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This file contains an FBI investigation into the publication 'Flying Saucers International' following a citizen complaint regarding alleged Communist influence. The document includes various newsletters, convention programs for the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, and a collection of newspaper clippings documenting global UFO sightings throughout 1966. The FBI concluded that no formal investigation into the publication was warranted.
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This is a cover page for an FBI file, specifically identifying case number 62-HQ-83894, volume 1, serial 449.
[HANDWRITTEN: 62-HQ-33394 Vol 1 SERIAL 449- ONLY] FBI - CENTRAL RECORDS CENTER HQ - HEADQUARTERS Class / Case # Sub Vol. Serial # 0062 83894 1 449 ONLY 8/11/1274157 [BARCODE: RRP003IXFZ] Declassification authority derived from FBI Automatic Declassification Guide, issued May 24, 2007.
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An FBI memo regarding the 'Flying Saucers International' journal, noting that a citizen reported an article in the publication that he believed promoted the Communist Party line. The FBI determined no investigation was warranted.
DIRECTOR, FBI 10/3/66 SAC, LOS ANGELES (100-24442-40/) FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL, OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMALGAMATED FLYING SAUCER CLUBS OF AMERICA, INC. IS - MISCELLANEOUS The Philadelphia Division by letter dated 9/22/66, furnished the Los Angeles Division with Issue No. 24 dated July, 1966, entitled "FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL", which is the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. The Philadelphia Division received the magazine from Mr. JARVIS H. COOPER, IRS, 401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 9/19/66. Mr. COOPER stated he subscribed to the magazine because his son had exhibited an interest in flying saucers and outer space. He said that on pages 2 and 3 of Issue No. 24 was an article which he believed expounded the Communist Party (CP) line. For the information of the Bureau, the International Headquarters of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. is located at 2004 North Hoover Street, Los Angeles, California. The article, on pages 2 and 3, were allegedly written by Master KALEN-LI RETAN, Head of the plant KORENDOR, which was received on 5/4/66 by special directional short-wave radio by BOB RENAUD. The indices of the Los Angeles Division contain no information identifiable with RENAUD, and no investigation has ever been conducted on captioned organization. No further action is contemplated in this matter by the Los Angeles Office, UACB. The foregoing is furnished to the Bureau for information. 2 - Bureau (RM) (Enc-1) 1 - Los Angeles JST:gcw (3) [HANDWRITTEN: 62-83894-449]
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This is the cover page for the July 1966 issue of the 'Flying Saucers' journal, which is the official publication of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc.
FLYING SAUCERS Official Journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL AFSCA THIRD NATIONAL FLYING SAUCER CONVENTION ISSUE ISSUE NO. 24 JULY, 1966 50c
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This page is an issue of 'Flying Saucers International' containing a message from an extraterrestrial entity named Kalen-Li Retan regarding the Military-Industrial complex, the Vietnam War, and the U.S. economy.
SPECIAL AFSCA CONVENTION MESSAGE BRIGHT WORLD IN HANDS OF SAUCER MOVEMENT (Editor's Note: This special message was received from Master Kalen-Li Retan (head of the planet Korendor, about 400 light years distant) on May 4, 1966 via special directional short-wave radio by Bob Renaud, the young electronic-technician whose remarkable story we printed in issues #18, 19, 20, 21, and 22, and which will be continued in our next issue. Since Bob's initial radio contact in 1961, he has talked with the crew of a spacecraft as he watched them on his special TV screen in his home — and eventually met his contacts in-person; visited their undersea and underground bases on our planet; was taken aboard many of their spaceships; and was actually allowed to pilot two of their small scout craft — one on a short solo flight.) "Kalo (Hello), friends. We will get directly to the point of our message to you. Frankly, we are appalled at the state of Earth at present. Despite our constant warnings and even our actual intervention in some instances, the condition upon your planet grows steadily worse. One subject on everyone's lips these days is Vietnam. From a little civil war, it has grown steadily and inexorably into a full scale conflict between the world's three major powers: the United States, the Soviet Union, and Communist China. Many influential people have used the approach of patriotism and love of God and Country to twist decent human feelings into dangerous channels of thought and action. With their charges of treason and sympathy with the enemy, they have aroused a good portion of the populace to a state of fear, distrust, and hatred of those who seek peace and love. Unfortunately, because some unconventional individuals have been associated with the peace movement, that entire operation has been seriously hindered. Your government is a military puppet, a mere parrot of the monstrosity that is the Military-Industrial complex. Your senators, except for a few, are robots, speaking what they are told to say. Your President is, unfortunately, a pawn of their needs and demands. We have contacted him several times concerning the state of affairs, and he has said that he could do nothing to change them, for if he were to speak out against the Asian conflict, he would be removed. This is what happened to the late Mr. Kennedy who, in his great humanitarianism, was reluctant to sacrifice his ideals and his visions for the sake of the Military Industrial octopus. He paid the supreme penalty for his efforts in behalf of humanity. Make no mistake. Your government is not in the White House or the Congress. IT IS IN THE PENTAGON, AND IN THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE VAST "DEFENSE"-ORIENTED INDUSTRIES. It is THEY, not the President or the Congressmen, who run the United States. The facade government is merely to allay undue alarm or suspicion of the people. Examine another aspect of the Asian war, the ECONOMIC side. Do you recall that, in the stock reports just recently, the Dow-Jones average dropped sharply BECAUSE OF A RUMOR THAT NORTH VIETNAM HAD MADE A PEACE BID? Does the staggering implication of this news evade you? Stock prices suffering a heavy loss because of a rumor that peace might come to pass! This thought is most distressing. Your economy relies so heavily upon war and destruction, that if it were to stop, THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY WOULD SUFFER A MASSIVE DEPRESSION! Your money system would collapse like a house of cards. Millions would be unemployed, sick, hungry and homeless. Tremendous industrial complexes would close their doors. The utterly appalling fact is this: WAR IS PROFITABLE. Highly so! Every major conflict has been accompanied by a strong peak in your monetary prosperity. Peace has usually been economically painful! After World War 1, the nation coasted for a while upon the fat put on during the boom of the war years. In 1929, the bottom fell out. After the Korean War, in the 1950's came another recession. What comes after Vietnam? No one knows, and no one wants to find out. The war in Vietnam is bringing an unheard-of degree of affluence in the United States. Why kill a good thing by ending the war? The philosophy, in essence, is this: It is economically expedient to send military forces to Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia in order to wage war, because in doing so, the United States' economy is bolstered and maintained at a high level of prosperity; life is secondary to the preservation of economic well-being! It is thus evident that, unless a drastic change is made in the structure of your economy, war will never end because the Military-Industrial complex WON'T LET IT! Many of you fear Communism. Where did that fear come from, I ask you? From within yourself? NO! It was brainwashed into you by the Military-Industrial complex. Who controls all your news media? The government and the advertisers. Who, then, is in the position to dictate what shall be printed? FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL ISSUE NO. 24 JULY, 1966 Official Journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. International Headquarters: 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90027, U.S.A. Dedicated to GABRIEL GREEN, Editor HELEN GREEN, Asst. Ed. The Physical, Spiritual, and Economic Emancipation of Man A Non-profit Organization FLYING SAUCERS INTERNATIONAL (6 issues-$3.00. Membership-$1.00) is published quarterly. Copyright 1965 by Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. All rights reserved. The information presented in "Flying Saucers International" does not necessarily represent the views of AFSCA. The number after your name on the address label indicates the issue with which your subscription expires. Subscription renewals will start where the previous one ended, and will be acknowledged only by the new number after your name on future issues. A "Time to Renew" notice will be enclosed in the last issue for which you have paid. New subscriptions will start with the last issue published, unless a specific starting issue number is requested. When writing to AFSCA for a reply, enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope. Not responsible for magazines lost in the mail due to subscribers' failure to inform us of their current address. Prices subject to change. Payment must accompany order. Send cash, check or money order to: AFSCA; 2004 North Hoover St.; Los Angeles, California 90027. Phone: 662-4404. 2
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This page is a newsletter titled 'FLYING SAUCER NEWS IN BRIEF' containing book announcements, convention schedules, organizational updates for AFSCA, and personal news regarding UFO contactees.
