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The MUFON UFO JOURNAL ispublished by the Mutual UFO Net-work, Inc., Seguin, Texas. Member-ship/Subscription rates: $15.00 peryear in the U.S.A.; $16.00 foreign.Copyright 1982 by the MutualUFO Network. Second class postagepaid at Seguin, Texas. POST-MASTER: Send form 3579 to advisechange of address to The MUFONUFO JOURNAL, 103 OldtowneRd., Seguin, Texas 78155.

FROM THE EDITORWe introduce in this issue a new column, "Critic's Corner," by

Robert Wanderer who has agreed to be a "resident skeptic." Bobbelieves that people generally report honestly what they see, butoften are mistaken in their interpretations. He will be offering alternativeexplanations and otherwise prodding us to be clear and logical in ouruse of language, and in our reasoning about UFO reports. His columnshould stimulate some worthwhile dialogue that will help to clarifyUFO-related issues. It should be redundant to characterize someone asan "honest skeptic"; let us just say that Bob is a skeptic in the bestsense of the word, and has demonstrated both open-mindedness andfair-mindedness in correspondence, during which we have disagreedamicably on many points. His perspective on the subject and thetalents that he brings to bear on it should be welcomed as a positivecontribution.

In this issueUFO-RELATED BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER IN PENNSYLVANIA .3

By Stan GordonUFOs OVER ARKANSAS: PART 1 5

By William D. LeetCALIFORNIA REPORT 9

By Ann DruffelZETA 2 RETICULI: A RESPONSE 12

By Allan HendryUFO TECH NOTE 13

By John F. SchuesslerCRITIC'S CORNER 14

By Robert WandererMUFON INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES 15

By Michael SinclairUFO SIGHTING MAP: SECOND QUARTER 1981 16

By Gayle C. McBride1982 INTERNATIONAL MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM 18

By Walt AndrusIN OTHERS' WORDS 19

By Lucius ParishDIRECTOR'S MESSAGE 20

By Walt Andrus

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UFO-RELATED BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER IN PENNSYLVANIABy Stan Gordon

(MUFON State Director)

Most readers are familiar withreports of giant hairy apelikecreatures known as Bigfoot, whichallegedly inhabit the Pacific Nor-thwest region as well as other areas ofthis country. But many have neverheard of sightings of these creaturesin the Northeast and North Centralstates. These areas—particularlyP e n n s y l v a n i a , Ohio, andMaryland—have been quite activewith Bigfoot reports since at least theearly 1970's, although cases on recordindicate observations going backmany years earlier.

In 1973 the largest documentedwave of Bigfoot sightings on recordoccurred in Pennsylvania. Thesightings began in June and continuedsporadically through November ofthat year. There were over 100documented creature reports withover 250 eyewitnesses involved. In anumber of cases, several creatureswere observed at the same time. Mycolleagues and I during our investiga-tions began to find that it was morethan coincidence that some of thesecreatures would appear within a shorttime, in the same area where UFOsightings were being reported bylocal residents. As we began to lookmore seriously into these incidentsthere still were no conclusive indica-tions that the two types ofphenomena were directly related.

But then it happened. Around 9p.m. on October 25, 1973 nearUniontown, Pa., Stephen Pulaski and15 residents who live near his father'sfarm observed a large red ball descen-ding from the sky towards the field.Stephen and two neighbor boys gotinto a truck and started towards thearea to take a closer look. As they ap-proached the hill, the headlightsstarted to dim, as if the power was be-ing drained, so they got out and walk-ed up over the crest of the hill.Resting on the ground was a hugedome shaped object estimated to be

100 feet in diameter. It was making asound like a lawnmower, and wasvery bright and illuminating the field.

The group heard strange whiningsounds coming from the direction ofthe object. A short time later one ofthe boys noticed two figures ap-proaching along the fence line, whichcrosses the field. At first the grouptried to rationalize that they were see-ing bears, but when Stephen fired atracer round over their heads it wasevident that they were looking at aform of life unlike anything they hadseen before. One creature was over 7feet tall the other over 8 feet. Theywere covered with long, dark hairand their arms hung down past theknees.

As the creatures approached closerStephen became alarmed and firedthree rounds directly into the largercreature which responded by makinga whining sound and raising it's righthand up toward the other beast. Atthat very instant the huge UFO in thefield suddenly disappeared and thesound stopped. The group quicklyleft the area and notified the localpolice officials.

When an offier arrived at the sceneabout 45 minutes later, the object andthe creatures were not evident;however, the officer verified that atthe spot where the object has rested,he observed a glowing ring about 100feet in diameter which would havebeen bright enough to read by if hehad bent down within it. When hereturned to the station with Stephen,he notified me of the sighting and ourfield investigation team responded tothe scene. For more details of this caseand other similar events, see mypaper in the 7974 MUFON UFOSymposium Proceedings.

Since that classic event, manysimilar cases have been reported fromthroughout the United States as wellas other countries. Those of us who

have spent considerable time in-vestigating these cases now feel cer-tain that there is a direct relationshipbetween the sightings of the creaturesand certain UFOs. We aren't implyingthat these hairy anthropoids are UFOpassengers, only that they seem toplay an important part in a complexseries of events that occur to seeming-ly selected individuals.

Even though the basic physicaldescription of the creatures is similarto the typical Bigfoot, there are twovariations that seem to separate thetwo species. The UFO relatedcreature seems to have a 3-toed foot-print which measures between 13 and21 inches in length. It also in many in-stances is seen to have glowing orself-luminescent eyes, usually red incolor. The typical Bigfoot is reportedto have a 5-toed, humanlike footprint.

Many of the geographical areaswhere the UFO/Bigfoot cases occurseem to become hot spots for othertypes of unexplained incidents. Anexample of this is a current case underinvestigation by the PennsylvaniaAssociation For the Study of theUnexplained. The phenomena is oc-cur ing in a ru ra l section ofWestmoreland County. Some ofthose involved have already beensubject to harrassment and ridicule, soat this time pseudonyms will be usedto protect their indentities. Theirnames and address are on file with usfor verification by responsible resear-chers.

Frank and Rose Simpson had led anormal l ife until one summer after-noon in 1979 when they stepped outinto their front yard and saw a verylarge elongated object falling fromthe clear sky. It fell tumbling end toend. One side was shiny like brightaluminum, the other side a dull gray.It was getting dark, so the next daythey searched in vain for whatever it

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was that they had seen.About 2 weeks after the UFO

sighting, the Simpsons began to hear aterrifying sound which they presum-ed was from some type of animal.Though living in an area abundantwith wildlife, it was unlike anythingthey had heard before. According toMrs. Simpson, "The sound is not abark, squeal, squawk, or howlingsound.. In fact we don't know how todescribe it. It travels quite fast. Itseems like it's on one hillside one se-cond, the next second it's on anotherhil l . Once anyone hears it they neverforget it. It makes your skin want tocrawl-."

The family continued to hear thesesounds on a regular basis through1981. On a number of occasionsFrank picked up his rifle and went inthe direction of where the noise ap-peared to originate from. As he ap-proached closer it would suddenlystop. Rose was of the opinion that itappeared to be luring Frank into go-ing after it.

Then in early April of 1982, MarySmith and two children along withtwo dogs were taking a walk acrossthe field from the Simpson residence.Suddenly an awful growling soundcame from within some cavelikestructures. The hair on the back of thedogs stood straight up and the groupran back to the house. A short timelater Frank went down to look overthe area, and as he approached hesmelled a strange odor similar tospoiled meat. Near the stream hefound a large 3-toed footprint.

Then on the evening of April 18,Rose was baking some bread whensuddenly "Mystery," a nickname us-ed by the Simpson's to describe thestrange occurrences, began to bellow.Frank grabbed his rif le and flashlightand followed the sound. Suddenly hesaw a dark form about 4-feet tall, butvery broad, moving through the crabapple orchard. He shot into thecreature which made a moaningsound. Frank, quite upset by the ex-perience, went to a neighbor to callfor a game warden to investigate, buthe was unavailable. The next day asearch of the area produced no traces

of what Frank had encountered.The strange sounds continued to be

heard by the Simpsons and other localresidents, who claimed to hear it alsomentioned that their farm animalswere acting very nervous when it washeard. Then on June 6, somethingeven more interesting occurred.Frank and Rose along with a friendwere sitting on their front porch try-ing to tape record the sound of"Mystery" when at about 11:40 p.m.a strange light appeared up towardthe crab apple orchard a few hundredfeet away from the house. The lightcovered only a small portion of thehillside and lasted only a few seconds,then faded out. The lights appearedagain several times during the night.

Attempts have been made to try toexplain the nocturnal visitors, but sofar our investigations haven't found anatural source for them to originatefrom. The lights seem to follow alongan old fence row, and at times theyremain in the center, but sometimesthey move and spread from left toright and then disappear. At timestheir luminosity is very dull, yet thelights at times seem to have a pinkishcast to them.

A pattern soon started to develop.It was found that if "Mystery" wouldsound off early in the evening, laterthat night the lights would appear.Frank and Rose both complained ofsevere headaches after the lightsstarted to appear. Twice when Frankapproached the area when the lightswere seen, he would return with sucha severe headache and nausea that hewould have to go to bed.

