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Head Saucerer Believes Martians Are Watching Us Who's in All Those Saucers? By Harold Scarlett Was Jesus Christ a Martian? “It’s hard to say,” said Gabriel Green. thoughtfully. Then he added that it certainly seems plausible. It’s no trick at all to walk on water or ascend to the heavens if you have a Martian levitation belt around your waist and an anti-gravity beam to ride, Green explained. Furthermore, he said, the Martians now visiting earth on flying saucers are trying to save the earth’s people from their own follies — just as the Savior was. Green can speak with some au- thority on these matters because, he says, he met and talked with a Martian once. Also a four-foot man from the Alpha Centauri star system. Also some other unearthly visitors. * SOMETIMES, HE said, he met these flying saucer crewmen by telepathic, appointments. These were arranged through associates of his. with tele- pathic talents. “And once in a while,” he said, “they would just call on the ” Green, who lives in Angeles, is the head saucerer — the president — of the Amalgamated Fl ying Saucer Clubs of America. Not being too telepathic, we just called Green on the phone to interview him about the recent rash of flying saucer sightings around. the country. “It is a continuation of their efforts to enlighten us,” Green replied in calm and cultured tones. “The current series of sightings and landings, I understand, will increase. They are not going to go away, as some members of our government would like.” WHY DO THEY keep buzzing down here and scaring people? “What with nuclear proliferation growing, it seems rather obvious that unless we start resolving the present problems facing mankind, we will destroy ourselves and perhaps some of the universe along with us,” Green ex- plained. “This is one of the primary reasons why the extra-terrestrials started mak- ing visitations in 1947, shortly after we developed this ability — to watch over us and if possible to impart their ad- vanced scientific, technological and sociologicat knowledge to help us re- | : ie SAUCER OR STRAW HAT, THIS solve these problems before we destroy ourselves.” Green said he is trying to do his humble best to help them spread that message. “The solutions they have given,” he said, dea] primarily with resolving the motives for wars, expansionism and poverty. They hope to eliminate the have-not nations . . . through superior financing. They have an advanced eco- nomic system they call Universal Economics. The economics part of it is what I personally am trying to trans- mit.” HE SAID RUEFULLY, however, that the saucer clubs themselves are in an economic pinch that has prevented needed research. Green said he runs the saucer clubs out of his own home, at 2004 North Hoover in Los Angeles, “to cut down on the overhead.” He said there are clubs in 50 major USS. cities and abroad, with a total of about 3,500 members. Houston has no club, he said, but he does have some interested Hous- tonians on his mailing list. “We are a contact-oriented research group,” he said, “meaning that many of our members have made actual * FLEW IN CALIFORNIA LAST AUGUST pres my ball and the green—I’d hardly call , From B. C., the Post, May 9, 1966 physical contact with crews of these craft.” Green said he has sighted 85 to 100 spacecraft around Los Angeles over the years and has met “half a dozen or so members of the crews.” BUT GREEN BELITTLED his own experiences. “They’re so insignificant it’s hardly worth talking about them,” he said. “Some of our members have actually been taken for rides in spacecraft. “I certainly wouldn’t turn down a ride if it were offered me. But they’ve never asked me.” Green said he met the Martian by appointment at a friend’s home, and he looked “just like anybody you’d meet on the street.” He was casually dressed, Green said, and wore a short- sleeve, shimmery, metallic-looking shirt which he said would stop bullets. All in all, a handsome chap, Green said. “I felt his hair and it was quite coarse and worn in a V-shape down to- ward the center of the forehead,” Green said. “But I rather doubt all Martians wear their hair alike, any more than we do. “HE SAID THE MARTIAN canals Highway Patrolman Rej Heflin Photographed It Through His Car Windshield PAGE 4—SPOTLIGHT UFO Plays Tag With Deputies in 85-Mile Chase RAVENNA, O., April 17 (UPI). —Two Portage county sheriff’s|quarters here. deputies followed a “bright cir- drom, Pa., a distance of 85 miles. Deputies Dale Spaur and W. L. Neff were investigating a routine traffic accident at 5 A.M. when they were alerted by radio to be on the lookout for an object heading their way. Spaur, an Air Force gunner during the Korean War, said the circular object “about 30 to 45 feet in diameter traveled at} speeds from 80 to 100-miles an|Joseph dour.” Sina “It was about 1000 feet in via the radio. bright Portage