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CIVILIAN SAUCER INTli'LLIGENCE -- Summary of Meeting January 28, 195S
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The Secretary, Mr. Meyerson, outlined briefly the plans for meetings and speakers in the Spring program. '!be Vice-President, Mr. Oksenkrug, then introduced Dr. Ivan Sanderson, the well-kr.Jwn naturalist, author, and long-time student of Fortean Dr. Sanderson pointed out that the generally negative

CIVILIAN SAUCER INTELLIGF.BCE OF NEW YORK
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Meeting Friday, March 25, 1955 "LIFE ON OTHER PL,1.NETS ? 11 If you believe that the UFO's come from other olanets, you should know what those planets ~re like and what kind of life, if any, is possible

Friday, March 25, 1955 - 8: 30 p.m. - PLEASE BF. PROl1PT
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Steinway Hall, 113 West 57 Street, 6th floor CSI members - 25 cents Non-members - $1.00 plus tax

CIVILIAN SAUCl<R INTELLIGl3:tlCE OF N'l!W YORK
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Summary of Meeting February 28, 1955 The meeting was called to order at 9 p.m.. by Yeaman Condict, Manhatten representative of CSI. Marty Meyerson, Secretary-Treasurer, then introduced the speaker of the evening, Mr. Richard Victor, Field Service R~presentative, Electronics Division of CurtissWright

CIVILIAN SAUCER INTELLIGE" CE OF NEM YORK
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l.955$ 113 Wont 57 Street ~ctuz:: by i~G. M3!jt Werren ~.. !>~ting Mnrch 25 1 ~~tcur JJ.stro.n~rs ASsociation

CIVILIAN' SAUCffi INTELLIGENCE OF NF.2'1 YORK
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Ueetini June 3, 19$$ 113 West $7 Street, New York The meeting was opened by the Secretary-Treasurer, Harty Meyerson, who asked that members going on vacation let Ted Bloecher, of the Research Section,

CIVILIAN SAUCER INTELLIGENCE OF NEM YORK
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Report to Members - Summer and Fall 1955 Enclosed for Your Information: Announcement of the First Fall Meeting, October 28, 1955. Report on Meeting of June 3, 1955. Statement of Purposes, Activities, and Policy of CS!, recently prepared for use in answering the increasing nwnber of inquiries about o

CIVILIAM SAU OBR INTELLIGENCE OF Nm-I ?ORK
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Swnmaey of Meeting October 28, 19$5 Steinwa3 Hall, ll3 West S7 Street, New York C:Lty

/ .;t- 9- -CIVILIAN SAUCER llTELLIGENCE OF NEW lOHK
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Meeting December 9, 19SS st. Nicholas Arena Bal.lroo111o New York9 No Yo The meeting was opened bJ' Alexander Mebane, SecretarJ'-'l'reasuNr of Civ.llJ.an Saucer Intell 'pnae of New York, who gaire a brief descrJ.pU.on of the or.lg1n and purposes of the club, and 1118llt1oned that literature conta4n1

CIVILIAM SAUCER INI'ELLIGENCE OF NEW YORK
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c/o Lex Mebane, 138 West 92 St., N. Y. 25 CSI NEWS LETTER We are happy to introduce CSI members to a new feature - the CSI News Letter. Our plans are to try to get this out to members whenever anything of particular interest comes in, but we cannot commit ourselves until we are sure we can meet the

of CSI of NY.
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Saucers on TV: Several times recently Dumont's Featurama program has shown the documentary film, "Flying Saucers," made in 1952 but still an excellent job. They intend to show it again in the future, and we suggest that you watch for it (Channel 5). If you do see it, BE SURE to write and tell them y

CIVILIAN SAUCER INTELLIGENCE OF NE', 11 YORK
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Publl.c Meeting, Jan. 28, 19S6 Steinv1ay Hall, 113 'l. S7 St., N.Y.C. "SAUCER LAl1DINGS A~1J) J...ITTLE l-1EN'1 Speaker: Ted Bloecher Research Dir. of C.S.I.

CIVILIAN SAUCER INTELLIGENCE OF NEU YORK
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c/o Lex Liebane, 1.38 '}fest 92 St., N.Y. 25 CSI NEWS Lr;TTER Why The Pussyfooting? Several times recently friends or members of CSI have commented on the omission of witnesses' names in reports of si~htings printed in the News Letter; may we point out that the absence of names in no way alters the

CIVILIAB SAUCER INTELUGENCE OF NEW YORK
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Publto Meeting of April 28, 1956 Pytblan Temple, 135 W. 10th S't., NYC FRANK EDWARDS

FRANK EDWARDS
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The meeting was opened by A. D. Mebane, Seoreta.ry-Trenaurer. Before ~Z?-tro• duoing Frank Edwards, the speaker ot the evening, he desoribed briefly the history and present status of' c.s.I. of' N.Y. (now two years old, it has reaohe4 a mambership of 100), and direoted the audienoe•s attention to th

