APRO Bulletin, July 1959
The Papua New Guinea sightings by Rev. William Gill gave APRO one of its strongest cases. Meanwhile, Dr. Olavo Fontes was documenting a wave of encounters across Brazil that remains one of the most concentrated clusters in the record.
Sighting Reports
The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Fri., May 29, 1959-0tis T. Carr, president of OTC Enterprises, Inc., and two employees of his coutroversial "flying saucer " corporation Thursday were barred by a federal court from selling stock. The temporary restraining order was issued by District Judge Ross R
A cluster of extremely bright lights were observed by the pilots of five different transpacific planes early on the morning of 11 July 1959. First to report the sighting was Captain George Wilson (19 years flying experience), commander of Pan-Am World Airways flight No. 865 which had left Frisco for
A 12th Naval District spokesman said that there were no naval operations in the area at the time. Crewmen of the planes were interrogated by Air Force investigators in Hawaii immediately after they landed. A Vandenberg Air Force Base spokesman states that they had no firing at the time.
(With the following reports, we introduce J. Escobar Faria, long-time friend and fellow researcher [Editor, "UFO Critical Bulletin"] who has recently become an honorary member of A.P.R.O., because of his great contribution to the field of UFO research and his critical and accurate reporting. Formerl
identity) telling about the case. He decided to go to Salvador in order to make a personal investigation. He found that a complete investigation had already been made by the Army's Intelligence agents. He repeated it and came to the same conclusions, which are the ones reported in his article. He wa
Las Vegas, Nev., 17 June 1959 (AP)- An unidentified flying object-visible to the naked eye but not radar-streaked across Nevada skies last night. It was the third mysterious sighting in the Las Vegas area in three weeks. An airman at the Air Force radar installation at Angels Peak, 30 miles northwes
(Editor's Note: Full acknowledgment and thanks are due Lex Mebane and . Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York for the following extraordinary observation which is the result of an interview by Lex Mebane and which was brought to members' attention through the medium of the pages of the excellent
at one frequency a very strong signaI was received. It was a rapidly modulated single tone, somewhat like Morse code in effect -but not Morse, which would have been recognized. Mr. Jacobsen could not recall the frequency, but thought it was in the vicinity of 2.5 or 25 megacycles (not 14.286 megacyc
