APRO Recordsdata and The Iowa Egg-Formed UFO Touchdown

For these new to the sector, they won’t know a lot in regards to the Aerial Phenomena Analysis Group (APRO), which was created by Coral Lorenzen within the early Fifties. At the moment there have been two distinguished UFO Organizations with APRO being one and the Nationwide Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) being the opposite. There have been dozens, if not a whole lot of smaller, native organizations. I was a member of the Denver UFO Society within the late Sixties, however that was a group that operated within the Denver space and had no actual investigation arm.

By Kevin Randle The UFO Chronicles 1-2-2024

Jim and Coral Lorenzen

I point out APRO due to its measurement, the membership within the hundreds and Coral,
and later Jim and Coral Lorenzen printed a number of good books about UFOs.
In contrast to NICAP, which appeared to give attention to Congressional investigations and
urgent the Air Drive for transparency, although they actually collected
hundreds of UFO experiences, APRO targeted on what might need been seen because the
fringe areas of UFO research early on. They collected experiences on landings and
occupant sightings and have been the primary American group to analysis alien
abduction circumstances. Though they’d identified in regards to the Vilas-Boas abduction in
1957, they didn’t report on it formally till the Sixties when the Barney and
Betty Hill case was investigated. Curiously, Betty Hill contacted Don
Keyhoe of NICAP about her sighting and abduction. Ultimately, her curiosity was
diverted to APRO.

The purpose right here is that the recordsdata of NICAP, the J. Allen Hynek Heart for UFO
Research (CUFOS) and even many if not a lot of the Undertaking Blue Books recordsdata have
been collected by varied civilian analysis and investigation organizations.
The exception was the APRO recordsdata. Upon the deaths of each Jim and Coral
Lorenzen within the mid-Eighties, the recordsdata ended up within the fingers of the Lorenzen
youngsters after. Makes an attempt by varied organizations and people to acquire
the recordsdata had been made over time with out success.

I present this temporary historical past to place all this into context. As many know, David
Marler, who has created the Nationwide UFO Historic Data Heart, a reputation
that doesn’t lend itself to an simply pronounceable acronym, has introduced
the acquisition of the APRO data. This implies, that his Heart is now the
repository of the biggest assortment of UFO data. This contains the data
and investigative actions of a number of overseas researchers and organizations.

Marler, and his crew have been digitizing these data on the headquarters of
the group, which implies that searches for particular circumstances, and all
related knowledge will develop into a searchable file, or as Marler wrote in his press
launch, the recordsdata are digitized for digital storage, analyzation, switch
and ease of entry.

Curiously, there have been, up to now, UFO researchers who guarded their
data and recordsdata with a tenacity that rivals varied governmental companies.
That barrier appears to have been damaged to some extent now.

As I say, the necessary level right here is the switch of the APRO recordsdata into
Marler’s group. They’re presently positioned in Albuquerque, New Mexico and might
be discovered at www.nufohrc.org.

APRO was the primary UFO group to take experiences of touchdown and alien
beings severely. They despatched the primary investigators into Pascagoula to
interview Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker. And have been in Socorro, New Mexico,
inside hours to interview Lonnie Zamora in regards to the UFO touchdown and occupant
sighting there in 1964.

A kind of APRO circumstances was a touchdown in rural Iowa on June 6, 1972. The
witness, recognized within the APRO solely as Mr. T., however his identify was Edward Tieg.
He mentioned {that a} flash of sunshine caught his consideration. He thought it was an
airplane, however the object got here nearer. He noticed that it was egg formed and because it
started to land, legs grew out of the underside. He mentioned that it was about ten to
twelve ft in diameter and fifteen to twenty ft tall. He mentioned that it solid
a shadow when it was sitting on the bottom.

Illustration of the sighting created by Edward Tieg. From the recordsdata of Kevin Randle

It was a few hundred yards away. A hatch opened and in accordance with him, some
folks acquired out. The beings have been about 5 ft tall and have been sporting a
one-piece flying go well with. They messed round within the corn, returned to their ship
and it took off.

Investigators on the Tieg UFO Touchdown Website – June 1972 Photograph by Kevin Randle.

He mentioned that because it lifted off, a blue flame shot out of the underside, there was
a roar and the legs retracted. The corn shares in that space seemed as in the event that they
had been caught in a whirlwind however they weren’t burned. I’ll observe right here that
Lonnie Zamora talked a few blue flame and a roar as that craft lifted off.
I’m unsure if a farmer in Iowa knew a few New Mexico policeman who
described a few of the similar options.

Though reluctant to speak in regards to the sighting, he did present an illustration
of what he had seen. As occurs so typically in UFO experiences, there have been no different
witnesses to this sighting, although there had been others within the space in regards to the
similar time.