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SKYLOOK 75 cents NUMBER 91 The UFO Monthly JUNE 1975

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Light beams from alleged UFOs are nothing new, but they continue to gener- ate interest and speculation. In this month's SKYLOOK are stories concern- ing reported light beams in Tasmania, Australia, and in the Soviet Union. The sketch at left represents an un- confirmed, but interesting, sighting at Elleielles, Belgium, on July 4, 1972. At 10:45 p.m. a young farmer was reportedly in a field adjoining his farm when his attention was captured by intermittent projections of bluish light coming from a luminous "cloud" which was motionless in the sky. These beams, in the form of an arc, descended to the ground and touched it at three points, arranged around the wit- ness in a triangle, and then went back up into the "cloud." The beams reportedly widened until about three feet above the field, then narrowed down to touch the soil as a very reduced point—and reversed the process when returning upward. These extra- ordinary "Hashers" were reportedly re- produced every 30 seconds. The incident was reportedly confirmed by a neighbor a few yards away. (Sketch and information provided by Joe Brill from Inforespace No. 6, 1972.) "We tell it as it is" SKYLOOK The UFO Monthly 26 Edgewood Drive Quirtey, Illinois 62301

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Stan Gordon Creatures & UFO's In This Issue Gary Graber Tasmania, Australia, scene of UFO with light beam...... 3 Artist Pilot reports possible Morse Code message from UFO.,,,..0»..,,7 Richard Hall UFOs Behind the Iron Curtain by Joe Bri 11...... <,,...... os,,8; Commentator Matching wits with extraterrestrials...... ,...o.».10 UFO and creature sighted in same area »n Pennsylvania... 13 Mark Herbstritt Message from, the director of MUFON.,,,...... ,...l4 Astronomy In Others' Words by Lucius Parish... '...... 16 Astronomy convention to feature extraterrestrial 1ife...... 17 Rosetta Holmes International Coordinator Richard Hall plans for future>-««-.-«.17 Promotion/Publicity Additional information obtained on Odense, Denmark, photos...17 Can weather radar be used to verify UFO sightings?...... 18 Bob Kirkpatrick 197S MUFON Symposium schedule listed,...... ,,,..,.19 West Coast Coordinator Recapping and Commenting by Richard Hall ..20 July Sky by Mark Herbstritt...... „..,20 fed Phillips UFO Landing Traces

David A. Schroth The contents of SKYLOOK are determined by Ihe editor and staff, and do not necessarily St. Louis/Mass Media represent the official judgment of M'UFON Opinions of contributors are their own. and do not necessarily reflect those of the editor, the staff, or MUFON. Books or other items adver John F. Schuessler tised are not necessarily endorsed by SKVLOOK or MUFON. UFO Propulsion SKYLOOK THE UFO MONTHLY is published monthly by Dwight Connelly, 26 Edgewood Drive, Norma E. Short Quincy, IL 623*1 USA. Sobscription Rates: $8.00 per year in U.S.; $9.00 per year foreign; single copy, 75 cents. Editor-Publisher Emeritus Advertising rates: $5.«0 per column inch. All ads subject to approval of the publisher. •• Copyright 1975 by SKYLOOK THE UFO MONTHLY. 26 Edgewood Drive, Quincy, IL 62301. Permission is hereby granted toqoote from this issue of this magazine, provided not. more tnan 200 words are'Jquoted from any one article, provided that the author of the article is given credit, and provided that the statement "Copyright 1*75 by SKYLOOK THE UFO MONTHLY. 26 Edgewood'Drive, Quincy. IL" is included. Second Class Postage paid at Qoincy, IL. 62301. .*.'. « Page 2 •£ I Car radio affected UFO light beam in Tasmania LOCATION OF SIGHTING: Lake Sorell, Tasmania, Australia.. area covered DATE OF SIGHTING: Feb. 26, 1975. by be. REPORTED BY: Paul B. Jackson, Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre / sighting 845pm (TUFOIC). SUBMITTED BY: Joe Brill, former MUFON International C6-ordinator. CAMP' THE MAIN WITNESS SITE KELLY The principal witness has requested that his name not be used. He was a rear gunner in the RAAF, is currently a "well- off" professional man, and is apparently a respected member of his community. He is also a

competent artist. '<**. The principal witness had gone to Lake Sorell with a companion (a commercial artist) 1 1 on a week's fishing trip. The companion also observed the in- Camp site IOOO yds cident and also made sketches. fiom closest sighting

TRANSCRIPT OF SIGHTING Following is a transcript of minutes. Later I observed two intermittent red 1 ightsjaround an interview with the principal of the objects much closer that the corona or rim. witness by the Tasmanian UFO had travelled in a direction That is the last time that I Investigation Centre. The in- towards the SW, towards Lake saw the two; cloud intervened itial portion of the transcript Sorell. They came to a sta- and there was no sighting for i-s the witness1 statement pre- tionary position towards the some minutes, and then the. ceding questions from the in- Dogshead, which is on the east- cloud brightened up and I saw terviewer. ern shore of Lake Sorell, and one object emerge frpm the remained in that area for ap- clouds travelling in an easter- WITNESS: At about.3:^5 p.m. proximately 3 to 10 minutes. ly direction and come to rest approximately, with some degree There was slight movement above Meredith or sometimes of daylight, I observed 3 ob- then, and I lost them in cloud. called Murdoch Point on the jects in the sky in. the NE: There, was broken cloud for a north shore of Lake Sorell. two larger, one smaller. 1 while, but they receded towards The secondary object was at watched them for some, time, the mountainous shore towards that stage of the piece noticed thinking they were rather un- Lake Penny (note: ... probably stationary towards Mt., Penny usual small clouds .or even air- means . Mt. Penny), which is much further to the north— craft; after observing them for known as the Hatchery shore .of approximately 2£ miles to the a while I noticed that they Lake Sorell. north. were moving in a different di- The main object was now very rection to the clouds. They CENTRAL RED LIGHT clear in definition. It;was an were too slow in movement to be elongated shape. It wasia long aircraft, or anything, and I The two were clearly visible disc type of sighting, with the was extremely interested in the there for a while, and then I red light very very 'strong, object at this time being more first noticed that underneath still pulsating, but the red than unusual.. each was showing a central, red lights around the corona also They remained in this area light which was pulsating, and seemed to be twinkling from red for a few minutes and I lost on the.one that appeared to be to white. At times.they seemed sight of them for about 3 or 4 larger or closer .there were to be travelling around the

Page 3 disc; at other times seemed to be quite stationary. It re- mained in this area for 8 to 10 minutes. ; too The sighting at all times o\rscujr«l for- clior wasn't clear because there was intermittent cloud that at times would partially obscure the main object. It was totally obscured for 2 or 3 minutes with a heavy bank of cloud that went through with a passing storm; it appeared again and appeared to be fractionally closer. Then all of a sudden it came directly towards us at phenome- mi le. cut out and was replaced by a na] speed. It appeared as very, very loud intense staticy though it was going directly LAKE SURFACE GLOWS noise. At one stage during a -<*• over the top of us — but-in ac- lull in the sighting I attempt- tual fact it came to rest ap- The beam traversed back to- ed to find stations on the proximately 1000 yards away and wards the centre of the area wireless; it did not respond. , assesed at approximately 500 from where the object was in When the vehicles had gone out feet up. the sky. It faded and fairly of sight within a minute or two It remained in this aro,a in quickly, and the surface of the the wireless came on and func- clear vision for quite some lake appeared as though it had tioned quite normally, and re- minutes, maybe 3, maybe *t minr a.bluey white flourescent glow mained quite normal thereafter. utes. It was very, very bright, over the water for approximate- These are the main points of intensly bright during the per- ly 20 or 30 feet above. Suffi- the actual sighting, but there iod of movement towards us, al- ciently that you could still were quite a few little inci- most to the extent it was like see the outline of the swamp dents here and.there that oc- the flash of an -acetylene strongly. The red lights had curred during the trajectory torch. When it came to rest, reappeared; the definition of of the vehicles. the main lights dulled. You the outline was quite clear. could see the' definition ' and Then, almost like a flash, outline, which appeared to be a it disappeared away very quick- QUESTIONS BY INVESTIGATOR round forming 'ring around the ly towards the NE. It travelled bottom of a dome, with a dome" at a collossal speed—as much TUFOIC: The moon did rise effect on the top. ••• as I would liken it would be in the SE—about 9:^5 p.m. This something in the way the tra- would be after the sighting. AREA COVERED BY BEAM jectory of a tracer bullet. WITNESS: Well, when it'just At this time the second ve- started to show approximately i The red light very, very hicle that had moved towards of an hour after the actual clear in the bottom; it moved Mt. Penny and had remained in sighting, but it was from the very, very well in a small de- that area for the whole time camp site in the SE down to- gree in a little arc back and disappeared at the simultaneous wards the lower part of the forth, then extended with col- time with the other one, in the lake. Towards the Guest House lossal light a beam, a cone- same direction. I cannot be area, which is more than a shaped beam down- towards the sure whether it disappeared in quarter of the compass spec- lake. the beyond, or went beyond the trum. The following night I This beam appeared to travel rim of the mountain, but it was was still at the lake and ob- towards the northern section of that quick that it was hard to served the moon rise which was the lake, which was the edge of be definite. a little later, but was the Robinson's Swamp, and it very same position, so there is no definitely was directed along CAR RADIO AFFECTED mistake on where it rises. The the extremity of the- swamp in only thing I was concerned on extending a distance of approx- During the period of the ve- checking up on the moon was the imately 2 miles. It was strong hicle being in the area of Mer- fact that when I first saw the enough that it lit up the side edith Point, my car radio, 3 objects at a great distance, of the mountain along from the which was in operation with the although it was quite daylight Point of Meredith to Robinson's door open--I had been waiting at the time, it appeared like Swamp, approximately 3/*» of a for the nine o'clock news — had light on cloud—and through Page 4 Sketch by witness

