Response, 1969 Spring

RE ROSARY HILL COLLEGE | fé y Sky Mystery Are We Alone? RESPONSE The ROSARY HILL COLLEGE Spring 1969 Unusual Volume III | Number 1 Co-Editors Donna M. Geary Director of Alumnae Relations What is the "unusual?" It could be Joyce Neville the only one of a kind like the first Director of Publications trip to the moon, or it could be one in a billion, like the intricate pattern of a snowflake. It could be strange objects flying through the sky, or it CONTENTS could be a fascinating new way to teach a college course. 2 Editorial: The Unusual We get so blasé with our "noth 3 Sky Mystery — Are We Alone? ing new under the sun" philosophy that we miss interesting, even excit 7 Nun Does "Her Own Thing" ing, events and experiences. Some In Encounter with the Unusual times the reason we miss them is that details are omitted which would send 8 History Reborn in a Chaucerian our minds racing along unexplored Looking Glass horizons, or they are couched in such dull rhetoric that we leap hurriedly 11 Containment: Death For into the next article or televised news Educated Man item. So we gathered stories on activi 12 Querying, Questioning — ties, both in the skies and on the Qualitative Computation campus, which we think can stretch the thoughts of educators and lay 13 Response From Alumnae men alike. With an open mind and perhaps even a gift of creativity in the idea realm, some of our readers PHOTOS may develop new insights and meth Louis Harasty — Page 7, Page 9 (dancers), ods of application in their own fields Page 11, Page 12. by finding out some of the "new Barbara Jones Smith— Page 9 (Sister Geor things under the sun" — and the gia, banquet table). moon — that are being experienced by Rosary Hill people. What is the "unusual?" That is for you to say. The Editors Rosary Hill RESPONSE is published quar terly by Rosary Hill College, 4380 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y., for distribution to alumnae and friends of the college. It is printed in Buffalo. Editorial address, Alumnae Office, 4380 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. 14226. Second class postage paid, Buffalo, N. Y. Sky Mystery— Are We Alone? COVER PHOTO BY JAMES LUCCI Courtesy of NICAP THE COVER: While taking a photograph On three nights in August 1951 many witnesses in Lubbock, Texas, saw these unidentified of the rising moon (round object on left) objects streak across the sky in formation. In this photo by Carl Hart, fr., the objects and in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, Mr. Lucci stars are blurred as in all time exposures with movement of subject. The Air Force investi captured on film an unidentified flying gation of this case concluded that the witnesses had seen light reflecting off geese. object ascending from behind a hill. The Photo courtesy of NICAP. appearance of light reflection below moon and UFO was caused by the fact that this picture is a time exposure. The negative by Joyce Neville Capt. Peter W. Killian, a 15-year has been authenticated as far as possible veteran airline pilot who had flown by extensive investigation. Many other wit four million miles, was on his New- nesses in the area reported seeing a simi While flying at 4,000 feet altitude lar UFO that night in September 1965. northeast of Tampa, Florida, Capt. ark-Detroit run for American Airlines, This and other UFO photographs were Jack Puckett, USAF, his co-pilot and flying at 8,500 feet at 8:20 p.m. when loaned to RESPONSE by Jeffrey J. Gow of the Buffalo chapter of the National Inves engineer observed an object com he, his crew and 35 passengers spot tigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, ing toward them on collision course ted three moving objects with power Washington, D.C. at their exact altitude. "At about 1,000 ful lights, flying in formation. They yards it veered to cross our path," were pacing the airliner. One broke said the Captain. "We observed it to formation and came closer, as if ob be a long, cylindrical shape approxi serving the plane. It was triple the mately twice the size of a B-29, with plane's size. After ten minutes, they luminous portholes." Over Augusta, were still there and Capt. Killian Georgia, another flying veteran, Lt. radioed other airliners in the vicinity George Kinman, USAF, had a similar asking if they had seen the objects. experience, describing the object he Two other American flights and three saw as "definitely of disc shape. United flights had seen them. Subse white . pretty thick . it looked quent Air Force investigation resulted like an oval . it was about twice in a claim that what they had seen as big as my plane. It had no visible were stars through broken clouds. protrusions like motors, guns, win When the