Number 106 THE MUFON SEPTEMBER 1976

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FROM THE EDITORRecently, while film-

ing a segment in the mov-ie Mysteries of the Gods,I had the opportunity tospend a few days in can-did conversation withWilliam Shatner, whoseown UFO experience inthe Mojave Desert trig-gered a tremendous int-erest in the whole fieldof ufology.

I had no real problemanswering his technicalquestions about how mathcan be applied to the pro-blem of UFOs, but I hada very difficult time try-ing to explain why thisfield is so fragmented &'political as opposed,say,to the movie industry. Iknew it was not as mucha matter of approach asit was-of personalities.I knew how much lack offunds hampered signifi-cant research. But to tryto make a professional

such as Shatner, who wasused to million dollarbudgets and highly co-ordinated efforts,under-stand the problems ofUFO research was a verydifficult task. He keptasking "Why has therebeen no real progressafter JO years of try-ing? Where is the evi-dence?" . All I couldsay was that the UFO pro-blem was only recentlybeginning to be handledin any scientifically or-ganized manner, that therewas a long, rough road yetto be traveled before wesay what UFOs represented.

But as I talked withhim, I secretly wishedthat Captain Kirk was atthe bridge directing ourunited efforts, and theresources of the Enter-prise were somehow avail-able to all of us.

In this issue

THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING AN OPEN MIND BY HARV H O W A R D 3HUGE GLOBE SUCKS UP WATER BY JUN- |CHI T K A N A S H I 4MUFON IN JAPAN 6C I R C U L A R UFO RESPONDS TO SIGNALS BY R I C H A R D HALL 6MAYDENA 'S MYSTERY LIGHTS BY K. R O B E R T S 7DENMARK E-M CASE FROM SUFOI 10OCCUPANT WITNESS SIDE-EFFECTS 12GSW LECTURE PLANNED 12IN OTHFR'S WORDS BY Luc jus P A R I S H 13

UFOCAT: TOOL FOR UFO RESEARCH 1*4

AIR FORCE AND C I A REPORT BY W. TODD Z E C H E L 16PHYSICAL TRACE CASES REPORTED bY R I C H A R D HALL 19D I R E C T O R ' S MESSAGE BY W A L T A N D R U S 20

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The Importance of Keeping An Open Mind Harv Howard

All of us involved with the UFOin our various capacities knowthat while we may all believe inthe concept "UFO," we don'talways agree in the samemeaning the term represents.This is because in our number isfound the same fragmentationinherent in any group with an in-tangible goal. Basically, there is aleft, right and center to us. We canalso label ourselves moderates,liberals and radicals if we wish tobe specific. However, few clear-cut lines of distinction separatethese areas. The following are butsuggestions. Conservatives havenot been included because theywould be non-believers.

The few moderates in our midstcould be said to accept UFOs asstrictly nuts-and-bolts machines.They would probably not gobeyond accepting conventionalearthly explanations for UFOorigins. These people never get in-volved in UFO affairs becausethere is no need to get worked up.

In the large, broad middlelandof ufology reside the liberals.Most of the organizations, formaland otherwise, come from thissector. It is the mainstay of thefield, and most of us have severalties to it. It is packed with talentand energy. Here the generalbelief is that UFOs are real har-dware, that they are extra-terresterial, that they come in amultitude of types and kinds, andthat they are piloted by severaldifferent being types. The aliensmay reach Earth by conventionaltravel or by "warping" into Ear-thside. They may have first comehere at primordial light or 24 June1947:

On the extreme left is theradical bunch. No foal order here.Usually lead by magazine andbook writers, the concept "UFO"

can have any meaning or im-plication that the mind can en-tertain.

However, from the ranks of theliberals come an increasinglystrong disagreement with theseexplanations and even with theirbasis for being made. Some ob-jections can be traced to agrowing bewilderment within thisgroup as they see well-knownmen, solid liberals before, aban-doning their positions to takeupthose of the radicals. To those stillin the ranks, it is as if these menhave deserted the cause entirely,rather than to have moved thefiring-line forward.

Questions are heard: Why doyou do it? For the money? For thesensationalism? Do they knowsomething we don't? Are theybeing made to do these things? Orwhat?

A simple answer is not hard tofind. These men are the talk ofufology because they place nolimit on what they will acceptabout UFOs. When enough casesindicate that the UFOs haveacquired a new dimension(perhaps literally) they tackle itwith the best of their abilities.Safe liberal niche be damned.

Those liberals who remain tocomplain of the new develop-ments and ideas are stagnatingthemselves and the UFO search.

According to a Gallup Poll in1950, only three per cent ofAmericans believed UFOs werealien machines. Results of a 1973Gallup Poll tend to indicate thatthe percentage of believers has in-creased ten-fold. We talk aboutthe advancement of the publicmind toward UFOs, but whatabout advancements oin the com-mon mind of ufology? Without usbeing aware, a large percentageof Americans have caught up with

ufology—see how the mediapresses run—and they now shareour major beliefs about UFOs.

Today's liberal, the radical ofyesterday, is no longer living onthe ragged-edge, subject to beinga "laughingstock" at every turn.He has forgotten what it's like tobe explaining phenomena mostothers refuse to take seriously.

Ufology cannot lead publicawareness if it sets back to waitfor the masses to crown it withlaurals. Public be damned. Wemust do it for ourselves first.

To move on, strongly on,requires no limits on what we can,must, or should think about UFOs.Any limits are self-imposed anddisplay prejudicial attitudes andbeliefs. Limiting thinking is a self-defeating, frustrating manner ofsolving the mysteries of theUniverse.

Sometimes in our smugness weforget a major point. —We don'tknow anything about UFOs as afact. All we know is pure con-jecture. We have mouthed thisconjecture to each other for solong that it has become accepted.Accepted conjecture becomespseudo-fact after awhile when italways seems to fit the cir-cumstances.

The one thing we cannot do is toallow ourselves to believe that weneed not consider alternativesuggestions that threaten to breakwhole strings of strung-together"facts." When strong, newsuggestions appear from a need toexplain additional phenomena, weshould be especially attentive toour house of cards. Our concept"UFO" is not so sacred that itcannot, need not, change or betotally destroyed. And we havejob enough to do, each in our dif-ferent ways, without resorting toinfighting.

Huge Globe Sucks UpWater from Bay in Hokaido, Japan

by Jun-Ichi Tkanashi (Chairman, MODERN SPACE FLIGHT ASSOCIATION)

Hokkaido is the northermostdistrict of Japan, where UFOsightings occur most frequentlyand in the more drastic and in-teresting fashions than in theother districts.

During July 1974, we havereceived a very intriguing UFOreport from an unacquainteduniversity student by way of a let-ter. He was not a resident inHokkaido but a 2nd grade studentof a university in Kanto District(central district of Japan com-prising seven prefectures, in-cluding Tokyo), but when he hadbeen working during his previoussummer vacations as a NightGuardman at a lumberyard there,he had had a startling and veryeerie experience, which he wan-ted to report.

The exact location of the ex-perience is Tomakomai, a smallindustrial town on the southerncoast of Hokkaido, and as thestudent prefers to remainanonymous, we will call him Mr.Masaaki Kudou, and he was 20years old at that time and hiseyesights of both eyes are 1.2.

The incident occurred at around1:30 a.m. in the early morning ofone day in July near the easternwharf of Tomakomai City.

His story follows:It was during July 1973, but I do

not remember exactly what day itwas. As the school broke up forsummer, I had returned back to .my native place, Hokkaido, andhad been working as night guard-man at the lumberyard there.

Although the job was executedby car, the lumberyard at night isa very desolate and lonely place,with only a few dark warehouses4

and chimneys in the distance. Asthe night watch was done byoneself alone, it was not apleasant feeling that one getswhen left there alone.

After making the round of thelumberyard, I returned my car tothe prescribed place, switched onthe car radio, lit the cigarette, andI was looking up at the clear nightsky absent-mindedly through thedriver's window, relaxing in theseat, when suddenly a streak oflight ran across the sky.

But, as the light went out im-mediately, I thought it might be ashooting star, when the light re-appeared at the very spot where ithad went out, just in the samefashion as a miniature bulb wasswitched on, and then it began toexpand itself, by making thesmall scale contractions and ex-pansions alternatively in an ex-treme rapidity, arriving at thesize of a baseball at the end.

It looked like to be in such sizeby my naked eyes, but it mighthave been much larger, as I sup-pose it was in the far distance.

