The MUFONUFO JOURNAL

NUMBER 133 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1979

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Capt. William D. Leet, left, and his brother Lt. Warren R. Leet, World War II bomber pilots.Bill, now MUFON State Section Director in Arkansas, had three UFO sightings while onactive flying duty. His "foo-fighter" report appears on page 3.

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Editor

ANN DRUFFELAssociate Editor

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MILDRED BIESELEContributing Editor

WALTER H. ANDRUSDirector of MUFON

PAUL CERNYPromotion/Publicity

REV. BARRY DOWNINGReligion and UFOs

LUCIUS PARISHBooks/Periodicals/History

MARJORIE FISHExtraterrestrial Life

MARK HERBSTRITTAstronomy

ROSETTA HOLMESPromotion/Publicity

TED PHILLIPSLanding Trace Cases

JOHN F. SCHUESSLERUFO Propulsion

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DENNIS HAUCKEditor/Publishers Emeritus

The MUFON UFO JOURNAL ispublished by the Mutual UFONetwork, Inc., Seguin, Texas.Subscription rates: $8.00 per yearin the U.S.A.; $9.00 per yearforeign. Copyright 1979 by theMutual UFO Network. Secondclass postage paid at Seguin,Texas. POSTMASTER: Send form3579 to advise change of address toThe MUFON UFO JOURNAL,103 Oldtowne Rd., Seguin, Texas78155.

FROM THE EDITORThe frequent inclusion of humanoid and abduction cases, it

must be said from time to time, does not mean that we believe oraccept the reports at face value. When there is no reason to discountthe cases initially, we put them "on the record" where they are fairgame for analysis, criticism, and further investigation. Some mayturn out to be concoctions or psychological cases, but we won'tknow that without investigation.

Recently we were about to publish an elaborate humanoidsighting on the basis of detailed interviews of the one witness.However, information pooled by three separate MUFON units —each of which had had independent contact with the witness —revealed serious, fundamental discrepancies in what he had toldeach. Unless these can be resolved, it would appear that the witnesshas discredited himself.

I am personally convinced that investigators are seriouslyunderrating the possibility that psychological factors generate manycases that are "real" only in the mind of disturbed persons. That,however, is just a personal opinion. Only careful investigation andresearch on a case-by-case basis will help to resolve the manybaffling questions posed by persistent humanoid and abductionreports.

In this Issue

THE FLYING FORTRESS AND THE FOO—FIGHTER . . 3By William D. Leet

UFOs IN ARAB NATIONS 5By Richard Hall

NI-CIA-AP OR NICAP? 6By Todd Zechel

WEST VIRGINIA FLAP-Part 2 9By Ted Spickler

SAUCER "NESTS" IN JAPAN , 10By Takao Ikeda

HUMANOIDS IN NETHERLANDS--1973 12By Douwe J. Bosga

CALIFORNIA REPORT 14By Ann Druffel

CALIFORNIA MUFON GROUPS WINS AWARD 16By Paul Cerny -

1979 MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM IN SAN FRANCISCO . 17By Walt Andrus

UFO TECH NOTE ; 18By John F. Schuessler

IN OTHER'S WORDS '. 19By Lucius Parish

DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE 20By Walt Andrus

The contents of The MUFON UFO JOURNAL aredetermined by the editor, and do not necessarilyrepresent the official position of MUFON. Opinions ofcontributors are their own, and do not necessarily reflectthose of the editor, the staff, or MUFON. Articles may beforwarded directly to MUFON.

Permission is herby granted to quote from this issueprovided not more than 200 words are quoted from anyone article, the author of the article is given credit, andthe statement "Copyright 1979 by the MUFON UFOJOURNAL, 103 Oldtowne Rd., Sequin, Texas" isincluded.

THE FLYING FORTRESS AND THE FOG-FIGHTER\

By William D. Leet

(Copyright 1979 by William D. Leet)

On that cold, dark night ofNovember 24, 1944, when my B-17crew and I were briefed to fly a "LoneWolf bombing mission to Salzburg, nomention was made of "Foo Fighters."The officer who gave us the intelligencepart of the briefing listed the number ofheavy and light antiaircraft guns wecould expect at the target, and whattypes and how many German fightersmight hit us. We were also given thesefigures for alternate targets, in case wehad to bomb one of. them because ofinability to reach the primary target: therailroad marshalling yards at Salzburg.We were also briefed on escape routesand procedures to follow if we shouldbe shot down, but parachute safely tothe ground and have a chance to makeit back to Allied lines.

There was no mention whatsoeverin the briefing that there was a chanceof our being encountered by a FooFighter. Kenneth Arnold's vista of the"Flying Saucers" was yet to occur, andyears would pass before CaptainEdward Ruppelt's coining of "UFO,"but our Intelligence people knew verywell that the Foo Fighters were real.Intelligence officers interrogated pilotsand crews after combat missions, andhad received numerous accounts of theunearthly craft over Europe and thePacific. As the UFO cover-up hadalready commenced, 'and this vitalinformation was prohibited to flyingpersonnel, my Flying Fortress crew often men and I were unprepared for theconfrontation we were to meet with onthat mission.

We could not have been prepared,of course, for battle with aerial weaponsfar advanced of ours, and as it turnedout that was no problem. 'But for someway to get out of the dilemma intowhich my crew and I flew in our B-17,we had no mental and emotionalreadiness. We accomplished ourmission, but it could be that wereturned safely to our base more byluck than by our own training andingenuity.

The 15th Air Force, operatinglong-range heavy bombers fromairfields in southern Italy, flew at highaltitudes far into Nazi-held Europe. TheB-17s and B-24s destroyed strategicobjectives — oil refineries, principally— bombing in great formations by day.Great Britain's big bombers of theRoyal Air Force kept it incessant, night-bombing the enemy, and he wasallowed no respite.

The relentless onslaught wasinterrupted by the severe weather oflate 1944 grounding the massiveformations, so the 5th Bomb Winginitiated the Lone Wolf missions toharrass the Nazis. B-17s were sent outsingly to separate targets, causingminor damage as contrasted to thedevastation wreaked by bomberformations, but keeping the Germanworkers under constant air raidwarnings and away from the refineriesand factories. It was on such a LoneWolf flight that we made our takeoffthat November night.

As the pilot of "Old Crow," the B-17 I nearly always had on combatmissions and called "my airplane," myintention was to push the big bird upjust as high as she would go — 30,000feet, at least. I had bombed at Salzburgone time and learned first hand that theKrauts there had master sergeantsfiring their antiaircraft guns. When wereturned to our field at Amendola, thecrew chief and I counted 240 flak holesin Old Crow. Miraculously, not anengine had been shot out, there hadbeen no fires on board, and not a manon my crew was wounded. We wereover Salzburg at 25,000 feet that day.Tonight, with me calling the shots, wewould be much higher where the flakwas not so ferocious, and we'd havebetter prospects of a good bomb strikeand returning safely to home base.

My plans were changed on takeoff.I eased the four throttles to max powerand we raced down the perforated steelrunway with no trouble, but we werehardly airborne when one of the

superchargers disintegrated. Thatmeant that we could climb no higherthan 18,000, much too low for Salzburg.The navigator, bombardier and Iselected Klagenfurt for an alternatetarget. We .would blast the railroadyards at Klagenfurt and the freight carsloaded with war material that weremarshalled there, and send the laborersto the air raid shelters for the night.

Old Crow reached 18,000 feet onlyfrom my patient coaxing. She was over-loaded, carrying thousands of poundsof fuel, ammunition and bombs abovethe maximum gross weight that Boeing,her designer and manufacturer, hadset. It surprised me that the loss of oneof four superchargers made such adifference in her ceiling, but once I hadnudged her up to 18,000 the stable oldwarrior mushed right along. Theweather had improved considerably —there was a high overcast blackeningthe sky, but m.uch of the time we werenot in clouds and icing conditions. Weflew a north-northwesterly course upthe Adriatic Sea, and upon making alandfall at Trieste we had only a shortdistance to Klagenfurt.

The night was so dark that I waspiloting Old Crow by instruments, butsoon after turning on the bomb run andopening the bomb bay doors, we werein a blinding light. I felt the heat from it,and thought the Krauts had caught usin their searchlights, but it lasted onlytwo or three seconds. We kept flyingthe bomb run, approaching the instantfor bombs away, but I was relieved tosee and feel no more of the light. Ithought no more about it as this was thecrucial moment of our mission, and Iconcentrated on mainta in ing aconstant airspeed and keeping OldCrow flying straight and level, so thebombardier could put the bombsprecisely on target.

(Foo-Fightcr, Continued)' ' ' " " ; , -

Upon bombs away Old Crowleaped upward, freed of her ten 500pound bombs, and I whipped her off thetarget, scurrying for safety. It was then Irealized that we had gotten no flak onthe bomb run; and where were theMesserschmidt night fighters? As muchas we had disrupted their oilproduction, surely they had enough gasto fly fighters up to attack one lorie B-17. Well, no need to tempt Fate, I knew.No flak and no fighters was peculiar,nevertheless — unprecedented. .

Heading back toward Trieste, all atonce there appeared just off our leftwing a round amber light. None of ussaw it approach or had any sight of ituntil it was right ;beside the B-17, flyingalongjn formation .with us. The object'soutline was a perfect circle — tooperfect; its- color was a luminousorange-yel|ow — too luminous. Wecould only guesstimate its distance andsize. To me, it looked to be about 50yards out from the wingtip, 10 yards tothe rear, and 10 feet in diameter. Was it100 yards distant and 20 feet indiameter? I was aware of ;a fascinationwhile observing it.

. The gunners wanted to shootwhatever-it-was with their fifty calibersbut I ordered them not to — if the thingwas hostile, we would have been shotdown without ever having seen it. As wecoursed on through ,the black night,winging homeward to our, field in thesouth of Italy, the weird craft kept uscompany. Its position relative to OldCrow's did not vary, its shape did notchange, and its brilliance neverwavered. I was unable to ascertain theform of the bogey; it could have been asphere, or a disk at 90 degrees to theearth's surface, but it definitely was notthe exhaust or lights from anotheraircraft. It positively was neithermanmade nor a natural occurrence.After 45 to 50 minutes, our companionfrom another world simply turned off.Precisely.the way that an electric lightgoes out when turned off by flipping aswitch, that is how the Foo Fighterdisappeared — it turned off.

The rest of our return to Amendolawas uneventful, and after landing andriding the truck from the field to 2ndBomb Group Operations, anIntelligence officer conducted our

debriefing. When we had reported thestandard items of weather, thealternate target we hit, bomb,strikeaccuracy, and the fact that weencountered no enemy resistance, Imentioned the momentary light we flewinto on the bomb run, and inquiredwhether there, were searchlights atKlagenfurt. No, ours was the first suchreport.

. The description I gave of theamber object and its behavior met thequick explanation that it was a "Newsecret German fighter." To my answerthat it did not. shoot , at us, theIntelligence officer rebutted that it wasradioing our course, altitude andairspeed to the German antiaircraftbatteries. When I reminded him that wehad not seen one burst of flak the entirenight, he said nothing more — he hadrun out of stock answers. He had toldus-all that he could tell. .

