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Scientific Testimony
Part 3
Dr. James E. McDonald
"The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of
machine-like objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance
characteristics, seen at low altitudes, and sometimes even on the ground. The
general public is entirely unaware of the large number of such reports that are
coming from credible witnesses... When one starts searching for such cases,
their number are quite astonishing. Also, such sightings appear to be occurring
all over the globe."
"Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects," Hearings before the Committee on
Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, July 29, 1968.
"I have absolutely no idea where the UFO's come from or
how they are operated, but after ten years of research, I know they are
something from outside our atmosphere."
Dr. McDonald was Senior Physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the
University of Arizona.
Dr. Margaret Mead
"There are unidentified flying objects. That
is, there are a hard core of cases - perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different
studies - for which there is no explanation... We can only imagine what purpose
lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time
and again approach the earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is
that they are simply watching what we are up to."
"There are unidentified flying objects. That
is, there are a hard core of cases - perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different
studies - for which there is no explanation... We can only imagine what purpose
lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time
and again approach the earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is
that they are simply watching what we are up to."
"UFOs - Visitors from Outer Space?", Mead,
Margaret, Redbook, vol. 143, September 1974. Dr. Mead is a world-renowned
anthropologist
Dr. Harry Messel
"The facts about saucers were long tracked down and
results have long been known in top secret defense circles of more countries
than one."
Dr. Harry Messel, Professor of Physics at Sydney University, Australia, in a
1965 statement.
Dr. Auguste Meessen
"There are too many independent eyewitness
reports to ignore. Too many of the reports describe coherent physical effects,
and there is an agreement among the accounts concerning what was observed... But
of course there are also physical effects. The Air Force report [of the F-16 jet
scramble incident on the night of March 30-31, 1990] allows us to approach the
problem in a rational and scientific way. The simplest hypothesis is that the
reports are caused by extraterrestrial visitors, but that hypothesis carries
with it other problems. We are not in a rush to form a conclusion, but continue
to study the mystery."
From an interview with French journalist,
Marie-Therese de Brosses. Dr. Auguste Meessen was Professor of physics at the
Catholic University in Louvain and one of the scientific consultants for the
Belgian Society for the Study of Space Phenomena (SOBEPS)
C. B. Moore
"Based on the descriptions, I can definitely rule
this out. There wasn't a balloon in 1947 or today that could account for this
incident."
Moore, General Mills Meteorologist and expert on weather balloons, when asked
whether he believed the Roswell Incident could be explained by a Mogul balloon.
Dr. Herman Oberth
"UFOs are conceived and directed by intelligent beings
of a very high order, and they are propelled by distorting the gravitational
field, converting gravity into useable energy. There is no doubt in my mind that
these objects are interplanetary craft of some sort. I and my colleagues are
confident that they do not originate in our solar system, but we feel that they
may use Mars or some other body as sort of a way station. They probably do not
originate in our solar system, perhaps not even in our galaxy."
1954 American Weekly of
Oct. 24, 1954.
"It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that
they are space ships from another solar system."
"We cannot take the credit for our record advancement
in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped. I think that they
possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may
have been investigating our earth for centuries. I think that they possibly have
been sent out to conduct systematic, long-range investigations, first of men,
animals, vegetation, and more recently of atomic centers, armaments and centers
of armament production."
"Flying
Saucers Come From A Distant World", Oberth H., The American Weekly, October 24,
1954.
"They are flying by means of artificial fields of gravity... They produce
high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it
does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air
at higher altitudes. First, this would explain their luminosity... Secondly, it
would explain the noiselessness of UFO flight... Finally, this assumption also
explains the strong electrical and magnetic effects sometimes, though not
always, observed in the vicinity of UFOs."
"Dr. Hermann Oberth discusses UFOs," Fate, May 1962.
"It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships from
another or more than one solar system. They are possibly manned by intelligent
observers who are members of a race carrying out long-range scientific
investigations of our earth for centuries."
UFO News, 1974
Dr. Claude Poher
"Taking into account the facts
that we have gathered from the observers and from the location of their
observations, we concluded that there generally can be said to be a material
phenomenon behind the observations. In 60% of the cases reported here, the
description of this phenomenon is apparently one of a flying machine whose
origin, modes of lifting and/or propulsion are totally outside our knowledge. "
From a report on UFOs for French
officials.
"The phenomenon seems to be real... The
general coherence of sighting reports worldwide should not leave researchers
indifferent. One does not conceive objective arguments to justify an attitude
that would avoid at all cost these observations... The risk is, at worst, to
confirm the existence of unknown vehicles appearing erratically into our
atmosphere - a hypothesis that seems to explain nearly all reported aspects of
the phenomenon and could be linked to the current (1970) exobiology branch of
space research."
"Given the volume of the objects described in
the observations... I can affirm that our futuristic space generators are far
from being able to produce the amount of energy seen by the UFO witnesses. The
light power seen is probably the tip of the iceberg, because no thermodynamic
system can produce energy without dissipating a part of it. The megawatts of
observed light are most likely the energy 'leak' from the energy conversion
system used by the flying object, which means that the useful energy produced is
much greater than what is seen."
1971 Statistical Study prepared for the
CNES and French officials.
"The knowledge of such an energy production
method is crucial for the future of mankind. The UFO observation reports tells
us that ambitious, entirely new, solutions are possible [underlined in the
original]. This is very important."
From a letter to Marie Galbraith, November
26, 1995. Dr. Poher earned a Ph.D. in astronomy, was an expert in aeronautics,
and astronautics, an engineer at the French Space Agency (CNES) for thirty
years, specializing in rocket propulsion and nuclear space energy; former
Chairman of many working groups in the International Astronautical Federation;
founder of GEPAN in May 1977 and its first Director until 1979. Before creating
GEPAN, he had studied the UFO phenomenon for many years and had access to French
military and police UFO files, including classified reports.
Dr. Walther Riedel
"I am completely convinced that [UFOs] have an
out-of-world basis."
"First, the skin temperatures of structures operating
under the observed conditions would make it impossible for any terrestrial
structure to survive. The skin friction of the missile at those speeds at those
altitudes would melt any metals or nonmetals available.
Second, consider the high acceleration at which they fly and maneuver... In some
descriptions the beast spirals straight up. If you think of the fact that the
centrifugal force in a few minutes of such a maneuver would press the crew
against the outside, and do likewise to the blood, you see what I mean.
Third.... There are many occurrences where they have done things that only a
pilot could perform but that no human pilot could stand. Fourth, in most of the
reports there is a lack of visible jet. Most observers report units without
visible flame . . . and no trail. If it would be any known type of jet, rocket,
piston engine, or chain-reaction motor, there would be a very clear trail at
high altitude. It is from no power unit we know of . . ."
"The least improbable explanation is that these things
are artificial and controlled ... My opinion for some time has been that they
have an extraterrestrial origin."
From LIFE Magazine, April 7, 1952. Riedel was research director and chief
designer at Germany's rocket center in Peenemunde and also worked on classified
projects for the U.S. after WW2.
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