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taped interview with a lady who had asimilar experience some time before theydid.One is tempted to assume that theRaw Easters had had one beer too manyand imagined the incident. However, theirsincerity, and hesitation at being interviewed, plus the geniuine fright of Mrs.Raw Eater was enough to lend credibilityto their story.On June 9th, 1971, according to MissEsther Clappison of Rosedale, Alberta,she observed an unconventional objectwith two occupants. The time was 8:49(See Canada-Page Four)

APRO member Alexander Keul oVienna, Austria, FUlS compiled receninformation on Austrian sightings intoQ report for APRO Headquarters. Thefollowing is an edited version of hisreport:At 7:05 (Central EUropean Timeon March 18, 1972, an AUA (Austrian airlines) (DC-9) jet took offrom Vienna's Schwechat airport foFrankfurt, Germany; at the controlswas Captain Alexander Raab and hisco-pilot Otto Herold. The DC-9 wason its way in a clear evening skywith perfect visibility,

Over Krems, Lower Austria, atabout 7: 18 the direction flnding system experienced a break-down andwarning lights flashed in the cockpitCaptain Raab later described theproblem in a TV discussion: "Suddenly the two ADF-radio compassesshowed an aberration of 8 degrees(against each other) and immediatelywe had a heading alarm. I checkedthe two electromagnetic FLAGSKATEsystems which supervise the othedirection finders, but couldn't find thetrOUble."The AUA plane kept its flight leveof 20,000 feet approaching UnzUpper Austria, from the east . At 7:23Captain Raab spotted a strange objecoutside:"I saw it to the left - a hugewhite funnel up in the sky. Thepunctilious body didn't move - itwas impossible to estimate its distance, speed and altitude. Firstthought of some internal reflection -a flashlight from behind, but thecockpit was dark with its door closedMy co-pilot also saw the flying funnel. On top of it we noticed a glistening white source of light - a poinwhich illuminated the clearly outlinedcasing. Yes, really an inverted hollowcone in a cloudless sky, as i f somebody had drawn it on a blackboardwith a piece of chalk. The object'saxis pointed downwards, the angle oCdip being about SO degrees. Beams otight Cram the top were visible outsideand inside the casing running to thebottom-outline of the funnel which

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Mrs. Lorenzen IIIMrs . Coral E. Lorenzen, APRO'sSecretaryTreasurer and co-founder iscurrently incapacitated due to an o ldback injury and she has bee n bedfastfor six weeks. On advice of her

physician she must shall?ly curtail heractivities and asks the membership notto address correspondence to her thairequire replies.Despite her condition. Mrs. Lorenzen will continue to conduct thefmancial operations or APRO and willcontinue as Editor or The APRO Bul-letin. This situation is not likely tobe permanent but it will be probablyseveral months before she is fully recovered and she asks APRO members10 bear with her. The APRO staffjoins the general membership in wishing her a speedy recovery.

THE A.P.R.O. BULLETINAEPAESENTATIVESArgentina . . . . . . Guillermo G. lnu pazAustralia . . . . Pel., E. Nonl,. "rlum . . . . . . . . . Ed9l' SImoniBol"le . . . . . . ... . . F.,nando HlnoJoll V.Brull ........... P.of. Fllvlo PereiraB.llaln . . . . ...... Anthony R. Pacec . \ ,on . . . K.P.K. O. AtIr.wCh Ie . . . . . .P.blo P,t.owhsch S.COlombl ' ... . . . . . . ...... Ohn SimhanColi . Rica . . . . . Rodollo AcO$u S.Cuba ...........OSCil' ReyesC;tec;1'I0slov.kll . . . . . . . . . . . J ,n e , . to lOenma,k . . . . . . . . . . . Erlln9 JenMn

Domlnlan Rapubllc . GuarlonllC FlorH L..Ecuador ........CO l. Rlul Gonules A.Finland . . . . . . . . . KII.vl HlltlnenFrlnce . . . . . Rlchlrd Nleml.lowGambll . . . . . . AObOrt A. ConnorsGermany ........ Capt. William B. Na$flGreece . ...... . . . . . . Geor91 N. B.llnolGu'tofTlill . . . . Ed ...rdo Mendou P.HOII.nd . . . . . . . W.B. v. n (len BergI.an . . Lowls C. Sh epleyIrel.nd . ....... . ...... M.ttln Feeneyl i l ly . . . . . . . . . ..... Aoberto PlnotllJ.pan ..... ...... Jun' IChl' T.k.nasnlI . . o ~ n o n . . .... . . . . . Menlhl. EI KhatibMalt . , Michael A. S.lIbaMexico ...... . . . . . ROberto MartInNow Gulne. . . . . AII\I. N,C.G. CruttwellNew Zealand . . . . . . . Norm.n W. AlforoNo.w.y . . . . . . . . . . . Richard F arrowParagulY . . . COl. R.ul Gonnles A.Peru ..... . . . .... . . olquln Vargll F.PhilippIne Republic . Cal. Ade,lto A. dol..eonPuerto Rico . . . . . . Sebastlan Roblou L.Rumanl . ........TlbClrlul A. ToporSlen. Leone .... . . . . Be.n d J . 000111Singapore . . .......Yip Mien ChunSouth A l r la . Funk D. MorlanSpain ..... . . . . .Antonlo AparIcIo O.S_den . . . . . K. Gost. RehnSwltzerl.nd . . . . . . . . . D . Peler CreollT.lwa n ......... JO$eph MarchT.smanl ' . . . . . . Wllllam K. RobertsTh,lI .nd . . . . . . . . Donald A. Rod.Trlnldild .......... Eu,lco JardlmUruguay . ..... . . W.tte. Fern.ndu L.V.ne;tuela . . Alkokl LadonkoVletn.m . . . . . . . . Terry R. P.ylon

Newswlrel, newSQ'pelS, (lCllo .n d lellvlslon$Ia1IoM ma y quote up 10 25 0 words from th hpubllcllion, p ' o v l d ~ d thll Ihe Aerial PhenomAellluch Dr9lnlutlon, Ine. (or APAOI,(ucron. A.i;tonl, Is gl'l8n IS Ih . sou'ce. Wrillenoermlsslon of th . EdItO' mUit b . Obtalne(l fa quOlesln exu" 0 ' 25 0 wo.dS.