that... T: This was opposite the T: .You .were only getting a TUFOIC: Like the reflection swamp area and off the Meredith reflection, of the; light from of light of the moon on cloud. Pt. area. the object on the cloudside of W: Yes, that was my first W: So the object had to,be the. clouds that.were closest to impression, then I thought they centered oh : this side to be it. ... ' '.'"'. were aircraft. But when they able to reflect the light on W: Thats right, and there moved in closer into the area this side, while on the other was.no shadow of any doubt of of the sighting, actually the side this was in darkness and any fault there—the only time main sightings themselves were the.movement... the moon could have been of any almost in an opposite direction altogether as to what you would look, for the moon. Another thing with it top that was quite important, the cloud banks and the cloud cover .that was across the lake on quite a few occasions, anything up to. half a dozen times the light from the craft itself was show- ing up our side of the. cloud in bright 'relief, and this side of the mountain, so the l.ight had .to be reflected from this side.' • The drawing of the UFO Smith saw.

Page 5 consequence was;when I said— T: Now when the beam of W: No, 1000yds--he was a when I first saw these • 3 ob- light was over this swamp. 100 mile below me. jects in the distance, I yards area of beam on the T: You don't know these thought it was cloud, and by swamp. : .people's names. being bright it could have' been W: I would .say that the W: ' No I don't. .that because i t was quite day- main centre of .the beam would light, and the only thing that, have covered an area of 200 yds OTHER WITNESSES put the moon into the idea was or in excess of that—but it the fact that after this had also from the the edge of that T: Also led to believe there disappeared and it was all gone main point of beam it extended was somebody close at another I saw the moon rise and of a brightness, that lighted, up camp further down at the end of course I associated it. I the area for almost 2 miles Silver Plains swamp area. thought it was important this either side. . . . W: Yes, where the road first be noted and checked out. T: Did you notice any wild- meets the lake they also, too— life in the swamp; were there the other man told him that EFFECT ON WITNESS any effects. they saw it—but I didn't see W: Usually there are swans them at all—during the time T: At any time you had no back in behind the swamp and that I was there. And again I .^ feeling of being affected by sometimes duck, that would be don't know who they are or the closeness of the object. the only thing—and . I certainly where they came from. W: No, no physical phenomena didn't notice anything in any T: There was another wit- in any way, shape, or form, but way. ness involved; I believe they I did have a rather apprehen- . T: Did you notice anything also have notes and drawings of sive feeling, more or less like the next day. what they saw.. a sense of fear. ' W: As a matter of fact I W: Yes, well actually you T: Fear of the ".unknown. know one thing: there were no have a set of drawings and W: Well,' this was as close ducks sighted because it was notes there—but I told her you as you could describe -it--ex- the verge of the duck season— will, be seeing her and she pecting something sort of. cata- the following day when I was on could tell you herself her own clysmic to happen, but it did- the lake there wasn't a duck to story in her own way. n't. After the actual sighting be seen. Whether I saw any T: You mentioned also when itself I was left with a rather swan or not I can't recall. this object finally went away strange state of void. I felt T: You didn't have an ani- it went over Mt. Penny. rather uneasy and a little bit mal with you. W: Slightly south of Mt. unreal, but nothing physical in W: No. Penny in a NE direction. any way, shape, or form. T: You knew of other people T: At a very terrific speed T: It didn't make you feel at .SiIver Plains. that we would associate with a ill, headache, or anything. W: Yes, well there was a tracer. W: No, the only physical party'camped at the top of Sil- W: A phenomenal speed. effect I saw was the effect it ver Plains, which would have T: Up until this time you had on the radio. put them a mile or so below me. have never seen or experienced T: What about the intense I was talking - to one of the anything in. the way of UFOs, or brightness of it on your eyes. fishermen from that group'the. any other phenomena at all. W: To a degree, I noticed following day. He told me that W: All except heard of them, that each time the vehicle he was In the tent after dark, but I 've had no - experience of moved it glowed very brightly, but he didn't know the time, it before, and I was not very /^ but was nothing at all like the and it lit up the tent like convinced. I'm afraid, I cer- '- intensity of the beam when it daylight and they came out and tainly was not. Well, I didn't moved close i.n above, and when they could see this very bright have a closed mind on it, but } it directed the beam down, it object in the top end of the it was not important to me be- was a light like an acetylene lake. fore this affair. flash to a certain degree; it T: He actually witnessed T: You've no doubt this was did have a slight effect on,the this at a later time after your an UFO..... eyes. first sighting of it. W: There isn't any doubt of T: You couldn't look at it W: He saw what I did when this. I've had sufficent ex- di rect. the thing came in at its close perience to know that what t W: You could look at it and proximity and then to when it saw was an object; a vehicle in look away, but the only effect left. the sky. There's no doubt in it had was the intensity of the T: And. that was at 100 yds. the world and I saw it in close light during that period.of the to your campsite at its clos- enough definition to know what extension of the beam. est. it looked like.

