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TH£ W ALL STRtET JOU!tNAL
Monda7', Dueli\1,er 13, 1965
New 'Fireball' R aises
An Old'Ouestion: Do
Flying S~ucer~ &ist?
Ca,lifornian, W bo 'Tdks' to Men
From the Stars, Says 'Yes';
Scientists Assail Air Force
By ELLIOT C.UU.SON
St4lf B•PortfT'o/ 'rla.-WA.Ll. Snt.H J'OotN.U.
They•._. back. The la.teat wu sighted a few
n!iht.s ago by residents and pDots ln tha north•
em tier of states and Canad&. They de.scribed
It·u an orange tlreb&JL The Air Forc:e~at"1lrat
called lt an unidentified llylng object, but now
thinks Jt was a meteor. fepme other people
called It & llylng oaucer.
Several people 115&)' they u.w thefireba.U land
Thursday night. An U -year-old boy in Lorain,
! Ohio, says he watched 1t drop lnto the woods
1 near his home. A woman in Elyria, Ohio, 10
1
I
m.ifes away, clllim.s ahe saw tt plunge tnto a
vacant lol a.cross the aft"eet from her home.
Others zay they aaw It slruk tllto Lake J4icb1•
gan. Scien~ts and police combed a 75•a.cre
area near Pittsburgh alter & woman there ~ w
the object era.ah to earth
0 am0Jdel'mg."
, De.spite these wttncs~s and search elforts,
however. the thing hu yet to be found. In this
regard_. it ls Uke all ot.t,.er unidentified flying
objecll!!l, or UFO.s, which are my.aterlous be.·
ceu&e .. they are-ae,m, J)ut never foun...d. • r
-•
?ihatever It tuma ol!l t.o be-meteor. aat•I•
!116,__part, hoax, ~ather odl:lity or man from
. ¥at11-lt •~ In a. banner year"'tor. euch
' obje<:ls, which almost dlaappeare4 from public
conactousnesa following a rash of. reports of
flying aaucen, In the mld-19SQo: ''Wo'vo had
. m6re report,, this year.than 1n·ai,y year alnce
• 19C57, when we had more. than a lbouaand," aa.ya
a apokesman -for Project Blue Book, the Air
Fol"Ce program ee-t uj> in 194.3 to evaluate re­
port.a of the phenomena.
Vl.aJton From Outer 15p&ee
Nobody knows wfiitthe ob~cta a..re or where
they come trom, but there ia no lack of theories
-or of controversy. The A1'nal,ga.01&ted Flying
Saucer Clubs of Amerlc&, Inc., lg eure the
"saucers" come from outer space. Row do
they know? The "apace people" have told
them.
Not only that, aa'.Y• Ca.brlel Green, who
heads the CAU!omla group,
001pace people give
conlaclees h\torm.at1on about Ute on other
planets and aolutlons lo inffll.rmountabJe prob­
lems on our planet." One suggutlon allegedly
made to Mr. Green in llMO by a Viail trom Al•
a Centaurl, \& nearby a.tar: Run for Presl•
t aa a write-In candldate. (He c&mpalgned
~ e!ly, then decided not to nm.)
The NaUonal Jnveatigatlons Committee on
Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), a prtvata re­
aearcb organltatlon In Waablngton, doun't
hold with that theory. "Wo reject re,P<>rts of
noble beings landing on earth to eolve all our
pro~lems,u says a spokesman. So men from
Mara aro a. lol o! bunk? Not necessa.rtly, aaya
the committee. It bellevu '.I Congreaslonal ln•
vMtlptlon ~uld prove that UFO.a "are real
pb;fllcal object$ ... IIDder the control of llv!ng
belnp... Ao an afterthought, the 'apokeaman
says: • "There are a tre.mendOWJ Dumber o! eg~
manlac1 who have 'been able to appolnt them­
selves expert.a 1n t.Jua tleld bees.use It's ao con•
fuaed."
One ma.n who's not contu.sed at all La Charles
-A. ManeY, prote.uor emeritus ot phyaieti and
mathematic., at Defiance, College In Ohio. Saya
the professor: "TheH object.a are un,gueetlon•
ably from oute.r apace.'' He bases hli reason•
•~ ~ ~ "" ~••• ~,.,,.~•• wm- "
with local electrical circuits, lndlcaU,ng to him
they have "a mearis of propubion u.soelated
with magnetic fields."