FLYJNG CJA.UCERS • IN, ON, ..._,
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AND OFF THE AIR (Condensation of' a talk by.Frank Edwards betore C.S.I. of N.Y.) Bet'ore we get into this, I'd like to say that I don't prot'esa to be an expert on t'lying saucers. I don't know any experts on flying sauoers. I'm a repo•ter. I've dealt with this subjeot just as I've dealt with nany o

RECEHr U F 0 SIGHTii'JGS
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January 9, 1956: The famous and tragic "Mantell case" of January 7, 1948 was repeated with uncanny fidelity, in virtually the original location. The victim was a personal friend of Frank Edwards, to wtx:m we owe the details that follow. No news papers gave the full story. Shortly after sunset, unkno

THE CASE OF "L'ASTR.E CIHCINNATI 11 - - A Story With A Horal
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On Uarch 22, 1956, Cincinnati newspapers reported that a strange hovering light in the western sky had been seen in the western suburbs of the city for the past three days. !Tr. and :Mrs. Richard Cutter of Cleves, who had watched it through binoculars, described it as a l:iright blue-white object "l

Crifo ORBIT, 4/6/56.
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--Alexander D. Mebane. First-hand .Accounts Or F~t Sightings In future issues we intend to include material on sightings which are not recent, but are of importance because a detailed first-hand account has been obtained

CIVILIAN SAUCER INI'ELLIOENCE OF NEW YORK
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c/o Lex Hebane, 138 ~1Test 92 St., N.Y. 25 CSI NEWS LETTER 'ilhat About Keyhoe? Recently it seems to have become fashionable in some UFO circles to ignore Donald Keyhoe or to belittle his contribution to saucer research. The most glaring omission is in the new movie, "Unidentified Flying Objects" (m

PLF.ASE NOTE :
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Announcement of Special Mem'Ders' Meeti~: On Monday, July 91 at 8:30 p,m., a special members' meeting will be held at the home of the Sec'y-Treasurer, Lex Mebane, at which time details of the Hopkinsville investigation will be given by Miss Davis. We hope those members who are seriously interested w

LANDING OW IDNG ISLAND?
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A Detective Story At 4 p.m. on June 4th, Isabel Davis received a phone call from someone who alleged he had seen a UFO "land" in the vicinity of Hempstead and Hicksville, Long Island. He said that he had been driving along Northern State Parkv1ay at 12:15 a.m. on June 4th, from Hempstead to Hicksvil

CIVILIAN SAUCER INI'ELLIGENCE OF NEW YORK
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c/o Lex Mebane, 138 West 92 St., N.Y. 25 CSI NE'.!JS LETTER ----How About Those Three Secret Reports, General Kelly? The_ New York Enquirer (published Sundays only) for August 20 through September The third article in the series (Sept. 3) quoted the eleven hard-hitting questions asked by Donald E.

SAUCER INTELLIGENCE OF NEW YORK
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CSI NEWS !ETTER

CIVILIAN SAUCER INTELLIGENCE OF YORK
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c/o Lex Mebane, 138 West 92nd St., N.Y.C. CS! NEWS I.ETTER The Need for Outspoken Criticism This issue of the News Letter is devoted for the most part to recent events which, in our opinion, are not genuine. The Fall's crop of news items has for some

CSI MEMBERS 1 MEETING AND EIECTION OF OFFICERS
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On November 7, 1956, CSI held its first members' meeting of the 1956-57 season at the home of the Secretary, Lex Mebane. Thirty members were present, the largest attendance to date at such a meeting. Since this was the annual business meeting, much time was devoted to the adoption of a set of By-Law

"MON-KA OF MARS" GIVES SAUCER RESEARCH A BIACK EYE
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Hoaxer, Credulous "Saucer Fans" and Cynics Cooperate with Disastrous Success On the night of November 7th, 1956, all of California was talking about "flying saucers." To be more specific, it was laughing at them, and at the silly people who "believe" in them. Max Miller, of FJs"ing Saucers Internati

WHY WE HAVE THAT BIEARY-EYED LOOK
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Long John's Radio Broadcasts On Sunday, October 28th, the CS! Research Section woke up to the f~t that "Long John" Neville, who conducts a disc-jockey-and-chitchat program on WOft (Mutual Network) from 1 to S:30 a.m. every morning, was now taking up flying saucers. ~iQCe that time the Research Secti

A NEW "CONTACT" CLAIMANT:
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HOWARD ME.NGER 1 THE JERSEY ADAMSKI On Saturday, October 27th, a 34-year-old signpainter of High Bridge, New Jersey, Howard Menger by name, was brought to New York to meet George Van Tassel. (How this initial contact with Van Tassel was brought about is uncertain: curiously enough,

