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TheMUFONWO JOURNALNUMBER 139 SEPTEMBER 1979

Founded 1967.OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF

$1.00MUTUAL UFO NETWORK, INC. .

One of two identical UFOsin January 24 Encounter

Diamond mark on Scott's chest in bizarre Tyler,Texas, incident of January 1979


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The M U F O NUF O JOURNAL(USPS 002-970)103 Oldtowne Rd.Seguin, Texas 78155R I CH A R D H A L L

EditorA N N D R U F F ELAssociate Editor

L EN ST R I N G F I EL D 'Associate Editor

M I L D R E D BIESELEContr ibut ing Edi tor

WALT E R H . A N D R U SDirector of MUFONTED BLOECHER

DAVE WEBBCo-Chairmen,Huma noi d Study GroupPA U L CER N YPromotion/Publici ty

REV. BARRY DOWNINGReligion and UFOsL U C I U S PARISH

Books/Periodicals/HistoryM A R K HERBSTRITT

Astronomy

ROSETTA HOLMESPromot ion/PublicityTE D PHILLIPS

Landing Trace CasesJOHN F. SCHUESSLER

UFO PropulsionN O R M A E. SHORT

D W I G H T CONNELLYDENNIS HAUCKEditor /Publishers Emeritus

The MUFON UFO JOURNAL ispublished by the Mu t u a l U F ONetw or k , Inc., Seguin, Texas.Subscription rates: $8.00 per yearin the U.S.A.; $9.00 per yearforeign. Copyright 1979 by theM u t u al UFO Network. Secondclass postage paid at Seguin,Texas. POSTMASTER: Send form3579 to advise change of address toThe MUFON UFO JOURNAL,103 Oldtowne Rd., Seguin, Texas78155.

F R O M T H E E D I T O RCaveat emptor! With that precaution, we dutifully present theTyler, Texas, events of January 1979 involving reported UFO

encounters, ornate UFOs right out of "Project U.F.O.," and anadmixture of parapsychological occurrences including"messages."Dozens of questions spring to mind, but this is a preliminarysummary reported by two well-qualified investigators a medicaldoctor and an aerospace engineer, both employed byNASA. If evera case cried out for intervention by behavioral and social scientists,this is it. The family dynamics, the personal values an d attitudes ofthe protagonists, their mental or psychological health, all requireintensive investigation, not to mention the supposedly measurablephysiological aftereffects claimed by the witnesses. We hope therewill be follow-up reports that will allow objective evaluation. It wouldbe easy to dismiss the entire affair as fantasy, but that cannotlegitimately be done without investigation.

In this issueCE-III IN TYLER, TEXAS 3By Richard C. Niemtzow & John F. SchuesslerMINNESOTA PHYSICAL EVIDENCE CASE 5By Richard HallARGENTINE OIL FIELD LANDING 6UFO NEAR NUCLEAR PLANT 7By Dan R. Wright"RIDDLES OF THE PLANET EARTH" '. 9By V . Migulin & U . PlatovCE-III ENCOUNTER IN ARGENTINA 10By Professor Oscar A. UriondoUFO TECH NOTE nBy John F. SchuesslerHOW TO "HEAR"AND "FINGERPRINT' UFO LIGHT 12By Russ ReardonCALIFORNIA REPORT 14By Ann DruffelBOOK RE VIE W (Messengers of Deception by Jacques Vallee) 16By Vincent R. WhiteIN OTHERS' WORDS 19By Lucius ParishDIRECTOR'S MESSAGE 20

By Walt Andrus

Th e contents of The MUFON UF O JOURNAL aredetermined by the editor, and do not necessarilyrepresent the official position of MUFON. Opinions ofcontributors are their own, and do not necessarily reflectthose of the editor, the staff, or MUFON . Articles may beforwarded directly to MUFON.

Permission is herby granted to quote from this issueprovided no t more than 20 0 words are quoted from an yone article, the author of the article is given credit, an dth e statement "Copyright 1979 by the MUFON UF OJOURNAL, 103 Oldtowne Rd., Sequin, Texas" isincluded.


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Ill IN TYLER, TEXAS: NIGHTMARESOR REALITY?

By Dr Richard C. Niemtzow& John F. Schuessler(Project V ISIT, Friendswood, Texas)

May 1977In M ay 1977, Ronnie Patrick(hereinafter referred to as Ron) saw twoblack figures with arms spread out, nofacial features, no hands or feet, whowere not touching the ground, whowere taller than him, an d growledloudly. He later saw a small, toelessfootprint, with claws, whichhe coveredup . Within one day Ron and hisgirlfriend saw a round metallic UFO,with blue lights.The UFO went into thelake without a sound.

January 17, 1979Ron was l i v i n g w i t h hisgrandmother in Quitman, Texas (northof Tyler), while w o r k i n g on aconstruction project in the area. Hewas awakened at 4:15 a.m. when abeam of light entered the room throughthe window and adjoining wall. He wasdressed only in his shorts.He described the light as"beautiful," white with a blue tint an dsparkles. He touched the lightrepeatedly and it would "go through"his hand and arm. He said: "It didn'thurt, bu t then I felt it was like staticelectricity." The next th ing heremembered wa s sitting in a chair, fullydressed, at 7:00 a.m. He wentimmediately to work an d worked until5:30 p.m.

Subsequently, he experienced a25-pound weight loss, lost hair,experienced burning in the eyes, haddry nose and mouth, diarrhea, andperspired more than normal. Healternated between flashes of insightand loss of memory and had a lot ofnightmares. H is gums pulled away fromhis teeth and bled intensively. Hefearedthe teeth would fall out. The conditonswere verified by Mr. and Mrs. Patrick,Ron's parents.

January 24, 1979C o n f i d e n t i a l name ( h e r e a f t e rreferred to as "Scott") had a recurringdream of a UFO encounter. OnJanuary 24,1979, at 10:00 p.m., he wasdriving home when hisdream became areality. He was about 4 miles fromLindale, Texas, at 10:15 p.m., when hestopped the car to relieve himself. Heleft the car running, lights on, and PeterFrampton tape cassette playing in thecar. He saw a flash of light in the skymuch like he had seen in the dream.The light wa s bright green and yellow,with sparks. This light hi t him. A windwhirled around the car and his hairstood on end as if affected by staticelectricity. Then he saw two ships witha moving violet-red light between them.Later he found himself sitting infront of the car. The lights were on butthe car was not running. He wasscared,shaky, cold, and his stomach was inknots. He had a loss of memoryand thenext day the clock in the car was foundto be 5% hours off.Scott heard a loudring and the carturned on. He returned home at 5:30a.m. where Ron was waiting for him.When Ron saw Scott he said Scott'shair was standing up, he was white,andappeared taller, but toothless* Scottappealed to Ron to hold him, but Ronwas afraid to touch him. Scott appearedboneless and f e l l to the ground,whimpering.

Later examination revealed adiamond-shaped burn, 5 inches across,on Scott's chest (see cover photo). Hehad holes in his pants and socks andinto his shins on both legs. Hishair wassomewhat burned. The PeterFrampton tape had two minutes ofsilence on both sides.

The whole event was quite

traumatic for Scott's family. H is sisterhad nightmares and became veryfrightened, so his father forbade him totalk about the event again.That same night Ron and hismother saw the UFO from the yard athis parents' home in Tyler. Then Ro nwent hunting fo r Scott. H e drove to allthe usual places but was unable tolocate Scott. Then he went to Scott'shouse an d waited for him to arrive (i.e.,5:30 a.m.)

January 28, 1979About 12:30 p.m. Ron was in histruck on Highway 69 near Tyler. Hedrove up a hill an d pulled of f the road.The UFOs appeared the same asseen by Scott on January 24. Theymoved in a triangular pattern. Ron saidit was like a "3-D scene" looking at theobjects. They were a metallic color. Avoice from the object talked to rtirn inEnglish. The voice was robot type, likeit was going through a translatormachine. The voice said, "We knowyour limitations, we mean no harm.We're here to help, not harm." Theysaid they would be back.After the event Ro n felt as if hecould understand many new concepts.He admitted to being a "slow" studentprior to the event.Now he plans to startcollege on a part-time basis in the fall of1979.

January 30, 1979On Tuesday, January 30 , Ro n leftQuitman, Texas, at 7:25 a.m., stoppedat the 7-11 store at 7:29 a.m. and was inOilman at 7:35 a.m. He had covered 30miles in 6 minutes. He was checking thetime carefully on his new highlyaccurate wristwatch. During this eventhis left arm was cut very deeply,

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(Texas Encounter, Continued)through the shirt sleeve, but somehowclosed back up like it was gluedtogether. There is an absence of hair inthat area of the arm and a slight trace ofthe opening remains visible. Afterwardshis arm was weak and discolored andburned whenever w ater touched it. Hisfather verified the aftereffects of theincident. No UFO was seen at any timeduring the event.SummaryWithout the f u l l and continuedcooperation of both Ron and Scott it isimpossible to draw firm conclusionsfrom the information given to date.However, the most striking results ofthis case lie in the physical injuriessustained by the participants. Inp a r t i c u l a r , t h e d i a m o n d - s h a p e ddiscoloration on the chest of Scott haspersisted for weeks. Initially it did peelin large heavy slabs, but did not fadeaway. The results of the cassette tapeanalysis are interesting, but need to becompared with other tapes similarlyaffected by UFOs.Ro n Patrick and his parents, Garyan d Shirley Patrick, have given theirpermission for the publication of thiscase, fo r scientific purposes. Theirfamily unit has been disturbed by UFOclose en counters and they wan t to helpothers to u n d e r s t a n d w h a t ishappening.Scott is trying to get his l i f e back inorder and to forget about the incident.H e desires no publicity an d w i l l nolonger cooperate in the investigation.The inve stigators b elieve that bothparticipants should undergo regressivehypnosis to help remove the fear of theevents and to reveal some possibly veryimportant details of what happenedduring the periods of lost time.One cannot rule ou t fabrication inthis type of case, however, it is theconclusion of this report that theparticipants have revealed the detailstruthfully and to the best of their ability.

