MUFON UFO Journal - 1975 4. April - Skylook

'We tell it as it is"

Number 89

SKYLOOKThe UFO Monthly

75 cents

Apri l 1975

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF MUFOIVJ MUTUAL UFO NETWORK, INC.

Soldiers and newsmen investigate the burned area near Quintanaortuno, Spain, where four military men reportedlyobserved a UFO hovering near the ground on January 1,1975. The story begins on page 3.

'We tell it as it is"

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John F. SchuesslerUFO Propulsion

Norma E. ShortEditor-Publisher Emeritus

In This IssueSoldiers report UFO in SPAIN— -—^ 3Pi lot says UFO affects his compass——--*—- • 5P.S.I, facility has modern equipment—--—•----••— — &Students in Massachusetts report close approach —V 8MUFQN reports in brief — — •-•*-:-*•--1Q.MUFON, Center for UFO Studies support UFO news network——11UFOs Behind the Iron Curtain— ;— 1?In Others' Words —— \l*Rawlins, Wyoming, case stifl open-—"---- —-15FBI Law Enforcement Builetin.publicizes Center for UFO Studies1554 objects, 2y sightings reported in Austria 161975 MtJF(5fl Symposium reservations being accepted' — --——-17Graber appointed staff artist —— —I?Director's Message—- — ——' .--.- — —<._,-_..,-_—.jgRecapping and Commenting- _ --,,-20Astronomy Notes————— --——•- £0

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Soldiersreport

UFOin Spain

LOCATION OF SIGHTING: NEARQUINTANAORTUNO, SPAIN.

DATE OF ACTUAL SIGHTING:-JAN-UARY 1, 1975- . :

NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE FROMWHICH THIS ARTICLE WAS TAKEN:"LA ACTUAL I DAD ESPANOLA" OFJAN. 20, 1975.

SENT BY: PEDRO REDON, MUFONREPRESENTATIVE FOR SPAIN.

SUBMITTED BY: JOE BRILL, IN-TERNATIONAL COORDINATOR.

TRANSLATED BY: DR. WILLARDARMSTRONG.

BACKGROUND

. New Years Eve. The ,. di sco-tique Lotus., at Torrelavega, -isin full swing. So great is thecrowd of customers that thebarman, Manolo Aguera, in spiteof being in the mil.itary ser-vice, has turned up at thestroke of midnight to help. Heis stationed at the EngineersAcademy at Burgos, and is en-joying a short leave which is-drawing to a close.

. Shortly before k a.m. twocompanions of Manolo arrive atthe .discotique: Ricardo Igle-

sias and Felipe Sanchez. Bothhave passed New Years Eve athome and. regret having.to re-join the mi 1 i tary 1 ife so soon.

Ricardo, a carpenter by pro-fession, has drunk only oneglass of cognac; Felipe, asheet metal worker in c i v i l i a nlife,, a bit of champagne. Be-fore leaving, Manolo takes aCoca-Cola, Ricardo a glass oforangeade, and Felipe a tonic.

ON THE WAY

The Mi n i 850, white with ared roof, gets going. Itsowner, the barman, is drivingit; at his side the carpenter

,.is seated. Behind, somewhatsleepy, rides the sheet metalworker. At k:kO a.m. at thecrossing with the highway thatgoes to the town of Ontaneda,they pick up Jose Laso, anothercompanion,, who has been wait-ing some time for them to ar-rive. Jose, somewhat youngerthan the other three since heis serving as a volunteer, getsin the back seat behind Manolo.

"LOOK, LOOK, LOOK"

At a moderate speed, the ve-hicle goes along the National623 highway. They pass Puerto

and about 15 kilo-Manolo decides tomoments. Hef andout of the car,

wh i ch 'i sstretch

del Escudo,meters laterstop a fewRicardo getclean the windshield,somewhat dirty, arid

Manolou.

no-thei r legs a bi t. ;

It is then whentices the presence of "a starwhich was shining more than1 theothers and was vibratingslightly." Ricardo" w i l l re-member that, although distant,it seemed lower than normal andthat its flashes were "betweenbluish and rosy." Felipe andJose are dozing on the backseat. Ricardo and Manolo wakethem up. For a short time thefour watch the star, then con-tinue on their journey withoutgiving it greater importance.

The soldiers are runningshort of time. At least, theybelieve that, since they thinkthat'reveilie w i l l be at 7 a.m.In reality, the first day of

the month being a holiday, itw i l l be at 8 a.m.

It is 6:25 a.m. when Manolosuddenly lifts his hand fromthe steering wheel and ex-claims: "Look, look, look. Ijust saw something fall fromthe sky," describing a parabolaat a great velocity.

"What is that?" shouted Man-olo, braking to a dead halt.Then the four look and see astrange light light up, a l i g h twhich from its intensity Ricar-do only w i l l be capable of com-paring to "that of the lamptower at the football field atSardinero."

ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR LIGHTS

It is 6:25 a.m. on the firstday of January, 1975. Foursoldiers who are returning fromenjoying a leave have stopped1*4 kilometers from Burgos,startled by a strange phenom-enon. They believe they aregoing to be late for reveille,but nevertheless can do nothingelse but get down from the car.They cross to the other side ofthe highway and there watch fortwo minutes.

At about 00 meters (1200feet) distance, relatively nearthe angle which National 632forms with the highway thatgoes to Villarcayo, they con-template a luminous-body "withthe form of a truncated cone."They estimate it at about twometers (6 feet) in height—"aman would fit in easily," w i l lrecall Manolo—by three meters(9 feet) in width.

The strange object emits ayellowish light which graduallybecomes white on the lower partuntil it ends in luminous jetswhich are directed toward theground on which it has not com-pletely settled down.

The attitudes of the soldiersare in opposition. Ricardo andFelipe declare themselves infavor of going closer. Manoloand Jose want to continue backto their base at all costs.

Suddenly, the light goes outand, with hardly any lapse oftime, another four light up

successively, exactly equallyspaced with only a short dis-tance of separation betweeneach one. "Let's get back tothe car," decides Manolo.

The Mini 850 advances aboutfifty meters very slowly and a-gain stops. There is no fog,the sky is starry, and therethe four luminous objects con-tinue to shine. Through therear view mirror they see thatanother car has stopped about800 meters behind them. Athird vehicle, perhaps closerthan any of them to the phenom-enon, is seen on the highwayfrom Vi.l larcayo.

The soldiers are afraid. "Inever had seen a man so ner-vous," Ricardo recalls, refer-ing to Manolo. Ricardo himselfbegins to weaken, and onlyFelipe insists timidly on in-vestigating what was occurring.

"DON'T LET THEM GETIN FRONT OF US"

"Let's go, so that they don'tget in. front of the car,"shouts Manolo and attempts tostart it. But it doesn't start.On the second attempt the cargives a jerk and starts up atgreat velocity.

Through the windows, thesoldiers continue observing thelights. Some trees interposemomentarily. They have nottravelled even one kilometerwhen they get to the houses ofthe town of Quintanaortuno andthey decide to stop for thethi rd time.

Only two of the four lightsremain. They get out of the carand they watch them for some-thing more than three minutes.Finally, considerably excited,they resume their trip towardBurgos.

They recall the star whichthey saw before and they con-sider the possibility that somerelation between the two phen-omena exists. They quicklydiscard such a hypothesis be-cause although they have con-tinued seeing the star for aconsiderable time the latter

always seemed very distant."Let's see if it now happens

that we w i l l answer reveille onthe moon," comments one of themin jest.

A LARGE BLACK STAIN

The Engineer's Academy ispractically around the corner.A new problem confronts thecompanions: shall they or shallthey not relate what they haveseen when they arrive? Immedi-ately, they decide not to doit. "They would only laugh atus" they think. "On a nightlike this and at an hour like 'Jthis the normal thing is thatpeople would believe that wewere drunk."

But Manolo is confused; healways had thought that thosewho would say that they hadseen UFO's were crazy. Now hehas been personally involved ina strange experience. At theofficer's bar he tells whathappened to a friend who, likehim, works as a waiter.

• Manolo's friend speaks of itto an officer, and the lattercommunicates it to Major Llor-ente, assistant to the colonel,who is the director of theacademy. Major Llorente speakswith Manolo and makes an ap-pointment with the four com-panions for one o'clock that -jafternoon. Having as a back-ground the climate of cordial-ity which prevails in the aca- 3,\demy, speaking is easy and thesoldiers feel much better af-.ter having told all.

An officer visits the zoneof the incident, but he doesnot know the exact place andfinds nothing. Simultaneouslythe academy gives a report ofwhat had happened to the Cap-taincy General's Office. Dayslater, the Captaincy Generalw i l l issue to the press an in-formative bulletin on the mat-ter.

About four o'clock in theafternoon (January 1) MajorLlorente and the four young menapproach the exact spot wheretheir vehicle stopped for thefirst time. From the highway

they point out the spot wherethey observed the lights, andimmediately they begin tosearch the terrain.

