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Articles in This Issue
ATN Channel 7 program on November 17th featured in its session uThe Burning Que!:r'Gionv' a discussion "CAN MARTIANS BE CHRISTIANS?" The Rev.. Dr. Mal col .lfackay remarked that "living things" on other planets would probably not be morally and· spiritually
Four ast onomers a·t the Commonwealth Obser"Va·ory 7 Mount Stromlo {Can erra) early on Fridays Novemb e r 8th watched for eight minutes a bright pink obJect in the sky and they do not know what it is.
It ts rather amusing to note th...;,n a UFO hab been se .n he same observatorJI ha.t gave .B.·- ta·n qr, Ast"t"onomer RoyaJ Professor Ric 1a d V oollcy a con_;/j_! .ed UFO sceptin.. Woolley re ,ar
On Monday September 16th about 7e30 p .. mo Les McDonald, and Gladys Smith, 14r were passing a dark bush road in Sm..i. thfield nea.r Fairfield !I on the way to a bus s to p , when they saw a red light in i;he .:Grees.
Jack Stephens, 15, of Galt, Ontario observed a round dome-topped object on July 30th for 45 minutes. The UFO h vered almost on the ground. I ts lower part was aluminium o oured and the upper seemed to be chromium.. The dome did not rotate, but the lower part did. The ship made a throbb"n
In B'-=.thurst, rr .S. W. a nu.mber of i!flying saucer" sightings were reported on. 7th Norember.. S c o re s of people were pointing towards a shiny object in the sky
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N e i .. C . A .. P .. Ma j o r Donald Keyho e i s Di re (! t o r o f th e Nat i ona l Inve s t " ga t i o n C ommi t t e e o f A e rial Phenomena at Wa shi ngt on I f you wi sh t o · o i n the ad dre s s i s . '1 5 36 Conne c · i cut Av e .
r.ticrobarographe and sei.Jmographe in London end rlashington rec orded a Violent earthquake on June 30, 'J908. In the south of England the night sky was br!lliely i llumdnated y a w i erd phenomenon for which ther e wa n o explertionc The calculations of sieniata suggested an earth tremtr in
The story of George .Adamski,who is on a lecture tour in Australia, is extremely fantasic. To have met people from other planets or to have circled the 'moo, n in a spaceship is sotlething that one finds in science fiction.· No wonder Mr. Adamski is a source of controversy. Now who or what makes pe
I've booked for the Moon
C O S M I C by Dr: F.P. sieibert
--------------------- Prof.Herman Bondi of Kings College,London and Secretery of Royal
Social Structure Scientists and philosophers respected b y the people rule entire planets. As they are ioealists having nothing but the Common Good in mind, they do not misuse the power plsced in thera.There are no national states on our sister planets.
(1712 Van Court , Alamogordo,New Mexico) for January , 1 959 carries an intriguing story with two photographs of tracks left in the desert near Anaheim,California in July,1956 by some unknown craft. One Saturday night Al Sterling and wife heard a loud "whoosh11 • Early next morning he c ame across t
b n A s s oc ia t e d Pre s s c o mmunique from Wellington ( N. Z . ) d a t e d l'hrch 1 1 , 1 959 reads : "Some meteors which exploded in the earth 1 s a"::Josphere may have been " s auc er s " from other plane t s , a U . S . anmira l s a i d here t o day . He is iidmiral George Dufe k , retiring
Ar·1ort from Adelaide o.atea March 28 d e s c r i t e s fantastic happen -igs in South ustrn lia . Residents of Purnong which is 91 miles ncrth e a s t of Adelaide speak of mu lti-c o loured ob j e c t s which have been s e e n in the s ky in rec ent weeks. Mr.Percy Briggs , a c a rrier and Mr.C
" The flying saucers could b e interplane tary . We should be able to fly into space in forty years . Why shouldn ' t people on other plane t s have a lready reached this s t a t e ? '' This b roadminded s t a t ement was made by Royal Austra lian Air Force spokesman in Melbourne on January 9 , 1 95
t.O::E'!'S ON THJ:. FII\ST TUESDAY IN TID: IILO.NTH ( e xcep t Thurs q .T11 ::; ' 0 r • m G a t the ADYAH HALL, 29 Bl1gh St ee t Sydney .
SOME SOVIET SCIENTISTS THINK IT \'/AS A SPACE SHIP BECAUSE T!lliRE \'/AS NO CRATER AND THE TREES I:N •.rHE C£.N\ 'ru; OF THE EXPLOSION WERE NOT DESTROYED. (SEE STORY ON PAGB 5)o
This is D special. MARS ISSU~ . A nuLc e r Qf a rticles fr on Sydney ' s putlicati o ~s have t een r epr oduc ed here c ec s use of the ir h i gh quality and definite c onclus i.)n s a b.out lif ~ op othe r planets .. " Martians Mey Have Big M:Jons i n Orti t" ty Dr.S . T.Butler of Sydney University
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By Dr. S. T. BUTLER, Schoo l uf ·Physics , Sydney Un1versity .
PROFESSOR SEIJOV OF i~~ OSCO\"-i UiH VER~ITY, THE ~: \ N ·.~·Ho \t~NOUN CED THE SUCCESSFUL L ~.UN CHHJG OF RUSSI \ ' S FIRST SFUTNih IN OCTOBER , 1957 . ( Ed . Prof. Sedov wa s pnss1ng Sydney on the wa y from ~t n rct ic~.). Pr of. Sedo v sa16 tha t he ~nd hls colleagues were intri gu ed by the extr
51 YEt~RS .ttGO IS C"U Sil'.jG A iV:!tJOR SPLIT ~ ONG RUSSIA'S LEADING SPI\CE SCIENTISTS .
Thes e Rre the f ~ cts:. On th ~ t June dn.y t.he i nhrtbitnhts u f the Yen1sei distric t o f Si:.Je. ri a sAw'?. g 1g P.nti~ b11 lt o f f ire . Immedl Rtely a ft e r wnrds there wn s ~ colossnl e x pl o s1un wb1ch de v~s t a t. ed ~ f o r e st qr ee 70 m1les 1n d 1~1.meter . The sho cK w::. ves we
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CONT ~CTS . · DonR.ld J. Keirn,· ·ct:H-Gf of the U.S. Al r Furce progr ~ mme, ha s stresse ~ ~he prospect of
The Svv1et R'!dl o-1\.str o nomer Pr o f . t\nut1l uf Irkutsk t old the Sc~ence Press vf ~usc u w th ~ t M~ rs 1s sending systemRtic He 1s certa1n th n t th1s hes nu' thHlg tu du with qny \n atur Rl) phenomen~ but represents a ttempts of intelli gen t
As the So vie~ Cosm1c RocKet ' s rad1o transm1ssion stopped on .7 9.n~~...2.t__a di st1ngu1 shed Rus~1an sc1en t1st - · o\lexander Kazant z ev · made a stateme~t that tnere was . human l1fe 'on the planets ~ '· In ·an art1cle ' The Tenth Planet • ~h1cn appea r ed in PRAVD~ on that da~e he s tat ed :
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that Russia would organise an official· ·study ·o:f the problem·. The existence o:f such a study was
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The follo-vring tv-ro sighting reports have Secretary of· the Perth UFO Society:l. to us by Nr. Les
Mebers will recall
The Comnittee is investigating the p reparation
1968 will be held s usual in the Library, 2nd fleer, 55 Exhibition Street Melbourne on the first Friday of every onth at 8 p.o With events noving so speedily in the UFO field, 1968
representatives. The Society relies almost entirely
ver·y o..c't i ve S up p o rt Sub-C omr:1i.tt e e requests tho.t mem b ers . in terest ed in a. tt ending .sighting nig_:.t s; l'!hether they hc..ve t r o.n sp ort c.vnilnble or wish it , pl ens·e . cont·a.ct Douglos Muor.1ery nt h39--925L}, · by no lnt er t hnn one '\"leek before the s i·ghtir:.g n
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APRIL/1--iAY 1968 VUFORS P.R. 0 .. TOUi.S THE NOl1TH
---·-----ca·------=-.;,o, VUFORS Public Relations Officer, Paul Norman, recently visited Queensland and the A.C.T. The following is his report of his meeting with officers
If I read the portents correctly, this year's most fascinating scientific feud is already under way. It involves at least two leading experts in the field of atmospheric physics and it promises to be as divisive and
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Sub-Committee The Support
AUSTRALIAN FLYING
organisation,
The Society's
are advised
Forty-one science illustrated lecture night week,
Frankston lOth. April,
JUNE /JU LY. Following is part of a· lecture by Mr. M. Miller, F. R. A. S. , of
OBSERVATION
Astronomers are particularly disgusted when people report the planet Venus as an unidentified flying object. Yet it happens again and again, Such reports reflect very whenever ve
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TELESCOPES ?