Field InvestigatorsNetworkOn March I, 1972, th ree years after itsinception, APRO's Field InvestigatorsNetwork consisted of 489 individuals(384 in the U.S., 28 in Canada and 77 Inall other countries). APRO has lost 10Field Investigators in that time : 9 resignations and 1 death. Be sides the 77 foreignField Investigators, APRO has Representatives in almost SO countries, who handle investigations, public relation, (radio,TV press) and membership recruiting,The Field Investigators manual is near

ing completion. A physicist has beenputting a lot of work into it and it isbeing reviewed also by a psychologist anda biophysicist. The manual will be available to all Field Investigators, Representatives and Consultants when it is printed.Philip Morrison And UFOs

APRO recently exchanged ideas withDr. Philip Morrison, a leading astrophysicist and the book reviewer ror the journalScientific American. Dr. Morrison, who isa physics professor at the MassachusetlsInstitute of Technology (M IT), was a

MARCH-APR IL 1972visiting astronomy proressor at The University or Arizona during February andMarch.The position that Dr. Morrison t a kon UFOs is similar to that or Dr . CarSagan and some other astronomers whoare atlempting to establish r a d icommunication with extratenestrial intelligence (ETI). That is, the interstelladistances are too great to permit ETvisitation on the scale reported by UFOwitnesses. Dr. Morrison believes that mosi f not all UFO incidents can be explainedas misinterpreted natural phenomena osuch mundane things as aircraft. He hanot personally investigated a UFO sighting or spoken with UFO witnesses so hiknowledge on the subject is naturalllimited.Dr. Morrison was a participant in thAAAS UFO Symposium held in BostonDecember, 1969, and, together withphysicist Giuseppe Cocconi, was the onwho proposed in 1959 that ETI may balready trYing to radio-communicate withEarth. Although nothing fpuitful wagained, it was a pleasure discussing thestopics with such a renowned scientist.

UFOs:A Psychiatric Opinion_ ~ O r . . . L . . . G e r a I d - L a ~ --

Or. Laufer is an Associate Clinical Proressor of Psychiatry at Cornell UniversityMedical College in New York City andConsultant to APRO in Psychiatry.Where does the psychiatrist fit into thpicture? When might he be called upon tinterview someone who has reportedUfO sighting or experience? H you arrequested to see a psychiatrist, will hassume that you are mentalJy unbalancebefore he sees you? Might he be a"expert" on UFOs?I believe a psychiatrist could be ohelp when the initial investigator concludes that some unwuol kind of UFexperience has occurred. The straightroward visual sightings would most orten bof no special interest to the psychiatrisSome psychiatrists might assume beror

they meet you that you I.{e mentallunbalanced, that maybe you had a hallucination or (optical) illusion. Othepsychiatrists might not prejudge you. you make your report to a reputablorganization such as APRO, there isvery good chance that your psychiatrevaluation would be a fair one.There are no psychiatrists who ar"experts" on UfOs. By ddinition , aexpert is one having, involving, or i s ping special skill or knowledge derivefrom training or experience. There are ayet no "scientists" in the UFO ield. B(See OpinionPage Three)


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dertnition, the scientific method consistsof the principles and procedures for thesystematic pursuit of knowledge, involving the recognition and formulation of aproblem, the collection of data thIoughobservation and experimentation and theformulation and testing of hypotheses.There are scientists from other fields whoare showing an increasing interest in theUFO phenomenon. We are just at theearliest stage, that of collecting the data.Hopefully, a worldwide systematic method of collecting and recording data willsoon be agreed upon.When the psychiatrist interviews some.one who is reporting his UFO sighting orexperience, his information is secondhand. He cannot therefore say with certainty that which was seen or experienceddid not happen. He may have a theory orspeculate from a psychiatric frame ofreference, as to why it was experienced orperceived in that way. But he wouldreally be stepping out of line if he were tosay it did not happen as reported. I t isdifficult enough to be objective aboutone's own observations, and very muchmore difficult to be objective aboutanother person's observations. There was"-.... an expression used not too many yearsago which is appropriate-"Vas you there,Charley?" I f you were not , how can yoube sure it did not happen?When the psychiatrist becomes uncomfortable, feels frustrated and unsure ofhimself in his dealings with his patients,he is likely to cover this up by performingan exercise in psychogymnastics, bywhich he amazes his patient, and comesup with an explanation or an answer. Thiscan happen to the psychiatrist or toanyone else who feels pressured or obligated to come up with an explanation oran answer to a baffling problem. Expertsare expected to give answers. They knowthat there are no fields that have been sothoroughly studied that we have all theanswers. It is not always easy to say, "(don't know," "I have no explanation,""Beats me." Thus we have meteorologistswho explain away someone else's UFOsighting with statements about meteors,weather balloons, planets, satellites, etc.And experts in physics may stick outtheir necks and in persuasive tones proclaim that it is impossible for visitorsfrom outer space to come to Earthbecause there is no method of propulsionthat would permit it.No wonder many people report theirsightings anonymously or not at all. Sincemost people are influenced by the opinion of "experts," why should they exposethemselves to the ridicule of friends andneighbors?I have given no answers. I have none. Ihave many questions. As more and morepeople report their sightings and experi-

