Number 107 THE MUFOH OCTOBER 1976

UFO JOURNALFounded 1967

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Protruding retract-able lights,multipleice cube-like lens

Porcelainappearance

"Concave" sections

Stainless steelappearence

"Spinning" rim(clockwise)

Extruded ribbedsections

Porous "SLAG" lookSilver-Gray

Retracting lightdoor cover.

* *~Length relating to /slant of barn roof

Retracting Hooks

Appentages--appearence of flex-conduit, 3 to 4"dia.

Frayed out ends

Sketch of Large UFO seen hovering over a farm near Colusa,California on September 10, 1976. Smaller UFOs of somedescription^ tuere seen hovering near power lines In the area

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FROM THE EDITORThis month proved to be a

milestone for ufology as thePrime Minister of Grenada ad-dressed the 31st Session ofthe United Nations on the sub-ject of UFOs. Prime MinisterEric M. Gairy told the UnitedNations member-nations that itwas time they took a seriouslook at the worldwide UFO pro-blem. He called for a sci-entific effort to be made un-der the direction of the UNto find out what UFOs are andwhether they are under intel-ligent direction.

Whatever Mr. Gairy's mot-ives were, his remarks had aspectacular effect on officialrepresentatives of nationsfrom around the world and marka changing attitude on thepart of several governments.West Germany, Trinidad, Bra-zil, Indonesia, France andMexico all seem to be start-ing to take UFOs seriously.This is certainly a step inthe right direction!

I recently had the opport-unity to sample this changingattitude as a featured speakerat the First National UFO Con-gress held in Mexico City. Therespect for an empirical, sci-entific approach was evidentin the remarks of many of theparticipants. In addition,the Congress inaugurated aCenter for UFO Informationand Study (CIFOP) to invest-igate UFOs and disseminateUFO information in Mexico. TheCenter now has a two-storybuilding in Mexico City withclassrooms, laboratory, andlibrary facilities. Effortsare now underway to organizea truly international confer-ence to be held in April of197? in Acapulco. The con-ference will last a full weekand will bring scientists, ufo-logists, and government leaderstogether to try to organize asensible, worldwide programfor the investigation of theUFO phenomenon.

In this issue

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UFO HOVERS OVER CALIFORNIA FARM by Paul Cerney 3"FLOWER POT" UFO SIGHTED IN BELGIUM from SOBEPS 8ODDITIES AMONG THE ERRATICS (Part 2) by Ann Druffel...9MUFON IN AUSTRALIA 11PILOT EXPERIENCES ELECTROMAGNETIC EFFECTS 11UFO SPOTTED BY SCHOOL CHILDREN by Joe Brill 12NEW FRENCH ABDUCTION CASE by Rex Mlbane 14PASCAGOULA UPDATE by Ted Peters 15IN OTHER'S WORDS by Lucius Parish 16NEW TIME LAPSE CASE FROM ENGLAND from COSMOS 17DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE by Walt Andrus 19INTERNATIONAL ROUND-UP by Richard HO.II 20ASTRONOMY NOTES by Mark Herbstrlbt 20

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UFO Hovers Over California Farmby Paul Cernejj, fflUFON Western Regional Director

Bill Pecha, 39 year old heavymachine mechanic, was watchinga late movie on T.V. His wife andtwo small children, 8 and 10, wereasleep in bed. At about 12:45 A.M.,the TV suddenly went dead, as didthe air conditioners. Thinking thecircuit breaker had kicked outfrom a short somewhere, Pechawent outside in his shorts to resetthe breaker.

As he approached the corner ofhis mobile home, he became in-creasingly aware of a static elec-tricity effect on his body. Thie hairon his chest, arms, and headbegan to stand up as if beingpulled upward. As He reached thecorner of the house, his hair beganto crackle and snap similar to run-ning a nylon:comb through dryhair very rapidly. '

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Something told him to look upand he saw a huge circular craftalmost over his head about 50 feetin the air bathed in the ligt of a fullmoon and crystal clear night sky.The awesome sight of somestrange and unknown craft silent-ly hovering mostly over his barnand the corner of his mobile homestartled him. All the sensation hefelt was the electrostaticphenomena causing his hair tostand on end. We was aware thathis heart was pounding very fastin response to the .excitement.Standing there in apprehensiveamazement and becoming in-creasingly frightened of theawesome spectacle almost overhim, he was still inquisitiveenough to take in the intricatedetail of the craft. He told theMufon investigators he must havestood there for four, or fiveminutes.

Estimated diameter was 140feet. There were no rivits, no boltsor screws, no seams, he com-mented. In his profession, thseare familiar things. The dome hadvertical ribbed sections, the "rib-bing" quite pronounced. Betweeneach ribbed section, the surfacewas quite concave (inward) andreminded Pecha of the oldfahioned glass lemon juicesqueezer in structure. The domehad a slight peak or point. The up-per domed area and its im-mediate flared out base sectionhad the appearance of mildlyrough and porous "slag." This up-per area was dark gray or dullsilvery in color. The secondrounded and flared out arealeading toward the edge of thecraft appeared to have a surfaceappearance of procelain. Theedges of the craft and theperimeter that was rotatingclockwise looked more likestainless steel.

The rotation rate was difficultto determine, but Pecha indicatedit was quite rapid. A smaller sec-tion in the bottom of the disc, sur-rounding a large diameter lightsource, was r o t a t i n g

Pech=t mobile homeand TV antenna

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counterclockwise and revolvingmuch slower than the rim. No airdisturbance could be detectedfrom the rotating areas. Pechastated that the unusual lightingand large center light which wasgiving off only a mild, dini, graycolor illumination in the hoveringstate, could have possibly causedan optical illusion of the two spin-ning portions being in opposite

Barn and home with the"Field" out in "background

directions. However, he got thedistinct impression they werespinning contrary to one another.

The six dangling objects hang-ing down, apparently from theedge facing the observer, gave theappearance o f . loosely danglingheavy flexible conduit with frayedends. They were hanging downabout six to eight feet from thebottom of the craft. The three onthe left (see sketch) were stag-gered in length to match the slan-ting roof of the barn they wereover but not quite touching. The"conduit" appeared to be anestimated two or three inches indimeter.

When the craft retreated backover the field behind the Pechahome, these appendages were im-meidately retracted into the bot-tom. The two hook-like arms onthe bottom also retracted upward,but not completely into the hull.At the same time, as if they werepart of the same arm ormechanism, a small door openedon each side just above the armsand a light seemingly mounted ona curved piece of tubing pro-truded out and slightly downward.The lens area seemed to consist ofwhat looked like many glass

= Power line UFO's

(6) Power linesglowing red nearpoles

Power poles

Lines angle off to northwest

Sac'h power pole at top bathedin brilliant white light.

Small UFO

(hap not inproportion)

Crop dusting field

Pecha house

Shop

Davis house\

Lines glowing red

House

Blue6 Transmission500-KVA Lines House

i To Colusa

Wilson ave

To Colusa

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cubes clustered together. Thesetwo side lights sent out a bluish-white beam of light.

As the UFO backed awaytoward the Slim Davis home andcrop dusting airfield a half milebehind the Pecha home, the largered light in front came on. Thelarge center bottom light whichwas dull gray at hovering, now in-tensified to a bright white coneshaped beam downward whichreached only half the way to theground and stopped in mid-air!Cut off beams of light from UFOshave been noted on occasion.

