t"l :IU'IXD '!',~mporary A'riC Fpnn 329 V.pfl.. .so i..OC.\TtON LEilG'l'lt c)\i' 'l'If.t . lJH~>.!t vt:ll 'l'YPI~ 01" nn;.E:lVJ\'L'IOif ttf\rn:UVJ~ns _ Source claims t~h-;;-;-~olu ti -~ ." n):i;;g~ saucer mys teey" and also possesses a ~ tionable discharge from Air Force ' tor mental instability??) ~ , (he front Cover) Although this photo was taken on April 23, 1950, It has not been publicized until this date because of th.e original ridicule to which the photographer was sub lected by his friends. At FLYING SAUCERS' request, ha has inade a print. available to us. . :ON April 23, 1150, I waa walking dlsc'a edge. Thll top aemt-apher,. through the wooc:la In the hllla was reddish In color, and the rest ot near Red Bud, Illlnob. I was a the thing, below a dl.stlnct Unf' part-tlme photographer, hoping to where the dome .started, seemed to get some wildlife shots. Of course, be of clear metalllc substance. Th ... llld, nttnell planta In the yard beside the hou~e. Mr. Greene waa up on the roof, pre- aumably fixing a leak. It was notic- Ing Mr. Greene that caused the newsboy to look up. In the blue sky above, he saw what he later de- a.s looking like the bf'ttom of a atlver saucer . he said, pointing at tht- object, .. look Puzzled, Mr. G1eene from the root and Mrs. Greene from the ground flrat looked at him, and then fol- lowed hla lndicatlon. They caught the thing In the sky. The three observers stared with one nc- the aaucer remained set In the air. After a short while, It took off, to quote the newsboy, Ufa.ster than any jet, straight south for Car-. Later (I was stlll ignorant of this Incident), my photographic print proved that what I'd seen from the hillside had not been a bizzare hal- lucination, but a bizzare fact. crashing through the brush In broad object stopped moving, and hovered, I was, of course, most enthusiastic dayUght waa no way to cet wUdUfe motionless, out over the hllls AftPr about my flying saucer. The first plcturea; I really just wanted to hike a few seconds, It agaln started mov-person with whom I conversed after through the woods. However, I took ing slowly. this time to my left. east my experience was a portly friend. mJ camera along for appearances' ward. Once more lt stopped anj . whom I shall not name here, who ate. As I came down the south side hung In mld-alr out over the hlll.s. came over to my house tn F.~.. Rt of a hill, the woods broke away 1nto Only now dld enough shock wear ott Louts for a vlslt one evening, He clearlnc on a centle slope. Utlllty to permit me to move consciously 1 was seated on the couch, I on a chair Unea snaked their way across thta shoved my camera up to my faee, across the room from it. After some and on down the hlll,lde on caught the object ln the viewer, and small talk, which I determinedly telephone polea. From here, I could s1iapped the shutter. . kept to a mlnlmum, we sat In silence the green-and-brown hUla about Immediately, the thing took off -for a few seconds while I collected bathed In bright aunahlne. It waa There was no diacemable sound or my thoughts. How should I say what then that I noticed that the clearlnp exhaust. It was just gone In a flash I had to say? In which I atood waa shaded, as beyond the horizon. I wondered At length I blurted out: .. Do you though a small cloud were just over-about thft hP.at. nf thfll ... , "" m believe In . , uh . flying saucers?" In walking, and Imagined head. I looked' up. that. hadn't really seen .. Of course," replied my stout as- the shock of my life. Sus-anything at all. My arm was trem-soclate in hb boom l n g voice, u at what seemed a height ot bUng violently as looked at my though I'd asked hlm whether he no more than twenty feet directly watch. It read :SS. believed In automobiles. I was stun- over me, with no visible means of dld not then know what n:m ned. This had been too much to hope the huge,-round, shaded, about to relate, but this Is the ston for. I had certainly never believed metallic bottom of what proved 'to they tell In De Soto, Ill1nols. about in flying saucers myself before my be a dlsc hung motionless In mid-flfty miles rough 1 Y southeast of unexpected revelation; and of all all'. I wouldn't dare to hazard a cuea where I'd made my sighting. people 1 could not have vl.sttallzed at how blg the thlnc waa. It looked It waa about rour o'clock of the my friend aa a "sauccrer". u.me day. A newsboy named Oonald .. Wait," I said, leaving the room very slowly, then, the huge dlae Gene wu, as usual, peddling his bi-ln an excited rush. I returned with becan moving away from me, south cycle down u.s. Route 51 to make my photograph, handed it to him; The bottom seemed convex some deliveries south of town. He sat. on the couch beside him and r:lt- and ~he upper surface Ukewiae, bu stopped before the Greene residence. Ued off my report with missionary : , It aeemed that the upper surfa<"ft which was right next tO the hlgl) zeal as be gazed soberly at the pte-;- reached up to form a dome atop t.ht way 1n the open countryside Mn "' t.ure. \.