Number 90

"We tell it as it is"

SKYLOOKThe UFO Monthly

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May, 1975

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF MUFONJ MUTUAL UFO NETWORK, INC.

This sketch represents an artist's conception of one of the on April 6. The complete story begins on page 3. (Art byUFOs reported recently in North Carolina. Highlighting the John Prince)rash of sightings was a reported landing near Pembroke, N.C.,

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SKYLOOKThe UFO Monthly26 Edgewood DriveQuincy, Illinois 62301

Dwight ConnellyEditor

Carolyn ConnellyBusiness Manager

Walter H. AndrusDirector of MUFQN

Ted BloecherHumanoid/Occupant Cases

Joseph M. Brill _International Coordinator

The Rev. Dr. Barry DowningReligion and UFOs

Lucius ParishBooks, Periodicals, History

Marjorie FishExtraterrestrial Life

Stan GordonCreatures & UFO's

GaryGraberArl i s t

Richard Hall

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Ted PhillipsUFO Landing Traces

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Norma E. ShortEditor-Publisher Emeritus

Editor's ColumnAs announced in Director Walt

Andrus' column, Joe Brill hasresigned as MUFON's interna-tional coordinator, effectiveMay 31.

We would be remiss if we didnot publicly express our appre-ciation for the fine work whichJoe has done. It has been adifficult task to deve1 op re-liable contacts throughout theworld. The frustrations of sucha task are probably not apprec-iated by those who have notbeen in direct contact withJoe's daily efforts.

Joe wi l l continue as a mem-ber of the Skylook staff, de-voting most of his time towriting his well-known column,"UFOs Behind the Iron Curtain.11

Taking Joe's place as MUFON's

international coordinator willbe another member of Sky look'sstaff, Richard Hall. As a form-er assistant director of NlCAPand editor of the excellentbook, THE UFO EVIDENCE, Dick*'brings an extensive UFO back- .ground to his new position.

He w i l 1 continue to writehTs perceptiye column for .Skylook, "Recapping ,and Comment-ing," Since Dick wrote thecolumn as a "freelancer" for a-"while, there has been no offic-ial announcement of his joiningthe Skylook staff. This ap-pointment wa-s made officialshortly before he was asked by.MUFON to assume the duties asinternational coordinator. So,Dick, this Is an official wel-come to both positions.

In This IssueUFO landing reported near Pembroke, North Carol ina. . . , , . . . . 3CIA declassifies Robertson Panel Report —, —, 6Details on Air Force 'unknowns' still incomplete 8Object falls from sky and hits tractor , , . 8Youths report UFO over school grounds 9MUFON'Director's Message .10UFO. tracks, animal reactions, electric shock in Illinois 12UFO's escort pilot near Mexico City .14In Others' Words 15UFOs Behind the Iron Curtain 16Bradenton, Florida, area reports several sightings . , . , . . ,17,. .West Virginia family says UFO hovered over their home 181975MUFON Symposium program described , , 19Recapping and Commenting ,, . , 20Astronomy Notes ; . , . .;20 '

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Landing reported in N. CarolinaDATES OF SIGHTINGS: April 3,

A, 5, 6, 1975. etc.LOCATIONS OF SIGHTINGS: Lum-,

berton and Pembroke, N.C., andsurrounding areas.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION: THEROBESONIAN and THE LUMBERTONPOST of Lumberton, N.C. (MUFONinvestigators Lee Spiegel andTed P h i l l i p s were at the scene,but no formal, written reportshave been submitted by themthus far.) The news stories,sketches and photo were ob-tained by SKYLOOK staff memberJoe B r i l l ; the article waswritten by Dwight Connelly.

An alleged UFO landing nearPembroke, N.C., on April 6 -hasbeen the high point thus far ina rash of sightings in the fivecounties of Rbbeson, Cumber-land, Hoke, Sampson, and Bladenin the southeastern section ofthe state.

The first reported sightingwas on Wednesday, April 3, at1:^5 a.m. when Lumberton policeofficers Phil Stanton, Neil Mc-Cormick, and P. H. Atkinson sawa V-shaped "thing" moving 200-300 feet above the ground.

RED LIGHTS

The "craft" was described ashaving a row of red lights onone side and a row of greenlights on the other. The ob-ject also had two spotlights,according to the officers.

Police at St. Pauls, 15miles north of Lumberton, werecontacted and told to be on thealert for the object, which wasmoving in their direction. Of-ficers R. T. Higgins and JohnMcPasson sighted the object twomiles south of St. Pauls.

The two said they saw ablinding flash of light which,according to McPherson, "justl i t up the woods like a giantflash bulb." He said it wassomething like an explosion.

McPherson said he could see

the outline of trees silhouet-ted against the light, leadinghim to believe the object washovering near the ground or wason the ground.

The two witnesses spotted theobject two additional times, a-bout 20 feet off the ground andlater as it zoomed to about 300feet. The speed was estimatedat.200 m.p.h.

The fields and woods aroundthe sighting area were inspect-ed later, but nothing wasfound. McPherson said .it hadbeen stormy, but it was notraining at the time he saw thecraft. He said the object wasabout the size of a twin-engineCessna and made no sound.

IN HOKE COUNTY .

Following the sighting nearSt. Pauls, the object was re-ported in Hoke County," north-west of St. Pauls and home ofthe Ft. Bragg Military Reser-vation. Hoke County officersalso described the object as V-shaped and lighted.

From Hoke, the object—fol-

lowed by officers—traveled in-to Cumberland County, east ofHoke County. From CumberlandCounty the object continuedeast to Roseboro in SampsonCounty.

A Roseboro police officer,Jim Driver, said the objectslowly passed over -him about100 feet above the ground,making no noise. When he gotout of his car, he said a spot-light came on, intensified, andthe craft took off at highspeed. He said he followed thecraft to Garland, \k milessoutheast, where he discontin-ued the chase.' The craft was reported atElizabethtown in Bladen County,2k miles due east of Lumberton,about *t5 minutes later. , Pol iceOfficer Bullock confirmed thesighting in Elizabethtown, andcitizens claimed the object'ssearchlights bathed the town inlight. :'

From Elizabethtown the objectmoved to the south, where itwas sighted in ColumbusiCountyat about 6:55 a.m., five min-utes before sunrise. This was

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Five areas of ash, each a foot in diameter, were apparentlyleft at the reported landing site near Pembroke, N.C., on April 6.

Three of the areas of ash are shown in the above photo (theareas have been circled with a pen on the photo).

the last report.Weather conditions for the

Lumberton area on the night ofthe sightings featured a vio-lent thunderstorm and "particu-larly vivid" lightning flashes.High winds, driving rain^ andintense lightning lasted sev-•eral hours, including .part'ofthe time of the UFO observa-tions.

The Fayetteville airport inCumberland County reportedlyhad no radar contact with anyUFO during the period of thesightings.^'

Ronald Thompson, a dispatcherwith the Robeson County SheriffDepartment and a UFO enthusi-ast, said he did not give anydescription of the UFO whennotifying other police units,and that he was "amazed" at thes i m i l a r i t y of descriptionsradioed back to him.

Thompson said he contactedair bases and airfields as faraway as Myrtle Beach, but nonereported having planes in thearea. A spokesman for the Fed-

eral Aviation Administrationi n i t i a l l y said the-UFO sight-ings were of a Piedmont Air-lines Boe.ing Delta Jet. makingtest runs. Later the FAA re-versed this statement, sayingthere were no airplanes in thearea at the time of the sight-ings

REPORTS CONTINUE

On the evening of Thursday,April. 3, the sighting reportscontinued, with eight law of-ficers and numerous citizensallegedly making observations.Some of the citizen reportswere admitted hoaxes, however.

A possible landing was re-ported in Robeson County on NCIk at \:kS a.m. (April 4) near.the residence of Evander Par-nell. Parnell said a craft ap-peared to have been .on theground in a wooded area, and itreportedly rose to a height of300 feet, then disappeared,,

The sighting reports con-tinued on Friday evening, April

*f, as dispatcher Thompson al-legedly saw a flying object at9:15 p.m. in the Midway commun-ity. He said the object ap-proached from the southeast andthen stopped and hovered about300 feet away.

Thompson says he shut off hisengine and flashed .his head-lights at the craft, and thatthe object flashed a search-light back before taking off ina westerly direction behindsome trees.

TWO SEARCHLIGHTS

Thompson described the craftas being 30 feet in diameterand having two searchlights,one on1 the bottom and one onthe front. He said the V-shapedobject was also illuminatedfrom the inside. It made nonoise.

Also on Friday, at WhiteLake, eight miles east of Eliz-abethtown, Police Chief GaryMoore reported that he wasdriving a lakeside road about

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50 m.p.h. when a UFO came downand "the whole side of the roadlit up like it was daylight."Moore says he continued about

300 yards before stopping hiscar and getting out. "I lookedin the air and the light was sobright I had to look back." Hethen got his binoculars out andlooked at the object. "Then Igot an airplane landing lightthat I. carry in my patrol car,"he related, "and I shined it. upthere. I blinked the light andit blinked back."

ANOTHER GOOD LOOK

Moore says he "took anothergood look at it with the binoc-ulars" before the object movedwest toward Lumberton. He saidhe followed it about two miles,going as fast as 85 m.p.h. inhis patrol car, but "it leftme."

