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THE A.P.R.O. BUttETIl{rhe A' P' R' o' Bulletin is the otficiol coPyrighfed Publication of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (A. P. R. o.), lzl2 van court, Atamogordo, New Mexico, and isissucd every olher month fo members only. The Aerial Phenomena Research organization is a non-profi l group dedicated to fhe eventual soluttn oi the mysiery of theunidenrif ied obiecls which have been presenl in the 5kies for hundreds of years. Inquiries regarding membership may be made to the cbove address.

ALAMOGORDO. NEW MEXICO_JULY, 1959

Wan-Pacific Pilots Sight UA(lMESSAGE FROM AFTYING DISC

Text by Joao Martins

Photos and Drawings by Hetio Aguiar

Translation by Dr. Olavo T. tr'ontes

"The strange case we are going torelate here came to our knowledgethrough an officer of the Brazilian Army,from the 6th Military Region, locatedat Salvador, Bahia. Its authenticity wasinvestigated to the limits that any in-vestigation can reach when every possibleexplanation is analyzed and evaluated.That is: the photos and negatives wereexamined from every technical angle,the position of the sun and shape ofclouds on the day of the sighting weredetermined and compared with what ap-pears on the pictures, and the life andpersonality of the witness were exhaus-tively investigated. In a case of thiskind, however, we could only reach adefinite conclusion if such a eonclusionwas negative. In other words, if thephotos or negatives showed clues sug-gesting a triek; if the position of thesun and shape of clouds on the day andtime alleged contradicted what is seenin the photos, or if facts or motivationsin the life and personality of the witnesswere found, showing that he couldn't betrusted, was a psychotic, or had reasonsfor simulation of the whole thing. Asnothing of the kind was found or dis-covered, the case must be accepted aspossible in spite of the fact that, evenso, the inflexible investigator is not ca-pable of admitting it as definitely proved-for lack of absolute proof. Many mayconsider this criterion as exaggerated,but in a matter so delicate and contro-versial the lack of evidence against doesnot imply a positivc conclusion. On theother hand, the witness obviously can-not present more than was presented:his photos and his report. Therefore, inthis article, we bring to the readers theaccount of this strange case, anotherUFO case where a proof against wasnot found in spite of all data we wereable to collect in our investigation. Theabsolute truth, that only the witness him-seU can be sure about it. Our duty is

(See Message, page 3) (Sec l'iue Pilots, page 27

Special to the APRO Bur,r,rrrN

A cluster of extremely bright lightswere observed by the pilots of fivedifferent transpacific planes early onthe morning of 11 July 1959. First toreport the sighting was Captain GeorgeWilson (19 years flying experience),commander of Pan-Am World Airwaysflight No. 865 which had left Friscofor Honolulu at midnight. One thousandmiles east of Hawaii, flying his DC?Cat 21,000 feet, Wilson radioed the Oak-land Air Route Traffic Control Centerat 6:00 a.m. to report "an object whichhad an extremely bright light in itscenter and four smaller lights along-side." Co-pilot Richard Lorenzen of LosAltos and Flight Engineer Robert Scottof Palo Alto also observed the object(s)fly a parallel course toward the aircraft-then suddenly turn right and disap-pear.

Later, in Honolulu, Wilson said, ,.The

closure rate was extremely rapid. Itwas flying faster than anything I'veever seen. I've never seen anything likeit before. The weather was clear andwe were atop a deck of clouds. It waspitch black. It couldn't have been an-other aircraft. For at least ten sec-onds it maintained its course, which wasan opposite heading to us, and had itbeen another aircraft it would have pass-ed well to our left. Suddenly the objectmade a sharp right turn at a speedinconceivable to any vehicle we knowand the light suddenly disappeared. Thesmaller lights were evenly spaced andwere either a part of the mysteriousobject or this was an example of darnedgood formation flying."

Wilson was asked if he thought theUFO was controlled by a pilot. He re-plied, "It is possible, but the rate ofturn was faster for that speed than anyconventional aircraft in existence.