FLYING SAUCER NEWS IN BRIEF NEW BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE FROM AFSCA: (Price includes 15¢ mailing charge. California residents also add 4% sales tax.) 1. COUNCIL OF SEVEN LIGHTS by George Van Tassel, now reprinted - $3.65. 2. THE ADVENT OF THE COSMIC VIEWPOINT by Bryant Reeve - $6.15. 3. FLYING SAUCERS THROUGH THE AGES by Paul Thomas - $4.15. 4. OTHER TONGUES, OTHER FLESH by George Hunt Williamson, now reprinted - $6.10. 5. SECRET OF THE ANDES by Brother Philip - $4. 6. FLYING SAUCERS AND THE THREE MEN by Albert K. Bender - $4.15. 7. FLYING SAUCERS - SERIOUS BUSINESS by Frank Edwards - $6.10. 8. INCIDENT AT EXETER by John G. Fuller -$6.10. 9. THE HOLLOW EARTH by Dr. Raymond Bernard, now available in soft cover for $3.15. PAST CONVENTIONS & SAUCER ACTIVITIES: FEBRUARY 5, 6, 1966: Dr. Frank E. Stranges' 4th Annual UFO Space and Science Convention was held at the Blarney Castle Inn Annex in Los Angeles. JUNE 4, 5, 6, 1966: Dr. Daniel W. Fry's Man in Space Symposium took place at Dunsmuir, near Mt. Shasta in Northern California. JUNE 25, 26, 27, 1966: Buck Nelson's 10th Annual Spacecraft Convention was held at Buck's Mountain View Ranch; Route 1, Box 236; Mountain View, Mo. BACK ISSUES OF UFO INTERNATIONAL are now selling 11 issues for $3.00, while they last (issue #11 is now out of print). There is much timeless and valuable information available in these magazines. OUT OF PRINT: 1. FLYING SAUCERS: TOP SECRET by Major Donald E. Keyhoe is now out of print, although it is listed in our new brochure. (Some saucer books have occassionally gone out of print without notice.) 2. BACK ISSUES #6 and 11 are now out of print. We still have only a few copies left of #9 which we have priced at $1.00 each in an effort to preserve them for serious researchers and collectors. Please do not order these items, or any other materials which we do not advertise. PRICE CHANGE: The price has gone up on two of the better known books in the saucer field, which we must now order from England: 1. THE SKY PEOPLE by Brinsley le Poer Trench, was $4.65. It is now $5.10, postpaid. 2. ROAD IN THE SKY by George Hunt Williamson, was $4.15. It is now $5.10, postpaid. California residents please add 4% tax. "UFOI" ISSUE #23 CORRECTIONS: Page 4, line 3: the date should be April 24, 1964, instead of 1965. On page 4, line 1 of the 7th paragraph, insert "later, via telepathy" after "They told him ---." SEATTLE, WASHINGTON area residents please note: AFSCA Unit #25 meets every 4th Friday at the Seattle Public Library, Room 325 at 7:30 P. M., under the capable direction of Mr. Leverett G. Tallman. The meeting is free, and all who are interested in the Flying Saucer subject are invited to come to listen and to participate in the discussion. ZIP CODES ARE IMPORTANT: If the address label on this magazine does not have your zip code number on it, please notify us as to what your number is. If you don't know your number, call your local Post Office and then let us know. Thanks! AFSCA BROCHURES AND SAUCER-PHOTO POST CARDS, sent to friends and acquaintances, are a good way to help spread the word about Flying Saucers. Brochures are 1¢ each (this just about pays the postage to mail them to you). Saucer post cards are 50 for $1.00. WHEN WRITING AFSCA, if you wish a personal reply to a specific inquiry, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. No replies can otherwise be sent. General information may be obtained via our brochures and magazines. We are sorry that we cannot have a lengthy correspondence with all the hundreds of persons who would like us to do so, but unfortunately we have neither the time nor the staff for it - and our mail has been greatly increased in the last few months. SAUCER NEWS CLIPPINGS: Your response has been wonderful! We've received so many clippings from you helpful people that we simply hadn't enough space to print all your individual names and cities. So we say a big and sincere THANKS to all of you. And please do keep 'em coming! (One reminder: please DON'T write on or near the clippings.) WEDDING BELLS rang on Saturday, June 4, 1966 for contactee Elary J. Willsie and Sophia Martinez Olivares of Mexico City. The ceremony took place at Los Angeles, California. Among those present were Sophia's parents and her younger sister, all of Mexico City; Mrs. Maud Willsie, mother of the groom; and your editor, who was also official photographer for the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Willsie will live in Los Angeles. Congratulations and best wishes, Elary and Sophia! MEL NOEL, former Air Force Lieutenant and fighter pilot, is fast becoming very well known for his lectures on his amazing experiences with Flying Saucers while on active duty in the service. He has been speaking to capacity crowds wherever he goes. On Thursday, June 23, 1966, the personable Mr. Noel spoke to a standing-room only crowd at the Aeronautical Sciences Building on Beverly Blvd. in West Los Angeles. We hear that he is booked to speak at 57 colleges across the nation! Recently he appeared on the Louis Lomax TV Show, and has been heard on many radio shows. He leaves shortly for Mexico City, where he has been invited by an official government group to speak. He has been promised some interesting experiences by a local contactee there, and we look forward to hearing his report on his return! Good work, Mel, and good luck! SID PADRICK, contactee from Watsonville, Calif., who spent two hours aboard a space craft, was recently in Los Angeles when he was guest speaker at the regular monthly meeting of the Inglewood Unit of Understanding on Saturday, June 25, 1966. Meetings are held on the 4th Saturday of every month at the Inglewood Business and Professional Woman's Club; 820 Java St., Inglewood, at 8:00 P. M. Donation is $1.00. Information: Mrs. Roberta T. Forrester, Program Chairman; P. O. Box 146; Inglewood, Calif. 90306. Phone: 677-5214. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Yates. Phone: 293-4743. NEW AFSCA UNITS: 45. AFSCA Unit #45; Everett, Washington; Ray and Jean Sebring, Co-Directors; 1032 S. W. 126th St.; Seattle, Wash. 98146. 46. AFSCA Unit #46; Ben Blazs, Director; 3057 Electric; Lincoln Park, Mich. 48146. Several other new AFSCA Units have been formed and will be listed in the next issue (#25). Persons interested in forming AFSCA Units in their cities should contact AFSCA Headquarters for information. 15
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This page is a promotional flyer and registration form for the 3rd National Flying Saucer Convention organized by the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA), held in Reno, Nevada, in July 1966.
AFSCA's (Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America) 3rd National [HANDWRITTEN: 62-83894-4] FLYING SAUCER CONVENTION SAUCER * MOVIES * SLIDES * EXHIBITS * BOOKS * LITERATURE At The Beautiful, New CENTENNIAL COLISEUM (4590 S. Virginia St.) Reno, Nevada - July 8,9,10, 1966 Program: 10 A.M. to 11 P.M. REGISTER - 9 A.M. - $2.00 per day SPEAKERS ARE: Wayne S. Aho, Carl A. Anderson, Orfeo Angelucci, Michael "X" Barton, Wesley Bateman, Marianne Francis, Dr. Daniel W. Fry, Calvin C. Girvin, Gabriel Green, Dr. George King, Hanno Mayberry, Howard Menger, Laura Mundo, Mel Noel, Sidney Padrick, Chief Standing Horse, Dr. Frank E. Stranges, Mollie Thompson, Hope Troxell, George W. Van Tassel, Hal Wilcox. HEAR: Amazing experiences with spacecraft from other planets and their occupants by the greatest assembly of contactee-speakers since our Los Angeles convention in 1959 at the Statler-Hilton. SEE: Startling new photographic evidence - the biggest collection of Flying Saucer photos on display in the history of the saucer movement. Actual color movies and new still photos of Flying Saucers. MEET: IN PERSON, PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD ACTUAL CONTACTS WITH SPACESHIPS AND THEIR CREWS FROM OTHER WORLDS. LEARN: About this important subject which is so vital to the welfare and survival of humanity in our times. ATTEND: AFSCA's 3rd National Convention. You'll be glad you did! Fill out the Advance Registration form below. Do it Now! For Motel & Hotel room information, write to: The Greater Reno Chamber of Commerce P. O. Box 2109; Reno, Nevada AFSCA 3rd NATIONAL CONVENTION ADVANCE REGISTRATION FORM To: AFSCA Headquarters; 2004 N. Hoover St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90027. Phone: 662-4404. Yes, count me in! I don't want to miss joining with you at this important convention and helping to support this vital movement. Here is my $__________. Please send me Advance Reservation tickets ($5.00 for the 3 days, or $2.00 per day). IMPORTANT: I am also enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope for the return of my tickets. ADVANCE REGISTRATIONS must be received at AFSCA Headquarters no later than JUNE 30th!!! Name_________________________________ Street_________________________________ City_________________________________ State__________________ Zip Code________
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This document is a transcript of a message from an entity named Kalen-Li Retan, discussing the 'Flying Saucer Movement', 'Universal Economics', and the nature and origins of the 'Korendor' people.
