APRO BULLETIN (version 32 14/7/2011) version finale à ce stade de la divulgation des archives (55 a 73 inclus)
"The serious UFO student will have to wait until a sound , scholarly history comes along. David M. Jacobs, Department of History; University of Wisconsin , Madison, Wisconsin." p6 apro bulletin avril 1972
archives mises à disposition par J. Antonio Huneeus
"Open Minds Investigative Reporter J. Antonio Huneeus has covered the UFO field from an international perspective for over 30 years. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Japan. He was also the co-author of the Laurance Rockefeller-funded “UFO Briefing Document – The Best Available Evidence” and edited the book “A Study Guide to UFOs, Psychic & Paranormal Phenomena in the USSR.” Huneeus studied French at the Sorbonne University in Paris and Journalism at the University of Chile in Santiago in the 1970s. He has lectured at dozens of UFO Conferences all over the world and been interviewed by many media outlets including The Washington Post, the Sy-Fy and History Channels, Nippon-TV, etc. He received the “Ufologist of the Year” award at the National UFO Conference in Miami Beach in 1990 and the “Courage in Journalism” award at the X-Conference in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in 2007. "
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tous cas confondus (us et non us) la période de publication du bulletin APRO est de 1952 à 1988, la période couverte par la présente divulgation est de 1955 à 1973 seulement


| cas revues (1) | microfilmes apro (2) | blue book (3) | inexpliqués blue book (4) | (1)/(2) | |
| 1944 | 1 | 49 | 2,04% | ||
| 1945 | |||||
| 1946 | |||||
| 1947 | 3 | 81 | 122 | 12 | 3,70% |
| 1948 | 2 | 24 | 156 | 7 | 8,33% |
| 1949 | 2 | 47 | 186 | 22 | 4,26% |
| 1950 | 6 | 74 | 210 | 27 | 8,11% |
| 1951 | 1 | 51 | 169 | 22 | 1,96% |
| 1952 | 10 | 349 | 1501 | 303 | 2,87% |
| 1953 | 9 | 132 | 509 | 42 | 6,82% |
| 1954 | 27 | 525 | 487 | 46 | 5,14% |
| 1955 | 104 | 226 | 545 | 24 | 46,02% |
| 1956 | 226 | 315 | 670 | 14 | 71,75% |
| 1957 | 355 | 376 | 1006 | 14 | 94,41% |
| 1958 | 118 | 118 | 627 | 10 | 100,00% |
| 1959 | 89 | 89 | 390 | 12 | 100,00% |
| 1960 | 135 | 135 | 557 | 14 | 100,00% |
| 1961 | 100 | 100 | 591 | 13 | 100,00% |
| 1962 | 139 | 139 | 474 | 15 | 100,00% |
| 1963 | 114 | 114 | 399 | 14 | 100,00% |
| 1964 | 86 | 86 | 562 | 19 | 100,00% |
| 1965 | 215 | 215 | 887 | 16 | 100,00% |
| 1966 | 197 | 197 | 1112 | 32 | 100,00% |
| 1967 | 344 | 344 | 937 | 19 | 100,00% |
| 1968 | 141 | 141 | 375 | 3 | 100,00% |
| 1969 | 57 | 57 | 146 | 1 | 100,00% |
| 1970 | 54 | 54 | 100,00% | ||
| 1971 | 32 | 32 | 100,00% | ||
| 1972 | 119 | 119 | 100,00% | ||
| 1973 | 57 | 57 | 100,00% | ||
| 2743 | 4246 | 12618 | 701 | 64,60% |
| nov-70 | 5/11/1970 | cholla bay mexico |
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Mr, Alben Formiller, a retired Chicago policeman and a resident of
Phoenix, about 70 years old, was at Cholla Bay, Mexico on the 5th of
November. At about 9 o'clock, he said, he was startled to see that
suddenly the glound and ocean were "lit up like daylight." He had been
camped on the beach all day and was leaning against his pickup-camper
about 25 feet from the water's edge, Formiller could make oul a beam
coming fiom the sky but at first could not discern what it was coming
from. E81Within a few seconds, howevgr, he could make out the object
itself, which was geyish-white, oyal, and with a black or dark-colored
tube, l2-16 inches in diameter, just to the left of center of the object
and tilted to the left at a 5-10 degee angle from the vertical.
Formiller said the object was cloudlike ard appeared to "roll around"
very slowly, Occasionally, he said, parts of it would billow out but
never separate from the rnain body of the "cloud," No sound was heard.
At first the "searchlight" illuminated approximately % mile of lhe water
and a small portion of rocky headland to the left of the witnesr. Almost
immediately after he spotted it, however, the lighted area narowed to a
diameter of about % mile. This lighted area and the beam fluctuated
between 50 and 150 feet from the shorc. Shortly thereafter, the
searchlight went out and a white light, weaker than the searchlight and
described as a glow, illuminated the upper half of the object so that
the underside could no longer be seen, Then the white glow disappeared
and the object made a 180 degree tum, affording Formiuer (because of its
slight upward tilt) a view of the top and side of the object as it tumed.
This enabled him to observe a green glow or light that the extended l/3
of the distance atound the object on each side from a central point on what he took to be its "back." Again the top was illuminated and the bottom was not visible and the object began to move away, Fotmiller estimated the speed to be less than that of a jet, and it maintained a steady speed until it disappeared from sight into the west, Formiller made the logical assumption that the object must have been or at least could have been seen from San Felipe, Baja California, which is across the Gulf of California to the west. |
| nov-70 | 6/10/1970 | decatur alabama |
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Acting on a tip resulting from a newspaper adicle, Field Investigator Harold Green investigated a case which took place on the 6th of October l97O at 8:15 p.m, and which resultedi n what is considered to be a very good photograph of a nighi-flying UFO (see photo above). MIs. Dennis Bilings of Decatur, Alabama, went out into her front yard to gather up the children's toys and seconds later, Mr, Billings who was in the house, heard her screamingf or him to come out. He went out into the yard where his wife was pointing to the southeast, and saw a lighted object just going out of sight. It appeared to be at low altitude and Mrs. Billings said it came out of the nodh, headed south, then veered toward the east. IUr. Billings got his camera out of his cai and at that time another object, similar to the first, came down out of the sky, leveled off and slowly flew in the same direction as the other object. Billings adjusted the lens of his camera, walked to the back yard so that he could get an unobstructed view, focussed the camera and took one shot. He ran a block, almost under the object and took another but the second photograph yielded nothing. Both the Billings' said that a dark mass was easily seen behind the lights on the object, and is often the case. the negative shows much morc than the print which is reproduced here. During the coulse of his interview with Mr. Billings, Mi. Green learned of a sighting which the Billings' had made on a Friday in Septernber1, 966a t about7 :30 p.m,, which resernbled vely much his at Decatur, Alabama sighting of October 1970. In this case, Mr, Billings had gone out the back door to take the garbage out, and was stadled to hear sounds from the house on the other street. He said he could hear soundsl ike conversation,c hildren playing, the rattle of dishes and silverware. etc.. as if the sounds from the house (which was closed up, no doo$ or windows being open) were being amplified. Suddenly an object which apparently had been dark and therefore not immediately visible, lit up into an orange ball above the house from which the sounds were emanating. It dropped what looked like white sparks, then it dimmed out and lights came on around its edge, These lights were all colors of the spectrum, running lrom red, omnge, yellow to white, and then the blue and green shades. The lights also blinked on and off rn sequence. The object moved away, and while Blllings watched it with binoculars, another object came over) hoveied abovd the yard for 2 to 3 minutes, then started to move slowly away, He walked undet it to the fronl yard and estimated that at that time it's altitude was approximately 400 feet and it was between 50 and 75 feet in diameter. The underside of the object had a domelike protrusion which Billings said looked like translucent glass and light seemed to come from it or perhaps was being reflected from the lights on the rim. There appeared also to be moving shadows, but Billings could not be ce.tain that they were from inside the object or a result of the flickering lights or shadows from the ground. The lights of the object (as well as the one photographed in October 1970) were aranged around the edge of the object, but there were none on the leading edge of it. Billings said that after the object was gone his eyes felt strained and tired and burned for the rest of that night. He observed that the speed of the blinking lights seemed to be synchronized with the speed of the object; they blinked slowly whell the object wast raveling slovr'ly,a nd faster as it speeded up. It moved across the sky toward a nearby afport, stopped and hovered for about 10 minuies, looking much like a star except for the changing colors. It then moved higher, getting considerably smaller, and when a Southern Airways plane went over the object followed it until it was near the Billings home again, then went back to its position in the vicinity of the airport, Billings noted the distinct difference between the object and the aircmft. The object, by now discernible only as flashing lights, stayed in its position near the airport for another fiYe minutes, moved very fast to the north were it hovered for l0 minutes and then aPpeared to fall to the ground. Billings continued to watch that area and about l5 minutes later the object came back up jjrto the sky, hovered for a few seconds, then moved off to the west where it "met up" with another identical object; both hovered lor a few minutes and then both moved off together. |
| nov-70 | 6/04/1967 | tortuguero porto rico | UFO Phenomeno in Puerto Rico APRO'S Representative in Puedo Rico, Sebastian Robiou L., recently sent Headquarters his full .eports on several investigations into UFO incidents on that Carribean island. Below are summalies of two of his reports. The ltst incident took place between ll and l1:15 a.m, (local time) on the 6 of April, 1967, near Tortuguero, while two Cessna 150 aircraft were flying under unlimited visibility conditions. Aircraft A contained a flight instructor, whose name cannot be published, and flight student Alvaro Munoz. The names of the instructor and student aboard aircraft B cannot be published. Aircraft A and B were flying in formation at 3,000 feet in an east-nodheast direction, north of Vega Baja, on the nodh coast of Puerto Rico- Aircraft A was slightly ahead and 1,000 feet above airclaft B. Wh e student Munoz was practicing "blind flying," his instructor obseryed an unidentified object behind and below aircraft B. He called the pilot of aircraft B, who then commenced a l80o turn, at which the UFO dropped sharyly (estimated about 200 feet above sea level and passed under aircraft b without the pilot seeingit . Aircfaft A continued its normal route and the pilot observed the UFO pass him on the north side, He pointed the object out to Munoz, who exclaimed (in Spanish): "My God! Thats a flying saucer!" The pilot then told Munoz not to loose sight of the object while he piloted the Cessna.M unoz got a good look at it asi t passed on their north side, about 1,500 feet below them, while the pilot was attempting a tum to brine the object closer, The descendingt urn increasedth e speedo f the Cessnaf tom 90 mph to l4o mph, while the UFO appeared to be moving at least double their speed. The pilot of Aitclaft A leveled the Cessna out and the UFO made a sudden 90o turn without any pre-decelaration and disappeared. The pilot of aircraft B was meanwhilet erminatingh is tum: neither the pilot or the student aboard alcmft B saw the UFO, The total sighting lasted between 15 and 20 secondsT. he two witnesses aboard atcraft A descdbed the UFO as "oval, not round" and with a dull-white, metal color, Compa ng its approximate size to the Cessna B, the UFO was estimated to be 60 feet long (3 times that of a Cessna 150). It had an apparent size of 8 inches at arm's length. The two witnesses did not observe any other structural details on the object but they describedit as" solid" and following "intelligent manouvers, not erratic." Upon landing at San Juan, Munoz called his wife to tell her about the sighting, which she confimed to RepresentativeR abiou. Munoz, who is now a flight instructor with the Isla Grande Flying School and Service Corp., says that the Federal Aviation Administ.ation (FAA) gathered data on the sighting after it happened, but stated that they had not tracked any unidentified object at the time. Represeltative Robiou, who calls this "one of the most interesting UFO casesi n Puerto Rico," notes that the pilot-instructor of Aircraft A does not want publicity; Munoz is more coopemtive. Neither took UFOs seriously before their observation. Mr. Robiou's conclusion is: "If we accept the statements of the witnesses as true, as they seem to be, we cannot find any explanation within our frame of knowledge. The object seen by the witnesses deserves the title: Unidentified Flying Object." | |
| nov-70 | 31/12/1968 | los quemados vega baja porto rico | Another case investigated by APRO's Representative in Puedo Rico conc€rns ao incident which occured between 7:30 and 9:00 p,m. o4 December3 l, 1968o n the PR-2 !oad, near "Los Quemados," Vega Baja. The witnesses are an 80 year old farmer and rancher and his nephew, a 38 year old dental mechanic and farmer. The witnesses do not wish their names to be made public. The two witnesser were ddving at about 40-45 mph ftom the town of Isabela to San Juan. Shortly after passing Vega Baja, while they were on a slraighl stretch of road, their headlights illuminated a "clear white" object stationar] on the right side of the road. The nephew, who was ddving, exclaimedi "Look at that!" and then accelerated away from the object. He described it as while and round and a human-likef igure was standing before it. For the few seconds that he had a clear view of the entity, he saw what he later described as "a midget" 5 feet ta1l. Its mouth gave him the impression that (like in elderly persons) it had no teeth. However, what he recalled mostly were the entities eyes, which allegedly shone brightly in the dark, "like a cat." The entity was supposedly about 10 feet from the Ford Cortina as they drote by. The elderly uncle did not obserye the entity standing before the object. However, he claims that as they drove away he rurned back and saw that the object "lit-up" like a blue€reen light bulb. He also claims that he saw the object begin to rise (it then had a reddish color) and he heard a faint sound, "no stronger tharr a car," The nephew, \^ho was driving off frightened, did not hear or see anything further, The nephew dropped his uncle off at his home in San Jose and went to his own home. However, he did not see the New Year in with his mother, as he did every year. lnstead he went to bed and tded to s1eepa, s he was 'lety nervous,"T he next day he informed his wife and children of the incident. Today he says: "Nobody believes it." His uncle says: "It was something. What it was, I don't know." Representative Robiou makes the following observations: both witnesses are natives of Isabela, from where they drove that night, and now live in San Juan. Vega Baja is about 25 miles from San Juan. Between 7:30 and 9:00 p,m., and especially on New Year's Eve, highway No. 2 was very probably void of lraffjc, as the witnesses claim. The elderly uncle wearsg lassesa nd is known to suffer ftom cataracts. Both witnesses said the object wasa bout the sizeo f a Europeanc ar,b ut was definitely not a car; it was round, like "an ashtray turned upside down." | |
| nov-70 | 18/08/1968 | ramey afb porto rico |
Another interesting incident in Puerto Rico took place on August 18,
1968, at 2'.3O a.m, at Ramey AFB, and involves Sgt. Thomas Carulli, who
signed a statem€ nt for APRO. The statement, whic' was obtained through
APRO Field Inve. tigator John R. Artie, an Air Force member now
stationed at Beale AFB in Califomia, goes as follows: "At approximately
August 18, 1968, /^. at approximately 2:30 a,m., off Bodnquen Beach,
Ramey AFB, Pueto Rico, fifteen other security policemen and myself
observed what was believed to be knorrn as an unideotified flying object.
"Visibility was unlimited. The UFO seemed to be rising from the ocean
but when first seen it was appearing to be at a 45 degee angle above the
sudace and rising. Whi.le also rising it seemed to yavl to its sides
emitting a very bright, almost florescent light which was similar to
that of an unblinking strobe light. ward from within its structures. The
rcason why it seemed this way was because there appeared to be shuts or
bars or (you could say) window panes. These struts were verticle and
there were about six of them, They reminded me of the crown on the
Statue of Liberty but their geatest width seemed to be in their center."When
it reached its zenith, which in itself appeared to be no more than 1500
ft, off the glound, it lingered there for a few minutes: all the while
it emitted this light which lit up the whole area which before was in
complete darkness "It was circular or sphere-like, more like if you held only your fingertips and your wdsts together not letting the palms of your hands touch. In fact, if you would do this with your hands and turn your hands to your face with the fingers at eye level this is what the ufo most nearly looked like. "Its size was close to a half-dollar at arm's length. It emitted no sound, Lights around us didn't dim either. While in its zenith the UFO seemed to pulsate and fluxed from side to side or wobbled. Then another orb of light came from it. "This was a light about the size of a dime held at arm's length. It stayed by the side of the first UFO, then it too fluxed or wobbled and shot straight upwaids until it was nearly invisible. Then it just seemed to hang there almost indistinguishable fiom the other stars, After two or thrce more minutes passed, the first UFO wobbled, tumed on its side and darted upwards and outwards in a north-north-westerly dtection until it disappeared. "This whole spectacular phenomenon took about 12-17 minutes in its entirery. |
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| nov-70 | 2/04/1968 | superstition mountain phoenix |
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Superstilion Mountoins The exact date of this case is not known, but it took place in March of 1968. At that time, Mrs. Made Arnold, one of her wranglers (a cowboy) alld two officials of the Pinal County Health Department were north of Apacheland, Arizona (which is Iocated only a few miles south of Phoenix) taking photogaphs of rock outcroppings in the area. The photographer was using a Polaroid Land 210 Camera with color film, and concentrating on rock formations in the lower right hand corner of the photo (see above). He had just taken a photo, found the image above on it, tumed to Mm. Arnold and jokingly said; "Eyer see a flying saucer?" He then looked up at the mountains to se€ what was in the sky and saw all object fly by again. He had used all his film aod was not able to take another photo. The object was in sight for 5 secondsb etween the peaks of the left saddle. After it disappeared he heard a sound like "Whoomp," which lasted about one second. The visual object did not have the brilliance of the object in the photograph and looked like a stubby cigar with |Io wings or tail. The camera was ultimately checked for internal reflections but it was found to be normal. This photograph is one of several which Dr. Frieden is examining at the present time and any findings will be published in a future issue. |
| juil-70 | 1/08/1970 | catalogue des cas blue book |
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| juil-70 | 1/07/1970 | danvers illinois |
A young lady who watched Mrs. Lorenzen on a TV interview prograr in
Peoria, IUinois decided to attenq the Midwest UFO Conference ln that
city the next day. Two weeks later her parents observed a strange light
at their resldence in Danvers, Illinois and she informed Mrs. Lorenzen
of the incident by letter. Four members of the Aerial Phenomena Club of
Central Illinois (which sponsored and hosted the UFO Conference)
lnvestigated for APRO. Mr. Dale Dufelmeier is a Field InYestigator with
APRO, as is Mr. Laird Carter. Mike Morey is a member of APRo and the
fourth member of the team Richard Reynolds, ls a member of APCCI. The
four-man team is surrently lnvestigatlng other sighttngs referred to
APRO ln the central portion of Illlnois. By 9:30 p.m. on lhe evening of
July 1, 1970, Mr. F. had gone to bed. The bed stands against the window
on ttre north wall of the bedroom. Mrs. tr', came into the bedroom and
noticed a light through the window and after looking at it lor a few
seconds called it to her husband's attention and asked what it could be,
He opened his eyes and took note of the fact that the ught was bright
enough to be visible on the bedroom walls, He flrst thought it v,/as a
fire but there were only weeds in the area where the light $'as located,
and they were green and would not burn. He then got out of bed and
loined hls wife at the window. The couple watched the light for about 30
seconds during which time it appeared to be approaching them through a
dip ln the trees. Mrs. F. though it was a light on a hellcopter but it
was much too large and made no sound. Mr. F, mentioned that the light
seemed to enlarge as they watched and deduced that it was approaching
the house. Mrs. F. felt the light was about onethird of the dip in the
trees (20 feet in diameter) while Mr. F. felt it was the size of between
a dime and a nickel held at arm's length (or 50 feet in diameter at that
distance), Mr. F.'s lmpresslon was that the light was yellowish-white
and Mrs. F. sald it was reddish-orange. However, both agreed that it was
much brighter than any car headlight at that distance, though not as
bright nor the rlght color to be an arc light. As the light approached
the house its edges took on the appearance of a star, with potnts. It
dld not pulsate. The couple differed ln their opinion of how the thtng left: Mrs. F. said that just before lt disappea,red tt had the appearance of a car headlight turning to its left (he! right), while Mr. F. said he did not notice this butJust thought that it disappeared as lf being shut ofr. Both agreed that the llght was at the helght ot the top of the trees on either side of the dip ln the woods, or about 50 feet above the ground. They also agreed that the light moved fairly slowly at all times. No obJect was seen behlnd the llght although Mrs. F. mentioned something of a reddlsh glow or a short vapor trail. It was the conclusion of the investigators, after checking light sources ln the area, that the Fs observed an unldentlfied flying object. |
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| juil-70 | 1/08/1970 | association situ sur cas anterieurs a 1947 | SITU Donotes UFO Reportg To APRO After belng informed of APRO'S computer project, Mr. Ivan T. Sanderson, Dlrector of the Soclety for the Investigation of the Unexplained (SITU), dectded to provide APRO wlth its many thousands of UFO reports as a contrlbutlon towards the project. A large portion of these repork pre-date 1947. SITU'S ItFO repork wlll be lntegrated wlth APRO'S UFO reports in due course and many duplications wlll probably bave to be weeded out, T'lxose lndlviduals and organizations, both tn the U. S, and abroad, who have not sent thelr reports in to APRO are requested to do so shortly so that the data for the computer catalog san be as complete as possible. APRO ls lnterested in dt, reports of unldentified flying objects, regardless of their geographical location or date. | ||
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| juil-70 | 1/06/1970 | avenida niemeyer bresil ? Rio de janeiro | Multiple Wifness Occuponl Sighting in Brozil The greater percentage of occupant cases on nle with APRO lnvolve single wltnesses and for this reason the followlng incident ls considered to be unusually interesting. MIs. Irene Granchi, APRO'S Field Investigator in Rlo de Janeiro, acting on the information contained in a news item, investigated and learned the following: Three people, Mr. Aristeo Machado, 49, his wife D. Maria Nazare and Federal agent Aguiar, who is a fdend of the family, watched an object about the size of a Ford Galaxle, land on the ocean about 1 kllometer from the shore at about 11 a.m. on June 21. The Machado home is perched high above Avenida Niemeyer and afrords a sweeping view of the Atlantic Ocean. When the object settled down onto the surface of the sea, sea spray was thrown out on all sides. The witnesses flrst thought it was a boat trx trouble and went to a nearby hotel to telephone the Maritlme Police. However, the object floated another 100 meters closer to the shore and the three people were able to discern that it had a transparent cupola lnslde of whlch were clearly vislble two belngs in dark-grey overalls, wearing helmets. Both were smallish and thickset. Mrs. Granchl investlgated the case one week after it happened, at the same time of day and with the same llghtlng condlttons. She took note that a motorboat going by at approxlmately the same distance from shore was easily seen, lts passengers r[ere noted, but no details were vislble Further lnformation gleaned by Mrs. Granchi lncluded the fact that the object was reported to have a brtght rotattng light which changed from red to green to yellow. The object stayed on the surface of the water for between 30 and 40 minutes, after whlch lt took off qulckly in a low, long fllght out to sea. Mrs. Machado said that while she waited for Mr. Agutar to come back from the telephone she saw the object "relieve itself" of a yellow ball vr'hich proceeded toward the shore but was not floating for it was movlng against the current and seemed to be powered by something underneath it. At one pojnt the yellow ball relieved itself of another object, whlch was bottle green bx color and of uncertaln shape. Mrs. Machado ran down the beach after the yellow object and pointed it out to some chlldren but they all lost sight of it shortly. To our knowledge this is the flrst slghting of a UFO with ocupants which inyolved three wltnesses and lt is an important addition to our study of thls facet of the UFO mystery. | ||
| juil-70 | 7/01/1970 | finlande |
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Finns Observe UFO Occupont K. Gosta Rehn, APRO'S Swedtsh Representatlye has iorwarded the following acount of the observation of a UFO and its occupant by two Finns at 3:45 p.m. on January ?, 1970, The story lniually appeared in a Finnish magazine and Mr. Rehn contacted the author and satisfled himself as to the credibility of the t\4ro men. The account: The witnesses, Aarno Heinonen, 36, a forest worker, and Esko Viljo,3g, a farm worker, are active skllers and on the day in question they were on their lray to the skl area to re-deflne the ski track after a fresh snow. Upon aulYlng at the opening in the wood they stopped for a short rest. There were no clouds, no wind, and twillght was beginning. Both were startled to see a very bright light in the sky, comlng flom the north. It was enveloped ln a lumlnous fog. No sound was heard at first and the "cloud,'suddenly changed . course, starting toward the two men while tt gradually towered ltseu. A humming sound was heard and became louder as it neared the skiers .The "cloud" was red-gray in color, appeartng to pulsate while brooms of smoke were emitted from the top of the cloud. like smoke from chimneys. When it reached a dlstance of about 15 meters from the ground they could see that a round craft with flat bottom, and of shining grey metal was lnslde the cloud. It was aDproxlmately 3 meters ln diameter and around the lovr'er rim there appeared three round balls. From the center of the bowom part a pipe-like affalr protruded, estimated to be about 2 centimeters long and 5 centlmeters in diameter. The hummi4e sound increaslng, the object continued to aproach the men. The cloud appeared to be thinning out more and more and the craft stopped at about 3 or 4 meters from the ground. At this short dtstance the men could see that the object was round and as lt was incllned toward them they could see the dome on the upper part. Heinonen wa.s watching the reddish grey mist and said that suddenly he felt like something had seized hlm around the waist and pulled him backwards. He took a step back and at that instant notlced a creature was standing in the mlddle of the circle of light which issued from the "tube." The creature was about 90 centimeters in height, very thtrx with slender arms and legs and a waxy, pale face. No eyes were noticeable and the nose gaYe the appearance of a "hook." The creature was clothed ln some sort of overall material looking light green in color. The feet were encased in boots of a deeper shade of green and whlte gauntleLs covered hls hands and arms to his elbows. Cla$/ - llke flngers clutched a black box. Out of a round hole in the box a yellow light was pulsating. Viljo said that he didn't get an lmpresslon of clothlng on the little flgure but noted that he glowed "llke he was made of phosphor." His head, Viljo said, was crowned wlth a conical helmet which appeared metallic. The creature was ln slght for only about 15 to 20 seconds, according to the two men. 'Ihen he turned and the opening in the box was directed toward Heinonen and the light which it emitted was brilliant and almost blinding. The red-grey mist began pouring down from the c{aft and big sparks were jumping from the luminous circle on the ground. The sparks looked like luminous staffs, one centimeter long and red, green and violet. They seemed to flow outward from the circle, quite slowly, and some of them struck Heinonen and he was surprised that he did not feel them. The red fog shortly encompassed the creature and he was no longer vlsible. The light cone on the ground then appeared to be "sucked up" into the opening at the llottom of the object. Then when the red mist dlssipated the whole object was gone. The two men stood ihere for 2 or 3 mlnutes and Heinonen, who had been closest to the object and the lighted circle, experienced an insensitive feeling along his right side. When he attempted to step forward his rtght leg crumpled beneath him. Viljo had to half-carry and drag his friend to his home which qras located about 2 kilometers from the area where the object was seen. Mr. Heinonen's mothei, when questloned, E106revealed that when the men came home they pounded on the door See Finnish Occupant storv, tkls poge. and when she opened it they stood there, Heinonen leanlng on viljo. Vil.- jo's face was swollen and red. lleinonen $ras il], complaining of a backache, aching joints and a painful headache. He later vomited and in an interview with the writer of the article in the Finnish magazine, claimed that for a perlod of two months his urine aPpeared black in solor. | |
| mars-70 | 1/03/1970 | ovnis et power outage |
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| janv-70 | 4/12/1969 | athenes grece |
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Interesling Sighting Over Greece The following rcport v{as forwarded to APRO Headquarters by Christos Efthimiopoulos, a Professor of Mathematics at Athens, Greece. On the morning of December 4, 1969 at 4:45 a.m. Mr. Efthimiopoulos was on th terrace of his home when he observed an object $'hich appeared in the south. It was moving rapidly toy{ard the north and a part of its flight path took it above the Hymetos Mountain. Its observed trajectory was lineal and parallel to the horizon and its speed appeared to be uniform. Elevation 30 degrees. Professor Efthimiopoulos made the following observations: Object travelled through 80 degrees oI arc during a period of three seconds. Its shape was that of a mono-basic spherical section (see illustrations above) and its front and up to 60 degrees of its total form was brightly illuminated (white light). The rest of the object was sumciently illuminated for the whole shape to be distinctly visible. Its illumination did not seem to be produced by any internal source but a result of the difiused light produced by the friction of its leading edge against the atmosphere. The Professor felt that the illumination indicated the object was moving through the atmosphere. No noise accompanied its passage and it was so rapid that by persistence of vision it gave the impression of having a tail. The diagram shown above is described by Dr. Efthimiopoulos (from right tD left.): "A. At this point I caught sight of the brightly shining objeet." At D the Professor decided the object was a "flying saucer" or UFO due to its distinct shape. At E he observed it with most clarity. At F the object disappeared, probably into or behind clouds or it went out of the atmosphere. | ||
| sept-69 | 16/07/1969 | flippin airport arkansas |
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OBJECT PHOTOGRAPHED IN ARKANSAS The accompanying photograph was taken by Miss Vivian Kocher on July 16. 1969 rl0:00 a.m.' at Flippin Airport, Flippin, Arkansas. Mr. Lawrence Willett, manager of the airport and brother-in-law to the photographer, informed APRO of the incident and Miss Kocher, who lives in California, was contacted. She kindly provided the original color negalive and this is now being analyzed. None of the persons present during the photographing observed the diskshaped object over the Lear Jet. Miss Kocher says: "Unfortunately, I was not looking at the sky, so cannot confirm what type of object might have been there. I can only say that the marking rvhich appears on the film was not repeated in any of the other pictures on the roll, nor have I ever seen anything similar to it in any other picture I have ever taken." Miss Kocher used a Rollei 35 camera with Kodacolor fllm. Approximate setting was 125 at f.8. |
| sept-69 | 11/10/1969 | baralba queensland australie | BUZZINGO BJECTSIN AUSTRALIA Preliminary information reaching APRO indicates i hat a multiple-witness sighting of three objects took place on the 11th of October near Baralba, Central Queensland, Australia. According to baker Adrian Reimer, he nrst sighted two of the objects hovering about 12 feet above the ground. Startled, he awoke two friends, Mr. and Mrs. John Major and the three went inside and watched as the two objects climbed into the sky wlrere they appeared to join another, larger object at an estimated 20,000 ieet altitude. The larger object was shaped like a turtle, reflected more light than the moon and had craters on lt. The other two smaller objects were duller but flashed red and yellow lights. Mr. Reimer was returning home from Biloela by car when he sighted the two objects hovering above the ground "as if looking for a place to land." These two objects made a dennite buzzing sound which Reimer compared to the noise made by mosquitoes. The witnesses watched the spectacle until dawn when all three objects disappeared from sight. Police launched an inyestigation and if further news is forthcoming it will be included in a future issue ol the bulletin under follow ups | |
| sept-69 | 17/07/1969 | vermont | POSSIBLEE- ME FFECTINS VERMONT SIGHTING On the night oI July 17. 1969, at 10:30 p.m. Mr. X and Miss Y (names withheld on request) were parked in a lot adiacent to a flood control dam in an eastern Vermont town. Through the rieht side of the windshield a bright lieht, described as "brighter than se'/eral flash bulbs," was observed and appeared to be located approximately 300 yards from the car and a dead tree which was located at the end of the neld was silhouetted against the light. The light appeared to be triangular shaped. Mr. X got the impression that the light was the bright glare from a metallic surface with what appeared to be a railing at the top. The "railtrxg," he said, seemed to be made up of narrow areas of bdght light with dark areas between each ltght. The whole apparition was estimated to be about 20 x 20 feet. Suddenly, without the occupants of the car seeing the object move, it appeared in a position in front of their car which made it vtsible at the extreme upper part of the wtndshield. Mr. X became frightened, started the car and drove about a hundred feet toward the road leading out of the area. But Miss Y wanted to stop again and "see what it was.,, Mr. X stopped the car, but could not see the object. A sensation whtch he could not describe seized him, and he felt as though he was being drawn out of the car. He said it was not a shock, and nothing like he had ever felt before. However, it started with his head and spread throughout his body. He became unconscious momentarily and when he recoyered he fett as if he v/as being lifted out of the seat. His flrst reaction was to throw his body forward, grasping the steering wheel with both arms just below the steering wheel. Almost instanfly, he said, the sensation left him and he and Miss Y drove out of the area and returned to their homes. Miss Y's testimony indicates that she was conscious all of the fime and felt no unusual sensations. She did notice Mr. x "flinch" or shudder and fall forward, placing his arms around the steering post. However, she did not notice any lifting of Mr. X,s body. After X arrived home he called the police who referred him to the Vermont State Police who in turn referred him to Mr. Walter P. Eicken, ApRO's Field Investigator in New Hampshire to whom we are very grateful for the µinvestigation and ensuing report. | |
| sept-69 | 15/09/1969 | manuka nouvelle zelande | GROUND MARKS IN NEW ZEAI.AND A series of strange circular marks in a stand of manuka near Ngatea, Nev/ Zealand caused a flurry of comment and controversy during September and October. The first circle was found on the farm of Mr. B. G. O'Neil and measured 60 feet in diameter. Stranger still were three gouges in the ground which were arrangPd in a triangular formation, about nine feet aDart. Each of the indentations was accompanied by two smaller ones four or five feet from the largest holes. Blurreil photo (\et', resuhed when subject m,oied, ii i;rd while film coas exposed at slow shutter speed. Alter computer processed the blur and, directed its readout to a cathod,e-ray tube, imoroted, image ol subject's lace ( right) appeared. The condition of the manuka was what puzzled o'Neil and others who examined the area. when broken, the branches of the manuka showed the inside to be completely dehydrated and giving the appearance of carbon but with no outside indications of burning. However, the entlre plants were completely dried out and aPpeared to be bleached, Manuka outside the circle showed no similar effects. Horticulturist J. Stewart-Menzies, \'ho examined the area, stated to the press that geiger-counter examinations of the area, by Mr. E. Cooke allegedly presented evidence of a radiation increase over that of the surrounding vegetation. Cooke presented Stewart-Menzies with samples of the plants after his initial examination of the area aiter which the latter told the press that "no earthly source of energy could have produced this sort of effect" and further theorized that the phenomenon was produced by high frequency shortwave radiation. Various reports of unidentified flying objects which had been sighted either landing or hovering in the same area as the affected vegetation, led some to speculate that an outer space object had hovered there, affecting the plants. This theory was further bolstered by the presence of an additional area of withered manuka on the edge of the circle which suggested that something had not only hoyered there, but had left the area in that direction, affecting the additional area of manuka before it gained sumcient altitude so that it did not afrect other plants in its path. A month prior to the discovery of the withered vege-tation, a young man in Paeroa reported seeing an object which he described as a pulsating light which traveled in a direct line toward the area where the circle was later iound. The dried-out manuka was found quite by accident by Mr. O'Neil when he and a contractor discussed having the growth topped. He said that he had not been in the area for approximately nine months. Earlier in the year a young man who was drlving at night on a lonely country road ir the Ngatea area reported that he was scared almost out of his wits by an intense \r'hite, oval-shaped Iight which folloqred his car closely for several miles. The object eyentually disappeared out of sight over a range of hllls. Several months later tv/o hunters who were returning home at night in the same area were frightened when a huge, shining object approached their truck. As the object neared them the lighting system on the truck failed and the engine stalled. The object hovered nearby for several minutes, then sped out of sight. As soon as lt $ras gone their truck funciioned normally again. In october it was reported tbat two slmilar circles were found at Kaharoa near Rotorua. One ol the circles measured more than 50 feet, the other, which was less distinct, measured approximately 30 feet in diameter. They were found by Mr. C. T. Johnson of Te Waeranga road. However, ihe circles in the Johnson case were described as brown instead ol "bleached" and were located on the side of a steep hill. The part of the circles located on the upper slope of the hill were more "burnt" than the portion on the lower side, and were located in a grassy area. A bit of earth with some of the afrected grass clinging to it was sent to the Department of Scientiic and Industrial Research in 'lvellington to be analyzed. On the 11th of October the press reported that there was no mystery surrounding the strange circles for the Minister of Science, Mr. Talboys, had stated in an October 10th release that the Department of Scientiflc and Industrial Research believed that the manuka had been killed by a fungus known as saprophytic fungus, which was living in the dead tissue. ?he DallA Telegraph, which carried the story, pointed out that the Minister's statement made no mention of the strange marks found within the circle on the O'Neil ranch. It probably should have been pointed out by someone that it might have been possible for fungus spores to have been present eyen in the "burned-out" vegetation from the o'Neil farm. Talboys said that plant pathologists who had examined the site where the circle v,/as found had "found that the symptoms were consistent with death from fungus attack." He further said that "the dark colour of the lnterior of the dead stems is due to a nolmal saprophytic fungus which is living on dead tissue." IIe also said that no unusual radioactivity above normal background readings n'ere found during tests with very sensitiYe instruments. UFo researchers Yrho had begun an investigation as soon as they learned of the phenomenon say that the DSIR arrived on the scene too late to flnd any real answers. And considerinpl what was available in the press, it does not seem that the DSIR has answered all the questions needing to be ans{rered. It would have been very interesting to have learned of specific plant pathological tests performed, rather than what they "believed." | |
