UFOs: A HISTORY

1955 JANUARY - JUNE

Copyright© 1992

Fremont, CA 94538

DEDICATICN

This history series is dedicated to the memory of Francis R. ''Dick" Scobee of Cle Elum, Washington, Mission Commander of the space shuttle Cllallenger and a "shirt tail" relative on my ~fother' s side of the faiillly.

The boy ran down three flights of stairs in response to his mother's scream. The previous year the French lad had filled a scrapbook with saucer stories scissored from the L' Aurore and the France-Soir. Now he had a chance to see something hims~erging into the sunlight, the boy's attention was directed to the southern sky where a gray-colored disc-shaped body was stationary in the air over the town of Pontoise. So near was the phenomenon, a transparent dome could be discerned on the ob­ject's upper surface.

When the object departed, according to the mother who was working in the yard and had been the first to spot the thing, it left puffs of white vapor. This incident occurred on a Sunday(exact date not recalled) in May 1955. The boy was Jacques Vallee who would grow up to be a world famous UFO expert, the only top expert, apparently, who could claim an impressive personal observation of a flying saucer.

Vallee, JacqUes. Forbidden Science. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, 1992. page 15.

UFOs: A HISTOOY

1955

January -June

"Ql the Attack?"

In 1954 writer Harold Wilkins produced his work !!Y~ Saucers On The Attack. a collection of UFO stories and personal speculition. He triooto iii'iiieil case for UFOs being a physical threat. (See ad)

Wilkins authored a second book in 1955. f_!ying Saucers Uncensored, in which he again advocated the theory the people of Barth were confronted by belligerent space forces, predicting the launching of space satellites by the U.S. by 1957 which would detect alien bases and war fleets on the t-1oon. He urged a unity of mankind against a possible "cosmic danger." (By mid­year, 1955, UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield, right in the middle of the biggest flap of the whole 12 month period, was beginning to think Wilkins' aensatiooal assertions might be true.)

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• Do tho tnl.orplaMUry """'fonao have ''apia'~ Ure&d1 on earth?

• Do THEY 1\4 ... a Gmerol Stall atattoned on bo.rd 0*81e ""battlt-­llupt,'* out 1n apace!

• What cauted the m)'denou eruh of a Bnhth Comet jtt a1rhner on January !O,l&N!

E••nune the aot.Matac eridence of Innumerable eneotutten ..,,th, ftymg saucere. Read the a.mu1ng d«.ltll of 18 separat. re,orLI of .. saumr'' laRd tag•- 34 reporta of hosule "aa•Hr" aeth'it)'. Sea odwll photo­'"'pha of ,.,...,.. iDibpt.

Wilkins noted that an English newsreel dramatically warned cinema goers that unusual new features had been detected on the planet Mars, the voice over suggesting in a half serious tone that an alien military mobilization may be in progress!

Encouraged by the hazy purposes of the unknown objects, Wilkins wrote that certain mysterious occurrences might be public manifestations of alien power. strange fires, ice falls, disintegration of automobile windshields and sub­terranean quakes were touted as Martian saber rattling.

England's E!Y!!t.$ ~~~!. ~'!i~ is born. 1m effort to interpet and document the latest UFO news was the appearance

of the new bi-monthly Review 'Which had trouble getting off the ground. Cir­culation in the beginnfng -was quite low and the expensive editing and printing costs caused a financial strain, with ltlveney Girvan's receptionist even hav­ing to volunteer her home for the storing and distribution of the English UFO saucerzine. In the long tenn, however, the professional treatment attracted an international readership and eventually manuscripts from individuals con­ducting useful research such as:Vallee, Michel and Ballester. There was very little organized research in 1955 but the pages of the Review covering the period provide considerable raw UFO data otherwise tmattamaDle.

1955 UFO activity.

UFO researcher Don Berliner found that UFO reports for 1955 were, compared to other years, at routine levels for the Ground Cbserver Corps and that the civilian volunteers contributed some SO cases to Air Force BUJE BOOK files. 1.

Jacques Vallee, 'Who studied the UFO problem statistically, recognized that 1955 was not a tlflap year" but did note that there was no sharp drop off in activity that had characterized the earlier UFO waves. 2.

Air Force policy may have also contributed to the dimmished number of re­ports that can be found in official files:

"Since 19SS, Project Blue Book has investigated only those sightings Which are reported either directly to the Air Force, or via some law enforcement agency. Normally, only sightings within the jurisdiction of the United States are investigated." 3. Even if the military was properly alerted, however, there was no guarantee

a good investigation would be conducted, as illustrated by the BLUE BOOK file card reproduced below. The military pilot that made this interesting report either failed to fill out the ATIC form 164. or else the document was removed fran Air Force records for sane unknown reason.

Cochise, New Mexico. No additional data in BLUE BOOK files. (See BLUE Book file card)

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Bloemfontein, South Mrica. 1 January. Vultures latly orbiting in the sky attracked the attention of several

children at play. While looking up at the birds, the youngters saw a strange silver-colored, cigar-shaped body. Besides the children the local station­master witnessed the UFO, using binoculars to observe the thing. The "cigar" was visible f~ three hours. 4.

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Another UFO organization.

Robert Gribble's "Civilian Flying Saucer Intelligence" opened shop in the city of Seattle, Washington, with the annmmced purpose of engaging in:" ... investigative and research programs in an effort to prove with material evidence that the so-called flying saucers exist." 5.

3 January. Vierma, Austria.

A half-dozen silvery objects trailing red vapor sped over Vienna. 6.

5 January. Oyarzun, Spain.

A red metallic ball about 7 feet in diameter landed near the city of Oyar­zun, Spain, at 4:00p.m. on January 5th. Witnesses at two separate locations watched the object descend. One of t~em, Felix Galarraga, rushed forward but the UFO rose and sped away before he got within 100 meters. 7.

5 January. "Will the Air Ministry tell all?"

The British Air Staff refused to release the results of its five year probe into the UFO mystery, an action that incurred the strong displeasure of at least one member of the House of Conmons, Patrick Wall (Conservative, Hal­temprice) who challenged the Air Minister:

'~less there is a security risk, which I don't think there is, the public should know the truth. "If the Air Ministry have found the answer to wheter or not they

exist it is of great interest to everyone." 8.

6 January. Blinding flashes over Bradenton, Florida.

Air Force BUJE BOOK records state:

"At approximately 2045 hours, 6 January 1955, this office was tele­phonically informed by A/3C Keith Brakins, of the 30Sth Tactical Hospital Group, McDill AFB, Florida, that he and two other airmen A/3C Don Roberts and A/3C Clyde Thorpe, also of the 30Sth Tactical Hospital Group, had observed an object in the air, south of Braden­ton, Florida, which they were unable to identify. Brakins reported that, on 6 January 1955, at approximately 2000 hours, as he and the other two airmen were driving north on U.S. Highway R41, two to three miles south of Bradenton, Florida, one of the other airmen called his attention to a light emitted from a dark object which appeared to be at an altitude of 800 to 1,000 feet, approximately 1,500 feet west of the highway on which they were driving. Brakins added that during the ten seconds in which this dark object was visible, two other blinding flashes of light were emitted from it. He explained that the object itself was black and, in size, he estimated that a nickel held at ' arm's length would have covered the circular object. He further ex­plained that the light enitted by this object was so intense as to illuminate the entire area, the automobile, and the highway, and that it reminded him of the illumination of a photoflash bulb or short­circuiting high-tension lines. Brakins further stated that the atmos­phere was clear, that the moon was bright, and that stars were also visible, but that this object was, in his opinion, no star and cer-

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tainly was not the moon. Braking also advised that he had made a similar report to the Florida Highway Patrol, near Brandenton, Florida, immediately following the sighting of the unidentified object." 9.

"The Thing."

It was so weird the car's driver hit the brakes hard, sending his vehicle into a sideways skid. The street was now blocked and other cars caning up fran behind also came to an abrupt stop, unable to proceed.

It was 4:45 in the afternoon on January 5, 1955. The location was the 400 block on Eagle Rock Road, IDs Angeles. The driver who was the first to stop j1.111ped out of his car and stared upward at sanething he had "never seen before." The "thing" was only about 30 feet away, motionless in the air, its dimensions that of an autanobile, its color a dull metal hue, and its shape "like that of a box kite." There were sane light gray lines on the upper portion of the UFO, a·mass which was ·not "aerodynamic"(like a brick?). The witness studied the object with great ruriousity before it suddenly left the area, accelerating instantly, a soundless, effortless movement that took it out of sight in about two seconds. 10.

An English magazine ccmnents. (See article below)

-~-·STARTLJMG _NE\'l-FACTS ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS

For the past etght years. the IIYtnl"saucer has been a! a reliable ob5erver phenomenon almost exclusively confined to the Amer- Wh1le obJect• have Jean scene. It has been mveshgated and explained been sighted over most away, by saenhsts, by quack£ and by the man on the European oountr1es, 1t 11 street. but II baa always returned, as myal.llyinl u m Italy that fty1ng saucers ever. have been seen most often

Now 1t's back agatn, but II isn't Amencans who are A Witness there IS Clare so concerned The saucers are over Europe and reports Boothe Luce, v:ho told

. of them have aroused the whole continent newsmen she obsen•ed In Sweden, the Nat1onal Defense Mmistry h.u an-,. unusual phenomena 1n

nounced that photographs were made of an ob)ect that lhe sk1es passed over the southern part of the country "at ani The U S. A~r Force, ac-excepllonally h1gh speed and at an alt1tude of about 11ve m 11s mvesugat1on of 19,000 feel" 1 >aucer reports for the past

In Yugosla•·•a. noted astronomer Dr M1lorad Protic years, IS currently 1111ys the phenomenon as observed over h1s country lurnmg 1ts attention to "could not be a meteorite because 1t ftew hort%Ontally the European alarms on a fixed course" Later, representatives of Marshal Nmety percent of all re-Ttlo's government announced that "we are takmg the Gettnon photogtoph•• " ono ports, the Atr Force re-matter very sertously and conductmg a thorough m- many who ho•o •n11-0nd photo- cently stated, can be ex-vesttgatton." graphod - 10ucon o••• E•roJH plamed. But 10 percent

In this country, observers were aroused when a pho·. TEMPO & QUI Ct.' can't, and II IS these re-tograph was receiVed from Stctly. show1ng three men n ports that are cauSing observm1 two saucers m lhght Check-ups by news1 Tne Or''"'"' many to "'onder If the agencies showed that the p1cture had not been "doc- PO<k•• Hewo w .. kl.r Atrer "myth" may m-~-~!!': ~tnd that the pbotoarapher h1mself waa ~ns1d- JANUARY 17, l!~~ ~~ be .'.•~I,....,.._ . .

7 January 55. Grey lock, Massachusetts.

Ray Merri pondered a strange, glowing form of intense whiteness suspended

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just below a cloudy overcast at low altitude in the southeast. The general shape was that of a flying saucer as that phenomenon was usually described. 11.

11 January 55. Adelaide, Australia.

Jrittile crossing a bridge on his motor-cycle, Dr. V. Hajek, an engineer, was startled by a "dreadful noise," a high-pitched roar. Fearing the col­lapse of the bridge, Dr. Hajek quickly glanced aroi.Dld. About a ._. mile away an elliptical, spinning, highly polished body was zooming skyward. An es­timate of the object's size put it at about 40 feet in cross section, but the thing was an oval in a spin which gave it a blurred image. Another factor that limited a good guess as to its size was the 12 second duration the thing was in view as it vaulted skyward. 12.

"Olrane oval."

O:ldly enough, an object similar to the Aelaide phenomenon was sighted a day later over Forsyth, Georgia, in the U.S.A. by a civilian flight obser­ver aboard an Air Force B-47E aircraft:

"approximately 30 miles SE of Atlantic Mtmicipal Airport altitude 23,000 feet at about 0930 hours 12 January 1955 I observed a metallic oval shaped object through the observers top window. It appeared to be reflecting considerable luster from the bright si.Dl reflecting like the glow of chrome, and was located at 11 o'clock and at 45 degrees elevation(not legible)for the pilots( .•• deleted) and ( ... deleted)to look at the high aircraft with the appearance of being about 20,000 feet above us, and having no visible vapor trail. They both failed to see the object, and having no visible vapor trail. They both faile4 to see the object, and complain of(not legible)from(not legible)at the si.Dl. The pilot then changed course to the left and I advised him we were lined-up on the target. It then accelerated in a forward direction and displaced from about 45 to 20 degrees elevation in a pattern of 1 or 2 seconds while its radiance diminished and its hue became a pale pink. The object was (not clear possibly 'was now aligned')0130 o'clocl, and at(not legible)the pi­lot correct(not legible)course again, the object repeated its pre­vious 1'18Jleuver, and disappeared from sight. 1\Jring this time the altitude of our aircraft did not change and it was impossible ~or reflection to produce this phenomenon, as the reflection of the thick glass caused objects within the cockpit to appear as double images." 13. 18 January. An FBI document dated 1-18-SS obtained through the FreedOI'I of In~onnation

Act was largely censored but it does indicate the CIA was still following,to some degree, the UFO mystery after the 1953 Robertson Panel. (See document)

19 January. Norwich and Wrexham, England.

Witnesses said a luminous, blue-green, disk-like, object zoomed over the towns of Norwich and Wrexharn at 7:10p.m. on January 19th. The thing, ac­cording to those who saw it pass overhead, travelled at "incredible speed" which brings to mind a meteor but one person claimed the object was "circular and l'OlD'l.d at the bot tan." 14.

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21 January.

French AiT Ministry.

In spite of refusing to recognizing the reality of flying saucers. the French Air Ministry nonetheless issued orders to its military aviators to pursue any saucer they may encounter. 15.

Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

A glowing. purple-colored, sausage-shaped, object was seen passing over Port Elizabeth. It was accarrpanied by 10 big glowing egg-sha"led bodies as it moved out to sea. 16. ·

"I'd like to know what it was." Cincinnati , Cll.io.

As Cincinnati resident David Owen watched,, a black-colored object, about 30 feet in cross section, dropped down out of the 5:25 a.m. sky until it reached approxirrlately the same level as the top of the Carew Tower. At that height the ebony body remained stationary for four minutes. Owen told the press:"I'd like to know what it was." 17.

21-23 January.

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''Don't be rude to UFOs," says the Air Marshal:

''kl. unidentified British report, January 23, 1955, has this to say about the remarks of Air Marshal Lord Dowding anent UFOs. "Air Marshal lord Dowding wants to be kind to flying saucers. 'It's

rude to fire M guns and send fighters to shoot them down,' he told the Flying Saucer Research Society in london last night. mBesides,you never know what they could do to you.' "Lord Dowding, chief of Fighter Coomand in the Battle of Britain,

believes saucers come fran planets hundreds of years ahead of us in scientific knowledge. ·~ere is no material we know of that could travel 9,000 miles an

hour -·the recorded radar speed of one saucer --without becaning white white-hot,' he said." 18.

27 January 55. Cecilville, California.

"like switching off a light."

A Mrs. L. Brubaker lived high up on a mountain in the Siskiyou Range in northern California. Ckle evening(January 27th) she suddenly noticed in the cloudless eastern sky, a disk motionless in the air. The rim of the disk was clearly visible which convinced her the beautiful red object was not a balloon.

At this point her story becanes very interesting to serious students of the UFO problem. Ole school of thought suggests that UFOs can "disappear" as a result of being able to travel in some kind of 4th dimensional manner. It would help to inject an excerpt from Air Force BLUE BOOK files dealing with a_ UFO sighting at Seaside Park, New Jersey, June 30, 1952:

"Air Fl)rce interrogator:' About the disappearance of this object -·did it disappear very 'suddenly, or was it gradual, or just exactly how was it?' . "Witness: 'It sort of dipped awa)"' and turned over, and was out of

sight i!llnediately after the three pUffs of smoke.m 19.

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·~e witness:'lt might be that it had one side of it painted a color that wouldn't reflect light, or it might have been because it gained a terrific speed very suddenly." 20.

Having quoted the 1952 account, let us return to Mrs. Brubaker's 1955 story. After five minutes, something happened to the disk she was observ· ing: '

· "Then it did the oddest thing. It seemed to flip over and was gone in a se~ond. I could see a faint pink and white streak for about four to six feet toward the southeast in a straight line. The saucer went so fast it seemed almost like switching off a light." 21.

29 January.

Detroit Flying Saucer Club makes news. (See newsclipping)

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29 January. Winterset, Iowa.

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"Frolicking disks."

Mrs. Ann Rubalcaba and her two children observed seven little disks fro­licking over Valley Center, California, on January 28th:

'"Mychildren first spotted them in the early part of the evening -and called me. They seemed to be playing a sort of tag with each other --darting about. They glowed all over. We got them focused in my son's SMall telescope later and they were completely round. 01~ of them appeared to have two distinct lights towards the front. They even seemed to be signalling each other as they would grow dim at times and then brighter,' she stated. ''They watched them until nearly 10:30 when they, the saucers, 'just

disappeared.... 22.

Poland.

Word from Communist Poland on January 29th told of an engineer in Cracow that translated a UFO article in a '!'estern magazine and passed it aromd among his colleages. A number of the other engineers, including some Hungarians and Czechs, said they had seen similar objects in the sky but assumed they were British or American secret weapons. 23.

Kenneth Arnold, the "father" of the flying saucers.

An Oregon newspaper reported:

"Kermeth Arnold, the Boise, Idaho, flying businessman, who first re­ported the presence of 'flying saucers • almost eight years ago, said today he believes that the 'bouncing blue light' o~ the Blue Mountains really exists. •'The lights have appeared half dozen times and have been seen by an

equal m.unber of people in the area. Three Evening Cbserver reporters investigated the reports with an all-night vigil en the cold leston Elgin highway Thursday night but saw only a bright eerie Morning star rise over the horizon. "The snowplO'IIllen claimed,'That isn't the light we saw before.' Man­

ual (Swede) Erickson and Barney Thompson said they first saw the Bouncing mue Light almost two weeks ago. First it sat in the middle of the highway; then rose in the air, bouncing and swaying back and forth. "Robert Backus, also with the Highway Department, said he observed

the Blue Light a few nights later . .. Descriptions of the Bouncing Blue Light tallied. "l'hatever they are, Kermeth Arnold told the -saoeinf Observer in a

telephone interview fran Boise today, that he sn t t6iiik the snow-plow operators are suffering hallucinations.

"Arnold has made an extensive study of the strange reports since he first told the world of a flight he observed while flyi~g near Mt. Rainier in June 1947. He has sighted five flights of 'saucers' since that time.

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"' I have almost two Jrundred reports of this sort o4' phenanenon, 1

Arnold told the Observer. "The description of the Blue light sotmds like a helicopter Arnold

admitted, 'but what is a helicopter doing in the middle of the woods in the middle of the night?' He pointed out that the men who saw the light the past few weeks said it didn't even sotmd like a helicopter. The light gave off a steady h1.111!1i.ng sotmd, whereas a helicopter has a choppy tractor-motor SOWld. "The Blue light of the Blue r.blmtains reportedly moves slowly,

upparently trying·to avoid the men as they attempted to get a closer look at it. "'This tallies perfectly with all other reports I've had of saucers

at night,' Arnold said. "Erickson said the light gave off an occasional flash, 'like sanebody

shooting off a flash camera.' "'That is also typical of flying saucers,' Arnold added. "Aronld, who is an expert on the reports, if anyone is, says he be­

lieves the things are actually living organisms, 'sort of like sky jellyfish.' ''he cited two incidents where flyers had encOt.mtered such objects

at extremely high altitudes. 'My theory might sOt.md funny, but just remember that there are a lot of things in nature we don't yet know,' Arnold pointed out.

''He noted the Blue lights usually make their appearance after some sort of disturbance on earth, 'like an earthquake, or something,' the flyer said. 'Whatever the lights are, I think they just come down to look us over ••• I believe they are harmless, or we would have had trouble with them long ago,' he added.

''He doesn't believe the 'little men' stories. 'I believe that what­ever they are,' the flyer explained,'they are living ~r~aniSMS, and not controlled by any type of Man from Mars." 24.

End of January. New Caledonia. North of New Zealand, in the Coral Sea near the Topic of capricorn, is the

island of New Caledonia. Sme tmusual UFOs "Were seen there according to New Zealand newspapers. A luninous mass was spotted at the end of January hover· ing in the sky close to a gypsum mine. A caretaker at the l'line watched the thing for 20 minutes before it raced away at "terrific" velocity. ·The care­taker described the UFO as having the shape of a "throwing fish net." 25.

In the same area was a small freighter and one of its crewmembers saw a large circular object which remained motionless for awhile and then disappear­ed at high speed.

Still another person, this time in the city of Noumea, reported sanething seaward that was glowing, yellow in color, and was stationary. The UFO seem­ed to be:"continually inflating and deflating." 26.

1 February 55. "Tripe for the public."

Poor coverage of the UFO mystery by the media was not the only problem faced by anyone wanting to know more about the subject. David Flick, writing for the librarr Journal, criticized his colleagues:

"Cooanenting on the 'thought processes and the strange logic' employed by librarians responsible for book selection, the author says that no amount of rationalizing about 'future historical importance,''balanced conditions,' and 'public demand' can justify their expenditure of tax dollars for books about flying saucers whose purpose seems to satisfy a jaded taste for the bizarre and the sensational." 27.

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"The most sensational experience of my career."

Donald Keyhoe was particularly taken with the following Venezuelan UFO report.

Captain Dairo Celis was pilotin2 an Aeropost airliner between Barquisimeto and Valera, Venezuela, on February Z, 1955, I:Alring the flight, at 11:15 a.m., while at 7,500 feet in clear weather, Captain Lelis and his co-pilot P.J. Cones sighted a strange, round, green-glowing, body approaching swiftly. The object had a "red ring" around its middle that gave off brilliant flashes. Just above and below this luminous band were "lighted portholes." lntnediate­ly Captain Celis tried to contact Baraquisimeto tower but abruptly his radio failed for no apparent reason. Captain Celis quickly made his way to the passenger cabin to alert more people while co-pilot Cortes banked the plane for a better view of the UFO. Perhaps in response to the plane's new move­ment, the mysterious rotating machine 'Wellt into a dive, levelled off, and then raced away.

Australian UFO investigators fatmd no evidence to support this story.

