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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- tes was a self-professed interplanetary traveler” named Standing Horse, an fact of life. Their interest is 2-6-6 | MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE | “They accept spacecraft as a 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 he has met spacemen on at Teast. 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 issues mimeographed reports|Bateman said he never had on her conversations with|met spacemen but that he space travelers, a man who|was in “constant communica- offered to book ‘“group|tion with them through tele- sightings” of flying saucers|pathy” and offered a_pro- and a presidential candidate| gram of instruction to other| campaigning on the flying|delegates who sought similar| Englishwoman who oes 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| ‘¢, saucerg. Oné delegate, Marianne Francis, warned that the| sightings could mark the be- ing 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, artic 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 Ameri Flying Object Sighted in Illinois NORMAL, Ill.—(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. | contacts, | Jonell, His blonde wife, attired in black Leo- tards, was kept busy signing p “'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, is why so many are coming. ’s_going to happen?” | Flying Saucers,, (To the Eaitor, S.C.M. Post) Sir,—Citizens beware! This is not # dsl IF you Feport what you see, Your report will be Yreated ‘ag hallucination. Your honest desire to help solve an aeronautical rhystery” will be discounted by harassing con frontation by paid investigators Who are instructed to suppress the auchentieity of their invest zation, ‘The UFO Project researcn has been operative continuously for more than 20. years. The scope and extent of this project is a carefully guarded subject. Du ing that time it has maintained a continuous status of ‘Classified Information.” The only informa tion released by. the US. Air Force for publication is’ periodic reports of a few selected cases of mistaken identity 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, several years actual sight~ ings of spaceships are compiled at Flying Saucer Clubs all over the world, Amalgamated Fl Saucer Civbs "of America (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- Beles, California 90087, USA tious report about any informa- tion Ire 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 univers 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| the San Gabriel Valley last| night. Office 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 saucers B separ that: fi witk flames shooting out of its ype object ad landed on a Wi fein 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 sixdoot wide section of the tarred road had been badly burned. Grass ‘on either side of the highway. also was reported slightly scorched. ‘Two patrolling police officers reported “seeing the flaming “saucer,” about 30 feet in di- ameter, shortly after midnight. ‘One of them, Koos de Klerk, Suid that the’ shiny copper-cole fored object resembled a giant spinning top. BOSTON HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPT. 2-3-66) “These Tying saucer stories are gptting more ridicue lous every day.” EPORTS It'll be Long “Saucer” |s THE _HERALD-NEWS By PETER A. DVARACKAS Herald-News Sports Writer ‘Many months will pass hefore| 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 ' FAW 6 FLYING SAUCERS Police CONSTABLE Donald Cameron made out a report last night and hoped the Chief Constable would bel Tuesday,’ May 17, 104 ve E 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 t ings andl called my wi he said last night. “We watched them for about 30 seconds before they disappeared at speed Paterson News Jan. 15, 1966 Police Kept Busy 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 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. lcameras, binodulars, tele hrongs of the curious ringed|scopes.{ was walling {o see one normally des Wanaquelof them get out with a geiger Reservlr in this ‘sna hamlet| counter.” created what old timers| ry say is the first traffic jam in|in feller Mlcermpl hited the history of the borough. Theltication of the sighting of uni-| cars parked. along. Westbrook| eatiied fying atiretoeocer a Road and Route Sit. ‘ ‘ ais te SL reservoir. The elusive thing in Jack O'Hara said ieutenant| ‘We told (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) ‘awards Manchester fGull’day. They were white Shaped dome we mother Ship. others were oval,” he added AS he made out. his. re port: at his home in’ Chil- : St’ Helens Be. Cameron said: suppose Twill get, some ribbing from the lads, but that is not Ww orrieg fs what | the ‘Chier Constable thinks. T the sky, however ‘bad failed to make a’ return appearance Fri- day. Since the sightings, Tuesday, both Wanaque and this borough|| Ihave been overpopulated with television cameras, newsmen| jand the curious. Before JANUARY 15, 1965 Forgotten mystery which has yet to bel 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- que, Ringwood, West Milford, Paterson, Totowa, Wayne an d| 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 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 Pace, ales and bor-| jough official performing] \dives almost inte 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} las if it were using the sky as| la-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- jwood Avenue ... and then it) disappeared. ‘Hours later at 2:15 Wednesday | Imorning, it reappeared over Wyckoff and five minutes later] lit was spied over the reservoir| in Wanaque where police say it} jalmost came to rest at the top| lof 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 jover Wanaque and Ringwood both Wednesday and Thursday| night. ‘The story of the mystic sky| visitor is not without intrigue. ‘The United States’ Air Force re} eased a number of reports) which August Roberts, a mem-| ber of the International Intell Igence on unidentified 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-| ‘que. { Experiment? Roberts’ theorized the obj “might possibly have been. al government experiment in the| lcreation 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| \from ‘Mars. But this is not the first time| ‘a UFO has been sighted over! ithe Wanaque. Some 18 years ago ‘Charles Capen, former chief en- \gineer of the North Jersey Dis} trict Water Supply Commission| said he saw something thal looked very similar to the object| described in the newspaper. Reservoir police claimed to have seen something “‘round| land 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 Imysterious attempt to. pollute ithe 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.