14 October 1966
(The Hillsdale Daily News, Michigan)
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
The whole article:
“ ‘It is dangerous to the welfare of the nation for our government to
try to ridicule and harass people. This was what was done during the local UFO
excitement earlier in the year. I believe we have made our point. The University of Colorado now has been assigned to look
more thoroughly into the handling of UFO sightings. I don’t think we’ll have
any more brushoffs based on the swamp gas contention.’
Willian (Bud) Van Horn, Hillsdale
County civil defense
director, concluded his talk before the Rotary Club Thursday with this
statement.
For 35 minutes he traced the efforts of himself and his colleagues to
handle the UFO (Unidentified Flying Objects) reports received at his office
since last March and to keep the community from being ridiculed.
He was especially vehement in his criticism of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Northwestern University
scientist who made a cursory study here after the Hillsdale College
coed sightings on March 21 made headlines throughout the nation.
Since last March there have been at least two other UFO incidents worthy
of note by the local CD office, Mr. Van Horn said.
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One was from a woman who heard her dog barking at night. She told the CD
office that she looked out in time to see a vehicle settling in a field.
Four women in the North Adams-Jerome region had an object orbit their
car. It apparently had an effect on the vehicle because the driver put the car
into second gear and pressed the accelerator to the floorboard, yet could
develop a speed of only 20
miles an hour. The four ran to a nearby house occupied
by five persons. All nine looked out to see a vehicle hovering around the barn.
Mr. Van Horn said his Civil Defense organization made extensive investigations
of all reports both during and since March. He told about finding radioactivity
in places where UFO’s had been reported, of pure boron found in water, of blips
on Air Force radar screens (later denied by the AF) and of unusual metal
shavings found in a field less than a month ago.
Mr. Van Horn said the government has no business trying to keep people
quiet about UFO sightings. He said that the 24-page report he issued to
disprove Dr. Hynek’s swamp gas claims has never been rebutted by the Air Force
or Dr. Hynek.
A different attitude on the part of the government is now indicated, the
speaker said. The investigative work done here by the local CD has helped to
bring this about, Mr. Van Horn feels.”
My comment:
This is a very interesting article about some of the 1966 UFO sightings
in the Hillsdale, Michigan,
area (South East Michigan). The article, among other things, discusses UFO
cases that involve animal reaction (dog)/UFO landing, electromagnetic (EM) interference
with a car engine and radioactivity.
William Van Horn, Civil
Defense Director, Hillsdale, Michigan,
measures radioactivity
at a 1966 Michigan UFO landing site
(“UFO: Friend, Foe Or
Fantasy?” (CBS, New York City, New York) image)
Delp
Hall and the Liberty Walk, facing Central Hall
[Hillsdale College,
Hillsdale, Michigan]
Satellite photo of Hillsdale,
Michigan (tageo.com)
(tageo.com photo)
