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TUCSON.ARTZONA _ SEPTEMBER,1961 DISCUPSETS TRUCK By Horaci'o Gonzales Red Object ot Bsllimore Editoriql... Mr. Adolfo Paolini Pisani, govern- At 4:50 a.m. on the third of June This issue of the Bulletin is being ment topographer, employed in the Exe- 1961, Robert Briele of WFBR, Balti edited 6 months late, but will be fol- cutive Service of the State of Merida, jeep along more, made the following sighting: A lowed by the November issue containing Venezuela, was driving his the bright red flashing light the apparent full details of the September-October the Andean highway leading from size of a walnut held at arm's length 1961 U. S. saucer "flap," plus another town of La Victoria to El Vigia in the in appeared about a half mile away at 500 installment of the Reverend GiII New state of Merida one daY JanuarY feet altitude and descending. At this Guinea sightings of 1959. 1961. little or distance its speed would have been Part of the delay in Bulletin issues The sky was clear with very just about 200 mph in an "effortless flight has been a matter of Personal Prob- no clouds. He had crossed over the pattern," making no sound. It descencl- lems and health and a good share of mountain from La Victoria and eould part ed behind a ridge in northern Balti- the delay is due to work connected with see the level of the highwaY more and was lost to sight. This light, the Director's book. stretching in front of him toward El which flickered at a rate faster than A few letters to this office (3 to be Vigia as weII as portions of the sky to a normal airplane light without going exact) were from members concerned his right and also to his left. clear out on the dim part of the cycle, with the title of the Director's book. It He became aware of a truck which had no discernible shape. It passed west was titled "The Great Flying Saucer approached from behind and blew its jeep. to east of Belvidere avenue in northern Iloax" because a hoax has been perpet- horn in order to pass the Mr. Pao- pulled Baltimore. Friendship airport reported rated, both purposely and inadvertent- lini Pisani off to the extreme passed no flight in the area at that time. ly, in regard to the UFO over the Past right of the road and the truck On June 10, Mr. Griffin, his wife and 15 years. The contents of the book bear on towards the front. mother-in-law, saw a flashing light mov- out this contention. In this position both vehicies contin' ing slowly from SW toward them at Because publishers have turned a ued for a few minutes when, suddenly Hillen and Belvadere avenue at 9:15 p. cold shoulder to manuscripts dealing like a bolt from the blue, a brilliant ob- ject m. It was neither dark nor light-just with UFO in the past 5 Years, the book in the shape of a metallic dis.k, polished twilight - as the red light traveied was subsidized via private funds made Iooking as though made from across the sky. It stopped overhead for available to the Director and Mr. Lo- blue steel, swooped down from the sky peril' about 10 second, then took off very fast renzen by friends and APRO members. at incredible speed and crossed (hood) toward the NW. No sound accompanied These funds must be reimbursed as soon ously close over the front end the light. It did not go out, merelY as possible and we therefore ask the of the truck. dimmed and brightened. About "the members to do all they can to promote It then rose immediately in soaring size of a basketball" with no shape be- sales. flight at the same fantastic speed and hind it. A.ltitude guessed at 2,000 to Some members have not Yet ordered was lost to sight in space in a matter 5,000 feet. and we urge them to do so '"vhile copies of seconds in the opposite side of the Another similar sighting took place are still available through l\{rs' Loren- sky. V/hen the discoidal object rose into at 9:15 p.m. on the same evening. Mrs. zen at $3.95-a 10% discount from the the air above the hood of the truck, the regular price of In an effort to vehicle also rose a few feet into the Calegere at Lake -Ave. and Chinquapia $4.45. Parkrvay saw a large, bright red blink- reimburse investors, the Lorenzens have air and overturned in the direction tak- into ing light "the size of a basketball" com- made availabie at their address a sub- en by the object and fortunately, ing out of the SE at verY high sPeed. stantial number of books. When all of a sand-bank at the side of the road with It appeared to fall to the earth between them are sold, there will be sufficient its four wheels upturned itl the air. her location and the Stadium, which is funds to reimburse the investors. Please Controlling the fear and astonishment SE of her point of observation. Nothing urge your friends and fellow UFO re- which seized him, Mr. Paolini Pisani jeep was reported falling or having been searchers to order. A11 orders and re- stopped the and rushed to assist found in that area. mittances should be sent to C. E. Loren- the occupants of the truck. Luckily, the At 9:05 p.m. on the evening of 1-6 zen, 4145 E. Desert Place, Tucson, Ariz. driver was the only occupant and es- June, Mr. Jack Ewald and his six-year- To date, interest in the book has been caped with only a few scratches, bumps, old daughter saw a very bright red most satisfactory. Modesty and lack of minor cuts and nervous shock. They peo- light varying from bright to dim pro- space prevents reproduction here of then both went in search of other get ceeding at a "moderate" speed from W comments and reviews, but they have ple to help right the truck and it to E along Tayior Ave.-Hiilen Road just been good. back into operation. north of Baltimore and south of Towson. APRO publication schedules will be The details of this case were kePt by the national guard and .Nothing was seen behind the light and brought up to date but should demands confidential page (See Red, Obiect, page 3) (See Edi.torial, page 2) (See Disc, 3) PAGE2 THE A. P. R. O. BUILEIIN SEPTEMBER,I96I