county sheriff's head- “I had never seen anything cular” unidentified object Sun-jthis bright before in my life,” day from Atwater, O., to Free-|he told Deputy Robert Wilson In Benton Harbor, Mich., a flying object degcribed as so|U., just across the State line “you couldn’ | straight at it” was sighteti early|Palestine Sunday near the downtown ‘sec- ition of the city. Three rubbish collectors saidjed larger than an airliner and they gaw the object hover over a motel along the St. Joseph River. The. head of the crew, Franklin, said it was about 15 storiés..in the air, had a steel-like shell” 'and | looked THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1966 AT intelligent life from another planet.” Cartoon by Fischettt were really canals for distributing the short water supply from their polar regions, and that the two Martian moons are really artificial satellites just like the Russian astronomers have supposed.” Green said he had met the Alpha Centauri man several times — once in the Green home. “He was dressed ordinarily and was about four feet tall, although this was unusual. Most of the reports of them are that they are normal height or larger,” Green said. “There was that space ship that landed near Albuquerque, for instance, with a crew of four men and five wom- en. They were very beautiful, very well proportioned. Seven to nine feet tall.” Green said he had met other inter- stellar travelers but would “rather not go into the whole list.” Where did they park their space ships while they were visiting him? “OH, SOMETIMES they actually park them — hang them up in the sky with a force field around them. Then they have an anti-gravity beam and levitation belts they wear around the waist to get on down to earth. “Through these, they can accom- plish such miracles as walking on water and ascending into the heavens.” Green said he is 41 and was a photographer with the Los Angeles Board of Education until he resigned in 1959 to try to help the spacemen save civilization. Green said naturally he asked to take the spacemen’s picture, but they refused and he abided by their wishes. “An associate of mine once tried to sneak a couple of flash pictures,” he said, “but two times the flash gun wouldn’t fire, even though the camera was in perfect working condition. “THAT DEMONSTRATES the pow- ers of the mind of these people. Just SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1966, THE HOUSTON POST GABRIEL GREEN Head Saucerer like Uncle Martin Favorite Martian.’ ” Green said he had never seen one of the unearthlings beside his space ship. Then how could he be sure they weren’t a hoax — practical - joking earthlings just putting him on? “Oh, I wouldn’t believe just anyone who walked up to me and said he was from Mars,” Green replied. “But if you get a call from the White House and were told President Eisen- hower would meet you at a certain time on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, and you went there, and a man there who looked like the President called you by name, wouldn’t you be- lieve he was Eisenhower?” Green said he once ed a spaceling to prove himself by disappearing. “BUT HE REFUSED and told me to walk away,” Green said. “He was on a balcony five floors high, and I walked down a hallway for three or four sec- ond and turned and looked back and he was gone. There was no logical place for him to go from that balcony. Green believes the spacemen are un- doubtedly friendly, just as they profess to be, or otherwise they could have destroyed the earth long ago. “They say they want nothing from us but our friendship,” he said. “They would never destroy us. This would be a violation of their code of life. They revere all living things.” Apparently they do have lapses, though. “There was one decision that if any nation on earth fires a nuclear war- head, it will fall back on the people who fired it,” Green said. “I don’t know what their latest decision has been.” HE EXPLAINED that he hasn’t been in contact with a spaceman for two or three years now. Green said people from many planets are visiting earth, and that accounts for the wide variety of flying Saucers being sighted. One of his favorites is the Venusian scout ship. That’s the one about 50 feet in diameter with the three protruding semi-spheres on the bottom and the portholes around the cabin. Green said it is operational only within 5,000 to 10,000 miles of a planet’s surface. He said it comes down from a cigar-shaped mother ship that parks up there. The mother ship can make interplanetary trips. At this point we decided to end the interview. The long-distance line to Los Angeles had begun makifg an eerie wheeee and then an ominous blup- blup-blup. Maybe the Martians ing in. on ‘My listen- were light so bright he couldn't look directly at it. Franklin and his crew. report- ed the sighting to police who also viewed the object. in the chase at East Palestine, lookjfrom