CopyriJIIl Olllce Fonll 1 A COPYRIGHT OFFICE Application for the Registration of Copyright in an Artistic Work PROCBBDJNGS Notification of number despatched ...... 'C. REGISTRATION Prepare Notification and Register entry Entered io Register f'OR ACTION- Date Clea.red FLYING SIUCEi Australia11 NOVEMBER 1962 No. 7 Terrestrial astronauts now circle the globe and s pace probes gain us ever increasing knowledge of the immensity of the Universe. Surely, therefore, the minds of thinking men must turn to the probability of life on other planets. In one of our feature articles -COSMIC INTRUDERS an attempt is made to portray the reactions of statesmen aDd thinkers to the fantastic possibility of a contact of men of earth with beings from other planets. The fusion of two different civilisations could be earth-shaking. It seems almost certain to those who have studied the UFO riddle that highly advanced extraterrestrial beings have been observing us from their space craft for many centuries. Is the time not well overdue to awaken the public to this reality by means of authoritative statement from our Governments? Intelligent people must realise that we on this planet are but an infinites- mal part of the great Universe ena wb11e we are endesvorin& to expand our hori- zons wi t h space travel, can we not believe that more advanced civilisations have troa this path before? By the present trend of world events, we are not the most advanced! At a t ime when each nation is suspicious of the other, ignorance o! the true nature of UFO's could precipitate a global war. For too long, Governments end other official organisations have continued to cloud the issue with evasive answers, suppression or news, vague explanations and a=biguous statements while they, themselves, keenly pursue the matter. With more sightings throughout the world, this unnecessary camourlase is beoomins incressinsly difficult -as the authorities well know. Offi cials have their rights but ao do the people. We should know the truth - te it good or bed. CO-EDITORS: Peter B. Norris, LL.B., P.O. Box }2, Toorsk, Melbourne, Vic. Andrew P. Tomas, 227 Bay St., Brighton-Le-Bands, N. s . w. Carl Lehmann, 65 Stoneleigh St., Albion, Brisbane, Queensland SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 2/-(Aust.) postpsia per copy or 30 cents Australian FLYING SAUCER Review is a NON-PROFIT EDUCA~IONAL PUBLICATION. BAFFLES EXPERTS American scientists can give no explanation whatsoever for the object which was photographed by X15 pilot Robert White on July 17, when be sky- rocketed to a world airplane altitude recor~ of nearly 60 miles. "It is impossible to explain the ObJeCt's presence at this time," Space Agency scientists stated. The National Aeronautics ana Space Admi- nistration (NASA) after intensively studying MaJor White's sighting re- port and films from a tail movie camera, on the X15 rocket ship, released photosraphs of an obJect that dartea above and tehind the plane. A NASA photo is reproduced on this page. The photographs, taken from the movie films, reveal an object that looks like s fluttering piece of paper and which scientists describe es "grey-white". This corroborates Major R. White's report that he ssw from hie cock- pit near the nose of the rocket ship, what looked to him like a piece of paper the size of his hand, "going along with the ship" at an alti- tude of 270 000 feet -over 50 miles high. MaJ. White said: "I paid attention to it for about 5 seconds. It was greyish in colour and about }0 to 40 feet sway." Objects, believea to be ice frag- ments, have showed up in films taken from X15 in space, but this was the first time an X15 pilot bad reported seeing anything visually. The movie films C8ptured shots of an object flitting peat the rear of the supersonic craft on the same flight and at the same altitude. Baffled Space Agency scientists coula only offer this comment: "Ae a matter or fact, we aren't even sure that what Nhite saw a nd the camera photo- graphed were two difrerent obJects. " At the second annual conference on the peaceful uses of space, another X15 pilot Joseph Walker rela ted a similar incident. It was reported on May 11, 1962 that during a recent flight to a record height of 246,700 feet Walker filmed s number of mys- terious ocjects. " I don't feel like speculating about the nature of those ObJects," Walker said, "all I know is what appeared on the film in later stuay. MYSTERY OBJECT f'L\'lNG NEAR THE XJS Autborllies Still Can' t ldtnury the Objeel (Arrow I Whkh Pilot &b Whlte Saw and Pholocrapbeol Robert White I sew nothing ~se1f