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II& ips landed 011 Ids ralld ! ;,.. :: . t'f'1IE J1:11.n1 ob)ecta'U...t -ed· ·The ... :b,..,t&, ·wtUcb reoemb:.; Jeeii.""T!Ie men I. like pet.ol &anD eame down on petrol t.anu, landed In tho open laddera and dl.l:lppeared

1111 ruch 1n Auotralla on a dull puiUre about three quaners or a T!len I heard the soothing an1 da)' In Oel4ber. With my 0 ...; ' mUe .,..,. !rom me .U they touch- ring sound again as the siX ma· ey.., I aw .u of the~U whll'l cenllJ ed the tanh, the atmosphere bt• cblntll """"" !rom the earth. My 11> earth like bel.lcoptt.n lfllboll~ came stn.ngely callft T!lere wu no horN reared •lolentl1, lllld. thlnp propelltnr.. ~~·· no dratl • _ bqan to happen, .u I diiiiiOunh

Mf l'IUidl Ill the North Quet~~.t• I RODE my horse down the lii!1 od. the air became completely dear • laod aeciiGn hU 15.000 ,.....,. It wu and loward.s the ob)Kta 1n or- and I dropped to the rround I once like any other Au~trallan der to cet a clo.ser new Tboy were don't lm011' wh)' I luot dropped to nmch. bill no• 1\'a the well'llest abOut 30 lett taU, an4 eUiptlcal In the itOUncl. place thla lido ol .Jupiter But that'& :shape with a nm or ramp runnlnc ~_!_lay there I aaw m odd-col· rtttlllf ahead ol the atorJ. around the bottom. Through my ofod kind or nhaost fume spewing

rt all llelao what a borde ol blnoclllara I could ..., thor "'""' out or the obJKII and .. ttllng to­Jocuata natmed our the pastures wtUte In colOr with a atreak of blue warda the earth. For abOut ft•• d!ll'iol the last daya o! AuJIUSt Tbe runnlnc lUte a rlbt>ao acrou their mlnutu the thln1s hung JllSpended' laeuata deotroyod thlnp to the audclle sections. In the alty, I!IYing olr the tumtt be-• point where m7 cattle and Jhttp 1 n>en I saw people 1et out or the lore zooming olr to betome, one& were hal'll put lor .,methlocto oat. pt~Jects Tbere were about 1: men, again, only white dot& In the lhr And they were aetUDc leaaer u lllld !rom a dlatance they appear- onrcut.. i the daJa went by. ;od to H porfKilY normal. Tiley

ODe dAJ m 0.1-.. while oo an """' lUNd In uniforms Uke thou AU. mUICular funcUon ceased In 11..,p;;;u.,11 toiil." I iode my h~ worn by America" paratroopen my bodf, and I became u to the top or & hill Ill a remote whom I aaw In Au.tralla durlnt the shaky u a ... ,... or Jelly 1 blanked -UDn of the r:ancb. The RJ wu war. A.ll •- around In a huddle out. but whUe In thai alate of .,... Oftfeut hut .-11 wu load ..,..... and seemed to H dllcuulnc aomo- ponded aubcomclousn ... o remark· the brotad plain that llretohed oe-' thing. nle tbln1 occurred I became clair­lore my eyn. Ill the dlllaoce I ,.., Fa.selnaled and curious I rode to- •oyant. md uents wh!cll wero d••· eatUe ~nc, trylnc to a&l•&l• wards them Wben I a1'1'hed at a lined 1o come true paraded before -•thine from tho ra ftlod n.rt.h. point about lh.ree hundred metera m7 eyes

away, the stranger·a 1ot out of their It wa.s almoat u though some· Tben I heard a -thine wblrrinl hudrtle and, lor tho llrst time, .,.,.. thln11 had been Inserted In m:r

IOGD<I thai alnloal made me drowsy. me , mind In my Y!slon, LnJtead of Hllh In tho aky I saw lis tlnJ white f'i!_r a moment they pallSod Indo· loc""t·ra•&~ed land, r ... ,.. my doll desetndtnc. and the dot& crew clsl•ely, then harned and ran back ranch a broacl plain of feiiiflti blcc•r a.nd blner u th•7 approach•, to their mocblnes I was close n·cudlnc tile lmaslnallon. od the ln>llnd. enough now to ••e ladders ol about ·

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Several passengers and crew members confirmed this aerial encounter which made headlines in Venezuelan newspapers. Both Celis and Cortes had had their doubts about flying saucer stories but they now were convinced such things existed and were controlled ships. ~captain 'Celis remarked to a reporter: ''This was the most sensational experience of my career as a pilot, and I will remember the incident forever." 28.

Another newsstory carne out of South America the same afternoon from the nation of Columbia. (See newsclipping)

The outspoken Lear expanded on his remarks the next day:

"I feel the flying saucers are real, be­.eause of foo:t. poiRt s. "First, there have been numerous manifesta­

- tions over long periods of time. "Second, many observations have been made

·simultaneously by reliable observers. "Third, there are great possibilities link­

ed with the theory of gravitational fields. "Fourth, there are no serious efforts in

progress to prove the existence of anti­gravitational forces and to convert atomic energy directly to electricity." 29.

2 February. Naval officer sees UFO.

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WUllasn P. Lear, ebalrman ot Che board ot Lear, Inc • ot santa Monica, Calif •• t.old a newa con· ference :vestarda:v be believed Che 110-Ca.lled lll'lnJ aaueera re.n.r exist.

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l. At. USQ. hours the 1110min,; of 2 Februaey 195~, this offi~;pr d~p<~rt . ..C !lAS Mi!'W'.ar in a printe vehicle in route to t'm u.:.;. :;:w:U .bsrital Balboa Pari:. Upo:t leaving the stat1:m rr.,M the east. F'l'te l!ml t•~rnin~

_right on bi[hwa.y )9S he proceeded due s:mt,h. :~11en il11'ediat.ely :~if th3 ' I!IOSt em or the main TUITA<l,.V Of the air station th.i.3 offir:Pr Ot>S~TV'erl 2 F7U) aircraft v.l.ng to v.l.ng am a FJ) aircrort inters~cting t!le F7U.J airerai't at a distance of' ap;-rold.:ll8tel.y 1.100 feet on t:1a uo;m.r!.nd leg

·in t.he landing pattern. I. seco"td FJJ aircraft trailing the tir'3t by appro:.d.r.tatel.y SOO ynds .t>P!Jeared to this vriter to havA only ol"e landing tear wheAl ext.ended. Seming an enerrency, this officer c~ref•llly obl'lerre1 the FJ3 in flleht, ao it level(!(! orr on t!lt' dm41'Nirrl lQg J obseTV'ed that both landing gear pluo the nose uheel were down. Sirnultainiously I notE.-d an object ir:nediatel,y art and so.,mlt>at below the .FJ3. liy first thour!lt. w"'s a part or the airplane, possibly the ca~py, had be~n ej~cted and.was fallinp. The 1110t1on of the ft\lling object was sonewhat erractic, bowev3r it cont.in•Jed to decend at a steady rate or opproxil"llltGl.y' 3 to 5'00 feet per minute. D-J thl.s time it was obvio:JS thA decerding object vas not a part or the ail"Jllane and that :t,t.. vas considerably' beyond .the point the. aircraft just p.:u1sed. Being~le to aseGrtain exactly what tl1e decending object was and not dis­counting spots before the t>ye11, dirty uindshield of the cnr :~nd Pye st.rain due to concentration on the landing ('eRr or the a!.rera!t, I raised II1Y r.lass~s, rubbed by eye,, looked away for an il18tant and af&in coneentrc>ted on ths decending object..,.-::. Insofar as I &a able I will atte!llpt to describe the location,. altitude, de':leription, coloring-etc. It was hot possibla to deto:!mine even a reasonably' accurate· altitude. However, I should say the object wh~n !irst observed a~peared to be somewhere ~t~en 10 and 20 thousand feet,· probably closer to 20 thou9and and dece:'ldcd 3 to S thousarrl !P.t>t fr'3r.t the orit;~.n.::.l obs~rved position, ultimatel7 coming to a c~lete stand atill·for a period ot S to 10 seconds. I 11as able to det!'m1.ne the object apoo11red to be an ott white in color and w1 th an apparent ·td.t;hly polished surface sincG th~rc was a bricht reneetion fl'Oill the sun. I was further able to detemine t~c object itself was .not ·a renection due to• the fact it 'lms renecting sunllr.ht. The object it consider"ed as e sphere ard. from r.v locatio:1 csti..~ted at J t, S Idles distant at the S o'clock position a reddish bro!-111 color a:p?earetJ and at the same time the object practice.lly instantaneou.sJ...v Pcceler;oted to a tremendous speed certainl,y not les11 th1o.n 1000 to 1500 Miles per hour. t. s!lort npor trail or exhaust or brown hue renained in th~ npproxi:r.at..e position the Dbject had been in prior ttl the extrenely rap,.d ncceleration. The vnpor tr:-i l or exhaust qUickly di35ipated duo to a fairly' hirllly ••ind c::>!'!diti.,n. Th~ 'object took a co1u-se or opprold.Matel.y' 110 det,'rH3, (T::~nt.ine th.'lt hiflr.faj· 315 . . - .. .

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r~ reeaooab~ true north and south at t.hat. point. It i::J .vith..eY.tretne tiaguet that this officer b unable to rJ..vP you :m:ytlU.np, li\(e a reO\llst.ic dimension. I would hazard a cueae the object. VAS not lP.ss than 2!1 to 35

• ~eet 1n dia1118ter and could conceivAbl:y b:we been lOO feet in diellleter. The distance involved and the tact that t.his o££1cer vas unable t.o force btmaelt to properlY evaluate t.he object precludes a ver,y precise description. I beUe't'e the object vas of spMrical or near apbereical shape. Acain the distance precluded determining U' the object rot.at.ed on its a.xis, or i£ there were a~ openings or protrut1ona. This ottieer has been sel"ring in Haval .b'i.ation for appro:'d..lllately 26 :reara and is tam1Uar with the nomal 1lluaioos one can see in connection vith hil;b spe9d, hi.gal:y poUshad or hich f:)..oss painted aircnft at hi£11 altitudes and other phenonen.a of a a1m:Uar nature. The object I obsened t.odar vas not an aircra!t in the nol'lllalaense as ve apply' tbe tem, it vas a soUd object, a detinite ~~~ass and vas not a reflection or an opti~al illusion •

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According to the Gr~by tening Teleg~l! a "strange star" was spotted by a local auto aedwuc on t e evening orthe 2nd of Febl1.1ary. He viewed it with.a friend for 20 minutes, the observation starting at 7:30p.m. The "star" suddenly dived at· high speed and then st~ped. Mter a time the "star" took off again, this time horizontally for a long- dhtance across the heavens before stopping a second time. After hovering for a short period, the "star" moved once more, swinging in an arc and then making a high speed swerve horizontally. Finally, not stopping this time, the "star" vaulted upward where it was lost to view. No details of this obviously powered body were discernible. The English military said it had detected nothing on its radar. 30.

3 Febl1.1ary. "Flying sanething."

A Pasadena, california, newspaper printed:

'"A flying sanething streaked oveT Pasadena at 8:00a.m. today. Two city gardeners stationed at the Hall of Justice, Ed Malvin and Ben Cluball told police they were at Arroyo Parkway and Union when they saw a round silvery object proceeding west at a speed fast enough to overtake and flash by an airliner in the same sky sectoT. "Police received no other. calls on the object, which the gardeners

also said was flying considerably higher than the plane." 31.

3 February. Off the Venezuelan coast.

The Ocean liner Vera Cruz was cruising off the east coast of Venezuela on February 3rd when a large lllllinous object flew over the ship. The vessel's Captain, crew members, and passengers, all reported seeing the UFO which sped

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"Universal Flying Saucer Bureau." Chinese! . (See newsclipping)

The' New York Times and the "saucer mania." -------A colunnist for the Times. Meyer Berger, gave

the UFO subject about 17"1:i1Ches of his daily . ·essay on February 6th, but in keeping with the bias of the newspaper he didn't take the contro· versy seriously. Berger wrote about Mr. and Mrs. James Rigber. a married couple that published and and edited the tiny maga7.one !.9'~ Saucer News at their book store on Third :i\Venue.~rac­.terhed the effort as a "rult," emphashing a Miss Lynnabeth Hayden quote in an issue of the News that claimed the pilots of the saucers were beings fran Venus who "for eonSllad quided .mankind in its evolu­tion." 3~.-~.According to Berger. the Rigbers credited Miss Hayden as the: " ••• the most· el~t authority on the saucers." 34.

Berger also llad,.:s(laeth~g to say about the other "saucer fans" in town, the people of the Civili~ .. Sa~er Intelligence organization which held its meetings in Steinway Hall in tbe/~il.o~OJ!l"lical Research &.lilding on West 57th Street, calling its members:" ... wide-eyef:i t~ger'S;.W,ected by space virus." 35. . . - ,·,· .. - . •-:;_. .

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''Weird Lights." (See newsclipping)

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8 February.

"It's back again."

Witnesses in Hemet, California, told the press they had seen sanething very odd. The local newspaper commented:

''Don't look now, but that thing is back again. This_ time it appear­ed to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Camp at about 3 o'clock on the morning of Tuesday of last week. "The Camps reported that they were awakened by a brilliant light

that shone fran a round aerial object 'hovering' low in the sky in the general direction of pabn Springs. The object, they said, appear­ed as large as the full moon, and shone with a shimmering blue-white glow of great intensity: The object seemed to move back and forth, the glare dinllling and inten!?ifying with each movement, they reported. "Although no one else in the Idyllwild area has reported seeing 'the

thing,' a newspaper account the next day revealed that a couple on the desert side saw a similar sight in the direction of San Jacinto peak, sane seventeen hours later." 36.

"Colossal poached egg."

<k1 February lOth American newspapers carried the following story out of Australia:

'~lbourne newspapers were overwhelmed by calls tonight from people who said they had seen a 'flying poad}ed egg.'

<kle witness said:' It had a yellow cor~-·surrounded by a white edge ---like a colossal poached egg. I heard peru liar whining noises as it flew away to sea." 37. ·

A similar phenomenon was seen the same day(FebrUary lOth) at the city of lJuvedin, New Zealand, by a school teacher. She saw thr:ough a window in the dark morning sky a frighting sight. Getting out of bed, the woman went to the win­dow and peered at the thing for a quarter of an hour. The UFO was an oval with a brilliant center and a bright halo. The area between the center and the halo was a pale yellow. The UFO bobbed up and down and jerked sideways. 38.

Lear ag~. When William P. Lear returned to the States he was interviewed by a reporter

from the Grand Rapids, Michigan, Herald. (See below)

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"fbge ltlll.inous eyes scrutinizing the city."

10 February. Caracas, Venezuela. (9:30p.m.)

Northeast of Caracas is the district of Altamira where in the year 1955 there lived a Jose Aqustin Diaz. The evening of February 10, 1955 a huge disk with two bright bluish-colored, pulsating, lights, soared from hori­zon to horizon while in view.

Diaz's sister nearly collapsed from fright. The pair of lights were liken to:" ... two huge luninous eyes scrutinizing the city." 40. Others in the city also witnessed the passage, the sightings written up in the local newspaper E.!_ Universal the following day. 41.

11 February. Caribbean Sea. (no time known)

The day after the Caracas event Pan-American Airline Captain James King was piloting a passenger plane over the waters of the Caribbean when he had a UFO experience. All of a sudden a pair of reddish-green UFOs passed close to King's plane, zooming by just under the wings. Several passengers also saw the objects. Upon landing at Maiquetia Field, Captain King was inter­viewed by the press. 43.

11 February. Olichester, England. "Frisking tadpoles."

Three secretaries spotted sane objects in the sky like "frisking tadpoles gleaming in the sun" the afternoon of February 11th.

Ole of the wanen, a Miss Vigar, told the press:

"They seened to be chasing each other, bobbing round and round. They were very high and moving very much faster than aircraft. They looked flat and disk-like. (bviously they were metal, too, because when the sun caught then they reflected its light. I know people will say we are crazy, but we saw then." 42.

13-14 February. "Flight delayed, spot in the sky."

According to our source:

"Feb. 13, 1955, a Belgian airliner vanished without a trace while approaching Rome's Ciampino Airport, the pilot was reported by the press to have seen a fireball in the sky just before. "Feb. 14, the French African radio station at Brazzaville said that

due to a 'mysterious orange spot in the sky' the departure of the Italian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, who were planning to leave Rome on another flight had been delayed. The source for this report was not announced . " 44.

14 February. Moscow, Russia. A brief note states:"A strange cigar-shape was reported hovering over

Moscow. After sane time the object flew away at high speed." 45.

15 February. Concepcion, Olile.

While driving to llulnes, Oliles, a "distinquished professional," who wanted his name kept confidential, spotted a disk-shaped object parked in a pasture next to the road. The man's family was with him in the car and they all became very curious about the craft. After stopping the car, the

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man and the rest of his family attempted to approach the mysterious disk on foot but the machine rose suddenly. speeding away in a sOI.Dldless es­cape. The landing site showed crushed grass and brush. 46.

Green fireball. (See newspaper clipping)

r~;~~·e;;;ri';;h.ted -Ei . Ouer Texas Airport T ow.er :;:~. f TYLER, Tex. IP-A fireball, Ita 'lll!lrtl peen bi:ht eastlng a fio!ry Macdc .1. slow over three men ill an a.rport control IDWft', fbuhed like- a On : r "hqe e!eclric arc" acroa lbe east Texas piney woods lut Jlighl plane • It waa apparently a meteor. I "Arowld lllldrugbt t1w1 I~& h t from t

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Information llld•calrd It wu lint Uk<' the lip of a welder'a ton:h. Neill seen here and disappeared aome ''It was gollllt due tJOUth. There lo 1M !ill mu ... aouth, Jlli8t Lulldn. But were three or ua Ill the tower. We,MaJ the weather bureau at Dallas got ol course had the l~ghtt. on, but i Dtegc report& of people aeein1 Us &low the 1:00m bgblrd 'llP lmllllllliiY. Jt•IL. I"

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Green City, Missouri. 15 February 55. The senior radar controller at the AC&W site at Kirksville, ~~ssouri,

filed the following report with ATIC after a local citizen sighted a UFO: "Between the hours of 1720 and 1730 Central Standard Time, Mr.

( ••• deleted) was traveling east on Highway 16 four miles west of the town of Green City, Missouri. The day was clear, there was little wind noticable and the sun was bright and to the west of his automobile. As Mr.( .•• deleted) approached a flat stretch of road lasting for approximately ~ of a mile, he noticed through the driver's side window, a large, metallic disc hovering an estimated 500 feet above the ground at a distance of approximately one mile from his position. He described the object as being about 100 feet in diameter and an estimated 12 feet in thickness with what appeared to him to be several windows. Mr.(. •• deleted) did not stop to ob-

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serve the object further and lost sight of it as the road dipped. He proceeded to the town of Green City and reported it to the editor of the local paper, who promotly called our installation. t1r.( ••• deleted) was traveling at an estimated 55 miles per hour when he sighted the ob­ject and observed it for approximately 15 to 20 seconds. "An investigating team frm our unit canprised of Capt. Laurence B.

Watson, ~rations Officer. Lt. Arthur T. Young. Senior Director and A/2C Robert E. Keras, Intelligence Specialist investigated the sighting on the morning of 15 February 1955. Mr. ( ••• deleted) was interrogated and asked to sketch the U.F.O. There 'Were no other witnesses or ob­servers known to have sighted the object. No further evioience was found when the sighting area was inspected." 47.

CoPieD FRbm "t SkET~fi 6"( 1'1\ fil. oBse"'vfR Gtr£E'V (.IT\'• fllO.

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(The reader is also referred to the Utica, New York. case of July 23rd.)

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''Meeting on the Moor."

Time places "author Allingham" in a "Swiss sanatorium undergoing lung treatment." The magazine also calls I:!Y!!!.8 Saucer From Mars a ''worthy successor to Adamski's !:!Y~E Saucers 1Iave I.aiiCieO aruTStates:" ••. such oooks as his (Allingham) apparentLy answer a aeep and widespread yearning for marvels." (See magazine article)

/'""Meeting on the Moor --Tbe -M.a~ -~~--~~ ·u;;;·;P;in-;-. 1 ,pobhcal question. He wtnted to k.now,

F,r!"G SAucu noM MAI5jl5) pp j-.-:says Alhngbam ("Xeedlt!K to say I could Cedrtc Alhnghom-B11ttsh Boo4 Cen· not understand bu worth, but bts gesture> tre l$2.75). TIM£, fliiUAIY 1~. 1~5 wert dear enough"), .. ·hetber tbe &rtb

Stmply sighting flying saucers is out people \\ould start anotber war Albng· of dote-the btg spin now is to spot hom says be wu only able to shrug hope; them landmg and to hobnob 111itb the1r fully 1ft reply. After tndtcatmg that he interplaneluy passengers. Ptoneer yom· bad Vlstted both Vt!nus and tbe Moon, spinner among the neo-lfunch>usen breed says Alhngham. tbe l-fantan also asked if

_ IS George Adom•lu. a sell-descnbed Eortbmen would aoon reoch the Moon. Southern Caltfomta "phtlosopber, stu- \\'ben Allingham nodded the Marttan'a

. dent, !tocher, saucer researcher • and for· broad brow clouded up. "And who can mer sbort·order cook \\bo d>lmtd (m blame them?" asks the author. "We have last yeor's Flymg Suuctrs Ha11e L4nded) not yet proved ourseh-es lit to rule our tbot be stood bestde a saucer on the Cal· O\\n planet, let alone VIlli others and per· tforma desterL tn_ Ns>v~~r !liP and haps inftue~ce lbetr affam." Soon after. talked ( telepatbtcally) !l~tli ·a t&o.ned reports Allingham, the l-brtaan popped mort VISitor from Venus. • back mto bis saucer and sped off to space.

Tbe book was follo,.ed by a rash of re· Yearning Reo~ers. England's eagerest ports about tany red Martians tumbling astronauts the shde·rule devotcu o~ out bestde an ltahan farmhouse a long· Bnu.h lnterplaneta.., Soctety, hoot at legged long-ha1red spaceman cbs,ng two tbe book's "sctenufic" label Pohtely, they l\or,.egtan mtlkmatds across a !Jtld, and suggest that Author :l.lhngbam h.u a btgb­httle green men landmg tn France ,.ear- I)· suscepubl" una@1na11on or that some· in& pluttC helmets. orange corsets or Cel- body bas elaboratel) hoaxed htm. But AI· lopbane "rappers. Now a J>-year·old Brtt- bngham, now undergomg lung treatment tsh thrdler·\\nter, amateur stargazer and at a Sutss sanatonum, cares lntle tf cnt· htrd 1\atcber named Cednc Allmgham re· tcs point out that saucer picturu have veals that be bumped into a !II· foot )Jar- been faked tn the past \\lth lampsbodH, IIJin laSl Feb. 18 on a lonely Scotllsb garhage-can co1·en and trapshooung tar· moor not far from where the Loeb Ne.s gets tossed m tbe an. Such booLs as bu monster used to sport. apparently ans\\er a deep and ,.;&:.pread

In Flymg Saucer Jrom Afars Author yeom1ng for mai"els Alhngham even prmts photographs of tbe In the past year .\da~skt's Flyirr1 Sa,.. Mart1an, looktng very hke a crofter with nrs HaiJt L4nded, 1\llb lis atry 1abble of galluses tlappmg, and (separately) of bu telepothy and levnauon and its pbot<>­aaucer, wh1cb has ctrcular portholes three- gr:tpbs of aaucen bas sold 6;,ooo copies ball bndms gear _and a shmy dome' wtth 0 in the U S. and 40 ooo in England Adam· rod st1ckmg up from 11. sk1 s.aucer-fan club• have sprung up across

Birding Author. As Alhngham tells it, the land. and bu ruders arc llockmg to be was out watchmg tor rare buds that bear htm talk of the bc»enly >!'bern afternoon \\hen a so-ft. saucer s~,:1mmed ("Let us ~>·elcome tbe men from th~ other rtght past hiS camera to land btstde h1m ... or!ds-they a!e here amontt us' ) and and this tall fellow bopped out. The peer. through bts t\\o telescopes. Allin&· stranger, Alhngham says, lool;ed JUSt J;ke ham s new hook ts a worthy successor to any North Bnton ucept for a "forehud FJym1 So""''' H~v~ L4Hdtd. -11'­btgher th~n that of ony man I know "

• \Vht!n Alhngham sketched a sun \\fth planets orbtlllllf round 11 on a pad, be soys. the VISitor smiled and potnted to !be fourth planet and then to bts 011n space­awted ligure. lla.at clearly placed biJ home on Mar!·----

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15 February 55. Olatham, England.

"It was certainly no airplane."

