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Number 94
SKYLOOK
The UFO Monthly
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September, 1975

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This drawing was made by Jane Tiger in connection with an had an excellent view of the object as it passed over their auto,
investigation of a sighting by Miss Tiger and Tom Cahill at The complete story begins on page 3.
Mountain Lakes/ NJ, on July 4, 1975. The couple reportedly
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Director of MUFON ion, a great need for the shar- research is inexcusable in a
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Ted Bloecher
Humanoid/Occupant Cases
search capabilities by the the resources to do the rjq,b>,
major UFO organizations. No alone.
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Gary Graber
Artist In this issue
Richard Hall New Jersey couple sight saucer over highway 3
Commentator Gilroy, California, area reports include close encounter 6
Astroanthropology requires cooperation with anthropologists 9
Mark Herbstritt California woman reports semi-transparent UFO ,10
Astronomy McCampbell shows how science can explaiaUFO effects • • 11
Friedman says newest Klass book unscientific, inaccurate '..... 14
Rosetta Holmes In Others' Words-by Lucius Parish 16
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West Coast Coordinator Astronomy Notes: October Sky by Mark Herbstritt i 20

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Mountain Lakes, New Jersey

Close sighting reported by couple


LOCATION OF SIGHTING: Mountain
Lakes, NJ.
DATE OF SIGHTING: July 4,1975
INVESTIGATED BY: Ted Bloecher.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is


termed an "interim report" by Bloecher,
who said on Aug. 16 that he cannot pre-
pare a final report "because several basic
facts regarding this observation are still
unknown," including reports by possible
collaborating witnesses.

Tom Cahill, a political sci- This is the initial sketch made by Miss Jane Tiger at the time she reported the
ence major at Boston College, sighting to the Parsippany, N J, police.
and Jane Tiger, 18, of Lake
Hopatcong, NJ, were westbound
at about 60 m.p.h. on Highway lights closer in toward the describe; when we were coming
46, from Loews Theatre in center, and it had two white up on it, I thought that the
southeastern Mountain Lakes, lights just off center. On the turret might have been spinning
NJ, at approximately 12:05 a.m. top it had a cylinder turret- around, because of the weird
on July 4, 1975. Just east of sort-of-thing, . and it was a color of the thing. . Then, like
the Hess service station, they washy-green color. There was a I said, when we got closer, it
observed red, green, and white band of washy-green color looked like it was just within
lights about 300 feet above the around the bottom of the turret it, you know?"
ground, approaching the high- and the rest of the turret was Jane says it is possible that
way. illuminated, but not as bright. the green light could have been
And I really couldn't say coming from some type of win-
It Was Not a Plane whether it was illuminated or. dows. She says the turret was
whether it was reflected—the "very hard edged. It had a—it
"It was so low," explains top part was a reflection from was flat on top, it wasn't
Jane, "that if it were an air- the bottom band, which I said rounded, or anything. It was
plane they should have been- was the brightest." very flat and very cylindri-
really worried...It looked a Jane described the object cal."
little smaller than a plane. as "the typical flying saucer
As we got closer we noticed kind of shape, kind of ovular Beneath the Object
that it wasn't a plane, and it on the bottom and, urn—curved—
wasn't a helicopter—we could the bottom sort of curved, like As the couple passed beneath
see it very clearly. It was this (gesture with hands indi- the object, Tom gave Jane the
coming down toward the high- cates upward or inward curve— wheel and as the auto slowed to
way." concave). And on the top—in 35 m.p.h., looked out the win-
Jane says that as the couple the center, on the top, was a dow, "straight up at the ob-
got in front of it, "I'd say little turret-like thing. It ject."
it wasn't more than 100 feet had metal strips going verti- Says Tom, "I got a very good
above us, and at that time we cally all around it, and in be- view of the hull of the object:
could see a lot of the details tween these strips, when we got it was smooth, greyish metal
on it." right close to it, when I could and I saw the left green-blue
Tom adds that the object see it best, I could see it was light, which extended all the
"had a bluish-green light. It like greenish, like a greenish way around the bottom (the
was ovular-shaped with bluish- flourescent light, kind of— rim. It was within the body of
green lights on each of the almost—and it was inside it, the ship. None of the lights
ends. It had one or two red but it looked—it's so hard to were attached outside the ship;
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they were within the body of bars extending down, spaced a- Jane gave, the wheel back to
the ship." bout three feet apart on the Tom as the object became situ-
He says the light on the rim turret. You could see the green ated to the upper right and be-
of the object was "sort of light coming out from behind hind the auto, and she sat in
oval-shaped, and I guess if you them,, Also, the green light— the window of the car door to
chopped off the two ends of the when we first sighted the ob- get a better view. She says
oval and stuck lights on them, ject, we didn't see the turret; the object "flew up above the
it would sort of finish the the green light was sort of trees on the right hand side
oval out." outside our view, which was of the highway, and it was
Tom says the blue-green very strange because it seemed floating in our direction
lights were the largest, except like as it got to a certain (westerly, with the auto).
for the turret, and he estimat- distance from us, then the Finally we pulled over (at the
ed that the blue-green lights green light came into view. Arrow Diner on the right side
were 8 feet by 6 feet by 5 But farther away, it just sort of the highway) and the thing
feet. (Note by Bloecher: this of cut off, you know—they just sort of stopped over the
sounds very much like the Coyne didn't turn on; they just sort trees, just sort of peeking out
case near Mansfield, Ohio, in of faded into our view. It was behind the trees."
1973). The two white lights very strange that way because I Tom continues: "After it had
were smaller, he says, "and guess it only had a certain gone behind the trees, the two
sort of off center." distance where it was visible." white lights I could see were—
Tom says all of the lights, As the object passed over the the lights were going in two
except the two white lights, couple, they could see the directions. I guess there were
"looked like they were sort of lights from the nearby Hess two rays (beams) from each
gaseous lights. They weren't service station reflecting off light: one straight ahead and
filaments, or any other kind; the bottom of the object (they one down on the tops of the
they were sort of, uh, they had also seen a reflection off trees. It was illuminating the
weren-'t so bright as mercury a portion of the upper part of tops of the trees."
lights or any of the lights we the object earlier). He said the white lights were
use, but they were very — "much smaller than the bluish-
washy." Oblong Object green ones—about the same size
as the red light, or the red
Vertical Bars Tom said the object was more lights--!'m not sure if there
oblong than round as it passed were one or two. It probably
Describing the turret, he over the auto, with the long could have been in a circular—
explains, "The green light on part across the highway rather probably three feet wide, maybe
the turret — there were vertical than running with the highway. two feet wide, somewhere around
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there."
Object Disappears