Page 6 Pilot reports possible UFO transmission

DATE OF SIGHTING: March 6, 1975. over the radio; I gather the again a guesstimate -.only... REPORTED BY: Paul B. Jackson, general impression that there The glow I referred to did not T.U.F.O.I.C. was more than one light con- appear to be fluctuating, as in cerned over some small period burning, nor did it appear to of t i me. . , move in the short time I had it The following report was re- . "At, about 76 nautical miles in sight—about .,30 seconds... ceived from a commercial air- west of • Gambier, • I--noticed: to "Being open-minded enough' to line .pilot, and describes an the.right 'of the aircraft and admit that there are stranger observation made..on March 6, at about 5 miles or so • to the things in fact than in fiction, 33,000 v feet altitude during a north of us, a greenish glow on I'm completely open- to any in- flight between Melbourne and the'surface, visible with some fo, and without wishing! to be Adelaide, Australia. diffusion, through the layer of dramatic,', the idea of a;, flare "We had departed Melbourne stratiform cloud- below us. This at 33 grand is a bit. way-out; airport at 213*» EST/113** GMT en I passed to Adelaide AIC, who but, if:that's what it was, route to Perth, W. A. During confirmed the approximate area then fair enough." the climb, we encountered cloud on a cross-check being made on which generated St. Elmo's fire the chart accessible to AIC. "Immediately I tuned 500 khz UFO NEWSCLIPPING across .windscreen segments L1 SERVICE and .R1 of the Boeing 727-100 I on the aircraft's number two The UFO NEWSCLIPPING was flying in as co-pilot. Automatic Direction Finder, SERVICE will keep you in- "At 61 nautical miles east just on a punt. . There was some formed of all the latest United of. -Mt. Gambier,. the flight feverish ,morse code activity States and World-Wide UFO ac- engineer . sighted a falling for some, short time, then sl- tivity, as it happens! Our ser- .green object ahead and slightly lence. The ADF need.le pointed vice was started in 1969, at to the greenish glow, then re- which time we contracted with to, the right of the aircraft a reputable international news- nose, falling rapidly, no tail. turned to the 090/270 degrees "Unusable .Signal" direction, paper-clipping bureau to obtain The appearance .of the object for us, those hard to find UFO was .that, of a fal 1 ing .flare. I on cessation of the morse cod- reports (i.e., little known photo- took no notice in the initial ing. The coding was too fast graphic cases, close encounter instance, being concerned at to make out any letters clear-^ and landing reports, occupant that time with verifying our ly, and in any event, need not cases) and all other UFO re- estimated time of arrival over necessarily have been in plain ports, many of which are car- Gambier and being about to ask language English, despite the ried only in small town or the flight engineer to note the fact that.this was the maritime foreign newspapers. _, exact fuel over Gambier for distress frequency. There was nothing to be heard on 121.5 Our UFO Newsclipping Service later point of no return as- Report, is a 20 page photo-offset, "sessment. Mhz, the VHF distress frequen- monthly publication containing cy, at any time. This I advised the latest United States and "Ahead of us by some 5 min- to Adelaide .ATC, who acknowl- .utes was .the ' other domestic Canadian UFO newsclippings, edged my message. with our foreign section carry- carrier's. B727-100; that air- "On return from Perth some ing the latest English, Austra- craft .reported .the sighting of six hours or so later, there lian, New Zealand, South 'Afri- the light, to .Ade.laide .control was no visible evidence of any can, and other . foreign UFO on transfer to Adelaide -AIC newsclippings! We publish more activity in this ;area, and the over Gambier. We passed over radios : were silent - on the UFO reports from around the .Gambier at about .2200 EST/1200 aforementioned frequencies.... globe than ANY other publica- GMT and took up .a track of 278 "The other carrier's air- tion in the World! Stay informed degrees magnetic en route di- -subscribe to the UFO NEWS- craft-was at 31,000 feet . AMSL CLIPPING SERVICE! ' rect to . Esperance, W. A. ATC on 1013 mbs at the time. -... asked us to comment on.... the "Latitude of the glow: 37 For subscription information sighting made by the other Boe- 16 S; Longitude 139 10 E; ap- and sample pages from our ser- ing, a sighting which was also proximate." vice, write today to: made by .a domestic airline's UFO NEWSCLIPPING Fokker F27- as it passed over "I'd say the total... time SERVICE, Dept. S-V Ardrossan, S.A., on a southerly someone had had it 'in sight 3521 S.W. 104th to easterly heading. I made would have been in the order of Seattle, Washington, 98146 generally confirmatory remarks perhaps ten to twenty seconds,

Page 7 UFO's Behind the Iron Curtain By Joe Brill

ed. The outline of the 'para- Light beams EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another chute' dissipated somehow, in a series of articles which Iron having no clear boundaries and in USSR Curtain specialist Joe Brill has pre- pared from an unpublished series of at the moment of its deflec- tions some parts of it were NOVIKOV'S STATEMENT reports compiled by Soviet UFO ex- pert Felix Y. Zigel, assistant profes- sometimes lighter, sometimes sor at the Moscow Aviation Institute. darker, however preserving the "In the fall of 1960, I was color prevailing in a given in Turegakhskiy rayon, Gorno- from the light it was emit- position. altayskaya autonomous oblast, ting. "From one to one and a half 4 in the settlement of Berkh- "The body withdrew farther minutes after the body moved a- Biysk, which is situated on the and farther away parallel to way from the 'parachute' about very bank of the Biya River. the ground and, in proportion twenty meters (that's how it "Here I investigated a sec- to this, the light beam grew appeared and during this one tion of the river for, the con- longer, throwing its light on to one and a half minutes the .struction of a damless hydro- the cloud which had now become 'emitter' moved away from the electric power plant. The set- similar to a parachute but with 'parachute') it somehow moved tlement is small and consisted the only difference was that it in the opposite direction along of small boarding houses that was not stretched from the air the same axis without jerks. extended along the river in but it somehow wriggled its "The beam was shortened ac- one street. The side of the surface like a flag in a weak cordingly and the luminescence settlement away from the river wind. • ' of the 'parachute! was decreas- is closely adjacent to the "What was most instructive ed. Once, having reached the taiga. of all was the fact that the 'parachute; the beam seemed to "Evidently, therefore, in longer the beam of the body enter it. the evening as soon as the sun moving away from the 'para- sets it is already dark on the chute1 became, the lighter the "The luminescence of both ground but in return, the sky 'parachute1 itself became, ac- stoppedi Something like a cloud is easily observed and the quiring a blue shade permeated again appeared, and in the same stars appear early. with red streaks at one moment instant it moved slowly in the "In October, at approximately or, conversely, a red shade direction .of the taiga and 2300 hours,. I left the office permeated with blue streaks at there, blending itself into the together with a group of about another moment. darkness, it ceased being vis- fifty working people after a "It did not descend and did ible. conference. The office was lo- not rise. The beam of light "Everything that occurred cated at one of the ends of the fell on it exactly on the cen- lasted no more than five min- settlement and I set out for ter, not blinking and not bend- utes. It is interesting to home, which was in the center. ing at all. The beam was like note that after the cessation "After about twenty to the beam of a motion picture of the luminescence the sen- * twenty-five meters from the of- projector; narrow at the exit sation of onsetting darkness fice I glanced up at a com- from the body and expanding was absent as happens when you ; pletely clear sky and something toward the 'parachute1 which emerge from a brightly illumin- strange appeared; with complete it illuminated. ated room into an evening cloudlessness, one lone dark "The pencil of light was ex- street. All objects were dis- cloud was lit up by a weak red- tremely dense and the light was tinguished just as before this dish light (a hazy glow), and very strong, but not blinding, appearance. only then did I notice that it somewhat like a white lumines- "Turochak is a God-forsaken was oscillating. A pencil of cent glow but considerably place, especially in the time light began to emerge from the whi ter. period described. Berkh-Biysk cloud very slowly. The impres- "The body which was emitting is even more so. sion I received was such that the light was not visible, but "Here every person is in the some sort of body which emits from some unclear shadow at the public eye. There were no re- light seemed to be separating exit it was felt that it exist- search groups of the Academy of

Page 8 Sciences here then, which, away from each other. At first, worked in the Yakut SSR at the properly speaking, also caused the large object moved slower list' Maya airport as an avia- surprise among all those who than the second one,, and after tion technician.. left the conference which had both objects again appeared, "In March.of 1964, emerging just previously taken place. they moved on the same course from the club in the city of "Whether someone spoke at and with the same speed until Petropavlovsk at approximately this time or all remained si- they disappeared behind a moun- 2300 hours with my comrades lent I did not notice as I was tain peak. Perekhov, Negayeb and Yevmen- completely absorbed by the en- "This strange phenomenon was enko, I observed two j very t i re appearance. observed by several people be- strange discs which moved one "However, when the 'para- sides myself—co-workers of the behind the other and then re- chute1 disappeared a large scouting party." formed and moved as a pair a- group of people approached me (Signed) I.N. Almazov, Geol- long the front. and asked excitedly: 'what was ogist, Moscow B-150, Glebovski, "Passing almost over us, that?' I shrugged my should- Building 20, Apt. 78 they emitted light to the ers." ground, true, of weak intensi- MASHEK'S STATEMENT ty. In comparison the light of (Signed) Yu M. Novikov, City the discs was extremely bright. of Biysk - N. Trofimov Street, "I personally observed the I cannot describe the color; Bui Iding 43b - Apt. k2 following phenomenon in Sochi one had only to see it. It near the monument to Lenin seems to me that it was a dark ALMAZOV's STATEMENT which is in the square opposite bluish-violet color like the the building of the City Com- discharge of an electrical "The phenomenon under dis- mittee of the CPSU. spark. The edge was an exact cussion was observed in Febru- "It was a May evening in 1967 circle, stationary, as if dull ary or March of 1966. The ob- at about 2200 hours. A band of milky smoke attempted to go be- servation site is approximately bright green and bluish light yond the limits of the circle 120 kilometers northeast of appeared in the sky from the and glass walls would not per- Saranpul' (Berezovskiy rayon, direction of the sea and moved mit it to go out into the sur- Tyumenskaya oblast1) near the toward the mountains. rounding area. divide of the Urals range (ele- "It had the appearance of a "When the discs passed over vation on the order of 1300 to searchlight beam turned toward our heads and grasped us in the 1400 meters). The time was the ground and moving very rap- zone of illumination, I per- about 0800 hours local time. idly, in which regard no noise sonally felt (that's how it ap- could be heard and it could not peared to me then) something "Two luminous objects were be seen what was moving and observed practically overhead oppressive as if some natural emitting -such a light beam. calamity had occurred. A very against the background of a The light passed over the cloudless sky. One of them was unpleasant feel ing. ground in a /band approximately "At the time I thought that round, rather bright and yel- 300 meters wide and this band low-white in color. we had again launched some nov- of light, illuminating the elty into space. But nothing "The second object changed ground, flew by and was visible its appearance. ..At first it was reported on the radio nor for about a minute, moving away recalled the moon for shape and in the newspapers. in t-e direct ion~of the moun- illuminance and seemed to be tains. approximately half its size. (Signed) S. N. Popov, Air Then this disc became cloudy "It appears to me that this Force Reserve Officer Lugans- and smoke was clearly seen in was some sort of invisible ob- kaya oblast' Kommunarski rayon. ject which flew by very high its place. After a while, this Fashevka Station, Mira Alley, object disappeared and then a and emitted a band of bright BuiIding 2, Apt. 48 1ight on the ground in the form bright illuminated disc appear- WANTED ed similar to the first object of a search-light beam from in dimensions and appearance. which it became light as day UFO newsclippings. Please Bright, divergent beams of for about a minute." Keep them coming. They pro- light, as from the headlights vide valuable leads for us. (Signed) N. I. Mashek, Sochi .of an automobile, were. emitted We also forward them to Rod Pervomayskaya Street, 13, Apt. Dyke's newsclipping ser- from the second object twice 1 for approximately half a minute vice. Though we cannot ac- each time. knowledge each one individ- "Both objects moved to, the .. POPOV'S STATEMENT ually, they are greatly ap- northeast. At times they con- preciated. Thanks for your verged and at times they .moved "From . .1958 through 1965 I past help.