Since the lights all disappeared simul-taneously immediately after the objectmade its 90-degree turn Wilson con-cludes, "Apparently all the light energywas in front of the object."

Could what he had seen been anysort of reflection? Wilson left little room

OTC AND AHO TAKEFIFTH AMENDMENTIN SECURITIES PROBE

The Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City,Fri., May 29, 1959-Otis T. Carr, presi-dent of OTC Enterprises, Inc., and twoemployees of his controversial ,.flying

saucer" eorporation Thursday werebarred by a federal court from sellingstock.

The temporary restraining order wasissued by District Judge Ross Rizley ona petition by the securities and exchangecommission.

The SEC complaint charges Carr, Ken-drick and Rhoades "engaged in prac-tices in violation of the Securities Actof 1933." The SEC specifically chargesthat since Nov. 18, 1955, the defendantshave been selling securities, namely op-tions and rights to purchase and depositreeeipts for shares of OTC capital stock,and shares of stock.

SEC also contends the trio has beenusing U. S. mail and "other interstatecommunication" to sell, offer and de-liver stock which has not been regis-tered with the SEC.

Thursday's act ion was based onan investigation by C. E. Booth. FortWorth, chief securities investigator ofthe SEC'regional office.

Booth estimated that the OTC firmraised approximately g150,000 beforecoming to Oklahoma City . . . afterward,an additional sum of gB4,99Z.gS was de-posited at Liberty National Bank.

During a questioning session with SECinvestigators here May 12 and 1g Carrtestified he had only 920 in the bank,Carr took the Fifth Amendment 84 times.and Major Wayne S. Aho. his . ,educa-

tional director," took it ll times duringthe questioning.

Considering the dubious talents of theCarr crowd, it is quite likely that shouldthey be convicted of a violation. a hueand cry will go up from their followers;"Persecution," "suppression," etc., etc.,ad infinitum.

NEXT ISSUE:.,FRIENDS OR FOES''

By Dn. Or,rvo Forsrrs

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A COOPERATIVE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTO THE UNIDENTIFTED FTYING OBJECT ENIGMA

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for doubt. "A total of five planes sightedthe same object," he stated. "It is abso-lutely impossible that it could be areflection."

One of the planes referred to by Wil-son was another Pan-Am plane pilotedby Noble Sprunger of Los Altos Hills. .According to Sprunger, "It looked some-thing.like a falling star or meteor butit appeared to be coming right on tracktoward us."

Corroborative reports came from Capt.E. G. Kelley in still another Pan-Amplane, a Canadian Pacific plane out-bound from Vancouver, and a Slick Air-ways plane.

A lfth Naval District spokesman saidthat there were no naval operations inthe area at the time.

Crewmen of the planes were interro-gated by Air Force investigators in Ha-waii immediately after they landed.

A Vandenberg Air Force Base spokes-man states that they had no firing atthe time.

Pilot Wilson states that he had pre-viously discounted reports of Unidenti-fied Flying Objeets, but, says he, "I'ma believer now."

Before military moguls could hush it,the information leaked out that the pilotof a B-50 bomber also reported seeinga cluster of mysterious lights at the sametime as the civilian Pilots.

CONTACT?(With the following reports' we intro-

duce J. Escobar Faria, long-time friend

and fellow researcher fEditor, "UFO

Critical Bulletin"l who has recently be-

come an honorary member o{ A'P.R.O.,

because of his great contribution to the

field of UFO research and his critical

and accurate reporting. Formerly Editor

of "O Estado de S. Paulo," [a Sao Paulo

paper comparable to the Ncw York

Times] an expert on ofiicial documents

for the Sao Paulo State Government, and

ex-president for Prosecuting Committees

Ior that state, Mr. Faria is currently an

Official Attorney for the same government.

(Born May 10, 1914', in Santa Rita, Sao

Paulo. Brazil, Faria received his Bachelor

of Laws Degree at Sao Paulo University.

