BOOMERANG FEARED IN 'SAUCER' PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100150001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 30, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/18: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100150001-0
MAR 3 0 '1966
CLETO
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By MORT YOUNG
Journal?Anterican Special Write); ?
A private group of scientists, astronomers, engl-.
:neers and interested laymen said today that a Co.ngres-:
!sional investigation into unidentified flying objects?
"might not be In the national interest?!
Instead, the Aerial Phenom-
ena Research ' Oegnizaticin
tAPROI, of Tucson, Ariz.,
?
called for a "mere important
and extensive scientific study
of. past UFO sightings, and
preparation, for dealing With
future sightings."
A Congressional investiga-
tion, Mrs. Carol Lorenzen, an
APRO spokesman said. ',could
make the United States "look
like damn fools in the eyes of
the world if the government
admits UFOs exist, 'especially
If . Russia took the opposite
!tack."
! House Republican Leader
Gerald. R. Ford of Michigan has
formally asked for ? Congres-
sional hearings into UFO sight-
ings and the Air Force's Project
luebook, charged with running
0 reports to earth:
But another group of UFO-
trackers, the National Investi-
gations coMmittee on ? Aerial
Phenomena (NICAP) in Wash-
ington, wants Congress to look
into the UFO-Air Force situa-
tion. ?
NICAP claims a 'Policy of
suppression of evidence, ridicule
of witnesses and a program de-
voted to explaining the inex-
plicable are maintained by the
Air Force. ?
"The Air /force is ..in an . un-
enviable position. They have a
UFO .problem," said Mrs. tor-
bow to xplain it until they
get their hands on one."
The Air Force strenuously"
denies these allegations.
Based on statistical studies,
of 'reported. UFO sightings by:
APRO, Mrs. Lorenzen said s'nel:
noted a "disturbing trend."
Her husband Lesley Lbren- ;
zen, APRO's director, said that
anew pattern in UFO sightings :
has evolved since last July. A:
"The ? sightings have become
longer in duration," he ex-
plained. "And there. seems to '.
he a tendency for the incidents ,
to be repeated on consecutive;:
nights. A side effect of this...
might be that now we'll get ,
snore photographs of them. We
can expect to learn more about ' ?
them." ?
Maj. Donald Keyhoe, .USMC
(Ret.), NICAP's director, told
newsmen, two days ago that,
UFOs "are real' and under 'in-
telligent control."
He urged the Air Force .to
"stop ridiculing competent wit-
nesses." ? ?
Congressman :Ford s? whose
home state of Michigan his
been deluged with UFO reports
for the past two. weeks said
he wants, Congress to inveki-
gate'in order to, give, the public
"a better e?cplanatioA ? :..than
that .thub, far given by..the'Air
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