The superior performance ofAmerican Intelligence in WWII wasessential to our victory, but an unwisepolicy was the withholding from combatpersonnel of information about the FooFighters. When our confrontationoccurred on that Lone Wolf mission,

, • had we been forearmed with theknowledge reported to Intelligencepreviously, we would have reacted withmore certainty and confidence. We,and other crews in similar encounters,could have disproved the falseassumption that Foo Fighters wereGerman weapons, and further assistedour. war effort.

A more enlighted strategyconcerning these early manifestationsby the ., Foo Fighters , would havebrought the dawn of our understandingthe UFO phenomenon. The flash oflight that struck our B-17 on the bombrun; the absence of German fightersand flak; the appearance and actions ofthe Foo Fighter; our receiving nointerference with our bombing or otherelectronics — our calm discernmentand reporting of such data toIntelligence would have been ofinestimable value had they prepared usfor it, and then listened to our reports.So, the most important products of theLone Wolf mission to Klagenfurt werelost: improvement of combateffectiveness, and insight • intovisitations from another world. Multiply

BALLOON SIGHTINGDISCOUNTED

The alleged sighting of a UFO bythe crew of the record-setting balloon"Double Eagle II" du r ing itstransatlantic flight last year has beenflatly denied. The tabloid "People," in itsissue of October 8,1978, had claimed inan unsigned article that four UFOs hadapproached the balloon and rocked thegondola on the third night of flight, andthat the story had been suppressed bythe U.S. Government but had leakedout in France. Tom Benson (MUFONState Section Director in, Trenton,N.J.) wrote to the balloonists inDecember enclosing a copy of thearticle. Ben Abruzzo, one of the threeballoonists, replied on January 3,1979."There was no sighting," he said. "Thatarticle was totally fictitious."

MUFON: ANOTHER FIRSTThe August 1978 MUFON UFO

Journal contained an article by ToddZechel describing the anti-secrecy legalinitiatives being undertaken by CitizensAgainst UFO Secrecy (CAUS) andGround Saucer Watch, pointing outthe lack of support by other groups andasking for contributions. MUFONmembers have responded generously,and Zechel thanked them in theJanuary issue of Just Cause. ' ' •

"The response (by MUFON) hasbeen most encouraging:...," he said."MUFON members have contributedmuch-needed funds to these efforts,and CAUS wishes to express its deepgratitude."

this by many, many UFO confron-tations in World War II.

Decisions of truth and positive,action involve additional hazards, butdanger is inherent in a program ofdeception. And who knows what perilsare imbedded in the cover-up thatcontinues to this day?

UFOs IN ARAB NATIONSBy Richard Hall

Newspapers in November 1978carried brief reports (also mentioned onsome radio and TV newscasts) aboutthe reported landing and take-off of atotally soundless cylindrical UFO "witha huge dome and a flashing red light,"sighted by oil company technicians in aKuwaiti oil field. Temporary disruptionof telecommunications was reported,and an oil pumping station near thelanding site ceased to function. Almostno follow-up information has beenforthcoming, but MUFON has learnedsome additional details.

P. G. Jacob, a marine biologistemployed by the Kuwait Institute forScientific Research, wrote to MUFON:"Recently (from 9th November, 1978)there had been a number of sightings ofUFOs here in Kuwiat....All the sightingsoccurred in the oil fields of Kuwait OilCompany, the major oil producingconcern in Kuwait. The last oneoccurred on (the) 21st Tuesdaymorning (between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m.)over the Al Sabriyah oil field near theIraqui border and one man was able totake a number of photographs of theobject."

Oil company employees first saw aUFO November 9 at "GatheringCentre No. 24," supported by staff of"Centre No. 15" who also said they hadseen the object, according to theKuwait Times, November 16. "It islearnt that the KOC (Kuwait OilCompany) has supplied cameras to itsspecialized staff on field duty so thatthey can take pictures if the object isspotted again."

A team from the institute, assistedby police and army personnel,conducted an extensive search of thearea but found no trace of the object.The Kuwait Times reported,November 18, that a KOC spokesmanhad denied the company issuedcameras'to its staff.

The Arab Times reported

November 23, however, that during thesightings November 21 at the AlSabriyah oil field, "One man, who hadbeen given a camera by the oil companyto record just such a reoccurrencemanaged to take a number ofphotographs of the object as it flew overa twenty-foot water tower and hoveredin the area for thirty minutes, between5:30 and 6:00 a.m. As with previouss i g h t i n g s , a l l l ong d i s t a n c ecommunications were disrupted, butinternal phones continued to operateenabling oil company employees tocontact their supervisor, who rushedout in t ime to witness theobject....Results of the photographyhave not been disclosed.

On December 5, Arab Timesreported that a photograph had beentaken over the shore of Dubai, on thePersian Gulf coast of the United ArabEmirate (UAE) territory, by anemployee of the Passport andN a t i o n a l i t y D e p a r t m e n t . Thephotograph was reproduced .in theDecember 12 issue. "It is a disc," saidthe paper, "with a dome protruding inthe middle and completely lit up ratherlike a neon sign or fluorescent tube."

Employees of the UAE Teleco-mmunications Agency (Emritel) werealerted in November after 11 peoplereported a UFO sighting at Abu Dhabi.The Arab Times for November 25,quoting the newspaper Al-Ittihad, said,"...instructions had been issued to allEmritel employees, particularly those atearth stations, to be on the alert forUFOs and to make all efforts tophotograph and track them should onereappear."

Another UFO was seen in Kuwaitby at least 10 people, and photographedby an Arab Times reporter, on January20. Two of the photographs (blobs oflight) appeared in the Arab Times,January 21. The object seemed to berotating, changing from circular to

UFO Seen in Kuwait

more triangular in form, as it hovered;then "...it disappeared in the directionof Iran at great speed." A photograph ofthe object moving away shows ablurred image.

F i n a l l y , t he i n v e s t i g a t i n gcommittee established by the KuwaitInstitute for Scientific Research held apress conference on January 23,spurred on, they said, by the ArabTimes photograph, to which "Thec o m m i t t e e a t taches specialimportance...." They admitted thatthey were "groping in the dark," andsaid they could neither confirm nordeny the appearance of UFOs overKuwait.

The report of the press conferencein the Arab Times, January 24, includesa photograph of sketches made fromthe witness reports, two very similar"domed discs." (See reproduction withthis article.)

The Arab world apparentlyexperienced its first UFO "flap" (as faras is known in the West) during theperiod from November 1978 throughJanuary 1979, at the same time aswidespread sightings in Australia andNew Zealand. Throughout this seemingmajor wave of UFO sightings stretchingfrom the Middle East to Australia andNew Zealand, American televisionnetworks and wire services gave onlysuperficial coverage.

Most of the Arab nation sightingsoccurred along a 500-mile stretch of thePersian Gulf coastline, opposite Iran.

NI-C1A-AP OR NIGAP?By Todd Zechel

(Excerpts reprinted by permission from JustCause, January 1979; newsletter of CitizensAgainst UFO Secrecy, P.O. Box 4743, Arlington,VA 22204; subscription $12. Since the article islong, even as excerpted, it is reproduced here insmall type. The only amendment I would make isthat during.the Keyhoe-Hall era of NICAP, wenever knowingly accepted legitimately classifiedinformation .'from anyone, only "hidden"information, unclassified, but not known to thepublic. I publicly thank Mr. Zechel for hisexcellent detective work and his invaluable adviceto me .during the recent period when I wasnegotiating with the NICAP Board. I hadproposed plans for 'NICAP's merger with otherserious groups, not to rebuild it as a competitiveorganization. To say that the NIGAPrepresentatives misled me and. were less thanforthright in their dealings is an understatement. Iam deeply sadened by the destruction of NICAPsince 1970 and its apparent use today assomeone's propaganda tool for ulterior purposes-7 Richard Hall, Editor.)

When space propulsion researcher T.'•Tbwnserid Brown founded the NationalInvestigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenain October 1956, at least two CIA covert agentsworked themselves into key positions with theorganization. One, an ultra-mysterious characternamed "Count" Nicolas de Rochefort, was aRussian immigrant and employee of the CIA'sPsychological Warfare staff, where the "Count"wrote scripts in French and Russian for Voice ofAmerica radio broadcasts, among other covertmissions. "Count" de Rochefort managed to gethimself appointed Vice-Chairman of NICAP inlate 1956. '

The "Count" was a controversial ultra-right-winger'and a leading force in the lobbying effort toprevent Red China from being recognized oradmitted to the U.N. For covers (visibleemployment to mask his CIA involvement), heutilized professorships at Georgetown andAmerican Universities, as well as claiming to beah escort interpreter with the State Department.

The other CIA agent was an even moremysterious person named Bernard J. O.Carvalho, a native of Lisbon, Portugal. Amongother missions, Carvalho had been a cut-out (go-between) man for such CIA proprietaries(secretly, owned companies) as FairwayCorporation, a charter airline utilized by Agencyexecutives. He managed to get himself appointedto chairman of the group's (NICAP's)membership subcommittee, a key position....

Because Townsend Brown was mostly adreamer with ambitions loftier than he could evenhope to fulfill (such as publishing at. least .two

monthly magazines and a salary structure for theNICAP staff that many corporations would haveenvied), he was stripped of his leadership positionin January 1957 and Major (USMC-Ret.) DonaldKeyhoe was appointed President of NICAP....

Evidently because Keyhoe's attacks on thegovernment excluded the CIA and were mostlybarbs hurled at the Air Force and the so-called"Silence Group" within it, shortly after assumingthe reins of NICAP he managed to induce Vice-Admiral (USN-Ret.) Roscoe Hillenkoetter,former and original Director of the CIA (1947-50),to join NICAP's Board of Governors.Hillenkoetter was a classmate of Keyhoe's at theNaval Academy, and his service as a figureheadon Keyhoe's chosen board gave the organizationand Keyhoe a tremendous boost in credibility.

, Hillenkoetter told Keyhoe privately that theCIA had been interested in UFOs from the veryBeginning (June 1947) of reports, and kept awatchful eye on the subject despite the lack ofdirectives to do so. He also allowed himself to bequoted as saying: "The Air Force has constantlymisled the American public about UFOs...I urgeCongressional action to reduce the danger from ,secrecy." :

In 1961, Keyhoe began sending his"proof" ofUFO "reality, censorship and the increasing

"hazards of secrecy" to Congress, hoping toinitiate an investigation by the House Science andAstronautics Committee. In May of 1961 theHouse Space Committee formed a subcommitteeto look into UFOs: In August Keyhoe sent thecommittee members a statement signed byHillenkoetter. "Acting with the majority of theNICAP Board of Governors, I urge immediateCongressional action to reduce the dangers fromsecrecy about UFOs," Hillenkoetter said.