1M. A.' .O. 1Uu.mNences and as more and more scientistsfrom different fields sift the data, examine it, and hopefully experiment, knowledge will be increased, and graduallyquestions will be answered.Austrio(Continued from Page One)

was a perfect ellipse (from our pointof view)."Mter two minutes it picked uphigh speed and overtook me, theangle of dip decreased to 20 degreesin the distance with the axis pointingtowards 260 degrees of the magneticscale (the object's Vanishing point).The color of the light source changedfrom white to red. As. the flyingbody moved away, the bottom-eilipseseemed to expand and I looked intoa kind of "halo", like the moon has.The halo effect originated from a distinct white ring, which was clearlyoutlined against the sky."The beams of light had disappearedand the white ring was separated fromthe red top light, but both lightedstructures kept their positions in thefunnel-shaped formation. When theUFO finally dashed away in a straighttrajectory to the west, it left an ionized trail - in Rabb's words : ". . . aluminous path of whitish-reddish gasglowing for 20 minutes after the endof the sighting. I called for the twostewardesses and they also watched it,shortly after sunset.""We had corroborating witnesses -Captain Brou wer, commander ofLufthansa flight No. 367, en route toStuttgart, told me via radio that heobserved the object, too. He even sawit earlier than I, over Radstadt, Salzburg - 'Here - do you also see thatstrange thing? Its hanging left upthere in the sky!' he said in his call.A third report came from anotherLufthansa plane over Prague, Czechoslovakia, in flight from Warschau,Poland, to Frankfurt."Captain Alexander Raab (he lives inMoedling near Vienna) is an experienced pilot. Since 1939 he has spent16,000 hours in the air. In spite ofthis he could not explain his experience: "I never saw anything like thatin my life ; otherwise f WOUldn't havemade a report to air-control atSchwechat. I am very familiar with allkinds of atmospheric phenomena; during my transatlantic-flights, New YorkBrussels Vienna, I observeddozens of artificial satellites andmeteors, especially on summer nights.But that object didn't look like ameteor - there was nothing fuzzyabout it . It had ve,ry distinct, geometrical outlines, reason enough forme to inform ground-control Viennaand Munich immediately afterwards."

,AOI aThe coincidence of three independent reports by trained observers soonproved that an actual flying objecwas involved.The radio compasses of Raab'sDC-9 functioned quite normally againwhen the UFO had disappeared. Onthe return flight Frankfurt-Schwechata declination error of 1.5 degrees was

the maximum. We must assume thaan EM-effect of great intensity Causedthe aberration of the compasses. Declination errors also occurred in the direction finding system of the Lufthansaover Radstadt (and perhaps of thethird plane, too).Captain Raab took his observationseriously; he drew a sketch in his logduring the sighting. It was later reproduced in a daily paper. That firsdrawing lacked detail, so press reporters urged Raab to make a betteone for the front pages of theimorning editions. Raab did - and heven drew a third sketch in a TVdiscussion on Monday, March 20. (Sefigures accompanying this article.)The three reports from airlinpilots were handed to the press onSunday morning, March 19. At thatime, UFOs had already caused greaconfusion in the editorial officesDozens of Austrian ground observerwitnessed the strange spectacle in theair on Saturday night:Charlier Kaplan, meteorolOgicaobserver, saw the "fiery funnel" oveSChlins, Vorarlberg."VorarIberger Nachrichten" (a locanewspaper) received some calls fromreaders who had gone for a walk. a7:30 p.m. (CET) iii Dombirn. Thewatched a 'flying cone' over Swiss territory (distance Dornbim Swisborder: about 5 miles), which rushovered with its top pointing upwardsthen down ...1lCds. It disappeared slowlybehind Swiss mountain ridges."Grazer Neue Zeitung" (Styriapaper) carried a headline on Monday"UFOs over Groz" with an articlabout some telephone calls - allegedl"a glowing white shuttle-cock" waseen descending over Graz on Saturday at 7:30 P.M.

"Tiroler Tageszeitung" said that thfunnel was seen over RanggerkopfTyrol, for 15 seconds.When Captain Raab was intervieweon Sunday, March 19, scientists haalready agreed on the only possiblexplanatior.: a meteor.Dr . KJetter from Vienna's CentraMeteorological Station "Hohe Wartemade a statement declaring there waa solution to the whole mystery. Hwas invited together with AlexandeRaab to take part in a TV discussioon Monday night.(See Austria-Poge 4)


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eiat10nary pbaseCOp1 of aD orlfilnal draw1n8 byAustria(Continued from Page Three)Arter Captain Raab had given hisfull report (from which I quoted inthe preceding pages), the word waspassed to Dr. KIener, who said it washis opinion that Raab plainly observeda brilliant meteor."A rock from space exploded overCentral EUrope at great height andseco ndary meteors, debris of theoriginal body. fell to earth overFrance, Switzerland, Gennany andwe stern Austria at different trajectories.affecting plane's compass systems bythe strong magnetic innuences of theirionized fields (the ''tubes of ionization" with ' their electrical cunents)."Kiener compared the EM effect tothe black-out period of a returning

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f l i gh t phaae ionized t ra i lCaptain Alexander R&ab, AU'.

spacecraft. He also said the halo-tikering had been a mere "magnifyingdouble-image of the meteor itself", a"backward sclf-projection," which canbe seen during the fltSt ascent phaseof a rocket's launching, when thebottom becomes visible. The changeof direction was caused by an alternating shock-wave, because the nonaerodynamic, irregular meteor was notable to remain in a constant flightpath.Dr. K1etter's explanation was wellgiven theoretically. He didn't watchthe UFO himself and I may refer tocaptain Brouwer who just laughed atthe question from flight-control i f hehad seen a meteor. captain Raab'sreaction was similar but more sensible :He was not willing to accept KIetter'stheory ("Had it been a meteor Iwouldn't have reported i t ' ' ' ) but didDlotr lhUOD o t UFO 81ghtinc: reports Llarch 1 - 18 , 1972 :

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MARCH-APRIL 1972not enter into a fruitless quaneRaab kept his distance and his goomanners by drawing his own conclusions without telling them to thpublic ("Its not my task to explaiwhat I saw .. , I leave that to thscientists . . ") .Canada