He-said that after the objectblinked its light it "wentstraight up and out" at an est-imated 200 m.p.h.

'. . Describing the object fromhis vantage point of about 200feet at one time, Moore saidthe craft was V-shaped withlights around one big light"that looked double the size ofthe steering wheel of a car."

The object reportedly lit upan area of about 500 feet oneither stde of the road, andseveral other drivers reported-ly stopped to view the objectthrough Moore's binoculars dur-ing the five minutes the craftwas hovering.

A state patrolman reported aslow-moving flying craft about2 a.m. Saturday (April 5) nearSaddletree. He said the objectwas about 300 yards away at hisclosest observation, and thatit had b r i l l i a n t orange andreddi'sh 1 ights.

The first daylight sightingand verified landing came at5:15 p.m. Sunday, April 6. RayStrickland, a Pembroke StateUniversity campus policeman;his wife; and children observedfive UFOs (or one UFO, depend-ing upon later interpretation)on the Philadelphus Road : onem i l e north of Pembroke. •-'

Driver's sighting

Moore's sketch.

Unlike the V-shaped UFO re-ported .previously, the sightingby the Stricklands involvedwhat appeared to be five cir-cular objects, in a circularformation about 100 feet offthe ground, traveling about 50m.p.h. . .

Strickland said his wife wasafraid the objects were goingto crash into a house locatedin a nearby field. The objectswere a formation of pinkish-red1ights, and behind each objectwas a bluish trai 1 ..or ."streak."He .said the objects were sev-eral feet apart.

The objects appeared to landin a potato patch,' so Strick-land went to his home two milesaway\ to call someone to thescene quickly.

Dispatcher Thompson arrivedfrom, the sheriff's office witha photographer, but all thatwas left were five circular ash.patches which had not been

there previously. Each 'patchwas about a foot in diameter,and comparable in overall pat-tern to the. format ion" observedby the Stricklands. .The ash isdescribed as "a strange blue"in color.

Additional witnesses !to thelanding or near landing'observ-ed .by the Stricklands have beenlocated by' Ted P h i l l i p s , whoinvestigated the landing . forthe Center for UFO Studies.

A small boy playing i,'\.n thearea said the objects '(;6r ob-ject) kicked up a cloud of dustas high as a house.

ONE OBJECT OR FIVE?

While Strickland thought hesaw five, objects in formation,other witnesses viewing thephenomenon from other anglessay they saw a chrome-like at-tachment between each ;..light,making one connected object.

P h i l l i p s was reportedly in-terested in. a ci rcular .impres-sion found at the site, sayinghe had not seen . .anything .likeit before. He also reportedlysaid that he had not previouslyheard of lights being seen on aUFO in daytime.

A hole which some,observersthought might be a landi,rig gearindentation reportedly did notimpress P h i l l i p s , since, therewere no other .similar holes toform a landing gear pattern.

P h i l l i p s was reportedly:puz-zled at the lack of damage toplants located very near thesix patches of ash. He alsoappeared surprised that ,'no onesaw the UFO leave the site.

P h i l l i p s is quoted as say-ing that "it's very difficultto imagine .,what the ash couldhave resulted from." The ashand soil samples are to^be an-alysed, by the Center for UFOStudies or a,participating lab.

"Right now I see no conven-tional answer to what happenedout there," P h i l l i p s is quotedas saying. : "But as far as alanding site providing I infor-mation, it!s, not particularly.interesting ;., unless analysisshows something, extraordinary."

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CIA declassifies Robertson Panel ReportBy Ann Druffel

On Jan. 21, 1975, the Robert-son Pane-1 Report, long an enig-ma to UFO researchers, was de-classified at the request of aMUFON investigator who wasseeking additional material fora project TV documentary.

This action by the CIA mightbe a small stepping stone to-ward government disclosure onUFOs.

A brief history of theRobertson Panel might be appli-cable here. In 1953 the U.S.Air Force had an immense prob-lem on its hands. The 1,900UFO reports which had floodedin during 1952 had choked m i l i -tary communication channels.

Officials surmised that apotential enemy might possiblycreate a fake UFO flap to givet!iem advantage while launchingan unexpected missile attack a-gainst our nation.

" CIA HELP REQUESTED

The Air Force sought helpfrom the Central IntelligenceAgency (CI A), perhaps assuming,with topsy-turvy reasoning,that an agency more secret thanthemselves would be better toadvise on the problem.

Evidently the alternate ap-proach of open, scientific in-quiry, adequately financed bygovernment, funds, was nevercons idered.

Now positive proof is avail-able that the CIA was the agen-cy directly responsible for theinane and inhumane "debunkingpolicy" used by governmentagencies for seventeen fullyears. This policy of ridiculeand de-emphasization was em-ployed to embarrass UFO wit-nesses, deny reports, and toconfuse the American public a-bout the importance of this in-tr i g u i n g phenomenon.

Certain officials were ofthe opinion, even in 1953, thatthe UFOs were a matter of

scientific interest. Therefore,a group of prestigious Americanscientists was selected, andthe panel — later called theRobertson Panel—was convened.

The declassified reportstates pl a i n l y that the panelwas convened at the request ofthe director of Scientific In-telligence (CIA), and authorityover it was delegated to theassistant director of SientificIntelligence (AD/SI, CIA).

SCIENTIFIC PANEL

The Robertson Panel was of-f i c i a l l y a scientific advisorypanel.of the CIA. But the re-sults of the panel, as writtenin the Robertson Report, wereanyth.ing but scientific. Theyset back meaningful research onUFOs at least twenty years,,

The panel was composed ofDr. H.P. Robertson, a mathemat-ical physicist, experienced inrelativity, cosmology, and war-time intelligence missions; Dr.Luis Alvarez, a nuclear physi-cist who, among other achieve-ments, co-invented the GCA sys-tem for tracking aircraft infog and rain; Dr. ThorntonPage, astronomer and underseasweapons genius; Dr. SamuelA.Goudsmit, discoverer of thetheory of electron-spin; Dr.Lloyd V. Berkner, expert onionospheric research and ter-restrial magnetism.

These scientists, togetherwith selected CIA personnel,associate scientists, and BlueBook personnel who had studiedthe UFO problem-first hand, meton Jan. ]k, 1953. A speedy fourdays and eight meetings later,they filed two "results" to theCIA,

The first "results," append-ed to the Robertson Report as"Tab A," concluded the follow-ing:

1. That the UFOs were nothostile and did not indicate aneed for revision of currentscientific concepts;

2. That the emphasis on UFOreports would be a threat tothe orderly functioning of theprotective organs of the bodypolitic;

3. That national securityagencies should strip the UFOsof their aura of mystery; and

k. That national securityagencies should institute poli-cies of intelligence trainingand public education.

The second "results," alsocalled the "final report," ap-pended to the Robertson Reportas "Tab C," is st i l l under re-view, and the CIA has refuseddeclassification of it to thisdate.

In 1966 the late Dr. JamesE. McDonald came upon a copy ofthe Robertson Report in BlueBook Headquarters where he wasstudying the UFO problem firsthand. The Report had been"routinely declassified underthe 12-year rule" by ProjectOfficer Hector Quintan!1 la.

C RESPONSIBLE£•"••.

McDonald made extensive notesand was the first to discoverthat the CIA was responsiblefor the "debunking policy" ofthe Air Force from 1953 through1969. He requested a Xerox copyof the Report, but before itwas given him, the CIA inter-fered and re-classified the re-port.

Dr. McDonald treated the in-formation in his notes as openinformation in no way affectingthe security of • the UnitedStates and shared the facts ofCIA involvement. freely withother researchers and interest-ed members of the media.-An-unsatisfactory "sanitized"

version of the Report was re-leased later by the Air Forceat the request of aircraft man-ufacturer John Lear. But inthis partial version everythingconcerning the CIA's involve-ment was deleted. It was not

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until January, 1975, that theCIA admitted openly, throughdeclassification, their part inthe absurd debunking policy.

We can only wonder why theCIA has chosen this time to de-classify. The action came aboutalmost" by accident.

While writing a segment of aprojected TV documentary—asegment concerning the part theRobertson Panel played in thehistory of UFO research in theU.S.—on a whim I wrote the CIAin November, 197^, requesting adeclassifed copy of the Report.I was aware of the sanitizedversion, but felt it was un-satisfactory and therefore"played dumb"; in writing forthe declassified copy.

A GRAND SURPRISE

It was a grand surprise toreceive a letter from a Mr.Robert Young, "Records Manage-ment Officer," stating that theAgency could provide a declas-sified copy, consisting of 28pages, for .10 per page.

The necessary $2.80 wasspeedily transmitted to theCIA, and late in January thedeclassified report arrived.However, though plainly showingCIA involvement, including spe-cific names of CIA personneland departments, involved in thedebunking policy, the Reportwas missing Tab B and Tab C.

I inquired about this, andMr. Young wrote back on Feb.19. He now signed himself,"Freedom of Information Coord-inator." .It is wondered wheth-er the trouble the CIA was fac-ing concerning 'illegal inter-ference in domestic affairs hadanything to do with his changeof title!

