The MUFON UFO JOURNAL NUMBER 128 JULY 1978

Founded 1967 $1.00 I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF MUTUAL UFO NETWORK, INC. I

Walt Andrus and Donald E. Keyhoe

Dr. J. Allen Hynek

SPECIAL CONVENTION ISSUE

New Data on Crashed "Saucers" and Humanoid Bodies

Startling News Reports from U.S.S.R. t The MUFON UFO JOURNAL FROM THE EDITOR 103 Oldtowne Rd. This is a "sensational" issue of the journal; however, Seguin, Texas 78155 "sensationalism" is not its purpose. For 30 years we have heard tales of crashed "saucers" and bodies of small spacemen, and most of us RICHARD HALL have been totally skeptical. Now Len Stringfield has compiled the Editor most convincing case to date that we may have been wrong and the U.S. Government (possibly others too) may actually have the ANN DRUFFEL ultimate proof—hardware and alien specimens. The case is Associate Editor circumstantial and cannot be adequately documented at this time, LEN STRINGFIELD but it is now bolstered by a multiplicity of new sources who may, in Associate Editor time, talk more openly so that the entire complex of stories can be MILDRED BIESELE properly evaluated. The implications of their collective story are Contributing Editor profound, if true. Len has purposely made public the main features of this testimony, knowing full well that it will not stand up as WALTER H. ANDRUS objective proof in its present form, in order to encourage UFO Director of MUFON researchers to aid in confirming or disproving "crashed saucers and little men" for once and for all. He wants and expects penetrating PAUL CERNY critiques, and he hopes that more evidence can be uncovered by a Promotion/Publicity cooperative effort. Similarly, the previously unpublished Russian document REV. BARRY DOWNING reported in this issue speaks of sensational events and high-level Religion and UFOs government knowledge that have been withheld from the public. The alleged events need to be authenticated, for, if true, they are of LUCIUS PARISH profound importance. Astronaut movie films of UFOs on the Moon? Books/Peijiodicals/History NATO missiles "zapped" by UFOs? Detailed documents on UFOs I in Russia? There is a clear need to learn how much of all this MARJORIE FISH "sensationalism" is actually true, and to expose as false all that is Extraterrestrial Life false.

MARK HERBSTRITT Astronomy In this issue ROSETTA HOLMES Promotion/Publicity THE 1978 MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM 3 By Walt Andrus TED PHILLIPS ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE? 5 Landing Trace Cases By Vladimir G. Azhazha THE DAYTON SYMPOSIUM: SOME IMPRESSIONS 6 By Richard Hall JOHN F. SCHUESSLER RETRIEVALS OF THE THIRD KIND 8 UFO Propulsion By Leonard H. Stringfield UFO TECH NOTE 16 NORMA E. SHORT By John Schuessler DWIGHT CONNELLY IN OTHERS' WORDS 19 DENNIS HAUCK By Lucius Parish Editor/Publishers Emeritus DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE 20 By Walt Andrus

The MUFON UFO JOURNAL is published by the Mutual UFO Network, Inc., Seguin, Texas. Subscription rates: $8.00 per year in the U.S.A.; $9.00 per year foreign. Copyright 1978 by the Mutual UFO Network. Second (Photographs from MUFON Symposium provided by Idabel and class postage paid at Seguin, Marilyn Epperson, MUFON — Southern California.) Texas. Publication identification' number is 2970. POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 to advise change of The contents of the MUFON UFO JOUFtNAL are Permission is hereby granted to quote from this issue address to The MUFON UFO determined by the editor, and do not necessarily provided not more than 200 words are quoted from any JOURNAL, 103 Oldtowne Rd., represent the official position of MUFON. Opinions of one article, the author of the article is given credit, and contributors are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the statement "Copyright 1978 by the MUFON UFO Seguin, Texas 78155. those of the editor, the staff, or MUFON. Articles may be JOURNAL, 103 Oldtowne Rd., Segum, Texas" is forwarded directly to MUFON. included THE 1978 MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM DAYTON, OHIO, JULY 29 & 30, 1978 By Walt Andrus

The symposium theme "UFOs: A postpaid. selected as his topic "1967: The Historical Perspective on Close The 1978 Symposium Proceedings Overlooked UFO Wave and the Encounters" aptly described the were dedicated to Mrs. Rosetta Colorado Project." Quoting from his speeches delivered at this epic event at Holmes, with special acknowledgement abstract, we learn the following: "A the Dayton Convention Center in to our Staff Artist Donald R. Tucker for major wave of UFO sightings occurred Dayton, Ohio. Uniquely, the locale was the cover, depicting close encounters in 1967; even by official Air Force the former headquarters of Project of the first, second, third, and fourth figures it was the 4th largest in terms of Blue Book at Wright-Patterson AFB. kinds, symbolic of the symposium sightings reported,. yet no one talks Even though it was billed as a National theme. We are indebted to our office about it. The special significance of the UFO Symposium, the international secretary, Mrs. Virginia Castner, for 1967 wave is that it occurred during the influence was in evidence by the the original typing. one full year of investigations by the presence of one of the workshop I will not attempt to review all of the University of Colorado UFO Project, speakers, Mrs. Cynthia Hind, MUFON papers presented, but simply provide and everyone deferred to the project in Representative from Salisbury, an insight into their contents by quoting looking for 'answers'. The only answer Rhodesia, and a large contingent of from the speakers abstract or was the Condon Report. This study members from Canada headed by introduction. Ted Bloecher, Co- analyzes the wave and demonstrates Henry H. McKay, MUFON Canadian Chairman of* MUFON's Humanoid that the Colorado Project had ample Regional Director. Study Group and State Section case material to investigate during its Hosted by The Ohio UFO Director for the New Vork City area, lifetime, yet failed miserably to Investigators League (OUFOIL) and titled his paper appropriately "A Survey accomplish 'scientific investigation.' At sponsored by the Mutual UFO of CE3K Reports for 1977." He has the same time, publicity about the Network, Inc. (MUFON), this was outlined the material covered in his project obscured the sighting wave." undoubtedly our finest symposium in paper with his abstract from which he is "Retrievals of the Third Kind — A three distinct categories: the most quoted. "Close encounters, Type III, Case Study of Alleged UFOs and outstanding group of pioneer reports (CEHI's) for 1977 are reviewed Occupants in Military Custody" by UFOlogists as speakers, the largest and listed systematically. A brief Leonard H. Stringfield, MUFON facility, and a record-breaking background on the historical Director of Public Relations and a State attendance. Every person responsible precedents for CEIH reports is given, Section Director, held the key to the for making this symposium such a and cases are reviewed statistically by publicity surrounding this year's success is to be commended for their month, by time of day, geographically, symposium. U.S. Air Force personnel superb work. The Dayton Convention and by the types of association between at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Center, as pictured on the front cover entities and objects. Examples from the Ohio, were quick to deny any of the April 1978 issue of The MUFON case material illustrate special features, knowledge of Mr. Stringfield's UFO Journal, was a most prestigious such as ground traces, animal allegations of witness statements to setting for this international conclave of reactions, physical effects, having observed both crashed craft and UFOlogists. communication, and other particular small beings delivered to the. base This article is written for the people features. A table listing all of the CEffl during the regime of Project Blue Book who would have liked to have attended reports known for 1977 is included, and later, when queried by the press. the symposium, but were unable to do which provides a number of specific Quoting from a few pertinent v so, due to transportation costs from the .pieces of information, including date, paragraphs from Leonard's 2-hour far comers of the world. The major time, locale, witness names, number presentation may set the stage for his speeches are contained in the and height of entities, and other special challenge. copyrighted published copies of the features. Case references are provided "Retrievals of the Third Kind relate 1978 MUFON UFO Symposium for each case." primarily to the alien being. To be more Proceedings, that are available from Richard H. Hall, Editor of The precise, I refer to incidents where a MUFON, 103 Oldtowne Road, Seguin, MUFON UFO Journal, formerly UFO has allegedly crashed and both it Texas 78155, U.S.A. for $6.00 in the MUFON International Coordinator, and the occupants were retrieved by U.S.A. and $7.00 in all other countries and past Assistant Director of NICAP, military personnel who were (continued on next page) _ (Symposium, continued) "UFOs As a Space-Time Singularity," Investigations Committee on Aerial dispatched to the scene. According to injected additional theories and Phenomena) during the period when it my sources, these immobilized craft hypotheses into the explanation for was the largest such organization in the and deceased occupants, described as UFOs after reviewing some of the world and now serves on its Board of humanoid, have been placed in custody predominant ideas as to their origin and Governors. His Assistant Director at at certain military installations where the questions still unanswered. He that time was Richard H. Hall. they were studied under the highest leans away from the conventional "nuts In his concluding remarks, Don security measures." Leonard prefaces and bolts" explanation of physical craft Keyhoe brought us up to date with the his accounts with this statement. "I am and beings conducting a surveillance of current status of UFO research and not in a Providential position to pass a the planet Earth. He is searching for an made some pertinent recommend- positive or final judgment on the explanation that not only can explain ations for the near future. He said — retrieval stories or on my informants. the. appearance of craft, humanoids, "The pressure to end censorship is On this tenous ground I must allow for and their landing traces but the medium rapidly increasing. In October of 1978, some marginal error in observation or by which vast distances in space may be the United Nations representatives will , tiny flaw in human judgment for each bridged. This is the fourth time that Dr. vote on the suggestion of international reported account. However, let me Hynek has been the featured speaker at UFO investigations. Also in October, quote an old adage. "Wherever there is a MUFON Symposium, having Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory smoke there is fire," and from my previously shared his research efforts in scientists and engineers will begin an position I certainly can see a helluva lot 1970 at Peoria, 111., 1973 in Kansas City, impressive program to detect radio of smoke!" He continues — "Also, for Mo., 1976 in Ann Arbor, Mich., and signals from intelligent beings in space. the record, I do not possess a single 1978 in Dayton, Ohio. It was a pleasure A lawsuit has been filed against the CIA, affidavit to prove that any one of my to have the Center for UFO Studies so under the Freedom of Information Act, informants has seen a retrieved craft or strongly represented by Dr. and Mrs. to force the complete release of all UFO its occupants. I have only their names Hynek, along with Allan and Elaine information in the CIA's possession. and their testimony. Unfortunately, I Hendry at our symposium. Behind the scenes, there are strong cannot use these names. (Editors note: In his introductory remarks, Dr. efforts to create an official program to some names were released in his talk Hynek had this to say — "As most of attempt communication with UFO and a tape recording of another witness you know, MUFON and the Center for aliens and learn the purposes of the was played on the P.A. system.) UFO Studies have a pleasant long surveillance and to take steps Anonymity has been requested and will cooperative arrangement and effect a toward peaceful contacts if there is no be respected. The reasons should be considerable exchange of information. serious physical bar." obvious to all. (Editors note: obvious to Indeed, when the Center was first The Specialization Workshops all except the press.) In essence, organized, MUFON was the only major and Moderators for the Saturday therefore, the cases I present in this UFO Investigative Organization that afternoon session were: (1) "Field paper without names to back up the expressed a willingness to entertain Investigative Techniques" by Joe informant's testimony can be such a cooperative plan proposed by Santangelo, Waltham, Mass., MUFON construed as hearsay. If perchance, the Center. We hope it will continue State Director; (2) "The Humanoid hearsay is to be my undoing then I must and prosper." Catalog" by Ted Bloecher, New York, make my stand on the merits of my own In addition to the first appearance N.Y.; (3) "UFO Reports from Africa" by credibility which I trust has already of Richard H. Hall and Leonard H. Mrs. Cynthia Hind, Salisbury, been established in my 29 years of UFO Stringfield on a MUFON Symposium Rhodesia, MUFON Representative for research. You are the judge and jury." platform, our vast audience had the Rhodesia; (4) "UFO .Photographic Leonard then presented 17 cases distinct opportunity to hear and meet Analysis" by Bruce Maccabee, Ph. D., or abstracts of exciting testimonials to Major Donald E. Keyhoe as the Silver Springs, Md., Consultant and substantiate his study of this featured speaker on Saturday State Director, and (5) Consultants controversial area that many had afternoon. Major Keyhoe selected a Conference by Williard P. Armstrong, considered nothing but rumors prior to subject that was a follow-up to several Ph.D., Consultant and State Director this time. These cases are very books that he has written during the for Missouri. revealing, and when placed back-to- past 25 years. Titled, "Behind the UFO On Sunday morning the Annual back give a high degree of credibility Secrecy," a sub-title could have been MUFON Corporate Meeting was held. that a grand official cover-up does exist. "The UFO Cover-up — the greatest This was reviewed briefly in the We recommend that you purchase a deception in the history of the United Director's Message in the June issue of ' copy of the 1978 Proceedings for the States." The Major then proceeded to the Journal. A double feature marked details on each case, supplemented by relate a series of actual cases to the Sunday afternoon session, when some added information in this issue. stubstantiate his statement, starting Mrs. Jennie Zeldman of Columbus, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Director of the from his early involvement in the study Ohio, and Walt Andrus, International Center for UFO Studies, Evanston, of current events. As most of our Director presented a combination Illinois, was the featured speaker Journal readers know, Major Keyhoe slide/lecture titled "Revisiting the Major Saturday evening. His speech, titled was the Director of NICAP (National (continued on next page) Special From Russia ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE? By Vladimir G. Azhazha