He is a literary reviewer and critic, has

written and published five books ol poetry'

was awarded the National Prize in 1953

fthe "Olavo Bilac," comparable to the

Pulitzer Prizel by the Academy of Letters

at Rio de Janeiro. Faria approaches UFO

research with the same critical attitude as

he entertains as a member of the Brazilian

legal profession. We are sure the mem-

bers of APRO will enjoy his efforts in

our behal{.-The Editor.)*

On the 23rd of April 1959, student LuisHenrique Silva, 17, felt a strange urgeto go into the back Yard of his home.It was late at night and the other house-hold members were sleeping. He wentoutside, looked to the sky and saw anobject hovering at about 900 feet alti-tude (estimated). He said it looked likea sombrero and was the color of red-hotrnetal. Silva felt paralyzed, then watchedas the round bottom of the object openedand a man clad in a one-Piece suit ofmetallie-like material, spiraled down to-ward him. The creature stopped about8 inches from the ground, and appearedto be a norrnal human-type wearing plas'

tic gloves over exceptionally long fingers,and his head encased in an opaquedevice like a diving helmet. Then the

being held out his hands and shookhands with Luis. To make a long storyshort, the being, like Adamski-type space-men, spoke the local language (in thiscase Portuguese) "slowly and musical-ly," told him not to be afraid, told himto meet him again on the 27th for an-other get-together.

On the 27th Luis again had a strangefeeling, got up and went outside, thistime was approached, via a spirallingpath from the UFO or s,rucef, bY notone but three beings (one at a time).The third one glanced at his garden-pea-sized watch, said "Just two hoursand five minutes at night on earth,"then asked for a sheet of paper, whichLuis brought. The being took the sheetinto the saucer, came back and heldsomething like a small piece of ironover it; then he gave it to Luis, saying:"Look at the sheet; on your planet thereis a man who is able to deciPher whatwas written upon it, and when thismessage is deciphered, we will knowwhat to do." Then he said good, wentinto his saucer and it took off into tltesky.

Mr. Faria has interviewed the boY;his complete account plus a reproduc-tion of the "message" was forwarded tous. We placed this bit of hieroglphics inthe hands of men whom we feel aremost likely to be able to decipher orat least identi{y it. Faria reports thatSilva claims another contaet. this timeon May 25. During this conversation,said being inquired about Luis' health,asked if message had been decipheredand promised a trip to another planet dtnext visit. We are inclined to believe,as Escobar Faria does; it is just a tale.

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tt*rv,t#**i-|i*?tA sighting by several people in several

areas at the same approximate time(?:00 p.m. to ?:10 P.m.) seems to indi-cate that a very strange "meteor" ap-peared in the vicinity of Cidade de Deuson 16 March 1959. Variously describedas a meteor of very unusual behavior,in some instances it was tear-drop shap-ed, it traveled a horizontal course acrossthe sky, chunks of it broke off and wereclearly seen falling from the main piece.

Other descriptions were of a stationaryobject which let fall "droplets" of glow-

ing material which disappeared beyondthe horizon. At least one sighting countedthree such "droplets" let out, one afteranother.

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Message. . .(Continued fronr page 1)

only to report the facts to all peopleinterested in the matter.