Page 9 Are they fallible? , Matching wits with extraterrestrials By Ron Westrum gestion runs counter to what is "mass hysteria" in relation to MUFON Sociology Consultant probably the belief of most UFOs would have a chance to Ufologists; I know it., contra- view the real thing - at first Richard Hall's comments in dicts the eloquently expressed hand. . - the January 1975 SKYLOOK on the position of Aime Michel. So far, the kinds of activi- question of matching wits with Let.me quickly assert that I ty have been closely confined the "spacemen" are very inter- am NOT in favor of -a hot .war in numbers, time, and geog- esting. However, I cannot agree with the ETIs, under conditions raphy. .Would, anyone like to with him that we ought to be that now exist'. But we mus.t consider what would happen if "throwing in the towel" just recognize that we are constant- the events which two summers because, of., the possibility of ly engaged in a BATTLE FOR IN- ago took place in Westmoreland being deceived by -the ETIs, or FORMATION with them. I think County, Pennsylvania, were to whatever one wishes, -to. call the statement that we are being be "generalized to the whole them. . kept in. the dark and confused United States?2 First of all, I must concede, by the ETIs. i.n various ways as Another question. Last De- that he is correct—in refer- to their identities, capabili- cember, many of us in MUFON be- ring to the situation we are ties, and numbers is. readily lieved that the Air Force was actually in--to indicate that justifiable in terms of sight- going to come out in that month the capabilities .of the ETIs ings of which we are all aware. and admit that UFOs exist. Ex- are -not comparable to the Rus- actly where this rumor first sians.. But we do not know HOW CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION started, and why, would make an far m, advance of.-the Russ.ians. interesting study. I would like - :..The. si tuat-ion may be closer UFO investigation is NOT 1ike to ask, however, what, we would to:Jthe.: pi ight :..of :.-the Aztecs ordinary scientific investiga- have done if this really hap-: when they first faced Cortez. tion; it is much closer to pened? What if the Air Force When. :the Aztecs first con- criminal - investigation, in claimed UFOs were real, and we fronted the.:. Spaniards ,.. they which the object of study tries were all required, by executive thought they-were gods; they to deprive -the -searcher of order, to report all sightings thought horse and rider were clues which are needed to fig- not to MUFON but to the Air one creature; -they were terri- ure out what happened. 1 -. Force? fi.ed by cannon., . In this sense, .we ARE con- I think we ought to begin to Again, we may be confronting stantly trying to match wits consider what we will do if the a culture immeasurably advanced with the ETIs. One can decide rates of UFO activity of cer- beyond -our own. But we ought for one's self whether the "ad- tain kinds increase. I think to KNOW this;, it should not be vances" we have made are due we ought to consider what we an assumption. , - largely to our own efforts, or will do if the ETIs do not rest to increased accessibility of content with harassing motor- ARE THEY GODS? the phenomenon .(through closer ists and farmers, but land approaches, etc.). openly or communicate with us To the ETIs are often attri- But this "battle for infor- in some unequivocal way. buted • many characteristics mation," critical as it is, is I think we ought to begin formerly- reserved for God: in only part of the story. Our now, in terms of using scenar- particular, omniscience and om- present style of investigation ios and "contingency" plans, to nipotence. If. one assumes these is predicated on one .critical think about what we will do if attributes are indeed possessed assumption: a relatively LOW we are forced to confront the by the ETIs, then if we ARE be- RATE of various kinds of.. UFO ETIs. A good place to start is ing deceived-by them, throwing activity. science fiction. One probable in the towel. would .be justi- This variable . is vital to scenario is Arthur C. Clarke's fied. .... consider, since a change (an CHILDHOOD'S END, in which ter- I would like to make the increase) in the rate of any restrial culture is crushed, reasonable assumption, however, one kind of activity could not through military might, but that they are, both intellec- cause immediate changes in so- through the sheer weight of tually fallible and physically cial patterns. A dramatic in- cultural superiority. vulnerable—possibly even .. to crease might cause the direct Our own culture is heavily weapons that we possess or and open involvement of the dependent, for its own sense of might soon develop. government, and the many per- self-esteem, on technological I recognize that such a sug- sons who like to talk about superiority. Scientists and