(Note: This synopsis of a press conference held at sphere" at the USSR Academy of On 21 September 1976, TASS the USSR Academy of Sciences on November 24, Sciences. Therefore, I had to become broadcast from Iran that, on 18 1977, was submitted to James M. McCampbell, MUFON Director of Research, by Valerii I. acquainted with the entire problem as a September, two aircraft of the Iranian Sanarov. Mr. Campbell arranged for its whole at the same time. Today I will talk Air Force detected a "flying saucer" not translation. Sanarov, who lives in the Siberian about the facts and their distortions, far from Tehran, and taking it for a new science city of Novosibirsk, has recently joined the hypotheses, explanations for the aircraft design belonging to a foreign MUFON as a Consultant in Cultural Exchanges. phenomena, the . philosophical power, they gave chase. The "saucer" The speaker, Azhazha, is identified as a left them but returned later; to the researcher at the USSR Academy of Sciences problems which have arisen due to Submarine Research Center. His audience these explanations and different south of Tehran, near the outskirts of consisted of employees of the NOVOSTI Press evidence, specifically the testimony of the city, an object about 4^ meters in Agency. McCampbell points out that although the American astronauts who were on diameter separated from it. and landed some distortions or errors may be seen^in the Moon. on the ground. Two pilots, in tight- accounts of American sightings, this is less likely I will begin with the fact that UFOs fitting, aluminum-colored spacesuits for the Russian reports made in the native languages. He notes that the article provides are an objective reality which is present came out of it. They were 2.5 meters "new perspectives and details regarding the UFO in our feelings and sensations. There tall. After looking the area over, they problem in Russia.. .(and contains) several points are millions of people who have seen entered the small "saucer" (its weight of special significance." Some of the statements UFOs; there are photographs and was subsequently determined to be 5 made are highly important, if authentic, in relation filmstrips of unidentified flying objects. tons based on the landing gear to high-level knowledge of UFOs by Russia and the United States.-Editor) Through physical fields, UFOs have a imprints) and flew off. direct effect on terrestrial equipment The Iranian government I am a representative of the and living things. Short, accidental addressed an inquiry to the unofficial point of view. Over the years, contacts have already taken place governments of the U.S.S.R. and U.S.: I have directed the subject area of between UFO pilots and people on Is this incident a test of military "UFO Phenomena in the Hydro- earth. equipment by one of the powers (continued on page 12) (Symposium, continued) George Pelizzari, Leonard Stringfield, Close Encounter Cases for 1972 Jack Rockel, and Earl Neff, just to through 1976." Walt covered Delphos, mention a few. Richard Hoffman was Kan., Pascagoula, Miss., San Antonio, the master of ceremonies, Geri Texas, Eastern Air Lines and Braniff Wilhelm handled public relations, International, Travis Walton Case, and George Pelizzari was the treasurer, the Stanford, N;Y., abduction of three with Charles J. Wilhelm, Executive women. Mrs. Zeidman related the Director of OUFOIL, coordinating the detailed work that she has done in the planning and execution behind the Lawrence Coyne helicopter case and scenes. Earl Neff and Leonard the testimony of ground witnesses to Stringfield did a tremendous job on the event. radio and TV in publicizing the Accolades must be given to all of symposium. Larry Moyers, State the members of the host organization, Director for Ohio, moderated the The Ohio UFO Investigators League, question and answer period following who did a fantastic job with the facilities, Dr. Hynek's speech Saturday night ticket sales, publicity, hotel when all of the speakers made up the accomodations, displays, and visual panel. Larry should be very proud of aids. Key personnel from the Dayton, the second MUFON Symposium to be Springfield, Fairfield, Cincinnati, and held in his state. Only Illinois and Illobrand von Ludwiger Cleveland areas were all involved. The Missouri can make that claim to date, leadership was spearhaded by Charles however, California is scheduled for and Geri Wilhelm, Richard Hoffman, 1979 and 1981. THE DAYTON SYMPOSIUM: SOME IMPRESSIONS (By Richard Hall)

For me it was an opportunity to see people per session; Rich Huffman's Despite many obstacles, the 1978 and talk with old friends and colleagues expert work as MC; the exhibits, symposium proceedings were from all parts of the country, some not displays, arid general public relations published in time to be available at seen for 10 years or more. The distance work accomplished by dedicated Dayton; an attractive, handsomely factor had prevented more frequent get OUFOIL members in cooperation with printed volume for a memorable togethers. The formal talks and other area groups occasion. workshops, interesting as they were, *Len Stringfield fending off hostile These are but a few of the were not the whole story. As in most questions at a press conference highlights for me of a busy weekend conventions, a .lot of valuable centered around the question of when I sometimes wished that I could information exchange took place in "humanoid retrievals," and maintaining be in three places at once, and had private, informal, smaller.gatherings. his composure in an atmosphere more time to talk at greater length with Particularly impressive was the sometimes bordering on the the many other active MUFON people closed MUFON corporate meeting on threatening, laying out the evidence whom I met. Sunday, during which State Directors, about "crashed saucers" and humanoid As journal editor, I profited greatly State Section Directors, and others bodies for UFO researchers to try to by attending the symposium and I look gave brief reports, asked questions, verify or refute for once and for all forward to receiving the information, aired grievances, and offered *Jenny Zeidman's excellent verbal articles, and ideas so generously suggestions. The journal was one of report on the 1973 Ohio, helicopter offered by so many. All this should help numerous topics discussed. I received case, based on a report soon to be to make the journal even more several very helpful suggestions and published by the Center for UFO complete and informative. also practical offers of help, which will Studies, establishing the case as a be reflected in upcoming issues. strong one It was delightful to see Idabel and *The flight from Washington to Marilyn Epperson again, from Los Dayton with Major Donald Keyhoe, Angeles, and to confer for hours with talking over old times and future plans them — covering UFO investigation with him, joining with him in the from A to Z. Isabel Davis, from Epperson's room to celebrate Isabel Washington, D.C., had been in touch Davis' birthday with champagne, seeing with the Epperson's for 22 years and him shake hands with Dr. J. Allen had never met them face-to-face until Hynek and share the platform on the Dayton. Similarly, through my years of same side of the UFO subject, hearing association with MUFON I had not met the well-deserved ovation he received Walt Andrus face-to-face until this when introduced to the audience conference. *The calm efficient, patient efforts Richard Hall, Maryland, and Other confabs were held with Paul of Walt Andrus to keep things on the Marilyn Epperson, California Cerny, from the San Francisco Bay track, threading his way through the area (not seen for about 10 years); Ted inevitable minefield of personalities — Bloecher and a large delegation from individualists with sometimes New York State; Rich Heiden from conflicting outlooks, supplying the all- Wisconsin; and numerous others from important organizational and business the Midwest and South. Out of these sense necessary for any cooperative conversations came a number of enterprise. cooperative projects on important *The presence and participation of matters affecting all of UFO research. Dr. Hynek, Mimi Hynek, .and Allen The following items also stand out Hendry — all of the Center for UFO in my memory: Studies — sharing ideas and plans for future publications and for a continued *The fine job done by the host close working relationship with group, OUFOIL, turning out 700-800 MUFON Ted Bloecher Walt Andrus and John Schuessler MUFOIM Director Walt Andrus, center, flanked by Bob Pratt of the National Enquirer (I.) and Paul Cerny, MUFON-N. California (r.)

left to right: Major Keyhoe, Richard Hall, Isabel Davis, and Idabel Epperson Symposium M.C. Richard Hoffman