The Feb. 19 letter confirmedthat Tab B, which was describedin the Repo'rt's Index as "al i s t of personnel concernedwith meetings," could hot bedeclassified. However, he sentthe sanitized version, which isalready available in the CondonReport. But Tab B of the sani-tized version turned out to bea brief l i s t of the evidence

presented to the RobertsonPanel during the eight meet-ings!

Mr. Young also stated-thatTab "C" was s t i l l under review;that is, s t i l l classified "Sec-ret Security Information." Hestated he would notify promptlyof the results of that review,but I've not heard from himsince. According to the Indexof the declassifed Report, TabC was supposed to be a "list ofdocumentary evjdence present-ed." This, however, is coveredin the sanitized Tab B!

CLASSIFIED REPORT

Tab C, in reality, is theclassified "final report" of;

the Panel, which has never beenmade public. Perhaps not evenDr. McDonald saw this Tab C.We cannot 'be certain. Accord-ing to the text of the declas-sified Robertson Report, Tab Cwas the "final report." Itevidently differs, in what wayswe do not know, with the de-classifed "results" known asTab A.

The field of ufology. has beenenriched by the CIA's declassi-fication of the Robertson Re-port. But Tab B and particu-larly Tab C s t i l l remain"secret." Why?

Demands should be made uponthe CIA, or perhaps the Rocke-feller Committee which is in-vestigating the CIA, for re-lease of these documents.

Other persons who may wantcopies.of the declassifed Rob-ertson Report can send $2.80 toMr. Robert . Young, Freedom ofInformation Coordinator, Cen-tral Intelligence Agency, Wash-ington, D.C., 20505.

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No details on 28%

Air Force 'unknowns1 still a mysteryBy Richard Hall

"From 1947 through 196? a total of 697 UFO reports werelisted as 'unknowns' by the Air Force, No complete listing orsummary of these cases has ever been released by the Air Forceor compiled by others."

Thus begins an unpublished report I began preparing whiles t i l l at NICAP, as part of a rebuttal of the Condon Report,and only completed several years later after leaving NICAP0

From available sources, I reconstructed as complete a listof the "unknowns" as possible—by date, location, and briefdescription. To my surprise, I found that less than a thirdof these cases were described in the literature. The followingchart indicates the basic statistics of the study:

YEAR

194819491950

19511952

1953

1954

1955

1956195719581959

1960196119621963

19641965

1966

1967

"UNKNOWNS"

1272227

22303

42

46

24

14141012

141315

1916

32

19

SOME INFORMATIONAVAILABLE (*)

9221

655

11

3068

109151 55

915

697 195 (28*)

REVIEWED BYCOLORADO PROJECT

000

None of these, but3 other 1950 cases.

04 of these plus

6 other 1952 cases.2 of these plus

3 other 1953 cases.None of these, but2 other 1954 cases.None of these, but1 other 1955 case.

27**0

None of these, but1 other 1959 case.

0•o0

None of these, but1 other 1963 case.

0None of these, but6 other 1965 cases.Only 1 of these, but10 other 1966 cases.None of these, butabout 44 other 1967

cases.

9 (U)

(*)—At leosl brief description of sighting publicly available.(**)—When this was written there was no available list of 1957 "unknowns," so that it

cannot be established whether any of the 7 cases reviewed by the Colorado Project coin-cided with the 14 "unknowns." It is noteworthy that there were 1,006 official USAF coses

(•••(—Official USAF figures indicate 14 "unknowns", yet descriptions of 15 unexplainedcases are available. An unresolved discrepancy.

It is true that Dr. DavidSaunders' UFOCAT now containsdate and location referencesfor the majority of Air Force"unknown" cases, but whetherdescriptions of the sightingsexist is not clear, and in anyevent there are no publiclyavailable descriptions of thesesightings.

The two salient findings ofthis study are (a) that we havenever been able to read des-criptions of J2% of the casesthat puzzled the Air Force; and(b) that for all its preten-sions, the Colorado Project ex-amined only 1% of these cases.

Don Berliner, an aviationwriter and former member of theNICAP staff, has done addition-al research on the Air Force"unknowns" in connection with abook on the history of the AirForce UFO project. His bookwould make a valuable additionto the 1iterature.

Object from skystrikes tractor

The NICAP UFO INVESTIGATORreports that a piece of ceram-ic-like material "golf-ballsized" and weighing about onepound apparently fell from thesky and struck a tractor onJan. 12, 1975, near Carlisle,N.Y.

After striking the tractor,the object landed on a patch ofice and quickly melted throughit.

The object is apparently notfrom any conventional aircraftor satellite, nor does it ap-pear to be a meteorite.

Through the efforts of Dr.J. Allen Hynek, the object wasexamined at Northwestern Uni-versity. According to a pre-liminary analysis, the objectcontains iron, has a rust col-oration, is.magnetic, and hasexperienced extreme thermalshock.

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Youths reportUFO movingover school

DATE OF SIGHTING: Nov. 22,

LOCATION OF SIGHTING: Cin-cinnati, Ohio

INVESTIGATED BY: Len String-field

REPORT PROVIDED BY CENTERFOR UFO STUDIES.

This report involving twoyoung boys as witnesses is an-ecdotal, lacking personal on-the-spot follow up for techni-cal details. This is a resultof the parents of one boy beingreluctant to allow his son torelate additional informationand a drawing of the UFO, whichI had requested.

Fortunately, in this case, Igot. the preliminary details byphone from the two young wit-nesses, which follow:

Peter (last name on file),age 10, and Chris (last name onfile), age 8, were playing to-gether after school at Chris1

home. Chris saw the UFO firstabout 5:30 p.m. in gray skies;watched it for about two min-utes before Peter could get tothe window.

Chris said the gray metallicobject was quite low, .about"twice as high as the treetops."

He said it was "oval andlarge like a bl i m p with linesor indents," which he describedas running horizontally fromthe front to the rear. "It hadno wings or windows," he said,"but around the body was alarge gray ring like Saturnthat was not attached to thebody." He added, "The ringseemed to move slowly aroundthe body, and it had l i t t l e1 ights on it."

On the top of the oboid ob-ject, Chris described a "domethat lighted up brightly; asort of yellowish light." Christhen described his observation

This is the drawing made by Peter of the object which he and Chris say they saw overa school in Cincinatti, Ohio. :

of "something like a steeringwheel" at the top and bottom ofthe rear end of the craft.

The UFO's appearance .wasover a heavy residential areaknown, as Hyde Park in the heartof Cincinnati. I thought itwas significant that the UFO's.location was above, or near theHyde Park School, as schoolsseem to be "common ground" forUFO surveillance, known in UFOresearch,,

Chris said, the UFO came fromthe east, then moved slowly tothe northwest in a "slightcurving and tipping" motion, oras I could best-determine, in aswerve to the northwest. Hesaid it did not change speed orhover, left no vapor or smoke,made no sound,, and disappearedinto the clouds. Chris said,"It was sort of weird, and Iwas frightenedo"

Peter was called to the win-dow, and most of his descrip-tion of the UFO is s i m i l a r toChris 1. He said he saw it forabout a minute. "It was cigarshaped," he said, "of dull graycolor, and it was made ofmetal." He said it was s t i l l1ight. outdoors and the UFO wasvery clear in the .sky aboveHyde Park School. He also des-cribed the lighted dome on top,which he said was ."green"(Chris said "yeMow") and that"it blinked."

Peter said the object was a-

bove the tree tops and in,clearview; that it was "without anywings, but it had rings aroundit." I asked for details onthe rings and he said it ap-peared to be "three rings closetogether or just one widering." He said the body was"oval rather than round, and atthe end of it was a tail stuckup at the top.,.all of it wasd u l l gray."

Peter also described thecraft as moving in a curve,adding, "You could see it bare--ly, barely, barely turn to theright in the direction of theschool." He said he didn'thear any sound and he couldn'tsee how the UFO disappeared"because trees were i;n the.way."

I asked Peter if he was in-terested in UFOs, or read booksabout them. He said that he

."didn't get into the subject,"but.he did watch a TV show a-bout UFOSo

Peter's mother was concernedabout his delay in returningfrom Chris1 and called, re-questing that he get home. Whenshe" learned of the incident,the poMce were called. :

To compile my report, I re-quested from Chris and Petertheir individual drawings ofthe object they witnessed.Peter was prompt in sending mehis drawing. '.

Chris' drawing never arrived,

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so I followed up by phone eighttimes, and on each try, I wastold by some member of the fam-ily that he was not at home.With both drawings, my nexthopeful move was to have ameeting with the boys on loca-tion.

Finally, I reached Chris byphone Feb. 8, 1975. I asked a-bout his drawing he promisedand he said, "My dad was lis-tening on the other phone toour talking about the UFO I sawand got mad at me." He saidthe father "would not allow meto send the drawing I made." Iasked to speak to his father,but he was out of town.

Chris said his drawing wasdifferent from Peter's. I askedhow d i d it differ? He indicatedthat it was the' "ring," andadded, "but I saw it longerthan Peter."

Unquestionably, the two boyswitnessed an unidentifiableaerial object maneuvering atlow level over a residentialdi s t r i c t of Cincinnati. I knowof no other UFO reports forNov. 22, 197^, in the South-western Ohio area.to coincidewith this inner city report.