As the couple pulled off the


road at the Arrow Diner and
stopped, the object rose
slightly so that the turret was
visible behind the trees. Then
it disappeared.
Jane explains: "As soon as
we stopped our car, when we
started to get out—this is
probably the weirdest thing
that happened the whole time
we saw it—it left. It flew— This is the sketch made by Miss Tiger during an interview with Ted Bloecher on
7 or something—into the sky at July 17, 1975. Note the additional detail in this sketch which corresponds to
statements made by both Miss Tiger and Mr. Cahill, but which were not present
such an incredible rate of in the initial drawing made for the Parsippany Police Department on July 4.
speed. It took less than—now
- this was about, I'd say, 150 weird shape." Despite a number of autos on
feet above us—and it left. the highway at the time of the
And it was a very clear night— Different Views sighting, no other reports were
I could see all the stars—it apparently made by the motor-
left in less than, I'd say, one He said that the object would ists. "I really can't imagine
second, and it was out of view. look differently when viewed people not noticing this," said
It just got smaller and smal- from different angles. "From Tom. "It would be like not
ler. It just sort of vanished." the bottom (which Jane did not noticing the Queen Mary float-
Tom says he was getting out see) it sort of looked like— ing across your backyard."
of the car when the object dis- the object was like that (he
appeared, and he did not see it cups one hand palm down in an A pilot, Jimmy Quodomine,
leave. Neither witness heard arc), but the bottom part sort supposedly chased an object at
any noise as the object left. of came out like that (he cups Caldwell that same evening, but
In reviewing the sighting, the other hand underneath with information on this is not
both Tom and Jane agreed that palm up, at a right angle to available. An unidentified
the object moved very grace- the upper hand)." He said the couple reportedly had their
fully. Tom estimated the size object appeared to be longer on auto buzzed by an object, but
of the object as 60 to 80 feet the top in one direction, and no information is available on
long, based on the width of the longer on the bottom in the this either. And finally, a
highway. other. 13-year-old Morris Plains girl
He said he was not sure it Jane says the object appeared reportedly saw an object, but
was concave in shape on the concave when viewed from the again information is not avail-
bottom (as Jane had said), front. Says Tom: "Yeah, from able at this time.
feeling that it may have been the front. It looked like that Parsippany Police Department
convex: "When we went under- to me, exactly—from the front. Lt. John Walsh reported that
neath it, the .lights from the But from the bottom it was more "we were having trouble dis-
highway—there were a couple of rounded on the bottom. Sort of patching and receiving" over
" gas stations around, and diner like the ends overhung the—oh, the police radio between 12:05
• lights—it was so close to the it's really hard to try to ex- and 12:30 on the morning of
highway that, you know, I could plain. I don't even think it's July 4, the approximate time
tell the color of the metal and important." Tom and Jane saw the object.
everything. The lights reflect- Following the sighting, the
ed off the bottom of the thing; couple went to the Mountain Walsh noted, however, that a
it illuminated the bottom of Lakes Police Department, where malfunctioning radio in only
the object, and it looked like the police "were real comedians one car could have caused the
to me it was convex, because, I about it, except for one guy problem, and that one of the
don't know, it's not really a who was operating the radio." car radios had been having
contradiction, because—I don't The couple then searched for problems. There had been a
really know how to explain it. the state police, but ended up similar problem in the week
I think the front profile could at the nearby Parsippany Police prior to the sighting, and it,
have been concave, however— Department, where the reaction too, cleared itself before a
see, the object was such a was better. repairman arrived.
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Gilroy, CA, sightings reported
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following infor-
mation regarding alleged sightings conies
from four newspapers — The GILROY
DISPATCH, THE MERCURY (San Jose),
the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, and
the STOCKTON RECORD—and from a
report by the Gilroy Police Department.
This preliminary information was pro-
vided by Paul Cerny, who is investigating
the cases for MUFON and the Center
for UFO Studies. As additional significant
information becomes available it will be
printed in SKYLOOK.
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At least seven different
cases of possible UFO s i g h t i n g s
were reported in the area of
Gilroy, San Jose, and Stockton,
CA, the week of Aug. 10, 1975.
The first and most d e t a i l e d
report came from Gi. Iroy. Mrs.
Terri Smith, 19, was t a k i n g
Imelda Lugo, 12, home s h o r t l y
after 11 p.m. on Sunday, Aug.
10, in a panel t r u c k . They had
just turned onto First Street
from Kelton when an unusually
bright light was seen. This is a sketch made by Paul Cerny, MUFON state director for Northern Cali-
fornia, from details supplied by witnesses Mrs. Terri Smith, Imelda Lugo, Mrs.
Fascinated and Curious Frances Lugo, and Jose Lugo.

Mrs. Smith drove toward the beacon mount on it like a bea- Frances Lugo, running. "I was
bright light because she was con on top of a police car, ex- in bed," said Mrs. Lugo, "but
"fascinated and curious." At cept the lights were green and not asleep, when I heard them
one point the witness stopped red and they rotated." yelling "It's coming, it's com-
the truck to look at the ob- Near El Cerrito Way and Way- ing. It's going to take us.1
ject. land Lane the object made a U- I ran outside in my nightgown,
Mrs. Smith described the ob- turn and came "quite close" to thinking maybe there were hood-
ject as having two headlights, the truck, according to the lums after them. They told me
"but they were bigger (than a witnesses, as if it was coming not to come out, 'It will get
car's headlights). There was down on them. you.' I had never seen such *
no airplane noise, but just a "My curiosity turned to fear fright in my life."
slight humming sound coming right then," said Mrs. Smith. When Mrs. Lugo went out, the
from the lights. There was a "I turned right on El Toro and UFO was hovering just above the
blue light surrounding the ob- it seemed to come for u s » " trees and telephone lines. "It
ject." was a gray-colored disc with
Mrs. Smith said the object Ron for House small lights all around," she
she saw was "round, had four said. "Two lights were shin-
large landing gear-like arms Reaching the Lugo home, the ing."
coming out of it, evenly spaced two witnesses ran for the Next out of the house was
all around. The round center house, leaving the truck doors Mr. Lugo, who saw the object
section was larger than a car, open, the lights on, and the head north. According to the
but smaller than a small house. ignition on. "I was scared," police report, Mr. Lugo des-
Between the four arms were four said Mrs. Smith. cribed the object as "big...it
small antenna-like protrusions The yelling by the two girls was like what you see in the
from the center circle, and and the resulting commotion movies from outer space. I
each of these protrusions had a brought Imelda's mother, would never have believed it if
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I hadn't seen it myself. As it be a big setting star," said And a Fourth
was going away I could see from Bluemmer, a printer, "then I
the panel of all the lights reasoned that it was too early Also on Tuesday, another
that the top was triangularly in the evening for that. I couple, who asked that their
shaped." The object was last read about the fuselage of a names not be, made public (ID
seen moving north-northeast, plane picking up the rays of also unknown to SKYLOOK), said
bound towards San Jose, travel- the dying sun and having it they were driving in the vicin-
ing at a high rate of speed. look like a UFO. This wasn't ity of Glenview School in Gil-
it." roy between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.
'It was Huge' Bluemmer explained that "the when they observed "off to the
thing ballooned out into a very west what looked like a big
Mrs. Lugo described the ob- white light skirting the east- headlight. It had a • glowing
ject as a "gigantic round fly- ern side of the Santa Cruz pale color and formed sort of a
ing machine" with three or four range. It was about three halo against the mountains
antenna-type landing legs com- miles away. It rose and ducked The light came down about 50
ing out of it "and all those behind a background of trees. yards."
white and red flashing lights. The whole sky seemed to light The man said that "at first
It really scared me. I'd never up briefly." we passed it off as nothing,"
seen anything like it in my The couple, watching from but after going home and get-
life. It was gray metal-looking two different windows, agreed ting a telescope they reported
and it was huge." that the light had "an eerie that the light seemed to be
red center." Bluemmer said he blinking. They said the light
In investigating the case, "turned off on top of the hill
Paul Cerny was able to piece opened the window once during and disappeared."
together a description and the 15 to 20-minute sighting, ,
The wife noted that "it kind
produce a drawing of the ob- but heard no noise. of scared me. It moved quite
ject. The object's metal skin He said that at first he fast. There was no sound. Al-
is depicted as rough and in thought the object might be a though the light was bright at
square sections similar to helicopter with a search light, times, it didn't hurt to look
metal plates on the underside. "but the very red glow shining directly at it."
The object was estimated to be through the white convinced me
about -40 feet wide. it wasn't. It was literally
Mrs. Smith and Imelda re- beaming into the valley. It was Number Five
ported that they believed they completely round. Staring into
saw the same object a second it, with its whiteness, made it The next night, a Wednesday,
time as they were bike riding difficult to determine size." Chick Bambino of Morgan Hill
near Las Animas Park the next reportedly observed "an orange
evening (Monday, Aug. 11). "It According to Bluemmer, the glow to the west" at 11:45 p.m.
was the same thing, but up way object "tranversed the contour "I couldn't believe what I was
higher," said Mrs. Smith. of the mountain and finally seeing," he said. "It seemed
Looking back on the experi- disappeared into the cleft of to be a sphere on an angle. It
ence, Mrs. Smith concluded: a mountain, seeming to settle seemed to hold still for about
"I'd do it over again, but I there." The Bluemmers kept one minute, then it disappear-
wish they'd let me know they checking the area off and on ed. It was like something had
weren't going to harm me. I'm for an additional three hours, put a light out,,"
as curious as the next person. but saw no sign of the object. Bambino said he went into
I'd even go with them if they his house, told his wife and
would come back for Thornton A Third Sighting son what he had seen, and the
(her husband)." three of them went back outside
Another Tuesday report came to observe. "Then it came on
Another Sighting from Mrs. Lynn Lace, wife of a again in a slightly different
Gilroy High School teacher who vicinity. Everybody saw it.
On Tuesday, Aug. 12, Mr. and lives near Gavilan College. It was maybe less than a minute
Mrs. Robert Bluemmer of Gilroy She said she .and her family of before it went off."
reportedly saw a strange light seven saw "a big light on the
about 8:15 p.m. as they looked mountain, back of the college Sighting Six
out their living room window which nests in the foothills of
towards the foothills of the the Santa Cruz range." The Also on Wednesday, at about
Santa Cruz Mountain range in sighting was between 8:15 p.m. 11 p.m., Rudy Cosio reportedly
the general area of Gavilan and 8:30 p.m., the same time saw "a large white light." as
College. and location reported by the he sat in his car in the Blos-
"I thought at first it might Bluemmers. som Hill area and looked toward
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the Santa Theresa Foothills.
Cosio, 19, an aeronautics
student at San Jose State Uni-
versity, said the light ap-
peared to be a mile or two
away, sitting on top of the
foothills. "At first I thought
it was a helicopter," he ex-
plained. "Then more and more
it looked like a bright white
light." Cosio, a pilot, said
he viewed the light for three
to five minutes before traffic
began moving in the area where
he was parked and the sky be-
came black where the light had
been. SAN
FRANCISCO
DALY CIT