Leonard H. Stringfield Major Donald E. Keyhoe RETRIEVALS OF THE THIRD KIND

By Leonard H. Stringfield (Copyright 1978,. Leonard H. Stringfield)

of space and time from another solar system. This scene. According to my sources, these Len Stringfield, author of Situation Red. The belief maintains that the extraterrestrial race has, immobilized craft and deceased occupants, UFO Siege, is a Board Member of MUFON and by virtue of its advanced technology, overcome described as humanoid, have been placed in also associated with the Center for UFO the problem of spatial distance and has developed custody at certain military installations where Studies. He has a long background in UFO great psychical powers by which it can they were studied under the highest security research, once (1953-1957) screening and manipulate man's mind when it sees fit to do so. measures. Now, for the first time, sufficient data reporting UFO activity in Ohio for the U.S. Air Thus, in this postulation, the reported have been amassed to lend support to some of the Force Air Defense Command. He is Director of paranormal events can also be explained. old retrieval claims. But, looking back to the Public Relations and Marketing Services of Of course, there are many other provocative 1950"s, there was little or no desire then to pursue DuBois Chemicals, Cincinnati, Ohio. splinter theories, some interlacing the two major the reported claims. At that time active hypotheses and some radically disregarding the researchers, including myself, did little more than known facts. Theories are free, and a dime a scoff. We thought we had good reason. dozen. The cause of this "scoffing" was one grand A Case Study of Alleged UFOs and In its honest endeavor to proceed down hoax. Here, I refer to a book. Behind the Flying 1 Occupants in Military Custody. either hypothetical path, research today Saucers by the late Frank Scully, published in continues to investigate UFO reports, correlate 1950. Briefly, it told about a reported saucer crash and compute the reported data, computerize in Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948. Scully went on to Since the advent of the UFO, dating back to photographs, conduct conferences and relate that a scientist he had met had possession World War II when there was official recognition symposia, and drudge over 13,000 UFO reports of metal artifacts taken from inside the craft, of the "foo fighter," one hard fact stands out: the released by the Air Force's former Project Blue which was proof that the saucer was from outer world public at large still disbelieves in its Book which have been made available for public space. Investigation, however, revealed Scully's existence. Another fact: most of our world's study at the National Archives in Washington, scientist was a fraud. With the book's subsequent scientific community does not believe in UFOs D.C. Therefore, it is not by accident that UFO , exposure as a hoax, which got a lot of publicity, it either, although a small number of its Fellowship researchers have provided for their brethren a became unfashionable for any , objective toduy will admit their puzzlement and sometimes convenient language by which to describe events researcher to write or talk about crashed UFOs curiosity over the persistence of UFO reports. and, more specifically, a terminology so that UFO and their alleged "little men". Adding fuel to the For those of us dedicated to serious UFO reports can be classified. fire of a condemned book were strong Air Force research, working in all professional levels, there Speaking of terminology, we borrow a page denials in 1954 that a retrieved .UFO was in hiding is no doubt that a real interloper from somewhere from the eminent Dr. J. Allen Hynek's book, The at Wright-Patterson AFB. I remember calling Lt. exists! Knowing this is frustrating. Today, after 3.1 UFO Experience, A Scientific Inquiry. From this Colonel John O'Mara, Chief of Intelligence, at the years of prodigious effort, our research has failed major work, we now have Close Encounters of air base, inquiring about the alleged retrievals. His to discover, or uncover, the real UFO's nature, its the First, Second, and Third Kind, which are reply, in part, "Ridiculous!" origin or intent — and I hasten to add, to force labels covering a hypothetical set of conditions So completely was Scully's retrieval story open the door of alleged official secrecy behind wherein the human witness observes or put down that some researchers today wonder, in which may be concealed the hard evidence, or, if experiences a UFO at close range. These include retrospect, if the book and/or its exposure were you will, the extraordinary and sobering proof we physical or electromagnetic effects to a witness or contrived But, despite denials and the suspicions have all sought, his surroundings or, an encounter with a strange of research, the crash and retrieval stories Today, considering the long, evasive history alien being. persisted. Then, like a bolt from the blue, while of the UFO and an equally evasive official Popularized by the movie of the same name, preparing the manuscript for my book Situation posture, our research stands at a critical Close Encounters of the Third Kind, has become Red, The UFO Siege, to be published by crossroad. Here we find a two-way split off, a a household term. Now anybody and everybody Doubleday, some new reliable souces opened up. growing and sharpening divergence of opinion can share in an awareness of these rare and Then, once again to my surprise, after the release about the nature and origin of the UFO. bizarre events. But there is another event of the of my book in 1977, still more sources surfaced to One view entertains the notion that the UFO Alien Third Kind. This is an event known mainly talk about what they knew. Then one by one the is a paraphysical or physical visitant from another through rumor. Even knowledgeable researchers jigsaw pieces began to fit together and a picture realm or of another dimension and that all the admit they know of it only from shadowy sources, emerged. paranormal evidence reportedly associated with and when pursued, found sudden dead ends. Now I believe this is the time and certainly the UFO precludes a simple "nut and bolt" Through patience, perserverence and the place — Dayton, Ohio, and so close to physical explanation. This hypothesis, in the view careful, courteous diplomacy, I have wended my Wright-Patterson AFB — that we must face this of some researchers, rules out the interplanetary way through the many shadowy mazes and greatest of issues head-on. We must now take a "nut and bolt" spaceship. The other major found, to my suprisc, sources of light at many of new and honest look at the old rumors. And, we hypothesis, and now considered a conservative the so-called dead ends. What I have learned from must also take a new look at the possibility of a view, postulates that the .UFO is a structured these sources describes an event which I shall grand official cover-up and why. If any one of the machine and comes from across the vast reaches call, Retrievals of The Third Kind. Retrievals of retrieval incidents is true, or if only one of my The Third Kind, of course, relate primarily to the informants is tell the truth, then humankind is in FOOTNOTE alien being. To be more precise, I refer to for a shock. The impact of its sudden revelation 1. As presented at the MUFON Symposium, Dayton, incidents where a UFO had alledgedly crashed — or forced admission — through official Ohio, July 29,1978. Revised from version that appears in and both it and the occupants were retrived by pronouncement probably would shake up man's the symposium proceedings. military personnel who were dispatched to the lifestyle, his philosophies, and even his economy. 8 And, if it is true that alien humanoids have been not seen a retrieved UFO, parts of one, or its seen the UFO in flight. He was flying an F-94 retrieved and are held in a preserved state at one occupants. Also, for the recor'd, Ido not possess a fighter out of Dias Air Force base in Texas and or more military installations, then our single affidavit to prove that any one of my was over Albuquerque, New Mexico, when government, and all consorting governments, informants has seen a retrieved craft or its reports came of a UFO on the West Coast, flying responsible for this concealment will have to occupants. I have only their names and their over Washington State. Radars clocked its explain their policy of prolonged secrecy. We may testimony. Unfortunately, I cannot use these speed at 2,000 miles per hour. It made a 90-degree then rightly ask what else is hidden about the names. Anonymity has been requested and will turn and flew east, over Texas. The colonel, then UFO of a more frightening nature? be respected. The reasons should be obvious to a captain pilot, actually saw it as it passed. Then Probably following any official all. In essence, therefore, the cases I present in suddenly it disappeared from radar screens. At pronouncement of this magnitude, there would this paper without names to back up the Dias base, the radar operators plotted its course, .be strong public reaction. There would be informant's testimony can be construed as and decided it had crashed some 30 miles across demands for more hidden facts, and as always, hearsay. If perchance, hearsay is to be my the Mexican border from Laredo. When the some one, or some agency, would have to be undoing, then I must make my stand on the merits captain got back to base, he and a fellow pilot got pinned with the blame. Certainly at the top of the of my own credibility which I trust has already into a small plane and took off over the border list would be the military establishment, and other been established in my 29 years of UFO research. after the UFO. When they landed in the desert at covert intelligence agencies. Also to blame would You are the judge and the jury. I will now proceed the crash site, U.S. troops were there before be the media. Where was their prowess to probe with the testimony of my informants concerning them. The craft was covered with a canopy, and for the truth? It seems strange that some of its Retrievals of the Third Kind in the following the two pilots were not allowed to see it. They audacious members who helped bring down a abstracts. were then called to Washington, D.C., for President failed to reach the right people with the debriefing and sworn to secrecy about the whole right UFO facts — or, where they too, in certain Abstract I event." key areas, a part of the big cover-up? In 1948, according to reports from hazy Zechel also traced a U.S. naval intelligence And UFO research, too, can share in some sources, a UFO with occupants numbering officer who was in Mexico City at the time of the of the blame. Too much disunity among the major anywhere from one to sixteen,.had crashed in a crash. He was rushed to the spot, but got there research groups is one factor. Perhaps a more desert region of the southwestern United States just as the craft was being loaded onto military concerted action would have carried more weight or Mexico and was retrieved by U.S. military trucks. ( at critical moments when pressures were put to authorities. But the reports never got beyond bear in areas of known cover-up. Also, perhaps, rumor because 1948- was the year when Frank Comment: Todd Zechel related to me by too much time has been spent by influential Scully's book unloaded an alleged hoax on the phone March 15, 1978, that additional details researchers looking for a paranormal answer for public about a crashed UFO in Aztec, New pertinent to this 1948 incident will be made known the UFO. One fact has stood out for years. The Mexico. in his forthcoming book, Under Intelligence average reported UFO appears to be metallic, In the Fall of 1977 new word of a 1948 crash Control, to be published in 1978. Zechel also structured craft with windows, and, when in a came to me from a well-informed military source. relates that he has a signed affidavit by the retired landing position, sometimes uses tripods. While His information, however, was scanty. He had Air Force Colonel who was involved in the this general description may apply to a vehicle heard from other "inside" military sources that a cordoning off operations. from any other mysterious realm, it does suggest metallic disc had crashed somewhere in a desert that the design is more a feat of engineering than region. His only details indicated that the craft Abstract II of psychical or spiritual manifestation. had suffered severe damage on impact and was 1952, the year of the great wave of UFO And now for an academic thought. Is it right retrieved by military units. sightings throughout the U.S.A., can also share in or wise for research —'or, myself — to try and pry By coincidence, months later in 1977,1 was the history of retrieval data. My information for open the lid of a possible Pandora's Box? Is it not to learn more about a crashed disc occurring in one known UFO crash incident in 1952 comes morally right to know about the crashed UFO and 1948. This came from researcher Todd Zechel, from a reliable person in a technical position at a its alien occupants? Is there something sinister whom I had known since 1975 when he became large General Electric plant. His brother, who about the continuing surveillance of Earth? And Research Director of Ground Saucer Watch. wishes to be unnamed, was on duty as a radar what, you may ask, is my own opinion of my Formerly with the National Security Agency, specialist at Edwards Air Force Base, California, informants endowed with such powerful Zechel stated that an Air Force technician told in 1952, when he saw a UFO descending toward testimony? Frankly, I cannot refute the credibility him that his uncle, then a Provost Marshal at Earth at great speed across his radar screen. of any of my informants. They are from scattered Carswell Air Force Base near Ft. Worth, Texas, When the UFO had been confirmed to have areas, many of whom I have pursued with great had taken part in the recovery of the crashed crashed, the Captain on duty gave him effort. Knowing something about the character of . UFO which was described as a metallic disc, 90 instructions: "You didn't see anything!" The each suggests that none is hoaxing, and, it is feet in diameter. The crash occurred about 30 specialist a short time later learned from base difficult to believe that any one of them was a miles inside the Mexican border across from officials that an unidentified craft did crash in a "plant," and, even if one or two were, what about Laredo, Texas, and was recovered by U .S. troops nearby remote desert area. The retrieved craft the others? And, I may ask, why plant the kind of after it was tracked on radar screens. The job was more than 50 feet in diameter with a row of information that could work against the official assigned the Provost Marshal, now a retired windows around its equator. Its metallic surface position which is to play down the notion of colonel, was to cordon off the crash site. was in a burned-blackened condition. He also had secrecy about UFOs? The retired colonel, now living in Florida, was heard that the craft was occupied by dead It is with equal candor that I must state that I tracked down by Zechel. Among other facts humanoid bodies approximately 4% feet tall. Also, am not in a Providential position to pass a positive revealed by the colonel was that one dead alien the specialist recalls that he heard reports that the or final judgment on the retrievals stories or on was found aboard the craft and was described as damaged craft was held temporarily in a hanger at my informants. On this tenuous ground I must about 4 feet, 6 inches tall, completely hairless'with Edwards Air Force Base before it was shipped by allow for some marginal error in observation or hands that had no thumbs. Zechel learned from truck to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. tiny flaw in human judgment for each reported his source that the troops involved in the retrieval account. However, let me quote an old adage. were warned that if they said a word about the Commenf: I had asked my informant if I "Wherever there is smoke there is fire," and from incident they would be the "sorriest people could discuss this incident with his brother, but my position I certainly can see a helluva lot of around". when he checked by phone he was reminded that smoke! Continuing his investigation, Zechel pieced the incident was classified as Secret and he could Now, let me switch from my beliefs to yours together other eyewitnesses to the 1948 crash not be in a position to disclose further details. In and consider' what you may think about me event. In his statement, Zechel relates the relative to my expose. To help quide your following: "I traced another Air Force colonel, (continued on next page) appraisal, allow me to state that I personally have now retired in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He had (Retrievals, continued) in the room at Wright-Patterson where the informant, "The 5-minute long movie certainly possible conjunction with this 1952 event, I have information was stored, and I was denied that was not a Walt Disney production. It was talked with two sources who had witnessed a request...." probably shot by an inexperienced cameraman large military vehicle or lo-boy drag (flat-bed because it was full of scratches, and poor coloring truck-Editor), with suspicious cargo under (Abstract IV deleted in revision.) and texture." tarpaulin, destined for Wright-Patterson Air Mr. T., when asked about his interest in Force Base. One observer was quartermaster at Abstract V UFOs, claimed that he was not — then or now — Godman Field, Kentucky, when the lo-boy, under Mr. T., who holds a high technical position in interested, but he has always been curious about heavy guard at night, made a transient stop there. civilian life today, was in the Spring of 1953, at the 'the purpose of the film in relation to his work in Word on the base was that its hidden cargo was a age of 20, a radar specialist with Secret security radar. Years later, he met an old army crashed UFO. Another witness, who .had clearance. While stationed in Ft. Monmouth, acquaintance who also was a radar specialist. To observed a strange cargo being transported on a New Jersey, in 1953, he and a small, select Ts surprise, he learned from this man that he, lo-boy into Wright-Patterson AFB in 1952 were a number of radar specialists were summoned to too, had seen the same film at another base under man and wife, then residing in Circleville, Ohio. view a special film at the base theater. Without the same similar hush-hush conditions. By telephone in 1952, they claimed while driving any briefing, the 16-mm movie projector was their car near the base that traffic was stalled. flicked on, and the film began to roll on the screen, Comment: Considering the credibility status Escorting the vehicle, they said, was a motorcade . showing the usual flaws and scratches found in of my informant, I believe he saw the movie and of military police. combat photography film. Suddenly, without any describes the subject matter to the best of his titles or credits, or music, there appeared a desert recollection. Regarding the subject matter, he Abstract ID scene dominated by a silver disc-shaped object believes that the crashed craft and the dead Additional testimony in support of a crashed imbedded in the sand with a domed section at the bodies were bona fide. It would have been UFO incident in 1952 comes from an top. At the bottom was a hatch or door that was difficult, even by a major Hollywood studio, to unquestionable source: John Schuessler, Deputy open. have made dummy bodies look so real for use in Director of MUFON, and engineer for McDonnell In.the next scene, Mr. T. recalls seeing 10 to an otherwise so make-shift film. And for what Douglas at NASA; his data comes from his father 15 military personnel all dressed in fatigues and all morbid purpose? and stepmother, who, equally unquestionable, without identification patches, standing around secured their data in 1968 from an unquestionable what appeared to be the disabled craft. By judging Abstract VI first-hand source, who was'their neighbor in a their height against the UFO, T. determined that Research Director for MUFON, Raymond E. small town in Pennsylvania. its width was approximately 15 to 20 feet. in Fowler of Wenham, Massachusetts, watched According to John Schuessler, his family's diameter and that an open hatch or door at the incredulously as Fritz Werner signed the close friend was formerly a civilian guard serving bottom was about 2% feet wide and perhaps 3 feet following affidavit, dated June 7, 1973: at a receiving gate for internal security at Wright- high. At this point Mr. T. had no idea of the /, Fn'fz Werner, do solemnly swear that Patterson AFB. While on duty, sometime in 1952, movie's purpose. I asked about the activity of the during a special assignment with the U.S. he witnessed a tractor with lo-boy hauling a personnel. "They were just looking at the object," Air Force on May 21,1953,1 assisted in the tarpaulin-covered craft into a tight security area he said. investigation of a crashed unknown object at the base. The guard also had told the Then the movie switched to what appeared in the vicinity of Kingman, Arizona. Schuessler's that he witnessed at the receiving to be the interior of the craft. A panel with a few The object was constructed of an gate the deceased bodies recovered from the simple levers was shown, and he remembers unfamiliar metal which resembled crashed UFO at a site vaguely referred to as being impressed by the muted pastel colors and aluminum. It had impacted 20 inches into somewhere in. the U.S. Southwest. The guard sudden glares of white — the sign of poor the sand without .any sign of structural described the bodies, packed in crates, as being photography. Again there was a change of damage. It was oval and about 30 feet in "little people" or humanoid. It is not known scenes. Now in view were two tables, probably diameter. An entranceway hatch had been whether or not the bodies arrived at the same taken inside a tent, on which, to his surprise, were vertically lowered and opened. It was time at the base as the craft on the lo-boy or at dead bodies. Two were on one table, and one on about S'/ifeet high and l'/2 feet wide. I was another time by other means. One point he did another. Mr. T. said the bodies appeared little by able to talk briefly with someone on the make clear about the area in which he worked to human standards and most notable were the team who did look inside only briefly. He the Schuessler's, "Everything delivered had to heads, all looking alike, and all being large saw two swivel seats, an oval cabin, and a pass by me:" compared to their body sizes. .They looked lot of instruments and displays. A tent John Schuessler said he tried to folbw up to mongoloid, he thought, with small noses, mouths, pitched near the object sheltered the dead get more information by arranging a meeting with and eyes that were shut. He didn't recall seeing remains of the only occupant of the craft. It the former guard through the influence of his ears or hair. The skin, he said, was leathery and was about 4 feet tall, dark brown parents. But, his efforts were futile. Said John, ashen in color. Each wore a tight-fitting suit in a complexion and had 2 eyes, 2 nostrils, 2 "He refused to talk about it, even to me." pastel cobr. ears, and a small round mouth. It was The sight of the dead bodies was the end of clothed in a silvery, metallic suit and wore a Comment: The brief testimony of the the movie. As most military movies credit the skull cap of the same type of material. It Security Guard at Wright-Patterson AFB and Signal Corp or some other source, this one wore no face covering or helmet. I certify that of the radar specialist at Edwards AFB (cited "stopped cold," said Mr. T. When the lights came that the above statement is true by affixing in Abstract II) suggest that the official cover-up of on in the theater, the officer in charge stood up my signature to this document this 7th day vital UFO data is so great that some of it which and instructed the viewers to "think about the of June, 1973. roncems the captive craft and occupants is under movie," and added firmly, "Don't relate its a special system of files — and has always been contents to anyone." Mr. T. said that in good independent of those maintained by Project Blue faith, he didn't even tell his wife who lived near the According to Ray Fowler, a researcher of Book, and, perhaps are without classification so base. ToMr.T.'ssurprise.twoweekslaterhewas highest credentials, here is Werner's story: that even the Freedom of Information Act cannot approached by an Intelligence Officer on the base reach them. Probably the area in which the and told, "Forget the movie you saw; it was a / was project engineer on an Air Force Security Guard had served his tenure of duty hoax." Shortly after seeing the movie he heard contract with the Atomic Energy from the late 1940's to the mid-1950's, was the from a couple of top security officers on the base Commission from "Operation Upshot- same as that referred to by Senator Barry that a UFO had crashed in New Mexico and had Knothole" at the atomic proving ground, Goldwater in his letter to me dated December 3, been recovered with its occupants. The date of Nevada. My job involved the measuring of 1974, in which he stated....'