“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…
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fine brain teasers and could easily be made the subject of profitable discussion
among physical and social scientists alike.
(5) The Air Force has no evidence that UFO's are extra-terrestrial or rep-
resent advanced technology of any kind. This is a true statement but is widely
interpreted to mean that there is evidence against the two hypotheses. As long as
there are "unidentifieds," the question must obviously remain open. If we knew
what they were, they would no longer be UFO's—they would be IFO's. Identified
Flying Objects! If you know the answer beforehand, it isn't research. No truly
scientific investigation of the UFO phenomenon has ever been undertaken. Are
we making the same mistake the French Academy Sciences made when they
dismissed stories of "stones that fell from the sky"? Finally, however, meteorites
were made respectable in the eyes of science.
(6) UFO reports are generated by publicity. One cannot deny that there is a
positive feedback, a stimulated emission of reports, when sightings are widely
publicized, but it is unwarranted to assert that this is the whole cause of high
incidence of UFO reports.
(7) UFO's have never been sighted on radar or photographed by meteor or
satellite tracking cameras. This statement is not equivalent to saying that radar,
meteor cameras, and satellite tracking stations have not picked up "oddities" on
their scopes or films that have remained unidentified. It has been lightly assumed
that although unidentified, the oddities were not unidentifiable as conventional
objects.
For these reasons I cannot dismiss the UFO phenomenon with a shrug. The
"hard data" cases contain frequent allusions to recurrent kinematic, geometric,
and luminescent characteristics. I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in
20th-century science to forget that there will be a 21st-century science, and indeed,
a 30th-century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe
may appear quite different. We suffer perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a
form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.
J. ALLEN HYNEK,
Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
One great misconception is that only UFO buffs report UFO's;
quite the opposite is the case, as is the misconception that the most
baffling reports come from unreliable, unstable,and uneducated people.
Most reports of this baffling sort which I at least receive in my mail,
are remarkably articulate.
Other misconceptions are that UFO's are never reported by scien-
tifically trained people, are never seen at close range, have never been
detected on radars, and have never been recorded by scientific cameras.
It is well to remind ourselves at this point of the definition of an
UFO: those aerial phenomena reports which continue to defy expla-
nation in conventional scientific terms, even after appropriate study.
There is no point to be interested in anything else; lights at night
which might be aircraft, balloons, meteors, or satellite re-entries—
all these fit more readily into the category of IFO's or identified flying
objects.
In other words, only truly unidentified cases should be of interest.
The Air Force has its own definition of an unidentified case, and it
has many,hundreds in its files. The Air Force calls a sighting unidenti-
fied when a report apparently contains all pertinent data necessary
to suggest a valid hypothesis concerning'the cause or explanation of
the report but the description of the object or its motion cannot be
correlated with any known object or phenomena.
It is most logical to ask why do not the unidentified in the Air
Force files call forth investigative efforts in depth and of wide scope.
The answer is compound: the Air Force position is that there is no
evidence that UFO's represent a threat to the national security; con-
sequently it follows that it is not their mission to be scientifically
curious about the hundreds of unidentified cases in their own files.
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