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Landing InOntario Consda

A fifteen-year-old boy claims to bavewatched a "flying sauce!" land in acorn-stubble field near Galt, Ontario onTuesday, 30 July. The Toronto Telegramand the Toronto Daily Star printed thefollowing details and comments by in-vestigating farmers in tbe area:

A 30-foot diameter circle of burnedcorn stubble, and three pressed downareas. inside the circle were physicalevidence of the presence of some un-knowa object. Ted Stephens, 18, said hestood a bare 300 yards away while theround, silver-colored object hovered for40 minutes over the fietd before land-ing, only two miles west of Galt.

Stephens described the object as about30 feet in diameter aud equipped with'afirret and portholes. The owner of thefarm on rvhich the boy claimed the land.ing took place, and on which the curiousburned circle and depressions werefound, said tbat the circular burn couldnot bave been made by a field fire or thewbole area would have been destroyed."If it's a hoax," said Mr. Knapp, .. don'tknow how they could have done it."

The three depressions in the groundwere about t0 feet apart, and each wasabout 10 inches at the broadest point,and tapered to a point. The special cor-respondent for the Toronto Telegramsaid that curious people wefe speeulat.ing about the possible weigbt of an ob.ject which could make 2-inch-deep de.pressions and force the thick, tough cornstubble into the hard groqnd. The burned area is a two-inch ribbon of charredarea which describes a perfect circlearound the three depressions.

The Stephens boy said he was alonewith his dog when the saucer appearedand hovered over the field. He saw nomovement of life when the objeet touch-ed down, he sald. The day after he sawthe object, he returned to the seenewith two friends, and on 2 August tolda reporter about the incident.

(Ed. Note: There has been no follow-up on this incident, and it can be a:s.ntmeil thnt the facts are as stated in theinitial newspaper aceounts, The news.pgperc assameil that the triangular-shaped, depressions were mnde by the oc-arponts, but it is eoident that theg weremaile bg some type of steadgi,ng dedceuhen the object land.ed. When consider-ing the eondition of the field itself, and\nowing the chnractedstics of corn-stub.ble, it indeed uould, rcquire o veryheaog object to mnke 2.inch.d.eeo indeitatiorls in the grou,nd,, forcing th.e thick,tough stubble into the earth.)

At 10:30 a. m. on the morning of 24Jirly, Nathan Wagner, Chief of MissileFlight Safety at White Sands ProvingGround and Holloman Missile Test Cen.ter Integrated Range, saw an unconven.tional aerial object while driving to ElPaso, Texas, to board a plane for Wash.ington, D. C.

'Wagner, as Chief of MFS, controls allsafety factors in the launching of bal-loons, missiles, etc., and is a qualifiedobsenrer. Mrs. \Magner, who viewed theobject for the longest period of time,called the object a "flying saucer". Wag-ner, who was driving, could not followthe object constantly for bo was driving.He stopped the car, but by the time hestopped it, the object had disappearedover the Organ mountains. It had beentravelling almost due east toward theOrgan range. His son, 11, and daughter.6, also confirmed the observation.

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The story of the sighting which wascarried on an inside page of the El PasoTimes for Wednesday, July 31, quotedWagner as having said, "I don't want tostart a scare, but I would say it is areasonable position to take to say thatsuch a craft might have been involvedin some incidents," Wagner also saidthe object was not picked up on surveil.lance radar at White Sands.

The paper also said that Clyde Tom-baugh, famed astronomer, stated in aninterview that tbe space-travel possibil-itiy in the near-collisions did exist. The"near+ollision" incidents referred to aredescribed elsewhere in this Bulletin.

Because no description of the objectitself was given in Tbe Times, the Direc.tor called Mr. Wag:ler for details, and hewas very eooperative and courteous. Shelearned that the object had a small up.per portion, larger bottom portion, wasmetalUc in appearanee, and that therewas sufficient light and shadow to showa "shimmering' which appeared to be a"moving part" underneath the object.Tbe Wagner family observed the objectfor between 35 and 40 seconds. It shouldbe noted that this story did not get presswire coverage, and also that Mr. Wagneris not an employee of the Air Force-hisboss is the U. S. Army.

BUTLETTN ?d.London, England, lZ Sept. Nolth Lon-

don residents rvere startled at the spec-tacle gf a blue-green luminous cilar-shaped object which travelled in* anortherly direction at verv hieh speed.The object was sigbted -in ihe barlymorning hours, and the Air Ministry re-ceived many calls reporting the sisht-ing. A Ministry officiil saiii that thieeout of four descriptions of the objecttalliedexactly, but he refused to griessthe identity of the object. (Cr: Ed. B.Waetzig. Portland Oresonian- AP'l

Pilot RefotesUAO Encounter

Captain Wladimiro Fernandez, com.marder of a Venezuelan Aeropos[al Linespasenger plane, told reporters and Mai.quetih, Venezuela Airport Conl.rollerTower operators, of his encounter witha UAO when he landed his plane atMaiquetia on 7 August. Fernandez, thepassengers and crew all described theobect as huge, tuminous, with red andwbite lights emanating from it. The ob-ject was traveling at high speed and dis-appeared in the north. Hernandez toldnews represenlatives that no aircraftwas in the area, and that he had check.ed with Maiquetia Control Tower.

T[hen Fernandez first spotted the ob.ject, he radioed the Control Towel atMaiquetia that "At this moment, thepassengers and erew and I are observ.ing a strange luminous space craft, whichis buge in size and travelling at tre-mendous speed near Cape Codera."

Freighter SightsUAO Over Pocilic

Boy Melton, chief electrician, andVirge Dixon, seeoud cook, aboard theMatson freightor Hawaiian Fisherman,have reported observiug three uncon.ventional aerial objects about 1b0 milesoff San Flancisco Bay on Tuesday, lgJune. Two of the objeets were spottedfirst at about 8 p. rn-, and a third objectjoined the two about lE minutes later.Melton estimated the height of the curi.ous objects at about 10,000 feet, appear.ing like "small moons, diffusing a cold,white unchanging light.,' When the thirdobject appeared, Melton said, all threeobjects moved slowly off in a 'T'" forma-tion and paced the freighter for a while.

