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FROM THE EDITORThe spiraling "UFO" that dazzled the New England seaboard

this summer was rapidly identified as an experimental Japanesesatellite by both skeptics and ufologists. Articles from both sides ofthe fence are presented to show how the sources and techniques ofeach led to a quick solution of what otherwise might have been asource of some controversy. We thank Walter Webb and StanGordon, too, who also responded promptly with articles on thesame series of sightings. Unfortunately, only so much space can bedevoted to the subject-

Inside, we look at a number of other recent American UFOreports which were not so readily solved, including updates onPetaluma and Cash-Landrum. Next issue we'll have two morearticles that review Brazilian UFOs authored by New York-basedjournalist Antonio Huneeus and veteran researcher Irene Granchi.Meanwhile, apologies to our readers for the lateness of this issue,due to circumstances beyond our control. Some contributors willalso be disappointed to learn their articles have been delayed untilnext month. To offset some of the imbalance we have included theNight Sky for both October and November.

In this issueEAST COAST "UFO" IDENTIFIED by Walt Andrus 3UFO FOR A DAY by James Oberg 5BANKSONS LAKE UFO by Virginia Tilly 7A SENSE OF AWE by Willard D. Nelson 8FLOATING UFOs by Herbert S. Taylor 9NEWS 'N' VIEWS i 10CASH-LANDRUM CASE CLOSED? by John Schuessler 12PIPELINE PROGRESS by Marge Christensen 13IN OTHER'S WORDS by Lucius Parish 14LETTERS 15NIGHT SKY(October) by Walter Webb 17NIGHT SKY (November) by Walter Webb 18DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE by Walt Andrus 20COVER Courtesy NASA

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EAST GOAST "UFO" IDENTIFIED1 • i

. . . . B y Walt Andrus ,

Walt Andrus, MUFON's interna-tional director, lives in Seguin,Texas. "; . ' . , . , '• . •

Robert Gribble at the NationalUFO Reporting Center (1-206-722-3000) in Seattle, Washington received100 telephone calls during the eveningof August 12,1986 from throughout theeastern U.S.A., reporting an unusuallighted object moving from southwestto northeast. An F.A.A. .Air TrafficController in Syracuse, New York:stated to the press that he thought itwas an unidentified flying object.Observed through binoculars, other

• witnesses in Portland, Maine . and'Syracuse, New York told Bob Gribblethat the object was a white light headingnortheast as if propelled by a rocket in a"cork screw" fashion. The press wireservices; distributed the reportthroughout the nation, creatingconsiderable excitement.

When Bob summarized hisreports, he found that the object wasobserved from 9:50 pm to 10:10 pmEDSTi Witnesses in the southernstates reported the direction assoutheast, whereas those in thenorthern states observed it in the eastand northeast sky. Due to the locationof the Goddard Space Flight Center'sWallops Flight Facility on Virginia'seastern shore where rocketbornescientific experiments are conducted,this became the first target in theinvestigation. Bob Gribble immediatelycontacted this facility and found thatdue to inclement weather they had notlaunched the rockets that werescheduled that,evening.

Walt Andrus called Joyce B.Milliner in the Office of Public Affairs,NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island,VA 23337, who confirmed that therewere no rocket launches on the eveningof August 12th from that location. Thetwo launches scheduled for August 12were also "scrubbed" for'August 13th.

Walter H. Andrus, Jr.

Since Joyce B. Milliner has regularlysupplied MUFON with news releasesprior to planned rocketborne scientificexperiments, she was very cooperative

.during this telephone conversation inresolving what had been observed.

Mr. Virgil Gardner at the LaserNetwork Operations, NASA GoddardSpace Flight Center, Greenbelt,Maryland identified the object to MissMilliner, since he was involved in laserexperiments in conjunction with theobject. Mr. Gardner said it was aJapanese Experimental GeodeticSatellite launched from Japan onAugust 12th (Japanese date and time)that was placed in a 932-mile high orbitand scheduled to pass over the eastcoast of the U.S.A. at approximately 10pm EDST. The,. 6-foot diameter, globe-shaped satellite is covered with 318individual mirrors on its surface andwas rotating at 40 r.p.m. Due to itsheight, the sun was reflecting from the

mirrors providing .the illumination andthe corkscrew cloud . noted by most•witnesses. Obviously the light reflectedfrom the satellite mirrors waseliminated when it ' passed into theshadow of the E a r t h on itsnortheastward trajectory.

! LASER TRACK

The screw-shaped cloud observedwas the "dumping" .of unused liquid

1 , hydrogen , fuel from the launchingrocket booster.-Mr. Gardner and thepeople at the Laser NetworkOperations were tracking the satellitefrom Greenbelt, Maryland with lasersas part of a . global cooperativeexperiment.

Even 'though the object must nowbe classified. as an IFO after theinvestigation, 100 long .distancetelephone calls from the MississippiRiver to the east coast is' strongassurance that Bob Cribble's NationalUFO.Reporting Center is an effectivetool in obtaining UFO sighting reportsnationwide. (Even one of the astronautsflying a T-38 near Houston, Texasobserved the object per JohnSchuessler.) 100 pre-paid telephonecalls is gratifying evidence that thegeneral public still has an interestin space and UFQs. Walt Andrus gaveMiss Milliner the address of the Centerfor UFO Studies and asked. thatCUFO$ also be placed on the newsrelease mailing list from Wallops .Island.

We appreciate the manynewspaper clippings and personalsighting reports submitted to MUFQNon this sighting. Dana M. Schmidt,State Section Director in New York,interviewed several witnesses in theRochester area. Richard D- Seifried,State Director for Ohio in Daytonreceived numerous inquiries.

Eugene Witkowski, an amateurastronomer for 25 years in Buffalo, New

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EAST COAST, Continued

York, provided a very detailedeyewitness report in his letter. Whileobserving Mars in the "handle" of theteapot Sagittarius, Eugene's attentionwas caught by a first magnitude objectjust to the north and west of Mars(about 2 degrees NW). It wasapproximately 16 degrees above thesouth horizon and 3 degrees to the eastof due south. It had the appearance of asmall comet with a short tail pointingdirectly west. Through his 7 x 50binoculars he saw a point source of lightwith a jet of vapor emanating from itinto a spiral shape. He thought the pointsource of light was rotating counter-clockwise at a slow rate of speed.

The angular size grew to 3/4degree within the first 30 seconds. The"gas" was a very bright yellowish colorwhen viewed through binoculars as itwas being expelled from the star-likeobject and its intensity fell off withdistance becoming a blue-grey color.After making two telephone calls toalert other observers and two minutesinto the observation, he noted that theobject had stopped spewing the gas.When the object was due east, thecloud was now elongated and wasperpendicular to the eastern horizon.The star-like object was still precedingthe cloud by approximately 1/8 degreeand centered wi th the vertical

About the photoAmateur photographer Lor-

raine Whitaker of Lanesboro, inSusquehanna County, Pa., tookthis photo Tuesday night whileout taking pictures of the moon.

Whitaker, taking some nightshots from the deck of her Via-duct Street house, said she waswaiting for the moon to clearsome trees when she saw abright, white spiral cloud alongwith what seemed to be a starpulling the cloud. She said it wasmoving so fast she was surprisedshe was able to get it on film. "Iwas in the right place at theright time," she said.

Whitaker photographed theobject using a 35mm camerawith an 80 to 200 zoom lens. Hercamera was mounted on a tripod,and she made the several-secondexposure on 400 ASA Kodacolorfilm. Whitaker said photographyis a hobby for her, and that shehad just completed a summercourse in color photography atBroome Community College.

elongation. After 4 minutes of viewingthe light source faded out in thenortheast sky, heading north northeasttoward the constellations Cassiopeiaand Perseus.

Mr. Witkowski alerted F.W. Price,B.Sc., Ph.D., a member and pastpresident of the Buffalo AstronomicalAssociation, who observed a faint but

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distinct cloud in the sky about 30degrees above the eastern horizon withthe naked eye and 7 x 50 binoculars. Itdr i f ted hor izonta l ly toward thenortheast.

Ernest H. Wells, former StateSection Director in Huntsville,Alabama and his son Ronald reportedthe following; the illuminated cloud wasabout 1/4 or l/5th the diameter of themoon and was located about 20degrees east of the planet Mars whenfirst observed. It became larger andmore diffused as it drifted north. Therewas a smoky veil around the lightbecoming rod-like as it drifted out ofview to the northeast.

Walt Andrus was interviewed byTom Bauerle at radio station WGR inBuffalo, New York who said his stationwas swamped with calls about theilluminated cloud just after 10 pm.

In addition to the GeodeticSatellite launched by the Japanese H-lrocket it also carried a satellite for useby amateur radio stations. The key tothe rocket is its new 10.5 ton thrust LE5engine in its second stage. The engineburns super cold liquid hydrogen withliquid oxygen — the most potent rocketcombination in, use, and the samepropellants used by America's spaceshuttle main engines.

UFO FOR A DAYBy James E. Oberg

James Oberg is a well-knownHouston-based space scientist andaeronautics writer.

At about 10 PM EOT on Tuesday,August 12, 1986 (0200 UT Aug 13),nearly the entire eastern half o f - theUnited States was treated to aspectacular celestial appa r i t i on .Millions of people were outside lookingfor Perseid meteors, and many of themhad their astronomical instruments andcameras at the ready. So when a bright

.cloud-like UFO (for it was a genuineUnidentified-Flying Object, at least for aday) appeared in the eastern sky,moving from right to left, it had probablythe largest audience of any UFO everwitnessed in North America. Sightingsoccurred from Georgia (Florida''wassocked in with clouds) to Louisiana to,Houston, Texas, to Tulsa andOklahoma City, to Illinois, Kentucky,Michigan, Ontario and Quebec, and allpoints in between: South Carolina,Virginia, Massachusetts — the wholeeastern seaboard.