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FIELD INVESTIGATOR'S MANUAL

Another significant step hasbeen taken by MUFON in UFO re-search with the completion ofthe writing and editing of thea l l new second edition of our"Field Investigator's Manual."

Raymond E. Fowler, MUFONdirector of investigations andauthor of the book "UFOs: In-terplanetary Visitors," hasdone a superb job in composingand editing this outstandingcontribution to UFOlogy, dedi-cated to providing the methodsand techniques for interview-ing and gathering the raw dataon reported UFO sightings.

Recognition must also be be-stowed upon the following indi-viduals who either wrote sec-tions on their field of exper-tise or contributed in a majorway: .Ted P h i l l i p s , AdrianVance, David Webb, Ted Bloe-cher, Ron West rum, Robert Stin-son, Fred Youngren, John Os-wald, Joe Santangelo, J0 AllenHynek, John Acuff, Rubin Sil-ver, Walter Webb, and WaltAndrus.

The nine distinct question-naire forms have been printed,and the manual was sent to theprinter on April 28. Distribu-tion of the manual to "paid-up"MUFON members w i l l be announcedin the June issue of SKYLOOK,and copies w i l l be available atthe UFO Symposium in DesMoines, Iowa, on July 5.. However, we expect ~ to mailcopies to state directors andothers prior to this date. Thismanual w i l l also be used by theindependent investigators forthe Center for UFO Studies.Both Dr. Hynek and your Direc-tor have Xeroxed copies infinished form.

As previously announced, the8?X11" pages w i l l be printed onboth sides with standard 3

punch holes for 3 ring or claspbinders.

INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR

It is with regret that weannounce the resignation of JoeB r i l l as international coordin-ator. Joe has systematicallydeveloped a world-wide group offoreign representatives in overthirty countries' to provideliaison between MUFON and theUFO organizations in their re-spective nationso

His specialization of "UFOsBehind the Iron Curtain" w i l lcontinue unabated, since hew i l l be sharing his vast reser-voir of information by continu-ing as a staff writer for SKY-LOOK. Joe's resignation w i l lbe effective May 31, 1975.

In order to retain the con-tinuity of .correspondence withour network of foreign repre-sentatives, we are taking thisopportunity for announcingJoe's successor in.this impor-tant position on the board ofdirectors of MUFON. Richard H.Hall, presently state directorfor Maryland and Washington, D.C., has accepted the ^positionof international coordinator.

Richard was formerly the as-sistant director of NICAP whenMajor Donald E. Keyhoe was itsdirector. He is best known forhis publication THE UFO EVI-DENCE and co-authoring a bookwith Professor Meany. Richardbrings to this position matur-ity and experience based uponhis outstanding "track record"of the past.

Our foreign representatives,who receive a complimentarysubscription to SKYLOOK fromMUFON, should record Richard'smailing address. He resides atM18 39th Street, Brentwood,Maryland, 20722, U, S. A. Allfuture correspondence from our

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Director's Message By Walt Andrus

foreign representatives shouldbe addressed to Richard. A newstate director for Marylandw i l l be announced in the nearfuture to succeed Mr. Hall,

SLIDE-TAPE UFO LECTURE

The Nebraska section of MU-FON, as part of a public aware-ness program, has producedtheir first rendition of aslide-illustrated lecture withtape-recorded commentary andmusic titled "The Mystery ofUFOs." It was produced by MU-FON member Jack A. Dunn, coord-inator for the Ralph MuellerPlanetarium, University of Ne-braska at Lincoln, with selec-tion of slides by Elmer A.Krai, MUFON state director forNebraska.

It is composed of 160 slides,many from the. collection ofWalt Ahdrus, with a playingtime'of'thirty-five-minutes. Itis professionally produced andwritten .by Jack Dunn, narratedby- Don Jacks, photography byTerrence Winslow, and graphicsby Mohler and Grubbs.

When we say this is the firstrendition, -we mean that it isalready being updated, revised,and improved as of this writingto make it even more effectiveas a program that may be givenas an introduction to the UFOphenomena to any assembledgroup as part of MUFON's publicawareness program.

Everyone in MUFON should beimmensely proud that we havededicated people like ElmerKrai . and Jack Dunn "doingtheir thing" for UFO research.This film w i l l be shown duringthe afternoon workshop sessionon July 6 in Des Moines at theUFO Symposium.

STATE-SECTION DIRECTORS

The recent Lumberton, N.C.,UFO sightings have motivatedour North Carolina people andgiven them an opportunity to be"where the action is." Newstate-section directors for theTar Heel State are Lee C»Starns, P.O. Box 67, Cullowhee,N.C., 28723; telephone: AC 70V293-9588, covering Graham,Cherokee, Clay, Swain, .Jackson,and Macon counties. Lee is as-sistant director of admissionsat Western Carolina University.W i l l i a m D. Redfearn, 1012 De-catur, Jacksonville, N'. C.,285 0; telephone: .AC 919 3*»7-5220; has been assigned Onslow,Pender, Carteret, Jones,Craven, and Pamlico counties.B i l l is a high school principalwith an M.A. in school adminis-tration.

From Jacksonville, N.C., toJacksonville, FL. -<*Rf chard M.Mahan, 800 Broward Road, Apt.D-206, Jacksonville, FL.,32218; telephone: AC 90*» 76A-6357; has accepted the respons-i b i l i t y for Nassau, • Duval,Baker, Clay, St. Johns, Union,and Bradford counties. Richardhas an M.S. in microbiologyand is a college professor forbiology and chemistry at NorthFlorida Jr. College.

Elmer A. Krai has approvedthe appointment of GordenGruber, R.R. 2, Box ~fk, Hart-ington, NE. 68739; telephone AC402 25^4-61*35; as state-sectiondirector for Cedar and Dixoncounties. Gorden was recommend-ed by Lawrence A. Lacey.

Ted Bloecher, state directorfor New York, has selectedHarold E. Haglund, .32 WoodlaneRoad, Ithaca, N.Y. U850; tele-phone: AC 607 539-7137 as statesection director for Tompkins,Schuyler, Chemung, and .Tiogacounties. Hal is a retired ac-

counting manager and has beenfollowing UFO publications for20 years. Lois A. Sayen, 2210Patty Lane, Green Bay, Wl.5^303; telephoneA AC k\k 99-7791. has accepted greater re-sponsibi1ities with MUFON asstate-section director :forBrown and Kewaunee counties.

DIRECTOR TO RELOCATE

After living in Quincy, IL.,for twenty-eight years, one be-comes very attached to the com-munity and the friendly people.In order to continue my employ-ment with a nationally-knownelectronics firm and to haveadditional opportunities forfurther promotion and growth,your directbr wi l l be movingthe -MUFON administrative of-fices from Quincy to Sequin,Texas, approximately Aug. 1,1975., • • - ' . . . ; '•

The new mailing address w i l lbe communicated via a futureissue of SKYLOOK. In the mean-time, all. correspondence shouldbe sent to kO ChristopherCourt, Quincy, IL. 62301. TheQuincy postmaster w i 1 1 continueto forward mail after August 1,1975» for as long a period asmay be negotiated.

We ask the patience and in-dulgence, of our members so thatthis transition may be madewith a minimum of interruptionto our member services. ,

• UFO. MATERIAL FOR TRADE -I have many photos, slidesclippings, and books onUFOs that I w i l l trade fors i m i l a r UFO material. \ Sendtrade lists to: Ron Smotek5625 Thomas St., Maple!Hts.Ohio 137 . :

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Illinois youths report strange UFO effectsDATE OF OBSERVATION: Dec.

21, .197**LOCATION OF OBSERVATION: New

Athens and Darmstadt, I l l i n o i sINVESTIGATED BY: W. J. (Dub)

M i 1 1 s

On Dec. 21, 197**, at approx-imately 11:30 p.m. Kim Lloyd,Rodney Walta, and Jeff Waltaleft Darmstadt, returning toNew Athens. They were travelingwest; it was a clear night withf u l l moon and bright stars. Kimwas d r i v i n g , Rodney was ridingin the front seat with her, andJeff was in the back seat.

At a point approximately fourmiles west of Darmstadt, theywere suddenly aware of a brightl i g h t i l l u m i n a t i n g the areaaround them;

Rodney was the first to seethe object. He looked out hiswindow to . the north, at abouta forty-five degree angle andsaw this brightly Ut disk-shaped object descending. Ex-c i t i n g l y c a l l i n g it to the at-tention of Kim and Jeff, they.too saw it as it descended intotheir field of vision.

The object was descendingat an angle, with the leadingedgn lower than the t r a i l i n gedge and the descent Was suchso they were seeing the top ofthe object; it was probablytwenty or thirty feet in di-ameter..

It had rotating lights aroundthe lower edge of the rim thatwere red and yellow,- red andysllow in that sequence all theway around. • There appeared tobe portholes around the ob-ject; 11 had something resemb-l i n g antennas that were comingout each side of the dome andcoming up as if they were goingto meet at a point up above thedome of the object itself. Thecolor of the "antennas" appear-ed to be blue.

The object continued itsdescent and appeared to be inthe process of landing in a

wooded area that was approxi-mately one thousand feet fromthe road the youths were tra-veling. At a point where theobject was fifty feet above thetrees they lost sight of itmomentarily due to the eleva-tion of the field on that sideof the road.

