Show - UFO-watchi- ng BY LONG has become the JOHN NEBEL I picked up the newspaper a few ago and read about flying saucers Michigan I felt like shouting "Welradio come back!" In my ten years on night-tim- e me does informs my secretary (who my arithmetic) that I have spent close to 4000 of my 20000 hours of air time talking to saucer people y Don't get me wrong I don't mean people who come out of the saucers I mean earthlings who talk and write about saucers they have seen — and in some cases supposedly taken joy rides in Saucer people include characters such as George King who in 1954 was contacted in his London flat while washing dishes: "Prepare yourself you are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament" Then there are deadly serious scienmtific researchers such as Majoz iniononninistEntooston e E Keyhoe a retired Donald truth rine who heads the National somewhere Committee on Aerial vestigations in behemon Phenomena composed of over 200 military and scientific consultants and known in saucer circles as NICAP Between King and his cohorts who supply what might be called the entertainment side of saucerology and Keyhoe and his Board of Governors in my opinion lies the still shrouded truth about flying saucers Keyhoe is convinced the saucers may come from outer space He cites sightings by such men as: When calls the policy of explaining away sightings and silencing witnesses At one time the Air Force said nation's most controversial outdoor sport it had explained 521 out of 545 — and at a later date 543 out of 557 — of all recorded sightings for that year Let's not quibble over numbers Just one unexplained sighting is enough to make me wonder sighting was by the crew of a My favorite far-owestbound Navy Super Constellation crossing the the radio and direction finder the pilot reported Says Keyhoe: "After investigating hundreds of such reports most of NICAPts expert evaluators see but two alternative answers: "i Either all the witnesses are wrong or frauds or "2 The skilled observers saw exactly what they reported — intelligently controlled devices superior to any known air or space craft — and the facts are being officially hidden" For over a decade NICAP has fought what it ut VD tt Ad itty-bitt- Ma-Th- In-li- es - 04 t I4 - mil y I aw Ift 0 oval-shape- 1 t: : Mkt Navy scientists who tracked a strange flying object at 18000 mph over White Sands Proving Ground 4 st':4$ - ' ' 0 - near-collisi- It Col Howard Wright retired AF command with other witnesses sighted five flying who pilot in March 1966 objects I Official Australian astronomers at Mt Stromlo Observatory Capt Yoshiaki Inada TOA Airlines pilot whose airliner had an encounter over Japan last year The object was so close it "violently affected" ' Atlantic in 1956 The pilot a veteran of some 200 crossings noticed a cluster of lights below him on the sea No one "could figure out what it was Land was i000 miles away There were no ships reported in the area Aboard 30 witnesses the plane were two other air to one puzzling crews — on their way home — a incident all total of 30 men As they puzzled one of the lights broke mosomEmonlonommo away and came hurtling up toward the plane "It's going to hit us!" one man cried in panic Instead it pulled up about a hundred yards off the Constellation's wing and began pacing them The airmen described it as huge about 30 feet thick at the center and four times as wide as the Constellation's wing span It was type casting for a saucer — or two facing saucers — and around the rim there it was a glow of scarlet After a few minute accelerated and vanished into the stratosphere Looking down the airmen saw the other lights on the sea had also vanished When they landed at Gander Newfoundland the airmen were exhaustively questioned by Air Force specialists But neither they nor the public ever received a word of explanation That ladies and gents is what the Air Force blandly describes as one of the "unexplained" sightings There are of course a number of people who have no trouble explaining it People such as George King Howard Menger Truman Bethurum and Ode° Angelucci George ' as the Voice of Interplanetary Parliament tells fascinating stories of rides his mother has taken in saucers For some reason he has never been ausimeg010 strange invited but he talks to Saucerians "Little men Truman via telepathy daily oil Ines then 0 was driving a truck across the five font" California desert in July 1952 Pausing for a nap he says he awoke to find his cab surrounded by "little men all less than five feet" One spoke to him in English and took him to a saucer which hung three feet above the ground Thereafter Truman had several more contacts with these little men and their lady leader and soon was in business as an author lecturer and "appraiser of unseen human vibrations" But Orfeo Angelucci is my favorite for sheer imagination Enroute home from work one California night he says he noticed a dim red glow pacing his car He finally stopped and the glow released two green balls of fire that pulsated just above him A masculine voice told (TO PAGE 17) 111 I L l' s i 1 I ' f moulos TWA Capt G W Schemel who reported with a UFO over Amarillo Texas and hastily dived to avoid it — injuring several passengers who were thrown from their seats a - (-- Veteran Texas deputy sheriffs H B McCoy and Robert Goode The night of Sept 3 1965 a d object about 200 feet long came huge down near their police car The lawmen raced away at to mph later admitting to NICAP and the Air Force that they were terrified (Listed "unsolved" by the Air Force) Space Agency engineer A G Crimmins who in 1965 saw a flying disc ringed with flashing lights make a brief "touch" land- - mmmEnimmommEm ing near Hampton Va The UFO Many reports was also seen by Maj John Nay-ar- e from trained egely former pilot observers Among some 8000 NICAP reports from World War II on Eneinimmenneme are hundreds by military and airline pilots air traffic controllers radarmen and other trained observers here and abroad Examples: i 1 ‘ 43XA THIS WEEK Magazine ' May IS 1966 1 - 7 |