The Military-Industrial complex, by opinion-control through the use of psycho-politics (brainwashing by controlled news management). Consider this: In order to survive, a commercial medium, such as a newspaper or magazine, requires a vast amount of advertising revenue. The mere subscription fees will not cover the costs. Thus, they depend for their continued existence upon money paid by advertisers. Suppose, then, that the editor of a certain newspaper decides that he is opposed to the Vietnam policy, and says so in his paper. The advertisers simply say to the editor, "Either you toe the mark and print what we want, or we'll withdraw our advertising." Such pressures are a fact of life. The newsmen are torn between their higher devotion to Truth, and also to the lower level of their physical needs. Rather than jeopardize their security and their futures they, of course, submit meekly to power. Their actions are fully understandable, and we do not hold them responsible. We throw the blame directly on the Military-Industrial complex which, by its underhanded dealing, threats of force, and economic pressure and retaliation, has crushed the spirit of American journalism and turned it from a dynamic motivating force in American life into a weak-willed, subservient mouthpiece for the power-masters. We blame them for the death of journalistic freedom and individuality! One more comment on this topic: May I say that a better economic system is already known to the leaders of the Flying Saucer Movement. It is the system known as Universal Economics. As we have said over and over before, it is the non-money economic system which must be applied on your planet before you can start to resolve most of your major problems and thus begin to establish a highly-advanced, non-destructive state of existance on Earth, such as we of more advanced planets have enjoyed for so long. INVESTIGATE THIS SYSTEM to evaluate it for its merit - then ACT to apply it! YOUR VERY SURVIVAL AS A CIVILIZATION MAY DEPEND UPON IT! Perhaps this is an opportune time to clarify a few questions which have been asked about us. Do we of Korendor work with the local planets in our operations? Yes, we do cooperate with them a great deal. However, our work on Earth is relatively independent of the local planets. We have many times overstepped what is considered to be the limit of interference upheld by Venus, Mars, and other planets. This has caused a good deal of debate between them and us. Each time we have pointed out that we of Korendor are basically pragmatic in nature. Although we do respect the laws of self-destiny, we feel also that where stepping in is required to prevent disaster, it is our right and our duty to do so. We have interfered in such places as the United States, China, Russia, and on a large scale in Vietnam. This has caused no end of consternation in the local Tribunal of Planets. We are sympathetic to their viewpoint, but we do be feel that their policy is limited in its capacity to achieve the desired goals. It is our opinion that one cannot stand on the sidelines and achieve any noticeable results. As I have said before, we have infiltrated your planet. We are directly involved in Earth's life. You might say that you have been invaded - a strong way of phrasing it, to be sure, but nonetheless factual, since we walk and work amongst you daily! We have been asked about our physical appearance. We are humanoid, indistinguishable from yourselves, except that in our natural form we average three to four feet in height. Every other dimension is proportionately scaled, so that photographs of us would not reveal our origin in any way. We are able to increase our height while on Earth through a technical process related to teleportation. It is concerned with recording the atomic and molecular structures of our bodies, and then reproducing them identically on a larger scale. Differences in our internal structure are adjusted by the computer which controls the reproducer. Our most common skin color is a little darker than yours, although we have skin colors which vary as yours do all over the Earth. Usually, however, we would look "tan" to you. We are NOT green, blue, or heliotrope, as has been suggested! Concerning our language, we generally use one of two tongues and we are fairly familiar with a third. On Korendor itself we speak the native language, Korendian. It is similar in many ways to your own languages since it, like yours, was originally derived from Galingua, one of the two universal tongues. The other is Solex Mal, which is more familiar to you, since it is used by your local Solar System planets. It is seldom heard now in our sector of space, as Galingua has replaced it almost completely. Unlike your own, however, the Korendian-Galinguan speech is very rhythmic, and has few sibilant sounds, such as "s" or "z". Some of the sharper sounds like "c" and "k" are minimized. It is a beautiful language which is very musical and pleasant to hear. Perhaps you would be surprised to learn that ancient Latin was liberally taken from Galingua. There are many similarities in the two languages. Even modern English has roots on other worlds! In concluding my message to you, may I say - people of Earth: open up your minds and your hearts to the world around you. There is so much to be learned, so much to be discovered. Don't waste precious hours and days in bigotry and ignorance, and in senseless fighting and killing. To do so is truly a crime against nature and humanity. At this stage where you have the very stars almost in your grasp, how irrational and barbaric it is to spend futile hours warring with your brothers. As an old saying on your world puts it: "As you make your bed, so shall you lie in it." The decision does not seem difficult. Here are the alternatives: A world living in harmony, justice, security and abundance for all, or a world continuing to reap the bloody harvests that grow from the seeds of hatred and mistrust. If left to their own devices, the majority of mankind will forge onward to a destiny of destruction and annihilation, oblivious to the danger in their actions. They are short-sighted; they care little for the future. It is you New Age people, dedicated to the welfare of all mankind, and having the vision and understanding of the ways to build the better world of tomorrow, who must lead the way. You have the future in YOUR hands, if you will but shoulder your responsibilities. The Flying Saucer Movement, as you call it, belongs to you. Support it in every way possible. Help it to grow until it is influential throughout your world. Go out into the world and guide the misguided, find the lost, and recover the strays. We are behind you all the way. As we have said many times before, we will take two steps for every one that you take to help yourselves. The time has come for nations to "bury the hatchet", to clasp hands, and plunge into the future together - in co-operation toward mutual goals. Look to the heavens and realize that your destiny is not in bleak atomic desolation, but in the magnificent greatness that you can achieve if you will but work for it. Choose the right path and you will soon qualify to join with us in our journeys amongst the stars. Va i Luce (Go in Light)." Kalen-Li Retan 3
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This document is the program schedule for the Third National Convention of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA) held in Reno, Nevada, from July 8-10, 1966.
THIRD NATIONAL CONVENTION Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America CENTENNIAL COLISEUM JULY 8, 9, 10, 1966 RENO, NEVADA FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1966 SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1966 SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1966 TIME MAIN HALL GOLD ROOM MAIN HALL GOLD ROOM MAIN HALL GOLD ROOM 9AM REGISTRATION:($2.00 per day). Exhibits, books, & literature on display. Your Reno host, Miguel Ribera, Dir., AFSCA Unit No. 5. 10AM INVOCATION: Dr. Frank E. Stranges. HAL WILCOX AFSCA Unit Directors Flying Saucer Council to Keynote Address: GABRIEL GREEN, "Some- "From Earth to Alpha Meeting. Those inter- Meeting (for all speak- 10:50 thing Big Is Happening". Introduction of Centauri" Ch: Chief ested in forming ers only). Ch: Gabe speakers, & saucer movement personalities. Standing Horse AFSCA units invited. Green. Discussion of 11:00 WAYNE AHO HANNO MAYBERRY DR. Frank STRANGES ways to improve effect- to "Secrecy Must Go--- "Message From "The Hollow Earth iveness of Flying Sauc- 11:50 People Must Know!" Triangulum" Mystery" er Movement.Come pre- Ch:Orfeo Angelucci Ch: Laura Mundo Ch: Orfeo Angelucci pared with suggestions. 11:50AM to 1:30PM LUNCH Space Tapes(12:15-1:1) LUNCH Space Tapes(12:15-1:15) LUNCH Space Tapes(12:15-1:15) 1:30 Chief Standing Horse CARL ANDERSON MICHAEL BARTON CARL ANDERSON to "My 4 Day Trip to "I Was Teleported Into "UFO's and World "Kumar, Wonder Man 2:20 Mars, Venus,Clarion, A Flying Saucer" Prophesy" From Mars" & Orion" Ch: Mel Noel Ch: Mel Noel Ch: G. Green Ch: Frank Stranges 2:30 HOPE TROXELL CALVIN GIRVIN DR. GEORGE KING GEORGE VAN TASSEL SIDNEY PADRICK to "Evolved Man of the "I Was Agent for the "The Nine Freedoms" "Flying Saucer Land- "Saucer Ride-1965" 3:20 Stars" Extraterrestrials" ing at Edwards Air Ch: Michael Barton Ch: Wes Bateman Ch: Wayne Aho Force Base" Ch:D. Fry Ch: Wes Bateman 3:30 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) 3:40 HOWARD MENGER HANNO MAYBERRY DR. DANIEL W. FRY WESLEY BATEMAN DR. GEORGE KING CALVIN GIRVIN to "Journey to the Moon" "Contact with a 7 Foot "The White Sands "The Frequency "Physical Space Con- "Moon Mysteries 4:30 Tall Spaceman" Incident" Barrier" tact in Hollywood" Revealed" Chairman: Hal Wilcox Ch: Standing Horse Ch: George Van Tassel Ch: Marianne Francis Ch: Michael Barton Ch: G. Green 4:40 DR.FRANK STRANGES MARIANNE FRANCIS GABRIEL GREEN ORFEO ANGELUCCI WAYNE AHO MARIANNE FRANCIS to "A Space Beings Visit "Starcraft Contact" "Abundant New World: "Secret of the "Flying Saucers and "Messages From Our 5:30 to the Pentagon" The Promise for Tom- Saucers" the Latter Days" Space Brothers" Chairman: Dan Fry Ch: Hanno Mayberry morrow"Ch:F.Stranges Ch: Hanno Mayberry Ch: Carl Anderson Ch: Calvin Girvin 5:30 to 7:00PM DINNER Space Tapes(6:15-7:15) DINNER Space Tapes(6:15-7:15) DINNER Space Tapes(6:15-7:15) 7:00 WESLEY BATEMAN LAURA MUNDO "A SIDNEY PADRICK HOPE TROXELL HOWARD MENGER HAL WILCOX to "Flying Saucer Saucer Researchers "2 Hours Aboard an "Temples of the High "Free Energy: Tomor- "Zemkla, Interplane- 7:50 Propulsion" (Slides) Responsibility to Hu- EXTRATERRESTRIAL Space- Places" row's Revolutionary tary Avatar" Ch: Sid Padrick manity" Ch:H.Menger ship" Ch: H. Menger Ch: Carl Anderson Power" Ch: Geo. King Ch: Laura Mundo 8:00 MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) MOLLIE THOMPSON (Space Age Songs) 8:10 MEL NOEL "Investi- MICHAEL BARTON GEORGE VAN TASSEL Chief Standing Horse DAN FRY MEL NOEL "I Photo- to gating Flying Saucers "Flying Saucer Slide "Spaceship Contact at "Christmas 1962 on "Saucer Movies" graphed Flying Saucers 9:00 Inside the U.S. Air Photos" Giant Rock" Jupiter" GABE GREEN as an Air Force Fight- Force" Ch: G. Green Chairman: Hal Wilcox Ch: George King Ch: Calvin Girvin "Saucer Slides" er Pilot"Ch:H. Troxell 9:10 DR. DANIEL W. FRY ORFEO ANGELUCCI COLOR MOVIE: LAURA MUNDO Question Period: Writ- Written Questions to "The Curve of Devel- "Concret Evidence" "We Have Seen The "Flying Saucers and ten questions answered answered by today's 10:00 opment" Saucers" the Father's Plan" by Main Hall speakers. Gold Room speakers. Chairman: Sid Padrick Ch: Wayne Aho Ch: George Van Tassel Ch: Marianne Francis Chairman: Gabe Green Chairman: Mel Noel 10:10 Question Period. Writ- Written questions Question Period: Writ- Written questions Convention Close. 11:00 ten questions answered answered by today's ten questions answered answered by today's by Main Hall speakers. Gold Room speakers. by Main Hall speakers. Gold Room speakers. Ch: Gabriel Green Ch: Michael Barton Chairman: Gabe Green Ch: Frank Stranges The appearance of the speakers on our program does you with an opportunity to hear and to evalu- No smoking permitted in lecture and exhibit not constitute an endorsement by AFSCA of their in- ate Flying Saucer Movement speakers and halls. The Dick Miller Space Tapes played at formation or viewpoints. In the American tradition their information. You be the judge. lunch and dinner hours are all different. of freedom of information and ideas, AFSCA provides Taped space songs by Bob Marcus. Program subject to change without notice. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, contact: AFSCA HEADQUARTERS; 2004 N. Hoover St.; Los Angeles, California 90027. Phone: 662-4404.
