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World Flying Saucer Believers Convene New York Times Service LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The “urgent problem” of improving communications with the thousands of visitors from outer space who sup- posedly are circling the earth was afforded solemn delib- eration here this weekend at a special convention of fly- ing saucer buffs. Among the nearly 300 dele- gates was a_ self-professed “interplanetary traveler” riamed Standing Horse, an Englishwoman who regularly issues mimeographed reports on her conversations with space travelers, a man who offered to book “group sightings” of flying saucers and a presidential candidate campaigning on the flying saucer ticket. THE SPACE buffs, who assembled in a cavernous es- y-tablishment called the Blar- ~ ney Castle, weren’t much im- pressed with Thursday’s So- viet moon landing, but they were awed and confused by what they reported to be a sharp increase in _ flying saucers. One delegate, Marianne Francis, warned that the sightings could mark the be- ginning of some “ominous changes” for the earth’s pop- ulation. But the convention chairman, Dr. Frank Stranges, said the “interplan- etary visitors’ would turn out to be “angelic creatures | whose mission is to help mankind.” The delegates were gen- erally well groomed, articu- late men and women who could have blended into any PTA meeting. Many were heads of organizations whose members spotted and photo- graphed “unidentified flying objects” and claimed to main- tajn telepathic communica- tion with space travelers. | NEARLY ALL agreed that | what they called the “flying | saucer movement” was un- dergoing sharp expansion. Two delegates announced they were negotiating to pur- chase radio stations to help transmit their theories, Sev- eral flying saucer magazines and hundreds of books were on sale at the convention. | “These people are contac-| tee-oriented,” explained Gab- | riel Green, a serious young man who served as president of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. meena 2-6-66 __MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE | “They accept spacecraft as a fact of life. Their interest is in contacting spacemen di- rectly or through telepathy.” Ser PN Green, who regularly runs for president as a “space age candidate,” says he cannot practice telepathy but insists he has met spacemen on at least six occasions. The. last of his visitors, he said, was four feet tall and came from the Alpha Centauri solar system, A muscular, even-featured young man named Wesley Bateman said he never had met spacemen but that he was in “constant communica- tion with them through tele- pathy” and offered a_pro- gram of instruction to other delegates who sought similar contacts, His blonde wife, Jonell, attired in black Leo- tards, was kept busy signing up “students.” “There is no mystery as to whether the space men are way-hing us — some have al- ar i infiltrated our society,” said Bateman. “The mystery is why so many are coming. What's going to_happen?”__| Flying Saucers, (To the Editor, S.C.M. Post) Sir,—Citizens beware! This is not a drill! If you report what you see, your report will . be treated as hallucination. Your honest desire to help solve an aeronautical mystery will "be discounted . by harassing con- frontation by paid investigators who are instructed to suppress the auxhenticity of their investi- gation. The UFO Project research has been operative continuously -for more than 20 years. The scope and extent of this project is a carefully guarded subject. Dur- ing that time it has maintained a continuous status of “Classified | Information.” The only informa- ‘tion released by the U.S. Air Force for publication is’ periodic reports of a few selected cases of mistaken identity—such as the report to this newspaper on February 1, by Dr Allan Hynek: “In Search Of Flying Saucers.” Honest, sincere observers no longer report UFO sightings to accepted authority. (Why con- tinue to slap your own face?) For, several years actual sight- ings’ of spaceships are compiled at Flying Saucer Clubs all over the world. Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA) maintain a compre- hensive information department that registers Club activities, and | reports from all over the world. Anyone can write to AFSCA, 2004 N Hoover Street, Los An- geles, California 90027, U.S.A., and receive. a concise, conscien- ‘tious report about any informa- tion Ke. is: seeking. | We don’t need to search for Flying Object Sighted in Illinois NORMAL, Ill.