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NEW SAUCER PHOTOS: These remarkable photos of Flying Saucers were taken by Dr. Daniel W. Fry,
President of Understanding, Inc., of P. 0. 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, Ore g on in a wooded section, and again near Joshua Tree, Calif. on the desert.
THE WAl,.l. STREET JOURNAL
2 M6nday-, Oiecelfther 13, 1965
New 'Fireball' Raises
An Old Question: Do
Flying Saucers Exist?
Californian, W4o 'Talks' to Men
From the Stars, Says 'Yes'.i
Scientists Assail Air •Force
By ELLIOT CARLSON
Sta.fl .Reporter of TμWALL STR~ET J OtJRN~L
I
They'u back. The latest was sighted a few
, nights ago by residents and· pilots In the north•
ern tier of states and Canada.- They described
t it ·as an orange fireball. ·The Air Force~at tirst
called it an un!dentilied flying object, but now
thinks it was a meteor. f!9me oth·er people
called It a flying saucer. •
Several people say they saw the fireball land
Thursday night. An ll•year•o!d boy in Lorain,
Ohio, says he watched It drop Into the woods
near his home . A woman in Elyria, Ohio, 10
mifes away, claims she saw it plunge into a
.vacant lot across the st!reet from her home.
Others say they saw it streak into Lake Michi
gan. Scientists and police combed a 75-acre
area near Pittsburgh after a woman there stiw
the object crash to earth "smoldering.'!.
I
,· , Despite these witness~s and search efforts,
however, the thing has yet to be found. In this
regard, it is like all oq,er unidentil!ed flying
objects, or UFOs, which are my:sterious be
C¥-\!5~.}Jlel( p.r, sem put neve~ founa . • , ,
Whatever It ttlrna -l>'ll \~ lie-meteor, sate!•
-:Ue-_part, hoax, weather oddity or man ·trom
. ¥&1'1\:-it &PJJlems,0 says a spokesman. •So men from
:Ma.rs are a lot of bunk? Nat neceSsarily, says
the committee. It .believes If congressional in•
vestigation w~uld prove that UFOs "are real
physical objects ... under the control of livlng
beings." As an afterthought, the 'spokesman
says :- ..There are a tremendous iiumber of ego
.mani_acs who have been able to appoint ·them•
selves experts in this field because it's so con-
tused." '
One rna.n who's not confused at all is Charles
.A. ManeY, professor emeritus -0f physics and
mathematics at Defi8.ncE, College in Ohio. Says
The spokesman quickly adds : " We have nei
ther received nor discovered any evidence that
proves the existence of tntraspace mobility or
extraterrestrial life and we continue to extend
e.n open invitation to anyone who feels he pos
sesses any evidence of such vehicles operating
in our atmosphere." And he states: "No UFO
r eport evaluated by the Air Force has ever
given arty indication of a threat to our national
security."
The Air . For.c~•~ ,approac!1 disturbs son:ie
people, however...The Air Force should admit
.there are natural phenomena taking place un
der our noses ot which we know nothing,'• eaye
I. M. Levitt, director ot Fels Planetarium at the
Franklin Insttiute in Philadelphia. He adds :
" The Air Force is trying to ~plaln something
that isn't susceptible to explarlation."
l;tobert Risser, director of the Oklaboma Sci
ence and Art Foundation planetarium at Okla
homa City, believes "the Air Force must have
had it~ star-finder upside down during Aug
ust," when . several reports pf flying saucers
were ascribed by the Aji-r .,ForCe to sightings of
stars. "The constellations of Taurus and Orion
weren't visible at the time the Air Force said
the sightlng{J were made. I think they made an
error.''
• The whole problem, says J. Allen HYJltek,
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 acadeintc cir
cles and fear ot ridicule have slowed the
study," according to Robert Hali, a sociology
professor at the University of Illinois in Chi·
Ce.go.
"The 'IJ)Ossibility of life on Mars ts an un
popular thing to consider these days," says
Frank B. Salisbury, a professor ol plant p'by.
siology at Colorado State University. _At the
risk ol being unpopular, Mr. Salisbury told \he
fifth annual Space Conference this year that
''there qiay be some natural explanation of
~e \hings, but a tentative possib!!lty to ,be
considered is that UFOs are spaceships from
~l:ars." .
Fueling tpe flying-saur,er . contN?versy .has
been the large number of reports from what
many peoj)le consider reliable witnesses- pilots
with technical backgrounds. Since 1947, more
than 100 private, mllitary and commercial pilots
have reported spotting strange objecte in the
Sky, accordfrig to one study.
Pinning down such repqrts is difficult, .how
ever. "Some of the boys did re~r_t things they
couldn!t identify a few years ago," •says I a
spokesman for American Airlines. ' " But our
pilots haven't made a report for years."
Nevertheless, "we havq on file a great num
ber of reports from pilots who don't Want their
names used but still want to tell somebody
what they've seen , claims J. B. Harte.rut, Jr.,
president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots As
sociationi Apd he ~ays: "I haven't drawn any
conclusions myself, bu~ I think we've certainly
got a .good myste:y on our hands. ' '
the professor: "These fbjects are unguestion- r""'----.~-■
ably from outer space. ' He · bases ht§ reasQ.{l
ing on the fact that the objects often interfere
with local electrical circuits, indicat~ to him
they have "a mea~s of propulsion associated
with magnetic fields. ''
"There's Nothing To U"
Such notions are scoffed at by astronomers,
eve "All this is imagination outside the
rea of science," says Donald H : Menzel, di
rector of the observatory at Harvard. "I have
examined Air Force cases and discovered. •that
UFOs all have simple explanations in terms
of well-known natural phenomena. Tfiere's not
one cause, but hundreds. Some are quite spec
tacular, such as reflections from ice crystals or
bright stars, searchlights on clouds -0r high
flying spider webs. But to spme people the exls•
tence of flying saucers is 'e. matter of relfgioUS
fanaticism," he says.