Pecha watched the large UFOmaneuver over the Davis homeand aifield hanger, lighting upeverything like daylight includingthe trees and ground. At this mo-ment, he noticed that two othersimilar UFOs about half the sizeof the large one were hoveringdirectly over the 500 KVA (500,000volt) power lines a couple hun-dred yards beyond the Davisairstrip. These two identical craftappeared to be almost resting onthe lines, each one between twopower poles but separated by onespan section between poles. EachUFO was shining a powerful col-

3-rrn and slanted roof area whereaopend^ges runs over slant roof.

umn of white l ighl Irom its sideedges down onlo the tops of thepowerpoles on either side of it.There was one span unoccupied inbetween. (See sketches) Insideeach of these columns of light wasan inner blue pulsing core. Thepower lines themselves wereglowing red for some distance outon each side of the poles. Here isan actual visual example, in

Cropdustlng field behind Davislines behind field.

detail, of an apparent blackout inprocess being caused by two UFOcraft over a high voltage powerline, observed and witnessd byBill Pecha and his wife.

At this point, Pecha ran into thehouse shouting for his wife to getup. He rushed to the window fac-ing the back field where the UFOhad backed off, pushing the cur-tains aside so he could see. At thistime, the large craft was hoveringover the Davis home. The largebottom light was now extended tothe ground, maneuvering aroundthe Davis home and airfieldhanger, lighting everything uplike daylight.

Lenda Pecha by now had joinedher husband after arousing herfrom sleep by his shouting andstumbling through the blacked-out house to both observe thestrange pheonomena now takingplace over the Davis home and thenearby power lines. After spen-ding about a minute over theDavis home and airfield, brilliant-ly i 1 luminating the whole im-mediate area, the large UFO sud-denly shot off at incredible speedtoward the foothills as Bill andLenda watched from the window

Power lines where smaller UFO'shovered causing blackout.

power lines & poles

Field out In back towardhome A airfield. 'Pwr llnes{ bkgrd)

The foothills are approximately18-20 miles distant to the west.Pecha commented the large UFOtravelled this distance in a matterof 2-3 seconds and he observed itshinning its powerful bottom lightdown onto the tops of the hills for asecond or two when it rushed backat the same velocit to once againhover over the Davis home,repeating the illumination pat-terns over the Davis property.Everywhere around the im-mediate countryside all the lightswere off, ranch yard lights andthe whole town was in darknessexcept for the moonlight and theUFOs.

Pecha stated that watching thislight beaming procedure began tounnerve him if it should return tohis place and begin doing thesame thing, not knowing what ef-fect was taking place at the Davishome, if possibly harmful. Fear-ing for the safety of his family and

himself, he was about to turn fromthe window when he saw bothUFOs over the power lines sud-denly break away at the sametime, shooting up and out of sigh t.

Pecha decided it was time toflee the house in case the still pre-sent large intruder came backtheir way. In his frantic haste toget away, he pulled on a pair ofold "jeans," grabbed thechildren, bed clothes and all, hiswife, and headed for the door.Just then the T.V. and air condi-tioner came back on. Noticingthis, he instictively hit the off but-ton shutting the TV off on his wayout the door. Piling the family in-side his new pickup truck, heraced backwards out thedriveway with the lightsdeliberately turned off, but forgotabout the truck's backup lightsbeing on, which may have at-tracted the UFO. As he raceddown the blacktop road toward

town at speeds up to what heassumed may have been 90 milesper hour, he noticed the largecraft following their truck. Glanc-ing back to watch the UFO whiledriving with no lights down themoonlit road at those speeds wasprobably a crazy thing to do he ad-mits, but all he could think of atthe time was to get away from thisstrange machine and get his fami-ly to the somewhat more safety ofthe town.

Pacific Gas and Electric(P.G.E.) personnel stated therewas a blackout of undeterminednature. They would not admit toany such explanation as a UFOcausing it. The transmissionslines, which were stated to be 500KVA, were said to come from theRedding-Shasta area. The sub-station seven miles west of Col-usa, near Williams, was said tohave "blown" an overloadtransformer. The nine minute

blackout, as checked by LendaPecha when she looked at herclocks, was confirmed by the Col-usa Sheriff's Department. All ofColusa County and some adjoin-ing areas were affected.

Officer Bill Wheeler, of the Cpl-usa Police Department, in-vestigated the Pecha sighting andfiled a report with the ColusaPolice Department, as did of-ficers from the Sheriff's Depart-ment. Sheriff's Departmentemployee, Elaine McGowen, andher 18 year old son, Fred, alsoobserved the object at a mile ortwo distance.

Davis home and airfield - someleaves on top of the threes wereturning brown, some just halfbrown as if heated or scorched,especially near the house -samples were taken. Analysis willbe attempted. One small pear treeand a nearby lilac bush havenever bloomed this time of year(late October) before. Otherareas of the town of Colusa werechecked for similar possible off-season blooming, but none couldbe found except on the Davis pro-perty. The pear tree was slightlyscorched or damaged on one side.

At the time of the sighting andwhen the UFO was over the Davisresidence, their dogs reacted,howling and barking in an unusualmanner.

Bill Pecha, 39 years old, heavymachine mechanic, outdoorstype, goes hunting and fishing alot. Drives racers in destructionderbys. A rather fearless,healthy, husky individual. A keenmind and photographic memoryfor remembering intricate detail,good observer, and good listener.Eyesight 20-20, no signs of col-orblindness. No apparent afteref-fects from the expenence, thoughbadly frightened and apprehen-sive at the time.8

"Flower Pot"Sighted InBelgium

(Ed. Note This summary is based onan investigation report fay YvesToussainf of SOBERS, Bruxe//es,

Belgium. Its unusual features, and thefact that the sighting occurred duringthe fall 1973 wave, make it of specialinterest).

About 7:45 p.m. on September14, 1973, Miss Sonia Plume andher father were driving fromCuesmes toward Mons on the ruedu Troubliot, Belgium. Night wasfalling and the moon was visiblein the east, almost in front ofthem. The area they were passingthrough was essentially nothingbut swamp, bordered on threesides by railways. As they roun-ded a bend in the road, Sonia sud-denly saw a lighted object similarin shape to a flower pot hoveringabout 200 m off the left side of theroad and about 200 m altitude. Itwas almost directly over an elec-tric power building, and about 80m away from a high voltage live.Her father, who was driving, sawonly an orange blur due to hisastigmatic vision.

The UFO appeared to be aboutthe size of a small car, with ajagged, saw-tooth upper edge. Ateach extreme of the top a short,slanted "aerial," sparkling withyellow lights, protruded, (seesketch). The body of the objectand the aerials were a brightorange color. Yellow lights alsosparkled at each "corner" of thebase. The area between theaerials and just below the jaggededge appeared foggy and dazzling

to the eye, and a lighter color. Theobject was self-luminous but didnot illuminate its surroundings.It seemed to be vibrating slightly.