— Pl) —Sev- eral persons living on the same block here said they | saw an unidentified flying object last night. The object had four blink- ing lights, red, white, blue and green, proceeded north- easterly, hovered over a grove of trees, then returned southwesterly. The object was seen first by the Merle Simpson family, then others. They said it was flat and small, Flying Saucers—we only need to acknowledge: their presence. Actually we are on one of the strangest UFO’s in the universe. Our “Friends” who are now in- vestigating us cannot understand our. belligerant attitude toward their conscientious effort to con- tact us. ‘Neither can I. al Woe” Ga aE Or | UFO spotted 5-16-66 PASADENA (AP)—Scores of|” Startled residents called news- papers and police after sighting what they described as blinking, moving lights in the skies over the San Gabriel Valley last night. Officers said some residents saw the lights “travel fast, then slow, then stop.” They said one Pasadena area resident report- ed the smell of perfume as the lights appeared and moved. 2-3-66 2 SOUTH AFRICAN POLICEMEN REPORT SIGHTING OF ‘SAUCER’ JOHANNESBURG, South Afri- ca—South “African police and Scientists investigated Thursday a report that a flying saucer- type object had landed on a main highway near Pretoria, the country's administrative capital. Two patrolling police officers reported -séeing the flaming “saucer,” about 30 feet in di- ameter, shortly after midnight. One of them, Koos de Klerk, Said that the shiny copper-cole ored object resembled a giant spinning top. The two men claimed that, as they approached the object, it took off silenfly at great speed with flames shooting out of its underside, Scientists who examined the. spot where the officers said that they saw the object are reported to have found that a six-foot wide section of the tarred road had been badly burned. Grass on either side of the highway. also was reported slightly | scorched, (Associated Press) BROTHER JUNIPER BY FR. JUSTIN McCARTHY & LEN RENO 8} oe THE BOSTON HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPT. -17, 1965 “These flying saucer stories are getting more ridicue Poblishers. wise lous every day.” P REP SAW 6 FLYING SAUCERS OLICE CONSTABLE Donald Cameron made out a report last night and hoped the Chief Constable would believe that he really DID see six flying saucers. Pc Cameron was.at home on sick leave when he looked out a window and saw six glowing objects hovering in thé distance. “I thought I was seeing things and called my wife,” “We watched them for about 30 seconds before they disappeared at speed It'll be Long “Saucer” Is Forgotten NEWS THE HERALD-NEV By PETER A. DVARACKAS Herald-News Sports Writer Many months will pass before the impact of the strange flying objects which dominated the North Jersey skies this week fades into memory. The bright white disk that streaked across three counties and hovered periodically over the Wanaque Reservoir will pro- vide an ample amount of con- versation for weeks to come. In- deed, thousands of eyewitnesses know well the story of that mysterious terrestrial stranger. Not that the tale of the flying saucer is over yet. Investigators from the Nation- al Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) may arrive today in Upper Passaic County from Washington D.C. to probe the UFO sightings. Dr. George White, an elec- tronics expert, and Dr. John Pegano of Fort Lee will investi- gate the scene of the unidentified object and then report back to NICAP. Announcement. of. the impending study was made by Richard Hall, assistant director of NICAP. Nightly Vigil Police at Wariaque, the state’s largest water storage basin, con- tinue to maintain a nightly vigil at the headworks, in Ringwood Avenue and Westbrook Road to spot that weird disk of light which was seen as late as Thurs- day night making sharp dips and maneuvers over the. reservoir: It was Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. when residents, motorists, muni- cipal officials, and police glanced up at the sky and began the first chapter of an. aerial 9 Before JANUARY 15, 1965. mystery which has yet to be solved. “Listen . . , this sounds crazy, but I saw something in the sky. Do you know what it is?” This was the question posed to the police at the North Jersey police radio hook-up in Pompton Lakes. The calls came in from Wana- que, Ringwood, West Milford, Paterson, Totowa, Wayne and Butler. Astounded residents were searching for an- explanation. Even the police were dumb- founded. They too saw the