Tape AnalysisThe Peter Frampton cassette tapewas su bjected to analysis by Alan Holtand Jack Sassard of Project V ISIT todetermine if information could begained by e xami ni ng th e blanksegments found on the tape after the4

Left to right: RonPatrick, Mrs. Shirley Patrick, Mr. Gary Patrick.January 24, 1979, UFO encounter byScott. The results are as follows:SIDE A - GAP 1Sharp transition from music togaps no clicks or signs of manualerasurePulse shape similar to car ignitionsignalsPulse frequency 27.93 HZ plus orminus 0.61 Hz (3 Sigma)Pulses are modulated in intensityModulation frequencies:7.14 Hz (H), 4.72 Hz (M),3.52 Hz (L)No recognizable pattern tovariance in modulationfrequency (LHHMMLMM-L H M M M M H M M M M M -HHLM)Peak pulse of a modulationcycle varies from 0 to

maximum with no recog-nizable patternPulse waveform frequency lOOHzSIDE A - GAP 2Signal pulses absentNoise is modulated with similarrandom set of frequenciesSIDE B (Gaps start and stop at exactlythe same point as side A)GAP1Signal v e r y i r r e g u l a r a n dinfrequentAnalysis no t performedGA P 2No signalAnalysis not performed(Note the data plots were included inthe report, but they are notreproducible.-Editor)


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MINNESOTA PHYSICAL EVIDENCE CASEThe case of a deputy sheriff whosecar was struck, apparently by a UFO,wa s reported spottily by the newsmedia late in August. Allan Hendry,

chief investigator for the Center forUFO Studies, went to the scene thefollowing day, and it is hoped that a f u l lreport will be forthcoming. Thispreliminary report is based primarily onan account in the Grand Forks, N.D.,Herald on August 29, 1979, plus theMinneapolis, Minn., Star Tribune onAugust 31, 1979.Ab out 1:40 a.m. on the m orning ofAugust 27 , 1979, Deputy Sheriff V alJohnson was on patrol about 10 mileswest of Stephen, Minnesota, in thenorthwest part of the state close to theNorth Dakota border. Johnson is amember of the Marshall CountySheriffs Department, Warren, Minn.Th e territory is flat agricultural land. Hefirst saw a distant bright beam of light"like a spotlight" a few feet above thehighway, which he first thought wasaircraft landing lights, and drove toward

By Richard Hallit to investigate.On Highway 220 just south of theintersection with County Road 5, thelight or object suddenly wa s right on topof him ("...when I got closer-boom!--itwa s right there. Just right now.")Johnson heard glass breaking, the carinterior wa s flooded with brilliant whitelight, and he lost consciousness. At 2:19a.m., the official logs show, he revivedand radioed fo r help. H is dispatchertaped the call, in which Johnsonexclaimed, "Something attacked mycar."Responding to the distress call,Deputy Sheriff Greg W inskowski foundJohnson's car sideways on the road.Hecalled an ambulance, and Johnson wastaken to a hospital where he wastreated for "welder burns" to his eyesand a b ump on the forehead, probablyfrom striking the steering wheel. Later,he was transferred to an eye specialistin Grand Forks, N.D.

The DamageDeputies inspecting the car foundone headlight smashed, a small rounddent in the hood, a broken windshield, abroken red police light on the top, and

two spring-mounted steel antennaebent over nearly 90 degrees. N oevidence of any other vehicle wafound. The car travelled 85 4 feet fromthe point of imp act, at which point tireskid marks appeared for another 99feet. Johnson's wristwatch arid the caclock, both of which had been carefullyset for patrol purposes, both stoppedfor 14 minutes.According to an informal reportJohnson and Allan Hendry appearedon the ABC-TV program "GoodMorning America" on September 11where they discussed the incident withhost David Hartman. Hendry wa s quoted in the press assaying, "It is a most incredible case, andthere are some most unusual clues."Further details and results offollow-up investigations will be reportedwhen available.

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Physical Evidence an d Animal ReactionsARGENTINE OIL FIELD LAN DING

(Editor's Note: The following excerptsare from Radiolandia 2000 magazinefor May 25, 1979, Buenos Aires,Argentina. Comparison with th eKuwait oil field landing case ofNovember 1978 --MUFON UF OJournal No. 133- is invited. Credit:Jane Thomas for translation andannotations.)V izcacheras is located some 80 kmfrom th e capital of Cuyo (the Cuyoregion involvesSan Juan and MendozaProvinces, although each has its owncapital-.-J.T.), and is one of the richestoil regions. There is an extensive areaofm a n y square k i l o m e t e r s b e i n ge x p l o i t e d b y Y PF (Y a c i m i e n to sPetroliferos Fiscales : Government oilfields). For security reasons it is a zoneaccessible only to technicians andworkers of that company. That vastregion is what might be called a realbarren plain. The only approach roadbelongs to YPF; thus, since it is not aNational Highway, nor a p rovincial orlocal one, it is only sporadically used bythose who work nearby. Within th ef o r b i d d e n p e r i m e te r r e m a i n the"estancias" (large ranches) L as Tinajas,Los Cupiles, La Madrugada, and ElPiquillin.In that w ide and private oil strip, onM ay 1 at 4:00 a.m., anon-conventional

flying object hovered noiselessly some20 meters above the ground, aftergiving off multicolored lights. "W e wokeup with the noise made by the goats inthe corral," YPF engineers later said."We went outside with lanterns andworking lamps. It was frightening, an dwe were paralyzed. There, some 70meters from the encampment, as ifhovering in the air, an enormous craftsent us interm ittent lights. They weresignalling...."After a few seconds the fearsubsided and we felt a strange

sensation of peace and curiosity. Oneof us took courage and made a winkwith his lantern , which was answered atonce. Then another did the same, withthe same result....Then slowly, the craftlanded. V ery near. We d idn't knowwhat to do. One of us went running tothe pickup truck and radioed the news.to Post No. 1, where the barrier is.Another tried to go near the craft alone(the others yelled at him to stop, andthey again remained motionless-Editor.) Finally, after persisting with theexchange of light signals, that flyingsaucer or whatever you want to call it,climbed and was lost in the sky towardsthe mountains (the Andes-J.T.). It was4:35 a.m....

Landing Traces"W e went to the place where it hadbeen a few minu tes before. We found abig petrified circle, but what mostattracted our attention was that thesand had now turned into hard pieces,forming bi g tuffs (compacted chunks--Editor)....We took them to ProfessorCorradi, a well-known universityprofessor who is also director of theInstitute for Extrahuman Studies."....(The magazine correspondentthen interviewed Professor Corradi,who said that BobPratt of the NationalEnquirer had just been in his office. Editor)"I have been noticing for some timethat the permanent presence of theUFOs over the u ranium mines ofLa Pintada and Cuesta de los Ternerosin San Rafael and now in V izcacheras, isnot a coincidence," he said...."I havejust submitted several complete reports because I was requested to do so.One went to the provincial police,another to YPF, and the other to theauthorities. I'm no w awaiting the resultsof the tests we asked the Office ofMining to perform on that sand turned

into stone by the UFO...."Aside from the tuffs and thepetrified circle, it is important to pointout that the local animals havecompletely changed their behavior andcustoms from the moment the UFOappeared. The goats, more than 1,500 which always returned to . theircorrals after grazing as all the goats inthe w orld do did riot go back.Seagulls are appearing in the area,which settle on the YPF tanks,

something completely unusual anddisconcerting, for you know ho w manykilometers from here the sea is. (About600 km-Editor.) Dead hares (of a typethat is typical in the south of Argentina-J.T.) are appearing, bitten by snakesand there never w ere any in this region,and there also is a complete exodusofpumas." .

I Mark R. HerbstrittAstronomyNotesTHE SKY FOR SEPTEMBER 1979

Mercury It is too close to the sun tobe seen, being at superior conjunctionon the 13th.Venus" It is too close to the sun to beseen.Mars Moving from Gemini intoCancer, it rises about 5 hours beforethe sun, and is high in the southeast atsunrise. On the 5th it is one degreenorth of Delta Gemini and on the 14th is6 degrees south of Pollux.Jupiter In Leo it rises 3 hours b eforethe sun and is well up in the east atsunrise. On the 26th, it passes 0.3degrees north of Regulus.Saturn It is too close to the sun to beseen, being in conjunction on the 10th.


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UFO NEAR NUCLEAR PLANTBy Dan R. Wright

(State Section Director for Michigan)

At approximately 9 PM,October 5or 6,1976, Mrs. J.F. of Patterson Road,a few miles south of Midland, Michigan,wa s home with her 17-year old daughterLori. Crying an d thoroughly rattled,Ann and Jan, 35-year old twin sistersand friends of M rs. F. entered the houseclaiming they had just been chased by af l y i n g saucer. Mrs. F. recalls that shewas not immediately convinced thatthat wa s what wa s seen, since thesisters were easily excited an d capableof embellishing a story. However, shewa s certain the sisters ha d beenunnerved by something.After 5 minutes when the sistershad regained some of their composure,Rick F., 18, and his friends KarlCrocker, 16, and Mike Ginter, 18,arrived home. Rick states that he held afirm disbelief in UFO reports and soscoffed at the ladies. But when on eshowed signs of crying again andchallenged the boys to see forthemselves, they grew curious anddecided to return along with Lori to thearea to humor them. A s instructed, thefour drove 5 miles south on Patterson,then turned east onto Kent Road.Freshly harvested fields separated bythis lines of woods and occasionalhouses made up this rural area.The youths had gone less than 3miles on Kent when they passed on esuch line of trees opening onto perhapsa 100 acre open area, less than a milesouthwest of the Consumer's PowerCompany nuclear plant then underconstruction. (Rick recalls that thecomponents for two reactors werebeing installed durin g that time and thedomes to cover them were yet to beerected.) Also in the immediate area ofthe large fieldin fact crossing itwerehigh tension power lines on derri ck--type towers. One farmhouse along theroad has a clear view of the f i e l d andRick and Karl both recall seeing twofarmers standing in the front lawn

