Flying Saucers UFO Reports

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

# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9

message from his visitor on March 2 that the robot would be back in 29 days. It has been reported in Saucer News, June 1966, that the "witness" returned to the scene with two friends on the afternoon of March 31 and that the three of them did see the saucer-shaped ship come in over the dunes but that it was intercepted by an Air Force jet and disappeared from sight in five seconds.

The Air Force denies that such an incident occurred.

The subject was to make still a third trip to the sight of his initial "encounter"; this time in October, 1965, according to reports. On this occasion he was said to have found footprints, sharply defined, as though made by heavy weights (see photograph). They were "dumb-bell shaped" and the sequence of steps revealed what would be something of waddling movement as opposed to the more stiff-legged gait of the "robot."

At the same time that the footprints were "found," four, deep, circular impressions, such as might have been left by the landing gear of the craft, were "located," and photographed.

The consensus is that the October visit with its accompanying "finds" was definitely a hoax perpetrated by local publicity seekers.

There are some who believe the March 31 sighting did take place and that evidence exists to verify the "near collision" with the Air Force jet. Such evidence has not been released.

There are many who accept the man's first "encounter" as a possibility.

With characteristic thoroughness, the APRO organization deciphered the note message in its entirety in the belief that no piece of evidence should be dismissed without careful scrutiny regardless of dubious aspects attached to the experience. The message in toto ran: "Planet Mars . . . are you coming home soon . . . we miss you very much . . . why did you stay away too long".

Attention is drawn to the last sentence which suggests that the writer was not too conversant with the English language. Previously the announcement had been made that the two notes appeared to have been penned by different writers. APRO directors mention the possibility that in the event the "landing" occurred, the occupants of the craft might have enclosed their intended message within the folds of an easily translatable phoney to muddy the path for investigators. They refer to the fact that the Air Force decoded only a part of one message and did nothing about the other.

APRO holds no brief for the authenticity of the story, per se, but it does call attention to the fact that in May, 1965, a polygraph test administered to the man revealed he was a normal reactor who exhibited guilt reactions when he attempted deception and that his responses to pertinent questions in four separate tests exposed no such deception.

The position adopted by APRO is that the incident may well have been a hoax, but if so, the subject had help, "possibly hypnosis was used. Whoever participated in the hoax, however, would have had to have a very intimate knowledge of UFO lore. Then we must search among ourselves." (The APRO Bulletin).

Hieroglyphics were deciphered in part by Army Intelligence; said to be the work of amateurs, printed on tissue-thin paper made of fibers in common use throughout the world.

APRO investigators did not give full credence to the "find", but translated full message: Planet Mars . . . are you coming home soon . . . we miss you very much. Why did you stay away too long.