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| Would You Believe—‘Saucer’ Visits Wichita? Also, sand had swirled into the drive- way ares. Object In Sky Near ‘Bloom’dale || hoped if they ever came back wey arbre i | if somebody was in one ' would be friendly Latest ‘Flying Sancer’ Report BLOOMINGDALE~—Two Bloomingdale youths reported’ last night te Van Buren county | sheriff's deputies the sighting of an _inidentitied fying cblect | SUNSET STRIP—The invitation to the press read Doug Dickerson, 17, and. “Several persons who have been contacted by messen- James Melvin, also 17, said lgers fram outer space will be available Wednesday for Broom nates Fo B at interviews at 9000 Sunset Blvd." The “several” at the about 9 p.m. In the vicinity of headquarters of World Harmony, Inc., turned out to be did point out something unusual. Along the driveway lay pieces of concrete that once served as a reinforcement sheet along the house's foundation. Mrs. Thomas said she never noticed it breaking off until Friday. Pieces were scattered into the driveway He said his mother said it might be the Air Force “playing a trick.” None of the neighbors reported any- thing unusual when told of the saucers landing, and the police dispatcher said they had had no reports. HOWEVER, JOHNNY and his mother When it started | my head.”* WHEN CONTACTED at the home, Mrs. Thomas said that about 5 a.m. Fri- day Johnny came running up to her room nearly hysterical “He was crying that he had seen two flying saucers,” she recalled. Iroically, Mrs. Thomas said after wards, she had been dreaming of flying saucers and possibly beard the bum- ming noise herself She said Johnny had told her that at first be thought a big diesel truck was pulling into the driveway, but then the humming noise started. * Johnny said he didn't know about the saucer activity in Michigan last Sunday until after he told a neighbor about his By FRAN KENTLING ving I covered Beacon Staff Writer An l-year-old Wichita boy has joined the ranks of these across the nation who have reported seeing “flying saucers” dering the past week. Johnny Sparks said that early Friday morning he saw two “flying saucers” that m a humming poise and were bigger than cars. He is the son of Mr and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge Thomas, 916 N. Topeka. Here is the story the way he told it “T had been upstairs to my mother’s room and then I heard this funny noise “Kt went mmmmmmm—like a flying up Planet Pluto Saucers Seen, Talked With? By AUSTIN CONOVER The Wichita Beacon | Saturday, March 26, 1966 ‘etrick farm, three and top. I started to go back to bed when I heard it. Then I looked out the window and 1 have light I saw it saw this flying object that people been talking about. It had colored s and was spinning was bigger than a car and the nighttime vision. The Michigan report was attributed to swamp gases by an Air Force investigator. JOHNNY SAID HIS saucers landed on a driveway on the north side of the house—nowhere near a swamp. Johnny evidently had spent a fitful | the Bill one-half miles north ef Bloom- who was driving, to stop the car. ‘The boys said they observed an object off to their right over & swamp, hovering in the air. ingdale, Dickerson told Melvin, has not only sighted flying saucers but also communi- six, led by Estelle C. Prins, president, who said she “humans” in- |cated with ide them. the | She made it clear at the out "| set that UPO (unidentified tly ing Object) is not the right way colors were purple and red and orange and green. “WHEN I SAW THEM at first, it was in the sky. Then I saw them laying right by my window It didn’t look like it had any windows anded like an airplane. When it ding it had legs and put them When asked am I had just babies even has saw th The boy stayed about fiv did n fed time ¢ but the rest did: It was like a big fat doughnut, The t had something like a cap that kept going round and round. ked just lke ¢ down and the other came The other one just sat and = Johnny said he spun, too. 1 was too scared to wake anyone up. 1 saw them.” UFO Sighting Reported Here Not a Star -- Not an Aircraft, Says flouis S. Smith Family of North Bend The Louis S. Smiths, who live on the CCC road, spent an in teresting 10 minutes or so Thurs day evening, April 7, as they [ss binoculars and a telescope cul: “Sometimes it moved quite ri to watch something in the sky| erat which they were unable to inden-| Ridge. [tify except an Unidentified Flying Object. Tt was first seen by Phil, 15, @ freshman at Mount Si, about 10 p.m. “I was out walking the dog, and the first thing that at tracted me were the bright lights. I knew it couldn't be a star, Then I realized it was mov ing Phil ran im the house and called his parents and his sister, Diana, 18, a Mount Si senlor They all ran outside and all re port sighting the strange object Phil used » telescope (30 power) on @ tripod and said he had a fairly good view of it. His father