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This page is a newsletter titled 'Flying Saucer News in Brief' containing announcements of upcoming conventions, obituaries of prominent figures in the UFO movement, and reports of various activities and sightings related to the UFO/UAP subject.
FLYING SAUCER NEWS IN BRIEF COMING 1966 FLYING SAUCER CONVENTIONS JULY 8, 9, 10: AFSCA's 3rd National Convention, Centennial Coliseum, Reno, Nev. (See details on back) JULY 15, 16, 17: WAYNE AHO sponsors the Northwest's 5th Annual Interplanetary Age Convention. Lectures, exhibits and New Age topics. Advance registrations - $1.00 per day for adults, 50¢ for students. Write to: Mrs. Lorena Vogt; 815 N. E. 110th; Seattle, Wash. Phone: Emerson 3-0956. AUGUST 6 thru 14th: DR. NEVA DELL HUNTER'S 12th Annual Quimby Conference of Translation. Lectures and discussions on New Age Topics, including the stars, science and metaphysics. In lovely scenic country at a beautiful, modern motor-hotel. $2.50 per day, attendance. Information from: Quimby Center; P. O. Box 453; Alamogordo, N. M. AUGUST 19, 20, 21: SPACE RESEARCH, Inc. 's Second Annual Convention, at the North Branch YMCA in Spokane, Washington. Scenic location near the Spokane River. Indoor and outdoor convention activities. For information, write to: Space Research Inc., No. 6815 Julia, Spokane, Wash. OCTOBER 22, 23: GEORGE VAN TASSEL'S 13th Annual Spacecraft Convention at Giant Rock, Calif. in the desert 17 miles north of Yucca Valley. Bring your own camping equipment and enjoy the outing. OCTOBER 29, 30: 10th ANNUAL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SPACECRAFT CONVENTION, Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, Calif. Info: Angela Kilsby; 1265 Montgomery Blvd.; San Francisco, Calif. 94127. OUR NEW NAME: Our magazine, formerly called "UFO International", has now become "Flying Saucers International", which we feel to be a more appropriate title, since Flying Saucers are no longer Unidentified Flying Objects as far as we are concerned. Flying Saucers have become a serious issue with thinking people all over the world. We believe that most of the objects which have been sighted have been of extraterrestrial origin, controlled by intelligent beings who, in form, are very much like us. Therefore, we hope you will understand our reasons for changing titles, and that you will continue to enjoy reading our publication under its new banner. DR. RAYMOND BERNARD, founder of the Biosophical Society of Santa Caterina, Brazil, passed away on Sept. 10, 1965. He was the author of "The Hollow Earth" and several other books concerned with the hollow earth theory. MARIA ELLIOTT, contactee, psychic and founder of Maria Creative Womanhood Foundation, was a recent guest on the Bob Grant Radio Show, and the Pamela Mason TV Show. Glamorous Maria now has her own program every Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on KTYM radio. She may be seen in person every Wed. evening at Holland House Restaurant, 8:00 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room. An interesting program may be heard on New Age Topics, and free readings are given. For more information about Maria's appearances, classes, etc., phone 657-1631, or write: Dr. Maria Elliott; 1543 Sunset Plaza Drive; Los Angeles, Calif. 90069. DR. GEORGE KING, founder of the Aetherius Society, was host at the official opening of the Society's new headquarters at 6202 Afton Place; Los Angeles, Calif. 90028; on March 5, 1966. After the program Dr. King personally escorted us around the attractive quarters. He also reported that a High Space Being in physical form had visited there recently for an hour and fifteen minutes and, after walking around the premises, left his blessing on the Aetherius Society and its work. For further information call 465-9652, or write to the above address. DELLA LARSON, who for over a decade was the guiding light and main instigator of Flying Saucer meetings and activities in the San Francisco Bay Area, passed away on October 25, 1965. She was 70 years old. She will be remembered for her energetic and enthusiastic dedication to the goals of the Flying Saucer cause, as well as for the highly successful operational Northern California Space Craft Conventions which she organized for nine years. (Della, we salute you!) MAX MILLER, former publisher of the now-defunct "Saucers" magazine, and author of "Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction" (now out of print), has a new role. He is now editor-publisher of "Real" magazine which may be found on the newstands for 50¢. The August '66 issue devotes about half of its space to the Flying Saucer subject and will be well worth your investigation. WILBUR MILLER, one of the early researchers in the Flying Saucer Movement, passed away on March 5, 1966. He was known for his fine channel contacts with several Space Beings, including Monka of Mars. He also was the co-author - with his wife, Evelyn - of the book "We of the New Dimension." Although he was a native of Missouri he had, in recent years, been a resident of Los Angeles and of Morongo Valley, Calif. (Good journey, Will!) HOPE TROXELL, founder of the School of Thought, now situated in Independence, Calif. (P. O. Box 458), reported recently that the neighboring towns of Bishop and Lone Pine had partial blackouts during an evening channel (teltpathic) session she was having with the Space Brothers. The lights in Independence went out completely for several minutes by a gradual fade-out, and then came on again in the same manner. During this time, the Space Being speaking through Hope said to those present: "Be not afraid. We are guardians of the race. Protection will be given to those in the area." HAL WILCOX made a fine guest appearance on the Joe Pyne TV Show, April 30, 1966. Hal passed the lie-detector test with flying colors and conducted himself with dignity and fortitude, which isn't always easy on the Joe Pyne Show. During the test, Hal stated that he had taken a saucer ride to visit the second planet from the star, Alpha Centauri. M. I. N. D. stands for Mental Investigations of New Dimensions, an organization recently formed by Wesley and Jonell Bateman. Their activities include meetings, courses and public appearances. They have demonstrated on several occassions for groups of up to 20 people, their ability to telepathically direct the movements of visable spacecraft overhead. Write: M. I. N. D.; 4916 Franklin Ave.; Hollywood, California 90027. Phone: 661-1731. HELEN & GABRIEL GREEN contributed their bit to the education of nearly 300,000 young people to the saucer subject at the Teen-Age Fair, April 1 thru 10 at the Hollywood Palladium, where AFSCA had a booth to exhibit saucer photos, show slides, and to disseminate information. We handed out over 13,000 brochures and saucer photo post cards, and talked ourselves hoarse answering questions for 12 hours each day. Gabriel also made over a dozen radio and TV appearances and interviews during the Fair. We also had another booth at the National Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition at the Pan Pacific Auditorium, May 17 thru 22. Yes, we've been busy! 14
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A newspaper article from The London Free Press dated March 29, 1966, reporting on a series of UFO sightings across Western Ontario, including radar tracking by a U.S. Air Force base in Michigan.