Descriptions of the object, and itsmotion varied, but .a general picturesoon emerged; It was called a pinpoint,a moving spiral, a glowing cloud, and abig ball o f - f i r e . In Houston, DonStockbauer described an orangish •nebulosity surrounded by an irregularlyshaped whi te / cloud elongatedvertically, with a dim' starlike nucleus.Brenda Newton of Rochester, NewYork, recalled: "It started to get biggerand it had a tail. By the time we got outof the truck, it had begun to spiral. Itlasted for a few minutes, then becamelike a dim star and floated toward thewest." The vice president of theSyracusan Astronomical Society (NewYork) said it resembled a "reflection ofthe m'oon off a cloud, but it was veryiridescent, very vivid." Wayne Madea,an amateur astronomer' in northernMaine, saw a bright star-like object emita luminous, rapidly expanding donut-shaped cloud; through a- telescope

James

Madea saw "a pinpoint of light, like asatellite, traveling with the cloud".

As it turned out, amateur radiolisteners — "hams" — were alsoreceiving radio signals from space atthat very moment. And that was thekey which led • many independentobservers ; to solve the apparitionquickly and accurately. Others (such asmyself) did it the hard* way, withapplication :of basic principles ofspaceflight and orbital.motion.

My involvement began at noonAug. 13 when, at a luncheon "brownbag" meeting of astronomy enthusiasts,a report of a bright light in the easternsky, seen f rom Houston, wasdiscussed. Returning from lunch, Ireceived a phone call from David L.Chandler, a writer for the Boston Globewith whom I had discussed otherspaceflight stories months before. Hefilled me in on the sightings, and Isuggested he check about space

Oberg•Richard Prwtt/Dallas Morning News

launchings, particularly the Japaneselaunch (which I had also learned of thatmorning). At f i rs t there was d i f f icu l ty inascertaining the exact launch time(International Date Line, and'confusionat the Japanese representative's officeover EST vs EDT), but an hour later,armed with a good l i f t o f f time and withknown orbital inclination and period, Iwas able to produce a hand-calculatedmap which showed the objct headingup the east coast at about 10PM EDT.Its altitude was about 1500 km (almost athousand miles), well high enough for itstill to have been sunlit even though theground below had been dark for morethan an hour.

VEHICLESPart of my advantage was a long

familiarity with similar apparitionscaused by space launches elsewhere in

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UFO, Continued

.the world, most notably over SouthAmerica (Soviet launchings fromPlesetsk) and Australia (Americanlaunchings from Cape Canaveral). Somy initial hypothesis about a propellantventing sprang quickly to mind. Such aphenomenon was unheard of overNorth America, but the new Japaneserocket test was also the first of its kind.

• • The names of the vehicles involved.were a little confusing. The booster wascalled the "H-l" and: it was the firstlaunch. It's second/stage was powered"by the new "LES" engine, using super-

,cold": liquid ; hydrogen as fuel.: Twopayloads" were 'deployed: an amateurradio, satellite variously. called JAS.-1 •(Japanese Amateur Satellite #1),,JO-12(Japan OSCAR 12), or "Fuji" (by the•builders); the geodetic mirror satellite,'EGP - ' ( " E x p e r i m e n t a l .GeodeticPayload"), or "Ajisai" . ("HydrangiaFlower"). The booster, was -launchedfrom Tanegashima Island off Kyushu, at5:45 AM JST August 13 (2045UT Aug.12), after a 14 minute hold.' Precisetracking data from.NORAD allowed aperfect match of sightings to spacevehicle. '.. ." • • •

I then reported my results to theSmithsonian Scientific Event Networkin Washington, DC, to NORAD PublicAffairs in Colorado Springs, to theCommi t t ee fo r the S c i e n t i f i c

. Investigation of Claims of theParanormal (which got me on a Buffalo,New York radio show which had airedLIVE accounts of the UFO on Tuesdayevening), to NASA Public Informationat the, Kennedy Space. Center inFlorida, and to the MUFON researchgroup in Texas. This in turn resulted inmy receiving about twenty additionaltelephone calls from news mediathroughout the east. .

Chandler's story appeared in theBoston Gfobe (page 6) .on Thursday,August 14. It moved over some nationalnews wire; too, since it also appeared inthe same day's Houston Chronicle,some Tacoma, Washington, paper, andpresumably elsewhere. On Friday, I didan interview with an Associated Pressreporter from Louisville, Ky, and thatstory moved nationally over theweekend.

LESSONS

. . Within a week, ;,the "UFO" was? ,stuffed, boxed, arid buried.(it shouldalso have been seen from CentralAmerica, the Caribbean, and the northcoast of South America-. — thosereports may dribble in over the next few

.months). But it was a marvelousexperience for the witnesses arid for the

.analysts, and several interesting pointscan be raised,• about - "UFO reports"based pri this fortuitous experiment..

Several interesting events involvedcoincidences. .Caught . iip in theexcitement, Air Traffic Controller TimJones in .Syracuse reported threedifferent-colored lights ^randomly

. moving and hovering for 45 minutes' '(but it turned but he. was watching B- .••'- 52sJandrat nearby'Rome AFB1,-'several

hours after, the real UFO); his account.was carried in , the nationwide newsmedia, but the solution rarely was. '

In- Clark County, • Kentucky,residents were panicked by anexplosion while the light show was

.going on — but the sheriff later got ananonymous phone call, confessing tosetting off illegal'• fireworks. RecalledCounty .Deputy. Larry Lawson/ "Thepeople said their.,.homes shook >and.windows vibrated aJnf there had been .-an explosion or earthquake... They saidthe whole sky lit up. All these people,weren't imagining or seeing things.Some of them were very terrified over itright after it happened." These illustratethe power of coincidence, in which twoconcurrent independent events caneasily (and erroneously) be integratedinto a single unsolvable mystery. Also,the emotional'state of witnesses (suchas fear) is no . measure of theauthenticity of their original perception.

"SOLUTIONS"One other amusing aspect was the

wide variety of half-baked explanationsoffered for the "UFO".-Somespeculation associated i t . . with themeteor shower, a barium cloud, or asatellite burn-up, while other guessesassociated it .with an explosion of. theJapanese satellite. Professor RichardStoner of Bowling Green StateUniversity in Ohio was quoted assaying: "It is. caused.by little bits andpieces of dust from the comet. They're

• very small, if there were a larger piece,an icy piece of. material, somethingabout the size of a snowflake, it might

well cause something like this. It wouldvaporize and leave a glowing cloudbehind it."

Astronomy . professor MarthaHaynes of. Cornell didn't trust theobservers: "When people who watchthe stars once, maybe twice a year goout and look hard for a while, they'rebound to see\things they, think arestrange.... When you're in .that mind setanything like :the light of a plane,on thehorizon looks'strange.".

John, Bosworth of NASA'sGoddard Space Center scored a nearmiss when he attributed the reports toglints off the EGP satellite's mirrors,reflecting moonlight: "I suspect that'swhat they saw", he told a reporter. TheNational Weather Service and theSeattle-based National UFO ReportingCenter agreed "it was some sort of.natural phenomenon." • • ,.. • A number of people, however, gotit right,.and right from the start. TomBoltori .'of the David D u n l a pObservatory north of Toronto toldnewsmen it was 'Caused by release ofsomething from.,..a satellite: "Thesatellite. was actually seen in thetelescope here and we had a reportfrom an amateur astronomer (who) sawit and saw the release of material from it•— but we're not sure which satellite i t .was and we're not sure what thematerial .was that was released." Anumber of amateur radio people alsotold their local.papers exactly the truestory: for example, Richard C. Eaton ofFayetteville, NY, a retired GE engineer,was quoted in the Syracuse HeraldJournal as suspecting the cloud waspart of the Japanese launch.

The spiral form also was intriguing.In .Syracuse, amateur astronomerDenise Sabatini reported: "It startedout as.a pinpoint of light. It was as if itwere releasing some type of reflectivegas, into the air, and as the gas wasreleased into air, it was as if it wasspiraling around the pinpoint of light."The spiral was "like pouring milk intocoffee.'.' .

Astronomer Karl Kamper at theDavid Dunlap, Observatory inRichmond Hill, Ontario, described theobject as starlike surrounded by a small.spiral cloud (he told newsmen the spiral

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BANKSONS LAKE UFOBy Virginia 77//y

Virginia Tilly is a MichiganMUFON field investigator.

At approximately 10:30 p.m. onFriday, August 1', 1986, John Long.aridRichard Janduraf were fishing from asmall boat in the middle of BanksorisLake in Van Bureri -County Michigan...Suddenly Long noticed what appearedto be the landing light of a large aircraftapproaching from, the south/southeastat an incredibly low altitude. As this wasin the direction of the KalamazooCounty Airport, Long felt1 that it mightbe preparing to attempt a landing there.He was concerned, however, that therewere no runways there, to accomodateso large a craft/Could this unknownobject with what seemed to be a landinglight be looking for a sparsely populated'area to attempt an emergency landing?

' The object was perhaps 200-300feet high and about as long as a footballfield. In' describing the object as wetalked in 'Kalamazoo/Long looked atWings Stadium and said that it was atleast that large. A steady white light wasemitted from what appeared to be thefront, while 3 red lights blinked steadilyon its outer edges.