said he unable to see through the telescope: “Every jtime I tried it the object would Move where « tree blocked my vision.” But he, Diana, and Mrs. ucer like shape (see sketch) and of a blue-gray color in the moonlight. He s. in brilliantly lighted. Mr lance of the lighting but s: be was unsure whether the o ter band was illuminated bright lights or whether were flames on the object,” he said far away it was. “I had so pilot training during the w and I know how hard it is estimate distances but I felt was quite a way from us,” said inutes it appeared to be traveling from north te south,” Phil said. ap idly and was heading in the gen- direction of Rattlesnake Phil described it as somewhat his ish aid |the band around the center was Smith agreed on the bril- aid en by they whatever they were they were very bright and seemed to radiate from that area He was reluctant to guess how me ar, to it he He agreed that his son’s sketch (Smith took turns with the bino-|of the shape of the object was St. Petersborg Times. April 26, 1966 5 ‘Mysterious UFO | Escorts Burns Plane kkk Times Staff Writer Meteorite |vim "itt es coe campaign bet last night Flares Over Northeast |Gov. Haydon Burns, four cyt |cal newspapermen, Mrs. Barns jand six Burns staff saw spots 6 looked sv mus) y an w identified fying object escorting BEw vou the Burns campaign plane for bie about © miles over Central Flor- — A Dam a mete ross the East ¢ dark last thousands of stations and The object was first spotted |by co-pot Herb Bates. He said jhe saw the object “when we reporting ¢¥<5¥ look off trom Orlando.” Bates a about %) added “it stayed with us for a! | ont least 40 miles, then it disap man for the Fed peared, like he turned off the Aviation Ageney at Kennedy In-| juice, It's the first one I've seen ternational Airport sald it ap-lin a9 years of flying peared the object was a oor) Bates reported the sighting to ng from sat! Capt. Nathan Sharon of the was believed to have landed in|roride Highway Patrol, Sharon Island Sound |went to the cockpit and ob. SPOKESMAN said the|served the object and went back ygton airport re-| tell Gov, Burns. Burns the object dash/iocked out the window and then came back and told newsmen there's a UFO out there. ceived stor Newsmen and staff members where aircraft had radiced|looked out the window of the seeing the object sweeping high|plane nd spotted what ap through the air peared to be two round spots of epi light. At the time the plane w: with a long vapor trail. Thelon a northwest course from FAA sabd a vapor trail was tn-| Orlando to Tallahassee. usual, but apparently was the! que riGaTs were off to the result of the object getting Intol ctheast of the plane and ap-| the earth's lower atmosphere. | neared to be traveling along A spokeaman for the Alt! shout the same speed, The pilot Force at Stewart Air Forcelcavy the plane was flying at! Base, Newburgh, N.Y., about 6,000 feet and at about 230 firmed that it was a meteorite! pes an hour. Everyone aboard breaking wp and burning itself! plane watched the Lights for out | ind Burns or. turn toward TH ower at Wash ported seeing across the heav He said a report also was re oon at several minw! DR. ASHER CHAPMAN, anidered the piloe examiner for the FAA said he|the object. j the window of his) At that point the lights ap yome in Glen Cove, N.Y. to see|peared to rise and then disap the object traveling “about 1,000|peared as though the electricity feet above ground, 309 to @0\had been switched off. Every-|| miles an hour, from south tolone aboard the plane lost sight|| north.” He said he at firstlof the object at the same mo-|| thought the flaming object wasiment. During the time the an airplane, as did many oth-lobject was visible Pilot Fred|| ers. But, he added, the object Scharrer was in contact with) did not dive, but continued in a|Miami alr traffic control. He|1 horizontal plane |said that alr traffic control was| The object was sighted forjasked i it had anything on the about five to 10 seconds, most|radar beside: the Burns plane. Teports indicated. | They reported they did not. | night because of an earache that kept him out of school Friday if he could have been having a bad dream, Jobnny replied: “I sere I was awake because my pet Fat T got beck into bed, but I didn’t cover ht had it up before I extimated that each saucer and his story each repeated telling. MES. THOMAS ADMITTED she was a i rassed about t she did not doubt the boy’s story never thought there was anything like flying saucers “until the sighting SAUCER SHAPE, This is rough Unidentified Flying Object watched by Phil, Salt Poese br Mareié Late Mrs. Thomas and Johnny examined “flying saucer damage.” Concrete rei h by Phil Smith, 15, of the is father and mother, and his sister for about 10 minutes the evening of April 7. The band in the center (resembling windows) gave out the bright lights which first attracted Phit's attention. reasonably accurate. “There were