°Fr TH E

r.___hel), own two eyesi, Is mv ov✓ ni re141- ive,iy brief' open- ^ ion do 'flyrici soucers ),

fts hbeive been so many reports of Ciyir19 saucers) by so many Feb•ie. (Air-Torte pilots cmcifcrew, oi(ierri eit officials asLt-ronoierersi WecitF)er men, ordinary civilians etc,..) ) cner) now tinorouldelly convinced----1--ka÷ our own planet 'Earth has been and is bein observed sand surveyecCgerb -a rcipinicc4, by ilkly...advari

acelci beirl i-frhe r

from Mane or numb hem fr then?, in our own Color Sysferr, or of arother Solar System relotlivi61/ close +.0 usc The evidence is overwli.allienin9. Wheth- er or riot their ultimate oiryi is to

conquer +he Ear+h, eve don+ knowi but there has been no defini÷e ac-t- of host-

b'y these '

sauc-ers since seen i&.years Q90, There ha s a lso

been no cootact frown them, at+erv) +0 show --Priendship, These saucers /lave cilWar outrAced our riones, when we cot- evlipt to intercept ) 05 these macs 4 • s have been trotcked on radar fo r

,

vet Lip to spaeds of 20) 000 irnp:11,) 61, we) as per- form cimcizio (71 aero6cittcs suck as st---- 1 come to a cle'cici halt (in ct -12+er trovellio9 at -Coro-cis-tic speeds ±uirii aG de5ree, reverse positidns and acce rate- in yeeorcti- -Forrt-cishc -foct these_ +or superior vocickoes commer- ed the- f orce c-F 9rcivity yet unkr) owl -) +o us hera co Th6./ also diciiije -Vheir colour wileri chcir9iloci speed, drld they coil cause friferference: cors(wur)--: icolLions here Earth.

From time to time- c4 larger ciqcir- sIncipci object has beep o6servecii ancl it is -1-hou9kt that these act as a iniotker-- 4,, ,p ci I ler s.12e_ci soucers which

oriciinate -from inside. the s-t-ra ✓i9e 06jecti Lcirjer saucers are_ es-Ho/cited ±0 be_ up- 0

2 51) feet iv) diameter! cri-hers about 100 -Feet ai-iners -Frovy) 20-Feet or morey while some ethers even sininlier:

Different clischrtior)s have been made_ of tke of these_ strciiir machine ,

whert +ke.y kinva Igndecii, but ovii,./ fromindi cifstanc:e., Most . reports e

+holt the/ resettoble beincis or robots) 0+ker reports iiich them fo look like 9rOte59ule crea•ures., Personallv I would saN/ +hat +hese sop-

eror spa e peirng reehniole. us here' on Earthy in shiepe.i but 1-ke-/ probeibl\i, di-F-Fer -frory) us size --Peofdresi and' , clothes. I am a I sZet(cal abovi-±lie

green men" theor i 'thoullei if these aliens ory)e. from a 4L4 her 01: planets, , then the ;yin/ differ in shcipa and sized

-H ardiriot U.FO'si (n order`dar'e.i4—: ons Perhogs the-four mcsir ques-i

saucers" real! eyist7 so) vviekre do they carne From?.

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5,Wha-i- ore they here for? ..Fire fln.e.6e °utter space beings -Friendly' or hostile? in re9ord to the firstquestionmanypeople_N-' are willing to accept the saucdrs' .e.A(g+e nce, ► ncludii'n'tq governmeht and fair Force_ o#1c(ialsi ,vAdiniay do so Publicly or privatel.),,, Pnvatei arhapsi' in order to prevent Panic onridA

d ÷he public,

Relcirclinq question n mbar z, it ty)0\/ be more prti•babie finat -i-he saucers oriqih. ate-Prom 'a nearby solar s\is--t-em, ciespYte the vast clistatice tkcin -Froryl a plonef in our or solar s)/sitern, 1--F +hey dry from our planet sNisteLryli then Mar§ would be +he 'best chalice./ as it is more Earth - like than the others, However; recentphctos tr)f the V'ed plooet -From .the Rmerialn

Sp probe Mariner iv) reveci no de -Pin-

' H-e_ sioIns of fi-ee. ec.41- -Filer ciciain -the oitlyst-6-ious "canaW' remain usolveci i oncl ic-i -f--li e Ni. are. ‘,vcitervvcis of some. ki Ind) the could oink/ have been con structed

i ryi-ene9 e nt I beings. it iS possible tit -1-P the sface behiss are from ono-they-

r.

o-

4

solar s s -fery) plaret/ -frkeN/ could have nearb base on an./ Of ot.irplor)Q+C per-

/ L hops on the moor)/ orlevar) her Or Lortn that \Aie are unknown of

In number sj this clues-60r could hove_ !rainy onsweit i but as -File ryia3orit of `4clucers" inave been seen at al r-Fielcisj missile bases) sines and atomic rower plants/ +lien it is obvious tha-t- We ire being spied on and care uncle;

soma -tort s urvey. If the y were m out to conquer us priitive gartklinqsi

+hey would have clone so by -frhis) if they tkcit we may one_ doy Pose -finrecit to their ci\Mi2ation( the mcsr prolocibli,ngeer Earth ncitions art war- Vtker) 11- r s Gril natural -7+at we be cAeckad upon ever clod The ma i tkv)k us toolbarbqr.lc._ arid' a rt- fr4rcily for tkevn to make, peaceful oorrt-oci with usj, or -tie l way wcini +0 see. mass panic should they land) art-I-key way we could

- trY to korrn thahl ever though -+ke/ could probak).!y ucLcie:,i-roy -Fikey \Ari lfS4

4- 1.1r11114LIKP " . 1/1 r- DO W N

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to. our °win destruct:ion, The_ 'saucers" may The_ answer to inumber 4. could olfer

our dairy li fe on Earth. Pl-t-lqouqk ±he n iiens hove_ not been known to actually! harry) Ecirtklimi +he post1 the "soucerc., have or a -Fe\fAii oc_CxiSionS beein linked

aeroplane crashes) -frliouqk cant be de-Etna-Fell proved ÷licif- tiet,y were rasponsibie.. Wher we, serd toterceptor

investicto+s the unknown Gra-Pt, +ins./ off at uhberiev- o bV spe-e4 winGre_cis they could proiocibly clisim-erjrcri-e, the opproackinl jets, if wish to. There_fore beileki4." -that tl^e uirlici .nowv1 space_mer cire relatively friendly►

•

d would only +urn to hos-Fib-ties if provoked. It is thou9Irt 1-kcit the cilietis have prOlonioki vutl akved .v‘iars, cs ci

vvcirs, , to tifteo4) vvouid see v» barbcirc,) bLit that iG owly ciccAordinci to huilicio 109 .1L, Our jet r dots beMf) instructe4 ivy +he- fast 1101- -fro fire. apon s-i-rcmcja

space craft, leve.,0 1-F ±Inei dent )clevrfricy tkevn5eives, PN\I hcstde act L15 asoinGt "Gciuce.r#, cawld lead +6

ever) be invur► e.roble_ to Earth wearorYs) cis -1--1c)e./ car) vvitins-i-ond conditions i mainoutv8rs would cle_strol cur own

craft, craft May be one- day thetsaLic_er.53`'

and 'Iciferri-if ficIe_mseive,s; may try to mcike- wii--11 us 11-; we_ are wcirtkry evlociqin to +hew), aind re.rhcirs -Fkle-i wit-7\i 'heir fhe_ worl d 6L11- itS prigse,rrecrisis.) or te, 9t) about in i/Y1 isterious vocirwler andVa us a; puzz_71c1 ciS we_ hovrti4I')

s• ice the first tiftyi ie-9 Saucer" ac,ross our skies,

Flying saucers OKLAHOMA CITY: Dozens

of reports of mysterious, multi-colored objects in the sky swamped police and news-paper switchboards across Oklahoma lost night_

The Highway Patrol said Tinker Mr Force Base auth-orities reported tracking some of the objects on radar early in the evening.

The objects were described; as emitting various rotors or light.

Some were said to be flying art erratic course in diamond formation.

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THE PRESIDENT Dr. N. Lindtner addressing a meeti ng of the Unidentified Flying Objects Investigation Centre last night.

Sightings cheer the UFO men

By a Special Reporter

Those little green men from Mars that UMW Of us See

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U.S. radar tracks

"saucers" EW YORK, Monday. — Wichita

" (Kansas) Weather Bureau early to-day tracked on a radar screen some unidentified flying objects reported over six U.S. States.

Hundreds of visual sight-ings of such objects have been reported over the years, but rarely, if ever, have radar sightings been made.

Up to four or five at a time were on the radar screen at Wichita.

Officials said one object first appeared at 22.000 feel, then descended to 4,000 feet, moving at 45 miles an hour.

PLANET OR STARS THEORY

Witnesses, including police officers, have reported see• ing things that ranged in appearance from coloured flashing lights to egg-shaped objects in Kansas. Texas. Oklahoma, New Mexico. Coloradoa

t

South Dakota.

n North American ricalt Air Defence Command head-quarter s, Colorado

Springs, said the sightings probably were of the planet Jupiter, or the stars Rigel, Capella, Reteljeux or Aldeheran. Stars do not,' however.

cause blimps on ordinary radar.

Oklohama highway patrol reported that Tinker Air Force base near Oklahoma City. also had sighted un•' identified objects on its; radar.

Deputy Sheriff Everett Tucker, of Wellingon, Kansas, spotted a "cigar-shaped-silvery thing in the sky." It had a reddish vapour

trail and moved rapidly to-ward the north, Tucker said

Another Wellington police-man watched one object with binoculars.

He said it was about three car lengths long. egg-shap-ed and moved "in an erra-tic manner along a straight

"Th.; U.S. Air Force has checked about 9,000 sight-ings since 1947 with 667 still unidentified.

again, exist, but they don't like uq THEY think we are a I Street. and entertained

A- clumsy. immature lot about 150 people with( and not worthtakingtakg slides purporting to show s_

over — at least not yet. j flying• saucers and argu-nients supporting theories .

that the Earth is being visited by men from outer space.

Some people left !he meeting convinced that the little green men were due to land tomorrow.

Dr. Lindtner believes saucers come in many shanes.

They are bell-shaped, disk-shaped and cigar -

1 and back up their argu- dn londrisperaeniietrilbvelel intuits with pictures of at i

sneers.

Forces of

gravity Mr. W. Dutton,

president of the Centre, vice-

The group last night, believes the extra - terres-

aAdDyLlic

.

Adyar

•

r t.heir

own system of con_ tial beings have evolved

egerant itravting the forces of

That is why flying saucers can travel at tre-mendous speeds and turn at sharp angles without-loss of speed," he said. 1

Mr. Dutton said his organisation had been heartened by recent si ghtings of UFOs throughout New South Wales.

The more sightings'i the better — it might help to prove that we be-lievers are not all crack -

ots." he said.

TJESDAYI 'I)RD AUGUST.

As a matter of fact these little men have been paying us visits for 9000 years or more.

Every now and then they fly down in their saucers and have a look at us . .

But they don't fancy what they see.

You may laugh—but a 6 group of dedicated people ' in Sydney believe this

flying saucers. The group calls itself

the Unidentified Flying Objects Invest ig. a t i o-n- ,

Centre and is headed by Dr. M. Lindtner, a firm believer in the existence of extra-terrestial beings.

SAUCERERS IN SESSION

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KING S CROSS KING'S CROSS

man claimed he 6 ' saw a "pear-shaped" . object hovering low over Sydney today.

' t he man, Robert Cook,

32, plasterer, of Victoria westerly direction," said Mr horizon in broad daylight Street, King's Cross, said he Cook saw the "saucer" when he

. a t Astorga. This is about 250 miles rose at 6 a.m,

west of Sao Paulo.

valour and was about 18 SAUCERS lion. 2001't across," Mr Cook said he stood

watching the object for sonic three minutes, stunned.

He called his room-mate, Bill, to come and have a look.

"Bill got to the window The reports said two just in time lo see the glow- little girls first sighted four ing object soar away in a objects corning over the

A squadron of 18 frying saucers was spotted by five people in the north of Brazil's Parana State. ac-cording to Press reports from Rio de Janeiro.

UCER' "I looked out of the win- They called their dow of my sixth-floor flat mothers and two neigh- toward North Sydney and hours who saw the four,

Police at North Sydney said they received no other calls from residents sight-ing the "saucer."

VILLAGE HAS EERIE 1-LIE-spriii 4

QUERY LONDON, Mon. — An

eerie sound, strange objects in the sky and mysterious deaths of animals have the south England town of War- 4 minster in a gri p of terror. ellAIRMAN of the local )

council (Mr. ttmlyn 4 Rees) has called a public meeting to discuss the weird phenomena.

"The situation is getting out of hand," Mr. Rees said.

The meeting will be held as soon as enough people agree to attend and tell their stories.

Warminster's worries be-gan just after Christmas, when a local housewife reported. she was thrown against a wall by what she caled "strange sound w aviense. e" s

then, a game-keeper has reported hay-

' ing seen a flock of pigeons flying in the direction of the sound one evening.

As he watched in as-' tonishment they all

dropped to the ground, dead.

. A married couple report-ed hearing strange crack-ling noises beating against their roof one night.

In the morn:inf, they found several dead mice in the garden.

All had been burned, and their bodies were riddled with small holes.

More than 40 people in the area claim to have heard the noises.

At least 20 say they have 4 seen flying saucers.

Among them are a , church vicar, his wife and his son.

A A.P-R muter)

TH I UGU S1: 19 6c,

All burned up over

The Thing] LONDON, Sun. —Al

man has burned, "e videnc e" proving ,

1phenomena in War-' ■ ominster village were, I ?caused by a Thing'

■ From Outer Space. rir_TE is Brian Holton, 34,, l'- *- known to villagers as, 'The Scientist.

He said he would boy-, cat a public meeting at which he was to have pre-, sented documented evid-,

seuric'c'hIe. a fascinating investi-am disgusted that

gation seems likely to be-' come the subject of public: entertainment," he said. :

"I have burned the' papers."

Mr. Holton investigat- 4 ed reports that strange 4 objects making weird noises flew regularly over Warminster.

These have been describ-ed as like ,iwo red-hot pokers or a red ball of fire.

The noise was said to' be like trees scraping some-4 thing or gravel on a roof.)

Pigeons have fallen death in full flight and mice ■ have been found dead after hearing a whirring noise.

Mr. Holton said the pigeons were killed by fly-ing across a beam from an object in the sky.

His investigations proved the phenomena really ex-isted.

there it was," said Mr Cook, followed by 14 other "It was a greeny•black SQUADRON OF saucers flying in forma-

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Flying saucer? Paul Trent, a farmer of McMinnville, Oregon, took this picture over his farm. He claimed it was a flying sau-cer. No one has disproved it.

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LY 1 What's going on

III Sydney and N ow Yoric up there? Sun sta f wrtter

i ILL over the world this month A ■ people have been reporting unidentified

flying objects — flying saucers, strange lights thjings hovering in space then disappearing.

In Sydney, Mr Denis Crowe claims he saw a green and

silver saucer on Vauciuse beach this week. He even drew

his impression of it.

Scientists who study these things say MOST can be ex-

plained—often by flying thistledown.

But some they can't explain—sometimes because of incomplete t information, sometimes—well, because they just can't explain them. Fears of 'Martian panic"

TAwrimrau—ssx-ilsigkr___ mTirS, es or Ossiers

In Australia, Mr B G Roberts. senior re-earch scientist, Operations Research

Office, RA AF, srys The R A A . F has neither received nor discovered in Australia

or overseas, any evidence to support the

belief that the earth is being observed,

visited or threatened by machines from

other planets "

In America. after 18 years' investier,a-lion. GG7 sightinec re-main unidentified but there is no evi-dence U.F.O's COMP

from outer space. But some responsible

truth about unidentified about a K.L.M. DC8 air-people are saying the

flying objects k being liner near Longreach fly-

withheld because the in- ins at 33.000ft on its way

vestigators fear public to Manila at the time, but

panic. this was ruled out as an They point to the terror explanation.

and hysteria which swept The R.A.A.F.'s "mani- America in 1038 when Orson Welles broadcast a festo" on U.F.O.s is a re-

play about the invasion of Port prepared by Mr B. G.

the U.S. by Maniacs, Roberts. The play realistically Until recently the Intel-

portrayed the destruction ligence Directorate consid-of New York by leather- ered about four reported skinned. slavering monsters sightings a year could not —and hundreds of thous- be explained on the basis ands of Americans panick- of natural phenomena.

true. prose) investigation tech- niques enabled the R-A.A.F. to reduce the Un-identified percentage to two a year.

Re-entry of rocket cas-ings and other satellite debris has complicated the task of identifying aerial sightings.

Mr Roberts believes that, no matter how the R.A.A.F. improves its in-quiry techniques, there will always be U.F.O. sightings which will re-main unidentified.

"Elie Air Force has never denied the possi-bility that some form of life may exist on other planets ;hi the universe," he said.

"Here on earth we are at the brink of our first step into space.

" II Is quite conceivable

that somewhere else in the

universe, if intelligent life

does exist there. another

civilisation has, or is about to do the same.

"But to date the R.A.A.F. has neither re-ceived nor tEscovered in Ausrralta or overseas any csidence to support the he-lief that the earth is being observes!, visited . or threatened by machines from cuter planets. N.

held by the Illlkix‘F. which prove the existence of flying saucers. -

Mr Roberts said it %S. ;IS

usually POSSibie to identify sightings in nine out of ten "well-reported" cases.

the R.A.A.F. b lamed falling meteors or the planets Mars, Venus or Jtioler for most "saucer" reports, he said.

Thistles Aircraft were res pon-

sible for the nest highest number, followed by rocket casings. weather balloons and satellite material.

The eye, he said, can be misled by those small white thistle-seed tufts that blow about.

• "The wind take them 100ft up and they can appear as objects flying very high at fantastic speeds.

"They seem capable of the most amazing man-oeuvres. simply because their size is a matter of conjecture at the lime, -

This month and Aug-ust are the months of most active "saucer" reports.

They coincide with the time of greatest meteor activity,

In America, U.F.O. societies are not srprised at the spate of sightings.

They forecast they would happen.

Even learned science

correspondents of Ameri-

can newspapers are specu-lating more seriously than usual On whether some-body is watching us out there. -_The 64-dollar ,ouestion

is not who, but hoW7 Even the scientists con-

cede that if U.F.O.s are manned spacecraft, they must come from the red planet. Mars, whose atmo-sphere, though deadly to man. is still capable of maintaining life forms.

Last week, Mariner IV. 134 million miles out from earth in the black void of space. "looked" with its TV eyes at the mysterious surface of Mars.

And this is the very time. say the U.E.O. groups, that Martians would he taking a similar long look at Earth, as the planet swings into the dos_ est possible proximity with our planet.

Martians As the planets move in

their eternal orbits, she earth overtakes Mars every two years and two months, coming within a few dozen million miles of it.

Mariner IV, carefully planned to take advantage of the 1965 "opposition," succeeded brilliantly in its deep space rendezvous.

Soviet probes were also sent on their way many months ago to try to pierce the secrets of the Martian atmosphere.

Somewhere along the way they may have passed

—some scientists suggest—

manned Martian space-craft en route for earth, to check on man's first fumbling attempts to ex-plore the vastness of the universe,

Exciting

Toy-- flight science writer Waiter Sullivan sa id this week. "The United States and the Soviet Union tired vehicles toward Mars last Novem-ber.

"lf there were any Mar-tians equipped to do so, they would have fired their vehicles toward earth about the same lime."

Reports of UFO sight-ings have been coming in thick and fast from all over the world since early this month.

Most exciting U.F.O. o1 ail to scientists is the one reported over the Chilean Antarctic base.

It hovered in the sky for so long that the crew at the base had ample time to photograph it in colour.

Observers are reported to have taken 10 colour pictures, but the develop-ment of the films will have to snail the arrival of the next ship, as there are no dark-room facilities for Processing colour al the base.

This will hold up view-ing of the film for some months, unless another way of bringing the pic-tures out of the Antarctic. can be arranged.

In the United States. the official scientific and Ad-ministration stand is still to put most U.F.O. sight-ings down to mass sug-gestion.

The Air Force admits

that up to date 667 sight-ings remain unidentified.

Most of these could he explained away, it says, if more information were available to its investiga-tive agency. Project Blue-book at Wright-Patterson base, Dayton, Ohio.

But, says the Air Force, 18 years of investigation have tinned- --up-uhoullutetv. no evidence that U.F.O.s come from space.

However, belief that U,E.O.s could he manned vehicles from super-civilis-ations is no longer con-fined to the lunatic fringe.

There is a growing body of opinion that the Ad-ministration is deliberately suppressing e v idence about UFO sightings for fear of a world-wide "Martian panic."

The director of the National Investigations Committee for Aerial Phenomena in Washing-ton, former marine pilot Major Donald E. Keyhoc, said this week:

Top policy "The conclusion of the

Majority of our board of governors and scicniitic consultants is that these things must he from some advanced civilisation.

"The Air Force reached the same conclusion years ago, hut has a high-level policy of explaining the sightings ass - ay one way or another so as not to scare people . . ."

French - born scientist Jacques Vallee. now work-ing on the "Mars Map" project for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has made similar charges.

He claims many scien-

lists in America are no longer working on the

problem according to basic scientific principles but are allowing blind re-vulsion and fear to cloud their judgment.

Vallee says the thought of extra-terrestrial intelli-gence produces such a

! tiit and layman ate t a rational view is not being taken of the whole U.F.O. s Mitt lion.