I felt as if my heart would ex-plode, and then felt my hairs stoodon ends, but after an instant of ex-treme surprise, although I wasaware that I was still in the grip ofbig fear, I was making the franticefforts to chase the movements ofthe UFO. The light moved to andfro in all directions within thelimit of one meter visually.

I had decided then and there tocontinue to watch the maneuversof the UFO, suppressing my bigexcitement.

Suddenly it began to make thedescent with a spiral motion, andhaving come down to the altitude

just above the dome of a cementfactory, which was visible in thefar distance, it began to send outwhat appeared to be intermittentgreen light rays in one direction,which I supposed to be north.

As the scene was too science-fiction like, I wished what I hadbeen observing proved to be adream or my imagination, but inspite of my such wishing, the UFOwould not dare to stop its action.

After having stopped its strange'signaling', it began to descendover the waters of the bay,describing a big arch with a star-tling speed. As fortunately the baywaters could be seen from wheremy car was located, I could see allthat happened further there.

I had realized at that time thatthe distance of the light wasrather near to me.

The light descended to thealtitude just about 20 meters fromthe surface of the water and stop-ped, and then (I am positive thatyou can not believe my wordsfrom now on!) from the undersideof the light came down what ap-peared to be a glass-like tran-sparent tube and when the frontedge of that tube touched the sur-face of the water, that part of thetube began to glow and appearedto be sucking up the bay water!

Accompanying the elongation ofthe tube, I heard a faint sound,just like the sound of a cicada,especially of the kind which emitsthe sound like, "Min-Min-Min-Min...", but the sound was not somonotonous and appeared to belowering its pitch...

I was stupefied and suddenly Ifelt myself like an idiot!

After dropping my head down-

Flew to north.

• . „ j j Appeared again. . , ,. •Spiralled down. r 'Vanished Appeared first here.'

Flew in arc.

Emitting intermittent green lightin north sky as if signalling. 3 or 4similar objects.

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Enlarged sketch of the object'.

Disk draws water. -T ~-!'.-*-;

shadows of occupants?, <,. ~

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Dome of a cement factory in thedistance. M .

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ward for some minutes, havingbeen struck by the scene in suchway, I looked up again and sawthat the light had already finishedits sucking action and was main-taining its position in the sameplace.

And then the light began to flyagain and began to approachme—and when I realized that itwas heading to the point justabout 50 meters above my head, Iwas frightened and felt more deadthan alive!

The simple feeling I wasassaulted by at that moment wasthat I would be attacked andkilled by that object!

The size of the object was nowabout the size of a volleyball.

The intensity of the light hadnow diminished, compared with itin the distance (or it might haveseemed so as the surroundingswere lit up by its light like thedaylight time and the object'smore detailed appearancebecame apparent (He later saysthat its surface was as smooth asthe surface of a ping pong ball and

appeared to be white, and thatalthough not so bright, it wasglowing by itself.—JIT.) and wasemitting the whitish colour ratherthan the orange colour.

Then I saw with my own eyes arow of what looked like small win-'doWs going around the center ofthe object, which was round, andin one of the central ones, I sawone and in another just two win- ,dows right, I saw two, errieshadow-like figures', which weretoo small and deformed to becalled the shadows of th men!

When I caught sight of thatstrange spectacle, although I wasfully conscious that the object wasjust over my head, I remember Ibegan to groan with my headresting against the steering wheelbetween my hands, emitting thesoundless cry!

No, I may have been ex-periencing the excruciating painat that moment, as I rememberthat I had been feeling at thattime as if I was bound hand andfoot.

But, still I tried to see the object

by my own eyes and then saw inthe positions slightly oblique fromjust over my head three or fourother objects which were verysimilar to the original ones. To myfurther terror, however, I sawjust beside them what appeared tobe three gasoline drums con-nected together longwise, whichwas hovering there noiselessly inblackish, dark brown silouette.

Then suddenly, all the glowingballs, 4 or 5 in all, were sucked in-to the huge drum-like object andthe object began to move andrush, and disappeared into thenorthern sky, with the splendidspeed like a snooting star...

I still remember that as thisterrifying experience recededaway from me at that time, Ibegan to feel my whole bodynumb, just as after we sit for longtime for a yogi practice. It wasthen that I perceived that my carradio was emitting meaninglesssounds and at the same time, I feltmy head aching heavily.

The duration of the experience,although it was felt very long at

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the time, may have been only 11-12 minutes. I could not sleep thatnight after. this terrifying ex-perience and I was only eager tobe replaced by other man at thedawn of the morning and waited itmost impatiently.... (End of his

story)'

You may understand im-mediately why this incident isparticularly interesting to us:Because there are a few detailedcases in UFO history where UFOsucked up water through the'pipe' which it elongated downfrom its underside. One occurred'on a sunny July morning in 1965 inBritish .Columbia, Canada, wherea geologist and explorationmanager of a mining company,Mr. John Hembling, and his com-panion geologist saw a mushroomshaped object descended to lessthan 50 feet above a small glaciallake and lowered a pipe-like in-strument from its underside anddipped it into the water, andremained in such style for about 8minutes before withdrawing it,and flew away. (See: CanadianUFO Report, Vol. 1, No. 3, May-June, 1969 PP.. 4-6) Another oc-curred in the afternoon of April 9,

-1970, ,on;a south German countryroad near Langenschemmern,Wurttemberg, where a retiredelectrician., named Max Krauss,aged 65, saw a small transparentball with the diameter of some 40cm and containing eight spokesprojecting from its dark nucleus,which had been floating alongbehind him for;some 150 meters,stopped at one side of the road and

.elongated a -hose-pipe' from'itsinside and dipped its front edge in-to the stream of water formed atthe edge of the road by the rain-fall and remained it such.state fora.short while before drawing it upand resuming its moving and.flying away. (See: Flying SaucerReview, Vol. 18, No. 4, July-August 1972 PP. 15-17) If anyoneknows the similar case or cases,please kindly enlighten me.

MUFON IN JAPAN

To provide better coverage of- UFO; events in Japan, MUFON

has restructured its organizationthere. MUFON Director forJapan, with overall respon-sibility, will be Jun-IchiTakanashi (Modern Space FlightAssociation, 2-7-12, Yuuhigaoka,Toyondka, Osaka, Japan 560). Mr.Takanashi, a leading expert .onUFOs and author of severalbooks, also serves as a MUFONInformation Center to copy andtransmit reports and documentsto serious researchers in Japan.

; Copies of reports, documents, andnewspaper clippings may be sentto him at the above address.

Mr. Masaru Mori, science fic-tion author and serious student ofscientific matters, has been ap-pointed Sectional Director forNorthern Japan, responsible forMUFON representation in Tokyoand ,the Hokkaido Islands, Mr.Mori visited MUFON headquar-ters in Seguin, Texas, during May1976.

Mr Takao Ikeda, electricalengineer, will serve as SectionalDirector, for Southern Japan,covering the area outside ofTokyo, Shikoku, and KyushuIslands.

By Richard Hall

A circular UFO that seemed torespond to light signals badlyfrightened a.., witness nearCausses, France, September 8,

, 1974. The case was reported byOuranos (No. 14, 2nd Quarter1975), investigated by M. A.Grazzioli and M. De Cordova.'

Returning from Cessenon-sur-Causses in their car about 10:30PM, Mr. & Mrs. M. noticed an oddorange and red light whichdisappeared when they went toinvestigate it. Returning to theiroriginal vantage point, they sawthe light reappear. Puzzled, theystopped the car and observed thatthe light was blinking on andoff approximately every twominutes. The sky was cloudy witha low overcast, and a strong windfrom the south.

Suddenly the light became moreintensive, illuminating thesurrounding sky, and a luminousglobe lifted up from behind a hill.Its light dimmed almost to thepoint of disappearance, andbrightened again several times.Mrs. M. became frightened soMr. M. took her home andreturned to the scene alone,positioning himself on the highesthill near the village. The objectwas still there.

Mr. M. blinked his headlights atthe UFO a couple of times, and theobject suddenly darted towardhim at fantastic speed, stoppedabout 150 m overhead, glowingbrightly and emitting a hummingsound. Its light illuminated thevillage. Mr. M. was now veryafraid, but the object vanishedabruptly without any visiblemotion, perhaps blinking off itslights. The witness drove to afriend's home and returned withhim; both saw the luminousobject moving smoothly near theground, f ina l ly . departingupwards.

Witnesses reported that theUFO traveled at about 50-60km/hr, casting an oval-shapedlight on the ground. It illuminatedthe dock, the distillery, and thestadium. Grapevines were seen asclearly as in daylight. "Onewitness noted that there were novisible rays between the objectand the light on the ground,considered very unusual," theOuranos story said.

