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The MUFON UFO JOURNAL NUMBER 130 SEPTEMBER 1979 The MUFON UFO JOURNAL NUMBER 130 SEPTEMBER 1979 Founded 1967 $1.00 I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF JtfCAFOJIT/ MUTUAL UFO NETWORK, INC. 1 ,_V ^ ^ ^* 4 r^"^> -?*?* C*> ^^-^r^ ^^ss^" V**' * lAratdCfSt ' ft. *^lV<'1 ^ " X * ;;. -..^§^^-:rcv,^ Undersea UFO Bases? French Government UFO Study TheMUFON FROM THE EDITOR UFO JOURNAL 103 Oldtowne Rd. Seguin, Texas 78155 UFO discussions at the United Nations appear to have fizzled RICHARD HALL out largely due to U.S. opposition to tackling the UFO problem. A Editor report is forthcoming from Peter Tomakawa who attended the ANN DRUFFEL sessions. Any leadership that the U.S. may have had in the past now Associate Editor appears to be on the wane, but other developments suggest that LEN STRINGFIELD international interest may be increasing. Associate Editor The French government report summarized in this issue gives hope that a major nation may support new initiatives. There is also MILDRED BIESELE an unconfirmed report that the British House of Lords will have a Contributing Editor debate on UFOs on January 118,1979. The recent landings in kuwait WALTER H. ANDRUS have stirred up interest in the Arab world, and we expect to have a Director of MUFON first-hand report from a scientist on the scene. On the home front, the CIA has now released close to a PAUL CERNY thousand pages of documents, but is withholding more recent Promotion/Publicity information suggesting a continuing involvement on their part in studying UFOs well into the 1970's. New developments on the REV. BARRY DOWNING CAUS-GSW lawsuit will be reported as soon as available. Religion and UFOs LUCIUS PARISH Books/Periodicals/History MARJORIE FISH Extraterrestrial Life MARK HERBSTRITT Astronomy In this issue ROSETTA HOLMES Promotion/Publicity UFOs FROM UNDERWATER BASES OFF ARGENTINA? 3 By Joseph M. Brill TED PHILLIPS FRENCH GOVERNMENT UFO STUDY .6 Landing Trace Cases CHINA NOTES UFOs; CAR LEVTTATION CASE (News) 6 JOHN F. SCHUESSLER UFO RELATED INFORMATION FROM THE FBI FILE-Pt. 6 7 UFO Propulsion By Bruce S. Maccabee . MUFON-CES SYMPOSIUM IN GERMANY 12 By Walt Andrus NORMA E. SHORT CALIFORNIA REPORT . '. : 13 DWIGHT CONNELLY By Ann Druffel DENNIS HAUCK UFO ENTITIES IN AUSTRALASIA, 1977 14 Editor/Publishers Emeriti's By Keith Basterfield HUMANOID AND ABDUCTION CASES (News) 15 The MUFON UFO JOURNAL is published by the Mutual UFO NEW DATA ON 1954 EUROPEAN WAVE .... 16 Network, Inc., Seguin, Texas. By Mildred Biesele Subscription rates: $8.00 per year IN OTHERS' WORDS 19 in the U.S.A.; $9.00 per year By Lucius Parish foreign. Copyright 1978 by the DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE 20 Mutual UFO Network. Second By Walt Andrus class postage paid at Seguin, Texas. Publication identification number is 2970. POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 to advise change of The contents of the MUFON UFO JOURNAL are Permission is hereby granted to quote from this issue address to The MUFON UFO determined by the editor, and do not necessarily provided not more than 200 words are quoted from any JOURNAL, 103 Oldtowne Rd., represent the official position of MUFON. Opinions of one article, the author of the article is given credit, and contributors are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the statement "Copyright 1978 by the MUFON UFO Seguin, Texas 78155. those of the editor, the staff, or MUFON. Articles may be JOURNAL, 103 Oldtowne Rd., Seguin, Texas" is forwarded directly to MUFON. included. ARE UFOs OPERATING FROM UNDERWATER BASES OFF THE COAST OF ARGENTINA? By Joseph M. Brill (My most sincere thanks are extended to the subject six pages and touching on vary according to the species of to Dr. Willard Armstrong of St. Louis, it in the final part of a chapter "which organisms involved, their concen- Mo., for his translation from Spanish of treated other topics. In the second tration in the sea, and the the details of the cases presented in this edition, '"The Great Flying Saucer environmental factors that stimulate article. Likewise, I would like to extend Mystery" (1966), he then dedicated all them to produce luminescence. One of my gratitude to the Argentine research 18 pages of chapter eleven to it, which the most curious forms is the so-called group E.D.O.V.N.I, of Rosario, for their he titled "Submarine Bases?" "phosphorescent wheel," charac- cooperation in providing the needed Other investigators have recently terized by a circular configuration with cases to document the idea presented collected his suggestions, bringing brilliant rays which are emitted from a in the title of this article.) together other important, earlier works luminous nucleus. They are animated on the problem to such a point that it all by rotational and translational motions For some time, parallel with the leaves pne to" speculate that the that give them an unusual aspect. As presence of UFOs, particular interest relationship between UFOs and the yet, its true origin is not known for has