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R ev. Browning est ima ted the speed of . the sh ip at less than 50 m.p. h. object was stationary for about 30 seconds. A ustralian FLYING SA UCER Review is a NON-PROFIT EDUCA TIONA L PUBLI CA TION.

"Then out of the clouds ab ove and beh ind th e ship, five or six small discs arne sh ooting at terrific speed. " A ccording to th e minister they were approx lmately 3? feet across an flat underneath with a dome on top. The noisless motber sh1 p h ad four vert1 cal bands and at the bow t here wa

The report of the Ta sma nia n clergyma n, Rev. L .Brow ning, fea tured in this ma ga by ur Melbourne zine wa s brought to the a ttention of the Federa l Goe Co-Editor Mr. Peter Norris, LL . D . who w rote this In t1le era ld on October 12: "Is the F dera l Gvernment sa tisfied tha t unf rie

AUTHORITY should not ridicule people who reported flying saucers, the Rev. Lionel Browning said last night,

.A Soviet scient i s t - M .Agre s t , a phy s ico m a t hematician, sugge sts t ha t our plane t ha s been visit ed by unu sual gue sts.

.A very long time ago as no authent ic informa t i on about it ha s b e e n pre s erved. It took place when mankind wa s , a t a ny ra t e , in exi s t ence - most likely thousands or t e ns of t housands y e a r s a go . BY WHA T MEA NS D ID SPACEMEN .ARR IVE HERE? In a rock e t - a huge s paceship

In a rock e t - a huge s paceship capable of s p e e d a pproaching t ha t of light a WHERE D I D THEY COME FROM? .A di s t ant one ce From an inhabited world o f a di s t a nt s t a r. cau s e with t he exception of the Earth in the S olar Sy s t e m t here

Po s s ibly in the Dead Sea are a in t he Ne a r Eas t . It wa s jus t there tha t remains o f puzzling a ncient st ruc t ure s have teen One of these is sit uat e d in the .Ant i-Lebanon Mount a ins , in the c i t y o f Baalbek:

.Apparently, t he y do. No one ha s ever Tekt i t e s -myst eri ous glassli ke s t one s. Howeve r , rad i o a ct ive i s o t op e s of s e en t hem f a ll on the Earth.

Re s e arch i s required. The first method . One of t he s t ars clo s e s t t o the Eart h , who s e plane t s , according t o scient i s t s,are p o s s ibly inhabit ed by ra t i ona,l be ings i s i n the cons t ella t i on o f the Wh a l e ( Cet us ) named a f t er a Gre e k let t er Tau.

EST NECESSARY ? In order tha t w e prove once a ga in the limitless possibilities of the human ( The interview w ith M.M. A grest was recorded by P . Ga lkin and M. C hernin. Illustra tions by B . Vla sov. ) THE EXTRA TERRESTRIA LS

"Albury Bord er Morning Ma il" featu red a provoking arti cle on '16t h March , '196'1 entHl e d "SAW S PAC E SHIP HEllli?" which is re produced below . An inv es t ig& ti ng te u m of the .Au stra l ian FI,YI NG SAUCER Review comp osed of Pe ter Norris (Victoria Co -Edit o r), Colin McCarthy , Pe t

"I went outside and s aw a strange s ight o n the ed ge of the water . At first I thought it was a camp but wo nd e red how the peop l e occupying it co uld have pa s s ed o ur caravan without hearing them . " "The camp appeared to be a large caravan with fou r wind ow s with a red light

"The flame was not constant . It would flare up , showing someone standing near it and then die down again to almost nothing before flaring up agai n," Mr. Reynolds related . He looked again at 9 . 30 p .m. but was surprised to see the

A Barnawartha resident Mrs.D. Anders o n told him t hat before 10 p . m. she saw a yellow type of light whi c h move d eas t t oward Beechwortn . She had never seen any t hing like it .