THE LONDON FREE PRESS WESTERN ONTARIO'S FOREMOST NEWSPAPER 118TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION LONDON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1966-36 PAGES TRACKED BY RADAR UFOS SIGHTED OVER WIDE SECTION OF DISTRICT An unidentified flying object was tracked briefly on radar by a U.S. Air Force base in Michigan last night, and a multitude of new sightings were reported by Western Ontario residents. A retired U.S. Marine Corps major said yesterday "there is substantial evidence" that they are observation devices "controlled by a superior civilization." Sightings of the objects were reported last night over an area stretching from Sarnia to Kintore, northwest of Woodstock. The mysterious objects came in a variety of forms, according to their observers. There was an orange one at Sarnia. And another giving off red, white and blue flashes. There was a red one in London that had a pulsating white halo. One was in Kintore was a bright white light that intermittently faded to dull red. Some of them were high-tailing it through the sky like mad and some of them were sitting stock-still in mid-air. Some were poking along and some were travelling slowly with intermittent bursts of speed. A spokesman at the U.S. Air Force base in Selfridge, Mich., said one was tracked briefly on radar, but could not say what it was. Some observers said their sightings lasted for about seven minutes. Other reported keeping the object in sight for up to two hours. The Free Press sent five men out Martian-hunting, two of them in a chartered plane, but found only two high-flying jet planes carrying the usual red and green running lights and leaving white vapor trails. Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, the Marine officer who advanced the outer-space-spy-in-the-sky theory on behalf of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, called on the U.S. Government yesterday to release all the information it has on UFO sightings. "There is substantial evidence we are being observed by some sort of device which is far more advanced than anything we have and is controlled by a superior civilization," he told a press conference. "These things are real and under intelligent control," he added. He urged the air force to "end the secrecy on sightings and stop ridiculing the competent witnesses" who have seen them. Keyhoe, who has written several books on the subject of UFO's, is director of the investigations committee. Te majority of the Western Ontario sightings came from London and Sarnia. Mrs. J. Fielding, of 1025 Oxford St. E., London, reported seeing a white light in the northeast sky, headed toward Stratford at 7:25 p.m. A Thorndale area man, Floyd Baxter, at 7:40 reported seeing an orange and yellow light moving very slowly to the northeast. He estimated it to be more than 1,000 feet high. Fifteen minutes later at Kintore, six miles northeast of Thorndale, a mother and her two children saw a white light, "quite high in the sky, that seemed to be blinking." Mrs. J. H. Haynes, of Kintore, said "there was no sound and we watched it for 10 minutes, anyway. It would brighten up, then it would dim down." "It was moving ever so slowly," she added. Her daughter, Wendy, 15-year-old Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute student, also said she saw a "clear white light which kept dimming and getting brighter." Larry, her 13-year-old brother, saw the same object but he insisted that when it became dim "I could see a red color coming from it." In London, James T. Dayus, of 972 Hutton Rd., came home from a cub meeting with three young boys at 8:20. He sight-ed an object moving southward in the sky. "I saw it first at 8:20 traveling at an enormous rate of speed almost directly south. Then it swooped back up northward and never moved for an hour." Mr. Dayus said "it was a blaze of red and blue lights flashing off and on. It was no plane. There wasn't any sound." A neighbor, Harold J. Kennedy, of 550 Kingsway Drive, said he saw it around 9 p.m. and "it was sitting low in the northern sky." By 10 p.m. the object was higher and further to the south, in a stationary position. Another woman reported the object hovered over Hutton Sideroad in London for more than half an hour. She said it was a red light, high in the sky, around which a white ring seemed to spread out, then pull back, intermittently. A star-like object coasted across the sky over Sarnia last night and stopped in the northeast where it remained for more than two hours. To the naked eye the object appeared as a very bright star except that red and blue flashes could be seen. Sarnia police received several calls, beginning about 7:30 p.m. The object was first seen in the northwest. It appeared to be about 70 degrees above the horizon. People clustered on street corners to point at and discuss the object. Opinions on what people saw varied. Cpl. Robert Symington, of the Sarnia police, reported: "I said I saw it but I don't believe anything until it's proven to me." The object seemed to bob and weave slightly like an ornament on a Christmas tree. The sighting followed a similar experience Sunday night by about 100 residents of Kettle Point who watched an object glow red, blue, green and white for more than two hours.
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This page lists speakers for an AFSCA convention and includes two songs written by Mollie Thompson about UFOs, extraterrestrials, and space travel.
AFSCA CONVENTION SPEAKERS 1. WAYNE S. AHO; The New Age Foundation, Inc.; 8 Smith St.; Seattle, Wash. 98109. Publish: "The Aquarian Dawn" (Donation basis). 2. CARL A. ANDERSON; 2522 E. Pearson Ave.; Fullerton, Calif. 3. ORFEO ANGELUCCI; 4160 Verdugo Road; Los Angeles, Calif. 90065. 4. MICHAEL "X" BARTON; Futura Press; 5949 Gregory Ave.; Hollywood, Calif. 90038. Phone: 464-0441. 5. WESLEY BATEMAN; Mental Investigations of New Dimensions (M.I.N.D.); 4916 Franklin Ave.; Hollywood, Calif. 90027. Phone: 661-1731. Publish: "Prism" (12 issues-$3.00). 6. MARIANNE FRANCIS; Solar Light Center; Rt. 2, Box 572-C; Central Point, Oregon 97501. Publish: "Starcraft" (4 issues-$2.00). 7. DR. DANIEL W. FRY; Understanding, Inc.; P.O. Box 105; Merlin, Oregon 97532. Publish: "Understanding" (12 issues-$2.50). 8. CALVIN C. GIRVIN; 6711 Yucca St.; Hollywood, Calif. 90028. 9. GABRIEL GREEN; Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc.; 2004 N. Hoover St.; Los Angeles, Calif. 90027. Phone: 662-4404. Publish: "Flying Saucers International" (6 issues-$3.00). 10. DR. GEORGE KING; The Aetherius Society; 6202 Afton Place; Hollywood, Calif. 90028. Publish: "The Aetherius Society Newsletter" (Donation basis). Phone: 465-9652. 11. JOHANNES "HANNO" MAYBERRY; Unified Research Center, Inc.; P.O. Box 764; Selma, Oregon 97538. 12. HOWARD MENGER; 202 Schumann Drive; Sebastian, Florida 32958. 13. LAURA MUNDO; The Interplanetary Center; 27359 Cranford Lane; Dearborn Heights, Mich. 48127. Publish: "The Interplanetary News" (Free). 14. MEL NOEL; 2760 Hollyridge Drive; Hollywood, Calif. 90028. 15. SIDNEY PADRICK; 196 Hidden Valley Road; Watsonville, Calif. 16. CHIEF FRANK B. STANDING HORSE; AFSCA Unit #9; Rt. 2, Box 194, (27401 Hwy. 74); Perris, Calif. 92370. Phone: 657-2873. 17. DR. FRANK E. STRANGES; International Evangelism Crusades, Inc.; P.O. Box 252; Venice, Calif. 90293. 18. MOLLIE THOMPSON; Linton, Astley Bank, Darwen, Lancs., England. 19. HOPE TROXELL; School of Thought; P.O. Box 458; Independence, Calif. 93526. 20. GEORGE W. VAN TASSEL; Ministry of Universal Wisdom, Inc.; P.O. Box 458; Yucca Valley, Calif. 92284. Publish: "Proceedings" (Donation basis). 21. HAL WILCOX; Institute of Parapsychology; 871 Gower St.; Hollywood, Calif. 90038. Phone: 469-5438. SPACE AGE SONGS by Mollie Thompson THE COCKEYED BALLAD There's a cockeyed feeling in the world today That power politics is here to stay. But China, Russia and the U.S.A. Boy—don't let them fool you! Take a look at this world of ours, Just one mud ball in the sea of stars. Other planets have no color-bars, 'Cause they've got perspective. Yanks and Ruskies put men into space, But it's all a mad politician's race, One-up-manship in this Year of Grace. It makes you giggle. The population stands and stares, While men in capsules explore upstairs. Why we can't even manage our own affairs! Some cheek—colonization! Besides, they've got people on Venus and Mars. They got lads and lasses and ma's and pa's. And they've got better transport than four-wheel cars. Have you ever seen 'em? Those Flying Saucers whisking through our skies Must take some power to make them rise. But government departments just hide their eyes, And call them meteors! With all the lies that they print and shout, The general public's got its work cut out— Figuring what it's all about. But just you keep on trying. I suppose you know why I'm telling you this, So you won't shriek or shake your fist When you discover Martians do exist! They're real nice fellows. I know, 'cause I met one a week ago! His ship came down for an hour or so. He talked to me, but then he had to go. Real interested I was! Got brothers on Venus and Saturn, it seems— Fly their ships on magnetic beams. They wear one piece suits—you can't see any seams; But apart from that—they're just like us! SPACE-TALK The powers that be will tell us we're alone. They'll tell us that in space we are unique; On this little desert island we call Earth The human race is just a kind of freak. When we send our envoys into space There'll be a smile upon this planet's face, 'Cause brother, right out there—I'm telling you, There's another human race; it's very true! They're a very, very peaceful crowd, For they just never go to war. And they cannot interfere, This is by Universal Law. The spaceman's message to us all Is based on how to banish fear, And if we only understand, We will find it heaven here. While we must rely on war, We never will be happy here. While this world's economy Is based on hardship, strife and fear. How do they live without a war In their lands of milk and honey? They don't need economy, Because they don't use any money! They cannot give us any ships, So we must try and build our own. But they are waiting right out there, Oh, my friends, we're not alone! How do they go at such great speed, And vanish then without prediction? Because they use free energy, And there isn't any friction. Brother have you seen their ships? Sisters have you seen them glow, As they dance and hover in the sky, And make our fastest jets look slow?
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A collection of six photographs of a disc-shaped object, attributed to Dr. Daniel W. Fry, with a caption explaining their origin and the locations where the craft was photographed.
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.
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A newspaper article from the Wichita Eagle detailing an 11-year-old boy's claim of witnessing two flying saucers landing in his driveway.