Speculation aboard ship identified thestrange objects as either weather bal.loons or flying sauce$, and the balloontheory was "deflated" when night cameand the lights continued their course,easily visible by their glow. Crew mem.bers quoted skipper Capt. C. G. Wertz assaying he'd never seen anything like thegbjects in all his seagoing experience, andhesitated to discuss them for fear peoplewould think he'd lost his senses.

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THE WEST COAST "MIETEOR" An EditoriolMr. X, wh.o oery obligtnglA gothercd

ond eond.ensed the information in thefo$owing article, is the wire con€spon-dent who contmenteil so obly ond, en-lighteningly on the Press Attitude to.uord, UAO in our Jawnrg issue. We feelhis arnlgsis of the oooiloble reports isthorough, and, will dd only o smallnote 4t the closing..

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Westerners within the area bounded bySan Ftancisco, Flesno, Salt Lake City,Boise and Portland saw a glowing objectstreak across the sky at 9:30 p. m.Pacific Daylight Time the night of Aqg-ust 1. Not one reported seeing morethan one object. Yet from each regiongrilhin lhis ys5l area there were varyingreports as to the direction in which thefireball traveled. They disagreed on itsspeed - real or imagined - and on itsprogressive coloration, the way it shedits {ragments, and its aititude. Allevaluators with anything resembling angfficial status agreed it was a meieor,but they varied on details of its behavior.The conclusion is tempting that morethan one object was involved or thatbuman fallibility was working overtime.

On one detail tbere was such almostuniversal agreement as to suggest rea.sonable certainty: the object wii in viewfroro five to ten seconds, at g:30 p. m.Thi! was the time of the tirst repiitedsighting in San Francisco. fle sam-e timewas listed from Fresno, Medford, Boiseand_points along the ldiho-Oregon bord.er, Lovelock, Nev., and Salt Like Citv.Only at Eureka, 2b0 miles up the coastfrom San Francisco, did a time differ-9.pee ap-pear. The. Eureka sightings men"ttoged 9:35 as did those frorn yreka, 100miles inland.

The first sightiag report came fromldillbrae, a Penoisula suburb just south-west of San Francisco International Air-port where an excited fatber telephoneda news agency that his wife and daugh.ter had just seen a plane go down withits left inboard motor blazing. Theagency checked with the airport, wherecontrol tower olficer R. J. Bassett un-hesitatingly said no plane was in troubleand that he had just seen a meteortraveling west across the Bay, goingdown behind the hills of San Franciscoto his north.

By this time a reliable newsman hadealled in from the Pacific Heights areaof San Franciseo to report he was amonga party of several people who had watch-ed the light "floating" westward slowlyover the Bay from Oakland and that it"just seemed to go out over Alcatraz."Within minutes, Sacramento rvas report-ing sightings from several sources andmentioned the "slov/' movement of theobject.

One unidentified woman called to saysbe had seen it proceed out over thePacific to the west.

At the same time a trained observerwas watching the object at Fresno, 250miles to the southeast. I{e said it appear-ed in the sky at about 45 degrees eleva-tion in the northeast and fell diagonally

to the horizon at a point rougtrly duenortb- The illusion was so strong thatit was a plane, he said that he impul-sively started walking toward it althoughhe had the impression it was perhapsfive miles away.

Most observers described the flight asvery fast. Many said it was trailing atail, some said it was shedding sparksor fragments as it flew, but few agreedon whether it was changing in colorfrom blue to red, or yellow, or viceversa.

The Salt Lake City airport receivednumerous calls from people reporting aplaue in trouble, a fireball, a flyingsaucer, or a meteor. They saw it in thewest, traveling generally in a northwestdilection. The story was much the samefrom Boise, Portland, Lovelock and Kla-math Falls.

- Yet at Eureka and yreka, in Cali.fornia near the Oregon border, all re-oorts (with one notable exception) had!!e- object traveling north.- And theyreKa reports agreed the object ,.dis_integrated" near there over a hamletcalled Montague, but no fragments haveDeen reported found. yreka patrolmanRichard Humiston said ,.Whei it cameover the whole town lit up and a fewseconds later there was a violent ex-plosion."

Others in Yreka reported at least oneexplosion, a feature which was lackingin all other reports.

Back at Oakland Airport near SanFtancisco, Bob Curry, Civil AeronauticsAdministration controller, said the CAAwas getting sighting reports from planesall the way from Portland, Ore., lo theLos-Angeles area, where there appearedto have been no ground sigbtings dueto an overcast.

One pilot 100 miles at sea west of SanFrancisco said the object was low overthe horizon, traveling horizonally, "andthen took a sharp arc and disintegrated."Curry estimated from the various re.ports that the objeet was 200 miles up.

The next day Dr. Thomas C. poulter,Stanford Research Institute polar scient.ist, said he bad seen the objeet whilewalking in Palo Alto with his wife.

"It was unquestionably a meteor .-one of the most beautiful I have everseen," he said. He added that he hadseen more than 7,000 of them during hiseareer in California and the Antarctic.He said the meteor became visible 60 to65 miles above the earth's surface, thenfaded out about 30 miles above theground. "It left a stream of fragments aswell as som-e continuous tail effect. Themain portion undoubtedly continued wayon out into the Pacific," be said.

In contrast with Dr. Poulter's observa-tion was the sighting report of Eurekaamateur astronomer William Abbey. Hesaid it travelled north (which certainlydid not take it out over the Pacific) anddisintegrated in the northeast sectionof the sky, which tallies with the yrekareports.

