“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…
223
(The
biography
of
Dr.
Shepard
follows:)
DR.
ROGER
N.
SHEPARD
Roger
N.
Shepard
is
professor
of
psychology
at
Stanford
University.
Pre-
viously
he
was
professor
and
then
director
of the
psychological laboratories
at
Harvard
and,
for
eight
years
before that,
member
of
technical
staff
and
then
department
head
at
the
Bell
Telephone
Laboratories.
He
obtained his
Ph.D.
in
experimental
psychology
from
Yale (1955),
and
has
published
some
30
tech-
nical
and
scientific
papers
on
human
perception
and
memory
and
on
computer
methods
for
discovering
patterns in
large
arrays
of
data.
Although
he
has
had
a
long-standing
interest
in
the problem
of
UFOs,
this
is
his
first
paper
on
this
particular subject.
PREPARED STATEMENT
BY ROGER
N.
SHEPARD
SOME
PSYCHOLOGICALLY
ORIENTED
TECHNIQUES
FOR
THE
SCIENTIFIC
INVESTIGATION
OF
UNIDENTIFIED
AERIAL
PHENOMENA
ABSTRACT
Even
if
our
interest
is
in
the
study of
UFO's
as
some
sort
of
extraordinary
physical
phenomenon
(whether
of natural
or,
possibly,
of
intelligent,
extra-
terrestrial
origin),
our
study
cannot
ignore
the
inescapable
fact that
nearly
all
of
our
evidence
comes—not
from
physical
measuring instruments—but
from
human
observers.
So
far,
however,
we
have
consistently sold
the
human
observer
short.
Indeed,
in
neglecting
to
make
use
of
psychologically
oriented
techniques
that
would
more
fully
enable
observers to bring to
bear
their
really
rather
re-
markable
powers
of
perception
and
recognition,
we may
have
been
forfeiting
the opportunity of obtaining
evidence
from
independent
observers
that
wouldbe
sufficiently
convergent
and
well-defined
to
clarify
the true
nature of the
phenomena.
The
extent
to
which
the
apparent
unpredictability
of
UFO
Phenomena
Hinders
their
scientific
study
The
scientific
investigation
of
a
set
of
phenomena
becomes
possible
whenever
those
phenomena
exhibit
some
discernible
degree
of
order or
pattern.
Scientific
study
is
of course
greatly
facilitated
when,
as
in
astronomy,
the order
strongly
emerges
in
the
form
of
a
space-time pattern
of the very occurrences themselves.
For,
only then,
can
we
arrange
to
have
suitably
trained observers
suitably "train-
ing" powerful
and, hence
necessarily,
highly
directional
recording
and
measuringinstruments
on
the
right place
at
the
right
time.
•
Indeed,
by
contrast
with
astronomical
-phenomena,
those
loosely
classified
together
as
"Unidentified
Plying Objects"
("UFO's")
or
•
(with
perhaps
some-
what
less
commitment
implied
as
to
their real
nature)
"Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena"
sometimes appear almost
inaccessibleto
scientific
study.
Certainly'
phenomena
that are
rare
and
fleeting
are
difficult
enough
but,
if
in
addition
they are
totally
capricious
and
unpredictable
when
they
do
occur,
then the
sci-
entific
method
is
to
no
avail
and
we
are
reduced
to awaiting each
new
hap-
pening
in
the
same
primitive state
of
uncomprehending
docility.
The
repeated successes
of
science,
however, have
encouraged
us always
to
search for
pattern
and
order
even
when
none
at
first
appears.
And,
although
a
scientific
study does of course
become enormously
more
difficult
when
the
occur-
rences of the
phenomena do
not
fall
into
any
predictable
pattern in space
and
time,
it
remains
a
possibility
so long
as
some
regularity exists
within the
phenomena
themselves
whenever
they
do happen
to occur.
Thus,
in
the
field
of psychopathology,
even
if
it
were
the case that
some
psychological
phenomena(such, say,
as
psychotic episodes) occurred wholly unpredictably—striking
any
person at
any
time, quite
at
random,
we
could
still
study the
internal pat-
terns
of such
episodes
when
they
do
strike.
We
might
for
example
find that.
when symptom
A
appears,
it is
usually
accompanied
by symptom B,
but seldom
by symptom C, and
so on. This,
too, is
a
kind of
predictability
and
can evenlead to
a
degree of understanding
and
perhaps, eventually,
to
a method
of
treatment.