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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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D "Envelope" threshold curve for extrasystole elicitation and ventricullar fibrillation; stimulation, 1 sec or longer (injury threshold).

$ c_{1}, c_{2} $ Extra-cellular stimulation thresholds of single cells $ (c_{1} $ : Roberts and Smith, 1973; $ c_{2} $ : Ranck, 1975).

d Frequency dependence of stimulation thresholds for nerve/muscle systems (modified from Schaefer, 1940). This curve may be used as a lower "envelope" curve for excitation thresholds for single unidirectional pulses or pulse sequences.

$ I_{1} $ Threshold for modulation among different neurons (Chan and Nicholson, 1986).

$ I_{2} $ Modulation of neuronal excitability in rat hippocampal slices (Bawin et al., 1984).

C "Envelope" threshold value curve for stimulating effects (possibly hazardous).

h, i, j, B Calculated current densities for the threshold values of electrophosphenes (h: Adrian, 1977) magnetophosphenes (calculated current densities; $ i_{1} $ : Silny, 1981; $ i_{2} $ and $ i_{3} $ : Bernhardt, 1985) and variations of optically-generated reaction potentials (j: Silny, 1981). B shows the range over which biological effects are expected and observed.

A. Average value of naturally-flowing current density in the body tissue; the values of the current densities due to the electrical events in the brain or in the heart are usually much larger at a microscopic level. Below this current density, absence of detectable effects is assumed.

1 W/kg The current density range above which additional thermal effects have to be considered.

## FIGURE F-3: THRESHOLD VALUES OF ELECTRIC CURRENT DENSITY FOR DIFFERENT BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS

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