SKY OBJECTS' THE AIR FO·R CE was trying to whitewash his report of flying objects fn the sky above Cressy in October, the Rev. Lionel Bl"owning said yesterday.

Mr . Browning said that the sighting by the woman and dau ghter backea up his story. _"Ob viously the Air Force i s covering up, otherN is e the investigators would not have impressed OP_ th e woman ana dau @,hter not to sa;y anything," he saia . · Mr . Browning described the Air Force explanation o

Browning said that the repor t c on tradicted a l e tter wri tte n to Mr . Duth ie, M.H.R . in a nswer to a question asked in Parliament by Mr . Duthie.

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On Thursday, l.9th September, 1963 at approximately 8 p. m. a telephone call came from a man living at Mt. Eliza, reporting that he and his family had watched an unusual object in the sky a little earlier that night. He was not sure of the- -exact tirne. The object, about 20 degrees to 30 degrees ab

"West Australian", Fe rth, W. A. 4th Dec. , 19 63. KALGOORLIE, Tuesday - Several people telephoned the Norseman police

Tuesday - Several people telephoned the Norseman police last night wi th reports of a possible disabled air- craft after an unidentified lighted object had passed over the town. A number of Norseman people went to the area where they thought the object might have landed, but found nothing. A police

"Courier Mail", Brisbane, Q. LAIDLEY - A group of mysterious flying objects yesterday "buzzed"

"Courier Mail", Brisbane, Q. 24th ·Dec. , 19 63. LAIDLEY - An extensive search yesterday by the Geirkie family failed to find the mystery flying objects which narrowly missed their

Ronald said the objects were bright, but not glowing, and one appeared to be 1 ft. by 9 ins. in size, and was travelling s lightly lower th1.n the other eight or nine. The family plans to organise a ·further search for the objects over the holidays.

lGth Jan. , 19 64. LONDON - Thur. - More than 400 man-made objects - some of them "junk" - are now circling the earth. Many may remain in orbit for hundreds of years, the British Aviation magazine Flight reported today.

Scores of people rang the Sun last night to report a light in the sky above Melbourne. For 20 minutes from about 9. 10 the calls came from people at East Preston, Parkville and Ashburton.

Bairnsdal e, Vic. 24th April, 19 64. Most people are sceptical about reports of "Unidentified Flying Objects" in the sky, and Mr. Henry Ryan, of Rupert Street, Bai rnsdale, was one of them. Now, however, Mr. Ryan is not at all sure, because he has seen something quite inexplicable.

During the past two decades, artificial barriers con structed by orthodoxy concerning outer space have been shattered. Only a few years have gone by now since the preva.iling opinion of as t ronomers was that our solar system was an accident; a sun hurled by our sun resulting in great chunks being

This article was written by a member of V. F. S. R. S. who has been connected with studies in atmospheric sciences. It is an established fact that some of the reports of moving hghts u the night sky have turned out to be the planet Venus o

Readers who are interested in keeping abreast of current happenings in the saucer field may find this list of overseas publications of interest. Subscriptions must be sent to the magazine concerned, Flying Saucer Review, 31 Furnival Street, London, E.C. 4. £1/ 6/ - (stg) .

Under this heading, the Melbourne "Herald" recently The Ballarat Astronomical Society will invite research workers and scientists from other States to attend or contribute papers or tapes to a public meetig next February on flying saucers. This was decided after a recent lecture in Ballarat on

The Ballarat Astronomical Society has been studying Unidentified Flying Objects for a number of years. The success of Peter Norris's lecture in Ballarat City Library on 15th February, when the hall was more than filled, has encouraged the society to make this an annual function, and to enlarge the g

PUB LICATION BY NICAP OF "THE UFO EVIDENCE"". "The UFO Evidence". Published by The National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena ( NICAP ) , 1536 Connecticut Ave. , N . W. Wahsington, 36, D. C. Richard Hall, Editor. May, 1964. We have no way of knowing when the mystery of what the flying sau