"'Ibere
1s Nothing To It''
S•m----M••~~~•••• •
however. "'All lhl! ta imagination ou~1de the
realm of science," .aays Donald e · Menzel, di· j
rector or the observatory at Harvard "l have
examined AJr Foree cues and dJ.scovered that I
Ulj'Os all have simple explanations in terms
of well-known natural phenomena. There'a not
one ca.use, but hundreds. Some are quite epec•
t&cula.r, such as reflections from fee crystal& or
bright atan,, oearchllghta on clouda or blgh­
lly!ng spider webs. But to some people the exis­
tence of nyinr eaucera Is a matter of reµgtow.
fanatlc:l.m,," he says.
But Mr. Menzel reads more Into the Air
Force data than does the Air Force It.sell. Of
the 9,7M UFO reports ma<le to the Air Fore•
alnce 19-17. 673 re.main clmltled u 1"unidenti•
tied.'' a apo.kesm.an A.ya. B8 detlnea this cate•
gory aa contalnlng alghllnga. whose pertinent
data can't be correlated with any known objecT
or phenomena.
The t1poke1man quickly adds: "We have -,ei­
ther r eceived nor discovered any evfdence Lhat
proves the ex:1.stence of lntraspace mobility or
extraterre:strlal Hfe and we conUnue lo extend
an open lnvitJltlon to anyone whO feela he p03­
ees.se.s 11,.ny evidence of euch vehiclu operating
in our atmoaphere." And he atalea: "No UFO
report evaluated by the Air Force has ever
given any Indication of a threat to our naUonal
ucurtty.''
The .Air . .Force'-" ~pproach dislurb3 aome
people, however. "The Air Force shouJd admil
.there are natural phenomena taking place un•
du our nose.a of which we know nothiDg,.. 11aya
I. M'. Levltt, director of Fe!.$ PJanetariu.m at the
Franklin In.sUtute In Philadelphia. He adds:
""The Air Force ls trying to e.xplaln eomethlng
lhat isn't BUsceptlbJe to explal'\a.Uon."
Robert Risser, director of the Oklahoma Sci­
ence and Art Foundation planetarium at Okla•
hotna City, believes "the Air Force mwit have
had its 15lar•finder upside down during Aug­
usl," when aeve.ral re(Xlrts of Oytng sa.ucer3
were a15crlbed by the ~r Force to slghUngs ct
stars. ''The conslellllliOns of Taurus and Orion
weren't vlalble at the Ume the Air Force said
the alghth1g$ wer~ made. 1 think they made a..n
error."
The whole problem, says J. Allen Hyntek,
chairman of the department of astronomy at
Northwestern University and a consultant to
the Air Force, is that the maUe.r .should be
studle<I more thoroughly.
"Pre!.Nres to conformity in acadeinlc Cir•
cles and tear of ridicule have slowed the
etudy," according to Robert Hall, a eociology
profegsor at the Unlver!ity of Illinois tn Chi·
cago.
"Tho po.,25lbillty of ure on Mars ta an un•
popular thing to consider these days," says
Frank B. Sali•bury, a profe.lJ.SOr of plant p'by.
siology at Colorado Stale University. At the
rltk of being unpopular, Mr. Salisbury told V,e
fifth a.nnual Space Con!erence this year 1hat
"there may be &Orne natural explanation of
t.b.c,9e lhtngs, but a tentative pouibl.llty to ,be
considered ts. that UF'Os are spaceahlpa !rom
~{ara."
.
Fueling the flylng•aau~r cont.rovaray hae
been the large number of reports from what
many people con&lder reliable wttne.gses- pUot.s
with technical backgrounds. Slnce 19'7, moTe
than 100 private, mUlta.ry &.nd ~mmerctal pilots
have reported apotting elrange obJecll in the
sky, accordl'ng to one study.
PlnnJng down such reports is dltllcult, how•
ever. ""Some ot the boys did report things they
couldn't identUy a few yeat"3 ago," •says I a
spokesman !or American Airlines.
1"But our
pilots haven't made a report for yean:."