And Rev, Guy St, Cyr, scientist and si parish

priest in the Archdiocese of Boston. is conducting a one-man nation-wide corn-pain to educate Ameri-cans in accept the idea of space beings before it is tuo late.

about 100 miles from Syd-ney dT.riry a flight from New Zealand.

Also on the official

ones Wit ined" list are re-

ports of U F.O.s - or

strange aircraft — near

Longreach in July last

year.

The R.A.A.F. was told

Lights, too The R.A.A.F. is cur-

rently questioning a num-ber of Canberra air traffic controllers who reported seeing strange lights in the sky this and last week.

R.A.A.F. intelligence officers for I() years have investigated about 20 re-ports a year of unidenti-fied objects.

They have been unable to explain more than 30 of them.

Among the unexplained are strange obiects re-ported by the pilot of a Sydney - hound Qantas air-liner in February this year.

The pilot reported see-ing "lights in the sky"

Scientios can't explain all saucer reports — but they're certain saucers aren't from outer space

PARALYSED PIGEONS, DEAD MICE PUZZLE

LONDON, Sat. — Citizens of a sleepy Wiltshire market town are

patiently awaiting visitors from

Village awaits guests ...from outer space

outer space. They believe they have

been on the ex tra-terres- trial map for at least 200 ' years and interstellar am-bassadors are now ready to make their first land-ing,

Since last Christmas there have been strange goings-on in Warminster, al cosy little town of 11,000

At 5.30 a.m. last Christ-mas morning Mrs. Mar-jorie Bye, a mother of two, rose to attend early service at Christ Church 01 England so she could put the Christmas dinner on early.

On her way to church she heard a high-pitched whining noise overhead, a crackling sound like suddenly released elec-tricity and she was thrown against the churchyard wall by "waves of sound." She felt physically sick

and weak at the knees and a neighbor helped her to a Pew in the church. Later she received medical treat-ment for shock.

reports of unidentified ob-jects in the night sky that fit the general conception of flying saucers.

Saucer spotters in War-minster include the Reve-rend Graham Phillips, his wife Patricia,. his sons . Nigel. 12. Richard IL and ) daughter Ruth. eight.

"Cigar shaped" Is their • description, and Nigel even got a look at it in his student's telescope while. he was doing his home-

. work. There is no Air Force

base near Warm inster and the Army, after an official investigation, can see no connection between the Visitations and any Salisbury Plain manoeuv-res.

I Army and Air Force ex-perts have discounted ex- , planations of "natural"! 'forces such as lightning,1 static electricity, seismo-graphic disturbances, or

I underground water stresses.

One man who is neither I discomfited nor puzzled is Wiltshire scientist Profes-sor David Holton, who ! in the district,

Professor Holton, will at-

SAUCER SIGHTING • There has been a lot of news lately about flying saucers in various parts of the world. I don't know whether you will be-lieve what I write, but my father and I do not lie. It happened a few years ago when my father and several friends were on a fishing trip to Or-bust, Victoria, on. Good Friday. About 3 o'clock in the morning Dad suddenly sighted a huge rocket shape in a deserted field. It was 100ft. high and 3Oft. wide. There were lights all over it, Dad at first thought it was a refinery because there was smoke pouring out of the top of the object. On Monday, when Dad went to the place again, the object was gone. We do not know where it went.

Lynda Hester, Wesburn, Vic.

• Any other readers have first-hand flying-saucer reports? — Editor.

WE DN5S D 2c-T1- aufaiisr.2912z_

well off the beaten track on the Great Salisbury Plain, where prehistoric astronomers used the mon-oliths of Stonehenge to fix their solar calendars.

Warminster head post-master Roger Rump and his wife were awakened by a shock of sound waves and a noise- like ''gravel scratching on the tiles. -

A street or two away, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Manson and their two children were awakened by similar noises and intimations of terror.

From that date. War-minster has ticked off the "visitations" and "mani-festations" almost weekly. A gamekeeper reported seeing a flock of pigeons paralysed in mid-air by a shock sOundwave so that they fell dead to the ground.

Cows stepped milking. Horses were stunned. Fieldmice and dormice were found struck dead in dozens, with their carcasses riddled by in-emplicable pinpricks.

I Warminster Town Hall and reveal some of the re-

! stilts of his 15-year-aid re-search Into disturbances around the area.

! lie has, he says, looked Up records • and found evidence that Warmin-ster has been subjected to "visitations" for the

I last two centuries at . least.

He predicted to the local newspaper, the Warmin-ster Journal, several of the

1 recent "visitations" months I ahead.

Chill down

her spine Another woman. married

with children, reported that a strange, cttititng force had seized her at the back of the neck and thrown her on her face.

In all, 40 Warminster citizens have reported "visitations." and the local council thinks there may be others who have heard all and said nothing.

So they are holding an official inquiry at the town hall next week to consider not only the "soundwave" attacks. but

Mysterious city light

A professional , photographer took

b these strange pic-tures of a brilliant white moving light over Manly this week.

The photographer, Mr Frank Burke, of -The Sun-Herald" staff said "It looked for all the work like a semi-trailer lit up.

"This effect came from a cluster of four lo live small red lights which appeared to outline the while light."

The light, which appeared for about three minutes 21 seven o'clock on Monday night, hung motionless for almost a minute and Mr Burke was.abte to run inside For his camera and make two exposures.

The light then moved slowly northward accom pained by a loud eng-ine noi. ^ unlike either a jet or helicopter eilit,•ifle:i -

o The light, shown in re-: latiunship io a cloud ' —......_ hank, has moved north-wards in the second pic-ture On the right.

At first Mr Burke thought the light was a low-flying aircraft, a heli-copter or a flare.

But the light was much too bright to be the navi-gation lights—as the pic-tures show.

• ,DARK SHAPE'

If the light had been a flare it would have drop-ped slowly, Mr Burke said.

Instead the light appeared to have kept a constant altitude before it disappeared from sight.

An R.A•A.F. spokes-man told The SunLtier-aid" he had - not checked delinite flight sched-ules for Monday night but it was "extremely un-likely" that ihe light had been an Air Force plane.

Describing the "pool of light," Mr Burke said: `•What I couldn't under-stand was the red lights which seemed to sur-round tire centre white light.

"At first I thought it Runt have been a Vulcan bomber because I thought I could pick out a dabs V shape behind the light.

But if it was a plane it must have been the slosvest aircraft in the world."

Mr Burke's son, Kim-bat, 12, said: "I was silting looking out of the

"Personally, I think it could have been a plane, but because it was so low and slow it could have been a U.F.O., too."

FOOTNOTE: Mr 'Burke took his photographs on 35mm. Tri-X film with an 11.4 50 mm. lens wide open at half a second. , The camera was lrana—', held. causing slight blur- ! ring of lights in the photograph. The photo-graph shows the lights of Manly and the lights of the Eastern Suburbs above them to tire right- ;

'Din like' thunder"

Window when I saw the light in the sky.

"I watched jt for three minutes altogether.

0 'LOW, SLOW'

"IL just moved across the sky — like a slow plane. As it went above our house there were lights on all parts of h.

"There were red ones and a few white OfieS too

"It inzide a noise like a pla ne --a very thunder-ing novse,

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JUST ANOTHER NIGHT IN THIS VILLAGE! has been haunting the Wiltshire village of LONDON, Mon. — The "thing" that

Warminster was seen again last night. BOUT 90 people, in- Christopher Robinson, cludinF schoolboys, 14 - year - old Swindon

were keeping an all-night Grammar schoolboy, de-vigil.

They decided on the Vigil after a meeting in the village hall about the mysterious objects in the sky.

vanished and was replaced last two objects kept by two others above." altering course."

Another schoolboy. Gra- Norman Leighton, 14, ham Chalifour, said: said: "These two zig-zag-"Other people must surely ged to and fro, jerked up have seen them. It made and down rapidly, then me tremble for a while. sped across the sky at an

"It was a wonderful and angle of 45 degrees. before stirring spectacle. The disappearing."

Flashing light saucer scare .

BRISBANE, Sun.—An unidentified flying object, very similar to one seen over Tenterfield three times last week, is reported from Beaudesert, more than 100 miles south-west of Bris-bane.

scribed the sighting: In a blinding flash of

light it seemed to explode and divide into two brighter portions. Either that or the first simply

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'The Thing" gives town new scare

LONDON, Monday (UPI). — The Thing was back haunting Warminster last night.

A public meeting of 600 worried townspeople met on Friday and diagnosed a mysterious, u n i dentified flying object as "a lot of baloney."

But Warminsterians said they spotted it in the sky again last night.

A group of schoolboys described it as 'bigger and more 'orrible than ever."

About 90 of the town's 6000 residents, including the party of schoolboys, have been keeping an all night vigil.

Said 14-year-old Chris-topher Robinson: "There was a blinding flash of light and it seemed to ex-plode and divide into two brighter portions."

Graham Chalifour, an-other schoolboy, said: "Other people must surely have seen them. They made me tremble for a while but It was a wonder-ful and stirring spectacle.

"The last two objects kept changing their speed and altering course."

Other observers claim the Thing lights up, emits weird noises and attacks with "savage soundwaves."

It has frightened War-minster for eight months.

Suggestions that it might be a secret weapon under dsvelopment by a nearby military establishment have been strenuously denied by authorities.

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The Thing blows its top again

LONDON, Sunday (UPI). — The Thing has struck terror again into the people of Warminster, in West England.

For eight months this ing a 200 ft. high "orange-lonely town has been colored mushroom of plagued by reports of smoke with a glowing core strange phenomena and a in its centre." weird unidentified object Others who huddled in- which makes violent noises, side, trying to quieten

screaming children, report-ed- that an orange light flooded their rooms "changing night to day."..

No one was cut by flying glass although dozens of windows were shattered by the blast.

Some said it was like a block buster in the days of the blitz.

Rocking One of the locals, Bill

Curtis, said he was used to

SEPTEMBER the local army range fir-

1" ings, but these were always during the day and were

I%.5••• nothing like the mystery

NI explosion. "Our house was like a

ship rocking in a big sea," he said.

The object is described as "a very bright light, with no definable shape."

It was seen over Beau-desert by Mr. Roy Hodg-son, managing director of the local newspaper.

He said: - It gave me a real shock. I've never seen anything like it before."

Mr. Hodgson saw it at ten minutes to eight in the evening as he was standing in his back yard.

He said: "It moved slowly •south-south-west and seemed to accelerate as it drew away."

There was no noise and the object flashed alter-nate red and white lights.

Over the border In Ten-terfield, two residents are standing by with a light aircraft waiting for the object to re-appear.

They are crop dusting pilot Ted Hunt and garage proprietor Lindsay Ross.

They hope to get close enough to take a picture with a camera fitted with a telephoto lens. The object was first seen

over Tenterfield on Wed-nesday night.

It was visible for five hoUrs. It returned for shorter visits on Thursday and Friday night.

More than 100 persons who live on the outskirts of the town said they were awakened suddenly by a "tremendous explosion" at 1.55 am.

About all of them ven-tured out in their night clothes and reported see-

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THE THING Strange story

of the goings-on

an English town Last (expert) words

ARTHUR SH UTTLEWOOD is editor of the Warminster

Journal, a weekly newspaper pub-lished in a small country town in south-west England. This is his story. It appeared in the mass-circulation British newspaper, the Daily Mirror.

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ARTHUR SMITH, the Daily Mirror Science Reporter, writes: -It is one of the best photographs of a saucer ever taken, but the lack of any know-ledge of the size or distance reduces its scientific value to nil, Many pic-tures like it have appeared in the United States most of them faked.

And the Daily Mirror Air Reporter Peter Harris comments: "Sorry, but this picture is just too good to be true. I don't say flying saucers—or "things" —CAN'T exist. just that this picture

does not convince me." •■•

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guests or callers in search of The Thing or new .knowledge.

Warminster is near Salisbury Plain, with its Army training centres. And there arc several airfields — as well as the aero-research sta- tion as Boscornbe Down.

But all the military authorities deny any responsibility for the Strange phenomena.

A random spot-check of public opinion I car-ried out among 100 people told me that 15 per cent. think It feasible we are under aerial sur-vey from another planet.

Most of the others feel this "absolute rot."

Truth

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With 30 years as a journalist behind me, I am chief reporter and editor of the War-minster Journal, sell-ing about 4000 copies each Friday, yet avid-ly read by more than the town's population

• of 11,000. Frankly, I'm a very

tired editor at pre- , sent after eight of

t h e most hectic months imaginable in a country town. Used to a working week of 60 hours, this has soared to an average of over 85 during the past month alone.

Why? Because of the Incredible, Sen- sational, Stupendous a n d fantastic THING!

And I use these glowing terms de-liberately . . . I've been itching to do so ever since the first Thing story broke on Christmas Day.

quently worked long into the night, s a rn e reports pouring into my phone receiver at between 2.30 and 5 a.m,

A village vicar and his family, plus a hospital physiotherapist, report-ed "a glowing cigar-shaped thing having a black circular patch or aperture at the bottom."

A retired factory security man and his wife saw "twin red hot pokers hanging down-wards. a black space be-tween."

A good 70 per cent of all visual reports since then have particularly stressed "huge eyes in the sky' or "car head-lights glaring down."

Having seen Mr Faulkner .s remark able, almost awe-in-spiring phnto upside-down, I now see what these people meant.

Altogether I've dealt with 190 pieces of evi-dence in: less than nine months.

Soared

Weird

Surprise visitors came from America. Italy, Germany, France and Britain.

The town's population of 11,000 soared over-night to over 18,000, hundreds of cars parked in the country lay-bys for miles around, hotels. restaurants, pubs and ;lobs chock-a-block with

Look at this picture. It was taken by War-minster factory worker Gordon Faulkner last Sunday week i August 28,. I think it is the only photograph of T h e Thing.

But the story really began months ago . .

Weird crackling noises in the early morning sky turned a normal and pleasant mother into a fright-ened human.

They came overhead, a peculiar droning ac-companying them. then seemed to descend on her savagely. pushing her back against a wall, leaving her jelly-legged,

The same morning Warminster's head post-master. level - headed Mr Roger Rump, heard the same noises.

"Just as though our rooftop was b e i n g roughly battered — as if the 5000 tiles were being ripped off and loudly slammed back into place again," was how he described it.

The man who took it

Pace Among the dozens of

early pieces of evidence came reports that dead mice had been found in gardens of affected houses — bodies burnt and riddled with holes.

The pace u as hot-ting up and I lire-

YOUNG Gordon Faulkner stepped out of the back door of his home. It was the evening of Sunday, August 29. He was going to see his mother. And he was tak-ing his camera because his sister had asked to borrow it.

He shut the door behind him . . . and sud-denly he saw "The Thing." This is how 23-year-old Gordon, a factory worker, described what happened:

"As it flew fast and low over the south of the town I could just make out the unusJal shape. It made no noise. Hurriedly I Jot my camera free and aimed. The line of flight was too fag' to follow.

So I held the camera well in front of it and pressed the trigger as it entered the view-finder. I didn't dream I'd get anything on film at all. It shook me rigid when I saw what came out of it all."

Gordon sent the picture to the Warminster Journal. He thought the editor would scoff. But he didn't scoff. THIS WAS A SCOOP.

And the camera? les a Halina 35 mm., which cast less than £10 - It was focused on infinity at 1-50th sec.

ndlit. THIS is the picture Gordon

Faulkner took outside his house on a quiet Sunday evening in Wiltshire . . an eerie, •;Ivery object flying low and soundlessly

over Warminster.

Often battered. both-ered and bewildered by the longest, m o s t baffling, most persistent and bizarre news story ever to hit Warminster headlines, I can only nov., record that some sections of the populace are frightened, very worried over T he Thing's visits.

And they want to know the truth about it.

Open minded at the start, completely un-biased one way or the other in "flying saucer" contentions and denials, w r i tin g objectively-throughout as a report-er is trained to do to in- form his public correct-ly, what do I think about The Thing?

So far as I'm con-cerned, it really is OUT OF THIS

WORLD!'

It's an effort to admit that, too.

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the dome and turrets of the capital's Fine Arts Palace one evening,

Described as "huge lum-inous things with intermit-tent flashing lights," they eventually soared vertically

up into the sky until they

became merely tiny dots of

light.

LIGHTS, BLUE SPARKS

Reports form elsewhere include:

• A basketball-sized object emitting blue sparks which appeared to land and take off again. • A hovering object which

discharged yellow, blue and orange lights from slits in its circumference. • "A black-clad being with eyes cleaming like a cat's, holding a gleaming metal rod,"

Next came the dramatic display of "flying saucers" which caused an hour-long

traffic jam in one of the capital's main boulevards

during Mexico City's Inde-pendence Day festivit

Excited citizens craned , their necks to took at half a dozen luminous orbs, or saucer shapes, hovering

'silently finally soaring up-wards.

For the first time since "saucer sightings" became a commonplace, officials at Mexico City Airport conced-ed that something had been seen.

The airport supervisor, Senor Jose- Luis Enrieuez, said today that he had'. studied two glowing objects through binoculars.

"MERE FANTASIES"

The director of Taco. baya Observatory, Dr Ignacio Elias, dismissed the sightings as "mere fantasies."

People, he said. had been seeing the weather survey balloons sent up regularly ; from his station.

A.A.P.

JOHA NNES-BURG, Friday. — South African pol-ice and scientists are investigating a report that a fly-ing saucer landed on the highway near Pretoria last night.

Two patrolling policemen reported see-ing the saucer, about 30ft in diameter, short-ly after midnight.

The men said that as they approached the object, it took off at great speed with flames shooting out of its un-derside.

Scientists who exam. lned the spot found a six-foot wide section of the tarred road had been badly burnt.

Grass on either side of the highway was scorched.

Flying saucer in hot spot

<FRipn-c - 17TH sEek-T-EmsER.IqK

1 10ft tall —no noses

A.A.P.-Reuter

MEXICO CITY, Wed nesd ay.—Re-

ports of flying saucers and "visitors from outer space" are pour-ing in here.

A group of beings ten feet tall, with brilliant red eyes but neither mouths nor noses, were described by three women who claimed to have seen them in Mexico City.

The creatures were said to be wearing shiny grey suits and boots "like bpaeement wear in the comic strips."

Reports of glowing ob-jects in the sky coincided with this "visitation."

About a dozen people claimed to have seen two objects zig-zagging round

`MEN OUT OF PACE'

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MYSTERY LIGHT OVER N. GUINEA

PORT MORESBY, Friday. — An Administration patrol is investigating re-ports of a mysterious light seen in the sky near Goroka, in New Guinea's eastern highlands. \integers at Koka, about

seven miles west of Goroka, said they saw a fiery object rise from the local ceme-tery

The mysterious light was also seen by Inspector Brian Beattie, of the Gor-uka Police, and a senior official of the Department of Civil Aviation, Mr Barry lord.

HOVERED OVER RIDGE

Inspector Beattie said, "It was a large white light with a red centre.

"IL appeared to be low down just above a ridge.

"1 watched it for a white before it disappeared."

Mr Lord said he saw the light hovering above the ridge on which Koko village is situated.

"The thing appeared to he round, with tongues of light shooting out all around it," he said.

"The glow was so intense it was impossible to tell the true size or its course.

"The sky was very clear at the time except for a small amount of very high cloud."

FRIDAY 39TH ci P.) 6—

In old Mexico . .

'SAUCERS' ON A RAMPAGE

A.A.P.-Reuter

MEXICO CITY, Thursday. —The summer of 1965 is likely to go

down. in Mexican history as "the summer of the flying saucers.

a deafening roar and a shower of sparks.

Apart from saucers. , sonic looked like mush-rooms, American foot• balls, doughnuts or eggs.

In time. photographs ap-peared in the Press and then films on television.

Usually they showed fuzzy balls of light, but sometimes clearly defined discs.

Reports became more fantastic.

SAUCERS: Could you please give the ad-dress of the Unidentified Flying Objects In-vestigation Centre. We have some puzzling material we think could be of value to them. I do not want to be ridiculed publicly and want to disclose the evidence to those who already believe in such existences.—s.S., Mar-riekville.

DEAR JS.: The Department of Air, 428 George St., will investigate the molter lor you.

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"Sightings" began late in .1 oily after a succession of reports of similar pheno-mena from various pails of

'South America. Then, suddenly all

• Mexico seemed to be see-_ ing luminous discs, hov-

ering lights, and high

OCTOBER. velocity balls of light.

As "plativolitis" — the 'fever of seeing "plativolos" or flying saucers — gripped the Mexican capital, staid businessmen could be seen climbing to the roofs. _.of_ their office blocks clutching a pair of heidglasses.

Home going office work •

era risked their lives cross -

ing busy streets with their eyes in the air, instead of on the traffic.

The "flying saucers"

came in red, white, blue ,

yellow and even grey. They ranged in size from

a baseball to discs 6Oft across.

They whizzed silently

across the sky, or gave out

SAUCERS: You published that the Unidentified Flying Objects Association was the -Department of Air which would investi-gate these strange flying saucers. What J.S. of Marrickville wanted was the special Sydney group called U.F.O. Investigation Centre, 227 Bay St., Brighton-le-Sands. Mr. Garven is the secretary at 2-0260 Ext. 365. They will be interested to hear the details and investigate any flying objects.—Mrs. H. R., Redfern.

DEAR MRS. H.R.: Thank you for the cor-rection, and I roll file it for future reference.

Tt 1 P- DtacIT1-1 DPc EMBER' I 96S: "YELLOW. FLASH"

Strange ob 7eet

A STRANGE II sighted over T

past week. Local residents and o

cers at the air-traffic con trot base have seen the ob lest,

* * * SAUCERS Re the contro-

versy about flying saucers, it may be of interest to readers to read the book written by McAdamsky, It is called "Flying Saucers Have Landed," and contains a lot of interesting facts. Personally. I believe these visitors are supernatural. — "What Next." * * *

WEbNESpq STH

* * * SAUCERS My husband,

with a reli-able companion, has seen flying saucers twice while out fishing at night along the Central Coast. The saucers were flying hori-zontally. Both men only drink water and lemonade, — "Fisherman's Wife."