TheA. P. R.O. BUILETIN A Re-Exominotion oI The most recent information to come to our attention concerning the Simon- bs Publish.ed The Simonfon Cose ton case we will quote directly from THE AERIALPHENOMENA RESEARCH The May issue of the Bulletin doctt- member Cecile Hess of Rhinelander. It ORGANIZATION mented the claims of Eagle River, Wis- is self-explanatory: 4145 E. DesertPlace farmer Simonton Tucson, Arizona consin chicken Joe "Two weeks ago last night (about 28 and the case could not be closed in Copyright |961, Coral E. Lorenzen Feb.) Harry Pride, an Eagle River real APRO files because of certain detaiis estate broker, came and sat down next Editor and Direclor and what appeared to be inconsisten- to me in the lounge during our coffee Information appearing in this bulletin may be used by olher UAO research periodicals providing names cies. break, and asked me what I thought of and address credit is properly given fo this organi- One of these inconsistencies concern- their advertising stunt. It turned out zaiion and periodical. ed the presence of an apparent cooking that he was relerring to the Simonton Coral E. Lorenzen ---- Iniernational Direclor and Editor unit aboard the purported craft. It oc- affair. He then proceeded to tell me of Research A. E. Brown, B.S.E.E.-- , -- -- Director curred that any space aboard a real, that he and some friends got Joe drunk [. J. Lorenzen Director of Public Relations --,---- honest-to-goodness reconnaisance craft Lesli Jaen -- SecretarV and then hypnotized him. He said they John T. Hopf Photographic Consultanl would be utilized for necessary equip- had him tell the story 29 times while Oliver Dean Photographic Consultant ment. Nourishment, even for long trips, under hynosis. SPECIALREPRESENTATIVES could be more efficiently provided via "I called up Ray Palmer (Editor, (The following listed individuals partici- a storage unit rather than cooking unit "Flying Saucers," Amherst, Wis.) that preparation pate in planning and policy-making as and food storage and units. week and asked him what he thought to coordinat- Staff Members, in addiiion A1l we need to do to more thoroughly about it. He told me that he thought Joe ing investigativeefforts in the areas indi- understand this is to project what would had a psychic experience; that possibly cated following their names.) be practical along such lines of reason- they enlarged on it. He also said that Dr. Olavo T. Fontes,M.D. Brazil ing. if the hypnotic part ofthestorywastrue, K.Gosla Rehn ------,------Sweden Since the May Bulletin was issued Graham Conway EasternCanada that those who did it may have thought ------. have the pleasure of meeting ldame Burati ---.--France we had they were doing their patriotic duty; as Horacio GonzalesGauteaume and talking with Judge Carter of Eagle much as to say that someone had ap- Venezuela River who did much of the initial in- proached them and given them the idea, Peter E, Norris, [.1.D. ------Australia vestigation and procured one of the possibly hinting to them that they Jun' lchi Takanashi - - --,,-----.Japan "pancakes" or "cookies" for NICAP to might find a use for it in their busi- Juan C. Remonda , --- Argentina analyze. As most of us know, the only ness; in this case the promotion . of Sergio Robba - ---- ltaly analysis performed was under the aus- Arist. Mitropoulos Greece Treasure Island, an imitation in minia------pices of J. Allen Hynek of N.W.U. who Rev. N. C. G. C'ruttwell,New Guinea ture of Disneyland if it ever gets under- is consulting astrophysicist for WADC Eduardo Buelte - -,-- Spain way. Incidentally, they built a little at Dayton, Ohio. It was learned that SPECIALCONSULTANT cabin on this amusement ground where salt, hydrogenated Prof. CharlesManey,-Physics the objects contained Joe (Simonton) is going to sit and tell oil (such as any cooking oil) and eorn ALAMOGORDO PR]NTING COMPANY. INC. his story. I met Joe last August at meal or flour, Judge Carter's summer home. If I ever We must, at this juncture, because saw a sincere and honest man it '"vas Editorirrt... of certain recent developments, consid- him. A person had to understand a bit (Conti.nued,from page 7) er the possibility that Simonton did see about hynotism to realize how this some sort of craft, and Perhaps some the book could be, and I am one of those who on the Director's time due to creatures, but that the pancakes and publication sched- do know the possibilities inherent in it. beeome too heavy, cooklng unit were additions to make only predict "A week ago Harry Pride denied his ules could suffer. We can the story more believable. Certainly this possibility and ask the members original story, said Joe suffered from the "pancake" can be duplicated. just at large to understand. hallucinations and they used hyp- In his conversation with Judge Car- nosis to make him tell the story the In the past we have had difficulty in ter, Dr. Hynek inferred that Simonton same each time. I tried to get more out satisfying all requests for information was telling the truth, and the case was of him last night, but he wasn't talk- pertaining to UFO which emanatefrom one of those incidents which are in a ing." Unquote. the publie at large-APRO is not a cor- by themselves. "class" Considering the many strange and poration or profit-making organization. The statements are quite revealing in- somewhat silly aspects of the Simonton It exists solely for the benefit of the sofar as they say nothing really. Simon- case, the above theory about the inci members.The Bulletin is the means by ton could have been telling the truth- dent is not unreasonable. All UFO re- lvhich each APRO member receives the as he saw it. Also, the observation that searchers have encountered, at some results of investigation and research of the Simonton case is in a class by itself time or other, those unscrupulous in- the whole member body. Members of is not an endorsement of its authenti- dividuals who will take advantage of a the staff have generously given of their city. sighting "flap" to promote something time and talents without remuneration, Upon hearing from Carter that a pan- gen- besides saucers. for a eause.We therefore ask the cake was sent to NICAP for analysis, Unless more pertinent information eral membershipto consider this before Hynek reportedly responded that Carter do the which will clarify this case comes to making demandson the staff. We wouldn't hear any more from them on hand this is doubtless the last this Bul- best we can under the circumstances the matter. Strangely enough the lat- letin will carry on the subject. with what we have available. ter is true. We do not report this for Some notes lend Again we urge members to attempt any other reason than to report the which some credence to the Pride to push sales of the Director's book facts. We are curious, however, concern- claims are the following: Joe Simonton at the of the through direct sales at the above ad- ing Hynek's prediction and upon \4/hat time sight- dress. it was based. (See Si,moton, page 3) SEPTEMBER,I95I THEA. P. R. O. BUIIEIIN PAGE3