According to a Kent newspaper:

"It has been said that anyone can see flying saucers--from hallu­cination, spots before the eyes, a drop too much, or just because they want to--but M\en two level-headed Plen, concentrating on nothing but their work, both see sanething at the same time, one sits up and takes notice. "This happened on 1\Jesday morning in Best Street, Chatham,

where the new telephone exchange for the area is tmder construc­tion. I met the two men M\o had seen it--Tom Mallion, 58-year­old laborer, of Mount Road, Chatham, and ~slie Streeter, aged 35, the foreman carpenter of ~ighton Street, West Croydon, less than an hour later, M\ile it was still fresh in their minds, writes a reporter. ''The two of them were taking sane levels about 11:30 that morn­

ing. Mr. Streeter using a level and Mr. Mallion holdinl'! the sur­veyor's staff for him. Mr. Streeter, squinting through the level, told his companion to hold the staff level. '"I looked up at the top of the staff,' Mr. t.fallion told me,'and

there it was. • "He said 'it was about as big as the palm of my hand and going

like--!' "It was absolutely smooth, the tmderside of a plate or a saucer,

M\ite and without any wings or holes in it. There was no sotmd and no smoke. We only had time to say two or three words to one another before it had becane so small in the distance that we could hardly see it. lie called the ganger's attention, but by that time it was out of sight. "'Whatever it was, it was certainly no airplane. • "According to Mr. Streeter, the object was heading directly

from Rainham in the direction of I.Dndon, and when he first saw it after ~fr. Mallion had called his attention it was no bigger than his thumbnail and getting smaller rapidly. "Seeing it against a clear patch of blue sky, it seemed to him

to be silvery and cigar-shaped, again with no projections, smoke or sound. ''Used to aircraft spotting in the Royal Navy in the war, Mr.

Streeter was still tmable to estimate its height, because he had no idea of its actual size, but said: • It was up a terrific height and going at a colossal speed. It was only a matter of seconds before it was too small to be seen any longer.' "~t the foremal'·on the site, Hr. J.A. Brightwell of Shuttle

--~~oose.-Sidrup1have-the-last-word~!With a .. lot_of_~gp_k_you woul~ think they had been having a drin'< or were seeing things, and you would not take any notice of theM. But these two chaps are in­telligent and level-headed, and are absolutely convinced about what they saw." 48.

Disk doubter Dr. Donald Menzel.

A San Diego newspaper tells us:

''Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of Harvard University•s Solar <1>­servatory, Climax, Colorado; at San Diego, California, addressing

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the Sigma Xi Club at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, blast­ed the 1 saucer craze, 1 saying he had recently observed a strange light in Colorado which turned out to be a reflection from the headlights of a truck. Menzel: 1There's not a scientist alive who would even hint that what we saw are objects fran outer space carrying little men. 1

" 49.

18 February. Bowling Green, Kentucky. "sky dance."

The night of February 18th was very wann with visibility unlimited at Bowling Green, Kentucky. ()} the c~us of Western State College, two students went to the Student Union Building for a Friday night dance. At 10:00 p.m. the couple took a break and went outdoors. Sitting on a bench they happened to gaze at the dark sky. They both saw a strange. orange­colored, flat-oval shaped object that had an odd "glowing quality" to it. This object was very obvious since it was flying loops and figure "8s ," occasionally speeding up and then dropping down, sanetimes in a slow des­cent and sometimes in a quick descent.

The young woman was the first to spot a half-do:r.en sinilar objects about 25 minutes later as the "things" JOOVed northeast in an "incomplete V-fonna­tion." This group of objects kept on a steady course until out of sight. It was the young couple's opinion that the fonnation was at a lower altitude than the single object doing the acrobatics since those objects in the for­mation appeared much larger and brighter.

Within minutes of the fonnation's appearance, two more objects appeared in the southeast and were very noticeable because they seemed to be "dog­fighting," looping around each other in tight, smooth, orbits.

The sky show was still going on when the couple finally got tired of watching. SO.

Above: Path of single object.

Right: Fonnation.

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19 February. UFOs or aircraft? (See BUIE BOOK record card)

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Ruppelt compliments Stringfield.

Preparing material for his plmmed UFO book, ex·BUIE BOOK chief Fmvard Ruppelt wrote Leonard String4'ield on February 21, 1955, asking for infor· mation about the C.R.I.F.O. organization, although it was evident Ruppelt knew sanething about the Cinncinnati-based group. Ruppelt penned:"! IIU.lSt say that you have a very effective report ·collecting net established." 51.

It was probably the effective nature of Stringfield's group that pushed the Air Force into allowing C. R.I. F. 0. to becane a Grotmd Observer Corps reporting agency later in the year when the <llio region experinced a big UFO flap. In view of the strong anti ·Stringfield feelings expressed in BLUE BOOK files, such cooperation was remarkable and attests to the reality of the flap and the Air Force's sensitivity to possible UFO activity in ATIC's neighborhood.

Spring 1955. (no exact date)

Near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Balloons or UFOs?

A Pan American airliner took off fran a Caracas, Venezuela, airport and then turned south toward its destination of Rio de Janeiro. Aboard the plane was a navigator named John T. Novak. As the passenger plane ap­proached Rio, Novak looked out a window(the aircraft's octant) and saw

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four very peculiar circular objects high above. The things had a metallic luster and were arranged in a diamond fonnation. Since one side of the objects was dark, Novak was convinced he was observing three dimensional solid bodies. The objects seemed to be maintaining the same altitude al* though the azimuth changed. The pilot of the airliner was so impressed he exclaimed:"! see them, but I don't believe them!" 52.

1 March 55. Moola Boola •

Froo Moola Boola Station, which is in Western Australia(240 miles froo Perth on the coast) • carne a UFO report on March 1st that told of a "silvery object" that passed overhead at extreme altitude. What captured the at* tention of the witness, apparently, was that the object "reversed" its direction froo a northw~st course to a southeast one, although how abrupt was not defined. 53.

Stringfield puts Life magazine on the spot.

Not happy with a passive role, Leonard Stringfield, on behalf of his UFO organization, sent a letter to Life on March 5, 1955 to remind the editors of the periodical's big Aprll"1, 1952 "Have We Visitors Froo Space" article which implied we may have such guests and which triggered an Wl* precedented response from the magazine's readership. Since Life, in Stringfield's words, "carried the big stick of influence"(inoeea, it was the leading popular periodical of the time), the C.R.J.F.O. chief wanted to know what the editors thought of UFO events since 1952, Stringfield looked forward to a answer. 54.

2 f:tlrch. Near Huntley, Illinois. "Fatigue?" (See BUJE BOOK file card below)

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. .,.; . "~.:.':·AND DROPPED BEHING CAR SEITERAL THIFS PD APPROr. SP~!1> t.J.I\'5 .:;~· TO .. , ~ . .,. : fl' , ; ...• ! .•• inu:s PER HOUR PD n~;J ~· ... 1

~tM 2. A. UPOf.....,.tAVING HUNTLY ILLINOIS TRA'JtLINC NORTH 0:~ HIGH!.JAY 4 7

~·{- ~. _:. __ -t..iG'HTED QBJECTS APPE:AP.!D ON EITHER SIDE OF CAR P!>

lr ,j :. B. PARALLEL AND CAP. TOP LF.VEL PD ·JI:. .. . . . .

.. . ~ c. NEGATIVE .. De FOLLOWED PARALLF:L TO CAR DO~Ill JtiGmfAY FOR AP?ROX 11§ nJLF.c;

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-CIRCLE AP.OUtm BUILDINGS AflD TREES CMN THEN t1011i: IN BESIDE CAR

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IN FIELD IN THE. .DI~TI\NCE PD BY DAYLIGHT OBJECT WAS com:: PD

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edlHAL:!AND COMPLETELY RATIONAL PD DRIVDl HAD CONTINUALLY

tlf!EaAT!D VEHICLE FROt1_ 170~1_ TO _231.]11 t•HICH MAY HAVE RESULTED

.... :iAJ..-:INATIONS DUE TO FATIGUE PD

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Qui to, Ecuador.

A Nebraskan newspaper printed:

"Reports of flying saucers have been received recently but accord­ing to foreign newspapers the objects are •visiting• other parts of of the world. "Mrs. Riley Groves, 3336R, has received a copy of a ().lito, Ecuador,

newspaper from her sm, Arthur Wilson, Wl.ich describes the sighting of two of the reported 'flying saucers' in detail. Wilson is an en­gineer in South America. "According to the foreign newspapers, more than one hundred persons

saw the flying saucers at a height of about 8,500 feet above Quito airport. 'The objects in the blue sky shone brightly in the fonn of a half -orange with a cabin in the top center, and with the base of the objects appearing concave. The surface of the objects was the color of white metal, as of aluminum, and reflected the rays of the day•s sun, • the newspaper reported. "The newspaper said the objects, which could be clearly seen with

the aid of field glasses, remained in the air for more than an hour and then one moved with 'incredible velocity' to the south.

"1The saucers• had been seen previously in Peru, the newspapers

said." 55.

7 March 55. Beaumont , Texas.

A Texas newspaper reported:

"The first flying saucer sighted in this area in many months was reported Monday morning by F.A. Rice, who works for the Edwards News Agency.

''Mr. Rice saw what he described as a flying saucer over the Nome­Sour Lake highway. The object appeared to be about 3,000 feet high, was an estimated thirty feet in diameter and six feet deep. It was saucer-shaped and silver. ''The machine seemed to head toward Beaumont for a brief period,

then it zoaned straight up until it disappeared, Mr. Rice report­ed. II 56.

9 March. Paris, Illinois. "Jet airplane theft?"

A sensational UFO story came to the attention of the Air Force, one it couldn't really ignore. An investigation was ordered for reasons given in an Air Force letter. (See "request for investigation"). The story, as told in Van Tassel's Telonic Research Center publication, was put on file in BillE BOOK records (See article reproduced from publication). The so­called "jet capture" as written up by the witness was also included in military records(See report and drawing).

An investigation uncovered the fact that the witness cliamed to "see the same UFO frequently" which destroyed the man's credibility as far as the military was concerned(See military document).

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n f.taTdi~·5_5. Bexley Heath, F.ngland. ... ~ ~ ,.. -

lrfJ-Sriili:s~ by the name of Douglas Clarke was in his bedroom(the time is not-.~ but it> is assumed to be after dark) when he saw through a ~ow:~·giowi.iig, cfr~lar, body about 500 feet up in the sky. The object was c_an_~· cl,IJ~ of the·n~rtJ:lwest and when it reached Bexley Heath it turned around ~and_ headed· in the, diT·ec!ion of the river. 57.

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. "In.pl.se you_•ve been wondering what becajhe of the flying saucers, ~is'is te> report that they are still with us, snooping around up ~tiler~ .in· the upper limits of the atmosphere: ~

-<._,~-'He~;E_; Watson.. 80S Magnolia Drive, and Mr. ~d Mrs. R.A. Ed­wa~. 1605 Rembert Avenue, caught sight of one or· ~at looked like one yesterday around 7:00 p.m. They were standing in the ~ar.ks .Motor Company .Jot at 811 Third Street, watching the sun 's.J,Pk ·slowly in the west, when a round, black object appeared.

·. : ttl{. .Watson described it, the object was barrelling alorig at a speed {',:that.: !'f9Uld have !'lade a supersonic jet appear to be going bac:J:c.wards.

·: __ /:u•rv~, seen plenty of jets flying over,' Watson said he thought at , :~ ~f1:rs~ it_w~s a balloon. It appeared spherical, left no vapor tTail,

:.,:~- ~e- no .sound whatsoever, and took a little more than a l!'inute to go

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from the western horizon to the eastern. It was not flat like a saucer he said. "It appeared to be very high, and to our sight it was about twelve

inches in diameter. &It of course it JWSt have measured more than that actually. ''Watson said he had heard about flying saucer sightings, and had

always felt there was nothing in such reports. '&It I'm fixing to change my mind now,' he said." 58.

12 March. Van Tassel's Second Annual "Spacecraft Convention."

Two miles east of Yucca Valley, California, at Van Tassel's Giant Rock Air­port, the Second Annual "Spacecraft Convention" convened at 10:00 a.m. on Sat­urday, March 12th. The San Bernardino Sheriff Department deputies provided security.

Again Van Tassel invided an array of "saucer personalities," JOOst of them contactees :George Adamski, George lt.mt Williamson, Frank Scully, Orfeo An­gelucci, Dan Fry, Tn.anen Bethunrn, Dick Miller, Dana Howard, Silas Newton, "Cedric Allingham," and Dcmald Keyboe. Professor Charles ("Dr. Doomsday," as he was now being called) Laughhead travelled west to attend,but the Wash­ington-based Keyhoe wasn't about to make the trip.

Dan Fry told everybody at the convention a couple of Air Force Intelli­gence agents were on hand,as well as a representative of the FBI. Perhaps he was right. The previous year both the military and the Bureau were ask­ed my Van Tassel to send observers.

The media was very happy to cover the event which gave Van Tassel some satisfaction although he had no illusions the stories filed by reporters would be flattering.

The general public turnout was a bit disappointing for the Saturday sess­ion(about 1,000 people) due to an overcast of dark clouds that threaten rain.

The big surprise was the appearance of &:lward Ruppelt, ex-chief of BUJE BOOK, who was now living and working in Southern California. He was probably the last person one would expect to see at such a gathering since Ruppelt de­tested contactees.

Van Tassel, whose ego seems to have left the planet at least, wrote in his UFO publication:

"When Ruppelt was at Giant Rock during the 1955 convention, I made several efforts to talk to him. This was before he wrote his book. He evaded talking to me, which was very noticeable, and it seems strange that he was not interested in my contact in the least. "Could it be that while he was with the Air Force he learned that my

contact was a true one." 60.

Writing in another issue, Van Tassel says:

"Captain Ruppelt, who headed the Air Force investigation of the spacecraft for two years, was present and questioned sane of the speakers. He is about to present a new book on the subject, stat­ing the facts. This book should be one of the best on the space visitors' ships." 61.

Dick Miller was one of the new faces in the crowd; having moved from Detroit to Prescott, Arizona, where he was developing his "Solar Cross" group. Not to be outdone by anyone else, Miller was claiming a 12 hour saucer ride after befriending a t-fartian "Sol Tee."

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Of course the fictional "Cedric Allingham" was a no-show, and Silas New­ton was probably too embarrassed to make an appearance, but Frank Scully was there:

The literate Scully penned:

"For the most part the speakers reguritated their old well-digested cuds and indicated that what the saucerian subject now needs is a type of corwention where panels are held and reports brought in and findings published, rather than a series of old-timers telling over and over again their already published tales. "Capt. Ruppelt was there. He photographed me." 62.

Van Tassel suns up. Van Tassel, as host of the "space conclave," had nicer things to say about

the two day affair, calling it "wonderfull" and a "complete success," indicat­ing it was a good bet everyone would be asked to return in 1956.

As expected the media gave the whole business a hard time. Van Tassel ex· pressed his unhappiness :"As usual the press reporters gave their twisted ver· sions of the corwention to the public." 63.

Relax:_aur -~[~neta,j_. ,s-,.,Ar. ,,s-r ·Neighbor_$_/!iotecf.-ll$~

~ Twe~ • NIH Pt.1ma. Callt..:..1 ~e liiutllll ni vrariieif WI ..

aHSl- OM &bOUI&Ild penoM Geor1e V&D n-1. who nma. who bellnl Ill fl7lnlr I&I!Cen tht afrpori aDd what he alii

the "coUere et untveraa1 wii-Wl!l'll &old O'NI' the •eetead lh&l dcm.• • • &hen! II DO durer et 1111 t.'-lc Richard Miller, & tl7lnr auc:er Wlol'. aponent from Preec:ott. Aria ••

Tbq wera lift!! that U&IU'• , &old Jut.l!rda.y'a teaslon that the ,uce b7 & ariel or apeahn who et.rih 11 now movln, Ink! & hUie &ddl't!lllled the teeond &mlU&I cloud et d .. dtr eosmlc rar1, but IIJ1ni' 11.ucer convention. .. II belnr acreened from the ra•

Tbt apeak en a.ueried lh&\ 'dl&tl<m b7 1.500,000 JP&Ce llhlpo. the-re wilt be no aiomle .,.... be· ' Be &dded that If the acreen!nlr caUR the people lrom .M:&ra, 1t&lla kl prove effective,, the Mill'· Veaua, S&turn and other placea -~ _ U"e prep!l'!d kl evacua~ In the b'aven.a nn't permit 11.. the enure earih to .. .,. the peo-

n Would Imperil the other ple from dutruc:tiOll. ' . llluleta for the earth kl l>ll .M:r. .M:Uler u.td th&t the bl<nrn up. So. the tlrlnr aauc~ aource of hill lnfotmatlon wu rono......, were Informed, the Sot-Tee, the commander or •· •~ people, who look aDd &c:t Marian ap&ee llbl.p 110 feet .Ill !J!t.!' _ordinal')' human ~ ..... ue diameter. . I on earth now ~ keep the dan·~ .M:r. Miller related that he pr ll'QDI develcJplnr. waa plelted up b1 the IIJ)aCe llllp

The two--da1 convention wu fnear Detroit and lll&de a 1~1-t held at Giant Rock Alrpon, an hour "'0711• In it. taotated deaert tandJna neld 30 --·- - - -----' linDa northwen et TwentJ· Llf~ l"tJma. - - . .

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~-:~Ptl!,. Tb;;e-P~ot•le BELIEVE lu Flyiug·S~ueera Tl!ey 1\it·el Fnr from Sket•liea' Snf'ers Some Sl_;rles Sincere, Some Sheer Suuce 'A apanahlp landed neac

me. n "'" an ovate •ph.roid, about 30 U. ln elf .. ameter., 18 ft. In kn1th"' So Otniel W. Fr,. lnttrument technician lor A~roj~t~C«'n~ •nl Corp" MoerU.-td t.o 1~000

1 ••Pr hatenen h1a Ant 11t0f1: .. tact .. on Julr 4, 1950. "ith a ft7fn1 uuccr and oUter-apan Cft&hlHI

... The enft had no protuMJ~ •ftC" aM wu c:omplet«"b dat o:t top lbd botto"" Itt blue rlow tn the air later tum•d &o aUvu"' Fr~ then told M• a a.-eem~~n ft,&nwd Alan •hom he ............ took hli. • ior a li-Julnute lplft to Ne• 'r ork and bac-k.

TM occaa1oo for thie and tlmil&r aceounlt' ••• the Sec· und Annual SpaucrBft Con­wnt.wn:a h~ld ft'ftnUtat <..1ant Rock Airport, a remote a)r­•trip In the MoJOYe Dtt"Lnt aear Palm Sprinca. Cahf, 10meU ... \la.ed bJ pnYate pllota.

All rrtornin* )one, tara of .,..,., dncrlphon churned 30 mtiN tbrou,t:h the hol, du .. ty Men to the ttk'k bot\Uhl ltr· port Th•~ pn..-nJu t" un. lo•.dtd pk-n&c lxu~keh, babies, t.lnaa, tamC'ta• nn1l htnnculara. They •Prt'acl them'Che• cnm­f<~rtablr ovt artJund tho apcd~:•n• phtfnrm Old. .ruunt ftk'ft 111 I uk-tl blue jf"o~.n•~ atnul. lntht>2' tn ,.J.u lo. A

and atraw <m,ht- ltnh. .md 10" Dlf fu\C strLh .. f"OH,,Iu tnutM:tt.d .t'l•nll\\tt.hcot, t\lliJIC-d aoda pnp antl o. c,.~:-.mn.,lJy M"•nned tb~: ltret:ht blue !\Lf Th~n •II Rltlu.J down lor an ,.ru tnoon of &l'rtoute li:~h••uut: t6 spe.dn::ts whu""l\.' U'lmllcd pt'ISODAf t'JI:JW'rlil!UH'S W.t l h: ouh•r epare anu1uletf hke at.orw• from • adencu.fictum lhrtUer.

Th• tall t.tuc talluna a.lr· port mana~r. Ceorcf' \V Van Tauel, a former ft•cht te•t an•tncn lor an Alttratt com­P•"f aM author of I Rvd• A Tl11"• SoMC:II' (1it), louka

more hh •n adnnturn thaD a mutn·of-ce"monSn. Ht ew:ptatM'd til• uuoa for U.• eoonnl,oa: .. One ntrht S of the frUowa mtuutM ln UU.· ten drove ut here t m1nutn apnrt. unaware that till I otheu were ettmtn• W• ftll'ur.d aU of the-an had bc:CJl duf.de,f to ~nnM by '~e outer fu1 te, to d«1d~ t.o hftld thia m.e:~anr N'obndr'• ntaktnll a prollt out of U. SpaCftrd\ Convenllon But to help dt:frar ••Pfnsu, • couple- of Ute fcllo'u ••U pact throup the t'rowd "'Lb I Ua tanl. 0

Van Tauel. llk• the other 1ptaken. spe:h in lethntul OUIC'rapace lml'o Euh n~ tounlt:'tl ltl ptun-.tvkln• detad Nnversaattona ean~d Oft lft ••,..rtt!Ct En&hsh.'' ""tn an un.. known tunal.le," or by "'rutl­tat t~•tpath)" .. AU n:•eN .. ou pahal - that the t11t1-lft

spa« cuaturt-< lhf'J had aet W4"f• qf •UJ14"f'lnt IAlitUitt:e_,. ta .. .,tb ~plf". and W.f't'lt "

tile •hokof a pruelttl pature. Sskaker <t'"•utJ:C' Atl.amslu"•

pMtn:~ ot "rm,: ~PUt en and d;um ttl have lnCt n V~llU'IUUI ("'"tlo(lut 116 UJ~, & 6"', wtth. 'uny br<mn h: ut duQn tu lu.., •huu!tlt:ta ... IIJlJH.aretl m b1s b~""'"· Ylt~mg Stlftr'•• Jltt.tJ• Lntttl~tl (Yf IJu lo, '$1} Ad.un,LI haul snme ad'\ttt lor the oldu tulka "Rc noamal Or ynur'4.1f Nf'\U lhmk of youth or old •tt~ Then you,l ~· In wg ltLc ti('Oitlc on nthu ptunrt• ..

Ol ten An~tt<htt.d. a •hs:.ht. \uu fled loukin• num. \ure a blue brnnte and dltlrtbuted I~ coplea of • nt••Jip•per, !Ollt Ct•ttu 11 T1m•• H~ had edited it. tUm:Aflt • lt .. ad like •n aulohtH&rraphy. t.tUh tun. ph.aa•• nn h11 mf't'tu\1 trt"a• t.ur('t fiom out.e' t:p.u H•. too. hll•t publ••h~t a bnolc Ht> h:acl f'nutUtltf'lf'd 1 ~vera I •tr) stat d I 1 C' a." convened 'Atth •t!'(q.dllte J)C'It.oft&lft"" abttard \\hW~oe VOk.f'l •en "'•• mellou.-dJr•prtl '" tht.- ,uld of the •tau." hurd buuUful UUISU. tmd f~IL Mft •t.Ul~ llfft·

utmn nf Snv.. t~nder--•ta.ndlnif awl kuulneaa dvrln• the than~ met.tan1

Dick !.Idler, tit., Detroit f'l«trornn t«hn.eaan, tofll of rithna lhrouah the drMrt with frletllla. and eMnunltr­lllC. cdune. a lpaN a.hl11 "TIM U('t.ain tumect on 11 wlaloa ac:reen, ai\4 the hn.-xe of my C ftlt:nda atttt,.. In the c•r 01t the arnutuJ appuu·.t - I• coro. " wo' hke •n x_.,., mad•u•e. <apabiC' of ~""~'"a' thu.u"'h mdal" aUIIt'f ..... , •• tbi" •pan dtp, oa• .J a CHI. sUnda r~•d1 to phu·• lh• propiH of tile .. rUt nft' U.is plah&aadMUMfh•••• othr In nq ol • ... r:t~

T h • onty latly 1peaku. -plump, fllatl-only lfn Dan• Howard, \old of e ""alrance tatltleal e:~epenen<:e ovrr which I had no ~antrol" ll rea•• •co SA• hd be•• ••t•t.M fro• Arbuna •• Yl1lU. •Ute •h• 1tayC"d J••l loa1 C"1MUIJ. lO ••ttJ a Y••••••• aamU: W&.ndca. •£WC"f')'"thtnl th~H~ is IYI'd• IDtlrae•l You do not ftnd over­fat or underfat bol<lhu lhfr« • She further l"f'laud how 1htt had recently he:ud from her Yenu•una hustu.nd, hut 1M dtdn~ d&Y\Ila:e hit ''meaap ... W.e Fr:r, Van Taue:l. AdcuD• tki and AnatiPCn. Mn Uow. ud had a book pubh•hod alte-r lhe mandaedp& had lala lA a ttunk lor l" )"ean

Speatler Trun1nn Bcthtum. con.tr-uttlon worker from Ut•h. dalm.d •u contub.,. wJLb • •ucer from .. Cianon5" a ptenri uaknowft to utrono­men. Hl1 uueer. cal.lt-d a ""KOW/'. ••• ~mmalHied by A••• RhaUH. a beauutul w.wnan who had a crew of 3;t men .. SMh.addark halr;datl •re•. wor-1' • nd akin and &lrht·fitllnc blaek hlovM •

•Ver7 deAniteb a wo~;~aa_ • •• •ld •vert Oefhttttl:; u .JIJ-

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Flytng toucef' ntpol'tt from oil ove. the world o,. both deniM oncl acc•pted by authorttfet. Lohtf on• was from Italy, D•c. '54~ Fan at apoce cottclav• (r.J teatc:h•• lof atnly aavcer.

