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14-year-old Yoshinari Baba, student of Kaizuka Osaka, Japan, took this "U;Ft:/t which "Sa.nkei

THE "R. E. STRAITH" CASE By JAMES D. VILLARD (EDITOR'S NOTE: James D. Villard, Editor of The , is in a good position to investigate the notorius Straith letter," as his father, the Hon. Henry s. Villard, present

I WOULD NOW LIKE TO clear one thing up about the stationery in question. The stationery the letter was written on is at this time no longer in uee. However, there does exist a similar type o f paper, but with the

his wild goose chase through the DepRrtment of State by telephone in search of "R. E. Strai th. " We must remember that there are several hundreds o f thousands of government employees in the Sta.te Department and its branches, and the name "Straith" might not be uncommon. And since many new people

By JAMES D. VILLARD (EDITOR'S NOTE: James D. Villard, Editor of The , is in a good position to investigate the notorius Straith letter," as his father, the Hon. Henry s. Villard, present U. s. Ambassador at the U nited Nations in Geneva and former Assistant to the Secretary of State, has many conn

he might be on " special work," and not really with the De partment at all. So I returned to the telephone and told Mrs. John that to the best of my knowledge there was no " Straith" in the Department, but that he might be on some special work in the Department and therefore not listed in

By ROBERT C. BECK ( Ed itor's N ote : Robert c. Be ck is well kno wn to UFO researchers in S o uthern Califo rnia. I n the E d itor ' s opinio n, Bob Beck has do ne mo re in the way of inno vating, developing and coll ecting instrumentation relative to the detectio n o f UFO ' e than every o ther UF

MOST POPULARI ZED U FO PHOTOGRAPHS always s e e m to be made w i th a box Bro wni e . This i s be tte r than no thing, I suppo s e , but couple d with the drug s to re pro ce s s ing, the s cratche s , cinch marks in the e mul s i ons , lens flare , gl P.ve-co mpartment foggi n g, and j us t plain d

(A) 400mm Tele-Megor telephoto lens; (B) 150mm Schneider Tele-Xena.r; ssorted (E) Rolleicord a.nd Rolleiflex 2lx2 cameras; lenses; (D) Robot Star; (F) 40mm f/3.5 Ma.kro-Kila.r ''D" close-up lens; (G) Heiland Ring Light, an electronic flash for macro-photography; (H) Leica.

S AUCERS - S ale on B·ack I s sue s. Japane se U FO Pho to A Day at Gi an t Ro ck . Sauce r Co nven tions Planne d One ration Space C ontac t by Yusuke J . Matsumura Sho rt S hot s & Ne ws No te s

By M. K. JESSUP SEVERAL WEEKS AGO the Ai r Fo rce announ ce d that a prototype of the joint Arm y-Ai r For ce s pon s ore d Canadian AVRO " s aucer " woul d be te e t flown thi s coming summe r. T hi s e lusive AVRO di s co i d ai r c raft has bee n re ha s he d by

ing ei ght addi ti onal page s , combi ne s the Spri n g and Sum mer i s sue s . Our ob je cti ve s in doin g thi s are s e ve ral fol d, the pr i me one be ing e cono mi c (we are attemptin g a pe ri o d o f aus te ri ty for purpos e s o f survi val ) .

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INDEX TO FACT OR FICTION? FACT OR F! CTION?" By SAMUEL J. CIURCA, JR.

(EDITOR'S NOTE - Thie Index to fuin. e-!.LE.=.,? (Trend Books, Los Angeles, 1957) is continued

THE LOCKHEED STAR (official publication of the Lockheed Aircraft Corp,) of March 19, 1953, had a front page article with this heading: "Mystery Object Sighted By Pilots Over Victorville, - - - MYSTERY OB~ECT - By super enlarging, Lockheed's photo dept. salvaged this picture from tiny movie camera pr

One pilot described it as follows: -we tbink it might have been a weather balloon. Except for a couple of little oddities we'd be certain: To be as conepicuoe as it was, the thing would have had to be the size .o f an airplane hanger, as high as it was above us. Another thing that was peculiar was t

INTERNATIONAL FLYING SAUCER BUREAU; H. H. ,Fulton, President, CIVILIAN -SAUCER INVESTIGATION of NEW ZEALANDJ Richard Hughes, Becret~ry, FLYI!jG SAUCER CLUB (England); L. T. Whitney, Honorary Secretary, AUSTRALIAN FLYING SAUCER INVESTIGATION . COMMITT~. THE FOLLOWING items can be had through our head

(Flying Saucers I Like) ORFEO ANGELUCCI "The chariots shall rage •••

t ff Correspondent) I TAKES THE PlANET MARS approximately It to 13/4 Earth years to complete its journey around the Sun and rth. Mars overtakes E arth about once every two years and fifty days. This means the "saucer cycle" may have something to do