But Mr. Menzel reads inore into the Air
Force data than does the Air Force !tsell. Of
the 9,786 UFO reports m·a.l!e to the Air Force
since 1947, 673 remain cld'sified as •"unidenti
fied ," a spokesman says. He defines this cate
gory as containing sightings, whose pertinent
data can't be correlated with any known object
or phenomena.
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London, Ontario Free Press 3-26-66
100-WatcnUFo--
Disc-Like Object Hoyers,.Rises
For Two Hours East ol Kettle Point
By JIM ETHERINGTON UFO sightings were r~ceived
• Free Press Sarnia Bureau Saturday night as ta{ north
SARNIA - A revolving ob
ject, sighted in the sky east
of Kettle Point last night. was
watched for more than two
hours by about 100 persons.
Lawrence ~resseUe, wh9 op-
4erates a store on the Kettle
Point Indian R~erve, said a.
motorist brought the objecto;.to
bis attention about 8 p.m. He
B&id be looked at it through
binoculars and could_.see red,
blue, green and white lights
fl~hing from the· disc-s}:laped
object.
Mr.. Bressette said it re- ,
rna.ined motionless for about
an hour fla&hing lights, then
slowly .began to rise. Cloud
cover rolled in about 10 p.rn.,
allowing only periodic • sight
ings.
...I've never seen anything
like this," he said . •rwe all
as the tip of the "Thumb'' in
Lake Huron.
Odd lights were reported in
the sky ove'f Oakland County
and the neighboring Detroit
area. Others were reported
westward in the Lansing area.
Dr. J . Alien Hynek of North•
western University, sci~ntific
consultant to the U.S. Air
Fort:e said phenomena seen
at Dexter and Hillsdale on the
night ol March 20 probably
were the result of , swamp
gases.
Sheriff Douglas Harvey of
Washtenaw County and civil
defence director William Van
Horn of Hillsdale Couniy criti
cized Dr-.. Hynek 1s report.
Van Horn said the swamp gas
explanation was an attempt
~o ::explain it away arbUl'.ar~
PEOPLE in North Queens
land 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 hill way to his own
farm, heard a loud hissing noise
above the noise of tlie tractor.
Suddenly about 25 yards
ahead of him, a blue-grey saucer
shaped craft about 25 ft across,
and 9ft high, ros~ vertically to
about 60ft and travelling at a •
terrific speed heaoed • off in a
'south-westerly direction.
saw it. It was low - about 200 1 fl • Sor 300 feet oil the ground to I ymg QUCers
the east. Then it slowly began , G . , p 5-26-66.
om roponenr
On lnvestigallon, a nest
of flattened reeds was found,
the circle being about 30ft
In diameter and since then
four oUler nests Jiave been
founil close bT, aome· of lhe-.ii
new'7 made . .,
During · the last eight months,
no less than Seven different
sightings of Flying Saucers have
been reported in the Nortll •
Queensland press.N.Y. Daily Ntws Dispatch
NEW YORK - The nephew of
lhe late Dag Hammarskjold
has startled America's top
science writers by telling them
he believes ,that ' flyipg saucers
exist and that they come from
outer space.
Knul Hammarskjold, whose
late uncle .was secretary gener•
al of the United Nations, spoke
to a convention here of the avi
ation•space writers associa•
lion.
Hammarskjold also suggested
that our space neighbors ' are
Jecoming more and more inter
ested in what people are doing
on earth.
" The possible existence of
1eighbors in space will, .if con•
Hundreds . of sightseers - have
flocked to the Horseslloe Lagoon
in the Tully District during the ·
last few days to view the circles
.which are partly hidden by
' gense scrub.
The RAAF has taken the
reporls serious!:, enoqh w
uk ·tor clip~• from the
aesls • which , will . be
examined, all(! an:, furiher
flying saucer slchtln&'s ff gas lights
around here since before the
war."
\Mr. Bressette said his bmth
et', Jeffery, also reported see
ing an object over Sarnia. This
one stayed stationary for a
short time then shot across
the o)uff," was Investigating. •
a "greenish ball;" a "flat An • observer at Mather
oval green object with a Air Force Base near Sacra•
long tail and a light at the mentotheorlzed that the ob
end." ject may have been gas res
It was first sighted about !due left from' Nev ad a
4 a.m. and remained In view missile firings which re•
for aJ;>out hall an hour. fleeted light.
A •similar fireball was Sgt. David Tellotson, of
sighted about the same Hollywood division; said the
time from Sacramento and object here appeared to be
from Vanderberg Air Force over Orllt!th Park "It was a
Base, It v,ras reported. bright green splotch, elori-
Vandenberg re.ported no galled, and not blinking," he
I a un c hes during the said. .
preceding 24 hours which The only solid fact emerg•
might account for the phe- Ing: A lot of people.are up at
nomenon and said radar 4 a.m. •