When it was almost' directly infront of them and' over 'the water, thewhite light suddenly made a brilliantflash and went out.'.Long's bloodpressure shot up when this occurred.(In the past he had been hospitalized forhigh blood pressure so was familiar'withwhat was happening to ' him.) Hebecame very upset emotionally duringthis part of the experience,- and after theflash both men were scared and shakyfor some time. During our discussion healso pointed out that neither man hadbeen consuming alcohol, using drugs,nor taking.any medication.

HEATWAVES?The sky was clear that night arid

other conventional aircraft werespotted during the sighting. Thesurrounding countryside was very stillwith no noticeable wind so the water

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was very calm. At this point theyrealized that there had never been anysound coming from this huge craft. Asthey watched it passing over the nearbytrees and water, the red ; lightscontinued to blink and the men noticedwhat Long described as a "magic carpeteffect". This was what appeared to bewaves or a wavy effect between theblinking lights.

No scents or temperature changeswere .ever observed by the witnesses.However, Long speculated that thewavy effect might be heat rays.Likewise, no color nor markings wereever seen although they did feel that itwas definitely a solid object. Long wassure that it was not a weather balloon, ahelicopter, nor any airplane or jet.

Within 15 minutes it had passedout of view in the northwest:' Longreflected that it was going in the generaldirection of South Haven on' LakeMichigan where the Palisades^ NuclearPower Plant is located. He alsospeculated on the possibility that it was"taking pictures or energizing" duringthe flash. Long feels very strongly thatthis craft does not belong to the UnitedStates — and if it did it should not havebeen flying where it was. He also had afeel ing that it was looking forsomething. During the sighting he alsorecalled having said, "If they are fromanother intelligence, they are moreintelligent and have a cure for cancer."

During this sighting at least 3 otherboats were on the lake. But if they werelooking in the wrong direction Long

mused, they probably would not haveseen: anything unusual" There were,however, several people on the shore

•who saw it as the witnesses heard,a lotof animated discussions going on. Longwas also concerned about a young boyabout"'10 years old who kept shouting,"What is it?" So far I have had rio luck inlocating him. •

UFO REPORTED' After the sighting Long went to theairport but found the radar tower hadclosed at ll p.m. (The supervisor of the,,Kalamazoo -, County Airport radartower told me that there was nothingunusual sighted that night. He also saidthat anything that big and.sd bright as tocause eye damage would certainly havebeen observed at the tower: He addedthat after .14 years with the FAA andbefore that the US Air Force there wasonly one true unknown that he • wasaware of.) ; '

: •'• Long also filed .a report with theState'Police in Paw' Paw. In addition hecontacted ,the FAA in Grand Rapidsand Bob Gribble of the National UFOR e p o r t i n g Center 'in 'Seat t le ,Washington. Furthermore he calledboth the Kalamazoo Gazette and theDetroit News. To this date' neithernewspaper has published anythingabout this sighting, although' MikeMagner, reporter for the KalamazooGazette, plans to.write an article afterinterviewing Walt Andrus

On thie night of this event Long andJandura stayed .together arid madenotes and drawings, of what they hadseen. The rriorning after Long hadbloodshot and watery eyes. He felt atfirst that he had a cold in his eyes. Aftertwo days they cleared up on their own.

Since the 'sighting • Long has feltsome stress and is still excited aboutthe unique encounter he had. All of hisfamily and friends have had a positivereaction to him; in fact, he has received

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A SENSE OF AWEBy Willard D. Nelson

Willard Nelson is a former statesection director for OrangeCounty, California. .

. After a private pilot and his wifewitnessed a mid-air flyby of .a brightly J

shining 'object during, the afternoon ofMay 11, 1986, his strongest impressionwas: "Helta sense of awe." He had justmade every effort to identify the fast-moving object which was closing onthem from straight, ahead, in the flightpath of their Cessna 172: It missed thembut came close enough so they.couldsee that its shape was similar to a half-sphere ;.with a flat or slightly roundedbottom. ' . ; . • " • . .

About the. witnesses: Robert H.Henderson is minister of the Valley ofthe Sun Religious Science Center, inPhoenix. He and his wife, Nann, havebeen friends of my wife and myself .forseveral years. Knowing of my interest in"UFOs; he sent me 'a written, objectivereport after this suprise encounter. Iphoned to get additional informationand permission to use his name in areport to MUFON.

The Hendersons were 25 milessouth of Sedona, Arizona, travelingnorth at 8500 feet in their Cessna-172. Itwas 4;00 PM. They were almost toVerde Valley. Bob Henderson first sawa light (or reflection), estimated to beabout 20 miles away, moving west. "I'mquite sure of the distance," he said,"because I had just measured it on theSectional Chart."

BRIGHT FLARE

The weather was clear andvisibility unlimited. "I first thought it wassunlight reflecting from an auto, but itmoved too fast. 1 lost sight of ittemporarily, then saw a very brightobject heading almost straight towardus. I prepared to take, evasive action,but it was immediately, evident that itwould pass to our. left and below. Iestimate it passed less than a mile to ourleft and probably less than a thousand8

feet below.". After the sighting, he goes through

the classic 'escalation of .hypotheses.'"My first thought was 'airplane' but itwas moving too fast. Then I thought

:'helicopter'' and the same: objectioncame.to mind. As it went by abeam andto our left, a little below us, I could notmake out what it was. My reactions:'Definitely riot an airplane, no wings,not a chopper,.no rotor....it is abouttwice the size of a 'bubble' helicopter....more .compact than an airplane wouldbe. Too rhuch glare, to see•details....impression is. that.it was amodified half-sphere, with the flat sidedown."

.Nann, the only other occupant ofthe Cessna,. describes the UFO . insimilar terms, adding: "The frontseemed rounder as it approached...as itpassed by, the front looked a little morepointed and the roundness was in theback, more like a teardrop. The bottomwas convex rather than perfectly flat:The bright silvery light came from thetop of the object. It didn't look like theupper part had any seams."

"All this, happened faster than thedescription," Bob said, "because it wasmoving.at a high rate of speed and wewere traveling at 115 mph in theopposite direction. Closure from firstsighting 20 miles away was less thanone minute." This calculates to aminimum closure speed of 1200 mph.

"Ordinarily it would not bepossible to see an airplane-sized object

• 20 miles distant. In this case the brightlight, whether self-generated or areflection of the sun, made visibilitypossible.

"Subjectively, it simply did not/ee/like an airplane. It was flying in anabsolutely straight line from firstsighting to the time it passed from view.The simplest explanation of the brightlight is that it did reflect the sun. But it ishard to expjain how the light couldremain so constantly and uniformlybright if it was a reflection of the sun.

Without investigating the possibilities ofdifferent shapes reflecting, it wouldseem that at some point ̂ from deadahead to the 'nine-o'clock' or even'eight-o'clock' position — the angle of

. the, sun would change,, and theperceived light would vary. This did nothappen." •

SIMILARITY

This; s ight ing is especiallyinteresting because of strong similaritywith another pilot's sighting, reported inthe MUFON Journal eight years ago:"Veteran Pilot Sights Daylight Disc," byRichard Hall, MUFON Journal #122,January 1978. That, too, was a daylightsighting by the pilot of a Cessna, FloydHallstrom, of : an approaching dome-shaped UFO.

The Cessna and the UFO were inthe Los Angeles International AirportTerminal Control Area, going inopposite directions at nearly the samealtitude. The UFO came even.closer,moving steadily at a slower relativespeed. It passed to the left and belowthe witness' plane. His description wasdetailed, including report of a bright-spot sun reflection off the dome as theUFO passed by.

It is . interest ing that BobHenderson wrestled with the questionof whether it was a self-generated lightbright enough, to be visible in broaddaylight, or whether it was a reflectionof sunlight. During my follow-up phonecall he speculated that a reflection froma highly polished hemisphere might notchange with sun angle. "But it sureseemed abnormally bright," he said,and added: "I do not claim what it is, justwhat we saw."

MUFON103 OLDTOWNE RD.SEGUIN, TX 78155

FLOATING UFOsBy Herbert S. Taylor

Herbert Taylor lives in NewYork and is a long time Journalsubscriber.

In mid-August 1977, Fred A.Torrey Jr. was witness to a strangespectacle in the sky over Ozone Park, asection of Queens County, one of thefive boroughs of New York City. Whathe saw puzzled and disturbed him, butlike most people he did not know whoto contact in regard to the matter.Serious research groups like MUFONand CUFOS were not known to thewitness. He did write a letter to theEditor of the Daily News (N.Y.C.), butnever received a reply.

In April 1978, he read an article onUFOs that appeared in an issue of theNational Enquirer. Not knowing who toturn to, Fred Torrey wrote a letter tothe Enquirer in early May describing hisobservation, asking them for assistancein trying to find a logical answer for whathe saw. His letter was then sent to TedBloecher of N.Y.C. for further inquiry.Ted, who, at that time was one of theleading lights in serious UFO research,sent me a copy of Torrey's letter andrequested that I look into the matter.

I contacted the witness bytelephone, in which he confirmed thebasic points of his letter to the Enquirer.I then sent him a UFO sightingquestionnaire, which he filled out andsent back to me. Included were detailedsketches of the objects as seen1 from 2angles of observation. The account wasnow complete.

Before getting to the substance ofthe sighting itself, the solid nature of thewitness himself should be pointed out.Fred Torrey was 56 years old, and hadgood vision with eyeglasses, goodhearing, and was in fair health. He wasretired after 27 years of employment inthe aerospace field. This long particularjob employment enabled him to befamiliar with many types of aircraft andspace vehicles. The witness sought nopublicity or notoriety; in fact, he fearedto tell anyone but his wife. He did want a

logical answer to satisfy his ownpuzzlement and curiousity.