On June 30, the creature soundedoff from the direction of the Smithhousehold and the Simpsons weresuccessful in recording the "voice" of"Mystery" on tape. According tothose who have heard the sounds ofthe creature, there is more than onedistinct vocalization involved. Thesound on the tape "is like a deep heav-ing, as though someone is out ofbreath. It is most interesting to mesince-this is'the exact sound that mycolleague, George Lutz,"and I record-ed in 1973 near Derry, Pa., on a farmwhere similar events were plaguinganother family.

Throughout the summer of 1981residents from around the countryside continued to hear the sounds andsee the brilliant hovering lights. Thenon August 12, Frank had anotherstrange meeting. He was down nearthe waterfa l l when he heardsomething going throught the woods.He saw movement in the weeds, thensuddenly got a strange sensation in hishead which kept repeating: "Comeback down to the gas line."

He followed the message and sud-denly a giant hairy creature, brown incolor and estimated to be about 12feet tall, came out of the weeds and inone stride stepped over an 8-footwide gasline path. Frank ran home,but the next day returned to the loca-tion and found large 3-toed foot-prints.

In July, about 2 miles down theroad from the Simpson farm, JanetOwens and her daughter Sue weretaking an early morning drive on acountry back road when they noticedsome type of animal about 300 feetahead of them. Janet stopped her car,then backed up into a dirt road totake a better look. The animal didn'tmove, so she approached it slowlyand stopped within one car-length ofwhat they described as a "Black Pan-ther." The animal had a body about 4feet long, with a tail at least as long asthe body itself. The fur was describedas shiny black silk, very sleek. It had asmall head, small and pointed ears,and long legs. The two ladies watchedthe animal for almost 10 minutes. Theanimal stared at the passengers for ashort time, then turned around andslowly walked out of sight.

During the summer other BlackPanther sightings along with Bigfootand UFO sightings were reportedfrom the same area. As we in-vestigated deeper into thesemysteries, we found out that theSimpson ' s had exper iencedphenomena that other UFO andBigfoot observers had told us aboutconfidentially. Frank now feels thatthe creature has tried to communicatewith him telepathically. Frank states:"They are intelligent. It tries to com-municate. It is not from this dimen-sion; this is why you only find a few

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UFOs OVER ARKANSAS: PARTIBy William D. Leet

(Arkansas State Director)© 1982 by William D. Leet)

Bennie Chalker and his 16-year-oldson, Brent, were sitting in the livingroom of their home on Chapel Hill, 3miles north of Nashville, Arkansas,enjoying the peace and quiet of theevening. The day was Tuesday,February 3, 1981. The duties of theday had been accomplished and itscares set aside, and dusk had settleddown from the sky to rest for thenight on the woods and hills. Wifeand mother, Bonnie Chalker, was inTexarkana but would soon comehome to join Bennie and Brent. Allwas well.

Then it s truck them! Thethundering-earthquaking charge of afreight train but magnified manytimes louder was right over theirhouse! Bennie and son dashed out thedoor to see a huge "boomerang" oforange-red lights slowly flying nor-thward at a low altitude of 100 to 200feet. After observing the other-worldvisitor for about 2 minutes, theydrove their pick-up to the crest of thehill by the church there, studying theapparition for another 7 or 8 minutes.No figure or outline of the stranger

could be discerned, but theboomerang impression was made bythe six rectangular lights. There werethree to the right and three on theleft, but close together and formingthe boomerange shape. No body wasvisible, or engines, propellers, tail,w ings , o r F e d e r a l A v i a t i o nAdministration-required navigationlights. There were no anti-collisionstrobe lights which all large aircraftand most light airplanes display.You've seen them—they seem torevolve and zap you right in the eyewith a white flash.

The time of the Chalkers' sightingwas about 6:45 p.m., and about thattime a Nashville High School teacherat home saw a similar craft flying nor-thward. Another Nashville Highteacher, Joe Martin, who instructsVocational Agriculture, was huntinga few miles to the north and about7:00 p.m. observed the northwardcourse of bodiless rectangular lights,five in number. Scores, perhaps hun-dreds, of people saw the out-of-this-world apparition this recent night, atBen Lomond, Nashville, Dierks, Um-

pire; and Langley. It undoubtedly wasan unidentified flying object (UFO).Where they come from and whatthey are nobody knows, but we doknow what they are not. We knowthat they are not manmade, and thatthey are not natural or normal to ourplanet, and that they are under in-telligent control.

UFOs must be something new,some people say, coming aroundsince 1947 when Kenneth Arnoldsaw "flying saucers" skipping alongthe valley past Mount Rainier inWashington State, but UFOs havebeen with us a long, long time, andaccording to documentation quiteawhile in Arkansas.

In the years 1896 and 1897 a"Great Air Ship" was seen in the skiesfrom America's Pacific Coast to theEast. At that time, dirigibles had notbecome operational and there wereno airplanes orhelicopters. Commen-cing at Sacramento, California, theflying craft was seen by thousands ofpeople across the nation all the way

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At times, according to Rose, Frankwill be watching TV when suddenlyhe will walk outside in a trancelikestate as if he is being summoned.Strange things are happening insideand around their house as well. Dur-ing one occasion a large bright lightappeared over their house and il-luminated it, then it suddenly disap-peared. Just the opposite occurredabout a week later when one after-noon as Rose was cleaning, the housesuddenly became pitch black. Shewent outside to find the sky clear ofclouds and the sun shining brightly.When she looked back into the houseit still remained dark.

A few weeks later Rose got up at

about 3 a.m. to get a drink of water.Suddenly the livingroom lit up likedaylight even through no lights wereswitched on. The family membershave heard sounds like someone go-ing up the stairway, even though noone was there, and a strange shadowyfigure has crossed their kitchen onseveral occasions. The Unidentifiedlights have now been seen in daylightas well as night, and in daylight are sobright they illuminate nearby trees.

As of March 1982, "Mystery" isstill around. It is now making visits toboth the Simpson and Smithresidents. Our research team is close-ly monitoring the events, and wehope to set up remote devices to tryand gather scientific data as the in-cidents occur. Mrs. Simpson and Mrs.

Smith and other residents in the areawho have experienced some of theoccurrences are genuinely frightened.Frank feels compelled to find ananswer to "Mystery." As he stated tome recently, "I've got this feeling thathe's going to get me, I'm going to gethim, or we're going to get together."

(Stan Gordon is the Director of thePennsylvania Association For theStudy of the Unexplained, an all-volunteer, non-profit research unitmade up of specialists from fields ofscience, engineering, and medicine,who are making an openmindedstudy of unexplained events. Theorganization's mailing address is 6Oakhill Avenue, Greensburg, PA15601.)

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to the Atlantic Coast. According tothe newspaper accounts of the period,

. the airship was observed by crowdsof people over San Francisco, St.Louis, and big cities eastward. On itscourse the great airship did not ignoreArkarisans. It was closely observedand described by some of ourforefathers, one of whom was Cap-tain James. Hooton, the highlyrespected conductor on the IronMountain Railroad. For the ArkansasGazette of April 22, 1897, ConductorHooton provided not only a sketch ofthe celebrated airship but a detaileddescription of it and its crew as well.A condensed version of Hooton's nar-rative follows.

I had gone down to Texarkana to bringback a special, and knowing that I wouldhave some eight to ten hours to spare atTexarkana, I went to Homan to do a l i t t lehunting. It was about 3 o'clock in the after-noon when I reached that place. The sportwas good, and before I knew it, it was after6 o'clock when I started to make my wayback toward the railroad station. As I wastramping through the brush my attentionwas attracted by a famil iar sound, a soundfor all the world like the working of an airpump on a locomotive. I went at once inthe direction of the sound, and there in anopen space of some five or six acres, I sawthe object making the noise.

I decided at once that this was the famousairship seen by so many people about thecountry. There was a medium-sized look-ing man aboard and I noticed that he waswearing smoked glasses. He was tinkeringaround what seemed to be the back end ofthe ship, and as I approached I was toodumbfounded to speak. He looked at me insurprise, and said: "Good day sir: goodday." I asked: "Is this the air ship?" and hereplied, "Yes, sir." Whereupon three orfour other men came out of what was ap-parently the keel of the ship. A close ex-amination showed that the keel was divid-ed into two parts terminating in front likethe sharp edge of a knife, in fact, the entirefront end of the ship terminated in a knife-like edge, while the sides of the ship bulgedgradually toward the middle, and thenreceded.

There were three large wheels on each sidemade of some bending metal and arrangedso that they became concave as they mov-ed forward. "I beg your pardon sir," I said,"the noise sounds a good deal like aWestinghouse air brake." "Perhaps it does,my friend: we are using condensed air andaeroplanes, but you will know more lateron."

THE AIR SHIP AS UK ETCH ED BY CAPT. HOOTOKl.

"All ready, sir!" someone called out, whenthe party all disappeared below. I observedthat just in front of each wheel a two-inchtube began to spurt air on the wheels, andthey commenced revolving. The shipgradually arose with a hissing sound. Theaeroplanes suddenly sprang forward, turn-ing their sharp ends skyward, then the rud-ders at the end of the ship began to veer toone side, and the wheels revolved so fastthat one could scarcely see the blades. Inless time than it take to tell you, the shiphad gone out of sight.

