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Sunday Times Perth, Western Australia President Eisenhower has dealt folklore a grave blow by implying flying saucers just don't exist. His statement appeared just as most newspapers were publishing pictures of all things, flying saucers. A scientist has just written a letter to New York's most serious paper putting unscientific Ike in his place. He points out that in a recently published textbook, "High Altitude Rocket Research," detailed reports are given of Army experiments in launching artificial meteors from New Mexico. The last launching apparently coincided exactly with the appearance of "widely publicised" pictures of a green fireball which was noticed all over south-west America. It's pretty clear the US is playing some cosmic game, but whatever is being done by science is not nearly so exciting as the imaginations of ordinary Americans. A hillbilly prankster recently made capital of this. He devised some strange machine and left it, apparently in ruins on a main road. Then he placed a dead monkey dressed in a miniature spacesuit and gasmask inside the ruins. He had achieved some enormous fame in the local bars when the cops arrested him for causing a public mischief and being cruel to animals. Deccan Herald (India) BANGALORE, Jan. 4 From the past few years, reports have come from all over the world of strange objects being sighted in the sky which are generally known as Flying Saucers. Opinions regarding these strange objects vary from complete disbelief to the firm conviction that these are the spaceships from another planet, said Dr. P. S. V. Setty of Vijnana Kendra of Bangalore to Hindusthan Samachar. Dr. Setty, who himself is a physicist, is the President of the small group of scientists meeting in Vijnana Kendra. Dr. Setty said that Vijnana Kendra collects data as to the sightings of these strange objects til June 30, 1955, and afterwards wish to make a comprehensive study of these.
No further information was found about this investigation.
PROJECT 1947 would welcome information on this and other items
concerning scientific investigations of UFOs in India or elsewhere.
The ARGUS Melbourne, Australia Weird light column halts traffic all over city THOUSANDS of people watched a weird, fiery column of light tower 3,000 ft. over Melbourne's eastern suburbs on Saturday night. Motorists stopped and people flocked from firesides to see the red, white, and orange "pillar" stretching from the clouds almost to earth. Weather Bureau officials were inundated with phone calls for half-an-hour until the phenomenon vanished. The Argus and R.A.A.F switchboards were jammed with queries from excited people in suburbs as far apart as Newport and Hurstbridge. Weather Bureau experts could offer no explanation tor the column except the possible reflection of city lights on a low cloud formation. An amazlng feature was a "dark blob" in the centre, which split the column in two. The phenomenon first appeared at 7.55 and vanished when cloud closed in at 8.30. Mr. F. Schulz, of Acacia st., Box Hill, one of hundreds who rang The Argus, said: "It was a long fiery streak, red on top and getting lighter towards its base, spreading a reddish glow in the sky around. "A dark blob in the centre made it look like two rockets chasing each other, except that both sections of the column were stationary." Mr. E. Hislop. of Main rd.. Diamond Creek, "trailed" the column from Hurstbridge to Diamond Creek. "When I first saw it, I pulled in to the roadside to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks,"" he said. "From where I was, it was a long, brilliant, pale yellow streak dim in the centre and bright above and below the dark patch. It was a fantastic sight." Mr R. Rowan, of Canterbury rd., Surrey Hills, watched the phenomenon for half an hour from his front garden. "It towered up to the clouds west of here — a vivid red streak with a long white tail," he said. "As I watched, clouds obliterated it, but the light came back stronger than ever several minutes later. "People were standing in groups pointing skywards and several motorists stopped to have a good look. It was a weird sight."
The ARGUS Melbourne, Australia Tonight may provide the solution to the mystery light, column which towered over Melbourne's eastern suburbs on Saturday night. Mr. A. N Curphey Victorian Chamber of Manufactures general manager, claimed yesterday the mystery glow was caused by 15.000 colored lights around the Exhibition for the Australian Industries Fair, and an 80ft high pylon, whlch was also illuminated. They will be on again tonight. But Dr V. D. Hopper, senior physics lecturer at Melbourne University, an authority on cosmic rays, said; "The 'dark blob' reported to be in the middle of the shaft of light could have been one of my old cosmic ray research balloons. "I gave it to the Chemistry School to fly captive over the University to publicise Open Day on Saturday." The ARGUS Melbourne, Australia BY JUDY JOY DAVIES PROFESSOR FRANK STANLEY COTTON, until recently the Professor of Physiology at the Sydney University, has been handed one of his toughest assignments. He has been elected to discover eight men capable of winning the Olympic "eights," then to train them to competition. The Professor has just 16 months in which to complete the "miracle," but if he does manage to, it won't be his first. For Professor Cotton has been associated with the unusual in sport — and in other spheres — for the greater part of his life. Flying saucers, anti-black-out suits for pilots, and the training of Olympic swimmers, athletes and oarsmen, have all occupied a part of jhe "sporting Professor's" research. Short, grey haired, and as enthusiastic as a teenager, he is always willing to help sportsmen and women. With stethoscope around his neck and stopwatch in hand, the "Prof." as he is known to his human "guinea pigs" is a well-known figure around swimming pools, boat landings, and athletic ovals. Born 66 years ago, Cotton got his doctorate in 1930, and two years later went to the U.S.A. as a Rockefeller Fellow. There he did 18 months research into the heart and circulatory