OBJECT GONE

At that particular point youcould not see the woods, andtheir vision was obscured herefor probably five or ten sec-onds. When they were again ableto see the same area where theobject was descending, it wasgone. The entire time involvedhere from the. time they firstsaw the object up until thisparticular moment was no morethan two or three minutes and adri v i n g distance of no morethan perhaps a mile, perhapsless.

They were so certain that ithad landed they began drivingdown roads and lanes in and a-round the area in an effort torelocate it. Feeling certainit was on or near the groundand would be obscured by thetrees and other terrain, theyfelt that in patrol ing in theseareas they would have a chanceof spotting it. However, afterprobably thirty or forty min-utes they gave up the searchand drove into New Athens.

In New Athens they ran intosome of their friends and pur-suaded them to accompany themback to the area for anothersearch. Again they went throughthis patrol ing for perhaps anhour. By this time, the friendshad lost interest and returnedto New Athens^ However, Kim,Rodney and Jeff were not yetready to give up the search, sothey drove around a l i t t l ewhile longer and f i n a l l y parkedthe car to set up a watch forany further sign of their elu-sive U.F.O. or anything else

that might come along.

INVESTIGATION OF AREA

I checked out this area quitethoroughly on Jan.12. It wasa beautiful sunshiny day andquite cold. The ground .wasfrozen, but I am told by thewitnesses that the night of thesighting was confortably warmand that the ground was muddy.I discovered no trace of alanding.

The day I was there I diddiscover a huge clearing in thewooded area. I was accompaniedby Rodney, and he felt thiswould have been approximatelywhere the object was des-cending when they lost sight ofit. This area was approximate-ly fifty yards wide by one hun-dred yards deep. It could havebeen used for a landing site,with no one from the surround-ing area being able to see ito

UNIDENTIFIED TRACKS

I did discover tracks I can-not identify. The tracks be-gan in a section of the clear-ing and they also abruptly end-ed as if they were made bysomething or someone steppingonto the ground, and at approx-imately a point thirty-fivefeet away they stepped back onto whatever. In other words,the tracks abruptly began andabruptly ended.

I made some photographs ofthese tracks. As I type this Ihave not received the f i l m backso I can't really tell you ifthe photos turned out well orif they did not. If they did,they w-i 1 1 be attached to thisreport.

So that you have somethingas a matter of information,these tracks were s i m i l a r topaw . or hoof marks, yet theywere not any kind of paw orhoof marks I am familiar with»Since I have done considerable

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hunting over the years, I amfamiliar with many wild gametracks and am quite familiarwith domestic animal [tracks.

I am certain neither wouldfit the case and I feel thesetracks were made by a two-leg-ged being with a stride of per-haps forty inches. For me tostride along side of thesetracks I had to stride in veryexaggerated long strides. Iwould say my normal stride isbetween thirty and thirty-sixinches. In carefully examin-ing these marks I would esti-mate that the prints were four

JL to five inches wide, seven toi eight inches long. I am sorry

I did not have a ruler alongf with me.

the imprints were one inchto one-half inch into .theground, which at that timewould have been soft and muddy.The prints were reasonablyclear and seemed to have beenmade by a multi-toe foot. Ireally can't be more specificthan this.

I checked with several neigh-bors in this area regarding

i anything they may have heard orseen at the time of the sight-ing. Being a farm area, andconsidering the time, no onecould shed any additional lighton the subject.

ACTIVITY CONTINUES

While phase one was apparent-ly over, the activities of thenight were only beginning forKim, Rodney and Jeff.

They had parked their car atan intersection facing, north,

^ with the Darmstadt road goingeast and west in front of theircar. At about four thirtytwhich would now be the morningof Dec. 22, in the northeast atabout sixty degrees and veryhigh, they noticed a light thatfirst looked like a star„ Asthey watched it, the light be-gan to gyrate and hop around.It shot .beams down as it beganto come down lower.

During this initial obser-vation the object was contin-

ually changing color, green andred according to the witnesses.As it came lower it seemed tolevel off at about fifty feetabove the tree tops, but it wass t i l l quite far away, perhaps amile or even more.

However, now it is only tenor fifteen degrees above thehorizon as they look at it, andit is s t i l l more or less in anortheasterly direction. Afterperhaps one or two minutes itmoves back up to about forty-five degrees. Then it beginsmoving toward the witnesses, be-coming larger. It appears tobe emitting a light point likea beam toward the ground exceptthe beam continually breaks upand never seems to touch theground. As Rodney stated, "Itwas like pouring out mercury;it beaded up and seemed tobreak up the beam and somehowjoin back together."

At this point, Kim, who wasthe driver of the car, startedthe car and turned west onDarmstadt Road headed towardNew Athens and Route #13. Theobject changed course and fol-lowed them,' moving parallel totheir car and remaining abouti mile distance from them. Nowthis object is definitely notlike the i n i t i a l object theysaw. This object is very muchof a pie-shaped object with arow of yellow lights around thebottom of the pie plate and arow of red lights around theedge of the pie plate, with thepie itself making up the entiretop of the object as they des-cribed it.

ANOTHER OBJECT

As they neared the route #13and the Darmstadt intersectionthe object appeared to stop andhover over a long cylinder ob-ject on the ground. They esti-mated this to be at least fiftyfeet long and perhaps five toseven feet in diameter. Thiscylinder had a pulsating orangelight in the front half of itand a green light in the rearhalf. When they arrived at the

Route #13 and Darmstadt Roadintersection they turned on toRoute #13, going northwest toRodney's house. They lost sightof the object. '

When they arrived at Rodney'shouse they were all in a veryexcitable state. There areseveral children in the family,and in their excitment some ofthe children awakened and thestory was related to them, al-though Mrs. Walta evidentlyslept through this part of theexcitement.

During this period of timeRodney continued to insist in avery excitable state that heknew the object was coming overto the house.

Very shortly they observedthat some type of a light wasilluminating the area aroundthe house. They are not quitesure if this was an artificiallight or if it was actually thelight, of day; As the time wasapproximately five thirty a.m.,it was not' getting light—ofthat I am certain. My guess isthat it was an artificial lightthat was illuminating the areaaround the house.

DOGS ACT STRANGELY

In looking out the window,Rodney excitedly called Kim andJeff to look at the dogs andtheir strange behavior. Thedogs were lying on the groundas if mesmerized, with theirtongues literly hanging out,making no movement or soundwhatsoever. I might inject atthis point that when , I wasthere on Sunday, Jan. 12, thesedogs were continually barking,and I am told they are veryvocal at any time anyone oranyth i ng'comes around. However,at this particular time in theearly morning hours in questionthe dogs were doing nothing.

At this time Rodney thoughthe heard noises on the roof ofhis house and possible noisesdown in the basement of hishome that he somehow attribu-ted to the presence of this U.F.O. 'Neither of the other wit-

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nesses could be certain thatthey heard these noises, butRodney insisted he heard them.He was now in a state of ex-citement to the point of beinghysterical.

AN ELECTRIC SHOCK

Suddenly, without any warn-ing, there was a tremendouselectrical shock within thehouse that was of such forcethat little five-year-oldSusie, who was in an occasionalchair, was knocked . into thefloor. . A l l of the childrenwere up at this time,, I'mspeaking of Kim, Rodney, Jeff,l i t t l e Susie, and one otherl i t t l e fellow whose name es-capes me,, A l l of them felt thisshock.

At this time Rodney went tothe window, pulled back theshade, and saw the bottom sideof this U;F.O. slowly leavingthe area from :above, the top ofhis house. It i s - moving in anortherly direction as if itwas following the railroadtracks that move along hererunning north and south.

At this point Mrs. Walta wasawakened and Rodney was in ahysterical state. She was try-ing to calm him down and findout what was going on. How thelady slept through the excite-ment as described by the wit-ness is inconceivable, but evi-dently she had.

However, her concern forRodney and the mental state hewas in prompted her to call thedoctor and make arrangements totake Rodney to see him and getsomething to calm him down,, Shedid take Rodney to the doctorabout seven thirty or eighta.m. that morning. Rodney, int e l l i n g the doctor of his ex-perience, was asked by the doc-tor "what he had been smoking,,"

AN ANALYSIS

My own analysis of this par-ticular case based on two verylengthy interviews with thesewitnesses is that they.defin-

.itely had two experiences as Ihave related. I cannot deter-mine in my own mind whether ornot the incident as relatedhappened after they returned toRodney's home are actual factsor the working of an imagina-tion by some very excited teen-agers. There are some areasthat do substantiate Rodney'sclaim of the incident at hishouse:

1. The condition of the dogsand the fact that they were notresponding as they normallywould.

2. The light that illuminat-ed the area outside of thehouse at five thirty a.m. .Itcould not have been the lightof day that time of morning.

3. The electrical shock thatwas felt by five witnesses atthis point, although Mrs. Walta

did not feel it, or at least itdid not waken her»

These instances would cer-tainly indicate that there wasmore going on than just imagin-ation. However, it does perplexme that Rodney is the only onethat seems to have heard thenoises. Rodney is also the onlyone who says he saw the'U.F.00as it was leaving, and the factthat the other witnesses arenot absolutely sure of all ofthese happenings at the homeleave me with a very question-able attitude about that phaseof it.