This drawing I have made you is the best Ican do under the circumstances. I consider Iwas fortunate in seeing the ship. You mayadd that she pumped while standing still,like the air pump of an engine. One par-ticular feature I remember is that what Iwould call the cowcatcher was sharp as theblade of a knife and almost as pointed as aneedle. There was no bell or bell ropeabout the ship that 1 could discover, like Ishould think every well regulated airlocomotive should have.

There are some dubious items inthe good Captain's account of hismeeting with the airship and its pilotand crew, such as his observationabout the want of a bell and bell rope.All the same, the "Great Air Ship"was seen by tens of thousands ofAmericans across the continent, andCaptain Hooton's description did notvary noticeably from those of otherwitnesses.

The wave or "flap" of sightings ofthe Great Air Ship of 1909-1910 hitArkansas in this Arkansas Gazette itemDec. 15, 1909:

AIRSHIP FLIES NEAR LITTLE ROCK,PERHAPS-A.W. Morris of Mablevale,

. road overseer of District No. 8, is of theopinion that an airship passed over hisresidence at about 10 o'clock Monday

night. Mr. Norris states that he was stan-ding in his doorway when a strange lightappeared, apparently about 300 feet abovehim, traveling south at a rapid rate of speed

•and disappeared a moment or two later inthe darkness. He said that the light had theappeareance of a searchlight similar tothose used on automobiles and it rose andfell like a bird in flight. The night wascloudy, which precludes the possibility ofthe light having been a star or anyastronomic phenomena.

The erroneous and sometimesdeceptive "explanations" of UFOs didnot have their inception in 1949 withthe Air Force Project Blue Book,which fronted as an investigativeagency but actually was a propagandaoffice debunking UFO reality."Balloon" was a standard "explana-tion" of unearthly UFO activities, aswere "birds," "temperature inver-sions," "sun dogs," "ball lightning,"and "swamp gas." The Times Record ofFort Smith, however, beat ProjectBlue Book to the punch by fourdecades with the "balloon" jump-at-conclusion in its edition of Dec. 22,1909.

SAW A FLYING MACHINE-Manypeople were interested watchers Wednes-day about 12 o'clock of a quite largeballoon which sailed over this city at a verygreat height, the pupils of Belle Pointschool were sure that it was some of thenoted aerial travelers in a flying machine. Itwas in reality a tenantless balloon, oblongin shape and its height from earth wasestimated to be as much as three-fourths ofa mile.

The normal human reaction 73 yearsago to unidentified flying objects, andthat of some people today, is to

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dismiss them as familiar , com-monplace things and go on aboutone's business. There is slight chancein 1982 of resolving the foregoingsighting of 1909, but ufologists todayquestion the newspaper reporter'sconclusion that the"balloon—almost4,000 feet above ground level—was"tenantless;" he stated no way ofknowing this. His remark that the ob-ject was "oblong" (racetrack-shaped)indicates that it was not a freeballoon, which would have beenspherical or of teardrop form.

It should be noted that Project BlueBook was not the first to misinformthe public that UFOs were observedonly by those who had tarried toolong at the bar. The Times Record ofJan. 20, 1910, carried a tongue incheek report of an Arkansas sighting:

Paragould people declare an air ship passedover their town a few nights ago. Thestrange craft was about 1000 feet from theearth and carried a powerful headlight.Ships of this kind are common over thisway. They are usually seen by people whokeep late hours.

Three day later, the same paper couldnot resist one more bit of editorialjest:

Why the people of Paragould saw an airship the other night is easily explained. Theofficers over there are lax in the enforce-ment of the liquor laws. The objects seenwere only "schooners" floating in an at-mosphere of scintillating effervescent bub-bles.

The Arkansas Gazette on Jan. 17,1910 had reported the Paragould "air-ship" as carrying three or fourpassengers, and that in addition to the"powerful headlight" it was white and"brilliantly lighted." There was con-jecture by the reporter that the"strange airship" seen at Paragouldwas the same one that passed overChattanooga, Tenn., three successivedays. The Jan. 21 edition of the Gazettemade another contribution to the1909-1910 UFO flap over Arkansas:

MYSTERIOUS AIR SHIP PASSES OVERMEMPHIS—Darts Across the.River and IsLost in Arkansas Air—Prominent PeopleSee Mysterious Stranger—Special to the

Gazette—Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 20—Anairship passed over Memphis at 8 o'clockthis morning flying east to west by south. Itwas seen by Joseph Graham, Jr. of the coun-ty register's office, Thomas Boyle, a promi-nent attorney; Mrs. Virginia Frazer Boyle,the noted Southern poet and writer, andothers living in the eastern part of the city.

The machine was very high in the air andseemed traveling at a high rate of speed.Just after crossing the Mississippi river inArkansas' air it veered slightly to the southand was soon lost.

The airship was, it is estimated going fasterthan any railroad train ever traveled.

It is believed by may that it was the Till-inghast machine, which was seen aroundBoston and cities in Maine several weeksago.

The "Tillinghast machine" was thetitle given to one or more UFOsobserved nights over Massachusetts(not Maine) because a Mr. Wallace E.Tillinghast of Worcester, Mass.,claimed to have invented the"marvelous aeroplane." When theWorcester Board of Trade demandedthat Tillinghast display his "airship" orshut up, nothing more was heardfrom the gentleman.

Research of Arkansas newspapersdiscloses no UFO activity in thestate—or at least none reported assuch—from the flap of 1909-1910 un-til Kenneth Arnold's historic en-counter popped the lid off Pandora'sbox of "flying saucers" in 1947. Thiswriter however, obtained for(MUFON) the report of a startling in-trusion which took place Oct. 15,1935 at Mena in Polk County. MissEsther Cherry, music teacher, was sit-ting on her porch when a strange ob-ject caught her eye. She relates that "around, golden UFO" approachedfrom her right and hovered about aminute only 100 feet away from her,putting her in "a state of coldparalysis." Miss Cherry's MUFONUFO report continues:

My recollections are that I saw this objectin the distance, and thought it was a fallingstar or meteor. Tried to get up out of mychair and go inside but could not move.My body became cold, and I could not getup out of my chair for some time after theobject was out of sight.

Before Kenneth Arnold's "flying

saucer" confrontation in the valleynear Mt. Rainier, Washington, June24, 1947, there had been numerousreports during World War II of "foo-fighters," which American In-telligence thought were advancedGerman weapons, and the Germansbelieved were secret Americanweapons. The foo-fighters turned outto be UFOs, but my B-17 Flying For-tress crew and I had no way of know-ing this when a luminous, amber ob-ject appeared just off our left wingtipduring a combat mission in that war.(Editor's note: Mr. Leet's account ofthis sighting appears in No. 133, Jan-Feb. 1979).

The hurricane of UFO sightings leftthe skies of war for the U.S.A. soonafter the end of WWII, its arrivalheralded by pilot Kenneth Arnold'sprofessional calculation of nine "fly-ing saucers" skipping past MountRainier at 1,200 mph. The storm wasfelt in Arkansas only three days later,June 27,1947, a Mountain Home resi-dent spotting a "glistening, flashinground object" which came from thenortheast and disappeared in thesouthern sky. Other early reportscame from the vicinity of Fayet-teville, describing glowing diskstraveling at high speeds at variousaltitudes.

On July 5th the Texarkana Gazettepublished the following front pagestory:

FLYING SAUCERS AGAIN ARE IN THEAIR—TWO TEXARKANA RESTAU-RANT OPERATORS SPY MYSTERIOUSDISCS AFTER BASEBALL GAMEThe mysterious flying saucers were in theair again Thursday night—the third con-secutive night in which Texarkanians havereported the silver colored discus flashingthrough the skies.

Lastest reports came from two localrestaurant operators, Charley Pappas,operator of the White House, and J.C.Jackson, operator of the Two States CoffeeShop.

The two men declared one of the saucersflew over Elm street immediatley after aball game at Burnett Park late Thursdaynight. As they were returning from thegame, Jackson declared, the object flewdirectly over them in an easterly direction.

"It was about four hundred feet high and

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was going at a fair rate of speed," Jacksonasserted. "It had one light on it, and thelight was continuous. It didn't blink. Other-wise, it looked exactly like the other onesthat have been reported."

Jackson and Pappas brought to nine thenumber of persons who have reported see-ing the strange discs winging around thisarea including over downtown Texarkana.

The next few days, according to anAssociated Press dispatch carried inArkansas newspaper, numerous UFOsightings were made at DeQueen, ElDorado, Gurdon, and Little Rock.The Arkansas Gazette of July 6 statedthat Henry Seay reported three "fly-ing discs" on two occasions travelingat high speeds and various altitudes,glowing in the twilight, at Fayet-teville.

No records of the alien objectswere found from that time until theflap of the 1950's.

A startling news story in the July11, 1950 issue of the Arkansas Gazettewas based on a semi-official releaseby the Navy. Two pilots saw visuallyand with their airplanes' radars anunknown gizmo "shaped somethinglike a World War I helmet seen fromthe side." The planes, on a 'trainingflight near Osceola, tracked the in-vader 8 miles before it vanished. Oneof the pilots, Lt. J.W. Martin, describ-ed the odd craft as "about 25 to 45feet across and about seven feethigh." The pursuit was said to be"hopeless." /

It was in July of 1952 that dozensof UFOs stunted over Washington,D.C. The alien barnstormers perform-ed for thousands of ground-watchersand scores of pilots, and were trackedby ground radar and radar on the AirForce fighter planes, but made amockery of the efforts to overtakethem. The Hot Springs Sentinel-Recordannounced a possibly related event inits edition of July 30: "Six See Saucersat Hot Springs." A Mr. G. Clark, oneof two witnesses to permit release ofhis name, was quoted as declaring "awhite ball of fire with a red tail flewover the city."