Page 10 their work have accordingly limits. Landing might not be have created interest in UFOs, high' status. Clearly, contact envisaged by overall policy, have sampled the population in with a technologically superior but might -be done anyway for a way unrelated to UFO activ- culture might force a change in the "kicks" of the individual ity. - • .. our emphasis on these values. ETIs. .1 would suggest a similar One strategy we could adopt, Therefore, also, those per- source would be small-town to cope with what might become sons .who are hurt,' killed, or newspapers, randomly distrib- a very serious problem of/our kidnaped by-UFOs would essen- uted around the country,;check-• self-image, would be a greater tially represent. accidents.. ed once a month by people who emphasis on those aspects . of This would explain much of the were not known to: the.:, editors our culture which are uniquely- bizarre behavior that led Ivan as UFO investigators.^ : human. In other words, we might Sanderson to suggest that the What are needed are silent emphasize civilization instead ETIs are insane.' "listening posts" .to monitor of technology. UFO activities without, them- - It is very likely that.humans THE BASIC PROBLEM selves being conspicuous.' will have to fight an over- Richard Hall has asked, what• whelming sense of futility, a But let us return to our can be done about deception.. sense that their own efforts basic problem. The need to keep Against an omniscient opponent, are worthless. Note: this track of various kinds of UFO the answer .is,-of course* noth- problem can arise even with a activity is vital. I would ing. Unt.il we establish, that••• "beneficent" culture1 pledged to suggest that most of the ways the ETIs are.omniscient, . how- a minimal degree of interfer- we measure UFO activity are un- ever, there are several rule.s.., ence. satisfactory and ad hoc. . . we can use in studying:, \,UFO, • At the lowest level, the sight ings. •.->•••.-•.;-• THEIR SOCIAL ORGANIZATION person who has no special in- '• • ' •']-•;•••• terest in UFOs gauges activity RULE ONE -..-:. I would like to raise another by how often he reads about i ...... point, which may not be so ob- UFOs in the newspapers. 1) The first rule is: what vious. . This regards the social . At the next level of sophis- does the sighting show . about; organization .of the ET.Is. We tication, the "buff" thinks in. CAPABILITIES, as opposed.to IN- often tend to think that they, terms of "flaps" of act.ivi.ty, TENTIONS? It is much harder to. being technologically more ad- which are defined by UFOlogists fake capabilities' than : it is vanced, have a, highly organized in the periodicals like SKY- intentions. Instead of . trying and disciplined social organi- LOOK. UFOlogists. themselves to interpret what the craft or. zation. . tend to measure activity in- entities SEEMED to be .doing Therefore, we interpret fly- terms of the volume of investi- (their motivations or goals)., bys, landings, contacts, and so gations they and other, investi- what did the sighting in. fact forth as part of a systematic gators are called upon to make. show them to be. capable,of ac- policy-:, the question is to de- Numerical .compilations are complishing? termine what the policy i.s. hardly any better, since they However, at least two other tend to reflect, disproportion- RULE TWO possibilities ought to be con- ately those areas which have sidered: 1) that there is no been highly searched: in other 2) The second rule ,is:- .be, policy and 2) that much of the words, they are an artifact of } cautious about . sightings or behavior_ that we see is not the researcher as much as of patterns of sightings that MAKE part of a policy, but the ex- the phenomenon. Thus, the ex- SENSE in. human terms. Not only pression of individual impul-- cellent research by Ted Bloe- may the "sense" involved, be er- ses, possibly in violation of cher on the 19^7 Wave reflects roneous, but it may actually be whatever the policy is. not only UFO activity but also contrived. In other wor;ds, the In the former case, the sole Bloecher's searching.^ "obvious" conclusions we draw guiding principle for contact Those areas of time and place may be those we are supposed to with terrestrials might be per- less intensely .searched are draw. It is.highly likely that sonal survival. In other words, less represented i.n. the data. the ETIs have evolved models there would be no restraints on What are needed are "Unob- of human society, and are using contact except those imposed by trusive .Measures," measures these models, to 'influence us.. > the dangers to welfare of the which register activity inde- It is probable, however, that individual ETIs. ' pendently of the researcher's these .models have. a certain The second possibility seems efforts. -> ....:, crudity, and that therefore to me the more likely. If there Probably the closest ,thing they may go a bit too far, and were a policy, it might be to .such measures so far., have occasionally show the nature of obeyed'with the same regularity been the fiallup-pol1s of 1966 the operation. . . . that terrestials obey the speed and 197^, which though they may (Continued) Page 11 RULE THREE humanoid contacts, first on a Although some men-in-black re- case-by-case basis, then on the ports seem to have some sub- The third and final rule basis of the whole sample. What stance behind them,12 the in- follows directly from number 2: has been the social reaction to terest in such reports is much any sighting involving close these contacts? In what direc- stronger .than the phenomenon contact is likely to be an at- tion has the "push" been? itself would warrant. After tempt to transmit a particular To those who believe that asking for MIB reports from message. The question that must the ETIs cannot be hostile (af- Skylook readers, the result was be asked, then, is: what net ter all, they have shown little a few meager reports. 3 impression .is the encounter hostility so far, compared to On the other hand, I got likely to leave, not on the ob- what they might .have done), more letters asking for infor- server, but in the minds of there is an obvious explana- mation about the MIB reports those to whom the encounter is tion: ETIs are getting us which all apparently supposed I related? ready, on a very slow basis, was receiving. Doubtless some For instance, let us take the for wider inter-species con- MIB-type harassment does exist; typical close-encounter sight- tacts. Thus the pace of activ- but the lore has by far outrun ing involving at least visual ity increases little by little. the phenomenon itself. contact with-humanoids. It seems extremely likely It is hard to deal with an In how

Page 12 BLE RESIDENTS, New York: Ace Books, 1973. UFO and creature observed A. Ted Bloecher, REPORT ON THE WAVE OF 19^7. Washing- in same area in Pennsylvania ton: NICAP, 1967. By Stan Gordon for about 4 minutes. 5. Eugene J. Webb, et al, The next evening at about UNOBTRUSIVE MEASURES: NONREAC- dusk a lone driver was heading TIVE RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL At approximately 10 p.m. on the night of May 18, 1975, Mr. home to Jeanette and was taking SCIENCES. Chicago: Rand Mc- a short cut just off of Route Nally, 1966. and Mrs. Philip Arlotta had just stepped into their car, 130 when something which was 6. The reason for the ano- moving to his left caught his nymity is obvious: once edi- preparing to leave a relative's home in the Gayville section of attention. He stopped his car tors learn one is interested in Greensburg, PA. and pulled back slightly. UFO reports, their propensity At a distance of a few hun- to print a report will change. Mrs. Arlotta had just start- 7. The opportunities avail- ed the car when she noticed a dred yards he saw what, at first able to the intelligence ser- strange object ahead of them in appeared to be a large German vices in this regard are of the sky. She called it to the Shepherd dog running on fours. course much more varied: use attention of her husband who However, the movement was more of uncorrelated targets'on. ra- told her to shut,- off-_ the .car like that of an ape. After 'motor,so that they could hear several seconds, the creature dar screens, photographic sat- if there was any sound. stood up on two legs and con- el1ites, and etc. The object was moving from tinued to run like a man into a 8. For a similar example east to west, and was described wooded area. f from the espionage field, see as being the apparent size of a The creature was described J. C. Masterman, THE DOUBLE- .cantaloupe. It was bright yel- as being 7 to 8 feet tall, CROSS SYSTEM IN THE WAR OF 1939 low at the point where the ap- black, and covered with thick to 19^5.' New Haven: Yale Uni- parent bottom .section of the hair. The witness said he was versity Press, 1972. This book oval-shaped object was fromed. a Bigfoot skeptic before, but demonstrates the "fine tuning" Above this area was,a darker now he is .a believer. .He said possible in a really good de- section, .giving the impression that he always felt that if ception operation. that .it was actually a part of such a creature did exist it 9. For example, see Charles the object but unlit. •might be seen in the wooded Bowen, Editor, THE HUMANOIDS. Above the dark section, was a areas of Canada, but not in London: Neville Spearman, 1969. row of approximately 6 square this area. 10. There is also the hy- windows from which a red light What is most Interesting is pothesis that ETIs don't care could be seen. After.the couple that the creature sighting and if humans get near them, either watched the object for about a the UFO sighting the night be- out of a feeling of invulnera- minute,-and since they heard no fore took place within a i mile 'bi-lity or indifference to their sound, they called their rela- of each other. There have not fate. I find this hypothesis tives to come out. A total of been any creature sightings in hard to swallow. 5 witnesses observed the object this area for over a year.; 11. THE HUMANOIDS, pp. 2k- as it appeared to move straight Is it a coincidence, or are 25. toward them at an altitude less the UFO and creature phenomena 12. See the Stan Gordon then a thousand feet. somehow tied together? article in the 197^ MUFON Pro- As it continued on a straight ceedings, at p. 1^7 and 148. course, it suddenly made an 13. If any Skylook readers abrupt turn to the left of the have been the subject of har- witnesses, creating a right assment by unknown persons, I angle course. As it made the Highly recommended would appreciate' knowing about turn,, the object turned from by SKYLOOK , it: Ron Westrum, 404 W. Sum- yellow to orange and began to mit, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103. gain altitude at a rapid pace. 1973 — Year of the Humanoids The witnesses jumped into by -Dave Webb I , INFO convention set the.i r car and proceeded to fol- low the object. .As they con- $3.00 from i The 1975 International For- tinued down a back road they MUFON tean Organization (INFO) con- noticed the object, as being 40 Christopher Ct. vention (Fortfest 75) will be very small and orange in color. Quincy, ,111. 62301 Aug. 8, 9, and 10 at the Shera- As they turned onto Route 130 ton-Oakbrook .in Chicago, Paul they lost sight of it. All to- Willis has announced. gether the object was observed

