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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010006-5 - amertca’s leading ufologist—just back from an international astronomers’ conference behind the tron curtain—warns that a new soviet investigative approach could cost us the race to solve the flying-saucer riddle article By J. ALLEN HYNEK “russians soLvE uUFo Mystery.” For years, I have opened The New York Times with the fear skittering around the back of my mind that I might find that quote. In my occasional dreams, the story under the headline explains that the Russians have found some previously unthought-of, unstartling expl…

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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010006-5 . if submit the puzzling phenomenon of the UFOs to a many-sided, careful scientific investigation.” We know enough now about the way the U.S.S.R. announces its scientific ad- vances—the element of surprise the Rus- sians have built into every step of their space program is one example—to guess that a Soviet writer would hardly call for “a many-sided, careful scientific investi- gation” of a phenomenon unless such an investigation were already going on. Late last summer, the Chicago Sun- Times ended its story about the discovery —…

Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010006-5 THE UFO GAP (continued from page 146) in the sky, even after all the stars had disappeared.” The witnesses were so in- sistent and vocal that this couldn’t be anything ordinary that I made a quick trip to the town. I set up a small tele- scope, followed the object into full day- light and, with the aid of the Nautical Almanac, proved even to their satisfac- tion that the mysterious object was none other than the planet Venus shortly after inferior conjunction with the sun and so at its greatest brilliancy. (The Air Force can alwa…

Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010006-5 .. “Evidently yow’re not the little boy who wrote that he wasn’t getting anything... .” , Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010006-5

Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010006-5 down (Note: I was not using the brakes) and the whole car came un- der control of the UFO. The car came to a complete stop. Lights, radio, heater, wipers, all electrically operated, instantly stopped. Other than being frightened, we had no other sensation than that we were being observed. I rolled down my window and, putting my head out of the window, I looked up and approximately 200 feet directly overhead was a saucer-shaped space vehicle. By this time, my eyes had become adjusted to the light that was emitted from the space ve…

Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010006-5 understanding of statistics and probabili- ty as to think that one person can have dozens of UFO sightings while a great many other people (indeed, the majority) have never in their lives seen anything resembling a UFO, can be identified at once as utterly unreliable. When we get the combination of the repeater with a persecution complex, we really have something. For many months at Project Blue Book. we received frequent letters from an inmate of a mental institution, who exhorted us to do something about the UFOs that visited h…