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---NATIONAL AffAIRs-"lllmw_!.'Ok, -----.,..--....;..~..;...,;;...;,~~ .... March 21, 1955 ~ . .., ·. CALIFORNIA: -- --- -- --

Whistling Into Space About 1,000 men, women, and chil­

dren gathered around a maSSIVe, egg­shaped boulder m the MoJaVe Desert In Cabfomua last week. There, safe from the sneel'$ of slepllcs, they munched sand­waches and drank pop, wlule they lu­tened to stones about Mars, Venus, and

-other planets, mcludmg several h1therto • unknown to sc1ence and II\ VISible through

even the most powerful telescopes. It was the second annUAl Spacecraft

Convention, and the speakers were men und women who cl.umed to have VISited outer space m sp.:tcesh1ps, 8ymg saucers, and what not, and to have oonsorted wtth Mart1ans, Venusums. etc.

Among them was Dame! W. Fry, an mstrument techmc~1n for the AeroJt!l· General Corp Julv 4, 1950, W.lSn't much of a hnladay for Fry. He m1»ed the l.1st bU5 into town from the Whale Sands &::1.,_.:.,..:.;:.:;.,__-;:;;::::;:::::;;:;-' ProVIng Ground, where he wns then worlmg The .ur condlllomng Ill his room broke down. He was hot and lonely.

Sp•ee C.4et• Fry went for a walk. Suddenly, a space sh1p lnnded near him ,, was just an ov:ue sphero1d Battened at top and bottom, w1th no protuber· ances about 30 feet in d1ameter and 16 feet ;., length, no larger: he told Ius bsteners. N.1turally. he went aboard. The sh•p took oH. In llfleen mmutes lt was whozzmg over New York, fifteen mmutes latt>r 11 W.lS b ... :k ut While S..nds.

Mrs Dana How.ud h.1d qmte an ex· per1mce to recount, too. A space slup landed ne.1r her, took her aboard, 1111d wh1sked her off to Venus She stayed there Just long enough to marry a Venus­,.,; nnmed Lrlando She L•st heard from h1m about SIX weeks ngo "My body we>nt mto a YMIIent revulsoon: abe declared.

S••• ••411•41•auTnunan &thrum, a 56-)•ear-old construction worker from Utah, told of •eleven contacts• w1th a liaUC<!f•Wped "scow• from a pl.1net un­known to SCience named Clanon The 1h1p was m.mned by a crew of 32 and commanded by a beautiful worn.1n. Aura Rhanes. She had a Latm romple.uon, darl hn~r, and dark eyes, and what \\,U

more, tlus vu1tor wore •a radunt red skirt and a $1lug·fitbng blacl !>)()use. ----."very delimtely a woman. very delin· itely; Solid Bethrum chuckling.

Wh1le the spenhrs recJiled the~r traY· els, a sbght, nervous rn.1n of 43 m a blue beame, pml.: sh1rt, and blue sl.>cL.s Willi·

de1ed about the crowd, dutnbutmg cop1es of the first issue of hu tabloid newspaper, "20th Century T1mes.• He was Orfeo Angeluect, who says he has ndden in 8ymg dJ>l:s wh1ch landed near a Los Angeles cemetery Most of the ltories 111 Ius P.'l"'' de.11t With hJS expen· ences, mcludmg hls encounters w1th "ell.·

- qul!lte personages" aboard the dul..s "bn't 11 wonde,ful, a meetmg l1le

thur· S.lld a m1ddle-aged wom.m as the convenhon brole up at dm.k. "Such an upl1ftmg experlencer

Her companion repbed "Yes, out• doo<J, it u 10 tpinhwl and elevalln& •

The contactee crowd had also been busy with their pens. Here just sane of the titles published during the year:Dana Howard:She Came Fran Venus, My !:!!_ght To venus; William Ferguson: ~ ~g~ From IIIter ~ac!:_, ~4,P 12 Mars; Gilbert Holloway: Cormnmion Betweenl'IOri'<J5,"_Mesonges~ran e ~!£.t:. ~le; Orfeo Angelucci: and Paul Vest: ~ Awakemng Anot'fler Pranet; Gefaf<I Light: The Book Of ~ht, The HumandPersonalifj• Peru: ~le Of J:_'lg)itor, SigJ'lsm TheS'.Kfes, 'Jtie Si?frit ~eaks;teC1I-chaei: RounifTtfuP To RelrTri A""TIY~ Sauceif"C"iorge ~r ey: Etnenan Ships; Dr. Wilham ughead: Allessi!Se FrOOIThe fly~g Saucers?, article m ~sue-magazine; lee Crandall: The-vifnuS"iiiiiS;I:lO'rotny 'ffianas: }lle ~J!!g Of The Great White Chief, Concerning !'!1!!:!8 saucers And Cormnmicati~aCeinen, "':'iTecn ~ACCording To The Great !§'s tics, IlTe Qi Venus Accoraiiig -,.O'nle GreatMyshcs; FraJikhn 1'11Cilllls: we-cane lii1'eace?A f.lartrail"i.iilds In Austria; JJOWard""MaCDOnald: !:_!y!!:!g Sau­cerSAild §lace ~s: Arid Thet:l'iiiilown Planets From Whence ~ Cane; ,andtlle UiantiiFounaihon's t.trailt~k(2,097 pages!r- --- ~

March 1955 marked the appeirailce of M.K. Jessup's latest work:The Case·For .:!!!£_ UFO. (See ad below)

Flrin1 _, aiM! Tlwr •• ;.. 111lli1nttly JufiCUII /roa- 1,at:e!. Tllq o...,..,. tr- • ,__ ,w .a.\in "'• EltnJI,.II_._., ,._ IIJIIIIIflf

These are ataleDenb of /acl baled . 011 10und 10ber inl'UI.igaticma by a diltinguisbed American rcientilt. b his monumental nw book. mE CASE FOR THE UFO, 1\L L .lf'Nup. one of the "orld"a fomaoat Mlrouomen demons~rales conclusiYc­lr lllat •flrinc Ssucen" ail! IIAII wAat tit~ •- 10 ywr Juuue. With •aratin& claritr. :\1. K. .1-p

12 March. Lincoln AFB, Nebraska.

.._. that all the UFO dab com· ,tied llftf hundreds ol calluries call be aplainf!d ely 1111 the '-II of elllla lmn& in space d.- • ow ~

Coadnc:inc ..we..ce il p-led fO Dr. JII!IIUp 10 allow there was a world- .. iJ .. chiliation p1ior to the "creal Qood." He indicates that the tremendous lltoneworks of the pre-

. hiltoric world were roiled with the aid of ln-itotinc tpace ships. Re­cent!) reported aircraft disappear­ances and the teleporlationa ol ships and thrir rrews arc also abown 10 be the work ol apace ahips.

At Ftank £Ja:t~rJs. 11otcd radio commen~ator, point:~ out in hia intro- • duclion. lL K. J~!up has apphed ". • • a sdentilio:ally trained mind plus ima5inati.-c, leuer-lrce tl1inkmc 10 the my11crious subjrcl of puuible iatellicence from o11ter ap.~ce. . ....

THE CASE FOR THE UFO com· pleteb demolishes the aflwaenb of the lkeplies. I'lL K. JCAup lor the first l.lllle pu.lll the clari~~~: light of acienlific oblt"ation and anal)·sia oA the appearance of 8) inc uucen, lire balla, tlrlnse meteors, falbng bodies and other Unidentified Flyinc Ob­jeclL The result il a work that Ia lUre to become the "bible" of tho. who have maintoincd for reara that "'lyingancen" arc a lmihl1 ..,._ nalnr.

A Gilbert J. Brockman was at lincoln AFB the afrernoon of March 12th Mben he noticed something motionless in the sky. He wrote:

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"I saw what seemed to be a solid, blue-gray object like a large cargo-plane fuselage--what I might best describe as a 'thin tear· drop,' a rounded nose very fat in the forward third of it and tapering to a sharp-pointed tail. There were no wings, tail fins. or other protruding points that I could see. There seemed to be a blur of fuzzness about it, suggesting(! thought) great height. I could not really judge its size, tho I got the impression it pro· bably was at least as large as the largest aircraft." 64.

15 March 55. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

"Flying Saucer Council of .America."

A Michigan newspaper printed:

" ••. nearly 1,000 persons turned out recently for a Grand Rapids meeting of the Flying Saucer CDl.UlCil of America but many of them probably were more confused than enlightened by the technical data. However, speakers at this meeting showed colored movies of flying saucers and backed Lear(William P.) in his theory that these objects are guided by a superior intelligence from somewhere in interplanet­ary space. "The real lowdown on flying saucers was presented after the meet­

ing when representatives of the Layman's Home Missionary MOvement distributed leaflets in which the exact nature of flying saucers was explained. According to the leaflet, they're fallen angels or evil spirits who are approaching judgement day." 65.

Stringfield and the Air Force.

UFO investigator Stringfield did ruch more than bug Life. He kept pestering the Air Force with many inquiries, asking, as he expressecrit, the proverbial questions and always getting the proverbial answers. On March 18, 1955, the UFO buff talked with Captain Robert C. White, Pentagon OPI, for an hour over the phone without learning anything new or significant. 66.

18 March.

The Central Intelligence .Agency.

A most curious bit of information is contained in an Air Force 051 docu­ment on file with BWE BOOK records. It seems that there was some concern in Seattle, Washington, over the use of a questionaire by a civilian UFO investigator which was titled "Official Sighting Report," and apparently the authorities felt the words sounded too official so the FBI made an inquiry.

It is not the actions of the civilian which is of interest, but the fact that the CIA had an interest in UFOs. The Air Force ail doa.ment says:

"The files of the Central Intelligence .Agency, Seattle, Washington, were checked at the request of Special Agent Harold J. Farr, of this office(20th District OSI), and revealed a newspaper clipping from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a daily newspaper dated 18 March 1955, reElectmg a 'Letter to the Editor' by Gribble wherein he criticized( .•. deleted) syndicated colmnist of Hearst Newspapers, for 'lampooning flying saucers."' 67.

24 March. Ryukyu Islands, Japan. (2:30p.m.)

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''Hat-shaped, with windows."

In a report subnitted to Coral I.Drenzen in confidence, a person claimed to be giving flying lessons to a student pilot on March 24, 1955 when he enx:Otmtered a UFO in the air over Ryukyu Islands, Japan. A glowing, ''hat­shaped" object with three "windows' in the "crown," came into view to his left, said the witness. This extraordinary object changed color from white to orange, as it flew all around the Beechcraft plane, "looking it over." In a panic, the instructor pilot went into a dive to lose the un­welcome aerial companion, but the UFO easily stayed with the single engine aircraft. 68.

25 March. France.

According to the Paris edition of the New Yotk·lierald Tribune, not all the UFOs had left France. Two young men fo'ld-repoiferstfieynad seen a flying saucer over the city of Montmorillon, Vienne, on the 25th, a little after midnight. The saucer hovered in the air, they said, and gave oH red rays. Eventually it zipped away to the west. 69,

Life'! reply to Stringfield.

After 19 days U!onard Stringfield received an awswer to his letter of March 6th, someone on the Life magazine's staff confessing that the mis­sive had been "misplaced" anaexpressed a desire to obtain a copy so it could be forwarded to the editors for consideration for "prompt atten­tion." 70. Was the letter really misplaced, or was it an attel'lpt to stall for time while, someone, or some agency, was consulted for advice?

27 March. Hawick, Scotland.

"Strange black cloud."

A Scott_ish paper printed:

''Mr. John Graham, of l!raemont, Hawick, was motoring home on the evening of Stmday, March 27th, after a drive through the Border!. In the car were Mrs. Graham, 14-year-old Alan and a friend of the family. "There was very little wind, and not a cloud to mar the clear sky.

They were about five miles from Hawick when Alan pointed excitedly out of the window. There was a strange -black 'cloud' srne dis­tance ahead. As the party watched, it whirled across the sky at tremendous speed, then darted back to its original position. "After racing back and forth for a while, the 'cloud' took on

different shapes. It twisted like a huge seaserpent, then turn­ed into the shape of a parachute. Mr. Graham was about to say he was pretty sure it was a flock of birds, but he choked on his words. For the 'cloud' took on the shape of a giant plate or saucer, and spun through the sky at beathtaking speed. As it re­volved it became almost transparent. "For half an hour the Grahams sat spellbOtmd. "At last, in one great burst of speed, the 'cloud' disappeared

behind a hill. The Grahams waited but it didn't come back. Now they're wondering just what did fly over that lonely road." 71.

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28 March.

"Wistful space cultists." (See ~ewsweek article)

For the second week in a row Newsweek had sowething to say about the UFO story and for the second time in as many weeks played down the subject.

SCI EN C E---N~oi;.;..eek, -· Al11nh 28, 1955 1

Waiting for tbe Little l\leu To the satufactton of all but the most;

wastful sp3ce cuhJsts (N&\\S\\££1.:, ~larch, 21), some 90 per cent of all llymg· wucer saghtmgs h.we been adequate!\. eq>Luned aw•v They h•ve been du·, m1ssed •• odd·sh•ped douds, weather. b.11loous, meteors, optical tncla of the· .tlmosphere, b1tds and bugs. or such hu· man l.t1lmg• as hallucmaho•IS, tncL: pho­togr•ph), and d1rty ey<'gl.~>ses For the 195.) saucer season, Dr W.:Uter Domberger-warhme ch1ef of Cerman \'-2 roclet development and now gmded-1mssales consultant to Bell Au:· cr•lt Corp at Bufblo, N 'I' -comes up w1th a theory to account for most of tbe stdl une,plamed Mobjecb."

"New mag." (See clipping)

From ttme to llml!, he S.\S, small VIo­

lent ed<hn are generated m the au. Spmnmg at 1ncred1ble speeds, thev are, m etlrct, defonned torn.tdMs or sbces' from tWISters Whenever one of these Domberger doughnuts gets revolvmg .tt five to seven t1mes the speed of sound, billiOnS of au moii!Cules Me tipped •part. In the process, thetr atoms become mo­me-ntanl) unstable and emtl bght, vmble m htgh·speed wmd tunnels The •tomtc glow outbnes the whtrlpool to the eye, bestdes, the denstt)' of the vortex u sullktenl to be app.lrenl 011 r.1d•r. Thu doughnut would behave as • good saucer should dunng 111 bnel hfe. cltmb­mg abruptly or mdlmg aerod• namiCillly •tmp0$Sible" turns.

Don1berger admits that he does not re· move the mystery from a &nal 1 or 2 per cent of all s.ucer s1ghtmgs. But, he says. "No one IS gomg to convmce me of visa· ton from sp..ce until they bnng 1n one of those httle guys ~d 511 htm on my desk."

27 March. Stringfield gets impatient.

Still hoping for a reply fran Life, String· field,as requested by the magazin~itors, mailed a copy of his March 6th letter and

K.uiauu J!ouh Z'l, l9!i.i ~new niaaa~m~ caUed The I 1 Flylnr Saucer News Is olfenna

Ia one-year substnplJon free to a n 1 Interplanetary vlsttor. (Note to lnterplaaetary. vlstton: Pleue do not contact tbla col· ~o.t._!urtlter ln{gr_m~llon•) then sat back to wait. 72.

28 March. Joseph City, Arizona.

Shades of Fannington.

A former Air Force pilot named Glenn Blansett and his wife noticed some­thing very strange in the air over Joseph City, Arizona. on March 28, 1955. Blansett saw a great circular cloud very high up and then he spotted what he thought was a swann of jet planes engaged in mock combat:

"But after several minutes, the objects stopped their conventional manewers and began a strange fluttering motion, abandoning their formations. At this stage they were moving 111.1ch faster than jets. Blansett and his wife both agreed there were a great many of the ob­jects, at least 25 and perhaps more than a hlmdred. Assuming they· were the size of conventional aircraft. they were about 50,000 to~, 70,000 feet high. Blansett reported observational conditions were good and the air was clear with no wind. Neither the smoke cloUd'·• nof thC<'Objec:ts ·were in the direction of the Nevada atanic pr<?Ving grounds. The objects moved southwest at high speed and finally dis­appeared, said Blansett. 11 73.

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28 March. Iran. Balloon UFOs? (See BUIE BOOK file card)

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Beginning of April. Northern Rhodesia. (7:30p.m.)

The primary witness was a Mr. D.G.L. Clarke. The UFO was viewed from a moving car travelling a 23-mile stretch of road between Fort Rosebery and the town of Kasama, in Northern Rhodesia. A local newspaper quoted Mr. Clarke:

til I have seen sane pretty frightful things in my time; I have seen thousands of dead bodies lying in one place --but never have I been so utterly terrified as I was by the Flying Saucer. '"I had just crossed a river on the road --it was 7:30p.m. --when

my boy, Peter, who was sitting in the passenger seat, pointed out a light in front. "'It was rather like a star, about 10 miles away in the sky, and

very bright,' he said. "'As we went on, it seemed to cane nearer at a pretty terrific

speed. It changed color to rosy red, and then to blue, and then to luminous again --and it swerved away to the left. As it went off, I could just see a faint oval outline with a bright shining on top~

til I climbed back into the car and went on my way. The thing was far away to my right-hand side, high in the sky. I did not see it cross over the sky. "'Then it twice came toward us and then swerved away again. After

the second time I did not see it again for about 10 Jllinutes, • went on f-1r. Olarles. "'We were approaching a river when we saw it again on the right­

hand side. It came down towards us and gradually sunk lower and lower until it eventually it could be seen through the trees. By this time my boy was gibbering with fear, and I thought he was go­ing to have a fit. I was getting pretty scared myself. "'As soon as I got to the river I saw a light on the opposite ·side,

and I thought the thing had landed. This was too much for me, and I turned back as fast as I could. It was the most frightel)j.ng;ex-' · perience of my life,' he concluded. . ' ' ·~en he reported the incident to the district canmissioner at - ,

Kasama he was told that another person had seen a similar object:::... in the sky recently." 74. , ,

30 March. Dayton, Cllio. (10:10 a.m.) . :. __ "'

"Rectangle with blinking light." ! ' '~.. ~

The Chio region would be swanning with UFOs in the caning months· •. Why there would be a flap in that part of America is unknown. cne wonders if the following UFO report had anything to do with the "invasion." Accord­ing to the Dayton, Chio, Journal-Herald, a very odd object seemed'to take an interest in Wright-Patterson ~1 the experts at BLUE BOOK h~:to do, one would suppose, was to merely glance out the window to confirm this report. The newspaper article said:

"An lDlidentified, and tmexplained object appeared over Wright Field : ~ at Wright-Patterson Air Force base at 10:10 a.m. yesterday, a civil­ian reported. "The Air Force said it found nothing after checking the report. ''Theodore Jikutz, chemist at Beavercreek disposal plant, and a _

technician saw the object. It was described as having a rectan- " .. gular shape.

"A sharp light, flashing at intervals of approximately one second,

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drew attention of the men. They estimated the object at about five miles away, over the field. "'I first thought I was seeing things, •- Ji!aJtz said. But he added

that the technician saw it too. "The men then got out ·a stopwatch and checked the ·f.las~ing lights.

They added up to approximately 74 in one minute. · · ''The men reported the object stayed in approximatelY- the. SIJII!~ place

for 17 minutes fran the time they first sighted it. They wer~:get~­ing ready to set up a transit to pinpoint the location when it dis-. appeared. ''The infonnation was turned over to Air Technical Intelligence Cen­

ter (ATIC) here for evaluation. ATIC handles all unidentified object reports." 75.

''riiere is no report on this sighting in BIDE BOOK files.

·f.!arc:h 1955. (exact date unknown) Toul Rosieres AFB, France.

Reports from French civilians may have died down but one UFO sighting was made ,by an Air Policeman stationed at Rosieres AFB who viewed some­thing for 21'1 minutes: ' ' .

"I~was·'pulling guard duty at the P.O.L. at Toul Rosieres A.F.B. in ~r~~e. I, was on the midnight to eight o'clock shift. At about::.t'!'IO.fifty a.m. one of the air policemen brought me a thermos·of·coffee and we sat down to drink it. About ten minutes later 1:~is air policeman looked up and told me: 'Hey look at that,' point~ at the sky, so I said its probably an airplane. He res­ponde4;~~11! Airplanes don't fly like that(at this point the ob­ject-was flyilig Up'-~):fp~n-like a seesaw) besides there's no '· noise·;· ··About two minutes' later· ,this object flew in a straight • lintf-aria stopped towards·'the "iu)'ttliwesf':and· stopped all of a sudden in.=.9De·:sp(jt: fpr about fifteen miniltes', th~:·ted rlight changing to paHt~Yf!l.~O'W anq: start~ t~ blink off and on as if signaling. My frien<f."ano I beCa:me exCited and ran inside a small shack. Every one~. :~ ii"'Wh~~e we would __ peer O!lt ~f the door ~d lc;x>k up hoping lt·-wouldn't lie~there, but it ·was still there stgnalmg. 'fWe'.finally decided to call the ·a~r police(headquaters?). When w~f.dj.d they ridiculea -.US but we talked them into coming over and ther:~id but as soon as'the~r jeep pulled into the driveway, this _object went into the cloudS'and disappeareed. The Sgt. of the

.. · GUard cillled us a couple of nuts-andJeft. 76.

::;DraWings· by ai:r policeman shown beic,.dmd. ~ ~~ top of the next page.

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April Fool.

- en April 1st an extract fran "Cedric Allingham's" book f!y,!rtg Saucer Fran Mars appeared in the magazine True ~ace Secrets under tne tltle: 11I ~~~~nger Fran Mars." It wiS'in appropnate date for publication. 77. - }

3 April •. -· Man tdH.ed. .

Ill Apt'il 3, 't9ss;~·irtth~cPhillipines, the Manila ~i~y Mirror reported that_ a man had been ltilled,d!-iring an argument about ylJlg saucers. A fellow named Angel Lamar'died'af~~r~a fight with Manila resident Maxin I;amer. 78. . . ·· ··: ·:~;> ~-. .