In some areas the earth isvery moist. None of them hadset foot there previously;Little by l i t t l e they graduallyapproached the key point. Sud-denly, behind a line of bushes,they discover a large blackspot (stain). The spot is inreality, a zone of burnedgrass. It is about thirty toforty meters long by fourmeters in width, with someclear spots in the interior,and has an aspect of havingbeen burned very recently.

Not a single additional stainwas found in the hundreds ofmeters surrounding this area.Accord ing.to the farmers of thevicinity the most recent burn-ing of stubble had been done inthe month of October.

ANOTHER UFO?

The speculations in regardto what was seen by Manolo, Ri-cardo, Felipe and Jose hadtheir complement in the .newsthat at 11:30'p.m. on the nightof the second day of January anofficer and several soldierssaw another luminous objectsettle down on the firing rangeat Bardenas Reales located onthe border between the prov-inces of Zaragoza and Navarra.(See February 1975 Skylook).

"The only thing that I cansay," explains Major Llorente,"is that these four young men.are completely trustworthysoldiers, and that they agreeamong themselves in all thatthey have related. In regardto what they saw...that issomething that neither they norI, nor perhaps anyone, knows."

INFO convention setThe 1975 International For-

tean Organization (INFO) con-vention (Fortfest 75) w i l l beAug. 8, 9, and 10 at the Shera-ton-Oakbrook in Chicago, PaulW i l l i s has announced.

Pilot says compass affectedAs a result of the NBC-TV

NEWS UFO Documentary "UFO's DoYou Believe?," Hugo W. Feugen,53, the 'plant engineer forConco, Inc. of Mendota, 1 1 1 . ,called the director of MUFON toreport the, following UFO ex-perience.

On Nov. 28, 1974, while p i l -oting his own Aeronca "Champ",aircraft from DeKalb'to Mendotaat 11:^3 a.m. on a . bright daywith v i s i b i 1 i t y limited to 6 or7 miles due to haze, Feugen wasflying at 2500 feet altitudewith a compass bearing direc-tion of 2 0 degrees to compen-sate for a cross wind.

As he passed over the smalltown of Shabbona, Ml., he 'waschecking his position on theaeronautical map that he heldin his lap to determine if hewas s t i l l "on course" with vis-ual navigation to his destina-tion of Mendota.

When he looked up from hismap, he noticed with amazementthat the magnetic compass onthe panel of his older modelAeronca Champ number N82198 wasrotating counter-clockwise at arate of four .to five revolu-tions per minute. He immediate-ly became concerned for theradical behaviour of his com-pass because this was one ofthe few instruments in the air-craft used for navigationalpurposes.

He looked to his right sideand saw nothing but the town ofShabbona below him. When . heturned to his left, he saw.anobject flying parallel to hisaircraft at the same speed(ground speed 75 to 80 m.p.h.)and altitude, pacing him at 120degrees at an estimated ' onequarter of a m i l e distance. Hedescribed the object as beingshaped like a disc or anelipse. If it was one-fourthm i l e away, he estimated thesize as 120 feet long and 30feet thick. It appeared to bea solid object, white or d u l lsilver in color, without any

openings or protrusions. Hesaid there may have been a de-pression on the top, but thisangle was observed only for abrief second as it was depart-ing. . '•

After pacing him for eightto ten seconds, while the com-pass continued to spin, the ob-ject tipped s l i g h t l y and hecould observe that it was notan elipse, but was round inshape. " - -

As it tipped up on an angle,it accelerated to a fantastic-speed toward the east and wasout of sight in the "flick ofthe finger" (less than one sec-ond). ".Feugen did not have hisaircraft radio turned on, sothere is no report of inter-ference with radio communica-tions. He did not have a cam-era, thus no photographs, weremade. ; .

U n t i l this report was madeto MUFON, it had been given on-ly verbally to people at theMendota Airport when he landed.Hugo has been a private ; p i lotfor 3i years and was born inHolland. He speaks w;i th apleasant Dutch accent and ap-pears to be a knowledgeable en-gineer. He has given his verbalpermission to use this reportin SKYLOOK. [

This report is significantin that not only was an unusualaerial object observed thatcould accelerate from about 80miles per hour to some fantas-tic speed in less than one sec-ond, but it displayed a forcethat influenced the magneticcompass on the li g h t plane dur-ing its proximity to the air-craft (electro-magnetic ef-fect).

We have not been successfulin obtaining a radar confir-mation of this report from Chi-cago, nor do we have any] otherpilot or ground report coincid-ing with this, observation;. Feu-gen is very anxious to securethe names of other witnesses,as is MUFON.

P.S.I, facility has modern equipment

The above photo (copyright1975 by P.S.I.) shows the de-ployment pad and enclosure forproject Starlight Internation-al's UFO/VECTOR system compon-ents located at a remote sitenear Austin, Texas.

Staff directors in the photoare, left to right, Robert Dun-nam, facility director; RayStanford, project director; andSamuel H. Young, photo direc-tor.

Equipment pictured includesan 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain(catadioptric) telescope(right), which serves themulti-purpose role of lightcollection for (a) the UFOli g h t pulse analysis .and re-cording unit, (b) reception of

modulated light " transmissionfrom a .UFO in case of i n t e l l i -gent response to UFO/VECTORvideo-laser transmissions, and(c) UFO photography with greateffective focal length.

Components on metal shelvesinclude: UFO/VECTOR video re-corder-playback unit for pro-vi d i n g signal to intermediatefrequency equipment in laserpower source housing, which inturn provides drive to modula-tion device internal to lasertransmission cell on the tripod(center); Precision MonitoringSystems -model 100 recordingmagnetometer; video monitor;telescope astronomical modedrive controls; etc.

A video camera with built-in

microphone for live documenta-tion of UFO visual images andsimultaneous monitoring of ver-bal reactions by the witness ispartially hidden behind Dun-nam's right arm.

Other P.S.I, equipment, suchas a video recorder-playbackunit #2, a six-foot parabolicmicrophone for UFO sound stud-ies, and cameras used at otherP.S.I, research site stations(for triangulation studies) isnot shown.

The UFO/VECTOR (Video Ex-periment Console for Transi-tional-Overt Response) is de-signed to transmit totallydirectional video to even verydistant UFOs. The unit has'avery fine aiming system which

provides M course sightingscope, plus a 20X to 60X zoomsighting scope for fine align-

• ment of the laser beam towardUFOs.

P.S.I, has just purchased asecond video system, and thisone w i l l be used for light-pulse studies and the recordingportion of the. UFO/VECTOR re-ceiving system (video unit #1is used in driving the lasermodulator for transmissions toUFOs).

There is also a new UFO/VEC-TOR photomultiplier-video sig-nal amplifier receiving unit,

} custom 'made for attachingquickly to the 8-inch diameterlight-collecting telescope.

1 Stanford says the unit is "sosensitive that it could even beused without the telescope."

P.S.I, is also adding a Co-lumbia Research Labs linearservo accelerometer (Model SA-107) .to provide additional mon-itored data imput into the re-cording system of the P.M.S.magnetometer. Stanford ex-plains, "If a UFO uses graviticeffects, .the unit . should re-spond with possible importantand tell-tale results, especi-ally if correlated with the re-corded magnetic profile and/orthe light pulse data."

The well-known .100-foot\ circle of signal lights at the

P.S.I, facility is being modi-fied with a solid-state se-

;. quencing system, which is ex^pected to be superior to thepresently-used electro-mechani-cal sequencer. Stanford saysthat by the.end of the year thepresent 91 spotlights of 150watts each w i l l be replaced bya circle of 100 strobes of onem i l l i o n candlepower each.

"A flashing circle of 100million total candlepowershould surely be noticed bypassing UFOs," Stanford notes.

There are numerous additionaltechnical details and specifi-cations which could, and per-haps should, be noted concern-ing the P.S.I, system for at-tracting UFOs and obtainingvarious types of information

from them. Readers desiringadditional details are referredto P.S.I.'s soon-to-be-publish-ed PROJECT STARLIGHT JOURNAL(details are provided in aseparate article in this issueof SKYLOOK). SKYLOOKwill con-tinue to keep readers posted onP.S.I. activities.

P.S.I. Journalpublication plansannounced

A new publication, the PRO-JECT, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL,w i l l roll off the press inthe near future, according toRay Stanford, director of Pro-ject Starlight International,Austin, Texas.

Stanford says the new journalwill specialize in "UFO hard-data monitoring and signalingtechnology, procedures, method-ology, and theory, plus a fewUFO cases, from time to time,that have special relevance toour research specialty,1,1

The Journal wi l l featuretechnical illustrations by anexperienced technical illus-trator who has gone to the PS Istaff from the Data ControlCorporation.

The contents, which w i l l notbe aimed at laymen, but at en-gineers and scientists, w i l lalso feature numerous .photos.

