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Be aD PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE - TIME GROUP 2. ' “CATION

11 October 50 12/0510/ Lark, Utah
3. SOURCE 10, CONCLUSION

Civilian Astro (METEOR)
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

One Evaluatedz as a meteor observation. .
S. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION /|11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

Not Reported gg gel thought object was a meteor, but upon closer observatic.
appeared to be a rocket or plane of sam sort. The object! |
yee or appeared at first as a long, thin line of fire crossing she
Grourd -Visual sky at a terrific rate of speed. This. line of fire later
widened out and then seemed to dip and sxplode. The front em
of the object broke away, and the main tody seemed to stay
the sky amd then suddenly faded completely out.

6. PHOTOS

O Yes
XX No

9 PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

0 Yes
XX Ne

FORM
FTD sep 63 0-329 (TDE) Previous editions of this form may be used,

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2-0 ‘6 November 1950

SUBJECT: Unidentified Aerial Object Sighted in Vicinity of Provo River, Utah

TO: Director of Special Investisations

Meadquarters, USAF : .
Sashington 25, Ds Cs AF 250213

1. The following information was furnished this office by the
115th CIC Detachment, Intellizence Ficld Office No. h, Fort Dourlas,
Utah:

a, At 1300 hours, 17 October 1950, MMB, address f1,
Freeman Avenue, Bingham, Utah, employed as a compressor operator on the
Lark Tunnel, Lark, Utah, telephoned this (the 115th CIC Detachment) office
and volunteered the following informations Via
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AF @CLege-

(1) On 11 October 1950, at appr ely 2210 hours, while

working on the Lark Tunnel, Ga anc @ companion, nae
unknown, sighted what appeared to be a meteor crossing
the sky. Hovever, upon closer observation, it anpcared
to be a rocket or plane of sone sort. The odject appeared
at first as a long, thin line of fire crossing the sky
at a terrific rate of speed. This line of fire later
widened out and then seemed to dip and explode. [he
front end of the object broke away, and the main body
seemed to stay in the sky and then suddenly faded
completely out. qi estimated the object about 1,0 or
50 miles away fron his position - in the vicinity of the
Provo River (roughly southwest ol! Lark, Utah),

(2) MMM further stated that the delay in reporting this :
incident was occasioned by the fact that, althou.’h he ~~
felt he should rcport it to someone, he did not know which |
would be the proper arency to report to, Further infor:a-
tion can be obtained fron —_. either at his residence v
or at his work at the Lark Tunnel, 8 presently ~
working from 1600 to 2,00 hours daily except Sunday, “
Freenan Avenue, Binzham, Utah, is referred to locally x
as Freeman Gulch. ;

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SUBJ; Unidentified Aerial Object Sighted. in Vicinity of Provo River, Utah

' ©, No investigation of the above mtter has been initiated by this
office, and the above sunnary is furnished for your information,

PELHAM R. BURNETT
Captain, USAF
District Comnander

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rly demise will be proved unfounded. A detailed analysis of your ayticle

will be sent later. MAJOR DONALD E, KEYHOE (Director of NICAP)
Washington, D.C.

Sditer's note: The material for our SAUCER NEWS article was taken éntirely
from NICAP publications and bulletins, and was not furnished to us by anyone,
Our brief item about NICAP in Newsletter #6 was sent in by a confidential cor-
respondent, and we, like Keyhoe, hope that it turns out to be untrme. As for
NICAP's fingncial situation, it is frankly a puzzle to us. According to a re-
cent issue oR Washington D.C.'s "Little Listening Post", NICAP hds a member-
ship of over 5,000. According to Keyhoe's statement in his lettef on Page 2 of
this issue, NIGAP has no honorary members, so this means that all of these
more than 3,000 people have sent in a minimum of $7.50 each. s, @n absolute
minimum of $22,500\.in subscription money has reached the NICAP treasury in
that organization's \ less than two years of existence - not/ to mention gifts
and donations. SAUCER NEWS has received only a small fragtion of that amount
in its almost six years of operation, and most saucer clups have taken in much
less money than we have.\ We do not mean to imply dishongsty of any sort, but
in view of the fact that\NICAP has not undertaken any gf the scientific pro-
jects envisioned by Brown, \it is not at all clear ous why the financial
shortage is so acute. - In gur next issue we will be/glad to publish the fur-
ther comments that Major Keyhte promises in the abovg letter. )

The failure of NICAP, with its unperaZleled influence among "re-
spectable" people, would be a catastrophe that/might be irreparable, and I
can't see how you can be indiffererk, to it....
ALEXANDER D. \MEB
New York, N.Y.

Congratulations on your NICAP Article. It is the most sensible
thing I have read in SAUCER NEWS in a long\time. - When NICAP was first organ-
ized, I sent in my name to them 4s wes ag to start a local chapter, I was
soon contacted by several crackpots, ang was sorry I ever got into the thing.
eoseeOur little group here in Chicago Jroke off from NICAP several months ago,
and when we read in his bulletin that/he was goixg to sell the "contact "books,
that was the last straw as far as I Am concerned.\ I think Major Keyhoe means
well, but he sure hasn't done the fob we expected of him.

