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Messenger Correspondent Attends New York’s Flying Saucer Session(Continued from Page 15)the life of Earth people a few years after she arrived she was tempted to commit suicide, but the power of thinking kept her from it.When I left New York it was still a mystery where she came from, but efforts were being made to find out just who she was.Attractive VisitorShe was very attractive with beautiful black hair. Her eyes were the most weird part about her. She was very small.The convention was New York's first flying saucer convention, the 1967 Congress of Scientific Ufologists, and many talks were given by noted authors. West Virginia was mentioned several times as being an area of UFO’s.Also on display was a replica of “The Monster” which has been seen in the Point Pleasant area several times. Also onon display was what is known as “angel hair” that was found in Mason County,Among the speakers were Gray Barker of Clarksburg, well known in this area and an author of UFO books who told of many UFO sightings in West Virginia.Art Ford, one of the best known radio and TV’ personalities on the West Coast, told of Flight 19 when five Navy planes vanished and not even the government could give a reason.Keel, who has talked with hundreds of people in his research in UFO sightings; and Dr. Gordan Evans, who is an assistant professor of economic:; at the New York State University, also spoke.Howard Menger, who is the most famous of the East Coast flying saucer contactees, spoke and James Randi, who is considered by all on the subject to be the greatest magician and “escape artist” since Houdini showed a film of unusual and unknown tracings of the earth in South America. Another speaker was Ivan Sanderson, one of the world’s leading naturalists. Dr. Frank Stranges, a member of the International Platform Association and Washington Association for Social Psychology also spoke.Roy Thinnes, star of the ABC television series “The Invaders”, was on the program at each session. Thinnes has seen a UFO.The speakers all say that there is some type of “phenomenal” but just what it is not known, but it is hoped that the answer will soon be known.James Moseley, editor andpublisher of Saucer News, was the director of the convention.toV-• *II
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Athens Sunday Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Sun, Jul 02, 1967
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