An additional and more conclusive proof of the unknown nature of these mysterious "meteors" can be introduced by means of the following story from the Halifax Mail, Canadian newspaper:

Like a second edition of the famed "flying saucers," strange meteor-like objects have been reportedly seen flying through the sky in all parts of Nova Scotia for the last week. Early yesterday morning one turned up again streaking over Halifax in plain view of two policemen--Sergeant Gerald Bishop and Constable J. Gerrard. Descriptions furnished by those who claim to have watched the brief appearances of the "whatizit’s" have ranged from "a blue ball of flame" to "a bright green object," like a football trailed by a bright red tail.

Actual photo (from aged copy with leak through of ink from following page). This strange photograph, snapped on the Crow River in Ontario, is a mystery to photographers. It is all that was recorded by the camera of a large purple globe, one of a series seen submerging in the Crow River. Was it a spaceship?

The latter was how it appeared to the Halifax policemen who watched it in its less-than-a-second-long dash across the sky over Halifax North around 2:30 a. m. Sunday. Cyril Kane of the National Harbours Board1 Harbormaster's office saw a similar object, but blue in color, in the same vicinity late Thursday. Another well-known Halifax business man who saw it or a similar object the same day expressed the belief that it was a flare from a "Very" pistol, used by ships and planes to send out distress signals.

But Father Burke-Gaffney of St. Mary's College, an astronomer, suggests that the objects may be meteors or flaming pieces of molten metal from the tail of Eneke's Comet which is reported by Australians to have flashed across the southern skies on two or three successive nights recently. Perhaps Father Burke-Gaffney is correct regarding this particular series of observations, and there is nothing in them which could not be attributed to ordinary meteors, however, when one of them is photographed at close range, that is a different matter! The photograph in question (see cut), was forwarded by J. D. MacNeill, 101 Latimer Avenue, Toronto 12, Ontario. It was taken, Mr. MacNeill reports, by his uncle, while fishing on the Crow River in Northern Ontario. Mr. MacNeill quotes his uncle as follows:

"Last Saturday, August 16, 1947, when I had finished my chores, here at the camp, I decided to go into Timmins with my friend, Roy Simpson, to see a movie. Timmins is about 15 miles from our present location, so we decided to go by car, instead of waiting for the company bus. We left at 8:30 and after driving for about ten minutes the car stalled, leaving us stranded in the middle of a deserted and open stretch of country. We tinkered with the motor for a half-hour but couldn't get it to start again. So we started to walk back to camp.

"It was then that we both witnessed an unusual sight in the growing darkness that I still find hard to believe and vaguely know how to describe. It seemed like a huge globe of purplish light that tore across the eastern sky and disappeared into the surrounding hills. It was followed by yet another that was much closer and travelling at a slower speed. I could hardly make out the details, but it looked like a round object that had a number of large portholes on its sides.

''That was all we saw but it was enough for us. We got back to camp and arranged for a truck to tow the stalled car back to camp. Roy and I never mentioned what we saw to anyone in case we might be called crazy.

 "The next day was a Sunday [17th] and no work was to be done. So, around three o'clock that afternoon I went down to Crow River to do some fishing and brought my camera with me. It was then that I saw those self-same objects circling about the lake, but travelling at a much lower speed. I don't know how to express my feelings when I saw them again; it struck me, somehow, as being weird and uncanny, like something from another world. At any rate, they circled closer to the lake, emitting a high-pitched whining noise. My senses came back to me and I pulled out my camera and tried to take shots.

"I took numerous snaps but later these failed to turn out. Finally the objects eased their speed and at intervals of about two minutes between them, they hit the lake and sank about 100 yards from where I was standing. The first snap I took failed to focus properly, but the second one turned out excellently as the object hit the water.

"I waited for more than an hour hoping to see them again, but they failed to make an appearance. Since then I have not seen them once, nor have I heard comments about them from the boys here at the camp. These enclosed photos are the only evidence I have of their existence. What they were, I have no idea, nor can I even guess what was their reason for appearing for such a short time.”  

It is unfortunate that the shots of the globes in the air did not turn out--or perhaps they did not turn out because they could not be photographed by ordinary light? A glance at the photo of the object at the moment of contact with the water reveals that there is clarity of definition of everything except the sphere itself! There is seen only a foggy white spot. There is a definite circle on the water, as though the outer surface of the object produced some darkening in the water such as an electrical effect, although no splash of water seems to be visible. However, the statement of the witnesses includes portholes and such mechanical attributes, impossible to understand in the case of an electrical phenomenon. Further, these "ships" gave evidence of some type of definite directional guidance, either from within or by remote control. The high-pitched whine indicates electrical apparatus of some type, possibly generators.