white oval hovering in the heavens from their prowl cars. The UFO was described then as a white and garishly bright disk, two feet in diameter. According to observers, the odd movements of the myster- ious visitor was enthralling. Some felt as if/it were “toying” with police, citizens and bor- ough officials hy performing dives almost into the reservoir; at times appearing “as if it were looking down” upon the spectators from a silent ‘station- ary position high in the heavens and by making neat right angles as if it were using the sky as a.chalk board. : ‘Made Several Stops The UFO then made quick stops at various locations in the community: Lakeland Regional High School, the Houdaille sand pit, the overhead bridge in Ring- wood Avenue ... and then it disappeared, Hours later at 2:15 Wednesday. morning, it re-appeared over Wyckoff and five minutes later it was spied over the reservoir in Wanaque where police say it almost came to rest at the top of the’1,500 foot long Raymond Dam. It was gone at 4:15. a.m. Police, reporters and resi- dents saw the disk as it whisked over Wanaque and Ringwood both Wednesday and Thursday night, a The story of the mystic sky visitor is. not without intrigue. The United States’ Air’ Force re leased a number of reports which August Roberts, a mem- ber. of the “International Intellf: gente on ynidentified Flying Ob- jects claims ‘are ‘‘a: whitewash.” Initially, when the object was first sighted, the Air Force said it was an official helicopter with a strong. beacon. A few hours later Air Force jets were spotted by police’ flying over the Wana- que, Tuesday,’ May 17, 1966 DAILY SKETCH government experiment in the ~ Experiment? Keon Roberts’ theorized the object, “might. possibly have been. a creation of .an anti-gravity ma- chine.” As yet nobody really. seems to know what the UFO was or where it came from. Some say it isa balloon, others, men he said last night. Police Kept Busy Spotters Jam Up-County Roads for UFO Glimpse RINGWOOD — If the little]them to move on, but they kept men from outer space had the/coming back on the other side’ of the road, so we just had to give a couple of them sum- monses. They had everything, tele- scopes. I was waiting to see one of them get out with a geiger up-county police on the run Tuesday, their earthly counter- parts caused more trouble Fri- day night. Throngs of the curious ringed normally deserted Wanaque Reservoir in this small hamlet and created what old timers say is the first traffic jam in the history of the borough, The cars parked along Westbrook Road and Route 511. Ringwood Police Lieutenant DeMiiet Jack O’Hara said “We told(Continued on Page Paterson News Jan. 15, 1966 cameras, binoculars, counter.” towards Manchester: “They were about a mile away. I could see -them | clearly even though it was | @ dull day. They were white and glowing. . “One was bigger than ithe others with a cup- shaped dome — obviously |the. mother ship. The | others were oval,” he added. | .As he made out his re- {port at his home in Chil- tern-road; St. Helens Lancs, Pe. Cameron said: |. “I ‘suppose I will get, | some ribbing from the lads, but that is not what | worries’ “me... it’s what | the Chief Constable thinks. jthe sky, however had failed tol| The sky watchers were out||make a return appearance’ Fri-}} in force after wide spread pub-|||day. lication of the sighting of uni- dentified flying objects over the reservoir. The elusive thing in Col. 7) both Wanaque and this borough have been overpopulated with], television and the curious. Since the sightings, Tuesday, cameras, newsmen from Mars. 4 : But this is not the first time a UFO has been sighted over the’ Wanaque. Some 18 years ago Charles Capen, former chief en- gineer of the North Jersey Dis- trict Water Supply Commission said he saw something that looked very similar to.the object described in the newspaper. Reservoir police claimed to have seen something “round and bright” two weeks ago, over Lilly Hill in Stonetown and Board Mountain near Sloatsburg Road, according to Charles Theodora, Dean Noll, assistant engineer, for NJDWSC does not believe that the UFO might have been a mysterious attempt to. pollute the water supply. There are “easier ways’’, he said, Throngs of interested persons are still lining the perimeter of the reservoir to catch a glimpse f the brilliant phantom that has, for the moment, vanished, into the ether. j ! GOLDEN GATE Handicap---Results 93rd YEAR, NO. 84 <> B Flying Saucers Are Popp FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1966 ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21, 1674 * OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA in (Christin Science Masiter THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONTTOR_| Flying swamp gas? Swamp gas or UFO? The civil defense director of Michi- gan’s Hillsdale County has issued a report challenging an Air Force study which concludes that swamp gas caused the UFO sightings in the Hillsdale area in March 1966. DENVER, April 2 (UPD— A Frontier Air Line pilot The request for the UFO William Van Horn said that, at the time of the sightings, check was made by Lowery it was too windy for swamp gas, and chemical analysis Air Force Base, which said it had received a number of soil and water disclosed an abnormally high amount of 1% Rad Teoelved, a, number radiation and boron, Van Horn also released this photo jeots over the area of a UFO as it flew over Hillsdale County in July 1965. (UPI Photo) MONDAY MAY 16, 1965 Air Force UFO report refuted | HILLSDALE, Mich. (UPI) — The Hillsdale County civil defense director today issued a UA-page report challenging an an Air Force investigator's conclusion that “swamp gas” caused UFO sightings here last March. He said it was too windy for swamp gas to form. villiam Van Horn, who said d 84 coeds at Hillsdale e watched an unidentified object hover outside a flyin dormitory for four hours March 21, said the investigation by Dr. J. Allen Hynek @nd the Air Force was “very incomplete und merely a token appearance sort of act.” Hynek és a Northwestern University professor who inves- tigates UFO sightings for the Air Force's “Project Blue Book” —its running study of UFO reports. Van Horn said his report, in which he charged that Hynek spent only three hours investi- gating the Hilisdale sightings, resulted from a seven-week investigation by “my men and myself.” In the report, Van Horn attempted to refute Hynek’s theory that swamp gas formed the mysterious object sighted by listing wind tables indicating there was too much wind that night for swamp gas to form. He also said average monthly temperatures proved that swamp gas could not form under the existing conditions. The report inchided a de- tailed chemical report, made by two men described only as |Another 'UFO' Warren Heckman of Den- ver, the pilot, said he spot- ted colored lights about 20 miles away. He said he closed to within about three miles when the lights, which seemed to be attached to a moving ob- ject, suddenly went down Kipling Vandenberg and Jerry Wilson, that concluded: “The area contained an | abnormally high amount of radiation from some unknown source. The area also strangely contained boron, which was found in both water and soil. These two facts are the only ones which would substantiate the presence of a UFO.” AIRLINER DETOURS TO CHASE U.F.O. 4-2-66 as if the object had landed. Heckman circled over! the red, green and white lights and radioed Staple-| ton International Airport that the lights apparently were on a tower in the Rocky Mountains just west|) of Palmer Lake, a small community between Den- ver and Colorado Springs. At Chillicothe, Ohio, sev- eral newsmen and dozens! of other citizens reported sighting three UFOs over the city Friday night. ‘ed Scott, a newsman at) radio station WBEX, said he saw two of the objects in the western sky and one in the east. All were de seribed as red, green and blue pulsating lights. Portland Oregon Journal March 21, 1966 | ‘Let's see the Air Force hush this one up!’ _Mond: UFO 86, Miles CANTON, Ohio — —| Hundreds of person reported sighting a “bright and shiny” object over eastern Ohio Sat- urday night, including police || who said they played “tag” | with it for 86 miles, Reports also.came from Air Force reserve pilots based at Youngstown’ who said they attempted to follow the ob- ject but that its speed—esti- mated at 100 miles an hour— | was too slow for their jet | trainers. An East Palestine officer and Portage County Sheriff's Deputy W. L. Neff said they “played tag” with the mys- |terious object for 86 miles through eastetn Ohio before} HHosing it near Conway, Pa. { The Federal Avia tion} Agency at Pittsburgh, Pa., said its radar recorded noth- | ing unusual. 