows: Some t e n a n t fa rmers from t h e farm "Rancho d e l Maestro Oliva," s e v e r a l k i l ome te r s from Moron and no t f a r from t h e j o i n t Base, could hea r about t h r e e i n t h e morning t h r e e deafenin? ex- p l o s i o n s , from t h e "Casi la G o r d i l l o D n (name of one of them s i t u a t - ed some 500 meters from t h e p l ace of t h e t r a c e s . On t h e morning of . Monday, May 11, t h e y found i n t h e i r f i e l d s of sunf lowers ( r a i s e d , f o r o i l ) , two s t r a n g e and very complex t r a c k s . The s i g h t of such t r a c k s i n connect ion wi th t h e exp los ions dur ing t h e n i g h t , l e d them t o go t o t h e Headquarters of t h e C i v i l Cuerd. The l i e u t e n a n t i n - spec ted t h e p l ace and decided t h a t it was a m a t t e r of markings caused by e l e c t r i c d i s cha rges from some storm. Thus decided, he ordered t h a t t h e a f f e c t e d p a r t s be plowed up and t h ~ t t h e a f f a i r no t be mentioned again.But t h e fa rmers l a t e r went t o t h e a g r i c u l t u r a l exten- s i o n s e r v i c e , s eek ing some indemnity. The e x p e r t s o f t h e s e r v i c e c a r r i e d o u t a t e c h n i c a l i n s p e c t i o n and took samples of s o i l and of p l a n t s . And a p p a r e n t l y t hey communicated t h e c a s e t o t h e a p p r o p r i a t e Minis t ry . It appears t h a t was t h e way by which t h e p r e s s , r a d i o and t e b v i s i o n i n Madrid found ou t about t h e event. I n consequence some agenc ie s of t h e p r e s s d i spa tched r e p o r t e r s t o t h e place . Up t o Wednesday, May 13, t h e l o c a l UFO s t u d e n t s did n o t come and t h e r e - p o r t e r t r a n s m i t t e d a b r i e f d i s p a t c h t o t h e newspapers i n S e v i l l e . When we had a r r i v e d , t h e a r e a a f f e c t e d had been plowed up; however one sup oses t h a t t h e t r a c k s themselves were i n p a r t respec ted .

!he t r a c e s were composed of t h e fo l lowing elements: 1. Two c e n t r a l h o l e s , 6 cm. i n d iameter and 35 cm. i n dep th , s epa ra t ed between themselves by some 15 cm. 2. F l a t t e n i n g of a c i r c u l a r zone o f 30 cm., surrounding t h e aforementioned holes . 3. Five en t r ances i n t h e ground around t h e f l a t t e n e d a r e a which, un i t ed by a s t r a i g h t l i n e , would form a r e g u l a r pentagon, and whose c i rcumscr ibed c i r c l e would have a diameter o f 1.1 meters. 4. These f i v e e n t r a n c e s i n t h e ground, w i t h an i n c l i n a t i o n o f 30 deg rees , a r e each d iv ided i n two t u n n e l s , a s though produced by a p e r f o r a t i n g ins t rument i n t h e form of a p i t ch - fo rk . 5. A surrounding zone, of some 25 meters d iameter , where t h e s m a l l sunflower p l a n t s a r e found a f f e c t e d by r a d i a l b l a s t s . 6. This surrounding zone extends t o a c i rcumference t angen t t o t h e zone o f ano the r t r a c k i n t o t a l equa l t o t h e first.

Our examination of samples: a ) A p o r t i o n of t h e i n t e r i o r w a l l of one of t h e t unne l s . It resents an a spec t of c o a l . rough and d u l l on t h e o u t s i d e , and b r i l l i a n t and po l i shed w i t h i n D e w h i c 6 perhaps could no t correspond t o t h e m e t a l l i c na tu re of t h e forked o b j e c t which made t h e h o l e , and where w i th a magnifying g l a s s , can be ob- se rved g r a n u l e s o f m e t a l l i c sheen, which would r e v e a l t h e c l a s s of meta l of t h e forked ob jec t . b ) Two p l a n t s examined, of some 1 0 cm.

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i n h e i g h t , can be observed i n a g e n e r a l way: Roots i n t a c t ; l eaves , somewhat f l e shy , .g reen , r e t a i n i n g t h e i r t r u e form; stem n a t u r a l l y c y l i n d r i c a l , laminated and w i t h t h e c o l o r which it acqu i re s when t h e p l a n t has reached f u l l matur i ty . c ) They t e l l u s t h a t some of t h e a f f e c t e d p l a n t s had bloomed, i n d i c a t i n g a poss ib l e a c c e l e r a t i o n of t h e normal b i o l o g i c a l Drocesa. d ) They a s s u r e u s t h a t a f t e r t h e a f f e c t e d zones had.been plowed, new concen t r i c rings, and always i n r a d i a t i n g l i n e s , of p l a n t s continued slowly showing i d e n t i c a l sympt- oms of a moribund na ture .

By va r ious ways samples were s e n t t o c e n t e r s f o r s tudy i n S e v i l l e . For our p a r t we began endeavors t o secure f o r ourse lves a r e l i a b l e s c i e n t i f i c examination of t h e s e d i f f e r e n t samples which we have he ld i n our hands. Note: A second a r t i c l e t r a n s l a t e d by t h e Armstrongs "The Mystery o f t h e Baked E a r t h a t Moronw (CAMPO, S e v i l l a , No. 338, May 1970) reviews t h e case and inc ludes an in t e rv iew w i t h Don Juan Pomares, Chief Engineer of t h e Bureau of Agronomy. We quote h i s f i n a l conclusions:

W 1 . We d i s c a r d t h e p o s s i b i l i t y t h a t t h e i n j u r i e s of t h e p l a n t s might have been from a s i ckness c h a r a c t e r i s t i c of them.

"2. The damages caused have been from e x t e r i o r e f f e c t s which were produced i n a f o r t u i t o u s and i s o l a t e d manner on May 11, more damages . no t having been produced s i n c e t h e s a i d day i n which were discovered t h e t r a c k s and t h e i n j u r e d p lan ts . .Nor w i l l t h e d i s o r d e r cont inue being extended through any o t h e r p a r t of t h e s e c t o r .

"3. Everything t h a t happened a t t h e Rancho d e l Maestro Oliva is n o t u s u a l i n a g r i c u l t u r e . Nor do we b e l i e v e t h a t t h e r e might be another s i m i l a r case. For had t h e r e been some a g r i c u l t u r a l d i s e a s e , it would have spread and would have been discovered.

"4. If t h i s phenomenon had been a d i s e a s e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c of t h e p l a n t s , t h e t e c h n i c i a n s of t h e Agronomy Bureau would have continued t h e inves t iga t ions ." ..................................................................... Orange UFO Sighted i n Chicam Suburbs

Chicago Dai ly News, Aug. 11, 1972 - A foo tba l l - shaped o b j e c t t h a t glowed orange and hovered over t h e ground was s igh ted by moto r i s t s e a r l y today i n t h e a r e a s of Bensenvi l le , Lombard and Oak Brook.

