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2 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL T | New ‘Fireball’ Raises || An Old Question: Do Flying Saucers Exist? || From the Stars, Says ‘Yes’; 4 Scientists Assail Air Force By ELuor Camtson Stog Reporter of Tas Wave STREET JOURNAL ‘They’se back. The latest was sighted a few nights ago by residents and pilots in the north- fem 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 flying saucer Several people say they saw the fireball land ‘Thursday might. An U-year-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 Michi gan. Scientists and police combed a TS-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 turn out to be—meteor, Satel- lite part, hoax, weather oddity or man from | ‘Marg—it appeared in a banner year Yor. such | objects, which almost disappeareq from public | consciousness following ® rash of reports of| fying saucers in the mid-10S0s: “We've had | mire reports this year than in any year since | 1957, when we bad more than a thousand,”” says | a 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 what the objects are or where they come from, but there is no lack of theories =oF 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 planeta and solutions to insurmountable prob- Jems on our planet." One suggestion allegedly | | Californian, Who ‘Talks’ to Men | | | ‘The spokesman quickly adds: “We have nel ther received nor discovered any evidence that proves the existence of intraspace mobility or extraterrestrial life and we continue to extend | fan 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 arty 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 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 Scl- fence and Art Foundation planetarium at Okla. 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 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 Mars.” Fueling the flying-saucer controversy has been the large number of reports from what many people consider reliable witnesses—pilots with technical backgrounds. Since 197, more| {than 100 private, military and commercial pilots | have reported spotting strange objects in the sky, accordiig to one study. Pinning down such reports is diftieult, how- ever. “Some of the boys did report things they couldn't identity a few years ago," ‘says \@ 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 {rom pilots who don't want their names used but still want to tell somebody what they've seen, claims J, B, Hartantt, Jr president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots As- sociation. And he says: “I haven't drawn any made to Mr. Green in 1960 by a visit from Al pha Centauri, a nearby star: Run for Presi-| Gent as a write-in candidate. (He campaigned | briefly, then decided not to rin.) | The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), s 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 a spokesman. So men from |i 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 @ tremendous number of eo- | maniacs who have been able to appoint them- | selves experts in this fleld because it’s 80 con- fused.” | One man who's nt confused at ail Charles A. Mane; | mathematics at Defiance, College in Ohio. Says | the professor: “These objects are unquestion | ably from outer space.” He bases his reason- conclusions myself, but I think we've certainly gota. good mystery on our hands. Professor emeritus of physics and | Sama | ing on the fact that the objects often interfere |————~ |witn Toe! election! circus, indieting to hea they have “‘a mearis of propulsion associated | |ith magnet eld” ‘There's Nothing To 1 | however. ¢ |fectot of the cbearvatery at Hervaraoithave mos al have simple explanations in torms| of weltanown natural phenomenn. There's nt Jone cetne, bt Bundreds. Some are quite sye-| | tacular sich as refletons from ice ergs or bright wars, searchlight on lowds oe hgh fing elder webs. But to ome people the eas tence of ying saucers ls « mater of Felgioss| fanatic Be sage | But Mr. Mensl reads tore into the Air Force, data than does the Ar Force sell Of {he 0.788 UFO reports mage tothe Als Force fince ior, #18 remain clatlied as cuniget | Hed’ a spokeasian says: Bo datoes ths cate | | or phenomena. | iy il Ps] “All this is imagination outside the | ——— i. 100 Watch UFO Disc-Like Object Hovers,. Rises For Two Hours East of Kettle Point SARNIA — A revolving ob- ject, sighted in the sky cast of Kettle Point last night, was watched for more than’ two hours by about 100 persons. Lawrence Bresette, who op- ‘erates a store on the Kettle Point Indian Reserve, said a motorist brought the object*to his attention about 8 pm. He said he looked at it through binoculars and could see red, blue, green and white lights flashing from the disc-shaped object. ‘Mr. Bressette said it re- mained motionless for about an hour flashing lights, then slowly began to rise. Cloud cover rolled in about 