"We have no desire to do-overthe very adequate job that SKY-LOOK, ' FLYING SAUCER REVIEW,etc. are doing in the UFO re-porting, field," says Stanford."We just want to add somethingthat we believe will contributea new dimension in direct, ac-tive UFO hard-data and signal-ing research, etc. Scientistsand engineers w i l l be invitedto contribute pertinent arti-cles."

Membership in PS I, which in-cludes subscription to theJournal, is $8.00 per year fromPSI, P.O. Box 5310, Austin,Texas, 78763.

Jim McCampbellvisits in Quincy

Jim McCampbell, MUFON con-sultant in research planningand author of UFOLOGY--NEW IN-SIGHTS FROM SCIENCE AND COMMONSENSE, visited MUFON headquar-ters in- Quincy the weekend of.Feb. 1 to discuss additionalwork with the organization.

En route to Quincy from hishome in Belmont, Calif., hevisited with a MUFON group atthe home of Idabel Epperson inLos Angeles, attended UFO ses-sion of the AIAA meeting InPasadena, stopped over in Okla-homa City, and met with membersof the St. Louis group. ,

McCampbell is sending compli-mentary copies of his book toeach MUFON consultant, and MU-FON Director Walt Andrus ex-plains that "it would be appre-ciated if each consultant wouldpay particular attention toportions of the book related tohis specialty, and pass on toJim any comments."

Andrus suggests that consul-tants "point out any suggestedavenues of further investiga-tion, if possible, and any spe-cific experiments you would re-commend. Don't hesitate topoint out errors, misconcep-tions, faulty logic, out-modeddata, and so forth."

McCampbell says he w i l l con-solidate the comments from con-sultants, and furnish reportsfor distribution through theConsultants Newsletter.

UFO article printedIn the recent issue of SUN-

RISE, Vol. 3 No. 7 published byBitter Carrot Publications,Inc. in Macomb, 1 1 1 . primarilyfor distribution to students atcolleges and universities, MikeMooney, member of the editorialboard, has written a featurestory titled "The Case forUFO's." Mooney and his photog-rapher recently interviewedMUFON Director Walt Andrus.

GSW requestsinfo exchange

GSW (Ground Saucer Watch)consultants associated withW i l l i a m H. Spaulding, MUFONstate director for Arizona,have expressed an interest inexchanging UFO information withMUFON consultants and researchspecialists in many diversifiedareas.

GSW and MUFON are closelyaffiliated, with some personnelserving dual roles. Both or-ganizations cooperate fullywith the Center for UFO Stud-ies.

The following gentlemen,listed by name, occupation, andUFO specialty, are interestedin sharing information:

Dr. Lester Steward, Ph.D.,specializing in Psychology, Bi-ology (Occupants);

Robert Howard, logistic sys-tems computer scientist, spec-ializing in electromagnetic ef-fects and computer pattern rec-ognition;

Tony Marinello, electricalengineer, specializing as elec-tromagnetic project leader;

Dr. Keith Parizek, astronomy,specializing in astronomy andlaser technology consultation;

Scott Reading, electronicengineer, specializing in ad-vanced computer logistics andradar technology (Radar/VisualPattern Study);

Fred Adrian, photographicconsultant, specializing inadvanced densitometry and spa-tial (spectrum) color enhance-ment.

As information is exchangedwith these gentlemen, they w i l lsend their various white paperson EME, Ground/Markings, Oc-cupants, and Radar/Visualsecondary evidence.

All correspondence should beaddressed to: GROUND SAUCERWATCH, 13238 N. 7th Drive,Phoenix, Arizona 85029, whereit w i l l be distributed to theappropriate consultant or spec-ial ist.

BLUE LIGHT

Students report close approachLOCATION: PHILLIPS ACADEMY,

ANDOVER, MASS.DATE: FEB. 20, 1975TIME: 9:00 p.m.TWO MAIN WITNESSES: MISS

NANCY ROSE AND MISS HOPE SAUN-DERS

. INVESTIGATED BY: JOHN GIAM-BRONE

On the night of Feb. 20,1975, at approx. 9 p.m., thetwo witnesses were sitting on asmall stone wall, which is oncampus. The two girls were justtalking and stargazing whenthey noticed what at first ap-peared to be a plane about tocrash. Their distance at thispoint was approx. 1200 ft.

The object was about a 20degree angle off ground level.The object seen was goingstraight down in the westernsky, in the direction of thefar side of the campus soccerfield.

At a point just above thetree top level it stopped andwent straight up and stopped atan angle of approx. 0 degrees.It then moved very slowly (muchslower than an airplane) towardthe direction of the campus in-firmary (north)o

While this was happening thegirls were hurrying across cam-pus to the near side of thesoccer- field. At this pointthey were 200-250 ft. away fromthe object. They could onlydetermine a blue light on "top"

and a multiple of red lights"below."

The two girls stopped besidea large oak tree (approx. 50ft. high). At this point theobject stopped its northwardmovement and came directly to-ward them, gradually reducingits altitude,, The object stop-ped directly overhead so thatthe girls were looking straightup at it.

The object was estimated tobe 10-12 ft. in diameter, witha dull grey surface and at aheight half again as high asthe oak tree, which places theobject at approx. 75 ft. offthe ground. The object remained .at this position for 30-60 sec- *•onds.

The object emitted a verysoft hum, much like that of asmall electric motor, and dur-ing the time it remained over-head it exhibited a "rockingmotion." Both girls said thatthe bottom of the object wasround and convex in shape, al-though they could not see anysharp definite outline of itsperimeter.

Miss Rose indicates thatwhile the object was overheadshe could see a blue light ontop of the object which was ofless intensity than the redlight or lights that were onthe lower section; she was notsure if the red light was onelarge light or a multiple ofsmaller lights. She did say

that the red light being emitt-ed was much larger and brighterthan the blue.

Miss Saunders indicates thatwhen she saw the object acrossthe soccer field she did see ablue as well as a red light,but when the object was d-irect-ly overhead all she could seewere multiple red lights.

The girls both said thatthey were terrifeid while theobject was overhead. After the30-60-second period was over,the object "backed up" (towardthe west-N-west) about a dis-tance of 20-25 ft. and thenmoved off to the left in alarge semi-circular pattern(toward the south-southeast andeast).

The object moved slowly to-ward the area of the bell tower(located on campus). Both girlssaid that the object passed be-low the top of the bell tower(estimated height of the tower65 ft.), . and then disappearedin the southern .sky. The ob-ject appeared again about 10minutes later, from the samegeneral direction, but at agreater distance from when itwas lost from view.

By this time the, girls wereable to contact other studentswho were elsewhere on campusgrounds and they too were ableto see the red and blue lightsin the distant sky. The objectkept appearing and disappearingfor the next one and a halfhours and was seen by .a totalof 15 students (most names onfile). At 9:20 p.m. one ofthese other students, DavidGreef, reported.the UFO to theAndover Police, who dispatchedpatrol car #3 to investigate,but the officers reported see-ing no unusual activity in .thesky that evening.

At approx. 9: 5 that evening(i hr0 after reporting UFO topolice) a helicopter appearedover the campus and was flyingat rather low altitudes. Anumber of,, students, saw thishelicopter, but were unable toobserve any markings on thecraft.

On March 5th and 6th, callswere made by this investigatorto the Andover Police, CoastGuard Headquarters in Boston,the Andover State Police bar-racks, State Police Headquan-ters in Boston, and the NorwoodState. Police Helicopter Base.On March 11th at 9:10 a.m. acall was placed to Fort Devens(Massachusetts), a NG Army Campthat has helicopters basedthere. This call was placed byRaymond Fowler (MUFON directorof investigations). He alsocalled .(at 9:**5 a.m. same date)WBZ a Boston-based radio sta-tion that has a traffic controlhelicopter which is based inBeverly, Mass, (a few milesfrom Andover).

All the above calls . placedto these different agencieswere answered in the negative.They all denied any knowledgeof any helicopter activity inthat area on the night in ques-tion. Efforts are s t i l l con-tinuing to ascertain the originof this helicopter.

On five subsequent nights(2/26-2/27-2/28-3/2-3/3, 1975)unusual lights performing.er-ratic manuevers were seen by atleast two students.

One witness was able to takephotographs of an unusual pbrject.over the campus during theperiod in. question; however,due to an early spring vacationat Phi 11ips Academy, the schoolhas closed down until March26th. As soon as the school re-opens efforts will be made toobtain a , more detailed accountof the sightings of these twoindividuals, as well as anyphotographic evidence that theymight have. Subsequent reportswi 11 follow.

