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Interplanetary Intelligence Report - Vol 1 No 2
Interplanetary Intelligence Report - Vol 1 No 2
GT-4 Photograph and Data Information .. . .... . . ..... .. .. . .. . . .... .. ..... .. .. . . .. 14-15
Kirkpatrick Planetarium .. ... .. ... . .. .. . . . ..... . ... . . .. .. . .. . .. . . . . . . . .. .. .. . . . . 15
UFO Sightings ... . .- ... . . .. ... . ...... . . . . . . . .. . . . .... . . . . ... .... .. . . . .. . . .. .. . . . . .. 16
French Landing? . ... .. ... . .... . . . .. . .. . . . . ... . . . . . , ... . .... . . .. . . . . .. . . ... . . 18-17
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Terra Space Explorations (Mariner 4) .... ..... ....... ... .... ... . . : ... . .. . .. . . . . . . 18
Civilian UFO Research ... .... .... . ..... . .. .. ..... ...... ........... ... . .. . . . . . . .. 19
Two UFO's Photographed ............... ..... ..... ....... . ...... . .. . . .. . . .. . ... .. 20
STATE DI RECTORS ..
'�)'. Jaauary U. 1 HUIIOIU. Cl"rY 'l'limJ
A list of all IIOUFO State Directors Hayden Hewes to Speak at Meeting of Delta Theta Chi
will appear in the September issue of
the IIR. We need Directors for the our nine Districts and twenty-eight
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report UFO activity in their state.
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I IOU.FO Board of Directors ation we receive unleSs otherwise vestigations we have a special section
IIOUFO Research Laboratory is lo
W. F. Riefer .... . . . . Senior Director stated. for you entitled CIVILIAN UFO RE
cated at 3300 N. Bryant, Oklahoma EDITORIAL
H. C. Hewes .... Director and �tor SEARCH. We would like to exchange
City, Oklahoma.
D. V. Critchfield .. Associate Director This is our second issue of THE IN the IIR with all other UFO publica
East Coast Headquarters - 6464 34
J. W. Maney . .. ..... Deputy Director TERPLANETARY INTELLIGENCE tios. A list of all UFO Organizations,
Ave. N., St. Petersburg, Florida, Mrs.
V. C. Johnston ........... . 1 Secretary REPORT, and we have received a UFO Publications and active research
Joan Whritenout, Director.
H. D. Crawford ... .. . .. Art Director good many number of suggestions ers will be published in the future for
A. C. Roberts ...... .... Photographer IIO U F O which have resulted in the immediate all interested persons. If you have a
Photo Analysis We, the Board of Directors of the improvement in your favorite UFO UFO organization, know of a new one
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio IIOUFO in order to determine if publication. Let it be known here and . just getting started, publish a. publica
Eastman Kodak, Chicago UFO's represent a threat to the securi now, that you will receive 100% fact tion, -want your name on our UFO re
Scientific Panel ty .of the planet earth and or alien in ual information. We will in the IIR search list, just drop us a line and
Major C. W. Dutreaun - Director terplanetary space vehicles, do ordain state our Civilian investigation side of you will be added.
Civil Defense, Oklahoma City and establish the IIOUFO for the sci the case in question and also the re I IO U FO H I STORY
Mr. W. M. Greene - Astrogeologist, entific investigation of said purpose. sults of the Air Force investigations I first conceived the idea for a UFO
Huntsville, Alabama The IIOUFO UFO program is carried as. we did on the Brooksville landing. research organization in November.,
Mr. J. Gumm - Photography, Okla out in three phases. 1. The detection, As promised in Vol. 1 No. 1, of the IIR 1957. Nine months later, we were offic
homa City investigation and reporting. This is page 8 carries photographs received ially organized and known as the In
Mr. F. Halstead- former curator, Dar carried out by IIOUFO members in the from the Air Force of the landing site, terplanetary Intelligence of Unidenti
ling Observatory, Minnesota nine different districts. 2. The second aliens footprints and two pieces of fied Flying Objects (IIOUFO). Our
Mr. D. Johnson - Assistant Planetar phase includes analysis and evalua paper that were left behind. investigations over the years led us
ium Director, Kirkpatrick Planet tion. This is carried out by IIOUFO's I wish that we could publish the IIR by special authorization from the Pent
arium, Oklahoma City. Scientific Panel, 3. The third phase each and every month, but at the pre agon to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
Prof. N. N. Kohanowski - Geologist includes dissembination of informa sent time this is impossible. Maybe in last September 8, to see and question
and Mining Engineer, North Dakota tion. This is carried out through the the future we can. the AF · files on their investigations
Mr. C. King - Photography, Oklahoma Board of Directors. We will always be trying to improve into over 9,000 UFO reports sinc�e 1947.
