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The Flying Saucer Mysterysupposed witnesses in the Unit j Sydney, 11 ex-servicemen anrfj Phip which did not landonBy MARK McDONALD)One fajefuj day during the tv Ameiican summer I I” 'luxy American summer nn Army airfield deep in the heart of Kentucky was suddenly alerted! Radar screens hadnicked up u signs! corresponding lo th«t of an aircraft moving at incredible speed toward ihc field’ The signal was baf fling, for the airfield no-where near the normal commercial air routes and no Air Force planes were in the vicinity! All pilota were ordered to stand by while radar technicians watch-..I the tiny signal move srros the screen toward th* field As the pilots waited in their plane* for the intruder to appear. the tension grew wilt c\ »ry second! Perhaps this war l , be the spark that would set r,IT ihr third world war; perhaps it waa some super Ru«-•iai let carrying some horrific weapon for the destruction of the United Stales! Perhaps this'Suddenly from the west »l up pea red'. The pilot* turned •heir .-ye. .kyward as it shot overhead! It »slt; “ disc! B u*I iii ■■ y m colour, it travelled -mindlessly, and left no vapour trail!Captain Thomas MantelJ. a fighter idiot with the U S Air f ,„r. swung his plane an to the air.uip and foiled forewsriJ Soon he was airborne, and with throttle wide opr he roared n, pursuit of the strange craft A few minutes later his firsti d States In recent year*The final report* come from an American naval Lt., Frank. Schofield who reported the af-1 mii of three meteors aighted on I February 2b. 1904. He claim-1 lt;d “the leading meteor, which hail the area of about aix suns, was egg shaped. The smaller termed round. They appeared to be travelling in echelon, and mi continued as long us In sight The subsequent flight away from the surface appear mo.it ...markable” The other report lime from I’anada, across pan of the United States to Bermuda. Right across this area, people reported sighting flight, of “furnace-red bodie- which emerged from the horuon in V formation, took a perfectly hnrisontal path, and “simply disappeared in the distance “It was later reported, manjr observers compared them with! ,|UPk ii fleet of airships with lighten cither side and foreward und uft; uthem likened them to great battleship* attended by cruisers and destroyers.” In 1032 after many years research into strange reports Charles H Fort conrluded that super-creatures from somewhere in space have been visiting our17 other pdbple reported seeing' hi’s’farm. In an interview with “a luminous rigar-ahuped air- u n-porter the eyewitness gave craft, over the Northern tub- thc following account: I r*lt; urhs toon after 6 p.m.. May 6. out „f bed and raised the win ttfft*. Recently reports of ,|„w ,hade. Suddenly It dawn•trange object* shaped like i. gars” have been received from VSahroongu and Taree, An en. gineei familiar to Jet aircraft sighted the Wahroonga mystery ul fi.10 p m. on July 15. 11* -aid, the object was travelling in a straight line from west to cast, and disappeared seaward. The yellow light It earned was three or four times as big us that of n Jet exhaust at such nn altitude, and the speed of the object was about three or four time* that of ii Jet.' the engineer concluded.A Taree report on the same day claimed residents saw ad on me that I couldn’t hear or tee a thing unusual outsideThere was no ear-splitting craan i ish of lightcigar-shaped object travelling at a terrific -peed just beforeudio report was receivedhrhad• cpvi a ” — • • - -ighted the stranger, anaidlyfast pursuit, gaining rap•I'm closer now.” hr said at ln*t ”1 can see it quite .plainEarth for centuries. Whether| his theory is right or not the old reports he investigated cpr | tainly resemble the stories w.■ ••ail in nur newspapers from day to dayToday the term flying \uu cer has been accepted a- .i port of everyday life, yet it 'till no. nut been aclentifirally proved or excepted! Numerous theories have been presented, but none have been satisfactory. US Naval authoritie* claimed thry were weather bal-| loons used to determine longBoth these reports baf fled K.A.A.F. experts who said that nil Jet aircraft were out ..f the sky by 4 p.m.!Residents of Ratlow (N.8.W I reported sighting. balloon like •pinning objects which werlt; lutmnius anfl appeared seven times between May IK und Julv C of this your The object were high in the sky. und glow «d red as they moved linekward and forward- at high -need' Thcs* reports tiring the flying saucer mystery very cio*r lu home, indeed f •In 1052. two scientist- -t « f;. i v i • i nmrnt research station .ii Malvern Hills. Knglund. u-poried seeing “a strange rirrii lai object with a halo, about i .30 a.m., May 0. They said it was about 2.500 feet above the . urth!In Washington on July 2ft, a inlion rndur nu Ota1062, civil■rators reported mysterious olrange forecasts, other expert*, Jtcte—up to twelve nt oncelyIt's made of metal, and „• s tremendous auc!Mantel! went on to repo/t his sliced, and that he was n«» .limbing At 15.000 fret hi; -need waa approximately miles an hour and he wa‘' eetljr below the object Man-jell’s voice