1. DA Tl TIMI GROUP L' t "~TION n October so 12/0Sl Lark, Utah I. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION Aat.ro (METIX>R) ~. NUMBER 0, OBJECTS One Evaluate41 as a meteor observation . S. LENGTH 0, OBSERVATION 11. IRII' SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS ~Reported 6. TYPE 0, OBSERVATION Gmum-Viaual t. PHYSICAL IVIDINCI Observer thought object was a meteor but upon closer observ8!~ic. ~ appeared U> be a rocket or plane or sa1e sort. The object I appeared at tirst as a long, thin line qt tire crossing the ak;y at a teH"itic rate ot speed. This .line of fl. re later widened oU; ani then seene d to dip and explode. The tro nt e ~ ) ~ the object broke a"!'ay and the ma1 n 'to d;y seerued to stay in the elq an:l then atddenl.y taded completely out;. SUBJt.'CTa Unidentified Aerial Object Sighted in Vicinity or P~rovo River, Utah Director or Special Investigations Headquarters, USAF 1ash1ngton 2~, D. c. 1. ThB following information was turn1Rhed this orfiee by the 115th CIC Detach~ent, Intelligence Field Office No. 4, Fort Dour,laa, a. At 1300 hours, 17 octobor 1950, addreoe lfl, !raeman Avenue, BinP,ha~, Utah, ~ployed as a compressor operator on the Lark Tunnel, Lark, Utah, telephoned this (the ll?th CIC Detach~ont) office and volunteered the following informaticna /-~ "lf. / . ~ (1) On 11 October 1950 .at a 2210 hours, while working on the Lark Tunnel, and a companion, na.""Je unknown, sighted what appeared to be a meteor crossin~ the sky. Uc.ever, upon closer observation, it appeared to be a rocket or plane of sO!!le sort. The object appeared at first as a lon~, thin line or fire crossing the a~J at a territic rate or speed. ThitJ line of fire la tar out and then seemed to dip and explode. rhe trout end of tho object broke away, and the main body t,o stq in t't)e sky and then suddenly faded co~pletelr out. estimated the object about 40 or 50 oiles away i'ron his position -in the vicinity or the Provo River (roughly southwest or Lark, Utah). (2) further stated that the delay in reporting this incident was occasioned bf the .fact that, althou.~h he relt he should roport it to someone, he did not kno;1 ..,.;;1ich would be the proper a~eney to r ort to. Further infor:n- tion can be obtained tro~ e1 at his resid~nce or at his work at the e prf!Scntly working from 16oo to 2Loo hours daily except Sunda:1. P'roc=Dan Avenue, Rln~ham, Utah, 1s reterzoed to locally aa rreeman OUlch. Y N CLASSlf.t~-' ' IU&Ja Valdt.lHecl &erlal Qjeo\ Slshted. lD flclni\T ~ PI'OYO Rl, Utah e. lo lftt.lptlon or \he aboft t.ter hal b .. n 1n1tiatecl b7 thle orn.oe, and , .. abon n.1UDII7 l turnlahecl tor JOUr Wcmu.t.lca. Pl"UWI R. BURKErT captain, USAP D1atr1c\ Comm8nder Bt _4j,'Ju AT 3 y ...ASSIFIED AFJ LV"l~Rl' A ... . ~ .~: .. tJ~SSIElE'l dea1ae will be prond \mf'OWlded. A detailed anal)'aia of' . your a icle be aent later. MAJC:m DORALD I. ICIYHOI (Dizoector of' RIOAP) Waah1ncton, D.C. nottt The u.terial tor our SAUOIR article waa taken ntirely publication and bulletins, ancl waa not f'urniahecl to ua anyone. tea about RICAP in Rewa letter 16 was aent in by a conf'i ial cor- re ancl we, like Xe)'hoe, hope that it turna out to be Aa for a situation, it ia frankly a puz&le to ua. Ace to a re- cent iaaue Washington D.C.'s Little Listening Poat NICAP a a member- ahip ot over According to Xeyhoe a statement in hia let on Page 2 of' thia iaaue, haa no honorary members, so this means all of' these more than ,,000 le have aent in a mintmum of' 17.50 each. , an absolute minimum of' 122,500 in aubacription money has reached the CAP treasury in that organization' leaa than two yeara of' existence-to mention girts ancl donations. NEWS haa received only a small f'ra ion of' that amount in ita almoat aix )'ea ot operation, ancl moat aaucer clu have taken in much leaa aoney than we have, We clo 1121 mean to imply eli aty of' any sort, but in view ot the tact that baa not undertaken any the scientific pro- jecta enviaionecl by Brown, it ia not at all clear ua why the financial ahortage ia ao acute. -In next iaaue we will be ad to publish