City Membership in the IIOUFO is FREE the IIR. As you can see by issue 2, My trip to Wright-Patterson ·is de
Dr. Askold Ladonko- Psychology, ·Car and open to all interested persons. The we have increased from 6 to 20 pages, scribed in the April issue of FLYlNG
acas, Venezuela IIOUFO is working with all organiza improved the quality of paper we use SAUCERS. Additional comments can
Dr. F. B. Salisbury - Plant Physiology, tions · and persons interested .in solv sa well as the photograph reproduc be found on page 9.
Colorado State University ing the UFO . mystery. Our files are tion. Our first issue was more or less Since my trip to Wright-Patterson
open for review by all news medias, a "hello" issue to get better acquaint AFB. the IIOUFO has become the
Foreign Correspondents
researchers, and interested persons. ed with our members and correspon fastest growing UFO organization in
Argentina Germany Polynosia The IIOUFO neither endorses or dents. the world. Due to our large member
Asia Holland Porto Rico rejects the claims of any so-called NEWCOMERS ship and the fact that the general
Australia Italy Scotland contactees. We investigate with an For all of our new readers that· are public is wanting to know more about
·Bahamas Indonesia South Mrica open mind. unfamiliar with the IIOUFO we were IIOUFO's inv�stigations and UFO
Belgique Japan Switzerland In the eight years IIOUFO has ex organized in August, 1958 for the news in general, the Interplanetary
Brazil Korea Sweden isted our investigations of UFO sight scientific investigation of unidentified · !ntelligence Report began its first
Canada Kenya Venezuela ings show no evidence that UFO's rep g
flyin objects, (UFO's) called and Issue May, 1965. Membership is free
Colombia Mexico Turkey resent a threat to the security of the known the world over as 'flying sau and open to all that are willing to ap
Denmark New Zealand planet earth or that they are inter cers'. We have over 5,000 members proach the subject with an op�n mind.
England Philippines planetary space�hips. and correspondents located throughout Hayden Hewes
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D. V. Critchfield - Ge1eral News ......
Associate Director
FROM THE DESK OF •••••
COMING IN THE I I R
in charge of public relations and
head Oklahoma City Photo labora
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GENERAL NEWS . . . .... . . . .. . ..
See and read about IIOUFO's new
tory. International Headquarters to be built
W. F. RIE FER -
It i.s with a great deal of pleasure near Oklahoma City at a cost of ap_
Senior Director that we announce that D. V. Critch proximately $100,000. The . building
field is now the Associate Director of will include office space, smali ob
the IIOUFO. In charge of public re servatory and lecture area for 1,000 ...
lations and head of the Oklahoma City Come to the Oklahoma State Fair
Like many of you, I too, was in organization in 1958 it has grown into photo laboratory. Almost all photo and see IIOUFO's exhibit. Fair show
terested in the scientific investigation one of the largest and most scientific work of the IIR is carried out by De.. ing September 25 to October 3, Okla
of unidentified flying objects by per UFO- research organizations in the Wayne. Working with A. C. Roberts, homa State Fair grounds. 800,000 are
sonal acquaintances and news articles. world. Membership free and open to Wayne, N. J. you will in future issues expected.
all .
