APRO Bulletin, September-October 1972
The Pascagoula abduction case was still a year away, but close encounter reports were evolving. APRO was documenting an increasing number of entity and occupant reports worldwide.
Sighting Reports
The South African F lap Mr. Frank D. Morton, APRO's Representative for South Africa, has forwarded a collection of news clips dealing with the 1972 flap in his country which appears to have commenced much earlier than June 26 when the much-publicized UFO shooting took place. However, at this writing
Alexander G. Keul, APRO's Representative for Austria, has forwarded the results of his investigation of the sighting of an object by witnesses in two different locations. At about 8:50 p.m. CET, counciller Friedrich Miksa was driving along Speisinger St. in Hietzing (the 13th district of Vienna). Mi
Hynek is now Head of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University. The book, entitled "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry", was reviewed in The A PR O Bulletin for May-June, 1972. Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recently ran a book rev
over Agsbach Valley in a horizonal trajectory and was in sight for more than 10 seconds. Hering described it thusly: "It was oval and dar}<:, but it had three lights - two red-orange lights and an extremely brilliant one to the right. The brilliant light seemed to come from a ·groove, like some kind
whom the incident was reported, flew over the corn fields in the area of the ground track of the UFO, but no effects were observed. An apparent explosion in Burlington wa s reported to the sheriff just prior to t he sighting, but subsequent investigation showed nothing. Other unknown lights were see
Campos Soccer Case The July-August issue of the Bulletin contained a brief, preliminary report based on press clippings of a sighting of UFOs over a soccer stadium in Campos, Brazil, at 10 p.m. on the 26th of July. The following is added detail supplied by Field Investigator Mrs. Irepe Granchi after
Strange Ground Markings In Norway Richard Farrow, APRO's Representative for Norway, has forwarded the following interesting report which, although it does not involve airborne .objects, deals with strange markings which investigators feel could only have been caused from above. Large imprints on the
Of prime interest in this report is Field Investigator Sandra Thomas's report of her interview with August Brown, 26, of Palm Springs, Florida who works at the control tower at the Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach. He was on duty and personally viewed the UFO on Thursday morning a
Newspapers in Ontario, Canada featured several articles in July and August dealing with alleged repeat sightings by Mrs. Donna Mercer of Campbell's Bay, Quebec. The following is a summarized account based on the investigations of Field Investigator Steve W. Raymond and William G. Cockburn who visite
photographer Ray Jamieson near Broadmeadows North about 10: 10 p.m. on the 19th. On the following night at 10 : 30 four people saw the light and watched it for 15 minutes. It was in the east and stationary, not moving fast. as was the object photographed by Jamieson. Mr. Keith Thomas, Secretary Gene
September 29, 1 9 72, H.J.noi, North Vietnam. A mysterious and unidentified object appeared in the clear blue sky over Hanoi attracting missile fire from the ground but apparently remaining motionless. J ean Thoraval, Hanoi correspondent for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and France-Presse,