As they pulled abreast of theelectric power building andslowed to stop at an intersection,now only about 50 m from thebuilding, the colors on the UFOfaded and the outline blurred as itdipped to the right and flew awayin the direction of Ciply, risinggradually in a slight curve. Itsspeed was moderate, slower thana plane. As they stopped for the in-tersection, Sonia's attention wasdiverted momentarily, and whenshe looked again the object haddisappeared. She felt that sheshould have been able to still see itdisappearing in the distance. Noeffects were noted on the car, a*Dyane6*

The sighting is compared to aprevious one on March 14,1969 atMalataverne in which the witnesssaw a somewhat similar UFOwith jagged top and aerials. TheSOBEPS investigators con-sidered, and rejected, thepossibility that Sonia had been in-fluenced by the earlier report.They also reconstructed the even-ts on the spot, disputing the wit-ness' estimate of 3 minutessighting duration; the recon-struction took about 1 Vfe minutes.However, they found no evidenceof a hoax. Miss Plume, 20, wasconsidered a calm and intelligentwitness. She is pursuing studies atthe County Institute for AppliedSocial Science.

CALIFORNIA REPORT

'Oddities Among the Erratics7'

by Ann Druffel(Part2)

We continue our discussion of"oddities" in UFOdom, as oc-casionally reported by reliablewitnesses in California and, sub-sequently, from other parts of thenation, and we will attempt somespeculation why these unusually-shaped UFOs show up repeatedly,within a limited span of time, andthen are seen no more.

We might reiterate here thatUFO "oddities", as defined in thistwo-part article,, differ - in size,shape and detail from the morecommon types which haverecurred century after century —.domed discs, ovoid lights, cloud-cigars,etc.

Added to our procession of 1.gleaming "top hats", 2. geranium,pots, and 3. "lozenges" whichseemingly have ability to changeshape, as discussed in Part I,(June 1976, this journal), weproceed to a type which might becalled the "scintillating globe".

In the wee hours of the morningof May 23, 1974 a brilliant sphereswooped low over a heavily set-tled residential area of LosAngeles. It seemed divided intotwo portions. The bottom ap-peared sprinkled with intenselyflashing lights, while the top gaveoff a milky glow. The object siler-tly meandered close to a womrnwitness who was standing on ht *back porch, engaged in a mun,dane task of shaking a pair ofdrapes. (Sketch A) Its true sizeseemed at least six to eight feet,diameter. After negotiating a heatpath through' the trees in the wit-

ness' back yard, it leaped up.diagonally into the sky. The lightson the back of the sphere were notso brilliant as on the front, and thewitness, Mrs. Ethel Bergman,could see a "fin" sticking outfrom the bottom. (Sketch B) 1,2

Unknown to the Los Angeleswitness, on November 29th of theprevious year,'a young man had.been startled by a "wildlylighted" UFO which was wan-dering slowly, around a rural'sec:tion of Weatherford, Oklahoma. Ithovered near a bridge within thir-ty feet of the nervous witness who,unfortunately, desired to 'driveacross that same bridge in hiscar. A sketch of this intruder

^reveals several correlativefeatures with Ethel Bergman'sobject. One half of the Weather-ford UFO — in this case the top —was covered with ^numerousflashing white, red and bluelights, while'the bottom was lessvivid. The size in both casesseemed generally similar. Bothobjects made seemingly casual —but curious? — close approachesto single witnesses. And both theWeatherford and Los Angeles ob-jects had a "fin" or appendage.(Sketch C) The proportionatesize, shape, and position of theseappurtenances were virtuallyidentical. 3

Leaving these wildly-lightedUFOs trailing their fins, we con-sider now the "double UFOs". OnOctober 16, 1968 on a bright,smogless morning, two largeround circles, dull steer in colorand connected by a "bar" ofsimilar appearance sailed across

a densely settled section of Los: Angeles, before the startled;;eyes

of Harriet and Rochelle;VDzik.Moving very smoothly and

.deliberately and emitting a highwhistling sound, the double objectseemingly treated-the skies as itsown'. ('Sketch DO'4

About two years later, analmost identical object startledMichael Jaffe, a well-known UFOresearcher and founder of Data-Net. While motorcycling along a

. main highway near Hayward,California Mr. Jaffe spied an ob-ject composed of two brilliantspheres with a hazy "connection"or link. (Sketch E) ugh identicalin shape to that seen in 1968 by theDzik sisters, 350 air miles to thesoutheast, Jaffe's object was notsailing undisturbed and tranquillyin an; empty sky. His "double-UFO" was being chased by asmall plane, and its two sphereswere glowing vivid red and blue,perhaps because of the object'sacceleration, angle of dive, orspeed. 5,6

What are we to think of these"oddities"? Does every one-of-a-kind UFO have one or more coun-terparts, witnessed within limitedspans of time and in the samegeneral part of the world? Thefive different. -UFX) shapesdiscussed in Parts I and II haveturned up under circumstances

: which preclude any collaborationamong the individual witnesses.

Mrs. Idabel Epperson, veteranresearcher and MUFON StateDirector for Southern Californiahas speculated with the;authorregarding this situation. Are these

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oddities, she asks, the craft of ex-traterrestrial visitors who arrivein our skies, take a few weeks ormonths to look over our planet,then, and having completed theirsurvey, take their leave? In spiteof the present, popularity of theultradimensional hypothesis andother exotic speculations, manyresearchers are convinced that asingle hypothesis will not explainall genuine UFO sightings. Is itnot reasonable to think that atleast some UFOs are visitorsfrom other sources in our ownphysical universe, and that oncethey have surveyed us, they leavewithout a farethewell.

The above would seem to be asimple theory indeed — simple inmore ways than one — to thejaverage interested layman whoassumes that all UFOs are ex-traterrestrial visitors and whoknows nothing of the more exotictheories — . ultradimensional,projections, etc. — beingdiscussed among researchers at.the present time. The truesituation, as has become veryclear, is so complex as to staggerthe imagination.

* * * * *(Note: Even the simple "double-UFOs" discussed above presentan infinitely more perplexingproblem than is indicated here.Hopefully, this will be the subjectof a future column.)

REFERENCES1 Documented 12-page report in MUFONand Druffel files. . • . ^2 SKYLOOK, January 1975, "Close-inLighted Globe Reported", by Druffel, Ann3 SKYLOOK, May 1974, "Close Look atWildly-Lighted UFO Reported"4 FSR CASE HISTORIES, Supplement 9,February, 1972, "The Dzik Report: LosAngeles UFO ", by Druffel, Ann5 FSR CASE HISTORIES, No. 5, June 1971,"Personal Observation", by Jaffe, Michel6 UFOLOGY: NEW INSIGHTS FROMSCIENCE AND COMMON SENSE, Chap-ter 3, Composition and Luminosity, Mc-Campbell, James M. discusses colorchange in UFOs, as possibly related to ac-celeration and/or speed.

MUFON IN...

AUSTRALIAThe resignation of Michael A.

Guider as Representative forAustralia, in February, hasbrought about a re-assessmentand reorganization in that countrydue to its size. Mr Guider servedMUFON for two; years, and wewish to publicly thank him for hisefforts. He has recommendedW.C. ("Bill") Chalker as hisreplacement.

Since Australia consists of sixstates and two territories com-prising an aggregate of close to 3million square miles, it has been

-decided that it would be morepractical to 'appoint represen-tatives for each of the majorpolitical units (excluding theAustralian Capital Territory andCanberra, which is a relativelysmall area embedded in NewSouth Wales).