during the !light of this X15 pilot Joseph Welker added that the film re- corded five or six objects of undeterained size at some distance from the plene. The film wee taken by e camera mounted on the X15's tusilage ana poin- ted toward the rear. The =1ster~oue obJects, apparently disc-ehapea, showed up on the !11m as the X15 arched over the top of its f~ght BDQ headed back toward earth. Creait: Boris N. Seitzew, Encino Rark, Calif. Source: Los Angeles Times, May 11, 1962 Angeles Times, July 18, 1962 Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Aug. 9,1962) Left to right: Xl5 test-pilots, Joseph Welker end Major Robert White, who have protosrsphed un- iaentified flying obJects f1fty miles above the earth. 'Die folloriJIR repori of au unidentified tlyin@ object appeared ea an ita ill tbe "llailT W.Orendlll!l," Plleitic Bdition '/0-.62 of 9th April, 1.962. Thia publication le brouaht out by tbe U. s. !laY)' Bnmeh Hydrographic Ott'1ee. 30 Dillion Tract, 111- aitz B.iPII:r, Honolulu, Hawaii. "CELESTIAL PHENOMENA - MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL" "Second Officer Ignszio Ciccolells of the Liberian S.S. 'Lagunillss,' Capt. S. Klinger, Mester, reported the !o1low~: on passage from Kuwait to Montevideo, e luminous body was observed. It appeared close to Csnopua in a southwesternly direction, altitude 21~9. end travelled in s SW/ESE direction. The body wee blue-white i .n colour and of the same mesnitude as Canopus. The body disappeared et 0119 G.U.T. after coverin~ an ere ot 98o. Weather clear with very good visibility wind SSE Loree 3, slight sea, taro- meter 29.85 inches, air temperature 81F. tN/M 13/62) The stove report was submitted in accordance with the procedure of the n.o. ~series of Observer's Manuals, like reports from other mariners ere solicited. The eyes of of Hydro are tbe Active Mariners'." by GEORGE A. TARARIN On October 27, 1959 as the U. N. General Assembly was discussing world dis- armament, Portugal's delegate D1. Vasco Garin remarked that the concept of total disarmament raised many "delicate questions". He warned that a disarmed world would cut a very poor figure against en invasion from outer space. Dr. Garin stated that it was certainly farfetched but "not absurd", in v~ew of the way things were moving, to imagine a eudden invasion of earth by aggressive warriors !rom another celestial body. Whether Ur. Garin is right or wrong is unimportant. lfhst matters is this - invasion from space wes under consideration b~ the United Nations Organisation. Csnsds's for~r Foreign Minister Lester B. Peerson asia in Ottawa on Jan.9,1958 the best hope of worla peace ~gbt be the discovery that another planet wee sen- ding space ships ageinat the earth. President Eisenhower stated in Washington on February 2~, 1955 that the philo- sophy of government must be kept in step with the problems of the tiges alluding to the possibilit~ of Martians visiting the United States within four centuries. Soviet Deputy Premier Kozlov agreed with a Detroit reporter in mid-1959 that a U.S.S. R. -U.S.A. alliance mi~t be neeaea against the Martians but smilingly added that the people ot Mars might be a peaceful race. "Then we should not make warlike alliances against them but would try to live in peace with them.." Chairman of the Provisional Institute of Space Law (U.K.) C. Shawcross, Q.C., wrote to the Russian top scientist Leonia Sedov in 1959 about "the possibility of exploration, if not invasion, by the inhabitants of another solar system." General Douglas McArthur l:elievee that "because of the developments of science, ell countries on earth will have to unite to survive and make a common front against attack by people !rom other planets," accoruing to Achille Lauro, visiting mayor ot Naples who ~terviewed him et the Waldorf-Astoria on October 7 , 1955. The mayor add- ed thst in the General's opinion the politics of the future wi11 be cosmic or inter- planetary, reported the "New York Times. " Ex-eaitor or "Punch," Malcolm Muggeriage scouts the idea that the unity which men "have so notably failed achieve for themselves may be imposed on them ty the threat of interplanetary invasion." And in case the invaders t:e from the moon "some ioiot on earth is bound to think that he can make a deal with the moon-men to advance hiR own position. The rest of us would then be bouna to te asked to rally in aefence of our own beloved planet." Mgggertdp- pl.anet.ry P~t:rioU. "Planetary patriotism would be no more absurd than netioQBl, and no less difficult to work up. God save our gracious Earth, long live our