A comprehensive investigation of encounters with unidentified
flying objects, all the more riveting because it is both skeptical
and scrupulously objective. What facts do we have regarding UFOs?
asks an international team of scientists headed by Sturrock
(Physics/Stanford Univ.). What is the physical evidence, and what
is it trying to tell us? Taking pains to avoid sounding frivolous,
the team reviews the records of UFO encounters. Many can be
explained as misinterpretations of such man-made objects as
satellites, or as natural phenomena like marsh gas, manifestations
of lightning, or wave ducting, which causes radar mirages. Other
experiences are characterized here as "suggestive but far from
sufficient" in terms of data. Even more intriguing are the
"anomalies," a full 30% of the notable contacts, often sighted by
multiple observers without discernible ulterior motives, some with
photographic evidence, some with material remains, some tracked on
radar screens, all left unexplained after a battery of tests that
include such jawbreakers as micro-densitometry scans of
photographic film crystals, and the probings of spark mass
spectrometry. The scope and detail of these analyses make them
tough going for the lay reader, but the narrative sections and
interviews are captivating. It's particularly gratifying to read
the investigators' exquisite debunkings of the bureaucratic
obfuscation and mumbo jumbo with which government officials have
smugly dismissed UFO sightings. This cavalier attitude won't do,
the study argues; we need more systematic data collection and
procedures. Given the randomness of UFO events, however, that may
be asking for the impossible. The ultimate conclusion here is a
rousing Who knows? Nonetheless, "a signal emerges from the noise
and that signal is not readily comprehensible in terms of phenomena
now well known to science." In other words, something is out there;
it's just unidentified. (Kirkus Reviews)
The first major scientific inquiry since the Condon Report
For over fifty years, the modern UFO controversy has raged between believers and debunkers, with little input from the scientific community. Now, in a major report commissioned by Laurance S. Rockefeller, an international panel of scientists grills UFO investigators and debate the physical evidence of dozens of cases, including:
• Paris, 1984: Military radar confirms reports of a gigantic disc, more than half a mile in diameter;
• Ohio, 1978: An Army Reserve helicopter's flight-control system is disrupted by an unknown cylindrical object;
• Southern France, 1981: Scientists find soil and vegetation evidence at the location of a reported UFO landing;
• Texas, 1980: Witnesses to a large flaming object suffer radiation-type injuries.
Featuring a focused, sober assessment by a distinguished scientific panel, here is a challenging-and disturbing-inquiry into one of the new century's greatest mysteries...THE UFO ENIGMA
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