Abbey said he though it was a meteor."The unusual thing was that the frag-ments, which fell when the meteor dis-

Instead of editorializing on any sub-ject, we'd Iike to take this space to askleniency from the members regardingrelease dates of this issue and the No.vember issues. The Asiatic flu epidemicwbich has started in tbis country has hitTexas prety hard, and is expected torange into New Mexico before too !ong.Inasmuch as there are only ten localmembers, even if a few are confined, itwill impair work at headquarters con-siderably.

Correspondence has piled up again,mosUy due to tbat fact that we all haveduties in the fall which can't be putaside, and in due time we hope to getcaught up so that the Bulletin will havetop priority.

We'd also like to request that memberslook at their cards and receipts, maketheir nenewals on time, tbus cutting downthe work that goes into dues remindermailing.

integrated, dropped straight down in-stead of bursting out in all directions,"Abbey noted.

One of the most arresting sigbtingswas provided a few days later fromSmith River, the norlhernmost town onthe California coast. There Del NorteCounty Deputy Sheriff Allan Morristurned in an official report that on thenight of Aug. 1, at 9:34 p. m., he saw ablue incandescent light hover near U. S.Ilighway 101.

"I watched it for eight to ten seconds.standing motionless in the air," he re-ported. "It may have been a flare, butit certainly wasn't a meteorite. I knowtljs thing couldn't have been high in thesky like a meteorite. I was in a valleyand this object was definitely below thlrim of the hills surrounding the area. . : . I talked to two of othei people inSmith River and a man in Cave Junction,Ore., who all saw the thing."

Monis said he turned his head awaymomentarily, and when he looked backthe.thing was gonb. He described it as100. to 125 feet higb, perhaps two feetin diameter - 'h little smaller than awashtub. Small bluish particles werefalling from it. There was no sound."

Morris said he reported the sigbting tohis office and to the Air Force at Kla-math Air Force Base.

If the Air Force has commented orannounced any sightings by its own per-sonuel, such has not been reported.

(Ed. Note: One of the mang who re-ported obiects ot o different time, ondwhich oaried in speed, uos Mri. LoisWright of Turlock, Colif . Mrs. Wright isthe sister of Mr. Lorenzen, and thereforeis personalla known as reliable. In 1954the Director gooe her a briefing on ob-seroing skg objects, onil we teel herreport on the object she sow at 8:45 p.tn. on 7 August is occurate and" objec-tioe. Mrs. Wright reports the object aso bright, glowing green ouol with astreom.er or toil, tohich had the appear-once of aapor. The green ooal object ap-peared to be solid, the object traoeled ostrsight trajectoty, ond was obseneilfor approdmatelg 60 seconds.)

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teachet ot Fukuoko Citg, Kgushu, Jopon ot g:50 p. rn. otu 8 June. The objectswere also seen by Mr. Kogama's sister and, his uife, ond were descri,bed os todpole-shoped with s snoV bright light in formation, The obiects left a oopw trail, and.hooered in one ploce for ftom 3 to 4 minutes. Thea glowed a bnlliant red.orangeuith s blui-sh-green outline or htlo. After a short period of time, the objects oscenl,.ed ond disapryeored. No sound wcts ossocfurted, uith the objects.

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SEPIEMEER, I957

Collisions With UAO'T bied to give it room, but it just

kept coming at me," said Captain'TedBachner of American' Airlines. Bachner,pilot of the DC-6 which aarqowly missedbeing struck by an unconventional aerialobject near Salt Flats, Texas at 3:30 a.m. on the morning of 17 July, told hisstory to reporters and news corresporrd-ents at El Paso International Airportshortly after the near collision whentbe big plane made an emergency land-ing so that passengers could be checkedfor possible injuries as a result of a sud-den maneuver which Bachner was forcedto make in order to avoid disaster.

The plane was at the assigned 14,000feet; was bound for Los Angeles, Cali-fornia, and the incident took place nearSalt Flat, Texas, which is a flat, desertarea.

The DC-6 was one hour out of Dallaswhen Bachner spotted the object aboutten rniles away, climbing fast andtraveling east. "I veered a little to myright to give it plenty of room. Suddenlyit swerved to its left right onto a col-lision course. \il'hen I saw it wasn't goingto miss us," Bachner said, "I dumped(dropped) my ship 200 feet in a rightturn. It whipped only 50 feet over ourheads. It sure looked big up there."

Baehner described the object as a"big jet, like a 8,47 or bigger". IVhen theplane landed at El Paso, two passengerswere detained for observation at a localhospital, and the flight was continued.The CAA and the Air Force immediatelybegan checking flight plans for the iden-tity of the object. It has definitely beenestablished that no planes were in thearea at that time.

On 22 July, 10:fi) p. m., just 5 daysafter the above incident took place, aTrans-Ifiorld Airlines plane carrying 34passengers and piloted by Capt. G. M.Schemel of Kenosha, Wiseonsin, had a

similar near-miss with au unconventionalaerial object near Amarillo, Texas. TheConstellation airplane was travelling atabout 18,000 feet when Capt. Schemelspotted a gleen light and a red lightbearing down on the plane. The newsitems all noted that military and civilplanes carry red and green lights asstandard equipment. Howeve!, the news-papers didn't explain what unauthorizedmilitary or civilian planes were doing inan assigned air corridor, nor were theapparently hostile maneuvers explained.

Captain Sehemel said he couldn't de-scribe the object, as he was too busyavoiding it. "It was dark and tbere wasno moon. As we lowered the plane,the object went over our head and that'sall tbere is to it. I have no idea whatthe objeet was. When you see somethinglike that, you are too busy avoiding it totry to identify it," Schemel said.

One passenger suJfered head cuts anda bruised back when thrown to the floorof the plane by the sudden maneuver,and the hostess suffered minor injurieswhen struck by a fdling suitcase. Thehostess eontinued the trip, but the pas-senger was left behincl at Amarillo foremergency treatment and observation,when the airliner made an unscheduledemergency landing there.