of the IIR see many UFO photographs
Almost any one of you approach
and well connected events. NOTICE I IOUFO ACTIV1TIES....
something about UFO's, but not as For those that are interested in
much as they would like to. For some UFOlogy, the IIOUFO is the organiza Everyone is invited to the UFO lec
one unfamiliar with the subject, the tion for you. The IIR will
separate
H. D. Crawford -
Art Director
tures at the New Age Center at 8:00
p.m. on Friday, July 23, and Saturday,
clipping -below would perpose a ques fact from ficti6n.
tion. To those familiar with the sub The second addition to the IIOUFO July 24, 1965 by Hayden Hewes, Direc
ject, that question would add one staff is H. D. Crawford who is Art tor IIOUFO located at 145 N.E. 14,
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more file to the UFO mystery. Editor. Hal has been interested in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Due to the overwhelming responce
UFO's for the past five years. Be Don't forget to read the April issue
to the first issue of the lffi, if a reply
No matter what side of the UFO sides keeping up to date he attends of FLYING SAUCERS, pages 6-15 for
to your letter has been delayed please
mystery you are on it is indeed an UFO lectures in and around the Okla .an account of IIOUFO at Wright-Pat
accept our apologies. A reply to every
interesting subject to investigate. To homa City area. With four years of terson AFB, Ohio. A copy of our Con
letter directed to the IIOUFO will be
many persons it is easier to ridicule space art behind him, Hal is an out stitution can be found on pages 76-78
forthcoming.
than investigate, but to those that ap standing artist in the field o space and 80-83, which will help answer any
proach the subject with anopen mind, drawings and illustrations. It is a questions you may have about the
I will welcome your opm10n and IIOUFO. FLYING SAUCERS, Am
the scientific investigation is the only pleasure to welcome Hal to the staff
questions on this subject and talk with herst, Wisconsin.
way. of the IIOUFO. You will be seeing
anyone who thinks they might have Watch for information about IIOUFO
many of his works in the IIR.
a solution to this strange mystery. toappear soon in FATE.
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Deputy Director
V.C. Johnston
In my last article, I stated no one their existence. Both Marconi and Tes Secretary
--had as yet proved the impossib�ty �f la believed they had received intelli
the interplanetary origill of the U�t gent radio messages from the Red
dentified Flying Object. Yet there IS, Planet. Mars' two satellites, Phobos
·to be perfectly honest, a great weight Here are a couple of ideas I wou}d fed into a sensitive receiver, then dis
and Deimos were discovered by Aspah
-of argument against this theory. I like to put forth as to why UFOts played as a luminous spot on a screen.
Hall in 1877, as though they had never
should like to devote this column to a sometimes fail to appear on radar The number of spots, or pips as they
existed before; in 1959, D. S. Shklov
discussion of the difficultes of the in screens, though visual sightings are are called, corresponds with the num
sky, a soviet astronomer, stat� that
. made of the same objects. The first ber of objects beings scanned by the
terplanetary hypothesis. they were decaying in therr orb1� a�
To postulate this theory, one natur deals with plasma or ionixation, the radar set. The arther an object is
de artificial satellites. Mars' ellipti
ally assumes that UFO's are o�rated, second phasing. from the radar set, the longer it takes
cal orbit causes it to be nearest to
controlled, or piloted by sentient or Earth when it is in "appasition" - the reflected waves to return, thus
thinking beings. Yet the hard fact. re As you will recall during the Mer the closer an object is, the closer it
about every two years. At several of
mains that the existence of sentient cury program, communication with is to the center of the screen while
the appasitions, UFO sightings have
life on any other planet has yet to be the capsules was blacked out during the father an object gets the closer
increased noticeably. Yet at others.
proven. The probabilty of life on Mer re-entry due to the layer of ions to the edge of the screen the pip ap
including the very close appasition of
cury or on any trans-Martian pla11et surroundings the craft during the pears (this is for PPI scopes). That,
1956, no increase in sightings was
is so slight as to not merii present period of maximum heat. This layer in a nutshell, is how radar works.