S t a t e Po l i ce i n E l g i n , t h e DuPage County s h e r i f f ' s o f f i c e and su- burban p o l i c e departments r epor t ed r e c e i v i n g te lephone c a l l s concern- i n g the - s t r a n g e s i g h t .

Onecal ler s a i d he was d r i v i n g i n Ill. Hwy. 83 near I r v i n g Park Road i n Bensenvi l le when he saw t h e s t r ange objec t . "It was shaped l i k e a f o o t b a l l and had a r i m around it." he s a i d . "It was about 50 f e e t long and w i n d ~ w l e s s . ~ He s a i d i t continued t o p u l s a t e c o l o r s , first a b r i g h t orange, t hen l i g h t e r orange, t h e n gray and t h e n b r i g h t orange again.

The moto r i s t s a i d t h e o b j e c t was only 60 f e e t o f f t h e ground and about 200 f e e t away from him. Af te r ebout 15 seconds, he s a i d , it f lew over h i s c a r and disappeared. He added t h a t when it moved it made no no i se and l e f t no smoke.

Other moto r i s t s i n t h e v i c i n i t y g o t ou t of t h e i r c a r s t o look a t - t h e o b j e c t , t h e motor i s t s a i d . The s i g h t i n g s a l l seem t o have occurred between 5:30 and 6 a.m. Credi t : Thomas h. Mil le r .

A s p e c i a l Welcome t o a l l our new reade r s from t h e Kansas c i t y , Mo.-Kens. area. And do send us your UFO r e p o r t s . Ye Ed.

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August 7: The wi tnes s found a r i n g i n which p l a n t s had d i e d over n i g h t on h e r farm n e a r L ibe r ty . The r i n g , an almost p e r f e c t c i r c l e 7 t o 8 f e e t i n d iameter , was coated w i t h a dark o i l y subs t ance which became a blue-white powder when heated by t h e sun. A sample of t h e powder is being ana lysed , and r e s u l t s should be a v a i l a b l e i n t h e ve ry nea r f u t u r e . A s of t h i s w r i t i n g , no UFO was r e p o r t e d a t t h e s i t e .

August 26: Mrs. T. S. and a companion observed a l a r g e , b r i g h t r e d o b j e c t hover1 i n t h e wes te rn sky about 30 degrees above t h e hor izon a t 10:30 p.m.?he women went indoors and when t h e y looked a g a i n a t 11 p.m., t h e o b j e c t had d i s a peered. Mrs. S. s t a t e d t h e o b j e c t appear- ad l a r g e r and b r i g h t e r t han genus. It d i d n o t pu lsa te .

August 27: T. D . , a r e s i d e n t of S e d a U a , r e p o r t e d s e e i n g a b r i g h t ye l low sphere moving from e a s t t o west a t a very slow r a t e of speed ebout 1:30 t o 2:00 a.m. The w i t n e s s he ld a q u a r t e r a t arms l e n g t h t o determine t h e o b j e c t ' s d iameter . It would have had an apparen t d iameter a t l e a s t 10 t imes t h a t of Venus. The o b j e c t was observed f o r 10 minutes and no sound was heard and no o t h e r l i g h t s seen. The wi tnes s is fam- i l i a r w i t h va r ious t y p e s of a i r c r a f t and i s s u r e t h a t he would have heard sound had t h e o b j e c t been one.After about 1 0 minutes t h e c o l o r changed t o da rk red and t h e o b j e c t gained speed, d i s appea r ing i n l e s s t h a n 30 seconds. Another w i t n e s s , who may have observed t h e same o b j e c t , r e p o r t e d t h e obse rva t ion o f a b r i g h t yellow sphere a t about 1:30 a.m. from a po in t s i x mi les nor thwest o f Mr. D. The o b j e c t was moving slowly.

August 28: Lar ry Yoder, of Moberly, some 60 miles n o r t h e a s t of S e d a l i a , r e p o r t e d a round yellow-orange o b j e c t was s een moving west t o e a s t a t a low speed a t about 1:35 a.m. At was observed f o r a minute and a h a l f a t an es t imeted a l t i t u d e o f 8,000-10,000 f e e t . ' lhe l i g h t was p u l s a t i n g , bu t no sound was heard. The o b j e c t changed course t o a wide t u r n t o t h e sou theas t . The sky was c l e a r , moon and s t a r s v i s i b l e .

August 22: Mr. b. H. observed a round o b j e c t a s it passed over h i s farm home a t about 10 p.m. There was no sound and t h e o b j e c t passed from west t o e a s t a t a f a i r l y h igh speed. The w i t n e s s could s e e a d e f i n i t e round shape wi th a r i n g of l i g h t s underneath around t h e o u t e r edge. A l a r g e r yellow c i r c u l a r l i g h t was l o c a t e d a t t h e cen te r . The fo l lowing Sunday whi le a t church,a neighbor mentioned t h a t he had seen a n unusual o b j e c t pass ing s i l e n t l y through t h e sky. It was then determined t h a t t h e y had indeed seen t h e same o b j e c t , through sepa ra t ed by almost a mile. Both were amazed a t t h e l a c k of sound from such a low f l y i n g ob jec t . The s i g h t i n g s l a s t e d about 2 minutes, w i th t h r e e known observers . E d i t o r ' s Note: The August 3 1 e d i t i o n o f "The Seda l i a Capi to l" c a r r i e d a r e p o r t of t h e S e d a l i a s i g h t i n g s , a s r e p o r t e d by M r . P h i l l i p s , and added t h e Whiteman AFB n e a r S e d a l i a s a i d t h e base has no exp lana t ion f o r t h e s i g h t i n g s . The A i r Force p r e s e n t l y is conduct ing e l e c t r o n i c t e s t s over missile s i l o s i n which h e l i c o p t e r s a r e used, bu t t h e t e s t s a r e n o t adminis te red a t n i g h t . Also, t h e spokesman s a i d , t h e h e l l c o p t e r e f l y a t a maximum of on ly about 400 f e e t and a r e "qu i t e noisy.n He added t h a t weather ba l loons a r e n o t used a t t h e base.

Another ~ e p o r t 'from Moberly. Mo,

Between 2-3 a.m. August 27, M r s . wX1' was heading e a s t on highway 24, west o f C l i f t o n H i l l , Mo. A s s h e was on an overpass i n h e r c a r , s h e saw a l a r g e , b r i g h t , whi te sphe re hover ing i n t h e sky t o t h e e a s t , w i t h a s m e l l e r o b j e c t w i t h two red l i g h t s and two wh i t e l i g h t s beheath. Cred i t : Larry Yoder.