looking north.As he cleared a stand of trees, theopen area came into view and heimmediately spotted a large objectsome 250 yards into the field,approximately 300 feet above theground. He cried out, "Oh, my God,what is that!" an d brought the car to ahalt, straddling the gravel roadangularly in order to face the object. Hestates that he was excited but notfrightened and on im pulse began toflash his headlights to attract theobject's attention.Th e night was clear bu t with littlemoonlight an d Rick could only see adim outline of the object, which he tookto be either disc-shaped or oval an dover 20 0 feet in diameter. It appeared tobe about 20 feet from its f l a t undersideto a somewhat sloping top, resemblinga hamburger bun in shape. The rim wasquite rounded. At no time during thesighting could he definitely concludethat the object wa s metallic, though heassumed as much. The only lightinitially was a large beacon centered onthe bottom and illuminating a 100-footarea of the ground beneath in whitelight.Then Lori, seated in the rear l e f tseat, began screaming in fright overRick's flashing of the lights. Karl, in therear right with the poorest view an dpossibly distracted by Lori's behavior,caught only a glimpse of the objectduring the first several seconds, whichhe described as a bright white lighthalfway up the the horizon similar to amercury vapor light used on area farms.He states that the light was too high inthe air to be such a yard light, and acheck of the vicinity revealed no lightpole. (It should be noted here that Lorian d M ike, both with better views, havesince moved ou t of state and are unab leto be reached.)As Rick flashed his lights (noeffects upon the auto's operation at any

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time), the beacon went out abruptly.After a one-second pause, a series often or more lights, multicolored and 2feet in diameter, came on sequentiallyaround the underside, a few yards insetfrom the perimeter. These includedred, blue, yellow, green, an d perhapsother colors. N o pattern was noticed tothe colors. Also, in the brief secondsbefore the craft rose up another 30yards or so, Rick noticed a series ofwindows or lights approximately 1 foothigh and 5 feet wide, on the upperportion just above an d inset from therim. There were 2-foot spacingsbetween these.At this point the object movedlaterally to the south, passing 50 yardsin front of the car at about 20 mph andinto an adjacent field, stopping about100 yards away from the car. As itmoved, Rick heard a low hum like thatof a large boiler mixed with a hissingsound. Its height is uncertain when ithalted in that Karl, with a better viewnow, believed it to b e about half the sizeof a f u l l moon, disc-shaped, and. perhaps a few hundred yards in the sky.When it stopped mom entarily, bothRick and Karl saw the object wobble or"teeter" for a few seconds. Then them u l t i c o l o r e d l i g h t s b l i n k e d o f fsimultaneously, replaced by otherpurple lights nearer the rim and smaller"running lights," as Rick describedthem.Then the craft began to movewest, the wobbling no longer present,an d Rick believes the humm-hiss gainedin pitch as it accelerated. He turned thecar around an d gave chase. But after aquarter mile, as the auto reached 80mph, the craft was already a half mileahead an d outdistancin g them easily.Within two minutes it was a pinpointoflight on the -western horizon and theygave up, re turning home. The object'sacceleration, Rick and Karl agreed, was(continued on next page)


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(Michigan, Continued) gradual with no sudden burst of speed,an d must have been several hundredmiles per hour as it faded into thedistance. The entire sequence lastedabout 5 minutes. M rs. F. reports thatthe children returned home veryexcited, with Lori s t i l l visibly upset.The sisters had l e f t the Fleminger

residence on their way to the F. homewhen th e experience began. Whencontacted, M rs. Fleminger stated thatshe recalled the incident and believedher eldest son had viewed the craft fromtheir home as well. M rs. Fleminger alsorelated tw o occurrences with a strangelight and one apparently involving thesame craft in the weeks preceding theabove incident. N o approximate datesare kown to her at this point. Mr.Fleminger, a milkman, was driving towork east on M-46 shortly after 3 A Ms o m e t i m e i n A u g u s t w h e n aluminescent yellow light or shell, 3 feetin diameter and spherical, suddenlyappeared in front of his car. After asecond, it disappeared. In that theexperience was so strange an d fleeting,he did not mention it to anyone. Then, 2or 3 weeks later, after M r. Flemingerhad l e f t fo r work, Mrs. Fleminger wa sawakened by a light from outside. Sh ewent to the window and saw anidentical yellow Jight circling a tall treeoutside. It circled the tree six or seventimes in about 20 seconds, then "justdisappeared." Upon awakening in the .morning, she wondered if it had been adream. Nevertheless, she mentined itto her husband who then related hisown experience before.Finally, perhaps two weeks beforethe primary incident, Mr. and Mrs.Fleminger returned home one eveningabout 9:30 to f i n d their four children,aged 9 to 15, screaming an d cryingunder the dining room table. They saida f l y i n g saucer had hovered and movedslowly outside the home, cascading ablue light in th rough the windows of thehouse, then shot away toward th esouthwest at terrific speed.One year following this series ofincidents, Mrs. F. and her daug hter Loriwere involved in a second brief but verystrange happening. A t about 5:30 PM ,October 15 , 1977, the two were drivingnorth on Patterson Road half a milefrom home on their way to Midland to8

do some shopping. This stretch ofPatterson is lined on the l e f t by a woodswith dense underbrush at its edge. O nthe right is a soybean field bordered bya low fence, occasional bushy thicketsan d tall weeds. There are no houses orother buildings in the area. Two miles tothe east is the D ow Chemical plant an dthe entire area is Dow prop erty. As theywere n earing Pine River Road, anotherr u r a l g r a v e l s u r f a c e d r o u te , a nunknown being leaped out ontoPatterson from the right, its feet 4 feetor so in the air as it came down. NeitherLori, who was driving, nor her mothernoticed it until it was about to land in themiddle of the road. Awestruck, Lorislammed on the brakes, though theywere s t i l l some 20 0 feet away. In thenext second, the being leaped a secondtime across the remainder of the roadas well as a deep gully an d into theunderbrush. Both ar e certain that th eentity did not flex its knees or bend itslegs in any way in accomplishing thelatter jum p which was also to a 4-5 footheight and at least 30 feet in length.Mrs. F. states that the being wasapproximately 5'6", upright with aslender build, and a dull smooth blackcolor from head to foot. She recalls twolegs, though she says these may nothave been jointed by reason of the s t i f f -legged spring. Sh e noticed a torso,neck, and head of normal humanproportions. She did not recall seeingan y arms, stating these may have beentucked or held to the sides. The legs didnot spread apart as it leaped. "It reallyhad the build of a slender teenage boy,"she recalls. W hile it may have had darksmooth fu r, her better guess is that thecreature wore "a black wetsuit, liked i v e r s w e a r . " L o r i i m m e d i a te l yremarked that it leaped like a kangaroo,though of course its structure was notat all similar. The being did not turn toface them and so no facial features weregarnered in the 2 seconds or so thatthey viewed th e entity. Neither di d theyspot a backpack or other device bywhich the being could propel itself so farfrom a standstill . After it disappearedinto the woods, Mrs. F. yelled at Lori todrive forward to the spot. They wereto o frightened to get out of the car, sawnothing as they approached, and socontinued on.A f i n a l note: Rick F. states that

sometime in May of this year, before hisfriend Mike Ginter relocated toArizona, Mike related seeing anotherd i s c - s h a p e d c r a f t o f s m a l l e rproportion s th an the one viewed inOctober 1976, hov ering over PattersonRoad about a mile south of the F.residence. As he approached in his car,the craft abruptly flew off laterally to thewest. N o other details are availableconcerning that sighting.

Scientist Says UFOLanded In Philippines(The following report was published inthe Albuquerque, N.M., Journal an dother newspapers on May 22, 1979.-Editor)D'AV AO, Philippines (UPI) An American scientist said Sundayhe and 600 villagers saw an unidentifiedflying object emitting flashes of lightwhiz over the Philippines' highest peakan d land near their huts.Ron Kruppa, 36, of the American-based Film an d Research for theEndangered Environment, told Davaoofficials he saw a round object movingover Mount Apo, at the edge of Davao,600 miles south of Manila."As I looked into the sky to find outwhy the eagles were making an eeriesound, I noticed an unusually brightstarlike object in the north but almostdirectly overhead," said Kruppa.The object was perfectly round likea big balloon" and gave off a strobe-likeeffect similar to one produced by acamera flash, he said.He-also said he noticed objectsmoving -inside the UFO with xhi sbinoculars, as if picture s of thesurroundings were being taken.The UFO landed in an open spacebehind a cluster of trees at upperBaracatan, and the frightened villagersran into their huts, he said. Twentyminutes later, the object took off anddisappeared in the sky, he said.


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"RIDDLES OF THE PLANET EARTH"

(Translation of ISV ESTIA Supplementon UF O Reporting, Dated 15 January1979 Nedelya-No. 3)Note: Under the heading "Riddles of the PlanetEarth" are two articles, one by two Sovietscientists on unexplainable things in the sky, thesecond by an editorial writer (fem.) V . Popova onAtlantis. The two scientists are V. Miguiin,Corresponding Member , Academy of Sciences,USSR, and U. Platov, Candidate Physical-Mathematical Sciences.-Editor

Not long ago I observed anunexplainable phenomenon in the sky.In the southern portion of the sky abright body flew past giving off strongluminescence. This did not resemble afalling meteorite or the flight of alightening bolt or rocket. What could

( th i s have been? I wanted to know whatscientists think of this.-V. PetrovCity of Kujbyshev

Reports about various unusualphenomena in the Earth's atmospherecame to the Academyof Sciences of theUSSR. The authors of these lettersseek an explanation of their nature,an dmany comment on a variety of rumorsabout unidentified phenomena. Inrecent years sufficient factual materialhas been accumulated, as well asprimary processing/work-up (of data)conducted, that it is now possible todraw some preliminary conclusionsan danswer several questions.