>~ middle of the clrcle formed by t.hr Greene waa puttertnc with aome "You don'\ 1urprl11d,~ ll&ld an. &be eonclualon of my account "''m not," he aid 10ttly ... 1 aw one or thelt once." "Y'" 1 wu Oabberautect. "Yea," he ald. "It wu purple, and oranp. A ray pn shot out or ltl porthole and rayed me, and that' what made such a mea or me. You aat believe mel" He 1tared at me with a wild look In hla 1 felt my face flush u I reaused what he wu dolna. "All rtahtt" I l&ld hotly. "Knock It ott!" 1111 mouth suddenly spilt hll fat face open u he shook with roartn1 hll watch a alance too quiet, and said, "I'm IDI'r)'. ~an Morcan old boy I'd bet wr 10 now." He 10t up to leave, handlnl me the photo. "I11 aee you "Yeab," I l&ld, alttlnl where 1 wu. He'a never .. aeen me around" so : elall)' aaaln. I'd never been so angry; nor so frustrated, anger was force without dlrectlon. I couldn't blame blm' I would have behaved In a sl mll~r manner had our aituatlona been reversed. . 1 ahowed my photo to two more after that, and the ,re&ponses '' noted were enough to make me the picture In to a drawer and wlU myself Into forgetfulness. At leut, I tried to foraet. ln 1158, the Reverend Don HoU. became pastor of B u n k u m Road Baptllt Mtaslon, of which I was a member. Under hla pastorage the mlsslon's song leader. One after the morning services, I aw him talking with some of the . membera ln the yard, .u he was to do. When one of the mem- ben made a pointless joke about flJlna saucers and people who see tbem, I noticed that he did not lauab wlth the group, but auumed an unusually a o 1 e m n expression After those members had left him, 1 ambled over and casually asked whJ be hadn't laughed at the joke rd OYerheard. Be waa reluctant to answer, but finally aald, .. I wouldn't Ue to you. and revealed the, tollowlnl: He had Uvt41 ln De Boto, nunota at the time of mJ atghtlnl. It wu now, from him, thl\t I learned ot t.hc newlboY'I alght.lng 1 have described. I waa areat.ly edified to hear thn~ \hls had occurred on the s:lme daJ u my alghtlng; In tact, just a Ut.t.le afterward. But there wu more \0 hll 1tory than that. My pastor, a man of Irreproachable character. had blanself seen the objed! He had been going south on U.S. Route 51 North of Carbondale city Umlt, he had seen the object hovering tn tht sky for an lns~'\nt before st.renkinl hlm ln the same man ner in whlch the newsboy and his husband-and-wife conflrmants scrtbed It as streaking away from I manaaed to con tact the erst whlle newsboy. whose story described . . My _enthusiasm was revltallzed, and 1 tried desperately to get my tlndlngs publlshed. They were re- jected by all popular magazines. It was ln August, 1957, that I dis- covered .. Flying Saucers" magazin,., I realized that here was a publica- that was open-minded, to saJ the very least. However, 1 waa re-. luctant to wrtte anything for It, be- cause most of the things I founa therein seemed so .... 1 hope the faithful wlll pardon my saying t.hll ... crazy. But 1 now feel duty-bound to tell story, for I know the flying sau cPr legend is based on abaolute tact. and If that hard truth ls ever to be from beneath the layers of myth, those of us who have to fact must disclose it. The photograph was taken froi'T' , a hlllslde, not far from Red Bud Illlnols, facing south-southeast. The the upper left foreg1ound are uUllty wire&. and the things ln the lowet right are the tops of bushy The tops of two telephone can be seen as the ines wlnd the hlllslde. The .. saucer" Ia hovering, just prior to taking off. I 11t a weird, creepy teeUng every I loot at thll picture. To para something Editor Ray mer once aatd, what have I aeen? AD Unldent.ltled Fl)'lnl Object." .. AJrU 19JO Ill Ul2 a laz-p fl\11'17 of Wv photopapba were reoorcled With a pbotopaph bJ eel Enrique Hauaemann Muller at tbe Baleoz1o Ilo.nd.ll, Spain honing a P1nwheel-abe.ped obj eot off rar of ezhauat, taken on ,..pril 24.