Pennsylvania, Patrolman by East Wayne Huston. Huston said the object appear- t.aveled in a straight line. He suddenly, “Tt was a funny thing,” Hus- ton’ said, “but when the object got too far ahead of us it ap- The two deputies were joined) said it would change altitude) reported the object, which had something like an antenna pro- truding from the bottom, hover- ed above the cruiser in which Spaur and Neff were riding. Wilson said that Spaur and|pcrted. |Neff were questioned by an “Air Force colonel” in Freedom. | (Air Force headquarters at Greater Pittsburgh Airport said it had no report on the UFO.) “The chase lasted about 50) minutes and, in that time, the| ‘ object was reported seen by at|’ least six or seven other depart- ments, both in Ohio and Penn- sylvania,” Wilson said, Neff, a one-time Seabee, agreed with Spaur in the de- scription of the object and add- screen.) the air and was extremely|‘‘something like a hot,-dog” in|peared to stop: and wait.’”’ bright,” Spaur radioed to thelshape. He: said it had 4 brilliant| Wilson said at one time Spaur|ed that it “had no wings.” A-B Lesdageles Weraldtxaminer = 4x —_ Tuesday, May 17, 1966 Mysterious Sky Objects Have Texans in Dither MEMPHIS, Tex., May 17,fourfoot strip of what apjabout 2% miles distant at (AP) — Rural residents told|peared to be tin and alumi-/4:10 p.m. of seeing a cigar-shaped ob-lnum. ject drop from the sky yes- David Duncan, 28, with Ra- terday, and two men said !t/qio station KGBH in Mem- Phis, related these details: Ernest reported he/home is 3 miles southeast of spotted something another unidentified flying|which looked “like two para- object fall and picked up ajchutes” hovering in the air caught fire and burned with- out apparent cause. Still another farmer in the same vicinity heard an explosion, watched|here, Mrs. Duncan and several friends tried to pursue the object, “coneshaped and silver looking,” in a car and it appeared to halt near the Salisbury commu- nity 5 miles south of Mem- phis. As they drew near, however, it swept away at high speed. Lee, whose J. W. Hatley, a farmer in the Brice community 21 miles west of here, and three} other men told of watching! minutes later as something “about 20 feet long, 4 to 8 feet wide and shaped like a cigar” plunger to earth. recounted. batteries on the outside.” Wilson said the object “was caught by radar” in Pittsburgh. He said that at least seven jets! from the Cleveland-area headed | for the object after it was re-| (The control tower at Greater Pittsburgh Airport said it spot- ted no UFOs on “It was big enough to carry a man, and I got the feeling that it did,” Hatfield Hatley and one of his com. Panions went to notify au thorities, leaving two other It bore no markings, they;men on guard. The strange said, and “appeared to havelobject started smoking, burst! radios and about 20 smalllinto flame and burned, Hat-| ley reported. its radar “It's flying-saucer-sighting time and I'm determined to s¢e one!” 3-25-66 Saucer ‘Sighting DETROIT, MICHIGAN Report MARCH 30, 1966 Five sightings were re- ported on Monday of unidenti- fied flying objects, observed in the sky in the northwest Detroit area, Northwest Precinct police station had three reports, Schaefer one, and Palmer Park, one, On Monday, 7:20 p.m., sev- enteen year old Mike Woods, 8418 Fuast, states that he saw a very high object with white lights hearding north from the southwest, in the Faust- Van Buren Avenue area, Eddie Crunk, 17, 19749 Greenview and his companion, Robert Spallneo, 15, 19743 Greenview, observed an object over Crunk’s home at about 8:20 p.m, Crunk said that the UFQ camie from the west, stopped;far a moment andtheg was jast séen Golfig eaSt, wi’ lights changing fram the coi: red to green and then ambe At 9:30 p.m,, sixteen-yeai old Michael Senia, 1281 Virgil saw something with 4’ white light traveling very fast near Virgil and Glendale, He claims also to have seen it at the same time on Sunday night, A 39-year-old man reported to the Schaefer precinct that ; he had observed something with red, yellow and green rotating lights at 11:17 p.m. Stewart Hall, 8549 Abbington, saw the object near his home, stating that it was visible for about a minute. Karen Ellington, 17, 15587 LaSalle, was walking to the front door of her home about midnight, when she noticed an object in the sky, It appeared to be about 150 yards away, according to the police re- port and stood motionless over the John Lodge Expressway, near Linwood, It was ap- proximately 500 feet in the air, 9 feet long with a red light on the left and a green light on the right, Miss Ellington told police that the object stopped twice and lights started flashing. Its path of travel was from | the east to the west. | She said she had seen others ' around the first of May. 2—Nevada State Journal Civil Defense Director Watches ‘Flying Saucer’ Oakland ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21, 