Page 13 Director's Message

By Walt Andrus

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Page 14 and the Uintah Basin UFO sight- ing as MUFON's liaison repre- roles in the direction of the ings will immediately recognize sentative to the Center for UFO organization. As a ;"grass the name of Joseph Junior Studies. roots" organization, the most Hicks, our new state-section Robert Smulling, state direc- important people are the field director for Uintah, Duchesne, tor for Illinois, has appointed investigators and their immedi- and Daggett counties in Utah. Melvin Pool, 850 North 36th ate state-section directors. Junior, a school teacher, may Street, Quincy, II 62301; tele- The four major officers on be contacted by writing to Box phone: AC 217 223-8355 as the board—director, deputy.di- 591, Roosevelt, Utah 84066; state-section director for rector, corporate secretary and telephone: AC 801 722-3317. Adams County to replace A. S. treasurei—are elected annually Junior is to be commended for Petzoldt. Mel is also, vice by the Board of Directors. his outstanding investigations chairman of the Tri-State UFO Other specialized directors are and reporting conducted in the Study Group. selected and appointed, with Uintah Basin area. the Board's approval, 'for an Robert Nantkes, P.O. Box 428, NEW CONSULTANT extended term of off,Ice. Riverton, Wyoming 82501; tele- In order to obtain geograph- phone: AC 307 856-5073, who was Wallace H.,Tucker, Ph.D., P. ical representation on the very involved with R. Leo 0. Box 266, Bonsai 1, CA. 92003; Board, four new Board positions Sprinkle .in the recently re- telephone: AC 714 728-4431- has have been established which are ported Carl Higdon occupant volunteered to serve as a con- of an elective nature, titled case, has been appointed state- sultant in astrophysics and "regional directors." North section director for Fremont field investigator. He comes America has been divided geo- County. Bob has a masters de- to MUFON highly recommended by graphically into four regions:. gree and is a rehabilitation David Webb and Peter Sturrock. Eastern U. S., Central- U.S., counselor. Western U.S., and Canada; Mexi- Ed Planz, state director for LEGAL ADVISOR co will have a reg i ona1; d i rec- Alabama, is pleased to announce tor when that nation becomes- that J. Richard Clark, 509 Con- The MUFON Board.of Legal Ad- fully organized. \ way Lane, Birmingham, AL 35210; visors has been expanded to in- Basically the Eastern Region Telephone: AC 205 591-3710, has clude Richard D. Ballou, an at- consists of the states ;on the volunteered to serve as state- torney-at-law, R. ,D. #1, Hones- Atlantic seaboard as far west section director for Jefferson dale, PA 18431; telephone: AC as Ohio (18 States).. The West-, and Shelby counties,, Richard 717 253-2088, who is also in- ern Region covers the Pacific has h-is B.A. from East Carolina terested in interplanetary com- coast, mountain States, 'Alaska - University in geography. His munication. and Hawaii (13 States). The former .intelligence service ex- He is working very closely remaining nineteen states com- perience will be an asset in with Edwin E. Bailey, state- pose the Central United'States his UFO investigations. section director for Wayne and Region, including Alabama, Ken- Due to the ad'ded responsi- Pike counties, who has recently tucky and Tennessee. The Cana- bilities incurred as president organized an effective field dian regional director will of the Center for UFO Studies, investigative team with- many represent the ten provinces and Sherman J. Larsen,. MUFON state- diversified technical disci- two territories in Canada. section, director for Cook plines involved. The regional director will County in Illinois, is relin- be elected from the current quishing his direct MUFON as- CORPORATE MEETING state or provincial directors signment after nearly six for the region encompassed as years. George E. Ostrowski, The Annual Corporate Meeting indicated above at the. MUFON 15520 Champlain, South Holland, of the Mutual UFO Network, Inc. Annual Corporate Meeting. Nom- Illinois 60473; telephone: AC (MUFON) will i be held Sunday,. inations will be submitted-by 312 331-^057; has assumed this July 6, 1975, from 9 a.nr. to the retiring Regional Director position effective May 2k, noon in conjunction- with the after polling the MUFON members 1975. George is a physicist at 1975 MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM at the in the region. I the Argonne National Laboratory Holiday Inn Downtown-Towers in Each regional director's term and has a B.S. in both Mechan- Des Moines, Iowa. All MUFON will be two years, except for' ical Engineering and Physics. members are invited to attend the year!1975-76 when two will He is an amateur radio operator so as to express the! r .opin-ions be elected for one year in K9PAW and "reports in" regular- and exercise their voting priv- order to start the rotation. A ly each Saturday morning at 8 i leges. •-•.-. nominating committee from each a.m. COST to the MUFON Amateur The MUFON Board of Directors region'will be appointed prior Radio Net operating on 3.975 i s N made up of fifteen- (15) to the Annual Meeting on July MHZ. George has also been serv- people who serve in very vital 6, 1975. :

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The NATIONAL ENQUIRER'S most Books) - COLONY: EARTH by Rich- Keel will realize that, to say recent articles pertaining to ard E. Mooney (Fawcett Books). the least, I do not always agree UFOs have included:" Prince UFO researcher/publisher R. with Keel's idea's on UFOs. Hav-- Philip's interest in -the UFO Michael Rasmussen has recently ing read his latest book, THE subject (April 29 issue), a brought out a revised and up- MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, I still see radar/visual sighting in New dated edition of his UFO BIBLI- no good reason to change my Yorki (May 6 issue), more on the OGRAPHY. This is a 2^-page ef- former opinions. I will say, Siberian "meteorite" of 1908 and fort, selling for $2.00. Obvi- however, that the "personal nar- actor Warren Dates' sighting re- ously, no listing of this size rative" style of writing employ- port (both in the May 13 issue). can be all-inclusive, consider- ed by Keel in this latest book The May k issue of' NATIONAL ing the number of UFO books, makes for interesting and enter- TATTLER contained an interview booklets and. pamphlets which taining reading. Keel says what with Dr. J. Allen Hynek, in have been published during the he has always said—there are no which he speculated that UFO oc- past 28 years, but this is a physical spaceships from the cupants are very probably "com- nicely-done survey .of the bet- stars; merely "transmogrificat- puterized", programmed robots." '• ter-known UFO tomes. . Rasmussen ions of energy under the control NATIONAL STAR for April 26 welcomes comments-, .criticisms of some unknown extradimensional contained a small item on recent and additional listings of ti- intelligence." While I would be N.C. reports and the May 3 issue tles from the readers.:. The BI fi- the last to deny such a possi- of STAR described the attempts ll OGRAPHY may be ordered from: bility, it is very difficult for of various psychics to contact Rasmussen -Publications - P. 00 me to reconcile such a view with UFO beings. ' Box 2656 - La Mesa,-CA 920^1. the TOTAL UFO evidence. But, A Canadian contact story with A recent Bantam paperback by theories and dissentions aside, intriguing similarities to the Carl.Sagan, OTHER WORLDS, .might I do recommend a wide reading Pascagoula,' Miss'., ''case is pre- be described as a watered-down for Keel's latest opus. Primar- sented by B. Ann Slate in the version of Sagan's previous: ily, . it is the story of his in-' June issue of SAGA. The trans- book,- THE COSMIC CONNECTION. If vest!gat ions of Mothman, UFOs, • cripts from hypnotic regression you're familiar with • the contactees and "Men in Black" sessions are wel1 worth reading. author's writings and utterances in West Virginia during 1966 and The June issue of FATE con- on space travel, extraterrest- '67. It will give you much food tains Part 1 of a two-part in- rial life, UFOs, von Daniken, for thought. The book is pub- terview of UFO skeptic'Phi1ip J. etc., you'll find very little lished by Saturday Review Press, Klas's by George W. Earley^. Even new material, in this book. It 201 Park Avenue South - N.Y., though Klass1 theories are- sadly does contain a wide variety of. N.Y..-10003; the price is $7.95. lacking, it is still of interest photos, illustrations, cartoons to learn how: he thinks. In ad- and other items of interest. Of dition to Part 2 of the inter- course, when Sagan says such view in the July FATE, Dr. Hynek things as "I don't know:why UFOs Beautiful afghan will- '-have 'a review/article of are never sighted over large to be raffled Klass' latest book, UFOs EX- cities by hordes of people" and PLAINED. "The reliable (UFO) cases are Peter Kolosimo's TIMELESS uninteresting and the interest- Beautiful heirloom qual- EARTH is now available in a Ban- ing cases are unreliable," one ity, large afghan will be tam paperback. Other recent has to wonder about the accuracy .raffled at the annual UFO paperbacks (all of which, will be of anything else he might say! picnic at Lake Carlyle, IL. reviewed in future columns) in- But, what the heck, it'll prob- on . Aug. 17, 1975. W.inner clude: THE DEVIL's SEA by Eliz- ably be good for a few more ap- need not be present. abeth Nichols (Award Books) - pearances on the "Tonight" show,, To receive a .chance send THE MOON: OUTPOST OF THE GODS by If you want the book, it can be $1.00, and your name, ad- Jean Sendy . (Berkley Books) -. ordered from Bantam Books, Inc. dress, and zip code to UFO Study Group, P. 0. Box UFOs AND THEIR MISSION IMPOSSI- 666 Fifth Avenue - N.Y., N.Y0 BLE by Dr. Clifford Wilson 10019 for $1.95.; 6631, St. Louis, MO. 63125. (Signet Books) - THE MYSTERIOUS Anyone who has read my reviews PAST by Robert Charroux (Berkley of previous books by John A,,