CIGAR SHAPES

Now to the incident itself. It wasabout 8:30 PM, somewhere betweenthe 16th-20th of August: The ;sky wasclear with no clouds, and a few starswere visible. It was a very warmevening, and Fred went to the rearyard, hoping to cool off (he had no airconditioning). Something caught hiseye to the north. It was 3 lighted objectsappearing to have a cigar shape. Eachobject emitted a pale ray of light fromthe bottom. It was a broad beam, andhe knew from his 27 years of aerospacebackground that these were not landinglights. The objects seemed almostmotionless, and the witness, by nowmost curious, decided to study themand make mental notes.

Fortunately, the three objectswere moving slowly in his direction,from north to south. They were movingvery slowly, perhaps no more than l/2

mile per hour (floating would accuratelydescribe their "speed"). The threeobjects formed a triangle, with oneleading in front. Fred looked carefully tosee if they were attached to some kindof familiar object such as a balloon orhelicopter, or even attached to oneanother, but none could be seen.

As they came closer to the witnesshe could now see that their true shapewas circular. Their altitude appearedlow, no more than 200-300 feet. Eachobject had an apparent size muchlarger than a full moon, with the tightgroup occupying a total area of some 4-5 full moon diameters across. Whenthey reached a position exactlyoverhead Fred almost fell backwardlooking straight up at the underpart ofthe objects.

They were about the samebrightnesses the moon, with splotchesof brighter spots mixed in, and emitteda weak ray of light into his yard. He

estimated the true size of each roundobject to be between 20-25 feet indiameter. The witness listened verycarefully for sounds of a motor, or evena hum. He heard abso lu te lyNOTHING. The objects did notrevolve, and each had a rim around it.As they slowly moved to the south, theysuddenly disappeared. After some 45minutes, the spectacle was now over.

NEAR AIRPORT

The locale of the incident wasresidential, located some three milesfrom Kennedy Airport. This raises anagging question; did anyone else otherthan Fred Torrey witness this amazingsight? Considering the residentialnature of the area, the lengthy three-quarter hour duration of the event, andthe nature of what was seen, the answerwould seem to be yes. Yet, if witnessesto this spectacle exist other than FredTorrey, they remain unknown both tohim and to this investigator. Perhaps ahouse-to-house canvassing of thewhole neighborhood would have beenneeded to definitively answer thisquestion. Since this was,not done, thisaspect of the incident remainsunresolved.

There can be no question thatFred Torrey saw what he said he saw.His initial letter to the NationalEnquirer, for instance, was in essence aplea for assistance to help find .ananswer for the sight he witnessed. Butwere the 3 round objects actual UFOs,or something far less mysterious?Clearly nothing of an astronomicalnature is involved, nor were theyconventional aircraft or helicopters.The' lengthy duration of the sighting,plus • the very slow movement of theobjects, does suggest that some type ofballoon explanation might offer apossible explanation for this event.Based on the reported facts, however,such an explanation would be a veryforced fit.

LORENZEN, COMPUTERS

NEWS 'N' VIEWS

APRO FOUNDER

Jim Lorenzen, InternationalDirector of Aerial PhenomenaResearch Organization (APRO) diedAugust 28, 1986 in Tucson, Arizona atthe age of 64. Funeral services wereheld September 2,1986 at the UnitarianUniversalist Church.

He and his wife Coral foundedAPRO in January 1952 while living inSturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. They havecoauthored five books on UFOs: FlyingSaucer Occupants (1968); UFOs Overthe Americas (1969); UFOs - TheWhole Story (1969); Encounters:withUFO Occupants (1976); and Abducted!(1977).

Mr. Lorenzen has served as theInternational Director of APRO since1964. Walt Andrus first met Jim in July1969 when he and his wife visited theLorenzens in their Tucson: home.During'the intervening years, Jim andWalt renewed their friendship at severalUFO Conferences and personalmeetings. As one of the pioneers in thefield of Ufology, Mr. Lorenzen will bebest remembered for the fine UFObooks that he coauthored with his wifeCoral. In addition to his widow, Mr.Lorenzen leaves a son, Larry inPhoenix and a married daughter inTucson.

A floral arrangement was sent tothe church for the funeral and asympathy card mailed to Mrs.Lorenzen and family from everyone inthe Mutual UFO Network.

PERSEUS LIGHT

Of interest to UFOlogists and toboth amateur and professionalastronomers is an unexplained lightthat sometimes flashes from the area ofthe constellation Perseus. It wasreported in the Aug. 1, 1986,Astrophysical Journal Letters. Anarticle about it also appeared in theAugust 23, 1986, Science News.10

L.J. Lorenzen

The flashes appear between thePleiades and Algol. They last less than asecond, may be as bright as Venus (-2magnitude), and were first noticed inAugust, 1983. One flash has beenphotographed and a spectrum of thisimage matches that of the sun. Theflashing does not show any noticeableperiodicity.

Astronomers do not know whatthe flashes are, but they may attempt toexamine their distance from them bytriangulation. I contacted a localastronomy professor to ask if thisinformation had been reportedpreviously. He believed that it had, buthe couldn't remember where. Since thisphenomenon can be observed by theunaided eye, it provides a goodopportunity for the observation andrecording of astronomical information.

In the same issue of Science Newsit is reported that Riccardo Giacconi,the director of NASA's SpaceTelescope Science Institute, is offeringsome time on the Hubble SpaceTelescope to a few a m a t e u rastronomers.

-Irena Scott

NETWORK

CUFON, the Computer UFO

Network, now has over 700 membersand users,- and most of them areMUFON members. I would like to takethe time to.say, to all the'MUFON users"Thank You for your support and inputfor CUFON. Also if you have signed onCUFON before, then please rememberthat there is a message waiting for youwith your password and information onhow to use the system. Also CUFON isnot a bulletin board but is a "Database"for just UFO information i.e. Freedomof .Information Act Documents (FQIA),UFO Reports, new and old etc."

CUFON Computer Settings:a) 7 Data Bits - Even Parity -1 Stop Bitb) 300 Baud bpsc) CUFON Systems Capacity - 120

Megabytesd) Systems Number - (206) 722-5738e) Systems Voice Line - (206) 721-5035;

also this voice line is: UFOInformation Service. • : - •

. -Dale GoudieSeattle

PETALUMA UPDATE

The object covered a distance of24 miles from the first to the last

,witness. (4:10 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.) The ,time involved is about 20 minutes,therefore the average speed was 72m.p.h. All witnesses thought the objectwas moving slowly. Sue Harte andWanda Madson saw the object whiletogether, however Sue reported 4 lightsthat were white, whereas Wanda saw. 2white lights and a. small red light. Allother witnesses saw 4 lights.

The San ; Francisco Chroniclespeculated that the object was anultralight aircraft. I.checked with thedirector of Petaluma's Liberty Field,near where the sightings occurred andwas told that no one was. flying at thattime. I was also informed that ultralightscarry only a white strobe light, and thatnone fly at night because it is toodangerous, since they do not havelanding lights. Sunrise on May 22,1986

was 5:54 a.m. POST.

CONCLUSION

In attempting to sum up thePetaluma UFO Case, I feel that it isimportant to present both an argumentin favor of ah IFO and one favoring aUFO. Witnesses generally spoke oflights that were unusual for-an aircraft,but "not that unusual." The lightsobserved by the witnesses .weregenerally described as white. Somewitnesses described them as having agreen hue. Obviously missing.was thewhite anit-collison strobe light whichaircraft are required to carry. Thewitnesses on three occasions describedthe object moving in such a directionthat the green light would be showing intheir direction. The one instance inwhich a witness saw a red light was byWanda Madsqn, whereas Sue Hartedid not. The fact that the objectappeared to hover a number of timeswould tend to indicate the possibility ofa helicopter.

UFO

Considering that most people areaware of normal aircraft. lighting, it isinteresting that upward of 12 peoplecalled in to say that they had seensomething unusual. Most people arecapable of distinguishing betweennormal and abnormal lights, for anaircraft. In one case, a witness stoppedher car, turned off the engine and radio,stepped outside and heard no sound.

I also called airports. in the SanFrancisco Bay Area and Sacramento,Calif, area and could not • find anyhelicopters that were going through thislocale at this time. I even checked withthe George Lucas Special EffectsOrganization and they advised theywere doing nothing on that morning.Lack of sound, lights unusual enoughfor witnesses to telephone in and noknown helicopters transient throughthe area would indicate a UFO.

IFO

None of the witnesses couldaccurately determine the distance andheight of the object. All but one witnesswas in a moving car with their windows

Artist's rendition of UFO based onPetaluma eye witness accounts

rolled up, thus they could make noaccurate determination about sound.No witness could distinguish the shapeof the object.

This leaves the Petaluma UFOCase with very few solid details in orderto definitely classify the sighting as anIFO or UFO at press time.

-Tom Page

BANKSONS, Continued

no negative reactions and some peopleeven say that they are envious of hisexperience.

Richard Jandura's eyes were muchmore seriously affected. Before hesought medical assistance for them, heand Long met with Field InvestigatorDee Allan on August 6, so that shecould see his eyes. The whites of hiseyes were completely pink and burning.They were very mattered and puffy.The lef t eye was in the worst conditionwith swelling and discoloration beneaththat eye. His doctor has diagnosed thecondition as pink eye and is .treating itwith antibiotics. Because of this andpersonal problems, Jandura has beenoff work for some time. As a result ofthese emotional and family problemswe have not been able to interview him.