Seventeen-year-old Miss RubyMcBay "knew it had to be somethingfrom space" when the rotating blue,

red, and yellow lights caught her eyethat evening in early April 1957. Sheand two girl friends had just driven in-to the McBays' driveway at MineralSprings when they saw a silver,domed-saucer hovering over a pondonly 300 feet away and 75 feet abovethe water. According to the interviewand MUFON report form the presentMrs. Ruby McBay Nelson gave me,she could not be certain whether therotation was by the bright-coloredlights or by the "saucer" itself.

The same year, on the night of Oct.14, Mr. and Mrs. A.F. Simmons ofCamden were driving on U.S.Highway 79 between Pine Bluff andStuttgart. At about 10 o'clock theysaw an extremely bright light "aboutthe size of a washtub" movingthrough the sky. As the mysteriouslight approached, the car engine died,the lights failed, and the auto wasdrawn to the side of the road asthough a giant magnet tugged itthere. After about 4 minutes, thep o w e r f u l , a p p a r e n t l y elec-tromagnetic, effects ceased and theSimmonses resumed their journey.

The late 1950's and early 1960'swere not busy times for UFOs,although there were scatteredsightings. The Arkansas Democrat inJanuary, 1959 told the following:

Hundreds of Dumas residents reportedlyviewed an unidentified flying object...from5 p.m. until 6 p.m. The UFO moved rapid-ly in a southeasterly direction and, whenviewed through binoculars, was said tohave "markings" of some type on its sur-face. Red, yellow and green in color, theobject had an oblong shape.

This same news story, published bythe Arkansas Gazette, stated thatDumas residents expressed a beliefthat the object "gave off light" ratherthan reflecting it, looked like an elec-tric light bulb, and took on a reddishglow at dusk. That May the Democratinformed the public of another "lightbulb type object, only bigger," atMassard. It was seen in other localitiesand verified by a sheriff's office.

A "question mark-shaped" UFOwas widely observed by folks inarkansas County, Oct. 2, 1963, ap-pearing in a cloudless sky southeast ofDeWitt , but hearken to thediscoveries of some brave "Flying

"S. Andrews, Aerial Naviga-tion." Patented July 5, 1864.No. 43,449.

Saucer Hunters." In the ArkansasDemocrat edition of Aug. 3, 1965 weread:

A news director of a Fort Smith radio sta-tion, Tony Delahey, reported that he.along with two companions, set up a UFOwatch on Wildcat Mountain and spottedthree separate sightings. The groupreportedly watched four objects for aboutfive minutes, two objects for about tenminutes, and a single object for an un-disclosed length of time. Delaney. usingbinoculars, described the objects as"brilliant blue and green but changing to abrilliant white under acceleration." The ob-jects traveled right, left and up and down.

On through the summer and fall of1965, disclosures of bizarre craft andtheir superhuman maneuvers inArkansas skies were ever so many.Objects with multi-colored lightswere seen as well as metallic-lookingmachines with details such as lighted"windows." Reports tapered off afterAugust but occasional sightings con-tinued throughout the year. (To becontinued).

By Ann Druffel

Another Unidentified Occurrence

In a recent "California Report" col-umn, guest-written by Howard Ford,an incident was described which hadsome aspects of a SpontaneousHuman Combustion, mixed withelements resembling a close en-counter/abduction report.

Now, two months later, this col-umn describes another unusual case,composed of elements reminiscent ofa close encounter/time lapse UFOcase, but including elements of ap-parent psychic or mystical nature.

What can UFO researchers do withcases, involving multiple witnesses,which do not fit snugly into UFOphenomena? We have learned to ac-cept the term "UFO" as an aerialmani fes ta t ion which performsmaneuvers which cannot be copiedby earth machines operating underknown physical laws. Many resear-chers have, especially over the past 15years, accepted the fact that someUFO cases contain psychic elements,such as telepathy between UFO "oc-cupants" and witnesses, precognitionof UFO events, levitation of humanpercipients, aberrated time sense inclose vicinity to landed UFOs, etc.

Prior to 15 years ago, "psychic"elements in UFO cases were carefullydeleted from finished reports, for itwas feared that otherwise "accep-table" cases would not be takenseriously by scientists and otherresearchers. We are gradually over-coming that barrier and now reportrather freely on psychic elements ingood cases, even though suchelements do not always make sense inthe light of present knowledge.

The case reported below, becauseof mystical elements within it, mightstrain the credulity of even the mostopen-minded researchers, but I will

forge ahead and relate the sighting asit reported by the witnesses. Perhaps 15years from now, similar occurrenceswill be commonplace in conjunctionwith "good" sightings, and will nolonger ruffle our feathers.

During the early evening hours ofMarch 12, 1982, Mrs. W.R,1 of Ar-cadia, California, and her two youngchildren, Louisa, age six and Tommy,age four were driving east on the 210freeway headed for a restaurant datewith Mrs. R.'s mother in the city ofSan Dimas. Passing through the cityof Glendora, which is about 25 airmiles northeast of the Los AngelesCivic Center, Louisa viewed a largered glowing rectangle in the sky. Itseemed positioned over a slight hillon the left side of the freeway, on thecrest .of which is a large electrictransformer.

Louisa called Tommy's attention toit, and the two children excitedly ask-ed their mother to look.

Mrs. R.'s attention had been on herdriving, since there was still some traf-fic left over from the going-homerush, but she looked up and, at ap-proximately 35° elevation and 80°(true) azimuth, she saw the objectwhich had so attracted her children.When first seen, it was larger (inhorizontal diameter) than . the fullmoon and glowing vivid red. It wasrectangular with a darker red "cross"within it. (See Mrs! R.'s sketch. Figure1.) The long sides were positionedperpendicular to the horizon, andtheir length were more than twice theapparent diameter of the full moon.

The edges of the rectangle weredistinct, and the red glow, seeminglycontained within the object, had moreconsistency than, for example, a redtraffic light. The light seemed solid,

redder, and brighter.Mrs. R. had just passed the Grand

Avenue exit ramp on the 210freeway (see map, Figure 2), and soshe has a fairly accurate measurementof the time and traveled distance thatthe object was in view. She repeated-ly glanced up at the object to try tosee what it was, for its appearancewas exceedingly strange and frighten-ed her. However, because of herspeed (somewhat over 55 m.p.h.) andthe traffic around her, she was unableto keep her full attention on theunusual sight.

The freeway curved to east-southeast after Grand Avenue, andMrs. R. was now aware that the ob-ject was no longer hovering over thehill. She had passed the transmittingtowers, yet the object was still slightlyto her left and fully visible throughher windshield. Around it, sheperceived a dimmer glow, the colorand intensity of a "sunset." Thisorangish glow was many degrees indiameter all around the central redobject; the glow filled the entire areaof sky visible through Mrs. R.'s wind-shield.

As she drew nearer the object, shebecame aware of an unfamiliar sensa-tion inside her head, like a very lowfrequency humming sound whichwas not heard with her ears. At thesame time, she felt very weak and diz-zy, as through about to faint. She ex-perienced difficulty keeping her car inits proper lane and several timesswerved, running over the "Bott'sdots" which mark the lanes onCalifornia freeways. She does not

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think the swerving was due to any ef-fect of the object on the car, but sole-ly because of her weakened condi-tion.

Sometime during the sighting, sheheard an announcer on the car radiostate the time—6:55 p.m., but she hasno clear idea of whether this was atthe beginning, during, or at the end ofthe sighting.

She saw her daughter Lousia leanher head back against the seat on thepassenger side, and assumed the girlwas tilting her head to look at the ob-ject. She did not learn until later thatthe girl was experiencing the same in-explicable weak feeling and hearingthe "sound" within her own head.

The object grew steadily in sizeduring the next mile and three-fourthsuntil, at the Sunflower Avenue exitramp, it was at least twice its originalsize and almost directly in front of thecar, at an elevation of approximately55° and an estimated azimuth of 90°To Mrs. R., it did not seem to bemaneuvering in the sky. Any ap-parent change in size, elevation, andazimuth was due, she felt, to the factthat the freeway curved and that shewas traveling toward the object. In herconsidered opinion, the object seem-ed to be hovering in a stationary posi-tion during her sighting of approx-imately 2 minutes.

Passing the Sunflower exit ramp,Mrs. R. headed toward the transitionroad at the end of the freeway. Shetook her eyes off the object to pay at-tention to her driving; when sheglanced up again, she was surprised tosee the dark sky and the object nolonger in sight. Initially she hadthrought the glow around the objectwas the normal brightness of the sky(even in the east) before sunset. Inreality, the sun had set that evening at5:58 p.m., so the sky had graduallydarkened during their journey, whichtook place between 6:10 p.m. and7:15 p.m.

