L.U.F.O.R.O. Bulletin No. 5

This document is the June 29, 1960, issue (No. 5) of the L.U.F.O.R.O. (London Unidentified Flying Object Research Organisation) Bulletin. The bulletin serves as a compilation of news, scientific commentary, and sighting reports related to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. The lead article, written by Chapman Pincher, discusses the shifting scientific perspective on the possibility of extraterrestrial life and space travel, contrasting the views of Astronomer Royal Dr. Richard van der Reit Woolley—who famously dismissed space travel as 'utter bilge'—with those of Professor R.N. Bracewell of Stanford University, who suggests the possibility of extraterrestrial robot reconnaissance vehicles. The bulletin argues that the scientific community is increasingly considering the existence of other worlds due to advancements in space-flight and the understanding of universal atomic composition.

The document includes several specific sighting reports. One report details a sighting by Mrs. Vera Bowden and two others near Godalming on May 25, 1960, involving an 'elliptical grey shape' hovering over a lake. Another report features a letter from a B.D. Martin, who observed a 'ball of fire' in the sky on May 17, 1960, which she initially suspected was a Russian spaceship. A third report describes a sighting by an Eastern Airlines pilot, Captain Earl W. Miles, who reported a large, wingless object with a 'tremendous white flame' over Virginia on March 15, 1960. Additionally, the bulletin recounts an Austrian sighting from March 1960, where a reporter named Edgar Schedelbauer photographed a glowing, spider-shaped object near Steiermark, which reportedly caused him physical skin irritation. Finally, a June 12, 1960, sighting in North Finchley by Geoffrey Berrisford is documented, describing a cigar-shaped, reddish-orange object. The bulletin concludes with administrative notes, including a call for more observers for the British Interplanetary Society and a request for translators for foreign language correspondence, alongside a table summarizing various UFO sightings reported between January and June 1960.