| sept-69 | 1/10/1969 | kaharoa nouvelle zelande | GROUND MARKS IN NEW ZEAI.AND A series of strange circular marks in a stand of manuka near Ngatea, Nev/ Zealand caused a flurry of comment and controversy during September and October. The first circle was found on the farm of Mr. B. G. O'Neil and measured 60 feet in diameter. Stranger still were three gouges in the ground which were arrangPd in a triangular formation, about nine feet aDart. Each of the indentations was accompanied by two smaller ones four or five feet from the largest holes. Blurreil photo (\et', resuhed when subject m,oied, ii i;rd while film coas exposed at slow shutter speed. Alter computer processed the blur and, directed its readout to a cathod,e-ray tube, imoroted, image ol subject's lace ( right) appeared. The condition of the manuka was what puzzled o'Neil and others who examined the area. when broken, the branches of the manuka showed the inside to be completely dehydrated and giving the appearance of carbon but with no outside indications of burning. However, the entlre plants were completely dried out and aPpeared to be bleached, Manuka outside the circle showed no similar effects. Horticulturist J. Stewart-Menzies, \'ho examined the area, stated to the press that geiger-counter examinations of the area, by Mr. E. Cooke allegedly presented evidence of a radiation increase over that of the surrounding vegetation. Cooke presented Stewart-Menzies with samples of the plants after his initial examination of the area aiter which the latter told the press that "no earthly source of energy could have produced this sort of effect" and further theorized that the phenomenon was produced by high frequency shortwave radiation. Various reports of unidentified flying objects which had been sighted either landing or hovering in the same area as the affected vegetation, led some to speculate that an outer space object had hovered there, affecting the plants. This theory was further bolstered by the presence of an additional area of withered manuka on the edge of the circle which suggested that something had not only hoyered there, but had left the area in that direction, affecting the additional area of manuka before it gained sumcient altitude so that it did not afrect other plants in its path. A month prior to the discovery of the withered vege-tation, a young man in Paeroa reported seeing an object which he described as a pulsating light which traveled in a direct line toward the area where the circle was later iound. The dried-out manuka was found quite by accident by Mr. O'Neil when he and a contractor discussed having the growth topped. He said that he had not been in the area for approximately nine months. Earlier in the year a young man who was drlving at night on a lonely country road ir the Ngatea area reported that he was scared almost out of his wits by an intense \r'hite, oval-shaped Iight which folloqred his car closely for several miles. The object eyentually disappeared out of sight over a range of hllls. Several months later tv/o hunters who were returning home at night in the same area were frightened when a huge, shining object approached their truck. As the object neared them the lighting system on the truck failed and the engine stalled. The object hovered nearby for several minutes, then sped out of sight. As soon as lt $ras gone their truck funciioned normally again. In october it was reported tbat two slmilar circles were found at Kaharoa near Rotorua. One ol the circles measured more than 50 feet, the other, which was less distinct, measured approximately 30 feet in diameter. They were found by Mr. C. T. Johnson of Te Waeranga road. However, ihe circles in the Johnson case were described as brown instead ol "bleached" and were located on the side of a steep hill. The part of the circles located on the upper slope of the hill were more "burnt" than the portion on the lower side, and were located in a grassy area. A bit of earth with some of the afrected grass clinging to it was sent to the Department of Scientiic and Industrial Research in 'lvellington to be analyzed. On the 11th of October the press reported that there was no mystery surrounding the strange circles for the Minister of Science, Mr. Talboys, had stated in an October 10th release that the Department of Scientiflc and Industrial Research believed that the manuka had been killed by a fungus known as saprophytic fungus, which was living in the dead tissue. ?he DallA Telegraph, which carried the story, pointed out that the Minister's statement made no mention of the strange marks found within the circle on the O'Neil ranch. It probably should have been pointed out by someone that it might have been possible for fungus spores to have been present eyen in the "burned-out" vegetation from the o'Neil farm. Talboys said that plant pathologists who had examined the site where the circle v,/as found had "found that the symptoms were consistent with death from fungus attack." He further said that "the dark colour of the lnterior of the dead stems is due to a nolmal saprophytic fungus which is living on dead tissue." IIe also said that no unusual radioactivity above normal background readings n'ere found during tests with very sensitiYe instruments. UFo researchers Yrho had begun an investigation as soon as they learned of the phenomenon say that the DSIR arrived on the scene too late to flnd any real answers. And considerinpl what was available in the press, it does not seem that the DSIR has answered all the questions needing to be ans{rered. It would have been very interesting to have learned of specific plant pathological tests performed, rather than what they "believed." | |
| sept-69 | 15/04/1968 | bogota colombie ovni , non debris appolo | CRASHEDU FO INVESTIGA. TION CIOSED The March-April, 1968, BuUetir carried a report of an object which crashed in Colombia the preceding month. A considerable amount of material was recovered and sent to Bogota by the police, where it was reported to have been inspected and analyzed by scientists and turned over to the United States Air Force. APRo was able to obtain a piece of the material from the colombian Institute of Nuclear Affairs when the Assistant Director visited colombia in Noyember, 1968. Verification was also obtained that the material had been handed over to the Air Attach6 at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota. The Air Attach6 stated that the material had been identified as being part of the Apollo V mission and its return had been requested "by NASA in washington." The material was composed of 84% tilal]ium, 13.4% aluminum and 2.670 vandium. On March 13. 1969. the Director of APRO wrote to the Office of Information of the Secretary of the Air Force requesting information and verincation that the object was part of the ApoUo V mission. On April 2, 1969, Major (now Lt. Colonel) James Aikman replled to APRO stating that ". the incident in Colombia was never reported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Furthermore, no pieces of the object have ever reached Project Blue Book." As a consequence, APRO wrote to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on June 16, requesting veriflcation that the object was part of the Apollo V mission. A reply was flnally received, dated Sep- - tember 12. 1969. not from NASA but once again from Lt. Colonel Aikman in the Pentagon. The letter simply stated that ". . . the material found in Colombia(sic) was part of the Apollo Mission and was returned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration." Meanwhile. APRO had consulted with engineeN and omcials in the aerospace industry who participated in the early Apollo missions and everything indicated that the material was, in fact, irom such a mission. Although we have not been able to proYe that E158the Colombian object was part of the Apollo V mission conclusively, there is good indication of this and consequently the investigation has been terminated. We inform members | |
| juil-69 | 4/07/1969 | anolaima colombie |
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UFO Observed al Farmhouse ln Colombia The following is a condensation
of a report on the Anolaima case recently received from APRO'S
Colombia,n Representative, John Simhon. The case involYes 11 witnesses
at a remote Iarmhouse near Anolaima, about 40 miles north-west of
Bogota. The observation commenced at 8 p.m. on July 4, 1969, when
Mauricio Gnecco, 13, saw a yellow-red light moving from east to west; he
was in the company of Enrique Osorio, 12, looking for "shooting stars"
outside the farmhouse. He immediately shouted to the other children
(Andres Franco, 13, Marina Franco, 11, Rosita N., 10, German N.. 14r who
were playing inside the house and the grown-ups (Arcesio Bermudez,
Lucrecia Bermudez, his sister, Rosa Ortiz, Luis Carbajal, the butler,
Evelia Carbajal, his wife) , telling them all to come out and see the "flying
saucer." At nrst they would not come, but upon Mauricio's insistance
they stepped out and watched the light, which was at a distance of about
600 feet. Mauricio obtained a flashlight (there is no electricity in the
area) and began to send signals in imltation of Morce Cod,e. At that
moment, the light source approached the house at a considerable speed
and remained suspended between two tall trees about 150 feet from the
farmhouse, lvhere it hoyered for about 5 seconds. See figure 2. While
this occurred, Mrs. Ortiz shouted to Mauricio: "That thing is coming
down upon us-turn that flashlight off, Mauricio!" The witnesses
described the object as follows: between 4 and 6 feet tall: yellow-orange
color with an apparent "arc of light" surrounding it; two "luminous
legs"-blue with green tips. The object made no sound. It then flew to
the right oi the iarmhouse E159and appeared to come low over a nearby
hill. Mr. Arcesio Bermudez, described as the only person in the group
who was unafraid, took the flashlight trom Mauricio and went running in the direction of the object_ IIts sister, Lucrecia Bermudez, followed him but, in the darkness, she fell to the ground. According to the testimony of the children and Mrs. Rosa Ortiz, Bermudez approached the area where the UFO was and began calling the butler Luis Carbajal, who was the only other adult male present, saying, ,'Luis, come here. Look at this Martian." Mauricio and Andres v/atched the object from a nearby hill and reported that it "blinked on and off." Finally, they saw it rise high into the sky and fly away in the direction ol Bogota. Mr. Bermudez returned to the farmhouse and told the other witnesses that he had approached the object, which had landed on the ground, to within a distance of about 20 feet, The object, he said, "blinked out" momentarily and he shone the flashlight on tt. IIe claimed that he saw "a person" inside. He described the upper half oJ the entity as "normal" but from the waist down the anatomy oI the "person" appeared to be like the letter "A" - v{hich was luminous. The object then "blinked on,' rose into the sky and disappeared. About five minutes after the object fle\r ofr, aU the witnesses saw another identical object, or the same one, crossing the sky at about 300 feet altitude. Its speed was "slow" and constant as it flew towards Bogota and it was also soundless. Two other adult persons, clemente Bolivar and Rosalba Prieto, who live about two miles from the farmhouse, reported a bright orange-yeUow light flying slowly towards Bogota at approximately the same time. within two days of the observation, the principal witness, Mr. Arcesio Bermudez was taken very ill; his temperature dropped to 95' F. and he had a "cold touch" although he claimed not to feel co1d. Within a fev/ days his condition became far more serious; he had "black vomits" and diarrhea with blood flow. IIe was taken to Bogota and attended by Dr. Luis Borda at 10:00 a.m. on July 12 and later by Dr. Cesar Esmeral at 7:30 p.m. At 11:45 p.m., local time, Mr. Bermudez died. APRO has a copy of the medical report signed by Dr. Esmeral diagnosing the cause of death as gastroenteritis. Neither of the two doctors knew of Mr. Bermudez's UFO experience, which may, or may not haYe some bearing on the case. APRO-COLUMBIA became aware of the incident four days after the death of Mr. Bermudez, on July 16. On that day, the children Andres, Marina, Enrique and Maurlcio were placed into a hypnotic trance try Dr. Luis E. Martinez, Professor at the National University of Colombia,. At the hypnotic session, which took place in Dr. Martinez's omce at 8 p.m., were APRO Representative John Simhon and Field Investigator Elias Nessim. The hypnotic session was requested by the relatives of the children. The taped testimony of the children while under hypnosis is almost identical to the testimony already obtained and to the testimony of the adult witnesses (with the exception ol Arcesio Bermudez, wtro was dead and consequently was never interviewed by APRO-COLOMBIA). The investigators consider all the witnesses to be of unquestionable integrity and honesty. While under hypnosis, the children nrst said that the object was "a very bright light" and later referred to it as "a UFO." Mauricio, however, referred to the object as "a UFO" right away. 'Ihe children were made to draw the object while in a hypnotic state which can be oompared to their previous drawings. Jose Barreto, a psychologist, was also present at the session. The next day, July 1?, Representative Simhon and Investigator Nessim visited the farmhouse with the witnesses, determined where the object had been observed and conducted further intensive questioning. None of the witnesses claim to have seen the object actuaUy land; this was only claimed by Bermudez who supposedly approached the object on the ground. Luis Carbajal, the butler, described hon' he heard Bermudez shouting for him to "come and see the Martian" but he only saw the object flying away betv/een the trees. All of the witnesses' testimony agrees generally and although the farmhouse lies under a route for air traffic to Bogota International Airport, they all claim to know the appearance and performance of conventional aircraft and that the object in question was something entirely different. Another interesting aspect of the case is the reported "animal reaction" due to the presence of the UFO. A monkey named "Michin" commerced to screech loudly and persistently and several dogs around the farm began howling. This was reported by aU the witnesses and confirmed by Mrs. Rosa Ortiz, an elderly lady, who explained how the object had two "blue legs" with green lights on the tips. This is b€lieved to be the irst reported "monkey reaction" to ItFOs. The APRO investlgators were not able to flnd any physical evldence of the presence of the UFO. Speculation arose as to cause of death of Arcesio Bermudez. His clothes and wrist-watch were sent to the Colombian Institute of Nuclear Affairs (CINA) which has cooperated with APRO in the past. CINA informed APRO-COLOMBIA that the symptoms of Bermudez's illness q/ere similar to those caused by a lethal dose of gamma rays, although no report from CINA has yet been received. Dr. Horace C. Dudley, Prolessor of Radiation Physics at the University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, says that "The illness and death of Mr. Bermudez nav be doe to radiation efiects but there is not one bit of laboratory data to support such a conclusion without a complete autopsy and pathological (microscopic) study a physician would not be warranted in giving a more specific cause of death." Dr. Benjamin Sawyer, APRO Consultant in Medicine, says: "The symptoms of enteritis... are nearly identical to one of the three basic forms of (intestinal) illness from radiation exposure. There is nothing superficially apparent to distinguish the two illnesses. This is because radiation illness affecting the intestinal tract is truly a form of enteritis which can be due . . . to many things. There is nothing specific in the .. . medical report to indicate whether the death was due to enteritis or radiation injury." APRO expects further news soon from Colombia which may cast new light on the case. Unless proven otherwise, it is APRO'S contention that Arcesio Bermudez died of natural causes. Further information will be published when available. Figure 1 Drawing of UFO by Mauricio enecco while in hypnotic trance. Please Send Address Changes Figure 2 Drawing of UFO by Enrique |
| juil-69 | 13/07/1969 | garison iowa |
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The following incident was ilrvestrgated by Field Investigator clenn Mc- Wane and member LeRoy Latham. Aerial photograph accompanying this report were furnished by Mr. Mcwane. The initial interyiew was obtained by Mr. Latham, and later Mr. Warren Barr, who owns the property involved, declined to allow his daughter Kathy to be interyiewed further. On the night of the 13th of July pat Barr and her 17-year-old cousin Kathy Mahr were preparing for bed in the upstairs bedroom at the Barr farm home, ?72 miles south of carrison, Iowa. Pat's attention was causht by the sound of whai seemed lo be a low-nying jet and she went to the north v/indow and looked out in the direction of a neighboring farm. She called to her cousin and both girls watched a strange object which appeared to be hovering oyer a large bean neld on the Barr farm, Kathy's description is as follows: The object had a duu metallic finish which was easily discerned because of the two rows of lights which were arranged across the face of it at midline. It appeared like two ,,cofiee saucers" placed rim to rim, and rotated as it hovered. The sighting lasted for only a few seconds, alter which the object left at such high speed that the girls did not know precisely which direction it rvent, except that it went past their window. The area where it had hovered was glowing red after the object disappeared from sight. Neither of the girls were frightened, but were curious about the strange-appearing craft. At breakfast the next day the girls told the Barrs about what they had seen and Mr. Barr tended to be skeptical and attributed the whole thing to "a figment of their imagination." However, Iater that morning he discovered, at the spot indicated by the girls, a nearly circular patch of ground in his bean field which was almost bare. The bean vines appeared to have been burned althouEh there was no evidence of flame. The area in the field which was "burned' 'is approximately 40 feet in diameter and was easily seen from the air. The local news medla showed interest in the incident and a taped interview with the Barr girl n'as made nrhich was played on a local radio station. Most of the residents seemed inclined to attribute the spot io a "nreball" or lightning. Mr. Barr does not rule out lightning entirety, and when interviev/ed said that he hadn't informed authorlties at flrst because he {ras skeptical. pat BarI stated that she was convinced that the object she had seen had caused the damage to the bean crop and that it was an "air-flying object from outer space." ft "wasn't anything earthly,', she sald. Mr. Barr told interviewers that he "would hesitate to guess,, at the object's identity and the cause of the scar on the neld, but did say that he felt it was "something unusual - I,1l put it that way." Samples of the bean vines from rnside the circle, near the outside and from elsewhere in the field were gathered by Mcwane and are now beinq examined by an APRO consultant. Ai in the past, there is lit e liketihood that the bean vines will furnish a clue to n hat happened, but the tests must be made anyway, Tests for radiation at the site revealed nothing abnormal, and similar tests of the vine samples were also negative. Any further information will be presented in a future issue. |
| mai-69 | 15/03/1967 | chu lai city vietnam |
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UFOP hotographedi n Vietnam Stalf artist Norman Duke has forwarded the photo shollyr above which he obtained from a member of the U.S. Marines Medics in South Vietnam. The serviceman, who will remain anonymous, was riding in the back of a military truck with a group of ma, rines and taking random shots of the area with his Electro-3s Yashica camera. Just beiore he snapped the shutter for this pholo a tast-moving silvcry object moved into the view finder from the upper left. He clicked the shutter and hls first impression was that the object was a jet. However, it moved on out of sight and he noted that there was no sound made whaisoever. No exact date for the photo is known, except thai it was taken in mid-March 1967 between Chu-Lai city and their base camp 20 miles north of the city. | |
| mai-69 | 1/01/1967 | wrexham wales angleterre |
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More On Welsh Case The 1967 UFO observation near Wrexham, Wales, (see Page 8, March- April Bulletin) has been investigated by Mr. Anthony Pace, APRO'S British Representative. Mr. Pace's report has confirmed the details supplied previously by the witness, Mr. Martin Williams. Mr. williams had originally described the object as being 45-50 feet in diameter, 15 feet thick and at an altitude of about 150 feet. In Mr. Pace's report, the obiect is described as being 50 feet in diameter, 10-15 feet thick and at an altitude of about 200 feet. These details are consistent, considering that the observation is now two years old. The shape, color and performance of the obiect described in Mr. Pace's report are also consistent with the original data provided bY the ydtness. Mr. Pace visited the exact observation spot with the v{itness and established lhat at 5145 p.m. (British Standard Time), when the observation took place, it would be unlikely for other persons to have been in the area. 'Ihe witness states that right after the observation he was able to flag down a truck on route to Wrexham, but the driver was only able to conlirnl seeing an unusual and bright flash in the sky. In his report on the case, Mr. Pace concludes: "From the conversation which lasted perhaps two hours I came to the conclusion that Mr. williams had quite genuinely observed an aerial object which was completely unknown in his experience." we include a drawing of the object as observed by Mr. w [llams: |
| sept-68 | 1/09/1968 | perou |
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Photo of Two Discs in Peru The photo reproduccd above is a color photograph taken in the Ancash Mountains of Peru, presumably during this summer's UFO activiby. Richard Greenwell, APRO s Peruvian representative, is investigating the sighting and the photograph, and points out that if it is authenticated, it will not only be the first photo of TWO objects taken at one time, but probably one of the very few photos of a UFO which show a clearly defined outline and the typical disc-shape. Despite the fact that complete details are not available, it was felt that the members would like to see this Dhoto as soon as possible. |
| sept-68 | 31/08/1968 | mendoza argentine | The Mendoza 'Conlacl' One of ihe many detajled and perplexing accounts of UFO landings and contacts in South America took place early in the morning ol August 31 when two casino cashiers were on their way home from wgrk. The iol- Iowing details were furnished by rnember Daniel Molina of Buenos Aires: As the men drove along, the engine Mendoza- (Continued, Jronl Page one) of their car suddenly failed. The two got out to lnvestlgate the cause, and urere almost immediately surrounded by four smallish men (less than four feet) n'ho were entirely bald and who appeared to be rather stocky for their height. They seemed to talk to the two men without using their lips, and the men said they felt as though a transmitter inside their heads were generating the words: "Don't fear, don't fear." During the course of this "conversation" the little men allegedly said that the sun was "the reason for everything," and that mathematics is the universal language. They then produced something which resembled a television screen whicb showed first a scene llke that of Niagara Falls, next a giant ascending cloud, and then what appeared to be Niagara Falls but without the water, and only the rocky background showing. Then, with some kind of instrument, one of the belngs made marks on the slde and running board of the car. The next part of the incident involved blood-taking which was accomplished by the little men who pricked the mtddle finger of each of the men's hands. The men, although frightened, could do nothing but stand there until their visitors were finished, n'hereupon the latter went to their ship whlch was a disc-shaped objest hovering about 3 feet above the ground near the road. They estimated that the diameter of the object was about 18 leet and said that it gave off a powerful light which illuminat€d the ground underneath lt. As soon as the little men had left, the tvro got back lnto their car, which started with no difficulty, and drove to the Military Academy which was nearby. They made thelr report, and the man on duty there not only noted their agitatlon, the marks on their fingers, and the marks on the car, but volunteered that he had seen ttre object leaving the vlclnity. A Mrs. Maria Splnelll, a resldent of the general area, later report€d that she had seen a strange lighted object in the vicintty, and cross-checking indicated that her slghting colncided wittr the ti.me that the two cashlers had thek experience. Another corroboratttcg (but unpub- Itshed at the tlne) inctdent in the area took place about a vreek before the abov€-descrlbed incident. An oll company employee was engaged in sample gathering on top of some oU storage tanks and when he finlshed and descended to the ground he found a humanold, whose appearance generaUy flts tftat of those described above, who showed him a TV screen ln which he could see people walking very slowly on a floor whicb appeared to be tiled, but there was no background of any kind behind them except for a yellowlsh color. The ,,behg,' told the fear-paralyzed worker that "many of these (referring to the persons on the screen) were like you, marly of you will be like them,,, and then vanished completely from the E222man's slght. We cannot even attempt to analyze thess sightings at thls time, but lt is certain that something strange has been takirxg place in three South Amerlcan countries: Brazil, Argentina and Chile. If any information becomes avallable which wlll shed some light on these alleged incidents lt | |
| sept-68 | 5/09/1968 | madrid Espagne |
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Triangle.ShapeOdb iecr SighredO ver Madrid The third or fourth sighting of a triangle-shaped object moving through the skies over Madrid, Spain. took place on September 5th, during the evenlng rush hour, at 7:30 p. m. Various individuals reported their. impressions of the object, and several photos (see above) were taken, some through telescopic lenses. Although people on the ground who obseryed the object for approximately one hour generally described the object as triangular in shape, a pilot who attempted to intercept the thing claimed it was pyramid shaped and that there urere three globes of bright Light at its base. This pilot climbed to 50,000 feet but had to abandon the chase when his fuel ran low, and the object uras still a great distance above him. F-104 jets were dispatched to investigate but could not get to the altitude of the object. An official statement from the Madrid Observatory said that they did not know what the object was but that they assumed it was a satellite.'lhis explanation was not accepted by the general public, however, because of the length of time that the object was visible. Apparently in answer to the Madrid Observatory's statement, a U. S. space tracking facility at Robledo, Spain stated that the object was definitely not an American satellite. The Spanish weather bureau added their denial that it n'as one of their meteorologicial balloons. As various authorities vainly tried to account for the strange object, a "respectable government source" suggested that tt might have been a meteorological balloon which had drifted in from France. This theory collapsed, however, when French technicians said they had constantly tracked the ballosn in question and that it had not drifted over Madrid. The Spanish Air Force announced during the furor over the "thing" that their modern, American-desigred radar network had picked up the UFO, although only briefly, and this gave rise to much speculation about the reason why the vast U. S. Air Base at Torrejoon on the outskirts of Madrid did not register the object on their screens. At any rate, official announcements to the contrary, the object was still unidentified 21 days later, on the 26th of September and at this writing no solution has been found to thepuzzle. At the beginning of this article e mentioned other "triangles" over adrid in the past, During a recent ile search it was noted at APRO eadquarters that triangle-shaped objects had been observed at least |
| sept-68 | 5/07/1968 | fonseca bresil |
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Phoro Of UFO From Brazil Professor Flavio Pereira. President of The Brazilian Institute of Astronautics and Space Sciences as well as APRO'S Representative, has submitted the photo shown above along with the following details: At 1 a.m., on the morning of 5 July 1968, Ibrahim Rodrigues Fonseca, a proiessional photographer, was suffering from bronchitis, so he stayed awake reading until the attack subsided. While sitting beside an open window Fonseca saw a large light descending from the sky. The upper part of the object seemed to be spinning at a high rate of speed and gave off a brilliant yellowish light. ponseca rushed away from the window, came back and took the photograph just before the object ascended out of sight, He estimated that a period of about 2 minutes elapsed from the time he sighted the object descending until it took off. The disc-shape in the upper part of the photo is the object, while the lighted area below |
| juil-68 | 29/08/1967 | cussac France |
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Occuponls ln Frcnce Accompanying this article are drawings depicting the general physical characteiistics of four "occupants" observed on the zfth of August 1967. Tttis information was contained in the French language periodical "Phenomenes Spatiaux" which can be obtained at the following address by anyone who liishes to subscribe: G.E.P.A. 69, rue de la Tombefssoire. Paris, 14e, France. I'his incident, although witnessed only by children, is most interesting, especially in view of the fact that it took place in the day- Ilme: On the date mentioned, Francois Depleuch, 13% and his sister Anne Marie, 9, accompanied by their dog Medor, were looking after a herd of cows near their home on the plateau of Cantal, at the village of cussac, which is 20 kilometers WSW of Saint-Flour. At 10:30 a.m., the cows were about o jump over a low wall and Francois climbed up on a pile of stones whereupon he saw, on the other side of a hedge, about 40 meters (150 feet) away, what he thought were four children whom he dlid not recogrrize. They appeared strange-they and their cloihing are completely black and have a silken look. No leatures were visible. Near the four {igures was a large, extremely brilliant sphere which shone so much it was difficult to look at. One of the small creatures was bending over and seemed to be busying himself with something on the ground, while another, holding an object which reflects the sun like a mirror, waved his hands and seemed to be making signs to his compamons. At this pdint Francois called out: "Are you coming to play with us?" At that moment the creatures. who did not seem interested in the children, seemed to realize that they were being watched. The first figure "flew up" vertically and dived head flrst into the top of the sphere. The second followed him in the same manner and the third one, after standing up, did the same. (See drawings for sequence of events). The fourth figure rose off the ground, came down again, appeared to pick up something, then he took off again and caught up with the sphere which, during this time, had begun to rise, describing small circles and hail reached a height of about 15 meters (50 feet). The fourth little figure then disappeared into the sphere in the same manner as the other three. As the sphere rose from the ground a low, fairly sharp "hisslng" noise was heard, mingleal with a noise like a breeze blowing which neither of the children felt. The object described a lew nore circles, still rising, and the intensity of the light emitted by the object increased greatly. Then the noise stopped and the sphere made off at fuu speed into th€ Northwest. At the same time that all of this was happening, a smell of sulphur was detected by the children and the cows began to bellow and become uneasy. The dog Medor was barking and appear ed to want to follow the object. Fbancois and Anne Matie, because of the cows' upset, were obliged to bring them in a half hour before the usual time. Details of the sphere are poor, probably because of the briuiance of the light. It was a perfect sphere, the children said, about two meters in diameter (6% feet approximately ), a very bright silvery color with no inscriptions, protrusions or openings that could be seen. Anne Marie claimed that she saw four stilt-like legs supporting the sphere, but Flancois did not. Ilancois felt that Anne Marie might have mistaken some branches in the bushes for legs. Tte details of the creatures are very interesting and quite detailed: Ihey were about 1 meter, 20 centimeters (3%4 feet) in height, but all tyere not oI the same height. lte trirst and the second (see sketches) are the smallest and the largest was the fourth. Tte children could not discern whether the black color was the color of their skin or if they were wearing suits of some kind, but they did not trote any visible border line between a pos3ible garment and the creatures' heads, which appeared to b€ Dare. The arms were a little long and slender, and no hands were noted. The legs were short and slender, and the "feet" of the fourth, when he caught up u'ith the sphere, appeared to be webbeal. Although the head appeared to be normal in size relative to the body, the skull was poilted and the chin very marked. The nose was also pointed ( according to Anne Marie). Both Ftancois and Anne Maiie agreed that the litde creatures sported a "beard," It was situated on each side of the head, with a little tuft under the chin. No eyes or mouth were evident. Neither was there any indication of an apparatus which enabled the creatures to "fly". This incident was investigated and written for "Phenomena Spatiaux" by Joel Mesnard and Claude PaW who pointed out that minute differences were found in the t€stimony of the children, but which could be accounted for by lack DRAWING NO. 2 illustrates ground plan of sighting. Nole sphere, liftle men at upper left, children and dog below road at cenler and cows al lower righi. DIAWING NO.3 depi.ts paths of litle men as they flew, then dived into sphere. Nole diffrerencein size. DRAWING NO, 4 shows oath of fourlh little man as he dives into gphere, as well as molion and path of sphere at take-off. of attention, etc. of one or the other. Their attempts to confuse tlle children and thereby cause them to contradict one another were of no use-both seemed very sure of what they had witnessed. We wauld like to state that this is one of the most detailed anal carefully investigated ocsupant cases we have had the pleasure to examine and the staff of G.E-P.E. are to be congratulated on itsprese!,tatlion, |
| juil-68 | 18/05/1968 | caconde bresil | We have heard, in the course of the past 21 years, of many UFO residuals which although exhaustively investigat" ed and analyzed, prove almost as puzzling after analysis as they did before, but the following case is one of the, most intriguing. On the 18th of May, 1968, at 5 a.m. C. S, Dos Santos, a night watchman at Caconde, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, re. turned home from his nightly work and fould, in the courtyard of his house. a very curious object which was partly buried in the ground. It was quite heavy (comparable to a car battery) of grey polished metal, had no seams or rivets or screws showing and was cylindershaped and abou the size of a medium, sized powdered milk can. At each end of the cylinder $rere dials which looked to Dos Santo like manometers. One dial displayed a black hand and the other a red one. These dials appeared to be encased under a glass or plastic lens and Dos Santos observed embossed fieures on them arrangedi n a semi-circleH-.e thought they resembled our arabic numerals. Above each ligure there were other signs which Dos Santos could not decipher, and, being curious. he took the object into the house with him. His wife said she thought it might be a time-bomb and did not want it about, but Dos Santos put it on the floor and allowed their small son to handle rt. As was his custom, Dos Santos breakfasted and then went to bed, but before retiring he put the object on the slatwindowsill of the bathroom. After getting up that evening, he went to work at his usual time, having complotely forgotten about the object. At about 1 a.m., Dos Santos went back home to check on his wife who was pregnant and was surprised to find all the doors and windows open and the house brightly lit. Neighbors were outside with his wife, and both Mrs. Dos Santos and their son were in a very agitated state. Mrs. Dos Santos then told her husband of the strange events of the night. She had been awakened by a sound like the "buzz of a big transformet'' and a feeling of intense and stifling heat, despite the bitter cold of the night. She decided to get up and switch ofl the main electric switches, fearing that there had been a short circuit. As she left the bedroonL she noted a bright bluish Ught coming from the little bathroom, from which the noise apparently wasenunating also. FYightened, she decided to call the neighbors and did so immediately. The neighbors had just gotten over to 'hliegrh ty ar:d, heard the sound and saw the when they heard a verv loud noise like tiles breaking. Immediately after th,is sound was heard the heat stopped and the light in the house went out. After hearing this Dos Santos went into the house to investigate, and in the bathroom he found a hole in the roof, there was tile scattered all over the floor and the object which he had left on the sill was gone. The indication is, oI course. that thi object either took off o{ its own accord, making a hole in the roof as i.t lef , or was somehow taken out of the hous€. All the witnesses (Mr. and Mrs. Dos Santos and their neighbors) were interviewed and their testimony taken by Dr. Max Berezowsky, M.D., and Dr. Methodius Kalkasieff (Architeot) on behalf of the Brazilian Commission for Confidential Ilvestigation of Unidentified Aerial Objects (CBPCOANI) and forwarded to APRO by Professor Flavio Pereira, the organization's president and APRO'S representative in Brazil. We are indebted also to Mrs. Irene Granchi of Rio de Janeiro, our official Portuguese translator. | |
| juil-68 | 1/07/1968 | planete entre mercure et soleil | New Plonel Italian Astonomer Raffaele Bendandi has announced in Faenza, Italy his discovery of a new planet which orbits between Mercury and the Sun at a distance of 25 million, 260 kilometers from the Sun, and which rotates around the Sun in 25 days and 10 hours, approximately. | |
| juil-68 | 4/05/1968 | sur fleuve brown's bank ns usa | Obiect Heols Up Boot In N.5. On the 4th of May Captain Woodron' Atwood, skipper of the fishing boat "Which Way In" had a puzzling experience with a lighted objeot at 8 p.m. about one and a half hours south of Seal Island. Atwood said that he was watching the compass when he spotted a light to the north which appeared about the size of a "match light." "Suddenly," he said, "it burst into a blood red light and appeared to be about 50 to 75 yards aivay and coming towards the boat." As Atwood watched, heat apparently from the object became so intense that he had to move away from the window. AJter that, the object floated overhead for about five rninutes and then lowered and seemed to lloat away from the boat and toward "Brown's Bank." Atwood radioed anyone listening to tell of his experience and was answered by the skipper of the "Racer" who said that his crew had just called him to report that a huge ball of red light had just missed the spars of the boa when it passed over. Atwood told reporters later that the heat from the light was so intetse that he had expected his boat to be "burned" belore the objeot left, and crew member William Nickerson, also aboard the "Which Way In" said that it was a "frightening experience " | |
| juil-68 | 17/05/1968 | "El Inferinillo" Observatory in Chile, |
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The Alvial Pfiotos Mr. Pablo Petrowitsch S., APRo's new representative for Chilg has forwarded the full report of the photos taken at the "El Inferinillo" Observatory in Chile, one of which is shown above. The basic details: Since October 1967, technicians operating the cosmic ray instruments at the observatory bave been observing a series of luminous phenomena which have been given the desigration F.P.E. (Phenomena Requiring Explanation) by Observatory chief Professor Gabriel Alvial C. The phenomena have the appearance of stars o{ a magnitude Zero to one, move about and hover in space. Some of the photographs taken during a static period of the phenomela show luminous rings of Fres[el diffraction. The El Fiernillo Observatory is a part of the Faculty of Physical Science and Mathematics of the University of Chile and is located at an altitude of 4,343 meters (13,600 feet) in the cordillela de los Andes, at latitude 33 degrees, 10 minutes soulh and ?0 degrees, l? minutes west. The above photograph was taken from the Observatory at 01:35 ho{rs G.M.T. on May 17, 1968 and is one of three photographs taken over a period of 60 minutes of a flickering ligFt. The smaller light showing above and to the left of the phenomenon corresponds to that of the E1 Roble Obs€rvatory vrhibh is almost 100 kilometers from El Inferinillo and is located at an altitude of about 2000 meters. Professor Alvial states that the Cosmic Badiation Cer$er prelers not to use the terms OVNI (Spanish for ttFO) or UFOS or other terms in its search for an explanation of these "possible natural phenomena." Currently, the Center is canvas"sing various foreign and international institutions for funds by which to purchase and install a space scaruring camera, the cost of which is estimated to be about $35.000 and iacludes one year's operatine costs. Anv further details which maY be available on this case will be published in the near future. We might say that this is the first time, to our knowledge that any government-supported institution has released for public consumption a photograph |
| mars-68 | 30/10/1967 | caracas venezuela |
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Object Phologrophed AI Caracas Mr. George Steinheil, a German-born professional photographer and resident of Caracas, Venezuela, was taking color photos to be included in an advertise- .*. / ment layout for a car agency,a t 7:15 a.m. on October 31st. Although at the time of the photo$aphy, Steinheil and his attendants saw nothing unusual in the sky, rvhen the film was developed an unusual and totally unexplained object was very obvious in the photo. (See above). He had taken four diflerent exposures and after careful examination deduced that the object was not an internal re" flection in the camera nor was it a {law in the negative, for the image of the object is completely bisected by the limb of a tree in ihe foreground, indicating that the image is that of an objectwhich momentarily flew into and out of view. the original photo shows a flattened, bun-shaped object, yellowish-white in color, with a darker shading oI what ap. pears to be exhaust, below it. The background is a yivid blue sky and the build. ing on the hill opposite lhe camera is the llumboldt Hotel. Although Steinheil does not assert that the object is a "space ship" he does feel that a very unusual and speedy object flew past during the photography. |
| janv-68 | 1/01/1962 | 300 km de lima perou en vol |
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Photo Caption Correclion The caption appearing on page six of our last Bulletin issue (January-February 1968) New Phofo of Londed Obiecl Shown at the left is a reproduction of a colored slide ol an object on a mountain top in the Peruvian Andes 300 miles from Lima. The photo was taken by a passenger on a Lima to Buenos Aires jet flight in 1962 and furnished to APRO by an Argentine member. The Lima- Buenos Aires flight has been discon" tinued so it is not now possible to check the area although efforts are still being made. However, the large object is not the tlTe of building to be found in that inaccessible area and inquiries to the Peruvian Air Force have not elicited any inlormation. close irspection of the slide indicates the circular object is just above the ground rather than resting on lt.identilied lhe obiect as being on a mountain top in the Peruvian Andes. This statement was in error. The photo was taken in an area of the coastal plain be{ore the airliner turned inland to make a crossing of the Andes to Bue. nos Aires. Although letters to the Peruvian Air Force have brought no response, an Argentine officer, who has examined the original negative states that he feels sure lhat the object" is a bombing tar- gel used by lhe Peruvian Air Force for - bombing practice. He states that an enlargement of the original reveals craters in the area to support his conclusron. |
| sept-67 | 9/10/1967 | tucson az |
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Landing At lucson ,' After the Lorenzens returned to TucsoD from thcir
nleeting with the Con' don Committee in Boulder they received r messagc
that a landing had taken place near Tucson and contacted their
inforrnanl. A meeting $'as alranged with the people involved, and they
proceeded to lhe home of a prominent businessman li\.ing in thc vicinity
01 Speedway Boulevard and Harrison Road, which is east 0l the city
proper. The name oI the people involved in this incident will not be
given as they have requested anonymity. Their storyi At 5:40 p.m. on the
gth of October, 14-year-old Richard was coming home. Hc had ridden his
bicyclc part way home with a friend and was returning. He haLl been
follo$ing the lrack o{ a minibike, then decided to ride up a wash. There
had becn some rain and the floor of the wash was hard packed. Richard
was nearly home when he had to ride rp the side of wash to avoid a tree
which $'as growing across the wash in hispath As he detoured, he spotted
an unusual object ahead. At this point he was about 44 feet away from
the object. He rode a little further until about 35 feet from it when
the object left the ground, ascended straight up with a discernible side-to
side motion, and disappeared within 12 seconds. The object was estimated
to be about 8 leet tall. 2% feet wide and shaped like a cytinder. It
appeared to be metallic, "Londing"- ( CorLtinuedf,r onx Page One)
supported by two legs which angled out lrom the bottom, ending in two "feet.
in the shape of round "pads." A curved bar ran between the "legs" just
above the "leet", as of a strengthening member. Richard immediately went
to his home and told his mother what he had seen and she came with him
to the spot and took several color photos of the impressions left by the
object and the general area. One is produced here. Please note what
appears to be a twisted character, istic of the prints. The space from
edge to edge of the impressions measured about 42 in€hes and the tracks
themselves measured 13 inches across. Richard is a bright young boy and
is apparently telling the truth. His parents are to be lauded for
immediately photographing the evidence and attempting to preserve it.
