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This is Volume 2 of the Ministry of Defence report 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region', Defence Intelligence Staff Scientific and Technical Memorandum 55/2/00, dated February 2000 and received 7 December 2000. It gathers 25 working papers on natural and man-made phenomena, meant as a reference for analysing UAP reports. The papers cover ball lightning, radar detection, balloons, satellites, mirages, plasma and similar subjects. One paper compares magnetic field experiments on human volunteers with close encounter reports. It concludes that effects from such fields are 'uncannily similar' to what witnesses describe.
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## TASTE
1. This effect is usually described as the taste one can experience when placing a low voltage (e.g. dry battery) electrode on the tongue. It is often described as 'metallic' and 'tingling'. The effect is created, for example if dissimilar metals are placed on the tongue, creating a battery, with an extremely low ( $ \mu\mathrm{A} $ ) current flow. However, the presence of 'taste' in the vicinity of UAPs occurs without touch.
2. The taste is immediate but the decay
much longer. It is reported that this effect can occur by pulsing and by alternating currents up to $ \sim 1 0 0 0 \mathrm {H z} $ . The affect is attributed to the breakdown of the chemicals in saliva. Since the human body is conductive, it is believed that bursts of EM energy could cause the 'taste' effect. Estimates are that a current of $ > 1 0 0 \mu \mathrm {A} $ (DC or AC) is required. Less than 1% of a 300+ sample of humans could 'taste' the presence of microwave energy. This may well be modified by the presence/absence of metallic teeth fillings. Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 258 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.