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Interplanetary Intelligence Report

Official publication of IIOUFO, Oklahoma City

United States
Country
1965 to 1966
Published
8
Issues Indexed
140
Articles Catalogued

History

W.F. Riefer founded the Interplanetary Intelligence of Unidentified Flying Objects (IIOUFO) and published the first issue of its bi-monthly report from 3005 West Eubanks, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in May 1965. Subscription ran three dollars per year, fifty cents per single copy. The organisation's motto was "Research, Investigation, Analysis," and its editorial stance was direct: "The IIR will separate fact from fiction. We will publish UFO reports and the results of our investigations." Membership was free and open to all interested persons.

Hayden C. Hewes served as Associate Director and Editor. J. Maney held the Deputy Director position. V.C. Johnston was Secretary. D.V. Critchfield ran photo research as Associate Director. H.D. Crawford handled art direction. A.C. Roberts directed photography. The organisation maintained a structure of district and foreign representatives, a Technical Advisory Board, and a formal Board of Directors. The Oklahoma Science and Arts Foundation at Kirkpatrick Planetarium in Oklahoma City provided a scientific advisory connection.

Major Charles W. Dutreau
In 1966, IIOUFO announced the appointment of Major Charles W. Dutreau, United States Army (Retired), as Director of Research and Development. Dutreau had served more than twenty years in the Army Chemical Corps, working on classified projects including chemical warfare agents, psycho-chemicals, biological and radiological warfare. While Post Chemical Officer at Fort Sill (1953 to 1957), he established the first radiological observation station in Oklahoma and tracked radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests. His first contact with UFOs came in 1944 as Civil Defense Officer in the Pacific Northwest, where "hundreds of people reported bright objects in the sky in the daytime and huge fireballs at night." He spent the rest of the war coordinating defences against what were eventually identified as Japanese balloon bombs, an episode kept from the press until Walter Winchell's post-war broadcast.

The report covered Gemini-era astronaut sightings (McDivitt's GT-4 observation received multi-page treatment with photographs and data), Air Force censorship debates, Project Blue Book analysis, and local Oklahoma sightings. Dutreau personally investigated reported landings in eastern Oklahoma and conducted an official search through the State Department of Health for radioactive materials found on the ground following sightings at Hartshorne. The publication reviewed Jacques Vallee's "Anatomy of a Phenomenon" and ran Leonard Stringfield's "Orbit" material. By Volume 2 (May 1966), headquarters had moved to 3939 N.W. 19th, Oklahoma City 73107, and the subscription had shifted to members only at the same three-dollar annual rate.

Riefer acknowledged in the first issue that the report "has been on the drawing boards since 1957" and expressed hope it would interest "all persons interested in scientific study of Ufology." He himself had never sighted a flying saucer, he wrote, but had once observed "a large unidentified flying object." The distinction mattered to him.

From the Archive
Cross-reference with Orbit for Leonard Stringfield's publication (cited in the IIR's pages). See also the United States Government Records for Project Blue Book files on Gemini-era sightings, and the Harry Aitchison for Hayden Hewes.

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