APRO Bulletin, September 1953
APRO was barely a year old, operating from Tucson on a shoestring. Coral Lorenzen was collecting reports from a global network of correspondents at a time when the Air Force's Project Blue Book was the only official game in town.
Sighting Reports
Fo news from the announced big and what have you. In 19^7, the AF, pressed with a saucer convention supposed to have problem about which tby knew next place at the Hollywood Hotel to nothing, issued statements right in. 'JolDywood, California the lattei and left, not bothering to cogitate cf August,
MANS?" is an eye-catcher in this magazine, and most interesting even to the uninitiated in saucer lore. Le Roy Thorpe does a good job combining suspense and specu lation in this one, but again we wonder about the lack of details on these various incidents of peo ple being literally 'sucked' up into
July 25-26„ Souchen dispatched "to Sudbury to For 15 minutes residents swamped investigate reports but Air Force's radio stations with reports of red findings never released. lights which rose from the ground, SWEDEN (No date, report not de Plane seen tailed). Small cigar-shaped object hovered for s
E to W, it appeared to be at an altitude of about 8-10,000 feet cago station report blue fireball landed in Lake Michigan close to the but had no vapor trail and moved soundlessly. Another Tauranga res ident reported simultaneously see ing a beautiful example of shoot ing star.
SUDBURY, ONTAR, CAN. April 12. Object heading northwest toward Chelmsford at what Read guessed to Six Coniston men watched shining cigar-shaped object glowing above be 2000 mph. Going much too fast Frood-Strobie mine for more than for a plane, didn't make same sound said Read, who is-familiar with j