Disc... Simonfon . . . on 9 September 1961. The "object" was reported by a pilot who claimed he (Continued, page 1) (Continued page 2) from from saw "two very bright meteorites" mov- also by Mr. Paolini Pisani who did not ing had been living alone for some ing from SW' to NE. A representative wish to receive any newspaper publicity time, his wife being in Chicago. After of the Weather Bureau passed the sight- because he thinks that people might the case had gained some attention and ing on to the FAA as one object. think him crazy or guilty of inventing interest in it was dying out, one news- Observers from Houston, Texas to Ft. fantastic tales. He said that the object paper inferred that Simonton's chickens Worth, Texas, and as far north as To- raised a cloud of dust as it passed over were ill and that he (Simonton) claim. peka, Kansas, reported only one object. the truck and that it definitely was not ed it happened since the UFO incident The Flight Control Tower at Dallas a plane, (jet or otherwise) rocket, heli- One reliable observer and .investiga, Love Field reported the object caused copter, meteor or any other known tor says, however, that the symptoms the sonic boom as it hit the thick layers apparatus. exhibited by the chickens are those of of the atmosphere, then hit the earth In spite of his aversion to publicity a dietary deficiency which they had and exploded. One report said the ob- however, the incident preyed on his showed at the time of the purported in. ject crashed near Paris, in north Texas mind and he revealed the details to cident. Dead chickens layed about the near the Red River. and his cousin Dr. C. E. Paolini Pisani farmyard and Simonton had not both- Randolph AFB at San Antonio said Leon, also to Dr. Franco Puppio both ered to bury them. Some indivdiuals object was a meteorite which fell to respected law- well known and Caraeas in the Eagle River area also claim Sim- earth near Texarkana, Texas. A Ran- yers. professional men, relatives prior These onton had attended UFO meetings dolph spokesman said the object was Adolfo, naturally impressed by of and to his sighting although this has not still burning on the ground one hour the the frightened and nervous state of been verified. later. This is one of those reports which potentially topographer, the sinister and Although Judge Carter does not be- automatically raises a few questions: dangerous aspects of the incident, and lieve Mr. Pride is sufficiently familiar 1. If the pilot said two meteorites, activities perpetrated knowing of my interest and with hypnosis to have a why did the weather bureau stipulate problem with respect to the UFO here, hoax via hypnotic suggestion, from the only one? trans- gathered, decided to let me know what information APRO has we 2. If the Weather Bureau stipulated pired report to investi- and to send this must recognize all indications that Sim- one because meteors don't travel in gation centers. onton is basically a simple, honest man pairs, why did not those officials there- and would make a good subject. fore assume the objects were not me- Blue Flosh Goes n'Spal" teors? RedObject... 3. Meteors "dig in" when they crash Edgar Hindman of Greer, S. C., and (Conti.nued page 1) -at least the main body buries itself fishing companion, Rev. Clark, were from a in the earth. If the object breaks up, for fishing spot at 5:05 a.m. when it passed nearly overhead it ap- heading a fragments may scatter-but does one on 25 1961 when a blue flash peared to be about lz city block away September see the residue burning one hour later? lit the cab of their pickup truck as and very low. No sound. When it dis- up The main puzzle here seems to be on Arlington road near appeared it looked as if it fell to earth they traveled the question as to how many objects about a block away. Area searched, Greenville. were actually seen and if the crash re!. They said the tremendous flash aP- nothing found. resented two different objects. Also we peared originate at about 45 degrees After collecting these in ad- to sightings might question whether or not this elevation in the NE and made a queer dition to his own observation, Briele whole mixup might be due to faulty or noise that sounded like A city made a point observing passing "spat." of air- sloppy reporting. Probably a eombina. the story planes- employee later coroborated for three nights in a row, found tion of both. but said he observed the obect with a that no light on any plane passing him tapering tail as it descended below the showed bright because of the twilight horizon. and lack of total darkness. Only 4 or Arrow-Shqped UFO The Weather Bureou had not seen 5 of the brightest stars were barely In Cdlifornio it, could not explain it, nor could Mu- noticeable, and the nights were cloud- nicipal Airport Control Tower at Green- less. In the last report Mrs. Ewald stat- At L:30 p.m. Sunday, 30 July 1961, ville. ed that the light was as big as the us- members of Betty Vroman family and ual red lens of a traffic light as it ap- neighbors of San Bernardino observed proached her. an object like "wide arrow point" with Blssl, Objecf, in Eosf lexo$ a "cylindrical shaft jutting vertically." Residents of Tyler, Longview, Sul- "It must have been enormously long, phur Springs and Marshall, Texas, re- Bclll of Fire aI Cincinnoli possibly twice as long as the house,', ported a strange flaming object in the Robert Boston and Price Hill of Cin- Mrs. Vroman said. "The center part was sky on the night of 30 May 1961. John cinnati, Ohio, reported seeing a round a shaft or cylinder and the bottom part R. Peavy of Tyler saw a "long, flaming ball of fire proceeding from NE to SW seemed to flare out into a grey or sil- object, bright yellow flames on the at a high rate of speed at 9:30 p.m. on ver-colored point. The base turned, tilt- leading edge, and orange in the rear, 3 July 1961. Sighting later confirmed ed and looked red and the object seem- falling in the sky east of Tyler. It was by Mr. and Mrs. Foster Callaghan. No ed to hover or hang in the sky, then visible for only a few seconds and about sound. it went straight up, terrifically high. 2 or 3 minutes later an unexplained We observed it close to a half hour. blast was heard at Tyler. Authorities There was no fire or flame." Mrs. Vro- (whoever they are) have not located Poir of Mefeors? man observed. The object disappeared the scene of the objects' landing, if it A large number of residents of the in the east in the direction of Beau- did land-or crash. SW U. S. observed a flaming sky object mont and Banning. PAGE 4 THE A. P. R. O. BUI.I.ETIN SEPTEMBER,I96I

Anolher Venusiqn Confocl from a UFO who pick their contacts in ions, we should immediately become some mysterious way, are almost god- suspicious. Man, during recorded his A different slant on an old story (a like, speak of peace, are ahead of tory, has been repeatedly offered for- la Adamski) has come to us via report- earthlings in technological prowess, will mulas for saving himself from himself. er House's column "On the House" in not allow pictures to be taken, or de- One more opportunity would be of little the Green Bay (Wisconsin) Press-Ga- scription of their instruments to be significance. If the spacemen are so zette for 26 June 1959. given, etc., are exact carbon copies of super-intelligent, why are they not eog- jaunt It seems House was on a some' the type hailed by George Adamski as nizant of this simple historical and psy- where near the shore of Lake Huron, the elder brothers come to save us from chological fact? stopped at a gas station and the pro- ourselves. java, prietor offered him a cup of This (the saving, that is) is a noble whereupon he began to talk about a motive, to be sure, but we must point WenezuelonReports flying saucer which frequently landed out that Adamski's contacts in the des- BE Horaci,o Gonzales on a small island about 100 yards off ert in 1952 took place one year after Although