I think it is very importantthat we do not discount thehighly excitable .state of thethree witnesses at the timeleaves me with a very question-.they arrived home and relatedtheir experience of the nightto even younger children.

UFOs escort Mexican pilotDATE OF SIGHTING: May 3,

1975LOCATION OF SIGHTING: over

Tequesquitengo Lake, MexicoSOURCE OF REPORT: United

Press InternationalSUBMITTED BY: Joe B r i l l , in-

ternational coordinator

.Carlos Antonio de los SantosMontiel has reported that threeUFOs joined him as he was fly-ing his Piper Cub at 15,000feet over Tequesquitengo Lake,about 50 miles south of MexicoCity, on May 3.

The 23-year-old flier saidhe was traveling at about 1^0m.p.h. when he was joined bythe objects. "Two of them flewa few inches from each wing,and another below the plane,"he said. "I tried to lower thelanding wheels to hit the onebelow, but the mechanism fail-ed."

He said he then "tried tohit the other two with thewings, but the controls did notrespond." The pilot, said thatat that moment his nerves brokeand he burst into tears.

He said his plane was "pilot-ed by some strange force" be-tween Tequesquitengo and Tlal-pan, a southern suburb of Mexi-co City, but that he was ableto radio the control tower atthe Mexico City airport.

The objects left the PiperCub at Tlalpan and moved to-wards two snow-capped volcanoesabout 50 miles to the south.

Two air traffic controllers,Julio Interian and EmilioEstanol, said they observed theincident on two separate radarscreens at Benito Juarez Inter-national Airport. They saidradar indicated "an unidenti-fied object" speeding along atthe side of the Piper Cub.

Interian said he "observedthe plane from the moment itwas over Tequesquitengo untilit landed. When it was abovethe Ajusco (a mountain on theedge of the Valley of Mexico) Inoticed another mark on thescreen move rapidly away fromthe plane."

The two controllers said thatit was at that moment when thepilot radioed that the UFOs hadleft him.

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In Others' WordsBy Lucius Parish

A report of a UFO formationover Japan on Jan. 15 may befound in the April 8 issue ofNATIONAL ENQUIRER.

The March 16 NATIONAL TATTLERreports on a NICAP investiga-tion of a supposed UFO crash inCalifornia.

The Wyoming contact story ofCarl Higdon is presented in theMarch 22 issue of NATIONALSTAR. This account quotes Dr»R. Leo Sprinkle as saying thatHigdon "is reporting sincerelythe events which he experienc-ed." The March 29 STAR has anarticle on recent Minnesota UFOsightings, though at least oneof these reports actually hap-pened in Wisconsin. In theApril 12 STAR, new UFO photosfrom Ontario are spotlighted,along with a short and rathersensational item about an im-minent UFO invasion. RecentNorth Carolina UFO reports arefeatured in the April 19 issueof the STAR.

The May issue of MALE andJune issue of STAG contain UFOarticles. The former is striclyrehash; the latter is a combin-ation of rehash and probablefiction. Save your time andmoney.

Brins ley LePoer Trench'sfirst book, THE SKY PEOPLE, hasrecently been republished inpaperback by Award Books and isnow available on newsstands.

THE HUMANOIDS was originallypublished as a special issue ofFLYING SAUCER REVIEW severalyears ago and has now gonethrough four hardcover andpaperback editions in Englandand the U.S. The latest editionis a "large" paperback fromHenry Regnery Co, - 180 NorthMichigan Ave. - Chicago, II60601. The price is $3.95.Though some of the material isnow a bit dated, THE HUMANOIDSis s t i l l one of the best sourc-

es of information on UFO occu-pant accounts.

The May issue of SAGA has anarticle by John Keel on the"Men in Black" reports. An in-teresting summary, whether ornot one agrees with a l l ofKeel's ideas.

For those who collect, allavailable material on . the"ancient astronauts!1 subject,you might like to pick up a"Marvel Preview" comic book,MAN-GODS FROM BEYOND THE STARS,In addition to comic strip ver-sions of the AA theory, thismagazine also contains bio-graphical information on Erichvon Daniken, plus material onthe other writers who have pre-ceded and followed von Daniken.There is also a section devotedto book reviews of the leadingtitles on the AA subject. Ifthis is not available on yourlocal stands, you may order itfrom: MARVEL PREVIEW - MagazineManagement Co., Inc. - 575 Mad-ison Ave. - N.Y., N.Y. 10022.

The price is $1.00.The most thorough treatment

of the 19 6 "ghost rockets"sightings that I have yet seenis Loren E. Gross1 booklet,THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST ROCK-ETS. Mr. Gross examines thepolitical climate of the per-iod, as well as the technologi-cal capabilities of the SovietUnion (a prime suspect for therockets' source when they, firstappeared). He concludes thatwhatever the objects were, theydo not appear to have been ofterrestrial origin. His book-let contains an 8-page chron-ological Listing of the report-ed sightings from 19^3 throughearly 19^7. Both this bookletand Gross1 previous work, THEUFO WAVE OF 1896, are availa-ble from him for a combinedprice of '/only $1.00. As ex-cellent summaries of two his-

torical flaps, they are; worthfar more than that. They maybe ordered from the author at:38675 Paseo Padre #305 - Fre-mont, CA 9 536. '

What can one possibly say a-bout THE COMPLETE BOOKS OFCHARLES FORT? They are the pi-oneer works of Ufology, butthey are far more than that. Ifyou like to read accounts ofall manner of strange phenom-ena, these are for you. If youlike wry humor and some "digs"at scientists, you'll enjoythem thoroughly. But' Fort'swritings are not designed to bemere sources of data. Thosewho have read them already w.i 11know what I mean; those whohave not read them are in for arare treat. The four I books byFort~THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED,NEW LANDS, LO! and WILD TALENTS—have not been available in ahardcover edition, for severalyears, but Dover Books (180Varick St. - N.Y., N.Y. 1001 if).has : now reprinted them in ahandsome volume with a new in-troduction V by Fort's biogra-pher, Damon Knight. The pricefor this new edition is $15.00,but that isn't really so bad,considering that this volumecontains over 1000 pages. Ifyou have never read the wordsof "the master," ' you owe it toyourself to do so.

WANTED

UFO newsclippings. PleaseKeep them coming. They pro-vide valuable leads for us.We also forward them to RodDyke's newsclipping .ser-vice. Though we cannot ac-^knowledge each one.individ-ually, they are greatly ap-preciated. Thanks for yourpast help.

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UFO's Behind the Iron CurtainBy Joe Brill

. KOLENOV's STATEMENT

"On Oct. 13, 1967, between.1700 and 1800 hours, Moscowtime, I observed an unidenti-fied flying object with a tri-angular shape through .eight.power binoculars from the bal-cony of my apartment. It some-what resembl.ed an airplane inshape, on whose wings darkline's were clearly observed.

"The object was v i s i b l e inthe.southwestern portion of thesky, and it flew very slowly.Its speed . was approximatelythat of the- American ."Echo"satellite. Movement was to thenortheast. In my own personalopinion, • the object shone withthe reflected light of the set-ting sun. :l t appeared to besilvery, in color. No changesin the brightness were noticedduring the observation, and nosounds were heard at any time.

"A large number of the resi-dents of building A3 and otherhouses took..part in the obser-vation of this.object. In theUniversity, .they observed itv i s u a l l y , and in the BC scopeused in tracking artificialearth satellites. The rectorand pro-rector of the Univer-sity were present during theobservation.

"Many of my co-workers ' andstudents of the University pre-sented questions to me concern-ing this object on the follow-ing day. I could only say thatthe observed object did not be-long to any of the natural as-tronomical bodies.

(Signed): A.I. Kolenov, as-tronomy professor and chief ofthe Station for Observing Arti-f i c i a l Earth Satel1ites of theKabardino-Belkar State Univer-sity, Lenin Prospect 43, Apart-ment k.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is anotherin a series of copyrighted articleswhich International Coordinator JoeBrill has prepared from the unpub-lished manuscript of Soviet UFO ex-pert Felix Y. Zigel, assistant pro-fessor at the Moscow Aviation Insti-tute.

SAVKUYEV's STATEMENT

"On Oct. 13, 1967, I rememberthe date exactly because I im-mediately wrote the date in mynotebook, I was in the villageof Second Lesken, which is a-bout thirty-five kilometerseast of Nal'chik.

"The day was .cloudless andexceptionally clear. At 1630hours I went out of the houseinto Sovetskaya Street and no-ticed many people standing andlooking up at the sky. Some ofthe old religious people be-wailed: 'Good .heavens, whatcan it be?' 'What kind of omenis it?1 .

"I looked up into the sky andsaw almost in the zenith somekind of object, sparkling witha white l i g h t which was smallerthan the moon in size and whichdid not .change its .position inthe sky. The sun had not yetset. I stood and looked at thisbody until it grew completelydark.

"Standing in place, the ob-ject revolved slowly.. It wasclearly seen at times that theobject had a triangular shape,since occasionally an equilat-eral triangle was clearly pro-jected on the background of thesky, with some kind of internalluminous f i l l i n g , and some sortof body slightly darker thanthe sides .of the .triangle couldeasily be distinguished in thecenter of the triangle.