The terrain clearly showed Richard's bicycle tracks and his footprints,
indicating, as he stated, that after the object left, he approached to
within about two feet 01 the place where the object had rested. It would
not have been possible for the boy to have made the impressions without
aid, and there were no other tracks indicating the presence of others.
Richard's father called Dr. James Mc- Donald of the University of
Arizona Department of Atmospheric Physics who recommendedt hat he cali
in the Air Force. McDonald arrived on the scene almost immediately with
a team oi college students and took measurements, etc. The Air Force
arrived in due time and did likewise. During the following week McDonald
called the family and seemed concerned that the ilcident might get into
the newspapersA. week after the incident the Air Force called again, and
it seems that they were directed to pursue the matter further. However,
rain had obliterated the jmpressionsa nd there was nothing left to
investigate. After the Lorenzets had completed their investigation, a
local member was told of the incident and he set about checking with
contacts at Dayis-Monthan AFB concerning the Air Force' conclusions. He
contacted the UFO officer at the Base who said that he had heard nothing
oI the purported landing. leftecting sunlight, but not reflecting ihe images oI trees, brush, etc. It was |
| juil-67 | 28/06/1967 | Newcaslle, Penn. Usa |
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FIYING SAUCER-Thiss aucer-shapeodb ieci was photographedb y Gabriel Kozorao f New Castle. Pa., wiih a Polaroid UFO Snopped ln Penn. Gabriel Kozora of New Castle, Pennsyh'ania claims that on the 28th oI June he saw an object {lying toward him from {hc south and^snappedllyg_Ibgim of it. See photo above. The object was accompanied bl, a sound like a hundred iels' as it came into view. It stopped and hovered above him for about 15 seconds, lhcn hcaded into rhe northwFsl. Kozora said he took one photo, waited 10 seconds for it to develop, then snapped another with his Polaroid camera "I just don't know what to believe," he said, "I still think the government has something to do with them." Kozora refused to appear on television to tell about his experience but later changed his mind and was interviewed in Pittsburgh. It should be noted that the object in the Kozora photo closely resembles, in outline, the brilliant object which was struck by a car in Ohio in July. The Ohio object was soundless, however. camera whiie he was iaking piclures of his I l-yearold son Jimmy- Kozora said the obiect, about 60 {eel long, hovered {or l5 seconds before heading norlhwest. U.S.A. Newcaslle, Penn. 1967-6-28 |
| juil-67 | 18/08/1957 | lieu inconnu usa |
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1957 PhoIos The two pictures above were forward_ cd to us by al1 APRO mcmber. They wcrc allegedly taken by an elderly gcntlcman with a Polaroid Camera in 195?. Photo No. 1, which was damaged when it got wet being pasted in a scrapbook, was taken on 18 August 195?, late in tbe afternoon. The 60 plus-year-old man was returning from taking photos oi his grandchildren and noticed a glint, then saw the object rising out of the field behind the house. lle grabbed his camera and obtained two photos witbout taking time to change his camera set' tings from close-up in bright sun to aft' ernoon light and distance- The lack ot sharpness in the photo resulted. The object was very large and had a large, transparent dome on top. It was a me_ tallic buff or beige in color. The other photo was turned over to local investigatints oilrcials and $cs nor ri'lurned. Photo No.2 was taken at 10 A.tr{., two days later in the same vicinity, on 20 August 195?, by the same man. He was intending to take a picture of his dog and kitten playing when the dog began lo bark and the kittcn ran and hid. He lookcd up and saw the obiect rising. He estimated ils sizc at about 20 feet in diam' ct(.r. Il was blight silvcr like brushed aluminum and had a transparent dome on top. lt was rising and rctracting the scmispherical structurcs undernesth al thc samc time, $hich wcrc lurther ex tcndcd when {irst scen. IIc had time lor onc shot. Beforc hc could pull the tab for a sccond, the craft was too high. Thc photographer requested anonl' mity as he was forccd to move due to local publicity and harrassment follo\ring the local news relcase at the tlme of the incident. Anyone having additional informalion on lhn.ase ror clipping. of the local news release) or kno$s the u hereabouts of thc second picture of Photo No. I is requesled to get in touch with APRO as soon as possible. The intermediary who provided the photos and who passed them on to APRO has advised us that the photo. grapher has no objection to our use or - publjcation of his photos so long as his identity and location remain confidential untit his death as he has experienced great inconvenience |
| juil-67 | 20/08/1957 | lieu inconnu usa | apro27 | 1957 PhoIos The two pictures above were forward_ cd to us by al1 APRO mcmber. They wcrc allegedly taken by an elderly gcntlcman with a Polaroid Camera in 195?. Photo No. 1, which was damaged when it got wet being pasted in a scrapbook, was taken on 18 August 195?, late in tbe afternoon. The 60 plus-year-old man was returning from taking photos oi his grandchildren and noticed a glint, then saw the object rising out of the field behind the house. lle grabbed his camera and obtained two photos witbout taking time to change his camera set' tings from close-up in bright sun to aft' ernoon light and distance- The lack ot sharpness in the photo resulted. The object was very large and had a large, transparent dome on top. It was a me_ tallic buff or beige in color. The other photo was turned over to local investigatints oilrcials and $cs nor ri'lurned. Photo No.2 was taken at 10 A.tr{., two days later in the same vicinity, on 20 August 195?, by the same man. He was intending to take a picture of his dog and kitten playing when the dog began lo bark and the kittcn ran and hid. He lookcd up and saw the obiect rising. He estimated ils sizc at about 20 feet in diam' ct(.r. Il was blight silvcr like brushed aluminum and had a transparent dome on top. lt was rising and rctracting the scmispherical structurcs undernesth al thc samc time, $hich wcrc lurther ex tcndcd when {irst scen. IIc had time lor onc shot. Beforc hc could pull the tab for a sccond, the craft was too high. Thc photographer requested anonl' mity as he was forccd to move due to local publicity and harrassment follo\ring the local news relcase at the tlme of the incident. Anyone having additional informalion on lhn.ase ror clipping. of the local news release) or kno$s the u hereabouts of thc second picture of Photo No. I is requesled to get in touch with APRO as soon as possible. The intermediary who provided the photos and who passed them on to APRO has advised us that the photo. grapher has no objection to our use or - publjcation of his photos so long as his identity and location remain confidential untit his death as he has experienced great inconvenience |
| déc-71 | 2/11/1971 | delphos kansas usa |
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The following is the preUminuy information on a three-witness landing case near Delphos, Kansas on Landing (Continued from Poge One) un melted snow although the surrounding snow had melted. Under the snow the soil was s till quite dry and light brown in color. Upon removing the surface soil, Mr. Phillips noted that the soil contained a large quantity of a white substance. He points out that this condition has becn noted in at least four other trace cases in the past. After viewing the slte Mr. Phillips observed U13t a landing by any conventional aircraft would have been impossible. A large limb was hanging over the edge of the ring and showed what appeared to be heat blisters. Limbs were green in the center, yet they snapped at the slightest pressure, he said. Witnesses in the area who viewed the ring said that it continued to glow for four days after the event. Ronald claimed Ulat the rumbling sound made by the object changed to a hjgh-pitched sound "like a jet" as it passed over the shed. Soil samples furnished by Mr. Phillips have been forwarded to Dr. Harold Williams, APR D's Consultant in Geochemistry, and Mr. Phillips is having a separate analysis donc by another geoche mi~t in his area. A copy of the report is being forwarded to Dr. John Munday, APRO's Consultant in Biophysics and his comments conccrnjng the effects on the Johnson family will be included WiOl our complete report in our next issue.November 2, 1971. SamplCi of earth taken from within the landing area and a control sample taken from an area outside the ring have been submitted to two geochentistJ for examination. A complete report will be contained in the January-February issue of the Bulletin when Field 'Investigator Ted Phillips has completed his investigation and analysis of the soil samples are complete. At about 7 p.m. C. S. T., 16-year-old Ronald Johnson and his pet dog were tending his flock of sheep at the Johnson farm near Delphos, Kansas. He heard a "rumble" as he approached the back side of the barn. He proceeded toward the sound and was startled to see a bright, "really bright-like a welder" object on or near the ground. He apparently stood and watched the object for five minutes as the preliminary report says that it was on the ground for five minutes before it ascended over a low shed and headed south. Ronald called his parents outside and they both saw a bright object in the southern sky. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson then went with Ronald to the area where the object was fU'St sighted and found a glowing, phosphorescent ring-5haped area on the ground and also noted that portions of trees adjacent to the area were also glowing. Mrs. Johnson took a photo of the ground immediately. After touching the soil (which was not warm just minutes after the object's ascent), Mr. and Mrs. Johnson noted that the ends of their fingers were numb. This condition persisted in Mrs. Johnson for about a week, Mrs. Johnson is employed at a local rest home and said that she could not feel the pulses or'her patientJ during that time. The appearance and condition of the ring-shaped area is probably the most interesting part of this case. The soil was quite dry and light brown in color. When Mr. Phillips viewed the ring 32 days later it was noted that the ground surrounding the ring and also the area inside of the ring WILS extremely muddy as several inches of precipitation had fallen during that time. The ring was outlined with |
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Brazilian Photo Case Mrs. Irene Granelli, APRO's Field Investigator at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has forward ed the details of a multiple-. witness UFO sighting which took place on October I , 197 1 at 7:50 p . m. in the Sao Cristovao district of Rio. One of the main witnesses, Mr. Nelson Calmon Schubsky. managed to get two photos of the object, which are presented on this page, Two young girl students sounded the alarm from the street, whereupon Mr. Schubsky, 24, and his fiancee, SheyJa Fernandes Cardoso, 21, rushed into the street to see the object. There was quite a gathering of witnesses by the time they got outside. Except to open the diaphragm of the camera to the maximum, $chubsky had no time to adjust the camera. The objec t, which sported three lights (white, yellow and red) , was maneuvering in the vicinity of the Helena Rubenstein beauty products factory . The body of the object was described as rose-colored at its center with its outline a true red. It pulsated rapidly and when the light became dim the color of the object was rose . At its nearest point the object appeared to have three smaU craters or holes on its underside. The three lights described previously jetted down from the body of the object toward the ground but did not reach th e grou nd. The light of the body of the object was described as opaque and diffused, and compared to that of a red-hot piece of iron. The object finally went behind the chimney of the Rubenstein factory and was not seen again . Witnesses living on the other side of the factory said they had seen a red glow but nothing else. The sighting was genera lly considered to havc lasted approx im ately 5 minutes but no one bothered to time it so it is just an estima te. Mr. Schubsky was using a Leica Model IlI f, black and white film. |
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Swedish Photo Judged Authentic Mr. K. Costa Rehn, APRO Representat ive fo r Sweden, has forwarded the photo shown above as well as the following report: On May 6th, 1971 , at 9:55 a. m. Lars Thorn, 25, a truck driver, snapped two photos of an unconventional aerial object which he caught sigh t of between some t rees and an old bunker while riding on his motor bike in the neighborhood of the Skiltingaryd gunnery fi eld in Middle Sweden . The camera was a Minolta (Japanese). The second photo came out more clearly than the first and was enlarged by THI 1..'.1.0. IUUmN 120 times. The photo shown above IS the clearest of the two. " Although it was stationary", Lars Thorn said , "it wobbled or rocked to an fro all the time. On the upper side there appeared to be a dome (it shows faintly on the photograph because the UFO was turned over showing mostly the rim and the bottom). Just below the dome there was something grey and red and again, below that, I could see what looked like a green ribbon . The very bottom was red . There came from it a whizzing sound at in tervals of I 0-15 seconds." GICOFF, the Goteborg UFO research group interviewed Thorn in depth and two trusted professional photographers examined the photos. They put the two negatives one upon the other, matching the images and shining light through them. They also looked at them through a ste reosco pe to get the effect of depth . This eliminated the possibility of reflections and showed that the object hovered far on the other side of the bunker from Thorn's posi tion. A photo labora tory of the A-kopia firm magnified the negatives 120 times and irradiated them with laser light. The quality of the granulation was found to be evenly sized and uniformly distributed all over the film , on the object as weU as on the background. Several dark copies were made to find out if the object had been suspended with a thread or wire. These tests showed conclusively that a possible montage or hoax were precluded. The photographs were declared genuine. The largest photo laboratory in Goteborg, the Kodak Company, also examined the photographs. The men in charge declared unanimously that the photos show no trace of a montage and that they are genuine. They would not venture a guess as to what the object actually was. UFO Researcher Boris J ungkvist took the photos to the FOA, (Swedish Defense t \ Page 5 '.~ ~\ ~~LJ'" Research Institute) which has in the past exhibited a hostile attitude toward the UFO problem. Dr. Yage Eriksson, the scientist in charge and photo expert S. Larsson first suggested that the picture represented a fabricated modeL They suggested that a light balsa wood and paper model could be constructed with a hot air balloon in side it to hold it up in the air. No evidence of a montage was found . Larsson examined the negatives through a magnifying glass and thought he could see a strajght, thin , grey-black line running from the ground up to the saucer - thus an anchored balloon contraption was insinuated. Further examination showed that no such hne existed . After considerable di sc ussion, Jungkvist was su rp rised to hear Dr. Erikkson announce: "Well, then this thing here is a flying saucer, I suppose, but what are we going to do about it?" FOA kept the material for further investigation. Other details relating to the photograph: The sun appears to reflect off the rim of the object in the photo. A lattice or grate is apparent below the rim. The object was first seen at about 15 degrees above the horizon, traveling at about the speed of a small plane, whereupon it reached its position near the bunker, hovered momentarily (while Thorn took the photographs), then went back in the direction it had come, at the speed of a jet plane and disappeared from sight. Thorn estimated that the object was about 300 meters (1000 feet) from him and about 10 meters in diameter. The rocking motion gave him an opportunity to see that it was disc-shaped . |
| avr-72 | 18/03/1972 | linz autriche | apro 32 33 | APRO member Alexander Keul of Vienna, Austria, FUlS compiled recent information on Austrian sightings into Q report for APRO Headquarters. The following is an edited version of his report: At 7:05 (Central EUropean Time) on March 18, 1972, an AUA (Austrian airlines) (DC-9) jet took off from Vienna's Schwechat airport for Frankfurt, Germany; at the controls was Captain Alexander Raab and his co-pilot Otto Herold. The DC-9 was on its way in a clear evening sky with perfect visibility, Over Krems, Lower Austria, at about 7: 18 the direction flnding system experienced a break-down and warning lights flashed in the cockpit. Captain Raab later described the problem in a TV discussion: "Suddenly the two ADF-radio compasses showed an aberration of 8 degrees (against each other) and immediately we had a heading alarm. I checked the two electromagnetic FLAGSKATE systems which supervise the other direction finders, but couldn't find the trOUble." The AUA plane kept its flight level of 20,000 feet approaching Unz, Upper Austria, from the east. At 7:23 Captain Raab spotted a strange object outside: "I saw it to the left - a huge white funnel up in the sky. The punctilious body didn't move - it was impossible to estimate its distance, speed and altitude. First I thought of some internal reflection - a flashlight from behind, but the cockpit was dark with its door closed. My co-pilot also saw the flying funnel. On top of it we noticed a glistening white source of light - a point which illuminated the clearly outlined casing. Yes, really an inverted hollow cone in a cloudless sky, as if somebody had drawn it on a blackboard with a piece of chalk. The object's axis pointed downwards, the angle oC dip being about SO degrees. Beams of tight Cram the top were visible outside and inside the casing running to the bottom-outline of the funnel which Austrio (Continued from Page One) was a perfect ellipse (from our point of view). "Mter two minutes it picked up high speed and overtook me, the angle of dip decreased to 20 degrees in the distance with the axis pointing towards 260 degrees of the magnetic scale (the object's Vanishing point). The color of the light source changed from white to red. As. the flying body moved away, the bottom-eilipse seemed to expand and I looked into a kind of "halo", like the moon has. The halo effect originated from a distinct white ring, which was clearly outlined against the sky." The beams of light had disappeared and the white ring was separated from the red top light, but both lighted structures kept their positions in the funnel-shaped formation. When the UFO finally dashed away in a straight trajectory to the west, it left an ionized trail - in Rabb's words: " ... a luminous path of whitish-reddish gas glowing for 20 minutes after the end of the sighting. I called for the two stewardesses and they also watched it, shortly after sunset." "We had corroborating witnesses - Captain Brou wer, commander of Lufthansa flight No. 367, en route to Stuttgart, told me via radio that he observed the object, too. He even saw it earlier than I, over Radstadt, Salzburg - 'Here - do you also see that strange thing? Its hanging left up there in the sky!' he said in his call. A third report came from another Lufthansa plane over Prague, Czechoslovakia, in flight from Warschau, Poland, to Frankfurt." Captain Alexander Raab (he lives in Moedling near Vienna) is an experienced pilot. Since 1939 he has spent 16,000 hours in the air. In spite of this he could not explain his experience: "I never saw anything like that in my life; otherwise f WOUldn't have made a report to air-control at Schwechat. I am very familiar with all kinds of atmospheric phenomena; during my transatlantic-flights, New York Brussels Vienna, I observed dozens of artificial satellites and meteors, especially on summer nights. But that object didn't look like a meteor - there was nothing fuzzy about it. It had ve,ry distinct, geometrical outlines, reason enough for me to inform ground-control Vienna and Munich immediately afterwards." ,AOI a The coincidence of three independent reports by trained observers soon proved that an actual flying object was involved. The radio compasses of Raab's DC-9 functioned quite normally again when the UFO had disappeared. On the return flight Frankfurt-Schwechat a declination error of 1.5 degrees was the maximum. We must assume that an EM-effect of great intensity Caused the aberration of the compasses. Declination errors also occurred in the direction finding system of the Lufthansa over Radstadt (and perhaps of the third plane, too). Captain Raab took his observation seriously; he drew a sketch in his log during the sighting. It was later reproduced in a daily paper. That first drawing lacked detail, so press reporters urged Raab to make a better one for the front pages of their morning editions. Raab did - and he even drew a third sketch in a TVdiscussion on Monday, March 20. (See figures accompanying this article.) The three reports from airline pilots were handed to the press on Sunday morning, March 19. At that time, UFOs had already caused great confusion in the editorial offices. Dozens of Austrian ground observers witnessed the strange spectacle in the air on Saturday night: Charlier Kaplan, meteorolOgical observer, saw the "fiery funnel" over SChlins, Vorarlberg. "VorarIberger Nachrichten" (a local newspaper) received some calls from readers who had gone for a walk. at 7:30 p.m. (CET) iii Dombirn. They watched a 'flying cone' over Swiss territory (distance Dornbim Swiss border: about 5 miles), which rust hovered with its top pointing upwards, then down .... 1lCds. It disappeared slowly behind Swiss mountain ridges. "Grazer Neue Zeitung" (Styrian paper) carried a headline on Monday: "UFOs over Groz" with an article about some telephone calls - allegedly "a glowing white shuttle-cock" was seen descending over Graz on Satur· day at 7:30 P.M. "Tiroler Tageszeitung" said that th' funnel was seen over Ranggerkopfl, Tyrol, for 15 seconds. When Captain Raab was interviewed on Sunday, March 19, scientists had already agreed on the only possible explanatior.: a meteor. Dr. KJetter from Vienna's Central Meteorological Station "Hohe Warte" made a statement declaring there was a solution to the whole mystery. H was invited together with Alexander Raab to take part Austria (Continued from Page Three) Arter Captain Raab had given his full report (from which I quoted in the preceding pages), the word was passed to Dr. KIener, who said it was his opinion that Raab plainly observed a brilliant meteor. "A rock from space exploded over Central EUrope at great height and seco ndary meteors, debris of the original body. fell to earth over France, Switzerland, Gennany and western Austria at different trajectories. affecting plane's compass systems by the strong magnetic innuences of their ionized fields (the ''tubes of ionization" with ' their electrical cunents)." Kiener compared the EM effect to the black-out period of a returning THI "P .•. O. IULUTIN flight phaae ionized trail Captain Alexander R&ab, AU'. spacecraft. He also said the halo-tike ring had been a mere "magnifying double-image of the meteor itself", a "backward sclf-projection," which can be seen during the fltSt ascent phase of a rocket's launching, when the bottom becomes visible. The change of direction was caused by an alternating shock-wave, because the nonaerodynamic, irregular meteor was not able to remain in a constant flight path. Dr. K1etter's explanation was well given theoretically. He didn't watch the UFO himself and I may refer to captain Brouwer who just laughed at the question from flight-control if he had seen a meteor. captain Raab's reaction was similar but more sensible: He was not willing to accept KIetter's theory ("Had it been a meteor I wouldn't have reported it''') but did |
| avr-72 | 18/03/1972 | schlins voralberg Autriche | apro 32 33 | APRO member Alexander Keul of Vienna, Austria, FUlS compiled recent information on Austrian sightings into Q report for APRO Headquarters. The following is an edited version of his report: At 7:05 (Central EUropean Time) on March 18, 1972, an AUA (Austrian airlines) (DC-9) jet took off from Vienna's Schwechat airport for Frankfurt, Germany; at the controls was Captain Alexander Raab and his co-pilot Otto Herold. The DC-9 was on its way in a clear evening sky with perfect visibility, Over Krems, Lower Austria, at about 7: 18 the direction flnding system experienced a break-down and warning lights flashed in the cockpit. Captain Raab later described the problem in a TV discussion: "Suddenly the two ADF-radio compasses showed an aberration of 8 degrees (against each other) and immediately we had a heading alarm. I checked the two electromagnetic FLAGSKATE systems which supervise the other direction finders, but couldn't find the trOUble." The AUA plane kept its flight level of 20,000 feet approaching Unz, Upper Austria, from the east. At 7:23 Captain Raab spotted a strange object outside: "I saw it to the left - a huge white funnel up in the sky. The punctilious body didn't move - it was impossible to estimate its distance, speed and altitude. First I thought of some internal reflection - a flashlight from behind, but the cockpit was dark with its door closed. My co-pilot also saw the flying funnel. On top of it we noticed a glistening white source of light - a point which illuminated the clearly outlined casing. Yes, really an inverted hollow cone in a cloudless sky, as if somebody had drawn it on a blackboard with a piece of chalk. The object's axis pointed downwards, the angle oC dip being about SO degrees. Beams of tight Cram the top were visible outside and inside the casing running to the bottom-outline of the funnel which Austrio (Continued from Page One) was a perfect ellipse (from our point of view). "Mter two minutes it picked up high speed and overtook me, the angle of dip decreased to 20 degrees in the distance with the axis pointing towards 260 degrees of the magnetic scale (the object's Vanishing point). The color of the light source changed from white to red. As. the flying body moved away, the bottom-eilipse seemed to expand and I looked into a kind of "halo", like the moon has. The halo effect originated from a distinct white ring, which was clearly outlined against the sky." The beams of light had disappeared and the white ring was separated from the red top light, but both lighted structures kept their positions in the funnel-shaped formation. When the UFO finally dashed away in a straight trajectory to the west, it left an ionized trail - in Rabb's words: " ... a luminous path of whitish-reddish gas glowing for 20 minutes after the end of the sighting. I called for the two stewardesses and they also watched it, shortly after sunset." "We had corroborating witnesses - Captain Brou wer, commander of Lufthansa flight No. 367, en route to Stuttgart, told me via radio that he observed the object, too. He even saw it earlier than I, over Radstadt, Salzburg - 'Here - do you also see that strange thing? Its hanging left up there in the sky!' he said in his call. A third report came from another Lufthansa plane over Prague, Czechoslovakia, in flight from Warschau, Poland, to Frankfurt." Captain Alexander Raab (he lives in Moedling near Vienna) is an experienced pilot. Since 1939 he has spent 16,000 hours in the air. In spite of this he could not explain his experience: "I never saw anything like that in my life; otherwise f WOUldn't have made a report to air-control at Schwechat. I am very familiar with all kinds of atmospheric phenomena; during my transatlantic-flights, New York Brussels Vienna, I observed dozens of artificial satellites and meteors, especially on summer nights. But that object didn't look like a meteor - there was nothing fuzzy about it. It had ve,ry distinct, geometrical outlines, reason enough for me to inform ground-control Vienna and Munich immediately afterwards." ,AOI a The coincidence of three independent reports by trained observers soon proved that an actual flying object was involved. The radio compasses of Raab's DC-9 functioned quite normally again when the UFO had disappeared. On the return flight Frankfurt-Schwechat a declination error of 1.5 degrees was the maximum. We must assume that an EM-effect of great intensity Caused the aberration of the compasses. Declination errors also occurred in the direction finding system of the Lufthansa over Radstadt (and perhaps of the third plane, too). Captain Raab took his observation seriously; he drew a sketch in his log during the sighting. It was later reproduced in a daily paper. That first drawing lacked detail, so press reporters urged Raab to make a better one for the front pages of their morning editions. Raab did - and he even drew a third sketch in a TVdiscussion on Monday, March 20. (See figures accompanying this article.) The three reports from airline pilots were handed to the press on Sunday morning, March 19. At that time, UFOs had already caused great confusion in the editorial offices. Dozens of Austrian ground observers witnessed the strange spectacle in the air on Saturday night: Charlier Kaplan, meteorolOgical observer, saw the "fiery funnel" over SChlins, Vorarlberg. "VorarIberger Nachrichten" (a local newspaper) received some calls from readers who had gone for a walk. at 7:30 p.m. (CET) iii Dombirn. They watched a 'flying cone' over Swiss territory (distance Dornbim Swiss border: about 5 miles), which rust hovered with its top pointing upwards, then down .... 1lCds. It disappeared slowly behind Swiss mountain ridges. "Grazer Neue Zeitung" (Styrian paper) carried a headline on Monday: "UFOs over Groz" with an article about some telephone calls - allegedly "a glowing white shuttle-cock" was seen descending over Graz on Satur· day at 7:30 P.M. "Tiroler Tageszeitung" said that th' funnel was seen over Ranggerkopfl, Tyrol, for 15 seconds. When Captain Raab was interviewed on Sunday, March 19, scientists had already agreed on the only possible explanatior.: a meteor. Dr. KJetter from Vienna's Central Meteorological Station "Hohe Warte" made a statement declaring there was a solution to the whole mystery. H was invited together with Alexander Raab to take part Austria (Continued from Page Three) Arter Captain Raab had given his full report (from which I quoted in the preceding pages), the word was passed to Dr. KIener, who said it was his opinion that Raab plainly observed a brilliant meteor. "A rock from space exploded over Central EUrope at great height and seco ndary meteors, debris of the original body. fell to earth over France, Switzerland, Gennany and western Austria at different trajectories. affecting plane's compass systems by the strong magnetic innuences of their ionized fields (the ''tubes of ionization" with ' their electrical cunents)." Kiener compared the EM effect to the black-out period of a returning THI "P .•. O. IULUTIN flight phaae ionized trail Captain Alexander R&ab, AU'. spacecraft. He also said the halo-tike ring had been a mere "magnifying double-image of the meteor itself", a "backward sclf-projection," which can be seen during the fltSt ascent phase of a rocket's launching, when the bottom becomes visible. The change of direction was caused by an alternating shock-wave, because the nonaerodynamic, irregular meteor was not able to remain in a constant flight path. Dr. K1etter's explanation was well given theoretically. He didn't watch the UFO himself and I may refer to captain Brouwer who just laughed at the question from flight-control if he had seen a meteor. captain Raab's reaction was similar but more sensible: He was not willing to accept KIetter's theory ("Had it been a meteor I wouldn't have reported it''') but did |
| avr-72 | 18/03/1972 | dorbirn Autriche | apro 32 33 | APRO member Alexander Keul of Vienna, Austria, FUlS compiled recent information on Austrian sightings into Q report for APRO Headquarters. The following is an edited version of his report: At 7:05 (Central EUropean Time) on March 18, 1972, an AUA (Austrian airlines) (DC-9) jet took off from Vienna's Schwechat airport for Frankfurt, Germany; at the controls was Captain Alexander Raab and his co-pilot Otto Herold. The DC-9 was on its way in a clear evening sky with perfect visibility, Over Krems, Lower Austria, at about 7: 18 the direction flnding system experienced a break-down and warning lights flashed in the cockpit. Captain Raab later described the problem in a TV discussion: "Suddenly the two ADF-radio compasses showed an aberration of 8 degrees (against each other) and immediately we had a heading alarm. I checked the two electromagnetic FLAGSKATE systems which supervise the other direction finders, but couldn't find the trOUble." The AUA plane kept its flight level of 20,000 feet approaching Unz, Upper Austria, from the east. At 7:23 Captain Raab spotted a strange object outside: "I saw it to the left - a huge white funnel up in the sky. The punctilious body didn't move - it was impossible to estimate its distance, speed and altitude. First I thought of some internal reflection - a flashlight from behind, but the cockpit was dark with its door closed. My co-pilot also saw the flying funnel. On top of it we noticed a glistening white source of light - a point which illuminated the clearly outlined casing. Yes, really an inverted hollow cone in a cloudless sky, as if somebody had drawn it on a blackboard with a piece of chalk. The object's axis pointed downwards, the angle oC dip being about SO degrees. Beams of tight Cram the top were visible outside and inside the casing running to the bottom-outline of the funnel which Austrio (Continued from Page One) was a perfect ellipse (from our point of view). "Mter two minutes it picked up high speed and overtook me, the angle of dip decreased to 20 degrees in the distance with the axis pointing towards 260 degrees of the magnetic scale (the object's Vanishing point). The color of the light source changed from white to red. As. the flying body moved away, the bottom-eilipse seemed to expand and I looked into a kind of "halo", like the moon has. The halo effect originated from a distinct white ring, which was clearly outlined against the sky." The beams of light had disappeared and the white ring was separated from the red top light, but both lighted structures kept their positions in the funnel-shaped formation. When the UFO finally dashed away in a straight trajectory to the west, it left an ionized trail - in Rabb's words: " ... a luminous path of whitish-reddish gas glowing for 20 minutes after the end of the sighting. I called for the two stewardesses and they also watched it, shortly after sunset." "We had corroborating witnesses - Captain Brou wer, commander of Lufthansa flight No. 367, en route to Stuttgart, told me via radio that he observed the object, too. He even saw it earlier than I, over Radstadt, Salzburg - 'Here - do you also see that strange thing? Its hanging left up there in the sky!' he said in his call. A third report came from another Lufthansa plane over Prague, Czechoslovakia, in flight from Warschau, Poland, to Frankfurt." Captain Alexander Raab (he lives in Moedling near Vienna) is an experienced pilot. Since 1939 he has spent 16,000 hours in the air. In spite of this he could not explain his experience: "I never saw anything like that in my life; otherwise f WOUldn't have made a report to air-control at Schwechat. I am very familiar with all kinds of atmospheric phenomena; during my transatlantic-flights, New York Brussels Vienna, I observed dozens of artificial satellites and meteors, especially on summer nights. But that object didn't look like a meteor - there was nothing fuzzy about it. It had ve,ry distinct, geometrical outlines, reason enough for me to inform ground-control Vienna and Munich immediately afterwards." ,AOI a The coincidence of three independent reports by trained observers soon proved that an actual flying object was involved. The radio compasses of Raab's DC-9 functioned quite normally again when the UFO had disappeared. On the return flight Frankfurt-Schwechat a declination error of 1.5 degrees was the maximum. We must assume that an EM-effect of great intensity Caused the aberration of the compasses. Declination errors also occurred in the direction finding system of the Lufthansa over Radstadt (and perhaps of the third plane, too). Captain Raab took his observation seriously; he drew a sketch in his log during the sighting. It was later reproduced in a daily paper. That first drawing lacked detail, so press reporters urged Raab to make a better one for the front pages of their morning editions. Raab did - and he even drew a third sketch in a TVdiscussion on Monday, March 20. (See figures accompanying this article.) The three reports from airline pilots were handed to the press on Sunday morning, March 19. At that time, UFOs had already caused great confusion in the editorial offices. Dozens of Austrian ground observers witnessed the strange spectacle in the air on Saturday night: Charlier Kaplan, meteorolOgical observer, saw the "fiery funnel" over SChlins, Vorarlberg. "VorarIberger Nachrichten" (a local newspaper) received some calls from readers who had gone for a walk. at 7:30 p.m. (CET) iii Dombirn. They watched a 'flying cone' over Swiss territory (distance Dornbim Swiss border: about 5 miles), which rust hovered with its top pointing upwards, then down .... 1lCds. It disappeared slowly behind Swiss mountain ridges. "Grazer Neue Zeitung" (Styrian paper) carried a headline on Monday: "UFOs over Groz" with an article about some telephone calls - allegedly "a glowing white shuttle-cock" was seen descending over Graz on Satur· day at 7:30 P.M. "Tiroler Tageszeitung" said that th' funnel was seen over Ranggerkopfl, Tyrol, for 15 seconds. When Captain Raab was interviewed on Sunday, March 19, scientists had already agreed on the only possible explanatior.: a meteor. Dr. KJetter from Vienna's Central Meteorological Station "Hohe Warte" made a statement declaring there was a solution to the whole mystery. H was invited together with Alexander Raab to take part Austria (Continued from Page Three) Arter Captain Raab had given his full report (from which I quoted in the preceding pages), the word was passed to Dr. KIener, who said it was his opinion that Raab plainly observed a brilliant meteor. "A rock from space exploded over Central EUrope at great height and seco ndary meteors, debris of the original body. fell to earth over France, Switzerland, Gennany and western Austria at different trajectories. affecting plane's compass systems by the strong magnetic innuences of their ionized fields (the ''tubes of ionization" with ' their electrical cunents)." Kiener compared the EM effect to the black-out period of a returning THI "P .•. O. IULUTIN flight phaae ionized trail Captain Alexander R&ab, AU'. spacecraft. He also said the halo-tike ring had been a mere "magnifying double-image of the meteor itself", a "backward sclf-projection," which can be seen during the fltSt ascent phase of a rocket's launching, when the bottom becomes visible. The change of direction was caused by an alternating shock-wave, because the nonaerodynamic, irregular meteor was not able to remain in a constant flight path. Dr. K1etter's explanation was well given theoretically. He didn't watch the UFO himself and I may refer to captain Brouwer who just laughed at the question from flight-control if he had seen a meteor. captain Raab's reaction was similar but more sensible: He was not willing to accept KIetter's theory ("Had it been a meteor I wouldn't have reported it''') but did |