sightings of UFO's have re- the shoreline. The gas station operatol's the Hollywood release of the movie, "The duced considerable since L958, we have wife and son readily confirmed the Day the Earth Stood Still." That movie been receiving good sporadic reports story which goes like this: starred British actor Michael Rennie from different parts of the interior up "They look like you or me, sPeak as an idealistic inter-planetary traveler to two or three weeks ago (late Sep- good English, although in a "sing-song" come to save earthlings from war and tember) when a brilliantly lighted ob- manner. They are tall, strong and live general evils. Mr. A's space contact ject described as a huge "fireball" ma- for hundreds of years, "much advanced (even one of the saucers he claimed neuvered over a boat with five fisher- in technology" and keep equipment in he photographed that year) so closely anen in the southern part of Lake Ma- their aircraft which would amaze an resembled Klaatu and his craft in that racaibo. The fishermen, frightened out earth scientist by its perfection and rnovie that one is tempted to speculate. of their wits threw themselves into the material-however, I am not permitted There is one avenue of conjecture sea to swim to the shore. Four of them to reveal what these instruments are." which has not been explored as a pos- managed to reach the shore but the In answer to a query from House con- sible means of accounting for the many other one either drowned or disappear- cerning their origin, the contractor stories of contact-conservations con- ed mysteriously. The survivors declared said: "The$e particular ones come from cerning peace and man: that they had never seen anything re- Venus and have friends on earth whom IF a race of beings meant to take motely similar in all their years of they visit with and who have been over the world, would it not be effic- fishing on the lake. Unconfirmed re- picked by a method known only to ient and logical to contact gullible (the ports state that a similar object was them. Sceptics are avoided." opposite, incidentally, of "skeptical") seen the same night flying at a relative- The man also said they are here to peace-loving people, convince them of ly low altitude over El Tigre almost at spread "everlasting peace" and have not good intentions, limit their knowledge the same hour or a few minutes after- made their objectives known to every- of anything which vrould benefit them wards. one because man is not ready to ac- technologically (such as instruments) Another report cept them or their word. They are vit- and use them as a pipeline of informa- detailed which I cov- ered for the paper ally interested in man's plans for space tion as well as a first step toward ac- concerns an impor- tant (1960) because "anything which happens on tual infiltration? The communi:ts have sighting" of November last year one planet must surely affect all plan- perfected this technique and it is gen- when almost the whole city of ets." erally agreed they are not supermen. Caracas had the opportunity to observe luminous Further, the friend of the Venusians Could it be that some people have ac- a object described as a "rock- claims, his contact has a name which tually contacted real spacemen and are et:' "a cigar," and "dirigible" cross he is not permitted to tell-is so su- unknowing dupes and traitors to their majestically over the city at relatively perior to men it is not proper to call own race? low altitude. The object, everyone was him "friend." This possibility is just as logical as sure, was some sort of manufactured There are about 25 occupants aboard Dr. Leon Davidson's premise that the vehicle; speed was that of a commercial plane; huge or pul- this craft, although the station opera- whole UFO situation was devised and size; had two three sating lights of a greenish eolor tor only talks to one of them. Both the perpetuated by the U. S. CIA for the behind; made no sound; illuminated in the man's wife and son confirmed that they purpose of concealment of new weapons was front by an intense luminosity; had observed their husband and father and confusing our enemies. Considering bluish accelerated and changed direction on the island as the brightly-Iighted the miserable failure of the CIA in when it reached the Avila mountain. UFO landed and disgorged men in the Cuban invasion fiasco, the Davidson Object was not a plane, neither it a "shining clothes," many times. theory does not seem reasonable or in- was rocket or guided missile. The shape was plainly Mr. House questioned the boy alone, telligent. Davidson's theory does not ac- visible as it seemed to move within and the lad, who seemed bright and count for hundreds of sighting dating a luminiscent halo of a bluish green intelligent, said he and his mother back hundreds of years, nor does it ac- color. Hundreds of people saw the watched the meetings take place from count for the Director's first sighting thing and the Caracas newspaper of- the vantage ponit of their boat moored in 1934, 13 years prior to the birth of fices flooded calls from just off shore. He said he didn't know the CIA. It would be more likely that were with all parts of the city. Next day learned what they talked about but that it was CIA personnel would indoctrinate an we that a similar object also seen in probably peace. individual such as Dr. Davidson who was different parts of the United States, would serve to confuse an issue (the Florida, Santo Domingo, Curacao, then Discussion: UFO problem) which has become em- in the frontier towns in the interior In comment on the above described baruassing to officialdom. of Venezuela, over Merida, Coro, Cara- incidents,we should first point out that In addition, whenever we hear of su- the tall, English-speaking occupants perintelligence and messianic compuls- (See Venezuelan, page 5) SEPTEMBER,I96I THEA. P. R. O. BUTIETIN PAGE 5

Venezueldn . . . Sfog From The Sky? Ihe New Guineq Sightings (Conti.nued, from page 4) At about 12:t5 a.m. on 21 July 1961, By Reu. N. Cruttwell Albert Pietruszak Jr., L4, was preparing cas, and across the sea coast towards PART II for bed. He chanced to glance out the Trinidad. All the Venezuelan reports !II, I959 "TI!"IEYTAMPS IN THE SKY" bedroom window of his Thompsonville, agreed as to shape and luminosity and .dfter the satellite-like lights in the Mass. home just in time to see a the accompanying balls of pulsating "green- sky, nothing further was seen for four ish-white glow about three feet in dia- light behind, and the extreme bluish monlhs, and I thought that was the end meter" drop into the adjacent field. An brilliance IN FRONT of the apparatus. of the activity. But I was very wrong. instant later he as well as his parents That was only a preliminary overture. BURNEDGRASS AT LANDING SITE heard a hiss and thud as the object hit The curtain rang up with the appear- the ground. Albert took careful note An unidentified flying object, ovoid ance of lights in the sky, which were of