“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…
231
that
the
evidential
value at
least
of
still
photographs
depends
entirely
upon
the
surrounding
circumstances.
An
isolated
photograph
about
which
little
is
known,
no
matter
how
impressive
it
may
appear
in
itself,
is
essentially
worthless—except,
possibly,
in
cases
in
which
sophisticated
photogrammetric
analysis
yields
further
detail
tending
to
confirm
the
verbal
account
of the photographer.
(I
have
heard
that
this
as happened
in
at
least
one
case;
viz.,
that
of
the
controversial
series
of Polaroid
photographs—one
of
which
is
represented
in
A8—taken
by
a
(Yali-
fornia
state
highway
employee,
Rex
Heflin,
near Santa
Ana
in
August
1965.)
The
photographs
most
worthy of
further
intensive
investigation
would
seem
to
be
those
for
which
there also
were
reported to
be
many
eyewitnesses
as
well
as
other,
corroborating
photographs—as
in
the
celebrated
case
of the
"saturn-
shaped"
object
(Al)
that
was
said
to
have
been
photographed
from an
oceano-
graphic
vessel
near
the
Brazilian
island
of
Trindad
in
January
1958
(see
Lorenzen,
1966, pp.
145453,
164-174).
The
assessment
of the
representativeness
of
a
set
of
recognition
test
-materials
Even
though
an
extensive
effort is
made
to represent
every
sort
of shape
that
has
been
reliably
described,
sketched,
or photographed,
the
possibility
will
remain
that
the
collection
of proposed
test
materials
will
not
be
sufficiently
representa-
tive.
Certain types of completely
fraudulent
shapes
may
unnecessarily
inflate
the
already
unwieldly
collection
and,
more
seriously,
some
significant
types
may
still
be
missing.
There
are,
however,
ways
of
assessing
the
representativeness
of
any
proposed
collection
of
shapes.
One
is,
simply, to
have
people
describe
these
shapes
and
then
to
look for
any
pronounced
departures
of
the
relative
frequencies
of
the
various
descriptive
terms
used
from
the corresponding
relative
frequencies inreports issuing
from
actual
sightings
of
UFOs.
My
research
assistant,
Miss
Shelley Meltzer,
carried
out
an
exploratory
attempt
at
this sort
of
thing that
may
help
to
illustrate
some
of
the
relevant
considerations.
From
our
total
sample of
photographs,
75
that
seemed
suitably representative
were
selected
for
this
preliminary study.
These
included
most
of
the
63
already
'
portrayed
in
the
accompanying
figure,
but
those
that
were
known
or
strongly
suspected
to
be
fraudulent
were
eliminated
and
a number
of others
of
less
sharply
defined
shape were added
(since
many
reports
indicate
that
the
shape
was
not
clearly'visible).
Each
of
19
subjects,
mostly
students at
Harvard
University,
then
looked
through
one
of
three subsets of
25
of
these
photographs
and,
for
each,
attempted
to describe
the
pictured
object in
their
own
words.
(Immediately
fol-
lowing
that,
each
subject
then looked
through another subset of
25
and,
this
time,
indicated
the
appropriateness
for
each photograph of
each
term
in
a
flocd
set
that
we
had
listed
in
advance
on
a
'standardized rating sheet.
However
this
part
of
the
experiment
will
not
be
considered in
any
detail
here.)
Of
most
imme-
diate
interest
are the
descriptive labels
spontaneously
produced
in
the
19 x
25
or
475
subject
-photograph
encounters.
These
could
now
be compared
with the
descriptive labels
appearing
in
a
sample
of
206
different
representative reports
of
actual
UFO
sightings
that
Miss
'Meltzer
had
alread extracted
(for
a
different
purpose)
from a number
of
sources
(mostly
Edwards,
1906;
Hall,
1964;
Michel,
1967;
Olsen,
1966;
Ruppelt,
1956;
and
Vallee,
1965).
The
accompanying
table
lists
those
descriptive
terms
that
pertain to
visual
appearance
but, for
purposes of
comparison with the mostly
black
-and
-white
photographs, excludes the
many
references
to
(chromatic)
color.
With one
ex-
ception
(
#33),
only
terms
that
appeared at
least
twice
in
the
sample
of
206
actual reports
are
included,
and
these
arranged
in
order
of
decreasing
frequency
of occurrence in that sample.