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NEW SAUCER PHOTOS: These remarkable photos of Flying Saucers were taken by Dr. Daniel W. Fry, President of Understanding, Inc., of P.O, Box 76, Merlin, Oregon 97532. Your editor enlarged them from the original 16mm color movie film. Spots on the photos are due to the extreme enlargement of scratches and dust spots on the film. Of special interest is the fact that the same type of craft was photographed near Merlin, Oregon in a wooded section, and again near Joshua Tree, Calif. on the desert. |Jonjects, watch almost disappeareg trom pablic PRewevey? “All this Is imagination outside the| res ot Q THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Monday, December 13, 1965 New ‘Fireball’ Raises An Old Question: Do Flying Saucers Exist? Californian, Who ‘Talks’ to Men From the Stars, Says ‘Yes’; Scientists Assail Air Force By ELUuOT CARLSON Stay Reporter of Tx Wats STREET JOURNAL ‘They'se back. The latest was sighted a few nights ago by residents and: pilots in the north- fern tier of states and Canada. They described it as an orange fireball. The Air Force'at first called it an unidentified flying object, but now thinks it was a meteor. Some other people called it a flying saucer. ‘Several people say they saw the fireball land ‘Thursday night. An LLyeér-old boy in Lorain, Ohio, says he watched it drop into the woods near his home. A woman in Elyria, Ohio, 10 miles away, claims she saw it plunge info a vacant lot across the street from her home. Others say they saw it streak into Lake Micl gan. Scientists and police combed a %5-acre area near Pittsburgh after a woman there saw the object crash to earth “‘smoldering.”” Despite these witnesses and search efforts, however, the thing has yet to be found. In this regard, it is like all other unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, which are mysterious be- cause, they are seen but never found. ‘Whatever it turns out to be—meteor, satel- tite part, hoax, weather oddity or man ‘from ‘Margit appeared ina banner year Yor such consciousness following & rash of. reports of flying saucers in the mid-1950s: “We've had miére reports this year-than in any year since 1987, when we had more than a thousand,’” says spokesman-for Project Blue Book, the Air Force program set up in 1948 to evaluate re- ports of the phenomena. ‘Visitors From Outer Space ‘Nobody knows wit the objects are or where they come from, but there is no lack of theories —or of controversy. The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc., is sure the “saucers” come from outer space. How do| they know? The ‘space people” have told them. | ‘Not only that,, says Gabriel Green, who heads the California group, ‘‘space people give contactees information about life on other) Planets and solutions to insurmountable prob- Jems on our planet.” One suggestion allegedly made to Mr. Green in 1960 by a visit from Al- | pha Centauri, ‘a nearby star: Run for Pre dent as a writein candidate. (He campaigned briefly, then decided not to run.) ‘The’ National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena ((NICAP), a private re- search organization in Washington, doesn't hold with that theory. “We reject reports of noble beings landing on earth to solve all our problems,"” says @ spokesman. So men from ‘Mars are a lot of bunk? Not necessarily, says the committee. It believes 4 Congressional in- vestigation would prove that UFOs “are real Physical objects . . . under the control of living beings.” As an afterthought, the ‘spokesman says: “There are a tremendous ttumber of ego- selves experts in this field because fused.” One man who's not confused at all is Charles ‘A. Maney, professor emeritus of physics and mathematics at Defiance, College in Ohio. Says the professor: “These objects ably from outer spac: ing on the fact that the objects often interfere with local electrical circuits, indicating to him they have ‘a means of propulsion associated with magnetic fields. “There's Nothing To It” Such notions are scoffed at by astronomers, | ‘of science,” says Donald H. Menzel, di- rector of the observatory at Harvard. “I have | examined Air Force cases and discovered that UFOs all have simple explanations in terms of well-known natural phenomena. There's not fone cause, but hundreds. Some are quite spec- tacular, stich as reflections from ice crystals or | bright stars, searchlights on clouds or high- flying spider webs. But to some people the exis- tence of flying saucers is a matter of religious | fanaticism,” he says. But Mr. Menzel reads more into the Air | Force data than does the