1966 GOOD YEAR FOR UFO REPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100270013-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: January 7, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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We also find during last
month, taint c U.S. Ail. Force
'` t e , revised its infamous Air :- rce
O: OF 0 'Rv: O iS Regulation 200.2 (red rdir
To ilie Editor of The Post-Standard : UI'0 sightings and reports),
and assigned a new number to
The year 1966 has drawn to it: So-17.
a close and summing ,up
words October was no less as in-
OF O activity in t(l:a1 - in the
tmesting. On the 15th, Dr.
of the song -" it was a _r
very good year." Since 1964, " ernes E. AcDo nalp, a Uni. , i
vcrsay of Arizona physicist,'
and 1905 in particular, uncon-
( spore
vent before the Washi
il obieciS -or
UAO;ionthal is is aera aterm coined by Grapier or fi? American
teorolog:cal Society and ha:?sh-,;
the Aerial Phenomena Ra-
search Organization of L ly criticized the Air Force's
Tuc- ti ii
son, Ariz., best known as j handling of the UFO problem.
a
APP.O, and the term has the On Oct. 5, he had about
same significance as UF0")J story at his OXn Campus us about
"UFO"). J
been Observed in in- . ." '155i report by the Central
creasing numbers and for Ion- that ;persu 'z g c n c y (CL',) `
? r,: ce
"Cr periods of time tliat persuaded the !:jr
the most si nifird t~event. ire`"..
the history m Ur0's. NICAP
incidentally, has p r o v i d e d
much of the information in
this letter in its latest bulletin
to members.
Yes, 1966 has come to an
en , and as I beg to file
away all UFO incidents of that'
year, and matte rooi:t for
whatever is to come in 19G7,
one elope re; a:os. with me:
that the upcoming months will.
bring less crackpot sightings:
and UFO hoaxes, and many,
manymore detailed accounts
by serious individuals. 7~
ROB -R 11
sARROti','-
4167 Cleveland Rd., P:
? to "debunk" UFO's for nation-'_
As it stands now, in:portart,_. at security reasons, deshite~
well-witnessed sightings are the fact that tAir -Force'
being made every month, and had repeatedly the
asserted, that'
there is no longer a lengthy UFO's were not a danger. The:
"sleeping" period between the ?CIA%report contained many
noteworthy reports. Since the .',dr teresting provisions
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famous March, 1906 Michigan and suggestions, but s'ate'
sightings, virtually every na- 'limits me from stating them =,
~iauai aza?gazi, e has printed here.
something on UFO's.
Also in October, UFO's re-
f"And, like the earlier part of turned several times to anoth
last year, the months of Sep- ` er well known locale for UFO"
te:r.ber, October and Novem_ sightings: Wanattuc, New Jer-f
ter have. contributed sinnifi- sey. As in January and1
cant items to the UFO field. March, there were many wit
September, for example, pre- i nesses, including police offi-
sented a frightened pilot in'-cers (at one time earlier in'
S e h r i n g, Florida, with a the year the Mayor of Wana-.
cone-shaped UFO that paced: Sue had. been treated to 4
his plane for several minutes, "? sighting, along with other-
overcoming every attempt he ; public officials and citizens),'
made to escape it. He was oh- Novemher may be tile most:
viously involved with a very important month of the yea,-,
noisy object, as it made as it marked preliminary op-;
sounds resembling rubber orations of the new scientific
tires screeching on a rainy,: UFO investigation begun by
road. the University of Colorado,:
Also on Sept. 21, eight mein- the National Investigations:
bens of the Royal Canadian Committee on Atria! Pne-'
Air Force and two fishermen tiomena (\ICAP), which has.'
observed a round, snarly UFO been asked by the scientific,
that hovered close to the group involved for the best;
ground and then shot upward, cases NICAP can provicle,;
at a tremendous speed; these sees this project as possIiy~
witnesses were located in two -- - -
different areas, 45 miles apart
on the Canadian province of
Prince Edward Island.
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