! made an effort to get the crash was 1952, said Mr. T. Commented my blast effects on various types of buildings 10 especially erected for the tests. On May 20,' The face was not covered but it had a Commenf: In my book Situation Red, I cover 1953, I worked most of the day at metallic skull-cap device on its head. As the Werner story in full based on my Frenchman Flat. In the evening, I received soon as each person finished his task, he conversations with Ray Fowler. Said Fowler, a phone call from the, test director, Dr. Ed was interviewed over a tape recorder and "With more substantiation, it could blow the lid Doll, informing me that I was to go on a escorted back to the bus. On the way back off secrecy." I agree. One. final note: the name special job the next day. On the following to the bus, I managed to talk briefly with Fritz Werner is fictitious, but I feel that his story day, I reported for special duty and was someone else going back to it at the same although embellished, is basically true. One driven, to Indian Springs Air Force Base, time. He told me that he had glanced inside Intelligence source commented, "A lot of it is near the proving ground, where I joined the object and saw two swivel-like seats, as story." about 15 other specialists. We were told to well as instruments and displays. An leave all valuables in the custody of the airman who noticed we were talking Abstract VII military police. We were then put on a separated us and warned us not to talk Finally a name of a witness surfaces — an Air military plane and flown to Phoenix, with each other. Force Major, named Daly — who was a Arizona. We were not allowed to metallurgist stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB in fraternize. There, we were put on a bus After we all returned to the bus, the Air 1953 to relate his adventures with a crashed UFO. with other personnel, who were already Force colonel who was in charge had us The source for this information is fellow there. The bus windows were blacked out raise our right hands and take an oath not Cincinnati-based researcher, Charles Wilhelm. A so that we couldn't see where we were to reveal what we had experienced. I was friend of Charles' father, he related in 1968 that in going. We rode for an estimated four hours. • instructed to write my report in longhand April of 1953 he was flown to a destination I think we were in the area of Kingman, and not to type or reproduce it. A telephone unknown, where it was hot and sandy, to examine Arizona, which is northwest of Phoenix number was given me to call when the the crashed UFO. He was blindfolded and driven and not too far from the atomic proving report was complete. I called the number to a point about 30 minutes away from a base of ground in Nevada. During the bus trip, we and an airman picked up the report. operations. There, inside of a tent, standing in soft were told by an Air Force full colonel that a sand, his blindfold was removed. From there he super-secret Air Force vehicle had crashed Ray Fowler states that Werner held several was taken to a location where he saw a silvery and that, since we were all specialists in engineering and management positions at metallic craft about 25 to 30 feet in diameter. The certain fields, we were to investigate the Wright-Patterson AFB between June 1949, and exterior of the craft, he said, was not damaged, crash in terms of our own specialty and January 1960. During that period, he worked in however, his on-the:spot two-day analysis of the nothing more. the Office of Special Studies of what was then the ship's metal, using the equipment he carried with Air Material Command Installations Division. him, showed that it was not native to Earth. Major Finally, the bus stopped and we Later, he designed aircraft landing gear and Daly, although he was not permitted to enter the disembarked one at a time as our names became Chief of alighting devices within the craft, observed that the craft's entrance were called and were escorted by military Aircraft Laboratory at Wright Air Development measured 4 to 5 feet high and 2 to 3 feet wide. police to the area that we were to inspect. Center. At the time of the alleged incident, he was Two spotlights, were centered on the on assignment to the Atomic Energy Commission Commenf: Major Daly's blindfolded trip to crashed object, which was ringed with at the Atomic Proving Ground in Nevada. Fowler the crash site, similar to that of Fritz Werner's, guards. The lights were so bright that it was also states that Werner told him that he indicates that it was common procedure for the impossible to see the surrounding area. sympathized with the Air Force's secret handling military to use extreme security measures relative The object was oval and looked like-two of the UFO problem and added that the Air Force to UFO retrievals. It is to be noted that Major deep saucers, one inverted upon the other. did not know where UFOs originated. Werner Daly's experience takes place in April, a month It was about 30 feet in diameter, with also said that the Air Force believed that the shy of Fritz Werner's which was in May of the convex surfaces, top and bottom. These UFOs were interplanetary vehicles but that they same year. Also, to be noted is that Daly did not surfaces were about 20 feet in diameter. It did not know how to handle the situation. They see any dead alien bodies. Maybe they had was constructed of a dull silver metal, like did not want to create panic. already been removed, or, if the craft was found brushed aluminum. The metal was darker Comments Fowler: There were undamaged, as he attested, it is possible the where the saucer "lips" formed a rim, inconsistencies in Werner's story, but most occupants managed to evade capture. Or, around which were what looked like appeared to be in the realm of memory lapses and perhaps there were two crashes in a desert area in "slots". A curved open hatch -door was exaggerations by the witness. Former employees the Spring of 1953. If, however, both the reports located on the leading end and was that were checked held him in high esteem and all of Werner. and Daly are describing the same vertically lowered. There was a light described run as a highly competent and moral crashed UFO event, it is possible that Daly used coming from inside but it could have been individual. Having published a number of the wrong month. installed by the Air Force. My particular job technical papers, Werner also holds membership (continued in next issue) was to determine, from the angle and depth in the American Association for the of impact into the sand, how fast the Advancement of Science. vehicle's foward and vertical velocities In Fowler's continuing evaluation he cites were at the time of impact. The impact had one piece of evidence which seems to give a forced the vehicle approximately 20 inches strong element of truth to Werner's account. In into the sand. There was no landing gear. an attempt to pin down the exact date of the • There'were also no marks or dents, that I alleged incident, Werner agreed to show his diary can remember, on the surface — not even he kept in those days. On its aging pages, on May scratches. Questions having nothing to do 20, 1953, it read in part: "Well, pen's out of ink. with our own special areas were not Spent most of day on Frenchman's Flat surveying MUFON answered. cubicles and supervising welding of a plate girder bridge sensor which cracked after last shot...Got 103 OLDTOWNE RD. An armed military policeman guarded 'a funny call from Dr. Doll at 1000. I'm going on a tent pitched nearby. I managed to glance special job tomorrow." On May 21st, the 'diary SEGUIN, TX 78155 inside at one point and saw the dead body read: "Up at 7:00. Worked most of day on of a four-foot, human-like creature in a Frenchman with cubicles. Letter from Bet. She's silver metallic-looking suit. The skin on its feeling better now — thank goodness. Got picked face was dark brown. This may have been up at Indian Springs AFB at 4:30 p.m-. for a job I caused by exposure to our atmosphere. can't write or talk about." 11 (Russia, continued) Vatutinki on the Kaluga Highway. A city, it deployed eight "petals" — beams competing in space? A.N. Kosygin sent fiery ball which flew along the highway which stretched downward. It was a the report on the Iranian UFO to for a distance of 10-15 kilometers was fiery "downpour" with a shaft in the Academician Petrov and the latter sent seen from the vehicles travelling on the center. 'This shaft looked like a it to F. Yu. Zigel, his UFO study group highway. At one point it became dark sounding balloon and it flew along Lenin leader. and, in the middle of the ball, along its Avenue. Before this UFO returned to circumference, a number of windows lit its Medusa form, many of the residents NATO Report: up. About 600:700 residents of Sosenki woke up experiencing a feeling of fear. UFO Destroys Missiles provided evidence which was similar to "We were afraid," said the people who The following incident is described that given by the drivers and observed this phenomenon on the in a 25 October 1976 NATO document. passengers of the vehicles which were street. (This case has been attributed to During the Middle East conflict, a large travelling along this section of the a Russian rocket launch by James "flying saucer" appeared over one of Kaluga Highway at that time. Oberg.—Editor.) the military bases of the Atlantic Bloc. This object, which also flew over Surface-to-air missiles opened fire on it. Science Academy UFO Report - Lake Onega, was seen from a ship of It was as if the missiles hit a barrier There is a work published by the the Volga-Baltic Line. A smaller object before reaching the UFO; they were USSR Academy of Sciences for internal separated from the UFO in the area of destroyed by a beam similar to a laser use. This is "UFO Sightings in the the Lake. The fiery ball was also seen .beam. A similar incident is cited in the USSR." The first volume encompasses over Helsinki. Rumors spread that the book by the American scholar the period from 1923, including the Soviet Union was testing a new weapon McCampbell who is studying the UFO sightings of N.K. Rerik, and ends in the over the capitals of the European problem. During the Vietnam War, a middle of the Great Patriotic War. states; this led to the usual military UFO hovered over Hanoi and was fired The second volume brings it up .to hysteria in the the U.S. and NATO and upon by Vietnamese anti-aircraft recent years. On page 98 of volume 2, to increased discussions about the gunners who took this craft for a new we read the testimony of Comrade need to speed up production of the American aircraft design. Kuprenich regarding two silver-colored neutron bomb. In their turn, some of A UFO incident in the Atlantic UFOs which hovered over the workers the people on our side decided that Ocean is on record. The USS Wosk village of Usovo, Kuntsevskiy Rayon, what had happened over Petrozavodsk (sic, probably Wasp) was sailing at the Moskovskaya Oblast, near the rail line and Lake Onega was an American test head of 12 ships. Its instruments on 31 July 1969 (according to other data of the neutron bomb and it's delivery suddenly detected an underwater cited in Zigel's lectures, it was on 31 system. But, of course, it was nothing of object which was travelling at a speed of August 1961). Vehicles were sitting in the, kind. Our military knows how to 150 knots. This object accompanied the front of the barrier waiting for the distinguish UFOs from space vehicles group of ships for a rather long time in electric train to pass; but, even several and aircraft which are launched by the area of the Atlantic Basin and it was minutes later, after the barrier opened, earthlings. This is why the military units noted on the instruments when it began they were not able to move from the of the border zone did not open fire on to dive, up to 6,000 meters below the spot — the ignition did not work. The the object which hovered over surface. vehicles were only able to continue on Petrozavodsk. In October 1976 an article on the their way when the UFOs disappeared. For each of us, the chance of an sighting of an underwater UFO from This is the effect UFOs have on encounter with such a vehicle is exactly the Soviet research ship Vladimir terrestrial equipment. 0.05 percent throughout our lifetime. Vorob'yeu, "The Eight Mysterious Just recently, during the night of 20 During the past 30 years, the Rays," was carried in NEDELYA September 1977, a UFO was sighted Americans have counted the supplement No. 43 to IZVESTIYA. A above Leningradskaya Oblast, appearance of 80,000 vehicles above bright, white spot was circling the ship Petrozavodsk, and Finland. The the earth. The Swedes have recorded in a counterclockwise direction at a sighting over Petrozavodsk was 900 UFOs just over Scandanavia. We radius of 150-200 meters; it broke up reported by IZVESTIYA in its issue for have 1,500 incidents of UFO sightings into eight pieces as if from the effect of the provinces on 22 September (TASS) over the Soviet Union. the propeller blades. The sonic depth and by SOTSIALISTICHESKAYA Since wishful thinking is frequently finder fixed it at a depth of 170 meters INDUSTRIYA on 23 September (a mistaken for reality and since different while at the same time showing the TASS report under the headline "An celestial phenomena can be taken as presence of some sort of object under Unidentified Natural Phenomenon"). I UFOs, American scientists, for the keel at a depth of approximately 20 can state in more detail that the UFO example, selected 80,000 of the most meters. A number of similar incidents made a giant figure eight over Pulkov reliable and firm evidence from the 15 are summarized in the work "UFO and left a contrail. Travelling at an million UFO sightings for the past 30 Phenomena in the Hydrosphere" which enormous speed over Leningradskaya years. In 80 percent of the cases, the I am supervising. Oblast, the UFO stopped over UFOs glowed with a bright light. In 20 On 27 December, a UFO was Petrozavodsk where it was observed as percent of the cases, they had a dark sighted near the village of Sosenki- a fiery ball; and, while hovering over the body with a metallic sheen. As a rule, 12 the UFOs are wrapped in a fiery plasma diameter. The powerplant for a vehicle While consulting for PSI, however, I cloud. This makes photography like this is enormous. Recently, a body performed a vector analysis showing difficult. It has been observed that they like this flew alongside the motor ship that the photo was compatible with a are the color of a welding arc during Nikolay Ostrovskiy for a period of 36 small, sudden displacement of the rapid flight. At slower speeds, they are minutes. camera. The photographer, in fact, had light blue in color, etc. But, it also A UFO was seen over Putivl' in indicated concern that he might have happens that the UFO glows with a Sumskaya Oblast. It was a cylinder 300 bumped his tripod during the time bright light while hovering over a meters in size. The vehicle hovered exposure. Ray Stanford has since particular area. over Putivl' twice for 2 to 2% hours each confirmed this fact.-J. McCampbell) It is possible that, with the time. It deployed 10-12 smaller UFOs In the U.S. and other countries, assistance of ions, a breakdown of from the inside. A military unit located UFOs have flown over lots of people at elementary particles takes place within in this area made the sighting of this an altitude of 30 meters. There have the plasma cloud and a complete vehicle. This happened this year, in been cases of undesirable effects from vacuum forms in front of the UFO; this 1977. Sailors of the Pacific Ocean Fleet these vehicles: people have been vacuum enables the vehicle to fly at also made a sighting of a gigantic burned and been temporarily paralyzed unprecedented speeds. The UFO cylinder in another place. Several small while being fully conscious; some creates a vacuum for itself with its own objects which separated from the people close to UFOs have technical equipment. The majority of cylinder flew .at a distance of 10-12 experienced sharp pains, electrical the vehicles are shaped like an inverted kilometers from the cylinder. shocks, loss of sight, etc. The American saucer of a silvery, aluminum color. The scientist McCampbell also wrote about "saucer" has windows and three UFO Movies by Apollo Astronauts this. We hope that his monograph on landing "legs"; judging from their The American astronauts who UFOs will be published in 1978. imprints, the legs are a simple visited the Moon saw a gigantic cylinder The spectrum of a UFO was arrangement, sort of like "skis" which 1,500 meters long there. Aldrin shot it measured near Cuba and it was are let down in the form of a letter "H" on movie film. The vehicle established that its frequency was with a line through it: three straight accomplished its own interaction with approximately 3,000 megahertz. The "shafts" lengthwise and one across the Apollo; it coordinated its movement hypothesis was put forward that UFOs middle. Sometimes a UFO will land with it. carry an electromagnetic field. directly on its frame. The upper or The UFOs develop a speed from 0 The UFOs were built -by an lower half of the UFO is frequently to 72,000 kilometers per hour within the extraterrestrial civilization not during transparent. As a rule, a green liquid is earth's atmosphere. They are able to the present time but in age-old antiquity found in the imprints left by the UFO on abruptly change their flight orbit and fly by earth standards. The Bible mentions the ground. Not a single plant will grow in jerks by making zigzag movements, these phenomena. In the distant past, on this spot. It is possible that the green while going from one point to another at they caused flare-ups of religious cults. liquid protects the UFO from terrestrial remarkable speeds in this fashion. In In the papyrus of Thutmose HI, a bacteria. mathematics, these movements are Pharaoh of the XVIII dynasty, there is a Not far from Borisoglebsk, called "undulations." The UFO slowly description of a UFO which appeared servicemen of the Soviet Army saw a lifts off to an altitude of 30-40 meters over his army. The pharaoh describes UFO with a semicircular canopy; it was and then immediately develops an the event father clearly in practical flying from one side of the highway to extraordinary speed which no concepts for those times. In the the other. Two figures were visible terrestrial aircraft can approach. chronicles of Alexander of Macedonia, under the transparent canopy; they Sometimes, the plasma cloud around there is a story about a massive flight of were indistinguishable from human the UFO takes the shape of a "small UFOs while his army was crossing the figures. One of the figures was leaning sickle." Tigrus and Euphrates. Aristotle called on his hand — which had five fingers — In 1974, a UFO observation station UFOs "celestial discs." Pliny, the on the inside of the semicircle. was set up in the U.S., or rather, a naturalist, also mentions them. The journalist Strel'nikov station for "attracting" UFOs. The McCampbell provided a described a UFO sighting at station shines beams into the sky from systematic analysis of 1,000 UFO Khantymansiysk in PRAVDIST, a trade 100 searchlights of a million watts each. landings and 100 cases of contacts newspaper for the employees of A UFO visited the station; it made two between their pilots and earthlings. In PRAVDA. The shape of the vehicle turns over it and was flying at a speed of 40 percent of the cases, the UFO pilots resembled a gigantic electric light bulb. 16,000 kilometers per hour. (This are completely like 'us in height and l There are different" UFO shapes. paragraph apparently refers to the field build (giants over 2 to 2 /2 meters tall Usually they are an inverted saucer laboratory of Project Starlight rarely show up). Tsiolkovskiy is with a flat, rotating body; sometimes International near Austin, Texas. It is correct; in the work "The Will of the they are a cylinder or a triangle with a inaccurate regarding the lighting Universe; Unknown Intelligent body shaped like a lampshade. There system and power level. A widely Forces," he expressed the idea that are different sizes of UFOs. Usually, distributed photograph was taken there intelligent inhabitants of other planets the body is 30, 40, 50 or 80 meters in showing a track with two sharp turns. must look like us. (Continued on next page) 1 _ (Russia, continued) earthlings a long time ago by using the which was published in 1974, Veynik The UFO pilots are distinguished radio, like we have. After declaring that developed his theory on the six by their athletic build. They have rather intelligence on earth is a unique and material, physical fields which comprise mobile and static features. They hardly very rare occurrence in the universe, the basis of the world. Three of them reflect any emotion. There is only one Shklovskiy philosophizes on the topic are known to earth science; the three recorded instance where a smile that earthlings are responsible for an finer ones are still not known. His works flashed across their faces when an enormous part of the universe; they can on the photon's mass — and his Italian peasant woman went to meet the consider it their own, settle it, etc. attempt to create a unified theory for a pilots, who had landed in a field, with a However, first, it is not absolutely unified physical field which includes the bouquet of flowers. As a rule, the pilots mandatory for another civilization to electromagnetic, gravitational and avoid contacts with people. Female make contact with ours. It is possible nuclear fields, where one of the three crews have also been seen. One of the that they are examining us like we vectors compensates for the others — female pilot's hair hung down to her examine ants. Second, this civilization are interesting. Veynik believes that a knees. All of the UFO pilots wore could have communications equipment space vacuum is a special form of spacesuits which encompassed their which far exceeds the radio in its speed matter's existence and movement. bodies. Some did not wear pressure of' receiving and transmitting Moreover, the smaller the particles, the suits, others did. In 60 percent of the information and which is still not more powerful their bonds are. Thus, cases, the pilots were dwarfs with large accessible to us at the present time. the vacuum can give birth to energy heads, with two holes in their face Third, this civilization could have with enormous power. From this, it is instead of a nose and with deep-set developed on a completely different possible that extraterrestrial beings eyes. They had disproportionately long basis than ours (for example, on a are using other means of arms and legs and their height did not technocratic basis) and the differences communications which are many times exceed 1m 10 cm. "Little men" 33 .cm are so great that contacts are either more efficient than radio waves. tall have also been seen. The dwarfs impossible or premature. At any rate, According to Veynik, if speeds of also wore spacesuits; but, they were sooner or later, contact with another 2.1 billion kilometers per second (7,000 seen more frequently in pressure suits civilization will basically have enormous times faster than light) exist, we could than were the representatives of the consequences for earthlings. fly to a planet located 30 light years previous group of pilots. But, after all, In a conversation with Lenin away from us in 1.8 earth days. It is tribes of pigmys also live alongside published in his reminiscences, Herbert possible that these speeds are within tribes of tall and medium-sized people Wells states that, when the reach of the UFOs. on earth. conversation touched upon Everything that we have stated While not displaying any special extraterrestrial civilizations, Lenin said above shows that mankind on earth is interest in the people they meet, the that an encounter between them and far from being alone in the universe and UFO pilots (who are sometimes called earthlings would be the greatest it cannot claim "control" of a large part "humanoids") do display a certain revolution in life, natural science, and of the visible universe or metagalaxy. In humaneness. They do not respond to philosophy. This part of the order to come up to a level with other, firing on their vehicles by killing people; conversation was not reflected in Wells' higher extraterrestrial civilizations, they do not harm people during their book "Russia in Darkness." mankind must first put an end to its encounters; they do not display any Perhaps a society which has atavistic social institutions of . the aggressiveness at all. surpassed us has finer physical fields capitalist type, destructive wars, and than we do. Let's just take the problem the power of imperialist monopolies. Extraterrestrial Life of the speed of light. For their Several hypotheses exist for the experimental discovery of speeds origin of UFOs: the - "mountain" A lot of technical, as well as which exceed the speed of light by a hypothesis of N.K. Rerik, the ocean philosophical, questions have sprung factor of ten (10 C) which was made in hypothesis, the space hypothesis.... up among scientists as a result of the 1971 as a result of the observation of The majority now adheres to the space arrival of extraterrestrial beings, in quasars, 21 American scientists were hypothesis. UFOs are a product of an general, because it represents awarded the supreme Rumford Prize. extraterrestrial civilization. intelligent life in space. In issue No. 9 of Academician Al'bert losifovich Veynik Incidentally, more on the antiquity of the journal VOPROSY FILOSOFII and of the Belorussian SSR Academy of UFOs (by earth standards). In the in several other issues of the journal, Sciences proved the possibility of Tret'yakov Gallery, there is an ancient the Soviet astrophysicist I. Shkolvskiy speeds above the speed of light. By icon on display with a "flying saucer" expressed the opinion that intelligence means of an in-depth mathematical depicted off to the side of the main and life on earth are unique and it would analysis, he arrived at the conclusion drawing.... be impossible to find anything like it for that speeds which exceed the speed of Like any mechanism, UFOs have hundred of light years on other planets. light by a factor of 7,000, i.e., 2.1 billion breakdowns. Pilots have been According to Shklovskiy, if there was kilometers per second, are possible in a observed hustling about a UFO with another similar civilization close to space vacuum. smoke coming out of it. A UFO landed ours, it would have made contact with In his work on thermal dynamics on White Lake in Vologodskaya 14 Oblast. The vehicle dove to the bottom A lot of this does not fit into the interesting because the author depicts and, based on several signs, it remained framework of our usual thinking. After the extraterrestrial beings as free and in an emergency situation for days. all, for a long time, we did not recognize happy people who have lived for When it surfaced from the lake after the plasma as a state of matter. And, to this thousands of years and who have, repairs, it tore off a huge chunk of the day, students are taught that the speed strictly speaking, a communist system bank and lifted it up during its take off. It of light is the limit for physical speeds. at the highest stage of development. To would have taken an astronomical • What will the majority of the professors Adamski's question on the people's number of excavators to dp this work. do if the opposite is discovered? Our longevity, the scientists of this planet Sometimes the UFQs throw off a respected astrophysicist I. Shklovskiy replied that the duration of life must be fibrous liquid which has received the has displayed inconsistency in his sought in the way of life itself. Adamski name "angel's hair." In the USSR, 7-8 views. In the 5 July 1976 PRAVDA, he compromised himself and his book scientific institutes undertook an and Candidate for Physicomathe- somewhat by the fact that he analysis of it. The Soviet scientist matical Sciences Matveyenko supposedly received instructions from Sokolov-Petryanov stated that this published an article "The View from the "flying saucer" civilization on how liquid is a combination of boron and Three Continents" where they to predict earthquakes and other silica which still cannot be duplicated in declared that the speed of the natural disasters on earth; he made earth laboratories. UFOs have relativistic particles emitted by the mistakes and became an inveterate exploded over the ocean, naturally quasars reaches 10 times the speed of liar. without leaving any . trace. But, light (10 C), but he has renounced these fragments of the body were preserved views in subsequent works.... The late "...there are other , in an explosion over northern Brazil. Minister Loginov distributed tables with spaceships observing us." An analysis of the metal showed that it drawings and descriptions of different is an alloy of magnesium oxide and types of UFOs, which he received from The previously mentioned reports strontium which is also not within reach abroad, to all the aviation institutes. of the American astronauts who visited of production on earth at present. Its This has probably already been of use the Moon are exceptionally interesting. specific gravity is 1.86. to the aircraft designers. Edward Their agreed-upon code for designating Kh. Piccard (sic, probably J. Condon, the chairman of the UFO UFOs was the phrase "Saint Nicholas," Piccard) described a UFO; it passed committee who finished his work in the but, they were so amazed with what near his underwater vehicle. While beginning of 1968 and "declared" that a they saw when they arrived on the telling about his trip on the Kon-Tiki, significant part of the UFOs were Moon from Apollo that they Thor Heyerdahl mentioned a UFO optical illusions in the atmosphere, transmitted to earth without the code: which surfaced in front of his sounding admitted before his death that the CIA "Directly across from us, on the other line and was as bright as the sun. demanded this conclusion from him in side of the crater, there are other spite of the facts. (There is no known spaceships observing us." And Aldrin Mankind a Risk? documentation for this assertion.- shot his film which shows the UFOs on Editor) the Moon. I hope you will also be able to Our civilization so far has not In the near future, the population see it in 1978. known the grief of a nuclear of the Soviet Union will apparently be Apollo left a capsule on the Moon catastrophe but it can cause irreparable significantly more widely informed with the texts — in 72 languages — of disaster/Even N.K. Rerik, and recently about UFOs. There is a vast, serious the UN Declaration on Human Rights I.L. Leonov, warned us about this; they literature on this score abroad (and not and the International Agreement on were warning all the progressive people just cheap, trashy books filled with Space and Celestial Bodies, etc., but, in on earth. It is possible that the UFO cheap sensation). I will cite the book of the sense of contact with flights to earth are explained by the fact the honored French academician, extraterrestrial civilizations, this effort that mankind is "an explosive risk" for Jacques Berzhe (sic; probably Bergier), has not had any success yet. It was kept space. The civilization which created on UFOs, the book of Master Shatelen secret, but the company which the UFOs is looking for a way to make (?; sic) "Our Ancestors Came From prepared the capsule and the texts the earth safe and, possibly at the same Outer Space" and McCampbelPs talked about it to the press. The Moon time, a significant part of the galaxy, monograph. I hope they will be is evidently a transhipment base for where the balance can be destroyed by published in 1978. A question arises at UFOs and every Apollo which has, this, by threat of a catastophe. There is this point on Adamski's book which flown to the Moon has been under also another hypothesis: mankind on was published in the U.S. at one time. the "observation" canopy of the UFOs. earth is radiating psychic energy into He tells about his 10-day visit to Venus It was not by accident that the space. Such a strong radiation is where he was supposedly taken by a American astronauts were not frequently the result of stress. The UFO crew. I am very cautious about successful in their attempt to explode a psychic energy, the Psi field, continues this book. But, I must say that the story nuclear device for scientific purposes an independent existence in space and could have been just as successful on the Moon. Instead, the oxygen diffuses. This disturbs and upsets the about another planet where an cylinder on Apollo exploded. They extraterrestrial beings. "earthling" was taken. The book is were also not able to blow up the upper (continued on next page) ^5 \