BOA.RD OF GOVERNORS CHOSEN BY N.I.C.A.P.
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On November 3 the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) named a nine-man board of governors. As reported next day in the NewYork Times, which described NICAP as "a non-profit organization set up recently in Washington to ••• start a detailed scientific investigation of flying

REV. BALLER TO BE SPEAKER AT C. S. I. PUBLIC MEET ING
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The season's first public meeting of C.S.I. of M.Y. will be held early in January. It is tentatively scheduled for the evening of Friday, January 11th; when the final date is set, all members and those on our mailing list will be notified. The Reverend Albert Baller of the Robbins I.lemorial Congreg

RECENT SAUCER SIGHI'INGS
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UFO sightings throughout the early fall continued to consist chiefly of nighttime observations of lights, a number of which were suspiciously like astronomical bodies. Bal.loons turned up once again in October over several areas, but about the middle of November a new phase seemed to begin in the no

SAUCER INVESTIGATOR TUISTS AIR FORCE 1 S ARM
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AND PUBLICIZES BLUE BOOK REPORT The Air Force's Project Blue Book Report No. 14, prepared in 1953 and "released" in October, 1955 (CSI members recall our wall display of this document at two meetings) has been made available in photo-offset form by Dr. Leon Davidson, 64 Prospect Street, l'lhite Plai

CIVILLrn SAUCER DlTELLIGENCE OF NE':"I YORK
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CSI m;:.s LETT::::R - Issue No. 7

CIVILIAN SAUCER nrrELLIGENCE OF NEW YORK
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c/o I.ex Mebane, 245 Yfest l04th St., N.Y.C. CSI NEWS LETTER The Price of Being "Too Factual" As most of us know, the March 1957 issue of Leonard Stringfield's periodical, C.R.I.F.O. Orbit, vras the last he vrill issue. So passes from the scene one of the major sources of factual UFO infonnation.

THE REBIRTH OF lUCAP
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In Nevrs Letter 116, we cast a jaundiced eye on the "National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena" (NICAP) set up in Washington, D. C. by anti-gravity claimant T. Townsend Brown. Within a few we~ks, our article l'las obsolete. Rev. Albert H. Baller, 'l'rho came fro~ :iICAP' s ~Tanuary 15th

NIGHT LIFE WITH LONG JOHN
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Long John Nebel and his WOlt Uutual program for night people (now from midnight to 5:30 a.m. every morning except Monday) have led us all such a dance over these last few months that it's a relief to be able to report that, as of this writing, saucers are being subordinated to other "off-beat" topic

C011r ACT" CLAil.li\i?l' AR!1ESTED IN CONFIBEr!CE SWINDLE
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A .58-year-old sign painter who claimed to have visited the planet Venus was arrested yesterday by the FBI on charges of defrauding Uiss Pauline Gobel, a Washington, D.C. secretary, of ~~40,000 in money and property. Harold Berney, .5.55 N. Craft Hwy., was jailed in lieu of ·;25, 000 bond. Fred Hall

RUN-DOWH OH i.IENGER
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Howard Henger, local "contact" claimant, has been a busy man, and this report is by no means complete, but it will give some idea of his activities. No unequivocal exposure has yet been achieved, but m~· of his earlier disciples are now disaffected, and the future may bring hi.r.i problems. Back on

EnRJ\TA IN NEWS LETTER # 6
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This is a list of some embarrassing slips we made last time, which should be set s+r~i~ht: present position to precede "Max Mill12r. 11 (i:"Jbcn we originally wrote this, we had not yet heare John Otto speak.)

"MARS COR.:lELATION" BROKEN--OR AT LEAST BErr
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In ten years of conce:1trated attention to the UFOs, we have learned surprisingly little about them. One of the very few ger.eralizations that have been apparent--and probably the m•)st sianif:i cant one--is the ·~26-month cycle 11 of their appearances. P:-ovided we ignore the Fortean data, a..TJ.d

"SK.IQU:KES 11
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GIVE JI::RSI:Y, CALIFORNIA, TBE SHAKES On March 5, 1957, t'tVO-inch red headlines in the Los Angeles Herald-Express screamed: "JET BL/.ST P..IPS L~A. 11 The front page story included pictures sho,'ling cracked plD.ster and windorrs, damaged by the force of the blast, which had occurred

ffi.:MARKABLE I-!ORWEGIAU llE:\R-L!U-IDING CASE OF 1954 NOW PUBLISHED
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In the March, 1957 issue of SIR! magazine (thanks to Theodore ll. Hill of Woodbury, N.J. for sending it to us), Norwegian newspaperman Oddvar Larsen tells of an extraordinary sighting, '.'rhich he believes to be authentic. (Incidentally, publication in a magazine like SIR! ~ight raise a question of