(Continued from Page One)p.m., and the moon was full . Miss Clappiscn was inside her home when shwas attracted to a light outside thwindow. She went to the front of thhouse accompanied by her dog. GeorgeShe was shocked to see a rectangulashaped objecl on the ground at thintersection of two roads.Despite the full moon, Miss Clappisocould not see the outline of the objecitself. and could only describe the lighteportion where a "man" was apparentlaware of her presence and was using hbody and arm to conceal what appeareto be a control or instrument panel osome kind. The "man" also was trying tattract the attention of another " manon the outside of the object who wastopped over, picking things off thground.Miss Clappison tried to move closebut her dog, who was trembling--ancowering; - kept-pushing 'lierDack. Shthen went into the house to get hebrother to come ou t and see the thinShe looked out the window again, but thlight was gone. She went to the arewhere the object had been but it wgone. However, the grass in that area wblack as i f it had been burned and wheMr. Allan interviewed Miss ClappisonOctober the blackened area was still vermuch in evidence.Miss Clappison said neither of th"men" were over five feet tall and bowere wearing olive green clothing whiccovered them completely, including thefaces. The hands appeared to be encasein mittens and the man who was outsidthe ship seemed to have difficultypicking up whatever he was reaching foThe light from the "ship" was whilight and li t up the sunounding area. MiC1appison was approximately 200 feCrom the lighted portion of the objewhich she estimated to be about 10-1feet in diameter.The description of the occupants this case compares favorably with thCowichan, British Columbia case of Janary I, 1970.- - -

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Califarnia(Continued/rom Page One)"orange balls" in the sky which followed their car, and "flare-typeflashes" both ahead and behind them.After a while, two of the "orangeballs" touched and as they did so thetltird one reportedly flew up and dis-appeared in th e overcast. The othertwo ascended more slowly and fadedout of sight. The youths claimed theorange balls were as big as basketballsheld at arm's length. They believedthem to be about one half miledistant. (Mr. Murphy suspects that theboys may not have understood the"a t arm's length" concept, in spite ofrepeated eXplanations.) Later, theyclaim that yet another light, bluewhite and oval, paced their car for 5or 6 miles.Darell's father, Dean Rich, did notbelieve the boys at first, but heagreed to return to the scene of thehumanoid sighting. One of the boysrefused to return. Dean Rich to okalong a handgun. Mr. Rich also notified the Anderson Police Departmentwho in tu m notified the ShastaCounty Sheriff's Office. A patrol carparked on the bridge that night butsaw or heard nothing unusual. Mr.Rich claims that he also heard the''screech'' when he returned with theboys, although he saw nothing unusual. Mr. Dean owns a welding shop,is a respected business-man (he piansto run for City Council) and is apilot.Mr. Murphy conducted a thoroughinvestigation (which included an inspectiun of the ground in the area ofth e humanoid sighting; nothingabnormal was noted). One must accept the word of the boys or labelthe incident(s) as a hoax. Mr. Murphyconcludes: "Neither the newspaper reporters, nor I nor the boys' parents,nor local ranchers think it is a puton."-----

Baak ReviewThe Age o fFlying Saucersby Paris F1ammonde

Hawthorn Books Inc., N.Y. $8.95288 pages.The literature on flying saucers isextensive. Air Force personnel, fast-buckartists, astronomers, private UFO researchers, and many other people indiverse fields have published books aboutthe subject. Most of these books areworthless. Poorly written, sensationalistic, and inadequately documented, theymore often repel serious UFO studentsthan stimulate their interest.Of al l the books on UFOs, only a b o u ~a dozen are worthy of attention. One of

n i l ......LO. IULllnNthe most recent is The Age of FlyingSaucer.;: NOles on a Projected History ofUnidentified Flying Objecl$ by ParisFlammonde. Despite many limitations,this book is a serious attempt to fill theneed for a sound, scholarly history of thecon troversy. Flammonde, having collected data and read literature on flyingsaucers for a number of years, claims he isa "scholar" on the subject. His purpose inthis book is to delineate au the events,personalities, and books that were important to the history of the subject from1947 to 1969. The sum total of theseevents, Flammonde believes, makes up aunique period in American history thatcan be considered an "age."The Age of Flying Saucer.; contains asubstantial amount of factual information, many interesting anecdotes, a fewvaluable appendices, and a rare treatindeed-an index. Flammonde focuses onfour components of the controversy: theAir Force, major "contactees," personalities who made names for themselves inUFO circles, and books about the subject.The book is divided into two parts:analysis (the fllst and last chapters) andchronology (the other chapters). The"history" begins in 1947 with theKenneth Arnold case and ends in 1969with the termination of Project BlueBook. The events in the middle arerelated in strict chronological order togive the impression that the book "provides a sufficiently evolutionary pictureof the era to permit a reader of it alone tohave a reasonably sophisticated idea ofwhat the epoch was au about" (p. vii).Except for the factual information,valuable mainly to the initiate who knowslittle about the subject, and the "extras"of the appendices and index, however,The Age ofFlying Saucers is a disappointment. The flyleaf claims that the book isa "comprehensive-yet authoritative andconcise thoroughly objective ..complete and thought-provoking history." The book does not live up to thisglowing description.F1ammonde's problems begin almostimmediately. He becomes stuck in thetreacherous ground of trying to defineand differentiate between the terms "unidentified flying object" and "flyingsaucer." To Flammonde, a UFO is "anycelestial phenomena whose nature wasunknown and unresolved" and a flyingsaucer is a "spaceship, apparently intelligently operated and probably of extraterrestrial origin" (p. 5). These defmitionsare acceptable as far as they go but beginto blur into one another as the accountprogresses. Flammonde loses sight of hisoriginal defmitions and begins to use theterms interchangeably. Consequently, thereader is never sure which phenomenaFlammonde is talking about .Moreover, Flammonde seems to beconfused about which label to place onpeople who J : I ~ v e different kinds of sight-