| avr-72 | 18/03/1972 | graz Autriche | apro 32 33 | APRO member Alexander Keul of Vienna, Austria, FUlS compiled recent information on Austrian sightings into Q report for APRO Headquarters. The following is an edited version of his report: At 7:05 (Central EUropean Time) on March 18, 1972, an AUA (Austrian airlines) (DC-9) jet took off from Vienna's Schwechat airport for Frankfurt, Germany; at the controls was Captain Alexander Raab and his co-pilot Otto Herold. The DC-9 was on its way in a clear evening sky with perfect visibility, Over Krems, Lower Austria, at about 7: 18 the direction flnding system experienced a break-down and warning lights flashed in the cockpit. Captain Raab later described the problem in a TV discussion: "Suddenly the two ADF-radio compasses showed an aberration of 8 degrees (against each other) and immediately we had a heading alarm. I checked the two electromagnetic FLAGSKATE systems which supervise the other direction finders, but couldn't find the trOUble." The AUA plane kept its flight level of 20,000 feet approaching Unz, Upper Austria, from the east. At 7:23 Captain Raab spotted a strange object outside: "I saw it to the left - a huge white funnel up in the sky. The punctilious body didn't move - it was impossible to estimate its distance, speed and altitude. First I thought of some internal reflection - a flashlight from behind, but the cockpit was dark with its door closed. My co-pilot also saw the flying funnel. On top of it we noticed a glistening white source of light - a point which illuminated the clearly outlined casing. Yes, really an inverted hollow cone in a cloudless sky, as if somebody had drawn it on a blackboard with a piece of chalk. The object's axis pointed downwards, the angle oC dip being about SO degrees. Beams of tight Cram the top were visible outside and inside the casing running to the bottom-outline of the funnel which Austrio (Continued from Page One) was a perfect ellipse (from our point of view). "Mter two minutes it picked up high speed and overtook me, the angle of dip decreased to 20 degrees in the distance with the axis pointing towards 260 degrees of the magnetic scale (the object's Vanishing point). The color of the light source changed from white to red. As. the flying body moved away, the bottom-eilipse seemed to expand and I looked into a kind of "halo", like the moon has. The halo effect originated from a distinct white ring, which was clearly outlined against the sky." The beams of light had disappeared and the white ring was separated from the red top light, but both lighted structures kept their positions in the funnel-shaped formation. When the UFO finally dashed away in a straight trajectory to the west, it left an ionized trail - in Rabb's words: " ... a luminous path of whitish-reddish gas glowing for 20 minutes after the end of the sighting. I called for the two stewardesses and they also watched it, shortly after sunset." "We had corroborating witnesses - Captain Brou wer, commander of Lufthansa flight No. 367, en route to Stuttgart, told me via radio that he observed the object, too. He even saw it earlier than I, over Radstadt, Salzburg - 'Here - do you also see that strange thing? Its hanging left up there in the sky!' he said in his call. A third report came from another Lufthansa plane over Prague, Czechoslovakia, in flight from Warschau, Poland, to Frankfurt." Captain Alexander Raab (he lives in Moedling near Vienna) is an experienced pilot. Since 1939 he has spent 16,000 hours in the air. In spite of this he could not explain his experience: "I never saw anything like that in my life; otherwise f WOUldn't have made a report to air-control at Schwechat. I am very familiar with all kinds of atmospheric phenomena; during my transatlantic-flights, New York Brussels Vienna, I observed dozens of artificial satellites and meteors, especially on summer nights. But that object didn't look like a meteor - there was nothing fuzzy about it. It had ve,ry distinct, geometrical outlines, reason enough for me to inform ground-control Vienna and Munich immediately afterwards." ,AOI a The coincidence of three independent reports by trained observers soon proved that an actual flying object was involved. The radio compasses of Raab's DC-9 functioned quite normally again when the UFO had disappeared. On the return flight Frankfurt-Schwechat a declination error of 1.5 degrees was the maximum. We must assume that an EM-effect of great intensity Caused the aberration of the compasses. Declination errors also occurred in the direction finding system of the Lufthansa over Radstadt (and perhaps of the third plane, too). Captain Raab took his observation seriously; he drew a sketch in his log during the sighting. It was later reproduced in a daily paper. That first drawing lacked detail, so press reporters urged Raab to make a better one for the front pages of their morning editions. Raab did - and he even drew a third sketch in a TVdiscussion on Monday, March 20. (See figures accompanying this article.) The three reports from airline pilots were handed to the press on Sunday morning, March 19. At that time, UFOs had already caused great confusion in the editorial offices. Dozens of Austrian ground observers witnessed the strange spectacle in the air on Saturday night: Charlier Kaplan, meteorolOgical observer, saw the "fiery funnel" over SChlins, Vorarlberg. "VorarIberger Nachrichten" (a local newspaper) received some calls from readers who had gone for a walk. at 7:30 p.m. (CET) iii Dombirn. They watched a 'flying cone' over Swiss territory (distance Dornbim Swiss border: about 5 miles), which rust hovered with its top pointing upwards, then down .... 1lCds. It disappeared slowly behind Swiss mountain ridges. "Grazer Neue Zeitung" (Styrian paper) carried a headline on Monday: "UFOs over Groz" with an article about some telephone calls - allegedly "a glowing white shuttle-cock" was seen descending over Graz on Satur· day at 7:30 P.M. "Tiroler Tageszeitung" said that th' funnel was seen over Ranggerkopfl, Tyrol, for 15 seconds. When Captain Raab was interviewed on Sunday, March 19, scientists had already agreed on the only possible explanatior.: a meteor. Dr. KJetter from Vienna's Central Meteorological Station "Hohe Warte" made a statement declaring there was a solution to the whole mystery. H was invited together with Alexander Raab to take part Austria (Continued from Page Three) Arter Captain Raab had given his full report (from which I quoted in the preceding pages), the word was passed to Dr. KIener, who said it was his opinion that Raab plainly observed a brilliant meteor. "A rock from space exploded over Central EUrope at great height and seco ndary meteors, debris of the original body. fell to earth over France, Switzerland, Gennany and western Austria at different trajectories. affecting plane's compass systems by the strong magnetic innuences of their ionized fields (the ''tubes of ionization" with ' their electrical cunents)." Kiener compared the EM effect to the black-out period of a returning THI "P .•. O. IULUTIN flight phaae ionized trail Captain Alexander R&ab, AU'. spacecraft. He also said the halo-tike ring had been a mere "magnifying double-image of the meteor itself", a "backward sclf-projection," which can be seen during the fltSt ascent phase of a rocket's launching, when the bottom becomes visible. The change of direction was caused by an alternating shock-wave, because the nonaerodynamic, irregular meteor was not able to remain in a constant flight path. Dr. K1etter's explanation was well given theoretically. He didn't watch the UFO himself and I may refer to captain Brouwer who just laughed at the question from flight-control if he had seen a meteor. captain Raab's reaction was similar but more sensible: He was not willing to accept KIetter's theory ("Had it been a meteor I wouldn't have reported it''') but did |
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APRO member Alexander Keul of Vienna, Austria, FUlS compiled recent information on Austrian sightings into Q report for APRO Headquarters. The following is an edited version of his report: At 7:05 (Central EUropean Time) on March 18, 1972, an AUA (Austrian airlines) (DC-9) jet took off from Vienna's Schwechat airport for Frankfurt, Germany; at the controls was Captain Alexander Raab and his co-pilot Otto Herold. The DC-9 was on its way in a clear evening sky with perfect visibility, Over Krems, Lower Austria, at about 7: 18 the direction flnding system experienced a break-down and warning lights flashed in the cockpit. Captain Raab later described the problem in a TV discussion: "Suddenly the two ADF-radio compasses showed an aberration of 8 degrees (against each other) and immediately we had a heading alarm. I checked the two electromagnetic FLAGSKATE systems which supervise the other direction finders, but couldn't find the trOUble." The AUA plane kept its flight level of 20,000 feet approaching Unz, Upper Austria, from the east. At 7:23 Captain Raab spotted a strange object outside: "I saw it to the left - a huge white funnel up in the sky. The punctilious body didn't move - it was impossible to estimate its distance, speed and altitude. First I thought of some internal reflection - a flashlight from behind, but the cockpit was dark with its door closed. My co-pilot also saw the flying funnel. On top of it we noticed a glistening white source of light - a point which illuminated the clearly outlined casing. Yes, really an inverted hollow cone in a cloudless sky, as if somebody had drawn it on a blackboard with a piece of chalk. The object's axis pointed downwards, the angle oC dip being about SO degrees. Beams of tight Cram the top were visible outside and inside the casing running to the bottom-outline of the funnel which Austrio (Continued from Page One) was a perfect ellipse (from our point of view). "Mter two minutes it picked up high speed and overtook me, the angle of dip decreased to 20 degrees in the distance with the axis pointing towards 260 degrees of the magnetic scale (the object's Vanishing point). The color of the light source changed from white to red. As. the flying body moved away, the bottom-eilipse seemed to expand and I looked into a kind of "halo", like the moon has. The halo effect originated from a distinct white ring, which was clearly outlined against the sky." The beams of light had disappeared and the white ring was separated from the red top light, but both lighted structures kept their positions in the funnel-shaped formation. When the UFO finally dashed away in a straight trajectory to the west, it left an ionized trail - in Rabb's words: " ... a luminous path of whitish-reddish gas glowing for 20 minutes after the end of the sighting. I called for the two stewardesses and they also watched it, shortly after sunset." "We had corroborating witnesses - Captain Brou wer, commander of Lufthansa flight No. 367, en route to Stuttgart, told me via radio that he observed the object, too. He even saw it earlier than I, over Radstadt, Salzburg - 'Here - do you also see that strange thing? Its hanging left up there in the sky!' he said in his call. A third report came from another Lufthansa plane over Prague, Czechoslovakia, in flight from Warschau, Poland, to Frankfurt." Captain Alexander Raab (he lives in Moedling near Vienna) is an experienced pilot. Since 1939 he has spent 16,000 hours in the air. In spite of this he could not explain his experience: "I never saw anything like that in my life; otherwise f WOUldn't have made a report to air-control at Schwechat. I am very familiar with all kinds of atmospheric phenomena; during my transatlantic-flights, New York Brussels Vienna, I observed dozens of artificial satellites and meteors, especially on summer nights. But that object didn't look like a meteor - there was nothing fuzzy about it. It had ve,ry distinct, geometrical outlines, reason enough for me to inform ground-control Vienna and Munich immediately afterwards." ,AOI a The coincidence of three independent reports by trained observers soon proved that an actual flying object was involved. The radio compasses of Raab's DC-9 functioned quite normally again when the UFO had disappeared. On the return flight Frankfurt-Schwechat a declination error of 1.5 degrees was the maximum. We must assume that an EM-effect of great intensity Caused the aberration of the compasses. Declination errors also occurred in the direction finding system of the Lufthansa over Radstadt (and perhaps of the third plane, too). Captain Raab took his observation seriously; he drew a sketch in his log during the sighting. It was later reproduced in a daily paper. That first drawing lacked detail, so press reporters urged Raab to make a better one for the front pages of their morning editions. Raab did - and he even drew a third sketch in a TVdiscussion on Monday, March 20. (See figures accompanying this article.) The three reports from airline pilots were handed to the press on Sunday morning, March 19. At that time, UFOs had already caused great confusion in the editorial offices. Dozens of Austrian ground observers witnessed the strange spectacle in the air on Saturday night: Charlier Kaplan, meteorolOgical observer, saw the "fiery funnel" over SChlins, Vorarlberg. "VorarIberger Nachrichten" (a local newspaper) received some calls from readers who had gone for a walk. at 7:30 p.m. (CET) iii Dombirn. They watched a 'flying cone' over Swiss territory (distance Dornbim Swiss border: about 5 miles), which rust hovered with its top pointing upwards, then down .... 1lCds. It disappeared slowly behind Swiss mountain ridges. "Grazer Neue Zeitung" (Styrian paper) carried a headline on Monday: "UFOs over Groz" with an article about some telephone calls - allegedly "a glowing white shuttle-cock" was seen descending over Graz on Satur· day at 7:30 P.M. "Tiroler Tageszeitung" said that th' funnel was seen over Ranggerkopfl, Tyrol, for 15 seconds. When Captain Raab was interviewed on Sunday, March 19, scientists had already agreed on the only possible explanatior.: a meteor. Dr. KJetter from Vienna's Central Meteorological Station "Hohe Warte" made a statement declaring there was a solution to the whole mystery. H was invited together with Alexander Raab to take part Austria (Continued from Page Three) Arter Captain Raab had given his full report (from which I quoted in the preceding pages), the word was passed to Dr. KIener, who said it was his opinion that Raab plainly observed a brilliant meteor. "A rock from space exploded over Central EUrope at great height and seco ndary meteors, debris of the original body. fell to earth over France, Switzerland, Gennany and western Austria at different trajectories. affecting plane's compass systems by the strong magnetic innuences of their ionized fields (the ''tubes of ionization" with ' their electrical cunents)." Kiener compared the EM effect to the black-out period of a returning THI "P .•. O. IULUTIN flight phaae ionized trail Captain Alexander R&ab, AU'. spacecraft. He also said the halo-tike ring had been a mere "magnifying double-image of the meteor itself", a "backward sclf-projection," which can be seen during the fltSt ascent phase of a rocket's launching, when the bottom becomes visible. The change of direction was caused by an alternating shock-wave, because the nonaerodynamic, irregular meteor was not able to remain in a constant flight path. Dr. K1etter's explanation was well given theoretically. He didn't watch the UFO himself and I may refer to captain Brouwer who just laughed at the question from flight-control if he had seen a meteor. captain Raab's reaction was similar but more sensible: He was not willing to accept KIetter's theory ("Had it been a meteor I wouldn't have reported it''') but did |
| juin-72 | 4/06/1972 | liste des cas microfilmes apro |
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| août-72 | 19/07/1972 | lake michigan chicago |
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Newsman Sights UFO Peter Reich, aerospace writer for ChicQgo Today. describes an unexplainable object which he observed at 10:42 p.m. on July 19, 1972. He had just ~tired, switched off the light and glanced at the illuminated dial of the clock, then glanced out the window. He was surprised to see a blinking red light much like the flashing anti-collision light on aircraft. It was gOing from north to southeast over Lake Michigan. Reich had no idea of the altitude of the object but pointed out that it was well above the level of his windows which a~ on the 38th floor. The windows face north and provide an unobstructed view of Lake Michigan and the sky. The night was clear enough for Reich to see several stars toward the northeast. Reich estimated the speed of the object to be about 600 miles per hour and the object at a distance of no mo~ than half a mile. Having been involved in aircraft and aerospace projects as a newsman he is emminently qualified to make the estimations involved with his sightings. Reich points out that aircraft never fly that close to his building, and its maneuver before it finally blinked out took it out of the mundane category. As it nashed from north to southeast, it suddenly stllpped, ~vened course sharply and appeared to fly along a downward curve in the opposite direction. Then, when it approached a point near what would be the horizon in daylight, it suddenly blinked out and disappeared. Reich points out that he is totally familiar with weather ballans, aircraft reflecting sunlight, satellites and parts of spacecraft burning up on reentry into the atmQsphere, meteorites, lightning and rc· flections of ground light in the sky, but the object he saw was none of these. "But I have never seen any object that behaved so contrary to the laws of physics", he said. OUf thanks to Jacqueline loseffer for getting the information on this one , and for the excellent drawing of the object (see above). We hasten to point out that the object seen by Reich was only a ligh t and not clearly defined as in the drawing. However, the rendering was done using a round object to make a clear representation. | |
| août-72 | 18/08/1972 | holyrood kansas |
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August 18,1972, Holyrood , Kansas. A disc·shaped object described as dipping and gliding gracefully. seen by three youths. On page I, co lumn of the Ju ly-August 1972 bulletin, details of an occupant case near Kuraby, Queensland, Australia based on press reports were presented. APRO requested that Field Invest igator Lindsay McKeon of Brisbane attempt to look into the matter via the local UFO research organizat ion. The followi ng information was obtained in a recent letter from Mr. McKeon: .. A fler a long delay I have finally been able to contact the local UFO group regarding the Kuraby sighting. Unfortunately the witness refuses to cooperate further, even with the local group ... " Mr. McKeon also said that the lo cal group had very litlle information to add to the original story except that lhe Department of Civil Av iation and the RAFF reported no radar contact on the night in qucs tion. The Southern Electrical Au thorilY of Queensland noticed no The July ~August 1972 issue of the Bulletin c,IITied an article dea ling with the sighting of a landed UFO in Kansas in the early hours of August 19th. Staff Artist Brian James of Canada entered into correspond ence with officer Paul Carter in order to make an arti stic rendering of the object wh ile it was on the ground. The Carter drawing is p resented on this page. Also, the November-December 1972 issue of the Bulletin headlined the August 20, 1972 incident at Nogales, Arizo na and presented a drawi ng off Marco Flores' sighting of a saturn~shaped object. Due to a mail mix-up Mr. Jam es' · rendering of Mrs. Sutherlin's sighting was not available; therefore we are presenting it on this page also. Both of t hese drawings were made to the spec ifica tion of the witnesses and Mr. James is to be congratulated for his exceptional presentations. |
| oct-72 | 1/08/1962 | movil minnesota |
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The 1962 Occupants Case The Natio nal Enquirer rece ntly carried the account of Marilyn Chenarides nnd Mrs. Mildred Anderson o f Grand Forks, North Dakota, who had an unusual exper· ience while vacationing at their cabin on Lake Movil in northern Minnesota. Mrs. Lorenzen contacted Mrs. Chenarides and asked her cooperation in doing an artistic rendering of what they had seen . Mrs. Chcnarides and her mother were most cooperative, and the drawing above by Staff Artist Brian l ames represents what Ih eyobserved . The (:xact date cannot be recalled but it W<lS an August night in 1962 when Mrs. A ndcrson was doing her daughter THE A.P.R.O. BULLETtN Marilyn's hair. Marilyn 's younger brother, Roger, was in bed. Suddenly Mari lyn became aware of an ocld object outside, and both of the women stared out the window at a red glowing object which was hovering over the boat dock 50 feet from the cabin. The light from the object made the green p<li nted boat dock appear brownish in color and the water a green· ish·black. The side of the object toward the cabin had three windows which were lit up by a yellowish light and in two of the wi ndows the women could see the silhouettes of three manvshaped beings. The object was hovering over the near end of the dock and appeared to be 8 feet high and 35 feet wide. Both of the women felt that the "men" were watching them and after a few minutes of observation , ~'frs. Ander· son switched off the lights in the cabin, whereupon the lights on the objec t im· mediately went out. Mrs. Anderson then had an irresistible impulse to app roach the object and threw open the door and started running down to the boat dock while her daughter, almost hysterical, sc reamed for her to come b<lck. When Mrs. Anderson was halfway to the dock the object lifted slowly in the air, then moved off at an angle and was gone as suddenly as it had arrived. The object, when first seen, seemed to appear out of nowhere. When it ex tin· gu ished its lights when Mrs. Anderson turned off the cab in ~s ligh ts, it was a dark blob over the dock so it may be assumed that the object cou ld have been there for some time prior to Mrs. Chcnarides' fi rst glim pse of it, and it was called to her attention by the lights being turned on. Mrs. Chcnarides also described an inci- SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1972 dent which had taken place three weeks prior to the "occupant" sighting. She, her mother and father (Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Anderson) and brothers Duane and Roger and the family dog Zipper were driving. ..... about 125 miles from their home to the cabin . When they were about 12 miles out of the town of Bagley the dog began to growl and Mr. Anderson spotted a large, green luminous object which ap· peared to be approaching them on a para llel course. Mr. Anderson sa id the object wasn't going very fast and he slowed the car and the object passed them. It was approxiv mately 70 away from their car and appeared to be about the height of a two-story building. It appeared as a long oval, yellowish·green in color and with a haze or fog around it. After the object passed the Anderson car Marilyn and Duane watched it out of the rear window until it had passed out of sight. Duane said that they could see the thing hovering over a bare patch of land for a while, then it moved over a wooded area, made a half·circular maneuver and disappeared into the woods. They can· tinued to watch but the object was not seen again. Inquiries indicate that the Andersons are highly respected in their city and by friends and business acquaintances. The above two cases are examples of,.the types of cases which may be lying dormant due to the disinterest and ridi· cute of the past. Since the June 24th article about APRO in the New York Times APRO has received several very interesting cases which a re currently under investigation. |
| déc-72 | 20/08/1972 | nogales az |
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In the early morning hours of August 20, 1972 a strange object was seen for a period of time over Nogales, Arizona , which is located on the border between the United States and Mexico . Several people saw the object, and have been interviewed, and it is quite likely that many others observed it. The case is being continued, but sufficient information is available at this time to present it here. Mrs. Helen Sutherlin, a teacher in the public school system at Nogales, was wakened by an "unearthly howl" from her white Samoyed dog who was outside the house in the back patio. She laid in bed watching a strange bluish-silver light which illuminated the curtains of the bedroom wi.ndow . The dog continued to howl so she went outside to see what was wrong. Going through the kitchen, she reached the side door, stepped out, and was immediately aware of a peculiar droning sound which sounded as though it came from above and from some distance. When she looked up into the sky she saw an oval - shaped light sour ce which appeared to be the source of a cone of bluish-silvery light which bathed the main section of the city. She descr ibed it as being like a flashlight shining down on the ground . It kept flashing on and off and the light from it ga ve cars and tops of houses a sort of irridescent glow as if they were thems elves giving off the light. Mrs. Sutherlin estimated that the light flashed on a nd off eight to ten times and that she watched it for approximately 30 minutes. Her dog had quieted down when she came out and she was able to observe it closely for that period of time. Although she cannot pin point the exact time, she said that the kitchen clock read 2 :30 at one time when she glanced at it but does not know if s he looked at when she came out of the house or when she re-encered it. After the thirty-minute observation, the lights of No gal e s suddenly went out and Mrs. Sutherlin became alarmed and went inside . During her interview with Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzen she said she was sure that many people had seen the object because before the power failure she had observed many lights turned on in previously dark houses in the area . She returned to bed and did not attem;Jt to observe any more. Because of certain time elements in this case it is qUite likely that Mrs. Sutherlin mis - read the clock because the power failure that she refers to took place at approximately 3 :35 a.m. Our second major witness is young (22 years of age) Marco Flores, part owner of the House and Cellar, a night club and restaurant for young people in Nogales . At 1 a .m. in the morning of the 20th, he closed his business , then spent an hour working on the books 10 that he wouldn't get "behind in is work". At a little after 2 a.m. he went to an all night restaurant where he had breakfast and talked with friends. He left the restaurant shortly after 3 and drove to his apartment on Western Avenue. He then undressed and, Sitting on the edge of his bed, was playing his gUitar and looking out the window which faces southeast- east. It was approximately 3:20 or 3:30 by his estimate that his air conditioner and lights went off. Looking out the window he could see that all of Nogales, including Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. was in darkness. At that time Marco heard a humming sound which seemed to be above his apartment and across Western Avenue he saw a lighted area approximately 1/4 mile in diameter. It appeared to be traveling from the north to the southwest. At this point it is important to note that the screens on the apartments in that complex are mounted n the outside. The window was open, so Marco decided to unlatch the screen and go outside rather han stumble through the darkened cuse . When he got outside he looked up and over his apartment and saw a glowing round object encircled by a ring. Unfortunately Marco is color blind so he could THE A.P.R .O. BU LLETIN PAGE 3 Bri an James' Rendering of Flores Sighting not give any description of the color of the object but he did say it appeared to be metallic and its glow reflected off the overcast sky. He estimated that it was traveling about 35 miles per hour, was at and altitude of approximately 200-300 feet, and that he watched it a good m inure before it went out of sight behind a hill at the rear of his apartment. He noted that the lighted area across Western Avenue was traveling at the same rate of speed as the object itself and felt they were in some way connected. The city lights came back on after the object was out of sight. Marco then went ins ide and debated as to whether he should report the object to the police. At approximately 10 minutes later he heard an explosion and the lights which had been dimming and brightening after the first power failure, went out and stayed out. Marco again went outside and this time saw a lighted area in the sky to the north by northeast (where the local power station is located), opposite from the direction in which the UFO had disappeared. He then called the local police and told them about the light in the north and they informed him that the power plant had "exploded". The next day he r eported the object he had seen (he had hesitated the night before, afraid of the usual ridicule) and they said that he was the only one to report such an object. |
| févr-73 | 4/08/1972 | Baakline, Shuf Province, Lebanon |
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Mr. Walter I-I amady , a professor of art , was o ne of several witnesses to the presence of an unidentifi ed flying objec t over Baakline, Shuf Province, Lebanon , early in the evening of August 4, 1972. Mr. Hamady is a res ident of the United States, but we will not pinpoint his location. A t the I ime of hi s sighting he was visiti ng at his Uncle's summer home at Chern Ian which overlooks the Beirut airport. At about dusk Mr. Hamady, his wife Mary and Mr. Hamady's aunt wen I to Baakline and as they pulled into l he driveway of t he house Hamady's cousins were very excited, exclaiming they had just seen a "flying saucer". The small company made their way o nto the terrace an d sa w a brigh t red light moving "straight off into space" . Two pairs of binoculars were on hand - a Bushnell 7x35 and a Trinov id 8 x 32. T he first sighting, which occurred prior to Mr. and Mrs. Hamady's arrival , is described by the cousin as fo llows (in Mr. Hamady's words); He and his wife and brother were sitting o ut on the terr<lce enjoying Ihe early eveni ng when the power failed. They looked around, no ting that the power at their uncle's home was st ill on, as w~ that of the village. Power outages are not unusual in Leba non so there was no alarm fe lt. After a bit Mr. Hamady's cousin ' s wife excla imed, " Look at that beautiful red star, it must be Mars!" They all looked direc tl y overhead and obse rved <J very bright red star. As they were admiring it it emitted a big puff of black smoke and began to move o ff into the sout h west. They ran and got th eir binoculars and shortly after, Mr. Hamady and his wife and au nt arrived. After t he object moved off the power returned but Mr. Hamady did not keep track of the time so he does not know ho w soon aft er the object left. The group continued to sit on the terra ce enjoying the cool eveni ng and the usual mountain breeze. The nighL was cl ear, no clouds and no wind other than t he slight breeze. Mr. Hamady, his wi fe, aunt, and two cousins wa lked across th e yard to the railing and were admiring the town of Deir EI Quamar where a celebration was taking place and the entire village was ve ry bri ghtly lit. Someone asked about the location of the Big Dipper and Mrs. Hamady located the constellation and was surprised to see a bright red light moving in it. She brought it to the attention of the others and they trained their binoculars on it. Mr. and Mrs. Hamady passed their binoculars around and onc of the cousins yelled for his wife to join the group and bring their binoculars. Hamady described the object seen through the binoculars as two saucers placed on top of each other with a perpendicular plane of windows that went all the way around trte craft. There was a light inside that was not strange, simply looking like house lights at nigh t, warm and yellow in appearance. On top of the craft, he said, was a dome also lit up in the same way as th..! windows. In back of it or in the lee of the direction it was moving were two lights. Hamady c~ln no longer recall what color these lights were but his wife recalls that one was red and the other was green. There was no exhaust, noise or visib le means of propulsion, and the movement was steady. The object proceeded steadily into the southeast, at about the speed of a propellor-driven a ircraft, and disappeared from view. See line drawing of the Lebanon object by artist Brian lames. |
| févr-73 | 12/11/1972 | rosmead afrique du sud |
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The Case of the Damaged Tennis Court November 12, Rosmead, South Africa. Hu nd reds of s ightseers from the , Middelburg area flocked to neighboring ...., Rosmead on Monday to see a damaged tennis court bclieved to have been the landing place of a UFO the night before. At about 9:30 p.m. on Sunday policemen at Micldclburg watched a stra nge g l owi ng object through binocul ars. It appea red to change color and it s shape from circular to eiiptical. The officers said the Iigh I hovered over "a hill" at Rosmead, then disappeared and reappeared. A while later the principal of Rosmead school, Mr. lIarold Truter was just arriv ing home when he saw "a beam like a sea rchlight" in the sky and he and his wife and chil dren watched it for some time. He then discovered that chunks of tar had been gouged from the school tennis court ncar his home. The next morning he made a closer inspection and found that there was no damage to the fencing a round the cou rt and that the gate was st ill fi rmly secured with wire as it had been before the objec t was seen. lie thought it significa n t t hat lumps of tar were found caught high up in the tennis court fence. On the 13 th , po lice who were searching the area found lumps of tar on a hill some distance away. Lieutenant Colo nel B.J. van Heerden, District Commandant of Police at Middelburg said that the reports from his men on the o bject tall ied with those of the UFO seen at Fort Beaufort earlier in 1972. As the investigation continued, it waS found that a tree next to the tennis court at Rosmead High School had sta rted to die. It is a large blue gum tree which shows signs of scorching, according to van Heerden. Theories had been advanced that the ten to twelve feet chunks of tar which had been ripped up from the courl's surface were caused by a gas ex plosion or a whirlwind but were dist: ounlcu l"'::t:<:luse not a piece of tar had been overturned, and the other trees in the vicinity had not sustained any damage. After the news about the ,mysterious damage was reported, four men who had been guardi ng the petrol dumps four hundred me ters away on Sunday night made ind ependent statements to the po lice that t hey had observed red lights on the courts. " It looked as if someone in a car withou t headlights but with ta il lights burning were riding a round in circles on the ten nis court", they told the police. The lights disappeared , they said . and t h e n the whole petrol dump was illum inated with a "strange incandescent light". Riflemen P.K. Nel and SJ. Rosseau said that the lights were on the cou rt and not next door. A Mr. E. van Zyl . who h olds a DSc in ast ronomy and lectures <It the University o f Witwatersrand. investigated the case and concluded that the damage was caused by a whirlwind. In ,1 Jetter 10 Mr. T. Geary. Director of the Planetarium , he THE A.P .R.D. BULLETIN argued lhat upon exami11ing lhe'surface of Ihe lennis court " I saw no signs whatever of melting and no signs that could have been made by a rocket or jet bla sti ng off" (here V'1Il Zyl makes the fatal e rror of assuming that whatever was over the court was using a mundane type of propulsion). He also made the flat statement that two holes pressed into the asphalt surface at each end of the court "definitely cou ld not have been made by a leg or stay pressing down into the tar" without li sting his reasons. Van Zy l further says, "The wh irlwind does not explain the light which waS seen on the Sunday night - some folks say they saw a red light, o thers yellow <lnd some blue! So it mllst have been a piece of hardware left over from a sa tellite burning ou t. " Mr. van Zyl's Menzelian explanation of the cause of the damage to the tennis cou rt conveni ently ignores some evidence or distorts it, whichever is the most effect ive to bolster his theory. Some cdilorhll comments are in order in Ihis case: Although we do not have exact times for the sigh lings involved. we can reconstruct to some extent. The petrol dump guards saw two red lights going around in circles - !lot next to, but 011 t he tennis cou rt. Then the lights disappeared and the petrol dump was lit up. Meanwhi le, Principal Truter, arriving home (which is located next to the school) saw a "beam like a searchlight" in the sky. Shortly thereafter he discovered lhe damage to the court. Now the question is: Did the guards first sec a UFO with rotating ligh ts over the court? When they disappeared and the dump was lit up, was Mr. Truter, at the same time look ing at the "searchlight" which was .. '. -,;. .... -.. , .~ PAGE 7 spotl ighting the petrol dump? Where Mr. van Zyl's hypothesis is concerned , we must again ask some questions. Can .1 whirlwind pick up material as heavy as the ma teria l which was torn oul of the tennis court? Why was asphalt found on a hill some distance away, but there was no evidence of the ravages o f a whirlwind bet ween the tennis court and the hill? Why were the green shoots at the base of the gum tree dying the next day? The tree was partially denuded and the remainder of the foilage is withered - it is doubtfu l that a whirlwind cou ld do that. |
| avr-73 | 23/09/1967 | sedona az |
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The Sedona "UFO Track" Photo Introduct ion: In addition to the following analysis by Dr. James A. Hard er, it is vilal [0 the evaluation of this case that the following facts be made part of the record: Mr. C. Dwight Ghormley is a retired schoolteacher of excellent reputation who resides in Texas. For several years hespent part of the summer months visiting is sister in Flagstaff, Arizona and made a habit of driving about the general area enjoying the cool mountain air and scenery. On the day in question, Mr. Ghormley was en route to Sedona, Arizona when he spotted what appeared to be a tank (of the commercial carrier type) about 3/4 mile off the road about I mile out of Sedona. Because it was in what appeared to be an inaccessible spo t, he decided to stop and photograph it. After snapping the shutter, he lowered the camera, rolled the film then looked back to the object o nly to 'rind that it was gone and a cloud of smoke or dust was much in evidence. Later, aft er fin ishing the roll of film, he look it to be developed at a photography shop in Flagstaff. When he called for his prints Mr. N.C. McEntarfer pointed out the st range images on the print and asked Mr. Ghormley about them. Only then did he recall the object he had seen some time before. When Mrs. Lorenzen interviewed him about the experience, Ill: said that he had almost decided that he had been "seeing things" and had forgotten the incident. Our experience indicates that this particular photograph may be o nc of the big breakthroughs in UFO research. II has been established to our sal isfaci ion that Mr. Ghormley had had no interest in UFOs prior to his experi ence, and only to a minor degree since. April 18, 1973 ANALYSIS by Dr. James A. Harder Dr. Harder il' APRO's COl/sllltallt in Civil • PAGE 5 Engineering and all expert photographer. Who among UFO investigators has not wished for a clear, close up, detailed photograph of a UFO? And what would it prove? Surely it would help settle the question, still on some agendas, of whether UFOs actually exist. The issue of UFO existence will be with us for some time yet, we may assume; however, is it not time to go beyond that issue to the host of scientific problems and questions that are ra ised once one has accepted the fact of UFO existence? I t seems to me that we should be well into a second phase of UFO investigations in which the object is not so much to prove the existence of UFOs, as to try to understand more about them. With this in m inc! , consider the accompa nying photograph of a UFO in motion. From the standpoint of "proving" the existence of UFOs it might be considered a flop , insofar as no details are seen - there is only what appears to be a sequence of spots. But from the standpoint of understanding more about UFOs it may be o ne of the Illost valuable photographs ever taken. For from it, and the data provided by the camera it was taken with, we call in fer speeds, accelerations, and find even greater puzzles than we dreamed of a few short years ago. More about the puzzles later. The photograph was taken by Mr. C. Dwight Ghormley at about I :35 p.m. on September 23, 1967, near Sedona, Arizona. I-Ie observed what looked like a bright tank Hin a horizontal position" and decided to photograph it with his Kodak " Holiday" 127 camera. But after he rcleased the shutter and turned to roll the film to the next frame, he looked back to see only a cloud of smoke or dust. He estimated that the obj ec t was 3/4 of a mile away from a considef'lt ion of its position re lative to the background bluff. By a st roke of luck, Mr. Ghorm ley took the film to be developed to the photography shop of an APRO member, Mr. N.C. "Mac" McEntarfer of Flagstaff, who recognized its value and has been able to find the original photographer, the negative, and the ca mera. Mr. Ghormley. the photographer, has been very cooperative and helpful and has provided APRO with the negative and the ca mera for evaluation. Apparently Ghormley released the shutter at nearly the exact moment (aclually about .005 second laler) that the UFO began a nearly ve rti cal ascen t. The rest of the story is provided by the film record. |
| avr-73 | 4/04/1973 | space probe |