Air Force itself. Of] the 9,788 UFO reports made to the Air Force | since 197, 673 remain classified as \“uniden fied,” @ spokesman says. He defines this cat gory as containing sightings whose pertinent data can't be correlated with any known object or phenomena. |. The spokesman quickly adds: “We have nei- ther received nor discovered any evidence that proves the existence of intraspace mobility or| extraterrestrial life and we continue to extend | | an open invitation to anyone who feels he pos- sesses any evidence of such vehicles operating in our atmosphere.” And he states: “No UFO report evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of a threat to our national security.” The Air. Force's approach disturbs some] people, however. “The Air Force should admit | there are natural phenomena taking place un- der our noses of which we know nothing,” says I. M. Levitt, director of Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. He adds: “The Air Force is trying to explain something that isn’t susceptible to explanation.” ‘Robert Risser, director of the Oklahoma Set. ence and Art Foundation planetarium at Oki homa City, believes “the Air Force must have had its star-finder upside down during Aug- ust,” when several reports of flying saucers were ascribed by the Air Force to sightings of stars, ‘The constellations of Taurus and Orion weren't visible at the time the Air Force said the sightings were made. I think they made an ‘The whole problem, says J. Allen Hyntek, chairman of the department of astronomy at Northwestern University and a consultant to the Air Force, is that the matter should be studied more thoroughly. “Pressures to conformity in academic cir- cles and fear of ridicule have slowed the | study,” according to Robert Hall, a sociology professor at the University of Illinois in Chi- cago. "The ‘possibility of life on Mars is an un- popular thing to consider these days,” says Frank B. Salisbury, a professor of plant phy: siology at Colorado State University. At the risk of being unpopular, Mr. Salisbury told the fifth annual Space Conference this year that |‘‘there may be some natural explanation of these things, but a tentative possibility to be considered is that UFOs are spaceships from Fueling the flying-sauger controversy has been the large number of reports from what many people consider reliable witnesses—pilots with technical backgrounds. Since 1947, more than 100 private, military and commercial pilots have reported spotting strange objects in the sky, accordirig to one study. Pinning down such reports is difficult, how- ever. “Some of the boys did report things they couldn't identify a few years ago,” ‘says \a spokesman for American Airlines. “But our pilots haven't made a report for years.” Nevertheless, “we have on file a great num: ber of reports from pilots who don't want thelr names used but still want to tell somebody what they've seen, claims J, B. Hartantt, Jr., president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots A: sociation, And he says: “T haven't drawn any conclusions myself, but I think we've certainly got a.good mystery on our hands. ‘Report Them + Forget It— 100 Watch UFO Disc-Like Object Hovers,. Rises For Two Hours East of Kettle Point By JIM ETHERINGTON Free Press Sarnia Bureau SARNIA — A revolving ob- fect, sighted in the sky east {¢ Kettle Point last night, was Sratehed for more than two the sky over Oakland County hours by about 100 persona, the, SKY over, Oakland County Tice Seed whe i a amma: Dats erates a store on the Kettle entward in the Lansing area Point Indian ‘Reserve, sald ® pr. 5, atien Hynek of North- motorist brought the objectto western University, scientific his attention about & pm. He Congultant to the U.S. Air be Forte said phenomena seen Binoculars and could see red, 31 Dexter and Hillsdale on the ‘UFO sightings were received Saturday night as far north as the tip of the “Thumb” in Lake Huron. Odd lights were reported in blue, green and white lights |S Dexter end Billesley sane gases, Mr. Bressette said it Te" “ sheritt Douglas Harvey of fan “hour flashing lights, then defence director William Van slowly began to rise. Cloud Horn of Hilisdale County criti- tHlowing only’ periodic SESt- 9S hsm sald ie samp gas = explanation was an attempt like this.” he said. “We all saw it. Ie was low — about 200 Fly ng Saucers the east, Then it slowly began 36-66 to move up” Gain Propéten' not have been swamp §88 | NEW YORK — The nephew of which was suggested was the the late Dag Hammarskjold ‘object sightings in the Detroit science writers by telling them janice lhe believes \that' flying saucers ‘This was not the same,” he said. “Besides there hasn't |/9Uler space. around here since before the late uncle was secretary gener- war” : al of the United Nations, spoke vet, Jeffery, also reported see- ||ation-space writers associa~ ing an object over Sarnia. This ||tion. Short time then shot across |that our space neighbors are the aky at a very high speed. |>ecoming more and more inter- tions at Selfridge Air Force ||on earth. Base, Mount Clemens, Mich., was the fourth. reported to |firmed, create problems of le- hhim last night. The other | al, political | and _ technical flashing from the dise-shaped THEht of Marsh, 2), propeniy mained motionless for about Washtenaw County and civil Cover rolled in about 10 pm, Horn of Ellsdale County crt ere, ee eee ie. “explain it away arbitrar- or 300 fect off the ground to ‘Mr, Bressette said it could eins ta on cause of unidentified ‘flying ‘has startled America’s top ve geen swamp gas lights. exist and that they come from feck any swamp gas. lights || Knut Hammarskjold, whose "Mfr, Bressette said his breth- |'0 a convention here of the avi- one stayed stationary for a || Hammarskjold also suggested ‘An officer in control opera- [ested in what people are doing said the Canadian sighting |,eighbors in space will, if con- three were from the Detroit lcharacteristies,” he said. | Hong Kong China Mail] lying saucers mystery YEOPLE in on Queens- land are, mystified “by three separate reports of Flying Saucers. ‘The frst report came trom, 8 ‘2t-year-old banana, grower, Mr Gi Pediey, who while driving a fractor tafough ‘a neighbouring property on his way to his own farm, heard a loud hissing noise above the noise of the tractor. Suddenly about 25 yards ahead of him, a blue-grey saucer shaped craft about 25 ft across, and oft high, rose vertically. to about 60ft and travelling at ferrifle speed headed’ off in & ‘pouth-westerly direction, On investigation, a nest of flattened reeds was found, the circle being about 30ft in diameter and since then four other nests have been founa close by, some of thea —} newly ‘made. During the last eight months, | no Jess than seven different mene of Flying Saucers have Teported in the North area ‘press. Hundreds. of sightseers- have flocked to the Horseshoe Lagoon in the Tully District during the ast few days to view the circles which are partly hidden by dense scrub. “The possible existence of | 1566 1 va Los Angad ea eshine “The, said no radar reports fll] UN Watch For Saucers Urged _ had been obtained on any of the sightings. ‘Mr, ‘Bresette reported jet planes in the area point while the. group watched along the Lake Huron shore. But there was no possibility the object he saw was a jet. In Michigan new reports of ‘Vonkeviezky, who | _ UNITED NATIONS, N-Y., | Feb. 7 (AP)—Colman_Von- | keviezky, an employe in the on | BS, Ottice of Publle Infor mation, proposed to Secre- tary-General U Thant today that members of the United Nations establish a network to observe fiying saucers: S298 with extraterrestrial vist er space is sending flying saucers regularly on test flights to earth. He told Thant only the United Nations could be ex- pected to have sufficient authority to establish con- tact or represent mankind in a facetoface meeting he believes someone ih out STRANGE OBJECT OVER_MT. WILSON. A-2 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner "There was something | Mount Wilson early today but] al activity” during the peri- it didn’t catch the entire city| od. Police and newspaper jooded switchboards were with calls describing object variously as a “putt,” a “greenish ball,” a “flat oval green object with a Jong tail and a light at the end: It was first sighted about! jque left from Nevada 4 am. and remained in {for ‘about half an hour. A ‘similar fireball sighted about the same |xollywood division, said the| ‘time from Sacramento from Vanderberg Air Force over Griffith Park. Base, it was reported. ‘Vandenberg reported no |gated, and not blinking,” he| launches during preceding 24 hours which might account for the I Have Enough Credibility Problems As It Is’ nomenon and said radar /4 am. over fi re para up ia a An Air Force spokesman at Vandenberg said the Air Foree’s “Project Blue the | Book” office in Washington ‘was investigating. ‘An. observer at Mather Air Force Base near Sacra. mentotheorized that the ob ject may have been gas res" view| missile firings which re- flected ght. was | sgt. David Tellotson, of! and Jobject here appeared to be| Tt was a| bright green sploteh, elon- the |said. ‘The only solid fact emerg: phe- |ing: A lot of people.are up at]