First of all it ought to be noted thatthe very term/phrase "unusual/sing-ular/uncommon" (NEOBYCHNOE) or"anomalous" phenomenon issufficiently subjectiveso that frequentlyknown natural phenomena seem/appear unique to an insufficientlytrained observer. The authors of thereports are people from completelydiverse backgrounds, therefore, theirinformation even about one and thesame phenomenon is indeedheterogeneous and further not alwayscoincides with the true picture. Reports

of distinctly interesting events arerelatively infrequent.From abundant information onecan separate (happenings) into twobasic groups: local phenomena havingan aspect of formations of variousgeometrical forms with comparativelysharp outlines, immobile or movingalong various trajectories; and globalphenomena which can be observedsimultaneously over a large territoryhaving suf f ic ien t ly large angulardimensions and representing complexprocesses with a whole complex oflighting effects.

Astronomical objects are amongthe observable phenomena most oftenattracting peoples' attention. Tracesofnot large meteorites each one of us hasseen at least one and hardly considerthem anything anomalous. And thereare bright meteors, or fire balls, thatoccur a great deal less often andproduce a strong impression even onthe experienced observer, because theyare accompanied by a dazzlingspectacle, lasting minutes, andsometimes even tens of minutes. Notinfrequently the bright planets canstartle one by theirappearances. Theseplanets, especially Venus, are observedin the morning or evening hours in thebackground of a relatively light sky,when the stars are not visible, producean impression of some kind ofenigmatic shining body. If at the sametime there is haze on the planet it isvisible through scattered clouds, theimpression grows and the movement ofthe clouds can create an illusion ofmotion. To this classof phenomena onemust relate the movement of anartificial earth satellite, and moreoverthe dazzling spectacle occurring asthey bum up in the denser layers of theatmosphere.In Earth's atmosphere naturalconditions often arise in which variouskinds of anomalies can be observed.L e n t i c u l a r cloud formations,

characteristics of a mountainousregion, are related to these. Whenthese appear over the plainscountry/flat land, a distinctly unusualspectacle confronts the people of theselocales. Here might italso be mentionedthe various kinds of optical effectsconnected with local or larger scalechanges in the conditions of refractionof light in the atmosphere. They can bethe cause of the appearances of allmanner of halos, false astronomicalobjects, mirages.

But most of all the attention ofwitnesses is attracted to varioussounders and experimental balloons.The length of the lines of such sphericalsounders can reach sometimeshundreds of meters; their air bags cantake odd forms, and sparkling in therays of the sun at an altitude up to 20kilometers present an unusual picture.The Aurora Borealis iswell known,arising in the middle and even now andthen at lower latitudes; or the effectsconnected with scientific experimentsconducted in the upper layers of theatmosphere or in the ionosphere. But inthe given case we are speaking aboutsomething else. To the number thathave not yet been explained are thosevividly bright events observed in thePetrozavodsk district in September1977. Th e veryscale of that event theHelio physical situation, a whole seriesof analogous phenomena (occurring) inthe same district; it is possible thatthese are related to the Petrozavodskphenomena above with the changesofphysical conditions that happened atthe same time in the upper layers of theEarth's atmosphere, and in part in theionosphere. It is, however, too early todraw results.

Perhaps the impression is beingcreated that there is no interest in theinves t iga t io n of anomalousphenomena. It hardly seems likely thateverything hasn't been explained and

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(ISVESTIA, Continued)that therefore nothing in particular is tobe observed. But that is just not so.There is sufficiently reliably recordedphenomena which do not accord withany know n physical process. But we donot see any grounds fo r sensationalismin this; rather it is necessary toinvestigate just what this phenomenonis.Because anomalous phenomenahave been known for a while,enthusiasts often undertook efforts tocollect and report factual materialabout their observations. To an extentvarious authors succeeded in doingthis. However, during selection of thematerial and the analysis, in our view,

serious mistakes were committed thatlead to rash conclusions. However, thisha s been written about frequently an dthere is no need to enter into polemicswith the authors of these sensationallectures and to point out their failings.In the organizations .of theAcademy of Sciences, USSR, in thecourse of several years investigationshave been conducted of variousa n o m a l o u s p h e n o m e n a i n t h eatmosphere, the aim of which is to getreliable objective data about theseprocesses an d physical conditions thatbring them about. In this connection,the complexity of the task as well as thework being of a complicated characterrequire the participation of varioustypes of specialists analyzing in depthan d from al l standpoints the helio-geophysical situation.W e take this opportunity to makeseveral recommendations to thosewhoma y observe unusual phenomena ofvarious kinds. First, attempt to explainon the site (in scientific departments, oreducation institu tions, with scholars)w h e th e r th e t h i n g seen is anastronomical or other quite well knownobject. Second, if it is explained assomething unknown, along with itsqualitative description try to give itsquantitative characteristics.Address fo r reports: Departmentof General Physics an d Astronomy,Academy of Sciences, USSR, JeninskyProspeckt No. 14, MOSCOW 117071

CE-III ENCOUNTER IN ARGENTINABy Professor Oscar A. Uriondo

(Submitted by Fred Merri t t , translationby Lex Mebane. Original source isRevista Atom, Buenos Aires, No. 4,Ju ne 1974, pp. 7-10. Professor Urion dois publisher of a catalogue on Argentinelanding cases, 1972.)A fortuitous circumstance allowedus to hear about this matter , an dthrough the channel of Dr. G. H.(professor on the staff of variousfaculties of the University of BuenosAires) to get in touch with his sister.S'ra. Maria Luisa G. H. de A., thewitness to the landing of an O V N I(UFO).Married and the mother of a littlegirl, although she was born in Spain, shehas been residing fo r some time in thiscountry. A professor of history on theFaculty of Philosophy an d Literature atthe University of Buenos Aires, she isalso a concert pianist and has madeperforming tours under the auspices ofo f f i c i a l cultural institutes. It wasprecisely on one of those tours whenshe had that UFO experience (the firstand only one of her l i f e ) .She was, and still is, uninterestedin occult matters and "flying saucers."After her observation, she attendedsome conferences on this subject, butshe has not read an y book about them.Her personality is not in the leastinclined toward mysticism, she is arealist, with a healthy sense of humor.She gives the im pression of being aresponsible person, well-balanced an dcultured.In the early morn ing of December28, 1954, this lady was traveling ,together with a group of Spanish artists,on Route #143, which connects Sa nRafael with M endoza. They had all beentaking part in the inauguration of a radiostation in the first of these two cities,and were going to the capital of theprovince to appear on television.Therewere in all seven persons, traveling in aPackard car.They had dined very late (laterthan 2 AM) and were talking aboutvarious matters, in no way concernedwith UFOs or the supernatural. It was.approximately 0330 when sudden lyon eof the travelers called their atte ntio n to10

an illumination which could be seen onthe side of the road at their right. A t firstthey tho ught it was a bonfire , but theyfound imme diately that that was not thecase. A luminous object em itting abluish light (like the flame of purealcohol, or that of a welding torch) hadplaced itself in a field 150-200 metersaway. The night was very clear, the skywas cloudless, and the topography ofth e place wa s completely f l a t , whichpermitted excellent visibility.Big As a BusThe UFO had the form of twosuperimposed deep dishes united at the'edge. Its equatorial flange emitted thebluish light (which illuminated the wholeobject) together with a kind of mist. Itimpressed them as something quitesolid and material, although they couldno t make out in it any structural details(either doors or windows). It was oflarge size, "like an omnibus", thew i t n e s s e s r e m a r k e d . T h e l igh temanating from it did not at any timedazzle them.The wi t ne s s e s stopped theautomobile, got out of it, an d went up tothe object, walking through thevineyards. When they were at adistance of approximately half a block,they noted that near the object therewere two human figures. One wasstanding and the other was squatting.

- Their garments consisted of a one-piece diver's suit or overall of a darkcolor, which had an extension coveringthe head with a kind of hood, like thoseused by workers in iron foundries.Besides, it seemed to them that theirfaces were covered by a transparentmaterial like mica, but they could no tmake out any facial details. Theindividual who was squatting stood up ,an d both beings entered the object by asort of sliding door, like a dark rectangleo p e n i n g a g a i n s t a l u m i n o u sbackground. To enter it they lifted theirfeet very high, as if there were a s i l l or asi f the door was at a certain height. Th eheight of the two mysterious beings wasthat of a man of medium stature, an dthey appeared w e l l - f o r m e d . T h ewitnesses could not succeed in(continued on next page)


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(Argentina, Continued)distinguishing their arms, an d theymoved rigidly.When they closed th e door, th eobject began to send ou t smoke, gas, orsteam through its equatorial region. Atthe same time, in complete silence, itrose up vertically (like an elevator) an dremained about 2 meters above thegroun d. Then two lights went on (one atthe top, th e other at the bottom) at acertain distance from the body of theO V NI . These lights went on and offalternately; th e witnesses supposedthat they must be on antennae, thoughthese were no t visible.Alarmed, the witnesses went backto the automobile without taking theireyes of f the craft, which began to makea series .of zigzag maneuvers, with 'abrupt stops (remaining stopped in theair), and at acute angles, of 30 in onecase, they estimated. They all got backin the car and started to drive away athigh speed. The OV NI began to followthem, first on one side and then on theother, or else directly above them.While they were being followed,they saw a number of trucks an d carsstopped along the road, t h e i roccupants having got out to watch theO V NI . In the first hours of dawn and inthe slight mist that comes up at thattime, they no longer saw it, althoughthey could no t understand how it haddisappeared, and for a time theythought that the planet V enus (whichwas very brilliant) was the objectcontinuing to follow them. The totallength of their sighting had b een at leasthalf an hour, perhaps even an hour.When they reached Mendoza, th eimpresario of the group suggested tothem that in order to eliminate thepossibility of a hallucination, theyshould all rest for a while, an d meet lateron to give independently each one'sversion of the experience they had beenthrough. This they did, and all thedescriptions were essentially identical,except for the words used. In view ofthe nature of the professional activity ofall the participants, it was decided notto inform the press of the episode, so asto avoid its being thought that it was apublicity stunt. However, SenoraMariaLuisa G. H. de A. telephoned that da yto her mother to tell he r about thehapening, so impressed was she by

UFO TECH NOTELIFE IN THE UNIVERSE

By John F. Schuessler

The universe is so large an dcontains so much of the same materialsthroughout it that l i f e could havedeveloped near many stars. Indeed, weknow with certainty that living systemsevolved on at least one tiny chunk ofwater-covered rock in a remote cornerof the Milky Way galaxy. Why, then,could l i f e not have developedelsewhere?Do civilizations exist in other partsof the universe? Could they havedeveloped a technology similar to thaton Earth? Do other worlds exist nearbythat could be visited? Whence mightvisitors come? Could we establishcommunicat ion with these civili-zations? Or should we?Questions about the possibility ofintelligent life elsewhere in the universeare exciting, intriguing'and, fo r somepeople, f r ig h t en in g . Indeed, thediscovery o f other advancedcivilizations could have profoundeffects on nearly all human affairs.