times when it ap- peared te be moving in « straight line and then you couldn't see much shape, just the band of lights. But mew and then it would move rapidly to the swiftly | fect, am airplane flew overhead, All agreed th. the object they were watching was much larger. They watckc until the object moved out of range. They were not alarmed, only interested. They sald they had heard no re- ports to indicate that any of their - neighbors shared the experience. general All the Smiths are sure it was Bot a heavenly body, nor an air. plane It was much bigger than nor mal alreraft,”” Mr, Smith said They had an easy comparison While they were watching the ob Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith said they had been somewhat skepti- cal of the many reports of the sighting of such objects. No more — they don't know what it was, but they know they saw something very strange in the friendly skies that Thursday night, BRILLIANTLY LIGHTED Police Follow 4-18-66 San Diego Union Saucer 85 Miles FREEDOM, Pa. (UPI Two brilliantly lighted uniden tifled flying objects were sighted here and 30 miles away, at Benton Harbor Mich, early yesterday Police alerted by radie to be on the lookout for an ob- ject heading their way fol lowed the “bright circular” object from Atwater, Ohio, to Freedom, a distance of $5 miles Portage County, Ohio, De paty Sheriff Dale Spaur, an Air Force gunner during the Korean War, said the object ‘about 30 to 45 feet in diame ter traveled at speeds from 00 to 100 miles an hour.” BRIGHT LIGHT T had never seen anything this bright before in my life, he said. In Benton Harbor, three city rubbish collectors. watch od a flying object with one light so bright “you couldn't look straight at it Joseph Franklin said it was | Mondey, Mar. 28,196 = Bx about had a steeb-like shell and was shaped dog.” 15 stories im the air, something Uke a but The crew reported watching over a the object ed motel to police, who observed as it rose higher in the air In Freedom, Spaur reported the odject, which had an an- tenna-like | protrusion underside, hovered atove the cruiser in which he and Depu ty WL OBJECT WAITS on its Neff were riding The Ohio deputy sheriffs were joined by East Palestine Patrolman Wayne who said too far peared to stop and wait,” Deputy Robert Wiison, mon. itoring cruiser, said Spaur and Neff were questioned by an Force colonel’ However quarters at Greater Pittsbur gh Airport said it had no re port on the UFO. Housten, when the object got ahead of us it ap the calis from the Air in Freedom Air Force head. Les Angeles Herald-treminer SAUCER BLAST? SIX TOWNS SEE NEWTON, N.C., March 28 fect streaked low lina about 2 over Vaidese. (UPT> Toss parts of western North Caro- m. today and exploded without a sound MYSTERY A glowing blue ob- The explosion iit up the town like a gigantic fash. bulb Police officers in ix towns in threé counties said they saw Office ment in light Tt was moving from east to west. jelvin Bartowe of the Newton police depart wba County said it looked like a bolt of fire with fire arcing off the edges.” ‘The Thing’ Sets Britons Hong Kong, 4-11-66} today and caused new speculation about a flyi object which officials have failed so far to explain fully ne | News of the about 7m — printed pictures om its front page of an object re- sembling @ space craft that it said was @n sirliner by « woman passen- ger with « Mandard cine camera | and and developed in commere! field, 30, said she was flying in a British liner in bright, sunny weather at 270 mph at 9,000 feet over Can nock in Staffordshire County 15 days ago when she spotted wi she thought was another piai & jetliner, camera and aimed. seconds round our airliner,” ber ‘of Warminster’s “Thing.” —UPt. aforcement sheeting was broken, sand swirled THE MONTREAL STAR, MONDAY, APRIL. 4, 1966 Boy Is Burned By ‘Flying Ship’ Canadien Press HAMILTON, Ont. April 4—A 13-yearold Hamilton boy has a curved burn on his hand he claims came from| touching the “antenna” of a soft-glowing “flying ship.” Charles Coxens claims two! ‘ strange “ships” landed in a field behind the Hamilton Mountain police station on| Upper Wellington Street Tues day night Constable Arnold Pead, sum-| moned to the home after the! parents repeatedly questioned their son before reporting the incident, verified the three inch, yellowish burn mark on the boy's hand | Charles said he ran bebind| 8 fence after seeing ene “ship land, closely followed by an-| other He described the objects as| ight feet long, four feet wide| id three feet high with red, | blue and green lights set into) the rim and flickering like a computer.” The boy said the objects wacnureneee CHARLES COZENS Only one bad an antenna, he tic and could not be shaken. ond it was thicker at the Last Wednesday Laverne base and Towed to the site|Emery, 18, and his brother eof a nickle at the to Owen, 14, reported seeing two When he touched tthe anten-| objects flying low over the city. na, a