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Beckemeyer Couple See F i r e b a l l M r . and Mrs. Edward Alba t , o f Becke- meyer. Ill.. saw a b r i l l i a n t , orange f i r e b a l l f a l l f r o m t h e sky on t h e n i g h t of August 2nd. Mrs; ~ l b a t first saw t h e o b j e c t from a west window and s a i d it appeared t o wmushroom" be fo re d i sappea r ing below t h e t r e e l i n e . ( C r e d i t : Rose t t a Holmes) Nebraska S i g h t i n g Reca l led George Sza tko , of S t . Pau l , Nebraska, was T i s h i n g from a long b r i d g e c o r s s i n g t h e Loup r i v e r 5 mi l e s n o r t h of t h e e a s t edge of Palmer, Nebr., about midnight i n A p r i l o r May of 1967. It was a calm, moonli t n i g h t and he suddenly no t i ced a "black cloudn moving r a p i d l y and low down t h e r i v e r course . He desc r ibed t h e cloud a s a long , f l a t t e n e d o v a l , l i k e a German l o a f of bread. It passed d i - r e c t l y overhead and made a low "whining, h i s s i n g , r o a r i n g , w h i s t l i n g sound." It d isappeared i n t o t h e e a s t , a n g l i n g s l i g h t l y toward t h e south. No d e t a i l s of t h e "cloudn could be observed, and t h e r e were no l i g h t s . Szatko had l e f t t h e c a r eng ine running t o recharge t h e b a t t e r y a f t e r u s ing t h e t r u n k l i g h t i n h i s f i s h i n g , and a f t e r t h e o b j e c t passed overhead, he no t i ced t h e engine was n o t running. He is n o t s u r e i f he had tu rned it o f f and f o r g o t t e n i n t h e excitement of observing t h e ob jec t - -or i f t h e engine d ied when t h e o b j e c t passed overhead.

Eldon 8. Ervin , o f Grand I s l a n d , Nebr., who in te rv iewed M r . Szatko, a t a t e s t h e obse rve r gave a s t r a i g h t forward account of what he had seen and he h a s no doubt of h i s s i n c e r i t y . Couple Follows Glowinn Object Miss. ~ a r e h Buck and Rick F o r r l e r were w a i t i n n f o r a t r a f f i c s i g n a l t o change a t t h e i n t e r s e c t i o n of Lemav - Fer ry and Baylesa roads , Sunday, A U ~ , 6 a t 10:lO P.M. when t h e y ob- se rved a l a r g e white-yellow glowing o b j e c t hover ing overhead. Af t e r a moment t h e o b j e c t s p l i t i n t o two s e p a r a t e o b j e c t s and one moved t o t h e n o r t h e a s t and t h e o t h e r t o t h e nor th . S ince t h e young couple were heading i n t o S t . Louis on Lemay ( n o r t h e a s t ) t h e y kep t t h a t ob- j e c t under observa t ion . A t t h e Monsanto P l a n t on Germania, just west of Lemay ( M i s s o u r i ) , t h e o b j e c t c i r c l e d t h e smoke s t a c k and t h e n headed wes t , a t which po in t t h e young people gave up t h e chase.

A t t h e t ime t h e o b j e c t s p l i t i n t o two p a r t s , it a l s o changed c o l o r t o a b r i g h t r e d orange on t h e bottom and a glowing whi te on t h e top. The width of t h e o b j e c t was compared t o t h e t h a t of t h e smokestack, and i t s shape was t h e f a m i l a r s a u c e r shape. The Monsanto smoke s t a c k is 15 f e e t i n diameter. ( C r e d i t : B i l l C h r i s t i a n ) UFO S i ~ h t e d i n B e l l e v i l l e . Ill. Area According t o r e p o r t s i n t h e B e l l e v i l l e Ill. "News Democratw andwMetro Eas t Jou rna lw on August 1, 1972, a U F ~ was s i g h t e d by f o u r people i n t h e b e l l e v i l l e a r e a a t 9:45 p.m. J u l y 3 l s t . John Rosenkranz of 1718 L a u r e t t e Lane, B e l l e v i l l e , t o l d deputy s h e r i f f s t h a t he and h i s son and daughter-in-law, M r . and Mrs. Lloyd Rosenkranz, and ano the r son , Danny, were d r i v i n g a t North 59th S t r e e t and North b e l t west when they saw a l i g h t e d saucer - shaped o b j e c t about 300 f e e t o f f t h e ground and t h e y watched it f o r t h r e e o r f o u r minutes a s it disappeared toward Eas t S t . Louis. Rosen- kranz s a i d t h e UFO was shaped l i k e a s a u c e r and had l i g h t s i n t h e middle which f l a s h e d o f f and on. The 06 e c t was e l low and had l a r g e square windows i n t h e bottom. he s a id . !Credit: ; a l t e r H. Andrus) UFO Over Ashland. Kentuc

M r . "Smithx and h i s 1 , of Ft . Wayne, Ind iana , were i n Ashland, Ky., March 4, 1972 and watched an u n i d e n t i f i e d f l y i n g o b j e c t f o r about 15 minutes. It was a calm, c l e a r evening, and t h e y saw t h e l i g h t o f about t h e same magnitude of b r i g h t n e s s a s Venus moving from west t o e a s t on a n e a r l y h o r i z o n t a l course. A t one p o i n t , t h e l i g h t y u s e d , t hen went on and was l o s t t o view behind a h i l l and roof top. t was es t imated t o be about 12 miles d i s t a n t a s it was seen t o move

behind power l i n e s once. P i c t u r e s t aken wi th a Pentax cemera a r e be ing s t u d i e d . Cred i t : Frank H. Inderwiesen)

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I N OTHERS' WFLDS . . A Review o f t h e Newsstands . . By Luc ius F a r i s h

The v a r i o u s weekly t a b l o i d p a p e r s c o n t i n u e t o be good s o u r c e s o f UFO i n f o r m a t i o n , ever, i f some o f t h e m a t e r i a l must r e m a i n q u e s t i o n - a b l e . The NATlONAL L N u b l ~ t H o f S e ~ t . 17 c o n t a i n e d f i v e s e p a r a t e UFO r e p o r t s which have b t e n s u b m i t t e d t o t h s t pape r i n c o n n e c t i o n w i t h i t s $50,000 r e w e r d o f f e r . H e p o r t s f rom Kansas , Csnada , F r a n c e ( i n h o r l d k a r II), Ark;:lsas and bi innesota a r e f e p t u r e d . t x c e l l e n t ex- amples o f UFO a c t i v i t y i r : v b r i o u s p l a c e s a t v a r i o u s t i m e s . MCCtHN PLGPLE i s a f a i r l y new t a b l o i d a n d , q u i t e f r a n k l y , 1 have n o t r e a d it o f t e n enough t o a s s e s s i t s r e l i a b i l i t y . The -'er:t. 10 i s s u e o f t h e p a p e r c o n t a i n s a n i n t e r v i e w w i t h a Huss i an s k i p p e r who t o l d o f a l l - eged UFO a c t i v i t y i n t h e X c t a r c t i c r e g i o n s . If t r u e , t h e m a t e r i a l is o f c o n s i d e r a b l e i n t e r e s t and importtrnce. -NATIONAL 'LA'lTLJd3 f o r S e p t . 17 f e a t u r e d Ch icegc a v i a t i o n w r i t e r P e t e r H e i c h ' s r e p o r t

. o f t h e UFC he r e c e n t l y s i g h t e d . T h i s same r e r ; o r t was ~ . i v e n i n l a s t month 's SKYLUOK. The S e p . 24 TATTLER devo ted c o n s i d e r a b l e s p a c e t o a member o f t h e SKYLOOK s t a f f , J o s e p h B r i l l , and h i s r e s e t r c h i n t o UFO s i g h t i n g s i n I r o n Cur t z i t ! c o u n t r i e s . J o e ' s r e g u l a r s e r i e s on t h i s t o p i c i s w e l l known t o SKYLOGK r e e d e r s and it i s good t o s e e h i s e f f o r t s r c c o g n l z e d by o t h e r media. NIDI.:iCtiT f o r S e ~ t . 11 c a r r i e s a n " i n t e r v i e w " w l t h D r . Hynek, which a c t u a l l y c c n s i s t s of e x c e r p t s . f rom h i s book.