MAYDEMA'S MYSTERY LIGHTS A K. Ronerts secretary TUFOIC• • • . /

(CASE STUDY FROM THE TASMANIAN UFO INVESTIGATION CENTRE - TUFOIC)

(Submitted by Paul Jackson; adaptedfrom 'a summary' by K. Roberts,Secretary, Tasmanian UFO In-vestigation Centre, Australia).

Location of townMaydena, the location of a num-

ber of sightings betweenFebruary and April 1976, issituated 58kms NW from Hobartas the crow flies. The town ofseveral hundred people is the cen-ter of logging operations for theAustraliun Newsprint-Mills.

Maydena.itself is in the Tayen-na River valley at an elevation ofsome 280mts. To the north is Mt.Field National Park, a high coun-

. try area of lakes and peaks up to1400mts. There are of course ex-tensive areas of forest around thetown, public access to the same isby permit only.

The new power lines from theLake Pedder/Gordon powerscheme pass over the MaydenaRange a few miles to the south.The two new large lakes areroughly SOkms to the west andsouthwest. :

Sightings StartThe Maydena business all star-

ted for TUFOIC on the evening ofFebruary 17th when Wayne Thor-pe telephoned the PresidentJeanette Bigwood only minutesafter sighting two puzzling lightsat 10:15 p.m.

Thorpe and his friends went insearch of the lights but were un-successful. Their report plus anaccount of a possible meteoritesighting in the Hobart Mercuryresulted in a flood of sightings totheCentre.

Thorpe with 3 friends had first

noticed two orange lights movingfast from the direction of NationalPark (approx. from NE'). Thelights, one following the other,slowed as they moved over theMayderi Range, then eventuallystopped altogether. The lightswere viewed by. binoculars butjust appeared as bigger lights. Anapparent size of lOc was given bywitnesses.

After'remaining still for a fewminutes (one of the lights (theleading'light) dropped in front ofthe range towards some roughclearings above Fitzgerald about3:miles distant. The light lookedbigger as it came down but thenjust went out as it neared theground or went behind trees into agully. At this same moment thesecond light above went up and offlike a light being turned off.

Repeat PerformanceTwo Nights Later

On the subsequent field trip toMaydena, Mr. A. Walker reportedseeing the lights doing the sameperformance two nights laterabout 10 p.m. He also called his

. wife out to see the lights.Once again two orange lights

smaller than Ic sized were seenmoving slowly from the NE,almost drifting said Mr. Walker.The lights appeared low as theymoved in front of the MaydenaRange over Fitzgerald. The twolights, side by side, then becamestationary for 2 to 3 minutes.

Again one light started to movedown; the other up and away. Ittook 3 minutes for the light to nearthe ground but Mr. Walkercouldn't tell if it landed or not as itfaded out at the top of a clearing.At the same time the second light

kept moving up and also just wentout.

CROWD SEES UFOSFLY PAST

: . The first of the UFO fly pastsover the Maydena township itselfoccurred on the night of February21st/22nd. Men leaving the RSLClub at the eastern end of the townfirst noticed two orange/red lightsmoving towards the west over Ab-botts L.O. Other people at variouslocations in the town also sightedthe lights.

Mrs. P. Green who takes-weatherjeadings at the town, sawthe lights from outside a friend'shouse at the western end ofMaydena. She was waiting for alift home. She noticed the lights,one above the other, moving westover the Look Out, the lower.lightat one stage seemed to be beneath

:the hilline. She called out herfriends to look for themselves. Shesaid there was no noise; as thelights moved slowly along. Theydipped and then rose again at onepoint. One witness though saidthey could hear a faint hummingsound.

Geoff Marshall told the Centrehow the lights had disappeared.He had seen them come from theAbbotts L.O. area and-graduallyclose .together. Originally thelights had been separated by quitesome distance, but met up south-west of the town.

Descriptions varied on whathappened next. Some people men-tioned seeing a flash; othersthought the lights dulled thenbrightened.

The next things said Marshallwas that one of the lights movedoff fast to the southwest, going out

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of sight over the skyline. Theremaining light drifted westwarda short distance and up a bitbefore it also faded out.

The lights had been seenbeneath scattered cloud anddescribed as various sizes fromthree times Venus to V2 inch ap-parent. They were described byall as orange/reddish and were inview for some 20 minutes or morebetween 11:50p.m. to 12:20p.m.

One resident said her SanyoTwo Band Radio had failed to pickup local stations since the fly overand now would only emit abeeping noise at one position onthe tun ing dial.

Another ReportThat Night

A similar Ic sized orange lightput in an appearance on the Sun-day evening (22nd) at 10:15 10:15p.m. It was only seen for 2minutes as it traveled westwardin the southern sky. The light wasat a higher elevation than theprevious night's sighting andmoving faster. One witness had aquick look with binoculars at thelight and thought there was adome shape on top of the light.The light just blinked out in aclear sky.

Second Multiple SightingIt was a cloudy night on Wed-

nesday, February 25th, but thisdidn't deter the two orange lights,.one above the other, from puttingin yet another appearance.Numerous witnesses spotted thelights from the town at 10:15 p.m.

Geoff Marshall recalled that hefirst noticed.the nocturnal lightsas they came through a gap in theRange by Abbotts Look Out. Theyseemed to be beneath the mistysky. This would place the lights 2or 3 miles off and 2500 ft. abovethe town.

The. reddish/orange lightsmoved in perfect formation but ata slower speed to the last reporton the Sunday night (22nd). Thelights were in sight for 5 minutesand after heading west, turned8

southwest and gained elevation.They faded and possibly couldhave climbed into the overcast.

During investigations into allthe Maydena reports the Centreruled out aircraft. Also a checkwas made with the RAAF but theyhad no exercises on at the time ofany sightings. Balloons wereeliminated, as a number of repor-ts had the lights moving into thewinds, the Weather Bureauballoon never being in this area,plus the fact its battery-operatedwhite light only lasts 15 minutes atthe most and a spokesman said itwas not visible above four to fivethousand feet.

THE NIGHTTHEYRANG THE CHURCH BELL"Hundreds watch UFOs at

Maydena" reported the HobartMercury on February 28th,referring to yet another multiplewitness report on February 26th.Then it recounted how the churchbell had been rung at the ap-proach of the familiar orange/redlights. As a result, there weregroups of 30 to 40 people clusteredin side streets and a bigger crowdin the main street. The lightswhich were first seen at 10:55p.m. were seen for nearly 20minutes as they traveled towardsthe west then .swung south orsouthwest and disappeared intothe distance. On the ensuing fieldtrip to the town there .were just toomany witnesses for the in-vestigators to see in the limitedtime available.

This time the lights appeared asif climbing out of the valley towar-ds National Park and were on aflight path to take them almostover Maydena's main street. Thefirst light was in a steep climb andwas followed within 5 to 10 secon-ds by its companion. The secondlight,.however, was on a muchlower trajectory. ,

Constable Lowry takes up thestory. He heard the church bellringing and went out to see the

two lights approaching from thenortheast, he saw a silver lightfall from the leading light. It drop-ped for 4 seconds then went out.This was noted by others.

The second light, on its lowertrajectory, gradually closed onthe first light. Some thought theleading light slowed to allow it tocatch up. The two lights even-tually took up a formation. Thesecond light below the first, theycontinued their westwardmovement.

Various estimates were givenfor the apparent size of the lightsvarying from four times Venussized up to V2 inch. All agreed theyappeared much larger than on theearlier occasions. A number ofresidents attempted to takephotographs of the lights (to date,it appears none were successful).Others had telescopes andbinoculars trained on the lights.Most people just saw larger lightswith no extra details. One witnessthought he could see on the firstlight a large half moon light at thefront, colored a misty orange.Behind this was an ill-definedsquiggly area then a brightorange light at the rear.

After passing the town, thelights altered course, a point onwhich all the witnesses agreed.Then there was mention of achange of positions by the lights, *'or a flash of light, but whateverhappened the lights were now ?heading south or southwest as op- 4

posed to their original westwardmovement.

Depending on their location inthe town, some people lost sight ofthe lights before others. Thosenearest the hills south of the townhad their view obstructed bytrees. Geoff Marshall and E.Rumley however went down to thefootball ground which gave thema better vantage point. One lightcould be seen receeding into thedistance and eventually went outof sight over the skyline about11:15 to 11:20 p.m. The remaining

light had meanwhile becomestationary in the southwest sky.Then after some minutes fadedout.