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Thu DA 23RD DEC_FiV1SER ic1(55-

SAUCERS To "F i s tier-

man s Wife": Could you explain at what time the flying saucers were seen and from which direction they came'? Also, in which direction did they disappear? I am sincerely interested in U.F,Os.—"Ray Gun." *

TUESDRYI 2 STH

DECEMF3ER.IV

SPACE BALL FOUND BROKEN HILL, Fri-

day. — Another mys-terious metal ball, simi-lar to the two spate ob-jects found north of Broken Hill in 1963, has been discovered on Bol-lard's Lagoon station in the extreme •th east of South Australia.

Bollard's Lagoon is a cattle run about 100 miles north of Boullia where the first of the spherical metal objects was found in April, 1963.

The second ball was found 50 miles away on Mount Sturt station several weeks later.

Both were identified as coming from a space

vessel, but no country claimed them.

The third ball was found about four months ago in an arid region of clay flats and sand -hills.

Mr. 0, S. Cooling a representative of Eider Smith - Golds brough Mort Ltd., brought the latest ball to Broken Hill today.

like the other two metal balls, it is hollow and identical to the others except that it is slightly smaller. It is about 12 inches in dia-meter. The others were 14 inches.

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A.A.P.-M;uter

BUENOS AIRES. S u n day. — A

-R o in a n Catholic priest here claims he has photographed three unidentified flying objects.

He believes they might have come from Jupiter,

He is t he Rev. Benito Reyna, a Jesuit and math-emat ics professor who directs a privately owned observatory on the out-skirts of Buenos Aires.

He said he photographed the objects passing across the surface of the moon.

At a Press conference here yesterday he produced copies of the photograph he took at the observa-

tory. It showed three circular

black spots of different sizes against the back-ground of the moon's il- Iumined surface.

The magazine said that testimony by many persons of unassailable character and reliability could not be overlooked or lightly dismissed. Summarising data col-

lected from 60 persons hi Exeter, New Hampshire. last September. columnist John G. Fuller wrote:

"UFO's have moved and hovered directly over cars and people, as low as eight to 10 feet above the ground.

"They have been report-ed not only by police, but off the record by military persomiel and Coast Guardsmen!"

Among the 60 people whose interviews were tape-re-corded, the similarities of descriptions were amaz-ingly consistent, although many lived miles apart and knew nothing about the other sightings.

On September 3 there

was a rush of simultane-ous sightings from points near Exeter, as well as in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico.

A record of teletype messages at the Oklahoma Highway Patrol shows the folowing terse phrases:

"Three Shawnee officers have four of the objects in sight at this time, also another has cropped up from the south of Tecum-seh and is apparently go-ing to fly directly over Shawnee . . . • "Oklahoma Highway Patrol Units 30 and 40 have also made visual sightings . • "Tinker Air Force Base has had from one to four of them on radar at a time and they advise they are flying very high at approximately 22,000 feet, which seems to coincide with the visual sightings

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Two deputy sheriffs in Texas, patrolling in a car 40 miles south of Houston. saw a luminous object ap-proach them from the sky and hover 100 feet in the air and 150 feet off the highway.

At low altitudes the UFO I is reported to have a yaw-ing, kite-like motion, wob-bling in the air, moving slowly back and forth, sud-denly and effortlessly changing direction.

No sound is ever heard beyond a high-frequency hum.

FM FR, FIEF.

60 AMERICANS SIGHTED UFO's

NEW YORK, Sat. —The highly respected Saturday Review, an intellectual and scientific weekly, declared this week that the eivedence for the existence of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) was almost overwhelming.

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MOND;

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BRISBANE, Sun. — Scientists at Queensland University will examine samples of mud and dry reeds from north Queensland's "flying-saucer nests."

THEsamples were taken from three "nests" in

the Tally district. Mr. George Pedley, a

banana grower, found the first one, after he had seen a blue-grey saucer- shaped object rise about 25 yards in front of him.

He was driving his trac-tor through a swami).

He said he heard the saucer take off with a loud, hissing noise.

He went to the spot where it had been and found the reeds had been dried out in a small cir-cular area.

They also had been swept hi a circular pat-tern.

Mr. Tom Warren, a cane farmer, and Mr. Hank Penning, a school teacher, found the other two nests while they were walking around the lagoon a few miles away.

The lagoon is on a pro-perty owned by Mr, Albert Pennisi. near Tully,

Today Mr. Pennisi waded into the swamp to pick some of the reeds.

He said something had sucked grass roots and

mud to the top of the water. He said some reeds and

mud would be flown to Brisbane tomorrow,

Mr. R. Russell. a mem-ber of the committee of the Queensland Flying Saucer Research Bureau, said to-night radioactivity tests should help to decide if the "nests" were a freak of nature or had been caused by something.

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Policeman saw "bubbles" BRISBANE, Sat. — Three separate reports of

flying objects mystified people in North Queensland this week.

One report came from Cooktown Police Ser- geant R. Hagerty. sergeant HagertP was Queensland, told police

driving with his wife on a she had spent every night lonely road on Thursday for a week watching a

1 night when they saw large mysterious object in 1"bubbles" about 30 inches the sky. in diameter floating above She said it appeared in the road. I the eastern sky about 10

Ile drove over them and p.m. and remained until they disappeared beneath 2 am. the car. Sometimes it turned

He said later: "We think over and its lights went they were probably weather out. balloons."

go Hissing noise The first sighting came

last Monday when Tully farmer George Pedley was driving his tractor,

In broad daylight he saw an object on the ground about 40 yards away.

It made a loud hissing noise, then rose and hover-ed above the trees before dipping and taking off al. high speed.

Since then scores of people have visited the spot where Mr. Pedley saw "the thing.''

All have confirmed that the brush in a circu-lar area was mysteriously

' flattened. There was no sign of

1 burning. Last night Mrs. M.

_ - of M2reebal. North

Then it shot off at high However, a RA AF speed. but soon reappear-

spokesman said today ed again. there still was no expla- nation

for the three mys-

tery sightings.

The first nest found by George Pedlcy cover-ed an area of 30 feet in diameter:

It was in a swamp, find the reeds had been lattened in a clockwise (iiroction.

"If I had mentioned this a week ago you could have called me a madman," Pedley said today.

"But now I'm con-vinced that what I saw was a [1 ,. ing saucer or a

space ship of some 1

kind." 4 It was 9 a.m. when

Pedley heard a loud 4 hissing noise and saw, 25 yards in front of him, "space ship" rise swiftly out of a swamp called Horseshoe Lagoon.

Pedley said the craft, 1 blue-grey, about 25ft across and 911 high, spun vertically to about 6011 before moving oft to the south-west.

"It was all over in a few seconds," he said,

"It moved at a terrific speed."

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"ADLARS WEFOWN SUMMON OOSPEEGS OW LANW ITCH!"

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From "The Sun's" special investigator Ben Davie

TULLY, Monday. — Space fever has

gripped this little Queensland township following discovery of "three flying saucer nests" in nearb) marshy country.

Hundreds of people from all over north Queensland are pouring into the area to inspect the "nests."

Along with the influx of vis-itors have come wild rumours about the origin of the nests and the "spaceship" sighted by local farmer George Pedley, 27.

In bars and at the breakfast table people are talking of little else.

Arguments are raging be-tween a little hard core of scep-tics and the overwhelming num-ber of "true believers."

RADIOACTIVITY But the evidence is mounting that

something is going on, and local authorities are taking the matter seriously.

Only a few people doubt Ped-ley's word that he saw a strange saucer-shaped craft take oil from one of his paddocks last Wedues-day.

Pedley's sighting was only one —dozens reported in the Tull) ar

during the past two months. No one doubts the existence of the

three "nests," one of which was found by Pedley and two by farmer Torn Warren and schoolteacher Hank Penning.

Just about everyone in the town has been out to inspect them.

The R.A.A.F. has taken the re-ports seriously enough to ask for clippings from the "nests." These have already been collectekl

by local police sergeant Vince Mos Ian.

HANK PENNING

"You'll find very few

v Who think it was a hoax

nor an illusion.

- "Most people seem to tithink that the only Illogical explanation is tlthat the Government is Westing a new war device t up here and doesn't want (Jo say anything about

if "Nobody has talkadvar _

about anything else since

I last Wednesday.

BIG AIR FORCE INQUIRY

"WAR DEVICE" They will be examined for traces

of radio-activity. A special R.A.A.F. team also will

investigate any further flying saucer sightings from the area.

A special series of questions will be put to any person seeing what he believes to be a flying object.

-This whole business has the whole town mystified—and a little fright-ened," local furniture manufacturer Rob Black told me today.

"A lot of people here believe that what George Pedley saw was a spaceship from another planet.

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Albert Pennisi, who owns the area around Horseshoe Lagoon, told me about the "space ship" dreams he had in the week leading up to George Pedly's sighting

TRNUAIL r ACTION BY R.A.A.F.

Saucer `nests' riddle

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of Northern Queensland are flocking to Tully to see the mystery "flying saucer nests" in a swamp near the town.

From "Sun" special investigator Ben Davie

TULL", Tuesday.—Two more "flying saucer" nests were discovered yesterday close to the

three found since last Wednesday.

Floating in swamp

"I'd get them al n every night," he said,

"And they were be-ginning to worry me,

"I couldn't understand them.

"It was alway s the same. This thing like a giant dish would come out of no-where and land nearby.

"And I would watch it in my dream and get real afraid before it went away,

'""Fhen on Wednesday morning about five o'clock my dog suddenly seemed to go out of its mind.

"It was howling like a mad thing and raced ott toward the lagoon."

2 NESTS Next day, Mr Warren.

of Euramo, and Mr Pen-ning, discovered two more "nests" near the first one.

News of these finds brought a horde of sight-seers to the scene, near Euramo, seven miles from

They came front Card-well, 28 miles away, from Innisfail, 35 miles north and even from Ingham, ohlitti 611 mile,: south

Vs, Julie taloa les drove into the area at the week. end to see the "nests" and settled down near by to picnic lunches,

I heard the first of the new rash of rumours I13

far south as Townsville. 135 miles away.

A taxidriver told me about the elderly Tully man who said he had seen saucer-like Objects for sev-eral days.

"Everyone thought `well, he getting on'," said the taxidriver.

"But when the nests were found people started taking notice of hint.

Bill Kelly, a Tully pen-sioner, told me over his morning wash. "of all the places in Australia these things are supposed to have landed on a useless marsh near "Fully.

SCEPTIC "Takes some believing,

doesn't it?" But local businessman

Bob Black said he visited the scene a sceptic and came away convinced "there is something in this flying saucer business."

"I don't think those nests were made by croco-diles, like some people say," he said.

Shire Clerk, Mr I W. Pender, said, "1 can't be-lieve in flying saucers.

"But nobody has yet come up with a logical explanation of what has been happening.

"And the nests have added a touch of mystery.

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F O. OVE TOW At KATANNING, Lee'

Marshall, 21, said the fly-. ing object had a revolving ;

to like a lighthouse. It made a noise like s

swarming bees and d1s-1 appeared after two hours.

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One of the nests is a floating plat-form of clotted roots and weeds ap-parently torn by tre-mendous force from the mud bottom under 5 feet of water,

Samp h

les of earth and reeds from te nest have been rushed to the

• n Department at Queensland Uni-versity for tests.

Cane farmer Lou Larchi and his nephew, Van Klaphake, of Graf-ton Road, Casula. N.S.W., discovered the latest two "nests."

Mr Iambi said he thought they were older "nests" than those pre-viously found.

STINGS "I did not believe in

flying saucers before, but

said. now," Mr Larchi

"The nests could not possibly have been caus-ed by whirlwinds. A whirlwind would have whisked everything away.

Yesterday f drove down the mile-long track pa.si acres of sugar cane to the Horseshoe Lagoon where the nests were located.

try, ips izeicroce odorilesweoainTp-

and stagnant water, A 10-footer was seen here only last week,

It is a place for wood pheasants and king-fishers and blue-green

butterflies among the palms and pandanus trees.

There are ants which hang their nests from the branches of blue-gum saplings.

And there are mosqui-toes and huge black flies that sting like blazes.

As far as I am con-cerned, if the Martians want the place they can have it.

I saw the clearings in the reeds where "they" took- off and it was as everyone had described it.

In a circle, roughly 30ft in diameter. the reeds had been cut and flattened in a clockwise direction.

I am none the wiser. In such things I will be-lieve any story of ex-planation—until a better one conies along,

And there have been some beauties — the playground of crocodiles in love, the birthplace of whirlwinds and, of course, flying saucers.

With he was hard-headed, life-long Queens-lender. Alex Bordujenko, a former racehorse owner_ who now makes book on the Townsville

trots and fill, in time driving a taxi.

"It could not possibly have been crocodiles," said Alex.

"They couldn't move through those thick reeds."

BOTTLES Most Tully people dis-

count the whirlwind theory, They say the weather was fine and whirlwind-free on Wed-nesday.

Most people, too, rule out the possibility of a practical joker at work.

The difficulty of work-ing in a swamp would have spoiled the joke be-fore it started.

That, it seems, leaves flying saucers — and a surprising number of people rue braving the sniggers of their friends and are accepting that explanation.

About 1,000 car-loads of visitors have made the pilgrimage to the swampy w o n d e rland since Thursday. -

Weird behaviour of Tully television in re-cent weeks is blamed by many residents on "flying saucers."

One of three "nests" found near Tully in Queensland. Samp-

les of the grass in

the nests have been

sent to the R.A.A.F, who will make tests for radio - activity.

One nest was about 30 feet across.

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LIP IVY:

THE UNDER 25s

Flying Saucer girl tells all

Dread in a saucer

THE latest flying saucer stories

reflect the queer mixture of fear, faith and pride which this hair-trigger world has come to feel about scientific space marvels.

Reports of saucer "nests" in Queens-land have now gone round the world, and millions of people are talking about them, and arguing for and against.

When the first reports of flying saucers came in about 20 years ago, public reaction was almost wholly derisory.

But the first little sputnik and the ladder-climbing Russian and AmeriCan triumphs which have followed it, have altered all that.

Today, ordinary men and women, reasonably well informed and of only average imagination, accept flying saucers, from whatever source, as entirely within the realm of the possible.

A world which is planning to set men down on the moon and which has already sent spaceships past Venus is bound to be susceptible to reports that craft full of Martians have landed near Darwin or in the Arizona desert.

An each-way bet One curious thing about our supposed

space visitors, going on past reports, is that they seem to have a positive passion for landing in the wilderness.

However, such niggling objections do not alter the spread of belief—a kind of popular scientific faith which manages to have an each-way bet by adopting the at-titude, "there may be something in it."

Thus does mankind stand, a link, uncertainly, facing an horizon scarcely dreamed of by past generations.

It is therefore sad that with this sense of triumph, should go an inescapable un-dercurrent of fear.

If the saucers are full of Martians, then beware of the diabolical weapons they arc likely to have. If they are from other earth nations, then they are spy ships.

It is chastening to remember that this evil of fear does not come from saucers or from interstellar space or from science, but from within man himself.

Spacemen on earth

Di) you believe in flying saucers!

WENDY THOMPSON 17. typist,

North Rycle.

No. Photos of

outer space haven't

Yes. if this

shown any signs planet has space

of life on other

rockets so might

planer;. other planets.

DAVID GOURLAY 18, clerk,

C kat vomit I,

DIANNE WATSON 19. student,

()alley.

I believe there could be flying saucers. Those marks on t I. e nrnb, ru-1 in fariannc

land weren't made by helicopters.

It took no little stiffening of t h e sinews and summon-ing up of the blood to ask June Marsden about t h e flying saucer nests at Tully.

Miss Marsden is probably the nation's foremost saucer-fancier, yet she will stand no nonsense.

She was once Australia's and possibly the world's best-known S c i entitle Astrologer. But for the last five years she has been a sort of high hos-tess for extra-terrestrial visitors; and it. is a dull day on which she has no contact 'with the crew of some saucer or other.

Yet she is difficult to question. At the first hint of facetiousness she clams tip: and when I railed her the was cor-dial but wary.

-The people at Tully." she said, "reported most of the faets accurately.

"The flying saucer type of spaceeraft is about nine feet high and it does ro-tate at terrific speed. I was in one myself only a few months ago.

'Where," I asked, "did it Lake you?"

"Over Rhodesia and Viet-nam. R was a forerun-ner of a great fleet which left the planet Michael tat the head of Andro-meda) on January 6. The fleet was of 526 flying saucers under the com-mand of a great lord of space. Commander Michael.

At least WE who know him call him Comman-der Michael or Lord Michael."

"And all these saucers are

"They are." 'Why?" 'They are here," she said.

"to help us help our-

selves. They are most worried about Rhodesia and Vietnam."

"And how do they go about helping?"

"It's not easy for them," she said. "They can't manifest themselves be-cause they know that earth people would shoot them down like dogs. They must work through the mind and conscience.

"And its a great sacrifice, you know. For these people to come to our planet frnm their own is rather like one of us turning into a worn, to go to help the insect world."

"And what do they look like?"

• Handsomer "They look almost like us.

They are taller and their features are handsomer: and their Heel) Isn't quite the same as ours. Com-mander Michael, when yoit see him. actually glows."

And you've had him In your very living room?"

"I'm not at liberty to say that."

Well , it. must. be a bit difficult for a man who glows to go around with-out exciting some com-ment or other. How does he manage?"

el can't tell you that, either. But I can say that one of the great. problems they have is with their vibrations, When they arrive on earth their vibrations are so high that. they're danrous to humans_.

n tine to gradually decrease their vibrations before they move among us."

"And they arrive by flying saucer. Where?"

"Usually at secluded spots on the outskirts of cities, but that's as much as I'm allowed to say. I do feel, though, that Commander Michael left those marks at Tully as a sign to me —to sort of give me am-munition to carry on my work of proving that we DO have visitors from oilier planets."

• Vibrations How long will these saucers stay around. I mettle I've a bit of air travel ahead of me and 526 saucers rushing to and fro ..."

"I don't know now long I his group will stay." she said. 'But I believe that seven people, in-cluding C o mm ander Michael, are preparing navy, acclimatising them- selves . ."

"Getting down their vibrations?"

"Yes. And I can tell you that one man from Michael arrived here two years ago, brought down his vibration level,. and has been living in Mel-bourne ever since."

I could imagine no better spot in which to keep one's vibrations in check, but I kept the thought. to myself.

And this bloke is just the same as any of us now?"

"Spiritually he's infinitely superior, but phyeicelly he's just the same —except that the only food he needs is milk."

etrelieetIllefne are • alleged to have the same diet. Ciotti(' there he some connection? But once again I held my pewee.)

. . . because I am

Michael's main contact on earth," she was say-ing. "I have been In-formed that serious up-heaval will begin in w19613. And

turned o 1972 earth

will have

over completely one and a fifth times, It's going to be a great shake-up.

"Britain will be moved into a better climate, Much of Indonesia will go. Limuria and Atlantis will come up."

"Merciful heavens! What about us?"

• "Lucky" "Australia," she said, "will

he lucky. We'll be moved up to where the Hawai-ian islands are now. Ati5 -

traila will become the holy land."

"We must tell the Indo-nesians. Look, could Commander N I c Is a el,'

op,

"That's enotigh," she said '

sharply. 'Quite enough for the present. I may be able to tell you more later, but you're no bet-ter than people all over the world. People wanted me to stay and lead them in England. I gave a few' lectures in Hollywood' and a lot of millionairesl wanted me to stay there,l at their expense. and ,' lead them and keep them in touch. But I can't. I have my own work to do.

"And I can say no more. If they want to tell you more they'll get in touch with you themselves."

I hung up, feIt the need for spirit, walked dream-ily to the refrigerator and poured myself . . a glass of milk,

Gently but steadily be- gan to vibrate.

TERRY IDE 17, customs

clerk, Dr ammoyne.

CAROLE HOCKLEY 19, teacher,

Mar tdale.

Flying saucers are just a lot of science fiction nonsense.

ROBERT BEA MISH 19. trainee accountant, gandteink.

I don't behav e

in things I haven't

Siren, and I haven't

seen a flying

saucer.

BILL WALKER 2.J, stage director,

Kings Cross.

EVA BRAEUTIGAM 17, student,

Hornsby.

My father and

50 other people

saw two flying

saucer-like objects

in Yugoslavia 30

years ago.

I'm a sceptic.

Think peopl•

who've seen flying

saucers are imag•

icing things.

KATIE WARK 17, switch girl,

Lind flew,

I haven't seen

one but lots of

people have and

they can't all be wrong.

KEVIN FRAZER ?1, bank clerk,

Delmore.

It is possible

there is such a

thing as a flying

saucer, but I'm

sceptical.

ULI SCHMETZER ON THE FRINGE

(of outer space) ■••••• .•••■

"Now we know for sure," he said, waving a bony finger, "that neither the Americans nor the Russians would send rockets up into outer space if they knew how to handle one of these con-traptions.

"So it is 'obvious that a third unknown force is keeping an eye on what we are doing."

Mr Dutton, now warm-ing to his subject, con-tinued, "We feel that these crafts are propelled by a highly developed magnetic eleetro organism.

PHOTOS "This would acconu I

for the eerie lights which people keep reporting.

"And it would also account for the lights going on and off while the vehicle is stationary."

"And then," said Mr Dutton, "we know from radar clockings that these objects can travel at 20,000 miles an hour in our atmosphere, which

gives rise to the assump-tion that they might have their own gravitational Pull."