"Mr. Helio Aguiar, protagonist of thecase we are going to report and authorof the photos and drawings included here,works for the Statistics Section of the'Banco Economica da Bahia, ' in Salvadorcity. He is a professional draftsman. Heis 32 years old. He is married and hasfive children. He lives a modest life,but with dignity. He has the reputationof a serious and honest man. He is awhite man of small stature and usesglasses with very thick lenses becauseof his myopia. He has a dynamic tempera-ment. He got nothing for his story, hisdrawings or photos-he didn't want any-thing, he said he only wished to co-operate for the progress of science andknowledge. He is considered by some asan 'eccentr ic, ' because of his study ofhypnosis, telepathy and metaphysical re-search, but he is not a mystic nor afanatic. Concerning the position of thesun in the hour corresponding to thetime when the photos were taken, aswell as the aspect of the clouds, nodiscrepancies were found, The negativesdidn't show anything abnormal. Thecamera used was a 'Flexaret' with filmAgfa Isopan. The film was over-develop-ed and, as a consequence, is too hardand with an excess of granulation. Themessage was examined from a graphicviewpoint: the characters present signsthat the message was written in an ab-normal state, when compared with hisusual handwriting. He was submitted toseveral interrogations and told the samethings every time. He agreed with nohesitation to be put under hypno-analysis,or submitted to a 'lie detector,' if andwhen necessary. In fact, the only thingshe may get with his report are worriesand headaches. He has no material mo-tivation to fake it. These are the thingsthat were possible to determine. Nowwe can turn our attention to the caseitself, according to Mr. Helio Aguiar'sreport.

"On April 24, 1959, Helio Aguiar wentto the 6th Military Region's headquartersto meet a close friend, Captain LeibLeibovitch. The friendship between thetwo men was based on two commoninterests: both appreciated the study ofhypnosis and metaphysical research, aswell as to ride a motorcycle. CaptainLeib had a motor, which frequently wasused by Helio. However, the officer hadbeen transferred to Sao Paulo and, asthe time of his trip to the new post wasnear, he ealled Helio and asked for agun (a partieular weapon) he had givenhim some time ago. This gun, however,was with another friend of Helio, aresident of the Amaralina district, whichwas very far from the Q. G. Besides,Helio had his camera and wanted to

take pictures of his nephews. So, hegot permission to use the motor ofthe Captain and left. He took the picturesof his nephews and then went to Amara-lina. Afterwards. he decided to take hislast ride on the motorcycle, along themarvelous highway that runs to ltapoan,on the way to the airport. This highwayspreads for several kilometers, betweenthe sea and the palm-tree thickets.

"When he was approaching a placecalled Piatan, Helio spotted somethinglike a dark smear in the sky just overthe ocean. At first he thought it mightbe some defect of his vision, but thesmear was getting shape and closing in.At this moment, the engine of the motor-cycle stopped. Already motionless, Helionoticed that the smear was a disk,flattened at one of its faces, from whereprotruded four half-spheres, and on whichsome dark signs were visible, like sym-bols. He had the chance to see themwell. On the other side there was acupola or dome of some sort surroundedby concavities or windows. From thebase of the cupola protruded severalparallel tubular devices. The object wassilvery in color. On the side of thecupola there were also other signs whichdidn't register in his memory. Heliotook three pictures. The object was ro-tating in the air, making a kind of'looping.' Two of the photos show theflattened part, and the third one showsthe cupola on top of it. When takingthose photos, he began to feel a strangepressure on his brain and such a feelingwas associated with a growing mentalconfusion. He sensed vaguely somethinglike an order to write something. Itwas like being hypnotized. When windinghis film for another picture, he com-pletely lost consciousness. When he cameout of this state he was dropped overthe motorcycle, there was a paper in hisleft hand which had been before insidehis pocket (on the other side of it therewere some notes about a 'kid's game'of his sons), and a pencil in the righthand. There was a message written onthe piece of paper, in Portuguese, in hisown hand. And the message was thefollowing:

.. .ATOMIC EXPERIMENTS FORWARLIKE PURPOSES SHALL BEDEFINITELY STOPPED. THEEQUILIBRIUM OF THE UNIVERSEIS THREATENED. WE WILL RE.MAIN VIGILANT AND READY TOINTERFERE.'"It could be only a hallucination. Still

with this idea in his mind. he went backto the Q. G. and reported the eventsto Captain Leib. Afterwards they wenttogether to find a person to develop thefilm at once. The task was finally doneby Prof. Ismael Barros, a resident ofthe Saude district. There were ten photoson the film. The first had been takenat the Q. G. and showed Captain Leibtogether with the Reverend of the 6th

M. R. The following five pictures (untilthe sixth) were the photos of the nephews.The seventh, eighth and the ninth showedthe object, exactly like he had sightedit. However, there was also a tenthpicture, one he didn't remember havingtaken, on which the object appeared verysmall, almost turned into a point. Thetwo remaining pietures showed nothing,they had not been exposed.