the landing place and went to bed. shaped and aluminum colored flew si- described by the witnesses over and Going to the spot the next day he found lently over the rolling hills of Santa over again as being like "Tilley Lamps." that something had penetrated a three- Teresa del Tuy, just 60 kilometers from It should be explained that the Tilley foot thick over-hanging sand bank and the city of Caracas to land on a hillock Lamp is the most popular type of lamp then dug itself into solid earth to a near the sity of earth-moving operations in the Territory where there is no elec- depth of about three feet. in the "Paraiso del Tuy" urbanization. tric light. Nearly all Europeans and Beside the hole was a Canada Dry Seen by more than twenty people, quite a few of the better off Papuans bottle with its neck missing. The earth including engineers, topographers and possess them. They burn kerosene un- surrounding the puncture was dry and a police officer, the object flew in and der pressure, which vapourises to heat powdery. Presumably the heat of the out of the hills dodging trees and flying a rnantle. They give out a brilliant white object had produced this condition for at low speed to stop in the air over a light equal to 300 candle power. They when it was dug up, approximately 17 stretch of tall "gamelote" grass. are visible at a great distance and ap- hours after it had fallen, it was still When first seen by the group of peo- pear as an indefinite white blob of hot. Additional indication of its heat ple, Dr. Rino del Negro leapt into light, oftdn with a halation of rays, due his was evidenced by the fact that the neck jeep and followed the flight path to the brightness. One often sees them of the of the bottle, found in the ground be- object among the hills just far out to sea on a canoe, where the and was low the object, had apparently been in time to see when it ducked native people use them to attract fish. behind struck, sheared off, driven into the a hillock which hid it temporarily from ground, melted and flattened. It fit niee- l. AHovering "Tilley Lamp" view. As he reached a bend in the road ly against the flattened lower end of During Lent it is our custom to hold he saw the object just taking off to the object. mid-week services in the village. My vanish again behind some hills further As for the object itself, it was quite assistant Papuan priest, the Rev. Albert off in the distance. On reaching the unimpressive. It had the appearance of M. Ririka, and a teacher, Augustine Bo- site, great was his surprise to see that furnace slag and local experts prefemed gino, were returning from such a the tall gamelote grass vr'as flattened to insist that was slag, choosing to ig- service on the evening of March 19, towards the ground in a roughly circu- nore certain details which militate 1959. They were on the coastal track lar area which measured about sixtv against this conclusion: Namely, that (we have no roads or vehicles) walking feet in diameter. it fell from the sky, burning (or at back to Menapi, and had about five The above incident took place about least glowing) with a greenish-white miles to go. They had no watches, but 10:00 a.m. on Monday, 22 May 1960, flame. The local experts insisted that the time was 'dusk,' i.e. about 6:45 p. about the same time that three similar it hadn't really fallen (ignoring the n. They emerged from a piece of for- objects traversing the were seen same evidence of heat and inertia), that it est on to the sea shore, facing across route the day before. was probably something hauled in with Goodenough Bay. Mr. Vicario Dante, resident topo- a load of fill. The owner of the land, They were amazed to see a brilliant grapher and ex-lieutenant of the ltalian however, stated that no fill had ever white light hanging in the sky, appar- Anti-aircraft Corp also saw the object been dumped on his property. ently over the Owen Stanley Ranges and told me that it neither plane, on the was a The Director of the Springfield Mu- other side of the Bay. I should helicopter, balloon, rocket explain or any other seum of Natural History states that it that they were on the south known flying machine. He also said that definitely is not of meteoric origin. side of the Cape Vogel Peninsula look- it seemed to be moving in a sort of ing across to the mainland over about It has the appearance of having been white cloud with fuzzy edges. In my 20 miles of sea. broken from a larger sheet of the same possession is 40 feet of L6mm film tak- Augustine described it as 'like an- rocklike substance. One side has the en by Tiuna other moon in the sky, but smaller.'The Films Company of the site appearance of lava or black plastic real moon (which was 'half,' i.e. first and plainly shows the flattened game- sponge, merging into stratas of vari- quarter) was also in the sky in quite lote grass in a circular area. Examina- colored limestone-like material. The another' direction. Father Albert de- sample received at APRO Headquarters tion of the gamelote showed that the scribed it as 'like a Tilley Lamp in the has the physical appearance of slag and roots seemed to be burnt and the flat- sky.' They both agreed it was a bril- smells like hot asphalt. What is it? grass twisted round Iiant white light, much larger than a tened was and What was it doing up in the air any- star. round as though some force had twisted way? Charles Fort would have loved They stood and gazed at it for a min- the grass first then flattened it towards this one. ute or two. They think it was station- the ground. The object did not touch ary, though there is a slight disagree- the ground but was seen hovering over MEMBERS . . . ment on this point. If it moved, the the grass which grows to a height of Please check your cards and receipts movement was very slight. from five to six feet. and renew!! (See New Gui,nea, page 6) PAGE6 THE A. P. R. O. BUII.ETIN SEPTEMBER,I96I

NewGuineo... the Principal of the College, the Rev. rise sheer to culminate in two peaks David Durie, D.D., Dip.Ed. which overhang the gorge on either (Conti.nued from page 5) At some indefinite date about this side, Mount Nuanua and Mount Pudi. They then continued to walk along time, a white light was seen by Mr. They are about 4,000 feet high. Behind the track close to the sea, keeping the George Awui, an engineer, and several them rise ridge upon ridge up to Mount object in view for about ten minutes. other Papuans, hovering over the sea Simpson, nearly L0,000 feet, which caps Then they passed through another short in broad daylight off Dogura. It rvas the range. section of forest, losing sight of it. 