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Space Probe From Epsilon Bootis As a /oflow-on to our initial article in the Jan-Feb. 1973 Bulletin concerning Mr. Duncan Lunan's work with long delayed echoes, we present a summary 0/ Mr. Lunan's paper published in Spaceflight Magazine, which he was kind enough to /utnish U', preceded by Mr. Lunan " letter 10 APRO's Brad Sparks and Mr. Calla"d', j"rroduCljon. Space /imitations and copyright considerations require that we abbreviate and paraphrase but we have made every effort to include all important points 0/ in/ormation. We are considering means 0/ making the complete paper available to those memberl who wish to study it in it's entirety. Mr. Lunan s complete list of references, even though some may not apply to the abbreviated version, js included. Dear Mr. Sparks, Thank you for your letter of 15th March and your interest in my work on the long delayed echoes or the 1920's. I am taking the rirst opportunity to send you a copy or "Spacefliaht" containing my paper on the subject; for reasons apparently beyond everyone's control, copies reached me only yesterday. In the meantime, certain misconceptions have arisen about the nature of this work. May I therefore emphasise, with reference to Mr. Gatland's introduction to the piece and the line of argument pursued in it, that I have assumed for the sake 0/ argument that the long-delayed echoes of the 1920's came from a space probe, as Professor Bracewell suggested in his 1960 paper. The interpretation I have offered on that basis has aroused such interest that a serious attempt will begin shortly to contact the hypothetical space probe, using equipment supplied by EMI Limited, under the direction or Mr. A.T. Lawton of that company. I look forward to any comments you have at this stage. Yours Sincerely, D.A. Lunan, M.A. The astonishing idea that our Solar System had been visited by a space probe (rom another civililltion was widely reported in December. The theory stems from original work By Mr. D.A. Lunan, a graduate of Glasgow University, who found that certain long delayed echoes of equally spaced radio signals transmitted from Earth could be interpreted in the form of a code. The data used by Mr. Lunan are those recorded in the 1920's by Norwegian, Dutch and French experimenters, who noted that delay times of the echoes varied flam one signal THE A.P.R.O. BULLETIN P-.GE 1 12 9 Pulse y Sequence 6 .------- --- ------. XE 3 § n 3 6 9 12 IS &:ho Delay Figure I to the next. This paper, which attempts to interpret the patterns so formed, suggest that a space probe in the vicinity of the Earth may have been trying to make contact by returning OUI own signals. It is suggested that the signals of October 1928 were star maps, identifying the probe's origin as the double star Epsilon Bootis and putting its arrival here at 13,000 years in the past. Although more evidence is required to support this hypothesiS, the logic or Mr. Lunan's work is of interest in its own right as a contribution to the problem of interstellar communication. We leave the reader to decide for himself: (a) the reality of the long-delayed echoes as anything but a purely natural phenomenon; and (b) the validity of the interpretation that has been placed upon them. Kenneth W. Gatland In 1960 R.N. Bracewell suggested that advanced communities milht U!C space probes as a means of communication.(!) He suggested that such probes might listen for our radio Signals and repeat them back to us after obvious delays such as those reported in the 1920's. "Should we be surprised" Bracewell wrote, "if the beginning of its message were a TV image of a constellation?" In 1965 James Strong suggested that the probe might still be orbiting the earth.(2) American experimentors Taylor and Young fmt reported echocs coming from apparent distances of 2900 to 10,000 Km • in 1927'(3) Hals, an engineer, repa-ted to Carl Stormer of 0510(4) that echoes of 3 seconds delay had been heard at Eindboven, Holland. On II Octobtr 1928 Carl Stormer. with Hals, helped by Van del Pol transmitting from Eindhoven, picked up 3 second echoes on 31.4 meters which changed to echoes varying from 3 to IS seconds (signal pulses were transmitted at 20 second intervals.) Echoes were received in the following delay sequence: 8, II - 15,8,13,3,8,8, 8 - 12, IS , 13,8,8. In two cases two echoes were heard, 4 seconds apart.(6) Says Mr. Lunan, "If these echoes were returned to earth by a space probe, it seems incredibly unlucky that it should have happened at a time when they were assumed without question to be natural phenomena." To the author, the series of 3 second echoes without Doppler shift constitute the statement, "here I am in the orbit of your moon", while the varied series means something much more elaborate. Inspired by Bracewell's remark concerning constellation figures, he graphed the delay time of each echo or the Van del Pol series against its position in the sequence presenting double echoes on the same line. Graphing delay time on the vertical axis produced nothing significant but when delay time was graphed horizontally the result was a st riking but incomplete resemblance of the constellation Bootes. Epsilon Bootis (See Probe - Pa8e Eight) Probe (Continued (rom Page Seve,,) was missing but when the 3 second point was transferred from the left of the vertical barrier formed by the 8 second points. it completed the constellation figure by marking the position of Epsilon 800lis (See Figure I). This is interpreted to mean that Epsilon Bootis is the origin of the probe. Also, that if we had returned the pattern with Epsilon Bootis in its proper place, (showing that we understood the code) we would have triggered release of the probes' complete contact program. In the first Bootes figure, Alpha Boolis is misplaced. However, its position, because of its large proper motion(8) corresponds to wnere it would nave been approximately 12,600 years ago. A later transmission showed its current position as well. Presumably the probe had up-dated ils star map. Wny would the probe use tne second as a unit of time? It probably learned from us. The first Eindhoven experiment sent groups of three pulses spaced over two seconds at five second intervals. The largest length of time that divides evenly into both 2 seconds and 5 seconds is I second. When the spacing was increased to 20 seconds the probe was able to begin using its variable delay code. It is noted that when the lime base was increased to 30 seconds on the evening of I I October, the probe did not respond immediately but on 24 October, its next transmission, the full range of 3 to 30 seconds was utilized. 0510 and Eindhoven received 48 echoes on 24 October; only 21 were published to the Author's knowledge. When these are plotted they produce a sky map centering around the constellation Hercules. The north celestial pole location 13,000 years ago is given. Hals heard delayed echoes again in February 1929 as did Andreas Kleve at Bodo(9) and Appleton and Barrow at Kings College, London but apparen!!y records were not kept. In May 1929, the French Navel vessel Inconstant transmitted two dots every 30 seconds in a fixed musical sequence in a listening experiment conducted over a period of 3 days'< 10)(11) Echoes ranged from I to 30 seconds plus two 31 second echoes and one 32 second. On two occasions when the operator omitted sending pulses he got "echoes" anyway - al 5 seconds and 10 seconds respectively. This suggests that the probe was beginning to anticipate the pulses from earlh. The full results of this test were published( 13) and the author is currently working on a detailed report developing his decoding of the various panels. From a segment of this series which he calls THE A.P.R.O. BULLETIN "Panel 7", he obtains the message "Our home is Epsilon Bootis, which is a double Slar. We live on the sixth planet of seven, counting outwards from our sun which is the larger of the two. Our sixth planet has one moon, our fourth planet has three, our first and third planets each have one; our probe is in the orbit of your moon," plus bits of information about their planetary system. Apparenlly they use the distance from their planet to their sun as an Astronomical Unit to measure distances in space as we do. The Author'discusses reasons why the twin suns Epsilon BooHs are unlikely candidates for planetary systems from the view of modern astronomy and invites discussion of information gleaned from the 7th Panel.(7)(14) He discusses also the possibility that his interpretation may be illusory and that the echoes may be a nalural phenomenon. He says, "If two people attempt the Times crossword puzzle and one fails to solve it, thai does not prove that the Times crossword puzzle is a natural phenomenon - and if they both produce the same solution that suggests but does not prove that the solution is correct." Appleton and others apparently carried out further research in 1934 but the author has been unable to secure details. In 1947 through 1949 Budden and Yates carried on a search for long delayed echoes with negative resuUs.C15) In 1967 a program was initiated at Stanford. No results were obtained until February 1970 when three echoes were heard . (Man-made interference has been a major obstacle to both these programs.) Stanford is investigating an hypothesis concerning natural long delayed echoes.< 12) They have, since 1970, accumulated a record of 20 to 30 instances of what might be long delayed echoes. No long sequences have been recorded and never more than two echoes in one day.(l6) Between 1932 and 1969 the radio journal QST reports 40 convincing cases of long delayed speech echoes on various frequencies.{ 17) Also, there are reports (as yet unverified) of long delayed echoes occurring as interference on satellite communication frequencies. "The persistent unimaginative use of echoes suggests that the 1920 Signals were returned by a machine artifact rather than by .... • piloted spacecraft." The author closes by suggesting that we now attempt to contact the probe by laser. REFERENCES I. R.N. Bracewell, 'Communications from Superior Galactic Communities', Nature, I 86,670( 1960). • MARCH-APRIL 1973 2. James Strong, 'Flight to the Stars', Temple Press, London, 1965. 3. A.H. Taylor and L.C. Young, ) 'Studies of High-frequency Radi0'4ll' Wave Propagation', 'Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers', 16, May 1928,561-578. 4. C. Stormer, 'Comples Rendu! de L 'Academic des Science', Paris, 5.11.28. 5. C. Stormer, 'The Polar Aurora', Oxford University Press, 1955. 6. B. Van der Pol, Nature, 122,875(1928). 7 . P. Morrison, 'Interstellar Communication,' Bull Phil. Soc., Washington, 16,58(1962). 8. C. Flammarion, 'Les Etoiles', Paris, 1882. 9. C. Stormer, 'Kurzwellenechos, die mehrere Sekunden nach dem Hauptsignal eintreffen', 'Naturwisrenrchaften', 17, Heft. 33, 16.8.29,645. 10. J .B. Galle, 'Observations Relatives a la radio·electricite et a la physique du globe', 'L 'Onde Eleclrique', 9.257·265( 1930). II. J .B. Galle, G. TaJon and M. Ferrie, 'Recherches relatives a la propagation des ondes radio electriques e£fectuees a I'occasion de L'eclipse du 9 Mai 1929, 'Comptes Randus', 190,48-52,(1930). ~ 12. F. Crawford, D.M. Sears and R.l. Bruce, "Possible Observations and Mechanism of Very Long Delayed Radio Echoes" Journal of Geophysical Research, Space Physics', 75,34,1.12.1970,7326-7332. 13. Stormer, "Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh', SO, Part II, No. 15(1933). 14. S.H. Doll, 'Habitable Planets for Man', Blaisdell Publishing Company, New York, 1964. IS. K.G. Budden and G.G. Yates, 'A Search for Radio Echoes of Long Delay', 'Jour. Atmos. Te"est. Phys., 2.272-281 (1952). 16. Private Communication dated 7 Sept. 1972 from Prof. F.W. Crawford, Stanford University Institute for Plasma Research, California, USA. 17. O.G. Villard, Jr., C.R. Graf, and J .M. Lomasney, 'QST', February 1970. |
| juin-73 | 16/03/1973 | Sesekinika, Ontario canada |
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Object Pho"tographed in Canada Our th anks to member 10hn R even boer for fo rwarding the accompanyi ng pho tographs and the details about same. On the 16 th of March 1973, Bert Harvey o f Sescki nika, Ontario, Canada sighted one and then th ree s trange glowing objects in the northern sky. The objects appeared to be hovering in the general direct ion of Canadian Forces Base Ramore so he tel cpho ned the Prov incial Po lice who in turn phoned the Base but were informed th at' nothing was vis ible on radar in the vicin ity. Origi nal Plloto Harvey said the objects were consta ntly changing colors from red to green to blue, tha t they started moving about and at one point two of them appea red to merge and then separate again. Ha rvey watched the myster io us t rio from 9 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. in the company of h is wife Ada and his son Rod of Toronto , and Dave Barnac<l l, a conse rvation officer for the Swastika branch of the Ministry of Na tural Resou rces. On ThursdHY evening the objects werc spotted again by r-.'Ir. Harvey but this time they appearcd to be much fart her away. /\ ncws phot ographer, Mr. John Scott Watso n was ca lled to the scene. He latcr described the objec ts as eac h looking very much like a very bright star and sa id that every now and then thcy appeared to move very slowly in different directions "Each one of th em kept cha ngi ng COlor" , h..: said, "bu t wcre {oo distan t to enable Ille to take photographs." MAY-JUNE 1973 Blowup of Original Photo Several hours later, however, Mr. Watson returned to Sesekinika and observed two of the objects- o ne in the northeast and the other, much closer, in the northwest. He took time exposures at 5, 10 and 15 seconds. The photo shown on this page is o ne of the blow-ups whkh appears to show either an object with two lighted portions or two separate objects. Wa tson said , "I would not swear th at any of the things I saw tonight were unidentified flying objects. But at the same time it seems st range to me that five sta rs would be changing color at the same time and moving in different directions." |
| juin-73 | 18/05/1972 | Kosaka japon |
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UFO Track Photographed in Japan Mr. lun·l chi Takanashi, APRO's Representative for Japan has forwarded a black and white photograph (seen on this page) of an alleged UFO trail photographed by Kazutaka Fujita, a Kosaka Junior Higl1 School boy, on the night of May 18, 1972. The boy had been taking pictures of a star field as he usually docs each evening. A strange lighted object appeared from the south, he pointed the camera hurriedly and opened the shutter for about 30 seconds from 21h 14m 42, to 2 1b 15m, 12s. The resulting photo shows the flight pattern of the object which curved and wound freely and described an intermittent glowing line in the night sky. Mr. Tak:mashi points out that we cannot definitely label this photo as onc of :1 UFO, but it seems fairly certa in that it is not the track of an ordinary airplane nor artificial sa te ll ite because of the intricate path it describes. Mr. Takanashi compares this photo with o ne which was published in the November·December 1966 ARPO Bulletill. Briefly, the details are these: John T. Hopf; APRO's Photoanalyst, also an amateur astronomer, was trying to record the flight of the Geminid meteor shower at between midnight and 3: 10 a.m, on December 13, 1966 with his four Kodak Medalist cameras set up in his THE A.P.R.O. BULL ET tN MAY-JUNE 1973 UFO Track Photographed May 18, 1972 roof·top observatory. Whereas his cameras picked up only three meteors during that time, one of the cameras (f3.5, 4" focal length, lens wide open) recorded no less lhan twelve magnificent curving paths of unidentified , intermittently pulsating brighl light sources in t he night sky. These paths were apparently recorded on the film when he was changing the film in two of the other cameras with his back turned to the south, in whkh direction that particular camera faced. After analyzing the facts available (there had been no sou nd , for o ne thing) Hopf could find no mundane explanation for what he had recorded on film . And so it would seem that Mr. Hopf and Kazutaka Fujita photographed the same type of phenomenon. |
| juin-67 | 13/02/1967 | tokyo japon |
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Reporl From Jcpon The following information reached us from Jun-Ichi Takanashi, APRO'S representative in Japan, It is a condensed version of a complete report and has been shortened in the interest of space, only: See photo above. On the evening ol 13 February 196? at about 5:58 P.M. Mr. Sachio Sakuma of Tokyo, Japan, was taking photographs of the moon with his camera, Petri V6, The camera datat 7/4 sec. (SSS) Fl.8 f255 mm S-2 T-5 x 42 (H20). Mr. Sakuma did not notice the object in the upper part of the photo when he took the photo, but submitied the photo to Modern Space Flight Association on March 17. He hoped that perhaps some' one else might have observed the ob' ject, but to date no information on additional sightings has been reported. Mr. Hironobu Naoi of the MSFA took the photograph to Chigusa Photo Studio and asked lor an evaluation. After care ful inspection they came to these con clusions: (1) That the photo was not a hoax and (2) the possibility should be considered that it was a photo of an artificial satellite. The photograph was then submitted to the Asahi newspaper for examination, ,-.they returned it with the same conclus- ' ons as those of the Chigusa Studio, then asked to enter it in their "Readers Photo Contest." On April 7 Mr. Sakuma refuted specu- lation that the object in the photo could have been an artificial satellite as Iollows in a letter to Mr. Naoi: "As to the possibility that it was an artificial satellite; if it had been, it might have been seen after ten seconds or so alter taking the photo, as a satellite's speed is rather slow, but I could not see any in the vi' cinity of the moon when I saw the moon again after taking the photo." At the time Mr. Naoi had taken the photo to the Chigusa Studio he also sent copies of the photo to others, among whom was Mr. Joshichika Sakamoto, a comDetent amateur astronomer who frequently contributes articles dealing with the moon to astronomicaml agazinesin Japan. His comments, (condensed) dated April 10 are as follows: comparing the photo tvith those of meteors, he could find none comparable. He felt that il it had been of a meteor the image would have been longer. Because the object had a faint "tail" he ielt comets should be taken into con" sideration, but the tail does not coincide with the direction of the sun, judging from the shadows of the moon, so h uled that out. He considered that it might have been a faint meteor which had suddenly exploded, but its clear outline makes it a very rare photo, if it is one, Considering the possibility that the ob' ject was a true UFO, Mr. Sakamoto questioned the reason why the object is blurred compared with the clear image of the moon, then comments that it could be due to speed. He stated that it was not possible to judge whether or IIot the object was reflecting sunlight. Concerning size he said that no estimate could be made. Mr. Takanashi, upon receipt of the letter, comments and photo, recalled that he had seen a similar photo, then remembered that it was the aueged photo oI the Pegasus satellite taken by Astronaut James McDivitt on June 4, 1965 from the Gemini spacecraft. Takanashi says that even though the oflicial release identifies the elliptical-shaped object as Pegasus, he is not colvinced. Mr. Takanashi concludes that in submitting this report to the APRO staff some answers or at least suggestions might be Iorthcoming. If members at large have any comments or suggestions they can be addressed to APRO Headquarters in Tucson and they will be relayed via air mail to Mr. Takanashi. |
| juin-67 | 1/11/1966 | zanesvilel ohio hoax |
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f his ls A Hoox The above photograph was made bY suspending a paper bowl on strings close to the camera. It will be noted that this photo closely resembles one taken in Zanesville, Ohio in November, 1966 and oublishedi n the January-Februaryis sue oI the Brrlletin. The contributor felt (as we do) that members should be aware of just how easy it is to {ake a photo' graph of a UFO. |
| juin-67 | 2/02/1967 | stanford university californie |
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Boys Snop Phofos Neor Stonford Universily At about 4 P.M., on Thursday, February 2, two boys, Seth Morrell and Tommy Politzer of Stanford, California, claim they saw and photographed an object near their home. They had arrived home from school, were playing outside when they saw the object approaching them from the northeast. Seth went inside his home and got a camera, and when he came back he took three photos after which the object moved away out of sight beyond some trees. A friend oI the boys came along, they took photos of each other and the friend went on his way. Shortly the object came into view again, lrom the northeast, moving rapidly in a southwesterly direction. The boys had time to take just one other photo (their last) before it lelt. The two boys described the object as round, silvery and with "a hole in the middle, sort of like a doughnut, and windows all around the edge." They also noted two bright lights which blinked on and ofl several times. Both thought the object was at least as big as "a fourengine jet." In attempting to describe the noise made by the object, they used words such as humming, whirring, buzzing, whining, etc. Both boys were questioned by Mrs. Politzer, who is convinced that th€y actually saw and photographed the object, three exposures of which are presented on this page. The color negatives were received at APRO Headquarters, where they are being studied. Mrs. Politzer learned about the photos some time a{ter they were taken, and recalls that her son Tommy had mentioned seeing a UFO, but she had paid little attention to it, as she was preoccupied at the time. - Despite the good attribution and background o{ the boys, it has been pointed out that the object in the photograph strongly resembles an ordinary automobile whcel cover. See photos on this page. |
| juin-67 | 5/03/1967 | hallam victoria australie |
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Five Phologrophs Of Austrclion UAO On March 5, 15-year'old John Coyle of Hallam, Victoria, Australia, was walking with his | 1-year-old sister. Miriam. throush farmland near the Hallam railway itation to take photographs of a country train due to pass through. The children were on their way home when Miriam saw what she thought was a very Iast airplane coming toward them. Soon it was overhead and circling. John raised his inexpensive (about $1.00) camera and started snapping photos. As he later told the press. his sister was so excited and jumping up and down, that he got nervous and broke the rvinding knob off the camera. After the object had circled for a few minutes it took off in a straight Iine in a westerly direction. The children ran home to tell their parents what they had seen. See photos oll this Page APROs Auslr alian representaliveP.e ter Norris, forwarded the photos, and the followins inlormation to headquarters: Kodak company examined the photos and were irnpressed by the consistent shape of the UFO shown in the six prints Mr. Nor r is and his col leagues penl considerable time with the children who seemed to be completely sincere about the incident. The photographs were developed bv a local chemist. so that there was no possibility of any tampering having taken place with the negatives. Hallam is a small, semi_suburban,s emi-rural town about 25 miles from Melbourne Six photos were taken altogether, but the object is barely visible in the sixth. The clearest of the five will be presented in this issue. but if space is too limited, two or three of the best shots will be selected and the others omitted. |
| mars-67 | 12/03/1967 | picacho peak nm |
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Student Snops Disc in N. /Vl. A New Mexico State University student on a desert stroll to photoglaph land forms west of Picacho Peak on Sundav afternoon,M arch1 2th,s uddenlyf ound i round silver disk in his lield of vision above a hill 500 yards away. He snapped his camera and obtained the photograph snown aDove. The student (whose name is withheld on request) had ridden his bicycle out a truck by"pass toward Deming, N. M., turned off on a dirt road by the airport, and continued two or three miles from the highway. He walked through the desert searching for land forms to photograph. 'West of Picacho Peak, he saw an unusual razor'back {ormation oI sedentary rock. Loading his camera, he focused on the two formatiols. When he looked up, he saw the round silvery object. Almost automatically he snapped the shutter. The object was stationary when he sighted it. He looked down to change plates in his camera, which takes approximately three seconds, When he Iooked up, the object had disappeared. The student was facing north. He heard no noise and there was no light coming from the object. But he did notice an odor similar to that of electrical machinery or burning electrical insulation. The March 12, 2 p,m. sighting is one ol several reported in this area in early March. (See other story on White Sands). |
| mars-67 | 1/03/1963 | maiqueta venezuela |
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Plone and UAO And Shodows In Pholo Following the publication of the Paso del Cabello photo in "El Universal," the Caracas newspaper received a letter from Mr, Delio Ribas of Valera, State of Trujillo, Venezuela, in October, 1966, enclosing a photo taken three years earlier (1963) on a AVENSA flight from Barcelona to Maiqueta, Venezuela. This photograph is an original from the negative, which is in the possession of the pilot who took the picture. Mr. Ribas stated that "the airline pilot who took the photograph and myself are absolutely certain that the object is one of the so called flying saucers. The pilot does not wish to speak much on the subject because he has been the object of ridicule by some of his Venezuelan Iellow pilots and also certain pilot friends in the USA.F . . ." The authenticity of this photogTaph was questioned by Capt. Ilarry Gibson, a skeptical commercial pilot, on the basis that the dark line around the disc which he supposes is shadow, does not coincide with the shadows of the plane and the disc cast on the ground; and that the object seems to be nothing more than tlle "button which locks the window to the crew compartment." However this obiection does not explain how this "button" could cast such a iarge shadow (almost half the size o{ the plane itself.) Mr. Pernando de Calvet a prolessional topographer and geometrician made a study ol the position of the shadows and demonstrated mathenatically that all the objects and details in the photo" graph bear absolutely exact relations with each other. Also, Mr. Konrad IIoneck, electronics engineer, and Mr. Miguel Sapowsky, ano(her engineer in charge of the technical department oI a large Caracas Television station, have substantiated Calvet's explanation. |
| mars-67 | 12/10/1966 | caracas venezuela |
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luminous Ovol Over Power lines ln V enezuela On the morning of the 12ih oI October. 1966. around I a.m., Francisco Ar" rieta was driving along the highway between El Guapo and Barcelona east of Caracas, Venezuela. Iligh tension cables run almost parallel to the road leading to the sprawling peiroleum industrial complex in Caripito, Maturin, El Tigre and Anaco. Arrieta had acquired a new camera and was photographing various objects to test the camera and its accessories. On arriving at the region of the highway midway between El Guapo and Barcelona he stopped his car to view the scenery and took photos of the electric towers. He then heard a slight but insistent humming sound which increased in intensity and on looking around to see what could be causing it, he saw a strange object of a definite ovoid shape, though somewhat dilluse at the edges, which seemed to be pulsating. It appeared to be following the path of the electric wires on the towers which glowed as the object passed by. Arrieta became nervous at the strange sight, but remembering he had the camera in his hands, he focussed it on the object which stopped over the tower, and took a photo. At the same time a pick-up truck which had approached the tower suddenly stalled, and he could see the driver trying to restart the engine. The lighted pulsating object then continued its course along the cable towards Barcelona, the truck engine started and the driver continued on his way, and Arrieta remained standing there, dumb- {ounded. When Arrieta reached Barcelona he hcard rhat for lwo nights in succession people had reported seeing lighted objects in the skies and that the cities ol Cumana and Barcelona were subjected to repeated power failures which were attributed to overloading on the transmission lines. Skeptical photographers of "El Universal" said that the white object shown on the photograph could be the result oI a bubbleo f air producedo n passing the film to the fixer or setter" and the trapped air caused over-developmenitn the white region of the bubble. The objection however, does not take into considerationlh e fact that Mr. Ar- .ieta (a) heard a huoming sound which was produced by the object; b) saw the Iuminous object moving precisely over and along the high tension cables; c) saw when it stopped over the tower; d) saw the stalling of the pick-up truck and the fact that it could only start when e) the pulsating luminous object liad moved away. The photographic laboratory that made this reproduction for APRO analyzed the negative and pronounced.it authentic stating that ro sort of air bubble could have produced the effect on the negative. |
| mars-67 | 16/03/1967 | salem oregon |
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Photo By Oregon Boy Poloroid pictures o{ a metallic disc sighted in Salem, Oregon, were obtained on the afternoon of March 16th by one of- three boys who witnessed the object. (See aboye and below). Ron Forest of 3045 Windsor Ave. NE, was in the back yard of the Thomas Ron- - ald Baker home at 1893 32nd Ave., NE, when he spotted the object. He alerted . the Bakers' sons, Keniteth and Ronald, and Ronald ran for the camera and took the pictures at about 3:30 p.m. The first was taken while the object appeared to be hovering and alother about four seconds later as it zoomed away and disa- DihDee aredto the \ryesi. boy. agreed the disc was metallic in color and flying very high. They said it didn't have lights and they heard Do sound. "I'm inclined to believe it was a spaceshio of some kind," Forest, 15, said "I have never seen a balloon go that fast," he added, explaining that the object ap- Deared to hover for a few seconds and ihen disappeared rapidly to the west. "It was going pretty fast,' Ken said' ''But it hovered for awhile and then took off. It disappeared in the distance' I sorta believed in the stories about saucers, but this Proves it." tien and Ron Forest are 15'year'old .ooho^o"", at North Salem High Sahool' ion eaker is a ninth glader at Waldo Junior I{igh. |
| mars-67 | 9/03/1967 | moline illinois |
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The Moline Sighting And Film Dr. Allen Utke, APRO Consultant and Professor of Chemistry at Wisconsin State University, went to Moline, Illinois, to investigate the March gth sighting and Iilming oI a UFO by William Fisher. His report follows : William Fisher is a 32-year-old patrolman on the Moline, Illinois police force, On March 9, 1967 at 1:30 p.m. he claims to have seen a UFO lrom the schoolyard of the Sacred Heart School in Moline, tr'isher does school traffic duty and rides a motorcycle. IIe claims Mrs. Leo Schmitz anal Mrs. Ftank Daebelliehn had pulleal their cars to the curb and were also watching the object. Dr. Utke tried to contact both of these women but was unable to reach them lor comment. According to Fisher, Sister Mary Mark anal some children from the school also saw the object, but Sister Mary Mark is reluctant to discuss it. When Fisher lirst saw the object he said it was as big as his thumb held at arm's length. He tiought it was at an altitude of about 30004000 feet and about 1 to 1r, miles away. IIe estimated it to be about 30-40 feet in length or possibly even larger, The object lirst seemed to be extlemely briUiant and did!'t have any definite outline other than that of a football. It then moved away from him into the NNW aDd seemed to become thinner in shape and less brilliant, Fisher later called the weather bureau and founal that the winds were at rO-45 mph generally from the WNW that day, almost counter to the direction of the object or at least perpendicular to it, Fisher thought the object was following the Mississippi downstream in a rough sort of way. The Mississippi flows from East to West at Moline. IIe first thought the object might be an aircraft, but soon realized it was not, and he also said he does not believe it was a weather balloon. There was no sound that he could detect, Unfortunately, Fisher did not start - shooting his 8mm movie camera (which he uses in his work) immediately anal also unfortunately the first 10 feet oI that he did shoot did not turn out. The 20-30 feet (30-45 seconds) he does have were taken therefore when the object was quite a bit lurther away than when he first saw it. The movie only shows a small, whitish object slowly moving into the background, although the ob. ject does seem to tip slightly at one place. There is no change in altitude and no change in speed. The photo. graph showl wjth this article is an enlargement (about 5 times) of one of the frames. Fisher was very cooperative aDd Dr, Utke does not feet he elaborated in any $ay upon what he observed. APRO will obtain a copy of the film as soon as it is available and iI additional frames prove of any worth for reproduction in the Bulletin they will be used in a subsequent issue. |
| mars-67 | 12/01/1967 | baton rouge louisiane |
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Ihree Photos In Louisiono Encounters with a strange vacuumcleaner- sounding object north oI Baton Rouge on January 12th and 13th have resulted in two photographsa nd an interesting if eerie account by a Louisiana gentleman who prefers to remain anonymous. Two of the photos and en- Iargements of the portion showing the object are on this page. "It was around four in the a{ternoon when the strange object first caught my attention. I was sitting in my boat on the west side of Old River; the sky was overcast and it was typically cool {or a January l2th in this part o{ Louisiana. It was quite by accident that I glanced to the east and saw the object approaching, almost in a straight line toward me. Instantly I thought of the camefa I carry almost everywhere I go. I reached down, snatched it uP and bY this time it was almost on top of me. But it didn't continue its course, {or as I caught it in the vier{inder, it began a rather slow turn to the right. That's when I released the shutter and caught it at about a 45 degree angle. There was no time for a second shot; in about live seconds it had completed its turn and at a high rate of speed, disappeared into the east."That was how the lirst of three exceptionally detailed polaroid pictures were taken. But the day wasn't over yet. Around 9 o'clock while checking his trout lines two miles south of the north end of old River the gentlemen above heard an unusual sound, like a huge vacuum cleaner running full blast, but at a distance. He headed in the direction of the sound in his motor boat, unable to see anything because the night was pitch black. I{e couldn't hear the noise over the boat motor but when he shut it down, the vacuum noise was there again and much stronger than before. He turned the boat around and headed Ior camp. When he got back and stopped the motor, the sound was gone. He tried to get some sleep. The next morning he was on the lookout for the object. The first thing he noticed was an unusually large lumber of dead fish along the liver bank. He had noticed dead fish before but not so many, He pointed out that his attention mav have been drawn to them because the UFO sighting was still fresh in his mind as well as the eerie noise oI the night before. Around I a.m. he decided to do some target shooting with his rifle. Taking his camera along he started walking along the bank, keeping the river in sight. Not {ar from the camp, he heard what sounded like a million crows, "chattering like crazy," in a clump of trees across the river. He looked in the direction and there it was again, that same or a similar object, in the sky above the opposite bank. Again it ap' Deared to move straight to\r'ard him' 6ut this time it was further away. He sot the camera up to his eye and waited ior it to eet closer. Then, when it began a turn ai it had previously done, he snapped the picture, quickly pulled the exooied Jilm out of the camera and snipped another. By the time the sec" otrd ihot ''as taken, the object had com' pleted its turn and had risen "like an ilevator," up unto the overcast. |
| mars-67 | 13/02/1966 | calanozo venezuela |
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UAO Photogrophed From Airplone On an aerial photographic flight as part of a geolyphic study lor a mining enterprize, Mr. Inake Oses was llying over the southern part of the state of Guarico, Venezuela on the morning of February 13, 1966. Around 10 a.m. the plane was surveying a region 80 kilometers south of the city of Calabozo, llying at 8,000 feet, when suddenly Mr. Oses' attention was attracted by a brilliant yellow incandescent object llying erratically at high speed below the plane. The object would stop suddenly in midair for a few minutes, then rush oft again in a different direction. Oses instructed the pilot to try to follow the object while he began taking pictures. The chase continued until both the plane and the object were over a mining site near the "Paso del Caballo dam." Here the object stopped again and was photographed as appears in the picture reproduced above. It then accelerated to fantastic speed and fle$/ off towards the south where it disappeared. In a written report to the Caracas newspaper, "El Universal," Mr. Oses said: " . The object which we saw and appears in this photograph floating in midair, due to its shape and perlormance in space appears to be a flying machine of some sort completely different than those we know about. . . " Due to the confidential nature of the aerial survey project that he was engaged in, Oses waited until his contract was terminated and he had left Venezuela before he sent the negative to APRO'S Venezuelan representative, Horacio Gonzales G. IIe was using Kodak fast pan lilm with a special camera adapted for such aerial photography. The editorial stalf of "El Universal" has accepted the autlenticity of the negative and the good faith and integrity of Mr. Inake Oses. |
| janv-67 | 19/01/1967 | connersville indiana |
