“The Advance”52 pages
- p. 7 …of advanced
technological
ma-
chinery
manned by some
kind
of
intelligence,
that
is,
the
extrater-
restrial…
- p. 9 …American Association for the Advancement of Science;
Astronomy Society(secretary).
Specialty: Astrophysics.
Fields of Interest: Stellar…
- p. 19 …The Air Force has no evidence that UFO's are extra-terrestrial or rep-
resent advanced…
- p. 24 18
(The biography of Dr.McDonald follows:)
DR. JAMES E. MCDONAI,D
Born: Duluth, Minn., May…
- p. 29 …from some
advanced
technology
sufficiently
advanced
to
do what
we
cannot
do
in
the
sense
of…
- p. 32 …The
possibility
that these are
extraterrestrial devices,
that
we
are
dealing with
surveillance
from some advanced…
- p. 40 …THE
UNCONVENTIONAL NATURE
OF
THE
UFO
PROBLEM
To
both
laymen
and
scientists,
the
impressive
progress
that…
- p. 48 …At
first,
they thought
it
was
a
jet,
whose
exhaust
was somehow
accounting for the
advancing…
- p. 59 …advanced
civilization
of
extraterrestrial origin,
the
pattern of the observa-
tions,
the motivation of the
surveillance…
- p. 75 …To
ignore
most
of the
salient
features
of
a
sighting
in
order
to
advance
an
easy…
- p. 94 …Now,
if
we
want
to
assess
the
likelihood
that there are
intelligentcivilizations
somewhere
in
advance of…
- p. 95 …be far in advance of our own,and this,therefore raises the
question of how likely…
- p. 96 …that
an advance
civilization
comes here very rarely.
But I
again emphasize the great uncertainty in…
- p. 97 91
So,
to
conclude
what
I
understand
is
the
main
reason
why
this
committee
has
asked…
- p. 100 …the
possibility
of
its
development
by
other
civilizations.
But
if
each
of,
say,
a
million
advanced…
- p. 101 …a race of advanced and benign creatures were devoted
to our welfare.
The interest in unidentified…
- p. 111 …The possible value
of contact for purposes of advancing our knowledge of our technology.
Let's…
- p. 112 …again the same possible great value from under-
standing the phenomenon in order to advance our…
- p. 116 …We
must
then concern ourselves with the
possible
consequences of
contact with
technologically
advanced
civilizations
whose…
- p. 117 111
the task. We must also 'be concerned with the risks of panic resulting in people…
- p. 124 …Gravitation remains one of the enigmas of modern
science,
although
there have been some advances in…
- p. 125 …This
will
depend
upon
advances
in
many
fields
of
science.
Some
of
the
things
required
will…
- p. 130 …Gravitation
remains
one
of the
enigmas
of
modern
science,
although
there
have
been
some
advances
in…
- p. 132 …Baker's
professional
society
memberships
include
the
American
Associa-
tion
for
the
Advancement
of
Science,
Phi…
- p. 140 …There have been many debates on the technical
capabilities or limits on the capabilities of advanced…
- p. 141 135
area of forecasting the social characteristics of an advanced extrater-
restrial civilization. Philosophers, social scientists…
- p. 142 …in the environs
of
the
earth,
or
to
make
dubious
speculations
either
concerning "their"
advanced
scientific…
- p. 143 …the
gross
characteristics
of
an
advanced
civilization.
These
studies
(probablynot
Government funded)
should
include
the
social…
- p. 150 …Applications
and
Advanced Topics,
Academic
Press,
New
York,
pp.
112-115 and
pp.
376
to
392…
- p. 153 147
00015 "Recent Advances in Astrodynamics," (with Samuel Herrick), Jet Propul-
sion, 28, No. 10, 1958…
- p. 154 …00040 "State-of-the-Art-1960 Astrodynamics,"Astronautics, 5, No. 11, 30, 1960.
00041 "Novel Orbit…
- p. 157 …Makemson)
00071 Astrodynamics - Applications and Advanced Topics, Academic Press,
New York, 1967.
00072 "Recent Advances in…
- p. 171 …In the past five
years, he has advanced from assistant bookkeeper to teller to head teller…
- p. 174 …He has no desire to advance any further
up the bank totem pole, says he never…
- p. 189 …advanced radar systems air being de-
vekii2ed for our missile defense systems, such as the ALTAR…
- p. 190 …of the Earth or to make very dubious speculations 191, t101
either concerning "their" advanced scientific…
- p. 203 …The
primary
attribute
of
an
advanced
intelligent civilization
is
its
ability
to create
its
own
environment…
- p. 204 …Menzel became
acting Director
of
Harvard
College
Observatory
and,
in 1954,
was
advanced to the
Directorship…
- p. 207 …approach
it
or
advances
as you
move
away.
As
we
look over the
Air Force
files…
- p. 210 …Or
at
least
that
is
the
com-
mon
argument
advanced
by
UFO
buffs.
Radar
is
cursed…
- p. 212 …Life
Member
of
American
Association
for the
Advancement
of
Science.
Professional Organizational
Activities:
State delegate to…
- p. 217 …our
level
of
advancement?