What yo u have been reading is theintroduction from a brochure byGeorge Miller - LIFE IN THUNIVERSE. As one might guess fromthis introductory material M r. Miller isinterested in contacting some form ofintelligent l i f e somewhere "out there."Unfortunately, th e brochure takesa cavalier attitude towards UFOs. B utthen, it does not pretend to be pro-UFO, or even "skeptical." The author isfair in his statements where he addsqualifiers such as "by any means wenow know."All in all, LIFE IN TH E UNIVERSEis well written, easy to read, and shouldbe carefully studied by all UFOresearchers. Free copies may beobtained fromPublic Affairs OfficeHarvard-Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics60 Garden StreetCambridge, MA02138

what had occurred. It could becompared (as she expressed it ) with theimpression made on her by the birth ofher first child.The unanimous opinion of theobservers was that th ey were looking atan aerial machine, not a terrestrial oraquatic one. It gave the feeling ofenormous power, with it s incrediblemovements, in defiance of gravity andof inertia. Th e witnesses at first wereno t afraid, but only curious. Theybecame alarmed only when the UFObegan to follow them.ConclusionsThis sighting possesses a highcoefficient of strangeness, because theobservers had such a close view of theobjec t , the r ichness of deta i l sperceived, and the favorable visibilityconditions, as well as in the prolongeddurat ion of the sighting, the result beingto m inim ize the possibility that th ewitnesses could have confused it with

an y conventional artifact.With respect to the inde x ofreliability, it is our opinion that thereport of the lady mentioned abovedeserves to be accepted, not only as toher veracity (there is no real reason tosuspect an y fraud, because that wouldno t agree with the witness's characternor with th e significant fact that fo rmany years she told her story only toclose relatives), but also as to itsaccuracy, at least in the essential datamaintained for almost a year after th efirst interview.On the other hand, vhere , arenegative aspects: on one hand the longtime elapsed since the occurrence ofth e incident, which may have distortedthe de tails of the case by a n atur al lapseof memory, and on the other hand th eimpossibility of comparing the report ofSra. Maria Luisa G . H. de A. with that ofthe other w itnesses, since none of themare at present , in this coun try.

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HOW TO "HEAR" AND "FINGERPRINT" UFO LIGHTBy Russ Reardon

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A c o m m e r c i a l l y a v a i l a b l eelectronic device, a photomultiplier,could take us a lot further down theUFO road by identifying the originationof its light. Fo r example, when focusedon a g l o w i n g l i g h t b u l b thephotomultiplier not only correctlyidentifies the source of excitationwavelength as tungsten on its meter,but also draws the individual tungsten"fingerprint" on its pen drop contourplotter-recorder (Fig. 1). I should like toknow that 24-hour ground bases (andairborne) equipped with this would beoperational where so many UFOs aresighted. The photomultiplier is waitingto con tribute to the solution of a bafflingenigma.Tungsten and the hundreds ofother light sources each have setw a v e l e n g t h s o f l i gh t e mi s s i o n(Angstroms). They are easily detectedand fingerprinted by this equipment.Even holograms. Thus when pointed ata UFO, the source chemical element

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(or whatever) causing UFO red, blue,orange, white, or green light, would beidentified, contour mapped, an d heard.Heard? Yes! A photomultiplier canbe hooked up to an audio-amplifierwhich converts light vibrations-per-second into sound. And each lightsource has its own individual tone orhum on the musical scale. So as a UFOchanged colors, it would literally writeits own song! A nd since we could then"hear the light," it might help us see thelight, so to speak. I expect aphotomultiplier with its moving finger topaint out a lot of the mystery amidstthose unknown lights. The resultswould almost amount to physicalevidence. The only trick would be to"be there" with this equipment.The photom ultiplier is available inth e U n i t e d States f r o m E M RPhotoelectric, Princeton, NJ 80540(image dissector. detector systemModel 658A); or from Nye Optical Co.,Spring V alley, CA 92077 (spectral

range from below 2000 to abov7700A). The photom ultiplier with thpen drop plotter (Fig. 2) is an AminoB o wman Sp e c t r o p h o t o f luo r o me t eCatalogue N o. 4-8106.* Audioamplifiers are available from the Fisher or thE d m u n d s electronics s u p p lcatalogues.These assemblies with theiproven fact-finding potential should badded to our arsenal of motiopictures, videotapes, still photos, radascans, computer enhancements, etcof UFOs. Only when all thestechniques are added will we get ofsquare one.*Both the increment of the excitation wavelengand the scanning speed of the fluorescence amanually adjustable. In this way, the entirexcitation vs. fluorescence wavelength domaiwill be scanned within 10-15 min. Thphotomultiplier will sense the .emission intensilevel at every point in the scanned wavelengtdomain. Note: Information taken from AnalyticChemistry, V ol 50, No. 4, April 1978, includinfigures 1 & 2.


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TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Greensburg, PA - Aug. 1 1 , 1 97 9UFO Baff les TroopersA n u n i d e n t i f i e d f l y i n g o b j e c t sighted earlier t h i s w e e k still b a f f l e s a P e n n s y l v a n i a statep o l i c e h e l l o c o p t e r p f l o r a r i i f h i s p a r t n e r ."I t e l l y o u I t h i n k it w a s s o m e t h i n g . I h e s t i t a t e t o sa y s o m e t h i n g f r o m o u t e r s p a r e , b u t itw a s a s a l e l l i t e o f t h e U . S . g o \ e r n m e n t o r f r o m o u t e r s p a c e , " s a i d S g t . W i l li a m K u t e F r i d a y ." M y p a r t n e r a n d I b o t h s a w i t , a n d w e b o th b e li e v e i t t o b e a U F O p e o p l e m a y s a y w e ' r ec r a z y , b u t w e ' r e n o t senile."K u l e , 3 9 , o f P i t ts b u r g h , a n d Trooper F r e d S c a n l a n , 3 3 , o f E b e n s b u r g , a r e p a r t o f t h e statep o l ic e a v i a t i o n u n i t b a s e d a t W e s tm o r e la n d C o u n t y A i r p o r t n e a r Latrobe.L a s t S u n d a y a f te r n o o n t h e y w e r e f l y i n g a t a b o u t 2 , 0 0 0 f e e t o v e r G r e e n e C o u n t y , a b o u t t w om i l e s n o r t h o f W a y n es b u r g ." I t w a s 4 : 0 5 p . m . , w e were s o u t h b o u n d a n d w e o b s e r v e d a s m a l l ob j e c t c o m i n g i n th eo p p o s i t e d i r e c t i o n , " r e l a t e d t h e p i l o t " I t w a s a b o u t t w o f e e t i n d i a m e t e r , r o u n d , a d e p t h o f St o 1 0 i n c h e s a n d b l u e in c o l o r . A r e a l l i g h t , s i l v e r y b l u e ." A s w e a p p r o a c h e d i t , w e h e a r d a l o u d ' w h o o s h i n g ' n o i s e , it p i c k e d u p a l o t o f s p e e d a n dpassed u s a b o u t 5 0 f e e t a w a y . "K u t e s a i d h e turned t h e c r a f t a r o u n d b u t f a i l e d t o l o c a te t h e o b j e c t a g a i n . " W e w e r e f l y i n ga b o u t 1 2 0 m i l es p e r h o u r c h a s i n g a f t e r i t . b u t w e n e v e r s a w i t again."K u t e s a i d t h e w e a t h e r w a s h a z y w i t h a h i g h o v e r c a s t a n d v i s ib i l i ty o f b e t w e e n 6 t o l O m i l e s" I s ti l l d o n ' t k n o w w h a t i t w a s t h e r e m a y b e s o m e e x p l a n a t i o n b u t I d o f e e l it w a sc a p a b l e o f h i g h speed," K u t e c o n t i n u e d . " I t w a s m o v i n g v e r y s l o w l y w h e n I s a w i t severalh u n d r e d y a r d s a w a y . A s w e a p p r o a c h e d , I th i n k i t a c c e l e r a t e d , c a u s i n g t h a t ' w h o o s h i n g '

GAZETTE, McCook, HE - A u g . 22, .1979

Another StrangeObject SpottedA d a y l i g h t s i g h t i n g inM c C o o k a b o u t 1 1 :4 0 a . m .today is the latest in a numberof reports o f strange objectsspotted i n t h e skies o f N o r -t h w e s t Kansas and SouthwestNebraska.Prior to today a l l o f t h ereports had concerned asighting t h e n i g h t o f A u g . 2 .H o w e v e r , today's sightingwas made by at least threepersons.Ji m Tiller o f M c C o o k said h eand his cousin, John Bartels,

were bringing tw o loads o fcorn into M c C o o k w h e n theyspotted a small object, w h i c happeared to be about one totw o f e e t across, zip across inf r o n t o f them.Tiller said the object wasround, had a b l u e t o p , shinysilver bottom and little b l u elights on it. He said the objectalso had a d o m e on It.H e said the object was about3 0 f e e t o f f t h e g r o u n d a n dcame f r o m the west, across'U . S . 1 3 a n d headed east. T h e

incident happened near theBison D r i v e - I n Theater.Tiller said he Immediatelyc a l l e d Bartels, who wasd r i v i n g the truck behind h i m ,o n the business radio andasked him if he had seen theobject.Bartels confirmed he hadalso.Tiller said there was ap i c k u p truck in f r o n t o f him.and it was o b v i o u s those in thep i c k u p also saw the object asthey s l o w e d and watched itH e said he did not k n o w thosein the pickup.Tiller said the objectcrossed the h i g h w a y just inf r o n t o f h i s truck. H e addedthere was quite a bit of t r a f f i co n the h i g h w a y and he was notable to stop to watch the objectfurther.