Members from the Centre paidtwo visits to Maydena to obtaindetails on the sightings and viewthat area in general. A fruitlesswait for the appearance of thelights was made over the Marchlong weekend holiday.

Mrs. Green and others a milewest of Maydena on the ANMGate also sighted the lights thatnight. However, they had movedaway southwest and only ap-peared as starlike lights. They didthough seem low as nearby treeshad blocked their initial view.

A fascinating problem with thelights was just where they camefrom. On all the occasions theyapproached from the northeast,they were not seen from any otherlocation than Maydena. A linenortheast takes one out to the Der-went Valley but the Centrereceived no reports from the area.It seemed as if the lights justmaterialized down valley fromthe town and proceeded on theirway. We will see, however, fromthe next report that a sighting of-the lights going back to: the nor-theast was seen from anotherlocation and gives us something ofa fix on their location.

AFIXONTHELIGHTS AT LAST

Just when everyone thought thelights had gone for good, theyreturned on the evening of March10th at 11:10 p.m. For a changethey were traveling .southwest tonortheast. The witnesses wereMr. G. Sargison and Mr. T. Fran-combe a Forest OperationsSuperintendent; neither had seenthe earlier visits by the lights.

Sargison saw the lights first. Alone light was seen coming fromthe SW and passing north of thetown. He called out his neighborMr. Francombe; they then pickedup a second light following. Theywere both orange colored.

The lights were very bright pinpoint source of light. Their speedwas estimated at about 100 mph.

It seemed the lights would belost from view as they approacheda cloud bank to the north.However, the lights passedbeneath the clouds which had abase about IGOOmts. They gainedelevation as they went away to thenortheast and changed more to awhitish color. By 11:20 p.m. thelights were too hard to follow.

Mr. Francombe telephoned afriend at Westerway, 18kms nor-theast of Maydena. She confirmedwhen the Centre contacted her,that she had been told to look outfor the lights sometime beforell:30p.m. ,

On going out the witness locatedthe two lights in the northwestover Mt. Field East (127mts).They looked like two yellow lights,one higher and closer, the secondlower and further away. Thecloser light passed through orbehind the clouds whilst thesecond light was always in view.They continued on a steady flightnorthwards until after 5 minutesor more they were too hard todiscern.

Ellendale AlsoThat same night Mr. and Mrs.

G.jG. Triffit were driving homefrom Westerway to Ellendale at12:45 a.m. (March 11). Mr. Triffittsays they saw to the west in a den-sly timbered gully on Mr. FieldEast a round bright orange andred light. It was maybe 3 milesaway. The light was going fromorange to red all the time and waswell below the skyline.

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They decided to stop and watchthe light, after a few minutes they •noted that it had started to moveslowly up. Originally the light was

. matched sized but with its' movement it grew to Ic sized as ifcoming towards them. It was stillbelow the horizon.

Marc Akinson (12) and a friendwere first to see the lights appeara few minutes apart from over theeastern hills at 9:50 p.m. They ranto call out other residents then thechurch bell was rung so thatnumerous other witnessesgathered outside.

Geoff Marshall said the lightskept on a steady course towardsthe west until they eventuallyfaded out of sight in the south westat 10 p.m. The lights were verybright starlike in appearance.

Const. LoWery said the lightswere travelling quite slowlybeneath the overcast sky. Judgingby light aircraft that pass over thetown he felt the lights were con-siderable smaller than a plane.

Sightings Enid?The last two reports from the

town have been from isolated wit-nesses who have seen the lights orlight going away to the north east.

On March 30th after 10 p.m.three witnesses saw a lightcrossing south east behind 'Ab-botts LO., it then reappearedmoving back to the NW beforehalting briefly! Then the lightmoved away to the north eastbecoming smaller and smaller un-til it was too hard to pick up. Ithad been in view for 10 minutes.

The larger than Venus sizedlight was orange on top and yellow

.below but the colors keptchanging as if the light wasrolling.

The last sighting was on April14th at 9 p.m. This time a lone wit-ness saw the two orange red lightsfor four minutes through brokencloud. They were travelling fromSW to NE and looked starlike.They were finally lost above theclouds. n

Denmark E-M case investigated(from SUFOl Newsletter, August 1975)The observation of police officer

Evald Hansen Ma amp has beengradually known by most peoplethrough the reports in thenewspapers. Still we give adetailed report, as the accounts inthe papers in several cases havebeen inaccurate. The same thinghas to be said about the TV-news'treatment of the case.

The observation occurred onAugust 13 at 10:50 p.m. At thetime Maarup was travelling in apolice car at his way home to hishouse at Knud. The event oc-curred while he was driving bet-ween Kabdrup and Fjelstrup, andwas on his way downhill to a smallhollow a few hundred metres froma T-junction, where the Hader-slev-Fjelstrup road is crossing theroad to Kapdrup. The site of theobservation is 8-10 km to the Nor-th of Haderslev.

Maarup says: "I was drivingalone in my patrol car on Thur-sday at approximately 10:50 p.m.Suddenly the car was surroundedby a bright bluish-white light, andat the same time the car enginestopped. The lights of the car alsodisappeared, even the light of theignition. I drove aside the roadand stopped. The bright nepnlikelight outside was so dazzling, thatI could see nothing. With my armhiding my eyes - to protect themagainst the light -1 succeeded ingroping my way to the radio.When I got the microphone andtried to call the station, it ap-peared, that the radio was just as"dead" as any of the electric in-stallations in the car."

The observer continues: "Thetemperature inside the car was in-creasing and it became pleasentlyhot. How hot I cannot tell, but itcould be compared to the heat you10

Second phase.

feel, when you drive against thesun on a summer day", Maaruptells. '

"After a while the light wasrising. It was a conical light with adiameter in the bottom of 4-5metres. When I was bending for-wards and looking up, I could seethat the light cone ended at thebottom of a big grey thing. Not asound was heard from the thing."(See sketches).

"After a few seconds the lightwas drawn" into the thing. It isdifficult to explain how; the lightwas not extinguished, but the bot-tom of the light was rising, so thatit became dark under the cone.(See sketch). It took about 5minutes for the light to be drawnup. I stepped out of the car andsaw, how the last remnant of thelight cone disappeared into thebottom of the thing in a hole with adiameter of quite a metre."

When the light had disappearedinto the thing, this startedmoving. In a few seconds itvanished vertically in the air. Itaccellerated strongly - stillwithout a sound. When the objectmoved away, all lights in the elec-tric system of the car return ed. I

Third phase.

tried to start and it started quitenormally, just as I again was ableto get in touch with the station. Ireported to the station, what I hadexperienced."

The police officer goes on withhis report: "Before I stepped outof the car, I had taken three pic-tures with the fastened camera ofthe patrol car. Now I took threemore photographs of the highway,which was lit-up by myheadlights. Honestly speaking, Ihave no idea at what time of theobservation I took the first three .,photographs," Maarup says, "butinstinctively .1 must have pulled ^the release of the camera, - '-presumably during the last part ofthe observation."

The camera is a Japaneseproduct, FUJAXA. It is capable oftaking about one picture persecond and has automaticdelivery of the film, so that thefilm is moving one picture ahead,as soon as the photo has beentaken. Also it has automaticdiaphragm. The pictures wastaken with a Neopan SS film.

"Having talked to the station Ionce more stepped out of the carto see, if there were residues or

trails of thing in the area aroundthe car, but I found nothing; WhileI was collecting myself a little, Ilaid my hand on the frontmudguard and could feel, that itwas still hot. Besides I will note,that the car is an almost brand-new Ford Zodiac 6-cylinderengine) and that it is in goodtechnical shape. It has had notechnical problems either beforeor after the observation.''

"After a while an oncoming car> passed, but I had no intention of

stopping it, because there was no, more to be seen."

"If I should describe the thing",Maarup says, "I can only say,that it was circular and about 10metres in diameter seen from myposition obliquely from below.

It had a luminious hole in thebottom, from where the cone oflight came out. This hole wasquite one metre in diameter, con-'sequently about 1̂ 0 of the totaldiameter of the thing. The objecthad two extensions or domes atthe underside. These were about\-lk metres in diameter. When Isaw the thing through the win-dscreen, I will estimate it was sonear as 20 metres away fromme."

When Maarup came home, hiswife thought he looked pale, andhe told her about the event. Theobserver had no intention ofpublishing the report. The nextday, when he had the filmdeveloped ° and saw, thatsomething appeared on it, hedelivered the film to the Air Forceat the air base at Skrydstrup.From here the report leaked outto the press.

