For UFO Study? - The Black Vault

l@ti@rS- X-''-i'•>'••"•'•••": >-' : : ; commercial pilots,,innocently reported
•^ ' •" •'' •' " ' what the apparent direction seemed to
of factors' rt .wi .wjl 1 be acting at that, me; we ' them, had they been the pilot of the UFO.
no cla m that 1 lakes in Add to these the numerous and almost
Ian An- • undetectable hoaxes, and one sees the
driven impossibility of ever hoping to resolve the
quote 1 hundreds of unidentified sightings,
ontrib- - I realize that there are a few scientists
hesis is who hope that some remarkable, hitherto
Andreas i now in unsuspected scientific phenomenon lies
that n that at the base of the unexplained cases. It
ce to trigg move- . is this hope that keeps alive a modicum of
quotes hi recent interest in current reports. But one
to would think that more than 25 years of
study during the current UFO flap, with
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/•:>; . inysterious apparitions in the sky ex-
•""'': tending all the way back through the
centuries to biblical times, that by now
one would have an inkling as to what is
really going on.
And even today how many scientists
are inclined to accept the foolish logic of
JOHN GMBBIN von Daniken, who argued, for example,
University of Sussex that the famous vision of Ezekiel, with the
Brighton, UK "wheel within a wheel" was the arrival of
a sacred chariot bearing Gods from outer
CaS6 against UFO'S
space! The phenomenon aa vividly de-
. . scribed in chapters 1 and 10 of the Scrip-
I think it would be a great mistake for tures does have a simple, purely scientific
PHYSICS TODAY to start publishing ma- explanation. A layer of ice crystals
"\V terial concerning UFO phenomena. A floating in extremely quiet air. can prof^—
.- small group of avid ufologists are en- duos a double ring of light centered on the
deavoring, unsuccessfully I hope, to pro- Sun, with a vertical cross, looking like
mote financial support for research in the spokes of a wheel, that rists up in the sky
field.
with the Sun but does not turn. The
The dedicated ufologists naturally re- wrfflls thing looks like a huge celestial
eeht the conclusion reached by the late chariot,*b\xt.th