I WAS INSIDE A FLYING SAUCER By TRUMAN BETHURUN IN JULY, 1952, WHILE employed in Nevada on Highway 91, about 70 or 80 miles out of Las Vegas towards Salt Lake City, I was transferred from day shift to swing shift, or night shift would be a better name for it as we worked from 4:00 P. M. until some

THERE ARE MANY things one an do to help the flying saucer cause on way or another. Below are listed a few: Itwould be helpful to write a letter to the editors of

(Staff Correspondent) SEVERAL HUNDRED years ago, a prominent astronomer of that time saw many strange sky objects durin his lifetime. He des cribed these in papers and journals as fuzzy" and "round" and sometimes "oval" or "disc" shaped. The astronomer, Sir \l{illiam Herschel, even saw these objec

pictured (n) at. a meeting of

By AUGUST C ROBERTS (Staf f Correspondent) THE MAIN THINGS needed to photograph flying saucers are pa tience, any type of camera, and a little know how. In their orde

M E MB E R S H I P If you happen to own a camera which takes three dimensional pictures, you have the best type for this accomplishment, but since most people own a box or folding camera, these are the ones

S H 0 '1' S ORGANIZATIONS and their officers doing excellent work in the flying saucer study are as follows: Joseph Barbieri Research

Summary of Lecture Giyen at Convention by Frank Scully••••• " My Opinions on Flyins Saucere by Rev. Louis A. Gardner••••• :

"Firat Flying Saucer Conyention" YOU ARE PROBABLY WELL aware by now of the World' s First Flying Saucer Convention which was held by Flying Saucers In ternational last August 16th to 18th at the Hollywood Hotel, It has been agreed that is was a remark Hollywood, California.

rigadier General, USAF Director, Legislative Liaison" ALL IN ALL THE CONVENTION went fine and we wish to thank the many friends who were kind enough to speak and participate at these meetings. We are sorry we cannot list all of their names

FRANK SCULLY I WISH I COULD SAY it gives me great-pleasure to look upon your smiling faces but in al l truth I can't say this because

SUMMARY OF CONVENTION LEC TURE I have been gathering new and additional data for three years and don't intend to rush out with a new book merely to satisfy a de It may take another year to check down this data and make

By GEORGE ADAMSKI THE FIRST FLYING SAUCER CONVENTION was excellent proof of the interest in the minds of the people regarding the presence of other world craft moving through our atmosphere. Actually, this event is no more mysterious than our planes moving over Africa, South America, the Arctic, Ant

"FLYING. SAUCERS HAVE LAN DED" by Desmond Leslie and G eorge Adamski (Brit ish Book Centre: 13.50): This is a rather unusual book to say the least. Desmond Lealie wrote the first part of the book which com

Sy ARTHUR LOUIS JOQUEL II In th'i few years since the words 11 flying saucer• became a part of the world s language and consciousness, there have been a great many opinions and viewpoints expressed as to existence--and if their existence is conRidered to be proven, the nature and origin--of these my

WE WILL HAVE TO PROGRESS I!~t~NSELY in intellectual and spiritual growth to reach the level where we have released ourselves from chauvinism, from superstition, from dogmas and misconceptions, to reach the level of world citizens, much lesR cosmic citizens. But if we do attain that level, we may fin

By FRANK SCULLY \'IHEREAS at the First Gonvention of Flying Saucers International, held at the Hollywood Hotel from August 16th to 18th, 1953, inclusive,

ori ginal! v oublished in ~Col ogne (Germany) ne~.rspaper and subsequently reprinted in several American publications SuppoRedly taken· by Flak Sgt. D, Ussel on ¥.arch 2lst 1 1950, over Y~nument Valley, Ari~. (ED. NOT:S::: This photo, along

By JOHN OTTO ON THIS CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT, I ~m not going to summarize and dwell on· past eight1ngs. There have been many books written which do an excellent summarization as gleaned from tone or newspaper clippings, recordings of interviews, etc. I leave it up to each and every individual, the pro

THE NEXT IMPORTANT QUESTION, now that we know they are here, is where are they from? This must be answered through the reports of some of us ·who have had the pleasure and good fortune to have been contacted. In one case the visitors inferred that they had come from Venvs• In tnother case the visito

Ne:A L I(EA~NE 'Y A F~ENCH HISTO,~IAN HAS itECEN'TLY STAT'ED ' THAT THE DuKt oF 8u~iiiiller IIECOR"OEO THAT ON Ai.:L S~ IN'I'S Eve: IN THE 'YEA-~ A <lit liiiHT . OI.JEC T 1 HALF THE SIZE OF THE M'OoON 1 HOVERtb' .. IN THE

A <lit liiiHT . OI.JEC T 1 HALF THE SIZE OF THE M'OoON 1 HOVERtb' .. IN THE SKY AIOVE HIS IMI'EII) AL COI.ilt'r FO~ ONE H.A .L F HOU~. /(S ONE · NEWS COMMENTATO~ · ~EMA~KED, alT. MUST HAVE IEEN AN ANCESTO~ OF THE ONES THAT HAVE IEEN FLI TTINll AeOUT OU~ I K I E S 0 F LATE • • .