The following appointmentshave been (or will be) made forState Representatives:

New South Wales—Bill Chalker(Industrial Chemist); TerryBishop, (Field Investigator)

South Australia—Keith Baster-field (Research Officer for UFOResearch) ,

Tasmania—Paul Jackson(U.F.O. Investigation Centre)

Personnel in the remainingstates in dude:

. Queensland—John E; Pattison,Field Investigator _ • ' . / '

Victoria—Tony Teboneras,Field Investigator Trainee: :

At present there are no MUFONpersonnel in Western Australia(Encompassing 976,000 squaremiles) or the Northern Territory(520,000 square miles).

Bill Chalker and Keith Baster-field have notified me that a CloseEncounter Catalogue forAustralia is nearly completed, in-cluding about 38 occupant reportsand 87 physical trace cases.

PILOT EXPERIENCESELECTROMAGNETIC

EFFECTS

The details of a case in which aUFO was associated with severeelectro-magnetic effects on anaircraft have been confirmed toMUFON by Vic Harris, Editor ofSpaceview in Auckland, N.Z.Although the case is "dated" bynewspaper standards, it has im-portant implications for un-derstanding the forces apparentlygenera ted by UFOs.

Oh February 2, 1973, CaptainPeter Telling was flying a GrandCommander: aircraft at 10,000 feetover the Ohura Beacon area,about 157 degrees radial from thebeacon, when he thought he had afire in the starboard engine.Fearing a disaster, he looked verycarefully to assess what was hap-pening. He saw, about 30 yardsaway, a ball of intense bluish-white light ("much like a weldingarc") that was 20 to 40 feet indiameter. The object orphenomenon stayed with his air-craft for about 20-25 seconds.

During this period, the ADF(Automatic Direction Finding)compass, and both the gyroscopicand magnetic compasses, wenthaywire and spun at a speed ofabout 12 rpms. All directionalequipment remained non-functional until he passed overthe Wanganui area. Telling alsoconducts a radio show, and con-tacted Vic Harris to discuss thesighting when Harris was a gueston a talk show.

Harris told MUFON that thearea of the sighting is known bypilots for its unusual effects onaircraft directional equipment.Similar, reports in the same areaare-known to him, but the wit-nesses are reluctant to talk abouttheir experiences. .,

UFO Spotted BySchool Children InR OIT! di n i 3 Submitted by Joe Brill

At 9:15 hours, March 29, 1976,ten .children from SCAIENI townfollowed a impressive aerialphenomenon, for approcimatelyon hour.

Fifteen-year-old COTOVANUGHEORGHE schoolboy declaredthe following:

While walking with myschoolmates from school to homeI saw some strange lights on thehill frontal us. The phenomenon Iobserved it in the West part andtook place on a large area. At firstsight I thought that they are thehead-lights of a truck but thelights were too large for thatdistance and they were very near(side by side) and a small distan-ce of the top of the hill (altitude500m) about 50 m. They wereorange and made no noise.

The l i g h t s movedsimultaneously - declared theschoolboy DUMA GHEORGHEfourteen-year-old - then theydisappeared and appeared at agreat distance. Sometimes ap-peared only one and of red colour.This moved back to its originalposition and disappeared. Thenreappeared two orange-colourlights indentical with the first.This playing of disappearancesand changing og colours lastedabout 15 minutes. They movedvery fast surpassing the speed ofa truck or tractor. By holdingvarious coins at arm's length thewitness guessed the UFO's ap-parent size was as large as a pea.Suddenly after many movementsto the left or to the right frominitial position the lights enlargedincreasingly that they converted

into a great luminous sphereilikethe sun at noon. Then after someirregular movements is disap-peared for few minutes and reap-peared but less shining. The wit-nesses estimated its size to be as

. large as a 1.5 cm disc held atarm's length. Distance about onekilometer (0.624). Elevation 30degrees. Fourteen-year-oldschoolgirl CORJOS RODICA gavefull details of this movements:

Before it reappear, appearedsome very strong rays at the backof the hill and after a little timeappeared a bright yellow-orangeobject, after a short stationary itdisappeared and five minuteslater appeared again. Then itchanged his colour in,red and itdisappeared and five minuteslater it reappeared in other place.When it appeared and disap-peared it revolved over the. hill(like in a circle) lover down so Ilost its sight. I thought it descen-ded.

The schoo lg i r l KISSMINODORA fourteen-year-olddescribed this movement in circlein a different manner. .The redlight moved to North, where itbecame oval in shape. It was redat an extremity and orange to theother. Then it descended at theback of the hill and it reappeartwo minutes later in the sameplace having the same form(round) and colour (red) andmoved to South. At the same timeit rotated becoming oval in shapebut the colours was placed inersein comparison with the first case.When it became round and disap-peared at about 19.30 and reap-

peared at about 19AQ. Prior tomake one's appearance^ ap-peared some very strong raysthen it repeated the samemovements described above butmore fast and in zigzag. When itbecame oval in shape "it don'tdisappeared that in the first caseat the back of the'hiilbut it movedto South, becoming this timesmall and red in color.

In succession fourteen-year-oldM O R A R U C O N S T A N T Aschoolgirl, annex: Soon after thatappeared two small orange-redlights; The first time theystationed then they disappearedafter one second and they reap-peared in other place. Once againthey became one and formed thatbright light which was at the backof the hill. Then it disappearedand appeared again those twosmall lights which descended inzig-zag to the foot of the hill,where they stationed few secondsand then disappeared. Fiveminutes later appeared only onesmall light over the woods. Thereit stationed until I left to home.! The end of this phenomenon is

in the declaration of the schoolgirl— (11-year-old): "Inthe evening of 29-03-76, in the Westdirection I observed over the hillnear the Teleajen river, a lightlike a head-light car at a distance.It changed -the position everymoment. The first time it wasover the hill, then it appeared tothe left and then it .descended tothe ground near Teleajen river. Itstationed there five minutes, afterthat it ascended and disappearedin a few seconds left a long smoketrail. Until to disappeared itchanged the colour in red andyellow. When I saw this object Iwas alone because I was retur-ning from woods!'

The children reported the in-cident to their parents and to Mr.BALAN CRISTIAN (teacher totheir school) who investigated thearea few days later and found astrange mark on grass. The

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following morning I was called inthis place by Mr. BALAN C, whotold me. that he collected samplesfor test and after that his palmand the fingers of the right handmade red and is swollen likewhen are standing very much tothe sun. The palm smart him andhead aches. After questioning thechildren, who seemed sincere andvery cooperative, ,1 visted thearea where the object were seenand found a round track of burntgrass about 150 cm wide (5 feet).Dead grass in the field been burntand revealed the green grassbeing also with the tops witheredor burnt.

The burnt grass had a repulsiveand stunning odour. The ''landingarea" is situated on the secondrung of the hill and at 80 m (267feet) distance a high line of ten-sion. .

The possibility of lowering ofthe tension voltage at thosemoment could not prove it. I ef-fected some experiences whichconvinced me to believe thestrange mark is radioactive! ThusI put on grass films isolate for 45minutes. The films were stronglyaffected.