"After all, there have been photographs of flying saucers taken by the Bra- zilian Navy over Trinidad not so very long ago.

"And only recently in Siberia, Russian scientists have been pondering over a large hole that was put there in 1908.

"They now have the theory that an atomically propelled spacecraft might have crashed there.

"After all, the radio-activity in that region is three times what it should tie."

"It's all too much to ignore," Mr Dutton said.

And then, completing the drawing of his three-legged outer-space contrap-tion, cosmos agent William Dutton picked up the die-taphone, switched on the inter-corn and dictated his latest assessment on a crashed 20th century motor car.

Schmetzer

FL YI G GfTAWA

A saucer down for a repair job

THE HOODS MAKE

IN a downtown insurance office, facing George Street, cosmos agent William

Dutton, the man from UFO, pushed the dictaphone aside, switched off the inter -

corn and settled back in his swivel-chair.

And for the next hour insurance man Dutton, retired, and UFO vice-president Dutton emerged.

Outside, the 20th century traffic crept by noisily.

Inside, agent Dutton began to talk about three-legged flying saucers, zooming cigar-shaped objects, illuminated platforms with antennas and little green men in space suits peering through peepholeS On the side.

As vice-chief of a 100-member. higly trained organisation, Mr Dutton has become an expert on these con-traptions from outer space.

He explained that U.F.O. was an organisation collecting, dis-seminating, directing and examin-ing data on interplanatory invas-ions throughout Australia.

It simply stands' for Unidentified Flying Objects.

Its members, some of whom are doctors, solicitors, scientists and en-

gineers meet twice a month. • There they discuss the latest saucer sightings,

listen to lectures and digest information from brother clubs throughout the world.

BULGING ARCHIVES From here too U,F.O. agents are dispatched to

the scenes of flying saucer and cigar-shaped object uightings to gather an dcompile data which is stored in the organisation's bulging archives.

"You see," said Mr Dutton, his dark eyes focused on my pencil, "we are a group of people desperately interested in what comes and goes from outer space.

"And some people may laugh, but I, for one, am firmly convinced that we do get visitors from Outer space.

"And I feel that these hovered a brightly lit 4sitors are of nmeh higher saucer-shaped object with intellectual standard than three thin metal legs hang-we poor earthlings." ing below it..

With that he smiled in- As the perplexed bible , diligently. man watched. the saucer's

"I am not at all im- optnost hatch opened and pressed of course by the a white-suited gentleman intelligence on this of human proportions planet," he said. emerged, followed closely

by a score of other similar creatures.

Taking no notice of their gasping audience, the in-vaders began to clamber all over their craft, engag-ed in what the good mis-sionary deduced could have been a clean up or repaint job.

HE WAVED Shocked, the missionary

waved an arm. He gaped when one of

the hooded creatures wav -

ed back. He then waved two

arms and the hooded saucer man waved two arms.

He fetched a torch and

signalled S 0 S and the saucer men signalled back,

And then, as the natives sank to their knees in awe. the white creatures tumbl-ed hack through the hatch of the ship and, without the slightest noise, rocket-ed off into space.

"Now," said vice-presi-dent Dutton, "you would not think a missionary was a liar, would you?"

"I personally saw a strangly lit object hover-ing and circling over Townsend one dark night," he said.

OBSERVERS "And on another night,

only two years ago, my wife and I both saw a cigar-shaped thing Bashing down from the sky and rotating above Cairns."

M r Dutton went on: Two of my best friends,

who are solicitors, Were staying in a pub at a N.S.W. border town when they saw a brilliant beam of light from their bal-cony."

"They watched as an oval-shaped disc hovered drove a tree outside the rialeony.

"rhev smoked two cig-arettes before the strange craft zoomed back into thin air.

"Now these people are trained to observe facts, and they wouldn't be lying, would they?"

And then Mr Dutton, having proved that weird-shaped contraptions from other worlds conic and peer at us from time to time, leant forward en-thusiastially in his swivel chair and told rue of the deductions his society had placed on these weird occurrences.

GLEEFUL "And you must admit

that all these sightseers can't all be liars."

Mr Dutton rubbed his hands together gleefully and moved to the real crux of the matter.

"Now about a year ago," he said, "there was

a missionary in New Guinea who had a very startling experience.

It seems, according to Mr Dutton, that the mis-sionary and 38 natives on one of their inland jaunts, awoke one night to see a bright light outside their huts.

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Martians are a

A 13-year-old schoolboy's find has sparked reports of a "flying saucer nest" at Bankstown.

Rut the boy's mother, Mrs, Doreen Dennis, of Cantrell St., 1(agoona, is sceptical.

"I'll believe In flying saucers when I see one," she said. "I'm really very doubtful about the whole thing."

Last Monday week. her son, Robert, found a 20 ft. circle of flat-tened reeds in a nearby paddock.

Robert said; "All the reeds had been flattened Into the ground. It looked very strange be-cause none of the reeds outside the circle had been touched.

"I didn't know what to make of it, until I remembered readi ng about those nests of fly-ing saucers in Queens-land."

Robert's find is simi-lar to the five "saucer nests" found in swamp land near Tully In North Queensland last month.

Angelo Baldavin, 18, of Guildford, working on a building nearby, said he saw the flatten-ed reeds about three days ago.

"I have been working here for a few weeks and I haven't seen am-thing unusual," he said.

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over Australia states that the inhabitants of these I craft are about 5-at. tall, same build as humans, high forehead, friendly, deeply suntanned, norm- r aggressive and working; among us to promote' peace, If so, I have seen quite a number on our beaches and as police, and I'm not scoffing.—"Bronte Kiwi."

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ST MRIZCH

mile in front By ALEX MITCHELL

CANBERRA, Wed- nesday. — In the

flying saucer space race, the Martians are defin-itely winning.

Our man-made saucers have never got off the ground.

This was revealed today by Australian pa tent authorities who have dealt with eight applications for patent rights for flying saucers in the past 35 years,

And as far as patent authorities are concerned, the man-made versions have never risen from the imagination of their in-ventors, or from the draw-ing boards on which they were created.

"If the Martians have landed at Tully — and no one has , said they haven't — then we are running a very poor second to our inter-planetary neighbors in the saucer race," a patent office spokesman said.

Cigar shape "We have had eight very

novel saucer-like vehicles submitted to us for patent approval,

Here is the dismal his-tory of our efforts to win a place in the flying saucer space race as recorded by Australian patent authori-ties.

In 1931 a Mr. Charles Edmund Johnson, of Hill Street. Hobart, Tasmania, submitted drawings of a large cigar-shaped object surmounted by a circular engine.

The principle of Mr. Johnson's machine was

that air would be drawn into the bottom of the en-gine and thrust out through a series of port-holes in the circular roof.

One slightly unnerving feature of the aircraft was Mr. Johnson's belief that the space between the cabin walls and the fuse-lage should be filled with some "light, buoyant gas such as hydrogen or helium,"

Mr. Johnson makes no reference to the highly combustible properties of hydrogen gas.

Jap. idea Only two years later,

two Japanese engineers, Kosuke Imajo and Nobu-hisa Nish!. sought exclu-sive rights to construct in Australia a saucer that was powered by helicopter blades encased in the roof of the fuselage.

The application is firmly stamped: "Application lapsed" which probably means that practical tests proved that this space vehicle was not as feasible as It looked on paper.

The next record of a patent application for fly-ing saucers came from the Goodyear Aircraft Corpo-ration, Delaware, USA, in 1954.

The enthusiastic appli-cant proclaimed "The general object of this in-vention is to provide an aircraft capable of high speed horizontal, vertical and hovering flight char-acteristics."

Nothing has ever been heard of the vehicle_

Michel Wibault pre-sented his flying saucer drawings to patent auth-orities in 1956.

He called his invention a gyropter.

His spacecraft included a jet reactor which sup-posedly took air and forced it through vents giving thrust and stability to 3 vehicle which he claimed had all the quali-ties of an aircraft and a helicopter.

But patent a u th oritiem regard the application of Mr. Lyall Randolph, of no known address, as then most prized version of the flying saucer.

Mr. Randolph called his vehicle a circular rotatable aerofoil which, he claimed could fly at greater speeds than any aircraft in exilit-mice.

Apart from thrusting air through rear vents, MI Randolph's machine also had rotating blades at-tached to the lower nose cone,

"Interesting theory," the Patent Office spokesman said, "but quite imprac-ticable."

Dream ship In 1961. Faustina Bian-

chi offered his dream air-craft to the world, but there is no evidence to show it has been develop-ed.

About the same time Ariel George Borchers, ap-parently a backyard scien-tist, was granted patent rights over an extra-ordinary-looking spacecraft. which he believed could

aucers not Mum's cup of tea

SAUCERS: I read something in your col-umn about an association which investigated flying objects. I've seen a flying saucer, and took a picture of it. Where is this association so I can go to the next meeting?---George V., Sydenham.

DEAR GEORGE V.: The Unidentified Fly-ing Objects Investigation Centre, wilt hare the next meeting on Tuesday., April 5, Adyar !High St., 7.45 pm.

put us right back in the flying saucer race.

But patent authorities were more sceptical.

"I don't think it will ever rise a foot," a patent of-ficer said.

And two years ago, the Raytheon Company took out exclusive rights to the construction of a space saucer which could be controlled by microwave energy directed from earth.

A Canberra man, Mr.

Ralph Rabbidge, of Camp-bell, has taken out pro-visional patent rights over his version of the flying saucer.

Mr. Rabbidge described his vehicle as similar to the helicopter, but would not give any further de-tails,

The Patent Office spokes-man said applications cov-ering flying saucer con-struction had dwindled during the past few year's.

LIT-UP e c ently, at A dusk, I saw two

(

white lights of equal size moving together near the horizon (which was quite close). There was no sound from them, and it appear-ed that after several Seconds they slowly united and then the one light gradually dimmed and vanished, It was cloudy and no stars appeared at night time. Any explan-ations?—"What Was It."

spru RDRy; iciTH MARCH. 19(dix

Selfridge Air Force base, 5(1 miles away, rushed officers to the scene with cameras, but the object was out of sight before they arrived.

WEDNFSDAYI chit, J 9t2(3.

MYSTERY LIGHT

NEWCASTLE, Tues. —Residents reported seeing a mysterious bright light hovering over Newcastle harbor early this morning.

The light appeared at about 230 a.m.

Eyewitnesses said it was glowing and disc-shaped.

It was visable for about 10 minutes and then moved oil at high.speed over the BHP steel works.

A spokesman for the Williamtown RAM,' base meteorological station later said the object could have been a weather balloon.

N EW YORK, Monday. — At least GO persons saw an unidentified flying object land in

a swamp near Ann Arbor, Michian, last niht, ?once said today„

Twelve of the witnesses ball, with blinking 'lights were policemen, and antennas.

'low sherif's deputies said they saw eerie blinking lights— aparently on a fly-ing object—rise above the trees• then dip again.

Another policeman said he and other oficers saw a formation Of four or five flying objects. On ase

60 see "saucer" 3- NEW YORK, Mon. --;

At least 60 witnesses had, seen an unidentified fly- ing. object land in swamp near Ann Arhor,, Michigan, last nig ht, police said today.

Twelve of the witnesses e.

were policemen. Two sheriff's deputies(

said they site eerie ing lights — apparenily; on a flying object — rise above the trees, then dip' again.

Another policeman saidl he and other oliicers saw a formation of four or five flying . objects. 4

One passed right ever his car.

Six police cars chased the formation hot the ob-jects vanished.

Frank Mannor, 47, and( his son, Ronald, 10, told( pollee they ran through( the swamp to within 5004 yards of the object which (

took off with a sound like( a ricochetting bullet.

They described it as shaped like a football, with blin!iine lights and an term as,—AA P- R.

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took the picture, which is puzzling scientists.

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NEW YORK, Fri. — Photographs a Michigan; deputy sheriff took of two unidentified flying ob-1

4 ects over south-eastern Michigan nine days ago ) were shown on television at Ann Arbor last night. 1

THE photographs were western University to on the hood of my car. 1 4

time exposures taken investigated the reports. could see the thing in my 4 t

) with a miniature Minox A Bangor (Maine) sight.

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yellow-white o b j e et s on the 0

; s‘i‘diesilMiniglana. bomuitclajiugsatmobuet-- with at least one bullet. other." i

r tween 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. John King, 22, said the craft responded by zooming skyward. al -

straightswiftly vanished to the nmoorstth. u P. and

King, a former student, said he was driving about 11.50 p.m. when he saw a brightly lit object, about 60 feet long, speeding toward him a few feet off the ground .

Fired shot King said tie stopped

his car and got out, tak-ing a .22 calibre target pistol with him.

"X could hear the elder-berry bushes scraping as the thing came towards me," he said.

About 60 feet away, he .said, it stopped over a shallow pond, emitting an electric-like hum as it Movered.

"I cocked my pistol when it came toward me," be said.

"I had my arm resting

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objects seen

He set his camera on 0, tripod and held the shutter open to make two time-exposure pictures, one of 10 minutes and the other of 12.

Enlarged to eight by 10 inches from the smaller - than - postage -stamp-sized negative in a policelaboratory, the photographs showed the UFOs as two distinct streaks of light.

Farmer Frank Mannor, 46, of Arbor, and his son approached to within 500 yards of one object, which he said then took off.

Many other sightings have followed.

Last night four squad cars of deputy sheriffs watched an unidentified flying object for 45 mM-utes in the same part of the sky where the sight-ings were made by about 40 people on Sunday.

The U.S. Air Force has sent an astrophy-sicist from North-

'Angels' FRI

in UFA.' disguise

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Fiery ball seen in sky

Dozens of residents of Sydney's northern beach suburbs saw a huge, shimmering "ball of fire" hovering in the sky about 8.30 last night.

ject trailing a stream of

bright orange; others re- ported a bright, white ob-

Some said it glowed travel from their suburb in

minutes later.

the direction of Bellevue Hill while it faded away 10'

smoke • Mrs T. Fuller, of West

Street, Balgowlah, ran ex-citedly through the block of flats in which she lives to Mr David Button, of Bel-tell neighbours after she saw gowlah Heights, said he saw the object. a bright orange glowing ob-

ject which appeared to fall into the sea near North Head.

Another man at Balgow-lab Heights described the I object as a ball with smoke trailing behind it.

He said it faded away over Long Reef.

A Department of Civil Aviation spokesman said no planes in the Sydney area reported sighting any strange objects.

A Sydney Weather Bureau spokesman suggested the ob-ject could have been a rocket casing re-entering the atmosphere.

A Maritime Services Board employee at South

[Head Signal Station said the

ic/426, could have caused the re- moon rising low in the sky

re- ports.

The Rev. Ronald Cart-mel, rector of Aldridge, Staffordshire, writes in his parish magazine:

"Man was never meant to explore space, and by doing so he is trespassing into realms where he is not meant to live,

-I don't think man will ever reach the moon.

"If he does he will cer-tainly not colonise it.

"The Bible clearly lays' down the bounds that man should live in, and he should never pass into Mee

"If iS• against the Bible—that is why these flying objects have been seen.

"They are similar to those that were present to foretell the Great Flood,"

"Sun" Snecial

LONDOLONDON, Friday. — N, flying

objects reported over Staffordshire are "angelic interference designed to warn man not to venire into space," says a clergy-man.

"Appeared to fall into sea"

"It seemed to be hover-ing only about 12 feet over a flat-roofed block of flats opposite my place," she said.

"Smoke was drifting from one end of it and a shim-mering, white glow was coming from it."

Mrs Fuller said after hovering for several minutes the object faded away with-out a sound.

At Collaroy, Miss Lee Rennit and her family watched a "bright ball"

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FLYING OBJECTS I !START A STORM!

NEW YORK, Saturday. — The • great flying saucer mystery is sweeping America again as controversy mounts

t over hundreds of reported sightings. A Chicago astronomer, 1500 feet from their dor-

the top trouble-shooter on mitory windows. t unidentified flying ob- Civil Defence director ) jects, is convinced that Mr. William Van Horne ,

honest, reliable citizens accused air force officers investigating the numer-ous sightings of trying to convince people they had not seen anything.

Mr. Van Horse said he: watched a flying object again last night.

He took his binoculars on to a porch roof and saw "a bright white light coming and going."

He said 10 people watched the object with him as it floated about.

the witnesses who saw it and who sincerely and _supj D 2.7 7TH accurately described what they saw," he said. "The probable explana-

I ClI6 tion was that the spring thaw had released trapped gases resulting from the decomposition or organic matter.

"It would seem to me that the association of the sightings with swamps in these particular cases is more than coincidence," he said.

-Nogroup of witnesses observed any craft coming or going away from the swamps. The glow waF localised there."

'Moon trails' Dr. Hynek said he WEL.,

not offering a blanket ex-planation for all unidenti-fied flying objects sighted in the last two decades in the U.S. and abroad.

Newspaper photographs published yesterday showing two streaks of light in the sky were "without question" trails made as a result of a time exposure of the ris-ing moon and the planet Venus, he said. Dr. Hynek said the pic-

tures were taken on March 17 near Milan (Michigan: and were not related to reports of unidentified fly-ing objects at Hillsdale (Michigan) four days later.

The investigator, astro-physicist Dr. J. Allen ilynek, said he believed escaping swamp gases had caused glowing lights which resulted in the re-port&

"I cannot prove in a court of law that this is the full explanation of these sightings," he said.

"It appears very likely, however, that the combi-nation of the conditions of this particular winter--an unusually mild one in this area—and the particular weather conditions . . were such as to have pro-duced this unusual and puzzling display."

Dr. Hynek noted that most. of the mysterious objects had been sighted near swamps.

"A dismal eilwamp is a most unlikely place for a visit from outer space . it is not a place where a helicopter would hover for several hours or where a soundless .secret device would be likely to be tested," he said.

The flying objects had been described by witnesses as having glowing lights—red, green, or yellow—and appearing to move side-ways.

Dr. Hynek said such a sight. was extremely un-common.

"1 have never seen it myself and I can easily understand the dismay of

Flying saucer reports were just "hot air ,'

NEW YORK, Sat: Ordinary marsh gases — and not invaders from outer space—triggered this week's rash of re-ports of unidentified flying objects in Southern Michigan, a special U.S. Air Force investigator said yesterday.

have been watching lum-inous swamp gas.

But a Civil Defence director ridiculed sugges-tions that swamp gas, or will-of-the-wisp, was re-

1 sponsible.

Meanwhile reports on ) unidentified flying objects j multiply.

Today there were sight- ► ings in nine States.

Eighty-seven girls saw the bizarre lights hover

DALE SPATJR (centre), Portage County Sheriff's deputy, takes notes on the sightink, of an un-identified flying object! from Geral# Bucher I (left), police chief of 4 Mantua, Ohio, who photo-graphed it. and radioman Robert Wilson. Spaur and a fellow deputy fol-lowed the object for a

distance of 85 miles.

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SAUCERS lq the the ex- istence of flying saucers and life on other planets is both real and possible. Also, man may have mi-grated from another planet tram a distant galaxy, The fear of our possible hos-tility may have prevented a closer contact by any space explorer. — "Well Learned."

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WASHINGTON, Sun. — An unidentified flying object which two Ohio policemen chased for nearly 100 miles last weekend was porbably a combination of an artificial satiellite and the plant Venus, the Air Force-said today.

rrHE Air Force report was "Venus was rising in thf 1- received with scepti- south - east, and was

cisin by the Ohio police- brighter than any star in men. the sky.

Deputy Sheriff Dale "It. is believed that Spaur and Deputy W. L. Sheriff Spaur saw the

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fly- laiThieet' AViernFuos;:e added that ing object at 5 a.m. last Sunday and chased it into airborne objects were in

"radar indicates that no

Pennsylvania. the area at the time of the Police Chief Gerald sighting."

Huebert, of Mantua, Ohio, However, R a.velan a

took what he thought was Sheriff Ross Dustman cria a picture of the object. ticised the report. The Air Force, which checks all reports of flying saucers and the like, said in a statement today:

"The probable cause of the sighting by Sheriff Dale Spaur was the pas-sage of a satellite. As it approached the south-east portion of the sky, it dis-appeared and Sheriff Spaur focused his eyes on the planet Venus.

"I go along with men,' Dustman said. was not a satellite and Venus.

"I've seen Venus many times, but .I never saw Venus 50 feet above a road and moving from side to side like this was . . . I

V have never seen Venus controlled by someone bite this was."—AAP-R,

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NEW YORK, Mon yesterday followed a tified flying object Pennsylvania.

2 SHERIFFS CHASE "SAUCER" 85 MILES

THE sheriffs, from Por- tage County, followed

the object from Atwater, Ohio, to Freedom, Penn-sylvania.

The men, Dale Spaur and W. L. Neff, were in-vestigating a traffic Elect- , dent at 5 a.m.

I Their police radio alert-/ ed them to watch for a

flying object headed their way.

/ When they saw it they / set ouL in pursuit'..

Spaur, a former Kor- ean War Air Force gun-

) icier, said the circular I object, "about 30 to 45

feet in diameter, travel- led at speeds from 80 to 100 1- MU miles an hour." "It was about. 1000 feet.

in the air and was ex-tremely bright," Spaur said.

"I had never seen any-thing this bright before In my life."

Spaur radioed details of the object during the chase to Deputy Sheriff Robert Wilson at the Portage County Sheriff's headquar-ters in Ravenna, Ohio.

Antenna Wilson said that at one

time Spaur reported that the object, which had something like an an-

, Lerma protruding from the bottom, hovered above the car in which Spaur and Neff were driving.

At East Palestine, Ohio, just across the border from Pennsyl-vania, a third patrol-man joined the chase.