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I"By Ann Druffel

UFO SIGHTINGS BY UFO R E S E A R C H E R S : THE "INACCESSIBLE CASES" P A R T I

In every statistical study of UFOsthere is reference to the "inaccessiblecases" those which have never beenreported to o f f i c i a l sources or evenrelated within earshot of a competentUF O investigator. The number of thesecases has been estimated to be aboutnine times th e number which havesurfaced. In other words, only aboutone out of ten sightings is available forstudy.There ar e many reasons why thesehundreds of thousands of inaccessiblecases have not seen the light of day.Perhaps the witnesses have been afraidof ridicule or are naturally shy; perhapssome were disinterested or toofrightened of the event itself to evenconsider reporting it . Others, ingovernmental service at the time ofsighting, have been officially silenced.Others simply did not know where toreport them.There is one considerable group of

witnesses to whom none of the abovereasons should apply, and yet they dono t come forward to tell theirexperiences. These persons, keepingenigmatic silence, are UFO researchersthemselves. Out of th e dozens of UFOresearchers in my acquaintance, Iwould estimate less than 25 percenthave spoken ou t publicly to tell of theirow n personal sightings, even thoug hsome of the reports are of highstrangeness an d considerable potentialvalue. Why are UFO researchersreluctant to speak out? Only one of thereasons stated above should be valid inthis situation, that is , official silencingfor security reasons; but even thisreason is not wholly valid, as the U.S.Air Force has stated publicly that noUF O information is classified.UFO researchers should not fearr i d i c u l e , d e m o n s t r a t e shyness,disinterest or fear, and they certainlycannot claim they did not know where

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to report it! So why should this situationexist? It is my opinion that manyresearchers f a i l to speak out for yetanother reason that they considertheir sightings highly personal and, insome way, related to their own intensedesire to inves t igate the UFOphenomenon.A vital clue to the UFO mysterymight be found i f we can study enoughcases in which UF Os have appeared topersons w ho later, at great expense oftime, energy, money and emotionalharrassment, attempt to study them. Itis with this firm conviction that I stateth e following:In the summer of 1945, in late Jun eor July, to the best of my recollection,Iwas working as a secretary indowntown Long Beach, Califprnia. Ihad completed my freshman year ofcollege and plan ned to retu rn inSeptember. This summer job was tohelp pay the inevitable expensesconnected with a college education!Sometime after 5:00 o'clock in theafternoon, I boarded a bus in downtownLong Beach, rode north to State Street(now Pacific Coast Highway) and theneast toward Cerritos Av enue. Ab outone mile from Cerritos I saw out of theleft-hand window of the bus a bright,unflickering, yellowish-w hite light in thenortheastern sky. It was at about 60degrees elevation and seeminglystationary. It seemed at very highaltitude.

It was still broad daylight, beingsummer at 34 degrees N orth latitude.The sky was very blue and cloudless; itwas before the days of "smog."Because the light wa s stationary, it wasplainly not a relfection off an airplaneand I became curious about it. It wasdefinitely not an astronomical object,either, for I was well acquainted withcelestial objects, having been deeplyinterested in astronomy since the age of

nine.The light had no definite shape, buseemed somewhat more than a poinsource. It had s o m e w h a t theappearance of a daytime V enus, bumuch more yellow incolor, and at leastwo times larger and brighter.I got off the bus and walked a halblock south down C erritos to my hom(1742), frequently turning to watch thobject, which still seemed motionless

Intrigued, I watched it from my fronyard for some minu tes and becamaware that it was moving very slowlytoward the northwest in a straight linacross my line of vision. Finallconvinced that it was strange andunlike anything .that "belonged" in thsky, I got my mother, Mrs. William(Aileen) McElroy, to come out andwatch it.We gazed at it for a few minutetogether. M y vision was excellent, bothfar an d near, and my mother ha d vergood far vision. She agreed that it waindeed strange. She had never seenanything like it before, bu t suggestedthat it might be some kind of a militarydevice, perhaps a balloon associatedwith Coastal defenses. World War Dwa s still raging in the Pacific at thatime, and Long Beach was in anessentially strategic position. M ymother's reassurance took away somof the awe which the object produced inme, but I could no t logically accept heexplanation, the object w as far too higto be a coastal defense balloon, at leasany kind with which I was acquainted.continued to watch it . My motherbeing a practical an d busy person, weninto the house to prepare dinner.Sometime after six o'clock, still inbroad daylight, the object had m oved15 to 20 degrees across the northersky, from north-northeast to northnorthwest, maintaining an elevation o

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(California Report, Continued)about 60 degrees. When I had beenwatching it for about on e hour and ahalf, it suddenly seemed to take on"activity." Pieces of light, the samecolor as the object, began separatingfrom it. M y instantaneous tho ught was,"It's starting to break up!" The"pieces," however, did not f a l l towardthe ground as under normal influence ofgravity. Instead, they took slow,deliberate p aths ou t, up, and away fromthe object on both sides. None camedown straight toward the earth allwere in curved paths up and away fromthe sides.There were at least 10 to 15"pieces," or small objects, and perhaps,more. Each was about 20-30 timessmaller than the main object, and themain object was in no way diminished insize by their departure. Each of thesesmaller objects faded from view afterthey reached a distance severaldiameters away from the larger object.This occurrence greatly awed me,and I felt very frightened as well. It wascompleted inexplicable to me why the"pieces" should act as they did. Itseemed as th ou gh I was seeing thereflection of the sun off tiny objectswhich "rolled" or changed position inrelationship to the sun, and that whenthey disappeared from sight it wasbecause they we re no longer reflectinglight. Each "piece" was the apparentsize of a small star (in the nighttimesky).

I rushed inside an d told my motherwhat was happening, managing to blurtou t that "pieces were coming off butweren't acting as if gravity was actingnormally on them." I begged her tocome and watch it with me. She wa sbusy with the cooking and refused tocome out again. It did not even occur tom e to report the object to anyauthorities.I was so awed and fearful that Iwould not go out alone to resumewatching. The fear was irrational,looking back on it, for the activity in thesky plainly had nothing to do with thewar, or coastal defenses, nor did it seem

to present any danger to humans belowit. Th e frightened feeling, however,stayed with me for several hours.Some days or weeks later, the firstatomic bomb was detonated over

Hiroshima. I was fascinated with theinitial account in the paper, although Iunderstood only a little of the technicalexplanations accompanying th e article.But I felt the identical kind of awe andfear while reading about th e atomicbomb as I had f e l t earlierwhile watchingth e object. Why the two seeminglyseparate even t s sh ou l d p rod u ceidentical reactions wa s beyond mycomprehension, and I made nospeculation whatsoever about it even tomyself.I tried to tell a few friends about theobject my mother and I had seen butwas laughed at, and the event wastreated lightly even by my family. Istopped talking about it , then graduallystopped wondering about it , and theevent slowly faded from consciousmemory.When flying saucers becamepublic news in 1947, I instinctivelythought of the strange object again butdid not connect it in any way with theobjects which were being reported.often in the newspapers. From time totime during the ensuing years,, th ememory of the inexplicable object withits strange "activity" came to mind, butit never occurred to me to do anythingabout it. In no way was it linked to the"flying saucer" phenomenon in mymind.Several years after the end ofWorld War II, the history of the firstatom bomb was published in variouspapers an d magazines. I graduallyrealized that th e initial experimentalatomic explosion over N ew Mexico ha dtaken place in the general time periodthat I saw the object in the sky.Concurrent with this slow realization, Ibegan to speculate that the mainbrilliant object and its "pieces"resembled in many respects the UFOsknown as "carrier craft" or "motherships" with their attendant smallersatellite discs. I began to form a ratherfirm theory that perhaps what I hadwitnessed was a large "carrier craft,"high in the stratosphere, or even inactual orb it around the earth, and thatthe small pieces were UFOs scoutingth e United States fo r informationregarding the experimental N ewMexico atomic explosion.These r e a l i z a t i o n s , andinterconnections of events, took years

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to form. I began to actively investigateSouthland UFO reports fo r NI C A P in1957, but it was several years after thatthat any meaningful conscious memoryof the 1945 object began to be linkedwith the July 1945 N ew Mexicoexplosion and the possibility that th eobject was a "carrier craft."W h e n th e real iza t ion f inallysurfaced strongly in the later 1960s, Ibegan to wonder if my 1945 experiencehad "set me up" for an acceptance ofUF O reports in 1947 .1 was skeptical, ofcourse, of some of the early reports, bu tmy instinctive curiosity was far moreintense than most of my friends andacquaintances. I kept an open mindabout the sightings while others werelaughing at or ignoring them.H ad th e 1945 sighting been aprelude or a catalyst of some sort to theoverwhelming interest I've had formore than 22 years in the UFOphenomenon?I've mentioned this occurrenceonly in a few public lectures, but havenever put it in prin t except as a short"anonymous" sample case in anewspaper article about SK YNET . Itseems time, however, fo r investigatorsan d researchers to come forward andrelate their own UFO experiences.Perhaps rheir sightings have addedvalue above those of the lay public, for itseems that experiences of these sorts"condition" certain people to activelyresearch the UFO phenomenon.(In Part II next month, I w i l l discussthe attempts made to identify the 1945object, including use of a controversialhypnotic technique.)