"This is the story of Mr. Helio Aguiar,reported with utmost objectivity. Thefilm was not cut. Later, he made draw-ings showing what he had seen, includingdetail which only vaguely can be noticedin the photos. These drawings are theones appearing on these pages.

"What to think about this story? Andabout the message? Was he under theeffect of self-hypnosis? Was it a hoax?Or a communication made easier by histelepathic experienee? The knowledge ob-tained by Helio Aguiar about hypnosisand telepathy, the experiments he hasperformed in these fields, represent aknife with two eutting edges in theevaluation of his story. On one side itcould be suggested that he had spon-taneously fallen into a hypnotic trancebecause of the shock caused by the ap-pearance of the UFO (if the photos areconsidered as authentic, as they seemto be), and the message was writtenunder the influence of what has beenpublished about the possible motivationsof the probable crews inside the possibleinterplanetary machines. On the otherside. however. it eannot be denied thata mind like his would be the best re-ceiver for any transmission of such akind. In fact, he has well developed thecapacity of guessing, of receiving 'tele-pathic messages' transmitted from dis-tance under experimental conditions,verified in other cases which have noth-ing to do with the "flying saucers." Asit can be seen, a cold evaluation of thefacts in his case does not drive us toany definite conclusion. But the subjectmust be reported and registered. It is sopresented here, for those who are inter-ested."

GENERAL DISCUSSIONBy Dn. Or-evo Foxres

AP RO's S pecial Representatiue, BrazilThe case transcribed above was printed

in the June 13, 1959, issue of the CRU-ZEIRO Magazine, which was publishedon June 1. 1959. The man who made theinvestigation, Mr. Joao Martins, is thewell-known Brazilian reporter who, to-gether with the photographer Ed Keffel,took the first authentic photos of a UAOin my country in 1952. He is an engineeralso and a responsible and honest UAOresearcher. He is also an APRO member.A few weeks ago he received a letterfrom a Brazilian Army officer (on aconfidential basis, to protect the author's

(See Message, page 4)

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identity) telling about the case. He de-cided to go to Salvador in order to makea personal investigation. He found that acomplete investigation had already beenmade by the Army's Intelligence agents.He repeated it and came to the sameconclusions, which are the ones reportedin his article. He was lucky because theArmy had not confiscated the negatives.After examination, the film had been re-turned to its owner in good conditionby an Intelligence officer. Incidentally,the witness was not told to keep hisreport confidential. It would be illegalprocedure, by the way, because there isno legal authority for any Governmentagency in Brazil to compel private citi-zens to keep UFO reports confidential.Therefore, the witness is free to reporthis story to the press, and so it wasreported to Mr. Martins, the only onewho already knew about it.

Because this story, if widely accepted,could spread hysteria about UAOs andatomic tests, I have asked Mr. Martinsfor the proof in his hands: the negativesand drawings, the original of the mes-sage and the witness' written report.He kindly agreed to show me the evi-dence and I was able to make a completeinvestigation. The essential facts are theones described in his article. The nega-tives appear to be good. The messageseems to be true. The investigation aboutMr. Aguiar's life and personality wascomplete.