The size of these Crow River globes, as determined from the photograph and from the statements of distance from the camera, is at least 24 feet in diameter to as much as 60 feet.

Once again, we can be sure that these Canadian blue-green-purple globes are not meteors, nor are they fragments of a comet, or Venus. What, then, are they? Spacecraft from another world?

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On May 24, 1850, the Henry Grinnel Expedition set sail with two ships, the "Advance" and the "Resolute," in a belated search for Sir John Franklin, a pioneer Arctic explorer who had sailed with two ships in search of a northwest passage in 1845. The Franklin expedition had not been heard from since July, 1845.

On board the "Advance" in Wellington Channel, a part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada's northernmost extremity, the senior medical officer of the Grinnel Expedition, Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, made this entry in his diary on September 15, 1850:

"This afternoon, at 6h. 20m., a large spheroidal mass was seen floating in the air at an unknown distance to the north. It undulated for a while over the ice-lined horizon of Wellington Channel; and after a little while, another, smaller than the first, became visible a short distance from it. They receded with the wind from the southward and eastward, but did not disappear for some time. Captain De Haven at first thought it a kite; but, independently of the difficulty of imagining a kite flying without a master, and where no master could be, its outline and movement convinced me it was a balloon. The "Resolute" dispatched a courier balloon on the second; but that could never have survived the storms of the past week. I therefore suppose it must have been sent up by some English vessel to the west of us.

"The balloon was to leeward, nearly due north of us, more so than could be referred to the course of the wind as we observed it, supposing it to have set out from any vessel of whose place we were aware. It appeared to me, the principal one, about 2 feet long by 18 inches broad; its appendage larger than an ordinary dinner plate. This incident interested us much at the time, and I have not seen anything in the published journals of the English searchers that explains it." 10

The keeper of this diary, Elisha Kent Kane, was born in Philadelphia on February 3, 1820. After attaining his medical degree at the age of twenty-one, he entered the U.S. Navy as a surgeon. He then traveled extensively and served a stint in the Army during the war with Mexico. In February, 1849, he was presented with a sword by the city of Philadelphia. More travel followed. Then he became the Grinnel Expedition's surgeon. During a later unsuccessful expedition in search of Franklin, Kane managed to collect valuable data later published in volumes ten to thirteen of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 1858. In October, 1855, he traveled to Cuba because of poor health and died in Havana in 1857.11

Among the strangest of the mysteries was the disappearance of the schooner Thomas Hume, which disappeared without a trace in a Lake Michigan gale on May 21, 1891, while sailing empty from Chicago to Muskegon, Michigan to pick up a load of lumber. Seven sailors, including Captain George C. Albrecht, were lost with the ship. Even though the lake was searched thoroughly, not a stick of lumber or piece of flotsam from a wreck was ever found. Old sailors speculated that the Hume, a wooden vessel, could not have sunk without some wreckage floating away. To this day, the Hume’s disappearance remains unsolved.

The wreck of the schooner Rosa Belle and the loss of 11 crew members and passengers, all members of the Benton Harbor cult House of David, shocked the nation in the fall of 1921. The wreck was discovered on Oct. 30, floating upside down by the Grand Trunk car ferry Ann Arbor No. 4. The captain of the ferry said it appeared as if the schooner had been in a collision with another vessel. But no other ship was found to have been in a collision that week. The aft section was smashed, the cabin was wrenched away from the deck and the ship’s rigging was floating loosely about the hull. The mystery of what happened to the Rosa Belle was never solved. 

Strange too was the fact that it was the second almost identical wreck for the Rosa Belle. The vessel capsized in the same area and drifted ashore near Grand Haven, Michigan, in August, 1875. Ten crew members were lost. The wreck was recovered at that time and rebuilt. 

In 1937, a ship didn’t disappear but her captain did. Captain George R. Donner, skipper of the freighter O. M. McFarland, retired to his cabin after the vessel cleared the ice-choked Straits of Mackinaw and turned south through Lake Michigan toward Port Washington. When the steamer neared its destination a crew member went to Donner’s cabin to summon him, but found the room empty. No trace of Captain Donner was ever found. 

At least one aircraft, the Northwestern Airlines flight 2501, flying from New York to Minneapolis, also went missing over Lake Michigan in that same area. The four-engine DC-4 had 58 occupants aboard when it vanished shortly before midnight in bad weather. It was last recorded flying over Battle Creek at 3,500 feet. The only trace of the plane was a blanket with the airline’s logo on it, recovered by the Coast Guard

Then there was the story of the St. Albins, a steamer that was abandoned by its crew in sinking condition off Milwaukee on January 30, 1881. Then in late February, fishermen began telling stories about a ghostly steamship floating without a crew or smoke coming from its stack off the Fox Islands. Was the St. Albins still afloat? How could that happen? A search of the lake that spring failed to find a trace of the lost ship. What were the fishermen seeing? 