. .Miss Rose and Miss Saundersappeared to this investigatorto be two very level-headed 17-year-old girls. , They appearedto be honest, and • sincere intheir reports of the sighting.At no time did l:get the im-pression that they exaggeratedtheir story. I came away.fromthe interview with the distinctfeeling that the two. g i r l s - h a d

seen something that was totallyforeign to their concept of anyknown flying craft. '

J. Santangelo,for Massachu-

. Comments byMUFON directorsetts:

Although there are some dis-crepencies between witnesses'descriptions, this is a com-prehensive report from j FieldInvestigator Giambrone. ; Thiscertainly can be classed! as anUnknown Flying Object and aClose Encounter. ' . ' ' • • •'•' If the investigator is ableto obtain the negatives of thepictures that were taken andthey are of sufficiently goodquality they w i l l be forwardedsubsequently. ,

When I spoke to the invest!-'gator' over the-phone he men-tioned that the girls indicatedthe object was 10 to 12 feet in.diameter and that the lightsource seemed to be . about afoot and a half, -in .diameter.Although this does not appearin his report, the size of the.light source is unusual.

Any additional data will>besubmitted -as an addendum, tothis case #MA 75-4. ;

A telephone call was made tothe South Weymouth Naval " A i rStation and. they confirmed thatthey did not. have a helicopterup on the eve of Feb. 20,'1975.

Comments by Raymond'E: Fow-ler, MUFON director of investi-gations. ;

I have reviewed the subjectmatter on March 14, 1975. Inaddition to other helicopterchecks within the report, Iphoned the .,Lawrence .MunicipalAirport'. .One hel icopter oper-ates;, there,., but only onjweek-ends. There , i.s heavy, traf f Kcat night, 7 days a week,i con-sisting of. cargo/commercialaircraft. :

In. my estimation,- the follow-on UFO reports of "lights-in-the-sky" made after the i n i t i a lUFO sighting probably can beattributed to such traffic. Theini t i a l sighting, if reportedaccurately, seems to beia le-gitimate "unknown."

MUFON reports in briefKampsville, I.L. ; 6 p.m. No-

vember, 197**; investigated bySteve Erdmann; observed by Jan-ice Ewen, 32, and son Gary; sawobject through bedroom window,became brighter as it gotcloser, made "whirring soundsomething like a jet," whitel i g h t changed to red, hoveringwhen first sighted, self-lum-inous, sharp outline, size ofplate at arm's . length, a l llights steady, passed overhouse, observed *»5 minutes.

Keyesport/Tamalco-, IL., 9:30p.m., Jan. 1, 1975; investigat-ed by Rosie Holmes; observed byDebbie Jannett 21; huge brightyellowish-orange 1ight in east-ern sky above some trees, seem-ed to follow auto, seemed tolower and hover, static onradio, witness reported she wasfrightened by experience.

White Oak,. IL.; 9:1.5 -P.m.Jan. 1..1975; investigated bySteve Erdmann; observed byFrank M. Brown, 1*6, and Garyand Marsha Harms; noticed redand green light through carwindshield about 500-600. feetover a"field, "pinkish lightdirectly about it," lightssteady, no shape, no sound, ob-served. 15. minutes.

St. -Jacob/Highland, 1 1 1 . ;8:20 p.m. Jan. 1, 1975; invest-igated by Rosie Holmes; observ-ed by Charles Green, 42; wit-ness driving when he observed"long and huge", white illumin-ated.object moving in front ofhim about 4 mile—above trees—moving from north :tb' south,estimated length of 1(0-50 feet,round at both ends, "lookedlike a flourescent tube onlyvery long and not thin," objecttraveling very fast, . no sound.Observed for about . 2 seconds.

Breckmeyer, IL.; 9:30 p.m.,Jan. 3, 1975; investigated byMae Jannett; observed by OliveKohrs and daughters, plus un-known witnesses in two otherautos; bright yellow light;oval shape in distance and

round when overhead, in view a-bout 30 minutes. Mrs. Kphrs,50, has BS degree and militaryexperience. One previous sight-ing two years ago at CarlyleLake, II.

Durand, Wise. (A miles.south-west); 10:15 p. m. Jan. 21,1975;. investigated by RichardA. Hetletvedt and Ronald M.Anderson; observed by ScottFedie, 16, and Mitchell Dover-spike, 16. In auto when object

observed hovering : 150 yards a-,way at altitude of 600 feet,spheroid shape, lights arrangedin ring about 20 feet in diame-ter, intensity of auto head-lights but without beams ' (orshafts) of ligh't, could'not seeany body structure due "tobrightness of lights, noticedno EM effects, seen for 5-10minutes. Object emitted "rumb-lin g like a jet and slowlystarted moving, then acceler-ated quickly and-moved out ofsight almost immediately.

Durand, Wise. (5 miles south-east); 6:*»0 p.m. Jan. 22, 1975;investigated by Richard A. Het-letvedt; observed by MitchellDoverspike, 16, and Mrs. Mar-cel la Doverspike; group of highintensity l.ights arranged incircle, similar to those ob-served previous evening, esti-mated 600 yards away.

Chippewa Falls, Wise. (1 mileeast); 9 p.m. Jan. 26, 1975;investigated by Richard A. Het-letvedt; observed by Kevin Gui-bord, 23; conical-shaped object

in sky, flying with blunt endforward, estimated length of 1»0feet, moving about 35 m.p.h.and disappeared in horizontalaltitude. Witness reports pos-sible previous sighting, in1965.-

Durand, Wise.; 6:20 p.m. Jan.29, 1975; investigated by Rich-ard A. Hetletvedt; observed byMrs. Al Gund, 66, Mrs. Gund'sdaughter, daughter's family,Dennis Buchholtz, Orland Olson,and Marcella Doverspike; whitelight in sky, appeared to be'a-bout 2,000 feet away,- obJongshape, slowly moving, two pos-sible photos by iJf-year-oldgrandson (not 'processed yet).Observed for 20 minutes. Passednear cable TV tower (no EM ef-fects reported), gained alti-tude slightly as it moved slow-ly south-soiithwest at 20 com-pass- degrees per hour, laterhovering again far away.

Durand, Wise.; 6:30 p.m; Jan.31, 1975;'investigated by Rich-ard A. Hetletvedt; observed by

Mrs. Al Gund, 66; elongated ob-ject with blinking red light onone side and blinking bluelight on other side, seen forthree hours. Previous sightingon Jan. 29, 1975.

Mount Olive, N.C.; 8 p.m.Feb. 4, 1975; investigated byFrank R. Harrison; observed byBessie Holmes and grown daugh-ter Lois, plus six other wit-nesses; b r i l l i a n t bright light

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descended towards witnesses,then hovered 200 feet away overvacant house; four lights onright side, object Was rotat-ing, no sound, about 16-20 feetin diameter. Stayed in Mt.Olive area for two hours. Con-clusion by investigator: UFO.'

Los Altos, Calif.; 11 a.m.April 6, 1974; investigated byPaul Cerney; observed.by Chris-tine Ezell Johnson, 52, (hus-band in auto, but distracted bytraffic); on highway 280, nearFoothill College, spotty fogwith open blue sky, metallicobject 200-300 feet long, cigar"shape, about 50 feet in di-

.ameter, Sun's rays were sendingt;ll ightning-1 ike '••• reflections"from object "for some dis-tance," object about 50 feetoff ground and about 200 feetaway, had "flat" or "blunt"front end which had a "flour-escent glow," object appearedto cause turbulence and "churn-ing" of the fog, •• object dartedforward a short distance asauto slowed; .then object quiv-

ered, changed direction, wentup at a very sharp angle, andvanished at "a fantasticspeed." No details of wheels,windows, etc. observed. Object"may have" made a sound of windas it moved.

Stanton Friedmanschedules lectures

Noted UFO lecturer StantonT. Friedman has released thefollowing schedule of programs.

April 1, 11 a.m., NormandaleCommunity College, Bloomington,Minn.; April 11, 8 p.m., GraysHarbor College, Aberdeen,Wash.; April 16, 8 p.m., Col-lege of Redwoods, Eureka,Calif., April 25, 7:30 p.m.,Santa-Ana College, Santa "Ana,Calif.;

May 3, 7:30 p.m., Santa RosaJr. College, Santa Rosa,Calif.; Oct. 7, 8 p.m., El Ca-mino College, Torrance, Calif.

Friedman .reminds SKYLOOKreaders that his fee is "stillunder $1,000" (special ratesfor "piggy-back" enroute lec-tures), and-that he is usuallyable to spend a l l day on cam-pus .

A veteran of "lectures at 225colleges in bQ. states, theMUFON Symposium, and NBC's"UFOs: Do You Believe?," Fried-man is often the source of fav-orable press coverage in con-nection with his lectures.

He may be contacted by writ-ing to 2*»10i Graham Ave., Re-dondo Beach, Calif. 902/8; orcalling collect 213-371-9800.

FOR SALE:ASTRONOMY BOOKS --First

'oh the Moon, Footprints onthe Moon, Exploring the.Moon Through- Binoculars;also several old astronomybooks, etc. Sky and Teles-cope back, issues and otherastronomy magazines. -UFOmagazines also-available.