By Paul Norman. Why does officialdom continue a "cover-up policy" with regard to flying saucers? To realize this, one needs only to Missile men at a base in Maryland, N.J. , reported a

Many readers will recall the significant sighting made in Tasmania a few years ago by Rev. Lionel Browning. A New Zealand woman who read a newspaper account of it later wrote the following letter to him giving a most remarkable first -hand report of a sight ing which she made in 1959. The full acco

gravity could just as well describe anti-gravity by a simple change of a minus sign to a plus sign. " A FIERCE NEW LOOK AT UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

By Paul Norman. The recent sightings of unidentified pulsating objects manoeuvring in the skies of Victoria have given additional evidence that UFO's, commonly called "flying saucers" are gravity powered space ships and Australian Parkes Radio Telescope is now playing a key role in a new discovery w

At 5. 55 p. m. on 12th June, 1964 a sighting of an unidentified saucer shaped object took place at Hallam, 25 miles east of Melbourne. While travelling along Dandenong Road, five witnesses in two cars· saw a stationary red light about 40 degrees above the horizon. On turning off onto Hallam Road, th

In evaluating the above sighting several points can be mentioned to support its validity . (a ) The par ents of both Mr. Preston and Miss Stevenson, although them selves very sceptical regarding UF O's, stated that they believed their children's reports to be factual in eve ry rega rd

AN ANGLICAN PRI EST CONTACTS PI LOTS OF AN UNKNOWN CRAFT OVER NEW GUINEA The extraordinary experi ence of the Rev . Father Wil liam Booth Gill i s unique in t he history of unidentified flying objects research . Father Gill i s an ordained priest of

SUPPORT REV . FATHER GILL' S CASE ? A strip of mot ion picture fi lm containing ninety- f our fr ames c orroborates the New Guinea sighting of Reverend W. B. Gi ll . Thi s i s the so- called Port Moresby film taken by T. C. Drury , Deputy Direct or of the Civil Aviati on Department i n New Guinea, o

I n or der t o get a statement from Canber ra on the New Guine a s i ght i ng s , Mr . Peter Nor ri s , LL . B. , t he Pr e s i dent of the Vic torian Flyi ng Saucer Re se arch Soci ety wrot e t o t he Director of Ai r Forc e I nte l l i genc e on 12th September , 1959 . Hi s l ett er r e ads : "De

DO COSMIC VI SITORS USE THE MOON AS A BASE ? Not until more space stations or bit around the moon , or the rocket s actually land there would the first questi on be answered . Because of the absence of wat er and atmosphere plant and animal life of the terrestrial type can not exist on the moon . Bu

Portugal ' s delegate , Dr . Vasco Garin, told the United Nations on October 27th that the Soviet proposal fo r total wor ld disarma~ent raised many delicate questions . He said i t was not absurd to imagi ne a sudden inv c.si n of earth by " aggressive warriors" from aDother cel est i al body . "Ou

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A sub- committee of the VFSRS has recently been set up under the direction of committee member s Norman Hall and Judy Magee t o establ i sh a state - wide o rga~i sat i on known as the Vi ctorian UFO Observer Corps, which will operate under the aegi s of the Society . More than 150 country newspaper

- - - - - - - - - ADDRESSES VFSRS MEETING Approximately 230 persons attended a public meeting organi sed by the VFSRS at Nicholas Hall, Melbourne , on October 28th , to hear Father Gill describe hi s recent s ightings of UFOs over New Guinea . The audience listened raptl y t o Father Gill ' s hour-

Moscow, 1955) Is there life on other planets? This question i s one of the deepest and most complicated which exc i te the human mind . Even the nearest planets are separated from earth by an abyss of universal space . Is i t possible to ascertai n correctly the presence of life

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A bright orange - col our ed flying ob ject was seen at Woomer a r ocket range on July 20th . It was not associated with any range firing , authoriti es sai d . A forecaster at the Woomera meteorological offi ce stated that the object was s i ghted at 10 . 15 p . m., and remained v i s i ble f or 15

