December 1985
The December 1985 issue of the Australian UFO Bulletin. Dr Robert Sarbacher admits crashed UFOs held by US Government (FSR/Creighton). CAUS Washington Report: Pentagon retaliates against Army employee Larry Bryant for pursuing crashed-saucer records and placing whistleblower ads in military newspapers.
In This Issue
“Top US Scientist Admits Crashed UFOs” (Gordon Creighton, FSR Vol. 31 No. 1)
Pages 2-4
From OMNI Magazine (August 1985), Jerome Clark reports that Dr Robert Sarbacher, whose Who’s Who entry includes Princeton, Harvard, and Dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology Graduate School, and currently Head of the Washington Institute of Technology, admitted in an interview that he knows about crashed craft held by the US Government.
CAUS Washington Report: Pentagon Retaliates Against Larry Bryant
Pages 4-6
“Radiation Sickness Caused by UFOs” (John F. Schuessler, M.S., MUFON Symposium)
Pages 12-17
A detailed scientific paper by the McDonnell Douglas Space Shuttle Flight Operations Project Manager and MUFON Deputy Director, documenting the Cash-Landrum case (29 December 1980, near Dayton, Texas).
“Flight 19: 40 Years On, the Mystery Remains” (Courier-Mail, 11 December 1985)
Pages 10-11
Extended feature on the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of Flight 19 (5 December 1945): five Avenger torpedo bombers with 14 men, plus a Martin Mariner search plane with 13 crew, all vanished without trace.
Paul Norman Profile (Northern Territory News, 16 August 1985)
Pages 9
A newspaper profile of Norman at age 69, describing his 1953 Tennessee sighting (“a massive, silver, cigar-shaped flying object”), the Valentich case (Manifold photographs taken 20 minutes before, object estimated at 320 km/h), and a Gippsland bell-shaped UFO that left a 10-metre ring on the ground and drained a 450,000-litre water tank. Norman: “UFOs often go to water.” In Tasmania in 1959, 37 people watched four humanoids on top of a hovering craft.
Local Australian Sightings
Belgrave, Victoria (Knox-Sherbrooke News, 19 Aug 1985): Sue Walsh (22) saw a flat disc-shaped craft with red, white, and blue lights around the edges, “larger than a 747,” moving swiftly but sounding like it was idling. She tried to contact the airport, UFO Research Bureau, and radio stations: “They weren’t interested and just shrugged it off.”
Editorial (Roy Russell / UFO Encounter, Queensland)
Pages 1, 3
Foreign News
Canada (Gazette, St. Albert, Alberta): John Brent Musgrave, Edmonton ufologist working on a PhD comparing UFO cases to medieval witchcraft, reports a Gallup poll showing one in eight Canadians has witnessed an unidentified object.
Notable Quotes
“The vehicles appeared to be spaceships from another solar system.” Dr Sarbacher (on crashed UFOs)
“Your book was the one that gave us the most headaches because it was the closest to the truth.” Ruppelt to Scully
“It was like a diamond of fire.” Vickie Landrum (Cash-Landrum)
“Where is he now? The Army military policeman who, back in 1978, pursued (and shot dead) a disembarked occupant of a nighttime UFO.” Larry Bryant (CAUS ad)
“They weren’t interested and just shrugged it off.” Sue Walsh (Belgrave)
“I’ve got absolutely no doubt something landed there.” Don Ives (Fingal Valley)
