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one soon believes that they did see something! But is that good enough for<br />

us? Did they see all that they now report, or is it just prefabricated<br />

illusions, created in influenced minds; or hallucination? We really don’t<br />

know. The evidence is a mixture of physical and verbal data, somewhat<br />

disjointed and always elusive. Yet to the UFO researcher it is real and<br />

needs our attention.<br />

The first hurdle we face in all such subjects is the question of health.<br />

When we have been presented with mental or emotional problems beyond<br />

the range of our mandate, we always assign the case to professional<br />

medical practitioners. Our research policy is a policy of investigation!<br />

There is no substitute for good medical and psychological assistance. When<br />

we are satisfied that there is no problem, we are then presented with the<br />

witness’s supposition that ‘We are not alone!’<br />

Academics from all levels of research and discipline are confident<br />

that the universe is full of life. There are, statistically, 1,000,000,000,000,000<br />

stars in the visible universe that are orbited by planets that could support<br />

life. The only limiting factors that scientists employ to literally ‘crash’ the<br />

UFO theory are the vast distances in the universe and a lack of a futuretechnology<br />

paradigm to traverse them.<br />

Each researcher finds that one of the biggest problems in his or her<br />

research is the problem of what has been called ‘hidden data’. Only about<br />

one in seven (14 per cent) of those persons who witness UFOs ever make a<br />

report. This percentage falls away dramatically to about six in 500 (1.2 per<br />

cent) when the encounter involves an entity. Obviously, from a scientific<br />

point of view, the test sample is just too small.<br />

So what happens? Why do we lose this hidden data? From our<br />

research in Australia, the answers are wide and varied: fear of social<br />

ridicule, fear of losing one’s standing in the community or at work and the<br />

fear of losing one’s job are some of the reasons why so many cases go<br />

unreported.<br />

Often this hidden data is written off as lost knowledge. However, no<br />

matter how unusual, bizarre or strange it may seem to the orthodox<br />

thinker, it is data that needs to be made available to the public.<br />

I am the first to admit that such data is a labyrinth of paradoxical<br />

accounts, but with an open mind and an effort to listen, one soon realises<br />

that this is data worthy of belief. If not, then at least it warrants<br />

examination.

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