noble Earth, God seve our Earth," predicted Mugger- idge on October 19, 1958. Curiously enough 18th century philosopher and satyrist Voltaire ~ in his book "IH.cromegss" describes s giant !ro Sirius who cries out in the story: "I have a g ood mind to ta~e two or three steps, end trampl e the whole nest of s~ch ridic~lous ssssssins under ~ teet." non t give your sell the trouble," replies the philoso- pher, "they are industrio~s enough in securing their own destruc- tion. At the end of ten years the hundredth part of these wretches will not survive. Besides, the punjshment s~ould not te inflicted upon thea, but upon those sedentary and slothful barbarians who, from their palaces, give orders tor murdering a aillion o! men, then solemnly thank God for their success." Ther e ia still another view on man's possible c ontact with beings from other worlds. Space guns are not necessary to dislodge our civilisation. A superior cosmic culture c ontacted vis astro- nautics may revolutionise our lives. Arthur Clerke, an authority on space, has summed up this thought in its true historical perspective: "Copernican satrono~. Derwin's theory ot evolution, Preudian psychology -the e~fect of these on human thought fer outweighted their immediate practical results. We aay expect the asme o! astronautics. With the expansion of the world's ental horizons may come one of the greatest outbursts o! creative activity ever known. The parallel with the Renneis- ssnce, with its ~eat !lowering ot the arts and sciences, is 'fery euggestive. others, one auspects, are strsid that the crossing o! apace, and above all contact with intelligent but non-human races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith. They may be right, but in BDJ event their attitude is one which doss not beer logical examinations -tor a faith which cannot survive collision wi tb the truth is not worth man::t regrets." Bsrlier, Xonstantin Tsiolkovsky, 19th century space pioneer, said: "The earth ia the cradle o! the mind, but one cannot live !or ever ins cradle." Oc. Me.lrtllur - "inte~laneUr)' or coamio pol1t1ce. Dr. Donald N. Michael, top consultant to the National Aeronautics and Space Adainiatration (and senior eta!! psychologist o! Brookings Inatitution) stated at a scientific discussion in 1961 that radio messages fro another world would be a threat for oat public figures and spokesmen. They would try to bolster their present beliefs and the public's, rather than try to cope with the situation by new approaches. Different motives, behaviour and perceptions may make apace beings merely curious observers o! the earth, with no deaire for contact. I! the "other lite" wished to supply ne~w intormetion to us, sOllle groupe or nations adght absorb the ideaa better; this could cause some societies to disappear, others to get stronger and dominate the rest. Barth eoientieta, Dr. Michael said, may be in for a shock-to the space beings our understanding o! nature may seem as primitive as a cave man's to us. Space beings, he concluded, may be ethical, moral, immoral, aesthetic or something dif- ferent !rom us. Beings whose development permits them to communicate acrose light ~ears may have ideas on proper relations among creatures inhabiting planets. These ideas," said Dr. 'Michael, "may-or may not -support our most cherished To think of our cosmic neighbours in terms of our own 20th century technologi- cal culture would be to delude ourselves into comfortable complacency. Their science and philosophy may not have the slightest resemblance to today' & concepts. The first contact with denizens of another world would be electrifying. The opinions o! above statesmen, thinkers and scientists on the possibility of cosmic intrusion would have been regarded as science fiction a quarter of a cen- Today, in this Space Age, these thoughts o! responaitle men represent a fer- sighted contemplation or a scientific possibility -the contact of the men of earth with beings !rom another planet end the iapact o~ this on the minds and ll ves o! earth people. MILAN PHOTOS Gaspere d e Lema, a young Italian artist, took photos ot a flying object over Milan, about 500 metres !rom the San Biro Stadium, at about 1 p.m. on December 1 , He had intended to photograph some buildings under construction for his files, ccompanied by his wife end mother. It was then th.at his wile called his atten- tion to e strange circular craft flying over the area. He looked up in amazement at an unknown object soaring over the Stadium. It appeared to be ten metres in dia meter, of a dull l e a d colour. As he stood