AN ADVANCE I'AIITY OF A 8111TISH•SI'ONSOIIED INTERNATIONAL EXI'EDITION TO TIIACK DOWN THE •AIOMINAILE SNOWMAN•, SOME

EXI'EDITION TO TIIACK DOWN THE •AIOMINAILE SNOWMAN•, SOME IELI"EVE ·THEM · TO IE .MA.IITIANS- 1 HAS A~IIIVED IN IND-IA'·. THE IIIOUfO IS I'IIEtOA·~ 'INI IN A. CAREFUL AND SC lENT I F' IC MANNER TO COMI THE MT. EVEREST IIEIIOfl!. THIS SI'IIINI ,.011 TRACES 6( THE UNKN~WN . ~IIEATUIIE . THAT ~AOE STII

.I'HOTOIIIA I'HED TWO YEAIIS AIO IY fill c S 'HI I'TO"N , LEAD! IIi Oi' AN ' lJN.SUCCESS'FUL 8RIT· ISH. ASCEN_T· OF MT. EvE~~ES:T' IN

MALAYA 1 S COMMUNIST IUERRILLAS IN ORDER TO HUNT FOil THREE HAIIIY 1 LOIN•CLOTHED 1 FAIII COMI'LEXIONED CIIEATUIIES THAT HAVE IEEN SCAltiNI IIU'IIEII WORKERS IN PEitAK STATE SINCE CHRISTMAS MALAYANS DESCRIIEO THE' CREATURES AS TWO MAL'E S AND A FEMALE OF IMMENSE. STATUI'IE WITH A •eRUNTINI• SOUND 1"

ORAL · LANIUAIE. G.M. B~OWNE 1 i!~ANAIEII ' OF · THE TROLAK ESTATE IN PEIIAK, · WHERE THE TH~·EE MADE ·THEIR FIR~T REI'ORTEO A·I'I'EAR.ANCE DIS• COUNTED A THEORY iHAT · THE THIIEE MIIHT IE RED GuERRILLAS • Oft REMNANTS OF THE JAI'ANESE AIIMY ROAMINI THE' ·JUNILE S ' UJ~E WO~LI

•souE THINK THEY AilE ILOOO SU.CKEIIS,• BROWNE SAIDe THINK THE.Y AilE IHOSTS. I HAVE NO OI'I .NION WHATSOE.VEI'I.•

(UN I DENTIF IED FLYIN MEN) By WILLIAM B. NASH

(E D ITO R'S NOTE --William B. Nash is a pilot for one of tlie country s leading airliners and a junior grade lieutennt in the nited H e has contributed to such magazines as TRUE ,

He was one of the first persons to see flying saucers below him--eight of them--while flying an airliner. J SAUCERS, I BEL IEVE, ARE FLOWN BY PEOPLE who are as human in appearance as we are. Mr. Arthur Louis Joquel presented some tnteresting argments

STRANGER INDEED IS THE SIMILARITY between E zekiel's report in the Bible and the report of a man and his wife at Steep Rock Lake, Ontario. The man and his wife saw a saucer on the surface of the water with 10 small humanoid figures walking R.bout busying themselvee The observers were particularly im

the creatures hypnotize us into believing they are humanoid, because irr each case where the creatures have been seeu, they ave been surprised at their work, and in the Flatwoods monster case, it appears that they might have employed a very physical device to dis courage our investigation. It is n

THE "CUP AND SAUCER NET" is cowpose of a group of Amateur Radio Operators (commonly known as hams ) who meet every Sunday morning at 10 :oo A. M. (PST) on about 3. 860 megacycles. Y;embership is extended to anyone who would like to check in.

MYSTERY CRA FT SPINS WEB* By GORDON GRANT A FLUFFY BLANKET, DEAD WHITE, almost ephemeral in its del icacy and apparently electrically charged, may be the San Fernando Valley's first physical contact with visitors from outer space.

who live near the corner of White Oak and Haynes four men who reside orr White Uak, a couple of nextdoor neighbors of the Dangelos and a bakery

ali over the neighborhood like fleecy mnterial are ph? togrphed aains dark cl ?th cobwebs. Vires running to our background with pencil pmt to giVe Idea of SIe. homes turned whitl• They still

certainly hope you are), pleae send ua a card witlt your opinion after each category number. {Please do not write in title ot cate gory as aove, just the number or the category with your selection after it.) Bo other correspondence ahould appear orr the post card. All qualifying cards must be •il

starting ita second year of puli catio. This is our 6th issue. !he first issue looked at the world in June, 1953. Also with this is sue, Flying Saucers international is commencing ita third year as an

And we haTe noted, w1 th no little interest, the public popular ity or the individuals who claim to have been contacted by sauceri

( lett--ne.,eareh iouple or years we have been trying Director) and Max B M11ler {right to di &Qmething about flying aau -Preaident and Editor> ot Flying cera. {lfot through us, or course, . Saucers- International covering re- but we were happy to be around when

ltiLIMUJARO INCIDEN'l'* DURIIG AN IIIDRVID BOD Dl!S U'l'ER, CaptalB Bicknell aaid that hia iJIJ)reasion waa that the unidentified thing wae ao• Y.