Another strange green visitor from.spac~ •. (See clipping-to the right) · _'· .,,-;·~ ·:"·~

5 April'. ''Designed' to wipe out enemy .air fleet." (See clipP~ below)' · . , "; · '

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It is also curious to note that just prior to the aerial nuclear blast on April 6th there had been a "storm" of "unknown objects" that rained down on the atomic/missile research region of the U.S. southwest, and that the Army expressed concern about the phenomenon in a letter to the Chief of Staff. (See letter)

Danger from space? Among civilian UFO researchers there was a growing concern about the in­

tentions of the mysterious craft. Wilkins' recent book suggested that UFOs ''were on the attack" and even Keyhoe wondered about some unexplained airplane crashes. Furthermore, it was fact that UFOs had not made overt contact with mankind and that was something even the most fanatical Adamski-type believer had trouble explaining. The Spring, 19SS, cover of The Saucerian conveyed the mood felt by many. (See cov~r) -

8 April. Gander ABF, Newfoundland , Canada.

The only UFO activity on this date was far from the U.S. southwest. A teletype message from the RCAF to the American military mentioned:

" .•. DESQUPTICN OF OBJECT: VERY BRIGiil' COOINCUS GILW LIKE A PARAFLARE ••• OBSERVER UNABLE TO SAY WHETHER Am NOISE ASSU:::IATED WI1ll OBJECT llJE TO A/C TAXIt{; IN VICINITY OF OBSERVER ••• INTENSE WHITE UGiil' LIKE MAGNESilN BURit{; .•• APPARENTLY FLAT AND CIRCULAR. B~ CLOOD ••• MJV!:MENT INTERMI'ITENLY VERY FAST AND STATICJilARY. TRACK ERRATIC ... Jl.MPED FRCM LEFT TO RIGHI', PAUSED, 1HEN ADVANCED." 79. 8 April. Cherry Valley, Illinois. (9:30a.m.)

"Evil weather balloon."

Donald Keyhoe was astonished when he heard about a newsstory that was headlined in a Rockford, Illinois, newspaper. Bannered across the top of page one was:"JETS BLAST~ NEAR OiERRY VALLEY." Incredulous, Keyhoe asked himself:"Why attack a weather balloon, and if it must be done, why do it over a populated area?" 80. Keyhoe posed two good questions and, interestingly enough, there is nothing in BLUE BOOK files about the in­cident.

Keyhoe missed sanething because the press report suggests that the jets may have been seeking to down something other than a mere balloon. A news­paper clipping reads:

"There air force jets, a weather balloon and an interloper fran out of nowhere added up to an aerial display between Rock­ford and Cherry Valley about 9:30 A.~t. today. "John C. Gregory, executive secretary of the Winnebago county

civil defense council, said he witnessed the weather balloon blowing up between here and Cherry Valley after the jets mde a pass at it. "Just prior to the explosion, Gregory said he saw a burst of

flames. "After the balloon exploded, Gregory said, another flat spherical

object described as a 'brilliant white' shot by the jets at a high speed, going fran southeast to northwest.

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), The San Antonio Express, 7 .AJI'ill9SS, carr&ed a United Preas ~{...-~ dispatch, datelined Alla.lquerqua, New Kuico, 6 Aprill955, reported that J \ a "third lll)"st.eriolla tireb&ll" ae.n 1n eoutheaetern New Ktxico on t.hat date waa described b,r a scientist or the UniYerait1 ot Hew Mexico'a Inetitut.e ot Keteor1t.ee 11 probabJ.T not a meteorite. It wa11 1aid ttat 11archere could tincl no fragment a or the object. Anot.her "object.• 1 reportedl7 aeen to hne "apparently crashed ancl explod,d" near Lordela.lrg, New l'.exico, tha date before, had ditappeared "amid a glow ot intense white heat.• Still another report was of a "green fireball" allegedly seen 1n New Mexico on 5 April 1955, "seen ae tar north 11 Albuquerque, 200 llliles aw•r•" The UP source added t.hat t.hers were "unconti.rmed" repcl'l"te ot a twrth fireball noted the day betore near Lordsburg. (C-6)

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"The jets were from O'Hare field at Park Ridge. Air Force offic­ials at the field said the weather balloon was sent up fran Minne· apolis. ''Gregory watched the show fran atop the old city hall building

after he had received a report from a Rockford resident who saw the same display." 81.

9 April 55. Plattsburgh, New York. (1:31 a.m.,2:34 a.m., 4:08a.m.)

Air Force missions against UFOs?

The press reports: nAllen Roberts, a spotter for the Ground Cllserver Corps in

Plattsburgh, was taking a ribbing al'OW'ld town for his yams about flying saucer phenomena during his midnight vigils. James F. ROOdy, news director for WEAV, resolved to find out for himself what Roberts was seeing. He took to sitting in with him at the GOC post atop Physicians Hospital.

''Now skeptics are asking Jim ROOdy what kind of hootch he drinks. IAlring the past few weeks, he has seen enough to convince him that spacecraft are flying missions over the north end of Lake 0\amplain, that they give special study to the progress of the new Plattsburgh air base, and that one of them actually landed on Vermont soil. "ROOdy tells us they have seen Air Force jets take off in

pursuit frequently, but the 'saucer' dart away as if the jets were standing still. He remarks with some logic: 'Six men can't imagine the same thing at the same time. The Air Force doesn't send out jet fighters or interceptors to chase.same­thina that isn't there.' "<n April 9th, at 1:31 a.m., Jim Roddy was dozing in his

chair when Allen shook him, pointing to a bright object drifting overhead. Roddy dashed out on the roof to try to pick up a sound. It was noiseless, and 'just seemed to coast through the air.' He describes it as rust-colored and 'defi"' nitely round. 1 It headed down over the lake and they think it landed on the Vermont side. "Now wide-awake, they kept eyes peeled, and at 2:34 a.m. spot­

ted a • cigar-shaped object 1 hanging very high in the sky. (This is the kind of thing .Adamski has described as being the mother ship of the saucers • ) "The big thrill came at 4:08 a.m., and they watched it through

field glasses until S:4S a.m. when it ascended out of sight. It was 'a glaring, brilliant, incandescent white; round on the top and flat on the bottom, lll.lch like an inverted dessert dish.' A stream of eight green lights, which they took to be gas or va­por, pointed downward fran its bot tan. Directly underneath 'a bright yellow-white flame or glow, very powerful, was emitted. 1

"'In this sector,' Roddy declared, 'the sightings are caning fast and furious. We counted over 36 small-sized circular craft whizzing over our observer on May 28.'" 82.

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It certainly would be fun to propose the idea that u.s. authorities were trying to bring down a UFO, either by a jet interceptor or an aerial atomic blast, but we will have to leave such speculation to the tabloids.

"I don't know what they are."

Dr. Lincoln La Paz told the press he was still mystified by the green fireballs. More than one had been reported in early April and the pro· fessor noted the su:lden surge in reports which was very odd but it was the color of the brilliant bolides that continued to fasinate the New Mexico Meteoritics Institute expert:"! don't know what they are, but they are all of the same family. The ~rtant thing is that the fireball was a brilliant kelly green as opposed to the blue or blue-green color seen in ordinary meteor falls." 83.

''Welcome spacemen."

With the Europeans claiming "little men visits," Americans had to get into the act. Ventura, California, residents fonned their awn .,spaceman welcaning camtittee," as did sane people in ffiami Beach, Florida, under the direction of a Mr. David Kletter. That meant the two top vacation states in the U.S. were covered, Not to be outdone, the Big Apple extend­ed its own hand of welcome. A New York reporter wrote:

"Calling all space men! Come down, cane down, where you are! "Free parking space can be had fran • a certain good-hearted

lady' who is offering her 500-acre upstate fann • for landing pur· poses for the flying saucers only. •

''This intelligence canes fran the just-published April issue of the New York organ of the flying saucer cult, the 'Flying Saucer News. • "The 16-page publication also makes a generous offer of its own

in one item of its •service department' column. "'Attention --a one year subscription to Flying Saucer News will

be sent free to any interplanetary visitor. He or she is welcome to visit this shop first.' ''The editor of the publication, James S. Rigberg, who also sells

crystal balls, ouij a boards ••• " 84.

Such welcomes may have been silly, but, as stated previously, sane of the f~le studying the aerial mystery were becaning nervous about the UFOs aloofness •

14 April. Shelton, Washington.

"Trajectory of mystery."

Below a picture in a Washington newspaper it said:

"Route of the mysterious object she witnessed in the sky late 'fuesday of last week is pointed out by a Mrs.D.A. Smith, Mt. View housewife. Her report of a large, brilliant blue-white body streaking westward followed several in New Mexico telling of similar strange bodies, possibly fireballs. Mrs. Smith drew the line taken by the fast moving body, showing haw it started to make a circle than shot downward, behind trees and out of sight." (Picture not in author's files) 85,

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FIYebiiitcli;_~Si! Hojje8To'"§_iilve Skii .Mliiteiil I-ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Apri12l llun:Qa: the ""k becuwnr Apnl ld!.staiii:{'fii,Y are"trom the ob-I -U anybody ever eatchu up 3. flv" hreballa w""' reported In aervrr 1a unknown and .no re­wllh 111e mystenoua llreballs wluc:ll :New MelUCO and tv.o In Northrm mains of any have been found " j an reported lrequenlly over lhe Cablomla. lllldmorrunr of Apnl 5 One lh<ory II !hat the hrebaUs lioulbwest. U'• a aood bet .that Lm-l broucht many reports, althougJ ·are a Sorm ol .mel<!orlles, but La I ..., LaPaz "'on'l be far behind. LaPaz a.etd 11 wu tlnaUy cooclud·l Pu a.ays be'o sure llley're not -­

Wiult an 11M llreb&lls! Nobody! ed that only lhi'M obloclll ~ mal meteontu because lhe:r an ....,.... lor IW'II. And DObody .., .... Ill !l!W~ • ' •· ~ Dbt accompanied by 110und. • to 1atow more !Non L&Pu. who Descnpltona vary 10 Widely that For !lie moment, at least, LaPu rwu, at Ill& Uwvenuy of New they could be appbed to almost II jiiSI pla•n stumpO!d. He aays be~ MR..,o, tha only Jnsmute of U. 111)11.111nr from an eJ.plodmi liar has no clellrute t.lleoQ' u 10 wbat .....,,..,. in tile Uruted SUitt.~ to a nmaway lralhc hEIU the hreballa are.

1-i:..Pii-feels that wlul• u,.· re· They eomt by day &ud by nlcht. 1 Air Foru planes llave oc:cuion­porlll bave touched oll controversy' Most often tht hreb41ls 11ft re- .~~ -~~~. aetil to aean:h *"'!' u well u aens&llon. lht"' b.u! ned at nlcht u ytllow-vun. "'htr" llreball.o ·were reported So

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rar lhty have found nothmr. 'but warrant a thorouch tn>ellll•llon 1 wlute, blue alld red. Clftl' into tha a •pokesmu at Bte&l AFB Eli

l. ·And n:c:enUy lje has been so busy . deacnptlons. - I Puo. Te,;, aays the matter' ''la

lhat ~··• hard fDr Ius lanuly or! LaPu bas found it bard to apply! by no means cl ... d " I or ID~ ella to lleep up wtlb]' the hard, eDld Jocte of malhtmAI· H11 unendm& cllase hu made 111m. lea In aMlall&.. 10 tn.ek clow1l the LaPaz 110methtn& o1 a lecend In

· ·Tilts apnni-broughr~ruh nports • I tha Soulhwest. For "xampl•. a i of 1M rwports, wbu:h ewer a penod .-~ d<!h~!. _!0., SIUit& Fe newspaper recl!ntly pub-' of yeua ha~e been nwle b}' ..,......,. lha aiu of 1M llreballs," j batted a e1r1oon wtth the t.q!Jne· rancbel'l. bwt dnven, &lrbllt Pl· lit a&j'll. ''Then'a aolhtna 10 com·! ~4 fnb&ll wu sponed l.ut n•Kht. lola, l&ak lroOPID ... llltlr .... ...,. llltm wllh aide II• Aile, 11M a1th Dt; Uncobt LaPu ID cloae' -. ·=-""'-· . -- ---·· • 1'!1!1.!!: +. . ~trr

2! April. • Private George D. Fawcett sents Jessup a clipping. ''1-tlvering ball. u

The story went:

"A British fanner, who is a resident of Juan Diaz in Panama City (Pan­ama), claimed today he saw a flying saucer of some nation of this world hover over the new race track Saturday for about four hours. The far­mer, A.D. IU:kerby, said he was one of a hundred eye-witnesses who watched with fascination while a big round ball hovered from 2:30 in the afternoon mtil 7:00p.m. when it suddenly took off. He estimates that it was about three to four thousand feet up in the air ••• at first, fbckerby claims, it looked all one color: a silvery-blue. However, when several bystanders scrutinized it through binoculars, they would differentiate the saucer was red on top, an aluminum white in the center and blue on the bottom. It looked big as a house. The fanner said:' I didn't believe in these thing before --but I do now."' 86.

24 April ss. England.

''Never to be made public."

A london newspaper caTillented:

"Air Ministry chiefs have been shown a full report of the R.A.F. 's five year proble into Flying Saucers. To the great question,'Do Flying Saucers exist?' the answer is tmderstood to be 'No. • But the public are not to lmow the details.

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"Ten weeks ago the ~ D~spatch knew about this report and pressed for publication m t e putiTic interest. Yesterday the Air Ministry stated that a senior officer had ordered that the report is never to be made public. "Fear of scepticism is one of the reasons that induced the air

marshals to have the report filed away. They feel that the find­ings cannot be explained without revealing top-secret facts and that without a full explanation there would be a nation-wide con­troversy over the truth of the report." 87.

27 April. Garden City, lmlg Island, New York. "Crab-like machine." A report in the local paper read:

"Glen CoVe --Here's a little item of interest to all those flying saucer fans. "At noon, on April 27, I saw what I believe to have been an extra­

terrestrial flying machine. Mlile walking along West Glen Street I suddenly noticed a strange, green object, circling above Glen Cove firehouse tower. "As I came nearer, I saw that the thing was oval in shape, and had

peculiar appendages around it. It was completely silent. few seconds, the crab-like machine ceased manoeuvering, and flew off in the direction of 1mlg Island Sound --Marion P. JCuczabinski." 88.

30 April. Kamplee, India.

A dazzling "flying disc" was supposed to have been seen on April 30th by the inhabitants of the village of Kamplee, a small community close to the city of Nagur. The Madras English language newspaper Hindu printed:

''The disc was visible for about 20 minutes zCXI!Ii.ng across the sky at a terrific speed towards the north-west. · ''The last time it was seen on December 22nd when it was observed

travelling in a south-easterly direction." 89.

"Flying saucer" reports fi'OOI India can usually be attributed to ordinary meteors. Press reports, like the one given above, are of doubtful value. For example, it seems tmlikely an object "zoaning at terrific speed" would remain in view after 20 minutes. Nonetheless, data fran the region is so limited the item is included as an indication there may have sane UFOs in the region.

May.

Russia.

Twenty-four hours before the big May Day celebration in f.bscow a meniler of the Soviet Academy of Sciences told a radio audience that UFOs didn't exist.

In America at this time ex-BLUE BOOK chief B.J. Ruppelt was fasinated by the fact that UFO reports were being made behind the Iron Cltrtain even though the state controlled newsmedia constantly played down or ignored the subject of strange flying objects in the skies. 90.

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Gulf of Papua.

The first of many UFO sightings that would lead up to a spectacular 1959 case, occurred on an unspecified day in May 1955 when a Dr. E. Nespor saw a greenish object about "half the size of the moon" travelling across the sky. The UFO was observed at Yle Island which is located in the Gulf of Papua. 91.

''The Micellin Tyre man." Dinan, Cotes-du-Nord, France. May. (No exact date known)

It was late, about 15 minutes after midnight, when a M. Droguet returned hane. As he walked into the courtyard area, a brilliant blue-green ray dazzled his eyes, the bright light caning fran a strange machine stationary in the air nearby just above the ground. Next to the machine were two hel· meted figures about 3lt feet high dressed in metallic grey, one-piece suits. The suits reminded M. Droguet of. the "Micellin Tyre man" depicted in the Micellin rubber ccmpany's ads, with the exception of the black box and wires the creatures had on their abdanens. While one figure looked around, his canpanion stooped over and picked up sanething.

Illlllediately thereafter the two beings made their way, in an awkward man­ner, toward the hovering ship, and entered the craft by walking up a stair­case that extended fran the underside of the machine. The ship then gained altitude until it was above the treetops. All lumination on the ship was extinguished at this point and the witness claimed the machine made its de­parture at that manent. A closing note mentions that M. Droguet was still nervous about the incident days later. 92. .

The sharp fall off in French "saucer landings" may have sanething to do with what an American UFO group learned:"In France, proven saucer hoaxers are arrested and fined because of a law passed in 1954, the French UFO pub­licatim Cllranos reports." 93.

1 May. Grafenwahr, Germany. (Evening)

An hour after sundown, Slmday May 1st, sane American soldiers watched a strange bright white sphere make four passes over the town of Grafenwohr at an estimated 500 foot altitude. Occasionally the ball would stop and re­main motionless. The observing men ruled out an aircraft or heliocopter explanation since air traffic was forbidden that close to the Russian zone after dark. 94.

2 May. Stringfield and M:.f!· Stringfield admitted being "slightly fabbergasted" by not having heard

anything from the editors of Life after mailing two letters and obtaining a pranise of ''pranpt attention;n-so he wrote a third time to the magazine on May 2nd. 95.

4 May. Keflavik, Iceland. Squadron Callllander and UFOs.

BWE BOOX: records tell us Lt. Colonel Edward J. Stealy, Ccmnander of the 57th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Keflavik airfield, saw a group of UFOs in the sky, as did the Colonel's .Adjutant, Lt. Burt.

Lt. Burt testified:

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with Lt. Colonel Edward J. Stealy when he spottE'd approximately 10, maybe fifteen flying objects flying east at approximately 25 to :SO ,000 feet. I (not legible_) the objects. They were in loose formation. They were not drawing contrails, however, one made a smoke trail for about 2 seconds which engulfed (? not legible:) the object and stopped before the object disapeared behind clouds .. The objects were in view to me about 4 to 5 seconds. They were travelling at a tremendous rate of speed, well over 1,000 knots. These objects were not jet type aircraft(? not legible:) neither the shape nor speed. They were oval in shape. The size(? in­detenninable? not legible ) due to its uncertain altitude, however, would . make a very rough estimate of 60 to 70 feet. The objects were traveling at a trememdous rate of speed. The time of sighting the objects was l:S:SSZ which was confinned by Lt. Colonel Stealy. I have seen many jet aircraft flying and these objects cannot canpare to any standard shape or speed. These objects were clealy seen by me. They were the color of oxidized silver and did not reflect light." 96.

The Colonel's story is much the same:

''The afternoon of Wednesday 4 May 1955 1st Lt. Joseph Burt and I were on the ramp at the Tenninal Keflavic airport, Iceland viewing and taking pic­tures of a C-99. On returning, we walked toward the new SAC hanger. While still some hundreds of feet from the hanger I noticed some objects at ap­proximately 80 degrees(? Up? not legible). I called Lt.Burt's attention to them. We tried to identify them as they passed across the sky and dis­appeared from view at about 30 degrees fran the horizon behind cloud cover that extented over the top of the hanger. "I didn't have the presence of mind to count them but estimate approxi­

mately 10. No particular rhyme or reason to the formation. Two were out to the right the others were in one general area. A few moved rapidly a­round in position while others held steady. In(? not legible ) they did not move back and forth or in and out slowly as jet aircraft but very rapidly and jerky. Half way through this arc(?), one in the center of the large group started to leave one trail of what seemed like smoke. This trail disappeared almost illlnediately. These objects were not clear cut or distinct in shape there was no(t not legible) protruding and all were of the same size and r01md, their appearance being transparent but were not. Instead I would say they looked like a glob of milk of magnesia that had been heavily cut with water. · "I would estimate they were at considerable altitude and travelling at

great speed. I did check the time on my watch which we(? not ledgbile) and read 1338Z." 97.

Purthennore, the witnesses said the objects looked to be the "size of a penny" and that the:"Smoke trail in canparison to the penny "'IUJ.d be aDout the size of a piece of string." 98,

5 May 55. near Loup City, Nebraska. (1 :00 a.m.)

"Pursued by a cigar."

High School student Don Wiborg was driving fran Loup City, Nebraska to Ord, Nebraska the night of f.fay 5, 1955. He was six miles from I.DUp City when he noticed a strange glow ahead. The time was 1:00 a.m. After making

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a sharp tum. the young man could see down a long stretch of the road. About a mile away was a cigar-shaped "thing." The ''thing" was big. perhaps 20 feet by 5 feet. Standing vertically. the object was surrounded by a tenuous halo. The distance between Wiborg' s car and the UFO did not change so the young man ass~ the object was moving at the same speed.

Entering sane woods • Wiborg lost sight of the "cigar." llnerging from the grove of trees, Wilborg drove on a while and then pulled over and stopped. Looking about, the young man sighted the UFO about 300 feet behind him and approaching fast. Wilborg leaped back into his car and raced into the city limits of Ord.

When the fellow arrived hane family members were convinced the youth had indeed encountered sanething uncanny because he was so upset. Newsmen from the local paper found out about the Wilborg's experience and steaked out the road with the hope of seeing the phenomenpn, but they saw nothing unusual the following evening and the only word they received about anything out of the ordinary in the area was a complain fran a local rancher who said sane his cattle stampeded for an unexplained reason and had knocked down sane fences. 99.

5 May. Special Report 114.·

At long last the $100,000 Special Report 114 contracted out by BUJE BOOK was finally completed. The document contained the results of an important statistical study which, as UFO researcher Or. Bruce s. Maccabee correctly points out, was the:" ... col1Jlerstone of the AF position with respect to the UFO' s reality." 100. The public release of this report was delayed and there are sane interesting theories about the timing which will be discussed when dealing with events of a later date.

7 May. "A crashed saucer in Argentina?"

The Caracas • Venezuela. newspaper El Universal carried a sensational account on May 7th attributed to a "12ii1que Ba:Ssa." a fellow who claimed to have encounter a crashed flying saucer and its dead occupants back in 1950. An American UFO researcher, Dr. Willy Smith, a Florida physicist, examined the case in sane detail years later. There was no on-site investigation but the existence of various versions of the story • narratives originating fran the witness "Bossa," provided Or. Smith sane means by which to judge the truth. He discovered serious internal contradictions and discrepancies which make the incident highly suspect. 101.

8 May. Detroit, Michigan. (7:15p.m.)

''Huge pencil 'l''

Detroit resident Dominic Sondy stepped outside his home at 7:15 p.m. on the 7th of May to check on the weather, a habit of his. The air was wam and the wind a light breeze. Scanning the evening sky, Sondy noticed sane low clouds to the northwest. To his surprise. overhead he spotted a strange "narrow shape," white-colored and with perfectly square ends. Tilted at a 30 degree angle, the "pencil"(actually the discription sounds more like a cigarette) moved toward the west. Mr. Sondy' s father, Frank Gallagher, was summoned, as was some neighbors. These people provided additional witnesses to the object. Mr. Gallagher peered at the thing with binoculars and saw ,he said, a reddish-orange glow around the middle of the slim shape. lOZ.

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9 May. A:rraya Secco Canyon, California. (about noon)

"Huge mass of saucers?''

A woman who was a menber of a prominent eastern family wrote a letter to UFO researcher M.K. Jessup which told of a ''mass appearance of saucers." According to the wanan, a Mrs. Gwynne D. Mack of POlUl.d Ridge, New York; she was in California on May 9, 1955 when she witnessed an amazing sight. During a drive along a road that wmmd thru the A:rraya Secco Canyon enroute to Mt. Wilson <l>servatory near Los Angeles, a mass of white-colored, flat-shaped, elliptical objects became visible milling in the air. A guess put the size of the objects at two feet in diameter. She wrote in her missive:''They were circling around one another, in an unhurried, steady motion, and at frequent intervals sane of them turned entirely over (Do birds "flip over?''). When the objects did this, they flashed dazzling silver." 103.