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·IHIIIIIIIliiiiiiiiiiiiJIIIII.J.II' The January 1960 issue of the Australian Flying Saucer Review described sightings of UFO's reported over New Guinea in July 1959, by the Reverend William B.Gill, a young Anglican clergyman who had spent

Suspicions of Mr. Peter Norris regarding the Air Force cover up are confirmed by a letter to him from the Directorate of Air Force Intelli gence dated February 22,960. "However, although it is not possible to reach any positive conclusions, we do not believe that the phenomena observed by the Reve

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S I G H T I N G FormerR. A. A. F. Chief - Air Marshal Sir George Jones (pictured below in wartime uniform) has admitted seeing an unidentified flying object on October 6,957. In a statement made at WarburtonVictoria on January

"Radar will tell us what Venus' real sulfac e is like. From the way the echoes are scattered, the men watching the will know whether they are looking at land or radar screens water. Thus we will know if Venus, which is roughly the same

SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT SIGNALS FROM SPACE BY U.S. RADIO ASTRONOMERS

BY U.S. RADIO ASTRONOMERS

According t o t his new t heory the destruction of

by Prof. R. N. BRACEWELL, Fadioscience Laboatory, Stanford Universi ty , Cal ifornia ( formerly of Commonweal th Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation in Austral ia ) . Since Morrison and Cecconi published

Th e fol l owing back numb ers are availabl e at 2/- or 30 cents per copy : Vol. l, No. l featuring the Rev. Gill's New C7uinea UFO sightings, Life on Mars, etc. Vol. l, No. 2 featuring Austral ian Air Force Cover-up of New Guinea investiga tions , " Cosmic Ship" crash etc. Remit to Austral ian FLY

by ALEXANDER KAZANTSEV Q.uite a number of arguments are being advanced t oday in favour of the theory that thinking beings from other worlds have al ready visited our planet.

ae.le ia aetera. B1!'4'J tail and. le& to, ript . .... tiprea oa grou.d in ltaaoa, Pen. ANGfLS AlE MEN- F.ROM SPACE

The idas of .Alexander Kazantsev that angels are men from space find serious corroboration in the Bible. .According to Genesis 19:3 Lot took the two angel s he met at the gate of Sodom to his house " and made them a feast, and did bake unl eavened bread, and they did eat." Bu t according to diction

When H. G. Well s wrote his famous .story in 1895 the TIME MACHINE no one took him seriousl y. To paraphrase Wells, it was because he was "a man thinking the thoughts of a wiser age, doing things and bel ieving things that men now cannot

U F 0 S UNDER I NT E LLI GENT C 0 NT R 0 L NICAP Maiority Conclude Obiects Interplanetary

Cochran, electronics expert; screens detected an on_., * Wll catleil. to._ NOB.ODY a g ed

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The objects emerged from a rainstorm. The R.A.A.F.'s suggested

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wteks Threo days later the 1 tum", Mr. Moffat said

Dear Delilsavi lle. Mr. Motla t said toda)' he 1'bre dan ..,_ while • ored off Delissav ml in the had waited until colour pic- ch ffat spotted an

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Americ an sc ientists can give no e xplana t ion what soever for the object which was photographed by X1 5 pi lot Robert White on July 1 7, when he sky roc keted to a world airplane a ltitude record of ne arly 60 mi les . "It is imposs ible to e xplain the objec t ' s presence a t this time , " Spa

Wa lker sa id , "all I know is wha t Authorities Still Can't Identify the Object (Arrow\ appeared on the film in later study . Which Pilot Bob White Saw and Photographed -NSA Photo via Assoclar.d ,.,.... w;,..llr.a

"Second Officer Igna z io C iccolella of the Licerian S . S. Lagunilla s, Capt. Klinger , Ma ster , reported the follow ing: A t 01 1 5 G. M . T . ( 1:15 a . m . ) Feb . 20, 1962 , in lat. 25 - 568. , long . 34- - 59E . , on passage from Kuwait to Montevideo , a luminous body wa s o cserved. It appe