(Russia, continued) literature popularizing them, etc. We UFO stage of the booster and so it continues will see what the results of this proposal to fly around the Moon. will be. The attention devoted to UFOs in A question on how to take the TECH NOTE other countries is very great. For article by science fiction writer example, in France, a special UFO Yeremey Parnov in KOMSOMOL'- center and airport were built in SKAYA PRAVDA on 23 November By John F. Schuessler Toulouse on 20 April 1977, 1976, which criticizes a lecture on Throughout the world, there have UFOs at the Coulomb MMZ (meaning been 100 cases of people being of acronym unknown-Editor). I think kidnapped by UFO crews (real or made that Parnov did not act properly. up cases) over a 30-year period. For With a synopsis of Zigel's lecture in example, there is a well known case in his hands which was compiled by During the past several years a the U.S. where the Hill's, husband and somebody, not without inaccuracies number of scientists, researchers, and wife, were drawn from their automobile and distortions (such synopses are politicians have suggested the by means of hypnosis (sic) into a "flying even sold at the "carry-in" market in utilization of the North American Air saucer" where they were examined by Odessa for 5 rubles apiece), Yeremey Defense Command's (NORAD) Baker- different monitoring units. Mrs. Hill Parnov called up Zigel and asked him if Nunn space cameras to record UFO remembered a map with a picture of 21 he really gave a lecture on this topic. data. The Baker-Nunn is a 6000-pound stars on a background which was Zigel confirmed it. Then, Parnov, with film camera system that can track and streaked with copper. Subsequently, the paltry knowledge he had acquired, photograph those satellites which are after a very long study of stellar maps by criticized this synopsis in the too small or too far out in space to be experts, a group of astronomers came newspaper; it was not even corrected observed by the radar and telemetric to the conclusion that the stellar sky is by Zigel. elements of the NORAD system. These seen like this from a star which is 30 A question on our pilots who have units were located at Edwards Air light years away from us and which is seen UFOs. There are such pilots. Force Base in California, San Vito dei located in the Reticulumconstellation... Valentin Ivanovich Akkuratov, a senior Normanni in Italy, Sand Island in the The last time a UFO was seen in navigator of polar aviation who is well Central Pacific, on Mt. John in New the USSR was a month ago (October known by everybody, wrote four Zealand, and at Cold Lake in Alberta, 1977) near the village of Sharapova reports to the Ministry of Civil Aviation Canada. The Baker-Nunn is said to Ikhota near Serpukhov. on his encounters with UFOs. have the capability of tracking a Now, let's look at slides with Now, about radars. Unfortunately, speeding bullet at 200 miles. It is easy to pictures of UFOs and their crews. radars seldom locate UFOs. speculate on a number of potential I will answer the notes (on answers Altogether, five cases out of a hundred. UFO tracking applications for this to several questions). (A few hundred radar UFO cases are system. A question on the opinion of the known in the United States.-Editor) Now Baker-Nunn is obsolete. A USSR Academy of Sciences Council on new five-site system; .with 40-inch Astronomy. Academician Artsimovich, (A Washington, D.C., news telescopes, video cameras, and digital its deceased chairman, was led astray source, who is checking on other computers will be installed at White by Menzel's book- and by Condon's aspects of this report, has informed me Sands, N.M., Hawaii, Korea, North conclusion which was made under CIA that the statements attributed to Africa, and in the Middle East. The new orders. Therefore, Artsimpvich came Astronaut Buzz Aldrin about UFOs on system — called ground-based electro- out against UFOs. the Moon were confirmed by his news optical deep space surveillance A question on the Tunguska bureau's space reporter, who eovered (GEODSS) — has been designed to "meteorite." It manuevered over the the Apollo story at the time. Aldrin said provide both increased sensitivity in its area. In my opinion, it was a UFO. them as a joke. It is possible that the detection of objects and increased A question on the UN's attitude to story filtered through to the Soviet speed with which the data can be the problem. The tiny island-state Union in garbled form, as is evident in analyzed. Grenada is in the island group of the some other cases. Other portions of The GEODSS will be able to Lesser Antilles in the Atlantic Ocean. this report still may be significant, and detect objects on the order of 1 square Grenada is a member of the UN. we will continue to seek verification of meter at 20,000 nautical miles altitude Because UFOs frequently fly to this them.—Editor) reflecting 10 percent of its light. An small tropical island, the government of automatic moving target indicator Grenada suggested that the UN (and it makes the GEODSS ideal for tracking distributed the appropriate paperwork MUFON space objects, including UFOs. among the delegations) declare 1978 Additional information can be found in the year of the "flying saucer" and that, 103 OLDTOWNE RD. Aviation Week and Space Technology in their honor, they issue special SEGUIN, TX 78155 magazine, May 22, 1978. postage stamps and postcards, 16 MUTUAL UFO NETWORK, INC. (MUFON) NEW STAFF MEMBER Continental Coordinator's Areas of Responsibility This month Mildred Biesele joins the MUFON Journal staff as a Contributing Editor. As State Director for Utah, she has attended the MUFON annual meetings in Scottsdale and Dayton. She is also a member of NICAP and APRO, although she has never been active in either 1. Africa All of Continental Africa including Madagascar organization, and subscribes to the publications of GSW and CUFOS, 2. Europe Great Britain, France, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, plus the Flying Saucer Review. In fact, Sweden, Finland, West Germany, East Germany, she says, for about 20 years she has Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, subscribed to, borrowed, bought, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, recorded, and accumulated by all Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Iceland, Greenland means short of outright theft everything she could find on the subject of UFOs. 3. Asia Russia (Soviet Union), China, Burma, Thailand, And she'll show you her basement to Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mongolia prove it. Although she still claims to be a 4. Australia/New Zealand New Guinea, Solomon Islands Texan, having come from an old Texas family and grown up in San Antonio, 5. Middle East Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Iraq, Saudi since 1941 Mildred has lived in Salt Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, P.D.R. of Yemen, Yemen, Lake City, where her husband was Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, professor of mathematics at' the Bangledesch, Jamru, Kashimar University of Utah. Since his death in 1976, she has worked at the Writing 6. Central America Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Skills Center at the University and has Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Canal Zone, Cuba, been a freelance writer and editor. Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago