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BOOK R E V I E WMessengers of Deception, by Jacques Vallee

(Berkeley, Calif.: AND/OR Press, 1979)

I have been a student of UFOs for11 years. In those years I've seen thesubject slowly gain respectability andamass a solid core of widely known an dcredible researchers. An immenseamount of solid data has beenaccumulated and catalogued, the kindof data that a physicist or an engineercan sink intellectural teeth into. Thekind of data that can inspire apsychologist or parapsychologist toseek a wider vision of human definitionand functioning.The study of UFOs has come along way from the time when GiantRock conventions were n early the soleimage many had of people whotrafficked in "flying Saucers." Now thisbook has come along and I believe itgenuinely threatens to tarnish andeventually erode that hard wonrespectability an d progress. In this da yof media hype this book may turn out tobe very influential. If so, it would be agreat setback for ufology. M essr. V alleejust may be one of the hottest ne w talkshow guests around . If this occurs, thenwhat has been restricted to a handful ofesoteric UFO researchers may becomec o m m o n i n t e l l e c t u a l c u r r e n c y :planetary paranoia.Strong words? Perhaps, but nostronger than the words of the bookitself. Th e book's greatest appeal will befor those ignorant of the UFO data.Given the general ign orance of the d ataby the public and the even worseignorance on the part of academia, thebook will either be seen as a new andcompelling fabric of t ruth or more likelyas a . nearly pathological tissue ofnonsense. Most in academia will regardthe book as paranoia piled uponpipedreams. The public will begin toincorporate UFOs into Frankenstein,Dracula, an d monsters from the Id-science fiction horror films of the1950's. The book, in essence, is a

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disaster for the serious treatment ofUFOs by either the public or academia.The only people who may be quitehappy about the effects of this book arehidden in the national intelligencecommunity.The arguments of the book aresubtle. The subtlety, I believe, is thesense of vague, obscure, and almostformless assumptions being takenbehind the scenes of a seeminglyrationalistic structure. In what somehav e said is a tradition al Gallicweakness, logic is taken to its ultimateconclusions of ultimate absurdity andreason is left in the lurch. As in aparanoidal rationality, the structure isfinely worked out but rests uponseriously flawed assumptions that,however, cannot be disproven eventhough those assumptions be eveninsane in nature.What ar e UFOs according to thebook? V allee says, "machines of massmanipulation." UFOs are basicallysome sort of psychic TV sets that goaround interacting with humans for thesole purpose of conditioning behaviorand injecting new beliefs that willdestroy ou r present civilization. TheKremlin wou ld love to have them, theyare a type of psychic chameleon thatcan assume many guises, all of whichare false an d obscure their true nature.V allee is never quite clear as to whattheir "real" nature is. Lately theyassume the appearance of spacecraftdown to the min utes t details. It's allpartof the monstrous deception that theyseem to leave landin g gear im prints andeven malfunction occasionally in a quitemechanical way.What is behind this deceptivepsychic camouflage? It is a mysteriousworldwide agency or group out to foolthe entire human race into believing it isbeing visited by spacecraft from otherworlds. This gigantic ruse is a plot to

introduce other hidden changes intoou r world that will eventually bringdown the present world powestructure. Just who or what thimysterious group really is, is not cleaat all. Of course this is true becausethey have hidden themselves with suchdiabolical cleverness and have suchpowers of deception and concealmentAll this somehow seems clinicallyfamiliar, or at least it might seem so topsychiatr ists. What this psychiccryptocracy intends to do is neveexplicit either. That they intend to do"bad" things and take us oveeventually in some way is indicatedthough.At times the suggestion seems tobe that this group is of relatively recenvintage. A t other places the suggestionis that the plot is ancient. The quitefantastic continuity of aspects of theUFO data i nv i t e s some pre t tyanthropocentric conclusions. What arewe to make of data that seems toindicate, according to such things acave paintings of UFOs near LascauxFrance, that some .UFOs haven'changed in thousands of years? Whaare we to make of what seem to bespacesuited figures clearly drawn onrocks in the African desert many manythousands of years ago? What are we tomake of clearly humanoid reports andtechnological details from UFO reporthundreds of years ago? Are we to reallyassume that this deception beganthousands of years ag o and then knewthe correct technological items to puinto the camouflage? The deceptionbecomes as monstrous in itcomplexity as Ptolemaic cycles andmetacycles became monstrouslycomplex to describe the motions of theheavenly bodies. V allee's explanation ia t y p e of Pt o le mai c needlescomplexity inviting Occam's eversharp razor.(continued on next page)


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It is hard to understand theattention to detail that results in anativefrom some infinitesimal Pacific islandwh o knows nothing of spacecraft orUFOs seeing a flying saucer land andseveral humanoids in strange suits ge tout and perform various sample-gathering tasks.Ten years later anaircraft pilot sees the same type sauceran d humanoids with all the samedetails, the difference being that thenative thinks the whole event was themachination of the local devil. Why?Why simulate humanoids on an islandnamed Bora Bora and even go to thetrouble of having the humanoids stealthe natives' rabbits and have them hearthe squeals of the little critters as theyare taken aboard the "fake" UFO?The book is filled with the loadedquestions representative of paranoia."Why is the picture we can form of theirworld closer to medieval concepts ofMagonia, the magical land above theclouds, than to descriptio ns, ofplanetary environments?" Whoassertst h i s ? C e r t a i n l y the cases ofDerenberger , Apodaca, Walton,Higdon, an d Hill, to name only a few,come closer to describing visitors toearth employing advanced technologyto ensure their successful entry an ddeparture from ou r sphere. Anotherloaded assumption is that conditioningis contradictory with the interstellarangle; W hy does this have to be so? Itdoesn't demand any extraordinarylogic to imagine an interstellar agencyconcerned with preventing culturalshock gradually conditioning us to theirpresence by a long-term program ofgradually increasing UF O sightings. Butbecause of the often drastic personalpsychological effects of a UFO sightingV allee concludes that then UFOs mustonly be a control system. Thepossibility that the effects of UFOs aremerely secondary isn't considered.This is as absurd as saying that thedrastic effects that World War Dtechnology had in creating the cargocults : in the South Pacific was theprimary purpose behind the Americanpresence there. We were there as partof a control system to change massbelief systems, according to Vallee'slogic.V allee states again and again that itis evident UFOs are aiming to change

political and social structures and todivert attention from hum an problems.Again this is mind reading. The bigquestion is, why do UFOs appear soinfrequently in our realm. Why notappear in vastly greater numbers an ddivert vastly greater attention fromhuman problems? Judging from thenewspaper headlines of late, UFOshave been singularly unsuccessful indiverting much attention from pressingproblems of SALT or gas lines. Perhapsthat is because "they" precisely don'twant to divert us from the humanproblem-solving process.In arguing against the spacecrafthypothesis all the oldest an d hoaryistcliches of Sagan and company aretrotted out: that space visitors wouldrarely visit us, and so on. We aremoments away from a flimsy biplanetraveling a few feet and an instant awayfrom a flimsy firespouting lunare x p e d i t i o n , and on t h a t basisa s s u m p t i o n s ar e m a d e a b o u tcivilizations that may be virtually stellarin their duration. The only honestscientific approach is empirical. Theyare here as often as they are here. Wecan't reject the numbers on the basisthat they ar e unreasonable accordingto ou r present state of massiveignorance. For all we know the galactictourist bureau considers earth a realho t spot and runs 20 tourist trips a daythrough here. Too man y landings? Onw h a t ' basis? According to the book,either UFOs select witnesses orappearances are staged. No otherchoices are given.UFOs that may fade in f u l l view ofwitnesses (perhaps in his terms"victims") are obv iously psychicconfabulations an d that's that. W hyisn't it considered that UFOs may bephysical craft that can manipulate lighta r o u n d t h e m s e l v e s r e n d e r i n gthemselves largely invisible or be usinga controlled teleportation process-s p a c e t i m e f ie ld c h a n g e s ? T h a tshouldn't be too hard to understandafter seeing such movies as "StarWars." If the UFO fading is just animage of a holographic projection, the nwhy is it that this same UF O that just"took off' the ground by retractingwhat seemed to be landing gear an d leftseeming physical imprints and causeda seeming roar of wind that shook the

trees, did all these other things? This, ofcourse, is just the perfection of thedeception an d nothing would convinceV allee that he had seen a "real"spacecraft. Just better and betterdeception. One wonders how a realspacecraft could be detected in thisframework of reasoning.V allee complains that the star mapthat Betty Hill saw wasn't to the properscale. Many of ou r maps are not to scalefor very many cartographic reasons.Who is to say that the only parameter ofsize for stars on a chart is stellarabsolute brightness? There are manyp o s s i b l e p a r a m e t e r s i n c l u d i n gpopulation or even trading volume.Distance between Zeta one and twoisn't to scale. That fact is hardlyunreasonable if it is their home starsystem. If this mysterious occult groupon e arth was going to fake a star chart,then wh y did they make all thesemistakes? Perhaps because the starchart was not designed fo r terrestrialsenses and sensibilities but was what itseemed an alien star chart. TheStellarium that Travis Walton saw wascertainly a fake from V allee's point ofview also, regardless of its technicalperfection; only in this case he mightsay its very perfection argued against itsbeing a "real" star chart. Wecan't seemto win.One of V allee's main argumentsagainst the extraterrestrial hypothesisis that the observed behavior ofhumanoids isn't what he thinksinterstellar visitors would be doing.Again, gross assumptive liberties aretaken. Perhaps he has forgotten whatseveral of our own astronauts did onthe moon. They came a quarter millionmiles after oceans of money had beenspent to get them there an d then they. played golf! They frolicked like childrenon the surface while collecting samples.Who is to say star travelers must be ofsober mien? A lunar V allee would rejectthe Apollo astronauts' behavior as notappropriate. An analysis of thehumanoid cases indicates a multitudeof possible reasons for coming here.We shouldn't second guess Galacticcitizens until we know more. We mustbegin examining the data on anempirical basis. The data persists andrepeats, and it is time we began

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(Book Review, Continued)accepting the data and not the otherwa y around. We must begin to employthe same analytical process that isemployed by intelligence agencies toe s t i m a t e f o r e i g n m i l i t a r y a n dtechnological activity.The humanoid data is very diversesuggesting multiple star systems as avisitation source. If it is possible to startravel at all, then it is obvious the entiregalaxy could be colonized in aneyeblink as stellar events go. We seemto be seeing the edge of a vast andextremely complex galactic society.W hy would this mysterious occultgroup fake (his? That question is neversatisfactorily answered. W hy bother?This occult group in V allee's terms is incontrol of things, we cannot interferewith it, and it is immune from h u m a ncurrent understanding. W hy can't thisgroup let themselves be seen asinterdimensional, time travelers, oreven f l y i n g carpets? W hy space? Itseems a pointless hoax. Perhaps it ispointless until we begin to examine thismysterious Mr. Major who seems tohave had a major influence on thedirection of V allee's thinking. An

investigation into wh o this "Major" ismight yield many answers to thesequestions.I f the spacecraft hardware that M r.Leonard Stringfield has so stronglyprovided evidence for recently exists ina subterranean vault at Wright-Patterson A i r f i e l d , t h e n thosespacecraft are like a ticking timebomb

in the face of the purveyors of planetaryparanoia.--Vincent R. White. (Editor'sNote: Alterna tive reviews of this bookor rebuttals to Mr. White's argumentswill be considered fo r publication.)