Weather condition during thesighting were the following: clearsky, no precipitation, twilight, no

wind, temperature approximately10degrees C.

No sound was heard during thewhole sighting, nor was there anyvisible means of propulsion.

In this place the ground issloping (see sketch). The burningit's only on the surface and super-ficial and with a clear form. Therewas no indication that mark weremade by ordinary-means. I thinkthis clear mark (caused probableby UFO's standing at a smalldistance of the ground) mayberather to result from a "hot jet"emited at "take-off" by UFOwhich at last disappearance left asmoke trail. 13

New French Abduction Case

Translated by Rex Mibane (from Nostradamus No. 230)

In the Valence region, HeleneGiuliana's statements havearound numerous reactions, onemore passionate'than the other.Even the most skeptical areobliged to admit the evidencethat, on the night of June 10-11,1976, something extraordinaryhappened on route RN 539, a fewkilometers from Romans, on the"Martinet Bridge."

Helene Giuliana is a young girlof 20 who lives with her farmerparents at Hostun, in the Drome.Her hair cut in boy fashion, withfinely- featured face, Helene isconsidered by all the people whoknow" her as ah intelligent andwell-balanced girl. She isemployed in the household of themayor of the village, M. Bouvier,who has only good things to sayabout her. Awake to the problemsof her time, she is no addict offilms or science-fiction stories.She prefers to go dancing onSaturday evenings, like all thoseof her age, and to lead thesometimes careless life of 20-year-old girls. Nevertheless,Helene has had an adventure thatfew human beings have as yetundergone: she has been inside aflying saucer. .';'

On June 10th, in company with a.girl-friend and, two masculinefriends, Helene drove to Valencein her white "4L" car.

She often goes to the moviesduring the week. This Thursday,the young people went to see "OneFlew Over The Cuckoo's Nest."Afterwards, from midnight-till" 1.AM, Helene drank a "glass withher /friends at Romans, thenreturned home to Hostun,; 17kilometers away.. :,She usuallytakes about 20 minutes to make14

this trip, which is joined bynumerous local roads. 6 km fromRomanus, the road runs along theleft bank of the Isere and crossesa bridge called the bridge of Mar-tinet. Here, suddenly, her car'sengine failed.

"I thought at first I was out of.gas," explains Helene, "but thenI remembered I had filled upbefore going to the movie. Theidea of a mechanical breakdowndid not occur to me, as my car hasalways run without trouble."

Whatever the reason, after afew meters, the car stopped andthe headlights went out. Then aterrifying phenomenon appeared.

"25 meters away", says Helene,"above the bridge, I saw a red-orange dome- shaped light. I don'tknow why, but I immediatelythought of death. Then I put myhands oyer my eyes."

After a few moments,. MissG. looked again: the lighthad disappeared. Distractedshe started up again to drivehome. She was so frightenedthat she missed a turningthat she had been familiarwith for years, and had todrive 2 , km more .thannecessary . When shereached home, she rushed in-to the bedroom of her sister,who woke with a start."What's the matter with you,Helene?" she asked. "Lookat the time: 4 AM!" Helenewas stupefield. It was .im-possible, it couldn't be 4o'clock! She. had left herfriends at Romans only halfan hour ago. this was themystery that everyone wouldspeculate about: what hadHelene done during those two

full hours, which she couldnot even remember?

The next day she told headventure to her parents,then to her employer. Thestory quickly became knownin the . region,. and M, AndreRevol of St. Marcelli, an in-vestigator for the "Ouranos"committee, got in touch withher.

He proposed a hypnoticsession" with M. StephaneDey, living in Grenoble, whohas already "worked" inCanada and the U.S.A. Aftermuch reluctance, Helenefinally accepted: after all,she wanted to know! And onJuly 22, at St. Marcellin, theexper iment took place.Helene said astonishingthings. When M. Revolrepeated her own words toher, after she had beenawakened, she was unwillingto believe it.

On August 18th, the experi-ment was repeated, in thepresence of a TV team fromstation FR 3 of Lyon, M.Chaloin, one of the pionees ofUfology, M. Pierre D., aPh.D. in nuclear physics, andMM. Gerard Moulinet aridJean Louis Ruchon, two localj o u r n a l i s t s f rom LeDauphihe Libore, as well asMM. 'Revol and Dey. For 40minutes Helene repeatedword for word that she hadsaid the first time; she nevercontradicted herself. MM.Dey and Ruchon questionedher.

"I see a light," said thegirl. "My eyes hurt. I see twodwarfs who come closer and

open the left-hand door. Theycarry me toward the light. Iturn around and my car hasdisappeared. I enter the UFOthrough an iron door. Thedwarfs come to my waist.They are dressed in a dark-colored black-coverall. Theyhave big eyes. They aresickly-looking."

At this point M. Dey gaveher a pen and a sheet ofpaper, and Helene slowlybegan to draw what she wasseeing in her unconscious.Then she went on:

"The room is high andround in shape. Everythingis made of iron. I am afraid.They law me on a sort oftable and put some kind ofhandcuffs on my feet andhands! They also put a sort ofnapkin on my forehead. Inthe room there are white,red, and yellow lights...

"Suddenly one of thedwarfs traces circles on mysweater with a kind of box,resembling an electric light.Then I find myself ouside.The craft has 3 legs about 3meters long, and blinkinglights underneath..."

"Is it going to return?"asked M. Ruchon.

"I don't know", repliedHelene. "Not right away,anyway. There are too manypeople around me. Perhapsin six months."

The experiment is ended.Helene wakes and asks for aglass of water. When shehears the tape recording,which was broadcast onTues., Aug. 24 by FR3, she isunable to believe it.

Nevertheless ... It is dif-ficult to believe that if thegirl was lying she would havetestified to the same thingtwice. Yet there are disturb-ing circumstances. First ofall, this loss of 2 hours: thecar could not have remainedin the middle of the road for

so long a time without arous-ing the curiosity of somepassing driver.

The sweater is ow being ex-amined at the atomic-energycenter at Grenoble, to see ifdetectable traces remain.Another hypnotic session willsurely be tried in the nearfuture , . this time in thepresence of e m i n e n tspecialists and scientists.At the present time, Helenehas tried to resume her dailylife as if nothing had hap-pened. The whole village istalking of this story, and, asalways,. some men of bad willare beginning to doubt thegirl's s inceri ty. True orfalse?

One thing is certainly sure:something extraordinarymust have happened thatnight. But what?

Pascagoula Update

By Dr. Ted Peters,

MUFON State Director

for Louisiana

One of the most controversialaspects of the case of the Pascagoula,Mississippi, abduction of two fisher-men (Charles Hickson and CalvinParker) on October 11, 1973 has beenthe lie detector test in his UFOs Ex-plained, Philip Klass suggests that thereport is a hoax. He bases this con-clusion primarily upon the suspiciouscircumstances surrounding thepolygraph test administered to

• Charles Hickson on October 30 of thatyear. Because the polygraphist wasuncertified, and because he wascalled in hastily to perform the test in.

order to be ready for a TV ap-pearance on the Dick Cavett show,Klass submits that the test was awhitewash.