Further facts have come _to J ight about "The Scoriton Mystery". book, by E l (3 _en 13uckle, m _ es much of Arthur Bryant and his contact. clai. . His_ · · cla rri, to have met three ye:rry.s_ian · an .Dartmoo:r:, is 110w cons ld ered to have ·been false.
The Committee Secretarial
For some considerable ti me, the phenomenon of .\nge l s Hair ha s been eo me w h at of a m ystery to the UFO r es e ar che r , but recently the Canadian gro up kno\vn as Can adi a l .-'>erial Phenomena R.eeearch Or gan i s ati on (C,\J?RO) has managed to h ave eome of this elusive and pu zzli n g s
. .:{ From .· .press cutti ng· from :member Harry·
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Credit Flying Saucer Review.(Eng.) The Times of 1\pril 5th 1968, _carried the following a¢couDt -
Credit APRO Bulletin. Italian Astron0mer Raffaele Bendandi has an nounced in Faenza, Italy his discovery of n new planet w hich orbits between Mercury and the Sun a t a distance of 25 million, 260 kilometers
Credit Saucers, Space & Science. ;·\ tape recc,rding of UFO beepings was made by Mrs. G . C. Marsha ll of Midnapore, lb erta. The noise is a strange r egular beeping
The Commit tee -is :pleased to announ ce that t he venue f or it s meetings. for t he for t·hc.oming year has be en changed to THE: HORTICULTLJRL _Ht\LL, ·. 3 1 · Vfdrr'ORIA GTHEET, MELBOURNE.
This hall is st1:t9:ted two doors t.rom.-Hussel l Street, next t o the I.O.O.F. hall an oposite t he Trades Hal l. The new hall will accommodate at least 150 :pers:ons on com f ortable, covered seats, apd supper f ac'ili ties are available. Meetings will con tinue to be held on the fir st Fri day
Members are reminded that the Society ..:s attractive bade av ailable at t he :f ollow in g p:I:ices :.·.,·
Acsist:;nt s are being s ought emcng· mcmbrs, pa r ticu la rly in coun try areas, to repr esent the Society as Investigating Off icer s,
The Com mit tee r egret:: th e late public atiog,.·:of the No • ... S Copy fo r the mgaz.ine was delivrred td. the printer last
AGENDAS F.OR
,JUNE 1969.
"Daily News",
Many people at Corrigin, 145 miles from Perth, think the town is on the crossroads of UFO tracks. One woman resident says that about 200
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Hestern Australian Full . P ar t iculars of given in the
Committee is
The· Committee is "Australian '\-rhethe:r
The Support Sub-Committee advises
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"RIDICULOUS," Say
The Moon:- The lunar air force disc losed today that it is investigating reports that an unidentified flying object ( UFO ) was sighted last Sunday in or ne ar the Sea of TranquiTiity. However, an air force spokesman scoffed at sugg estions that the
It is quite amazing what snippets.of. information are gained during our lectures to various organisations, We know that the .Air Force investigates U ..·F. 0, reports but . does not make the information public, This was revealed in a letter from the
· Sunda y Telegraph, United Nations,
saucer and dies_ The Daily Sketch · a nd the Sun of July 19, 1969, carried reports
GENERI\.L MEETINGS. The next meeting w ill be hc;ld in the Horticultural Hall on Friday November 7th at 8 'p.m. The program will include a lecture by Mr. Leslie Adam, ormerly of the Inventors League, and a report by the Society's Sightings I nvestigation Officer, of his investigations into a
With w armer weather a prospect, the Committee wi ll again be organising sightine:, nights to t.he Dandenongs and other a reas. Members intending to participate should write to the Secretary, advising whether they have transport, and-aeiails will be sant to them as soon as dates hav8 been fixed.
A Gallup poll reports t hat believers and disbelievers in UFO's
OP THE GODS. This wo uld seem to be one book worth waiting for and it is due to reach the bookstands about the middle or the end of November.
An Rlli\F Canberra bomber chased but failed to catch a mystery flying object over northen New South Wales today. The bomber was sent from Amberley air force base when hundeds of people. in Kyogle and along the Darling Downs· reported sighting the object.
Two policemen saw a flying cross on the edge of Dartmoor; a farmer watched while a drum-like oraft followed arid unfolded its And hundreds of sightings came in from Warminster, through the sixties.
Melbourne,26/ 8/69. U S. S. R. SCIE NTIST
TELKS O:B' S PACE CONT.l\.CTS. Eminent Soviet astronomer, Viktor Ambartsumyan, advanced civilisations in the cosmos.
Our L brary already has two copies, but it is a book we are sure you wi 1 require personally
Aleo available are some excellent maps of the Moon. These measure 53+ inches by 54 inches and are labelled 'Official ps•, and well worth possessing, The bookseller comments thot at the price of $1,95 it is cheaper than wallpaper.
' ugh we can't promise to publish everything we receive, we will be continuously equiri good mateial fr both magazine and news letters, so if uou note an article worthY of reprinting, send it in to us, others may appreciate it too!
From the B.U.F.O.R.A. Jourl. lion._Sec. M.C.• Holt Esher, Surrey. England.
Some prominent resechers nowaaays .believe th.t they are. keep an open mind on the subject but find i t hard to imagipe where they emanate from, if not !from outer space. The Hollow Earth idea
According to a letter from the U.S.Department of Air Force
A repor.t, unconfirme.d at t·he. ti.J:Qe of wr -it ing, states that Barney Hill, who with his wife, Betty, is said to have been taken aboard a flying saucer on September 19th, 1961, has died as a result If true, a torrent of speculation will of a cerebral haemorrhage.
A Veneuelan.contaote has been informed by a spaoman that a number. of ·aliens from oth ·worlds now lving among us ie pr.Qiaely two millio four hundred .and seventeen thousand eight hundred d I J.m all !qr. prec isi on , bt this ie ridiculouS ..
How many r eade rs ehar distaste for .elaborate schemes pUl'p<)rting to explain UFO propu lsion ? Nothillg oan be provf)d in this Why not borrow a term from Charles Fort and say that the connection; Whi.Qhis the j pls Qf T eleportation'?
The first meeting for 1970 will be on Friday 6th ebruary at 8 p.m. and we wi+l continue to meet on the month throughout the year. !iret Friday
It is rather ortunate that the position of our last hall and ita lack of acostics is possibly responsible to a number of prospective members failing to return. However. this year we are going into luxur iou surroundings and we hope this·will bring more
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Gordon Creighton for the English Flying Saucer Review. Subcriptions to: 49a K ings Grove. London S.E.l5. According to a· report i_v· the Buenos Aires paper LaRazon of November 25, 196 9, kindly sent·to us by Senor Ignacio Darnaude Rajas-Marcos of Sevilla,·Spain, the district of Olavarria, in the
Credit B.U.F. O.R .A. Journal. C/o Miss Henning, 99 Mayday Gardens, Blackheath, London. "'We cannot compel th em to make contacts with us. And when they do - as in the cases·of Adamski and Daniel Fry - their contacts seem to
TV, radio and which crashed life in outer
( from AFSR 1962) Three scientists- Dr. Warren G. Meinschein, Dr. Douglas J. Hennessy and Dr. Bartholomew Nagy after laboratory experiments with a tiny ball of wax in a meteorite proved that there is life in space.
A CLUE TO LIFE IN S PACE The Melbourne 'Age', of December
Mo., · USA.- · Honolulu--A $13 million communications satellite was missing in space
( The Daily Telegra ph,
.A huge unidentified flying object which appeared as a "hole in the sky" as it hovered near Napier was watched for up to 20 minutes by the headmaster, -teachers and more than 400 children at Richmond School, Maraenui ysterday fternoon. Witnesses -to the sighting said th ere was an "unearthly quiet
As he --drew his teachers' attention to it, th e children also spotted the obj ect and stopped their play. " It was like a huge, wingless plane with the sun glistening on it. But wha t am azed us was that it was also glistening on the side · away fro m the sun "", he said.
After hovering for three or four minutes, the object bgan to move "It then moved at right-angles, and the next thing we knew it was like a round ball with the middle like a transparent-like sheen.
"It wasn't a weather balloon, which you wouldn't see change from a round to an oval shape", Mr. Billing said. "It was also definitely a solid object, and you seemed to get the feeling it was metallic0• One of the teachers, IT. A. Coveny, said he had read reports of people sighting unidentified obje
"We thought half of Napier would have seen it'', he said. the school, everyone was standing with their mouths open trying to work out a logical answer to it". A pupil had come to him for an answer.
GENERAL MEETINGS. (now 2nd Friday of each month). Meetings for 1971 will be held in our new venue - The Theatrette, Lower Ground Level, National Mutual Centre, 447 Collins Street.