there stupefied, his mother reminded him o! his camera. He did not pause to adjust it end took one photo. When he realised that the disc was moving behind t he street lamps , he jumped into a vacant lot, where he succeeded in taking three more snaps . The o~Ject flew noiselessly end in an odd manner, at times it was stationery, then it would suddenly move tor a !ew hundred metres and descend to 50-90 metres above ground. Its distinct shape was clearly visible when it hovered, surrounded by a ~szy halo. Seen siaeways, it looked like a lense, on the upper part o! which was a dome. Gaspare ae Lema, surprised at the ai~ent flight o! the disc, concluQed that it came !rom another world. The incident laated only a tew minutes, and then the craft rose vertically in a rocket-like manner and disappeared. There were other wit- nesses nearby, but de Lema did not bother to take their names down. The Italian magazine DOMENICA DEL CaR- RIERE submitted his negatives to press photographers who declared them to be authentic. Pbotos of this disc were taken near San Biro Stadium in Via Cspeceletro, Milan, Italy on December 1, 1961. On Other Worlds "PROJECT STAR SEARCH" TO CONTACT OTHER CIVILISE~ COMMUNITIES This breathtaking project for a gigantic star search was initiated at Green Bank, West Virginia this year. The scientists sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) want to answer t~e following questions: o Can life exist beyond earth in the first place? o Are there other planets circling alien star-suns, as theorised? o If those worlds bear life, does that life include rational beings? o If so, bow to contact them? Dr. Fra_nk Drake of the Green Bank Observatory tosether with the famed American astronomer Dr. Otto Struve, at- tempted to get the solutions to these problems two years aso. However, their instruments were not sensitive enough for this ambitious prosrsm -then named PROJECT OZMA. With larger radio telescopes the new sroup which in- cludes su.ch specialists as Dr. Fred Hoyle, British cos- mologist, Dr. J.T. Pearman of the U. S . Academy of Scien- ces, Dr. S. Huang of NASA' s Goddard Space Flight Centre, Dr. Melvin Calvin, biochemist, and others besides the above-mentioned Dr. Otto Struve, hopes to provide the answers to the burning questions. The experts know how difficult their task is but they plsn to u.tilise all the resources of science. Moni- toring by radio telescope is one method. Dr. Charles Townes speculates that intelligent beings misht try all possible means of commu.nicstion including light-beams. LASERS (light ampliicstion by stimu.lsted emission of radiation), super-powerful light-beam proJectors, could actually send from earth a piercing light-ray that woul<l be detectable on a planet 10 light years away. This is the closest approach to the type of power-ray dreamed of by sci~nce-Iiction writers because it opens up the possi- bility of concentrating thousands of watts of energy into a space not much larger than wou.ld be occupied. by a poppy seed. In the world of commu.nicstions the Leser promises near-miracles becau.se, for the first time, i~ has become possible to produce a "tuned" lisht wave, as we speak of a "tu.ned" radio wave, and to achieve amplification of Dr. ~ownes' group of ater-seerchere will exewine the spectrographs of tsrr,et store. It 5DJ of the Frau.nhofer lines in the known spectroscopic patterna of a particu- lsr star 1how e aharpening or brighteniJlS effect, it llight \:e a super-LASER messase being beamed to us. One astronomer made a fantastic susgestion that the Cepheid variables -the "winkin! stars" may be galactic heliographs -that "super-scientific entities" use in signalling. The periods of '!:rightness ana dimness of the Cepheids is often very irregular. Is it some code tet- stellar systems? A recent report issued by the U. S . National Academy of Sciences describes strange mu.sic i n space -"the dawn chorus" . The chorus is "a series or short distinct musical tones, either rising or falling 1n pitch and often overlapping in time" according to the report. Scientists have detected "the dawn choru.a" us ually just before or just after dawn -hence the name. Prof. R.N. Bracewell of Stanford University who visi- ted Australia early in 1962 was interviewed cy Dr. !&iran Lindtner and Yr. Fred Phillips on behalf of AUSTRALIAN FLYING S AUCER REVIEW. "We are almost certain tbere are other commu.nities in space, but we do not kno11 how far sway they are,"" said Professor Bracewell "If life exists then we can expect some forms to be superior to our own . A more advsncea communi