.noted. Mars is universally accepted
consideration. The existence of sent of ions acted as a shield, preventing
today as being the home of vegetative
ient life on Venus is possible, but not the passage of radio waves. An ion, Now, as previous�y mentioned, short
life. Yet it could also harbor sentient
probably; moreover, such beings, cov or plasma field of this strength would pulses of very short radio waves are
life ifg one supposes such life to be
ered by a perpetual thick overc�t, of course, show up on radar. emitted by the radar antenna. While
vastly different from that on Earth.
would almost certainly lack the cuno due to Mars' climate, its shortage of the pulses are only a few hundred per
Now, let us consider a condition
sity about the stellar universe that water and its lack of oxyg�n. Perhaps second, at very precise intervals, the
where the air surrounding an object
has driven men ever upward since the the July pass of Mariner IV will give radio frequencies are in the order of
is not so heavily ionized. In this case
days of the Iaarus legend. Such beings· further evidence on this matter. thousands of millions of cycles per
we will assume that the occupants of
could readily attain technlogical ad The problems in postulating the or second. A cycle is where a wave starts
a craft are able to vary th� strength
vance equal to ours in its general igin of the UFO on a planet and o�t at zero intensity, increases its strength
of the ion layer at will. By adjusting
level, but be unaware of the existence side the solar system, are, to the In in one direction until it reaches a
the field to a low intensity, radio
of the stellar univ�rse. credible distances involved, seemingly peak, falls back to zero and swings to
waves (radar waves are nothing more
Mars presents quite a different prob insurmountable. Such beings would a peak in the opposite direction, then
than radio waves pulsed· at regular
lem; in September, 1959 b�ed on have had to have mastered propulsion back to zero. Now, let us assume
intervals) would be absorbed rather
thirty minutes research, I was abl� sytems far beyond anything we can again if we may, that as a radar be�m
than reflected. If they do manage to
to- write a five-page letter to the edi project today. Tbey would either have strikes a UFO, the UFO immediately
penetrate the ion layer, strike the
torial staff of a nationat magazine to live in colonies with a complete starts emitting radar pulses 0 it own,
target, and exit they would be so at
on the riddle of Mars - the literature reproductive cycle or else have lif� keeping in exact step with the pulses
tentuated that they would be so weak
and evidence is that extensive. I do 8pans for beyond ours. Thus communi of the radar scanning it. But with 'this
as to be below the threshold sensi
not have here the time or space to re cation problems would be great. difference: the radio frequency waves
tivity of the radar scanning the object
count this data: but enough· evidence An argument for the overcoming of are of opposite polarity from those
in question.
has accumulated, especially in the every one of these obstacles can be of being reflected off the UFO, and
past century, to m�e �he possib ty � made. I do not believe this to be a
Now, let us regard phasing. A radar
precisely at the right intensity. Thus
of sentient Martian life something prima facie case against interplanet they would cancel each other, and
set "sees" objects by emitting short
that cannot be ruled out a priori. ary UFO's..But it is well .to give these nothing would be seen in the screen
pulses of very short radio waves,
There is the great mystery of canals problems serious thought before com at that particular spot.
which strike and are .reflected. from
(an inaccurate translation of the cav roiling oneseH to the interplanetary
whatever objects (such as aircraft, Regretfully, I do not have the facil
ali or "channels"). Such great of theory irrevocably. buildings, missiles, thunderstorms, ities for checking the two above men
Mars study as Percival Lowell and E. See September issue of II� for infor
etc.) happen to be in the beam's path. tioned theories experimentally-. I
c. Slipher swore they had seen the mation received from Mariner IV. See
The reflected waves are picked up by would appreciate hearing from elec·
canals. Others of equal repute deny page 18;
the same antena that does the trans tronics engineers and physicists on
8 mitting. The reflected waves are then this matter.
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PROJECT BLUE BOOK
AIR FORCE UFO CENSORSHIP?