RUTH NETHERTON
Chicago, /Illinois

You've done it agajh with your NICAP article I never thought you'd
have the nerve to attack tha¥Y bunch, but I see you did ¥t......In my opinion
SAUCER NEWS is the only sedcer magazine with the guts t& say what it wants,
without fear or favor...JQHN KETALAWICH

fresno, California
(Editor's note:Our article should not be construed as an attack on NICAP or on
Major Keyhoe, for whom we have a great deal of respect. We ara merely trying
to offer comments/and criticisms concerning some important points we feel the
organization hag’ slipped up on.)

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6.

THE OASE OF THE CRASHED UFO
- by Bob Barry, News Director of Radio Station WMNS, Orlean, N.Y. -

During the week of March 17th, 1958, I received some very import-
ant s@ucer information from one of Orlean's most respected persons, Police
Chief George Finger. I know the Chief very well, as I make daily visits to the
police station to pick up news-worthy material for my noon broadcast,

During my visit to the station that day, we got into a chat about
my UFO Conference which was scheduled for March 20th. In the course of the
conversation, Chief Finger asked me if I had ever heard of a certain incident
that occurred in Pennsylvania some time between September of 1949 and January
of 1951. It happened that I knew nothing about it. The details were scarce but
enough was there to make me want to look into it further. He told me that an
object was supposed to have crashed in the vicinity of Coudersport and Empor-
jum, Pa., and that it sheared off the tops of trees. I was also told that the
U. 8. Army came into the area (a hilly section away from any main roads) with
Army trucks. They roped the area off, loaded the object on trucks, and drove
away.

That was enough for me! I made up my mind to follow this story
through. Here is the course of the events that followed.

I learned that several people in the area were supposed to have
seen the object shortly before it crashed. One of them was a Reserve Officer
of the U. 8. Army who lived in Emporium and who worked at Sears Roebuck & Co.
at Emporium at the time. He was supposed to have seen an Army truck pick up
the object and haul it away. The Reserve Officer figured the Army knew what
the object was, and he thought the Army truck he saw was from Baltimore, Mary-
land. He allegedly was told to keep quiet concerning what he saw! I learned
that the Cameron County Press Independent in Emporium supposedly carried this
story. .

My next move was to call the editor of that paper, James Klies. I
told him of my findings and asked him to check his files to see if he had any-
thing on the story. Mr. Kiles told me he would phone me back in a few hours.
That same afternoon, I received the reply to my request. He told me that the
only thing he had for the period of September 1949 to January 1951 was a re-
port concerning & weather balloon that was found near Keating Summit on Friday
October poe 1950, by two hunters, Gene Kreitner and Clifford Stuckey, both
of Keating t. He said the balloon had six panels and was covered with al-
uminum or lead foil. The panels had two small batteries and a light bulb. The
equipment was turned over to the Air Force. The balloon was found in the vi-
cinity of Liberty, Pa.

I next called a Mr. Fish, Sr., who is associated with the Couders-
port Enterprise. After I informed him of my findings, he told me that he had a
vague recollection of the event, but that was all. He gave me the name of the
editor of the newspaper at that particular time. He is Walter Taylor, who now
works at the Genoa Printing Co., at Genoa, Ohio. '

My next contact was with Bert Freed, of Orlean, N. Y, @ reporter
for the Bradford Era of Bradford, Pa. Bert had been in this vicinity for a
good many years and if the Bradford paper carried anything on the story, he
would remember it locally. After telling him of my findings, I was informed by
him that he could not remember the event. However, he suggested that I contact
Katherine Dorfeld of Coudersport, who lived there at the time, Upon calling
Mrs.Dorfeld, I learned that she did remember the incident. She said two child-
ren found the object at Keating Summit. She also told me that the object was
supposed to have had printing on it which said: "Anyone finding this, return
it to the U.S. Government! It is not known if there was an address on it other

7.

than the above phrase. According to um the U.S. Government came to
the area, roped it off, and closed all news sources on the event. Government
trucks moved in, loaded the object up, and whisked it away,

On March 24th, 1958, I wrote a letter to the ex-editor of the
OCoudersport weekly newspaper. After I failed to hear from him for over three
weeks, I called him long-distance at Genoa, Ohio. NEE +010 me that his
wife had just returned from Coudersport. She was visiting friends there, and
@lso checked on the story, which did appear in the paper at the time. amy
lor told me it was quite a story,but not similar to the one I had come across.
He said he would get all the facts together and send me the story in about one
week if possible. I am still waiting for his reply.

’ Through a series of phone calls I picked up the fect that a wit-
ness allegedly heard a noise while working on his farm. He then heard an ex-
plosion and started running to the vicinity of where the noise came from. This
man's name is a — ere and at the time he lived near Empori Since
that time Mr. has moved, and through a friend of his (
an attorney in Emporium), I obtained his present address. I
race, Point Pleasant Boro, New Jersey. QQURMMWree very good friend of
HeeCUUe se husband, of whom I neglected to get the first name in my
long-distance telephone conversation with her. Gro ee: thet
the object was made of metal. Two boys were supposed to have been playing in
the vicinity, and they got to the object beforeaqgi. qh: allegedly was
told by mment officials or the U. 8. Army to be quiet about the story.

er be the Reserve Officer who worked at Sears Roebuck & Co. at the
time?