Colony East Atrica. At Nairobi Vest airport, the regular Mond.J' morning Lodestar was readied as ueual tor ita morning night to Mombasa, and soon pa1sengera tiled aboard, little dreaming, any of them, ot what was to meet their astounded eyes barely 20 minute• later. At 7 a.m. exactly with 9 passeng

80 IT REMA I HB:D FOR 17 MIJIUTE8. Passengers of the Lodestar were now taking turns with the field glasses, and two ot them had commenced taking photographs, when sud

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FOR THE NEW YEAR E. Keyhoe (50%), "FLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED" Desmond Leslie & George Adamski (16.6%), "ABOARD A FLYING SAUCER" by Truman Bethurum (16.6%), "BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS" by Frank Scully (11.1%), and

"BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS" by Frank Scully (11.1%), and "FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL" by Donald Keyhoe (5.5%).

PARIS. --READERS OF THE CLASSIFIED AD columns of the Brest Telegramme blinked recently at the following notice: Offer of 10 million francs ($28,000 to any one who brings

(4) --- News Commentator Giving Best Covera Frank Edwards (75%), J. K. Criswell (12.5%), other (12.5% ) . (5) --- Personalit Who Has D ne re For the F ying Saucer Subject Than Any Other: Frank Scully 22.2o , George Adamski 122.2%), Donald E. Keyhoe (22.2%), Frank Edwards (11.1%),

the greatest number of votes in their respective categories. Edwards received an overwhelming 75% of the votes as the best news commentator--which is quite ironical as he was re cently fired from his nightly news commentary (complete story in "QUESTIONS & ANSWERS" column, along with latest findings

This is an excellent book to give to your friends, neighbors and relatives to begin the UFO-enlightening process. And believe us--This is the book that can do it! We still stock the cloth-bound edition of this book for $3.00, but the pocket edition is merely 25¢; although we must charge 10¢ addition

It may be that Mr. Pre has his tongue in his cheek and a good deal less than 10 million francs in his pocket. But considering what is going on in Europe these days you Cedric Allingham, if his interests had been more mer

ham related. ''He had n charming smile. Then I took out my pad and drew a sketch--the sun in the middle and three circles representing Mercury, Venus and the Earth. I pointed to the third circle and then to myself. He agreed. Then I pointed to the second circle and to the man. To my surprise, he sho

CONSTABLE, DEPUTY CONSTABLE, AND STATE HIGHWAY PATROLMAN WITNESS

ISLAND about 7:30 P.M., and proceeded in a northerly direction up the beach for about five miles. We were afraid to risk going any further at night up this

'n.. lrowrtiYllla nrtnc Sauoar Raaearch Sootaty and \he ;:.:nrr.,o:::: g·i9bt!00J:::-!:..r::!! ot the !azaa ny1na S&UOII" Rlll&rOh Soo11t7• !tapreaanttac

At 81lS P. •·• atter \be &roupa bad. ben tn ooaaea.tr.tlGD toP abou.t tltteen to twenty-ttTe ldnu.tea, Ra7 Stan.tord lntort ' t ;!!..r!:! r-·!:::.:.':!:r: ::n be .:: :::a IHD. Ju.pe enauah, at 81.30 an objeat deaerlbed by .DaT14

County ot Nueoea

the underalgned, a Notal')' CONTACT WITH A FLYING SAUCER ABOUT THIS TIME OUR ATTENTION was attracted by a blinking light. The deputy constable was trying to signal the saucer with

DIAGRAMS f r om the forthcoming book, •INSIDE THE S~ACE SHIPS" by George Adamski, See page 15. C 0 N. T EN T S Space Craft And Interstellar Communication by John Otto,,,,,,,,,,,Page

135 RANSHITA DR MOUNTAI N VIEW, CALIF. YO. 7. 1206 SPACE CRAFT AND INTERSTELLAR. COMMUNICATION

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possible arrangement 1n which available parts to construct same may be purchased at any radio or auto parts store, A dependable "Big Beam• model #211 or any other suitable and similar light will surflee, Following the drawing, couple a Carbon telephone type microphone of approximately 50 Ohm resista

WE HAVE EVIDENCE, not considered conclusive, but enough for us to suspect that our "VIS" friends are not using radio in the generel earthly interpretation. Because of the latest discoveries and the uncanny ability of "Cutting In" on our sets (inuependently done with no regard for our powerful carrie

THERE ARE NO ASTOUNDING "JOY RIDES" or trips "to the stars" to report through our communications efforts and if there were, I am sure that there would be many readers who would be thoroughly aiscouraged rather than thrilled for these columns are not meant for the describing "the ride." Rather, they