REPORT Oil VAN \"lINKLE SIGHTING
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This incident reeeived wide newspaper mention. The Research Seetion has investigated it, as special representatives of .NICAP as well as for CS!, and the following account :ls the result •. A fevr minutes before midni.g ht on Uarch 8, 1957, Captain llatthew ("Rip 11 ) Van Winkle took his airliner up

SAUCER l.L'\GAZIIIES
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Another "professional" saucer magazine is about t o appear: Fl~ng Saucers from Other rforlds, a bi.monthly published by Ray Palmer, editor of Search formerly liystic) and fonner publisher of Fate and Arn~ing Stories. Palliler' s reputation is muddy: his best-Y.norm exploit, as those '7ho 1 ve been k

SAUCER BOOKS
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l!ax Hiller's new paperback bool:, F1.ying Saucers - Fact or Fiction? (Trend Books, 75 ¢) is in the bookshops and drugstores no~; don't miss it. Handsomely produced, and vri.th a lot of previously unpublished material, it's the biggest value yet for your money. Organization could be tighter, and the

SAUCER FRAG1.!EI'11' S
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Good news for the Swiss? ':re kno1·r it sounds implausible, but on April 12 news commentator Henry J. Taylor nas nominated U.S. ambassador to SVlitzerland. Taylor is known in the saucer world for his bum-steer story of seven years ago that saucers rrere "good ne,·:s for the American people" - U.s. s

CSI NEWS LETTER - Issue No. 8
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CIVILIAN SAUCER Illl'ELLIGEtilCE OF NEW YORK
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67 Jane Street, New York 14, N. Y. CS! NEWS I.ETTER As We Enter The Second Decade Of The UFO Age

"SAUCERS' SOURCE IS FAR 1 N1 FOREIGN!"
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And, if you'd like one more suggestion, Why not resolve the "saucer question" By landing on the White House lawns A crew of hairy leprechauns? In A. D. 1957 We look to you, up there in heaven;

NICAP HAGAZlNE SETS NP.W STANDAltOO
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On July 12th, newspapers from Maine to Hawaii heralded the birth ot a new periodical - NICAP 1 s UFO Investi~ator, edited by Major Keyhoe with the able assistance of Lee Munsick. What madehe headlines was 1 ts front-page story revealing that a Calii'omia CAA control tower observed, on March 23, four

HOCTURMAL NEWS
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The !Dng John Program Over at Long John Nebel's WOR studio, the past two months have been moderately quiet ones on the saucer front. Only one ne1·: "contact" claimant of any consequence has been presented (Daniel Fry, old hat on the ~Vest Coast, but new here). A salutary recent development has been

VAN TASSE!, & CROMY FRY ON GRIDDLE
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On the morning of Friday, June 21st, two of LJ' s guests were Southem California "contact" claimants and shepherds of the faithful: George Van Tassel (see N.L. #6 and #7) and Daniel Fry, who had previously been knovm to us only by his publications, and by· our West Coast members' reports on his exte

AIR FORCE SEES PLEWrY - TELLS,NOTHING
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Interesting letter received in May from one of our members who is now in the 588th Communications and Guidance Squadron (Tac Msl), u.s. Air Force: "I am now stationed at Orlando Air Force Base, Florida. As you mq know, one of the big AF missiles, •Matador, 1 is being developed and tested here. I was

SIGHI'INGS OF UNCONVElfl'IONAL AIRCRAFT
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1. The collection and dissemination or actual or alleged sighting(s) of unconventional aircraft is the responsibility of the ACo.fS, 0-2, thia headquarters. 2. It is requested that any person(s) sighting unconventional aircraft, by visual or mechanical means, immediately notify the Office of the ACo

SIGFM/GB - 4S2
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FOR THE CONMANDER Charles L. Olin Colonel, G.s. Chief or Sta.rt

CAPI'IAL AIRLINE'S' PIIDTS SEE ACROBATIC NIGHr LIGHT
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(The sighting which follows is of particular interest because it was made by an expert observer - a veteran airline pilot - who was formerly extremely skeptical on the subject of flying saucers. In fact, in 19.SJ Captain Hull wrote an article for Airline Pilot magazine titled "The Obituary of the Fl

RECENT SIGHTING REPORI'S
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DIAMOND-SHAPED FOm·iATION OVER BINGHAHTON, NEW YORK January 2S, 19S7: CSI member Mrs. Frederick c. Lee, of Binghamton, New York, sent us the details of a personal observation made at 6:35 a.m. on January 2S. She saw four white lights in the southeast quadrant, traveling slowly east parallel to the h

