Today has probably been written on the book's most all day but went in between with a short clip of work. Now I imagine the bottom of the scrapbook. It is the American UFOLOGIST John Ottos clips from the 1950s and there is plenty of PEARL in the clip collection. You can incidentally see him in the saucer scout taken a picture from April 30, 1957 above. It is John who is with headphones on and a microphone in his hand in the middle.

The picture is taken from the Chicago Daily News the day after and represent some of the participants in "Operation Contact" which was conducted from a two ships out on Lake Michigan. From left visible Courtland Hastings, Mathon Kyritsis (with binoculars), John Otto, Jack Maynard and Robert Glaze. In total, around fifty people.

Reconnaissance was no more successful although John Otto soon found that "the chances to see something in the night is very good." And maybe Otto was right. When an aurora showed low in the northeast, he recognized it as a signal from the space people.

John Otto himself described as "the inventor and the flying saucer-pioneer" and among the other clips in his collection are several that tell how he delivered lectures at various locations iUSA, most in the Chicago area. It is called Otto also for a "radio and television personality," which was quite right because Otto also had his own radio show called "Let's go out of this world with John Otto." Where he interviewed the 1950s most famous correspondents as George Adamski, Daniel Fry and George Van Tassell and others. Otto was also a member of the Chicago Rocket Society.

Interest in flying saucer - he did not talk about ufo - he had since 1950 and during his many lectures he played the tape and showed pictures, which surely contributed to his popularity as a lecturer.

In an interview in August 1955, the Otto stated that "many types of spaceship now come to earth from other planets" and he could also tell that he himself on many occasions seen both mother ship that discus-shaped saucer at a lower altitude.

It is interesting to try to bring order in the charismatic person's collection of clips and while I'm pasting the articles on white A4 sheets, so I am trying to get read a lot. Until last fall, John Otto was a completely unknown name for me and my colleagues at the AFU, which is exciting in itself. It shows that there have been many committed UFOLOGIST, not least in the U.S., which has put years of work on ufofrågan but which today is virtually forgotten.

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