the fur- ther comments that Major promiaea in the a letter.) '!he failure of' people, would be a with ita unpa strophe tha eled influence among might be irreparable, and I t aee how you can be indiff'e ALEXANDER D. New York, N.Y. Congratulations on your Nl ole. It ia the most sensible thing I have read in SAUCER NEWS in a J.on -When NICAP was f'j rat organ- ized, I aent in my name to them a a '""~ ...... <::2 to start a local chapter. I was aoon contacted by several crackpots, rry I ever got into the thing Our little group here in Chicago ke from NICAP several months ago, when we read in his bulletin tha he was to sell the contact that waa the laat straw aa far aa I concerned. I think Major Keyhoe means well, but he sure haan' t done the b we expected him. .. Chicago, llinois ve done it aga with your NICAP article bunch, but I see you did have the nerve to attack SAUCER NEWS ia the only without fear or favor r magazine with the guts KETALAWICH ~Asno, California I never thought you In my opinion say what it wants, s noteaOur a should not be construed as an -..- on NICAP or on Major Keyhoe, for we have a great deal of' respect. We a merely trying to offer comment u~ criticisma concerning some important po we feel the organization slipped up on.) POR SALEa copies each of 9 recent issues of URANUS, England s outstanding aaucer m4 zine. These seta of 9 iaauea will be sold for .,.00 per set to the ir t ~ er ns who send for them Write De t. P 0 Box 16 Fort Lee N J Suba;riber C. W. Fitch of 52 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland '' Ohio, is short , , 5, ~ and 7 of SAUCER ~IS, Write him directlt if you have these for sale, Till OAII OP THI ORASHID UPO -, lob lari'J, Rewa Director ot Radio Station WMNS, Orlean, R.Y. - the week ot March 17th, 1956, I received some very import- ant aaucer information trom one ot Orlean a moat reapected persona, Police Obiet Oeorce Pinger. I know the Chiet very well, aa I make daily visits to the police atation to pick up newa-worth1 material tor my noon broadcast. During my viai t to the atation that day, we got into a chat about -r UPO Oonterence which vaa acheduled tor March 20th. In the course of the oonveraation, Ohiet Finger aaked me if I bad ever heard of a certain incident that ocC\IJ'red in Pennayl vania some time between September of 1949 and January ot 1951. It happened that I knew nothing about it. The details were scarce but enough waa there to make me want to look into it further. He told me that an object vaa auppoaed to have craahed in the vicinity ot Coudersport and Empor- ium, fa., and that it sheared ott the tops of trees. I was also told that the U. I. Arm, cme into the area (a hilly section away trom any main roads) with Ar-r trucks. They roped the area ott, loaded the object on trucks, and drove That waa enough tor mel I made up my mind to follow this story through. Here ia the course of the events that followed. I learned that several people in the area were supposed to have the object shortly before it crashed. One of them was a Reserve Officer ot the u. S. Army who lived in Emporium and who worked at Sears Roebuck & Co. at Emporium at the ttme. He was supposed to have seen an Army truck pick up the object and haul it away. The Reserve Officer figured the Army knew what the object was, and he thought the Army truck he saw was from Baltimore, ry land. He allegedly was told to keep quiet concerning what he sawl I learned that the cameron County Press Independent in Emporium supposedly carried this Mr next move was to call the editor of that paper, James Klies. I told him ot my findings and asked him to check his tiles to see if he had any- thing on the story. Mr. JCiles told me he would phone me back in a few hours. That same afternoon, I received the reply to my request. He told me that the only thing he had tor the period of September 1949 to January 1951 was a re- port concerning a weather balloon that was found near Keating Summit on Friday October 13th~ 1950L by two hunters, Gene Kreitner and Clifford Stuckey, both ot Keating Summit. He said the balloon