-...ings. I t appears that people who see"flying saucers" are contactee-type charlatans like Adamski ana Fry whereasthose who see "UFOs" are usuallyrespectable, although they too may be"contactees." Reputable people whoclaim to have had a close encounter witha flYing saucer or a contact with occupants pose a problem for Flammonde. Hebasically regards them as contactees, i.e.charlatans, but realizes that this categorymay be unfair. Fo r example, when discussing the Barney and Betty Hill caseFlammonde says on the one hand that itis "quite apparently beyond the expertisepossessed by the evaluators" (whatevethat means) and implies on the othehand that it is a case of "folie a deux" (p187). Later he equates the Hills withcharlatans by saying that the "Barney andBetty Hill contact claim is a drab substitute for the tales of Adamski, Angelucciand Menger" (P. 224). Similarly, LonnieZamora becomes a "semicontact."Flammonde's definitional problemsbelie a certain confusion about whichphenomena he is dealing with. In addition, he had a troublesome penchant forjargon, often using words like "urolOgical," "saucerite," and "saucerology."These terms add to the reader's confusionand make it impossible for Flammonde topresent his ideas in a preCise manner.The language and defmition problemsdo not exist in the use of individual termsor words alone. They exist in the theoretical basis of the book as well. FlarJImonde's ideational framework revolvesaround the concept of an "age." Whilemost historians would agree that the period from 1947 to 1969 does constitute aunique episode in American societyFlammonde never defmes the concept oan "age" in the book. Indeed , he uses theword interchangea b ly with "era,""epoch," and "period." The reader is baffled by the concept that is supposed to bethe focus of the book.An "age" is no t simply a period oyears in history. It is, rather, a complexset of interwoven ideas and events thagive a certain period of years a speciaquality. To label a span of years an "age,"the author must do more than say thasuch and such events occurred. He alsomust attempt to explain why they happened at that particular time and placeThis is a societal analysis. AlthoughF1ammonde focuses on four major aspects of the UFO controversy, he doenot explain the relationships amongthem. What the reader gets is a paragraphabout the Air Force, followed by aparagraph about con tactee Daniel Fryfollowed by one about NICAP, followedby one about a South American sightingFlammonde makes no transitions andshows no relationships among the topicsHe cannot make a case ror "the age"because he does not have the necessary

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Enquirer Reward PanelWhen the National Enquirer UFOpan el me t recently in Palm Beach, Floridato exam ine the initia l crop of applicationsfor the ,50,000 "U FO Proof" award, aca mera man ca ught them in th is informa l

moment as they read and discussed theva rious ent ri es.Left to right, above, arc Dr. R. LeoSprinkl e, Dr. Frank B. Salisbury. Dr.James I-larder, Dr. Robert Creegan a ndDr. 1. Allen Hynek. At the far right is Mr.Lorenzen, APRO 's Director.APRO is acting as th e consu ltant organization to Th e National Enquirer inthis and other UFO matters. All boardmembers except Dr. Hynek are APROco nsulta nt s. At this meeting the board reco mmended that a n additional award of55,000 be offered for "best evidenceshor t of co nclusive proof". The Enquirerhas since concurred and announced th eaddit io nal prize.To qualify for either award, individu alsmust apply in writing to the Nan'onal En-quirer, 600 South East Coast Avenu e,Lanta na, Florida, 33460 , stating the nature of their proof. The board wil l initiateany indicated fo How- up investigation.Review

(Con fillued from Page Five)analytical fra mework from which to dealproperly with the element s in his book.He has no societal analysis in his chron ology.In the Forewo rd, Flammonde statesthat because of the limitations of spaceand budget, he was forced to "forfeitdetails and analyses in order to coversometi mes only lightly-the entire period " (p. viii). This is the most regrettableaspect of th e book. Yet Flammonde does,in fact , attempt to analyze the reasonswhy all these event s occurr ed . This analysis takes place in th e first and lastchapters and quite literally has no relationship to the information contained inthe rest of the book. The ana lysis see msto have been thrown in to prove that

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Flammonde is indeed a "scholar. " Andthe analysis is artifically bolstered bylarge doses of jargon. Fo r in stance, onc ofFlammonde's thcses is that the "age offlying sa ucers" became possible when.four event s took place:The world was p repared, shaped by

four conditions: the mechanical assessibility of other worlds; th e destTuc-tion of th e heroic image, the perpetua lfather-in-oneself, the dream of whatmight have been, given ot her conditions or another time; the forebodingof oblivion and the erasure of the fleshand soul forever; the ultimate , irrestible vulnerability, the last shield goneman alone. The human race was ready- preconditioned, conditioned, andattuned; alJ of the elements necessaryfor the optimum environment were athand (p . 10).

This jumble of words may be true. ButFlammonde docs no t suppor t his theorywith examp les or any kind of factualinformation. He neither constructs anargument nor builds a case; instead, hepro nounces.Even more baffling than Flammonde'stheoretical spou tings about "t he age" arehis many patenUy-ridicu lous sta tementsthat are supposed to demonstrate " learning." He genera lizes abou t "the hum anrace" and "the world ," providing no datato support his beliefs. He indulges insophomoric meanderings abo ut the deathof "father figures" and the fall of leaders,implying that these events are, in someund efined way, related to the public'sreaction to flying saucer reports. "R oosevelt was gone, Hitler was gone, Mussoliniwas gone, Stalin and Chiang were soon togo, Hirohito was dethroned, and WinstonChurchill deposed," Flammondc ex plains(p. 224). Bu I wha t docs this have to dowith the UFO controversy? ThisFlammondc docs no t exp lain.F lammonde makes Roosevelt a rat herfigure bu t does not show how Roosevelt'sdeath is related, societally and psychologica lly, to the UFO controversy. Similarly, he implies that Hitler's deat h is re latedin some way to the UFO issue. I t would

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be fasci nating to know how! These areinteresting "mind trips" bu t Flammondeoffers no support in reality. The samecriticisms hold true for his statementsabout Stalin and Chiang, especially con-sidering his hindsight projection into thefuture that they "were soo n to go."Moreover, his facts are wrong: Hirohitowas l Iot de throned and Winston Churchillwas deposed in office on ly, remainin g apopular hero an d world-wide politicalcelebrity.F lammonde's attempt at ana lysis is atravesty . The reader is no t present ed ahistory of the controversy but a chronological treatment of the events that tookplace in the years under study.Flammonde does not prove his case foran "age ." Th is is neither " history" nor"projec ted history," whatever thatmeans.