Moreover: " ''The effect was like an enonnous gathering of sea-gulls, soaring

together in a close mass. However, they were definitely not birds. Their shape allowed no possibility of head or tail, and there was no movement comparable to wing-motion. When they flashed silver, it was almost blinding. Sane of them seemed to be dark at each end of the ellipse." 104.

By the time the car Mrs. Mack was riding in reached a hilltop where she had an unobstructed view of the deep canyon, the objects were gone.

Weather conditions were excellent and Mrs. Mack was sure about her ob­servation. Her credibility is boosted by information received by Coral Lorenzen's APRO organization. In the APRO bulletin there was an accOlUl.t fran Montrose, California. It seems that at sunset, May 19th, scores of people contacted authorities concerning mysterious objects ''playing tag" in the sky over the Mt. Wilson area. Sheriff deputies and Pasadena police res­ponded to the excitement and saw the objects for themselves:''The objects were definitely disc-shaped and silvery, bunched together, climbed. one atop the other or hung motionless in the sky." 105. This quote fran the lm.men matched that of Mrs. Mack.

Menzel explains things?

Arch-skeptic Donald Menzel checked into the "Mt. Wilson saucer case" and claimed he found a man that looked at the objects with binoculars and as a result was able to descern birds with dark wingtips. This same fellow, according to Menzel, was supposed to have contacted the California Fish and Game Department and to have discussed the incident with an official. The unnamed official suggested a species of inland pelican as being the UFOs. 105. Dr. Menzel considered this case be a classic in the annals of:" ••• wing­ed creatures being given an interplanetary label." 106,

11 May. Terryville, Connectio.Jt. (9:45p.m.)

"It moved fast and in a very ft.mny pattern."

The Hartford Times informed its readers: ·~e sighting of an unidentified flying object by three Terryville

residents Wednesday night is being studied today by the Air Tech­nica:i Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton, Chio.

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'1nlis was disclosed by Major P.C. Hunner, Director of intelligence, Roslyn, L.I., Air Force hse, base of operations for the 26th Di­vision of the Eastern Air Defence Force, which covers this area. "~fajor John W. Anderson, ccmnanding officer of the Air Defence

Filter Center, New Haven, said that a check through 'routine' chan­nels failed to disclose the nature of the object sighted. "Although official sources remained otherwise close mouthed about

the affair • Mrs. Robert A. Nelson of Terryville, one of the people who saw it, said she was told after reporting the incident, that planes and radar were to be used Wlednesday night in an effort to track the object.

'1nle other witnesses were Mrs. Nelson's husband, owner of a flristol service station, and her father, August D' Andrea, Famington tailor. ·~ husband and I first noticed the object when we were out walking,

about 9:45p.m. Wednesday,' said Mrs. Nelson. 'It looked like a regular star until we saw it 100ve. "'We were a little frighten because it looked like a planet that

had suddenly gone crazy. It seemed to be large. like Venus, and it had a definite bluish caste to it. It 100ved fast and in a very funny pattern. '"First it went straight up and then it came down in an arc. It

set there a few seconds and then it went up at an angle and about double the distance it did the first time. Then it moved almost straight to one side and then straight down. "'That was about 10:00 p.m. We didn't notice any movement after

that until close to midnight, although there was a period of per· haps half an hour when we didn't watch. "'Twice when planes approached it became agitated and moved in ir·

regular patterns. Then about Aidnight a third plane approached. This thing that was sitting there made a lwge arc across the sky in the direction of the plane. It seemed to move a tremendous distance but, of cwrse, it was difficult to judge height and distance and speed. • "She added,'The object seemed to be perfectly round. Ol.ce, just

before it made the big arc in the sky toward the plane, it seem~ flip over an its side. Then it looked flat." 107.

BWE BOOK has a May lOth report fran Terryville that s~ unU.,ressive when reading the brief SUIIIIIary on the project file card. -rsee reproduced card) However, when the actual teletype is examined, the report is much more interesting:

" ••• LikE A Sl'AR. B.SIZE OF A PEA HElD AT APMS I...ENGrn. C. IWE. D. CNE E. N/A F. ~. G. Netffi. H. S<l!NDED UKE ACFT. I. NONE. 2A. IT WAS MCNIJIIi VERY FAST. B. UNK. C. UNK. D. AT INITIAL SIGHflflli, ACFT PROCEEDED TO t-DJE STRAIGn' UP AT FAST RATE OF SPEED. ACFT RF.· 1URNED JXltiN TO INITIAL POHll' AND HOVERED FOR APPX ONE MINUTE BEFORE DISAPPEARiflli. E. UNX. F. OBJECT APPEARED FOR CNE MIMII'E llJRATIOO AND REAPPEARED 3 MIMll'ES LATER .•• II 108.

12 May SS. !:!!!_ and Stringfield again.

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The editors of life infonned Stringfield on May 12th that it was "unfor­tunate" another article on flying saucers could not be included into Life's current publishing schedule, although it might be possible to do so saiii=­time in the future. 109. The reply neatly sidestepped Stringfield's re­quest for an update on the magazine's position on the UFO mystery.

1 S May. New York City.

An investigation of "saucer pictures."

In mid-May 1955 a fellow walked into the New York offices of life with sane "saucer photos." The magazine expressed no interest so the man tried again at a newspaper, the New York Journal-American. Apparently the Hearst newspaper had cane a long way fran 1ts turn-of-the-century !lroclivity for sensationalism since the Journal-American also rejected the pictures. The newspaper's photo expert was convmced the saucer image had been caused by water vapor on the camera lens. Undaunted, the saucer photographer called on the editor of the New York World-Telegram and Sun. This time the man found a friendly reception witli:"tfi'e paper'"'iiireemito nm a picture and a story. In fact, a staff reporter even visited the little Rigberg bookstore on Third Avenue, which boasted the world's largest collection of UFO liter­ature. for sale, to get a reaction to the saucer photo. As officials of the £!y~ Saucer News Club and publishers of the tiny mag f!y~ Saucer News, tlielligDeFg"S were JiiPPy to share an opinion. When the suppose;:rsaucer­prints were displayed bY the reporter, Mr. Rigberg, impressed with the image, exclaimed "Ah-h-h," and related to the newsman that the pictures weren't the first photo of a space ship she had seen. She said she knew a guy in New Jersey that was selling sane for a buck each.

Encouraged by the attention now being given his photos, the saucer photo­grapher contacted the Air Force. The local Air Force Office of Special In­vestigations Unit, District 12, headquartered at lll East 16th Street, had already obtained some prints and preliminary information through the efforts of Special Agent Frank Auld, in fact it seems the military was keeping tabs on the New York saucer scene since a penciled note on the BWE BOOK record card dealing with the saucer ·photo case says "we have a file on the f!r3 Saucer News." --rn-response to ATIC's requests, S/A Auld, assisted by S/A Mac Minn, worked on an extensive follow-up on the photo case, checking air traffic scheldules, GOC logs, weather records, etc. The negatives of the pictures were analyzed, and while no retouching was discovered, a lack of clarity and definition caused by imperfect exposure and canera motion made the resulting images all but useless. A number of other factors of a techincal nature also prompted the military to reject the photos.

Of special interest is the judgement of the Air Force agents who called the photographer a "saucer fan," and in doing so, they displayed sane aware­ness of civilian activity. The Air Force case report said:

11 ••• the Source demmstrated more than a cursory knowledge of the terminology and more notorious names of 'Flying Saucer' literature, e.g. Adamsld, Xeyhoe, Vaeth." 110.

A final Air Force Intelligence evaluation of the case said:"ATIC concurs in the final evaluation awarded the incident. From past experience with cases of a similar nature, quite often an evaluation of the source's background and be­liefs will provic~f a logical explanation for the sighting.'' 111.

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'IV UFO debate.

Details are not available but on May 16, 195S Donald Keyhoe teamed up with UFO author M. K. Jessup to debate UFOs with Willy Ley and the science editor of Time magazine, Jonathan Leonard(the anti-UFO position of Time was lOlder­stanaaole if the science editor was willing to take sides inS'i'lcl\ a public manner!)

Jessup called the show a "farce!' Instead of a serious exchange of views, the anti-UFO Ley and Leonard, in Jessup's words, turned the debate:" ••• into a childish riot on sane dogmatic assimites." 112.

"Large square glow in the sky." (See BUJE BOOK file card)

17 May. San Francisco, California. "Mysterious red light." (See BUJE BOOK file card)

17 May. Life and Stringfield again.

Mystified at what Stringfield interpeted as an "oblique evasion" of his question posed in his orginal March 5th letter, the UFO researcher dashed off yet another missive concerning the extraterestrial theory as applied to the UFO mystery, since it was his impression Life had accepted the alien idea in 1952. --

Life, however, continued to ignore any further cam~.mications fran the ChiO'Sii'ucer investigator. Stringfield judged ~'!(and ~s_) treatment of· the UFO subject as downright "sleasy." ll3.

17 May. W. B. &lith and his little clapboard shack at Shirley Bay.

A Canadian newspaper article tells us:

''RADIO ~1P'S SfARTLFD BY EXPERT WITNESS."

·~ith a straight face, an expert witness yesterday told the COmmons Radio Committee that while flying saucers were not accountable for television interence they could be blamed 'for a lot of other things.' ''The expert witness was William B. &lith, the engineer-in-charge of

the Broadcast and Measurement Section of the Telecarrm.mications Di­vision of the Department of Transport, and he came before the cormdttee to explain same of the technological complications of radio and tele­vision.

"But flying saucers were still close to his heart, and he still be­lieved, as he has for sane years, that there are such things • "A tall, dark and intense-eyed young man with an iron-grey brushcut,

he was giving the coornittee the technical explanation for the inter­ference aircraft set up in telecasting when Jean Richard, Liberal MP for East Ottawa broke in to ask: 'Aren 1 t you the Smith who operated the Transport Department's Flying Saucer Sighting Station at Shirley Bay?' "'That's right.' "Mr. Richard hesitated a moment, then asked if Flying saucers accounted

for some of the interference that fluttered across television screens. '"No,• replied Hr. Smith evenly,'you can't blame flying sftUCers for 'IV

interference, but you can for a lot of other things.' ''t-lr. Richard neglected to follow up the intriguing possibilities this

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"The resulting silence was broked in a few seconds by Donald Fleming Conservative MP for Toronto-Eglinton, who wanted to know why Mr. Smith had been 'watching flying saucers. ' ''The Saucer Sighting Station had been operated by Transport fran August

1953 to the late SUITI!ler of 1954 'gain knowledge. 1 '

''Mr. Fleming wanted to know why it had been closed after only a year. ''We were getting nowhere,' reported Mr. Smith. "George D. Weaver, Liberal MP for Oulrchill, attempted to follow up the

inquiry. but Comnittee Chairman Dr. Pierre Gauthier Liberal MP for Portneuf, ruled him out of order. ''The Coolnons Radio Carmittee had been assigned the job of looking into

CBC radio and television enterprises, he reminded, not to conduct an in­quiry into the Trans port Department's investigation of flying saucers. ''While the cOIII!littee chairman had ruled out flying saucers, Mr. Smith

was quite willing to discuss them with anybody who had the interest and took the trouble to ask. ·~still 'believed.' "I am convinced there are flying saucers, • he said as the Chmlittee

rose for the day, 'but I'm in the unhappy position of the police chief who knows who robbed the bank but can 1 t prove it in court. '

"And when he had told the carmittee the saucer research had been 'gett­ing nowhere• he had been speaking for the Transport Department, not for himself. ''Personally, he had felt further investigation was imperative since

there had been one morning when the instruments at the Shirley Bay station had produced what Mr. Smith temed a 'wiggle.' This could be e~lained by no known atmospheric phenanenon. " I didn't know then what caused that strange and fascinating instrumen­

tation,• he recounted, 'and I don't know now •.• but the possibilities are interesting. • "After a year's operation he had advised the Transport Department that

the research should be full and complete with all possible facilities made available, or it should be dropped altogether. ''There was the choice to go all out or get out,' he said,'and the de­

partment decided that the investment in terms of personnel, laboratory facilities and equipment would not be warranted, particularly in the light of the opinion that a great many people held flying saucers in ridicule.' "Still with a straight face. this telecamrunications engineer. who en­

joyed the confidence of former Transport Minister Chervier, confided as he left the carmittee hearing that while he 'believed' there were flying saucers, he didn't know precisely what they were. They could be space vehicles, he said, and then again they might only be sane unknown type of 'celestial fireball.' --''The carmittee after shyly asking a few more shy questions of Mr.

Smith returned to the more familiar subjects of television and radio operating licences and the procurements of these highly pri%ed assets." 114.

17 May.

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20 May.

Release of UFO data. Stringfield continued to push for official UFO data, writing Capt. White

of OPI, USAF, Defense Department, Washington D.C. en May 20th Capt. White wrote back to say:"I know of no plans to release infonnation on individual sightings and doubt that such will take place since we still have the same shortage of investigative personnel." 115.

21 May. Norton AFB, California.

"Silver-gray spheres." (See BUIE BOOK file card)

21 May. Plattsburgh, New York.

"Jet pursues UFor•

.A New York newspaper reported:

"Reports on a series of such sightings have come in fran the Platts­burgh GOC to the Albany Filter Plant. "The most recent one of a spectacular nature took place on May 21

with four witnesses besides Roddy and Roberts. They sighted the bright 'saucer' at 2:15a.m., got its picture on Tri-X film, and kept a log on its movements tm.til 2:31 a.m., when the entry says: 'USAF jet plane is heard caning from East. Plane gives/ursuit. <bject is seen to suddenly spurt ahead. lost to view o all six men.'" 116. 22 May 55. london, England.

Dorothy Xilgallen • s "spooky, chilling. little men story."

(See newsclipping)

A fulleraceotm.t of Mrs. Iilgallen's claim in Brt.lon Certam· a los Angeles papet; reads:

''This official quoted scientists as say• 'Discs' Come ing a flying ship of this type could not possibly been constructed an earth. The Out of Spa e British Government, I learned, is with- , C b ldin ff · · a1 h • f1 · 87 Doroth7:11.Uaallea o g an o 1c1 report an t e Yl.Il& • "· ,..,... ......... • .... ,,., Saucer' examination because it doeS not LONDOS, Mfty U !IIPJ'Ifr can wish to frighten the public. report today on a stocy wh1ch

''When my husband (Richard Kollmes, Broad- I• poaiU•eiy spooiQ!,not to mell· uoa chllhna

wa;y producer and radio CaJIIIentator) and I · Bntlsh'sctenusts ond atrm•n. · ed h f b · f t' ·I had atler enmiDJDI the wreekaa• arr1v ere or a r1e vaca 1an. . or oat mysterious rlyins shtp,

no premonition that I would be catapult- are eon>~nced tbue atranae

ing myself into the controversy over :11~~n~b~":~o!~:t ~~~.:~~!~~~' , whether flying saucers are real or imagin- but etually are flytna aauceri __ : ___ _ a"" In the United-Stat-es-aU-k:inds-o£---- -wbleb-orll!nat•-oa-anotber 1 ____ .,_.__ - - pt .... t. . explanations have been ;uivanced. ' Tht ... urc~ or my mrormahon I "But no responsible official of the Unit_ s. • Bnush orftml of Cabtnet 1

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every effort to determine the true facts but without any success, and the London News editor of the International News Service remarked: "We tried hard to get to the source of the story, but drew a blanlc." 118.

The military reacts. (See newsclipping)

24 May. loveland, Chio. (7:48 p.m.)

•'IJFOs buzz Ga:?'•

en Lebanon Road in loveland. Chio, was a Ground <.bserver tower. en duty the evening of May 24, 1955 was Mrs. Franck Whitecotton, an experienced aircraft spotter, and another woman, name lDlknown. At 7:48p.m. four"fly­ing saucers"in fonnation passed aver so low the women bolted from the GOC enclosure fearing for their safety(no descriptive in­fonnation was logged). The objects zoaned out of sight to the north. The women re­turned to their post and phoned in an "Air­craft Flash" report to the regional Filter Center at Columbus.

25 May. loveland, Chio. (3:30 a.m.)

''He looked as if he'd seen a ghostl ..

Approximately 7IJ hours after the ''UFO buzzing," a Robert lbmicut finished his

A.U Sourcea Pour .

1 Cold W ate~ on -'Flying Disc 1'a1e ,

,\for :~~ J<J.>~: •1 IDiltoaUOUJ Jiftl 81""'"

The Air Force wu bl&!ll:1 akepUcal yesterda7 of a report from London that wncuae of a Mft7illl uucer" bu been· toun.d &114 eumlnaUon !lldl·1 cated the device came from euter tpace.

A repreaentaUve of tile Brit·, Ida Defell.le Mlnls!,[Y In LolldOG Iaily denied tbe report.

I Tbe United States Rlr Force

u.ld It wollld tf7 to determine· betller, 111 tact, "&ometlllnc

cram" 111 E111!and, but llll4u tile clrcumstancea could 110t teet optlmlsUc tllat thb tllort would prove tru!tlul Out of about 5000 •nucer" reports Ill tile put Jeven or eight years. 1 tbe Air Foree UYI It aUU lacka - a11111e tanllble bit or evl·~· denee tllai a •lllll:et" lull evar

night shift at his restaurant job and drove hane alq the Medeira-Loveland· road in the Branch Hill district.

In the vicinity of the Hopwell intersection. the headlights of Hunnicut 's car illuminated three short ''men" kneeling next to the road. Surprised .that anyone would be ''praying" at that hour in the middle of the road, Hunnicut slowed to a stop. It was theri that J-ltnnicut could make out the figures clearly and he could see that the ~ foot tall ''men" were not human but gray­ish creatUres of a humanoid configuration with a wide slit for a mouth, an indistinct nose, and what seemed to be nonnal eyes(without eyebrows). The .. head was hairless and featureless except for same prOminent wrinkles across the forehead. ..

A one-piece g~rment of a gray-colored material, covered the bodies of the beings,~a·covering close fitting over most of the body except.below the_hips where the material hung loosely. There was a couple of peculiaritiesrabout the beings • gene7;a~ _appearance that could be noticed at a distance: one am seemed longer than 'the other and the upper torso was lopsided. . . t

When encountered, the strange figures were directing their attention to sanething in the woods on the side of the road, sanething that was not visi­ble to Htmnicut. cne of the creatures was holding aloft an object with both hands, arms extended, which appeared to be a rod or chain. This thing was lit up by blue-white sparks j1.111ping back and forth.

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Instead of nmning away, Hurmicut said he advanced toward the mysterious trio. The creature holding the "rod" lowered it to the grmmd, and then all three of the beings made a slight motion in Hurmicut' s direction, a move the man interpeted as a signal for him not to advance further. This resulted in an estimated three minute standoff with the creatures staring at Hunnicut and Hurmicut staring back.

Missing time?

Hunnicut then drove back to town and returned with the Loveland Police Olief John Fritz. No trace of the creatures was fOWld although the men merely drove by the site a number of times. 119.

There is something interesting about the two Stringfield versions of the case. The version just given is based on a 1977 accmmt in Stringfield's book Situation Red. In Stringfield's original account in the 1957 book Saucer Post ... 3-o Blue-there is these two sentences:"For about three minutes R:Jr.'Sii(J"lle 5'fiXi<f""strrr, just watching --too amazed to be afraid. The next thing he re-membered* he was an his way to Fritz's office." 120. --- --

''UF<nauts?''

While Hurmicut saw no "saucer" in the vicinity during his encOWlter, he did recall that the local press reported a Loveland GOC UFO sighting that same even­ing. UFO investigator Ted Bloecher checked on this and found an item in the Loveland Herald about a jet scramble the evening of May 24th in response to the reportingorrour UFOs zooming over the city in fomation. (5ee page 71.)

Child's balloon?

The British Air Ministry tried to put a damper on a widely reported UFO sight­ing by the crew of a Portuguese airliner as the passenger plane flew between Epsan and Deensfold enroute to London, giving credence to the claim of a Dorking area father who asserted the UFO must have been his son's balloon which escaped from the child about that time. The Pnglish press reported that radio-officer J .0. Almeida as saying the UFO was moving at "terrific" speed and was an aluninium -colored object the likes of which he had never seen before. Flight-engineer Jose Eilva make a remark that indicated the thing might not be a balloon overtaken by the airliner:''The object seemed to approach from the port side and passed right under our nose. To me it looked like a silver cigar. There was no smoke trail from it." 121. (If it was a balloon it would appear to be going in the opposite direction as the passenger plane:) Pilot Capt. Durval exclaimed: "I don't know what it was." 122. ~_ ' ',

-"No:t a product of any aviat~em industry on earth."

For a period of two hours five mysterious objects were obsevered maneuvering in the sky over Pisco Airport in Peru, an airfield approximately 250 mil~s s~thc; of Lima, the capital.

Flying in-circles at about 3,200 meters altitude, the st~~e objects were watched ·by at least eight people: pilots, ground personnel, imd others that were employed at the airfield.

The best look at the objects was the one by meteorologist I.uciane Cardenas who used his theodolite: '

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"They appeared to be n~~~boid in shape with brilliant borders and in­their centers toward the rear part were rectangular marks, while fran the rest of the surface there was omitted a brilliant white light. 123.

An additional witness was a Peruvian pilot who was puzzled by the objects as he let down to a landing at Pisco Field to refuel. 124.

31 May. Puy-de-Dome, France. (11:00 a.m.)

It was a beautiful morning in the French Cotaltryside --clear and clam. Cows grazed peacefully in a meadow on the farm of Jean Baptiste Collange. The French farmer had seen a lot of things in his 70 years of living but nothing like the four-foot-wide circular object he now beheld a short distance away. The thing was glowing, hovering just above the ground. P-blti-colored filaments of light radiated from the mderside of the strange craft, the white, yellow, and blue rays making the grass flutter. The object then suddenly moved away, vaulting aver a hedge and out of sight aver a wooded area. 125.

1 Jme. Liverpool, Pngland.

The Liverpool Echo tells us:

"Ol Jme 1st, Mr. Roger Pepper, a 19-year-ol_d cinema projectionist, was in his bacl< garden in 7 Grosvenor Terrace, Dingle, when he saw first three objects and then a fourth. He called his mother, Mrs. M. Pepper, from the house and she saw all four.

_ _"Mr. Pepper said he knew he had perfect eyesight because J:le had - just had his. eyes tested. 'And they were not aircraft,' he added.

He de~cribed the objects as rotald, silver, shining and very bright •. -, )'firs't)ie' saw three together, travelling fran Birkeilhead in .tbe.---­

direction of Warrington. Then he saw another following. them --then they seemed to disappear, he said. They seemed to be·· flying ruch

~ Jtigher than normal aircraft --and to be very }al'ge." 126.

·2 Jme. Gatio-.La Mar, .Venezuela.

People. livi.Jlg iri .the Gatio -La Mar on ihe seacoast of Veneiuela were amazed, it was reR<>rted, when a-Jruge "fieball" dropped out of--the sky and hovered ·about 30 feet above- the·grotald. _Those:witnesses close enough to see detail claimed they viewed J~indows" in the upper: portion of the glowing mass. The t~ing ·was sta,tionary for mi,nutes before. it ~oared -along the beach for some distance anq~then out of sight. 127.

S Jme. 20.miles off the futch c:Oast. - -

"· ... it Ilia)'. have been a flying saucer."