Seven at Airport

On Thursday, Aug. 14, at


about 9:35 p.m., an object var-
iously described as a steady
light, a disc, and a "round,
orange object" was reported
from Metropolitan Airport near
Stockton, CA., about 60 miles
northeast of San Jose.
One of three air traffic
controllers reporting the ob-
ject, Joe Savage, said the
round, orange object "did not
appear to be an aircraft, or
for that matter a rocket." (The
sighting was made 10 minutes
after a rocket had been fired Adfomo' fleoch^(

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said, "You shouldn't have seen


it, and it sure doesn't go
along the ground.")
Savage said he radioed a
helicopter to look at it. Sav-
age said the pilot (ID not
known by SKYLOOK) confirmed the
sighting.
According to Savage, the ob-
ject traveled from east to
west, then shot upward and lev-
eled off again, appearing to shot upward. said he also saw the object,
hover. Then it went west in Another air traffic control- which he said was a steady
level flight, slowed down al- ler, Dan Long, said the object light similar to an airplane,
most to a stop, and haze or appeared to be a disc. He said except that it did not flash.
smoke came out around it. After the object was flying at about Duran said he did not notice
a few seconds, it shot straight .2,000 feet. any variation in flight pat-
up. tern, except for the object's
Savage said the roof of the sudden rise. He said it sud-
airport tower obscured nis view Collaboration Near Airport denly emitted a big puff of
at that point, but that two green smoke or mist and then
persons on the catwalk reported Gary Duran of South Stockton, disappeared. "It was really
that it disappeared after it who lives near the airport, freaky," he concluded.
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'Ancient astronauts' and anthropology

Astroanthropology suggested
By Stuart W. Greenwood ing are considerable, and when serves more recognition than it
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering we have had enough of phrases has perhaps yet received.
University of Maryland such as "it seems reasonable
to suppose" we are left with Ancient Astronauts?
The past is precious, for it a recognition that the question
has nurtured the present. It of the origins of man is wide
is a partly-understood pattern open. At this point the present
of development and catastrophe, writer is going to make an ap-
and we know too little about Extraterrestrial Intervention?
peal to those who incline to
it. the belief that the "ancient
Time has erased much that we astronaut" hypothesis may help
In these circumstances, the explain not only the origins of
would dearly like to know, and hypothesis that man is, at man but also contemporary UFO
the hand of man has too often least in part, the product of phenomena. The appeal is to
contributed to the destruction extraterrestrial intervention
of early records, in both writ- observe the standards of schol-
in terrestrial affairs is per- arship practiced by Desmond
ten and architectural form. fectly legitimate.
Anthropology is the science Leslie and other thoughtful
The present writer has coined proponents of the hypothesis,
that deals with the origins
the term "astroanthropology" and to work with anthropolo-
and customs of man, and in- for this developing area of in- gists rather . than to attack
cludes archeology, which is quiry, and he was first stimu-
concerned with "digs." It is a them for their conservatism.
lated in this direction by
responsible and difficult sci- reading the first section of
ence, for in attempting to un- We should recognize that
the book FLYING SAUCERS HAVE much of our source material has
ravel the past we are tampering LANDED by Desmond Leslie and been painstakingly unearthed
with sporadic records of a George Adamski in 1953. and defined by anthropologists
series of events fixed in time
and space, and our investiga- The Adamski contact reports --and this in the face of con-
have perhaps tended to over- tinuing frustration and, too
tions must have as their ob-
jective the attainment of en- shadow the thoughtful and pro- frequently, having to cope with
lightenment without the partial vocative studies by Desmond fraudulent material.
or total destruction of records Leslie of ancient artifacts and
or, perhaps more critically, myths that appear to provide Conservatism a Virtue
their alteration. support for the hypothesis„
Chain of Evolution? Leslie gave a talk to the Conservatism is a virtue in
Bristol (England) Flying Saucer a field where conservation of
Anthropologists appear to Bureau shortly after the ap- the ancient records is vital to
have adopted as a working prin- pearance of the book and dealt the continuing availability of
ciple the concept that man is with the evidence for the idea data on the past for use by
the product of a continuous of extraterrestrial interven- future scholars, whose percep-
chain of development that -can tion in the past, as well as tion may be expected to be in
be fitted into the overall the Adamski reports. The advance of our own.
pattern of the evolution and present writer attended the We have every right to con-
development of life on the talk and was impressed by Les- tribute a stimulus to the work
earth. lie's scholarly treatment of of anthropologists by promoting
However, if we set aside his material and his acknowl- the field of astroanthropology,
this concept for the moment and edgment of the background pro- but we will only secure the
examine the facts as far as vided by the works of Charles confidence and cooperation of
they have been ascertained to Fort. anthropologists if we under-
date in any basic textbook on Other writers have since stand their methods of opera-
anthropology we readily estab- developed these concepts, but tion and at the same time show
lish that the concept is not Leslie's work remains as an ex- that our own material is organ-
substantiated. ample of a style that can both ized with care and a respect
The gaps in our understand- stimulate and inform. It de- for the truth we seek.