Mrs. R. was aware that her childrenstared steadily at the object during the2 minute sighting. She was frightenedfor them, for their excitement doubl-ed her own fear that the object wastruly strange and, perhaps, dangerous

in some way. As she traveled thetransition road which led to the SanDimas restaurant, she tried to makesure the children were all right.Louisa, who was riding in the frontpassenger seat, was talking about howthe object had "gone behind a cloud."Mrs. R. then checked on Tommy,who was riding in the back, calling tohim to ask if he was all right. Therewas no answer from the little boy.She looked behind her and saw hersmall son fast asleep on the back floorof the car, his head resting on thetransmission bump. This was most un-sual behavior for Tommy and Mrs. R.felt it was very strange, consideringthe extreme excitement of theprevious minutes. She woke him upsternly, and the little boy stayedawake while the family traveled thenext 2 miles along surface streets tothe restaurant. Mrs. R.'s weak, dizzyfeeling had vanished, and she nolonger heard the "sound" in her head.

Mrs. R. and the children hadstarted from their home in Arcadiaabout 6:10 p.m. She had often travel-ed between Arcadia and San Dimasand figured it would take about 25 or30 minutes to get to the restaurant.She arived at 7:15 or 7:20 p.m., awarethat she was late and not being able toaccount for the time differential. Itdid not concern her immediately,however, for her main problem waswhether or not to tell her mother,Mrs. Q., about the strange sight theyhad seen. She decided not to mentionit, but the two children immediatelybegan to tell their grandmother whathad occurred.

It was then that Louisa spoke ofhearing a very low "sound" in herhead during the sighting, but stated itwas not really a sound but more like a"vibration." She also said she had feltvery weak at the same time. Shedescribed seeing the object give offdifferent colors, mainly green andyellow, in addition to the vivid red.Both she and Tom saw the orangeglow extending out from the rec-

' tangle and both saw "flames" comeout from the object when theythought it moved very quickly andhid behind one of the clouds still scat-tered across the sky, remnants of arainstorm which had passed through

the Los Angeles Basin area the even-ing before.

Both children reported that theglow of the "flames" were visible fora short while behind the cloud, as thecar traveled along the transition roadat the end of the freeway. However,as the family drove south along thesurface street to the restaurant andwere excitedly discussing the object,the children stopped watching thecloud and so did not see just how theobject eventually disappeared.

Mrs. Q., seeing the three membersof her family in such an excited andfrightened state, was very concerned.She noticed that Mrs. R. was literallyshaking with fright. She encouragedthe three percipients to tell her all thedetails they could recall, then shephoned the Los Angeles NBC televi-sion station and the Los Angeles Timesnewspaper, trying to find out if otherpeople has seen and reported the ob-ject.

NBC and the Times had noknowledge of the incident, and Mrs.Q. continued searching for a place toreport it. By 8:30 p.m. that sameevening she was referred by GriffithObservatory to SKYNET, where Ireceived the call.

The initial phone interview lastedover an hour. All three witnessesdescribed the sighting in detail, andMrs, Q. added considerable informa-tion about the emotional state of thewitnesses. During this phone inter-view, Tommy confided to his motherand grandmother that he had seen a"picture" inside the object. UnlikeMrs. R. and Louisa, he did not see a"cross" within the red rectangle;rather, he described a "brown log"standing upright in the center. Posi-tioned against this "log" was a figurehe called "a ghost," which emergedfrom the center through something"like a window," traveled a wander-ing course throughout the orangeglow surrounding the object, and"gathered stars in a bag." The littleboy expressed his opinion that "thething was a power from God." Thesmall boy, though surprisingly ar-ticulate for his age, had difficultyphrasing adequate words to describe

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Cross-like feature verydark red, traversing center,

d-it red,ving,Ld appearing,

Figure 1. — Mrs. R.'s sketch

California Report, Continued

what he was reporting. I could hearhis mother scolding him in thebackground for making statements ofthat sort, but he kept insisting that hewas telling the truth. The emotionalcontent in the child's voice seemedthat of honesty.

Mrs. Q. and Mrs. R. assured methat Tommy was not the type of childto "make up stories." After their in-itial shock at hearing about the "pic-ture," they maintained a more objec-tive attitude toward the child'sstatements. Tommy did not hear thevibrating "sound" inside his head anddid not report feeling dizzy or weak.He does not remember going to sleepin the back of the car.

Mrs. R. was referred that sameevening to Richard M. Neal, jr.,M.D., a Los Angeles physician who isplanning in-depth psychological andphysiological research into close en-counter cases. It was felt that the diz-ziness, weakness, "internal sounds,"and Tommy's unusual sleep mighthave left physical traces which couldbe picked up medically. However,the family, because of the con-siderable distances involved, couldnot get to Dr. Neal's office within 24hours to have blood chemistry andother tests done. However, I sug-gested that Mrs. R. preserve the

Object firstseen here

Object lastseen here

Figure 2. — Path of 210 Freeway through Glendora

clothes the three witnesses werewearing in plastic bags, in case latertests on the materials might provevaluable.

(Next month, this column will con-tinue on the R. case, Part II).

"UFO PHENOMENA"

In answer to numerous inquiries,the editor of the English-languageUFO Journal UFO Phenomena has anew address: Francesco Izzo, CasellaPostale 87, 05018 ORVIETO (TR),Italy. Telephone: 0763-32285.

Woman SeesUFO, AliensLand Here

City police assistance wasrequested Thursday afternoonafter a woman reported seeinga unidentified flying object and"small beings" in the 2100block of Home, police spokes-man Oakel Hardy said thismorning.

Hardy tald the woman calledan unidentified branch of theArmy and told officials that Ifsoldiers would not take care ofthe beings, she would be forcedto take care of them. She re-ported her neighbor had shottwo of the aliens.

Hardy said two city policeofficers were sent to the area,but "couldn't find the little ras-cals."

It wasn't learned whichbranch of the Army the womancalled.

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ZETA 2 RETICULI: A RESPONSEBy Allan Hendry

Louis Winkler's article, "Star MapHypothesis Still Viable" (No. 169,March 1982), reveals only two things.He doesn't understand the basis bywhich Zeta 2 Reticuli should—orshould not—"belong" in Betty Hill'sstar map. Also, he doesn't understandthe new technique of speckle in-terferometry.

The only reason Zeta 2 Reticuli hada place in Marjorie Fish's pattern-matching scheme is because her starcatalogs indicated back then it was asingle sunlike star, just like all the rest.Had she known it was thought to bebinary, as announced by astronomerD. Bonneau, she wouldn't have usedit, and we wouldn't be arguing aboutit today. Other rival interpretationsmatched the Hill drawing even better,but they lacked the allure of assumingonly sunlike stars were permissible.

Thus, if we stick to the rules thatgave rise to the star map's fame, we'dbe forced to abandon it. There are noother sunlike single stars to take Zeta2's place. But Winkler argues that weshould leave it in anyway, since Fish'sbinary rule was too harsh, and abinary Zeta 2 could have habitableplanets after all. The problem is thatMarjorie Fish acknowledges thatthere are other sunlike binary stars inthat region of space she didn't use. In-clude Zeta 2 now, and the restdeserve inclusion as well. But Fishstates that doing so would disrupt theHill pattern! You can't win.

Thnt is the primary consequenceposed by Zeta 2 being binary... a sim-ple point to understand. Yet thoughWinkler read it in my "Fate" article,he missed the whole point. He actual-ly wrote that "merely" proving thestars in the Fish map are binary "is notnecessarily a reason to reject the FishHypothesis"!! It's too late to pretendthat Zeta 2 belongs in the patternsolely on the basis of its having ear-thlike planets, somehow. Now whose

article is "poorly thought out"? Fried-man's "criticisms" are similar in basis.

Now for the use of speckle in-terferometry to resolve Zeta 2 being aclose pair of stars. Winkler gives threereasons for regarding the results asmarginal or dubious:

• The separation of Zeta 2'scomponents (.046") was tooclose to the telescope's dif-fraction resolution limit.• The seeing was bad (from1.5" to 5").• Only one photograph runsucceeded in showing thetell-tale interference fringes.

U n l i k e W i n k l e r , D r . Ha ro ldMcAlister at Georgia State Universityis an expert on this technique. His opi-nion of all three points above? "Irrele-vant" in proving binary status!McAlister states that as long as stellarseparation does exceed the diffractionlimit, it doesn't affect this technique.Capella, for example, always has aseparation between .045" and.055"—like Zeta 2—yet it is alwayseasily resolved with a telescope ofthat aperture.

Second, supposedly "good" seeingis still one second of arc (I"), which isnearly two orders of magnitudeworse t h a n t he s e p a r a t i o nmeasurements. Truly poor seeingdoes reduce the contrast of the fr-inges, making them harder to see, butit doesn't preclude confirming binarystatus.

Finally, intermittent success at ob-taining speckle pictures is common,says McAlister. The orbiting starspass in and out of speckle's lowerlimit of resolution. Neither canWinkler compare Bonneau's separa-tion with the astrometric orbit size.The letter is always smaller becausewhat you are measuring is the motionof the center of light of the two starsastrometrically.

If there is anything wrong withBonneau's announcement, it hasnothing to do with the "problems" in-vented by Winkler. Yet that raises aninteresting point. In Winkler's view, itis OK to develop a defendable starmap model based on 1969astronomical data which he regards aspoorly established. Yet it is not OK torefute that model on the strength ofmore modern figures if there is anypossibility of error! Winkler calls theFish interpretat ion a "workinghypothesis" ... but don't dare list thegenuine astronomical concerns (suchas metal-poor stars) that many feelwork against the prospect of earthlikeplanets! That, according to Winkler, isa "fundamental error"! Do so, andyou'll be accused of "knowing" in ad-vance whether intelligent life canarise...a ridiculous charge.