On March 24th I wrote Mr. QM letter confronting him with the
facts I had regarding his part in the story. I told him that I would appreci-
ate a prompt reply, and that I would like to know if the facts I was given
concerning him and the crashed UFO were true or not. After waiting until April
7th, it was quite apperent that I was not going to receive a reply to my let-
ter. I wrote him a second time on that date, and finally received the follow-
ing answer:

Dear >

In so fer as my stating this object was metal or any of the so-
called Army suppression is bunk. Most of what you quote me as saying is hear-
eay. I was in the crowd at Keating Summit but there were dozens of people
there before and after I left. Go see Cliff Stuckey at the General Store in
Keating Summit. He should be able to give you plenty of information. If I had
anything worthwhile I would be more than glad to give it to you and help you,
but I do not. There is just a chance that I may be in a bad spot as I work for
a firm which is doing a job for the Signal Corps and I may get fired, but thet
wouldn't matter should I know anything worthwhile, I do not think you want to
be a boob, I'm sure I do not want that either.

Sincerely, iia»

Well, there's the story to date. You will remember that awe
@@legeis one of the men who is said to have found a weather balloon on Oct.
135th, 1950. What puzzles me is w didn't straighten me out on what was
supposedly quoted wrong to me by Mrs.Dorfeld in regard to the conversation Mr.
SFR and Joe had together concerning this object, at the time the
incident occurred. didn't tell me what he did see? He admits he was
in the crowd, so he mist have seen or heard something.

If any readers can supply further information of any kind about ~
this incident, please contact SAUCER NEWS.

HOW MUCH LIKE US?
- by Justin Case -

In November 1957, ‘the magazine "This Week" (a supplement to many
Sunday newspapers) contained an article called "What Will Invaders from Space
Look Like?" by rocket expert Willy Ley.

Mr.Ley gave reasons why he thinks visitors from space will breathe
air, eat vegetable and animal matter, will weigh not less than 40 nor more
than 250 pounds, possess a skull, two eyes, two ears, and hands and feet,
"They will probably bear a strong resemblance to the man next door," said Mr.
Ley, so that "the chances are you wouldn't even give them a second look."

Furthermore, Mr. Ley said our Milky Way Galaxy has about 30 bil-
lion stars or suns, most of which have planets. Our invaders from space will
originate from a planet very much like our own Earth.

Therefore, according to Mr. Ley, out of the many billions of plan-
ete in our galaxy, containing all possible forms of life, only one form of in-
telligent life capable of space flight is probable - the human form - so like
our own that "you wouldn't even give them a second look." And this form of
life would come from a planet very much like our own.

Thus Mr. Ley gives mich comfort to the writers of "saucer contact
stories", in which the visitors from space are claimed to look like us. He al-
sO gives comfort to the Ardent Believers of such stories, who eagerly expect
that any strange-looking person they see might be a visitor from space. At the
same time Mr. Ley debunked most science-fiction writers, who have depicted in-
vaders from space as having anything but human form.

The better class of science-fiction writers are intelligent, imag-
inative, and well educated. Much of their science-fiction is based on science
fact, stretched somewhat, of course, to make their stories more interesting.
Consequently, their views are worthy of consideration. So let us see who is
more likely to be right, Mr. Ley or the science-fiction writers.

For the answer to this question we consult the science of Biology
(the study of life) and one of its branches, the study of Evolution, the pro-
cess whereby simpler and lower forms of life develop into more complex and
higher forms, adapting themselves to changes in their environment during the
process. From Biology and Evolution we learn the following:

(1) The variety of vegetable and animal life on our planet seems
almost limitless. Many different forms thrive side by side with others in the
same surroundings. Anyone who studies even a few square feet of grass, for in-
stance, will be amazed at the variety of life to be found there.

(2) Life is very persistent and tenacious, existing even under
seemingly impossible conditions. Thus, vegetable and animal life are found
everywhere, even in deserts, on mountain tops, under icebergs, and even under
ocean bottoms. It is very difficult to kill off, as anyone who has tried to
rid his garden of weeds and insect pests can well testify.

(3) In the growth and development of life, nature takes many dif-
ferent paths to accomplish the same result. For instance, consider how some
animals protect themselves. The porcupine rolls into a ball with its spikes
extended, a turtle withdraws into its shell, a horse fights with its hoofs, a
bear with its front claws, a dog with its teeth. Other animals protect them-
selves only by means of their speed, like the rabbit. Thus evolution is ran-
dom, though directed toward the same end.

(4) This choice of paths is partly accidental, and if wrong, it
leads to extinction. Perhaps that is why many prehistoric animals are now ex-
tinct.

(5) Man, the only animal on Earth intelligent enough to develop