system. His most important invention was the Anti-G suit, the suit which prevented our war pilots from blacking out in steep dives and turns. Nine months after making his first experiments on the G suit, Cotton was ordered to Canada to confer with scientists. After visiting England, Canada, and the U.S.A and convincing scientists and air force authorities that his invention had solved the pilots' blackout, the Professor returned home. He reached Darwin the day of the first Japanese air raid. Caught in the open, Cotton jumped into a trench with a number of soldiers. And what did the Prof. do? Something very natural for him — he pulled out his stopwatch, and grabbing the nearest soldiers' wrist, took his heart rate. "It was quite high, about 130 beats a minute, but I couldn't decide whether it was from excitement or fear," the Professor told me some time ago. Another first to Cotton was when he exploded the myth of the flying saucers. In 1947 reports of flying saucers reached epidemic proportions. Cotton thought he had the answer, so made an experiment or two. Calling volunteers from class students, he asked them to concentrate their gaze through windows at a fixed point, miles away, and then to draw what they saw. On collecting the sketches Cotton found that 22 of the 30 students had drawn oval objects,some in line like a string of pearls, others with short tails like falling drops of water. This was exactly what the Prof. had expected them to see! His judgment was confirmed when later that day AFTER his experiment the newspapers published the first descriptions of the mysterious objects. AND — they were identical with the objects the Professor's students had seen! "The very simple answer," the Professor has explained to me, "was that the 'flying saucers' were in reality red corpuscles moving in front of the retina of the eye. And — what is more — there are records of such optical illusions dating back to 1873!" On his ergometer &mdash a rowing machine of his invention that measures a man's output of energy — Cotton has worked countless guinea pigs. From them he has selected crews which rowing "know alls" scoffed at, but which turned out to be champions. Such as the University crew that won the NSW 1949 championship, the first student crew to do so for 40 years. The ARGUS Melbourne, Australia BIG SCARE In CITY Hundreds of people reported seeing a "flying saucer" over Melbourne late last night Home-going theatre crowds stopped and gaped as the "saucer" drifted slowly down and across busy Collins St., towards Victoria Dock. Switchboards of The Argus office, the police, airlines, and the Weather Bureau were jammed as inquiries come in about "a huge object" in the sky. Later a startled motorist told of a "huge black saucer, 30ft. across, with lights from underneath." It rose up from a paddock on the Geelong rd., and soared over some trees towards Laverton. "I was just passing new bridge work, 16 miles from Melbourne, on my way from Geelong, when I saw it," he said. He said that the weird,low-flying object was almost an exact replica of overseas "saucer" pictures. Late last night T.A.A and A N.A, issued a special alert to all inbound, and outbound planes to keep a close watch for the "saucer" in a bid to track it down. Many observers said the saucer was surmounted by a cabin with lighted portholes, and had four "landing knobs" underneath. From Collins St., Mr. Frank Hoath of Glenhuntly rd, Elwood, rang to say: "I've just seen a flying saucer going diagonally south and west over Collins st., below the clouds." Mr. Alec Hume, taxi-driver, of Barkly st., St Kllda.: "I just dropped a fare in Smith st.. at Collingwood, when he said, 'Can you see that?' and pointed to a dark, circular thing moving over the Exhibition dome. "It was like a cone with a light inside it. I was frightened until it went out of sight." Mr I. Crawford, of Edwards st.. Kew. told The Argus: "I was on a training run in the Reservoir paddock off Cotham rd when I saw the saucer at 10.55. "It came from a quarter-way up the horizon and swept right over my head, a flat disc with a cabin on top, silhouetted against the sky." Mr. Peter Reilly, of Disraeli st.. Kew, said: "It was low, below the clouds, and drifting slowly west. "I've never seen anything like it before."
[Dr. J. Allen Hynek form for re-evaluation of Air Force cases files.]
PROJECT 1947 comments: There are a number of re-evaluations of Air Force cases in CUFOS files. Hynek also re-examined the Air Force unknowns. Many times Hynek agreed with the Air Force's evaluation. The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron (AISS) [Headquarters located at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado] investigated UFO cases during this time frame for Project Blue Book. After reviewing the 4602d case files available at the National Archives II, in College Park, Maryland it seems reasonable to say to have an aversion to any cases in which the UFO was close to the witness. If the UFOs were viewed through window glass, they was almost automatically assumed to be reflections. Another ploy was to label them insufficient information. Any case reported 7 days after it happened could be put in this category. Finally, the witness(es) in such close encounter cases were frequently said to have overactive imaginations. Therefore, the case deserved no further investigation. It is also interesting to note that even short long-distance telephone calls required the UFO officer at the 4602d to obtain special permission prior to placing the call. Dr. Hynek used a slightly different form in his reevaluation of Air Force unknowns.
PROJECT 1947 comments: Summary on PROJECT 10073 Record Card (ATIC Form 329) reads: "Shaped [sic] changed from cigar to egg shaped. Appeared to be grey in color. Formation changed from elliptical to a wavy line to scattered and back to straight line. Objs were first in trail form. Speeds from almost hovering to 1,000 mph. Radar out of operation at time of sighting." Under Comments: "Sounds like birds, however, case evaluated as UNIDENTIFIED in 1955." UFO REPORTS - 1955 - Project Silver Bug
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