A GROUP OF LOCAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS accompanied this writer to a location some 800 miles from Chicago at the insistance of a "contactee." Arriving at the destination, we set up our communications equipment and proceeded to tran·smi t under very adverse circumstances--an overcast of thick .soup th

YES, WE WERE ALL RATHER CONCERNED as to the veractty of the individual; wondering why they had returned the day after we had left and had not used the mechanical means of contacting us. After many tests, we were convinced that these friends had definitely been there at the location! The followin~ is

BEAM COMMUNICATIONS AND HAD BEEN CHASED AWAY BEFORE THEY COULD FINISH THE NECESSARY EXPERIMENTS. IT WAS DESIROUS Tl-h\T WE DO NOT BECOME DISAPPOINTED, BUT TO CONTINUE TRANSMITTING NIGHT AFTER NIGHT SO THAT THEY CAN LOCATE THE ACTUAL

THAT THEY CAN LOCATE THE ACTUAL DISTANCE OUR TRANSMISSION COVERED WITH THAT EQUIPMENT. THERE WAS A BARRIER (Author's Note -- No clarification as to what this 'barrier' is or at

AND THAT THEY WERE WILLING AND MOST DESIROUS OF FRIENDLY COMMUNICATIONS, BUT THEY WOULD PREFER RECEIVING US FROM ABOVE THIS 'BARRIER.'" Photograph requests were politely turned down, but they

By DANIEL W. FRY THE SECOND ANNUAL SPACECRAFT CONVENTION was held at the Giant Rock Air and Space Port on Saturday and Sunday, March 12th and the 13th, 1955. Originally the convention was scheduled only tor Saturday, but because or an error, one ot theLos Angeles radio stations announced the day as

THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE CONVENTION was the appearance of Dick Miller who made public for the first time on the west coast, the report of his twelve hour trip in a spacecraft over the Detroit area. Dick, who is an electronics technician, made his first contact through an intra red light beam communicati

FIRST 1'iORLD INTERPLANETARY ASSEMBLY By Prof. ALFRED NAHON (EDITOR'S NOTE -- On July 16th, 1955 an Associated Press dis patch from Geneva, Switzerland declared that the World Inter

or $2.50 (u.s.). An International Money Order for the amount should be sent to: M. Vessaz, 8 Chemin de Passerose, Lausanne, Switzerland. The article, written expressly for FLYING SAU CERS INTERNATIONAL, was translated from French text by Ever ett Austin Goodell of Los Angeles.)

planetary Association) -the initials of which form the word AMI (ED. NOTE-the French word AMI translated means "Friend") , which comprises our entire program--was founded by me on the 28th of October 1954, at Lausanne, through the running of a series of articles which I edited for the weekly Swiss R

KNOWING FULL WELL that you have gathered together under the pressure of men from other planets who have been ma.nifesting them selves especially since 1945 over all the countries of the globe and who are coming, accordin g to recent reports, to provoke des truction of atomic centers (England, Russ

FIRST fORLD INTERPLANETARY ASSEMBLY The Prelude? To the abolishment of censorship of "flying saucers" and to the psychological preparation of the public to the stupendous events which are coming.

By ORFEO ANGELUCCI WHAT A CRUCIAL YEAR IS 1955. People reading of that year away up at the turn of the century will wish they were living during that vibrant time. They may refer to it as the year that the earth turned a somersault. The wonders we have discovered, and are now discovering, are the ve

whole again, just as the day when he left this earth, and awakened He would at once feel he to see an airplane hover for a landing. had emerged into Heaven, and was witnessing angels in flight. Then the plane landed, and he walked inside, just before the occupants emerged out. He would see sour face

A SEQUENCE OF FIVE by George J. Stock Photos courtesy of

By ROSE HACKETT E D I T 0 R I A L WE ARE FACING A YEAR OF EXPECTATIONS. 1956 • • • the year the planet Mars comes to within 36 million miles of the Earth--its closest approach

If nothing else, heated political battles. We all remember the last leap-r.ear presidential contest in 1952 when we observed he so-called 'Washingtn Crises." Twice, in the month of July, uFO,s buzzed the Nation s Capital causing a nationwide demand of the Air Force for an explanation--an "explanat

In the beginning pages is an account of visitors from outer space albeit men con siderably less discreet than most of today s space visitors! Messengers from the "heaved up" regions of the universe often communicated face to face with earth dwellers. With document

follow prophecy. Today's Anno Domino calendar confirms Bible So does archeology and every true science that has not been misinterpreted or perverted for evil purposes. Men themselves prove the ·Bible is true, for those who

Witnesses were advised that he would come back someday the same way: in the air, on the clouds, visible to the natural eye. Isaiah said long ago that " the Lord will come with his chariots like a whirlwind... The Scriptures promise an earth government where willing and happy people shall, under God,

No--but an unusual saucer-shaped cloud-effect. Photographed during the summer of 1955 near Mt. Lassen, California. (Photographer's name withheld by request.) C 0 N T E N T S Statement on Air Force Release by Edward J. Ruppelt Report on Communication Attempt by John Otto

RUPPELT DISCLOSES • • • Statement from Edward J. THE TRUTH BEHIND AIR FORCE UFO REPORT

The press bits seemed to have badly misconstrued this release. that I saw intimated that the Air Force was saying that such things as vertical take-off fighters, the new AVRO "saucer" and several other aircraft of radical design had been sighted by people and mistaken for UFO's.