The Society has purchased a quantity of the English magazines -. 'SPACELINK' and 'COS-MOS'. These sold well at the last General Meeting. A few copies were held back in order that our country and interstate members might have the opportunity of purchasing them. It will nave to be a case of 'first .co
40¢ including postage,
1DL/12/26 - 20 MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
1st JANUARY 1959 to 31st DECEMBER 1969. The Ministry of Defene receives reports from many sources, including members of the public the Police and
NATURAL PHENOMENA MISCELLANEOUS
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION)
The following list was compiled by the A.P.R.O. 3910E. Kleindale Road, Tucson, Arizona, 85716. U.S.A., and appeared in their Bulletin.
Two well known UFO groups in South Australia had a very amicable agreement w ith the Police in that State, whereby they would receive notification of any UFO reports received by their That is, until the formation of another group, headed by a 15 year old high school student received a great deal of
THE DETAIID AND ADDRESS ALL MAIL TO THE SECRETARY, C/o BOX 43, MOORABBIN.
·Dr;,Allen R. Utke, Ph.D, Looks· at the UFO Problem. Credit SKYLOOK, Box 129, Stover, Mo. U.S.A. 65078. Any suppoed UFO .. s·ample or fragment is going to be questioned, DreUtke states .. To illustrate this with a specific .
9 . • • 0 Q • 0 • • 0 CONDON REPORT F.AILS TO COBVINCE... The American Institute of Aeronautics and· Astronautics (AIAA) scientists have rejected the Condon Report as the last wor d on UFOs
Scientific controversy over UFOs is likely to escalate again when Dr. J. /ulen Hynek's new book, now in writing is published this year. Certain .to be a classic in the field, the book will document Hynek's long association with the U. S. Government's investigation, and his conversion from skeptic to
Since the beginning of·April, therehave been more than 20 reports of people sighting unidentified objects over Kempsey and the Macleay valley. They have bE;en rep0-rted at:.Gree-nhi.ll·, c,over Col1ombatti, Willi Willi, Crescent Head, Temagog, South West Rocks and Kempsey itself. ( to page 5)
The Society was shocked and gtieved to learn of the sudderi and untimely death of Dr. James E. McDonald on 13th June 1971 in Tucson, Arizona, U.S. A.
The following article is taken from January 1971 1SKYLOOK' , Box 129, Stover, Mo., 65078, U.S.A. The myste rious and startling phenomenon of ball lightning may actually be a natural nuclear reactor in operation, three Colorado scientists suggest in the current issue. of "Nature" magazine.
" Either it is completely trivial or 1·G is extremely important, and wouldn't be spending my time on it if I· thought it was trivial", Professor Hynek said at the Midwest UFO Convention last June (1970) He urged others to concentrate on ''greater spe cialization in obtain(continued page 4)4 ing hard
CADETS AT A.F. ACADEMY. Cadets at the ir Forde .Academy are· eing advised to keep an open mipd on the·subject of unidentified flying objects. The suggestion
U.S. A. - Credit:
(Reprinted from Canadian UFO Report, Box 758, Duncan, B.C. Ca nada ) Miss Doree n Kendall, a practical nurse, and Mrs. Frieda Wilson,
Tapes have ·been · ma·de .·of ·t .he .last :f o ur General Meetings, and will continue to be made ,of. future· Gerier'aT Meetings, a·nd these are .now · in the Libraty and may be borrowed either by mail or at metings for a charge of .25 .cents . per tape. .Ta·cs are. listed on the latest VUFOHS
September 1971 This issue of the Australian U.F.O. Bulletin begins with a paper presented to the 134th Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on 27th December, 1969 by the late Professor James E. McDonald who was one of the top atmospheric scientists in
SCIENCE IN DEFAULT: 22 Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations.
The October General Meeting will be held on Friday evening, October 8th., at 8o00 p.m., in The Theatrette, Lower Ground Level, National Mutual Centre, 447 Collins Street, Melbourne. Feature of the evening will be the screening of the films "Apollo 9" and ".Apollo 12" which have been kindly made avai
The Annual General Meeting will be.held on Friday evening, November 12th., at 8.00 p.m., in the National Mutual Centre, Collins Street.
The Aerial Phenomena Rese8rch Organisation ( APRO ) of 3910 East Kleindale Road, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. is offering for sale were recently sponsored by APRO. These publications contain inportant and up-to-date information on UFOs,. and the price is stated to be "minimal".
by Professor He rmann Oberth
It sometimes happens that these disks placed one upon the other, the largest in the centre, the smaller toward the e nds, form an object the shape of a cigar, which flies away with high speed. Sometimes they stop and untie separate disks. The disks fly in a manner as if the drive is acting perpendic
The following treats in detail the four principal UFO cases referred to in my Symposium talk. They are presented as specific illustrations of what I regard as se rious shortcomings of case investigations in the Condon Report and in the 1947-69 Air Force UFO program.
The case is long and involved and filled with well-attested phenomena that d efy easy explanation in terms of present-day science and technology. The RB-47 was flying out of Forbes AFB, Topeka, on a composite mission including g unnery exercise s over the Texas-Gulf area, navigation exercises over t
-22 Years of nadequate UFO InvestigationsJames E. McDonald (of Case 1, see October Bulletin):
(continuing) by Professor Hermann Oberth 2. Explanations:
THE FIRST NEWSLETTER OF 1972, THE COMMITTEE EXTENDS TO ALL MEMBERS AND READERS ITS BEST WISHES
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
A new publication has recently come to our notice. This is the British .journal GEMINI which is, to quote the Publishers' own words, "Not another - but two for the price of one, for GEMINI as its. name suggests, really IS a 'twin' magazine, incorporating all the best features from the former COS-Mos
11. Aug.18, Evening, Grid 4020, Cirenceter, Gloucs. Judith Wills, ·16, and he 19-year-old boyfriend Duncan Edwards saw, hovering 100 yards away from their car,. an orange light in the It wes soon joined by another, and they hovered together. Strange noises accompanied the appearance of the objects
16. Aug-30, 1Q.Q9_brs .. t-9-rid 6016, Faversham) Kent. Ken Se?ton and his wife Rosemary were driving easterly along.the M2 towards Ramsgate. It was a clear, sunny day but there was very little traffic for a Bank Holiday. In the Ospringe area near Faversham, their young daughter pointed out what shE
To natural science the following is known: Observations ·are collected first. Then an enquirer develops a theory. He says: If one assumes this and that is such and such, it would explain the discussed appearance. Whether his theory is right can only be shown by further inquiries. Likewise, other inq
KEVIN ARNETT TO TALK ON UFOs. A public lecture on UFOs illustrated with slides, ·will be given on Wednesday 12th July next, a.t 8 pm by Mr. Kevin Arnett, the well known ABC rAdio personality atid member of V.U.F.O.RS.
Friday, 14th July, 1972, is the night when Mr. Neil Kroschell, official lecturer for the Department of Supply will speak_on the American Space Programme. Mr. Kroschell· is a very capble lecturer who knows the Space He has been lecturing on this subject Programm in great detail.
One report describes a great circle of fire which appeared in the The UFO was approximately 170 feet acrossft The Egyptians fell to the ground in great fear as it passed overhead.
SCIENCE IN DEFAULT - 22 Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations James E. McDonald Visual Observations (cont.) c. Direction, intensity, and configuration of the luminous source: IR-35-52 contains a signed statement by
a computer".. "DO NOT PANIC, WE MEAN YOU NO HARM"nnc
which the ignition started without assistance Jhe stunned driver sat there.for a few minutes trying to gather her thoghts and courage, then she too 7took off'.'
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. Elections fo office in the Society will be held during the Meeting on Decembe r 8th. Nominations for the office of President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and 3 Committeemen - signed by the candidate and poposer.- should reach the Secretary by not later than Nov.24q
No vemb er, 197Je GENERAL MEETIHGS
·- ----, f I1dlv n ? s a U .F 0 It Lef't Marks on Old Junee Property. unidentified flyi object pay a visit to the Old Junee district
-.: irregular rectangle that·emitted the brightest light f'rom the southern - Kempsey Argus, 12///1973. at-I T..JFO But Nun Laughed It Of:f.
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Warr ambool "Standard" - 30th July, 1973o New York, ( AAP-R ) . A leading American astronomer is challenging the official United States military assertion that 'flying saucers' - or unidentifiable flying objects (UFOs), are imaginary.
Some of the observations could be tested, such as electrical effects, to yield "hard data", but the opportunities were allowed to disappear in an anti-scientific fashion by treating the reports as hallucinations or hoaxes.
In his own defence, he said he used the gs explanation only for some faint lights seen over Michigc.,:l swamps, nnd charged theit reporters used· the explanation to cover all possible sighting$, Or.. HyRek ··suggests a· n, more objective approach to the m y stery of UF01s, using ·statistical techn
How the· probers found out before :the news b.roke remains a piJzzi.e -an d . 11one of the aspects I don't : like," Or .. Hy n e k s a i d . .
