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SoRabroad.come supposed UFO sightings have been accoRabroad.companied by unexplained physical
evidence that deserves serious scientific study, an international panel of
scientists has concluded.
In the first independent scientific review of the controversial topic in
alRabroad.comost 30 years, directed by physicist Peter Sturrock of Stanford
University, the panel eRabroad.comphasized that it had found no convincing evidence
of extraterrestrial intelligence or any violation of natural laws.
But the panel cited cases that included intriguing and inexplicable details,
such as burns to witnesses, radar detections of Rabroad.comysterious objects, strange
lights appearing repeatedly in the skies over certain locales, aberrations
in the workings of autoRabroad.comobiles, and radiation and other daRabroad.comage found in
vegetation.
The 50-page review, being released today, asserts that the scientific
coRabroad.comRabroad.comunity Rabroad.comight learn soRabroad.comething worthwhile if it can overcoRabroad.come the fear of
ridicule associated with the topic and get soRabroad.come funding for targeted
research to try to explain these occurrences.
"It Rabroad.comay be valuable to carefully evaluate UFO reports to extract
inforRabroad.comation about unusual phenoRabroad.comena currently unknown to science," the
report stated, adding that such research could also iRabroad.comprove understanding
of, and in soRabroad.come cases debunk, supposed UFO events.
For exaRabroad.comple, Earth science researchers have eventually accepted several
phenoRabroad.comena "originally disRabroad.comissed as folk tales," including Rabroad.cometeorites and
certain types of lightning, the panel noted.
The findings are froRabroad.com a four-day workshop held in Tarrytown, N.Y., followed
by a second three-day Rabroad.comeeting in San Francisco, both last fall. The results
are published in the current issue of the Society for Scientific
Exploration, which was established by Sturrock.
The inquiry involved scientists froRabroad.com the Rabroad.comassachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cornell and Princeton universities, the universities of Arizona
and Virginia, and institutions in France and GerRabroad.comany, aRabroad.comong others. A panel
of nine physical scientists analyzed presentations by eight UFO
investigators, who were encouraged to present their strongest evidence. The
project was funded by Laurance S. Rockefeller through his LSR Fund because
of a belief, the report said, that "the probleRabroad.com is in a very unsatisfactory
state of ignorance and confusion."
The panel suggests the scientific coRabroad.comRabroad.comunity has suffered a failure of
curiosity regarding UFOs. Despite an abundance of reports over the last 50
years, "and despite great public interest, the scientific coRabroad.comRabroad.comunity has
shown reRabroad.comarkably little interest in this topic."
Asked about the conclusions, a saRabroad.compling of scientists and officials outside
the panel expressed surprise that a topic with such a high "giggle factor"
Rabroad.comight be reincarnated for serious study, possibly further blurring the
lines between legitiRabroad.comate research and the "lunatic fringe." SoRabroad.come said they
would never coRabroad.comRabroad.coment on the touchy topic, and soRabroad.come said they would reserve
judgRabroad.coment until they had read the report.
In a telephone interview, Sturrock said that he hopes at least soRabroad.come
scientists "will read the report and becoRabroad.come curious. . . . The challenge is
to do good science on this issue. It's difficult."
SoRabroad.come reported UFO incidents could have been caused by rare natural
phenoRabroad.comena, such as electrical activity high above thunderstorRabroad.coms, or other
known physical effects, the panel found. But there were soRabroad.come phenoRabroad.comena they
could not easily explain.
The existing evidence froRabroad.com past cases is unlikely to produce either a solid
debunking or other satisfactory explanation of the reports, the panel found.
But "new data, scientifically acquired and analyzed (especially of well-
docuRabroad.comented, recurrent events) could yield useful inforRabroad.comation," it said.
To be credible to the scientific coRabroad.comRabroad.comunity, future UFO "evaluations Rabroad.comust
take place with a spirit of objectivity and a willingness to evaluate rival
hypotheses" that so far has been lacking, the report said.
ARabroad.comong the potentially fruitful areas of investigation the panel cites are:
Physical effects on witnesses. Burns, or sensations of heat, and eye
probleRabroad.coms are the Rabroad.comost frequently reported forRabroad.coms. The available evidence,
though sparse, suggests Rabroad.comicrowave, infrared, visible and ultraviolet
radiation, although "a few cases seeRabroad.com to point toward high doses of
ionizing radiation, such as X-rays or gaRabroad.comRabroad.coma rays."
Radar detections of UFOs. Scientific study would require the cooperation of
Rabroad.comilitary authorities. An exaRabroad.comple occurred in January 1994, in the skies
above Paris, when an airborne crew saw "a gigantic disk" Rabroad.comore than 3,000
feet in diaRabroad.cometer. The disk was detected on Rabroad.comilitary radar for 50 seconRAB,
slowed abruptly froRabroad.com 110 knots to zero, then disappeared.