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Yorba Linda, CA SKYNET LOG

Semi-transparent UFO reported


By Ann Druffel stunned. She was unable to
verblize any motive for feeling
The possibility that UFO ac- she should leave the sighting
tivity is being revived in scene when she did. This facet
Yorba Linda, CA., has resulted of the sighting recalls other
in careful monitoring of this UFO incidents in which extra-
isolated Southern California ordinary objects in view seem,
community. In 1967-68 the small somehow, to react to the wit-
town at the foot of the Santa ness' will.
Ana Mountains range was the The object was seen over a
scene of numerous puzzling and large piece of vacant land
bizarre events. UFO activity which is being prepared for the
during that period included an construction of twenty-three
enigmatic photo, immense light- new homes. It is interesting
ed flying objects, as well as the appearance that you could to note that the prior Yorba
poltergeist events and the see through it. It looked like Linda flap of 1967-68 took
sighting of vaporous appari- a solid object in that it had place in an area of new homes
tions. (1,2) an outside to it, but it didn't and construction activity.
Now, after a lapse of eight look like it was metal. It
years, the Yorba Linda area is seemed as though I could see Mrs. Nystul seems a most
again the scene of extraordin- "seams' through the light..like reasonable and stable sort of
ary events. gray blurs..not definite enough individual, given to careful
At about 10:15 p.m. on the to give the impression of and objective statements, and
evening of May 5, 1975, Mrs. 'welds,' but portions where the displaying no tendency to em-
Mary Nystul of Yorba Linda was object was darker in color, bellish details.
driving east toward her home on particularly one vague line In view of the prior ufologi-
the outskirts of town.(3) While down the middle of the oval- cal history of Yorba Linda,
passing a large vacant field, shaped object, angled down to care is being taken to monitor
she was startled to see a huge the right."(5) the area for other possible re-
white lighted object suddenly In Mrs. N's sketch of the ports.
appear to the left of her car. object, she tried to convey the
Stunned, Mrs. Nystul let her fact that, as the object pul-
small Gremlin coast to a near- sated, she "could see a dif- FOOTNOTES
stop. The object was about ferent dimension or a different
fifty feet across the road, side to it." It never changed (1) See article entitled
hovering over the field. Its its basic, clearcut shape, but "The Yorba Linda Photograph,1.1
height was less than 70 feet seemed to angle off to the by Ann Druffel in Flying Saucer
from the earth as it pulsated right during the dim pulsating Review, Special Issue No. 5,
silently with regular rhythm. stage. November 1973.
Mrs. Nystul judged its size to The light from the object (2) Additional copious in-
be that of a regular-size auto- was self-contained. It did not formation of sighting reports
mobile, and its length subtend- cast light or shadows on the and documentation in author's
ed an angle of arc larger than ground and surrounding terrain. files.
the entire window (driver's There was no animal reaction in (3) Original report received
side) through which she viewed the neighborhood, and no elec- from police dispatcher (Yorba
it.(4) trical interference of which Linda) to CUFOS. The Center
The object pulsated in two- the witness was aware. referred case to MUFON for in-
second periods, for a duration After about fifteen seconds, vestigation.
of fifteen seconds. The effect Mrs. Nystul thought to herself, (4) Narrative information
was phantasmagoric, and Mrs* "I'd better get out of here." from witness Nystul contained
Nystul later was hard-pressed As she was thinking this, the in signed report form, returned
to find proper words to des- object abruptly disappeared, as to CUFOS.
cribe it. if vanishing or dematerializing (5) Forty-five-minute tape
"The light was clear white, on the spot. Mrs. Nystul states recording obtained during MUFON
like luminescence. It wasn't at no time was she frightened, interview of witness by Druffel
even like it was solid. It had though she felt strange and on behalf of MUFON and CUFOS.
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Microwaves and water

if ic deduction
and UFO investigations

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following copy- within a liquid experiences at- This "skin" is responsible
righted article for SKYLOOK by James tractive forces from its neigh- for many notable, and important
M. McCampbell, director of research for bors that are equal in all phenomena due to a force known
MUFON, illustrates how science can be directions. A molecule that is as surface tension. It governs
utilized in attempting to resolve the UFO on or quite near a free sur- such processes as atomization
phenomenon. Although no definite con-
clusions are reached regarding the ef-
face, however, is subjected to in garden sprinklers and auto-
fects of UFOs or their means of propul- unbalanced forces. Forces from motive carburetors. Also, the
sion, McCampbell does illustrate possible the molecules in the liquid be- capillary rise of moisture
techniques which may be useful in devel- low pull more strongly than the within plants and trees is pos-
oping tentative theories. molecules in the air above. sible only because of the sur-
Molecules at the surface are face tension.
By James M. McCampbell thereby drawn downward, creat- The phenomenon can be easily
ing a zone in which the inter- demonstrated by floating a
author of molecular spacing is smaller clean, dry needle on the sur-
Ufology, New Insights from
Science and Common Sense than normal. The next result face of water (although when
is a very thin layer that acts wetted, the needle will sink).
as an elastic membrane. The quantitative expression of
When witnesses report a UFO
sighting involving an object
Highly recommended by Sky look
moving near the surface of a
body of water, they may des-
MUFON
cribe a ripple effect on the 103 Oldtowne Rd. UFOs: INTERPLANETARY VISITORS
water which appears to have Seguin, TX 78155 By Raymond E. Fowler
been caused by the object. The
UFO researcher should be in- Phones:
$7.90
terested in studying the pos- 512-379-9216 (autographed and postpaid)
sible cause of this effect, and (MUFON headquarters and
what this may suggest about the Walt Andrus' home) f rom
nature of UFOs.
512-379-8850 Ray Fowler
Molecules and Surface Tension (Director Walt Andrus' P.O. Box 19
place of employment) Wenham, Mass.
A molecule buried deeply

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surface tension is a force per
unit of length acting with
equal intensity in all hori-
zontal directions.
Wove Generation

Any disturbance of a liquid


surface will generate waves. A
classical derivation based upon
balancing the forces exerted
upon a wave shows that the wave
velocity is governed by two in-
dependent forces, namely, grav-
ity and surface tension (1).
The effect of surface ten-
sion is entirely negligible for.
large waves of common experi-
ence, such as those produced by
a ship at sea. On the contrary,
the effect of gravity is negli-
gible for very small waves
whose behavior is controlled
largely by surface tension. From Kansas City Star (submitted by Larry Wright)
Wave velocity, dependent upon
several factors, becomes mini- ties. On a calm pond, a light temperature of the liquid low-
mum when the influence of grav- breeze will almost instantly ers the surface tension by an
ity and surface tension are create an array of ripples. amount of about 0.16 dyne per
equal. This critical condition Also, ripples will quickly dis- cm °C (6).
occurs at a wavelength of 17 cm appear when the wind stops, Thus, raising the temperature
(2). while true gravity waves will of water from, say, 60 F to
Waves of shorter wavelength continue to propagate with 200F° will reduce the surface
are known as capillary waves little loss of amplitude (4). tension from 73.5 to 61.1 dynes
or, both technically and col- The reason for this behavior per cm, or about 17%. (Inci-
loquially, as ripples. Gravity is that the surface tension dentally, it is this change
plays less and less role for tries to minimize the surface that permits one to tell only
the shorter wave lengths. For area—that is, to pull the sur- by listening whether water run-
example, the speed of a 1-cm face into a plane by flattening ning into a bath tub is hot or
wave is influenced about 75% by out the ripples. It is easy to cold.)
surface tension and 25% by see that a strong surface ten-
gravity (3). sion would hamper the buildup Microwave Effects
of ripples whereas a fluid with
Unique Properties weak surface tension could Now consider the effect of
easily be agitated to produce irradiating a surface of water
The small wavelets, or rip- ripples. with microwave energy—that is,
ples, have some unique proper- Such comparisons are observ- electomagnetic radiation whose
able in three separate dishes frequency lies roughly between
containing mercury, water, and that of television and the far
UFO benezine, whose respective sur- infrared.
face tensions are approximately Due to. resonant absorption
tie-toes 475, 73, and 30 dynes per cen- of the water molecule for radi-
and timeter (5). Mercury strongly ation in the range of 0.01 to
pins tends to retain its mirror sur- 1.0 cm, all the impinging radi-
We have a few of these left from the face. Benezine, as most organic ation will be absorbed with
1975 MUFON Symposium in Des fluids, is notably lively com- very little penetration. In
Moines. They are sterling silver and
make great gifts for Ufologists. Only
pared to water. other words, the energy will be
$5.00 plus $1.00 for postage, insurance Because surface tension is absorbed in a thin layer below
and handling. due to intermolecular forces, the surface including the sur-
SKYLOOK anything one can do to increase face membrane.
26 Edgewood Drive the kinetic energy of the mole- Because the membrane is so
Quincy, Illinois 62301 cules in the surface skin will thin, about two dozen molecules
reduce it. Increasing the thick at room temperature (7),
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it does not contain much mass. nificant in relation to its MATHEMATICAL ACCOUNT OF THE
Its heat capacity is, there- levitation. This restricted COMMON TYPES OF WAVE MOTION, p.
fore, very small and the ab- zone of influence was empha- 83, Oliver and Boyd, London,
sorbed radiation will be quite sized in a similar sighting by 1949.
effective in increasing the the famous actor Clint Walker 3. Adam, Neil K., PHYSICS
temperature of the water at, of the television serial, Chey- AND CHEMISTRY OF SURFACES,
and just below, the surface. A enne. He told Frank Edwards Second Edition, p. 386, Oxford,
decrease in the surface tension about an experience that he and 1938.
should be evidenced by an in- another fisherman had on a 4. Bixby, William, WAVE,
crease in the ripple height. river when their boat drifted PATHWAYS OF ENERGY, p. 8, Mc-
In other words, the water sur- under an overhanging tree limb: Kay, 1963.
face would become less effec- "As they sat there taking a
tive in its attempt to stay in 5. Condon, E.U. and Hugh
break and smoking, a disc- Odishaw, editors, HANDBOOK OF
a plane and it would depart shaped UFO came slowly and si-
farther from one. PHYSICS, Second Edition, Chap-
lently down the river, about ter 7 by Steven Brunauer and L.
six feet above the water. As E. Copeland, McGraw-Hill, 1967.
UFO Effect it silently crossed the pool
6. Crockford, H.D. and Sam-
where Walker and his companion uel B. Knight, FUNDAMENTALS OF
Such an effect should be ob- had been fishing, they noticed
served on the surface of a pond that the water beneath the UFO PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, Second Edi-
as a UFO cruises past, provided was dancing madly--a circular tion, p. 48, Wiley, 1964.
the UFO is emitting suitable 7. Biderman, J.J., PHYSICAL
patch of tiny waves that moved
radiation and the other neces- along with the UFO and was un- SURFACES, Academic Press, 1970.
sary conditions prevail. The questionably caused by it." 8. Edwards, Frank, FLYING
general manager and chief SAUCERS--SERIOUS BUSINESS, p.
(10. Emphasis added.)
engineer of a radio station in 175, Bantam, 1966.
St. Louis were surprised one A Physical Mechanism
9. McCampbell, J. M. UFOL-
morning in 1953 when they set OGY, NEW INSIGHTS FROM SCIENCE
out fishing on The Lake of The AND COMMON SENSE, Jaymac Com-
These details prove to be
Ozarks, according to an account pany, 12 Bryce Court, Belmont,
most helpful in identifying a CA 94002, 1973 and "Interpret-
by Frank Edwards in FLYING physical mechanism that could
SAUCERS—SERIOUS BUSINESS: ing Reports of UFO Sightings,"
be responsible. It appears in UFO SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS,
"Out some three or four quite likely that microwave
hundred yards from shore, their Des Moines, Iowa, MJTUAL UFO
radiation beamed downward from Network, July 1975.
outboard motor died. They were the UFOs heated the surface
sitting there in the fog, lis- 10. Edwards, op. cit., p.
layer of the water. The re- 176.
tening for a passing boat which sulting loss in surface tension
might help them, when they would then cause ripples that
heard a heavy humming sound. were already present to in-
They could see nothing until crease their amplitude, peaking AVAILABLE FROM THE CENTER FOR
UFO STUDIES, P.O. BOX II, Northfield,
the fog parted briefly; then, upward toward the UFOs. IL USA.
about a hundred feet from them, Furthermore, these episodes THE UFO EXPERIENCE, J. Allen Hynek.
and not more than five feet lend credence from unsuspected Paperback $2.00. Hardcover $7.50.
above the still waters of the quarters to the suspicion that UFO CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA,
lake, they saw a shiny disc- UFOs emit microwave radiation, David Jacobs. Hardcover $13.00.
shaped thing. It was oscillat- and that it is intimately as- UFOLOGY, James McCampbell. Softcover
ing slowly, and both men notic- sociated with their propulsion $4.50.
ed that directly beneath it the system.
water was dancing in thousands
of tiny sharp pointed waves." References PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED WITH
UFO SIGHTINGS, Ted Phillips, $8.00.
(8. Emphasis added.)
It should be noted that this 1. Lamb, Horace, HYDRODY- PROJECT SIGN (1949) $2.00.
observation was made in con- NAMICS, pp. 456-458, Cambridge, PROJECT MAGNET (Canadian Gov't)
junction with other details 1932. (The most thorough treat- $7.00.
that have also been ascribed to ment of capillary waves to be ROBERTSON REPORT (1953) $4.00
radiation, i.e., fog, dead found in easily accessible JANAP146E (1966) $2.00
motor, humming sound (9). sources, but it omits direct
Also, the peaking of wave- consideration of the influence
lets was confined to a region of surface tension upon wave All prices are postpaid. Send 25<t for
directly below the disc, a complete lists and information.
height.)
point that appears to be sig- 2. Coulson, C.A. WAVES, A

