Sioux City Journal from Sioux City, Iowa • 16

A 16 The Stoux City Journal, May 10, 1967 Air Force Stumped by 'UFO' Photo Taken by Sioux Cityans has been cited by Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, as an outstanding business executive, First Lay Person to Speak Friday mencment audience will be Miss Mary Mylan, Grand Rapids, who will speak at exercises Friday, May 12. A member of the college's lay advisory board, Miss Mylan civic leader and catnouc jay leader. Norway has a new flag ship. YANKTON, S.D. -The first lay person ever to address a Mount Marty College Com- .4 bn'rr 1 1 Or- I m0 I itMi He also said there were peculiar grooves across the flat bottoms.

They were described as being made of dull metal, not unlike zinc. They flew 50 feet overhead. U.S. Alrforce still has the Polaroid-type picture. A 16-year-old Sioux City boy drew this picture from memory of one of the three 'flying saucers" he and an friend saw and photographed.

He said the objects were about 20 to 22 feet in diameter; six to eight feet deep, and had domes on the top. AUTO SERVICE CENTER the use of a scale factor to 300 WEST 7TH PH. 255-5071 f. By GENE ANDERSON Journal Slow Wrrter verify the actual size of the seconds. This time, we took a picture of Were they flying saucers? It was a clear, crisply cool object.

day In Sioux City. "Not really," said the boy. "The image is such that no specific details are visible other Patches of snow could still "They looked more like invert than' a circular object with ed coffee cups than saucers," be seen on the surrounding hills. he added. some type of protrusion.

"As such, no positive ex What did they look like? From their vantage point high on a hill, the two teen-age boys could see for miles In every planation can be made of the Answered the youth, "They were about 20 to 22 feet in dia object. However, there is no: evidence in the photograph to! direction. meter. From top to bottom, indicate that the object might they must have been 6 to 8 be extraterrestrial." Journal Photo by Anderson spring, according to the youths. About 200 yards to the left of the priest and not shown is the new Congregational Church.

Below Is Iowa Highway 7 and the Buckwalter feet deep. There was kind of It was about 5:30 in the afternoon, about an hour before sunset. The boys had returned to the hill to retrieve a pair of A Sioux City priest, who asked to remain unidentified, points to the direction (southwest) from which three unidentified flying objects came as they flew directly over the heads of two teen-agers here earlier in the The letter, signed by Lt. Col. a dome on top." What color were they? Earle P.

Nase, deputy chief of gloves they had left earlier in the Operations Branch, Public "Dull metal," said the youth. Information Division, Depart "Not shiny like aluminum; "Each case is objectively and scription of the youth: "He isi ment of the Air Force, might! more like the zinc in garbage scientifically analyzed, and, if have said, but didn't, that there a high school junior, and a good student He comes from cans," he added. the day. What they were about to see scared them badly. The 18-year-old boy still refuses to discuss It with anyone even his parents.

necessary, all of the scientific was no proof that it was not Did he notice anything else facilities available to the Air; a well-to-do family. He Is dead about them? ly serious that he has seen Force can be used to assist in arriving at an identification or "The bottom, which was flat, something he knows was real, The 16-year-old youth confid had grooves running the width but wishes was not" explanation. III I I ed in his parents and a priest, of it at intervals of about every "The third phase of the pro I I II 1 I .1.. in extraterrestrial, either. On Friday, The Journal talked with MaJ.

D. G. Rhoads in the same Pentagon office. "In essence, they don't know what the heck It is," said Maj. Rhoads.

We questioned the boy over the telephone further. Did they gram is dissemination of in two feet," answered the youth "They ran opposite to the di-rection of flight," he added. formation concerning UFO scare you? and then with an official Air Force Investigator. Finally, at the request of the priest, the youth told what he saw that spring day to a Journal re "They did," came the terse sightings, evaluations and sta-: tistics. This is accomplished by reply.

"They" is the foreign tech THE ORIGINAL ALL-PURPOSE PRESSURE WASHER the Secretary of the Air Force, porter. What did you think about "flying saucer" stories before "It appears that this takes place by direct stimulation of the nervous system, perhaps in the brain, thus bypassing the ear and much of the associated hearing problem." Similarly, the boy told The Journal that he was "pretty sure that I left the car motor running" when they got out of the car, and just before they sighted the three UFOs. When they got back in the car, the motor was off. In one of many similar incidents reported In his book, Mr. Edwards reported: "An immense object glowing blue-green, swept down over the truck and settled on the highway.

