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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- y-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, One delegate, Marianne Francis, warned that the sightings could mark the be- ginning 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- | tajn 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, Il—«P)—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. 2-6-66 |f _MIRNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE They accept spacecraft as a fact of life. Their interest is in 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 fhe 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 young 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| way -hing us — some have al ready infiltrated our society, said Bateman. “The mystery is why so many are coming What's going to happen?” | Flying Saucers, a (To the Eattor, 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 thystery will be discounted . by harassing co {rontation by paid investigators who are instructed to suppress the authenticity 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 Hynel “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, several years ac‘ual sight- ings of spaceships are compiled at Flying Saucer Clubs all over a Clubs (AFSCA) maintain a compre- hensive information department that registers Club activities, and reports from ail 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 Ke 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-T ! 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| mgt San Gabriel Valley last! 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- ¢a—South “African police and scientists investigated Thursday a report that a flying saucer- type object had landed on a main highway near Pretoria, the country’s administrative capital, ‘The two men claimed that, as they approached the object, it took off silenfly at great speed with flames shooting out of its underside, 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. | ‘Two patrolling police officers reported «seeing the flaming “saucer,” about 30 feet in di- ameter, shortly after midnight One of them, Koos de Klerk, Said that the shiny copper-cole cored object resembled a giant spinning top. also was reported slightly scorched. i (Associated Preis) THE BOSTON HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1965 | BROTHER JUNIPER BY FR. JUSTIN MeCARTHY & LEN RENO “These flying saucer stories are getting more ridicus lous every day.” It'll be Long “Saucer” Is 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 wee k’ fades into memory. The bright white disk that! streaked across three counties| and hovered periodically over the Wanaque Reservoir will pro- vide an gmple 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- ate 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 Wanaque, 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] REPORTS ‘I SAW 6 FLYIN SAUCERS. ; P 9 DAILY SKETCH ay ¥7, 1008 C) 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. uy, L thought I was seeing things and called my wife,” he said last night. We watched them for about 30 seconds before they disappeared at seed Police Kept Busy faersan Hews Spotters Jam Up-County Roads for UFO Glimpse RINGWOOD — If the little}them to move on, but they kept} men from outer space had thelcoming back on ‘the other side| up-county police on the runlof the road, so we just had to| Tuesday, their earthly counter-| give a couple of them sum- parts caused more trouble Fri-|monses. They had everything,| day night. cameras, binoculars, te le- wrongs of the curious ringed] scopes. I was waiting to see one normally deserted —Wanaque|of them ‘get out with a geiger| eservolr in this small hamlet counter. and created what old timers) The sky watchers were out| say is the first traffic jam inlin force after wide spread pub- the history of the borough. The|tication of the sighting of uni-| $s parked along’ Westbrook denttied flying objects over the hd Route St. tenant{eoervOHr- The elusive thing ta Ring Jack O'Hara said “We told(Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) towards Manchester. “They were about a mile away. I “could see “them Clearly even though it was f dull’ day. They were white lowing. One" was bigger than 1e others witha cup- ed dome — obviously mother ship. ‘The others were oval,” He added. ‘Ag he made out tis re- “T'suppose I will get some ribbing from the lads, that iy “not what its what the Chief Constable thinks. the sky, however had failed to] make a return appearance’ Fri- day. Since the sightings, Tuesday,| both Wanaque and this borough have been overpopulated with television cameras, newsmen| and the curious. Before JANUARY 15, 1965 Forgotten 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 Iwas the question posed to the| police at the North Jersey police radio hook-up in Pompton Lakes. [The calls came in from Wana-| lque, 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 loval hovering in the heavens| from their prow! cars, ‘The UFO was described thén jas a white and garishly bright disk, two feet in diameter. According to observers, the lodd movements of the myster-| ious visitor was enthralling. |Some felt as if it were “toying” with police, eitizens and bor- jough officials by performing] dives almost into the reservoir; jat times appearing “as if it lwere looking down” upon the| Ispectators from a silent station-| lary position high in the heavens; and by making neat right angles Jas if it were using the sky as| ‘a chalk board. |: Made Several Stops | The UFO then made quick stops at various locations in the | Lakeland Regional High School, the Houdaille sand pit, the overhead bridge in Ring- lwood Avenue ... and then it \disappeared, Hours later at 2:15 Wednesday morning, it re-appeared over| Wyckoff and five minutes later| lit was spied over the reservoir! lin 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 am. Police, reporters and resi- dents saw the disk as it whisked lover Wanaque and Ringwood both Wednesday and ‘Thursday night, The story of the mystic sky visitor is| not without. int ‘The United States’ Alt Force re Neased a number of reports lwhich August Roberts, a mem- [ber of the ‘Internationel Intell \genee on wnidentified Flying Ob- jects claims are “‘a whitewash.” Initially, when the object was) 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- lque. ? Roberts’ theorized the object| “might possibly have been. | government experiment in th e| [creation of an anti-gravity ma- ‘As yet nobody really: seems to know what the UFO was or| where it came from. Some say] it is, a balloon, others, men ifrom ‘Mars. But this is not the first time la UFO has been sighted over ithe Wanaque. Some 18 years ago| |Charles Capen, former chief en-_| igineer of the North Jersey Dis-| {trict Water Supply Commission said he-saw something that looked very similar to the object} ldescribed in the newspaper. Reservoir police claimed {to have seen something ‘round land bright” two weeks ago, over| [Lilly Hill in. Stonetown ‘an d| Board Mountain near Sloatsburg Road, according to Charles [Theodora. Dean Noll, assistant engineer, itor NJDWSC does not believe| that the UFO might have been a mysterious attempt to pollute ithe water supply. There are| ‘Throngs of interested persons| are still Lining the perimeter of] the reservoir to catch a glimpse Jof the brilliant phantom that has, {for the moment, vanished. into the ethe GOLDEN GATE Handicap---Results 8 FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1966 10¢ DANY, $2.25 A MONTH Flying Saucers Are Popp in’ Up All Over IE i se Ha ‘Ti CiismaN Scrnce Mowrron. Monde, Mi AIRLINER DETOURS TO CHASE U.F.O. | Ohio P UFO 86. 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