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Stanton Friedman says

Klass book unscientific


By Stanton T. Friedman representation. if it had been one, would have
Concerning the abduction of been visible over an area of
The casual reader of "UFOs Betty and Barney Hill in 1961 tens of thousands of square
Explained," by Philip J. Klass, (see "The Interrupted Journey" miles. Klass "explains" the
(Random House, $8.95) could by John G. Fuller), Klass mis- green light as the result of
easily conclude that author represents the facts of the the green plexiglass above the
Klass is a combination of Al- sighting, emphasizes Dr0 Si- cockpit. The crew stated that
bert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, mon's apparent lack of belief the object was in front and at
and Sherlock Holmes. Ufologi- and casually ignores the star 45 degrees above the horizon
cally knowledgeable readers map work of Marjorie Fish (AS- with the light penetrating
will say that at best the book TRONOMY, Dec. 1974), the USAF through the clear bubble, not
is "pseudoscience." This is radar UFO sighting at the same the green cover. Klass tried
not surprising since Klass1 time and location, the back- to reduce the time of the
earlier debunking "UFOs Identi- ground and reputations of the sighting by claiming that the
fied" was equally unscientific. witnesses, and, perhaps most crew couldn't have watched it
In "UFOs Identified" Klass important, the fact that Dr. moving away for thirty seconds
focused on various plasma phe- Simon, a highly rated psychia- while they were heading down
nomenon similar to ball light- trist and hypnotist, knew noth- because they would have been
ning but without any grasp of ing at all about UFOs and the fearful of crashing into the
the physics involved in plas- myriad of worldwide reports of ground just 400 feet below.
mas. Some of the same sightings landed UFOs complete with crea- Factually, the crew could see
explained in "UFOs Identified" tues!! ! the ground, and helicopter am-
are re-explained, differently, bulance crews are quite accus-
in "UFOs Explained." 1973 Ohio Case tomed to moving up and down at
altitudes less than 400 feet.
Never a Scientist Klass "explains" the Oct. 18, A South Hills, VA., sighting
1973, helicopter-crew UFO of an object taking off from a
Mr. Klass is a professional sighting over Mansfield, Ohio, road with a blinding flash of
writer and is not now and has as a fireball somehow associat- light and strongly affecting
never been a scientist. The ed with the Orionid meteor the road surface is "explained"
book does read well. However, shower. This huge "fireball" as a hoax produced by the
the tools used in "explaining" paced the helicopter, approach- town's leading citizen in order
away UFO sightings are not ed at high speed from the East to help his brother get elected
those of science. They include in level flight on a collision to public office. Supposedly,
character assassination, selec- course, stopped dead as the he poured gasoline on the road
tive choice and misrepresenta- helicopter took evasive action, and ignited it. Klass doesn't
tion of facts, innuendo, false sat still for several seconds, mention that several other wit-
logic, positive and negative flooded the cockpit with green nesses described the flash as
name calling, guilt by associ- light, then moved off at rapid- brilliant white (gasoline does
ation, and the other tools of ly increasing speed, while not burn white) and that a num-
the propagandist...not the changing color, toward the ber of attempts at duplicating
scientist. Northwest and up at 45 degrees the physical changes in the
The first half of the book to the horizontal. Despite ex- road surface by burning various
belabors the obvious fact that tremely clear weather and the chemicals were totally unsuc-
most UFO sightings can be ex- time of 11 p.m., the brilliant cessful. He doesn't mention
plained as something other than "fireball," though observed for that the witness had strongly
extraterrestrial space ships. more than a minute, wasn't re- advised his brother NOT to run
Every scientific ufologist ported to any of the groups for office because of his
knows this. I have personally collecting fireball data. Re- drinking problem and because he
checked into almost all the member that this was during one was running against an excel-
major sightings "explained" in of the busiest UFO sightings lent candidate who worked for
the second half of the book. I and publicity weeks in the past the "hoaxster."
find that in every instance decade, with many people out The 1964 Socorro, N.M., day-
there lias been significant mis- looking for UFOs. The fireball, time sighting of an object tak-
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on campus giving seminars and
visiting classes, and my fees
have to include transportation
from Redondo Beach, as well as
the postage and phone and other
costs of obtaining lectures.