On October .19, 1976, I traveledwith CBS newsman Bill Elder and acameraman from WWL-TV NewOrleans to interview Charles Hicksonat the site of the alleged abduction inPascagoula. Hickson recited the fullaccount of his encounter on video-tape which was then edited an'dplayed on New Orleans television.After I told Bill Elder of'the con-troversy regarding the polygraph, wedecided to subject the full interviewto an examination by a Truth AnalysisPsychological Stress Evaluator. We

did so. Hickson passed the test.

1976MUFONSYMPOSIUMPROCEEDINGS

I84 pages)

"Swamp Gas Plus Ten - And Counting" by'Dr. J. Allenlynek, Director of the Center for UFO Studies.

"Canadian UFO Residuum" by Henry H. McKay, MUFONCanadian Regional Director. ;

"Heavenly Chariots And Flying Saucers" by Dr. Ted Peters,MUFON State Section Director for Central South Carolina.

"UFOIogy and the Digital Computer - A Lesson In TheEvaluation Of UFO Secondary Evidence" by William H.Spaulding, Director of Ground Saucer Watch, Inc.

"The Operation ARGUS Concept - A New Look At UFOEvent Sharing And UFO Data Sharing" by Ray Stanford,Director ol Project Starlight International. '

"Analysis Of Humanoid Reports" by David F. Webb,MUFON Eastern Regional Director and Co-Chairman of theMUFON Humanoid Study Group.

"Must We Stand Idly By? Social Reaction To UFO Reports"by Dr. Ron Westrum, MUFON Consultant in Sociology.

The 1976 Proceedings is availablefrom MUFON, 103 Oldtowne ' Rd.,Sequin, Texas 78155 for $5.00 post-paid.

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Lucius Parish

In Others' WordsRecent UFO articles in the

NATIONAL ENQUIRER have in-cluded a report on a January, 1976abduction case in Kentucky (Oc-tober 19 issue); TV star RonHoward's views on UFOs (Oc-tober 26 issue); a fascinating andvery important report on Frenchscientists who;believe they havediscovered the secret of UFOpropulsion (November 2 issue);and a NORAD. admission thatUFOs have been tracked by radarover Michigan (November 9issue).

The. November issue of FATEhas a: most interesting article onthe "crash" of ta mysterious "air-plane" which left no wreckagebehind. This account seems to bevery similar to other "mysteryplane" reports of the past.

The December issue of OF-FICIAL UFO features some goodmaterial by such-writers'as JoeBrill, Don Worley, Curt Sutherlyand several others. This issue alsocontains information on theprocedures for obtaining two freebooks from the CongressionalResearch Service. One is entitledUFO ENIGMA; the other is EX-T R A T E R R E S T R I A L I N -TELLIGENCE AND UNIDEN-TIFIED FLYING OBJECTS: ASELECTED, ANNOTATEDBIBLIOGRAPHY.

A panel discussion on UFOs willappear in the December issue ofPLAYBOY. According to my in-formation, the panelists will in-clude Dr. J. Allen Hynek, andPhilip J. Kla ss, among others.

Some highly-speculativematerial is found in the Januaryissue of A N C I E N TASTRONAUTS. Granted, theproblems of finding suitablematerial for a publication of thissort must be difficult, but thatseems insufficient reason forpublishing an article suggesting16

that "swine flu" is a malady fromouter space .(as an example ofAA's contents). This sort ofmaterial is offset to some extentby an excellent roundup of Marsphotos from the Viking probes.These show some of the enigmasof.Mars which might indicate for-mer civilizations on that planet.

, . Bradley Ayers'story of his UFOsighting makes interestingreading in the January issue ofPSYCHIC W O R L D . Un-fortunately, he turns it into a "pit-ch" for the Center for UFOStudies before the article ends.Sighting reports alone are farmore interesting.

An interesting new periodicaldevoted to "out-of-place ar-chaeology" is called THEOOPARCHIST. It examinesevidences of highly-advanced for-mer civilizations and reflects aFundamentalist Christian point ofview. It is published monthly, at$15.00 per year, and is availablefrom Dr. J.R. Jochmans -Creation History Research - Box6463 - Lincoln, Nebraska 68506.

Two new books by Brad Steigerare now available. GODS OFAQUARIUS (Harcourt, Brace &Jovanovich; $8.95) is subtitled"UFOs and the Transformation ofMan." It .continues Steiger's"Reality Game" speculations andfeatures material from a widevariety of sources. His new paper-back is PROJECT BLUE BOOK:Tee Top Secret UFO FindingsRevealed (Ballantine; $1.95).This is apparently a hastily-compiled collection of materialfrom the Project Blue Book fileswhich were recently released tothe National Archives. We hope topresent more complete reviews ofboth books in later columns.

A fascinating new book by

George H. Leonard is entitledSOMEBODY ELSE IS ON THEMOON. Leonard lias examinee! agreat number of lunar photosfrom Lunar Orbiter and Apollocameras in his search -for eviden-ce of extraterrestrial activity onthe Moon. He claims.to have beenaided in his, search by apseudonymous ex-NASA^scientist.The book's theme hinges oh theNASA photo which it contains.For myself, I,do not always seewhat Leonard sees (or "sees"), inthe photos, but I suspect this maybe due — in part — to the photo-reproduction methods used in thebook. One should really examineprints of the original photosbefore coming to any conclusionsand Leonard gives information onthe procedures for ordering prin-ts. It is possible to see somethingat the points indicated by theauthor, but interpretations', areanother matter. Leonard believesthat vast mining ,(and perhapsother) operations are being con-ducted on the Moon, largely on,thefar side. In this respect, hisresearch is a continuation of thetheories set forth by the late M.K.Jessup in his classic, books,notably THE EXPANDING CASEFOR THE UFO. The historicalrecord shows that, on hundreds ofoccasions, observers haveseenallmanner of anomalies on theMoon, so the concept of in-telligence(s) there should not belightly . dismissed. Even, ifLeonard has been a bit overly-enthusiastic in some of his sup-positions, his book deserves awide reading. In addition to themany NASA photos, numerousdrawings of lunar features are in-cluded. I recommend this book toall people with open minds andcritical eyes. It is available fromDavid McKay Co., Inc. -.750 ThirdAvenue - N.Y., NiY,- 10017; :theprice is $9.95.

New Time Lapse Case from England Uncovered(from COSMOS, vol.1, no 9)

For the sake of simplicity, thecontact experience of Mr. Lan-cashire is related in full detail. Itshould be noted, however, that hismemory regarding what tookplace between his approachingthe light source and finding him-self back in his sentry-box wasalmost a total blank for years af-terwards. He believes there was adeliberate attempt to erase theseevents from his mind, but notwithstanding this, recollectiongradually returned, though it wasnot until incidents occured manyyears later that his memory wastriggered. Mr. Lancashire wroteto Lionel Beer, having noted hisaddress from a letter in the Sun-day Mirror at the time the 'Bettyand Barney Hill' story wasfeatured. This letter was passedto me and on in turn to COS-MOSinvestigators Eric Richards andSean Ainscough, both of whomwere strongly impressed andbelieve this to be a 'true bill'. Thefollowing story is the result of.their enquiries.