'like a star, but much brighter.' They Right on the beach is the Mission When they emerged a few minutes later watched it for five minutes, until it sud- Station of All Saints, Boianai, with a on to the beach, the light was no longer denly went out. It was high in the sky coral cement Church and various Mis- there. They did not see it again. to the west. It is conceivable that they sion buildings. It faces northwards, the It was also seen by two other Papu- may have been looking at Venus. beach running northwest to southeast. ans whose house is on the beach near- However, at about the same time right It looks across to the low hills of Giwa by. When Father Albert and Augustine over in Collingwood Bay, a party of and Menapi on the Cape Vogel Penin- returned to the Mission they immed- mountain people from the Daga country sula. iately reported the sighting to me, and were down at Midino on the coast, hunt. The missionary in charge, the Rev. asked if I thought it was a satellite. I ing for wallabies, which abound in the William Booth Gill, is an old friend went down to the beach and looked grass plains, They were probably sleep- of mine. He came out to Papua with out over the bay. There was of course ing in the open under the clear starry me in 1946, and I know him very well. nothing to be seen. I looked out on sub- sky. One night they saw a very bright On the 9th of April he was on his little sequent evenings in the direction they 'round white light, like a Tilley Lamp,' 16 ft. launch about a mile off shore, indicated, but there was nothing there, coming from the northwest. It passed coming home from visiting an outsta- not even a bright star to account for right over them, 'very close and clear' tion. It was 6:50 p.m., and just aboui it. It is true that Venus was in the sky, and continued on a straight course to dark. The weather was clear overhead, but nowhere near the direction of this the southeast. It made no sound. They but there were clouds and rain squalls object. were very frightened, and my inform- about. The mountains were a dark sil- Many people are inclined to doubt ant, named WAVINE, asked me if it houette against the still glowing sky. the testimony of Papuan native witness' 'ffas some new aircraft made by the He suddenly noticed a bright white es, on the grounds that they are (a) white man. I said I did not know. light 'like a Tilley Lamp,' apparently uneducated (b) superstitious (c) in- The . sightings of objects 'like Tilley high up on the flank of Mt. Pudi, not clined to say anything to please the Lamps in the sky' continued. During far from the summit. He estimates that European. This is most unfair. I have April they were seen at Giwa, Dogura, the light was about 500 feet from the been in Papua for thirteen years, and Menapi Sariba near Samarai and even top. It was quite stationary, and he im- speak four native dialects. Fr. Albert in the Conflicts and Sudest Islands. mediately thought: "Oh, there must be and Augustine are well educated men, They were seen by Europeans and someone up there with a Tilley lamp." trained at our Teachers' Training Col- Papuans, from land and from ships. The Papuans with him all noticed the lege, one an ordained priest, and their There seems little point in detailing all light. He was puzzled about the light, testimony is as valuable as that of any of them, as they are very similar. A but not unduly so, and looked away, normal European. white light, 'like a bright star,' or 'like continued to read his book. Five min- Indeed it is likely to be more impar- a ship's light,' or like a 'Tilley Lamp,' utes later he looked up again, but the tial as they have no preconceived no- travelling in a straight line across the mountain was in darkness. The light tions about satellites or astronomical sky, or in one case 'up and down?'They had disappeared. This again seemed phenomena, let along flying saucers. were regarded as quite commonplace odd, but he took no notice, and went They simply report what they see, and after a few months. Many must have on reading. After another five minutes their descriptions are vivid and precise, seen them lvithout reporting them to he was aware of the light again, shining and I can see no reason for not accept- me. out from the mountain side, but to his ing them as accurate. If they are ac- Were they meteors, satellites, or surprise it was shining from a complete- cepted as witnesses in court, why should merely Venus? They could not have 15' new position on the opposite side of not their evidence be acceptable in an been aircraft, for no aircraft fly over the mountain. It had moved quite a investigation such as this? Of course it the Territory at night, and none of them mile to the east, quite impossible, if a is subject to the laws of corroboration, was ever accompanied by sound. Had man had been carrying it. as is any other evidence. these been the only sighting we might However, Fr. Gill still did not realize have dismissed them as explicable phe- the significance of what he had seen, 2. Flying "Tilley Lamps" nomena, misinterpreted: but soon the and looked away again. Next time he On the evening of Good Friday, 27 objects began to behave in a manner looked back, the tight had gone, and March, many of the Students at S. Aid- which suggested that they were intelii- did not reappear. The next morning he an's College near Dogura saw a lgiht gently guided. examined the mountain by daylight, "like a Tilley Lamp" moving across the and realized that there was no house sky. The time was between 5:30 and 3. "Tilley [amp" 'on' a Mounfain? or village or even any track up there, 6:00 p.m., that is to say in daylight, The scene now shifts to Boianai, later but only the precipitous mountainside. though the sun would probably have set to become famous for the most amazing It was not until he got a letter from behind the hills. sighting of all. Boianai is a village on me about the later sighting from Giwa It came from the sea, and moved over a small tongue of land made by the that it occurred to him that it might Dogura (our Head Station) from the Mase River where it flows out of a deep have been an UFO. direction of Cape Frere, and disappear- gorge of the Owen Stanleys. It is on As it was quite impossible for it to ed over the horizon in the direction of the south side of Goodenough Bay, have been an actual Tilley Lamp for the Holy Name School (that is, south). some 20 miles across from Menapi. the reasons given above, in addition to This was reported to me in a letter from About 4 miles behind it the mountains (See New Gui,nea, page 7) SEPTEMBER,I95I THE A. P. R. O. B[JLTETIN PAGE 7