broke through lh« .creaming atmospherirs agatlt. •1 am- going in for u better |„ok! Suddenly the radio fell -.lent, Mnntell did not re-estab-lish contact Thry found hi* plane scattered mile- nf tne Kentucky countryside. Man-iell remains the first and last -nan to chase a fl *i“*cer •All thia happened m l.'iT. when aaucer reports were at their peek. since then hundreds of reporta have turned to .housanda, while report, that i.nee ciime from t S.A only, now cover the entue globe Smre lt*7 a Flying Saucer Investigation Committee has been M-t up In thr United States W deal with the flood of report* that deluge Army. Navy. Airforce and Government authoriv ere firmly convinced they were Jiussian or American jet planes. An American Journalist even wrote a book, in which he made the startling i tatcmmt* that he knew what they were, and their origin! He then went on to tell his story of how these fnntastic objects came from outer space, control-!*d by “super bee's.” ants andIhcr Insects with brains far Montgomery. Alabama uperior to human being*! Al- • 46 in the morningthough generally considered founded hunk, hi* theories won radar screen* in the early hnuia of the morning. They appeared to he Unveiling from ftO to 150 mile* an hour. Th« r-wai no official explanation.Now here i* how two reliable Ameiican airline pilots. Captain Clarence S Chile* and Pilot John B Whittcd. described then encounter with a flying raucer. They were flying over It was bnghiun- moonlit .night with scattered were clouds. Suddenly. reports nevertheless quite interesting! Captain Chile*. “a brilliant At various time- newJpapere fast moving object appeared have published actual photo- overhead It flashed down to-graphs ol flying sauewr*. the *„,( un. We veered to the best coming from Brasil, wheretwo newspaper reporters •»“ end photographed a flying di-c over the remote district of llhn .lo* Amores Another group of photograph* came from a six leen year old youth in Nevuda This series of photographs revealed the mysterious saucer in very different circumstances; this time there wan an entire flight of -aucers all flying In perfect formation. They appeared on the film as so manyleft. It veered sharply too. It , u**ed about 700 feet above usThe thing was nlmut a bundled feet long, cigar-shaped and wingless. It was a* bright a* a magnesium flnre. Its exhaust was red-orange, flurtflng An intense glow came from the snb edge and ran down the entirenor any blinding flash looking towurd the North l tr-uld see no sign of a circular shaped space ship about 60 feet ir diameter It would havr been about 14 feet high. I figure, if 1 had seen it!Pulling the shade down quickly. I climbed hack Into hod. I could tee right off that no one would bcllrve me, anyhow. so I'm not going to tell a l.ving soul anything atiuiil «' While these and similar reporta continue to pour m from ill over the world, there is still no really tangible proof of their i listener Nothing has been •cienliflcally proved, althougl flying •auecra have hern •cientificallyy considered fi i ight year* at least.The moat important contrn bution toward final proof ol Ihi-ir existence are the phut »• Piaph* taken by two newspaper i eporter* in the llhn do* Amorim district of Brnxil. The two men. Ed K.ffel and Joaa Martin, were doing nn illustrated f«-- lure for their paper O 1 u-»eln m May 1952 It was about « o'clock In the after noon when a strange aircraft shot into view from behind bill tine of the rm-n nut,, matically lifted his camera an-took a picture. Both men re allied that was no ordinary air . ruft. in the first place it w*» iliac! Completely forgettim-ihv original assignment, the iwo men rushed bock to then .ffice in Rio de Janeiro and de-’ eloped their film. Brniilian and American expert* were rail id in to examine the prints They could offer no cxplnnn tion, hut they wrre convinced Umt the picture* were authrn-n. ' Thr U.S. Military Attache .n Washington. Colonel Hughe. •v»* among the first to examine the preeioua pictures, and at hi* ; c-qucst. conies were aenl to Washington! Keffel andI Mai-t-ns said the strange craft wa-n'out 3.000 feet up, and twice the star Ilf a Douglas DC-;i transport plane.Flying toward them. I hr object locked bk. an ordinary plum head-on. hut flying side way- At on. point in it* brief appearance, the craft ap pea red Co slow down and drop little As It banked the watcher* had a brief glimpn* of a dome on top, smooth contours end terrific speed'The pictures taken by Keffel m,d Mnrtms were proven au t hr nt ic. the negative, had notE:.ngth of the fuselage -like a |„.rn tampered with, and wcr fluorescent factory light. Th'Flying saucer report* are not•xclusive to this rraxy post w*i vorld, for even a* far back a*1892 an Engliah astronomer E. Walther Maunder reported, astrange c'ele.tlal; vi.iW On November IT. 15*2. Maunder•mall lights speeding across the metrical formationsky In a geometnci Tha youth aaid he had taken th# atill* from hit backyard late lt;-na night. He alio claimed theything xoomed into the clouds alt; incredible *pced. Its Jet wash Iflvm It* tear flames) rocked our Douglas DC-3 airliner.That was Captain Chllea* end Pilot