It was late summer 1942: AlbertLancashire was on guard duty ata radar site two miles fromNewbiggin-on-Sea on the Nor-thumberland coast. It was a darknight and Mr. Lancashire stood infront of a sentry-box about 30 yar-ds from the sea. Suddenly a lightshone from the sky about 300 feetabove and away from him overthe sea; it was surrounded by a'black cloud' and his immediatethought was 'What have the Ger-mans invented now?' He wentquickly into his box to try to seethe object without being seen. Thelight, which was of a yellow colour'rolled back on itself rather thanbeing switched off, its positionthen being much lower with theobject close to him but still overthe water. Suddenly, Mr. Lan-cashire felt impelled to eo outside,

and another light shone out-a yardof so in front of him a little abovehis hear. Startled, he threw uphim arms and felt himself drawntowards it. As he walked 'alongthe beam' he was seized bypygmy-sized men and carriedaboard a spacecraft the othermembers of whose crew were ofour own height, the 'captain'having dark hair and wearing'goggles'. Mrs. Lancashire wasmade to lie down on a couch ortable looking upwards at the blue-domed ceiling of the craft. Hecould see a man leaning overanother long table-like con-struction wearing a scull cap likea surgeons; this man too, worevery thick glasses or goggles andsmiles as though in welcome. Heis sure a medical examination ofsome kind took place, but stillcannot remember details,although he believes a persistenttongue rash over the years mayhave an association. He nextrecalls being back in his sentry-box.

We now have a ratherremarkable gap of 25 yearsduring which time, beyond a few'lights in the sky' sightings, littleof note 'saucerwise' happened toMr. Lancashire. Then, during Oc-tober 1967, he experienced aseries of incidents, some of whichcould well have a psychic origin,which were in part responsible fortriggering off his memory con-cerning the details of his 1942 con-tract. The first occured whilst helay on his bed one eveningsmoking. He noticed a small pin-point of light over the bedroomdoor; this grew in intensity andsixe until it became as large as a.grapefruit and changed into ahuman head: it was tilted slightlyupwards and was not directlyfacing him. Although the head it-self remained immobile the eyes

continually moved from side toside. The face had high cheek-bones; the hair was black withjus.t a trace of beard around theface. After a few minutes theimage gradually faded and disap-peared.

Shortly after this he was on dutyin his signal-box at night, (he is "asignal-man with British Rail),when he saw and felt what hecould only say was a 'presence'.This took the form of a bright lightwhich appeared a few feet fromhim: it was so bright in fact hecould scarcely bear to look at it.Inside the light he could see thehead and shoulders of a man ap-pearing exactly as thoughchiselled out of white marble,theonly detail visible being ablack line across the top of thehead. This faded and disappearedafter a couple of minutes followedby the light.

Still in the same month, andagain on duty in his signal-box atnight, he saw a dark object in thesky surrounded by little red lightsblinking off and on only a few hun-dred yards away. As it drew levelwith the box he waved his arm.The object stopped, the red lightswent out and in their place wasvisable a dome-shaped light; theobject then moved off at terrificspeed. Yet a third time under thesame circumstances, he observeda green light out of the corner ofhis eye; he turned his head andfound part of one wall of thesignal-box to be glowing greenwithout any accountable reasonor visable source for the light.This too, gradually faded.

In the December of thefollowing year - 1968, thesignalman in the box next downthe line phoned through to tell himof a bright white object the size ofa full moon hovering near a largemill chimney - a prominent locallandmark. Mr. Lancashire saw itilso and they both noticed it wasrevolving below the top of thechimney, sometimes appearingciruclar, sometimes cross--

shaped. After a few minutes itsped off at terrific speed, startingits journey with a large "W"movement, then shooting away ina straight line.

A number of other incidentshave occured to Mr. Lancashireduring recent years, mainly of apsychic nature, some possiblywith a bearing on his original con-tact. Lake of space, un-fortunately, precludes furtherreference to them at present, butwe hope to return to Mr. Lan-cashire in future issues. Suffice itfor the present to quote from thereports of the investigatory in-vo lved . E R I C R I C H A R

DS:"....my opinion of Mr. Lan-cashire is that he is by no means acrank: he is absolutely sincereand clearly believes all he has toldme. He is in himself definitelysure they had him in that UFO in1942 and did something to him. Iwould say he is above average in-telligence... it is my opinion hehas had genuine experiences.SEAN AINSCOUGH: .....I drawattention to page 32 of Sept/Oct.'69 FSR PhysicalExamination by Minature Mar-tians' by Gordon Greighton.Several aspects are identical withMr. L's account of his experience:

1. Blinded at first instant of con-

tact by beam of light.2. Creatures of indentical

proportion rendered himpowerless and conveyes him tothemachine. -

3. L's conviction that somethingwas inserted in his mouth as in thecase of the Brazilian contac. Mr.L. showed Eric Richards andmyself a scar on his tongue whichhe is convinced resulted from thisexamination.

4. Finally and most significanttly, in both cases influence wasbrought to bear on the subject toensure that the total experienceafter-wards would seem to been'like a dream'.

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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE byWalt Andrus

Plans are materializing nicely for the"1977 MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM" tobeheld July 15, 16, and 17, 1977 at thefamous SAFARI Resort Hotel and Con-vention Center in Scottsdale, Arizona.Speakers already committed are Stan-ton T. Friedman, Nuclear Physicist andUFO Lecturer; James M. McCampbell,MUFON Director for Research;Thomas M. Gates. Planetarium Direc-tor and avid UFOlogist; J.F. "Ben"Herr, Precision Monitoring Systems ofSan Diego; and William H. Spaulding.On Sunday, July 17th, Bill will presentan all new 2- hour photographiclecture with movies. Very reasonablesummer group rates at the SAFARIhave already been arranged, which aremore economical than at previous sym-posiums. This is Scottsdale's largest andmost complete convention center forsales meetings, seminars, conferencesand banquets. Plan your summervacation around this outstanding event.This will be the first MUFON sponsoredsymposium to be held in our WesternRegional District of the United States.

The success of the slide/tape lectureproduced two years ago by Elmer A.Krai and associates in Nebraska forMUFON has prompted an updated ver-sion that will be released early in 1977.It will be titled "UFO Reports: AProblem for Science" with appropriatecredits to people from coast to coastwho have been so generous to help inthis ambitious project. Details forutilization of this slide/tape lecture andit's availability from MUFON will beannounced in a future issue of THEMUFON UFO JOURNAL.

Bill Pitts, State Director for Arkan-sas, has appointed Sandra M. Bridges,Route 3, Box 23, Elaine, Ark. 72333 asState Section Director for PhillipsCounty. Richard H. Hall, InternationalCoordinator, has arranged for Mike H.Viljoen, P.O. Box 743, Durban, SouthAfrica 4000 to become MUFON'sRepresentative for South Africareplacing Carl Van Vlierden. Mike is a

Biochemist with a B.S. in bothChemistry and Microbiology. As someof you may have noted in recentcorrespondence with MUFON's ad-ministrative office, Mrs. DianeSlaughter is our new office secretary.Her husband, Bill, is the former Editorof the Seguin Enterprise newspaper andnow teaches Journalism at Judson HighSchool in Converse, Texas.

October 1976 marked the 20th An-niversary of NICAP. The October issueof the UFO INVESTIGATOR com-memorated this event with a historicalrecap of NICAP's accomplishments andproblems. Many of the fine people thatoriginally were instrumental in buildingNICAP have now become an integralpart of MUFON, serving on the Boardof Directors, as Consultants, StateDirectors, State Section Directors, etc.We extend our best wishes to JohnAcuff on this memorable occasion.