A new SAGA UFO REPORT i s o u t f rom t , e p u b l i s h e r s o f t h s t magazine. T h i s i s t h e t h i r d i n a s e r i e s and f e a t u r e s r e p r i n t e d UPC a r t i c l e s f rom p a s t i s s u e s o f t h e magazine , a s w e l l a s one new a r t i c l e by Tim- o t h y C . d e c k l e y . F o r t h o z e who have missed v a r i o u s SALA UFO a r t i c l e s , t h i s i s a good buy--6O,# a t t i le newss tands .

A t t h i s w r i t i n g , I hzve n o t s e e n t h e Oc tobe r i s s u e o f SAGA b u t am t o l d i t c o n t a i n s an a r t i c l e on " v i l e v o r t i c e s " ( a l a t h e much-publ ic i - zed wBermuda T r i a n g l e w ) s c a t t e r e d a round t h e wor ld . I v a n S a n d e r s o n is t h e a u t h o r . An a r t i c l e by Hayden Hexes on t h e Delphos , k a n s e s UFO l a n d i n g was s c h e d u l e d f o r t h i s i s s u e .

Do you remember June 24, 1947? T h a t , o f c o u r s e , was t h e d s t e o f Kenneth b r n o l d ' s n o w - h i s t o r i c s i g h t i n g which made " f l y i n g s a u c e r s w a househo ld word. But , do you r e a l i z e t h e f u l l e x t e n t o f t h e mid-summer f l a ~ o f 1947? If you d o n o t , A can w h o l e h e a r t e d l y recommend t o you a book by Ted 8 l o e c h e r e n t i t l e d REPORT ON THE UFO KAVE UF 1947. l'hia i s one o f t h o s e r a r e i t e m s i n UFO l i t e r e t u r e - - a t r u e r e f e r e n c e book. B l o e c h e r , i n h i s t r a v e l s a b o u t t h e c o u n t r y i n c o n n e c t i o n w i t h h i s p r o f e s s i c c , c o n s u l t e d neusr,aper f i l e s f rom v i r t u a l l y e v e r y s t e t e i n a t t e m p t i n g t o document t h e 1947 i ' l a p . His KCPORT i s f i l l e d k i t h i n - d l v i d b a l c a s e % , c h z r t s , maps, i l l u s t r a t i o n s and pho tographs . 'Xhe l a t e D r . J;lnes k. hcDoni ld c o n t r i b u t e d a n I n t r o d u c t i o n and o b t a i n e d a d d i t i o n 2 1 i n f o r m a t i o n on s i g n i f i c a n t 1YL7 r e r o r t s . Hlthoug,h t h e book was f i r s t p u b l i s h e d some f i v e ye2r.s a g o , it is a s r e l e v t i n t t o d a y a s when i t W i S f i r s t r e l e a s e d . Copies a r e a v a i l a b l e f o r $5.OC each f rom NICAP -3535 U n i v e r s i t y Blvd. West - h e n s i n g t o n , Md. 20795.

Timothy L. d e c k l e y ' s l a t e s t opus on u f o l o g i c ~ l m a t t e r s is e n t i t l e d IUB--ALIENS A I L N t i US and is a v a i l a b l e f rcm s a u c e r i a n Books - Box 2228 C l e r k s b u r g , YV 26301 f o r $2.CG. I t i s a haphaza rd melange o f "hen I n Black" r e r ' u r t s f rm w i d e l y s c a t t e r e d s o u r c e s . E r r o r s abound and it c a n be r e c o ~ m ~ n d e a o n l y t o t h o s e who c o i l e c t a n y t h i n g and e v e r y t h i n g u f o l o q i c a l .

khenever a book dealing w i t h p o s s i b l e p r o p u l s i o n s y s t e m s my d e s k , 1 a u t o m a t i c a l l y t h i n k of ShYLWK's own " s ~ a c e m a n "

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WCs Behind the Iron Curtain - Beseurh by Joseph H. B r i l l No. U

The following is an excerpt from the WIlgrrian magazine K06140S, No. 7, 1967 ( J U ~ ) . The author is Conco Rodev, of Sofia, Bulgaria. m e t i t l e - "!!ore About These Flying S a u ~ e r s . ~

If it is necessary t o c h s s f f y UFO observations i n Bulgaria, then from tho the when the occurence took place t o the tim when the mter i .1 r e a c b d the printed s t a t e (middle of Way), the s t a f f would give foremost a t ten t ion t o tb. sighting i n h s e on A p r i l the 20th of t h i s year. This f ly ing bcdy on the hor- izon was obsemed f o r wre than three hours, and it was eas i ly seen--it may be said without exaggeration--by almost the e n t i r e population of the c i t y of Ruse. It changed its shape a m b e r of tlrnes and a l so i ts color and d i rec t ion of f l i gh t . We have a t our dispoeal photographa which a r e i n themselrer document. of cons id . r ab l in te res t .

The first obsemers aaw it around h:30 p.m. Comrades )lark0 Monev, Oeorgi Cen- dov, Trifon Nikolov and Boris Vasilev had a r e l a t i ve ly powerful t a l eecop . This uas described by Dr. Georgi Cendov, Directcr of the Art Gallery in b e , who ob- served the body from 5:15 t o 7:h5 p.m. He enclosed h i s drenlngs of t he obaened object accompanied by the following rtatements: nThie was the appearance of tho body which was observed thrcugh our telescope which magnified it by 1M) t i m e . Through t h i s instrument t he object resembled a crysta l . Its ex te r ior had a j e l l - l i k e appearance, and i t had three rib-l ike projections and two antenae. "By nmaua of the unaided eye it was not possible t o see tho object very c l e a r 4

though its glov could be noticed. We s t a r t ed our observations a t apprurisately t h e same time when the sun receded behind the horiaon. The object w a s i n c lose proximity t o the noon. After a while it moved due northeast and stopped fof a minute in a fixed position.

.Rcm the very beginning the body had a white glow, but l a t e r it began t o tum red. This was obviously a re f lec t ion of the se t t ing sun which from our point of v i m on ear th had already se t . It i s d i f f i c u l t t o estimate it# height, but it seemed that it was not located higher than 5 t o l0 kilometers. With an unaided e p a l l one could see was a huge ball , while through the telescope it resembled a star."

