PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION CONCLUSIONS ~-~ DATE':"IME GROUP 7. LENGTH Ofl OBSERVATION ATJC P'ORM 329 (REV 21 BBP 52) 0 Was Balloon 0 Probably Balloon 0 Possibly Balloon 0 Was Aircraft 0 P robahl y Aircraft 0 Po ui bl y Aircraft 0 Was Astronomical 0 Probably Astronomical 0 Possibly Astronomiccal a: Other_..RoJIIo~a~x~------ 0 lnsuffl c i ent Data for Evol~o~ati on ~Photo analysis indicates that the photos are a hoax. PAU~ _ _ Y-_I_L ... SAUCER PHOTOS ~ L Most of the saucer photos we have seen pre- viously have been of inferior quality, mainly because the photographer had to grab a shot in a hurry while he had , the opportunity . B.ut Apolinar (Paul) A. Villa, Jr., 49, (born Sept. Z4. 1916), a mechanic of 601 Niagara, N. E.; Albu- PAUL VILLA . (early photo) querque, New Mexico, holds a unique privilege in the annuls of Flying Saucer research. He has had pre- arranged meetings with Space People for the speci1ic purpose of taking pictures of their crait . Apparently, contacts o one kind or another with the Space People are not new to Mr. Villa. He says that he has been taught telepathically by extrater- restrial intelligences since he was 5 years old. Although he did not complete the lOth grade of school, he seems to have a good knowledge of such subjects as mathmatics, electricity, physics, and mechanics, and has an unusual "gift" for detecting defects in engines. generators, etc. Villa says that prior to photographing his first series of saucers in 1963, he had seen about five Flying Saucers in the previous five years, and that he had talked with a spaceman previously. He said that his first picture -taking contact was his second in-person meeting with extraterrestrial beings. The first was in 1953 while he was working for the Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles. While on the job one day in Long Beach, he had a strong urge to go down to the beach, a feeling he did not then understand. There he met a man about 7 feet tall. At first Villa was afraid and wanted to run away. But the man called him by name, and told him many personal things about himself. Villa realized that he was conununicating with a very superior intelligence, and he then became aware that this being was a spaceman. "He knew everything I had in my mind and told me many things that had taken place in my life," Villa says. "He then told me to look out beyond the reef. I saw a metallic- ~ooking disc-shaped object that seemed to be floating on the water. Then the spaceman asked me if I would like to go aboard the craft and look around, .. and I went with him." . c He said the saucer occupants were entirely humanoid in appearance, although better looking .in' general than Earth people, as they were definitely more refined in iace and body. Aho, they had a n advanced knowledge of science, as evidenced by their craft, and by their talk with him. They told Villa that the whole galaxy to which our Earth belongs is as a grain of sand o n a huge b each, in relation to the unfathomable number of inhabited galaxies in the entire Universe. Because of their technological advancement, their spaceships can penetrate l:he Earth's radar: detection system. so that they are picked up on our r adar ~creens onl y hen they choose to call attention to their presence in our skies. It seems that their craft are constant- ly active over our surface, and that they plan more sightings and landings in order to increase public awareness of their existance. They said they wer~ here on a friendly mission to help our people; that\S" they have bases on our Moon; that Phobos, one of ~ the two Moons of Mars, is hollow and is arti.ficiall~ constructed; and that there is a Superior Intelli--~ gence that governs the Universe and everything in it. "'i For his first series of pictures {shown in issue IIZO of UFOI), Mr. Villa says that his space con- tacts told him, telepathically, to drive his pickup truck on June 16,_ (1963), to the meeting place, alone. There he saw a landed Flying Saucer which he estimated to be about 70 feet in diameter. There were 9 people aboard the ship: 4 men and 5 women. They disembarked through a hermetically sealed door. These beings, he says, ranged in height from 7 to 9 feet and were well proportioned. Some were biond; some were red-headed {like polished copper); and some had black hair. They told him they came from the galaxy of Coma Berenices, many light years distant. They were able to speak many languages,as well as to communicate tele- pathic ally. Villa was told the craft operated as a mother ship for its 9 remotely-controlled monitoring disks which were 14 in diameter, and were controlled from instrument panels in the mother ship. They could pick up pictures and sounds from any area to which they were directed, and could then relay them to TV panels aboard the mother craft . They permitted Villa to take photos of their ship which posed and hovered close to the surface b etween Z and 4 P.M. while he took various shots of the craft framed by the trees in the foreground. He used a Japanese-made Rokuoh-Sha camera with an f4. 6, 75mm lens loaded with 120 Kodacolor film. Two of the photos show the ship in a verticle position, on its side, to indicate that the 5 pace People have .created an artificial gravity within the craft, and thus are completely comfortable no matte r what position the ship is in, relati~e to a planet's surface. Incidentally, in photo {#7 (see our saucer post cards), the vents in the hull, thought by some to be portholes, are not windows, but are openings directly concerned with the propulsion o the ship. Villa says they told him that the vents are opened only within a planets' atmosphere ---never in cuter space. Your editor was formeri y a professional photographer and feels that these pictures are unusually good for severai reasons: 1. They are quite sharp, compared to moat saucer photos we have seen. 2. The image size of the saucer is large enough to show good d e tail without ~xtreme graininess. 