· · A reporter for th!! Eastern Evening News interviewed the .s~iW:r of the trawlel'" Gras~y after he and his crew orTishermen reported s1ghtmg sane­thing· musua in the sky while navigating the North Sea. The skipper, ,John Howard, told a reporter:

''We were 130 miles north-east of Smith's Knott, or 20 miles off the futch coast, on Sunday, Jme S, at 4 p.m. We were heading north-east and were about to haul our trawl when I saw the object at least 10,000 ft. in the air.

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''Nlen I first spotted the object I shouted to the thrid Hand, Martin Spalding, and the deck hand on duty. They saw it too. It looked to me like a shining shilling. I got my binorulars on it as I spotted it on the starboard quarter. Its speed was so great that within five minutes it had flashed across the clear sky till it was on our star­board bow and had disappeared. "I am satisfied that it was no plane. I can only think fran what I

have read about flying saucers that it llllSt have been sanething of that character. It llllSt have been going faster than any aircraft I have ever known or dreamed of." 128.

The sighting was written up in the trawler's log book.

7 June. Fecamp, France.

In western France a shiny object was watched for IS minutes as it moved slowly frcm the southwest to the northwest. A.M. Coolus, who was a Marine inspector and the director of a school of hydrography, checked out the UFO with a pair of binoculars. He said the thing was disk-shaped and glowed orange in its center portion. 129.

9 June. SUnburst. North carolina. (Early morning)

''Birds?''

The SUnburst paper related:

"A farmer reported sighting a flock of strange aerial objects fly­ing in and out of formation over the Western North carolina moun­tains today. "Allen Jones of Sunburst said he was fishing on Lake I.Dgan near

here when he sighted the objects in the rosy light of early morning. ,., I heard a noise like a swarm of bees.' he said. I looked up and

saw these five objects·about 1,500 feet up. They were rosty brown color. • "Fran Jones' position on the lake the objects appeared 'about the

size of the inside of an automobile tire' and apparently were small. He said the objects 'definitely' were not jet planes, although they moved very rapidly in and out of formation;

"'They swept off in an easterly direction t~rd 5,794 foot Mt. Pisgah,' he said." 130. ,

9 June. Enid, Oklahana. (9:30 p.m.)

Weird weather?

Residents of Enid reported a brightly lit flying saucer "cutting fancy turns and swooping" in various directions on June 9th. At 9:30 p.m. it seems that a John Pash and a Mrs. Annie L. Dixon ·observed the object:

At the same time(9:30 p.m.) two men in a car north of Enid approaching the city spotted scmething in the air over Enid they believed was a hail cloud so they reduced speed to avoid it.

When contacted. weather officials at Vance AFB suggested'the possibility the hot atmosphere and unusual clouds were responsible for the UFO sight­ings. 131.

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The Times and Piy. While UFOs continued to buzz the nation,

the New York Times took another swipe at the objects with iC'irtoon on June 9th titled: "Saucer sorcery." In the meantime contactee Dan Fry still managed to draw a crowd of 459 people to hear him speak at $1. SO per person. Not a bad take in 1955 dollars. (See news­paper clipping)

10 June. Petare, Venezulea. (8:00 p.m.)

Newsmen became excited when word reached them of flying saucers swanning over the town of Petare. Reporters, rushing to the scene, located the principal witness, Gon­zalo laguna Reyes , and pllllped him for the details. Reyes had quite a tale to tell. According to him a squadron of "flattened, ball-like, machines trailing smoke" swooped down to a landing on a hilltop near town. Reyes was the sole witness to this saucer appearance until he Slllllloned the rest of his family. The others arrived in time to see the "flattened balls" on the ground and to see:" .•• signs of movements of the occupants." 132. All of the witnesses agreed to climb the hill to get a better look at the five craft but the strange ob­jects took off in the direction of Cartotta airfield. 133.

12 June 55. Kigoma, Tanganyika. (J'lo time)

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l'r7 •ld be -. Ill Cblearo "by popular demand" Actually, ' ..t of the Villton bad been In· 'Wtted to tba leetme tq • local ~rm. '

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....,. -t 1111 to detertbe bow ·be-. about tD tDueh the aaucer wben a '\'Glee •ld: "Better not tDueh tbat, pal, It'• .un bot."

There was DO'body In the •-· Fry ~aid, beeauae "the e•· •tn·ten...trlal belnp were 1n a .mother llblp, aome 100 mllet above the earth.''

1 The lpacemea -.ed b!m In· the Aueer, Fry Aid, and he

went liOOII1inc oil to New Yorit and blldr. at a ~Peed of 1.000 aillet an bour. 'hie wbole trip toot ball an hour, be Aid.

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...,__ ... didn't belleft Ia fly-·-· A silver-colored object came out of the southern sky and then remained

stationary over the bay off shore fran the town of Kigoma. As a small group of people, including the District Commissioner's wife Mrs. W.B. Davis, watched the object move again after about five minutes, the UFO taking a course that carried it to the west and into a cloud; When contacted, the local Meteorolical Department informed investigators no balloons releases had been schedtlled that day. 134.

13 June 55.

"Everything was lovely and then ••• "

Preparing material for a proposed 1V panel discussion, Frank Edwards and a program producer visited the Navy Department in the Pentagon to reqest a few unclassified military rocket photos, ones that had been issued to the press previously as a matter of routine. Navy officials told them that there would be no problem. Up to that point, Edwards later told Donald Xeyhoe. "every­thing was lovely," but then it became !mown the pictures were to be used in a TV show about flying saucers. The Navy then flatly refused to make any of their material available. The official handling the matter told Edwards:''He had strict orders not to cooperate on any publicity connected with flying saucers." 135,

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14 June. M!! magazine. More on the A.V. Roe rumor.

Assigning the "ships fran another planet" theory to science-fiction fans, the editors of LOOK(second only to Life in the magazine market), suggested that a Canadian '""ROe-type aircraft wiSTeasible and might be flying around causing saucer sightings, that the Roe l'UllOr was ''persistent and fairly credible. 136. (See article)

IS June. Anita, Iowa.

Sanething zooned over Anita, Iowa, on the 15th. Witnesses spoke of a blue-white cigar-shaped object with a red jet exhaust travelling at less than 1,000 feet in the air and maJcing a barely audible hiss. This "cigar" was quite possibly a meteor although, oddly enough, just six days later(the 21st) at Skokie, Illinois, another mysterious cigar-shaped object was seen. A Mrs. W.E. Johnson of Skokie said the thing passed over her backyard at treetop level. 137.

15 June. Bryan AFB, Texas.

Strange cylindrical object •

.According to T/Sgt. Everett Woolun, Weather Cbserver, Forcaster and Meteorologist, he saw a smooth, solid-looking airfoil-like object moving at high speed. .M Air Intelligence Information docunent states:

"SWRCE sighted object fran observer tower located directly in front of Base Weather Station at Bryan AFB, Texas. At the time the SWRCE was making a rawinsonde observation when a cylindrical shaped object appeared travelling at an estimated speed of five hundred to six hundred miles l?er hour. Cbject was first sighted in the southwest quadrant, sh1fting in heading fran ten to twenty degrees, and then disappearing in the northwest quadrant at ap­proximately thirty degrees elevation. Object then reappeared in the southeast quadrant and then disappeared in the southwest quad­rant. Cbject was last sighted in northwest quadrant in a straight trajectory, changing course to a heading of two hundred and seventy degrees and then disappearing at an approximate elevation of thirty degrees over the horizon. saJRCE stated that the object was sight­ed for no more than thirty seconds at each sighting and object would then disappear. Cbject would disappear for a ten minute per­iod of time and then reappear for about thirty seconds. 138.

16 June. Baltimore, Maryland.

MUlti-colored oval. (See BLUE BOOK file card)

16 June. Mystery alert. A jittery Donald Keyhoe learned that every Air Defense Camiand post

across the country went on the alert the night of June 16, 1955. Jet in­terceptors were ordered aloft to check on reported mystery intruders over the East Coast, the Northwest, and West Coast regions. The public got wind of the military activity and at least one Air Force Filter Center, the one at Baltimore, even coonented about the flood of phonecalls it received from the public. 139,

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llbrld's first flying saucer 'IV show.

A c.cmnent in the IDs Angeles saucer mag 'SAUCERS' called the show:'"'V's First Flying Saucer Program." 140.

Two unlikely saucer enthusiasts were Don Adams and Earl M.mtz(the same Mmtz ltlho manufactured r.tmtz television sets that were popular in the 50s and Adams was a M.mtz associate ltlho had 'IV receiver dealerships in St. Louis, Missouri; Gary, Indiana; and Orlcago, Illinois.) These two men were avid readers of saucer books and came to believe in the aerial objects and govern­ment secrecy regarding the mystery.

Adams and M.mtz agreed to sponsor a modest IS minute Slimier replacement show about flying saucers starring disk buff John Otto. Otto directed and produced the effort over the ACB affiliate WBKB Ol.icago. The initial pro­gram aired 8:15p.m. June 19, 1955 with the title:"l.et's Go Olt Of This World With John Otto." In spite of the show's amateur characteristics, in time letters to the station about the 'IV effort reached a 1,000 a week, an amazing amount.

Within four weeks Otto had a 15 second "Listen and Watch for Space Vis­itors" period during a show. As usual no contact was established but Otto was not discouraged:''The time is not far off ltlhen the visitors will come in regularly on any program on ltlhich they are invited to do so. And everyone will have an opportunity to see actual pictures taken on other planets." 141.

The show was not renewed in the Fall but continued to be aired ewer radio on WAAF Ol.icago 7:45 SUnday evenings. 142.

20 June. Dallas, Texas. (10:10, 10:17, 10:30 p.m.)

Marine Captain and others observe strange object.

Captain Richard S. Barry, U.S. Marine Corps, ltlho did post gra~te work at Duke University and ltlho was quite familar with the latest jets,'told Air Force investigators he saw sanething very odd. In the official repprt(below) the Captain is referred to as the "SCURCE." The report read:

"Ckl »:>nday evening, 2200 CSI' 20 June 1955, SOORCE'S neighbor, Mr. John Stewart, visited SCURCE and asked him to step outside. They did, and Mr. Stewart pointed to the heavens in a southwesterly direction(generally toward the city of Dallas, Texas). The SCURCE sighted a dull red object ltlhich was changing in color to a glowing ltlhitish-yellow. The object dropped fran a seventy degree elevation to a forty degree elevation. The SCURCE could made no estimate as to the altitude of the object. The object appeared to hover manent­arily, and then accelerate in speed. SOORCE estimated this speed to be greater than that of any jet aircraft he had ever observed. After this burst of speed, the object was sighted again in the western part of the sky, and again seemed to be hovering manentarily. SWRCE immediately rushed indoors to get his binoculars(eight by thirty­five in measuresnent). He returned in time to focus the binoculars on the object before it faded in the northeastern sector of the sky. Thru the binoculars, the object appeared to be round, flat and red in color. Three lights appeared to be in a straight line, horizon­tal to the path of flight of the object. SaJRCE estimated the total time of the sighting to be approximately sixty to ninety seconds. A total of ten minutes time elapsed before the object was sighted for

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were the same and the object appeared and disappeared in the same areas. This t:ime, however, the object did not appear to hover," 143.

23 Jtme. Utica, New York. ·

''t-tlst certainly be classed as an tmknown."

A Mohawk Airlines DC-3 was cruising at 3,000 feet in the V-2 Albany-Boston airlane about IS miles east of Utica. a little after noontime on June 23rd. The weather was clear for flying except for an overcast, The airliner was flying about 1,000 feet below the overcast Where the visibility was good. The passenger plane was experiencing an tmeventful flight, speeding along at 160 knots, when the pilot and co-pilot spotted a strange object passing by at great velocity, SOO feet above and at an angle of 70 degrees , The UFO was round and of a light gray color, It passed so close a "center line" on its surface could be seen. as could several ''windows" or openings fran wich there was emitted a strong light of a blue-green color. The men at the con­trols of the Mohawk Airliner observered the UFO d:iminish in size as it quickly moved away down the airlane. ./

Radio chatter over an open frequency disclosed the fact that two other ~ . ..._ airliners and Albany Tower had also witnessed the passage of the UFO. A short. \ time later it was reported Boston radar had tracked an unknown passing over r ~ the city and then out to sea at a speed of 4,500 miles per hour. The pilot . ~·') of the Mohawk plane, Captain Robert W. Fox, did not file a CIRVIS and ap- ~~ parently no one else did. This case is not in BUJE BOOK files. Fox gave UFO researcher Raymond Fowler the infonnation as it was recorded in his J.k>hawk '~ Airlines logbook. 144.

This case was included in the Condon Report(p.143)and project staff eval­uator Gordon Thayer wrote:" ... a most intriquing report, that lll.lSt certainly be classed as an unknown pending further study, which it certainly deserves. Statements fran SCIIle of the other witnesses involved would help in analyzing the event, and should prove useful even 13 years after the fact." 145.

Within five days of the Condon Report release, Scientist James E. McDonald attacked the project results, saying that cases like the Utica incident had witnesses that were not queried in a review of the reports that remained tm­explained:"I found on interviewing key witnesses as part of my cross-check on the Condon Report, that no one fran Colorado had ever talked to the witness­es." 146.

ZS June.

Did a UFO put the lights out at Washington National Airport?

Donald Keyhoe makes a reference to this case but did not have the details as given in BUJE BOOK files. The first person to spot the UFO was the son of

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a Congressional Administrative Assistant. The Congressional Aide's name was a Mr. "ZUnwalt" who TUShed to a neighbor's house to get oore witness­es. Fortunately there were some good witnesses available. One was a Major O:.lrdes of the Office of Manpower & Organization, MATS Hdq., Andrews .AFB, Maryland; who also happened to have a senior pilot rating; and a Lt. Colonel "Rhodes" with the DCS/Plans, MATS Hdq, Andrews AFB, Maryland, who also happened to be a senior pilot. 147.

An Air Force investigator wrote:

"<:bservers state that several searchlights were trained on the UFO and that the lights went out when the beam approached the UFO. The ceiling lights at Washington National Airport went out when the UFO passed over ••• " 148.

A check with the Silver Hill Weather <:bservatory, Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, determined that a small weather balloon carrying a magesium flare was released at 10:45 FST, the same time as the sighting of the UFO and the drift of the balloon c~:~~~pared well with the strange object reported. The judgement of BUIE BOOK that the UFO was a balloon seems reasonable and the extinguislnent of the ceiling lights must therefore be considered a coin­cidence. 149.

26 June. fblt, Florida.

'1btreliable observerr•

The file card in BUIE BOOK records says of this case: "Several witnesses, both civilian and military. 'Disc-shaped, blue-white with 10-14 blinking lights • .. 1 SO.

BUIE BOOK scientific advisor J. Allen Hynek later wrote of this case: "Air Force evaluation: 'Unreliable observer.' On the basis of interviewing one witness found to be 'unreliable, • the case is dismissed. What about the other witnesses? Get rid of the report, no matter howl" 151.

27 June. Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

A snippet in an American newspaper reported: "Albert Ashworth and his 17-year-old son reported sighting a flowing, purposeful, sausage-shaped object traveling over the sea near Port Elhabeth, South Africa. 152.

28 June. San Antonio, Texas.

''Silver dollars."

A news report said:

"A report that one 'flying saucer' soared over the San Antonio area Tuesday is incorr«:t, a man identifying himself as R.A. Mathews of 907 West Rosewood Avenue telephoned the San Antonio News Thursday. -'""""nlere really were two,' he said.

"Fred Hites and E.M. Viliarreal, both employees of the city waste disposal department, reported Wednesday they had seen a round­shaped craft at about the same time although both were at .their banes 15 miles apart. ''Mathews said he and his wife were driving on Hwy. 281 about 15

miles north of San Antonio Tuesday when they saw two objects

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'shaped like silver dollars' flying east at a high altitude. One was sanewhat higher than the other, 1 as if in formation,' Mathews said. "Mathews said he felt he should report what he saw although 'I

have been reading about those things and I don't believe it much."' 153.

30 June. Near Pantelleria Island, Mediterranean Sea.

'':frsterious cigar-shaped body." (See BUJE POOK docment)

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30 June. "Little men in cracked up saucers."

After a UFO lecture in the San Jose, California, auditorium; a menber of the audience, Bill Raub'· approached speaker Robert Gardner. Mr. Raub questioned Gardner closely, and Gardner, pressed, claimed to have:" ... talked to several men, including doctors, who actually examined little men fran cracked up saucers in Mexico." 154.

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1. "The Ground Cbserver Corps." Official UFO. Vol.I, 110. August 1976. p. 52.

2. Vallee, Jacques and Janine Vallee. Challenge to Science. Chicago, Ill., Henry R.egnery ~any-. 1966. p.ll3. -

3. Ogles, Major George W. ''What Does The Air Force Really Knows About Flying Saucersr• The Ainnan. Official magazine of the U.S. Air Force. July 1967, --

4. "UFO picture fran South Mrica." By the editors. f.!Y3 ~·Review. 1959. p.l6. .·

5. U!tter; To: O:lief of Police, Seattle, Washington. Fran: Robert J. Gribble. CFSI Director. Seattle, Washington. 17 August 56. Air Force BIDE BOOK Files.

6. Wilkins, Harold T. f!13 Saucers Uncensored. New York, N.Y.: The Citadel Press, 1955. p.Z47. '

7. _!: ~rdia ~anoia. 7 January 55.. . a. Jessup,M.K.nle"'tJR>Annual. New York, N.Y.: C1tadel Press, 1956.

(newspaper quote! W· '7:2":n:- . · . 9. Intelligence Report. To: Camlander, Mac Dill AFB, Florida. ATI'N: Provost

Marshall. Fran: Lt. Col. James W. I.ovesbird(?). District Coomander 7th llil District (IG) USAF 1«: Dill AFB, Tampa, Flori~. 19 January 55. Air Force BWE BOOK Files. '

10. Ibid. pp.22-25. (Taken fran the~~~ of Seattle, Washing­ton).

11. Transcript. North Adams, Massachusetts. 7 January 55(?). · 12; C:Onstance7 Arthur. The Inexplicable~· New York, N.Y.: The Citadel

Press, 1956. pp.Zl8-'2f97 13. Air Intelligence Infonnation Report. by Jlichard Vaugen-. Flight 2-0,

l6U2nd AISS:~ January 55. Alr Force BIDE BOOK Files. 14. Eastern no!ly Press. 19 January 55. · 15. W1IldiiS, rol~ !:!Y!!!s saucers Uncensored. p.249. 16. Ibid. · ' · · 11. ma, p.24a. 18. Jessup, M.K. The UFO Annual. p.38. , 19. Air Intelligence liiroliiiifiCin ~rb.'lby·J.fajor Joseph· King-: · 568th Air

BaSe Group, ~re AFB, -R.J.:lr:Jl:lly.·5z.>~Air·Force BWE BOOK Files. 20. Ibid. . · 21. Pate (Missing date. of isslle') ;U!tter~frcim Mrs. L. Brubaker, Ceil ville,

'Si:St"iyou County, California • .:." .• · ··" ~ · 22. Times-Advocate .. J3scondidi:l •. ~ca:lifornia. 29.January 55. 23: wn::KlllS_, Hirola.T., f!t3 Saucers Uncensored. p~~50. 24; .Cbserver. U! Grande:,:otegon,, 29 January .55.· .. 25', ~11'!& S8ucer,R.eview. Vol. I, No.2. May·JlDle 1955. p.8. 26. IlilQ. .. -- -27. PI'ie'k_, David. "Tripe for the Public.•~ Library Journal. Vol.BO. February

1,' 1955. pp.202,204. 2.~· ·~hoe, Donald. f.lY3 ~ Conspira9'· New York., N.Y.: Henry Holt &

·C!:anpany, 1955. p."ZS'O. 29. Ibid, pp.250-251. 30. W":i.ms?lwEvenrg ~_!Ph. z.February 55. 31 •. tar- s. asaaeni,'Taiifomia. 3 February 55. sz~· l'iYfioe-;-l')onald. flY3 ~Conspiracy. p.250.

33. Berger, Meyer. "About New York." ~York~· 7 February ss. p.23. 34. Ibid. 3 s . "l"6Tif. 36. FleWS. Hemet, California. 18 Februay SS. 37. Tlllles. Kansas City, Missouri. 10 February SS. 38. fu!!!g Saucer Review. Vol.I, No.2. p.7. 39. Keynoe,""'DOiiird. _By~ Saucer Conspiracy. p.2S8, 40. wrenzer_t, Coral miJ wrenzen, Jim. UFOs:!:!Yi.!!B ~~ants. New York,

N.Y.: S1gnet, 1967, p.62. 41. Ibid. 42. Keyhoe, Donald. ~.!!:!8 Saucer Cons~iracy. p.2S8. 43. Evening News. l.oniron~gland. 12 ebruary SS. 44. Gaddis, Vincent. Invisible Horizons. New York, N.Y.: ke Books, Inc.,

1965. p.215. 45. 14 February 55 (AP) 46. La ~da. 17 January SS. 4 7. ~ ~ence Infonnat ion Report. by :2nd Lt. Arthur T. ·YOI.Dlg. 790th

AC&W Squadron;-Iirl<Sville Air""'Tforce Station, Kirksville, Missouri. 15 February 55. · :

48. Kent Messeng~!> 16 February 55. , 49. 'I'Ti6i.me:-s3nDiego, California. 17 February SS. SO. USAJ: Tec:hincal lnfonnation Sheet, 26 February 1955. (May be located by

the date: 18 February 55 in Air Force BIDE BOJK Files)~. · 51. Stringfield, L.H. Situation Red. New York, N.Y.: A Fa'WCet~_Crest Book,

1977. p.28. · .. 52. UFO Investigator. Vol.I, No.2. August·September 1957, p.7. 53. Wilkins, Harm. !:!Yi.!!B Saucers Uncensored. p.252. 54, Stringfield, L.H. Saucer Post 3-o Blue. Cincinnati, Ohio: Civilian

Research, Interplanetary Fly1ng~j~(C,R.I.F.O.}, 1957. pp.36·37, 55. State Journal. Lincoln, Nebraska. 5 March 55.

·"56 •. JOi:iinal. Beaumont, Texas. 7 March 55. 57. 'Jl!y~ SatiCe#Review. VoJ ~~,No.2. May-June, 1955, p. 7. 58. ~_l!Pnaruf News. Macon, GE!orgia •.. P March 55. 59. Fry, Davidlr. "TJie Second Annual SpacecraTh·Gonvention." "SAUCERS."

Vol.HI, No.2~ Jtme 1955. p.6. - · 60 . ..,- Pr&ceedinfs ~fthe fCol!eg.!:_ Universal Wisdcm. ed. George Vanbssel.

Yucca Val ey;,,_(lliT: orn1a, Vo1.4, N0.4.JUTy 1956, p.5. 61 ;· lbid.;.~p.-7~ : . 6 21; l'EiiO. ' 63, ~ly ,. Fr!Jllk. · ''WhopP,ers. At. Giant ~k." ~· ed, and publis~ -~ 64, Brockman·;' Gilbert J .. "I 5aw A Flying Saucer.?' -~ Sauter'Magaiine.

May 1955. (Found in Air1 Ftm::e"J'BWE' BOOK files} , · -----65. News Dowagiac·;·Michigan. 15 March 55. 66:/Str1ngfield, L.H. Inside Saucer Post 3-0 Blue. pp.39-40. 67 • 001 Report. To: Director, Spec:iarinvestigatlons, ~ USAF Washington 25

D.C. From: Lt. Col. leon F. Bugh. 001120 Mc:Chord AFB, M::Chord Field, Washington D.C. 23 May 55. Air Force BIDE BOJK Files.

68. wrenzen, Coral and IJJrenzen, Jim. UFOs:Flvino Saucer Oc:amants. pp. 65-66. --::...:;; ;;;;;:p --=·--

69. New York Herald-Tribune New York, N.Y. 25 March 55, 70. 'Stringfie~de Saucer Post 3-0 Blue. p.37. 71. Scottish i(jd(.' Post.T~s-;-----72. Stringfie , .lf."""lnside ~ ~ .!:Q ~· p.37.