Artist E l i m Dobrev drew a diagram of the object'. motions and sude drawing. of i t s changing f o m . A s can be seen the body changed its d h c t i m of mve- ment twice and completely disappeared a s it approached Venus. Dr . Dobrev de- fined i t s color as "a s i l r e r i a h glen“ and "becoming or taking on a plrple toward the edges." T h e object was leaving a purple mist behind it. One interest ing de- t a i l , Dr . Dobrev a l so noticed was tha t a s a t e l l i t e crossed the path of the object , but while the s a t e l l i t e was moving rapidly and on a s t r a igh t course, the mve- nent of the object was a l w , c i rcu la r and with changes of direction. Another cur iousi ty was t h a t during the t h when the object was a b v e Ruse, strong s ta t10 interferenee d i s tor ted the functioning of the radio s e t s there.

According t o the i n f o n a t i o n received by the Peoples Observatory the abjact was a lso observed in Panagyurische.

Since the sighting caused a genuine sensation in mse, the following dsy the l oca l newspaper uDunevska FTavdam (No. 95/1967) published a shor t a r t i c l e by K. Terziski, a senior physicist, en t i t l ed "An Interesting Occuranco in Rum.* The u t i c l e , aaong other things s ta ted the following: the ob jsc t which was seen by mny c i t i aens and a few s c i e n t i f i c vorkere. Obsemation through high- powered teloscopea confirmed t h a t the s t ructure of t he object was such as tc r u b out its being a balloon of any sor t . Very l ike ly it was a remnant of a rocket which had turned in to an a r t i f i c i a l o a t h a a t e l l l t e and which ro ta tes , rhicb accounts f o r i ts changing ehspe. I t e glow wau caused by the r e f l ec t ion of the l i g h t rays of the sun.=

Without entering into a diapute w i t h the author of the foregoing r m k s , m (Continued on N e x t Page)

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can say tha t h i s hypothesis about the origin of the object ia dubioue. The ob- j ec t seen over Ruse could n ~ t have been a s a t e l l i t e . The unusually long time during which the object remained on the horizon and the i r regular i ty of its course effect ively render t h i s hypothesis in the highest measure extremely unlikely.

Editor 's Note: Mr. B r i l l sent u s the photographs which we are unable to use in SKYIDJK a t t h i s time. They clear ly show a white, cons-shaped object against a black sky.

I n O t h e r s 1 ivords - Cont inued f rom Page 1 4 John F. S c h u e s s l e r . Such i s t h e c a s e w i t h Leonard C. Cramp's f a s c i n - a t i n g work PIECE FOIi A JIGSAW. J o h n , o f c o u r s e , i s a n a e r o s p a c e en- g i n e e r , s o I hope t o g e t h i s l e a r n e d o p i n i u n s on t h e t h e o r i e s p u t f o r t h by Cramp. U n t i l t h z t t i m e , l e t me q u o t e f rom a l e t t e r which I r e c e i v e d f rom Cramp, i n which h e d i s c u s s e s h i s book: " . . i n a word, it s a y s t h i s t o t h e r e a d e r , 'Don ' t b o t h e r a b o u t t h e a r i t h m e t i c i f you would r a t h e r n o t , b u t p l e a s e l o o k a t each c o n c l u s i o n . ' F o r what I ]lave t r i e d h a r d t o s a y is t h i s - - ' O n p u r e l y t e c h n o l o g i c a l g r o u n d s a l o n e , we a r e i n s ~ o s i t i o n t o p r e d i c t q u i t e a c c u r a t e l y some o f t h e b e h a v i o r i s m s of s u c h c r ? f t h e r e i n n o r t r a y e d . 'Lhese s a n e b e h e v i o u r - isms a r e p r o d i g . i o u s l v e v i d e ~ ~ t among UFO w i t n e s s e s 1 r e p o r t s . S o e i t h e r we have t o a c c e p t t h e b igge .s t c o i n c i d e n c e t h e wor ld h a s e v e r known, o r we have wnat amounts t o v i r t u a l p r o o f o f t h e e x i s t e n c e o f t h e s e c r a f t . ' " T s me, t h e above quot,es a r e no e x a g g e r a t i o n . Cven t h e most n o n - t e c h n i c a l r e a d e r ( s u c h a s m y s e l f ) w i l l b e s t r u c k by t h e e v i d e n c e Cramp h a s acclmul .? ted i n s u p p o r t o f h i s t h e o r i e s . lhough Pl tCE FUR A J;';SAhl was f i r s t p u b l i s h e d i n 1966, it is a s t i m e l y t o d a y a s when it f i r s t ccne off t h e p r e s s e s . 'Lhe p r i c e is a p p r o x i m a t e l y $5.90; t h e p u b l i s n e r i s Somerton P u b l i s n i n g Co., L t d . , Newport Road, Cowes, I s l e of i i g n t , Uni ted Kingd~m. High ly recommended. PC- -= :r :====E-==1-===1-=-=====P=======,=?= ====P==1===-=--==--=-

Food f o r T h o u ~ h t Lawrence H. Hanna, o f S t . L o u i s , s e n d s u s a c l i p p i n g f rom t h e S t .

Lou i s POST-DISPLTCH o f Bept . 13 deal in^ w i t h r e s e a r c h i n u s i n g l a s e r beams t o d u p l i c a t e t h e p r o c e s s by which atoms a r e f u s e d . I f s c i e n t - i s t s a r e s u c c e e s f u l i n b r i n g i n e a b o u t n u c l e a r f u s i o n w i t h l a s e r s , it c o u l d mean a l m o s t u n l i m i t e d e n e r g y , t h e a r t i c l e s t a t e s .

Edward I ' e l l e r , o f t e n c a l l e d t h e f a t h e r o f t h e hydrogen bomb, s a y s l a s e r - f u s i o n r o c k e t s could make t h e bO m i l l i o n m i l e t r i p t o K a r s i n a b o u t a week a t s p e e d s o f 600 m i l e s a second.

E d i t o r ' s Note: When you t h i n k a b o u t t h a t , it i s n ' t s o h a r d t o be- l i e v e t h a t o t h e r and o l d e r c i v i l i z a t , i o n s " o u t t h e r e " a r e a l r e a d y t r a v e l i n g a t "unheard o f w r a t e s of speed . k l i t t l e gem t o t o s s t o y o u r UFO-scoffing a c q u s i n t e n c e s .

Loch Ness Mons te r Photographed

N ~ t h i n g t o d o w i t h UFOs--but we l i k e t o keep up w i t h n i l e s s i e n and J o e Gurney s e n d s u s a c l i p p i n g l rom t h e b t . L o u i s "Globe-Democratn s t a t i n g f o r m e r g r o c e r Yrbnk a e a r l e , h a s pho tographed t h e e l u s i v e Loch Ness monster . S e a r l e , wilo h a s s p e n t t h e l a s t t h r e e y e a r s i n a t e n t b e s i d e t h e l o c h , c l a i m s he h a s s e e n ides s i e 17 t i m e s . It a p p e a r e d eO y a r d s o f f s h o r e snd a p p c s r e d t o be a b o u t 12 f e e t l o n g , h e s a i d , when he g o t t h e photograph .