UFO tails airliner·.. Mozambique. This report from Portuguese East Africa is taken from the Rhodesia Herald of February 8, 1973 . ique.'s. Deta airline wa.s followed by an unidentified flying object for ?0 . "A Boeing 737 jet of Mozam9
It \<JaS l0o'clock on the hot still night of, August 26, 1967, \-Jhen at least a dozen· residents at McLeese L2ke on the Cariboo Highway, British Columbiar- 'Saw a glowing blood-red object about 'the siLe:of a soccer ball move into sight from the south. It was travellng directl above newly .instal
Some months ago, an article appeared in Australasian Post magazine which, was called "Faster -Ta This article stated that Einstein may have been wrong iiT his (so called) theory that nothing travels . faster than light. Astronomical studies have found that matter from Quasars (luminous · objects in
'ystery Ring .of Mlrose". Another of those mystery rings has been found by graier Jack Russell on his property, "Melrose", at Nurrabiel, 20 miles south of _Horsham. In May this year, Mr.Russell was startled to find a_perfect circle on.bare ground. It had a circumference of about 90 feet marked by
An unidefltified flying object was sighted by a Premier St. resident at about The object was about the size of a clenched fist at arm's length and appeared to be above the airfield, approximately 45 degrees from the horizin Predominantly green with blue, red and silver flashes, the object was ob'se
This was the title of a longer article on the sihting in
. Accorafng to the adicle, the Bureau of. 1eteorology and the. Air Force had Howev e r ? a RAF spokesman was quoted: ruled out weather balloons or aircraft as explanations. not receive an official report of this sighting, but c an only suest that it may have been 'space junk" burning up as it re
Saturday n.1ght. Margaret Campbell, 17, said she sav1 the flying saucer as she -was walking s-outh :down 'Ripon St. about 8.30 p.m. She said the SiJucer r1as flying west par3llel to, but not quite ab'ove Eyre St. , The saucer was grey and was edged 'vJith . alternate red a,Jd white flashing lights.
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Members9 don't forget that this year meetings will be held on the SECONTI FRillAY NIGHT OF EVERY SECOND MONTH, C OMMENCING FEBRUARY. 8th. Guest speaker for that meeting will be Mr. George Sansom9 a qualified chemist with a long standing interest in the U.F . O.
In the months between the·General Meetings we hope to hold Discussion Nights in members·' homes and are eager to l earn of those willingto assist in this manner. May this year also see greater participati on from members9 in reporting sightings in their·areas, forwarding any snippets of information
By Don Herbison-Evans
The Australian, January 28/1974 By Or. J.Allen Hynek, who was a consultant to th U.S.Air Force in its Blue Book is the author of t e UFO EXPERIENCE.
Jestern Leader, Henderson, New Zealand.. Captain Bruce Cath ie, of Te Atatu is the discoverer· of ·a scientifi.c equation which couid have almost
He has written agreement \oJith the results of his research from two scientists in New ealand an? Australia, though he declines to mention their name because of tr1e controversial nature of many of h1s conclusions.
Carl Sagan, whose article, "The Starfolk", appears in· this Issue, has probably spent more time studying and writing about the possibilities of intelligent extraterrestrial life than any other scientist in the past decade. So it1s natural that he gets many questions about uros. But, like most other
Or.J.P. Bagby published a paper in 1969 suggesting that the Earth ha a number·of natural moon lets formed from the disintegration of a larger parent body in· late 1955. Science News (26/4/1969)
We have a correspondent who wishes·t exchange UFO informapo . with any of our members- in Japanesec H1s letter to us was in very good English!
- What was blfeved to be the re-entry of satellite debris into the earth's atmosphere at about 7cl5pm Sept 5 was reported by many observers over large areas of Queensland and northern NSW. "Mr.T.J.linton, of Sunnybank Heights, Brisbane, a member of the Astronomical Society of Queensland, ns one wh
Five people in a car have reported seeing strange lights in the sky between Conargo and Jerilderi0- Th e y told Jerilderie police on Friday that two lights had followed their car for about 4 miles foiday evening (Sept 7). The people were travelling from Barham. They said. that--the lights were clear
There has been no official explanation of .the mysterious sightings of unidentified aircraft over Central Australia at· the weekend. Tne manager of the Alice .Springs Airport, Mr.Alan Miers, said today he had received no further-information on the sightings but he had heard reports from Adelaide cla
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,June, 1974:. 'I' he c OT1lJYI:l.tt e c bas t (;811 o-ol.igeJ. t rJ c 01.'18 id er 'L;he Society Is policy j_n relatton ·c, Genera l IvieetLngs, in view of the ge:aeralf poo-c atte-;.1d.1.nces d·u.rJ.ng at le2"st our last six
UFOs are again carrying out -';heir mysterious activities in The following reportf1 have b8en _;lPaned from the Austrlian press.
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The continuing-search for extraterrestrial life has so far fail e d to pr od uce any results. Arne -rican astr:lncmer Car l Sagan thinks the reason is one of pure probaility; he believes
Claude Poher head of the rocket divisicn of France's Space Studies Centre at Toulouse has recently completed a four year study of UFO reports He chose to examine 1000 "serious"
Eight witnesses out of ten saw round objects,·· two o"ut of tem saw elongate,d .ob j euts· Ufos were red.orartge at night. and a metallic
Five men travelling from Adelaide to Mildura, were accompanied by a bright light which hovered over them for several miles near Lake Culluleraine, 36 miles fro Mildura bn the Sturt Highway. The driver ·of the car said yesterday, he first thought the light was a bright star. "However we soon realise
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Astromaut James McDivitt interviews witness. Astronaut James McDivitt wbo photographed a U.F.O. from Gemini 4 and reported t wo oth er UFO sightings while in space, conta cted Charles Hickson, one of the fishermen in thePascagoula, Mississip pi Case, about one month after tly repo ed hat t hey
Flying Saucers to Becore Off icial? The U.S . Defense Denar tmen t will be forced to co ncede the exis tence of fl ying sauc e rs
American nuc lear physicis t Stan ton Frie dman to.ld a nation wide symposium on· flyine; s aucers that t he re was over whelming evidence tha t earth was under observation by creatures fro m other The gover nmen t was pulling a cov er -up that ' q
Major Dallas van Hoose, spokesman at the US Army' s Hunts ville, Alabama, missile base, con firmed recently that "some unexplained aerial phenomena' ''were observed during a tracking ScientEts, many of whom are reluctant to be named in
Their n:ig·htfuare begal-1·-. on -'Se_pt:emher i6, wren Mrs.Richards was retur ning home from Launc
Robert gle, a young married man of Noble Park, has reported to the Society his sighting of a hovering UFO nbaj Lake Colman,·about 25 miles from Sale. Mr. Nagle said that he was a keen duck shooter often going on night shoots by moonlight. On Saturday night, March 23, 1974, he had been shooting in
A Dubbo policeman has verified a sighting oh June 27 by a young married couple at Mogriguy, 2 k north of .Dobbo •• Mrs Catherine Smith, 24, first sighted the UFO as she wa$ helping her husband park a tru,ck on a ramp near their lonely country home at 11 p.m. Shll visibly spaken by the experience,
At about 10 a. m. on Saturday, June 29, young Paul Mueller, of 11Ashvale", Adaminaby, saw a white object in the middle of the clouds and called to his family to come and see it. It was described by the family as being round, white, and about the size of a -,cup-plate" and was high in the sky. The o
The strrage story of three girls and a balJ.oo;. was told in two articles in th e Wollongong M ercury, 29 and 30 July, ·1974
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n evening for Society members will be held on Saturday night, March 22, commencing 7.30 pm. The Venue is Guy's Coffee·Lounge (1'el. 932408), Shop 7, Balcombe Walk, Mentone (Rear of 95 Balcombe R d, near Mentone station).
MEMBERS' NIGHTS . The Society rooms at 12th floor, 100 Collins St. , are open for members on the second and fourth
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"From "Flying Saucer Review", Vol. 20, No. 2, Oct., 1974. FSR Publications Ltd., P.O. Box 25, Barnet, Herts. EN5 2NR, England) Text of a radio interview given on February 21, 1974, ta slated by Gordon Creighton.
(from the Sydney Sun-Herald, A "flying saucer nest" carved out of a patch of saffron thistles has been discovered near Forbes in the
Have you heard of sighting in your area? If so, don't hesitate to drop us a line and tell us all
late in November we received a sighting report form giving vary brief information on a sighting which occurred On the afternoon of Saturday , Dec. 21, I called without any notice on the witness, Mrs. X, at her home, ere she described the details of two unusual sightings. Both incidents occurred at
.. The first thought that entered my head when I saw where Mr ·x.,. lives w$::· f\lhere are all the other witnesses?" When I suggested to her that hundreds must have seen the obj!ct at such i"low·altitude over such a densely populated suburban area, she did. not agree. She said that a-ll the other
A Noble Park man reports that he_and three other witnesses observed a glowing, soundless cigar-shaped object from Hall"s Gap during Easter, 1974. The object, about one quarter moon size, hovered for about 90 minutes at an elevation of 30 degrees to the north of their position, changing colour from b
In a letter to the Editor of the Lithgow Mercury· (9/8/1974), Rel<. Gilroy, director of the Mount York Natural History Museum, writes: "As a research.offieer for severl UfO investigation organisations, I have made an extensive in-depth. study of the phenomena for the past 10"years ith special emph
Mackay - Two women and five children in a car were alrmed by an unidentified object over Walkerston late on Saturday night. Mrs. Norma Robinson, of Kelly's Rd., near Walkerston, said they were attracted by a set of bright lights moving overhead about 9.30 prn. The lights were in the shape of a cros
The Committee would like to thank society member Guy Richards for making his premises available on March and fr the hard
Society regrets to announce that the fortnightly members' nights must be ter·•inated.