There are other problems with thebook . The author over-emphasizes therole of his friend and talk show host,Long Joh n Nebel (whose showFlammonde once produced). Nebel is forFlammonde "the coagulat ing factor , thecoa lescing element, that turned a th ousand ta les of unlikely po ss ibilities into acohesive psychosocial co nsciousness" (p.90). Flammonde devotes an enormousamount of space to Otis T. Carr, giving noreason for this. I-Ie does no t mention the"sanitized" or "desanitized" versions ofthe Robertson Report and its tremendousimplications for the Air Force. His concentration on t he contactees detractsfrom the serious implications of thesubjec t. He ignores many reputable claimsof occupant sightings and communicationattempts. This list of problems can beexpanded.The Age o f Flyillg Sallcers is anadequate compilation of factua l information on the UFO controversy between1947 and 1969. Flammonde ha s hadsome experience in pulling togeth er amassive body of facts in the book hewrote on Jim Garrison's investigation oflFK's assassinat ion . But presenting factsabout the UFO controversy is notenough . The author's stated purpose is toprovide a ltistory of an "age," to help thereader understand the era, and he doesnot do this. The se rious UFO student willhave to wait until a sound , scholarl yhistory co mes alo ng. David M. Jacobs,

Department of Hi story;University of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin.

Man's MessageTo The Stars

A fter several postponements, theNational Aeronautics and Space Administratio n (NASA) launched its lates t andmost soph isticated deep space probe,

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.(Con tinued from Page Seven)Pioneer 10, on March 2, 1972, from CapeKennedy. Pioneer 10 was propelled awayfrom the Earth's gravitational pull by anAtlas-Centaurrocket at 31,413 miles perhour, the fastest any man-made objecthas ever travelled. Less than 12 hoursafter launch time, the S6S-pound vebiclecrossed the Moon's orbital path andcontinued on its 600 million mile trip toJupiter, the largest planet in the SolarSystem.

I t is expected to pass within 87,000miles of Jupiter exactly 21 months afterljlunch date (December 2, 1973). Thespacecraft will conduct 13 experiments(some of which are being handled by theUnivers:ity of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory), including a study of theasteroid belt between Mars and Jupiterand an attempt to obtain the first closeup photographs of Jupiter.Besides conducting experiments further and longer than any previous spacevehicle, Pioneer 10 has another distinction. It will be the first man-made vehicleto leave the gravitational pull of the Sun(after being spun away by Jupiter's giantgravitational field) and travel through thedepths of the interstellar void; truly,man's first interstellar spacecraft. Due tothe possibility of the spacecraft beingfound by extraterrestrial intelligence(ETJ), two Cornell University astronomers, Dr. Carl Sagan and Dr. FrankDrake, arranged with NASA to attach a6" by 9" aluminum plaque to Pioneer10's antenna supports. The plaque isintended to provide ETI with briefknowledge of man and his location in thegalaxy: Sagan and Drake describe their"experiment" in detail in the February25, 1972, issue of Science, journal of theAmerican Association for the Advanceltlent of Science and include a replica ofthe plaque, which is also reproduced here.The authors calculate that it will takePioneer 10, at its relatively slow speed,about 80,000 years to travel I parsec,which is about 206,265. astronomicalunits. For comparison, Alpha Centauri,the closest star to our Sun, is about 1.3parsecs, or 270,000 astronomical unitsdistant. Simple statistical ca1culationsdemonstrate that it will take Pioneer 10longer to come within 30 astronomicalunits of another star than the age of thegalaxy itself! An astronomical unit is theaverage distance between the Earth andthe Sun, 93 million miles. AlthoughPioneer 10 may travel literally billions ofyean before passing close to another star,the chances that such a star would harborintelligent life are almost inflnitelyremote. However, Sagan and Drake postulate that ETI may "have the means ofdetecting an object such as Pioneer lOininterstellar space, distinguishing i t fromother objects of comparable size but not

THI 1..'."0. IUumNof artificial origin and then interceptingand acquiring the spacecraft."The plaque, which is anodiled withgold to prevent space erosion (mainly dueto micrometeorite pitting), has a thickness of 50/1000". The depth of engravingis about 15/1000". At the top left comer,the plaque depicts a hydrogen atom, themost common element in the knownUniverse, undergoing a transistion fromantiparaUel nuclear and electronic spinsto parallel nuclear and electronic spins,which discharges a radiation pulse of21cm. To the right of the female figure isa binary equivalent of the number 8;multiplying 21cm by 8, E.TI could easilydetermine that the beight of the female is168cm (or 5'h feet). Furthermore, thehuman flgures are superimposed over adrawing, to scale, of the Pioneer 10. Withthe vehicle in their possession, ETI couldverify these figures.The star-like drawing below the hydrogen atom corresponds to the positionsand periods of 14 pulsars (as perceivedfrom Earth at this time) which shouldenable ETI to determine the location ofthe owners of Pioneer 10. "The problemthus reduces to searching the astronomical records to frnd the locale and epochwithin the galaxy at which 14 pulsarswere in evidence with the denoted periods and relative coordinates" wrote theastronomers. They stated that pulsars"can be used as galactic clocks for timeintervals of hundreds of millions ofyears" and added: " I f the spacecraft isintercepted after only a few tens ofmillions of years (having traveled severalhundred parsecs), aU 14 pulsars may stillbe detectable."Reviewing the data, alien astronomerswould be able to place the origin of the

