Transcription errors help to deepen mysteries, Clarence. Above, I typed "Hauer" as the name recorded in the second link I gave. But going back into that file and reading more closely, it turns out the font used made the middle letter, a "v", look like a "u". So it was actually shown as "Haver".
Then in the third link, from the old Forum, Ric states that the fellow's name is "Ray Havens" living in Ohio. (No telling about the name of the guy in Winnipeg!)
That got me thinking about the name that you quoted from The Argus, "Conrad Mendant". As you can see, I went and read the article and correctly copied "Conrad Mentant" from the article.
But then, why isn't Conrad Mentant mentioned in the TIGHAR documents? I think I know why. The TIGHAR documents say that an unnamed amateur in "Great Falls" heard those coordinates. Great Falls, Montana, is only 50 miles from the smaller town of Conrad, Montana. There's not much typographical distance between "Mentant" and "Montana", is there?
After feeling triumphant about making that leap of logic, I went back and delved further into the December 2004 forum entries, and lo, a forumite states that Ray Havens was not from Ohio (as claimed by the New York Herald Tribune), but from Conrad, Montana.
It's simply amazing how meticuously so much has already been researched and is found in the many years of Forum entries, isn't it?
Reporters, bless 'em, manage to jumble up facts as they rush to meet a deadline. I remember how my father (whose first name was William) was the object of an assassination attempt in Saigon back in 1961. When the news hit the U.S. newspapers (including the venerable New York Times), his first name had been transformed into Howard. That's a rather bizarre jumbling that had always puzzled me. How does one get "Howard" out of "William"? But in the past month, in a family scrapbook, I came across a directory of Americans in Saigon that was published by the U.S. Embassy in late 1960. There are about 1,100 names, mostly U.S. gov't employees. And there, just a couple lines up from my father's entry in the directory, is one for a Howard Thomas. I figure a zealous reporter picked the wrong Thomas from the directory and went with that. Later news reports, following an embassy news release, listed my father with his correct name.
Moral: always read news articles with a few grains of salt! Likely as not there'll be some kind of factual error lurking.