And, by t h e way, w h a t e v e r happened t o h i s s o u r i Mo-Mo? b. S t . Louia p e p e r r e c e n t l y p u b l i s h e d a p i c t u r e o f a 7 - foo t " ~ r e a t u r e ' ~ i n g r a y fur h o l d i n g a n a t t r a c t i v e yowg l a d y i n h i s arms. Claimed t o b e Mo-Mol

(Thanks , CaroL)

Astronomy Notes The October Sky - Venus, which i s a p o s s i b l e answer t o a number of t h e r e c e n t Kansas W@ s i g h t i n g s , may be s een d u r i n g t h e e a r l y morning hours , r i s i n g a t

2:25 a.m. CST on Oct. 1st and a t 3:30 a.m. Nov. 1st. Mars i s q u i t e n e a r t h e sun , r i s i n g a t 5:25 a.m. Oct. 1st and a t 4:55 a.m. Nov. 1st. J u p i t e r mey be s een d u r i n g t h e e a r l y evening hours i n t h e southwest and s e t s a t 10:CO p.m. Oct. 1st and a t 8:20 p.m. Nov. 1st. S a t u r n i s v i s i b l e throughout t h e evening a s it r i s e s a t 9:30 p.m. Oct. 1st and a t 7:25 p.m. Nov. 1st.--Ted P h i l l i p s .

The C o n s t e l l a t i o n s . Aquarius (The Weter Bea re r ) - Acquarius is one of t h e o l d e s t of t h e c o n s t e l l a t i o n s . It has been r ep re sen t ed i n t h e myth- o l o g i e s of s e v e r a l a n c i e n t civilizations a s a man'pouring w a t e r from a j a r . I n Egypt t h e r a i n y season begen when t h e sun r o s e a t t h e same t ime a s t h e s t a r s o f Aquarius. The Greeks i d e n t i f i e d Aquarius w i t h Ganymede, who was one of t h e cup b e z r e r s t o Jove.

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Aquarius i s a z o d i c a l c o n s t e l l a t i o n and it cu lmina tes a t 9 p.m. on Oct. 5. I n s p i t e of i t s l a r g e a r e a it does no t have any very b r i g h t s t a r s . There a r e many f a i n t g a l a x i e s i n t h e c o n s t e l l a t i o n . A new e r a c a l l e d t h e "Age of Aqu&riusn g o t i t s name from t h i s group. --Mark H e r b s t r i t t .

Na t iona l Astronomers Inc . Chairman Sees T o t a l S o l a r E c l i p s e

ken S t e inme tz , Chairman of Nat iona l Astronomers, Xnc., Denver, Colorado, f l e w wi th o t h e r s t o Tuktoyaktuk, Canada t o w i t n e s s t h e t o t a l s o l a r e c l i p s e of J u l y 10 , 1972.

The f l i g h t v i a P a c i f i c western A i r l i n e s from Calgary, A lbe r t a , t o t h e a r c t i c e c l i p s e s i t e was a r ranged by t h e Calgary Cent re of t h e Hoy- a 1 As t ronon ica l S o c l t t y of Canada w i th John F ind l ey , of t h e Calgary C e n t e n n i s l P lane ta r ium, i n charge.

Mr. and k i r s . S te inmetz , a long wi th 81 o t h e r a s senge r s and a crew P of seven took o f f on schedule f r o s t h e Calgary n t e r n a t i o n a l A i r p o r t a t 5:00 p.m. (M.D.T.) on Sunday, J u l y 9 and deplaned a t I nuv ik about 9:00 p.m. wi th a b r i l l i a n t sun and hordes of mosquitoes t o g r e e t them, and remained overn igh t a s word was r ece ived t h e e c l i p s e s i t e wqs s o l i d - l y fogged i n . By 2:00 a.m. Inuvik was a l s o fogged i n , and it began t o seem t h e t r i p was i n vain.

However a t 9 r O O a.m. word came from t h e weether room t h a t t h e f o g was c l e s d n g and w i t h i n an hour some of t h e p a r t y were a i rbo rne . M r . and Mrs. S te inmetz were among those ob l iged t o w a i t f o r a p l ane t o r e t u r n f o r them. 'rhey headed n o r t h a t 12:07 bnd reached Tuktoyaktuk about i 2 : 4 0 p.m. wi th l e s s then twenty minutes t o get ready.

The s u n ' s a l t i t u d e was 40 . Azimuth 145: M r . 8 te inmetz mounted t h e B e l l & Howell Super-8 movie camera wi th f u l l y extended zoom, f o r a con- t i n u o u s Qming of t o t a l i t y . The Nikkormat 35 wi th a 105 mm l e n s was s e t up nex t . With t h i s "We used H & W Cont ro l f i l m , b lack and wh i t e b u t v i r t u a l l y g r a h l e s s , " M r . S te inmetz wrote. "This was s e t a t P-8 and I was t o shoo t s e q u e n t i a l exposures beginning wi th 1/1000 Sec down t o a 32 second s h o t . A s it tu rned o u t , eve ry th ing worked t o p e r f e c t i o n . My wife, P h y l l i s , s h o t twenty s l i d e s b e f o r e , du r ing , and a f t e r t o t a l - i t y f o r basic l i g h t i n t e n s i t y comparisons. The sun darkened n o t i c e a b l y a f u l l 1 0 o r 12 minutes be fo re a c t u a l second c o n t a c t began. S t r a n g e l y , it was a lmost i n s t a n t l y f u l l d a y l i g h t a t t h i r d c o n t a c t , 2 minutes and 24 seconds l a t e r . A s h a r p wind came up s h o r t l y a f t e r t o t a l i t y began a l though At had been a dead calm before . The tempera ture drop- ped from t h e 60 t o a b i t t e r c h i l l .

" O u r on ly a v a i l a b l e DC-3 almoat a t once began load ing f o r t h e r e t u r n t o Inuvik . I t was 8:15 p.m., between bouts wi th t h e e v e r chang- i n g fog b e f o r e t h e l a s t group r e t u r n e d t o t h e E l e c t r a . F i n a l l y , a t 8:30 p.m. we l e f t t h e A r c t i c and were home t o La lgary by midnight."

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Were K a n s a s s i g h t i n g s Weather Bal loons?

It was announced on n a t i o n a l TV news and by t h e P r e s s t h a t a Garden C i t y , Kansas, s t o r e r e p o r t e d s e l l i n g n e a r l y one hundred s i x - f o o t Army s u r p l u s weather ba l loons . The purchasers t o l d t h e owner t h e y f i l l t h e b a l l o o n s w i th helium o r hydrogen, a t t a c k f l a s h l i g h t s i n s i d e o r ou t - si.de, r e l e a s e them and "scare my ne ighbors t o death. ' t

I t now seems t h i s may account f o r t h e many UFO s i5ht i .ngs i n and about Dighton, Kansas d u r i n g t h e :mnth of August. be mentioned t h e s e i n t h e September i s s u e of SKYLOOK :pages 13-14) and s l n c e t h e n have r e c e i v e d many news c l i p p i n g s . Ye Ed t l k e s t h i s oppor tun i ty t o thank everyone who s e n t us t h e c l i p p i n g s . d r thought t h e s e s i g h t i n g s would be t h i s monthls f e a t u r e s t o r y , b u t i n vlew of t h e d i s c l o s u r e s r e t h e t r i c k s t e r s sending up weather ba l l oons , we f e e l t h e s e repor2s now have l i t t l e o r no va lue .