Mark R. Herbstritt967 Theresia StreetSt. Mary's, PA. 15857

MUFUN, Centersupport UFOnews network. Both MUFON and the Center

for UFO ' Studies are lendingsupport 'to the newly-organizedNews Information Network, whichis designed to enable broadcast,station newsmen to relay and.exchange UFO informationthroughout 'the U.S. and Canada.

The idea was reportedly con-ceived by Lee Speigel, fi.eldinvestigator for MUFON, and co-ordinated with Gary McKenzie,news editor for WXLO-FM in NewYork City,, and Mike Douglas,news director for WYOO-AM/FM inMinneapolis-St. Paul. Dr.. J.Allen Hynek i.s serving as aconsultant for the network.

The U, S. and Canada' aredivided into more, than 120telephone "area codes to fo.rm.the basic segments of the net-work. More than 160 stationshave reportedly joined the' net-,work thus' far. '"''.'

Following is Jan errata listfor the article, " "Bloecher,Webb appreciate contributionson humanoids," in the Feb'ruary,1975, SKYLOOK. •

1. Everett Brazie, NeV/ Yorkstate section director,, livesin Fayettevi1le, New York, 'notLa Fayette.

2. Ray Fowler's report onthe -Feb. l4, .1973, Oklahomasighting should be McAlester,Ok.,~ hot McAllister. ' '; \

3. Richard Hal 1 1ives : inBre'ritwood, Maryland, not Brent-wood , Mo, . • '

k. Cedric Leonard's reporton the 1966" encounter in Okla-homa has been received; theexact date was April 22, 1966,and the precise site was 3miles south' of Thackervi1le,Oklahoma, along the Red River6 miles north of Gainesville,Texas, on 1-35.

UFO's Behind the Iron CurtainBy Joe Brill

Following are some of the .reports received in relation tothe. Sept. 19, 1967, sighting ofa crescent-shaped object nearDonetsk in the Soviet Union.There are several reports onthis sighting in addition tothe following, but .they arequite similar, for the mostpart, and are not being includ-ed because of space .restric-tions. >

POGORELOV'S REPORT

"On Sept.. 19, 1967, at 1920hours (Moscow Time) I observedthe flight of an unidentifiedcrescent-shaped form of a lum-inous object, fifteen kilo-meters east of the center ofDonetsk when it had alreadygotten dark and only five orten minutes remained until the''rising 1 of the full disc ofthe moon.

"I noticed the crescent-shaped object while .in my roomand. then observed it whileleaning out the window. Theobject flew from the south tothe northeast at an altitude offifty degrees and i n - a horizon-tal plane until it disappeared,first being transformed into avertical band of light. Thecolor of the luminescence ofthe crescent object could onlybe compared to the 'honey1

color of the 'risen' moon asseen from within the boundariesof an industrial city.

"I did not manage to noticeany shaded, that is, non-lumi-nous parts, details or surfaceswh.ile observing the object. Nosound could be heard whichmight have emanated from theobject.

"I concluded that .1 observedthe flight of a crescent-shapedobject at the moment it execut-ed a bank from the following:

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is anotherin a series of copyrighted articleswhich International Coordinator JoeBrill has prepared from the unpub-lished manuscript of Soviet UFO ex-pert Felix Y. Zigel, assistant pro-fessor at the Moscow Aviation Insti-tute.

first, I saw the moment whenthe external outline of thecrescent object seemed to bethe arc of a circle, and thiswould mean that the object wasperpendicular to me (if we con-sider that the distance to theobject was much greater thanits dimensions). Otherwise, Iwould have seen the object notin the shape of a circular.arcbut in the shape of.an arc ofan el 1ipse.

"Secondly, as the objectmoved away, the luminous cres-cent surface was transformedinto a vertical band of lightwhich then disappeared.

"From all of this I assumethat the unidentified flyingobject had a crescent-shapedform with a triangular -crosssection. Let me note severaldetails:

"After my observation of theobject's flight .1 could hearthe rumble of the engines of atransport or passenger planesomewhere in the distant sky.

"The next day, that is onSept. .20, a taxi driver .(I havethe number of the vehicle) toldme that on the previous day(Sept. 19) he was near Zhdanov,(formerly Mariupol) and . at atime, as he put it, 'when itwas already^ dark but the moonwas not yet vis i b l e " he saw theflight of a round flying nude-,us .type object. In flying, theobject sparkled strongly in thetail portion. The taxi driverstressed that the object"wasflying toward Donetsk. I as-sume that on Sept. - 19 the taxi

driver, saw a" flying objectentering the earth's atmosphereand I saw this same object orone of them (I admit the possi-b i l i t y of there having beenmore than one) already after ithad extinguished its speed inorder to perform the bankingmaneuver."

(Signed: V. I. Pogorelov,Donetsk-66, University St. 7,Apt.

P'YANYKH's REPORT

"On. Sept. 19, 1967, I and agroup of students of the Tech-nical and Vocational Schoolwere working - on the kolkhozimeni Michurin of Svatovskiyrayon, Luganskaya oblast.

"In the evening, after din-ner, we were standing and talk-ing in the street. It was 1920hours, (Moscow Time) and themoon had already risen. but wass t i l l very low on the horizon.

"It was .at this moment I- sawan unusua.l phenomenon. A lumi-nous object moved rapidly inthe southern portion of the skyparallel to the horizon. Itwas very similar to a crescentmoon moving with it's convexityforward, but only it's concavi-ty boundary was not the arc ofa circle but rather the arc ofa parabola.-

"The angular dimensions ofthe object along the verticalwere approximately the same asthose of a full moon. Interest-ingly, somewhat above the lumi-nous 'crescent' a flickeringpoint was ; visible which 'movedtogether with it.

"The color of the crescentwas orange, very simi lar to- thecolor .of the risen- moon, butsomewhat less bright, in whichregard the -'brightness at theleading edge was a littlegreater than at the trailing

edge. It was difficult to de-termine the height above thehorizon because we stood in a,depression. It was approxi-mately fifteen degrees and wedetermined the direction offlight was from southwest tonortheast.

"As it moved away, the objectbecame smaller, then seemed toland or settle in a cloud andceased being visible. The en-tire phenomenon continued forten to twelve seconds, but dur-ing this time the boys managedto say that they had also seensimilar appearances before andeven predicted accurately that,disappearing from-.view, thepuzzling object would flare upagain.

"This is exactly what" happen-ed. Four or five seconds after'the luminous crescent disap-peared, several luminous pointsdifferent in brightness andseemingly falling or descendingfreely were visible in thatpart of the sky where this oc-curredi

"The circumstances that theother eyewitnesses had alreadyhad similar observations ofthis sort diminished the un-usual ness of the phenomenon forme-. We then speculated thatthis was one of the artificialsatellites which had burned upin re-entry into the earth'satmosphere.

"No sounds were heard- al-though it was very quiet" andthe slightest noise would havebeen noticed."

(Signed: G0 N« P'yanykh,Sverdlovsk, Luganskaya oblast,Doneckaya St.', Bldg. 60, Apt.22) .

. NAYSHKIN's REPORT '

., In September of 19&7, I flewby airplane to the city of Za-porozh'y6 to spend my vacationwith my daughter.

"I returned from this vaca-tion on Sept. 19. I'flew fromthe city of Zaporozh'ye, takingoff at 1700 hours (Moscow Time)with my destination .being Vol-ograd. The airplane was an I I -

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1^ Aeroflot flight numberI had a window seat on thisflight. Our airplane made astop at Lugansk airport- andthen we again took off for Vol-ograd. - We were flying at analtitude of between 1800 and1850 meters .and it was alreadydark.

"I was looking out of mywindow most of the time when

suddenly, at 1920 hours, I not-iced that some kind of objectin,the shape of a crescent moonwas suspended in the sky at'aslightly higher altitude, ap-proximately twenty kilometersfrom us.- "At first, 1 thought thatthis was the moon, but then Isaw the real 'moon ahead. Thissecond 'moon,1 in the form of acrescent, began to quickly ap-proach our . aircraft, and des-cended to our level of flight.When this object descended, the

outline of the half moon disap-peared and the object assumedthe form of a violet, elongateddisc, thirty to forty meterslong, and it flew on. a parallelcourse for about one kilometer(10 to 12 seconds) changing itsco 1 o r a s. i t f 1 ew.