He listed .the dangers as: "The risk ofaccidental war, from mistaking UFO formationsfor a Soviet surprise attack. (2) The danger thatthe Soviet government may, in a critical moment,falsely claim the UFOs as secret Russian weaponsagainst which our defenses are helpless."

By early 1962, Keyhoe was well on the way toforcing Congress to open hearings on UFOs andthe Air Force's means of dealing with the subject.Even though much of Keyhoe's evidence waspredicated on confidential informers he couldn'tbe certain would testify, he was counting onH i l l e n k o e t t e r ' s w i l l i n g n e s s to makecondemnations of Air Force UFO policies tocarry the day. But suddenly Hillenkoetter pulledthe rug out from under him by abruptly resigningfrom the Board, and Keyhoe's Congressionalinvestigation collapsed faster than a three-storyhouse of cards.

Hillenkoetter's letter of resignation said: "Inmy opinion, NICAP's investigation has gone as far

as possible. I know UFOs are not U.S. or Sovietdevices....The Air Force carinot do any moreunder the circumstances...and I believe weshould not continue to criticize their,investigations..." ..

Since Hillenkoetter's letter represented analmost total reversal from his earlier positions,Keyhoe has long suspected the Admiral waspressured by the CIA and/or the Air Force todrop out of the picture and quit • makingtroublesome statements. But until the GSWFOIA lawsuit, Keyhoe's suspicions remainedunconfirmed.

Without going into details at the presenttime, CAUS has determined that Hillenkoetterwas in fact pressured by the Agency at the behestof the Air Force, which communicated a numberof complaints about Hillenkoetter's role in NICAPto high-level Agency officials.

But while the CIA and Air Force putextensive pressure on a former. CIA Director inorder to persuade him to drop his involvementwith NICAP, another Board member who held ahigh-level position in the CIA apparently wasn'tpressured at all and remains on the Board to thisday. His name is Col. (USAF-Ret.) Joseph Bryan,III. He is the founder and original Chief of theCIA's Psychological Warfare Staff (1947-53).

And until CAUS's Director of Research BradC. Sparks uncovered Bryan's covert employmentwith the CIA during the course of his interviewswith former CIA employees', very few people--including Keyhoe-knew of Bryan's CIAconnections. But Bryan has now confirmed theseconnections in interviews with CAUS DirectorTodd Zechel in 1977 and 1978.

Bryan approached Keyhoe in late 1959,asking to see some of his "really hot cases." SinceBryan was ostensibly an Air Force officer,Keyhoe immediately suspected an AF plot toinfiltrate his organization, and he resisted theColonel's advances. However, Bryan soon putKeyhoe's mind at ease by allowing himself to bepublicly quoted as saying: "The UFOs areinterplanetary devices systematically observingthe Earth, either manned or remote-controlled, orboth. Information on UFOs has been officiallywithheld. This policy is dangerous."

Contrast Bryan's 'statement to Keyhoe,which led to his being invited to serve on theBoard of Governors, to the one he made in March1977, describing his reason for joining NICAP: "Ithought the government was neglecting it, wasturning its back on it, closing its eyes to it, and Ithought' somebody ought to take over-andexpress an interest in it. Don Keyhoe, whom Irespected and admired very much, seemed to.bethe leader in this thing so I joined up with him."

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(NICAP, Continued)

While admitting to having been a formercovert official for the CIA and asking that ths factnot be made public since "it might embarrassCIA," Bryan denied any association orcommunication with the CIA during the period hehas served on the NICAP Board. However, whenit was suggested to Bryan that two CIA covertagents had penetrated NICAP in the verybeginning, he remarked: "Penetrated! GoodGod! What do you want to penetrate NICAP for?There's nothing to penetrate about—it was allovert, the whole thing."

Bryan may well be right. Former CIA briefingofficer Karl Pflock was chairman of NICAP'sWashington, D.C. subcommittee during the late1960s and early 1970s. Pflock denies the Agencyever asked him for' information on UFOs orNICAP, although he kept his CIA affiliation secretfrom most NICAP officials. But someone close toNICAP gave the CIA information on the group, asa 1973 document recently, released to GSWreveals.

The undated CIA document, written by anunnamed person from an unnamed component ofthe Agency, indicates some familiarity with G.Stuart Nixon, at the time a top assistant toNICAP President John L. (Jack) Acuff.Interestingly, the NICAP daily activity logs fromthe late 1960s and early 1970s reflect that Nixonmet with several past and present (then) CIAemployees on'a frequent basis. The CIA officialsinclude Art Lundahl, then the Director of theCIA's National Photographic InterpretationCenter, Fred Durant, author of the RobertsonPanel Report and a former CIA Office of ScientificIntelligence missile expert, and Dr. CharlesSheldon•, a consultant to the Agency now with theLibrary of Congress.

Another former CIA employee Nixon sayshe's had "dozens" of conversations with is Col.Joseph Bryan. Curiously, however, none of theNICAP logs reflect any conversations betweenNixon or Bryan, either by phone or in person,although almost every other daily occurrence isdenoted in the logs. Questioned recently about'this discrepancy, Nixon refused to comment.

Even more curious is the fact Nixon refusesto discuss his involvement in the ouster of Keyhoefrom his. position of NICAP President onDecember 3, 1969. However, it should be notedNixon's "no comment" stance serves him betterthan Col. Bryan's statements on the same matter.Bryan flatly denied during a 1977 interview that hehad anything to do with Keyhoe's abrupt removalfrom his President's position. In fact, Bryan askedthe interviewer, Todd Zechel, to comunicate amessage to Keyhoe. "Please tell him that I hadnothing whatsoever to do with it," pleaded Bryan.

Yet, NICAP files on the December 3, 1969,executive committee meeting in which Keyhoewas voted out clearly establish that Bryan notonly was Chairman of the Board of Governors atthe time, but that he wrote and distributed amemo in which he called Keyhoe "inept".Evidently, this memo, .coming from the Chairmanof the Board, helped convince an otherwise loyal-to-Keyhoe panel to approve his firing....

Keyhoe's abrupt dismissal paved the way forJack Acuff to be appointed the new President of

NICAP. Acuff had been meeting with StuartNixon since mid-1968, seemingly waiting in thewings. Prior to his NICAP appointment, Acuffhad been the head of the Society of PhotographicScientists and Engineers (SPSEj, a Washington-based group that had been the target of frequentKGB spying attempts. Apparently, the Sovietswere interested in the Society because a targenumber of its members were photo-analysts withDepartment of Defense intelligence componentsand with the CIA. Acuff, because of his role as thehead of SPSE, was approached by Soviet agentson several . occasions. He reported theseapproaches to the FBI and subsequently began tomeet with the KGB agents in behalf ofWashington FBI office, acting, in effect, as acovert agent.

In May 1977, Acuff was once againapproached by Soviet agents, but this time theyexpressed an interest in UFOs. Acuff contactedthe FBI and the Bureau gave him the go-ahead toplay along with the KGB officials. However, otherthan making a few ambiguous comments aboutoffering Acuff money, the Soviets never did makeclear what their intentions were. Recently,however, Acuff disclosed he stands ready tocontinue cooperating with the FBI and wouldmeet with the Soviet agents if they contacted him.

Since taking over NICAP, Acuff hasconverted the organization from being a vocaland persistent critic of the government's UFOpolicies to being a rather "passive recipient" ofcivilian UFO reports. The group's investigatingnetwork, the subcommittees, was disbandedshortly after Acuff took the job. But even thoughNICAP offered the public very little in the way oforiginal investigations or research, and itsnewsletter, "UFO Investigator," became mostlyca collection, of unspectacular sighting reportsmailed in by loyal members, NICAP managed tomaintain a subscribing membership in excess of3,000.

Since Keyhoe had been accused of mis-management or non-management, and NICAPunder his leadership had constantly teetered onthe brink of bankruptcy, the hiring of aprofessional manager in the person of Acuff wasevidently a decision by the Board to put the groupon solid financial footing.

• Acuff achieved fiscal soundness in a hurry byfiring all full-time NICAP employees—including,eventually, Nixon—(Nixon actually resignedunder pressure) except for a secretary whosesalary was spread between NICAP and severalother nonprofit groups Acuff managed under oneroof.

After a slow start, NICAP was soon bringingin around $50,000 a year under Acuff. However,

. usually around $35,000 of the NICAP incomewent to Acuff Associates for "contractingservices," which included part of the secretary'ssalary, Acuffs salary, and a few office expensesthat were also split with the other groups beingmanaged out of the same office.

For example: In 1975, NICAP's total receiptscame to $50,333.59. Of that income; Acuffreceived a flat $35,000 for his management fee or"contracting services." (The contracting servicesfee does not include the newsletter expensesexcept for whatever portion of the secretary's

time was involved in typing it; all other newsletterexpenses were l i s t e d s e p a r a t e l y i ndisbursements.) During 1975, $76 of the $50,000income was spent on "general research".

In 1976, NICAP began its downward financialslide. It received $41,690.05, nearly $10,000 lessthan the previous year. Acuff, however, took acut of only $1,000, claiming $34,000 forcontracting services. That year, $20 went forgeneral research. (The ridiculously low researchfigures may account for at least part of the declinein income.)

By 1977, Acuff was claiming NICAP owedhim money; telling Todd Zechel in May 1977 that"NICAP isn't pulling its own weight." In 1978,things took an even greater turn for the worse. Inorder to raise money, Acuff took to selling someof NICAP's supposedly outdated mailing lists.Unfortunately for Acuff, one of his customersturned out to be a neo-Nazi group headquarteredin Canada, Samisdat.

By August 1978, a new and controversialcharacter emerged from out of NICAP's past:"Dr" Williard (a.k.a. "Willard") F. Mclntyre, a

. former photographic consultant to the group andfriend of Stuart Nixon. Mclntyre began accusingAcuff of knowingly selling the mailing lists to theNazis and told various UFOIogists around thecountry that Acuff intended to merge withSamisdat, or sell NICAP to them. In themeantime, Acuff had been approached by AerialPhenomena Research Organization, a pro-contactee group based in Tucson, Arizona. JimLorenzen, APRO's International Director, askedAcuff if he was interested in selling NICAP. Acuffevidently replied affirmatively, and a price in the$40,000 range was discussed.

In actual fact, Acuff had been tricked intoselling NICAP's mailing lists to the Nazis by theNazis' use of a front-group called "The IdeaCenter," which they employed whenever theywished to mask the Nazi affiliation. But Mclntyrecontinued with his vociferous accusations,inciting many former NICAP members andemploye'es to start an ad-hoc group called "TheAd-Hoc Committee To Preserve NICAP".The ad-hoc members, which 'included JohnCarlson, Dick Hall and Larry Bryant, worked,behind the scenes to block any attempts by Acuffto sell NICAP's potentially valuable files tosomeone who might misuse and abuse them, orkeep them hidden away for selfish reasons. •

While Mclntyre worked frantically to thwartwhat he thought was a sellout to the Nazis, hebegan to assert privately that he was a formercovert agent of the CIA and said he knew Acuffhad worked for the CIA too. Interviewed byCAUS Director Todd Zechel in August 1978,Mclntyre said he had utilized the Society ofPhotographic Scientists and Engineers (SPSE) asa cover for his CIA employment. Jack Acuff, thenthe head of SPSE, had known about his covertCIA activity and willingly cooperated With it,Mclntyre alleged.

