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Se Jeong VeQ (54 Wo. 3747 “weaty the first over (called nomena: ) under some my scientific co: be expected wiih so. seemingly biz ligatic fea, we soul not my “monitoring i Sin my oasis ing se we Taraway ubligation to isose places, them natives. associa- eports of strange things expected that each lull the receipt of reports signaled the end of the esisode, only tivity secon: in just the oosky, t to see the past two new high. great_ ms from misiden- ise familiar things, ad sense of per- ve increased and ation of a avestigation of 4 UFO cases by scientists. J have suggestion in the various official success. UFO forth buffoon this was an effect of the lack 0. scientific attention. I spea of the puzzling reports yeurs Io F a Despire the jority oF . whed tificatior my own ce sonal respons caused me i che i meaningfo the residue nhysies al guardedly tit erature: at hearings, little was a [ce called ery and bos cause and soint to concern ourscives ports that can be ea: satellites, any ein pons, with only be concerned 1 , made a sev defined here as _repor' contain ApprovedFor! Release 2001/0402* “ters eral responsib!s which time witnesses, of sightings lasted a reasonable length of and which were reported in a coherent mannes I have strongly urged to ask physical and soi stature to make a respe ly study of the Air Force ial scientists of ble, scholar- the UFO phenomenon. Now that the first firm steps have been taken toward study, I can set. forth what J have learned relates to frequen: about UFO's ments which are: 1) Only UFO “buffs” The exact opposite is the truth. O of reports s::: are from the such a something of ticularly as i made misstatements Some of these state- lead to misconceptions report UFO's. much nearer a negligible handful ted to the Air Force true believers,” the same who attend UFO conventions and who are members of “gee-whiz” groups. It has been my experience that quite generally the truly puzzling reports come from peopie who have not given much or any thought to UFO's 2) UFO's ure reported by able, unstable, and uneducated peo- ple. This is. of course, true. But UFO's are reporied in even greater umbers by .vtlable, stable, and edu- cated peopic. The most articulate re- orts come from obviously intelligent cbservers; dullards rarely overcome their inherens toward making written repor 3) UFO's are reported by scientifically trained people. This is unequivocally false. Some of the very best, most coherent reports have come from scientifically trained people. “It is true that scicntists are reluctant to make a public -eport. They also usu- wily request. asonymity which is al- ways grante 4) UFO's are never seen at close range and are c'vays reported vaguely. When we speak of the body of puzzling unreli- nertia never nahove. Geseriy tion, my files several hundred reports which ved For Rdeas¢ 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010003-8 ‘are fine brain teasers and could easily be made the subject of prof cussion among phy evidence errestrial or rep- tr advanced tecinoloxy of any Kind. This a staicrnent but is widely interpreted to me: at there is evidence against :.: two hypotheses. As long as there eds,” the question must remain open. If we knew wha: imey were, they would no lovger * they would be IFC's, Ice ing Objects! If you know beforehand, it i scientific investiga nomenon has ever Are we making the French Academy of when they di that ever, meteorites wees mace vr in the eyes of science: 6) UFO reports publicity. One can is a positive feedouck, a emission of are widely pubdlicced, but it is warranted to asser: iat this is the sole cause of high incicence of UFO re- ports. 7) UFO's have iizver bee on radar or ‘or satellite cameras. Thi statement is not equivalent to saving that radar, meteor cameras, and satel- lite tracking stations not picked up “oddities” on their scopes or films that have remained unidentified. Tt has been lightly assumce that although un- identified, the odcities were not un- identifiable as conve..tional objects. For these reasc:: the UFO phenomenon wi The “hard data” cases contain quent allusions to recurres. kinematic, geometric, and luminescent characteris- tics. I have begun <o feel that there is a tendency in‘ 2uih-century to forget that these wil Do a century science, « century science, feom Wine antage points our: know! of <he universe may appear quite <iferez.. We suffer, perhaps, from ter.coral \-vovinciatis a form of arro: ce the, nas alway: irritated posterity. Air Force has uo wut SFO's are exira- true 2 ovic ndertaken, ssake the made missec st “stones fell from the say"? Finally, how- espectable been same Scie generated by that there stimulated sightings are repors. when un- sighted photographed by meteor tracking have science 2Ist- 30th- indee 2 J. ALLEN HYNEK oe Observaisry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201 tesRoptirpeoraee onan 8 1. J. Opt. Soe, Amer. 43, 311 4953).