The worlq's exploration, largest scientific organisation concerned with space
on Atmospheric Environment, end the Committee on Space snd Atmospheric Physics, to form a sub-committee to i1vestigate the phenomenon. Accordingly, the UFO sub-committee was formed, under the chairmanship of Dr. Joachim . Kuettner, of ESSA Research laboratories, Boulder, Colorado, and, after making
New York - "Five silver domes, apparently on a probing mission", came within 15 feet of a Canadian farmer, a UFO investigator revealed last week. Ted Phillips., .who .\ofPrks wtth..Dr Alle. n.Hynek of the Centre For UFO Studies in Illinois, told of the eerie encounter as he detailed some of the 777
Seven different back issues of the Society ' printed iu,agalin '"Australian .flying Saucer Review'1 are still in stock. Those available are: Nos. 6 (Dec. 66), 7 (67), 8 (68)
by Guy ichards. On March 13th of this year, 1975, I visited the home of Mr. Ron Harper, in Clayton North. The purpose of this visit was to investigate a sighting made by him and his wife, Jenny, on February 28 of this year. At some time between the times of 8. 30 and 9 pm. , Mr. and Mrs. Harper \.J
It's not a bird, it's not a plane, it's not a star. According to fpur Palm Beach residents, it's a band of multicoloured f'lashiGg 'police lights' revo.lving round an oval shape in the Gold Coast sk.y. The four residents, Ray and Val Piggins and John and Helen Strano, have all seen the flashing UFO
The following report was received from a commercial airline pilot, and describes an observation made on March 6, at 33,000 feet altitude during a flight between Melbourne and Adelaide: vJe had departed Melbourne airport at 2134 EST/1134 GtT en route to Perth, W.A. During the climb,. we encountered
Cn febrJary 11, 1975, the Ararat Advertiser published a short article describing a sighting reported by an Ararat man. We despatched a letter to the w)ness requesting more details and the following information was The sighting was made at 10.30 pm on february 5 from One Tree Hill, Ararat. The objec
At least four people have reported seeing mysterious lights in the sky over central Victoria on vJednesday night (Jan 15). The lights, flashing red, green and yellow, were described ?S "like a plane" but without
A Horsham man believes he has seen a new type of unidentified flying object. Mr. Fred Randel, of River Rd. , has seen the object in the night sky twice - a few days ago, and about the same time last year. ''My heart nearly stopped17, Mr. Randel said yesterday. He has unsuccessfully searched books ab
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On his return to America aft er visiting hustr3lia in late 1973, DrAllen Hynek, Chairman of the Depc:.rtm ent· of h.strono my, Northwestern University, Illinois, founded the Centre for UFO Studies, with head Th e aim of the Cent re, which is entirely quarters in E v a nston, Ill. supported by priva
Some help from the F.B.I. has been secured, with the February, 1975 issue of the Bureau's official publication, "FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin", carrying a long article about the Centreo The article begins by telling how law enforcement
Australia's first conference on UFOs is being organised jointly by ACOS and UFO Research of South Austrlia. This ccn ference, to be known as "UFOCON ONE", will be held at Gosford, NSW, on Oct. 4, 5 and 6, 1975, and at this stage 2lmost all major organisations and several independent researchers ha
Authenticated daylight photographs of "flying saucers" in southern Ontario have astounded police, astronomers, scient ists, politicians nd the militry. The photographs follow weeks of sightings by people Canadian police described as "sensible and mature
\-Jhite Lake (North Carolina) Police Chief, Gary 1"4oore, had an extended confrontation with a brilliantly lit craft about roore said he was driving at about 50 mph when the vehicle "came down11 and "the· whole side 8.45 P .r-'1. on April 3, 1975. of the road lit up like it was daylight. I went on
Seven different back issues of the Society's printed magazine., 11fwstralian Flying Saucer Review", are still in stock Those available are: Nos. 6 (Dec. G6), 7 (67), 8 (68) 40¢ each (US50¢ overseas)
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In the May B u l letin we reprinted an article from he Horshamrail-Times describing two sightings made about a year apart, by 1r. Fred Randel, of Horsham. Society member Rodney J1arrow, while in Horsh am, tape...;recorded an interview The fo1l owing statements are transcribed from the tape, with
The followingJtem appeared as a lett i to the ed i tor of the P a pu a-New Guinea Post Courier,
The March 6 sighting by a r ilot mentiond i n the May Bulletin as bee explained b y the Dep a rtment o f Defence as . falling satellite debis. The sig ht i ng was inv e stig ated by the Centre For UFO Studies - A ustralia n C oo rdinatio n
AND MORE ABOUT APRIL, 19 74 A report to the Society from a Melbourne an reads as follows:·
Mo re U FO . sightings we re m a d e in Tasman i a l a s t yea r tha n fo r ma n y yea rs. 1 974 was some thing of a 11fl a p 11 yea r , acc.J r.i ing to the T a smanian U FO I nvestigation Centre, wh ich investigated 1 33 repo rts and cou ld not f i n d any explanation fo r 37 of them. TUFOI C ' s
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Twenty two researchers from states met for a
The Commi-ttee regrets that, due to rising g e ne ral costs, particular the recent substantial increase in postage, the has been forced to increase membership subscription rates.
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UFO CONfERENCE (Continued) Cressy and lynchford being recalled. Events occurring in the "flap" of 1974 in the north east of the island were describedo TUFOIC as a group does not make statements as to the cause of the UFO phenomenon except to say that it exists as n fact and deserves attention on a s
Sunday, 15/6/1975; time o75 - 0815 approx. Weather conditions at the time were reported to be clear sky, some fog patches, no wind. The· three witnesses were three young men: C, 25, bus-driver; and two brothers - w, 20, motor mechanic, and E, 22,
A Melbourne man claims he has made a number of UfO observations over past months in the East Burwood area. researchers tend to dismiss the reports of witnesses who claim to see many -UFOs, arguing that beceusa genuine UFOs are
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FOREST HILL (Reproduction of witness's sketch) Readers are reminded that VUFOR S wants to hear about all UFO news. If you read an interesting article or a local sighting, please send us the clipping(or copy thereof, naming the aper and date ). If you hear of a sighting, drop us
JU LY LIGH TS IN THE SKY A numbe r-of lights in the sky cases towa rds the end of Ju ly came to ou r attention, A spa te of sightings were reported in the p ress from the Sh eppa rton-Kyabram a rea, but, afte r examining the news clippings and ma king a visit to the a rea and interviewing some of th
(MannirgRiver T imes, T a ree, N SW, 2/5/1 975) It seems it is a lmost as difficu l t to contact a nybody about an unidentified flying object as it is to see one. Two Ta ree women saw what they described as a large flying sauce r, flash ing o rarga-red, flying low over Ta ree on Wednesday night. One
1975 ended with no reports of outstanding sightings of a really spec tacular nature being received by the Society. All reports in hand for the year so far are of the " nocturnal light" category under the class ification used by the American Centre for UFO Studies, which are consid ered in UFO res
from the witness's statement: When first sighted, the object appeared to be 'driftiag' at about the height one would expect a small aircraft to fly. The observer sighted the object immediately in front of him on coming out of a shop facing due west. Its elevation was about 65 degrees above the horiz
Oan Haylock, who has investigated UFOs in the Gippsland area for many years, writes from Paynesville: ''On or about the 17th October a Miss Armistead had occasion to drive to a paddock three miles .. northwest of Orbost to inspect a mare about to foal. This was at 2 a.m. in the morning. While in the
By Guy Richards This article concerns an observation made by Mr. A. J. Peart,.of North Caulfield,.and one other witness. who does not wish his name to appear in this report, who shall be referred to as Mr. M. At the end of January this year, 1976, the Society received a rep.ort or ·a· s"ighting made
Reproduced from "Xenolog", publication of. S.A. T.C.U. (Scientific Approach to Cosmic-Understanding), 33 Dee St., Timaru. Preview of Bruce Cathie's third book by les White. 'armonic 288 - The Pulse of The·Universe" Readers who enJoyed Bruce Catfi1e1s hrst two books, "Harmonic 33" (1968) and ''Harmo
(Brisbane Telegraph, 26/10/1975) Maryborough people are seeing strange things again. A few days ago, three separate reports of unidentified flying objects were lodged with the local press. This had followed a period of tranquility after the district was disturbed by a whole series of UFO sightings i
11MIN MIN LIGHTS" MYSTERY SOLVED? (From an article by Jim Oram in the Sydney Mirror, 5/11/1975)