By JOHN OTTO AS STATED IN THE LAST issue of SAUCERS, an attempt to con tact outer space intelligences was made, from 1 to approximate This is the ly 5 a.m., on the morning of October 28th/1955.

called in to state he had a full tape of the broadcast. attempting to acquire a copy of this man's tape, we--Max Mil ler and myself--had an unusual experience. The man could never be found at hie office to check it and, on arrival within sev

REPORT ON COMMUNICATION ATTEMPT THE CANADIAN FLYING SAU.CER STUDY IN THE INTERCEPTED MESSAGES of assumed letters that were heard in Morse, it is highly suspected that this may have been

a request made to the Canadian Department of Transport by w. B. Smith, for permission to make use of the Department's labora tory and field facilities in a study of unidentified flying ob jects and physical principles which might appear to be involved. The program consisted of two parts. The first

C 0 N T E N T S Majhoe's Eleven Unanswered Questions The Air Force Answers Keyhoe Front Cover Photograph Data Pictorial Review: "Unidentified Flylng Ob;lects"

LETTER TO SENATOR BYRD inherent dangers in this censorship--and the Air Force has insisted no security is involved--! urge that you forward the following ques tions and statements to Secretary of the Air Force Donald A. Quarles, with a request for specific answers:

LETTER TO SENATOR BYRD Why did Secretary Quarles and certain Air Force officers state in Special Report 14 that no pattern had been found, no in dication of intelligent maneuvers, and not enough data to build a

AIR FORCE TO SEN. BYRD There is a total lack of evidence that they represent tech nological developments outside the range of present-day scientific

(EDITOR'S NOTE -- Signals from Mars--fantastic& Yes, but perhaps within the range of possibility. The follow newspaper account would stir many an imagination were it published today. It appears timely enough. But what is your reaction when we tell you it is reproduced from The Evening Bulletin, Prov

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A Scientist1s Apwroach: UNUSUAL AERIAL PHENOMENA By J. A. HYNEK (Editor1s Note -- The following is reproduced by permission of the Journal of the Optical Society of America, published by the Amer

tinued popular interest in flying saucers. The term flying saucer, of course, dates back to the treatment by the press of the now famous triggering incident of June 24, 1947, another date which might well be said to live in infamy, when a lone pilot, Mr. Arn old, reported "nine peculiar-looking air

for the investigation of unidentified aerial objects has rested for the past several years, asked me in 194 8 to help ident11) reports that had an astronomical basis. It was a relatively simple task to go through about 200 reports and pick out probable astronomical causes. Indeed, some of the most w

flying disks, as distinct from wandering lights, are still with us. ON THE DAY OUR PILOT CHASED CAPELLA, a. radio from Seattle

announced that flying saucers were seen heading to"rard Montana.. At an airport in Montana several pilots gathered outside the A perfect set-up for suggestibility hangers to wait and watch. --and yet, quoting from one of the many signed statements, "Ob jects were seen1that resembled flat disks refl

but rather that his manner of reporting--as far as it went--was commendable and that his report, made in good faith, is therefore entitled to a hearing without prejudice or ridicule, but also, without fanfare, hysteria, and fantastic newspaper publicity. The above photograph (extreme enlargement at

right) was taken about 2:30 p.m. last July 19 by 15-year-old Michael Savage--the son of Dr. Phillip M. Savage, Jr.--of San Bernardino, He described it as about 20 feet in diameter, "made no noise" and ''had some apparatus or portholes near the rear of the ship." He said "it disappeared at a great ra

1-fOUNT SHASTA, the snow-covered, 14,161-foot mountain of renown just below the Oregon-California borderline, has been It is therefore little wonder a perennial setting of intrigue. that this majestic site should be the scene for some quite re cent and some quite anomalous occurrences.

"THESE LIGHTS WERE NOT PULSATING like the others," he re "It was as though you were looking as a lighted room through windows. I turned my attention momentarily to the other two • • • and when I lool!ed back, the fourteen lights had changed pos1 tion !Jifl... " After watching "carefully for at leas

CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY INTO AIR FORCE U POLICY DURING THE EARLY A.M. HOURS of last November 15th, the United Press dispatched the following report to its radio station subscribers:*

SECRET. AND FINALLY DECLASSIFIE D IT AGAIN. A later wire service dispatch, this one possibly via As sociated Press, revealed that Representative John E. Moss (D. Calif.) headed the House Subcommittee on Freedom of Informa tion in Government Agencies.