Nevertheless. "we have on me R great num­
ber ot reporte from pilots who don't W&nt their
oamu uaed but atJU want to te.U aomebody
what they"ve seen, claims J. B. Hart:&.n1't, Jr.,
pregldent of the. Aircraft Ownen and Pilot.a Aa•
socle.Uon, And he Hy3: "I haven't drawn any
concluaions mysell, bu~ I lh1nk we've certainly
got a good myste~y on our hancls."
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'Report Them . ..
Disc-Like Object Hovers,, Rises
For Two Hours East of Kettle Point
By JIM E TlIBRl.NGTON
}retl PreM Sarnia BUl'ff.U
SARNIA -
A revolving ob­
ject. algbted In the $ky nst
ol Kettle Point last nlgh~ was
watched for more than two
hours by a.bout 100 peraon..
1.Awrence BrcvteUe. who oP­
1'ratcll a atore on the Kettle
Point Indian Re--....erve. said a.
mot.oriat brought the object"'to
bis attention about 8 p.m. He
u.ld he looked at It throuch
binoculars and could see red,
blue, creen and whlte light.
flaahlng from the dlsc-shaped
object.
Mr. B-te llald
It
re-·
m&ined m.otlonlcu for about
an hour fla.sblng llzhts. then
slowly bq'an to rise. Cloud
cover rolled in about 10 p.m.,
allowing only periodic sight•
lnp.
'Tve never aieen anything
like this," he said. "We ell
aaw It. It we.a low -
aboul 200
1
O< 300 feet o!f the ground to '
the eut. Then lt slowly began
to move up."
.
!Mr. Bre.actlc said it could j
not ha"" be!>n
swamp
gas
:..:: ';;:° ~1~~)~.t~y~~=
obJoet s!gbtlnp In the 0.1.rOit
.,.._ last ·wecl<
'T~• aeen ~P gas Ughu.
~
was not the same." ll'e
...id. "'Bealdee
there bun't
been an,y,owamp gas lights
a.round here 3ince ~tore tbe
war."
•
\Mr. Bttuelte llald hi• brelh­
~r. Jettery, ,wo reported see­
1ng an object over Samla.. This
one llt&yed ataUona.ry lor ,.
short lime then shot acr0u
our space
a.re
tbe ,.icy at a very high speed.
:ie<:oming more and more inler·
An oWcer ln control opera• Iested in what people are doing
tton.o at Sellrldge Air Fon:e on earth.
Bue, Mow,t Clemens. Mich.,
"The possible existence of
aald the Canadian
sighting 1eighbors in space will, .if con­
waa the fourth reported to firmed, create problems of le-
UFO .slghtlngs were r~eived
Saturday night a. lar north
a. the tip ot the "'Thumb"' In
Lake Huron.
Odd light.a. we~ reported In
the sky over OakJand County
and the neighboring Delrolt
area.
Others we.re reported
wenwa.rd 1n the Lansing a.re&.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek ot North•
we.tern Universlty, sc1enllfic
consult.ant to the u.s.' Air
Fo1t:e said phenomena. aeen
at Dexter and Hillsdale on the
night ot March 20 probably
were
the result of 1 swamp
ga.se.s.
Sherill Douglas Rarvey of
Washtenaw County and civU
defence director WUUam Van
Horn ol HIiisdale Coun;y crltl·
cued
Dr. Hynek"s report.
Van Hom said the swamp gu
explanation was an attempt
to "explain It away a.rbitrar­
fl .
S
y1ng QUCers
G . , p 5-26-6£.
am
roponent
N.v . 0o1rr NIWI Dlspcrrci,
NEW YORK -
The nephew of
lhe !ale Dag H~m:"8kjold
h ~s startled Amenca s top
science wnlers by lelltng them
he_ believes ,that' Oyipg saucers
ex.JS! and that "they come from
outer space.
_
Knut HammarskJold, whose
late uncle was secretary gener•
al or the United Nations, spoke
to a convention here of the avi­
alion-space
writers
associa­
tion.
Hammarskjold also suggested
that
neighbors
him last nlgb.t.
Tile other Jal,
political
and
technical I* los lqtlts nm!Uxi~nor A-1 1'
three were trom ife Detroit characteristics," he said.
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area.
.