What to think about the case?Four possibilities must be considered

in the analysis of this remarkable in-cident. They are the following:

1. This is a very bad hoax, i .e., thepictures, drawings, message and reportare all false, faked by Mr. Aguiar. It ispossible to concoct such a tale fromknown facts. If so, the "message" wasbadly chosen, since it implies a veiledmenace of interference from UAOs. How-ever, the investigation was unable todiscover any motive for such an elabor-ate and expensive scheme. Besides, thewitness was submitted to a cross-exami-nation as sharp as any conducted bymilitary Intelligence but stuck to hisstory and did not deviate a bit from it.When pressed, his constant report wasto refer to his experience and state thathe cannot help that he had experiencedit. He also agreed to be examined underthe control of a "lie detector," or sub-mitted to hypno-analysis. But his bestevidence is the pictures of the "flyingdisk." The negatives were carefully ex-amined by photographic experts. Theresults confirmed the authenticity of thephotos and the possibility of a falsifica-tion or photographic trick can be defi-nitely excluded. I consider them to beamong the most important photos of aUAO ever taken. They represent proof

that the sighting was real.2. The sighting existed, the photos are

authenfic-buf the message was faked.This is an interesting possibility. Themotivations of the witness would be re-lated to the increasing alarm about thedanger of radiation fall-out all over theworld. If he was deeply worried about theproblem, he also knew that only verystrong reasons could change the present-day attitude of the military about it. A"message" from outer space would beevidently a very strong argument for hispurpose, especially if it was backed byphotos of a real UAO-as in his case.Even a reliable and responsible personmight do it, doing it for the well-beingof mankind. It seems clear.

3. The sighfing existed, the phofos arereal, bui the witness was a victim ofaulosuggeslion. That is, the message istrue in the sense that it was written bythe witness in a trance-like state. Butit is not a message from the UAO crew.It came from his own subconscious urgesand fears and was written when thesubject was in a state of self-hypnosiscaused by the shock of the UAO's start-ling appearance. In this case, he wouldbe absolutely convinced of the truth ofhis whole experience.

4. This is the f irsf l rue messaEe froma UAO, i.e., the sighting existed, thephotos are real and the message is au-thentic. It was written in a trance-likestate directly caused by some deviceinside the UAO, from the outside, inorder to make the subject able to receiveand register it. The method used wouldbe obviously unknown to us, so it cannotbe discussed here.

I have discarded the first two possi-bilities, based on the facts of the case.The answer is between the last two ofthem. Which one? I don't know yet. Thefinal answer wil l come only after thenext A.bomb or H-bomb tests, . . .

(See Pictures- Analysis. pages 5, 6)

UAO AT CARACASEl Paraiso (suburb of Caracas) Vene-

zuela, 11 June 1959-Mrs. Edith Klissans,40 years of age, medical director, reportsthat at 19 hours ( i t .was already dark)her l5-year-old son casually informed herthat there was a flying saueer in thesky to the south of Caracas above themountains. She looked and saw an ovalshaped light, yellowish, about as largeas two thumbnails at arm's length. Itwas visible about 10 minutes movingsouth to west just above the mountainsand parallel to the horizon. Mrs. Klissansstates that it could not have been aplane due to the size of the light andthe fact that no sound was heard. Alsothe disappearance was as though it fadedinto the distance. This information, takentogether with the horizontal flight pathsuggests a straight-line path rather thanthe great-circle path characteristic of aplane. (cr. Uwe Fedder)

ZURICH ROUTS ADAMSKIA report from Europe in{orms us that

all has not been sweetness and lightwith space traveler Adamski on a recentjunket across Europe. Viz.: He starteda rumor to the effect that he would beinvited to Buckingham Palace-this wasscotched by a palace spokesman statingrather bluntly, "The royal family hasdecided that it cannot entertain Mr.Adamski or his ideas in any way."Juliana of Holland invited him to courtfor a conferenee with top military andscientific men of that country-but theresults were so scandalous that she hadto issue a communiqu6 saying "notcreditable."

Then, an eminently reliable source inZurich tells us, Mr. Adamski came toSwitzerland where he "lectured in Zurichone evening before an audience of sev-eral hundred people. The evening wasuneventful. He promised further evidenceand gave a second lecture-or tried to.He had no chance. The publie was thereen masse, among it many students. Theystarted a hellish concert, whistling,throwing rotten tomatoes, etc., and pe-tards. In spite of the police interferingquite tamely and inefficiently, Mr. Ad-amski had to quit and all his furtherlectures in Switzerland had to be can-celled. . . This enterprise (i.e., Adam-ski's European trip-Ed.) has certainlydone no end of damage to the idea ofserious research."