The reason why airlines pilots are nottalking much about these near eollisionsis no mystery to us. Those we have talk-ed with .merely say that the danger in-volved in taking a plane up when thereare unidentified objects in the air whichdo not eonform to standard flight plans,is sufficient to cut down the number ofair travelers if the facts got out. Onefellow said he just wondered how manyof these mysterious air disasters, usuallyblamed on "metal fatigue", etc., wereactually caused by UAO. "Apparentlythese darn things don't care whetherthey hit anything or not," another pilotsaid.

'BoIl ol Fire' BurnsPione In Flight

The tail of an American Airlinesplane was pierced by a small ball of firewNle airborne and enroute from NewYork to Fort Worth on 28 July.

The hole has been attributed to staticelectricity by a spokesman for the Air-lines. The plane was flying through athunderstorm near Knoxville, Tennessec,when the accident took place, and pas.senger Mrs. Leo Soroka of Memphis saidshe thought the flash of light was a boltof lightning. She said she was sittingin the rear of the aircraft when a "ballof fire came up the side of the planefrom the tail to the wing. The tail gavea huge lurch and we lost altitude rapid-ly when the pilot evidently dove downfor a moment."

An American Airlines spokesman saidall aircraft have sbort wires whicb aredesigned to carry statie electricity awayfrom the body of tbe plane, and that thecharge built up to such an extent fromthe electrical storm outside tbe craftttrat the charge had to go somewhere.

Ibere was no serious damage - onesmall puncfure, smaller tban a grape-fruil in the vertical fin.

(Ed. Note: Tua electrbol engineershante expressed their doubt thtt thepuncture mentianed eould. lnnte resultedfrum stotic electri.city.)

SAUCER A,IAGSWe continue to receive a large number

of saueer mags from every corner of theearth. Some are exceptionally good, somenediocre, and the contents of others aresomewhat ridiculous. For the record.let's list a few good ones: UFO CriticaiBulletin, edited by J. Escobar Faria,Rua 13 de Maio No. 1240, Sao Paulo,Brazil. Mr. Faria is doing a good job, isone of those saucer editors who prefersto print the truth rather than add to thonumber of subscribers by the use of sensationalism. IIis little magazine is fastbecoming an influence on UAO thoughL"[Jranus", edited by E. Biddle and pub-lished by Markham House Press Ltd., 3lKings Road, London, S. W. 3, continuesto present first+lass information, andisn't afraid to criticize where criticism iswarranted - we congtatulate them. S. P.A C. E.; a six-page paper out of CoralGables, Florida and edited by NorbertF. Gariety, is another very good paper.Keep up the good work, Mr. Gariety! \ilewill be using occasional reports fromthe IIFO NEWS REPORT, official organof the Flying Saucer Research Group inJapan, P.. O. Box 18, Isogo Post Office,Yokohama. A mimeogtaphed paper,neaUy done, this little periodical con-tains the latest in UAO news from Japan.Another good job of reporting. We re.ceived another excellent edition of theofficial quarterly journal of the "CivilianSaucer Investigation" of New Zealand'Tbis last issue contained 32 pages of ex-eellent articles and reports. Edited byold friend Hamld Il. Fulton. Also con-

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The objects pictwed oboue were mapped bg Mr. Iku,o KoAumo, high-school

SEPIEMBER, I957 THE A. P. R. O. BUTLETIN Pago 4

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Kecer?t >tgntrngsThe obiect seen in many Venezuelan

cities on June 4, 195? maY have been alarge bolide meteor. Our latest news onthii incident indicates that an area of90 to 120 feet was found completelycharred and the object is believed tobave crashed at this spot, near Arapuey.(Cr: J. Bolas)

Roswell, New Mexico, 17 MaY. At ?:50a. m. two men observed a glisteningwhite object moving in from the Eastborizontally, at an approxirnate speed ol300400 mph. The object was oval inshape, about the size of a dime at arm'slength, and was moving into the wind.Wben it reached a point directly to thenorth of the obsenrers' line of sight, itperformed a sharp 90 degree turn andheaded North. One observer thought ithad stopped and was hovering, but real.ized it was receding. The west wind didnot affect the northward course of tbeobject The observers noticed that whenthe object became silhouetted against acloud, its color changed from white todull gray and also, sbowed a somewhatdifferent shape, that of two oblongshapes pressed togetber, traveling on aslanting axis in a horizontd course.(Anon.)

Iudianapolis, Indiana, 29 May. Mr. RayStreib, his fianee and another lady,while drivinB west out of Indianapolistoward Dauville, observed two objects inor behind a wisp of cloud, at approxi-mately 25900 feet. (A jet was in the skyat tbe time and altitude was approximat-ed by eomparison). The objects shone abrilliant white, their brilliance was con-stant, they appeared to be four or fivetimes the size of the jet, and a halfdol-lar would barely cover the objects, if itwere held at arm's length. One objectdisappeared as though a light had beenturned off, but appeared an instanttater. The second objeet then movedquickly away while the first one re-mained behind. fire second objeet thenmoved quiekly to a position immediate-ly above the jet's vapor trail, then be-gan to move toward the jet. When fairlyclose to the aireraft, it began to movestraight up until it was nearly invisible,the descended once more, hovered for amoment and then rejoined the other object. They both then moved toward thesoutbwest in an angular direction that

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tinuing with first-rate material is "FlyingSaueer Reviev/' of London, England."satellite" is another new periodical inthe U. S., coming out of New Orleans,Louisiana. Neatly and intelligently writ'teu, it is a contribution to UAO research.The "Catholic Association oI Interna-tional Astrophysics" carries some UAOarticles and reports, and is edited byAPBO member and representativeJoseph Rolas. Joe started his Number 1issue with a salute to Mr. Lorenzen, theDirector and A. P. R. O. We appreciateit very much, and feel that such a salutecoming from Mr. R.olas, is a compliment.

was nearly vertical and were lost tosight. Observing time: 11 minutes. Con-clusions reached by the observers were:Objects appeared to be of some type ofshir\y metal, no apparent changes ofcolor with acceleration or deceleration,and no details were visible. Objeets notreflecting sun's rays, for brilliance wasconstant, and they appeared to be underspecific control. Objects were not weath-er balloons for they each moved inde.pendently of each other and in differentdirections. Streib called the Airport op-erations tower the next morning, wastold there were some weather balloonsin the area and that they were what hesaw. He had not asked what was in thesky at a specific time, but merely askedwhat the flight pattern was for the prev-ious evening from 5:15 to 5:30.