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INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR Michael Sinclair Walter H. Andrus, Jr. 108 Isabella St., Apt. 1010 103 Oldtowne Road Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1N6 Seguin, Texas 78155 Canada U.S.A. Mildred Biesele, new Contributing Editor I Mark R. Herbstritt can be seen about 16° above the eastern horizon at sunrise, but by the sunset. It is 2° north of Spica on the 8th. Astronomy end of the month it is in superior conjunction. Jupiter — Now in Cancer, it rises about 4% hours before the sun and is Notes Venus — At sunset it is visible low in high in the southeast at sunrise. the southwest and sets about l]/2 hours THE SKY FOR SEPTEMBER 1978 later. Saturn — In Leo, it is now in the morning sky, very low in the east at Mercury — On the 4th, it is at greatest Mars — In Virgo, it is only about 12° sunrise. On the 13th it is 0.1° south of elongation west (18°) at. which time it above the southwestern horizon at Mercury. 17 STATEMENT OF CORRECTION North Carolina In my paper, "A Survey of CEID Projects 1978 MUFON Reports for 1977," published in the SYMPOSIUM MUFON Symposium Proceedings of 1978, I wrote the following, under the George D. Fawcett, State Director PROCEEDINGS subhead, Rumors and Hoaxes" (p. 26): for North Carolina, has a study project (131 Pages) on "Human Reactions to UFOs." "I am "As this is being written, trying to find out the first thing a person A SURVEY OF CEIII REPORTS reports are circulating that the does after his UFO encounter, or FOR 1977 by Ted Bloecher. Paciencia, Brazil, abduction of shortly thereafter," Fawcett says. "This New York. NY Co-Chairman of Sept. 30 (Case 54) may be a hoax. is a human interest angle, which I Humanoid Study Group and Details are not now available." believe will tell us a great deal about the MUFON State Section truth or falsity of a UFO experience." Director. I hasten to correct this Some examples he has received to misstatement: the report of a hoax was date are: 1967: THE OVERLOOKED UFO an unfounded rumor, and I am guilty of "My favorite pipe dropped out of WAVE AND THE COLORADO having repeated it without checking my mouth and floated down the PROJECT by Richard H. Hall, further. In addition, the correct date for Delaware River..." Brentwood. MD. Editor of THE this case is September 15, 1977--nof "We went out night after night to MUFON UFO JOURNAL and September 30. the same area to see if the UFOs former International Coordina- Mrs. Irene Granchi, a veteran would return..." tor. UFO investigator from Rio de Janeiro, "I checked out all the books at the was one of two well-known local library to try to learn more RETRIEVALS . OF THE THIRD investigators who checked on this about the UFO subject.:."'' KIND by Leonard H. Stririgfield, unusual report in great detail. An "We all started chain smoking or Cincinnati. OH. MUFON independent inquiry was conducted by drinking heavily and tried to Director of Public Relations Dr. Walter Buhler, whose report was forget our UFO encounter..." and State Section Director. published in the SBEDV Bulletin, No. "My wife and I attended programs 121/125 (March-December, 1978). at the local science museums and UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJEC- Both investigators concluded . planetariums, in an effort to find TS by Illobrand von Ludwiger, independently that the abduction out more about where these West Germany. Director of report by Antonio Bogado La Rubia things (UFOs) might come Mutual UFO Network Central was genuine. Mrs. Granchi's full report from..." European Section/MUFON- was published in the Canadian UFO "We stayed up all night discussing CES. Report, Vol. IV, No. 7 (Summer, 1978); our UFO experience and trying to in addition, her report formed the basis make sense out of the whole UFOs AS- A SPACE-TIME for an article by Coral Lorenzen, bewildering UFO sighting..." SINGULARITY by Dr. J. Allen entitled "UFO Abduction in Brazil," Mr. Fawcett will be giving his 3%- Hynek. Evanston, IL. Director of which was published in Fate Magazine, hour illustrated UFO lecture "UFOs the Center for UFO Studies July 1978, pp. 48-54. and UFOnauts" at the P.E. Monroe (CUFOS) and . former Astro- In an understandably exasperated Auditorium, Lenior Rhyne College in nomical Consultant to the letter to me dated August 8,1978,'Mrs. Hickory, North Carolina, on Thursday USAF. Granchi writes, in part: night, November 16 at 7:30 PM. The "I lay here my vehement program will be open to students, BEHIND THE UFO SECRECY by protest to your irresponsible faculty, and the public. Major Donald E. Keyhoe. statement. Rumor-mongering is USMC. Ret. Luray, VA. Author not my cup of tea!...Neither I, nor and former Director of National Dr. Buhler, knew of each other's I stand properly rebuked. I Investigations Committee on report before it was published. I apologize to Mrs. Granchi for having Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). endorse what I said in my article, impugned her integrity as an "Antonio's Ordeal" (pp. 13-19), in investigator. I have read her reports in Price: $6.00 in U.S.A. and the Canadian UFO Report, cited the APRO Bulletin and elsewhere for $7.00 in all other countries above-tb). I have nothing to add - years, and I know them to be the very Post Paid from — or to subtract. It is shameful to models of conscientiousness and even think of making an documentation. I accept her rebuke MUFON insinuation such as yours'. I shall, with the promise that in the future I shall 103 Oldtowne Road after this, read what you write be more careful when confronted by Seguin, Texas 781 55 U.S.A. about other cases with a grain of unfounded rumors. — Ted Bloecher, salt." New York, N.Y., August 18, 1978. 18 Lucius Farish In Others'Words