HORTH ANDOVER HAS NOCTURNAL INTRUDER
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January 28, 1957: CSI member Clarence w. Spencer, of North Andover, Massachusetts, describes in detail an observation by his father. At 10:15 p.m. Mr. Spencer had put his car in the garage and was walking to the house when he saw "an object giving off a light blue luminescence ••• in a shallow climb

POLICE OFFICER AHD OTHERS WATCH UANEUVERI;,\l'G NIGHT LIGHTS
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February 13, 1957: The information in this case was obtained directly from the observers by Mr. Zan Overall, 0£ Reseda, California, who reported the details to CS! member Idabel Epperson; she in turn forwarcd the info:nnation to us. Officer Bob Wells, of the Burbank, California Police Force, was dis

HORE AT OXNARD
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March 23 -24, 1957: In~ Letter #7 (p. 25) we described a UFO sighting over Oxnard AFB, California, in the early morning hours of March 23. In the evening of that same day numerous other reports were received from the same locality and nearby. At 9:55 p.m., from Downey (about 40 miles southeast of Ox

CS! NEWS LETTER - Issue No, 9
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CSI Tells N,J. P-T.A. of UFOs
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Long John Appearance CS! Articles in Fantastic Universe CSI's Legal Adviser Scores Triumph

TWO UFO REPORTS FROM OREGON
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Julz 10, 1957: Morgan Medlock and Buddy Taylor, both of Heppner1 Oregon, were piling brush near Crawford Spring (nine miles out of Bull Prairie) at 12:10 p.m. when they saw a round, hat-shaped object moving rapidly toward the northwest at "terrific speed. 11 They estimated its size as about "half th

MEXICAN BAT DANCE OVER wm:TTIER, CALIFORNIA
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On the evening of August 22nd, numerous residents in and around Whittier, California reported watching a remarkable display of UFOs. Among the ·~d.tnecse.;: was Mro Warner Little, his wife> three teen-aged sons, and his eight-year-old daug.~ter Sandra, who first told of seeing the objects. Running i

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS DEEPENS MYSTERY OF REPEATING 11 ICEFALIS 11
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When chunks of ice fell from the sky onto an eastern Pennsylvania fann last summer, the news aroused interest among students of unidentified aerial objects, who recognized a familiar 11 Fortean phenomenon." By the time a seventh fall had occurred in the same general area, seven weeks later, even peo

"LUMINOUS BLUE STONEtt FALLS IN N. J. AS UFOs ARE SEEN
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A handful of provocative clippings from New Jersey P,apers described an apparent cluster of interesting UFO observations on the evening of August lat, 1957. Reports came from Hudson County, across the river from New York City; from the Paterson area; and. one from Watchung, Nevr Jersey. W'e follO\'l

"VERY SINCERE FELLOW'' HOWARD MENGER RETURNS TO I.ONG JOHN PROGRAM
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After the rousing battle of June 21st (N.L. #8), the dove or peace descended upon WOR. For three and a half months, Long John Nebel had neither 11 contact11 claimants nor, for that matter, any other major saucerites on his show--with the sole exception of Aug. 29th (see CSI News). Had big bad CSI ch

TELETYPE MACHINES READ 11 SPACE MESSAGES 11
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As part of his investigation of the Menger claims a few months ago, Jules St. Germain secured a copy of Menger' s tape recording of John otto 1 s WOR broadcast of January 7, 1957,; this tape carried an alleged "space message" (NL #7, p. 9). He also obtained a tape copy of the prototype of this "mess

XMQEVMWSKQWPFYQX; QQQMUMIX
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QVBCUQFCAUCEKWUWKESVBAGGKMQAvwr This is obviously in code, like much tel~type broadcasting. On the much-copied tape the fidelity was poor, and about 10 percent of the letters varied on repeated running through the teleprinter; in any case, the sample is too short to decode by

RECENT REPORTS FROM METROPOLITAN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
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July 21 1957: About 4 p.m. on the same day that CSI vice-president Harold Oksenkrug sighted a UFO at Lake George, New York (see N.L. #8), another interesting observation was taking place nearer home--in Teaneck, New Jersey. Mrs. Leone Marcus, her 12-year-old son Robert 1 and his 12-year-old friend R

WW-FLYING DISC FRIGHI'ENS EARLY IIORNING FISHERMAN
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July 23, 1957: Dominick Drago, a beauty-shop operator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was driving northeast on Route 521 in Warren County, New Jersey, en route to Swartswood Lake (Sussex County) to fish. It was 5:15 a.m., just before sunup. He had just passed through Squire's Corner, a little village ab

MORRIS COUNTY RESIDErrs SEE SEARCm..IGHTS-'-AND SOMETHING ET.SE
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August~! 19.$7: (The two observers involved in the following report have reques~ed their names and employer be kept anonymous. This infonnation is included in CSI' s record of the report. The details were secured by Allen and U>is Van Iderstine of the North Jersey UFO Group. They .:ire friends of th