Monticello, Indiana, 21 June. At 9:13p. E" a UAO was seen to pace an air-liner and completely circle it as itmoved in a westerly direction. The apparent size of the UFO was about twicethe size of the airliner, which was a two-eagine plane. After eircling the airliner,the UAO shot straight up into the airat tremeudous speed. Its color was adull blue white and seemed to emit afaint vapor trail. Iilhen it approachedthe plane, the plane's exterior was light'ed by the lurnineseence of the UAO.Apparent altitude of the plane was 5,0(X)feet, length of sigbting about one min-ute. Observed by Ray and BarbaraStreib, and Maxine Griesstach.

Greencastle, fndiana, 24 and 26 June.Four teenagers, Jerry Brattain, 17,George Bennett, 17, Bob Coleman, 18and Jackie Glover 18, traveling fromRussellville,' Indiana on Highway 234saw a UAO at about 11 P. m. The objectwas hovering, and they estimated it wasabout 50 to 100 feet in diameter. Thething was "huge", "red-lighted" andhung in the sky about 200 feet abovetheir car; it also bad white lights re'sembling spotlights. It was seen at thesame bour on botb the 24th and 26th.On the latter date, one of the boys flash'etl the spotlight of the car toward theobject. Something similar to a fire'cracker" was "tossed" into the car, ex'ploded, and particles hit one of the boyson the cheek. Bits of yellow paper werefound in the car. After the explosion,the UAO moved quickly out of sight at."high speed." Sheriff Joseph Rollings ofPutnam County, said many reports havebeen received of UAO sightings. Hewarned teenagers to stay away from thearea where the object was seen. (Cr:R. Streib; (Ed. Note: There has beensome speculotion tlnt this inniSent could,haoe been s houx.)

\}}\Toronto, Ontario, Canad$, 22\JulY.

The Toronto Telegram, as well as otherpapers and wire services, carried the in-formation tbat the RCAF Ground Ob'server Corps had been tracking what..may be a-flying saucer" over OntariodurGg the month of Julv. Herb Harrj'son, ihief observer for the Don Mills

area, said, "It's like a little ball of fire",and it keeps shifting from north to east

to west to south. We have no idea Yetwhat it is." GOC members were instruct'

ed to keep close watch on the mysteriouslight. (Cr: G. Conway)

Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia,2l July. AnAP release of this date stated that cop'per miners in the Kitwe area have re'ported "flying saucers" with flamingtails, and "going like the wind." Some ofthe miners said they thought the objectswere Irom outer space and spying onthe uranium mining operations in thatarea. No exact date of sightings orfurther details were available. (Cr: F.Bauman, M. Calver, J. Morgan, H, Ben.sen, J. Myers)

Ciudad, Bolivar, Venezuela, 4 July. Alarge, luminous object crossed the skyover Los Dragos ViUage in an east-westpath. The whole town took to the streetsto obserye the object, which left a largetrail of smoke. No further details. (Cr:J. Rolas)

San Cristobal, Venezuela, 7 July. Alarge, round, luminous orange+oloredobject was seen by many in the earlyevening. It traveled across the sky fromeast to west, at high speed. (Cr: J.Rolas)

Mapire, Anzoategui, Venezuela, 8 July.An object, much like a ball of fire, fellinto the Orinoco River, and sunk im'mediately. Many observers went to theriver to look for it. but found nothing.Pedro Miranda, Carlos Moreiero and LuisNorberto Moreiro, who saw the objectsEite tne water, said the object gave offa small reddish trail. (Cr: J' Rolas)

Great Bend, Kansas, 12 JulY. Mrs.Ioretta llolt and son Kenneth, 16, spot'ted a round, silver object hurtlingthrough the skies at about 7:45 a. m.(Cr: F. Inderwiesen)

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Roswell, New Mexico, 2? JulY. A farm'er and two teenagers reported seeingthree UAO in the vicinity of East GrandPlains at 9:20 a. m. The boYs, LarryDon I{endricks, 13, and Henry Pacheco,14, called a neighbor woman outside toobserve the objects. By the tirne she gotout of doors, only two were visible, andshe couldn't make out details, but ditlverify their sighting' When first seen,the boys saiil, the objeets, which werewhite and round, were traveling west.They stopped about over the EGP scboolhouse, and tben went back east. Theboys said the objeets didn't make a turn,but "sort of went backward the way theyhad come." Hendricks, an airplane en'thusiast, said the objects definitely werenot planes. Walker AFB officials saidno UAO bad been spotted or reportedto them, also that weather balloons fromEolloman and El Paso, released about5 e. m., eould have traveled to the Ros-well area by the time the UAO wereseen. The offieials conceded, however,that weather balloons do not behave inthe manner described by the boys. Theyouths said the objects were travelingtretty fasf', but not as fast as iets- Anunidentified farmer in the area also reported seeing the objects, in a telephonereport to the weather bureau. (Anon.-Roswell Daily Record)

Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, 2 July.Mr. and Mrs. A. \Molfe and Mrs. M. Duf-field observed a yellow-rvhite light whichmaneuvered in their vicinity for a periodof about an hour. TV'hen it first appeared,