(South Western T1mes, WA, 25/11/1975) Two Kirup residents belive that they saw an UFO about 10 p.m. last Friday. One of the residents, Mrs. Maria Mart ella, said that she heard what sounded like rifle shots and when she went outside to investigate she saw a bright, red ball glowing in the sky. She
FEBRUARY, 1 976. (Sydney Telegraph, NSW, 5/12/1975) Nowra - The small township of Broulee, on the far south coast, is worried about things th at go bright in the nighte Residents have watched numerous unidentified flying objects light up the sky during the past eighteen months.· The·
(Geelong Advertiser, 16/1/1976) A youth claimed iast night he saw a circular fly1ng object with flashing white lights fly over Geelong about 9.50 p.m. Peter Sellwood, of Maurice Street, Herne Hill, said the object made · faint pulsating whirring noise' He said he and his girlfriend, Julie Nelson,
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1AY, 1976. (Continued) some sheds, and th6 light stopped apparently above them, but at a height. As they turr:ed the ca r a round to come
( Robinvale Sentinel, 26/2/76) Reports of sigh ting of unidentified flying objects near the small Ma llee settlement of Chinkapook a re ga ining momentum A local fa rme r repo rts sightin a b rilliantly lit object which appe a red to land in a nea rby fielda T he The f a rmer saya that the inciden
The Society has seen two colour p rints of an object photog raphed at Eltham by two young boys in September or O ctober last yea r. A me; n be·r of the Society first hea rd mention of them through a mutual a cqua inta n ce about four ·months after the incident. The witnesses, aged 12 and 14, were ir
No publicity was sought by the witnesses, nd it was only by accident that the Society heard about the ase t all. The boys exhibited no interest in the subject of UFOs, and the possibility of any hoax seems remote. No natural expla•ation come to mind, but such cannot be ruled out. Unfortunately,
The Movie film reported ie the November, 1975 Bulletin has been examined by the ACOS photographic consultant, and his report is as follows: Opinion On Benalla Film taken 15 June, 1 975 r•e film was examined by normal projection and frame by frame through a film editor, together with examination of s
AND SURREY HILLS The East Burwood observer who.recorded several UFO observations last year (see November, 75 Bulletin) reports that
About 7.30 p.m. on friday 19th March, my eldest daughter was maintaining a sole sky watch in the garden when she
The Centre for UFO Studies - Australian Coordination Section, located in Gosford, N.S.W., has been operating for more than a year now, with member organisations or individuals from all states except Northern Territory. This means that UfO information here is being collected and coordinated on an Aus
(From a report by Harry Griesberg) ·The ABC radio network presented a special two hour program on UfOs on Wednesday, March 24th. The show went live between 8 and 10 p.m. throughout Australia on the following stations: Sydney 2FC, ewcastle 2NA, Brisbane 4QG, Melbourne 3AR, Hobart 7ZL, Canberra 2CY,
B y les B ristol This sighting took place on a clear night oe r 0 years ago, but was not reported until Mrs. Glenys Keevins responded to t he 3AR radio p rogram March 24. Mrs. Keevins was d riving with a friend at midnigh t, 25/26 July, on a little used road 9 miles east of Donnybrook, W.A. On rou
In January, Secretary Ray Fische r and myself had the pleasu re of visiting Tasmania on a h i k ing trip. Unfortu nateJy, Ray had to retu rn to Melbourne immediately after finishing the h ike. Howeve r, I was able to stay in Hobart for a few days, and after much effort, I managed to contact Pau l Js
(South Weste rn T1mes, Sunbu ry, WA,.24/2/1976) 1\n (aton ho usewife; who was walk ing home at 2 O ' clock in the morning recen tly, was "buzzed'i by a strange .: shaft of
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19/6/1976; 64135 p.m.: Mrs. R. had·finished Jnilking and.. turned.her-cciws oot.for the night in the back paddock of her farm at Glenluce, about 10 miles'·south f Castlemaine, in the Loddon Valley. A few minutes previously, her son, who lives on a farm about a half mile to the north, on the'main·ro
AUGUST, 1976 The farmer pointed aut to us where he had seen the object, which, although apparently above trees, was at a very low elevation, seen against th .,bacgrot,nd of low h.il. ls a couple of miles towards the south west. The object had moved slowly for a short time, then hovered for a few
While in the Castlemaine area we visited the home of one of the witnesses to an nusual incident which took place at 7.30 p.m. on July 13. The two witnesses were Miss G., 27, and Miss R., about 24, both of whom are nursing sisters. Only G., who lives near .Bendigo, was available f9r interview, _as R
After regaining thei r composu re . 9nd discovering that nothing was . amiss, . they were on their way aga in within a qua rter·of an hou r. They reported no phys iological effects due fo ·the inciden t; however, thei r distu rbed and puzzled state of mind persisted with them; so much so, in fzct, t
Paynesville investigator, Dan Haylock, reports on a sighting a t Nicholson, nea r Bai rnsdale : . Witness, a truck d river, a rrived home f rom a trip a t 2. 30 a . m. on May f irst. He was met by the dog in his driveway. The witness was patting the dog when he noticed a wh ite undu lating/swirling
More ·moving lights have been seen in the Maydena a rea of Tasmania since those reported in the May Bullet in. f rom a report compi led · by the Tasmania n U FO Investigation Centre (TU fOIC), 366 Huon Road, Sout Hoba rt, 7000 : A Fix on the Lights at Last Just when everyone thought the lights had
The l ights were very bright pinpoints sources of light. Their speed was estimated at abou t 100 mph. It seemed the lights would ·be · lost from view as they approached a cloud bc:'lk to the north. However, the lights passed beneath the clouds which had a base af abou t 1600 met res. They ga ined el
( No rthe rn reily leader, Tamworth, NSW, 18/4/1976) Murru rundi motorists write : I am wondering if anyone· can help us with an authentic explanation of the following happenings. We were parked in our car towing a caravan opposite the Nemingha Hotel under a street light. We were studying a road map
After a few minutes she was abou t to get into the car when its l ights. came back on, she sta red ( as we d id ) then she th rew the yellow cloth o n t h e roadside,- .; g ot back into t h e car· and proceeded towards us. W e wa tched a s the cloth she threw away bu rst into flames The ca r, now b
( De rwent Va lley Gazette ( Tas), 13/5/76) The Tasma nian UFO Investigation Centre is checking out a reported sighting of si lve r round l ight wh ich is believed to be connected with the malfunctioning of an automatic pilot on a yacht. The incident occu rred on the evening of Sunday, April 25, A
( Launceston Examiner, 30/6/76) A Hadspen man and his wife last night reported watching an unidentified flying object for about 20 minutes th rough binoculars a nd the tel escopic sight of a rifle. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lc Fevre described the object as a bright silver light with a d istinct rotating re
From a news item supplied by a Canadian correspondent, W. Ritchie &nedict, of_ Calgary, Alberta : Cooper, Ont. (CP) June 18, 1976 : A Toronto organisation says evidence collected by its researchers indicates that one or more unknown, uncon ventional aircraft are present in the a rea of this commun
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Mildura, 3/8/1976 (from the Sunraysia Daily, 4/8/76) Steve Papp of King's Billabong was disturbed by strange noises in the early hours of yesterday morning he quickly flew out of bed and grabbed hs shot gun. Mr. Papp was determined to protect his fowls from invading foxes which had been causing co
Geelong (Geelong News, 3/9/.76) A"trovedale m'an claimed this week he saw two UFOs near his home. Mr. Grant White, 34,. of Glo u cester St., tod The News: "They were black, mushroom-shaped. They went straight up and headed south. They disappeared in a couple of seconds". Mr. White, a boilermaker at
Paynesville investigator Dan Haylock reports that another sightin.g has been made by one of the witnesses The witness, accompanied by her youllg cousin aged 10 set out at 5"40 a. m. on March 5, 1976 to bring in the house cow.. The young lad . pointed out that the sun was rising over the mountains to
There are many interesting UFO observations that go unreported. It is we ll known that people efts have an interesting story to tell. Where any member comes across such instanees, ·the Society would be interested in hearing about it. The Society would appreciate names, ddresses, and a brief d£sr.r
From the Millicent Times, 30/9/1976 : Did anyone see an unidentified flying object last nigh t to back up the hair-raising expe riences of Ross McCallum and son Ian at Nangula? The time, shortly after 8 p. m., doesn ' t match with 'heelies" reported by othe r sources - and the UFO wa s noiseless. R
In a recent interview a Croydon man described the finding of a puzzling ground mark last year. The man was walking his dog in steady rain at 7. 20 a.m. on an unknown date (but known to be in Sep., 1976). Garbed in gum-boots and waterproof gear, he was crossing a football field at Ainsley Park, Wet
