Blue Book file compilation, part 2

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

# Mabley's Report:

# Do We Have Visitors from Outer Space?

BY JACK MABLEY

WILLARD LIBRY. Nobel prize winner, former University of Chicago professor, now at the University of California at Los Angeles, states in the September Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that life "in all probability occurs widely in other stellar systems."

JACK BALLET

He suggests life on other planets may be millions of years more advanced than that on Earth. Later I want to do a whole column on Dr. Libby's lucid explanation of man's place in the physical universe.

The reference to Dr. Libby today is to lend some weight to the idea that there is life out there, and with a million-year jump on us in developing intelligence, they just might be visiting us. We sent a flying cancer to Mars.

Northwestern's Dr. Allen J. Hynek, air force consultant on unidentified flying objects, says people like to see things. I'll go Dr. Hynek one step farther. People like to believe things. I find it fascinating to believe

there probably are space ships flying close to earth.

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EARLY IN SEPTEMBER, an unidentified flying object was reported at Exeter, N. H. John Fuller, a columnist in The Saturday Review, was curious enough to follow up the report. He pieced together this story:

Policeman Eugene Bertrand, on routine patrol shortly after midnight Sept. 3, pulled up beside a parked car on Route 101 and found two women violably disturbed.

They said an airborne object, bright red and flashing, trailed them for nearly 13 miles. Bertrand, a Korean war veteran, was skeptical. He made a routine radio report, and continued his patrol.

At 2 a. m., Norman Muscarello, 18, ran into the Exeter police station in near hysteria. He said he was hitchhiking home, looked up, and saw a similar object approaching him with a yawing kitelike motion. The object lighted the entire area. He threw himself against a stone wall, then ran to a farmhouse when the object sailed out of sight. After the police took his story, the desk sergeant radioed Officer Bertrand and saked him to take Norman Muscarello back to the spot.

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OFFICER BERTRAND BAY6: "I was sure these women and this kid had seen a bellcopter, or something like that. But we went out to the spot, and I parked the cruiser. It was a clear night. No wind. No log. We walked about 100 yards out on the field, near a barn where a lot of horses were kept. Then the kid yelled, 'There it is!'

"He was right. It was coming up over a row of trees. There was no noise at all. It was about 100 feet away from me. I could see five bright red lights in a straight row. They dimmed from right to left, and then from left to right—just like an advertising sign does.

"It lit up everything around us. But it was silent. The horses started kicking and making an awful fuss, and the dogs in the farm started barking.

"The kid froze in his tracks, and I grabbed him and pulled him toward the police car. I reached for my revolver and then thought better of it. Then Officer David Hunt arrived in another patrol car.

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"WE RAT THERE AND LOOKED at it for at least 10 minutes. My brain kept telling me that this doesn't happen—but it was, right in front of my eyes.

"There was no tail, no wings, and again, no SOUND. It hovered there, still about 100 feet away, sort of floated and wobbled. I don't know what it was. All I can say is that it was there, and three of us saw it together."

Newspaper people and town officials vouch for the reliability of the two policemen. Lt. Cottrell, their superior, said if he didn't believe the policemen he'd put them in a locked room "and give 'em blocks to play with."

"But the whole story is on the police blotter," said the lieutenant. "If I had seen that thing and I was all alone, nobody else would have ever heard about it."