10 p.m. allowing only periodic sight ings. “Eve never sen anything ike this," he said. “We all ‘saw It. It was low — about 200 ‘or 800 feet off the ground to the east. Then it slowly began to move up.” ‘Mr, Bresette said it could not have been swamp gas which was suggested was the cause of unidentified flying object sightings in the Detroit fayea last week. ye seen swamp gas ligh ‘This was not the same.” he |. “Besides there hasn't lights around here since before the \Mr. Bresette said his breth- ef, Jeffery, also reported see- ing an object over Sarnia. This one stayed stationary for a short time then shot across the aky at a very high speed. ‘An officer ‘in control opera- tions at Selfridge Air Force Base, Mount Clemens, Mich., said the Canadian sighting was the fourth reported to him last night, ‘The other three were from the Detroit He said no radar reports’ had been obtained on any of the sightings ‘Mr, -Bressette reported jet planes in the area at one 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 reporis of ‘Report Them. . . Forget Iti— I Have Enough Credibility Problems As It Is UFO sightings were received Saturday night as far north as the tip of the “Thumb" in Lake Huron. (Odd lights were reported in the sky over Oakland County and the neighboring Detroit area. Others were reported westward in the Lansing area. Dr. J. Allen Hynek of North- western University, scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Forte said phenomena seen at Dexter and Hillsdale on the night of March 20 probably were the result of | swamp gases Sheriff Douglas Harvey of Washtenaw County and civil defence director William Van Horn of Hillsdale County criti- clzed. Dr. Hynek’s report. ‘Van Horn said the swamp gas explanation was an attempt to “explain it away arbitrar- IFlying Saucers Gain Proponent N.Y: Daily News Dispeteh NEW YORK — The nephew of ithe late Dag Hammarskjold Ihas startled America’s top iscience writers by telling them lhe believes ithat' flying saucers exist and that they come from jouter space. Knut Hammarskjold, whose fate uncle was secretary gener- fal of the United Nations, spoke toa convention here of the avi- fation-space writers associa~ tion. Hammarskjold also suggested that our space neighbors are vecoming more and more inter- lested in what people are doing on earth. “The ‘possible existence of neighbors in space will, if con- Jirmed, create problems of le- yal, political "and technical je characteristics,” he said. Hong Kong China Mail| Flying saucers mystery 2-3-6 YEOPLE in North Queens- land are mystified Me three separate reports Flying Saucers. ‘The first report came from a ay-yeur-old ‘banana, grower, Mr G. Pediey, who while driving a fractor through 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 = terrific speed heated’ off in & ‘wouth-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 found close by, some of them newly made. During the last eight months, nno_less than seven _differer sightings of Flying Saucers have been reported in the North Queensland press. ‘Hundreds. of sightseers have flocked to the Horseshoe Lagoon in the Tully District during the last few days to view the circles which are partly hidden by dense scrub. ‘The RAAF has taken the Los Angel | UN Watch For Saucers Urged UNITED NATIONS, N.¥., Feb. 7 (AP}—Colman Yon: keviczky, an employe in the UN. Office of Public Infor- mation, proposed to Secre- tary-General U Thant today that members of the United Nations establish a network to observe flying saucers. ‘Vonkeviezky, who says | he believes someone in out 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 with extraterrestrial visi- tors. STRANGE OVER MT. WI \ A-2 los Angeles Herald Examiner ‘There was something ovef| ‘Mount Wilson early today but| it didn't catch the entire city napping. Police and newspaper switehboards were flooded with calls describing the object variously asa “puff,” a “greenish ball,” a “flat oval green object with a Tong tall and 2 light at the ena.” Tt was first sighted about 4 am. and remained in view {for about half an hour. A-similar fireball was sighted about the same time from Sacramento and from Vanderberg Air Force Base, it was reported, ‘Vandenberg reported no launches. during the preceding 24 hours which might account for the phe- nomenon and said radar BA Thursday April 2, 1966 there picked up “no unusu- al activity” during the peri- od. ‘An Air Force spokesman at Vandenberg sald the Air Foree’s “Project Blue Book” ottice In Washington was investigating. ‘An observer at Mather Air Force Base near Sacra- jentotheorized that the ob: ject may have been gas res igue left. trom Nevada missile firings which re flected light. Sgt. David Tellotson, of [Hollywood division, sald’ the ‘object here appeared. to be over Griffith Perk. "Tt was @ right green sploteh, elon. gated, and not blinking,” he said. ‘The only solid fact emerg. ing: A lot of people-are up at it am,