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Beonpof' Pholo Token ln Indiona Don Worley o{ Connersville, Indiana, spent considerable time winding up the following report which includes a spectacular color photo of an object which closely resembles (of all things) a bean pot. Our initial information came from a man who had heard of APRO and the photo ,and called APRO headquarters. the report: Fourteen-year-old Reed Thompson of Milan had got home from school on the 19th of January, and was sitting in the Thompson living room watching TV at about 3 P.AL His back was to the large ceiling'to-floor windows on the east side of the room. He heard a noise like a Diesel train enging starting up, glalced in the direction of the railroad tracks. At ten degrees east of north over a house with a red roof and seemingly on the same level of a TV antenna and elec" tric wires, he saw what he thought was a street light. It appeared about the same size as a s{reer lighl bul $as silrer. Later Reed estimated the object was about 200 yards from him at that time. Then he realized the light was moving, and that puzzled him. It continued to move, and, Iollowing the contour of the ground, proceeded do\rn the slope behind the house on the street north of the Thompson residence. The object which appeared to "float," went out of sight in a small valley behind a row of small fir trees. Presently it came into sight again, made an angle turn and was moving up the slope of the hill toward his home. In attempting to describe hisfeelings to Mr. Worley, Reed said: "I was shocked. I lelt like I was going to have a heart attack. I knew something lvas odd, difierent out there. I thought I must be seeilg things. I couldn't believe my own eyes. It was coming right up between the bird feedef and the locust tree." The strange thing had traveled approximately 200 yards and Reed had watched for several minutes, then ran for the camera lying on a shelf, stopped when hrlfway there and turned around and looked agaiD. He grabbed the camera, approached the window and, standing 4 or 5 feet from the window, took a quick shot. He moved a step closer and clickcd the shutter again. The object's speed was "walking speed," about thrce milcs pcr hour. Beonpol (Conti.nuedt,r om Page One) During this phase Reed was so excited he Iorgot to wind the film and got a double exposure. His aim was not the best and he got part of a curtain and tree limb. The object had just glided past the window. He thought he attempted another shot but is not sure. In an attempt to get a better look and perhaps another photo, Reed rushed into lhe bedroom. He turned ihe film to a new frame and got the only picture, just as the object glided past the window. It then passed out of sight, heading in the direction of a large locust tree near the corner of the house. The boy then hurriedly donned pants, shirt, shoes and coat (he had been sitting watching TV in his underclothing) and rushed outside to see if he could further observe the thing. The object moved up the slope by then was approximately 100 yards away down the slope by a big sycamore tree. It slowly moved up the slope on the other side along a row of small fir trees: When near the end of the line of trees. it made another turn. moved west a short distance and then disappeared instantly. As the object vanished, the sound of a Diesel train, which had persisted all during the sighting, stopped also. During the investigation worley asked the boy if the obiect looked the same as it did in the picture and he said it didn't. It was silvery, the same color and brightness all over, and appeared to him to be more squat or rounded than it appeared in the picture. He also said he didnt notice any ports or protrusions. but did note that it had a sharp, clean edge. He judged it to be about 6 feet by 6 feet, and when it approached an obstacle it would not curve around it but rather angled around. The noise he heard which he compared with a Diesel starting up, was the same volume constantly when the object was outside the window and when it was 200 yards away. It did not touch any trees and no broken braqches were found. Reed was questioned by the state police, fifteen minutes by telephone and 45 minutes in person. No other witnesses have come forward or been found. Mr. Thompson stated that almost everyone in the neighborhood was away working at that time of the day. Initially, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson didn't think he had gotten a photograph and were amazed at what showed up on the fi1m. Reed told Mr. Worley that he was "greatly reieved and it proved there was nothing wrong with his head-" Following are some observations by Mr. Worley: a. On the Ieft side of the object on the glassy, highly reflective surface - there are plainly visible the rellections of tree branches. This indicates the object was up in the air near the tree and not thrown or hanging near the window. b. It is significant that the boy saw thc obpect as a shiny silver color, but that it photographed differently . . . a dark grey. c. Reed Thompson's actions and reactions are quite normal under the circumstances: bewildered. confusion. lack of action, his poor handling oI the camera which was his sister's and with \trhich he was not familiar. d. A local photographe! with many years' experience gave his opinion that the photo was genuine, not a result oI double exposure or montage. e. If a hoax were involved in this incident. and it does not seem so. it would be more impressive to create a type of object which has been seen and described before, such as a disc, cigar, etc. This is the first "fantastic .flying bean jar" reported to date, to our knowledge. The camera used was a Kodak Hax,keye. No information concerning shutter speed, but the film used was Ectochrome 127. APRO attempted to obtain the photo for Bulletin use, but Mr. Thompson hoped to sell it to Time-Life or others. At this writing, no large group has accepted it; it was turned down by Time- Life and Dell publications, possibly be. cause it does not resemble anything previously sighted or described. Therefore, APRO asked staff artist Richard Beal to do a drawing based on description and Mr. Worley's sketches. |
| janv-67 | 19/01/1967 | lakeville ct |
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Glowing Obiecf ls Photographed In Conneclicul Multiple sightings of a red, glowing cigar-shaped object have been reported over the hills of northwest Connecticut recently. Most observers have been stu' delts and laculty members of Hotchkiss School in Lakeville. On the night of January 19 the object was photographed around 9:15 by Richard Gipstein, 17, a senior at the school. The object was moving toward the south above the hill line in the distance. Gipstein set his camera, with telephoto lens, on a tripod and opened the shutter for five secondsT. he object first appeared for just a moment, and then disappeared, as can be seen in the photo above. Then it reappeared, travelling on the same line and continued to gxow brighter. It then grew gradually dimmer as it moved toward the south until it faded out. The camera was a Voigtlander SLR 35 mm, and the lens was set at f8, George llernandez, 16, a junior at the school, was the first to have reported sighting the object a week earlier. As a result nightly watches were set up and notebooks carefully kept. The obiect's next appearance was on January 16 around 11 P,M, It moved in an erratic pattern near the horizon towards the south and southwest. The light was pul' sating. The next night was overcast but a briel sighting was reported. On the 18th between 9:30 and 10 P.M., some eight personsi,n cludingt wo leachersr,e - ported seeing lhe UFO in the same general position. The next night, when the picture was taken, ten persons were reported to have seen it. Dismissing the possibility that it could be car lights, as some claimed, Gipstein pointed out that "it has been seen in too many areas and been reported in a 90 degree arc of the horizon." Besides sightings at Hotchkiss, others were reported in the area around the same time. Mrs. Peter Merson and her ll-year-old son of Vernon repolted seeing an object "with red lights which hovered in the sky' on January 15. Three North Granby residents sighted a similar object about 5:45 the same night near Granville, Mass, On January 1?, M!s. Donald Warner of Sharon observed "a glowing orange oval moving low in the sky" about 6:45 P.M., while driving from Lakeville to Sharon. She drew to the side of the road to observe the object for about five minutes before it disappeared. Its light did Dot blink and it was soundless. Reginal Baker of Indian Mountain Schooi also sighted "a glowing orangered cigar-shaped object with red lights" on the 24th. IIe photographed it around |
| janv-67 | 7/02/1967 | zanesville ohio |
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Ralph Ditter, a barber at Zanesville, Ohio, released on February 7 two Polaroid photos of an object which he claims he sighted and photographed over his house on Nevember 13, 1966. The ob' ject's size was estimated to be 20 to 22 fcet in diameter, rotating counter-clock' wise and moving about 10 to 15 miles per minute. Ditter displayed his photos in his barbershop for two monlhs before releasing them to the press. Areas of doubt include the lack of a shadow from the object, whercas other objects in the photo such as the cars, trees, etc., are casting a definite shadow. Also, investigatiors wonder why Ditter \ ai(ed l$o monlhs belore releasing the story and photos to news media. If authentic, the photos are an important addition to existing UFO evidence. Ditter has been generous about {urnishing prints at a reasonable price - not attempting to make a large profit. However, his barbering business has llouished as a result of the attention concerning the photos since they were publicized. See photo above. |
| nov-66 | 13/12/1966 | cambridge ma |
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Photo Editor, Sky & Telescope Cambridge, 'Mass. Dear Sir: On Dec. 13 (A.M.) from midnight to 4 A.M., T had four eameras set up in my roof-top observatory to iecord the Geminid meteor shower. All used 120 size roll film (2lt x 3l+" size). Although only three meteors were picked up during this time, one of the Kodak Medalists (f3.5, 4 inch focal length (lens used wide open) recorded the enelosed unusual trails during the (See "EopJ" - Page 5) b period between 3 and 3:10 approximately. This camera was aimed to the South and up at a 45 degree angle. Jupiter appears at the top right of the print. The trails rise into the camera's {ield lrom the bottom. At the time this was recorded I was changing the film in two ol the other cameras and had my back turned to the South and did not see anything. Of cdurse I don't understand how anything this bright did not attract my attention, but apparently the object or objects were silent. I have checked every possibility that could have caused these trails and can find none that fit the facts. Due to the blinking effect of some ol the trails, I of course thought that they were aircralt lights, but examination of several negatives on hand taken with the same cameras in the past show an entirely different effect. The main trails here are fully as bright as the Jupiter image which gives a good comparison. I have been observing and photographing the sky for over 20 years and have never caught anything like this be{ore. Your opinions would be most welcome on this matter. Very truly yours, John T. HopI. |
| mai-66 | 2/04/1966 | melbourne australie |
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"Besf Phofo" Yefln Avslrolio Peter Norris has forwarded a print of the clear colored photograph taken by a prominent Melbourne businessman on the 2nd of AFul. Although the photographer asks anonymity, he is a member of the VFSRS, and is known and vouched ,- Ior by Mr. Norris. At 2:20 p.m. on the 2nd. ihe man was in his lrrdon using up the remainder oJ the filnr in his Polar. oid color camer., Suddenli. a bright re- Ilection caught his eye anci lle looked up and saw a bell-shaped object hovering, on its side, over a house, The man snapped the photo, whereupon the object accelerateda t grcat speeda nd took ofl in a northcrly direction. He estimated the object was about 20 to 25 feet in diameter and at about 150 feet altitudc. I1 at all possible, the photo will be included with this article. In the black and \.vhite print the bottom appears black, but in actuality, in the color photo, it is pink, reflecting the coloi of the roof over which the obiect hovered. |
| mars-66 | 20/03/1966 | dexter michigan |
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The/ MichigonC oses It was originally planned to give a great deal of space to the Michigan sightings, but because of the rvide publicity received, rve will merely give the basic details of the two major ones, with some comments: On Sunday night, the 20th of March, Mr. Frank l{annor, 47, and his son Ronald, 19, waded into a swamp near their home outside Dexter, Michigan to view an object hovering there. The time was ?:30 p.m. when the Mannor lamily saw the object "like a ball of fire", come out of the west, then drop below a clump of trees about a half mile behind their home. NIrs. Nannor was afraid to accompany the two on their investigation, ,--.and Mannor's t\vo dallghters refused to i et their husbands go, so Mannor aDd Ronald started out. They got Nithin 500 I'ards of the object and Mannor gave this dcscription: "$'c didn't carry no lights ol guns. Bu1 we know the area. Go hunting there all the time. We came over that knoll and there it was, about eye-level with us, no more than 500 yards away. It had a blue light in front, and in the back a light that kept changing from red to white, like it was rotating. Kind of like the light on a police car. "It was almost flat on the bottom and kind of high and peaked on top. We couldn't see much except the outline and the lights at the ends, because the whole thing was wrapped in a light like a halo and it kept shimmering. It was like watching something across the desert. You know how the heat waves keep changing what you see. Ronnie said, Look at that horrible thing there!"-And just like that it was gone. We went down into the s\,!'amp but there was nothing. No smell of exhaust. Nothing." l\Irs. llannor, meanwhile, had summoncd policc. Nlost of the deputies from the Washtenaw Cornty (where Dexter is Michigan . . ' (Conti,nued Jrom Psge 1) located) Sheriff's Road Patrol saw the lights. Deputy Stanley McFadden got close enough to see the object. As soon as he approached, however, the lights on the object went out and it "swooshed back" toward the west. Mannor said he and his family heard it go over the house-with the sound oI a ricocheting bullet. According to other reports by policemen in the area, there \trere altogether Iive of the objects present. One nearly landed (the one seen by the Mannors) and the others hovered nearby. Stanley McFadden, a Washtenaw County Sheriff's deputy, said that he and Deputy David Fitzpatrick watched the object zip over their car about the same time that the Mannors reported the object had left the swamp, At about this same time, Dexter Patrolman Robert Huniwell reported, he had seen a red and green flashing light ar' rangement which zipped down to hover within 10 feet of a police patrol car. When it rose again, he said, it was joined by a similar object. Altogether, there were 20 sheriff's deputies involved in the search for the objects and most ol them saw them. Two attempted to approach an object hovering near the ground but it {lew olf as they approached. Mannor's description was more vivid than the rest, and he said that it was about the size of an automobile, vrith a raised portion on top and "antenna" on the bottom. Ttis description closely matches that of an object photographed off the california coast in 1957 (see LIFE Magazine lor 1 April 1966-Page 29). Our artist's rendition of the Mannor object was based on description, drawings an4 his own knowledge of Michigan cu'ann +an.ih Several days after the Dexter sightings (and after the Hillsdale sighting, to be discussedn ext), Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the Air Force's consulting astrophysicist, visited the area and after his investiga" tion tentatively identiJied the object seen as "swamp gas". The size of the object, the details observed, the altitude, the maneuvers, the speed, however, belie this explanation. If an individual has seen swamp gas, as this writer has, they could in no way fit the description of swamp gas to the descriptions oi the object ..- seen. Other witnesses: Dexter Police Chief Robert Taylor, who watched the object on the ground from the Mannor home- Deputy Sheriff Thomas Kelly, who viewed it from afar with others: "It lit up the swamp like an office building", he told reporters. On the night of the 21st, Civil Defense director (Hillsdale County, Michigan) william Van Horn.41. was called to the girls' dormitory at Hillsdale College to view some strange lights hovering over the arboretum there. For three hours he and the house mother and about 87 coeds obseryed the object over what the press called a "swamp". The group described the "object" as emitting "wavering orange, red and white lights" and said it appeared to be hovering just above the swamp some 1000 to 1500 yards from the dormitory. Police were summoned, but the officers reported the object was not visible from the road. Van Horn reported later that he could not establish the object's shape, but that through the glasses it as either round or oblong. A nearby airport beacon swept the area at regular intervals and when it did, the object sunk down; when the beacon swept away, the object appeared to rise again. Its lights appeared to be either fixed and a palt of a rotating object or lights rotating around the object. One of the girls, Miss Barbara Kohn, 21, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, whosc Laped report is on file at APRO, (Van Horn was interviewed by telephone by Mr. Lorenzen the day after the incident), said that she entered the dorm a little before 10:30 p. m., when Pinky (Cynthia Poffenberger, 18, of Cleveland) screamed. She was sitting on the bed watching the lightning when she saw the object. A few seconds Iater someone screamed, 'UFO, UFO," Miss Kohn went to the window and saw something coming from the northeast. She said she heard a kind of high-frequency hum, but the shape was difficult to discern. The whole thing was glowing with silver light, and after it settled near the ground they saw indi vidual lights. Some o{ Miss Kohn's comments: "It was an intense sort of silver light, the whole thing glowing with silver light. Then it flashed red but it wasn't really flashing. I mean it changed from white to red but it did it so quickly it gave the appearance df flashing. Then the light went down and then the intensity of red built up again . . . it slowed up. It seemed to be moving very erratically, dipping and swinging. Sometimes it had a sort of pendulum look to it. Then it moved, still flashing, to the southeast and went down below the trees. Sometimes it Iooked larger than a car. Then it would look smaller when it urould set dimmer." I'Vith these quotes we get the impression that the object came in from the swampy region to the northeast, maneuv" ered near the dormitory, headed south, east and settled near the ground oJ the arboretum. Some observations: The object did aot settle into a swamp as is generally believed, It hovered in the vicinity of or over a small artificial lake in the arboretum of the Hillsdale CoUege. Adjacent to the arboretum is the football field with a bank of floodlights. There are paths in and around the arboretum Van Horn, the house mother and 87 coeds watched FOR THREE HOURS, then apparently left to retire WHILE THE OBJECT WAS STILL TIIERE. No one attempted to unpack (it was claimed all cameras were packed) a camera or go out for one in order to attempt to take prctures. No one attempted to locate and pull the switch or switches which would have activated that bank of lloodlights at the football field which might have shed some light on the object, No one attempted to get a few hundred feet closer-which probably could havc been accomplished (although Van Horn admitted later he was afraid the object had some kind of ,,ray', which might be used against him) without detectrou as it was dark and there was some rai[. The policemen who were summoned approached on available roads but none of them attempted to get closer to the object. In early May Van Horn released a 24- page report, the gist of which was that he and the people with him had seen an unconventional aerial object and that Hynek had been grievously y'rong rn Iabelling it "swamp gas,,. He said that Hynek had not "stepped a foot into ,, the area where the sighting took place. He also stated (and rightly) that the wea" ther had not been conducive to the forming of swamp gas. Van Horn ciaims that there was a rise in radiation in the area where the sighting took place and that plants there had shown a lack of blue pigment,,which would have been eliminated by high radiation." The tests were performed by Kipling Vandenberg, 15, and Jerry Wil, son, 16. Hynek, in turn, stated that he still believed marsh gas to be the logical explanation for the sightings. He also questioned why two boys had been called on to make the tests rather than pro- Iessional chemists and biologists from Hillsdale College. He has a point. The Hillsdale case has been so bouno up in explanations, charges and countercharges that our only conclusion mus! be that: (See |
| nov-65 | 21/10/1965 | sibley minnesota |
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At 6:10 p.m., on the evening of 21 October 1965, Mr. Arthur Strauch, Depuity Sherilf of Sibley County, Minnesota, in the company of four others, was returning from a bow hunting trip by car when he spotted a strange appearing object which appeared to be two thousand feet above the ground and one-Iourth nlile distant in the northwest, They were 2 miles west and 2 miles north of St. George. The group stopped the car and watched. Strauch got out of the car and watched the object with 7x35 binoculars, while the others watched from inside the car. The object appeared as illustrated on Page 3, through binoculars. AIter watching for about ten minutes, the group drove down the road about a half mile and stopped. Strauch got out of the car and snapped the photo showr on this page, just as the object began to move. It moved into the wind (northeast) for what appeared to be several hundred feet, stopped lor a few seconds, at which time its light changed from a bright white to a dull orange several times. It then moved toward the southeast at a high rate ol speed and disappeared out ol sight in the sky. As it passed over their heads, the observers heard an audible high-pitched whine, as madb by an electric molor starting up. The witnesses were: Arthur A. Strauch, 47, Deputy Sheriff of Sibley County, Minnesota, his vr'ife, Mrs. Katherine Strauch, 44, housewife; cary Martin Strauch, 16, high school student and son of Mr. and Mrs. Strauch; Donald Martin Grewe, 26, technician with Minnesota Valley Breeders Association, and his wife, Mrs. Retha Ann Grewe, 25, registered nurse. All witnesses check out as honest and reliable. The camera used was a 1965 Kodak Instamatic. Strauch was using Kodak Ektachrome X-film, color slides EX 126- 20. His camera was set {or infinity. The time was set at .60 seconds, no flash. lryhile viewing the object as it hovered in the northwest,S traucht ook four photos, using up the roll of film in his camerc. The pholo shown wilh lhis report was taken, as said before, later just as the object began to move. He did not get the rolls developed until he had filled the second roll. w}len he took them to the drug store to be sent lor developing, he told the clerk that the Iirst roll had not been locked into the camera properly-he found this out when he changed the rolls. The clerk saial the roll would be no good and dropped it into the waste basket. When Sttauch later called for his developed film and found the image of the UAO on the pho. tograph, he asked the clerk to search the trash for the first roll, but the trash had been disposed of, Strauch feels that there may have been a chance that he got better photographs the first time, because the object had been hovering. Environmental factors were: Winil from the northeast at 10 miles pex hour, humidity about 50%, visibility ur imited, sun had just set, sky was clear. No fog, haze or clouds and there was about 4070 darkness. The moon had not risen, and Venus was clearly visible in the southwest. One small star visible to the right and below the UAO. Testimony of the witnesses diJfers only in minor details. Whereas Strauch said the object appeared as large as a quarter held at arm's length, his wife describe it as much larger than the evening star, Gary said it was like a quar" ter at arm's length, and so did crewe. Mrs. Grewe said it was the size "ol a large star." Mrs, Grewe, Mrs. Strauch and Gary re" mained inside the car, while Grewe and Strauch got out to observe the object. They heard no sound. Grewe described the sound of the object as it went overhead as an audible whistling whine and Strauch said it was a "high pitched whin' ing sound, as made by an electric motor starting up." Mr. Strauch's descriptiot was most detailed as he viewed the object with the aid of binoculars. He said: "I have no idea what it was. All I can report is that it was diflerent from anything I had ever seen in the sky. I'm positive it was a machine driven by some inner power that has tremendous speed, The outline was unmistakable through my binoculars, as that ol a "flying saucer," In a letter responding to our request for more detail, Strauch stated: "The rounded top of the dome rflas a metallic silver gray that reflected the ,---xays of the setting sun, turning it (the bject) into a large orange ball. Surrounding the dome were four small port holes that emitted a bright yellow light. Just below the windows or ports was an area that glowed a light blue. This light seemed to be a reflectiol of some inner light or perhaps exhaust. From the edge of the blue light's reflection to the edge ot the flat saucer surface (outer edge) the outer ring was rotating counterclockwise, causing it to throw off au aurora or halo of light that changed from orange to white with an overall tinge of blue and gIeen. The extreme outer edge of the saucer glowed a bright orange and this part did not move or rotate. "To my left, or I assumed, the fiont of the machine, was a black spot or perhaps an intake port lor air. This indentation is visible on the picture but does not show up as clearly as I could see it through my binoculars. If there u'as another one on the other side, I do not know. . "The machine was not hanging or hov. ering parallel to the ground, but was at an angle, the front, as I assumed it to be, was tipped down about 15 degrees while it was hovering, and tipped eveu a little more as it left. I do not believe that the light went out in the machine, as it left and we lost sight of it, but rather that it had such tremendous speed that it just disappeared into space." UIIquote. A little aboutA rthur A. Strauch,p rincipal witness: Born Princeton, Minnesota, June 28, 191B, son of a Lutheran pastor. High school graduate, worked his way through school and received diploma in 1964 from cibbon High School. Attended special course in journalism and creative writing at Mankato State Colege. Veteran of World War II with five major campaigns and D-Day landing at Normandy Beachhead, also action in Africa. England, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany with medals. Carried rank of First Sergeant, honorably discharged. Married, with zz-yearold daughter and 16-year-old son. Appointed Deputy Sheriff of Sibley County, Minnesota in 1960. During pursuit of an escaped prisoner in 1961, severely injured and paralyzed from waist down. Although surgery and therapy have helped, Strauch is still disabled, and has turned to writing for a new start, IIe speaks and undelstands Ger' man and some French. His writing efforts consist mainly of hunting and fisbing articles for the Outdoorsman magazine. |
| sept-65 | 3/08/1965 | el toro base ca rex helfin |
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Calil. Mon Snops UAO Photo To this date, considerable mystery surrounds
lhe pictures {this page.) Our investigator forwarded, along with the
photos, every clipping which appeared in the newspapers in the area and
information gleaned from interviews: Rex Heflin, 37, an Orange County
California Highway Department investigator', was working in the vicinity
of the El Toro Marine Base on August 3rd when he spotted the above
object-he caught a flash of light from the corner of his eye. He got his
Polaroid camera out oI his truck, and before the object left, he got
three photos. He estimated the ob" ject to be 30 feet in diameter and
about B feet thick. He heard no sound. but did see a beam of light at
the bottom center of the object. Twice during the sighting he attempted
to radio his base station in Santa Ana to report the object, but his
truck radio was dead. The object was in sight about 15 seconds, and
llew from west to east, at a high rate of speed, comparable to that ol a jet. The Santa Ana Register published the photo, making copy negatives. Then Heflin turned them over to NORAD. They were published after the 21st ol September. when Heflin decided someone should see them. He has offered to submit to a lie detector test. Heflin claims that he was interviewed by Navy Intelligence, Marine Intelligence and an Air Force investigator. He claims that the Marine Corps officer told him that other unidentified objects had been seen in that area on live occasionsi,n - cluding a sighting by a civilian pilot on September 4. "He said there was at least one other sighting on the day I took my pictures in this area," Heflin told the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner on 24 September. The newspaper said that Marine G-2 (Intelligence) personnel were not available for comment. Newspapers in Calilornia and elsewhere carried the UPI story on october 27 that labeled the Heflin sighting and photos a hoax. Heflin denied the charge. The Pentagon announced the findings of the AF's Project Bluebook at Wright Patterson AFB to wit: That "Evaluation of the three photographs ol an alleged UFO taken by Rex Heflin of Santa Ana is based on enlargements made from copies of the original prints. The camera was probably focused on a set distance and not on infinity as the terrain background was blurred on all three photographs. The center white strip on the load and the object appeared to have the same sharp image. Therefore, it is believed that the object was on the same plane as the center white strip and coul, - not possibly be the size report€d b) Heflin. "Using the width of the road as a Iactor, the size oI the objecl was estimated to be approximately one to three feet in diameter and 15 to 20 feet above the ground." In summing up, Major Quintanilla, director oI Project Blue Book, is quoted: "We have classified it as photographic hoax on the basis of extensive photographic analysis." At this writing, the complete lacts are not in. APRO did not obtain the origilal photos-only copies. Further investigation may bring sufficient information to take a stald as to the authenticity of the photos. The glossy prints we have on file, hovtever, appear to be photographs of a small object close to the camera. On the other hand, objects such as telephone poles and what appears to be a silo on the left side of the photo, and some distance from the camera, appear to be in as good focus as the object itself. |
| sept-65 | 30/09/1965 | Norwich Connecticut |
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Newsmon Phofogrophs UAO On the night of September 30, 1965, Ken Skinner, photographer for the Norwich (Connecticut) Bulletin, spotted a UAO and photographed it. See above. Skinner claimed the object seemed to change color as he watched it move about for seyeral minutes. "It was like a brilliant light bulb in the center, then a glow all around it," Skinner said. At various times it looked bluish-green, then orange, grey and blue, Skinner reported. Although the object seemed to be very high in the sky it was much large! than a star and at one point it moved across the face ol the moon, creating an eliect somethingli ke an eclipseh, e told Associated Press. skinner said he hadn't had a drink before making the sighting, "But, boy, I feel like one now." The photograph has been examined by our photo analyst, John Hopf, and is cdnsidered to be authentic. |
| sept-65 | 3/08/1965 | valentine nebraska |
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uAO Photographed ln Nebrosko The above photo is of an unconven" tional aerial object photographed through a telescope at Valentine, Nebraska on the morning of 3 August 1965. The photographer, Miss Judi Hatcher, 17, is an amateur astronomer. She was alerted by BiU \trard after he saw an object in the southeast which moved to the northwest. The object ri'as star-like in appearance, except for the fact that it moved up and down and did other maneuvers in relation to some power lines, with maneuvers covering about 12 degrees. ltrere were no stars close enough to rvhich the movement could be related, and a telescope revealedn o telescopics tarsi n the vicin' ity. The object dimmed frequently, to the extent that it could no longer be seen by naked eye or telescope. It chaaged colors, varying from red to gteen to blue' ish-white. The colors were visible with the naked eye and with telescope and binoculars. An observation of the subject out of focus in the scope showed that the colors moved across the object from side to side, or from top to bottom. or vice versa. The colors were not all present at the same time, in a shifting pattern, as in stars. After this one went through some rapid and extreme changes in color and brightness, another object bunked on in the northeast. It was noted that if one blinked excessively,t he other would disappear. After about three hours the original object blinked off and failed to reappear. Miss Hatcher tried three photes of this object through the telescope, and succeeded on two of them. It was noted that all the major stars were in place, including Arcturus, but that no star of less than second magnitude was visible in the vicinity of the object. Object sight-- ed in northeast performed same manel vers, dimming and color changes as firsr one. Generally proceeding east slowly and four smaller and dimmer objects appeared to be following and attempting to close ranks with it, |
| juil-65 | 1/04/1965 | Westford, Ma |
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UAO Scoufs Town ln EasI Mrs. Evelyn Chorney and her son Steven, 14 of Westford, Massachusettsl,'e re leaving the library at 8:50 P.m. on I April 1965 when Mrs. C. saw an unconventional object in the sky. T'here $'ere stars out but no moon and there r^'ere light scattered clouds in the sky. Lights from the city of Lowell illuminated the clouds over that city. The air was very still and sounds carried a great distance. A train near Lowell I miles away was heard clearly. The library is locat€d in the center oI town which is on a hill and is the highest elevation for miles around. Upon leaving, Mrs. Chorn€y stopped on the library steps to talk to a special policeman-the[ thev both spotted a bright red light and what appeared to be four slanted windows in "front" of it. They viewed them through the treetops. There were no leaves on the trees so they got a fairly clear view. T'hey heard no sound at any time. The policeman said nothing, Deither did Mrs. Chorney. She made an excuse to leave, got h€r son who was talking to other children and they got into her car. She drove to the south down the side of tbe Hill where she'd seen the object, and stopped. She spotted the object rnoving very slowly, with a "wobbling" effect, lt started a slow wide turn to its lelt and Mrs. Chorney started up her car again and drove further. She and Steven got out and viewed it lor several minutes. Watching it continue to bear left, Mrs. Chorney drove to the High School area on the Northeast side of the hill about one-quarter of the way around the hill. She drove through the town (3 blocks) which took oDly a few minutes. Swinging into the road wbich leads to the high school, they stopped the car and got out again and viewed the object. The "window" lights were out but there were two bright red lights, one on each end of the cigar-shapedc raft. The lights constantly dimmed and brightened alternately As the object moved past the high school, the red lights went out and a light which gave the appearance of a straight vertical line, appeared just "in. side of the end" of the object and it blinked on and ofl very fast lor about 20 seconds. As the craft completed the end of its S-shapedro ute, and appearedu nder the cloud coyer over the Lowell area, the blinking light stopped aDd the red lights began pulsating again. Moving very slowly over the Lowell area the cigar-shape could be seen very clearly. It was dark -almost black. It moved on into the southeast and faded out of sight. To their right toward the end of the sighting, the observers saw three bright red round pulsating objects. When the big cigar-shaped object headed toward Boston, the small lights moved in the same direction. They also disappeared. The entire sighting lasted between 30 and 40 minutes, after which Mrs. Chorney returned home, about 2 minutes from the center of Westford. The Chorneys tben saw aircraft circling Westford and they continued to do 60 for about an hour. Mrs. Chornev stipulated that no conventional aircraft urere seen in the whole area during the time of the sighting. See diagrams for the lay of land, Mrs. Chorney's route during the observation and the route oI the UAO. 1, We feel Mrs, Chorney is an extraordinary observer and this is one of the most detailed sighting reports we have received. Our compllments to member Greg Bishop for a complete investigation. |
| juin-65 | 21/12/1964 | Grottoes, Virginia |
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Huge UFO A, Stovnlon,Vo. Mr. Horace Burns, of Grottoes, Virginia; claims to have seen an B0-foot-high UFO four miles east of Staunton, Virginia at 5 p.m. on 21 December 1964. Drawings of the object show a general cone shape 125 feet in diameter with a band of bluish-white light on the bottom. Burns claimed the metallic-appearing object came out of the sky north of the Highway, crossed Route 250 about 200 feet ahead of him and then his engine stopped. He said his car seemed to come to an "unnaturally" quick stop. He also said the object landed lightly, "like a bubble" about 100 yards off the Highwa-v. It had no visible portholes, r,,ings or seams. See diagram. The object rested on the meadow for from 60-90 -rr,condst,h en with a sound of rushing air, ii rose straight up for several hundred fect and then proceeded into the northelst. Burns claimed there was no trafiie dLrring this time, nor was there any for rt ieast a mile ahead along the route r.,irich he drove his car after he started it up again. ilix days later NIr. Burns informed llrnest G. Gchman, a Professor of Gerrrran at Eastern llennonite College at ilr:r'riscnt'urg. On the follorving Tuesda5.- Prcfessor Cr.hrnan taped the story'at 1Ir. Rtrrns' gunshop. On Wednesday the Professor t('sted the area where the UFO had purportedly landed and his counter registered 60,000 counts per minute. This was I days after the UFO had resied on the spot. On January 12 Sgt. David }loody and S,'Sgt. H. Jones of Wright-Patterson AFB airived to investigate the landing. They questioned Burns and Gehman. Gehman, who was on the scene during the AF investigation, noted that l,Ioody also got an indication of radioactivity. This rvas three lveeks after the incident. Iloody also indicated the Burns sighting was a "good" one by several remarks. However, in their 3-page report which they forwarded to Gehman, they inferred their doubts concerning the authenticity of Burns' claims. To our knowledge no sighting of a UFO in that area which would tend to corroborate Burns' claims has come to light. It has been suggested that the lack of traffic on route 250 is most unusual at any time of day and especially at 5 p.m. An examination of a state of Virginia road map shorvs Staunton intersected by two major highways and several smaller roads. Route 11 runs roughly SSW to NNE. Highway 250 where the huge UFO was alleged to have landed, runs WNW and ESE. This major U. S. Highway runs to Charlottesville and then to Richmond, ESE of Staunton. It does not "beehiue" shaped object reported.ly obsertsed near Staunton, Vi.r- December.1964. Shozt:n aboue is the ginia, U.S.A. on 2l seem likely that an 80-90 foot high UFO couid land in dayiight on a major thoroughfare and be seen by' only one individual. Charlottesville, home of the University of Virginia is onl,"'3- 5 miles away to the ESE. Its population is in excess of 30,000. The population oI Staunton is 20,000. lVa5'nesboro. betrveen Staunton and Charlottesville, has 13,000 residents. This evidence seems to conflict with Burns' story-but on the other hand, we have ihe testimony of a respected University Professor concerning excessive radiation. A short time ago, some strange holes and high radiation count were found in the woods near Glassboro, New Jersey. A tale of a glowing red object which had purportedly landed in the woods was told to the son of a knorvn UFO enthusiast and NICAP member, by an unidentified youth. Police investigated and located a boy who was identified as the one who originally told of the alleged landing. He was taken into custody, admitted perpetrating a hoax by digging the holes and scattering certain chemicals to raise the radiation count. He was tried, found guilty, fined, warned about future shenanigans and released. His fine was also suspended. We relate the latter case without pertinent details or names (the case is old and does not appear to be a true UFO report) because it is important in that radiation at an aileged UFO landing site can be simulated. However, such fake cases can be detected with a little investigation. |
| avr-65 | 3/03/1965 | weeki wachi springs floride |