Cold water on flying object

sheriffs uniden-

Ohio to

He is East Palestine, patrolman Wayne Bus- ' ton

He said the object ap-t neared larger than an airliner and travelled in a straight line.

"It was a funny thing. 4 but when the object got too far ahead of us it appeared to stop and wait," Huston said,

In another IJ F sighting yesterday three rubbish collectors in Benton Harbor, Michi- 4 an said. they saw a

flying object 'so bright 4 you couldn't look 4 srralgnI at IL.

Over motel

They said they saw the object hover over a motel, along the St. Joseph, River.

The head at the crew, Joseph Franklin, said the object was about 15 storeys in the air, had a steel-like shell and looked -something like a hot dog."

It had a light - so bright he could not look directly at it.

Franklin and his crew reported the sighting to police, who also saw the object. Dennis Charles, news

director of radio station WSJM in Benton Har-bor, said he saw the object in the southern ;k3r, quite high and re-sembling a morning star,

He said it carried red and green lights,

(United Press International and AAP-Reuter)

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Two deputy "bright circular" 85 miles from

SAUCERS Flying.sa saucers are with us

again., with many sightings —and the usual story that they are reflections from the planet Venus. The 'U.S. Air Force usually sticks to this formula. while is usually in reported

Australia it with little

comment. Our planet earth is only a small part of the universe so it must be feasible that life exists on other planets. — "Bronte-

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B.C. ROBOTS T° "Mar.- tian": •Tis Ignorance that ridicules. It is recorded in historians' notebooks that, "visitors in strange, weird flying ob-jects" were here on our planet as early as 325 BC. These first visits were made only by exploratory vehicles manned by robots. However, only recently have "beings" been substi-tuted for the robots.— "Liet Dos." * * *

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Believe in "saucers"?

AGAINST every five people who believe

claims of sightings of "flying saucers," there are six other people who don't believe the claims, the Gallup Poll finds.

The question asked throughout the capital cities and country areas of all six States. was:

"Do you believe, or

disbelieve, people who claim to have seen fly- ing saucers?"

"I believe them," said 35%.

"I don't," said 42%. "I'm undecided," said

23%. Equal numbers of

women believe and dis-

believe claims to have seen "saucers," but men are still 4 to 3 on the side of disbelief.

People under 311 are evenly divided between belief and disbelief. but disbelief increases with age.

Copyright by Roy Morgan and Australian Public Opinion Polls.

SUNDAY 1ST MPS'

FLYING SAUCER

FLAP A flying saucer report

had officials in the Edu-cation Department up in , the air this week.

They spent several days trying to check a claim that 1001) schoolchildren and their teachers had seen a flying saucer.

The claim was made on Channel 7's Bob Crosby Show by Sydney flying saucer fancier, Miss June Marsden.

She told Crosby and thousands of viewers that the children had been startled by the saucer as it swooped low over the school building.

She claimed that the Education Department had been given a full report of the incident.

No sign Miss Marsden thought

the school was Caringbah or Carlingford, but could not remember which.

So the Sunday Mirror asked the Education De-partment.

An official said: "Give us a little time to check this.

"Offhand I can't remem-ber a report about a fly-ing saucer, but it may not have reached my section yet.

"It depends on when the report was sent by the school.

"it may take several days to find its way through the

,

various departments." Several days later there

still was no sign of the report — or the flying saucer,

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SPACEMEN I see it all now , w. S o

many people have seen spaceships, flying-saucers or whatever you may call them that I'm sure those from other planets are well aware of us and what's going on here on earth. They needn't fight us—all they have to do is wait until those silly earth people wipe each other out with nuclear weapons. then it's all theirs. It's like tak-ing candy from a kid. —"Erna."

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HANLON JOINS THE SAUCER HUNTERS

By JOHN P1NKNEY

EVERY night, before he drops into bed, EVERY Hanlon sweeps the sky outside his

suburban window with a pair of high-powered binoculars.

Banton never gives up hope that, one of these nights, he'll catch sight of a genuine, photographable flying saucer.

In fact. he and his wife Murphy believe so firmly there's something up there that, this week, they became members of Australia's Flying Saucer Research Society_

This is the organisation dedicated to sorting the in-terplanetary wheat from the terrestrial chaff (or, to put it more simply, the UFOs from the weather-balloons).

This week, the society's president. solicitor Mr Peter Norris_ told me: "It's a tremendous boost to us to have gained Mr and Mrs Hanlon as members.

"I hope they'll find time to come alone to our meetings. In the eight years the society has been operating. we're col-lected masses of data I'm sure they'll find fascinating."

Tommy when I spoke to him at his Melbourne home, said:

"I believe. and so does Murphy. that there's defi-nitely something in this thing saucer business_ "We've never seen one our-

selves. but we hope to one day. It's cheering that there are people with the intellec-tual courage and curiosity to investigate the subject. and now we're members of the society. we'll help in any way we can."

Hanlon, a science fiction fan, said he'd been reading "everything he could dig up" an flying saucers for the past 18 years.

"It can't be denied that 95 per cent of sightings are re-ported by nuts, publicity seekers or people who are easily swayed." said Tommy.

Planes buzzed "But no one I've ever met

has been able to explain away that hard-core five per cent of sightings — reports by ex-perienced pilots, and radar operators who've seen objects travelling across their screens at a pace which shows they're doing 18.000 mph.

"There are Air Force pilots, too. whose planes have ac-tually been bounced about in the air by saucer-shaped craft.

"You can't write of the testimony of responsible men. If , yon de, you're

hiding your head in the sand." Hanlon said he had no per-

sonal theory about what saucers were.

"I'm open-minded about it," he said. "It's most un-likely that we're the only in-habited planet among billions throughout the universe. Maybe we're being studied by beings who evolved a few thousand years earlier than we did.

"Alternatively. the saucers could be top-secret aircraft from Russia or the United States. But this seems less probable. I'm sure the truth would have leaked out by now..'

All-night vigil Next spring, Melbourne's

UFO investigators hope to persuade Tommy and Murphy Hanlon to accompany them to the summit of Mt. Dande-nong for an all-night saucer-spotting vigil,

The society, a purely in-vestigative organis a iio n with no fixed theories about UFOs, regards the Han-Ions' application for mem-bership as an important breakthrough. With public figures like the

Hanlons on its books, the society feels, the mass of the public will be less likely to write Off saucer investigation as "ratbaggery".

Hanlon himself has strong views on the widespread "mental ostrich" approach to UFOs.

"There are too many people around who are terrified of the unknown, and who pro-tect themselves against think-ing about it by scoffing at anything unusual," he said.

"I believe there's a lot we don't even know about the powers of our own minds —let alone what's going on out in space.

"And the US government is beginning to feel the same way.

"I had a letter last week from a friend in Hollywood who tells me the govern-ment has set up a big, complete research pro-gramme devoted to the study of ESP (extra-sen-sory perception). "They hope eventually to

develop techniques by which astronauts and other per-sonnel can communicate mentally — without radio.

"The implications of this research are tremendous, be-cause they're not just stop-ping at telepathy.

"This programme will run the whole gamut of ESP. in-cluding the psycho-kinesis which Dr Rhine experimented with at Duke University.

"Rhine demonstrated that in a mathematically sig-nificant number of eases the human mind could in-fluence the fall of dice. "If the government of the

United States is ready to spend money on trying to harness power like that, I don't feel anyone should be too sceptical; not before they've studied the full facts of any case."

The Hanlons themselves have had several experiences of telepathy and ESP.

When Murphy was in Hong Kong several years ago. Tommy wrote her a letter saying that he "knew for

sure" that she had recorder of and color.

Murphy, astonished. wrote back to say he was right, And, several years ago. when GTV brought Hanlares mother here, intending to surprise him during a taping of It Could Be You. he SENSED that she was in Melbourne.

"That morning at break-fast," said Murphy. "Tom stopped eating, I o eke d straight ahead, and said be KNEW his mother was somewhere in town. "I told him not to be crazy,

that she was back home in the States. But sure enough. that afternoon, he was proved right.

When spooky things like that happen, you tend to develop an open mind about everything. space visitors in-cluded."

on a certain clay bought a tape- a particular brand

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"Creature " Doctors • •

examine couple NEW YORK, Sat: A New Hampshire man and wife were taken

aboard a flying saucer and given a physical examination by a group of humanoid creatures.

As a result of the ex-perience, they suffered a trauma and partial amnesia. A respected Boston doctor put them under analysis and, in separate hypnotic ses-sions, they related their experiences.

The man is a promin-ent le ader in the NAACP (a conservative Negro Civil Rights organisation) and the woman a social worker. Their names were with-held.

The story of their ex-perience forms part of a book soon to be pub-lished by Dial Press and serialised in Look magazine.

Its author is John G. Fuller, a columnist for the Saturday Review,

4

playwright, freelance writer, and television documentary producer.

Fuller says that the couple do not cons-ciously claim to have undergone the experi-ence, but their doctor makes the claim on their behalf.

• HYPNOSIS They talked of it Only

under hynosis, the "fantasy" apparently being unacceptable to their conscious minds. Tape recordings of the sessions were made available to experts.

The book will be Ful-ler's second on the sub-ject. His first, Incident at Exeter (Putnam's), relates how he himself changed from sceptic to

believer after interview-ing several residents of Exeter (New Hamp-shire) who claimed UFO sightings in the early morning hours of September 3, 1965,

Fuller says he himself saw a UFO — a bright orange disc being chased to no avail by an Air Force jet.

"My assumption," he: says, "is that the Air Force knows all about, the subject. The differ-: ence between what the Air Force says officially and what, the pilots te 14 me off the record is frightening,"

Fuller says one Naval: authority clocked a, saucer at a speed of more than 3000 knots, in the atmosphere. ;

Ancestors from space?

LONDON, Sat. — Spacemen from other planets may be our ancestors, may have been the gods and visions of the past, and may well be living among us today. These are only some of

the remarkably sanely argued likelihoods in The Flying Saucer Story by the Honorable Brinsley Le Poer Trench, published in Lon-don this week (Neville Spearman. 25/-).

Mr. Le Poer Trench is no science fiction maniac with an eye to sensational disclosures. He is adver-tising manager of a suc-cessful and very down-to-earth gardening magazine.

Perhaps the most in-teresting theory, however, is that tine world has been living with visitors from the other planets of this galaxy for thousands of years without recognising them.

"All over the world," writes Le Poer Trench, "there are the same stories handed down from ancient times of people who camel from the skies.

"Ancient Egypt. India. 3r.

Japan, China, Scandinavia, Ireland, the Americas, and Others tell of the days Wgien 'gods' trod this earth of ours. Since time immemorial we have not been alone."

Finally, Le Poer Trench accuses the American Cen-tral Intelligence Agency and a secret group called the "54/12 Group" of com-bining with their opposite numbers in Russia to censor off verifiable news of saucer landings.

Perhaps the book's most startling report is one re-printed from the Italian journal Clypeus, which claimed that three flying saucers were forced into a catastrophic landing over Montana, U.S.A., by U.S, military planes.

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Flying saucers from earth LONDON, Friday. — A new theory

explaining flying saucer sightings has been put forward by a US scientist.

The scientist, Mr. Philip Klass, says the brilliantly colored objects some people think are from out of this world are nothing of the sort.

They are from earth, he says.

And if they do got have a down-to-earth. origin it is one that is only a few feet off the ground.

Mr. Klass says flying saucer sightings are caused by a special form of ball lightning produced on high-tension power lines under certain transmission and atmospheric con-ditions.

The theory goes a long way towards explaining why there have been so many sightings on both sides of the Atlantic.

New- power lines have

been sprouting like mush-rooms in remote places.

Mr. Klass says when high-tension lines are overloaded, or when cer-tain atmospheric pollutants and meteorological condi-tions combine, conditions are ripe for the production of ball - lightning dis-charges.

Mr. Klass has Photo-Tee nh S to support his theory.

One picture shows a whole covey of "saucers" along a transmission line.

At the time the picture was taken there was a 20 per cent overload on the 500,000 volt line, at Pitts-burgh, Pa.

Another picture shows a classic flying saucer hover-ing just above a power line.

This was taken during the height of a famous "saucer sighting" episode.

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noise in a telephone re-ceiver, only louder."

Police Chief Dan Das-conio, who interviewd Miss Klem, said she ap-peared to be a "pretty sensible young woman.'

"I'm convinced she saw something," he said.

I nthe car with Betty Jean were Douglas Tib-betts. 18, Mrs. Anital Haisley, 2, and Gerald Labelle, 26.

Tibbettes said the fly-ing object appeared to he cube-shade, whitish or metallic in color.

objector.

When landed a series of lights were turned on.

An Air Force officer who investigated the re- ' ports refused to corn- ' merit.

• A photographer was taking a commercial photograph of a milk can, at the Lawrence County; showground in rennsyl-; vonia. United States,; when, he says, the un-; identified flying object`, seen on the right got into

the picture.

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Six-foot formless space creature

NEW YORK, Wed. —A 16-year-old girl said she saw a "formless" creature emerge from a silvery space vehicle in Pennsylvania.

SHE said the creature " was six feet tall, had a head and shoulders but she saw no legs.

The girl said the ob-ject stood within five feet of the car in which she was seated.

Betty Kiem says she saw an outer-space ve-

hicle land at Presque Peninsula, Pennsylvania.

She was sitting in a disabled car with three other people when she saw the "creature,"

"41 first saw what ap-peared to be a star moving in the sky," she said.

) ° Metallic, silver!,

You could see it come down.

"It was metallit, sort of silvery and it landed between two trees."

She blew the horn of the car to summan aid from police in the area.

Asked if the flying craft made any noise, she said: "It sounded like the

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BELIEVER To " Mases"' I ' h av e never Seen a flying saucer, but sightings from world-wide sources, including A u a - tralia, have caused per-manent government inves-tigations overseas into this phenomena and I believe in their existence. — "Bronte-Kiwi."

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STUDIES ADELAIDE, Sun, — The

RAAF should be relieved of investigation of un-identified flying objects, Mr. P. E. Norris said on the weekend. iI ft NORRIS k presi-

dent of CAPIO t h e Commonwealth Aerial Phenomena Investigation Organisation.

CAPIO, the affiliating organisation of the vari-ous Australian groups for the research of unidentified flying objects, held its an-nual conference hi Adel-aide this weekend.

Mr. Norris said investi- gation of unidentified fig M ; g objects should widened to include scienti-fic organisations such as the CSIRO.

The United States Gov-ernment was considering a proposal for a panel of experts to investigate such objects.

The Australian Govern-ment should do the same.

The possibility of the objects being aircraft pro-pelled in a way unknown to scientists made the objects interesting to more people than those concerned with a nation's defence.

Mr. Norris. a Melbourne solicitor, said he had not seen an unidentified flying object himself.

"We are trying to dis-cover what these objects are, not trying to badger the public into believing that they are spaceships piloted by beings front other planets." he said. About 100 people from

various States attended the conference.

The conference coiltid-' erect recruiting "junior sky scouts" to be rostered to svatch for objects, as is done in Britain.

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flying saucer .Ittidt6IF., Fri. — A

' t Itriabarie photographer tossetared a living saucer

.iiertied him in outback t1, r+,.'tiiid today.

.1 the "at tack" Or i metal

• • 1PO through a 3ft.- -thick tree in front of err

Fragments The photographer. Keith

panes, $9. of Carina, said; tree crashed down in Of hint when he was

miles from Morrell. a mall town 420 miles from

0 Jones said he found! metal fragments. white in

00010e, with pieces of wire attached, embedded in the ' fallen tree.

He said: "There wasn't an aircraft around . _, so where did the object come

'from? "I'll be glad if someone

could explain this one for me,

"I'm convinced it came 'from a long way oufsit 6 tlierts '"

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SAUCERS In the. "ld today, in this atomic age, there are many people who cannot put two and two together. For in-stance, the number of people who do not believe in flying saucers is stagger-ing. They will not believe simply because they do not want to believe. saying that a thing which they have not seen for themselves is not in existence. But how many people have seen an atomic bomb? We believe this weapon exists only be-cause we have great faith in the testimonials of our fellow man. What other ex-planation could there be for the flying-saucer phe-nomenon?—"Moses.'

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LARE SAUCERS REAL?: U. S.

SEEKS TRUTH WASHINGTON, Saturday (A.A.P.-Reuter).—

A major investigation has been announced to decide whether flying saucers are really flown by beings from outer space, or are a figment of the

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Full report So many sightings were

alleged that pressure built up last spring for a Congres-sional investigation and even Congressman Mr Gerald Ford, Republican leader in the House of Representa- tives, joined in the demand.

The Air Force, announ- cing the contract to the Uni- versity of Colorado, said a full report was espected early in 1968.

It stressed that the old. versits would have com-plete independence, with-out military direction. The official Air Force

1 stand, so far, is that it does not deny the possibility of life on other planets, but has no evidence proving the existence of extra-terrestrial flight.

■ "kidnapped" in a flying saucer. (P. 59.)

imagination. The U.S. Air Force, has

scoffed at claims that they are manned by extra-terres-trial beings.

But now it has bowed to public pressure and has given the University of Colorado $267.857 to try to find out the truth_

More than 100 sties-Rims at the mai emit) aad other scientific institu-tions will take part in a search for evidence about my sicrious sightings which, on occasions. base thrown humans into a state of shock and panic. Airline pilots have report-

ed being chased by fly ing saucers, while on the ground. witnesses. including hardened policemen, claim to have seen them whirling around

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or ball of fire?

IT'S EARTH, NOT MARS

Meanwhile Mr Klass' theory is attracting wide attention.

This is how he sums it up: "Luminous plasmas of ionis-ed air. a special form of 'hall lightning' generated by electric corona that occurs on high-tension power lines under certain conditions, may explain many sightings of lower - altitude 'unidentified flying objects; It is related -to St. Elmo's fire. sometit" seen on or near aircraft t fl ight ."

If this theory is correct. says. it would expl • creasing frequenc sightings in [Weld

But he believes he's on the right track.

His findings came as the U.S. Air Force signed a con-tract with the Univeristy of Colorado for a 15-month study of flying saucers.

The university has recruit-ed three top scientists to work on the project, and their results will be later re-viewed by the Nati 0 Pal Academy of Sciences. More than 100 specialists are :A-

spected technical iournal pected to he consulted an "Aviation Week and Space the project_ Technology."

Ever since his article ap-peared in print, his telephone has not stopped ringing.

Only a few of those who called or wrote to him ap-preciated his attempt to ex-plain the UFO mystery rationally.

But the majority, Mr Klass said, evidently refer-ring to inveterate UFO buffs. "acted as though I had shot Santa Claus or spat on my country's flag."

He is the last person to insist that his theory is fool-proof or that it does not re-quire further and extensive scientific analvis and re-search,

E mystery of those baffling

UFOs, other wise known as flying sau-cers, may not be a mystery much longer.

They may turn out to be neither flying objects nor saucer-shaped.

And all those UFO huffs had better start shedding the romantic notion that eerie-looking Martians are watch-ing us through extra-terres-trial spacecratt close to earth.

So says a U.S. expert in electronics who has come up with what he believes is a scientific explanation for the UFOs.

The mysterious sightings that have scared. awed or terrified scores of people. he says in effect, are not crea-tures from other planets, but a freak natural phenomenon from our own.

Editor This phenomenon is trig-

gered by electrical impulses not unlike lightning, but not quite like it. either.

This theory holds that the so-called flying saucer or disc is nothing more than a special form of "ball light-

Author of this theory is Mr Philip 1. Klass, an elec-trical engineer by profession and senior editor of the re-

From Maurice Adams

New York

when there have been grow-ing numbers of very high-voltage power-lines.

Mr Klass was first drawn to the subject when he came across the recent book "In-cident At Exeter." by John G. Fuller.

The book-is a compilation of interviews with 60 people who said they saw one or more UFOs outside the little town of Exeter. in New Hampshire, in September of last year.

According to these accounts. Exeter had been visited by some sort of brightly lit phenomenon that dived and swooped frighten-ingly before soaring off into the sky.

Time after time, in the conversations the author re-corded on tape, the witnesses mentioned the proximity of electric power lines to the places where the sightings occurred.

This last fact is what aroused Mr Klass' curiosity. Speculation in Mr Fuller's book had it that these "space-craft" might be attracted to the power lines as a source of energy for refuelling their propulsion systems.

Nonsense ientitic nonsense. say, Klass. A better explanie lies in his "electric cor-

" theory. When this first'

ca main fixed or can travel along the power line until cooled and extinguished by external forces,"

So long its a transmission line and its insulators are clean and suitably designed. corona does not norwalk occur.

"But if small particles of dust or salt crystals. for example, become affixed to the line or insulators. they can trigger the corona."

And power lines near the ocean often draw salt crys-tals front the air.

Ball lightning, as its name suggests, is a form of fiery gas hall that appears during or just after thunderstorms. The ball is believed to orig-inate as a blob of air that punctures the atmosphere around it.

This blob of air is electri-fied by the passage of a lightning holt. As a result it glows and spins or moves erratically before it collapses and disappears through loss of the electric impulses which originated it.

This phenomenon until re-cently attracted little scien-tific attention, having been treated by many as an "old wives' tule," says Mr Klass. But of late it has come under scientific scrutiny in Russia Its well as in the United States.

One scientist here did not reject the theory outright. "I wouldn't reject this possibil-ity," he says, "because a con-

Ball lightning. how( or real thing? A California man claims to have photographed this flying saucer through a six-inch telescope after meeting its occuponts. Venusians.

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ventional smoke-ring is an interesting example of a plasma held together under the proper conditions by a combination of internal and external forces which are difficult to explain ecientifi-cane."

One major problem in proving this theory beyond doubt. the author of the article says, is that power line corona is difficult to duplicate realistically for study under controlled con-ditions.