By Hayden Hewes
UPO INY!niGATOil booster portion in the spacecraft and
AF-UFO REPORT ORDERED DESTROYED booster separation process. There ;is
Evidence that the All' Force destroy• aome orflcl&l UFO .._.,. b&a bee '111..,..
to Prof 01.\rles A. Maney. �p Board �r. by on AF -.rce. The pboco·
.
e�>py below reproduceo the lOP part or on Air lnt.Wgence Information Report, .....:•
no indication of· the presence of any
Ina a UFO siahtina by two AF oll'lcera. Thou&�> the NPC>rt Is not 1111111ual, lt.e
"Dutroy" order--which the IOU..,_ aaid Wal not WICOIDIIDI••Inclle&tu a ronn
material which was not originally part
or ceuorablp prevlou.!ly unknowri to NICAP.
of the launched vehicle".
�� This would explain why it was kept
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r'ESTROY from the public.
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In Vol. 1, No. 1 page four of the The United States Air Force has the of information, the IIOUFO would
May, 1965 issue of the IIR we car:ied responsibility under the Department of have to say "No". We have received
Defense for the investigation of uni --�-:---::-:...:::!��-=.:::::.::·::::::.:-..:.:."!:·=---:..�
the story on the famous Brooksville, Key points or sil!hiina: no censorship of information. If there
March 2nd landing as reported by our dentified lying objects (UFO's). The AF' witnesses: ea.c..l.L. Pollack, USAF, Flight Commander, 5:i1b Fialtter Bomber
S...-.dron: Lt.I.S. Belshelm. USAF. Squadron Armament Officer . is a censorship why was I permitted
East Coast Headquarters and the AF name of this program, which has been · .Swrunary: Two ll]owlna objects were sighted nur the squadrm b&ae at Little
Zuron, Essex, Entll&nd. 9 Oct. 1956. Larl!l'r U:>0 was the size� a pu held •t
�:m's len(lth (abou �-half the size or the moon, similarly meuured). Object by the Pentagon to visit Wright- Pat
Conclusion. Hoax: operation since 1948, is Project Blue 9uaated, emlttlna five or six rays, with smAller ra ys between. At times. a long�r.
oroader ray appeared, possibly a rraU or exr.aust. Second object, smaller. desc:enL«! terson AFB, to see and question the
The evidence that was left behind Book. It has been identified in the :nd approac:bed me first �. then dlsappeored. FUght Command&r Pollack w�s
:ated as "very rcliahlo" liy the Squadron lntelllge.,� Q(f
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....r. Firat Lieut. D.W. AF Project Blue Book files? All ques
past as Project Sign and Project
Ketchum, USAF.
was two pieces of paper, foot prints, As stated above, It Is the "Destroy" order. no: this slahtinllo which Is u..c>rtont..
The destruction of slmllar .- orflclliUy verified reports wUl reduce the number or tions that I have ever asked have been
and the landing indentations. Grudge. AF pilots ond ,&her competent observers who ore 00 record. �rdlUI or the
purpose, clcletlal of such Ui'O records can only result In mlslnformlna the �. answered as well as all files I have
On page three we carried a break Air Force interest in unidentified requested I have received (both while
down of UFO sightings from 1947-1964. flying objects is related directly to the U FO Investigator I was at Wright-Patterson and since
So far this year the Air Force has in Air Force responsibility for the air my return to Oklahoma City) . The
vestigated 176 UFO reports as follows: defense of the United States. Pro The January issue of TRUE maga photo below shows an Air Force fil �
January . . . . . . . . . . . ............... 40 cedures for this program are estab zine carried an article entitled "U. S. we requested on their investigations
February . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 lished by Air Force Regulation 200-2. Air Force Censorship of the UFO into the 4 December 1952 Laredo AFB,
March . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 The objectives of Project Blue Book Sightings". The article stated the Texas sighting which is "Unidenti
April . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 35
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are two-fold: first, to determine UFO's hit the front pages 15 years fied". This is one of several on file
).\fay .. . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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whether UFO's pose a threat to the ago and have been with us since at IIOUFO headquarters. If there is
security of the United States; and, (which we agree), in spite of a mas a censorship of information it is not
176 second, to determine whether UFO's sive Air Force blackout on facts. The to the degree that many research
exhibit any ·unique scientific informa article goes on to tell of the sightings claim. It is suggested that if you have
tion or advanced technology which on radar of four spacecraft accom a copy of AF regulation 200-2 to go
could contribute to scienti ic or tech panying the GT�l launch of April 8, back and read it carefully.