Mclntyre also claimed that he first joinedNICAP around 1967, while working at the CIA'sNational Photo Interpretation Center (NPIC).Contrary to Agency policy, Mclntyre said he did inot clear his NICAP membership with his

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(NICAP, Continued)employers, and was subsequently called on thecarpet for not reporting it. According toMclntyre, while he was being verballyreprimanded for his failure to notify his superiors,Col. Joseph Bryan's name was mentioned as thesource of the information that a covert CIA agent(Mclntyre) had infiltrated NICAP.

Mclntyre named his CIA superiors as JimAtherton and William Leftwich. He also identifieda building at 1000 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, Va.,as a secret CIA center. However, undersubsequent questioning, Mclntyre failed torecognize the building's commonly-known(within CIA circles) nickname, "Blue U." (so-named for the blue panels that are an eye-catching part of its appearance). A CAUSinvestigation determined Jim Atherton andWilliam Leftwich both worked in thephotographic field, which • Mclntyre had beenassociated with for a number of years, but neitherhad ever worked for the CIA.

Because Mclntyre failed to recognize "BlueU." and didn't seem to know it was a CIA trainingcenter, and had incorrectly referred to CIA'sclandestine component as "DDT" (rather thanDDP-Deputy Director for Plans), and had givenerroneous information about two persons in thephotographic field, CAUS officials decided todisregard his allegations about both Acuff andCol. Joseph Bryan.

In the meantime, however, Mclntyre'saccusations that Acuff was about to "merge withthe Nazis" stirred up interest on Capitol Hill.Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona), a NICAPBoard member since 1974, was alerted of Acuff salleged Nazi deal through his aid, CharlesLombard, with whom Mclntyre had apparentlyspoken.

By mid-September 1978, it was clear Acuffwanted out of the NICAP job, claiming theorganization owed him a rather large sum ofmoney:. Key ad-hoc committee members begancontacting the NICAP Board to offer takingpossession of the files should the group fold. DickHall of MUFON and John Carlson of INFOproposed a coalition between NICAP, MUFON,CUFOS (Dr. J. Allen Hynek's Center For UFOStudies) and INFO.

In general, the reaction to Acuff s handling ofNICAP was one of outraged disgust by formerNICAP officials and employees, many of whomhad lost interest in the group's activities over thepast several years. The basis of the formerNICAPers anger was the feeling they had allworked and sacrificed to make NICAP a potentinfluence during the mid-1960s; they hadassembled an investigating network that the AirForce could never hope to match. Now, they felt,Acuff had lived off the reputation they hadestablished, had sucked it dry and then wanted todump it. Or, as one former NICAP employeee putit, "Acuff got on a damn good horse and rode ituntil it dropped. He never took care of it or fed it,and now he's trying to sell the bones."

The NICAP Board, meantime, hadn'tseemed to have been bothered by the fact Acufftook in over $50,000 in 1974 and spent only apaltry $67 on research (investigations), or that in1973 he took in over $48,000, and in 1975 over$50,000 again, with similar miniscule amounts

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expended for "general research". Neither didthey seem to be bothered by NICAP's dwindlingmembership and an almost total lack of respectfor the group throughout the world.

What did bother the Board, evidently, wasAcuff s faux pas in selling the group's mailing liststo Samisdat, and the fact past and presentNICAP subscribers were suddenly being delugedwith Nazi brochures. Charles Lombard, Sen.Goldwater's aide, was incensed and worriedabout the possible effect Acuffs boner wouldhave on his boss. (Goldwater's opponents couldhave a field-day with a -Nazi tie-in to theconservative Senator.)

. Thus, by the October 17, 1978, Acuffs fatewas sealed—he was though as NICAP'sPresident. Following the meeting, Boardmembers reported Acuff had "resigned". ButAcuff was allowed to remain on the Board,apparently in an effort to stave off his demand tobe paid in excess of $20,000 he claimed NICAPowed him for "contracting services". The fileswould also remain in Acuffs custody. (Oneformer NICAPer said, "He's holding the files asransom.")

While the Board more or less rejected the ad-hoc committee's idea for a coalition at the Oct.17th meeting, it did decide to work out some sortof merger with Dr. Hynek and CUFOS. At thesame meeting, two new board members werevoted in: Charles Lombard, Sen. Goldwater'saide, and John Fisher, head of the AmericanSecurity Council, an ultra-conservative politicallobbying group.

Toward the end of October, former NICAPDirector under Major Keyhoe, Richard H. (Dick)Hall, began making proposals to the Board andoffering to serve as Acuffs replacement. Hall'sovertures were met with.mixed reponse by keyboard members: Gen. (USAF-Ret.) RobertRichardson and Joseph Hartranft reactedfavorably, telling Hall he was their most -likelycandidate. Charles Lombard, on the other hand,seemed to feel Hall wasn't qualified for theposition as he defined it. Lombard indicated in anOctober 30th meeting with Hall and Dr. Hynek,wherein Hynek had flown into Washington as hisown expense since NICAP claimed its treasurywas totally empty, that he was searching for a"White Knight" to rescue NICAP—a retiredgovernment official with management experiencewho could tap corporations and foundations fordonations.

Yet, even though Lombard seemed to be seton appointing an ex-intelligence official of somesort, Richardson kept telling Hall he was theirmost promising prospect and would probably beappointed at the November 29th meeting.However, not only was Hall not appointed in theNovember meeting, he was dropped fromconsideration. Also suffering at the meeting wasthe proposal to merge with CUFOS and haveNICAP newsletter subscribers -receive theInternational UFO Reporter magazine as asubstitute for the nearly-defunct UFO/nuestigator.

Acuff, the resigned President, seemed to beat least partially responsible for blocking theCUFOS merger, apparently because he haddiscovered the Center was nearly as moneylessas NICAP. Acuff seemed to be in favor of a

merger with APRO, which indicated it hadsubstantial. funds or access to them. (Mostobservers feel Acuff wants to be paid off anddoesn't feel the CUFOS deal would achieve a.quick payment of his "contracting services".) '

Thus, by January 1979, NICAP was stillwallowing in confusion. The Board had talked inglowing terms about raising funds for UFOresearch by utilizing John Fisher's Communi-cation Corporation of America, a conservativefund-raising mechanism, but details of thecampaign to raise money were slow in beingworked out. Apparently, up-front money wasneeded to get the effort started, but neitherNICAP or CUFOS had operating funds enoughto swing it.

In the meantime, Lombard's search for a"White Knight" took a humorous turn. ArtLundahl, a retired CIA official living in Bethesda,Md., was offered the NICAP Presidency by anunnamed board member in early January.Lundahl quickly pointed out the storm of protestsuch an appointment would arouse and declinedthe offer. Subsequently, several other retired CIAofficials were offered the job. Finally, oneaccepted.

The new "White Knight" is Alan N. Hall,about 60, a retired CIA employee living inBethesda. Reportedly, Hall has agreed to fillAcuffs shoes for a 6-month trial period on avolunteer basis, without pay. Not much is knownabout Hall's background at the moment, exceptthat he evidently worked in some technicalcapacity—perhaps with the Office of ScientificIntelligence, or in the DDS&T directorate.

Obviously, the appointment of a retired CIAemployee raises some serious questions ofpropriety. During the late 1950s and early-mid-1960s, NICAP, under Keyhoe, received a greatdeal of confidential information on UFO casesthat were being kept secret; military andintelligence sources repeatedly leaked insideUFO info to Keyhoe. Apparently because of itspast reputation, NICAP continued to haveconfidential UFO data leaked to it during Acuffstenure. In late 1976, for example, an officer in thePentagon provided Acuff with copies of a numberof classified documents, including the now-famous Iranian report and several other "hot"reports. In 1978, an NSA employee supplied Acuffwith information about domestic UFO reportsthat were coming in through NSA'scommunications system.

The fact Acuff was working as a covert agentin behalf of the FBI raises some obvious questionsabout how these confidential sources werehandled. And now that a retired CIA employee istaking Acuffs place, even more serious questionsare raised. Like: What happens to someone whowalks in and hands Alan Hall a classified UFOreport, not knowing the strong government ties?Does the source ever again see the light of day?

Who knows, maybe this is all a setup. Onewould naturally have to be suspicious of anyboard of governors that was comprised of twoformer CIA covert employees (Bryan andLombard), a retired Air Force General onceassociated with the Foreign Technology Division(FTD), the component that took over UFOanalysis, and an ultra-conservative political

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WEST VIRGINIA FLAP-PART 2

By Ted Spickler(MUFON State Director for West Virginia)

Although the principal flapsightings that drew so much publicityappear to have been generated bystars, there were some more puzzlingcases hiding in the woodwork.

Tuesday morning, October 24, a20-year-old coed drove north alonginterstate 79 for her . classes atFairmont State College. It was still darkat 7:15 and Joyce Dehner was ,notparticularly thinking about anything; ifqueried about flying saucers at thatmoment, she would have laughed themoff as people imagining things.

She saw off to her left some green,red, and white lights coming over a lowhill and idly thought to herself that anairplane was strangely low and flyingtoo slow. The thing approached closerand dipped down to within a few feetabove an interstate bridge that she wasapproaching. She could see a hump ordome shape topped by a red light andstretching out in front of this structurewas a torpedo-like body sporting awhite light on the front tip. Green lightsran underneath finishing up animpression of something utterlyunworldly.

(NICAP, Continued)activist who once compiled files on millions ofAmericans he considered "potentiallysubversive" (Fisher)....

Maybe it's just a coincidence that thefounder of the CIA's Psychological Warfare Staffhas been on the board for nearly twenty years.Maybe it's another coincidence that CharlesLombard, a former CIA covert employee(according to himself) would seek out a retiredCIA executive to run the organization after acovert agent for the FBI had decided to resignwhen the money ran out....

To come right out and say it was all aconspiracy would either be leaping at conclusionsor stating the obvious—take your pick. But in thefinal analysis, the results speak for themselves.And the results are that if they wanted to destroythe leading anti-secrecy organization of the 1960s,they couldn't have done a better job if they'dtried....

If the Board thinks NICAP can exist on anisland by itself, cut off from mainstream UFOlogy,and with a total lack of trust and cooperation, wethink they will discover they've made atremendous and tragic mistake.

» » » i i i tWest Virginia UFO; October 24,1978

Joyce felt taken by great fear asshe faced for the first time in her life aphenomenon for which she had nopossible explanation. A car aheadslowed down and then speeded uprapidly as if to get out of there in a hurry.Joyce followed; as she tromped on thegas the object silently "floated like afeather" across the bridge and suddenlyshot up to the right over a set of treeswhere it momentarily hovered as shelost sight of it. Her terrified shaking didnot settle down until far into thephysical science lab whose content shecan not remember from the distractioninduced by the fear.