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CASH-LANDRUM CASE CLOSED?By John Schuessler

" John Schuessler of Houstpri isMUFOIM's deputy director andchief investigator of the ,Cash-Landrum Case.

On'December 29, . 1980, BettyCash, Vickie Landrum and ColbyLandrum encountered an unusualflying object and a large number of twin-rotor helicopters along a deserted roadnortheast of Houston, Texas. As theresult of that encounter their lives were 'changed forever. They sustained lifethreatening injuries and haveundergone long periods of suffering.

They were'advised by the military-legal authorities at Bergstrom Air ForceBase in Austin, Texas to;file a claimagainst the United. States governmentfor the injuries they sustained. They didfile the claim, which was later rejected.The appeal was also rejected. Theywere then told to sue the United StatesGovernment in Federal Court. Again,they followed.instructions and filed acivil action in the United States DistrictCourt, Southern District of Texas,Houston, Texas.

Their contention was that they.hadbeen wronged, physically injured, whiledriving on a public thoroughfare.-TheUnited States Government'was at faultbecause their injuries were sustainedwhile they were in close proximity of themillifary helicopters and the largeglowing object, later called a UFO forlack of a better term. :. : . .

DATE SETThe United States District Court

Docket Call was set for September 3,1985. Frank Conforti, Assistant UnitedStates Attorney, requested dismissal ora summary judgement-in favor of theUnited States. The attorney for Cash

'and Landrum-replied'that the UnitedStates was not entitled to a dismissal ora summary judgement. Judge RossSterling did not make a decision on Mr.Conforti's request. Therefore, the casedid not go to trial.

Nearly one year later, on August

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CH-47 Helicopter

21, 1986, Judge RossSterhngdismissedthe case on the basis of experttestimony submitted by Mr Conforti.The experts addressed the issue ofwhether or not the United Stalesowned and opeiated a device asdescribed by Cash and Landrum andsidestepped the issue of military

.helicopters'. The claims of the expertsare summarized below.

, Robert W. Sommer, Chief of theNASA Aircraft ..Management Office,avowed that "no object as described bythe plaintiffs was, at any time, owned oroperated, or was in the inventory or.under the control of NASA."Headdedthat NASA did have one twin-rotorhelicopter, but it was in a hangar inCalifornia on the date of the incident.

Colonel William E Krebs, Chief,Tact ical Aeronautical SystemsDivision, Office of the Deputy Chief ofStaff for Systems, Air Force SystemsCommand, United States Air Force,has been involved in development,testing and evaluation of all UnitedStates Air Force craft capable of flightHe said ,"no such craft was owned,operated, or is in the inventory of theUnited States Air Force . " Further, he

said "1 have never seen nor heard of anysuch cra f t . . . being associated with themilitary service" While he did notaddress all twin rotor helicopters, hedid declare that the CH-47 was not inthe inventory of the United States AirForce.

'COPTERS OMITTEDVice Admiral Robert F. Schoultz,

United States Navy. Deputy Chief ofNaval Operations, said "no aircraftmatching the description given (byCash and Landrum) was owned oroperated by the United States Navy."He did not address the twin-rotorhelicopter issue.

Richard L. Ballard, Acting Chief,Aviation Systems Division, Office of theDeputy Chief of Staff for Research,Development, and Acquisition, UnitedStates Army, said "I have compared thedescription of the object with myknowledge of the inventory of all Armycraft capable of flight. No such craft wasowned, operated, or in the inventory ofthe United States Army..." Further, hesaid " I have never seen nor heard of any

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PIPELINE PROGRESSBy Marge Christensen

Marge and David Christensenhave moved. Their new mailingaddress is 4732 N. Windridge Loop,Tucson, Arizona 85749.

By now, P.1..P.E. ( p u b l i cinformation & public education) isundoubtedly a familiar acronym toMUFON UFO Journal readers, butsince many of our members may bewondering who the P.I.P.E. Committeemembers are and what they'veaccomplished, we offer the followingreport:

M U F O N P u b l i c R e l a t i o n sDirector, Marge Christensen serves aschairperson for the committee, which ismade up of the following members:Walter Webb, Barry Greenwood, JimMelesciuc, :-and- Ray Fowler, ofMassachusetts; as well as JohnSchuessler, Walt Andrus, and Dennis.Stacy, of Texas; Dan Wright, Michigan,Paul Cerny, California, Mildred Biesele,Utah, Fred Whiting, Virginia, .and BobB l e t c h m a n , C o n n e c t i c u t . Thecommittee has been in existence forthree years, however, there have beensome changes in membership duringthat time.

Over the past two years,, thecommittee has engaged in manyprojects aimed at providing publicinformation on the UFO subject. Someof these include: •

(1) Compiling and producing twosets of slides with narratives for use inthe presentation of lectures on theUFO subject

(2) Ini t ia t ing National UFOInformation Week as an annual event,and compiling a package of materialsfor use during this week. The package,which has been distributed to all StateDirectors, includes, a poster, publicservice announcements for .radiostations, a press release, a suggestedb i b l i o g r a p h y , and a M U F O Ninformation page. (These items are tobe copied by State Directors forcirculation throughout their respectivestates.)

(3) Writing a media policy,currently submitted to the MUFONBoard of Directors for approval, andsubsequently, to be submitted forpublication in the Journal.

. (4) Initiating the Award forOutstanding Work in the UFO Fieldeach calendar year.

(5) Responding to negativepublicity in -the printed or electronicmedia whenever la situation needingsuch a response occurs.

(6) Lecturing widely on the UFOsubject.

(7) Furnishing' materials andinformation to others offering publicinformation on the UFO subject.

(8) P u b l i s h i n g a m o n t h l yNewsletter for State Directors to keepthem informed, and publishing amonthly P.I.P.E. Line for committeemembers.

(9) . Compi l i ng the . n a t i o n a ltelephone network, TELUFONET.

As we look ahead to 1987,. theP.I.P.E. Committee is already makingpreparations for. new endeavors. Theseinclude the following: .

(1) The Committee will work withthe-Fund for UFO Research (host of theMUFON 1987 UFO Symposium) toensure record high attendance at the1987 MUFON UFO Symposiumscheduled to be held on June 26-28, inWashington, D.C. P.I.P.E. memberswill be drafting letters to make availableto MUFON members, conveying theimportance of the UFO subject andemphasizing the need to attend thesymposium. These will be used asmodels for personal let ters foreveryone to send to their U.S.Congressmen nationwide.

(2) A national campaign toencourage both university and publiclibraries to add subscriptions to theMUFON UFO Journal to theircollections will be launched. .

(3) Plans will again be made for theThird National UFO InformationWeek, with a few. modifications in order

to cover a wider geographic area of theUnited States.

(4) The Award for OutstandingWork • in the UFO Field will becontinued, but the nomination processhas been revised, and will be explainedin-an upcoming issue of the MUFONUFO Journal.

It would appear the the P.I.P.E.Committee is currently the only long-term working committee MUFON hason a national scale. What can belearned from the experiences of thecommittee? First of all, it is possible forUFOIogists of varying backgrounds,

; stretching from coast-to-coast to worktogether, and to produce significantprojects regularly. P.I.P.E. memberscommunicate on a regular basis viatelephone, correspondence, or theP.LP.E. Line Newsletter. This hasfostered a sense of belonging and hasserved to strengthen our commitmentas individuals to the cause of informingthe public about the reality of the UFOphenomenon and the need to afford itscientific respectability as a legitimatearea of study. A genuine continualexchange of ideas and informationtakes place on this committee, and itsmembers share equally in the work ofthe committee.

Perhaps the same could be true ofcommittees on other topics if they wereto be formed to serve as workingcommittees on specific topics. Forexample, suppose there was acommittee to study reported abductioncases and their implications forhumanity? This committee could meetannually at symposia, as does theP.I.P.E. Committee, and its memberscould be persons who investigateabduction cases. The committee couldbe chaired by someone such as BuddHopkins. An exchange of informationand ideas derived from actualinvestigations and research into thisparticular aspect of the phenomenon

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In Others' WordsBy Lucius Parish

Actor Dennis Weaver's interest inthe UFO subject was the focus of anarticle in the July 8 issue of NATIONAL'ENQUIRER. Weaver, his son Rusty,and UFO investigator Paul Shepherdhave recently set up a UFO Hotline(213-976-UFOS) which provides dailynews reports on UFO sightings.Weaver and his wife recently observeda cigar-shaped .UFO from theirCalifornia home. ' . :

The July issue of FATE featured an .article by Michael A. Persinger,attempting to explain', UFOs and .peripheral phenomena as being due tothe same forces which causeearthquakes. . .• The "Anti-Matter/UFO Update"segment in the July issue of OMNIconsisted of a tribute to the late J. AllenHynek,- summarizing his long-terminvolvement with the UFO subject.

The third videotape dealing withthe Eduard Meier contact case inSwitzerland is now available fromGenesis HI Publishing, Inc. (Drawer JJ -Munds Park, AZ 86017). BEAMSHIP:THE MEIER CHRONICLES is 100minutes in length and is largely devotedto Meier himself, his family and friends.The.testimony of other witnesses to theUFO events is presented, along with areview of the photos, films and metalsamples which have been discussed indepth in the two previous videotapes.Perhaps the most interesting portion ofthis presentation is an informalinterview with Meier in which he quietlydiscusses the information allegedlyobtained from extraterrestrial beings. Ifyou are one of those "scientificUfologists" who think, that acontactee's only problem is countinghis money, this presentation might giveyou something else to consider. I highlyrecommend all three tapes in the series:BEAMSHIP: THE MOVIE FOOTAGE(59 minutes; $59.00), BEAMSHIP: THEMETAL (45 minutes; $59.95),BEAMSHIP: THE MEIER CHRON-ICLES (100 minutes; $69.95). Lee14

Elders has performed a valuable serviceby editing 16 hours worth of "raw"footage into these three tapes. Be sureto specify Beta or VHS format whenordering.