But it is a known fact that hall lightning can originate randomly in space and most often near power lines. even inside an aircraft during flight.

Mr Klan emphasises the marked resemblance between. many of the Exeter sightings and reported observations of belj lightning in colossiE.

, sound. dynamics and

Ball lightning is multi-coloured, but red is most predominant, followed by intense bluish-white and green. Many of the sight-ings in Exeter reported the same colours.

Its shape, either spherical or with a smoke-ring con-figuration also tallies with the UFOs.

Both give out a sizzling or hissing sound, and both hang motionless at times while moving up. down and hori-zontally at very high speeds.

And the two are said to have a lifetime ranging from several seconds to many minutes.

Mr Klass says that for all the scientific complexity of the phenomenon, a gadget costing SI can help the amateur determine if UFOs are balls of ionised air as his new theory suggests.

This is a "transmission grating," roughly the size of at 35 mm colour slide and small enough to fit into a man's wallet. If the object when viewed through the grating shosss an intense red line rather than a full colour spectrum. it is a plasma. The gadget was invented in a home workshop by two scientists in Pittsburgh. Penn-sylvalVa.

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Return visit?

sees "saucer"

Salesman EMBER 196,6 5ATURD RY 55TH NO

NO DOUBT "Felis

sa id who said recently there had never been a motion picture taken of a flying, saucer, is wrong. The first motion picture of a flying saucer was shot at Port Moresby in 1953, The flint dis-appeared into a secret file of the RAAF. Also, the numerous "still" photo-graphs of these phenomena should leave no room for doubt in the mind of any normal person.—"Moses."

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DECEMIIER 19(2(-)

NE WYORK, Fri. Woodrow Derenberger is a sober church-goer with a difference ... he believes in flying saucers.

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in Parkersburg, West Vir-, ginia.

Police and an Air Force representative were pres-ent.

He said the episode be-gan as he was driving home on inter-State route 77.

He said a "dark, long ob-ject" travelling at about the same speed as his panel truck "cut in front of my vehicle and con-tinued to travel at some distance sideways."

Derenberger said the object was "apparently made of some kind of metal and had a flat bot-tom and a domelike top." There were no visible

lights on the object, Derenberger said, but it emitted a "fluttering, soft noise."

It moved along "eight to ten inches above the road-way, blocked the highway and finally stopped.'

Stepped out Derenberger said a man

stepped out of a door on the object and the pair had a "five or ten-minute conversation."

The saucer occupant communicated through "thought waves or mental telepathy."

His lips were closed and he smiled constantly, Derenberger said. His clothing was "blue

and quite shiny, having a glistening effect."

"Have no fear, we come from a country that is not nearly as powerful as yours and we mean you no harm." Derenberger quoted the individual as saying.

He said the man de-scribed---- 1113ffaelf • - us "searcher," and called him-self by name as Lana.

The man promised to contact him again before returning to the object. and taking off.

Derenberger said he was shaken,

He telephoned the Par-kersburg police and related his story.

As for the return en-gagement, Derenberger said: "I think they will, but I hope they don't."

Flying saucer nests /I again

• BRISBANE, Wed. ,Queensland's "flying saucer ,nests" controversy has ,flared up again.

A fanner at Mundubbera, 270 miles north of Bris-bane. has found two '"nests" on his farm. / The farmer, Mr, H. E. Voss, said his 17-year-old 'son had faund the nests ► about 140ft. from the main /farmhouse on his property. 0 They were two perfect )circles of charred grass, )one about eight feet in )diameter and the other lab-out 10ft. Gin. p They were about nine ,feet apart.

Similar "nests" were ,found near Tully in North Queensland earlier this year.

Queensland University . / botany department inves-tigators found they had ftleen caused by swamp I flooding.

IIENENBERGER, a sales-' man, this week told of an encounter with a flying saucer and a "conversa-tion" with its human-like occupant.

Be related his strange tale at a news conference

* * —* "Moses" - Yes , UFO To

- • indeed, the belief in flying objects is w c 11 founded as evidence of their existence is over-whelming. I, too, saw what I am certain was a flying object about ten years ago while fishing at Cremorne Point. Although it appeared , to be travelling at about ! 2000 mph, I am sure my hawk-eye vision did not let me down. — "Up High."

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TUFSORY ) i;71-4

DECFMK'EeicitA.

* YOUR correspondent, W. C., Mackay, Q`11, (POST, October 131 is correct in saying that some sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects are misidentification of the planet Venus.

This was dramatically ex-emplified in a series of photographs taken near Melbourne in February this year. The photographer sincerely believed he had photographed a UFO but expert examination proved that the object was Venus.

Though a considerable percentage of UFO reports can be quickly identified as either Venus or one or an-other of a legion of natural phenomena, there remains a small number of sightings which are unresolved despite rig,orous investigation by official and private research organisations.

Dr Allen LlYnek, an astro-physicist of inter- national standing and U.S. Air Force chief UFO consul-tant during the last 18 years, recently stated that many reported UFOs have been so close "that configurations, such as oval shapes, were clearly visible."

In such cases, there is

Some 'UFOs' ARE Venus

URSDF1Y RTH

_ DEC. E M BER. 11,11.

little room for misidentifica-tion.

Australian "ufoologists" share with Dr Hynek his opinion that UFOs "con-stitute one of the great mysteries of the 20th cen-tury."

— PETER E. NORRIS, President, Commonwealth Aerial Phenomena Investi-gation Organisation, (VIC).

SUNDRY, 271-1 TRN1Wri R -1/ I967 (7)

HUMAN01

THERE IS NO SUCH WORD AND MAYBE THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS

people a lot of people have been

seeing them

THE humanoids are here. Every- where there seems tio be a revival.

existence of weird creatures who fly them.

In England, they are giants with no heads and have batlike wings. in California they arc short with reddish-orange eyes.

In Italy they are built on wheels and equipped with blinding lights.

In Argentina they ex-plained they were friendly, while in Ven-ezuela they attacked two farmers and inflicted strange claw marks on them.

In Brazil they even forced a farmer to have sexual relati...ms with one of their women mem-bers .

The reports from all over the world flow in, each story more fantastic than the last.

Official recognition of the revival came recently with the decision . v the United States Air Force to establish a civilian scientific investigation into U.F.O .s (unidenti-fied flying objects).

"Saucers The British magazine

"Flying Saucer Review," in its latest issue, has presented hundreds of cases of sightings over recent years to encour-age people who are re-luctant to report sight-ings. no matter how in-credible they may ap-pia -.

The most difficult feature or the Air Force's investigation is the separation of fact from fiction.

Thousands of reports come in, but nina times out of ten they prove to be explicable as earthly phenomena or human technological experi-ments.

That so many people now a:tribute sightings of mysterious objects to

flying saucers ste:as back to June 24, 1947, w hen airman Kenneth Arnold startled the world with his report of nine disc-shaped objects travelling at a fantastic speed through the sky.

Arnold likened the objects to "saucers skim-

From ADRIAN McGREGOR

in London

ming over the water" and thus was born the era of the flying saucer.

Undoubtedly U.F.O. sightings had occurred before then, but they had not been recognised in the same terms.

Some saucer experts even suggest that the one-eyed Cyclops of the ancient Greek myths may have been sight-ings of visitors from outer space, rather than the product of Greek imagination.

Today observers no longer feel they will be regarded as having hal-lucinations Or be sub-jected to ridicule if they report some strange happening. Consequently reports increase daily.

One of the most famous experiences of recent times was in New Hampshire, U.S.. in September, 1961, when Barney Hill and his wife, Betty, claimed they were kidnapped by a crew front a flying

saucer and physically examined before being released.

Their story

known years later. when they were examined by Dr Benjamin Simons, a leading American psy-chiatrist and neurologist and relived their experi-ences under hypnosis.

Although their story -

is the most detailed and closely investigated case of contact with human-oids, the "Flying Saucer Review's" collection in-cludes many no less plausible and many more incredible.

One of their most terrifying reports came from the dark, lonely mountains of Sacra-mento, California, where a man, Mr S. (he wished to remain anonymous) was trapped in what could be a scene from prehistoric times.

Gassed The bow-hunting sea-

son precedes the opening of the usual deer season there, and three hunters equipped with bows and arrows set out at dusk on September 4, 1964.

Mr S. got lost and built signal fires, but climbed a tree when he saw a mysterious light approach and land near him.

Suddenly three figures appeared at the base of his tree and stared up at him.

Two were clothed in a silvery grey material, while the third had two reddish -orange eves and a mouth which "dropped" when it opened, forming a rectangular hole in the "head." r. S.

was badly frightened and, climbing higher in the tree, belt-ed himself to the trunk.

Then the orange-eyed creature opened

This is the humanoid reported by the Sutton family in Kentucky in 1955. Th. U.S. Air

Force made the draw-ing from the family's detailed description.

its mouth and a cloud of "gas" issued Irons it. Mr S. became unconscious, only to awaken seconds later sick and retching. He then fired three ar-

rows at the creature. which struck it, causing sparks to fly.

After more gas clouds he tore up his jacket and threw bits of burn-ing cloth at them and fin-ally his bow, and water canteen.

This continued through the night until at dawn with a final power-ful gas blast they disap-peared. Mr S. climbed down and after hours found his camp and col-lapsed, exhausted, cold, and nauseated.

One of his hunting friends had almost got lost, too, and had seen the glow of the saucer in the night, corroborating Mr S.'s story.

Another terrifying sighting took place in 1955 on a farm at Hop-kinsville, Kc nt ucky, when a member of the Sutton family ran in say-ing he had seen a "space-ship" land in the fields.

As they gathered at the door they saw a small-spectre figure ap-proaching. It had a roundish head, huge elephantine ears, a slit-like mouth. huge wide-set eyes and no visible neck.

It was about three feet

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Dr. Lindtner said the • oft-mentioned "human-oids" could well be ex-perimental animals sent from other civilisations -just as earth's space authorities have used animals in research.

"Why shouldn't other beings, the same as humans, be sending their o w n trained animals or robots on advance missions to gather data about Earth?"

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Lould those strange j they see coming out of i terrestriai rats?

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Following reports that people have observed what they described as "humanoids" emerging from ghastly spaceships in various parts of the word, we had a call from Dr. Nriran Lindt-ner.

He Is president of the Unidentified Flying Ob-ject Investigation Cen-tre. N.H.W. group.

He is also veterinary research scientist with

Two Newcastle police-

men ' early this morning saw an unidentified flying object with hashing red lights at Windalc. 10 miles south of Newcastle.

Sergeant J. Bell and Con-stable F. Tracy were in James Street. Windale,i .about 3 a.m. when they saw] an object with two flashing red lights at an altitude of between 400 and 600 feet.

"At intervals the lights dimmed and a brighter white light appeared in a beam in the direction of travel•" Sergeant Bell said.

"It came from the direc-tion of the sea and was travelling at between five and 10 m.p.h..

"It did not appear to he large and made no sound.

"The last we saw of it was when it disappeared over hills near Warner's Bay, on Lake Macquarie."

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NEW YORK, Wed- nesday.-1Photos of

a big hamburger-lik e ob-ject hovering over a Michigan lake did not "indicate an obvious hoax," an expert on un-identified flying objects said yesterday.

The photos were taken on January 9 by two teenage brothers from the backyard of their home.

The brothers, Daniel laroslaw, 17, and Grant, 15, said "the thing," about the size of a heli-copter. hovered above the lake for 10 minutes.

It left without making a noise.

9TH IAN-

Flying (MIRY 19c

object mystery

I BARBER RALPH BITTER, of Zanesville, Ohio, took this photograph three months

ago of an object hovering 47ft. above his home. He claims it was a spacecraft

about 20ft. in diameter.

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1

saucer over home NEW YORK, Tues. — Pictures taken by a barber at 4 i

) Zanesville, Ohio, last November of what he says was a-_,

1, flying saucer were disclosed today. 4

1 Phenomena 4 THE barber, Ralph DU-ter, 40, Is an amateur

astronomer. Two of the three pic-

tures he says he took on the afternoon of Novem-ber 13 are sharp and show a disc-like object hovering above a one-storey frame house.

Ditter displayed the

pictures in the shop where he works, but he said he was afraid of the effects of wider publicity.

The pictures were no more than a local talk-ing-point until a Zanes-ville physician, Dr. Ben-jamin Gilliotte, reported them to the National In-vestigating Committee for

Aerial (NICAP).

The two small prints show an object that looks like a covered plate.

In one picture it is jus above the house but in the other it is further away.

"It was a nice Sunday afternoon, so I decided to go and take pictures of some furniture my bro-ther-in-law had built in his house about three blocks away," Ditter re-called today.

"I was carrying my Polaroid camera. At the end of the driveway I stopped and turned around and saw it.

"It was directly over my house, about 47ft. in the air, moving about 10 or 15 miles per hour and rotating counter-clockwise. "I took three pictures

of it (one of them, taken with a filter, was under-exposed) and, as I watched, it drifted off a little bit soufth-west and disappeared over a hill."

_JU N

GIANT "VACUUM CLEANERS" IN THE SKY

Scores report new A ustralkot Associated Preyi

CH/CAGO, Thursday. — "Giant vacuum cleaners" were reported

roaring over Kansas and Illinois early today.

The unidentified flying objects, said to he about 35 feet across, flashing white, red and amber lights. were reported by scores of people, including policemen.

A policeman in Goodland, Kansas, reported seeing such an object+ brilliantly white on the front, roaring like a huge vacuum cleaner.

The editor of the Goodland "Daily News," Mr Tom Dreiling, said in his four '.ears with the Air Force he never heard pro- pellers, jets or anything else sound like that

Other sightings were in Rawlins, Cheyenne, Wallace, Thomas and Sherman Counties in Kansas, and in Henry and Knox Counties in Illinois.

HOUR-LONG STUDY A Knox County deputy sheriff, Frank Cour-

son, said the object he watched was "very dis- tinguishable."

Mr Courson said he watched the object, which he said was joined by a second, for more than an hour.

During that time he took notes and made a sketch of the object.

"1t was bluish white and pulsating red," he added.

It had a rim that looked like it was about five feet thick at the bottom of what looked like an upside-down bowl."

"Taking into consideration the altitude and distance, it seemed to be about 35 feet in diameter.

Mr Courson said he and some others watched the objects through binoculars for more than half an hour as they danced about over two radio transmitting towers.

Mr Courson said at one point he saw a plane fly by

PLANE CHECK The time he said the plane passed was con-

firmed by radar operators in Chicago who scan the area with remote-controlled equipment.

The radar men said ti- ey saw nothing else on their screen, but Mr Courson said the objects were too low to be spotted by radar.

He said the object emitted a hissing sound and at one point he saw it release "a white beam of light that hit the ground with a kind of flash "

Numerous residents of the area called radio stations and reported they had seen similar objects.

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saucers - 1,1,ciaj

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Sisters hysterical at sighting

"SAUCER" OVER CANTERBURY

WEIR

It came down to tree-top level and was less than 100ft from where they stood.

The woman who first made the sighting is Mrs D. Manhood, of Wairoa Street. Canterbury.

Her sister, Mrs R. vale-rian, joined her on the veranda seconds later

`Humming' down from the clouds. Ii hovered over the bowling green less than a room's length from where i stood.

"It was like a big plate. the site of a small aero-plane. and a dark grey col. OM. I had not seen anything like it before. nor had my 141SICI,

"We were just stunned." Mrs Manhood said that

she and her sister watched "the thing" for at least 10 minutes.

"it disappeared over the railway line, over there to the if - "M. Iho it might

l o s e landed hccathe there e paddocks there. "But seconds later it rose

from behind the railway and shot up towards

highest point in the sky. And we watched it there

at least another five mites before it clis-.aearcd into a break in .• clouds." Mrs Manhood said she led to her husband be-le "the thing" completely •appeared. tie told her it was only ,alloon.

"When my skier rushed to the veranda she whisp-ered to me that the tele-phone had suddenly gone dead."

MRS MANHOOD and her daughter . • "it disappeared over

the railway line."

Two sisters described this week

It how they stood on a veranda to-ether and watched a flying-saucer

Mover over a Canterbu;y bowling 1.7 green.

11 They said the saucer was a "strange round thing" and it made a "weird humming sound."

and they watched the saucer's flight for I 0 minutes.

It happened at 1010 a.m. on Wednesday. Mrs Man-hood had just washed the breakfast dishes and had tidied up the house.

The house adjoins the Canterbury Women's Bowl-ing Club where Mrs Man-hood's husband is the green-keeper.

Her sister was on a visit and was telephoning her mother. There was no one on the bowfin green be- cause it 'was raining and 1 think I must have

had been all morning. screamed because my sister

Mrs Manhood said: "My j ran mt. daughter, Joanne. wandered 44 "We both saw it. It was on to the veranda and II level with the telephone went to get her. I wires and I think it made

"It was a strange round , a weird sort of humming thing which seemed to come I sound.

`Open mind' But later he told "The a•Herald": "1 don't know ive. Carolyn was pretty Ntcrical and so wa s her ter. "l'hey must have seen

something. I only saw what I thought was a balloon when it was high in the sky. I didn't see it when it was over the bowling green."

Mrs Manhood said: "Be-lieve me, I'm perfectly nor-mal and so is my sister.

"We know we saw something we had not seen before. The first thing that came to my mind that II was some sort of unidentified flying object. "I've read about them

, r1 al PM open id. "At first I didn't want say anything about it

cause people will pro-..ably think we are crackpots.

"I only wish that some-one else had sighted it, and I'm surprised that they didn't."

There is another thing that convinces Mrs Man-hood she wasn't seeing thingi.

"Another strange thing happened that day," she said.

SUNDAY; 19 -rii MA RCM_ /967. FR1DPI 2.1

SAUCER --they're

real! N EW YORK, Sat—Flying saucers are • real.

They are no longer U.F.O.'s—unidenti- lied flying objects.

The flying objects have been identified by an independent research group working outside Washington.

The group of scien-tists, under Dr. Robert S. Powell, has been test-ing its findings at

I length. The UFO's can be

made at will by Dr. Powell's team.

All they need is

ammonia vapor and a high-voltage spark.

The result is a mass of glowing gas that takes on the shape as-sociated with flying saucers—a disc-shaped object with an inverted saucer top and some-times the appearance of windows around the rim.

The object does things associated with flying saucers, too—hovering in

one spot for several min u tes, sometimes darting about erratical-ly, then appearing to soar off.

The flying saucers have been pinned down by Dr. Powell's research-ers as a real enough physical phenomenon — but not as visiting craft from outer space.

The Air Force recently awarded a 300,000 dol-lar research contract to a University of Colorado group of scientists for a

15-month study of flying saucers.

Last year. more sight-ings of UFO's were made than ever before, with the Air Force receiving reports of 1060 sightings.

The best-selling pap-erback books currently are those concerned with the phenomenon.

Claims that flying saucers were likely to be vehicles from outer space nave consistently been treated with con-

tempt by the scientific community.

But recently the ranks of U.F.O. enthus-iasts won over a re-spected scientist — J. Allen Hynek.

Dr. Hynek is an as-trophysicist at North Western University and the Air Force's con-sultant on U.F.O.'s.

The hypothesis that the U.F.O.'s may be space vehicles is a seri- 'ever ous one, according to cd Dr. Hynek,

e a —6-k move norr r air nor! but appeared to tu sou th -west.

M. G Point Piper,

ZI ST APRIL _ (?_ 17.

Red flare over Sydney

SIR..f noted the item in the (April 20). concerning

a red flare over Sydney, and it is incredible to me that there should he no explanation of it

I should say that the time at which it appeidrecl would be Rhout 20 mintite.g to 9. I can definitely say that the direction woold be south-west by west of l'Vlartin Place and that it was eerbinly not over the eastern ha If of the Harbour. In magni-tude, t' my eye, it appeared to he thout ale same BLS that of the moon, The light vilas a very bright deep red—brighter than the headliahtg of the flying boat, which had landed in the Har-bour some lithe time hcfore. In altiiude it appeared tri be about the same as the large planes which normally go south to land ar Mascot,

From the tirne I first saw the flare, or whatever else it was 10 when it fack.,d oui, would be about a minuie and a half. It did. not move north, as stated, but aprepred io turn south and south-wot.

M. G. COOKE, Point Piper,

"A funny thing happened on my way home from work"

SOUTH HILL (Va), Sun. — A warehouse manager said that on Friday night on the way home from work he saw a flying saucer parked in the middle of the road.

T_TE is Mr. C. N. Crowder } meter. alumirattrn in co]or, -1 1- who told police that sitting on legs about three

, another motorist had seen to three -and-a -half feet high,

"I turned on my bright lights and just about the time I did this, a treinen-d,ous burst of white-look-ing fire came from the bot-tom of the object and it went straight up in Lie air . like a bullet," he ..r...aid.-1 AAP-R.

the object. He said: "You can ima-

gine how it felt to 'See a-big thing. like that sitting in the road in front of you, and all of a sudden a all of -fire flies out and it dis-appears."

He described the object. as like a mets..1 storage tank about 12 feet in dia-

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FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL iTHE FORD TUI 190 ,

By MAX SUCH

Flying saucers are real, a leading American scientist said yesterday.

They come from another world out in space, he said.

SAYS SCIENTIST • Australian probe Professor McDonald sketched this illustration (4 the most common

type of flying saucer reported. "This is the Ford of flying saucers," he said, But there are many different types."

have been caused

SPTU R DRY 22ND

'Flying Coconut' sighted 1 EOPLE from Palem-

bang, in south Sumatra, think they may have seen a "flying coconut" from outer space.

A sparkling black object circled rapidly over t h e area for about two hours on July 11, pu ffing out a trail of thick white smoke before it dispersed and vanished like a cloud.