The lights dimmed, the engine died I Edwards concluded his fascinating book: I "What these things are.j where they come from, and nology laboratory at Wright- Office of Information." Were there any windows or openings in the objects? Any motor noise? Any lights? The boy answered negatively to all three but said that there was a "swishing noise." Patterson Air Base, Ohio, the "The first one passed over our heads at great speed. We the Incident? To achieve the heady status site of Project Blue Book. of being an officially Air Force- "I really hadn't given the didn see it until it was al matter serious thought but I Some serious reading about "flying saucers" leads one to most out of sight. All three objects (Unidenti declared UFO, a "sighting is considered unidentified when a report apparently contains all was generally skeptical," he fied Flying Objects, if you will) believe that the Air Force is answered. GIFT COMBINATION OFFER traveled an almost identical "We saw the second one coming.

I stood looking at it, while the other boy ran to the car in the business of disproving pertinent data necessary to suggest a valid hypothesis concern flight path from southwest to that they exist, and not proving Do you believe in them now? "If you see something like I did, you'll be a believer, I'm to get a camera. It was gone northeast. They passed over what they are. ing the cause or explanation of the report but the descrip the boys' heads at a height of For the Air Force to say before he got back. Third One Comes about 50 feet.

tion of the object or its motion that the picture shows "a cir-i cular object with some type of Fortunately, the boys took "We were looking in the dl-l cannot be correlated with any protrusion" is really quite an their one photograph with a Polaroid model camera. They known object or phenomena." rection that the second one had gone, when we sensed I admission, since they normally attribute such sightings to There have been nearly 700 of are almost impossible to fake. why they come at all are ques-j can't explain it any different we just knew that another one "swamp gas, balloons, the tions which I doubt that anyone Word from Pentagon these official UFOs recorded by Project Blue Book since 1947, and other sources place the 1 JET-X ........56.95 2 Quarts Magic Suds at 1.69 3.38 2 Pints WAX SPRAY. Reg. 89c 1.78 REGULAR PRICE 12.11 Special Offer OVER A MILLION PEOPLE KNOW IT REALLY WORKS! Give Dad this special gift combination priced just 10.95.

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The priest talked further with the boy and his parents, and said: "Those who viewed the picture are all In agreement It Is a picture of an oval object with a very obvious dome. With the use of a magnifying glass they say they could see the groove outlines along the edge of the object" Not only does the boy's de planet Venus and meteorologi The Journal Tuesday received cal phenomena." an evaluation of that picture can answer. It Is my personal belief that the day is not far distant when these questions will be answered for us. Project Blue Book was coming from behind us i the third one. "It went directly over our heads.

We had it In our vision for 10, maybe 15 from the Pentagon: "Lack of either foreground Project Blue Book is the number of such sightings much higher. Youth Interviewed The official UFO investigator at the Sioux City Air Base, "I see no reason to fear the or background detail precluded name given to the official investigation of such sightings. revelation, whatever It may be. I feel, as Gen. Douglas Mac-i Says the official manual of Capt.

Bill Herbert, 'Interviewed Arthur expressed It that con-j that organization: scription of the craft coincide with the sightings of many, but "The United States Air Force the 16-year-old Sioux Caty youth shortly after the sighting on has the responsibility for! tact with intelligent beings from! elsewhere in the universe will be the greatest experience of! the human race." 1 ASK ABOUT WARDS CONVENIENT PAYMENT PLAN March 4. there are two other aspects to the Sioux City case that jibe the investigation of unidentified He was asked about the cred flying objects (UFOs). with other reports: 'Air Force interest In UFOs is related directly to the 'Senses' Presence The boy said they "sensed" the presence of the third craft. responsibility for the air de Bedding Plants fense of the United States. The Journal's nationally-syndi All Kinds V.ri ga "The program Is conducted cated columnist Frank Ed in three phases.

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wards, in a recent book called includes receipt of UFO re "Flying Saucers Serious Busi ness" reported: ports and initial investigation of the reports. The Air Force base nearest the location of a ibility of the boy. He answered, "In my opinion, it is no hoax." Unable to explain the verbal and photographic evidence locally, he forwarded the report and picture to the Project Blue Book Office. This office had the picture more than six weeks before issuing its evaluation, and it still has it. The picture will be returned at a later date, according to the Air Force spokesman.

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