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On the 3rd of March 1965, 65-yearold John Reeves of WeekiWachi Springs, Florida, walked into the office of Radio Station WWJB in Brooksville and told a strang story of his purported encounter with a robotJike creature and its space ship on the the preceding day. His story: At about 1:55 in the afternoon of the seeond, he was walking about 1 1/2 miles from his home when he saw "out on the flats" an unusual looking object. IIe approached it via a circuitous route and when about 150 feet from the object he stopped and just looked at it. Shortly he was startled to see in an area a small distance from the "craft", a spacesuited figure which came out of the brush and approached the object. It had traversed about half the tlistance between its original position and the craft, when it stopped, turned, spotted Reeves and started toward him. It got to within 15 feet of Mr. Reeves, stopped, pulled a squarish black object with rounded edges " out of its left side", and held it at chin level. The object flashed, "like lightning at night", aecording to Reeves, whereupon Reeves turned and ran. In running he knocked his glasses off on a bush, stopped to get them and his hat fell off. Sitting there in a crouched position, he looked around and the "robot's" object Ilashed again. Then the creature turned and walked back to the "saucer" and entered it. Shortly the object rose into the sky at high speed and disappeared. After the craft left, Reeves walked over to the place where it had sat and found four holes where the landing gear had been, and two sheets of kleenex-like paper neatly iolded and lying on the ground. He picked them up and took them home with him. He also noted an abundancec f strangef ootprints. (See drawings and photos for gear im' prints, footprints and shape of UFO). The "robot" described by Reeves was Landing . . . (Continued from poge 7) roughly five fcet tall and clothed iu a silver gray, stiff-appearing suit, atop which was a helmet much like a glass bowl inverted over its head and resting on its shoulders. The head inside was overed by dark material which covered the hair area. The ears, mouth and nose appeared normal but the eyes were large and very wide set, with a "flat area" between. The hands were covered by mittens which appeared to be very pliable and the same color as the suit. Reeves did not notice the footgear. The craft was about 2G30 feet in diameter, and approximately 8 feet thick. Around the circumference of the airfoil were "slats" which resembled "venetian blinds". Shortly after the "creature" got into the craft, these slats began to open and close and a rumbling noise was heard. Then the airfoil began to turn counter-clockwise, and the rumbling was replaced with a whistling sound. The object elevated, the gear lifted and became horizontal with the ship and then slid into the belly of it. The overall color of the object was "like a soap bubble"- irridescent, with red-purple and greenblue predominating. When the "creature" got into the object he entered by way of a cylindrical shaft ((actually a half-cylinder) into whieh was set disc-like flaps. As the creature shifted his weight from one to another, the lower flap folded up into place. When the creature disappeared into the ship the cylinder-like ladder drew up inside. Very little of the foregoing information was gathered trom the press--most of it came from Reeves himself, via telepbone conversations and direct contact by a Florida APRO member. Some very queer and interesting situations developed during the course of the investigation. On the face of it, it would seem, at first, that the sighting was a genuine one. Reeves, although not technically knowledgeable, did not seem to be unreliable and seemed to be a good observer. Various points about the craft and the "creature" correlated with known facts about the UFO singhtings in the past. The "pointed chin" correlated with a sighting in Brazil in 1957 which had not, at that time, been published. The "strange eyes" and the helmetlike covering of the hair correlates with types decribed by Michel in his latest book on UFOs (Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery). Tho shape of the craft is, of course, similar to the well-known Saturn shape (such as the famous IGY Trindade Island object). When questioning Reeves, we found it noteworthy that he saw no pockets, nd could not be convinced that tiere was one when he didn't see otre. He also did not noice foot gear which s unusual in the case of a boax. Usually the hoaxer has an answer for everything, One oI our members in St. Petersburg, Florida, Mrs. Helen Hartman, (to wbom we are indebted for voluminous information regarding this case) was relayed information by members of another UFO Group which, as it turned out, was not exactly reliable. Life Magazine supposedly was interested in the story. They also reportedly had a lie-detector test given Reeves and the test indicated that Reeves was not telling the truth. Unfortunately, the physical evidence (footprints, gear prints, etc.) was destroyed by rain on the night of the third. Unfortunately, also, the photographs taken by news photographer Ftank Fish, which were halvked to interested parties for $30.00 per set, were photographs of a couple of the footprints only, whereas distance photos of the area showing all of the footprints or a large number of same, should have been made. To our knowledge no measurements or other tests were made. The question arises: Why did Reeves lyait a whole day to report his experience? This has not been satisfactorily explained-he says he stayed awake the whole night trying to decide what to do about the whole situation, and doubted that onyone woultl believe him. Reeves arrived at the Radio Station at noon on the 3rd, and Woody Johnson, manager of WJJB, called MacDill Field. Three invesigators from MacDill showed up about 3:30- a record where UFO investigations arr: concerned. The questioned Reeves at the station, then went with him to the site of the purported landing and viewed it, questioning him further. On the basis of what we had learned, we dispatched another Florida member 'rvho after discreet investigation said he felt a hoax was afoot. Meanwhile, having paid $30.00 for the picture, including the writing (rcproduced here) we were concerned about our position concerning the whole situation. We were assured by Woody Johnson that he and Frank Fish were the first and only indivduals to interview Reeves before the Air Force arrived. When we finally received the photos from Johnson, the accompanying letter read, verbatim: "Thank you very much for your letter of the 13th, enclosing check for glossy prints, which we believe you will find most interesting. As agreed these prints are not to be released or reproduced (those containing symbols) without written consent of Frank Fish or W. W. John' son. The enclosed prints have been released to APRO on advice of NICAP. "Information on ot}er sightings included in your letter of the 13th, was most interesting. We would like to have your opinion and comments regarding the enclosed prints after review." Unquote. Mr. Lorenzen had written to Johnson and had asked pertinent questions about the landing site, none of which Johnson was able to answer. The only thing we were able to gein was the pictures which showed little. The footprints are so clear that they look as though they could bave been made with a weighted object; there is no characteristic scuffing. The sequence of footprints indicate a very short stride, and a rather "duckfooted" walk. This is not out of line, however,, for a "robot" who rvalked with a stiff-legged gait. On the 1st of April, Air Force spokesmen announce.l their decision that the Brooksville incident was a hoax. They said it had been investigated by MacDill AFB personnel and Dr. C. W. Bemiss, Pan American Airways technical staff man. Tests of the pieces of paper were conducted at the Institute of Paper Chemistry at Appleton, Wisconsin, and according to the AF report, "we found to be composed of fibers common all over the world and corresponded to the fibers used for lens tissue or stencil paper." This statement, although probably not too well represented by the press, is not exactly enough for a scientific evaluation. The type of paper and its make should have been identified. Johnson bad informed APRO that the paper would not trrar, and a buraed sample burned aimost explosively. 'Ihis description does not fit lens or stencil paper. The Air Forcre statement also said that the AF found it "extremely doubtful" to believe that a 20-30 foot object could have taken off at the alleged rate of 5,000 mph in vertical ascent and been seen for any more than five seconds. Taking into consideration that Reeves admits he is not knowledgeable in technical matters and estimation of speed, etc., his estimate of the time it took for the object to disappear from sight is not a point to be seriously questioned and used for evaluation of authenticity. The "hieroglyphics" were found by the AF to be "the work of an amateur" and they were deciphered by "simple substitution". We can agree with the latter, Lut there are certain facts about those glyphs which should not be overlooked. Using the AF's translation of the one page, we found they did not apply to the second page and that indeed, of the 18 synrbols (out of a possible 25 in our (See "LondinS", pose 4l |
| janv-65 | 16/01/1958 | trinidade isla,d |
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On the 16th of JanuarY, 1958, Mr' Almiro Barauna, civilian and guelst oI the Brazilian Navy oII Board the Brazilian Ttaining Ship, Almirante Saldanhas, ight' ed and photographed an object which flew in from the ocean, circled above Trindade Island and then flew out to sea. He obtained 4 photos. Barauna was not the only observer, and various Brazilian newspapers at the time stated ulrequivocally, that "elements" (members) o{ the crew oI the Almirante Saldanha had also seen the Saturn-shapedo bject. APRO'S Brazilian Representative, Dr. Olavo T. Fontes, through connections in the military, did a thoroug hinvestigation of the incident, and even produced sightings which preceded the event of ihe 16th. I{e mentioned in the text of his report (See APRO Bulletins of January, March and May 1960) the existence of a secret Navy Report which dealt with the incident. In October, 1964 a heavY manila envelope arrived in the mail at APRO Headquarters. It contained a complete set (4) of photographs of the Trindade object, as well as correspondence between various Brazilian Navy officers concerning the incident and the photographs. Accompaning the photographs and letters and the Navy report itself, was a letter to Mrs. Lorenzen from an ex-Brazilian Navy Officer now living out' side of Brazil. In the letter he asked Mrs. Lorenzen to use the report, photographs and other material in any way possible in order to clear up the confusion and misrepresentations concernng the IGY photographs. He said he had read her book and complimented her on it as well as her handling of the IGY case. He also asked her to do ever]'thing possible to protect his identity, and thi6 has been accomplished. A-nother request was that a copy be made bY APRO oI the contents and that the copy be sent to NrCAP' for a set of the photos were being sent to that organization. Always wary of such things, Mrs. Lorenzen checked APRO'S files for authen' tication of the report's contents, and found them to be authentic She also contacted Dick Hall of NICAP and asked |
| mai-64 | 24/04/1964 | socorro nm zamora |
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the Soufhwesf Flop We are deeply indebted to many people for the information which comprises the following report. We would like to name them so that the members will know the kind of teamwork which made the following report possible: Arlynn Bruer, Alamogordo Daily News, Terry Clark, KALG Radio, Alamogordo, liew Mexico, Sgt. Sam Chavez, New Mexico State Police, as well as numerous contacts who prefer that their identities remain unknown. This report will consist of the facts of the Zamora sighting, which brought the UFO into sharp focus in the latter part of April, and the day-by-day, blowby- blow account of the entire investigation, which is as interesting, in some lvays, as the sightings themselves. At 6:50 p.m. on Friday evening, 24 April, 1964, Patrolman Lonnie Zamora o{ the Socorro, New Mexico City Police, was proceeding south at high speed on South Park Street in pursuit of a speeder. As he drew abreast of the Church of the Buena Pastor (Good Shepherd), his attention was attracted by a loud roaring sound and out of the corner of his eye, to the southwest, he saw a blue flame which disappeared down toward the ground and out of sight. As poliiemen often must, he thought quickly, made his decision and steered his car off Park St. and onto a faint trail leading off into the gullies southwest of town. He felt he knew the speeding motorist anyway, and his first impression of the roar and the flame was that possibly someone was "fooling around" the dynamite shack which was located in the general direction of the blue flame he had seen. After Zamora left Park St , the trail led up onto a small mesa, but the mesa was so steep and there was no road as sueh, that he had to make three runs before his car made the grade, then he drove across the crest and down the other side. At this point, and for only a few sec- londing (Continued frcm Page 1) onds, the gully to the south of him was visible, and in,it, he glimpsed a white object, which, from that distance (450 feet) appeared to be an overturned car (standing on end) with two children or small adults standing by it. The figures were dressed in white clothing lvhich he thought looked like mechanics' said one of them appeared to turn toward him and seemed startled. Zamora took his mike down and called Chavez, asking for assistance. He asked him to come alone. Zamora drive his car up and across the next mesa where he stopped it. He then heard two loud metallic banging noises. He got out of his car, but in doing so dislodged his microphcne which he automatically picked up and put bac in place. He took three steps toward the gully and could see the object down the short slope a little to his left. Suddenly an car-splitting roar filled the air and the ob;ect began to "kick up dust." Zamora, thoroughly frightened. threrv himself on the ground. Looking up, he saw the object was rising, in a slanting trajectory toward the southwest. Hc got up and ran and bumped into his car, in doing so, his sun glasses dislodged and fell to the ground. As the object rose. it displayed a blue flame of a particularly brilliant hue wh'ch was three, or four times as long as it was wide. I The roar ceased quite suddenly and Zamora stopped in his tracks and looked around. The object was headed southr. r,est, making a high-pitched "whining" sound. It was ascending at a very shallow angle, at approximately 20 feet altitude when it cleared the dynamite shack. Zano.a ran to his car and called heado.ua ters, a',king if anyone there could see anything in the southwest. Unfo: trrnately they didn't, probably because at this time the object was rapidly going out of sight and at such a low altitude that it would not have been visible from town b:cause of trees and buildings. Within minutes, Chavez pulled his patrol car to a stop on the mesa and Zamora hurried toward him. "Do I look strange?" Zamora asked. Chavez replied, "You look like you've seen the devil." "WelI, maybe I have," Zamora said, and related his experience. The two men then walked to the edge of the gully and looked at the ground where the object had rested. It was still smoking. Several clumps of range grass were burned, as well as a stubby mesquite bush. There were four 8x12-inch wedgeshaped depressions, 3 to 4 inches deep arranged in an uneven rectangle. There were also four circular depressions about 472 inches in diameter and approximately 3 inches deep not far from one point of the large indentations. Chaves put in a call to Crptain Holder of Stallion Site who was at his home in Socorro, and to an FBI operative who was in Socorro at the time. Holder and the FBI man came out to the site, took measurements, and the FBI man piled rocks around the indentations tc preserve them. Then Zamora and Chavez were questioned extensivelv. During this activity Chavez searched Zamora's car for any equipment that could have been used to start the fire or to make the indentations. He found none. After receiving the call from Zamo:a, Chavez, who had been fingerprinting a prisoner, turned the prisoner over to another officer and got into his car and headed out South Park Street. Later, when the Lorenzens talked to Chavez, he said his car had no difficulty making the grade up the road. Sgt. Chavez also told the Lorenzens that he had looked into Zamora's car to see if there were any implements of any kind with which the indentations and fire could have been effected. There were not. Mrs. L. asked Chavez why he did that. Chavez admitted that Zamora,s story had been so strange, and he followed the regular procedure to establish evidence. He himself had never put any stock in "flying saucer" stories previously. When queried about Zamora's request to "come alone," Chavez said Zamora felt that he was seeing something unusual and wanted a sympathetic antl objective person to verify the obje_ct. All questions concerning Zamora's honesty and integrity were met by Chavez with absolute endorsement. He was personally convinced that Zamora experienced what he claimed he did. This was the same general consensus among Zamora's fellow officers and friends. Police Chief Polo Pineda had said, simply, "He's a good man." After the call from Chavez asking for further directions, and Zamora's call asking if police personel at headquanters could see something in the southwest in the vicinity of the Perlite Mine, Deputy Sheriff James Luckie got into his car and went to the dynamite shack loeation, arriving just behind Chavez. He also testified as to the smoking condi tion of the ground and the indentations. |
| mars-63 | 1/03/1963 | cordoba argentine |
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Cesar Domingo La Padula, Ariel Kaplan, and Ernesto Jose Ind, students of the Institute of Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics of the National Observatory of Cordoba, sighted a UFO while on the terrace of Mr. Padula's home, attempting to adjust an antenna. They said the object was completely ',irregular" and that once during the sighting the shadow of the object fell on buildings. Padula does not maintain that the object is a "flying saucer" and adds nothing to the report except the above. The newspaper, "Cordoba" published the photos (see cut) on their front page, remarking: "Are they or are they not from another world, flying special missions over our planet?" The newspaper, "La Voz del Interior,,, besides publishing on that occasion two of the photos and comments about them, confirm the sighting of the object with the added comment that corroborating witnesses watched the object from the Airport of Cordoba. The time of day of the sighting anrl subsequent photographs, was 5:30 p.m. Doubt concerning the incident was expressed in the newspaper ,,Los principios" in an interview with the photographer of the National Observatory of Cordoba, Mr. Julio Albarracin who said he gave no credence to the report, and that he felt it was the product of a "youthful mentality" (juvenile hoax). He also stated that the photos show an object that reflects a "strange light,, from the lowerside and has a shadow on the upper side, the angles of the photo are contradictory and there are other details that make the whole incident suspicious. However, the newspaper,.Cordoba,, said that members of the Institute de- ,cided to have the photographs analyzed. by professional photographers who informed them the pictures were not fakes. We are making inquiries to get prints from the original negative and additional testimony and details-if we are successful, more will be featured in comins issues. |
| sept-62 | 1/09/1962 | detection ovni |
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Brown Ploys "Bolmc,n" With pardonable pride we wish to call attention to some recent accomplsihments of Al Brown, our Research Director. No. 1 is a portable electrocardiograph so small that the heart patient can wear it under his clothes while pursuing his normal daily activity. Heart activity is recorded on a tape capsule which is removed and interpreted later. Al designed and patented the device in the course of his work at Lochheed Missiles and Space Co. It is already on the market. No. 2 is described briefly in the fol" lowing excerpts from a Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. news release: "FOR RELEASE: Monday, Sept. 10, 1962. BAT R,ADAR DEVICE ENABLES MAN TO 'HEAR' OBJECTS IN HIS PATH. PALO ALTO, CALIF.-A "bat radar" device which, when fully developed, may allow a blind man to throw away his cane, has been produced by Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. scientists. "In its present preliminary form, the instrument enables a blindfolded person to detect and make his way around such objects as filing cabinets, cars, trees, anil other people. "If scientists can learn more about the mental mechanism of bats-as well a$ other animals-they may convert this knowledge to great value for man. This is the real object of bionics research and development at Lockheed and elsewheree. "But Lockheed's "bat radar," built to enable a man to navigate sightless like a bat, is expected by its inventors to have broad applications. Studies connected with the instrument, or with devcies based on the same principle, may teach scientists much about radar and sonar that is not now known "Experiments with bats are continuing, but research scientists in the Lockheed Laboratories at Palo Alto decided to attempt to reproduce, at least in crude form, the bat's navigation system. The specific task was given to Lockheed electronics research scientist Alvin E. Brown, 36-year-old graduate of the University of Washington." (See photo of Brown testing the device above). |
| juil-62 | 25/06/1962 | tucson az |
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"Some doors opened in the bottom and something came out." An
unconventional aerial object hovered for a period of time at Tucson,
Arizona and a strange device had lowered to the ground. The boy relating
the details was 14-year-old John Westmoreland. IIe and his brother James
and next-door neighbor Ronnie Elack had spent the night of June 25, 1962
in the tent in the Westmoreland back yard and during the course of four
hours had witnessed a strange but revealing chain of events. On the
evening of the 26th of June I opened the Tucson Daily Citizen newspaper.
When I came to the local news section, these words seemed to pop right
out of the page:. "Saucers, Rockets Inhabit Night Sky." I scanned the
article briefly and reached for the telephone book. Seconds later I was
talking to Mrs. Logan Westmoreland, the mother of John and James
Westmoreland. She graciously invited Mr. Lorenzen and me to come to her
home and interview the boys. Three hours later we were seated in the
comfortably furnished living room of the Westmoreland home in southeast
Tucson. The boys were eager to talk about their adventure, partly I
suspect, because they were met with doubt at first. As soon as we got
the gist of the story we started the slow process of cross. examination.
The three boys had been given permission to spend the night in the tent,
so, armed with a deck of playing cards, pad and pencil, they settled
down to a game of 500 Rummy by lantern light. Shortly before nine they
were bored with cards and not sleepy, so they decided to go outside,
watch for meteors and look at the stars and try to catch an errant,
cooling breeze. The summer rains were in the offing and the air was warm
and humid. The day had been hot; the night air was a welcome change. At
about 9 o'clock John noticed a star at 5 degrees south of due west,
30-40 degrees elevation, which didn't behave (See NICAP,p age 2) (See
Saucer Shoot page 3) SoucersS hoot (Continued, from page 7) like a
star. It was very bright, white in color, and "moved around a iittle,"
in the boys' words. Soon it dimmed, m:ved a littie toward the south,
lost a .few degrees in altitude and then became ;trtionary. The boys
soon lost interest and went back into the tent to another game of Rummy.
From time to time they p:ek:d out and took a look at the strange ";tar"
but it "just stayed there." Then at about 11:45 things began to happen.
The bright "star" became much b-ighter and seemed to move closer.
Instead of looking like a star, it a:sumeC a trrangular shape as it grew
larger. Then it became stationary again. How long this process took the
boys did not know, but according the kitchen clock (they kept peeking
in the window to check the time), a surprising thing happened at 12:15.
Three green flares or rorkels were fired horizontally from the main obj
ect. At this time, John scrambled into the tent and emerged with the
score pad and pencil. He decided to keep notes. On the pad he wrote: "At
9 o'clock at night we saw a flying saucer. At 12:15 it shot three green
things that traveled I'aster than any plane." These rockets were too
fast to track visually. After the first "rocket" was fired, John noticed
the second "saucer" which we will hereafter refer to as Number Two. It
came in racing froru west to east across the northern sky, "turned a
flip" and came to rest at about 15 degrees east of north at a slightly
greater elevation than No. 1. Shortly No. 2, which appeared closer and
larger than No. 1, was approached by the "flare-like object," which came
in from underneath and appeared to be absrirhed through the bottom of
No. 2. Then the first "saucer" spat out allother of the small objects.
About three minutes later No. 2 was again approached by the tiny object
and again the boys watched as it seemingly disappeared into the bottom
of No. 2. No. 1 was still in the same position, appearing to be
triangular in shape, and No. 2 appeared much closer and round-shaped
with two leg-like or stiltlike proturberances on the underside. A third
flare emerged from No. 1, and was shortly "received" by sauce No. 2.
Things were getting interesting. No. 2 then shot out a rocket which
quickly disappeared into the night sky. No. 2 began to dim and fade into
the night sky and was not seen again. No. 1 retained its same position.
At this time, Saucer No, 3 was spotted at about 100-110 degrees and
about ,45 degrees elevation. It appeared the largest and highest of the
three, which suggests that it was closer. The detail re* ported by the
boys bears this out. But the best part of the show tvas yet to come.
Number three sported a cone-shaped superstructture above an apparently
round airfoil. Its color was white and Iike the others it made
absolutely no souncf. At 1:16 a jet plane went overwe later decided it
was probably in the flight pattern of Davis-Monthan .AFB, a Strategic
Air Command instailation a scant 3 or 4 miles from the Westmoreland
home. The new visitor closed in and three of the stilt-like
proturberances "popped out." Then the object gained altitude. An
elongated dark "something" slid out from above the circular rim and
three of the small rocket-Iike objects emerged in quick succession. In a
few brief minutes they were back. Two doors swung open, down, and back
up against the underside of the saltcer. As the 'doors opened, the
"legs" receded into the object. The little rockets, now clearly seen,
swiftly entered the opening, one by one. The big otrject elevated
slightly, and moved sideways, then became stationary again. The
newspaper had printed only the boys' notes which were not detailed
except for general movement of the objects. In describing saucer No. 3,
John had written: "Something lowered from the bottom. Something came
out." I asked John what he meant by that. He said that something which
looked like a rope or cable came out and lowered to the ground. I asked
him what color it was, and two voices-his and James', piped up and said
"brown." I wondered how they could tell colors at that time of the night
and asked them. "From the Iight," they said. "What light was that?" I
asked. Then then told me that rvhen the doors opened a red light shone
down {rom the inside in a perpendicular narrow beam, that extended to
the ground. When the long, ropelike object began to come out, it was
clearly visible and appeared to be brown in color. The boys estimated
that the "rope" lvas extended for from three to five minutes, after
which it began to come up into the saucer again. After it had cleared
the top of the ridge bordering the wash, they realized that something
was on the bottom of it. It was slowly pulled up into the large object,
the doors closed and the object moved up and into the east until it rvas
out of sight. The youngsters stayed up a little longer, r,vatching for
more activity in the sky but before long the excitement of (See Saucers
Shoot, page 4) Soucers Shoot (Conti.nued, from page 3) the night and
their lack of sleep overcame their curiosity and they retired into the
tent. As soon as they had awakened in the morning they rushed in to tell
Mrs. Westmoreland what they had seen. Pat Westmoreland, about 40, is an
understanding mother but a firm one. The thought at first that perhaps
the boys had had a touch of imagination and set about using all the "trapping
tricks" she knew to trip them up in their story, but to no avail. She
began to realize that they had had a real experience. She decided the
newspapers should know what had happened the preceding night and called
them. Thus the article which had drawn mv attention came about. It
should be noted here that the new-:paper printed the notes, pointing out
that it could be imaginary or :realthey printed it because it was a
sensational story. The matter of the boys' honesty comes to mind as a
matter of course in the:e investigations. After three long vilits with
the boys, during which time Mr. Lorenzen walked with them to the wash
over which they thought the UAO had hovered, and I had sketched the
objects from their instructions, we found no indication that the boys
were not telling the truth. Mr. Lorenzen said that he had not caught any
signs of strain, rehearsed conversation or trickery during his talks
with them while walking to and from the wash. Nor did I ever detect any
evidence that the boys were attempting to perpetrate a hoax. Some of the
things which impressed me concerning the sighting as well as the honesty
of the boys were these: When attempting to describe the object which was
brought up by the rope or cable, John Westmoreland said he got the
impression that the object was about as long as his father-in other
words, its length equalled approximately the height of his father who is
about 6 feet tall. If saucer No. 3 was above Pantano wash as the boYs
felt it was, we have an idea of its size as well as the size of the
rockets or flares and the size of the object which was pulled up into
the large object. The rim of the saucer appeared to have the same
angular displacement as a five foot cross-arm on a utility pole at the
corner of the Westmoreland lot. If it was over Pantano wash (quarter
mile distant) it was approximately B0 feet in diameter. The small
objects then would be about 6 feet long, and the object which was taken
up into the saucer would be about the same size as the "rockets," and
certainly the same general configuration. (See sketches). It is
interesting and tempting to speculate that one of the rockets, at some
time or other, had become disabled, a search initiated, and eventually,
a recovery effected. The latter phase of the sighting, in which a device
was lowered to the ground and returned to saucer No.3 with a triangular-:haped
object at the end of it, could have been that "recovery." This may
further be supported by the fact that after the object was taken into
the saucer, the saucer left. The recovery of that object may have been
the sole purpose of the presence of the saucers that night. It is
interesting to note that after the case was fully investigated, the
loca1 newspapers were not interested in frirther information or a follow-up
story. On the 291h, a group of local college students sent up some
balloons filled with ordinary kitchen gas and lighted by candles encased
in fireproof crepe paper. Although this was not accomplished until three
days after the West' moreland sighting, the idea of saucers had been
firmly implanted in the public mind. A local professor of atmo'pheric
physics who is interested in UFO, was told of the strange lighted object in the sky, and went to the U. of A. meteorological lab to track the thing. The story of his sighting was in the Arizona Star morning paper for Friday 29 June 1962. Upon reading the details, plus his theory that the thing was an "extended source of light," I wondered if some hoaxers might have been at work. I called the Tucson Citizen asking that they mention APRO- and ask for further sightings of the Thursday evening object and suggested that the object seen that night might have been the result of a prank. Later, I talked to the physicist who had been viewing the object and found that he had also decided that the object was a hoax. Later news stores stated that the college boys involved in the "prank" were "carrying out experiments dealing with wind velocity and other weather conditions." Considering the type of homemade balloon, and the fact that it contained dangerous highly inflammable gas which was tied to a device with an open flame, it is not likely that any such experiment was being carried out. It appears more likely that a childi:h prank was being played and the "young men" involved did not want to admit their part in it, attempting to write it off as an experiment. It is lamentable that the newspapers were satisfied with the experiment explanation and stated that these "experiments" may have been the cause of the saucer sightings in Southern Arizona in the past few months. Certainly, the easiest way to dispose of the perplexing UFO problem is to ignore the evidence which prolongs its mysterious nature. A large percentage of the press is inclined to do precisely that. In the case of this latter sighting, the only two observers of the lighted plastic bags who called me felt the object was a balloon. The local press gave the impression that those who viewed the hoax objects were completely fooled, but that certainly was not the case. The events of the week of June 24-30 very aptly demonstrated the contention that I have had lor years concerning the psychology of the disbeliever. The skeptic is often so intent upon disproving that which he does not care to believe, by attempting to label it a hoax or a misconception of a conventional object, that he sets about to perpetrate a hoax to support his own convictions and allay his subconscious fears. A thorough perusal of newspaper stories concerning the Westmoreland sighting as well as ensuing reports of unidentified sky objects emphasizes the foolhardiness of accepting en toto the information pertaining to UFO sightings as presented by the news media and points up the need for thorough investigation. Had I accepted the Westmoreland story as presented by the Tucson Citizen, I would have had a short dissertation eompletely lacking in detail. A few hours spent in investigation yielded some very important facts, and enabled APRO to log one of the most detailed sightings of an unconventional aerial object which has ever been observed. |
| mars-62 | 6/10/1957 | tucson az |
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large, Smoll UAOS Over Iucson ln 1957 Earl E. Sydow, engineer and amateur astronomer of Tucson, submitted the following account of a sighting of unconventional aerial objects to APRO in 1962. The original account and drawing were sent to Dr. McDonald of the Atmospheric Phyics Institute, University of Arizona, in 1958. DRAWING: The drawing shown aboae illustrates objects seen bE EarL C. Sadow on October 6, 1957 wi.th aid of telescope (see tert). Sunday, Oct. 6, 1957 - 4:15-4:30 p. m. MST. Observed UFO's at 60 degrees elevation, 135 degrees Az. Bright object was seen having the magnitude approximately of the planet Venus or approximately -3. The single object measured approximately 3 minutes in diameter along the major axis and measured about 1 minute along the minor axis. Smaller objects seemed to exit from the larger object as observations continued. A total of 6 objects were seen at one instant, but other observers noted a total of 10 objects. The objects appeared to be flat white to a silver white. The shape of the smaller objects appeared to be short traces of light at times and at other times appeared to be somewhat semiwedge shaped. The objects moved from the SE toward the NW. The smaller objects disappeared from the field of the telescope until in the final phases of observations there was only one object still in the field of view. This object was the original object sighted and it slowly disappeared from view as if it were moving away from the observer. I would estimate the diameter of the smaller objects to be about 15 to 30 seconds. The last object was observed at about 180 degrees Az. and 85 degrees elevation. Condition of sky: Clear, light blue. Wind conditions: None. Type of instruments used: 1 20mm x 15x; 1 70mm x 140x Astro scope. Number of observers: 7, |
| mars-62 | 27/06/1959 | gina ? nouvelle guinee |
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ew Guineo Sightings (Conclusion) Bg Reu. N. C. G. Cruttutell The object remained stationary for some time and then slowly began movir: g across the sky in a westerly directron. "it had the appearance of a 'sparkler' which is commonly used in fireworks displays. Aiso shafts of green light emanating from the base of the object appeared to be blotted out at regular intervals. A green light also appeared at regular intervals at various points oI the object. There did not appear to be any definite order in the appearance of this light. The object looked as if it hacl a red base, or that a red glow was em anating from its base. "At the time of sighting and while the object was under observation, there were many stars present and few clouds in the area where the object was to be seen. There was a definite reflecied gtow on the few clouds in the area, when the object passed in close proximity to them. It was also noticed that there was a reflection like a beam of light on the water between the mainland and the island and this emanated from the ob. ject. In contrast the reflection of the stars in the water, which was very smooth, were similar to pin points only. "As the object moved slowly across and downwards in a westerly direction, it was kept under constant observation. From the wharf it was then seen that there was what appeared to be a round bronze colored disc below and to the right of the bright light. As the light moved so did this disc, keeping the same distance, about 500 to 1000 feet, each time. This was first noticed at 2025 hours. "The bright light and the disc both finally disappeared behind cloud lou' in the western horizon at 2045 hours." In questioning Mr. Smith, who also witnessed the sighting, I asked him about the curious shafts of light. He said that they emanated from the base of the object, which was about the size of a sixpence at arm's length. There were three of these thin needle-like shafts of green light, one vertical, and one on each side diverging from it at an angle of approximately 15 degrees. They extended for a distance equal to about 3 inches at arm's length. They did not exactly flash on and off but seemed to lengthen and shorten in a most peculiar way, as if they were objects being protruded and withdrawn. (See New Gui.nea, nert po.ge) NewGuineo... (Continued, from page 4) They did not appear to be solid legs but only rays of light. This sighting is a most remarkable one, first because it was on the same night as the Boianai one, which was not itself seen at Baniara (20 miles away). But secondly it is important for the remarkable details of the green shafts and the bronze disc. Evidently the objectwas of quite a different type from he Boianai objects, but equally fantastic n a different way. It is hard to believe that iuch curious details should be invented. They are so unlikely. They rvere observed later in several subsequent sightings. Mr. Orwin and Mr. Smith are both intelligent and observant men, and it is reasonable to suppose that their descriptions are accurate. The same object was sighted again the following night. Continuing the report: "On Sunday, 28th, at 1820 hours, the bright light was again seen by Mr. and Mrs. Orwin. It appeared in the same position as on the previous night, although it was not as bright at first. At 2001 hours the bright light moved at great speed along the same track as the previous night, but in a minute covered the same distance it had taken half an hour to cover previousiy. The light became very bright during this rapid ovement, as did its reflection on the ea. It dropped about 5000 feet during the period, and in my opinion it looked as thought it was going to land to the northwest of the station on the mainland. The light was kept under observation during this rapid movement, and Mr. Orwin ran to the wharf for this purpose. It slowed up and remained in the western sky until it slowly disappeared again lov,r on the horizon at 2115 hours. The bronze disc was again sighted in the same relative position as the night before. Mr. Smith was present with Mr. Orwrn to keep the bright light under observation from 2005 until it di-"- appeared." NIr. Orwin gave me some more details of this sighting. He mentioned that when the light moved rapidly, it became dazzlingly bright and, when it dropped as if it was going to land, it was 'like a thousand searchlights'. He was so concerned about its apparent intention to land that he ran in his pajamas with no shoes down to the wharf. He mentions that the bronze disc which accompanied the object appeared to jump up towards the object when it descended nd seemed to vanish into it. .f.ir, Dt iiitb JsH IE rt Alli, ?.1_.,t,.r. tE.r $. lvaetio A Naval Intelligence Officer visiting the District, suggested that it might have been Venus. which could be expected to be seen from the station in the approximate direction of the bright light. Mr. Orwin replies: "I am of the opinion that the bright light was not Venus, as this light was much lower than the position of Venus and more to the north." Apart from that, it is hard to imagine how Venus could appear to perforrn all the extraordinary maneuvers and manifestations attributed to this light. It will be noticed that this sighting coincided with the third night of UFO activity at Boianai. 4. Si.deia Saw Somethi.ng Too The last report for this period comes from the Roman Catholic Mission at Sideia again, perhaps 90 miles southeast of Boianai. "At B:30 p.m. on June 27th (Boianai's second night, Baniara's first) two of the Brothers saw a large fiery object about half the size of the full moon in the western sky, moving slowly either down the western sky or away from the observers in a westerly direction. At one stage the object, of which the light was appearing to diminish to a pinpoint, suddenly glowed brightly again. It turned blue before finally disappearing. The whole phenomenon lasted about 10 minutes," Venus was also held responsible for this light. The Harbour Master of Samarai Mr. H. Riding, is quoted as saying "This planet sometimeshas the habit of emitting blue, green and red flashes of light, and also light refraction due to temperature changes in the atmosphere gives the impression of the planet mgving." It is of course quite conceivable that some of the sightings may be explicabie by the vagaries of Venus, but what stands out is the remarkable consistency of certain features of the sightings, from quite independent witnesses, That there appears to be a definite pattern running through them seems to become morc and more evident. In any case many of the sightings were made long after Venus had set. This completes the large body of corroborative evidence indicating that during the nights of 26th,27th and 28th of June 1959 South East Papua was visited by a number of unknown aircraft manned by intelligent and apparently human beings. So far no one has been able to offer any explanation of who they are and where they came from, let alone their purpose in examining so closely such a remote and unimportant corner of our planet. (Concluded, See Additional Dtagram. Neat Page) |