Page 16 International Coordinator Richard Hall Denmark photo Through the Danish magazine announces plans, requests assistance UFO CONTACT (I GAP JOURNAL), we have learned add!tional detaiIs is my conviction that an inter- national perspective on UFOs is concerning alleged UFO photos essential, and I will work to- taken by Mr. Jorma Viita in the ward compiling a world-wide vicinity of Odense, Denmark, (see SKYLOOK issues of, Novem- overview of case reports. ber, 197A; December, 197^; Feb- Richard Hall, V»18 39th ruary, 1975; and March,< 1975. Street, Brentwood, MD 20722 The additional information indicates that Mr. Viita has Astronomy conference continued to see and photo- program includes graph UFOs—at least 16 times, according to reports which may extraterrestrial life not be entirely up to date. A session on extraterrestrial These photos have indicated life and intelligence will be a many different types of UFOs, Richard Hall feature of a major joint con- including one similar to the ference on amateur astronomy famous June 1, 1967, photo from I am pleased to accept the scheduled Aug. 7-10, at the Spain (what appears to be the position of MUFON International Golden Gateway. Hotel in San .letter "H" with a cross .mark- Coordinator, and will attempt to Francisco. ing on the bottom). build on the solid foundation Aug. 10 has been designated The photographer i.s 2k years established by Joe Brill. I am Extraterrestrial Intelligence old, from Finland, works, in presently studying the resumes Day for the WAA/ALPO/AANC joint Odense as a carpenter, became of the overseas representatives conference, according to Ter- interested .in UFOs -.in,. 1966 and members, whose continued ence Terman, chairman of the after reading Adamski's INSIDE support and help is invited. ETI session and papers editor THE SPACE SHIPS, is a subscrib- Contributions of UFO reports, for the conference. er to a Finnish UFO magazine, news clippings, and commentaries Dr. Jacque Vallee of the In- and reportedly is not interest- on governmental policies and stitute for the Future will ed in publicity. private .activities will, be wel- serve on ,the ETI discussion He reports that he goes out come. I will endeavor .to cor- panel along with Dr. John Bill- looking for .UFOs at least once respond regularly,, but please ingham of NASA/AMES and Dr. a week, and sometimes two or remember that I am a ''weekend Barney Oliver of Hewlett-Pack- three times a week. On only warrior"; there are many of you, ard. Dr. Harold Weaver of the one occasion were there other but only one of me. University of California Berk- witnesses (June 22, 197*0.. My plan is to work through eley Astronomy -Department will The multiple sightings re- foreign embassies,in Washington serve as moderator. ported will automatically cause and through the Department of Anyone attending the con- some persons in the UFO field State to enlarge the network of ference may submit a paper for to write off these experiences. overseas representatives and .consideration. Only abstracts These reports, like .other correspondents,, Any MUFON mem- (approximately 110 words) need unusual reports, should: be bers who are willing and able to to be sent in. advance,..and studied and analysed. If one do translation work, please send those on UFOs must . reach Paul photo .can be shown Ito be a me a post card indicating the .Cerny, .MUFON, P.O. Box . 1072, fake, then all should be sus- languages you can translate. Mt. View, CA 9^0*42, by Aug. 2, pect. With at least T6 sight- I particularly invite from Cerny will evaluate all papers ings and even more individual members in other countrjes a on UFOs, and papers given at photos .to work with, a hoax list or chronology of signifi- the conference will be retyped should prove .more difficult. cant, cases that have occurred in and printed in the conference As part of the effort .to your country, regardless of proceedings. learn more about these -sight- date. Please include date, lp- Registration fees for . the ings, we are continuing ef- cation (latitude and longitude -conference are $7 for ind.ividu- forts to contact the German and if possible), and brief descrip- als and $8 for a family. Field Japanese witnesses to .the June tion. Please indicate how much trips are extra.. Additional 22, 1971*, sighting. Additional investigation has been accomp- information is available from detailed information wi'll * be lished and what kind of documen- Frank A. Miller, 779 Montecito printed in a future issue of tation exists in each case. It Center, Santa Rosa, CA 95^*05. SKYLOOK.

Page 17 Can weather radar photos verify sightings? by David Branch ^0 seconds during severe weath- age is available during bad Santa Ana Register er. They are stored at the fa- weather while the unidentified cility of the Environmental cases are favored by clear (Copyright 1975 by David Data Service in Asheville, N.C. weather, according to available Branch) "The radars have range modes statistics. A leading meteorologist and of 125 and 250 mile radius... "Nevertheless," Kuettner aerospace scientist thinks The 250-mile range provides a- concluded, "the effort is small weather radar photographs taken bout 65 per cent coverage of and inexpensive, and.no major in the U.S. should be scanned the air space volume up to support is required. If it is for unidentified flying ob- AO.00'0 feet over the entire unsuccessful, nothing is lost, jects. United States. but if it is successful it may Dr. Joachim P. Kuettner, a "The corresponding figures add a powerful data piece to former senior scientist at the for the 125-mile range is about specific case studies. This Air Force Cambridge Research 28 per cent.. Overlapping cov- information may already exist Center, Mass., outlined his erage would increase the fig- but has not been recovered." startling suggestions on Jan. ures to a maximum of 80 per Dr. Kuettner's serious ap- 20 at a meeting in Pasadena cent." proach to the UFO problem, and sponsored by the prestigious Kuettner believes that a his suggestions for improving American Institute of Aeronaut- complete, search of the radar case data, carry special weight ics and Astronautics (AIAA). photographs for anomalous because of his background. From Kuettner is currently work- speeds and flight paths indi- 1958 to 1960 he was director of ing on scientific projects for cating UFOs would be too ex- the Mercury-Reds tone rocket the World Meteorological Organ- pensive. But he does think project for the U. S. Army Bal- ization, Bracknell, Berkshire, that the relatively small cost listic Missile Agency; he work- England. for certain selected studies, ed at NASA's Marshall Space Referring to the problem of in terms of money and effort, Flight Center in 1960 and 1961, improving UFO case studies, would be worthwhile in cases and was a deputy director of Kuettner said: "Many people involving close UFO approaches. Saturn-Apollo rocket systems, have discussed various schemes "For example," he said, "In 1962-1965;. he was chief space and we have done the same in the wel1-publicized case of scientist of the National En- pur committee (the UFO Com- Captain (Larry) Coyne and his vironmental Satellite Center, mittee of the AIAA). helicopter crew a double target Wash., D.C., 1965-1967; and in "Most of these schemes... may be found." (Coyne's heli- 1967 he became director of Ad- are too costly and require ma- copter was reportedly buzzed by vanced Research Projects for jor support. We have, however, a mysterious cigar-shaped ob- the National Oceanic and At- come up with one relatively in- ject with a dome at 11 p.m., mospheric Administration. expensive idea... Oct. 18, 1973. The grey, metal- "If we remember...that about lie looking object, about 60 20 per cent of all unidentified feet long, stopped directly Michigan picnic flying object cases are 'close over the helicopter, which was encounters' including landings, returning to Cleveland Hopkins scheduled for June 22 the possibility arises to con- Airport from Columbus, Ohio. The first Michigan MUFON firm these reports by actual The helicopter for unknown Picnic has been scheduled for radar records." reasons suddenly gained nearly 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 22, at Kuettner. says that 80 per 2,000 feet in altitude.) A the home of Bob Stinson, 2903 cent of the U.S. is covered by double target on radar-scope Sheffield Court, Ann Arbor. weather radars that may detect photos would offer tangible This will be a family affair, UFOs. confirmation of the helicopter and guests are requested to "The National Weather Serv- crew's report, and might add bring meat to barbeque, plus "a ice operates approximately 100 additional details about the dish to pass." Bob requests weather radars 2k hours a day UFO itself. that those planning to attend in the United States to pro- "A possible drawback of this contact him (phone 313-991*- vide information to the various approach," Kuettner said, "is 0927) so that the food dishes forecasting, warning and clima- the lack of good radar coverage can be coordinated. A dona- tological centers," he said. at low levels (where most tion of $1.50 per adult or "Photographs of the...scopes 'close-encounters' occur) due $2.50 for a family will be are taken once every hour dur- to the curved earth geometry. collected for drinks and other ing fair weather and once every Furthermore, best radar cover- expenses.

