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UFOS: a IDSTORY 1959 APRIL - JUNE By THE FIFfH HORSEMAN OF THE APOCALYPSE UFOS: A IDSTORY 1959 APRIL - JUNE by Loren E. Gross Copyright © 1999 Fremont CA 'UFOs are the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse." --Dr. Lincoln La Paz DEDICATION: This history is dedicated to the memory of~rancis R. "Dick" Scobee ofCle Elum, Washington, Mission Commander of the space shuttle Challenger and a "shirt tail" relative on my Mother's side of the family. WANTED: Any material related to the summer 194 7 flying saucer wave. Contact: Project 194 7 Box 391 Canterbury CT 06331 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: I would like to thank pioneer UFOlogist Vincent Gaddis for the gift ofhis collection of UFO newspaper clippings covering the early years of the UFO mystery, as well as George Earley who took the time and trouble to copy considerable material for my use from his UFO files; and Stanton Friedman, who was equally helpful by permitting access to his extensive library dealing with aerial phenomena. Furthermore, Lucius Farish has provided some vital items, good advice, and strong encouragement. Similarly, Dr. Richard Haines gave a lot of help, as did Lawrence Fawcett. Mr. Fawcett's entire UFO collection is now available to UFO research­ ers at the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO museum. During my visit there, the members of the staff were very friendly and helpful. Clauge Mauge of France and Hilary Evans ofEngland provided information and news clip­ pings from Europe. Tom Benson ofNew Jersey was kind enough to share some rare UFO news bulletins which might have been otherwise unobtainable. Richard D. K.loian of Richmond, California, who conducted extensive searches ofback issues of the New York Times, deserves a mention; as does Paul Cerny, active for more than 40 years in NICAP and MUFON, who gave me a big stack of UFO documents from his personal ftles. Ed Stewart of North Highlands, California, was instrwnental in obtaining complete sets of important publications, hard to find microfilm, various government documents, and other items too numerous to list. I would also like to express my gratitude to Barry J. Greenwood who provided so much UFO material from his huge personal collection, a collection which must equal or exceed any other in the world. The scrapbooks ofUFO news clippings that Leon Davidson donated to Columbia University were put on microfilm and made accessible due to the efforts of Mr. Greenwood. Another big help was the collection ofLes Treece-Sinclair of Elk Grove, California, which contained a number of rare items. Considerable assistance was provided by the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) which has an enormous UFO archive that includes the records and sighting reports of the defunct National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), as well as the critical ''Ruppelt Papers." Another source of great importance was the voluminous UFO research files of the late Dr. James McDonald at the Special Collections Division, University of Arizona; Tucson, Arizona. The Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library, Clarksburg, West Virginia, has the papers of the late Gray Barker. The material is readily available to interested researchers. Other names I should mention include Roderick Dyke, the editor ofthe U.F.O.R.C. Journal, which evolved into the UFO News Clipping Service; Dr. Willy Smith, Richard Hall, Karl T. Pflock, Domimique Weinstein, Dr. Micheal Swords, and Dr. Thomas E. Bullard who gave me a copy of his Airship File, a huge unpublished work. Recently considerable information has been arriving from Ms Wendy Connors and Mike Hall. A lot of it is from interviews of retired Air Force officers willing to talk to serious historians. Ms. Connors and Mr. Hall also have located many documents that tell us more about persons and organizations involved in UFO investigations. Murray Bott of Ackland, New Zealand, has a big collection ofUFO bulletins, news clippings, and official documents from Australia and New Zealand. He was nice enough to provide photo­ copies of many pre- 1960 items. Arcturus Books, Inc. 1443 S.E. Port St. Lucie Blvd. Port St. Lucie, Fl 34952, owned by Robert C. Girard, is an excellent source of UFO material. It's a business of course but Mr. Girard provides a definite service to UFOlogists since he specializes in the subject sells all kinds of UFO items, even boxes of odds and. ends. What's more, he tells it like it is. If a book is full of nonsense, he will acknowledge the fact in his ordering catalog. Many of his brief critiques are quite amusing and at the same time quite effective in summing up what author is trying to say. Ander Liljegren's Arkivet for UFO Forskning in Norrkoeing, Sweden, is one of the world's best sources of UFO information, especially European, and is highly recommended to anyone seriously