On October 27 , 1 959 as the U. N. Genera l A ssembly was discussing world dis armament, Por tuga l' s delega te Dr . Va sco Garin remarked tha t the concept of total

This bre a thta king projec t for a gigantic s tar year wa s initia ted a t Green Bank, West VirginiaAcademy

reported three

rrgble t ess;,= system were impinging IRISH PJLOJ upon the earth.

upon the earth. The question. they said, was how and where to SAW "SAUCER" look for them One scientist. Dr. Philip DUBLIN, Tues. (A.A.P.\.. Morrison, Professor of Reuter). - An Irish Inter·

A mysterious electrical impulse pre vented the Ranger 3 'apace-craft from taking television pictures of the moon Scientists at the Cali- Went Out Of fornia Institute of Tech- Control

BY ''IMPULSE"· NEW YORK, Sun. scientists conferred secretly on the possibility of communicating

Peter E. Norris LL.B. Judith M. Magee

GUEST EDITORIAL. The Scientists of this wonderful world in which we live have opened up such vistas of adventure for youth that what has passed in human endeavour pales almost to insignificance. Where our fathers toiled under sail or on foot into formerly unknown realms

TACT WITH SPACE TRAVELLERS?'r We commend it to our

How much of a gap is there today between our best and the more backward in New Guinea or the Aucus·of South America, where five missionaries were killed only a few years ago, or more recently in Africa.

Africa is awed or cowed by a modern helicopter, what difference would there be between us and greater cultures, should we come to close quarters with a Space ship from another Planet. Our values of right and wrong, family behaviour, moral :values, ·science, religious observances, and spiritual drive

"The discs use a means of propulsion different from ours. There is no other possible explanation - flying saucers come from another world". WILLIAM LEAR - PRESIDENT - LEAR INC. (MAKERS OF AIRCRAFT AND ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT) :

Have you tried to bridge the gap between. ourselves (the White Australians) and our native Aboriginals? Unfortunately a tremendous amount of goodwill seems to fail, in our short term efforts and it will be many years before we are completely at ease with each other.

"Flying saucers have an extra -terrestial origin. Americans nor Russians are capable of constructing machines of this sort. The characteristics of the discs are ·clearly superior to prese

WHICH COULD BE SEEN BY MANY TOUSANDS OF PEOPLE? There is some evidence that this has happened over Fatima, Washington, and other prominent places, but, accept ing our space Brothers "kn0wledge"_, of our own weaknesses and unsuitability, we doubt it; they will repeat this without a very obvious- cha

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A 17-year-old Mount Gambier apprentice mechanic saw an odd-looking flying object whilst driving at night between Glencoe and Mount Gambier, South Australia, on May 20, 1963.

The youth did not want his name released because people would think that he was "crackers''.

"The object was on one side of the road and I thought it was a truck or a bulldozer," he said. "When my car was about 20 yards away a bright light came on I pulled up and the object moved and dazzled me.

On May 26, 1963, at 6.50 p.m., Fred Pfeiffer, of Mac desfield, South Australia, had a strange experience. As he came out of his country house he noticed a lumin ous globe in a clear space of the sky. At first Pfci!Ter mistook it for a rocket launched from Woomera.

.\ resident of \\- illaston, 27 miles north of Adelaide, saw a :strange red-glowing object at close range near Sandy Creek as lw was returning from Lyndoch, at 9.30 p.m. on Junc 28, 1963.

A railway cxamtncr, wlule cyc:ling home, saw a strange ct·aft \\ ith square, lighted windows, ho\·cring over .\'orthficld and \'atala. South Australia. on July 22, 1963, at about 6.35 p.m. He ;,;aid it appeared to be rcvoh·ing and hovering

On Thursday, September 19, 1963, at about 8 p.m., half the population of South Dudley, a small mining town in Victoria, watched a glowing orange ball move slowly across the sky out to sea.