Captain denied this, stating dows, smoke .or fire." Both sightings that the clouds were 3,500 feet below were in daylight in clear weather. them, the Air Force then said they had seen bombers refueling from air CIGAR SHAPE tankers. The Captain denied this, say ing he knew exactly what bombers and tankers looked like in the refuel ing process. "The objects I saw were at least three times the size of any tanker or bomber we have. They could travel at 2,000 mph. And they were not conventional aircraft!" After this, Capt. Killian was silenced by pressure from the Air Force on Amer ican Airlines. An American artillery colonel in Korea and a helicopter pilot and his Mr. William B. Brunskill of the Rosary Hill College Sociology Concentration drew this description of his 1955 UFO sighting in Buffalo. He and several friends saw small disc co-pilot in Vietnam recently reported shaped objects emerge from a large cigar-shaped object and take off toward the northeast. similar encounters. The sighting over From one end of the cigar-shaped object, which sped north, green and blue sparks or Dong Ha, Vietnam, lasted 20 minutes. flame trailed but no sound was heard. An F-94 pilot flying over Odessa, Washington, had visual and radar thing. Both of them were very shiny have been made in almost every na contact for 15 minutes with a rapidly . the disc-shaped object (was) tion in Europe, the Soviet Union, Asia, maneuvering object, larger than any about 100 feet in diameter, flat on Africa, Central and South America. A known aircraft. A military man and a the bottom with a shallow dome on Brazilian Colloquium on UFOs, led by civilian at Colorado Springs saw one top." Mr. Halstead's report says the the president of the Brazilian Institute of these objects 10 to 15 feet above two objects then ascended until they of Astronautics and Space Sciences, the ground— so close that they could were out of sight. He concludes by in their recent meeting issued a state see lighted ports or openings. A commenting, "All over the world ment that, "a critical, scientific study group of Ford Motor Company exec credible witnesses are reporting ex over a period of nearly 20 years. utives, including Henry Ford II, were periences similar to mine. Holding allows us to come to the conclusion on a recent flight from San Antonio these people up to ridicule does not that flying saucers exist. (and) are to Detroit in their Jetstar, cruising at alter the existing facts. The time is extraterrestrial objects." 40,000 feet, when a disc-like object long overdue for accepting the pres Exhaustive scientific investiga paced their plane for more than 30 ence of these things, whatever they tions have been conducted and wit minutes. According to Mr. Ford, the are, and dealing with them and the nesses psychologically screened. object was "round and white. I public on a basis of realism." Reports by publicity seekers, religious don't know what it was, but it defi These objects, dubbed unidenti fanatics and the lunatic fringe have nitely wasn't a plane." Astronauts fied flying objects (UFOs), unidenti been weeded out. Cases proven to be have reported seeing unidentified ob fied aerial objects (UAOs) and "flying the result of natural phenomena or jects while in space flight. Col. James saucers," have stopped car engines, of known aeronautical origin have A. McDivitt sighted three. "They're interrupted TV reception and jammed been marked "closed." Still, the re there without a doubt," he stated, airplane radar and radio transmission maining reports of unexplained aerial "but what they are is anybody's when at extremely close range. Many objects fill hundreds of books, thick guess." reliable witnesses have reported manuals, a large chunk of the U.S. Frank Halstead, former curator of glimpsing UFO occupants, descrip Congressional Records and many in Darling Observatory, University of tions of which are often strikingly vestigators' files. Minnesota, and his wife saw two flying similar. Through the years of ever-increas objects while crossing the Mojave There are now thousands of UFO ing UFO reports the Air Force, under Desert on a Union Pacific train on a sightings on record reported by in a department called "Project Blue clear day. One* was "about 800 telligent, educated people, many of Book," has carried on investigations, feet long . While we were watch whom are experienced pilots, astro claiming according to latest figures ing the cigar-shaped thing for four nomers, scientists and engineers, as that they have solved more than 90% or five minutes as it paced the train, well as policemen, businessmen, of the sightings as hallucinations, we noticed that another object had housewives and just plain folk.

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