* Puhctuation may be incorrect. AT THE MEETING OF THE AUSTRALIAN FLYING SAUCER RESEARCH Society held in July, 1955, Mr. Keith Cartwright described

Society held in July, 1955, Mr. Keith Cartwright described a simple device which he had invented to detect the magnetic fields of saucers passing overhead. The Australasian Post was attracted by the idea, and published an item about it in the January 12, 1956, issue. The article ran: "Now here's a h

PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE "UTAH" FILM THE TIP OF THE NEEDLE should be cleaned with emery paper so that it can make good electrical contact with the loop, likewise the pivot on which the needle rests. Silver wire is

JOE XERSKA SAYS HE PHOTOGRAPHED this UFO at about 1 2:30 on October He was reportedly facing east on the south slope of Twin Peaks, San Francisco, when he snapped the picture. (What seeming

Analysis of Montana UFO Film b X R. M. L. Baker, Jr • • . . . . . . . • some New Liaht on the 1896-97 'Flap" • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • New South A.l!lerican Group . . . . • • . . • . • . . • . • • . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . .

By TOM TOWERS Los Angeles Examiner Aviation Editor RETIRED REAR ADM. DELMER S. FAHRNEY has revived nationwide interest in "flying saucers" by his statements in Washington, D. C., the other day, and his remarks have opened the way for a full explanation of the much-discussed "Senator Russell" let

FURTHER, IT WAS DECIDED to print the document s contents after the writer had received a November 23, 1956, letter from Leeman Anderson, administrative assistant to Senator Russell, which stated, in part:

they were reportedly taken, the Andr Fregnale aeries of UFO photographs (Plates nos. 31 and 32: The Truth About_!lying_£au cera by Aime Michel, Criterion Books, New York, 1956) bear strong resemblance to two of the George J. Stock UFO pix (bot. p. 64, top. p. 65: £1ying Saucers, Fact or Fiction? b

January 1957: " out of the past, this comment by Nobel prize winner Robert A. Millikan (Founder of Caltech) to a student in : 'Man will discover the secret of in work with very_hlgh_voltas and heavy masses And, An NACA structures

one of the most detailed ever relesed, graph on the left, Agathadaemon, sho11rs the canals Gehon,

excellent books and periodicals have been authored and published. And sane and objective documentary motion pictures have forthcome. Curiously, it took about three years for the first book to see light on the saucer topic, and several more years for the first motion picture. Science-fiction, the com

ffiDITOR' S NOTE--Recently, Mrs. G. ii. Arvidson, of Santa Barbara, Calif., sent us a letter recounting the UFO sightings she and her family has made. We asked for her permission to reproduce her interesting compilation, and she kindly consented. In prefacing "My family and I have had a her reports,

_l2L2§, 11:30 a,rn, Long streamers of white stuff came from the sky as I was workin$ in the den, Looked exactly like the stuff in June Sauc Ll954?--Edl · Managed to catch some but stuff seemed to disintegrate when handled. June 13/56,. More of this white stuff. At the same time an object in t

MOST OF YOU HAVE BECOME ACQUANTED by now with the communi cation attempts that have been made via light-beam transmissions, as well as the experiments conducted over public broadcasting media (WGN, ·chicago, Nov, 28, 1954, and KFI, Los Angeles, Oct. 28, 1955}. It was quite obvious to me, although i

York, I decided to again appear on the Long John P rogram (midnight5:30 a,m,, 720 kc.} on that station to set the stage for a landing contact attempt. On Easter morning, April 21st, a message was broad cast to interplanetary intelligences who may have monitored the show requesting a contact and lan

curious exceptions. Several persons soon drew my attention to the fact that there was a noticeable rocking of the craft each and every time I transmitted! At first taken to originate from a shifting of weight aboard the Mathorr, the rocking gradually became more violent and almost too precise for co

dues are $7.50, which entitles the member to all bulletins and magazines published by the organization. We can all help UFO re search by supporting NICAP, for only they are in a position--by their large and reputable membership and strategic location in the District of Columbia--to force certain is

CONCLUSIVE PROOF THAT SAUCERS EXIST By DR. OLAVO FONTES (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following incident, excluding Editor's Notes'

(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following incident, excluding Editor's Notes' is reproduced from the article "We Have Visitors From Outer Space ' which appeared in the July 1957 issue of The A.P.R.O. Bulletin, organ of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organi·zation, Alamogordo, New Mexico. Dr. Olavo Fontes, a resp

told the reporters that "the sample had, at naked-eye, all the characteristics of TIN (symbol Sn). In a few hours the analyses will give the answer. " THE METALLIC SAMPLE WAS ANALYZED by the chief chemist, Dr. Visvalde Maffei, before several witnesses. Six hours later,