'A' for Effort

If space were available I


could easily find 10,000 more
words debunking the debunker's
pseudoscience. As a scientist
myself, I would have to give
Klass an A for effort and flunk
Stanton Friedman, far right, is one of the recognized experts on UFOs in this him for his distortions of
country and the world, serving as a resource person, lecturer, and writer for various fact, his failure to tell the
public and private groups and organizations. In this photo he is with Marjorie whole truth and nothing but the
Fish, who developed the famous Hill Star Map model, and Ralph Blum, author of truth, and his lack of under-
BEYOND EARTH: MAN'S CONTACT WITH UFOs.
standing of human nature. To
ing off with a roar by a police measured ratio of the soluable summarize, Klass dismissed.
officer who had moments before zinc concentration in the ring
seen two small beings next to soil as 11 times greater than UFO NEWSCLIPPING
it is "explained" as a hoax that in nearby normal soil so SERVICE
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of the unimproved landing site. or the other nine elements vice was started in 1969, at
Klass dismisses the supporting measured, so the reader has no which time we contracted with
story of a mystery witness be- way of knowing that the "very a reputable international news-
cause he couldn't have seen the high zinc content" was all of paper-clipping bureau to obtain
object landing and the police 1.18 parts per million in the for us, those hard to find UFO
normal soil and 20ppm in the reports (i.e., little known photo-
officer driving up the mesa at graphic cases, close encounter
the same time. The fact is the ring soil. Zinc was actually and landing reports, occupant
witness had reported seeing the the next to the least abundant cases) and all other UFO re-
object land and then the police element in the ring soil and ports, many of which are car-
car driving towards it—NOT the least abundant in the nor- ried only in small town or
simultaneously at all. Klass mal soil. foreign newspapers.
postulates the purpose of the Klass mentions my name in
hoax was the desire to attract his book three times but never Our UFO Newsclipping Service
tourists, with the mayor and mentions that I am a scientist Report, is a 20 page photo-offset,
town benefiting from new hotels monthly publication containing
with 14 years of industrial ex- the latest United States and
and restaurants, a newly paved perience in the development of Canadian UFO newsclippings,
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hotels were built, and the road tems. He details the "great" ing the latest English, Austra-
wasn't paved, and the police backgrounds of his experts. He lian, New Zealand, South Afri-
officer has in no way benefited describes Dr. J. Allen Hynek's can, and other foreign UFO
and has even left the force. Center For UFO Studies as a one newsclippings! We publish more
man operation, ignoring the ac- UFO reports from around the
Delphos, KS, Case tive participation of scien- globe than ANY other publica-
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Klass "explains" the Delphos, —subscribe to the UFO NEWS-
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changes produced in a ring of that Hynek and I get paid vice, write today to:
soil 8 to 10 feet in diameter $1,000 for an hour lecture. UFO NEWSCLIPPING
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In Others' Words By Lucius Parish

A good report on the Mexican TION. Gaddis, Dr. Felix Zigel (via
UFO incident of May 3, 1975 ap- NATIONAL STAR for August 26 Joe Brill), George D. Fawcett
pears in the August 12 issue of alerted its readers to the up- and other well-known research-
NATIONAL ENQUIRER. 'The August coming UFO conference at Fort ers. The publication schedule
19 ENQUIRER issue devoted two Smith, AR., and quoted Charles for OFFICIAL UFO has been in-
pages to the film version of Hickson as saying he would give creased to 9 issues per year,
John Fuller's book, THE INTER- new details of his experiences so watch for it on your news-
RUPTED JOURNEY. This will be during that meeting. The Sept. stands about every six weeks or
shown on NBC-TV sometime in the 2 STAR carried an article on so.
new fall season and promises to UFOs and animal mutilations; For those interested in von
be well worth watching. the issue for Sept. 9 gave de- Daniken's theories, a couple
Two additional UFO-related tails of recent California UFO of privately-published volumes
articles have appeared in more sightings. should be mentioned. THE LEGACY
recent issues of NATIONAL EN- ARGOSY has recently published OF METHUSELAH and THE TESTIMONY
QUIRER. The first, in the a UFO ANNUAL, consisting large- OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS are both
Sept. 2 issue, told of Charles ly of material which has been written from a Fundamentalist
Fort's pioneering efforts in published in various issues of Christian viewpoint, based on
researching UFOs and a host of the magazine over the last 10- the supposition that an advanc-
other anomalous phenomena. The 15 years. For those who don't ed Antediluvian civilization is
Sept. 9 issue contained an ordinarily read ARGOSY, this responsible for the mysterious
article on the N.C. sightings might prove interesting. sites and artifacts found all
of a triangular UFO during The September issues 6f SAGA, over the world. Many of the
April of this year. PROBE THE UNKNOWN and FATE have evidences cited in these books
The July 27 issue of NATIONAL UFO articles of interest. The will be familiar—the Bagdad
TATTLER contained an article on October issue of MALE has some batteries, the Salzburg cube,
the recent UFO flap in west- rehash and speculations about the Piri Reis maps, etc.—but
central Wisconsin. sexual experiments by the Ufo- there are also some items which
A very interesting inter- •nauts. have not been widely publicized
view with Leonard Nimoy (Star The October issue of SAGA in previous books. It is ob-
Trek's "Mr. Spock") was featur- contains an interesting article vious that a considerable
ed in the Aug. 31 issue of on UFO occupant cases by Gordon amount of research has been
NATIONAL TATTLER. Nimoy, like Lore, as well as John Keel's done on such subjects. THE
his serious co-star, William regular column. Don't take LEGACY OF METHUSELAH is priced
Shatner, takes the UFO subject Keel seriously when he says at $4.50 and THE TESTIMONY OF
seriously. His comments on the Skylab is the only visible ANCIENT MONUMENTS is $2.50.
subject are certainly worth artificial satellite. He has Both can be purchased from the
reading. The "ancient astro- never been able to get his author, Joey R. Jochmans, at:
naut" theories received more facts straight on this partic- Box 6463 - Lincoln, Nebraska
attention in the TATTLER issues ular topic (or a few dozen 68506. I recommend the present
of Aug. 31 and Sept. 7. The other topics, some would say!). two volumes, and others are in
many rock drawings at Val Cam- In the July column, I men- preparation.
onica, Italy, were discussed in tioned the "#3" issue of OFFIC- I must admit being a trifle
the first instance, while the IAL UFO, stating it was then on disappointed with a recently-
research of a Danish scientist sale. I should have said #2, released volume, PHYSICAL
formed the topic for the latter so my apologies for that goof. TRACES ASSOCIATED WITH UFO
article. However, the #3 (October) issue SIGHTINGS. This has been com-
NATIONAL STAR for August 12 is now available and shows a piled by Ted Phillips and edi-
featured two articles of inter- great deal of improvement over ted by Mimi Hynek, with publi-
est. One dealt with a UFO the first two issues. This cation by The Center for UFO
landing and crop damage in On- magazine is rapidly turning in- Studies. While I recognize and
tario, Canada; the second item to a very good source of infor- appreciate the very great
concerned producer/author Alan mation on UFOs. The #3 issue amount of work which has gone
Landsburg's recent film and contains articles by Richard into such a compilation, I
book, THE OUTER SPACE CONNEC- Hall, Kevin Randle, Vincent found some of the individual
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entries to be erroneous in var-
Betty and Barney Hill case
ious details, as well as being
(in some cases) quite super- on TV Monday, Oct. 20 Ft. Smith conference
ficial. Even so, a 144-page A two-hour motion picture
book devoted solely to physical .depicting the well-known story Oct. 17,18,19
traces caused by UFOs cannot be of Betty and .Barney Hill will
taken lightly. In this sense, be televised by NBC on Monday, Plans for the UFO conference
it is a fascinating and valu- Oct. 20. at Ft. Smith, AR, scheduled for
able document. Photos, illus- The program, which describes Oct. 17, 18, and 19, are going
trations and graphs are includ- the unusual UFO events which as scheduled, according to con-
ed. The time period for trace allegedly occurred on Sept. 19, ference director Bill Pitts„
cases ranges from 1490 to 1975. 1961, in the White Mountains of As noted in the July and
The book is available from the New Hampshire, will star Acad- August editions of SKYLOOK, the
Center for UFO Studies (P.O. emy Award Nominee James Earl conference will bring together
Box 11 - Northfield, IL 60093) Jones and Academy Award Winner for the first time the four
for $8.00. Estelle Parsons. The presen- major UFO groups in this coun-
Richard E. Mooney's COLONY: tation is entitled "The UFO try: APRO, CUFOS, MUFON, and
EARTH might appear to be just Incident." NICAP.
another attempt to cash in on Universal Studios, which
the "ancient astronauts" pub- produced the film, utilized The lineup of UFO celebraties
lishing goldmine, but it actu- transcripts of tape recordings will include Dr. J. Allen
ally goes a bit deeper than a made by the Hills while under Hynek, Stanton Friedman, Jim
first glance may indicate. hypnosis, Air Force records, and Coral Lorenzen, Ray Stan-
Basically, Mooney agrees with files of the Hayden Planetar- ford, Phillip Klass, Walt And-
von Daniken that visitors from ium, and the book INTERRUPTED rus, Charles Hickson, Dewey
the stars may well have in- JOURNEY by John G. Fuller. In Fournet, Dr. Richard Haines,
fluenced early humanity, but addition, screenwriter Hesper Capt. Stephen Pease, and Wil-
he thinks such visitors may Anderson spent many hours talk- liam Spaulding.
have set up a colony on Earth. ing with Betty Hill (Barney
He also speculates that per- Hill died in 1969). Also attending will be an
haps there was no "Ice Age" as Stanton T. Friedman, who FAA radar team, a NASA research
we commonly think of it; that served as technical advisor for scientist, and the space object
the Pyramids and other huge Universal Studios in the prep- identification analyst from
constructions may have been in- aration of the program, says, NORADo
tended as shelters from some "I was very impressed with the As previously announced,
global catastrophe; and that quality of the effort I saw be- advance reservations for the
1
some religious rituals may be ing put into 'The UFO Incident conference will be accepted
garbled memories of ancient and the dedication to accuracy until Oct. 1 at $12.50 per per-
nuclear wars and their effects. rather than sensationalism. son. After Oct. 1 and at the
An intriguing book and certain- "The script, the special ef- door the cost will be $17.50
ly worth reading. The hardcover fects, and, of course, the act-per person. This includes all
edition of COLONY: EARTH may be ing were all first rate," con- meetings and events, as well as
obtained from Stein fT Day - cludes Friedman, noted UFO lec- the Saturday evening buffet
Scarborough House - Briarcliff turer, MUFON consultant, and dinner. For registration in-
Manor, N.Y. 10510; the price is nuclear and space scientist. formation, contact Bill Pitts,
$7.95. A paperback edition is "My own investigation of this
available from Fawcett Books at UFO experience has convinced me UFOSt.,
Conference, 500 N. Second
Fort Smith, AR 72901 (Of-
$1.50. Mooney's new book, GODS that it is one of the most im- fice phone 501-782-0373; home
OF AIR AND DARKNESS, is due for portant on record. I believe phone 501-783-0754).
August publication by Stein § the viewers will come to share
Day. my opinion." Motel reservations should be
made directly with the Trade
California professor initiates local UFO hotline Winds Inn (Best Western), 101
N. Eleventh St., Fort Smith, AR
Dr. Alvin H. Lawson, pro- Dr. Lawson, who teaches a 72901 (phone 501-785-4121),
fessor of English at the Cali- course called "UFO Literature: specifying UFO Conference. The
fornia State University at Long The Rhetoric of the Unknown," rates are: singles, $13.50;
Beach and MUFON state section says his hotline is not compet- double, $18.00; twin double,
director for Orange County, lias ing with the national hotline $22.00; triple, $20.00 for two
initiated a 24-hour hotline for operated by the Center for UFO and $3.00 for each additional
UFO reports. Studies. guest.

