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U Civil Defense Director Watches ‘Flying Saucer’ GOLDEN GATE Handicap---Results ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21, 1874 * CAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 93rd YEAR, NO. 81 Eerie 1896 Sighting By JIM HAZELWOOD The socalled Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's) seen Sunday in Michigan by at least © people, recall a bizarre story which appearéd in The Tribune 70 years ago. date Was Nov, 23, 1896, and it reported that many per- sons saw an “airship” fying over Oakland. But this date was 10 years be- That a huge airship has been hovering over Oakland for the last few nights has in the minds of many been conclusive- ly proven. A number of persons whose integrity is unquestiona- ble have seen the strange navi- ator of the air and this num- includes many whose scepti- ism has been pronounced. “Last evening at about 7:30 O'clock, the passengers on an 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 oumber of other sightings were reported, from as far away as Red Bluff Although the original story said the craft resembled a 3 “later sightings light high in the seemed to rise al hundred yards. Alameda car were startled by the sight of a brilliant stream of heavens off in the direction of Hayward. distinctly saw ‘The passengers the outline of an airship and watched its maneuvers high in the skies. The ship resembles 4 huge bird in its outlines and and fall in its course. A light streamed from the head of the ship, throwing a white stream of light for sever- “As the outlines of the airship Tt should be borne in mit that shapes of aircraft and esti- mates of airspeed were sciences of the fyture when the following story, reproduced in part, was written. been noted by a Tuesday, May 10, 1966 Than 5 Mil were plainly discerned, the pag- pa ap etteet car be came greatly excited. “The phenomenon ‘had first man who had Deen idly watching the heavens. TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1966 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. It was high in the heavens. It appeared to be of huge size. When first seen, it seemed to be floating over San Leandro. It moved rapidly, going at least 20 miles an hour. It shot across the skies to the northwest, then ft 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 -startlingt: similar, a as to time, <i- cys and de- ion," ‘ w facts Jeave little doubt ta the minds of thany people that a successful airship. has been invented and is navigating the heavens" * GALLUP POLL lion People nek, an of the } 87 Coeds Observe ‘Object’ HILLSDALE, Mich. (UPT)—A county civil defense director and 87 coeds said teday they watched an eerie, hovering | flying object settle in a swampy hollow near a college dormitory | } ast night. William Vo Horn, 41, Hillsdale kgg- By KEITH GEORGE Binghamton, N. Y., October 24, 1965 j 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 seeing wiered | unidentified fl yi ng objects in |Southern Michigan. Sunday | night a dozen policemen and at |least 49 other persons watched | |a similar object, guarded by |four ‘sister ships, land in a | swamp about 45 miles } of here near Ano Arbor, Mich, | SCIENTIFIC Cor TANT ° | he Air Force tt | was calling in Dr. H. Allen Hy- Dearborn Northwestern University, Evanston, Ti., and scientific consultant to the Air | Forct’s UFD study , to investigate -the rash of sight | ings | .Hynek 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 ‘ahove 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. 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 ex 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, 23-year-old farmer says none of these tales is true. But the strangest of all, and the basis for the rumors, is his encounter with a space ship and his talk with its eerie crew 17 months aj That happened, 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 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- Ir. Wilcox 10¢ DAILY, $2.25 A MONTH Newark Valley—Gary 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 be only wants to mind his own business and make “hey Saw Flying Saucers “Tt was definitely some kind! of vehicle,” Van Horn said. He said it changed from orange to! this awareness score ts one of, Futher analysis of these datajed almost 20 years ago. At that; jri-jthe highest in the 30-year his-jshow that flying saucer sight-\time—shortly after the Mying! er space ue-|tory of the Gallup Poll ings are not necessarily a phe-|saucers were first noted—four| 3) Burning gas, ly-|_ Are flying saucers « hoaxTjnomenon of certain population|out of every ten called the sau-| gas” 10|Philip Easter of Baltimore, Md.,|groups. Similar proportions of|cers either a hoax or the prod- andjuct of some overheated imagi-| or told one of our interviewers this|college educated persons, 4) Meteors, shooting 5) Weather baloons 2) Actual vehicles from out- | “ewamp stars red,° perhaps. with a rotating light of some kind. and had-a whit light at one end. “From all appearances jt did not appear to be sitting on the ted the incident to the oes County Sheriff's De- partment, curious people visited his farm by the dozen. They fheluded men who sald they were from govern- a living, steered clear of such “He had the tele- jatt|story: “It was dark and I bad|those who have not gone beyondjnation. In 1950, another Gallup we|just come out of a building. I) grade school claim to have seen|survey showed eijlooked up and saw this object|them. + hovering in the dark sky above| me, It was 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 Bizet June when he was driving jals FERS lAEET ERS TANK Beeeaty trough Topeka, Kansas: “lt was very late Real or imaginary? very bright and) Are flying saucers real or|that the saucers were a reality. Stayed in about the same posi-jimaginary? We asked this ques- tion, with surprising results. Al- though the Air 6) Supernatural revelations ‘Those who believe they are from outer space account for 6 view| per cent Life on Other Planets? In weighing what evidence! Do people who are living in there is about