He said no radar report,··
UN Watc
or Saucers Urged
had been obtained on any ot
UNl'lED NATIONS. N.Y,
er space Is send.lnr flyin,­
the •lghtlngs.
F'eb. 1 (AP)--O<>lman Von­
saucers ~eCU)arly on test
Mr. Bressette reported j~t
kevlczJ<y, an employe In the
nights to earth.
•planes 1n the area at .one
U.N. Olflc• of PubUc Infor­
B e told Tbant onl,y tbe
point )"hlle the groul' watched
mation, proposed t.o Secre­
Unlted Nations could be ex­
along the Lake Huron &bore.
tary-General U Thant today
pected to have suUlclenl
But there was no poMibUlty
that members of tbe Unlted
authority "' establish OOD•
the object he saw wu a Jet.
Nations e.stablish a network
tact or represent m.anld.nd
In J.tichtgan new reports of
to observe nYinc saucers.
in a lace-to-face m ee~
Vonke•lc,:ky, whO
says
with
extraterrestrial vlsl­
he belieVes :some-one ~ out.
I
l<>rs,
•
STRANGE OBJtCr
j·
OVER MT. WILSO~
A-2
loshgeltslttr11UJ1111ntr 8*
111m1,,_~2!_.19U
There~ was SOl!f4!thlng -over There picked up "no unw,u­
Mount Wilson early todaybut al ac&IvttyH durlnr lhe ped·
It didn't catch the enUre city
napping.
Police
and
n ewspaper
switchboards were flooded
with calls describing tbe
object varlow,ly as a "puff,"
a "rreenlsb ball/' a "fiat
oval cnen object with a
long lall and a liJbt a.t the
end."
It was first sighted about
t a.m. and remalned In view
for about hall an hour.
A •slm.llar fireball was
sighted about the same
time trom Sacramento and.
trom Vanderberg Air Fo~e
Bue, It was teported.
Vandenberg reported no
launches during
lbe
preceding 24 hours which
inlgbt account for the pbe•
Forget lt­
nomenon and said radar
1 Have Enough Credibility ProbleTn.! As It ls'
Ille area will be lllveollnu.l.
•
saucers
mystert
P
~3 - 66
EOPLE in North Queellfl.­
land are roystified by
three separate reports of
'Flying Saucers.
The !lrst report ca.me from a
~-I,::i~:dw1::~u~~h:1!
tractor through a neighbouring
property- on bis way to his own
farm, beard a loud hissing noise
above the noise of the tractor.
Suddenly about
2S
:,ards
ahead of him, a blue-grey saucer
shaped craft about 25 ft across,
and 9ft blab, ros~ vertlcall,Y to
about 60ft and travellln,: at a
lerriftc speed beaaed• off in a
'oouth-westerly direction.
On l.a.nsllptlon, •
nest
of fh.t~ecl reeds wu foud,,
the cl.rele belnr about 30ft
ID diameter t.n4 alnce the:n.
four olhe.r neilte ~ve been
found close br, some of them.
newly made. ,
During the last eight months,
oo less than seven different
•~tings of F:yi.ng Saucers bava
been reported
In tbe North
Queeasland press.
Hundre<U, of slgbtsffn- bave
flocked to the Horseshoe Lago1>n
In the Tully District during tbe
last ff!W days to view the clrcleo
which are partly hidden by
dense scrub.
The &AAF has lal<en tho
re"°"" aeriousl7 en....-la lo
o$I< for cllpplnp from
Ille
lle5b
whlclo
will
be
examined, aad &117 turibcr
11:rinz oaaoer 141,u,,p fli>m
F.eb ' 7
1966
od.
An Air Force spokesman
at Vandenberg said the Air
Force's '"Prolect Blue
Book" omce In Washington
was Investigating.
An observ.er at Mattler
Air Force Basl! near sacra­
ment.otheorlttd that the ob­
Jeet may have been gas re3"
ldue felt trom' Ne v ad a
m1ss11e flrlnp which re­
flecud light.
Sgt. David Tellotson, of
Hollywood division: said the
object here appeared t.o be
over Griffith Park. "It was a
bright green splotch, eJon­
galled, and not bUnklng," h e
said.
.
Tile only solid fact emerg­
Ing: A lot Of people.are up at
• a.m.