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73. CRJFO Newsletter. Vol.II. No.2. May 6, 1955. p.6. 74. ~~ sallcer ~· Vol.I, No.2. May-June 1955. p.2. (Ndala Northern

75, Jo'i:irnal-Herald. Dayton, Chio. 30 March 55. 76. U.S. Air-rorCe Techincal Information Sheet. May be found in Air Force

BWE BOOK Files by the date: March 1955. 77. Allingham, Cedric. "I Met The Messenger Fran Mars." True §p~ Secrets. 78. Saucer News. (Formerly Nexus) ed. James.W. Moseley. VOI:'I,~ -June-

JiiiY.l~ n.6. -79, Teletype Report. To:JEPWP/ATIC lW AF» Chio. Fran:CCMDR 54TH AIR DIV DEF

PEPPFlUWLL AFB NF. 9 April 55. Air Force BllJE BOOK Files. 80. Xeyhoe, Donald. ~1 :!!!g Saucer ~p~. p.266. 81. Rockford ~ister nubl1F."""RR<: oro-;lllinois. 8 April 55. 82. ROddY, James~ ree1lr0s In Qle Day." "Saucers." Vol. I II, No.2.

June 1955. pp.13-14. 83, Keyhoe, Donald. E!)'~ Saucer ~irafo. p.26S. 84. Star Free Press. \'entura-;lhlttornra. 0 April 55. 85. SfiertOii"'lfaScon opnty Journal. Shelton, California. 14 April 55, 86. Panarna-Aiiier'i:Ciin. anam City, Panama. 25 April 55, 87. ~unaa~ Di~atdi. London, England. 24 April 55. 88. ~· roen City, 1Dng Island, New York. 2 May 55. 89. ~~Review. ed. Derek Dempster. Vol.I, No.3. July-August, 19SS.

p.3r. 90. Ruppelt, Edward J. The Report on Unidentified E!)'~ Cbjects. Garden

City, New York: lblbre<Taylf1'i:itqiany, 1956) p.3ID. -91. Cruttwell, Rev. N. ''The New Giunea Sightings.,. The APRO Bulletin. ed.

Coral Lorenzen. July 1961. p.6. - --92. INCA.T Case 1563. p.9. 93, "SiiiiCers."Vol. II, No.3. September 1955. p.IS. 94. •'Siiucers'.''.'Vol. III, No.2. June 1955. pp.l0-11. 95. Stringf1eld, L.H. Inside Saucer Post .•• l-0 Blue. p.37. 96. M!:_ J~ence Inl'OiiiiifiOilRei)o~ Fdward J. Harlow, ~tr:lnter sq AM tJr,-ye, York, N.Y. 9 May 55. Air Force BLUE BOOK Files.

97. Ibid. 98. 1"6iii. 99. l:fiO~iz. Ord, Nebraska. 5 May 55.

100. Mace ee, Bruce. "Historical Introduction to Project Blue Book Special Report 114." Privately published. (no date) p.2.

101. Smith, Willy. ''The curious Case of the Argentine crashed saucer." In­ternational UFO Reporter. ed. Jerane Oark. Published by the Center FOr tJFO stiilreS.-vor:tr, No.1. pp.lB-19.

102. Daninic, Sondy. "Space Ship Over Detroit." Fate. ? pp.86-87. 103. Jessup, M.X. UFO Annual. (l~tter to M.X. Jessup fran Mrs. Gwynne D.

Mack of Pound liiJie-;-AiW York) pp.lS6·357. 104. Ibid. 105. 'AP1m' Bulletin. August 1955. p. 5. 106. Rei\Ze1, J?i. DOnald H. and Boyd, Lyle G. The World of f!y!!!g Saucers.

Garden C1ty, New York: Doubleday 6 caupany--;-JfiC':7l'903. }).130, 107. Times. Hartford, Connecticut. 13 May 55. 108. Teletype Report. To: JEDEP/aJ.IDR ATIC WP AF» Chio. Fran: 773rd AC&W

SQ MCM'AI.JN AF», tOU'AIJN NY. 12 May 55. Air Force BLUE BOOlC Files. 109. Stringfield, L.H. Inside Saucer Post 3~0 Blue. p.37. 110. Report of InvN:Si~atkonN J;fWX RiiC'Mii'in 'iUiirS/A Auld. JX)I2 7 West

TS'"tllStriit, or , .Y. 24 May S5. Air Force BUJE 1IOOX Files.

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111. Ibid. 112. Jessup, M.K. The UFO Annual. p.170. 113. Stringfield, L:lr.lils!OeTaucer Post 3-0 Blue. p.37. 114. Journal. Ottawa, C!ltano, 'Ca.'iiiOi.l"B" RaY~ 115. Str1ngfield, L.H. Inside Saucer Post 3-0 Blue. p.86, 116. Times-Union. Alben~:f"Jiiiie"""S'S'.--117. EXaiiiin ~s Angeles. 22 May 55. 118. f.!y~ Saucer~· Vol.I, No.3. July-August 1955. p.9. 119. Stringfield, Leonard H. Situation Red. New York, N.Y.: A FmtCett Crest

Book, 1977. pp.115-116. -120. Stringfield, Leonard H. Inside Saucer Post 3-0 Blue. p.68. 121. Western Mail. Cardiff, Wares:-20Riy-5). ----122. Ib1d. --123. mo8u11etin. August 1955. p. 7. 124 • ']"66(l, 125. INCAT KJFOB. New Series 6. Spring 1977. 140. p.lO. 126. LiverpCiO!"l!cho. Liverpool, England. 1 June 55. 127. APROBUlletiil. August 1955. p.B. 128. fu.!!!& Saucer Review. Vol.I, No.3. July-August 1955. p.30. 129. lNCAT ~ies 6. Spring 1977. 140. p.lO. 130. Fanner. Sunburst,- North Carolina. 9 June 55. 131. ~le. &lid, Oklahana. 9 June 55. 132. APRObulletin. August 1955. p.B. 13 3 • ']"66(l. 134. fu.!!l& Saucer Review. Vol.I, No.4. September·<ktober 1955. p.30. 135. Ie)iliOe,"""'DOiUil'd. fu.!!;!B Saucer ConsfMacy. p. 269. 136. "Is This The Real""1fly1ng Saucer?" ~. Vo1.19, No.l2. 14 June 55. 137. Vallee, Jacques. Anatany of!. Pheniiiieii"on. New York, N.Y.: Ace Books,

Inc., 1965. p.144. 138. 'Air Intelligence Infonnation Report. by 1st. Lt. DeanS. Jameson.

night 2-D. 4li02rid AtsS. 15-:Tuiie 55. Air Force BUJE BOOK Files. 139. Jessup, M.K. The UFO Annual. p.359. 140. '"'V's First Fly1ng-Saucer Program." "SAJJCERS." Vol. III, No.3.

September 1955. p.l4. 141. Ibid. 14 2 • ']"66(l, 143. Teletype Report. To; JEWP/C<MlR ATIC WP AFB, Chio. Fran: NAS DAL. 22

June 55. Aor Force BUJE BOOK Files. 144. Fowler, Raymond. UFOs: Inte~lanetary Visitors. Jericho, New York:

Exposition Press, rn:f. pp. 60-261. 145. Gil.mor, Daiel S. ed. Scientific~ of Unidentified !!Y!!!g <lljects.

New York, N.Y.: Batam BOOkS, 1969. p.ll!. 146. f.!yj,Jlg Saucer Review. Vol.l6, No.5 p.7. 147. IUr !nterrrgeilcern:ronnation Report. by 2nd Lt. Charles L. Berrier.

mght 3-H, 46'0"2'nd Atss. 30 Jiiie~. Air Force BUJE BOOK Files. 148. Ibid, p.B. 14 9. ']"66(l, 150. Raybe located in Air Force BUJE BOOK Files by the date:26 June 55. 151. Hynek, J. Allen. The ~ek UFO ~rt. New York, N.Y.: Prmetheus

Books, 1983. p.4s:- -- -152. Times-~e. New Orleans, Louisiana. 21 June 55. 153. News. -san Mtonio, Texas. ~9 June 55.

154. Jessup, M.K. The UFO Annual. pp.216-217. (Letter to Jessup from Bill Raub of San JoSe; t:i!ifonua. Date unknown)

INDEX

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Aber, J.N. p.24. Adams, Don. p.82. Adamski, George. pp.26,36,38-39,63. Ade~aide, Australia. p.6. All~gham, Cedric. pp.26,36-37,48. Almeida, J.O. p.72. A ~essag! From CUter §pace. p.41. ! 41sag! From The !:!>'~ Saucers?

P· . Anderson, Maj. John W. p.61. Andrea, August. p.61. An~elucci, Orfeo. pp.36,38-39,41. An1ta, Iowa. p.77. Ash\<IOrth, Albert. p. 85. Arnold, Kenneth. pp.l5-16. Arroya Secco Canyon, Calif. p.60. Auld, S/A Frank. p.63. A.V. Roe airplane. pp.77,79-81. B

Backus , Robert • p .1 0. Baltimore, Md. pp.77-78. BARBER SHOP, project. p. 8. Barry, Capt. RichardS. pp.82-83. ''Bass a, Eurique." p. 59. Beaumont, Tex. p.32. Berger, Meyer. p.21. Berliner, Don. p.2. Bethurum, TnJnan. pp. 36,38, 40. Bexley Heath, England. p.35. Blansett, Glenn. p.44. Bloecher, Ted. p._72. Bloemfontein, South Africa. p.3. BUJE BOOK, project . p. 3. Bogata, Columbia. p.l8. Bowling Green, Ky. p.28. Brakins, Keith. p.4. Br~denton, Fla. p.4. Brightwell, J.A. p.27. British Air Ministry(Staff) pp.4,55, 72.

Brockman, Gilbert J. p.41. Brubaker, Mrs. L. p. 9. Bryan AFB, Tex. p. 77. Burt, Lt.(?). pp.57-58. c Camp, Arthur. p.22.

_Caracas, Venezuela. pp.23,29,59. t.ardenas ' wciane. p. 7 2. Caribbean Sea. p.23. Carlsbad, N.M. p.48. Case For The UFO. p.41. 'CeiT viiTe -;--tAm. p. 9. Celis, Capt. Dairo. p.l7. Olatham, England. p. 27. Olerry Valley, Ill. p.49. Olicago, Ill. pp.76,82. Chichester, England. p.23. Chong-seng, Olg. p.21. CIA. pp.6-7,42. c~~l..J:mati, <:hio. p.8. Civilian Saucer Intelligence. pp.

8,21. Clarke, D. p.46. Clarke, Peter. p.46. Cluball, Ben. p.20. Cochise, N.M. pp.3,17. Comus, A.M. p. 75. Concepcion, Chile. p.23. Concerning &!!!& Saucers and

CCilmuiUcatlon'"""With Snacemen. p. 41. ---=-----

Cortes, B.J. p.l7. Cracow, Poland. p.l5. Crandall, Lee. p.41. Curdes, Maj.(?). p.85. D

tHY Mirror, London. p.48. as~ p.82.

Dates: June 1947. p.l5. 30 June 52. p.9. 1953. p.6. August 1953. p.67. 1954. pp.26,57. 1 January 55. p.3. 3 January 55. pp.3-4. 5 January 55. pp.4-5,21. 6 January 55. p.4. 7 January 55. p.6. 9 January 55. p.60. 11 January 55. p.6. 12 January 55. p. 6, 18 January 55. p.6. 19 January 55. p.6. 21 January 55. p.8.

22 January 55. p.9. 23 January 55. pp.8-9. 27 January 55. p.9. 28 January 55. p.10. 29 January 55. pp.9,11,1S. 30 January 55. p.13. 1 February SS. pp.l6·17. 2 February 55. pp.l7-20. 3 February 55. p.20. 6 February 55. p.21. 7 February 55. p.7. 8 February 55. p. 22. 10 February 55. pp.22·23. 11 February 55. p.23. 13 February 55. p.23. 14 February 55. pp.23-24,26. 15 February SS. pp.23·25,27. 18 February SS. p.28. 19 February SS. p.29. 21 February 55. p.29. 1 March 55. p.30. 2 March SS. p.30. S March 55. pp.30,43,5S,64. 6 March 55. p.43. 7 March SS. p.32. 9 March 55. p.32. 11 March 55. p.3S. 12 March 55, pp.36,41. 13 March 55. p.3S. 15 March ss. pp.37,42. 18 March 55. p.42. 21 March 55. p.40. 24 March 55. pp.42-43, 25 March 55. p.43. 27 March 55. p.43. 28 March 55. pp.44-4S. 29 March 55. pp.44-45. 30 March 55. p.46. 1 April 55. pp.48,SO. 3 April 55. p.48. S April 55. p.48. 6 April 55. p.46. 7 April 55. pp.3o,so. 8 April SS, pp.49-SO. 9 April 55. pp.S0,53, 14 April 55. p.S4. 23 April SS. p. ss. 24 April 55. p.ss. 27 April 55, p.S6. 28 April SS. p.44. 30 April 55, p. 56.

1 May 55. pp.S6-S7. 2 May 55. p.57. 4 May 55. pp.S7-S8. 5 May 55. pp.S8-59. 7 May 55. p.S9. 8 May 55. p.S9. 11 May 55. p.60. 12 May 55. pp.61,63. 15 May ss. p.63. 16 May 55. p.64. 17 May 55. pp.64,67-68. 20 May ss. p.69. 21 May ss. p.69. 22 May ss. p.69. 24 May 55. pp.71-72. 25 May ss. p.71. 31 May 55. p.74. 1 June 55. p. 74, 2 June 55. p.74. S June 55. p. 74. 7 June 55. p. 75. 9 June 55. pp.7S-76. 10 June 55. p.76. 12 June 55. p.76. 13 June ss. p. 76. 14 June 55. p.77. 15 June 55. p.77. 16 June 55. p.77, 19 June 55. p.82. 20 June 55. p.82. 21 June 55. p.77. 23 June 55. p.84. 25 June 55. p.84. 26 June 55. p.8S. 27 June 55. p.85. 30 June SS. pp.86-87. 23 July 55. p.25 1957. pp.l,72. 1959. p.57, 1977. p.72.

Davis, W.B. p.76. Dayton, lllio. p. 46. _ Detroit, Mich. pp.l0,59. Detroit Flying Saucer Club. pp.9-

10. Diaz, Jose. p.23. Diaz, Juan. p.55. Dinan, France. p.57. Dixon, Annie L. p.7S. Dornberger, Dr. Walter. p.44. Dowiing, Air Marshal I.nrd. p.9.

Droguet, M.(?). p.57. D.medin, New Zealand. p. 22. Durval, Capt.(?). p.72.

E Eastern Evening News. p. 74. &IWards, Frank. p:76. Edwards, R.A. p.35. Eilva, Jose. p.72. El Paso, Tex. p.50. El Universal. pp.23,59, ~id, Okla. p.75. Erickson, Samuel. p.lO. Etherian ShiP.!· p.41.

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Farr, 5/A Harold J. p.42. Fawcett, George D. p.55. FBI. pp. 6-7. Fecamp, France. p.75. Ferguson, William. p.41. Fleming, Donald. p.67. Flick, David. p.l6. Flying Saucer News Club. p.63. Flying Saucer Cotmeil of .America. p.42.

f!r.!!!B Saucer Fran Mars. pp. 26,48. Th~ Saucer NeW"S.P,21. Fr ymg saucer Research Society. p. 9. f!r.!!!B Saucer Review. pp.2,69-70. TIY~ saucer tJ'ii'CeilSored. p .1 • ffy~ ~ Arid ~ace ~p!: And """'Th~lanets Fran ence -n:iey toiiie. p .41. -----&~ Saucers Have l.anded. p. 26. ffr..!!Yl Saucers Uii""The Attack. pp.l-2. FOrsyth, Fla. p:-o.- -Fox, Capt. Robert W. p.84. French Air Ministry. p.8. Fritz, John. p.72. Fry, Dan. pp.36,38,40,76.

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Gadila. p.86. 'Galarraga, Felix. p.4. Gallagher, Frank. p. 59. Gander AFB, Newfoundland. p.-49. Garden City, N.Y. p.56. Gardner, Robert. p . 86. Gatio La Mar, Venezuela. p.74.

Gauthier, Dr. Pierre. p, 67, Girvan, Waveney. p. 2. GOC. p.Z. Grafenwohr, Gernlany. p. 57. Graham, Alan. p.43. Graham, Jolm. p.43, Grand Rapids, Mich. p.42. Grasby. p.74. 'CTe'if Bend. Xans. p. 21. Green City, fob. p.24. Gregory, Jolm C. p.49. Greylock, Mass. p.6. Gribble, Robert. p.4. Grimsby, England. p.20. Grimsby Even~ Telegr_¥h. p.ZO. ~.Mrs. ~ley. p.3!. Q.llf of Papua. p. 57.

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Hajek, Dr.V. p.6. Hayden, Lynnabeth. p.21. Hemet, Calif. p.22. Herald, Grand Rapids, Mich. p.ZZ. JJeriiG, Loveland, <hio. p.72. Hennan, Hal. p.22. Hindu. p. 56. JliteS, Fred. p.85. Holland. p. 74. Holloway, Gilbert. p.41. Holt, Fla. p.85. Howard, Dana. pp.36,38,40-41. Howard, Jolm. p.74. ltlckerby, A.D. p. 55. Hunner, Maj. P.C. p.61. lltnnicut, Robert. pp.71-73. Huntly, Ill. p.30. Hutchinson, Kans. p.8. Hynek, Or. J. Allen.- p.85.

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Iran. p.45. ! Rode fl !.!YE!8 ~. p. 38.

J Jessup, M.K. pp.1,41,60,64. Jikutz, Theodore. p.46. Jones, Allen. p. 75. Joseph City, Ariz. p.44.

Journal-American, New York. p.6l. Journal-Herald, Dayton, Chio. p. 46. --

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Kamplee, India. p.S6. Keflavik, Iceland. p.S7. Kelsey, Brig. Gen. Benjamin. p. 79.

Keras, Al/C Robert E. p.2S. Keyhoe, Donald. pp.l7 ,36,49,63-64, 77,84.

Kigana, Tanganyika. p.76. Kilgallen, Dorothy. pp.44,69. King, Capt. James. p.2l. Kletter, David. p. 54. Kollmes, Richard. p.69. Kuczabinski, Marion. p.S6.

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La Grande, Ore. p.lO. La Guaira, Venezuel-. p. 74. Lamar, Angel. p.48. Lamer, Maxin. p.48. La Paz, Dr. Lincoln. pp.S4-SS. Las Vegas, Nev. p.48. Laughead, Dr. Olarles. pp.l6,41. Lear, William P. pp.l8,22,42. Leonard, Jonathan. p.64. Ley, Willy. p.64. ~ Journal. p.l6. ~pp.30,4Z-44,S7,61-62,64, ...,-; Life en Mars According To The Great ""RYStiCs~.41. ---­Life en Venus. IJ,j4l. 1Tglit-;-Geril(T. p.41. Lincoln AFB, Neb. p.41. ~1 Echo, Liverpool, England. ~.-London, England. p.69. LOOK. pp.77,79-81. l:Frifsburg, N .M. p. SO. Lorenzen, Coral. p.4l. Los Angeles , Calif. p. 5. Loup City, Neb. p.SS. Loveland, Chio. pp.71-73,

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Maccabee, Dr. Bruce S. p.S9. Mac Dill AFB, Fla. p.6S.

~lac Donald, Howard. p.41. Mack, Gwynne D. p.60. Mac Mirm, S/A (?). p.6l. Macon, Geo. p.3S. Mallion, Tom. p.27, Malvin, Ed. p.20. Manila, Phillipines. p.48. Mars. p.2. Mathews, R.A. pp.85,87. Me Dill AFB, Fla. o.4. Me Donald, Dr. Jones E. p.84. Melbourne, Australia. p.22. Menzel, Dr. Donald. pp.27 ,60, Merri, Ray. p.6. Metcalf, Eugene. pp.32-33. Mexico. p.86. Miami, Fla. p.S4. Michael, Cecil. p.41. Miller, Dick. pp.36-38. Miramar NAS, Calif. p.l8. Mojave, Calif. p.68, Montmorillon, France. p.43. Moola Boola, Australia. p.30. Morley, George. p.41. Moscow, Russia. pp.23,56. Muntz, Earl. p.82. !:!>' Awakening cn Another Planet •

p.41. - --Myers, 1st Lt. Douglas C. p.l3. !:!>' lli.&ht To~· p.41. !:!>'!!.!£.. p .lf.

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~'els6n, Mrs. Robert A. p.61. Nespor, Dr. E. p.S7, New Caledonia. p.l6. News, San Antonio. p.as. ReWSweek. p.44. Newton, Silas. pp.36-37, New York City. p.6l. New York Herald-Tribune. p.4l. New YO'FK Tunes. pp.Z1,76. NOrthern RllOOesia. p.46. Norton AFB, Calif. pp.69-70. Norwich, England. p. 6. Noumea, New Caledonia. p.l6. Novak, John T. p.29.

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Otto, John. p.82. 0-lranos. p.S7.

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Pacific Beach, Calif. p.29. Packer, Maj. Allen R. p.l3. Panama City, Panama. p. SS. Pantelleria Island. p.86. Palm Springs, Calif. p.22. Paris, Ill. p.32. Pasadena, Calif. p. 20 . Pash, John. p.7S. Pendleton, Ore. p.4S. Pepper, Roger. p . 7 4. Petare, Venezulea. p. 76. Peru, ~le Of Jupitor, ~. In -,:'fie S'l<les. p. 41. PiSCo ""'Ai:'ij)ort , Peru. p. 72. Plattsburgh, N.Y. pp.S3,69. Poland. p.lS. Port Elizabeth, South Africa. pp.

8,85. Protic, Dr.Milorad. p.S. Puy-de-Dove, France. p.74.

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Raub, Bill. p.86. Reyes, Laguna. p.76. Rhodes, Lt. Col.(?). p.BS. Rice, F.A. p.32. Richard, Jean. p.64. Rigber, James s. pp.21,54,63. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. p.29. Roberts, Allen. p.S3. Roberts, Don. p.4. Robertson Panel. p.6. Rockford, Ill. p.49. Roddy, James F. pp.S3,69. Rome, Italy. p.23. Roswell, N.M. p.48. Round Trip To Hell In ~ &!!:!& Saucer. p.lr.

Rii'DaiCiba, Mrs. Ann. p.lS. Ruppelt, Edward J. pp.29,36,56. Russell, Charles. p.21. Russia. p.S6. Ryukyu Islands, Japan. p.42.

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San Antonio, Tex. p.8s. San Antonio ,9>ress, San Antonio, Tex. p.so. --san Diego , Calif. p. 27 • San Francisco, Calif. p.66. San Jose, Calif. p.86. Saucer Post ••• 3-0 Blue. p.72. ~. -rr-a:nr.pp. '30-37. 39. Seaside Park, N.J. p.9. Seattle, Washington. pp.4,42. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle, Wash. p::l'Z.

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Sunburst, N.C. p. 75. ~ay Di~atch. p.S6.

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w Watson, Henry. p.35. Watson, Capt. Laurence B. p.25. Wall, Patrick(COnservative, Ha.l-

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Whitecotton, Franck. p. 71. Wiborg, Don. p.SS. Wilkins, Harold T. pp.l-2,49. Williamson , George Hunt. p. 36. Wilson, Arthur. p.32. Winterset, Iowa. p.ll. Wooltm, Everett. p.77. World-Telegram, New York. p.63. Wieillam--;-l?:ngTand. p • 6.

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