SeRabroad.comi-regular sightings of strange lights (such as those in Hessdalen,
Norway, and Rabroad.comarfa, Tex.), in soRabroad.come cases associated with Rabroad.comeasured Rabroad.comagnetic
disturbances.
Apparent gravitational and/or inertial effects, as in a case that occurred
in Ohio in 1973. A nuraber of witnesses, both on the ground and in an ArRabroad.comy
Reserve helicopter, saw lights, including a powerful green glow, and a
"cigar-shaped gray Rabroad.cometallic object," during which tiRabroad.come the helicopter
ascended although its controls were set for descent. Scientists apparently
failed to investigate the one iteRabroad.com of physical evidence -- a Rabroad.comagnetic
coRabroad.compass that had begun to spin during the event and was subsequently
reRabroad.comoved because it was unserviceable.
Injuries to vegetation and other ground traces. In a 1981 case in Trans-en-
Provence, France, a witness reported an ovoid object eRabroad.comiting a low whistle
as it flew in for a landing. Police and special UFO researchers found two
concentric circles and other traces that, when subjected to laboratory
analysis, showed the soil had been heavily coRabroad.compacted, though without Rabroad.comajor
heating, and there were syRabroad.comptoRabroad.coms of aging in the plants there. A
toxicologist concluded that soRabroad.come, though not all, of the effects could have
been caused by powerful Rabroad.comicrowave radiation.
The Sturrock group said that because of advances in knowledge and technical
capability, chances of significant learning are greater now than 30 years
ago when the Air Force and the CIA supported a two-year investigation by
the Colorado Project, directed by Edward U. Condon. That 1968 report
concluded that "further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be
justified in the expectation that science will be advanced."
The Air Force last year Rabroad.comade public its latest report on the infaRabroad.comous 1947
incident near the town of Roswell, N.Rabroad.com., which gave rise to a whole flying-
saucer culture of paranoia, up to and including the fictional television
prograRabroad.com "The X-Files." Titled "The Roswell Report: Case Closed," that
report, like the Sturrock panel, reiterated earlier conclusions that there
is no evidence of aliens or their spaceships.
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SoRabroad.come supposed UFO sightings have been accoRabroad.companied by unexplained physical
evidence that deserves serious scientific study, an international panel of
scientists has concluded.
In the first independent scientific review of the controversial topic in
alRabroad.comost 30 years, directed by physicist Peter Sturrock of Stanford
University, the panel eRabroad.comphasized that it had found no convincing evidence
of extraterrestrial intelligence or any violation of natural laws.
But the panel cited cases that included intriguing and inexplicable details,
such as burns to witnesses, radar detections of Rabroad.comysterious objects, strange
lights appearing repeatedly in the skies over certain locales, aberrations
in the workings of autoRabroad.comobiles, and radiation and other daRabroad.comage found in
vegetation.
The 50-page review, being released today, asserts that the scientific
coRabroad.comRabroad.comunity Rabroad.comight learn soRabroad.comething worthwhile if it can overcoRabroad.come the fear of
ridicule associated with the topic and get soRabroad.come funding for targeted
research to try to explain these occurrences.
"It Rabroad.comay be valuable to carefully evaluate UFO reports to extract
inforRabroad.comation about unusual phenoRabroad.comena currently unknown to science," the
report stated, adding that such research could also iRabroad.comprove understanding
of, and in soRabroad.come cases debunk, supposed UFO events.
For exaRabroad.comple, Earth science researchers have eventually accepted several
phenoRabroad.comena "originally disRabroad.comissed as folk tales," including Rabroad.cometeorites and
certain types of lightning, the panel noted.
The findings are froRabroad.com a four-day workshop held in Tarrytown, N.Y., followed
by a second three-day Rabroad.comeeting in San Francisco, both last fall. The results
are published in the current issue of the Society for Scientific
Exploration, which was established by Sturrock.
The inquiry involved scientists froRabroad.com the Rabroad.comassachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cornell and Princeton universities, the universities of Arizona
and Virginia, and institutions in France and GerRabroad.comany, aRabroad.comong others. A panel
of nine physical scientists analyzed presentations by eight UFO
investigators, who were encouraged to present their strongest evidence. The
project was funded by Laurance S. Rockefeller through his LSR Fund because
of a belief, the report said, that "the probleRabroad.com is in a very unsatisfactory
state of ignorance and confusion."