Terry Dickinson, who promotedthe Fish interpretation as editor ofAstronomy magazine, now rescinds hissupport in view of this new informa-tion. Winkler, on the other hand, haschosen to advocate a cause ratherthan objectively weigh the data athand.

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NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCEThe 6th Annual MUFON of North

Carolina (MUFON-N.C.) Conferencewill be held in Winston-Salem onJune 19-20, sponsored by the TarheelUFO Study Group. For further infor-mation, contact Gayle C. McBride,P.O. Box 46, Winston-Salem, NC27102.

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UFO TECH NOTEBy John F. Schuessler

Landsat: Can It Be Used For UFO Investigations?

The first Landsat spacecraft waslaunched on July 23, 1972. Since thentwo more have been launched and afourth will be launched in 1982. TheLandsats have transmitted over onemillion images from space and havebeen a useful tool in studying theEarth's surface features.

The Landsats orbit the earth every103 minutes in a near-polar orbit at570 miles in altitude. As such, theyfly over the same area of the Earthevery 18 days. Their multispectralscanners can image selected groundtargets on each earth orbit. One im-age covers 13,127 square miles. (SeeFigure 1.)

The multispectral scanners produceimages for four bands of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum. "Light relflec-tance data from the four scannerchannels for the four bands are con-verted first into electrical signals andthen into digital form for transmissionto receiving stations on Earth. Therecorded digital video data are re-formatted into computer-compatibletapes and/or converted at special pro-cessing laboratories into black-and-white photo images. These imagesfrom the four different bands arerecorded on four black-and-whitefilms from which photographic printsare made in the usual manner."1 Thegreen band is best for underwaterfeatures. The two near-infrared bandsare more useful in agricultural studies.

The Landsats have definite limita-tions for use in studying the groundeffects from UFOs (e.g., crashes, ex-plosions). They have low resolution,which means that an object must belarger than 260 feet to berecognizable on the image. They can-not be used to compile topographicfeatures due to their monoscopic

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coverage. They .rely on computermanipulation of the data and that isan expensive process. The images donot portray natural Earth colots.Therefore, the incestigator must beselective in the use 'of these data.Most UFO artifacts would not bediscernible.

For further information about im-agery, contact: U.S. GeologicalSurvey, EROS Data Center, SiouxFalls, SD 57198

1. Air & Space, Spring 1982, pp. 7-9;figures were extracted from thisreference.

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CRITIC'S CORNERBy Robert Wanderer

In any g rowing f i e l d ofstudy—especially a controversial onelike UFOs—there's a continuingdanger of taking an extreme positionat the outset, and then ignoringanything that doesn't agree with thatpremature conclusion, We like to"know" things definitely, and wesometimes consider our conclusionsas more certain than the evidence willsupport.

Particularly on the subject ofUFOs, we find many people at the ex-tremes—some dismiss UFO sightingsout of hand as the confusedmisperceptions of "kooky" people,while others are absolutely convincedthat UFOs are space ships from a dis-tant galaxy.

Consider what might be called theKlass/Friedman Scale. Place Philip J.Klass, the leading UFO debunker, atzero, and over at 100 place StantonFriedman, who holds that our planet"is being visited by intelligently con-trolled vehicles whose origin is ex-traterrestrial." Where do you stand onthe Klass/Friedman Scale?

I suspect most people clusteraround the two ends of that scale.Most books on UFOs fall aroundthose extremes. Most articles in thisjournal fall, I would say, between 75and 100.

The problem is that we generallyread only material that largely reflectsour own position. Or, if we do readsomething from the other extreme,we likely just shake our head indisbelief.

Richard Hall, the editor of this jour-nal, recognizes this problem, andwould like to present a broader spec-trum of views on UFOs. He estimateshis own position on the Klass/Fried-man Scale as about 75 to 85. Hewants to try to "fill the gap" betweenthe books written by Klass and othersat the low end of the scale, and thepro-UFO books at the upper end.

Wi th th i s issue Rober tWanderer begins a column Critic'sCorner, designed to present variedviewpoints and to stimulate discus-sion on UFOs.

He has lived in San Francisco for50 years, is a graduate of San Fran-cisco State, spent 12 years innewspaper reporting and editing,and in recent years has concen-trated on writing and teaching. Hisprimary intellectual interest is ingeneral semantics and communica-tion, and he was attracted to theUFO field from his fascinationwith the varying ways that peopleperceive and "create" reality, andhow we interpret the worldaround us.

He has asked me to write a mon-thly column. My qualification forthis, I suppose, is that I fall at around25 to 35 on the Klass/Friedman Scale.I'm some distance from the "it's all ab-surd" position at the low end, but alsofrom the "Cosmic Watergate" fears atthe other end.

Let me describe my basic orienta-tion on UFOs, and the sort of con-tribution I hope to make to UFOstudy:

I tend to believe whatever peoplesay they believe they saw—with theobvious exceptions of watching fordeliberate hoaxes, and of beingdubious of "strange" people. The keypoint for me: We all perceive thingsin line with our previous experience.Difficulties arise when you seesomething you have had no ex-perience with.

The first requirement, as I see it, isto distinguish between what peoplesee and how they interpret what theysee. One of the best examples to il-lustrate this was in Walter Blaney's ar-ticle in the January 1981 MUFONUFO Journal, and in my comments on

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Robert Wanderer

it in the July 1981 issue.Blaney came across as an excellent

and believable observer. But he im-mediately described the lights he sawin the sky as a "craft," although thelonger he watched those lights themore " u n c r a f t l i k e " theybecame—their speed and type ofmovement were quite unlike anyknown "craft."

In such cases I suggest using quota-tion marks around a word like "craft"to indicate that the observer thoughtit was something on the order of acraft, but without hard evidence thatwould bring about general agreementthat it was a craft.

I will question assumptions beingmade, will offer alternative theorieswhen possible (even if not probable),and generally try to present ideas thatI hope you will find challenging, evenif you disagree.

My background is in the field ofgeneral semantics, which I havestudied, taught, and written on duringthe past 25 years. General semantics

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Critic's Corner, Continued

is concerned with how we createreality—how we select certain thingsto notice, how we select certain thingsfrom our memory to relate thesethings to, and the "picture in ourhead" that we create as a result andwhich is, for us, our "reality." One ef-fect—and of particular use in theUFO field—is that I have developed ahealthy skepticism as well as a fun-damental acceptance of "the waysthings are," or more exactly "the waywe think things are."

To give you some idea of "whereI'm coming from," let me give youmy working hypothesis on UFOs:

A considerable number of allUFO's reported—let's call it a niceround 80%—are immediately iden-tifiable as some natural object, such asVenus on the horizon, or a weatherballoon, or whatever. These "UFOs"are, of course, more properly termedIFOs, or Identified Flying Objects.

Another number of sightings—let'scall it from 10 to 15 % are what mightbe called "probably explainable if wehad enough data." In so many cases,the sighting is by only one person andlasts only a few minutes, or even justseconds. There's not much informa-tion there to work with. I presumemost of these cases could be explain-ed if we knew more about the situa-tion.

This still leaves perhaps 5 to 10%of unexplained UFOs. My tentativeworking hypothesis here is that whilea few of them might be hoaxes, thevast majority of them ultimately fallinto one or the other (or parts of both)of two general categories:

1. Natural events that we as yet donot understand. Like those "glowingdiscs" sometimes reported near high-tension power lines. The frequentassociation of such a sighting and apower line leads me to consider thep r o b a b i l i t y of some as -ye t -unidentified electric/electromagneticeffect.

2. Problems in the way we perceiveand the way we categorize ourperceptions. To continue the examplefrom the previous paragraph, we seewhat may be a "sparking" or "glow-ing" related to the power line, and

MUFON INTERNATIONALACTIVITIES

By Michael Sinclair(International Coordinator)

(NOTE: Adapted from Report toMUFON Annual Corporate meetingheld in conjunction with the 12th An-nual MUFON UFO Symposium atM.I.T. Cambridge, Mass, 1981.)

During the past year we havereceived enquiries and a fewMUFON members from countries inwhich we previously did not havemany or any members (e.g., in theMiddle East). We are certainly pursu-ing these leads.

My main activity during the pastyear has been the opportunity tomeet with MUFON members inSwitzerland, West Germany, andFrance—and to follow-up from thesemeetings. In November I spent anevening in Zurich with Dr. Beck, Dr.Ruh, and Mr. Maurer learning abouttheir research within MUFON-Central European Section (CES) andinforming them generally aboutMUFON matters in North America.Two weeks later I was privileged to

change that into a "glowing disc" intoan "extraterrestrial spacecraft."

I suspect that some readers at thispoint will think, "Well, this mandoesn't have any explanations orproof either, just theories, and histheories aren't any better than mine."

Perhaps not better, but at least dif-ferent. I hope I can put forward a fewideas that may stimulate thought andtest ideas. In talking with and cor-responding with several people in theUFO field, all the way from Klass toFriedman, I'm happy to say I've pro-voked disagreement all along. Well,at my point on the Klass/FriedmanScale, disagreement with people is tobe expected.