Kenneth Behrendt's periodical,, ,AURA, is definitely not for. the

researcher (such as myself) who has nobackground in physics. In the six issuesof AURA which have been publishedthus far,:Behrendt has discussed suchtopics as UFOs and power failures,solid beams' of light from UFOs,introduction to anti-mass field physics,metal-ejecting UFOs, UFO soundspectrum, UFO' invisibility andi n t e r p e n e t r a b i l i t y , etc. I f youunderstand this stuff (or would like totry to!), the six issues of AURA areavailable at $5.00 each (plus 85<F for thefirst item; 35<f each for each additionalitem) from Arcturus Book Service -P.O. Box 2213 - Scotia, NY 12302.

The July 15 issue of NATIONALENQUIRER reports on the BrazilianAir Force's encounter with UFOs onthe night of May 19, 1986. As many asthree dozen objects were seen visuallyand tracked on radar during theincident. A huge UFO which hovered

. over Barcelona, Spain, for nearly ninehours is the subject of an article in theENQUIRER'S July 29 issue. The object,at an estimated 3,000-foot altitude, wasvideo-taped and shown on BarcelonaTV. It was also tracked by radar, beforesplitting up into five smaller objectswhich sped off. Ancient Romansightings of UFOs are reviewed in theAugust 19 issue of the ENQUIRER.

A study by Dr. Lorraine Davis ofJohn F. Kennedy University in Orinda,California, compares UFO sightingswith NDEs (Near Death Experiences).Dr. Davis feels that both experiencesoccur during altered states ofconsciousness. The summary of herconclusions appears in the' "Anti-Matter/UFO Update" section ofSeptember OMNI and is written byJOURNAL editor Dennis Stacy.

Veteran UFO researcher GeorgeFawcett has an interesting article onSouth Carolina's UFO history in theSpring 1986 issue of SEARCH, Thismagazine is primarily available bysubscription, but may be found onsome .larger .newsstands.

Two UFO documentaries', THEOUTER SPACE CONNECTION andMYSTERIES FROM BEYOND,EARTH, are now available from UnitedEnter ta inment , Inc. (4111 S.Darlington, Suite 400 - Tulsa, OK74135) for $19.95 each, plus $2.25shipping & handling per tape. Bothtapes contain, interesting informationon UFOs, "ancient astronauts" and theusual range of subject matter coveredin the films of this type which wereproduced in the 1970's.

. Videotapes on a wide variety of"occult" .matters are available fromFry's Videos (22511 Markham - Perris,CA 92370). The ones which might be ofinterest to JOURNAL readers are theUFO .REPORT series (#1, #2, #3).Unfortunately, while the video andaudio quality of these tapes is amongthe best I've seen, the subject matter is,'well, another matter! Except for briefexcerpts from films, all visuals consistof drawings, reproductons of clippings,etc., with an "anything goes" attitude alltoo obvious. Some of the material isquestionable, at best, while otherinformation presented in the tapes isquite incorrect. Still, if you want to takea look at these, you may rent them fortwo weeks for $9.95 each or buy themat the rate of $29.95 each or $20.00 eachif two or more tapes are purchased. Alltapes are 2 hours in length.

UFO Photo Archives has releasedfive books recently, with several othersin preparation. Those now availableinclude: UFO ABDUCTION ATMIRASSOL by Walter K. Buhler,Guilherrrie Pereira and Ney Matiel Pires(416-page account of abductions

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KLASS, ADAMSKI, ETC.

LETTERS(Last issue we published a letter by

Philip Klass in which he asserted thatthe UFO chased by Thomas Mantellwas indeed a Skyhook balloonlaunched from Wilmington AFB, Ohio,under CIA auspices. The letter was inresponse to an article by staff writer T.Scott Grain, whose rejoinder shouldhave been published at that time. Myapologies to Mr. Grain.-Ed.)Dear Editor,

I have no argument with • PhilipKlass that Wilmington Air Force Basewas a launching site for the Navy'sskyhook balloon program in the 'late1940s. The question to be answered iswhether or not a skyhook balloon waslaunched from the Base on January 5,1948, the day Mantell died. ' . ,

Edwart J. Ruppelt, former head ofthe Air Force Project investigatingUFOs, writes in his book, The Reporton UFOs (p.56) that he could never findthe records showing "whether or not aballoon was launched from ClintonCounty AFB, Ohio, on January 7,1948." "People who were working withthe early skyhook projects "remember"operating out of Clinton County AFB in1947 but refuse'to be pinned down to aJanuary 7 flight."

Yet Philip Klass states that Ruppeltand others in the USAF UFO program"could only be told the meagerest ofinformation about the Skyhook balloonsecretly launched from Wilmington AirForce Base,; some 30 miles southeast ofDayton." Klass seems to infer; that askyhook balloon was secretly'launchedon January 7, and that's what Mantellchased. •/ , , ; •"•' . \ . / . ' . •

I've said it before and I'll say itagain. Produce the records and namethe people involved.

Several years back, space scientistJames Ober'g wrote confidently in hisDecember 1978 article "Venus: Queenof the UFOs" for OMM that "although"Venus was off the hook," the solutionto Mantell's death became obviouswhen "...investigators came . across

declassified records of a giant,stratospheric spy balloon launchedupwind of the sighting area a few hoursearlier." In 1982,1 challenged Oberg toproduce the records and name theinvestigators.

Oberg replied, "My onlydocumentation is an anonymous noteon the Mantell case file, saying it was aSkyhook, plus circumstantial evidencethat during that period Skyhooksapparently were being flown from thesite that was upwind of Mantell on thwday of the crash."

An "anonymous note" and"circumstantial evidence" does notdecide the fate of a military pilot. Obergcontinued, "My statement that recordshad been found specifying that date waswrong."

I believe Philip Klass's assertionsare wrong, too. He even admits in hisown book "UFOs Explained" (p. 39),"...that the precise date of launch of oneof the Skyhook balloons from thesouthern Ohio site is not known..."

If anything, the most definitivestatement .made about the Skyhook .balloon flight of 1948 comes from DavidR. Saunders, former investigator for theColorado UFO Project. In his book,UFOs? YES! (p. 65) which he co-authored with R. Roger Harkins, areporter for the Boulder Daily Camera,it says "...contrary to the Air Forcereport, .there were no sky hooksreleased from Clinton County Airporton January 7, 1948, nor for two daysafterward."

T. Scott Grain, Jr.Port Matilda, PA

Dear Editor,The article entitled "Is This

Adamski's Saucer?" written by CharlesF. Eckhardt which appeared in the Julyissue of the MUFON Journal wasprobably the worst form of journalismthat I've seen in a Jong time. It wasobviously a childish and mindlessattempt to continue to discredit the

early contactee George Adamski whohas been dead now for twenty-oneyears and is still being bitterly attackedby people who have never met him, norin most cases have never even read thebooks which,he wrote.

Most of what has beendisseminated about Adamski is second-hand information which has beenpassed on over the years from onedebunker to another and much of it hasnever been verified or confirmed. It'ssimply, "old wives" tales with a fewembellishments thrown in to try to lendsome credibility to the them thatAdamski was an uneducated hoaxer(he didn't have a college degree) butthen who really cares?

I only wish that such so-called"knowledgeable" people as authorEckhardt would take the time and makethe effort to investigate before makingfalse accusations and inventing theorieswhich are only speculative in nature.

Wouldn't it be worth Mr. Eckhardt'stime to at least read "George Adamski:The Untold Story" written by LouZinsstag and Timothy'Good, publishedby Ceti Publications of England in 1983?Maybe then the critics of the lateAdamski would have some stumblingblocks to counter in their unfoundeddiatribes which continue unabatedthirty-four years after his famousencounter with an alien who landed hisspacecraft in the California desert onthat momentous day in 1952. .

I think perhaps Mr. Eckhardtshould find it worthwhile to know thatQueen Juliana and Prince Bernhard ofthe Netherlands permitted Adamski along audience with them in 1959 andwere very much interested inAdamski's contact with an alien eightyears before.

Likewise, how does Eckhardtinterpret the audience that Adamskihad with Pope John XXIII on May 30,1963 when the little understood

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Adamski was admitted to St. Peter'sthrough a private entrace and usheredin by an aide to see the ailing Pope at hisbedside?

.. How was it that the so-called"hamburger peddler" received from thePope a special 22 carat gold EcumenicalMedallion .two weeks before thiscommemorative collector's item wenton sale in European banks, if he hadn'thad the private audience with the Popejust two days'before the Prince of the,.Church died? , • ' r ' •; '. ' , ' .

In fact, the entrance of Adamski tothe Vatican was witnessed by the late

. ,Lou Zinsstag, a relative of the late CarlGustav Jung, famed Swiss psychologistand May Morlet, a'.Belgian co-worker ofMs. Zinsstag's.

It is also worthy of mention thatpersons of impeccable credentials suchas William T. .Sherwood, an opticalphysicist and a senior . projectdevelopment, engineer for EastmanKodak Company of Rochester, NewYork had analyzed the 8mm movie filmtaken by Adamski ..and MadeleineRodeffer in Silver Springs, Maryland onFebruary 26, 1965 of a UFO and foundthe frames to be authentic and notfaked in any manner whatsoever.

Leonard Cramp an aeronauticaldesigner and engineer wrote in his firstbook, "Space, Gravity and The FlyingSaucer" that Adamski's controversialphotographs were authentic andobviously not fraudulent.