Today Joyce is sincerely puzzledabout the event and now believes in thereality of UFOs as representing"something different." Her brother isassistant news director with theHuntingdon Herald Dispatch. Heexpressed a sober opinion about hissister's experience, "I never believed inUFOs but now I don't know! Joyce is alow key, sensible person. If she said shesaw something, she saw it! I just don'tknow what."

Two phone interviews failed toturn up any information that couldsuggest a normal explanation. Theobject was the apparent size of a privateplane but with no wings or propeller.The absence of any noise seems to ruleout helicopters and the erratic featherfloat behavior is not what we wouldanticipate from an airplane. The casehas not received a full investigation andhence the tentative ranking of thisobject as unknown must be understood

in that light.Ten days after the Dehner sighting

the northern panhandle of WestVirginia apparently had a visiter in thesky seen by a considerable number ofindependent witnesses.

It was around 7:00 Friday night,November 3 when Brooke CountyDeputy Sheriff Harry Ickes was drivingnortheast along route 88 as part of hisusual patrol. He passed Deputy SheriffRobert Stein who was traveling south.Within a few seconds they both saw afireball in the sky to the northwest. Asthey discussed the incident over theradio, Stein turned around to join hiscolleague. Meanwhile John Chiesa, aresident of Bethany, drove up to askofficer Ickes if they knew what washappening. The primary concern of thegroup was for the possibility of a fire onthe ground and the likelihood that theyhad witnessed the crash of an airplane.

Short ly the analysis wasinterrupted by the appearance of astrange pair of red lights to the west.One was lower than the other giving thesuggestion to the three men that a hugeplane might be banking in the landingpattern for the Wheeling airport. Thishypothesis was discarded when thelights leveled out and stopped moving.The oddity of this behavior grew as thelights continued to hover motionless forseveral minutes. The cruiser engineswere shut off and in the ensuing silencethe distant, dull, throbbing sound of lowfrequency humming could be heardcoming from the hovering lights.

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SAUCER"NESTS" IN JAPAN?By Takao Ikeda

(MUFON Representative for Japan)

At Ginowan, Ginowan City,Okinawa P r e f e c t u r e / J a p a n , ahousewife (age 26) found the sugarbeets in her north field flattened in astrange pattern when she arrived homeon the evening of July 8, 1977. Peopleassume that the pattern was formed bya strange luminous object she saw.

Mr. Atuhiro Nagai of the local teamlearned of this incident from a story inthe newspaper Ryu/cyu-Sinpo, and thefull story was obtained by hisinvestigation. About one-third of thefield, which was about 660 squaremeters, was mown by the roots in arectangular shape as if blown down by aviolent wind. During the field

investigation, Mr. Nagai found that afew meters away from the rectangulardamage area were two additionalcircular areas of damage, one meterand .two meters in diameter. (Seediagram.)

That day at about 20:30 she washaving dinner with her two children,when she saw by chance in the southsky, through the window, a luminousovoid object hovering over the next-door two-story house. While she wasgazing steadily at the object, it wasslowly turning in a clockwise circle.After turning about five times, it flewaway into a cloud. The size appeared tobe about 50 centimeters diameter by

eye measurement, the color was yellowor orange, and the intensity of light wasnot very glaring.

The witness, who requested toremain anonymous, told Mr. Nagai thatshe was used to seeing varioushelicopters or propellor-type aircraftbecause the U.S. Marine CorpsFutema Air Base was in the vicinity. Shefelt there was no possibility of amistake.

A sand pillar ("dust devil") theorywas presented for this case, but nobodysaw one and there was no blowing off ofeven one piece of beet leaf. Besides, if it

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(West Virginia, Continued)A bus containing the Brooke High

School swim team pulled up andstopped. Tina Jackson, a member ofthe team, recalls that the bus driver hadcaught sight of the lights and wassufficiently puzzled by their appearanceto stop for a better look. She couldmake out two big red lights with mistaround them. They would pulsate,glowing from dull to bright, looking the"size of dimes, lots bigger than the lightson an airplane. I never seen anythinglike it before," Tina reported, "and I'veseen plenty of airplanes. It didn't looklike an airplane ,to;me!"

Officer Stein had tried to shine hisspotlight on the thing, pointing out thathe could see objects in its beam clearacross to the other side of the Ohio,River if it so pleased him to do so, butthis object was too high up for the beamto reach (a lower limit to its distanceaway can be pegged at a few thousandfeet). The apparent size coupled withsome feeling for its range prompted thefeeling that they were looking atsomething about 100 yards in length.The officers got into their cruisers asthe object began to recede into thedistance after an 8-minute period ofhovering. Driving north along route 88,they finally lost sight of it when goingaround one of the many turns in the

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road.Officer Stein now says, "In a way

I'm kinda sorry I told anybody I saw thatthing. I've received nothing butharrassment. If there had not beenanother deputy I would never have saidanything. It wasn't like anything I'veever seen before. It was not an airplane,it wasn't a blimp, and I don't know whatit was." He reported the apparent sizeas two fists together with arms outstretched. No shape could be made outbetween the two lights but they weredefinitely hooked together.

This case is considerablystrengthened by the existence ofanother known set of witnesses whowere ,even closer to the object. DeputySheriff Robert Hadden was on patrolalong Cross Creek Road about 5 milesto the northwest from the location ofthe other officers. Unknown to them hewas watching in awe as a gigantic darkshape with red lights, on either enddrifted lazily over Brooke High School.Some students at the school saw hiscruiser up the road and shouted to himas they themselves could not reallybelieve what they were seeing. It was aclear night, and Hadden noted theabsence of stars between the two lightsand sensed the presence of an indistinctshape blotting out the stars. Hewatched it for about 5 minutes. "Oh

man! I was surprised," he said. "I don'tknow what to think. First I thought thatit was a blimp but then you;know I've,seen blimps before and they are a lotlouder to begin with and also lit on thebottom. This thing just moved weirdsomehow. It has a humming sound butit wasn't a steady pitch. Like a throbgoing up and down; a real slow rise andfall."

The Sheriff's deputies weresufficiently puzzled and impressed tobegin an investigation immediately.Calls were placed to all local airportsand to the 911th Troop Carrier Wingand the two National Guard units atGreater Pittsburgh InternationalAirport. No one could give them anyidea as to what they were seeing. Thedeputies were really suspicious whenthree jet fighters made a pass throughthe area and back again. The men werefamiliar with the usual amount of airtraffic, having patrolled the region foryears. They report that a transportplane also showed up and feel thatsomeone has not been straight withthem about what happened.

The only aspect of this sightingthat can be explained is the initialfireball. Nearly 40 residents reportedseeing it and we can be sure that it wasof astronomical origin and unrelated tothe red giant.

The damaged beet field: was it caused by a UFO?

was caused by a sand pillar, the damagetrace should be linear along its path ofmotion. We cannot explain why thephenomenon is defined only in thislocation.

REFERENCES1. Ryufcyu-Sinpo, July 15, 19772. Unidentified Flying Objects—Information andits Study, No. 7, p'. 2. Japan Space PhenomenaSociety (5-2, Kamiyama-cho, Sibuya-ku, Tokyo143, Japan)3. Atuhiro Nagai, "Ufo Landing in Okinawa?"UFOs & Space, No. 27, Oct. 1977, UniversePublishing Co., Ltd, (Yamato Bldg., 1-6, Veno 5chrome, Daito-ku, Tokyo 110, Japan),.pp. 10-13

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HUMANOIDS IN NETHERLANDS - 1973By Douvve J. Bosga

(Mr. Bosga was for a time an assistantat the Center for UFO Studies inEvanston, Illinois. This sighting, whichhe investigated after returning to theNetherlands, occurred in Uden,Netherlands, apparently aboutNovember 10, 1973.)

This sighting was first heard ofafter publication of the second editionof David Webb's 1973, Year of theHumanoids, in which it is mentioned onpage 10 and is listed as having takenplace in October of 1973. Gerard J. Kokof the Dutch Werkgroep NOBOVOmanaged to locate the witness, who hadmoved to Nijmegen. He talked to her onthe phone, but did not get any moredetails than had been in David Webb'saccount. No further investigation wasmade. In Nhrch 1978,1 returned fromthe United States and decided to followup on the case, more or less on requestof Ted Bloecher. Everything thatfollows in this report is a result of thisinvestigation unless noted otherwise.The witness has not been contacted bythe press or by any other investigativeagency as of June 26, 1978.

At about 2:15 AM on a day in thefall of 1973 Mrs. -- had to get up and goto the bathroom, which was located atthe front of the house. On her way thereshe glanced out of one of the frontwindows of the house and noticedsomething white. She did not pay toomuch attention, because she obviouslyhad other things to do. When shereturned from the bathroom shedecided to have another look. Outsideher house she saw three small beings,dressed in white garments, walking onthe sidewalk in her direction. Shekneeled down to have a better look atthe three beings. Their white robesreminded her of monk's habits and theycame all the way down to theirproportionally large shoes. On theirhead they wore some sort of a hat,which came down in two points on their

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shoulders and which seemed to beattached to the robes. She could notdiscern any facial features, because ofthe reflection of a nearby streetlight and,the full moon. Around their waist thebeings seemed to have a belt to whichseveral small instrument-like thingswere attached that reflected in themoonlight.

Two of the beings were walkingside by side and the third one waswalking behind them. The front oneswere approximately 3 feet tall, while thethird one was slightly taller. They wereslowly approaching the witness andwhile moving they did not lift their shoesoff the ground, they just seemed toshuf f l e along. Because of themovements of the garments Mrs. -- gotthe distinct impression that the beingshad relatively short legs. While walkingthey kept their legs stiff as if they did nothave any knees.

The being that was walking upfront on the right side held some sort ofan instrument in his hands, whichreminded her of a carpet cleaner: Thebeing moved the "carpet cleaner" fromleft to right and back over the sidewalk,covering several stones in each sweep.The other two just seemed to follow hismovements. Mrs. --, with her noseagainst the window, did not feel verycomfortable watching this strangescene, but her curiosity was strongerthan her fear so she kept on looking.She thought of calling her husband,who was still asleep in the bedroom atthe back of the house. She decided notto do so, because her husband has avery weak heart and she did not want toupset him by calling him in the middle ofthe night from the other side of thehouse.

She had been watching the slowlyapproaching beings for some 4 or 5minutes, when suddenly the tallest oneseemed to notice her. He looked up atthe window, where Mrs. -- was sitting

and immediately they all turned aroundand shuffled away one after another.They now moved much faster than theyhad done before, but they still did not lifttheir feet off the ground. They wentbehind a nearby school building, but thewitness could still follow them throughtwo walls of glass. Then theydisappeared from her view. She stoodup and looked into the street to seewhether there were any other strangebeings. She did not see anything, so shewent back to the bedroom at the backof the house.