been given to multiple aquatic ocean currently offers strong certain. For some individuals, a manifestations which appear to be indications of having a real basis. combination of bioluminescence, associated with the UFO phenomenon. Because of this, the marine facet should common waves, and optical illusion is This singular aspect — as of yet not be included "in the content of the involved, but this is not a satisfactory greatly examined — merits broader definitions of UFOlogy and of UFO. interpretation. The most accepted consideration, especially since the The Condon Report did not theory speaks of an interference proof of its reality would require the analyze any case referring to this aspect generated by the interaction of two or complete modification of many of the phenomenon nor did it allude in more series of expanding, concentric hypotheses that seek to explain the any way to the periodic occurrence of waves, derived from seismic problem, specifically those referring to these manifestations. The lack of phenomena and which would be made temperature inversions, conventional consideration of the problem perhaps, visible by the stimulation of luminescent bodies such as airplanes and balloons, may have been motivated by the plants at the points in which the and meteorites in general. If, in reality, circumstance that the great majority of concentric circles of the two waves the UFO phenomenon reveals itself existing cases did not have their genesis come into contact with each other. This also in the water, entering into the sea in the United States coastal regions, would originate the radial effect typical and emerging therefrom, the possibility but, rather in the Red Sea, the Persian of these wheels. of accepting those theories is discarded Gulf, and the Indian and Atlantic According to the late author, completely. The true investigation Oceans (particularly along the coast of Richard Turner, this explanation is cannot resort to any type of euphemism Argentine Patagonia). In any case, the sufficient to appropriately explain the in order to avoid a more thorough study advantage of a clarifying pronounce- marine observations of luminous of this strange and phenomenal ment is clear. "discs" or "wheels," which move along implication. the surface of the water (or below the The Spanish UFO researcher, Marine Bioluminescence surface, we could speculate). One Antonio Ribera — possibly influenced In order to appropriately indicate. could accept Turner's theory to'the by Charles Fort — was the first the scope of the phenomenon, it is extent that, many famous incidents, UFOlogist who brought together the obviously important to describe the such as those of the ships "Bulldog," majority of earlier studies on the marine characteristics of marine biolum- "Vulture;" and "Patna," correspond implications of UFOs, suggesting that inescence, the production of light on completely to the characteristics of — given that they are intelligent or the part of living plants and animals. such "wheels" but, his theory must be intelligently controlled phenomena — it Thousands of these floating organisms rejected when extended to the totality would not be unlikely that they make can be combined in the sea so as to of marine observations. , use of the ocean depths as operational produce the well-known effect of In 1967, when Richard Turner bases. In his first book, "Unknown "phosphorescence," a term which wrote his notable article for a British Objects in the Sky" (1961), Ribera entails, an appreciable number of publication .(Flying Saucer Review, presented this hypothesis, dedicating different, luminous manifestations that Sept.-Oct. 1967) he ignored numerous (continued on next page) 3 (Argentina, continued) events, among them, several from the direction of Argentine terrority. the presumed shipwrecked sailors in a South America, which reduced Some 15 days later, also at night 5-mile circle, being assisted in their considerably the scope of application of and when he was between Rio Gallegos mission by another tanker-ship, the his theories. Proof of this is that in the and the city of Santa Cruz (in the "San Antonio". list of incidents which he provided none neighborhood of Puerto Coyle, in the In the afternoon of the following of the Atlantic observations of recent province of Santa Cruz) a similar day the Norwegian ship "Sumber" years were included, when it was these phenomenon occurred. This time, arrived at the port, whose captain sent — among others — which would refute although he could not determine the to the Subprefecture a report as his own theories. Some of those events exact distance from the coast, four follows: "Yesterday — at approxi- are included in this article and they small luminous objects came up out of mately 9:00 PM — while we were prove — to my understanding — that the waters of the Atlantic. They sailing toward your port, we observed the UFO phenomenon seems to be repeated the same maneuver as the the fall of what appeared to be a curiously linked to aquatic media.
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