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it looked like a 'thootirg star", but itstoppecl rn nroair ror a second beroreconruilung its des€enr, and repealed thrsEulaeuver. Durtng fne touowrDg nour'tbe oDJect conunueo to move aDout tnesKy wrthouE ertaer sropplng lor anylengtn ol tuoe ltl one spo[ or cnangrngqrrecuon suqoetuy. al.t agreed lt wasEovurg at great speed, rt tnade Bo nouie,arld could not be torroweo ln rts urgorgaln as lt wenf otl, then appeal'ed atanother point rn its course. loe observ'ers, atter warcbug tnese maneuvers lor

' aDout, an bour, lnauy ctrsconunued theobservauoD, as rt was aDout U P. m-tr.r': u. Couway)

Caracas, Venezuela, 2. Aug. Residentsin ue La !-lorrda Uroanizatron (suDurD)

! Bcrudrng Dr. Gerard A. Virhrdi, aq[' Catnorrc Unr.versiry Professor, srgJrtedrrt\ ano warcbed nurnerous statlonary lunln'

f - ous oDJects iu the sky east ot Caracus.Tne ooJects, wbich were crrcular inshape, came from tbe south, hovered fornoments rn the east, tben shot otf tothe Nortq at great speed. (Cr: J Rolas)

Naples, ltaly, 4 Aug' Residents ofPosilupo and Capodi.monte hill told localauthori.ties that they had sighted several"flying discs" in the sky. A second of-fieer of the Military Aeronautical Divi'sion on dutY at the control tower atCapodicbLino stated that be sdw luminousbeams of au unkaown nature wbichcruised the sky very swiftly in a north'east direction- (Cr: J. Rolas J.NSA)

Alton, rllinei5, 5 Aug. Mr. and Mrs.Ray Admire and daughters Sbirley, 22,and Carole, 8 observed a rocket-likeobject which sported a long "tail of fire"for about fifteen minutes between 8and 8:30 p. m. The object apPeared tobe descending wheu first seen, laterwent straight north until it was out ofsighl The Admires stated that the objectwas travelling at high speed ,althougha iiiteen-minutes sighting period doesaot indicate speed on the part of the ob'ject. (Cr: A Vogele)

Siquiesique, Venezuela, 5 August. Anumber of oval-shaped bbjects were ob'seryed as they passed above this town athigh speed. They left a white trail whichstayedin the sky for some time after theobjects were out of sigbt. No sound.(Cr: J. Rolas)

Barjuisimeto, Venezuela, 5 Aug' Sixo'taiti"p"a, luminous objects passed

ovlr aguada Granda and were sightedly *any people in the area The objectsilaae no

- noise, but left a white trail

q'Uicn toot a loirg period of time to dis-integrate. This sighting is the fifth of.itskind to appear over the area' The firstfour sighiings were made in the nighttime. but this observation was in broaddaylight. (Cr: J. Rolas)

Winchester, Indiana, ?, 8, 9 August'- 'City Patrolman Gale Rule, a four'year

Air Force veteran, has sighted a "2'block-Iong cucumber'shaped whitish'8reen" object three different times' Rulesays he doesn't think the object is anairdane, that each sighting was made atabout 3 a. m. on suceeeding nlornings,chilp he wcs making his rounds at \Min.

chester Park. He said he has never seenthe object for more than I seconds atany one time. "It would hover abovelow-lying clouds for about 5 seconds,then in 3 seconds disappear in a cloudof wbitish-green vapor," he said. "FQr acouple of seconds, its flashes light upthe sky," said Rule, "and it's always apale whitish green'" (Cr: IL B- lYil'liams)

Indianapolis, Indiana, ? August' In thislarge midwestern city as well as manysmaller ones in Central Indiana, one ormore uneonventional aerial objects wereseen and reported during the early morn-ing hours, between 12:48 and 2 a- m-The general public and nanY law en'Ioreement officers saw the objects whichwere variously described as brilliantlycolored in shades of red, wbite, 8Feen,pale blue and pink Tbe object was de'scribed as flashing, fliekering, dimming'sparkling and wavering. Noiseless, theobject was proceeding ir a generalnortheast direction, toward Detroit,Michigan- State Police attempted toblame the sightiags on an aerial refuel'ing operation, but it was later establish'ed that there were no planes aloft whichcould account for the sigbtings. It isimpossibte to even attempt any kind ofrational correlation here, for the news-papers, as wual, printed little or no de'tail, but ratber played the sighting upfor its sensational appeal to tbe public.(Cr: F. Overton, H. B. Williams, B.qffi

r'i.:;ii'l'j,oi"i"rus*,}"o,,of this area claim that pictures havebeen taken of "spinning'top" shaped ob-jects of an approximate diameter of 900feet which flew over this area on thisdate. The objects appeared to have asmall, black protrusion on the top, andmade rapid descents over the desolatearea of Solar de Ariazaro, behind theNacion llills. The objects were observedby local people for about six hours be'fore disappearing beyond the horizon.(Cr: J. Rolas)

Salta, Argentina, 8 August. A hugeuncouventional aerial object, after mak'ing a complicated maneuver over thearea, exploded in a number of luminousbeams like fireworks of great intensity.AJter the report of tbe phenomena nearSalor de Ariazaro (see above) the peoplewere somewhat edgy'about the incident.(Cr: J Rolas)

Calabozo, Venezuela, I August. Acircular, luminous obiect, traveling athigh speed, was seen by a Iarge crowdat a local movie house, as the crowdleft the theater. At about 10 p. m. theobject sat off in the southwest, then dis-appeared seconds later. A short timelater the object was seen describinglarge circles in the sky to the northeast.Travelers from Camaguan reported thatseveral people observed the object attbat town a little before 11 p. m. (Cr:J. Rolas)