When she entered, her husband, woke up. For some unknown reason

she glanced out of the bedroom window"and she was very surprised to see aluminous red ball sitting on the sidewalksome 40 meters away. The ball was bigenough to cover the complete sidewalkand had a diameter of several meters. Itreminded her of the setting sun, butwith the distinction that this ball was toobright to look into unlike a setting redsun. Mr. -- asked his wife what time itwas, so they both looked at the alarmclock, which showed that it was 2:25AM. When Mrs. -- looked out of thewindow again, the ball had disappeared.She told her husband what she hadseen on the front side of the house andaccording to her husband she wasvisibly shaken by the experience. Aftera while they decided to go back to sleep.The next morning Mrs.- -- went over to

. the local police station to report whatshe had seen, hoping that others wouldalso come out supporting her story.

Sighting InvestigationI called Mrs. -- in the second week

of March and set up a meeting at herhome in Nijmegen for the 15th. At thismeeting Mr. and Mrs. -- and I werepresent. A taped interview was made.Because of the nature of the sighting itdid not seem worthwhile to do muchmore of a follow up. From March 15thto the present (June 26) there have

been a few conversations between thewitness and the investigator. In themeantime I attempted to recover thepolice report that was possibly made of.Mrs. --'s statement, but these attemptshave been unsuccessful so far. Withinthe next few weeks a final attempt willbe made.

At the time of the experience.thewitness was 60 years old and in goodhealth. She seems to be of normalintelligence, does not hold any other jobthan that of housewife. She was veryopen in her answers and refused tospeculate about things that she was notsure about. She seemed completelysincere in everything she told and is thetype of person that just does not try toperpetrate a hoax. She was still verypuzzled about what she hadexperienced, but was convinced of thefact that she did see what she haddescribed. She was not knowledgableon the subject of UFOs and is notparticularly interested in it. In the 5years that have elapsed between thesighting and the investigation she hastold several friends about herexperience, but has not attempted togain anything by it in any respect as faras is known to the Investigator. It isthrough one of these friends that anaccount of her experience eventuallyreached David Webb. The friend madea tape of a conversation with Mrs. -- andsent this tape to his son in the UnitedStates, who is very interested in UFOs.The son sent a letter about this case toDr. Hynek at the Center for UFOStudies, where the letter was forwardedto David Webb. It is my definiteimpression that Mrs. -- is completelysincere and does think that she hasseen everything that has beendescribed in this report.

At the time of the sighting Udenwas a town with approximately 26,000inhabitants and the beings were seen ina densely'populated part of town. Thisinvestigator does not know of anynatural or man-made phenomena thatmay account for the things observed bythe witness. A hoax seems veryimprobable as well. Although thewitness is not known to have hadhallucinations in the past, thisexplanation can not be discountedcompletely. Qualifying this experienceas a hallucination or some other

psychological disorder would meanthat the majority of all humanoid caseswould have to be qualified the sameway. Although it is always possible thateventually this turns out to be the onlyright thing to do, I do not possess anyspecific arguments to qualify this caseas such.

It has been impossible todetermine the exact date of the Udencase, because the witness only knowsthat it took place in the fall of 1973.According to the witness it was fullmoon and this would indicate that thepossible dates were October 12 andNovember 10. When asked about this,Mrs. -- immediately exclaimed, "Oh,then it must have been November 10,because when I saw that red ball, Ithought, If we would be one monthfurther, it would have been a Christmasball." Taking into account that a lot ofpeople call it a full moon even when it isstill two days before or after full moon,we may say that it is quite probable thatthe event took place on or aroundNovember 10, 1973. This date wouldplace it at the latter part of the fall 1973humanoid wave in the United States'and is therefore of considerableinterest.

BOOK REVIEWThe Extraterrestrial Report, by

Richard Siegel and John H. Butterfield,A&W Visual Library, New York,hardcover $15, paperback $7.95.

The cover of this glorified comicbook announces: "The first fullydocumented account exposing theawful danger from beyond." When Ibought this slick, imaginativelyillustrated volume at a reputablebookstore it was in the Science, not theScience Fiction, section; the salesmansaid he thought it was "for real." In myopinion it is a sophomoric spoof (fromwhat college?) which would be more at.home as a serial in MAD magazine thanas a purportedly serious documentary..Don't waste money buying it; I'll be gladto lend my copy.-Barbara Mathey

Three men are'tele-transported*

by Cordoba UFO

' CordobaTHREE employees of the

i Provincial Power Board said' they had sighted an unident.i-

fied flying object hovering a1 short distance from the[ ground and were "tele-

transported" over a 15-» kilometre si retch of road.

One man even exchanged sig-| nals wi th the occupants of

the object, according to a re-port in the local newspaper"Cordoba."

The protagonist s. of the oc-curence are Orlando Carrizo,40, Severiano Brunetto, 53,and his 20-year-old son Da-

> niel Omar. All three areemployees of the power com-

, pany.

They told reporters theyhad been travelling in a com-pany truck, and were on theirway (o San Francisco. Atabout 4.30am, near Arroyi-lo, they prepared to cross abridge but never did so Sud-denly they were in the middle

'of the road. 15 kilometresaway in the district of Transi-to. None of them recollectedcrossmg the bridge or conti-nuing* along the road. Eventhe cigarettes they held intheir fingers were the same si-ze as when they approachedthe bridge.

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By Ann Druffel

Note: This month's column was written byMorrey Allen, a MUFON investigator residing inthe San Fernando Valley. He is a retiredpoliceman, having served (or thirty years with theLos Angeles Police Department.

ARE CHILDWITNESSES RELIABLE?

By Morrey Allen

On December 14, ' 1976, atapproximately 4:30 PM, three youngboys in Northridge, California, were inthe back yard of Brian and Michael H.'shome. A third boy, Todd R., age 12,saw an unusual object in the sky. Hecalled 14-year-old Brian's attention to it,and both called to 12-year-old Michael,who joined them.

The object first appeared as abright light moving from east to westalong a straight line to the south of thewitness. It appeared to be about half amile away at an a l t i t u d e ofapproximately 3,000 feet. It moved at aspeed which the boys compared to afast, high-flying jet.

The object traveled to a pointestimated to be over the intersection ofPlummer and Tampa, 2 milessouthwest of the observers' position. Itthen suddenly changed direction fromwest to northwest in what the boys laterdescribed as an "impossible turn."After traveling a few seconds in this newdirection, it stopped and hovered for ashort time, then performed a surprisingmaneuver — a loop.

By this time, the three boys hadequipped themselves with a 6-powertelescope, a pair of 7x50 binoculars,and a 150-power reflector telescope.With the optical aids, they could nowsee that what they were looking at wasmore than just a light.

Through the telescopes andbinoculars the object offered anelliptical silhouette in the horizontalaspect. It was bisected laterally by athin, flat disc,' gray in color, thediameter of which was slightly greater

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than the rest of the object. The boyslikened the shape to two shallow bowls,one inverted over the other with a thin"deck" of larger diameter betweenthem. This central deck was motionlesswhen the UFO hovered, but spun veryrapidly when the craft was in motion.

The upper half of the UFO glowedbrightly with a white light of theintensity of a strong, electric bulb. Thelower half also glowed as from an innerlight, but with a silver-gray color. Twobeams of light, one red and one green,were directed down at divergent angles.These beams remained constant andunchanging throughout the sighting.

The boys later told me that theybelieved the UFO never turned in anydirection, since the green light wasalways to the east and the red always tothe west during all the maneuvers theyobserved. The witnesses also observedwhat appeared to be four roundhatches or portholes in the upper half ofthe UFO — two on the left and two onthe right, as viewed from the H.'s yard.The boys offered no guess as to whatthese were, only that they were small,round dark areas that did not glow asthe rest of the surface did. Additionally,they saw a larger round "hatch" so well-centered in the visible side of the UFOthat it appeared to be bisected by theflat, disc, previously described. Thishatch,.as it appeared, became invisibleor was closed when the UFO was inmotion.

Michael H. drew a careful sketch ofthe object (Figure A). Observing withhis 150-power telescope, this witnesssaw this "hatch" as an opening throughwhich he could view a bit of the object'sinterior. The inside of the UFO seemedbathed in a soft golden light. He sawvarious instruments that reminded himof computers. Another feature hedescribed as "sort of a balance," since itfeatured a crossbar mounted at itscenter on a vertical post. This crossbarmoved up and down like a balancebeam, and had silvery, metallic-looking

Figure A. — Sketch by MichaelHendricks immediately aftersighting. Vertical line on rightwas to indicate size of smallerUFO compared to the larger.Smaller ovoid was drawn in as abetter example.

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Figure B. — Michael's sketch of"apparatus" seen inside UFO,details uncertain. They mayhave been "dials and buttonsand switches."

spheres at each end (Figure B).To conclude the description of the

UFO, the boys estimated it as being 40to 60 feet diameter in its horizontal axis,and a third of that in the vertical axis.They agreed that a .22 caliber pellet

held at arm's length would cover.the-mysterious object. It seemed to beabout 2 miles away and perhaps 3,000feet in altitude.

The boys watched the UFO forseveral minutes in shifts, during whichBrian and Michael took turns runninginto the house to call their father, thepolice, and myself, to whom the boyswere referred by the police.

Mr. H. was at work about 5 miles tothe south. Although he looked in thedirection toward which the boys weredirecting him by phone, he saw nothing.It is entirely possible that buildings werein the way of his line-of-sight. I wasfarther away, in the North Hollywoodarea, and had the same luck.

While Brian was in the house, theUFO suddenly flew swiftly to the east "afew miles." This distance is in questionbecause Michael and Todd are unsureat this point. The object made a quickturn to the north for a similar distance,another fast turn to the west, and finallyanother turn south and returned to the ••same area where it started. I[In otherwords, it had flown a large square orrectangular pattern over the area to theeast of the witnesses!

At about this time, two military jetsappeared f rom the nor th atapproximately 5,000 feet altitude,apparently closing on the UFO. As theycame to within about a mile of theobject, the UFO suddenly flew toward J

the south at very high speed. The jetsapparently attempted to follow it for afew seconds, but by that time the UFOwas out of sight. The jets then broke tothe west and flew out of sight.

Only a few seconds later, the UFOreappeared from the north at a muchslower speed and returned to the samearea. It will be remembered that it haddisappeared to the south. It hovered ashort while, then moved slowly in thedirection of the witnesses, losingaltitude.

Before it had . come halfway, alarger UFO suddenly appeared fromthe east and at great speed closed onthe first one. This larger, UFO rapidlyflew a tight % circle around the first oneand then stopped dead without slowing.This new object was approximatelyfour times the size of the original UFO,but otherwise identical, except that theobservers could see no open hatch.

The two UFOs then maneuvered ...about for a few minutes, the larger onemoving off and the smaller onefollowing closely as if being towed. Theydid this several times, never traveling,far, and returning to approximately thesame place to repeat the move inanother direction.

After about 10 minutes of thesemaneuvers, the smaller UFO movedunder the larger one, and together theyrose straight up and out of sight at an"incredible speed." The departurespeed was far in excess of anythingpossible by known jets, according to thewitnesses. The ascent out of sight wasaccomplished in 1 or 2 seconds. "Theyjust disappeared," Brian, said. "Just astreak," was Michael's comment.