Pag' 7vehicle to within 20 parsecs, knowingthat it came from I of 100 stars. As afurther aid towards identification, a schematic drawing of the Solar Systemappears at the bottom, indicating that thevehicle originated from the third planetand new past the fourth and fifth planetsbefore commencing its interstellar trip.Sagan and Drake state that they "cannotsee any conceivable danger in indicatingour position in the galaxy, even in theeventuality, which we consider hiahlyunlikely, that such advanced societieswould be hostile. In addition, we havealready sent much more rapidly movingindications of our presence and locale:the artificial radio-frequency emissionwhich we use for our own purposes onEarth."The final part of the "message" is thimage of a nude man and woman, toscale, superimposed over Pioneer 10. " Iseems likely" wrote the astronomers " ithe interceptor society has not had previous contact with organisms similar tohuman beings, that many of the bodycharacteristics shown will prove deeplymysterious. .With a set of humarepresentations to this degree in detail, iwas not possible to avoid some raciastereotypes, but we hope that this manand woman will be considered representative of aU mankind. A raised outstretchedright hand has been indicated as a 'universal' symbol of good will in many humanwritings; we doubt any literal universalitybut included it for want of a bettesymbol "Sagan and Drake conclude: "This message is a first attempt to specify ou

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o o o t:ngraved olaque attached to man'lI firllt in ter . te l ler spaeeeraft., Pioneer 10.Cre::it.: Seiell(:e, . e r l e " , bllOc1ation for the AdvtnCftC'!nt ot Selene", W , n h . l ~ l . O n D,C.


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Message(Continued from Page Seven)position in the galaxy, our epoch andsomething of our nature. We do not know

i f the message will ever be found ordecoded ; but its inclusion on the Pioneer10 spacecraft seems to us a hopefulsymbol of a vigorous civilization onEarth."While Sagan and Drake attempt tosend a message to ETI across trillions ofmiles over billions of years, they will notseriously consider the possibility of ETIbeing already at the Earth's environs, inthe fonn of UFOs. Dr. Sagan's views onUFOs were given in the last (NovemberDecember, 1971) issue of The APROBulletin.Hopefully, some far distant society,which presumably does not yet evenexist, will find Pioneer 10 and learn aboutMan's existence in the Universe. In themeantime, unconventional aerial vehiclesare being reported nea r the Earth's surface by aU human cultures. The possibility of such a society being already here isa very r e a l . _ o ~ n ~ _____Landing Report In France

French Representative RichardNiemtzow and Consultant in PhysicsDr. Rene Hardy, of Toulon, have forwarded a preliminary report on analleged landing of a UFO at theCivieres Commune in Eure, France.The witness, Mr . Daniel Loretz,who operates a radio and TV store atToumy, is 63 years old. He has beena voluntary fireman since 1937 andhas run his local fire department since1949. The observation took place onMarch 18, 1972, at 9:25 p.m., localtime, as he was driving by a field,returning home from Pacy-sur-Eurewhere he had had his car repaired.Me. Loretz's own words (translated byMr. Niemtzow) describe the incident:" I was driving my Renault 6 whenI sa w a dark object coming from thesky right towards me. I immediatelystopped the car and the object landedpractically vertically in a field, about150 meters away. It was oval inshape, dark, and stood about 2 metersin height. In the front were 2 palelights coming from two 'port holes'which were directed toward theground. In the rear was a red light oflow intensity. About 30 seconds afterthe landing the lights b l i n k ~ d out andit made a noise like a large tractor."This created 3 strong impressionon me and I hastily departed in mycar but I had trouble in making itgo. The engine is almost new but itcoughed for several meters before running normally. The next day, I returned to the same place but the

THI A.P.LO. lunmNfield had been plowed and all traceshad disappeared."little is known about the credibility of this single witness at thistime, but Mr. Niemtzow has promisedfurther information on the case whenit is available.=---

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The British magazine Flying SQucerReview has published a Special Issue No.4 titled "UFOs in Two Worlds" containing articles by Rev. Norman Crutwell, Mr.Gordon Creighton. Mr. Vic ente JuanBallester Olmos and Dr. Jacques Vallee.The publication may be obtained forUSSl.80, postpaid, by ordering directlyfrom FSR at 21, Cecil Court, CharingCross Rd., London WC2 , England. Makechecks payable to FSR Publications Ltd.More On Kansas CaseAPRO presented preliminary findings of a UFO landing report inDelphos, Kansas, on page I of theNovem ber-December issue of TheAFRO Bulletin. That investigation wasconducted by Field Investigator TedPhillips. Since then, Field Investigator

Oancy D. Tull, a lawyer from Kansas

MAACHoAPAI L 1972aty, Missouri, has sent in additionainformation based on his investigatio,for APRO.The incident occurred at 7 p.m(CST) on November 2, 1971 and involved Ronald Johnson, 16 year olson of Mr. and Mrs. Durel Johnsonwho own the farm where the observation occurred. Mr. TuU pieced thevents together as follows: Ronald anhis father were outside when MrJohnson called them in for suppeMr . Johnson went in and they bot"leisurely frnished their meal." Thtook about 30 minutes. After fmishinit, they called Ronald again but thecannot recall if he answered them.Ronald is not certain when hheard the ''rumbling sound" (see previous Bulletin) and is somewhaconfused over the time sequence othe observation. It appear.; thatleast 30 minutes passed between thtime Mrs. Johnson fltSt called and thtime he ran into the house tdescribe his observation. Ronald hadifficulty in accounting for this "los30 minutes.The Bulletin will now quote drectly from Me. Tull's report:"The phrase 'metallic surface'should not be used, as Ronald

sa..w an_ ..object ._but _ could notdescribe a surface. The bottomof the object was about onefoot above the ground level butRonald could not recall seeingthe actual ground level. The baseof the object seemed stationary,but th e upper portion wasmoving, or vibrating from sideto side, or perhaps wavering upand down."The illumination of the objectapparently began some minutetime after Ronald first saw it.The sequence of events was: (1 )Ronald heard the "rumblingsound" when he took a step ortwo to the north, and (2) heobserved the object approxl,mately I foot above groundlevel although he could not seethe ground, and (3) the base ofthe object was stationary andthe upper portion vibrating, orin motion, and (4) the illumina-tion began. He described theillumination as appearing like anarc, such as the electric light be-tween an electric welding rodand metal being welded. This arcflash began at the base of theobject and almost instantaneouslyinvolved the entire object. Thearc flash caused Ronald to havean apparent flash burn in bothof his eyes. He described blue,red and orange. There was a