I hope readers will join with me inconsidering new explanations, or atleast new objections to the conven-tional wisdom.

receive 4 days of splendid hospitalityas the house guest of our MUFON-CES Coordinator, Mr. Illobrand vonLudwiger and his wife, Angelika, inthe small Bavarian village ofFe ldk i r chen -Wes t e rham, nearMunich.

Illobrand and I spent long hoursdiscussing numerous UFO topics andMUFON business, including for meto learn about the various researchendeavors of MUFON-CES (much ofwhich centers around gravity in rela-tion to reported UFO behavior). Il-lobrand has a large, diverse, andotherwise very impressive collectionof English-language UFO materials.We spent an evening with three of hisGerman colleagues, including Mr.Adolph Schneider, MUFON'srepresentative in West Germany (anda distinguished UFOlogist in his ownright).

In late January I spent several hoursin Zurich with Mr. Beat Biffiger, anactive young Swiss MUFON-CESmember who specializes in in-vestigating UFO reports by airlinepilots.

Three weeks later I met for a long,pleasant, and informative eveningwith two French MUFON members,Jean Sider and Thierry Pinvidic. Theyare both active in UFO research inFrance and are well informed on theactivities of GEPAN, the Frenchgovernment's agency which studiesUFO reports.

These meetings have provided rareopportunities to learn first-hand aboutthe UFO research of our MUFONcolleagues in Europe. There is awealth of German-language UFOmaterial which awaits translation,especially about the scientific researchof MUFON-CES members. (Iprepared an article on this need forThe MUFON UFO Journal.)

The European UFO literaturepresents a considerable challenge toMUFON. If we can secure the volun-tary services of more, qualifiedtranslators, we could expand ourknowledge of our colleagues' scien-tific endeavors to help resolve theUFO enigma. Within the next year Ihope that MUFON can take somesteps to improve our organizationalcapacity for language translation.

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SECOND QUARTER SIGHTING MAP reports received April - June 1981

Date

1-1-624-?-7510-16 or8-30-776-3-7912-5-8012-5-8012-10-8012-17-8012-27-802-7-812-3-2-112-20 thru2-222-233-143-143-163-193-243-293-313-313-314-14-14-24-24-2444-44-54-54-54-74-84-114-124-124-124-134-154-154-154-154-154-154-164-164-164-174-214-214-214-214-214-214-21

Location No.

Dayton, OHMineral Springs, AR

23-74 Dayton, OHBath, NYHarlington, TXMt. Alton, PAMcKean County, PAHollywood, CAGreenup County, KYGreenup County, KYDayton, OHBenLomond, ARPortland, OR

3-7 San Jose, CALavernia, TXTyler area, TXBradford, PALimestone, NY

1 Kennerdale, PAPortland, ORDavenport, CAHampton, NHLos Gatos, CANewark,, OHNokesville, VASan Antonio, TXMitchell, ORMadison, WlLamesa, CAManassas, VAMulberry, ILBradford, PA

: Kansas City, MOAptos, CAPrairie View, ILMetuchen, NJConcord, CAPhoenix, AZ

>• Coffeyville, MSx Soldotna, AK

Goodhue, MN• Cowarts, AL

San Antonio, TXNapa, CABarnard, VTWindsor, VTRutland, VTGrantham, NHCastroville, CA

' National City, CAHopewell Jet. NYKent, WABradford, PA

' Nortown, OH' Ridgeway, PA-..

Montpelier, VTPhoenix, AZSanta Cruz, CATampa, FL

Witnesses

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4-214-214-214-234-234-244-244-244-254-254-254-264-274-274-274-284-284-284-294-305-15-35-55-65-65-65-75-85-115-185-2764646-66-96-96-126-126-156-266-276-276-29

Location No.

Dove Creek, COCavecreek, AZPhoenix, AZLouisville, KYPhoenix, AZLexington, KYDenver, COSanta Fe, NMGreen, MALombard, ILAvery, TXMilton, WAMorgan Hill, CAMarblehead, MAGreer, SCSylvania, GASherridan, WYWaterville, MECupertino, CA

' Casco, WlFresno, CANashua, NHWhitehouse, NJGladewater, TXRoyal Oak, MlDetroit, MlLaurel, MDCampbell, CAHouston, TXCass County, TXSioux Falls, SOGresham, ORColumbia, CAMoab, UTHamburg, PAHamburg, PAWindsor Lake, CTHuntsville, ALEbensburg, PAWhiting, INPoland Spring, ME

' Vernon Hills, ILChesterton, MD

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1982 INTERNATIONAL MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM

By Walt Andrus

"UFOs — C a n a d a : A Globa lPerspective" is the theme for theMUFON Annual UFO Symposium tobe held Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,July 2,3, and 4 at the Westbury Hotel,457 Yonge St., Toronto, OntarioM4Y 1X7, Canada. Sponsored by theMutual UFO Network, Inc., the sym-posium will be hosted by the UnitedFriends of Ontario, Henry H. McKay,Chairman. The 1982 UFO SummitConference, being held in conjunc-tion with the MUFON UFO Sym-posium, is scheduled for Monday, Ju-ly 5th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in theClarendon Room of the WestburyHotel.

Featured speakers and their speechtitles are Dr. J. Allen Hynek, "Plann-ing for the Next UFO Flap"; DrGeorge and Iris Owen, "The UFOPhenomenon and Its Relationship toParapsychological Research"; DavidHaisell, "UFO Research: An Interna-tional Perspective"; Dr. Michael A.Persinger, "Predicting UFO Eventsand Experiences"; Arthur Bray, "Pro-fessionalism in Ufology"; William L.Moore, "New Disclosures on CrashedSaucers"; and John F. Schuessler,"Radiation Sickness Caused by UFOs"(The Cash/Landrum Case). The pro-gram has been divided into fivedistinct sessions; three on Saturday,July 3, and two on Sunday, July 4. Toround out the agenda for Sunday, soas to appeal to both the Ufologist andthe interested public, the followingvolunteer speakers will make presen-tations: Paul B. Norman, Vice-President of the Victorian U.F.O.Research Society in Australia, willprovide an up-date on the FrederickValentich, missing pilot case; PeterMazzola, Internationial Director ofthe Scientific Bureau of Investigation(SBI) will discuss the police officersview of Ufology; Bjarne HaKansson,Vice-President of Project U.R.D.,Stockholm, Sweden, will present

"Ufology—What Next?"; ShermanLarsen, President of NICAP, willreview some of the most significantUFO documents; and Walt Andrus,International Director of MUFON,will present a slide-illustrated lecturetitled "UFO Close Encounters."

Specialized workshops and filmshave been scheduled throughout thesymposium. Two video taped filmswill be shown: "Strange Harvest" oncattle mutilations and "UFOs AreReal", a documentary. The Fridayevening, July 2nd program will con-sist of registration, displays, a cocktailhour, and a get-acquainted session.

Individual admission to each of thefive sessions is $6.00 with a specialpackage price of $25.00 for the entiresymposium. Sixty rooms have beenreserved at the Westbury Hotel atspecial group rates of $58.00 perroom, per day for single occupancyand $68.00 per room, per day fordouble occupancy. Participants mustmake their own reservation directlywith the hotel. Pre-printed reserva-tion cards have been supplied by thehotel to identify those attending the1982 MUFON International UFOSymposium, so that you may obtainthe group rate and be assigned to oneof the 60 room's blocked for this pur-pose. Hotel Reservation cards may besecured by writing to United Friendsof Ontario, MUFON, or directly tothe hotel. We encourage everyone tomake your reservations promptly sothat you may stay at the WestburyHotel. Arrangements have beenmade with a nearby hotel for theoverflow, after the Westbury isbooked.

Advanced tickets for each sessionor the package ticket for the entiresymposium may be reserved by speci-fying in writing and enclosing eitheran international postal money orderor a certified check in U.S. funds,made payable to United friends of

Ontario, along with a self-addressedenvelope for your confirmation. Yourtickets will be held for you at thesymposium registration desk inToronto. All payments for ticketreservations should be mailed to:

United Friends of OntarioP.O. Box 54Agincourt, Ontario MlS 3B4Canada

The Annual MUFON CorporateMeeting is planned for Sunday, July4th, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. AllMUFON members with current I.D.cards are invited to attend. StateDirectors, Continental Coordinators,and Foreign Representatives shouldbe prepared to give short oral reportsconcerning their activities. The 1982MUFON UFO Symposium Pro-ceedings will include not only thepresented papers by each of thefeatured speakers, but also a publish-ed paper titled "A UFO PropulsionModel" by F.E. Alzofon, Ph.D. Theproceedings will be available at thesymposium on July 2, 3, 4, and 5 for$10.00 in U.S. funds, and by mailthereafter from MUFON for $10.00plus $1.50 for postage and handling.

Start planning your vaction now toattend this exciting and inspirationalannual international UFO symposiumin the modern and beautiful city ofToronto. Niagra Falls and manypoints of historical interest will add toyour vacation enjoyment.

MUFON1030LDTOWNE RD.SEGUIN,TX 78155

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Lucius Parish

in Others' words

The final installment of a series ofarticles of Soviet UFO events appearsin the April 13 issue of NATIONALENQUIRER. A fleet of UFOs alleged-ly appeared over Moscow on thenight of August 23, 1981, causingdamage to the windows of numerousbuildings. A North Carolina man,Patrick Eudy, tells of his apparent ab-duction by UFO beings in an articlefor the ENQUIRER'S April 20 issue.The April 27 issue features a reportwhich claims that a top-secret Britishdefense agency, the Department ofAerial Studies, has probed more than2,000 UFO reports during the pastthree years, sharing its findings withU.S. intelligence and defense agen-cies.