4 Ohio Police Trail lay. ‘Up All Over One Shot By Man In Maine By United Press International Air Force scientists who || spend their time investigating 4| reports of unidentified flying ob- 4| jects had their work cut out for UFO’S (?) FLASH ACROSS PRE-DAWN SKY Time exposure taken by Michigan deputy sheriff ‘Thursday night in the Ann Ar- || bor, Mich. area. Dr. H. Allen Hynek, a North- Book, is investigating the Michi- expected to complete his inves- tigation today, but would give no information how soon his re- port would be ready. The mysterious. night-lyers were spotted Thursday near Trinidad, Colo., not far from the buried $88 million North American Air Defense Com- mand Post. Louis Di Palo, a lo- cal postman, said he watched three of the objects through bi- nocul 40 See ‘lyi Vandenberg and Wilson said they tested soil, plants, ani- mals, minerals, water and the environment of the campus swampland where the sightings occurred. Bridgeton Evening News, 3-31-66 Is Sighted By | Woman At Elmer| MILLVILLE: Liother south Jersey resident reported seeing a strange, hovering white ob- ject in the sky in front of her} car as she pulled into her yard ‘on a suburban roed not far from Elmer early Wednesday morn tigation. Mrs. Rosemary Ulbrich suid she noticed the big white “thing Ford said in letters to the in front of her car some dix chairmen of the House armed tance in the air services and space commit- “At first 1 thought it wasn tees. “I think there may be anything,” she sald. “Bul uft substance to some of these re- 1 turned my car, there it was ports.” “T do not agree that all of ing these reports can or should be so easily explained away,” quest, Rep. George P. mittee will UFOs since 1948, and to the ridiculing those sightings. who been the scene of a rash Rep. L. Mendel Rivers [D., S.C], head-of the armed serv- ices committee, said that be- fore he makes any decision he will consult with ranking com- mittee members on Ford's re- (D., Cal.) said his space com- ill defer to Rivers’ committee because it has jur- isdiction over the air force. Charge Facts Hidden The air force has been in the business of investigating who believe there is substance flying saucer reports charge it has cloaked its find- ing in secrecy and engaged in “Ford, whose home state has cent UFO reports, said the peo- ple are entitled to a more thoro explanation than has been given by the air force up to now. 3-30-66 An air force consultant who in- vestigated some of the Michi- gan reports last week said the People were seeing swamp gas. After Ford said last Friday be thought Congress should look into the reports he received numerous telegrams support- Miller ing his suggestion. Head of Committee those controlers, report | sighted UFOs of re- anything we have.” Asks Probe of Flying Saucers Ford Says U. S, Public Should Get Answers BY, JOSEPH HEARST Washington, March 29—Ex- pressing a belief that the Amer- ican “public deserves a better explanation of reports of flying saucers and other unidentified flying objects, Republican House Leader Gerald R. Ford (Mich.] today formally re- quested a congressional inves- Donald E. Keyhoe, a retired marine corps major, who is di- rector of the National Investi- gations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, a private organ- ization, says thousands of com- petent ‘persons, including radar missile trackers, and qualified pilots, have Kehyoe told a press confer- ence yesterday that the com- mittee has concluded that “these things are real and| must be extraterrestial be- | cause they are so superior to | Lignt POLICEMAN and five other persons who saw unidentified again. What made me so sure that there must be something around was the way the doys| were barking. They never bark when I come home. | Toronto, Canada Telegram, March 28, 1966 Now those flying saucers come to Canadian skies ‘Those puzzling flying sau- cers invaded Canada last night. Sightings were reported in Toronto, Hamilton, Sar- nia, and Kitchener- Water- loo. Two University of Toron- to engineering students say, they saw a bright, whirlin object fly across the sky Auburn Police from their rooftop observa-/ Get Another | / tion point watched a multi-colored ob- ject — officially an uniden. tified flying object — as it hovered for two hours over the Kettle Point area. In Sarnia, storekeeper, said a motorist pointed out the saucer- shaped object to him about 8-p.m. “L've never seen anything Jike this,” Mr. Bressette a said. He dismissed the idea it |could have been swamp gas, thy explanation “given by U.S. Air Force consul- tant, Dr.dJ. Allen Hynek, for similat sightings in the 100 people Lawrence Bressette, Maine 5-11-66 ‘And Inglewood, Ont, man| Report on UFO | Ann Arbor area of Michigan described a multi-colored object he saw briefly while of those UFO reports last night Auburn police got another one} since March 20, At'9 o'clock the department| _ The rash of