A HOPPING UFO OVER OW GREENWICH, CONN.
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August 6, 1957t Mrs. Hope Hurd, of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, was standing on her front porch, which faces south and overlooks U>ng Island Sound. It was 9:26 p.m.; no trace of daylight was left in the sky. Her attention was caught by the sudden appearance of a large oval object in the sky due south

DOG AND OTHERS OBSERVE HUMMING OBJECT !.1A.NEU\1E..'Jt OVER FOREST BILIS
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August 14, 1957: New York News columnist Charles McHarry printed the following account of an observation made by a friend or his in Forest Hills (Queens)i 11 0n Aug. 14 at 2: 30 a.m., newspaperman Dick Engler took his boxer dog Esther out for her customary bedtime walk. Outside, the dog stopped, gro

RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
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To CSI Members s Once there were some discontented News Letter editors. They used to say to each other, "Those were the days, back in July 19521 UFO sightings all over the country, every dayt Reports in every newspaper and every newscastl" They would sigh and go back to their editing - finishing up

CSI NEWS LETTER - Issue No. 10
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CSI NEWS LETTER - Issue 1110
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December 10, 1957 Many saucer aficionados - probably the majority - are convinced that the Air Force has secret knowledge that the saucers are extraterrestrial spaceships. When

THE UNPARALLELED UFO 11 FLAP11 OF NOVEMBER 1957
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EGG-SHAPED UFO STALLS CARS ON HIGHWAY COPS CHASE SKY OBJECT MYSTERY Am OBJECTS SEEN IN SKY OVER L.A. These eight-column headlines* are only a sample of what appeared all over the national press during the first two weeks of November, 1957. Many moons have passed--two of them artificial (as of this w

"AIR FORCE REFUl'ES FLYING SAUCER TALES"
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With this headline for a hearse, the N. Y. Times of November 26 buried the November reports and registered another triumph of Air Force formula over facts. Two weeks from the first reports to the funeral - how did the AF dispose of the body in such record time? One method is Standard Operating Proce

REPORT OF A UFO EMITTING A RADIO SIGNAL
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The following extraordinary ob~~rv.at.iqn c~~ 'J;o us via Lex :Meb4lf1e, through the colirtesy of e. mutual friend., Mr, Anthony M, ~erider (,!!2 relation fa~ All?ert K. Bender of Connecticut), who arranged for Lex to meet and interview' the witness two weeks after the event. This is one of the perh

SPACEMEN ON THE VISTA DEL MAR, CALU'ORNIA, BEACH?
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On November 6th, the Los Angeles Mirror-News printed an account of an incident said to have occurred early that morning T>i4o a.m.) on the beach along Vista del Mar at Playa del Rey, According to a Long Beach man named Richard Kehoe (not to be confused with Keyhoe), he had been driving to work at Sa

THE KEARNEY, NEBRASKA "C0ID'ACT11 CLAIM
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This story was unusual in that it told of a "contact" with saucer pilots who might be no "spacemen" at all, but ordinary human beings from somewhere on earth, presumably East Germaey or Russia. - It was important in that it received very wide publicity, and so could be suspected as the possible insp

FROG-EYED - DOO EYED
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Among the many remarkable reports dated November 6, 1957, the following almost escaped our attention. A physician friend told Jules St. Germain about the story, which appeared in the Delaware Valley News (a weekly) on Nov. l5. At Jules' request Dick Harpster, CS! member and a veteran newspaperman wh

THING8'THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
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The reader will hav~ noticed that the November 1957 sighting wave in the U.S., like the Fall 1954 wave in France, has been marked by numerous reports of landings, with and without occupants. The skeptic who disbelieves !1! of these stories must conclude that the US population possesses an unsuspecte

CLASSICAL "SAUCER" HOVERS NEAR BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY
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There are few sections of Broadway from which one could watch a saucer hovering over an open field a few hundred feet away. One such section - perhaps the only one - is in the northern Bronx, just south of the Yonkers line, where the avenue is built up only on the west side, and the east side gives

APRIL-MAY 19S'7 - THREE LANDING OR NEAR-LANDING CASFS m FRANCB
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In News Istter #9 (p. 2.5) we mentioned tl!e excellent accounts or three 19S7 sightings in France, personally investigated by J~ Guieu and Marc Thirouin,, whose reports were published in Ouranos #21. The first case was the landil1g at Vins,, in Provence (department or Var), on April 14 (NL #8, P• 13

SAUCER FRAQMENI'S
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Lee Munsick Leaves NICAP: On October 3 Lee Munsick, the well-known saucer researcher and publisher of UFO Nevrsletter, reluctantly left the staff of NICAP to become News Director of a radio station in eastern Pennsylvania. Lee 1s timely assistance to the fledgling NICAP was of inestimable value, and