Whit ted'a signed statement. They were utterly re. liable men.” aaid Captain F.ddie,send•V,* watching an aurora after a violent magnetic atonn-Suddenly A great drcular diak of greenish light appoared inthe E.SLE Smoothly It moved from horixon to horlion. t»x-■ nr about two minute* in transit It's round initial appear-nn re waa probably due to fora-•hortemng. Maunder continued. when it croased the meridian and passed just abov. the moon. It# form was al moat of an elongated ellipse. \ arious observer* spoke of it a*. Clgur shaped, like a torpedo, or a spindle or shutlD! xv as eatimated a* 183 mile*, tu .peed a* 10 milei per aecond. much slower than lhe rf bolidea. (Bolide* are giant meteoric chunk- of stone or nickel-iron whoa* h»*rrlocked as high 50 m.le, p.r second). Maunder a ae-| count of his celestial vmtor. certainly reaemble# reporU ol more recent year*. The next report on record come, from American newspaper# in loin-I .ate in March of that yeai US. newapaper* from coast tlt; ,-oa*t gave front-pagr space to e huge, rigar-shaped air ship supposed to be crulaing around Chicago. Then from I abfornia came the description of a ‘cigar-shaped object, with no motive power, carlamly not steamit *a. flrst reported from Sacrrmento then Denver Colorado. On March 29, ac cording to the New York Her aid. the name object wq* »rr -by a majority of the resident* Omaha. Nehraaka. It w»s the shape of a bright light, in*, big for a balloon. The New York Sun stated that Kansa* City trolley cars stopped, and • oon the whole population was watching it from the street and roof-top*. The light. the newspaper went on was. «« great aa that produced by twenty atara.Sloriea poured into the C hicago Tribune. Reputable ci-tixens (of Eldora, Iowa) «-y they observed the gigantic airship. One man aaid it r«»emb-Icd an immenae bird of polished ^ ailver.” In Milwaukee thou-m and# of people saw *t. The mi- chine floated over the city un H „i „ reached directly over the C city hall, where it flopped for ” quite a eohiiderable time. Some witness** claimed, ' the light was auspended from a large, dark, oval shaped body.Another report fame from the British barque Lady of th. Lake in 1876. Jual before nightfall on Mareh 22. 1870.the vessel was moving In mid Atlantic, a few degrees over the equator, when CapUin Frederick Banner and the crew observed a curious eloud. light grey In colour, circular in form and transparent, but distinctly deflned. !» came up obliquely against the wind, torned at a right angle lata the taeth of the wind, and finally aettled down right in th* wind * eye before It waa bah in darkaeaa An extract from the thip’a log later published in the Quar terly Journal of the Royel Meteorological Society. .reproduced tha CapUln'a eketch Strangely enough the eketch bear* startling resemblance to roa' the eaueer drawing* mad* by I•lade quite regular appearance* i die Rlckenbacker. at night. Obaervera wer*| 1962 waa a year of constant prompted to keep a night long saucer reports, one of which vigil with th# lad. True to hi* came from a acoutmaster. Mr word th* lights did appear, andig. J. Desvergers of West Palm non* xf the watcher* could ex-1 Beach. Florida, U.S.A. Des-plain them adequately! i vergers Investigated flashingSaucer report* are not re-'light* on the edge of the Flori-Strietad to tha United States, do everglades. He claimed he they hare been aighted In Can-, found an object 10 feet high. #da. England, France, Germany,! 30 feet wrtde, shaped like r Italy, BralU, South Africa andj rubber ball. Aa he approachedvouched for by all the expert* '.ho saw them. Also the saucer n the pictures was idrUtitcal l-i eye-witness account* of then from different parts of the world.lt;The concluding portion of this article in which Mr. McDonald sums up the question ol whether flying saucer* cxlsi will be published in next iaeue).even Australia! Most of the reporta received have been similar in their deacription. even to small detail* wttheld by authorities appeared in many new reporta! Last year the very conservative RAF. released in account of two Jet pilot* whoXted a flying saucer over the th Sea, Both pilot* gave chase to the saucer but It shot away from them at such a speed that it left the two pilot* In their Vampire jets hanging in Spare a* if stationary'In Australia, airline pilots nn the lout mi- flight to Brisbane -■ported »e«-ing a strange utr-raft, shaped like a cigar. In:rice*the object shot a ball of fire at him. linging his hair' Scouts with Desvergers said they -aw him fall down aftrr n reddish-white ball of Arc. like a Roman candle cam. down from thr ikyDesvergers said later, tha* he and high ranking Washing ton official* were “substantial ly in agreement on whnl th«-object was. !ut he refused te say more!The must amusing report ,lt;i them all came from Runne Wisconsin. U.S. A The In. in Journal-Time* nf that tpwn imported that a Racini man t«*l the story of a mammoth spaceCharles Hope('old Flnme Electric and Kcro Model Refrigerator 5 cub. ft. £125 10/.L. FoleyBowral(i. IIKAVANMOTOR FUNERA I DIRECTORSTATION ST.. BOWRALrhon, Bowral SO #'d 4DAY OR NIGHT
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