U.S. sightings driving north on Highway! received” a call. from. Charles | Continued at the week end 10 to Caledon. Ray of 90 Court St. who saidj with reports from Green “It changed from a deep; he saw som kind of an object| Bay, Wis., and Columbus, red or maroon to orange to: dull yellow,” he said. “Then it appeared hary! 9 and changed back to deep red ague® ren and white letails were available in the| four policemen and a teach- police report. going through the sky over| G; Minot Avenue hier He said it was colored red,! A fluorescent green and No. other| white object was seen by er at Green Bay. KENNETH ARNOLD, the Bolse businessman, who started the flurry of flying saucer sightings In 1947, displays » drawing he made after » sighting near Mt. Rainier in Washington. Ar- nold sald pulsating light came from the dark spot in the cen- ter. (AP Wirephoto) FIRST UFO SPOTTER gan sighting reports. He said he METRO FINAL 10¢ DAILY, $2.25 A MONTH morning. TERY OBJECTS IN SKY Three mystery objects were photographed in the pre-dawn darkness over New Plymouth on Sunday ‘The photographs, which/Tarahua Rd sub-station op- have baifled local experts,/erator, is convinced the ob- were taken by 16-year-old) jects ‘were solid Brian Pollock from the bed-| The prints were devioped room of his Carrington St| by a New Plymouth chemist. home. “I thought I was seeing said Brian, telling things,” py ects last night. HESE ARE THE OBJECTS photographed by 16-year-old Brian Pollock in the pre-dawn sky over New Plymouth on Sunday. At left are the mystery objects as he first saw them, the centre photograph shows the circular shape to which they changed, and the shot at right was taken after they had reverted back to their original form. They disappeared soon after this. “I woke up about 10 min-| ation. utes to 6 and looked out of] a0: the window to see what the] rs, day was like. Then I saw them. They were just over| we knew what it was the power line: pointing in a nor NO EXPLANA he commented. ‘The, director of the Ne we story of the weird ob-| Plymouth Observatory, D. W. Daniel had no e: don’t dare mention ing about flying sauc- “It is quite a scoop if ie said,| it’s so definite. So sharp.” west dir Weather experts at the ection towards the intersec-| Bell Block Meteorological tion of Carrington St, Tara-| Station were also just as hua Rd and Brooklands Rd.| much in the dark got my camera and tripod and set it up beside my bed. I thought I was things—when I looked away 1 could still see them, just the same as when you look at the sun for a time, But his biggest shock came while he was taking! seeing } the photogra When he first saw them, Brian recalled, they were & hexogonal shape. “Th they just changed before my eyes to an enlarged cireular shape.” Later the objects rever- ted back to their original form and disappeared. “They there wasn't a flash or anything.” VERY LOW During the five minutes} Just went - Hong Kong Standard, May 14, 1966 gia ‘Flying saucer’ pics on show FT. MONMOUTH, Fri Pictures of a “flying sau: cer” be \" taken by a 13-year-old | ally shaped object with a nob ve been released by the| sticking out of the middle of at Ft. Monmouth, New and the Monmouth H County Civil Defence Depart ment The pictures were taken by its top. walking his dog when “sudden ly I heard a loud whistling. humming noise and thought it Robert J. Salvo of Wall Town-| might be a plane.” ship last March when a rash of unidentified flying objects|sky, which was partially fas reported in New Jersey, |cloudy that day,” Robert said, Th pictures show an eliptic-| “and I saw something diving out of a cloud, then over me, | and tt was pointing down as if watching me. It then shot The youngster said he was |back in the clouds like a bul. let.” He said he quickly took some pictures of it as it dis appeared into the clouds. The Army made no com. ‘Then I looked up in the } ment on its identity. — UPI / | the objects were observed, they did not move at all in the cloudless sky, and ap- peared very iow. Brian used exposures of two, five and 15 seconds on the’ sequence. He has Spotmatic (/buitt-in meter which reads |light at a distance, ||. Brian, the son of Mr and Mrs F.'S. Pollock, 365 Car- rington St, the New Zealand Department's| || Electricity i hs. 2 £120 Pentax cam be as high “There is no ation for it duty —foreci ers. era with a They ruled out a met bal- Joon because it was releas- ed at 4.50 a.m. on Sunday and even if it was still burn- |ing an hour later it would 10,000 feet. explan- said the | “And don't believe in flying sauc- =| flying