3. There is a series, instead of just one photo, which provides more details for evalua- tion. 4. Villa's truck is in the foreground of some of the photos, providing a known object with which to compare the size of the saucer and to judge its distance away. 5. The degree o f sharpness of other objects in the near foreground and the clouds and tt"ees in the distance, indicates that the object h ctd t o be very lar "'e 1n order t o c1.Chievt'! t h.e rlepth o.f field observed t o exist i n the photos, thereby ruling out the possibility that a small model may have been used to fake the photos. "UFO INTERNATIONAL" ' ,. . :tfter the t ime these photos were released to us, there was a rash of saucer-sighting reports in the newp;1pers. They began on April Z4, 1965, when Socorro, New Mexico policeman, Lonnie Zamora, saw a landed egg-shaped object take o fro m a gulle y and speed away. Soon after this account, other sighting and landing reports came from severa l western states simultaneously. So much new interest was stimulated in the saucer subject, that we felt it appropriate to release Mr . Villa's photos to the wire services. Bob Flora, local United Press International photographer, was so impressed with the authentic look of the photo that he put three of them on the UPI wires. They were subsequently printed in hundreds of news- papers throughout the world. The Los Angeles NBC news program also ran the pictures on their color TV newscast for three nights in a row. As for his second set of pictures (see pages 8 and 9, this issue), Villa was guided, telepathically again, to another area near Bernalillo, New Mexico ---about lS.miles north of Albuquerque. This was on Easter Sunday, April 18, 1965. The ship seen in photos 111 . Z, and 3, projected a ray which caused a small brush fire. The smoke from the fire is visible (more clearly in color) in the trees just below the cra.ft, and just above and to the left of the tailgate of Villa's truck. In photo f/3, they singed a tree-top--- extreme left of tree grouping ---by use of a ray directed fro m their ship. These things were done to demonstrate some of their capabilities. The ship landed and Villa judged it to be 300 feet in diameter. It had telescopic, tripod landing gear, which are protruding from the bottom o f the craft in photos If 1, Z, and 3. . The three crewmen had light brown hair and tan skin. They appeared to be about 5 '8" or 5'9" tall Villa talked with them for nearly two hours about personal as well as general matters. They told him that our astronauts, Edward White and James McDivitt, on their now-famous GT-4 flight, were really seeing a spaceship when they reported sighting the Pegasus -like object. They also said that our government won't release the Mariner-4 photos because they show pumping stations for the canal systems o n Mars. They added that by 1966, 17 nations will have the Atomic Villa says they conversed both in Spanish (his native language) and in English. On their advice, the contactee says, he stopped smoking so as to enhance his ability to receive telepathic communications. Photos #4, 5, and 6 were taken later that same month about 9 miles west of Albuquerque, near the Volcano Mountains. Villa says the ship looked like a Navajo Indian Shield, and there was a clear cloud- formation of a n Indian tyin g o n his back. The head and the feather shape can be seen at left center oi. the clouds in photos /14 and 5. Also, many people have seen an Indian profile in the cloud a t the extreme top left corner of these same photos (much clearer in color). Villa says h e understood, appar ently t elepathically ---since the ship didn't l and, tha t the Navajos are going to come into promtnencc tn some manner. 1-'il.oto ,f ~ loo~s like a sphere f:-nm this po~ition and shows the thre e tripod landing gear o n the bottom of the craft, which is actually saucer shaped, as can be seen rom the profile view in photo #5. The clear color enlargement of photo 114 makes it one of the moat impressive saucer photos we havP. seen to date. Photo 715 was t aken shortly after photo #4, and the Indian-shaped cloud is still visible, although just s tarting to break up. Like photo #5, the objects in the foreground seem to be blurred, apparently fro1n camera movement due to a slow shutter S}1eed. Photo H& was taken about 5 minutes later after the craft ha.d left and returned again, and the cloud formation had c hanged considerably. It is interest- ing t o note the blurred, double-exposure effect, created by the craft changing its angle relative to the c amera during the short time the camera shutter w a s open. Photos /i7 and 8 were also taken in April, 1965, over a 2 1/Z hour period. The area was about 10 miles east of Albuquerque near the town of Sandia (just south of Bernalillo). The craft did not land. The only other information we have is that the Space People created a dust storm in photo /18, (not shown), indicating that they can control and create weather conditions. Mr. V illa seeks no personal publicity for him- self, and we feel that he is doing a great service to the public in releasing these pictures. We w ould like to give more details to our readers, but this is all the informa.tion we have at present. We are told that more pictures are forthcoming, in time, as Villa has had more contacts and has taken other pictures. The photos will be released, he says, a t the direction of the Space People. So, until that time, we offer what we consider to be excellent evidence of the reality o Flying Saucers - --in f act, the best photographic evidence we have yet s een. Paul Villa's sau cer photographs h ave ma:de such a n impression that opposing forces frequently try t o discredit them. We are well aware that some people w ill b e quick to say that they are fake. We have noted that the majority of these accusations come from people who do not believe in the first place th'at there are such things as extraterrestrial space craft. Therefore, from that viewpoint, any photograph of such an object would have to be "phoney." However, objective analysis by profes- sional photographers (in addition to your editor) indicates differently. (The End) ''UFO INTERNATIONAL" This serie s Flying S aucers of 8 co l o r i t a ken b y P hotos # 1 , Z, E aster Sunday, Photos 1/4 , 5, & 6. Taken n of Albuquerque, New Mexicc