MORE LIGTS IN THENORTH. WEST Mor night lights have been observed in the Mildura area following the the Karawinna and other sightings
"At the tim my hu_sband jokingly re·mrked, 'flying sau-cer " - the woman safd. She· said the 1ight would have been perhaps 16 ..-km.· f,rom where h.ey were, in the dlrection of Lake Boga.... (In the sae arti£le a reader claimed that the Tuesday night sighting might have been a jet. He said he
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Circle·.Starts uro Puzzle (Melbourne . Su , 5/2/1977) A brown circular spot ·on the ground, with four smaller c1rcles equ1d1stant from it, has people in Northern Que¢nsland puzzled. The metre patch with its attendanLone
A sighting of a brightly lit bell-like object that · The nurse, 2 5, who does · t to be named, t-Jas driving her :ear along the Great Eastern Highway to Perth 0,1. Dec. 13. About 4:--km.-.before . the tu·rn-off to Lake Leschenaulti-a at 90 p.m., she noticed a bright orange glow on the right side o
We are .looking forward . .to th.e' il.lutrate·d.leture by Miss Lorraine \vhite to be given at the Society's .annual general meeting, 8. pm. May 27, in ·the· Natina tltltual Thea_trette, ground floor, 447 Collins st. Miss White has travelled extensively through areas cit South Ame' rica that ha
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These few c ases from m any y ear s go ne by m ay be o f i nt er est . Taken from newspaper . arc hiv es and V UFOR$' r ecor ds, t hey hav e pro bably nev er be e pu blicise d to any ext ent befo r e: • A pilot wit h mo r e t han 6000 hoij rs civ il f lyi ng ex per ience, Mr . f r ed B epps o f G e
from a statistical report compiled by the Centre for UFO Studies, Australian Coordination Section, .from data l pa rticipating groups : The tqt 1·_n4mf ·bf :repots teeiVed. for the year ·was· 439, :of which 99 ( 22.6%) are uriidentifl ed. This compa .r s H h 't'h .·Air J<;>,rce figu_ re · o
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Ade la ide, Ap r. 22, 1977: Miss Ma, 19, was d riving home after visiting someone and, as this was he r usual rou te, she wa s travell ing westwa rds a long a little . used-road. The time was close to 1 145 p.m. The road she travelled is bitumen su rfaced and she wa s going a long at· a·steady. 50_
Supplied by Socie,ty member, this ·r.epO'rt tken' rom the Blone Beacon (St .. George, Old), 17//77: . ' Two .travellrs from Bisbane report an nnerving_experience hen they came under the attetion of a :Oro nar · Mooriie .last ·nighL ..J'eririifr Hands and J·iichei Noonan ha·d pulled up
. On· o{ our members sent us a co y. of an a r ticle · from a Finnlsh magazine which deals with' the: experiences of a Finnish couple travelling in Queensland in 1971. We managed to find a translator and the following· is taken from the artic!e, \olhich appeared in the ;;:agazine "UFOAIKA", April,
Judging by Engiish press reports, the Bermuda Triangle m g t be in danDer of having its fame eclipsed by a new "triangle" of mysterious·hapenings. Warinster . is a nam ·which a:tn·wli loown· t6sudnts of uflogy since the mid-ixties; but ,-ecent goings--on in this Warminster - Winchester
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rollowing publicity given to sightings in the Oandenong,Rahges re cent ly, aore reports.have been received by the Society from·the eastern suburbs of Melbourne: Mt. Evelyn, 16/8/7?, 12.15 p.m.·
A new technique has recentl···b'Scome 'Jiilable to. ACOS for· the analyrJ.s of physical trace events. This- method is potentially capable of d ete cHng the ef of r::: y ionising r2diation from the UFO and also measuring any h eating effects It can be applied to almost all
Abot.a.dozen. sigtings are reported in the Victorian press for September and October. Reports have come from Elsterr!Wick, fernree .ully, Borpnia, Sherbrooke, Werribee, Portarlington, Ballarat, Stawell and the Grampians• We are. a.ttmpting to get further details on these cases, .but all are of
3/2/77;. 2030: . Children at a youth camp were going to a washroom prior to bedtime. Hearing a noise, they looked up .and w a domed object with flashing · lights. \.Jindows were seen on the object, which was also spinning. In the centre ·window a figure was seen$ The object then moved away· after 1
T e glow was then observed to recede into the distance. The entire event lasted 10 minutes. Late May, 1977: A boy observed an orange sph.re with ''windows" at very low altitu(ie, possibly resting on the ground ori a farm on the outskirts of Orangeo A dog was barking and a horse very ag_Hated. The b
Fi rst UfO Sighte· r is Still Seeking Answer ( Northe rn Daily Leader, Tamworth,
NOVEMBER, 1977 ·, "His clinical condition remains astonishing", said Or. Nelly David. "I have never seen a case like it".
At about 7.40 p.m. on Monday, three Moe youths were on their way Latrobe Valley Express, Morwell, .28/10/7?: home walking along Service Rd·., near he Edward Hunter Reserve. It was a calm night and visibility was· clear. · .. One of the tria, Lance Baldwin, 14, of King St. , . e, tells the story:
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An airline pi_l ot has reported a sighting which occurred ove r Western Australia on July 24, fter sunset. The p ilot reported: 1969 at about 1t hours . On a flight from Mt MagAGt to Perth, the aircraft I was commanding was given an a i r traffic clearance to
U ruguayan Close Encounters Dozens - of cases ,- of close - encounters have been reported in U ruguay during the latter part of 19n. These two examples are taken from press wire services: Montevideo (UP,), ' 26/6/77 - Austhorities a re investigating a puzzling episode which occur red in the a rea of
The sighting at Moe was reported in the Feb Bulletin, and since then, Mr. J. Reid has interviewed one· of the witnesses, Lance Baldwin, 14, of Moee Mrc Reid visited the site of the obsrvation with the witness and reports that although the object was not observed to land, the incident struck him as
UfO SEEN NEAR CHILLINGOLLAH from the Swan Hill Guardian, 1 1/1/1978: According to a young Swan Hill woman there have been several sightings
UFO Si hted at Benboyd National Park, near Eden, just prior to the total eclipse of the sun, Oct 23, Movie 1!m. faken
The sighting occured at Seven Mile Beach on february 3rd 1978 at about 9.30. pm, the time was vital information with Hobart airport so near. Contact with the Department of Transport - Air Transport Group revealed no air traffic movements, overflights, or RAAf manouvres in the state between 9pm and 1
To Michelle. the object seemed close and at tree top level. It was dome shaped with what looked like a row of window.$Jibout the middle. A wider area of light, disc shaped was spinning below. She also saw flashing white/ yellow 1ights· on the edge of the disc and a red light atop the dome.. The body
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INTERS TATE REPORTS Prospector's Experience Aclose encounter of the second kind- a UFO sighting on the ground -_has been made by mining consultant and
by Paul Norman March 17, 1978: George Snowling and family reported. an object near Wangaratta. \¥hen first noted, the object was a glowing red ball, after which it changed to a cone shape, and then changed into a cup shape. Soon afterwards, it increased in redness an.d intensity, th.en disappeared a
Newstead Ground Circles (Se€ report on the Leathbridge sightings, Bulletin, feb., 1978) The event has obv.iouslY . e·xcited a lot of interest, and in all fairness to the property owner, the location of
T h e Society's P resident, Mr. Peter Nor ris, h a s tendered his . re s ignation from· t h e Committee. A co-founder of the Society, Mr. Norris has completed an unbroken pe riod of 21 years as President It is l a rgely due to his efforts that the Society has b.ecome well known and respected th rou
Results - of the elect ion for Commtttee positlons, announced at the Annual General Meeting o Augusf 11: - Judith Magee Vice P resident - Paul Norman . Secreta ry - Agnes Briggs
;1UGUST, 1978 Dayborough, Qld., rlpr. 7, 1978: hunter was travelling along a lonely stretch of road in the Oayborough area when he had what he believed to be a possible encounter with UFO occupants. It must be stressed that it is only 'possible' because there was no craft or
F rom the moment I am not personally involved in this business ( meetng), I wil l reveal the n ames of the witnesses that I am able to th rough va rious sources - principally th rough my network of cor respondent in Spain - inasmuch a s some o f the cases collected by · the Ministry we re made pub
by O r . G . Stevens• Don He rbison-Evans · ( 1 ) has recently invited examination of signi fi cant U FO sightings with the intention of . seeking evidence for ext rater restrial visitation. One a ccount which has impressed me with the t horoughness of the investig ation and the detailed , in. form
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7. 08pm. Aircraft: lV[elbourne. its approaching from due east toward me. It seems to be playing some sort of game. Flying at a speed I caaot estimate. FSU: What is your altitude? Aircraft: 4500ft. FSU: Can you confirm you can't identify aircraft?