"It flew at our speed,(.whichwas three hundred kilometersper hour (18,8 m.p.h.).' Somesparks, like small redlstars,began to appear behind it as ifemitted from- it. Then, thespeed of the object increased;a strong flame appeared lat itsrear and the object quicklyflew away in. the direct-ion ofVolograd, becoming only a smallred dot which disappearedshortly. We conti.nued to flyto Volograd where we arrived at2000 hours. - \

"The pilots and crew saidthat they had also observedthis object:for themselves, butthat they had no explanation atall for what it might havebeen. i

"I arrived home to my 'apart-ment in - the city of Volzhskiyat 2200 hours -and told my wifeand son about the incident. Myson informed me that at 1930hours that same evening, he hadobserved a flying crescent-shaped object at a great alti-tude which, when it descended,became blue with a violet hue;some sort of small stair-likeemission was shot out from be-hind it, and .then he saiid theobject departed upward at :agreat veloci ty." -' ''•

. (Signed: V l a d i m i r IvanovichNayshkin, technician, j Vol-zhskiy, Engels St., Bldg.t11-A,'Apr. 33.) . . - : } ' - •

In Others' WordsBy Lucius Parish

UFO sightings by celebritieshave been featured in two re-cent issues of NATIONAL ENQUIR-ER. The Feb. 25 issue told ofthree UFOs seen and photograph-ed by comedian Dick Gregory in1967. In the March k issue,Buddy. Greco recounted his ex-perience with a UFO in 1962.

The Feb. 23 TATTLER reportedGlenn Ford's UFO sighting, and.the March 2 issue featured co-median Robert Klein's 1957sighting.

NATIONAL STAR has also beenprinting various UFO items re-cently. Ray Stanford's researchand opinions are found in theFeb. 22 issue, along .with atwo-page feature on W. Va.'s."Mothman." Australian UFOevents are mentioned in theMarch 8 issue, plus a featureon UFOs and cattle mutilations.The March 15 issue has a shortitem on last year's landingcase from Canada which involved5" dome-shaped objects.

Mysterious disappearances ofpeople and possible UFO in-volvement in such cases arediscussed by B. Ann :Slate inthe April issue of SAGA.• A strictly-rehash article onthe Burmuda . Triangle can befound in the April issue of AIRCLASS.ICS. 'Another article ofthe same caliber can be foundin the May issue of MALE.. TheMay issue of ACTION FOR MEN hasyet another Triangle article;this one .mentions a mysterious"circle" off Cape Hatteras, N.C. which allegedly shows up oncertain satellite photos. Atthe rate things are going, Imay have to start a separatecolumn for Triangle items!

Recent paperback reprints ofvarious books include: Carl Sa-gan's THE COSMIC CONNECTION;Allen Louis Erskine's: WHY ARETHEY WATCHING US?; JacquesVallee's ANATOMY OF A PHENOM-ENON (this is a direct reprint

of the original Regnery edi-tion; the "revised edition"issued by Ace Books some' yearsago contains different mater-ial).

A new quarterly magazine,OFFICIAL UFO, is now available.The first issue is largely re-hash and not very impressive,but it might develop into some-thing worthwhile. The price is$1.00 per issue.

I:-am informed that Ernest L.Moyer's- THE DAY OF. CELESTIALVISITATION is available fromExposition Press for $12;50.However, this is merely a re-print'" of Moyer's previous book,GOD, MAN.- AND THE UFOs, with atitle change and a price in-crease. This gives me mixedfeelings, as the book is cer-tainly well worth reading, butExposition's tactics smack of"rip-off" to me.

George Fawcett's name isknown to practically everyonewho reads any Ufological liter-ature. Since "flying saucers"hit the headlines in 19^7,George has been busily re-searching the subject and col-lecting data on sightings. Hehas now compiled a booklet,QUARTER CENTURY STUDIES OF UFOsIN FLORIDA, ,NORTH CAROLINA &TENNESSEE. As the title sug-gests, George reviews the his-tory of UFO reports in thestates in which he has livedduring the past quarter cen-tury. He also includes- chap-ters on the 1973 UFO flap,American re'ports during 1974,and global reports in 1974.Lists of recommended books andperiodicals are also to befound, along with photos, ' bio-graphical information on theauthor, etc. APRO's Coral Lo-renzen has provided a Forewordfor the. booklet. A very .inter-esting example, of one man'swork with UFO data. The bookletis available -for-$4.15 in the

U.S. (N.C. residents add 4%sales tax); the overseas rate(First Class) is $4.87. Orderfrom: Pioneer Printing Co. - P.0. Box 407 - Mt. Airy, N. C.27030.

A lot of Ufologists seem totake the subject (and them-selves) a bit too seriously attimes. Not .that'the implica-tions of UFOs aren't—or mightnot be—serious, -but, as in a l laspects of life, Ufologistsneed a sense of humor too. Ifyou agree, then you're certainto like Dan Clements' book, HOWTO BE KIDNAPPED BY UFOLK (ANDOTHER ESCAPES). And don't letthat title mislead you; Clem-ents isn't poking fun at eitherUFOs or the people who investi-gate them. For that matter, hehas also been researching thesubject for many years, so heknows whereof he speaks. As hesays in his opening chapter:"The approach is lightheartedand perhaps lightheaded. Theintent, however, is serious andthe basic facts, though syn-thesized and dramatized, arenot fictionalized." I got manya chuckle out of the book and Ithink you w i l l also. It mighteven make you forget the timeCousin Henry got you up atthree o'clock in the morning towatch Venus rising! Order thebook from: Clemco - Box 1362 -Manhattan Beach, CA 90266. Theprice is $3.95.

STRANGE PLANET (A Sourcebookof Unusual Geological Facts) isthe latest entry in W i l l i a m R.Corliss 1 hopefully-never-endingline of "sourcebooks" on For-tean subjects. This one coverssuch topics as fossil clocks,mammoth graveyards, animals"entombed" in rocks, phantomlands and islands, The Deluge,magnetic anomalies and rever-sals, ringing rocks, movingrocks, singing sands and a host

of other- unusual phenomena.Nothing about UFOs, per se, inthis volume, but you w i l l finda few references to. the typesof artifacts often cited insupport of the "ancient astro-naut" theory. The previousbooks in the series—Volumes 1and 2 of STRANGE PHENOMENA andVolume 1 of STRANGE ARTIFACTS—are also s t i l l available fromMr. Corliss. His next offeringw i l l be Volume 1 of STRANGEUNIVERSE, dealing with astro-nomical mysteries. STRANGEPLANET is priced at $7-95, fromthe author at: P.O. Box 107 -Glen Arm, MD 21057.

Rawlins, Wyomingcase still open

Replying to questions bySKYLOOK concerning a follow-upon the alleged experience ofCarl Higdon near Rawlins, Wyo.(reported in the December, 197'tSKYLOOK), Dr. Leo Sprinkle, whoinvestigated the case, repliedon Feb. 12 as follows:

"Thank you very much for yourletter, and for your good ques-tions regarding the Carl HigdonUFO experience. I regret thatfurther information is not yetavailable, since the investiga-tion is continuing.

"The UFO Panel:of the NAT-IONAL ENQUIRER w i l l be meetingin March, and I hope to encour-age other members of the Panelto consider further procedures,for example, .polygraph examina-tion, etc.

"There are many questionsregarding the information whichhas come out, even though Icontinue to hold the view thatCarl Higdon did experience theunusual event.

"As we l.earn more about theevents which took place, I hopewe can approach.the questionsyou raise: The significance ofthis case in relation to others imilar cases.

"Thank you for your ques-tions; I w i l l try to keep otherresearchers informed as soon asthe investigation is concludedand a final report written."

FBI Law Enforcement Bulletinpublicizes Center for UFO Studies

A five-page article by Dr.J. Allen Hynek has been printedin the February issue of theprestigious FBI LAW ENFORCEMENTBULLETIN, which has a circula-tion of 80,000.

The article explains the rolewhich law enforcement officerscan play in reporting UFOsightings to the Center via aspecial toll-free number.. Dr.Hynek also presents a generalpicture of the UFO scene, em-phasizing the Increasing accep-tance of. UFOs as a suitable

'subject of study by scientists.Discussing some misconcep-

tions about the UFO phenomenon,Hynek dealt with the chargethat reports are made by crack-pots.

"The facts are quite other-wise," he pointed out. ."Clear-ly, pol ice off icers , commerci.aland m i l i t a r y pilots, air traf-fic controllers, scientists,and school teachers are not inthis category. Experience def-initely shows that the best re-ports, those with the greatestinformation content, come fromtechnically trained, profes-sional people, especially lawenforcement personnel." .

Dealing with the misconcep-tion that UFO. witnesses have"overstimulated imaginations,"Hynek stated, "The reportsthemselves argue strongly a-gainst-this, for the reports donot range over a broad spec-trum.

"There are virtually no.re-ports of .unidentified SAILINGobjects, or. of UFOs.with wingsor wheels, and there are no re-ports of flying, pink elephants(FPEs), or of the Empire StateBuil d i n g being seen upside.downin Pittsburgh....Pure imagina-tion should produce all sortsof things—but concerning UFOs,it does not....Our most puzzl-ing reports come from reliable,often .highly-trained, witness-

Discussing the misconceptionthat "people see what they wantto see." Dr. Hynek explainedthat "once again, experiencedenies this. Time and again,the witnesses try first ;to ex-pla i n their sighting to them-selves: 'At first I thought itwas a balloon (or an aircraft,or an accident on the. road, andso forth), but then we realizedit just couldn't be1 is astatement I have heard many,many times."