The April issue of YANKEEmagazine has an interesting article ona UFO sighting at Starks, Maine inNovember 1981. Witnesses claimedto have been chased by a mysterious"light" and to have been "shot" by ared beam from the UFO.

The "Anti-Matter/UFO Update"section of May OMNI has a summaryof Budd Hopkins' book, MISSINGTIME, plus a short feature on theresearch of Dr. Harley Rutledge, asoutlined in his book, PROJECTIDENTIFICATION.

If there are features on the surfaceof the planet Mars which appear tohave been created by other-than-natural means (and there are), theymight well have implications for the

study of UFOs. With this in mind, Ihighly recommend the work of Vin-cent DiPietro (an electrical engineer)and Greg Molenaar (a computerscientist), UNUSUAL MARTIANSURFACE FEATURES. The third edi-tion of this booklet is 77 pages inlength, containing many photographsand i l l u s t r a t i o n s of M a r t i a nanomalies, such as the pyramids ofElysium, the "human face," the forma-tion dubbed "Inca City," etc. Theauthors have performed computeranalyses of the Martian features andthe results of their work are presentedhere. Copies of the publication areavailable at $9.00 each from MarsResearch, P.O. Box 284, Glenn Dale,MD 20769.

Director's Message, Continuedtide in the November 1981 issue ofthe Journal. Peter Rank, M.D.,MUFON Consultant in Radiologyand prime medical consultant in thiscase, has studied Mr. Stowe's reporte x t e n s i v e l y a n d made t h i spreliminary evaluation in his letterbefore going into specific details:"Mr. Stowe is to be congratulated forthe depth of his knowledge and thethoroughness of his analysis. Many ofthe general principles he hasenumerated were used by me inevaluating the Cash/Landrum Caseonly with less precision."

Paul Stowe is to be highly com-mended for the in-depth evaluationproviding the applicable nuclearphysics, theory, mathematical for-mulas, with computations and chartsto substantiate his study. This is asuperb example of scientific researchinto a field where many physicistsand medical doctors feel inadequatedue to a lack of specialized training.We hope to publish a summary ofMr. Stowe's study in a future issue ofthe Journal, provided that themathematics may be simplified for

greater understanding by a majorityof our readers.

"Truman Bethurum's PersonalScrapbook" has been photocopiedform the original by Robert C. Girardand a copy donated to the MUFONLibrary through the courtesy of Arc-turus Book Service, 263 N. BallstonAve., Scotia, NY 12302. Regardlessof how each reader may evaluate thecredibility of Mr. Bethurum's flyingsaucer experiences, this booklet is amarvelous collection of memorabiliafor Ufologists. Even though the scrap-book covers only a 2-year period, itprovides a firsthand insight intoUfology of the era and Mr. Bethurumin particular. Thanks, Bob. The 1982UFO Literature Reference Guide andCatalog is available from Arcturus for$2.50.

The 1982 UFO Summit Con-ference will be held on Monday, July5th from 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. in theClarendon Room of Loew's WestburyHotel in Toronto, Ontario in conjunc-tion with the 1982 MUFON Interna-tional UFO Symposium on July 2, 3,and 4. This will be an opportunity forrepresentatives of all organized UFO

organizations to share their proposalsand ideas for resolving the UFOenigma in a scientific cooperative en-vironment, utilizing the vast talentavailable. For this conference to besuccessful, everyone attending shouldplan to forget past ideologies and pet-ty personality differences, and comeprepared to adopt cooperative goalsand objectives that will identify thep a r t i c i p a n t s as p r o f e s s i o n a lUfologists.

The Mutual UFO Network hasvolunteered to host this importantconference and will provide one ormore moderators. We are again ex-tending invitations to qualified groupsand individuals to confirm their plan-ned attendance in writing and submita brief statement of their proposals toWalt Andrus so an agenda may beprepared in advance. Thirty-fiveyears have passed since Kenneth Ar-nold triggered the modern era of fly-ing saucers. Are you satisfied with thescientific progress that we have madein the intervening years? We cannotafford to "spin our wheels" foranother 35 years.

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DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE byWalt Andrus

MUFON'S International Coor-dinator, Michael Sinclair, now livingand working in London, England, hasannounced the appointment of Joa-quim Fernandes to be our Represen-tative for Portugal and Field In-vestigator. A journalist, Sr. Fernandesresides at R. Goncalo Christovao, Por-to 4052 Porto Codex, Portugal.. Dr.Virgilio Sanches-Ocejo, P.O. Box313, Opa Locka, FL 33054, Presidentof Investigation Center of Extrater-restrial Life, has been assigned theposition of "Special Representative-at-large for South America" to assist ourContinental Coordinator for SouthAmerica—William G:-Hinrichsen~~ofLaguna Niguel, Calif. Virgilio receiv-ed his Doctor in Law from HavanaUniversity. He has many UFO con-tacts throughout South America andattended the International UFO Con-gress in Acapulco where your direc-tor met him briefly.

Joining our ever-growing group ofpeople who utilize hypnosis profes-sionally, we welcome Jack L. Spurrier,Ed. D. in Counseling, as a Consultantin Psychology, Hypnosis, andCounseling. A teaching college pro-fessor, a licensed psychologist andhypnotist, certified by the Council forthe National Register of Health Ser-vice Providers in Psychology, Dr.Spurrier may be contacted at 920U n i v e r s i t y Dr ive Su i te "F",Nacogdoches, TX 75961. The newState Section Director for LibertyCounty in Texas is Jim R. Johnson,Star Route Box 89E, Liberty, TX77575. Jim lives in the adjoining townto Betty Cash and Vicky Landrum.He may be able to interview otherwitnesses to the Cash/Landrum caseof December 29, 1980 that continuesto be one of our most significantmedical- injury UFO events asreported in the MUFON UFO Jour-nal. John F. Schuessler, the prime in-vestigator, will cover this case ingreater detail and provide an up-datein his presentation at the 1982MUFON International UFO Sym-posium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1982 MUFON UFO SYMPOSIUM-JULY 2-4Henry H. McKay, Chairman

Location: Loews Westbury Hotel, 475 Yonge St., Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1X7,Canada. Telephone (416) 924-0611.Information and tickets: United Friends of Ontario, P.O. Box 54, Agincourt,Ontario MlS 3B4, Canada. Five sessions at $6.00 per session; package price forentire symposium $25.00. Send International Postal Money Order or certifiedcheck in U.S. dollars payable to United Friends of Ontario. Enclose self-addressedenvelope for confirmation. Tickets will be held at the Symposium registrationdesk.Information: MUFON, 103 Oldtowne Rd., Seguin, TX 78155. Telephone (512)379-9216.Hotel reservation cards: Write directly to hotel, United Friends of Ontario, orMUFON at the above addresses.

James Kness, 10030 N.E. Alton,Portland, OR 97220, has volunteeredto serve as a Research Specialist inUFO detection systems and devices.

Two very vital people have beenadded to the MUFON headquartersstaff not only to provide immediatepreliminary evaluation of proposedpropulsion systems, but also to im-prove our cor respondenceworldwide. Joe Pantermuehl, a SeniorResearch Scientist at SouthwestResearch Institute in San Antonio,Texas, has rejoined MUFON as aStaff Research specialist. Mr. Panter-muehl has an M.A. in Physics andlives at 423 Lakeview Drive, Seguin,TX 78155. Mrs. Terry Piper, 345 St.Mary St., New Braunfels, TX 78130has volunteered to become our cor-responding secretary and a Field In-vestigator Trainee. Terry has a B.A.in Art History from the University ofFlorida and has done 2 years of postgraduate work at Penn State in thesame field. She has a professional in-terest in the MUFON UFO Journalthrough her employer, TommyBrown Printing, where she typesetsthe Journal and is responsible for thelayout and paste-up. Terry's vivaciouspersonality will be evident in her cor-respondence to our members.

As reported in the April issue ofthe Journal, the 6th Annual MUFONof North Carolina UFO Conference

will be held June 19 and 20 inWinston-Salem, N.C. Mrs. GayleMcBride, Assistant State Director forNorth Carolina, will be the chairper-son this year. Richard Hall, our Jour-nal Editor, was one of the featuredspeakers at the Fifth Annual Con-ference. A summary of his speech hasbeen published in the March 1982

. edition of the Tarheel U.F.O. StudyGroup Newsletter.

The Rocky Mountain Conferenceon UFO Investigation (3rd ContacteeConference) will be held June 17, 18,and 19, 1982 at the School of Extend-ed Studies at the University ofWyoming in Laramie as announced inthe March 1982 issue of the Journal.The purpose of the conference is toprovide an opportunity for UFO con-tactees and UFO investigators tobecome acquainted and to share infor-mation about UFO experiences.Michael A. Lewis is the SteeringCommittee Chairperson and R. LeoSprinkle, PhD is the Coordinator ofthe Contactee Conference.

Mr. Paul A. Stowe, ResearchSpecialist in Nuclear Technology, hasproduced a technical paper on thetypes and amount of radiation receiv-ed by each of the participants in theCash/Landrum medical case basedupon the injuries sustained asreported by John Schuessler in his ar-

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