"At times, the object assum-ed a position with respect tothe ground wherein from' the

side it resembled the shape ofa hat and "some sort of tailprotruded, straight, like apencil emanating from the cen-ter of the hat. This tail wasprojected straight downward andhad a thickening on the end ofit. This tail changed its po-sition together with .the hat;that is, it did not change itsposition relative to the hatoThe length of this tail wasscarcely less than the heightof the hat."The object gave off no sound

that could be heard. My visionis very . good despite my oldage. The object could be ob-served clearly without glasseseven in a darkened place..Therefore, I am transmittingexactly what I observed with myown eyes.

"The . entire population ofthe: village of Second Leskenobserved this object for a longtime. There are about 6,000people and more than 550 house-holds in.this vi1lage.

"Before the sun . set, thecolor of the object was white,but as darkness set in thewhite gradually became reddishand then red.

"I quit watching the objectwhen it began to move in asoutheastern direction. I af-f i rm. that this:;bbject was emit-.ting its own light."

(Signed): A0 G. Savkuyev,Kabardino-Belkar ASSR, Urzan-skiy rayon Village of SecondLesken,,

MOLOPANOV's REPORT

"It was Oct. 13, 1967, andthe time was 1810 hours when Iobserved a UFO. At first Ilooked . at it only with thenaked eye: My first impressionwas that the object was sta-tionary. After several minutes

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A UFO photographed over Ruse, Bulgar-ia, on April 20, 1967, at 1945 hours. Theentire population of Ruse watched thisobject for more than three hours, andit changed direction of movement twice.It's color was described as "a silverishglow becoming purple toward the edges."This UFO was also observed over Pana-gyurishte, Bulgaria, the same day, accord-ing to the Peoples Observatory in StaraZagora.

I noticed that the UFO movedslowly.

"I remember that there was atelescope and camera in theschool. The UFO hung in thewest-southwest at an altitudeof fifteen degrees, it movedapproximately toward us. Itcould be seen with the nakedeye that the UFO had a brightwhite color and a triangularshape—it was clearly visiVlein outline against the back-ground of the sky. The triangleseemed to be scalene withrounded corners.

"It appeared that the lightof the .UFO shone with a bluelight. The impression was form-ed that the body was transpar-ent or semi-transparent. Somekinds of lines could be seeninside the body.

"The UFO seemed to have athree-dimensional shape in thetelescope,, It was noted withthe naked eye that the UFO. ro-tated around an axis. In thetelescope it was observed thatthe UFO rotated in . a l 1 direc-tions in a rather complex man-ner. When the sun was setting,the light of the UFO becamereddish, and when the = sun hadset the object became red. Theimpression remained, however,that it shone from within andthe body was transparent.

"Some kind of vertical 'ca-ble1, protruding from the UFOwas also seen in the telescope.

This UFO was first sighted over Pristiha,Yugoslavia, at 1530 hrs. on Nov. 21, 1967.It was observed by hundreds of people inLeskovac, Vlasotinci, and Pristina, Yu-goslavia, between 1530 and 1630 hrs. Theabove photograph was taken at 1710 hrs.over Sofia, Bulgaria, where it was ob-served until 1735 hrs. It was observed bythe entire population of Sofia. Its colorwas described as "silverish-blue gradual-ly changing to orange and finally to redwhen it disappeared from view." (Photohas been retouched for better printing.)

It was just a little shorterthan the UFO. The first impres-sion was that it was an antennawith a thickening on the end.The vertical position of this'cable1 did not change. Thebody changed its direction ofmovement once during the obser-vation. At first it moved fromsouthwest to east-northeast andthen from west-southwest tosouthwest. When the body chang-ed its direction of movement,the luminescence changed fromblue to red. At approximately.1830 hours the UFO began todisappear as a regular non-luminous body would disappear.

"The outlines of the objectwere s t i l l clearly visible atthe end of the observation, butthey also, gradually went out.The object was illuminated ap-proximately uniformly unti1 itbegan to -disappear,, The lineswithin the 'triangle.' " were notparall.el sides and they rotatedtogether with the body."

(Signed): 0. A., Molopanov,laboratory worker of the Phy-sics Department of school No,6, City of Nal'chik.

Note: The UFO over Nal'chikwas observed by thousands ofresidents of the City. the

chief designer of the KTB (De-sign and Technological Office)of the Ministry, of Instrument-Making,.- B.M. Yegorov, collectedanother twenty-four witnesses'affidavits on this sighting. Aphotograph of the .UFO was ob-tained in two aspects.• Thesetwo photographs are not avail-able nor were they includedwith the Zigel manuscript.

Several sightingsreported in Florida

(SOURCE: Bradenton, Florida,Herald, April 23, 1975) \

The Holmes County, Florida,Sheriff's Office says that atleast 10 persons in Bon ifay,Ponce de Leon, and other tinyhamlets have seen a flying ob-ject in the skies on April 20,21, and 22,

iThe sheriff says that Eglin

Air Force Base at Ft. WaltonBeach has assured him thatthere have been no air testsrun in the area at the time ofthe sightings, but that thebase, located 300 miles north-west, has been unable to trackany of the objects on radar.

One of the sightings was.made at 2 a.m. April 21 by mem-bers of the James Townsend fam-ily of Ponce de.Leon, who wentout to milk when they saw abright object. Sheriff's dep-uties were called, and theysaid the object was "flying insome sort of zigzag pattern"and "changing colors from redto green to amber to white." Itappeared to be the size of abasketball, but the witnessessaid they could not tell howhigh it was.

INFO convention setThe 1975 International For-

tean Organization (INFO) con-vention (Fortfest 75) / w i l l beAug. 8, 9, and 10 at the Shera-ton-Oakbrook' in Chicago, PaulW i l l i s has announced. . : "

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Family says UFO hovered over homeBy Theodore Spickler

MUFON State Director forWest V i r g i n i a

On the evening of Jan. 7,1975, Dorothy Sommerville andher two children Deborah (9thgrade student) and Tammy (7thgrade) were driving towardtheir home in West Liberty, W.Va., along twisting route 88.With them in the car was afriend of the two girls.

At the top of the h i l l over-looking West Liberty State Col-lege they all saw at once ablack oval shape coming towardthe college to their right inthe distant sky. The time wasimmediately checked; it was3:05 p.m., EST.

A d u l l blue gray color washedan overcast sky, permitting thedark shape to be seen. It waslarger than the apparent sizeof a typical airplane as seenfrom that distance. Theythought a fist at arm's lengthwould be about right (to beconsistent, with later aspectsof the sighting they shouldhave suggested thumb nailsize).

There were 1 ights on theshape, described by one of thegirl s as window-like, althoughthe others specified the im-pression of rim lights. Al-though not exactly seen assuch, they had an image of a.circular disc with low dome ontop. The lights would havebeen . around the interface ofthe dome and disc rim. Thelights either turned on and offin sequence or the object wasrotating.

The carload of bewilderedwitnesses drove on past thecollege and into the village ofWest Liberty where they let offthe girls' friend, who wantednothing more to do with blackoval lights. Rather than stop-ping at their own home, aspirit of adventure took holdand they drove on past West

Liberty in search of the ob-ject.

At the top of the next h i l lit could be seen in the fardistance occasionally moving tothe right and then back to theleft. The girls tried, sending"telepathic" messages asking itto return and land. When theobject did turn and begin com-ing back the girls' mother de-cided that it was time, indeedpast time, to go quickly andsafely home.

After the quarter-mile ridehome, the three came out of thegarage and one of the girlssaid, "Look mom, its directlyabove us!"

OVER THEIR HOUSE

"Mom" did not really want tolook up and see anything; shewas frightened by now. Butthere was no escaping the factthat a huge, black, oval shapecould be seen hovering over thehouse.

When asked to think of some-thing in the house that whenheld at arm's length could dup-licate the apparent size andshape of the object, theythought first of a dish pan andthen, even better, a tub. Thethought that a fist at arm'slength could have covered it upwas greeted with laughter.

By now the girls had runover to the bright street lampin front of the house to waveup at the craft and to demon-strate their eagerness to havea landing occur.

There was no indication ofstructure, only a black shapewith lights around the rim—alternating white and redlights. Confusion exists overwhether the lights blinked insequence or the entire shapeturned.. After the longest fiveseconds in history, the shapesmoothly accelerated and movedagain out past the distanthilltop where it seemed to be

joined by two other lighted ob-jects (possibly airplanes at agreater d.istance).

While overhead, a distincthumming sound could be heardcoming from the shape. Thesound was similar to that of aphonograph motor left running.

ANALYSIS

Only some preliminarythoughts at this time: Manyairplanes fly over this areadue to the presence of theWheeling airport in the vicini-ty. During the course of theinterview on the evening ofJan. 17, I had them identifyevery mysterious light in thesky that went by. All wereproperly and confidently iden-tified as ai rplanes.

There are also regular heli-copter flights between Wheelingand Pittsburgh airports. Thisreported black shape wasthought to be much lower thanthe typical helicopter flight,and hummed instead of makingthe usual heavy drone one ex-pects from helicopters.

