APRO Bulletin, January 1959

The A. P. R. 0. Bulletin is the official copyrighted publication of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (A. P. R. 0.), 1712 Van Court, Alamogordo, New Mexico, and is issued every other month to members only. The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization is a non-profit group dedicated to the eve

The object hovering to the right of the moon in the above picture was observed and photographed by engineer R. M. Azevedo of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on a summer night in 1955. He, his wife and friends were enjoying the evening on the veranda facing Gua nabara Bay when the pictured object was spotted

Is There a LuII? Mos� of us who watch the newspapers for UFO sightings have gradually suc - cumbed to an overwhelming impression that there is a lull in UFO activity. Last September'� expected fl.ap seemed to have scarcely "gotten off the ground." These "transient phenomena of random occurrence" see

J anuary 9, 195 8–A glowing object with a trail of fire was reported pa ssing over Colorado Springs from Northeast to Southwest. The time-5:25 p. m. At about 5 :30 p. m. observers at Albuquerque and Roswell saw something. They said the thing moved from Northeast to Southwest in a straight, flat lin

only newspaper reference to the UFO sighting involved is the rather belated one which we quote in this issue. The source is a deputy sheriff; therefore we can safely assume the incident was reported to the sheriff's office and if so reported it was available to local newsmen. Consider tracks in the

Obiect Punctures Barn Roof At a farm near Tiller, Oregon on 30 D ecember, "something" went through a barn roof, entering on one side a nd coming out the other. The almost level flight of whatever it was through the roof a nd the fact that hills on either side m ade it unlikely that it could have bee

La Razon, 13 May 1958, San Luis. The more and more intense as it came down residents of the locality of Arizona were in a looping trajectory. Coming along the astonished at observing, in full daylight, road from the opposite direction was a an bus; for a moment it seemed as though odd space ship whi

More on SpeciaI Report s The vote of confidence received in response to our proposed issue of special reports is indeed gratifying. It may be in order here to restate, amplify and clarify this proposal. The problem is this : We have more m aterial than can be handled conveniently in our bi-monthly p

Next day, Tom Towers, Aviation Editor of the Los Angeles Examiner, who had heard about the meeting, called a few of the people who had been present and on the basis of these phone c alls wrote a column. The "UFO Investigator" for D ecember 1958 played it up as a front page item. It begins: "A scient

Seattle, Washington, 7 November 1958. Dr. Melvin Calvin, a University of California chemist, stated his belief that living beings, m any of them more advanced than the humans on earth must exist on millions of other planets in the universe. Gainsville, Florida, 29 December 1958. Dr. William M. Sinto

Soviet scientist, Dr. N. A. Kozyrev, reported tonight that he had detected a volc a nic eruption on the moon last week. San Antonio, Texas, 12 November 1958. Dr. Gerald P. Kuiper described Dr. Kozyrev as a distinguished Soviet astronom er. Such a m oon eruption, Dr. Kuiper added, would be a " m ajor

It described the close sighting of an object which caused the observer to feel " a growing desire to join himself to the thing. " He said it was somewhat like hypnosis from what he had observed-although he had never been a successful subject for hypnosis . This individual consulted a competent physi