As
noted
in
the
Special
Report
of the
USAF
Scientific
Advisory
Board…
- p. 219 …Friedman has a relatively unique background in advanced technology, hav-
ing been actively involved in the…
- p. 222 …the
existence
of
advanced
civilizations.
We
frequently
forget that the
resolution
of
present
photographs of the…
- p. 223 …36, 37) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science is
planning a UFO seminar…
- p. 224 …reason,
would
not
examine
the data
relevant to
UFOs
or advanced
technology.
Marcowitz
was
totally
wrong…
- p. 225 …reason,
would
not
examine
the
data
relevant to
UFOs
or
advanced
technology.
Marcowitz
was
totally
wrong…
- p. 226 …B.,
"The
Phenomenological
Aspects
of
Magnetogasdynamic
Re-entry."
Presented
at
the 10th
Midwestern Mechanics
Conference,
Colorado…
- p. 227 …not
alone
in
the Universe
and
surely
some
civilizations
are
more
advanced than
ours,
but
interstellar…
- p. 233 …possible
sites
in
advance,
we
could
simply
move
in
to
recover
the
desired
information
after
an…
- p. 234 …The effectiveness of the proposed procedure would depend very heavily upon
the amount of thought, care…
- p. 237 …listed
in
advance
on
a
'standardized rating sheet.
However
this
part
of
the
experiment
will
not…
4
subject
as
rank
nonsense, the
product of
silly
seasons,
and
a
peculiarly
American
craze
that
would run
its
course
as
all
popular
crazes
do.
I
was
asked
by
the
Air
Force
20
years
ago
to
assist
them,
as
an
astronomer,
in
weeding out
those reports
arising
from
misidentifica-
tion
of
planets,
stars,
meteors,
and
other
celestial
objects
and
events.
In
the
course
of doing
my
"homework"
I
found
that
some 30
percent
of
the
then
current
cases
very probably
had
astronomical
causes,
but
my
curiosity
was
aroused
by some
of
the
patently
nonastronomical
reports.
These were
ostensibly
being explained
by
the
consultant psycholo-
gist
9
but
I
frequently
had
the
same
feeling
about
the explanations
tn
offered
for
some
of
these cases
that
I
have
had
when
I
have
seen
a
magician
saw a
woman
in
half.
How
he
did
it
was
beyond
my
own
field
of competence,
but
I
did
not
question his
competence.
-
Yes,
I
was
quite
sure that
he
did
not
actually
saw
the
woman
in
half!
My
curiosity
thus once
aroused
led
me
to
look
into reports
other
than
those
of
a
purely astronomical nature,
and
in
the
course
of
years
I
have
continued
to
do
so.
I
have pondered
over the
continuing
flow
of
strange
reports
from
this
and
a
great
many
other
countries,
for
it
is
a
gross
mistake
to
think that the
United
States
has
any
exclusive
claim to
the
UFO
phenomenon.Those
reports
which
interested
me
the
most—and
still
do—were
those
which,
apparently
written in
all
seriousness
by
articulate
indi-
viduals
9
nonetheless
seemed
so preposterous
as
to
invite derisive
dis-
missal
by
any
scientist
casually
introduced to the
subject.
Such
baffling
reports,
however,
represent
a
relatively
small
subset
of
reports.
I
did
not—and
still
do
not—concern
myself with
reports
which
arise
from
obvious
misidentifications
by
witnesses
who
are
not
aware
of
the
many
things in
the
sky today
which have
a
simple, natural explana-
tion.
These have
little
scientific
value,
except
perhaps
to
a
sociologist
or
an
ophthalmologist
it
matters
not whether
100
or
100,000 people
fail
to
identify
an
artificial
satellite
or
a
high
-altitude
balloon.
The
UFO
reports
which
in
my
opinion
have
potential
scientific
value are
those—and
this
may
serve
us
as
a working
definition
of
UFO's—are
those
reports
of
aerial
phenomena
which
continue to
defy
explanation in conventional
scientific
terms.
Many
scientists,
not
familiar
with the
really
challenging
UFO
data,
will
not
accept
the
necessity
for
a
high order
of
scientific
inquiry
and
effort
to
establish
the
validity
of the
data—and
therefore
such
detailed, conscientious,
and
systematic inquiry
has
yet to be undertaken.
We
cannot
expect the world of
science
to take
seriously
the fare
offered
at
airport
newsstands
and
paperback
shelves.
I
have been asked
by some why,
as consultant to
the
Air Force
for
so
many
years,
I
did not
alert
the
scientific
world
to the
possible ser-
iousness
of the
UFO
problem
years ago.
The
answer
is
simple
a
scientist
must
try to be
sure of
his
facts.
He
must
not cry wolf"
unless
he
is
reasonably sure there
is
a
wolf.
I
was
painfully
aware, and
still
am,
of the
amorphous
nature ofthe
UFO
data,
of the anecdotal nature of
UFO
reports,
of the lack
offollowup
and
serious inquiry into reports
(which would have
re-
quired
a
large
scientific staff
and
adequate funding), of the lack of
hardware,
of
the lack of unimpeachable photographic evidence,
and