An RAAF Orion from Ed inbu rgh , South Australia-a long range ma ritim e rec onnai sanc e ai rcraft -s pent all day yesterday searching the area off G ape Ottway where th e pl ane di s a ppea red . The pilot later reported having seen an oil slick in the area. The slick h owev e r, l ying about 18 m
NIGHT. Or THE UFO'!> .. SIGNALS START Of A GREAT SPACE CHASE - by Barrie Watts, as reported in "The Australian"
MELBOU RNE ' HE RALD '
* A film crew in a plane saw 25 oval-shaped unidentified flying objects over New Zealand on Saturday night, at least orie of which was confirmed by \-/ellington radar.
SYD N EY "MI RRORn 3 Jan. ' 79
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ASTRONAUT ' SAJ F LYING SAUCER FLEE T ' 29 Nov. '78 Former US astronaut G ordon Cooper believes flying saucers are visi ting the earth from other
OARt1IN aNEVJS" 5th Jan. '79 · The sudden spate of UFO sightings in Australia prompted John Latta of our American Bureau
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VUFORS. s in re c e ipt of at l e ast fi fty good s ighting report s made 'be f ore , during and aft e r the di s appe aranc e of Pi l ot Frederi ck Val ent ich ove r Bas s Strait on 2'1st Oct obe r , 1 978o· Sinc e inve st i gat i on of the s e sight ings re qui·r e s many mi l e s of trave l over
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Credit: Dept. of the Interior - u.s. Geological Survey News Release - July 3rd, 1977. According to an American scientist, earthquake lights, -which are luminous phenomena observed to occ'Llr during some earthquakes, are worthy of additi9nal scientific investigation.
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The television newsman who · shot · the first film .of a UFO authenticated by scientists is the happiest man on earth. Quentin Fogarty sai at his Melbourne home this week: "It restores my credibility". "I Never doubted what I saw were UFO's, but I make no claim they were from another galaxy", he sai
MELBOURNE'HERALD' ., 26th April, 1969
MELOURNi 'HEALD' 3rd . Jul y,
HARRflAr•iBOO.L 'STANDARD',. The end of a ,;ay' s \vork in i.hc fields brought a surprise to a N aringal dairy farmer when he spotted a fast-rJving UFO zocmin9 towards Wangoom last night. Mro .Ian. Chadwiik, whG3e farm is six miles east of Allansford, said he first saw the
Unidentified lights moving swiftly in formation through the Colac sky on Sunday evening caused great excitement at the home of a !creal btsinessman;. ··The--lights were seen also by another resident, but police: and RAAF authorities have no other reports of. tpe. sighting . .
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By Hil l iam Ho Sp aulding , Dire c tor GSH/UD Print e d by p e rmi s s i on o , '1979, GBVJ he ld it s s e venth annua l pub l i c l e c ture in Pho enix o It ' s no big s e c ret to th e public OI' to t he UFO c ommunity tr.at GSH p r ovi d e s a UF
IN FO IA I,AVJSUirr Zechel - GS\1 Director of Research Director of CAUS, I nco
The release o f the C I A material represents a t ot al vict ory for GSW , in that the suit initially sought-the release o f five documents related t o the C IA ' s cont act with former Marine Ralph In Narch 1976 the agency admitted having five Hayher documents , but said it could only release two ,
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Nasi. from. t he Spani sh b .o ok · " St endek " N ight o f t h e 1 1 t h and 1 2t h · Sept emb e r 1 977 o. Pl9-c e . - the road b e twe en H e rnani and A s t i garraga o T ime - from ·
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by \Vil liam Ho Spaulding Direc tor, GSVJ/HD vJe have re c ent ly passed the se cond ye ar of the GSW lavrsui t against t- h e CIA o To dat e, \vith ·the legal e fforts against t his agency and additional FOIA (Fre edom·o f Inform ation Act ) the e ffort has b e en highly suc c essful o However, the
Y our e fforts \·J i· l l go a l ong way t o\Tards bringing more hidden sight ings before the gene ral pub l i c and he lp achieve our ob j e ctive o f o ffic ial adm iss i ono Pay ab l e t o : G o S o W o Inc o , 13238 NQ 7th Drive, Phoenix, Ariz ona 85029, UoSoA
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Car pac1ng incidents are one puzzling aspect of the UFO phenomena, but when two such reports occur in the same area on the same night it is stretching the odds a bit too faro Could both witnesses be wrong in their efforts to identify what they had seen; did anyone else see something strange that nig
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"A THO-HOUR VOYAGE TO ANOTHER PLANET" Cre dit - "Run" Sydne y N So Vl - 26 Octo 1978 o
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As reported in the last edition, the library is now operationalo Loans and book lists will· take a month-..or -so ·to come up t·o full efficiency, yet we felt that the ooner we got it operational, the better it would.be.for you allo At this stage we have .about 172 different titled books, covering
uUFO's FROM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN" By-J:- Wevvrrbergh an3:" '!o-HObanao-Our Libo Noo 106
H NGS TO SEE dn the 3rd June 1968, a Mro WaJo Meister, found a foot print of s9meone wearing shoeso What was so strange about this? The prints were in 540 million year old stratumo That's not all,·for at the
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Nany UFO r es earchers h ave l on g s 1..1.s pected the po s s i ble rel ati ons h ip b etw een UFO' s and ear th quakes VJhi l e f e1.v papers have been wri tten to demo ns tr ate thi s r el ati ons hi n the au thor presen ts thi s cor rel ati on wi th :th e h o pe of r en ewing i teres t am on g
Th e ti me fcrc·--e:O'r--in t1.foio y i s vvel l Jmo vmo. :r;·ts peak li es 'betvJeen 2100 hr and midn igh to Th e minim um number of repo rts is usu al l y at no cn o Shi mshoni (G eo phys o Jo , 97; 1971) h as
disturbances of the Earth's magnetic field by Poher d Vallee and Poher (4) for a -period in October '1951.!- during the French UFO
Anomalous animal behaviour durint_S or after the manifestations of the UFO phenomenon al.'"'e 'I.·Hll documentedc In some instances the UFO percipients are to the phenomenon by the abnormal behaviour exhibited by
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· .· Two women and a young boy have exper i enced a terr i fying UFO encounter near Dayton , T exa s o -
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:March 1982. Star Map, Continued
Heidelberg) Harrington. R.S. and B.j. Harrington 19713. 1980. Astronomy and sfropltysics Suppltmtnl
LF OF TB:E UFO'S The story ·or Betty and Barney Hill· is ,r.tell knovJn to· most UFO researcherso I believe it to be the first abduction
' Australian re:pJrts of close encounters of :the third kind are few
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As all FSR readers must surely be aware, the indications that we are now approach ing exceptionally significant and fateful times for the whole of mankind come not just from "Ufology" (whatever that may be), not just from Ecology, not just from Astronomy and Physics, not just from Human Politics an
Whatever tc position may be, we may rest assured that, if President Reagan l ....d his thoughts about all these mat ters, then his highly competent successor, together with other key-personnel in his Administration, are fully cognisant of some of these deeper aspects of the world situation. An int
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neighbor. A former WWII paratrooper sergeant, he was employed at the time of the incident by an unnamed outfit in Shreveport. Thus he was quite different from the uneducated housewives so often found in the AF reports. And Maj. Tessier
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unexplained cases. t the e d of his allotted ti me, the Ai r Force represetative kept on tal king: There was only 10 mmutes time left for Keyhoe to present the posi tive side. Keyhoe had been talking fo only four minutes when the sound faded . I thought the problem was i n my et. I turned
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officials in foreign countr8ies were using the Condon report to help debunking attempts to bury the
The facts are, the lights of a vehicle at the location given by the sceptic, would be shining into a cliff and turning south towards the sea. In addition, the experience of the Knowles Family, took place over a considerable period of time. A vehicle travel ling down the highway near Eucla, onl y tak
CAPT. KILLIAN'S CASE We are adding further details of an outstanding period where major steps were taken to distract public attention by attempted debunking of the UFO phenomenon. As previously mentioned in the March edition, Dr.David Saunders, a senior researcher of the
Dr.Saunders blasts the Project for its unscientific, biased and preconcluded "findings". He cites for evidence, the specific cases that have led him along with a majority of the Committee, to conclude that unidentified flying objects are likely to be vehicles from other civilizations. In explaining
BLUE BOOK PEARLS SUMMARY OF INCIDENT
n the night of February 24, 1959 a sched uled American Airlines flight from Newark to Detroit encountered three lights over Pennsyl
The lights reported by Capt. Killian on February 24, 1959 were explained by Blue Book as having a very simple caus: a refuelling mission. But we know after years of studying the files that the Air Force had a
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EXPLANATION The third column expresses the distance from Capt. Killian's plane to the lights in nautical miles, which for none of the cases exceeds 35 nm. In other words. whatever the source was, it was not too far away, certainly not the almost
WORKSHOP (CE I V- Close Encounters o f the 4th Kind - Abductions) on the 8th May, at t he From New Mexico, I co ntinued w i th my bus
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