The sky was clear, with only afew high clouds at 20,000 feet.Therefore, the.craft apparently rose atleast 20,000 feet within 2 secondsbefore it disappeared from view. Theduration of the sighting was 35.rninutes.

Trie complexity arid long-livednature of the sighting; the remarkabledetail idescribed on and inside theobject(s), plus the fact that the threewitnesses outlined virtually the samescene intrigued me enough to do somefollow-up work.' Because of the age ofthe witnesses, I wanted to check theirveracity and observing ability. Itherefore returned to the H. homeabout a week later, stating that I had"mislaid". Michael's original sketch. Iasked him to draw another one. Withno. references whatsoever to check-on,Michael drew another, sketch, withidentical. details 'tp his first drawing(Figure C).

In my opinion Michael's secondsketch counts well toward the veracityof the sighting and the truthfulness ofthe witnesses. At this second interview,the witnesses described .the samemaneuvers which the object made, inspite of the r complex nature of thesemotions. At one point Michael quicklycorrected me when I pretended to bereviewing the first interview arid readthat the object moved to the west at acertain point. He interrupted to pointout that the direction was east.

In my opinion, the boys werereporting a real event which they hadcarefully observed, and the strangenature of which had impressed themgreatly.

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Figure C. — Subsequent sketchby Michael made during asecond visit by MUFOIMinvestigator.

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CALIFORNIA MUFON GROUP WINS AWARD

By Paul Ccrny(MUFON Western Regional Director)

Marvin Taylor, State SectionDirector for Tuolume, Calaveras, andMariposa Counties of California, andhis dedicated group, provide anoutstanding example of what oneMUFON group can accomplish towardthe development and growth ofMUFON.

I met some of these fine people in arecent visit to the small town of Sbnora,California, which is located in a sparselypopulated area of the Sierra foothills innorth central California. Sonora issurrounded by small communities andtownships in the heart of the MotherLode gold country.

I first met Marv Taylor in SanFrancisco in an auditorium whereKGO's Al Collins, author FrankEdwards, (now deceased), and myselfwere giving a four-hour program onKSFO Radio from the auditorium stagethat evening. Marv came up to the stagewith a massive clippings scrapbook toshow me, during one of the stationbreaks. As I recall, there were about700 people in attendance that night.

Marv and I became mutual UFOacquaintances from that time on andcloser friends when he moved toSonora a few years later, when hecontacted me again with a renewedUFO interest. Realizing he had anexceptional and enthusiastic interest ininvestigation and P.R. work, I put in arequest to Director Walt Andrus tomake Taylor State Section Director,which he did.

Marv has gathered together atalented group to work with him in hisarea, investigating the local sightingsand doing an outstanding amount ofP.R. work. He is and has beenconstantly giving UFO talks to localcivic groups, and is planning a largelecture to include several prominentUFO personalities. He has drawninterest in the many surrounding townsand communities for miles around, by

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MUFON float in Northern California.

giving talks to various clubs andbusinessmen's associations.

The "MOTHER LODE ROUNDUP DAYS" was a particular challengefor Marv's group. They tackled the taskof constructing a huge, elaborate"float," depicting "Close Encounters"and the Devil's Tower with a large"MUFON" sign on the front of thetruck. They won first prize in theirclass, and rightfully should have,judging from the $2,000 plus that thegroup spent and the 30 days and nightsof diligent, painstaking work toconstruct it. The huge saucer rotatedwith flashing lights while music from"Close Encounters" played through aportable P.A. system. The aliens weredepicted by Marv's children and otheryoungsters, and one of the memberssimulated Dr. Hynek.

As if this effort were not enough,the group has put on booth displays of

MUFON material at County Fairs inthe vicinity, with considerable success.Increased memberships and orders forMUFON publications have been theworthwhile result. This was also done atthe group's own personal expense.

The Taylor-MUFON group iscertainly to be commended for anoutstanding and unselfish sense ofduty. From all indications I observed,while visiting this unique group andtheir leader, the enthusiasm and plansfor future goals are accelerating. I canonly say that I am proud to have Taylorand his dedicated people in theWestern States Region of MUFON. Isincerely hope his example will be anincentive and inspiration for othergroups throughout the country toboost MUFON recognition as acredible and responsible investigatingorganization.

1979 MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM IN SAN FRANCISCO

i . "Intensifying the ScientificInvestigation of UFO Surveillance" isthe theme for the 1979 MUFON UFOSymposium to be held Saturday andSunday, July 7 and 8, at the spaciousAirport Marina Hotel at the SanFrancisco International Airport, 1380Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA94010; telephone (415) 347-5444. Thehost group for this years symposiumwill be "Northern California MUFON,San Francisco Bay Area," headed up byTom Gates, James McCampbell, andPaul Cerny.

The featured speakers onSaturday are Dr. J. Allen Hynek,Stanton T. Friedman, James M.McCampbell, Dr. Richard Haines, Dr.Dennis Reagan, and Dr.- Ted Peters.Other speakers who will participate areWilliam H. Spaulding and TerryHartman. For those people arriving onFriday, July 6th, to visit San Francisco,,one of America's "Four Unique Cities,"there will be a dutch treat "happy,hour"and get acquainted session startingabout 6:00 PM, which might be labeled"Chat with the UFO Experts:"-;Brochures listing tours and touristattractions in the Bay Area will beavailable and included with advancereservation confirmations for folksplanning their vacations or a longweekend.

The Airport Marina Hotel providesfree shuttle bus service from the SanFrancisco Airport to the hotel on aregular schedule, or rental cars areavailable at the airport. There will be noformal banquet at this year'ssymposium, however,, fine mealaccomodations are readily accessible inthe Airport Marina Dining Room or atany of the many other outstandingrestaurants within two to three blockswalking distance.

The Mutual UFO NetworkCorporate meeting is scheduled forSunday morning from 9:00 AM to 12:00noon at which time State Directors ortheir proxies will submit their annualreport of activities. On Sundayafternoon Allan Sandler's color motionpicture film "UFO's Past, Present andFuture," made for television, will beshown plus additional workshop

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sessions, wrapping up about 4:00 PM. Aspecial Walt Disney film on UFOs isscheduled for Saturday evening.

--,;. The Airport, Marina Hotel hasprinted special reserved roomaccomodation^ postcards for thesymposium with their rates for a single$33.00, twin $39.00, or a double at$39.00 per night. These reservationpostcards will be mailed to everyonemaking an advance reservation for thesymposium or may be secured from thehotel or the host organization. (Rates atadjoining hotels are even higher.)

Advance reservations for the 1979MUFON UFO Symposium can now besecured by writing to MUFON, W.S.DIV., (Western States Division),:P.O.Box 1072, Mt. View, CA 94042 aridmaking a check or money order for$12.00 payable to MUFON, W.S.:DIV.,which covers admission to all sessionson Saturday and Sunday. Individualsession tickets will be available at thedoor, however the package price of$15.00 is the most economical.

Since MUFON has more membersin the state of California than any otherstate, we are anticipating a very largeattendance. The host committee underthe Chairmanship of Tom Gates hasdone an outstanding job planning andpreparing for our Tenth AnnualSymposium. Our annual symposiumsare recognized as the major UFO

conference, worldwide, since no othe'r ••organization has sponsored continuousyearly sessions with the caliber ofspeakers that MUFON has presented.The featured speakers publishedpapers will again be available on thedate of the symposium for thoseattending and to all others thereafter.Plan now to attend this gala educationalevent with its social ramifications bymee t ing the people who are.instrumental in helping to resolve theUFO phenomenon. It may be summedup in the Symposium theme1 —"Intensifying the Scientific Investigationof UFO Surveillance."

(Director's Message, Continued)The persistent efforts by G.S.W.

and CAUS, in their court suit under theFreedom of Information-Act to forcethe C.I.A. to release specified UFOcases, has now been rewarded. WilliamH. Spaulding, MUFON State Directorfor Arizona, has forwarded CIAdocuments starting March 31, 1949,with fourteen in 1952. Other importantcorrespondence by Todd Zechel andPeter A. Gersten to the Department ofthe Air Force, Defense IntelligenceAgency, and Department of State,requesting particular UFO case reportswith the answers from 'the pertinentgovernment agency are included. Someof these have already been disclosed to

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UFO TECH NOTEMOON ROCK SAMPLES

By John Schuessler

Interest in UFOs and interest inspace seem to go hand-in-hand.Perhaps the reason is that many thinkUFOs have an ext ra ter res t r ia lconnection. Whether or not such anal legat ion is t r u e , becomingknowledgable in the space sciences willcertainly improve the quality of UFOinvestigations and our outlook on spacein general. Young people definitelyshould be exposed to "good science"so they may have a firm foundation fortheir future lives.

The latest issue of Air and Space, apublication of the Smithsonian

Institution, identifies how Moon rockscan be borrowed for use in theclassrooms of our schools. Moon rocksamples brought back by ourastronauts may be borrowed fromNASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)at no charge. With the lunar samples,NASA sends a 25-pound packet ofliterature, slides, audiotape, and film tohelp a teacher make the most of theloan. Before being entrusted with theMoon rocks, teachers must attend abriefing which often lasts for 3 hours.These are held at NASA Centers, aregiven by NASA Science Specialists, orare arranged in any area from which theNASA Centers receive a great numberof inquiries.

Designed for Grades 5 through 12,six samples come in plastic discs an

inch thick and 6 inches in diameter.These can be studied under ordinary10X-20X microscopes. Grades 13 andhigher receive six thin slice samples inplastic to be studied with high powermicroscopes.

Three booking offices areinvolved. All are at NASA JohnsonSpace Center, Houston, Texas, 77058.Educators at planetariums andmuseums write to Charles Biggs, MailCode AP-4. Teachers of Grades 5through 12 write to James D.Poindexter, Mail Code AP-4. Teachersof Grade 13 and up write to Dr. PatButler, Lunar Curator's Office, MailCode SN-2.

The slide sets are already bookedfor several months ahead so teachersshould allow ample time in projectingclass plans for their use.

(Director's Message, Continued)the news media and have beenpublished. Since we have only receiveda portion of the C.I.A. documents, theywill be screened and the mostimpor tant ones published insubsequent issues of the Journal: Atthis time, we want to express ourgratitude and thanks to W. ToddZechel, Peter A. Gersten, and WilliamH. Spaulding for their dedication inopening the door to a new source ofUFO sighting reports previouslytreated^as classified material. CertainMUFON officers have contributedfinancial aid to help defray legal andcourt costs in this quest. Our hats areoff to these people for their silentcontributions.

While we are passing outcompliments for dedicated work, all ofus at MUFON are indebted to HaroldFulton, Director for New Zealand, forthe outstanding and superb job that hehas done in New Zealand representingthe Mutual UFO Network in the newsmedia, during their recent rash ofsightings. And in addition forforwarding a volume of newspaperclippings that Idabel Eppersonreproduced and distributed to keypeople in the United States primarily onthe UFO motion picture films. Haroldhas proven, without a doubt that he isthe recognized UFO authority in NewZealand.