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How freakish can whirlwinds be?

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phenomenon was discovered? Vital Statistics. (i) Frequency of severe local wind storms in tropical Australia. To answer the above question we shall consider the research in wind structure and damage patterns

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(v) Length of path. Of 49 cases that could be included in the statistics, 13 had path lengths half a mile or less; 8 had half to one mile;

I ha, •· jul'l talkd "·ith a man l'a·" hf' "a"- a flying "aucr. A '' matter 1)1 fact, he •ee•.

Points Of View

speaking of galactic civilizations , Professor Bracewell, of Stanford University, said: "Would not other, more advanced societies be doing what we ourselves are on the point of doing , probably during this

On 6th June, 1962, at I 1.:0 a.m., six silent UFOs flying erratically, high in a cloudless sky, attr.acted the attention of residents of "Shalimar", Caroda, N .S.W. The first of these resembled a very brilliant star and climbed slowly to an altitude slightly south of the zenith , where it became too

Sunday night, 23rd May, 1965, had been like any other Sunday night at the lonely Retreat Hotel, on Eton Range, 40 miles from Mackay, Queensland. Five minutes after midnight, however, when the licensee, Mr. J. W. Tilse was cleaning up the bar and getting organised for the next day, things . began

Incredulity at first, then fear and curiosity were the emotions of Antonin Gulka, medical graduate from Europe,

On the night of 13th September, 1965, just after midnight, on the road near Boggabri , N.S.W., a low-flying cigarshaped object with a 30-foot tail, a space capsule-like nose cone and the speed of a jet plane, terrified two motorists. One, a paper truck driver, Mr. C. J. Willis, who reported the sigh

At least 50 people at Hay, N.S.W., saw what appeared to be the same mystery object, off and on, over a period of nearly a week. The first time the object appeared was on Sunday, 19th September, 1965, at about 9.30 a.m. One of the men who saw the thing was Mr. G . Hamm,

Villagers at Koka, about seven miles from Goroka . T.P.-N.G., were startled and scared on October I, 1965, when they saw a fiery object rise trom the local cemetery. InspectOr Brian Beattie, of Goroka Police, and Civil Aviation Department Othctal, JV!r. Barry Lord, saw it, too.

When Mr. Quigley, who lives at Adelaide, w.ent out to shift his spnnkler at about ~.30 on one humid night last year, tlying saucers couldn t ha ve been further from his mind. But he remembers the 23rd November, 1965, as the day he saw an aircrart which was not ot thts world. lt flashed a blinking li

In January this year the Queensland town of Tully· attracted world-wide attention when a flying saucer was sighted leaving "nest" · markings behind in the swamps. However, for Tully inhabitants, the flying saucers are not news at all. They have been visiting the area for well over a year.

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for civilian scientific research into the reality and nature of U. F. 0. and they expect a report from the 100 scientists who will be contributing to the project,

YOUTH WILL SHOW THE WAY (Continued from the previous page.) I am often staggered by the thought of the vastness of our un iverse and

President of the Phillipines. This wonderful message from such a distinguished and exalted man gave us all great encoura gement and buoyed me up with enthusiasm for my assignment in J apan. Another message was received by the CBA from no less a person than President Nasser of the United Arab Republi

wife and two sons where he remains active w ith the V.F.S. R.S. Vice President & Sighting Investigations

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Mr. W. Wilson on 1/4/67 at 2 a.m. observed an

New Zealand airline capta i n h a s produced a devastating n e w theory that flying sa ucers ore estab lish ing an intricate g rid a round the ea rth's su rfoc;e.

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I N Melbourne a s part o f a world-wide cam paign t o clear u p the flying-saucer mystery is American Professor James E.· · McDcu\ald.

the grids physical propor "I believe the lntersec- . tions are being covere d sys tematically " h e said.