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has reports, the GSW suit against the CIA, Zecharia Sitchin's THE 12TH featured UFO reports and related a MIB case from Maine, and other PLANET, one of the better books on articles in the following recent issues: features. the "ancient astronauts" subject, is now June 20 (two items-a police helicopter A new magazine, UFO UPDATE, available in an Avon paperback edition. encounter with a UFO in North from the publishers of BEYOND Erich von Daniken's latest offering, Carolina and an article giving tips for REALITY magazine, will now be VON DANIKEN'S PROOF, is now out UFO sighters on gauging distances, available at newsstands on a quarterly in a Bantam paperback. THE PULSE taking photos, etc.); June 27 (Part 1 of a basis. The first issue, now on sale, OF THE UNIVERSE: HARMONIC 288 report on the alleged government contains some interesting material on is Bruce Cathie's third book on UFOs, cover-up of UFO information); July 4, crashed UFO reports, Soviet his theory of a worldwide "power grid" (Part 2 of the previously mentioned experiments with a UFO-like and other mysteries. This hardcover is article, plus psychic Uri Geller's views propulsion method, etc., plus the available from the American on UFOs); July 18 (reports of UFOs in normal amount of rehash. distributor, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. Kentucky's "Bluegrass Triangle," plus Subscriptions are $6.00 per year, from: (Rutland, VT 05701) for $13.50. Jack Webb's opinions on UFOs); July UFO UPDATE, Box 428, Nanuet, NY 25 (the sighting report of Rev. 10954. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of The August issue of SCIENCE BOOK NOTICE the University of Notre Dame); August DIGEST has a good article by Don 1 ("Project U.F.O." producer William Berliner on mirages and temperature A book describing the problems of Coleman's story of chasing a disc- inversions. Berliner shows that such close encounter observations in Spain shaped UFO in 1954); and August 15 (a "explanations" for UFO sightings are recently has been published in Spanish. claim that Air Force officers lied about almost totally inadequate to explain the Called O VMS: £/ Fenomeno Aterrizaje UFOs, based on Psychological Stress reported events. (UFOs: The Landing Phenomenon), Evaluator tests of their taped Jennie Zeidman's article in the and written by noted Spanish statements). August issue of FATE examines the UFOlogist Vincente-Juan Ballester Recent UFO features in THE 1973 case in which an Army Reserve Olmos, the book contains first-hand STAR have included: June 13 (a report helicopter crew claimed to have investigated UFO cases, the on the May radar/visual case in encountered a UFO over Mansfield, methodology used while investigating Florida); June 27 (a California case Ohio. Mrs. Zeidman presents the these reports, and an analysis of the involving a police officer who was report of ground witnesses who claim space-time structure. With a foreword burned by a UFO); July 4 (two features; to have seen the UFO hovering over by Dr. Jacques Vallee of the California details unavailable at this writing); July the helicopter. This case has been the Institute for the Future, the book 18 (exchanges of data between U.S. subject of considerable controversy, succeeds in focusing the UFO problem and Soviet UFO researchers); and largely generated by super-skeptic through the eyes of a university-trained August 8 (a five-member panel of Philip J. Klass. analyst. Already favorably reviewed by scientists will make recommendations The September issue of FATE the Spanish press, OVNIS: El to the United Nations for a global presents Steven Stoikes' article about Fenomeno Aterriazaje can be ordered investigation of UFOs). the CIA involvement in a case where directly from the publisher. To order The August issue of UFO physical evidence of a UFO was the book, submit a note, together with REPORT contains an interview with discovered. If one has any doubt about $9.00 by International Money Order Ray Stanford, a report on "spook the CIA role in UFO investigations, (which includes handling and registered lights," speculations on the pyramids of articles such as this one are required mail), to: Mars, and a feature on North Carolina reading. Export Department UFO sightings, plus articles on A brief look at recent books: Plaza & Janes, S.A. Velikovsky's theories, spontaneous Trevor James Constable's THE Virgen de Guadalupe, 21-33 human combustion, and other topics. COSMIC PULSE OF LIFE has been Esplugas de Llobregat UFO REPORT for September has revised and issued in paperback by Barcelona, Spain B. Ann Slate's article on UFO "repair" Pocket Books, with the new title, cases, more on the Florida radar/visual SKYCREATURES: LIVING UFOs. 19 by DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Walt Andrus

