August 1976

In This Issue

Luminous Phenomenon Over the Loddon
Pages 1-2

Mrs. R observed an object “like a car’s headlight on ‘dim’” approaching from the north-east (direction of Mt.

Zooming Light Incident (Rochester-Echuca Highway)
Pages 2-3

Visual content (page 3): Road reconstruction diagram showing Rochester-Echuca highway, the path of the zooming object, the stationary van, and the point where the motorcycle was forced off the road.

Report from Gippsland (Nicholson)
Pages 3

Truck driver saw “a white undulating/swirling mass resembling fire flies” hovering above a 50-foot gum tree on his farm. Watched 3 minutes; brought wife out.

More Maydena Sightings (March-April 1976)
Pages 3-4

March 10: Mr. G.

Motorists Upset by Unexplained Happening (Nemingha, NSW)
Pages 4-5

Summary: Murrurundi motorists, parked opposite the Nemingha Hotel studying a road map, saw a small white car approaching. "A bright light from above descended over the little white car.

UFO Affects Yachts? (Derwent River, Tasmania)
Pages 5-6

TUFOIC checking a reported sighting connected with automatic pilot malfunction on a yacht, 25 April 1976. Crew reported a silver round light that “went off like a TV set.” Yacht on automatic pilot went off course; automatic pilot came on again after about two minutes.

Mystery Lights Over Inlet Puzzle Witness (Leschenault Inlet, WA)
Pages 6

David Harris (59, UK paratroop experience, wide aircraft experience) on maintenance work at Laporte pipeline. Three pale-green fluorescent lights, golf-ball-sized, sped into the inlet’s northern air space, “seemed to define two or three rapid circles,” then formed up and headed at “shattering speed” toward Perth.

The Spanish General Saw a UFO
Pages 7

Gen. Carlos Castro Cavero, chief of the Canary Islands air division, saw a brilliant object hovering above Sabada in eastern Spain for more than an hour.

Reports from America (Compiled)
Pages 7-8

Stanford, Kentucky (6 January 1976): Three women passengers; blimp-shaped object with red lights intercepted car; headache from light intensity; car accelerated to 85 mph without driver’s foot on accelerator; missing time: the women found themselves in Hustonville with no memory of the journey between the two towns; trip took 2+ hours instead of normal 45 minutes. Two women also had burns on the backs of their necks.

Maubeuge, France: “Disc with Portholes”
Pages 8-9

Visual content (page 8): Witness sketch showing a lenticular/convex disc with labeled “Portholes diffusing blue light,” “Orange part,” and “Triangular part which detached itself.”

“Okay, UFOs Are Here - But Why?” (Dr. P.M.H. Edwards)
Pages 9-11

A wide-ranging analytical piece representing 30 years of research. Edwards argues that UFOs are conducting a reconnaissance that is “gathering momentum” and that “samples of minerals, flora, fauna and humans (as well as animal blood in quantities), are being regularly taken away by the beings; mostly along certain straight lines that circle the globe.”

Woman Claims “Dissected Like Frogs” on UFO
Pages 11-12

Sandy Larsen (32), Fargo, North Dakota, claims she, her daughter Jackie (15), and Jackie’s boyfriend were abducted on 26 August 1975. Driving 40 miles west of Fargo, they heard a loud noise and saw “a series of 8 to 10 glowing round objects lined up in the sky, descending toward earth.” She stopped the car.

UFO Conference Two
Pages 12

UFOCON TWO announced for Mt. Gambier, SA, 24-26 October 1976, to coincide with total solar eclipse on afternoon of October 23.

Notable Quotes

“One of intrigue and a rather chill feeling running up and down my spine on realising it was a UFO.” Mrs. R (Glenluce)

“And the next thing I knew she was in the ditch, and the bright light had followed her right across to the other side of the road… I jumped out to see if it was a bike, but it wasn’t.” Miss G. (Rochester-Echuca)

“As a general I hold the same opinion as the Ministry of Aviation, but personally I think that these unidentified flying objects are extraterrestrial spaceships.” Gen. Castro Cavero (Spain)

“The radio fell silent as the sphere got nearer and then landed on a house roof.” Dr. Padron (Canary Islands, on the two red-clothed figures)

“We watched as the cloth she threw away burst into flames.” Nemingha motorists (on burning cloth)

“Conventional atmospheric combustion reactions of the constituents of air do not produce precipitates like the white substance mentioned, under normal conditions.” Bill Chalker (on Nemingha)

“I’ve never seen anything like it before in my life. The speed was fantastic. No aircraft as we know them could have attained that speed.” David Harris (Leschenault Inlet)

“I, too, was once a scoffer, years ago… The attitude of a properly educated person in the face of the unexplained, should be that of inquiry, not of rebuttal.” Dr. Edwards

“His hair is growing back visibly, and a third set of teeth is appearing, and although his schooling did not exceed the first two years of primary school, he is now displaying a high I.Q.” Dr. Edwards (on Ventura Macieras)

“Even our heads were opened and all parts of our brains looked at… we were dissected like frogs.” Sandy Larsen (under hypnosis)