1874 * GOLDEN GAT Handicap---Results 93rd YEAR, NO. 81 <> ELLE ELEM LO LE EEE LEE. ONE By JIM HAZELWOOD The so-called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's) seen Sunday in Michigan by at least 60 people, recall a bizarre story which appearéd in The Tribune 70 years ago. e date was Nov. 23, 1896, and it reported that many per- sons saw an “airship” flying over Oakland. But this date was 10 years be- fore the Wright brothers made the first successful heavier- than-air flight at Kitty Hawk. Aerial balloons, however, had been known for decades. The Oakland “‘airship’’ was the talk of the town for days and-a number of other sightings were reported, from as far away as Red Bluff. Although the original story said the craft resembled a “huge bird,” later sightings described it as egg-shaped with lights at both ends. Tt should bé ‘borne in mind that shapes of aircraft and esti- mates of airspeed were still sciences of the fyture when the following story, reproduced in part, was written. Tuesday, May 10, 1966 More Say T By GEORGE GALLUP More than five million Ameri- cans claim to have seen sciie- thing they believed to be a “fly ing saucer.” And, about '10 times as many people — or nearly half of the U.S. adult civilian population —" believe’ that these frequently reported flying objects, while not neces-' sarily “saucers,” are real and not just a figment of the imagi- nation, These are the principal find- ings in a nationwide Gallup sur- vey of the American people on) this subject, when survey per- centages are translated into numbers of people. Since late in the 1940's, sci- entists and military officials have been investigating }pp- dreds of reported sightingdif unidentified flying objects recent rash of sightings promgpt- ed a Congressional hearing /st month and also this baa |i vey. How do typical Americans § 51 about flying saucers? How muny people have seen them? Are they real or imaginary? Do peo- ple believe there is life, as we mow it, on other planets? More than 150 Gallup Poll in- terviewers have been out qUes- tioning’ typical Amerigans—men and women, people of all ages in all educational levels and in every region of the nation. Tabu- lation of their’ statements and views reveals the following: First, almost everyone (96 per cent) has at least heard or read something about flying saucers, For something so high- ly publicized as these. objects, this finding may, at first, not seem unusual. However, in terms of the history of the pub- lic's awareness of other inel- dents or events, this figure is extraordinarily high. In fact, pen ernment acre Rear SE Sad Than 5M hey Saw Fl this awareness score is one of, tory of the Gallup Poll. Are flying saucers a hoax? Philip Easter of Baltimore, Md., told one of our interviewers this story: “It was dark and I had) just come out of a building. I “That a huge airship has been hovering over Oakland for the last few nights has in the minds of thany been conclusive- ly proven. A number of persons whose integrity is unquestiona- ble have seen the strange navi- gator of the air and this num- ber includes many whose scepti- cism has been pronounced. “Last evening at about 7:30 o’clock, the passengers on an Alameda car were startled by the sight‘of a brilliant stream of light high in the heavens off in the direction of Hayward. “The passengers distinctly saw the outline of an airship and watched its maneuvers high in the skies. The ship resembles 4 huge bird in its outlines and seemed to rise and fall in its course. A light streamed from the head of the ship, throwing a white stream of light for sever- al hundred yards. “As the outlines of the airship were plainly discerned, the Pay sengers im the ‘street car came greatly excited. “The phenomenon ‘had first been noted by a man who had been idly watching the heavens. OAKLAND, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1966 Eerie 1896 Sighting As soon as he perceived the light, he attracted the attention of the other passengers and all, intensely interested, watched the peculiar machine as it made its way through the skies. “Tt was high in the heavens. It appeared to be of huge size. When first seen, it seemed to be floating ever San Leandro. It moved rapidly, going at least 20 miles an hour. It shot across the skies to the northwest, then it turned quickly and disap- peared in the direction of Hay- ward. - “Not only was the airship seen by the passengers, but many other residents. of . this city distinctly saw the brilliant light and the huge bird-like body floating in mid-air. “None of the spectators were acquainted with each other and yet their stories are startlingly similar, a as to time, di- rection of thé ip, and de- seription,”) f ‘W*"These facts leave little dqubt in the minds of many. people that a successful airship. has been invented and-is navigating the heavens.” * GALLUP POLL and led almost 20 years ago. At that