Papyrus Boat Men See UFO - June 14, 1970

CLEARWATER (Florida), Saturday. - A radio message from explorer Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra-2 says that crewmen have sighted an unidentified flying object on their voyage across the Atlantic Ocean toward Mexico.

The message said the object moved across the horizon for several minutes and disappeared in a bright orange flash.

The North American Air Defence Command doubted that the U.F.O. could have been connected with any space shot. An officer suggested, "It might have been a meteor."

The message from the boat said it was making good headway.

The voyage started from the Moroccan port of Safi.

Heyerdahl is trying to prove that the ancient Egyptians could have used papyrus boats to reach the Western Hemisphere centuries before Columbus landed. -A.A.P

The Sun-Herald, June 14, 1970, 29 page

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http://www.kon-tiki.no/en/page/ra_ekspedisjonen

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Camera Mystery - 'Flying Saucers' In Eclipse Photo? July 7 1954

United Press

Olso, Norway, July 7 - A famed cameraman said told pictures he took during the solar eclipse last week showed "shiny white objects like flying saucers."

Photographer Johnny Bjornulf said "it was especially interesting to find the objects" since they "nearly coincided in time with the observation of six 'flying saucers' from a BOAC plane off Labrador."

The cameraman discovered the shiny objects while showing a color movie of the eclipse in London last Monday. He flew back to Norway and examined still pictures he took at the same time and saw the same objects.

Was 13,500 Feet Up

Bjornulf took the pictures abroad a Scandinavian Airlines plane at 13,500 feet altitude while photographing the eclipse of the sun last Wednesday for scienctists.

He said he had no idea the objects were on the film until he saw the movie in London.

"My personal opinion is that the shining white spots on the picture are some reflex phenomena, although I am quite sure that it is not due to any reflection in the camera lens."

Not Reflection

He ruled out lens reflection because the objects appeared on film taken by different cameras.

A photographic expert in London who saw one of the still pictures said sun reflections from the airplane's laminated glass may be responsible.

On one still picture, taken with the still camera, a circular white spot can be seen midway between the sun and the tip of the airplane wing. The object has a very faint tail like the condensed vapor stripes sometimes seen in the wake of jet planes at high altitudes.

Another but vaguer "object" can be seen partly hidden by sunlit clouds.

"In my opinion the second flying saucer seems to be a kind of mirage of the first one," Bjornulf said.

Miami Daily News, Wednesday, July 7 1954
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Eclipse Films Raise Question - July 7th 1954

Shiny White Objects Look Like 'Saucers'

Olso, Norway UP -- A famed cameraman said pictures he took during the solar eclipse last week showed "shiny white objects like flying saucers."

Photographer Johnny Bjornulf said "It was especially interesting to find the objects" since they "nearly coincided in time with the observation of six 'flying saucers' from a BOAC plane off Labrador."

The cameraman discovered the shiny objects while showing a color movie of the eclipse in London last Monday. He flew back to Norway and examined  still pictures he took at the same time and saw the same objects.

PERSONAL OPINION

Bjornulf took the pictures aboard a Scandinavian Airlines plane at 13,500 feet altitude while photographing the eclipse of the sun last Wednesday for scientists.

He said he had no idea the object were on the film until he saw the movie in London.

"My personal opinion is that the shining white spots on the pictures are some reflex phenomena, although I am quite sure that it is not due to any reflection in the camera lens."

He ruled out lens reflection because the objects appeared on film taken by two different cameras.

A photographic expert in London who saw one of the still pictures said sun reflections from the airplane wing through the plane's laminated glass may be responsible.

KIND OF MIRAGE

On one still picture, taken with the still camera, circular white spot can be seen midway between the sun and the tip of the airplane wing. The object has a very faint tail like the condensed vapor stripes sometimes seen in the wake of jet planes at high altitudes.

Another but vaguer "object" can be seen partly hidden by sunlit clouds.

"In my opinion the second flying saucer seems to be a kind of mirage of the first one," Bjornulf said.

Eugene Register-Guard, Wednesday, July 7, 1954
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Possibility of 'Space Ships' To Be Tested - 1946

Possibility of 'Space Ships' To Be Tested 
"Herald" Service. 

WASHINGTON. Jan. 31. A.A.P. - Tests to determine whether "space ships" can become a reality will be conducted by the Army shortly. As part of the tests 15 Nazi V2 rockets will be fired straight into the air.

They will be equipped with various scientific recording instruments. which, it is expected, will be freed and parachuted to earth before the projectiles explode.

Ordnance men have expressed the view that space ships, travelling high above the stratosphere. are not an impossibility.

 An Army spokesman said that many other factors will he tested with the launching of the Nazis' terror weapon in an isolated desert area far from human habitation. The rockets have been assembled from parts found or captured in Europe, and German scientists were consulted in assembling them.

Newspaper Clip of the Text Above

Link:  http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/140622239

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Rocket Reported Over Austria - 1946

Daily Telegraph, 13/9/46

Vienna, Thursday -- According to unconfirmed reports reaching Vienna, a mysterious rocket passed over Graz, in the British zone to-day. It is said to have been traveling at a great height and in a north-westerly direction. --Reuter

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STRANGE RADIO PULSES REPORTED BY MOSCOW

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Wednesday, October 17, 1973 - Walter Sullivan

Amid reports from at least six American states that unidentified flying objects had been seen and even been visited, Moscow reported last night the detection of radio signals that may have originated with another civilization.

The signals were recorded by a network of four stations operating under the direction of Vsevolod Troitsky, a well-known Soviet astrophysicist. According to news reports from Moscow the signals were in the form of pulses detected several times a day, each time lasting several minutes.

Earlier Soviet radio astronomers had reported detecting signals coincidentally at four stations from the Pacific to the vicinity of Moscow. However, the recordings occurred only in daylight and were finally attributed to outbursts on the sun.

A Tass Report

A report by the Soviet press agency Tass said Prof. Samuel Kaplan of Gorky University was the first to identify the signals. It added that their origin from a man-made earth satellite had been ruled out.

The signals have been under discussion for some months. The Russians said they were not Soviet spacecraft and inquired if they might be from an American satellite. They were reportedly told "no," but this did not rule out the possibility that the space vehicle was of a clandestine nature.

It was also possible that the signals originated sufficiently high in the earth's atmosphere to be recorded by very widely spaced stations, the Moscow announcement said.

Meanwhile, news agencies yesterday carried reports of unidentified flying objects, or U.F.O.'s, from Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio and West Virginia. They followed earlier television accounts of such sightings in Georgia. In the past such publicity has typically been followed by a rash of additional reports.

An Ohio report, by the Associated Press, concerned a woman who phoned police "hysterically" to say that an oblong object had landed in a field and killed two cows. The police investigated but were unable to confirm the account.

United Press International told of two shipyard workers in Pascagoula, Miss., who said they had been taken aboard a fish-shaped craft and subjected to examination by "an eye-like scanning device."

It added that Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Northwestern. University and Dr. James Harder of the University of California had examined the men under hypnosis and believed their account to be genuine. Dr. Hynek, who formerly investigated U.F.O. reports for the Air Force, has long sustained the majority view that they should be taken seriously.

If the signals reported by Moscow originate in some distant part of the heavens, because of the earth's rotation they should only be detected across the width of the Soviet Union during the same period each day. The Soviet account, however, did not specify the time interval between each period of signal receipt.

Link:  http://members.tripod.com/~task_2/Wave-radio1.htm

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