A few people have questionedwhether Dennis Hauck, the Editor ofTHE MUFON UFO JOURNAL, may befaced with a "conflict of interest", sincehis recent employment as the Editor ofOFFICIAL UFO. He has belayed anysuch apprehension by his statement inthe August issue of the JOURNAL. TheMUFON Board of Directors has the ut-most faith that Mr. Hauck will not allowhis allegiance to the two non-associatedpublications become detrimental toeither.

Before we are besieged with com-plaints, the typesetting on the lead ar-ticle in the August issue of the JOUR-NAL titled "The Sedona, ArizonaPhotograph and Evaluation" by W.H.Spaulding was inundated witherrors—entirely unacceptable for apublication of this caliber. In contrast,the photographic analysis by GSW per-sonnel was superb in their techniques.

The International Data ExchangeProgram, initiated by Richard H. Hall,whereby six MUFON Information Cen-ters throughout the World, arereproducing and distributing UFO

material submitted to them is a giantstep forward in communicating thisphenomenon to representatives in eachNation. A cautionary step is advisable,however. We must not become sozealous in forwarding material to theseinformation centers, that we fail to sendthe same information to MUFON inSeguin, Texas for distribution to THEMUFON UFO JOURNAL, and in-terested Consultants. Newspaper clip-pings, in particular, should be sharedwith Rod B. Dyke's U.F.O. Newsclip-ping Service, 4540 - 8th Ave. N.E. Suite404, Seattle, Washington 98105. Toobtain proper distribution of thismaterial to the pertinent personnel willrequire reproduction facilities. MUFONhas invested in a copying machine thatwill fulfill this need. To make Mr. Hall'sprogram effective, MUFON willreproduce and mail material to therespective centers if you do not havereproduction equipment available.(Please so advise in your attachedcorrespondence.) It is imperative thatthe MUFON administrative office hasaccess to all material of this nature,otherwise we will cease to be effectivein sharing UFO information with ourmembers and subscribers via THEMUFON UFO JOURNAL.

The Travis Walton abduction casehas been thoroughly covered from theDecember 1975 issue of SKYLOOKthrough the August 1976 edition ofTHE MUFON UFO JOURNALproviding both affirmative and negativeconclusions. When new facts becomeavailable in this case, JOURNALreaders will be the first to read them. Inthe meantime, we should devote our at-tention to current UFO research andnot be concerned about who is or isn'tgoing to take the next polygraph test.Despite his poor "track record" onprevious cases, Philip (Class has done avery thorough and comprehensive studyof the Travis Walton case disclosing in-formation that may point out that thiswas a contrived hoax. The true factswill unveil themselves in the future.

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INTERNATIONAL ROUND-UPby Richard Hall. MUFON International Coordinator

(These brief reports and news itemsore gleaned from foreign publicationswhose exchange copies have beenreceived by MUFON, from foreignnewspaper stories, and letters fromMUFON Representatives overseas).

SOBERS (Boulevard AristideBriand 26; 1070 Bruxelles,Belgium) has begun publicationof English-language extractsfrom the French-language In-forespace, under the titleSOBEPS News. Issues 1 & 2, forJanuary and March 1976, respec-tively, have been received byMUFON. SOBEPS was foundedon May 20, 1971 and Inforespacewas first published in January1972.

In addition to case reports andanalyses, SOBEPS Newsfll con-tains a discussion of the UFOproblem by Auguste Meessen,Professor of Theoretical Physicsat Louvain's Catholic University.The article, titled "ResearchHypotheses and Strategies,"states that the extraterrestrialorigin of UFOs, while not his"belief", is the "most plausiblehypothesis" and provides arealistic research strategy for at-tacking the UFO problem. Issue#2discusses the Bermuda Triangle,with related book reviews; astudy of physiological effectcases; and other reports.

Scandinavian UFOInformation

SUFOI (Neils Bohrs alle 12, DK2860, Soborg, Denmark) alsopublishes English-language ex-cerpts from its Danish magazineUFO-NYT, under the title SUFOINewsletter. The latest issuereceived is 1976, No. 1, whichnotes that SUFOI was establishedin 1957 and that the bimonthlyUFO-NYT, started in 1958, is oneof the oldest regularly issued UFOpublications in the world.

2/17/76; Nive Hill, Tasmania.Two truck drivers were paced bya UFO from Nive Hill toBerriedale, a distance of over 90km, starting about 3:30 AM. Theobject, at first stationary, had abrilliant yellow-white dome in thecenter; a dark colored body waspartly concealed by the brilliantlight. One of the men tried to usehis radio, but it was drowned outby static. They stopped the truck,and watched the UFO cross theroad ahead of them. .When theystarted up again, the objectresumed pacing them. It finallydisappeared climbing slowlyhigher in the sky around 6 AM.( C r e d i t : Paul Jackson ,Tasmanian UFO InvestigationCentre).

11/1/75; Northmead, N.S.W.,Australia. At 2:25 AM a couplewoke up to the sound of a strongwind and dogs barking. Lookingout the window, they saw a redcircular object estimated to be 8-10 meters in diameter and about30 m away, near trees. The treeswere swaying violently, and thewhole neighborhood was lit upwith the red glow from the object.When the object moved away, itleft a zig-zag smoke trail. (Credit:UFO Research Newsletter No. 17,Jan-Feb 1976, Prospect, SouthAustralia).

5/2/75; Aarhus, Jutland, Den-mark. About 9 PM three personssaw, in the southeast at anelevation of about 40°, a darkcylindrical object flying on astraight course northeast. Its bot-tom portion appeared netlike, andfrom this part a light pulsatingfor about 3 minutes.(Credit: SUFOI Newsletter No. 1,1976)

2/19/75; Western Zealand, Den-mark. At 11:15 AM a zeppelin-likesilvery-white object, changing inshape to oval, was seen at anelevation of about 45°. It disap-peared from view, then reap-peared above a neighbor's house,appearing to be as large as thehouse. It hovered there for 4-5minutes, swaying around its cen-ter and changing altitude oc-casionally. At this point the UFOresembled an open umbrella. Thecenter of its base was blindinglybright, and around the rim werepulsating points of light.

From these points, "spasmsor jerks" (pulses?—Editor)moved toward the center. Nosound was heard. The weatherwas clear and bright, and the ob-ject remained in view 5-6 minutes.(Credit: SUFOI Newsletter No. 1,1976.

[Mark R. Hferbstritt

AstronomyNotes

November 1976

MERCURY - Superior Conjunction ison the 7th and the planet remains tooclose to the sun for observation allmonth.

VENUS - It is quite prominent low inthe southwestern sky for about twohours after sunset.

MARS - It is too close to the sun forobservation, conjunction being on the25th.

JUPITER - In Taurus, it rises aboutsunset and is visible all night, On the18th it is at opposition.

SATURN - Near the boundary bet-ween Cancer and Leo, it rises beforemidnight. On the 28th it is stationaryin right ascension and begins toretrograde, or move westwardamong the stars.

The LEONID meteor shower occursNovember 14 to 18.