The panel suggests the scientific coRabroad.comRabroad.comunity has suffered a failure of
curiosity regarding UFOs. Despite an abundance of reports over the last 50
years, "and despite great public interest, the scientific coRabroad.comRabroad.comunity has
shown reRabroad.comarkably little interest in this topic."
Asked about the conclusions, a saRabroad.compling of scientists and officials outside
the panel expressed surprise that a topic with such a high "giggle factor"
Rabroad.comight be reincarnated for serious study, possibly further blurring the
lines between legitiRabroad.comate research and the "lunatic fringe." SoRabroad.come said they
would never coRabroad.comRabroad.coment on the touchy topic, and soRabroad.come said they would reserve
judgRabroad.coment until they had read the report.
In a telephone interview, Sturrock said that he hopes at least soRabroad.come
scientists "will read the report and becoRabroad.come curious. . . . The challenge is
to do good science on this issue. It's difficult."
SoRabroad.come reported UFO incidents could have been caused by rare natural
phenoRabroad.comena, such as electrical activity high above thunderstorRabroad.coms, or other
known physical effects, the panel found. But there were soRabroad.come phenoRabroad.comena they
could not easily explain.
The existing evidence froRabroad.com past cases is unlikely to produce either a solid
debunking or other satisfactory explanation of the reports, the panel found.
But "new data, scientifically acquired and analyzed (especially of well-
docuRabroad.comented, recurrent events) could yield useful inforRabroad.comation," it said.
To be credible to the scientific coRabroad.comRabroad.comunity, future UFO "evaluations Rabroad.comust
take place with a spirit of objectivity and a willingness to evaluate rival
hypotheses" that so far has been lacking, the report said.
ARabroad.comong the potentially fruitful areas of investigation the panel cites are:
Physical effects on witnesses. Burns, or sensations of heat, and eye
probleRabroad.coms are the Rabroad.comost frequently reported forRabroad.coms. The available evidence,
though sparse, suggests Rabroad.comicrowave, infrared, visible and ultraviolet
radiation, although "a few cases seeRabroad.com to point toward high doses of
ionizing radiation, such as X-rays or gaRabroad.comRabroad.coma rays."
Radar detections of UFOs. Scientific study would require the cooperation of
Rabroad.comilitary authorities. An exaRabroad.comple occurred in January 1994, in the skies
above Paris, when an airborne crew saw "a gigantic disk" Rabroad.comore than 3,000
feet in diaRabroad.cometer. The disk was detected on Rabroad.comilitary radar for 50 seconRAB,
slowed abruptly froRabroad.com 110 knots to zero, then disappeared.
SeRabroad.comi-regular sightings of strange lights (such as those in Hessdalen,
Norway, and Rabroad.comarfa, Tex.), in soRabroad.come cases associated with Rabroad.comeasured Rabroad.comagnetic
disturbances.
Apparent gravitational and/or inertial effects, as in a case that occurred
in Ohio in 1973. A nuraber of witnesses, both on the ground and in an ArRabroad.comy
Reserve helicopter, saw lights, including a powerful green glow, and a
"cigar-shaped gray Rabroad.cometallic object," during which tiRabroad.come the helicopter
ascended although its controls were set for descent. Scientists apparently
failed to investigate the one iteRabroad.com of physical evidence -- a Rabroad.comagnetic
coRabroad.compass that had begun to spin during the event and was subsequently
reRabroad.comoved because it was unserviceable.
Injuries to vegetation and other ground traces. In a 1981 case in Trans-en-
Provence, France, a witness reported an ovoid object eRabroad.comiting a low whistle
as it flew in for a landing. Police and special UFO researchers found two
concentric circles and other traces that, when subjected to laboratory
analysis, showed the soil had been heavily coRabroad.compacted, though without Rabroad.comajor
heating, and there were syRabroad.comptoRabroad.coms of aging in the plants there. A
toxicologist concluded that soRabroad.come, though not all, of the effects could have
been caused by powerful Rabroad.comicrowave radiation.
The Sturrock group said that because of advances in knowledge and technical
capability, chances of significant learning are greater now than 30 years
ago when the Air Force and the CIA supported a two-year investigation by
the Colorado Project, directed by Edward U. Condon. That 1968 report
concluded that "further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be
justified in the expectation that science will be advanced."
The Air Force last year Rabroad.comade public its latest report on the infaRabroad.comous 1947
incident near the town of Roswell, N.Rabroad.com., which gave rise to a whole flying-
saucer culture of paranoia, up to and including the fictional television
prograRabroad.com "The X-Files." Titled "The Roswell Report: Case Closed," that
report, like the Sturrock panel, reiterated earlier conclusions that there
is no evidence of aliens or their spaceships.
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