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Director's Message
By Walt Andrus

Hawaii State Director MUFON is proud to welcome a Picnic in Carlyle, IL., but
new consultant in psychology, vacation plans for 1976 may be
With the addition of Hawaii Robert B. Bechtel, Ph.D.; 5741 more favorable for the trip.
and Montana, MUFON has expanded Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO
its coverage in the United 64113; telephone: (816) 363- Ft. Smith Conference
States. Michael L. Broyles, 2111. Dr. Bechtel has done ex-
2717A Hipawai PL., Honolulu, HI tensive research in parapsy- "United For Objectivity"
96822 has been appointed state chology and his speciality in (UFO) is the theme for the
director for Hawaii. Mike has research is in the response to national UFO Conference to be
his M.S. from the University of environmental stimuli. This held Oct. 17, 18, and 19 in Ft.
Wisconsin and is now a Ph.D. comes under the heading of en- Smith, AR, at the Trade Winds
candidate in Seismology at the vironmental psychology, and Inn. The four major UFO organ-
University of Hawaii. more precisely, ecological psy- izations in the United States
A. V. McDowell, Box 104, chology. He was recommended by will be represented: APRO,
Worden, MT 59088; telephone Grey Woodman, M.D. MUFON, NICAP and CUFOS. For
(406) 967-6098 has been select- details on this outstanding
ed as the state section direc-r event, please refer to a
tor for the Montana counties of Legal Advisor separate article in this issue
Yellowstone, Treasurer, Mussel- of SKYLOOK.
shell, and Bighorn. Mr. Mc- William C. Shead, 2927 Broad- This conference promises to
Dowell is a publishing-editor. way, Houston, TX 77017; tele- be not only an enlightening ex-
Virgil P. Chabre, 811 Ridge, phone: (713) 941-2790. Mr, perience for the news media,
Rock Springs, WY 82901; tele- Shead, a practicing attorney, but an opportunity for the
phone: (307) 362-6230 has vol- has been appointed a legal ad- major UFO organizations to pool
unteered to serve as state sec- visor to MUFON and will also their investigative and re-
tion director for Sweetwater 'serve as a field investigator. search resources so as to re-
County. Virgil was recommended He will be working with MUFON1s solve this perplexing enigma.
to MUFON by R. Leo Sprinkle. deputy director, John F. Your director will be one of
Schuessler, in. Houston. Gary the speakers.
Canal Zone Representative Graber, state section director, New M U F O N Office
from Mt. Pleasant, IA, and your
The Canal Zone is now repre- director met with Mr. Schuess-
sented by Wendell F. Taylor, P. MUFON members from Mt.
ler on Aug. 17 and later toured Pleasant, IA; and Waco and
0. Box 1305, Balboa, Canal the. NASA Space Center in Hous-
Zone, expanding MUFON inter- Houston, TX have already visit-
ton.
nationally. Wendell is an il- ed the new MUFON Administrative
lustrator and freelance artist On the same date, Rosetta Office at 103 Oldtowne Road,
by profession, and was recom- and Dick Holmes were hosting Seguin, TX 78155 during the
mended by John Schuessler and the seventh Annual MUFON UFO past few weeks. The office
Jose Fuentes of Houston, TX. picnic in Carlyle, IL, under telephone number is (512) 379-
Tommy Roy Blann, 57-A Boil- the sponsorship of the UFO 9216. Your director may also
ing Drive, Waco, TX 76705; Study Group of Greater St. be contacted at his business
telephone: (817) 799-3146 has Louis. From the fine reports during the day at (512) 379-
been appointed state section we have received, the picnic 8850.
director for .McLennan, Hill, and skywatch were again a roar- Please keep these new tele-
Bosque, Navarro, Bell, Coryell ing success. Everyone who help- phone numbers readily availa-
and Hamilton .counties in Texas. ed to make this event such a ble for reference. New member-
Tommy is a student and is work- memorable affair is to be con- ship identification cards re-
ing toward a B.S. in nuclear gratulated. flecting the new address will
science. He is director of the Both John Schuessler and your be issued as each member's dues
recently organized Texas UFO director regret that we were and SKYLOOK subscription is re-
Study Group. unable to attend the Annual UFO newed during 1975 or 1976.
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McCampbell, Friedman accept Klass challenge
Two California ufologists and Friedman w i l l have to see nationwide TV show.
have accepted the challenge of one of the three following Those challenging Klass are
P h i l i p J» Klass, an outspoken events occur: obligated to make the $100 pay-
critic of UFO investigators, to 1. Any crashed spacecraft ments for a maximum of ten
"put your money where your is found whose design and con- years, but K l a s s ' i s ' o b i i g e d to
mouth is" in wagers that could struction clearly identify it pay the $10,000 if proof is
earn the winner of each bet as being of extraterrestrial forthcoming anytime during the
$1,000 to $10,000. origin in the opinion of the U. lifetimes of Klass and a chal-
Klass, senior avionics editor S. National Academy of Scien- lenger.
for Aviation Week and Space ces.
Technology magazine, renewed 2. The National Academy of
his long-standing challenge in 1974 MUFON UFO
Sciences announces that it has SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS
his latest book, UFO's EXPLAIN- examined other evidence which
ED (Random House), and in the proves conclusively that earth "UFO's—An Issue Whose Time
broadcast and print media. has been visited by extrater- Has Almost Come" By Ralph
Klass says he w i l l pay restrial spacecraft in this Blum
$10,000 to anyone able to prove century. "Religion and UFO's: The Extra-
to his satisfaction that extra- 3. The first bona fide ex- sensory Problem" by Barry H.
terrestrial visitors or space- traterrestrial visitor, born on Downing, Ph.D..
craft exist. Those accepting a celestrial body other than "UFO Trace-landing Cases" by
the bet must pay Klass $1,000 Earth, appears live before the Ted Phillips
at the rate of $100 per year U.N. General Assembly or on a "Journey Into the Hill Star
for ten years if the required
Map" by Marjorie E. Fish
proof is not forthcoming during
that ten-year period. "Saucers, PS I and Psychiatry"
Jim McCampbell, author of 1975 MUFON by Berthold E, Schwarz, M.'D.
"Flying Saucers and Physics" by
UFOLOGY, NEW INSIGHTS
SCIENCE AND COMMON SENSE (Jay-
FROM SYMPOSIUM Stanton T. Friedman
mac Co., 12 Bryce Court, Bel- PROCEEDINGS "UFO's, in Relation to Creature
mont, Ca. 9^002), and Stanton (111 pages) Sightings in Pennsylvania" by
Friedman, the well-known UFO "An Expanded Vision of UFO Re- Stan Gordon
lecturer and writer, have each search" by Dr. David M. Jacobs, author
signed the necessary contract of The UFO Controversy in America. 1973 MIDWEST UFO
"Center for UFO Studies and the SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS
and put up the $100 to cover
the first year's bet. UFO Central Situation" by Sherman J.
In order to win, McCampbell Larsen, president of the Center for "UFO Flight Characteristics"
UFO Studies. presented by John F. Schuessler
"UFO Research: Problem or Predica- "Landing Traces, Physical Evi-
QUARTER CENTURY STUDIES ment?" by Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle, member dence for the UFO" presented by
National Enquirer UFO Blue Ribbon Ted Phillips
OF UFOs IN Panel. "Vision, Photography & UFOs"
"A Catalog of Humanoid Reports presented by Adrian Vance
FLORIDA, NORTH CAROLINA for 1974" by Ted Bloecher, co-chairman "Ufology and the Search for
of the MUFON Humanoid Study Com- Extraterrestrial Life" presented
AND TENNESSEE mittee. by Stanton T. Friedman
"Interpreting Reports of UFO Sight-
ings" by James M. McCampbell, "The Embarrassment of Riches"
By George D0 Fawcett presented by Dr. J. Allen Hynek
MUFON State Director, author of Urology — New Insights
from Science and Common Sense. . "Some Questions Concerning Dr.
North Carolina Meniel's Biblical Exegesis" sub-
"UFO Research Proposals: What, mitted paper by Dr. Barry H.
Who, and How Much?" by Dr. Jacques Downing
$3.95 (plus 80C first Vallee, author of Anatomy of a Phe-
class postage in U. S. or nomenon, etc.
$1.00 first class postage "Unidentified Flying Objects: The For either the 1974 or 1973
overseas) N.C. residents add Emerging Evidence" by Ted Phillips, MUTUAL UFO SYMPOSIUM
k% sales tax. MUFON specialization coordinator." PROCEEDINGS send $325 ($4.00
The 1975 Proceedings is available outside the U.S. and Canada) by
Pioneer Printing Co« from MUFON, 103 Oldtowne Rd, check or money order to MUFON,
P. 0. Box k07 Sequin, Texas 78155 for $4.00 post- 103 Oldtowne Road, Seguin, Texas
Mount Airy, N.C. 27030 paid. 78155 USA.