| oct-61 | 24/05/1952 | Barra Da Tiiuca bresil |
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Photogrophic Evidence of the Disc-Shoped "Soucers'n Official Documenls from the Brazilian Air Force Aulhenticate the Piclures of the Flying Disc Taken at Barra Da Tiiuca In 1952 Specinl Report bg OLaoo T. Fontes, M.D. The case of the "flying disc" photographed at Barra da Tijuca can be classified as one of the "Classics" in the history of UAOs. The name is given because: (1) it is a classic example of how the true facts of a UFO report can be twisted and warped by certain people to "prove" their point, (2) it is one of the most highly publicized reports of the UAO saga, and (3) it is good enough to convince even the most arden skeptics that UAOs are real objects-ie., some type of vehicle flying through our atmosphere. The five pictures (plus enlargements) to be presented here were taken by press photographer Ed Keffel and reporter Joao Martins, and published by the "O CRUZEIRO" Magazine in its May 24, 1952 issue. Actually photographed on the 7th of that month, these photos were shot when the UAO-a flying disc -was spotted in the vicinity of Barra da Tijuca. Five different exposures including top, bottom and side views of the object were obtained. When first seen, the disc was coming in from the sea at a fairly low altitude (about 490 meters or 1600 ft.; and at a distance of less than 2,000 meters from the observers. It was also sighted by many other dependable witnesses. When the negatives, taken directly from the scene of the sighting, were developed in the dark room of the magazine, 'O CRUZEIRO", one of the people who were waiting outside was Lt. Col. Hughes, U. S. Air Attache to the American Embassy at Rio, who later pronounced the pictures to be authentic. On the other hand, witnesses to the phe- - nomenon who had reported the sighting BEFORE the publication of the photos, later identified the object in the pictures as exactly the same as the one they had seen. Despite this, the U. S. Air Force told the American Press Ser- A.P.R.OS.P ECIALR EPORTN O.I By DR.O TAVO T. FONTESM, .D. SpecialR epresentaiivfeo r Brazil PublishedB y: THEA ERIALP HENOMENAR ESEARCOHR GANIZATION 4145 E. DESERTP LACE TUCSON, ARIZONA, U.S.A. OCTOBERI,9 6I Subiect: The Barra Da Tiiuca Disc. vice months later that "the shadows on the object were in the wrong direction as compared to shadows of trees in the photos, and therefore the photos could not be authentic." Besides, several witnesses appeared later (at Rio) to report that they had seen several men throwing a disc in the air at the same spot where the photos were taken, and taking photographs themselves. As was to be expected, these facts made a lot of people doubt the authenticity of Keffel's photos. I pronounce them authentic and I have something more than good eircumstantial evidence to prove it. I am going to present OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS from the Brazilian Air Force files which are sufficient to end this controversy about the most sensational photographic sequence of a flying disc ever obtained. You are going to see reproductions of top-secret documents kept in the Air Force files since 1952. These documents are pieces of a voluminous Air Force report on the Barra da Tijuca affair. Photographs and enlargements also included are copies from the originals kept in the Air Force files, which were made from Keffel's negatives, at the Air Force Photo Reconnaisance Laboratory. These official documents and photographs were released for the first time to the Brazilian publie on the night of October 11, 1959. They were presented on a TV program of the station "TVContinental" (channel 9) at Rio de Janeiro. This program, called "The Enigma of Space" was under the responsibility and direction of a man named Fernando Cleto, a high-ranking employee of the "Bank of Brazil," and also one of the best qualified UAO researchers in Brazil. He has been investigating the UAO mystery for more than ten years and has obtained the cooperation and help of several other civilian and military UAO experts. Mr. Cleto is not known to the American readers because he has been a silent UAO investigator for many years. His decision to show his material and results to the public was made recently. Mr. Cleto's report concerning Ed Keffel's photographs will be transcribed below, exactly as released to the video public. Mr. Fernsndo Cfefo's Reporf "On May 7, t952, Joao Martins and Ed Keffel went to the place called Barra da Tijuca to do a routine job for their magazine. At 4:30 p. m., Martins suddenly spotted an object approaching in the air at high speed. He thought at first it was an airplane he was facing (see photo No. 1). It looked like an airplane. There was still something strange, Martins realized. That "plane', was flying SIDEWAYS. He shouted: ,What the devil is that?' Keffel had his Rolleiflex at hand and Martins yelled: 'Shoot, Keffel!' Ed Keffel grabbed his loaded camera and got five pictures in ab<jut 60 seconds, thus obtaining the most sensational photographic sequence of a 'fiying disc.' "At the time the photos were published, I began to follow the happenings. with great interest. Everything suggested that the pictures were authentic. Then some witnesses appeared to report that they had seen people throwing a disc into the air and taking photos, exactly at the same place where Keffel's photographs had been taken. These statements raised a doubt in my mind. A doubt which remained until 1954. "In 1954, Brigadier Eduardo Gomez. then the Aeronautics Minister, nominated Col. Joao Adil de Oliveira to command the first "Investigations Commission on Flying Saucers,o, rganizedi n my country. One day I reeeived a phone call from Col. Oliveira, a person whom I didn't know before. He invited me to appear at the Aeronautics High Staff to be interviewed about an incident connected with UAOs which had happened in 1948. When I arrived at AF Headquarters, I met there several persons who had also been called for the same reason: officers in the jet-fighter squadron from Gravatai AF Base who talked about two "saucers" which had hovered over that fighter base for several hoirrs: a civilian pilot who was reporting how |
| mars-61 | 1/03/1961 | orthothenie bresil |
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| sept-60 | 13/05/1960 | orthothenie bresil |
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The unusual number of Brazilian UAO sightings on May 13, 1960, concentrated in the Northeast, suggested a good opportunity to test the orthotenic theory. I decided to plot on the map the locations of 27 sightings reported in the press for that day (listed above), and to study the observations from the orthotenie point of view. In the absence of a gnomonic map of Brazil, I had to content myself, for the time being, with the nearest available approximation to represent the gteat circle lines of the earth's surface as straight lines. |
| juil-59 | 23/04/1959 | Cidade de Deus |
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On the 23rdo f April 1959s, tudentL uis Henrique Silva, 17, felt a strange urge to go into the back Yard of his home. It was late at night and the other household members were sleeping. He went outside, looked to the sky and saw an object hovering at about 900 feet altitude (estimated). He said it looked like a sombrero and was the color of red-hot rnetal. Silva felt paralyzed, then watched as the round bottom of the object opened and a man clad in a one-Piece suit of metallie-like material, spiraled down toward him. The creature stopped about 8 inches from the ground, and appeared to be a norrnal human-type wearing plas' tic gloves over exceptionally long fingers, and his head encased in an opaque device like a diving helmet. Then the being held out his hands and shook hands with Luis. To make a long story short, the being, like Adamski-type spacemen, spoke the local language (in this case Portuguese) "slowly and musically," told him not to be afraid, told him to meet him again on the 27th for another get-together. On the 27th Luis again had a strange feeling, got up and went outside, this time was approached, via a spiralling path from the UFO or s,rucef, bY not one but three beings (one at a time). The third one glanced at his gardenpea- sized watch, said "Just two hours and five minutes at night on earth," then asked for a sheet of paper, which Luis brought. The being took the sheet into the saucer, came back and held something like a small piece of iron over it; then he gave it to Luis, saying: "Look at the sheet; on your planet there is a man who is able to deciPher what was written upon it, and when this message is deciphered, we will know what to do." Then he said good, went into his saucer and it took off into tlte sky. Mr. Faria has interviewed the boY; his complete account plus a reproduction of the "message" was forwarded to us. We placed this bit of hieroglphics in the hands of men whom we feel are most likely to be able to decipher or at least identi{y it. Faria reports that Silva claims another contaet. this time on May 25. During this conversation, said being inquired about Luis' health, asked if message had been deciphered and promised a trip to another planet dt next visit. We are inclined to believe, as Escobar Faria does; it is just a tale. |
| juil-59 | 24/06/1959 | helio aguiar ? Lieu ? |
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date ? The pictures shown below are the four exposures obtained by Helio Aguiar. See page 6 for photographic analysis by our consultant, Mr, Hopf, plus two of Mr. Aguiar's drawings of the object and its details not caught by the camera. |
| janv-59 | 1/07/1955 | Guanabara Bay rio de janeiro breseil |
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1956 uao the object hovering in the above picture was observed and photographed by engineer rm azevedo of rio de janeiro brzazil on a summer night in 1955.he and his wife and friends were enjoying the evening on the veranda facing guanaraa bay when the pictured object was spotted standing perfectly still in the ksy azvedo snapped the picture using a leica camera model f 3 with a summaron f1 35 lens the film used was kodachrome type a for photoflood.exposure time 40 seconds distance infinity diaphragam completely open projected on a scrren the color slide shows the moon behind some thin high cloud haz but the object is obviously under the haze.the moone sends a streamer of reflected lightd own on the water of the bay and so does the object azevedo and other observers watched the object while the photo was being made saw it start to move hesitate then speedily leave in the direction of the mountains .the picture shows a faint light path where the object moved out of sight azevedo at the time tough he had 19;6 UAO PHOTO... (Continued frorn Page I I seen and photographed some now military device, so the slide reposed in his files for over two years. A ft'w nronths ago, a friend, Dr. Anti (ph1'sician-surgeon) was visiting Azevedo, and the subject of UAO came up during thc course of the conversation. Azevedo brought out the slide and showed it to Dr. Anti who immediately askcd permission 1o show the picture to his friend, Dr. Olavo D. Fontes. In due course, Fontes had thtl picture examined by Ed Keffel (well known photographer of the magazlne O'Cruceiro who photographed a UAO in 1952). also Commander Bacellar, who is former chief of the Brazilian Navy's Meteorological Station at Trinidade Island and one of the NavY's toP exPerts on UAO. Other photographic cxperts also examined the slide. Visual examination on a special slide projector and microseopic studies as wcll as granulalion tests and measurem('nts of the image's brightness were perfol'med and rccheck' ed several times. The results confirmed the authenticity of thc color lransparency and that possibilill' of a falsification or photographie trick was definitely excluded. During the course of his thorough investigation, Dr. Fontes also interviewed the witnesses of the sighting. The full report, including estimates as to size and distance based on measurements of landmarks in the picture, will be offered as oDe of the special reports from this office in the near future. We eonsider this lo be one of the rnost itrtport:rnt photos of r UAO ever taken. |
| janv-59 | 10/07/1956 | anaheim ca |
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tracks in the desert in the night The following feature is reprinted from the Anaheim (California ) bulelletin for tuesday, July 10, 1956where it was found by member ross raham the builletin photographer took 16 frames of this phenomenon all of wwhich will soon be available for apro.al sterling of 111 s melrose st has pictorial proof of some as yet unexplained fantastic appearing tracks around the desert cottage the pictures were made bay a anaheim & bulletinb photographer who helped sterling attempt to find ou the source of the mysterious marks Steriing has a cabin near Joshua Tree which he and his uife used lo occuil)' on weekends. One recen't Saturday night or early Sunday morning he and his wife were awakened by a loud noise sterling described it as a loud whoosh Thinking the wind had blown downa a large piece of plaster borad he had leaning against the cabin' Stel sterling and his wife went backl to sleep on airsing next morning the night's occuurrence had been dismissed form sterling's mind and after breakfast he began building a road for his truck form the cabin. it was while shoveling sans over cut sagebrush that he came across the first "tracké a xis foot long straught indentation in the sand As his wonderment increased he remembered the whoosh'' in thc night and went around to tl.le sldc of thc cabin where he found the plastcrboard still in place againsl the rvall. Hc thcn l'clllclntered that tlte dcset't night had bccn clear and calm g'ith no rvind when he had gone to bed- Upon iurther invcstigation Sterling found the stretch of rveircl tracks reached in a semi-circlc aroun(l his cabin. The tracks ju:t began ind as abruptll ended with no indication of frotn rvhence they eame. Sterling theorizes they must Iravt' ltcclt rnlrdt' by sol)l(' lr-l)(' ol airlrornc vchiclt:.'l'ltc saud was not dtstrtt'bctl rn tht'at'ctr cxcept whcrc th(' intnrcdiatc tracks were laid down' Ail evitlcnces ol the tracks potnt to a stlangc vchicle landing on Stcrling's property, travcliilg on thc ground and tlren taking off again. The hugc marks in the sand givc the apPearance of being rnadc by some hugc caterpillar tractor but thcre is not a tractor made wth the wide tread needed to leave the gigantic marks ;there were more than 20 of these gigagntic marks surrounding the house. each of these left a depression about three inches deep in the sand .; edege cutting sharply and the traling edge eaving a small mound of sand behind it whoch would apparently indicate the trace were actually in motion and propelling something over the desert |
| nov-58 | 10/10/1958 | holloman |
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EXPLODINGTH E ..HOLLOMANC IGAR" By L. J. Loru,NzrN ll'e include a detailed account of the Hclloman "Great Cloud Cigar" for the primary purpose of demonstrating (1) hou, easilT' tt conuentional occurrence can be misinterpreted and (2) the importance ol noting the smallest detail and lollouing up alL leads. i+* A few minutes before six o'clock p.m. 10 October, several people in Alamogordo saw an unusual sight. We shall restrict our account to the experience of fou people who had the benefit of a pair of 7 x 50 binoculars in their observation. These were our good friends John and Norma Romero, Coral and myself. The Romeros saw the object first from their front porch. Norma ran across the street to alert us while John climbed to his rooftop and took some pictures. After one quick giance at the bright silver-rose slit in the sky I ran for the binoculars-took them to the back yard and looked. The shape appeared as an elongated cigar making an angle of about 30 degrees with the horizon. (See fig. 1.) The upper end (which I called the "front") was elearly defined against the blue-white sunset sky, the "tail," however tapered to a more nebulous outline.There were no clouds near the "object," but (this bothered me from the start) it had a color much the same as many sunset clouds I've seen. I saw several bands of shadow along the "fuselage," each accompanied py a brighter spot. Remembering Aime Michel's "great cloud cigar" accounts, I said to myself, "Thi is it! A 'great cloud cigar'! The charaeteristic cloudy shroud is partly obscuring the port holes"-I handed the glasses to Norma and ran for the phone. I called Al Brown-no answer. Terry Clarke-no answer. Better try Holloman control tower-they shouldn't miss this Meanwhile, Norma was seeing approximately the same thing I had seen except the object began to assume a more vertical position while a bright light started blinking at the nose. She handed the glasses to Coral. The blinking light continued as did the motion toward vertical alignment. When she turned the glasses over to John, the light had "gone out." Unable to raise anyone on the phone, I came back out for another look. Coral took over the phone. Norma pointed the thing out to me again. It was smaller and about four degrees higher in the sky. John had seen it move upward quite rapidly, he said. As he gave the glasses back to me, the thing had begun to tilt toward the north. As I got the glasses re-focused, ow cigar appeared once more at a 30 degree angle -this time the high clearly-defined end was toward the north and-it was beginning to turn black at the tip! It moved slightly upward toward the north in a gentle arc, diminishing in size as the blackness gradually covered its entire length. It disappeared as a black horizontal line against the blue-white sky. Before discussing the incident at all. the four of us went into the house and drew sketches of what we had seen. They agreed remarkably. To our query, Holloman reported an L-17 and a 8-26 in the air at the time. No jets, they said. The Alamogordo Daily News carried the story the next day. Terry Clarke EXPLODING CIGAR. . . (Continued lrom page 5) sent the story to UPI. To our surprise, the newspaper article in a final paragfaph carried a statement bY an unnamed representative of a Holloman contractor. One of their jet planes had been flying in from the West Coast at sunset, he said. That's what we had seen. It was about 200 miles away at the time. I called the "News" editor. He had no doubt the man was sincere, he said. No-he couldn't give me his name, sorry! "What about the Air Force statement that there were no jet Planes uP?" I asked. This was a new plane just coming in, not assigned to Holloman as yetthey had no record of it at the time, was the reply. On the face of it, the whole idea seemed ridiculous-but I wasn't quite sure. Well, there seemed to be one good way to find out. A new jet coming in to Holloman would be part of the Convair proiect. Fran Parker, Chief Test Pilot for Convair at Holloman, is a good friend of mine. I gave him a eall and on his invitation went to his home to talk it over. . . "Don Humphreys was bringing in a new F-106A from the coast," Fran began. "I was sweating him out because the sun was going down and we're not supposed to land anything here after dark. Around six o'clock we saw his con (eontrail) in the west and watched it until I was sure what it was. For a while after it cleared the horizon, it hung like a long, thin ovoid in the sky-a real saucer shape. I remarked at the time that we would probably get some flying saucer reports out of this. It was a real unusual effect. If I hadn't been expecting Don and watching for a plane, I don't know whether I'd have spotted it for a contrail or not-it was real weird, what we call a "short con." It follows the plane for a few hundred yards and dissipates. In the sunset it was reflecting light like any cloud." Then I told Fran what we had seen. I drew sketches. He scratched his head, "I don't know-maybe you were looking at something else." After a lengthy discussion, Fran suggested that I call on him the next day at work. He pointed out that there had been quite a few people out on the ramp with him-some of whom had watched longer than he had. (Fran had returned to his office as soon as he was satisfied that Humphreys would soon be on the ground). Maybe some of them could be of help. Frankly, I thought I'd be wasting my time, but I went. As I toured the Convai installation with Fran and listened to the various accounts something began to puzzle me-it had been bothering me all along but now it hit me in the face. There had been a lot of people watching the sky that evening at Holloman. They had seen a contrail at the same time we had seen a UFO. Both groups had been looking toward the west. Why hadn't we seen their contrail? Why hadn't they seen the UFO? Was it possible that we were both watching the same thing? I decided to find out. My first clue was furnished inadvertently by a technician who had been with the Convair Mobile Communications unit during the incident. He told how he had watched the contrail from the time Fran had called it to his attention and made several attempts to establish radio contaet. They had succeeded about the time Humphreys was over the San Andreas Mountain range, giving him some preliminary landing instructions whereupon he altered his course slightly and had begun to let down. "When he turned and started down," said our informant, "he came out of the con layer and his trail shrank up and disappeared pretty fast. But he was so high that he looked like he was going up instead of down." I thought this one over and drew a few sketches. To an observer on the ground, the angular acceleration of an aircraft approaching at constant speed and altitude increases at an exponential rate. A plane approaching at high altitude could be Ietting down and still give the appearance of climbing. A diminishing contrail moving into the earth-shadow at sunset could give the illusion of an object turning black and moving into the distance. I continued to accompany Fran on a tour of the plant. We stepped into the main hangar where the F-106's are housed. "The 106-4 carries a rotating beacon behind the cockpit," he was saying. "This is something new. It rotates about one revolution per second." Well, there it was-the "flashing light on the nose." Although the plane must have been a good 50 miles away at this point, it had momentarily assumed an angle that beamed that beacon straight at Alamogordo. The "nose" of the eontrail would of course be the location of the aircraft-too far away for us to make out -even with the 7x50's. I was convinced. Aftermath The new UFO investigation officer at Holloman, Captain Woods, called Mr. Romero and requested an appointment with him to fill out a report for HQUSAF. He had a letter from them marked "immediate action," he said. John told him that a complete report had appeared in the "News" and that APRO could help him with any details. Capt. Woods apparently did not wholly approve of this response. He made one feeble attempt to pull rank. Was John refusing to cooperate with the Air Force, he wanted to know? "Oh no, we reported the inci said John. This reply seemed to take the Captain by surprise for he soon brought the conversation to a close. He did not call APRO. T\vo days later, Major Hillis, former UFO officer at Holloman, called Coral. What could we tell him about the incident? Briefly, Coral outlined our findings. "Are you sure?" asked Hillis. "Pretty sure," said Coral-"they can't all be real one, you know." "I guess that's right," said Hillis thoughtfully. He sounded disappointed. October L6 rolled around. About 5:4b in the afternoon I was in our front yard. Norma called to me from across the street and pointed skyward. There it was again. I got out the glasses once more and any remaining doubt faded away. This time the jet was higher in the sky and a little closer. Through the glasses I could make it out quite clearly, preceding a brilliant sunset-lit tapole-shape contrail. |
| sept-58 | 16/10/1957 | holloman north test range |
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PhotographicA nalYsiso f The "Forlune" Photo BY John T. HoPf (Takcn on Oct. 16, 1957, ncar thc llol' loman North Test Rangc.) This rcport is bascd on nly cxanrination of the original slide and enlarging copies rnade therefrom, and deals only with the photographic questions involved' I must leave to others more qualificd thc discussion of whether a cloud this compact and brilliant could actually forrn and remain motionless undcr thc atmospheric conditions existing at thc timc thc photograph was taken. Miss Ella Louise Fortunc should bc complimcntcd on hcr cxeellcnt tcchnitluc in taking this linc photograph. Thc ortg' inal 35mm Kodachromc slidc is vcrY striking as the obiect is a brilliant white with quite distinct form contrasted against the dark blue sky. Thc thin bluish-white trail coming from the lcft end of the object does not rcproducc wcll in thc black and white copics duc to its faintness. There is no question whatcver that thc photograph is authentic and is of an object at a grcat distance from the catnera. Actual shuttcr spccd with a calllcra <lf this type ( Kodak Pon)' ) is usually closcr to 1,z25th whcn sct at 1./50th sec. Therefore the exposure givcn of 1'50th scc. at f16 with Polascrecn chccks rvcll with observed density of the slidc. Persons who havc seen onll' thc black and white prints are invariably struck by thc "third-dimcnsional" cffcct whcn the slicle is projected. This is sirnply due to the high contrast bctwccn thc white "object" and the dark sky caused by using a polarizing filter and a minimunl exposure. Normal cxposurc for a sccne of this typc would be 1,z50th at fll; however, the exPosure userl was cxactly right to show maximum dctail in an object as brilliant as this onc. Carcful examination of thc original and cnlargcd Ektachronrc copics ttradc from it indicate that the objcct was rcflecting or producing at lcast twicc as much light as thc othcr t'louds in thc picture. A small cloud in '' upper le{t and those at the top arr ,lLrite blue by comparison and slightly underexposod. (See front page picture in May Bttllctin.) I do not think that any ortlinarl cloud wr-ruld producc such a strong cxposuro on the film. The enlargement shown hcrc is about 50 diameters fronr th original. On this scale the entire pictur( lvould bc six (6) fcct widc. The grain shown is lhat of thc original film. Although rvith such cxtrcme nragnification cven thc sharpcst lines appear slightly fuzz.y dut'to residual aberralions in the camera lens and loss of rcsolution in thc film etnulsion, I ciitt thinL- thot o cnlid nhinnl rr:nrtlrl have produced a sharper outline, especially since no motion was apparent at the time of the exposure. Of course if the "object" were beYond the moun' tains, there would be some blurring due to atnrospheric "boiling" over the mountains, but probably not enough to produce the unsymmetrical shape and the shadcd points whiclt indicatc a form more cloud-likc than solitl. Although I fccl that thc "object" is not a solid one, it certainly is an unusual phenomena and slrould receivc the attention of a qualificd aerologist. (Signed) John T. Ilopf Thc analysis pcrformed by the staff when the original slide of thc Fortune picturc was reccivcd, was based on the slide as wcll as atmospheric conditions and Miss Fortune's testimony. Miss Fortune strcsscd hcr opinion that thc obiect could not havc bccn a cloud, that a rough triangulation gained by looking at il. from points along thc highway betwcen Tularosa and Thrce Rivers indicrtcd that it rvas considerably closer than thc mountains-pcrhaps as much as 1./3 of thc distance from thc highrvay' to thc mountains from hcr position. Wc havc ycl to find anyonc who can idcntify thc objcct photographcd by Ella Fortune. |
| juil-58 | 9/12/1954 | rio de janeiro |
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On the 9th of December, 1954,M r. F. C., a respected and competent employee of a well-known Rio de Janeiro bank, was sitting on his veranda trying to catch a breath of cool air. The time was 11 p. m. The night was clear with no moon or haze, but with a few low-flying clouds. Mr. C. suddenly spotted "something" which was apparently hovering over an Army plant about 1,000 yards from his house. Despite the warm breeze coming in from the sea, the object remained motionless in the sky at what Mr. C. estimated to be between 500 and 900 feet altitude. The object was not self-luminous, for the sidetoward the earth was bright, but the opposite extremity was in shadow. It was evident that the object was reflecting the bright lights which circled the military plant. The man ruled out the possibility that the object was a balloon or conventional object, called his wife and asked her to bring his camera to him. He took three pictures on his Beautyflex camera, set at its widest opening. The first was snapped at 1/25 second, the following at 1/10. For the third, he kept the shutter open for a longer period of time. The first two shots were poor, underexposed, showing nothing. But th-e last was the striking photo seen above. The object stayed in sight for 10 minutes, then as Mr. C. was preparing to take a fourth shot, he turned from the camera and saw that the object was gone. It was not sighted again. A more complete account of this sighting and photo, including analysis will, be included in the September issue of this Bulletin. Photo and report courtesy of Dr. Olavo Fontes. This is the first publication of this photo, the original negative of which reposes in Brazilian AF UAO files. |
| juil-58 | 1/07/1958 | pour le fun photo nonchalante apro |
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| mai-58 | 16/10/1957 | holloman |
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On the 16th oI October 1957, l[iss Ella Louise Fortune, WelJare Nurse at tbe Mescalero Indian Reservation, photographed an unconventional aerial object which was hovering over the Holloman North Test Range. Her camera, a Kodak Pony 135, was loaded with eolor filn' but she didn't think of a picture when she first saw the object. Nurse Fortune tooled her littJe station agon up the railroad overpass Just north of Tularosa, and when she rerehed the top and angled down the deeline, rho saw the objcct to the WNW, s Elowing white flatlened egg-shapedo bJectr Srinrt a clear blue sky. She contlnued to drive' watching as much 8s she could wlthout taking unnecessary cbances with her driving. At about 6 miles north of Tula' rosa, she decided to anap a pieture ro that she would have pictorial evidence of what she had seen. She stopped, made one exposure, then continued on her wey to the Three Rivers Settlement where che checked and visited an Indian patient. The obiect had appeared to be motionless at all times, with a elearly defi.n€d edge. There was little or no wind. The plcturo firgt appeared In the Por' talcs, New Mexieo paper' rnd tho editor seemed to thlnk the object might pomlbly be a parachute or balloon with the linen trailing to the routh. Ttre obJeet dld not reflect light, and aecording to Ella Fortune, it had density, and appeared to emit its own light. The absence of wind precludes the possibility tlat the object might have been either baUoon or paraehute, as there was no billowing of the object, so charaeteristic and obvious in a balloon or paraehute fligbt. When Miss Forunte was interviewed by Mr. and Mrs. Iorenzen, she was very positive about tbe impression that the object was a dense object-not nebulous and filmy like a cloud. The high-lying wind-blown clouds in the sky whicb are also obvious in the picture indicate wind at high altitude, at least 10,000fe et. When asked whether she felt the object night have been a lenticular cloud, Miss Fortune said that she was very familiar with lenticular cloud struetures, and was positive the object in question was not a cloud of any kind. A preliminary analysis was done by Mr. Brown. He found, in heighteningt he contrast, that a rim and other contours on the object were brought out, but that the "trail" faded almost to nothing. The apparent distance between the object and the mountains is about 15 miles, or approximately haUway between Highway 54 and the San Andreas Mountains, seen in the background. Miss Fortune felt that the object was about halfway between her position and the mountains. It is regrettable that she did not take other exposures of the objeet at seviral points along the road; they would have b<'en invaluable for the purpose of tri. angulation to gain some knowledge as [o size. Professionaml athematiciansa nd analysts in the Alamogordo membership, who are employed at Holloman and familiar with current missile, balloon and parachute research projects, have admitted that their evaluation must conclude that the pictured object is an uneonventionaal erial object. A more detailed and intensive analysis is being exaeted by Mr. Hopf, our photographic eonsultant, and we bope to include the rcsults in the July Bulletin. |
| nov-57 | 20/08/1957 | fujisaw city japon |
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The above picture was obscrvcd ancl photographed by l\{r. Shinic}ri Takctla of Fujisarv City, Japan, near Enoshinra l\Iiami Bcach at 11:28 a. m. on 20 August 1957. Thc object rvas also sccn by nlr. Shinichi's sister, who callcd his attention to it. It was silvcry in color, gavc off a brilliant glorv ancl at 3 or 4,000 fect altiturlc, traveling in a north to south dircction. Whcn dircctll' or.cr-hcad, thc obiect macle a g0-dcgrcc left tur.n and increascd its speeil from about 250 kmph to 500 kmph and disappe:rrcd into thc cloucls. A {etv mirrulcs latcr', 15 bathcrs at Enoshin-ral\ Iianti Bcach spottcd a vcry similar obicct which passcd ovcr thc bcach at high speccl. No souncl accotrpanied thc observations. |
| sept-57 | 8/06/1957 | fukuoka city japon |
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the object pirtcured above were snapped by mr ikuo koyama high school teacher ot Fukuoko Citg, Kgushu, Jopon ot g:50 p. rn. otu 8 June. The objects were also seen by Mr. Kogama's sister and, his uife, ond were descri,bed os todpoleshoped with s snoV bright light in formation, The obiects left a oopw trail, and. ooered in one ploce for ftom 3 to 4 minutes. Thea glowed a bnlliant red.orange uith s blui-sh-green outline or htlo. After a short period of time, the objects oscenl,. ed ond disapryeored.N o sound wctso ssocfurtedu,it h the objects. |
| juil-57 | 21/02/1957 | yokohama japon |
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The above photograph was obtained at 9:07 a. m.,21 February at Yokohama, Japan by Mr. A. Komaki, member of Flying saucer Research Group in Japan. The oblects were yellow-orange in color, saucer shaped, traveling rather low and at about 100 miles per hour. See May A. P. R' O. Bulletin for details. |
| mars-58 | 16/01/1958 | trinidade Island, |
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under the headline, "Flying saucer sighted and photographed from Aboard the Almirante saldanha," o Jornal, a Rio de Janeiro newspaper, published the above photo, along with two others which were takenaboard a Brazliian ship at mon on 16 January 1958. Th. Almirante sardanhap, artieipatingin IntcrnationalG eophysicayle ar projects, in th. vicinity of rriniriade Island, was preparing to lcave tbe area when Mr. Almiro Barauna, a member of tbe expedition, who was photographingm aneuvers,lp otted the object and photographedit . Some of the observers (on the islaad as well as on the ship) were frighteaeA by the object. Jose dos Santos Saldanha, Captain of Sea and War, obtained the film from Barauna, and at the suggestiono f some of the officers, had it developed on tbe ship shortly after the sighting was madq in the presence of several people. Saldanhar eportedt he epieodeto Nrvrl Headquarters at Rio de Janeiro, end r careful invcstigntion by Navy olfieialr rvls hegun.' l'lris invcstigntiond itelornt lhnl llrr,objret phokrgraplrobtly Renunr was the snnre objcct obrervetl by tbo ship's personnel and residentr of trtni. dade Island. |
| mars-58 | 1/09/1955 | navy Base of Santos. |
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In september 1955, Dr. above pbotograph .Ach'res Greco, sao paulo physician, snapped the while fishing a few milcs from the B;r;iu"; Nrvy Base of Santos. The object was hovering in thc shy over the Cabras rsland, rotating trom the right to the left, giving off a whitish trail of smot e (seenli trre picture trailing off and up to the rightr. rt was sunset, and Dr. Greco and his fishing companion spotted the object about a mire from them. rt t,"""*o only for about a minute, during which time Dr. Greco snapped two pictures. The object then took off at great speed. These photos imprcssc..Nav.v ant! Arrny offiecrs, w'o werc intcrvicwcd by the press. An anrlvsis of the l'oliec r'ecrrrricarD ivision in nio louno notrring wrong with the negatives. I'hc Navv orderccl an investigat;; ;;; requested that Greco hand over the negati'cs il" .iiii hns thcm. Blow-ups of the picture definitely show that the objecl is nol n lenticular clourl, and is an unconvcntionat aerial object. |
| mars-58 | 18/12/1957 | sputnik II caracas venezuela |
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The longer streak or light is the luminous path of sputnik II and the shorter streak above is unidentified. The blown-up negative has been intensively studied by Dr. Corrales and other qualified scientists. Dr. Corrales, "It cannot be a double exposure for the stars would have registered double image on the plate also and they didn't .it cannot be an internal camera reflection as the path isn't the same size as the one left by the sputnik . It is not a scratch on the plate, for examination by magnifying it is a precipitation of the emulsio n on the photographic material , whieh is onry accomplishedb v light. arone. The camera' pr,oiog"rpr,J;;lil;; we can,t identify' If the luminour t"oil r"nning the path produced bv -paralrert o the sateliie,s tra' is -lnother uoav unJ -ii period became Iuminous during a short of time, we would.be prFr; "n f,vpotr,"ri, fr".J lo-p"ouJli urveUOfn. Inasmueha s the Doctor hesitaiesi o ituo"iru, we,'take the liberty: It is obvious that the object_i s not a ..f".tlri^'l"ay intelligentty and therefore it must be an controlted i{ing -o'j..tiil, ii o1r. opinion, is the onrv logical explanation. (cr: Joe notas, rrorn ;,rirJniu*.rI,, for 19 December 1952) |
| mars-57 | 17/01/1957 | yokohama japon |
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uao snapped in yokohama the above photograph was snapped by yusuke j matsumira drector of the flying saucer research group in japan just outside of his resident at 1687 hama isogo ku yokohama at 10 47 am mr matsumura was leaving his house bound for tokyo he saw a metallic flash above near his house got hos primoflex automat (japanese rollei automat) camea and snapped the above picture he etsimated he object was about 20 30 feet in diameter and it hovered about in one place fof from 1 2 minutes altitude about 60 70 feet shortly the bject took off at an estimated mach 1 5 2 70 degrees elevationa and heade southeast in the general direction of tokyo bay date 17 janv. a print of this photo is available by wrioting to the flying saucer research group in japan isogo po box 18 yokohama japaon air mail delivery will cost $1 and sea mail will be 50 cents per picture |
| déc-55 | 2/12/1955 | lettre du major keyhoe |
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| avr-55 | 15/04/1955 | spectrometre air force |
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spectrometre air force+ and then there was the young student who accompanied a team of scientists to a desert aera in the southwest o examine and simantle a saucer shaped object n o bodeis he sauid and all they could find thath might have had anything to do with propulsion was the series of magnets fixed in a ring |
| avr-55 | 15/04/1952 | nouveau Mexique |
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date non connue a few years ago shortly after the epidemic of strange lights and aerial objects in northwest new mexico a young tech saregant wandered away form the rest of his wrew who had been detauiled to investiaget . He was found huddled like a baby and bablling and crying intermittently.he is now in a mental institution and any mention of what he saw on tha night throws him into a fit of depression bablling and crying some people might have us believe that ths unfortunate individual merealy saw a us secret weapon... |
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