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MOWING W O R L D - H E R A I D , Onaha, N E -Aug. 22, 1979

Pair Encounter SkepticsAfter Sighting o f UFOBy David Heridee

WorW-Htretd Staff Wr t l t rMcCook High School senior John Banels an d C u r t i

farmer Jim Til ler do no t c o ns ider themse lv es c rac kp o ts .Earl ier this week, however, they had a close e n cou n t e rwith that label after a close encounte r of a d i f f e r en t k i n d Banels an d Tiller said they saw an unidentified fly ing-objecthat was close enough to be hit w i t h a tossed rock.They said th e sight ing was Wednesday along the w e s t e r noutskirts of McCook on U.S . 83 . It was the l a t es t of several reports of unidentified f lying o b ject s igh t ing s in the s o u t h w e sNebraska-northwest Kansas region since A u g . 2.Banels. 17 . said he and his c o us in T i l le r . 23 , w e r e d r i v i n(arm trucks loaded with corn to McCook from Ti l le r ' s f a rmwhen they both saw a saucer-shaped object ab ou t 3'$ feet indiameter wobble across the highw a y west to eas t in f r o n t oftheir trucks.Th e object wa s abo ut 30 feet in the air and was m o v ingabout 5 to 10 mph when Tiller 's t ru ck passed by it. Banels,who wa s following in ano ther t ruc k , said th e object ha d cross-ed the highway and was over th e roadside di tch when he sawit. Both said the object resembled tw o sauc er - typ e snowsleds attache d at their rims an d r inged w ith what looked l ikedozens of blue l ight bulbs . Th e fly ing sauc er had a blue topan d shiny, si lver bottom."It was the perfect storybook f l y i n g s a u c e r b u t it didn ' tappear to have any doors," Til ler sa id . "It was u n b e l i e vab l eand it wasn ' ta toy. Wecouldn' t f igur e how it was mo v ing."Banels said it wasn ' t u n t i l both men stopped in town andtold each other what they had seen did they real i z e w ha t theyhad seen."W e called th e McCook rad io stat ion and the guy the reasked me if we were on any medication, i should h a v e h u n gup on h i m , but I wanted to tell someone w ha t we had seen."Banels said."Now that I've seen one, I kind of believe in t h e m, Ith ink."

(Director's Message, Continued)national Director of the Mutual UFONetwork, Inc. ( M U F O N ) , ha s beeninvited to speak and has titled his slideillustrated lecture "A New Look at theEntity Evidence." The symposium w i l lbe held at the Royal Quality Inn , 4875 -North Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA92106, beginning Friday evening,November 16, 1979, with a "get-acquainted" party. On Saturday,November 17th, the various papers willbe delivered, followed by a roundtablediscussion between the speakers and aquestion an d answer pe riod afterward.O n Saturday even ing there will be a no-host cocktail party and banque t with aprincipal speaker to be announced.The entire symposium is availablefor $149.50 pe r couple which includesthree days and two nights at the hotel,the Friday evening gathering, all of theSaturday presentat ions, and theSaturday night cocktail party an dbanquet . Orders should be placeddirectly with the hotel by credit card viatoll-free telephone (800) 854-2933. The

toll-free number for C alifornia residentsis (800) 532-3733. Those wishing not touse a credit card can make reservationsby mail directly to the hotel, but a checkin f u l l must accompany the request.The hotel will send a confirmation byreturn mail.H al Starr has promised thats ta r t l i n g pic t u res , ex c i t in g taperecordings, puzzling artifacts, an dserious scientific presentations willmark this as the best effort yet inprobing the puzzle of the age theUFO.We would like to take thisopportunity to announce a new journal,"The Journal of UFO Studies,"published by the Center for UFOStudies. It is a refereed scientific journalincorporating the most recent work ofthe professional scientists working onthe UFO problem. The editor is Dr.Elaine M . Hendry and the editorialadvisor is Dr. J. Allen Hynek. The costis $3.50 per issue; order from THEJO U R N A L OF UFO STUDIES, c/oThe Center for UFO Studies, 1609

Sherman Ave. Suite 207, Evanston, IL60201. (We have not reviewed the firstissue due to lack of availability.)The a c r o n y m M U F O N wasadopted from the original name of our

organization, when it was known as theM i d w e s t UFO N e t w o r k . Ourworldwide coverage soon made thisname obsolete. Since the acronymMUFO N was so well known, the word"mutual" was substituted for the "M"This best described the organizationalstructure and the mode of operation ofpeople w o r k i n g together on aworldwide scope to resolve the UFOphenomenon. There are no plans tochange the name of M UFO N, howevera modern word and its derivativesexemplifies our goalsand objectives. (1Synergetic: to work with, cooperate,(2 )Synergic: w o r k i n g t oge the rcooperating; (3) Synergy: workingt o g e t h e r ; and (4) S y n e r g i s mCooperative action of discrete agenciessuch that the total effect is greater thanthe sum of the ef fec ts t akenindependently.

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Lucius ParishIn Others' WordsThe June 26 issue of NATIONALENQUIRER reports on reactions to aprevious article about "Star People,"who claim to be descendants ofextraterrestrial beings. A Britishabduction case is detailed in the July 3ENQUIRER issue. April sightings ofUFOs over Memphis, Tennessee, arereported in the July 10 issue. The July17 issue quotes Soviet researchers assaying that a crippled alien spacecraft

has been in orbit around Earth since1955. Details of spectacular UFOsightings in the Canary Islands aregiven in the July 24 issue. A BrazilianUF O encounter involving E- M effectsand paralysis is the subject of a featurein the July 31issue. The August 7 issuecontains excerpts from Clive Harold'snew paperback THE UNINVITED(published in England), highlighting afamily's mysterious experiences withUFOs in Wales. Hypnotic regressionsessions conducted by Dr. JamesHarder have resulted in a woman'sclaim that she met aliens at threedifferent times and was cured of kidneyfailure by their treatments, according toa story in the August 14issue. A U.S.Navy poster urging American andCanadian seamen to report all UFOsightings is the subject of a feature inthe issue of August 21 .THE STAR for July 3 reports on aUF O sighting in Bogota, Colombia,while the 1979 World UFO Congresswas taking place.

The August issue of FATE has ani n t e r e s t i ng a r t i c l e b y Ga r y S.Mangiacopra and Carl J. Pabst on the1931 sightings of a mystery "airship"over towns in the Ohio River V alley.I regret to report that the Augustissue of OMNI marks the return ofJames E.Oberg as the "UFO Update"columnist. OMNI should at leastalternate Oberg's contributions withcolumns by other writers/researchers.

The September issue of UFOREPORT contains articles by WayneLaporte, Rene Noorbergen, Robert L.Williams an d others, including anexcerpt from Raymond Fowler's book,THE AN DREASSON AFFAIR.UF O TERMS by Robert S.Somerville is, as the title implies, aglossary of the terminology peculiar toUF O research. It o b v i o u s l yreporesents an enormous amount ofresearch on the part of the author, whohas been studying the UFO subjectsince 1950. The book contains 1,470entries which are divided into 20 m ainsections. Some of the section titles are:Basic T e r m i n o l o g y U F OInvestigations United States A irForce Global UF O Investigations Radar Detection of UFOs UFOMovies and Photographs EffectsFrom UFOs Animals and UFOs Physical Traces Occupants Bibliography. The book has 275 spotillustrations an d includes informationon UFO organizations, publications,etc. It is very attractively presented in alarge, soft-cover form at, containing 198pages. The book is intended formembers of the general public whowant a basic understanding of the UFOsubject, but Ufologjsts will also find itquite helpful and interesting. UFOTERMS is available at $8.00 per copy(including postage & handling) from:UFO Schools, Inc., P.O Box 21,Warren, MI 48090.

UF O NEWSCLJPPINGSERVICE

The UF O NEWSCLIPPING SERVICEw i l l keep you informed of a l l the latestUnited States an d World-Wide UF Oactivity, as it happens!Ou r service wa sstarted in 1969, at which time wec o n t r a c t e d w i t h a r e p u t a b l ei n t e r n a t i o n a l n e w s p a p e r - c l i p p i n gbureau to obtain for us, those hard tof i n d UF O reports (i.e., l i t t l e knownphotographic cases, close encounterand landing reports, occupant cases)and all other UF O reports, many ofwhich are carried only in small town orforeign newspapers."Our UF O Newsclipping Serviceissues are 20-page monthly reports,r e p r o d u c e d b y p h o t o - o f f s e t ,containing th e latest United States an dCanadian UF O newsclippings, withou r foreign section carrying the latestBritish, Australian, New Zealand an dother foreign press reports.

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