APRO Bulletin, January 1982
APRO was entering its final years of publication. The quality of case investigation remained high, with detailed reports from correspondents worldwide.
Sighting Reports
At approximately 3:20 a.m. on the morning of Monday, February 8, 1982, Captain Gerson Britto was piloting a Brazilian VARIG airliner between Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when a UFO was spotted. For one and a half hours the big jet was "escorted" by a "sandwich-shaped" object which displayed
APRO was first alerted to the details of this case by Irene Granchi, our Representative for Brazil. She was surprised and dismayed to learn, upon reading the news coverage of the incident, that J. Allen Hynek, former U.S. Air Force consultant (Project Blue Book) on UFOs for 20 years and head of the
However, airline pilots who were familiar with Captain Britto and the Fortaleza-Rio course, as well as Venus, took Renaldo over the same route at the same time of the morning and got an admittance from him that the object described by the pilot and the passengers could not possibly have been Venus.
Me!llber Mike Melendez has forwarded information concer�ing the close encounter of a reliable couple and an unidentified light on the 29th of November, 1981. Mr. and Mrs. Harold (Helen) Hendsbee had decided to drive from their home in Madison to Farmington, Maine to have dinner. They left home at 5:
(The following is from the third quarterly report of Suomen UFOtutkijat ry, 17950 Kylama, Finland). After a long quiet period the UFO Research of Finland now has interesting news to report. As Finnish UFO researchers were gathering for their annual summer seminar at Kylama in Central Finland some-
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;., and several smaller ones. The large light began to· approach them and the men stopped the boat. Then a black object was separated from the group of lights and flew to the stem of the boat. The object seemed to be covered by a fog and there were two lights on it. Suddenly one of the men was paral
By William L. Moore ©1982 Under the leadership of New York attorney Peter Gersten and a newly revived Committee Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), and with some financial assistance from The Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), events in what seem to be rapidly developing into UFOlogy's "great paper' chase" have
judge to issue a summ ary ruling in favor of the Agency. Based upon the arguments in the classified affidavit alone, without having reviewed even a single one of the documents in question, Gesell wrote in a November 18, 1980 decision that ". . . public interest in (the) disclosure (of NSA's UFO docu
Cibao area of NW Dominican Republic When leaving her country house, a woman observed a luminous object in the sky that was approaching where she was. She noticed that inside were. the heads of humanoids, so she immediately called her neighbors. They could all watch when the beings in the UFO threw d
1. Investigation by Miguel Antonio Fiallo. 2. Investigation by Danilo Rodriguez Dominguez. 3. Santo Domingo Listin Diario, Sep. 22, 1972. Stendek no. 12 (March 1973), p. 16 (Apdo. Postal 282, Barcelona, Spain). Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, Manifiesto OVNI de Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo y Cuba, San Juan
TEXAS - October 26-31, 1981 - Galveston. Residents have spotted an eerie, glowing light hovering over Galveston Island for the entire week. Police and the Coast Guard have been inundated since Monday, the 26th, with reports from Winnie, LaPorte, Texas City and Hitchcock. Galveston County Constable J
CANADA, June 18, 1981 - Alvinston, Ontario Danny Pavey, 11, first noticed the two perfect circles on the lawn last week and his mother said she noticed an airplane. Jay County police also said they had received radio traffic on the night of the 19th that Grissom AFB had them after the grass had been
