Project Blue Book desk file, Socorro (217 pages)

SOIJR"E : ALB'U~UERQL'"' JOUR:!AL
D~TS : 30 APR L. 1964
'Talked With Occupants'
Man Here Claims He
Saw Saucers 5 Times
By MARTIN PASKIND . qualities, and in quality of
"I don't know why t h e y knowledge.
picked me," said Apolinar A. Expect Volcanic Activity
Villa Jr. "I'm just an ordi- Saucer crewmembers, he
nary working man -just a
1
said, expect a lar~e-scal~ re- ·
mechanic. newal of volcamc actlvtty
"'fhey said there was a pur_ lalong the volcano . rim just
pose. What it is, 1 don't west of here. And they expect
know." 1t so~m.
Five times in about five Th1s year, they expect ca-
years, says "Paul" Villa, he t~strophic ~ar between Rus-
has seen flying saucers. SL~ and Chma - a w~r that
Twice, he has talked to their w1ll mvolve many As1an na-
occupants. tions.
And once he says he re- Why hasn't Villa sought a
turned fro:n his e~counter place of safety? "We can't
with a roll of film. If Villa get away from ~~hat Go_d has
is the victim of fantasy it's ldecreed for. us .. ~e said ..
f t · K d 1 ' Villa's sa1d h1s ftrst saucer
an asy m o a co or. · h · th w t
v·n 47 r 'th h. s1g ung came on e es1 a, • tve~ WI ~s son Coast, when · he conversed
an~ daug~ter-m- law . m a . with the occupant of a small
trailer behmd 601 N 1 a gara saucer
SOCORPO NEW MEXI~O
24 APR 1964
NE. Born in Tijeras, he at- 1 Twic~. the t!evices hovered
tended Longfellow. Elemen- ·over his home, then at 4187 \known me for a long time,"
tary School and Lmcoln Jun- Edith NE. The second time said Villa. "There were lots
ior High School. the home was burned, Vill~ of things . they had answers
Quit School said. The burning was for for. They were a very friend-
He quit during his first disciplinary reasons. ly sort of people ."
year at Albuquerque High I sighting Near Lindrith Friendliness notwithstand-
!school. Since then, he served ! Once _Yill?- sight~d a saucer ing, they left Villa in no doubt
in the Army Air Force. A near Lmdnth. This was the about what would happen
mechanic Villa · works for largest-about 900 feet in di- should he persist in efforts to
N. C. Ribble and Co. here. ameter. !duplicate their devices.
"The pictures are authen- The saucer he viewed near Villa said the starmen are
tic. They'r!! the real thing," Peralta '."as a~out 160 feet interested in New ~exico b~- 1
he says. "There are a lot of across, ~illa sa1d. · cause. of a mag'?ehc. fault m I
things 1 can't say _ because From It stepped a number Farmmgton-the1r sh1ps trav-
so help me God 1 don't think 'of people from the far-distant el "magnetic lines ."
anybody would believe it. But 1
galax_y of Coma . Berenices, "They put . a lot of stress
the · ictures are . the rea 1 1magmably far distant from on. New Mex1co and parts .of
th. f.. here. Anzona and Utah," he said.
~ · li h . t . d t In the meeting, and in tele- "They mentioned something1 a w o 15 n~ su.rpnse a pathic contacts before and about volcanoes ."
r~cen~ saucer .sLghtmgs, took 1since, Villa said he acquired Clothed in tight-fitting one-
his pictures With .a Japanese fragments of the starmen's piece uniform, the starmen
camera the last tl~e he saw knowledge. made an attractive crew. And
the saucers, he. said. La 5 t It was his effort to convert what did they think of us?
June 16, he sal?, he spent parts of this knowledge to his "Their opinion is not that
from 2 ;30 to 4 m the after- own profit, says Villa, that we're bad or good," Villa
noon w1th the people - men resulted in a stream of ill said. Nor will they attempt
and women - borne by the fortune . His home burned- to save the human race from
space machine . totally and without insurance. itself.
The saucer's occupants, He shot himself in the arm. "They know that there is
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said Villa, were not superhu- He went through bankruptcy. a super intelligence that gov-
man. But they were superior Friendly People erns all the universe and ev-
to our species in physical "They seemed to h a v e erything in it," he sa1d.Rob Mercer