Baker report, 1968 congressional hearings

Department of Engineering, UCLA
November 21, 1967
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The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences Vol. XV, No. II, pp. 92-96 March-April, 1968
Establishing Observer Creditability:
A Proposed Method1
Sydney Walker III, M.D.1
Abstract
This article is a brief review of the critical chain of linked processes -- anatomic, physiologic, and psychological -- which
operate to determine the nature of the observations made by an individual, whether of an accident, a planned experiment, or
an extraterrestrial phenomenon such as a "UFO," One purpose of such a review is to demonstrate how, through the use of
proper medical examination, the integrity of the observer system can be established in such a way that eye witness
creditability does not have to be left to the kind of speculation in which it so frequently finds itself today. Without some
such investigation, it is not known whether the reporting observer has, for example, serious visual abnormalities, a brain
tumor that causes visual hallucinations, or character pathology such that he is prone to attract attention to himself by
fabricating or frankly lying about what he has seen.