Anapolis, Brazil, I August. Hundredsof persons reported seeing a luminousdisC-shaped object which hovered about2500 feet above Anapolis for 40 minutes.The observers said that the UAO thendisappeared toward the Atlantic Coast.(Cr: Paul Magnificent)

tawrence. Kansas.9 .10. 11. 12 and 13

August. Residents of this Kansas townhave reported seeing a brigbt yellowlight flash through the sky on five sep'arate nights. Among those reportingwere Mrs. C. R Biteubender, StanleYTtrilliams, and Dan Hallmark. All agreedthe object was traveling at a high rateof speed. Tbe latest observer was KevenJones, petroleum engineering instructorat the University of Kansas, and a pilotin the Naval reserve at Olathe. "The ob'ect came over my house at 8:41 P. rn.while I was in the yard," he said. "Itdefinitely had size to it and was yellowand quite bright, much brighter thananything else in the sky. It also wasmuch brighter than any jet exhaust Ihave ever seen at night. There is noquestion in my mind tbat it was not ajet and it definitely was not a shooting-star." The PIO at Richards-Gebaur AFBat Grandview said it had received noreports. (Cr: F. Inderwiesen)

Tampico, Mexico, 30 July. Residents atthe Acapulco seaside resort have report-ed the sighting of an unconventionalaerial objeet in the late evening hours.The object was round, luminous and gavcoff a whitish light, and after hoveringand performing maneuvers in the sky,it went south and disappeared. Accord.ing to witnesses, the object made nosound, was visible for 20 minutes, andwhen speeding soutb, sported a yellowishhalo of tight. (Cr: J. Rolas)

Yokohama, Japan, 10 June, 5:01 p. m.More than fifteen people at the NationalRailway Station saw a cigar-shaped ob-ject just before the arrival of a Yoko.suka Line train arrived at the No. ?Platform. Mr. Yukio Hasegawa, one ofthe witnesses, said the object was long,gave off a brilliant silvery glow, wastraveling from southwest to northeast.Tbe object made no sound and was insight for 30 seconds in a clear sky.

Tokyo, Japan, 10 June. At 6:40 p. m.several people near the Nichigeki Tbea.tre spotted two small round silvery ob.jects which made "zig-zag fluttery move.ments' and hovered. After about 20 see-onds the objects ascended and disap.peared.

Mt. Fujiama, Japan, 1 July. Six moun-tain climbers near the summit of Mt.Fuji observed a dise-shaped silvery,glowing object for 3 minutes. Mr. Sadayo.shi Ogata, a University student, said theobject oscillated in flight, came fromthe northwest to overhead at low speed.

Manila, Phillipines, 4 June. Reportscoming into Japan indicate that a green.ish-white colored light was observed tomove slowly over the southeastern areaof Manila on the evening of this date.The object was in sight for severalminutes, watched by six observers, in-cluding Miss Caridad Penez. (Cr: Yu-suke Matsumura)

. .'We are proud to print the following ex-

cerpt from a letter from Lee Munsick,editor of the '"[J. F- O. Newsletter": "I as-sute you that the high regard evidencedby your remark for our newsletter is sur-passed by a reciproeal feeling for yours.It will not be merely flattering when Isay that your publication had a gleatdeal to do with the formulating of myowrr opinions, and t can also fully under-stand the woes that beset you . . . .

Sirnpd f,ee FI Munsiok

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ODDS AND ENDSSONIC BLASTL-In Pasadena, Calif.,

on I April, a huge concussion rattledwindows, set off burglar alarms, crackeda plate glass window. AF jets were air-borne in a practice scramble, accordingto George AFB spokesmen, but theycouldn't affirm that the flight plan wasover the San Gabriel Valley. (Ed Note:Past experienee while working at Hollo.man indicates something odd here-theplan which must be on file beforenights are authorized, would indicate ex-actly wbere planes $'ere at all times.Tbis is a requirement, and in the eventplanes deviated, their air logs would in-dicate their locations while in the air.)

. . . . Parts of New Jersey and EasternPennsylvania were rocked by "mysteryvibrations" on 2 April. The state house,state police headquarters and TrentonCentral High School (all good, solidstructures) were soundly shaken, and attGby 50 foot srvinming pool and a sec-tion of sidewalk in Martinsville werecracked by the blast. Capt. Lucille Al-mou, PIO at McGuire AFB near Fort Dixsaid pilots have orders to break soundbarrier at least 30 miles out over theAtlantiq was almost certain no AF planeinvolved. Elouse walls were cracked,wiadows broken and people scared wit-less by what they felt was an earthquake.

I'ALLING ICE - On Jan. 20, 195?, atLimerick, Ireland, a 12-inch hole wasmade in the ceiling of Conor Roche'sbome, and a pile of ice on the floor whenMr. and Mrs. Roche were wakened fromsleep by a tremendous crash. "Ice fromthe wing of a transatlantic airliner", saidthe authorities. . At Moline Acres,Missouri, on 28 March, a large hunk ofice weighing about 135 pounds, fell outtbe slry with a whistling sound and madea lSinch dent in the ground. WilliamReischliag, in whose yard the ice fell,discounts the airliner theory, saved somein bis freezer in case some universitymight be interested in studying it.

Windshields are exploding again, andthe theory of expanding hot air in aclosed automobile is a logical explana-tion. It does not, howevef, explain thepitting of 1954. Remember? On24 April Dr. Otto llalpern, internation-ally known physicist, lost his bid to suethe government for unspecified damagesallegedly resulting from a secrecy orderthat barred his patent application 12years ago. The invention deals with theEanner and means whereby an obiectcan escctfte obsentatian ond, detectton bgradar. .. . . On April 19 a 12-yearold boyin Temple City, Calif., found a diskabout the size of a half-dollar on whichwas printed the legend: "Poison Inside".The disc is still a mystery . . . . On lllarch4 a big chunk of ice caved in the roofof Roy Kellet's ear - police recited theold and worn airliner theory . . . . Van

- Tassel, the man who has a going concernwith his Giant Rock, Calif. "Saucer con-ventions", has announced he'll be acandidate for the Presidency in 1960.This is the man who calls himself a"simple man" who does not want ma-

The 'Unexplainables'A rumber of incidents have come to

our attention which, although aerialphenomena, cannot be directly conneetedwith "flying saucers". Other incidents,which might possibly be connected withUAO, bave been numerous during thecurrent UAO "flap". We will not atemptto inlluence reader opinion, but printthese incidents for the sake of curiosity.