The reports added the unidentified object was round and looked about time size of a coconut.

Tully, Queensland, was believed lc) by a flying saucer.

The scientist is Professor James McDonald. senior physicist of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, and Professor in the Department of Meteorology at the Uni-versity of Arizona.

He has been in Austra-lia for a fortnight to in-vestigate sightings of uni-dentified flying objects.

His inquiries have taken him to Sydney. Me!hotline and Hobart.

To•.lae he will fly to Bris-

bane and return to the U.S. tomorrow.

Professor McDonald said that scientific proof of fly-ing saucers and acceptance of their existence had been delayed by a deliberate "de-bunking progiam" mounted by many world Govern-ments and backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

In Australia Protessor !McDonald has made tape recordings of the experiences of 70 people who claim to have seen flying saucers.

Some of the reports he believed authentic were:

• A flying saucer that followed a car at up to 115 m.p.h. speeds until the car altnost crashed.

• Another saucer that gave some Gippsland people a "hair-raising" experience when it swept in at them at "treetop height."

• A U.F.O. that caused the lights of a motor car to bend. "Scientifically impos-sible to explain," said the professor.

• A "very impressive" sighting in New Guinea by .1 clergyman and 30 others of a saucer that hovered above .he sea.

This "nest" at

The occupants, who ap-peared to have human type torsos and heads, returned the friendly waves of the watchers.

• Another sighting by a clergyman, at Cressy, near Launceston, of a cigar-shaped object, which was joined by domed discs and which flew within aboutt three miles of witnesses.

Authentic He was impressed by re-

ports last year of flying saucer "nests" at Tully in North Queensland. "These sighting.; appear to be auth-entic." he said.

Professor McDonald said he believed about 90 per cent of the reports were authentic.

He had some doubt about reports of flying saucers with crews.

"There have been some very strong reports of this." he said. "But the level and

number of those reports have not been as impressive a s the ordinary U.F.O. sightings. and there must remain an element of doubt."

talked to the professor yesterday after he had ad-dressed a packed meeting of the Sydney U.F.O. Investi. gallon Centre at Strathtield

Two people in the audi-ence told him of sighting saucers.

Some speculated abotV space dwellers behind the visits of saucers.

Professor McDonald dis-courage(' this type of speculation. "People who speak to little green men who come from back of the moon have done a great deal to discredit flying sane-ere" he said.

"I have been impressed by the reliability and level-headedeess of litany of Australian witnesses 1 have interviewed.

OF course there are flying

saucers. They have been visiting our world for centuries.

There is ample evi-dence of this in the folk-lore of the older coun-tries, marred unfortu-nately, by superstition and ignorance.

It is not really surpris-ing they have not made contact. After untold years of observation, they find us still behaving like savages, killing, burning and destroying, and quite unready to live together in amity.

These space travellers are probably thousands a years ahead of us intel-lectually and technico-logically. Why bother to come here?

I pity any extra-terres-trial beings who would like to approach our earth with the friendly lifted.

All they can expect is the unfriendly bullet from tionto sapiens, the most gun-happy predators of them all.

—C-EORGE HOGAN. The Crescent, Saratoga. N.S.W.

VISITORS Hash e 'iT et Knight" ever thought of Lot's two guests? They were probably visitors from outer space who blew up Sodom. and Gomorrah with atom bombs. We know his wife died for being a sticky beak and it just fits in.— 'The Black Rook"

Proless,n ,I4cDonaid . impressed by Australian

tt - jrnesses.

NO DOUBT Tv% i tie Knight": The existence of alien spacecraft (UFOs) can no longer be denied. I think, though, that they are far from advanced! planets both in and out-side our solar system. However, we trust keep an open mind and not dismiss your idea of time machines_ for who are we to any what is Impossible and what is not.—"Y.T."

`LEARNING THE COST' Professor McDonald. 47,

the father of six, has been working full time on saucer investigation for 18 months.

His children are doubtful about saucers, but his wife is beginning to take U.F.0,s seriously.

His trip to Australia is being paid from U.S. Navy funds allocated to him for physics research.

He said he had no scientific explanation of why space ships would he sent from another world to the earth.

Pressed to theorise. he said a possible explanation was that the saucers were on an "anthropological probe' from another and much more advanced civilisation.

"We are already learn-ing the cost of disturbing primitive societies and wiping them one Look al Tasmania." he said. "Perhaps this civilisation

haL learned that lesson. "Why don't they talk to

us? Why don't we talk to ants?

"But this is mere unscien-tific speculation and I would not like it to he treated as anything but that."

Professor McDonald is bitterly critical of the U.S. Air Force and the C.I.A.

Conspiracy "Investigations of flying

saucers have been seriously hindered by C.I.A.-inspired legislation, which made it a serious offence for Air Force personnel to publicly report' U.F.O. sightings." he said.

"I do not believe this is a conspiracy by the C.I.A. to cover up the truth.

"Rather it is a device to solve the problem of the big member of intelligence operatives tied up on U.F.O. inquiries.

"The C.I.A. does not believe in this problem, mid has tried to sweep it under the carpet."

* * * UFOs To all disbelievers

in TalOs: It has been observed by scientists that in all the solar Sys-1 terns there are Ito million planets which could sup-port life as we know it. It you add to this the number of planets which could support some differ-ent type of life, the pos-sibility Of UFOs becomes very great.—"Galileo."

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ALIENS To "Bronte Kiwi'I agree

with you that aliens from other planets will make earthly contacts one day, but I disagree with the statement that they are only as intelligent as we are, Surely they must be more intelligent; otherwise they could never have travelled into outer space so far.—"Shako."

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SPACE There are many evidences as to

why I, too, must agree With those who believe in the existence of space craft or UFOs. I think "Y.T." and "The Black Rook" are right, their advanced ideas are a credit to all those who, like me, think space exploration a must, that there are planets contain-ing more advanced life than ours and that distant galaxies contain people more advanced than earth people. — "The Sage."

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w- * SUCCESS To " Sir aka"

There is ample proof in sightings and au-thentic photos of the exis-tence of flying saucers to satisfy anyone's curiosity. And when actual earthly contact eventuates, it will be found, I am sure, they will be little different from earth people in build, size. and intelligence. "Bronte Kiwi"

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'To Shako": Because the universe is so i

big, there must be other planets with life existing on them. Ezekiel 1:16 des-cribes a wheel within a wheel and colored much like our modern day UFOs. The ancient Egyptians also i tell of "flying objects" in their drawings. — 'Faros."

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* * * SAUCERS To r"

I don't think you knew what you were talking about saying that UFOs are really earth ships. I suggest you read a book called "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects," by Edward J. Ruppelt. a former head of 'Project Blue Book." an Air Force Department. handling the investigation of UFOs,—"Harry.''

* * *

LIFE It indeed seems' far fetched that,

in a universe so large that we cannot comprehend its size, the planet earth is the only one than can sustain a civilisation, We are pre-pared to sit iii our small pool of complacency and , ignore and humiliate people ; who claim to have made ' sightings that are contrary to our way of life. "Shako," and others, I join you. — "Zymph."

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ALAMOSA (Colorado)M . The is anccredn:

TU FSDPIT .\A/Fix\JES101:5 ible death of a three-year-old horse has

RuGvcr c)EMmAER,P767 rf, jo:no,d,Teerd oftosp.ppAy merican pathologists.

believes his horse was

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killed by the inhabitants of a flying saucer.

Today an autopsy re-vealed that its abdominal, brain and spinal cavities were empty_

Furthermore, the patho-logist. who performed the

' autopsy said there were no signs of entrance into the horse's body.

The prominent Denver pathologist and 'blood specialist, who wished to remain anonymous, said the absence of organs In the abdominal cavity was completely inexplicable.

When the pathologist cut into the horse's brain cavity he found it com-pletely empty.

"There detinit e ly should have been a good bit of fluid in the brain cavity," he said. Most puzzling was the

absence of any material in the centre of the spinal column.

The pathologist said he was not surprised by the absence of abdominal or-gans and brain, because he had read of similar in- cidents in other countries.

"This horse w a s definitely not hit by light-

- ning," the pathologist said. That was the official con-

"Flying saucer" theory in horse's

mystery death

elusion of Alamosa County Another area, where a authorities. craft was believed to have

The controversy over landed, was punched with Snippy began when the six identical holes, each horse did not return to the two incises square and four Harry King ranch for his inches deep. usual evening drink. Mrs. Lewis cajoled a,

went looking for S Two days later, Mr. King

Snippy checking the area with a Forestry official into

geiger counter. High readings were

found ell around the area, she said, including where the unidentified flying ob-ljaecnt4edwere believed to have

An investigating com-mittee yesterday measured the markings on the

No knife ground, and found the largest to be a circle 75ft.

The hones were corn- in diameter. pletely clean, and Mr, King said the cut where the neck meat had been peeled up from the withers was so erfect it could not have

n made with a knife. Mr, King called the

owners of the horse, Mr. and Mrs. Burl Lewis, and together they investigated the area where the horse had been killed.

They found areas where the brush had been squash-ed to within I0 inches of the ground.

What appeared to he 15 circular exhaust, marks were found 100 yards from the horse.

and found h m dead about quarter of a mile from the ranch house.

The ranch is 20 Mice south-east of Alamosa in desolate•mountein country.

All the flesh bad been stripped from the horse's neck and head, and only the bare bones remained.

The committee returned to Denver with several samples taken from the horse and an object found by Mrs, Lewis,

Mrs. Lewis found the object on her second visit to the site.

It was covered with horse hair, and she said when she tried to wipe the hair off her hand turned red and began to burn, The burning persisted

until she washed her RUSSIANS CHECK THOSE SAUCERS

MOSCOW, Tuesday (UM. — A Russian astronomer has concluded that not all reports 1 of flying saucers are fabrications.

This has marked a major shift in Russian policy which previously discussed UFOs as in-ventions of the foreign Press or the hallucin-ations of disturbed persons.

Mr Makarov, the astronomer, said: "What-ever they may be, we calk now say that some phenomena which are still hard to explain exist i n reality."

He said statistical studies of flying saucer sightings were being made to determine their characteristics.

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UFOs To "Stary One .": The statement in

your letterette was one of the most sensible ever made. I hope you continue to contribute to this col-umn. whoever you are in real life. It is people like you who brighten up 50-50. I hope many other people discuss the subject of UFO's, for one day it is possible one of them may make earthly contact then all non-believers ni a v realise how stubborn they are.—"Shako_"

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SPACEMAN BELIEVES IN FLYING SAUCERS Apollo programme which l Maj Irwin said a joint aims at a manned landing American - Soviet space on the moon. operation after the moon

Uncial; was probable. Not enough He would welcome a He said even that ac- chance to fly with a Ras-

conenough.

aplIshmetat would not be sian cosmonaut, he said.

"I would hate to see us • Either liars or Venus bog down after the moon," would be - a goOd target be said. I after the moon.

DEN V ER. Wednesday (UPI). — Maj J. B. Irwin, the U.S. astronaut, be-lieves in flying saucers.

believe flying objects exist although it is just. speculation by me," he said.

-They could be visitors from another planet or from another country here on the earth."

Maj Irwin hopes to be a viattor to another planer.

He i5 assigned to the

* * -* FOR REAL ilying'e sauc- ers exist. Too many sight-ings have taken place to be disregarded. It is prob-able that these vehicles and the highly developed race which mans them arel tamable of feats beyond' our imagination. History shows that human nature resists unconventional or inexplicable theories, —

l'StarY One." * * *

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* * * CORRECT OThoe": "Sirtarryou are correct In every detail about flying saucers, a hich most of us know have been around for thousands of years. All people are wor-ried about are gambling, brutality, etc. Don't worry, "UFO Fan," keep up the good work.—"Martian."

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UFOs Fifty years ago, anyone who saw a

IVO either ill convinced iiirlagif he was seeing to. and forgot it; (2) 1111 bat report. it Tor fetu-of being labelled a "nut";

ip reported it and WAS Ishalbed a "nut" Since now many reports have

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SENSIBLE The day atilt UFOs make earthly can-tact is far away. just imagine if they did contact earth today; who would they contact — East or West? Believe you me. UFOs have more sense than to become involved in our troubles. — "Bow-wow Trainer.' * * *

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• a i7u-)c-roBER 190_ SUNQRX2c1TH OCTOBER.PV

Flying cross puzzle deepens

LONDON, Thursday. — lilt.. Royal Observatory to-day deepened the mystery of the dying crosses which bare been reported over

many parts of southern Fiigland In the past few

days. Thee investigated a

sighting reported to them be a respected amateur a -A I r onomer and au-liquored: "The object was definitely not Venus."

They said they could give no explanation of the &Jett.

Att observatory spokes-wean said: "There is oh-

riousk some good evi dence now that there is something flying around tip there."

The Defence Ministry is investigating.

The amateur astrono-mer. Mr Peter Raker. of Hastings, said today he sat a "terrltiel bright" object in the shape of a cross about GAO ant yester-day.

More sightings of roYs-tery lights in the sky %ere reported as far apart as Dartmoor, Devon and Dulwich, South London, during the night.

LIGHTS IN SKY AGAIN 'MYSTERIOUS lights

were seen in the sky over Sydney for the second evening in a row last night. The lights—diving, swoop-

ing. zig-zagging and sta-tionary — were reported from all sections of Syd-ney.

One report from Merry-lands said a circle of light swooped through the night sky. and then disap-peared in a "puff of smoke."

A light was also seen on Friday night.

A Lindfield resident report-ed that it appeared to split in two-

Reports Tore than a dopen people rang the 'Sun-fletaid - In report die sightings last night.

An officer at R.A.A.F. Command at Penrith could not explain them. "I think I'll go and have a look myself," be said.

%It A. Levin, of Penkivil &rect. Bondi, said he saw Iwo lights zig-zagging the east out to sea.

"I thought they acre satel-lites until they changed their course." he said.

Sixteen-year-old Colin Ford, of Chamberlain Road, Guildford. said: "I watch-ed it for 10 minutes_

"It looked the shape of a Soccer hail and was sur-rounded by a blue fringe.

"b disappeared in a puff of smoke."

NO LITTLE GREEN

MEN LONDON, Sat.—Bri-

tain it seems, is not about to be invaded from outer space after all.

The mysterious fiery lights that have been spotted all over the British skyline the last few days were American Air Force jet planes refuelling from high flying tankers.

Bright lights arc down from the tankers so that the fighters can find their way to refuel.

It was these lights according to the Minis-try of Defence that started the flood of UFO reports.

A Ministry spokesman contained last nigh t

You can take it from us there are no little green men running around Britain.

"The RAF has check-ed this out thoroughly and is convinced that it is the refuelling exer-cises that hare been observed.

The Ministry's rather unglamorous explana-iieri follows three days of frenzied flying saucer spotting in Britain.

At least 28 unidenti-fied flying objects have been observed every-where from Dublin to Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the south of England.

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AUSTRALIAN skies at the moment seem positively aflash with flying saucers, or Uni-dentified Flying Ob-jects, known in the singular as Ufa.

We haven't seen one our-selves (more's the pity), but a Sydney author, Mr Rich-ard Tambling, says it's just, for want of looking.

His book, "Flying Sauc-ers — Where Do They Come From?" published a month ago by Horwitz, claims: "I can give you a foolproof formula that will enable you to see a Ufo, possibly one of the saucer variety."

His plan is that readers should look at the night sky for one month, jot down on paper anything unusual spotted, and answer questions on a sighting report form, which should be sent to Mr Tam-bling, the nearest R,A.A..F. base, police station or local Ufo society.

"I have often been asked if I believe in flying sauc-ers," writes Mr Tambling, "My answer is no, I do not . . . To ask me if I believe in flying saucers would be like asking me if I believed in motor cars. I don't believe cars exist—I know it."

How? Mr Tambling says he was serving as a R.A.F. photographer in Hang Kong, 1954, when, in day-light, he saw a Ufo. "like two floors of a Chinese pagoda flying through the air." It sounds ludicrous, but Mr Tambling swears to it — and to seven more sightings.

Fear of ridicule won't shake him, and he sticks to the theory that Ufos from outer space fly over our earth, and descend on it.

In Australia, those inter-ested in Ufa phenomena, belong to Ufo societies, which exist in Brisbane, Adelaide, Moonah (Tas-

mania), Moorab bin. Mt, Clear and Warragul (all Victoria), Wilson (W.A.), Canberra, Newcastle and Sydney.

Dr Miran Lindtner, 46, a C.S.I.R.O. research offi-cer, who holds a doctorate in physiology, is president of the Unidentified Flying Objects Investigation Cen-tre, Sydney, a 290-strong group.

Reports by group

At his Strathfield home, Dr Lindtner told DATA: "Our attitude is scientific. We claim only things we can prove with some de-gree, and indulge in no philosophical speculations."

His group collates ' re-ports of sightings, inter-views people who claim to have seen U.F.O.s, and ex-changes information with overseas organisations.

One correspondent is Professor James McDonald of the University of Ari-zona. U.S.A., who met Lindtner on a visit to Aus-tralia earlier this year. From the professor, a phy-sicist. Lindtner has received photographs of strange ob-jects seen in U.S. skies — a series showing a hollow ring which seems to be creating a camouflaging cloud,

DATA saw these — but could not persuade Dr Lindtner to let us repro-duce them. They were the professor's property, he said.

Lindtner says there have been 120 U.F.O. sightings in Australia this year and a total of 450 sightings since 1869. U.F.O.s. he be-lieves, have an extraterres-trial source.

DATA showed Dr Lindt-ner an article in "Science" magazine, written by Wil-liam Markowitz. Pro-fessor of Physics at Mar-quette University, U.S.A.

Titled "The Physics and Metaphysics of U.F.O.'s," it was sub-titled "Reported U.F.O.s cannot be under extraterrestrial control if the laws of physics are valid."

Markowitz pointed out in detail, that at the fastest practicable speed (about 186,000 miles per second, the speed of light) it would take a spaceship from a neighbouring galaxy 2,000,000 years to reach our galaxy. At this speed a speck of dust, 0.0001in in diameter would hit the

ship like a heavy car doing well over 100 m.p.h.

"Survival of spacecraft and occupants is unlikely."

It was immensely scien-tific, but Dr Lindtner, un-daunted, replied: "Marko-witz does not conceive of an advanced civilisation with things we have not dreamed of, such as anti-gravitational force."

Knowing nothing about physics (like Markowitz), or of U.F.O.s (like Lindt-ner), DATA gave up, and went home, looking. care-fully at the sky. When we see that saucer, well tell you.

UFOs Poor disbelieving. "Erna.," You won't

believe until you see — and you wort see until you take your head out of the sand. I have never seen a UFO. but. neither have I seen God nor an atom. Surely the UFOs are merely on reconnaissanoe, have observed our feeble, self-destroying dilemmas, and have decided .we are no real threat to them. Why should they contact . us? We couldn't tell them anything new. "Venus de Pluto."

TVESDFIY;

Special Correspontleni

MOSCOW, Tuesday. Tourists at the Black Sea resort of Sochi have seen a sickle-shaped object in the sky,

The release cal the news (the sighting was on the night of October 3) comes hard on the appointment of Air Force General Stoiv-erov as head or a Russian UFO detection agency.

The flying sickle was said to have been followed

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by an light.

At the same moment a scientific observatory in the. Caucasian Mountains. west of Sochi. also report-ed a strange and dazzling

Five other unidentified fling oh.ieets have also been seen recently.

General Stolycrov said that the Caucasian aserva-tory sightings had coincided with reports from England, France, and other coun-tries.

unearthly wave of

'PLEA TO UN ON SAUCERS

BONN, Tuesday. — Flying saucer enthusiasts from 24 countries have called on the United Nations to establish "official SUNDRY 12 contact" with people from outer space and their governments.

The call came in the form of a resolution. passed unanimously by the 7th international congress of Unidentified Flying; Object Re- searche•s who it at Mainz.

The resolution was tabled by Mr Colman Von Kewiczki, director of the inter-continental UFO research and analytical network, of New York.

The resolution called on the United Nations to establish "unofficial contact with extra- terestial beings."

Also receiving the resolution, said Mr Kewlczki, were "131 legal world governments."

Unidentified flying objects and their omit- pants were seeking contact with the world's population, but avoided facing armed forces, Mr Kewiczki said.

A YOUNG Bris ane insurance

Consultant is now "damn sorry ., he took pictures of a flying saucer object last weekend.

"People think 1 am some sort of nut." be told "The Sun-He-raid" yesterday.

Tne consultant, Mr James Wallace, 24. Slays he saw the flying saucer in the view-finder of his camera when taking pictures of his girl-friend in the backyard of his West End (Brisbane) home last Sunday.

He then focused Ms ; camera directly on the Unidentified Flying %-

led and took eight phot0- graphs of It.

Details of the sighting and the picture,s were re-leased net day through Brisbane's Flying Saucer Research Bureau.

Since then life !mull been the same for the Seoitisli-born Mr Wal-lace.

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NoVEMRER.19 BONN, Monday.

- - The Pentagon's darkest secret has been revealed.

The Americaris are keep-ing under arrest a man who came from Venus in a flying saucer.

At least that is what 500 UFO spotters from all over the world were told at a conference in Mainz.

Dr E. Stranges, an Am-erican pastor from Cali-, fort) ia claimed to have spoken to the mysterious prisoner for 30 minutes.

He said a woman em-ployee took him into the Pentagon with a pass and showed him into a room where the man from Venus was sitting.

He said: "He spoke Eng-lish.

"He showed me his space suit and said his name was Valiant Thor.

"I asked him if they had a Bible on Venus and he replied: 'Why should we? We live hand in hand with the Creator up there."