It i s ou r pe r sona l op in ion t h a t some of t h e f i r s t s i g h t i n g s may have been UFOs--and probably were-- and t h e r e s u l t i n g p u b l i c i t y gave t h e k i d s ( a t l e a s t of "kid" m e n t a l i t y ) t h e i d e a it would be "fun" t o f ake it.

We hope t h e r e s p o n s i b l e c i t i z e n s who saw and r e p o r t e d t h e unusua l l i g h t s w i l l no5 f e e l t hey have been made o b j e c t s of r i d i c u l e . They were do ing e x a c t l y whst any c i t i z e n should do on s e e i n g an u n i d e n t i f i e d f l y i n g ob j ec t - - r epo r t it so a n i n v e s t i g a t i o n can fo l low. And zhs in- v e s t i g q t i o n which d i d f o l l o w r e s u l t e d i n t h e " i d e n t i f i c a t i o n . "

A s f o r t h e p r a n k s t e r s , we have j u s t two words f o r you--grow up.

More S i g h t i n g s a t Arkansas C i t y , Kans,

On August 25th t h e Arkansas C i ty P o l i c e s a i d an u n i d e n t i f i e d man li v ing e a s t of Arkansas Ci ty t e lephoned t h e z t h a t 3 l a r g e o b j e c t was s i g h t e d over h i s house and over t h e nearby home of h i s f a t h e r . He s a i d t h e house began t o shake and he went o u t s i d e t o s e e i f t h e o b j e c t was s t i l l t h e r e bu t it had t aken o f f . He t o l d t h e p o l i c e d i s - pa t che r t h e o b j e c t he saw shook t h e house and r a t t l - e d d i s h e s i n a cupboard. The same n i g h t Jimmie Lambert, a c a f e m n e r , s a i d he watch- ed a saucer-shaped o b j e c t th rough b i n o c u l a r s about 30 miriutes. He s a i d t h e r e was a r e d r i n g around t h e o b j e c t .

Ken Thompson, c i t y manager and Erwin Knocke, c i t y commissioner, de sc r ibed an o b j e c t wi th f l a s h i n g r ed l i g h t s t h a t d i sappeared a t a h igh r a t e of speed a f t e r about 30 minutes.

Beth L i l l e y , r e p o r t e r f o r t h e "Arkansas Ci ty Da i ly T rave l e r " , on be ing n o t i f i e d of a UFO being s i g h t e d by t h r e e p o l i c e o f f i c e r s , drovo t o t h e t o p of a h i l l w i t h i n t h e c i t y l i m i t s and observed t h e o b j e c t and took a p i c t u r e of it. She desc r ibed t h e o b j e c t a s being e x t r e m e b l a r g e and b r i g h t , s o m e w h a t round i n shape w i th vary ing l e n g t h s of ap- pa ren t l i g h t r a y s beaming from i ts . edges. Within a few moments, she s a i d , a l a r g e glowing c i r c l e appeared around t h e o b j e c t and twinkli l js

r e d l i g h t s could be s een on what appeared t o be t h e f r o n t of the ob- j e c t . Within two t o f o u r minutes , t h e b r i g h t glow seemed t o be absorb ed i n t o t h e body of t h e o b j e c t which t hen appeared t o charge t o a t r i a n g u l a r shape. F i r s t s i g h t e d a t 4 a.m., by 7:05 aim. it had r i s e n s o high t h a t i t appeared t o be pinhead s i z e and b a r e l y v i s i b l e .

UFO o r wea ther ba l loon? C r e d i t : Again, our thanks t o t h e many sending i n c l i p p i n g s on above. (Note - - th i s page is an e x t r a by mimeograph.--Ye Ed)

Note t o Readers: SKYLOOK i s now be ing tu rned o u t by photo o f f s e t p r in t ing- -bu t t h i s i s a n e x t r a page from Ye Ed's p e r ~ o n a l - ~ ~ M o n s t e r " - - t h e mimeograph. 0-ur agreement w i th t h e p r i n t e r is f o r t h e r e g u l a r 20 pages per month--arxl, f r an ' k ly we c a n ' t a f f o r d going beyond t h a t .

S t . Louis Women S e e u s u a l Li&g

V r s . Mildred C r a f t and a neighbor were s i t t i n i n t h e fo rmer ' s yard a t h e r home on 8620 Gravois ( S t . Louis , Mo. 7 about 12:30 on t h e n i g h t of August 11, 1972. The sky was c l e a r ' a n d t h e l a d i e s were suddenly s u p r i s e d t o s e e a very i r : t~:nse r e d 1 i g h t . a p p e a r i n g suddenly a t an es t imated e l e v a t i o n of abou: 300 f e e t and a d i s t a n c e of a h a l f c i t y block. The' l i g h t was tw ice t h e s i z e o f t h e TV tower s a f e t y r e d . . l i g h t s (KSD tower is nea r b y ) . A f t e r hotrering b r i e f l y , t h 2 !.i~% " j u s t b l i nked ou tn and was seen no morc. The witr!,?sses a r e wi:.:..l aware of t h e appearance and sound made by t h e p o l i c e h e l i c o p t e r s w:?ich at- r o l t h e a r e a n i g h t l y and f e e l su re t h o l i g h t s een was n o t a h ~ ~ l i c o p f e r . C r e d i t : B i l l C h r i s t i a n .

Lady R e c a l l s Older S i g h t i n g

A f t e r h e a r i n g John F. S c h u e s s l e r speak on r a d i o s t a t i o n KMOX,.St. Louis , M r s . Edw. S. Madigan, 2842, Iowa, b t . Louis , wrote on l u g u s t 11: "Hearing you on KMOX August 1 0 brought t o mind what I saw about 1 2 y e a r s ago. My husband, who was t h e n l i v i n g , and I were sj.tt!.;:p; i n t h e back yard--I i n a rodke r w i th my f e e t on t h e s t e p s a r d U:.:l:.h y i n a . l awn c h a i r . It was d a y l i g h t and, a s I rncked back and lookc?. a?, t h e r e was a f l y i n g s a u c e r p e r f e c t l y s t i l l i n fitidair.. T h i s ;..I- hair ::.':. looked f ske t ch of t y p i c a l 11saucer'17. It was lit G-.!! ~ ~ .j ?. .e L i l ? ~ i t i ?

. . was i n i t , and t h e r e was a whi te l i g h t on tc:, and G r e : : ii:::.:, >:I L O P of it. I g o t e x c i t e d and jumped up t o gr?t opcLra gl,?c::.es, b ~ ~ : L t ; r?:.::;t have s een me and went s t r a i z l l t up out of s i g h t a ~ ' a g r ~ a t i-r;';? af' speed. I c a l l e d t h e newspcper, 2:1d wh3ei.e:- answrr.c.1 l'aughec: s t me and 1 suppose thought I was spoo:ririg a - dr.unk. I : : ~ 5 s : ; L z r a s a judge a s I do no t d r ink ."

