Flying Saucer Review June 1981 [antikvár]

FLYINGI SAUCERI REVIEWEditor CHARLES BOWEN ConsultantsGORDON CREIGHTON, MA, FRAI, FRGS, FRASC. MAXWELL CADE, AInstP, FRAS, AFRAeS, CEng, FIEE, FIEREBERNARD E. FINCH, MRCS, LRCP, DCh, FBISCHARLES H. GIBBS-SMITH, MA, FMA, Hon Companion RAeS, FRSAR. H. B. WINDER, BSc, CEng, FIMech E JONATHAN M. CAPLAN, MAI. GRATTAN-GUINESS, MA, MSc, PhD, DSc PERCY HENNELL, FIBPJANET BORD, COLIN BORDOverseas J. ALLEN HYNEK, PhD. AIME MICHEL, BERTHOLD E. SCHWARZ, MD Secretarial Assistant JENNY RANDLESAn international journal devoted to the study of Unidentified Flying ObjectsVolume 27, No. 1 (published June 1981)NON-SUPPRESSIBLECONTENTSThe chicken poachers on Puerto Rico Jorge J. Martin 2Notes and Comment on the Puerto Rico chicken poachers Gordon Creighton 6Ufology in the U.S.S.R. Nikita A. Schnee 8The Falcon Lake incident: Prologue 1967 Chris Rutkowski 14The Bords' new bookCharles Bowen 16The anthropomorphic entity at Villa Carlos Paz Part 3Dr. O. A. Galindez 17FSR Bookshelf - 9 Janet Colin Bord 20Ghosts or Machines? Janet Bord 22Humanoids at South Middieton Part 1 David A.Webb 23Mail Bag 28 Flying Saucer ReviewContributions appearing in this magazine do not necessarily reflect its policy and are published without prejudiceFor subscription details ^^ and address please see toot of page ii of coverC i ' I "HE UFO Phenomenon is international in its nature, and its study X should be international too!"That view is expressed by Russian group organiser and investigator Nikita Schnee (see elsewhere in this issure of FSR) and it is obviously a view echoed by thousands of others in that enormous country. Indeed it would seem that great steps are being made in the investigation of the phenomenon in Russia in face of enormous difficulties. This is not unexpected, for we in the West have encountered difficulties albeit not so severe in the form of cover-ups, harassments and ridicule. These have been conducted in a more subtle way and, outwardly, less ferociously but never let us forget the harrowing example of Dr James E. McDonald.We cannot recall reports here of meetings being broken up by the police, or by secret service agents, as was the meeting of BPVTS section of the A.S. Popov Society, which section was thereafter forbidden to operate by the City of Moscow Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR. Furthermore we have no knowledge of UFO research publications in the West having been forced by the authorities to close down. And if, once upon a time, we were uncomfortably aware of the ridicule, and the deliberate attempts by Establishment figures to impugn the intergrity of our scientific supporters, then to boost our spirits nowadays we need only to turn to the fine example of the French researchers, and the French Minister of Defence who in 1974 publicly affirmed the existence of the phenomenon. Again, as stressed by the late Waveney Girvan, former Editor of FSR, we possess another potent weapon of self-defence, namely that of turning ridicule against those who would ridicule us. So it is with delight, therefore, that we see that our Russion colleagues are capable of doing just that. Again we are glad to see that they too are heartened by the example of the French.There was a time when the criticism was levelled at ufologists here in the West that our claims about UFOs were negated by the fact that there were no similar reports from Russia. And, boosted by the negative conclusions of, for example, Dr E. U. Condon, the Soviet press thundered that UFOs were but figments of the imaginations of effete capitalist warmongers or words to that effect. Now things will never quite be the same, for we know that the Soviets are afflicted with just as many enigmatic UFO visitations, landings, close encounters and CE4s as the rest of the world. For this knowledge we are indebted first, to our old friends Tikhonov and Fomin; secondly to F. Y. Zigel' what a pity there appears here to have been a "personality clash" and thirdly to the courageous stands being taken by V. G. Azhazha, N. A. Schnee and V. I. Sanarov (a most prolific writer of cards!).The subject of ufology is shown to be truly "non-suppressible," and the Russian group, aware of the need of specialists from all fields of knowledge, is gaining new members all the time. We wish them well in the task they have set themselves, and assure them that their results and reports will always be welcome in this international journal.