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FLYING SAUCERS
Living in Alamogordo when landed unconventional ob jects and low-flying unidentified aircraft were observed hour by hour in that period of 1 957, I was able to view the situa tion firsthand. I felt at the time that the reconnaissance may have been to search out the origin of the first and second earth satellite. Since then the area of New Mexico, western Texas, Cororado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and eastern Ari zona has undergone another extensive reconnaissance. Dur ing the night hours of September 28 and 29, 1 9 60, a little over four months after the reconnaissance of northeastern Brazil, objects were sighted landing and in the air. (Because of the overriding fear of ridicule many observers, including Air Force personnel, reported directly to APRO, shunning official channels. Many good observations, which would be of invaluable aid in determining whether or not an orthotenic pattern was present, were never reported. This is the big ob stacle civilian research organizations have faced since the inception of the mystery in 1 946. But APRO still hopes to attract the attention and win the confidence of many more observers and thus obtain the details of the No vember, 1 9 5 7 , and September, 1 9 60, sightings before they are · forever lost to objective research by the blurring of time. ) During the evening of October 4, 1 960, the observation at Cressy, Launceton, Australia, of a large cigar-shaped object accompanied by at least five smaller disc-shaped objects re ceived considerable attention in the Australian newspapers. At 6 : 1 0 P . M . , minutes after Cressy residents reported a mysterious explosion, the Reverend and Mrs. Lionel Brown ing spotted a gray, cigar-shaped obj ect while looking through the rectory window at a rainbow in the east. Mrs . Browning saw the object first and pointed it out to her husb and. There were four vertical bands along the side of the object, and at the bow end a rod with what appeared to be a small propel ler at the end jutted out. The wind was loud and no sound was heard above it. The speed of the object was estimated by the Reverend Browning at about five hundred miles an hour, and it traveled in a straight path toward Western Junction. After about a minute of steady movement the ship stopped in mid-air, hovering over the Panshanger Estate, about three miles away. The Brownings watched the object for about another thirty seconds and then were surprised to see five or six small disc-shaped objects appear out of the clouds above and behind the larger craft. The discs were