UFO Reported i n Arkansas

According t o t h e S e b a s t i a n Count::; ' h e r i f f ' s neyil-t,ment, a n un iden l t i f i e d man c a l l e d f o r a deputy t o c c r m s ~ ~ o t n e a r c z ~ l = : a r F i e l d ' s Gro- ce ry s o t h a t someone e l s e could w i t n e s s what he :I;,' seen--?;legedly a f l y i n g s auce r . Two unof f i c inL observers d i spa t ched by t k L 2 Ft. Smith "Southwest limes-Recordf1 t o t h e scene f a i l e d t o g l impse t h e UFO, a l - though one of t h e two s a i d t h e r e appeared t o be come l i g h t n i n g a c t i - v i t y i n t h e sky.

Commercial f l i g h t s had a l l checked i n by about $:30 p.m., t h e t ime t h e UFO was r e p o r t e d , a n d t h e on ly a i r c r a f t l i k e l y t o have been c r u i s - i n g t h e c i t y were p r i v a t e p l a n e s , i f any, t h e a i r p o r t spokesman s a i d . The Nat iona l Guard s a i d t k r e were no a i r b o r n e n i g h t maneuvers. C r e d i t : Lucius F a r i s h .

Clarence 0. Dargie To Speak on UFOs

Clarence 0. Dargie , O 'Fa l lon , I l l . , S t a t e S e c t i o n D i r e c t o r f o r MUFON. w i l l be t h e gues t speaker a t t h e C a r l y l e , I l l . New Comers' Club on Thursday, Oct. 12 a t t h e Hi-De-Ho Res t au ran t a t 8:00 P.M.

Ornan iza t i on Notes from Around t h e Network

SKYLOOK is s t i l l g e t t i n g r e q u e s t s f o r sample cop iee and/or sub- s c r i p t i o n s from t h e Kansas C i t y , Mo-Kans. a r e a s i n c e Ted P h i l l i p s appeared on t h e hansas c i t y r a d i o (hHB) t a l k show on J u l y 30th .A~ a r e s u l t of t h e i n t e r e s t i n UFOs c r e a t e d on t h a t program, M r . P h i l l i p s was i n v i t e d t o add re s s t h e P s y c h i c a l Research S o c i e t y of Kanszs C i t y , August 1 7 t h , and spoke t o a g roup .o f n e a r l y 200 people. So much i n t e r e s t was shown i n h i s t a l k on UFOs, a q u e s t i o n and answer s e s s i o n fo l l owing h i s add re s s l a s t e d two hours. M r . P h i l l i p s w i l l add re s s t h e Opt imis t L lub i n Kansas C i t y on Oct. 5th.

Al len Benz, a MUFON member and a l s o e d i t o r of h i s own magazine

? "UFO Commentary" is s t i r r i n g up i n t e r e s t i n ufology i n Twin F a l l s , Idaho. He was in te rv iewed by a r e p o r t e r from t h e "Times Newsn and r a t e d a f r o n t age s t o r y i n t h e i r Sunday e d i t i o n August 26. On Aucust 27 M r . &en= d i d a t aped i n t e r v i e w f o r r a d i o s t a t i o n KEEP and a n o t h e r f o r KTFI on t h e 28th. On Labor Day he appeared on "Par ty Line" a t a l k show on KLIX r a d i o and w i l l appear on KMVT-TV i n a t a l k show, September 26 th . (Subsc r ip t i ons - $2.00 per year- f o r UFO COhDlENTARY should be mailed t o t h e p u b l i s h e r , P a t r i c k A . Huyghe, 1419 Riversedge

Rd.& Newport News, Va. 23606.)

eorne Fawcet t , ano ther MUFON member, of Mount Airy N. C . , has such a busy s chedu le , space d o e s n ' t permit a complete &ing. I n Aug- u s t he addressad t h e North C h a r l o t t e Rotary Club, t h e New Age Founda- t i o n i n C h a r l o t t e and appeared on r a d i o and TV programs. He h a s had numerous p r e s s i n t e rv i ews . On Oct. 3 rd he w i l l speak a t t h e Mount Airy Kiwanis Club and on Nov. 2 w i l l speak a t t h e Holiday Inn i n Roan- oke, Va. and he probably b s many more bookings a s we w r i t e t h i s . If you haven ' t a l r e a d y done s o , why no t send him a s e l f - add re s sed stamped (16#) envelope f o r h i s In format ion s h e e t s which l i s t a l l t h e b e s t sou rces f o r UFO informat ion. h r i t e Mr. Fewcett a t 607 North Main S t . , Mount Airy, N. C . , 27030.

We l i s t e d Stslrlton Friedman's l e c t u r e schedule f o r October i n t h e l a s t i s s u e o m K , and w e ' l l u e n t i o n h i s l e c t u r e on Nov. 13 a t N . Texas S t s t e , s t Denton Texas, a t 8 P.M. =e is booked through A p r i l and w e ' l l keec vou informed a s we r e c e i v e h i s s ~ e a k i n e da t e s . -

The UFO stud; Group of G r e a t e r S t . Louis held t h e i r r e g u l a r meeting Sept . 10 wi th eood a t t endance . Durinn t h e b u s i n e s s meeting. members were reminded annuai membership dues of $?.GO were due s e p t T ' l s t . Checks may be mailed t o t h e t r e a s u r e r , Wm. F. C h r i s t i a n , 758 Lemay F e r r y Rd., S t . Louis , Mo., b3125. P lans were completed f o r snowing t h e doccmentary

.movie on UFOs a t t h e Oct. 1 5 t h ( e e e announcement e lsewhere i n SKYLOOK) 'and r e p o r t s were made on r e c e n t UFO s i g h t i n g s .

John F. S c h u e s s l e r , D i r e c t o r o f t he S t . Lobis group and S t e t e U i r ec t - o r f o r MUFON, w i l l be making a v ideo tape wi th a l i v e s t u d i o audience f o r TV Channel 11. and t h i s w i l l be t e l e c s s t on Oct. 15 on t h e B i l l

o F i e l d s ' show. ~ v e r ~ o n e i n t h e Channel 11 viewlng a rea , -mark t h i s d a t e on your calendar! (Su re wish we could g e t it i n S tove r . )

SKYLOOK i s happy t o announce t h a t Joseph N. B r i l l , r e s e a r c h e r f o r ou r s e r i e s on "UFOs Behind t h e I r o n Cur t s in" , has agreed t o become a member o f t h e s t a f f , t h u s making " o f f i c i a l " t h e u n o f f i c i a l p o s i t i o n he has held f o r some time. M r . B r i l l , a bache lor ( a s we o t o Press!) l i v e s i n Chicego and has been i n t e r e s t e d i n UFOs s i n c e 19 % 6. He is a l s o -- a C i v i l "a r buff and en joys working wi th s t e r e o components. He i s a F i e l d I n v e s t i g a t o r f o r MUFON and was one of t h e speake r s a t t h e 1972 Conference. We're proud t o add J o e ' s name t o our f i n e s t a f f which, we f i r m l y b e l i e v e , is second t o none i n u f o l o g i c a l f i e l d s o f pub l ica - t i o n .

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