UFO OVER NEVADALas Vegas, Nev., 17 June 1959 (AP)-

An unidentified flying object-visible tothe naked eye but not radar-streakedacross Nevada skies last night. It wasthe third mysterious sighting in the LasVegas area in three weeks. An airmanat the Air Force radar installation atAngels Peak, 30 miles northwest of LasVegas, saw the object.

Three weeks ago a man told Air Forceofficials at Nellis Base he saw four un-identified objects flying in apparent for-mation at tremendous speed over theBlack Mountains, 40 miles southeast ofLas Vegas. Two weeks ago another ob-ject was reported sighted over the east-ern horizon near the city.

JUPITER - COLD?Eleetronic Design, 24 June 1959-Rus-

sian scientists say that they have identi-fied 13.5 meter waves coming from theplanet Jupiter, but they admit thesource is still a mystery.

Only two other solar-system bodiesemit signals: the sun and the moon.Thermal radiation is the source of sig-nals in both cases. But this does notapply to Jupiter, which gets little heatfrom the sun. The science of astronomycalls Jupiter a frozen world. (?)

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The pictures shown below are the four exposures obtained by Helio Aguiar. See page 6 for photographic analysis by ourconsultant, Mr, Hopf, plus two of Mr. Aguiar's drawings of the object and its details not caught by the camera.

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and unprejudiced eonsideration and eval-uation.

Such evidence that some, if not all, oftlte UFOs are equipped with receivingand/or transmitting devices is also to befound in certain particularly revealingphotos taken in recent years.

***Under date of April 18, 1959 the (UPI)

wire service carried an artiele headed..DEFENSE NEWS DENIED TO PEO.PLE, EDITORS SAY." The same mayvery well apply to UFO news and officialgovernmental knowledge of the subject.This article relates that the AmericanSociety of Newspaper Editors are con-tinuing their battle for recognition of"the people's right to know." Morepower to them! May they win their battlein which more and more groups andindividuals are joining, as attested toby the following opening paragraph ofan article captioned LET'S DO SOME-THING ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS byHerman K. Joseph in National AmateurRadio, Cleveland, Vol. 2, No. 8, April,1959:

"Some fellow once said, ". govern-ment of the people, by the people, forthe people ." This statement couldlead to many ramifications but the maineoncern of this article is the virtuallyimpenetrable wall the government haserected around the story of the flyingsaucers. In view of the forboding natureof this situation and the government'snews blackout on matters concerningsaucers, isn't it time for the 'people' totake the initiative and do some organizedresearch of their own?"

With these sentiments I am in heartyagreement since I am of the opinionthat as voters and taxpayers the publicis entitled to know the facts, whetherthey are of a pleasant or an unpleasantnature, which their own governmentknow about the UFOs.

SIGHTERS USE TELESCOPESSunday Post (Scotland) 5 April 1959-

Six people in Selkirk were puzzling theirheads yesterday over a queer object theysaw in the sky. A bright light low onthe horizon towards the north caught theeye of Mr. Alex Handyside, a TV engi-neer. He brought out an astronomer'stelescope and saw what appeared to bea saucer standing on its end. He calledfive neighbors who all confirmed hisobservation. They watched for 45 min-utes. Gradually the object travelled to-ward the west, rose a little, and suddenlythe light went out. (Cr. G. Conway)

El Nacional (Caracas, Venezuela) IJuly 1959-Last night between seven and

nine p.m. a strange and luminous objectwas seen in the sky above the city, tothe astonishment of the many personswho sighted it. Mr. R. D. Verson andDr, Juan Marin Osorio were among theobservers who sighted the object as itappeared in the western hemisphere ofthe sky above the city, viewing it throughtheir telescope. Both amateur astrono-mers, they have for some years devoteda good deal of time to the observationof phenomena. This observation was nota comet, satellite, weather balloon, orany known solid body. It had a lumi-nosity higher than that of the full moon-very much like the light of a fluores-cent lamp. To the naked eye its lumi-nosity appeared one hundred times thatof Jupiter.