Could You Believe—‘Saucer’ Visits Wichita? BY FRANK KENTLING Eagle Staff Writer An 11-year-old Wichita boy has joined the ranks of those across the nation who have reported seeing “flying saucers” during the past week. Johnny Smith—said that early Friday morning he saw two “flying saucers” that made a humming noise and were bigger than Dana. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge Thomas, 916 N. Topeka. Here is the story the way he told it: “I had been upstairs to my mother’s room and then I heard this funny noise. “It went hummmmmm—like a flying top. I started to go back to bed when I heard it. Then I looked out the window and I saw it. “I saw this flying object that people have been talking about. It had colored lights and was spinning. “It was bigger than a car and the colors were purple and red and orange and green. “WHEN I SAW THEM at first, it was up in the sky. Then I saw them flying right by my window. “I didn’t look like it had any windows and it landed like an airplane. When it started landing it had legs and put them on the ground. “The top part spun, but the rest didn’t. It was like a big fat doughnut. The top had something like a cap that kept going round and round. “The second one looked just like the first one. One came down and the other came up. The other one just sat and spun, too. “I was too scared to wake anyone up. When it started leaving I covered up my head.” WHEN CONTACTED at the home, Mrs. Thomas said that about 5 a.m. Friday Johnny came running up to her room nearly hysterical. “He was crying that he had seen two flying saucers,” she reported. Ironically, Mrs. Thomas said afterwards, she had been dreaming of flying saucers and possibly heard the humming noise herself. She said Johnny had told her that at first he thought a big diesel truck was pulling into the driveway, but then the humming noise started. Johnny said he didn’t know about the saucer activity in Michigan last Sunday until after he told a neighbor about his nighttime vision. The Michigan report was attributed to swamp gases by an Air Force investigator. JOHNNY SAID HIS saucers landed on a driveway on the north side of the house—wherever that is exactly. Johnny evidently had spent a fitful night because of an airplane that kept him out of school Friday. While asleep it he could have been having a bad dream, Johnny replied: “I ate mostly soup a real dinner because I had just fed my pet rat. It had 11 babies. I got back into bed, but I didn’t even have time to cover up before I saw them.” The boy estimated that each saucer stayed about five minutes, and his story did not vary with each repeated telling. MRS. THOMAS ADMITTED she was a little embarrassed about the sighting, but she did not doubt the boy’s story. Johnny said he never thought there was anything like flying saucers “until I saw them.” He said his mother said it might be the Air Force “playing a trick.” None of the neighbors reported anything unusual when told of the saucer landing, and the police dispatcher said they had had no reports. HOWEVER, JOHNNY and his mother did point out something unusual. Along the driveway lay pieces of concrete that once served as a reinforcement sheet along the house’s foundation. Mrs. Thomas said she never noticed it breaking off until Friday. Pieces were scattered into the driveway. Also, sand had swirled into the driveway area. Johnny said he was not anxious to repeat his sighting experience. But, he hoped if they ever came back... it if somebody was in one... that they would be friendly.
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A collection of newspaper clippings from various dates in 1966 regarding UFO sightings, including reports from Canada, Australia, and the United States, and discussions about the Air Force's Project Blue Book.
2 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 ELLIOT CARLSON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL They're back. The latest was sighted a few nights ago by residents and pilots in the northern 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 the fireball land Thursday night. An 11-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 into a vacant lot across the street from her home. Others say they saw it streak into Lake Michigan. Scientists and police combed a 75-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 because they are seen, but never found. Whatever it turns out to be—meteor, satellite part, hoax, weather oddity or man from Mars—it appeared in a banner year for such objects, which almost disappeared from public consciousness following a rash of reports of flying saucers in the mid-1950s: "We've had more reports this year than in any year since 1957, when we had more than a thousand," says a spokesman for Project Blue Book, the Air Force program set up in 1948 to evaluate reports 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 over 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 problems on our planet." One suggestion allegedly made to Mr. Green in 1960 by a visit from Alpha Centauri, a nearby star: Run for President as a write-in candidate. (He campaigned briefly, then decided not to run.) The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), a private research 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 Mars are a lot of bunk? Not necessarily, says the committee. It believes a Congressional investigation would prove that UFOs "are real physical objects... under the control of living beings." As an afterthought, the spokesman says: "There are a tremendous number of ego-maniacs who have been able to appoint themselves experts in this field because it's so confused." The 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 are unquestionably from outer space." He bases his reasoning 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, however. "All this is imagination outside the realm of science," says Donald H. Menzel, director 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 one cause, but hundreds. Some are quite spectacular, such as reflections from ice crystals or bright stars, searchlights on clouds or high-flying spider webs. But to some people the existence 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 9,786 UFO reports made to the Air Force since 1947, 673 remain classified as "unidentified," a spokesman says. He defines this category as containing sightings whose pertinent data can't be correlated with any known object or phenomena. The spokesman quickly adds: "We have neither 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 possesses 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 under 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 Science and Art Foundation planetarium at Oklahoma City, believes "the Air Force must have had its star-finder upside down during August," 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 error." The whole problem, says J. Allen Hynek, 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 circles and fear of ridicule have slowed the study," according to Robert Hall, a sociology professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. "The possibility of life on Mars is an unpopular thing to consider these days," says Frank B. Salisbury, a professor of plant physiology 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 pilots—pilots with technical backgrounds. Since 1947, more than 100 private, military and commercial pilots have reported spotting strange objects in the sky, according to one study. Pinning down such reports is difficult, however. "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 number of reports from pilots who don't want their names used but still want to tell somebody what they've seen, claims J. B. Hartanft, Jr., president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. And he says: "I haven't drawn any conclusions myself, but I think we've certainly got a good mystery on our hands." London, Ontario Free Press 3-26-66 100 Watch UFO Disc-Like Object Hovers, Rises For Two Hours East of Kettle Point By JIM ETHERINGTON Free Press Sarnia Bureau SARNIA — A revolving object, sighted in the sky east of Kettle Point last night, was watched for more than two hours by about 100 persons. Lawrence Bressette, who operates a store on the Kettle Point Indian Reserve, said a motorist brought the object to his attention about 8 p.m. 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 remained motionless for about an hour flashing lights, then slowly began to rise. Cloud cover rolled in about 10 p.m., allowing only periodic sightings. "I've never seen anything like this," he said. "We all saw it. It was low — about 200 or 300 feet off the ground to the east. Then it slowly began to move up." Mr. Bressette said it could not have been swamp gas which was suggested was the cause of unidentified flying object sightings in the Detroit area last week. "I've seen swamp gas lights. This was not the same," he said. "Besides there hasn't been any swamp gas lights around here since before the war." Mr. Bressette said his brother, Jeffery, also reported seeing an object over Sarnia. This one stayed stationary for a short time then shot across the sky at a very high speed. An officer in control operations 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 area. In Michigan new reports of 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 Northwestern University, scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force 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 criticized Dr. Hynek's report. Van Horn said the swamp gas explanation was an attempt to "explain it away arbitrarily." Flying Saucers Gain Proponent 5-26-66 N.Y. Daily News Dispatch NEW YORK — The nephew of the late Dag Hammarskjold has startled America's top science writers by telling them he believes that flying saucers exist and that they come from outer space. Knut Hammarskjold, whose late uncle was secretary general of the United Nations, spoke to a convention here of the aviation-space writers association. Hammarskjold also suggested that our space neighbors are becoming more and more interested in what people are doing on earth. "The possible existence of neighbors in space will, if confirmed, create problems of legal, political and technical characteristics," he said. Hong Kong China Mail Flying saucers mystery 2-3-66 PEOPLE in North Queensland are mystified by three separate reports of Flying Saucers. The first report came from a 27-year-old banana grower, Mr G. Pedley, who while driving a tractor 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 9ft high, rose vertically to about 60ft and travelling at a terrific speed headed off in a south-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, no less than seven different 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 reports seriously enough to ask for clippings from the nests which will be examined, and any further flying saucer sightings from the area will be investigated. Feb. 7, 1966 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner A-11 UN Watch for Saucers Urged UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 7 (AP)—COLMAN Vonkeviczky, an employe in the U.N. Office of Public Information, proposed to Secretary-General U Thant today that members of the United Nations establish a network to observe flying saucers. Vonkeviczky, who says he believes someone in outer space is sending flying saucers regularly on test flights to earth. He told Thant only the United Nations could be expected to have sufficient authority to establish contact or represent mankind in a face-to-face meeting with extraterrestrial visitors. STRANGE OBJECT OVER MT. WILSON A-2 Los Angeles Herald-Examiner 8* Thursday, April 21, 1966 There was something over Mount Wilson early today but it didn't catch the entire city napping. Police and newspaper switchboards were flooded with calls describing the object variously as a "puff," a "greenish ball," a "flat oval green object with a long tail and a light at the end." It was first sighted about 4 a.m. and remained in view for about half an hour. A similar fireball was sighted about the same time from Sacramento and the Vandenberg Air Force Base, it was reported. Vandenberg reported no launches during the preceding 24 hours which might account for the phenomenon and said radar there picked up "no unusual activity" during the period. An Air Force spokesman at Vandenberg said the Air Force's "Project Blue Book" office in Washington was investigating. An observer at Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento theorized that the object may have been gas released from Nevada missile firings which reflected light. Sgt. David Tellotson, of Hollywood division, said the object here appeared to be over Griffith Park. "It was a bright green splotch, elongated, and not blinking," he said. The only solid fact emerging: A lot of people are up at 4 a.m. 4-18-66 'Report Them... Forget It— I Have Enough Credibility Problems As It Is' [HANDWRITTEN: 65 HS1 834228961 62 HQ 83894 Serial 449]
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This page is a collection of newspaper clippings from the Oakland Tribune and other sources dated March 1966, detailing various UFO sightings and reports across the United States.
OAKLAND TRIBUNE FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1966 Flying Saucers Are Poppin' Up All Over [HANDWRITTEN: 65 HS1 834228961 62 HQ 83894 Serial 449] [...] (The page is a collage of newspaper clippings regarding UFO sightings.)
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This page is a collection of newspaper clippings from April and May 1966 regarding various UFO sightings and reports, including a feature on Gabriel Green, sightings in Detroit, a police chase in Ohio, and reports from Texas.