In the evening of Nov. 26, 1919, people in southeastern Michigan, northern Indiana, northeastern Illinois and the southeastern corner of Wisconsin witnessed a brilliant light in the sky over southern Lake Michigan. They said two large balls of fire fell from the sky into the lake, exploding on impact. This was followed by a deep and prolonged rumbling and a shaking of the earth. Many thought they witnessed a large meteor that broke up as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere. But was it that? 

Yet another odd aerial phenomenon occurred on July 12, 1883 aboard the tug Mary McLane, as it worked just off the Chicago harbor. At about 6 p.m. the crew said large blocks of ice, as big as bricks, began falling out of a cloudless sky. The fall continued for about 30 minutes before it stopped. The ice was large enough to put dents in the wooden deck. The crew members brought a two-pound chunk of ice ashore with them that night, which they stored in the galley ice box, as proof that they didn’t make up the story. 

Late one August evening in 1914, a man and woman, their three small children, and three young American men crouched behind rocks and brush along the banks of Lake Ontario at Georgia Bay, Canada, and watched a weird scene:

A strange globular craft, which appeared to be about 15 feet in diameter, rested on the surface of the water about 450 feet from shore. On the square-shaped substructure at the water line were two small men-like creatures who were busying themselves with a green "hose." The little men worked quickly, and seemed to be having some problem with kinks in the hose, by the way they manipulated it.

This incident was related in a letter received at APRO headquarters in late spring, 1966. The writer, after reading several articles by Mrs. Lorenzen in Fate magazine, had decided to confide his experience to someone who apparently would listen to such revelations with a sympathetic ear.

Shortly after receiving the letter from the informant about the 1914 affair, we decided that a close scrutiny of the writer would be in order and a qualified member of APRO in the San Francisco area was asked to interview the man who had reported the incident.

At about 5 p.m. one of the children spotted a deer at the water line staring out over the lake, apparently unaware of the humans nearby. When the girl glanced in the direction the deer was looking, she saw an unusual craft resting on the water. She called her mother, who, when she saw it, called her husband and the three young Americans.

William J. Kiehl (writer of the letter) says the air was very still, the water was unruffled and the craft sat motionless in the water about 450 feet from shore. Its shape was that of a globe except that it was slightly flattened on top and had some sort of a square substructure around the bottom.

Two "little fellows" were on this deck-like substructure, and appeared to be busy with a hose which looked to be about two and a half inches in diameter. The hose was green and on the end of it was a round object.

When Kiehl first noticed the "little men", they were working vigorously with the lower part of the hose, the other end of which came out of the globular structure above their heads. Their motion indicated that they were taking the kinks out of the lower part or untangling it in some way.

Questions later put to Mr. Kiehl about the small men he observed yielded the following information:

They appeared to be four feet tall or under, were dressed in tight-fitting suits which revealed their human shapes, and which appeared iridescent, for they were green or purple as they moved about in the late afternoon sunlight. Each of the "men" wore a box-shaped or square yellow headpiece.

While the little men were concerning themselves with the hose, which appeared to be controlled by something in the upper part of the globular structure, three pipes or straight objects came out of the top of the craft, along with the heads and shoulders of three other small creatures. These three began doing something to the pipe-like protuberances. Kiehl could not discern what the three were doing, but noted that while they, like the other three, were wearing square yellow headgear, their clothing - what could be seen - was khaki-colored. He also noted that the size of the heads was large in comparison to the diminutive bodies. Kiehl described the bodies as "skinny."

When the trio of little men on top of the craft finished their task with the pipes, they turned and seemed to look very piercingly at the deer which was watching them from the beach. The deer turned and ran back into the woods. They seemed not to notice their human audience, as far as Kiehl was able to tell.

The three topside "men" then disappeared into the craft and the pipes went down in the same manner.

At this point, the creatures on the substructure had gotten the hose in through a square hatch above them and about midpoint of the craft itself, and one started to get into the hatch. Kiehl could see into the hatch and noted what seemed to him to be tiles set in the opposite wall which were bright green in color.

Just as the first "little man" got into the hatch, the craft began to lift off the water. Water streamed from the bottom of the craft and the remaining little man clung desperately to a chrome-like ring which encircled the globular superstructure. The craft lifted straight up to an altitude of about fifteen feet and Kiehl could see the underside which looked like a latticework of square metal, dull gray in color like the rest of the craft, and which shed water.