flash “of electricity” ec-| Mr. Emery, an engineer, said curred, and he received a shock, his sons were “extremely shaken His father, James Covens, 2 up by what they had seen.” Graughtsean, said he explained) They said the objects made “as the seriousness of calling the|whirring noise, not at all like police “but Charles was empba- reraft.” Speculating Anew London, Apr. 10. “The Thing” — or “Things” — returned to Britain The Sunda husband, Tom, told the paper. ‘Then it pulled in two fins at the top and then two at the bottom to go into a flying saucer type shape. Then it | banked away a iseppenred com= pletely.” The new photogra) newspaper ‘orld —~ with massive circulation of photographed from led sighting— vouched for an ordinary | by ome of the newspaper's I laboratory. photographers—coincided with recent fresh reports of uniden- Mrs Joan Old- | uned fying objects in the Unit ed States and new c! that “The , Thing” that bas been sighted by 421 witnesses in the village of Warminster over the past 16 months has been seen again Authorities The woman, United Airways air- no longer look fully askance at the Warmins- ter sighting reports, and the Ministry of — Defence She aid she whipped out her It seemed to hover for three examined negatives of picture ° ome x \ 5 Sight UFO PIERRE (AP) - residents reported they viewed an unidentified fying object high in the skies city They said they caught sight of They estimated the distance af from 108 to 200 yards from the ro! nd the height of the object fram 90 to 100 yards. *| They said the object was about the length of a car with a flat bottom and a rounded top such as a football cut in half. *| There were three lights on the object, they said. They described the lights as being one red light on each end s}of the object, which kept blink ing off and on, and one yellow Hight In the center of the object which remained steady. They said they observed the object about one minute. when it suddenly went straight up at terrific speed. They said it did not seem to go in any direction but up, until they sight of it ESTELLE C. PRINS talks to space men Citizen News| THOSE SPACE PEOPLE! rapa Flying Saucers, | Quakes Linked By AUSTIN CONOVER [Thoughts need not be expressed | HOLLYWOOD — There is a|in words. Por instance, it isn’t jéefinite correlation . between|necessary to know the word for! earthquakes and sightings of|pencil to” communichte the! [fying saucers, a spokesman for|thought of coe,” also its size,| Menta] Investigations of New|color and shape, to a receptive| Dimensions declared today in/mind.” an exclusive interview, Age of Achievement Wesley H. Bateman’ of 4916) Bateman wert-on 16 ékplaid| |Pranklin Ave., which is the/that the reason for many of the! [international headquarters ‘of /fying saucer sightings taking |MIND, reported: “Our researchipiace in swamp lands is be-| a net only < sage! of cause ‘the’ inhabitants of these| ying saucer sightings after\snace | Jeartiqasbes and “eupiecions ot{ebace ,<7alts have been inter underground nuclear As for the future, he pre- terest of flying saucer people ‘idicted that withio less than five |e shock waves. years man will free himself of “First. bet me point out that/the frequency barrier and enter at the beginning of March, 1988, lan age of tremendous intellec- the Russians detonated the larg-\tual achievernent Jest underground suciear explo-| .¢ sion ever. Since this detonation, | there's been a rash of eayth- quakes, They've eccurred in Turkey, China, Formosa, Japan, \Spain, Africa, Yogoslavia and |Russia as as in the United Staves. | Quotes Scripture “During this same period, there have been many flying saucer sightings. The majority have been on or near the ih parallel in the Northern Hemi-| Isphere.” Bateman, who believes the presence of flying saucers it beyond question, cited Bible references to sightings following fearthquakes and said that after the earthquake toppled the [Colossus of Rhodes in 290 B.C ‘shining objects were seen in |the sky.”* | More recently, the Alaskan| learthquake of 1904 was followed by a wave of sightings of flying! ‘objects in New Mexico; ‘and earthquakes in Spain that year were followed by reports of fly- ing saucers in Portugal. The researcher offered this explanation: “Flying saucer |people are not so much com-| cerned about our muclear test- ing or the destructive power of} our earthquakes as about the change im the frequency barrier, which is produced by our mag- netic field and which is affected WESLEY H. BATEMAN + +» earthquakes, saucers ‘A Second ; UFO Seen” In Michigan | HILLSDALE, Mich. (UPI) —| A county civil defense director| land §T co-eds said today they] watched ‘an exie, bovering by earthquakes and nuciear| |fying object settle in a explosions |swampy hollow near a college “This frequency barrier has| |¢0tmitory Monday night Dampered man’s mental de-| | William vas Horm, 41, Hill velopment and his communica-| reat J civil on wi people. \direct ior irs, & ad oe naar ione aaa |watched the unidentified object Jwould dumbfound you if I were| |trough binoculars for three |t0 tell you how many jhoure. “Much of our knowledge bas| | It was the second straight Jcome to us from these people: | [night large umber of and we have little realized the| [witnesses reported seeing weird |thought transference. As our, [unidentified flying objects in |minds develop, we'll be able to) [southern Michigan. Sunday |communicate better with them.