Page 18 1975 MUFON Symposium program The 1975 Mutual UFO Network ordinator, associate to the Motel reservations should be Symposium on Saturday, July 5> Center for UFO Studies, and made by contacting the Holiday at Des Moines, Iowa, will get Skylook staff member; "Human- Inn of Des Moines Downtown- underway at 8 a.m. with regis- oids," conducted by Ted Bloe- Towers, 1-235 and 6th Ave., Des tration and the opening of ex- cher; "Propulsion Methods," Moines, Iowa 50309 (telephone hibits. The theme of this conducted by John F. Schussler, 515-283-0151). Reservations may year's program is "UFO's— deputy director of MUFON, aero- also be made through your near- Search for a Scientific Break- space engineer, and Skylook est Holiday Inn. Be sure to through." staff member; and "Instrumenta- tell the Holiday Inn that you The morning session will open tion" (to be announced). want one of the 175 rooms at 9:00 with a welcome by Sym- Dinner is scheduled from blocked off for the Symposium. 5:k5 to 7:15 by advance regis- posium Co-chairman Forrest 1974 MUFON UFO Lundberg on behalf of the Mid- tration. SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS Iowa UFQlogists, hosts of this The evening session will feature a talk by James M. Mc- "UFO's—An Issue Whose Time year's symposium (Dr. Desmond Has Almost Come" By Ralph Bragg is the other co-chair- Campbell, MUFON director of Blum man). Mufon Director Walt An- research and author of UFOLOGY —NEW INSIGHTS FROM SCIENCE AND "Religion and UFO's: The Extra- drus is scheduled to extend sensory Problem" by Barry H. greetings from 9:10 to 9:20, COMMON SENSE, on "Interpreting Downing, Ph.D. The first featured speaker, Reports of UFO Sightings." A panel critique featuring "UFO Trace-landing Cases" by Dr. David M. Jacobs, APRO con- Ted Phillips sultant and author of THE UFO symposium speakers and a ques- tion and answer period is "Journey Into the Hill Star CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA, will Map" by Marjorie E. Fish present "An Expanded Vision of scheduled for 9:30 to 10:30 p. m. to wind up the symposium. "Saucers, PSI and Psychiatry" UFO Research" from 9:20 to by Berthold E. Schwarz, M.D. 10:30. The annual MUFON corporation Following coffee break, the meeting for MUFON members only "Flying Saucers and Physics" by second featured speaker, Sher- will be held Sunday morning Stanton T. Friedman man Larsen, president of the from 9:00 to noon. "UFO's, in Relation to Creature Center for UFO Studies, will Sunday afternoon will feature Sightings in Pennsylvania" by speak on "The Center for UFO a workshop session entitled Stan Gordon "Techniques Employed in Field Studies and the UFO Central 1973 MIDWEST UFO Situation." Investigations and the New SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS Lunch will be from noon un- Field Investigator's Manual." Moderators will include Ted "UFO Flight Characteristics" til 1:30 p.m., with special presented by John F. Schuessler luncheons scheduled for Amateur Phillips, Ted Bloecher, Ron Westrum, John Schuessler, and "Landing Traces, Physical Evi- Radio (Dr. Willard P. Arm- dence for the UFO" presented by strong, moderator) and for MU- Walt Andrus. The session will Ted Phillips FON Consultants (James McCamp- last from 1:30 to 4 p.m. "Vision, Photography & UFOs" bell, moderator). Each speaker's presentation, presented by Adrian Vance The afternoon session will plus additional papers, will be "Ufology and the Search for get underway at 1:30 with a published in the Proceedings of Extraterrestrial Life" presented talk by Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle, the Sixth Annual (1975) Sym- by Stanton T. Friedman member of the National Enquirer posium. The 1975 Proceedings "The Embarrassment of Riches" UFO Blue Ribbon Panel and APRO will be available at the Sym- presented by Dr. J. Allen Hynek Consultant, on "UFO Research; posium for $^.00, or by mail "Some Questions Concerning Dr. Problem or Predicament? after July 5 for $*».50 in the Menrel's Biblical Exegesis" sub- At 2:30 p.m., Ted Bloecher, U.S. and Canada, and $5.00 in mitted paper by Dr. Barry H. MUFON state-section director other countries. Downing and Skylook staff member, will Advance Symposium reserva- For the 1974 or 1973 speak on "A Catalog of Humanoid tions may be secured by writing MUTUAL UFO SYMPOSIUM Reports for 197V to Mid-Iowa Ufologists, Forrest PROCEEDINGS, send $3.25 Following coffee break, R. Lundberg, treasurer, Apt. 2, ($4.00 outside the United States Specialization Workshops will 3215 Grand Ave., Des Moines, or Canada) by check or money " be offered on "Landing Case Iowa 50312. The cost for all order, to MUFON UFO NET- sessions and the banquet is WORK, INC, 40 Christopher Traces," conducted by Ted Phil- Court, Quincy, III. 62301, U.S.A. lips, MUFON specialization co- $15.00.

Page 19 Recapping and commenting By Richard Hall stronomy

(This column is directed to- interesting comparison to the Notes wards articles appearing in the sketch in SKYLOOK. By Mark Herbstritt April, 1974, edition of SKY- Michel's FLTING SAUCERS AND LOOK) . THE STRAIGHT-LINE MYSTERY con- JULY SKY , ' I tains a number of references to Many of the UFO reports in "cloud cigars"—a loosely ap- Mercury—it is greatest west- I this issue include recurring plied designation since the UFOs ern elongation on the 4th, so | features worthy of some special are sometimes spherical or disc- for a few days at this time it ]' like. However, the elongated may be seen very low in the research. Are there MUFON mem- east just before sunrise. ,| bers who would be willing to UFOs (cylindrical or spindle- compile chronologies of them as shaped) with associated turbu- Venus'—now closing towa^d-s "; an aid to research? The features lence, clouds or wisps of smoke, the sun, it is noticeably lower' jf include electromagnetic effects sometimes a rumbling sound, and In the sky at sunset, but ; on aircraft, UFOs emitting light often accompanied by smaller ob- brighter than before; greatest beams, UFOs with colored body jects, constitute a body of re- brilliancy i.s on the 21st. s lights (not patterned), UFOs ports with a strong family re- with secondary objects ("satel- semblance. Mars—is in Aries. It rises ) lite objects," usually smaller Not to be overlooked is the about midnight and dominates ...^ than the main object). similarity to tornado phenomena this part.,of the sky during the -: Of special interest is the (turbulent clouds, rumbling, early mornrhg hours. '• April 6, 1974, Los Altos, Cali- luminous phenomena). -.In STRANGE PHENOMENA, William Corliss re- Jupiter—is in Pisces. It ; fornia cylindrical object caus- rises about an hour before mid- -,j ing turbulence in surrounding prints an account from SCIENCE night. .^ fog, emitting "lightning-like Sept. 9, 1f66» of a tornado with reflections," and moving with "electric blue 1ight" (of, vio- Saturn--!t is too close to 1 erratic bursts of speed before let-blue light in French UFO the siih for easy observation, :| departing upwards at a sharp cases), -balls of 1 irght emanating conjunction being on the 15th. j angle. This report has much in from t.he cone of the tornado, common with Vat lee's Type II etc. "The lights darting around The Delta Aquarid meteor ;* ("Cloud Cigar") as described in in the clouds were sort of lum- shower reaches maximum on July * CHALLENGE TO SCIENCE (p. 34, 54- inous and appeared to be more 29. "; 55). There a 1964 case is re- round in shape than anything else...they were above a dense A REVISED COSMOLOGY ported in which the UFO was "al- By most boiling out" wisps of layer of clouds, and bluish Merrill B. Taylor smoke, emitting a flash of white in col or...they were "' T'' light, and abruptly darting for- shooting around." (Corliss GLD- How can UFOs make sharp, right ward at one point. 015)o angle turns, or instantaneous In THE TRUTH ABOUT FLYING Weather Bureau data for April stops and reversals? SAUCERS (p. 146-151), Aime 6, 1974, around Los Altos, CAIi- How can 'they fly at speeds of Michel reports the October 17 & fornia, would be particularly 3-4.000 m.p.h., and yet fail to 27, 1952, "cloud cigars" with valuable for analyzing that UFO create sonic booms? satellite objects observed over case. This booklet presents a revised Oloron and Gail lac, France, In- cosmology in which these "im- possible ' phenomena might not cluding falls of "angel's hair." WANTED The secondary objects displayed be impossible. what appeared to be electric arc Back issues of FLYING Physics says that these phenom- flashes between pairs and moved SAUCER REVIEW. Please list ena cannof'happen. But they do happen, as attested by ,mahy^ with bursts of speed in zig- issues available and v zags. In both cases the larger thousands of observers -" RE- 1 price. VISED COSMOLOGY explains UFOs were cylindrical (as op- how they CAN H'AR.gClif1 posed to elliptical or spindle- SKYLOOK shaped). A sketch of the phe- 2.6 Edgewood Drive Price $3.00, postage paid from: nomenon appears opposite page Quifvcy, IL 62301 1309 Broadway Dept. S-2 194 (Figure 27) and makes an Little Rock, Ark, 72202

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