Such newspapers as THE WASH-INGTON POST and the SANTA ANA,Calif., REGISTER have reportedthe appearance of Dr. Hynek'sstory in the FBI publication,providing additional favorablepublicity for the Center.;

During 197^ the Center forUFO Studies received kk"} re-ports over its toll-free linefrom law enforcement agencies.A preliminary assessment, indi-cates that about 71 percentwere "nocturnal lights," 17percent were listed as '/closeencounters" (within 500 feet),8 percent were daylight discs,and k percent were uncategor-ized.

The Center has noted,' how-ever, that these preliminarydesignations often change afterthe reports are investigated.About 5,000 law enforcementagencies have access to theconfidential hotline number.

Highly recommended 'by SKYLOOK '

1973 — Year of the Humanoids

by Dave Webb •

$3.00 fromMUFON :

40 Christopher Ct.Quincy, III. 62301 -

Traunstein, Austria, area

54 Objects, 29 Sightings reportedBy Ernst Berger

MUFON Central European Section

The following is only a briefreview of interesting casesfrom the Waldviertel Highlandsin the vicinity of Traunstein,Austria, which have come tolight in the course of addi-tional investigations.

We soon had to realize the"snail feeler" sightings ofOctober and November, 1973,were only one piece for thejig-saw—no isolated phenomena.A statistical breakdown withthe deadline of March 2, 1975,i.e. after our 6th field tripfor MUFON-C.E.S., indicates al-most permanent activity sinceAugust, 1973, with 29 differentsighting reports and 5k objectsinvolved.

On 2*» occasions shapes orstructural details were observ-ed, and two Type-I sightingshave been recorded. Details onthe salient points of interestw i l l be translated in May, solet's keep to the outlineshere:

In August, 1973, on two suc-cessive evenings near Spiel-berg, a globe projecting beamsof "solid light" was observedby the owner of a car servicestation. The same witness sawa ball travelling at supersonicspeed in early September, andwatched a pulsating objectwhich released two "satellites"some days later. All objectsshowed vivid colors whichchanged in a clockwise pattern,apparently.

On December 28, 1973, thePritz family at Traunsteinnoticed a fiery mass manoever-ing in the WSW sky at impos-sible speed. Gerhard Pritz re-ported a red egg with a redspotlight cone projecting down-wards and i l l u m i n a t i n g trees inlate January, 197^. In Julyand August, 1971*, manoeverssi m i l a r to the October, 1973,

ones, but always with threeglobes in operation and without"feelers" occurred in theTraunstein sky. Hans Pritz andMr. L., local department storeowner, were the main witnesses.

The Spielberg witness watch-ed a pulsating globe followinga spiral trajectory, over theswamp region to the northwestin August. Nothing new untilNovember, when a low-flyingcigar or oblong object with ayellow-orange and red lightcrossed the road in front ofthe Pritz car in the evening ofthe 18th. Gerhart and HansPritz gave us an impressive ac-count of this small low-flyer,which kept only 50 meters aboveground level.

On Dec. 9, a disc flashingvivid colors was .observedthrough binoculars by the L.family; 5 days later Mr. Pritzsaw a fuzzy globe with a rotat-ing beacon light and a red dotflying away from it on his wayto Kaltenbach. Three days be-fore Christmas Eve, 197**, threeglobes with "peaks" hoverednear Traunstein, and a wingingball emitted sparks near asmall town in Southern Wald-viertel (possible Type-l).

A huge globe with multi-colored rays resembling "clock-hands" was seen from Mr.Pritz's uncle's near the Pritzhouse in January this year;Hans-Pritz focused his binocu-lars onto a flickering objectclose to the ground three dayslater, and on Jan. 13 a bizarreshape shot down a fiery ray in-to the woods behind Mt. Wacht-stein. A flyover of a cigarand three red discs was noticedon the 15th.

On Jan. 17 and 27, classical"dogfights" were watched close-ly by Hans Pritz and his uncle.On March 1, 1975, Ernst Bergerand one of his investigatorsobserved the clear sky togetherwith the Pritz family and saw

nothing unusual. At 7:30 p.m.CET Hans Pritz left the groupand drove to Zwettl togetherwith three friends. It was notuntil March 2, 1975, that welearned the four persons hadencountered a huge oval "burn-ing, red" object "just over thetreetops" on their way toZwettl, near Grossweissenbach.

Also, three yellowish globes"composed of many parts, like apuzzle" were noticed near thecigar-shaped light source. Thesomewhat dramatic Type-l hadhappened around 7:50 p.m. Thecase is s t i l l under investiga-tion and w i l l be published .bySkylook together with a detail-ed report on the other Traun-stein sightings.

I have to add that I delib-erately did not follow Dr.Hynek's suggestion to excludeUFO reporters with a "repeateraspect" from my studies, buthave taken the Pritz and Mr. L.reports at face value. In ourstatistical breakdown, theaverage number of observers perobservation proved to be 2.2and kO minutes were the averageobservation time. There can beno doubt something very strangeis going on over the lonelywoods of Northern Austria.

(Copyright by Ernst Berger,1975)

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We are extremely proud toannounce that • James M. McCamp-bell has accepted the appoint-ment to the Board of Directorsof MUFON with the title of di-rector of Research.

In addition to coordinatingthe activities of our AdvisoryBoard of Consultants, he w i l lbe responsible for guiding andoverseeing research within theorganization. He is the authorof the stimulating book UFOLOGY— NEW INSIGHTS FROM SCIENCE ANDCOMMON SENSE, which.challengesthe scientific community in themany disciplines related to theUFO phenomenon.

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Two new Consultants havevolunteered their services toMUFON—Lester H. Steward, Ph.D., 515 W. Towwley, Phoenix,Ariz. 85021 .for biological-psychological cases, and WalterA. Mickle, M.D. in the field, ofelect roen-cepha1og raphy.

Dr. Mickle has also acceptedthe position of state-sectiondirector for the parishes ofOrleans, St.'Tammany, St. Johnthe Baptist, St. James, St.Charles, Terrebonne, Lafourche,Jefferson, Plaquemines, and St.Bernard encompassing southeastLouisiana. Walter resides1 at5310 Cartier Ave., New Orleans,La. 70122; telephone: AC 504282-7068. In addition to hismedical profession. Walker is aprivate pilot and an amateurradio operator K5EOE.

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past month are the followinggentlemen:

Frederick Kolbe, 125 ChristieH i l l Road, Darien, Conn. 06820;telephone: AC 203 327-0817 w i l lbe responsible for the countiesof Fairfield, New Haven, andLitchfield. The appointment ofMr. Kolbe brings to forty (40)the number of states in whichMUFON is organized. Even thoughMUFON has members or field in-vestigators in all ffftystates, we do not consider astate organized untH state orstate-section directors areestablished and functioning.

Nicholas White, 289 No,, Syca-more St., Hi nek ley, 1 1 1 . 60520;telephone: .AC 815 286-3692 hasbeen selected.to cover DeKalband Lee counties in Illinois.Nick is an air traffic control-ler for the nation's busiestairport.• The possible UFO landing casenear Ottawa, Ohio, was reportedto MUFON by David W. Spencer,1031 N. . Locust St., Ottawa,Ohio 1*5875; telephone: AC 419523-4873. .Dave has volunteredto serve as state-section di-

rector for^Putnam and Pauldingcounties. Dave has been thePutnam County CivH Defensedirector for four years and hasa close relationship with pub-lic safety agencies.

Lou Masonick, state directorfor Minnesota, has appointedRaymond L. Warren, 911 22ndAve. South, Minneapolis, Minn.55404; telephone: AC 612 338-3357 as state-section directorfor Hennepin, Sherburne,Wright, Carver, and Scottcounties.

Eugene T. Lundholm, 2202Hughitt Ave., Superior, Wis.54880; Telephone: AC 715 394-3765, a professor at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Superior,has accepted the responsibilityfor the northern Wisconsincounties of Douglas, Bayfield,Burnett, Washburn, Sawyer, Ash-land, and Iron. Gene is cur-rently deeply involved in anapparent rash of UFO reportsaround Gordon and Ashland, Wis,

Western Wisconsin is beingably handled by Jack M. Bost-rack, Ph.D., 384 West ParkStreet, River Falls, Wis.54002; telephone: AC 715 425-5730, the new state-section di-rector for St. Croix, Pierce,Polk, Barren, Dunn, Pepin andBuffalo counties. Jack ispresently chairman of the De-partment of Biology at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-RiverFalls.

Donald L. Worley, a veteranUFO investigator, 1051 BeechSt., Connersville, Ihd0 47331;telephone: AC 317 825-6865 hasvolunteered to serve as state-section director for the Indi-ana counties of Fayette, Union,Franklin, Rushville, Wayne,and Henry.