A FLYING SAUCER UAVE IN THE 1930 1 s
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The period between Fort; and Foo-fighters was one in which sky objects were in eclipse; very few sightings for that period have trickled in1 though the Nicholas Roerich sighting of August S, 1927, and the Los Angeles Object(s) of February.2S1 1942, may be cited as examples. However, we learn from Si

VESTIGES OF PRE-VENUSIAN ADAMSKI UNEARTHED
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Somehow it never occurred to us to look up "Adamski" in the Public Library, but it occurred 'to Mr. Don Moore of United Features Syndicate, and he dug up a mildly interesting fossil de ating from the pre-contact era. It 1 s a S7-page booklet called "Wisdom of the Masters of the Far East," published

CSI NEWS I.ETTER - Issue No. 11
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"LIKE A KITE IN A HURRICANE"-DEY..AWARE 'iATER GAP SIGHTING, October 2,, 1958
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Shortly after 5 p,m. on a very clear evening, Mr. end Ura. CS! members, were driving on a road in New Jersey that runs along a ridge and offers a fine view of

THE STRAl'l'B IEl'TER
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The notorious hoax letter received by George Adamski in December 1957 brewed vast excitement up and dow sauce!'dom. Most sai?'6r magazines have reported on the aff~.ir, commented, and in some cases investigated.- CSI became embroiled because in December 1957 we too received a hoax letter. This one T

CSI FIF'ra ANNIVF.RSARY 1;IBRTING
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To mark the fifth anniversary of CSI, a public symposium on UFOs was held on tha evening of Friday, March 27, 1959 in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Diplomat in New York City. The guest moderator was Long John Nebel of WOR's "Party Line," and Major Donald E. Keyhoe, Executive Director of NICAP, was

LIGHTS THAT FLE\iV, DANCED, AND SANK INTO THE GROUND
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One of the strangest reports of 1958 comes from Lampasas, Texas, a town of some 5,000 population about 130 miles southtvest of Fort Worth. On Satrrday night, December 20, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Richardson, who had been hunting rabbits about 10 miles north of town, were driving along the Spivey-Tapp R

THE OTIS T. CARR SArrA
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Early in 19~8, "O'I'C Ent.erprises, Jnc." of' Baltimore, Ua.ryland, issued a beautifulJy printed brochure, and ran a double-rage spread in the April 3 Baltimore Enterprise, with the bold claim that it was ready to build a flying saucer capable of travel outside the earth 1 s atmosphere and to land i

THE NEAR-L.1.U1DIHG A'r OLJ SA.l'BROOK, COFN1CTICUT, DECEMBER 16, 1957
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To the growing list of types of "little men" in UFOs must now be added another, appearing in "' report from an unusually reliable source. Hrs. Uary t:I. Starr, long a resident of Old Saybrook, and holder of two degrees from Yale University, has for some years spent all but two or three winter months

The CONVENTIOWal Thing :£..22
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Staging a "spacecraft convention" has become one of saucerdom•s most flourishing minor industries. The year 195'8 saw three such events in different parts of the country. 1 Tithout taking space to describe each of them in such detail as to do justice to all their inadvertent comic brilliance, the fo

A MIXED BAG OF SAUCERS li PRINT
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"The First Man Killed by a Flying Saucer. 11 The July 1958 issue of True or False, an illustrated magazine published by "Modern Day Periodicals" in New York, featured an "absolutely true" article with the above title. The anonymous author described his close-range observation of a UFO on the ground

BOOK BIVIEWS
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THEY LIVE IN THE SKY! by Trevor James (New Age Pub. Co., IDs Angeles, 1958. $4.SO.) The publisher's subtitle, "Invisible Incredible u"FO Around Us,n does only feeble justice to this lethal hodge-podge. We say 11 lethal 11 advisedly, for Hr. James (a pseudonym, according to the book jacket) belongs t

GULLIBLE' S TRAVELS
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Fl.y1ng Saucer Pilgrimage, by Bryant and Helen Reeves (Amherst Press, Amherst, WJ.sconsin, 195'7. ::~3.$0). Pilgrimages are not undertaken by unbelievers, and although the Reeves or Detroit, whose meetings with well-known contactees occupy about half of this book, profess to have started out in sear

WILD MEN AND MONSTERS-THE RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA "CREATURE" OF NOVEMBER 8,1958
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Although the stories of wild men and monsters that hP.ve appeared in the news in recent months are not UFOlogical, their interest is so great that they impel us to give them some of our limited space. The Abominable Snowmroi of the FJ.malayas has become the object of intensive research and explorati

"I GONE TO PLANET IBLAND (?) AND BACK BY A SAUCER" SAYS
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JAPANESE YOUNG BUSINESS MAN A Japanese young electrical business man, Tsutomu Nagai of Tokyo, who claimed tc ~ad aboard a saucer and traveled to another solar system, the Planet Irland (?). ~his is a first time - Japanese claimed to have direct contact with space people, if it are truth.