objects near Ann Arbor Mich., put together this N composite drawing of what they sighted. Drawing, made ASTEVA at Washgenaw County sheriff's headquarters, shows gen- eral shape, placement of lights and antenna-like objects, and surface of UFO. (UPI Telephoto) Michigan UFO Lands In Swamp ANN. ARBOR, Mich, (UPI) — At least 40 persons saw an eerie unidentified flying object land in a swamp near here Sunday night, police said Mon- day. Twelve’ witnesses were icemen. Officers said four sister ships hovered in a quarter-cir- cle above the object until it took off with a warbling sound like the echo of a ricocheting bullet. Patrolman Robert Hunawill lot Dexter, a nearby village, said he and other residents of the area saw similar odjects zipping through the skies ear- iy ast Monday and Wednes- FRANK MANNOR, 47, a farmer, and his son, Ronald, 19, said they approached with- SIGNS OF THE TIMES are in’ 500 yards or the- object. It lay ina swamp, they said, Twith pulsating haloed lights or leach end. Mannor said it was || LANDING SITES AVAILABLE Sicned.. Barry Ivers MAYOR written at Brewer, Me. Brewer welcomes unidentified flying objects.” A rash of thom has been reported, from Brewer to Seattle, This sign is posted AP Phot 6 on South Main Street in Brewer, perhaps the first to offi- cially welcome the vititors—if any. So far Brewer has had no takers, but still hopes that its enterprise will pay off. pitted “like coral rock” and fabout the length of a car. He ldrew a picture of ft, showing jits shape about that of a foot- ball. “There seemed to be a kind lof fog underneath it,” Mannor lat that horrible thing!” and the craft vanished. Two depu- ties, Mannor’s son-in-law and lother witnesses said it zipped lover the tree tops. They de- [scribed the same noise. Man- nor and others said it was like ite warbling sirens used on jsomé police cars or a ricoch- eting bullet. SIX POLICE cars. chased the formation but the objects vanished. Policemen said they land other witnesses except the Mannors could see only lights because of the darkness. Two Washtenaw County sheriff's | deputies said they saw blinking lights—apparent- ly from the object—rise above e trees, then dip again, s Hunawill said he saw “our t lights hovering over ithe area” in a quarter circle labove the object cn the *The light went out over the feenter object (the one on the jground) and then it flew over {the top of us,” Hunawill said. ng Saucer’ First UFO 4-18-66 _—No Arrest By RICHARD LEVESQUE Provincial police appear to have registered their first flying saucer chase. At 2 am. this morning two constables at Three Rivers re ported to headquarters that they were. chasing a luminous spherical object Constables Jacques Marcotte and Ronald Gagnier, said the {jobject was moving''250. feet |above the ground 100 yards off the highway to the St. Law. rence River, near Pointe du Lac. They chased the object for several minutes and then saw it ||verash” in tidal flats. The officers ran to the scene but could not find anything In alerting other police posts, the officers termed it an un identified flying object The officer in charge at Montreal headquarters said that police radio communications during the night had been bad due to an unusual amount of static. || He also said a newspaper truck driver had called him to ||report a “luminous fireball” had been following him in northend Montreal at about the same time as the police sight ings. The driver said he passed through certain stops on his de livery schedule because the “luminous fireball” followed his truck along the city streets. He tried to lose it by «swerving \#round intersections but the ob- pect kept close by Finally, he said he couldn't ||see it anymore and returned to his normal route ||, Sighting of unidentified fly ing objects have been occurring | frequently throughout the prov- ince in the past few weeks a ROBERT TAILOR, Dexter police chief, said he watched the object’ from Mannor’s home ‘on a knoll overlooking the 300-acre swamp about 12 miles northwest of here. “I saw a red glow down in the swamp,” Taylor said. “It was a pulsating bright red land then it grew dimmer. I put ‘the binoculars on it and jsaw that there was a light on leach end of the thing.” Deputy Stanley McFadden lsaid atleast 60 persons saw the strange lights in the air or lon the ground. McFadden and Deputy David Fitzpatrick left their car and slogged through the swamp after watching the ob- ject rise to tree top level, then sink and apparently land. A crowd of 40 to 50 people wat it on the ground, McFadden said.