SUFOI has up til now receivedseven other reports from thesame night, but we have not suc-ceeded in getting out witnesses,who are able directly to confirmthe statement of the policeman.The observation occurred 400meters from the nearest house,which is a rest home. Nobody hasapparently seen anything fromhere.

Policeofficer Evald Hansen Maarup.

Evald 'Hansen Maarup hasmade an extremely reliable im-pression on everybody, withwhom he has got in touch. Imyself have several times spokento him, and I have got the im-pression, that he is a calm andwell-balanced person.

As to the observed, it will benoted, that the whole incident in-clusive the effects, is correspon-ding to other observations from athome and abroad. As there wereno witnesses, the statement of thepoliceman on the whole is the onlything, on which the report can bebased, because the photographedspot of light cannot be explained.It does not agree in detail with thereport of the observer, - but it isstill there, so what has beenphotographed, is impossible tosay. On the other hand we canestablish, that no other thing inthe area of the observation shouldbe able to make a light similar tothe photographed light.

The observation of police officerEvald Hansen Maarup was inseveral ways remarkable. Firstlybecause it was treated by thepress - and as front-page news atthat. Both the observation and'thecomments; on it were fairlytreated, with a single exeption tothe rule, namely the TV-news. Atleast they could have turned thephotos the right way up.

- Only one thing is missing fromthe quarter of the press, namely.following up the case! The in-

terest of the press in a given casehas a very fast half-life period,and the same thing happenedhereas abroad: The authoritiespigeonholed the case so long, thatthe interest of the press had gonea long time ago, when the picturesat last were returned to Maarup.

The o b s e r v a t i o n • • • ;wasremarkable also because theauthorities, in this case theRDAF, were involved. The reac-tion of the AirForce followed ahypothetical book of instructionsfor USAF, using exactly the samepattern:

a)The Air Froce states: it was aquestion of 6 T-33 jet airplanes.

c) The Air Force states: that itis not at present possible to tell,what it was, but assures, thatprevious examinations of similarphenomena have proved, thatmost cases have a quite naturalcause; such as lights on airplanes,meteors, weather balloons, or theplant of Venus!

d) Silence. Silence for a longtime. Silence for so long a time,that the interest of the presse isquietly fading a way.

e) The Air Force quietly retur-nes the film to Maarup - withoutany sort of comments. Not even akindly - thank you!

f) The curtain falls. End of theperformance.

In the hope of being able tothrow light on, what the Air Forcedid with the film and get the con-,elusion, that Maarup did not get, Ispoke to major Brons Hansen, thepress officer of the Air Force. Heinformed, that no closer analysisof the photos, compared with thereport of the observer, had beenmade. It was only examined toestablish, if it could have been air-craft. If this was not the case, thesubject was of- no interest to theAir Force! At inquiry Brons Han-sen informed, that UFOs as suchwas not within the competence ofthe Air Force, but of the ResearchCouncil of ,the Defence. Howeverthey had not seen the film, - andthey had not asked for it either.

The strange spot of light, whichMaarup photographed.

The site of the observation indaylight.

If the Research Council of theDefence shall have hopes of get-ting reports of UFOs from non-military people, they at least haveto provide for a better internalcommunication, as the swit-chboard only after long and hardinvestigations found a major, whoknew a little about the subject.The major only knew the Maarupcase from the newspapers andbesides he thought, that therewere no more UFO investigationsgoing on,- because it had ap-peared, they had a natural ex-planation!

The conclusion must be, that theUFO investigation og the Danishauthorities on the whole iscorresponding to the task beingdone in the same area in mostother countries.

The result is that the privateUFO investigation must go oncollecting, preparing, and sendingout UFO information, hoping, thatscience and authorities some daywill take up the problem for an ac-tual serious investigation. Un-fortunately this may not be for along time yet...12

OCCUPANT WITNESS

EXPERIENCEDPHYSIOLOGICAL

EFFECTS

(Source: Ouranos, No. 14, 2nd Quarter1975. Translated by Jacques Deschenes,Hull, Quebec, Canada).

M. Severin, a 21 year oldcommerce clerk, was walkinghome on a narrow road in Petite-He (Reunion), France, February14, 1974 about 1:30 p.m. The roadadjoined a corn field in an empty,uninhabited area. Suddenly, hefelt a strange force pulling himfrom the back, as if pulled by agiant magnet, and felt a tinglingin his head. Then he saw an objectthe size of a car, very white, witha form like "two half-eggs on aplate."

The UFO was hovering 50 cmfrom the ground, and a luminousray was being directed unto Mr.Severin from it. Through anopening in the object he could seestairs with three steps whichtouched the ground. In thatopening was a strange smallbeing which moved down thestairs and joined another beingthat appeared to be scraping onthe ground. Then a third beingappeared with a "bag" in his handand began to move around the onescraping the ground as if trying tohelp him: The beings wereestimated to be 1 or 1.2 meterstall, dressed in bright white,apparently metallic suits, and hadantennas on each side- of theirheads.

After a few moments a fourthbeing started down the stairs, sawthe witness, one of the antennasbegan to oscillate, and all enteredthe UFO. The opening closed andthe object disappeared in the sky.The witness was badly frightened,lost his voice, suffered fromheadaches, and had impairedvision for two days.

The UFO was described aswhite and disc-shaped withtransparent dome. (Investigatedby M.J. Bertil)

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some 79,500 reports of uniden-tified flying objects. Dr. David R.Saunders began buildingUFOCAT in 1967, and donated it tothe Center for UFO Studies in1975.

UFOCAT is being used to makestatistical studies of UFO reports,such as David Saunders' "Ex-trinsic Factors in UFO - Repor-ting" (American Institute ofAeronautics and Astronautics,Paper 75-43) and "A Spatiotem-poral Invariant for Major UFOWaves" (Proceedings of the Cen-ter for UFO Studies Conference1976, in publication). UFOCAT is

also being used to providecatalogs of reports of particularinterest to specialists at nominalcost. Such catalogs selectively listreports by such factors asgeographical location (eg. state ofWisconsin or Pacific Ocean), typsof report (eg. occupants or ab-ductions), date of report(eg. year1973 or Oct. 1954 in France),special report feature (eg. im-prints or electromagnetic effects)and even such factors as sightingsfrom airplanes or reports frommilitary personel. The possiblecombinations are as broad as theuser's request and the extent towhich each factor is coded in the

file.A print out of a major section of

UFOCAT has been in use at theCenter for some time.

Each entry in UFOCAT is arecord of the salient features of areport of an individual UFOevent, citing the source. Multiplereports of a single event areblocked together, headed by theprimary entry, generally theearliest chronological report. Sub-sequent investigations or witnessstatements are flagged. The79,500 report entires contain about50,000 primary entries, andtherefore around 29,500 duplicatereports from multiple sources.

O U T L I N E OF T Y P I C A L UFOCAT ENTRY

COLUMNS

1-56

7-1112

13-1617-20

21

22-2425-2829-32

33

343536

37-5657-5859-60

61-6364

65-6768

69-84

TYPE OF INFORMATION

Indirect File Number (blank for primary entries)Footnote FlagsUFOCAT File Number (physical file location on disc)Blank (used as control character for update program)

Level and identification of direct sourcePosition within sourceFlag character for indirect source

Year (22 is blank for 20th Century)Date (MonthDay)Time(HourMin.)Date Time Flags

Weather FlagsTerrain Flags (object location)Vehicle Flags (witness location)Location (alphabetic; 56 used forState (or country)County (or province)

flags)

Number of witnessesWitness typeWitness AgeSex (or agesex con figuration of group)Witness name flagsWitness name(s) (alphabetic)

14

85-88, Absolute Sidereal Time . (computed)

89. 90-93

94-95

96-9899-101,

102-104

105-112113.

114-120

121-128129-132133-136137-140

141-145146-150151-155156-160161-165166-170171-175176180

181-185,186-200

Type of report (as indicated b^ source)Subtype(s) of report (as emphasized by source)Explanation of report (as given by source-

Number of objectsDuration of -event (normally in minutes)Size or apparent size ,

Longitude . .Coordinate flagsLatitude

Orthotenic position (to be computed)Information content of report (to be computed)Credibility (to be computed)Strangeness (to be computed)

Detail codes for ColorsDetail codes for LightsDetail codes for ShapesDetail codes, for StructuresDetail codes for MotionsDetail codes for FormationsDetail codes for EvidencesDetail codes for Viewing ConditionsDetail codes for Witness DataMiscellaneous detail codes

A 1973 survey of UFOCAT content showed this profile:

SOURCE

Investigative filesReport catalogsJournals, periodicalsBooks

AREA

U.S:' ' 'EuropeSouth &CentralAmericaCanadaOceanaAsiaOceans,AntarticaAfrica

PERCENT YEAR

35.027.622.115.9

PERCENT

61.32L8

4V43.72.92.3

2.31.3

1945 & prior1946-501951-55 •"1956-601961-651966-701971-73

PERCENT

' 0.19:3

20.719.315.630.24.8

Coding for columns 121-200 hasbeen completed for only a smallportion of the file, and thesecolumns are now shown oncur rent printouts.