| [night doren policemen and at | least 40 other persons said they Language is not the problem.! | ee At Pierr " nome re Rg Ley flan a € mp about 45 miles land in a |northeast of here near Ann JArbor, Mich, Realtor Spots Saucer-Like é Flying Object | Catt Bea of 21 Marta Fie Pierre 3-22- over the Capital about midnight Thursday, | A bright light im the sky which appeared for a star in the Big Dipper constelta- | tion. Then the ight moved swift | time to be a that he saw a saucerlike Mying object ip the sky over Clarks jt refer to the objects she has sighted “because they are nc longer unidentified. | Bring Warning “We know these are from out-/ she said with a nod from the other five sighters ‘We know that they come to warn us against the spread of the contagion of war to ov space Like the star that guided the wise men at the time of the birth of Jesus, flying saucers ng to guide mankind to- ward wniversal peace and har |meony.”* er space. Miss Prins said that space people have communicated with ner in the English language though a bit haltingly” and that one such commenication was with people from the planet Pluto, She parted with the informa- |tion that the flying saucer peo- ple travel in gigantic saucers as much as 10 miles long and that these house as many as 4,000 smaller saucers for reconnoiter ing purposes near Earth. In Hollywood Hills Miss Prins reported sighting flying saucers in the Hollywood hills.as well as elsewhere. Gabriel Green, who said he has made between 8 and 100 such sightings since 1956, scored the Air Force and other invest! gators who have looked into the matter. “They are nothing than official debunkers,’ he said. “They are trying to hide from our citizens the fact there are extraterrestrial people. “Fortunately, the younger pemeration is not so inclined to debunk flying saucers, The re sponse I've received at the Teen Fair shows me youth is far abead of most adults on this matter.” Quest for Treth Maria Graciette Eliitt, ac- |tress and author, described in detail the flying saucer “fireball with a sulfur smell that she) sighted in Georgia. Lillian Wil Jers, executive director of Har- mony House, cited her interest in flying saucers as part of “my long range quest for truth. JANUARY 13, 1966 1 e * Visible Again |Lights in Sky | The “flying saucer” which at | tracted attention of residents of| }13 communities in three coun-| ties was beck again last night Tin Wanaque, according to two) | Clifton men. Peter Hreno, 29 Dawson Ave. jand Dennis Reynicks, 115 |Scoles Ave. reported they parked their car on Westbrook’ Road in order to get a full view Of the vast Wanaque Reservoir. About 10:40 last night, they |said, a bright point of light ap peared to be hovering above the ice. As Reynicks prepared to) |photograph it, the light disap- peared | Bot it returned, with a “red. dish tinge, bobbing and weav- ing.” according to Hreno. Bentley Spencer, Wanaque civil defense director, said he saw the light about 6 p.m. Dor- ens of cars ringed the reservoir last night, their occupants hop- Ing to see the “object,” first | spotted over the reservoir and in nearby communities Tuesday | night amd again yesterday morn. ing. Official explanations, mean while, were lacking. The Air Force dismissed the incidents as possible sightings of the planets Venus and Jupiter. BALL OF FIRE. IN HOLLYWOOD “LIKE SAUCER’ HOLLYWOOD — 66 | ley Monday night, ako wa | Mrs. Belle Roth, 102 5S. made ne sound when it passed Barlowe estimated its altitude to be 1000 feet. He could not estirate its speed, “We don't have anything around here that could cateh it,” he said. “No swamp gas or nothing lke thi could move that fast.” Bartowe said he was alone in his patrol car when he saw it, but he Sgt. Donald Burgess patrolling in another car across town saw it also. Police officers at Valdese were filling the tank of thelr patrol car when they saw the object silently ex fe bioae They saw no fragments f ‘We Couldn't Live in Their Atmosphere’ iy im @ southerly direction. ‘The lighted object was moving too fast to be an orbiting satel: | Ute, .the observers said. It took the object about five minutes to move through an arc of 20 to| 25 degrees, they said, and then | the light blinked out ‘They said the light appeared to be at @ very high altitude, | moved at tremendous speed and made no noise that could be heard from ther vantage point. | Pond aréa of Fuairton. ject went out of sight trar at high speed and came on again,