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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” named 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- 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. Oné delegate, Marianne Francis, warned that the} sightings could mark the be-| gigning 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- tain 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. Flying Object Sighted in Illinois NORMAL, Ill.—(up) —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. i 2-6-66 | MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE | | “They accept spacecraft as a jfact of life. Their interest is jin contacting spacemen di- rectly or through telepathy.” ] 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|'* jyoung 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 | watching us — some have al- | ready infiltrated our society,” | said Bateman. “The mystery jis 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 hara con=- frontation by paid in i who are instructed to suppress the auvhenticity 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. severdl 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, US.A., and receive a concise, conscien- tious report about any informa- tion He. is seeking. We don’t need {to search for 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. es 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 SOUTH AFRICAN POLICEMEN | REPORT SIGHTING OF ‘SAUCER’ JOHANNESBURG, South Afri- The two men claimed that, as ¢a—South African police and they approached the object, it scientists investigated Thursday took off silenfly at great speed a report that a flying saucer- P nasts . : type object had landed on a aie tong shooting out of its main highway near Pretoria, the country's administrative capital. 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) Two patrolling police officers reported seeing the flaming “saucer,” about 30 feet in di- ameter, shortly after midnight. One of them, Koos de Klerk, Ssid that the shiny copper-<ole ored object resembled a giant spinning top. THE BOSTON HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1965 2-3-66 ying saucer stories are getting more ridicus lous every c day. er ~ SAUCERS P It'll be Long Mu a _saucer” Is Fo HERALD-NEWS 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 ‘SAW 6 FLYIN 9 DAILY SKETCH Before JANUARY 15, 1965 rgotten 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 by 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 ja 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, ‘ The story of the mystic sky visitor is not without intrigue. The United States’ Air’Force leased a number of reports which August Roberts, a mem- 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- Tuesdas,’ May 17, 1966 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 the distance. . “I thought I was seeing things and called my wife,” he said last night. We watched them for about 30 seconds before they disappeared at speed Police Kept Busy i ie ies 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 up-county police on the runjof the road, so we just had to Tuesday, their earthly counter-jgive a couple of them sum- parts caused more trouble Fri-/monses. They had everything, a cameras, binoculars, tele- rongs of the curious ringed|scopes. I was waiting to see one normally deserted Wanaque/of them get out with a geiger Reservoir in this small hamlet} counter.” and created what old timers Ringwood Police Lieutenant Jack O'Hara said “We told(Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) towards Manchester. “They were about a mile away. I could 5 clearly even though a dull day. They were white and glowing. ~ “One was bigger than the 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 Lanes, 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. the sky, however had failed to —_ a return appearance Fri- ay. Since the sightings, Tuesday, both Wanaque and this borough have been overpopulated with television cameras, newsmen and the curious. “might possibly have been. a vernment experiment in the 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 is a balloon, others, men from Mars. But this is not the first time ja 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.