“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…
127
Several
appendixes
accompany
this
report.
The
first
two
are in
response to
Congressman
Roush's
invitational
letter
of July
10,
1968,
and
consist
of
my
biographical sketch
and a
listing
of
my
bibliography,
respectively.
The
third
appendix
relates
directly
to
my
specific
recommendations,
and
was
included
with
the
kind
permission
of
Dr.Sydney Walker
III.
The
fourth
appendix
presents three
reprints
of
articles
(Baker
(1968a)
and
(1968b)
and Walker
(1968)
)
that
are
pertinent
to
the
subject
matter
of
this report.
PART
I.
ANALYSES
OF ANOMALISTIC
OBSERVATIONAL
PHENOMENAUTAH
AND
MONTANA
FILMS
My
initial
contact
with
anomalistic observational
phenomena—
AOP—came
in
1954
when
I
was a
consultant to
Douglas
Aircraft
Co.
in
Santa Monica,
Calif.,
serving
as
special
assistant
to
Dr.
W.
B.
Klemperer,
director
of Douglas'
research
staff.
The
data
consisted
of
two
short
film
clips:
one
taken
in
Montana—termed by
us
as
the
Mon-
tana
film—and
one
taken in
Utah—called
by
us
the
Utah
film.
These
films
were
provided
to
us
by
the
Air
Technical
Intelligence
Center—
ATIC,
now
the
Foreign Technology
Division—FDT—at
Wright
-
Patterson
Air
Force Base; 35
-millimeter prints
were
furnished
by
Green
-Rouse
Productions
of
Samuel Goldwyn
Studios.
Both
films
had
been taken
by
apparently
reliable
and
unbiased
men
using
amateur movie cameras and,
in
each
case,
there
was
a
credible,
substantiating
witness
present.
The
films exhibited
the
motion of
rather
fuzzy white
dots,
but
the
Montana
film
was
remarkable
in that
foreground
was
visible
on
most
of
the frames.
Preliminary
analysis
excluded
most
natural
phenomena.
More
de-
tailed
study
indicated
that the only
remaining
natural
phenomenon
candidate for the
Utah
film
was
birds
in
flight,
and
for the
Montana
film
it
was
airplane fuselage
reflections
of
the sun.
After about
18
months
of
rather
detailed,
albeit
not
continuous,
study using
variousfilm
-measuring equipments
at
Douglas
and
at
UCLA,
as
well
as
anal-ysis
of
a
photogrammetric
experiment,
it
appeared that
neither
of
these
hypothesized natural
phenomena
explanations
had
merit,
and
a
report
was
published
by
me
(Baker
(1956)
)
and
forwarded
to
Brig.
Gen. Harold
E.
Watson, commander,
ATIC.
Since the
description
ofthe circumstances
of the
filmings
and
the analyses
of
the data pro-
vided
on
the
films
is
rather lengthy,
and have
since
been published
in the
open
literature,
1
it
does not seem
unreasonable to repeat the
analyses here.
FLORIDA
FILM
During
the course
of
this
study
we
also
had
the opportunity to
view
some gun
-camera photographs taken over Florida. Unfortunately,
we
could not
retain this film,
and
did not have time
available to
accom-
plish
a
comprehensive
analysis.
Like
the
Montana and Utah
films, this
film also exhibited
only white-dot
images; however,
since
a foreground
was
present,
a competent study could have been
carried out.
Dr.Klemperer and
I
agreed
on
the preliminary conclusion—not supported
by
detailed
analyses—that, again,
no
natural
phenomenon was a
likely
source for the images.
1
For
the
Utah
film, see
Baker and Makemson (1967): for the Montana
film, see
Baker
(1968a). This
latter reference
is
included in app.
4
to this paper.