Then the whole globe tipped back at a sharp angle and shot off into the sky at an angle of about thirty to forty-five degrees. It left a short trail of vapor or steam which was only a few feet long, and the object was quickly out of sight. It made no sound at any time which Kiehl could distinguish.

The last that William Kiehl saw of the craft, the little man who had been left clinging to the rail around the middle of the globe was still holding on. Kiehl says he often wonders what happened to him.

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APRO's investigator asked Mr. Kiehl what was said about the incident by his companions and Kiehl replied that they were all startled at the incident, but talked little about it afterward. For one thing, there was a language problem. The Canadian family spoke only French and the young college student was the only interpreter and his French apparently was not the best.

The machine was watched by the group of eight people for about ten minutes, affording everyone a good look. The most startling thing about this particular incident is its resemblance to another sighting which also took place in Canada, on July 2, 1950.

July 2, 1950:

A senior executive of the Steep Rock Iron Mines and his wife were on an outing at Sawtooth Bay on Steep Rock Lake in Ontario. They had beached their boat on a sandy shore where there was plenty of shade, had some tea and sandwiches, and sat back to relax.

Suddenly, a shock wave was felt - the air seemed to vibrate. The man thought it might have been a dynamite blast but there had been no sound. The executive decided to investigate and climbed up on a rock outcropping which protruded above the undergrowth.

Looking through a cleft in the rock, the observer saw a large shiny apparently metallic object resting on the water about a quarter of a mile down the shoreline. He quickly scrambled back to his wife and brought her back to the niche so that she could see the object too.

It looked like two huge saucers stuck together, lip to lip. What appeared to be round black-edged portholes were arranged around the circumference, where the "saucers joined."

On the top of the bizarre craft what appeared to be hatch covers were open and the observers saw about ten small figures moving about. Protruding from the top to about eight feet above the "deck" was a hoop-shaped object which rotated slowly. When it appeared to be pointed at a location directly opposite the two observers, it would stop and so would the "little men." The man and his wife got the distinct impression that the concentration was on their location and ducked behind the rock.

The hoop-like contraption seemed to be operated by one of the figures on a prominence directly below it. This "being" had a bright red apparatus on its head while the rest of the figures on the superstructure were wearing blue headpieces of some type.

The executive estimated that the size of the object was approximately 48 feet in diameter, using the size of two trees on the opposite shore as points of reference, and that the little men, who had shiny metal of some kind on their chests and dark clothing, were between three and a half and four feet tall. No features were noticed, of course, because of the distance - about 1200 feet.

The two observers agreed that the tiny figures moved like automatons, did not turn as normal beings do, but changed direction laboriously as though it was a difficult task, and turned their feet before turning their bodies.

Two bright green hoses extended into the water, and during the sighting, a distinct humming sound could be heard. The witnesses thought that water was being taken into the ship with one hose and that it was being discharged back into the lake through the other.

Each time the rotating hoop pointed in their direction, the man and wife would duck behind their rock shelter. The last time they ducked, when they stuck their heads out again, about twenty seconds later, the figures and the hoop were missing, and the object began to rise from the surface of the water. Where it had rested, the water was tinted red with a slight gold cast.

The object was estimated to be about 15 feet thick at its highest point and about 12 feet thick at the edge. There was a rush of wind as it took off at about a 45-degree angle, whereupon it vanished quickly into the sky.

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In the Kiehl sighting, as in the Steep Rock case, a vivid green hose is involved, the craft is resting on water, and the occupants of the craft seem sensitive to the presence of people or animals. Deer are involved in both cases, also.

Kiehl was questioned closely by APRO's investigator and by letters from APRO's office, but was firm in his assertion that the entities were not mechanical men, but rather were living beings because of the way they moved about.

There can be no doubt that the craft in Kiehl's story differs greatly from that in the Steep Rock case. This is not surprising, however, for even if they did have the same origin, is it not possible for the aircraft design to change radically in thirty-six years?

There is an explanation for the movements of the Steep Rock creatures which is logical and even sensible. If the figures on that craft were living beings equipped with, for instance, magnetic shoes, they would give the appearance of moving about clumsily and with great effort.

And if we extend our theorizing just a bit further, we come up with the possibility that, having lost one of the crew in a similar area during a water operation, better means of navigating on the possibly slippery surface of the craft might be adopted. Magnetic shoes?

Kiehl was also questioned about the color of the water after the craft he had observed had left. He said he saw no difference from the rest of the water in the lake.

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