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Catherine Reid, above, is a disciple of the lote George Adamski, a California astronomer who reportedly first met a man from Venus in the Mo-have Desert m California In 1952, M.ss Reid, shown here with pictures of extraterrestrial spacecraft, has lectured extensively throughout the slate on Adamski s beliefs about UFOs, and says her message has oftentimes been warmly received. Miss Reid lives and works in Clinionville Repro-duced below is one of many pictures Amherst publisher Ray Palmer has received of objects claimed to be UFOs, Palmer discounts it os a fake, and maintains that he has yet to see a picture of a UFO that Is not or could not be faked.cSaucers: still in the headlinesBy Bemie PetersonFor perhaps as long as Man has been on earth, he has been fascinated by what he has seen when he looks out to the heavens. And as long as he’s gazed there, Man has probably been seeing unidentified flying objects.In that light, it. may be comforting to know that times haven’t changed, because people are seeing UFOs today in large numbers, and reports of sightings filter in to an estimated 750 UFO clubs around the world and 275 in this countryTo bring the subject into a closer local focus, observe these accounts:Four Kaukauna policemen reported seeing a strange object hovering over the city the night of Sept. 22. They watched it for about 2Vi hours, and described it as having at least six flashing white and green lights. It gave off a whirring sound and would dart swiftly for short distances and then remain motionless.Police said they could not describe the shape of the craft, but only that it glowed. It was last sighted heading west toward Combined Locks.Ah 18-year-old Sussex man reported to Waukesha County Sheriffs deputies that a large UFO mysteriously caused his car to lose all power and boil over as he was driving near Sussex about 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 31.Greg V. Faltersack told police he was driving on a county trunk road °n his way home from his girlfriend’s house when his 1963 model car suffered a complete electrical failure.After he stopped the car, Faltersack saw a large orange circular object hovering just over the tree-tops and measuring 20 to 30 feet in diameter. He told police he saw it for several seconds before it gave off a beeping sound and rose out of sight.Damage verifiedSheriff’s deputies verified the damage to the car and said Faltersack had not been drinking, although he appeared visibly shaken.A Neenah radio station received 22 reports of UFO sightings during a 10-day span in mid-October. The reports, which came primarily fromtheOshkosh-Neenah-Menashaarea, were consistent in that the UFO had a combination of red, green and white lights, and some reports indicated that the red and green lights moved in a revolving motion. Some added that they saw a green or bluish halo around the object.The city engineer and the director of public works at Shawano, the village marshal at Gresham and an 11-year-old boy at Morgan Siding, among others, saw an intense light moving suddenly across the sky about 9 p.m. on Sept. 29. The rapidity with which it moved and the rate of speed were described as “incredible.And the list could go on indefinitely, although no one is really sure just how many UFOs have been sighted over the years, simply because there has never been a centralized collection agency for receiving and validating the sightings.At least one well-known attempt was made, however, as the U.S. Air Force assembled better than 10,000 reports for a 21-year span between 1947 and 1968 under “Project Blue Bool, If the Air Force is still keeping track of UFOs, it's not publicizing the fact.What would it take to solve the UFO mystery?“About three years and $10 million.”How would this money be used?“To set up a nationwide tracking system.” This would involve sectioning off the country, with a team of scientists on 24-hour call with their own private air charter in order to get to the scene of UFO sightings immediately.All sighting reports would be -stored in a computer for cross reference and a program of educating the public as to how and where to report sightings would be initiated.The scientists would be issued sufficient equipment for their aircraft in order to measure the heat, magnetism and perhaps radioactivity given off by the UFOs, and long-range cameras would be included.“With this system,” said Utke, “sooner or later one or several of the scientists would be on the scene when a UFO was sighted.”Does Utke think that kind of program, which he calls modest in scale and cost, could or would be implemented in the near future?“No, unless a definite military threat was posed by the UFOs,” he said.Dr. Allen Utke, a chemistry teacher at UW-Oshkosh, says he actively pursued UFO studies between 1965 and 1971, but finally abandoned his efforts due to a number of frustrations, plus the belief that he could no longer scientifically pursue the subject without obtaining large sums of money and equipment. Utke says he has never seen a UFO, but is almost certain that they exist. Terming them the mystery of the age, he maintains it would well be worth several million dollars for in-depth research to determine whether they really do exist.“I am 95 per cent convinced that UFOs exist,” he went on, “even though I’ve never seen one. I am about 40 per cent convinced that that UFOs are a new natural phenomenon unknown to man, and I am about 60 per cent convinced they are extraterrestrial beings.” Perturbed that the scientificIn 1968 an equally well-known attempt was made to decipher the UFO mystery, when the Air Force awarded a $313,000 grant to a 14 member research team at the University of Colorado.Headed by Dr. Edward U. Condon of the university, the group published an 810-page report which basically concluded that nothing concrete had come from the study of UFOs for those 21 years.The report met with disfavor among UFO enthusiasts, many of whom labeled the report a ‘■‘whitewash” and an effort to discredit belief in the existence of UFOs.The ufologists maintained that the research group lacked sufficiently qualified scientists and that the members were under pressure from higher sources to produce the negative report.If the intent of the Condon report was to quiet the public interest in UFOs, it could have been termed a temporary success, because reports of sightings did diminish. The reports have been on the rise this year, but even this did not surprise some observers, who contend that sightings run in approximate five year cycles and that 1972 is the start of a new cycle of frequent sightings.In an effort to get some local feeling on the subject of UFOs, this reporter interviewed three area persons who have taken or who are taking more' than a casual interest in the subject.Dr. Allen Utke, a chemistry teacher at the University of Wis-consin-Oshkosh, said he actively pursued UFO work from 1965 to1971, Finally giving up after experiencing a “number of frustrations.”Utke said, “I used to give talks on UFOs to various groups around the area, but after awhile I began to realize that they merely wanted to be entertained, that they didn’t want to learn about the subject.” He added that he figured he had gone as far as he could in his research without requiring large sums of money and equipment.In those six years, Utke estimated he had studied reports from about 100 persons, most of them from Wisconsin.to us. Most people don’t want to accept that possibility, and they are afraid of the unknown,” he continued.(Continued on Page 8)Personal interviewsHe preferred to interview them personally to determine if he thought their reports were based on fact, rather than fabrication.“UFOs are the mystery of our age,” Utke said, “and it’s kind of amazing that there isn’t a centralized scientific organization doing any research or collecting data on them at all. We know nothing more now about the UFOs than we did back in 1947, when the Air Force started keeping track of them.Why isn’t there more study being done on this “mystery of our age”?“Every age of man has figured it had the future wrapped up in its pockets, not realizing that there is a future. According to what we know today, scientists merely say these things (UFOs) couldn’t be here,” Utke said.“Also, the possibility of superior beings existing out there beyond earth is psychologically disturbingRay Palmer, an Amherst publisher, traces his interest in UFOs back 30 years. He has published a 40-poge monthly magazine, Flying Saucers’ since 1957 from his Tomorrow River Printing Company in on old school-house in Amherst. Palmer says he has seen UFOs on many occasions, and thinks they are a matter for competent authorities to investigate. While maintaining that flying saucers exist, he doesn't seem to think any will ever be caught. Palmer says that over the years he has received plenty of material from crackpots, in addition to seemingly legitimate material.VIEW mAGaZIn6/NOVEM8Ek 19, 1972 7
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