The 1978-79 NBC-TV series Engineering/Science and also serve as chemist by occupation and will also "Project UFO" will premier on a Field Investigator. His educational perform as a Field Investigator. After September 21st with a new face and credentials also include both a B.S. and having worked with MUFON's amateur format. Edward Winter, as Capt. Ben M.S. in nuclear physics. Gary resides at radio net each Saturday morning for Ryan, joins Caskey Swaim in the role of 402 East Drive, Dayton, Ohio 45419. It •several years as W5UAA, William L. Staff Sgt. Harry Fitz. William Jordan, was a pleasure visiting with Dr. Brower, Route 1, Box 211, Grove, who appeared as Maj. Jake Gatlin, Rawlings at our 1978 Symposium, since Okla. 74344 has assumed the elected not to return to the series, so he was educated — and formerly lived responsibility of State Section Director Winter was written into the script as a —in Texas. He has laboratory facilities for Delaware and Ottawa counties in new character. readily available for analysis purposes. northeast Oklahoma. He has already PROJECT PAL (Phenomena Through the efforts of James M. selected field investigators to assist him Augmented Log) is a volunteer McCampbell, Valerii I. Sanarov has and become involved in UFO sighting scientific research exercise designed to become a Consultant in Cultural reports south of Coffeyville, Kans. supplement on-going studies in such Exchanges. He may be contacted at For the information of our disciplines as Astronomy, Unidentified P.O. Box 16, Novosibirski-7!, 630071, Journal readers, Stanton T. Friedman Flying Objects (UFOs), Atmospherics, U.S.S.R. He is a graduate of will be speaking at the following colleges and Animal Behavior. On Monday, Novosibirski University in history. His or universities during October: 24 February 26, 1979, our members in prime interests in UFOlogy concern Tues. 8 PM, Bemidji State University, Canada and certain parts of the United possible contacts with higher Bemidji, Minn.; 26 Thursday 1 PM, NE States will be fortunately, in the path of civilizations (past and present), Illinois University, Chicago, III.; 30 a total solar eclipse providing us with specializing in CE II and CE III types as Monday 8 PM, Lake Superior College, the opportunity to photograph they relate to folklore and mythology. .Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. In November he (weather permitting), observe, and He does not share the attitude of the is scheduled for 6th 8 PM, Slippery record this cosmic phenomenon. In Soviet government regarding UFOs. Rock State College, Slippery Rock, Pa.; addition, UFOs, variations in Arthur P. Woods, Jr., M.S., 209Oakhill 9, Thursday 8 PM, Forest Park temperature and geomagnetic fields Drive, Oxford, Ohio 45056, a retired Community College, St. Louis, Mo.; ' should be recorded. It is recognized senior staff statistician, has volunteered and 15 Wednesday 8 PM, Linn Benton that animals and birds react to these his 36 years of steelmaking experience Community College, Albany, Oreg.; on various anomalies. Caution is urged to as a Research Specialist in Statistics. January 17,1979, at 10 AM, Stan will be protect your eyesight by using suitable His diversified experience includes all speaking at N. Hennepin Community filters. A minimum of three persons are phases of IBM 360, 370 programming College, Minneapolis, Minn. Please required at each observation point and operations, co'mputer simulation identify yourself to Mr. Friedman prior during this total solar eclipse, the last modelling, metallurgy, thermo- to the lecture so that he may introduce opportunity of this century. Cameras, dynamics, process experimentation, you and refer local UFO sighting optical devices, portable recorders, a etc. reports to you. compass, and notebooks will be A.J. "Rich" Eilers 10, D.V.M. of needed. This notice is for planning 4015 Alton Road, Louisville, Ky. 40207 purposes with more information to has volunteered to serve as a follow as February 26th approaches. Consultant in Veterinary Medicine. He We are proud to welcome the is associated with the Louisville zoo. following new consultants expanding His prime interest in the UFO MUFON's diversity of talent: Glynn A. phenomenon is animal behavior Hebert, M.D., a physician in cardiology associated with UFO encounters. Dr. MUFON and pulmonary diseases, is a Eilers was recommended by Burt Consultant in Psycho-Physiological Munroe, Jr., Ph.D. who attended our 103 OLDTOWNE RD. Phenomena. His address is 433 Plaza, 1978 symposium. SEGUIN,TX 78155 P.O. Box 1016, Bogalusa, La. 70427. Our new foreign representative to Gary D. Rawlings, Ph.D., will specialize Bolivia is Freddy Arce Helguero, P.O. as a Consultant in Environmental Box 7306, .LaPaz, Bolivia. He is a