A system of footnotes is beingbuilt into the file in order to directthe user to pertinent analytical

studies and background material.UFOCAT routinely keeps cer-

tain information confidential,such as witness names in un-published reports. A small part ofthe file is, at the request of thecontributors, confidential. Thesereports are tallied in statisticalsummaries only.

The UFOCAT codebook is beingprepared for publication hv theCenter for UFO studies. Use ofUFOCAT is encouraged fromthosw whose interest is scientificand who will, in turn, make theirfindings freely available.Inquiries should be addressed toD. R. Saunders, Center for UFOStudies, 924 Chicago Ave., Evan-ston, Illinois 60202.

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Report on Air Force and CIAUFO Research Programsby W. Todd Zechel (Director Wisconsin Division, GSW)

Editor's Note: W. Todd Zechelis a former employee of theNational Security Agency (NSA),in an overt role, and he was alsoemployed by another agency in acovert role. About a year ago, hebegan writing to GSW, and wasadmitted as a member, Sincejoining GSW, he has specialized inresearching CIA and Air Forceactivities regarding UFOs. He hasalso created a Wisconsin divisionof GSW, in order to solicit morefunds for GSW researchoperations, and to get morepeople involved with supportingGSW programs.

Probably the most importantdocument that GSW has obtainedthus far, is the letter receivedfrom the CIA dated march 26,1976. In thi s letter, Mr. Gene F.Wilson, the CIA's Freedom andPrivacy Coordinator, states: "Atho time prior to the formation ofthe Robertson Panel and sub-sequent to the issuance of thepanel's report, has the CIAengaged in the study of the UFOphenomena. The Robertson PanelReport is summation of the Agen-cy's interest and involvement inthis matter."

These statements by the CIAare total fabrications—as are thedocuments pertaining to RalphMayher which they enclosed withthe March 26 letter. Example: Adocument dated December 20,1957, purported to be a memofrom the Chief of the ContactDivision to the Chief of the Detroitoffice. The document containsthree (3) numbered paragraphs,only one of which was not deletedin accordance with exemptions(1) and (3) of the Freedom of In-16

formation Act. Paragraph (2) ofthe document is as follows: "Thesubject of UFO was under thepreview of CIA for a limited timeonly. This was caused by arequest from 'the hill' whichsteamed from all the publicitygiven to recent UFO sightings. Weassume that the request has beensatisfie because the case has beenclosed and the subject dropped byCIA. Any letter which source(Editor's note: 'source' ap-parently refers to Ralph Mayher,which will be dealt with in furtherdetail now writes to the DCI wouldprobably be forwarded to the AirForce for their information. Wewould suggest to source that anycorrespondence be directed to theAir Force."

How ironic it is that the onlything in a classified memo whichis releasable is a self-servingpropaganda statement. Ac-cording the laws of Congress, andthe Freedom of Information Act,itself, a government agency mustnot disclose confidential sourcesof information. Therefore, byreleasing these documents, andidentifying Ralph Mayher as a"source," the CIA not onlyviolated the law, but they violatedtheir own rules and regulations.Why then did the CIA releasedocuments, and thereby com-promise a source—RalphMayher?

The answer to that question isthe tip-off what's really beengoing on, and the key to findingthe truth about UFOs:

In analyzing the December 20,1957, memo, please notice thatthere is a statement which reads:"This was caused by a request

from 'the hill' which steamedfrom all the pubicity given recentUFO sightings." (Emphasis ad-ded.) Now, this document waspurportedly created in 1957; yet,the Robertson Panel met in 1953.Therefore, the word "recent" isincongruous with the idea thatthis document fabricated theMayher documents made aserious error. It's obvious thedocument fabricator got a littleconfused—which is to be expectedwhen someone is creatindeliberate falsehoods, withoutbeing totally familiar with thehistory of the subject. Thus,besides the fact that we know theCIA's involvement in UFO resear-ch has been much greater thanjust the Robertson Panel, it's ap-parent that these documents werefabricated solely to try to con-vince the readers that the CIAthinks there is nothing to UFOswhatsoever.

Another phony aspect of theDecember 20, 1957 memo, is thatit purports to be from the "Chief,Contact Division." There is nosuch thing as the "ContactDivision" within the CIA. There isa Domestic Operations division,which is a division of the Direc-torate of Operations (ClandestineServices). This is one of the mostsecret ive of all CIAoperations—since the very idea ofdomestic .operation is a flagrantviolation of the CIA's charter. Ob-viously, the name "ContactDivision" was fabricated solelyfor the purposes of misleadingand misinforming recipients ofthese documents.

Since July 19, 1976, GSW-Wisconsin has sent the CIA fourseparate FCIA requests. The firsttwo requests were answered with

the typical CIA delaying tactics:After about month, we get a replwhich states that "the requesteris required to furnish a reasonabledescription of the documentssought, and not just a series ofquestions." The CIA therebyavoids answer ing ourquestion—which dealt withvarious CIA Involvements withUFO incidents, and an attempt toget them to clarify theirstatement in which they purportthat the Robertson Panel was thesummation of their interest inUFOs. They would not answerthe question of whether it wasonly a matter of semantics. Infact, the CIA will answer noquestions, whatsoever. Therefore,in the last two (2) requests, wehave concentrated on requestingspecif documents. The followingare excerpts from our two mostrecent FOIA requests:

August 17: (1) All documents inthe National Photographic In-terpretation Center pertaining toUFOs and the analysis thereof.(2) All documents and pictorialdata in any CIA archives per-tainin to UFOs—particularly, theRalph Mayher film. (3) Documen-ts pertaining to a briefing sessionheld at CIA Headquarters, 5th,"K" Sts.NW, Washington, DC.This briefing involved MajorRobert J. Friend of ATIC's AerialPhenomena Division and CIAPersonnel. The briefing occurredJuly 9, 1959. (4) Documents per-taining to a breifing session heldat CIA H e a d q u a r t e r s ,Washington, DC, on July 6, 1959,in which two (2) ONI officersreported to three (3) CIA agentsthe results of their investigation ofa woman reported to have madepsychic contact with UFOs(aliens). If need be, GSW will sup-ply the names of all personnel in-volved in this briefing, and if CIAdenies this specific request, weare prepared to subpoena all par-ties to court and have them testifyas to their role in this affair. (5)

All documents in the records orarchives of the Office of ScientificIntelligence pertaining to UFOsand the analysis thereof.

August 23: (1) Memosgenerated on or about July 15,1960, by Mr. John Warner,Assistant for Legislative Lissisento the Director of the CIA, Mr.Allen Dulles. These memos dealtwith hearings conducted inWashington, DC, in which thefollowing persons were in at-tendence: Mr. Robert Smart, Ar-med Services Committee; Mr.Richard Hines, Mr. SpencerBeresford, Mr. Frank Hammil,House Science and AstronomiesCommittee; Mr. John Warner,CIA; Mr. Richard Payne, CIA;Mr. John McLaughlin, Adm.Assistant Secretary Gen.Kingsley and Col. James McKee,SAFLL; Lt. Col. Sullivan, AF-CIM-Pla; Lt. Col. Tacker, SAFOI-3rd; Maj. Robert Friend, ATIC-Aerial Phenomena Div.; Maj. J.Boland, SAFLL; and Dr. J. AllenHynek, Scientific Consultant toProject Blue Book. The documen-ts in question are Mr. Warner'sreport to the Director pertainingto A T I C ' s I n v e s t i g a t i o nCapability, and general progressof CIA's "interest" in the Air For-ce UFO intelligence collection andanalysis program. (2) Memosgenerated on or about July 15,1960, by Mr. Richard Payne,Technical Advisor to ATIC, inwhich Mr. Payne reports to theOffice of Scientific Intelligence onAFCIN-4E2x, the paper submittedby Dr. Hynek entitled "ATIC UFOInvestigation Capability." Also,additional memos outlining CIA"interests" in ATIC's progressand capabilities.