had six panels and was covered withal- m1num or lead foil. The panels had two small batteries and a light bulb. The equipment was turned over to the Air Force. The balloon was found in the vi- cinity ot Liberty, Pa. I next called a }~. Fish, Sr., who is associated with the Couders- port Enterprise. Arter I into~ed him of my findings, he told me that he had a recollection ot the event, but that was all. He gave me the name of the editor ot the newspaper at that particular time. He.is Walter Taylor, who now works at the Genoa Printing Co., at Genoa, Ohio. My next contact was with Bert Freed, of Orlean, N. Y, a reporter tor the Bradford Era of Bradford, Pa. Bert had been in this vicinity for a many years and if the Bradford paper carr~d anything on the story, he remember it locally. Arter telling him of my findings, I was informed by him that he could not remember the event. Howeve~, he suggested that I contact Katherine Dorteld of Coudersport, who lived there at the time. Upon calling Mra.Dorteld, I learned that she did remember the incident. She said two child- ren found the object at Keating Summit. She also told me that the object was supposed to have had printing on it which saidt 'Anyone finding this, return it to the U.S. Government~ It is not known if there waa an address on it other than the abon phraae. According to the u.s. Government came to the area, roped it ott, and cloaed all news eourcea on the event. Government trucka moved in, loaded the object up, and whisked it away. On March 24th, 1958, I wrote a letter to the ex-editor of the Oouderaport weekly newspaper. Arter I tailed to hear him for over three weeki, I called him long-distance at Genoa, Ohio. told me that his wite had juat returned from Coudersport. She was visiting friends there, and &lao checked on the atory, which did appear in the paper at the time. lor told me it waa quite a atory,but not similar to the one I had come across. He aaid he would get all the facta together and send me the story in about one if poaeible. I am still waiting for his reply. Through a aeries of phone calla I picked up the fact that a wit- Dell allegedly heard a noise while working on hie farm. He then heard an ex- ploaion and started running to the vicinity of where the noise came from. This man' name is and at the time he lived near Empor Since that time Mr. has moved, and through a friend of his an attorney in Emporium), I obtained his present address. race, Point Pleasant Boro, New Jersey. a very goo of whom I neglected to t the first name in my long-distance telephone conversation with her. ld that the object was made of metal. Two boys were supposed to have been aying in the vicinity, and they got to the object allegedly was told nt officials or the U. S. Army to be quiet about the story. (Could be the Reserve Officer who worked at Sears Roebuck & Co. at the On March 24th I wrote Mr. letter confronting him with the facta I had regarding b1l part in the story. I told him that I would appreci- ate a prompt reply, and that I would like to know if the facta I was given concerning him and the crashed UFO were true or not. After waiting until April 7th, it was quite apparent that I was not going to receive a reply to my let- ter. I wrote him a second time on that date, and finally received the follow- ing anewera In eo far a~ ~ stating this object was metal or any of the so- called Army suppression is bunk. MOat of what you quote me as saying is hear- eay. I was in the crowd at Keating Summit but there were dozens of people there before and after I left. Go see Cliff Stuckey at the General Store in Keating Smrunit. He should be able to give you plenty of information. If I had an,thing worthwhile I would be more than glad to give it to you and help you, but I do not. There is just a chance that I may be in a bad spot as I work for a fir.m which is doing a job for the Signal Corps and I may get fired, but that wouldn't matter should I know anything worthwhile. I do not think you want to be a boob. I m sure I do not want that either. Sincerely, Well, there e the story to date. You