Visvalde Maffei, before several witnesses. Six hours later, Dr. Maffei released to the press the follolofing report, trans cribed verbatim: "The sample analyzed is a combination of chemically pure TIN (Sn)--88. 91 per cent, and oxygen (0)--11. 9 per cent--as oxide. No other element or impurity of a

motionless audience. He was in a state of high tension. The spectators stood silent for a time, some faces worried, some con fused and perplexed, a few bewildered. Then a reporter asked for his opinion about the origin of the material. He answered he was so disturbed about the whole incident that h

of F\ljisawa City (nr. Enoshima Beach) , J a pan, said he pad this photograph of an unusual elon

FLAP" OF 1957 SAUCER FLAP 0 F 1957

By MAX B. MILLER ON SUNDAY, NOV. 3, 1957, the writer listened to "Monit.or News" over NBC Radio. A brief account was related, after the latest news about Sputnik II, of reports of an egg-shaRed ob ject which had reportedly larided on a Texas highway.

ject passed above Ichinoseki City, Iwata Prefecture, North eastern Japan, at about 11:45 a.m. on Oct. 4 (the day, co incidentally, that the USSR launched the world's ffrst ar

The latter objects were presumed birds or aircraft, which are not too uncommon, though the observer had not previously wit nessed such transit any astronomical body. It is unlikely that the second (or spherical) object was in fact Sputnik I, for it is

believed the object would have been too small to be resolved by an 8x50 telescope, unless in extremely close proximity to the earth. The writer observed the moon for the same period the following evening, but observed nothing. In closing, it must be emphasized that the apparent diameters and velocit

their infant son and Mrs. Moten Turner (Mrs. Hairston's mother were driving along State Route 647 near Martinsville, Va., when they encountered a somewhat disconcerting experience. Related Mrs. Hairston (a teacher a.t the Albert Harris High School): ''It was about 6:50 in the evening, and fairly d

"It was very high and traveled at a steady speed, " Mrs. Pat rick continued. " When it disappeared, it just went out of sight in the manner that a plane fades in the distance . It didn't

by Almiro Barauna aboard the Brazilian Navy survey ship Almirante Saldanha ae it cruised near Trinidad leland participating in IGY programs. Military officials and civilia.n scientists were present. Although the military would not comment, several civilians have signed statements attesting to the au

but--fortunately--not for very long. A few years later, following public tests of the Wrights' contraption, Professor Newcomb was queried by a reporter as to whether or not he felt that passenger transportation would be the next development in aircraft. "No," the good astronomer responded, "because

a modified ver sion of the TF-1 Trader, is sad dled with disc shaped radome This is one of

had a metal so rigid and at the same time so light that a sheet of it twenty meters square and a millimeter thick would be as stiff as a board and would not weigh more than a ton, and at the same time so strong that a powerful engine could be built of it with little weight, we might hope for a flyin

THE THINGS THAT HAVEN'T been done before,

Those are the things to try. Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore At the rim of the farflung sky; And his heart was bold and his faith was strong As he ventured in dangers new; And he paid no heed to the jeering throng

No--merely one in a aeries of deliberately simulated photographs by the Editor of SAUCERS to show the ease with which UFO photos may be faked. C 0 N T E N T S Questions About NICAP

Answered By MAJOR OONALD E. KEYHOE, USMC (ret.) The formation of the National In (Editor's Note: a has been, vestigations Committee on Aerial Phenomen

tempts. However, there have been attack ial corres by officials in the Air Force and offic NICAP is not pondence has frequently indicated that

QUESTIONS ABOUT NICAP

QUESTIONS ABOUT NICAP

QUESTIONS ABOUT NICAP authentic information we have received some of it confidential), and the general feeling

HOW TO FILM UFO Is By MAX B. MILLER & NORMAN S. KOSSUTH After momentarily hovering in mid-air, the objects-

certain pieces of evidence have been lacking. Official and private researchers alike concede that good and suf ficiently detailed motion pictures of UFO's are, unfor tunately, not available, and they are greatly needed to help solve the mystery. Literally hundreds of still pictures have been pur

Pastor of the St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio, took 75 feet of 16mm black-and-white film of a searchlight beam apparently striking a UFO over the city on October 23.

After the film was processed, the UFO portion of the roll of Daylight Kodachrome was found to comprise 315 frames. This footage was shown to service clubs and other

By MAX B. MILLER & NORMAN S. KOSSUTH After momentarily hovering in mid-air, the objects- with a "swooshing" sound-traveled to the southwest, keep ing approximately the same distance between them until they

Newhouse next took his Bell & Howell Auto Master 16mm (magazine load) camera from the trunk of his car, loaded it with Daylight Kodachrome, and focused the 3'' telephoto le at infinity. Shooting at 16 fps, lens aperture was decreased

RAAF member and at that time Deputy Regional Director of the Civil Aviation Department at Port Moresby, New Guinea, filmed a UFO. In his official reNort, dated 22 September, 1953, Mr. Drury said he at first noticed a cloud building up as though being formed by vapor trails at a very great

terson AFB , Ohio, was filmed by a jet interceptor's gun-camera at 11 a.m. on A ugust 20, 1952. The UFO was initially picked up on radar. Despite the fac that the object was at one time official ex plained" as a weather balloon, the film