Flying saucers and other we:rd phenomena will be the main topic for discussion for a group just formed in Canberra. The · group is the

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U.F.O's and mystery signals from Outer Space by PAUL NORMAN What reason l ies behind the concentration of

Study Began in 1966. "Nothing short of an all-out Cong ressional inves tigation into 20 years of mishan d l ing o.f the p hen omenon of unidentified flying objects Wil l suff1ce to

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Mr, Crooye toW an Slftet. oboerved tile 00. Advc>tate """'"er that jed at llhoat 9.15 a.m. he .,... drivlna a Ilona the U_.-le IIMil (Coadbued on Pap v·· "'' ··"'''·'''>!-. had told her about sighting the mL'>Sing spa<:eeraft

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In addition to these two views, there Is the borderline "mystical" aspect of ufology which, If not directly confusing, undoubtedly brings a great deal of uncertainty into the subject. It would seem reasonable, therefore, to consider a set of values which could be used in investigating flying

All measurements are subjected both to random fluctuations from the motion of the universe and to an unknowable amount of disturbance by the technique of measurement itself. In attempting to make the same measurement over and over again, it has been found that the fluctuations in some types of measu

A set of measurements can be abbreviated in many different ways. Thus there are always many different laws compatible with the same experimental results within the errors of their measurement. A rule called Occam's Razor is applied to select the particular law used for a given set of results. This r

Scientists and ufologists share a common interest in the possibility of extra-terrestrial intelligent life. This raises the problem that the conditions on Earth in which we evolved are rather rare in the Universe. Other life is much more· likely to have evolved, not only under different conditions f

with which we are familiar all have some resistance to the passage of electricity. Superconductors have zero resistance to electric currents, allowing the

The nucleus of an atom is made of this, and so are the recently discovered neutron stars. Only very high energy particles are able to approach close enough to a nucleus to interact with it. This is why giant accelerators and syncrotrons are built to investigate this state of such

These are used in transistors which are used in computers. They occur naturally, e .g ., the galena crystals used in the early days of radio. This, and the fact that out of semiconductors we can construct machines that almost display intelligence, makes the semiconducting state a fair contender for

One way a scientist looks at life is in terms of information. Our nerves typically can allow one impulse of information to or from the brain every one-tenth of a second. This defines the shortest t i me on which we are aware. If we live for about 100 years or 1 0 " seconds , this means that we can e

Extra -terrestr ial life that looks like us probably evolved on a planet rather than on , say, a star or deep in space. Are p l anets common? Planets circling stars other than our own Sun cannot be seen d irectly with even the most powerful telescopes. Such planets would be much too small compared w

This theory requires that two stars pass closer to each other than 10-1 light year (tha radius of Jupiter's orbit) . The tides that each star would raise on the other are supposed to separate off and condense into planets . Stars travel at 1 0 -l light year per year and are separated

When a heavy star reaches the end of its nuclear fuel it collapses. Just as when a TV tube collapses when cracked, the implosion turns into an explosion and the star disintegrates violently. This is a supernova . About half the stars we see in the sky , when examined with a

Vice President JUNE HARRISON Assistant Secretary

· Treasurer BILL STAPLETON Sightings l nve.stigations

Comments by Pau I Norman The C ond on Report , ent itled "Sc ient ific Stud y of Unid entified Flying Obj ects" , sets a new preced ent in report writ ing by beginning with the

that I later found e laborated in press clippings made availabl e t o me by the officers of a very cred itable private UFO group tn Melb ourne ( VUFORS)" . C ont inued Page 19

A s ight ing occurs; is reported t o the S ociety ; at this point S ight ing Report Form "A" is sent out to be filled in by the witness and re turned to the Socie ty . (This form is a preliminary one which will

Evaluat ing.& sighting is not the easy task t hat many may think . It involves the S ight ings Officer in many hours of cyphering through the rela tive informa ti on of the report bef ore he is able to produce the

The following report was prepared by Capta in Gordon w. Smith , Murchison A ir Seices - Southern Airlines of We stern Australia.

