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‘last August, bottled and - taken by Air _ for examination.» If Anyone Asks = Twenty years have passed since the first UFO sighting was reported in June 1947 by Kenneth Arnold who, in his description of what he saw, was to give the objects the name by which they have become popularly known, Fly- ing Saucers. During that twenty years hundreds of other sightings have been reported in this country and abroad, by sober minded persons of excellent reputation and often professional training who were willing to risk ridicule to bring attention to a phenomenon they knew deserved skilled and authorized investigation. There also have been numerous other reports from persons with over-stimulated imaginations and by irresponsible jokesters perpetrating out- right hoaxes. Unfortunately the latter took precedence and the general public, heedless of those sources which could not be challenged and of the impressive body of carefully re- searched material that was growing, sneered at the possibility that interplanetary craft could and probably does exist. It is only within recent years that the subject has been treated with an element of dignity and that serious con- sideration is being given to UFOs by one-time skeptics who came to laugh and stayed to cheer. Many persons, new to the proposal that interplanetary crafts may not only exist but be in successful exploratory operation are beset by questions that were answered long ago for the veteran UFOlogist. It is to these new comers that the following material is provided in answer to their questions. IS THERE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF UFO LANDINGS? Cherry Creek, N.Y., August 19, 1965: A well docu- mented report, given attention by local news media, on file with Project Blue Book, NICAP, APRO, and men- tioned in Incident at Exeter, by John G. Fuller, tells of the experience of a 16-year-old farm boy whose attention was drawn from his farm chores by the noises made by a teth- ered bull “like I never heard come from an animal before.” Looking out in the direction of the disturbed animal, the youth saw a silvery, football-shaped object, “like two - plates, lip to lip,” about 50 feet long and 20 feet thick, giving off a red vapor and a buzzing sound. The object disappeared briefly behind a tree and the boy ran toward it. He had not gone far when the object shot up into the clouds, turning them green from its reflected light and Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9