4-12-66 [HANDWRITTEN: 65 HS1 834228961 62 HQ 83894 Serial 449] [IMAGE: A newspaper clipping titled "Who's in All Those Saucers?" by Harold Scarlett. It features a cartoon of a saucer parked near a ball, with the caption "Parking between my ball and the green—I'd hardly call that intelligent life from another planet." It also includes a photo of Gabriel Green, "Head Saucerer."] [IMAGE: A newspaper clipping titled "Saucer Sighting Report" from the Detroit Free Press, March 30, 1966, detailing sightings by Mike Woods, Eddie Crunk, Virgil, and Karen Ellington.] [IMAGE: A newspaper clipping titled "UFO Plays Tag with Deputies in 85-Mile Chase" from the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, May 17, 1966, detailing an incident involving Deputies Spaur and Neff.] [IMAGE: A newspaper clipping titled "Mysterious Sky Objects Have Texans in Dither" from the Memphis, Tenn., May 17, 1966, detailing sightings by David Duncan and Ernest Lee.] [IMAGE: A newspaper clipping titled "More to Say" by George Gallup, dated 3-25-66.]
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A collection of newspaper clippings from various dates and locations reporting on UFO sightings, including a convention in Los Angeles, sightings in Illinois, South Africa, and a series of reports regarding the Wanaque Reservoir sightings in New Jersey.
World Flying Saucer Believers Convene 2-6-66 New York Times Service LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The "urgent problem" of improving communications with the thousands of visitors from outer space who supposedly are circling the earth was afforded solemn deliberation here this weekend at a special convention of flying saucer buffs. Among the nearly 300 delegates 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 establishment called the Blarney Castle, weren't much impressed with Thursday's Soviet 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 beginning of some "ominous changes" for the earth's population. But the convention chairman, Dr. Frank Stranges, said the "interplanetary visitors" would turn out to be "angelic creatures whose mission is to help mankind." The delegates were generally well groomed, articulate men and women who could have blended into any PTA meeting. Many were heads of organizations whose members spotted and photographed "unidentified flying objects" and claimed to maintain telepathic communication with space travelers. NEARLY ALL agreed that what they called the "flying saucer movement" was undergoing sharp expansion. Two delegates announced they were negotiating to purchase radio stations to help transmit their theories. Several flying saucer magazines and hundreds of books were on sale at the convention. "These people are contactee-oriented," explained Gabriel Green, a serious young man who served as president of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. Flying Object Sighted in Illinois NORMAL, Ill.—(UPD)—Several persons living on the same block here said they saw an unidentified flying object last night. The object had four blinking 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. MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE "They accept spacecraft as a fact of life. Their interest is in contacting space men directly 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 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 communication with them through telepathy" and offered a program of instruction to other delegates who sought similar contacts. His blonde wife, Jonell, attired in black Leotards, was kept busy signing up "students." "There is no mystery as to whether the space men are watching us — some have already infiltrated our society," said Bateman. "The mystery is why so many are coming. What's going to happen?" Flying Saucers 2-3-66 (To the Editor, 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 mystery will be discounted by harassing confrontation by paid investigators who are instructed to suppress the authenticity of their investigation. 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. During that time it has maintained a continuous status of "Classified Information." The only information 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 Hynek: "In Search Of Flying Saucers." Honest, sincere observers no longer report UFO sightings to accepted authority. (Why continue to slap your own face?) For several years actual sightings of spaceships are compiled at Flying Saucer Clubs all over the world. Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA) maintain a comprehensive information department that registers Club activities, and reports from all over the world. Anyone can write to AFSCA, 2004 N Hoover Street, Los Angeles, California 90027, U.S.A., and receive a concise, conscientious report about any information he 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 investigating us cannot understand our belligerent attitude toward their conscientious effort to contact us. Neither can I. UFO spotted 5-16-66 PASADENA (AP)—Scores of startled residents news-papers and police after sighting what they described as blinking, moving lights in the skies over the San Gabriel Valley last night. Officers said some residents saw the lights "travel fast, then slow, then stop." They said one Pasadena area resident reported the smell of perfume as the lights appeared and moved. 2 SOUTH AFRICAN POLICEMEN REPORT SIGHTING OF 'SAUCER' JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—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. Two patrolling police officers reported seeing the flaming "saucer," about 30 feet in diameter, shortly after midnight. One of them, Koos de Klerk, said that the shiny copper-colored object resembled a giant spinning top. The two men claimed that, as they approached the object, it took off silently 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 also was reported slightly scorched. (Associated Press) THE BOSTON HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPT. 17, 1965 BROTHER JUNIPER BY FR. JUSTIN McCARTHY & LEN RENO [HANDWRITTEN: "These flying saucer stories are getting more ridiculous every day."] It'll be Long Before "Saucer" Is Forgotten JANUARY 15, 1966 THE 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 week fades into memory. The bright white disk that streaked across three counties and hovered periodically over the Wanaque Reservoir will provide an ample amount of conversation for weeks to come. Indeed, 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 National 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 electronics expert, and Dr. John Pegano of Fort Lee will investigate 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, continue 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 Thursday night making sharp dips and maneuvers over the reservoir. It was Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. when residents, motorists, municipal officials, and police glanced up at the sky and began the first chapter of an aerial 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 was the question posed to the police at the North Jersey police radio hook-up in Pompton Lakes. The calls came in from Wanaque, Ringwood, West Milford, Paterson, Totowa, Wayne and Butler. Astounded residents were searching for an explanation. Even the police were dumbfounded. They too saw the white oval 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 mysterious visitor was enthralling. Some felt as if it were "toying" with police, citizens and borough officials by performing dives almost into the reservoir; at times appearing "as if it were looking down" upon the spectators from a silent stationary position high in the heavens and by making neat right angles as if it were using the sky as a 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 Ringwood Avenue . . . and then it disappeared. Hours later at 2:15 Wednesday morning, it re-appeared over Wyckoff and five minutes later it was noted over the reservoir in 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 a.m. Police, reporters and residents saw the disk as it whisked over Wanaque and Ringwood both Wednesday and Thursday night. The story of the mystic sky visitor is not without intrigue. The United States Air Force released a number of reports which August Roberts, a member of the International Intelligence on unidentified Flying Objects 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 Wanaque. Experiment? Roberts theorized the object "might possibly have been a government experiment in the creation of an anti-gravity machine." 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 the Wanaque. Some 18 years ago Charles Capen, former chief engineer of the North Jersey District Water Supply Commission said he saw something that looked very similar to the object described in the newspaper. Reservoir police claimed to have seen something "round and bright" two weeks ago, over Lilly Hill in Stonetown and Mountain near Sloatsburg Road, according to Charles Thatcher. Dean Noll, assistant engineer, for NJDWSC does not believe that the UFO might have been a mysterious attempt to pollute the water supply. There are "easier ways", he said. Throngs of interested persons are still lining the perimeter of the reservoir to catch a glimpse of the brilliant phantom that has for the moment, vanished into the ether. PC REPORTS IT SAW 6 FLYING SAUCERS. DAILY SKETCH Tuesday, May 17, 1966 POLICE CONSTABLE Donald Cameron made 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. "I thought I was seeing things and called my wife," he said last night. "We watched them for about 30 seconds before they disappeared at speed towards Manchester. "They were about a mile away. I could see them clearly even though it was a dull day. They were white and glowing. "One was bigger than the others with a cup-shaped dome—obviously the mother ship. The others were oval," he added. As he made out his report at his home in Chiltern-road, St. Helens Lancs, Pc. Cameron said: "I suppose I will get some ribbing from the lads, but that is not what worries me . . . it's what the Chief Constable thinks. Police Kept Busy Spotters Jam Up-County Roads for UFO Glimpse Paterson News Jan. 15, 1966 RINGWOOD — If the little men from outer space had the up-county police on the run of the Tuesday, their earthly counter-parts caused more trouble Friday night. Throngs of the curious ringed normally deserted Wanaque Reservoir in this small hamlet and created what old timers say is the first traffic jam in the history of the borough. The cars parked along Westbrook Road and Route 511. Ringwood Police Lieutenant Jack O'Hara said "We told them to move on, but they kept coming back on the other side of the road, so we just had to give a couple of them summonses. They had everything, cameras, binoculars, telescopes. I was waiting to see one of them get out with a geiger counter." The sky watchers were out in force after wide spread publication of the sighting of unidentified flying objects over the reservoir. The elusive thing in the sky, however had failed to make a return appearance Friday. Since the sightings, Tuesday, both Wanaque and this borough have been overpopulated with television cameras, newsmen and the curious.
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This page is a newspaper clipping from the Oakland Tribune dated March 22, 1966, featuring articles about historical and contemporary UFO sightings, including the 1896 airship, the 1965 Hillsdale incident, and various witness accounts.