A lB E R T W I l K I N S 0 N W I L l I A M

Vice P resident Secretary (Acting) Sightings Investigation$

Min.utes Secreta ry

the possibility of life

Decembe r 9, 196. Dear Mr. Norman, WE WISH TO STRESS GENTLEM\:N

THE IMPARTIAl UNBIASED NATURE OF OUR INVESTIGATIOt4 INTO TillS UfO tiOHSENSE••• ...... ::--:-

In this ed i tion we make public, for the first time, a letter from the Editor of The West Australian. The l ette r ( see pag e 9) concerns one of the most in t e r s tin g UfO encounters eve r to occur ove r Aus t rali a.

Bumie, Tas. MR ROBINSON

Amberley· said: "We re - A mystery spal'e ceived many reports of an The BrisiJane Weather object in the air south

No.3. (Dec.)

S T A P L E T 0 N.

P ress Cuttings. Mate rial appearing in this publi cation may be reproduced with app ropriate cred its. "Aviators" of Antiquity ( Reprinted f rom CANADIAN UfO REPORT) .

E N G I N ES -A SPACE PROPUL SION

As PRESENTED TO A GENERAL MEETING or THE VICTORIAN u.r.o. RESEARCH sociETY.

by L.E.Ad a m 1. REQUI REMEN TS Of SPACE VEH ICLE P ROPULSION:

cost of 12? million. Payload then becomes a most valuable commodity. Thus, efforts have been made to extend the u seful payload capability without increasing the launch

All known substances, · to a greater or lesser degree, a re capable of being electric ally charged either positively or negatively. In this process the minuscopic pa rticles o f the elements accept the cha rge individually.

scien tis t s w h o read

by Michael McNamara

by Devin J. Meyers

ION E NG INE S - a space propul sion lecture. by l . E . Adam UFOS OVER SOU T H AUS TRALIA - 1 9 71. compiled by the Aeria l Phenomena Research Group and by U . F . O. Research & I nvestiga tion , both of Sou th A u s tra lia.

(from page 2 ) where along. the line of his development he would have had to free one pair of legs to allow them to become hands. The only way to

P. G. Gittins

''On this sloping roof, the principal figure which I have just alluded to, was drawn in order to produce the greater effect, the rock about it was painted black and the figure itself coloured with the most vivid red and

NEYS I N NORTH WEST AU STRAL IA tell us that on March 26th of that year Grey was travelling through the Kimberleys and, while looking at the towering sandstone rocks, he "suddenly saw from one of them a most extraordinary large figure peering down upon me. Upon examin

THE WONDJINA PAINTINGS nd having evidently a very different origin to those which I have first described.

Assistant Secretary 8 R I S T 0 l

by r . w . H . Wilks ACTIVITY OVER TASMANIA - 1971. compi le d by the Tasma n ian U.f.O. Investigation Centre

Contributions published do not necessarily reflect the policy of the V.U.F.O.R.S.

A PERIODICAL

by G.D. Fawcett

THE SEA UP NORTH WITH ONE CAUGHT IN THE SECU RITY NET!

Queensland Bureau and reported by Reverend Cruttwell:-

CAPIO also wrote to the Director-General Civil Aviation. Their reply also was negative and concluded with an error. The DCA letter

PROJECTS OF AUSTRALASIA. been undertaking research projects on various aspects of ufology as this article discloses. -VUFORS·····•···•·•··· · · ·• · • ·•·· ····· ··•···•······•··

· "It is more difficult to provide examples of

The report continued: "the Apollo 16 spaceship, 'Casper', myster iously exploded today, twelve days after ret urning three American astronauts to earth". A tank cart which had earlier been drawing

(from pae 3 ) being accompanied by an unknown craft. The UFO was described as oblate with what the pilot thought were exhaust gases coming from it. The UFO paced the DC6 for from ten to The pilot, co-pilot and