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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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## UNCLASSIFIED UK RESTRICTED current densities are sufficient to produce potentially dangerous disruptions in neuronal assemblies. 13. During the experiments the 1Hz to 1kHz magnetic ambient background level was 0.025mG (2.5nT) and hence was negligible. The rotating magnetic field was either applied in a ringing or in a pulse burst format (see Fig. 1). The field spatial rotation, presented with four solenoids, comprised patterns of four 4 per second rotated once every two seconds. The research showed, once again, that the phenomenological profile of a person within the experimental setting is a function of his (or her) temporal lobe sensitivity, the demand characteristics of the setting and the magnetic field patterns. 14. The conclusions of the experiments showed that: - Magnetic fields, rotated bilaterally once every two seconds (over the subject's temporal region) evoked stronger and more frequency experiences than when the field was static. - Moving yellowish green and purplish lights were only reported when the field was 'ON'. The only 'frequency specific' effect (within the 4-16Hz region used) was in the enhanced number of thought intrusions when at 16Hz, rather than at 4Hz. - Smells were reported (when clearly there were none in the test chamber in reality). - Normal people, placed in exotic introspective oriented settings, report experiences that suggest temporal lobe signs and symptoms. - There is some suggestion that effects might be cumulative. The sensitivity of time response as well as what is 'seen or felt' is likely to be conditioned by the subject's personality. 15. In 1996 another experiment was made[3] when another 33 subjects were exposed to four test conditions, a control (sham), left lobes, right lobes and both left and right together. The field level was 10mG (1 microT) and with 1mG (or 0.1 microT) applied on the other side. Exposure periods lasted 15 minutes (Three segments of five mins on, five mins off). The objective was to investigate long term memory effects. The group whose left hemispheres had been exposed exhibited approximately twice the number of accurate ideas relative to other test conditions. The results show that the complexity of the 'signature', or the 'information' within a magnetic field may be more important than its intensity. ## KEY FINDINGS 16. The key question is what does this all mean in the UAP context? The
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