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plasmas.' The development of lightweight, compact, high-field superconducting
magnets has also led to much work on the potential benefits to be derived from
placing a magnet within a high-speed vehicle to interact with a plasma around
the vehicle. Such a combination might be used to reduce vehicle heating, control
aerodynamic drag, exert control forces on the vehicle, provide power for its
operation, open a "magnetic" communications window, and change the vehicle
radar profile. In addition, the magnets might be used to provide shielding against
space radiation. Numerous reports cover such applications.13-17
A review of this literature and an extrapolation of exsiting technology suggest
that with considerable effort an entirely new EM approach to hypersonic flight
might be developed which, in many respects, could duplicate UFO characteristics.
In turn, this leads to the notion that observed UFO behavior is not so unreason-
able as might at first appear to be the case. The measurement of EM parameters
of UFOs could well provide information on both UFO characteristics and new
propulsion.
FOOTNOTES
(Items 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13 available from UFO Research Institute, Suite 311, 508
Grant St., Pittsgurgh, Pa. 15219.)
1. Spencer, D. F. and Jaffe, L. D., "Feasibility of Interstellar Travel," Acta
Astronautica, Vol. IX. Fasc. 2, 50-58, 1963.
2. "The UFO Evidence," National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena,1964.
3. Olsen, T., "The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports," Oct.
1966, $5.95.
4. "Project Blue Book: Special Report No. 14," Davidson, 3rd Edition, 1966,
$4.00.
5. "Humanoids—Worldwide Survey of Landings and Alleged Occupants," Spe-
cial Issue of Flying Saucer Review, October-November,1966. $2.00.
6. McDonald, James E., "UFOs: Greatest Scientific Problem of Our Times,"
Oct. 1967. $1.00.
7. Hynek, J. Allen, "UFOs Merit Scientific Study," Science, Oct. 21, 1966,
and Astronautics & Aeronautic, Dec. 1966, p.4.
8. Vallee, Jacques, "Anatomy of a Phenomenon," Regnery, 1965, $4.95. Ace
Books,1966,$.60.
9. Vallee, Jacques and Janine, "Challenge to Science—The UFO Enigma."
Regnery, 1966, $5.95. Also paper, $.75.
10. Michel, A., "The Truth About Flying Saucers," Criterion, 1956. $3.95.
11. Michel A., "Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery," Criterion,
1958. $4.50.
12. Ruppelt, E. J., "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects," Doubleday,
1956. $2.95.
13. Maney, Prof. C. A., and Hall, Richard, "The Challenge of Unidentified
Flying Objects," 1961. $3.50.
14. Literature Search No. 541, "Interactions of Spacecraft and Other Moving
Bodies with Natural Plasmas," Dec. 1965, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 182 pages,
829 references.
15. Jarvinen, P. 0., "On the Use of Magnetohydrodynamics During High
Speed Reentry," NASA-CR-206, April 1965.
16. Nowak, R., et al, "Magnetoaerodynamic Re-entry," AIAA Paper 66-161,
AIAA Plasmadynamics Conference, March 2-4, 1966.
17. Kawashima, Nobuki and Mori, Sigeru, "Experimental Study of Forces on
a Body in a Magnetized Plasma," AIAA Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan. 1968, pp.
110-113.
S. T. Friedman Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory
(Ed.—For additional comments on UFOs see the following AIA references:
The Wheel in the Middle of the Air, Solomon Golomb, Sounding Board, Au-
gust 1966, p. 16. . . Letters, Nov. 1966, p. 6, George Earley and Brent L. Marsh
on Saucer Doctrine ... UFOs—Extraterrestrial Probes? by James E. McDonald,
Sounding Board, Aug. 1967, p. 9... Munday Jr., John C., "On the UFOs," Bul-
letin of the Atomic Scientists, Dec. 1967.
Also see December 8, 1967, issue of Science, No. 3806, pp. 1265 and 1266, Let-
ters to Ed.)