James E. Miller, an optom-etrist, Box 376, Exeter, Calif.93221; telephone: AC 209 592-3108 has been appointed state-

section director for Tulare andKings counties by Paul Cerny,state director for NorthernCalifornia.

Raymond E. Fowler, directorof investigations, is makingfantastic progress in the edit-ing and composing of MUFON'ssecond edition of the "FieldInvestigators' Manual." Otherspecialists and consultantssuch as Adrian Vance, Ron West-rum, Ted Phillips, and severalof Ray's close colleagues havesubmitted sections for the man-ual on their area of expertise.In order that the manual may berevised and kept current withease, it will be printed onboth sides of 8x1 H" sheets ofpaper and be placed in a three-ring binder of the investiga-tor's choice. Announcement ofits availability, price, andmeans of distriubtion w i l l bemade known via a future issueof SKYLOOK.

Joe Brill, international co-ordinator, has approved the ap-pointment of Jim Smyth, 5Riversdale Rd., Prehew, DerryNorth Ireland as MUFON's fore-ign representative for NorthernIreland.A revised MUFON "Introductory

Resume" reflecting the new com-bination membership-SKYLOOKsubscription dues rate and ageneral statement of MUFON'sgoals, objectives, and organ I-zation structure is now avail-able for distribution. All newstate or state-section direc-tors have been receiving therevised version as an explana-tory statement for the newsmedia and as an aid when re-cruiting field investigators.All directors needing a freshsupply of this two-page formshould write to the MUFON ad-ministrative office at 0Christopher Court, 0_uincy, Ml.62J01.

Plans are rapidly firming-upfor MUFON's Sixth Annual UFOSymposium to be held July 5 and6, 1975, at the downtown Holi-day Inn in Des Moines, Iowa,Please refer to a separate art-icle in this issue of SKYLOOK

for the names of the speakers,their subjects, and informationon advance reservations.

Each state, state-sectiondirector, and most consultantshave received a letter from theCenter for UFO Studies signedby J.. Allen Hynek reiteratingthe cooperative investigativenetwork arrangement that existsbetween the Center and MUFON.

Also enclosed was an intro-ductory letter addressed to"Dear Chief," which explainsthe Center for UFO Studies andthe toll free number which maybe used by police agencies toreport UFO sightings directlyto the Center. Since state-section directors are responsi-ble for several counties, theymay have a large number of cit-ies and villages, each havingtheir own police departments,in addition to each countysheriff. It is recommendedthat the letter from the Centerbe reproduced in volume to meetyour needs for each agency.

In addition to the letterfrom the Center, each directorshould compose a short conciseletter describing the localMUFON organization, giving thenames, addresses and telephonenumber to be called to reportUFO sightings. These two let-ters will help to establish arapport between the policeagencies and the local MUFONrepresentatives when they aredelivered personally to thechief of police or sheriff. Incommunities where local MUFONgroups or representatives arewell organized, the police insome cities have indicated thatthey would prefer to refer thecases directly to MUFON people.

Wider distribution of thetoll-free number to countysheriffs and police departmentsin areas where MUFON is notpresently organized will ulti-mately bring UFO reports to theattention of the Center for UFOStudies that are now being un-reported and thus not availablefor investigation and study.

This recommended local ar-rangement thus provides prompt

response to reports, which iftelephoned -to the Center, wouldbe referred back to the neareststate or state-section directorfor investigation. The closecooperation between MUFON and.the Center for UFO Studies isanother fine example of theunited effort being displayedto help resolve the UFO enigma.

1974 MUFON UFOSYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS

"UFO's-—An Issue Whose TimeHas Almost Come" By RalphBlum"Religion and UFO's: The Extra-sensory Problem" by Barry H.Downing, Ph.D."UFO Trace-landing Cases" byTed Phillips"Journey Into the Hill StarMap" by Marjorie E. Fish

"Saucers, PSI and Psychiatry"by Bert hold E. Schwarz, M.D.

"Flying Saucers and Physics" byStanton T. Friedman

"UFO's, in Relation to CreatureSightings in Pennsylvania" byStan Gordon

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"MUFON—A Dynamic Scien-tific Organization" presented byWalter H. Andrus, Jr."UFO Flight Characteristics"presented by John F. Schuessler

"Landing Traces, Physical Evi-dence for the UFO" presented byTed Phillips"Vision, Photography & UFOs"presented by Adrian Vance"Ufology and the Search forExtraterrestrial Life" presentedby Stanton T. Friedman

"The Embarrassment of Riches"presented by Dr. J. Allen Hynek

"Some Questions Concerning Dr.Menzel's Biblical Exegesis" sub-mitted paper by Dr. Barry H.Downing

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Recapping and commentingBy Richard Hall

(This column is directed to-wards articles appearing in theFebruary, 1975, edition of SKY-LOOK) .

Perhaps I should be awardeda set of horns for playing theDevil's advocate, but variousaspects of the "Creature InsideShield of Light" case (October21, 1973) bother me as to itsinterpretation.

Only Len Stringfield's finereport makes it possible for meto second-guess, but I am sureLen would agree that persistentand critical questioning isnecessary in "messy" cases ofthis type. I also know fromexperience that follow-up in-vestigations can be difficult,and nagging questions frequent-ly remain.

Len has established thatvarious conventional visualstimuli were present in thegeneral area that could haveconfused the issue of whether aUFO was there—3 fire enginesand a ladder truck, a disabledvehicle whose occupants soughthelp to get it started, a sec-ong vehicle used to jump thebattery of the fFrst, and apolice scout car.

In the midst of this "heavytraffic," we have one witness--Mrs. R.H., who was aware of theUFO wave then in progress—whoreported an ape-like creaturebehaving like a robot within abell-jar-like dome of light.(The son, Carl, reports onlyseeing the battery-jumping ac-tivity and a bright light be-yond the parked car, not thecreature. He seems so unim-pressed that he goes back tobed).

It is entirely possible thatMrs. R.H. did observe somethinganomalous, and there are enoughcoincidental aspects such asthe tripped fire alarm to leave

this an open questi'on.However, it is also note-

worthy that there is no UFO be-havior described in the report--no "craft" seen either land-ing or taking off. the reportcontent is apparition-Likerather than UFO-like. The fol-lowing questions also remain.

Anyone who has ever tried tojump a battery at night and getthe right cables on the rightterminals must wonder how thiscould be done without light(page 5),

Does the Swallen warehousehave a guard, and if so wherewas he at the time? What wasthe boyfriend!s occupation atthe time, and could it havebeen related to the floor tilefragments? When the car back-fired, could it have expelledcarbon particles and exhaustwastes contributing to the de-bris found?

Analysis of the physicalsamples might shed Tight on thepossibilities of exhaustwastes, corrosion scraped frombattery terminals, and thepresence of flares or fireworks(teenage highjinks?).

It might also help to havethe occupants of the two carsdescribe step-by-step exactlywhat they did before and duringthe battery-jump ing procedure,starting with their arrival atthe parked car.

I have no idea what Mrs. R.H. saw, but a process of elim-ination might establish whatshe did not see.

MUFON-C.E.S. is a welcomeaddition to the fold, and theirreports to date have been im-pressive in quality. Some read-ers may have been puzzled, as Iwas, by the geological descrip-tion of the Austrian-Bavarianborder area as having a "Karstmorphology." My dictionary de-

stronomyNotes

By Mark Herbs*riW

May Sky

Mercury—is at greatest east-ern elongation on the 16th andthis is a favorable elongation.During all of this month Mercu-ry may be seen low in tftevsouthwest after sunset. '~r-

Venus—is-magnitude r3.7. It'is in the west at sunset andsets about 3 hours later.

Mars—is in the southwestbefore sun risei

Jupiter^-is in Pisces. It;rises about an hour before theSun,

Saturn—is in Gemini. It iswell down in the west at suase.tand sets-about 3 hours later.

The Eta Aquarid meteor .-shower',reaches maxi-.mum on -May 5th.

There is an eel i'psje... of theMoon visible in North Americaon the night of the 2A/th-25th.

f>ines this, as a "1 imestone regj -ion marked by sinks and i-n<te1p-sper.sed with abrupt ridges,, 1 r-.regular protuberant rocks,-cav-erns, and underground streams."This could describe a number "ofUFO hotspots in theU.S., in-cluding cavern areas of the Ap- 'palachians.

The first instal Imen-t -of therF. Y. Zigel manuscript lookshighly promising, already :pro-'viding grist for the '''cover-up1'1 •m i l l . The test pilot reportsstrongly suggest early Sovhe;,tknowledge of the seriousness -&fUFO reports, but also suggest,hostile actions toward military.aircraft. ". , ,.,

Apraskin's sub'sequenit treat-^ment also'has parallels in U.S. »cases, consistent 'ei th'efi';wi'th- 'a .cover-up or a bull-headed deni-1

al by authorities that such lb-i-zarre events could possibl-y.bereal'ly happening.

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