NewGuineo... turning. It eontinued to travel back on ern sky. They thought at first that it exactly the same track by which it had was Venus, until they saw that it was (Conti,nued, page 6) trom come until it again appeared to be over moving slowly in a southwest direction. the fact that very few people, apart Mt. Pudi, where he had first observed It slowly faded after a few minutes, un- from the Mission staff, possess Tilley it" It then suddenly vanished, like an til it went right out. Then almost im' Lamps anyway, it seems likely that it electric light switched out. He did not mediately it appeared again, waxing was another appearance of the objects see it again. lvith a bright green light. Mr. Smith Lamps' being point 'like Tilley which were Mr. Glover was convinced he had noticed the extremely interesting seen all over the place. If so, the ob- seen a "Flying Saucer." He admitted that the green light did not appear at ject actually could not have been 'on' that he could see no shape, just a bright exactly the same point where the blue the mountain, but probably hover- was light, far brighter than any star. But light had been, but slightly lower, as if ing and between the mountain Fr. Gill's what struck him, as it struck me when from a different position on the object. launch, three or a distance of four he told me the story, was the way in He could see no outline of any craft, miles. As it height green 'appeared' at a of which it stopped and reversed without but the sky was fairiy dark. The feet, the 3500 when seen against moun- turning. No known aircraft could have light did not last as long as the blue, tain, its actual height could not have done this, let alone a meteor. He esti- but changed through a sort of inter- exceeded that altitude, but may have mates the speed to be roughly that of mediate 'mauve or orange colour' (his been considerably less. The object a slow aireraft. The whole duration of words) 'really indescribable'to a bright therefore could not have been astro- the sighting was between 5 and 10 min- orange red. This only remained for a nomical, but appears to be some kind utes. He did not time it. This sighting, very short time, like a flash, and then of craft hovering at aircraft height. Iike Fr. Gill's, suggests a controlled went out. Then the original blue light This therefore of great sighting was craft of some sott, but certainly not a faded on again. The whole cycle took importance to the suggest- us at time, normal airplane. perhaps three to four minutes, and was ing that some mysterious, apparently So far all the lights seen had been duration of the sighting. The objeetpur- eontrolled, craft were flying about over 'like Tilley Lamps' or 'like stars,' but sued a slow and erratic course in a Papua at night. This amply was eon- in May, the objects started to put on repeated over and over again for the firmed by subsequent sightings. general a display of colour, through the white southwest direetion, and faded 4. A Lamp" Which Turned "Tilley lights continued to be seen as weli. out in the end at a point over the moun- On lts Tracke Some of the earlier sightings before tains, somewhere in the neighborhood Across the Bay from Boianai, but 1959 had shown these colour changes, of Dogura (southeast). It ended with rather further in towards the head of which seemed to be a definite charac- the red-orange flash. It did not reap- the Bay, is a village called Giwa. It is teristic of certain types of UFO. pear. The time of its disappearance about 12 miles along the Bay from Me- was about 8:L5 p.m. The object was ob- lv. KALEtDoScoPic ilGHTS napi in a westerly direction. Here there served with the naked eye only. The first report of coloured lgihts It made is a little Trade Store, run by Mr. D. no sound whatever. came from a group of Papuans who L. Glover. an Australian Trader. His This sighting was immediately report- were not particularly reliable, and I house is right on the beach facing across ed by radio to higher authorities and was inclined to discount it. I was es- towards Boianai, which would not be was mentioned in the local press (with pecially sceptical at the time, because more than a dozen or so miles across inaccuracies). Mr. Orwin and Mr. there were several stars low down on Smith the water to the south. are responsible trained officers, and the horizon which appeared to scintil- On April 21 at about 7:00 p. m. Mr. men of great integrity, and one cannot late alternately with green, red and Glover happened to look out of his doubt their detailed and accurate white light. But they were only pin- ob- front door and saw a bright white light servation. The account set down is points, and did not move, and were ob- a in the southern sky over the mountain combination of both their reports, viously stars. So when some people at with range across the Bay. It was apparently all the recorded personal lMenapi, right on my doorstep, elaimed detail from only a short distance above the moun- interviews. The object also seen to have seen a moving light which was tains, and appeared just above a par- by Papuans on the Island, changed colour from white to red and and by at ticularly sharp peak. When later he least one person at Menapi. Had I then green over and over again, I tvas been showed me the position, I realized that looking out in the right direction not very convinced, though looking back at the peak was Mt. Pudi again, where Fr. the right time, I on it, I am not inclined to accept their should have seen it Gill had seen the object on April 9. statement. from our Mission Station. Mr. Glover had thought at first that l. Changing Coloured Light over Baniara The colour changes add yet another it was a ship's light, until he saw that On Sunday, May 24, no less a person inexplicable element to the obserya- it was in the sky. He describes it as'like than the Assistant District Officer, Mr. tions, but it is remarkably consistent a Tilley Lamp as seen from a couple Ronald Orwin, and his Fatrol Officer, in many sightings, -the fundamental of hundred yards away.' It travelled Mr. Robert L. Smith, saw with their own colours of white, red and green, or blue- slowly out from the mountains over the eyes a most spectacular coloured ob- green, seem to be quite characteristic. sea, on a course oblique to him, in an ject, which was visible for three quar- Aircraft may carry lights of these c61- approximately north-easterly direction. ters of an hour. ours, but they do not slowly ehange As it drew closer it appeared higher, They were at the Government Sta- colour from moment to moment, nor are passing right across his field of view, tion on Baniara Island in Goodenough they silent, nor do they ever appear until it appeared above a group of trees Bay, about 4 miles from Menapi and 1 at night in Papuan skies. to the left of his house. (i.e. somewhere mile off shore. They had just had din- 2. More Coloured Lights over the sea between Giwa and Baniara ner and were sitting on the verandah The next sighting was reported from Island). outside the Residence. The weather was Sideia, again, the Roman Catholic Mis- It then stopped, seemed to hover a clear and the sky full of stars. The time sion Station near Samarai. On a Satur- moment and then reverse, travelling in was 7:00 p.m. They noticed a particu- exactly the opposite direction without larly bright bluish star high in the west- (See New Gulnea, page 8) PAGE 8 THE A. P. R. O. BULLETIN SEPTEMBER,I96I