time—shortly after the flying’ saucers. were first noted—four| 3) out of every ten called the sau-| cers either a hoax or the’ prod- uct of some overheated imagi- nation, In 1950, another Gallup illion People ying Saucers Futher analysis of these data! the highest in the 30-year his-|show that flying saucer sight- ings are not necessarily a phe-| momenon of certain population groups. Similar proportions of college educated persons, those who have not gone beyond’ grade school claim to have seen er space Burning gas, gas” 5) Weather baloons 2) Actual vehicles from out- “swamp 4) Meteors, shooting stars 6) Supernatural revelations looked up and saw this object|them. survey showed that attitudes had begun to change, More per- Those who believe they are: from outer space account for 6 CALIFORNIA 10¢ DAILY, $2.25.A MONTH 87 Coeds Observe ‘Object’ HILLSDALE,, Mich. (UPI)—A county civil defense director |and 87 co-eds said’ teday they =\watched-an eerie, hovering ® | flying object settle in a swampy hollow near a college dormitory | last night. | William Vn Horn, 41, Hillsdale + | county. civil. defense director. for £|10 years, said he watched the unidentified object through bino- culars for three hour. It was the second straight night a large number of wit- nesses reported seeing wiered unidentified fl yi ng objects in |Southern Michigan. Sunday night a dozen policemen and at least 40 other persons watched a similar object, guarded by four ‘sister ships, land in a swamp about 45 miles northeast of here near Ann Arbor, Mich, SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANT. ‘The Air Force ahnounced jt was calling in Dr. H. Allen Hy+ nek, chairman of the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ttl., and scientific consultant to .the Air Forcé’s UFO study s investigate the. rash. of sight- ings. : ae will work from: Sel- fridge Air Force Base at: Mount |Clemens, Mich., the Air Force | said. Van Horn said he joined, the 87 Hillsdale college co-eds and | their housemother to watch the object. He-said it emitted wav- ering..orange, red and white | lights ‘and- appeared to hover just ‘above the swamp ‘some 1,- ‘ {000 to. 1,500 yards from the dor- mitory. | It was still there when he left | about 1:30 a.m. today, he said. | “It was definitely some kind | of vehicle,” Van Horn said.’ He | said it changed from orange to red,” perhaps, with a rotating light of some. kind, and hada whit light at one end. “From, all appearances it did not appear to be ‘sitting on the | ground ‘as it moved back and forth across the ground,” he said. ; HAMOPERATORS hovering in the dark sky above Real or Imaginary? sons that year held the view|per cent. me, It was very bright and stayed in about the same posi- tion for several minutes. At first I thought it was a planet, but I knew it couldn’t be be- cause of the way it moved.” Harold Stoops tells of the time last June when he was driving through Topeka, Kansas: “It was very late — about 2:30 in the morning. I saw this round-shaped object in the sky ahead of me. It was extremely bright and I could notice a greenish hue. By the time I stopped the car and got out, it had disappeared.” A New Jersey housewife was are “real’’ cently: “Tt was about three in the morning,” she relates, “I was suddenly awakened by a very bright light outside. I got up) and looked out the window. The whole area seemed to be lit up} like a phosphorous fire. I could hear strange sounds, like thelf ringing of bells. I know it sounds strange, but the next day several people about 20 miles away reported a similar experience and at almost ex- Are flying saucers real or imaginary? We asked this ques- tion, with surprising results. Al- though the Air Force claims that nearly all of the reported “saucer” sightings are easily explained, as meteors, weather| balloons, swamp gasses, planets, etc., more Americans think they than believe they are “imaginary.” Forty-six per cent (or about half of the U.S, adult population) hold this opin- ion, while 29 per cent describe them as “‘a figment of the imag- ination.” The rest cannot make up their minds. This represents quite a change startled during the night re-|in public attitudes toward the credibility of “flying saucers”) 1) since a Gallup survey conduct-' sightings school background, or les; how they describe them: Experimental projects, Alr Force tests Sheriff Aides Chase. A UFO; Were ‘Close’ RAVENNA, Ohio (AP)—“We were close, closer than I ever want to be again,” said a depu- ty sheriff who chased an un- identified flying object from Ohio into Pennsylvania. Hundreds of persons in both states reported seeing the “bril- liant and shiny” object early Sunday morning. Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua, about eight miles north of Ravenna, said he took a picture of the object from his front yard but the Air Force told him not to release it. that the saucers were a reality. In weighing what evidence there is about the credibility of|the space age believe there is flying saucers it is important to! note that while most of the re-| ported sightings have been ex- plained, according to Air Force reports, there are still many without explanation. Persons with college training| are more likely to believe in the reality of flying saucers than are persons with a,high|we know it. Among those persons who be- eve flying saucers have’ an ex-|this survey said they believe] planation, (that is, those who think they are “real”), here is Life on Other Planets? De people who are living in life, as we know'it, on other Planets? Many scientific authorities be- lieve that intelligent life must exist elsewhere in the universe, because the statistical odds are large that there are millions of planets in-the universe enough like our own to support life, as One person in every three (34 per cent) who participated in| life does exist on other planets. Again, persons with the most education are most inclined to believe in the existence of intel- ligent life on other planets. THE SHEBOYGAN PRESS, Monday, April 18,1966 Buchert said it .looked like “two table saucers put togeth- er.” Portage County Deputy Sher iff Dale Spaur said he and his partner, W.L. Neff, “were cars and chased it 86 miles for an hour and a half, from near Ravenna to Conway, Pa., near Pittsburgh. Spaur said he clocked it: at speeds up to 103 miles per hour. From the, ground Spaur said it looked like the head of a flash- light, about 40 feet wide and 18 feet high. : Spaur said the lines of the ob- ject were very distinct. “‘Some- body had control over it,” he said. “It wasn’t just floating around. It can maneuver.” close” to the object in separate | Thunderstorms lashed the |area as Van Horn and the col- |lege girls watched from a sec- ond floor dormitory windéw, Po- lice sent three squad cars but officers reported the object was not visible from the road. Van Horn said he saw: three similar objects in the air Fri- |day night. He said William Vin- |cent, coordinator of a ham Tad- |io club. of some 40 youths, has {reported several UFO sightings jin this area during thé past 10 | days. Van Horn said he could not jestablish the object’s shape. | “Through thé glasses. it was | either round or oblong,” he said. “T think that what makes the light on these things change colors is that they are rotating | in a circular motion.” Van Horn was called by girls at the dormitory. The co-eds reported the object alternately glowed red, white, blue and other colors. They said it rose up and |down, appearing to stop its ascent and sink again just when it was about to move into the glow from .a nearby airport beacon light. Its vertical and horizontal movements were too fast for any airplane, the girls said. The announcement that Hynek was being called in came from Selfridge, a base near Detroit which dodged newsmen’s _in- quiries Monday about the object seen in a swamp near Ann Arbor. By KEITH GEORGE Newark Valley—Gary T. Wilcox is a young man dogged by rumors. People say his dairy farm has gone bust be- cause nothing ‘will grow on the land. Others who meet him on the street express surprise, say- ing they’d heard he was in a New York City hospital suf- fering from radiation burns. One story has it his land is under guard for govern- ment study and that there is a darkened patch in his pas- ture where nothing will grow. The handsome, 28-year-old farmer says none of these tales is true. But the strangest of all, and the basis for the rumors, is to his encounter with a space ship and his talk with its eerie crew 17 months ago. | That happened, Mr. Wilcox says. “I know what I sav for two hours. I was talking with them and even joking with them.” Mr. Wilcox touched the metallic-like, egg-shaped craft and heard its strangely- garbed occupants explain in smooth English they were | from Mars, he said, When he | turned to get them a bag of | fertilizer, as they requested, the ship lifted off the ground and was out of sight in sec- | onds, he recalled. | In the weeks after he re- ported the incident to the Tioga County . Sheriff's De- partment, curious people visited his farm by the dozen. They fhcluded men who said they were from govern- ment agencies and others who identified themselves as offi- cials of the IBM Space Gui- dance Center in nearby Owe- go, the farmer said. Most were just for themselves. Egg-Shaped. residents who wanted to see the landing spot One man who also claimed Binghamton, N. Y., October 24, 1965 www ENCOUNTER WITH A SPACE SHIP. svn TKnow WhatlSaw’ | SES GARY WILCOX to be a saucer-seer told Mr. Wilcox he had hitchhiked from Massachusetts to talk to him. Other spaceship fans tele- phoned him and urged him to join their organizations. But Mr. Wilcox, who pro- fesses he only wants to mind his own business and make a living, steered clear of such affiliations.