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Recapping and commenting
By Richard Hall strotiomy
(This column is directed to-
ward articles appearing in the
about some, and generally pre-
senting a negative picture of
Notes
By Mark Herbstritt
July, 1975, edition of SKY- them as far as being relevant
LOOK) . to possible objectively real
UFOs. I hope the "new wavers"
What can one say about the were listening. One of the October Sky
1964 '!UFO repair" case in New myths floating around, which I
Berlin,*^.Y.? Was it (1) earth- was accused of to my face, was Mercury—on the 24th it is at
ly technology? (unlikely, con- that N1CAP "suppressed" greatest western elongation
or standing about 17° above the
sidering the configuration and "destroyed" evidence that did
the rate of departure); (b) a not fit its views and didn't horizon just south of east at
staged event? (which requires bother to investigate contactee sunrise. For the last half of
the month it is an easily e&-..',
invoking deceptive spacemen— reports. We definitely did in- served morning star. ;
or somebody); (c) the "real" vestigate and, in general, Venus—for about 3 hours be-
spacemen (in which case they found ample evidence of fakery fore sunrise it dominates the
appear all too "human"); (d) and unreliability. Also, I eastern sky; greatest brill-
other? personally answered the first iancy is on the 3rd.
correspondence from Betty Hill, Mars—moving from Taurus ijito \
Having just returned from the put Walter Webb in touch with Gemini, it rises late in, the • •*'t
International Fortean Organi- her, and encouraged all pos- evening and dominates this part '5
zation (INfQ) convention in Oak sible investigation from then of the sky.
Brook, Illinois, I suspect some on. Jupiter—this is the month of 1
"new wave" UFOlogists would Apparently the "new wave" in- Jupiter's opposition (on the
think in terms of a human un- cludes strong anti-government 13th) when it is at its bright-
conscious projection of some and anti-scientific elements, est and rises as the sun set's
kind, a la Carl Jung. There which is not surprising consid- and is visible all night.
Jerome Clark expressed the view ering Watergate, revelations Saturn—is in Cancer. It is
that the UFO mystery basically about the CIA, and scientific magnitude -2.5 and rises about
is a subjective one, with only disdain of UFOs. Still, their midnight.
relatively minor objective substitute seems to me to be The Orionid meteor Shower
aspects. Be that as it may, we subjective, mystical, and cha- reaches maximum on the 21st.
were also regaled by "Christof otic. The need for input from
Friedrich" who insists that psychologists and other be- spectacular "data" is almost
UFOs are an outgrowth of Nazi havioral scientists seems more surely false and irrelevant„
technology at the close of urgent than ever. I am not saying that any i?epoft
World War II when various super At the Fortfest I met and should be thrown out because of
weapons, including high-per- chatted with Ron Westrum, and its content; I am saying that a
formance saucer-shaped air- was pleased to learn that he is cold, hard look should be taken
craft, allegedly were on the doing some sociological studies at the reporters.
verge of being perfected. The related to UFOs. It strikes me
straight extraterrestrial in- that some time, some place
terpretation was alluded to by (perhaps next year's conven- 105 places to obtain UFO
a few participants as "passe" tion), a panel discussion or information $1.00
and, by implication, the "back- forum of some kind for behavi- 1-0 different maps on UFO .
ward" viejFof "conservative oral scientists would be par- sightings, magnetic effects,,
-UFOlogistsr1 ticularly valuable. I might be occupants, etc. 50* each
toother" speaker was Rev. J. proved wrong, but it is my List of 198 UFO organi-
Gordon Melton, research direc- humble opinion that outright zations you can join $3»95
tor of The Institute for the dishonesty, psychosis, neuros- Heflin set of UFO Photos .
Study of American Religion. He is, egoism, and cultism are be- $1.95
surveyed the activities of sev- ing grossly underestimated in Booklist of over 50 UFO
eral well-known contactees, the UFO field, and that these Books
showing their links with pre- are detracting from careful in- B i l l Bern is
existing religious cults, re- vestigation of serious facts. Box 35 Versailles, IL 623,78
vealing derogatory information At least some of the muddle of
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