If author Eckhardt will take thetime to read Zinsstag's book and referto pages 175 through 178 which discussA d a m s k i ' s f a m o u s and y e tcontroversial 1952 photos .; of the"scoutcraft," which according toEckhardt were merely lampshades ofthe 1920's period, then I think that hemay want to reevaluate his derogatoryremarks and reaccess his criticism ofthe much maligned Adamski, who hasbeen supported by such luminaries asBrinsley LePoer Trench, FrankEdwards , Frank S c u l l y , LadyFalkender, personal and politicalsecretary to former Prime MinisterHarold Wilson of Great Britain, Prof.Hans Holzer of New York Institute ofTechnology, Major Hans Petersen(Ret.) of the Danish Air Force,16

Waveney .Girvan, former editor of"Flying Saucer Review," and CarolHoney, a West. Coast aerospaceengineer who for many years was astaunch supporter of George'Adamski.

Before taking the encounters thatAdamski claims to have had light|y, Iwould strongly suggest fu r the rresearch before heaping ridicule upon aman who has been dead now for overtwenty years. Must M.UFON hierachycontinue to take cheap shots at a manwho is no longer around to defend hisc r e d i b i l i t y aga ins t u n f o u n d e daccusations? .

Let's not continue to resurrect a"dead horse" in order to fill up the pagesof the Journal when more importantnews of a current nature can 'becovered. When we do this we look like "our antagonist; Phil Klass.

Frederick R. Chaffce' ' • • ' . , Belmont, M A

UFO, Continued

could have been fuel .spilling from adamaged satellite, and said it must havebeen extremely high in the sky).

Chuck Barnes, head naturalist atthe Troy Farm and Nature Center nearDetroit, had been giving an outdoorlecture on meteors when the UFOappeared: "It was glowing like a spiralpinwheel standing on end and movingon a line from southeast to northwest",he told newsmen (the motion was,actually from SE to northeast); "Itappeared to be five or six times largerthan a full moon." In Massachusetts, anamateur astronomer watched theplume from the rocket perform two fullturns in four minutes, painting thespinning spiral as he watched.

The r e l e v a n c e o f t he seperceptions to other UFO reports isconnected with a series of night-timesky spirals seen over China in the late1970s. While UFO enthusiasts havea c c e p t e d t h e m u n c r i t i c a l l y ,experienced analysts have voiced thesuspicion that they actually involvedspace launchings (much like the H-lover America on August 12). Theseintuitive suspicions were encouragedby a recent official Chinese disclosureof the cancellation of the "Windstorm"

space booster, which through the 1970swas being developed in competition tothe "Long March 3" booster; there

. were several flight'tests, including oneunsuccessful1 satellite launching,although precise dates were notprovided. Further disclosures mayallow a precise connection between"Windstorm" space shots and the"spiral UFOs" over China.

Another interesting phenomenonwas the way in which UFO groupsseemed . to get a different type ofdescriptions, than did the national newsmedia. Robert Gribble of the NationalUFO Reporting Center in Seattle gotmore than a hundred telephone calls,consistently describing an objectshooting straight up into the sky until itmushroomed at a certain altitude ("Itseemed to hold in a certain airspace",

. he recalled, adding "I got NO reports ofit moving across the sky").

Sherman Larson, with the Centerfor UFO Studies in Illinois, said his.group received numerous calls: "Ineach case, witnesses said an objectappeared to have exploded in the sky

.and then moved into a cloud." In theseaccounts, sub-conscious interpreta-,tions by .the collectors had evidentlycolored the straightforward pure per-ceptions, and without other accountsthe stories collected by the UFOgroups could well have coagulated intoa "true UFO" if the solution had notbeen published so quickly. This is along-recognized (but evidently still

. serious) problem with anecdotal datacollection. .

, All in all, the great cloud UFO ofAugust 12, 1986 was an exciting,illuminating experience, in more waysthan one! . .

Lawrence Fa wee It anil Bariy J.Greenwood

INTENT

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CASH-LANDRUM, Continued

'such c r a f t described..!..as .beingassociated with the military service."He, too, ignored the twin-rotorhelicopter issue.

Judge Ross Sterling consideredthe expert testimony to be sufficientreason to dismiss the case. That meanshe will not meet Betty Cash, Vickie and.Colby Landrum, and he will not hearthe evidence they wanted theirattorneys to present.

The case is closed! Unless*' 1986 John Schuessler

OCTOBER 1986

Bright Planets (Evening Sky):

Venus reaches greatest brilliancy (magnitude -4.6) on October 1. However, it isquite low in the SW, setting only about an hour after the sun. Our planet

' neighbor appears as a tiny crescent moon in binoculars or telescope at thistime. On the 5th look for Venus to the left of the real crescent moon and to theright of the moon the next evening. Throughout October the planet sets earlierand earlier, finally returning to the morning sky early next month.

Mars, moving from Sagittarius into Capricornus, is a bright reddish-yellowobject at magnitude -0.7 in midmonth. It can be found just east of south at duskand in the SW later in the evening. Look for it above the quarter moon on thellth. " ': ' : ' •

Jupiter, still retrograding westward in Aquarius, shines at a brilliant magnitude' of -2.8. It lies in the ESE at dusk and can then be followed as it moves toward thewest. Look for it above the gibbous moon on the 14th.

Saturn, moving from Scorpius into Ophiuchus, is visible low in the SW at dusk,setting about 2 hours after the sun in midmonth.

Bright Planets (Morning Sky): .

Mars sets just after midnight in the WSW in mid-October.

Jupiter sets in the west about 3:45 AM Daylight Time in midmonth.

Partial Solar Eclipse:

The new moon hides part of the sun on October 3 across all of the U.S. exceptmost of California and the extreme SW. The eclipse will vary from about 74%obscuration and 2l/2 hours duration in the NE part of the country to about 6%and one hour long in the NW. Percentages and times of maximum eclipse forseveral'cities: Boston, 74% and 3:17 PM EDT; Miami, 42%& 3:39 PM EDT;Chicago, 54%and 1:58.PM CDT; Houston, 23%& 2:10 PM CDT; Portland, 6%&. 11:04 AM PDT. Do not look directly at the sun! For safety, project the sun'simage' through a telescope eyepiece (or through a pinhole in a card) onto awhite surface.

Meteor Shower:

Bright moonlight will make the annual Orionids a poor meteor shower this year,severly reducing the peak numbers usually visible on the morning of October21. '

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PIPELINE, Continued THE NIGHT SKYwould presumably be very useful tothose working specifically withabduction cases.

• Other such committees could beformed to deal with such areas asadvanced p r o p u l s i o n systems,photographic analysis, governmentdocuments requests under theP.O.I.A..physical trace cases, pilots's igh t ings , etc.. Perhaps thesecommittees would serve to involvemore people actively .and;to increasethe flow of information and ideas amongresearchers, and-to provide access to agreater data base.

Persons interested in forming suchcommittees, .should contact WaltAndrus, Mutual UFO Network, 103Oldtowne Rd.,,Seguin, TX 78155. Once

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UFO NEWSCLIPPINGSERVICE

The UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE•will keep you informed of all the latestUnited States and World-Wide UFOactivity, as it happens! Our service wasstarted in 1969, at which time -wec o n t r a c t e d i w i t h a r e p u t a b l ei n t e r n a t i o n a l newspaper-c l ippingbureau to obtain for us, those hard tofind UFO reports (i.e., little knownphotographic cases, close encounterand landing reports, occupant cases)•and all other UFO reports, many ofwhich are carried only in small town orforeign newspapers."Our UFO Newsclipping Serviceissues are 20-page monthly reports,r e p r o d u c e d b y p h o t o - o f f s e t ,containing the latest United States andCanadian UFO' newsclippings, withour foreign section carrying the latestBritish, Australian, New Zealand andother foreign press reports. Alsoincluded is a 3-5 page section of"Fortean" clippings (i.e. Bigfoot andother "monster" reports). Let us keepyou informed of the latest happeningsin the UFO and Fortean fields."For subscription information andsample pages from our service, writetoday to:

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NOVEMBER 1986' ' ' * • • ' '

Bright Planets (Evening Sky):

Mars, advancing from Capricornus into Aquarius;'lies east of south at dusk andsets south of west about 11PM. Though still bright, its magnitude has droppedto -0.1 by midmonth. Look for the red planet 3° above the first-quarter moon on

, the 8th.' •' f . ""'" '••' " . ; . " : ' , ' , ' '

Jupiter resumes eastward motion in Aquarius on the 8th. Shining at magnitude --2.5 in mid-November, the largest planet stands in the SE at dusk not far fromMars. Earth's rotation carries Jupiter toward the west during the evening.

Saturn, in Ophiuchus, is low in the WSW early in the month, setting about l}/2

hours after the sun on the 1st and 1 hour after on the 15th. It then vanishes intothe sun's glare for the rest of the month.

Bright Planets (Morning Sky):

Venus enters the morning sky November 5, not becoming visible, however, inthe SE at dawn until after midmonth. Our nearest planet neighbor brightens tomagnitude -4.6 by month's end, rising then about 4 AM. Look for it only 2° abovethe lunar crescent on the 29th. .

Jupiter sets in the west about 12:30 AM in mid-November.

Transit of Mercury: . ' ••.,.' i '

The tiny planet Mercury will cross the sun's disc November 12, one of only 14such transits in this century. The event is visible from SW Alaska and Hawaii,beginning about 4:42 and 3:42 PM local time, respectively (the sun sets:beforethe transit ends). A small telescope is required. As with October's solar eclipse,project the sun's image through the eyepiece onto a white surface! The planetwill resemble a black sunspot only 10 seconds of arc across traveling slowlyfrom the bottom to the top of the sun (on a projected view).