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iMark R. Herbstritt

AstronomyNotes

THE SKY FOR JANUARY 1979 THE SKY FOR FEBRUARY 1979

Mercury — At the beginning of themonth, it can be seen low in thesoutheast before sunrise, but by theend of the month, it is too close to thesun to be seen.

Venus — It is at greatest elongationWest (47°) on the 18th and dominatesthe eastern sky just before sunrise. Onthe 15th, it is 8° north of Antares.

Mars — It is too close to the sun to beseen, being in conjunction on the 20th.

Jupiter — In Cancer, it rises at sunsetand sets at sunrise, being at oppositionon the 24th.

Saturn — In Leo, it rises in mid-eveningand by sunrise is low in the west.

Mercury — It moves into the eveningsky and by the end of the month it canbe seen very low in the West aftersunset.

Venus — It rises 214 hours before thesun, and is low in the Southeast atsunrise.

Mars — It is too close to the sun to beseen.

Jupiter — During the early part of themonth, the evening sky is impressive,with Jupiter, Saturn and the Moonarrayed among the "winter six"constellations.

Saturn — In Leo, it rises shortly aftersunset and by sunrise is low in theWest.

The Alpha Aurigid meteor showeroccurs from the 5th to the 10th.

Lucius Parish

In Others' Words

The Janua ry 2 issue ofNATIONAL ENQUIRER features.theUFO sighting reports of the actors andactresses in the "Battlestar Galactica"TV series. A July 1978 "teleportation"case from Argentina is detailed in theENQUIRER'S January 9 issue. A fatherand son claim to have been transportedto an "alien city." The January 16 issuehas two articles — the first tells of aUFO-sighting by an Australian bankerand his wife at the same place and timethat pilot Frederick Valentichdisappeared over the Bass Strait; thesecond feature is a report on physicistIrwin Ginsburgh's theory that Adamand Eve were visitors from anotherworld. Dr. Ginsburgh's -ideas are setforth in his book, FIRST, MAN. THEN,ADAM!

The February issue of UFOREPORT contains articles by WayneLaporte, Jerome Clark, AndreaGranum, Terence Dickinson, GrayBarker and others. Subjects covered inthis issue include the Valentich casefrom Australia, the recent WestVirginia UFO reports, the Spanishgovernment's UFO documents,sightings in the Uintah Basin of Utah, .etc.

- Jeffrey Mishloye's article in theFebruary issue of FATE deals with the -"UFO prophet," Ted Owens, Owens,claiming to have psychokinetic1 powersgiven to him by "space intelligences,"has predicted various events whichlater came to pass (more or less),according to Mishlove.

A new magazine, SECONDLOOK, claims to re-examine variousFortean topics, providing a forum forboth "believers" and skeptics. The firstissue contains articles by Isaac Asimov(contact with extra terres t r ia lcivilizations by radio telescopes),Robert K.G. Temple (UFOs asgovernment spycraft), Colin Wilson (acritique of Erich von Daniken's

methods) and a review, by Stan Gooch,of Robert Anton Wilson's COSMICTRIGGER. A regular feature,"Chronology of a phenomenon," givescapsulized summaries of recent UFOreports. The publication is available bysubscription only, at $15.00 per year.(published monthly). I suspect futureissues will contain a mixture of bothinteresting material and outrightnonsense, the latter probably beingcontributed by various scientists and"experts." If you're interested,SECOND LOOK'S address is: 10 EStreet, S.E., Washington, DC 20003.

(Director's Message, Continued)

check, then later processed it making acharge of $4.75 for CorrespondentBank Charges, Commission Postage,and Canadian Bank charges, leaving abalance of $2.25 to be deposited in ourMUFON bank account. When thebank originally refused payment, theDoctor when advised, promptlyprepared a check on a U.S. Bank.

Our MUFON Treasurer, who isPresident of the First National Bank ofSeguin, Texas, has this advice to ourforeign correspondents whentransmitting funds for purchases, dues,or subscriptions. (1) In Canada, do notwrite checks against Canadian SavingsBanks or Canadian Credit -UnionBanks; use recognized CanadianBanks. (2) Do not send foregincurrency from any country, since thereis a severe service charge to exchangeto U.S. currency. (3) A United States ofAmerican Postal Money Order(International Reissue) is the preferredform of payment. (4) If a check is made,it should be specifically identified forexample: "$7.00 in U.S. Dollars" so theexchange or transfer costs will be paidfor by the writer. (5) Payment by cash inU.S. dollars is acceptable. Recently, wereceived $10 in cash from a Japanese

man living in the Nation of QATAR,who des i red his sympos iumproceedings to be sent air mail.

On February 21, 1979, Dr. BruceMaccabee, MUFON State Director forMaryland and a Consultant, arrivedback in the United States afterspending several weeks in New Zealand-and Australia, interviewing the peoplewho .had either visually observed,viewed on -radar, or photographedobjects in New Zealand betweenChristmas 1978 and the New Year. Hehas requested that his findings not bereleased to the public until he isprepared to do so. His thoroughinvestigation gave him reason to believethat the objects photographed couldnot be attributed to Venus, Jupiter, orother such astronomical bodies as hereported on Australian TV Channel 0.We are still anticipating that Bruce willallow the MUFON UFO Journal topublish his investigation, evaluation,and conclusions in the near future.Obviously, the companies that financedhis trip will have first priority to thisinformation.

By the time that you read thismessage, everyone will have had anopportunity to see the NEWSWEEKmagazine article with photographs onUFOs that was the feature story.MUFON cooperated in this effort byproviding both photographs, UFOinformation material, and interviews.When a prestigious weekly newsmagazine wants to get on "the UFObandwagon", our public educationprogram is making progress.

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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE byWalt Andrus

Up-dated details on the 1979MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM in SanFrancisco are contained in a separatearticle in this issue of the Journal. Asplans are being finalized for the 1979Symposium, preparations have alreadystarted for our 1980 and 1981 events.The 1980 MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUMwill be held Saturday and Sunday, June7 and 8, in Clear Lake City, a suburb ofHouston, and the home of the NASALyndon B. Johnson Space Center. TheSaturday session will be held in theauditorium of the multi-million dollarClear Lake City High School on BayArea Boulevard with shuttle bus servicefrom the hotels across the street fromthe Space Center on NASA Road ftl inNassau Bay.

With the space shuttle program infull swing at that time, the Sundayafternoon program will be a tour of theJohnson Space Center where bothSkylab and Space Shuttle exhibits arefeatured. Metro Airlines, a commuterservice, operates from HoustonInternational Airport to Clear Lake Cityfor a very reasonable fare that may beincluded in your airline reservation, ifyou should come by air. Clear LakeCity and the Johnson Space Center arejust off I.H. 45 running from Houston toGalveston for those of you who aredriving. It is obvious that the host groupin Houston is forging ahead with theirplanning in a very professional manneri n d i c a t i v e o f M U F O N UFOsymposiums. Donald R. Tucker hasbeen selected as the Chairman for thehost organization.

Harold H. Fulton, MUFONDirector for New Zealand, has alreadyconfirmed his invitation to speak at the1981 MUFON UFO symposium in LosAngeles, California.

In our program to get the Journalissue date current with the publishedmaterial therein, you will note that thisissue, number 133, is identified asJanuary-February 1979. To further thisprogram, issue number 134 will be acombined March-April 1979. Everysubscriber will still receive 12 issues ofthe MUFON UFO Journal for their

annual subscription or MUFONmembership. This will be controlled bythe MUFON administrative officethrough the insertion of the blueJournal reminder of renewal notice thatwill be enclosed with the issue in whichyour subscription expires.

Journal subscribers can also helpto insure that they receive all of theircopies by advising our office of yourchange of address. The Post Officedoes not forward second class mail toyour new address unless you haveadvised them that you will pay for thepostage to do so. No only do you missreceiving your copy, but the Post Officemakes a fixed charge to MUFON toadvise us that you have moved. Pleasebe considerate in this regard, both toMUFON and yourself, by promptlyforwarding change of address noticesto our office.

Joe Santangelo, MassachusettsState Director, has again been the firstto submit his annual activities report for1978. He has appointed Jules P.Vaillancourt to the position of StateSection Director for Worcester Countyto replace Larry Rizzo. Twelve UFOcases were assigned and investigated.A 10-session course on UFOs was heldat the Boston Center for AdultEducation under the direction of DaveWebb, with MUFON members asinstructors.

As Net Control Station forMUFON's amateur radio net thatmeets every Saturday morning 0700Central time, 0800 Eastern time or 1200Universal time on 7237 KHZ in the fortymeter phone band, Joe submitted a listof the stations participating. In additionto Joe who is N1JS, they areWA1MRH, W1FGG, W2ESF,WB2WBX, WB3BVZ, WA3QLW,WA3BIB, KA3AHS, K3UGX, K4HXC,WA4RPU, WB4YDD, WB4IBB,WA4TZU, K8NQN, K8RUF, N8AU,W8MDV, W8TGH, WB8DLY,WAOTEQ/8, WONC, K9PAW,WD9BDR, and N9CE. The other activeMUFON amateur radio net meetsevery Saturday at 0800 Central Timewith Marshall Coins WA9ARG in

Quincy, Illinois, serving as the netcontrol station on 3975 KHZ in the 75meter phone band. Both of these netsare voice communications utilizingS.S.B. transmission. Both Joe andMarshall invite amateur radio operatorsto "check in" and share their UFOnews, s i g h t i n g repor ts , andexperiences.

MUFON's most active teen-ageUFO News Clipping Service member isTim Tokaryk, 11023 - 165 Avenue,Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5X 1X6.His enthusiasm has now developed intoa monthly newsletter titled "Canada'sEye Watch on Flying Saucers."

MUFON is proud to announce theselection of our third Consultant to theNational Enquirer UFO Blue RibbonPanel with the appointment of RichardC. Niemtzow, M.D., of Houston,Texas, who serves as a Consultant inRadiation and a very active member ofthe Houston UFO group. Dr.Niemtzow joins John Warren, Ph.D.,and Willard P. Armstrong, Ph.D., onthis prestigious panel, giving MUFON amajority representation. John F.Schuessler, Deputy Director, serves onthe National Enquirer Mini-Panel thatscreens the best UFO cases for theyear and submits this list to the BlueRibbon Panel for their final decision andannual award. Paul Levy is the newNational Enquirer UFO Editor,replacing our long time friend Bill Dick,who has been reassigned as BookEditor, according to their outstandingUFO investigator and writer, Bob Pratt.

A matter of significant financialimportance is the manner in whichmembership dues, Journal sub-scriptions, Symposium Proceedings,etc., are paid for in checks writtenagainst foreign banks. As an example, aDoctor in Canada recently purchased acopy of the 1978 MUFON UFOSymposium Proceedings, submitting acheck for seven dollars written on aCanadian Credit Union Bank. At firstthe U.S. banks refused to honor the

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