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Kansas(Continued from Page Eight)partial loss of vision, but not"total black" or absence of aUlight. I would assume somethingakin to a flash bum causingtolal constriction of the pupils,an d perhaps even temporarydamage to the rods and cones inthe eyes."Mr. TuU indicated that the sheepwere not disturbed until after theobservation began and that Ronaldwas perhaps 90 feet, 235 0 SEE fromthe assumed center of the ring whenhe first observed the object aftertaking one or two steps to the north.Ronald's eyes watered, burned, andwere blood-shot for at least two days.Ronald's comments regarding theblend of colors and diameter andheight of the object remain approximately as reported previously by Mr.Phillips.The report to APRO continues:"Ronald was positive he saw theobject ascending just above theheight of the hog shed and thenwith a sound like a jet engine,accelerate and move Ino to1750 south over a hog shed,ascend and pass between, or perhaps over, two small trees onthe western side and slightlysouth of the farm house, andover the top of three powerlines running horizontal to theground, one above the other,and on the south edge of theroad, running east and west tothe south of the farm home.After this observation, Ronaldran into the farm house andtold his parents."When Mr. and Mrs. Johnsoncame out, the light or objectwas extremely bright but re-ceding in the distance. Thedirection pointed out by Mrs.Johnson was about 1900 to1950 south and east at an extreme altitude."My opinion of the soil in thering band was that of crystallization or a sand-like nature. Thegray-white color seemed to beoxidation of some kind. Theglow of fluorescent light phenomenon of the soil and trees,accented by rain or moistureobviously was not detectableradiation with normal detectionequipment. But, factually, it wasobservable to the eye, and it affected the emulsification on thepolaroid mm to the extent thatit could be developed, but thedeveloped mm is not a normal

THE A.P.R.O. BULLETINpolaroid color. I will express anopinIOn that your entire staff ofexperts will never satisfactorilyexplain this case. I believe itwill remain a true unknown."Dr. John C. Munday, APRO Consu I t a nt in Biophysics, studied theDelphos report and suggests that thephosphorescence implies a chemical

change in the soil. "Solar illuminationwould provide the light energy topopulate the 10ng.Jived phosphorescentmolecular energy states" wrote Dr.Munday in his evaluation. The soilsamples obtained by Mr. Phillips andadditional samples obtained by Mr.Tull are in the process of beinganalyzed by Dr. Harold Williams,APRO Consultant in Geochemistry.His findings will be published whenreceived.Stanton Friedman Papers

Nuclear physicist and UFO advocateStanton Friedman has two papers available to interested parties: "Flying SaucerEnergetics" and "UFOs: Myth and Mys-tery." The former can be obtained for 50cents and the latter for SI.OO . Writedirectly to UFORI, P.O. Box 941, Lawndale, Ca. 90260.UFO Wave In ChileThe following reports from Chile aresummaries of data provided over the lastmonths by Chilean Representative PabloPetrowilsch. The first incident occured at10:00 p.m., local time, on September

23rd., 1971, at the coastal town ofTocopilla, almost 800 miles north ofSantiago. Many witnesses observcd abright light on the oc'ean, blinking smallerred and green lights at irregular intervals.Most persons presumed it to be a ship,although the lights were not conformingto marine regulations. After remainingstationary for about 20 minutes, the lightmoved slowly towards the south anddisappeared. The next day, the portauthority stated that ships pass Tocopilla8 miles out, but no ship was registered topass that night.Later that night (at 1 30 a.m. ofSeptember 24th.) two truck drivers,Manuel Contreras Santander from Tocopilla and Orlando Tones Ardiles fromAntofagasta, observed a UFO at a veryclose range, at the Brd kilometer on theroad from Tocopilla to Antofagasta between Caleta Buena and Fraguita. Theroad runs between 20 and 100 metersfrom the water's edge. They claimed thata very bright "object" appeared whichfrightened them enough to go 10 thepOlice station in Tocopilla, where theyreported their observation to the "cacabineros." They described an object 20meters in diameter which lighted up partsof the beach over which it hovered. I t

Page 9then flew back over the ocean and disappeared. The truck drivers returned to thescene of the obsef'Yation with three policemen, Sergeant Diogario Contreras La-bran, Corporal Manuel Guillen Munozand carabinero Darwin Antunez Albornoz.The policemen la ter reported that theyfirst observed the UFO about I mile outover the ocean. " I t appeared to be atotally illuminated vehicle" they reporled"which moved about at high speed. Later,it approached the Caleta Buena beach. Itstopped at 150 meters. It was 20 metersabove the water." The policemen, whostayed in the area until 5:30 a.m., described it as an oval object with a "highpart" in the middle.In an interview with reporters, whichwas approved by Captain Hernando SilvaSoto, Sergeant Contreras claimed thatboth the engine and the police radio ofthe patrol car ceased to function wh enthe UFO approached.

The Carabinero slation at Tocopillalater radioed the North Zone Sectorheadquarters at Antofagasta the followingmessage: . . . . . in order to verify theexistence of a luminous unidentified object which had_been seen by drivers. Itwas determined that said vehicle, completely illuminated, was stationed moreor less two kilometers from the beach andil moved about at very high speed. Laleron, it approached tne beach at CaletaBuena, located at about 41st kilometer ofthe same road, where it was noted, at adistance of 150 meters, that it was anobject of an approximate diameter of 20meters, with a helicopter-type cabinwhich was completely lit and which hadsections in the form of windows. It wasapproximately 30 meters above the sea,its identification being impossible."The object was also reportedly scen bytwo other truck drivers, Fernando Labraof Limache and Humberto Flores ofValparaiso, and a carabinero station atFraguita. As far as APRO can determine,no further official investigation was conducted after the sighting.

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