Meteor Showers:

Unlike last year, the moon will not bother the Taurid meteors this time at theirpeak on the mornings of the 2nd and 3rd. Radiating from a point south of thePleiades in Taurus, these slow-moving meteors number only about 15 per hour.However, they are rich in bright fireballs. Full moonlight will all but blot out theLeonids maximum on the 17th.

Moon Phases:

New moon — November 2First quarter — November 8Full moon — November 16Last quarter — November 24

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Mainstream of Science." Copies maybe obtained from MUFON for $10.00each in U.S. funds plus $1.50 forpostage and handling. Foreign ordersmust be paid in U.S. funds byInternational Postal Money Order,cash, or a check made payable to a U .S.Bank.

* * *Dale D. Goudie, manager of the

Computer UFO Network (CUFON) in

South Seattle, Washington, hasprovided the following information forJournal readers who have computersand modems. CUFON now has over700 members and users and most ofthem are MUFON members. To all theMUFON users, "thank you for yoursupport and input for CUFON." If youhave signed-on CUFON previously,there is a message waiting for you withyour password and information on howto use the system. CUFON is not abulletin board, but is a "Database" for

OCTOBER, Continued

Moon Phases:

New moon-October 3First quarter-October 10Full moon-October 17 (Hunter's Moon)Last quarter-October 25

The Stars:

c oDuring midevening hours the celestial meridian (imaginary line connectingnorth-zenith-south points) separates the summer stars in the west from theautumn stars in the east. The two sky symbols of both seasons-the SummerTriangle and the Great Square of Pegasus-lie on either side of the meridian.Also bisected by that great invisible boundary at 9 PM are the bright planetsMars, in bikini-shaped Capricornus the Sea Goat, and Jupiter, in Aquarius theWater Bearer.

The Milky Way is still prominent overhead, stretching across the sky fromSagittarius the Archer in the SW to Auriga the Chariot Driver in the NE.

NOVEMBER, Continued

The Stars:

This month places the six constellations in the royal family legend intoprominence. (The story was highlighted in the movie Clash o} the Titans.) Thecharacters are Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Perseus, Andromeda, Pegasus, andCetus. The lengthy adventure culminates when Andromeda is saved from thejaws of Cetus. Her rescuer Perseus displays the cut-off Medusa's head. Thecreature's stare turns Cetus to stone, and Perseus and Andromeda ride off onthe back of Pegasus the Winged Horse.

Winter star patterns, such as Orion and Taurus, show up in the east now at 9PM. The dipper-shaped star cluster known as the Pleiades is one of the featureattractions of Taurus and in fact of the entire sky. It is a spectacular si'ght,especially in binoculars and telescopes.

On November evenings the Big Dipper has swung down above the northernhorizon as low as it ever gets. For latitudes below 40°, the Big Dipper stars beginto vanish below the horizon.

just UFO information, that is, Freedomof Information Act Documents (FOIA),UFO reports, etc. CUFON ComputerSettings: (a) 7 Data Bits - Even Parity -1Stop Bit. (b) 300 Baud b.p.s. (c)CUFON Systems Capacity - 120Megabytes, (d) Systems number (206)722-5738 (e) Systems Voice Line (206)721-5035. This voice line is also "UFOInformation Service."

Another State UFO Newsletterwas inaugurated when Stan Gordon,State Director for Pennsylvania,published Issue Number 1 of the"PASU Data Exchange," Newsletter ofthe Pennsylvania Association for theStudy of the Unexplained. Stan may becontacted at 6 Oakhill Avenue,Greensburg, PA 15601 if you areinterested in exchanging publications.

* * *Barry J. Greenwood and

Lawrence Fawcett, Editor andPublisher respectively of Just Causeand Cause Bulletin have given MUFONwritten permission to regard articles intheir publications as article submissionsto the MUFON UFO Journal provideda month or two has elapsed since JustCause appeared. This would provide awider audience than they presentlyachieve. Since the logistics ofpublishing the Journal requires at leasta month, the offer by Barry andLawrence will be an asset for everyone.(Larry W. Bryant usually contributesa column in these two publicationstitled "D.C. Report.") The editorial staffof the Journal appreciates thisgenerous offer and contribution.

PIPELINE, Continued

a topic for a committee has beenapproved, Marge Christensen would beglad to assist the committee organizerwith getting the actual committeeorganized.

Perhaps in 1987 we will take afurther step toward coming of age inUFOlogy, and wi l l witness theformation of such working committees.As a result, we will be that much closerto our goal of becoming "voluntaryprofessionals" in the field of UFOresearch and investigation.

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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGEby

Walt Andrus

The Second National UFOInformation Week was held on August10-17,1986. It was kicked off by the verysuccessful Massachusetts MUFONForum in Beverly, Massachusetts onthe weekend of August 9 and 10. Thefeatured speakers were Dr. BruceMaccabee, Philip Imbrogno, Dr.Richard F. Haines, Budd Hopkinsand Dan Wright. The Forum attractedan audience from 16 states and fromArgentina. Marge Christensen 'hassubmitted an article to the MUFONUFO Journal with photos covering thehighlights of National UFO InformationWeek and plans for 1987. Walter Webbwill report on the UFO Forum. In orderto concentrate maximum attendanceand national publicity for the MUFON1987 UFO Symposium in Washington,D.C., the Massachusetts MUFONForum will not be held in 1987.

The MUFON 1987 InternationalUFO Symposium will be held on theweekend of June 26, 27, and 28 at theAmerican University in Washington,D.C. Hosted by the Fund for UFOResearch, it will be spearheaded by Dr.Bruce S. Maccabee, Chairman andFred W h i t i n g , S y m p o s i u mCoordinator. The theme will emphasizethe international scope of the 40 yearold mystery, since it wi l l bec o m m e m o r a t i n g t h e f o r t i e t hanniversary of Kenneth Arnold'ssighting near Mount Rainier inWashington State that initiated themodern era of Ufology in the press.

In addition to inviting speakersfrom all continents to relate the statusof Ufology in their part of the world, anew practice will be introducedwhereby short contributed papers willbe solicited and presented. The "FirstCall for Papers" was published in theSeptember 1986 issue of the .MUFONUFO Journal in the column titled,"News 'N' Views" along with theconditions under which they will besubmitted, accepted and presented.This is a standard practice for scientificsociety symposia. The call for papers

criteria will be published again in theNovember 1986 issue of the Journal asa reminder.

* * *It is with deep regret that we must

announce the passing of anotherpioneer ufologist into the realm of aclose encounter with his maker. L.J."Jim" Lorenzen, age 64, died August28, 1986 in Tucson, Arizona. Funeralservices were held September 2 at theUnitarian Universalist Church. AsInternational Director of the AerialPhenomena Research Organization(APRO), Jim will probably be bestremembered for the fine UFO booksthat he co-authored with his wife,Coral. Our sympathy is extended tohis widow and their two adult children.Jim provided the stability to APRO as aDirector and later InternationalDirector.

* * *Harriett Beech, a former State

Section Director in Michigan and nowretired in Puerto Plata, has beenappointed the Representative for theDominican Republic. She will followforeign reports in the Caribbean areaand Latin America. Paul E. Tyler,M.D., living in Potomac, Maryland, is anew Consultant in Radiation. He is alsotrained in the fields of radio-biology,aerospace medicine, and hypnosis.His prime interest in ufology concernshuman encounters with reportedmedical effects and injuries.

Clifford E. Stone (U.S. Army)has accepted the position of StateSection Director for Chaves andLincoln counties in New Mexico,reporting to John L. Warren, theState Director. Sgt. Stone's majorcontribution to date has been inobtaining F.O.I.A. documents of UFOmilitary cases which he has beensharing with MUFON. BonnieWheeler, residing in Cambridge,Ontario, has been appointed ProvincialSection Director for SouthwestOntario by Henry H. McKay. Bonniehas been the President of a UFO group

in Cambridge since 1976 and hasattended at least two MUFON UFOsymposia.

Richard D. Seifried, StateDirector for Ohio, has selected the >-following two gentlemen as State * \Section Directors: Richard P.Dell'Aquila, J.D. will be responsiblefor Cuyahoga County, which isbasically Cleveland, and Dale B.Wedge of Chardon, Ohio has theresponsibility for Geauga and LakeCounties. Mr. Wedge is the EmergencyManagement Agency Director forGeauga County with extensive trainingin police and fire protection as well asbeing a trained radiological officer.

* * *In the September 1986 MUFON

newsletter, mailed to all State Directorsand published by Marge Christensen,she had these congratulatory remarksaddressed to Michigan MUFON. The1987 UFO Symposium Committee willhave an extremely difficult act to followafter the superb job done by MichiganMUFON for the MUFON 1986 UFOSymposium. Not only was the programoffered this year by far the mostimpressive ever offered at a UFOSymposium, but the facilities, staffing,special activities, publicity, etc. wereoutstanding, with meticulous attentiongiven to every conceivable detail. TheNewsletter wishes to congratulateSymposium Chairman, Dan Wright,Michigan MUFON's new StateDirectors, George and Shirley .>.*•Coyne, and all of the members of thatorganization who made the symposiumthe top caliber conference that it was.Events such as this one go a long way toimprove the image of Ufologists in theeyes of the academic community andthe media.

With the above endorsement,everyone will want to obtain a copy ofthe MUFON 1986 UFO SymposiumProceedings (186 pages) with thet h e m e "UFOS: B e y o n d the

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