After this sighting, Dr.Hynek's book, "THE UFO EXPER-IENCE, was checked out of thelibrary by the witness for thepurpose of finding out what todo if the shape were to return.Some terminology from the bookseeped into the interview—words like "mother ship" and"contactee."

I believe these ideas havegrown upon them after -thesighting and knowledge aboutother sightings became known tothem. I judge the witnesses tobe sincere, uninterested inpublicity, and with no axes togrind.

The sighting could perhapsbe considered explained if itwere to turn out that a blimphad been manuvering at low al-titude over West Liberty thatnight, an unlikely circum-stance.

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1975 MUPON Symposium program describedThe 1975 Mutual UFO Network

Symposium on Saturday, July 5,at Des Moitie's', Iowa, wi l l getunderway at 8 a.m. with regis-tration and the opening of ex-hibits. The theme of thisyear's program is "UFO's--Search for a Scientific Break-through."The morning session w i l l open

at 9:00 with a welcome by Sym-posium Co-chairman ForrestLundberg on behalf of the Mid-Iowa UFOlogists, hosts of thisyear's symposium (Dr. DesmondBragg is the other co-chair-man). Mufon Director Walt An-drus is scheduled to extendgreetings from 9:10 to 9:20.

The first featured speaker,Dr. David M. Jacobs, APRO con-sultant and author of THE UFOCONTROVERSY IN AMERICA, w i l lpresent "An Expanded Vision ofUFO Research" from 9:20 to10:30.

Following coffee break, thesecond featured speaker, Sher-man Larsen, president of theCenter for UFO Studies, w i l lspeak on "The Center for UFOStudies and the UFO CentralSituation."

Lunch w i l l be from noon un-til 1:30 p.m., with specialluncheons scheduled for AmateurRadio (Dr« Willard P. Arm-strong, moderator) and for MU-FON Consultants (James McCamp-bell, moderator).

The afternoon session w i l lget underway at 1:30 with atalk by Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle,member of the National EnquirerUFO Blue Ribbon Panel and APROConsultant, on "UFO Research;Problem or Predicament?

At 2:30 p.m., Ted Bloecher,MUFON state-section directorand Skylook staff member, w i l lspeak on "A Catalog of HumanoidReports for 197 ."

Following coffee break,Specialization Workshops w i l lbe offered on "Landing CaseTraces," conducted by Ted Phil-lips, MUFON specialization co-

ordinator, associate to theCenter for UFO Studies, andSkylook staff member; "Human-oids," conducted by Ted Bloe-cher; "Propulsion Methods,"conducted by John F. Schussler,deputy director of MUFON, aero-space engineer, and Skylookstaff member; and "Instrumenta-tion" (to be announced).

Dinner is scheduled from5:*»5 to 7:15 by advance regis-tration.

The evening session w i l lfeature a talk by James M. Mc-Campbell, MUFON director ofresearch and author of UFOLOGY— NEW INSIGHTS FROM SCIENCE ANDCOMMON SENSE, on "InterpretingReports of UFO Sightings."

A panel critique featuringsymposium speakers and a ques-tion and answer period isscheduled for 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. to wind up the symposium.

The annual MUFON corporationmeeting for MUFON members onlyw i l l be held Sunday morningfrom 9:00 to noon.

Sunday afternoon w i l l featurea workshop session entitled"Techniques Employed in FieldInvestigations and the NewField Investigator's Manual."Moderators w i l l include TedPh i l l i p s , Ted Bloecher, RonWestrum, John Schuessler, andWalt Andrus. The session w i l llast from 1:30 to *» p.m.

Each speaker's presentation,plus additional papers, w i l l bepublished in the Proceedings ofthe Sixth Annual (1975) Sym-posium. The 1975 Proceedingsw i l l be available at the Sym-posium for $1*.00, or by mailafter July 5 for $*4.50 in theU.S. and Canada, and $5,00 inother countries.

Advance Symposium reserva-tions may be secured by writingto Mid-Iowa Ufologists, ForrestR. Lundberg, treasurer, Apt. 2,3215 Grand Ave., Des Moines,Iowa 50312. The cost for allsessions and the banquet is$15.00.

'Motel reservations should bemade by contacting the HolidayInn of Des Moines Downtown-Towers, 1-235 and 6th Ave., DesMoines, Iowa 50309 (telephone515-283-0151), Reservations mayalso be made through your near-est Holiday Inn, Be sure totell the Holiday Inn that youwant one of the 175 roomsblocked off for the Symposium.

1974 MUFON UFOSYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS

"UFO's—An Issue Whose TimeHas Almost Come" By RalphBlum"Religion and UFO's: The Extra-sensory Problem" by Barry H.Downing, Ph.D.

"UFO Trace-landing Cases" byTed Phillips"Journey Into the Hill StarMap" by Marjorie E. Fish

"Saucers, PSI ond Psychiatry"by Berthold E. Schwarz, M.D.

"Flying Saucers and Physics" byStanton T. Friedman

"UFO's, in Relation to CreatureSightings in Pennsylvania" byStan Gordon

1973 MIDWEST UFOSYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS

"UFO Flight Characteristics"presented by John F. Schuessler"Landing Traces, Physical Evi-dence for the UFO" presented byTed Phillips"Vision, Photography & UFOs"presented by Adrian Vance"Ufology and the Search forExtraterrestrial Life" presentedby Stanton T. Friedman"The Embarrassment of Riches"presented by Dr. J. Allen Hynek"Some Questions Concerning Dr.Meniel's Biblical Exegesis" sub-mitted paper by Dr. Barry H.Downing

For the 1974 or 1973MUTUAL UFO SYMPOSIUMPROCEEDINGS, send $3.25($4.00 outside the United Statesor Canada) by check or moneyorder, to MUFON UFO NET-WORK, INC., 40 ChristopherCourt, Quincy, III. 62301, U.S.A.

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commentfeBy Richard Hall

(This column is directed to-wards articles appearing in theMarch, 1975, edition of SKY-LOOK).

Any critic, if he is tryingto be constructive, must pointout the positive as well as thenegative, despite the well-established principle in thenews media that good news is nonews.

MUFON is growing by leaps andbounds and our beleaguered edi^tor has his hands full in sort-ing through materials of allkinds and degree of quality.He brings to bear a backgroundin journalism 'that is a defin-ite asset to MUFON. SKYLOOK ischanging and evolving into whatI confidently predict w i l l bethe premier publication onUFOs.

In this time of growth andchange, we should be quick tosupport and s-l:bw. to criticize—except for constructive criti-cism. Th.e editorial qualifi-cations placed on the "Stiisa'ngeJourney" story are welcome, andnecessary if we wish to avoidbeing label led gul 1 i'ble land urncritical. The comparison casesare a good feature.

Another comparison case tothe Rhodesian "strange journey"occurred Oct.. 22, 1973, inBlackford County, IN. (HartfordCity News-Times, 10/23/73).

Two ^t-foot silvery creatureswere seen cavorting on andalongside a highwayt "One thingthat bothers Flatter (one ofthe witnesses) is the conditionof the field they were-standingin» When he spotted the twostrange beings, he could swearthey were standing in either afreshly plowed or \ disc(ed)field."

As with the tropical foliage

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seen by the witnesses in Rho- 'desian dry country,it is tempt-'ing to speculate that someoneIs tajnperi.hg with bur space-time perceptions (or giving1 theillusion thereof), but first,we must attend to the facts.Some of the skeptics also needto learn that facts come beforetheory, and poorly checkedfacts can lead to nonsensetheories.

One might question whether aspectacular and controversialcase of this type should bereported so fully before morethorough investigation is ac-complished. In talks with col-leagues, ' I •• detect two schoolsof thought: (1) such casesshould be reported . i,n outline,fol lowed--up and investigated asthoroughly' as possible, THENreported in detail with invest^igator's findings.; (2) ailava liable deta i 1 s shpu Td be ,published, then criticized, re-viewed, and put through a pro-cess pf refinement. Either viewis .defensible,

'Two other welcome featuresin this issue are the follow-updetai'ls on the Spanish roadsideoccupant case and the correc-tion notes.

No matter what approach istaken to reporting partiallyinvestigated cases, follow-upreports with new findings ordetails are important to UFOresearch. So are what may ap-pear to be picky criticisms ofspecific cases. One must chipaway, doubting and questioning,to get at the underlying truth.

Some garbling and error in-evitably gets introduced whileprocessing large amounts of in-formation, and it may be by thereporter, editor, or typist.(This was also true of THE UFOEVIDENCE, which I editedK

By Mark Herbstrift

June SkyMercury--is too close to the

sun for .ea'<sy observation, in-ferior conjunction bein.g on the10th.

Venus— i s a ,br i.l 1 i ant objiectti n the west at s'un-S-e-t. 11 'sets'..about 3 hours "liat'er. Gfea>te<5steastern elog'aitKtrn/ is on the*,;18th.

Mars--'is in Pisces, risingabout 3 hours before t'he s.iah.On the 16£h it is in close con^ ,junction with Jupiter.

Ji'tpit'ei— is in P'is^es. , Itriises about 3 hours •b'ejf^&r.e- s'litfV?1

rise. *'-';$P*v • ' .Sat-urn—is in tfem\it\& • vl t i s "

quite low 'i'ri* the west at. .s-uoset^and sets s'bon af'te.r. -1

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