On August 26,1976, the CIA sentthe following reply to our August17 request: "This acknowledgesreceipt of your letter of August 17,1976 requesting, under provisionsof the FOIA, access to certain CIArecords dealing with UFOs.

I shall arrange for a search of

CIA files and shall be in furthercommunication with you once thesearch has been completed andany records found reviewed forreleasability under the Act."

What this means is that the CIAhas accepted our request as areasonable description of thedocuments sought. However, thisdoes not mean that we will obtainany significant information. Onthe contrary, I believe that theCIA was stalling for time, allalong, and is now is the process offabricating more documentswhich will again try to convinceus that they have no informationof any value pertainin to UFOphenomena—which is a blatantlie. However, by having themdeny that any UFO documentsexist, we will have a case topresent to the courts, the media,and to Congress—because we canprove that they had access to UFOfilms and photographs; W3 canprove that all the incidentsoutlined to our FOIA requests ac-tually occurred; and we can provethey did in fact try to silenceRalph Mayher, and other UFOphotographers and witnesses.

What is certain in all of this isthat GSW-Wisconsin will get stuckwith a tremendous bill. The CIA'scharges for s searching for all ofthese documents will most likelyamount to hundreds of dollars. Atthe present time, GSW-Wisconsinis unable to fund these expenses.The Wisconsin organization is justgetting started, and has yet to at-tract any significant contributionTherfore, GSW needs con-tributions specifically for theseprograms; and needs them urgen-tly, as soon as possible.

One of the most importantaspects of my research has beenthe attempt to locate RalphMayher. This is necessarybecause we need the completedetails of Mayher's interactionwith the CIA. We may also needhis testimony should we have togo to court and/or Congress. The

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efforts to track down Mayherhave been fruitless, until recently.A couple of weeks ago, a GSWmember on the East Coast tooktime off of work to travel to NewYork and inquire at WestinghouseBroadcasting Corp. of any datathey had on Ralph Mayher intheir personnel files (Mayherworked for a Westinghouse radiostation, KYW). However, the in-formation he obtained was notsufficient with which to locateMayher. But, armed withMayher's Social Security number,I made numerous long-distancephone calls to Washington, DC, inorder to contact the Marinelocator service which might haveinformation on Mayher's wherewhereabouts. Finally, I was ableto contact the office which han-dled the letter "M," and under theruse that I wanted to inviteMayher to a Marine reunion, Iwas able to obtain his serial nr,full name, and most importantly,his date of birth. With this info, afriend of Bill Spaulding's, who has"connections," is currentlylocating Mayher for us.

The point is: I've already spenta great deal of my own money justattempting to locate Mayher. Thenext step will be to contact him inperson, and for me to convinceMayher t that he should cooperatewith us. Yet, where will the fundsfor this research come from?Unless GSW's membership has asudden seizure of generosity,there's likely to be a lot of workunfinished; breakthroughs whichare just around the corner will bedelayed or even never ac-complished. Frankly, the well isdry; and unless we get somesignificant contributions, most ofthis research will go unfinished.

The facts are that we are in theprocess of proving that the CIAhas been collecting and analyzingUFO intelligence data for manyyears. Contrary to what the CIAwould have us believe, UFOs havean intelligence value of the18

highest order. The irony is that inorder to conceal this data fromthe Russians, and convince themthat UFOs have no intelligencevalue, and thereby gain the upperhand in developing UFOpropulsion systems, it is alsonecessary to conceal this from theAmerican public—and even theAir Force. This is tragic; but it isalso typical of most the in-telligenceefforts I have beenprivy to. Unfortunately, very of-ten the Russians know more aboutour operations than the Americanpeople.

We know, for example, that theCIA UFO program was in-stituted by Maj. Gen. CharlesCabell, who after foundingProject Blue Book and installingCapt. Ruppelt as CO, moved overto the CIA and became Asst.Director.Cabell was formerly thehead of Air Force Intelligence. Itwas Ca bell's influence that per-suaded the CIA to take UFOsseriously; and he also establishedthe duality in which Blue Bookseemed to be the only governmentagency investigating UFOs. BLueBook, in fact, was mostly a PR ef-fort used to convince peop thatUFOs had no intelligence value.Of course, BLue Rock officers hadno idea that they were being usedin this manner. Which is alsotypical of CIA/military relation-ships.

In April, 1976,1 sent some of theCIA/Mayher info to Rep. RobertKastenmeior (D-Wis) for hisreview. Kastenmeier is a memberof the House Judiciary Committeeand he's also Chairman, Sub-committee on Courts, Civil Liber-ties and the Administration ofJustice. Kastenmeier replied asfollows: "....Because I share yourconcern with the government'stendenc to over-classify documen-ts, I asked councel to myJudiciary subcommittee to per-sonally review your letter. He in-forms me that it is not unusual forthe CIA and other agencies to take

an inordinately long time to replyto FOIA requests. In fact, a num-ber of constituents have ex-perienced similar problems indealing with the FBI and CIA.

It is difficult to assess thevalidity of the exemptionsclaimed by the agency in denyingthe requested material becausewe have no way of knowing thenature of the exempted material.The agency is as unresponsive indealing with Congressionalrequests for information as it iswith private requests.

The only way.of testing theirresponse is to appeal the agency'sdecision to federal courts."

This has to be the next step inour program to get at the truth.We must follow through on theserequests. We must go to courtwhenever necessary. We've cometoo far to let the CIA off the hook,now. Our resolve must notweaken; GSW's membership—ifthey sincerely want to find the tru-th— must give these researchprograms their full support.

Much of my research has dealtwith investigating the Air ForceUFO C&A program. Project BlueBook. I've interviewed a numberof Air Force radar operators andinterceptor pilots in connectionwith their experiences with UFOR/V incidents. What is readily ap-parent from these interviews, isthat there were much higher ratesof R/V incidents than we havebeen led to believe. And sincemost of these sightings wereassociated with SAGE radarsystems—which computer sortthe targets—it's hard to believethat these men were chasingnatural phenomena.

I've also conducted four lengthyinterviews, via long-distance,with Lt. Col. (ret.) Robert J.Friend. In talking with Friend,and after gaining his confidence, Irelated the detailsof my previousinterviews with other Air Forcepersonnel. Friend said he had noreason to doubt that the men were

telling the truth. He was aware ofthe great number of R/V in-cidents; and he was also awarethat ATIC's Radar Analysis sec-tion was explaining away thesesightings—in the typical BlueBook manner.

I was able to obtain some veryimportant and startling in-formation from Col. Freind.However, because of the natureof our relationship, and the factthat we are in the process of at-tempting to locate the data hedescribed to me, at this time I amunable to give you any furtherdescription of the info. Suffice it tosay that Friend has provided uswith some info that will ultimatelyprove the Air Force has goodreason to pursue the investigationof UFO phenomena; that contraryto their current PR statements,the Air Force did encounterevidence which indicated ex-traterrestrail origin (UFOresiduum material) and they didhave photographic evidence in-dicating technology beyond ourpresent knowledge and com-prehension.

All data will be released toGSW's membership as soon as welocate it and/or obtain it.

If any GSW member wishes towrite to me for further details ofthese interviews or other info,please write to: GSW-Wisconsin

569 7th St.Prairie du Sac, Wis

53578

PHYSICAL TRACE CASES REPORTEDHf Richard Hall. MUFON International Coordinator

MUFON103 O L D T O W N E RD.S E G U I N , TX 78155

Phones:

512-379-9216(MUFON headquarters and

Walt Andrus' home)

512-379-8850(Director Walt Andrus'place of employment)

On December 8, 1975, the sameday that an unexplained crater-like depression was found in awheat and barley field nearMurray Bridge, South Australia,another case involving physicaltraces (but no visible UFO) oc-curred at Tranmere, S. Australia.The witness, a 22-year-old girl,woke at 2:50 AM to the sound of aneerie noise as if "coming from astrange animal." After about 5minutes she awoke her motherwho also heard the noise. Themother described it as sounding"like compressed air escapingthrough a valve."

After about 10 or 12 minutes thenoise stopped and the sound ofsomething banging against theroof was heard, then silence. Thenext morning, at the suggestion ofpolice, the women called the UFOResearch organization. They hadfound two circular areas in astrawberry patch in their backyard, about one meter across anda like distance apart, close to afence. Within the circles the plan-ts had been bent over and swirledcounter-clockwise. The soil wasnot affected and no deposits of anykinds were visible.