Civil Defense Director Watches Flying Saucer GOLDEN GATE HANDICAP---Results Oakland Tribune ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21, 1874 . OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 93RD YEAR, NO. 81 TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1966 10c DAILY, $2.25 A MONTH Eerie 1896 Sighting By JIM HAZELWOOD The so-called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's) seen Sunday in Michigan by at least 60 people, recall a bizarre story which appeared in The Tribune 70 years ago. The date was Nov. 23, 1896, and it reported that many persons saw an "airship" flying over Oakland. But that date was 10 years before 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 number of other sightings were reported, from as far away as Red Bluff. Although the original story said the craft resembled a "huge bird," later sightings described it as egg-shaped with lights at both ends. It should be borne in mind that shapes of aircraft and estimates of airspeed were still sciences of the future when the following story, reproduced in part, was written. "That a huge airship has been hovering over Oakland for the last few nights has in the minds of many been conclusively proven. A number of persons whose integrity is unquestionable have seen the strange navigator of the air and this number includes many whose skepticism has been pronounced. "Last evening at about 7:30 o'clock, the passengers on an Alameda car were startled by the sight of a brilliant stream of light high in the heavens off in the direction of Hayward. "The passengers distinctly saw the outline of an airship and watched its maneuvers high in the skies. The ship resembles a huge bird in its outlines and seemed to rise and fall in its course. A light streamed from the head of the ship, throwing a white stream of light for several hundred yards. "As the outlines of the airship were plainly discerned, the passengers in the street car became greatly excited. "The phenomenon had first been noted by a man who had been idly watching the heavens." 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 it turned quickly and disappeared in the direction of Hayward. "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 startlingly similar, agreeing as to time, direction of the airship, and description." These facts leave little doubt in the minds of many people that a successful airship has been invented and is navigating the heavens." 87 Coeds Observe 'Object' HILLSDALE, MICH. (UPI)--A county civil defense director and 87 co-eds said today they watched an eerie, hovering flying object settle in a swamp hollow near a college dormitory last night. William Vn Horn, 41, Hillsdale county civil defense director for 10 years, said he watched the unidentified object through binoculars for three hour. It was the second straight night a large number of witnesses reported seeing wired unidentified flying objects in Southern Michigan. Sunday night a dozen policemen and at least 40 other persons watched a strange object, guarded by four sister ships, land in a swamp about 45 miles northeast of here near Ann Arbor, Mich. SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANT The Air Force announced it was sending a top Air Force expert, chairman of the Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and scientific consultant to the Air Force's UFO study program, to investigate the rash of sightings. Hynek will work from Selfridge 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 wavy-orange, red and white lights and appeared to hover just above the swamp some 1,000 to 1,500 yards from the dormitory. It was still there when he left about 1:30 a.m. today, he said. "It was definitely some kind of vehicle," Van Horn said. He said it changed from orange to red, "perhaps, with a rotating light of some kind, and had a wide light at one end. "It was the farmer was in a hayloft, pitching down feed for the noontime snack of his 60 cows. "I only have so much time to get this work done, so I can't stop," he said. "This is the kind of work you should be doing," he joked. "Taking care of 60 cows and working at another job, too." Mr. Wilcox has an afternoon and evening job as janitor at Berkshire School. "I don't know where all these stories are coming from now. I thought it was all over last year, but now everybody is talking again. "The best one is about me being in a New York City hospital with radiation burns. People have said they heard it on the radio. I've never been in a hospital in my life. "Then some woman put in the newspaper that there was no grass growing where that thing landed. There was never much growing there. But there's corn now. "Nobody ever talked to me about these things. They just keep telling stories." In answer to a question, Mr. Wilcox said his sighting of the mysterious craft and its crew and the widespread speculation over the report has not hurt his personal life. "I just don't worry about it. I know what I saw and other people have seen things. I even thought somebody was playing a joke on me, but I was in the Service for six years and not even jet planes take off that fast." If he had it to do over again, would he keep the incident a secret? "No. I've got nothing to hide. I would report it. If I saw another one today I'd do the same thing. Then people would say I'm crazy." Mr. Wilcox, who is unmarried and lives in the village, feeds and cares for the stock in the mornings. A man whose family lives in the homestead of the 300-acre farm does the milking. Mr. Wilcox also owns a farm near Owego where he grows feed crops, he said. He gives the impression that he would like to believe the whole episode was a joke of some type, yet knows it wasn't. He said he thinks that eventually the explanation will be supplied, to him and the rest of the world. "A man down in Berkshire says he saw something like this recently, too. I'm not the only one." The two human-like creatures whose features were hidden under uniforms and hoods, may not have been space travelers, he said. But he has no better explanation. On his way home, the reporter stopped at a diner and invited flying saucer conversation from the waitress. "That's where they say it landed," she said, pointing out the window. "Right over the hill. I don't think he was stretching the truth. He's a reliable man and if he says he saw it, I believe him. They say there's a spot up there where no grass will grow because of the fuel it was using." Binghamton, N. Y., October 24, 1965 THE SUNDAY PRESS ENCOUNTER WITH A SPACE SHIP 'I Know What I Saw'; Egg-Shaped Craft By KEITH GEORGE Newark Valley-Gary T. Wilcox is a young man dogged by rumors. People say his dairy farm has gone bust because nothing will grow on the land. Others who meet him on the street express surprise, saying they'd heard he was in a New York City hospital suffering from radiation burns. One story has it his land is under guard for government study and that there is a darkened patch in his pasture where nothing will grow. The handsome, 28-year-old farmer says none of these tales is true. That the strangest of all, and the basis for the rumors, is his encounter with a space ship and its crew in the eerie crew 17 months ago. That happened, Mr. Wilcox said. "I know what I saw 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 they 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 seconds, he recalled. In the weeks after he reported the incident to the Tioga County Sheriff's Department, curious people visited his farm by the dozen. They facunded men who said they were from government agencies and others who identified themselves as officials of the IBM Space Guidance Center in nearby Owego, the farmer said. Most were just residents who wanted to see the landing spot for themselves. One man who also claimed to be a saucer-seer told Mr. Wilcox he had hitchhiked from Massachusetts to talk to him. Other spaceship fans telephoned him and urged him to join their organizations. But Mr. Wilcox, who professes he only wants to mind his own business and make a living, steered clear of such affiliations. He had the telephone removed from his dairy barn because it was ringing so often he couldn't keep up with the chores, he said. 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, GARY WILCOX Tuesday, May 10, 1966 * GALLUP POLL Than 5 Million People They Saw Flying Saucers this awareness score is one of the highest in the 30-year history of the Gallup Poll. Flying saucers are a hoax? 10 Philip Easter of Baltimore, Md. told one of our interviewers this alt story: "It was dark and I had ve just come out of a building. I ed looked up and saw this object a- hovering in the dark sky above me. It was very bright and stayed in about the same position for several minutes. At first I thought it was a planet, but I knew it couldn't be because of the way it moved." Harold Stoops tells of the time last June when he was driving through Topeka, Kansas: "It was very late - about 2:30 in the morning. I saw this un-round-shaped object in the sky of stead of me. It was extremely A bright and I could notice a pt. greenish hue. By the time g stopped the car and got out, r had disappeared." A New Jersey housewife was el startled during the night recently: "It was about three in the g morning," she relates, "I was ve suddenly awakened by a very bright light outside. I got and looked out the window. The whole area seemed to be lit up like a phosphorus fire. I could hear strange sounds, like the ringing of bells. I know it sounds strange, but the next day several people about 20 miles away reported a similar experience and at almost exactly the same time." Futher analysis of these dated almost 20 years ago. At that that flying saucer sight-time-shortly after the flying explained. We asked this ques-saucers were first noted-four tion, with surprising results. Al-of certain population out of every ten called the sau-though the Air Force claims flying saucers it is important to that nearly all of the reported, uct of some overheated imagi- "saucer" sightings are easily ported sightings have been ex-balloons, swamp gasses, planets.plained, according to Air Force etc., more Americans think they sightings, there are still many are "imaginary." Fortunate-ly, see things without explanation. (or about half of the U.S. the reality of flying saucers adult population) hold this opin-than are persons with a high. ion, while 28 per cent describe school background, or less. them as "a figment of the imag- Among those persons who be-ination." The rest cannot make lieve flying saucers have an ex-their minds. This represents quite a change planation, (that is, those who in public attitudes toward the think they are "real"), here is credibility of "flying saucers" 1) Experimental projects, since a Gallup survey conduct-Air Force tests 2) Actual vehicles from outer space 3) Burning gas, "swamp gas" 4) Meteors, shooting stars 5) Weather balloons 6) Supernatural revelations Those who believe they are real exist even in the universe, 10 per cent. Life on Other Planets? Do people who are living in the space age believe there is life, as we know it, on other planets? Many scientific authorities believe that intelligent life must exist elsewhere in the universe, because the statistical odds are large that there are millions of planets in the universe enough like our own to support life, as we know it. One person in every three (34 per cent) who participated in this survey said they believe life does exist on other planets. Again, persons with the most education are most inclined to believe in the existence of intelligent life on other planets. THE SHEBOYGAN PRESS, Monday, April 18, 1966 SHERIFF AIDES CHASE A UFO; Were 'Close' RAVENNA, OHIO (AP)--"We were close, closer than I ever want to be again," said a deputy sheriff who chased an unidentified flying object into Pennsylvania. Hundreds of persons in both states reported seeing the "brilliant and shiny" object early Sunday morning. Police Chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua, about eight miles north of Ravenna, said he took a picture of the object from the front yard but the Air Force told him not to release it. Buchert said it looked like "two table saucers put together." Portage County Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur said he and his partner, W.L. Neff, "were close" to the object in separate cars and chased it 86 miles for an hour and a half, from near Ravenna to Conway, Pa., near Pittsburgh. Spaur said he clocked it at speeds up to 105 miles per hour. From the ground Spaur said it looked like the head of a flashlight, about 40 feet wide, and 18 feet high. Spaur said the lines of the object were very distinct. "Something on his body had control over it," he said. "It wasn't just floating around. It can maneuver." The Ventura County (Calif.) 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 area. Mrs. Marvin Miller of 196 Pa-cific St., Ventura, said today that she spotted the object at 8:55 p.m. Wednesday as she and her 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 tail and sparks began to shoot off. This dispelled 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," said Alvin Caples of 831 Olive St., Fillmore.