NewGuinecr... times of their mountain sightings can low. He added: "I know the moon and only be regarded as approximate. They the stars, and I know shooting stars. (Conti.nued from page 7) saw a dazzTing flash like iightning, I am not a young man. I have been years. day in May, a large green elliptical ob- which blinded them for a moment. Then born many I have been looking never ject was seen by nine schoolboys. The they saw an object moving in the skY at the sky all my life. But I have You are object was crossing the northern sky from north to south. They describe it seen anything like this before. you what it moving northwest; it was much larger as 'like a cricket ball,' smaller than a white man. Can tell me than a star and moved rapidly. No more the moon, but much brighter. It started IJ: detail is available. green, changed to white and later to I had to admit that the white men just puzzled is. However, during June I had to visit red. The colour changes were slow and are as as he period re- my mountain stations in the Daga it remained for a long at the This is the end of my mountain ports, Station Country. It seemed to me that a num- one colour. It was dazzlingly bright, as I had to return to my ber of the objects had appeared from and lit up the whole countryside, and at Menapi after a month's Patrol. An point mountain or disappeared over the mountains, and the top of the forest with its alternat- interesting about the seen from I was interested to know whether they ing, green, white and red light. It stay- sightings is that they were all from the had been seen by the mountain people. ed 'a long time' in the sky and moved very high altitudes and never gorges the people So I made discreet enquiries. The re- slowly. It appeared to rotate as it went and valleys where (they to have been sults were most interesting. The ob- indicated an anticlockwise rota- live. The objects seem tops and jects had indeed been seen, though tion, but I do not know if that was cor- skimming the high mountain the more recently than the coastal reports. rect),-the rays of light which seemed avoiding the valleys. However, val- to radiate from it rotating with the leys are mostly deep and narrow, ex- On Tuesday, June 16, 16 mountain object. posing a comparatively small area of people, men, boys and girls, were camp- The narrator of the sighting, Biri- sky to view. Also the mountain people ing out in the high mountain country, budo, who was one of the eye-rvitnesses, tend to huddle inside their houses at hunting for cuscus, tree kangaroos and said that they were a1l very frightened, night with the only door shut. So the rock wallabies. They were 6,000 feet but assumed that it must be one of the chances of them seeing things in the up in a high valley cailed Dumura, on fantastic new inventions of the white sky except when camping are small. the south side of the range. At about man. It will be noticed that they never In the two cases where a thunderclap 7 p.m. they saw a brilliant light 'like attributed them to magic or spirit phe- was heard immediately after the dis- a Tilley Lamp' but yellow in colour. It nomena. They seem convinced of their appearance of the object, there is no lit up the whole countryside 'brighter objective reality. proof that the object was the cause of than the moon-more like the sun.' It 4. More Mountain Sightings the bang. However, it seems reasonable did not seem to be very high. It came night, t7, an- to suppose that there is some connec- from the sou-thwest and travelled On the following June other of our Pupil Teachers, Michael I. tion. A similar thunderclap occurred straight overhead until it disappeared and his friend AUNAK, were after the sightings at Boianai, and a in the northwest. It appeared to travel Bumomoi, out hunting together on Mt. I\fanaman sound aceompanied a later sighting at 'at the speed of a firefly.' This of course at about 8000 feet. At B p.m. it was Giwa. These will be descrbied in their refers to apparent speed, not actual cloudy and raining, and they were camp- place. With these four exceptions no, speed, which rnust have been far more nig in a clearing of the forest, when sound whatever was heard during any rapid. A firefly, being only a few feet they saw a bright light, partly red and of the sightings. u-p, appears to travel far faster than a partly white, shoot quickly across the l. Father Gill's letter plane. After it disappeared they heard 1. Father Gill's Letter sky. It appeared to be inside the clouds. a single explosion, like a clap of thun- When I returned from the mountains They saw it receding through the trees, der. The story was told to me by Ba- I heard the most fantastic rumours. It the branches silhoutted against it as redi, an intelligent Pupil Teacher. He tvas said that many flying saucers had it went. said that they were all very frightened been visiting Boianai, and that human Then a week later, another party of by the light. being had been seen on them, and wav- mountain people were high up on the These rnountain people are much ed to Father Gill. I could not believe side of Mt. Donam, getting pine bark less sophisticated than the coastal, but they were true, and dismissed them for their Mission School building. There are often very intelligent. Their lack as the sort of wild tales which often were 11 of them camping at about 8000 of sophistication makes them all the get around by 'bush telegraph,' and in feet. It was a clear starry night, and less likely to have invented these ob- which there is often ltitle or no sub- they were sitting out at about 9 p.m. jects, which are obviously quite out of stance of truth. However, the next call probably warming themselves round the their normal experienee, and of which of the Mission launch brought rne a fat. fire in the extremely chilly air. Sud- they could not possibly have heard be- envelope of typescript with a covering denly a very bright light 'like a Tilley fore. The stories were always told to letter from Father Gill himself. His lamp' came over the top of the moun- me in the native language, which I letter read as follows: tain, a thousand feet above them, trav- know partly, but which was always elling approximately north to south. It ( Conti,nued N ert lssue ) explained to me by interpreters, who had a long beam of light behind it 'like knew the coastal language in which I a torch.' The head of it was round 'like Stricken Flone Disoppeors am fluent. a tennis ball.' trt lit up the whole place On 19 July residents of Martinsburgh, 3. A Rotaling Coloured Ball brilliantly as it sped 'faster than an W. Virginia reported seeing a "large'n On the very same night another Par- airplane' over their heads. It was vis- plane in trouble and losing altitude in ty of hunters were encamped at a place ible for some time as it receded, then the mountains along the upper Potomac. calied Maigwarip at about 7000 feet on it disappeared behind the trees, after State police cars and private planes a high mountainside. The time theY which a single thunderclap was heard. searched the area roughly halfway be- give as 6:30 p.m., but one must remem' The eyewitness who told me, was a tween Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh, ber that they have no watches, and the Village Counsellor, an intelligent fel- Pa., but found no evidence of a crash.