will remember that 1 one of the men who is said to have found a weather balloon on Oct l'th, 1950. What puzzles me is didn t straighten me out on what was aupposedly quoted wrong to me by Mrs.Dorfeld in regard to the conversation Mr. Joe had to concerning this object, at the time the incident occurre didn t tell me what he did see! He admits he was in the crowd, so he must have seen or heard something If any readers can supply further information of any kind about thie incident, please contact SAUCER NEWS. . HOW MUCH LIJCI US t -b.J Juatin ea - In IOveabar 19,7, the .. gasine (a aupplement to many luftda7 newapapera) contained an article called What Will Invaders from Space by rocket expert Willy Ley. Mr.Ley gave reaaona w~ he thinka viaitora from apace will breathe air, eat vegetable and ani .. l matter, will weigh not leaa than 4o nor more than 250 pounda, poaaeaa a akull, two eyea, two eara, and hands and feet. The7 will probabl7 bear a atrong reaemblance to the man next door, said Mr. Le7, 10 that the chancea are you wouldn't even give them a second look. Purthenaore, Mr. Ley aaid our Milky Way Galaxy has about '0 bil- lion atara or auna, moat of which have planeta. Our invaders from apace will originate from a planet very much like our own Earth Therefore, according to Mr. Ley, out of the many billions of plan- eta io.our ,alaxy, containing all poaaible forma of life, only one form ofin- tellipnt life capable of apace flight is probable -the humen form -s_o like our own that you wouldn't even give them a second look.' And this form of lite would come from a planet very much like our on. Thus Mr. Ley gives much comfort to the writers of 'saucer contact in which the viaitora from apace are claimed to look like us. He al- ao givea comfort to the Ardent Believers of' such stories, who eagerly expect that any strange-looking person they see might be . a vfaitor from space. At the aame time Mr. Ley debunked moat science-fiction writers, who have depicted in- vaders from apace as having anything but human form. The better class of acience-~iction writers are intelligent, imag- inative, and well educated. Much of their science-fiction is baaed on science fact, stretched somewhat, of course, to make their stories more interesting. Consequently, their views are worthy of consideration. So let us see who is more likely to be r~ght, Mr. Ley or the science-fiction writers. For the answer to t.hia question we consult the science of Biology (the study of life) and one of ita branch the study of Evolution, the pro- cess whereb.y aimpler and lower forma of life develop into more complex and higher f'orma, adapting themselves to changes in their environment during the process. From Biology and Evolution we learn the f'ollowinga (1) The variety of' vegetable and animal life on our planet seems almost limitless. Many different f'orma thrive aide by aide with others in the aae auiroundinga. Anyone who studies even a few square teet of grass, for in- atance, will be amazed at the variety of' life to be f'ound there. (2) Life ia very persistent and tenacious, existing even under impossible conditions. Thus, vegetable and animal life are found everywhere, even in deserts, on mountain tops, under icebergs, and even under ocean bottoms. It is very difficult to kill ott, as anyone who has tried to rid his garden of' weeds and insect peats can well testify. (') In the growth and development of life, nature takes many dif- ferent paths to accomplish the same result. For instance, consider how some animla protect themselves. The porcupine rolls into a ball with its spikes extended, a turtle vithdrava into 'its shell, a horae tights with ita hoofs, a bear with ita front clava, a dog with ita teeth. Other animals protect the~ aelvea only by means of their speed, like the .rabbit. Thus evolution is ran- dom, though directed toward the same end. (4) This choice of' paths is partly accidental, and if wrong, it leads to extinction. Perhaps that is why many prehistoric animals are nov ex- (5) Man, the only animal on Earth intelligent enough to develop