nical research. In the course of ac 1964, and this information was kept
complishing these objects, Project from the public. The following inform
Blue Book strives to identify and ex.; ation was received from the AF by
plain all UFO sightmgs reported to the the Chief of Mission Support, Apollo
Air Force. Flight operations; NASA, Washington,
The Air Force no longer possesses dated January 18, 1965.
and thus does not have available for "No unidentified objects were ob
distribution outdated reports on Pro served accompanying or pursuing the
ject Sign, Pro]ect Grudge, Blue Book GT-1 spacecraft launched into orbit
Special . Report No. 14 and outdated on a Titan II booster on April 8, 1964.
Project Blue Book press releases. Non
military UFO publications should be
requested from the publisher and, not Objects observed which were deteced
the Air Force. on radar, have been identified as
Obtained from 1965 Project Blue minor structural pieces which rou
Book released by SAFOI, Washington, tinely break free from expendable
Photo Credit "Official AF Photol. 8 D. C.
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ANATOMY OF A PHENOMENON
UFOs'' Watch
II
Review of Jacques Vallee, "Anatomy of a Phenomenon." By James Maney.
.."
level to be considered "scientific" or
"scholarly": the most important of
these are the two works of the great
Air Force interest in the matter is
limited only to its relavance to the
security of the airspace of the nation:
GT-4?
French ufologist, Aime Michel, "The and the harsh words for private UFO
Turth About Flying Saucers", and groups, especially those in the United On June 3, 1965, GT-4 Pilot Major Gemini control asked McDivitt: "You
"Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line States. He states that very few pri James McDivitt and U.S. Major Space still looking at that thing up there?"
Mystery". In a sense, Jacques Vallee vate UFO groups have risen above a walker Edward White were launched
has written Aime Michel's third book. level he describes as "generally hid· into orbit from Cape Kennedy. McDivitt replied: "I've lost it. It
eous.'' had big arms sticking out of it, it
Vallee's book briefly reviews the Edward White in the opening orbits looked like."
history of the UFO phenomenon; pro This reviewer with seven years of got out of the GT-4 and walked He said he had only seen it for
bably every sighting of importance background in UFO's, • is frankly through space for 20 minutes, twice
about a minute, and had taken pic
found in Ruppelt, Michel, Keyhoe, et forced to admit that this book has lit as long as Alexei Leonov did for the tures with a movie camera although
alii, is repeated in these pages, along tle of value to the experienced re · USSR. the position of the sun prevented any
with a discussion of pre-1947 UFO re searcher, save on some lesser, more
recognizable photographs.
ports. There are some reports here specialized point; moreover, a person In a letter 'from Major McDivitt to
There was some speculation it was
that are new to this reviewer. One of whose mind on UFO's is a t�bula rasa Hayden Hewes, dated April 22, 1965,
the Pegasus 2 meteoroid detection
the most interesting involves the Kan could readily be lost by Vallee's pre Major McDivitt relates that he has
satellite launched May 25. 1965.
sas farmer who, in 1897, swore that suppositions of familiarity with much seen a great number of peculiar lights
Space agency officials ordered · nn
one of his. cows was kidnapped (cow of the basic material of this field. The and objects in the skies at night and
immediate check by space tracking
napped?) by a UFO and was later book, however, is ideal for one who even in the day. However, in almost
agencies to see what the objects were.