THAT AVRO SAUCER • ALMOST AS MYTHICAL AS OTIS CARR'S
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We've all seen too often that picture of a "real flying saucer, soon to appear in our skies" that the newspapers like to run over-their UFO stories-a toothy-grilla:l disk, dashing briskly through the cloms. Seldom accurately captioned, it's an Air Force handout or October 1955, an artist's conceptio

JUNG ON 'T'HE UFO
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Why His Real Views on Flying Saucers Have Never Been Correctly During late July and early August of 1958, there was a brief but spectacular flare of publicity about Dr. Carl Gustav Jung and his opinions on flying saucers. In newspapers all over the world the f::unons 8)-year-old Swiss psychologist w

C. G. JUNG ON THE QUESTION OF FLYING SAUCERS
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(Full-page article in Die Weltwoche, Zurich, Switzerland, July 9, 19.54. Translated from the German by Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York. The author, presumably a Weltwoche columnist, is not identified in the article. Brackets-/"~~enclose material omitted from the translation in Flying Saucer

JUNG'S BOOK IN ENGLISI TRANSLATION
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In January 1959 an English translation by R.F.c. Hull of Ein Moderner }.(vthus was published in London under the title Fl ·ng Saucers - A Modern h of Things Seen in the Skies (Routledge & Kegan Paul; shillings • This edition is textually complete, but Chapters IV and V have been combined, so that th

CIVILIAN SAUCER INTELLIGl!NCS GFDUP OF NEW YORK
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STATEMENT OF POL!CY This organization takes the following position regarding Unidentified Flying Objects: 1. The phenomena commonly referred to as "flying saucers" or 11 UF0's" are real objects.. H~dle a large percentage of reported sightings

1TcL\..I SNC.E'
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CIVILIAN SAUCER J:N~lES'i'3=0A'f 1eN GROTJP New York, N. Y. Temporary Committee on Organization This informal committee has been appointed to act as a clearing house for

CIVILIAN SAUCF.R INVESTIGATION GROUP
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PLF.AS~! FILL OUT AND RF.l'URN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO: Ted Bloecher, 317 East 8.)rd St. New Y~rk Ci1'1 In order to plan a constructive and interesting program for the CSIG and its members, we should like to know what you personally would like to have the.club do.

PLFASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND FURTHER SUGGESTIONS. Use other side of the paper if
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necessary. Contribute your ideas so that an interesting program of activity can be planned. 1N p.r r Y'E's

CIVILIAN SAUCER INTELLIGENCE
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Statement of Income and Expenditures, February to June 1954

lMPORTANT:
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Does anyone know of. a centrally-located place where we could keep the CSI library and files, which could be open and available to members at laas~ two nights a week? If so, please get in touch with Ted Bloecher, 'IR 9 3099.

CIVILIAN SAUCffi INTELLIGENCE
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This organization takes the following position regarding Unidenti· fied Flying Objects: The phenomena commonly referred to as "flfing saucers" or

CIVILiAN Sf• •f'.::ER IlITELLIGliWCE OF Nli11/ YOR:C
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1'.nnouncement cf Forthcoming Heeting On Thursday evening, April 28, at 8:30 p.m., thei4e will be a Civilian Saucer Intelligence meeting for members, at the home of Miss Isabel Davis, 67 Jane Street, New York City. Marty Hyeri:;o11 has arranged to show a film of recent rocket development, and member

CIVILIAN SAtJCli?. IMTIGlilTCE OF NT.liT YORK
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Noti-::-e To Lapsed tTembers According to the bookkeepirig records of CSI, we have not received your renewal of membership for 1955. Your name has therefore been transferred

G:N!.RAL !NFOR?:!AT!ON SHE!::T
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CIVILIAN SAUC~ INTELLIGENCE The CIJ:IL!AN SAUCER IN~ELLIGENCE has been founded to, ;promote better public knowledge and attitudes toward flYillP' sau~rs bJ means or public meetings, and also to further flying sauoe~nesearch.

•.RSHIP pHARGE:
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l A one year membership in the group is a1.oo per person. You Will receive a membership card, and possibQ.y a lapel pin later. 2 Dues ot .so~ per meeting w111 be oharged. These funds will be used to notify you.pf eaoh meeting, and printing a group ball~tin giving a resume of eaoh meeting, and the pl

Ji.!!M.BERBHIP PRIVELEG§V:
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Lending library of material on all unidentified flying objects. ~ll1u 1n~ludce all books, and more than 100 magazine art1~1e~, with ~J.~p:p!Hg'S attached.

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