(UFO Research Newsletter, No.17,Jan-Febl976)

Near Graye-et-Charnay, Fran-ce, in May 1974, Mr. RogerMarechal was awakened by abright light about 2 AM. He saw aglowing object about 300 metersfrom the house and tried toawaken his parents, but when hereturned to the window the objectwas gone. Next morning he andhis fa ther discovered 14markings, about 50 cm apart, in-dented in the ground to depths of2.5-3.5. Police of Saint-Amourestimated that an oval objectabout 2.8 m in diameter hadcaused the markings. Markings

as if made by a tripod landinggear were also seen. Photographswere taken and sent to alaboratory in Paris. (Tribune deGeneve, May 28, 1974, translatedby Jacques Deschenes).

At the end of June 1974,inhabitants of Ellemes, France,were awakened by a bright glowand strange noise. They repor-tedly saw a luminous orangecylinder on a house-top. Alter afew minutes the phenomenondisappeared. Next day the ownerof the house discovered that anarea of his roof had be melted; hiscar battery and others in the areawere dead. Some zinc sampleswere sent to .a laboratory foranalysis. (Le Provencal, July 12,1974, translated by JacquesDeschenes).

A witnessed UFO landing withresulting physical traces oc-curred December 31, 1973 at Pont-a-Vendin, France, Driving to Lensat 7 AM, Mr. Jean Liefooghe sud-denly saw two luminous spheresflash across the road ahead ofhim. The road was straight andvisibility good. Off to his left hethen saw a bright glow and sto-pped the car to observe. Landedvertically in the field, about 300meters from the road, there wasan enormous cylinder, apparently30 m tall and 5 m in diameter. Thecigar-shaped UFO then rose atgreat speed and disappeared. Onhis return trip from Lens,Liefooghe investigated the lan-ding spot and found footprints likethose of a 10-year-old boy. Also,there were three holes 10 cm indiameter arranged in the form ofa triangle 4.7 m on two sides and8.8 meters on the largest side. Thesite was investigated by the policeof Pont-a-Vendin. (NostradamusNo. 202, February 18 1976, tran-slated by Jacques Deschenes).

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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE byWalt Andrus

THIS M E S S A G E I S D E D I C A T E D T O T H E W O N D E R F U L MUFON M E M B E R S A N D J O U R N A L S U B S C R I B E R S

W H O H A V E S O P A T I E N T L Y A C C E P T E D O U R A P O L J G I E S F O R O U R F A I L U R E T O D E L I V E R T H E MUFON UFO

JOURNAL ON S C H E D U L E . TO E N U M E R A T E ALL OF THE P R O B L E M S THAT HAD TO BE R E S O L V E D TO GET

B A C K O N S C H E D U L E W O U L D R U N I N T O S E V E R A L P A R A G R A P H S A N D O N L Y T A K E AWAY F R O M O U R P R I M A R Y

P U R P O S E - THAT OF S H A R I N G UFO S I G H T I N G S AND R E S E A R C H W I T H OUR R E A D E R S . EACH OF YOU

W I L L NOTE THAT T H E JULY, AUGUST, A N D S E P T E M B E R I S S U E S F O L L O W E D EACH OTHER C L O S E L Y A S

WE GET B A C K "ON T R A C K 1 1 . D E N N I S H A U C K AND I S E N D OUR G R A T E F U L T H A N K S FOR Y O U R M A T U R EP A T I E N C E I N T H I S R E G A R D .

THEODORE F. PETERS, PHO., FORMER STATE SECTION DIRECTOR IN SOUTH C A R O L I N A ANDPRESENTLY A CONSULTANT IN R E L I G I O N , HAS ASSUMED THE DUTIES OF STATE DIRECTOR FOR LOU-I S I A N A . TED SUBMITTED A PUBLISHED PAPER FOR THE 1976 MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS.DR. PETERS is TEACHING AT LOYOLA U N I V E R S I T Y AND MAY BE CONTACTED AT LOYOLA U N I V E R S I T Y ,6363 ST. CHARLES AVENUE, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70118,- BUSINESS TELEPHONE 501/865-39̂ 3. H i sHOME ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER WILL BE P R O V I D E D AFTER HE MOVES HIS FAMILY FROM NEW-BERRY, SC. ANOTHER MUFON TRANSPLANT is TERRY A. HARTMAN, FORMERLY AN A C T I V E MEMBEROF B I L L SPAULDING'S GSW/MUFON GROUP IN ARIZONA. TERRY HAS BEEN APPOINTED STATE DI R E C -TOR FOR OREGON. H i s ADDRESS is 2̂ 3̂ S.E. D A R L I N G AVENUE, GRESHAM, OR 97050; TELEPHONE503/667-^613 (UNLISTED) AND BUSINESS 503/226-2821. TERRY i s ALSO A RESEARCH S P E C I A L I S Ti N HYPMOSis .

W I L L I A M H. BOYCE, M.D. STATE DIRECTOR FOR NEW JERSEY, HAS ELEVATED THOMAS H. BEN-SON FROM A FIELD I N V E S T I G A T O R TO THE STATE SECTION DIRECTOR FOR MERCER, SOMERSET, MID-DLESEX, HUNTERSON, AND MONMOUTH COUNTIES. TOM L I V E S AT 129 A W l N G A T E APTS., WERT AvE.OFF So. OLDEN AVENUE, P.O. Box 117M, TRENTON, NJ 08606. H i s BUSINESS TELEPHONE i s609/292-9689.

D E N N I S R. REGAN, PH.D. HAS ACCEPTED THE ADVISORY P O S I T I O N OF A CONSULTANT IN AERO-ACOUSTICS AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF JAMES M. McCAMPBELL. D E N N I S RESIDES AT 2316 - 32NDSTREET, SANTA MONICA, CA 90̂ 05 AND is EMPLOYED AS A SCIENTIST AT HUGHES AI R C R A F T .

BE SURE TO MARK YOUR CALENDARS FRO THE 1977 MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM TO BE HELD INSCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA ON JULY 15, 16, AND 17TH AT THE BEAUTIFUL SAFARI RESORT HOTEL &CON V E N T I O N CENTER. MANY OF THE SPEAKERS HAVE ALREADY ACCEPTED OUR I N V I T A T I O N S TO SPEARAND WILL BE LISTED IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL. INCIDENTALLY, DAYTON, OHIO WILLBE THE S I T f f FOR THE 1978 S Y M P O S I U M .

THE NOVEMBER 1976 ISSUE OF OUI MAGAZINE HAS A FEATURE ARTICLE BY JESSE KORNBLUTHTITLED "THE UFOLOGIST ESTABLISHMENT". IT is WRITTEN IN A CONTROVERSIAL, BUT SOMEWHATR E V E A L I N G M A N N E R THAT D E P I C T S T H E I M P R E S S I O N THAT A F R E E L A N C E W R I T E R W O U L D R E C E I V E

A F T E R C O N D U C T I N G E X T E N S I V E T E L E P H O N E I N T E R V I E W S W I T H EACH O F T H E P E O P L E I D E N T I F I E D . F O R

THOSE OF YOU F A M I L I A R W I T H THE FACTS S U R R O U N D I N G THE F O U N D I N G OF MUFON IN 1969, YOU W I L LH A V E D I F F I C U L T Y R E C O G N I Z I N G T H E R E A S O N S A S I N T E R P R E T E D B Y A S P O K E S W O M A N F R O M TUCSON, AZ.

PERSONAL S L A N D E R I N G OF THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FRO E L E V A T I N G THE UFO PHENOMENON INTO AS C I E N T I F I C STUDY ACCEPTED BY SCIENTISTS AND E N G I N E E R S AROUND THE WORLD BY A "SELF-AP-PO I N T E D AUTHORITY" COULD CAUSE I R R E V O C A B L E DAMAGE IN THE EYES OF THE S C I E N T I F I C COMMUN-ITY IF ONE WAS TO B E L I E V E HER FANATIC STATEMENTS. HER ATTEMPTS TO DEGRADE MUFON METWITH ZERO SSCCESS. HOWEVER, SHE WAS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL IN DISCLOSING TO THE READERS ANI N S I G H T INTO HER TRUE CHARACTER WITHOUT THE NECESSITY OF "READING BETWEEN THE L I N E S 1 1 .YOU W I L L F I N D T H I S A R T I C L E VERY I N T E R E S T I N G R E A D I N G , BUT IT MUST BE ACCEPTED IN THECONTEXT IN W H I C H IT WAS W R I T T E N -- THAT OF A WRITER'S IMPRESSION.