Louisville, Kentucky, 13, June. A fire-ball of undetermined dimensions fol-lowed Raymond E. Creek, who wasbathing, tbrough his home. Creek wastaking bis bath when an electricalstorm began, and fearing lightning, hegot out of the tub and walked to thekitchen where his wife was busy cookingat the stove. A fireball followed his wetfootprints into the kitchen and proceed'ed to maneuver around his wife. Creektheorized that the fireball had struck thescreen at the bathroom window. Mrs'

at Giant Rock in a space suit and wasintroduced as Aura Rhanes, Betherum'ssaucercaptain paramour. Will wondersnever cease? . . . . Many plane passeng-ers on night flights are carrying camerasin readiness to shoot UAO pictures ifany show up.; Pilots are reporting quitea few lately . . . . Another group of vis.ionaries organizing in Chicago and head.ed by John Otto. Using Otto's "light beamprojector" with which to signal any UAOabove, the group was trying to contactUAOs. The light beam device is highlydirectional, and according to neighborswbo bave looked over the blueprint forsame, uot worth a hoot unless a UAOwandered into the.beam . . Standingout in a boat for hours witb an electronictoy-this is research? . . . . An article inthe Chicago Tribune for 29 April startedout pretty good, with Detroit publisherHenry Maday stating he has seen fiveUAO, and relating sightings personallygathered. The audienee who gathered at$1.50 per each to hear the lecture, was100 in all, lapped up every word uttered.The whole thing was sPoiled when aMrs. Alice Toudor, Miss Chicago of 1934,told of meeting a Venusian saucermanwhile in Hollywood (where else?), saidhe was young and good-lucking (natch!)and made a date to take her to Venus.She invited a photographer to go along,said she'd phone him when the trip wasall set. (Shades of Adamski!) .. . . . Anew exterior plane-lighting system is being tried which was devised by a pilotand bids fair to eliminate most air dis-asters, according to CAA officiels. Thelights flash Jrom tail to nose at an inter-val close enough to give the visual effectof a stream of lights flowing in the direc-tion of the plane's flight. Let's rememberthis one for further comparison .Comdr. George \M. I{oover of the Officeof Naval Research said at a recent spacetravel symposium in Denver, Colorado,that space flight may be the thing whichwill eliminate war on earth, partieularlyif a threat of some extraterrestrial enemyshould develop . . . . (Credits: J. Myers,D. Landsden, G. \ililson, R. Standeven, M.Calver. A. Vogele. Pautl Masnificient. L

Creek'was taken to the hospital to betreated for third degree burns. (Cr: J.Tunter, Milwaul<ee Journal)

Ice eontinued to fall from the skiesduring the UAO "flap", and the follow.ing is one of the best detailed incidents:

Readiug, Pennsylvania, 30 July. Farm-er Edward Groff of Bernville, standingin a field, heard a strange whistlin!sound, then saw a 50-pound chunk oI iceplummet to the ground and bury itselfnear him. Groff called his wife, and theyapproached the spot. They heard awhistling sound again, and a secondchunk, about balf the size of the first,landed at their feet. Groff put both piec-es in his freezer, called state police, butinvestigation turned up no answer to thepuzzle. A spokesman for an airline saidthe largest bits of ice carried by itsplanes are of cube size. The weatherbureau said the cakes were too largeto have been the result of a naturalphenomenon. (Cr: D. Lansden, J. Hopf,M. Kot, B. C. Hughes, J. Myers)

Those mysterious 'tonic booms" or"atmospheric eoncussions" continued toplague the United States during the UAOinflux in the middlewestern states, andwe include some of the more curious ofthe pile of reports we received:

Omaha, Nebraska, 5 July. The blastthat rocked a section of southwest Oma.ba at 11 p. m. was a puzzle. The cause ofthe big boom had not been found daysafter it happened. (Cr: J. Myers)

Ainsworth, Nebraska, 14 July. Dishesrattled in homes eight miles apart whena huge "sky concussion" shook this area,Residents were alarmed and indignant,dogs were scared stiff, and a peculiarsmell somewhat akin to burning powderwas present after the boom. One weeklater, authorities were still wonderingwhat had caused the concussion. (Cr: M.Calver.)

Ios Angeles, Calif., 21 May. At 8:tl0p. m-, Los Angeles, Burbank, Sau Fernan.do Valley, Glendale, Pasadena, lVest LosAngeles, Arcadia Alhambra and Mon-trose were rocked by what residents de.seribed as the worst sonic boom everexperienced in that area. Worst bit werethe Hollywood Hills and Wilshire dis-trict, where ceiUngs and cement drive-ways were cracked. One hillside homewas rocked by the blast, and the tele-vision set burned out. Police said otherreports of burned out TV sets had beenmade. Military and aviation industry au-thorities all denied they had any planesaloft in the area. Two days later theblast was still a mystery.

At this point we would like to inter-ject our opinlon on a eomment madeabout the above ineident by NorbertGariety in July 1957 issue of "S.P.A.C.E."In the follow-up article on the boom, Col.Dean Hess. Air Force PIO, was quoted assaying: "The sonic boom is a Mother'swhisper compared to what might happenif tlose boys were not up theie." Garietyunderlined these words, then comment-ed: "If I am reading this properly, heis admitting that something else was upthere. Does the good Colonel mean thatif we didn't have jets up to chase awaythis something, that there would be moresonie booms- mavbe more often and biq.