“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…
86
in
the astronaut
training
program
in
Houston.
In
addition
to
well
over
a
hundred
scientific
papers,
and
several
articles
written
for
the
Encyclopedias
Britannica
and
Americana,
Dr. Sagan
is
co-author
of
"The
Atmospheres
of
Mars
and
Venus"
(1961), "Planets" (1966),
and
"Intelligent
Life in
the
Universe."
(
1966).
STATEMENT OF
DR.
CARL
SAGAN,
DEPARTMENT
OF ASTRONOMY,
CORNELL
UNIVERSITY,
ITHACA,
N.Y.
Dr.
SAGAN.
Thank
you
very
much,
Congressman Roush.
As
I
understand
what
the
committee
would
like
from me,
is
a
dis-
cussion
of
the
likelihood
of
intelligent extraterrestrial
life,
and
sincethis
estimate
is
to
be
made
in
this
symposium,
clearly
it
is
the
hypo-
thesis
that
unidentified
objects
are
of
extraterrestrial
origin
which
the committee
must
have
in
mind.
I'm
delighted
to
tell
about contemporary
scientific
thinking
along
these
lines,
but
let
me
begin
by
saying
that
I
do
not think the
evidence
is
at
all
persuasive,
that
UFO's
are
of
intelligent extraterrestrial
origin
nor
do
I
think the
evidence
is
convincing that
no
UFO's
are
of
intelligent extraterrestrial
origin.
I
think
as each
of
the preceding speakers
has
mentioned,
but
per-
haps
not
sufficiently
emphasized,
that the
question
is
very
much
an
open
one,
and
it
is
certainly
too
soon
to
harden
attitudes
and
make
any
permanent
contentions
on
the
subject.
I
find
that the
discussion, like
elsewhere,
is
best
evaluated
if
we
con-
sider
the
question
of
life
on
earth.
I
suppose
that
if
you
had
all
your
prejudices
removed and
were
concerned with the
question
of whether
the
earth
was
populated
by
life
of
any
sort,
how
would you
go
about
finding
out?
If,
for
example,
we
were
on some
other planet,
let's
say
Mars, and
looking at the
Earth,
what
would
we
see?
Fortunately
we now
have
meteorolgical
satellite
photographs of the
earth
at
various
resolu-tions,
so
we
can answer
the
question.
The
first
large
slide.
This
is
a
photograph of
the
earth.
That
is
the
full
earth,
which
you
are looking at
which
is
primarily cloud
cover.
This
is
the
Pacific
Ocean.
You
can
see
southern
California in
the
upper
right,
and,
as ad-
vertised
by
the
local
chamber
of
commerce, you
can
see
it
is
cloud
free.
[Laughter.]
Dr. SAGAN.
Now,
it is
clear
that very
little
information
about
the
earth,
much
less possibility
of
life
on
it,
is
obtained
by a
picture
at
this
resolution.
The
next
large
slide
is
a
TIROS
photograph of
the earth at
about
1
-mile
resolution,
that
is,
things smaller
than a
mile cannot be
seen,
and
very prolonged
scrutiny
of the
entire eastern
seaboard
of
the
United
States
shows no
sign
of
life,
intelligent,
or
otherwise.
We
have
looked at several
thousand photographs of
the earth,
andyou
may
be
interested
to see
that there
is
no
sign of
life,
not only in
New
York
or Washington,but
also
in
Peking,
Moscow,London,
Paris,
and
so on.
The
reason
is
that
human
beings
have transformed the earth at
this
kind of
scale
very
little,
and
therefore the
artifacts
of
human
intelli-
gence are just
not
detectable
photographically in the daytime with
this
sort
of
resolution.
The
next
slide
shows one of the
few
successful finds
of
intelligentlife
on
earth that
we made down toward the lower
left
you can
see