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The decision of the Air Force to urn overts “flying saxcee to the University of Colorado for a 15- month study project by a team of specialists in such fields as astron omy, meteorology and psychiatry has been hailed by the noted astron omer J. Allen Hynek, Jadeet, in his capacity as scien tific consultant to the Air Force, Hynek has long urged that such a Step be taken. He is convinced that when the great majority of reports of Unidentified Flying Objects re sulting from misidentification of familiar things in the sky ”, there remains enough residue of “hard date” cases to warrant serious investigation by physical and social scientists. In a letter to the journal Science, he sets forth a few ihings he has learned, not about UFO's them selves, but about the misstatements frequently make about them. Only UFO “butts” report UFOs, Belso. “Only a negligible handful of reports submitted to the Air Force come from the ‘true believers.’ .. fhe truly pazeling reports come from people who have not givete much or any thought to UFOs. UPOs are reported by unreliable, unstable and uneducated people. ‘true, of course, “But UFOs are reported in even greater number by reliable, stable and educated peo ple” UFOs are never reported by scientifically trained people. Unequivocably false, “Some of the very best, most coherent reports have come from scientifically trained people. UFOs are never seen at close range and are always reported vaguely. Pulse. “To have in my files sev eral hindred reports which are fine orain teasers and could easily be made the subject of profitable dis cussion among physical and social scientists like.” The Air Force has no evidence that UPO's sve extraterrestrial or represent advanced technology of maykind. True. Yes—‘As long as there are ‘unidentifieds? the question must obviously remain open. If we karew what they were, they would no long er be UEOs, they would be IFQs— identified lying Objects! Fiynek urges a litle more open- mindedness on the part of his col leagues, lest they be guilty of the ‘temporal provincialism' of 19th. Century scientists who scoffed at Stories of “stones that fell from the sky” Today we call such “Unidentified Falling Objects” meteorites.
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Kokomo Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Mon, Nov 14, 1966
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