the credibility of|the space age believe there is! that attitudes |had begun to change. More per- jsons that year held the Force claims/flying saucers it is important to|life, as we know: it, on other that nearly all of the reported) note that while most of the re-|planets? i “saucer” sightings are easily |ported sightings have been ex-' Many scientific authorities be- explained, as meteors, weather|plained, according to Alr Force/lieve that intelligent life must balloons, swamp gasses, planets,|reports, there are ete., more Americans think they|sightings without - about] are they|Persons with still manylexist elsewhere in the universe, explanation. because the statistical odds are j college training|large that there are millions of 1230 in the morning. I saw thisjare “imaginary.” Forty-six perjare more likely to believe in. Planets in-the universe enough’ rand-shaped object in the sky|cent (or about half of the nda es reality of flying saucers|like our own to support life, as ik i il fF; bs i t f ie il; | if z Ful experience and at almost ex- actly the same time.” adult population) hold this opin- jon, while 29 per cent describe|school background, or Jess. een an a Cement of te Smee Among those persons who be-|per cent) ination.” The rest cannot make|!i this up their minds. This represents quite a change|think they are “real”’), here is im public attitudes toward the|how they describe them: credibility of “flying saucers”| 1) since « Gallup survey conduct- na than are persons with a. high|we know it. One person in every three (4 . who participated in lieve flying saucers have an ex-| planation, Experimental projects, Air Force tests survey = they © believe (that is, those whojlife 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. x THE SHEBOYGAN PRESS, Monday, April 18,1966 : ° Buchert said tt looked lke opie hes “two table saucers put togeth- . er.” Sas UFO; ee County Pe ny pA i Spaur sa and his ere Close partner, W.L. Neff, “were RAVENNA, Ohio (AP)—‘Welclose” to the object in separate were close, closer than I ever|cars and chased it 86 miles for want to be again,” said a depu-|an hour and a half, from near ty sheriff who chased an un-|Ravenna to Conway, Pa. near identified flying object from| Pittsburgh Ohio into Pennsylvania. Spaur said he clocked it: at Hundreds of persons in both| speeds up to 103 miles per hour. | States reported seeing the “bril-| From the ground Spaur said it jliant and shiny” object early|looked like the head of a flash- ing. |light, about 40 feet wide and 18 Police Chief Gerald Buchert! feet high ‘ of Mant about eight miles} Spaur said the lines of the ob- north of Ravenna, said he took| ject were very distinct. “Some- @ picture of the object from his|body had control over it,” he front yard but the Air Force|said. “It wasn't just floating told him not to release it. ‘around, It can maneuver." { officers reported the object was ground “as it moved back and forth across the ground,” he] said | HAMOPERATORS | 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 dance Center in nm go, the farmer said. Mos were just for themselves. residents whe wanted to see the landing spot One man whd also claimed ment agencies and others who identified themselves as offi- cials of the IBM Space Gui- irhy Owe- bas yet to bear about it. t 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, not visible from the road. Van Horn said he saw three Hynek's role is scientific con similar objects in the air Fri- || suitant to the Air Force's “Proj- day night. He said William Vin-|| ect Blue Book,” the official | cent, coordinator of a ham Fad-|/jshel of the Air Force program | fo club qf some 40 youths, bas |i to track down reports of un- reported several UFO sightings | identified Nying objects. in this area during the past 101) “Authorities and crowds off | i |} curious residents braved thun- Van Horn said he could not|! dershowers Monday night to establish the object's shape. || comb the swampy area near “Through the glasses it WeS|| Ann Arbor where the object was either round or oblong,” he s8id.|! seen Sunday night ‘I think that what makes the|| Washtenaw County Sheriff Ni light on these things change|) Douglas J. Harvey said deputies colors is that they are rotating} spent most of the night search- in a circular motion." ing and checking out reports Van Horn was called by girls||from persons who thought they at the dormitory. The co-eds) had spotted the object again. reported the object alternately | The investigation began when jBlowed red, white, blue and|-at least 12 policemen and 3 | other colors other persons sald they wa They said it rose up and| a weird flying object, down, appearing to stop its) by four sister ships, land ascent and sink again just when| the swamp late Sunday night- jit was about to move into the! The sighting was only |glow from .a nearby airport) most recent of several in beacon light thern Michigan and other paggs | Its vertical and horizontal|'of the nation during the movements were too fast for| few weeks. any airplane, the girls said. The eyewitness accounts @f The announcement that Hynek| Sunday night's incident included was belng called in came from) a man who said he and his | Selfridge, a base near Detroit/ran to within S00 yards of |which dodged newsmen’s in-| mysterious object which | quiries Monday about the object ered above the ground Freely & swamp near Ann) shot away at their approach. | A a ‘The Ventura County (Callf) ‘Star-Free Press 4-1-66 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), Mrs. Marvin Miller of 196 Pa- jeific St, Ventura, sald today that she spotted the object at 8:55 p.m. Wednesday as she and ber husband were returning from Los Angeles. She said that she noticed it as 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 tall 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/ a plane. “It was in a dive,” id Alvin Caples of 831 Olive |St., Fillmore, g. 4 THE SUNDAY PRESS —vmee ENCOUNTER WITH A SPACE SHIP TKnow Whatl Saw: | Shaped Craft va i fe giees fa5s g iif i il | il} ariitt ager fff Fak. o> g iy E Hl ig’ fi if § But be has no better ex-