“ He had the tele- phone removed from his dairy barn because it was ringing so often he couldn’t keep up with the chores, he said. r If any responsible agency ever determined exactly what happened in that remote corn- er of his farm last spring, he has yet to hear about it. Mr. Wilcox did not ‘seem particularly happy to see a reporter show up at his farm. one morning last week. He wasn’t rude, either. When the reporter arrived, Hynek’s role is scientific con‘/ sultant to the Air Fbrce’s “‘Proj-| \|ect Blue Book,” the official} ||label of the Air Force program} |/to track down reports of un- || identified flying objects. j i Authorities and crowds of/ || curious residents braved thun- \|dershowers Monday night to comb the swampy area near Ann Arbor where the object was seen Sunday night. Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey said deputies:|' | Spent most of the night search-| ing and checking out reports |from persons who thought they | had spotted the object again | The investigation began when |-at least 12 policemen’ and %0 other persons said they watchax | a weird flying object, by four sister ships, land the swamp late Sunday night-: The sighting was only most recent of several in Sdg- thern Michigan and other patts of the nation during the pagt few weeks, 3 \. The eyewitness accounts at Sunday night’s incident includes a man who said he and his ran to within 500 yards of { mysterious object which hdf- ered above the ground the shot away at their approach. The Ventura County (Calif) S212 06 Two In County . Claim They Saw ‘Glowing’ UFO At least two Ventura County people saw a glowing object Wednesday night, _ shooting downward over the Point Mugu area.” | Mrs. Marvin Miller of 196 Pa- cific St., Ventura, said today that she spotted the object at 8:55 p.m. Wednesday as she and her husband were returning’ from Los Angeles. She said that she noticed it! jas they were driving through Thousand Oaks. “‘It looked like. an airplane in a dive at first,” Mrs. Miller said, “but then I saw a glowing tail and sparks began to shoot off. This dispell- ed. my idea about an airplane.” At the same time, about. 20 miles to the north, a Fillmore man saw what appeared to be la plane. “It was in a dive,” said Alvin Caples of 831 Olive St.,.Fillmore, THE SUNDAY PRESS Craft the farmer was ina -hayloft, pitching down feed for the noontime snack of his 60 cows. “I only have so much time to get this work done, so I can’t stop,” he said. ‘This is the kind of work you should be doing,” he joked. “Tak- ing care of 60 cows and work- ing at another job, too.” Mr. Wilcox has an afternoon and evening job as janitor at Berkshire School. “I don’t. know ‘where all these stories are coming from now. I thought it was all over last. year, but-now everybody is talking again. “The best one is about’ me pane in a New York City hos- ts with radiation burns. eople have said they heard it on the radio. I’ve never been in a hospital in my life. “Then some woman put in the newspaper that there was no grass growing where that thing landed. There was never much growing there. But there’s corn now. ‘ “Nobody ever talked to me about these things.. They just keep telling stories.” In answer to a question, Mr. Wilcox said his sighting of the mysterious craft and its crew and the widespread spec- ulation over the report has not hurt his personal life. “I just don’t worry about it. I know what I saw and other people have seen things. I even thought somebody was playing a joke on me, but I was in the service for six years and not even jet planes take off that fast.” If he had it to do over again, would he keep the in- cident a secret? 1 “No. I’ve got nothing. to hide. I would report it. If I saw another one-today I’d do the same thing. Then people would say I’m crazy.” Mr. Wilcox, who is un- married and lives in the vil- lage, feeds and cares for the stock in the mornings. A man whose family lives in. the homestead of the 300-acre farm does the milking. Mr, Wilcox also owns & farm near Owego where he grows feed crops, he said. He gives the impression that he would like to believe the whole episode was a joke. of some type, yet knows it wasn’t. He said he thinks that eventually the explanation will be. supplied, to him and the rest, of the world. “A man down in Berkshire says he saw something like this recently, too. I’m not the only one.” The two human-like, crea, tures whose features were hid- den under uniforms and hoods, may not have ‘been space travelers, he said. But he has no better ex- planation. On his way home, the. re- porter stopped at’a diner and invited flying saucer conver- sation from the waitress. “That's: where they say it landed,” she said, pointing out the window. “Right over the hill. I don’t think he was stretching the truth. He’s a reliable man and if he says he saw it, I believe him. They | say there’s a spot up there | where no grass will grow be- | cause of the. fuel it was us- ing.”