found butchered. is a novice in ufolQgy. Vallee makes every instance he was able to identify
The Air Force tracking center at
a very strong case for the scientific these objects. As for sighting an ob
Colorado Springs, Colo., which keeps
This entire book, as stated above, respectability of the UFO, but I doubt ject ·that he for certain identify the
track of man-made objects in space is
closely follows the style of Aime Mi this volume will be read by many shape and size of and not be able to
currently 'following 1,391 objects. Ob
che,l, to whome Vallee acknowledges most in need of his sage advice. explain, ''I'm afraid I just haven't
ject No. 1,390 is GT-4 and object
his debt; this similarity goes aU the seen this sort of thing," But he added
No. 1,391 is its burned out second
way to the use of long humorous ana Alone among UFO books, Vallee "However, I know that there have
stage rocket booster.
logies to prove the author's point. It makes an attempt at documentation. been many reports of UFO's, and I
is written in a dispassionate, lucid He has a 196-item bibliography to just cannot speak for the other peo
The Pegasus 2 was about 1,200 miles
-· style, although it is in parts on such which he refers within the text by a· ple."
from the GT-4. Dr. Dwayne Catterson,
an intellectual plane as to be a bit confusing system of quasi-footnotes.
flight medical expert, said he did not
tedious . to the reader who lacks a The bibliography is extensive; how
Major McDivitt sighted three objects know if an object within 1,200 miles
· background either in the UFO field or ever, much of it is material which
while in space during the four day could be identified by the human e�.
the physical. sciences. is either yet to be published, or is
space flight. . ''But certainly if the contrast was
out of print.
McDivitt said the first object was great enough between sunlight on the
Vallee reserves his strongest lan Jacques Vallee is the first new fig
a cylindrical object sighted over object and background he could see
�
guage for three parties: e berate� his ure to publish a UFO book of sub
Hawaii. He took five frames of movie an object there and he might well see
fellow scientists (he IS a tramed stance in some years. By securing pub
film of it, but officials said all it shows reflection giving shape from the arm."
astronomer and a consultant to the lication by a national publisher, is a unidentifiable white dot with a The third s_ighting came on the 38
National Aeronautics and Space Ad Vallee has brought UFO's to the light
tail of light and a fanlike glow. (Cov orbit, officials said McDivitt describ
ministration) for their wholly close of day in the nation's bookstores
er photo) ed the object which was siglited over
minded attitude to UFO's since the once again. He has other more spec
The GT-4 went into its 21st orbit at China as looking like "a bright star
phenomenon became "tainted" in the ialized material in preparation which
6:55 p.m. moving fast.'' He did not attempt to
late 1940's; he makes much of the lim should raise him quickly to a high
MsDivitt spotted the second object make pictures of it. The space flight
itations of the Air Force investigations rank among serious saucer research
took them 62 times around the globe,
. during the 20th orbit, as the Spaceship
in this area, making clear a point ers. 210 pp., $4.95. a total of 1,609,684 miles.
was whirling across the United States.
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NASA MANNED SPACECRAFT
CENTE R O F FICIAL PHOTOGRAPH
Klrkpatrlc Pla1etarl••
This photograph, made from 16mm Now being presented Jn the "Theatre
movie film exposed by Astronaut of the Sky"
James McDivitt, shows the satellite May-July 'l1 Evolution & Revolution.
he observed on the 20th revolution of Story of astronomy, with its proofs
his four-day space flight. and disproofs. Theories and supersti
McDivitt was over Hawaii when he tions. July 28-September 10 "Next -_
Yo-Yo De-Spin
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THE OKLAHOMA JOURNAl, MONDAY, JUlV 5, 19411 If
UFO SIGHTED IN THE ANTARCTIC
Argentine, British and Chilean mil
itary and scientific personnel in the
llterpla 1etary French Investigate Phenomenon
llOUFO Foreign Representatives in The Air Force sent investigators HOinlver, tho ......,.. _ tho atory central " plwt. A dollr alld uldo, ODd a tbo ...,.Sanl
no ._rted - tha IJ'OIIIIII at tha craft.
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Terra Spac:e Exploratio ns
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