The Ufologists — un-identified flying object ob-servers — ended their con-ference with a call for a world-wide programme to investigate UFOs.

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VISIT To "Erna." Visi- tors from outer

space must be frightened out of their wits to see the state of this world, with its diabolical wars, turmoils, murders, etc. Sighting of UFOs are few and far between and probably they only come here every so often to see if we have improved in our so-called intelligence_ Mankind has a long way to go before complete peace and harmony reign. I •

doubt if we'll ever have

pany.—"Moon-Maid." the pleasure of their coin-

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SOFIA. Wed_ — An un-identified flying object I UFO r, described as "a huge shining body." was seen over this Bulgarian capital last night.

"Bigger than the disc of the sun it later gradually took the form of a tra-peze," said ETA_ the Bul-garian news agency.

could be seen over the centre of Sofia with the naked eye.

Its gleams resembled those of an oxygen-weld-ing apparatus at work, the report added.

_a-- BARBARIANS 1' 'Ena": You are entitled tomr_ opinion regarding u You ask why we haven't contacted you. Well, land-ing on your planet would mean having our space-ships pulled apart, and us for that matter, to see what makes us tick. Any-way, why would any spaceman in his right senses want to land — you are too barbaric.--One Of Them:'

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* * * BEWILDERED Rill 'Pus-5y o w": How can you be so sure that 'UFOs do not exist? Many people who are far from being nitwits have .

Seen flying saucers and other strange celestial ob-! jects. More than half of the reported saucer sight-ings have left the authori-

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ties and scientists coin-

Red Berry." pletely bewildered. — "Wild

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Flying Saucers WHY should there be so

nitich controversy on flying saucers?

Sightings, eye witness accounts and photographs have proved their existence beyond doubt.

Besides the universe is so large and these unidenti-

I. flying objects could have come from one of a million galaxies.

They are peaceful, too, as, despite being observed for many years, they have not harmed us yet.

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flying saucers W. O'Keefe t DM8, 12 '67)

is wrung when he wrote the onl■,- reason why there was so much controversy on flying saucers was be-cause many people knew of flying saucers.

There are people who still reject the idea of fly-ing saucers, unless there is more proof to support the theory.

I know of some people who still make fun of the idea and refuse to believe a friend of mine who has seen quite a few.

K. J. HUNT, Crentorne Point

'eh

2. UFO 'T A KEW anal'' , Dreaera: • my wife and I, together

with a clergyman, photo-graphed a UFO on the Parkes road near the Man-ildra turnoff. It passed over our car, causing static on the car radio. The clergy-man still has the photo- graphs and we have re-1 marred silent at his re-quest.—"O.L.F."

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For three years the world has been baffled by weird UFO sightings in an English town ..

THE

WARMINSTER MYSTERY

astounding UFO sightings

The Inim "THING" over FACT

England

Po5T s WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT

Arthur Shuttlewood * THE WARMINSTER MYSTERY, by Arthur Shuttle- wood. Published by Neville Spearman. Price, $4.25.

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* THE WOMAN was on her way to church on Christmas morn ir. g, 1964.

Suddenly she was pinned down by invisible fingers of sound that pounded at her head, neck and shoulders, numbing her.

Weird crackling noises and vibrations of chilling intensity tore the quiet atmosphere and fell on her savagely.

After the tentacles had loosed their grip and the awesome dron-ing had passed into an echoing distance, she was stunned and trembling.

The woman, Mrs Marjorie Bye. a housewife, was the first victim of what was later to become inter-nationally famous as the "War-minster Thing," a phenomenon that was to manifest itself in an unprecedented spate of sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and weird beings around the small English town of Warminster, in Wiltshire.

Warminster was gripped by a series of "flying saucer" ap-pearances which were reported, in word and photograph, by people whose probity must be un-questioned.

No town in the world has registered so many reports of UFOs. Arthur Shuttlewood, feat4res

editor of the Warminster Journal, who became caught up in the stories because of his occupation. narrates the fantastic series of events in his book, "The War-minster Mystery."

The Warminster "Things" — that was how the majority of the local witnesses referred to them at first: they had never heard of "flying saucers" or UFOs — First

manifested, by sound, on December 25, 1964.

But the first pheno-menal event was not limited to the ex-perience of the soli-

tary housewife. Her experience was shared, in effect, by troops of the 1st Welch Regiment., based near Warminster.

"More than 30 soldiers awoke to a thunderous crescendo at their camp on Christmas Day. A sergeant said, 'It was as if a huge chimney stack from the main block was ripped from the rooftop, then scat-tered in solid chunks of masonry across the whole camp area'."

The guard was alerted, standing by for action, but none developed.

BOOKS By Gordon Williams

Surprised, the soldiers were unable to explain the "blasting" sounds, beyond asserting that they were definitely not caused by conven-tional-type aircraft.

At precisely the same time, the head postmaster at Warminster was awakened by a furious pounding on the roof of his home, which was not far from the place where "sonic pressure waves" bore down on Mrs Mar-jorie Bye. He described a "terrific clatter":

it was, he said, "As though 5000 tiles were being rattled about the roof and plucked off by some tremendous force." and while all this was going on, he could hear an odd humming tone.

Although it appeared certain that the tiles had been roughly man-handled, subsequent examination revealed that none was damaged. The roofing was intact.

Dozens of people came forward in 1965 to testify that their roof-tops too, were set rocking and

rumbling by "force fields" dur- ing the dark hours, and the hap- penings persisted into June, 1965. Mr Shuttlewood, whose re-

portorial job it was to examine the reports, was moved to a great deal of meditation and critical analysis; "Reporters are a hard-boiled cyni-cal clan, a breed of their own and not easy to convince," he says.

So, even after the "audible" phenomena had been succeeded by a great number of reported sight-ings, it was still nine months before he was prepared to join the small band of local folk who were con-vinced that the "Things" were not flying fantasies, and that the people they brought were "as real as us . definitely humanoid."

The first recorded case of a person actually seeing the "Thing" dates back to May 19, 1965. Mrs Hilda Hebdidge, 63, reported

that on three separate occasions in one week she had seen unusual ob-jects in the sky. They were de-scribed as "cigar-shaped, covered with bright lights which winked and blinked."

Now reports of sightings were frequent — and they all tallied, with minor exceptions. Many groups of people testified to hav-ing seen the "Thing," and the puzzle was increasing.

By this time, the pages of the Warminster Journal were filled with readers' letters about the phenomena, and "all manner of views were expressed as to possible explanations — the majority from a diehard group of cynics who ex-pounded the probability of earth-quake tremors, weather balloons. static electricity and so on. plus the improbability of flying saucers . ."

Mr Gordon W. Creighton, a Fel-low of the Royal Geographical Society, came into the verbal fray in the Journal's issue of June 25, with a forthright statement:

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by authorities who know very well indeed what is happening," he wrote.

"Extra-terrestrial craft, call them flying saucers if you like, DO exist, and are not only coming here but are landing even more frequently in all parts of the world. "The term 'flying saucer'

was first used by a Texas farmer who saw one over his ranch in 1878 ... I, and members of the organisa-tion to which I belong, are receiving every week scores of reports from all parts of the world, in all the major languages, from people who are not only seeing these

The "THING ,/ over England Continued from Page 48

"The fact is — in com-mon with every other country in the world — the

craft but also their oc-cupants .

"The National Commis-

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minster. Picture taken by ex- RAF bomber crewman Bob Strong at 7.12 a.m. on

October 24, 1966,

I am a member, submitted a massive report on the matter early in 1964, listing irrefutable evidence, and a copy of that report is now in the hands of every single member of the U.S. Con-gress.

"The existence of such a report has been almost en-tirely ignored by the British Press. It is not de-sired that you shall know these facts.

"You are being well and truly brainwashed by power-ful vested interests for whom the situation now de-veloping is very embarrass-ing indeed."

Mr Shuttlewood quotes many eminent people who accept the reality of the saucers, among them men of high international standing. I was particularly held by

the stories quoted by Mr Shuttlewood of "people," ostensibly from the UFOs, who had been seen by various citizens.

Mrs Annabelle Plowman, a confidential clerk for the War Command, driving with her husband, John, chair-man of the Warminster and Westbury branch of the National Union of Agricul-tural Workers, came to an accident-prone part of the highway to Salisbury from Warminster.

She had to swerve the car violently to avoid a figure sprawling over the highway -- a drunken soldier. John thought. However, he was not satis-

fied that the car had missed the man, as he had felt distinct bumps when they passed near the "body."

So Annabelle halted the car, and they went back to investigate. There was no trace of the figure, and no bloodstain.

Further shocks were com-ing. Mrs Plowman, now alone In the car, was driv-ing along when a large orange ball appeared.

"I had the impression that the car was being pushed backwards," she said. Later, still, a vehicle of

circular shape spun on to the road before her, emit-ting red and blue sparks be-fore rising into the night sky. Then something even stranger happened:

"Straight in front of me two people appeared. I al-most bowled them over. I probably brushed against one, they were so close.

"To begin with, I thought they might be two soldiers on a night 'scheme'.

"They wore dark woollen balaclavas on their heads. These clung tight and showed only a small part of their features . .

"I could see only their noses, in fact, and the merest suspicion of eyes, wide-spaced and deep-sunk. "They were not wearing

army uniforms. Their clothes were of darkish material, either black or grey, and skin-tight, From the thighs down the material glistened, as though wet . ."

She believed the men

* UFO over Warminster? No on apparently genuine

photograph later admitted to be a foke by hoaxer Michael Rae. Another illustration from "The Warminster

Mystery."

came from the circular vehicle which had taken off — but she did not wait to investigate.

Mr Shuttlewood h a d, himself, .made 91 sightings when his book went to the printers but many ob-servers had made far more.

The "observation team" established at Warminster had seen 972 UFOs to the end of 1966, had taken many good photographs — some produced in this book —and had compiled a list of more than 1000 witnesses, a list swollen by visitors from many countries.

Mr Shuttlewood's story dues not cover all the War-minster experiences, by far.

He hopes to write another book, probably to bring the tale up to date, and he hopes it will "give the final answer to the UFO mystery "

public here are being sion for the Investigation of grossly hoodwinked, bam- Aerial Phenomena, in Wash- boozled, and brainwashed ington, DC, of which body

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A team of top American specially-selected

scientist-sleuths have officially investigated

reports of hundreds of unidentified flying

obiects (UFO) sightings — including

the latest from Australia — but they are still

as mystified as the day they started ...

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From PETI:R 1441C'llELMORK at Boulder, C'olorattn.

IN a bright glass room atop the 10-storey astrophysics laboratory at the University

of Colorado, big Ed Condon, the man who is officially investigating flying saucers for the U.S. Government, shrugged his shoulders in frustration.

e flying saucer chasers

I 1,500 UFOs sighted in a year . . . but they haven't bagged one yet

"This is like being chief of

a fire department that only answers false alarms," he said.

"Just the other day from down in Georgia we had an urgent call about an unidentified flying object (UFO).

"Turns out that two police officer, were chasing the planet Venus all over the countryside."

For more than a year now the veteran American physicist who would rank among the top 10 or 20 scientists in the U.S., has been on the hunt for flying saucers.

The U.S. Air Force gave Professor Condon half a million dollars, a etaff of 10 research fellows and graduate students in physics and psychology, and asked him for a report in 15 months.

It is no secret that Dr Condon will have great difficulty writing - that report, and the result will probatas he that he alai his into

\elm neither prove nor disprove the existence of ffyieg saucers.

The air is clean and crisp and you can see for miles and miles.

Few bright lights and little roaring traffic are here to frighten away the UFOs.

The stillness of the place, the wonderful cloud patterns, the close• ness of the stars — mill these help make flying saucers stem quite possible. I visited Dr Condon with news of

the recent Queensland sightings, but the physicist seemed too preoccupied with the saucer reports in his own

At that time an amateur photo-grapher had sent in a picture taken of a snow-shrouded farm near Climax, Colorado, and up in the otherwise clear sky above the fields there is a large saucer-shaped white dins

Way ft UFO, a double exposure, or a hoax?

Dr Condon had seen several simi-

kir pictures, but he assigned someone to check out the picture in detail.

Actually, no matter how slim the reports, Dr Condon is happy to fol-low thorn up.

lie recently received a letter from a civilian employee of the Air Force who said 31 spaceship from Venus would land at a certain location at the Utah salt Hats at a certain time so that the Venosians could talk with earth people. "Of course it's crazy, but you have

to try everything," he said. "We got the co-operation of

Utah State Governor and one of men was taken to this spot on salt flats by local police.

"Our man sat around all day, but nothing happened.

"1 called the Air Force employee and said the rendezvous was a flop and this guy was genuinely puzzled that the Venus people had not shown up."

Once Condon ever, wrote to Ncandal magazine for the address of a girl w he was claimed to have had an affair with live men from

flying saucer. Undaunted, Professor Condon

keeps approaching every new report with a fresh mind.

He is familiar with the history of Australian sightings because he was personally briefed by Dr James E. McDonald, meteorology professor at the University of Arizona.

Earlier this year, McDonald inter---VieWed saucerwftye* ArrtnIferAltses-tralia and he returned to tell a United Nations space committee that it must now take UFOs seriously.

"I believe that very careful con-sideration must be given to the hypo-thesis that these unconventional objects constitute some form of extra-terrestrial probe," McDonald told the U.N.

Dr Condon enjoys the McDonald enthusiasm, is amazed at the detail with which he can recall the stories of the Australian UFOs, but other-wise thinks the hypothesis of the man from Arizona is too wild.

"Even the old ignition story has not worked with me," he said with an air of disappointment.

"You know how it gods. A motorist is travelling a lonely road at night and all of a sudden a oar's ignition fails and the car stops.

"The motorist looks up and there is a flying saucer. It has happened a dozen times.

`It's crazy 9

"We had a woman tell us about her experience with the ignition failure, but she added that her speedo had also played up and not worked properly since,

"Here was a chance fax a real check.

"We got her car of the road and into a garage as quickly as possible.

"Of course, there was nothing wrong with the speedo at all." Some months ago there were night-

ly reports of flying saucers over a town called Harrisburg, in Pennsyl-vania, and the local afternoon news-paper had running stories about them.

Condon's men arrived in town and widely publicised a telephone number .at star and night immediately anyone saw a saucer.

They did not get one legitimate telephone call and since then Harris-burg skies have been completely clear.

"You see," said Dr Condon, "the whole business is crazy.

"You'll have to work it out for yourself."

Puzzling' The sleuths in Colorado have

followed through about 1,500 fresh saucer reports Over the past year, but they are no closer to explaining .

UFOs than when they started. "When I took the job I thought

that if we got to the scene of the sightings quickly enough we might get pieteres or spectrographs, but it lye. not worked out that way." said

- The 65•year-old physicist. "We have not seen ti damn thing. "It cannot be denied that some

oases are very puzzling, that sensible people have actually seen some strange things in the sky.

"Rut It is my bet that all tills will he explained one day when we know more about atmospheric phenomena. "At this point I try to keep to

open mind, but 1 must say that I do not believe these UFOs bring visitors from miter space."

Dr Condon will not be allowed the final word on UFOs — a few days ago the Russians set up an official saucer investigation team; but his opinion is noteworthy,

The man himself has had a dis-tinguished career in science and he has had the addedperspeetive over the past few years of working at the University of Colorado, nestled among the mountains beyond Den. ver.

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DR CONDON . . "it's crazy .. I try to keep an open mind."

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Fiery saucer seen over city

A "glowing" flying object flashed over Sydney a few hours before N.Z. police reported a "mystery object" plunging into the sea near Wellington.

MYSTERY IN SKY

Red eyes follow UFOs

LONDON. Fri. — Soviet astronomers have studied UFOs — unidentified fly-ing objects—through tele-scopes, according to the Soviet Weekly. A SSISTANT Professor

w-lk Felix Zigel, of the Moscow Institute of Avi-ation, has called for in-ternational co-operation to study UFOs says the magazine which went on sale in London today.

ObjeCts studied over Kazan from two points simultaneously are des-cribed as crescent-shaped 500 to 600 yards in di-ameter. and are said to have travelled at about 10,000 m.p.b. at a height of 30 to 63 miles.

The objects. sighted over Southern U.S.S.R. Iasi summer and autumn by two observatories and by members of the public, Were "definitely not sput-niks or space rockets. -

The Soviet Union last year appointed a commit-tee of scientists to study UFO reports.

Professor Zigel said in-ternational co-operation would have been a reality but for "sensationalism and irresponsible anti-scientific assertions about flying saucers."

SATURORY I

About a dozen people in Sydney and seven in New South Wales country towns reported seeing the object pass overhead on Friday night.

RAAP, Woomera Rocket Range and Bureau of Met-eorotogy officials have de-nied any knowledge of the

object, said they knew of no objects launched in Australia which could ac-' count for it,

New Zealand police described the object they saw as blue and white with s "silver disc" at-tached_ They said the object wa.51

men floating about a mile-and-a-half off-shore in Cook Strait, but they were unable to reach it because of rough seas.

It bad disappeared yes-terday morning, they said-

It not yet known whether the New Zealand and Australian objects are linked.

Mrs. A. Thomas. of Maxim Street, West Hyde, described the object as "round with a long tail."

"Every now and then the Lail seemed t© erupt into Hamra," she said. Mr. I. Murentrin of

DublXi. said he saw an, object flash across the sky on Friday night at very high speed.

People at Killarney Heights, Watson's Bay, Vancluse, Doll's Point, Leichhardt and Green Valley also reported seeing the object.

Mr. H F. Kelly. who lives near the Cook Strait

coast. said he was look-ing out his window when "-this awesome long streak in flames drifted down out of the sky and landed in the sea." "1 thought it was a

plane at first, but then we looked through binocu-lars and it looked like a large partially deflated

tqk)R

balloon," he said. "It was blue and white

in color and when it hit the water it started send-ing out flashes."

A spokesman for the New Zealand meteorological of-fice said the object was definitely not a weather balloon.

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Clergyman sees

N. or

THE REV. H. A. HARRIS, of St. Andrew's Presby- terian Church, Brighton-le-Sands, who watched two unidentified flying obiects hover over the

suburb on Sunday. TUE 5DErc 2/sr FEBRUARY 19^

hovering 'craft' A Brighton-Le-Sands clergyman

yesterday said he had watched two un-

identified objects hover over Brighton for half an hour on Sunday. THE Rev. 11. A. Harris,

of St. Andrew's Pres-byterian Church, Brigh-ton, baffled by the sight-ings, is anxious to con-tact anyone else who saw the objects.

Mr. Harris sighted the Weds- at 2.30 on Sunday artern0On.

"I was sitting in my garden and there was a clear sky," he said.

"I noticed a star-like object right overhead. Moving slowly from the north.

"I supposed it t obe a Satellite and watched It for a few moments.

"Then it stopped and remained in a fix ed position for 15 minutes. "As I watched it, an-

other object came int❑ view. moving south.

Remained for

"The two objects pass-1 one another. ••The second one came the spot where the first

had hovered and re-•. fined ili•re for 10 tutu-

.:•s, "H moved back to

the north again, then a ppeared." Mr. Harris said the ob-

jects were not satellites ••cause they moved In ....a directions and re-

Lnalned stationary. `"They were not bal-

loons because they re-mained fixed for some time.

"They were not con-ventional aircraft.

"My guess is that t , were extremely

their slow movement gested this.

"They were din -overhead and would hard to see • was looking Is t Ion.

Mr. Harris said he been an officer in the. Force during the war knew 501Oct/tins a:. aircraft,

"But these objects • ed like nothing I ever seen." he said.

[Milroy sightiroo of uniden-tified flying objects in the sky over Sydney were re-ported Iasi night.

Slow-moving, starlike ob-jects travelling from west to east were reported from Rave hay, Mem-bosh, Beecroft, Sans Sostel and Botany.

The sightings It place between 6 and 6.35 p.m.

"Iirigh t " Mrs 1. Webber, of Carlisle

Street, Rose Bay, said: "My son, Monty, who is seven, drew my attention to it.

"It was a very bright object which looked Ilke a star moving slowly in an are from north-west to east," she mid

"I coold see it fort 'thou Iwo arteries; it was alloy-ing all time time."

Others 1saw one or two -stratute stars" for periods ranging up to 15 minutes.

UFOs

I HAVE been com-missioned to

write a book dealing with Unidentified Flying Objects over Australia, and would appreciate hearing from any of your readers who have witnessed strange flying objects at any time.

I shall not divulge their names, if so de-sired, .

—MICHAEL HERVEY 5' Dick St., 'Henley, N.S.W.

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Reds NESDRy 5TH MARCH 1968

smash saucer theory '

:_mabw442.T.E.LERIL. Strange -12/fIR

stars

sighted MOSCOW, Mors-day. — Flying sau-cers or unidentified flying objects did not exist, leading So viet scientists

sa id today.

If they did, those in charge of the air defences of the Soviet Union would have known about them.

i This verdict was also published in Pravda over the signatures of leading members of the Academy of Sciences.

It ended a rash of inter-est in the Soviet Union in the flying-saucer phen-omenon.

Soviet newspapers and TV stations recently re-ported a crop of sightings .

Some of the UFOs were said to be sickle-shaped.

Branded Now the Academy of

Sciences has branded thes , reports as anti-scientific

sensations with no scien-tific basis.

Soviet astronomers, prob-ing the possibilities of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, were among those who discussed the mystery sightings in the sky.

But the signatories to the Pravda statement were much more eminent than those earlier said to be h e into the UFO re-purl

For years, the Russians branded flying sauce re-ports as WesIern warmon-gering.

But last year, after the United States set up a commission at the Unieer-

ii I. kin.) ,iJoings. the Litis-

sisias followed suit. The Colorado University

report on flying saucers is expected later this year.