considering research into UFOs. Finally, and most of all, I must praise Jan L. Aldrich of Canterbury, Connecticut, who is a kind of superman in the data gathering community and has generously shared hundreds of items from a vast research effort (Project 194 7) currently in progress. SPECIAL THANKS! I would like to take special notice of Bob Gribble's gift of his news clipping collection and source notes for the years 1800-1996. Bob wanted his material put to good use I will make every effort to do so. Many items from his collection form a vital part of this booklet, as they will, I'm sure, of subsequent booklets and any revisions of previous works. Loren E. Gross UFOs: A HISTORY 1959 APRIL-JUNE "Top Secret Information." There was a series of extraordinary UFO incidents in Brazilian territory during the 1957-58 time period. While there were some official efforts made to keep certain facts from becoming public, such a policy was very hard to implement. Realizing that total secrecy was a faint hope, Brazilian authorities did acknowledge that certain events had transpired. Some of the data, however, remained "Top Secret." · Civilian UFO investigator Olavo Fontes was able to learn something about this "special" information. The Itaipu fortress UFO "attack" was a good example. He learned that the coastal gun battery had expenenced a total loss of electrical power during a UFO close approach (and that a joint American-Brazilian military team investigated the "attack."). One other case that had its "Top Secret" aspect was UFO activity at Trindade Island. According to Brazilian newspaper reporter Paulo Campos, who claimed his news source was the "best possible," the Trindade case made a deep impression on the military because radio transmitters and any device with magnetic needles creased operating while a UFO remained in the vicinity. The loss of electrical power was the "Top Secret" part ofthe Trindade story. When a "Secret" memoran­ dum on th.e Trindade case was providea to members of the Brazilian House ofReJ?resentatives on April 17, 1958, the document omitted any mention of electrical failures. Brazilian Navy Minister Admiral Alves Camera confirmed the existence of something classified higher than ~-- "Secret." During an interview with the press concerning the Trindade case, Admiral Camera said: " .. the Braz1lian Navy had a big secret which cannot be released, because it cannot be explained." (1.) Civilian UFO investigators and researchers in America often wondered about BLUE BOOK' s apparent lack of enthusiasm about electromagnetic reports(EM cases), especially the spectacular car stopping incidents in 1957 at Levelland, Texas.· Was there a "Top Secret" element to UFO reports beirlg compiled by the U.S. Air Force? The Kinney case may provide a clue. "Why, what have I done?" The climax to the to the November 11, 1958, Kinney case. Dr. Robert Kinney, whose wife was a Lt. Colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, wrote Dr. J. Allen Hynek about a UFO that passed close by his house in 1958. Mrs. Kinney was the only one home that night except for the family pets. Considerable electrical damage was done to __electrical wiring and appliances (For the details the reader is referred to my history booklet coverirlg the date: 11 November 58). Months after the UFO irlcident Mrs. Kinney received a surprise phone call. Mrs. Kinney's husband tells the story: "In the sprirlg of 1959 Forbes Air Force Base phoned my wife to report 'at once' to the base commander. She changed irlto her C.A.P. uniform and drove the fifteen miles. With the commander were the provost marshal, the oper­ ations officer, and (she seems to recall) a visiting general. Like a slap in the face, the commander's greeting to her was, 'If you were under my command, Colonel, I'ld demote you.' It wasn't friendll:. She plead[?] surprised, ' Why, what have I done?' He told her: 'Why didn t you call me just as soon as you saw that UFO in your yard?' She answered, 'I was afraid it would be pre­ sumptuous to phone the base commander about such a thing at 1:40 a.m. to tell him.' He expfairled why he felt frustrated, 'What did you do with the refriger­ ators, and the radios, and those broken burned-out fuses?' She recounted. "I called the electrician. I had to feed my dogs [We raised a kennel full of anoth­ er dozen spaniels, besides those that slept with us] and all that fresh meat was about to spoil. I threw the fuses in the trash. I got the wiring replaced so we wouldn't set fire to the house.' He bemoaned, 'The Air Force has waited for a Ion¥ time to get their hands on such motors, and things that have reacted to a UFO s approach.' !My wife, despit.e all her years of servirlg the Air Force auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol, and her intensive study to ascend up through the ranks, had never heard a sirlgle thirlg about it's concern with UFO's].
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