With the help of their telescope thetwo observers tracked the object as itmoved from east to west. In two hoursit moved about 40 degrees at a speedhard to reckon as its distance could notbe guessed. The observers' opinion wasthat it floated in space and its gradualfading away was due to the rotation ofthe earth. Other persons in the neighbor-hood used binoculars to watch the object.At first it looked like a circle or bsaucer, completely round. Then it chang-ed to resemble a half moon, with thecharacteristic of "throwing beams oflight which scattered over and modifiedits outer aspect."

They discarded the idea of a siderealspaeeship because of its performance inspace (it is supposed that such a shipwould travel at high speeds and notpermit such a long period of observa-tion). They admitted that this could bea light emission left in space. by anycelestial body which of course does ex-plain the phenomenon. Verson and Osoriostated'that they had never before seenthe likes of this in the sky. They con-tacted the observatory, but failed to getany corroboration. Then they were in-formed that Mr. Gonzalo de Gumucio,attache to the Embassy of Bolivia, hadthe same experience; also with a tele-scope. (Cr. J. Rolas.)

20 May 1959, 5:30 p.m.-About sevenleagues from Tres Lomas (Argentina)and three from the station Pehuelches,Antonio Sanchez and Ernesto Foglianialighted from their car to hunt rabbits.They were astonished to see a saucer-shaped machine "the height of a personbut of large size and silver in color"resting on the ground about 300 metersaway. They approached to about 150meters when the object rose into thesky and disappeared. After some min-utes the witnesses walked to the spotand saw that the. grass was flattenedin the shape of a large oval. (Cr. B.Passion)

TWIN CIGARS(The following report is presented ex-

actly as reported to member Joy Ferrieby the 16-year-old witness Conrad Reck-siek.-The Editor)Date: Nov. 1958. Location: Lodi, Calif.

Time: 15 min. before sunset. Environ.menfal Factors-Wind: Dead calm. Sky:Perfectly clear. Visibility About 200miles. Limii ing Facfors: None.

General Narrat iveI had just purchased a pair of binocu-

lars and was playing with them muchthe same as a boy plays with a Dewtoy. It was about sunset and the sunwas a short distance above the horizon.Suddenly I noticed a bright object inthe sky at about a thirty degree anglefrom where I was standing, looking west.Thinking the object to be a large bomberor Globemaster glinting in the settingsun, I began to peer with interest.Much to my surprise the thing turnedout to be not one aircraft but two cigar-shaped objects, hovering side by sideas I brought them clearly into focus.The light that I had thought to be re-flected light was in reality shiningthrough the ships and coming out throughfive large portholes, much the same asl ight passes through a prism.

The ships (as I have chosen to callthem) were parallel to each other con-tinually during the time I was lookingat them. Although the ships were prac-tically stationary, first one would moveahead of the other, then the other wouldcatch up and move ahead, simulat ing araee between two cars.

After I had watched the ships for per-haps two minutes they separated slightly,and each one discharged a smaller objectwhich looked like a red fireball. The twofireballs from the larger ships each tookopposite directions, one going north, andthe other going south. I soon lost sightof these fireballs as they left the fieldof the binoculars, for I was determinedto keep my eye on the mother ships.Immediately the ships started to movedown to the horizon and slightly north-west, away from me. Since the shipswere now so low on the horizon. thesetting sun no longer struck them, andthe lights went gradually out. The shipshovered together for another half hour.When I voluntarily shifted my gaze fromthem for a fraction of a second theydisappeared. Try as I would, I could notIocate them again.

General SizeI viewed the objects through 6x30

binoculars, and at last viewing, justbefore I lost sight of them they ap.peared to be about an eighth of an inchlong from a distance which I estimateto have been about fifty miles.

fsigned] Conrad Recksiek

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